March 31, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 4 of A&G features...
- Ken Korach, play by play announcer for the A's, talks to A&G
- Getting to the A's game tonight!
- Babe Ruth history and fun facts!
- Final Thoughts!
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty, Armstrong and Getty
and He Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
We are live at Sutter Hell Park for opening day
of A's baseball. They take on the Cubs tonight.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
First pitch, seven oh five.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
I'm looking at the American flag.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
It looks like we've got a light wind blown out
to left center where it is four oh three.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
The wall.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Tell me about the short porch again, you.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Got a short Do we have a short porch?
Speaker 2 (00:43):
That sounds very what's the number on the right hand side,
so the left it's four twelve out there in the
left field three eighty there. How do they come up
with that?
Speaker 1 (00:51):
What do you mean? How far to make it?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Yeah, because every stadium is different. Do you sit around
discuss let's have a like a really short right field.
That'd be kind of fun prices, No, I wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Perhaps we can discuss that with Ken Corrik, the A's
play by play announcer. Ken. First of all, welcome, it's
great to talk to you. How are you. Thanks, guys,
it's great to be with you. So you have one
of the hardest jobs in the world to get every
major league ballpark, you've got, you know, eighteen guys starting
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on the field, you got four to six umps, depending
on you know, whether it's the playoffs or whatever. You
have one play by play guy for the home team
and one for the away team. And I'm looking at
your your resume. You've been busting your butt a long
time to get this gig, haven't you.
Speaker 5 (01:38):
Well, thanks, I appreciate it, and I've been very fortunate,
believe me, to do this. I never thought i'd have
one day in the big leagues, let alone thirty four.
So it's you know, it doesn't get old, that's for sure.
I think tonight looking out on the field, when the
players get introduced, they come out on the baselines. I mean,
I buy into all those traditions of opening days. So
(02:00):
I've had a charmed career, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
What do you think the experience will be?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
That's different from you know, your normal sized major league ballpark,
which is like forty fifty thousand, compared to playing here
at Cutter Health, which.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Is more like nineteen thousand. That's that's completely.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
Actually, it's a lot less than that. It's more like fourteen,
even with the lawn steely, so it is it is
less Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
So wow. I don't know.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
I don't know exactly. I think we're into a certain degree.
We're venturing into the great unknown here. But I think
there's gonna be a lot of energy at the ballpark.
I know it'll be packed, and I think the weather's
going to break and it'll be fine for the first
pitch at seven oh five. And I think once the
game starts, it's still baseball. It's still ninety feet to
first base, it's still sixty feet six inches from home
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plate to the pitcher's mound. But it is certainly a
much more intimate atmosphere than what we're used to at
a big league ballpark. I think it's going to be fun.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Well, and Ken is a guy who's been going to
major league games in minor league games, and heck, I
stop and watch highst I love baseball so much, having
been to many Rivercats games in this very stadium. The
feeling of you are part of the game, and you
you just you're involved, you want to cheer, you want
to shout. It's not like you know you're a mile away,
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you're flipping through your phone it just isn't that way here.
I'm thinking it might be really energizing for the players.
I hope the region turns out and supports the athletics,
and you know, I'd love to see that synergy going
where the fans and players feed off each other. I
think there's a good chance of it. I'm excited about it. Yeah,
I think you're right.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
I think you will see and I think the players
are looking forward to that, and I know they feel
they've been welcomed very warmly here. Many of our guys
have been to at least a couple of Kings games
so far. The Kings have been very gracious with that.
So I think you're right. I think there will be
that intimate feel. It's a little bit like a spring
training setup, although the games will be a lot more intense.
(03:56):
So yeah, games don't mean anything. I mean, this is
the real thing out here tonight.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Well, we've been talking to We're on what is it,
seventy stations across the country and been saying, hey, wherever
you live, if you got a favorite team and they're
playing the A's, fly out here to watch the game,
because I'm looking at the worst seat might be that
one right.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
There, and it's still a great seat.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
You'd be thrilling advance, right, get your tickets in advance
because they're going quickly. I can tell you that.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Here's my number one question is so A stands for athletic.
You got an elephant from mascot?
Speaker 3 (04:28):
What gives?
Speaker 5 (04:30):
Well, that's it goes back to almost the beginning of
the American League, which was in nineteen oh one. The
A's were a charter member of the American League, and
the A's were considered because of the way they played
and the great players they had on their team early
in the twentieth century that they were considered kind of
(04:52):
a white elephant, And so I think that's where the
whole elephant thing came from.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
That's a good story. Yeah. So, Ken Cork, the A's
player by play announcer, is on the lines his thirtieth
season with the A's, which is just really really amazing. Ken.
I know, like all baseball fans, you're a fan of
great play by play guys through the years. Can I
hit you with a couple of names and just give
us your impression, your take as a pro Would you
do that? Absolutely?
Speaker 5 (05:18):
Let's start up my alley there, man, Yeah, let's start
with Vin Scully. Well, Vin Scully is on a pedestal.
He stands above everyone else. We're all kind of imitators.
When anyone compares one of us to Vin Scully. I
grew up listening to him, so I grew up in
La So he's set the standard for us. One of
the great thrills of my life was getting to know him.
(05:40):
So I think he is considered by far the god
when it comes to baseball play by play, by pretty
much every one of us in the business. I would
say it's unanimous in terms of how we all feel
about Vin.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Yeah. I probably shouldn't have started with the Chuck Berry
of rock and roll asking about so where else you
can go? You can't go any higher than that. As
a Chicago guy, I gotta ask you Ken. How about
Harry Carey.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
Well, it's a very interesting story with Harry and I
spent four years working part time for the White Sox,
so when Harry was working for the Cubs, and Harry
was one of the great entertainers in the history of
the game. And one thing that people don't realize about Harry,
because I guess you could say that he was a
bit of a caricature.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
In his final years.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
He was a very good play by play guy in
his days with the Cardinals, so he was very solid,
fundamentally great entertaining. Nobody sold baseball and nobody sold as
much beer as Harry. And the other thing I need
to mention you guys are probably aware of this, but
Chris Carey is part of our broadcast team on radio
and television again this year. And Chris is Harry's not grandson,
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he is his great grandson. So we have ties in
Ara's family. And it's interesting that the Cubs, of course
will be here tonight with the tide to Harry.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
And you know, just as in a side can. I
grew up in Chicagoland, as I said, and I was
a big Cubs fan, but my dad and I would
watch Socks games because Harry Carey and Jimmy Piersoll were
so incredibly entertaining together. They really they were like David
Letterman was to late night TV in that they threw
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aside some of the traditions and conventions of it and
would just talk about the game more like fans didn't.
We found that really refreshing back in the day.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
Jimmy Pearsow was one of the all time baseball characters,
and it was a pretty good player in his own right. Yeah,
but Harry would broadcast from the bleachers that really at
Kimiski Park, Right, It wasn't it wasn't a shock when
you would see Harry doing the games out there with
his shirt off, broadcasting their games and shorts on a
nice summer day out there at park had thirty fifth.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
In shields down there, right, can I'll give you a
thousand bucks to do that, five thousand.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
That's the site that nobody wants to see.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Hey, I'm a casual baseball fan. Are there any new
rules this year I need to know about? I heard
I'm talking about golden the bat or various clocks and
various anything I need to know?
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Second?
Speaker 5 (08:12):
This year, no, as a couple of new rules that
are very esoteric. So on, the game is pretty much
the same. The big change happened a couple of years
ago with the pitch clock, and that really has changed
the game for the.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Better or the worst in your opinion. I know it
made the game shorter, so you think it was a
good idea.
Speaker 5 (08:28):
I think it's better, I really do. I think fans
like it. I think the tempo of the game has
gotten better.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Yeah, I would agree. As a fan. I love it
partly because I think it's going to save the game
in this fast paced time we live in. And I've
talked to both players and umpires in particular, who are
just you can keep your energy up so much better
everybody and and fans. There's not interminable time between pitches.
(08:55):
You start looking at your phone, you lose it.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
No, you're on the edge of your See, Derek Jeter
didn't need to loosen up every single padding thing he
had on his body every single pitch and tighten it
back up again.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Right.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
It helps the broadcasters during those fourteen to two games too.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
I'll bet I bet Ken one more question, at least
for me? How did the A's look in spring training?
How do you feel about the team for twenty twenty five.
I think they're improved.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
I certainly believe that, and they're embracing higher expectations. We
just flew back from Seattle last night and they split
the four game series against the Mariners, a team that
has the best starting rotation in the American League. They
could have won all four games. Every game was a
great game in the as.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
They have a lot of power. They've been seven home runs.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
Tyler Sodism, who's from down in Turlock, by the way,
one time is number one pick, had three homers up there.
So I think they have a better ball club and
if things break right in the second half of the season,
they could be in contention.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
For a wild card.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
Oh and there's no great prognosticator, but I'm enthused about
their club.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
And there's no better story in sports and especially baseball,
about an overachieving, smaller market team, maybe a lower payroll
that goes out there and whoops, a little butt can't
wait for it. Ken Correck, the legendary a's played by
play announcer Ken. Great to talk to you. I hope
we can do it again. That'd be a lot of fun.
Thanks you guys, Thanks for having me our pleasure.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
So we're out at the ballpark. It's raining, yes, So
they just spent all this time working on the field
announce raining. They got to be thinking, we have to
do this again and we cover it back up.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Yeah, you know what they're mowing right now. I'll bet
they drag that tarp out in a hurry. Depending on
the forecast. Is. You know, not to go all meteorologists
on you, but there are breaks in the clouds. I
have a feeling this is a brief squall.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
He gave one of the best answers there. I'm gonna
remember that forever for a variety of things. Yes, so
he's the announcer. You said, how's the team.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Going to be?
Speaker 3 (10:50):
He can't say, oh, suck. I don't have any idea
what they're gonna be like. But he's never gonna say
that no matter what.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Right right.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
I like him saying they're embracing expectations, higher expectation. That's
what I'm gonna say about us from now on. How
you feel about things? I'm embracing higher expectations.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Oh yeah, yeah, improved, definitely. How was the show today, honey?
My wife asked me usually if she didn't listen. Uh,
definitely improved.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
We're embracing higher expectations.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Yes, yes, you know, with all due respect to Dodgers fans,
you know it's a storied franchise. If you grew up,
watch and listen to whatever that's good.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
For you, buy the championship.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Be true to your school. At the same time, though,
I remember when the Kings had their their great playoff
runs and all to be the winning underdog is.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
The sweetest thing in sport. It's the best thing.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Yeah, I'm just really rooting for that.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
It's raining pretty good right now, Yes it is, yeah, Yes,
pretty good rain right there. And you can't I could
use the most last couple of weeks, you haven't been
able to go by the weather forecast because I've I
don't know how many times my phone has been saying
zero percent chance of rain. Is the rain? We're down
on my head?
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Here you go here? He goes about the meteorologist liars.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
No, no, no, no, I was going to go there. I
just I don't know what it's going to be like
all day long. I hope it clears off. Anyway, we
got more on the way. Hey, you got any question
about any of this? Because we're out at the ballpark,
we could answer for it.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
I've been trying to hot dog.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Oh jeesez he's loud.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
I'm hoping there's a hot dog somewhere I can eat
before before we leave here. Man, five o'clock somewhere more
on the way stay here is touring out here at
Sutterhill Park. That's where we are for opening day of
the A's in Sacramento.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
The tarp is back on the infield.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
It is.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
It's a brief band of showers. I've consulted the radar.
We should be fine for tonight's festivities.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
I hope you're right.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
It's fun talking to Ken Corrick. You know, I'd failed
to do the math to his thirty fourth year in
the major leagues doing play by play, and his first
gig was in the minor leagues in nineteen eighty four.
He's got some years under him. He sounds fantastic.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Yeah, you brought up the fact that he's got, you know,
one of the hardest jobs to get in all of announcing.
That's true. I've known some hell in America. I've known
a few people that have those jobs and nobody ever
leaves them. So not only they are only how many
baseball teams are there, maybe you know Hunton thirty two
something like that, So there are thirty two of those
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jobs in the country, right, and most people keep them
for decades, right, So there's like one opening per decade.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Well, and it's somewhat like our gig, although there are
more jobs like this than there are that in that
it's a really cool thing to do for a living,
and if you're successful at it, you make pretty good money.
And so there are hundreds of thousands of people who
want that gig and are working hard to get it
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all the time. So yeah, I can't even imagine. There are,
you know, thousands of guys who probably probably we're about
as good as Ken back in the day, who he
either out talented or out worked or outlasted. Yeah, so
you know, I kind of admire a guy who's gone
through the grind like that.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
So this is where the river Cats play. I assume
you know that I have not been to a Rivercats
game in years. I'm ashamed to say. Ah, I think
the last time I was here when we were riding
around in the cart shooting the hot dog cannon. Oh really,
how many years ago was that?
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Oh forever? Yeah, yeah, we were.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Shooting the T shirt cannon at people and the hot
dog gan, which is really fun.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Yeah. I used to bring my son Judy, and I
went to a head full of games. I used to
bring my son back when he lived here. Now and again,
it's our hours, you know, you start a game at
seven o five and we got to be up at
four o'clock in the morning anyway. But yeah, it's going
to be back. It's gonna be super exciting to have
the A's here. I hope it all works out. I
hope they have a good season because I think, you know,
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the regional embrace him like crazy. But who knows.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
And somebody just told me that on stub Hub there
they bought a ticket for tonight. So they sent me
a picture of what what's the seat like? It looked
like for you'r And I sent him a picture what's
it look like for more sitting because we're up in
the broadcast booth. They bought a seat right underneath this.
Oh just now. But they said the stub Hub ticket
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was one hundred and forty seven dollars to park the park.
The ticket to get in one that bad. One hundred
and forty seven to park.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
I said for the season. They said, no, just for tonight,
so they're going to try to figure some other way
to park.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
So I have no idea what the parking situation is
going to.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Be, Like, yeah, wow, I'm blown away by that. I'm
used to getting screwed at certain NFL franchises.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Games park far away and it's your chance to explore
West Sac.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Yes, you meet some interesting new people.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Exactly, make a friend, exactly. Hi, tell me about your life.
I want you to give me your phone in your wallet.
It's like no, no, no, we'll get to the robbing me.
I want to know about your life. It's like the
Norm MacDonald joke. A stranger is just a friend you
haven't met yet. Unless they have candy, then they're probably
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a pedophile.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Oh come on now, West Sac. It's a beautiful place
to live. Working shop Jack, come to us. Sure a
baseball game. I have a close ro cool lives in
a beautiful neighborhood in West Sex.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Oh yeah, yeah yeah. Cool view from here though. We're
looking at the bridge, the bridge that raises up for
the boats to go on it Ice Street bridge you
call that, I guess, uh Tower bridge, Tower bridge, Okay,
And you can see the buildings and everything like that.
Cool view from here.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Yeah, So come on out. Support to your local team
for three years.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
I hope it stops pouring. Three years, the A's are
going to be playing here.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
You man.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
It's going to kind of start to feel like it's
our team by then, isn't it with our team?
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Why are you're taking our team away. It's gonna be
a bit of a band aid being ripped. Yeah, feeling
I think it.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Uh, we got more on the way. Is the rain
lighting up? I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
It will. It will have faith, armstrong and getdy.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
We're out of the old Ballpark Center Health for the
opening of the A's tonight and we're out here already
and it's pouring rain.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
But it's supposed to stop and clear off and it'll
be fine tonight. But so that's take Me Out to
the ball Game? Want you to hear this.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
This is the first known recording of take Me Out
to the ball Game.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Oh really, from nineteen oh eight. Here we go listen
take Me up to the Ball Game?
Speaker 4 (17:38):
And record.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Went bait.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Okay, So there were verses oh wow, and they ended
up just using the course that caught off.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
I'd listen to the whole thing. How long is it?
Speaker 3 (17:57):
I don't know. It's like it's like dark sided movement.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
It's like it's oh, it's concept album.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Anyway.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
What I thought was interesting that neither of the two
dudes who had written that had ever been to a
baseball game. They didn't know what they were doing. They
just threw it together. This songwriters and it says Saron Wikipedia,
it's comment at ballparks, a throw in your team's name.
Oh wait a minute, seat of home team now. But
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it made me think of this biography of Babe Ruth
that I read over the Christmas break because I wanted
to read something that had nothing to do with.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Any of the stuff we talk about.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
So just a quick aside that that was like the
hip music, that style at the time. That was the
people were so dumb back then, that was my point.
That's right, ben.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
AnyWho, So so I did some research to figure out
what is the best biography of Babe Ruth ever written?
And I figured that out and I listened to it
and really damned interesting story. None of us have ever
seen We have no idea what Babe Ruth really looked like.
We certainly don't know what he looked like playing. There's
no video of it. There's not even really any pictures
(19:09):
of him when he was in a prime So there's
like one picture ever of when he was like twenty
years old or even twenty five.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Oh okay, yeah, so none of us have seen Babe Ruth.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
We've only seen the old fat man.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Yeah, so that's kind of what we picture, but that's
not what he looked like during the heyday of like
fifteen years of his prime.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Right, It's like if you'd only seen pictures of Elvis
posts nineteen seventy three, that.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
Is exactly right. Yeah, that is exactly right.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Sod be like, what was the big deal?
Speaker 2 (19:36):
So they have to explain on what a just a giant,
strapping fit man he was. And he grew up in
an orphanage horribly rough life. I mean just dad was
a drunk and mom was horrible, and dad drank himself
to death and all these different things. He grew up
in an orphanage and they spent a lot of time
killing time playing the version of baseball that was hot there.
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And he just dominated orphanage baseball. And so they got
him into some rec leagues and they'd take him around
and play, and he was so dominant in these rec
leagues that people would come out to watch him.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Yeah, he would.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Pitch and hit, so he would be the dominant pitcher.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Nobody could hit him. And then he'd go up to
the plate and hit a home run, which nobody hit
home runs at the time, nobody even tried it. Wasn't
a strategy, so they didn't have fences. They didn't even
really have a leg for it. That wasn't it'd be
like if all of a sudden, you know, playing pool.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
It was the point was to be to shoot the
cue ball off the table.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
So I've done that.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Okay, Well we're gonna have to change the rules and
rethink this, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Because everybody they swung down on the ball to try
to get it into play, and then you'd run around,
and it was all the strategy of the game until
he came along, and then he swung up and headed
as far as he could and every single play. So
he becomes popular in these rec leagues. People got a
word of him. Scouts came to watch him, and he
signed with the Red Sox I think when he's like seventeen,
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and they were mostly interested in his pitching. But he
did pitching end hitting, and he refused to do one
of the because he liked doing both so much. But
he would do both in lots of games, like Shoeyotani does. Now,
what do cyber metrics say about us pitching and hitting
back in the twenties, And he was just so dominant
at both there's never been as great as show. Heyotani.
As you know, the playing field is more leveled now
(21:17):
because there's so many talented players. There weren't that many
talented players where there really weren't any practically other than him,
So he just was so dominant on both ends. It
was like a circus freak performance, right. So when he
would go around to different towns, everybody would come out
to watch, and they would put markers out and it
was usually like they started putting in fences later, but
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they didn't even really have fences. You were just playing
in a field and the ball would stop rolling at
some point and then they'd put a stick in the
ground and say, this is how far bab Ruth d it.
And he had the right now at every park that
there was because nobody had ever even tried to do it.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Before, and he hit the ball so far as really
quite entertaining.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Wow, that is really cool. Yeah, I'd known that there
weren't fences in the early days, but yeah, that's funny.
I don't know about Hanson behind us here, our executive
producer also played baseball and coaches, but yeah, they always
taught us hit down, hit you don't want to swing
up on it. Oh no, opercot blah blah blah. And
now they've done all the physics experiments at all, and
Babe Ruth had it right. Swing up. Interesting, You get
(22:17):
the right rate of spin on the ball and the
rest of it to get out another All the guys
have opercuts.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Now, I remember hearing a least the home run Tommy,
let's sort of say it's very simple. You swing down.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
That is probably true. Swinging for the fences, yeah, because
the home run is just so much of a part
of the game now, which I'm not a big fan of,
you know, the other just to get a little baseball
y on you. As I watched this crew of what
is that like a dozen people working meticulously manicuring the field,
I've always wondered what it's like to play on a
field this great, because we'd show up for high school
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games and the first thing you did as an infielder,
you'd walk out there and look around and think, oh God,
I am going to catch a ball in the teeth.
Are the testicles one guaranteed today because they're rutted and
rocky and crappy, and look it sounds.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
So smooth, which would you prefer.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
It's tough to choose, really tough to choose.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
I like chewing.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
I do like chewing. You can get a tooth replaced
more quickly or easily than a test Nobody can see
testicle damage, right, and and generally, if you double over
clutching at your yards, I mean, that's a different look
than holding your hand up to your bleeding mouth. It's
just a different thing. So I don't know that's a
good question, Jack various player of player.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Another.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
I like this one. Now you got the window open.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Now got natural sound here from the ballpark. This is
what it sounds like here.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
You can't tell players that program. We'll close the window again.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Evidently, got you.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
They're starting to set up the concession stands and stuff
like that. But still I have yet to see a
hot dog, and I want to have a hot dog. No,
they're not.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
They don't serve hot dogs out of stands to the workers.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
I've had a lot of hot dogs that tasted to
me like they've been full. Boy. Yeah, that's not the
freshest hundred percent of beef hot dogs.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
I do you remember when it was I took Declan
to a forty nine Ers game for a Christmas present,
and it was a getting back to work weekend, and
it took four and a half hours to get to Candlestick,
and uh, and we missed the first half except for
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the last play of the first and I said, all right,
that's all right, son, I said, well, let's get a
hot dog. And I wolf down a hot dog and
I was all stressed out and it gave me an
upset stomach. And I talked about it on Monday during
the show, and the good folks at Alpine Meets heard
that segment and were.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Horrified by it. Oh and I do remember.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
That, And and to punish me for that, they sent
me cases of Alpine meats that were so good, Oh
my god, hot links and the foot longs and brats
and stuff like that is absolutely fantastic. And I am
going to guard a gorge on the ballpark food tonight.
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I'm gonna eat a fair amount.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
So Sweitch to talk topic briefly, because we've gotten a
lot of texts on this. What I should say, Oh
yeah to crazy weirdo progressive hippie nut jobs who get
angry because I drive a Tesla, Because I've seen a
lot of these videos. We played one early. Can you
grab that one? Michael?
Speaker 1 (25:40):
You know what?
Speaker 2 (25:40):
My one is a shame shame clip. This is some
guy in a cyber truck who drove by one of
the anti Tesla rallies over the weekend. All right, So
if you sort of stuff that, I just decided how
(26:02):
you you should handle that. We have some different ideas.
I suggested maybe going with some sort of I care
about climate change to try to out progressive them, see
how they do it. A number of people suggested I say,
I say them trans right off the bat. Somebody says,
up the ant he sorry, I'd love to chat with
you about this, but I'm.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Running late to meet my pastor at Chick fil a.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
I like that one.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Put a Biden Harris sticker on the back. That's not
a bad.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Oh wait a minute, I'd confuse them. Yeah, how about
what do they call it when you you talk your
kid out of being gay? What's that called again? Instead
of meeting my pastor at chick fil a, you say, hey,
I got to get my son to gay conversion.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Oh god, that's horrible.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Well, I'm just trying to be you know, trying to
inflame people.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
I think I actually need to have a set line
to go with.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
That's what I'm saying, have a line ready, because you
might get flustered in the moment or get really pissed
off or whatever. It might be good to have.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
Well, the flustering part will be am I about to
be in a fight?
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Uh yeah, because some some some lesbian can scream up
bums at me all day long.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
Yes, I want no if I'm actually gonna get.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Well right, I don't think physical prowess and screeching like
a lunatic at Tesla's don't not not on mass. I
mean there might be some overlap. It's like when I
said nobody owns an electric car. You were off that day,
and I was right and raving about there's nobody owns
an electric car who can lift one hundred pounds over
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their head. And we and we did. We did get
a couple of calls or whatever it was, or emails
from from guys, but it was just that's a handful
of guys who said, yeah, dude, I was in Special
Forces and all, I just think it's cool technology. So yeah,
there are a few out there, but I think mostly
(28:09):
it's gonna be angry. Senior citizen you know Granola's now
you get it from both ends from some people. Some
guy rolled coal on me over the weekend. I was
driving my Tesla. He's in a big Diesel truck and
tried to smoke me out his head my windows down.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
I think I assume he was a truck guy that
hates electric cars as opposed.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
To the hippies who hate elon.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
I was gonna say, that's an odd look for a
hippie talk about, you know, very small overlaps. But no,
that's probably it.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Yeah, so.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Yeah, I don't look. I own just a gas hog
of a super powered suv. Okay, But I don't care
what your fuel source is. I don't care if you've
got a nuclear reactor under the hood, or it's electric
or hydrogen. I just I don't don't care at all.
And I don't quite get people or that into it.
(29:05):
I mean, nobody's making anybody do anything much anymore. There
are subsidies and stuff like that. I just I don't
get that as a hill to fight somebody.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
I don't get angry about what other people drive war
or listen to. But I guess that puts me in
a minority. No, I might not want to listen to
what you listen to, or wear.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
What you wear.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
But I don't care what you do. It makes I
certainly couldn't get mad about it. Yeah, I just it's
so hard for me to get in that headspace.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
The closest I come to that is there is a
model of car that if you get behind it, you're
behind a bad driver one percent of the time. Let
me try to guess one hundred percent of the time.
And special Forces guys, you can write all the emails
you want. You are no exception. If you're driving one
of these, you're a terrible track. But I probably shouldn't
(29:53):
say it. Why not because they might like sponsor stations
or at all. I can't.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
You're not knocking the car, You're knocking the drivers.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Yeah, no, No, you gotta say it's not a great car.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Everybody wants to know.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
It's a very small car made by a very big
auto company based in Japan. I will leave it there.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Why would people who drive a Toyota Echo or whatever
it is not that? But why would they be worst drivers?
On average?
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Then? I don't know why. I've just observed that it's
true science. I will exactly. I will leave it to
wiser men than me. You've more gifted in the ways
of science.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
You've done the research, You've connected the dots.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Oh yeah, it's one hundred percent correlation. You are driving
too slow, you're in the left lane. You don't use
your signal, you clog up traffic.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Is there a certain is there a certain nationality that
tends to drive this car?
Speaker 2 (30:59):
Is nothing to do with it.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
No, it's it's Wienie hood, which knows no national boundaries.
Only weenies drive that car.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Okay, we got more from the Oh yeah, we open
the windows again so you can hear the bull horn.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
We're in the pronouncer. Oh man, new Organ's gone around.
Speaker 4 (31:19):
It's fine.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
There's a little kid over there a way after him.
He's happy. He's having a good time. Eat an ice
cream cone.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Oh look at they just got chocolate all over his
fast How there's the window clothes?
Speaker 3 (31:30):
More on away next.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
Armstrong Andy.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
West.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
Virginia has become the first state to ban artificial food dies,
which should make food healthier for the baby you had
with your cousin. New Yorker's making incest jokes about the South,
not cool, inappropriate, not digging it, not inaccurate, but inappropriate.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
Yeah, we didn't say it was inaccurate.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Right.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
We are alive at Sutter Health. If we decided we'd
come out here, somebody decided for us.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
In the parking at the hospital, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
The baseball park where the A's will be playing for
the next three years.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
That's a long time.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
Yeah. It reminds me of the plot of like a
weeper movie that my wife would enjoy, but I wouldn't
so much. If I'm going to be here for three
years and I care about you so much, but I've
got to leave at the end of three years. And
then the three years comes and everybody cries a bunch
and stuff like that. Well, that's a joy. It Well
it lasts, though, Jack, That's the lesson here. Wow.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
So for the people that work for the team, did
a lot of them get rid of their homes or
apartments in Oakland and move to Sacramento with the idea
that in three years will be moving again or did
most people quit and you get all new people owner
it's not.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
A horrible commute depending, No, I could. I could picture
a lot of those people living in Fairfield or stuff
like that, you know, places like that.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
And when they go to a city. Did they hire
all new people or did the I don't know, if
they give you the option.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Yeah, probably. What what is the total personnel count of
a Major League Baseball I don't know.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
We're looking at what a wonder the rebosas have any nine?
Speaker 5 (33:09):
Ten?
Speaker 1 (33:10):
What is that? Ten?
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Groundskeeper people down there with the with squeegee squeegering water
off the tarp. Are all those people making full time
like raise of family salaries? Is that a part time job?
I don't.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Or all the people around here and now most of
these people work for the stadium. Probably we're seeing around here, yeah, yeah,
no matter who's here.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Yeah, I remember when, for instance, I can't answer the
full time part time question, but I remember when Major
League Baseball made the terrible decision which I have harshly criticized,
to move Was it the All Star Game out of Atlanta? Yeah?
After Brian Kempton legislature made perfectly reasonable adjustments to voting. No,
it wasn't. After COVID J How that? How that costs
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so many good, hardworking people so much money?
Speaker 4 (33:59):
Strong, Strong, You're ready.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
Yeah, here's your host from the ballpark for final thoughts,
Joe Getty.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew
to wrap up the show. There he is Michael Angelow
in the control room. Michael final thought.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
I think you guys got to be the first people
to run across the field.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Uh for the new season, you know, for the athletics.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
I'm gonna strip down on the street. It's a small park.
You can probably get on TV.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
So much of homiting Katie Green are esteemed to use
woman as a final thought.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
Katie Jack, did you decide on a personalized plate or
said Cyberbeast.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
I haven't yet.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
I do like the idea of doge, but I feel
like at some point I'm provoking.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
I'm just looking for a fight. Well, you've already gone
pretty far down that road. Commit completely.
Speaker 4 (34:53):
Jack.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
A final thought.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
I have a feeling I'll be out here on a
handful of times, definitely for home games. To be able
to see major League Baseball this close to my house,
in a stadium this small, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
My final thought. Having watched everything all at once, Everywhere
You Go or whatever that movie is about parallel universes
for the second time, if I could go to a
parallel universe, it'd be the one where I became a
baseball announcer. Oh cool, because I've always wanted to do that.
Love the game so much.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
Armstrong and Getty rabit aboutnother grueling four hour workday.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
So many people, thanks so little time. Go to Armstrong
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Speaker 2 (35:39):
I haven't decided if I'm coming tonight or not, but man,
I'm wanting a hot dog? Is that going to be
the determining factor? See you tomorrow? God bless America.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
I'm Strong and Getty is the biggest posies game of
all time. It's a huge disaster, but nobody's ever done
anything about it. No, No, that's not what I was told.
And we do not have to live like this. In fact,
we cannot live like this. I'm ganna call my lawyer.
Speaker 4 (36:06):
Garnjie Dantea's screaming stop.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
It it is over. It is over, and when it's over,
it is over. It is over. Bye Bye, Armstrong and
Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty, Armstrong and Getty
and He Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
We are live at Sutter Hell Park for opening day
of A's baseball. They take on the Cubs tonight.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
First pitch, seven oh five.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
I'm looking at the American flag.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
It looks like we've got a light wind blown out
to left center where it is four oh three.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
The wall.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Tell me about the short porch again, you.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Got a short Do we have a short porch?
Speaker 2 (00:43):
That sounds very what's the number on the right hand side,
so the left it's four twelve out there in the
left field three eighty there. How do they come up
with that?
Speaker 1 (00:51):
What do you mean? How far to make it?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Yeah, because every stadium is different. Do you sit around
discuss let's have a like a really short right field.
That'd be kind of fun prices, No, I wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Perhaps we can discuss that with Ken Corrik, the A's
play by play announcer. Ken. First of all, welcome, it's
great to talk to you. How are you. Thanks, guys,
it's great to be with you. So you have one
of the hardest jobs in the world to get every
major league ballpark, you've got, you know, eighteen guys starting
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on the field, you got four to six umps, depending
on you know, whether it's the playoffs or whatever. You
have one play by play guy for the home team
and one for the away team. And I'm looking at
your your resume. You've been busting your butt a long
time to get this gig, haven't you.
Speaker 5 (01:38):
Well, thanks, I appreciate it, and I've been very fortunate,
believe me, to do this. I never thought i'd have
one day in the big leagues, let alone thirty four.
So it's you know, it doesn't get old, that's for sure.
I think tonight looking out on the field, when the
players get introduced, they come out on the baselines. I mean,
I buy into all those traditions of opening days. So
(02:00):
I've had a charmed career, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
What do you think the experience will be?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
That's different from you know, your normal sized major league ballpark,
which is like forty fifty thousand, compared to playing here
at Cutter Health, which.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Is more like nineteen thousand. That's that's completely.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
Actually, it's a lot less than that. It's more like fourteen,
even with the lawn steely, so it is it is
less Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
So wow. I don't know.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
I don't know exactly. I think we're into a certain degree.
We're venturing into the great unknown here. But I think
there's gonna be a lot of energy at the ballpark.
I know it'll be packed, and I think the weather's
going to break and it'll be fine for the first
pitch at seven oh five. And I think once the
game starts, it's still baseball. It's still ninety feet to
first base, it's still sixty feet six inches from home
(02:45):
plate to the pitcher's mound. But it is certainly a
much more intimate atmosphere than what we're used to at
a big league ballpark. I think it's going to be fun.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Well, and Ken is a guy who's been going to
major league games in minor league games, and heck, I
stop and watch highst I love baseball so much, having
been to many Rivercats games in this very stadium. The
feeling of you are part of the game, and you
you just you're involved, you want to cheer, you want
to shout. It's not like you know you're a mile away,
(03:15):
you're flipping through your phone it just isn't that way here.
I'm thinking it might be really energizing for the players.
I hope the region turns out and supports the athletics,
and you know, I'd love to see that synergy going
where the fans and players feed off each other. I
think there's a good chance of it. I'm excited about it. Yeah,
I think you're right.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
I think you will see and I think the players
are looking forward to that, and I know they feel
they've been welcomed very warmly here. Many of our guys
have been to at least a couple of Kings games
so far. The Kings have been very gracious with that.
So I think you're right. I think there will be
that intimate feel. It's a little bit like a spring
training setup, although the games will be a lot more intense.
(03:56):
So yeah, games don't mean anything. I mean, this is
the real thing out here tonight.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Well, we've been talking to We're on what is it,
seventy stations across the country and been saying, hey, wherever
you live, if you got a favorite team and they're
playing the A's, fly out here to watch the game,
because I'm looking at the worst seat might be that
one right.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
There, and it's still a great seat.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
You'd be thrilling advance, right, get your tickets in advance
because they're going quickly. I can tell you that.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Here's my number one question is so A stands for athletic.
You got an elephant from mascot?
Speaker 3 (04:28):
What gives?
Speaker 5 (04:30):
Well, that's it goes back to almost the beginning of
the American League, which was in nineteen oh one. The
A's were a charter member of the American League, and
the A's were considered because of the way they played
and the great players they had on their team early
in the twentieth century that they were considered kind of
(04:52):
a white elephant, And so I think that's where the
whole elephant thing came from.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
That's a good story. Yeah. So, Ken Cork, the A's
player by play announcer, is on the lines his thirtieth
season with the A's, which is just really really amazing. Ken.
I know, like all baseball fans, you're a fan of
great play by play guys through the years. Can I
hit you with a couple of names and just give
us your impression, your take as a pro Would you
do that? Absolutely?
Speaker 5 (05:18):
Let's start up my alley there, man, Yeah, let's start
with Vin Scully. Well, Vin Scully is on a pedestal.
He stands above everyone else. We're all kind of imitators.
When anyone compares one of us to Vin Scully. I
grew up listening to him, so I grew up in
La So he's set the standard for us. One of
the great thrills of my life was getting to know him.
(05:40):
So I think he is considered by far the god
when it comes to baseball play by play, by pretty
much every one of us in the business. I would
say it's unanimous in terms of how we all feel
about Vin.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Yeah. I probably shouldn't have started with the Chuck Berry
of rock and roll asking about so where else you
can go? You can't go any higher than that. As
a Chicago guy, I gotta ask you Ken. How about
Harry Carey.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
Well, it's a very interesting story with Harry and I
spent four years working part time for the White Sox,
so when Harry was working for the Cubs, and Harry
was one of the great entertainers in the history of
the game. And one thing that people don't realize about Harry,
because I guess you could say that he was a
bit of a caricature.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
In his final years.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
He was a very good play by play guy in
his days with the Cardinals, so he was very solid,
fundamentally great entertaining. Nobody sold baseball and nobody sold as
much beer as Harry. And the other thing I need
to mention you guys are probably aware of this, but
Chris Carey is part of our broadcast team on radio
and television again this year. And Chris is Harry's not grandson,
(06:50):
he is his great grandson. So we have ties in
Ara's family. And it's interesting that the Cubs, of course
will be here tonight with the tide to Harry.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
And you know, just as in a side can. I
grew up in Chicagoland, as I said, and I was
a big Cubs fan, but my dad and I would
watch Socks games because Harry Carey and Jimmy Piersoll were
so incredibly entertaining together. They really they were like David
Letterman was to late night TV in that they threw
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aside some of the traditions and conventions of it and
would just talk about the game more like fans didn't.
We found that really refreshing back in the day.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
Jimmy Pearsow was one of the all time baseball characters,
and it was a pretty good player in his own right. Yeah,
but Harry would broadcast from the bleachers that really at
Kimiski Park, Right, It wasn't it wasn't a shock when
you would see Harry doing the games out there with
his shirt off, broadcasting their games and shorts on a
nice summer day out there at park had thirty fifth.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
In shields down there, right, can I'll give you a
thousand bucks to do that, five thousand.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
That's the site that nobody wants to see.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Hey, I'm a casual baseball fan. Are there any new
rules this year I need to know about? I heard
I'm talking about golden the bat or various clocks and
various anything I need to know?
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Second?
Speaker 5 (08:12):
This year, no, as a couple of new rules that
are very esoteric. So on, the game is pretty much
the same. The big change happened a couple of years
ago with the pitch clock, and that really has changed
the game for the.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Better or the worst in your opinion. I know it
made the game shorter, so you think it was a
good idea.
Speaker 5 (08:28):
I think it's better, I really do. I think fans
like it. I think the tempo of the game has
gotten better.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Yeah, I would agree. As a fan. I love it
partly because I think it's going to save the game
in this fast paced time we live in. And I've
talked to both players and umpires in particular, who are
just you can keep your energy up so much better
everybody and and fans. There's not interminable time between pitches.
(08:55):
You start looking at your phone, you lose it.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
No, you're on the edge of your See, Derek Jeter
didn't need to loosen up every single padding thing he
had on his body every single pitch and tighten it
back up again.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Right.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
It helps the broadcasters during those fourteen to two games too.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
I'll bet I bet Ken one more question, at least
for me? How did the A's look in spring training?
How do you feel about the team for twenty twenty five.
I think they're improved.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
I certainly believe that, and they're embracing higher expectations. We
just flew back from Seattle last night and they split
the four game series against the Mariners, a team that
has the best starting rotation in the American League. They
could have won all four games. Every game was a
great game in the as.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
They have a lot of power. They've been seven home runs.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
Tyler Sodism, who's from down in Turlock, by the way,
one time is number one pick, had three homers up there.
So I think they have a better ball club and
if things break right in the second half of the season,
they could be in contention.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
For a wild card.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
Oh and there's no great prognosticator, but I'm enthused about
their club.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
And there's no better story in sports and especially baseball,
about an overachieving, smaller market team, maybe a lower payroll
that goes out there and whoops, a little butt can't
wait for it. Ken Correck, the legendary a's played by
play announcer Ken. Great to talk to you. I hope
we can do it again. That'd be a lot of fun.
Thanks you guys, Thanks for having me our pleasure.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
So we're out at the ballpark. It's raining, yes, So
they just spent all this time working on the field
announce raining. They got to be thinking, we have to
do this again and we cover it back up.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Yeah, you know what they're mowing right now. I'll bet
they drag that tarp out in a hurry. Depending on
the forecast. Is. You know, not to go all meteorologists
on you, but there are breaks in the clouds. I
have a feeling this is a brief squall.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
He gave one of the best answers there. I'm gonna
remember that forever for a variety of things. Yes, so
he's the announcer. You said, how's the team.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Going to be?
Speaker 3 (10:50):
He can't say, oh, suck. I don't have any idea
what they're gonna be like. But he's never gonna say
that no matter what.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Right right.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
I like him saying they're embracing expectations, higher expectation. That's
what I'm gonna say about us from now on. How
you feel about things? I'm embracing higher expectations.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Oh yeah, yeah, improved, definitely. How was the show today, honey?
My wife asked me usually if she didn't listen. Uh,
definitely improved.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
We're embracing higher expectations.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Yes, yes, you know, with all due respect to Dodgers fans,
you know it's a storied franchise. If you grew up,
watch and listen to whatever that's good.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
For you, buy the championship.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Be true to your school. At the same time, though,
I remember when the Kings had their their great playoff
runs and all to be the winning underdog is.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
The sweetest thing in sport. It's the best thing.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Yeah, I'm just really rooting for that.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
It's raining pretty good right now, Yes it is, yeah, Yes,
pretty good rain right there. And you can't I could
use the most last couple of weeks, you haven't been
able to go by the weather forecast because I've I
don't know how many times my phone has been saying
zero percent chance of rain. Is the rain? We're down
on my head?
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Here you go here? He goes about the meteorologist liars.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
No, no, no, no, I was going to go there. I
just I don't know what it's going to be like
all day long. I hope it clears off. Anyway, we
got more on the way. Hey, you got any question
about any of this? Because we're out at the ballpark,
we could answer for it.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
I've been trying to hot dog.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Oh jeesez he's loud.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
I'm hoping there's a hot dog somewhere I can eat
before before we leave here. Man, five o'clock somewhere more
on the way stay here is touring out here at
Sutterhill Park. That's where we are for opening day of
the A's in Sacramento.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
The tarp is back on the infield.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
It is.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
It's a brief band of showers. I've consulted the radar.
We should be fine for tonight's festivities.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
I hope you're right.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
It's fun talking to Ken Corrick. You know, I'd failed
to do the math to his thirty fourth year in
the major leagues doing play by play, and his first
gig was in the minor leagues in nineteen eighty four.
He's got some years under him. He sounds fantastic.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Yeah, you brought up the fact that he's got, you know,
one of the hardest jobs to get in all of announcing.
That's true. I've known some hell in America. I've known
a few people that have those jobs and nobody ever
leaves them. So not only they are only how many
baseball teams are there, maybe you know Hunton thirty two
something like that, So there are thirty two of those
(13:26):
jobs in the country, right, and most people keep them
for decades, right, So there's like one opening per decade.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Well, and it's somewhat like our gig, although there are
more jobs like this than there are that in that
it's a really cool thing to do for a living,
and if you're successful at it, you make pretty good money.
And so there are hundreds of thousands of people who
want that gig and are working hard to get it
(13:53):
all the time. So yeah, I can't even imagine. There are,
you know, thousands of guys who probably probably we're about
as good as Ken back in the day, who he
either out talented or out worked or outlasted. Yeah, so
you know, I kind of admire a guy who's gone
through the grind like that.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
So this is where the river Cats play. I assume
you know that I have not been to a Rivercats
game in years. I'm ashamed to say. Ah, I think
the last time I was here when we were riding
around in the cart shooting the hot dog cannon. Oh really,
how many years ago was that?
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Oh forever? Yeah, yeah, we were.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Shooting the T shirt cannon at people and the hot
dog gan, which is really fun.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Yeah. I used to bring my son Judy, and I
went to a head full of games. I used to
bring my son back when he lived here. Now and again,
it's our hours, you know, you start a game at
seven o five and we got to be up at
four o'clock in the morning anyway. But yeah, it's going
to be back. It's gonna be super exciting to have
the A's here. I hope it all works out. I
hope they have a good season because I think, you know,
(14:56):
the regional embrace him like crazy. But who knows.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
And somebody just told me that on stub Hub there
they bought a ticket for tonight. So they sent me
a picture of what what's the seat like? It looked
like for you'r And I sent him a picture what's
it look like for more sitting because we're up in
the broadcast booth. They bought a seat right underneath this.
Oh just now. But they said the stub Hub ticket
(15:22):
was one hundred and forty seven dollars to park the park.
The ticket to get in one that bad. One hundred
and forty seven to park.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
I said for the season. They said, no, just for tonight,
so they're going to try to figure some other way
to park.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
So I have no idea what the parking situation is
going to.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Be, Like, yeah, wow, I'm blown away by that. I'm
used to getting screwed at certain NFL franchises.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Games park far away and it's your chance to explore
West Sac.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Yes, you meet some interesting new people.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Exactly, make a friend, exactly. Hi, tell me about your life.
I want you to give me your phone in your wallet.
It's like no, no, no, we'll get to the robbing me.
I want to know about your life. It's like the
Norm MacDonald joke. A stranger is just a friend you
haven't met yet. Unless they have candy, then they're probably
(16:13):
a pedophile.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Oh come on now, West Sac. It's a beautiful place
to live. Working shop Jack, come to us. Sure a
baseball game. I have a close ro cool lives in
a beautiful neighborhood in West Sex.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Oh yeah, yeah yeah. Cool view from here though. We're
looking at the bridge, the bridge that raises up for
the boats to go on it Ice Street bridge you
call that, I guess, uh Tower bridge, Tower bridge, Okay,
And you can see the buildings and everything like that.
Cool view from here.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Yeah, So come on out. Support to your local team
for three years.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
I hope it stops pouring. Three years, the A's are
going to be playing here.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
You man.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
It's going to kind of start to feel like it's
our team by then, isn't it with our team?
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Why are you're taking our team away. It's gonna be
a bit of a band aid being ripped. Yeah, feeling
I think it.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Uh, we got more on the way. Is the rain
lighting up? I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
It will. It will have faith, armstrong and getdy.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
We're out of the old Ballpark Center Health for the
opening of the A's tonight and we're out here already
and it's pouring rain.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
But it's supposed to stop and clear off and it'll
be fine tonight. But so that's take Me Out to
the ball Game? Want you to hear this.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
This is the first known recording of take Me Out
to the ball Game.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Oh really, from nineteen oh eight. Here we go listen
take Me up to the Ball Game?
Speaker 4 (17:38):
And record.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Went bait.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Okay, So there were verses oh wow, and they ended
up just using the course that caught off.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
I'd listen to the whole thing. How long is it?
Speaker 3 (17:57):
I don't know. It's like it's like dark sided movement.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
It's like it's oh, it's concept album.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Anyway.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
What I thought was interesting that neither of the two
dudes who had written that had ever been to a
baseball game. They didn't know what they were doing. They
just threw it together. This songwriters and it says Saron Wikipedia,
it's comment at ballparks, a throw in your team's name.
Oh wait a minute, seat of home team now. But
(18:23):
it made me think of this biography of Babe Ruth
that I read over the Christmas break because I wanted
to read something that had nothing to do with.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Any of the stuff we talk about.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
So just a quick aside that that was like the
hip music, that style at the time. That was the
people were so dumb back then, that was my point.
That's right, ben.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
AnyWho, So so I did some research to figure out
what is the best biography of Babe Ruth ever written?
And I figured that out and I listened to it
and really damned interesting story. None of us have ever
seen We have no idea what Babe Ruth really looked like.
We certainly don't know what he looked like playing. There's
no video of it. There's not even really any pictures
(19:09):
of him when he was in a prime So there's
like one picture ever of when he was like twenty
years old or even twenty five.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Oh okay, yeah, so none of us have seen Babe Ruth.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
We've only seen the old fat man.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Yeah, so that's kind of what we picture, but that's
not what he looked like during the heyday of like
fifteen years of his prime.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Right, It's like if you'd only seen pictures of Elvis
posts nineteen seventy three, that.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
Is exactly right. Yeah, that is exactly right.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Sod be like, what was the big deal?
Speaker 2 (19:36):
So they have to explain on what a just a giant,
strapping fit man he was. And he grew up in
an orphanage horribly rough life. I mean just dad was
a drunk and mom was horrible, and dad drank himself
to death and all these different things. He grew up
in an orphanage and they spent a lot of time
killing time playing the version of baseball that was hot there.
(19:58):
And he just dominated orphanage baseball. And so they got
him into some rec leagues and they'd take him around
and play, and he was so dominant in these rec
leagues that people would come out to watch him.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Yeah, he would.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Pitch and hit, so he would be the dominant pitcher.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Nobody could hit him. And then he'd go up to
the plate and hit a home run, which nobody hit
home runs at the time, nobody even tried it. Wasn't
a strategy, so they didn't have fences. They didn't even
really have a leg for it. That wasn't it'd be
like if all of a sudden, you know, playing pool.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
It was the point was to be to shoot the
cue ball off the table.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
So I've done that.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Okay, Well we're gonna have to change the rules and
rethink this, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Because everybody they swung down on the ball to try
to get it into play, and then you'd run around,
and it was all the strategy of the game until
he came along, and then he swung up and headed
as far as he could and every single play. So
he becomes popular in these rec leagues. People got a
word of him. Scouts came to watch him, and he
signed with the Red Sox I think when he's like seventeen,
(20:55):
and they were mostly interested in his pitching. But he
did pitching end hitting, and he refused to do one
of the because he liked doing both so much. But
he would do both in lots of games, like Shoeyotani does. Now,
what do cyber metrics say about us pitching and hitting
back in the twenties, And he was just so dominant
at both there's never been as great as show. Heyotani.
As you know, the playing field is more leveled now
(21:17):
because there's so many talented players. There weren't that many
talented players where there really weren't any practically other than him,
So he just was so dominant on both ends. It
was like a circus freak performance, right. So when he
would go around to different towns, everybody would come out
to watch, and they would put markers out and it
was usually like they started putting in fences later, but
(21:39):
they didn't even really have fences. You were just playing
in a field and the ball would stop rolling at
some point and then they'd put a stick in the
ground and say, this is how far bab Ruth d it.
And he had the right now at every park that
there was because nobody had ever even tried to do it.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Before, and he hit the ball so far as really
quite entertaining.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Wow, that is really cool. Yeah, I'd known that there
weren't fences in the early days, but yeah, that's funny.
I don't know about Hanson behind us here, our executive
producer also played baseball and coaches, but yeah, they always
taught us hit down, hit you don't want to swing
up on it. Oh no, opercot blah blah blah. And
now they've done all the physics experiments at all, and
Babe Ruth had it right. Swing up. Interesting, You get
(22:17):
the right rate of spin on the ball and the
rest of it to get out another All the guys
have opercuts.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Now, I remember hearing a least the home run Tommy,
let's sort of say it's very simple. You swing down.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
That is probably true. Swinging for the fences, yeah, because
the home run is just so much of a part
of the game now, which I'm not a big fan of,
you know, the other just to get a little baseball
y on you. As I watched this crew of what
is that like a dozen people working meticulously manicuring the field,
I've always wondered what it's like to play on a
field this great, because we'd show up for high school
(22:53):
games and the first thing you did as an infielder,
you'd walk out there and look around and think, oh God,
I am going to catch a ball in the teeth.
Are the testicles one guaranteed today because they're rutted and
rocky and crappy, and look it sounds.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
So smooth, which would you prefer.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
It's tough to choose, really tough to choose.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
I like chewing.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
I do like chewing. You can get a tooth replaced
more quickly or easily than a test Nobody can see
testicle damage, right, and and generally, if you double over
clutching at your yards, I mean, that's a different look
than holding your hand up to your bleeding mouth. It's
just a different thing. So I don't know that's a
good question, Jack various player of player.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Another.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
I like this one. Now you got the window open.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Now got natural sound here from the ballpark. This is
what it sounds like here.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
You can't tell players that program. We'll close the window again.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Evidently, got you.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
They're starting to set up the concession stands and stuff
like that. But still I have yet to see a
hot dog, and I want to have a hot dog. No,
they're not.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
They don't serve hot dogs out of stands to the workers.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
I've had a lot of hot dogs that tasted to
me like they've been full. Boy. Yeah, that's not the
freshest hundred percent of beef hot dogs.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
I do you remember when it was I took Declan
to a forty nine Ers game for a Christmas present,
and it was a getting back to work weekend, and
it took four and a half hours to get to Candlestick,
and uh, and we missed the first half except for
(24:38):
the last play of the first and I said, all right,
that's all right, son, I said, well, let's get a
hot dog. And I wolf down a hot dog and
I was all stressed out and it gave me an
upset stomach. And I talked about it on Monday during
the show, and the good folks at Alpine Meets heard
that segment and were.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Horrified by it. Oh and I do remember.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
That, And and to punish me for that, they sent
me cases of Alpine meats that were so good, Oh
my god, hot links and the foot longs and brats
and stuff like that is absolutely fantastic. And I am
going to guard a gorge on the ballpark food tonight.
(25:19):
I'm gonna eat a fair amount.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
So Sweitch to talk topic briefly, because we've gotten a
lot of texts on this. What I should say, Oh
yeah to crazy weirdo progressive hippie nut jobs who get
angry because I drive a Tesla, Because I've seen a
lot of these videos. We played one early. Can you
grab that one? Michael?
Speaker 1 (25:40):
You know what?
Speaker 2 (25:40):
My one is a shame shame clip. This is some
guy in a cyber truck who drove by one of
the anti Tesla rallies over the weekend. All right, So
if you sort of stuff that, I just decided how
(26:02):
you you should handle that. We have some different ideas.
I suggested maybe going with some sort of I care
about climate change to try to out progressive them, see
how they do it. A number of people suggested I say,
I say them trans right off the bat. Somebody says,
up the ant he sorry, I'd love to chat with
you about this, but I'm.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Running late to meet my pastor at Chick fil a.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
I like that one.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Put a Biden Harris sticker on the back. That's not
a bad.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Oh wait a minute, I'd confuse them. Yeah, how about
what do they call it when you you talk your
kid out of being gay? What's that called again? Instead
of meeting my pastor at chick fil a, you say, hey,
I got to get my son to gay conversion.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Oh god, that's horrible.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Well, I'm just trying to be you know, trying to
inflame people.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
I think I actually need to have a set line
to go with.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
That's what I'm saying, have a line ready, because you
might get flustered in the moment or get really pissed
off or whatever. It might be good to have.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
Well, the flustering part will be am I about to
be in a fight?
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Uh yeah, because some some some lesbian can scream up
bums at me all day long.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
Yes, I want no if I'm actually gonna get.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Well right, I don't think physical prowess and screeching like
a lunatic at Tesla's don't not not on mass. I
mean there might be some overlap. It's like when I
said nobody owns an electric car. You were off that day,
and I was right and raving about there's nobody owns
an electric car who can lift one hundred pounds over
(27:48):
their head. And we and we did. We did get
a couple of calls or whatever it was, or emails
from from guys, but it was just that's a handful
of guys who said, yeah, dude, I was in Special
Forces and all, I just think it's cool technology. So yeah,
there are a few out there, but I think mostly
(28:09):
it's gonna be angry. Senior citizen you know Granola's now
you get it from both ends from some people. Some
guy rolled coal on me over the weekend. I was
driving my Tesla. He's in a big Diesel truck and
tried to smoke me out his head my windows down.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
I think I assume he was a truck guy that
hates electric cars as opposed.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
To the hippies who hate elon.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
I was gonna say, that's an odd look for a
hippie talk about, you know, very small overlaps. But no,
that's probably it.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Yeah, so.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Yeah, I don't look. I own just a gas hog
of a super powered suv. Okay, But I don't care
what your fuel source is. I don't care if you've
got a nuclear reactor under the hood, or it's electric
or hydrogen. I just I don't don't care at all.
And I don't quite get people or that into it.
(29:05):
I mean, nobody's making anybody do anything much anymore. There
are subsidies and stuff like that. I just I don't
get that as a hill to fight somebody.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
I don't get angry about what other people drive war
or listen to. But I guess that puts me in
a minority. No, I might not want to listen to
what you listen to, or wear.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
What you wear.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
But I don't care what you do. It makes I
certainly couldn't get mad about it. Yeah, I just it's
so hard for me to get in that headspace.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
The closest I come to that is there is a
model of car that if you get behind it, you're
behind a bad driver one percent of the time. Let
me try to guess one hundred percent of the time.
And special Forces guys, you can write all the emails
you want. You are no exception. If you're driving one
of these, you're a terrible track. But I probably shouldn't
(29:53):
say it. Why not because they might like sponsor stations
or at all. I can't.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
You're not knocking the car, You're knocking the drivers.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Yeah, no, No, you gotta say it's not a great car.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Everybody wants to know.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
It's a very small car made by a very big
auto company based in Japan. I will leave it there.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Why would people who drive a Toyota Echo or whatever
it is not that? But why would they be worst drivers?
On average?
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Then? I don't know why. I've just observed that it's
true science. I will exactly. I will leave it to
wiser men than me. You've more gifted in the ways
of science.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
You've done the research, You've connected the dots.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Oh yeah, it's one hundred percent correlation. You are driving
too slow, you're in the left lane. You don't use
your signal, you clog up traffic.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Is there a certain is there a certain nationality that
tends to drive this car?
Speaker 2 (30:59):
Is nothing to do with it.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
No, it's it's Wienie hood, which knows no national boundaries.
Only weenies drive that car.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Okay, we got more from the Oh yeah, we open
the windows again so you can hear the bull horn.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
We're in the pronouncer. Oh man, new Organ's gone around.
Speaker 4 (31:19):
It's fine.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
There's a little kid over there a way after him.
He's happy. He's having a good time. Eat an ice
cream cone.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Oh look at they just got chocolate all over his
fast How there's the window clothes?
Speaker 3 (31:30):
More on away next.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
Armstrong Andy.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
West.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
Virginia has become the first state to ban artificial food dies,
which should make food healthier for the baby you had
with your cousin. New Yorker's making incest jokes about the South,
not cool, inappropriate, not digging it, not inaccurate, but inappropriate.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
Yeah, we didn't say it was inaccurate.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Right.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
We are alive at Sutter Health. If we decided we'd
come out here, somebody decided for us.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
In the parking at the hospital, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
The baseball park where the A's will be playing for
the next three years.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
That's a long time.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
Yeah. It reminds me of the plot of like a
weeper movie that my wife would enjoy, but I wouldn't
so much. If I'm going to be here for three
years and I care about you so much, but I've
got to leave at the end of three years. And
then the three years comes and everybody cries a bunch
and stuff like that. Well, that's a joy. It Well
it lasts, though, Jack, That's the lesson here. Wow.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
So for the people that work for the team, did
a lot of them get rid of their homes or
apartments in Oakland and move to Sacramento with the idea
that in three years will be moving again or did
most people quit and you get all new people owner
it's not.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
A horrible commute depending, No, I could. I could picture
a lot of those people living in Fairfield or stuff
like that, you know, places like that.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
And when they go to a city. Did they hire
all new people or did the I don't know, if
they give you the option.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Yeah, probably. What what is the total personnel count of
a Major League Baseball I don't know.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
We're looking at what a wonder the rebosas have any nine?
Speaker 5 (33:09):
Ten?
Speaker 1 (33:10):
What is that? Ten?
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Groundskeeper people down there with the with squeegee squeegering water
off the tarp. Are all those people making full time
like raise of family salaries? Is that a part time job?
I don't.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Or all the people around here and now most of
these people work for the stadium. Probably we're seeing around here, yeah, yeah,
no matter who's here.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Yeah, I remember when, for instance, I can't answer the
full time part time question, but I remember when Major
League Baseball made the terrible decision which I have harshly criticized,
to move Was it the All Star Game out of Atlanta? Yeah?
After Brian Kempton legislature made perfectly reasonable adjustments to voting. No,
it wasn't. After COVID J How that? How that costs
(33:52):
so many good, hardworking people so much money?
Speaker 4 (33:59):
Strong, Strong, You're ready.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
Yeah, here's your host from the ballpark for final thoughts,
Joe Getty.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew
to wrap up the show. There he is Michael Angelow
in the control room. Michael final thought.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
I think you guys got to be the first people
to run across the field.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Uh for the new season, you know, for the athletics.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
I'm gonna strip down on the street. It's a small park.
You can probably get on TV.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
So much of homiting Katie Green are esteemed to use
woman as a final thought.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
Katie Jack, did you decide on a personalized plate or
said Cyberbeast.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
I haven't yet.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
I do like the idea of doge, but I feel
like at some point I'm provoking.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
I'm just looking for a fight. Well, you've already gone
pretty far down that road. Commit completely.
Speaker 4 (34:53):
Jack.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
A final thought.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
I have a feeling I'll be out here on a
handful of times, definitely for home games. To be able
to see major League Baseball this close to my house,
in a stadium this small, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
My final thought. Having watched everything all at once, Everywhere
You Go or whatever that movie is about parallel universes
for the second time, if I could go to a
parallel universe, it'd be the one where I became a
baseball announcer. Oh cool, because I've always wanted to do that.
Love the game so much.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
Armstrong and Getty rabit aboutnother grueling four hour workday.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
So many people, thanks so little time. Go to Armstrong
in getdy dot com for the hot links, for the swag,
pick up an AMNG sweatsher for goodness sake, Let's keep
everybody on the crew and drop some note something we
ought to be talking about. Send us the link mail
bag at armstrong in Getty dot com.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
I haven't decided if I'm coming tonight or not, but man,
I'm wanting a hot dog? Is that going to be
the determining factor? See you tomorrow? God bless America.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
I'm Strong and Getty is the biggest posies game of
all time. It's a huge disaster, but nobody's ever done
anything about it. No, No, that's not what I was told.
And we do not have to live like this. In fact,
we cannot live like this. I'm ganna call my lawyer.
Speaker 4 (36:06):
Garnjie Dantea's screaming stop.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
It it is over. It is over, and when it's over,
it is over. It is over. Bye Bye, Armstrong and
Getty
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