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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, So last segment in Fun with Audio Dick.
(00:03):
Big day for each Rosuzuki. Congratulations the first Japanese born
player ever to go into the Hall of Fame and
he's a Mariner. Second highest vote total of all time.
Should have been unanimous, but one schmuck did not vote
for him. We played the clip of an interview in
two thousand and three with Bob Costas where each hero
repeated his favorite American saying of all time. And we've
(00:24):
all been kind of kicking around this idea. Where did
he hear that?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
From what? Ex teammate? And you know what, Dick, I
gotta be honest with you.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
I've known our next guest for a long time and
the fact that I was not able.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
To put two and two together and realized.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
That this dipstick was probably the guy that told him
that it's unbelievable. Each euro Suzuki went on the MLB
Network moments ago and revealed the source of that famous
quote that he loves.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
What is your favorite American expression?
Speaker 3 (00:54):
August in Kansas City, it's it's out than two InChI
row you tagged that by saying I have bad teammates,
which teammate gave you that expression.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
Cool guy seems first of all, I regret saying that
in front of the television.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
And who told me about this that expression was Ryan Franklin.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Ryan Franklin, Ryan Franklin.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Excellent. Wow, Ryan is joining us right now on the
radio show.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
He ratted you out, man, InChI ro ratted you out, boy.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
How about that, buddy?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Hey, I guess I'm a star now right, I'm famous? Yeah,
I mean, Bob, we go way back to the Olympic days,
you know, two thousand.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Dude, did you did you know about this before we
called you that? Each year old rited you out?
Speaker 3 (02:06):
No, not at all. I mean somebody sent it to
me a clip of a YouTube clip about Actually there
was a reporter that worked for a Japanese newspaper named Brad.
He sent me a clip of that like about It
was probably eight months ago or something, and you know,
I just got kicked out. I remember the exact same
day when we were sitting in the dugout. It was
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it was right before batting practice and me and him
were just sitting there. I was teaching some good English
and some good sayings and uh and and he uh
I told him that and uh no, actually I was
sitting in there. I was hitting balls because it's like
twenty degrees here on a golf simulator thing, and I
got a text message from old teammate Jamie Moyer and he's.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Like, hey, you're you're a star.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Its year old just said your name on his MLB
network or whatever. I was like, really, what's he doing.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
It's this Hall of Fame we deal all right?
Speaker 3 (03:02):
All right?
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Cool?
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Yeah, so that's how my old oh teammate Jamie told
me about it. But uh, I guess that's pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Well, Ryan, your thoughts of this day.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Obviously there was a point where you knew this day
was going to happen and maybe give us your thoughts.
And also when that point was, when did you get
to the point where you're like, Okay, this dude isn't
just an all star, this dude's an all time great, right.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
I mean, just his routine, the same thing, he did
the same thing every single day for five or six
years whatever I played with him. I mean it was
from going in to get his massage from his trainer,
to going down the weight room and doing a little
bit of weights, to going back in the locker room
and eating like twelve rice balls and then and then
(03:52):
I'm serious. No, they were rice balls, and I think
his wife made him or somebody shipping to him from Japan,
but I never got to try one. But then he'd
get a little this little wooden dow rod and like
work on his feet. And dude, I mean it was
the same thing every day as you saw the same
thing he got in the box. He did the same
exact thing, the same routine. And just as much as
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him like his sling his defense. I mean, I don't know, man,
I don't know how much more than I can say
about the greatness that he was.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Yeah, well, you spent I think five years overall with
him in Seattle.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Did he hang with you guys like when you went
on the road.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
There were always these rumors that he would get his
own hotel and stay somewhere else and fly himself and
do his own thing. Is any of that true? And
was he was he kind of? Was he one of
the guys on the road? Did you guys hang with him?
Did you drink and eat with him on the road?
Speaker 2 (04:51):
No?
Speaker 3 (04:51):
I mean we every once in a while we did.
It wasn't all the time, and I don't I'm almost
positive he didn't get a new hotel from the team hotel.
I mean, he's stayed with us.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
I wish, I wish.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
I don't even know. I probably could, I remembered, I
could probably remember his alias, but I probably shouldn't say that.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
But statute of limitation, I'm sure it's changed.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
I mean, come on, yeh, I know, I know, but no,
one time he would invite us out to uh. I
remember one time me and Uh. I forget it was
some another one teammates. He invited me another guy to
some Japanese barbecue in LA and that was the first
time I've ever seen cal toongue getting eaten. And that
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dude was tearing up the cow tongue. I was like, hell, no,
I'm eating that man, And they like cooked it right
in front of you and all this stuff. And I'm
a redneck from Oklahoma. We don't eat cow tongue. We
just raise them.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Ryan, you know, in his in his Mariner Hall of
Fame speech, was really the first time Mariner fans even
heard the guy. And he was tremendously entertaining. I don't
know if you heard it or not, but he was funny,
he was glib, and he was obviously that way with
you guys, but we didn't hear it for twenty years.
Why wasn't he that way with us, the media and
the fans.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
I don't know, man, Maybe he just wasn't comfortable with
you guys as he was with the guys he's spent
one hundred and sixty two games with. But I mean
he would, I mean he was he was comic. I
mean he was funny.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
You know.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
He would, you know, try as much American English as
he could, and he would try everything food. Really outgoing dude,
and he speaks really good English. I don't know, maybe
he just hadn't worked on it in a while or something.
I don't even know where he's at right now, where
he's in the United States or Japan, but he could,
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he could carry on a conversation. Wow, really good.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
I think he's actually here because the Mariners are hosting
a press conference at five o'clock tonight from T Mobile.
Porker unless they're going to patch him in via zoom,
could actually, no doubt. So we'll find out at five o'clock.
But Ryan Franklin's with us. What other dirty words and
sayings did you teach Eachero when you were in Seattle.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Come on, man, you.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Know, I can't. I can't think of anything. And that's
like obviously the famous one. He taught me all the
bad words in Japanese, but I really can't. That was
the main one, Softie. Yeah, I don't really remember any
of the other ones. But he was a fun, fun
teammate man, a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Well, Dick was asking about him speaking English, which when
he went into the Mariner Hall of Fame, well just
a couple of years ago, twenty twenty two, Ryan, that
was the first time most of the fans and most
of us had gotten to hear him speak English, and
it was really cool. Did you ever tell him, hey, man,
you know, maybe you should address these guys, Maybe you
(07:51):
should talk to the fans, maybe you should talk to
the media. Was that ever a conversation amongst you guys?
And he never did it? And I'm wondering if you
kind of have a few for why he never did.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
No, I don't. I don't think anyone ever did. I
mean we always wondered and just kind of didn't didn't
We didn't I us pursue asking about it. He kind
of just kind of did his own thing in there,
and I mean, I don't know, man, I don't I
don't know why he never did, but I would have
a problem on me. I know a lot of Spanish,
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and I don't think I could put sentences together right,
you know. So it's it's tough. It's tough. So I've
given the benefit of.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
That of that Ryan.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Another mystery of Etro was the lack of home runs.
I mean, we've heard Dan Wilson say, the dude hit
bombs in batting practice. Is I gotta cut from Ralul
banias he says Etro could have hit thirty five home
runs every year. Do you think now, if.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
We're in the era more of war and.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Ops versus batting average, do you think if you would
have played in this day and age, he actually would
have tried to hit more home runs one hundred percent.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
And I'll be right there with Dan and Roll. I
mean that dude he had. I mean I played with
a lot of dudes, a lot of pop, and he
had just as much pop as Albert Poohols, just as
much Pap as Jay Buner or Griffy I mean all them.
I mean when he wanted to hit the ball out,
he would go upper deck and what's it called now, T.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Mobile not safe? Yeah, yeah, T mobile.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
But I mean, dude, he could he could mash him.
I'm telling you. I think I don't know if you
guys ever heard his story, but one time when he
first got there and Lou was Lou was this is
spring training, Lou was our manager, and uh, I heard
Lou say something to somebody that this guy he can't
obviously he doesn't hit the ball the other way and
h and Lou said went to him, It's like, hey,
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can you maybe hit a little more power? And I
think that game, Itchy might have hit two or at
least one home run.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Wow, that that game.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
I mean, he was that talented if if if he
wanted to go deep, he would go deep. Wasn't his game,
you know.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Right, Ian Franklin's with us and rhyme before you go.
Were you there the day that Panela, I mean you
probably were. But when they did each yer old Babblehead
night for the first time. And you remember, Lou would
hardly ever go into the clubhouse itself. His locker his
office was across the hallway, but you know, very rarely
when he walking in there, and he walks in I've
told the story on there before. He walks into the
clubhouse and he finds Eachiro and he's cradling the bobblehead
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like it's a little baby. And he walks up to
each row and he says Itachiro, make you look good, meye,
make you look goodny No, and Eachiro looks at him like, yeah,
I can speak English, man, I know what you can
talk about.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
You remember that when he brought up the bobblehead for
the first time.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
I do know.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
I'll be laughing to say that.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
I don't remember that, but I can see Lou doing
that because Lou had that kind of sense of humor,
and uh, I'm sure just like freaking laughed it off
and was hilarious.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Awesome.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Well, listen, man, we have been searching for years to
find out the man who taught each Heiro.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Suzuki is saying right here.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
August in Kansas City, it's it's hotter than two rats
in the suck.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
And it was Ryan Franklin, the redneck from oh he
did well, give us, give us the proper saying, and
don't forget we're on live radio.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
By the way, Ryan, I know, I don't care no,
I'm kidding.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
No, all right, Like I said sitting in the dugout
Kansas City August, and I said, it's real. You know
what it is. I said, it's hotter than two rats
efing and a wolf saw and helos. So you know,
he he botched it up, but he got his point across.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Ryan, You're the man. Great stuff. Great to hear your voice.
Tell people real quick what you're doing these days?
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Man?
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Oh not a lot, man. I play golf, I hunt,
I own. I got about fifty something rental properties and
a billboard company and uh that's about I got two grandkids.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Yeah, I'm fifty one, man, but I don't feel it.
I can still hit it three hundred yards.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Unbelievable. Man.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Hey, great to have you on. Let's talk to it
all right, buddy. Thanks for doing this.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Man.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Yeah, buddy, I've still got the same number. Softie, I'm
still waiting done.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
I got you, man, that was good stuff, dude. Was
that fun to hear from him? Or what we're gonna break?
I think Jeff Nelson's gonna pop on as well as
we continue to pay tribute to the brand new Hall
of Famer I Shiro Suzuki is in next on ninety
three three kJ RFL