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Hello everyone. I am Jeff and welcome to sports History. Today.
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We're gonna talk about what happened in the sports world
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on August the fifteenth. Now I have a really cool
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co host today. He is a sportscaster, a stud play
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by play guy, Brian Rot. You introduce yourself.
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Thank you for having me on, Jeff. Yeah, my name
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is Brian Flores. I do play by play for the FPHL.
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The team that I call for is the back Ruge
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Zydicho down there in Louisiana. One of the things we're
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gonna be talking about today actually has to do with
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a local in Louisiana. So excited for that.
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Oh cool. What got you into sports was just playing
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as a kid? Is that how you started?
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Oh? Getting into hockey? No, my dad wrote me into it.
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My dad has been a fan since the La Kings
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inception back in nineteen sixty seven, and it was kind
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of like it was a writ of passage that if
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he had to go through fifty years of pain, I'd
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at least have to go through twelve before we won
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the Cup.
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Well, I guess that's kind of fair.
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Well, he did get Gretzky, though, he did get a
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funny story about that. So, my dad was working he's
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a radiologist who was working in the hospital at the time,
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and he was hanging out with his buddy Mike, and
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that's when the news dropped that Bruce McNall was going
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to be bringing in Wayne Gretzky, and he and Mike
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looked at each other as like, ah, man, really they
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weren't excited at all because they're like, there's gonna be
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no more cheap tickets going to the Kings games at
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the Forum.
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That is definitely true. That'll change the whole dynamic of
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your crowd base there.
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Yeah, and you know what, I'm going through it myself.
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My favorite thing when I come back to California is
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frequent Dodger games. We got Shoho Tani. I was excited,
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but I knew the Minchellata prices. We're gonna going from
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seven dollars to seventy.
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That's well, at least you can get excited about going
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to the ballpark. I'm out here in Colorado with the Rockies,
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the worst team ever.
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Well, I mean I hear the beer there is plentiful.
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And it's cheaper than California, So definitely. Oh right, we'll
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talk some more sports throughout. But hey, let's see what
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happened in today in sports throughout the history of August
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the fifteenth, eighteen eighty six. Louisville pitcher, his name is
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Guy Hecker. He went six or seven at the plate,
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hit three home runs, scored seven runs. He's the only
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major league player they have seven runs in one game,
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and he's only pitcher to get hits in six hits
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in one game. You've got the win as a pitcher too.
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They beat Baltimore twenty two to five nineteen oh five,
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Philadelphia A's future Hall of Famer baybo l He honed
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no hit the Saint Louis Brown's got to win at
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five nothing. I always talked about no hitters basically because
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there's only three hundred and twenty six of them all time,
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so might as well bring them all up, kind of
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like it for athletes get a gold medal Olympics. Bore
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he wass bringing them.
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Up to and never stopped talking about it.
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No, they are in their they in their fifteen minutes.
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So you're a big Dodger fan too, then.
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Oh yeah, absolutely, we're gonna be talking about another historical
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feet in baseball, a triple play, and there was a
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note on here that there have only been seven hundred
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and thirty nine and that's already obsolete because last night
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Choe Heo Tani hit into a triple play against the Angels.
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Oh really, yeah, well we'll have that to look far go.
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On nineteen twelve New York Yankee guys in, he stole
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the home base twice. The Yankees won five to four
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of the Detroit Tigers. We're talking about stealing home do
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you know obviously none of the less were alive. Remember
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we've seen pictures of Babe Ruth right. Yeah, could you
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believe he's stole home ten times?
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Not as much as I can believe myself running a
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five k.
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Exactly, We'll get this. He's still home ten times. Ricky
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Anderson is the Baseball all time Baseball Steeler. He only
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stole home five four times in his their career. Really, yeah,
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Ty Cobb, he's still home the most. Hes still fifty
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four times in his career. Probably the best female athlete
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maybe of all time, but definitely the early nineteen nine ers.
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Her name was Babe Didrich sin Zaharias. Nineteen forty eight,
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she won yes Women's Open by eight strokes.
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Nice. Yeah, and a couple of years later in nineteen fifty,
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Ezard Charles actually TKO'ed Freddy Beischore in the fourteenth to
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keep the heavyweight championship of the world. And actually prior
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to that fight, Charles only lost once prior to that
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belt against Jersey Joe Wilcott, and since then he was
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able to win five straight before facing off against Freddy
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Beschore and after during the fight, Eddie actually suffered a
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bad cauliflower ear and that's when they called the fight
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late in the fourteenth And back in nineteen thirty nine,
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actually Jesse Owens long jumped a twenty six point eight
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in a third, a record that actually stood almost twenty
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five years today. In sixteen ninety four, America's Ralph Boston
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jumped twenty seven feet, breaking at Jesse's record, And if
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you're wondering today, the long jump record stands at just
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over twenty at nine foot by America's Mike Powell in
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nineteen ninety one.
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That is a long time for a record in track
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and field to be on the books.
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Yeah, it really is. And I mean I can tell
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you my record in long jump. It's about two feet
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and I landed flat on my face.
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I think you got me by about a quarter of
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an inch.
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Nineteen sixty four of the Philadelphia Phillies turned a triple
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play and beat the Mets eight to one. I've only
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been seven hundred and now forty triple plays in baseball history.
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The rarest feet in baseball is the unassisted at triple play,
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which has only been done ten times. And as I mentioned,
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the two point thirty nine was up to two forty
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after last night's triple play by the Anaheim Angels, Shoheo
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Tani hitting it into his old team and moving on here.
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Patricia Plinkaz became the first professional American football player in
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nineteen seventy, the first female professional football player. She played
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for the Orlando Panthers in the minor league Athletic Coast
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Football Conference. She held the She held four field goals,
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two extra points, and her husband was the kicker. Her
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husband got her after two games and they were going
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to keep her bigger pardon that we're gonna keep her.
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She had lost interest and told them that she was
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gonna keep the fifty dollars that she was promised. So
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she went back to being a first grade teacher. After that,
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imagine that you're you're you're on the grid iron kicking footballs,
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and then you know next week you're teaching basic addition
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to a bunch of first graders.
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So I thought, what I thought, she must be the
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only one. I looked. There's actually, I don't know what
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league there in the Albany Firebirds. Do you know have
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any idea? Are they in like arena football or something
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like that. Yes, yes, they had a girl who kicked
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for cu actually universit callar out O. Her name is
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Katie Heide. She kicked for a couple of games for them.
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That ends not the only female athlete either. Marion Ramanau
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would be the first woman to lace up in between
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the pipes for the Tempa by Lightning back in nineteen
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ninety two.
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That'd be a lot tougher than being a kicker.
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Yeah, I mean, I'd rather kickballs than have pucks thrown
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at my face at like ninety miles an hour.
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I mean, I hope she earned more than fifty bucks,
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So I'm saying no, that tells what she did. In
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nineteen seventy five, Baltimore Orioles manager or a Weaver. He
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was ejected from both ends of a double leader. Yeah,
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him and the Texas Rangers in Baltimore. Nah, they split,
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So I don't know what he was so upset about. Now,
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this was before your time, but back in the day
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before basically the internet and everything went viral. Man, when
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something happened and it was on all the morning newscasts
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and all that kind of stuff, it was a big deal.
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This guy, Dave Trevecki, he is a pitcher for the
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San Francisco Giants. Well, in September in nineteen eighty eight,
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he found out they had a tumor in his arm,
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and he was a well known player and all that
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kind of stuff, and they said, hey, you had to
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have surgery. So there was big news. There's this major
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league player had surgery and all that kind of Well,
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he came back early. They wanted to wait, but no,
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he came back to the falling August in nineteen eighty nine.
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Now he is on the mound and his first came back.
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He was doing pretty good and he was pitching against
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Tim Rains when they played for the Montreal Expos. He
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went to throw the ball and his arm just snapped
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the bone. Just everybody in the stadium could hear it,
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and it collapsed on the field, It was on the news,
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all that kind of stuff. It was kind of like
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one of those virtual things that you definitely didn't want
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to see. But David he came back even from that.
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They said that the only thing that saved him was
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it was a clean break, and so he came back
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and he pissed a little bit, but the cancer kept
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coming back, so he ended up happening to have his
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whole arm amputated off. So that was a pretty sad story. Man.
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You talk about one of the things. I think that
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it's one of those one of those things that nationally
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everybody was just like, oh, did you see that? Did
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you see that? Oh? It was just horrible. Nineteen nineties
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Oakland A's Mark McGuire. He was the first player in
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baseball history hit thirty home runs in his first four seasons.
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Albert Poohols he did it, and I think what two
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thousand and two thousand and three, two thousand and four,
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something like that.
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Yep, And I can't remember. There was the I think
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back then when the Astros were still with the NLCS,
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absolutely clabbered one for the Houston Astros or against the
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Houston Astros, and you know, Wimer says that that ball
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is still somewhere in the stratosphere.
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You know, that's I don't really think talk about the longest.
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I don't see how they measure those. I mean, still, oh,
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that was fire learning whatever feat I'd like.
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That in recent history in the World Series, Jorge Sol
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layer for the Atlanta Brave. And then that's another team
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that we'd be touching on in a little bit. Uh
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sent one out of Minute Made Park actually beat the
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train tracks went right over it, and there was a
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lucky I don't even know if they're actually an Astros fan,
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but after this they may have well turned into one,
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because they were walking right past Minute Made and they
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found the home run ball and they thought it was
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a ball, it was a batting practice ball, but nope,
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it was a horore So Layer bomb.
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Well then, I did I just hear your boy out
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there in LA that had his three hundred home run ball.
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This sold for like twenty five grand or something like.
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That, yep, yep, And just seeing the mad scramble to
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go find it. And I remember it was Albert Poolhols
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when he hit his bomb against the Dodgers. The fan
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tried keeping it and Pool Holes offered to pay him
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something like a quarter of million dollars just for one baseball,
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and I'm thinking, you know what, I would love to
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pay off my car with one baseball.
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You know, I hope I would be big enough. But
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I think if somebody achieved something like that in sports,
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I think I would just give it to him.
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I mean, yeah, I mean a million dollars, like I'd settle.
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I'd settle just for a sign jersey, you know.
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Sign jersey or hey man, can you give me like
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playoff tickets or something? You know, I don't I just
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don't get that help with me. Yeah, exactly.
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And speaking of baseball, nineteen ninety three, pitcher Nolan Ryan
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got his three hundred and twenty fourth win as the
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Rangers beat the Indians four to one, and it was
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actually No. One's last win and it would be a
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six years later, in golf, Tiger Woods won his second major,
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won the PGA Championship, beating Sergio Garcia by one stroke.
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You know, in baseball, I mean, I mean baseball. I
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meant to say golf. Beating a guy by one stroke
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is that's a nail bider, to say the least.
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Yeah, and it's had funny, but him and Tiger and
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Sergio they had a they made a career out of
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that for about eight years, and Tiger always won by
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one stroke sports Sergia.
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I mean, I'd be miffed, but if it was the
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best golfer to ever hit the grass, I don't think
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I'd be too mad at myself.
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Now, you just be kind of like looking up, going,
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hey man, what I got to do to beat this guy?