Card Mensches E37 "Live from Baltimore"

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SPEAKER 2: Hey, I'm the only black and I'm John Newman.

SPEAKER 3: Welcome to card matches.

SPEAKER 3: I guess we're starting. Hello, welcome to a special edition of card benches. You might notice that we're in the same room and we brought Muhammad Ali with us too and John Wayne over in the corner there. Ruben Yo and Shalom.

SPEAKER 3: That's hilarious.

SPEAKER 3: Well, John's in Baltimore. I am. Yep. And I got out of bed to, to actually hang out and show him around a little bit.

SPEAKER 2: I'm not in Kansas anymore.

SPEAKER 3: Same place. Yep. Double mench sexy man. Well, that's every week, Steve. Good to see you, buddy.

SPEAKER 2: Well, I got locked out of my house, so I just came here then. That's that only place I need to go. So 5.5 hours about and it's the first time for me here in Baltimore and it's been pretty fun so far. We're not done yet.

SPEAKER 2: We got an Orioles game tomorrow. I've never been, obviously never been to Baltimore. I've never been to Camden Yards. And that ought to be, interesting. I Don't believe in second favorite teams per, per se, but I, I Don't root against the Orioles.

SPEAKER 2: So if I have one, I, I'd pick them being a Mets fan.

SPEAKER 3: Do we ever decide what we're talking about the time?

SPEAKER 2: Oh, we can talk about everything and we can talk about Old Bay wings. I could do, I could do 60 minutes on old be Old Bay wings.

SPEAKER 3: But, but let's ask the chat room if, if you guys have ever had wings, Old Bay wings. Old Bay spice wings. Let us know because they're fantastic. And John tried them for the first time and He's hooked.

SPEAKER 2: I'm hooked. Yeah, I could eat them every day. It's, I'm gonna be either ordering them or making them back in, Syracuse. And, they're, they're very good. And your wife Laura, I had them at a restaurant and we had them again today and they were, they were both good but, hers were, were really, really good again.

SPEAKER 2: Hers had a little kick too, which I like a little more than the, the restaurant. We went to so I like them both. But, you know, I'll, I'll give the home Field nod, to the old spice wings or old spice wings. I Don't know if you want old spice.

SPEAKER 1: Yeah. Old day if.

SPEAKER 2: You ever tasted deodorant even by accident it's it's not flavor.

SPEAKER 3: Hello, Berry. Berry. Yes. Float like a butterfly Sting like a bee. Got him behind us. No, Jackson holiday up cut him. You gotta be, you gotta get in the position right there, there we go.

SPEAKER 3: Jackson holiday was sent down to the Miners today.

SPEAKER 2: I'm not gonna see him tomorrow. That, that, that that's probably, you know, a little bit disappointing but it still gonna be cool. They, that teams loaded with, with young superstars.

SPEAKER 3: We have a guest mentioned the back m it's, it's, it's me mentally mentally.

SPEAKER 3: So who's old Spice Wings? That's very funny.

SPEAKER 3: All right, we are caught up on those. So have any of you actually been to Baltimore? Well, since we're talking about it.

SPEAKER 3: Otherwise I'll save some of my random descriptions but Paperman Diner. Absolutely. We hit that hits. We had a whole bunch of neighborhoods Aberdeen Minor League game last night.

SPEAKER 2: Yeah, which if you like swing and misses and no runs scored. That was, that was the, the game that like it was a lost art of hitting. I felt like I should go out there and play like it was and we left in, in what the sixth inning, I think it was 00. It w up being a one nothing game for the, the visiting team in the end but lot of strikeouts, 17 strikeouts, one walk Yeah, not many hits one. Yeah.

SPEAKER 2: So, if you like a lot of action, it was not your night. But, you know, they had happy hours. So where can you get a pretzel and a hotdog for seven bucks in Aberdeen? So, that was, that was fun. And, you know, I love baseball so we're, you know, it was still good and, tomorrow, like I said, first time in Camden Yards and give me anything. Do I get like a shirt? I survived like my first game at Camden Yards and they're.

SPEAKER 3: Giving out Brandon Hot Bobble, honey.

SPEAKER 2: Well, I'll give, if I get one, I, I'll donate that to the kids. Will have to split custody of that. Like Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Tuesday, Thursday.

SPEAKER 3: And every other weekend, Roy Hobbs, I grew up in Baltimore.

SPEAKER 1: I smoke.

SPEAKER 3: What, what area, what neighbor that is? Awesome to what age I'm in. I'm in the tow scenario. Give you a general idea.

SPEAKER 3: So we had a local car shop. We had Bella Sports cards, which.

SPEAKER 2: Is, they, they're local, but I mean, they're, they're known they set up at the National Y I opened, you know, I Don't open a ton of new stuff anymore, but we opened the new CS. I got a, Alec Marsh Auto which I I gave to your kids and they immediately went on the DL. So you're welcome Alec Marsh.

SPEAKER 2: The, the Newman Jinx, lives. So, whoever I pulled the next auto I ever pull out of a pack, you're probably gonna be in trouble.

SPEAKER 3: My dad went to Milford high school, Roy, right outside of the city. I know exactly what you are talking about. I was born in Randallstown.

SPEAKER 3: So until 40. So you, yeah, most of your life you weren't just born there. That's awesome. Barry is Roy Hobbs. I like your movie.

SPEAKER 3: Yes, we had that Roy Hobbs in our challenge.

SPEAKER 2: Did you see The Natural Police? Of course, you can make me nervous when it comes to pop culture.

SPEAKER 3: Ok. So everything post 1985 pretty much doesn't register. You can even see in my house, my paintings, John Wayne, all old man stuff.

SPEAKER 2: Roy Hobb, you got young Kim Bassinger in that movie.

SPEAKER 2: You know the Wonder Boy Band like that, that's probably one of my favorite movies especially in the baseball genre side. So I gotta watch it again now. I feel like it's been a been many years I've seen it more than once, but it's been many years since I've seen it and I'll give a shout out to my son who had baseball practice today.

SPEAKER 3: Oh Yeah. Another highlight. Not exactly Roy Hobbs, but He had a good practice.

SPEAKER 2: You want to say who He was working with?

SPEAKER 1: And in the room.

SPEAKER 3: Would if you guys remember former major league?

SPEAKER 3: It was an all star. Mike Bordick.

SPEAKER 2: Yeah, Mike Bordick got to talk to him tonight, which I thought was a pretty neat moment. And, you know, so, that was pretty cool.

SPEAKER 3: Mookie always coming through the natural was directed by Baltimore's own Barry Levinson. Yeah.

SPEAKER 2: The all comes full.

SPEAKER 3: Circle who also directed Diner, which is the most underrated movie ever and has some of the best sports conversations in, in the movie Oakland A's. Yeah, that's who we got stuck with.

SPEAKER 2: Yeah, I, I've said, you know, it is what it is. The Yankees are coming in, after, after the A for Ford is a former University Of Maine player. Oh, really? I didn't see, I didn't know that but, nice guy, worked with, Zach, helped him out, knew what He's talking about. Obviously being a major league base.

SPEAKER 2: I coach high school baseball. So we had a funny moment when I talked about why kids, like, take their head out of the box and, and do that kind of stuff.

SPEAKER 3: So, my wife's about to walk by in the, in the back. We're gonna get everybody say hi to Laura.

SPEAKER 3: I made it quietly.

SPEAKER 2: She made it quiet because the cameras facing this way.

SPEAKER 3: I thought she was gonna trip over the water for sure.

SPEAKER 3: Very nice name and under great.

SPEAKER 2: Yeah, Barry is my father's name. So my name, my dad is Barry Newman.

SPEAKER 2: Which is why I'm John Newman.

SPEAKER 2: Random useless trivia. My dad has no middle name. He never got a middle name so that his birth cert is Barry Newman. That's a say.

SPEAKER 3: Somebody was raised correctly. No, Laura. Very nice. Thank you, Barry. After that, stop talking. It's a mech name.

SPEAKER 2: Barry is a Mensch name.

SPEAKER 3: For those that are scoring is Barry is Barry saying that He likes his own name.

SPEAKER 2: Well, yeah, I most I, I hope you like your own. I mean, a lot of people probably Don't love their name sometimes or maybe they use a, a middle name when they might legally change their name.

SPEAKER 3: Laura wisely exits stage one.

SPEAKER 1: My granddad had no, I Don't know.

SPEAKER 2: Maybe it was something from that.

SPEAKER 3: They're free. I Don't know. Like, why would you not have a middle name?

SPEAKER 2: I told my dad my dad is still with us. They, He's 86 years old. I'm like, you should just pick one. It's not too late. You know what I mean? Like whatever you want to be like B Hector, you know, Barry Hector Newman and doesn't have a nice ring to it, but it'll just throw people.

SPEAKER 3: Had an only an initial for a middle name.

SPEAKER 2: Oh, that's it. Just like just a, it was ja I, I got you.

SPEAKER 3: All right. So what do we do? Hobby wise? I said we went to the L CS, we opened some packs.

SPEAKER 3: We're gonna do a PS A submission tomorrow. Hopefully that we gotta get done, gonna evaluate some cards.

SPEAKER 3: Take John's help on that. Got my, He's.

SPEAKER 1: Very good with that.

SPEAKER 2: I've take, I've done it for double digit amount of years. The early John was that I'm going third person here. Early John was a terrible reviewer of, of free grading cards, but the, the older version has kinda ho ho his crap.

SPEAKER 2: So I'm, I'm usually pretty good. I'm very critical. There's probably stuff I could have said that I, I Don't, just to be, you know, nines or tens obviously is kind of my, you know, it, unless it's a vintage car but definitely on the, on the modern side.

SPEAKER 3: All right. So grading who grades and how do you decide what to send in? That's something I definitely wanna know because I'm taking advantage of having a second set of eyes, while, while I.

SPEAKER 2: Didn't grade my glasses with me on this trip. Just to, just to make that very clear for full disclosure.

SPEAKER 3: If you're gonna look at cards for grading lighted magnifying glass. Do you ever.

SPEAKER 2: See my glasses? I, I wear magnifying glasses. There. There you get me Walmart, they're like 17 bucks and they have a led light in the middle of them that you is USB charge. I didn't bring them. So they're not gonna, I've got, I've got a good, you know, but, that's what I use it when I'm at home and, and doing that. So I think I posted on social media once or twice. A funny pic with those things done.

SPEAKER 3: So, and what's the magnifying glass? Mostly for surface?

SPEAKER 2: Yeah, I look at everything and you look at everything but I try to look at everything.

SPEAKER 3: Yeah, 30 times magnification. You Don't need that for sure.

SPEAKER 2: So that just so, you know, the grading companies will, will look at it at 10 times magnification to start with. Now they can go up if they think they see something and need a better look, they can go up. But that's kind of their, their baseline and, and that's directly from the grading card companies themselves.

SPEAKER 3: Yeah. So I'm big fan of the Zion Mag Pro. If you haven't seen it, go to Zion cases.com.

SPEAKER 3: Big, big fan of that product.

SPEAKER 3: They've made kind of like their own slab one touch.

SPEAKER 2: Yeah, I've seen them. Yeah, I Don't, I Don't know any but but I.

SPEAKER 3: Will still buy graded slabs. Yeah, I like buying graded slabs more than I like sending them in to be honest.

SPEAKER 3: Ruben says in the last two weeks, I've submitted to both PS A and SGC. I decided to get the cards graded for potential trades or selling and just card preservation for PC.

SPEAKER 2: Card. Great point is Dylan.

SPEAKER 3: Good evening Dylan Dylan. We're talking about people that and how they decide what to grade what a perfect person to have in the chat room. Dylan, what do you look at first when you evaluate a parks? I know you take it very seriously. So I'd love to, love to know what Dylan's secret is. I know He's, the centering King is what I hear.

SPEAKER 2: Yeah, centering center is, is one of my first things I, I'll notice.

SPEAKER 2: I'll give up a little bit, especially on vintage cars. I'll give a little bit up on corners if it's centered. So yeah, centering to me is probably if I'm ranking them, the number one thing I look at. So for me, I'm only speaking for me of it.

SPEAKER 3: Steven says you can make your own labels with design cases. Mine says PS A 10 Mookie, I agree with SGC I grade about 5050 between PC and cards. I sell to pay for the grading submission. Great idea. Great way of doing it.

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SPEAKER 3: And we should mention since you're here and you've seen, I actually Don't talk about it often. I have a lot of sports art.

SPEAKER 3: It's something that II I happen to have a background in and have a passion for and when you're talking about your collectibles and you're talking about your cards, I do have insurance on everything and you know, I want to thank stadium insurance for being a sponsor and if you have a collection, if you, you know of any value stadium insurance, just go to their website and check them out. They're fantastic.

SPEAKER 3: I know a lot of people that have switched over to them have been happy.

SPEAKER 2: And I gotta say a lot of people are a little intimidated with the insurance process to think. Man, it's a lot of work. I gotta like type every card out in a database. It is nothing at all like that. You actually can make a 1020 minute video. I've collected cards for 40 years. I did a video on my inventory took 20 minutes.

SPEAKER 2: That's it. You Don't need to write them all down. You Don't need to have on a fla you can, I mean, I have my inventory on a flash drive but not required for the insurance. And in stadium's case, Danny, they have an app as well that you can. Worst case scenario, file a claim, ask questions, get in contact with them.

SPEAKER 2: The one difference too with stadium sound a little like a commercial cause it is kind of, but Don't the the people involved in the stadium are collectors so they know exactly what the value of these cars are.

SPEAKER 2: They're not going to, you know, Geico State Farm, all state they're going to do. You know, God forbid you have a claim, they're gonna try to give you the lowest amount possible or, and they try to fight it all together and, and not want to pay you.

SPEAKER 2: So just keep, keep that in mind and if you do any kind of shipping or receiving of cards of significance, these, they cover that as well. So if you're buying cards and auctions or selling platforms or selling cards, they cover to and from your house, it's not just what's in your house.

SPEAKER 3: Bottom line stadium insurance.

SPEAKER 3: Steven says my wife doesn't think I need insurance because she believes what I told her, I paid for each car. That's, that's hilarious.

SPEAKER 2: Well, she doesn't think you need it but you still might need it. Just Don't tell her you have insurance too.

SPEAKER 3: Talking about grading.

SPEAKER 3: Dylan says, well, it has to be worth it to send it in period. If it's a $10 card, I won't send it in. That certainly makes sense. But Dylan, if you're looking at a card, what are you looking for specifically?

SPEAKER 3: Just curious.

SPEAKER 3: Here's a great question.

SPEAKER 3: From Barry, if you could only collect one player, who would it be? Now, are we talking for value or for PC Barry? Because I would say Ripkin or kofax and I know those are chalk and nobody's surprised by that.

SPEAKER 2: I'm not gonna, not very to popular belief. I'm not going to say Greg Jeffries. That's not my pick. I love him. He's still my guy Greg but not Greg. You know, I'd have to go with the obvious one. Right. Jackie Robinson, if I had to pick a current player, that's a, that's an even, that's a tougher question, for, for me.

SPEAKER 2: I'm thinking, you know, a guy, I, I kind of, Bobby, I'll go with Bobby with Junior.

SPEAKER 2: Yeah, I just get water. I'm like, sure I'm the guess and I get water. D, He gets the Coke. That's not, I Don't know about that one but I feel advantage. Yeah.

SPEAKER 2: I go with Bobby with Junior. I love that kid. And I think when, when his career is over, He's going to be, you know, one of those players that we, we still talk. So that's my modern, my current and my all time Robinson with Junior Mookie.

SPEAKER 1: Yes, He does.

SPEAKER 2: Yeah, that's it. I'm trying not to mention yet. Well, I got to answer the question.

SPEAKER 3: What's up Orlando? Dylan says He would probably go with Mantle and Aaron. Well, yeah, man, Mantle. You know, I go with Babe Ruth. If I can have one but drink Koufax was mentioned. Drink Jackie was mentioned at this. Well, that those were set up there. That's not fair.

SPEAKER 2: That's why we do the show on Friday because most people Don't work on Saturday so they can get over that hangover if they're playing the drinking game with Brian.

SPEAKER 3: Sandberg, Hank Aaron Ruben, are you saying? And you would collect Orlando, or you're saying hello to Orlando Orlando Cepeda.

SPEAKER 2: Right. Maybe He's collecting Orlando Cepeda. Maybe.

SPEAKER 2: How about Orlando Arcia? That would be a different, or was much better.

SPEAKER 1: Yeah, I know that.

SPEAKER 2: How about Tony Orlando?

SPEAKER 2: Well, hey, Don't forget, Don, who actually wasn't done that. That was just what they called him. Did you know that I did not? There you go.

SPEAKER 3: All right. So it's a full, full us Cheryl Orlando Hudson.

SPEAKER 2: He played at Syracuse by the way, when He was with the Blue Jays. So I actually saw, saw him back in the day. There's another Atlanta.

SPEAKER 3: Oh, I like that. Yes, I hope so.

SPEAKER 3: Tony Orlando. Yeah, it's a bad joke. Barry Don't sorry about that.

SPEAKER 3: Dylan says I want to choose a player that has the most cards ever printed and that's why I chose Mantle and, or Aaron most cards ever printed that, you know, you know, in a modern day I was about to say Ripkin is, is up there. Griffey is up there, Jeter is up there.

SPEAKER 2: I love Griffey too. I'm a sucker for graphic cards. Now, our ebay search like nineties in Search Griffy that are, are tougher pools. Heck, I, I got 24 1989 Pacific Griffy candy bars at my house. Well, you do have.

SPEAKER 3: A lot of Minor League stuff also. Yeah. So City of Orlando.

SPEAKER 3: That's a good one. Orlando. Yeah, it's got Disney World. Some big cases.

SPEAKER 2: The show is only an hour. So I Don't think we're gonna name every Orlando to tonight. But I think we covered the, the big one. I think what's the biggest Orlando? Well, as far as Player Cepeda.

SPEAKER 3: Look at the email. I just got, I'm gonna share this. If you get the Zion newsletter, I just got an email for the Mad Pro and for the Slab Museum. And I'd like to give a shout out to the Slab Museum. If you haven't heard me say it before, I am involved in that. I'm not gonna hide check it out. It's also the design cases.

SPEAKER 3: And very proud that email is out. We will be announcing a partnership soon. A little bit of a preview there.

SPEAKER 3: Tony Orlando and Dawn. See there, there you go, Ruben.

SPEAKER 2: Yeah, but I believe her real name wasn't done it just that was for the like, so not like you said, Don, she probably wouldn't respond to you but hos hello. Du Du remember?

SPEAKER 1: Oh, great.

SPEAKER 2: Yeah, I feel like we're missing and I feel like they're using Google and we're not. Yeah, we are my hands. Look, look, look, we're like dealers at the casino.

SPEAKER 3: There were two that made up Dawn.

SPEAKER 2: Yeah, that's what I mean that they just called them. It was like the band. It's like KC and the Sunshine Band. It was Tony Orlando and they were done. But that they Ay of individuals and neither one of them wasn't done that I'm aware of, but I'm not a Tony Orlando and Don expert.

SPEAKER 3: How about Joe Orlando? Yeah, that one just came in hobby via, via text message from, from, Rich. Fine. Thank you, Rich. Glad you're watching and listening. Hey, Joe Orlando, this is more like a defense table.

SPEAKER 2: I would definitely, I will say this. I will say this. I would definitely be the defendant as being Jewish. So I would be the attorney.

SPEAKER 2: I mean, like, Mr Newman, they'll say Mr Newman who's rep sending you in this case. And I'll say my, my lawyer, Danny Black is, would be my, I'm, I'm dressed appropriately in black.

SPEAKER 3: Orlando Miller played for my Astros. I gotta admit I Don't remember.

SPEAKER 2: No, I remember him. Yeah.

SPEAKER 3: Yeah. My kind of show tonight. That's we take that as a big compliment, Orlando, you know that.

SPEAKER 2: Yeah, then they got, you got, they got Orlando another Happy Orlando. There might be as many hobby. Orlando's as major league players named Orlando.

SPEAKER 3: I love, I love getting via text and I'd also like to point out that we're doing this during an Oriole game and the NFL draft and I managed to figure out that the Ravens took a tackle Rosengarden. So I'm pretty happy Garden. Could be, could be, I'm not getting my hopes like we have potential talk about.

SPEAKER 2: We have two TV s here. So if you see me do this, I'm watching TV, I'm not gonna lie to you. The Steelers already made their pick. They do have another one coming up but not for a while. Probably not while we're on the air.

SPEAKER 1: We have a.

SPEAKER 3: Whole, a whole set up here. It's kind of like a war room. Like we're like, we're gonna draft.

SPEAKER 2: Next segment players named Barry. Well, let's start out with Bonds and Larkin Han Orlando.

SPEAKER 3: I Don't know what that means.

SPEAKER 2: I Don't know how apparently I've aged to where I can't see and I got to do this to read.

SPEAKER 1: So I see you. Hammer.

SPEAKER 2: Oh, hi in Orlando from Star Wars.

SPEAKER 3: Oh, that's why I got it once again.

SPEAKER 1: Pop culture.

SPEAKER 2: Yeah, I, well, it's fool me for what, 30 seconds or two. So, you know, I Don't know how many football fans we have. Obviously we're going up against, the draft. Day one was an offensive day. Day two is now defensive day and offensive line day. My Steelers have beefed up the front line, the trenches, right where football games, are, are what Steven.

SPEAKER 3: Says I have you on one TV, and the Cubs on the other. I just wanna know who gets the volume. That's, that's the question. Are, are we on volume? Are you, are you watching us on mute?

SPEAKER 3: And if you're watching us on mute, I guess you didn't hear the question. So that was really stupid.

SPEAKER 3: I didn't think about that. Well, if He's watching a mute He didn't hear last.

SPEAKER 2: It might be better to watch on mute. You get, you laugh when you see these ugly mugs and then you get the entertainment of major league baseball or music.

SPEAKER 3: Thank you. All right, go saints. We appreciate it.

SPEAKER 3: John, I hope you brought a terrible title wave in Baltimore.

SPEAKER 2: I tell you when I was packing my, my backpack with, with, you know, three days worth of clothes, four days worth of clothes.

SPEAKER 2: I really almost put a steer item in there but I'm like no out of respect to, to you guys here who are hosting me, my host family, I'm like a foreign exchange kid but I didn't, I didn't even I, I was gonna pack a steer hat but I went with the Syracuse Mets hat in instead of a, a Steeler hat. So, but if you know.

SPEAKER 3: Anything about the Orioles Minor Leagues, the Aberdeen Iron Birds happen to be these exact colors.

SPEAKER 1: Yeah, that's funny.

SPEAKER 3: So at the game, John looked like a Hummer.

SPEAKER 2: Yeah, I fit right in. I looked like I lived here for years but first time ever. So that's a nice Minor League stadium. By the way, If anyone I never been there, you know, I'm sorry, you know, you want to say something Victor made me laugh.

SPEAKER 3: Victor says, well, this is different. Good evening, Victor. That's actually the tagline for the show card mentions.

SPEAKER 2: This is different, it is different. The show is different, which is kind of what I like about it. We usually do this kind of at the national. So we're doing this, this is our pre national get get together.

SPEAKER 3: So, and men on trial order, order in the court, there was a lot of conversations about how to set up for tonight. A little secret. My regular office studio is not as big as it may appear.

SPEAKER 2: Do you what? I know this thing, Danny got to see this for the first time in person. You know, this is one of my favorite, pieces. I, I Don't know. Sometimes I'm like, you know, you never see a rock band wear their own shirt and I try not to all the time.

SPEAKER 2: But this one, this one, no, you Don't see like Van Halen doesn't go on the stage. No, but you wear your stuff all the time. Not all the time, not, not on live, maybe at like at the N itself. Just so if people want to have a conversation or tell me the show sucks. They know where to find me. So well that, you know, so the.

SPEAKER 3: Hobby is of people, who, who would want merch.

SPEAKER 1: So we gotta do some match.

SPEAKER 2: We talked about this on the last episode, we definitely got to do in the bare minimum. Some stickers. We gotta, we gotta steal what Dylan and Adam from Splendid Sports did and do like a dual sided card. They signed up very well done. We're gonna have to like, pick their brain and like who did that card? And, you know, flattery, right.

SPEAKER 2: What does that say?

SPEAKER 2: Something, copycat is the sincerest form of flattery or what whatever that saying is. So we'll have to do a dual sided car to sign a couple. I Don't know who will want them. But we can have them for, for ourselves, but we gotta have some Merch Mensch or Mensch, Merch Merch Merch Mensch or Mech Merch Merch Mensch is a guy I grew up with.

SPEAKER 3: Yeah, nice guy German guy.

SPEAKER 3: The question is did John bring in his own sports carnation sweatshirt? He did not.

SPEAKER 1: I brought nothing.

SPEAKER 2: You have stuff. He brought nothing.

SPEAKER 3: You have stuff like staying with me. He brought the crazy.

SPEAKER 1: He parked in my front yard.

SPEAKER 2: I did I Don't have anything left like extra stuff. You have everything I've made. You've, you've had so there's nothing like this stickers coasters, coasters. I Don't know, I gotta get a little more with the coasters we're watching.

SPEAKER 2: It looks like the A's are gonna try to tie this game up, but that's it. The win coasters. I had some coasters but then you put drinks on them, they get wore out. But there, there, we, I, I think I want two cheap on coasters. I have to make, I have to go a notch above, on coaster stickers.

SPEAKER 2: I always get, I always have those and, but you have the, so I didn't really bring those. But, but do you have some hobby news daily stickers that I Don't have. So, if you want to pick on anyone, I'm part of hobby news daily and I Don't even have hobby news daily. Stickers. Guilty.

SPEAKER 3: All right. Let me catch up on these, Kiss definitely wears kiss gear. Well, they, yeah, kiss is their, their own thing.

SPEAKER 2: Chris, by the way, where is Kiss from Brooklyn? They are from Brooklyn, New York, by the way, drink that add that to the, anytime I say Brooklyn, you can add that to the drinking game.

SPEAKER 3: By the way. Terrell Herne is a former oral prospect, and Kimbrel just, I'm not, 00.

SPEAKER 1: Play at the plate.

SPEAKER 2: Play the play. I'm not a Kimbrell guy.

SPEAKER 3: I'm not gonna, not right now. Ok. Dylan, stickers Cards. Coasters would be easy. And Epic would, they would, would you guys really want cards and coasters because we, we do, we wanna do something. We definitely wanna do something. Not very much John. No, Mooky. He, He brought me nothing.

SPEAKER 2: You, I, but you have stuff. You act as if I never gave you anything ever. I just, you, if you have every game, remember if you have everything. You Don't, you Don't get somebody something they already have unless you threw them out and then you needed.

SPEAKER 3: A, wants to know. What's there are the two of y's biggest disagreement on what I guess anything.

SPEAKER 2: Probably ST yeah, we're, I Don't think you get, that's one of the biggest rivalries. But we, we have, look, we immediately went to that there.

SPEAKER 3: There's we overcome that.

SPEAKER 2: Yeah, we bucked the trend of being good friends and being a Steeler and a Ravens fan.

SPEAKER 3: So Ruben says John could have at least brought you a signed cartoon.

SPEAKER 3: That's in sports collectors digest that looks like Kyle Schwarber, by the way.

SPEAKER 2: You might really be representing me when Kyle Schwarber takes me to court court for copyright. Hey, you're using a picture of me as your logo, Mr Newman on your sports car. It does until He said that I never even thought about that. It doesn't look like me. I always say I'm a better looking cartoon than a real human.

SPEAKER 2: So apparently my cartoon looks like the real Kyle Schwarber, which looks better than the real Chad Newman. So it all comes, it all comes full circle. That is funny every time I look at that logo now, I want to think Carl Schwarber, I Don't, I Don't hate Carl Schwarber. It's not terrible. But yeah, I can't get that out of my head. Now, that is hilarious.

SPEAKER 3: We, you're one in the chat room so far and, and I only used to ask, give me some free stuff.

SPEAKER 1: I just want the free stuff thugs on Carl Erskine.

SPEAKER 2: I think He just passed away. That was, really one of the last Brooklyn Dodger guys from the World Series team.

SPEAKER 2: You know, as, as He's affectionately called, in Brooklyn. So, rest in peace to, Carl Erskine and, and, you know, condolences to the family. And I always, I knew He was still alive, obviously UN until He passed. Yeah.

SPEAKER 2: And He's kind of was that last guy from that group, right?

SPEAKER 2: You know, and, and, so that it, it almost feels like, I mean, we still have Sandy Kofax.

SPEAKER 2: Yeah, Sandy, but He kind of, He's more L A Dodger than, than Brooklyn Dodger He played, but He was not part of that. Yeah. Yeah, He was, yeah, He actually was like a 500 pitcher during his Brooklyn day and the stadiums were a little different.

SPEAKER 2: So, and I Don't listen, Sandy Kofax is one of the greatest pitchers to ever do it, but He's more of an L A Dodger than Brooklyn Dodgers. So, I always felt like was the last guy from that group and, you know.

SPEAKER 3: Is that true?

SPEAKER 2: Is He technically the last one, Barry, I think with, with him passing away that book sort of, I guess you could say Sandy Kofax, I'm not gonna, which is technically, I wonder if she's really, I'm not gonna disrespect Sandy but Sandy Koufax wasn't, I Don't think you have to look this up. Did Sandy get a ring in 19 55?

SPEAKER 3: You know, so, you know, we're not googling anything.

SPEAKER 2: If somebody looks set up, I'd be curious like if you look at Sandy's 1954 rookie card, there's no stats on the back and it says no stats at this time. I Don't know if, if Koufax has a ring for 55 He has a ring. He won a World Series. I Don't think it was 55. Someone can, I we're not googling it but if someone's gonna look that up, I Don't know if He was on the roster, I could be wrong. I was not alive.

SPEAKER 2: They didn't get enough work.

SPEAKER 1: See, I was gonna say so.

SPEAKER 3: Those were the thoughts on Carl Erskine. Any, any other dead people you guys want commentary on. We're happy to help.

SPEAKER 2: Well, I, I'll just say this too, man. He was one, He was really a better pitcher than people realize He was, you know, it didn't make the hall of fame but, He, He was a very important car there after that.

SPEAKER 3: Brooklyn KFA pitched 12 games in 50 five.

SPEAKER 2: Yeah. Did I wonder if He got a ring?

SPEAKER 2: Well, you got, Don't you have to be on the postseason roster. No, you sure.

SPEAKER 2: All right.

SPEAKER 3: So technically He's might be the last one off the.

SPEAKER 2: Back up if that's the case, if He has a ring in, He was a key player. No, but, you know, He's got the ring. He's the last guy with a 55 World Series ring. That's, that's still with us. And hopefully that remains, the case. He looks like He can still throw, probably could still strike. He probably could strike me out at the 80 something years old Mookie.

SPEAKER 3: This is a great question. Thoughts from Karl Weathers. May you ring, Carl Weathers? Fantastic actor. Played a lot of roles, a lot, a lot of sports movies.

SPEAKER 2: You know how good Carl Weathers was in the rock movies, didn't He play in the NFL? Yeah. Yeah. Play with the Raiders.

SPEAKER 2: Or as Chris Berman would say the right.

SPEAKER 2: He almost rooted for him in the Rocky movies. That's how likable the guy, like He almost rooted against the loan in, in the movies, you know, and, and for Apollo creed.

SPEAKER 3: So Chris Harris Koufax was on the World Series roster but did not play. There you go.

SPEAKER 1: So, so He was.

SPEAKER 2: On the roster but does He, so, so He has a ring then? Yeah. All right. So that would make him the last surviving 55 ring holder if, unless we're missing somebody.

SPEAKER 3: He didn't actually play in 55 or 56 World Series because He was still wild though. Yeah. Now, this is interesting. I love stuff like this.

SPEAKER 3: My eyes are not good enough. Bob as Esper Mante.

SPEAKER 2: Yep.

SPEAKER 3: I, I guess I shouldn't have stopped it as Bob Esperon only living baseball player that have been teammates with both Jackie Robinson and Hank Aaron.

SPEAKER 2: That's very cool as Johnny Carson would say, did not know that He did not know that.

SPEAKER 3: That's actually very cool. I gotta learn more about him.

SPEAKER 2: He's got to be up there in age too then.

SPEAKER 3: Well if you played with both of them. Yeah, because Jackie was done playing young.

SPEAKER 2: Yeah, 50 50 55 was 56 was his last year.

SPEAKER 3: You know what? I would love cliff Clavin random baseball facts. If you guys have them, John and I are absolutely suckers for random facts and trivia. So if you have them like that always throw them in, it doesn't matter what we're talking about. Those are fun.

SPEAKER 3: Ok. What are we doing tomorrow? What else do you want to see in Baltimore? We gotta get crab cakes.

SPEAKER 2: Yeah, man, I gotta like you can't come to Baltimore. Everyone tells me you gotta have the crab cakes, right? The the real crab cakes. So that's on the bucket list.

SPEAKER 3: Brent says I'm sorry, Asante as per man.

SPEAKER 3: I am so sorry. It was one of the original Astros.

SPEAKER 2: Yeah, I remember him vaguely. Like, not, not a esperanto, but I do, I do know who He is. Yeah. I didn't know all that stuff about him but I knew He was a, this is a great one.

SPEAKER 3: Mays Aaron and Ruth all started and ended their careers in the same city but with different teams.

SPEAKER 2: Yeah. Speaking of, one of those guys just mentioned, that's what we're doing tomorrow. What Babe Ruth Museum?

SPEAKER 1: That is, that is the plan.

SPEAKER 2: How do we forget about that?

SPEAKER 3: Is the plan, you know, I Don't want anybody to see no.

SPEAKER 1: Who cares? It's a private tour.

SPEAKER 2: Yeah, we're going to the Babe Ruth Museum. He, He can come to Baltimore and not go. It's fantastic. We, we stand in the same room where one of the greatest baseball players was ever born, was born in. How cool is that? You know, so, you know, Cooperstown has parts of the house that Hank Aaron grew up in. But you know, to be in the actual room. So, you know, how many people get to do that? You know, I.

SPEAKER 3: Have said for a long time, how much I support the Bay Ruth Museum. So I'm always excited to take people there and I like giving the tour myself.

SPEAKER 2: Yeah, and, and Mike who runs the museum has been on Sports Car Nation and He said, hey, you ever get the vote or more chad? You know, I'll, I'll show you some stuff. So tomorrow is the day where we almost forgot to mention that. I Don't know if you forgot about it or, I Don't know.

SPEAKER 3: We've, we've, we, we t a lot into a couple of years.

SPEAKER 3: Chris Harris wants to know if we're going to Fishtown. Not gonna make it in, to Fish Town this weekend.

SPEAKER 2: I'm gonna have a crab cakes, which is the closest the fish Tale I really get.

SPEAKER 3: Ruth Museum would be amazing. It really is. I Don't know where you live, but if you ever get a chance to come to Baltimore.

SPEAKER 2: For those who want to live vicariously through other people, which like I do, sometimes I'll post some pics on social media. I've just more than you. It, it will probably be pick intensive Saturday between going to the game at Camden Yards and going to the Babe Ruth and I'll be shameless.

SPEAKER 3: Go to the website and donate. They need help.

SPEAKER 3: As all museum do right now. It's, it's tough.

SPEAKER 3: And if you become a member, it's worthwhile. It's fantastic. Just Google Babe Ruth Museum, Random Cliff Clavin. Fact, I saw today Mark Lemke has the record for the most at bats with never being hit by a pitch. 3664. Mark Lumpy former Brave.

SPEAKER 2: I got one word for that. Yes. Pansy take one for the teams, take an elbow out. There wasn't they didn't have put you. No, but you can lean into one in a crucial shit. That's my point. You Don't want him, you Don't want him swinging the bat. You want the next guy? So He's got, He's got to lead into one, get on base and let the next guy hit when you're Mark Lemke.

SPEAKER 2: You Don't want to put your elbow into it with your head.

SPEAKER 2: I Don't care.

SPEAKER 1: You're crazy.

SPEAKER 2: Pansy never met Lemke but.

SPEAKER 3: Single, coolest thing to see if they Ruth Museum vintage car collector.

SPEAKER 3: It has changed. They did have the Baltimore, news, Ruth, pre rookie card.

SPEAKER 3: But, that's gone. They do have some other cards from that set that are there. But I'll tell you some of the coolest stuff they have are his original bats, some of his original home run balls. And just stuff from his life that, that it's hard to, to even.

SPEAKER 2: Make a point here if Lemke was the last out in the 96 World Series. If somehow He could have leaned in and got hit with a pitch, He would have left it to somebody else to. Maybe not. You Don't think that they would have noticed when He fell, you sell it, you gotta sell it, you gotta sell it. I'm not saying you stand out, you stand on the plate but you know, all right.

SPEAKER 3: Well, Mark Lundy, sorry. Yeah.

SPEAKER 2: Who knew we were talking about Mark Lemke tonight.

SPEAKER 3: Not this, I worked for the Braves when one key was there. I, I liked one.

SPEAKER 3: Mark Lundy is from Utica, John, you should go to his face.

SPEAKER 2: I would, I would, He and then He probably want to punch me or actually do punch me and then I'd say listen, I'm gonna get Carl Schwarber to come and get you. So no, listen, I'm, I'm half kidding. But like that is crazy. Never be hit to never be hit by a pitch.

SPEAKER 3: It is, that is like it's the cr and strength of not getting hit.

SPEAKER 3: Mookie Andy Van Slyke is from that area also.

SPEAKER 2: Yeah, we know that another guy, his name is escaping me. Archie. Oh, didn't last very long in the Bigs but did make it. Archie Chian Frac knew that name. Ring A Bell. Remember him? No. Yeah, Gian Frac from Rome. He had a cup of coffee actually a little bit more than that, I think with the Tigers and Expos. If my memory the one is anyone out there remember C and Franco because He was from the central New York area.

SPEAKER 3: Not, not a great, do you know who's the all time leader and hit by pitches?

SPEAKER 1: I think it's Don Bale.

SPEAKER 3: It is Don Bell. Yeah.

SPEAKER 1: There you go.

SPEAKER 3: That's a, there's my cliff, cliff.

SPEAKER 2: That's a man that's who is a team player who who invented the high, the Don Baylor is a threat with the bat even when He wasn't being hit by a pitch. But, like, He just got on base for the next guy who.

SPEAKER 3: Invented the high five. Does anybody know that?

SPEAKER 3: It's one of my favorite. Somebody actually Dodgers.

SPEAKER 2: It's the two Dodger guys. Steve, isn't it Garvey?

SPEAKER 1: And somebody Dusty Baker?

SPEAKER 2: Was it? W it was Dusty Baker?

SPEAKER 1: Was it with Steve Gar though?

SPEAKER 3: I Don't think Steve Garvey is not cool enough to be a high five. I know He's going for office but I'm not, I'm a Garvey hater as a player. He's not a Hall Of Famer.

SPEAKER 2: What is the 11 time all star? How do you make the All Star 11 times and not make the hall of fame because it's a fan vote and they had more fans. He's a person, a ball player, man. Like, and, and I Don't know, they'll get, we, we'll, we'll go over time if we get, we, we're, we're.

SPEAKER 3: Literally getting text about the show as we're on.

SPEAKER 2: That's funny. This is my phone's over there. I didn't want to like have it near me, but Danny obviously, didn't care.

SPEAKER 3: No, I Don't care because I love, yeah, so Sandy is the only living member of the 50 five Dodgers.

SPEAKER 2: He's the last connection to the Brooklyn Dodger Error, right? For the most part.

SPEAKER 3: I mean, I Don't think that's true. Well, which which part Dylan? Because I think Dusty Baker did.

SPEAKER 1: Oh, we have.

SPEAKER 2: Archie G and Franco was Archie and Fran was Chris has says was the last car that needed for the 19 8, 1992. Ultra set. Yeah, Archie, He's a local kid I believe. Don't quote me.

SPEAKER 2: He's back in the area in Rome or no hard area and He's to high school varsity baseball coach or He was, I Don't know, I'm just gonna say that's wrong and give no other commentary. What Jim Abbott? What for the high five? It was a horrible high five or tragedy struck.

SPEAKER 3: I thought it was the other guy on the team. Well, He had to high five somebody.

SPEAKER 1: So there was two people.

SPEAKER 2: There is a debate of where the high five started that it didn't even start necessarily in baseball that it happened. So we're running.

SPEAKER 3: My Dusty Baker invented the high five.

SPEAKER 2: No, Glenn Burke, Mike Burke, Glen Burke, Glen Burke, which is if you ask, I thought Glen, if you ask KJ, right? He says it's Glen Burke and He's got a whole story.

SPEAKER 3: So, all right. So Dusty Baker and Glen did they high five each other. Is this the whole thing? Mookie has the answer.

SPEAKER 2: I thought my little league coach invented the slap on the, you know what the, but I, I'm not exactly.

SPEAKER 3: I had a youth soccer coach that lined us up against the wall. We were sitting there and He kicked in between our heads. So it just kicked between every head to get our attention at halftime.

SPEAKER 2: So He missed on purpose.

SPEAKER 3: And He, He was not a good coach.

SPEAKER 3: Yes, it takes two to high five. They can share custody. That's very true.

SPEAKER 3: That's true. It does take two.

SPEAKER 2: Black bass wrote a song about it. I, I know you play, I know that what it takes two to make a thing go.

SPEAKER 3: Right.

SPEAKER 2: Oh, wow. That surprised me. I didn't think you were gonna, I didn't think you're gonna get that. Pop culture reference.

SPEAKER 3: Hughie Jennings does a high five on some cards. Great fact, Orlando and I'm a Hughie Jennings fan. I have actually I had some of his strip cards.

SPEAKER 3: Which ones does He have the high five? I'd be curious.

SPEAKER 3: Here you go. High five origins things that make you go.

SPEAKER 2: Yeah. No one really knows. Right. How do we know two kids in Dubuque Iowa were wrestling off their bunk beds and got excited and, and you know, I mean, we Don't really.

SPEAKER 3: Know the T 206. Hugo Genic. I wanna check that out. If somebody has an image of that. I would love to see that high five. That will, I will take that.

SPEAKER 2: Was it an air five? But there's no one else you just, I.

SPEAKER 3: Mean, maybe He was just swatting a fly or something, here we go. Hammer 44. Which this might be heavy. J I got.

SPEAKER 2: I'm sure it is.

SPEAKER 3: Yeah. Yeah. On October 2nd, 1977 after Baker hit his 30th home run on the last day of the season. Well, there you go. But J Jay, I'm curious about the Hughie Jennings. Do you have any comment on that? I Don't know.

SPEAKER 2: But, how do we know like two kids in, like I said, in some small town didn't do it. How do we know it didn't even happen by accident? You know, so I Don't know, Adam and Eve that was funny.

SPEAKER 2: Probably high five right at, right after.

SPEAKER 2: Yeah.

SPEAKER 2: Oh, right at first. I Don't think it many high fives later on. But they probably, you know, when they were tempted to do some stuff urban posted like the urban, I expect more of you biblical high fives on the, on the next one.

SPEAKER 3: He did three finger brown kind.

SPEAKER 2: I do a high three mor Mordecai in case you wonder.

SPEAKER 3: Yeah, there's probably neanderthals high fiving in cave drive.

SPEAKER 2: Yeah. You know that Napoleon probably conquered a country and in a moment of glory. I, so how about the fist pump? That was different. That one probably took many. That one. That one I think is more like came later. But I five because hey man, good job just kind of happens.

SPEAKER 3: I'm sure you came in, slopped high five once after taking down a saber tooth tiger, maybe the dinosaur itself.

SPEAKER 2: How about a T rex? I, I have another dog with a, with a little, we'll split that Brisa in the last week.

SPEAKER 3: This is why we Don't.

SPEAKER 1: Live in the same city.

SPEAKER 2: By the way, this would probably, you think it's a bad one?

SPEAKER 1: We're not doing dinosaurs.

SPEAKER 2: We're doing like it's a great opportunity to do my Barney impression, but I'm not.

SPEAKER 3: Mordecai mentioned. I, that's a great call, Barry.

SPEAKER 3: Yes.

SPEAKER 3: T rex high too. So there we go.

SPEAKER 3: Screen grab that T rex role play for sticker.

SPEAKER 2: No, that will not.

SPEAKER 3: We've already turned them into Kyle Schwarber. Now, I Don't need to do that.

SPEAKER 2: I will not make the merch list There I can now, I'll never unsee that and I think I only use that logo in the S CD.

SPEAKER 2: Yeah. Now I might have to send it to S CD like a different logo like my, my, I think you just say that you're Kyle Schwarber on your How about I have Kyle Schwarber on and give him the sticker.

SPEAKER 3: I said if you gave a sticker to Kyle Schwarber of the cartoon logo and said, I've made this video last year, He would say thank you.

SPEAKER 1: And He would believe.

SPEAKER 2: I like it and then sign it and then give it back.

SPEAKER 2: I gotta get that signed by Carl Schmerber. So if anyone knows Ku Schwarber let me know we'll get that sticker. I might have to tt m the sticker to have him sign it and.

SPEAKER 1: Send it back.

SPEAKER 3: But this is serious. This is a, I think it's on a pre war 1922 American Caramel, Jennings Orlando. I am gonna look that up.

SPEAKER 3: That, that would be fast if we found the high five and I should be.

SPEAKER 2: In the home run.

SPEAKER 2: What, what I should be is the pitcher and Jason Varitek should be in the home run. That, that would be, that would be better.

SPEAKER 3: Can anyone make background? Cash's Clay smile.

SPEAKER 2: He's serious. He's business.

SPEAKER 3: My copy came in the mail today and I giggle every time I see that logo, Ruben shot out for having a paper copy and.

SPEAKER 2: Listen, I'm glad I'm glad Ruben just laughs at the logo. People laugh at the real thing and then I feel, well, He doesn't read the article so, you know. Yeah. Well, it can't all be good. Get out some bad ones. And by the way, yeah.

SPEAKER 3: Well, He's in a fighting post. I mean, you know, He's serious in the ring here. If you can't say He's not just standing there.

SPEAKER 2: He's, yeah, when I designed that, I actually didn't do that. I was talking about.

SPEAKER 2: I know, but that, that sticker, I was professionally done by graphic artist and I think I liked it because I think they knocked £50 off. Of me. That's how, that's how I like it. I approved it. The body. The big, yeah, I'm like, that's the one we'll go with that.

SPEAKER 1: Oh, that's hilarious.

SPEAKER 3: All right. We're at 55 minutes already. Oh, my goodness.

SPEAKER 2: Time flies when you're playing an away game.

SPEAKER 3: And, and we're sober.

SPEAKER 2: We are sober. I'm usually sober. I might have one drink when I'm doing the show, but not tonight.

SPEAKER 2: You have, I'm.

SPEAKER 3: About my average caffeine Mexican.

SPEAKER 2: I'm proud of myself on this trip. I've drank very little soda. So, so, you know, that's a, that's a, that's a positive. But, yeah, Old Bay Wings. If you never had them, you gotta, we.

SPEAKER 3: Didn't even discuss socks yet. You know, Steven, we're just having a party here.

SPEAKER 2: I'm in my socks, I'm in my socks and shoes. I wear Boomba, Baba, boomba, whatever you want. Baas they call.

SPEAKER 1: You know, my.

SPEAKER 3: Friend started that company.

SPEAKER 1: Is that true?

SPEAKER 2: That is true. And why I've been buying them? I could probably get, you probably get, it goes to you every pair, you buy every pair you go buy, you buy. So, yeah, so that's a good thing.

SPEAKER 3: Yeah, it is. Good evening, Mr Oil.

SPEAKER 1: How are you doing?

SPEAKER 2: I, we, we did a, a Cooperstown hang out a couple of years ago. I have to do that again. When Mark. That was, that was a fun. I have, Jay was there, for that trip. As well. That was a, that was a fun trip.

SPEAKER 3: Take to see you both. A little drunk alcohol. Yeah, that, that's, that's, that's the trick.

SPEAKER 2: Yeah, I tell you what the Crown makes a blackberry now, but it's super hard to find. So I'm gonna look for it tomorrow. We got to stop at, in Syracuse. They, they're not getting them but I think maybe in Baltimore being a bigger city, I'm gonna, I'm gonna put in here not to make this about this.

SPEAKER 3: That's my drink.

SPEAKER 2: I like that. I like that. I like Crown. Crown is Crown is my like, you know what?

SPEAKER 3: I usually big Boston show tomorrow. Junk wax hero might come down. You got him out of the house. Good job Mark Hoyle Mens gone wild video.

SPEAKER 2: Yeah, you Don't wanna see that video. It, it doesn't exist but if it did, you still Don't want Dan.

SPEAKER 3: I expect more from you and I even roll my eye at the TV. For the captain. What's wrong with Captain And Co I like it.

SPEAKER 2: No, that's a solid. I'm a crowd guy like I said, but I, I won't throw Captain out either.

SPEAKER 3: Rod and I'm gonna, I'm gonna stand by my Captain And Co it's a junk wax hero, Doppelganger. Who is somebody called me that on a video? I can look at him.

SPEAKER 2: No, I Don't. No way. Nothing like him. No. Ii I want, this is a long story. I'm not gonna do it. I think I did on one of my old episodes, I went to a yank He gave and David Wells was on the DL and someone thought I was David Wells.

SPEAKER 2: The kid did and I had a 20 minute conversation with this young man. He made me take out my license to show him that I wasn't David Wells. When I showed him my license, He goes well, David Wells can get a fake license. So we wouldn't think He's David Wells.

SPEAKER 3: So even that didn't work with, that's like the commercial where they say if you're not a robot.

SPEAKER 2: Yeah. He thought I was David Wells, you're.

SPEAKER 3: Not David Wells, you look as much like David Wells. I just had a little.

SPEAKER 2: Especially then I was obviously younger.

SPEAKER 1: He's, He's.

SPEAKER 2: A tall, big guy. I had my facial hair. I mean, there was a resemble I'm not saying I look like David Wells, but II I could see it a little bit.

SPEAKER 3: So this kid was sure I was David Wells and I'm still getting text about the high five final day of the 77 series. Yeah, I think we have that. I like to delay though.

SPEAKER 2: I remember when you pitched it. Not. Yeah, that was my fights.

SPEAKER 3: David Wells. Doppelganger.

SPEAKER 1: Nice.

SPEAKER 2: We talked about this yesterday at the, at the game, I did throw one hitter at a Minor League stadium in high school. That's the closest to David Wells, I'd probably ever be.

SPEAKER 3: How about David Wells pitching the game in the babe original game He had?

SPEAKER 1: That's nuts.

SPEAKER 3: Now, is that a true collector lover of the history of sports or is that disrespecting memorabilia?

SPEAKER 2: Yeah. I, I didn't like it. I remember when that disrespecting number. I Don't know if it's disrespect and I just Don't think you do that. Like, what's the point of that? Like, you wanna wear that in your bedroom and you tidy. We like, I, I Don't know, I just didn't think, you know, so I Don't know.

SPEAKER 2: I Don't, I, I Don't know. I didn't, II I wasn't mad. I just didn't like, I didn't think it was a good idea. So, but He owns it, right? You can do whatever, but baseball fined him if I remember and then because it wasn't part of the official, He got, He paid the price for it and He did the pressure of the hat.

SPEAKER 1: Yeah, sure did. I think it was 20,000.

SPEAKER 2: Dollars at the time. What was hired a fine or what the hat cost to own?

SPEAKER 3: That's a good question.

SPEAKER 3: Muhammad Ali never threw a no hitter but He came close on some. Yeah. Yeah. You know what's my name? Sonny Liston.

SPEAKER 3: All right, we're heading into overtime anybody but.

SPEAKER 2: It is fun when we get to do this in person. It is.

SPEAKER 3: So it's weird because usually I just click off and I Don't have to see it.

SPEAKER 2: That would like the post game without being on, on the air. Do you ever play at Break your stadium in Albany? No, no, a little too far.

SPEAKER 2: I played, at old Macarthur Stadium in Syracuse where I just realized this, excuse me, get ready to drink. Jackie Robinson played at Macarthur Stadium and John Newman played at Macarthur Stadium.

SPEAKER 2: Different years, of course, but we both played in the same stadium did not realize that until year, but that, that is true. He came through as a member of the Montreal ball club. They played at Syracuse. So what about, by the way, mcarthur same doesn't exist no more. They toured the follow up question.

SPEAKER 2: No, never, never that far. I played most of them. I played my, most of my baseball in three areas. Fort Lauderdale, Florida was where I almost went to the Little League World Series. That didn't happen. Thank you, Jason Varitek, the Syracuse area, in high school and as a younger man, a younger kid in, in Brooklyn, New York.

SPEAKER 2: So those were the, those were the three areas. The only like stadiums. I, I played it, I in Fort Lauder, I played in some of the ballparks. When I played on a travel team in Florida, the stadiums they use for spring training. I played some games there. Now, but in Syracuse, I played in old Mcarthur Stadium.

SPEAKER 3: So John played in cooler stadiums as a player, but I got to play catch on the field at Turner Field.

SPEAKER 1: Yeah, that's cool. Which is the best I got.

SPEAKER 2: Yeah, I've never played on a major league.

SPEAKER 1: I didn't play game.

SPEAKER 3: I just got to play catch.

SPEAKER 2: I've never played well if you, I Don't know what you consider like spring training field. That means major league teams play there. But that's like you go to like a Minor League.

SPEAKER 3: Yeah, which is what they are when so all right, Ruben says now that Danny chugs his co He's gonna throw his jersey at John like M Joe Green.

SPEAKER 3: Well, it's funny you should mention that commercial if you've ever wondered why John Newman who is not from Pittsburgh is a Steelers fan. It's that commercial. That's the reason because that kid tonight is evidently John Doppelganger night and that kid at the time.

SPEAKER 2: So if you see, yeah, I post on my social media. That kid and me are the same age. You like when that commercial came out? We were the same age. And if you saw a picture of me at that time, I was in New York City, obviously.

SPEAKER 2: We have a resemblance so I saw kind of when that commercial aired, I kind of saw myself and that kid became a Steeler fan. A lingo green fan took a lot of abuse from all my New York City friends who like, how, you know, they're like Newman. How are you, how are you a Steeler fan? This is New York.

SPEAKER 2: You gotta like the Giants or, or the Jets. And I'm like, no, I Don't like the Giants or the Jets. I Don't like Richard Todd and Joe Paar Chart Pasar Check. So, that's, I've never wavered, so I've been a Steeler fan since, what, 7879 when that convert air.

SPEAKER 2: And I'm taking college courses and one of the assignments was to pick your favorite commercial and do kind of a a presentation on it. And of course, they pick the mean joke, a green commercial, which being most of the kids in that class are 18 years old to 22. None of them probably know, knew what the heck that commercial was.

SPEAKER 1: Do you know that the.

SPEAKER 3: Toothbrush was invented in Pittsburgh? No, otherwise they'd call it the toothbrush.

SPEAKER 2: Well, see, I'm not from Pittsburgh so I Don't take too much personal offense to that. I just like to, I just like to steal.

SPEAKER 3: We need to pick up the Orlando Pace another good Orlando and we're in overtime so we can do whatever pace we want. Mark Oil. Where did you play college ball? I did not know that. I apologize if I should have known that, but that's very cool. He played at both stadiums at both Minor League stadiums.

SPEAKER 3: Yeah, that's cool.

SPEAKER 3: Ruben says John wanted to be part of a winning organization, unlike those in New York and New Jersey or the Orioles just lost an extra innings.

SPEAKER 2: Truth be told, I'm not gonna lie, the fact that, you know, they had a couple of Super Bowl, under their belt at that time. You know, you gotta remember, I'm seven years old guys.

SPEAKER 2: I think when you're seven, you can get away with that more than if you're 1416, 17 or, or, or older. So you know, I, I can't, I, I listen, I also stayed with him through the eighties and if you remember the eighties Steelers, that was a really, really bad decade and I didn't jump shifts up.

SPEAKER 2: You know, I'll say that for my son, Steven says I played in several pro stadiums on Xbox.

SPEAKER 2: Create a player, right?

SPEAKER 3: You know, Mark played at Southern Vermont College. Very cool. Very cool.

SPEAKER 2: Mark. Yeah. But did you give up a home run to Jason Varitek?

SPEAKER 1: No, that's how.

SPEAKER 3: He made it to college ball.

SPEAKER 2: Yeah.

SPEAKER 2: Very cool. You know, Jason Varitek became a hero for his favorite Georgia Tech. Well, no, marks a Red Sox guy.

SPEAKER 3: So, but, you know, you made a career out of it for Jason.

SPEAKER 3: I mean, without John, He made it never made it to the Red Sox.

SPEAKER 2: He's doing fine without me too. So He played Jason Varitek played in a Little League World Series. You welcome Jason He didn't win it, but He won a college World Series at Georgia Tech and won a, a Major League World Series with the Red Sox.

SPEAKER 3: Good for Jason Ver John, I'll bring you a special, terrible towel at the National Ruben. There. There's no need to get to get nasty.

SPEAKER 2: I've got a whole collection.

SPEAKER 3: There's no, no need to, to, to use that.

SPEAKER 2: I should have brought a terrible towel with me that we have toilet paper.

SPEAKER 3: All right.

SPEAKER 3: Anything else you wanna add?

SPEAKER 2: So, no, this has been fun. You know, we've got tomorrow is, is my last really full day here as I head back on, on Sunday. But, you know, we, we probably should do this every year. I'd say come to Syracuse, but there's not as much cool stuff in Syracuse as there is in both.

SPEAKER 3: If I go to Syracuse, I can go to Applebee's or John comes to Baltimore and we can do fun stuff.

SPEAKER 2: So He should send, we take a hoodie, He should send me a hoodie.

SPEAKER 3: Yeah, I'm not a Red Sox guy, but I'm a sports fan that's never been to an MLB NHL NBA or NFL game that I Don't think you.

SPEAKER 2: That's ok. Yeah, that is ok. And I Don't think that's as uncommon as you think. I think there's a lot of people, that could, could say that I, so here's my deal. I have been, but I'm a huge New York Rangers fan.

SPEAKER 2: I've never been to a New York Rangers game and my mother, years ago, lived around the corner from Madison Square Garden. So I've been to Madison Square Garden, but just inside. Never to an event. I've been in the building just walking through but never, never to a game so heavy.

SPEAKER 1: J Thanks guys.

SPEAKER 3: This was a good change of pace. It, it was, I think for us as well.

SPEAKER 3: Mark, the college baseball legend, see you have a great weekend, Mark Hall. I gotta tell you when I'm done talking about your college career, they're gonna put you in the hall of fame. Well, I, I like making up stories.

SPEAKER 2: Well, I didn't give up a home run to Marqua.

SPEAKER 3: Can you guys have five at the end of the show?

SPEAKER 2: We'll vend it. We'll invent the high five in 2024.

SPEAKER 3: Yeah.

SPEAKER 3: All right guys. Well, it is every other Friday with Mensches.

SPEAKER 3: A blast. Yeah, we say it all the time. Best chat room around.

SPEAKER 2: It is the best. It is the best. I'll, I'll say it next to you. I say when I'm not, it is the best chat room, to me and my opinion and, always fun. I think we have as much fun with the chat room. Hopefully, you know, they do as well.

SPEAKER 2: So, you know, next time we do this, I'll be, I'll be back upstairs at my house and I'll be back in my UN unless you can just, I can live here and I'll just call my wife and tell her I'm not coming home.

SPEAKER 3: She called me and already made the office.

SPEAKER 2: I'm not chat. I'm like, what did I get traded for? Like a player to be named later later? Right? And if it's ping, the physical, the trade will not break through.

SPEAKER 3: Ruben says this was awesome. Thank you Ruben.

SPEAKER 3: Five strive. High five strive. Thank you, Barry. We we high five off camera. Just take our word for it. There will be a it'll it'll be a high five. All right. Say good night John. Good night kid. Do we have our music?