June 18, 2025 • 29 mins
We launch a new series asking baseball fans five questions about their relationship with the game, featuring our first guest Virgil Brooks who shares his unique journey from casual observer to dedicated minor league enthusiast.
• Virgil's love for baseball began with a post-graduation 10-day MLB road trip visiting seven ballparks
• The 2006 Southern League All-Star Game changed his perception of minor league baseball when he saw Joey Votto playing for Chattanooga
• Baseball connected him to a supportive community of like-minded fans, especially through social media
• Memorable experiences include the 2017 solar eclipse game in Bowling Green and the Rocket City Trash Pandas inaugural home opener
• Virgil has kept score at games for 20 years, maintaining records of every player he's seen and tracking who makes it to the majors
• Baseball offers unique local experiences in each city, with minor league parks showcasing regional flavor you can't find in other sports
If you're interested in being interviewed for this series, send a message to Ed (The Dadhead) on social media to schedule your appearance.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
What's up everybody and thank you for taking the
time to watch the video.
So this is the very firstepisode with my good friend,
virgil Brooks that I am going tobe doing.
I'm going to be doing a seriesof some of these episodes, or
maybe another podcast, who knows.
But what I want to do is I wantto ask you, the fan, five
questions.
Right, you know, when did youfall in love with baseball?
(00:28):
Your traditions, why baseball,things like that.
Five questions, and fivequestions only, just so that way
we get to know more about youand why baseball is such a
mainstay in your life, okay,just like it is in mine and many
other friends.
So that's the goal.
On this episode.
You'll see my good friendVirgil.
(00:49):
We're talking about how he fellin love with the game of
baseball, some of the traditionsand, yeah, it's, it was a fun,
enlightening episode, because Inever really knew exactly how he
fell in love with baseball.
Like, for me it was different,right, right, than maybe you or
somebody else.
So I hope you guys enjoy it.
If you're interested in comingon the podcast, let's call it
(01:12):
podcast for right now.
If you're interested on beingpart of this, slide into my dms
and then let me know that you'reinterested in doing this, and
then we'll go from there.
All right, and uh, enjoy theepisode, all right?
Well, welcome everybody toanother episode of dadhead
chronicles.
Or should I call this fivequestions to ask a baseball fan?
I don't know, we'll find out.
(01:33):
Uh, and with me.
Well, actually, my name is ed,also known as the dadhead.
I forget about my own introsometimes, uh, but with me is my
good friend.
We broke the streak, guys, thestreak has been broken.
It's the producer, mr virgilbrooks.
Man, how are you doing, myfriend?
Speaker 2 (01:52):
you have finally run out of guests.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
You have to call me to do this I had to go into the
bullpen.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
You know, pull to bring you in oh man, it's so
good to finally, finally, behere.
It's all been missing it's.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
You know what it's, what it is.
You know, this is what we doright now, you know.
So, uh, we had to, we had toget you in, virgil.
Yes, um, my friend, I'm gonnaask you five questions, okay, I
want to know, uh, a couplethings from you.
This is going to be nothing butbaseball related, so I want to
ask you five questions, okay,and the very first question that
(02:31):
I'm going to ask you is whendid you personally, virgil, fall
in love with baseball?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
So I'm not going to be one of these people that said
oh, I fell in love withbaseball when I was like three
years old.
That that's not my story.
I fell in with baseball a lotlater.
Actually, I would say the timeit happened for me was probably
after high school.
For a graduation trip, my uncletook me on a 10-day Major
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League Baseball road trip, butbeforehand I've been to a few
Orioles games because he livesin the DC area.
Okay.
But I got to go there and Ienjoyed that and so he used to
do major league road trips andso he said I'm going to take you
on one of my big ones I've doneso I went there Cardinals,
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brewers, white Sox, tigers, theReds, indians and the Pirates.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
You got some good ballparks there, dude.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Yeah, that's not bad for somebody who's never really
traveled beforehand.
So just being part of that mademe really fall in love with the
game, because not only got tosee a lot of great baseball, a
lot of good players, I mean Igot to see Randy Johnson pitch
against the Pirates almost in ahe had a complete game and it
was a complete game lossactually.
Oh, he gave up two back to backhome runs but he still but see,
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watching that was still fun.
And then, when I kind of gotback home from that, you know I
went to more stars games becauseof that and then, you know,
that became um.
That became its own thing.
Um for minor league baseball,though.
It started about in 2006 when Iwent to the southern league
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all-star game down in montgomery.
Yes, they had the um, becauseat the time, like I was still
watching when I was going toStars against at the time, I
still wasn't sure what minorleague baseball was.
I was still thinking it was, oh, players that will never make
it Correct, instead of realizingthat these are players trying
to make it.
And all it took was seeing JoeyVotto play for Chattanooga and
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realize all the hype around himand it's like, okay, this, this
is a big, this guy's a big deal,he's, he's being treated as
like the next big thing.
And once I realized that's whatminor league baseball was I was
hooked.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
That's cool, dude, I like that.
That's pretty cool.
To really get introduced, uh,to fan, to be a fan of baseball
on a road trip like that, that'spretty cool, I like that.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
It's.
Also, if you think about it,it's kind of risky because I
could have gone.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Man, I hate this Right, and then you would have
been 10 days of just pure hatredof the baseball game and never
like no, I don't want to do thisever again.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Right, but no, that and the traveling aspect was I
enjoyed a lot.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
And then you guys, it was an actual legit road trip
Like you guys like in a cardrove and everything.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Like I said there, there was only one travel day
between Philadelphia and StLouis, but after that it was a
new city every day.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
That's cool.
I like that a lot.
I like it.
I like it.
All right, um, how has baseball?
Speaker 2 (05:50):
changed your life.
Well, I mean, every time I dothe show on Thursday, tuesdays
and Thursdays, right, um, I kindof look back and think about
how I was before I found socialmedia and it's kind of like I
was just kind of like the guywho, you know, didn't really
have anybody talk to about minorleague baseball and just kind
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of I thought I was not the onlyone that did something like this
, but it was very rare to findother people and really being
introduced to that, meeting, thecommunity meeting, all these
great people, yourself included,I mean it's a whole nother set
of friend groups.
It's almost like a, almost likea secondary support group and
it's really it's nice to see andmeet other people with like it,
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with interest like that, withlike the you know, the hat
collecting and the mini helmetcollecting I used to do it's
defined people.
Everyone's so nice andeveryone's so just.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Everyone's so great, everyone's so great, it's just
nice to have a group like this Ifind it that, uh, when it comes
to sports, and and I could bewrong, right, but like the the
one sport that has been to mebeen the most supportive as far
as fandom is concerned has beenbaseball.
To me, um, because I don'tthink you can find something
(07:07):
like this in football orbasketball, uh, or heck, even
even hockey, and I love hockey,you know what I mean.
Uh, baseball, like specificallyminor league baseball, and, and
, um, the collectors that wehave met, you know, along these
all these years, like, has beenone of those things where it's
like, man, this is, yeah, thisis cool yeah, and also, um,
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another thing that I feel likehas changed for me is just the
amount of traveling that I loveto do, just going from certain
towns, um, that I never thoughtI would end up.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
I'm gonna say like avoiding, but like times I would
never think about going to.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
And just so you can like times I would never think
about going to, just so you cango watch a baseball game.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Go to a baseball game Because I remember talking with
when I was first doing roadtrips by myself, talking to my
coworkers, and they're saying,like asking where I'm going, and
they're thinking like, oh,you're just going to say Chicago
or Milwaukee or maybe it'sgoing to say St Louis.
(08:09):
I was like no, I'm going toPeoria, going to Cedar Rapids
and like they're all greatcities, but they're cities you
would never really think aboutunless you had a reason to go.
And even one of the favoritethings that happens when I go to
the hotel rooms and sometimesthey ask why I'm here I says,
well, I'm on a baseball trip.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
And they're like you stopped here yeah, it's like,
yeah, that's a minor league teamso they always it's always
people always always amazed bythat.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
So yeah, that's always a nice little thing to
add yeah, that's cool, you'reright.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
You're right because, even with our corporate media
meetup, right, like I mean, wego to different parts of the us,
like you know.
Yeah, granted, this year we'regoing to chicago, but, like you
know, minnesota, north carolinaright, there's no major league
team in North Carolina, butthere's a bunch of minor league
baseball teams here, right, soyou know, and then people that
meet across the United States,that you get to meet cool people
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all the time while watchingminor league baseball.
Right.
So all right, Okay, Tell mewhat's a couple?
Give me some, me some memories,like your favorite baseball
memories to that like just hasstuck with you all these years.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Well, we already talked about the Southern League
All-Star Game in 2006.
Yep, so they had a home runderby with that, and then also
just the game itself.
And what made that game kind ofspecial?
Or two things.
One, I immediately regrettedscorekeeping it.
I did that.
I wish.
I wish I could go back in timeand say don't do this, you're
going to regret it.
But then also, that was when Ifirst started meeting some of
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the characters you know.
They used to have, like the sandiego check and all that.
And I think san diego came tohuntsville once, but they had
umron Noodleman.
I don't know if you rememberthat name or not.
He's called the Clown Prince ofBaseball, I believe.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yes, he was in Bull Durham.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Yes, yeah, I remember seeing him down at the Southern
League game in Montgomery.
That's cool, dude, and I do notknow if I have it anymore, but
it's here somewhere in the house.
There is a picture with me andhim that I really.
That's awesome.
Yeah, that's, that's one of myearliest memories with meyer
league baseball um, one of thegreatest moments that I
(10:17):
remembered.
I've talked about this on uhbaseball bucket list before the
solar eclipse game in bowlinggreen in 2017.
So they had a game at 10 35 inthe morning because they were in
the 100 totality of the solareclipse that year and so we got
uh eclipse glasses and uh, thegame was.
(10:40):
The game actually finishedbefore the whole thing was
covered, but we got to go on thefield and watch it and that was
.
That wasn't a memory I'll neverforget.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
That's cool.
Cool as shit dude yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Another one, really the first trash Panda game, the
home opener, the, the, the firstseason opener, the stadium
opening, all that it felt like Iwas in a movie almost Really.
All that it felt like I was ina movie almost really.
And none of it felt real.
It's like you had.
It's like when the stars left.
I did a lot of traveling andthe anticipation, the build-up
(11:13):
of having having a local teamagain like I bought season
tickets, like the first day theywere available.
I was there for the team naming.
I was there for the logo reveal.
I was there for the uniformreveal, like I was.
I was locked in.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
So you're like you from the very get-go.
You were it like.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
This is my team exactly I was locked in and then
when you go through the game,it's like it the build-up, and
then it somehow surpasses yourexpectations all right
interesting, and it's like it's.
I almost almost had sensoryoverload because it was just I
just couldn't believe it washappening that's cool, man,
(11:48):
that's that.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
That's pretty cool, right like you, you were there
from the very beginning.
You know buying tickets, youlike.
You like you said the localreveal.
I mean I I've never doneanything like that, like been
there for, like the, therevealing of a of a brand new
team.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
So that's cool that you're able to do that yeah,
well, I said when the stars left, if the team ever came back, I
was gonna go all in with it, andI was.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
I stuck to that I'm very happy that they do some
huntsville star stuff, you knowI do too.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
That was one of the things.
I wasn't sure if they weregoing to lean into that or not,
but they talked about.
The first giveaway was they hada concession stand named
All-Stars and it actually hasthe Stars like a little Stars
logo motif to it.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
And then, you know, then they have the throwback
nights for the Stars nights, andthis year they're doing the
Milestone anniversary.
Is it the 50th or the 40th?
I can't remember.
Off the top of my head I thinkit's the 50th or the 40th.
I can't remember the top of myhead I think it's a full stars,
full stars.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
So they're getting a lot of uh, yeah, 40th and
they're getting a lot of playersto come back for that.
So that's going to be nice tosee.
That's cool, dude.
I like that a lot, all right.
Question number four you ready?
Yes, all right.
What's a baseball tradition orritual or rituals?
Speaker 2 (13:09):
So I actually had to change some of mine recently,
really, because whenever I go toa new place, I usually kind of
like, in lack of a better term,I speed ran the stadium.
Okay, like in lack of a betterterm, I speed ran the stadium.
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Like I went to the theme store,I got the I, you know got, got
my beer, got my food, get yourmerch yeah, got my merch because
I wanted to sit down when theywere doing the rosters to write
them down.
My scorebook and the more I'mthinking about it's like that's
really not practical, likeyou're really missing out on a
lot more things.
You could really have a chancewith that.
So I decided to not really dothat part and actually get a
chance to walk around, somethingI will do at a new ballpark if
(13:52):
possible.
I do three laps around theconcourse, specifically three
laps.
Why three?
Because I feel like with threelaps you can catch everything
that you missed the first twolaps.
Okay, all right.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Talk to me.
Talk to me everything that youmissed the first two laps.
Okay, all right, talk to me.
Talk to me.
I like this.
I like this.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
And also by by doing that it gives me a chance to
kind of get my steps in and thenapparently that's just the
right amount of numbers, if youdo like four or five for me.
That that's when I startgetting like it, almost like
it's redundant, or I start likesweating.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
I'll wedding.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Getting bored with it .
I got you Do that, then I willseek out local beer.
Really.
I know people usually like todo food.
I like the special food items.
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I'm kind of more finding thelocal brewery, especially ones I
haven't heard of before, so Ilike to try their stuff out and
maybe hopefully go there whileI'm still there, before or after
the game, probably after thegame or the next day.
Food I used to do ice creamhelmet so I've stopped that
because it's just I wascollecting too many things.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Dude you and me both, you and me both.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
I had to stop both.
I had to stop, I had to stop.
Yeah well, I mean, I'm, it'sgod.
When I first went to games itwas gotta get a program, gotta
get a hat, gotta get an icecream helmet uh, used to be
souvenir cups, but that kind ofdied down so and programs, they
don't really do anymore besidesonline yeah so it's like I'd
just.
I'd rather just stick with hats,go with quality over quantity.
But no, usually when the gamestarts I'm just in the seat
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doing my books, so I try to geteverything done beforehand.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
And that's a tradition all on its own your
score keeping.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Yeah, this is my 20th year doing it, so I'm surprised
Honestly I'm surprised it stuck.
I thought I'd be bored with itat some point, but it's never
been boring for me.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
No, no.
Why do you like it?
Speaker 2 (15:55):
The answer I always give is it makes me see the game
differently.
Okay, and what I mean by thatis usually there are certain
things that you'll kind of pickup on while scorekeeping, and
also you get to see theprogression of the game.
While it's going on right likeum, you'll see, this player will
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always swing on the third pitch, regardless if it's two strikes
or two balls, whatever are.
Hey are, hey.
This guy's getting close to acycle.
This guy is getting close tofour strikeouts, a 4K strikeout
game.
Just kind of just watch theprogressions of when you know a
pitcher is fatiguing, you cankind of tell with how much more
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pitches he has to go through.
Pitch counts is one thing Istarted keeping track of
recently too, and so this iskind of nice.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
And always there will be people, regardless of a
scoreboard being there, not thatwill ask you questions
interesting.
So it's a, it's a good talkingpoint.
You know, piece, that, like youknow, you're able to meet
people at that point becauseyou're you're a scorekeeper and
they, they want to ask youquestions about it right now.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
The thing that I do not understand personally and I
get this this quite a bit I amasked if I'm a scout.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Yeah, I'll be honest, I can see that.
Yeah, you don't see a lot offans.
I mean, I know of two for surepeople that score keep you and
Kelly.
Yeah Right, I know for a factthat that both of you like score
keep the whole game.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
I almost feel like it's uh, I'm not gonna say a
dying art, but I do feel like alot of people don't do it as
much anymore I have my.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
My wife tells me like I kind of have like a small
amount of add on this one adhd,I get distracted too fast and I,
you know, because I payattention to other things other
than the, you know I couldn't doit.
Yeah, that's, I just couldn'tdo it.
You got to have something aboutit.
Has to be something that thatgravitates you, because I just
couldn't do it.
I tried, I really did.
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I even downloaded an app justso I can start doing it on the
app.
And I failed.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Some people have asked me about the doing it on
the app and I failed.
Some people have asked me aboutthe doing it on apps and for us
it's not the same, but thebiggest question I get about it
is are the most?
The biggest reaction is I do itin pen.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
That's.
You're a brave man.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
I, that's how I was taught.
I was taught in pen, so I triedpencil before and it fades
pretty quick on those books.
So I've just I've stuck tousing pens.
So if I make mistakes, I umwhich which is very rare and
never, never, ever happens butif it does happen I have to, uh,
I do creative, uh, creativemarkings, we'll just say with it
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.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
I got you.
I can see that.
I can see that.
That's pretty cool man, I likethat.
And then you keep all of thescore sheets right.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Yes, I keep all the books and I do a spreadsheet,
basically a player database, ofall the players I have recorded
in my books.
Just kind of I like to trackand see which ones actually make
it.
Yeah, so that's kind of a nicething.
I update that every year afterthe season.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Good for you, man.
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
That's some next-level fandom right there.
It's definitely a commitment.
There's always new things Iwant to add to it, and then I
realize I don't have enough timefor that.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
And I noticed that when you know, because obviously
you're the producer of that,when you know, because obviously
you're the producer of our, youknow that Chronicle Sports Show
every Tuesday and Thursdays,9pm Eastern Time, just you know,
make sure it's on YouTube.
You like the how I just yeah,that's pretty good, but like for
you it fits because you're thedata person, right, you'd like
that, doing that.
(19:41):
And then when we throw thingsat you, you, I can hear the
keyboard to do work and I'm likethis dude is searching it right
away.
He we don't even have to askanymore.
You know where we're going withthis and you're just like there
.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Yet the moment a topic comes up, even if just one
time, I already have at leastdata on it.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Two things open.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
That can hopefully answer the question.
That's awesome.
I love that you're.
You have been an amazingaddition to the show.
It has been absolutelywonderful.
I'm just glad I'm able tocontribute to it honestly the
way I have.
I've really enjoyed.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
I feel like I found my, my place on it, for sure
yeah, oh god, yeah, yeah, likethe show would not be the show
without you at this point.
Like you know, you can't leaveit.
You're stuck forever you know,I mean yeah, you said you're
done, you know, I mean, we'reall of it's like it's.
We all contribute somethingdifferent, uh, to this, and it's
(20:34):
just you gotta have it, youknow.
So I love it, uh, all right.
Last question are you ready forthis, my friend?
yes, I am all right.
Why baseball?
All right.
Last question Are you ready forthis, my friend?
Yes, I am All right.
Why baseball?
Why baseball?
Yeah, why baseball, and nowother sports, but it had to be
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baseball.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
So why baseball, baseball for me, I cannot think
of another sport where you cantravel to relatively close to a
different city and then seesomething completely different
than what you've just seenbefore playing the same sport.
Like you know, we go to onething about we go to.
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I have Rocket City here I cango down to Birmingham, go down
to Montgomery next day andMontgomery I'm watching some guy
with a biscuit launcher Yep.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
That sounds delicious too, definitely.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
I go down to Pensacola later on and see the
Blue Angels flying over a game,over by a beach site.
I can just go to these smallertowns that I feel like you don't
really think about going to,like I said earlier, and catch
their experiences, because Ifeel like each game, each place
you go to, there's going to besomething different that you're
going to see, because they'realways going to have a little
(21:56):
bit of local flavor involved inthere, like even on the road
trip I'm about to do over inMichigan, going to Lansing,
going to Kalamazoo, westernMichigan.
There's going to be so manydifferent things I would never
possibly even have seen beforeat a trash panda game Yep, yep,
and I feel like there may beother sports.
I don't know what other sportcould probably produce that.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
You're right.
You're right.
I mean we go baseball, it's allover the United States, like,
listen, everybody's like, oh,nfl is the American sport, it's
not.
Man, I still think thatbaseball is still American
sports because it's playedeverywhere, exactly, you know,
like minor league baseball Heck,even with me, you know what I
mean.
Like how excited I've been thatI've been playing Sandlot
(22:40):
baseball, right, and like I'm 43years old and I'm having a ton
of fun right, and you can't dothat in football or anything
like that, or even basketball.
You got minor league, you gotyou know G League, but like you
know, Well, I feel like maybewith hockey, with the AHL, ehl.
(23:01):
Yeah, that's close.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
That could be close.
But I mean I look at, like youknow, football, college football
, in a way College football, ifyou have like the FCS schools,
they're not going to play everyday.
It's usually like for me it hasto be at that kind of level
because I feel like with minorleague baseball and yes, I know
(23:23):
major league has kind of takenover a lot of the stuff with
that I just hope it hasn't lostthe, the, the flavor of what it
is.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
It hasn't gone fully.
Yeah, that essence is stillthere.
Yeah, I'm I agree, I a hundredpercent agree, like I mean I
that's why, but I like, I like,I want to ask this question to
everybody, right, I mean thisspecific five questions, but
that last one, I want to end itwith that one, because I believe
and you and me were talking offoffline is, you are also like
me, you're intrigued at whatpeople are going to answer when
(23:57):
they ask that question.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Oh yeah, I'll be curious what, how, what people,
which way people go with that.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Right, because, oh yeah, I'll be curious what, how,
what people, which way peoplego with that.
Right, because there could beso many different ways.
Heck, every single one of thesequestions are going to be
something different, likebecause everybody's experiences
are different than yours no,exactly like I said, I feel like
I'm.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
I feel like I'm in a little unique situation because
I don't really have any majorleague stories or major league
team.
The following is like people Iknow, like most people have,
they were fans of major leaguesand then they became minor
league fans.
I'm kind of like almost theopposite.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Yeah, well, hell, you don't even technically have a
major league team.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
No.
Which annoys some people on theshow.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
It doesn't bother me at all, I mean, but I think it's
hilarious that you know somepeople we're not going to name
those names.
You know, make sure you turn in, you know, on tuesdays and
thursdays, 9 pm eastern time,just saying, uh, because some
people does like, no, you need ateam, I think.
And then also we have giving.
I think we kind of pseudo, gaveyou a team just for the heck of
it, you know I think it's arevolving door at this point,
(25:04):
right.
At this point, like you, youreally don't have a set team.
We'll see what next week's teamis going to be that you're
going to supposedly we gave youCause.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
I said the Brewers because that's a lot of the
former stars players, especiallyon the their playoff run.
We're right, but then even yousaid he was like he didn't sound
fully convinced on that, so Ithink it's going to change next
week probably yeah, I'm notfully convinced that you are,
like a, truly like you know,rooting for the brewers at this
point.
So we'll see.
I haven't been to that ballparkso I can say that at least
(25:32):
that's what's uh course fieldright no more miller park or
whatever it's miller park.
When I went I don't know what itis, yeah it's a different name.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Now everyone you, you know the corporate.
That's the corporate corporatetranslation of.
You know the game.
So, virgil, thank you so muchfor doing this.
Dude, I appreciate that.
You are the first person onthis podcast or show or YouTube.
I don't know where it's goingto go, but it's going to go
somewhere.
But you're the first personthat I'm asking these questions
(26:00):
and thank you so much for thisman.
Thank you for having me, andthank you for thanking me for
about being the first person Ireally appreciate that, yeah,
yeah, you're the first person Ithought about when I wanted to
ask these questions, and thenwe'll go from there.
Where can people find you onsocials?
Speaker 2 (26:14):
So I am on Twitter and Instagram as Lost Gumbel.
I will usually post pictures ofmy hats that I wear at the
games, along with my scorebookfor that game.
Going on, I do have some roadtrips coming up, so I'll be more
active during those times.
But yeah if you like, just hatsand scorebooks, find me there.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
I love it and I'll put.
Make sure to put those socialson the show notes so that way
people can follow you.
Make sure you follow me.
I am the Data216.
I am on Instagram, I am onthreads, uh, facebook, almost on
YouTube that had chronicles, soyou have to do that, um, and
then on Twitter as well.
So, um, we'll see who the nextperson is.
If you're interested, if youhave listened to this episode
(26:56):
and if you're interested incoming on, uh, send me a message
and then, uh, we will find sometime to get you on.
Coming on, send me a messageand then we will find some time
to get you on Virgil.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Thanks so much, my friend.
Thank you very much.
What's up everybody and thank you for taking the
time to watch the video.
So this is the very firstepisode with my good friend,
virgil Brooks that I am going tobe doing.
I'm going to be doing a seriesof some of these episodes, or
maybe another podcast, who knows.
But what I want to do is I wantto ask you, the fan, five
questions.
Right, you know, when did youfall in love with baseball?
(00:28):
Your traditions, why baseball,things like that.
Five questions, and fivequestions only, just so that way
we get to know more about youand why baseball is such a
mainstay in your life, okay,just like it is in mine and many
other friends.
So that's the goal.
On this episode.
You'll see my good friendVirgil.
(00:49):
We're talking about how he fellin love with the game of
baseball, some of the traditionsand, yeah, it's, it was a fun,
enlightening episode, because Inever really knew exactly how he
fell in love with baseball.
Like, for me it was different,right, right, than maybe you or
somebody else.
So I hope you guys enjoy it.
If you're interested in comingon the podcast, let's call it
(01:12):
podcast for right now.
If you're interested on beingpart of this, slide into my dms
and then let me know that you'reinterested in doing this, and
then we'll go from there.
All right, and uh, enjoy theepisode, all right?
Well, welcome everybody toanother episode of dadhead
chronicles.
Or should I call this fivequestions to ask a baseball fan?
I don't know, we'll find out.
(01:33):
Uh, and with me.
Well, actually, my name is ed,also known as the dadhead.
I forget about my own introsometimes, uh, but with me is my
good friend.
We broke the streak, guys, thestreak has been broken.
It's the producer, mr virgilbrooks.
Man, how are you doing, myfriend?
Speaker 2 (01:52):
you have finally run out of guests.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
You have to call me to do this I had to go into the
bullpen.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
You know, pull to bring you in oh man, it's so
good to finally, finally, behere.
It's all been missing it's.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
You know what it's, what it is.
You know, this is what we doright now, you know.
So, uh, we had to, we had toget you in, virgil.
Yes, um, my friend, I'm gonnaask you five questions, okay, I
want to know, uh, a couplethings from you.
This is going to be nothing butbaseball related, so I want to
ask you five questions, okay,and the very first question that
(02:31):
I'm going to ask you is whendid you personally, virgil, fall
in love with baseball?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
So I'm not going to be one of these people that said
oh, I fell in love withbaseball when I was like three
years old.
That that's not my story.
I fell in with baseball a lotlater.
Actually, I would say the timeit happened for me was probably
after high school.
For a graduation trip, my uncletook me on a 10-day Major
(02:56):
League Baseball road trip, butbeforehand I've been to a few
Orioles games because he livesin the DC area.
Okay.
But I got to go there and Ienjoyed that and so he used to
do major league road trips andso he said I'm going to take you
on one of my big ones I've doneso I went there Cardinals,
(03:23):
brewers, white Sox, tigers, theReds, indians and the Pirates.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
You got some good ballparks there, dude.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Yeah, that's not bad for somebody who's never really
traveled beforehand.
So just being part of that mademe really fall in love with the
game, because not only got tosee a lot of great baseball, a
lot of good players, I mean Igot to see Randy Johnson pitch
against the Pirates almost in ahe had a complete game and it
was a complete game lossactually.
Oh, he gave up two back to backhome runs but he still but see,
(03:56):
watching that was still fun.
And then, when I kind of gotback home from that, you know I
went to more stars games becauseof that and then, you know,
that became um.
That became its own thing.
Um for minor league baseball,though.
It started about in 2006 when Iwent to the southern league
(04:19):
all-star game down in montgomery.
Yes, they had the um, becauseat the time, like I was still
watching when I was going toStars against at the time, I
still wasn't sure what minorleague baseball was.
I was still thinking it was, oh, players that will never make
it Correct, instead of realizingthat these are players trying
to make it.
And all it took was seeing JoeyVotto play for Chattanooga and
(04:43):
realize all the hype around himand it's like, okay, this, this
is a big, this guy's a big deal,he's, he's being treated as
like the next big thing.
And once I realized that's whatminor league baseball was I was
hooked.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
That's cool, dude, I like that.
That's pretty cool.
To really get introduced, uh,to fan, to be a fan of baseball
on a road trip like that, that'spretty cool, I like that.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
It's.
Also, if you think about it,it's kind of risky because I
could have gone.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Man, I hate this Right, and then you would have
been 10 days of just pure hatredof the baseball game and never
like no, I don't want to do thisever again.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Right, but no, that and the traveling aspect was I
enjoyed a lot.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
And then you guys, it was an actual legit road trip
Like you guys like in a cardrove and everything.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Like I said there, there was only one travel day
between Philadelphia and StLouis, but after that it was a
new city every day.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
That's cool.
I like that a lot.
I like it.
I like it.
All right, um, how has baseball?
Speaker 2 (05:50):
changed your life.
Well, I mean, every time I dothe show on Thursday, tuesdays
and Thursdays, right, um, I kindof look back and think about
how I was before I found socialmedia and it's kind of like I
was just kind of like the guywho, you know, didn't really
have anybody talk to about minorleague baseball and just kind
(06:10):
of I thought I was not the onlyone that did something like this
, but it was very rare to findother people and really being
introduced to that, meeting, thecommunity meeting, all these
great people, yourself included,I mean it's a whole nother set
of friend groups.
It's almost like a, almost likea secondary support group and
it's really it's nice to see andmeet other people with like it,
(06:32):
with interest like that, withlike the you know, the hat
collecting and the mini helmetcollecting I used to do it's
defined people.
Everyone's so nice andeveryone's so just.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Everyone's so great, everyone's so great, it's just
nice to have a group like this Ifind it that, uh, when it comes
to sports, and and I could bewrong, right, but like the the
one sport that has been to mebeen the most supportive as far
as fandom is concerned has beenbaseball.
To me, um, because I don'tthink you can find something
(07:07):
like this in football orbasketball, uh, or heck, even
even hockey, and I love hockey,you know what I mean.
Uh, baseball, like specificallyminor league baseball, and, and
, um, the collectors that wehave met, you know, along these
all these years, like, has beenone of those things where it's
like, man, this is, yeah, thisis cool yeah, and also, um,
(07:30):
another thing that I feel likehas changed for me is just the
amount of traveling that I loveto do, just going from certain
towns, um, that I never thoughtI would end up.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
I'm gonna say like avoiding, but like times I would
never think about going to.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
And just so you can like times I would never think
about going to, just so you cango watch a baseball game.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Go to a baseball game Because I remember talking with
when I was first doing roadtrips by myself, talking to my
coworkers, and they're saying,like asking where I'm going, and
they're thinking like, oh,you're just going to say Chicago
or Milwaukee or maybe it'sgoing to say St Louis.
(08:09):
I was like no, I'm going toPeoria, going to Cedar Rapids
and like they're all greatcities, but they're cities you
would never really think aboutunless you had a reason to go.
And even one of the favoritethings that happens when I go to
the hotel rooms and sometimesthey ask why I'm here I says,
well, I'm on a baseball trip.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
And they're like you stopped here yeah, it's like,
yeah, that's a minor league teamso they always it's always
people always always amazed bythat.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
So yeah, that's always a nice little thing to
add yeah, that's cool, you'reright.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
You're right because, even with our corporate media
meetup, right, like I mean, wego to different parts of the us,
like you know.
Yeah, granted, this year we'regoing to chicago, but, like you
know, minnesota, north carolinaright, there's no major league
team in North Carolina, butthere's a bunch of minor league
baseball teams here, right, soyou know, and then people that
meet across the United States,that you get to meet cool people
(08:52):
all the time while watchingminor league baseball.
Right.
So all right, Okay, Tell mewhat's a couple?
Give me some, me some memories,like your favorite baseball
memories to that like just hasstuck with you all these years.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Well, we already talked about the Southern League
All-Star Game in 2006.
Yep, so they had a home runderby with that, and then also
just the game itself.
And what made that game kind ofspecial?
Or two things.
One, I immediately regrettedscorekeeping it.
I did that.
I wish.
I wish I could go back in timeand say don't do this, you're
going to regret it.
But then also, that was when Ifirst started meeting some of
(09:37):
the characters you know.
They used to have, like the sandiego check and all that.
And I think san diego came tohuntsville once, but they had
umron Noodleman.
I don't know if you rememberthat name or not.
He's called the Clown Prince ofBaseball, I believe.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yes, he was in Bull Durham.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Yes, yeah, I remember seeing him down at the Southern
League game in Montgomery.
That's cool, dude, and I do notknow if I have it anymore, but
it's here somewhere in the house.
There is a picture with me andhim that I really.
That's awesome.
Yeah, that's, that's one of myearliest memories with meyer
league baseball um, one of thegreatest moments that I
(10:17):
remembered.
I've talked about this on uhbaseball bucket list before the
solar eclipse game in bowlinggreen in 2017.
So they had a game at 10 35 inthe morning because they were in
the 100 totality of the solareclipse that year and so we got
uh eclipse glasses and uh, thegame was.
(10:40):
The game actually finishedbefore the whole thing was
covered, but we got to go on thefield and watch it and that was
.
That wasn't a memory I'll neverforget.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
That's cool.
Cool as shit dude yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Another one, really the first trash Panda game, the
home opener, the, the, the firstseason opener, the stadium
opening, all that it felt like Iwas in a movie almost Really.
All that it felt like I was ina movie almost really.
And none of it felt real.
It's like you had.
It's like when the stars left.
I did a lot of traveling andthe anticipation, the build-up
(11:13):
of having having a local teamagain like I bought season
tickets, like the first day theywere available.
I was there for the team naming.
I was there for the logo reveal.
I was there for the uniformreveal, like I was.
I was locked in.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
So you're like you from the very get-go.
You were it like.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
This is my team exactly I was locked in and then
when you go through the game,it's like it the build-up, and
then it somehow surpasses yourexpectations all right
interesting, and it's like it's.
I almost almost had sensoryoverload because it was just I
just couldn't believe it washappening that's cool, man,
(11:48):
that's that.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
That's pretty cool, right like you, you were there
from the very beginning.
You know buying tickets, youlike.
You like you said the localreveal.
I mean I I've never doneanything like that, like been
there for, like the, therevealing of a of a brand new
team.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
So that's cool that you're able to do that yeah,
well, I said when the stars left, if the team ever came back, I
was gonna go all in with it, andI was.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
I stuck to that I'm very happy that they do some
huntsville star stuff, you knowI do too.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
That was one of the things.
I wasn't sure if they weregoing to lean into that or not,
but they talked about.
The first giveaway was they hada concession stand named
All-Stars and it actually hasthe Stars like a little Stars
logo motif to it.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
And then, you know, then they have the throwback
nights for the Stars nights, andthis year they're doing the
Milestone anniversary.
Is it the 50th or the 40th?
I can't remember.
Off the top of my head I thinkit's the 50th or the 40th.
I can't remember the top of myhead I think it's a full stars,
full stars.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
So they're getting a lot of uh, yeah, 40th and
they're getting a lot of playersto come back for that.
So that's going to be nice tosee.
That's cool, dude.
I like that a lot, all right.
Question number four you ready?
Yes, all right.
What's a baseball tradition orritual or rituals?
Speaker 2 (13:09):
So I actually had to change some of mine recently,
really, because whenever I go toa new place, I usually kind of
like, in lack of a better term,I speed ran the stadium.
Okay, like in lack of a betterterm, I speed ran the stadium.
(13:29):
Like I went to the theme store,I got the I, you know got, got
my beer, got my food, get yourmerch yeah, got my merch because
I wanted to sit down when theywere doing the rosters to write
them down.
My scorebook and the more I'mthinking about it's like that's
really not practical, likeyou're really missing out on a
lot more things.
You could really have a chancewith that.
So I decided to not really dothat part and actually get a
chance to walk around, somethingI will do at a new ballpark if
(13:52):
possible.
I do three laps around theconcourse, specifically three
laps.
Why three?
Because I feel like with threelaps you can catch everything
that you missed the first twolaps.
Okay, all right.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Talk to me.
Talk to me everything that youmissed the first two laps.
Okay, all right, talk to me.
Talk to me.
I like this.
I like this.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
And also by by doing that it gives me a chance to
kind of get my steps in and thenapparently that's just the
right amount of numbers, if youdo like four or five for me.
That that's when I startgetting like it, almost like
it's redundant, or I start likesweating.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
I'll wedding.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Getting bored with it .
I got you Do that, then I willseek out local beer.
Really.
I know people usually like todo food.
I like the special food items.
(14:42):
I'm kind of more finding thelocal brewery, especially ones I
haven't heard of before, so Ilike to try their stuff out and
maybe hopefully go there whileI'm still there, before or after
the game, probably after thegame or the next day.
Food I used to do ice creamhelmet so I've stopped that
because it's just I wascollecting too many things.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Dude you and me both, you and me both.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
I had to stop both.
I had to stop, I had to stop.
Yeah well, I mean, I'm, it'sgod.
When I first went to games itwas gotta get a program, gotta
get a hat, gotta get an icecream helmet uh, used to be
souvenir cups, but that kind ofdied down so and programs, they
don't really do anymore besidesonline yeah so it's like I'd
just.
I'd rather just stick with hats,go with quality over quantity.
But no, usually when the gamestarts I'm just in the seat
(15:31):
doing my books, so I try to geteverything done beforehand.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
And that's a tradition all on its own your
score keeping.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Yeah, this is my 20th year doing it, so I'm surprised
Honestly I'm surprised it stuck.
I thought I'd be bored with itat some point, but it's never
been boring for me.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
No, no.
Why do you like it?
Speaker 2 (15:55):
The answer I always give is it makes me see the game
differently.
Okay, and what I mean by thatis usually there are certain
things that you'll kind of pickup on while scorekeeping, and
also you get to see theprogression of the game.
While it's going on right likeum, you'll see, this player will
(16:15):
always swing on the third pitch, regardless if it's two strikes
or two balls, whatever are.
Hey are, hey.
This guy's getting close to acycle.
This guy is getting close tofour strikeouts, a 4K strikeout
game.
Just kind of just watch theprogressions of when you know a
pitcher is fatiguing, you cankind of tell with how much more
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pitches he has to go through.
Pitch counts is one thing Istarted keeping track of
recently too, and so this iskind of nice.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
And always there will be people, regardless of a
scoreboard being there, not thatwill ask you questions
interesting.
So it's a, it's a good talkingpoint.
You know, piece, that, like youknow, you're able to meet
people at that point becauseyou're you're a scorekeeper and
they, they want to ask youquestions about it right now.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
The thing that I do not understand personally and I
get this this quite a bit I amasked if I'm a scout.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Yeah, I'll be honest, I can see that.
Yeah, you don't see a lot offans.
I mean, I know of two for surepeople that score keep you and
Kelly.
Yeah Right, I know for a factthat that both of you like score
keep the whole game.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
I almost feel like it's uh, I'm not gonna say a
dying art, but I do feel like alot of people don't do it as
much anymore I have my.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
My wife tells me like I kind of have like a small
amount of add on this one adhd,I get distracted too fast and I,
you know, because I payattention to other things other
than the, you know I couldn't doit.
Yeah, that's, I just couldn'tdo it.
You got to have something aboutit.
Has to be something that thatgravitates you, because I just
couldn't do it.
I tried, I really did.
(17:56):
I even downloaded an app justso I can start doing it on the
app.
And I failed.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Some people have asked me about the doing it on
the app and I failed.
Some people have asked me aboutthe doing it on apps and for us
it's not the same, but thebiggest question I get about it
is are the most?
The biggest reaction is I do itin pen.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
That's.
You're a brave man.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
I, that's how I was taught.
I was taught in pen, so I triedpencil before and it fades
pretty quick on those books.
So I've just I've stuck tousing pens.
So if I make mistakes, I umwhich which is very rare and
never, never, ever happens butif it does happen I have to, uh,
I do creative, uh, creativemarkings, we'll just say with it
(18:41):
.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
I got you.
I can see that.
I can see that.
That's pretty cool man, I likethat.
And then you keep all of thescore sheets right.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Yes, I keep all the books and I do a spreadsheet,
basically a player database, ofall the players I have recorded
in my books.
Just kind of I like to trackand see which ones actually make
it.
Yeah, so that's kind of a nicething.
I update that every year afterthe season.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Good for you, man.
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
That's some next-level fandom right there.
It's definitely a commitment.
There's always new things Iwant to add to it, and then I
realize I don't have enough timefor that.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
And I noticed that when you know, because obviously
you're the producer of that,when you know, because obviously
you're the producer of our, youknow that Chronicle Sports Show
every Tuesday and Thursdays,9pm Eastern Time, just you know,
make sure it's on YouTube.
You like the how I just yeah,that's pretty good, but like for
you it fits because you're thedata person, right, you'd like
that, doing that.
(19:41):
And then when we throw thingsat you, you, I can hear the
keyboard to do work and I'm likethis dude is searching it right
away.
He we don't even have to askanymore.
You know where we're going withthis and you're just like there
.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Yet the moment a topic comes up, even if just one
time, I already have at leastdata on it.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Two things open.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
That can hopefully answer the question.
That's awesome.
I love that you're.
You have been an amazingaddition to the show.
It has been absolutelywonderful.
I'm just glad I'm able tocontribute to it honestly the
way I have.
I've really enjoyed.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
I feel like I found my, my place on it, for sure
yeah, oh god, yeah, yeah, likethe show would not be the show
without you at this point.
Like you know, you can't leaveit.
You're stuck forever you know,I mean yeah, you said you're
done, you know, I mean, we'reall of it's like it's.
We all contribute somethingdifferent, uh, to this, and it's
(20:34):
just you gotta have it, youknow.
So I love it, uh, all right.
Last question are you ready forthis, my friend?
yes, I am all right.
Why baseball?
All right.
Last question Are you ready forthis, my friend?
Yes, I am All right.
Why baseball?
Why baseball?
Yeah, why baseball, and nowother sports, but it had to be
(20:58):
baseball.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
So why baseball, baseball for me, I cannot think
of another sport where you cantravel to relatively close to a
different city and then seesomething completely different
than what you've just seenbefore playing the same sport.
Like you know, we go to onething about we go to.
(21:20):
I have Rocket City here I cango down to Birmingham, go down
to Montgomery next day andMontgomery I'm watching some guy
with a biscuit launcher Yep.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
That sounds delicious too, definitely.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
I go down to Pensacola later on and see the
Blue Angels flying over a game,over by a beach site.
I can just go to these smallertowns that I feel like you don't
really think about going to,like I said earlier, and catch
their experiences, because Ifeel like each game, each place
you go to, there's going to besomething different that you're
going to see, because they'realways going to have a little
(21:56):
bit of local flavor involved inthere, like even on the road
trip I'm about to do over inMichigan, going to Lansing,
going to Kalamazoo, westernMichigan.
There's going to be so manydifferent things I would never
possibly even have seen beforeat a trash panda game Yep, yep,
and I feel like there may beother sports.
I don't know what other sportcould probably produce that.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
You're right.
You're right.
I mean we go baseball, it's allover the United States, like,
listen, everybody's like, oh,nfl is the American sport, it's
not.
Man, I still think thatbaseball is still American
sports because it's playedeverywhere, exactly, you know,
like minor league baseball Heck,even with me, you know what I
mean.
Like how excited I've been thatI've been playing Sandlot
(22:40):
baseball, right, and like I'm 43years old and I'm having a ton
of fun right, and you can't dothat in football or anything
like that, or even basketball.
You got minor league, you gotyou know G League, but like you
know, Well, I feel like maybewith hockey, with the AHL, ehl.
(23:01):
Yeah, that's close.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
That could be close.
But I mean I look at, like youknow, football, college football
, in a way College football, ifyou have like the FCS schools,
they're not going to play everyday.
It's usually like for me it hasto be at that kind of level
because I feel like with minorleague baseball and yes, I know
(23:23):
major league has kind of takenover a lot of the stuff with
that I just hope it hasn't lostthe, the, the flavor of what it
is.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
It hasn't gone fully.
Yeah, that essence is stillthere.
Yeah, I'm I agree, I a hundredpercent agree, like I mean I
that's why, but I like, I like,I want to ask this question to
everybody, right, I mean thisspecific five questions, but
that last one, I want to end itwith that one, because I believe
and you and me were talking offoffline is, you are also like
me, you're intrigued at whatpeople are going to answer when
(23:57):
they ask that question.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Oh yeah, I'll be curious what, how, what people,
which way people go with that.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Right, because, oh yeah, I'll be curious what, how,
what people, which way peoplego with that.
Right, because there could beso many different ways.
Heck, every single one of thesequestions are going to be
something different, likebecause everybody's experiences
are different than yours no,exactly like I said, I feel like
I'm.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
I feel like I'm in a little unique situation because
I don't really have any majorleague stories or major league
team.
The following is like people Iknow, like most people have,
they were fans of major leaguesand then they became minor
league fans.
I'm kind of like almost theopposite.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Yeah, well, hell, you don't even technically have a
major league team.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
No.
Which annoys some people on theshow.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
It doesn't bother me at all, I mean, but I think it's
hilarious that you know somepeople we're not going to name
those names.
You know, make sure you turn in, you know, on tuesdays and
thursdays, 9 pm eastern time,just saying, uh, because some
people does like, no, you need ateam, I think.
And then also we have giving.
I think we kind of pseudo, gaveyou a team just for the heck of
it, you know I think it's arevolving door at this point,
(25:04):
right.
At this point, like you, youreally don't have a set team.
We'll see what next week's teamis going to be that you're
going to supposedly we gave youCause.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
I said the Brewers because that's a lot of the
former stars players, especiallyon the their playoff run.
We're right, but then even yousaid he was like he didn't sound
fully convinced on that, so Ithink it's going to change next
week probably yeah, I'm notfully convinced that you are,
like a, truly like you know,rooting for the brewers at this
point.
So we'll see.
I haven't been to that ballparkso I can say that at least
(25:32):
that's what's uh course fieldright no more miller park or
whatever it's miller park.
When I went I don't know what itis, yeah it's a different name.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Now everyone you, you know the corporate.
That's the corporate corporatetranslation of.
You know the game.
So, virgil, thank you so muchfor doing this.
Dude, I appreciate that.
You are the first person onthis podcast or show or YouTube.
I don't know where it's goingto go, but it's going to go
somewhere.
But you're the first personthat I'm asking these questions
(26:00):
and thank you so much for thisman.
Thank you for having me, andthank you for thanking me for
about being the first person Ireally appreciate that, yeah,
yeah, you're the first person Ithought about when I wanted to
ask these questions, and thenwe'll go from there.
Where can people find you onsocials?
Speaker 2 (26:14):
So I am on Twitter and Instagram as Lost Gumbel.
I will usually post pictures ofmy hats that I wear at the
games, along with my scorebookfor that game.
Going on, I do have some roadtrips coming up, so I'll be more
active during those times.
But yeah if you like, just hatsand scorebooks, find me there.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
I love it and I'll put.
Make sure to put those socialson the show notes so that way
people can follow you.
Make sure you follow me.
I am the Data216.
I am on Instagram, I am onthreads, uh, facebook, almost on
YouTube that had chronicles, soyou have to do that, um, and
then on Twitter as well.
So, um, we'll see who the nextperson is.
If you're interested, if youhave listened to this episode
(26:56):
and if you're interested incoming on, uh, send me a message
and then, uh, we will find sometime to get you on.
Coming on, send me a messageand then we will find some time
to get you on Virgil.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Thanks so much, my friend.
Thank you very much.
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