September 29, 2025 • 35 mins
Patrick Larson joins Five Questions to celebrate division championships for both the Guardians and Blue Jays while exploring his deep connection to baseball. The conversation weaves through baseball memories, traditions, and philosophical insights about how the sport mirrors life itself.
• Falling in love with baseball through Atlanta Braves games on TBS and family trips to Fulton County Stadium
• Celebrating the Blue Jays' 2015 AL East championship after the longest playoff drought in North American sports
• Creating new traditions like purchasing team merchandise before each season
• Finding baseball as an escape from life's hectic pace
• Reflecting on how baseball teaches us to value time as our most precious resource
• Valuing shared experiences at ballparks over material possessions
• Connecting baseball's unpredictability to life's uncertainty
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SPEAKER_01 (00:00):
Alright, let how about now?
SPEAKER_00 (00:02):
Yep.
SPEAKER_01 (00:05):
Oh yeah.
Four minutes into our into theinterview when this thing is.
And not even to question oneyet, right?
I have no idea what happened,I'll be honest with you.
So there's that.
Okay, let's go.
Yeah, your head look goodthough.
SPEAKER_00 (00:27):
Man, well, you know, had to wait to had to wait until
they put this on clearancebecause you know the had to wait
until they had a markdown on it.
SPEAKER_01 (00:33):
Man, you know I'm not gonna pay full price for
shit.
SPEAKER_00 (00:36):
So I didn't pay full price for this, I can tell you
that.
SPEAKER_01 (00:38):
I waited until they put it on clearance.
So I might I you know I'm gonnahave to buy me some some uh
central division championshipgear, though.
That's the one thing I'm gonnahave to do.
SPEAKER_00 (00:48):
Well, I'm wondering if I want to wait until they
throw it all on clearance andjust get it after the fact.
Yeah, I'm kind of debating thesame thing.
I was like, all right, should Ido it?
Should I not?
Well, because I don't want topay$42 for a fanatic shirt.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
Because uh the cheapest I foundwas a Nike one at 37, and I'm
like, you know what I'd ratherdo?
I'd rather just get a Nike likepolyester one for cheaper with a
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markdown, yeah, and then andthen just wait for the because
they'll they'll have these maybenot the hats, but like they've
already sold out of the the theBlue Jays division champion
hats.
Yeah, no, I'm gonna wait.
I'm gonna wait to be honest withyou.
That was like a 970 truckeranyway.
So though I'm not I'm not gonnaget that.
Well, I don't like the fit ofthose anyway, so I didn't even
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want to.
SPEAKER_01 (01:33):
Yeah, they don't fit me right either, so you're good.
SPEAKER_00 (01:35):
Yeah, no, I they can have them because they're poorly
made anyway.
I've had I've had too many ofthose, not too many, but I've
had a couple of those champdivision champ and champion
stuff, and it's just not yeah,what it should be.
But but man, what were wesaying?
Division champions for both ofus?
Yes, sir, and you guys did it inlike epic fashion.
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I mean, you guys won.
What'd you do?
You lost like did you lose liketwo games in September?
SPEAKER_01 (02:01):
Two games.
SPEAKER_00 (02:03):
And one of them was to like the Rangers of all
teams.
The first game was to theRangers, yeah, exactly.
So oh well.
Well, and and not only you wouldhave won the division even
without winning today, but justto win it, yeah, kind of put a
to kind of put a bow on theseason.
Uh Steven Vote, what a job he'sdone with those with those
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guardians, man.
This thing is messing me up.
SPEAKER_01 (02:28):
Okay, relax, computer.
All right, here we go.
Are you ready, my friend?
I am ready.
All right.
Well, let's get this show on theroad and let's see how this
goes.
Hopefully, it doesn't screw up.
All right, well, welcomeeverybody to the Deadhead
Chronicles uh podcast.
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My name is Ed, also known as theDeadhead, and I am coming to you
on location um from Asheville,North Carolina, at the time of
this recording.
Uh, my team just won the CentralDivision Championship, which I
am very happy about.
And my guest, my good friend, myone of my co-hosts of the DHC
Sports Show, and also Break Evenuh Sports Show, which we talk
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about nothing but some of thelittle FCF football, some some
uh Formula One, and of courseour beloved soccer, or how would
they say it across the pond,football.
So uh it is my good friend, theprospector himself, Mr.
Patrick.
Larson, how are you today, myfriend?
SPEAKER_00 (03:30):
I'm doing well, my friend.
Thank you so much for having meon.
You were allowing me to live outa dream.
I never ever thought that Iwould find my way onto this
podcast, and now you haveallowed a simple person from
Georgia to live out his lifelongdream of being on five questions
with Ed Rivera.
Oh my god, how how exciting!Well, I mean, I thought that I
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had a dream realized when theBlue Jays just won the AL East
Division title, and then youfind some way to take the cake.
I mean, but you find some way totop it.
You know, some talking aboutsome people go to Disney World,
some people go to Disneyland.
I go on five questions withEdward.
SPEAKER_01 (04:07):
There it is.
Just wait until everybody justlose their mind that finally
Patrick Larson uh uh makes it.
SPEAKER_00 (04:13):
Well, I think there's gonna be probably more
relief from our co-hosts on theDHC Sports Show.
Not finally getting done.
Yeah, that they don't have tohear me go on and on about how I
haven't been a guest.
So there you go.
SPEAKER_01 (04:24):
Well, now you are you're on the podcast.
So all right, my friend.
Yeah, well, let's get started.
This is how for everybody who'slistening for the first time, it
is very simple.
It is called Five Questions, uh,with the data, pretty much,
right?
I'm gonna ask you fivequestions.
Obviously, the sports that we'regonna talk about it is baseball,
but it does not have to bebaseball, it can be any sport
that you like.
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If you're interested in doingthis, if you're part, if you
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Give me a uh send me a messageuh through Instagram, through
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All right, now that we got thebusiness out of the way, my
friend, are you ready forquestion numero uno?
I'm ready.
Let's go.
All right.
Question number one, my friend,is when did you fall in love
with the sport of baseball?
SPEAKER_00 (05:30):
I've been a fan of baseball for as long as I can
remember.
My first memories are probablyfrom the time I was around five
or six years old.
I I just remember my dad alwayshad my mom and dad always had
baseball on television.
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So for those that don't know orhaven't heard me speak before,
uh, most of my family areAtlanta Braves fans.
So everyone remembers the TVSSuper Station or TBS before they
became the superstation.
That's that that was always thehome of the Atlanta Braves for a
lot of people, especially peoplein the southeast United States.
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But especially being in Georgia,obviously, there that's Braves
country, and there were a lot ofBraves fans.
But growing up, my dad, my momand dad always had it on the
television.
I didn't really grow up in asports household per se.
But really, the only sport thatwas ever on television was
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baseball, because my dad wasnever really a fan of any sports
that had a clock associated withit.
I would say that soccer came inlater because my my my younger
sister and I played it, but Ithink his favorite sport has
always been baseball because ofthe fact that, especially in the
times before the rule changestook place, literally anything
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could happen, and you had tomake your own luck, you had to
be the better team, and the gamedidn't end until one team had
more runs than the other.
And I think that's the magic ofbaseball, and it still has some
of that, but obviously with someof the rule changes and the the
ghost runner that you get inextra innings now.
One of the magic pieces of itgrowing up was that it wasn't
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over until it was over, andthere wasn't a clock that was
gonna stop you.
SPEAKER_02 (07:19):
That's very true.
SPEAKER_00 (07:21):
So it started with that, and it started and it and
it kind of took on a life of itsown.
I I can't say that I was a BlueJays fan from the time that I
was five or six or anything likethat.
That didn't come until later,and we'll probably get into that
at some point.
But the game of baseball issomething that it was really the
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only sporting event we went toas a family.
We would go to the old AtlantaFulton County Stadium, and they
were in the in the late 80s,they they were really, really
bad.
So I do remember being up in thein the nosebleed section, but
there would be at the time ChiefNakahoma out in the outfield
trying to drum up, literallydrum up support.
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And in the Atlanta sportsmarket, a lot of times if the
team isn't doing well, a lot oftimes you'll you'll see that
shown in the attendance.
And you could you could reallygo to any seat that you wanted,
but we we we pretty much stayedup in the nosebleed section
because obviously growing upwith a family of five, it still
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costs money.
Yeah, um it still costs money totake a family of five anywhere,
I don't care how expensive orinexpensive it was.
And um, but it was something wedid as a family, and it didn't
really matter where we sat, itwas still something I always
remember going to Atlanta FultonCounty Stadium and later on to
some of the other Atlanta BraceParks, and um, it was always
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something fun to do as a family.
And if it wasn't there, it wasalways on TBS and we would watch
the team, particularly in theearly 90s when they started
really put when they startedputting together that string of
14 consecutive division titles.
SPEAKER_01 (09:04):
Yeah, I like it.
All right, you ready forquestion number two?
Let's go.
All right, favorite sportsmemory or memories.
Give me a couple of those.
Man, I know, right?
I mean, this is I I know you'regonna have to pare it down,
right?
Because I am obviously we couldgive we could give you the one
that from you know, curly fromtonight, right?
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Like where your your Blue Jaysare division champions, and how
long have they not been thedivisional champion in a very
tough American League East?
SPEAKER_00 (09:34):
Yeah, yeah.
So, I mean, obviously, tonightis a very recent memory, but
that is probably recency bias.
But so is it just a famousfamous sports favorite sports
memory in general, or is itbaseball?
Just baseball, okay.
SPEAKER_01 (09:49):
Because um, you know what?
I apologize.
Let's go ahead and sports,because obviously you are a fan
of a plethora of sports.
SPEAKER_00 (09:58):
How's that?
Well, is it okay if I give onefrom baseball and then give just
an additional one in sports?
Absolutely.
SPEAKER_01 (10:04):
Uh this is your show, baby.
I'm just here.
SPEAKER_00 (10:09):
You know, I would probably say because when the
Blue Jays won the World Seriesin '92 and '93, I can't say that
I was a full-time Blue Jays fanat that point.
SPEAKER_01 (10:20):
Okay.
SPEAKER_00 (10:21):
And so I would probably say 2015, when the Blue
Jays won the AL East, and it wasnot only did they win the AL
East for the first time, I thinkthat was since 1993, if I
remember correctly.
Um they but that also ended thelongest playoff drought of any
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team in North American sports atthe time.
So so yes, I'm talking about.
You what?
We don't have that one.
Well, well, I wasn't eventalking about championship.
I was just talking about even aplayoff appearance.
Oh, you're right.
Yeah.
So you guys had done it sincethen.
I mean, you had you had beenthere before we had, because
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yeah, it was because I think itwas the Mariners at one point,
and then when the Mariners madethe playoffs, then then we took
over that mantle, or somethingalong those lines.
And there were a few years therewhere the Blue Jays, for all of
North American sports, had thelongest playoff drought of any
team.
Yeah.
And I was like, so just to tryto get that dubious honor taken
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away from you, and sure feelsgood.
Yeah, to win a division.
And with the way they did it,it's a it was a very different
team from the one that wecurrently see now.
That was a team that was allabout the home run.
So it was so your Jose Bautistasand your Edwin Encarnaciones and
your um maybe not superstars inthe eyes of baseball fans in
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general, but certainly belovedin Toronto for some of the years
that they had, and they werebecause Toronto is really,
really special when the team isgood.
SPEAKER_01 (11:57):
And well, hell, I'll remember when Encarnacion signed
with Cleveland, that big yeahcontract.
SPEAKER_00 (12:04):
Yeah, well, it's isn't it funny the the
connection that the Guardiansand Blue Jays seemed to have?
Because because many of thereasons that the Blue Jays won
the division this year wasbecause of former Guardians
players, guys that played a hugerole, like Ernie Clement and um
you know Shane Bieber and AndresJimenez and um Miles Straw.
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I mean, it's I mean it's it's uhpretty much uh Guardians of the
North.
It is the Guardians of theNorth.
We the North, we they need tohave a shirt that says we the
Guardians of the North.
SPEAKER_01 (12:39):
Exactly.
SPEAKER_00 (12:40):
So I would probably say 2015 and seeing the Blue
Jays finally win a division andto to not only do that, but
while they didn't make it to theWorld Series, they did actually
win some playoff games.
Yeah, which they now haven'tdone in quite a long time since
then.
Uh they did lose to the Royalsin the um in the American League
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Championship series, which I'msure Eric Crawford would love to
remind me of.
So I'm sure he will.
And I'm sure if he when helistens to this, he will remind
me of it again.
Of course, because it isanyways, it is Eric.
So I would say that's myfavorite baseball memory of now.
Another another one is actuallygetting to is it like a sporting
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memory, or is it something thatwe see in in person?
SPEAKER_01 (13:30):
Yeah, does it have to be in person?
Yeah, um, you were you witnessedit, then you watched it that you
went with somebody at the bar orsomething like that.
SPEAKER_00 (13:38):
Yeah, and I was, and while I didn't watch it with
people because I don't have manyblue jays fans around here, I
just to get to experience itwith special and to to just
watch the blue jays in theplayoffs because ever since I be
truly became a fan, that was thefirst time I ever got to do
that.
Because prior to that, the theBlue Jays were never were the
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the season always ended inOctober or September.
SPEAKER_02 (14:04):
Gotcha.
SPEAKER_00 (14:05):
It really ended in September, so I didn't really
get to see October baseball theway baseball fans really want to
see it.
SPEAKER_01 (14:12):
Yeah, so you got you said you watched it from you
know, yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (14:16):
And I would say another memory as far as
in-person was actually a game togo with a couple of friends and
actually visit the Rogers Centerand see a Blue Jays game in
person.
SPEAKER_01 (14:25):
That's oh man.
SPEAKER_00 (14:27):
So well for a guy that I'm not the guy that's been
to all these different stadiumslike like some of your other
guests have been.
I I'm lucky that I've gotten tosee my share of them and I've
gotten to see what I lack inquantity, I'd like to think I've
made up for it quality, becauseI feel like I've gotten to see
some of the I've been very luckyto see some of the most
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beautiful stadiums in the majorleagues.
And and I'm proud of the onesthat I've able to see.
So while I don't have a all 30ballparks marked off my list,
I've gotten to see my team playat home, and I've gotten to see
some of the some really, reallybeautiful stadiums along the
way.
So um, and uh but I'll take thequality over quantity every day.
That's that's just the way thatI like to do it.
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It doesn't make it the the waythe right way or the wrong way,
yeah.
Exactly.
And everyone is entitled to doit however they see fit.
But um, so in person, I wouldsay just actually making it to
Toronto to say that I'veactually made it to see a Blue
Jays game is a uh is somethingthat I'll always remember.
And I'm I know it's not the lasttime that I'll make it there.
SPEAKER_01 (15:30):
Good.
All right, you ready?
Question number three.
SPEAKER_00 (15:34):
Let's go.
SPEAKER_01 (15:35):
All right, give me some traditions or rituals from
your point of view as as a fan,right?
Like, I mean, what are yourreach rituals?
Is it rituals in terms ofwatching it on TV or or just or
just um or you know, rightbefore the season starts or as
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going to the event?
For example, one of the therituals for me is every year,
you know this because we talkedabout ad nauseum, but is right
before the season starts, Igotta buy a brand new hat or and
a t-shirt right from from thatteam that I'm watching.
So, like that's a ritual for me.
What's a ritual uh or uh um atradition that you do?
SPEAKER_00 (16:14):
I don't know that I have like an actual set
tradition, or at least not onethat's been a long-standing
tradition.
Actually, one of the ones that Ihave is actually one from being
friends with you.
I like I needed a reason.
Um, I've also started doing thepurchasing of a hat and a shirt
before every season.
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So my bad.
Oh, it's okay, it's okay.
But I also make sure that I'dsay another tradition now is
getting the mlb.tv package everyyear and using our friend
Annadie Tommaso's uh secret lifehack in terms of getting the
mlb.tv, let's say at less thanthe full rate.
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Um perfectly legitimate.
Anything goes.
Well, for you and for me, atleast for the most part for you,
one benefit one benefit of beingwhere we live and cheering for
the teams that we do is that wedon't suffer the blackout that a
lot of people do rooting fortheir local team, unless they
play with a team that it islocal, exactly.
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So I'm I'm lucky that the BlueJays only played the Braves
about three times a year.
SPEAKER_01 (17:23):
So see, I'm not so lucky because we got the the
Braves and the Nationals, and Ibelieve the Orioles.
SPEAKER_00 (17:33):
This is one of the few benefits that I say you have
from living about as far awayfrom your team as you can be.
SPEAKER_01 (17:38):
Yep, exactly.
I 100% you're right, though.
SPEAKER_00 (17:41):
Yeah, is that is that I can watch most of the
games and I and I get to watchit on Sportsnet and get to hear
Dan Schulman and Buck Martinezor Joe Siddle or or Caleb Joseph
doing all of the yeah, doing allof the play-by-play for it.
So it's something that I Ireally enjoy getting to do and
it's something of a newertradition now that I now that I
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can access the MLB.tv packageand uh at a discounted price, of
course.
At a discounted price, ofcourse.
And while the while it's notanything unique to me, I just
just sitting down with a nicewith a nice drink and just
taking in the game and justtrying to be trying my best at
least to be just a fan of thegame rather than just getting
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fanatical over every pitch.
SPEAKER_01 (18:30):
I mean fans does come from the word fanatic, so
it does.
SPEAKER_00 (18:34):
And I'd be lying if if I sat here and said I didn't
have a have a few choice wordswhen things aren't going my
team's way.
In fact, it just uh in fact itjust happened tonight more than
once.
Uh, even with the win.
SPEAKER_01 (18:47):
But with a massive win at that.
SPEAKER_00 (18:49):
Massive win.
But when things got nervy therein the in the game, it's just
one example of if if a pitcher'sstruggling or something like
that, I get so into the gamethat sometimes I have to check
my emotions a little bit andjust step back and sometimes
switch it off for a little bitto try to make sure that I'm not
I don't want to be that personthat no one wants to watch
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sports with.
So I try to even when I'mwatching it by myself, I try to
I have to sometimes sit back andcheck my emotions about it.
You gotta remind yourself.
I do.
I have to remind myself thatit's just a game and that I'm
lucky that I even have a chanceto watch my favorite team play
because I remember a time whereI didn't get to do that.
SPEAKER_01 (19:28):
No, no, you're right, you're 100% right.
SPEAKER_00 (19:30):
No, so yeah, so while those are not probably
classic traditions that a lot ofyour listeners maybe have,
that's I I keep it simple.
I guess I don't really have aset tradition, I don't have to
do it necessarily a certain way.
I just my only requirement isthat I can get access to the
game and I can watch my BlueJays play.
SPEAKER_01 (19:49):
I like it.
Good job, my friend.
SPEAKER_00 (19:51):
All right, we got two more, all right?
All right, let's go.
SPEAKER_01 (19:54):
Can you handle it?
SPEAKER_00 (19:56):
I think I can.
Let's go.
SPEAKER_01 (19:57):
All right.
And I'm sure you've thoughtabout this one a lot because
this is a this is a good one.
The last two are I I think arethe ones that we give it a lot
more thought.
Um, but how has baseball changedyour life?
SPEAKER_00 (20:15):
I think baseball has gives me an outlet to relax.
Okay, how and let me explainthat in day-to-day life, I'm
probably more of a high-strungperson than than I than I
probably care to admitsometimes.
And my my my escape and my andmy um the thing that kind of
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brings me some relaxation isjust sitting back and watching a
baseball game, or when theopportunity presents itself,
going getting to go see abaseball game.
It's a lot like um our friendGeorge Falkowski wrote in his
book, you know, his great book,Ballpark Therapy.
It's just a chance to kind ofget away from from stresses and
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from from you know theday-to-day uh demands of life.
And it's it's just that escapefor for a few hours to just to
watch a beautiful game beplayed.
And it kind of brings me a senseof balance and a kind and a
sense of perspective in that inthat you know, I'm lucky that I
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get to sit here and either watchthis on the television, or I'm
lucky that I get to be at thisthis ballpark.
And I get to watch and I get towatch either my Blue Jays play
or if we're going to a minorleague stadium, uh especially in
those instances where I get togo with uh you know, with loved
ones or with uh or with friendslike you and with with Donny and
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Eric and um our Kerbrim mediapartners, um, with Virgil.
Um it's it's that's always areal that's always a real gift
to me.
Is that it is that it kind of itreally those moments really make
me reflect about how lucky I amin the grand scheme of things in
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life.
Because you know, we all haveour good days, we all have our
bad days, but in the grandscheme of things, I know that I
am very lucky that not only thatthis game exists, but that but
that I both had the opportunityand the and the financial
ability and the opportunities tosee to experience this game in
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different ways, whether it'sthrough the mlb.tv subscription,
whether it's going on one of ourcurb rim media meetups, which by
the way, join us for our onenext year when we when we
finalize that for anyone that'slistening.
And yeah, little thing calledthe World Cup that's that's
getting in the middle of thoseplans, but we'll I know we'll I
know we'll announce something inthe in the you know in the
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coming months.
But um it whether it's thatwhether it's mlb.tv or curb rim
media meetup or just a smalllittle trip that where I get to
see you and we get to see agame.
Yeah, like like a good exampleis the is the game that you and
I saw with uh with oursignificant others and uh with
the uh with the tri-seed chilipeppers and the cosmic baseball.
SPEAKER_01 (23:17):
Oh, that was a lot of fun, dude.
SPEAKER_00 (23:19):
Well, it's just moment that that moment to me is
like a perfect example of uhwhere I just sat there and I
just felt so so blessed to be apart of that.
So so and it reminds me of howexperiences mean so much more
than things.
SPEAKER_01 (23:34):
Oh god, yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (23:35):
Yeah, I mean they are so and and that maybe sounds
weird from someone who collectsas many hats as I do, but I
think experiences areimmeasurably more important than
than things that you can have.
So and that's something uhthat's something I always have
to remind myself of is thatthose are the things that
ultimately really matter are theare the experiences and the and
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the people you get to do themwith, and um also being grateful
for getting to have thoseexperiences.
So baseball has changed my lifeby bringing me so many happy
memories that I know I that Iknow I can I wouldn't trade for
anything else.
SPEAKER_01 (24:14):
I like it.
I like it, my friend.
All right, listen, we're down toour last question.
Are you ready?
SPEAKER_00 (24:22):
I think so.
Let's let's bring it.
SPEAKER_01 (24:25):
So why baseball?
SPEAKER_00 (24:28):
Because life wouldn't be the same without
baseball.
SPEAKER_01 (24:31):
Oh, okay.
You're going philosophical.
I mean, deep on me.
All right.
SPEAKER_00 (24:38):
It's gonna kind of relate to some of my old
answers.
Um baseball because in lifeanything can happen.
And in baseball, anything canhappen.
SPEAKER_01 (24:51):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (24:52):
Yeah.
Yeah.
In in in baseball, uh, you know,there's no um when I think about
baseball, I always think abouttime.
Um and even though a gamedoesn't end, you know, it isn't
ended by a clock, uh I feel likeit reminds me of how time is
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such a valuable resource and tonot take it for granted.
Um I think in baseball you can'ttake a lead for granted because
there's nothing that you knowthat there's anything that can
happen.
I think I think in life wherethere is time, that time is the
most valuable resource that wehave.
SPEAKER_01 (25:35):
It's one of the most precious commodity, you're
right.
SPEAKER_00 (25:37):
One of the most precious commodities, and you
know, we don't get it back.
So you need to so you need toappreciate the time that you
have, just like you know, inbaseball, I think you need to
appreciate the lead that youhave, and that it's not that
it's that you know, it's notguaranteed.
Just like in life, you're notguaranteed any amount of time.
(25:58):
It's just you know, so you know,make the most of make them like
I feel like in baseball, makethe most of the lead and keep
it, and and in life, make themost of the time that you have
with the moments that you have.
SPEAKER_01 (26:11):
You're 100%, my friend.
You're 100% on that one, yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (26:16):
And I just think what is it baseball.
I saw a t-shirt one time, anduh, and it and they've done it
with a lot of sports, but I feellike in some way, baseball is a
lot like life, though the restare just details.
SPEAKER_01 (26:33):
Man, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (26:35):
And I think for a lot of us that are that are huge
baseball fans you have your ownway of defining what that is.
And I don't I don't mean to saythat baseball is life is the
only thing that matters in life.
SPEAKER_01 (26:47):
No, no, no, no, but yeah, you're right.
SPEAKER_00 (26:49):
But kind of making a reference from earlier when I
was talking about that it's thatit's that way to kind of escape.
It's like it for for me, it'slike baseball is life for me, is
like that's where things canslow down because we need to
slow down in life because wemove a mile a minute, we're all
always so busy, we're movingfrom one thing to the other, at
(27:12):
least I know I am, and a lot oftimes I don't stop and you know
smell the coffee or you knowlearn to appreciate it, yeah, to
learn to appreciate it and juststop.
I have I I have to remind myselfof that probably a thousand
times a day.
SPEAKER_02 (27:28):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (27:29):
But but the baseball game, the the baseball game is a
chance to slow down.
It's just a chance to sit thereand however you consume that, if
it's watching every pitch, ifit's having a conversation with
some good friends, or enjoying abeer, or enjoying a enjoying a
pretzel, or if you're our friendVal, Stadium Food Girl, enjoying
(27:52):
whatever whatever the cuisine isat the local stadium.
SPEAKER_02 (27:56):
Correct.
SPEAKER_00 (27:57):
Or if you're you know, or if you're some of our
other friends enjoying it from asuite.
I mean, whatever whatever thatis, it's a it's a different
thing for everyone, but thething we all have in common is
that we all get to enjoy beingat the stadium in whatever
capacity we we like to enjoy it.
That's right.
And and I think that I thinkthat's a I think that's a gift
(28:18):
sometimes.
I know I take it for granted,but I feel like those are
moments that we just have toremember to enjoy and
appreciate.
SPEAKER_01 (28:27):
You're right, my friend.
SPEAKER_00 (28:28):
Man, look at that.
We made it through.
Man, well thank you again for uhthe speaking of those moments.
I appreciate all these momentswith you that you know you you
you allowing me to achieve alifelong dream of being on five
questions with the dad hadhimself.
I mean, those are moments toappreciate.
And um, you know, I I appreciateyou and the guys on the DHC
(28:53):
Sports Show.
Uh, by the way, two Tuesdays andThursdays, eight o'clock Eastern
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Please join us.
And on the breaking even, whatdo we call it?
Break breaking even breakingeven, breaking breaking even.
Sorry guys, we're we're we'vebeen uh it's a working
tinkering.
Yeah, we've been tinkering withDanes for that show.
So that's Mondays at 8 30Eastern Time.
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And um just those moments that Iget to, you know, that we get to
do and talk about sports and uhwhat we're what we're building
together is something that is agift as well.
And so shout out to everyonethat's been listening and look
forward to earning new viewersand um you know just grateful I
(29:35):
get to do it with some goodfriends.
SPEAKER_01 (29:37):
That's right.
And uh I want to thank youagain, dude.
But we thank you for coming onuh on Five Questions.
Now, for again, for those of youthat are interested in uh coming
on Five Questions answered thesevery simple questions.
Uh you got to give it somethought though.
Okay, whether it is basketball,football, baseball, it does not
matter to me.
What matters is that you have agood connection with that sport.
(29:57):
Uh, send me a message, and thenwe will make sure to get.
Scheduled and get you on thepodcast.
Uh, but before we go, guys, makesure again, uh, and Patrick said
it so eloquently uh Tuesdays andThursdays at 8 p.m.
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Uh, we talk all sports at thatpoint, and then also um the uh
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(30:18):
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Also, arena football.
That's the day that we do uhtalk about those sports.
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Hopefully, he'll put on aYouTube channel soon.
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Uh, and until then, guys, uh, wewill see you guys on the next
one.
Alright, let how about now?
SPEAKER_00 (00:02):
Yep.
SPEAKER_01 (00:05):
Oh yeah.
Four minutes into our into theinterview when this thing is.
And not even to question oneyet, right?
I have no idea what happened,I'll be honest with you.
So there's that.
Okay, let's go.
Yeah, your head look goodthough.
SPEAKER_00 (00:27):
Man, well, you know, had to wait to had to wait until
they put this on clearancebecause you know the had to wait
until they had a markdown on it.
SPEAKER_01 (00:33):
Man, you know I'm not gonna pay full price for
shit.
SPEAKER_00 (00:36):
So I didn't pay full price for this, I can tell you
that.
SPEAKER_01 (00:38):
I waited until they put it on clearance.
So I might I you know I'm gonnahave to buy me some some uh
central division championshipgear, though.
That's the one thing I'm gonnahave to do.
SPEAKER_00 (00:48):
Well, I'm wondering if I want to wait until they
throw it all on clearance andjust get it after the fact.
Yeah, I'm kind of debating thesame thing.
I was like, all right, should Ido it?
Should I not?
Well, because I don't want topay$42 for a fanatic shirt.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
Because uh the cheapest I foundwas a Nike one at 37, and I'm
like, you know what I'd ratherdo?
I'd rather just get a Nike likepolyester one for cheaper with a
(01:11):
markdown, yeah, and then andthen just wait for the because
they'll they'll have these maybenot the hats, but like they've
already sold out of the the theBlue Jays division champion
hats.
Yeah, no, I'm gonna wait.
I'm gonna wait to be honest withyou.
That was like a 970 truckeranyway.
So though I'm not I'm not gonnaget that.
Well, I don't like the fit ofthose anyway, so I didn't even
(01:32):
want to.
SPEAKER_01 (01:33):
Yeah, they don't fit me right either, so you're good.
SPEAKER_00 (01:35):
Yeah, no, I they can have them because they're poorly
made anyway.
I've had I've had too many ofthose, not too many, but I've
had a couple of those champdivision champ and champion
stuff, and it's just not yeah,what it should be.
But but man, what were wesaying?
Division champions for both ofus?
Yes, sir, and you guys did it inlike epic fashion.
(01:56):
I mean, you guys won.
What'd you do?
You lost like did you lose liketwo games in September?
SPEAKER_01 (02:01):
Two games.
SPEAKER_00 (02:03):
And one of them was to like the Rangers of all
teams.
The first game was to theRangers, yeah, exactly.
So oh well.
Well, and and not only you wouldhave won the division even
without winning today, but justto win it, yeah, kind of put a
to kind of put a bow on theseason.
Uh Steven Vote, what a job he'sdone with those with those
(02:24):
guardians, man.
This thing is messing me up.
SPEAKER_01 (02:28):
Okay, relax, computer.
All right, here we go.
Are you ready, my friend?
I am ready.
All right.
Well, let's get this show on theroad and let's see how this
goes.
Hopefully, it doesn't screw up.
All right, well, welcomeeverybody to the Deadhead
Chronicles uh podcast.
(02:48):
My name is Ed, also known as theDeadhead, and I am coming to you
on location um from Asheville,North Carolina, at the time of
this recording.
Uh, my team just won the CentralDivision Championship, which I
am very happy about.
And my guest, my good friend, myone of my co-hosts of the DHC
Sports Show, and also Break Evenuh Sports Show, which we talk
(03:11):
about nothing but some of thelittle FCF football, some some
uh Formula One, and of courseour beloved soccer, or how would
they say it across the pond,football.
So uh it is my good friend, theprospector himself, Mr.
Patrick.
Larson, how are you today, myfriend?
SPEAKER_00 (03:30):
I'm doing well, my friend.
Thank you so much for having meon.
You were allowing me to live outa dream.
I never ever thought that Iwould find my way onto this
podcast, and now you haveallowed a simple person from
Georgia to live out his lifelongdream of being on five questions
with Ed Rivera.
Oh my god, how how exciting!Well, I mean, I thought that I
(03:53):
had a dream realized when theBlue Jays just won the AL East
Division title, and then youfind some way to take the cake.
I mean, but you find some way totop it.
You know, some talking aboutsome people go to Disney World,
some people go to Disneyland.
I go on five questions withEdward.
SPEAKER_01 (04:07):
There it is.
Just wait until everybody justlose their mind that finally
Patrick Larson uh uh makes it.
SPEAKER_00 (04:13):
Well, I think there's gonna be probably more
relief from our co-hosts on theDHC Sports Show.
Not finally getting done.
Yeah, that they don't have tohear me go on and on about how I
haven't been a guest.
So there you go.
SPEAKER_01 (04:24):
Well, now you are you're on the podcast.
So all right, my friend.
Yeah, well, let's get started.
This is how for everybody who'slistening for the first time, it
is very simple.
It is called Five Questions, uh,with the data, pretty much,
right?
I'm gonna ask you fivequestions.
Obviously, the sports that we'regonna talk about it is baseball,
but it does not have to bebaseball, it can be any sport
that you like.
(04:44):
So I'm gonna plug it in righthere, real quick, guys.
If you're interested in doingthis, if you're part, if you
want to be part of fivequestions, but you're not a
baseball fan, maybe you're abasketball fan or a hackey or
football.
That's okay.
Give me a uh send me a messageuh through Instagram, through
YouTube, uh, and then we willget you on the podcast or even
on Twitter.
Um, and uh make sure that beforeI continue guys uh our THC
(05:08):
sports show, it is Tuesdays andThursdays at 8 p.m.
Eastern time, as well asbreakeven sports show, which is
8 30 on Mondays.
All right, now that we got thebusiness out of the way, my
friend, are you ready forquestion numero uno?
I'm ready.
Let's go.
All right.
Question number one, my friend,is when did you fall in love
with the sport of baseball?
SPEAKER_00 (05:30):
I've been a fan of baseball for as long as I can
remember.
My first memories are probablyfrom the time I was around five
or six years old.
I I just remember my dad alwayshad my mom and dad always had
baseball on television.
(05:50):
So for those that don't know orhaven't heard me speak before,
uh, most of my family areAtlanta Braves fans.
So everyone remembers the TVSSuper Station or TBS before they
became the superstation.
That's that that was always thehome of the Atlanta Braves for a
lot of people, especially peoplein the southeast United States.
(06:12):
But especially being in Georgia,obviously, there that's Braves
country, and there were a lot ofBraves fans.
But growing up, my dad, my momand dad always had it on the
television.
I didn't really grow up in asports household per se.
But really, the only sport thatwas ever on television was
(06:32):
baseball, because my dad wasnever really a fan of any sports
that had a clock associated withit.
I would say that soccer came inlater because my my my younger
sister and I played it, but Ithink his favorite sport has
always been baseball because ofthe fact that, especially in the
times before the rule changestook place, literally anything
(06:52):
could happen, and you had tomake your own luck, you had to
be the better team, and the gamedidn't end until one team had
more runs than the other.
And I think that's the magic ofbaseball, and it still has some
of that, but obviously with someof the rule changes and the the
ghost runner that you get inextra innings now.
One of the magic pieces of itgrowing up was that it wasn't
(07:14):
over until it was over, andthere wasn't a clock that was
gonna stop you.
SPEAKER_02 (07:19):
That's very true.
SPEAKER_00 (07:21):
So it started with that, and it started and it and
it kind of took on a life of itsown.
I I can't say that I was a BlueJays fan from the time that I
was five or six or anything likethat.
That didn't come until later,and we'll probably get into that
at some point.
But the game of baseball issomething that it was really the
(07:42):
only sporting event we went toas a family.
We would go to the old AtlantaFulton County Stadium, and they
were in the in the late 80s,they they were really, really
bad.
So I do remember being up in thein the nosebleed section, but
there would be at the time ChiefNakahoma out in the outfield
trying to drum up, literallydrum up support.
(08:05):
And in the Atlanta sportsmarket, a lot of times if the
team isn't doing well, a lot oftimes you'll you'll see that
shown in the attendance.
And you could you could reallygo to any seat that you wanted,
but we we we pretty much stayedup in the nosebleed section
because obviously growing upwith a family of five, it still
(08:26):
costs money.
Yeah, um it still costs money totake a family of five anywhere,
I don't care how expensive orinexpensive it was.
And um, but it was something wedid as a family, and it didn't
really matter where we sat, itwas still something I always
remember going to Atlanta FultonCounty Stadium and later on to
some of the other Atlanta BraceParks, and um, it was always
(08:49):
something fun to do as a family.
And if it wasn't there, it wasalways on TBS and we would watch
the team, particularly in theearly 90s when they started
really put when they startedputting together that string of
14 consecutive division titles.
SPEAKER_01 (09:04):
Yeah, I like it.
All right, you ready forquestion number two?
Let's go.
All right, favorite sportsmemory or memories.
Give me a couple of those.
Man, I know, right?
I mean, this is I I know you'regonna have to pare it down,
right?
Because I am obviously we couldgive we could give you the one
that from you know, curly fromtonight, right?
(09:25):
Like where your your Blue Jaysare division champions, and how
long have they not been thedivisional champion in a very
tough American League East?
SPEAKER_00 (09:34):
Yeah, yeah.
So, I mean, obviously, tonightis a very recent memory, but
that is probably recency bias.
But so is it just a famousfamous sports favorite sports
memory in general, or is itbaseball?
Just baseball, okay.
SPEAKER_01 (09:49):
Because um, you know what?
I apologize.
Let's go ahead and sports,because obviously you are a fan
of a plethora of sports.
SPEAKER_00 (09:58):
How's that?
Well, is it okay if I give onefrom baseball and then give just
an additional one in sports?
Absolutely.
SPEAKER_01 (10:04):
Uh this is your show, baby.
I'm just here.
SPEAKER_00 (10:09):
You know, I would probably say because when the
Blue Jays won the World Seriesin '92 and '93, I can't say that
I was a full-time Blue Jays fanat that point.
SPEAKER_01 (10:20):
Okay.
SPEAKER_00 (10:21):
And so I would probably say 2015, when the Blue
Jays won the AL East, and it wasnot only did they win the AL
East for the first time, I thinkthat was since 1993, if I
remember correctly.
Um they but that also ended thelongest playoff drought of any
(10:43):
team in North American sports atthe time.
So so yes, I'm talking about.
You what?
We don't have that one.
Well, well, I wasn't eventalking about championship.
I was just talking about even aplayoff appearance.
Oh, you're right.
Yeah.
So you guys had done it sincethen.
I mean, you had you had beenthere before we had, because
(11:04):
yeah, it was because I think itwas the Mariners at one point,
and then when the Mariners madethe playoffs, then then we took
over that mantle, or somethingalong those lines.
And there were a few years therewhere the Blue Jays, for all of
North American sports, had thelongest playoff drought of any
team.
Yeah.
And I was like, so just to tryto get that dubious honor taken
(11:25):
away from you, and sure feelsgood.
Yeah, to win a division.
And with the way they did it,it's a it was a very different
team from the one that wecurrently see now.
That was a team that was allabout the home run.
So it was so your Jose Bautistasand your Edwin Encarnaciones and
your um maybe not superstars inthe eyes of baseball fans in
(11:48):
general, but certainly belovedin Toronto for some of the years
that they had, and they werebecause Toronto is really,
really special when the team isgood.
SPEAKER_01 (11:57):
And well, hell, I'll remember when Encarnacion signed
with Cleveland, that big yeahcontract.
SPEAKER_00 (12:04):
Yeah, well, it's isn't it funny the the
connection that the Guardiansand Blue Jays seemed to have?
Because because many of thereasons that the Blue Jays won
the division this year wasbecause of former Guardians
players, guys that played a hugerole, like Ernie Clement and um
you know Shane Bieber and AndresJimenez and um Miles Straw.
(12:30):
I mean, it's I mean it's it's uhpretty much uh Guardians of the
North.
It is the Guardians of theNorth.
We the North, we they need tohave a shirt that says we the
Guardians of the North.
SPEAKER_01 (12:39):
Exactly.
SPEAKER_00 (12:40):
So I would probably say 2015 and seeing the Blue
Jays finally win a division andto to not only do that, but
while they didn't make it to theWorld Series, they did actually
win some playoff games.
Yeah, which they now haven'tdone in quite a long time since
then.
Uh they did lose to the Royalsin the um in the American League
(13:04):
Championship series, which I'msure Eric Crawford would love to
remind me of.
So I'm sure he will.
And I'm sure if he when helistens to this, he will remind
me of it again.
Of course, because it isanyways, it is Eric.
So I would say that's myfavorite baseball memory of now.
Another another one is actuallygetting to is it like a sporting
(13:27):
memory, or is it something thatwe see in in person?
SPEAKER_01 (13:30):
Yeah, does it have to be in person?
Yeah, um, you were you witnessedit, then you watched it that you
went with somebody at the bar orsomething like that.
SPEAKER_00 (13:38):
Yeah, and I was, and while I didn't watch it with
people because I don't have manyblue jays fans around here, I
just to get to experience itwith special and to to just
watch the blue jays in theplayoffs because ever since I be
truly became a fan, that was thefirst time I ever got to do
that.
Because prior to that, the theBlue Jays were never were the
(14:01):
the season always ended inOctober or September.
SPEAKER_02 (14:04):
Gotcha.
SPEAKER_00 (14:05):
It really ended in September, so I didn't really
get to see October baseball theway baseball fans really want to
see it.
SPEAKER_01 (14:12):
Yeah, so you got you said you watched it from you
know, yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (14:16):
And I would say another memory as far as
in-person was actually a game togo with a couple of friends and
actually visit the Rogers Centerand see a Blue Jays game in
person.
SPEAKER_01 (14:25):
That's oh man.
SPEAKER_00 (14:27):
So well for a guy that I'm not the guy that's been
to all these different stadiumslike like some of your other
guests have been.
I I'm lucky that I've gotten tosee my share of them and I've
gotten to see what I lack inquantity, I'd like to think I've
made up for it quality, becauseI feel like I've gotten to see
some of the I've been very luckyto see some of the most
(14:47):
beautiful stadiums in the majorleagues.
And and I'm proud of the onesthat I've able to see.
So while I don't have a all 30ballparks marked off my list,
I've gotten to see my team playat home, and I've gotten to see
some of the some really, reallybeautiful stadiums along the
way.
So um, and uh but I'll take thequality over quantity every day.
That's that's just the way thatI like to do it.
(15:08):
It doesn't make it the the waythe right way or the wrong way,
yeah.
Exactly.
And everyone is entitled to doit however they see fit.
But um, so in person, I wouldsay just actually making it to
Toronto to say that I'veactually made it to see a Blue
Jays game is a uh is somethingthat I'll always remember.
And I'm I know it's not the lasttime that I'll make it there.
SPEAKER_01 (15:30):
Good.
All right, you ready?
Question number three.
SPEAKER_00 (15:34):
Let's go.
SPEAKER_01 (15:35):
All right, give me some traditions or rituals from
your point of view as as a fan,right?
Like, I mean, what are yourreach rituals?
Is it rituals in terms ofwatching it on TV or or just or
just um or you know, rightbefore the season starts or as
(15:55):
going to the event?
For example, one of the therituals for me is every year,
you know this because we talkedabout ad nauseum, but is right
before the season starts, Igotta buy a brand new hat or and
a t-shirt right from from thatteam that I'm watching.
So, like that's a ritual for me.
What's a ritual uh or uh um atradition that you do?
SPEAKER_00 (16:14):
I don't know that I have like an actual set
tradition, or at least not onethat's been a long-standing
tradition.
Actually, one of the ones that Ihave is actually one from being
friends with you.
I like I needed a reason.
Um, I've also started doing thepurchasing of a hat and a shirt
before every season.
(16:35):
So my bad.
Oh, it's okay, it's okay.
But I also make sure that I'dsay another tradition now is
getting the mlb.tv package everyyear and using our friend
Annadie Tommaso's uh secret lifehack in terms of getting the
mlb.tv, let's say at less thanthe full rate.
(16:56):
Um perfectly legitimate.
Anything goes.
Well, for you and for me, atleast for the most part for you,
one benefit one benefit of beingwhere we live and cheering for
the teams that we do is that wedon't suffer the blackout that a
lot of people do rooting fortheir local team, unless they
play with a team that it islocal, exactly.
(17:18):
So I'm I'm lucky that the BlueJays only played the Braves
about three times a year.
SPEAKER_01 (17:23):
So see, I'm not so lucky because we got the the
Braves and the Nationals, and Ibelieve the Orioles.
SPEAKER_00 (17:33):
This is one of the few benefits that I say you have
from living about as far awayfrom your team as you can be.
SPEAKER_01 (17:38):
Yep, exactly.
I 100% you're right, though.
SPEAKER_00 (17:41):
Yeah, is that is that I can watch most of the
games and I and I get to watchit on Sportsnet and get to hear
Dan Schulman and Buck Martinezor Joe Siddle or or Caleb Joseph
doing all of the yeah, doing allof the play-by-play for it.
So it's something that I Ireally enjoy getting to do and
it's something of a newertradition now that I now that I
(18:03):
can access the MLB.tv packageand uh at a discounted price, of
course.
At a discounted price, ofcourse.
And while the while it's notanything unique to me, I just
just sitting down with a nicewith a nice drink and just
taking in the game and justtrying to be trying my best at
least to be just a fan of thegame rather than just getting
(18:28):
fanatical over every pitch.
SPEAKER_01 (18:30):
I mean fans does come from the word fanatic, so
it does.
SPEAKER_00 (18:34):
And I'd be lying if if I sat here and said I didn't
have a have a few choice wordswhen things aren't going my
team's way.
In fact, it just uh in fact itjust happened tonight more than
once.
Uh, even with the win.
SPEAKER_01 (18:47):
But with a massive win at that.
SPEAKER_00 (18:49):
Massive win.
But when things got nervy therein the in the game, it's just
one example of if if a pitcher'sstruggling or something like
that, I get so into the gamethat sometimes I have to check
my emotions a little bit andjust step back and sometimes
switch it off for a little bitto try to make sure that I'm not
I don't want to be that personthat no one wants to watch
(19:10):
sports with.
So I try to even when I'mwatching it by myself, I try to
I have to sometimes sit back andcheck my emotions about it.
You gotta remind yourself.
I do.
I have to remind myself thatit's just a game and that I'm
lucky that I even have a chanceto watch my favorite team play
because I remember a time whereI didn't get to do that.
SPEAKER_01 (19:28):
No, no, you're right, you're 100% right.
SPEAKER_00 (19:30):
No, so yeah, so while those are not probably
classic traditions that a lot ofyour listeners maybe have,
that's I I keep it simple.
I guess I don't really have aset tradition, I don't have to
do it necessarily a certain way.
I just my only requirement isthat I can get access to the
game and I can watch my BlueJays play.
SPEAKER_01 (19:49):
I like it.
Good job, my friend.
SPEAKER_00 (19:51):
All right, we got two more, all right?
All right, let's go.
SPEAKER_01 (19:54):
Can you handle it?
SPEAKER_00 (19:56):
I think I can.
Let's go.
SPEAKER_01 (19:57):
All right.
And I'm sure you've thoughtabout this one a lot because
this is a this is a good one.
The last two are I I think arethe ones that we give it a lot
more thought.
Um, but how has baseball changedyour life?
SPEAKER_00 (20:15):
I think baseball has gives me an outlet to relax.
Okay, how and let me explainthat in day-to-day life, I'm
probably more of a high-strungperson than than I than I
probably care to admitsometimes.
And my my my escape and my andmy um the thing that kind of
(20:43):
brings me some relaxation isjust sitting back and watching a
baseball game, or when theopportunity presents itself,
going getting to go see abaseball game.
It's a lot like um our friendGeorge Falkowski wrote in his
book, you know, his great book,Ballpark Therapy.
It's just a chance to kind ofget away from from stresses and
(21:04):
from from you know theday-to-day uh demands of life.
And it's it's just that escapefor for a few hours to just to
watch a beautiful game beplayed.
And it kind of brings me a senseof balance and a kind and a
sense of perspective in that inthat you know, I'm lucky that I
(21:25):
get to sit here and either watchthis on the television, or I'm
lucky that I get to be at thisthis ballpark.
And I get to watch and I get towatch either my Blue Jays play
or if we're going to a minorleague stadium, uh especially in
those instances where I get togo with uh you know, with loved
ones or with uh or with friendslike you and with with Donny and
(21:49):
Eric and um our Kerbrim mediapartners, um, with Virgil.
Um it's it's that's always areal that's always a real gift
to me.
Is that it is that it kind of itreally those moments really make
me reflect about how lucky I amin the grand scheme of things in
(22:10):
life.
Because you know, we all haveour good days, we all have our
bad days, but in the grandscheme of things, I know that I
am very lucky that not only thatthis game exists, but that but
that I both had the opportunityand the and the financial
ability and the opportunities tosee to experience this game in
(22:33):
different ways, whether it'sthrough the mlb.tv subscription,
whether it's going on one of ourcurb rim media meetups, which by
the way, join us for our onenext year when we when we
finalize that for anyone that'slistening.
And yeah, little thing calledthe World Cup that's that's
getting in the middle of thoseplans, but we'll I know we'll I
know we'll announce something inthe in the you know in the
(22:54):
coming months.
But um it whether it's thatwhether it's mlb.tv or curb rim
media meetup or just a smalllittle trip that where I get to
see you and we get to see agame.
Yeah, like like a good exampleis the is the game that you and
I saw with uh with oursignificant others and uh with
the uh with the tri-seed chilipeppers and the cosmic baseball.
SPEAKER_01 (23:17):
Oh, that was a lot of fun, dude.
SPEAKER_00 (23:19):
Well, it's just moment that that moment to me is
like a perfect example of uhwhere I just sat there and I
just felt so so blessed to be apart of that.
So so and it reminds me of howexperiences mean so much more
than things.
SPEAKER_01 (23:34):
Oh god, yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (23:35):
Yeah, I mean they are so and and that maybe sounds
weird from someone who collectsas many hats as I do, but I
think experiences areimmeasurably more important than
than things that you can have.
So and that's something uhthat's something I always have
to remind myself of is thatthose are the things that
ultimately really matter are theare the experiences and the and
(23:58):
the people you get to do themwith, and um also being grateful
for getting to have thoseexperiences.
So baseball has changed my lifeby bringing me so many happy
memories that I know I that Iknow I can I wouldn't trade for
anything else.
SPEAKER_01 (24:14):
I like it.
I like it, my friend.
All right, listen, we're down toour last question.
Are you ready?
SPEAKER_00 (24:22):
I think so.
Let's let's bring it.
SPEAKER_01 (24:25):
So why baseball?
SPEAKER_00 (24:28):
Because life wouldn't be the same without
baseball.
SPEAKER_01 (24:31):
Oh, okay.
You're going philosophical.
I mean, deep on me.
All right.
SPEAKER_00 (24:38):
It's gonna kind of relate to some of my old
answers.
Um baseball because in lifeanything can happen.
And in baseball, anything canhappen.
SPEAKER_01 (24:51):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (24:52):
Yeah.
Yeah.
In in in baseball, uh, you know,there's no um when I think about
baseball, I always think abouttime.
Um and even though a gamedoesn't end, you know, it isn't
ended by a clock, uh I feel likeit reminds me of how time is
(25:16):
such a valuable resource and tonot take it for granted.
Um I think in baseball you can'ttake a lead for granted because
there's nothing that you knowthat there's anything that can
happen.
I think I think in life wherethere is time, that time is the
most valuable resource that wehave.
SPEAKER_01 (25:35):
It's one of the most precious commodity, you're
right.
SPEAKER_00 (25:37):
One of the most precious commodities, and you
know, we don't get it back.
So you need to so you need toappreciate the time that you
have, just like you know, inbaseball, I think you need to
appreciate the lead that youhave, and that it's not that
it's that you know, it's notguaranteed.
Just like in life, you're notguaranteed any amount of time.
(25:58):
It's just you know, so you know,make the most of make them like
I feel like in baseball, makethe most of the lead and keep
it, and and in life, make themost of the time that you have
with the moments that you have.
SPEAKER_01 (26:11):
You're 100%, my friend.
You're 100% on that one, yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (26:16):
And I just think what is it baseball.
I saw a t-shirt one time, anduh, and it and they've done it
with a lot of sports, but I feellike in some way, baseball is a
lot like life, though the restare just details.
SPEAKER_01 (26:33):
Man, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (26:35):
And I think for a lot of us that are that are huge
baseball fans you have your ownway of defining what that is.
And I don't I don't mean to saythat baseball is life is the
only thing that matters in life.
SPEAKER_01 (26:47):
No, no, no, no, but yeah, you're right.
SPEAKER_00 (26:49):
But kind of making a reference from earlier when I
was talking about that it's thatit's that way to kind of escape.
It's like it for for me, it'slike baseball is life for me, is
like that's where things canslow down because we need to
slow down in life because wemove a mile a minute, we're all
always so busy, we're movingfrom one thing to the other, at
(27:12):
least I know I am, and a lot oftimes I don't stop and you know
smell the coffee or you knowlearn to appreciate it, yeah, to
learn to appreciate it and juststop.
I have I I have to remind myselfof that probably a thousand
times a day.
SPEAKER_02 (27:28):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (27:29):
But but the baseball game, the the baseball game is a
chance to slow down.
It's just a chance to sit thereand however you consume that, if
it's watching every pitch, ifit's having a conversation with
some good friends, or enjoying abeer, or enjoying a enjoying a
pretzel, or if you're our friendVal, Stadium Food Girl, enjoying
(27:52):
whatever whatever the cuisine isat the local stadium.
SPEAKER_02 (27:56):
Correct.
SPEAKER_00 (27:57):
Or if you're you know, or if you're some of our
other friends enjoying it from asuite.
I mean, whatever whatever thatis, it's a it's a different
thing for everyone, but thething we all have in common is
that we all get to enjoy beingat the stadium in whatever
capacity we we like to enjoy it.
That's right.
And and I think that I thinkthat's a I think that's a gift
(28:18):
sometimes.
I know I take it for granted,but I feel like those are
moments that we just have toremember to enjoy and
appreciate.
SPEAKER_01 (28:27):
You're right, my friend.
SPEAKER_00 (28:28):
Man, look at that.
We made it through.
Man, well thank you again for uhthe speaking of those moments.
I appreciate all these momentswith you that you know you you
you allowing me to achieve alifelong dream of being on five
questions with the dad hadhimself.
I mean, those are moments toappreciate.
And um, you know, I I appreciateyou and the guys on the DHC
(28:53):
Sports Show.
Uh, by the way, two Tuesdays andThursdays, eight o'clock Eastern
time.
Please join us.
And on the breaking even, whatdo we call it?
Break breaking even breakingeven, breaking breaking even.
Sorry guys, we're we're we'vebeen uh it's a working
tinkering.
Yeah, we've been tinkering withDanes for that show.
So that's Mondays at 8 30Eastern Time.
(29:13):
And um just those moments that Iget to, you know, that we get to
do and talk about sports and uhwhat we're what we're building
together is something that is agift as well.
And so shout out to everyonethat's been listening and look
forward to earning new viewersand um you know just grateful I
(29:35):
get to do it with some goodfriends.
SPEAKER_01 (29:37):
That's right.
And uh I want to thank youagain, dude.
But we thank you for coming onuh on Five Questions.
Now, for again, for those of youthat are interested in uh coming
on Five Questions answered thesevery simple questions.
Uh you got to give it somethought though.
Okay, whether it is basketball,football, baseball, it does not
matter to me.
What matters is that you have agood connection with that sport.
(29:57):
Uh, send me a message, and thenwe will make sure to get.
Scheduled and get you on thepodcast.
Uh, but before we go, guys, makesure again, uh, and Patrick said
it so eloquently uh Tuesdays andThursdays at 8 p.m.
Eastern time, the DHC sportsshow.
Uh, we talk all sports at thatpoint, and then also um the uh
breakeven uh sports show, it isa soccer.
(30:18):
Uh the lower levels of collegefootball, some some Formula One,
indie card, those are the sportsthat we normally we would not be
talking about.
Also, arena football.
That's the day that we do uhtalk about those sports.
Make sure to join us uh at 8:30Eastern time on those.
Make sure to follow Patrick.
Um he listen, he is putting somegreat content out there, so make
(30:38):
sure you guys are following thisman right there, all right?
Um, the MLB hat history.
He is on Instagram, he is onTwitter.
Uh, hopefully, and I'm I've beenpushing him.
Hopefully, he'll put on aYouTube channel soon.
Uh so that way he put all of hisuh videos there.
Uh, but you can also find me, uhthe dad hat on uh Twitter,
Instagram.
Um, I am on TikTok as well as umYouTube.
(31:02):
So make sure you guys follow methere.
Oh and threads, we're both onthreads as well.
Uh, and until then, guys, uh, wewill see you guys on the next
one.
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