The Show Episode 552

NBA Finals, Stanley Cup Finals, Baseball, Host baseball story

Transcript

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I don't know where to begin. I mean, there is so much going on. So much going on at the beginning of the week. NBA final, Stanley Cup final. We got trades happening. We got free agent, not free agent signs. We got teams signing, re-signing their own players. We got an Aaron Judge injury in baseball. I got the beginning of the over and unders to start on this episode. And I apologize for not uh coming on and talking to you of everything that's been happening this week. There's just been so much going on. So it's just too much to pack into one exciting episode here on Sports Talk with the host. So what I'm going to do is because, you know, we do have the feelers out there, and we do get feedback from a lot of people, and the host sees the numbers. And I try, again, we've talked about this in the past, haven't brought up recently. I try to keep an episode of the show around 40, 45 minutes. Sometimes it's impossible to do because the host starts rambling on and gets talking. Yeah, we know, host. Sometimes the host gets rambled on and I can't stop. And sometimes the episodes end up being an hour. Some people like the hours episodes. Some people like the half-hour episodes. Some people even like the a 15-minute version, would be great. And I feel like if I come out here for 15 minutes, I'm cheating with people. And they're calling an episode. So I can't do that. But I try to, I'm going to try to keep it around 40 minutes. That's what that's what that's my ultimate goal. So I'm going to do back-to-back episodes for you, as I talk to you right now. So you'll hear this episode. And because there's so much going on, I'm going to record another episode just to break it up of all the action that's been going on. I was originally going to lead. See, I got all I got all this written down here. Look, I got page, page, I got notebook here. I was originally going to lead with the whole uh Miles Garrett thing, but I'm going to save that. You know, I want I I know it's already happened. And I know people want to hear what the host has to say about it. Uh, I know it's already older news, but um, I got my thoughts. Go over it, talk about it, and of course, some other football news and notes that have been happening too. On this show, I want to talk, of course, about the NBA Finals, uh, the Stanley Cup finals, the Aaron Judge injury, and I'm gonna tell a story. On this very show, a baseball story that involved the host that no one has ever heard. I'm gonna admit something here on this show. Even the guest has never heard this story. He's gonna hear it through me on this show. He's never heard the story I'm gonna tell. And that's gonna come up later in this episode. But first, holy cow, how about them Knicks? Can you believe it? And the dummy host, who's been riding the Knicks the whole postseason, back in the Knicks, telling how the Knicks were gonna win, telling how the Knicks were gonna easily get to the finals. And then when they get to the finals, the idiot host picks against them. The host does last week's Spurs instead. And here we are, two games in, with two games played in San Antonio, no less. And the Knicks are up two games now. Now the Knicks have been in total control of the two games. Total control. Except for the uh, you know, the very end of the game two, which we'll talk about in a second here. But the game one, uh they started off a little slow as expected because of the extra long layoff. They uh Jalen Brunson looked like he hurt his knee and then hurt his ankle in game one. Had everyone worried. Flashbacks of 99 when Patrick Ewing tore his Achilles, and uh, you know, they didn't have any bodies to put on there uh on the floor in '99. That was the last time the Knicks made the playoffs. And it had the flashbacks of people seeing. Uh the Knicks like, oh no. We waited this long to get back in the finals, and Jalen Brunson hurts his knees. But he manned up and came back out, and he lit the Spurs up in the fourth quarter of game one. Jalen Brunson was absolute nails in game one and put the Spurs away. And the Knicks, you know, everybody was like excited. All the Knicks fans were going crazy. And I love, by the way, I love how the Spurs fans or whoever's in charge of the third-party tickets wouldn't let any of those celebrity Knicks fans sit in the front row in San Antonio. Oh my god. It made me so happy seeing Spike Lee, the Timothy Shamelme, uh the Ben Stiller, the Fat Joe, uh, you know, the other idiot there who's non-existent as a celebrity, Tracy Morgan. I don't know how he could afford any tickets. I know somebody sent me a wall, somebody had to do a Walmart. He got some accent, he got granted 90 million or something. Uh, I loved it that all these guys were four or five rows up in the stands behind the Knicks bench. I love the fact that they couldn't get tickets on the floor. That made me very happy to see that those guys couldn't buy their way out of the floor seats and they let this let the San Antonio Spurs fans actually sit on the floor. Well, they do them any good because you know the Knicks won that first game. And, you know, everybody was ecstatic. They stole a game. New York stole a game in game one, stole home court. And uh, I you know, I honestly, when I predicted the Spurs to win four games or two, I thought the Knicks would win one of the two games, first two games in San Antonio. I actually did to make it a series. Now, in game two, I never expected the Knicks to come out and play the way they did. They are the hottest team that we've seen in a while in an NBA playoff run. I mean, they haven't lost in a month and a half. What 14 in a row? I mean, they're they're they're on fire. I mean, we've seen great teams over the years play uh in the NBA playoffs. You know, all those Lakers teams in the 80s, those Boston teams in the 80s, the Pistons in the uh late 80s, early 90s, the Michael Jordan's Bulls, the Lakers with Kobe and Shaq, LeBron's Heat, Golden State with Curry. You know, we we've we've seen great teams play. We've we've never seen a team make a run like this. They they were with they're winning games. Uh you know, they won 105-104 in game two, but they were they're winning games by double digits, this Knicks team. And these games aren't even close. The Knicks were getting six points in game two. And I said to the guests, uh, as much as I wanted to bet the Knicks, oh, we got to bet the Spurs in game two, minus six. They they have to win this game. If they want any chance of winning the finals, they got to win this game. You can't lose the first two games at home and expect to win an NBA championship. That's what I said to the guests. So we bet the Spurs, minus six. Right now, if you're if you get points with the Knicks, it's like stealing, stealing, it's easy free money. It's free money with the Knicks getting points. And uh they they were just coasting along, and then all of a sudden, the Spurs mounted a comeback. And it was a great comeback. Crowd was all fired up of uh you know, three-quarters of the Spurs fans that are in the building because the other quarter is all Knicks fans. Crowd was all fired up, uh, you know, propelled the momentum of the Spurs, uh, got the Spurs all fired up, and they came back at one time and took the lead. But of course, uh the Knicks uh you know relied on what they've been doing, all playoffs, rallied as a team. Every player has a role. They fought back, got the lead, and the Spurs had the last chance to win, and Wemby missed the shot. And the Knicks stole the game, another road game, and they're all up two games and none with three of the next five games if they need them in Madison Square Garden. And after game two, after game two, with the Knicks up two games and none, the get-in price to get into Madison Square Garden in the highest nosebleed section of MSG is over ten thousand dollars per seat. It's over 250,000, uh, over 250,000 to sit on the floor. You know, the AABB, you know, we talked about that a few episodes ago. The ridiculous Knicks claiming they got courtside seats, but you're seven rows back, huh? But uh, but uh yeah, we talked about that before. But over ten thousand dollars to sit in the nosebleed seats at Madison Square Garden. Hey, you want to be there? You have a chance to be there, and people are paying the price. They look how long it took them to get back. I don't blame the I don't blame the fans for you know wanting to spend that kind of money. You got that money, you want to go and have memories of a lifetime, and hopefully the Knicks win, go for it. I mean you again, you don't know whether this team's gonna get back and be in the finals ever again. They're on the verge, the Knicks, uh, sweeping this series. I mean, there is so much pressure on this young San Antonio team tomorrow night. All those young players, Wemby, Castle, Harper, Thessel, De'Aaron Fox, all these guys never experienced anything like this before. They, I don't know if they rally around as a team. This, there's got to be no fans in New York rallying around the Spurs tomorrow night. Those 14 guys that are on the bench with that coaching staff are gonna have to somehow put all that noise and block it all out and try to come away with a victory tomorrow night to make this a series. But man, that place, I don't I don't even care if you're not an NBA fan. And I don't care if you don't watch the NBA or don't care about basketball at all. You have to tune in tomorrow night to see how that crowd is going to be. This is this is you know, seeing a full eclipse of the moon and sun. Okay? You you you you rarely ever see this kind of excitement and this kind of energy and this kind of uh game ever for a basketball. Uh this arena tomorrow night at Madison Square Guard, it's gonna be electric. And again, if you're not a fan, you gotta tune in and see see how this is gonna be. This this place is gonna be something else. Especially if the Knicks win and go up three games and none. Oh my gosh, that game, that game Wednesday night, game four, oh my god. It's gonna be off the charts if the Knicks can pull this off and uh you know, pull off a sweep and win at home. Holy cow. The Knicks are better off losing a game and winning a game in San Antonio. They might tear that building down, these fans, these Knicks fans, if they win at home. Holy cow. That would be something. How about the fan in San Antonio that ran onto the court and tried to get the selfie with Wemby? And the Knicks Robinson, that big big guy who comes in, uh, comes in, can't shoot free throws worth a lick. He was uh you know standing next to the uh Wemby when that the kid ran on the uh court to get a selfie. The look on his face. And then did you see the video? Somebody posted a video on Twitter of I don't know if it was the kid or somebody got a hold of it. Somebody actually posted the video of the kid actually running out with his phone trying to get the selfie with Wemby. It's so terrible and so bad. And I guess that kid is now banned from any NBA game for the rest of his life. Probably paying a hefty fine and ticket, too, uh, for uh for doing that. But, you know, I was wrong. I said, you know, so far I'm wrong with the Knicks up two games to done. Now, for the host prediction to come through, the Spurs would have to win the next four games. I don't think that's gonna happen. But I I was wrong. I said the Knicks wouldn't be able to throw enough bodies and looks at Wemby. Well, they have. And uh, you know, hats off to Mike Brown. I came on here last summer, right on this very show, said what an awful pick it was. Why couldn't you try anybody new? You're going with the same old retread coach. Uh, we've seen him do it before, three other times, maybe four other times. This guy's coached other places. Here he is again. You're gonna try him with the Knicks, and you know what? Working. I I hats off to the guy. I I got nothing to say. Mike Brown's got this team playing at another level that uh, you know, Tom Thinnerbull couldn't do. So they're two games away with three of the next five in New York. So can they pull it off? Well, we'll see. We'll see what's in store on Monday night. Now, the Stanley Cup playoffs are also going on with the host Nemesis team, the Golden Grams. Now, they're up two games to one in this series. What uh I don't know why everybody calls when a game goes into overtime, I don't know why everybody calls it classic. A classic overtime thriller. Here's again, I've explained this before on this show, and just to remind everybody because we got new listeners overtime. One overtime, I'm fine. I'm okay with one overtime. Fine with me. 20 minutes. Unless somebody scores before the 20 minutes is I'm fine. Okay, it's exciting. You go to two overtimes, you've lost my interest. And you lost the excitement. Oh no. I'm bored. I've already seen four periods of hockey. Now I'm starting a fifth period. I'm bored. Just because the game goes into another overtime doesn't mean it's a classic. And Sean McDonough of ESPN had to tell us that 50 times last night during the overtimes. A classic. The Golden Grams were up four to nothing. And Carolina scored three goals in 39 seconds and then scored a goal by bullying everybody into the net. Now, I'm I'm all for this right here. I'm I'm as much as I can't stand the Golden Graham. And for the record, people, it's not that I can't stand the team itself. I really can't stand the non-intelligent, low IQ Golden Graham hockey fan. That's what I can't stand. I can't stand those people. And that's what makes me hate the team even more. I you know, hitting on the team and making fun of the team is one thing. I can't stand the low IQ Golden Graham fan. That's what I that's what drives me nuts. And, you know, to see the looks and the place shut up last night when the game was tied was great. But to admit, I'll admit, it should have been a goal. You can't take a shot on a goal, have the goalie fall in the puck, and then have the uh you know, Carolina guy get shoved into the goalie, and then somehow the puck gets loose and it ends up in the net. That doesn't count it. That shouldn't count as a goal. I'm with I'm with the Golden Grams on. That shouldn't have been a goal. No, no way. You know, the the host and the guest used to play uh sport craft hockey, you know, with the levers, you move the guys back and forth and take shots, you know. Uh we had a rule in place in the game called jamming. No jamming at the puck, which means is you couldn't jam the guy and try to hit the puck in with the skates to score a cheap goal on the game. If you were caught doing that, if the other guy felt like you were doing that, it was a penalty. And we actually kept track of the time. You had to take the guy off the lever, and you were missing a guy out on the ice. And if the puck went into that guy's area, you had to give it to your one of your defensemen automatically. And hence you were on, you know, uh a power plant. So that that was the um, you know, that's how we used to handle the jamming. That was jamming last night to me. You can't you can't jam like that. And we wouldn't have to suffer through the two overtimes, uh, you know, if they if they they just disallowed that goal. To me, that wasn't a goal. And the the golden grams got screwed up. So there, I'm fair, I'm fair, see. The host is fair with the golden. I'm fair. I'll say this. I think a lot of people would agree with me on this. If the golden grams didn't go on to win that game last night, and they lost that game in overtime, they lost five to four, they'd be done mentally. The series would be over. There's no way they would come back in this series by giving up a four-goal lead with 12 minutes left in the third quarter. There is no way you could mentally come back and play in a game four and think you could win the series. There's no way they would have done it. But they've they fought through it, they fought through the adversity, and they ended up winning that game in overtime on a lucky bounce, we'll say. And uh they're up two games to one. And now the next game is in is in uh here in uh uh Las Vegas. So they have a chance to go up three games to one and take it back to Carolina with a three games and one leave and a chance to you know win the Stanley Cup for the second time in the team's history. And boy, I can't believe it. I can't believe a 31-win team, and again, I'm not counting the uh I'm sorry, sorry, 32-win team. I'm not counting the seven wins that John Torortella got when he became coach. I can't believe a 32 win team is gonna win the Stanley Cup. Is almost on the verge of winning the Stanley Cup, I'll say. How about when we have to go to each intermission on ESPN and they bring in referee analyst Dave Jackson, and he's kind of. Constantly yelling at us through the TV. We had the controversy in uh you know game two in Carolina with one of the goals, and we had Dave Jackson and ESPN uh crew arguing with each other during the intermission of the third and first overtime. And Dave Jackson was screaming at us through the TV. He was doing it again last night. Yelling about the the the uh you know the whole incident I just talked about with jamming into the net. He's yelling through the TV. And then you got Steve Levy yelling through the TV at us. What do they think that that all hockey fans are deaf? We can't hear him. I mean, it's just ridiculous the amount of uh screaming and yelling that goes on with Dave Jackson. And again, these all these sports gotta have the rules expert. You know, ESPN, uh Monday night football, we got the expert, Sunday night football, we got that. We got Gene Sterator on CBS, we got Mike Pereira on uh, you know, uh on Fox. They're in the basketball. We got uh the uh Jarvis guy, what's his name? Steve Steve Jabby. So we got Steve Jabby on there for basketball as the uh rules official. Just this having the trend of having the rules official is just so dumb. We don't need that. It doesn't help, it just creates more aggravation, and whether you agree or disagree with the call, and then you got the rules officiatinado guy, you know, agreeing with one side or disagreeing with the other. It's just aggravating half the fan base of one team. It's just you don't need you don't need to have that guy. And by the way, of the three ESPN idiots they have on the hockey, what's Patrick Subin wearing every night? Did you see his outfit last night? Does he think he's Michael Jackson? And he also, the the jacket he was wearing last night reminded me of the uh, you know, what Judge Smails was wearing there. Remember Judge Smells was wearing that uh uh Scotland golf jacket at the dinner party in Caddyshack. And uh Roddy actually bumped into him and said, hey waiter, go get me another drink. And he put a put a 20 in his pocket. That's what I thought somebody was gonna do with Patrick Suban last night. Somebody was gonna come into the booth and offer those guys a refresher during the uh intermission and bump into Patrick Suban and tip him 20 bucks because he looked like a waiter. I mean, does this Kenny SPN say, hey buddy? Okay, we don't we don't need you to be wearing pajamas on here. We don't need to be you be wearing uh carpets as a jacket on here, we don't need to be dressing up in some Halloween character. Just come on and give some hockey analysis. That's what Mark Messier does. I mean, even though he looked like Hitman Agent 47 last night, that's what Marc Messier like has a nice suit. Of course, Steve Levy's gonna wear some stupid suit because that he's this uh ESPN honk, but he's on there. Even the guy yelling at us about the rules, Dave Jackson, he's got a stupid uh you know, suit on. So um, but uh yeah, but man, golden grants. Uh now to uh talk about a little, uh move on to a little baseball, uh, like I was talking about. Aaron Judge of the New York Yankees uh recently went on the uh IL injured list with a bruised rib. Now, allegedly, uh Aaron Judge got this injury. Uh he says he got an injury diving for the ball in an April 27th game. Other Twitter internet sleuths say he hurt the shoulder jumping into the wall to catch a ball against the Orioles. And uh some people think that was the cause of the injury. Uh we the Yankees had a little scare because they thought uh Aaron Judge was going to be out a lot longer and might need surgery. It would have been a nine to ten month recovery. And then uh since there might be no baseball in 2027 because of the looming strike and lockout with the players, uh we might not, we might have not seen Aaron Judge until the 2028 season. So uh it seems like he needs some rest. So they they uh put him on the uh injured list, and he's gonna be out until that injury heals up. Uh now the things at stake here for Aaron Judge was uh you know, defending MVP, his streak of hitting 50 home runs in a season. Uh he's currently sitting at 17. Uh there's so there's a lot going on here that Aaron Judge uh you know might be uh losing out on. And then the Yankees were, you know, a few games back within Tampa Bay. Now they got you know Garrett Cole that's coming back. Hopefully uh that it is back. He's pitched well so far. Uh hopefully the Yankees can survive through this loss of Aaron Studs and win some games with a lot of their pitching. But the Yankees, if you follow them, and the guests can sure uh you know tack on to this, uh they have, and I this is my opinion. Uh the Yankees have a hard time uh beating the better teams. Uh of course they played Cleveland this past week, had some trouble with Cleveland, lost two out of three, played Boston uh this weekend. So uh, you know, Boston's not playing very well, but it's still a rival team. It still gives them fits. And of course, they're behind Tampa Bay, which has given the Yankees all kinds of fits over the last few years. They really need uh Stanton to come back, who's been hurt. He hurt his uh leg. He's uh currently uh jogging on the side, getting ready to come back. I mean this guy, this guy gets hurt uh taking the trash out of a trash pit. Uh, you know, this you know, he he would tear his uh uh you know, his bicep, pulling trash out of a trash pit if uh if you just wouldn't weren't watching him all the time. So hopefully Stanton can come back and give this team a little offensive relief until Judge can fully come back and play healthy. Maybe Judge could get the 40 home runs if he uh you know comes back. Maybe he'll come back before the all-star break, but I'm predicting Aaron Judge won't be back until after the all-star break. Uh if he does come back and is at full strength, and maybe the Yankees make a great second half run. If only Aaron Judge would follow the hostess' rules of playing. Now, you know, the hostess talked about playing baseball before on the show here. I used to play in the outfield. I either played uh left field or I played right. Now, the reason I was out in the outfield is one, uh, when I was playing in my prime in baseball, I put that quote, host was a little uh little overweight, we should say. And I wasn't very fast. But the host, for one thing, when I was younger, I had a great arm. I could throw people out from the out. I've thrown uh guys out at home plate, I've thrown guys out at third base from right field. I even threw, this is my claim to fame, playing left field, a guy got a base hit, I threw the kid out at first base. That's my claim to fame because the kid was lackadaisically running down to first base. I threw a kid out from left field with a rope of a throw on a base hit once. Okay, so that was that was one thing the host could do. I had a great arm. Okay, now playing the outfield is the easiest thing to do in baseball. And I don't know why these guys get hurt at all or risk themselves injury. If I'm making all that money, I'll tell you right now, I'm not running fast over any ball, I'm not diving for any ball, and I'm not straining my arm at all trying to throw someone out. I'm just getting the play, and I'm hitting the cutoff guy. After you hit the cutoff guy, that's it. You have no more worries. Because now it's up to the cutoff guy to do what he has to do with the ball. Make a play at second, make a play at third, make a play at home, hold the guy at first, or just throw it back to the pitcher. There's no more worries for you after making the play. Base hit comes out to you, you just scoop up the ground ball, throw it to the cutoff guy. Play down the line, just jog over, lightly jog over, pick up the ball, hit the cutoff guy, you're done. Balls hit over your head, just kind of act like you're going for the ball and just kind of put your glove up and let the ball fall over your head. Get it off the bounce of the wall, turn around, hit the cutoff guy. So simple. Easiest position to play. There's nothing strenuous about it. Don't go diving for a ball where you could hurt your ribs. Don't go crashing into the wall where you could bust up your shoulder. Don't try to make a play on the guy running the third from first when you could tear your UCL. You're making all that money? Don't do anything like that. Why would you do that? Just hit the cutoff. Wipe your hands, go back in the dugout, and wait your turn to hit. That's what the host would do. These guys, I know, I know. But hosts are gonna play for their team. I know, I know. But it's as simple as that. So that leads me into this. I'm gonna tell a story that I've never told before. Like I mentioned at the beginning of the show of baseball. Back when I played high school baseball, this is probably, I want to say, I gotta say, this is our senior year. Our senior year, like I explained, I played out in the outfield. And this particular game, I was playing out in the right field. Now, let me throw this out there first. Prior to that season starting, our high school field had this big backstop. I mean, one of the biggest backstops you've ever seen. And it was all rusted out. Well, some genius at the school decided that, hey, the backstop needs to be repainted. And you know these things, they're huge. And they're like a big fence and they're metal, and it comes out, it overhangs over home plate, and it extends down, you know, the uh not the baseline, but there's another uh on the baseball field, there's another line that's lined up with the backstop that all everybody who's in the dugout or on the bench has to stay behind, except the batter who's gonna be up next in the batter's box and the guy at the plate. Well, some genius at the school decided that these things needed to be repainted. And they repainted them silver. Well, guess what? When it was sunny out, and that was a rarity back in back in New York when you played baseball, especially in the spring, but when it was sunny out, it reflected off the silver backstop and made this bad reflection throughout the outfield, and through anybody who was trying to field the ball coming off the bat. And again, it was a rarity that was really sunny out when we played. But keep that in mind as I tell this story. We had this kid on the team, and I know there's gonna be people, I'm gonna mention the guy's name. And I know there's gonna be people that listen to this show that recognize they're gonna be holy cow host, I can't believe you're saying that. We used to have this guy on a team, Steve Snyder. He was a pitcher, he's a very popular kid in school. He also was the goalie on our soccer team. And of course, our soccer team was very good. Went to the finals four years in a row, all four years of high school. Our soccer team was in the sectional finals, and he was the goalie. And he thought he was the great. Playing a goalie in soccer. Really? You're a goalie, buddy. In soccer. You see what, one shot a game? But anyway, oh, don't keep, don't, don't bring that up, folks. Don't worry, in another week or so, this is a whole nother rant. The soccer hooligans are coming out. But but anyway, we'll talk about that on another show. But anyway, he was he was, and I'll say this, he was our best pitcher. He was our best pitcher on our team. He threw the hardest, he had a great curveball, but he was so arrogant and had an attitude. And he thought he was the greatest. And now keep in mind, because he was our best pitcher, he did pitch against all the better teams that we played. All right, so he did pitch against all the other better high school teams that we played. Okay, so keep that in mind too. So he didn't have what really bothered me about this kid is he thought he was so cool and so great because he was the pitcher, the leading pitcher of our baseball team, and he was the soccer goalie of, you know, the goalie of the soccer team in this school, and he just thought he was the man. His win-loss record as a pitcher was a losing record. But he did, however, because he threw the ball fast, he did have a great curveball, he used to get a lot of strikeouts. And that was great for our team. That was great, helped us win. His dad on the sideline, and you can ask the guests this because the guests can come on and talk about this. His dad on the sideline, when all the dads were over there watching the games, would go up and down and tell everyone how many strikeouts his son had per number of innings pitched. It was it was a known thing on the sideline that his dad would do that. And of course, that just added fuel to the fire with this kid. And I couldn't stand that. But again, you play as a team. Right? So one game. They had runners on the other team had runners on second and third, and we were winning two to one. And he was pitching. And of course, he's you know, he's pitching great. And you know, always in the back of my mind, I can't stand it. So a fly ball comes out to right field, but it's out of play, and you you would have to I would have really had to run for the ball. But I could have caught the ball. And instead, I kind of slowed up and let the ball fall down. And I said, well, screw this, I'm not gonna run over there and catch the ball for this guy. I could care less. And I let the ball go down, it was a foul ball. Wasn't hurting anything, but still had a chance to get the guy out. The next very pitch, of course, the kid gets a base hit and a two-run score, and we go on and lose the game three to two. I remember as I let that ball fall down and not catch it out in the outfield, as it fell in foul play. He stood there and looked at me with his hips on his with his hands on his hips, giving me this stereotype. I remember, I remember, I remember to this day. He yelled out to me, couldn't get to the ball, and I just pointed to the backstop as if I didn't see it. Remember, I just told you the story of how the reflection of the backstop. And then that was the thing. A lot of people had trouble with the ball coming off the backstop after they painted it silver. But I saw it the whole way. I just pointed to the backstop because I didn't care about him. I didn't, I didn't want to let this guy win this game because of who he was. Yes, that's right. The host purposely let a ball foul into fall play so that they could so his team could lose the game because I couldn't stand the pitcher. That's a true story. Afterwards, after the game was over, coach didn't say anything to me. Coach didn't bring it up. Oh, but Steve Snyder came up to me in the locker room after. Came right up to me. You really couldn't get that ball, Dave? I just didn't see it come off the bat at first. A little slow getting there. That's what I said. I saw the ball the whole way. I just didn't want to catch it for that guy. I could have easily made that play. Screw him. He deserved it for the way he was and the way he acted all those years. I played five years of baseball with that guy. Five years I put up with his antics and the way he acted and everything on the field, off the field, during games. Yeah. Where is he now? Really? He's not in a major league, he was not a major leaguer. So to say that, you know, what I did was wrong? I guess so. But who cares? It's high school baseball. Where are we going? It just made me happy that I did something like that to that guy. And boy, I can hear everybody right now. I can hear everybody right now. Host, you are the worst teammate ever. Host, you, I would never want you on my team. Host, we knew, always knew you weren't this kind of guy. We knew you were this kind of stand-up guy. Host, we know, host, we know from the stories you told about what you do now in the past to the guy with the tree. Host, we always knew you were like this. I can hear it now with you people. But that's my story. That's my story of my old baseball story of, you know, talking about that. That's what happened. Yeah, I did it on purpose. You know what? I bet you there's other people who have done other things on purpose for high school games. I bet you people have done worse. They don't don't act like y'all didn't ever do anything before on the field or off the field or try to sabotage something with somebody you didn't like. It's high school sports. Knock it off. Jeez. Hey, it is what it is, right? I haven't told that story ever. That probably happened in uh 1989, 1990. It's not that it's been bothering me. You think the story has been bothering me all these years? No. No, I think it's great. I just never told that story. I hope somebody hears this story that knows who that guy is and passes it along to him so he knows. I hope he remembers that whole game. Anyway, people, you guys are great. I'm gonna hear every email in the book now calling out the host as what a guy. What a guy the host turned out to be. We always do you're like this host. Nice to be important, but more important to be nice. You know where to get the show by now. That's the host Twitter feed in at Steel DF72, Spotify, IHA Radio, Google Podcast, and of course, Podcast Act. And as always, it's nice to be important, but more important to be nice, as I just said it. We'll see you next. I'm gonna do another show because uh I want to do uh, you know, a couple uh 40-minute shows for you guys. So I'm gonna be right back with another show and uh we'll post it then. But to close out this show, I'm about a little new track of the latest Lamb of God album that just came out. The song is called Holy Spirit.