August 12, 2024 • 27 mins
Frank and Josh discuss Josh's appearance at an Angels game
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It's time to rage.
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Oh, yeah.
Oh, man.
Okay, so last episode, first of all, what are you doing?
Okay, so last episode, first of all, welcome.
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Welcome everyone new and old to Chirping from the Pine.
My name is Josh, and I'm here today with good buddy Frank.
Yo.
And while the last episode may have seemed like a Dodgers fucking jackoff fest,
this episode is going to be the opposite of that.
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A, because fuck the Dodgers.
And B.
I mean, how many times do you say that on the actual time you do a datum?
Well, I said it like, I said it a few times, but they were going on about stats and all.
And listen, that's great.
Him and his cousin.
He had his cousin on him like because his cousin loves the Dodgers.
So I'm like, all right, whatever, man.
His cousin played kind of professional baseball.
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So, oh, I got to turn it back up.
No, I'm doing the screen saver off.
All right.
So, I mean, it was a good episode.
I mean, we talked about baseball in general, but they were just jerking off about the Dodgers and then waxing poetically.
So obviously I had the opposite experience of that with the Dodgers.
I hate the fucking Dodgers.
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Before we get into that.
I mean, I don't know.
Ever since the ages were on the losing streak, you were talking about becoming a fan.
Oh, my God.
I was just being an asshole.
And if you want to hear me be an asshole about other things, you can go to gameragemagazine.com
where you can hear all of my podcasts that I'm on that I'm an asshole.
No shit.
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And if you're like anime, you should go fucking listen to the anime syndicate podcast.
You fucking loser.
Anyways.
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Fucking I hate the Dodgers.
And no, I'm not actually going to betray the angels.
I was just being facetious and I was just fucking saying shit.
Okay.
Yes.
Am I mad about the already Moreno fuck face situation?
Yes, I'm mad about it.
Am I mad that he fucking had to put Los Angeles in the name of the team when they've never, ever, ever been not only to the city of Los Angeles, but or in Los Angeles fucking county?
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No.
Yes, I am mad about that.
Am I mad because he doesn't seem to give a shit?
Am I mad because he wanted to buy the stadium and then he got fucked because of corruption?
Because, well, fuck it.
They shouldn't have been fucking around like that.
No, because fuck him.
But I'm mad that now he doesn't give a shit anymore.
He can't buy the stadium.
I feel like that was the end of it for him.
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What do you sound like?
What?
That's how I feel.
That's how I feel like on the inside.
So long story short, our message to you.
Our message to Marino.
Your intellect is as weak as your dollar.
Failure is your destiny.
You disrespect yourself and your nation.
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You are made of stupid.
And just one other side note.
Fuck you, you old bitch!
Yeah, I will say I feel that way about our ownership and our essentially upper management in general.
I do think bringing Ron Washington on was a great fucking idea.
But the problem is if you're just going to bring on a coach who's going to turn the team, you got to give him something to turn around.
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You're not giving him shit.
You literally didn't give him dick.
Hell, Mike Trout hasn't even fucking played this year.
He's played zero games in 2024.
It's looking like he ain't going to pay me.
Oh, no, he's out for the rest of the season.
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
If you look at his last four, his second half of his career now that he's essentially on the last like four seasons, he's played like 80 games in four fucking seasons.
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Well, you know what to say when you burn the candle at both ends.
Yeah.
And the the brightest star burns out the quickest or whatever you want to fucking call it, right?
That's why Mike Trout's never going to go anywhere else.
And the problem is, and I hate to say this because Mike Trout is the face of the angels.
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He's really the ambassador of Major League Baseball.
He's like your cookie cutter.
Good guy. He's like Superman, right?
Everybody he's adored throughout the world.
He always does the right thing.
He's never caught up in controversy.
Just a genuinely good guy, right?
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The problem is now he's not even really fucking playing.
And he did great.
He did great for us the first several years.
But now that he's in the second half of his career, what we maybe could have got for him on trade to somewhere else is now nothing.
We can't trade him.
No, it's not going to happen.
No one would take him.
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I don't think.
Even if we even if they were, we can't trade him.
I mean, we shouldn't.
It'd be the death knell for sure.
So I don't know what the situation is to get us out of this fucking predicament.
The Angels are going to likely end the year very under 500, which it is what it is.
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I will say it's been great because I mean, I got to go to I got to go to an Angels game a couple of weeks ago with Katie.
And I will say that I've been to several Angels games over the years.
And it's very weird how like we went to celebrate her mom's birthday.
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You know, her mom died what, two and a half years ago now.
So Saturday, the third was her birthday.
So we said, oh, hey, let's go and celebrate her birthday because we always go do something.
Right. We go to Ruby's.
We take Chloe. We go to Ruby's.
We get the shakes and the fries like she's like yet.
And then we were like, what?
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At least we're not the worst team in the American League.
Oh, yeah, that's true.
We're definitely not the worst team.
We're not the worst team in the White Sox are the worst team in baseball.
They're the worst team. Jesus Christ.
We're not even the worst in our division.
Yeah, no, which is which is crazy to think that the Oakland A's are doing worse than us at this point.
But I digress. I do also say that we did this.
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We go. We do this.
And this was for me, this was almost a religious fucking experience.
We're playing the Mets.
We go and we get to the stadium.
Of course, you know, we do a little pre-gaming in the parking lot because it's like eighteen hundred dollars to buy drinks at Angel Stadium.
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Which that's one of the things that does piss me off is for the Angels being maybe the fourth or fifth worst team in the MLB.
They charged like the second highest or maybe even the highest beer prices in the MLB.
And we don't even have those fucking baseball glasses.
No, we don't, which is terrible.
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That baseball glass, the baseball bat.
Oh, they just got those, by the way.
I don't think it's a glass, though.
It's like a piece of plastic.
It's not the good one.
It's shit.
It's five dollars extra.
I didn't get one.
But if we end up going before the end of the season, we do need to drink out of a fucking plastic baseball bat for five extra dollars.
So I mean, you do get to keep it.
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So I guess that's fine.
But anyways, so we go and we get there.
We're pre-gaming.
And of course, you know, we go in to find our seats and we got outfield section two thirty seven front fucking row.
Let in right field.
And it was they were I will say this.
They were excellent fucking seats for what we paid for them.
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We go.
I'm trying to find the seats.
We end up getting lost and we end up going somehow by like guest relations.
There's a guy standing outside.
And so me and Katie are decked out in all angels shit.
Right.
And I got my angel shorts on.
I got my jersey.
I have my angels undershirt on.
I got my hat.
I just went to the fucking team store and I bought that.
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I was looking for either a new bucket hat or the Father's Day bucket hat, the Father's Day one or the like the Fourth of July one.
That would.
Huh?
Well, I get I usually get one every year.
I get the Fourth of July one like every year.
Just like I have like every year I go.
I always get the Fourth of July one because usually the design is cool.
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But this year the design was basically the same as the one that I got last year.
They didn't really change it.
So I was just like, I don't want to pay.
Whatever.
I'd rather get that.
I wanted to get that the baby blue Father's Day one.
It's like the red with the baby blue angels logo and the angels on the back.
It's fucking cool.
It's my favorite hat so far.
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I love it.
So I get that and we're walking in that hat and Katie's got her fucking angel shirt on.
She's got these ripped jeans shorts on and she's wearing angels earrings angels fucking bun thing in her hair.
And so we roll up and obviously I'm drunk.
So like I rock up and I see this guy wearing like the typical he's got like the angels button down and he's got one of those straw hats.
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It's like the angels.
It's like one of those bowler hats and I'm like man that is a cool ass hat.
I'm like hey and then he's like oh are you guys lost?
And I was like yes I'm trying to find this section blah blah blah.
He's like oh yeah you got to go this way and that way.
It looks to me like hey how would you guys like to go on to the field for the fireworks show afterwards?
And I was like are you talking to me?
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Like yeah fuck yeah we would like to go on there.
He's like cool what's your name?
And I was like oh I'm Josh.
She's Katie.
Our last name is Booy.
It's cool.
I actually need your first names.
Oh okay cool.
And he fucking has this piece of paper.
He writes our names on it and he says here.
He says take this paper and he said when it comes to be the bottom of the eighth inning start come back here and wait and someone will be here and they'll take you down through the end right?
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So I'm like cool.
So we go we're watching the whole game.
It's cool.
We end up we're up I think it was like five four or something like that.
And fucking I swear to God if a motherfucker doesn't hit a goddamn grand slam in like the sixth inning on the Mets to go ahead basically seven five.
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Right.
Or whatever.
So we get to the because we were like okay once we get to like the the top of the seventh inning stretch we're gonna go and take a piss and do all that stuff.
So that way she we can like go and be ready to go for the eighth right.
So bottom of the seventh comes man.
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I was actually in the terrace area and but I was still inside the like stadium and so I could see everything from there and man do this this fucking I forget what the fuck it was comes up and hits a fucking three run homer the fucking put us ahead now we're up five to eight.
And I'm like holy shit we go back to our seats fucking the inning ends the bottom of the seventh we sit there for the top of the eighth and then the top of the eight ends.
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They held them and then we go to the bottom eight so we go down to the area where they said to me and they're like cool once the ninth inning starts we're going to bring you guys out to like the field level like all sweet.
So they walk us through this whole like we went into the bowels of the stadium man it was fucking cool as shit like we're going back to pass where they have all the things where people turn their uniforms and shit to have them clean like all the staff stuff like all this shit right.
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And so we go down the stairs go all out about around and we get into the outfield area where it's the right field like it was like right next to our seats basically but it's the right field gate that opens up to let you onto the field and it's a big ass gates where the grounds crew comes out of and everything.
So we're there and the ladies like oh the groundskeepers are going to come out so let them go first and then we're going to go out and so like cool. So we were there and we got to watch the end of the ninth inning basically the bottom or the top of the ninth from field level.
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So that was pretty cool we got to see the last they brought in fucking this dude God damn I mean I can't remember anybody's fucking names right now because I'm just like whatever but they brought in this new dude who like throws a hundred every pitch he threw was a hundred fucking miles an hour.
He threw the fastest pitch in Major League Baseball this season he threw like a hundred and five mile an hour fucking pitch or some shit like that.
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And we got to see that so that was good to see it from field level too which is pretty sweet. So then the inning ends and then they open the gate and the ground screw goes through on the carts and then we fucking walk out so we walk out on the field and it's just like so cool to see
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that from field level right because like nobody not a lot of people get to fucking see that view right. And you know to be someone who's never seen it at Angel Stadium like that.
That's cool you really don't understand the fucking scale of it like you can think it and you see it but you don't get it.
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And so you get on the field so we're on the first baseline in the outfield area and so they're like oh did you guys want a blanket like oh hell yeah we got a free fucking blanket out of it.
They came and brought us like snacks they brought us like all kinds of shit. And so we watched the whole fireworks show. It was a great fireworks show from field level it is the coolest fucking thing ever man.
Like that's an experience it was crazy too because like they weren't just handing those out like candy like there was maybe 15 people on our side and there was 15 people on the third base side.
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And that was it. And there was a guy that was in there with us, who I think he paid for this experience, because he was a Mets fan, and he was all pissed off that they made him wear this fucking angel shirt.
And I was like, did they give you that shirt and he's like yeah and I'm like that's a sweet ass fucking shirt if you don't want it man like I'll fucking take it.
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Because like, it was a nice polo fucking button angel shirt it was like in the team store it's like $130 shirt. Yeah.
And I'm like dude this is nice like you should be like who gives a listen. If I went to a Mets game. Now granted, I wouldn't, if I was a Mets if I was an angels fan and went to an angels Mets game at Shea Stadium, I probably wouldn't have paid the $2,000 for the on field experience because like I don't give a fuck I don't want to go.
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Now granted, I like history so maybe that's a little different. I like history. I'd like to go in get tours of all the old classic stadiums you know Shea Stadium, even though fuck the Yankees Yankee Stadium, fucking Fenway.
Right, but I mean, still, it's still history right like Fenway, you know fucking Wrigley all those and let it be great to go do. So, I don't know why this guy fucking even did it but he was bitching the whole time and then he was like, whatever go fuck yourself so then we, as we're done we thought oh this is it they were taking pictures of us stuff was cool.
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And then the ladies like, okay, hey you guys want to go into the dugout and I was like, oh hell yeah you fucking just like you. Yes, 100%. So we go into the first base dugout which is the visiting dugout right.
And I would like to say that.
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I don't know if this is every fucking team, but I feel like it probably is.
You are all a bunch of disgusting fucking bastards.
And the level of disrespect, I get it seeds are one thing, because you're spitting them out that's I'm not even counting that. And yes of course they're fucking everywhere. These assholes are sitting here for two and a half hours, just eating a bag of fucking sunflower seeds a piece.
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It's going to be all over the place okay I can forgive that.
But the fucking cups and the bottles and the trash and just just shit that's just strewn about.
There's three trash cans in this fucking dugout that are just sitting here. And you mean to tell me that you couldn't get off of your ass and go throw your cup in the trash can, or like, when you took the tape off of your fucking wrists.
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You couldn't just go put it in the trash. Hell you walk by two trash cans going into the fucking clubhouse.
Oh, that is that is fucking unacceptable to me, especially to do it in someone else's stadium.
I do think it's a dick move to do it to your own people, like to your own grounds crew or wherever you want to whoever cleans that shit up, it is disrespectful to do that to them, and I don't know what the angels dugout look like because I didn't get to go into that one.
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But to see a visiting team disrespect.
The house, you can't expect everyone to be in Japan.
It's not even that man I just expect you to have a basic level of respect I mean you guys are making multi. The league minimum and MLB is half a fucking million dollars or something like that right.
As a matter of fact, no one dugout is making the league minimum. No one on the fucking Mets is making league minimum. Yeah. All right. But
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League minimum salary 2024.
Oh,
League minimum and seven is $740,000.
In 2024.
So,
basically everybody's making a million, you're all making a million dollars over a million dollars.
And you want to make the guy who's probably making fucking just a little bit more than minimum wage or whatever 25 bucks an hour.
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You're gonna make him come in and clean up your trash.
That's like that's a problem man like that's a problem with baseball in general. I think, and
you assholes are lucky that you get to do this.
And if you not in the distant past 4050 years ago, dudes had to work regular jobs in the offseason.
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You played professional baseball. Sorry, I had to let that portal affect. Oh, yeah. When you're moving your eyes. Oh, yeah.
You work a regular job. And then guess what? You got to go work your job as a car dealership at the car dealership for the other months of the year that you're not playing.
Right.
You guys don't have to do that shit anymore.
And you should at least be a little more respectful. But anyways, the dugout was fucking cool as shit.
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I got I did ask the I was like, Hey, listen.
Would it be inappropriate if I grabbed the fucking phone the pulped phone and started like, you know, pretending like I was making a call.
And he's like, kind of. But he's like, I'll tell you what. He's like, you can't actually open it.
We're not allowed to open it and touch the phone.
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But you can like touch the box or do anything to the box. And I was like, huh.
It's like, all right. So I just took a picture of me putting my hand on the box like I was calling the bullpen.
And it's cool because it says bullpen on the thing. And it's it's cool.
So then we took a bunch of pictures. And then as we're sitting there, there the lady who is like the concierge lady or whatever who took us all out there.
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Me and Katie, we were sitting on the upper bench. That's because there's the lower bench and then there's the upper bench. Right.
So we were sitting on the upper bench that's like right by the fence that's on the field. And we were sitting there and we were taking pictures.
And she was like, oh, do you want to like hold the game ball or whatever? And I was like, oh, yeah, cool.
So she tosses a game used ball, took pictures with everything. I went to go toss it back to her.
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She's like, no, no, no, you can keep it. We were the only motherfuckers who got that.
There was not a single other person who got a game ball, which was fucking cool.
So not only did we get this once in a lifetime experience of going down to the field to watch the fireworks show, but we also got the once in a lifetime experience out of the people who got to do that of getting the actual game ball.
So, yeah, I got a little fucking I got a little fucking what is this like a little ball holder for it and this boy case. Yeah.
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And I think I kind of feel like I don't know if I should sell it with signatures or if I should like I don't know what to do with it.
I know it's going to be in this case, but I don't know if I should just leave it as is. We both know what you can do with it. What am I going to do with it?
At some point, it's going to go in your ass. I mean, it's already been in my ass, but point proven.
Anyways, what else should I do with it? I don't know if I should get signatures on it. I don't know if that's I don't know.
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Maybe I don't know.
So we can get a big authenticated to show that it was a game used ball. Yeah, that's true. So you can buy them. Yeah.
And it tells you like what play they were used in. Right. Yeah. I have no fucking idea what this was used for.
But yeah, I mean, they did say it was for sure a game used ball, but who the fuck knows you can't prove it now. No, of course not.
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But doesn't matter. So at that point, doesn't matter if you get a sign or not. I guess that's true.
I guess that's true. So anyway, it was cool. And then we got to go behind home plate and I got we got to take pictures.
I took I grabbed a handful of dirt and I fucking put it in my pocket.
And then the lady was like, oh, hey, that's that's going to cost you.
And I was like, you tell me who to write the fucking check to. She was just like, oh, all right.
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And I was like, yeah, I don't give a shit. I'll fucking write whatever number you want on here.
It'll bounce, but I'll write whatever fucking number you want on there.
And then we got to go out through the Lexus Diamond Club.
And I will say the Lexus Diamond Club is nice. I mean, it's too bad that we're not rich people and we can't be in there all the time.
But it is nice. It is right at the level. Is that the one where you can go in if you have a Lexus or you have to pay to be in?
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No, no, you have to. No, you just get the parking if you have a Lexus.
The Lexus Diamond Club is like you got to pay to be in there and you got to pay like a premium because you're paying.
You pay for the table and then you're paying like for the each food item that you have to get.
And then there's like a fucking I think there's like like a minimum of money you have to spend.
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So that'd be cool if we could go do that one day.
But maybe when game rage takes off, we can fucking get I would still like to get season tickets one year.
That'd be fun. Like get on the season ticket train and then just be able to go to like damn near almost every home game if we could.
That'd be fucking fun as shit. But, you know, one of these years we'll have to do it.
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Because I was thinking about maybe I was thinking about maybe next season doing that thing like Brian did where he bought like a 20 game pack of tickets.
So it's like kind of like partial season tickets.
And then if we did that, maybe we could like, oh, we'll buy like 20. I'll buy three seats.
And then, you know, me and you and Katie could go.
And then like, oh, sometimes Katie can't go, whatever. Me and you could take someone else or if it's a day you can't go like, oh, maybe whatever means Katie could just go.
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But fuck, you know, that'd still be cool to do.
But anyways, this was the exact opposite of the experience that I had when I was at Dodger Stadium fucking 25 years ago and the reason why I hated the Dodgers.
This right here was the reason why I love the Angels to this day.
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And this is why I will. All this did was just further ingrain my fucking.
What's the word I'm looking for? They bought you loyalty for the year. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, it's a.
It's it increase my fanaticism is through the roof. Like now, if not already, Marina, I'll construct that guy.
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But if my Ron Washington called me and was like, hey, man, I need you to go suicide bomb the Dodgers.
I'm in. All right. All in. No questions asked. Hey, buddy, you tell me what time and what place you want that fucking place to blow up.
I'll take care of business. My fanaticism level is that high.
Okay. Show me your fans who you think is in your fan, like have you made it a fan?
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Well, you know, I guess I'm an Angel zealot.
Like I said two days ago, you were our two days before, and you weren't.
That's not well. Yeah, you're right. I wasn't a zealot or a fan.
That's not true. Go fuck yourself.
Anyways. All right.
Well, that's all I had to kind of say. That was the end of the story. So.
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of a bitch, at least we've won this game.
I thought for sure, I was like,
fuck, we're gonna lose this fucking game to the Mets.
I think we lost the next day.
We lost the series, yes.
But we won one, the one game me and Katie went to, we won.
Which is pretty all right.
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It's time to rage.
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Oh, yeah.
Oh, man.
Okay, so last episode, first of all, what are you doing?
Okay, so last episode, first of all, welcome.
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Welcome everyone new and old to Chirping from the Pine.
My name is Josh, and I'm here today with good buddy Frank.
Yo.
And while the last episode may have seemed like a Dodgers fucking jackoff fest,
this episode is going to be the opposite of that.
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A, because fuck the Dodgers.
And B.
I mean, how many times do you say that on the actual time you do a datum?
Well, I said it like, I said it a few times, but they were going on about stats and all.
And listen, that's great.
Him and his cousin.
He had his cousin on him like because his cousin loves the Dodgers.
So I'm like, all right, whatever, man.
His cousin played kind of professional baseball.
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So, oh, I got to turn it back up.
No, I'm doing the screen saver off.
All right.
So, I mean, it was a good episode.
I mean, we talked about baseball in general, but they were just jerking off about the Dodgers and then waxing poetically.
So obviously I had the opposite experience of that with the Dodgers.
I hate the fucking Dodgers.
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Before we get into that.
I mean, I don't know.
Ever since the ages were on the losing streak, you were talking about becoming a fan.
Oh, my God.
I was just being an asshole.
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You fucking loser.
Anyways.
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Fucking I hate the Dodgers.
And no, I'm not actually going to betray the angels.
I was just being facetious and I was just fucking saying shit.
Okay.
Yes.
Am I mad about the already Moreno fuck face situation?
Yes, I'm mad about it.
Am I mad that he fucking had to put Los Angeles in the name of the team when they've never, ever, ever been not only to the city of Los Angeles, but or in Los Angeles fucking county?
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No.
Yes, I am mad about that.
Am I mad because he doesn't seem to give a shit?
Am I mad because he wanted to buy the stadium and then he got fucked because of corruption?
Because, well, fuck it.
They shouldn't have been fucking around like that.
No, because fuck him.
But I'm mad that now he doesn't give a shit anymore.
He can't buy the stadium.
I feel like that was the end of it for him.
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What do you sound like?
What?
That's how I feel.
That's how I feel like on the inside.
So long story short, our message to you.
Our message to Marino.
Your intellect is as weak as your dollar.
Failure is your destiny.
You disrespect yourself and your nation.
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You are made of stupid.
And just one other side note.
Fuck you, you old bitch!
Yeah, I will say I feel that way about our ownership and our essentially upper management in general.
I do think bringing Ron Washington on was a great fucking idea.
But the problem is if you're just going to bring on a coach who's going to turn the team, you got to give him something to turn around.
(03:59):
You're not giving him shit.
You literally didn't give him dick.
Hell, Mike Trout hasn't even fucking played this year.
He's played zero games in 2024.
It's looking like he ain't going to pay me.
Oh, no, he's out for the rest of the season.
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
If you look at his last four, his second half of his career now that he's essentially on the last like four seasons, he's played like 80 games in four fucking seasons.
(04:24):
Well, you know what to say when you burn the candle at both ends.
Yeah.
And the the brightest star burns out the quickest or whatever you want to fucking call it, right?
That's why Mike Trout's never going to go anywhere else.
And the problem is, and I hate to say this because Mike Trout is the face of the angels.
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He's really the ambassador of Major League Baseball.
He's like your cookie cutter.
Good guy. He's like Superman, right?
Everybody he's adored throughout the world.
He always does the right thing.
He's never caught up in controversy.
Just a genuinely good guy, right?
(05:09):
The problem is now he's not even really fucking playing.
And he did great.
He did great for us the first several years.
But now that he's in the second half of his career, what we maybe could have got for him on trade to somewhere else is now nothing.
We can't trade him.
No, it's not going to happen.
No one would take him.
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I don't think.
Even if we even if they were, we can't trade him.
I mean, we shouldn't.
It'd be the death knell for sure.
So I don't know what the situation is to get us out of this fucking predicament.
The Angels are going to likely end the year very under 500, which it is what it is.
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I will say it's been great because I mean, I got to go to I got to go to an Angels game a couple of weeks ago with Katie.
And I will say that I've been to several Angels games over the years.
And it's very weird how like we went to celebrate her mom's birthday.
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You know, her mom died what, two and a half years ago now.
So Saturday, the third was her birthday.
So we said, oh, hey, let's go and celebrate her birthday because we always go do something.
Right. We go to Ruby's.
We take Chloe. We go to Ruby's.
We get the shakes and the fries like she's like yet.
And then we were like, what?
(06:36):
At least we're not the worst team in the American League.
Oh, yeah, that's true.
We're definitely not the worst team.
We're not the worst team in the White Sox are the worst team in baseball.
They're the worst team. Jesus Christ.
We're not even the worst in our division.
Yeah, no, which is which is crazy to think that the Oakland A's are doing worse than us at this point.
But I digress. I do also say that we did this.
(07:03):
We go. We do this.
And this was for me, this was almost a religious fucking experience.
We're playing the Mets.
We go and we get to the stadium.
Of course, you know, we do a little pre-gaming in the parking lot because it's like eighteen hundred dollars to buy drinks at Angel Stadium.
(07:25):
Which that's one of the things that does piss me off is for the Angels being maybe the fourth or fifth worst team in the MLB.
They charged like the second highest or maybe even the highest beer prices in the MLB.
And we don't even have those fucking baseball glasses.
No, we don't, which is terrible.
(07:47):
That baseball glass, the baseball bat.
Oh, they just got those, by the way.
I don't think it's a glass, though.
It's like a piece of plastic.
It's not the good one.
It's shit.
It's five dollars extra.
I didn't get one.
But if we end up going before the end of the season, we do need to drink out of a fucking plastic baseball bat for five extra dollars.
So I mean, you do get to keep it.
(08:08):
So I guess that's fine.
But anyways, so we go and we get there.
We're pre-gaming.
And of course, you know, we go in to find our seats and we got outfield section two thirty seven front fucking row.
Let in right field.
And it was they were I will say this.
They were excellent fucking seats for what we paid for them.
(08:31):
We go.
I'm trying to find the seats.
We end up getting lost and we end up going somehow by like guest relations.
There's a guy standing outside.
And so me and Katie are decked out in all angels shit.
Right.
And I got my angel shorts on.
I got my jersey.
I have my angels undershirt on.
I got my hat.
I just went to the fucking team store and I bought that.
(08:55):
I was looking for either a new bucket hat or the Father's Day bucket hat, the Father's Day one or the like the Fourth of July one.
That would.
Huh?
Well, I get I usually get one every year.
I get the Fourth of July one like every year.
Just like I have like every year I go.
I always get the Fourth of July one because usually the design is cool.
(09:17):
But this year the design was basically the same as the one that I got last year.
They didn't really change it.
So I was just like, I don't want to pay.
Whatever.
I'd rather get that.
I wanted to get that the baby blue Father's Day one.
It's like the red with the baby blue angels logo and the angels on the back.
It's fucking cool.
It's my favorite hat so far.
(09:38):
I love it.
So I get that and we're walking in that hat and Katie's got her fucking angel shirt on.
She's got these ripped jeans shorts on and she's wearing angels earrings angels fucking bun thing in her hair.
And so we roll up and obviously I'm drunk.
So like I rock up and I see this guy wearing like the typical he's got like the angels button down and he's got one of those straw hats.
(10:05):
It's like the angels.
It's like one of those bowler hats and I'm like man that is a cool ass hat.
I'm like hey and then he's like oh are you guys lost?
And I was like yes I'm trying to find this section blah blah blah.
He's like oh yeah you got to go this way and that way.
It looks to me like hey how would you guys like to go on to the field for the fireworks show afterwards?
And I was like are you talking to me?
(10:27):
Like yeah fuck yeah we would like to go on there.
He's like cool what's your name?
And I was like oh I'm Josh.
She's Katie.
Our last name is Booy.
It's cool.
I actually need your first names.
Oh okay cool.
And he fucking has this piece of paper.
He writes our names on it and he says here.
He says take this paper and he said when it comes to be the bottom of the eighth inning start come back here and wait and someone will be here and they'll take you down through the end right?
(10:51):
So I'm like cool.
So we go we're watching the whole game.
It's cool.
We end up we're up I think it was like five four or something like that.
And fucking I swear to God if a motherfucker doesn't hit a goddamn grand slam in like the sixth inning on the Mets to go ahead basically seven five.
(11:19):
Right.
Or whatever.
So we get to the because we were like okay once we get to like the the top of the seventh inning stretch we're gonna go and take a piss and do all that stuff.
So that way she we can like go and be ready to go for the eighth right.
So bottom of the seventh comes man.
(11:42):
I was actually in the terrace area and but I was still inside the like stadium and so I could see everything from there and man do this this fucking I forget what the fuck it was comes up and hits a fucking three run homer the fucking put us ahead now we're up five to eight.
And I'm like holy shit we go back to our seats fucking the inning ends the bottom of the seventh we sit there for the top of the eighth and then the top of the eight ends.
(12:08):
They held them and then we go to the bottom eight so we go down to the area where they said to me and they're like cool once the ninth inning starts we're going to bring you guys out to like the field level like all sweet.
So they walk us through this whole like we went into the bowels of the stadium man it was fucking cool as shit like we're going back to pass where they have all the things where people turn their uniforms and shit to have them clean like all the staff stuff like all this shit right.
(12:37):
And so we go down the stairs go all out about around and we get into the outfield area where it's the right field like it was like right next to our seats basically but it's the right field gate that opens up to let you onto the field and it's a big ass gates where the grounds crew comes out of and everything.
So we're there and the ladies like oh the groundskeepers are going to come out so let them go first and then we're going to go out and so like cool. So we were there and we got to watch the end of the ninth inning basically the bottom or the top of the ninth from field level.
(13:13):
So that was pretty cool we got to see the last they brought in fucking this dude God damn I mean I can't remember anybody's fucking names right now because I'm just like whatever but they brought in this new dude who like throws a hundred every pitch he threw was a hundred fucking miles an hour.
He threw the fastest pitch in Major League Baseball this season he threw like a hundred and five mile an hour fucking pitch or some shit like that.
(13:35):
And we got to see that so that was good to see it from field level too which is pretty sweet. So then the inning ends and then they open the gate and the ground screw goes through on the carts and then we fucking walk out so we walk out on the field and it's just like so cool to see
(13:56):
that from field level right because like nobody not a lot of people get to fucking see that view right. And you know to be someone who's never seen it at Angel Stadium like that.
That's cool you really don't understand the fucking scale of it like you can think it and you see it but you don't get it.
(14:18):
And so you get on the field so we're on the first baseline in the outfield area and so they're like oh did you guys want a blanket like oh hell yeah we got a free fucking blanket out of it.
They came and brought us like snacks they brought us like all kinds of shit. And so we watched the whole fireworks show. It was a great fireworks show from field level it is the coolest fucking thing ever man.
Like that's an experience it was crazy too because like they weren't just handing those out like candy like there was maybe 15 people on our side and there was 15 people on the third base side.
(14:51):
And that was it. And there was a guy that was in there with us, who I think he paid for this experience, because he was a Mets fan, and he was all pissed off that they made him wear this fucking angel shirt.
And I was like, did they give you that shirt and he's like yeah and I'm like that's a sweet ass fucking shirt if you don't want it man like I'll fucking take it.
(15:15):
Because like, it was a nice polo fucking button angel shirt it was like in the team store it's like $130 shirt. Yeah.
And I'm like dude this is nice like you should be like who gives a listen. If I went to a Mets game. Now granted, I wouldn't, if I was a Mets if I was an angels fan and went to an angels Mets game at Shea Stadium, I probably wouldn't have paid the $2,000 for the on field experience because like I don't give a fuck I don't want to go.
(15:43):
Now granted, I like history so maybe that's a little different. I like history. I'd like to go in get tours of all the old classic stadiums you know Shea Stadium, even though fuck the Yankees Yankee Stadium, fucking Fenway.
Right, but I mean, still, it's still history right like Fenway, you know fucking Wrigley all those and let it be great to go do. So, I don't know why this guy fucking even did it but he was bitching the whole time and then he was like, whatever go fuck yourself so then we, as we're done we thought oh this is it they were taking pictures of us stuff was cool.
(16:18):
And then the ladies like, okay, hey you guys want to go into the dugout and I was like, oh hell yeah you fucking just like you. Yes, 100%. So we go into the first base dugout which is the visiting dugout right.
And I would like to say that.
(16:39):
I don't know if this is every fucking team, but I feel like it probably is.
You are all a bunch of disgusting fucking bastards.
And the level of disrespect, I get it seeds are one thing, because you're spitting them out that's I'm not even counting that. And yes of course they're fucking everywhere. These assholes are sitting here for two and a half hours, just eating a bag of fucking sunflower seeds a piece.
(17:08):
It's going to be all over the place okay I can forgive that.
But the fucking cups and the bottles and the trash and just just shit that's just strewn about.
There's three trash cans in this fucking dugout that are just sitting here. And you mean to tell me that you couldn't get off of your ass and go throw your cup in the trash can, or like, when you took the tape off of your fucking wrists.
(17:32):
You couldn't just go put it in the trash. Hell you walk by two trash cans going into the fucking clubhouse.
Oh, that is that is fucking unacceptable to me, especially to do it in someone else's stadium.
I do think it's a dick move to do it to your own people, like to your own grounds crew or wherever you want to whoever cleans that shit up, it is disrespectful to do that to them, and I don't know what the angels dugout look like because I didn't get to go into that one.
(18:01):
But to see a visiting team disrespect.
The house, you can't expect everyone to be in Japan.
It's not even that man I just expect you to have a basic level of respect I mean you guys are making multi. The league minimum and MLB is half a fucking million dollars or something like that right.
As a matter of fact, no one dugout is making the league minimum. No one on the fucking Mets is making league minimum. Yeah. All right. But
(18:30):
League minimum salary 2024.
Oh,
League minimum and seven is $740,000.
In 2024.
So,
basically everybody's making a million, you're all making a million dollars over a million dollars.
And you want to make the guy who's probably making fucking just a little bit more than minimum wage or whatever 25 bucks an hour.
(18:56):
You're gonna make him come in and clean up your trash.
That's like that's a problem man like that's a problem with baseball in general. I think, and
you assholes are lucky that you get to do this.
And if you not in the distant past 4050 years ago, dudes had to work regular jobs in the offseason.
(19:23):
You played professional baseball. Sorry, I had to let that portal affect. Oh, yeah. When you're moving your eyes. Oh, yeah.
You work a regular job. And then guess what? You got to go work your job as a car dealership at the car dealership for the other months of the year that you're not playing.
Right.
You guys don't have to do that shit anymore.
And you should at least be a little more respectful. But anyways, the dugout was fucking cool as shit.
(19:46):
I got I did ask the I was like, Hey, listen.
Would it be inappropriate if I grabbed the fucking phone the pulped phone and started like, you know, pretending like I was making a call.
And he's like, kind of. But he's like, I'll tell you what. He's like, you can't actually open it.
We're not allowed to open it and touch the phone.
(20:07):
But you can like touch the box or do anything to the box. And I was like, huh.
It's like, all right. So I just took a picture of me putting my hand on the box like I was calling the bullpen.
And it's cool because it says bullpen on the thing. And it's it's cool.
So then we took a bunch of pictures. And then as we're sitting there, there the lady who is like the concierge lady or whatever who took us all out there.
(20:31):
Me and Katie, we were sitting on the upper bench. That's because there's the lower bench and then there's the upper bench. Right.
So we were sitting on the upper bench that's like right by the fence that's on the field. And we were sitting there and we were taking pictures.
And she was like, oh, do you want to like hold the game ball or whatever? And I was like, oh, yeah, cool.
So she tosses a game used ball, took pictures with everything. I went to go toss it back to her.
(20:54):
She's like, no, no, no, you can keep it. We were the only motherfuckers who got that.
There was not a single other person who got a game ball, which was fucking cool.
So not only did we get this once in a lifetime experience of going down to the field to watch the fireworks show, but we also got the once in a lifetime experience out of the people who got to do that of getting the actual game ball.
So, yeah, I got a little fucking I got a little fucking what is this like a little ball holder for it and this boy case. Yeah.
(21:22):
And I think I kind of feel like I don't know if I should sell it with signatures or if I should like I don't know what to do with it.
I know it's going to be in this case, but I don't know if I should just leave it as is. We both know what you can do with it. What am I going to do with it?
At some point, it's going to go in your ass. I mean, it's already been in my ass, but point proven.
Anyways, what else should I do with it? I don't know if I should get signatures on it. I don't know if that's I don't know.
(21:51):
Maybe I don't know.
So we can get a big authenticated to show that it was a game used ball. Yeah, that's true. So you can buy them. Yeah.
And it tells you like what play they were used in. Right. Yeah. I have no fucking idea what this was used for.
But yeah, I mean, they did say it was for sure a game used ball, but who the fuck knows you can't prove it now. No, of course not.
(22:16):
But doesn't matter. So at that point, doesn't matter if you get a sign or not. I guess that's true.
I guess that's true. So anyway, it was cool. And then we got to go behind home plate and I got we got to take pictures.
I took I grabbed a handful of dirt and I fucking put it in my pocket.
And then the lady was like, oh, hey, that's that's going to cost you.
And I was like, you tell me who to write the fucking check to. She was just like, oh, all right.
(22:42):
And I was like, yeah, I don't give a shit. I'll fucking write whatever number you want on here.
It'll bounce, but I'll write whatever fucking number you want on there.
And then we got to go out through the Lexus Diamond Club.
And I will say the Lexus Diamond Club is nice. I mean, it's too bad that we're not rich people and we can't be in there all the time.
But it is nice. It is right at the level. Is that the one where you can go in if you have a Lexus or you have to pay to be in?
(23:06):
No, no, you have to. No, you just get the parking if you have a Lexus.
The Lexus Diamond Club is like you got to pay to be in there and you got to pay like a premium because you're paying.
You pay for the table and then you're paying like for the each food item that you have to get.
And then there's like a fucking I think there's like like a minimum of money you have to spend.
(23:28):
So that'd be cool if we could go do that one day.
But maybe when game rage takes off, we can fucking get I would still like to get season tickets one year.
That'd be fun. Like get on the season ticket train and then just be able to go to like damn near almost every home game if we could.
That'd be fucking fun as shit. But, you know, one of these years we'll have to do it.
(23:53):
Because I was thinking about maybe I was thinking about maybe next season doing that thing like Brian did where he bought like a 20 game pack of tickets.
So it's like kind of like partial season tickets.
And then if we did that, maybe we could like, oh, we'll buy like 20. I'll buy three seats.
And then, you know, me and you and Katie could go.
And then like, oh, sometimes Katie can't go, whatever. Me and you could take someone else or if it's a day you can't go like, oh, maybe whatever means Katie could just go.
(24:19):
But fuck, you know, that'd still be cool to do.
But anyways, this was the exact opposite of the experience that I had when I was at Dodger Stadium fucking 25 years ago and the reason why I hated the Dodgers.
This right here was the reason why I love the Angels to this day.
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And this is why I will. All this did was just further ingrain my fucking.
What's the word I'm looking for? They bought you loyalty for the year. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, it's a.
It's it increase my fanaticism is through the roof. Like now, if not already, Marina, I'll construct that guy.
(25:06):
But if my Ron Washington called me and was like, hey, man, I need you to go suicide bomb the Dodgers.
I'm in. All right. All in. No questions asked. Hey, buddy, you tell me what time and what place you want that fucking place to blow up.
I'll take care of business. My fanaticism level is that high.
Okay. Show me your fans who you think is in your fan, like have you made it a fan?
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Well, you know, I guess I'm an Angel zealot.
Like I said two days ago, you were our two days before, and you weren't.
That's not well. Yeah, you're right. I wasn't a zealot or a fan.
That's not true. Go fuck yourself.
Anyways. All right.
Well, that's all I had to kind of say. That was the end of the story. So.
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of a bitch, at least we've won this game.
I thought for sure, I was like,
fuck, we're gonna lose this fucking game to the Mets.
I think we lost the next day.
We lost the series, yes.
But we won one, the one game me and Katie went to, we won.
Which is pretty all right.
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