Tim Kurkjian’s Most Memorable HR Derby Performances
Tim and Jeff Kurkjian are live from Iron Hill Brewery for the first of their two All-Star Game specials. In today's episode, they look back at the first half of the season and break down what it all means for the stretch run. Expect plenty of takeaways, Quirkjians, and insight along the way. Then, they turn their attention to what promises to be an incredible Home Run Derby in Philadelphia, including Tim's absolutely epic All-Home Run Derby Team.
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Speaker 1: You know, is this a great game or what with
Speaker 1: the Hall of Famer Tim Kirkschen, I'm his son, Jeff
Speaker 1: Kirkshon and Dad, we are live in Philadelphia on YouTube.
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Speaker 1: Where are we tell every listen, this is incredible. Thank
Speaker 1: you to iron Hill Brewery in the East Market for
Speaker 1: hosting us and the foul Territory Network. They are absolutely incredible.
Speaker 1: In fact, we are prepping for a show in there
Speaker 1: and they were like, can we bring some apps? Can
Speaker 1: we bring some once? And we said, well, we're in
Speaker 1: show mode right now, but we're gonna grab some food afterwards.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: Only one though, and you said brewery properly, So that's
Speaker 3: the one word that you worry about.
Speaker 1: I've been a radio host professionally for ten years and
Speaker 1: I avoid that word like the plague. So when our
Speaker 1: friend Mark and Foul Territory Network said, guess we're we're
Speaker 1: doing the show, I said, don't be Ironhill Brewery, but
Speaker 1: we have to before we jump into All Star Game
Speaker 1: Shenanigans and all the fun that we're gonna have here today.
Speaker 1: We saw Chris Sale. He was walking through the brewery
Speaker 1: after recording with the Foul Territory guys. They're gonna be
Speaker 1: live at one o'clock. You can hear Chris Sale next
Speaker 1: monthsy with them. But he was walking out with a
Speaker 1: gentleman named Jake, and you asked, Chris Sale, is this
Speaker 1: your son Jake, only to find out.
Speaker 3: It's the son of Mark Wheeener. He's a foot taller
Speaker 3: than his dad. Is how am I supposed to know
Speaker 3: that Jake is related to Mark Wiener?
Speaker 2: I thought he was PRIs Sale.
Speaker 1: Jake looks like him, looks like the son of a ballplayer. Sorry, Mark,
Speaker 1: I look like the son of a nerdy baseball writer. Right.
Speaker 1: We all have. We all have our things, Dad, this
Speaker 1: is really special. Obviously. I live in the suburbs of Philadelphia,
Speaker 1: and to be able to do this show with you
Speaker 1: live the heartbeat of the city. I want to know
Speaker 1: something funny. We pulled up to Ironhill Brewery and there
Speaker 1: was this huge line and Grant there's a lot going
Speaker 1: on in the city, and we thought they were come
Speaker 1: to see us. I found out Bryce Harper was doing
Speaker 1: a meet and greet in the store next door. So
Speaker 1: that's why Bobby wit Junior was in there too, So.
Speaker 2: I missed that boat. We have one person watching. It's
Speaker 2: fory our Asian. That's it, the only one, okay.
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Speaker 1: to Clint who's our director. He's out on the West coast,
Speaker 1: So thank you Clint for your hard work today.
Speaker 2: Dad. But Jeff, this is the point of the All
Speaker 2: Star Game, the energy in the city.
Speaker 3: It's a three day celebration of baseball and it is glorious.
Speaker 3: No basketball, no football, no Olympics going on. Baseball has
Speaker 3: center stage for three days. And we get the home
Speaker 3: run derby tonight of course, All Star Game tomorrow night,
Speaker 3: all sorts of things for kids to do. This is
Speaker 3: my forty fifth All Star Game. I've covered everyone since
Speaker 3: starting in nineteen eighty two.
Speaker 2: How many for you? You went to Milwaukee, you went
Speaker 2: to Chicago?
Speaker 1: Is this Seattle? Seattle's the most memorable because that was
Speaker 1: Tony Gwen Cawarkin's last So for us, that was such
Speaker 1: a cool one because I mean it was known as
Speaker 1: one of the best. I mean, Coward can Jr. In
Speaker 1: that moment with Alex Rodriguez.
Speaker 3: I so we're going to talk a lot about Matt
Speaker 3: Vinaro and I do the Team Tim on my All
Speaker 3: All Star Moments tonight. Today we're going to do the
Speaker 3: All Home Run Derby. Team Tim will have that at
Speaker 3: the end of the show. But Jeff, Home Run Derby
Speaker 3: still works. Look, I love basketball. You know that the
Speaker 3: Slam Dunk contest is still amazing. But there are kids
Speaker 3: in playgrounds across America that are doing those dunks.
Speaker 2: At least some of them.
Speaker 3: I don't think we could find a field anywhere in
Speaker 3: the world tonight. People are hitting the ball as far
Speaker 3: as these major leaguers hit it. It's like nothing we've
Speaker 3: ever seen, and balls will be flying at a record
Speaker 3: pace to night.
Speaker 2: That's why the Home Run Derby still works.
Speaker 1: And it's worth noting too, we had rich Donnelly on
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks back at this point, and he
Speaker 1: was the very first pitcher to pitch for the first
Speaker 1: Home Run Derby, and in fact, there were other pitchers scheduled,
Speaker 1: and they threw five straight balls and they said no,
Speaker 1: no bringing rich Donnelly again.
Speaker 3: And he's the pitcher on the All Team tim for
Speaker 3: the Home Run Derby.
Speaker 2: So I don't want to ruin that. We'll We'll get
Speaker 2: to rich in a minute.
Speaker 1: Well that's good because I was curious what pitcher you
Speaker 1: were going to do for the Home Run Derby.
Speaker 3: Seem obvious, right, So the Home Run Derby has a
Speaker 3: chance to be really great, Jeff, because Bryce Harper's in it.
Speaker 2: He won, of course, in twenty eighteen.
Speaker 3: And the guy he defeated in twenty eighteen, the runner
Speaker 3: up was Kyle Schwarber, who is now his teammate. And
Speaker 3: we remember what Kyle Schwarber did last year, not in
Speaker 3: the Home Run Derby, but in the swing off in
Speaker 3: order to determine the winner of the.
Speaker 2: All Star Game. Kyle Schwarber saw three pitches swung at them,
Speaker 2: all three homers.
Speaker 3: And the game was over and he was named the
Speaker 3: MVP of the All Star Games. So that's what we
Speaker 3: have to look forward to tonight, among many things. Is Look,
Speaker 3: I'm not rooting for anything, Jeff. I can't root for
Speaker 3: anything except a great story. It would be a pretty
Speaker 3: good story here in Philadelphia on the two hundred and
Speaker 3: fiftieth anniversary of our country, that two Phillies were against
Speaker 3: each other in the finals of the Home Run Derby?
Speaker 2: Am I right about this?
Speaker 1: And I think that I know you can't be a
Speaker 1: fan of anything. You're a fan of the story, and
Speaker 1: that's what it's all about. But come on, the Home
Speaker 1: Run Derby is just for fun. So for us, we
Speaker 1: just want the best story, the most fun, and the
Speaker 1: best story is Bryce Arper kyleish Warber head to head
Speaker 1: in that game. And if a hometown guy wins in
Speaker 1: his hometown ballpark, that would be realistuff.
Speaker 3: But we're not going to sleep on the rest of
Speaker 3: the guys, including Junior Caminaro. If he's Junior Caminaro, I'd
Speaker 3: hate to see Senior Caminaro because he is unbelievably strong.
Speaker 3: He just finished the stretch of eleven homers in eleven games.
Speaker 3: And I've told you multiple times I saw his VP
Speaker 3: right before the playoffs several years ago when he was
Speaker 3: like nineteen years old.
Speaker 2: It was so prodigious.
Speaker 3: That day in Toronto, you got a standing ovation from
Speaker 3: the crowd at Roger Center because of the bouting parduct Is.
Speaker 3: I've never seen balls hit quite like that in my life.
Speaker 3: He will be a factor tonight in the home run Derby.
Speaker 1: Yay, he says he's gonna win at all. I mean
Speaker 1: he's a little sour after coming in second to cal Raally,
Speaker 1: who will might make our all home run Derby list
Speaker 1: at the end of the show as well. Yeah, a
Speaker 1: lot of great players are going to be on center
Speaker 1: stage tonight. And I think my favorite part of a
Speaker 1: home run Derby, Dad, is just the interactions of the players.
Speaker 1: Players sitting with their kids. Isn't that what it's all about, Dad,
Speaker 1: It's just about being with your families, being with your friends.
Speaker 1: I thought Chris Sale was going to bring his son.
Speaker 1: Find out it's not his son. But nonetheless it's gonna.
Speaker 3: Mat and I get to I'm the dugout reporter tonight,
Speaker 3: the field reporter for radio, so I'll be chasing people
Speaker 3: down and ask him questions about the home run Derby.
Speaker 3: It's a real it's a magnificent part for baseball these
Speaker 3: three days.
Speaker 2: It's absolutely beautiful.
Speaker 1: That's incredible, all right, Dad, Do you want to jump
Speaker 1: into the takeaway?
Speaker 3: Yeah, just a few for this week. Even though the
Speaker 3: All Star Game completely dominates. I found this fascinating. The
Speaker 3: Red Sox just won nine games in a row going
Speaker 3: into the All Star Break, and they've gone from one
Speaker 3: of the biggest disappointments in baseball to a team that
Speaker 3: now has a chance to make the playoffs. If they
Speaker 3: do it, likely it would be a wild card. But
Speaker 3: the amazing thing is, Jeff, they're the first team in
Speaker 3: Major League history to win nine games in a row
Speaker 3: heading into the All Star Break two years in a row.
Speaker 1: They did the same thing last year.
Speaker 3: I mean, what are the odds, Jeff, of any team
Speaker 3: winning nine in a row into the break?
Speaker 1: The same team did it two years in a row.
Speaker 2: How weird is that?
Speaker 1: That is crazy? Because also with their position in the
Speaker 1: Al East, if you lose four games in a row
Speaker 1: going into this All Star Break, it's a different trade
Speaker 1: deadline for the Red Sox. But now winning nine straight again, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, what, they're two games under five hundred, which
Speaker 1: we won't get into that.
Speaker 2: Right, that's the American It's all good.
Speaker 1: It's all good, and but I think it definitely gives
Speaker 1: Boston fans something to be excited about headed in to
Speaker 1: the Midsummer class, Right.
Speaker 2: And we just finished the Major League draft.
Speaker 3: Rock Chowslowski, UCLA shortstop was the number one overall pick,
Speaker 3: and you sent me.
Speaker 2: You sent me a text mess Let's chef, I'm so
Speaker 2: proud of you. You're starting to think, well, sadly, you're
Speaker 2: starting to think like I must.
Speaker 1: Say, proud or nervous about my future. I think there's
Speaker 1: two different ways of thinking about it. So I texted,
Speaker 1: and let's be clear people. The amount of times that
Speaker 1: my dad texts me and says, what did you see
Speaker 1: in the box score in the Reds game last Tuesday
Speaker 1: and puts me on a test, on a journey to
Speaker 1: find this answer is more often than I can admit.
Speaker 1: Usually I'm changing a dirty diaper or putting a baby down.
Speaker 1: But I texted him and I said, what is different?
Speaker 1: What do you notice about the name of the first
Speaker 1: overall pick in the draft? And what did you say?
Speaker 2: I said, the only valsy az are os.
Speaker 3: That was my observation, which is great, which is true,
Speaker 3: but yours was much better.
Speaker 1: I responded that it's a double unique. I searched on
Speaker 1: Baseball Reference. I called the Elias and I asked them, Hey,
Speaker 1: has there ever been a player with this first or
Speaker 1: last name, and no. And he's the first overall pick
Speaker 1: in Major League Baseball draft, which is great, right.
Speaker 3: So doctor Bruce Brown, my friend of mine from Saber,
Speaker 3: has come up with an entire list of double uniques,
Speaker 3: which we've talked about quite a bit in the last
Speaker 3: month or so. But I found other double uniques who
Speaker 3: were overall number one. Adlee Rutchman. I've never found anyone.
Speaker 3: Adlee Rutchman first and last, aame unique to baseball. And
Speaker 3: Sean Dunstan spelled Shawn Dunstan also a double unique unless
Speaker 3: I miss somebody.
Speaker 1: So how about that.
Speaker 3: He's not the first It's been done before by an
Speaker 3: overall number one.
Speaker 1: It has been done before. And I thought my son
Speaker 1: was going to be a double unique, but then we
Speaker 1: found Ping Body. Everything got thrown up, but Body Bell
Speaker 1: Kirchen all the vowels in his name radical incidence. Thought
Speaker 1: about it before naming him. Don't tell my wife. She
Speaker 1: is watching on YouTube right now, so I probably shouldn't,
Speaker 1: I sug Jeff.
Speaker 3: We had a crazy, beautiful, fascinating first half of the
Speaker 3: season and there were so many interesting stories.
Speaker 2: The Nationals are one of them.
Speaker 3: The Nationals come into the All Star break, they're second
Speaker 3: in the major leagues in home runs, and they're first
Speaker 3: in stolen bases, and it's close. So they have a
Speaker 3: chance to become the first team since the nineteen fifty
Speaker 3: five Dodgers to finish the season first in the major
Speaker 3: leagues in homers, first in stolen bases. But also keep
Speaker 3: in mind the Yankees are first in homers and fourth
Speaker 3: in stolen bases and not that far behind.
Speaker 1: So even though this hasn't happened since nineteen fifty.
Speaker 3: Five, the year before I was born, so it's been
Speaker 3: over seventy years, it's two teams.
Speaker 2: Have a real shot at doing that this year. You
Speaker 2: find that surprise.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's incredible, and I think this is
Speaker 1: the exciting part of you know, halfway through the season
Speaker 1: we get to look towards you know, how team is
Speaker 1: doing and how they finish, and I know you have
Speaker 1: notes a plenty of how many teams are in third place,
Speaker 1: fourth place, totally out of it now and they can
Speaker 1: still make a comeback in the second half of the season. Now, Dad,
Speaker 1: I know we have a really cool note for everybody
Speaker 1: about Roy Holiday, but I want to take a quick
Speaker 1: break before we get to that note. On the takeaways
Speaker 1: to hear from our friends of Foul Territory. We'll be
Speaker 1: right back with a Roy Holliday note that I said
Speaker 1: to my dad and actually got a little bit of
Speaker 1: a raise out of you, which is impressive.
Speaker 2: It was great.
Speaker 1: That's coming up next.
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Speaker 1: All right, and we're back here at Ironhill Brewery. Is
Speaker 1: this a great game? Or what dad? This takeaway about?
Speaker 1: Roy Holiday? I gave it to you this morning when
Speaker 1: you First of all, I asked you to be at
Speaker 1: my radio station at eight am. You showed up at seven,
Speaker 1: which is totally fine. Six fifty six by the time
Speaker 1: we got you to the studio, Campy late, Roy Holiday. Note, So,
Speaker 1: our starters for the All Star Game Dylan Cees the
Speaker 1: Toronto Blue Jays right, American League side, Christopher Sanchez nationally
Speaker 1: leg starter. So Dylan Ceesa the Blue Jays. The last
Speaker 1: time the Blue Jays had a starting pitcher for the
Speaker 1: American League it was Roy Holliday, which is really great
Speaker 1: legend Hall of Famer. The last time the Phillies had
Speaker 1: a starter for the All Star Game, it was also
Speaker 1: Roy Holliday. How great is that?
Speaker 2: Note?
Speaker 3: Right? Well, again, this is how why baseball is so
Speaker 3: beautiful for one of a million different reasons, just the
Speaker 3: symmetry and how things line up.
Speaker 2: We talked about this.
Speaker 3: Cecil Fielder Prince Fielder both hit three hundred and nineteen
Speaker 3: homers of their career.
Speaker 2: How could that be?
Speaker 3: Father and son Stan Musial eighteen fifteen hits on the road,
Speaker 3: eighteen fifteen at home. But this is beautiful also, And
Speaker 3: by the way, Dylan c says tremendous stuff.
Speaker 2: Lead the league in strikeouts.
Speaker 1: He's got a chance to win the Cy young And
Speaker 1: you know how.
Speaker 2: Much I love anagram.
Speaker 3: So the anagram for Dylan Cease is cy land Ease.
Speaker 3: So I know that doesn't mean anything, but those three
Speaker 3: words kind of kind of tell you that someday Dylan
Speaker 3: Cees is gonna win the cy.
Speaker 2: That's what we call stretch.
Speaker 1: You have too much time on your hand, way too.
Speaker 2: Much time, way too much time.
Speaker 1: It's no Clayton Kershaw. But we'll see what we can do,
Speaker 1: all right. So the quirk Gins obviously still recapping the
Speaker 1: end of the first half of the season. We're gonna
Speaker 1: get to our all home run derby team here soon.
Speaker 1: That I love that you put this together. It's going
Speaker 1: to be a great one. But the quirk Gins the
Speaker 1: only things the Tim Kirkchhin and Frank for the Elias
Speaker 1: can confirm. What do you have for us, well, Jake
Speaker 1: McCarthy or the Rockies hitting inside the park leadoff homer
Speaker 1: the other day. Second time he's done that this year.
Speaker 1: So the last guy to.
Speaker 3: Have two lead off inside the park homers in one
Speaker 3: season was Ed Rush spelled ed d Rush in nineteen
Speaker 3: twenty nine. It's and the whole inside the park homer thing.
Speaker 3: We'll get to each row's inside the park homer in
Speaker 3: the All Star Game.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about that tomorrow is the only one.
Speaker 3: And he never hit one during the regular season, which
Speaker 3: is just amazing to me.
Speaker 2: He saved it for the All Star Game. All right.
Speaker 3: Our favorite together is a cycle. Tristan Peters of the
Speaker 3: White Sox in a cycle the other day out of
Speaker 3: the number nine spot. So the only guys who've ever
Speaker 3: done that Charlie Moore, Jeff Fried, Shoan Figgins, Sean Figgins.
Speaker 2: And Carson Kelly.
Speaker 3: And our daughter's name is Kelly, and her first my
Speaker 3: first grandson is Carson. Carson Kelly, my favorite name in
Speaker 3: the game. One more time, Jeff, the four guys who
Speaker 3: never hit for the cycle that you would have thought
Speaker 3: they had to hit for the cycle, don't put me
Speaker 3: on blast at Ironhill Brewery, right, yes, yes, okay, all.
Speaker 1: Right, So the four guys, We've got Willie Mays, Barry Bonds,
Speaker 1: you can do it, Y Aarons, and Ted Williams. Babe Ruth.
Speaker 1: I always want Ted Williams on the list, fab Ruth.
Speaker 2: All right, all right, Jeff, enough of that.
Speaker 3: So Colt Emerson, now the shortstop for the Mariners, is
Speaker 3: a really good young player.
Speaker 2: But he comes into the break with a streak going. Jeff.
Speaker 2: He's struck out in eighteen straight games, Okay, And I'm
Speaker 2: not being critical.
Speaker 3: I'm just trying to point out again how hard it
Speaker 3: is to get a hit in today's game.
Speaker 2: This kid has a chance to be a star.
Speaker 3: But I want you to know, the Major League record
Speaker 3: for consecutive games with at least one strikeout is thirty seven.
Speaker 3: Thirty seven, So Colt Emerson isn't even halfway there. And
Speaker 3: the record holder is Aaron Judge, who is going to
Speaker 3: be a future is a future Hall of Timer. It's
Speaker 3: one of the best players in baseball. He did this
Speaker 3: during his Brookie year, just proving again how hard it
Speaker 3: is to hit in today's game, but also showing how
Speaker 3: Aaron Judge has made the adjustment. He still strikes out
Speaker 3: a lot, but not quite at that rate. And speaking
Speaker 3: of strikeouts, we had twenty two guys get to the
Speaker 3: All Star Break with at least one hundred strikeouts.
Speaker 2: Now that's not the record.
Speaker 3: The record is twenty five done in nineteen, in twenty
Speaker 3: twenty four, and in twenty twenty five. So the last
Speaker 3: two years was the most one hundred strikeout guys into
Speaker 3: the All Star Break. And you know, Babe Ruth never
Speaker 3: struck out one hundred times, Hank Aaron never struck out
Speaker 3: one hundred times. Get different time, different players, different era.
Speaker 3: Just another reminder what we're watching here these days.
Speaker 5: All right.
Speaker 1: We had a great thing the other night in Saint Louis.
Speaker 3: David Eckstein, who's like your heights, which means he's way
Speaker 3: taller than me.
Speaker 2: Right, He dressed up as an usher.
Speaker 3: And handed out handed out his own bobblehead doll at
Speaker 3: Bush Stadium where he was a star shortsop on a
Speaker 3: championship caliber team. So he's a little guy, he looks
Speaker 3: like he's fourteen. He's one of the nicest people of
Speaker 3: all time. He dressed up in an usher's outfit. It
Speaker 3: was handing out his own bobblehead. Is that the greatest
Speaker 3: thing ever?
Speaker 1: It's unbelievable. And we have a bobblehead story today. When
Speaker 1: you visited the office, friend of mine, Brandon Pettrelli, who
Speaker 1: is a coworker of mine, comes up and says, hey, Tim,
Speaker 1: I'm the collector of bobbleheads, and I found yours on
Speaker 1: Facebook market. I'm gonna go pick it up today. It's
Speaker 1: a picture of you with a giant ten dollars sticker
Speaker 1: on your forehead, which you know, it's a lot of
Speaker 1: a lot of real estate up there to put the
Speaker 1: whole sticker on there, which was next so no kidding.
Speaker 3: And mine, of course is the only babble head its
Speaker 3: actual size, which we know all right.
Speaker 1: So in the ninth inning the other night in Saint Louis.
Speaker 3: Riley O'Brien, yeah, pitching, and he was facing Austin Riley.
Speaker 3: So we had a Riley O'Brien matchup, and the picture's
Speaker 3: name is Riley O'Brien.
Speaker 2: And I also got to kick out of this.
Speaker 3: Jeb somebody else wrote in about this, but having nothing
Speaker 3: else to do with my life had already checked. So
Speaker 3: Jacob Mizerowski was scratched from his start on Sunday against
Speaker 3: Paul Skeen's what a loss that was for all baseball fans.
Speaker 3: But they started the Brewers started Robert Gasser instead. So
Speaker 3: a guy who throws harder than anyone on the face
Speaker 3: of the earth, Jacob Miserowski froze gas. He doesn't make
Speaker 3: the start. They replace it with Robert Gasser. It was
Speaker 3: that amusing at all.
Speaker 1: Feel perfect. That's so beautiful, Dad, he did well, good,
Speaker 1: good like that? All right, all right, on the state
Speaker 1: in baseball history, I'm guessing you have some All Star
Speaker 1: memories and stuff, because we're right at the halfway of
Speaker 1: the season.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so on this stage, Jeff. In nineteen sixty five,
Speaker 3: Willie Mays let off the All Star Game with a
Speaker 3: home run in Minneapolis. And the backstory there is that
Speaker 3: we had just gotten a color TV in our house
Speaker 3: for the first time, and I'm eight years old. So
Speaker 3: we didn't have a color TV at our house until
Speaker 3: I was eight because we didn't have a whole lot
Speaker 3: of money to deal with in our house. So now
Speaker 3: the first thing that we're watching on our new color
Speaker 3: TV is the nineteen sixty five All Star Game, and
Speaker 3: Willie Mays my.
Speaker 2: Favorite player of all time.
Speaker 3: It's still the greatest player that I've ever seen with
Speaker 3: my own two eyes because he did what he did for.
Speaker 2: Over twenty years.
Speaker 3: He in full color and he hits a home run
Speaker 3: to start the All Star So, Jeff, I was hopelessly,
Speaker 3: hopelessly hooked on baseball well before then at age eight,
Speaker 3: but that was it.
Speaker 2: That was like a seminal moment for me.
Speaker 3: Hey, we just got a color TV and Willy Mays
Speaker 3: who had that perfect body for a baseball player, five ten, five.
Speaker 2: Eleven, unbelievably strong. It's a home run. I mean, is
Speaker 2: that something that should stay with you?
Speaker 1: I think and what I love the most about when
Speaker 1: you meet fans of the game, the first thing you asked,
Speaker 1: then where are you from? And how old are right,
Speaker 1: which in most settings people don't ask for people's age.
Speaker 1: But what you're trying to get to is, okay, you're
Speaker 1: thirty eight, which means you were eight, nine, ten years
Speaker 1: old in this year. And I think it's so beautiful
Speaker 1: because you can then pinpoint, oh, you know, Willy Mays
Speaker 1: was your guy, or Mike Schmidt was your guy, or
Speaker 1: whoever it might be. You can then pinpoint what they
Speaker 1: were feeling when they were that exact eight, right.
Speaker 2: So I'm i't somebody who's ten years older than me.
Speaker 2: Not many of us left anymore at our age, chef.
Speaker 3: You know, I could say you saw Mickey Mannle play
Speaker 3: in his prime like I didn't. I saw him play,
Speaker 3: but I didn't see him play in his prime in
Speaker 3: the fifties. That that stuff really matters to me. And
Speaker 3: when I was at your radio station today, young guy
Speaker 3: twenty seven years old, I said, you know, who is
Speaker 3: your guy?
Speaker 2: Who was? What was the first time you remember anyone?
Speaker 2: He said it was Chase Utley.
Speaker 3: I mean, he's really young, but and I told him
Speaker 3: a few Chase Utley stories. So I think that's important
Speaker 3: to just at least get some context. Where are you
Speaker 3: from and who is your guy growing up? That's how
Speaker 3: you start a conversation with any baby, any baseball fans.
Speaker 2: I love that all right.
Speaker 3: On this date in nineteen seventy one, I think the
Speaker 3: greatest collection of talent of all time gathered in Detroit
Speaker 3: at Tiger Stadium for the All Star Game. Twenty five
Speaker 3: of those guys ended up going to the Hall of
Speaker 3: Fame as either a player or a manager. Seventeen of
Speaker 3: them would eventually or already had one an MVP. Seven
Speaker 3: of them would go on or already had won a
Speaker 3: Cy Young Award. I remember talking to Joe Torrey, who
Speaker 3: went in as a manager even though he has a
Speaker 3: really good resume as a player.
Speaker 1: He said, I was absolutely in.
Speaker 3: Awe when I walked into that clubhouse because I thought, like,
Speaker 3: it's like our all of our baseball cards came to
Speaker 3: law and he said, And I could barely breathe. He
Speaker 3: told me, And this is Joe Torrey. He's hitting like
Speaker 3: three seventy at the All Star Break. He's not just
Speaker 3: some scrub who made the team for the first time.
Speaker 3: So Reggie Jackson hit the most famous home run, maybe
Speaker 3: in one of the most famous homers in the history
Speaker 3: of the Alstar Game. Hit the light transformer and right
Speaker 3: center field. I'll never forget it. Nineteen seventy one. I
Speaker 3: was fourteen years.
Speaker 1: Old, and Johnny Bench told us on our podcast.
Speaker 3: He said, he said, after I said the home run
Speaker 3: that I hit, he said, I know was the hardest
Speaker 3: ball I had ever hit in my life. And people
Speaker 3: on the bench telling me that's the hardest hit baseball
Speaker 3: and the longest hit baseball I've ever seen. And then
Speaker 3: Reggie hit one longer than he did, which is just unbelieved.
Speaker 1: It's incredible. So, Dad, I know the back end of
Speaker 1: your on the state in baseball history. It's gonna involve
Speaker 1: Ajo Martinez, it's gonna involve Ted William and it's gonna involve.
Speaker 2: Todd Fraser right now.
Speaker 1: Well, before we get to those three names, which spoken
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Speaker 3: And speaking of codes, Jeff, I went to elemonade sale
Speaker 3: in your sister Kelly's neighborhood and it was the most
Speaker 3: adorable thing I've ever seen. All the people in the
Speaker 3: neighbor were there, but it was mostly little kids. Emma,
Speaker 3: our granddaughter, was kind of running the cash register, which
Speaker 3: was the cutest thing I've ever seen. But when I
Speaker 3: go up there to pay for my lemonade and a cookie.
Speaker 3: One of the girls told me, as she said, you
Speaker 3: could pay with.
Speaker 2: Your phone if you want. And I'm thinking he's a child.
Speaker 2: She's six, So she showed me.
Speaker 3: And I don't even know how to do that, but
Speaker 3: a six year old showed me how to use a
Speaker 3: code to pay for a lemonade.
Speaker 2: Is that still? Is that happening?
Speaker 1: Jeff? Yeah, I mean, dad, and we got to hustle.
Speaker 1: These kids learn how to be entrepreneurs very early. With
Speaker 1: all the ways you can use your phone these days,
Speaker 1: I would have loved it. Nobody cares cash anymore.
Speaker 2: Well, I knew.
Speaker 3: I hit him a whole bunch of cash for lemonade
Speaker 3: and cookies. It was great, amazing, all right back to
Speaker 3: this state jet now. I'm going to keep these really
Speaker 3: brief because they're going to be a part of tomorrow's show.
Speaker 3: Also on this date in nineteen ninety nine, Peter Martinez
Speaker 3: faced five batters in the also six batters, struck out
Speaker 3: five of them in maybe the most dominant pitching I've
Speaker 3: ever seen, and Ted Williams was equally important in the
Speaker 3: whole pregame ceremony. That day at Fenway Park the most
Speaker 3: memorable All Star game I've ever been to. But I'm
Speaker 3: going to save the best of that for tomorrow when
Speaker 3: I have to the all Team Tim based on my
Speaker 3: favorite All Star memories of a catcher, first baseman, all
Speaker 3: the way through. Okay, you would just loading us up
Speaker 3: with Team Tim's in twenty twenty six, and I love
Speaker 3: it because it's.
Speaker 1: I do to a week to a week. It's becoming
Speaker 1: the favorite segment of anybody. And speaking of if you
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Speaker 3: And John Woodward one of our best listeners and readers
Speaker 3: and viewers. He wrote in a Team Tim of all
Speaker 3: the favorite people that I love.
Speaker 2: To mention on the podcast.
Speaker 3: So Johnny, Benjams, the catcher, Waller Johnson is the picture,
Speaker 3: Louke Gerrig is past. Yeah, it was hilarious. All right,
Speaker 3: last one on this date. On this date in twenty fifteen,
Speaker 3: Todd Frazier won the home run derby in Cincinnati, and
Speaker 3: that's going to be our jumping off point because I'm
Speaker 3: not going to tell you that story now. I'm going
Speaker 3: to tell you in just a minute.
Speaker 2: Of my all Team Tim home Run Derby team. So
Speaker 2: are you ready?
Speaker 1: Well, first, I just want to shout out hose Garcia,
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Speaker 1: All right? I'm ready for the team and speak about family.
Speaker 3: Jeff Our catcher on the all the Team tim All
Speaker 3: Home Run Derby team has to be cal Raley who
Speaker 3: won it last year. First catcher ever to win the
Speaker 3: Home Run Derby, first switch hitter ever to win the
Speaker 3: Home Run Derby, and his dad was throwing VP to
Speaker 3: him and his little brother was the catcher. His little
Speaker 3: brother is a really good player. So I just thought
Speaker 3: that was such a family thing.
Speaker 1: And let's remember when he told us that, all right,
Speaker 1: let's go WoT it up.
Speaker 2: That was another one. Oh that was hard praise.
Speaker 1: No, that's right, that's right. I just got my wife.
Speaker 3: Cal Raley just it was an absolutely unforgettable performance at
Speaker 3: the Home Run Derby last year, and of course he
Speaker 3: went on to hit sixty home.
Speaker 2: Runs during the season.
Speaker 3: All right, first basement is Pete Alonzo in a close
Speaker 3: vote over Prince Fielder. But Pete Alonzo won twice as
Speaker 3: did Prince Fielder in the He won in nineteen ninety
Speaker 3: nine and nineteen twenty one and twenty twenty one, and
Speaker 3: in twenty twenty one he hit thirty five homers in
Speaker 3: the first inning. So this is when ales thirty five
Speaker 3: home runs in the first sitting.
Speaker 2: That was amazing.
Speaker 3: Second basement is Ryan Sanmdberg who won the Home Run
Speaker 3: Derby in nineteen ninety at Wrigley Field, which.
Speaker 1: Is always special when you.
Speaker 2: Do it when you do it at home.
Speaker 3: Third basement is Todd Frazier we mentioned also did it
Speaker 3: at home Cincinnati, and his brother was throwing BP to him.
Speaker 3: And this was the first year of the clock in
Speaker 3: the Home Run Derby, and we always said, you know
Speaker 3: the best part about baseball is it doesn't have a clock.
Speaker 2: But the clock.
Speaker 3: Essentially made the Home Run Derby even better. So he's
Speaker 3: screaming at his brother throw it faster, Not that's right,
Speaker 3: that harder, just quicker, oh, more pitches so I can
Speaker 3: get more swings and hit more home runs. So he's
Speaker 3: our third baseman. Cal Ripke is our shortstop. He won
Speaker 3: the Home Run Derby in nineteen ninety one in Toronto,
Speaker 3: won the MVP that year.
Speaker 2: That was unstakable.
Speaker 1: And if my stratomatic card that I created for cal
Speaker 1: Ripkin was playing in the Home Run Derby hit one
Speaker 1: hundred right in a season, that's because I had no ay.
Speaker 1: If you look shout out, Clint, he came up with
Speaker 1: your team. Tim All Derby team. You see the image
Speaker 1: right there down pretty great, incredible. So we're on cal
Speaker 1: Rikin at short Saturn ahead to take it.
Speaker 3: So yeah, field you own assessment. This is our left
Speaker 3: fielder because he won it twice. He won in thirteen
Speaker 3: and fourteen. He and Ken Griffy Junior are center fielder.
Speaker 3: Are the only guys to win back to back in
Speaker 3: the Home Run Derby and Griffy's the only one to
Speaker 3: win three different times, so he has to be in there.
Speaker 3: And Bryce Harper's in there because in two thoy eighteen
Speaker 3: he took He won the Home Run Derby, beat Kyle
Speaker 3: Schwarber in Washington at home and his father threw him
Speaker 3: VP and I'll never forget his dad was throw a VP, Jeff.
Speaker 3: It seemed like like twelve from home play and was
Speaker 3: throwing as hard as he could and it was really special.
Speaker 1: When it was over, Harper was pointing at his dad.
Speaker 1: He's the reason that.
Speaker 3: I won because he threw so many strikes and throw
Speaker 3: so many perfect strikes.
Speaker 2: And I can't leave Josh Hamilton out of this.
Speaker 3: Even though he never won the Home Run Derby, the
Speaker 3: show he put on at Yankee Stadium was just unbelievable
Speaker 3: and he didn't even win.
Speaker 2: I believe Justin.
Speaker 1: Mornau won that year. Not the point I'll never forget
Speaker 1: how Josh Hamilton.
Speaker 2: It was surreal, like these can't keep.
Speaker 3: Leaving the park where they are and they are And
Speaker 3: speaking of home runs for a picture, we mentioned rich
Speaker 3: Donley earlier, and you know, when we get to the
Speaker 3: home run derby, we'll have a different VP picture for
Speaker 3: every all eight.
Speaker 2: Players because you get to pick your own guy.
Speaker 3: But tell us again what happened in the first official
Speaker 3: home run derby. Rich Donnelly was there to throw to
Speaker 3: one guy and then what happened?
Speaker 1: And then he said, we want rich Donelly back please,
Speaker 1: because they were throwing too many balls. They said, hold on,
Speaker 1: hold on, get that guy back up there on the bottom.
Speaker 1: And the best part of the story was his son
Speaker 1: told him. He said, Dad, do you know where you
Speaker 1: were throwing from?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: He was throwing from the top of the rubber, As
Speaker 3: I told you, Bryce Harper's dad was literally from thirty.
Speaker 1: Feet from home plate when he was throwing.
Speaker 3: Rich is throwing from the top of the rubber and
Speaker 3: threw as hard as he could to all eight guys.
Speaker 3: And afterwards Jim Fromosie, who was there former shortstop manager
Speaker 3: at the time. He said, that was the greatest performance
Speaker 3: I've ever seen in my life by anyone.
Speaker 2: Here's three hundred dollars, so it.
Speaker 1: Gave him three hundred dollars.
Speaker 3: Before me the greatest BP pitcher of all time, which
Speaker 3: is what rich Donallly is. And I can't wait to
Speaker 3: watch a home run Derby tonight, Jeff, because we've got fathers,
Speaker 3: we've got sons, we've got new guys in and to repeat,
Speaker 3: we've got Junior Cameron Aaron as a one of many
Speaker 3: great possibilities. But the thought of Bryce Harper and Kyle
Speaker 3: Schwarber ending up in the finals at Citizens Bank Park
Speaker 3: in front of all those crazy Philly fans, that's how
Speaker 3: it has to end.
Speaker 2: Agreed.
Speaker 1: It sounds so perfect to me, and most likely I
Speaker 1: will be holding my son at five weeks old, giving
Speaker 1: him a bottle watching this showdown. But nonetheless, the energy
Speaker 1: in Philadelphia right now is unmatched. Two hundred and fiftieth
Speaker 1: anniversary of the country. You've got the All Star Game
Speaker 1: in town, homerun Derby tonight, and I'm just so glad
Speaker 1: we got to do this together live. You want to
Speaker 1: do it again to money.
Speaker 3: Yes, we're gonna do it tomorrow where we'll have a
Speaker 3: recap of of course the home run derby, and we'll
Speaker 3: do a bit of a preview looking ahead to the
Speaker 3: World Series, and I will give a team tim tomorrow
Speaker 3: on my favorite moments of each position on the field.
Speaker 3: Not necessarily the greatest moment, but it's an unforgettable moment
Speaker 3: that I had with a catcher, first baseman, all the
Speaker 3: way through.
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