With the Celtics closing out their series last night, and the Mavs on the verge of sweeping the Timberwolves, Bobby discusses which duo has been more dynamic: Tatum & Brown or Luka & Kyrie. Plus, the guys recap their visit from St. Louis for "Too Much Access" and sit down with Jim Edmonds from his home to talk about his career, baseball, and much more! And following Eddie's broken foot, Bobby reads a list of the worst sports injuries over the years to compare!
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
See.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
It's a podcast called twenty five whist Stocking Force and
they were a whistle Yes, too bad.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
But what did you expect? It's a podcast called twenty five.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Whistles Swinging Wine.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Hello, welcome, coming up Jim Edmonds, Cardinals Hall of Famer,
one of the most dynamic centerfielders. I've ever seen him
my whole life. I hated him, then I loved him,
Then I loved him.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
That's the order.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Oh oh, hated him first?
Speaker 1 (00:30):
No, actually I was amazed while I'm as an angel,
then hated him as a cardinal, then loved him as
a cub.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
Then now it's just awesome. Bo, we're here. We went
to his house.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
I want to blow a whistle.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Hit it.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Let's go, and Eddie sent me the dumbest what they
call show prep in the history of this show. Show
prep is that we will get to that first. Let's
do the tittle tattle. Dude's time stupid? His name ever?
Speaker 4 (00:56):
The tittle tattle?
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Get up?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
The kind of.
Speaker 5 (01:01):
After our visit to the Bush Stadium last weekend, where
do you rank the stadium in your stadium power rankings?
Speaker 6 (01:07):
Now?
Speaker 4 (01:07):
Is it stadiums? I've just been to our stadiums that
we've been.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
To as a group that we've had extra access just
to baseball stadium well, regular is number one. Yeah, overall,
I'm just going. I mean, Wrigley is awesome, and I'm
a Cubs fan.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
So we've been to Fenway m hm regularly.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Fenway.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Fenway is awesome.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Just because it's old and even if it's not old,
it still looks like it did when it was old.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
And when you see the monster with your own eyes, like,
that's pretty crazy. It's cool.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
But I think bush stadiums in baseball stadiums three.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
But I'm thinking of other ones I've been to. I've
been to been to New Kamiski, I've been a New Yankee.
Have you been to the Pittsburgh I've been to the
No back when it was three Rivers. No, haven't.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
I've probably been like twelve baseball stadiums.
Speaker 7 (02:00):
Peco Park in inan Diego. Very underrated. I swear, do
you that have stadium is.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Awesome, really awesome.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
I'm gonna put it at.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
Three on a baseball stadium.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
That's the only thing that's cool about Yankee Stadium now
is that you get off the subway and it's just
right there.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Awesome.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
It is awesome, Like you come right out of the
hole and it's like a Yankee stadium, and.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Then when you go to the game, you're in there
with a bunch of fans, Like the whole subway is
packed with a bunch of Yankee fans.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
That part's cool. I'm not a Yankee fan, and what
I could respect. I'm more of just a National League
guy anyway, because I was this National League him a
whole life interesting National League. Yeah, I've been down to
the breaks.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Yeah, oh cool, but I'm gonna put Bush.
Speaker 7 (02:39):
What about came tow yards Baltimore?
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Never been there?
Speaker 4 (02:43):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Looks cool.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
They've been to Baltimore.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Yeah, we spend the night in Baltimore one night. I
know that because justin the suit went to the casino there.
But that's it like touring and we just stayed there.
I think we were flying out of Baltimore the next morning,
so we stayed.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
I've been to the Baltimore airport.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Does that count though?
Speaker 7 (03:00):
When you yeah, like a layover.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
We just had to stay the night in hotel, like
we probably did a show in DC. It can only
get a Baltimore flight. So then we went and no,
it doesn't count.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
I'm Bush at three.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
It's hard for me to do because I I didn't
even hate the Cardinals. I just grew up hating the Cardinals.
I'm an adult man now. Those people are just athletes
that are either drafted or highed by the Cardinals. But right,
and I have to tell myself that sometimes. But yeah,
Bush is really it's the new Bush Stadium.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
But it's really cool. And maybe it's just cool because
we got to go, but it was awesome.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
So that's Bush three? Is that what I was reading? Yea,
it was Bush three? It was Bush one.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Bush two is the last one they shut down. No, No,
that's that's a different Bush. It's h w h Yeah
that's true too.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
This is named after the Bush.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
What's the coolest football stadium ever been to?
Speaker 2 (03:48):
You know? Oh?
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Good man, I think you have to pull your personal out.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Okay, all right, that's gonna be tough because.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
I would say my favorite place on Earth is Reynolds
Razorback Stadium. But I wasn't even thinking that, so you
can't use it. I think out in front of the
stadium in Tuscaloosa where they have the trophies or the trophies,
the statues of everybody who won a national championship.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
That's freaking cool.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
And when they walk down during Sweden Alabama that's pretty cool.
Stadium is big, that's really cool. Like Alabama's the environment's
really neat. You know, Oklahoma they have statues of their
Heisman winners. They are a lot of Heisman winners. Kind
of bizarre. I mean Heisman winners Oklahoma has, but Alabama
(04:36):
really cool.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
We went to Death Valley that was called cool lsu
mm hmm. That was really cool.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
But you didn't watch a game.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
There were the first show.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Yeah, the game.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
There's the games that are really loud. I mean they're
but I don't know that I like that stadium.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
I feel like it's just crazy because everybody's drunk and
it's Baton rouge.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Yeah, and the Jambalaya it's purple Soldier Fields.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Super cool when you drive by it on the interstate
and then you go and you get in it and
you're like, huh.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Well, what's the hunt.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
It's just kind of old.
Speaker 7 (05:07):
I don't know, yeah, like you feel the old if it's.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Old, and like they left some of like the personalized
old or like the but I don't feel like Soldier
Field really has that charm of something old.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
It just is kind of sucky.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
And maybe because I'm not a Bears fan, because when
regular before they started new it was as a dog
crab stadium, but it was the best.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
It's weird because outside of the stadium it kind of
looks like a Supreme Court house. It does, right, Yeah,
columns and really yeah Soldier, yeah, Soldier.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
The Cowboy Stadium is good though it is, it just
feels pretty clinical.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Did you clean and new screens everywhere?
Speaker 7 (05:46):
Have you been to Kneel?
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Oh? No, No, that's cool. I mean he's a big fan.
Speaker 7 (05:52):
I'm just saying I'm taking my bias out. Don't worry.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
But it's still really but it's on the river like
it's awesome.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Did you ever go to the Astronome? Yes?
Speaker 1 (06:01):
No, no, but I went to the astros I went
to in Ron when it was in the same state.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
He changed the name Ron and then it went to
minute Mad.
Speaker 7 (06:11):
Oh yeah, then Ron, what is that?
Speaker 1 (06:13):
And Ron was a company that liked the big scam
that oh people had billions of dollars.
Speaker 7 (06:17):
It sounds like an oil company.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
There was an oil company was.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Really something like that okay, but unfair to ask me
that question because I picked my personal team's number one
and then recent teams number two, so it's a tough
question to answer.
Speaker 5 (06:28):
Ahead it was some big names still remaining. Who was
the biggest NFL freed in surprise still available?
Speaker 1 (06:33):
You know, running backs don't really surprised me because it
does feel like you us guy have been Neill running
back off the heap, and they do okay unless they
are extremely dynamic. But in the running back world, Dalvin Cook,
but he didn't really do much with the Jets, but
they didn't really give him a lot of opportunity to.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Do much with the Jets. But also the Jets didn't
do much.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Cam Akers is not with the team right now. Kareem
Hunt not with the team, and he came back to
Cleveland for a minute.
Speaker 7 (07:02):
Didn't he at the very end?
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Yeah, like he's like, hey, what's up, Hey, Kareem's bad?
All season's over?
Speaker 7 (07:07):
Yeah, Yeah, got hurt?
Speaker 4 (07:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Hunter renfro Man, that guy like dominated receiver. Yeah, and
then just dropped off crazy and you'd see tiktoks with
these other receivers or even dB would be like that
dude's a dog. Hunter Renfro that dog's for and then
it was like as soon as I drafted in my
fantasy and he sucked.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
He's a little guy, right, relative little guy, No, no, no,
I think he's like smaller than most receivers. Yeah, he's
also white, so it makes him look slow and automatically.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
I just if you're on wire receiver, you just look like.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
The Packers lineman that went to Aaron Rodgers' wedding. Bakatiari.
I guess I'm surprised he's still a free agent. Those
lineman positions are in need unless he just isn't good anymore.
But I don't know there's a big wide receiver that
I think or even a play.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
I mean, uh, Michael to.
Speaker 7 (08:01):
Talk about dropping off big time, but he got hurt.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
It was awesome for a bit.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
He got hurt and then came back and he's supposed
to have a decent year last year.
Speaker 7 (08:08):
But again then he got like weird.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
He got in trouble and did some weird on field
stuff in practice.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
So I don't know there's anybody that I'm screaming.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
I'm surprised that they're a free agent right now, but
I am ready for some freaking football now like I'm
ready almost there? Yeah, what else you got?
Speaker 2 (08:23):
All right?
Speaker 5 (08:23):
Going to basketball here? Which dominant duo has impressed you
more in the conference finals? Tatum and Brown or Luca
and Kyrie?
Speaker 3 (08:30):
This is easy.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
It's Luke and Kyrie. Okay, don't ask the question if
you don't want the answer. Sorry, I didn't say that
loud it you did. Tatum has scored thirty points twice.
One of those, though, was in like the fifth overtime
when all he had to.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
Do was make it like a lay up a day
and he made He got thirty points. But I'm not
even hating.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
Jalen had forty points in a game. Pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
I guess that the expectation is just there because they're
playing the junior highs. I think we could score thirty
a game.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Stop. Don't say stuff over on the East. That's not
fair with the booter without.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Luke and Kyrie are legit. And you know what, after
they score game.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Winners the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth time in
the past twenty five games, it's not lucky anymore.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Be honest, though, I think Kyrie is shining more than Luca.
LUKEA is just coming up at that right time to
hit those shots that they need.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
They're complimenting each other. Well, there is nobody as fast
as Kyrie with the ball on a break.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
There's nobody.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
I mean, I'm gonna go Luke and Kyrie because the
expectation wasn't there. And also they're playing better teams. Again,
the Celtics have beat us, that's why they went four.
They've lost two games in three series.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
Right then they go four to one, four oh, four
to one. H Yeah, they played us.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Do you think you guys can win? Do you think yeah,
you think you'll Yeah. By the way, I was wrong.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
You guys are gonna be the favorite.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Over over Dallas.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
I have figured Dallas would be. It was pretty close,
but Detroit was the favorite. What's what's all that is?
It is a game four tonight? Yes, okay, so Celtic
Alardy won.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
There, Detroit was the favorite. Sorry, not Detroit, Dallas, thank you.
It was like Detroit the worst team in the NBA.
They finish the worst two years in a row.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
The D man, I'm fascinated with the D. My point
is I think I've forgotten point. Yeah, I have to
move on because I had a good point and now
I forgot the point.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
All right, next question, all.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
Right, last one here, speaking of the Celtics after two
come from behind wins, Now, do you believe their inability
to close close games is over?
Speaker 1 (10:39):
I believe that the teams they've been playing haven't been
able to close games. I'm not a hater.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Look who they're playing against, don't I know?
Speaker 7 (10:45):
All season they've been the best team in the NBA.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
But they're playing Eastern Conference teams they're playing.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
For the most part, I'm not a hater of the Celtics.
I'm not a Celtic hater. And if they win, good
for them. They deserve to win. They've been close many times.
I'm not gonna better them to win.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
As matter of fact, I bet Minnesota to come back.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Oh that was a great bet, dude, I did.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
I put fifty bucks on the Timberwolve to come back
out three.
Speaker 8 (11:07):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
I mean then he went four in a row. But
fifty bucks makes.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Five to fifty and anything is possible. Yeah, it's except
that's never happened before.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
I think it has a baseball red's obviously, that's right.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
I think that the Pacers and a twenty six year
old Jason Tatum is starting to mature into the player
he is. And I think that also they're able to
close games. They're just better than the teams they're playing.
And I think that there's such a disparity in the
Celtics versus the Pacers, especially without a Halliburton.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
When nim Hart is your guy.
Speaker 7 (11:42):
He looked good, he did look good.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
But they had nobody else when because before the Pacers
it was the.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Knicks, whenever Cabs. I'm sorry, even worse, yeah, even worse.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
They don't have it. There's nobody but Celtics.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Missing prisingis, but Porzingis was the adding Chris Bosh to
an already awesome team with and it didn't This wasn't
the order but Lebron. It's like Lebron and Waite and
you ad Bosh. Bosh was going, You're not like, well
we suck now, You're like, dang it. Imagine if we
had Posh.
Speaker 7 (12:13):
I agree. I mean, obviously yeah, they had the advantage,
but I'm just saying it's gonna.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Be like one quarter and grab his hip. And I
kind of.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
Wanted it didn't play a little bit, just because that's
such a long time off to come back into the finals.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
This is what I was gonna say, listen to this.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
This system is broken because if it goes four to
oh tonight, there's not another game till sixth. Yeah, and
they won't start the series hardly. They're just waiting until
sixth and.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
Everybody's just chilling.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
I mean, they can't let that happen.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Basically, like you take a vacation, maybe the twenty ninth, thirtieth,
thirty first, first, second, third, fourth, fifth, it's like nine days.
So that's why the refs are really going to push
toward a Minnesota win.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Oh yeah, I agree with that conspiracy.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
That's why I do a little money.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
And that's why you're scratching on that. It's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Fifty Yeah, it's kind of been a boring, yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Final four, very stressed Conference Finals.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
We were getting off the flight Game two Dallas Minnesota,
and it was right in the last ten seconds or
so of the game and Eddie walks his car and
Minnesota pretty much soda up. I turned on to put
it on the ESPN and do the old I watch
it on ESPN, and that was the Luca Luca, Oh.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
My god, so stupid, man.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
I just I felt your pain.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
So stupid. Oh I saw my bet go from like
a cash out of like fifty dollars down to like
twenty dollars. Now, I don't even think there's a cash out.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
I would also like to say that I did say
Luca is the best player remaining whenever we picked us.
I did not jump on the let's go ahead and
declare and that dude, although he is that dude, he's
just getting a little tired.
Speaker 7 (13:47):
His guests.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
Get the guy a sleep number something, man, let him
take a.
Speaker 5 (13:52):
Nap, sleep number dot com, slash bone, Yes, thank you.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
All right, that's the tittle tattle. Get out.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
We're gonna take a break and we'll come back and
we'll talk about our Saint Louis trip a little bit
and get into our interview with Jim Edmonds. Okay, so
before we get into our interview with Jim Edmonds, I
will say the Saint Louis too much access was I
do believe it's the most fun when we've ever shot.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Oh it's so much fun, dude, so much fun.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
I don't know one that would have been more fun
as a participant. I don't know about you guys. You guys,
I mean Kevin's running the show. Read shooting everything. Yeah,
I don't know about you guys doing that, but my
part of it, I do think that was the most
fun one that we've ever done. But surrounding him with
going to Jim Edmond's house, with doing the podcast outside
the stadium, with going in the stadium, hanging out with
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Paul Goldschmid who then we do a bit and I
have his bat and then he goes on a tear
all weekend.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
Thank you, You're welcome. When, yes, you know, playing.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Eddie hurt his foot, Yes, all that fun stuff.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Well the foot thing wasn't fine.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
No, it was not.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
And going to the game afterwards, true, although it did
get happening, did.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Get rained down. All that to say, Mikey did not
get to.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Go no.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Level probably why I got hurt. Let's be real, level of.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
One to ten ten.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
All the pictures you guys supposedly looked amazing and I
wasn't there for any of it. I know, and I
felt bad for you, but really I was having so
much fun.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
I didn't feel that I forgot to feel bad.
Speaker 7 (15:29):
I feel like he has to completely forgot about It's fine.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
We did, yeah, I mean before and after we remembered
you there's even like a picture of all four of
you guys.
Speaker 9 (15:38):
We've never taken a group picture like that.
Speaker 8 (15:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Yeah, it was awesome, good. It was like so legit. Really,
it was so legitimate. And we're not just saying that
because it was so legit.
Speaker 7 (15:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
But Eddie did like fracture a bone on the outside
of his foot.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
I didn't find out that I fractured it until was
that Saturday.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
No, it started swelling Sunday. Sunday media took a shoe
off looking at base underneath the skin.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
I knew something was wrong as soon as it happened,
because as soon as I jumped up and it landed
on the base, what happened was Bones. I'll break it
down for you, guys. Bone, I'm gonna give you the
real story. After Eddie tells you the lie, I'll tell
you the real story. Bones was throwing the ball to
me and I was at second I was playing second base.
Throws the ball at me. It's way overthrown, so I
stretched jump as high as I can stretch up. I
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still miss the ball and on the way down, like
my toe my big toe side hits the corner of
the base and rolls my ankle over and I got
full body weight on my ankle.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
And I'll tell you, by the way, it's nobody's fault
you hurt your foot. By the way it's made to
throw the ball high. It's just you coming down on
a bag. But that's not even the real story.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
But go ahead, finish right anyway. So when I landed
full body weight, I can hear I heard a crunch.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
Okay, your foot hitting the bag.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
No, I'm not kidding, dude. I heard like a crunch,
and I was like, this is not good. But that
was early into us shooting. So we still played catch
for like another ten minutes there. We caught pop flies
for another twenty minutes out in the outfield like, and
then Bones goes, hey, lastly, let's race around the base.
And I was like, man, i' gonna be honest with you,
I don't think I can do that.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
I said, I respect that, so we didn't.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
So we didn't do it, and then I faked it
pretty good until we got to the like left the stadium.
Then once we left the stadium, like, dude, I can't walk.
This is this is hard.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
But then he walked all during the game the whole time,
and he said, I got it better. So this is
what really happened. Eddie wasn't near the base where he
should have been, and even the coach hielled, Hey, there's
a base to Eddie get over to the base. So
where I threw it is where he should have been.
We were turning to you know, I guys do playing
infild so but it also it's just.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
An age thing, man, when I get your age and.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Be careful to Yeah, next year, dude, you're gonna start
being careful nowt But we did go to Jim Edmond's
house the night before and got to his house.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
They like going downstairs.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
We go downstairs to his basement and there's like, I
don't know, arcade games, arcade bowling alleys, arcade games, bowling alley,
pop a shot, there's a batting cage. There was another
ballplayer who came over just to hit. Wasn't even set up.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Pretty awesome.
Speaker 5 (18:03):
Yeah, just literally started hitting you just hear while we
were there, was getting hit.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
Yeah, yeah, it was great.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
So I'm going to play this interview we do with
Jim Edmonds and the fact that he let us come
over and hung out with us so long and then
just kind of.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
You know, let me.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Ask every question I ever had about that era in baseball.
Was super cool because I had a lot I could
have done another hour. I think he probably could have
another hour too, but they had a dinner to get to. Yes,
wait for that dinner, man, we'd probably still be interviewing
right now, right now.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Yeah, here he is Jim Edmonds.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Before we came over to your house, which, by the way,
this place is crazy. It's like a fantasy land for
sports fans, kids and me. I'm a mix of those two.
I'm like a hybrid kids sports fan. We stopped at
a card shop and we were in there. I have
I like sports memorabilia, but I over on a wall
I saw this and I bought it for twenty bucks
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to Jim Edmonds bibblehead. So twenty fourteen, you were inducted
into the Cardinals Hall of Fame. Do you remember this
night when they gave way the Jim mmons bibble heads?
Speaker 10 (19:09):
Yeah, because I had like five cases of him in
the back of my car.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
What is it.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Let's say, we haven't opened it.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
That's what I told Bobby to him, Like, don't you
think Jim has a bunch of these already?
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Yeah, but it wasn't it. This wasn't about Jim Oh.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
I was gonna make aim Bobby well.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
This was this was about seeing it and going, oh
this is cool.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Here y go okay, hard to do one hand in that?
Speaker 4 (19:32):
Yeah, it's not.
Speaker 11 (19:34):
Does it look just like.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Jim at Oh?
Speaker 2 (19:36):
I don't know. They never do.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
It's like the statues they unveil in front of stadiums
and it's supposed to be Kobe and you're like, who
is that?
Speaker 11 (19:43):
Nothing like Kobe.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
It's got a neck brace on at this running into
the wall. Here it is bobbling. What does he look like?
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Number fifteen?
Speaker 2 (19:53):
It's kind of close.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
I guess.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
I guess you'd have to ask my wife. She would
be the judge.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
But did you ever you ever go into because we
went to a car shop and got this? Did you
ever you ever go into a car shop and they're like,
holy crap, that's that's Jim.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Yeah. Sometimes do you ever have to.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Sign everything that your face is on in there? No,
that's what I would if I were running it and you
walked up. Were you sign all this time?
Speaker 10 (20:11):
It's kind of cool because you know, they're a pretty
respectful point. But when my son he's now eighteen. When
he was younger, he was obsessed with all that stuff,
and so I'd go in there and take him and
kind of just show him too that I was up there,
but all the guys are up there, and then they
would see me and they would be like, I'll give
him anything he wants.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Send a couple of pictures, Yeah, would you something?
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Would was your son around? Like, did he understand? I
guess he was at that age where he like knew
what was going on right when you were playing still on.
Speaker 10 (20:38):
Like he was he was he was born at the
end really, so yeah, so he got to he knows
everything about When I worked for the Cardinals, I was
this assistant to the president for Mozillac for a few
years and then COVID hit kind of messed all that
up like it did for all of us. But I
did that and TV, so I was able to go in,
bring him work in the dugout in the locker room,
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batting practice and then batting practice over red shower and
go upstairs into the TV booth, and then covid hit
shut all that down, and then it was, you know,
never the same sense. So I just kept doing TV.
But you know, they're really good about families there, so
they let Landing in. They'll let him on the field
and shagfly balls or whatever. It's a little different when
you're not in there in there, so it's hard for
me to, like, you know, let him go on his own,
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even though he's old enough and he knows everyone.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
But yeah, it's that was kind of.
Speaker 10 (21:29):
The whole idea for me still working, was to give
him that extra chance to be around it.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Does he understand how dynamic a player you were, or
does he just have to hear your stories and roll
his eyes.
Speaker 11 (21:40):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
I don't tell him anything. He will show me a bit.
Speaker 10 (21:43):
He'll be like, hey, look when my friend sent me,
or hey look what I saw. Or he'll be like
such and such game was on this channel and I
saw you got two hits, but you struck out on
the fastball right down the middle.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
I'm like, yeah, I know that feels I was there. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Do you see you in him when he plays ball? Now?
Can you see?
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 10 (22:02):
Except he's already faster than I was. He can he
runs the bases like a madman. It's it's weird because
he's a little bit shorter than I am. He's only
you know, he's going to be a senior. He's only
five nine, but he can fly and that's something I
never can do. I can never run. He doesn't have
my arm, but he's got the defense and the more
I Q probably his age than I did, and his
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swing's getting pretty good.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Does he listen to you or do you give him
coaching or advice? Like what's the dynamic?
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Because I'm like, you'll know the answer this one of
the just roll.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
His eyes and go like, dad, come, want to know
what I'm doing.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
It's a little bit of both, it really is.
Speaker 10 (22:38):
It's weird because I wish he was here right now,
because like he'll talk about certain things and I'm like, yeah,
that's not kind of how it works. And then you know,
some days he'll say, hey, what do I need to
do here? So it is it's weird dynamic.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
You know. I try to get him to do certain
things and he won't do it. He's like, yeah, yeah,
i'll do it. I'll do it, and he doesn't do it.
Speaker 10 (22:54):
And then somebody else will give him the same idea,
like a coach told him to do something, or I
actually was struggling.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
With him a little bit so I called Joe Madden.
Speaker 10 (23:02):
Sure, you know Joe Madden is and he gave me
some ideas because he was my hitting coach since I
was eighteen. Yeah, he was our minor league hitting instructor
when I was in the Angels organization. Then when I
got to the big leagues, he was our hitting and
bench coach and then so and that was. So, that
was from time I was eighteen until time I was
twenty nine and so, and I used to take land
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in when the Cubs had come into town to go
meet him and talk to him. But he gave me
some really good ideas, and Landon actually started listening to
those ideas.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
You know.
Speaker 10 (23:32):
They he's down here in the cage every day and
he'll sometimes hit himself into a struggle because you can
you can overhit, and yeah, it goes both ways.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
When you got the call and so you go up
to the big leagues and the Angels, right, what's it
like day one in the locker room as somebody that
just got the call up.
Speaker 10 (23:50):
I think my generation right at that era, like in
the early nineties, was the very first generation of ball
players where they allowed them to kind of get a
little bit of spring training familiar. I think before it
was like they really wanted you to like work for it, so.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
It was a little bit better.
Speaker 10 (24:07):
The call up was kind of one of those things
like you knew it was coming because I just hit
three hundred in Triple A. I kind of got the
word that it was going to happen, but had to
wait till the end of the season. And so I
flew from Vancouver to Detroit and walked in this old
stadium and walked out, put my clothes on, and they're like,
you're in the lineup.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
So I walked down the tunnel.
Speaker 10 (24:26):
And opened up into the dugout and I looked up
I was like, oh my gosh, like Tiger Stadium.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
And so that was incredible.
Speaker 10 (24:33):
And then going home for the first time, playing in
Anaheim a week later, being on that side of the
field and not looking down at the guys, looking back
up at the stands, it's just a it's a crazy,
crazy feeling. I think that you could probably have the
same feelings for when you're a kid watching people and
now you're doing the talking and the you know, the
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shows and the gigs and all the stuff you do
looking down on the mass audience or looking up at
the audience, A totally different experience.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Do you remember who was on the mound the first
a bat you had in the majors?
Speaker 10 (25:05):
I think it was Bill Gullickson and he was throwing
about eighty five and I swung through three fastballs right
down the middle, and then I went over three. And
then the next night I pinched hit against Dwayne Ward.
He was so ninety eight and I hit a ground
row double in Toronto. So crazy how it works.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Was there somebody that got hurt? Like when you got
your call?
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Why was it?
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Was it just we're going to move somebody down because
you were so hot, or was there something that happened
that we need somebody now, let's move Jim up.
Speaker 10 (25:31):
It was the basic September call up. It was that
you got your year in triple A. Yeah, they'd get
the rosters back.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
At the end of the day.
Speaker 10 (25:37):
The rosters would go up to you could have forty guys.
The whole forty man could be up there. So they
would get up to like, you know, thirty thirty two guys,
and so me and another pitcher came up the same time.
A couple of guys got called up earlier in the year,
and so I came up. I played a little bit.
You may play every couple days or whatever. We were
out of it, so they let some of the kids play. Yeah,
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And then the next year I went to spring training
and made the team.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Is the locker room warm to you when you first
get there or is yea or are they kind of
like do they want to set you straight a little
bit as the rookie.
Speaker 10 (26:08):
It depends, you know, it depends on how you act.
They kind of you know, And that's why I'm saying
the good thing is now, I think since my era
and up, they've really got guys in spring training, got
familiar with the big leagues. Give them a taste of
it so they know what to expect. They can be
more familiar.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
I think walking into a clubhouse would be scary, you know,
like the first day and never being around it.
Speaker 10 (26:31):
Yeah, but I think they're waiting for you to make
mistakes so they can set you straight. But I think
when you go up there and you start playing, you're
you know, you're helping the team win, so kind of
they take you under their wing until you can't do
the right things right, you know, until you get out
of hand. I guess they pretty much leave you alone,
like they give you some stuff. You know, it'd be
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like one of your shows, like you're always over all
over each other, like you know, you're giving it back
and forth, but you got to keep your mouth shut.
They mess with you at all, like yeah, yeah, not no,
no hazing, but yeah, it's almost every day at some
point there's something.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Yeah, exactly, you gotta kind of watch.
Speaker 10 (27:08):
You put your head on a swivel and you just
like I said, just keep your mouth shut and stave
of away and.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Just like prison man.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Yeah, well that's except you get to leave and you
get money maybe.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Not yea yeah, and you get to hit. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
I don't so one of these I don't want to name.
In one I do want to name. So the one
I do want to name when you finally met what
hero baseball hero of yours while you were playing and
they ended up being as being as cool as.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
You had hoped don mad really yeah, well with it.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
The Yankees at the time, randomly my rookie year.
Speaker 10 (27:40):
Buck Rodgers was our manager for that last year, and
he was like, get a first baseman's glove, And I
was like, all right, said, have you ever played first base?
Speaker 2 (27:46):
I said no.
Speaker 10 (27:47):
I got the glove in like four days later and
went in after the game and he was like, oh, great,
you're playing.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
First base tomorrow.
Speaker 10 (27:53):
Glove out in the box, still like I haven't broken in,
never played first baseball. We played the Yankees a couple
of days later, and it was now half through the season,
and I kind of was spread out like I hit,
you know, and I had already been doing that and
anyways playing first base and John matically gets about a
base hit and comes around and I'm just kind of like,
oh my god. You know, he's standing right there, and
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so I walk around, you know how you walk around
the bag to get to the front of it while
you know you're gonna hold him on. And he looks
at me and goes, hey, kid, And I was like,
how you doing, sir? And he goes, did you see
my Jim Edmonds two strike approach? And I was like,
and you know, I never said anything to him. I
was like, wow, you know, like in my head. And
I told him after I retired, I went and did
a thing with him and I was like, you know,
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you're my idol growing up, and he went on and
on and on, and we were talking about it forever.
But yeah, it's just it was crazy seeing Nolan Ryan
on the mountain.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Really, the face of face is pretty impressive.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
He throw bebes.
Speaker 10 (28:48):
Yeah, Still he's so in ninety four when he's forty
five years old.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Yeah, crazy, his seventh no hitter, Yeah, all of them
were wild, right, But when he's in his forties, still
throwing no hitters, still ninety three, ninety four years Well.
Speaker 10 (29:01):
You know what I think is interesting as I remember
this as a kid, if you still watch it, when
the ball comes out of his hand, it just stays flat,
like straight, like it's almost rising. You don't see guys.
Everybody throws hard now the ball runs. His ball looked
like it just kind of kept going and he had
that extra velocity. The guys just couldn't catch up.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
But I don't want a name on this. But did
you meet anybody and they weren't as cool as you
had hoped? And what's that story without a name? Huh?
And it could be there's nobody And actually everybody in
the world is awesome, not.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
In baseball, not in baseball.
Speaker 11 (29:33):
There are some country music dang it.
Speaker 10 (29:35):
No, yeah, no, you know what every being's I've been
so fortunate for that, and you know I love for
music in Nashville. Now I can't really can I got
to think about this one for a little bit, but
probably not. I think I was more. It was more
I think this is funny because I told my wife this.
One time I met a couple of models and I
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kind of got when I was younger, like almost set up,
and when I went up to say hello, I was like, oh,
this is what you look like like in real life,
Like wow. And I was like after that, I was
like every picture in book I've ever looked that was ruined.
Speaker 11 (30:13):
It's all fake.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Yeah, I mean, oh yeah, they're like wow, They're.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Like you're that good looking.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (30:18):
We didn't expect it to be just makeup to Bobby
is like, this is all you This is it, It's
all you need.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
The All Star Game. As a kid watching the All
Star Game, there was a huge deal because those two
teams never played, you know, before inter League play happened.
It was crazy to watch somebody from the Blue Jays
play somebody from the Guard Walls and I just thought
it was so cool to be at the All Star
Game or to even watch it. Was it As a player,
I know it's an honor. But did you ever just
want the days off?
Speaker 10 (30:43):
Yeah? Yeah, early on loved it. It was so much fun.
It really is a special thing, like and I can
see why some of those guys after their tempting twelfth
All Star Game kind of pull back or say, hey,
I don't really.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
Need to play or whatever.
Speaker 10 (31:00):
I could see why I didn't because I only made
four and I just thought they were special. And the
first one I didn't start, and then I think I started.
I got to start the second and third one, and
then the fourth one I got voted to start or
something not voted to start, but I made the team
and they and started again, and I was like, I
can't turn this down, right, It's it's not just your
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one at bat in the ninth inning. So I love
that part of it. But it's very interesting going in
there and seeing the pictures in the corner and the
players over here, but the names of just the greatest
players in the in that era. Just sitting around talking
everyone's sharing stories was pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Is it a competitive environment at all or is it
a celebration environment.
Speaker 10 (31:40):
Mostly it's a little bit of both. It's just kind
of a business as usual day. But you can see pictures,
especially comparing I remember I.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Forget who it was.
Speaker 10 (31:51):
I think it was like Billy Wagner and maybe like
a another closer, and they were talking about strikeouts and
they're saying, my strikeout numbers are going down, and he said,
get used to it, because everybody gets used to you,
and you got to think of new ways to just
get guys out.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
And strikeouts don't mean anything. You're a closer.
Speaker 10 (32:11):
You're never going to have two thousand strikeouts, so just
get guys out. I thought that was interesting from coming
from a guy through ninety eight from the left side.
I think he was talking to Brad Ledge at the time,
but I just thought the conversations were pretty pretty cool
because there are always experiences and asking each other for
their advice.
Speaker 11 (32:30):
One of my favorite things to see is when someone
gets on base and they're just kind of chatting it up.
They're laughing.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
It's like it's like, oh, I get to see my
old bud.
Speaker 11 (32:37):
I'm playing their.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
Team, Like who was it for you to go play
against and be like, oh, I'm so excited I get
to see this person.
Speaker 10 (32:44):
You know, it's not supposed to be like that, but
it just I think when you play long enough. The
same guys, especially when we played the year's past, when
the division played against each other so many times. Yeah,
you see the same guys eighteen times.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
And if you were a good player, you're on first
base every game. You know.
Speaker 10 (33:02):
There was certain guys just like catchers I would say
hello to and other catchers I would and first baseman's
vice versa. Some guys didn't like to talk, you know.
Some guys would be like, hey, what's up and then
turn around. Some guys like Mike Sweeney for the Royals,
he would talk and talk, talk, talk talk, super nice guy. Uh,
we're just talking.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
You know, has a family whatever. You know when you
if you know, yeah.
Speaker 10 (33:23):
While you're standing up for first base, OKAYT no, no,
but then you're like, I gotta run, dude.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (33:30):
Jason Kendall was funny catching. Every time I said hey, hey, dude,
what's up? He would come up with some off the
wall remark that would just make me laugh. Or I
can't wait too for this one to be over so
I can get a beer, or you know, guys would
say stuff like that, or you know, we would have
little We played each other so many times. Brad Ostmas
one day and was hitting in Houston, and I would
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always try to hit the ball left field.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
In Houston because of that short porch there.
Speaker 10 (33:54):
And they threw me a fastball inside one day and
I kind of like stepped out the way a little
bit just to drag my bat to try to force
it up there. And he just looked up at me
and goes, you're really trying to hit those Crawford boxes,
are you? And I looked down and I go, what
the hell do you think I'm trying to do? Basically like, yeah,
of course I am, like it's right there. And it
was just funny because after playing them for years and
years and years, he finally just said something and I
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was like, caught me off guard. I was like, yeah,
of course I'm trying to hit the Crawford boxes hitting.
You know.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Ted William said he could see the seams. That's very famous.
Think he had visions, so he's a fighter pilot, you know,
his vision was awesome. Well, I was gonna ask, and
I've brought some stuff about you and your vision as well.
Do you feel like do you still have great vision?
Was that your superpower as a hitter?
Speaker 10 (34:37):
I think so. I think you have to see the seams.
You have to recognize pitches. You have to pay attention
enough to get like the different things where you'll see
like certain pitches will slow down on a breaking ball
where you won't see it with your eyes, but you'll
feel it. You'll you'll get the whole vibe of the
motion slow down, and then it'll kind of click in
your head that here comes something else. But yeah, you
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got to see the dot on the slider. You got
to see seams, or you won't know by the time
it comes in and the swing starts. It's enough to
recognize which way the ball is going to go. And
I could see the signs from centerfield. I had twenty
ten vision just like he.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
Did, like a one eye that barely works.
Speaker 7 (35:15):
Like to hear that.
Speaker 10 (35:17):
My son has got twenty ten vision in one eye
and his other eye it's really bad. So he's got
to wear contacts. But you know, I don't think I
told him. I said, if you don't get your eyes down,
then I don't think you can play at that extra
level because of the differences in a fastball, cutter and
a sinker.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
They all just do this, this or this, and it's
all seems.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
What about pictures that would either tip their pitches or
it would just naturally be a tip because you'd seehim
pitch so much and you see the idiosyncrasies of what
they were.
Speaker 10 (35:44):
I was all over that. Yeah, that was probably my
biggest thing. I think I was an overachiever. I learned
early from Eduardo Perez, who learned from his dad obviously
is in the Hall of Fame Tony Press. He taught
me in double A and Triple A, and then we
got to the big leagues and I just picked it
up from there. A lot of the really good hitters
are on that, especially in the nineties and two thousands.
Anybody that was really good knew what was coming who.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Had an odd delivery. Did you ever face ad aoomo?
Speaker 2 (36:10):
Yeah, it was tough to hit because you know he
turns back to you.
Speaker 10 (36:13):
Well, it was really weird. Is because there's two guys
that I had trouble with their change ups. He was one,
and there's a guy named Fernando Rodney. He's been pitching
for a long time. I think he's out of the
game now. He was in Detroit when he went to
the World Series, but they had change ups when.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
They threw him.
Speaker 10 (36:26):
They threw them at you, so you flinched and then
it would just like fade down. Most guys throw a
change up down the middle, so you're going to swing
at it and then it runs off outside. Well he would,
they would hode Onoma's toom think, you throw like a
change up in my head and then you know it's
like you have to flinch right, and then you try
to stay on it because you know by then when
you flinch, you're like, oh, that's a change up, and
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then you just can't recover.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
My struggle with that one.
Speaker 10 (36:50):
And then Fernando Rodney had a good one too, the
same thing, to throw it at you and just come
back for a strike. Most guys are trying to throw
it to look like a strike and have a run
off the plate, and that's, you know, a little bit
easier to deal with, especially left handed.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
What about knuckleball, there's like a wakefield or there's.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
A few, you know, I loved hitting off Wakefield.
Speaker 10 (37:04):
God rest his soul, like he was one of the
best guys in baseball personality wise, competitor, but I used
to kill him and he was like he started throwing
me fastballs.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
Every pitch. Fastball. He was almost like telling me, he
comes fastball.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
What was his fastball? What would be eighty two?
Speaker 10 (37:20):
Eighty yeah, but it looked like ninety five after the knuckleballs.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
And plus it's like.
Speaker 10 (37:24):
This little he had a little short hum because when
he when he threw the knuckleball, you know I was
in here, and then he threw the fastball from the
sane spot. I was like, I was like throwing darts.
But I think I went three for four off from
two games in a row. And after that he started.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
Throwing me fastball.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Was that just generally because you could see the knuckle
I was just.
Speaker 10 (37:40):
Really good at waiting and being My swing was still
left center field. If you try to pull the knuckleball,
you got no chance.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
Did you ever get you're up twenty one to two
and get caught? Did you ever pitch an inning?
Speaker 10 (37:50):
No? It's all I wanted to do in my whole
life because I was a pitcher growing up. I pitched
one time at a ball and I pitched an inning.
I struck out two out of three, and I got
for having the best stuff on our team and kangaroo court,
so I had better arm than most of the pictures
on our team. But I hurt my shoulder in high
school and I was supposed to be a pitcher, like
in the top two rounds, and I tore a muscle
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on my shoulder and I ended up just getting lucky
got drafted because I cold learn how to hit.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
Yeah, I was. I was gonna say that when I
was looking at your where you were drafted, it seemed
to be late, like I don't know seventh th I
don't I don't remember seventh, six or seventh. I maybe
confuse you with Tom Brady, but still not that far down.
But it was the shoulder injury.
Speaker 10 (38:29):
I think it was that, and I think I got
written off as a pitcher, and then they drafted me
as an outfielder, and I think I was kind of
a late.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
Bloomer in that situation.
Speaker 10 (38:39):
And then, you know, some guys told me, well, I
didn't know if you could run, we didn't know if
you're going to be able to keep hitting all these
different things, but we knew you're a good athlete. So
my scout told me after a couple of years later,
and then he ended up passing away kind of halfway through.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
My big league career.
Speaker 10 (38:54):
But yeah, it was just kind of a random well,
when they said I got drafted, I was like, for what, Like,
I had no idea it was going on, because I
knew I was pitch.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
I was a pitcher.
Speaker 1 (39:02):
Yeah, the Cardinals, And this wasn't you want drafted by
Cardinal But the Cardinals had a guy who came up
as a pitcher and then wasn't able to pitch, and
then he came back and played.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
One of my best friends.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
Really yeah, Rick, Yeah, so Rick Ankile, yeah, obviously had
and I don't know if it.
Speaker 10 (39:15):
Was the most incredible fastball curveball I've ever seen. Was
nineteen years old when he came up, and he.
Speaker 1 (39:20):
Went through Arkansas played for the Travelers, the Double A team,
So it was a big deal when he came up
and I went to watch him pitch in Little Rock,
and like, I hated the Cardinals because the Cubs fan
didn't hate the Cardinals. I just hated the rival of
the Cups, right, and everybody in Arkansas is a Cardinals
fan because our Double A team was the minor league
team to the Cardinals. But I went and watched Rick
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Ankile pitch and then I just remember he couldn't throw
it over the plate and he was gone. But then
he came back as hitter. A hitter.
Speaker 10 (39:48):
The only guy. I tell him, you're special. You're the
only guy that made it to the big leagues twice.
He made it to the big leagues as a pitcher
and they made to the big leagues as an outfielder.
Speaker 3 (39:55):
Just such a good athlete.
Speaker 2 (39:56):
Yeah, he was special. He could he could hit.
Speaker 10 (39:58):
When he was pitching team in the big leagues, I
would play first base when market needed a day off
once in a while, three times a year. And I
had some friends that I had grown up with that
were in the league, and they're like, Darryl Kyle had
the best curveball from the right side, and the next
day that Rick and kill would throw and he.
Speaker 2 (40:14):
Was like it was great.
Speaker 10 (40:14):
I faced Daryl Kyle yesterday and now I'm facing Ricky
and Kills in ninety five.
Speaker 2 (40:18):
With the better curveball from the left side.
Speaker 10 (40:20):
And they were like guys would walk and like, man,
thank god I got to first base, like as a joke,
but he was that special.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
If that were Now do you think with of Tawny
showing that his injury, We'll talk about his injury, but
showing you can hit a pitch, do you think they
would have let ank you'll do that now.
Speaker 10 (40:38):
I think he would have had a better chance. But
you know, it's hard because at that stage he was
only hitting every five days and I mean he probably
hit two twenty, two thirty whatever, I don't know, two
fifty pretty good, Yeah, pretty good, But you know, a
couple maybe in his career, maybe a home run or two.
But yeah, I think that you would have to be
(40:58):
a guy that would. I mean, Otani is special because
he's been doing it at that level the whole time.
If he would have come up that way, yeah, he
could have done that.
Speaker 11 (41:07):
What's the living situation? Like when you get traded?
Speaker 3 (41:09):
I've always wondered, you know, like, oh you got to go,
Like do you get an apartment and you just pack up?
Speaker 2 (41:14):
Like's awful?
Speaker 1 (41:15):
What's that process?
Speaker 2 (41:16):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (41:16):
Man, it's I got traded in spring training. So I
went from an apartment just packing my truck and taking
a suitcase to Jupiter and my dad coming and grabbed
my truck and taking it back to Orange County to
coming up here ten days later in Saint Louis and
staying in a hotel and looking for a place to
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stay with no help. You know, they don't listen in
the minor leagues anymore.
Speaker 2 (41:41):
You're a grown man. You're on your own.
Speaker 10 (41:42):
So but yeah, if you get traded in season, sometimes
they'll have somebody like, hey, this is where guys stay, Like,
we have.
Speaker 2 (41:49):
A building here. It's in Clayton.
Speaker 10 (41:52):
It's a high rise that most guys will just go
to if they need to. But yeah, it's It was
brutal because I was about to sign a multi year deal,
so I was looking for a house, staying in a hotel,
playing every day.
Speaker 1 (42:04):
Didn't they also tell you you're not getting traded.
Speaker 2 (42:08):
Like you're not getting told the story to someone the
other day.
Speaker 10 (42:10):
I just did an interview and yeah, I went in
and I said, hey, what well here, you just told
me I was gonna get traded. And our general manager
at the time, he was a was a knucklehead. He said, oh,
I told you weren't getting traded to the Yankees. I
was like, yeah, that's not what you said. But still
to this day, you know, the best thing ever happened
to me. But at the time, it was tough.
Speaker 1 (42:28):
When you come to a culture like Saint Louis and
the Cardinals, do you feel it immediately at the difference
in the fans.
Speaker 2 (42:33):
Interesting immediately right away, It's so interesting. I was pre.
Speaker 10 (42:42):
The Angels and the Red you know, with Artie Marino
and the change of the philosophy and the change of
the culture there. And so I came here first day,
I was like, holy crap, like, what's going on here?
I got a standing ovation spring training. Ten thousand fans
first day, you know. And when we would play against
the Yankees, Red Sox, whoever, a lot more fans and
(43:02):
Anaheim were cheering for them than we're cheering for us.
And you get here, it's just, you know, other than
the Cubs coming into town, there is no cheering for
the other team.
Speaker 1 (43:09):
When you you kind of shot out of a cannon
when this once the season started, right, I just trying
to remember, like I think you bat like three seventy
three eighty the fish, Like, is that just because it
was like a rejuvenation.
Speaker 10 (43:21):
Yeah, I think so small the ballpark was a little
bit smaller rejuvenation. I had spent most of the year
the year before rehabbing because I was hurt, kind of
got myself in really good shape, and so it was
having a good spring training. So when I came to
Saint Louis. I was in really good shape and ready
to go and just happened to work great. I mean,
Tony was you know, he was only was interested about
(43:42):
was winning and helping me get better as a man.
And he would just give me little tidbits here and there,
and it made me really want to.
Speaker 1 (43:49):
Play rivalries real or real on the field. But once
you get off, you realize the fans aren't watching anymore
and you're all professionals.
Speaker 10 (43:58):
Cubs Starley it really early two thousand. I think that
the media made it. I don't think any of the
players really knew anything about it. Like, if you think
about the Cubs in those years, a lot of those
guys were you know, Dempster came from the Marlins. S
deakal Lee was in the Marlins. I think a couple
of homegrown guys. Their catcher was not from their team.
(44:19):
A couple guys came up, but all kind of we
both had a bunch of free agents. But the media
made such a big deal of it. It was like
heated right away. You know, if someone got thrown at
on accident, they would be like it was like a war,
and it was like it kept getting worse and worse
each year, and then finally you know you're like, what
are we doing here?
Speaker 2 (44:39):
The team started.
Speaker 10 (44:40):
Breaking up a little bit and you start playing each
other enough you kind of start be friendly a little bit,
but still on the field. And then Panela and LaRussa
would go at it, so you know, you see all
that stuff. But that kind of turned it up a
notch too.
Speaker 1 (44:52):
So what about whenever you go from playing at Saint
Louis and the next thing you know, you're in the
blue and you're playing for the Cubs.
Speaker 10 (44:57):
That was fun. Then I realized that the rivalry wasn't
that big of a deal. But like I said, that
was kind of at the end when everything was breaking apart,
and I realized that in the locker room it wasn't
as bad as what you think it is because you're
what you read. And then, like I said, and the
teams that were so different at that time. You know,
(45:19):
there was that holiday came here, I was gone. You know,
I ain't kill was there I think for a year.
You know, those kind of things changed. Plus I was
kind of like the intermediate guy. But I had a
blast in Chicago. It was like ten times more fun
than I'd ever thought I could have there.
Speaker 2 (45:36):
I loved it. I wanted to play there the next
year too, and theydn't want me back.
Speaker 1 (45:39):
You were like that because you were so freaking good
in center field, like it, it would really pissed me off,
and I would because you were you were awesome. I mean,
you're the best outfielder that I've ever seen consistently, because
I watched probably eighty five Cups gaming year and a
lot of those were playing the Cardinals. Yeah they were,
and so I would see you. You were the most
dynamic ballplayer that I would have watched consistently. That wasn't
(45:59):
you know, a cub. But even then, we kept broth
with the center fielders and they were fine, that's fine,
but they had no Jim Edmonds. And when you came over,
it was like Calipari now who was coaching at Arkansas,
who was a Kentucky freaking hated him, hated the Kentucky
now's at Aransas. Aw HEA's like my best friend.
Speaker 3 (46:12):
I'm like, let's go.
Speaker 2 (46:13):
I love you. Yeah, It's amazing how it changed it.
Speaker 1 (46:16):
I mean you just changed colors and I was like, Jim,
I love that guy. When you finally had you hung
it up was that difficult decision.
Speaker 10 (46:24):
I blew my achilles out and so I really played.
It was tearing, shredding because of a situation I was
in the middle of with some medicine and the doctor
put some stuff in my achilles that shouldn't have been
in there, and so I was playing through it and
it just was getting to the point I wanted to retire.
Speaker 2 (46:41):
I wanted to quit.
Speaker 10 (46:42):
I wanted to fix it, and they kept talking me
into it Milwaukee, and then yeah, I went to Cincinnati
because our general manager from here went there just he
wanted me to just go help to get in the playoffs.
Played a couple of games and it was so bad
it popped, it wasn't completely torn, and then it finally
got to the point it's like I can't do this anymore.
(47:02):
And then after the season playing baseball with my son
and a tour tour, and so when I had that,
I thought, you know what, I'm probably done. Like I
couldn't imagine having to work at forty forty one years
old to come back from the achilles injury.
Speaker 2 (47:17):
I just didn't know what was about. So I just
kind of might mentally shut it off.
Speaker 4 (47:20):
Does anything hurt now? When the weather gets weird.
Speaker 2 (47:23):
Everything.
Speaker 10 (47:24):
Yeah, I just had my knee replaced about two and
a half months ago. You know, I'm you know, what
I've noticed is I'm getting stiff. I just need to
start stretching and doing more stuff.
Speaker 2 (47:34):
I've been lazy.
Speaker 10 (47:35):
I have my knee replaced, and kind of when you
kind of don't walk around very much and you kind of,
you know, hobble upstairs and crutches and things start to
like tense up a little bit. So I'm on the
mend for that. And now I know, I realized I
have to like do a few things more than normal.
Speaker 1 (47:49):
My final three questions.
Speaker 2 (47:50):
But everything does hurt, yeah, every day.
Speaker 4 (47:51):
Yeah, I mean I don't want to do it.
Speaker 1 (47:53):
I didn't even do anything and.
Speaker 2 (47:54):
I heard I did nothing.
Speaker 11 (47:57):
Jim, what do you miss the most about the game?
Speaker 10 (48:00):
Probably the locker room, the guys, the battles. It's fun,
and it really is. It's fun to go out there
and win. I mean, we were just laughing earlier, how
competitive y'all are. That's kind of fun. You were actually
cheering each other on as you're trying to kill each other.
But that's kind of what it's like. You know, you're
every day with these guys from three o'clock, two o'clock
to midnight. Basically travel with them on the road. You know,
(48:22):
see them morning, you see your family. That's a special bond.
And those guys, some of these guys I still stay
in touch with every day. That'll never go in that's
really cool. I love the competition, so I'm so not
competitive away from the field, but on the field, ultra competitive.
Speaker 2 (48:37):
And so they'll probably those two things.
Speaker 1 (48:39):
That's interesting because I'm not an outgoing person away from
a microphone or a stage, just not an not going person.
But then when it's time to do this, that's what
I do. And I don't know if it's I've become
less outgoing because I do this all the time, or
if I am naturally an introvert and I can just
turn it up. But it is like two different worlds.
And it seems like that's what you're saying what it
(49:00):
was like for you too, because you were competing at
a high level. Yeah, so hyper focused in this one
spot that the rest of the time it wasn't that.
Speaker 2 (49:07):
Yeah, last time, I want to sit on the couch
and do nothing. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (49:10):
Two questions. Do you ever have an airplane scare because
you're traveling a lot like the bad turbul.
Speaker 2 (49:14):
Not a terrible one.
Speaker 10 (49:15):
We had a bad one coming home from spring training
one you're actually landing here in Saint Louis, But never
like the you know, if you didn't have your seat belt,
throw you out of the seat now and never been
diverted yet, knock on wood.
Speaker 11 (49:26):
With all the flights you took, I can't believe it.
Speaker 2 (49:28):
Yeah, think about it every day.
Speaker 11 (49:29):
Did you think while you were, like, Man, we're flying
so much like this?
Speaker 1 (49:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 10 (49:32):
Yeah, your numbers game, yeah, numbers game on hundred percent? Right, Yeah,
I still think about it. You know, when we travel,
I'm like, when we're all traveling together, I'm thinking, Man,
I need to make sure all my papers in order
and make sure nothing goes. I'll play morbid here. Yeah,
welcome to baseball.
Speaker 2 (49:46):
But no, it is true though you're right ready, have
you guys?
Speaker 3 (49:50):
I had a bad one.
Speaker 2 (49:51):
Is this fresh in your mind? Is that? Well?
Speaker 1 (49:53):
We were talking about it in the news. I hate
to fly. I hate flying. I hate flying. And we
were flying down to.
Speaker 11 (49:58):
A show and.
Speaker 1 (50:01):
I have a plane, and so we were flying that
plane and Amy's husband at the time, her EIKE's husband
was a was a pilot and was a you know,
I don't want to get too much of as air force pilot.
And we hit some turbulence boom and he's used to
that crack get to him.
Speaker 3 (50:15):
He was like, this is awesome.
Speaker 1 (50:17):
Oh yeah, I thought we were dead. I thought we're dead. Yeah,
And that was the closest we didn't die. A spoiler,
we didn't die, but that was it. That was the
bad one.
Speaker 2 (50:27):
I got a quick story for you.
Speaker 10 (50:28):
That's funny, you said, I just made me think of
actually one too. I have a friend that raised the
Indy Car and he's a pilot for his family's plane
and he hates to fly, hates to be in the
back seat, hates to go like we go on vacation.
He's like, I don't know if I should take the plane.
So I hates sitting in the back seat, in the
back back like he doesn't want to fly. He calls
it public because he just is so scared of it.
But so, Actually a funny story, Me and my friend
(50:49):
were flying to Kansas City. I bought part of this
company and so we were flying to Kansas City to
meet with someone and we rented a plane to the sky.
We found out was a friend of that guy, and
so he.
Speaker 2 (51:02):
Was flying us there. Everything was perfectly fine. We're like
in a it.
Speaker 10 (51:05):
Was like a new Leer. It was like the last
Lear jet that wasn't a jet it was. It looked
exactly like a nice Leer on the inside, but it
has two props. So we're flying home and we get
about halfway and it's a forty minute flight and all
of a sudden, the engines stall like and.
Speaker 2 (51:22):
You could hear it. And I'm looking at him.
Speaker 10 (51:24):
He's looking at me, and it's like want that little
did And we start to drop a little bit and
we look at him and I'm like, is this it? Like,
you know, like quietly, you're just looking at him, like
what hopefully this think can glide right?
Speaker 2 (51:36):
That's all I can think of.
Speaker 10 (51:37):
And then it's like starts to really start to nose
that have a little bit and then it just goes
takes all and.
Speaker 2 (51:45):
He looks back at us and he goes sorry about that.
He was just testing the reserve fuel. Buddy snapped and
he was like, you couldn't have done that. On the ground.
He's like going off and he was like yelling and
I was like, I was white. I was just like,
are you serious right now?
Speaker 10 (51:59):
Like literally, league turned he went to pull it was
make sure the reserve worked, and it was old gas
with air in the tank, and he was just like
just cruising around board, so let's just check it out.
Speaker 2 (52:09):
And I was like, this is it.
Speaker 1 (52:11):
I don't even like how that made me feel and
that I mean, it was unbelievable. Final question, ever, stay
out way late, having a good time, and then have
to go play a game every day, like.
Speaker 2 (52:22):
Every two hours too many times? Yeah?
Speaker 10 (52:24):
Oh yeah, maybe not two hours of sleep, but definitely
some been some long nights out.
Speaker 1 (52:29):
There on the road, more so than at home because.
Speaker 10 (52:30):
Oh yeah, and then had some really good games, really yeah,
really good games.
Speaker 2 (52:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (52:36):
Maybe that's the key to the show sometimes at all
really drink? I don't, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (52:41):
Maybe I doesn't really drink.
Speaker 1 (52:43):
Yeah, do you enjoy talking about baseball?
Speaker 2 (52:45):
Still? I do?
Speaker 10 (52:46):
What people that that are interested, like in guys like
one of the guys coming out here in a few
minutes to hit I enjoy. You know, my son brings
his high school friends over, but they don't really listen.
Speaker 2 (52:59):
They listen, but they don't but like the Big.
Speaker 10 (53:01):
League or guys, the guys come over from the team,
someone's about to come over now, and then guys like
spend time over here, and I really love listening to
what they say because it's funny that they still don't
really know if they know themselves or if they really
have it all under or but there, or they can't
fix themselves. They need somebody else that's been there, done
that to just say this is what I'm noticing out
(53:22):
of you. Because everyone has a different look and some
people don't look in the same area, Like a lot
of people look here and I look down. Usually it's
the base, the feet, stuff like that, not always the
hands or the head or whatever, and so it's just different.
Speaker 2 (53:36):
I think it's a lot of fun.
Speaker 10 (53:37):
That part's fun in talking with somebody that has knowledge
and loves to talk back and forth and is open
to anything.
Speaker 2 (53:42):
It's cool, but just to talk.
Speaker 1 (53:43):
No, not really, but like nerds like me, and I'm like,
tell me about this.
Speaker 10 (53:48):
Love it, Like I can see that you like it,
and I know that you're a fan, so I obviously
follow you guys and listen to you guys every morning.
But yeah, I think that's cool because I would. I
would do the same to you if I was at
your house else in your studio, I'd like to I
love music and I love the radio stuff. I bother
Kevin all the time, but I think it's cool. You
know my friend Steve that runs Sony Nashville, I love.
(54:12):
I asked him crazy questions all the time and it's
just kind of fun. And I feel the same way.
I'm like, am I bothering you right now?
Speaker 2 (54:17):
Well?
Speaker 1 (54:17):
We really appreciate the time. Yeah, and big fans, and
thanks for having us over there.
Speaker 2 (54:20):
Oh, I love it. Thanks for having all.
Speaker 1 (54:22):
Right, thanks to Jim Edmonds and go over We'll have
a clipper too.
Speaker 4 (54:26):
Up on the twenty five.
Speaker 1 (54:27):
Whistles Instagram page. One of the dumbest bits ever that
Eddie I suggested. We'll get to it right after let's
say quick break.
Speaker 4 (54:36):
Okay, we're back. A couple of things. Bill Walton died. Yeah,
I did not know he had cancer, did you, guys?
I don't know if maybe I just had missed it somewhere.
Speaker 2 (54:44):
No.
Speaker 1 (54:45):
But Bill Walton, who led the UCLA Bruins the two
national titles before winning two championships in the NBA, even
on one in Portland.
Speaker 7 (54:52):
Yeah, seventy seven.
Speaker 4 (54:54):
Good for you for even guessing at that unless you
saw it on this Yeah, I saw.
Speaker 3 (54:57):
Them, Okay, I just he did the stats.
Speaker 4 (55:01):
He died at seventy one after a prolonged battle with cancer.
Some facts.
Speaker 1 (55:05):
Forty four points in the nineteen seventy three championship game
versus Memphis State.
Speaker 4 (55:10):
That's college forty four points, seventy seven to seventy eight,
NBA MVP.
Speaker 1 (55:15):
Two NBA Championships I won with Portland, one with Boston,
and Basketball Hall of Fame in nineteen ninety three. Known
for saying a lot of cool things, funny things, inspiring things,
or me. If I turn it on West Coast Basketball
at two in the morning, he's usually talking about your head.
Here's a compilation of some of Bill Walton's clips from
over the years. I'm not a very good catcher.
Speaker 3 (55:36):
I'm much better at getting high than getting lower.
Speaker 6 (55:38):
I maybe I'll just stripped down right here, Bill is
taking his shirt off. Isn't worrying diodoing? You're taking your
shirt off? Monou Onw's birthday, Kudu. He's the inventor of
the instant noodle, and thank you.
Speaker 2 (55:53):
I love my noodle. It doesn't get any better business.
I just got laid.
Speaker 4 (55:58):
I I have found that must only you help you anyway.
Speaker 6 (56:02):
This is a foam roller with a fight bringer inside.
Speaker 2 (56:05):
So it's fantastic.
Speaker 4 (56:08):
Rest in peace. Bill.
Speaker 1 (56:09):
You can tell how vered he was about the people
that you listen to or you watch a lot talk
about him, because I never met him, but there are
like three or four sports personalities that I know and
follow and listen to, and they talk just.
Speaker 4 (56:19):
So glowingly about him. But yeah, he was always fine.
Speaker 3 (56:22):
He went to like what a thousand grateful Dead concerts?
Speaker 4 (56:25):
Is that what it was?
Speaker 2 (56:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (56:27):
The game the Bridge lose Ronald Cone of Junior to
a torn.
Speaker 3 (56:29):
A cl I feel you, dude, dude, you like, no,
just playing baseball, man, you know, and you get your.
Speaker 1 (56:36):
Injury is comfortable to somebody jam in their toe.
Speaker 3 (56:39):
It's a little more than that.
Speaker 1 (56:41):
Like in the middle of the night boom oh, Like
that's you know, that's basically what you.
Speaker 3 (56:45):
Got when I did google my fractures that some people
do stub their toe and get fractures there.
Speaker 1 (56:49):
Stub though I don't think it's worse than that slam
their tax slam A stub that sucks.
Speaker 4 (56:55):
And that, but this is a slam.
Speaker 3 (56:57):
But Ronald, I feel you do. We're out for a
little bit.
Speaker 1 (57:00):
It's from ESPN. Here's the segment that Eddie suggested, I
fractured my foot working out with the Cardinals. I have
some other worst sports injuries of all time, Joe, thisman
is like fracture. So these are other sports injuries that
Eddie wanted me to talk about, much like.
Speaker 3 (57:14):
His will you put Ronald on that list? To Ronald
Acuna tearing his a c l achilles? What are you
talking his a cl You said a cl then achilles.
I don't know the difference.
Speaker 1 (57:25):
Okay, let's talk about a couple of these. Gordon Hayward's
ankle fraction I was nasty. Oh that was nasty.
Speaker 3 (57:31):
Wait, wait is what's his name in there?
Speaker 2 (57:33):
The George.
Speaker 4 (57:35):
I'm going to get to them. Let's just take a look.
Speaker 1 (57:36):
Si. Then you can put on anybody you don't because
for me, one that would have made the list would
have been the It didn't miss the Frank Gore.
Speaker 4 (57:45):
Did his nego backward?
Speaker 2 (57:46):
Was it Gore? No?
Speaker 1 (57:47):
No, it was that is Miami Willis yeah, mcgay, Yeah,
that's what it was.
Speaker 5 (57:52):
Now in the championship, his hyper extended.
Speaker 1 (57:57):
Gross, I don't want to see that number nine Monica
sell stabbing.
Speaker 3 (58:01):
Yeah, yeah, reports really.
Speaker 4 (58:04):
Because I don't know your ranks on this, Eddie.
Speaker 7 (58:06):
You got stabbed.
Speaker 3 (58:07):
Well, the stab so.
Speaker 4 (58:08):
You can say if you're a better or worse, Like
worse means that yours is.
Speaker 3 (58:11):
Far more, far worse. But but mine's better than the stab. Yeah,
the stabbing is pretty bad.
Speaker 1 (58:17):
Dude, Monic. Remember this, She like sitting on the bench
or whatever and a fan comes over and stabs her
in the back.
Speaker 4 (58:25):
Oh my goodness, sign for two years.
Speaker 2 (58:28):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (58:29):
Yeah, I just walked over and stabbed her, what like
we were teenagers like ninety three.
Speaker 3 (58:34):
Yeah, mine's not that bad, okay.
Speaker 1 (58:37):
Anderson Lilva Silva's leg break, Oh yeah, I've seen the clip.
I wasn't watching this live or anything, but I've seen this.
Oh it's like snaps like snap in the video. Pretty bad. Okay,
you should watch it on camp. You should watch it
right now and we'll get a live reaction.
Speaker 3 (58:52):
Gosh, I don't like watching.
Speaker 1 (58:54):
Here is Eddie watching Anderson Silva's leg break live reaction?
Speaker 12 (59:00):
See old? It is this the UFC.
Speaker 3 (59:11):
Okay, here you go. No, Oh my gosh, I've never
seen that before in my life.
Speaker 2 (59:23):
How did his.
Speaker 3 (59:24):
Legs stay on?
Speaker 4 (59:25):
Bro?
Speaker 3 (59:25):
How did his leg stay Oh? It's bad.
Speaker 7 (59:28):
Oh gosh.
Speaker 3 (59:29):
Now there's a compilation of us. There's a compilation of
a bunch of lug breaks on the in the UFC.
I'm out, I'm out.
Speaker 4 (59:37):
So is your foot injury? How does it compared to that?
Speaker 8 (59:40):
No?
Speaker 3 (59:40):
No, it doesn't come clean, No, not at all.
Speaker 4 (59:43):
Dang red clip that right there?
Speaker 3 (59:48):
Oh my goodness, use that for the video right there?
Speaker 1 (59:53):
Uh tyrone protos like fracture Alabama wide receiver.
Speaker 4 (59:57):
I don't remember that, do you think so? Because you
remember it?
Speaker 3 (01:00:00):
Leg fracture, foot fracture or same thing.
Speaker 4 (01:00:02):
Paul George's leg injury.
Speaker 3 (01:00:03):
So that was terrible, Like I didn't think he'd be
able to walk again.
Speaker 7 (01:00:08):
That was the Olympic thing, right, Yeah, I hardly remember that.
Speaker 3 (01:00:11):
You do remember that?
Speaker 1 (01:00:12):
I kind of knew, but it wasn't in a game,
right It was jurning again, No, that was practicea.
Speaker 3 (01:00:22):
Don't clip this.
Speaker 1 (01:00:23):
NBA star Paul George suffered an open tibbia fibula fracture
during a Team USA scrimmage. Yeah, the injury was severe,
but he made a remarkable recovery.
Speaker 4 (01:00:32):
Yeah, not watching that. Pretty remarkable.
Speaker 1 (01:00:33):
No, Kevin wears leg fracture n CUAA tournament game, Louisville
player Kevin Ware suffered a compound fracture on court incident.
Speaker 4 (01:00:41):
I don't guess I remember that one.
Speaker 8 (01:00:43):
That was like the worst one I've seen because his
bone is just full on out.
Speaker 1 (01:00:46):
Hey read to everybody bo Jackson's hip injury.
Speaker 3 (01:00:53):
Did they show that?
Speaker 4 (01:00:53):
I don't know if it was.
Speaker 1 (01:00:55):
I don't know. I don't know if the all this
list is what you could see. Some of it just
may be things that really sideline. I was reading an
article that Bo Jackson ran a four point.
Speaker 4 (01:01:10):
Think about that.
Speaker 7 (01:01:11):
That's insane?
Speaker 3 (01:01:12):
Is that fast?
Speaker 1 (01:01:13):
Four to two is like the standard of somebody. That's
the fastest you could possibly be, and.
Speaker 3 (01:01:18):
He was huge.
Speaker 4 (01:01:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:01:21):
Clint mal Or Chuck's neck injury nineteen eighty nine, that's
n HL.
Speaker 7 (01:01:26):
I don't even want to watch that.
Speaker 4 (01:01:27):
I don't even know what it is. Eddy years is worse.
Speaker 3 (01:01:28):
Did he die?
Speaker 1 (01:01:29):
I don't, Oh, I don't know. I know he fully recovered,
played two weeks later. You're not gonna be back up
in two weeks?
Speaker 3 (01:01:33):
No, No, dude, they said six to eight weeks. The
years is worse thang.
Speaker 4 (01:01:37):
Alex Smith's leg injury.
Speaker 5 (01:01:39):
Yeah, yeah, oh the same spot as thisman.
Speaker 4 (01:01:43):
Yeah, THI is Mend's number one.
Speaker 1 (01:01:45):
During a Monday night football game, Redskins quarterback Joe thisman
suffered a gruesome like fracture when the Giants linebacker Lawrence
Taylor sacked on. The injury in the Thaisond's career. One
of the most memorable injuries in NFL history. Would you
say that your injury is one of the most memorable?
And too much access history?
Speaker 3 (01:02:00):
I think so too much access history.
Speaker 1 (01:02:02):
Well, the last two episodes, we've had some real issues.
Tore my rotator cuff the last episode.
Speaker 3 (01:02:08):
And you did that playing baseball, right your your's is
baseball to softball. Yeah, I just was throwing a years
of soccer and over. Yeah, it's not good. You know
a little more Major League baseball.
Speaker 4 (01:02:23):
Dude, like you came down on a base I.
Speaker 3 (01:02:26):
Was playing with the Cardinals, Okay, I was playing with
Florida State Softball.
Speaker 2 (01:02:32):
College.
Speaker 1 (01:02:33):
You say college, but yeah, I think that episode will
be up next week. The Cardinals went up now and
today it's the Texas Ranchers pickleball episode, which you'll be
able to see.
Speaker 4 (01:02:44):
It's probably up now on my Instagram. Just go to
mister Bobby Bones.
Speaker 1 (01:02:47):
It's a professional pickball team, which, by the way, my
pickleball court should be up in like two weeks or so.
Speaker 3 (01:02:53):
You guys can play on it.
Speaker 7 (01:02:54):
Let's go.
Speaker 3 (01:02:55):
I watch. I'll sit there and watch for a little bit.
Speaker 7 (01:02:59):
All that workd you can't even use all that one.
Speaker 4 (01:03:01):
I bet you in four weeks you're a plus.
Speaker 3 (01:03:02):
Ready to go now, you know you say that, but
I don't think I want to risk it.
Speaker 1 (01:03:05):
You are the Adrian Peterson of the pinky toe injury.
Speaker 4 (01:03:09):
You're gonna bounce back. You got an expectation on you.
Speaker 3 (01:03:12):
You keep calling it the pinky toe Injine, that's what
that injury. But it's further down the foot. It's like
in the middle of my foot. What's the actual name
of it, evulsion Okay, the evulsion fraction before. Basically what
they said is.
Speaker 4 (01:03:27):
It's like in the metatarsal party or whatever that is.
Speaker 3 (01:03:29):
It's like on the side of my foot, but a
piece of my bone chipped off, Okay, and but it's
still together there with the cartilage or the ligament of
it avulsion.
Speaker 1 (01:03:39):
And I don't want anybody to think that Eddie's going
through something easy. It sucks, But this is when they
can't do anything for you. Just gotta let it heal.
It's a failure of bone in which a slight fragment
is pulled away from.
Speaker 3 (01:03:48):
The main body bone.
Speaker 1 (01:03:51):
They can occur in any area where soft tissues attached
to bone. Yeah, how serious is it? It needs care?
Can I walk on it? You need to wear a
boot for two weeks after your injury. Weeks, that's what
this says, I do. Don't no, no, no, no no no,
this is Google.
Speaker 4 (01:04:09):
Yeah, your dude, it looked awful.
Speaker 7 (01:04:11):
So what happens with working out now for you?
Speaker 2 (01:04:13):
Guys?
Speaker 10 (01:04:14):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (01:04:14):
The trainer says, just focus on upper body. You're to come,
not today, but I am going to come.
Speaker 2 (01:04:19):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (01:04:19):
An avulsion fracture to your foot or ankle may require
a cast or walking boot in rare cases, if the
bone fragment a main bone are too far apart, they
won't fuse naturally, but ninety percent of them they do.
How long does it take to heal these types of fractures?
Usually hell within four to six weeks, six weeks in
the long end. So cool, Yeah, nice, it did look terrible. Yeah,
(01:04:39):
it look like a baseball shoved under his skin. Mike,
can you missed all this?
Speaker 2 (01:04:43):
I saw it.
Speaker 7 (01:04:43):
That was gross.
Speaker 4 (01:04:44):
Yeah, it's gross. I also saw a snake on Eddie's porch.
Speaker 3 (01:04:46):
Dude, what the crap? But it's a it's a rat snake,
so like they're good, they're not venomous. So I didn't
kill it or anything. I was ready to if I
had to, or were you gonna kill it? Like if
it would have had a rattle, for sure it would
have shoveled it. Oh yeah, like we're not risking that.
I agree with that, but my wife is like gallant, gallant,
and I'm like, no, I guess it's a harmless snake.
(01:05:07):
But it was on the fence headed towards my house,
which is crazy. Like if we wouldn't have seen that snake,
where would have gone in the house in the toilet?
That is my worst nightmare.
Speaker 1 (01:05:16):
Simply looking for food or yeah, I mean that's what
all it's doing.
Speaker 4 (01:05:21):
It's either hurt.
Speaker 1 (01:05:22):
If it's coming toward the house where people are, it's
probably looking for food, or it's hurt and it's trying
to get to a place that it feels safe, like
some sort of shelteris type.
Speaker 4 (01:05:31):
Other than that, it's not trying to do.
Speaker 1 (01:05:32):
Anything mean or bad, right, I mean, we take Eller
on this little hiking. I hate going for walks, but
I can go for a hike. It's a hard hike
where you go to the lake. No, it's this hiking.
Speaker 4 (01:05:44):
I don't know. It's pretty hard. It's a mountain or something.
Speaker 3 (01:05:46):
I don't know, go to the mountains.
Speaker 4 (01:05:48):
I don't know where we go, but it's like a two.
Speaker 3 (01:05:50):
And a half mile You're like my kids, they never
know where we are.
Speaker 4 (01:05:52):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:05:53):
But we've done it three times now. In the first
two we got lost, but we figured it out the
last time. But Eller is for sure hound boy, and
she'll she'll almost point, like we had bird dogs back
in the day, and a bird dog just stopping point
and it will not move until you tell it to
move it. It will hold for thirty minutes. But Ella
will kind of semi point. But she'll be on and
she'll see and hear things, and she's like run up
(01:06:16):
a couple of snakes that were right near us. We
wouldn't have seen it had she not seen it.
Speaker 3 (01:06:20):
That's nice, little heads up. Yeah, just keep walking No,
she's like, hey, there's a snake here.
Speaker 4 (01:06:28):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (01:06:28):
My five year old found our snake. He comes, he
came in running.
Speaker 1 (01:06:32):
Having his hand.
Speaker 4 (01:06:34):
He totally was just ad he came in with.
Speaker 1 (01:06:42):
Basketball wise, make your prediction. Now we have to all
the way through, all the way through.
Speaker 3 (01:06:49):
I'm gonna have to go with Boston with a with
a healthy Porzingis. I gotta go Boston. I mean this whole.
Speaker 4 (01:06:56):
But I don't think we can do with this or
without of this.
Speaker 3 (01:06:59):
I think you just kind of he'll be bad, but.
Speaker 1 (01:07:01):
He's not gonna be healthy. You think he's gonna finish.
He hasn't played one single game. Sure you think all
of a sudden he's going to show up play.
Speaker 3 (01:07:07):
Yes, that's what you do in the NBA. Man, Like
you've been playing your whole life.
Speaker 4 (01:07:11):
He doesn't. He's playing his whole life. He still every
third game.
Speaker 3 (01:07:13):
I feel like the Kyrie Glass.
Speaker 1 (01:07:15):
What's his name, doctor Glass, Mike, mister Glass, the last Joe,
the guy from mister Glass and Bruce Willis was the
opposite of him.
Speaker 3 (01:07:27):
Ye, pulp fiction, No, it's just called Glass.
Speaker 1 (01:07:32):
Yeah, but that was the sequel, but the real one
was and the whole time you kind of figure out
that he was unbreakable, That Bruce Willis was unbreakable.
Speaker 3 (01:07:41):
Is that the movie he's called Breakable? Ya figured it out?
Speaker 2 (01:07:45):
I didn't.
Speaker 1 (01:07:45):
I didn't didn't. So, but porzingis doesn't matter in or out.
Just picking a team, get how many game, Let's just
go with the sweep. I mean that's what they do now,
right if they want to, or if they want.
Speaker 3 (01:07:59):
To just sweep.
Speaker 1 (01:07:59):
If they want to, let's go Celtics and four Kevin
Celtics and six. Okay, so I'm gonna go Are you
betting right now?
Speaker 4 (01:08:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:08:08):
Because the Mavericks are plus one eighty five, I'm gonna
go two hundred bucks on the Mavericks to win five seventy.
And I wonder if Minnesota gets in if they'll cancel
that bet.
Speaker 3 (01:08:19):
They will, I'm sure, yeah, you have to, right, I
don't know they have to.
Speaker 1 (01:08:25):
Yeah, a lot of times they'll they'll avoid out a
bet if it's not able to be bet unless it's
plus one eighty five, because there's Minnesota still has a
chance to come back and win.
Speaker 4 (01:08:39):
Okay, I'm taking Dallas or Minnesota.
Speaker 3 (01:08:42):
Are there four people?
Speaker 2 (01:08:43):
No?
Speaker 3 (01:08:43):
Are there three people on the bet? Is Minnesota an
option on that.
Speaker 4 (01:08:46):
There are two options.
Speaker 1 (01:08:47):
There's plus one eighty five Dallas plus one eighty five Minnesota,
So it's got to be either teams at plus.
Speaker 4 (01:08:54):
One eighty five. Yeah, right, who knows either.
Speaker 1 (01:08:57):
Way it's gonna be over anyway, although I don't I
think Minnesota wins this one because they can't have it
just sit empty for nine days.
Speaker 3 (01:09:03):
I've said that the last two games, and like this
they can't. I mean, they got to have it, like
the Pacers, they got to win one.
Speaker 1 (01:09:08):
Nat Well, I think the difference now is there will
be no game until what the sixth next Thursday.
Speaker 8 (01:09:15):
See.
Speaker 3 (01:09:16):
I say that all the time, though, and everyone's like,
are you what are you saying it's fixed? Like, well,
I mean no, but I mean kind of.
Speaker 1 (01:09:21):
Everybody says that stuff all the time. You didn't create conspiracy.
Speaker 3 (01:09:24):
No no, no, no, no no. And what I'm saying is
nobody wants to admit that, like they could have Minnesota
win a game to extend the series or else there'd
be no basketball.
Speaker 4 (01:09:33):
I think a lot of people will admit where there's money, there's.
Speaker 3 (01:09:37):
Nefarious behavior, yes, but that's also saying it's fixed. So
would you know Kevin would say fixed.
Speaker 4 (01:09:45):
I wouldn't say a fix.
Speaker 1 (01:09:47):
I think there can be influence that affects the ending
of a game.
Speaker 3 (01:09:51):
That would be fixed. Lawyer, you're trying to do a
little lawyer terms over.
Speaker 1 (01:09:56):
Here, would be for sure altering the outcome to the favor.
Speaker 4 (01:10:00):
Of the person.
Speaker 3 (01:10:01):
That's the same thing.
Speaker 1 (01:10:03):
No, it's not, because you can all you can influence
the game and still not win it.
Speaker 3 (01:10:06):
Yeah, that's why they would delayed the whistle again. They
did it again last night, Like.
Speaker 7 (01:10:10):
That's the Pacers did everything they could lose those games.
Speaker 3 (01:10:13):
I know, and the reps were also on their sides. Miles, miles.
Speaker 1 (01:10:16):
So let's say the reps, let's say the rest were
trying to extend the game. They did everything they possibly
freaking cold.
Speaker 7 (01:10:21):
And every real loss and they still lost.
Speaker 4 (01:10:22):
So that's not a fix.
Speaker 7 (01:10:23):
So the NBA influenced the game, said, what the hell goes?
Speaker 4 (01:10:27):
Yeah, they're like, hey, we're trying to influence this game.
Speaker 7 (01:10:28):
We shouldn't fix it.
Speaker 3 (01:10:29):
But they're in a meeting right now. What's the problem.
Speaker 4 (01:10:31):
We just couldn't fix it.
Speaker 1 (01:10:32):
Okay, that's it, let's end this thing. Thanks to Jim Edmonds,
we'll have our interview later on in the week with
the pickleball the general manager and the player's pretty fun.
I go watch that episode up on my Instagram, mister
Bobby Bones or let me don't like thirty episodes, just
go over to too Much Access dot com.
Speaker 4 (01:10:48):
And you can see all of the episodes.
Speaker 3 (01:10:51):
Final thoughts, Eddie, Yeah, Jim Edmonds, just thanks man for
reaching out checking on my foot. We're friends now, we
talk all the time. Did he talk to you?
Speaker 4 (01:11:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:11:02):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (01:11:02):
He was like, where do the cicadas go? And I
was like, storm hit, bro, they're hiding from the storm.
Speaker 3 (01:11:06):
I guess the ciccadas go. They kind of did go away.
Speaker 1 (01:11:08):
I don't know if they're back today or wow yea,
and might have got swept by the Celtics too.
Speaker 3 (01:11:12):
I mean, dude, that's all. I've been on cloud nine
because of that. Like Paul Goldschmidt gave me a legiti
hut like a legiti hutu. Dude's so good good to me.
Speaker 7 (01:11:20):
Too massive a tight end or a linebacker.
Speaker 3 (01:11:24):
I'm like, dude, dang and my in laws are in town,
so we watched a bunch of baseball and I'm like, yes,
that's my buddy. Paul A Goldie. I call him Goldie. Yeah,
and they're like, are you serious? Like no, yeah, like
we hung out. They're like, what are you talking about?
How to pull out the videos and everything? Like look,
this is me and Goldie and Bobby. That's me on
second base. They thought I was much cooler after all that.
Speaker 4 (01:11:43):
It is pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (01:11:44):
It's pretty awesome, dude, it's not that cool. Your bat's awesome.
And that's all I thought about when he hit those homers.
I'm like, damn, I was going with that bats. Yeah,
pretty cool man?
Speaker 2 (01:11:55):
Uh uh?
Speaker 9 (01:11:57):
Me and Jim are snapchat buddies? Nice? Pretty cool?
Speaker 3 (01:12:01):
Are you all really snap No?
Speaker 9 (01:12:03):
I didn't add him.
Speaker 8 (01:12:03):
I want to thought, yeah, I said your contact, Jim
Edmonds is on Snapchat.
Speaker 9 (01:12:09):
I got a notification.
Speaker 7 (01:12:10):
I was like, oh, I kind of want to click that.
Speaker 3 (01:12:13):
You should.
Speaker 1 (01:12:13):
That's odd, you know, just I know just I'm not
even on Snapchat either.
Speaker 4 (01:12:18):
Do you still your Snapchat?
Speaker 8 (01:12:19):
I literally snapchat Maddie and Stone. That is.
Speaker 2 (01:12:25):
Kevin.
Speaker 1 (01:12:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:12:27):
I know they still got one more series ago, but
you know, Celtics get it done. All the haters. Keep
Payton said, they're not gonna be that good. They're not
gonna beat everybody. And here they are in the finals. Now,
you know they've been the best team all year. They're
gonna prove it again in the finals. So we got
nine days, which kind of sucks. But my thing is
when is when did camps open late July?
Speaker 3 (01:12:49):
Summer camps?
Speaker 4 (01:12:51):
No, not for the kids NFL like.
Speaker 3 (01:12:53):
They're happening now, dude, they're rolling late July? Is we
have a while?
Speaker 2 (01:13:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:13:03):
So like two months? Huh?
Speaker 1 (01:13:05):
Like almost two months? Okay, dang, I was really I
was really hyped it was going to be earlier than that.
I was ready to go start doing some too much
access for the football, but we kind of can't.
Speaker 3 (01:13:17):
We can't and my foot just give it, give it
a couple of weeks to heal and then we can
start doing drills again. Well you could be a part
of the interviews. Oh yeah, I know, I'm just saying,
like I want.
Speaker 5 (01:13:26):
By the way, his foot is just he got barefoot
rocking back here, his booted off.
Speaker 3 (01:13:31):
It's really swollen. It's still swollen.
Speaker 4 (01:13:33):
I'm sorry, buddy, like that guy on the plane right now.
Speaker 3 (01:13:35):
I did tell Kevin that, I mean I have to
go to the orthopedic to go check up on it,
because like all I have is urgent care and they
took X rays and that's what they said. But I
really can't move my outer toes, so I don't know.
Ligament damage is part of it.
Speaker 4 (01:13:49):
You keep saying that like you're wishing it.
Speaker 3 (01:13:51):
I'm not. I really wish that that's not the case,
because if it is the case, I mean, you may
have to have surgery for that, right I did. Yeah,
And I don't want to do that because that was
really Yeah.
Speaker 8 (01:14:00):
I don't know what the ligaments called, but mine was
like towards my ankle.
Speaker 9 (01:14:04):
I just came down wrong in a basketball game.
Speaker 4 (01:14:05):
And just rolled it in toward the ligaments. I had
to have surgery. Really, how long were you out after that?
Speaker 3 (01:14:11):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (01:14:11):
Shoot, probably, like he's still out four months. I've been
out for six years. I know, four months. Mm hmm, Eddie,
maybe retiring from too much access.
Speaker 8 (01:14:20):
I missed so much school, not because of that, but
like I lived kind of right off campus to where
they don't have like the little trolley things that can
come pick you up if you're on crutches or.
Speaker 3 (01:14:30):
You're in San Francisco.
Speaker 9 (01:14:31):
Yeah, I know pretty much.
Speaker 8 (01:14:32):
And I was like, I'm not walking, like I can't
I'm not going to crutch a mile down the road
and I can't.
Speaker 3 (01:14:37):
I can't.
Speaker 4 (01:14:38):
So you didn't go to school.
Speaker 7 (01:14:39):
I just didn't go nice.
Speaker 8 (01:14:40):
What about a wheelchair, I will there wasn't really a
sidewalk kind of be wheeling down the road.
Speaker 7 (01:14:46):
One of those like scooter things that you put your
knee on.
Speaker 8 (01:14:48):
I had that, but I was like, I don't want
to sounds like there were a lot of ways you
could have gone to class.
Speaker 9 (01:14:52):
Right A mile a mile to get to close.
Speaker 4 (01:14:55):
You don't even know that that's true. You could be exaggerating.
Speaker 9 (01:14:57):
No, it was a mile. It was like right on
the line where they can't come pick me up.
Speaker 1 (01:15:01):
We're done, goodbye, everybody, We'll see you later on this week.
We think, all right, goodbye.
Speaker 3 (01:15:08):
Oh here, hold on hold, oh my god.
Speaker 10 (01:15:11):
I
See.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
It's a podcast called twenty five whist Stocking Force and
they were a whistle Yes, too bad.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
But what did you expect? It's a podcast called twenty five.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Whistles Swinging Wine.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Hello, welcome, coming up Jim Edmonds, Cardinals Hall of Famer,
one of the most dynamic centerfielders. I've ever seen him
my whole life. I hated him, then I loved him,
Then I loved him.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
That's the order.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Oh oh, hated him first?
Speaker 1 (00:30):
No, actually I was amazed while I'm as an angel,
then hated him as a cardinal, then loved him as
a cub.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
Then now it's just awesome. Bo, we're here. We went
to his house.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
I want to blow a whistle.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Hit it.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Let's go, and Eddie sent me the dumbest what they
call show prep in the history of this show. Show
prep is that we will get to that first. Let's
do the tittle tattle. Dude's time stupid? His name ever?
Speaker 4 (00:56):
The tittle tattle?
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Get up?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
The kind of.
Speaker 5 (01:01):
After our visit to the Bush Stadium last weekend, where
do you rank the stadium in your stadium power rankings?
Speaker 6 (01:07):
Now?
Speaker 4 (01:07):
Is it stadiums? I've just been to our stadiums that
we've been.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
To as a group that we've had extra access just
to baseball stadium well, regular is number one. Yeah, overall,
I'm just going. I mean, Wrigley is awesome, and I'm
a Cubs fan.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
So we've been to Fenway m hm regularly.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Fenway.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Fenway is awesome.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Just because it's old and even if it's not old,
it still looks like it did when it was old.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
And when you see the monster with your own eyes, like,
that's pretty crazy. It's cool.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
But I think bush stadiums in baseball stadiums three.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
But I'm thinking of other ones I've been to. I've
been to been to New Kamiski, I've been a New Yankee.
Have you been to the Pittsburgh I've been to the
No back when it was three Rivers. No, haven't.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
I've probably been like twelve baseball stadiums.
Speaker 7 (02:00):
Peco Park in inan Diego. Very underrated. I swear, do
you that have stadium is.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Awesome, really awesome.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
I'm gonna put it at.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
Three on a baseball stadium.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
That's the only thing that's cool about Yankee Stadium now
is that you get off the subway and it's just
right there.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Awesome.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
It is awesome, Like you come right out of the
hole and it's like a Yankee stadium, and.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Then when you go to the game, you're in there
with a bunch of fans, Like the whole subway is
packed with a bunch of Yankee fans.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
That part's cool. I'm not a Yankee fan, and what
I could respect. I'm more of just a National League
guy anyway, because I was this National League him a
whole life interesting National League. Yeah, I've been down to
the breaks.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Yeah, oh cool, but I'm gonna put Bush.
Speaker 7 (02:39):
What about came tow yards Baltimore?
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Never been there?
Speaker 4 (02:43):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Looks cool.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
They've been to Baltimore.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Yeah, we spend the night in Baltimore one night. I
know that because justin the suit went to the casino there.
But that's it like touring and we just stayed there.
I think we were flying out of Baltimore the next morning,
so we stayed.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
I've been to the Baltimore airport.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Does that count though?
Speaker 7 (03:00):
When you yeah, like a layover.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
We just had to stay the night in hotel, like
we probably did a show in DC. It can only
get a Baltimore flight. So then we went and no,
it doesn't count.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
I'm Bush at three.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
It's hard for me to do because I I didn't
even hate the Cardinals. I just grew up hating the Cardinals.
I'm an adult man now. Those people are just athletes
that are either drafted or highed by the Cardinals. But right,
and I have to tell myself that sometimes. But yeah,
Bush is really it's the new Bush Stadium.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
But it's really cool. And maybe it's just cool because
we got to go, but it was awesome.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
So that's Bush three? Is that what I was reading? Yea,
it was Bush three? It was Bush one.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Bush two is the last one they shut down. No, No,
that's that's a different Bush. It's h w h Yeah
that's true too.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
This is named after the Bush.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
What's the coolest football stadium ever been to?
Speaker 2 (03:48):
You know? Oh?
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Good man, I think you have to pull your personal out.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Okay, all right, that's gonna be tough because.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
I would say my favorite place on Earth is Reynolds
Razorback Stadium. But I wasn't even thinking that, so you
can't use it. I think out in front of the
stadium in Tuscaloosa where they have the trophies or the trophies,
the statues of everybody who won a national championship.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
That's freaking cool.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
And when they walk down during Sweden Alabama that's pretty cool.
Stadium is big, that's really cool. Like Alabama's the environment's
really neat. You know, Oklahoma they have statues of their
Heisman winners. They are a lot of Heisman winners. Kind
of bizarre. I mean Heisman winners Oklahoma has, but Alabama
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really cool.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
We went to Death Valley that was called cool lsu
mm hmm. That was really cool.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
But you didn't watch a game.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
There were the first show.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Yeah, the game.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
There's the games that are really loud. I mean they're
but I don't know that I like that stadium.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
I feel like it's just crazy because everybody's drunk and
it's Baton rouge.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Yeah, and the Jambalaya it's purple Soldier Fields.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Super cool when you drive by it on the interstate
and then you go and you get in it and
you're like, huh.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Well, what's the hunt.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
It's just kind of old.
Speaker 7 (05:07):
I don't know, yeah, like you feel the old if it's.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Old, and like they left some of like the personalized
old or like the but I don't feel like Soldier
Field really has that charm of something old.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
It just is kind of sucky.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
And maybe because I'm not a Bears fan, because when
regular before they started new it was as a dog
crab stadium, but it was the best.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
It's weird because outside of the stadium it kind of
looks like a Supreme Court house. It does, right, Yeah,
columns and really yeah Soldier, yeah, Soldier.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
The Cowboy Stadium is good though it is, it just
feels pretty clinical.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Did you clean and new screens everywhere?
Speaker 7 (05:46):
Have you been to Kneel?
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Oh? No, No, that's cool. I mean he's a big fan.
Speaker 7 (05:52):
I'm just saying I'm taking my bias out. Don't worry.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
But it's still really but it's on the river like
it's awesome.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Did you ever go to the Astronome? Yes?
Speaker 1 (06:01):
No, no, but I went to the astros I went
to in Ron when it was in the same state.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
He changed the name Ron and then it went to
minute Mad.
Speaker 7 (06:11):
Oh yeah, then Ron, what is that?
Speaker 1 (06:13):
And Ron was a company that liked the big scam
that oh people had billions of dollars.
Speaker 7 (06:17):
It sounds like an oil company.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
There was an oil company was.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Really something like that okay, but unfair to ask me
that question because I picked my personal team's number one
and then recent teams number two, so it's a tough
question to answer.
Speaker 5 (06:28):
Ahead it was some big names still remaining. Who was
the biggest NFL freed in surprise still available?
Speaker 1 (06:33):
You know, running backs don't really surprised me because it
does feel like you us guy have been Neill running
back off the heap, and they do okay unless they
are extremely dynamic. But in the running back world, Dalvin Cook,
but he didn't really do much with the Jets, but
they didn't really give him a lot of opportunity to.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Do much with the Jets. But also the Jets didn't
do much.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Cam Akers is not with the team right now. Kareem
Hunt not with the team, and he came back to
Cleveland for a minute.
Speaker 7 (07:02):
Didn't he at the very end?
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Yeah, like he's like, hey, what's up, Hey, Kareem's bad?
All season's over?
Speaker 7 (07:07):
Yeah, Yeah, got hurt?
Speaker 4 (07:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Hunter renfro Man, that guy like dominated receiver. Yeah, and
then just dropped off crazy and you'd see tiktoks with
these other receivers or even dB would be like that
dude's a dog. Hunter Renfro that dog's for and then
it was like as soon as I drafted in my
fantasy and he sucked.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
He's a little guy, right, relative little guy, No, no, no,
I think he's like smaller than most receivers. Yeah, he's
also white, so it makes him look slow and automatically.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
I just if you're on wire receiver, you just look like.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
The Packers lineman that went to Aaron Rodgers' wedding. Bakatiari.
I guess I'm surprised he's still a free agent. Those
lineman positions are in need unless he just isn't good anymore.
But I don't know there's a big wide receiver that
I think or even a play.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
I mean, uh, Michael to.
Speaker 7 (08:01):
Talk about dropping off big time, but he got hurt.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
It was awesome for a bit.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
He got hurt and then came back and he's supposed
to have a decent year last year.
Speaker 7 (08:08):
But again then he got like weird.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
He got in trouble and did some weird on field
stuff in practice.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
So I don't know there's anybody that I'm screaming.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
I'm surprised that they're a free agent right now, but
I am ready for some freaking football now like I'm
ready almost there? Yeah, what else you got?
Speaker 2 (08:23):
All right?
Speaker 5 (08:23):
Going to basketball here? Which dominant duo has impressed you
more in the conference finals? Tatum and Brown or Luca
and Kyrie?
Speaker 3 (08:30):
This is easy.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
It's Luke and Kyrie. Okay, don't ask the question if
you don't want the answer. Sorry, I didn't say that
loud it you did. Tatum has scored thirty points twice.
One of those, though, was in like the fifth overtime
when all he had to.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
Do was make it like a lay up a day
and he made He got thirty points. But I'm not
even hating.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
Jalen had forty points in a game. Pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
I guess that the expectation is just there because they're
playing the junior highs. I think we could score thirty
a game.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Stop. Don't say stuff over on the East. That's not
fair with the booter without.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Luke and Kyrie are legit. And you know what, after
they score game.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Winners the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth time in
the past twenty five games, it's not lucky anymore.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Be honest, though, I think Kyrie is shining more than Luca.
LUKEA is just coming up at that right time to
hit those shots that they need.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
They're complimenting each other. Well, there is nobody as fast
as Kyrie with the ball on a break.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
There's nobody.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
I mean, I'm gonna go Luke and Kyrie because the
expectation wasn't there. And also they're playing better teams. Again,
the Celtics have beat us, that's why they went four.
They've lost two games in three series.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
Right then they go four to one, four oh, four
to one. H Yeah, they played us.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Do you think you guys can win? Do you think yeah,
you think you'll Yeah. By the way, I was wrong.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
You guys are gonna be the favorite.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Over over Dallas.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
I have figured Dallas would be. It was pretty close,
but Detroit was the favorite. What's what's all that is?
It is a game four tonight? Yes, okay, so Celtic
Alardy won.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
There, Detroit was the favorite. Sorry, not Detroit, Dallas, thank you.
It was like Detroit the worst team in the NBA.
They finish the worst two years in a row.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
The D man, I'm fascinated with the D. My point
is I think I've forgotten point. Yeah, I have to
move on because I had a good point and now
I forgot the point.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
All right, next question, all.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
Right, last one here, speaking of the Celtics after two
come from behind wins, Now, do you believe their inability
to close close games is over?
Speaker 1 (10:39):
I believe that the teams they've been playing haven't been
able to close games. I'm not a hater.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Look who they're playing against, don't I know?
Speaker 7 (10:45):
All season they've been the best team in the NBA.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
But they're playing Eastern Conference teams they're playing.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
For the most part, I'm not a hater of the Celtics.
I'm not a Celtic hater. And if they win, good
for them. They deserve to win. They've been close many times.
I'm not gonna better them to win.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
As matter of fact, I bet Minnesota to come back.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Oh that was a great bet, dude, I did.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
I put fifty bucks on the Timberwolve to come back
out three.
Speaker 8 (11:07):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
I mean then he went four in a row. But
fifty bucks makes.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Five to fifty and anything is possible. Yeah, it's except
that's never happened before.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
I think it has a baseball red's obviously, that's right.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
I think that the Pacers and a twenty six year
old Jason Tatum is starting to mature into the player
he is. And I think that also they're able to
close games. They're just better than the teams they're playing.
And I think that there's such a disparity in the
Celtics versus the Pacers, especially without a Halliburton.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
When nim Hart is your guy.
Speaker 7 (11:42):
He looked good, he did look good.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
But they had nobody else when because before the Pacers
it was the.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Knicks, whenever Cabs. I'm sorry, even worse, yeah, even worse.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
They don't have it. There's nobody but Celtics.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Missing prisingis, but Porzingis was the adding Chris Bosh to
an already awesome team with and it didn't This wasn't
the order but Lebron. It's like Lebron and Waite and
you ad Bosh. Bosh was going, You're not like, well
we suck now, You're like, dang it. Imagine if we
had Posh.
Speaker 7 (12:13):
I agree. I mean, obviously yeah, they had the advantage,
but I'm just saying it's gonna.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Be like one quarter and grab his hip. And I
kind of.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
Wanted it didn't play a little bit, just because that's
such a long time off to come back into the finals.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
This is what I was gonna say, listen to this.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
This system is broken because if it goes four to
oh tonight, there's not another game till sixth. Yeah, and
they won't start the series hardly. They're just waiting until
sixth and.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
Everybody's just chilling.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
I mean, they can't let that happen.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Basically, like you take a vacation, maybe the twenty ninth, thirtieth,
thirty first, first, second, third, fourth, fifth, it's like nine days.
So that's why the refs are really going to push
toward a Minnesota win.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Oh yeah, I agree with that conspiracy.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
That's why I do a little money.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
And that's why you're scratching on that. It's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Fifty Yeah, it's kind of been a boring, yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Final four, very stressed Conference Finals.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
We were getting off the flight Game two Dallas Minnesota,
and it was right in the last ten seconds or
so of the game and Eddie walks his car and
Minnesota pretty much soda up. I turned on to put
it on the ESPN and do the old I watch
it on ESPN, and that was the Luca Luca, Oh.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
My god, so stupid, man.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
I just I felt your pain.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
So stupid. Oh I saw my bet go from like
a cash out of like fifty dollars down to like
twenty dollars. Now, I don't even think there's a cash out.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
I would also like to say that I did say
Luca is the best player remaining whenever we picked us.
I did not jump on the let's go ahead and
declare and that dude, although he is that dude, he's
just getting a little tired.
Speaker 7 (13:47):
His guests.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
Get the guy a sleep number something, man, let him
take a.
Speaker 5 (13:52):
Nap, sleep number dot com, slash bone, Yes, thank you.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
All right, that's the tittle tattle. Get out.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
We're gonna take a break and we'll come back and
we'll talk about our Saint Louis trip a little bit
and get into our interview with Jim Edmonds. Okay, so
before we get into our interview with Jim Edmonds, I
will say the Saint Louis too much access was I
do believe it's the most fun when we've ever shot.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Oh it's so much fun, dude, so much fun.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
I don't know one that would have been more fun
as a participant. I don't know about you guys. You guys,
I mean Kevin's running the show. Read shooting everything. Yeah,
I don't know about you guys doing that, but my
part of it, I do think that was the most
fun one that we've ever done. But surrounding him with
going to Jim Edmond's house, with doing the podcast outside
the stadium, with going in the stadium, hanging out with
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Paul Goldschmid who then we do a bit and I
have his bat and then he goes on a tear
all weekend.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
Thank you, You're welcome. When, yes, you know, playing.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Eddie hurt his foot, Yes, all that fun stuff.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Well the foot thing wasn't fine.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
No, it was not.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
And going to the game afterwards, true, although it did
get happening, did.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Get rained down. All that to say, Mikey did not
get to.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Go no.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Level probably why I got hurt. Let's be real, level of.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
One to ten ten.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
All the pictures you guys supposedly looked amazing and I
wasn't there for any of it. I know, and I
felt bad for you, but really I was having so
much fun.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
I didn't feel that I forgot to feel bad.
Speaker 7 (15:29):
I feel like he has to completely forgot about It's fine.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
We did, yeah, I mean before and after we remembered
you there's even like a picture of all four of
you guys.
Speaker 9 (15:38):
We've never taken a group picture like that.
Speaker 8 (15:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Yeah, it was awesome, good. It was like so legit. Really,
it was so legitimate. And we're not just saying that
because it was so legit.
Speaker 7 (15:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
But Eddie did like fracture a bone on the outside
of his foot.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
I didn't find out that I fractured it until was
that Saturday.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
No, it started swelling Sunday. Sunday media took a shoe
off looking at base underneath the skin.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
I knew something was wrong as soon as it happened,
because as soon as I jumped up and it landed
on the base, what happened was Bones. I'll break it
down for you, guys. Bone, I'm gonna give you the
real story. After Eddie tells you the lie, I'll tell
you the real story. Bones was throwing the ball to
me and I was at second I was playing second base.
Throws the ball at me. It's way overthrown, so I
stretched jump as high as I can stretch up. I
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still miss the ball and on the way down, like
my toe my big toe side hits the corner of
the base and rolls my ankle over and I got
full body weight on my ankle.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
And I'll tell you, by the way, it's nobody's fault
you hurt your foot. By the way it's made to
throw the ball high. It's just you coming down on
a bag. But that's not even the real story.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
But go ahead, finish right anyway. So when I landed
full body weight, I can hear I heard a crunch.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
Okay, your foot hitting the bag.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
No, I'm not kidding, dude. I heard like a crunch,
and I was like, this is not good. But that
was early into us shooting. So we still played catch
for like another ten minutes there. We caught pop flies
for another twenty minutes out in the outfield like, and
then Bones goes, hey, lastly, let's race around the base.
And I was like, man, i' gonna be honest with you,
I don't think I can do that.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
I said, I respect that, so we didn't.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
So we didn't do it, and then I faked it
pretty good until we got to the like left the stadium.
Then once we left the stadium, like, dude, I can't walk.
This is this is hard.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
But then he walked all during the game the whole time,
and he said, I got it better. So this is
what really happened. Eddie wasn't near the base where he
should have been, and even the coach hielled, Hey, there's
a base to Eddie get over to the base. So
where I threw it is where he should have been.
We were turning to you know, I guys do playing
infild so but it also it's just.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
An age thing, man, when I get your age and.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Be careful to Yeah, next year, dude, you're gonna start
being careful nowt But we did go to Jim Edmond's
house the night before and got to his house.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
They like going downstairs.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
We go downstairs to his basement and there's like, I
don't know, arcade games, arcade bowling alleys, arcade games, bowling alley,
pop a shot, there's a batting cage. There was another
ballplayer who came over just to hit. Wasn't even set up.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Pretty awesome.
Speaker 5 (18:03):
Yeah, just literally started hitting you just hear while we
were there, was getting hit.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
Yeah, yeah, it was great.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
So I'm going to play this interview we do with
Jim Edmonds and the fact that he let us come
over and hung out with us so long and then
just kind of.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
You know, let me.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Ask every question I ever had about that era in baseball.
Was super cool because I had a lot I could
have done another hour. I think he probably could have
another hour too, but they had a dinner to get to. Yes,
wait for that dinner, man, we'd probably still be interviewing
right now, right now.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Yeah, here he is Jim Edmonds.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Before we came over to your house, which, by the way,
this place is crazy. It's like a fantasy land for
sports fans, kids and me. I'm a mix of those two.
I'm like a hybrid kids sports fan. We stopped at
a card shop and we were in there. I have
I like sports memorabilia, but I over on a wall
I saw this and I bought it for twenty bucks
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to Jim Edmonds bibblehead. So twenty fourteen, you were inducted
into the Cardinals Hall of Fame. Do you remember this
night when they gave way the Jim mmons bibble heads?
Speaker 10 (19:09):
Yeah, because I had like five cases of him in
the back of my car.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
What is it.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Let's say, we haven't opened it.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
That's what I told Bobby to him, Like, don't you
think Jim has a bunch of these already?
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Yeah, but it wasn't it. This wasn't about Jim Oh.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
I was gonna make aim Bobby well.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
This was this was about seeing it and going, oh
this is cool.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Here y go okay, hard to do one hand in that?
Speaker 4 (19:32):
Yeah, it's not.
Speaker 11 (19:34):
Does it look just like.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Jim at Oh?
Speaker 2 (19:36):
I don't know. They never do.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
It's like the statues they unveil in front of stadiums
and it's supposed to be Kobe and you're like, who
is that?
Speaker 11 (19:43):
Nothing like Kobe.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
It's got a neck brace on at this running into
the wall. Here it is bobbling. What does he look like?
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Number fifteen?
Speaker 2 (19:53):
It's kind of close.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
I guess.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
I guess you'd have to ask my wife. She would
be the judge.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
But did you ever you ever go into because we
went to a car shop and got this? Did you
ever you ever go into a car shop and they're like,
holy crap, that's that's Jim.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Yeah. Sometimes do you ever have to.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Sign everything that your face is on in there? No,
that's what I would if I were running it and you
walked up. Were you sign all this time?
Speaker 10 (20:11):
It's kind of cool because you know, they're a pretty
respectful point. But when my son he's now eighteen. When
he was younger, he was obsessed with all that stuff,
and so I'd go in there and take him and
kind of just show him too that I was up there,
but all the guys are up there, and then they
would see me and they would be like, I'll give
him anything he wants.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Send a couple of pictures, Yeah, would you something?
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Would was your son around? Like, did he understand? I
guess he was at that age where he like knew
what was going on right when you were playing still on.
Speaker 10 (20:38):
Like he was he was he was born at the
end really, so yeah, so he got to he knows
everything about When I worked for the Cardinals, I was
this assistant to the president for Mozillac for a few
years and then COVID hit kind of messed all that
up like it did for all of us. But I
did that and TV, so I was able to go in,
bring him work in the dugout in the locker room,
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batting practice and then batting practice over red shower and
go upstairs into the TV booth, and then covid hit
shut all that down, and then it was, you know,
never the same sense. So I just kept doing TV.
But you know, they're really good about families there, so
they let Landing in. They'll let him on the field
and shagfly balls or whatever. It's a little different when
you're not in there in there, so it's hard for
me to, like, you know, let him go on his own,
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even though he's old enough and he knows everyone.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
But yeah, it's that was kind of.
Speaker 10 (21:29):
The whole idea for me still working, was to give
him that extra chance to be around it.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Does he understand how dynamic a player you were, or
does he just have to hear your stories and roll
his eyes.
Speaker 11 (21:40):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
I don't tell him anything. He will show me a bit.
Speaker 10 (21:43):
He'll be like, hey, look when my friend sent me,
or hey look what I saw. Or he'll be like
such and such game was on this channel and I
saw you got two hits, but you struck out on
the fastball right down the middle.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
I'm like, yeah, I know that feels I was there. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Do you see you in him when he plays ball? Now?
Can you see?
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 10 (22:02):
Except he's already faster than I was. He can he
runs the bases like a madman. It's it's weird because
he's a little bit shorter than I am. He's only
you know, he's going to be a senior. He's only
five nine, but he can fly and that's something I
never can do. I can never run. He doesn't have
my arm, but he's got the defense and the more
I Q probably his age than I did, and his
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swing's getting pretty good.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Does he listen to you or do you give him
coaching or advice? Like what's the dynamic?
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Because I'm like, you'll know the answer this one of
the just roll.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
His eyes and go like, dad, come, want to know
what I'm doing.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
It's a little bit of both, it really is.
Speaker 10 (22:38):
It's weird because I wish he was here right now,
because like he'll talk about certain things and I'm like, yeah,
that's not kind of how it works. And then you know,
some days he'll say, hey, what do I need to
do here? So it is it's weird dynamic.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
You know. I try to get him to do certain
things and he won't do it. He's like, yeah, yeah,
i'll do it. I'll do it, and he doesn't do it.
Speaker 10 (22:54):
And then somebody else will give him the same idea,
like a coach told him to do something, or I
actually was struggling.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
With him a little bit so I called Joe Madden.
Speaker 10 (23:02):
Sure, you know Joe Madden is and he gave me
some ideas because he was my hitting coach since I
was eighteen. Yeah, he was our minor league hitting instructor
when I was in the Angels organization. Then when I
got to the big leagues, he was our hitting and
bench coach and then so and that was. So, that
was from time I was eighteen until time I was
twenty nine and so, and I used to take land
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in when the Cubs had come into town to go
meet him and talk to him. But he gave me
some really good ideas, and Landon actually started listening to
those ideas.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
You know.
Speaker 10 (23:32):
They he's down here in the cage every day and
he'll sometimes hit himself into a struggle because you can
you can overhit, and yeah, it goes both ways.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
When you got the call and so you go up
to the big leagues and the Angels, right, what's it
like day one in the locker room as somebody that
just got the call up.
Speaker 10 (23:50):
I think my generation right at that era, like in
the early nineties, was the very first generation of ball
players where they allowed them to kind of get a
little bit of spring training familiar. I think before it
was like they really wanted you to like work for it, so.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
It was a little bit better.
Speaker 10 (24:07):
The call up was kind of one of those things
like you knew it was coming because I just hit
three hundred in Triple A. I kind of got the
word that it was going to happen, but had to
wait till the end of the season. And so I
flew from Vancouver to Detroit and walked in this old
stadium and walked out, put my clothes on, and they're like,
you're in the lineup.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
So I walked down the tunnel.
Speaker 10 (24:26):
And opened up into the dugout and I looked up
I was like, oh my gosh, like Tiger Stadium.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
And so that was incredible.
Speaker 10 (24:33):
And then going home for the first time, playing in
Anaheim a week later, being on that side of the
field and not looking down at the guys, looking back
up at the stands, it's just a it's a crazy,
crazy feeling. I think that you could probably have the
same feelings for when you're a kid watching people and
now you're doing the talking and the you know, the
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shows and the gigs and all the stuff you do
looking down on the mass audience or looking up at
the audience, A totally different experience.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Do you remember who was on the mound the first
a bat you had in the majors?
Speaker 10 (25:05):
I think it was Bill Gullickson and he was throwing
about eighty five and I swung through three fastballs right
down the middle, and then I went over three. And
then the next night I pinched hit against Dwayne Ward.
He was so ninety eight and I hit a ground
row double in Toronto. So crazy how it works.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Was there somebody that got hurt? Like when you got
your call?
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Why was it?
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Was it just we're going to move somebody down because
you were so hot, or was there something that happened
that we need somebody now, let's move Jim up.
Speaker 10 (25:31):
It was the basic September call up. It was that
you got your year in triple A. Yeah, they'd get
the rosters back.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
At the end of the day.
Speaker 10 (25:37):
The rosters would go up to you could have forty guys.
The whole forty man could be up there. So they
would get up to like, you know, thirty thirty two guys,
and so me and another pitcher came up the same time.
A couple of guys got called up earlier in the year,
and so I came up. I played a little bit.
You may play every couple days or whatever. We were
out of it, so they let some of the kids play. Yeah,
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And then the next year I went to spring training
and made the team.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Is the locker room warm to you when you first
get there or is yea or are they kind of
like do they want to set you straight a little
bit as the rookie.
Speaker 10 (26:08):
It depends, you know, it depends on how you act.
They kind of you know, And that's why I'm saying
the good thing is now, I think since my era
and up, they've really got guys in spring training, got
familiar with the big leagues. Give them a taste of
it so they know what to expect. They can be
more familiar.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
I think walking into a clubhouse would be scary, you know,
like the first day and never being around it.
Speaker 10 (26:31):
Yeah, but I think they're waiting for you to make
mistakes so they can set you straight. But I think
when you go up there and you start playing, you're
you know, you're helping the team win, so kind of
they take you under their wing until you can't do
the right things right, you know, until you get out
of hand. I guess they pretty much leave you alone,
like they give you some stuff. You know, it'd be
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like one of your shows, like you're always over all
over each other, like you know, you're giving it back
and forth, but you got to keep your mouth shut.
They mess with you at all, like yeah, yeah, not no,
no hazing, but yeah, it's almost every day at some
point there's something.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Yeah, exactly, you gotta kind of watch.
Speaker 10 (27:08):
You put your head on a swivel and you just
like I said, just keep your mouth shut and stave
of away and.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Just like prison man.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Yeah, well that's except you get to leave and you
get money maybe.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Not yea yeah, and you get to hit. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
I don't so one of these I don't want to name.
In one I do want to name. So the one
I do want to name when you finally met what
hero baseball hero of yours while you were playing and
they ended up being as being as cool as.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
You had hoped don mad really yeah, well with it.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
The Yankees at the time, randomly my rookie year.
Speaker 10 (27:40):
Buck Rodgers was our manager for that last year, and
he was like, get a first baseman's glove, And I
was like, all right, said, have you ever played first base?
Speaker 2 (27:46):
I said no.
Speaker 10 (27:47):
I got the glove in like four days later and
went in after the game and he was like, oh, great,
you're playing.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
First base tomorrow.
Speaker 10 (27:53):
Glove out in the box, still like I haven't broken in,
never played first baseball. We played the Yankees a couple
of days later, and it was now half through the season,
and I kind of was spread out like I hit,
you know, and I had already been doing that and
anyways playing first base and John matically gets about a
base hit and comes around and I'm just kind of like,
oh my god. You know, he's standing right there, and
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so I walk around, you know how you walk around
the bag to get to the front of it while
you know you're gonna hold him on. And he looks
at me and goes, hey, kid, And I was like,
how you doing, sir? And he goes, did you see
my Jim Edmonds two strike approach? And I was like,
and you know, I never said anything to him. I
was like, wow, you know, like in my head. And
I told him after I retired, I went and did
a thing with him and I was like, you know,
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you're my idol growing up, and he went on and
on and on, and we were talking about it forever.
But yeah, it's just it was crazy seeing Nolan Ryan
on the mountain.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Really, the face of face is pretty impressive.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
He throw bebes.
Speaker 10 (28:48):
Yeah, Still he's so in ninety four when he's forty
five years old.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Yeah, crazy, his seventh no hitter, Yeah, all of them
were wild, right, But when he's in his forties, still
throwing no hitters, still ninety three, ninety four years Well.
Speaker 10 (29:01):
You know what I think is interesting as I remember
this as a kid, if you still watch it, when
the ball comes out of his hand, it just stays flat,
like straight, like it's almost rising. You don't see guys.
Everybody throws hard now the ball runs. His ball looked
like it just kind of kept going and he had
that extra velocity. The guys just couldn't catch up.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
But I don't want a name on this. But did
you meet anybody and they weren't as cool as you
had hoped? And what's that story without a name? Huh?
And it could be there's nobody And actually everybody in
the world is awesome, not.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
In baseball, not in baseball.
Speaker 11 (29:33):
There are some country music dang it.
Speaker 10 (29:35):
No, yeah, no, you know what every being's I've been
so fortunate for that, and you know I love for
music in Nashville. Now I can't really can I got
to think about this one for a little bit, but
probably not. I think I was more. It was more
I think this is funny because I told my wife this.
One time I met a couple of models and I
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kind of got when I was younger, like almost set up,
and when I went up to say hello, I was like, oh,
this is what you look like like in real life,
Like wow. And I was like after that, I was
like every picture in book I've ever looked that was ruined.
Speaker 11 (30:13):
It's all fake.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Yeah, I mean, oh yeah, they're like wow, They're.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Like you're that good looking.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (30:18):
We didn't expect it to be just makeup to Bobby
is like, this is all you This is it, It's
all you need.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
The All Star Game. As a kid watching the All
Star Game, there was a huge deal because those two
teams never played, you know, before inter League play happened.
It was crazy to watch somebody from the Blue Jays
play somebody from the Guard Walls and I just thought
it was so cool to be at the All Star
Game or to even watch it. Was it As a player,
I know it's an honor. But did you ever just
want the days off?
Speaker 10 (30:43):
Yeah? Yeah, early on loved it. It was so much fun.
It really is a special thing, like and I can
see why some of those guys after their tempting twelfth
All Star Game kind of pull back or say, hey,
I don't really.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
Need to play or whatever.
Speaker 10 (31:00):
I could see why I didn't because I only made
four and I just thought they were special. And the
first one I didn't start, and then I think I started.
I got to start the second and third one, and
then the fourth one I got voted to start or
something not voted to start, but I made the team
and they and started again, and I was like, I
can't turn this down, right, It's it's not just your
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one at bat in the ninth inning. So I love
that part of it. But it's very interesting going in
there and seeing the pictures in the corner and the
players over here, but the names of just the greatest
players in the in that era. Just sitting around talking
everyone's sharing stories was pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Is it a competitive environment at all or is it
a celebration environment.
Speaker 10 (31:40):
Mostly it's a little bit of both. It's just kind
of a business as usual day. But you can see pictures,
especially comparing I remember I.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Forget who it was.
Speaker 10 (31:51):
I think it was like Billy Wagner and maybe like
a another closer, and they were talking about strikeouts and
they're saying, my strikeout numbers are going down, and he said,
get used to it, because everybody gets used to you,
and you got to think of new ways to just
get guys out.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
And strikeouts don't mean anything. You're a closer.
Speaker 10 (32:11):
You're never going to have two thousand strikeouts, so just
get guys out. I thought that was interesting from coming
from a guy through ninety eight from the left side.
I think he was talking to Brad Ledge at the time,
but I just thought the conversations were pretty pretty cool
because there are always experiences and asking each other for
their advice.
Speaker 11 (32:30):
One of my favorite things to see is when someone
gets on base and they're just kind of chatting it up.
They're laughing.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
It's like it's like, oh, I get to see my
old bud.
Speaker 11 (32:37):
I'm playing their.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
Team, Like who was it for you to go play
against and be like, oh, I'm so excited I get
to see this person.
Speaker 10 (32:44):
You know, it's not supposed to be like that, but
it just I think when you play long enough. The
same guys, especially when we played the year's past, when
the division played against each other so many times. Yeah,
you see the same guys eighteen times.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
And if you were a good player, you're on first
base every game. You know.
Speaker 10 (33:02):
There was certain guys just like catchers I would say
hello to and other catchers I would and first baseman's
vice versa. Some guys didn't like to talk, you know.
Some guys would be like, hey, what's up and then
turn around. Some guys like Mike Sweeney for the Royals,
he would talk and talk, talk, talk talk, super nice guy. Uh,
we're just talking.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
You know, has a family whatever. You know when you
if you know, yeah.
Speaker 10 (33:23):
While you're standing up for first base, OKAYT no, no,
but then you're like, I gotta run, dude.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (33:30):
Jason Kendall was funny catching. Every time I said hey, hey, dude,
what's up? He would come up with some off the
wall remark that would just make me laugh. Or I
can't wait too for this one to be over so
I can get a beer, or you know, guys would
say stuff like that, or you know, we would have
little We played each other so many times. Brad Ostmas
one day and was hitting in Houston, and I would
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always try to hit the ball left field.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
In Houston because of that short porch there.
Speaker 10 (33:54):
And they threw me a fastball inside one day and
I kind of like stepped out the way a little
bit just to drag my bat to try to force
it up there. And he just looked up at me
and goes, you're really trying to hit those Crawford boxes,
are you? And I looked down and I go, what
the hell do you think I'm trying to do? Basically like, yeah,
of course I am, like it's right there. And it
was just funny because after playing them for years and
years and years, he finally just said something and I
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was like, caught me off guard. I was like, yeah,
of course I'm trying to hit the Crawford boxes hitting.
You know.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Ted William said he could see the seams. That's very famous.
Think he had visions, so he's a fighter pilot, you know,
his vision was awesome. Well, I was gonna ask, and
I've brought some stuff about you and your vision as well.
Do you feel like do you still have great vision?
Was that your superpower as a hitter?
Speaker 10 (34:37):
I think so. I think you have to see the seams.
You have to recognize pitches. You have to pay attention
enough to get like the different things where you'll see
like certain pitches will slow down on a breaking ball
where you won't see it with your eyes, but you'll
feel it. You'll you'll get the whole vibe of the
motion slow down, and then it'll kind of click in
your head that here comes something else. But yeah, you
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got to see the dot on the slider. You got
to see seams, or you won't know by the time
it comes in and the swing starts. It's enough to
recognize which way the ball is going to go. And
I could see the signs from centerfield. I had twenty
ten vision just like he.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
Did, like a one eye that barely works.
Speaker 7 (35:15):
Like to hear that.
Speaker 10 (35:17):
My son has got twenty ten vision in one eye
and his other eye it's really bad. So he's got
to wear contacts. But you know, I don't think I
told him. I said, if you don't get your eyes down,
then I don't think you can play at that extra
level because of the differences in a fastball, cutter and
a sinker.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
They all just do this, this or this, and it's
all seems.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
What about pictures that would either tip their pitches or
it would just naturally be a tip because you'd seehim
pitch so much and you see the idiosyncrasies of what
they were.
Speaker 10 (35:44):
I was all over that. Yeah, that was probably my
biggest thing. I think I was an overachiever. I learned
early from Eduardo Perez, who learned from his dad obviously
is in the Hall of Fame Tony Press. He taught
me in double A and Triple A, and then we
got to the big leagues and I just picked it
up from there. A lot of the really good hitters
are on that, especially in the nineties and two thousands.
Anybody that was really good knew what was coming who.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Had an odd delivery. Did you ever face ad aoomo?
Speaker 2 (36:10):
Yeah, it was tough to hit because you know he
turns back to you.
Speaker 10 (36:13):
Well, it was really weird. Is because there's two guys
that I had trouble with their change ups. He was one,
and there's a guy named Fernando Rodney. He's been pitching
for a long time. I think he's out of the
game now. He was in Detroit when he went to
the World Series, but they had change ups when.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
They threw him.
Speaker 10 (36:26):
They threw them at you, so you flinched and then
it would just like fade down. Most guys throw a
change up down the middle, so you're going to swing
at it and then it runs off outside. Well he would,
they would hode Onoma's toom think, you throw like a
change up in my head and then you know it's
like you have to flinch right, and then you try
to stay on it because you know by then when
you flinch, you're like, oh, that's a change up, and
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then you just can't recover.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
My struggle with that one.
Speaker 10 (36:50):
And then Fernando Rodney had a good one too, the
same thing, to throw it at you and just come
back for a strike. Most guys are trying to throw
it to look like a strike and have a run
off the plate, and that's, you know, a little bit
easier to deal with, especially left handed.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
What about knuckleball, there's like a wakefield or there's.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
A few, you know, I loved hitting off Wakefield.
Speaker 10 (37:04):
God rest his soul, like he was one of the
best guys in baseball personality wise, competitor, but I used
to kill him and he was like he started throwing
me fastballs.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
Every pitch. Fastball. He was almost like telling me, he
comes fastball.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
What was his fastball? What would be eighty two?
Speaker 10 (37:20):
Eighty yeah, but it looked like ninety five after the knuckleballs.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
And plus it's like.
Speaker 10 (37:24):
This little he had a little short hum because when
he when he threw the knuckleball, you know I was
in here, and then he threw the fastball from the
sane spot. I was like, I was like throwing darts.
But I think I went three for four off from
two games in a row. And after that he started.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
Throwing me fastball.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Was that just generally because you could see the knuckle
I was just.
Speaker 10 (37:40):
Really good at waiting and being My swing was still
left center field. If you try to pull the knuckleball,
you got no chance.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
Did you ever get you're up twenty one to two
and get caught? Did you ever pitch an inning?
Speaker 10 (37:50):
No? It's all I wanted to do in my whole
life because I was a pitcher growing up. I pitched
one time at a ball and I pitched an inning.
I struck out two out of three, and I got
for having the best stuff on our team and kangaroo court,
so I had better arm than most of the pictures
on our team. But I hurt my shoulder in high
school and I was supposed to be a pitcher, like
in the top two rounds, and I tore a muscle
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on my shoulder and I ended up just getting lucky
got drafted because I cold learn how to hit.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
Yeah, I was. I was gonna say that when I
was looking at your where you were drafted, it seemed
to be late, like I don't know seventh th I
don't I don't remember seventh, six or seventh. I maybe
confuse you with Tom Brady, but still not that far down.
But it was the shoulder injury.
Speaker 10 (38:29):
I think it was that, and I think I got
written off as a pitcher, and then they drafted me
as an outfielder, and I think I was kind of
a late.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
Bloomer in that situation.
Speaker 10 (38:39):
And then, you know, some guys told me, well, I
didn't know if you could run, we didn't know if
you're going to be able to keep hitting all these
different things, but we knew you're a good athlete. So
my scout told me after a couple of years later,
and then he ended up passing away kind of halfway through.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
My big league career.
Speaker 10 (38:54):
But yeah, it was just kind of a random well,
when they said I got drafted, I was like, for what, Like,
I had no idea it was going on, because I
knew I was pitch.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
I was a pitcher.
Speaker 1 (39:02):
Yeah, the Cardinals, And this wasn't you want drafted by
Cardinal But the Cardinals had a guy who came up
as a pitcher and then wasn't able to pitch, and
then he came back and played.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
One of my best friends.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
Really yeah, Rick, Yeah, so Rick Ankile, yeah, obviously had
and I don't know if it.
Speaker 10 (39:15):
Was the most incredible fastball curveball I've ever seen. Was
nineteen years old when he came up, and he.
Speaker 1 (39:20):
Went through Arkansas played for the Travelers, the Double A team,
So it was a big deal when he came up
and I went to watch him pitch in Little Rock,
and like, I hated the Cardinals because the Cubs fan
didn't hate the Cardinals. I just hated the rival of
the Cups, right, and everybody in Arkansas is a Cardinals
fan because our Double A team was the minor league
team to the Cardinals. But I went and watched Rick
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Ankile pitch and then I just remember he couldn't throw
it over the plate and he was gone. But then
he came back as hitter. A hitter.
Speaker 10 (39:48):
The only guy. I tell him, you're special. You're the
only guy that made it to the big leagues twice.
He made it to the big leagues as a pitcher
and they made to the big leagues as an outfielder.
Speaker 3 (39:55):
Just such a good athlete.
Speaker 2 (39:56):
Yeah, he was special. He could he could hit.
Speaker 10 (39:58):
When he was pitching team in the big leagues, I
would play first base when market needed a day off
once in a while, three times a year. And I
had some friends that I had grown up with that
were in the league, and they're like, Darryl Kyle had
the best curveball from the right side, and the next
day that Rick and kill would throw and he.
Speaker 2 (40:14):
Was like it was great.
Speaker 10 (40:14):
I faced Daryl Kyle yesterday and now I'm facing Ricky
and Kills in ninety five.
Speaker 2 (40:18):
With the better curveball from the left side.
Speaker 10 (40:20):
And they were like guys would walk and like, man,
thank god I got to first base, like as a joke,
but he was that special.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
If that were Now do you think with of Tawny
showing that his injury, We'll talk about his injury, but
showing you can hit a pitch, do you think they
would have let ank you'll do that now.
Speaker 10 (40:38):
I think he would have had a better chance. But
you know, it's hard because at that stage he was
only hitting every five days and I mean he probably
hit two twenty, two thirty whatever, I don't know, two
fifty pretty good, Yeah, pretty good, But you know, a
couple maybe in his career, maybe a home run or two.
But yeah, I think that you would have to be
(40:58):
a guy that would. I mean, Otani is special because
he's been doing it at that level the whole time.
If he would have come up that way, yeah, he
could have done that.
Speaker 11 (41:07):
What's the living situation? Like when you get traded?
Speaker 3 (41:09):
I've always wondered, you know, like, oh you got to go,
Like do you get an apartment and you just pack up?
Speaker 2 (41:14):
Like's awful?
Speaker 1 (41:15):
What's that process?
Speaker 2 (41:16):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (41:16):
Man, it's I got traded in spring training. So I
went from an apartment just packing my truck and taking
a suitcase to Jupiter and my dad coming and grabbed
my truck and taking it back to Orange County to
coming up here ten days later in Saint Louis and
staying in a hotel and looking for a place to
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stay with no help. You know, they don't listen in
the minor leagues anymore.
Speaker 2 (41:41):
You're a grown man. You're on your own.
Speaker 10 (41:42):
So but yeah, if you get traded in season, sometimes
they'll have somebody like, hey, this is where guys stay, Like,
we have.
Speaker 2 (41:49):
A building here. It's in Clayton.
Speaker 10 (41:52):
It's a high rise that most guys will just go
to if they need to. But yeah, it's It was
brutal because I was about to sign a multi year deal,
so I was looking for a house, staying in a hotel,
playing every day.
Speaker 1 (42:04):
Didn't they also tell you you're not getting traded.
Speaker 2 (42:08):
Like you're not getting told the story to someone the
other day.
Speaker 10 (42:10):
I just did an interview and yeah, I went in
and I said, hey, what well here, you just told
me I was gonna get traded. And our general manager
at the time, he was a was a knucklehead. He said, oh,
I told you weren't getting traded to the Yankees. I
was like, yeah, that's not what you said. But still
to this day, you know, the best thing ever happened
to me. But at the time, it was tough.
Speaker 1 (42:28):
When you come to a culture like Saint Louis and
the Cardinals, do you feel it immediately at the difference
in the fans.
Speaker 2 (42:33):
Interesting immediately right away, It's so interesting. I was pre.
Speaker 10 (42:42):
The Angels and the Red you know, with Artie Marino
and the change of the philosophy and the change of
the culture there. And so I came here first day,
I was like, holy crap, like, what's going on here?
I got a standing ovation spring training. Ten thousand fans
first day, you know. And when we would play against
the Yankees, Red Sox, whoever, a lot more fans and
(43:02):
Anaheim were cheering for them than we're cheering for us.
And you get here, it's just, you know, other than
the Cubs coming into town, there is no cheering for
the other team.
Speaker 1 (43:09):
When you you kind of shot out of a cannon
when this once the season started, right, I just trying
to remember, like I think you bat like three seventy
three eighty the fish, Like, is that just because it
was like a rejuvenation.
Speaker 10 (43:21):
Yeah, I think so small the ballpark was a little
bit smaller rejuvenation. I had spent most of the year
the year before rehabbing because I was hurt, kind of
got myself in really good shape, and so it was
having a good spring training. So when I came to
Saint Louis. I was in really good shape and ready
to go and just happened to work great. I mean,
Tony was you know, he was only was interested about
(43:42):
was winning and helping me get better as a man.
And he would just give me little tidbits here and there,
and it made me really want to.
Speaker 1 (43:49):
Play rivalries real or real on the field. But once
you get off, you realize the fans aren't watching anymore
and you're all professionals.
Speaker 10 (43:58):
Cubs Starley it really early two thousand. I think that
the media made it. I don't think any of the
players really knew anything about it. Like, if you think
about the Cubs in those years, a lot of those
guys were you know, Dempster came from the Marlins. S
deakal Lee was in the Marlins. I think a couple
of homegrown guys. Their catcher was not from their team.
(44:19):
A couple guys came up, but all kind of we
both had a bunch of free agents. But the media
made such a big deal of it. It was like
heated right away. You know, if someone got thrown at
on accident, they would be like it was like a war,
and it was like it kept getting worse and worse
each year, and then finally you know you're like, what
are we doing here?
Speaker 2 (44:39):
The team started.
Speaker 10 (44:40):
Breaking up a little bit and you start playing each
other enough you kind of start be friendly a little bit,
but still on the field. And then Panela and LaRussa
would go at it, so you know, you see all
that stuff. But that kind of turned it up a
notch too.
Speaker 1 (44:52):
So what about whenever you go from playing at Saint
Louis and the next thing you know, you're in the
blue and you're playing for the Cubs.
Speaker 10 (44:57):
That was fun. Then I realized that the rivalry wasn't
that big of a deal. But like I said, that
was kind of at the end when everything was breaking apart,
and I realized that in the locker room it wasn't
as bad as what you think it is because you're
what you read. And then, like I said, and the
teams that were so different at that time. You know,
(45:19):
there was that holiday came here, I was gone. You know,
I ain't kill was there I think for a year.
You know, those kind of things changed. Plus I was
kind of like the intermediate guy. But I had a
blast in Chicago. It was like ten times more fun
than I'd ever thought I could have there.
Speaker 2 (45:36):
I loved it. I wanted to play there the next
year too, and theydn't want me back.
Speaker 1 (45:39):
You were like that because you were so freaking good
in center field, like it, it would really pissed me off,
and I would because you were you were awesome. I mean,
you're the best outfielder that I've ever seen consistently, because
I watched probably eighty five Cups gaming year and a
lot of those were playing the Cardinals. Yeah they were,
and so I would see you. You were the most
dynamic ballplayer that I would have watched consistently. That wasn't
(45:59):
you know, a cub. But even then, we kept broth
with the center fielders and they were fine, that's fine,
but they had no Jim Edmonds. And when you came over,
it was like Calipari now who was coaching at Arkansas,
who was a Kentucky freaking hated him, hated the Kentucky
now's at Aransas. Aw HEA's like my best friend.
Speaker 3 (46:12):
I'm like, let's go.
Speaker 2 (46:13):
I love you. Yeah, It's amazing how it changed it.
Speaker 1 (46:16):
I mean you just changed colors and I was like, Jim,
I love that guy. When you finally had you hung
it up was that difficult decision.
Speaker 10 (46:24):
I blew my achilles out and so I really played.
It was tearing, shredding because of a situation I was
in the middle of with some medicine and the doctor
put some stuff in my achilles that shouldn't have been
in there, and so I was playing through it and
it just was getting to the point I wanted to retire.
Speaker 2 (46:41):
I wanted to quit.
Speaker 10 (46:42):
I wanted to fix it, and they kept talking me
into it Milwaukee, and then yeah, I went to Cincinnati
because our general manager from here went there just he
wanted me to just go help to get in the playoffs.
Played a couple of games and it was so bad
it popped, it wasn't completely torn, and then it finally
got to the point it's like I can't do this anymore.
(47:02):
And then after the season playing baseball with my son
and a tour tour, and so when I had that,
I thought, you know what, I'm probably done. Like I
couldn't imagine having to work at forty forty one years
old to come back from the achilles injury.
Speaker 2 (47:17):
I just didn't know what was about. So I just
kind of might mentally shut it off.
Speaker 4 (47:20):
Does anything hurt now? When the weather gets weird.
Speaker 2 (47:23):
Everything.
Speaker 10 (47:24):
Yeah, I just had my knee replaced about two and
a half months ago. You know, I'm you know, what
I've noticed is I'm getting stiff. I just need to
start stretching and doing more stuff.
Speaker 2 (47:34):
I've been lazy.
Speaker 10 (47:35):
I have my knee replaced, and kind of when you
kind of don't walk around very much and you kind of,
you know, hobble upstairs and crutches and things start to
like tense up a little bit. So I'm on the
mend for that. And now I know, I realized I
have to like do a few things more than normal.
Speaker 1 (47:49):
My final three questions.
Speaker 2 (47:50):
But everything does hurt, yeah, every day.
Speaker 4 (47:51):
Yeah, I mean I don't want to do it.
Speaker 1 (47:53):
I didn't even do anything and.
Speaker 2 (47:54):
I heard I did nothing.
Speaker 11 (47:57):
Jim, what do you miss the most about the game?
Speaker 10 (48:00):
Probably the locker room, the guys, the battles. It's fun,
and it really is. It's fun to go out there
and win. I mean, we were just laughing earlier, how
competitive y'all are. That's kind of fun. You were actually
cheering each other on as you're trying to kill each other.
But that's kind of what it's like. You know, you're
every day with these guys from three o'clock, two o'clock
to midnight. Basically travel with them on the road. You know,
(48:22):
see them morning, you see your family. That's a special bond.
And those guys, some of these guys I still stay
in touch with every day. That'll never go in that's
really cool. I love the competition, so I'm so not
competitive away from the field, but on the field, ultra competitive.
Speaker 2 (48:37):
And so they'll probably those two things.
Speaker 1 (48:39):
That's interesting because I'm not an outgoing person away from
a microphone or a stage, just not an not going person.
But then when it's time to do this, that's what
I do. And I don't know if it's I've become
less outgoing because I do this all the time, or
if I am naturally an introvert and I can just
turn it up. But it is like two different worlds.
And it seems like that's what you're saying what it
(49:00):
was like for you too, because you were competing at
a high level. Yeah, so hyper focused in this one
spot that the rest of the time it wasn't that.
Speaker 2 (49:07):
Yeah, last time, I want to sit on the couch
and do nothing. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (49:10):
Two questions. Do you ever have an airplane scare because
you're traveling a lot like the bad turbul.
Speaker 2 (49:14):
Not a terrible one.
Speaker 10 (49:15):
We had a bad one coming home from spring training
one you're actually landing here in Saint Louis, But never
like the you know, if you didn't have your seat belt,
throw you out of the seat now and never been
diverted yet, knock on wood.
Speaker 11 (49:26):
With all the flights you took, I can't believe it.
Speaker 2 (49:28):
Yeah, think about it every day.
Speaker 11 (49:29):
Did you think while you were, like, Man, we're flying
so much like this?
Speaker 1 (49:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 10 (49:32):
Yeah, your numbers game, yeah, numbers game on hundred percent? Right, Yeah,
I still think about it. You know, when we travel,
I'm like, when we're all traveling together, I'm thinking, Man,
I need to make sure all my papers in order
and make sure nothing goes. I'll play morbid here. Yeah,
welcome to baseball.
Speaker 2 (49:46):
But no, it is true though you're right ready, have
you guys?
Speaker 3 (49:50):
I had a bad one.
Speaker 2 (49:51):
Is this fresh in your mind? Is that? Well?
Speaker 1 (49:53):
We were talking about it in the news. I hate
to fly. I hate flying. I hate flying. And we
were flying down to.
Speaker 11 (49:58):
A show and.
Speaker 1 (50:01):
I have a plane, and so we were flying that
plane and Amy's husband at the time, her EIKE's husband
was a was a pilot and was a you know,
I don't want to get too much of as air force pilot.
And we hit some turbulence boom and he's used to
that crack get to him.
Speaker 3 (50:15):
He was like, this is awesome.
Speaker 1 (50:17):
Oh yeah, I thought we were dead. I thought we're dead. Yeah,
And that was the closest we didn't die. A spoiler,
we didn't die, but that was it. That was the
bad one.
Speaker 2 (50:27):
I got a quick story for you.
Speaker 10 (50:28):
That's funny, you said, I just made me think of
actually one too. I have a friend that raised the
Indy Car and he's a pilot for his family's plane
and he hates to fly, hates to be in the
back seat, hates to go like we go on vacation.
He's like, I don't know if I should take the plane.
So I hates sitting in the back seat, in the
back back like he doesn't want to fly. He calls
it public because he just is so scared of it.
But so, Actually a funny story, Me and my friend
(50:49):
were flying to Kansas City. I bought part of this
company and so we were flying to Kansas City to
meet with someone and we rented a plane to the sky.
We found out was a friend of that guy, and
so he.
Speaker 2 (51:02):
Was flying us there. Everything was perfectly fine. We're like
in a it.
Speaker 10 (51:05):
Was like a new Leer. It was like the last
Lear jet that wasn't a jet it was. It looked
exactly like a nice Leer on the inside, but it
has two props. So we're flying home and we get
about halfway and it's a forty minute flight and all
of a sudden, the engines stall like and.
Speaker 2 (51:22):
You could hear it. And I'm looking at him.
Speaker 10 (51:24):
He's looking at me, and it's like want that little
did And we start to drop a little bit and
we look at him and I'm like, is this it? Like,
you know, like quietly, you're just looking at him, like
what hopefully this think can glide right?
Speaker 2 (51:36):
That's all I can think of.
Speaker 10 (51:37):
And then it's like starts to really start to nose
that have a little bit and then it just goes
takes all and.
Speaker 2 (51:45):
He looks back at us and he goes sorry about that.
He was just testing the reserve fuel. Buddy snapped and
he was like, you couldn't have done that. On the ground.
He's like going off and he was like yelling and
I was like, I was white. I was just like,
are you serious right now?
Speaker 10 (51:59):
Like literally, league turned he went to pull it was
make sure the reserve worked, and it was old gas
with air in the tank, and he was just like
just cruising around board, so let's just check it out.
Speaker 2 (52:09):
And I was like, this is it.
Speaker 1 (52:11):
I don't even like how that made me feel and
that I mean, it was unbelievable. Final question, ever, stay
out way late, having a good time, and then have
to go play a game every day, like.
Speaker 2 (52:22):
Every two hours too many times? Yeah?
Speaker 10 (52:24):
Oh yeah, maybe not two hours of sleep, but definitely
some been some long nights out.
Speaker 1 (52:29):
There on the road, more so than at home because.
Speaker 10 (52:30):
Oh yeah, and then had some really good games, really yeah,
really good games.
Speaker 2 (52:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (52:36):
Maybe that's the key to the show sometimes at all
really drink? I don't, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (52:41):
Maybe I doesn't really drink.
Speaker 1 (52:43):
Yeah, do you enjoy talking about baseball?
Speaker 2 (52:45):
Still? I do?
Speaker 10 (52:46):
What people that that are interested, like in guys like
one of the guys coming out here in a few
minutes to hit I enjoy. You know, my son brings
his high school friends over, but they don't really listen.
Speaker 2 (52:59):
They listen, but they don't but like the Big.
Speaker 10 (53:01):
League or guys, the guys come over from the team,
someone's about to come over now, and then guys like
spend time over here, and I really love listening to
what they say because it's funny that they still don't
really know if they know themselves or if they really
have it all under or but there, or they can't
fix themselves. They need somebody else that's been there, done
that to just say this is what I'm noticing out
(53:22):
of you. Because everyone has a different look and some
people don't look in the same area, Like a lot
of people look here and I look down. Usually it's
the base, the feet, stuff like that, not always the
hands or the head or whatever, and so it's just different.
Speaker 2 (53:36):
I think it's a lot of fun.
Speaker 10 (53:37):
That part's fun in talking with somebody that has knowledge
and loves to talk back and forth and is open
to anything.
Speaker 2 (53:42):
It's cool, but just to talk.
Speaker 1 (53:43):
No, not really, but like nerds like me, and I'm like,
tell me about this.
Speaker 10 (53:48):
Love it, Like I can see that you like it,
and I know that you're a fan, so I obviously
follow you guys and listen to you guys every morning.
But yeah, I think that's cool because I would. I
would do the same to you if I was at
your house else in your studio, I'd like to I
love music and I love the radio stuff. I bother
Kevin all the time, but I think it's cool. You
know my friend Steve that runs Sony Nashville, I love.
(54:12):
I asked him crazy questions all the time and it's
just kind of fun. And I feel the same way.
I'm like, am I bothering you right now?
Speaker 2 (54:17):
Well?
Speaker 1 (54:17):
We really appreciate the time. Yeah, and big fans, and
thanks for having us over there.
Speaker 2 (54:20):
Oh, I love it. Thanks for having all.
Speaker 1 (54:22):
Right, thanks to Jim Edmonds and go over We'll have
a clipper too.
Speaker 4 (54:26):
Up on the twenty five.
Speaker 1 (54:27):
Whistles Instagram page. One of the dumbest bits ever that
Eddie I suggested. We'll get to it right after let's
say quick break.
Speaker 4 (54:36):
Okay, we're back. A couple of things. Bill Walton died. Yeah,
I did not know he had cancer, did you, guys?
I don't know if maybe I just had missed it somewhere.
Speaker 2 (54:44):
No.
Speaker 1 (54:45):
But Bill Walton, who led the UCLA Bruins the two
national titles before winning two championships in the NBA, even
on one in Portland.
Speaker 7 (54:52):
Yeah, seventy seven.
Speaker 4 (54:54):
Good for you for even guessing at that unless you
saw it on this Yeah, I saw.
Speaker 3 (54:57):
Them, Okay, I just he did the stats.
Speaker 4 (55:01):
He died at seventy one after a prolonged battle with cancer.
Some facts.
Speaker 1 (55:05):
Forty four points in the nineteen seventy three championship game
versus Memphis State.
Speaker 4 (55:10):
That's college forty four points, seventy seven to seventy eight,
NBA MVP.
Speaker 1 (55:15):
Two NBA Championships I won with Portland, one with Boston,
and Basketball Hall of Fame in nineteen ninety three. Known
for saying a lot of cool things, funny things, inspiring things,
or me. If I turn it on West Coast Basketball
at two in the morning, he's usually talking about your head.
Here's a compilation of some of Bill Walton's clips from
over the years. I'm not a very good catcher.
Speaker 3 (55:36):
I'm much better at getting high than getting lower.
Speaker 6 (55:38):
I maybe I'll just stripped down right here, Bill is
taking his shirt off. Isn't worrying diodoing? You're taking your
shirt off? Monou Onw's birthday, Kudu. He's the inventor of
the instant noodle, and thank you.
Speaker 2 (55:53):
I love my noodle. It doesn't get any better business.
I just got laid.
Speaker 4 (55:58):
I I have found that must only you help you anyway.
Speaker 6 (56:02):
This is a foam roller with a fight bringer inside.
Speaker 2 (56:05):
So it's fantastic.
Speaker 4 (56:08):
Rest in peace. Bill.
Speaker 1 (56:09):
You can tell how vered he was about the people
that you listen to or you watch a lot talk
about him, because I never met him, but there are
like three or four sports personalities that I know and
follow and listen to, and they talk just.
Speaker 4 (56:19):
So glowingly about him. But yeah, he was always fine.
Speaker 3 (56:22):
He went to like what a thousand grateful Dead concerts?
Speaker 4 (56:25):
Is that what it was?
Speaker 2 (56:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (56:27):
The game the Bridge lose Ronald Cone of Junior to
a torn.
Speaker 3 (56:29):
A cl I feel you, dude, dude, you like, no,
just playing baseball, man, you know, and you get your.
Speaker 1 (56:36):
Injury is comfortable to somebody jam in their toe.
Speaker 3 (56:39):
It's a little more than that.
Speaker 1 (56:41):
Like in the middle of the night boom oh, Like
that's you know, that's basically what you.
Speaker 3 (56:45):
Got when I did google my fractures that some people
do stub their toe and get fractures there.
Speaker 1 (56:49):
Stub though I don't think it's worse than that slam
their tax slam A stub that sucks.
Speaker 4 (56:55):
And that, but this is a slam.
Speaker 3 (56:57):
But Ronald, I feel you do. We're out for a
little bit.
Speaker 1 (57:00):
It's from ESPN. Here's the segment that Eddie suggested, I
fractured my foot working out with the Cardinals. I have
some other worst sports injuries of all time, Joe, thisman
is like fracture. So these are other sports injuries that
Eddie wanted me to talk about, much like.
Speaker 3 (57:14):
His will you put Ronald on that list? To Ronald
Acuna tearing his a c l achilles? What are you
talking his a cl You said a cl then achilles.
I don't know the difference.
Speaker 1 (57:25):
Okay, let's talk about a couple of these. Gordon Hayward's
ankle fraction I was nasty. Oh that was nasty.
Speaker 3 (57:31):
Wait, wait is what's his name in there?
Speaker 2 (57:33):
The George.
Speaker 4 (57:35):
I'm going to get to them. Let's just take a look.
Speaker 1 (57:36):
Si. Then you can put on anybody you don't because
for me, one that would have made the list would
have been the It didn't miss the Frank Gore.
Speaker 4 (57:45):
Did his nego backward?
Speaker 2 (57:46):
Was it Gore? No?
Speaker 1 (57:47):
No, it was that is Miami Willis yeah, mcgay, Yeah,
that's what it was.
Speaker 5 (57:52):
Now in the championship, his hyper extended.
Speaker 1 (57:57):
Gross, I don't want to see that number nine Monica
sell stabbing.
Speaker 3 (58:01):
Yeah, yeah, reports really.
Speaker 4 (58:04):
Because I don't know your ranks on this, Eddie.
Speaker 7 (58:06):
You got stabbed.
Speaker 3 (58:07):
Well, the stab so.
Speaker 4 (58:08):
You can say if you're a better or worse, Like
worse means that yours is.
Speaker 3 (58:11):
Far more, far worse. But but mine's better than the stab. Yeah,
the stabbing is pretty bad.
Speaker 1 (58:17):
Dude, Monic. Remember this, She like sitting on the bench
or whatever and a fan comes over and stabs her
in the back.
Speaker 4 (58:25):
Oh my goodness, sign for two years.
Speaker 2 (58:28):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (58:29):
Yeah, I just walked over and stabbed her, what like
we were teenagers like ninety three.
Speaker 3 (58:34):
Yeah, mine's not that bad, okay.
Speaker 1 (58:37):
Anderson Lilva Silva's leg break, Oh yeah, I've seen the clip.
I wasn't watching this live or anything, but I've seen this.
Oh it's like snaps like snap in the video. Pretty bad. Okay,
you should watch it on camp. You should watch it
right now and we'll get a live reaction.
Speaker 3 (58:52):
Gosh, I don't like watching.
Speaker 1 (58:54):
Here is Eddie watching Anderson Silva's leg break live reaction?
Speaker 12 (59:00):
See old? It is this the UFC.
Speaker 3 (59:11):
Okay, here you go. No, Oh my gosh, I've never
seen that before in my life.
Speaker 2 (59:23):
How did his.
Speaker 3 (59:24):
Legs stay on?
Speaker 4 (59:25):
Bro?
Speaker 3 (59:25):
How did his leg stay Oh? It's bad.
Speaker 7 (59:28):
Oh gosh.
Speaker 3 (59:29):
Now there's a compilation of us. There's a compilation of
a bunch of lug breaks on the in the UFC.
I'm out, I'm out.
Speaker 4 (59:37):
So is your foot injury? How does it compared to that?
Speaker 8 (59:40):
No?
Speaker 3 (59:40):
No, it doesn't come clean, No, not at all.
Speaker 4 (59:43):
Dang red clip that right there?
Speaker 3 (59:48):
Oh my goodness, use that for the video right there?
Speaker 1 (59:53):
Uh tyrone protos like fracture Alabama wide receiver.
Speaker 4 (59:57):
I don't remember that, do you think so? Because you
remember it?
Speaker 3 (01:00:00):
Leg fracture, foot fracture or same thing.
Speaker 4 (01:00:02):
Paul George's leg injury.
Speaker 3 (01:00:03):
So that was terrible, Like I didn't think he'd be
able to walk again.
Speaker 7 (01:00:08):
That was the Olympic thing, right, Yeah, I hardly remember that.
Speaker 3 (01:00:11):
You do remember that?
Speaker 1 (01:00:12):
I kind of knew, but it wasn't in a game,
right It was jurning again, No, that was practicea.
Speaker 3 (01:00:22):
Don't clip this.
Speaker 1 (01:00:23):
NBA star Paul George suffered an open tibbia fibula fracture
during a Team USA scrimmage. Yeah, the injury was severe,
but he made a remarkable recovery.
Speaker 4 (01:00:32):
Yeah, not watching that. Pretty remarkable.
Speaker 1 (01:00:33):
No, Kevin wears leg fracture n CUAA tournament game, Louisville
player Kevin Ware suffered a compound fracture on court incident.
Speaker 4 (01:00:41):
I don't guess I remember that one.
Speaker 8 (01:00:43):
That was like the worst one I've seen because his
bone is just full on out.
Speaker 1 (01:00:46):
Hey read to everybody bo Jackson's hip injury.
Speaker 3 (01:00:53):
Did they show that?
Speaker 4 (01:00:53):
I don't know if it was.
Speaker 1 (01:00:55):
I don't know. I don't know if the all this
list is what you could see. Some of it just
may be things that really sideline. I was reading an
article that Bo Jackson ran a four point.
Speaker 4 (01:01:10):
Think about that.
Speaker 7 (01:01:11):
That's insane?
Speaker 3 (01:01:12):
Is that fast?
Speaker 1 (01:01:13):
Four to two is like the standard of somebody. That's
the fastest you could possibly be, and.
Speaker 3 (01:01:18):
He was huge.
Speaker 4 (01:01:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:01:21):
Clint mal Or Chuck's neck injury nineteen eighty nine, that's
n HL.
Speaker 7 (01:01:26):
I don't even want to watch that.
Speaker 4 (01:01:27):
I don't even know what it is. Eddy years is worse.
Speaker 3 (01:01:28):
Did he die?
Speaker 1 (01:01:29):
I don't, Oh, I don't know. I know he fully recovered,
played two weeks later. You're not gonna be back up
in two weeks?
Speaker 3 (01:01:33):
No, No, dude, they said six to eight weeks. The
years is worse thang.
Speaker 4 (01:01:37):
Alex Smith's leg injury.
Speaker 5 (01:01:39):
Yeah, yeah, oh the same spot as thisman.
Speaker 4 (01:01:43):
Yeah, THI is Mend's number one.
Speaker 1 (01:01:45):
During a Monday night football game, Redskins quarterback Joe thisman
suffered a gruesome like fracture when the Giants linebacker Lawrence
Taylor sacked on. The injury in the Thaisond's career. One
of the most memorable injuries in NFL history. Would you
say that your injury is one of the most memorable?
And too much access history?
Speaker 3 (01:02:00):
I think so too much access history.
Speaker 1 (01:02:02):
Well, the last two episodes, we've had some real issues.
Tore my rotator cuff the last episode.
Speaker 3 (01:02:08):
And you did that playing baseball, right your your's is
baseball to softball. Yeah, I just was throwing a years
of soccer and over. Yeah, it's not good. You know
a little more Major League baseball.
Speaker 4 (01:02:23):
Dude, like you came down on a base I.
Speaker 3 (01:02:26):
Was playing with the Cardinals, Okay, I was playing with
Florida State Softball.
Speaker 2 (01:02:32):
College.
Speaker 1 (01:02:33):
You say college, but yeah, I think that episode will
be up next week. The Cardinals went up now and
today it's the Texas Ranchers pickleball episode, which you'll be
able to see.
Speaker 4 (01:02:44):
It's probably up now on my Instagram. Just go to
mister Bobby Bones.
Speaker 1 (01:02:47):
It's a professional pickball team, which, by the way, my
pickleball court should be up in like two weeks or so.
Speaker 3 (01:02:53):
You guys can play on it.
Speaker 7 (01:02:54):
Let's go.
Speaker 3 (01:02:55):
I watch. I'll sit there and watch for a little bit.
Speaker 7 (01:02:59):
All that workd you can't even use all that one.
Speaker 4 (01:03:01):
I bet you in four weeks you're a plus.
Speaker 3 (01:03:02):
Ready to go now, you know you say that, but
I don't think I want to risk it.
Speaker 1 (01:03:05):
You are the Adrian Peterson of the pinky toe injury.
Speaker 4 (01:03:09):
You're gonna bounce back. You got an expectation on you.
Speaker 3 (01:03:12):
You keep calling it the pinky toe Injine, that's what
that injury. But it's further down the foot. It's like
in the middle of my foot. What's the actual name
of it, evulsion Okay, the evulsion fraction before. Basically what
they said is.
Speaker 4 (01:03:27):
It's like in the metatarsal party or whatever that is.
Speaker 3 (01:03:29):
It's like on the side of my foot, but a
piece of my bone chipped off, Okay, and but it's
still together there with the cartilage or the ligament of
it avulsion.
Speaker 1 (01:03:39):
And I don't want anybody to think that Eddie's going
through something easy. It sucks, But this is when they
can't do anything for you. Just gotta let it heal.
It's a failure of bone in which a slight fragment
is pulled away from.
Speaker 3 (01:03:48):
The main body bone.
Speaker 1 (01:03:51):
They can occur in any area where soft tissues attached
to bone. Yeah, how serious is it? It needs care?
Can I walk on it? You need to wear a
boot for two weeks after your injury. Weeks, that's what
this says, I do. Don't no, no, no, no no no,
this is Google.
Speaker 4 (01:04:09):
Yeah, your dude, it looked awful.
Speaker 7 (01:04:11):
So what happens with working out now for you?
Speaker 2 (01:04:13):
Guys?
Speaker 10 (01:04:14):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (01:04:14):
The trainer says, just focus on upper body. You're to come,
not today, but I am going to come.
Speaker 2 (01:04:19):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (01:04:19):
An avulsion fracture to your foot or ankle may require
a cast or walking boot in rare cases, if the
bone fragment a main bone are too far apart, they
won't fuse naturally, but ninety percent of them they do.
How long does it take to heal these types of fractures?
Usually hell within four to six weeks, six weeks in
the long end. So cool, Yeah, nice, it did look terrible. Yeah,
(01:04:39):
it look like a baseball shoved under his skin. Mike,
can you missed all this?
Speaker 2 (01:04:43):
I saw it.
Speaker 7 (01:04:43):
That was gross.
Speaker 4 (01:04:44):
Yeah, it's gross. I also saw a snake on Eddie's porch.
Speaker 3 (01:04:46):
Dude, what the crap? But it's a it's a rat snake,
so like they're good, they're not venomous. So I didn't
kill it or anything. I was ready to if I
had to, or were you gonna kill it? Like if
it would have had a rattle, for sure it would
have shoveled it. Oh yeah, like we're not risking that.
I agree with that, but my wife is like gallant, gallant,
and I'm like, no, I guess it's a harmless snake.
(01:05:07):
But it was on the fence headed towards my house,
which is crazy. Like if we wouldn't have seen that snake,
where would have gone in the house in the toilet?
That is my worst nightmare.
Speaker 1 (01:05:16):
Simply looking for food or yeah, I mean that's what
all it's doing.
Speaker 4 (01:05:21):
It's either hurt.
Speaker 1 (01:05:22):
If it's coming toward the house where people are, it's
probably looking for food, or it's hurt and it's trying
to get to a place that it feels safe, like
some sort of shelteris type.
Speaker 4 (01:05:31):
Other than that, it's not trying to do.
Speaker 1 (01:05:32):
Anything mean or bad, right, I mean, we take Eller
on this little hiking. I hate going for walks, but
I can go for a hike. It's a hard hike
where you go to the lake. No, it's this hiking.
Speaker 4 (01:05:44):
I don't know. It's pretty hard. It's a mountain or something.
Speaker 3 (01:05:46):
I don't know, go to the mountains.
Speaker 4 (01:05:48):
I don't know where we go, but it's like a two.
Speaker 3 (01:05:50):
And a half mile You're like my kids, they never
know where we are.
Speaker 4 (01:05:52):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:05:53):
But we've done it three times now. In the first
two we got lost, but we figured it out the
last time. But Eller is for sure hound boy, and
she'll she'll almost point, like we had bird dogs back
in the day, and a bird dog just stopping point
and it will not move until you tell it to
move it. It will hold for thirty minutes. But Ella
will kind of semi point. But she'll be on and
she'll see and hear things, and she's like run up
(01:06:16):
a couple of snakes that were right near us. We
wouldn't have seen it had she not seen it.
Speaker 3 (01:06:20):
That's nice, little heads up. Yeah, just keep walking No,
she's like, hey, there's a snake here.
Speaker 4 (01:06:28):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (01:06:28):
My five year old found our snake. He comes, he
came in running.
Speaker 1 (01:06:32):
Having his hand.
Speaker 4 (01:06:34):
He totally was just ad he came in with.
Speaker 1 (01:06:42):
Basketball wise, make your prediction. Now we have to all
the way through, all the way through.
Speaker 3 (01:06:49):
I'm gonna have to go with Boston with a with
a healthy Porzingis. I gotta go Boston. I mean this whole.
Speaker 4 (01:06:56):
But I don't think we can do with this or
without of this.
Speaker 3 (01:06:59):
I think you just kind of he'll be bad, but.
Speaker 1 (01:07:01):
He's not gonna be healthy. You think he's gonna finish.
He hasn't played one single game. Sure you think all
of a sudden he's going to show up play.
Speaker 3 (01:07:07):
Yes, that's what you do in the NBA. Man, Like
you've been playing your whole life.
Speaker 4 (01:07:11):
He doesn't. He's playing his whole life. He still every
third game.
Speaker 3 (01:07:13):
I feel like the Kyrie Glass.
Speaker 1 (01:07:15):
What's his name, doctor Glass, Mike, mister Glass, the last Joe,
the guy from mister Glass and Bruce Willis was the
opposite of him.
Speaker 3 (01:07:27):
Ye, pulp fiction, No, it's just called Glass.
Speaker 1 (01:07:32):
Yeah, but that was the sequel, but the real one
was and the whole time you kind of figure out
that he was unbreakable, That Bruce Willis was unbreakable.
Speaker 3 (01:07:41):
Is that the movie he's called Breakable? Ya figured it out?
Speaker 2 (01:07:45):
I didn't.
Speaker 1 (01:07:45):
I didn't didn't. So, but porzingis doesn't matter in or out.
Just picking a team, get how many game, Let's just
go with the sweep. I mean that's what they do now,
right if they want to, or if they want.
Speaker 3 (01:07:59):
To just sweep.
Speaker 1 (01:07:59):
If they want to, let's go Celtics and four Kevin
Celtics and six. Okay, so I'm gonna go Are you
betting right now?
Speaker 4 (01:08:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:08:08):
Because the Mavericks are plus one eighty five, I'm gonna
go two hundred bucks on the Mavericks to win five seventy.
And I wonder if Minnesota gets in if they'll cancel
that bet.
Speaker 3 (01:08:19):
They will, I'm sure, yeah, you have to, right, I
don't know they have to.
Speaker 1 (01:08:25):
Yeah, a lot of times they'll they'll avoid out a
bet if it's not able to be bet unless it's
plus one eighty five, because there's Minnesota still has a
chance to come back and win.
Speaker 4 (01:08:39):
Okay, I'm taking Dallas or Minnesota.
Speaker 3 (01:08:42):
Are there four people?
Speaker 2 (01:08:43):
No?
Speaker 3 (01:08:43):
Are there three people on the bet? Is Minnesota an
option on that.
Speaker 4 (01:08:46):
There are two options.
Speaker 1 (01:08:47):
There's plus one eighty five Dallas plus one eighty five Minnesota,
So it's got to be either teams at plus.
Speaker 4 (01:08:54):
One eighty five. Yeah, right, who knows either.
Speaker 1 (01:08:57):
Way it's gonna be over anyway, although I don't I
think Minnesota wins this one because they can't have it
just sit empty for nine days.
Speaker 3 (01:09:03):
I've said that the last two games, and like this
they can't. I mean, they got to have it, like
the Pacers, they got to win one.
Speaker 1 (01:09:08):
Nat Well, I think the difference now is there will
be no game until what the sixth next Thursday.
Speaker 8 (01:09:15):
See.
Speaker 3 (01:09:16):
I say that all the time, though, and everyone's like,
are you what are you saying it's fixed? Like, well,
I mean no, but I mean kind of.
Speaker 1 (01:09:21):
Everybody says that stuff all the time. You didn't create conspiracy.
Speaker 3 (01:09:24):
No no, no, no, no no. And what I'm saying is
nobody wants to admit that, like they could have Minnesota
win a game to extend the series or else there'd
be no basketball.
Speaker 4 (01:09:33):
I think a lot of people will admit where there's money, there's.
Speaker 3 (01:09:37):
Nefarious behavior, yes, but that's also saying it's fixed. So
would you know Kevin would say fixed.
Speaker 4 (01:09:45):
I wouldn't say a fix.
Speaker 1 (01:09:47):
I think there can be influence that affects the ending
of a game.
Speaker 3 (01:09:51):
That would be fixed. Lawyer, you're trying to do a
little lawyer terms over.
Speaker 1 (01:09:56):
Here, would be for sure altering the outcome to the favor.
Speaker 4 (01:10:00):
Of the person.
Speaker 3 (01:10:01):
That's the same thing.
Speaker 1 (01:10:03):
No, it's not, because you can all you can influence
the game and still not win it.
Speaker 3 (01:10:06):
Yeah, that's why they would delayed the whistle again. They
did it again last night, Like.
Speaker 7 (01:10:10):
That's the Pacers did everything they could lose those games.
Speaker 3 (01:10:13):
I know, and the reps were also on their sides. Miles, miles.
Speaker 1 (01:10:16):
So let's say the reps, let's say the rest were
trying to extend the game. They did everything they possibly
freaking cold.
Speaker 7 (01:10:21):
And every real loss and they still lost.
Speaker 4 (01:10:22):
So that's not a fix.
Speaker 7 (01:10:23):
So the NBA influenced the game, said, what the hell goes?
Speaker 4 (01:10:27):
Yeah, they're like, hey, we're trying to influence this game.
Speaker 7 (01:10:28):
We shouldn't fix it.
Speaker 3 (01:10:29):
But they're in a meeting right now. What's the problem.
Speaker 4 (01:10:31):
We just couldn't fix it.
Speaker 1 (01:10:32):
Okay, that's it, let's end this thing. Thanks to Jim Edmonds,
we'll have our interview later on in the week with
the pickleball the general manager and the player's pretty fun.
I go watch that episode up on my Instagram, mister
Bobby Bones or let me don't like thirty episodes, just
go over to too Much Access dot com.
Speaker 4 (01:10:48):
And you can see all of the episodes.
Speaker 3 (01:10:51):
Final thoughts, Eddie, Yeah, Jim Edmonds, just thanks man for
reaching out checking on my foot. We're friends now, we
talk all the time. Did he talk to you?
Speaker 4 (01:11:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:11:02):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (01:11:02):
He was like, where do the cicadas go? And I
was like, storm hit, bro, they're hiding from the storm.
Speaker 3 (01:11:06):
I guess the ciccadas go. They kind of did go away.
Speaker 1 (01:11:08):
I don't know if they're back today or wow yea,
and might have got swept by the Celtics too.
Speaker 3 (01:11:12):
I mean, dude, that's all. I've been on cloud nine
because of that. Like Paul Goldschmidt gave me a legiti
hut like a legiti hutu. Dude's so good good to me.
Speaker 7 (01:11:20):
Too massive a tight end or a linebacker.
Speaker 3 (01:11:24):
I'm like, dude, dang and my in laws are in town,
so we watched a bunch of baseball and I'm like, yes,
that's my buddy. Paul A Goldie. I call him Goldie. Yeah,
and they're like, are you serious? Like no, yeah, like
we hung out. They're like, what are you talking about?
How to pull out the videos and everything? Like look,
this is me and Goldie and Bobby. That's me on
second base. They thought I was much cooler after all that.
Speaker 4 (01:11:43):
It is pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (01:11:44):
It's pretty awesome, dude, it's not that cool. Your bat's awesome.
And that's all I thought about when he hit those homers.
I'm like, damn, I was going with that bats. Yeah,
pretty cool man?
Speaker 2 (01:11:55):
Uh uh?
Speaker 9 (01:11:57):
Me and Jim are snapchat buddies? Nice? Pretty cool?
Speaker 3 (01:12:01):
Are you all really snap No?
Speaker 9 (01:12:03):
I didn't add him.
Speaker 8 (01:12:03):
I want to thought, yeah, I said your contact, Jim
Edmonds is on Snapchat.
Speaker 9 (01:12:09):
I got a notification.
Speaker 7 (01:12:10):
I was like, oh, I kind of want to click that.
Speaker 3 (01:12:13):
You should.
Speaker 1 (01:12:13):
That's odd, you know, just I know just I'm not
even on Snapchat either.
Speaker 4 (01:12:18):
Do you still your Snapchat?
Speaker 8 (01:12:19):
I literally snapchat Maddie and Stone. That is.
Speaker 2 (01:12:25):
Kevin.
Speaker 1 (01:12:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:12:27):
I know they still got one more series ago, but
you know, Celtics get it done. All the haters. Keep
Payton said, they're not gonna be that good. They're not
gonna beat everybody. And here they are in the finals. Now,
you know they've been the best team all year. They're
gonna prove it again in the finals. So we got
nine days, which kind of sucks. But my thing is
when is when did camps open late July?
Speaker 3 (01:12:49):
Summer camps?
Speaker 4 (01:12:51):
No, not for the kids NFL like.
Speaker 3 (01:12:53):
They're happening now, dude, they're rolling late July? Is we
have a while?
Speaker 2 (01:13:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:13:03):
So like two months? Huh?
Speaker 1 (01:13:05):
Like almost two months? Okay, dang, I was really I
was really hyped it was going to be earlier than that.
I was ready to go start doing some too much
access for the football, but we kind of can't.
Speaker 3 (01:13:17):
We can't and my foot just give it, give it
a couple of weeks to heal and then we can
start doing drills again. Well you could be a part
of the interviews. Oh yeah, I know, I'm just saying,
like I want.
Speaker 5 (01:13:26):
By the way, his foot is just he got barefoot
rocking back here, his booted off.
Speaker 3 (01:13:31):
It's really swollen. It's still swollen.
Speaker 4 (01:13:33):
I'm sorry, buddy, like that guy on the plane right now.
Speaker 3 (01:13:35):
I did tell Kevin that, I mean I have to
go to the orthopedic to go check up on it,
because like all I have is urgent care and they
took X rays and that's what they said. But I
really can't move my outer toes, so I don't know.
Ligament damage is part of it.
Speaker 4 (01:13:49):
You keep saying that like you're wishing it.
Speaker 3 (01:13:51):
I'm not. I really wish that that's not the case,
because if it is the case, I mean, you may
have to have surgery for that, right I did. Yeah,
And I don't want to do that because that was
really Yeah.
Speaker 8 (01:14:00):
I don't know what the ligaments called, but mine was
like towards my ankle.
Speaker 9 (01:14:04):
I just came down wrong in a basketball game.
Speaker 4 (01:14:05):
And just rolled it in toward the ligaments. I had
to have surgery. Really, how long were you out after that?
Speaker 3 (01:14:11):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (01:14:11):
Shoot, probably, like he's still out four months. I've been
out for six years. I know, four months. Mm hmm, Eddie,
maybe retiring from too much access.
Speaker 8 (01:14:20):
I missed so much school, not because of that, but
like I lived kind of right off campus to where
they don't have like the little trolley things that can
come pick you up if you're on crutches or.
Speaker 3 (01:14:30):
You're in San Francisco.
Speaker 9 (01:14:31):
Yeah, I know pretty much.
Speaker 8 (01:14:32):
And I was like, I'm not walking, like I can't
I'm not going to crutch a mile down the road
and I can't.
Speaker 3 (01:14:37):
I can't.
Speaker 4 (01:14:38):
So you didn't go to school.
Speaker 7 (01:14:39):
I just didn't go nice.
Speaker 8 (01:14:40):
What about a wheelchair, I will there wasn't really a
sidewalk kind of be wheeling down the road.
Speaker 7 (01:14:46):
One of those like scooter things that you put your
knee on.
Speaker 8 (01:14:48):
I had that, but I was like, I don't want
to sounds like there were a lot of ways you
could have gone to class.
Speaker 9 (01:14:52):
Right A mile a mile to get to close.
Speaker 4 (01:14:55):
You don't even know that that's true. You could be exaggerating.
Speaker 9 (01:14:57):
No, it was a mile. It was like right on
the line where they can't come pick me up.
Speaker 1 (01:15:01):
We're done, goodbye, everybody, We'll see you later on this week.
We think, all right, goodbye.
Speaker 3 (01:15:08):
Oh here, hold on hold, oh my god.
Speaker 10 (01:15:11):
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