Echoes of the Stadium: Adventures in Minor League Baseball and Beyond

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Austin Alegre shares his journey from hockey to baseball, highlighting his experience as a PA announcer for the Lake Elsinore Storm. He discusses the vibrant atmosphere of minor league baseball, the thrill of being the voice of the game, and the unforgettable memories it creates for fans.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Ladies and gentlemen, you are now listening to your
favorite baseball podcast,starring Ed and Valerie.
This is the Dad had Chronicles.
Is anybody there?

Speaker 3 (00:31):
All right, all right, all right.
Well, welcome everybody to yetanother episode of the Dad Hat
Chronicles podcast.
My name is Ed, also known asthe Dad Hat, and with me, as
always, my good friend, myfellow lover of Dad Hats, food
girl val.
How you doing, my girl?

Speaker 2 (00:48):
hi, I'm doing great.
I'm so excited.
It's it's monday, we've got afun monday night football game
on tonight and on top of thatwe've got an incredible guest
for this show.
Like I can't stop smiling.
I'm so excited.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
No, you're not a dork at all like me.
That would never happen.
All right, so do tell.
Who do we have?

Speaker 2 (01:13):
Today we have the one and only Austin PA of the Lake
Elsinore Storm and the LongBeach Bombers right Hockey.
Wow, that is so cool.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
Yeah, it's a really, you know, really excited to be
here.
Honestly, this last seasonworking in baseball it's been
nothing but a dream and you knowbeing able to continue going is
what I hope to keep doing.
You know, starting in slowsingle A, hopefully getting up
to even triple A or majorleagues if we're lucky.
You know, starting in lowsingle A, hopefully getting up
to even triple A or majorleagues if we're lucky.
You know that's what I'mtalking about?

Speaker 3 (01:50):
That's what I'm talking about, by the way,
you're about to make me spendsome money, dude.
You're about to get me introuble with the weapons.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
I'm on the website right now.

Speaker 3 (01:57):
See, this is what I do, right.
Every time we go, we do theseinterviews right.
The last interview that we didwith the Apostle Chihuahuas.
Where do I go?
We go to the Apostle Chihuahuaswebsite and then I want
everything from there.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
Oh yeah, their merchandise is awesome.

Speaker 3 (02:12):
Oh God, modern League merchandise is awesome.
You know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
And this teen store.
It's the cutest teen store too,and it's next to a stand that
sells one of the best stadiumburritos I've ever tried.

Speaker 3 (02:29):
It's everything that's so I'm all about.
I'm all about mexican food, sooh yeah, oh yeah, you come to
the lake.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
Elsinore diamond, you go.
You make a right as soon as youget into the concourse right
there, the first stand, michitacos.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
Oh my goodness when do we know if they're coming
back?

Speaker 1 (02:52):
uh, I'm pretty sure they're.
They installed a permanent likeled sign on the wall so I
assume they're going to be backnext season.

Speaker 3 (02:59):
No other stand had that, oh yes, okay, new lcd sign
and everything.
All right, we're trying to bigtime it up in here, oh yeah oh
yeah well, I like mentioned.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
I'm so excited, austin, talk us about, talk to
us about like how your journeywith this team got started and
kind of like your everyday um,you know job with with this with
this team.
I I saw you once at work up inthe booth and I have to say you
look so legit up there window.

(03:34):
Your voice is heard throughoutthe entire stadium.
It is so freaking cool yeah,it's.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
Uh, it was definitely like.
Uh, it was weird starting off,because I'm not used to hearing
my voice, especially that loudwhen you're, when you, when
you're in a stadium, especiallywhen it's like like a tuesday
game, you know, not too manypeople are there, just because
everyone's working, you show upand when you hear your voice
bouncing off of the lake elsnormountains behind you and coming
back, it's a weird feeling thatis so cool wait, hold on a

(04:03):
second.
You can actually hear the like,the voice, like reverberate back
probably because we got, yougot the mountains right to the
left and in right field andthere's all these, all these
buildings in between you.
You can hear it bounce backimmediately, that is so cool
that's pretty legit and it wouldhave to be.

(04:26):
Yeah, it would have to be kindof weird to hear that, right as
you're doing, the pa announcingright it took a lot of getting
used to, especially because youknow you want to have your
window open because you want tohear the sounds of the game, but
at the same time then you gotto deal with the sound reverb
and everything.
But once you get used to it,honestly it's just.

Speaker 3 (04:42):
It just flows, every single game I could have never
thought about it.
I totally like didn't eventhink about that Especially with
us and Lake Elsinore.

Speaker 1 (04:52):
We're all about our production.
We're all about putting on thebest show you've ever seen in
baseball and minor leaguebaseball Like our Saturdays.
We call them the show Saturdaysbecause it's basically a show.
In between innings we alwayshave some kind of game going on,
whether it's you got kids inthe outfield spinning on bats
and then racing on bouncingballs just trying to win some

(05:13):
kind of prize, or whether it'safter the top of the first
inning.
We'll go get a fan at thestands, ask them to pick a
player on the starting lineupand if that player hits a double
at any point in the game,everybody in a certain section
gets free double doubles from inand out oh, that is yo so legit

(05:36):
well, literally right as you'releaving the stadium too exactly
that.
Not, not even 0.5 miles away.

Speaker 3 (05:42):
That's so perfect that's not so perfect, that's
just not wrong.
That's just wrong, that's just.
We're about to go make youspend some money.

Speaker 1 (05:52):
If anything, Lake Ellsner is one of the best like
values you can get in baseball,especially this last.
It was our 30th anniversaryseason, this last one, so we had
throwback Thursdays, so all theprices were the same prices
that they were back in 94 whenthey first started playing, so
you'd get tickets for like $9.50.

(06:14):
We had $2 beers for sale andthen on the last one of the
season we ran out of $2 beers.
The owner made an audible afterlike the third inning and said
all right, all the tall boys arenow $4.
Go back to the stands.

Speaker 2 (06:27):
Wow, imagine a $4 tall boy, please.

Speaker 3 (06:31):
When you say old school, are you guys using this
old school LE with a flash ontop?

Speaker 1 (06:36):
Oh yeah, the storm cloud and everything I love that
.
That's legit though it's somany eras of storm baseball.
That's legit though it's youknow so many eras of Storm
Baseball.
It's just cool, like all thedifferent logos we have for the
team.

Speaker 3 (06:50):
Yeah.
So let me ask you, like how didyou fall into this job that you
do?
Like?
I mean, there had to be likeall of a sudden, I was like you
know what?
I think I can do this.
I got this.

Speaker 1 (07:06):
Well, it really all started, uh, when I was 17.
Go just going to hockey gameswith my friends after like a day
at high school okay it was.
It was ten dollars.
It was right down the road, youknow, and it was hockey on.
You get to stand right on theice because it's at the local
rink, you know.
Yeah, you just got to got to goout and have a good time.
So we would go so many timesthat, uh, they started
recognizing us, like all thegame day staff and everything.
So we were friends with likeall the people that would run

(07:27):
the games.
And one day they asked like hey,our penalty box guy didn't show
up.
Do you, do you mind filling in?
Like we're cool, we trust you.
You know I was like, yeah, I'mthere, I'm all for you.
And then they from there.
I asked like hey, how does thescoreboard work?
And like, hey, how does ascoreboard work?
And like hey, like, can I playmusic in between puck drops?
Can I?
Can I announce like goals?
Cause they didn't, they weren'tdoing any of that.

(07:49):
You know, it's just juniorhockey.
They were just doing the basics, just putting the score on the
score sheet, playing music everynow and then, and I just I
wanted to, you know get a littlelively in there and you know it
, it worked.
We had more people coming in.
We start throwing out differentpromotions with tickets.
That's really when I got myfirst introductions into the
sports industry and and thenfrom there, like I started

(08:12):
asking like more and more, likewhat, what all can I do to like
help out the team?
Then all of a sudden, I'm inseattle with the team that my
first ever flight I ever took isup with a junior hockey team
going to se and just being ableto drive around the Pacific
Northwest exploring that whilealso doing my job and just
watching these guys progressthrough hockey and everything.

(08:34):
It's just, it's, it's so fun.

Speaker 3 (08:36):
That's sick.

Speaker 2 (08:37):
Wow, I'll be up to work one day, exactly, exactly,
sunday.

Speaker 1 (08:40):
Exactly.

Speaker 3 (08:44):
Exactly so.
You're like the Tom Brady andsomebody was, you know, Drew
Bledsoe, and then you're likeI'll do it and then, never
relinquish.
I got you, I got you.

Speaker 1 (08:53):
And a similar story when it got into broadcasting.
You know, we were on a roadtrip playing the team up in Lake
Tahoe for a three-game series.
It gets to Sunday, it's thelast game of the series and I
look um, it gets to sunday, it'sthe last game of the series,
and I look over and theirbroadcast guy was gone and I see
their cameraman.
He has the mic in between hisarms while he's controlling the
camera and he's just trying totalk and everything.
So I like asked him like hey,do you want some help?

(09:13):
Like I was assuming you knowI'll grab the camera for him.
And then he just hands me themic and I was like all right, I
guess we're doing this, oh mygosh.
And then from there I was likethat was really fun, I want to
keep doing that.
And so they, they, let me hopon the broadcast there.
And from then it brought meattention.

(09:33):
Throughout the league I'll do,uh, different showcases in vegas
, for we'll have the entire likeall the western teams come out
to vegas, we go to the goldenknights facility and the
henderson silver knightsfacility.
We'll play tournament gamesthere.
I'll broadcast for all theteams in the league there and
then, like it's just, yeah, it'sso fun, that's sick.

(09:56):
What a life yeah, it was just.
You know, it got me theattention.
And now, uh, I was working withthe san diego team the last
seven to eight seasons and thisnew season.
You know, things got shooken upa little bit within the
ownership committee andeverything.
A few things fell through, butI was able to get a call from
the Long Beach squad up.

Speaker 3 (10:14):
I saw the video.
By the way, I was on Instagramlooking at your video, you know
you got your, your, your, your.
You had something to coveringyour shirt here the logo.
Yeah, you know, I saw that.
That's all I got you.
I'll see you, I'll see you.

Speaker 1 (10:28):
I had to make a little bit of announcement, you
know and ever since going upthere.
You know from from day one,because they knew me from before
, I was the guy that came withthe san diego team and I'd be,
I'd be talking crap with theteams going off on them.
You know their fans would bejawing back and forth and that's
it's hockey.
But then going up there, youknow they were super supportive.
Just immediately it just tookme in and like, brought me, like

(10:51):
there was times like my carbroke down up there.
My owner seriously like hehooked me up with his uncle who
was able to take a look at it.
It had to be.
It was a problem that had to befixed the next morning.
So his uncle houses me at hisown house.
I didn't have to look for ahotel or anything and they're
just super nice people up inLong Beach.
It's been a good ride.

Speaker 3 (11:11):
That's awesome.
Good for you, bro.
That's awesome.
I love it.

Speaker 2 (11:15):
Long Beach is kind of a drive from you, isn't it?

Speaker 1 (11:18):
Yeah, I'm still living in Carlsbad so I live,
ironically, right down the roadfrom the rink that the San Diego
team plays for.
I still work there part-time,you know, taking a few shifts
and everything.
But I just go up to Long Beachbecause they called me, they
wanted me to go up there and soI wanted to return the favor in
some way.
And you know, it's moreexposure.

(11:38):
Just going throughout differentteams looks good on the resume,
gets more clips on the sizzlereels, you know.

Speaker 3 (11:45):
You know, good for you.
I mean, listen, you'refollowing your dream and that's
all that matters, right, like Imean, as long as you're doing
what you love and hold on.
And also, hockey is a lot offun yeah, it is a lot of you
know, I, I, it's been like ithasn't I have, I've not always
been.
I'm a kid from puerto rico,okay, so like, oh yeah, hockey

(12:06):
was not something that you grewup in puerto rico you know, uh.
But when I moved to ohio, we hadthe uh, we had the lumberjacks,
you know oh, yeah, yeah I goback that old yes, calm down,
okay, uh, but we had the, we hadthe lumberjacks and everything,
and then now the, the clevelandmonsters and man, now listen, I
don't care what anybody says,hockey is one of the most fun

(12:28):
sports to watch in person.

Speaker 1 (12:30):
It's nothing but pure .
It's action from whistle towhistle.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (12:34):
The hitting, the fighting, the scoring, oh my God
, absolutely pandemonium, and Iabsolutely love every bit of it.

Speaker 1 (12:45):
I think hockey was definitely one of the best ways
to get into the sports community.
It really just started justlike it just felt like everyone
in a community you know, and youhad your team, you had your
support staff and then you hadthe fans.
And then you had the fans thatwould house players and you
would just start meeting moreand more people throughout all

(13:06):
of this.
And now, like I know people wholive in sweden, guys who are in
denmark, I've got guys allthroughout the us, throughout
canada, and it's like I and Ican still text any of them right
now and they I would, couldhave a good conversation with
them that's cool legit, reallygood connections I've made and
like some of the best peopleI've ever met, like, and you

(13:28):
know it's.
It was always hard at the end ofthe season driving the guys
back to the airport to go backhome.
It felt like I.
I was like this is how teachersfeel.

Speaker 3 (13:36):
Like on the last day of school I was like now I know
why my teachers were crying onthe last day of school yeah, I
mean, you get to know them right, you become friends with them
and all of that, and then it'slike, then you're like, all
right, got to go.

Speaker 1 (13:48):
Yeah, and six months just goes up like that.
You know, hockey season seemsso long, and then it gets to the
end of it and you're like wheredid everything go?

Speaker 3 (13:56):
Like you're like.
I just blinked.

Speaker 1 (13:58):
Yeah, it was just Christmas, like yesterday
yesterday.

Speaker 3 (14:08):
So so let me ask you then because you got to make
that transition from hockey tobaseball?

Speaker 1 (14:14):
pretty quickly, yeah, as you know how.
How is that for you?
It's, um, honestly, uh, it wasa little bit of a challenge,
especially going from such afast-paced sport to, you know,
more laid back.
Even with the pitch clock, youknow, it's definitely a lot more
slower than it is in hockey,yeah, and but I I just saw on
instagram actually lake elsnorjust posted, you know, hey,
we're having open auditions forpa announcers and play-by-play

(14:36):
broadcasters.
Send in a highlight tape that'sat least 90 seconds long to
this email and we'll get back toyou if we're interested.
So you know, I went through themotions, recorded a little, a
little intro, threw in a fewclips, you know, just kind of
like, all right, if they take me, they take me, you know then I
get.
I got invited up to auditionsand then it was myself and about
25, 30 other local broadcastersand pa announcers two people

(15:01):
that I've known, that I metthrough like soccer clubs and
everything that it was cool justseeing like old friends up
there.
And then they had us createlike a script of our own ads
with the sponsors that they have, and then you had to make your
own ad for a theme game that wascoming up and then they gave
you an opening uh, openingvisiting roster and an opening

(15:21):
home roster, and you had toannounce lineups in the stadium,
like with no one in there andjust you just had to go at it.
They just sat you in front ofthe mic like, okay, you press
that to turn it on, go for itnow.

Speaker 2 (15:32):
That was the audition process oh, oh, no, the way I I
was the second one to go off ohwow, oh, you were the second
one oh yeah, nerves everywhereno, the no, no, no, no, the
minute they, they say that youhave to talk on the mic and

(15:53):
there's no one there, I'm like,nope, this isn't for me.
What are you?

Speaker 3 (15:56):
talking about.
This is what you do now.
You're a podcaster now like youdo this.

Speaker 2 (16:00):
It's different, though it's different when
you're seeing the stadium fullof people.

Speaker 3 (16:05):
It's I mean, oh my gosh you know what to me and and
correct me if I'm wrong I waslike don't you get like this
adrenaline shot when you knowthere's like people listening
and there's a crowd that's ready, they're like I mean, I know my
adrenaline would just gothrough the roof for that a
hundred percent I had.

Speaker 1 (16:20):
I had my first sellout game three of the season
.
It was Little League night, soall the local Little Leagues are
coming out.
We had at least like 30, 35different teams out there.
This whole stadium was packed.
Not a single seat was empty.
I think it was over 5,300people there and that's the
biggest crowd I ever didanything for.

(16:41):
The energy was crazy.

Speaker 3 (16:46):
That's wild.

Speaker 2 (16:49):
You know what, though I don't know if you were
feeling the nerves when we werethere back in June, but you
sounded so natural and then, ifI remember correctly, you were
kind of like chirping theplayers' last names and I was
like, wow, not only is he sogood at this, but they, like,

(17:09):
you've got to be loved by theowners or whoever, or by your
manager to be able to just doall this.
He's really got this down.

Speaker 1 (17:20):
I always asked him.
I was like, hey, it's nothingmean, I just want to say a
little something funny.
So my favorite thing was so I'mgoing to pick on a player from
a rival team here.
It's a prospect.
I believe he played for theQuakes and his name is Randy
DeJesus.
Now, if you broke up thesyllables in Randy DeJesus, it

(17:42):
just so happens to match up tothe rhythm of True by Spandau
Ballet.

Speaker 3 (17:49):
Okay, he would come out to bat.

Speaker 1 (17:53):
We'd start playing that song.
I'd say, Now coming to bat,it's Randy.

Speaker 2 (18:05):
DeJesus, dejesus.

Speaker 3 (18:08):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (18:09):
And there was times I'd get the visiting, the whole
bench on the visiting side.
They'd look up and they'd pointand laugh.

Speaker 3 (18:17):
That's amazing.

Speaker 2 (18:19):
No, it was.
I was shocked at how much theylet you chirp at the opposing
team.
It was so cool.

Speaker 1 (18:29):
They said you know, take it easy sometimes, but
definitely don't say anything tothe officials.

Speaker 3 (18:34):
Yeah, that's probably you'll get kicked out on that.

Speaker 1 (18:38):
I don't want to end up on ESPN because I got kicked
out of a minor league baseballgame.
You know.

Speaker 3 (18:45):
I mean, that's kind of legit though, Like you know
like if you were to make it toESPN because you were chirping a
.
An umpire would be so gold.
I mean don't do it, becausethen you're going to be out of a
job, so don't do that.
But I'm just saying that'd beso good.

Speaker 2 (19:08):
You know, maybe one day if I you know, if I can call
in a favor.
No, that's, that's, that's socool, and I know you do this
every day.
But I'm not even kiddingsomething about driving into
that stadium and seeing thatoutfield wall with the big logo.
It just like yeah that's gottabe like the best way to start
your day, like it's time it.

Speaker 1 (19:27):
It feels like home.
Honestly, you, you drive in,especially getting there like an
hour and a half before thegates even open.
You know it's just you and yourgame day staff and everyone's
just so.
Everyone's in the same goodmood, ready for a game to go,
whether it's a late game or it'sa sunday, and we're doing a 12
o'clock game, like everyone'sjust always in a good mood.
We have our little, our meetingbefore the game, going over

(19:49):
what we're going to do inbetween innings, all of our
promos and everything, and then,once the gates open and we
start doing all the ad reads andeverything, it just everything
just starts flowing perfectly.
Even when it feels like we'restressed or like we're behind
time, we always get perfectly ontime that's so cool man to be
doing that like doing what youlove, right yeah, exactly I.

(20:11):
I can't complain, even no matterhow much I drive, how much wear
and tear on my car, it's hadlike it's.
It's what I love doing and Iwouldn't have it any other way
this past season?

Speaker 2 (20:23):
did you follow the team to any other stadiums?

Speaker 1 (20:26):
uh, unfortunately not this season, just because I was
also working a summer securityjob, just like just doing a
little extra work for more moneyand everything.
But this next season I'm reallyhoping to at least go to a few
away games, especially likerancho cucamonga or like bisalia
or something like that, notsuper far away but closer than
like mod Modesto.

Speaker 2 (20:44):
Yeah.
Yeah, those are all good oneson my list too, so I don't blame
you.

Speaker 3 (20:50):
That would be kind of cool.

Speaker 1 (20:51):
Away games are definitely really like.
Nothing's better than being anAway fan.
It's one of my favorite thingsto do.

Speaker 2 (20:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (21:02):
Really.
Yeah, you know, because likesomething about being able to go
in there and support and justlike be repping your team and
everyone's against you, butespecially if your team's
winning and you just have thatslight little advantage over
them you're just giving thatsmirk to them like my first nhl
game I ever went to was in ballarena in Colorado.

(21:23):
I saw the Avalanche play theGolden Knights and I'm a big
Golden Knights fan.
My buddy's a big Avalanche fan.
We were there for his 21stbirthday.
It's the third game of theseason.
It's getting super close.
It's 2-1.
Colorado just pulled theirgoalie and then Vegas sends it
down the ice, gets an emptynetter and people start getting

(21:45):
up and leaving early.
So I mean, you know, I had afew Coors lights in me.

Speaker 3 (21:49):
Of course.

Speaker 1 (21:50):
Where's everyone going?
There's still two and a halfminutes left.
What are we doing?

Speaker 3 (21:57):
guys, see, I'm the kind of fan I will stay until
the very end, even if my team islosing.

Speaker 1 (22:03):
Always.

Speaker 3 (22:06):
No matter what, I don't care.
Like, listen, obviously fanfanatic right, but like I will
always, no matter what, I willalways stay.
I cannot.
Just not even during the worldseries where the Cleveland
Indians lost to the the Cubs, Iwas there to the very end oh
yeah especially if you're therethat if you made it that far,
you got to be there the wholetime yo god, yeah, I'm already

(22:27):
invested absolutely absolutelyexactly like another good away
day story.

Speaker 1 (22:34):
I just went to this last baseball season.
I went up to angel stadium whenthe podgers are playing up
there and um, so I'm sittingright in left field for the
seats that I totally paid forand it's right behind the left
fielder and I hear them sayintentional walk on Manny
Machado.
So then I scream out.

(22:55):
I was like pitch to him, youcowards.
And then this one guy, absolutebeauty, about six rows ahead of
me, stands up, turns aroundlike looking at Puffin out of
stress, like hey, we may suck,but we are not cowards.

Speaker 3 (23:19):
And that is the best Angels fan in the world.
That's awesome.
That is awesome.
Fan in the world that's awesome.
That is awesome.
Oh, we may suck, but we are notcowards hey, that is a bad
business.
He stood on business I'll giveit to that.
That is not a good team anaheimstand up good for them.

(23:40):
Good for them, I mean good foryou.
At the same time, right, I meanyou're repping your team.
Oh, but good for them.

Speaker 1 (23:48):
I've been repping San Diego, since there's players
that people couldn't even tellyou were on that team.
What do you know about KristenNorfia?
Who Exactly the caveman?
You don't know about KristenNorfia?
What do you know about WillVenable man Come on?

Speaker 3 (24:03):
I do know Will Venable, that I do know, willie
V.

Speaker 1 (24:05):
Willie V, your new head coach of the Chicago White
Sox White.

Speaker 3 (24:08):
Sox.
Yeah, man, I'm like holy crap.

Speaker 2 (24:11):
We'll blame Ricardo for not teaching me enough.

Speaker 3 (24:16):
Blame him, yeah, next time.

Speaker 1 (24:19):
you're just sitting in the living room with Ricardo.
I swear to God, just startnaming, pull up like San Diego
Padres 2009 roster and, justevery so often, just name a
random player.
He'll go for hours, yeah you'rewrong.

Speaker 3 (24:37):
Also, let me ask you this out of as a fan now,
because obviously you're a sandiego padres fan.
I have my favorite logo for thepadres, but I want to know
which one is your all-timefavorite?
Sandy san diego padres logofavorite padres logo.

Speaker 1 (24:51):
All right, so I.
So I'm really, I'm really gladwe brought back the Brown and
gold.
You know a lot of peopleoutside of the San Diego
community don't really like.
They're like why that's suchweird colors.
You know the people get we getcalled the UPS drivers and stuff
.
You know people.
But join back to the heritageof San Diego.
It's real.
I love the black and goldbecause it was just so different

(25:12):
.
You know, not every team isgoing to rock that color scheme
but out of all the logosthroughout my time being a Padre
fan, my favorite one is I'mbiased because it was the logo
we had when we first had ourinaugural season at Petco Park
the home plate that was bluewith palm trees behind it and it
says San Diego Padres.
Across home plate that is oneof trees behind it and it says

(25:33):
san diego padres.
Across home plate that ice.
That is one of the best padreslogos out there I got some.

Speaker 3 (25:39):
I got some that I like.
I'm a fan of some of those thatI like.
I just want you to know that.
Uh, the 92 one where it saysthe circle of the san diego
that's my number two club andthat's my number two with a blue
and oh my god, oh, the blueorange, oh, oh so sick.
He's got a tony gwynn jerseywith that I mean, that's what I

(26:02):
was just literally was justgonna say tony gwynn in that
jersey, oh exactly, that's,exactly.

Speaker 1 (26:07):
That's the number one person you think of when you
see that jersey.

Speaker 3 (26:09):
Yeah, oh, that's so sick, so I'm a swing fryer girl.

Speaker 2 (26:16):
I love him.

Speaker 1 (26:17):
He's so cute, cutest mascot, cutest logo, he's fine,
and he has a good time at thegames too, he's so awesome, just
everything about that stadium.

Speaker 2 (26:29):
I you know what I hope one day.

Speaker 1 (26:31):
This journey takes you to that, because to be at
that ballpark every day, oh,what's that view anytime I go,
and if I can find any ticket, Idon't care if it's standing room
only in gallagher square.
I am at that stadium.
I want to go visit every otherstadium, but I'm like you know,
like it's kind of hard whenyou're coming from the best.
Already you know Wow.

Speaker 3 (26:54):
Okay, that is some strong words.

Speaker 2 (26:56):
No, I don't disagree.
It is one of my favorite gameday experiences.
We are usually like anOceanside San Marcos area.
We take the train, we're ridingalong the water, we get dropped
off at the Gaslamp District.
We pregame go to gallier square.
No, actually we have friends um, I'm sure you know them, like
rojano, james them, and so like.

(27:19):
We will go to the season ticketlounge, do like the five dollar
cut waters.
We're already that's how you doit, yeah it's buzzing and then
you go downstairs and we'redoing some more drinking.

Speaker 3 (27:30):
It's of course I mean because that's part of it,
right.

Speaker 1 (27:34):
You got to go for the members pre-game happy hour,
because that $5 can is then $13after the first pitch is thrown.

Speaker 3 (27:41):
Oh gross.

Speaker 2 (27:42):
Jesus.

Speaker 3 (27:46):
It goes like oh, it's cheap, Too expensive.

Speaker 2 (27:51):
No.
To go from $5 to whatever it is, $13 or even more for other
drinks, is like no, no, no, I'llcomplain about it until I'm in
the stadium.

Speaker 1 (28:01):
Then I'm like, oh, I'm so ready to pay $15 for this
beer right now.

Speaker 2 (28:05):
Well, that's why you go extra hard at Gallagher
Square to not even think aboutit.

Speaker 3 (28:10):
You pre-game there and then you go inside.

Speaker 2 (28:12):
I'm sorry at Gaslamp.
Pre-game extra hard at Gaslamp.
This way, when you're inside,you don't even care until you
take your bank account the nextmorning you're not wrong.
I mean, you're not really wrongbut on that note of like game
day experience, do you have likea game day experience at like
Elsinore?
Like I know, like you get therean hour before getting ready
for work, but like do you everget to go down and do it try any

(28:34):
of the foods?
Do you ever like, after the thegame is over, like when do you
get to come downstairs?
Because I know last time wewere there like you were
upstairs for a while.

Speaker 1 (28:44):
So uh-huh, yeah, so I .
Usually I spend most of my timeupstairs but, like pre-game,
I'm able to just walk around theconcourse, do whatever I need
to do.
A lot of times, my my favoritething to do is, like after a
payday especially, you know, go,go, reward yourself with a
little, with a Brookie, withsome ice cream on top of it,
from the batter up bakery, oh my.

Speaker 2 (29:06):
I'm so sad.

Speaker 3 (29:11):
Yeah, explain this to me.

Speaker 2 (29:12):
When we get you to lake elsinore there is this
bakery that has been there for afew years now, thank god.
It's called the batter upbakery and they sell the best
desserts, the best lemonade, butthey also sell this massive
it's a massive half brownie,half chocolate chip cookie.

Speaker 3 (29:36):
Oh, that sounds delicious already.

Speaker 2 (29:38):
And it like glistens and it's just.
It's so beautiful and it's sogood.
I know that our listenerscannot see, but this is what it
looks like.

Speaker 1 (29:48):
Oh, my God.

Speaker 2 (29:49):
And then the chocolate chip part, or here
underneath the chocolate chipchip part, that's all brownie,
right there yowza, yeah, I'm nothungry at all I asked them to
warm it up.

Speaker 1 (29:59):
Throw a scoop of ice cream on top of that.
That is my pre-game snack.

Speaker 3 (30:02):
Oh, you gotta get ready.
Oh god, that looks.
Oh, that's, I'm so hungry.
I'm not hungry.
No, no, no, I'm not.

Speaker 2 (30:08):
And then that meaty taco spot too.

Speaker 1 (30:11):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 2 (30:13):
It's probably in the I was looking for that place.

Speaker 1 (30:15):
In the press box.
We get a little bit spoiledbecause we have all the sweet
waiters.
They'll come into the press box.
We'll just write our order on alittle piece of paper.
They'll go to all the standsdown there and they'll just come
bring it up to us.
Wow, so, so, michi Tacos I'llbe like.
Oh yeah, I'm feeling like threecarne asada tacos today.
Cool, write it down.
It'll be up in about 10 to 15minutes.

Speaker 3 (30:35):
Oh, my God.

Speaker 2 (30:37):
Oh my gosh.
And then, yes, the birria tacos.
Oh that burrito, it's massive.

Speaker 1 (30:46):
It's so good, oof.

Speaker 2 (30:48):
I know.

Speaker 1 (30:55):
And then the aguas frescas are so good.
Are you got this girlreminiscing on food right now?
Oh no, you're, it's so good wehave.
We have a restaurant in leftfield, man like you go all the
way down the left field line,all the way at the end of the
concourse.
It's a full restaurant, fullbar.
They got tvs in there for anybig games going on.
They host concerts in thereduring the offseason.

Speaker 3 (31:15):
Really, this is legit .

Speaker 1 (31:18):
Yeah, the diamond's awesome, it is the best.

Speaker 3 (31:22):
Okay, alright, you guys are okay.

Speaker 2 (31:25):
And then you got the cute little lake nearby and then
the mountains.
It's just like heaven.
It really is, because it's likesuch a scenic view in and out
right there if you've got likethe alcohol post game, alcohol
munchies still, but then you'vegot all the great food inside
the stadium and, yes, that leftfield restaurant, which so good

(31:47):
so many people too oh yeah, ifthey don't have.

Speaker 1 (31:50):
If they don't have the beer you want at the
concession stand, I guaranteethey have it at the Diamond Tap
Room.

Speaker 2 (31:55):
Yeah, all right.

Speaker 3 (31:56):
So tell me the best thing about that ballpark,
because I'm looking at a pictureof it right now which is
probably pretty legit.
Are you able to do a full 360walk around the ballpark?

Speaker 1 (32:08):
Not a full 360 walk, so our seats only go from the
left, it only goes up the firstand third base sides.
I see that the entire outfield,that's all of our back area.
That's mostly like our storagespace, so that's like where we.
That's where we have like thecages for pregame, uh, batting
practice.
We have like a few things backthere.
They're like for our mascotstuff and just like, uh, we'll

(32:31):
shoot, we'll have the people forfireworks wait back there then
when they when it's time towheel out a trailer from back
behind the center field wall andjust shoot off fireworks in
center field okay, okay, I mean,I do see the mountains.
That's pretty legit yeah, yeah,and you're completely surrounded
by those mountains too wow, andwhen we go we all have to sit.

Speaker 2 (32:53):
Talk to me about those green chairs, because I
freaking love the green chairs.

Speaker 1 (32:56):
I've just never sat there so the green chair is what
it used to be was the thunderfamily zone okay back then you'd
be able to buy like cheapertickets in that, in those seats
and that was the family seats,because it was budget friendly
for families and a lot of timesthey would come with like a hot
dog or like a soda and likedifferent things like that okay,

(33:16):
that's pretty legit and thenthey had the they have the storm
kids club.
So a lot of times kids couldlike do certain things to earn
free tickets and those are thetickets.

Speaker 2 (33:25):
They would be said city that okay, okay well, I'm,
I want to do that because thoseare like like neon green, sure
uh they're so cute, they'regreat, I love neon green.

Speaker 3 (33:40):
I love it.
I'm not, don't get me wrong,that's one of my favorite colors
of all time.
So I'm.

Speaker 1 (33:44):
I just gotta say, though I'm sure during a day
game those seats are probably alittle tough I would say
definitely, if you're gonna do,if you're gonna do the green
seats, come for an evening gameI was just gonna say because
that's like there's no shadeyeah, you gotta you kind of
gotta wait for the sun to gobehind the stadium, and then
what you'll see during day gamesis they only the first two rows

(34:06):
at first pitch really have anyshade.
And as it keeps going, as moreroads get shaded, everyone
starts migrating up to the top.
Everyone just kind of has thesame agreement like, yeah, we're
all hot, I don't care what seatnumber we are, we're all just
gonna come sit in the shadewe're all suffering together so
you know what I love about thisballpark.

Speaker 3 (34:27):
First of all, I gotta ask you about this okay, the
scoreboard all the way in it andin the outfield, yes, is it uh?
Is it uh, uh, electronic?
You know, is it an electronicuh scoreboard or is it a?

Speaker 1 (34:40):
it used to be a uh a hand.
He had to put the card in thewindow but, then, when we had to
add in like different, wecouldn't have open field
bullpens, we couldn't have acertain we had.
The nets had to be at a certainarea.

Speaker 3 (35:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (35:01):
And just like there had to be certain storage space,
we had to build a whole newclubhouse, which is by far
amazing.
Our clubhouse is awesome.
Oh and then, but I miss the oldscoreboard but our new
scoreboard, just the with thevideo board and the lights
underneath it and you can edit.
That's the small details for me, when you can edit the names

(35:22):
and it doesn't just say home andaway on a scoreboard.
That's the tiny things I thegood details that I love to see
I got you.

Speaker 3 (35:29):
I because don't get me wrong I'm a massive fan of,
like, the hand scoreboards.
Oh yeah, it's very nostalgic,right.
It's very baseball, right, likethat's.
I love it.
I do love and I know people aregoing to laugh at me about this
but the fact that you have allthese signs are, like.
They look so like very 90sbaseball.
There's so many of them in theoutfield.

Speaker 1 (35:53):
That these baseball there's so many of them in the
outfield.

Speaker 3 (35:55):
That's such a cool view.
It's awesome, especially when abaseball hits one.

Speaker 1 (35:57):
Oh my god, that's so cool, like I'm literally looking
at pictures right now of thisballpark oh yeah, oh my oh, we
got to get you out this nextseason oh yeah yeah it's a four
hour drive from us and I don'tknow why we only went once last
season hey, but you came onwrestling day.
That was one of the best daysyou could have came.

Speaker 2 (36:16):
I'm sorry.
What Wrestling day was so fun?

Speaker 1 (36:22):
Sunday day game.
That was our promotion.
I don't remember the exact date, but we have local SoCal Pro
Wrestling comes out, sets up aring in the middle of the
concourse.
They're doing different likewrestling promos throughout the
entire show.
We're making wrestlingreferences, we're playing
wrestlers music throughout thewhole day and once the game's

(36:45):
over everyone meets at the ring.
And we have two matches just inthe middle of the concourse and
it's just so fun have twomatches just in the middle of
the concourse and it's just,it's so fun.
Listen, I'm not a wrestling fan,but I will go to just to see
that.
Oh yeah, and it's all includedwith your, with your ticket wow,
that's cool.

Speaker 3 (37:03):
Let me ask you this how popular are the standing
seats behind home plate, thestanding uh tables?

Speaker 1 (37:11):
oh, oh, those are super popular.
Those are our four top tablesthose are perfect, you get a.
Perfect.
It's like a bar seating you'resitting, so you're over the
normal traditional seats.

Speaker 3 (37:21):
Yeah, you can see over them perfectly and right at
home plate see, it's the littlethings that I like about
ballparks, because everyballpark is different right
every ballpark is totallydifferent, like Every ballpark
is totally different.
You doing something in LakeElsinore is going to be totally
different than they're going tobe doing up in New York, right?
So I love those littledifferent things that you guys

(37:43):
are doing at different ballparks.

Speaker 2 (37:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (37:48):
It's Lake Elsinore.
It's the middle of the desert.
It gets pretty hot in thesummer, so we'll have the
misters above the seats goingdown.

Speaker 3 (37:57):
I like it, I like it, I like that.
On the party deck.

Speaker 1 (37:59):
We got all the misters over there and
everything.
Plenty of ample shade.
We'll be giving out water andstuff.
I think the top heat we hitthis season.
I think we hit 112.

Speaker 3 (38:11):
Come again 112.
Gross, I mean wow.

Speaker 1 (38:20):
That was a Sunday 1230 pm first pitch.

Speaker 3 (38:24):
So wow, first of all.
Oh my God, I can't even.
But is it that?
Dry heat though?

Speaker 1 (38:31):
It's dry heat, but it's.

Speaker 3 (38:32):
It's heat, yeah, heat , nonetheless you feel like
you're in an oven.
I don't.

Speaker 1 (38:38):
There's no, there's no mistake in that part it's
like I'm in the booth and wehave ac in there, but it'll be
110 outside and 85 in the booth,which is I'll take it.
I'll take it, yowza, must it.

Speaker 3 (38:51):
Yowza.

Speaker 2 (38:53):
Must be nice.
We had really good seats and wewere willing to give up our
really good seats for going wayback in the shade.
It gets hot.

Speaker 3 (39:03):
Misters is where it's at.
I like what you said.
It's like, yeah, we do theMisters.

Speaker 1 (39:08):
Yeah, the ownership in Lake Ellison.
They really care about the fanexperience over pretty much most
aspects of the game I love thatand and it helps when you got a
good product on the field.
Lake elsinore made it all theway to the california league
championships.

Speaker 3 (39:23):
Lost it in game three yeah, I mean it's, what are you
gonna do right?

Speaker 1 (39:28):
yeah, lost by one run in the final game of the series
.
You know can't, can't be toomad can't be too mad, all right.

Speaker 3 (39:35):
So, by the way, I do have one of uh lake elsinore's
head.
I did I lie, I'm sorry, Iapologize.
I have their marvel 920 oh, thedefenders of the diamond, yeah
the defenders of the diamondsyeah, but I need to get me like
the ones with the eyes.
Those are cool.
The ones with the eyes don'thave one of those yet.
Uh, all right.
So, as I'm sure you are also afan of merchandise, and I'm sure

(39:58):
you're a fan of merchandise ofyour team as well, always in
your opinion, what is yournumber one?
like that you guys sell the mostbesides hats.
Obviously that'll be the numberone thing that everybody's
gonna buy.
What do you think everybodyelse buys there?

Speaker 1 (40:13):
I mean, it can't be hoodies uh, you'd be surprised,
unless it gets when it comes atnight, that gets pretty cold
yeah it'll get, especially inthe early beginning of the
season.
It'll be a night game and it'slike easily a good, oh there
goes, boom.

Speaker 3 (40:29):
It'll be like an easy , like 42 degrees outside I'll
take that all day I'll take itall day, but then you look down
and everyone's over thereshivering and see the chatter in
I was just at the arizona fallleague and and there was no joke
it what it got down that tothat low in november in arizona.

Speaker 1 (40:47):
So it okay, so hoodies hoodies during the early
in the season hoodies good, uh,but I think number one thing,
especially this season, becausewe this is our first season in a
few years we updated ourjerseys so instead of having
just you know, the block lettersthat said storm across the
chest with the eyes above it, wewent with more of a cursive uh

(41:09):
font on it this time and thenour way.
Jerseys are just plain gray andit just says Lake Elsinore in
that old school font that youlike to see on a jersey.
And everything was so perfectthis year.
I think the jerseys really soldreally well this year.

Speaker 2 (41:25):
Let me look.

Speaker 3 (41:26):
That's what I was trying to say Okay.
We were like yeah, let's golook at some jerseys right now.
Let's see what's going on.

Speaker 2 (41:34):
These are nice that black one, that road replica
jersey, the black one, and ofcourse it's sold out.

Speaker 1 (41:42):
Uh-huh yeah.

Speaker 3 (41:44):
Wow, you know what it is.
I like that because it saysstorm and it has the eyes in the
bottom.
You know, I love that a lot.
That's pretty cool.
Yeah, our marketing team killsit.

Speaker 2 (41:57):
Do you guys have the custom where you can customize
the jerseys on the back of ateam store?

Speaker 1 (42:04):
Not in our team store , just because it's a very small
space.
But we do sell blanks, and soit would be able to be
customized after you buy it, butas of right now, we don't have
customization available in store.

Speaker 2 (42:17):
Not yet, not yet, hopefully.
I was just kidding.

Speaker 1 (42:22):
I'm definitely going to bring it up, though, because
if there's interest, I'mguaranteed they'd be willing to
take a look at it at least.

Speaker 3 (42:28):
You're like so can we take a look at you know, I
don't know, possibly maybe youknow, bring in this, because you
know they'd be so interestedyeah exactly in your opinion.
What's your okay.
So what's your favorite hat?
What's your favorite logo hat?
My favorite logo hat I mighthave to get me this at lake
elson or a casual classic 920.

Speaker 1 (42:49):
Casual Classic 920.
The one with the eyes, I'mgoing to have to go, probably
our retro hats with the blue topwith the folded brim, and you
got the Lake Elsinore StormCloud with just the LE and a
bolt going right through it.

Speaker 3 (43:05):
Yeah, dude, that's legit.

Speaker 1 (43:08):
Those are good.

Speaker 3 (43:10):
I saw that one, I'm like ooh, that's nice, that's a
good one.
I you know what, you're right,I like that one.
I I'm getting kind of and kindof intrigued with the one that
you're wearing right now, theone that says storm oh yeah,
these.

Speaker 1 (43:24):
These were for our 30th anniversary season.
These were our brand new hatsthat we came out with to go to
go along with the jerseys I lovehow those eyes just stand out I
know

Speaker 3 (43:35):
you can see it from a mile away oh you 100 can,
although I do have to, mighthave to get me one of these
glow-in-the-dark baseballs.

Speaker 2 (43:43):
My daughter would love these things also, real
quick, let's talk about theprices at the team store.
This, this hat was 20 bucks.
I was like I feel like I'mstealing this hat and then we'll
even have discount racks.

Speaker 1 (43:59):
You know we'll have overstock from last season that
we need to get rid of and, likecert, we had certain hats from
like when we won the cow leagueback in 2022, back when jackson
merrill was on that team.
Which who, jackson Merrill justgot robbed from rookie of the
year, just saying yeahdefinitely I.

Speaker 3 (44:19):
I don't know what you're talking about.
I didn't see no Paul Skinswinning or anything like that
exactly nope, I didn't seenothing oh my god I might have
to get oh and those hats withthunder are so cute too.
Those are legit Dude.
Those are nice man.

Speaker 2 (44:36):
What's.

Speaker 1 (44:36):
Thunder, the mascot.
I'm telling you, the peoplelove Thunder.

Speaker 2 (44:40):
He's so adorable.

Speaker 1 (44:43):
He is the two-time two-ton mascot of the year.

Speaker 3 (44:49):
Two-ton, what Two-time mascot of the year.

Speaker 1 (44:51):
Two-ton mascot of the year-ton I like that.
I like that that's good.

Speaker 3 (44:58):
Let me ask you, obviously, because you guys have
the defenders of the uh of thediamond, right, you guys have
that logo, but you also havewhat I believe is a very nice,
very underrated logo, and thatis your copa nice, very
underrated logo and that is yourcopa?

Speaker 1 (45:19):
oh, yes, the cadejos.
Yes, how popular is that inyour?
In the ballpark, you know it.
You see it's selling every nowand I always see at least a few
purchases and some new cadejosmerch being moved every game,
especially when we have ourhispanic heritage night and the
team is playing that on thefield with the jerseys and
everything.
Oh, it's perfect.

Speaker 3 (45:35):
Not going to lie, that gray with the white cadejo
and the blue eyes, with the bluebrim, oof.

Speaker 1 (45:41):
That is nice, oh yeah .

Speaker 3 (45:45):
Oof that just man that looks nice.

Speaker 2 (45:48):
Yeah, Ed is a big Copa guy.

Speaker 3 (45:50):
I'm a massive Copa guy.
Massive, I'm a big Flying Chunk.

Speaker 1 (45:53):
I'm a massive copa guy.
Massive, I'm a big flyingchunkless man.
You know, I love that bro comeon, bro.

Speaker 3 (46:01):
I love a flying chunkla.
I cannot confirm or deny thatI've never been hit by a flying
chunkla.
I'm just saying I'm a massivefan of the Chanclas.

Speaker 2 (46:12):
Oh my God Do you have plans, austin to go visit?
I know obviously you've gone toSan Diego, but do you have
plans to go to El Paso?
I know that the high team is alittle far, but El Paso or San
Antonio anytime soon.

Speaker 1 (46:28):
I definitely would like to.
I remember I got to drivethrough through el paso once
when I was driving through thecountry and I I stopped at the
ballpark just as, just like,stand outside, wave high,
because it was middle ofdecember just like I really want
to do.
I I enjoy going to other ballparks and just stadiums in
general, so it's definitely onmy list of wanting to go to

(46:50):
those stadiums.
Even even with the uh, the fortwayne tin caps over in indiana,
I wanted to see that stadium aswell yeah, dude dude, and the
only other minor league teamstadiums I've been to is las
vegas ballpark, which that wasawesome.
That was.
That was one of my favoriteballparks I've ever been to I
got to miss that one I've beento the the Omaha Storm Chasers

(47:12):
in Omaha, nebraska, been there.
That stadium is a minor leaguestadium if I've ever seen one.

Speaker 2 (47:20):
Ooh.

Speaker 1 (47:21):
You can go up to the ticket booth, pay $5 general
admission, you can bring yourown beach chairs, blankets,
everything and you're in theoutfield, on a grass hill In the
outfield, behind all theseoutfielders that's a nice one,
I'll.
I'll give you that world seriesa little jealous you have to
make it to the east coast.

Speaker 3 (47:40):
Okay, I'm in north carolina.
I'm in raleigh, north carolina,okay I got it.

Speaker 1 (47:45):
I'm planning, I'm planning on hitting the east
coast soon.
I really am gonna.
I'm gonna start York, rent acar and just hit as many states
as I can.

Speaker 3 (47:53):
Hit me up.
I'm telling you there's a lotof minor league.
Listen, this is the mecca ofminor league baseball.
There's so many ballparks here.
I'm telling you Durham Bullsballpark.
You go down to Kannapolis.
That's a beautiful ballpark.
You can actually walk that onein the off season.
Really, really.
Yeah, because it's a park.
It's a city park as well, uh,so you see all the people and

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then the team store is alwaysopen.
So you should definitely.
That one is a cool one, uh, thecharlotte knights in the middle
of the charlotte.

Speaker 2 (48:26):
Let me tell you that you right that, yeah, with the
view of downtown with the viewof downtown.

Speaker 3 (48:33):
I'm telling you right now, that's gorgeous.

Speaker 1 (48:35):
That's all I'm going there this summer for, just to
hit a couple games correct me ifI'm wrong, but the durham bulls
are the one that have the uhthe promotion.
If the home run hits the bull,then the player gets a steak.
If it hits the grass, they geta salad.
Yes, sir.

Speaker 3 (48:48):
Yes, sir.

Speaker 1 (48:49):
Oh yeah, wait, wait wait.

Speaker 3 (48:54):
There's a giant bull.
Just look it up.
I'm telling you, just look itup.
There's a big, huge, giant bullon the outfield.
If the player hits a home runand it hits the bull, they get a
steak.
If they hit the grass, they geta salad, a free salad, oh okay,

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you can actually, during thegame, you can stand under the
ball and see the ballpark,because it's a full 360 and I'm
telling you it is by far uhlisten, I might be biased, but
by far one of the best ballparksin minor league baseball I've
I've always heard a lot aboutthe durham bulls yeah, you, you
will not be disappointed.

Speaker 1 (49:33):
I'm guaranteeing you that right now I'm in, I think,
one of the number one minorleague teams I always wanted to
go to, just on the name alone,and their logo has always been
uh, the jacksonville jumboshrimp.
Right been there, a giant buffshrimp.
Are you kidding me?
That's amazing.

Speaker 2 (49:52):
And the mascot the mascot in his costume, so cute.

Speaker 3 (49:58):
I'll say this go at night.
Okay, it is Florida.

Speaker 1 (50:04):
Yeah, that is true, it is Florida.

Speaker 3 (50:07):
It gets toasty.
I'll say that it's nice, though.
It's really nice becausethere's a lot of areas where you
can sit down, like in the bermarea.
There's a little tiki bar inthe outfield.
I went there a couple of yearsago and let me tell you it was a
lot of fun, so you definitelyshould.
That's a good one.
Their team store, Woo Magic.

Speaker 1 (50:28):
Fire.
I'm in, I'm in.

Speaker 3 (50:34):
So I'm just saying there's a lot of cool ones there
and they have a lot of coolalternate logos, right, and
their fauxback logos yeah,that's why I love minor league
baseball, because everybody hasfauxback logos.
Everybody does it.

Speaker 1 (50:44):
Oh yeah, throwback logos are some of the best ones
out there, because you're likeoh man, why did they ever get
rid?

Speaker 3 (50:52):
of this Exactly.
But then you're like, oh, I seewhy, but I want it to come back
.

Speaker 1 (50:58):
That's how I am.
It's so hard for me to root forthe Astros.
But those retro orange Astrojerseys, oh my goodness, those
are the best jerseys ever.

Speaker 3 (51:09):
Yeah, I could not stand that actual gold, gold
ones that they had years back.

Speaker 1 (51:15):
Oh yeah, oh, my God.

Speaker 3 (51:17):
Those were not, those weren't nice.

Speaker 1 (51:19):
Not it, not it, those weren't it.

Speaker 3 (51:21):
Like when there's like when you say oh yeah, you
know throwback logos, yeah,absolutely yeah, no, not those.

Speaker 1 (51:26):
There's like when you say oh yeah, you know,
throwback logos.

Speaker 3 (51:28):
Yeah, absolutely, yeah, no not those, not those.

Speaker 2 (51:29):
Nope, the only thing that sucks about a throwback
logo that you love is that ifyou love multiple throwback
logos, that's multiple hats thatyou have to buy.

Speaker 3 (51:37):
Oh yeah, you have to get the hat you have to.

Speaker 1 (51:38):
Who are you?

Speaker 3 (51:39):
talking to girl.
I got well, well, well over 600hats because of that yeah, yeah
I know I feel it oh, my god, uh, all right, at the end of the
game and this is something I'vebeen wanting to ask people it's
like what is your, what's yourroutine?
Like the the game's ending,like you know, what do you do?

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Because everybody's like, oh,I'll just shut everything up and
then I go, but like I'm surethere's a routine for everything
all right.

Speaker 1 (52:05):
I'm definitely very particular about my routine,
especially if I have a littlebit of time.
You know, I don't have to gowork at a different job
afterwards, I can just enjoymyself I'll stack up all my
papers.
So if it's like a milestonegame, you know I'll fold it up,
I'll put the the attendantsticky note on it and I'll keep
that one for myself.
Like my first, first game.
I kept that one.
You know it's over in my room.

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I got the lineups, the ads, Iread all the opening speeches
for opening day.
You know I knew I had to holdon to that stuff.

Speaker 2 (52:37):
But at the end of the game.

Speaker 1 (52:38):
I like to.
You know I'm in the productionbooth.
Everyone else who's part ofproduction is in there.
We just like to hang out, talkfor a little bit and then we'll
go downstairs.
Everyone will clock out, butusually everyone will go to
their cars.
But I like to just hang aroundinside the stadium just a little
bit.
You know, just soak it in.

Speaker 2 (53:02):
You know it's being able to say like this is my
office is just awesome.
Just enjoying that emptyballpark.
That last game had to have beenlike your last day there the
season always has to be so hard.

Speaker 1 (53:11):
We had a lot me and the production crew, we we
walked out, clocked out.
It was a day game because itwas the last playoff.
It was a playoff game beforethey went to modesto to go
finish the series.
And so we're sitting there likedamn, this really is the last
game, like no matter what.
And so they closed the gatesand we're all just standing
outside of the gates justsitting in a circle.
We're like we don't want toleave.

Speaker 3 (53:33):
Oh, oh man god, I remember I did that like a
couple years ago at the uh, thefireflies ballpark, like I was
having so much fun right, uh,and and I just I didn't want to
go, like we were just standingoutside the ballpark and just
talking and ended up being.
You know, it's like we kind ofhave to go, it's kind of getting

(53:54):
kind of late, you know no one'saround, but it's like you hate
to do that, you know yeah, it'sthe worst.

Speaker 2 (54:00):
no, I I went through the same same feeling when the
triple all-star or achampionship game was in Las
Vegas in September and I waslike that's it, this is the
Championship game.

Speaker 1 (54:12):
There is no other game after this.
That looked like so much funfrom all your videos, though.

Speaker 2 (54:18):
Dude it was.

Speaker 3 (54:19):
Right.

Speaker 2 (54:20):
Oh, okay.
So Ed was supposed to go, butthe hurricane ruined his career
like three times so it was a lotof fun.

Speaker 3 (54:34):
So what was Kip looking on the plane track?

Speaker 2 (54:37):
I kept looking at the flight tracker to make sure he
wasn't lying, and I was trackingflights from North Carolina to
Vegas.

Speaker 3 (54:44):
Meanwhile, I'm just sitting in my daughter's
gymnastics class.
I'm like nope, I'm really notthere, guys, I'm just hanging
out here.
Don't mind me, I'm just havingfun.

Speaker 2 (54:56):
Austin it was a lot of fun.
I bet it was.
I'm not talking to you, ed, Iknow you know it was a lot of
fun.

Speaker 3 (55:03):
I know it was Austin.
Is there anything that wehaven't asked you?
You know it was a lot of fun.
I know it was Awesome.
Hey, is there anything that wehaven't asked you?
My friend, this is your timeright now, because we're about
to do a little somethingdifferent and, val, I didn't
pre-warn you on this.

Speaker 2 (55:12):
We always forget to let them know.

Speaker 3 (55:14):
I know right, but this is going to be a little
baseball trivia challenge.

Speaker 1 (55:19):
I'm going to challenge you on your baseball
trivia, my friend.

Speaker 3 (55:28):
All right, I've all right.
That's this deck of cards at uh, at tj maxx.
Uh, by the way, I love tj maxxor marshalls, it's a beautiful
thing, uh.
So we're about to, uh, we'reabout to test your, uh, your
knowledge, my friend I know I'mI, I can already see it.

Speaker 1 (55:35):
I'm gonna get one wrong at some point and I'm
gonna.
It's gonna be 30 minutes afterthis call is over and I'll be
like, ah, it was that, damn it Iwill be expecting a message
from you after that.

Speaker 3 (55:48):
A redo, I know, right , all right, my friend, are you
ready?

Speaker 1 (55:52):
I'm ready.

Speaker 3 (55:53):
Okay, so I'm going to start with which.
I think it's an easy, prettyeasy one.

Speaker 1 (55:57):
All right Before Shohei Otani in 2018, who was
the only major league playersince 1900 to have 10 plus home
runs and four plus pitching winsin a season.
10 plus home runs and four pluspitching.

Speaker 3 (56:17):
I'll read it again was it a national league pitcher
it was a player a player beforeshohei otani in 2018 who was
the only major league playersince 1900, the year I was born,
to have 10 plus home runs andfour plus pitching wins in a

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season.
It was not national league itwas, uh, was it.

Speaker 1 (56:48):
Was it, babe, ruth?

Speaker 3 (56:49):
ding, ding ding.
It was babe ruth, my friend hadto think about that one yeah
forgot, he forgot, he alsopitched he did.
He was a pitcher.
There you go.
Um, okay, okay.
Nolan Ryan threw the final twono-hitters of his Major League

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career.
For what team?
The last two no-hitters of hisMajor League career?
For what team?

Speaker 1 (57:23):
Was it for Texas?

Speaker 3 (57:25):
I don't know Was it I'm going to go with Texas.

Speaker 1 (57:26):
Which Texas, though?
Was it for Texas?
I don't know was it I'm goingto go with Texas.

Speaker 2 (57:30):
Which Texas, though?

Speaker 1 (57:32):
Texas, not Houston Texas.

Speaker 3 (57:34):
The Rangers, yeah, Texas Rangers.

Speaker 1 (57:37):
The only team with the Texas name, you know.

Speaker 3 (57:42):
He's right.
He's right.
The Texas team, that's theRangers.
You know what I'll say?

Speaker 1 (57:45):
this, he's right.
He's right, because Houstondoesn't have it.
Yeah, the Astros the Texas team.

Speaker 2 (57:49):
Uh-uh, that's the Rangers.
Yeah, you know what?
I'll say this when I'm instadium figure mode, I don't
like to show my bias.
But Texas all the time, rangersall the time.

Speaker 3 (57:57):
I'm not showing my bias.
I'm a Cleveland Guardians fan.
Okay, let me show your bias.
Okay, I'm going to give you twomore because you're doing
pretty good.
I mean, let's do five, allright.
So two down, you're two for two.
Sounds good, all right.
While amassing 493 Major Leaguehome runs, what first baseman

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became known as the Crime Dog?
Cool the crime dog All right,while amassing 493 major league
home runs, what first basemanbecame known as the crime dog?
This is a good one.
Think about the name, thinkabout why he was known as the

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crime dog.
Because McGruff name thinkabout why he was known as the
crime dog because mcgruff.

Speaker 1 (58:50):
Well, I can't think of the first name, though 30
minutes later.

Speaker 3 (58:53):
He's gonna get.

Speaker 1 (58:54):
He's gonna call me this is gonna be the one.
I swear, I'm stumped on thisone.
I I'm stumped on this one, youready.

Speaker 3 (59:03):
You want me to tell you yeah.

Speaker 1 (59:05):
I'm ready.
I'm ready.

Speaker 3 (59:07):
Fred McGriff.

Speaker 1 (59:08):
Fred McGriff Ah.

Speaker 3 (59:15):
Oh, I got to love this game All right In 1965,
whose scoreless three-inningstint against the Boston Red Sox
at the age of 59 made him theoldest player to appear in a
major league game.
By far my favorite baseballplayer to play in this era.

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Favorite pitcher so 1965.
Whose scoreless three inningstint against the boston red sox
at the age of 59 made him theoldest player to appear in a
major league game.

Speaker 1 (01:00:17):
he was an entertainer he was tall, he was lanky.
I'll give you another hint heplayed for the cleveland indians
.

Speaker 3 (01:00:21):
Cleveland indians, tall, lanky, oh man if I, if I
tell you what this other Hit,you'll figure it out.
You ready, go for it.
He played in the Negro Leagues.

Speaker 1 (01:00:37):
Oh shit, what's his name?
What's his name?
You got me with another onehere, man, man.

Speaker 3 (01:00:47):
You ready.

Speaker 1 (01:00:48):
Yeah, I'm ready satchel page oh my god, I didn't
know he was.
I actually did not know.
He was the oldest one to playhe was the oldest satchel page.

Speaker 3 (01:00:57):
They need to make a moving movie about this man
absolutely you know, what studioneeds to do it?
Someone needs to do it someoneneeds to do a movie about
satchel page, by far one of myabsolute favorite pictures of
all time absolutely all right.
So that was what that made itfour correct yeah, I'm two for
four two or two for four.

(01:01:18):
I mean in the majors you'redoing pretty good I?
I'll tell you that's a 500that's 500 there, so let's see
how you finish.
All right, you ready.
As a 21-year-old in 1981, thisis the year I was born, by the
way who became the only pitcherto win Rookie of the Year and Cy

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Young Award in the same season?
1981, became the only pitcherto win Rookie of the Year and Cy
Young Award in the same season.

Speaker 1 (01:01:55):
I know, I know this one because I know I was
watching MLB Tonight at somepoint and they talked about this
when they were talking aboutPaul Skeens RIP.
Is it Fernando Valenzuela?
It is Fernando Valenzuela RIP.

Speaker 3 (01:02:08):
Is it.
Fernando Valenzuela.
It is Fernando Valenzuela.

Speaker 1 (01:02:10):
RIP.
I don't care what team heplayed for, that is a legend of
the game.

Speaker 3 (01:02:15):
That dude was a legend right.
He united a whole town, Notjust the whole city, but all of
baseball.
He was electric.

Speaker 1 (01:02:26):
Yeah, especially for the Latino community.

Speaker 3 (01:02:30):
You know that was the guy Just give me chills man,
yeah, only pitcher and rookie ofthe year inside Young Award, I
mean that is.
I mean, come on now.

Speaker 1 (01:02:43):
And he still is.
He still is, has not changed,so Austin dude, and he still is.

Speaker 3 (01:02:45):
He still is has not changed.
So, Austin dude, thank you somuch.

Speaker 1 (01:02:51):
This was a lot of fun .
Yeah, I loved this.
This was super fun.

Speaker 2 (01:02:55):
Crying in the club.

Speaker 3 (01:02:57):
Three for five.
You went three for five, soit's a good hitting right there
for a baseball game Seas getdegrees, baby Hell yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:03:04):
Let's go.

Speaker 3 (01:03:06):
I did.
I know I got C's in that, sowhere can people find you on all
the socials?

Speaker 1 (01:03:13):
You can find me on Instagram at Shebang Sports.
That's my sports media account.
That's where I'm going to beposting all my stuff.
I'm going to be training tohockey and baseball.
I'm going to try to be a bitmore active on it.
It's's been a weird longtransition month between
baseball and hockey, but I'mdefinitely gonna be posting some

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more hockey clips on there inthe coming, in the coming weeks.

Speaker 3 (01:03:35):
Follow, yeah shebang sports on instagram and, uh, you
know, just keep up with methere and I'll post everything
else I have where it comes tobroadcast or anything of the
such yeah, that's good, and thenmake sure you you know,
obviously, if you cannot make itto Lake Elsinore, go to their
website, buy a hat, buy amerchandise, because you know,
at the end of the day, everylittle bit counts and you're

(01:03:56):
supporting minor league baseball.

Speaker 1 (01:03:57):
Absolutely.
The eyes of the storm are allaround the country, oh bro.

Speaker 3 (01:04:03):
Oh, love that Absolutely.
Thank you so much, Austin.

Speaker 2 (01:04:07):
Thank you so much, austin, thank you.