4_8_25, 7.32 PM Summertime Fun with Baseball Cubs vs Sos memories

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:30):
Hello, Mogodo, the Modest game.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
Tinny sings Well, be drum and hold boom.

Speaker 3 (01:05):
The con came rock Todays We're born Adam. There's new grass,
all steels, round stand.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
And headed for home.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
It's a round and handsome man, and and understand the
way out. I'm ready sayday, come in cold.

Speaker 4 (01:38):
I'm ready to say to day. Look at me. Hi,
you listening to two guys talking crap. I'm Ben. I'm
gonna call my car host Sdan Noeling up and we're
gonna talk some crap. How's your day going, How is
your week? Let's talk. It's baseball season, so I'm ready
to play.

Speaker 5 (01:56):
Are you?

Speaker 4 (01:58):
We're calling Daneling up?

Speaker 2 (02:07):
Good afternoon, Exit real t.

Speaker 6 (02:09):
This is Dan.

Speaker 4 (02:10):
Hey Dan, this has been I want to talk some crap.
I want to do an ambushed podcast, so I'm going
to ambush you today. How's it going?

Speaker 2 (02:17):
Okay? I got to put on my two gts set on. Okay,
I'm ready you do, buddy?

Speaker 4 (02:24):
Oh really good. It's baseball season. And I found a
I found a book that I had and I didn't
even know I had it. It was Steve Dallas Disco Demolition.
I wanted to go so bad. I gave my nephew
Keith a dollar for his disco albums, and my sister
got married took away from me. I wanted to go

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so bad, and I whoa and I didn't want and
I didn't get. I didn't go. I watched it and uh,
if you got a TV channel was like twenty channel
twenty six or Chanel three two. And I watched it
on TV and I wish I was a jail. People
were blowing up the field, the records exploded. It was
it was a young nineteen year old boys fantasy.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
I still have my ticket from disco demolition. You went
to disco demolition, sir oh Man, I.

Speaker 6 (03:17):
Know, I know.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
I went with five other people, and I had the
time of my life.

Speaker 6 (03:24):
I was one of the coops who got out onto
the field, but I wasn't one of those idiots running
around and just tearing it up. It almost looked like
a giant mash pit. But I had grabbed three beers,
went down, jumped the wall, took my three beers, sat
right behind second base in the grass, and I just

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watched the I just watched the environment and all that energy.
And by the time I was done with my third beer,
picked up my cups. Oh there was one thing that
they did disturb me about that. While I was they're
watching everybody, somebody with a knife and it was a switchblade.

(04:05):
He took like a one foot by one foot section
of sad right out of center field and he just
took it.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
He just like cut a one. It was like, what
are you doing? And he goes, it's my souvenir.

Speaker 6 (04:20):
I'm thinking, you know, being on the field during a
baseball game, it is your souvenir. But I finished my
three beers, picked up my three glasses, went back to
my seat, you know, jumped the wall went back up.

Speaker 2 (04:34):
I think it was shit. I think I had the
ticket in my ticket box.

Speaker 6 (04:39):
Anyways, I went get to my seat and I'm looking
for my sister, and Sue Shuffler was there, and I
think I went with Connie and Laurie Sebert. I mean,
we had the greatest time. And by the time I
got back to my seat, the cops were circling at
the fire. They were starting the circle and start to

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push people off, you know, they had you know, surrounded
the area, if you will.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
And I just started walking it back and Bill Black
was so pissed. He's like, Joe, back your sheet. He
started a chant.

Speaker 6 (05:13):
It was. It was a different day, a different time,
And I'm just glad that I did what I did
and I wasn't acting like a yahoo. But I gotta
tell you, I am so happy I kept my original ticket.

Speaker 4 (05:30):
Well that's good.

Speaker 6 (05:31):
Like you know what what was?

Speaker 2 (05:33):
It was seventy nine, right.

Speaker 4 (05:34):
I don't know I had this book.

Speaker 2 (05:36):
I can think, I can oh, I got a fact
my ticket now, darn it, I have this.

Speaker 4 (05:39):
Book right now. I'm going to open the page. Just
go demolition Steve Dough. I mean there's people like Dennis
the Young hates him and stuff like that. I don't
even know when it is.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
I know that it was on July twelfth, nineteen seventy nine.
And I sat in box name Tier two, seat five,
and I went back to my seat and they canceled
the second game and we.

Speaker 6 (06:11):
Went home, and I got to tell you we had
the best time. On the way home, we got pulled
over for singing too loud. We were and I know
what song we were singing. We were singing all Time
Warp from the Rocky Horror Picture Show. All five of
the must have.

Speaker 2 (06:31):
Been such to us. I'm sure I'm missing somebody. But
we were all singing.

Speaker 6 (06:35):
Rocky Horror on the way home and we got pulled
over by a Palatine cop for being too loud. He
thought it was the radio. It was us five just
having a good time.

Speaker 2 (06:44):
Wow, Palestine, that sounds a good playoff.

Speaker 6 (06:48):
It was like we were still full of the energy
and it was very rare to you know, like go
to I know what we did. I mean, we should
have gone out in the field. I don't know if
anybody else was uh uh after like a Yahoo, I
just sat there, watched another another day, another dollar in Danville.

Speaker 4 (07:14):
I know, I really wanted to go so bad. And
I watched it on TV, and I mean I heard
who was a sportscaster was Harry Carey, And.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
Harry was there. Harry was chanting, he got Bill buck
up in the box.

Speaker 4 (07:29):
I don't know who the other who was the other
sports the other sports caster. He used to play for
the Socks. He he was Bipolary. I think I forgot
what his name was, but he isn't.

Speaker 6 (07:39):
I don't think I think Steve Stone was no he no,
I think he did start with the Socks and then
flipped to the Cubs later.

Speaker 4 (07:47):
I don't remember who the other guy was. Yeah, I
mean agoers Ago.

Speaker 2 (07:55):
I said, years, too many years.

Speaker 4 (07:57):
I think beers Ago, too many beers ago.

Speaker 2 (08:03):
We have a Facebook group page.

Speaker 4 (08:04):
I want everybody who's been to any favorite baseball game
or anything that to go on our Facebook group page
the number two gts two guys talking crap, and you
could tell us your experience. I mean, I love baseball.
I used to go to every opening game of the
Sox game. We have my good friend Mark Napoleon, and

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we just used to go and I picked up two
Irish girls. And Mark was engaged to his lovely wife VICKI,
so he got mad at me. Oh, you're picking up
girls in baseball for you? I go, yeah, I know,
and it was I bought them beers and that was
it and then they left me. So that was all
my excitement. I thought it was something special.

Speaker 2 (08:47):
And this is before VCRs and you know, you know,
putting it on.

Speaker 6 (08:52):
I would love to have seen that game coming home
or coming from the perspective as I wish I was
there and.

Speaker 2 (08:59):
I wasn't, but I was there.

Speaker 4 (09:03):
I wish I was there. I mean, I loved I
used to love to go to Okimisky Park. I loved
Olkimisky Park. I love that park so much.

Speaker 2 (09:12):
And I, oh, you know, were you there for last game?

Speaker 4 (09:17):
No, I wasn't. I don't think I was. I don't remember.
It was many years ago, and I don't think I remember.

Speaker 6 (09:25):
We. I did get tickets through c KG and I
still have my tickets for a that game. And then
oh I am I remember taking all the twins when
I was with the kids. They were when we watched
the wrecking ball start hitting the bricks of old k Whiskey.

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I mean, the cameras were out and me and the
kids were in some of that video. I don't know
where I could find that, but I remember we were
like proclaim, mean like a last minute like like proclaiming
to the governor given a reprieve.

Speaker 2 (10:05):
Last minute reprieve, and it was already done.

Speaker 4 (10:08):
I know, but they wanted a new park. I wish
I wish they were donated that park to the Chicago
Park District and built something else. I mean I know that,
I know they say it was you know, it wasn't needed.
Knew everything, but I wish they would have donated that
park to the Chicago Park district because there was a
beautiful park. I used to love that park. I mean,

(10:30):
I love Rugby Field. Don't take me bad, but I
don't know. I love kid Misky better. And I mean,
I'm not gonna call it great field or you know
every they sell.

Speaker 2 (10:41):
It's Kimsky Park.

Speaker 6 (10:45):
It's not mobiles very rule off, it's Bear Creek, it's
not whatever the All Star.

Speaker 4 (10:52):
No, it's still yeah, I know, yeah, yeah, I just love.
I just love the game of baseball. It's just such
a it's exports that people could work together as a
team and they work together and they love it. And
that's the most important thing, is working together as a team.
I was a lousy pitcher, but that was a good outfield.

(11:13):
I couldn't throw like nothing, but I could catch the ball.
I mean, I love it.

Speaker 6 (11:19):
I love playing my brother. My brother and I used
to warm up in the field right from behind our house.
We used to warm up five houses away. We would
I mean, we both had arms and the only way
that we could exercise was to just log ball. We
would set up cups like ninety feet away and try

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and hit the cup from you know, like a catcher
position the first base and try and get that ball
just right. We were setting it up for That's how
I was. That's where my arm came from in baseball.
I mean I may not have been able to always
judge where that fly ball was being down, but I

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could make it up.

Speaker 2 (12:02):
With my arm.

Speaker 4 (12:03):
Yeah, I mean I could judge. I mean I could
judge the ball. That was one of the things I did.
I just love. I mean, it's spaceball season. Now it's
time to go to ridley Field.

Speaker 2 (12:15):
Or did you ever go to any other stadiums back then?
Did you ever seen Tiger Stadium?

Speaker 5 (12:20):
No?

Speaker 4 (12:21):
I had a friend.

Speaker 6 (12:23):
Oh man, oh that was a great trip. I went
to uh Tiger Stadium before they turned tore that one down,
very very much like old Comiskey with the posts in
the way. And and it wasn't a bad drive. I mean,
you know, Chicago did Detroit to six hour drive. You

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just don't drink on those trips, you know, you don't drink.
But it was at the intersection of Chicago and boat
Volt Trump.

Speaker 2 (12:55):
Yeah, it was. I remember one of the cross streets
with Chicago. It's like my kind of place.

Speaker 6 (13:02):
Yeah, I mean, it does look like our socks are
not going to be doing so well, I think they're
cellar dwellers. Yeah, they are cellar dwellers again, damn it.
You know, I just wish the Sacks the best. I
know the Cubs have been pretty much a little bit
more of the wazzo gazzle kind of team. But you know,

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losy Rizzo was.

Speaker 2 (13:25):
A definite heartbreaker. But I think, yeah, Cubs are in
first place right now by a game and a half.

Speaker 4 (13:32):
Really, I don't pay attention to the Cubs. I'm sorry.
I'm still a Sacks fan.

Speaker 2 (13:38):
I mean, I'm a baseball fan.

Speaker 6 (13:40):
You want to argue, okay, you don't places outside, I'll
play north Side and okay, really, really.

Speaker 4 (13:50):
I love baseball. I love going to Wrigley Field. I
love like going to.

Speaker 5 (13:58):
The troughs in the bathroom. Maybe not so much, but
you know, that's part of the mistake. It's part of
the Oh yes, I mean.

Speaker 4 (14:09):
The girl, the girl who but who helps me give
my helps he address me for a court She lives
in Wrigley, phil And uh, she says it's like an
hour from from drives to Schomberg's, Like this is an hour.
And I said, oh, wow, you know.

Speaker 2 (14:28):
Is right there. I mean we're like five blocks south
of Riley.

Speaker 4 (14:33):
I really, I just love this go. I mean, I'll
I will go to a Cubs game. I haven't been
to a baseball game in a long time. I mean,
we have the Chicago hot Dogs in Rosemond. I guess
it called. I don't know. I want to go to
see that. I see, I don't. I don't know. There
was a Schomberg, there was a There was not the Flyers.

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I think they don't. They don't exist anymore. I mean,
basic games are just too expensive nowadays. Ago. I mean
I was a long, long time ago. I had a
friend who is was autistic, and I was friends with
his dad, and there was in Mount Prospect where I
used to live, there used to be a physically challenged

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baseball league with kids who were autistic and kids who
were on wheelchairs, and they would play te ball and
it was the most fun I ever hadn't playing baseball
because these kids would just hit the ball and the
one kid going right like hell, and you pushing this
kid with a wheelchair, and it was the most fun
I ever had playing baseball. I don't know what else

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to say. I mean, that's what baseball is, all these
kids playing ball and stuff and you know, and then
you know the other kids who were autistic, and you
have to help the kids field the ball and stuff
like that. It was just so much fun. I mean,
I enjoyed it so much. I mean, I'm glad that
summer I took. I just went to the baseball games

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every summer, every six Saturday morning and Monday, and I
just went there and I met the kids, and I
was there. You know, I was their coach, and I
you know, I helped coach the teams. I was and
it was one of the best things I ever did.
I mean, you got to do that. One of these days,
when there's an autistic league with kids who aren't fully challenged,

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you should go there and just go to the baseball
games and see the big smiles on their face. Even
volunteer and help these kids and you and you'll have
a new outlook on baseball.

Speaker 6 (16:34):
You know, the pros have started to come up to
the minor league entertainment level where it's a little bit
more entertaining in between innings, and you know, we got
it like a clock timer, and you know, okay, I
get it. Let's move the games along a little bit,
but let's keep it exciting.

Speaker 5 (16:54):
I love watching those mascots dressed up like high dougs.

Speaker 2 (17:03):
The stadium in between innings. Guess that's fun.

Speaker 6 (17:10):
Times in the stands when he used to be able
to bet on those you know, just frontly bets with
each other.

Speaker 2 (17:15):
I got the run water, I got you.

Speaker 4 (17:21):
Yeah, Well, news on my future dog.

Speaker 2 (17:28):
I got caught. Stay stay up, Stay up. Baseball favorite
White Sox player.

Speaker 4 (17:33):
Oh okay, My uncle Vito used to know a guy Okay,
what's his name now? He used to know this guy
who played him in the he was from. Uncle Vito
lived in Venezuela for many years and then when he
came to the United statesium and my aunt Jenny, and
he knew the whole guy who is a baseball player,

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Minnie Minoso.

Speaker 2 (17:55):
I think he didn't even knows Mom's my mom's favorite player.

Speaker 4 (18:00):
Yeah, And so I met him because when I was
family parties, I met him several times and he I
guess he had a world I think he had a
World Series ring or something like that, and he showed
to me and I was like, wow, that's really cool.
And I mean, min Goo Vito knew that guy and
it was really cool. And I guess because then Mango.
Vito was a well he loved baseball because every time

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I used to go to his house, he had a
Cubs game on or a Sox game on, and he'd
be watching the game and swearing to Italian, look at
this guy, he gets he missed the ball.

Speaker 2 (18:36):
Guys, you know, it was so much fun.

Speaker 4 (18:39):
I mean, baseball is so much part of America, and
I mean it's I mean, if you like football, that's great.
I love football, I love hockey. I love hockey. I
just think it's so much part of American history.

Speaker 2 (18:57):
And I mean, what do you think of time Wi
Cotton in the Cubs. Well, I think he did. I
mean he's a smart man.

Speaker 4 (19:04):
He bought all the houses around there, he rehabited, he
gave a winning team, and now I mean he did that.
I wish he would have concentrated on getting more of
winning teams and paying some more money for a good player.
I mean, I like Joe the coach of the Cubs,
but he's now with the Angels. Brought a so real

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series game. I mean, I just think that they gave
us a taste of a championship and then they took
it away from us.

Speaker 2 (19:34):
If I'm wrong, if you.

Speaker 6 (19:36):
Watch in the stands next time you're over at regularly
taken in a game, he walks the crowd and things
people for showing up.

Speaker 4 (19:44):
Oh does he really?

Speaker 2 (19:46):
I got a picture of him with me.

Speaker 6 (19:48):
He was just walking around his like Tom Rickets, and
I was with a couple of other realistic brokers at
the time, and it was just an outing, you know,
really just out there to just have some fun and
you know, just be with each other away from the
office kind of feel. And he is completely grounded and

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magnanimous and just thankful that you were coming.

Speaker 2 (20:13):
I don't know if he still does it, but I
don't have to look at a picture up at my
archives somewhere.

Speaker 6 (20:18):
Yes, but one of my greatest memories was July twelfth,
nineteen seventy nine, Doc's nine Tier two seat five.

Speaker 4 (20:31):
Yeah, I asked time.

Speaker 6 (20:33):
Good times like Kamiski though, absolutely just some of the
best times around my baseball life.

Speaker 4 (20:40):
Yeah, I mean, I think baseball is part of American history.
I mean, I mean it's just part of.

Speaker 6 (20:47):
This.

Speaker 2 (20:48):
Okay, go back, Okay, go back, go back. Favorite socks
player me, Andi Menosa. Okay, so you're gonna stick with that, Okay,
I mean, so I don't.

Speaker 4 (21:01):
I was gonna say Ron, Yeah, I wasna say Ron Sandel,
but I mean he was on the Socks for his
last he got traded to the Socks from the Cubs.
I think.

Speaker 6 (21:11):
One of the first pictures that I ever took with
a camera phone at the time was when Ron had
just put out his book, and that was maybe two
thousand and eight, two thousand and nine.

Speaker 2 (21:26):
Whatever. That's he was. He crusts me out. But my
favorite Sox player was number forty two.

Speaker 4 (21:38):
Who's that?

Speaker 2 (21:39):
Come on? Come on, think about it.

Speaker 4 (21:41):
Forty two, forty two socks. I don't, I am blank.
I can't tell you who that be.

Speaker 2 (21:48):
Going to go with the aviator glasses. Ron Kittle, number four,
Kitty Kitty, Yes, and he's still on Facebook.

Speaker 6 (22:02):
I mean every once in a while we'll have an
interaction off the Facebook thing. There very rare to see
somebody not sign a rookie card because he was like
in the second half of the season, so his real
rookie season quote unquote, if you were going to be
a Tops fan was I think it was like ninety

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His first year was a half year, so he never
signed those. But I was able to work with him
and in knew of him signing my rookie card, his
first you know, tops card. I made a contribution to
the to his foundation. He has a foundation that he

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works through, and I was glad to make a contribution
to the foundation.

Speaker 4 (22:55):
Does he make baseball bat chairs, Yes.

Speaker 2 (22:59):
That's the one.

Speaker 6 (23:00):
Yes, yes, I was Baseball's holding the bets in between
the bats and everything perfectly centered. And if you haven't
seen Ryan Kittle on Facebook, he's glad to show you
how straight.

Speaker 2 (23:13):
His lines are in his grass. I mean he is
just all about the green.

Speaker 6 (23:18):
And that's because you know, that's part of the game,
is the you know, the ambiance and the straight lines.
I mean I got that from the groundskeepers at Wrigley.
You know how to keep a straight line. You know
how to you know, focus on you know, just keeping
a straight line, keeping the wheels on the old wheel lines.

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And I and to this day, if you don't have
straight lines on your lawn, I still think that you
got like some sort of disease.

Speaker 2 (23:47):
That well, I still like cutting patterns into my lawn
when I get a chance.

Speaker 4 (23:55):
Well, don't go by my house. Well we'll see about that.

Speaker 6 (24:02):
What else I mean, a Kittle, I gotta tell you,
Ran Kittle is the epitome of what baseball should look like.
It's not about, you know, just taking money and run.
But here was the original fence finder that made me
a south Side fan. It had nothing to do with
anything else other than I mean, he had like three

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hundred and forty home runs and he could.

Speaker 2 (24:27):
Have hit five hundred had he had a chance to
play longer. But you gotta respect the way this is.

Speaker 6 (24:36):
You know, like like before Sammy years, you know, where
the balls weren't juiced or the bats weren't corked, and
you know, I mean, this is legitimate baseball at the
time Frank Thomas was playing. I think he played with
Frank Thomas for a couple of years at the end
of his I mean that was those two powerhouses.

Speaker 2 (24:56):
I gotta tell you. Oh and one of my favorite,
second favorite would be oo Jackson.

Speaker 6 (25:04):
Oh.

Speaker 4 (25:04):
Yes, he was on the Suck Sucks too. Yes, I
his arm.

Speaker 6 (25:09):
I would love to just get fifteen minutes with him.
He was playing with the Raiders at the time. He
ended up with hip problems and.

Speaker 2 (25:17):
His career ended up being cut short. But I gotta
tell you there are some people out there with good arms.
If you got a good arm, or know how.

Speaker 6 (25:27):
To work your arms and your upper body strength and
work the hips, you can have a really good lucrative
career with baseball.

Speaker 4 (25:36):
I just think that I agree with you. I just
think baseball is like a fit everything. Every family should
go there. I mean, even to like a minor league game,
just spend time. I mean, I have a friend who
drives some Milwaukee and watches the Brewers. You know, every time,
you know, he goes to Wrigley Feel he goes, they go.
Then when they go on vacation, he finds a minor

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league team. He went to North Carolina and he found
minor league team and he went there and seen see
him play. They always go to a ball game. And
then his wife is my friend, and she and they
always she always finds all the baseball. Okay, the baseball
with a baseball food I call it because you know

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they have the you know, elephant ears and all the
fried stuff.

Speaker 2 (26:27):
And oh my god, I didn't have an elephant year
until I was in my fifties. Oh my god, those
were good. Yeah, it just like the name.

Speaker 6 (26:40):
Kind of like I don't know, I probably ended up
being challenged to go eat one and I ate one
at the Kentucky State Fair waiting on UH Night Ranger
to play. So I walked around and said old elephant years.
I got challenged.

Speaker 2 (26:55):
They're not that. I mean maybe it was the deep
fried thing that I tried to stay away from.

Speaker 4 (27:00):
Yeah, I think so too. I just see it in
our clock are temper.

Speaker 2 (27:05):
I was just going to say, who's in the booth today?

Speaker 6 (27:09):
Me?

Speaker 4 (27:10):
I have no one else in the booth. I mean
we had both Koley for a couple of days. He's
not around. And if you want a job, contact me
at two pots as a bed. I'll be your I'll
be your engineer, your intern. I'll be your guy to

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do titles because I suck at it. Okay.

Speaker 6 (27:35):
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of our previous shows. And thank you for tuning into
our number forty second podcast. Yes, I went back and

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that why we're doing baseball because forty two was Ron
Kittle's number.

Speaker 4 (28:06):
Wow, that is really that's really good and I just
want everybody to work with each other, talk to each other,
and love each other. And a wise man, Tommy, before
you judge a man, walk in her shoe's words. Before
we leave, let's do this.

Speaker 6 (28:27):
Just be kind of of every ounce of energy, out
of every second of every day with kindness, because it's
that guaranteed.

Speaker 4 (28:37):
Yeah, and you know what the good Lord sees what
you do. Just love each other absolutely.

Speaker 6 (28:44):
But yeah, I do find those saying if you can
show us with a friend or two, absolutely do it.

Speaker 2 (28:49):
We're here to have some fun into.

Speaker 6 (28:51):
Maybe poker put, maybe reminisce a little poke, some fun
at some people.

Speaker 2 (28:56):
Then maybe just talk some shit and just get it
out of our minds, you know, because we all need
to release. Yes, you just gotta do it in the
right manner.

Speaker 4 (29:05):
Okay, Well, love each other and we're out of here.
See you, buddy, buddy, see ya.

Speaker 2 (29:11):
Thanks for the ambush. I'll pushing you next week. Be
good bye,