March 4, 2024 • 41 mins
From the crack of the bat at Coors Field to the hushed anticipation of a ninth-inning pitch, the love of baseball runs deep in my family—especially for my sister Krista, the Colorado Rockies' superfan who joins me in this special episode. We take you on a nostalgic journey, reminiscing about the days of spring training autograph hunts and the electric atmosphere of the Rockies' MLB debut. Krista's vivid recollection of Eric Young's legendary home run serves as a touchstone for our shared baseball passion, illustrating how those formative moments can spark a lifetime of devotion.
Baseball is more than just a game; it's about the community, the early morning encounters with players at spring training, and the personal connections that turn fans into family. In this episode, Krista recounts her evolution from cheering in the stands to orchestrating the game's timing as a field timing coordinator at Coors Field. Her story is a testament to turning your childhood dream into a career without losing the spark of fandom, even when you're scoring the game from the press box.
Finally, we bring you a playful twist on player appreciation by constructing our ultimate Rockies lineup and, for a dash of reality TV flair, matching Rockies players with Bachelors based on first names. It's a quirky blend of sports trivia and "The Bachelor" fandom that's sure to entertain. If you're a fan of heartening stories, baseball lore, and a bit of good-natured competition, this episode hits a grand slam of memories, laughs, and unwavering loyalty to the team that's won our hearts.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Alright, everyone, welcome back to Pain them From
afar, which turns out is asomewhat special episode today.
I've been saving this interviewtill baseball season was about
to start back up, and it is thebiggest baseball fan I know, who
also happens to be my youngersister.
So welcome, krista, hey thanks.
(00:23):
Yeah, I didn't really talk toyou about this and I didn't know
if you were wondering if youwere ever going to get to be on
the podcast, but in my mind Iwas always planning on it being
around baseball season, so Iguess I could have communicated
that and actually told you that.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Yeah, no, no, that's good.
I wasn't sure, since I'm reallynot like afar from my love of
my team.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
You've stayed loyal to all our hometown teams.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Yes, that's true.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
But I had to get you going for baseball season and
spring training is just aroundthe corner and we happen to be
sitting in our parents' basementin our family.
Hobby when we're growing up wasgoing to spring training and
just really going anywhere wherewe could try and collect
autographs.
So we are surrounded byinspiration today, so I'm hoping
(01:07):
you have stories that go alongwith all these pictures
surrounding us today.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Yes, probably too many that most people want to
hear, but I think that's good.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
I got lots.
In fact, in one of our gamesyou earn a bonus point for a
bonus story.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Oh, yes, so stay tuned.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
So, just like with all my other podcasts, I kind of
want to start out with yourorigin story, which in this case
, is kind of unusual because Iwas there for it and I probably
know it, but I want you to shareit with all our millions of
listeners who don't know yourorigin story, about how you
became the biggest fan of theColorado Rockies.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Okay, well, thank you for that accolade.
I would.
I'd like to think I was thebiggest fan of the Rockies too.
So I think it all started when,obviously, the Rockies became a
team in 1993.
And I was just about nine yearsold, basically, and I didn't
(02:07):
really know a whole lot aboutbaseball in general.
I didn't really know what toexpect about having a major
league team.
But I do remember you beingexcited about it, and so most of
the things that you wereexcited about I was also excited
about Because I was so cool.
Exactly.
And then I specificallyremember coming home from school
(02:29):
and you had opening day on thetelevision, I believe, and I
think.
Yeah, I think the game was liveat that point because it was an
afternoon game, but I remember.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Can I give you some details?
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
If I'm remembering correctly, I think I was in I
guess I would have been in sixthgrade and we had just got home
from outdoor lab and it was thehome opener and obviously
there's a cool story about thevery first batter of the home
opener.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Yep for sure.
Yeah, that's.
I was thinking outdoor lab hadsomething to do with it, because
I wasn't sure if you missed itor if you were just getting home
.
But yes, that that makes sense.
So I was watching the game withyou and then players come up
that I don't know who they are.
So I'm like, all right, I gotto find a favorite player, let's
see who speaks to me here.
And then a guy by the name ofEric Young comes up and hits a
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home run to start the game.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Right, yeah, he was the lead off, it was the very
first hitter of the Rockies,whole whole thing.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
He hits a home run.
The announcer just had a really, really cool like it's mile
high and out of here type ofsaying and I think ever since
that moment I was like, oh, thisis fun, Like I like him, he
became my favorite player and itkind of just took off in a ball
of fury from there on.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Yes, that's one way to describe your fan chip.
I would agree with that A ballof fury.
And you stayed loyal to him.
He was your favorite playertill he left the team, basically
.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Yep, yep.
There was a few times where,yeah, he was my favorite player
Back in the day.
It was hard to get jerseys.
They either didn't make them ofwho I wanted or whatnot, and
I'm sure I'll speak about thatanother time too but he was the
first jersey I wanted, and so Iremember going to like make a
Rockies jersey and it had number21, young on the back and I
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wore that thing like crazy.
I remember a couple of times hegot hurt and I cry in my room
and didn't want to come out, andthen, of course, when he got
traded and it was also upset too, so that was yeah you had that
emotional attachment to theplayers.
Definitely definitely started ata young age there, Yep.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Now I remember that first team.
It was just such a big deal toget a team like and obviously we
were right around the right ageto really get hooked in and
with baseball being on every dayduring the summer, it was just
perfect Like we literallywatched every single game and
loved all those players andthought they were so great, even
though most of them areprobably barely major league
(05:19):
talent.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
But it was still great, it was fun yeah, it was.
And then, like you mentionedtoo, with, like, the autographs,
I think dad took us to get afew of those original Rockies
autographs the very first year,david, need I remember?
A few of those people and thatjust kind of kind of reeled me
in, I would say, with that wholething and just becoming a super
fan.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
And it was perfect too, just because it was so fun
to go to the games.
It was just like I said, itkind of gave us something to do
during the summer, but we hadnever experienced anything like
it before, so it was also brandnew.
So it was just like all theseperfect coincidences that just
happened to be like okay, well,you guys are going to be
baseball fans.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Yep, exactly, yeah, it was good yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
So how do you think your fandom grew as you became,
like middle school, high school,the Rockies have been around
for a while, but like, obviouslyI think you became more and
more of a fan, even though youwere obviously a very big fan
right from the beginning.
But like, how do you, how doyou think were there any
instances or players that reallykind of jumped you up a level
(06:22):
and you just became, went from afan to a fanatic?
Speaker 2 (06:26):
I think the obvious answer there is when we started
to go to spring training.
That would have been 1996, Ibelieve was the first year we
went down there and it was oneof those things where I was.
I was a big Rockies fan andwhatnot, but our spring breaks
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at that age usually consisted ofDisneyland or San Diego or
something like that, and that Iremember mom and dad saying,
well, we're gonna.
Or Las Vegas because we alsowent there a lot, which was
strange as children but mom anddad saying we're gonna go to
spring training and watch theRockies practice and instead of
going to one of those places andI was kind of bummed and I was
(07:11):
like, oh man, like those are myother favorite places.
But then I walk into it wasTucson, arizona back then, and
it was like all of my dreamscame true and one in one place
they had baseball and I hadcactus and I didn't realize like
how cool spring training was atthat point, where you can get
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so close to the players, you canget autographs so much easier.
You could just get to watchthem in there like true element
it was nice to get out of cold.
Yes, for sure.
It was a perfect time of yearto go down there and so, yeah,
that's first spring trainingtrip.
I remember we got tons ofautographs and my thing also is
getting pictures with theplayers.
So then you kind of get to knowthem and they kind of start to
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remember you.
And that was the beginning ofit.
For me was like, alright,spring training is the coolest
place ever, and now I just can'twait for well you, you had a
good streak going where.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
How many years in a row did you go to spring
training from that first year?
Speaker 2 (08:09):
I believe it was I want to say like 17 or 18 years
yeah, I knew it was somethingcrazy yeah, I didn't.
I went every single year until,I think, one of my last years
in college when I didn't get togo, and then I missed one year
and then now have been backevery year since again.
So I think I've been down thereprobably about 26 years now
(08:33):
total.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Man, that's awesome, yeah and you mentioned the, the
pictures of like.
You were always really goodabout getting pictures with the
players and then you started anice little cycle where you
would get a picture of theplayer and then bring it back
the next year to get them toautograph that picture, and then
get a new picture and then kindof keep it going, yeah like you
said, they really did start toremember you yeah, I think and
(08:55):
that makes it more fun too,because the players know that
I'm not there to sell theautographs oh there, for any
money things at all.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
I really just enjoy meeting them and and getting to
kind of see who they are as aperson and not just a player.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
And yeah, it was really fun getting to see they
would comment on how differentthey looked from last year to
the next year, and I would too,and so it was just a really cool
relationship yeah, that'salways fun because you could
tell it really disarmed themlike I guess I would kind of get
that just being around youbecause they knew, oh, I'm just
with Krista, so I'm okay to signfor as well, because there was
(09:32):
a lot of guys my age or a littlebit older that were definitely
trying to just sell stuff yeah,they're having like a whole case
of baseball like oh here
Speaker 2 (09:40):
sign on the sweet spot yeah, okay, how much you
can sell that for?
Speaker 1 (09:42):
yeah so it was.
It was nice for all of us thatyou became friends with all of
them.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Yeah, yeah, it was, yeah, favorite favorite vacation
spot, for sure, but yeah, Ithink just spring training in
general is like the coolestplace ever if you're a baseball
fan to go.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
So can you describe maybe like a typical day for you
in spring training, because itI think you kind of have it down
to a science.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
I did.
Yes, it's back in Tucson.
It was like I would make dadand either you or sometimes
Sarah get up really early whileit was still dark, and we would
head to the park this wouldprobably be like 6, 30 am, maybe
7 and head to the park wherethe players would park their
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cars and we would pretty muchjust be waiting there for them
as they walk into their day oftraining not creepy at all yeah,
you know it looks sounds alittle stalkerish when I look
back at it, but for the mostpart they they didn't seem to
mind, and that's when we wouldget to talk to them and say hi,
whatnot?
and they were always very goodabout it.
(10:51):
I would say 90% of them oh yeahso, yeah, we would kind of start
our morning nice and early withthat, and then a lot of the
times we wouldn't even stay forthat game.
We would go back and then swimand do like kind of more non
baseball related activities andthen go back to the park to
occasionally, but for the mostpart, we would wake up and do
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that morning autograph pictureroutine every day that we were
down there for four or five daysin a row and then get a couple
games in, and then we wouldalways look forward to going out
to dinner afterwards, becausethen sometimes we would see
players at dinner and we havestayed in the team hotel a few
times and then we would playpool and ping pong with them too
, for them with the minorleaguers, and so that was really
(11:36):
cool, because then you got tomeet some of the up-and-coming
people that nobody knows of soyou started making friends with
them real early yeah, yeah, soit was definitely.
I think I had an advantagebecause I was at that time
probably just a teenage girl, so, like you said, nothing really
threatening and they reallycouldn't say no to me too much
(11:56):
some of those guys probably hadnever had like real fans before,
so in a way they probably justyep, that was fun.
That's true.
I think a lot of them actuallydid appreciate and they would
constantly, constantly tell melike, hey, thanks for all your
support.
Or they would actually try togive me their jerseys and balls
and hats and whatever.
So it was just like one ofthose nice things where I never
felt like I was like overbearingand never tried to be like too
(12:19):
much, but just enough, where itwas like, hey, they know who I
am, I'll get a non-agraferpicture, they'll be nice to me
in return and I'll wear yourjersey and support you and that
type of thing.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
So yeah, it was really a fun hobby and, kind of
like you said, the actual gamesof spring training were far down
the list of priorities for usyeah we would kind of get the
autographs done in the morningand then just kind of have great
family time the rest of the day.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
I said it was really fun.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
It was worth waking up early and doing that exactly.
I thought so too I think mostpeople would trade that
experience.
But if they went to the gamethey would love to like meet and
talk to a player and we justhappen to know like a way around
that and just being able to dothat first thing in the morning.
Yeah, they were like you said.
They were always really nice andit would take us a back
sometimes whenever there was aplayer that was kind of grumpy
(13:06):
or didn't want to, but likelooking back on it, they don't
owe us anything like who knowswhat they were dealing with at
the time, like their careercould have been on the line if
they didn't do well that day orsomething.
And we're like please sign ourball.
And so it's like get out ofhere, kid yeah, but.
I would say yeah for the vastmajority.
They were great yeah for sure.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Yeah, I loved, loved it very much and it did change a
little bit once they moved toScottsdale, became a bigger city
and a bigger stadium andstarted to have a little more
security and things like that.
So Tucson was definitely likethe glory days, I would say with
that.
But I also got older and kindof grew out of the fan girling a
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little bit as well.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
So it worked out just fine yeah, what about While you
were back in Denver and like,just say, watching the games or
going to the games, how, howdoes your fandom kind of grow or
change over the years for that?
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Um, I think it it.
It was very, very Strong andconsistent.
I think I was definitely thebiggest Rockies fan I knew.
Probably Growing up all throughhigh school.
Everybody kind of wouldconsider me that as well.
(14:20):
I also went to every openingday possible.
I think that streak is actuallystill active, that I haven't
missed an opening day.
But my first one wasn't until Ithink it was 97.
I believe it was a year afterwe went to spring training you
slacker.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Why did you even bring that up?
That's, that's only like 26years.
Who cares?
Speaker 2 (14:45):
So yeah, I don't that's.
I think it was just one ofthose things where I'm like, all
right, well, this is my passion, this is my love, I'm not
missing opening day.
I had, excuse me, I had a lotof like ticket packages, for
they had a thing called ladiesfan club and I would be a part
of that and we would sharepartial season tickets and then
I would just buy tickets andluckily they've never been super
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expensive because we haven'tbeen really good.
So it's just one of thosethings where I just go to as
many games as possible and hopethat someone wants to tag along
and go with Me and if not, whocares?
Speaker 1 (15:17):
It's their loss.
The World Series team sticksout.
To me, that was obviously ourbest team.
Who made it the farthest?
Does that team stick out as aslike maybe the season in your
mind, or was there other Teamsthat maybe you just like were
super attached to that?
Stick out even more than theWorld Series team.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
I would say actually the World Series team and run.
I I think I could Name themfrom you know, top to bottom if
I saw a team roster, or evenwithout a team roster, I
probably could name a lot ofthem.
So that team was definitelymemorable, best team We've had.
But if you're asking, like myfavorite most memorable team or
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year or whatever, it's actuallyprobably like the 2005 Rockies,
where it was a completeRebuilding year.
They called them Todd and thetoddlers.
Oh yeah, cuz it was basicallyTodd Helden was the only veteran
.
And then that's when a few ofmy favorite players that I had
met at spring training ClintBarmas, you Baldo, corey
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Sullivan, like those guys wereall Coming and like just making
their major league appearance ormajor league debuts and
starting to become more Everydayplayers.
And so I was super excitedbecause it was all these guys
that I'd been watching in springtraining Into minor leagues for
about five years and nowthey're all finally in the big
leagues.
So I felt like it was likealright, like my, my time wasn't
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wasted, type of thing.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
So I could see that cuz.
Yeah, like you said, you hadpersonal connections with those
guys and kind of saw them rising.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Yeah, I watched them grow.
Yeah, I get that.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
And then, of course, you mentioned Todd.
He was one of our favoriteplayers Growing up for both of
us and just got the word thathe's gonna be inducted into Hall
of Fame yes.
So of course, you already haveyour Reservations in Cooper's
town that you're gonna go see?
You yes.
So again, if anyone had anydoubts, she is the biggest
Rockies fan in the world.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
I went to the Hall of Fame induction party at the DN
VR bar and we watched it.
We actually showed up like fivehours early just because I
wanted to make sure I got atable and they announced his
name and I was just like youwould have thought we just won
the World Series or a Super Bowlor something huge.
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And then about 10 seconds later, dad texted me a couple of our
pictures that we had gotten withTodd at spring training and I
just started crying and I waslike, oh my gosh, this is, this
is crazy, and I'm a little bitcrazy as well, but this is
really cool.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
It is fun, though we we literally saw his whole
career, and it's special becausenot only was he really good,
but the fact that he spent theentire career in Denver like he
was a leader, best player, justeverything you could ask for out
of a player, so it's it'spretty fun.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Yeah, see him get rewarded for that.
Yeah, I think, and Between likemyself and mom and dad and
whatnot, I've always said likethis is this is our only chance
at a Hall of Famer that I knowof in a lot of years.
So even when he was 10, 15years ago, I said if he ever
makes the Hall of Fame, I needto be there like this.
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This is a special player forsure.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
So yeah, the fact that Larry Walker already got in
and now Helton, I don't thinkthe Rockies are gonna have
anybody get inducted for quite awhile.
Well, Nolan, but I don't evenknow if he'll go in as a Rocky
after we were just like shippinghim out for a bag of beans.
No so let's talk about your jobwith the Rockies now, or
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technically MLB.
So you are kind of getting tolive out the dream and get paid
To watch the Rockies.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Can you tell the listeners of what you do?
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Yeah, kind of took my Famed them to a whole different
level a little bit.
But yeah, basically about nineyears ago Dad worked in guest
relations at Coorsfield and heworked in the press box for a
while and of course he likes totalk to everybody, which is good
, and he had talked to a few ofthe Original people that did
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this job and told them hey, ifyou guys ever need somebody else
, my daughter loves baseball,she's she would be great at
whatever you want to do.
And so he ended up getting myname into the the bucket a
little bit and I got a call frommy now boss basically asking if
I wanted to do a thing calledthe pitch clock, pitch timing.
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Let's see what now it's calledthe pitch clock, but at that
time it was do you actually workthere?
At that time it's called fieldtiming coordinator, so.
But yeah, so I started withthat and yeah, I basically get
paid to watch the game that Ilove and sit in the press box
and get to Be like a part of thegame, basically, and it's, it's
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super, super cool.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
I think it's awesome, like how many years you've been
doing it now.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
This will be my ninth season, wow, so yeah it's.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
It's been fun just to see that position evolve, but
also just the fact that you'vebeen able to make it work with
your Life and just making it,yeah, something that you get to
do, like how many baseball fanswould kill to do that.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
It's pretty awesome, yeah, it's, it's been awesome.
It's it kind of I Put things inperspective a little bit
because, yeah, since I wasalways such a huge fan and Then
I get this job and it really wasa dream come true.
But they said one of the firstthings like you can't cheer when
you're in the press box, youcan't show allegiance to any
team.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
That is the hardest part, for sure.
I've gotten used to it, butit's still like super, super
hard to.
I have to sit on my hands likefew times and not clap.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Well, like you said too, they haven't really been
great the last couple years, soat least that helps cut down on
the opportunities.
Yeah, he was needed to, but Ithink it's awesome and it's it's
just been so fun.
We started out so young withthe team, just to See you grow
up as a baseball fan and reallynever let it go.
I've I've faded out since Imoved to Florida and just it's.
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It's hard to keep track of theteam, especially when they're
not that great and I don't havethe personal connection with any
of the players, but, likeyou've been strong.
Yeah the whole time and it'sjust fun to see and everyone's
always shocked.
It's like, oh, who's thebiggest baseball fan you know?
I'm like, oh, that's my.
Yes, I know, it's crazy.
Yeah people still are shockedthat girls can be baseball fans.
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It's a.
It's been impressive just tosee your amount of knowledge and
passion for the game.
Like it's fun.
But yeah.
I think things that you loveyou shouldn't be ashamed of
exactly.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Yeah, no, I, I don't think there really was a time
where I ever, like, tried tohold back on my Enthusiasm or
love either cuz, yeah, I thinkit is one of those things where
it's like, oh, girls don't knowthat much about sports, or if
you do, then you're not cool, orwhatever.
But I never really felt like Iever had to change myself or who
I was.
I was like nope, this is, thisis who I love, this is what I
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love doing, and I think it'salways just been a big part of
me.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
So that's awesome.
Yeah, well, should we play somegames to make you think about
the players in?
Ways You've never thought aboutthem before.
I'm excited.
All right, all right.
So the first game I want toplay with you Is my starting
nine game, so I just want you tomake your starting nine.
So that means you have to fillin each position around the
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diamond in one pitcher, and itdoesn't have to be who you think
is the best players.
I just want to know yourfavorites, because I know you
have plenty of favorites, butit'll be interesting to see you
make decisions at certainpositions.
So let's start with theoutfield.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Who.
This is tough.
Okay, the outfield is hard.
I've, I've, oh.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Oh, so I thought the infield was gonna be harder for
you.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Well, I mean, actually that's what I'm
thinking, like the infield ishard because I have so many, but
the outfield, like I Don'treally have anybody that stands
out too much, that I like, havereally liked in the outfield.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Oh, I got you, so it's harder for a different
reason.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Yeah, there's like, there's people that I like,
obviously, but I'm gonna SayBrad hop.
Okay because he was just super,super nice, one of those like
2005 in the toddler guys.
Um, I Think I need to putCharlie Blackman out there
because he's been around forever, also has always been a cool
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guy and he's just super uniqueand he loves the game.
So Charlie's out there and mythird out fielder man that's.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
I guess, now that I'm thinking about it, so many of
your favorite players have beeninfield.
Yeah, they really have.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
So I Probably just have to go.
Cory Sullivan, just cuz he'sbeen around forever and now I
Get to see him in the press boxand we still say hi and talk and
whatever.
So I'm gonna go with Cory, cuzhe's an OG.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
I'll take it All right Now.
Now we're getting tougher.
Well, actually, let's go withan easy one pitcher.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
You baldo.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
I figured now the infield first base is Todd
Hilton.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
No obviously Shortstop is Trevor story oh.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Interesting you went right to shortstop.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Trevor was the top.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Yeah, interesting, I do.
I do love Trevor.
Third base is probably I knowit's also not a very popular
pick but Garrett Atkins.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Okay, I was still expecting Nolan.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
No, I wasn't ever a huge Nolan fan, even though he
was great and I love watchinghim play.
He was just one of those thatfor some reason just never
really spoke to me, not likeliterally, but like I just he's
just not up in my top fave.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Because I know for a fact that you did speak to him
personally because you gotEvelyn a autograph ball.
That's true.
You went to the game in.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Atlanta.
Yes, he did so.
Yeah, no, he's.
He has been nice a couple timesthat I've actually met him, so
nothing against that at all, butI'm just going to go with
Garrett Atkins.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
That's fine.
He was right during that erawhere we were like obsessed with
the team.
Yeah, I think that's my problem.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
I'm just kind of stuck in 2005 apparently.
And then second base.
I got to put Clint Barmas therebecause he probably should have
been a shortstop top, but Ifeel like he played second a lot
as well and he has to be in myend goal.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
I forgot about that.
I'll allow it because he didactually play second base.
But yeah, I thought the bigdecision was going to be between
Trevor and Clint, but you wereable to get him both in, so good
for you.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Thank you, catcher.
Catcher is going to be BenPetrick.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Oh nice.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Yep, he was a very awesome person.
From spring training for thefirst he was actually one that
you had told me about.
I remember, like one of thefirst spring trainings, that he
was supposed to be one of ourtop prospects.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
I was just thinking about him and then I met him and
then it was one that we endedup kind of following him for the
next like 10 years basically.
So Ben Petrick is my catcherand yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
You can add in a relief picture if you really
want to, but you don't have to.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Curtis Laskanek.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Oh, really, yeah, okay, he was awesome, very good
Loved him.
He was old school.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
I know, yeah, he was fun to watch and a fun fun guy
too.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
I remember we went to his autograph signing at some
store and he was having all thepeople that came to get his
autograph sign his what's itcalled Tablecloth.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Oh, really that's cool.
I don't remember that.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
I always thought that was cool, because younger me
was like, oh, he's probablygoing to hang that up, but like
he probably threw that awayright away.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
But it was just something to talk about.
Yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
That's good.
I like that you stepped aroundthe landmine of Clint and Trevor
by having them both play.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Yeah, I'll accept it.
Okay, I mean honorable mention.
Probably I got to put an A-fiPerez in there at some point too
, but he was also shortstop sothere's just no room.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Yep, you've always liked the shortstop I've always
liked shortstops.
Hey everyone, this is Brian.
For the first time ever, wehave a live update for our
podcast guest.
Krista thought about it alittle bit more after we got
done recording and she realizedthat she forgot some of her
all-time favorite players in herstarting nine.
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So I wanted to correct thatright here, right now and give
you her actual answers after shethought about it just a little
bit more.
So in left field she actuallyhas Ryan Spilburgs, which I
always just called Spilly, andhe was a fan favorite.
Krista definitely was a huge fanof his and I think she actually
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gets to work with him quite abit at Coors Field now in center
, charlie Blackman and then inright field Brad Hopp.
And then another change shewanted to make was her third
baseman is Jeff Baker, which Ithink Jeff was one of the guys
that she got to know at springtraining.
He was definitely a big timeprospect that we all kind of had
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big hopes for.
I remember him being a solidplayer, but I also remember
Krista being a huge fan of JeffBaker and other than that she
stuck with everybody else.
She had Trevor Storie at short,clinton Barmus at second, todd
at first, ben Petrick as hercatcher and Ybaldo as her
pitcher.
So that is the update and wewill get back to the episode Now
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.
Bonus question how many ofthose starting nine did you have
a jersey for?
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Let's see, I just had well, I had about four Clint
Barmus jerseys.
The first one I ordered wascame in.
Spelled incorrectly.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
He did have a funny name.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
It was Barnes instead of Barmus.
And then I got three more afterthat.
I had a Ybaldo jersey and I hada two or three Trevor Storie
jerseys actually as well.
So just three.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Oh, really None of those outfielders, uh-uh and
Garrett.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
No, no, interesting.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Now, who were you most upset with when they got
traded or cut?
Speaker 2 (29:59):
I would say the Clint Barmus trade hit me the hardest
because he was my favorite forso long.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Yeah, so he was kind of the peak of your obsessed
fandom.
Yep, yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
And we were like pretty good friends.
He was friends with the wholefamily at that point too.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Yeah, he legit knew who you were and you guys would
have conversations.
It wasn't just like herecognized your face, he knew
you.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Yeah, and he was great to everybody.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Do you remember who he got traded for?
Did we get anything good?
Speaker 2 (30:35):
You know, I don't remember.
I don't feel like we've gottenanybody good for any of the
trades of my favorite players.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Shocking what the Rockies do so well in trades
what?
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Yeah, no, I cannot remember who we got for him, but
I usually don't like the personthat we get in the trade for,
whoever they are, so I think Itry to just block them out of my
memory Exceptible, totally, nottheir fault at all.
But you know that's my grudgethat I hold and stick to it.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
So you named your top nine favorite players, and
another thing that I know aboutyou is you are probably one of
the biggest Bachelor fans in theworld.
So let's picture this for methose nine guys are lined up in
some fancy living room, they'reall wearing fancy suits,
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everybody has their hair doneexcept for Charlie, of course
and you have a rose to give out,but just one.
One rose for your all timefavorite player, who gets your
rose.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
Oh, my goodness, why.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
For those at home.
She is really stressed aboutthis decision as if it's going
to matter.
This is real life.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
If it's based off of my all time favorite player and
not like who I want.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
However, you want to qualify it, however, you decide
who gets the rose.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Oh, I got to go.
Clint Barmas, I think still.
Yeah, he just was my all timefavorite and just an awesome
person.
I'm not surprised.
I think that's who I would haveguessed, yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Now you have to have the eight awkward conversations
with the other guys.
No, I'm just kidding, I'm sosorry.
Those are always so funny.
It's like they're like whydidn't you choose me?
It's like do you really want meto tell you?
All right, so we're going toplay another game.
The Bachelor Rose kind of easesus into our next game, which is
I normally do a name match,like kind of a mash up, but as I
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was doing my research fortoday's episode, all the
bachelors seem to have justnames.
That did not work for my game.
So we're kind of doing adifferent sort of game called
matchup, where you're going tomatch the Rockies player that
has the same first name with abachelor.
Oh right, I will give you clues.
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You get three clues.
If you get it on the first clue, you get three points.
If you get it on the secondclue, you get two points.
If you get on the third clue,you still get one point, and if
you don't, then you're just nota super fan, I'm not a fan, like
I thought I was.
So matchup?
The first matchup is thisbachelor was the bachelor for
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season seven.
I don't know if you're familiarwith the season non-approves,
but I'm expecting those not tobe very helpful for you.
This Rocky is a four time allstar.
So any guesses after the firstclue.
And it's okay if you don't,because they're designed not to
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be that helpful.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Yeah, okay, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Second clue this bachelor is brother-in-law with
Rebecca Romain, famous for beingin an X-Men movie.
Oh, and this Rocky made his MLBdebut in June of 2011.
Now remember their first namesmatch.
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Do you have any idea for thebachelor or the Rocky?
Speaker 2 (34:39):
I'm just trying to think.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
It's like my two favorite worlds colliding, and
my brain is but I purposely sellout these clues that you're not
going to get it right away.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
So don't feel bad, I'm not going to say anything
right now Okay.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
I don't got it, so the third clue this bachelor is
the younger brother of actorJerry and they have the same
last name.
And this Rocky is well knownfor his beard and mullet.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
Troy Tulaewiski.
What Beard and mullet.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
I think so oh.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
Charlie Charlie.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
Why did I not get that?
Do you know the bachelor?
Speaker 2 (35:23):
No.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
Well, obviously his first name is Charlie.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
Yeah, that's what I was trying to think.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Charlie O'Connell was the bachelor.
Okay, he is from season seven.
Jerry O'Connell, who's a famousactor, is his brother and he
was married to Rebecca Romain.
I did not know, so zero pointson that one.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
Yeah, I've really failed that first one.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
We're just getting warmed up.
We're getting warmed up.
This one I have no doubt thatyou're going to get.
This bachelor was the bacheloron season 11 and 15.
That should be a pretty bigclue, because I think he's the
only one that's done it twice,and this Rocky was a one-time
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All-Star.
Know the bachelor that's doneit more than once.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
Is he the only bachelor to do it more than once
?
Speaker 1 (36:13):
To be the actual bachelor, is he?
It wasn't like he was acontestant on Bachelor.
He was the legit bachelor twice.
Oh, my goodness, I know.
Imagine my surprise.
Oh, man, oh.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
Second clue Okay.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
This bachelor's favorite book is to kill a
mockingbird.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
Oh no, I got it.
Yep, I figured.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
Well, I had to balance it out because I thought
that first clue was so good.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
I know it is.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
This Rocky remember he was a one-time All-Star is a
lefty.
Just remember that very helpfulclue.
About to kill a mockingbird Tokill a mockingbird.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
Yeah, I did.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Third clue.
I'm just trying to think ofThird clue.
This bachelor has a twin namedChad.
Sorry, this Rocky has the lastname of what a bunny does.
Sorry, I couldn't say what I'mlaughing at.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
I'm so dumb.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
What does a bunny do?
Speaker 2 (37:32):
Brad Hop, hey, yay.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
That was the worst clue I've ever given.
Speaker 2 (37:41):
Oh, Brad.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
Do you know who the bachelor is?
First name Brad, obviously.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
I don't remember his last name, but I can picture him
.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
Brad Womack was his name.
Oh, yeah, yeah, brad Womack.
So good, you got one point forthat one.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
Finally, thank goodness your clue was so good.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
All right, this bachelor was the bachelor on
season 20.
This Rocky made his MLB debutin September of 1999.
So we went old school with theRocky.
Second clue, yep, yep.
Second clue this bachelorco-owns a restaurant named Ash
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Cara.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
Ben Higgins hey, look at you getting two points.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
And do you want the second clue for the Rocky?
Yeah, he is the author of abook called 40,000 to One.
Now remember, you already knowthe first name.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
Yeah, ben, benjamin, ben oh, shoot, is he a picture?
Nope, oh, I don't know.
Makes his majorly debut in 1999.
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I don't think we have him onour wall, do we?
Speaker 1 (39:12):
That's not just like a third clue.
Yeah, all right, so you alreadyknow the bachelor he's from
Denver.
And then, unfortunately, thisRocky was diagnosed with
Parkinson's.
Speaker 2 (39:29):
Oh, Ben Petrick.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
It was Ben Petrick.
Oh gosh, how did I know?
I know I said you mentioned himearlier.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
He's one of my top nine and I didn't say his name.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
But you got the bachelor on the second clue, so
I'm going to give you two pointsfor that one.
Okay, all right, so see, you'rewarming up, that's right.
All right, our last one.
The bachelor was the bacheloron season 18.
And then fun fact about thisRocky is that he never ages.
Speaker 2 (40:01):
Clue number two, please.
Speaker 1 (40:03):
Oh okay, this bachelor was a former soccer
player.
Speaker 2 (40:09):
Juan Pablo.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
And this Rocky was a three-time stolen base leader.
Speaker 2 (40:13):
Juan Pierre.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
Hey.
Speaker 2 (40:14):
Yay.
Speaker 1 (40:17):
He's all over the place now.
Very good.
Speaker 2 (40:19):
He does not age, that is true.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
He looked the exact same when he's a rookie to when
he was 40 years old, or howeverhe is now Definitely.
So good job Thanks.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
You passed your bachelor and.
Speaker 1 (40:30):
Rockies matchup.
Speaker 2 (40:31):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (40:35):
So I know I said it before, but it's just so
impressive how strong yourfandom has been through all the
many, many losing seasonsthey've had.
You've stayed loyal and that isvery impressive.
So I tip my cap to your Rockiesfandom.
Speaker 2 (40:52):
Thank you, I wouldn't have it any other way.
Speaker 1 (40:56):
So I'm hoping that you can come on and talk about
other teams as well.
Now that you'll be a returningguest.
You can just talk aboutanything.
You don't have to talk aboutyour fandom.
So we'll have you on again someother time.
Speaker 2 (41:07):
That sounds great Thanks for having me Bye.
Alright, everyone, welcome back to Pain them From
afar, which turns out is asomewhat special episode today.
I've been saving this interviewtill baseball season was about
to start back up, and it is thebiggest baseball fan I know, who
also happens to be my youngersister.
So welcome, krista, hey thanks.
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Yeah, I didn't really talk toyou about this and I didn't know
if you were wondering if youwere ever going to get to be on
the podcast, but in my mind Iwas always planning on it being
around baseball season, so Iguess I could have communicated
that and actually told you that.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Yeah, no, no, that's good.
I wasn't sure, since I'm reallynot like afar from my love of
my team.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
You've stayed loyal to all our hometown teams.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Yes, that's true.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
But I had to get you going for baseball season and
spring training is just aroundthe corner and we happen to be
sitting in our parents' basementin our family.
Hobby when we're growing up wasgoing to spring training and
just really going anywhere wherewe could try and collect
autographs.
So we are surrounded byinspiration today, so I'm hoping
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you have stories that go alongwith all these pictures
surrounding us today.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Yes, probably too many that most people want to
hear, but I think that's good.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
I got lots.
In fact, in one of our gamesyou earn a bonus point for a
bonus story.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Oh, yes, so stay tuned.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
So, just like with all my other podcasts, I kind of
want to start out with yourorigin story, which in this case
, is kind of unusual because Iwas there for it and I probably
know it, but I want you to shareit with all our millions of
listeners who don't know yourorigin story, about how you
became the biggest fan of theColorado Rockies.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Okay, well, thank you for that accolade.
I would.
I'd like to think I was thebiggest fan of the Rockies too.
So I think it all started when,obviously, the Rockies became a
team in 1993.
And I was just about nine yearsold, basically, and I didn't
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really know a whole lot aboutbaseball in general.
I didn't really know what toexpect about having a major
league team.
But I do remember you beingexcited about it, and so most of
the things that you wereexcited about I was also excited
about Because I was so cool.
Exactly.
And then I specificallyremember coming home from school
(02:29):
and you had opening day on thetelevision, I believe, and I
think.
Yeah, I think the game was liveat that point because it was an
afternoon game, but I remember.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Can I give you some details?
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
If I'm remembering correctly, I think I was in I
guess I would have been in sixthgrade and we had just got home
from outdoor lab and it was thehome opener and obviously
there's a cool story about thevery first batter of the home
opener.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Yep for sure.
Yeah, that's.
I was thinking outdoor lab hadsomething to do with it, because
I wasn't sure if you missed itor if you were just getting home
.
But yes, that that makes sense.
So I was watching the game withyou and then players come up
that I don't know who they are.
So I'm like, all right, I gotto find a favorite player, let's
see who speaks to me here.
And then a guy by the name ofEric Young comes up and hits a
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home run to start the game.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Right, yeah, he was the lead off, it was the very
first hitter of the Rockies,whole whole thing.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
He hits a home run.
The announcer just had a really, really cool like it's mile
high and out of here type ofsaying and I think ever since
that moment I was like, oh, thisis fun, Like I like him, he
became my favorite player and itkind of just took off in a ball
of fury from there on.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Yes, that's one way to describe your fan chip.
I would agree with that A ballof fury.
And you stayed loyal to him.
He was your favorite playertill he left the team, basically
.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Yep, yep.
There was a few times where,yeah, he was my favorite player
Back in the day.
It was hard to get jerseys.
They either didn't make them ofwho I wanted or whatnot, and
I'm sure I'll speak about thatanother time too but he was the
first jersey I wanted, and so Iremember going to like make a
Rockies jersey and it had number21, young on the back and I
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wore that thing like crazy.
I remember a couple of times hegot hurt and I cry in my room
and didn't want to come out, andthen, of course, when he got
traded and it was also upset too, so that was yeah you had that
emotional attachment to theplayers.
Definitely definitely started ata young age there, Yep.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Now I remember that first team.
It was just such a big deal toget a team like and obviously we
were right around the right ageto really get hooked in and
with baseball being on every dayduring the summer, it was just
perfect Like we literallywatched every single game and
loved all those players andthought they were so great, even
though most of them areprobably barely major league
(05:19):
talent.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
But it was still great, it was fun yeah, it was.
And then, like you mentionedtoo, with, like, the autographs,
I think dad took us to get afew of those original Rockies
autographs the very first year,david, need I remember?
A few of those people and thatjust kind of kind of reeled me
in, I would say, with that wholething and just becoming a super
fan.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
And it was perfect too, just because it was so fun
to go to the games.
It was just like I said, itkind of gave us something to do
during the summer, but we hadnever experienced anything like
it before, so it was also brandnew.
So it was just like all theseperfect coincidences that just
happened to be like okay, well,you guys are going to be
baseball fans.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Yep, exactly, yeah, it was good yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
So how do you think your fandom grew as you became,
like middle school, high school,the Rockies have been around
for a while, but like, obviouslyI think you became more and
more of a fan, even though youwere obviously a very big fan
right from the beginning.
But like, how do you, how doyou think were there any
instances or players that reallykind of jumped you up a level
(06:22):
and you just became, went from afan to a fanatic?
Speaker 2 (06:26):
I think the obvious answer there is when we started
to go to spring training.
That would have been 1996, Ibelieve was the first year we
went down there and it was oneof those things where I was.
I was a big Rockies fan andwhatnot, but our spring breaks
(06:48):
at that age usually consisted ofDisneyland or San Diego or
something like that, and that Iremember mom and dad saying,
well, we're gonna.
Or Las Vegas because we alsowent there a lot, which was
strange as children but mom anddad saying we're gonna go to
spring training and watch theRockies practice and instead of
going to one of those places andI was kind of bummed and I was
(07:11):
like, oh man, like those are myother favorite places.
But then I walk into it wasTucson, arizona back then, and
it was like all of my dreamscame true and one in one place
they had baseball and I hadcactus and I didn't realize like
how cool spring training was atthat point, where you can get
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so close to the players, you canget autographs so much easier.
You could just get to watchthem in there like true element
it was nice to get out of cold.
Yes, for sure.
It was a perfect time of yearto go down there and so, yeah,
that's first spring trainingtrip.
I remember we got tons ofautographs and my thing also is
getting pictures with theplayers.
So then you kind of get to knowthem and they kind of start to
(07:53):
remember you.
And that was the beginning ofit.
For me was like, alright,spring training is the coolest
place ever, and now I just can'twait for well you, you had a
good streak going where.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
How many years in a row did you go to spring
training from that first year?
Speaker 2 (08:09):
I believe it was I want to say like 17 or 18 years
yeah, I knew it was somethingcrazy yeah, I didn't.
I went every single year until,I think, one of my last years
in college when I didn't get togo, and then I missed one year
and then now have been backevery year since again.
So I think I've been down thereprobably about 26 years now
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total.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Man, that's awesome, yeah and you mentioned the, the
pictures of like.
You were always really goodabout getting pictures with the
players and then you started anice little cycle where you
would get a picture of theplayer and then bring it back
the next year to get them toautograph that picture, and then
get a new picture and then kindof keep it going, yeah like you
said, they really did start toremember you yeah, I think and
(08:55):
that makes it more fun too,because the players know that
I'm not there to sell theautographs oh there, for any
money things at all.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
I really just enjoy meeting them and and getting to
kind of see who they are as aperson and not just a player.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
And yeah, it was really fun getting to see they
would comment on how differentthey looked from last year to
the next year, and I would too,and so it was just a really cool
relationship yeah, that'salways fun because you could
tell it really disarmed themlike I guess I would kind of get
that just being around youbecause they knew, oh, I'm just
with Krista, so I'm okay to signfor as well, because there was
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a lot of guys my age or a littlebit older that were definitely
trying to just sell stuff yeah,they're having like a whole case
of baseball like oh here
Speaker 2 (09:40):
sign on the sweet spot yeah, okay, how much you
can sell that for?
Speaker 1 (09:42):
yeah so it was.
It was nice for all of us thatyou became friends with all of
them.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Yeah, yeah, it was, yeah, favorite favorite vacation
spot, for sure, but yeah, Ithink just spring training in
general is like the coolestplace ever if you're a baseball
fan to go.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
So can you describe maybe like a typical day for you
in spring training, because itI think you kind of have it down
to a science.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
I did.
Yes, it's back in Tucson.
It was like I would make dadand either you or sometimes
Sarah get up really early whileit was still dark, and we would
head to the park this wouldprobably be like 6, 30 am, maybe
7 and head to the park wherethe players would park their
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cars and we would pretty muchjust be waiting there for them
as they walk into their day oftraining not creepy at all yeah,
you know it looks sounds alittle stalkerish when I look
back at it, but for the mostpart they they didn't seem to
mind, and that's when we wouldget to talk to them and say hi,
whatnot?
and they were always very goodabout it.
(10:51):
I would say 90% of them oh yeahso, yeah, we would kind of start
our morning nice and early withthat, and then a lot of the
times we wouldn't even stay forthat game.
We would go back and then swimand do like kind of more non
baseball related activities andthen go back to the park to
occasionally, but for the mostpart, we would wake up and do
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that morning autograph pictureroutine every day that we were
down there for four or five daysin a row and then get a couple
games in, and then we wouldalways look forward to going out
to dinner afterwards, becausethen sometimes we would see
players at dinner and we havestayed in the team hotel a few
times and then we would playpool and ping pong with them too
, for them with the minorleaguers, and so that was really
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cool, because then you got tomeet some of the up-and-coming
people that nobody knows of soyou started making friends with
them real early yeah, yeah, soit was definitely.
I think I had an advantagebecause I was at that time
probably just a teenage girl, so, like you said, nothing really
threatening and they reallycouldn't say no to me too much
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some of those guys probably hadnever had like real fans before,
so in a way they probably justyep, that was fun.
That's true.
I think a lot of them actuallydid appreciate and they would
constantly, constantly tell melike, hey, thanks for all your
support.
Or they would actually try togive me their jerseys and balls
and hats and whatever.
So it was just like one ofthose nice things where I never
felt like I was like overbearingand never tried to be like too
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much, but just enough, where itwas like, hey, they know who I
am, I'll get a non-agraferpicture, they'll be nice to me
in return and I'll wear yourjersey and support you and that
type of thing.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
So yeah, it was really a fun hobby and, kind of
like you said, the actual gamesof spring training were far down
the list of priorities for usyeah we would kind of get the
autographs done in the morningand then just kind of have great
family time the rest of the day.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
I said it was really fun.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
It was worth waking up early and doing that exactly.
I thought so too I think mostpeople would trade that
experience.
But if they went to the gamethey would love to like meet and
talk to a player and we justhappen to know like a way around
that and just being able to dothat first thing in the morning.
Yeah, they were like you said.
They were always really nice andit would take us a back
sometimes whenever there was aplayer that was kind of grumpy
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or didn't want to, but likelooking back on it, they don't
owe us anything like who knowswhat they were dealing with at
the time, like their careercould have been on the line if
they didn't do well that day orsomething.
And we're like please sign ourball.
And so it's like get out ofhere, kid yeah, but.
I would say yeah for the vastmajority.
They were great yeah for sure.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Yeah, I loved, loved it very much and it did change a
little bit once they moved toScottsdale, became a bigger city
and a bigger stadium andstarted to have a little more
security and things like that.
So Tucson was definitely likethe glory days, I would say with
that.
But I also got older and kindof grew out of the fan girling a
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little bit as well.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
So it worked out just fine yeah, what about While you
were back in Denver and like,just say, watching the games or
going to the games, how, howdoes your fandom kind of grow or
change over the years for that?
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Um, I think it it.
It was very, very Strong andconsistent.
I think I was definitely thebiggest Rockies fan I knew.
Probably Growing up all throughhigh school.
Everybody kind of wouldconsider me that as well.
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I also went to every openingday possible.
I think that streak is actuallystill active, that I haven't
missed an opening day.
But my first one wasn't until Ithink it was 97.
I believe it was a year afterwe went to spring training you
slacker.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Why did you even bring that up?
That's, that's only like 26years.
Who cares?
Speaker 2 (14:45):
So yeah, I don't that's.
I think it was just one ofthose things where I'm like, all
right, well, this is my passion, this is my love, I'm not
missing opening day.
I had, excuse me, I had a lotof like ticket packages, for
they had a thing called ladiesfan club and I would be a part
of that and we would sharepartial season tickets and then
I would just buy tickets andluckily they've never been super
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expensive because we haven'tbeen really good.
So it's just one of thosethings where I just go to as
many games as possible and hopethat someone wants to tag along
and go with Me and if not, whocares?
Speaker 1 (15:17):
It's their loss.
The World Series team sticksout.
To me, that was obviously ourbest team.
Who made it the farthest?
Does that team stick out as aslike maybe the season in your
mind, or was there other Teamsthat maybe you just like were
super attached to that?
Stick out even more than theWorld Series team.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
I would say actually the World Series team and run.
I I think I could Name themfrom you know, top to bottom if
I saw a team roster, or evenwithout a team roster, I
probably could name a lot ofthem.
So that team was definitelymemorable, best team We've had.
But if you're asking, like myfavorite most memorable team or
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year or whatever, it's actuallyprobably like the 2005 Rockies,
where it was a completeRebuilding year.
They called them Todd and thetoddlers.
Oh yeah, cuz it was basicallyTodd Helden was the only veteran
.
And then that's when a few ofmy favorite players that I had
met at spring training ClintBarmas, you Baldo, corey
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Sullivan, like those guys wereall Coming and like just making
their major league appearance ormajor league debuts and
starting to become more Everydayplayers.
And so I was super excitedbecause it was all these guys
that I'd been watching in springtraining Into minor leagues for
about five years and nowthey're all finally in the big
leagues.
So I felt like it was likealright, like my, my time wasn't
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wasted, type of thing.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
So I could see that cuz.
Yeah, like you said, you hadpersonal connections with those
guys and kind of saw them rising.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Yeah, I watched them grow.
Yeah, I get that.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
And then, of course, you mentioned Todd.
He was one of our favoriteplayers Growing up for both of
us and just got the word thathe's gonna be inducted into Hall
of Fame yes.
So of course, you already haveyour Reservations in Cooper's
town that you're gonna go see?
You yes.
So again, if anyone had anydoubts, she is the biggest
Rockies fan in the world.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
I went to the Hall of Fame induction party at the DN
VR bar and we watched it.
We actually showed up like fivehours early just because I
wanted to make sure I got atable and they announced his
name and I was just like youwould have thought we just won
the World Series or a Super Bowlor something huge.
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And then about 10 seconds later, dad texted me a couple of our
pictures that we had gotten withTodd at spring training and I
just started crying and I waslike, oh my gosh, this is, this
is crazy, and I'm a little bitcrazy as well, but this is
really cool.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
It is fun, though we we literally saw his whole
career, and it's special becausenot only was he really good,
but the fact that he spent theentire career in Denver like he
was a leader, best player, justeverything you could ask for out
of a player, so it's it'spretty fun.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Yeah, see him get rewarded for that.
Yeah, I think, and Between likemyself and mom and dad and
whatnot, I've always said likethis is this is our only chance
at a Hall of Famer that I knowof in a lot of years.
So even when he was 10, 15years ago, I said if he ever
makes the Hall of Fame, I needto be there like this.
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This is a special player forsure.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
So yeah, the fact that Larry Walker already got in
and now Helton, I don't thinkthe Rockies are gonna have
anybody get inducted for quite awhile.
Well, Nolan, but I don't evenknow if he'll go in as a Rocky
after we were just like shippinghim out for a bag of beans.
No so let's talk about your jobwith the Rockies now, or
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technically MLB.
So you are kind of getting tolive out the dream and get paid
To watch the Rockies.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Can you tell the listeners of what you do?
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Yeah, kind of took my Famed them to a whole different
level a little bit.
But yeah, basically about nineyears ago Dad worked in guest
relations at Coorsfield and heworked in the press box for a
while and of course he likes totalk to everybody, which is good
, and he had talked to a few ofthe Original people that did
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this job and told them hey, ifyou guys ever need somebody else
, my daughter loves baseball,she's she would be great at
whatever you want to do.
And so he ended up getting myname into the the bucket a
little bit and I got a call frommy now boss basically asking if
I wanted to do a thing calledthe pitch clock, pitch timing.
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Let's see what now it's calledthe pitch clock, but at that
time it was do you actually workthere?
At that time it's called fieldtiming coordinator, so.
But yeah, so I started withthat and yeah, I basically get
paid to watch the game that Ilove and sit in the press box
and get to Be like a part of thegame, basically, and it's, it's
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super, super cool.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
I think it's awesome, like how many years you've been
doing it now.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
This will be my ninth season, wow, so yeah it's.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
It's been fun just to see that position evolve, but
also just the fact that you'vebeen able to make it work with
your Life and just making it,yeah, something that you get to
do, like how many baseball fanswould kill to do that.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
It's pretty awesome, yeah, it's, it's been awesome.
It's it kind of I Put things inperspective a little bit
because, yeah, since I wasalways such a huge fan and Then
I get this job and it really wasa dream come true.
But they said one of the firstthings like you can't cheer when
you're in the press box, youcan't show allegiance to any
team.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
That is the hardest part, for sure.
I've gotten used to it, butit's still like super, super
hard to.
I have to sit on my hands likefew times and not clap.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Well, like you said too, they haven't really been
great the last couple years, soat least that helps cut down on
the opportunities.
Yeah, he was needed to, but Ithink it's awesome and it's it's
just been so fun.
We started out so young withthe team, just to See you grow
up as a baseball fan and reallynever let it go.
I've I've faded out since Imoved to Florida and just it's.
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It's hard to keep track of theteam, especially when they're
not that great and I don't havethe personal connection with any
of the players, but, likeyou've been strong.
Yeah the whole time and it'sjust fun to see and everyone's
always shocked.
It's like, oh, who's thebiggest baseball fan you know?
I'm like, oh, that's my.
Yes, I know, it's crazy.
Yeah people still are shockedthat girls can be baseball fans.
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It's a.
It's been impressive just tosee your amount of knowledge and
passion for the game.
Like it's fun.
But yeah.
I think things that you loveyou shouldn't be ashamed of
exactly.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Yeah, no, I, I don't think there really was a time
where I ever, like, tried tohold back on my Enthusiasm or
love either cuz, yeah, I thinkit is one of those things where
it's like, oh, girls don't knowthat much about sports, or if
you do, then you're not cool, orwhatever.
But I never really felt like Iever had to change myself or who
I was.
I was like nope, this is, thisis who I love, this is what I
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love doing, and I think it'salways just been a big part of
me.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
So that's awesome.
Yeah, well, should we play somegames to make you think about
the players in?
Ways You've never thought aboutthem before.
I'm excited.
All right, all right.
So the first game I want toplay with you Is my starting
nine game, so I just want you tomake your starting nine.
So that means you have to fillin each position around the
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diamond in one pitcher, and itdoesn't have to be who you think
is the best players.
I just want to know yourfavorites, because I know you
have plenty of favorites, butit'll be interesting to see you
make decisions at certainpositions.
So let's start with theoutfield.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Who.
This is tough.
Okay, the outfield is hard.
I've, I've, oh.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Oh, so I thought the infield was gonna be harder for
you.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Well, I mean, actually that's what I'm
thinking, like the infield ishard because I have so many, but
the outfield, like I Don'treally have anybody that stands
out too much, that I like, havereally liked in the outfield.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Oh, I got you, so it's harder for a different
reason.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Yeah, there's like, there's people that I like,
obviously, but I'm gonna SayBrad hop.
Okay because he was just super,super nice, one of those like
2005 in the toddler guys.
Um, I Think I need to putCharlie Blackman out there
because he's been around forever, also has always been a cool
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guy and he's just super uniqueand he loves the game.
So Charlie's out there and mythird out fielder man that's.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
I guess, now that I'm thinking about it, so many of
your favorite players have beeninfield.
Yeah, they really have.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
So I Probably just have to go.
Cory Sullivan, just cuz he'sbeen around forever and now I
Get to see him in the press boxand we still say hi and talk and
whatever.
So I'm gonna go with Cory, cuzhe's an OG.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
I'll take it All right Now.
Now we're getting tougher.
Well, actually, let's go withan easy one pitcher.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
You baldo.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
I figured now the infield first base is Todd
Hilton.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
No obviously Shortstop is Trevor story oh.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Interesting you went right to shortstop.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Trevor was the top.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Yeah, interesting, I do.
I do love Trevor.
Third base is probably I knowit's also not a very popular
pick but Garrett Atkins.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Okay, I was still expecting Nolan.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
No, I wasn't ever a huge Nolan fan, even though he
was great and I love watchinghim play.
He was just one of those thatfor some reason just never
really spoke to me, not likeliterally, but like I just he's
just not up in my top fave.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Because I know for a fact that you did speak to him
personally because you gotEvelyn a autograph ball.
That's true.
You went to the game in.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Atlanta.
Yes, he did so.
Yeah, no, he's.
He has been nice a couple timesthat I've actually met him, so
nothing against that at all, butI'm just going to go with
Garrett Atkins.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
That's fine.
He was right during that erawhere we were like obsessed with
the team.
Yeah, I think that's my problem.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
I'm just kind of stuck in 2005 apparently.
And then second base.
I got to put Clint Barmas therebecause he probably should have
been a shortstop top, but Ifeel like he played second a lot
as well and he has to be in myend goal.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
I forgot about that.
I'll allow it because he didactually play second base.
But yeah, I thought the bigdecision was going to be between
Trevor and Clint, but you wereable to get him both in, so good
for you.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Thank you, catcher.
Catcher is going to be BenPetrick.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Oh nice.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Yep, he was a very awesome person.
From spring training for thefirst he was actually one that
you had told me about.
I remember, like one of thefirst spring trainings, that he
was supposed to be one of ourtop prospects.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
I was just thinking about him and then I met him and
then it was one that we endedup kind of following him for the
next like 10 years basically.
So Ben Petrick is my catcherand yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
You can add in a relief picture if you really
want to, but you don't have to.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Curtis Laskanek.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Oh, really, yeah, okay, he was awesome, very good
Loved him.
He was old school.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
I know, yeah, he was fun to watch and a fun fun guy
too.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
I remember we went to his autograph signing at some
store and he was having all thepeople that came to get his
autograph sign his what's itcalled Tablecloth.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Oh, really that's cool.
I don't remember that.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
I always thought that was cool, because younger me
was like, oh, he's probablygoing to hang that up, but like
he probably threw that awayright away.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
But it was just something to talk about.
Yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
That's good.
I like that you stepped aroundthe landmine of Clint and Trevor
by having them both play.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Yeah, I'll accept it.
Okay, I mean honorable mention.
Probably I got to put an A-fiPerez in there at some point too
, but he was also shortstop sothere's just no room.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Yep, you've always liked the shortstop I've always
liked shortstops.
Hey everyone, this is Brian.
For the first time ever, wehave a live update for our
podcast guest.
Krista thought about it alittle bit more after we got
done recording and she realizedthat she forgot some of her
all-time favorite players in herstarting nine.
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So I wanted to correct thatright here, right now and give
you her actual answers after shethought about it just a little
bit more.
So in left field she actuallyhas Ryan Spilburgs, which I
always just called Spilly, andhe was a fan favorite.
Krista definitely was a huge fanof his and I think she actually
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gets to work with him quite abit at Coors Field now in center
, charlie Blackman and then inright field Brad Hopp.
And then another change shewanted to make was her third
baseman is Jeff Baker, which Ithink Jeff was one of the guys
that she got to know at springtraining.
He was definitely a big timeprospect that we all kind of had
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big hopes for.
I remember him being a solidplayer, but I also remember
Krista being a huge fan of JeffBaker and other than that she
stuck with everybody else.
She had Trevor Storie at short,clinton Barmus at second, todd
at first, ben Petrick as hercatcher and Ybaldo as her
pitcher.
So that is the update and wewill get back to the episode Now
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.
Bonus question how many ofthose starting nine did you have
a jersey for?
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Let's see, I just had well, I had about four Clint
Barmus jerseys.
The first one I ordered wascame in.
Spelled incorrectly.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
He did have a funny name.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
It was Barnes instead of Barmus.
And then I got three more afterthat.
I had a Ybaldo jersey and I hada two or three Trevor Storie
jerseys actually as well.
So just three.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Oh, really None of those outfielders, uh-uh and
Garrett.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
No, no, interesting.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Now, who were you most upset with when they got
traded or cut?
Speaker 2 (29:59):
I would say the Clint Barmus trade hit me the hardest
because he was my favorite forso long.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Yeah, so he was kind of the peak of your obsessed
fandom.
Yep, yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
And we were like pretty good friends.
He was friends with the wholefamily at that point too.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Yeah, he legit knew who you were and you guys would
have conversations.
It wasn't just like herecognized your face, he knew
you.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Yeah, and he was great to everybody.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Do you remember who he got traded for?
Did we get anything good?
Speaker 2 (30:35):
You know, I don't remember.
I don't feel like we've gottenanybody good for any of the
trades of my favorite players.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Shocking what the Rockies do so well in trades
what?
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Yeah, no, I cannot remember who we got for him, but
I usually don't like the personthat we get in the trade for,
whoever they are, so I think Itry to just block them out of my
memory Exceptible, totally, nottheir fault at all.
But you know that's my grudgethat I hold and stick to it.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
So you named your top nine favorite players, and
another thing that I know aboutyou is you are probably one of
the biggest Bachelor fans in theworld.
So let's picture this for methose nine guys are lined up in
some fancy living room, they'reall wearing fancy suits,
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everybody has their hair doneexcept for Charlie, of course
and you have a rose to give out,but just one.
One rose for your all timefavorite player, who gets your
rose.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
Oh, my goodness, why.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
For those at home.
She is really stressed aboutthis decision as if it's going
to matter.
This is real life.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
If it's based off of my all time favorite player and
not like who I want.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
However, you want to qualify it, however, you decide
who gets the rose.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Oh, I got to go.
Clint Barmas, I think still.
Yeah, he just was my all timefavorite and just an awesome
person.
I'm not surprised.
I think that's who I would haveguessed, yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Now you have to have the eight awkward conversations
with the other guys.
No, I'm just kidding, I'm sosorry.
Those are always so funny.
It's like they're like whydidn't you choose me?
It's like do you really want meto tell you?
All right, so we're going toplay another game.
The Bachelor Rose kind of easesus into our next game, which is
I normally do a name match,like kind of a mash up, but as I
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was doing my research fortoday's episode, all the
bachelors seem to have justnames.
That did not work for my game.
So we're kind of doing adifferent sort of game called
matchup, where you're going tomatch the Rockies player that
has the same first name with abachelor.
Oh right, I will give you clues.
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You get three clues.
If you get it on the first clue, you get three points.
If you get it on the secondclue, you get two points.
If you get on the third clue,you still get one point, and if
you don't, then you're just nota super fan, I'm not a fan, like
I thought I was.
So matchup?
The first matchup is thisbachelor was the bachelor for
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season seven.
I don't know if you're familiarwith the season non-approves,
but I'm expecting those not tobe very helpful for you.
This Rocky is a four time allstar.
So any guesses after the firstclue.
And it's okay if you don't,because they're designed not to
(34:07):
be that helpful.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Yeah, okay, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Second clue this bachelor is brother-in-law with
Rebecca Romain, famous for beingin an X-Men movie.
Oh, and this Rocky made his MLBdebut in June of 2011.
Now remember their first namesmatch.
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Do you have any idea for thebachelor or the Rocky?
Speaker 2 (34:39):
I'm just trying to think.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
It's like my two favorite worlds colliding, and
my brain is but I purposely sellout these clues that you're not
going to get it right away.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
So don't feel bad, I'm not going to say anything
right now Okay.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
I don't got it, so the third clue this bachelor is
the younger brother of actorJerry and they have the same
last name.
And this Rocky is well knownfor his beard and mullet.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
Troy Tulaewiski.
What Beard and mullet.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
I think so oh.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
Charlie Charlie.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
Why did I not get that?
Do you know the bachelor?
Speaker 2 (35:23):
No.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
Well, obviously his first name is Charlie.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
Yeah, that's what I was trying to think.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Charlie O'Connell was the bachelor.
Okay, he is from season seven.
Jerry O'Connell, who's a famousactor, is his brother and he
was married to Rebecca Romain.
I did not know, so zero pointson that one.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
Yeah, I've really failed that first one.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
We're just getting warmed up.
We're getting warmed up.
This one I have no doubt thatyou're going to get.
This bachelor was the bacheloron season 11 and 15.
That should be a pretty bigclue, because I think he's the
only one that's done it twice,and this Rocky was a one-time
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All-Star.
Know the bachelor that's doneit more than once.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
Is he the only bachelor to do it more than once
?
Speaker 1 (36:13):
To be the actual bachelor, is he?
It wasn't like he was acontestant on Bachelor.
He was the legit bachelor twice.
Oh, my goodness, I know.
Imagine my surprise.
Oh, man, oh.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
Second clue Okay.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
This bachelor's favorite book is to kill a
mockingbird.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
Oh no, I got it.
Yep, I figured.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
Well, I had to balance it out because I thought
that first clue was so good.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
I know it is.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
This Rocky remember he was a one-time All-Star is a
lefty.
Just remember that very helpfulclue.
About to kill a mockingbird Tokill a mockingbird.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
Yeah, I did.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Third clue.
I'm just trying to think ofThird clue.
This bachelor has a twin namedChad.
Sorry, this Rocky has the lastname of what a bunny does.
Sorry, I couldn't say what I'mlaughing at.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
I'm so dumb.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
What does a bunny do?
Speaker 2 (37:32):
Brad Hop, hey, yay.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
That was the worst clue I've ever given.
Speaker 2 (37:41):
Oh, Brad.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
Do you know who the bachelor is?
First name Brad, obviously.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
I don't remember his last name, but I can picture him
.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
Brad Womack was his name.
Oh, yeah, yeah, brad Womack.
So good, you got one point forthat one.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
Finally, thank goodness your clue was so good.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
All right, this bachelor was the bachelor on
season 20.
This Rocky made his MLB debutin September of 1999.
So we went old school with theRocky.
Second clue, yep, yep.
Second clue this bachelorco-owns a restaurant named Ash
(38:19):
Cara.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
Ben Higgins hey, look at you getting two points.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
And do you want the second clue for the Rocky?
Yeah, he is the author of abook called 40,000 to One.
Now remember, you already knowthe first name.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
Yeah, ben, benjamin, ben oh, shoot, is he a picture?
Nope, oh, I don't know.
Makes his majorly debut in 1999.
(39:04):
I don't think we have him onour wall, do we?
Speaker 1 (39:12):
That's not just like a third clue.
Yeah, all right, so you alreadyknow the bachelor he's from
Denver.
And then, unfortunately, thisRocky was diagnosed with
Parkinson's.
Speaker 2 (39:29):
Oh, Ben Petrick.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
It was Ben Petrick.
Oh gosh, how did I know?
I know I said you mentioned himearlier.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
He's one of my top nine and I didn't say his name.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
But you got the bachelor on the second clue, so
I'm going to give you two pointsfor that one.
Okay, all right, so see, you'rewarming up, that's right.
All right, our last one.
The bachelor was the bacheloron season 18.
And then fun fact about thisRocky is that he never ages.
Speaker 2 (40:01):
Clue number two, please.
Speaker 1 (40:03):
Oh okay, this bachelor was a former soccer
player.
Speaker 2 (40:09):
Juan Pablo.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
And this Rocky was a three-time stolen base leader.
Speaker 2 (40:13):
Juan Pierre.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
Hey.
Speaker 2 (40:14):
Yay.
Speaker 1 (40:17):
He's all over the place now.
Very good.
Speaker 2 (40:19):
He does not age, that is true.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
He looked the exact same when he's a rookie to when
he was 40 years old, or howeverhe is now Definitely.
So good job Thanks.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
You passed your bachelor and.
Speaker 1 (40:30):
Rockies matchup.
Speaker 2 (40:31):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (40:35):
So I know I said it before, but it's just so
impressive how strong yourfandom has been through all the
many, many losing seasonsthey've had.
You've stayed loyal and that isvery impressive.
So I tip my cap to your Rockiesfandom.
Speaker 2 (40:52):
Thank you, I wouldn't have it any other way.
Speaker 1 (40:56):
So I'm hoping that you can come on and talk about
other teams as well.
Now that you'll be a returningguest.
You can just talk aboutanything.
You don't have to talk aboutyour fandom.
So we'll have you on again someother time.
Speaker 2 (41:07):
That sounds great Thanks for having me Bye.
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