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Episode 28 - September 17, 1986 - Cubs @ Mets
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We summon sex and strange happenings in Kansas through the power of A.S.L. (Anton Szandor LaVey). The Mets bring the pain and clinch the 1986 NL East with a dynamite outing from Scott H...Razor R...Dwight 'Doc' Gooden.
Hulk Hogan is a drunk, Linda looks like death, and our jokes hit...a wall. Come help Ralph find his pills, figure out who died, exactly, and get him directions to Peter Luger's, would ya?
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The Rock Star Mets: Chaos and Glory
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The Whole Ballgame
The 1986 New York Mets weren't just a baseball team. They were a rock band with bats instead of guitars, booze instead of water, and a penchant for chaos that made their on-field dominance even more legendary.
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The Whole Ballgame
They didn't just beat teams. They humiliated them, strutted over them, and then went out all night to celebrate. Led by hard-nosed bastards like Keith Hernandez and Gary Carter, young phenoms like Dwight Gooden and Daryl Strawberry, and absolute lunatics like Lenny Dykstra and Wally Backman, the Mets ran roughshod over the National League with 108 wins and a middle finger to anyone who doubted them.
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The Whole Ballgame
Their World Series triumph capped by Mookie Wilson's little roller and the meltdown of the Red Sox cemented them as one of the most unforgettable squads in MLB history.
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The Whole Ballgame
But these guys weren't exactly choir boys. Cocaine, booze, brawls, and back alley shenanigans were just as much a part of their routine as double plays and moonshot home runs.
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The Whole Ballgame
Beyond the diamond, 86 Mets... Why does it do that every time?
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Connor Downing
Fucking k did it again.
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The Whole Ballgame
i don't know.
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Connor Downing
Yes.
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The Whole Ballgame
Jesus Christ. Anyway, ah they were the last era ballplayers who felt like they belonged in a Scorsese flick. Equal parts talent and train wreck. You could see them partying at Studio 54 one night and then wrecking an opposing pitcher the next afternoon, probably still half drunk.
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The Whole Ballgame
Their mix championship glory on and off the rails ah made them legends. The kind of guys, yes guys, who inspired books, documentaries, endless stories of you had to be there debauchery, whether it was Doc's tragic fall, Hernandez's nose candy days, or Dykstra running through walls on and off the field.
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Connor Downing
you
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The Whole Ballgame
The Mets weren't just ballplayers. They were the last great outlaws of the game. And if you want to relive, relive, relive that insanity in all its raw, unfiltered glory, we've got something special for you today.
Clinch of the NL East: The Game and Celebrations
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The Whole Ballgame
September 17th, 1986, the night the Mets clinched the NL East by... ah pounding the Cubs at Shea Stadium. we're We're watching the whole ballgame, the balls he plays, the insane crowd, the beer-fueled pandemonium that spilled into the streets of Queens.
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The Whole Ballgame
And, of course, we'll break down how these lunatics went from division champs to baseball immortality. ah Well, probably talking a lot about Scott Hall and Kevin Nash, too. Buckle up, grab a drink or, you know, a line of Coke and join us as we go back.
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The Whole Ballgame
to the wildest ride in baseball history as we wrap up our coverage of the 1986 New York baseball Mets. How we doing, Lakers?
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Connor Downing
Brother dude, did you say that's the wall? You said something about wall, dude. Is that the wall?
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The Whole Ballgame
a
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Connor Downing
Is that the wall? 800 miles away the top of a building that you can't see.
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The Whole Ballgame
That's right, out on Panama City Beach, as I recall. Or no, no, no, was that at Disney's MGM Studios?
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Connor Downing
i That might have been the final go-around at Club LaVilla. Or it could have been MGM.
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The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, yeah.
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Connor Downing
who gives You know, where they...
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The Whole Ballgame
They were outside by God.
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Connor Downing
i I bet you it's probably where the fuck he, where they did the actual thing that was good when they had the NWO with the letters over the WCW over like in 96. And then, you know, by God, it only took them four years to end up with, is that the wall, dude? Like, what a goddamn fucking rapid downfall. I thought AEW went downhill fast.
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The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, I mean, when you go back and watch it ah in order, you see how fast the downfall is. and And edit it it does. It absolutely parallels what's happening on on TBS and TNT these days.
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The Whole Ballgame
what ah What a fucking disaster that's become.
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Connor Downing
Fucking... Fucking nine hours of television a week will do that, I guess.
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The Whole Ballgame
I suppose.
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Connor Downing
get Yeah, baby, it got so bad there towards the end, they gave me fucking Saturday night. I was out there booking all sorts of shit with the first family, baby. And speaking first family, if you need a new mortgage, you call us.
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Connor Downing
We're the second family mortgage, baby. Lender, MLS, suck my dick. Ha ha!
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The Whole Ballgame
Whatever you do, it's ah as long as you keep on dancing, everything's going to be just fine.
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Connor Downing
If you can't pay your mortgage, baby, just pay it and Did you get to enjoy opening day yesterday, Gizzle?
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Connor Downing
It was...
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The Whole Ballgame
little... A little bit. i We have the swim lessons on Thursday nights, so ah we went out to dinner after swim lessons, and I got to catch the ah the the the trophy ceremony for the the the Los Angeles Dodgers, where ah every every Dodger was announced and brought onto the field, andt including Kirk Gibson, by the way.
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Connor Downing
Oh, wonderful.
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The Whole Ballgame
it was really weird, though, because the Dodgers played the Tigers, right?
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Connor Downing
That's probably why was there.
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The Whole Ballgame
Yeah. Babs was with us and she was in Detroit and so she's like why is Kurt Gibson there in a doctor's uniform and I had to explain why Kurt Gibson was there in a doctor's uniform but they all came out to to your boys a little rap diddy ah that you're so fond of that ah ah but with no lyrics um because I assume they didn't want the word pedophile on their broadcast air.
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Connor Downing
Oh, great.
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Connor Downing
Mm-hmm.
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The Whole Ballgame
That's
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Connor Downing
Yeah, they can't have Baka coming at them. Can't have that. ah
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Connor Downing
Babs not familiar with the 1988 World Series. I mean, she would have had to been like in her 30s then, I would guess, somewhere.
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The Whole Ballgame
I mean, 98, 18. No,
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Connor Downing
88. 88.
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The Whole Ballgame
no, I'm doing math. 19, 20, 20. That's 35, 36. She's 61. Yeah, she would have been her mid-20s.
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Connor Downing
eighty eight eighty eight
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The Whole Ballgame
Late yeah.
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Connor Downing
no
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The Whole Ballgame
ah ninety twenty one two two do that's thirty five thirty six so she's sixty one yeah she would have been an mid twenty s
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Connor Downing
Mid-20s? And in this is Major League Baseball in 88.
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The Whole Ballgame
late twenty s yeah
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Connor Downing
Like, you got to be working to not, like, especially that. That was and was a fucking walk-off homer in in the Game 1 and Gibson being hurt and hobbled. and it's a It's what it probably the top fucking at least 10 Major League Baseball moments ever.
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Connor Downing
and And this woman is asking you why he's in a Dodger uniform? Okay.
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The Whole Ballgame
Mm-hmm. Yeah, well, this is the 84. This is 84. It right there. Mm-hmm.
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Connor Downing
I understand. no I know Kirk's Tiger history and it's more much more ah prevalent than his his Dodger history. But you must understand that he will forever be tied to that because as as I... Oh, that's a wicked one, Gabey!
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Connor Downing
That's gonna need a... I'm gonna need a wet wipe. I
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Connor Downing
i wish you could see him.
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The Whole Ballgame
I wish.
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Connor Downing
I just want to put him in a bottle and keep him forever like that. That bring me happiness and moments of despair. um Anyway, yeah. i guess I shouldn't be surprised that Babs asked a dumbass fucking question.
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The Whole Ballgame
You really shouldn't. um I was just, I was, I was texting you through the situation. I was just, but that all ends tomorrow.
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Connor Downing
It's all the meat contamination, you know.
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The Whole Ballgame
Thank God. Yeah. It's a lot of meat contamination. There's no question for fuck's sake.
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Connor Downing
It affects the brain.
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The Whole Ballgame
um Like we said, it's a, it's the, the night that the, the Mets clinched the NL East. You'll, you'll be familiar with the end of this game because the, the field gets flooded with people. It's a, it's a big celebration and it's a relatively short one for our,
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The Whole Ballgame
uh, for our recent past, I mean, we're, we're only talking about a two hour, six minute game here versus, you know, what we're usually doing four and a half hour baseball games.
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Connor Downing
I think we've chosen quality over quantity on this one because there is a ah slightly longer version and much worse quality.
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The Whole Ballgame
Uh,
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Connor Downing
um I got to imagine this probably has some horseshit edited out that, you know, whatever, because it's the official Mets channel. um
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The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, official Mets channel. The the link, of course, is down in the the show notes below. So click on that to follow along. The opening shot that you're going to see when you open up the YouTube is beautiful panoramic view of of the ball field here with that incredible Marlboro i sign out in left field.
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Connor Downing
Hey, did ah did you happen to see, by the way, that yeah the ah the relics were were dropping in mailboxes and and Hall of Famers were getting them? Did you happen to see the the video from the First Lady of the whole ballgame, Maya, and her unboxing, as it were?
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The Whole Ballgame
I did. I did. I saw the Drakkar Noir soaked comrag of our pal Jimmy ah make his way out to to suburban Illinois, suburban Chicago.
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Connor Downing
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
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The Whole Ballgame
So, Donnie, if you haven't gotten yours yet, I imagine that it's got to be there today or tomorrow.
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Connor Downing
Yeah, Maya...
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Connor Downing
we Yeah, we had some going out to Florida, some going to Maryland, I believe, even. so hopefully those have arrived.
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The Whole Ballgame
Mm-hmm.
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Connor Downing
a Very, very vital parts of the the show and and some ah important artifacts, as it were. Maya also did receive a Lex Fole Larry's final pill bottle.
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The Whole Ballgame
Oh, yes, yes, the one that got Liz, right?
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Connor Downing
um Yes, we... The one that got Liz, as he said. so
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The Whole Ballgame
ye
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Connor Downing
that's That's a one-on-one there.
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The Whole Ballgame
It really is.
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Connor Downing
ah
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The Whole Ballgame
That's a piece of history. So i would I would see about getting that graded, Maya, if I were you.
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Connor Downing
Hang on to that shit.
00:09:56
Connor Downing
You realize y'all are going to be able to sell some of those things in like 20 years for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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The Whole Ballgame
Hold on to them, absolutely.
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Connor Downing
Ones of ones.
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The Whole Ballgame
You know how I feel about the one-on-one.
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Connor Downing
You'll chase it your whole life. Never get it.
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The Whole Ballgame
Forever and ever and ever.
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Connor Downing
But you will if you're Hall of Famer over on the Patreon.
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The Whole Ballgame
It's true. That's
Fantasy Baseball and Patreon Promotions
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The Whole Ballgame
right. Patreon.com slash the whole ball game to experience the whole ball gamer, the the the Hall of Famer tier.
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The Whole Ballgame
That's $19.94 a month. That'll get you you know the whole kit and caboodle, like everything that we offer, which is a metric fuck ton, by the way, of shit.
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The Whole Ballgame
As a matter of fact, we're floundering to try to get all of our shit in every month because, you know, we have lives, ah unfortunately, other than this. um ah And, you know,
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Connor Downing
And so, yeah, naturally speaking, we've taken on a ah fantasy baseball league that we will be drafting tonight for, for our patrons as well, a season long endeavor into the abyss of modern baseball that we will do with, with y'all. And we're going to have a ah fucking amazing time doing it. And I look forward to, uh, watching us all,
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Connor Downing
ah ah put mediocre products on the field and provide a hall of fame level shit talking.
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The Whole Ballgame
okay
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Connor Downing
So the team names are fantastic. Let's, let's run through that. That'd be a fun exercise here.
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The Whole Ballgame
Sure, let's do it.
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Connor Downing
Cause I was just looking at that the other day and I was busting with pride as I looked upon these names. I'll just run down the list here.
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Connor Downing
We got the Turner express.
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The Whole Ballgame
That's got to be Blake.
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Connor Downing
We got the sparky plug, butt plug.
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The Whole Ballgame
Yep.
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Connor Downing
That's our Hall of Fame pal, Adam.
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The Whole Ballgame
Adam, of course.
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Connor Downing
We got Dirty Don's Deviants.
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The Whole Ballgame
Oh, hey, he fixed it. Okay.
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Connor Downing
Yep, yep, yep.
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The Whole Ballgame
I was i was a little worried there, Don.
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Connor Downing
Mm-hmm.
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The Whole Ballgame
For a while, it was a dirty Don's team, and I was like, get a little...
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Connor Downing
Yeah.
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The Whole Ballgame
Come on, what are you doing, pal?
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Connor Downing
Yeah, I...
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The Whole Ballgame
Good for you.
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Connor Downing
Triple D's, brother. ah Yeah, yeah, you know, you get a C or B in there, and it's ah it's a trash team. Double T's, two T's.
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The Whole Ballgame
Mm-hmm.
00:12:10
Connor Downing
Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha.
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The Whole Ballgame
That's right.
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Connor Downing
ah We got the juicers. Who could that be?
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The Whole Ballgame
Who could that be? Well, I sure am. ah sure I sure am grateful that you thought about me. I do appreciate the the the the the tribute, as it were.
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The Whole Ballgame
right i'm I'm waiting for a screenshot of of it printed out on on the printer with ah a nice treat for me to to enjoy after hours underneath the couch.
00:12:40
Connor Downing
Christ. What?
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The Whole Ballgame
See, what I'm saying is I want you to do a tribute of the the the printout of the the team name for me, and and I'll enjoy the the seeds of your labor, as it were.
00:12:49
Connor Downing
Oh, okay. Sure.
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Connor Downing
Boy. Yeah, that's a certain part of you,
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The Whole Ballgame
that's ah the That's the half-homosexual part of Rick, so it's it's probably like a quarter, I would imagine. if if if there's only If there's only two personalities in this vessel, then it's a quarter, but I imagine there's probably more personalities, as as we know, so maybe an eighth or sixteenth.
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Connor Downing
It's an aggressive part.
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The Whole Ballgame
Hey, by the way, speaking of 16, I did more betting last night and lost everything again.
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Connor Downing
Oh, good, good.
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The Whole Ballgame
So that's great. fuck me, this this is this is a problem this is the problem. This is the the downfall of Western civilization is the NCAA tournament and me thinking that I have any right to be betting on it, even at the $20 and $30 increments that I did.
00:13:29
Connor Downing
Yeah.
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The Whole Ballgame
Like last night, ah I did a parlay that was supposed to make me two grand or whatever, but you know I knew it wasn't going to happen.
00:13:44
Connor Downing
Sure, yeah, it's supposed to.
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The Whole Ballgame
Lost that.
00:13:46
Connor Downing
Uh-huh.
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The Whole Ballgame
Then I bet $20 on two games. The last two games of the night,
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Connor Downing
Okay.
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The Whole Ballgame
will Will each team score in the first minute? Right?
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Connor Downing
Jesus.
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The Whole Ballgame
Yes and yes. I did both.
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Connor Downing
Fucking Christ.
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The Whole Ballgame
Right?
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Connor Downing
You're a mess.
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The Whole Ballgame
Of course, i went yes and no. And I lost $20. I would won $240. Big fucking deal. Right? But I lost again. And so I believe that... No, I'm going to do it again tonight. It's fine.
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Connor Downing
Yeah, you will.
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The Whole Ballgame
Anyway, yeah it's...
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Connor Downing
You know what I've noticed?
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The Whole Ballgame
You've noticed a lot of things.
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Connor Downing
I'm very observant.
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The Whole Ballgame
Yeah.
00:14:20
Connor Downing
your your gambling stories, there are two words that pop up more frequently than any. Do you know what they are?
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The Whole Ballgame
what
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Connor Downing
Should and would. Shoulda won, woulda won.
00:14:35
Connor Downing
Also, the word that comes with those? Never. Never won. There's the spit. We get him once a show, usually.
00:14:44
The Whole Ballgame
yep well look and at the end of the day uh you know this would go over a lot better if andy would just nut up and pay for ah a fucking Patreon membership because we know that he would appreciate the the gambling talk.
00:15:01
The Whole Ballgame
Anyway, the juicers, that's my team and and in in in Rick's honor, of course, and and we'll get him a tribute tonight so that he has something to eat.
00:15:02
Connor Downing
The West, the...
00:15:06
Connor Downing
Sure.
00:15:09
Connor Downing
You kind of got an advantage because you got an ex-major league baseball player to help you run your team. And all I got Jimmy Hart.
00:15:14
The Whole Ballgame
It's a good point. It's a real valid point. Well, no, you have Charlie. Charlie.
00:15:21
Connor Downing
Yeah, I got Charlie and Ted. That's a lot of mental power there for the
00:15:25
The Whole Ballgame
yeah
00:15:25
Connor Downing
Ted thinks the Expos are in Montreal and he's trying to pick up fucking Rodney Rogers from the Nuggets constantly. I don't know if I'm going to able to trade for him.
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The Whole Ballgame
Lofanzo Ellis, maybe.
00:15:37
Connor Downing
We got the the Godfather himself, Tom Atanasio with Fidel and the Senators.
00:15:44
The Whole Ballgame
Mm-hmm.
00:15:44
Connor Downing
big Big fan of Fidel Castro. He was a hell of a ballplayer.
00:15:49
The Whole Ballgame
Mm-hmm.
00:15:49
Connor Downing
um The First Lady herself, Maya, with Sammy Somas. We got our good pal on the Patreon, Kevin, with 10,000 Hulkamaniacs.
00:16:03
Connor Downing
that's a That's a tribute to the 10,000 Maniacs.
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The Whole Ballgame
brother huh i'm i'm very familiar yeah
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Connor Downing
You know that, Gabe, right? You're a radio man.
00:16:10
Connor Downing
We got another Hall of Famer, Big Rob, with Hide the Ball Club Dude. Yeah.
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The Whole Ballgame
brother let's get this thing back on track i do
00:16:21
Connor Downing
speaking of back on track with the body glove team logo. Do you see that?
00:16:27
The Whole Ballgame
yep
00:16:27
Connor Downing
We got Matt with Plato's retreat ball club. And then the aforementioned lover of the die, throwing them, rolling them himself.
00:16:39
Connor Downing
Big AK with the West Memphis Viennas.
00:16:41
The Whole Ballgame
Fantastic. Yeah, those are those are good team names. I'm excited for the draft tonight.
00:16:45
Connor Downing
That's what we're doing.
00:16:46
The Whole Ballgame
I'm excited for the draft tonight. I mean, if nothing else, i I know the names that I should be picking up just from, ah you know, baseball card shit. ah So what's what's it called?
00:16:58
Connor Downing
This is going a tough one for me.
00:17:00
The Whole Ballgame
a fucking ah The Orioles last night put up a dozen ah against some whatever team they played. i don't remember, but
00:17:10
Connor Downing
Did you watch that on the FanDuel Sports Network?
00:17:12
The Whole Ballgame
I did, I did not. I don't know. Well, I don't know what I was watching. It was just on a big screen at the sports bar we went to eat at. Um, but, uh,
00:17:20
Connor Downing
It appears FanDuel is taking over for Bally's.
00:17:24
The Whole Ballgame
That's great. ah I'll tell you this. ah it's a I still can't get over the fact that there's just a giant fucking addition on the side of Wrigley Field. And I'm not even a Cubs fan, but like there's just this giant green building that's just attached to Wrigley Field that's dedicated to FanDuel betting bullshit.
00:17:46
The Whole Ballgame
like in the middle of downtown In the middle of the side of Chicago, yeah, it's it's just a big room to go and...
00:17:46
Connor Downing
Oh my god, really?
00:17:53
The Whole Ballgame
It's a it's all all right there. There's a lot of self-hatred here, as you can imagine, folks. But nine hours from now, i but well but we'll be drafting. And it'll be it be a good time. We'll talk a lot of shit.
00:18:04
The Whole Ballgame
It'll be a good evening.
00:18:04
Connor Downing
Look, I can assure you people out there, as much as you hate us, there is nobody that hates
00:18:12
The Whole Ballgame
Oh.
00:18:14
Connor Downing
There's nobody that hates Gabe more than himself.
00:18:14
The Whole Ballgame
Can't touch it.
00:18:17
Connor Downing
Than himself.
00:18:17
The Whole Ballgame
Yep. Correct.
00:18:18
Connor Downing
And there is no one that hates me more than myself. Than Gabe. And I, you know, it's fine. Did you see?
00:18:28
The Whole Ballgame
Hey, here's the other thing. Here's the other thing I wanted to.
00:18:29
Connor Downing
Did you just fucking miss my fucking wordplay there?
00:18:31
The Whole Ballgame
no I got it.
00:18:33
Connor Downing
You no-sold me, you motherfucker. You're looking, you're looking, you are you betting on your phone?
00:18:35
The Whole Ballgame
I'm sorry.
00:18:38
Connor Downing
You're looking down.
00:18:38
The Whole Ballgame
No, no, I'm not betting yet. um
00:18:41
Connor Downing
yet
00:18:41
The Whole Ballgame
that That'll be later. um I wanted to share with the ball the the listeners of the program last
Humor in Technology: Snoring Apps and Privacy
00:18:49
The Whole Ballgame
night. So I have a sleep number bed, right, that we invested in a couple of years ago.
00:18:54
The Whole Ballgame
And ah still paying that one off, by the way.
00:18:57
Connor Downing
Invested. Salesman.
00:18:59
The Whole Ballgame
uh yeah uh yeah yeah anyway uh they updated their app yesterday and now they they can they monitor my what they call breathe iq and so last night they actually recorded me snoring um uh in different increments so let's see if we can get that on the show here
00:19:00
Connor Downing
Oh. Wonderful. salesman
00:19:13
Connor Downing
oh
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Connor Downing
wonderful
00:19:31
Connor Downing
Oh my God. No.
00:19:39
The Whole Ballgame
And that's me, not Bob, but just for the record.
00:19:42
Connor Downing
Are you telling me that you have video recording while you're sleeping?
00:19:44
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah.
00:19:47
The Whole Ballgame
No, no, no, no, not video, just audio.
00:19:48
Connor Downing
Audio.
00:19:49
The Whole Ballgame
Just audio.
00:19:49
Connor Downing
I'm sorry. Audio.
00:19:49
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah.
00:19:49
Connor Downing
I'm in audio.
00:19:50
The Whole Ballgame
Yep.
00:19:50
Connor Downing
It's, it didn't need to be video. Now, audio is just as even more so disturbing.
00:19:52
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah.
00:19:55
Connor Downing
Um, so is that thing rolling all night?
00:19:59
The Whole Ballgame
So i seem I assume it's AI generated or or like the power of it is AI, but it's like listening all night for specifically snoring or, uh, Whatever.
00:20:10
The Whole Ballgame
But like, yeah, it's like the little light is on. So it's like listening for specific sounds to record so that it it gauges when you have snoring episodes. I had two last night um that it recorded anyway, that it picked up over a seven hour period.
00:20:25
Connor Downing
Mm-hmm.
00:20:26
The Whole Ballgame
and
00:20:27
Connor Downing
Okay, let me tell you what's happening. The people with sleep number are listening to people fucking and they're jacking off.
00:20:29
The Whole Ballgame
Uh. Eh.
00:20:33
The Whole Ballgame
Eh, you think so? Huh.
00:20:34
Connor Downing
I know so. That's... This is not complicated. None of this is about anything. this ah This is about getting access to people fucking and being able to see what you want, when you want, hear what you want, when you want. All this shit, man.
00:20:50
Connor Downing
That's all this fucking stuff is. That's why OnlyFans is not... big Nothing. not It's all done. That's all... We're just... There's going to be floating fucking AI robot torsos and and lower tiers that just float around and people are just going able to fuck them in the future.
00:21:04
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah.
00:21:06
Connor Downing
Just fuck them and then they go away and float down the road to the next person.
00:21:06
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah.
00:21:10
The Whole Ballgame
Like one of those sushi ah buffets with the it's like the the line that just goes by and you're like, oh, I want that one. And you just pull it off of the assembly line.
00:21:18
Connor Downing
why Why are you letting this thing record you?
00:21:22
The Whole Ballgame
I don't know. It didn't be. well ah I'll tell you why. ah Like I thought about it for a second. I did. I was like, do I want to go? I don't fucking care. What do I care? What am I doing?
00:21:32
Connor Downing
But that's how this...
00:21:33
The Whole Ballgame
It's not like I'm having, they're not going to be listening to me having sex. We both know that.
00:21:37
Connor Downing
No, they're recording your farts. Oh, wicked one, Gabey!
00:21:39
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, exactly.
00:21:41
Connor Downing
Tell him to sleep number this one!
00:21:49
The Whole Ballgame
I have to put up with Babs and Babs 2 over here now. So it's ah it's good. It's good. Everything's great.
00:21:56
Connor Downing
He asked for this.
00:21:58
The Whole Ballgame
Mm-hmm. I did. Pull it up. ah We're going to start the game, and and we'll get into it here.
00:22:03
Connor Downing
Pull it out, baby!
00:22:04
The Whole Ballgame
ah It's ah the mets the Cubs at the Mets, September 17, 1986. The New York Mets YouTube channel put this up in full.
00:22:15
The Whole Ballgame
I expect we'll get a whole... good deal of Tim McCarver tonight. So that's, that's exciting for everybody, right?
00:22:22
Connor Downing
I can't wait to see her outfit. It's been a while.
00:22:24
The Whole Ballgame
Yep. ah Oh, Ralph Kaina. Hello, it's Ralph Kaina. Oh, I can't wait. Okay, here we go.
00:22:29
Connor Downing
haven and We haven't talked about Martha in a while.
00:22:30
The Whole Ballgame
um Yep. ah We're going to bring me my pills. um Will that, that, that pill bottle that, yeah that Larry used for Liz, that one.
00:22:37
Connor Downing
Which ones, you stupid fuck?
00:22:44
Connor Downing
Yeah.
00:22:45
The Whole Ballgame
Then bring that over.
00:22:45
Connor Downing
Yeah.
00:22:47
The Whole Ballgame
Maya sent it to me. Maya did. Yes. The one with the the the labels ripped off halfway. Yeah. Well, we didn't want to give her the prescription number. We don't want her to have that.
00:22:59
The Whole Ballgame
and Bring it. get Bring me the goddamn prescription. Will you please? God damn it. She's bringing it now.
00:23:08
Connor Downing
i I can't wait to tell you air who that bottle really belonged to.
00:23:17
The Whole Ballgame
I didn't even spit it that time. The coffee just splashed out of the cup and landed on my tiny dog.
00:23:25
Connor Downing
it' be It'd be a scandal.
00:23:25
The Whole Ballgame
Anyway, pull up that YouTube. We're going to do three, two, one, play. And then we're going to press play and we're goingnna watch this together in three, two, one, and play.
00:23:44
Connor Downing
That's some beautiful quality, isn't it?
00:23:46
The Whole Ballgame
It is. Little change in there tonight for new first baseman Dave Magadan.
00:23:55
Connor Downing
Mags.
00:23:58
The Whole Ballgame
Wally at second.
00:24:00
Connor Downing
Move on.
00:24:01
The Whole Ballgame
Move on.
00:24:05
Connor Downing
There's your boy, Ray.
00:24:10
The Whole Ballgame
That's the macho man, apparently. rina
00:24:14
Connor Downing
Yeah. And there's a there's Conan himself, Gary the Kid Carter. Yeah, Oda Lay, let me speak on this. La Raza.
00:24:23
The Whole Ballgame
ah Viva La Raza!
00:24:27
Connor Downing
Let's take a picture.
00:24:33
Connor Downing
Here we go with the Cubs lineup. Chico Walker in right field at second baseman. Ryan and Sandberg. Raphael Palmeiro in left. Keith Borland at third.
00:24:46
Connor Downing
Leon the Bull Durham at first. Jody, my penis is not inverted. Davis behind the plate. Sean Dunstan at short. Bob Denier, batting eighth and center, and on the mound, the mustachioed one himself, the man whose mama ball game would get moist at the sight of, Dennis Eckersley.
00:25:11
The Whole Ballgame
Who we got behind the plate tonight, Blakers?
00:25:15
Connor Downing
It looks like it's the country cowboy Christ himself.
00:25:20
The Whole Ballgame
We got Joe West behind the plate tonight, which is outstanding. And actually our first introduction to Dennis Eckersley on the whole ballgame, which is exciting.
00:25:28
Connor Downing
Sure is. Yeah, ah this is this is Eck in his first life as a starting pitcher before he goes out to Oakland and gets resurrected by the problematic Tony La Russa and becomes the closer.
00:25:43
The Whole Ballgame
Oh, fuck.
00:25:52
Connor Downing
Rounder to Santana at short. One pitch, one out.
00:25:58
Connor Downing
You see the RC Cola signs in the outfield?
00:26:02
The Whole Ballgame
Wonderful. my dad ah My dad worked for a company called American Juice. ah Believe it or not. and like I know that's funny.
00:26:11
Connor Downing
Jesus Christ.
00:26:11
The Whole Ballgame
i i do. I get it. But it was in Gary. And ah when I was a kid, like elementary school, so you would commute back and forth to Gary. ah But they were the local like Chicagoland bottler for RC Cola.
00:26:25
The Whole Ballgame
So we had RC and we had RC in the house nonstop when I was a kid.
00:26:25
Connor Downing
Oh, yeah.
00:26:29
The Whole Ballgame
That's the kind of pop we had and how because he would just bring home. cases and cases of the shit that they weren't going to be able to put out the window, which is interesting that I never put that connective tissue so together with you.
00:26:40
The Whole Ballgame
Right. Uh, that we haven't talked about it but yeah, my dad worked at a, a bottling plant for most of his, most of his career, whether it was American juice, uh, uh, or after that he ended up, he was the, like the maintenance supervisor at Welch's grape juice up here in Michigan.
00:26:45
Connor Downing
Yeah.
00:26:58
Connor Downing
Oh, yeah.
00:26:59
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah.
00:27:02
Connor Downing
No coincidences.
00:27:03
The Whole Ballgame
There we go. Sandberg, beautiful.
00:27:04
Connor Downing
oh um he's going too, baby.
00:27:05
The Whole Ballgame
He's hit right up the right field line. Sandberg's going to try to stretch that into two, and he's got it. He's there.
00:27:12
Connor Downing
I got a goddamn app.
00:27:12
The Whole Ballgame
these cubs jersey are beautiful These Cubs jerseys are beautiful.
00:27:13
Connor Downing
first Fucking ad.
00:27:15
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, he he was a little early there, wasn't he?
00:27:18
Connor Downing
Fucking ad right in the middle of him rounding first.
00:27:21
The Whole Ballgame
Of course it was.
00:27:21
Connor Downing
This is...
00:27:22
The Whole Ballgame
He got the ad. That's great.
00:27:25
Connor Downing
Oh, goddammit. What's your time?
00:27:26
The Whole Ballgame
You just tell me tell me when the ad's up, and I'll tell you.
00:27:29
Connor Downing
It's up.
00:27:39
The Whole Ballgame
Four minutes.
00:27:40
Connor Downing
I got it.
00:27:42
The Whole Ballgame
Runner in scoring position there.
00:27:43
Connor Downing
Yeah.
00:27:43
The Whole Ballgame
that These Cubs jerseys are beautiful, by the way. That that blue is really popping tonight.
00:27:48
Connor Downing
Yeah, I was gonna... ah I was gonna speak on that, actually, Gabe. um
00:27:54
The Whole Ballgame
Thank you, Tim. Good to see you.
00:27:55
Connor Downing
No, that was Gary.
00:27:56
The Whole Ballgame
Oh, it was. Okay.
00:27:57
Connor Downing
I'm sorry, that was Conan.
00:27:57
The Whole Ballgame
Got it.
00:28:00
Connor Downing
I'm a little slower, Gabe. Because I'm from Memphis.
00:28:02
The Whole Ballgame
Got it. Yep.
00:28:06
Connor Downing
But, um yeah, there's rookie Raphael Palmeiro before he would go to Congress and lie through his teeth.
00:28:14
The Whole Ballgame
My goodness. And before he gained about 70 pounds in muscle.
00:28:19
Connor Downing
He's a little smaller, isn't he?
00:28:23
The Whole Ballgame
Bought 256 in Pittsfield.
00:28:28
Connor Downing
But, um, yeah, so these are, yeah, these are the first, uh, I guess, road jerseys that I ever saw the Cubs wear.
00:28:38
The Whole Ballgame
massive Cubs logo on that right chest too, or left chest.
00:28:38
Connor Downing
mm-hmm.
00:28:41
The Whole Ballgame
My goodness.
00:28:41
Connor Downing
Yeah. Cause, uh, yeah, the next 87, that'd be the first year I watched baseball that i recall anyway. Uh-oh.
00:28:51
Connor Downing
backman up and over um but yeah these are very comforting to me the blue and the red are beautiful together um what is strange about it though their pants are white and that bothers me
00:29:08
Connor Downing
they should have gray road pants you can't wear white pants why are they doing that huh
00:29:10
The Whole Ballgame
Oh, gray rook Gray. Yeah, that makes sense.
00:29:16
The Whole Ballgame
The Cobbs is a team. We're in a 255. We're in a 40-year home runs. and
00:29:22
Connor Downing
And Keith Moreland has always made me uncomfortable.
00:29:26
The Whole Ballgame
Well, I mean, yeah, look. in a Down the road, I'm certain Keith will get his day as a kisser because, my goodness, look at him. He looks like the... He looks like... a got far Scott Farkas from christmas speaking Christmas Vacation. Jesus Christ. Christmas Story.
00:29:43
Connor Downing
Yeah, if he had red stubble.
00:29:45
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah.
00:29:47
Connor Downing
Look at that beautiful graphic.
00:29:49
The Whole Ballgame
Headed down to the bottom half of the first and it's no score here in Queens.
00:29:55
Connor Downing
The magic number is one. Lenny Dykstra, followed by Wally Backman, followed by Dave Magadan at first. Little Kid behind the plate. Big Daddy Cool in right field.
00:30:09
Connor Downing
Lukey Wilson in left. Ray Macho Man Knight at third. Raphael Don't Call Me Chico Santana at short. And Doc Gooden on the mound.
00:31:05
The Whole Ballgame
Darryl with words of wisdom here on the ballgame. Well,
00:31:08
Connor Downing
But what do you think of that?
00:31:12
The Whole Ballgame
well he's clearly not talking about Coke.
00:31:15
Connor Downing
No.
00:31:16
The Whole Ballgame
So, you know, but tonight the dynasty begins.
00:31:18
Connor Downing
Yeah, look at that sign. Quite. They fell apart. Much like the NWO. Look at that.
00:31:26
The Whole Ballgame
Interesting. Don't turn your back on the Wolfpack.
00:31:30
Connor Downing
I think...
00:31:30
The Whole Ballgame
Eckersley looking good. My goodness.
00:31:33
Connor Downing
Probably still drinking.
00:31:35
The Whole Ballgame
I mean...
00:31:37
Connor Downing
Um... Wally with no homers.
00:31:43
Connor Downing
Nice job, Wally. Couldn't get it over the fence.
00:31:46
The Whole Ballgame
i mean Let me ask you a question. How many home runs have you hit in the major league?
00:31:48
Connor Downing
Couldn't get it over that north wall.
00:31:51
The Whole Ballgame
How many... how many
00:31:57
Connor Downing
What are you doing?
00:32:01
The Whole Ballgame
do Do me a favor.
00:32:03
Connor Downing
What?
00:32:05
The Whole Ballgame
Let me make the wall jokes if you're asking me about home runs.
00:32:07
Connor Downing
I don't know you're gonna make a wall joke.
00:32:09
The Whole Ballgame
For fuck's sake.
00:32:11
Connor Downing
goho We just did a thing on the wall. You could do it many fucking ways.
00:32:14
The Whole Ballgame
no Game of Thrones, right?
00:32:17
Connor Downing
I know that.
00:32:18
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, okay. God damn it.
00:32:23
The Whole Ballgame
Always want to take the joke. That's fine. Take it.
00:32:26
Connor Downing
You only take the joke, I'll take the fucking joke.
00:32:26
The Whole Ballgame
Fuck it.
00:32:31
Connor Downing
Wait for you to fucking slow down and get there, Big Kev.
00:32:36
The Whole Ballgame
at Fuck it. yeah It's like anything else. Give me a bottle of wine, will you? Fuck.
00:32:42
Connor Downing
Yeah, you need it. Get it.
00:32:46
The Whole Ballgame
Dave Magadan here in his first major league start tonight. That's crazy.
00:32:49
Connor Downing
Yeah, he's got to be a rookie.
00:32:50
The Whole Ballgame
There you go. He was the first baseman at University Alabama and his first two minor league seasons, 83 and
00:32:53
Connor Downing
Yeah.
00:33:06
The Whole Ballgame
Base hit for Magadan, drops in left.
00:33:07
Connor Downing
I didn't exactly pick up why Keith wasn't in there.
00:33:13
The Whole Ballgame
He was under the weather from what I understand.
00:33:13
Connor Downing
God.
00:33:14
The Whole Ballgame
I was watched i watched the the beginning of the next ball game, the next game in this series, and they talk about it there too. It looks like Keith is under the weather.
00:33:25
The Whole Ballgame
So ah some some pretty serious...
00:33:30
Connor Downing
He's hung over.
00:33:35
The Whole Ballgame
Pretty serious cocaine withdrawals is my assumption.
00:33:39
Connor Downing
Maybe he's fucking Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
00:33:42
The Whole Ballgame
Post-nasal drip.
00:33:45
The Whole Ballgame
Nosebleed that won't stop. Something like that. Kids up.
00:33:53
Connor Downing
I'm gonna sleep with his ex-wife.
00:33:58
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, yeah, she seems...
00:33:58
Connor Downing
You see, she's his ex-wife because he died.
00:33:59
The Whole Ballgame
Mm-hmm.
00:34:02
Connor Downing
Not that they got divorced.
00:34:03
The Whole Ballgame
Correct. she's ah She's keeping his legacy alive through Twitter X.
00:34:10
Connor Downing
Mm-hmm. Because she's his ex.
00:34:16
The Whole Ballgame
Maybe it's pronounced Twitter X. I don't know.
00:34:20
Connor Downing
Mm-hmm.
00:34:22
The Whole Ballgame
X Twitter?
00:34:24
Connor Downing
It is ex-Twitter.
00:34:24
The Whole Ballgame
No.
00:34:26
The Whole Ballgame
Hey, fuck Elon Musk, by the way.
00:34:30
Connor Downing
I think he's retarded.
00:34:33
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, he he certainly does like that word, doesn't he?
00:34:37
Connor Downing
Just...
00:34:37
The Whole Ballgame
Oh, Dunstan bumbles that son of a bitch.
00:34:39
Connor Downing
God damn.
00:34:40
The Whole Ballgame
that was a he It was a catch, and he had the catch for two seconds before he dropped it, so that's just him not paying attention.
00:34:40
Connor Downing
Oh, man.
00:34:44
Connor Downing
a
00:34:48
Connor Downing
That is not an easy play.
00:34:49
The Whole Ballgame
No, he was backwards, for sure.
00:34:51
Connor Downing
I mean, he fucking basket caught it like Willie Mays.
00:34:52
The Whole Ballgame
He was...
00:34:54
The Whole Ballgame
Mm-hmm.
00:34:56
Connor Downing
You want to make a basket joke? I don't want to step on that. We talked about, we did basketball games, James Naismith, Peach Basket.
00:34:59
The Whole Ballgame
Mm-hmm.
00:35:02
Connor Downing
You weren't going to go there, were you? Huh? You realize what you've done, because I'm going to do this until the end of time now and and probably just be shittier nastier and a worse person gradually each time I do it.
00:35:17
Connor Downing
Thank you for that. I need it.
00:35:18
The Whole Ballgame
I mean, it's the point, right? I mean, you you we all have our roles to play, you know?
00:35:24
Connor Downing
Sometimes you just got to rewrite the devil's story to take your power back.
00:35:28
The Whole Ballgame
That's it. That's it. Speaking of which, let's get our our nightly reading from the texts. Here we go.
00:35:35
Connor Downing
Daytime, baby. Daytime. What's going to happen? We've never read this. Does the devil come out in the day?
00:35:39
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, I know, right? We'll see. I mean, it's a relatively nice day outside. It's a... 53 degrees.
00:35:47
Connor Downing
now
00:35:47
The Whole Ballgame
little bit of sun peeking through the clouds today.
00:35:50
Connor Downing
we We do know that during the Black Mass, if he does present, it will be as a man with a goat head. But during the daytime, would would he be a goat?
00:35:56
The Whole Ballgame
Correct.
00:35:59
Connor Downing
Uh-oh.
00:36:01
The Whole Ballgame
That'll end the ending there. Mets don't score here in the bottom of the first.
00:36:02
Connor Downing
Hmm.
00:36:04
The Whole Ballgame
We move to the top of the second. No score. ah We're going to summon one for lustful purpose or establish a sexually gratifying situation here ah today, which I just opened to randomly.
00:36:13
Connor Downing
Okay.
00:36:16
The Whole Ballgame
So clearly the... the the Lord Satan has decided that this is what I need in my life. Leave the area of the altar and remove yourself to that place, either in the same room or without.
00:36:27
The Whole Ballgame
ah That will be most conducive to the working of the respective ritual.
00:36:31
Connor Downing
Okay.
00:36:31
The Whole Ballgame
Then fashion whatever imagery you possibly can that will parallel in as exact a way as possible the situation towards which you strive. ah Blake's got a ah monster here that he's showing me.
00:36:43
Connor Downing
It's the the three. it's a They've got satanic imagery.
00:36:44
The Whole Ballgame
Oh, yes. and It is bestial imagery.
00:36:48
Connor Downing
Mm-hmm.
00:36:48
The Whole Ballgame
Correct. um Remember, you have five senses to utilize, so do not feel you must limit your imagery to one. Here are devices that may and be employed either alone or in any combination. Graphic imagery.
00:37:00
The Whole Ballgame
Oh, I like the idea of that. Such as drawings, paintings, etc. Written imagery, such as stories, plays, descriptions, or desires, ah of desires rather, and eventual outcome of same. The lights just went on on Blake's end.
00:37:15
The Whole Ballgame
um Acting out the desire in tableau or playlet, either as yourself or portraying the role of the object of your desire. ah I'll be happy to play that role for you, Gabe.
00:37:28
Connor Downing
I had a Tableau file sent to me earlier this week. Is there something in that? I
00:37:32
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, probably, probably something from one of your merchandisers for sure. Using any devices necessary. There is a roll open down there. I saw online, I was thinking about applying, ah you know, 1950 an hour.
00:37:44
Connor Downing
i could definitely get you one of those jobs.
00:37:47
The Whole Ballgame
That's, that's, that's something nothing to shake your shtick at. Yeah.
00:37:50
Connor Downing
Hey, that's Wichita 1952, buddy.
00:37:52
The Whole Ballgame
huh Correct. Using any devices necessary to intensify imagery. D, any odors relative to the desired person or situation. So if you can get me that bottle of Dracar Noir, I'd be very appreciative for this.
00:38:08
The Whole Ballgame
ah Lights are going on and off. Eyeballs are up in cameras. It's great. And E, any sounds or background noises conducive to a strong image. Intense sexual feelings should accompany this step of the ritual.
00:38:20
Connor Downing
Oh baby! Oh baby! We really need the video.
00:38:25
The Whole Ballgame
And after, uh, uh, After sufficient imagery is obtained, as strong an orgasm as is possible should serve as climax to this step.
00:38:37
The Whole Ballgame
This climax should be attained using any masturbatory or autoerotic means necessary. After orgasm is obtained, return to the location of the altar and proceed with step 11, page 134.
00:38:49
Connor Downing
of
00:38:50
The Whole Ballgame
ah B, to ensure... no, that's it. That's the end of that. Let's look at step 11, 134, just to to make sure we know what we're talking about here.
00:38:57
Connor Downing
Because I let me can I ask can I say this, though?
00:39:00
The Whole Ballgame
Mm-hmm.
00:39:01
Connor Downing
Because this is this is where my mind went. What is this step going to be? Because you have just came. You're your mind. You are. You are no longer going to kill an innocent puppy just because you need to fucking come. Like, your mind is clear now. The the chamber is empty.
00:39:20
Connor Downing
What can they possibly get you to do after you've engaged in this?
00:39:24
The Whole Ballgame
Intense calculated hate. Nope, this is not the this is this is a different one. ah this These steps, though, are the same um across the different ah different sort of rituals that are listed here.
00:39:37
Connor Downing
Hmm.
00:39:37
The Whole Ballgame
So this this step is, if requests are written, they are now read aloud by the priest and burned in the flames of the appropriate candle.
00:39:42
Connor Downing
Oh.
00:39:45
The Whole Ballgame
Shemham Farash and Hail Satan is said after each request.
00:39:49
Connor Downing
Oh.
00:39:51
The Whole Ballgame
If requests are given verbally, participants, one at a time, now tell them to the priest. He then repeats in his own words, those which are most emotionally stimulating to him, the request, Shemham for us, and hail Satan, is said after each request.
00:40:07
Connor Downing
Hail Satan!
00:40:09
The Whole Ballgame
Shemham for us.
00:40:12
Connor Downing
uh that sounds reasonable i mean so they're basically reflecting uh-huh
00:40:12
The Whole Ballgame
You understand. Yeah, sure. So, yeah, basically you're saying, this is what I want. You come. You say, hail Satan, with the priest there present.
00:40:24
The Whole Ballgame
ah You present exactly what it is you want, and you hope that Satan delivers on your request. That's the, you know,
00:40:31
Connor Downing
and if nothing else you got to come right it with
00:40:34
The Whole Ballgame
you got to come at the very least. And hopefully, if it comes through, you get to come again later, you know, ah the way that you want to.
00:40:41
Connor Downing
Well, and also, ah believe you were encouraged to come with as strong an orgasm as possible, right?
00:40:47
The Whole Ballgame
As strong as possible, correct. Yep.
00:40:49
Connor Downing
You can't just have the little white flag pop out of your penis and say, poof.
00:40:53
The Whole Ballgame
Bleep bleep. Yep. Yeah. Poof. Poof.
00:40:58
Connor Downing
Well, that's interesting. I don't know, man.
00:40:59
The Whole Ballgame
Yep.
00:41:00
Connor Downing
um'm Other than, you know, there's some crass language and they're obviously, you know, very trollish and aggressive, but... They seem like far less problematic people than the Christians.
00:41:15
The Whole Ballgame
I got to tell you something. like If anybody listens to this ball game program ah thinking that they're going to get ah good amount of baseball and they run into the satanic texts, I do often wonder about...
00:41:25
Connor Downing
Mm-hmm.
00:41:31
The Whole Ballgame
newcomers to the program, um what they think when they, they experience something like this randomly. ah Obviously our, our, our well-tenured listeners understand where we're, where we're going most of the time. But I do wonder what the reaction is to the, the, the dyed in the cloth baseball fans who are just listening because they want a little taste of old baseball and they get ah Bob Horner's predilections for the, the dark arts.
00:42:00
Connor Downing
Well, think what they're going to find is that, well, in generalities, you know, probably for every 20 of those people that come, 19 of them leave and never come back.
00:42:11
Connor Downing
And then one of them will stay with us till the end of fucking time.
00:42:15
The Whole Ballgame
Mm-hmm.
00:42:15
Connor Downing
And we will we will rule together forever and it will be glorious. But um that aside, yeah, um you know, you're going to find that it's, it's going to eat away at you if you're being honest with yourself and you're going to realize and come to realize that the the baseball is, is merely a platform and it's a it's a backdrop. It's a, it, it ties into everything.
00:42:44
Connor Downing
It, it, it is connective tissue is what it is.
00:42:45
The Whole Ballgame
Thank you.
00:42:47
Connor Downing
And that allows for us to be able to, you know, be the surgeons and connect that. And, um We can fucking do that and we can do it pretty well, I think. And what you're going to find is, you know, if if you're if you're just looking to live a mediocre and keep your head in the sand, by, go by life, then, yeah, go listen to fucking Not Guy Eddie's podcast with some bitch and whatever.
00:43:16
Connor Downing
But if you want to learn to live forever and harness the powers of Satanism, then we're your huckleberries.
00:43:23
The Whole Ballgame
Shemhan Farash! Hail Satan! Mookie Wilson just got struck out by AK there.
00:43:28
Connor Downing
only thing I know about Satan...
00:43:28
The Whole Ballgame
And Tim McCarver got really excited about it.
00:43:31
Connor Downing
All I know about Satanism I learned from Gabe.
00:43:34
The Whole Ballgame
Mm-hmm. Yep.
00:43:35
Connor Downing
He's got the book.
00:43:36
The Whole Ballgame
ah do I do. do. The back of the book is just terrifying, by the way. It really is.
00:43:43
Connor Downing
Satan's face.
00:43:44
The Whole Ballgame
It's Anton's face with a pentagram behind him, and it's all in, like, pink.
00:43:46
Connor Downing
Is that the protective pentagram?
00:43:49
The Whole Ballgame
I assume it's the protective pentagram. I don't know. I don't know enough about it. um I'm going to work on building an altar here this week, though. so
00:43:57
Connor Downing
Maybe you get the kid to help you. That'll be good.
00:43:59
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, that would be a good daddy-daughter sort of project that the not-yet-two-year-old might be interested in taking part in.
00:44:08
Connor Downing
you could You guys could put on the first daddy-daughter devil dance.
00:44:13
The Whole Ballgame
Quadruple Ds, baby.
00:44:16
Connor Downing
Think of how proud your parents your parents would be to listen to this.
00:44:17
The Whole Ballgame
Double Ds. Quadruple Ds. What?
00:44:20
Connor Downing
So think how proud your parents would be to listen to this.
00:44:20
The Whole Ballgame
What?
00:44:23
The Whole Ballgame
Oh, and they're listening and laughing their asses off. There's no question.
00:44:28
Connor Downing
My dad's praying for my soul.
00:44:31
The Whole Ballgame
It's absolutely hilarious. like i don't know if I've ever told this story before, but my mom and I got to a point in our relationship, probably around the time I was 20, 21, something like that, where when I would leave the house or when I'd pull up in the driveway, if she was sitting on the porch, which most of most of the time my parents were sitting on the porch if the weather was decent, we would greet each other with a middle finger.
00:44:52
Connor Downing
Yeah,
00:44:52
The Whole Ballgame
So, you know, i she was ah she was a great lady who who had and a good good sense of what was real and what was bullshit.
00:44:53
Connor Downing
you told me that.
00:45:01
Connor Downing
That's good. Well, you know, you came out of it, so gotta be something.
00:45:05
The Whole Ballgame
yeah
00:45:10
Connor Downing
Did I ever tell you about the... So my my biological dad was a real asswipe, just drunk fucking loser. and I don't know, probably about around my age, I guess.
00:45:23
Connor Downing
He he had a stroke and...
00:45:26
The Whole Ballgame
oh
00:45:26
Connor Downing
Is that the John 316
00:45:28
The Whole Ballgame
It was. Yep.
00:45:29
Connor Downing
oh shit, we got a Roland Stewart in the house. My God, that's a dark story. But ah anyway, so he he was just not ah not a great guy and has a stroke and basically just decides to be ah lazy sack of shit and doesn't rehab or do anything. And he he fucking just kind of ends up becoming a fucking vegetable, I guess, laying in his bed, sitting in his chair, whatever. And ends up in basically a nursing home eventually, but he, know, he, he becomes born again and all that after that. And yeah, he, he's watching the fucking evangelicals and, you know, he's down in Tennessee.
00:46:13
Connor Downing
So, and he wrote me this when I was probably like, I think I was 20 or 21 and was in college and he wrote me a letter and it was the, I wish I still had it. Cause it was insanity.
00:46:27
Connor Downing
And, The things... Oh, God. So, anyway, point being, the letter was addressed to myself, but in the middle of my name, he put Sting, as in the the wrestler, Blake Sting Downing, which was fascinating because I had never once talked to my father about the Stinger or, you know, he knew I liked wrestling, but why he chose Sting, that was...
00:46:59
Connor Downing
the most fascinating thing to me.
00:47:01
The Whole Ballgame
interesting, isn't it? ah By the way, ah Doc just ah struck out Dennis Eggersley there after Dennis Eggersley struck out the side in the last inning, by the way.
00:47:11
Connor Downing
What's your time code?
00:47:11
The Whole Ballgame
Three straight strikeouts for Eck. And Tim McCarver's going on about something in a very high-pitched voice. No chance! Yeah, no chance!
00:47:22
Connor Downing
He's talking about the look that that gave Doc no chance at that curve.
00:47:25
The Whole Ballgame
Uh-huh.
00:47:28
Connor Downing
What's your time code, brother?
00:47:30
The Whole Ballgame
ah Looking at minutes.
00:47:41
Connor Downing
all right, good.
00:47:43
The Whole Ballgame
ah Game at Fenway Park. Chico Walker.
Baseball Commentary and Media Critique
00:47:50
The Whole Ballgame
My God. The more I listen to Tim McCarver, the more I want to punch him in the mouth.
00:47:54
The Whole Ballgame
And he's dead.
00:47:55
Connor Downing
Hey, Chico.
00:47:58
The Whole Ballgame
Hey, speaking of Chico.
00:48:20
The Whole Ballgame
Thank you.
00:48:50
Connor Downing
Put that cigarette out!
00:48:52
The Whole Ballgame
That was about 40 seconds of Doc Gooden ah pitching.
00:49:03
Connor Downing
oh.
00:49:03
The Whole Ballgame
Oh, there's a beach ball on field, everybody.
00:49:05
Connor Downing
Nails has got it. You see me? I can't have dunked that, Gabe!
00:49:09
The Whole Ballgame
Yep.
00:49:10
Connor Downing
Hey, hey, you want to make a wall joke there? Should lay out?
00:49:15
The Whole Ballgame
Lay out.
00:49:20
The Whole Ballgame
Lay out, goddammit. God damn it, shut up!
00:49:23
Connor Downing
yeah
00:49:24
The Whole Ballgame
Close your fucking mouth!
00:49:28
Connor Downing
I'm getting produced in my headset.
00:49:30
The Whole Ballgame
Just a bit outside.
00:49:35
Connor Downing
Somehow Doc is, ah you know, like 22 here, yet he looks 50.
00:49:39
The Whole Ballgame
He looks so young.
00:49:40
Connor Downing
fifty
00:49:41
The Whole Ballgame
it's well Yeah, but he also looks so young at the same time.
00:49:43
Connor Downing
I know.
00:49:43
The Whole Ballgame
It's so weird.
00:49:44
Connor Downing
I think it's the hair.
00:49:46
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah.
00:49:50
The Whole Ballgame
It's his eyes, too. His eyes are very...
00:49:52
Connor Downing
Yeah, yeah.
00:49:52
The Whole Ballgame
Yep.
00:49:54
Connor Downing
He's got old eyes.
00:49:58
Connor Downing
Must be the crack.
00:49:59
The Whole Ballgame
Gotta be the crack.
00:50:00
Connor Downing
Goddamn, man, that curveball.
00:50:02
The Whole Ballgame
My goodness gracious. He just lit him up.
00:50:07
Connor Downing
You can't, you can't, you're going have a hard time hitting his fastball and then that.
00:50:15
The Whole Ballgame
back Yeah, especially back to back. it's just ah There's no gauge. you can't There's no timing that's going to work for you.
00:50:21
Connor Downing
You would, you basically, I, I would go up there and I would just take the guess approach with him at this time. I'm sitting on one and if I get it, I'm going to knock the shit out of it. And if, if I don't, then it,
00:50:36
Connor Downing
I'm going to get struck out probably.
00:50:41
Connor Downing
Yeah. Tim's a total like, God, I'll never forget it. I think I even might've said it once here, but I think it was 2004 is a 2004 world series or league championship series.
00:50:55
Connor Downing
And he said something, Oh, there's Kevin Mitchell. Look at that motherfucker leaning on that.
00:50:59
The Whole Ballgame
BMF.
00:51:00
Connor Downing
Oh, what is that?
00:51:01
The Whole Ballgame
Look at that truck. It's a Nissan.
00:51:04
Connor Downing
It's a Nissan. Oh, Jesus.
00:51:05
The Whole Ballgame
who Look at the wheels on it. Jesus Christ.
00:51:07
Connor Downing
My sister had one of those. Oh God. What's going on here?
00:51:14
The Whole Ballgame
ah I mean, ah he looks like he could be dad, but I guarantee you below the waist, ah there's some shenanigans happening.
00:51:24
Connor Downing
He had skinny fat tits.
00:51:26
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah.
00:51:27
Connor Downing
He had man trash tits. Trash man tits.
00:51:32
The Whole Ballgame
Dwight hitting 0.87 on the season. That's
00:51:35
Connor Downing
Better than 187.
00:51:38
The Whole Ballgame
true. That's a good point.
00:51:39
Connor Downing
Mr. 187 on the motherfucking clock. Tick tock never to stop. Just some nuts and a cock. I'm robbing motherfuckers and I kill them glock glock.
00:51:49
The Whole Ballgame
Oh, my goodness.
00:51:49
Connor Downing
And I step through the fog and I creep through the smog.
00:51:50
The Whole Ballgame
he swung He swung that ball, very that bat, very hard.
00:51:53
Connor Downing
Cause my Snoop Doggy who?
00:51:53
The Whole Ballgame
So hard, in fact, it fell out of his hand.
00:51:54
Connor Downing
Doggy what? Doggy dog.
00:51:57
The Whole Ballgame
Blake is still going with the lyrics to that song.
00:52:00
Connor Downing
What's my name? By Snoop Doggy dog.
00:52:01
The Whole Ballgame
What is your name? Blake. Blake.
00:52:04
Connor Downing
Hmm.
00:52:05
The Whole Ballgame
Blizz. Double Blizz.
00:52:07
Connor Downing
Never... ever tell you how I traded a Penny Hardaway rookie card for the cassette single of What's My Name in 6th grade?
00:52:14
The Whole Ballgame
You sure did. You've told that that that story here on the broadcast in in the past, as a matter of fact.
00:52:20
Connor Downing
Oh, yeah?
00:52:20
The Whole Ballgame
ah My, how the tables have turned.
00:52:23
Connor Downing
Did I tell you about that time that I ran my head into a fucking wall?
00:52:27
The Whole Ballgame
No.
00:52:31
The Whole Ballgame
Tell me the story, Blake.
00:52:33
Connor Downing
Well, no, I said wall. I was laying out for your joke.
00:52:34
The Whole Ballgame
What? I don't know. why youre what do you What do you mean?
00:52:35
Connor Downing
You got that book of wall jokes over there, and I didn't want to steal your thunder.
00:52:38
The Whole Ballgame
What? What?
00:52:41
Connor Downing
What?
00:52:41
The Whole Ballgame
Well, I don't. I'm unfamiliar. What are you talking about?
00:52:44
Connor Downing
Hey.
00:52:47
Connor Downing
God damn it. I got...
00:52:51
The Whole Ballgame
Nice. We love that.
00:52:53
Connor Downing
I got an ad.
00:52:53
The Whole Ballgame
Yep. Without question.
00:52:53
Connor Downing
Let's
00:52:54
The Whole Ballgame
Let's, uh, and and da da and bla god another a on is youtube he too cheap to by the premium but at ah ah
00:53:06
Connor Downing
And a spam call at the same fucking time.
00:53:08
The Whole Ballgame
nice we love that
00:53:09
Connor Downing
This has got to be that satanic shit that just happened.
00:53:12
The Whole Ballgame
without question let's ah let's ah Let's open up the ritual book to another ritual.
00:53:18
Connor Downing
But hang on, though. Before I forget this, though, because I wanted to... You can get back to that, but let me ask you this, Wally.
00:53:26
Connor Downing
Will you spell your name for me?
00:53:34
Connor Downing
Yes. That's right. No coincidences.
00:53:37
The Whole Ballgame
i am i am the ace of walls
00:53:42
Connor Downing
Aces and eights?
00:53:44
The Whole Ballgame
W-A-L-L-A-C-E. Wall Ace. Wall Ace. That's me. Move on!
00:53:54
Connor Downing
I thought Doc was the ace.
00:53:57
The Whole Ballgame
I mean, look, he's the ace of, uh, if you know what I mean.
00:54:00
Connor Downing
Oh, okay.
00:54:01
The Whole Ballgame
But, uh, uh, you know, when it comes to walls, nobody's got Wally, god got one over on Wally yet.
00:54:06
Connor Downing
Sure.
00:54:10
Connor Downing
What about the robot?
00:54:15
The Whole Ballgame
but Oh, WALL-E the robot?
00:54:15
Connor Downing
He's...
00:54:17
The Whole Ballgame
That was good. Okay. Took me a second.
00:54:18
Connor Downing
Wall-E.
00:54:19
The Whole Ballgame
We're there. Yep. We're back. Fine. Everything's fine.
00:54:22
Connor Downing
Back on track. We're dialed back in, folks. Don't worry.
00:54:27
Connor Downing
We've overcome Gabe's hate.
00:54:31
The Whole Ballgame
Here he is now.
00:54:35
Connor Downing
You know, and don't know that we ever quite put it in this statement, but... As we finish this beautiful team up, what a collection of total fucking assholes this these guys are.
00:54:46
Connor Downing
Just beautiful.
00:54:49
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, I mean, look, we never we didn't we didn't cover Ray Knight ah in much...
00:54:54
Connor Downing
Nah, he's not worth it.
00:54:55
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, exactly. because it's
00:54:56
Connor Downing
He sucks.
00:54:57
The Whole Ballgame
But the the the assholes that we did cover, man, oh man. Holy shit.
00:55:02
Connor Downing
No, we got everybody important.
00:55:02
The Whole Ballgame
Between Backman and Dykstra and dikstra these two dickheads, Hall and Nash.
00:55:08
Connor Downing
Keith.
00:55:10
The Whole Ballgame
and
00:55:13
Connor Downing
And you don't forget,
00:55:14
The Whole Ballgame
Look at that, Backman, base hit.
00:55:18
Connor Downing
but don't forget, though, too, Gabe, who did we meet on our very first stop on this 86 Met journey? Who was our kisser in that game?
00:55:30
Connor Downing
It wouldn't have met.
00:55:32
The Whole Ballgame
No, it sure wasn't.
00:55:34
Connor Downing
That's right.
00:55:34
The Whole Ballgame
It sure wasn't no met.
00:55:34
Connor Downing
That's not kisser.
00:55:36
The Whole Ballgame
i i was ah I was a yeah Pittsburgh pirate at the time. As I recall, you fellas went on and on and on about my baseball cap and how much you didn't like it, Blake.
00:55:42
Connor Downing
and
00:55:50
Connor Downing
I've grown to love it, Rick.
00:55:53
Connor Downing
Ain't that
00:55:53
The Whole Ballgame
They call it a a pill box, which I know you're a big fan of, the pills. Yeah.
00:56:00
Connor Downing
Ah, gee, I try not to do those anymore.
00:56:02
The Whole Ballgame
ah Oh,
00:56:04
Connor Downing
See what you did? You opened a real Pandora's pillbox. Oh, God. He took his headset off so he didn't hear my good funny joke. Hey, Gabe, put your headset back on.
00:56:16
Connor Downing
Hey, did you hear what I said? I said you opened up a Pandora's pill box. ah
00:56:22
The Whole Ballgame
pretty good. Larry. Thank you for being here.
00:56:23
Connor Downing
Thanks. um I'll roll on out.
00:56:24
The Whole Ballgame
Oh,
00:56:26
Connor Downing
I know you don't like me.
00:56:28
The Whole Ballgame
that's not true. No, it is. I hate you.
00:56:33
Connor Downing
You know what, Gabe?
00:56:33
The Whole Ballgame
Magadan with a base hit there that that scores an RBI there. Dykstra will score and the score goes up 1-0. career RBI for Dave Magadan.
00:56:46
The Whole Ballgame
first first career rbi for dave maggan and
00:56:51
Connor Downing
I can't climb a wall either, Gabe, because my legs don't work. I don't like walls.
00:56:55
The Whole Ballgame
Well, you know, from what I can tell, everything online shows me that that da Mr. Dalypage is trying to teach you how to walk again. And, you know, you're going to go into the the the Hall of Fame next month ah in Las Vegas, you know, one of your favorite towns.
00:57:12
The Whole Ballgame
And, ah you know, the the the the the consensus is that ah you're going to walk up on that stage to accept that award. Is that is that what's going to happen, Larry?
00:57:25
Connor Downing
Good Lord willing, Gabe. Good Lord willing.
00:57:29
The Whole Ballgame
Wonderful. I'm glad you give me so much to work with there. but That's good.
00:57:33
Connor Downing
I'm nothing if not your better half.
00:57:41
Connor Downing
What?
00:57:41
The Whole Ballgame
Behold, the mighty voices of my vengeance smash the stillness of the air and stand as monoliths of wrath upon a plane of writhing serpents.
00:57:41
Connor Downing
Oh, oh. You got...
00:57:50
The Whole Ballgame
I am become as a monstrous machine of annihilation to the festering fragments of the body of he, she, who would detain me.
00:58:01
Connor Downing
detain you?
00:58:03
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, you see how it got rid of Lex?
00:58:03
Connor Downing
What do you...
00:58:06
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, that's going to be the go-to every time from now on.
00:58:10
Connor Downing
Oh, I don't like the devil, Gabe.
00:58:13
The Whole Ballgame
It repenteth me.
00:58:19
The Whole Ballgame
oh
00:58:22
Connor Downing
You notice they keep popping up the Phillies and Cardinals score?
00:58:22
The Whole Ballgame
ah
00:58:26
The Whole Ballgame
Say that one more time.
00:58:27
Connor Downing
Now they keep popping up the Phillies and the Cardinals score?
00:58:30
The Whole Ballgame
Mm-hmm.
00:58:35
The Whole Ballgame
Outside on that one, one and two here to to the kid, Gary Carter. We got Wally Backman at third, Magadin at second here. Or is he at first? He's somewhere on those bases, that's for sure.
00:58:44
Connor Downing
And Maggie doesn't sit first. His fucking baby face.
00:58:46
The Whole Ballgame
Yep. And Wally's uniform is good and dirty from that slide.
00:58:51
Connor Downing
Daryl's...
00:58:51
The Whole Ballgame
Head first, by the way.
00:58:53
Connor Downing
Daryl's fly was down. Did you see that? Yep.
00:58:55
The Whole Ballgame
I didn't notice, no, but i don't I don't make a habit of looking at ballplayers' crotches like you do.
00:59:00
Connor Downing
He is 6'6", and it was a a full body shot, so was kind of hard to miss, you know?
00:59:07
The Whole Ballgame
her
00:59:07
Connor Downing
You 2T bitch.
00:59:10
The Whole Ballgame
b-i-t-t-c-h gary not happy about that one that's another strikeout for eckersley
00:59:13
Connor Downing
That's all right.
00:59:17
Connor Downing
Ooh.
00:59:20
Connor Downing
Got no one to blame but yourself on that one, kid. You went chasing.
00:59:24
The Whole Ballgame
oh yeah well no it was a strike anyway but
00:59:27
Connor Downing
Nah, that's out. Well, yeah, that caught the corner. You're not gonna do anything with that.
00:59:33
The Whole Ballgame
No, I mean, e is that's been one of the the more fun things to go back and watch is I don't remember any of this shit. So like watching how good these men are, especially the pitchers, it's just like, holy shit.
00:59:42
Connor Downing
Yeah.
00:59:45
The Whole Ballgame
here's ah Here's Big Kev.
00:59:49
Connor Downing
Look at that fucking just the way he, God, the way he just like shakes that bat around, man.
00:59:53
The Whole Ballgame
Effortless and blasted the shit out of the ball. Yep.
00:59:58
Connor Downing
Yeah, I, you know, I mentioned this before, but man, I was just enamored with guys like him and Eric Davis. Like just the way they, that fucking speed and power, just, I guess it's the naturalness.
01:00:10
The Whole Ballgame
There it is. Base hit. There you go That might score two. Nope. Magadan will stop at third.
01:00:23
The Whole Ballgame
ah RBI for big Kev there. And the crowd goes wild. It's a two to nothing Mets here in the third.
01:00:39
Connor Downing
Took it the other way.
01:00:39
The Whole Ballgame
Thank you for that sound effect, Tim.
01:00:42
Connor Downing
ah ah
01:00:44
The Whole Ballgame
ah
01:00:47
Connor Downing
There's Mookie, father of Preston Wilson.
01:00:52
Connor Downing
Member of the 2006 World Series Cardinals. Uh-oh.
01:00:58
The Whole Ballgame
That'll end the inning there.
01:01:00
Connor Downing
What do we got there, Ralph?
01:01:03
The Whole Ballgame
It's Marvin Johnson versus Jean-Marie Levesque. Harry? Harry, bring bring me my pills, please. I got another pill to take here.
01:01:15
The Whole Ballgame
Raphael Palmeiro in.
01:01:19
Connor Downing
That's good. I got an ad. I need to get a Chase Sapphire. Remind me after this.
01:01:27
The Whole Ballgame
I'm always chasing sapphires or rubies or diamonds or something like that.
01:01:31
Connor Downing
right. What's your time code?
01:01:34
The Whole Ballgame
37, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 38 minutes on the nose here in Queens.
01:01:46
The Whole Ballgame
thirty you know six
01:01:46
Connor Downing
All right.
01:01:51
Connor Downing
Good stroke.
01:01:51
The Whole Ballgame
tim just called that a good stroke yes he did
01:01:52
Connor Downing
Yep. All right.
01:01:53
The Whole Ballgame
yep
01:01:56
The Whole Ballgame
not many players coming out of favanah
01:02:01
Connor Downing
Since Fidel, he called him Fidel.
01:02:01
The Whole Ballgame
since castro took over he understand Well, Fidel! Fidel! Fidel, bring me my pills.
01:02:10
Connor Downing
Actually, Ralph was just really excited because it was 1986 and Fifles, an American tale was premiering.
01:02:19
The Whole Ballgame
Nice. Yep.
01:02:21
Connor Downing
You watch that, right?
01:02:21
The Whole Ballgame
Nine. Oh, cool. Yeah.
01:02:24
Connor Downing
I love Fifle.
01:02:24
The Whole Ballgame
Fifel goes west? Come on. All-American Fifel. I love that one.
01:02:29
Connor Downing
You know...
01:02:29
The Whole Ballgame
Whatever that
01:02:32
Connor Downing
The world could use Fifle right now. Because there's a fucking lesson in there for their asses.
01:02:40
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, people don't like lessons these days, I've i've discovered.
01:02:44
Connor Downing
how How are we living in this modern world with all these motherfuckers... that grew up with FIFL with us. Huh?
01:02:59
Connor Downing
They know better.
01:03:03
Connor Downing
We know better. If we know better, you and me, the dumb fucks that we are, complete degenerate deviant dipshits, and we fucking know better, how do they not know better?
01:03:18
The Whole Ballgame
um
01:03:24
Connor Downing
We're not great.
01:03:27
The Whole Ballgame
And we know it.
01:03:30
Connor Downing
Uh-oh. We a finger? Oh! Hey!
01:03:35
The Whole Ballgame
Foul ball. I got really excited because my penis slipped into my butthole, as you know.
01:03:42
Connor Downing
That is fun.
01:03:44
The Whole Ballgame
Moreland, he's up again with his his stubble and problematic eyes.
01:03:47
Connor Downing
He's got a red beard. He's got a red beard. Okay?
01:03:53
The Whole Ballgame
Yep.
01:03:54
Connor Downing
This man...
01:03:54
The Whole Ballgame
He also has an ear flap.
01:03:57
Connor Downing
This man has red facial hair.
01:04:01
The Whole Ballgame
Booger Red.
01:04:02
Connor Downing
Exactly, exactly.
01:04:03
The Whole Ballgame
He'd done it now. he's ah It's mean Mark Callis on the whole ball
01:04:08
Connor Downing
Oh no, mean Mark Moreland.
01:04:11
The Whole Ballgame
There you go. Perfect. ah Taking look at the box office. September 18th, 1986. Top Gun's still there doing some business. Hard Bodies 2.
01:04:22
Connor Downing
Oh, God.
01:04:22
The Whole Ballgame
There's a big one. Yeah. There you go.
01:04:24
Connor Downing
I used to watch, dude.
01:04:27
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah.
01:04:27
Connor Downing
I would watch hard bodies on HBO at all the fucking time.
01:04:28
The Whole Ballgame
Brother. Hell yeah.
01:04:32
Connor Downing
I hadn't thought about hard bodies forever.
01:04:35
The Whole Ballgame
Radioactive Dreams. The Men's Club. Ruthless People.
01:04:39
Connor Downing
Okay.
01:04:39
The Whole Ballgame
Nothing in Common, Aliens, the the best of the Alien franchise in my estimation. Karate Kid Part II, Ferris Bueller's Day Off in theaters from the summer, still kind of hanging on there in the box office.
01:04:52
The Whole Ballgame
Extremities, Back to School, Rodney Dangerfield.
01:04:54
Connor Downing
Top Gun. Oh, fuck yeah.
01:04:55
The Whole Ballgame
What we got? Is that the hard bodies theme?
01:04:59
The Whole Ballgame
Oh, Top Gun. There you go. Back to School, Rodney Dangerfield. The Boy Who Could Fly, do you remember that one?
01:05:06
Connor Downing
September 86. Howard the Duck.
01:05:07
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, yep. Number one movie at the box office, September 18th, 1986. What do you think it is? What do you think it is?
01:05:16
Connor Downing
tim
01:05:16
The Whole Ballgame
Mm-hmm.
01:05:17
Connor Downing
eighty six ah howard the duck
01:05:22
The Whole Ballgame
N.W. I.A.O.J.M.
01:05:30
Connor Downing
Crocodile I'm out back jacked.
01:05:32
The Whole Ballgame
Crocodile Dundee, number one at the box office. No worries, I'm out back. Jack, mate.
01:05:39
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, there you go.
01:05:41
Connor Downing
Wonderful.
01:05:43
The Whole Ballgame
ah Paul Hogan, as a matter of fact.
01:05:45
Connor Downing
Brother. What? Nah, dude. Nah. That's not Horace's dad, dude.
01:05:50
The Whole Ballgame
It's not? I thought there was some relation. i When I was a kid, I absolutely thought there was a relation.
01:05:56
Connor Downing
Nah, dude. I won't go down under.
01:05:58
The Whole Ballgame
Look at these beautiful kids. Jesus Christ. No wonder Linda has been upset this week.
01:06:01
Connor Downing
Oh. Yeah, by the way, you see that? i was gonna say, fuck, dude.
01:06:04
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah.
01:06:06
Connor Downing
She looks awful.
01:06:08
The Whole Ballgame
Oh, we do like scabs on our fucking, yeah.
01:06:08
Connor Downing
The moles. She got the fucking, like, hairy black moles and shit.
01:06:12
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, yeah.
01:06:13
Connor Downing
What, did you see Brooktini's statement today, dude? It's total bullshit, brother, dude.
01:06:16
The Whole Ballgame
Uh-huh, yeah, you've been, you've been, you've been, you've been hitting and diddling, have you, Terry?
01:06:18
Connor Downing
I'm under tabloid terrorism.
01:06:22
Connor Downing
Fuck.
01:06:22
The Whole Ballgame
Is that what's going on? Hitting and diddling?
01:06:25
Connor Downing
I didn't see nothing about no diddling, dude.
01:06:27
The Whole Ballgame
Physical abuse. They didn't say what kind of physical abuse.
01:06:30
Connor Downing
I just saw a mental verbal.
01:06:32
The Whole Ballgame
Oh, no, I saw physical.
01:06:33
Connor Downing
Oh, God.
01:06:33
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, verbal and physical is what I saw. Mm-hmm.
01:06:37
Connor Downing
I bet Linda hit her. I can't see.
01:06:39
The Whole Ballgame
Oh, I'm sure Linda hit her. there's no qui I mean, look, and who would have thought that Brooktini was going to be the most mentally stable of all of them by cutting out the rest of them from her life after that that reality show bullshit that they put her through?
01:06:50
Connor Downing
That's true. i mean, yeah. yeah
01:06:54
The Whole Ballgame
i mean, you know, she's got kids and neither one of them have seen the kids and that's for the best. And the fact that she's got enough wherewithal to realize that her parents are the toxic situation in that situation
01:07:05
Connor Downing
Yeah.
01:07:06
The Whole Ballgame
Good for her, man. I hope she fucking thrives.
01:07:10
Connor Downing
That's true. Yeah. I didn't really think about that, but she definitely, cause you know, Nick's a total fuck up and just like, God damn. Yeah. That's wild. Burke did end up being the only one out of there, the most well adjusted.
01:07:23
The Whole Ballgame
Well hit. Dykes, you're back to catch.
01:07:25
Connor Downing
Just like, Oh, look at that beautiful logo.
01:07:25
The Whole Ballgame
Right in front of the Cardinals pennant back there for you, pal.
01:07:30
Connor Downing
It's so God damn sad that I don't know, man, just he's, just dying in disgrace, all these guys.
01:07:37
The Whole Ballgame
I mean, look, it's you know it's funny. While we've been recording, I get notifications when TLF does tweets and somebody was talking about how when Hogan dies, ah they're only going to have 20, 25 hours of footage of of of coverage to be able to go through because they've done so much on Hogan.
01:07:56
The Whole Ballgame
And their reply was, depends on how he goes. And frankly, the the the more of this shit that comes out And as fragile a human being as that man clearly is, I'm i'm telling you, I'm bracing myself for some kind of bad end, one way or the other.
01:08:10
Connor Downing
Nah. He can't.
01:08:18
Connor Downing
He ain't got...
01:08:18
The Whole Ballgame
i don't I don't think it's going to be ah old age or some medical issue that's going to bring the man down.
01:08:19
Connor Downing
Nah.
01:08:25
The Whole Ballgame
I think it's going to be him giving up because he's weak-willed.
01:08:30
Connor Downing
Nah, he's gonna die a long-suffering death because he can't fucking let go.
01:08:37
The Whole Ballgame
Slider went right by him on that one.
01:08:41
Connor Downing
he's gonna be a broken, miserable fuck into his
01:08:46
The Whole Ballgame
Ugh, God, I hope he doesn't last a 90. God.
01:08:50
Connor Downing
Him and Flare will live forever.
01:08:53
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, I mean, look, if Flair was going to die, he was going to die already. Flair's not going to die. Like, I don't, like, that man is, he's pickled. That's the only, that is the only thing that I can come to. i Got the American League scoreboard here.
01:09:08
Connor Downing
My wife's grandfather
01:09:11
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah.
01:09:12
Connor Downing
is in his 90s, this motherfucking dude has been a drunk forever. he He falls down constantly.
01:09:24
Connor Downing
Constantly. I mean, he's he's been in like a fucking home for a few years now. I think it's, what is it? He averaging like nine falls a year.
01:09:35
Connor Downing
And like when old people fall, They can fall once and they're gonna they're gonna die because it's like they don't die from the fall. They die because of the circulation and whatever and they get a blood co clot and they fucking die.
01:09:46
Connor Downing
Like, this guy has fallen probably over a hundred times and never... You know why? It's because he is drunk as fuck every goddamn time and he goes like a sack of shit and he never gets hurt really.
01:10:02
Connor Downing
You know, unless he hits his fucking head or something. But, ah point being... This man is, like you said, pickled. And that's because he should have died many times and hasn't.
01:10:16
Connor Downing
And, you know, like, I and don't know, man. It goes back to what I was, you know, that one time when we were talking and bullshitting. But goddamn, man, it's like we're just here on fucking earth. And the longer we're here, the worse we were. And this is all just a goddamn jail sentence, you know.
01:10:34
Connor Downing
That's why the good die young.
01:10:36
The Whole Ballgame
i do I do like that theory. It's something.
01:10:38
Connor Downing
Alien jail and you're sentenced as long as your life is.
01:10:46
Connor Downing
I mean, it's better than real jail, I guess, because at least it gives you the option of it. But I don't know. At times I'd rather just be able to, you know, sit in my room and not talk to people.
01:11:02
Connor Downing
Could jack off.
01:11:02
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, if there was one thing there's one one thing that that that that that that would provide, it's ah it's a place for ah reflection, at the very least.
01:11:14
Connor Downing
I thought you going say a place for mom.
01:11:17
The Whole Ballgame
ah gee.
01:11:19
Connor Downing
You've seen a place for mom.com, right?
01:11:24
The Whole Ballgame
i am unfamiliar with what you're talking about. Let's see here. Oh!
01:11:34
The Whole Ballgame
place for mom oh informed decisions about senior care absolutely yeah
01:11:39
Connor Downing
Yeah. I got some ideas about senior care.
01:11:44
The Whole Ballgame
i'm glad you do it's good what are they oh okay understood got it oh yeah yeah yeah no we've talked about this absolutely 100 percent hmm
01:11:45
Connor Downing
Two of them mainly. I can't see it here. Somebody else steal them.
01:11:57
Connor Downing
I had another one today too. Which can fold into that quite nicely.
01:12:05
The Whole Ballgame
seems there's one of those things that we've discussed that exists already. Um, but not for senior care.
01:12:09
Connor Downing
Yeah. Hmm.
01:12:11
The Whole Ballgame
Um, but, uh, uh, yeah, if I can, if I can get my, my hands around some, some seed funding, that's, that's the, that's the way to make things happen, make things happen. I think you're absolutely right, man. Oh man. Like it's still amazing to me without giving too much away.
01:12:30
The Whole Ballgame
The, uh, the lack of, uh, And it's because all of these marketing people are Gen Z, you know, 22 year old, 23 year old girls who just graduated college.
01:12:42
Connor Downing
Oh, yeah.
01:12:42
The Whole Ballgame
They've got no conception.
Nostalgia's Untapped Potential and Celebrity Culture
01:12:44
The Whole Ballgame
But the fact that, that, you know, we see a little bit of nostalgia shit out there. But nowhere near the amount that we should to generate the kind of money that it could be generating.
01:12:55
The Whole Ballgame
Nobody's taking true advantage of it. And it boggles my fucking mind. I cannot wrap my head around why we're not inundated with it constantly. You know, i came up i i came up with that idea the other day that I pitched to you that it revolves around that shit.
01:13:05
Connor Downing
got the... Hmm.
01:13:10
The Whole Ballgame
And it just, ah you know, obviously there's there's things that are doable and things that aren't. But like... The fact that we don't have the things that we deserve absolutely boggles my mind.
01:13:25
Connor Downing
Well, they ain't got the yams.
01:13:29
The Whole Ballgame
See, ah I've always been more of a sweet potatoes guy. Yams are a little little too sweet for my liking.
01:13:35
Connor Downing
The yams are what manipulated...
01:13:36
The Whole Ballgame
I want the marshmallows. You add marshmallow to yam, and it just it gets too sweet.
01:13:41
Connor Downing
Oh, baby!
01:13:45
The Whole Ballgame
Too sweet.
Ads, Nicknames, and Comedic Interludes
01:13:56
The Whole Ballgame
Wolfback's back causing mass destruction.
01:13:59
Connor Downing
Yeah, yeah, I'm sure one of the Jenner girls is out there in a Wolfpack t-shirt.
01:14:06
The Whole Ballgame
Oh God. Fuck's sake.
01:14:08
Connor Downing
Those people are the shits.
01:14:09
The Whole Ballgame
No idea what it even fucking means.
01:14:11
Connor Downing
No.
01:14:13
Connor Downing
We were listening to Pac.
01:14:14
The Whole Ballgame
Hey. Hey. Eck blasted that one.
01:14:16
Connor Downing
Oh! Look at...
01:14:17
The Whole Ballgame
Look at that. A beautiful little base hit for Dennis Eckersley. Hurt his hands too.
01:14:23
Connor Downing
Yeah, that's dumb. Sounded like it broke the bat.
01:14:26
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah.
01:14:28
Connor Downing
Well, thank you, Ralph.
01:14:36
Connor Downing
Yeah, so my mom was just, sheila she thought he was very, very handsome man.
01:14:42
The Whole Ballgame
Big in the mustaches.
01:14:44
Connor Downing
Him and Sam Elliott.
01:14:44
The Whole Ballgame
Mama ball game. Uh-huh.
01:14:45
Connor Downing
Yeah, it's it's all about the stash. Him, Sam Elliott, Willie Nelson.
01:14:47
The Whole Ballgame
Uh-huh.
01:14:48
Connor Downing
Those are her guys.
01:14:51
The Whole Ballgame
Makes sense.
01:14:53
Connor Downing
And now I have an ad for Hertz Gold Plus Reward. And...
01:14:56
The Whole Ballgame
Wonderful.
01:14:57
Connor Downing
Ooh...
01:14:58
The Whole Ballgame
McCarver going on about ah Chico Walker's nickname being Wee Willie Walker.
01:15:07
Connor Downing
Oh my God.
01:15:08
The Whole Ballgame
Mookie with a catch out there and that'll That'll end the inning here. We're sitting at 51-35, 36.
01:15:15
Connor Downing
i gotcha.
01:15:18
Connor Downing
We love Tim McCarver and Ralph Kiner. Look at that.
01:15:22
The Whole Ballgame
What a great thing to say. Thank you. Thank you for that.
01:15:29
The Whole Ballgame
ah yeah I decided my go-to around here is going to be not being on microphone most of the time.
01:15:40
Connor Downing
I know. i have a appreciate i I love it. i've just It clicked for me, and when the body turns, ah like it.
01:15:51
The Whole Ballgame
All I know is I need some more Prozac. That's what I know.
01:15:57
The Whole Ballgame
I got some beer. I got a hot dog here next to me. I just need some powdered Prozac to sprinkle on top of my hot dog. Martha!
01:16:09
Connor Downing
She's at the ballpark with you?
01:16:12
The Whole Ballgame
Oh, Martha's everywhere, Blake.
01:16:14
Connor Downing
ah Okay. It's one of those things.
01:16:18
Connor Downing
Like God?
01:16:21
The Whole Ballgame
Or the devil, for that matter.
01:16:23
Connor Downing
Church.
01:16:25
The Whole Ballgame
i call upon the messengers of doom to slash with grim delight this victim I hath chosen. Silent is that voiceless bird that feeds upon the brain pulp of him or her who hath tormented me.
01:16:39
The Whole Ballgame
Marsa! Hey!
01:16:44
Connor Downing
I didn't expect to get Ralph reading text.
01:16:48
The Whole Ballgame
Something's...
01:16:49
Connor Downing
Oh my god!
01:16:49
The Whole Ballgame
Something's... Something's laying around. Yeah, Tim just talked about an oxymoron.
01:16:52
Connor Downing
Did... Did you hear him?
01:16:55
The Whole Ballgame
i did. o God.
01:16:56
Connor Downing
It's an... It's an oxymoron!
01:17:00
The Whole Ballgame
i i hate this man. I hate him so much.
01:17:07
The Whole Ballgame
He's now defining it for us.
01:17:08
Connor Downing
defining it.
01:17:11
The Whole Ballgame
Side by side, like my penis and my butthole.
01:17:13
Connor Downing
Ugh!
01:17:18
Connor Downing
Hey Ralph, tell you what, cover me in oxy and I'll be an oxymoron.
01:17:25
The Whole Ballgame
I'll tell you this much, you you're half of those things, that's for sure. it ain't Oxy. What
01:17:35
The Whole Ballgame
I'm saying is you're a moron, Tim. A moron.
01:17:39
Connor Downing
I'll say it again Ralph, a clean double.
01:17:44
The Whole Ballgame
mets Mets fans are toilet papering the outfield here.
01:17:47
Connor Downing
oh. Siobhan looking down in disgust.
01:17:54
The Whole Ballgame
my My lovely mother, she was lovely, but she she was also a good bit racist, having grown up in Gary as a white woman. um But yeah, she would she would often call him Shawan, because that's obviously how you pronounce it, because he's black, you understand.
01:18:13
Connor Downing
Well, I mean, it does have an O in there.
01:18:15
The Whole Ballgame
Mm-hmm.
01:18:16
Connor Downing
i' never I've never seen Sean spelled that way ever.
01:18:20
The Whole Ballgame
Not since, not ever before or since. Nope.
01:18:25
Connor Downing
I've seen S.
01:18:25
The Whole Ballgame
Wally's back in Wally's back at bat here.
01:18:31
Connor Downing
I'm glad baseball happens during the summer months because if it was in the winter, it would just be a nightmare trying to do this with you. You know, because all the winter jokes.
01:18:43
The Whole Ballgame
Hey, you know, look, here's here's here's what you got to understand.
01:18:46
Connor Downing
Safe.
01:18:48
The Whole Ballgame
You see how I legged that shit out?
01:18:50
Connor Downing
I did. I did.
01:18:50
The Whole Ballgame
You think I could have done that in so in wintertime? i didn't think so.
01:18:53
Connor Downing
No, no, probably not.
01:18:55
The Whole Ballgame
Move on. Anyway, ah I forget what we were talking about. wi to Oh, coming. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That guy you you you you always have on the show talks about coming a lot.
01:19:07
The Whole Ballgame
a Winter is coming. And as you know, it is all about coming.
01:19:12
Connor Downing
Yeah, baby, I come in the winter, I come in the summer, I come in the fall and spring. I keep on dancing and I keep on singing. Hey, hey, hey, it's the keep on dancing show. Hacker's leaves a fucking drunk, baby.
01:19:24
The Whole Ballgame
I like that. Keep on dancing, baby. All right. Yeah.
01:19:27
Connor Downing
I can do something you, maybe.
01:19:30
The Whole Ballgame
Got runners at first and third here in the, I believe we're in the fifth inning here.
01:19:35
Connor Downing
You kind of remind me of Honky.
01:19:42
The Whole Ballgame
I am cool. I am cocky. I am bad. It makes sense. You know,
01:19:46
Connor Downing
You like to do drugs and fuck bitches?
01:19:49
The Whole Ballgame
move on.
01:19:52
The Whole Ballgame
that's ah That's more of a, honestly, that's more of a Lenny thing. i'm ah I read books and I, you know, occasionally I'll call a ah prostitute to come over to the house. I'll have her dress like a dragon and give me a lap dance.
01:20:07
The Whole Ballgame
I'll have her take an aerosol can and a lighter and act like she's breathing fire ah while i while I put my penis in her butthole.
01:20:18
Connor Downing
Oh, I got an idea then, baby. We'll get nails and put it in with you and we'll make y'all a tag team and we're gonna call you, baby, we're gonna call you a song of fire and ice, baby. Oh, yeah. Keep on, keep on, keep on dancing on the keep on dancing, Joe.
01:20:30
The Whole Ballgame
Magadan drops another one in. What a game. What a debut game for Dave Magadan. My goodness.
01:20:37
Connor Downing
Mags, I swear to God, you're a solid human being, a decent person, but I hope you drop whatever the fucking line is. I can't remember it from a Little Big League. you know what I'm talking about?
01:20:49
The Whole Ballgame
Nope.
01:20:49
Connor Downing
Too deep a cut.
01:20:50
The Whole Ballgame
I don't remember it that closely. Yep.
01:20:52
Connor Downing
So it's when they're in the, uh, the dugout or not the dugout, the clubhouse and, uh, the, the twins and their child manager or watching, um, the, it's the Mariners and whoever play, ah on the television, because if they win and they have a fucking playoff or whatever, and,
01:21:01
The Whole Ballgame
Mm-hmm.
01:21:14
Connor Downing
That fucking dude that plays the quirky reliever makes some comment about how Mags is a decent human, but he wishes he would drop dead because he's on the Mariners at the time in 94. 1994, as it were.
01:21:28
The Whole Ballgame
we had We had Dave on one of the ballgames we we watched from 94.
01:21:32
Connor Downing
Yeah, he would have been on the Mariners at the Indians opening at Jacobs Field.
01:21:33
The Whole Ballgame
Yep. Yep. Yep. That was it. ah
01:21:40
Connor Downing
Time code, please.
01:21:40
The Whole Ballgame
And Magadan, three for three in his debut. what a What an auspicious debut for Dave Magadan here. Two RBIs.
01:21:49
The Whole Ballgame
Without Dave Magadan, they don't clinch this the division this night.
01:21:53
Connor Downing
What's your time, pal? All
01:21:55
The Whole Ballgame
We're looking at 58, 17, 18, 19, 20.
01:22:00
Connor Downing
all right.
01:22:02
The Whole Ballgame
The kid outside, ball two there.
01:22:04
Connor Downing
All two? All right.
01:22:10
The Whole Ballgame
Goodness gracious.
01:22:11
Connor Downing
It is wild to think, you know. yeah I mean, who knows? I'm sure could win the next night, whatever. But if, you know, if it worked,
01:22:16
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, yeah. Well, Hernandez might have done better. Who knows? You can't really. ah Backman here on at second.
01:22:24
Connor Downing
Oof.
01:22:27
Connor Downing
X?
01:22:27
The Whole Ballgame
Swing and a miss. Strike two.
01:22:30
Connor Downing
X got a nasty slider.
01:22:32
The Whole Ballgame
Strike one.
01:22:34
The Whole Ballgame
Two and one to Gary Carter.
01:22:37
Connor Downing
Certainly on microphone now, Ralph.
01:22:40
The Whole Ballgame
No, that was Tim.
01:22:42
Connor Downing
Oh, sorry, Tim.
Baseball Strategy and Rituals
01:22:47
Connor Downing
You boys are getting awful sloppy. don't know who's who.
01:22:53
Connor Downing
You sound like a couple oxymorons!
01:22:56
The Whole Ballgame
oxymorons I'm gonna kill him Martha I'm gonna kill him this fucking guy he's shown me his butthole twice it's in the front
01:23:13
Connor Downing
you notice the...
01:23:14
The Whole Ballgame
ah yeah I said the front
01:23:17
Connor Downing
in verse.
01:23:21
Connor Downing
You notice that some of the players at the time on their batting helmets have like, oh, Jesus Christ. It's a dog's asshole. He threw that dog pretty far. Lucky he didn't land on Rick on the couch.
01:23:33
Connor Downing
He didn't throw him at the wall, people. It's fine. He's on the couch. um But it did crush ah just a fake or not a fake. It did crush an imaginary 76-year-old man that sleeps there.
01:23:48
The Whole Ballgame
I take offense to you calling me imaginary. i don't
01:23:51
Connor Downing
I guess you're not imaginary.
01:23:52
The Whole Ballgame
um I exist. Even if it's if it's in some sort of fictional form, I um i am of existence. Boo! Called strike three and Gary Carter not happy with Joe West.
01:24:02
Connor Downing
who
01:24:06
The Whole Ballgame
Not happy at all.
01:24:09
Connor Downing
Sit down! There's only one country cowboy Christ and it ain't you, Choppers.
01:24:10
The Whole Ballgame
Oh, no. no
01:24:14
The Whole Ballgame
yeah Joe was wrong on that one. It's a shame no Gary didn't tap his helmet there for to to to challenge that that that that strike. Looks like we got a pitching change here in in Queens.
01:24:32
The Whole Ballgame
We got Eckersley leaving the game here hell early in my estimation because Eckersley's been really solid. Regardless of the you know the the three runs he's let let go, but we got we got Guy Hoffman coming into the game.
01:24:47
Connor Downing
I get the they want the lefty on lefty with Daryl.
01:24:51
The Whole Ballgame
Five and two on the year with 4-4-6 ERA. 26 appearances thus far. twenty six appearances thus far
01:24:59
Connor Downing
We're starting to see the the early days of the lefty-on-lefty matchups.
01:25:09
Connor Downing
there' There's the Matt. Keith who? Dave Magadan fan club written on a personal pizza box.
01:25:17
Connor Downing
That had to piss Keith off.
01:25:19
The Whole Ballgame
Well, Magadan, three for three tonight
01:25:25
The Whole Ballgame
in a clinching game. My goodness.
01:25:28
Connor Downing
I saw that sign and I went out and I crushed leaves and I shoved them in pussies.
01:25:28
The Whole Ballgame
What a story.
01:25:35
The Whole Ballgame
Keith, were you ah were you in the ballpark this evening or were you at home recovering?
01:25:44
Connor Downing
Neither.
01:25:46
The Whole Ballgame
Okay, good, good enough.
01:25:51
Connor Downing
I was congested. I sounded terrible.
01:25:53
The Whole Ballgame
Sure. Yeah, that makes sense.
01:25:56
Connor Downing
You know, my nose was stuffy.
01:25:58
The Whole Ballgame
Stuff he knows. Yeah, that's right.
01:25:59
Connor Downing
I had to clear it out, you understand.
01:26:07
Connor Downing
Gabe, have you been coming lately, my old friend? We haven't talked in a while.
01:26:12
The Whole Ballgame
No, none for me. Not lately. I mean, you know, outside of the... the rituals I've been enacting here, you know, that but that's, you know, that's largely just, you know, very perfunctory, just a get it done to get it done, right?
01:26:30
The Whole Ballgame
Two and O on the on the count here to strawberry.
01:26:33
Connor Downing
You are telling me you're not having as strong an orgasm as possible?
01:26:34
The Whole Ballgame
and
01:26:36
Connor Downing
You see, you must do that. That is part of one of the rituals. It must be as strong as possible or it does not work. Have you tried defecating on a woman's head?
01:26:49
Connor Downing
That makes the orgasm strong, my friend.
01:26:49
The Whole Ballgame
I have not.
01:26:52
The Whole Ballgame
Well, doesn't that just depend on what you're you're your thing is? Like, to me, like, the idea of poop.
01:26:58
Connor Downing
Don't doubt me. No, no, no, no. You must try it. You'll never go back.
01:27:02
The Whole Ballgame
Ugh.
01:27:03
Connor Downing
I will promise you that.
01:27:04
The Whole Ballgame
I don't know. I don't know, Keith.
01:27:06
Connor Downing
You see how it rhymed? I'm like the genius.
01:27:08
The Whole Ballgame
You are. You're just like the genius. ah I don't know. Looks like we got a walk there from Hoffman. I got to tell you, ah the idea of poop and and and sex mixed together just feel feels not just ah dangerous to me, but ah you know it it doesn't inspire erectile health in my estimation.
01:27:32
Connor Downing
Look, I say to you, it first is about the power and the domination, but what is poop other than processed pastrami, my friend? It is the most erotic of all the meats. My friend George knows this.
01:27:45
The Whole Ballgame
I do like pastrami.
01:27:50
Connor Downing
you know, food for thought, tit for tat.
01:27:55
The Whole Ballgame
That's good point.
Nostalgia in Media and Streaming Challenges
01:28:00
Connor Downing
But fuck Dave Magadan, know. I gotta go.
01:28:05
The Whole Ballgame
It's good seeing you, Keith. Thanks for stopping by.
01:28:09
Connor Downing
Mookie, oh.
01:28:10
The Whole Ballgame
Oh, Mookie.
01:28:11
Connor Downing
Hmm.
01:28:11
The Whole Ballgame
Oh, yeah. Mookie not having a great game.
01:28:15
Connor Downing
Well, he'll make up for it.
01:28:15
The Whole Ballgame
0 for 3 for MOOC.
01:28:20
Connor Downing
Man, I'll tell you, Dunstan to Sandberg, that was a double play that had been turned a time or two.
01:28:27
The Whole Ballgame
Yes, indeedy. That hair, man. Look at that hair. You know, I can't wait for us to cover. I sent you this guy's name the other day. ah Just his name.
01:28:39
The Whole Ballgame
Um...
01:28:42
The Whole Ballgame
I was reading about him and then I watched some videos on YouTube about this guy. Where is he? Al,
01:28:54
The Whole Ballgame
I think his last name starts with an H.
01:28:56
Connor Downing
Oh, Herboski?
01:28:58
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, Al Herboski. We need to do a game on and a highlight show on Al Herboski. My goodness, what a piece of work he was.
01:29:06
Connor Downing
He's... He's my childhood announcer, man.
01:29:12
The Whole Ballgame
announcer. See, I didn't know i even know that it got to that point, but he was he was a nut job, no
01:29:13
Connor Downing
You...
01:29:18
Connor Downing
That's what I know him. He was the Cardinals ah color man when I started watching. And I watched him call games for... like I guess five years because we got the, when I lived in Missouri, we were in the Cardinals broadcast region.
01:29:34
Connor Downing
um
01:29:34
The Whole Ballgame
Well, as we as we learned on the ballgame, most of the Midwest was St. Louis. Midwest and and Central West was all St. Louis Cardinals fans, right?
01:29:43
Connor Downing
Yeah. But like the radio signal would reach, but I'm talking just TV.
01:29:44
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah.
01:29:47
Connor Downing
Like we would, we got the local St. Louis channel.
01:29:50
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah.
01:29:50
Connor Downing
um
01:29:51
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah.
01:29:51
Connor Downing
We were probably about as far South as that went to.
01:29:51
The Whole Ballgame
Okay. Okay.
01:29:53
Connor Downing
Cause I was pretty much in the boot Hill. Um, but I don't know, maybe they've got the game. No, cause I go to my sisters all the time. They wouldn't be on in Memphis even.
01:30:04
Connor Downing
Um, that would piss me off, you know, cause back then, you like that's the only way you could watch. You had to be at home to watch fucking Cardinals. So you weren't going to be able to see him if you know, you didn't live in the area. and but, um, yeah, it started out with fuck.
01:30:17
Connor Downing
What's that good dude? Ken Wilson. He was the first guy. And then Jack Buck would be, he was on the radio obviously.
01:30:24
The Whole Ballgame
Sure, yeah.
01:30:25
Connor Downing
But Ken Wilson and Al would do the TV games, and then it fucking moved on to who's that? The shit. I can't remember. He was before, but then fucking dipshit comes in like in the 90s.
01:30:40
Connor Downing
Goddamn Joe Buck. That's where he begins.
01:30:42
The Whole Ballgame
Oh, God.
01:30:43
Connor Downing
Joe Buck and Al are doing the Cardinal games in like the early 90s. I probably listen.
01:30:48
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, that might be a fun thing to do.
01:30:48
Connor Downing
and
01:30:50
The Whole Ballgame
if If we can find a Hrabowski, a Joe Buck, yeah, early Joe Buck shit.
01:30:50
Connor Downing
Yeah, we can find that.
01:30:55
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, we we have a lot of fun with that. Maybe get a little, some some clips from Brockmire. That'll be fun.
01:31:04
Connor Downing
Oh yeah, that's a great show.
01:31:04
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah. Fantastic.
01:31:06
Connor Downing
we
01:31:06
The Whole Ballgame
i paid I paid to watch those seasons after you talked to me about it. And i watched that first season and then I had to pay for the individual episodes.
01:31:14
Connor Downing
Oh yeah.
01:31:15
The Whole Ballgame
And I did because it was fucking great. Because it's not streaming anywhere for free.
01:31:20
Connor Downing
That's hard to believe.
01:31:22
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, I know, right? i Speaking of streaming for free, I just finished Ozark last night. um
01:31:31
The Whole Ballgame
What a program. What a program. I was very, very impressed with that show.
01:31:35
Connor Downing
Hey, you know what I just noticed?
01:31:37
The Whole Ballgame
What's that?
01:31:38
Connor Downing
You say program on an awful lot like Rick.
01:31:45
The Whole Ballgame
That's interesting because no, because it's, it's, it's a, it's a choice, you know, here's a little inside baseball for you.
01:31:48
Connor Downing
It is. Uh-huh. Uh-huh.
01:31:55
The Whole Ballgame
It's a choice that I've made with Rick, right? That Rick says program because it's a Midwest, Southern Midwest sort of lazy way to say program,
01:32:00
Connor Downing
Mm-hmm.
01:32:06
The Whole Ballgame
And it's bleeding over into my real life, and that's scary as shit.
01:32:12
Connor Downing
Yes, this is amazing. We have had a breakthrough here. Oh, my God. Because I'll tell you this, and we've never even discussed this, but i you know i I understand what you're doing. I've noticed. And I took in mental note because I fucking love it.
01:32:28
Connor Downing
I've thought to myself, I've had more than one time I've thought to myself, I absolutely love hearing Rick say program. It's fucking hilarious. It just it does something for me.
01:32:40
Connor Downing
and
01:32:40
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah.
01:32:41
Connor Downing
then You just fucking did it. And I never really...
01:32:45
The Whole Ballgame
But it was me. Yeah.
01:32:46
Connor Downing
yeah, yeah. And like, I don't... was like, I don't think... Because I've heard you say program. and And then here we are. Look at that. We are... What he's telling you is we're becoming monsters.
01:32:57
Connor Downing
Okay?
01:32:57
The Whole Ballgame
yeah Yeah. Some amalgamation of what we are and what we used to be and what we will be in the future. it's it's a It's a disgusting thing. There
01:33:05
Connor Downing
lot of chemicals. Amateur chemists.
01:33:07
The Whole Ballgame
yeah it is. Thank you.
01:33:10
Connor Downing
Hmm.
01:33:12
Connor Downing
Exactly. No coincidences. This is all... We're pulling these... what What we're finding is this is all just one goddamn fucking simulation.
01:33:23
The Whole Ballgame
Yep, without question. The trees are antennas. Don't forget it. Don't forget it. And they'll go into the roots of your plumbing. I spent $775 to pipes this week. Fuck. Yep.
01:33:35
The Whole Ballgame
hydro jet out my fucking plumbing pipes this week
01:33:39
Connor Downing
You gotta watch that. You gotta watch those roots.
01:33:43
The Whole Ballgame
yep Without question. So the good news is that some of the the aliens' communication has been compromised to this week. So maybe we'll have a smoother couple of weeks ahead.
01:33:54
Connor Downing
Mm-hmm.
01:33:55
The Whole Ballgame
ah But it'll it'll grow back fast enough, I'm sure.
01:33:58
Connor Downing
Well, i hear they found some kind of horse shit under the pyramids that supposedly, or, if you know, lead to believe.
01:34:03
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah. There's a city down there some shit. Yeah, that's fine.
01:34:07
Connor Downing
There's some, mm-hmm.
01:34:08
The Whole Ballgame
It doesn't matter.
01:34:09
Connor Downing
I was told that this proves that we live in a hologram simulation.
01:34:15
The Whole Ballgame
A hologram.
01:34:17
Connor Downing
Like, basically, these pipes are going down into all this fucking whatever source, and then the pyramid is sending that out as all this reality. Yeah, yeah, yeah. yeah
01:34:34
Connor Downing
Two little fucking asexual Italian plumbers under there.
01:34:41
The Whole Ballgame
one of them is steve of bellboni
01:34:47
Connor Downing
God.
01:34:47
The Whole Ballgame
Our old archetype.
01:34:51
Connor Downing
Yeah, yeah. That beautiful article by Matty Wishnow.
01:34:54
The Whole Ballgame
These batting gloves look rubber. It looks like he's wearing dish disc gloves.
01:34:57
Connor Downing
Mm-hmm. Yeah, those first ones were pretty
01:35:03
Connor Downing
crazy. Leon was in a in the movies quite a bit. He went on to become a bit of a film star. Yeah.
01:35:13
The Whole Ballgame
Any relation, him and Ray?
01:35:17
The Whole Ballgame
I don't know.
01:35:17
Connor Downing
Not that I know of.
01:35:18
The Whole Ballgame
I got look. I got look. I got look at that one.
01:35:24
Connor Downing
Don't believe so, but... You would have figured, you know, fucking... but As much as Ray was on the White Sox, Hawk would have beat that to death.
01:35:35
The Whole Ballgame
That's a good point.
01:35:36
Connor Downing
He would have said, Baby Boo! They would called him that.
01:35:41
The Whole Ballgame
Yes.
01:35:43
Connor Downing
Oh.
01:35:43
The Whole Ballgame
ah Ray Durham is the brother of Alton Leon Durham. It's confirmed by an obituary.
01:35:47
Connor Downing
It's his brother?
01:35:48
The Whole Ballgame
Yep.
01:35:50
Connor Downing
Are we sure it's the same? Okay.
01:35:51
The Whole Ballgame
I don't think it is.
01:35:53
Connor Downing
was going to say, that's a that's an awful younger brother.
01:35:54
The Whole Ballgame
Nope, it's not.
01:35:58
The Whole Ballgame
But his brother was Alton alton Leon. Ray's brother, Alton Leon Durham.
01:36:04
Connor Downing
Anton LaVey Durham?
01:36:06
The Whole Ballgame
Yes, correct.
01:36:09
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, ray and Ray and Leon are 14 years difference.
01:36:09
Connor Downing
The...
01:36:16
Connor Downing
Oh, I would have thought it more than that,
01:36:17
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah. Leon was born in 57 and Ray was born in
Baseball Fundamentals and Humorous Comparisons
01:36:21
The Whole Ballgame
71. Now,
01:36:26
Connor Downing
Ralph.
01:36:31
The Whole Ballgame
Mark lost his wife, Martha, yesterday. She's here with us today.
01:36:39
The Whole Ballgame
She's very lovely. Her name was Louise, if I remember correctly.
01:36:42
Connor Downing
Uh-oh. Great night with double.
01:36:49
Connor Downing
but
01:36:57
The Whole Ballgame
Frankly, it doesn't matter what her name is. She is dead.
01:36:58
Connor Downing
yes
01:37:01
Connor Downing
oh
01:37:04
Connor Downing
right night with a double
01:37:06
The Whole Ballgame
little double double action for Ray Knight there. Beautiful hit. My goodness. Don't be out in the sixth. ah sir
01:37:14
Connor Downing
Well.
01:37:14
The Whole Ballgame
this This guy character is ah not performing to the best of his abilities here.
01:37:21
Connor Downing
Rest in peace, Martha Louise. 23rd to base it for Ray. Fuck Ray.
01:37:32
Connor Downing
ah hate Ray. I've never liked Ray.
01:37:34
The Whole Ballgame
I'll tell you what I don't like is is is Ralph calling it a two-base hit. It's confusing, and I don't like it.
01:37:43
Connor Downing
No.
01:37:44
The Whole Ballgame
I'm confused. I know that much.
01:37:47
Connor Downing
Rafael Santana.
01:37:52
The Whole Ballgame
Arriba!
01:37:53
Connor Downing
It's quite a ah nice piece of hitting there, moving the runner over to third base, hitting the ball to the right side.
01:37:58
The Whole Ballgame
Sacrifice for Johan Santana there.
01:38:00
Connor Downing
Those are some fundamentals, they call it.
01:38:04
The Whole Ballgame
Small ball, if you will.
01:38:08
Connor Downing
It's called playing the game the right way, Gabe.
01:38:11
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, no question.
01:38:11
Connor Downing
A grind.
01:38:12
The Whole Ballgame
Whitey ball.
01:38:13
Connor Downing
is He's a grinder, you know? Not one of them hot dogs. You don't want to put your hot dogs in the grinders. Hoagies and grinders. Hoagies and grinders.
01:38:22
The Whole Ballgame
I'll tell you this. i got a hot dog where my doughnut goes
01:38:28
Connor Downing
ye
01:38:31
Connor Downing
My donut hole, as it were.
01:38:38
The Whole Ballgame
John McSherry says, no, he didn't go.
01:38:42
Connor Downing
I feel like Tim McCarver got to live.
01:38:44
The Whole Ballgame
would have been a strike 10 times out of 10 today. They would have said he went all the way around 10 times out of 10.
01:38:51
Connor Downing
Probably, especially since he's a pitcher.
01:38:53
The Whole Ballgame
Yep.
01:38:54
Connor Downing
Never would give a pitcher if I can burn for the dog.
01:38:55
The Whole Ballgame
Oh, yeah, it's a good point. Pitchers don't hit anymore.
01:38:59
Connor Downing
Well, no, I mean, just like, you know, there's no way. God damn. I'm like, even before when they, they were the last few years, like they're not going to give a pitcher a benefit. they're They're just going to call it a strike so they can sit his ass down quicker.
01:39:17
Connor Downing
I would say no way. Tim is is asking if...
01:39:21
The Whole Ballgame
No way.
01:39:26
Connor Downing
Tim's trying to stir it up wants Davey to pinch hit for Doc. Are
01:39:33
The Whole Ballgame
I think he's a real asshole, if I'm being honest with you. McCogler, I mean, yeah.
01:39:40
Connor Downing
they talking about Rusty Staub? Is Rusty Staub on the fucking team in 86?
01:39:48
The Whole Ballgame
What's that lamp doing in here?
01:39:54
Connor Downing
showing you the light
01:39:57
The Whole Ballgame
Well, it's not on. Just a lamp.
01:40:02
Connor Downing
turn it on ah thought it was martha both of them yes that martha washington's name
01:40:02
The Whole Ballgame
Rest in peace. Rest in peace, Louise.
01:40:06
The Whole Ballgame
Louise died. Did I tell you? Yeah, sure was.
01:40:16
The Whole Ballgame
her name was Martha Louise.
01:40:22
The Whole Ballgame
No, Martha Washington was Martha Washington. This is Martha Louise.
01:40:26
Connor Downing
I Martha Washington Carver, wasn't it?
01:40:31
The Whole Ballgame
Peanuts! Where's that peanut guy?
01:40:34
Connor Downing
With frozen goodness and green penis.
01:40:34
The Whole Ballgame
Bye, God.
01:40:40
Connor Downing
Rose.
01:40:41
The Whole Ballgame
Green Giant.
01:40:46
Connor Downing
wonder how big the green giant's dick was.
01:40:51
The Whole Ballgame
About the size of Batista's, as far as I can tell. Let's
01:40:54
Connor Downing
that's Goddamn, that was the best answer.
01:40:59
The Whole Ballgame
see here.
01:40:59
Connor Downing
It's not very often that you ask a question of of that nature and get the perfect answer, and that's what just happened. Ralph Kiner told me the Jolly Green Giant's dick was as big as Dave Bautista's.
01:41:18
Connor Downing
I didn't know Ralph even knew Dave.
01:41:25
The Whole Ballgame
Looking at the build. Hmm.
01:41:34
The Whole Ballgame
I walk for miles inside this pit of danger.
01:41:40
Connor Downing
Ralph Kiner doing I Walk Alone.
01:41:44
The Whole Ballgame
I walk alone. Martha's dead.
01:41:58
The Whole Ballgame
Hey, you want to see my machine gun impression? I walk for miles, it's a speed of danger!
01:42:03
Connor Downing
Hey, is that Carl Machine Gun Anderson? Oh no, that's just Ralph Kiner.
01:42:12
Connor Downing
Where's Big Daddy Gallows? Get it, Ralph.
01:42:20
The Whole Ballgame
i walk for miles i speed of danger
01:42:26
The Whole Ballgame
I don't know the rest of the words until I walk here.
01:42:34
Connor Downing
Good shit, Ralph.
01:42:35
The Whole Ballgame
Guy needs to take him out of the game.
01:42:37
Connor Downing
there
01:42:38
The Whole Ballgame
There he is. The guy.
01:42:40
Connor Downing
Ah yes, I showed up.
01:42:42
The Whole Ballgame
ah got You got here. Thank you.
01:42:46
The Whole Ballgame
Spitting out some sunflower seeds there. Or at least that's what it looked like.
01:42:51
Connor Downing
They have fingernails.
01:42:53
The Whole Ballgame
and so No, that's where he keeps his coke is in the individual seeds. He just eats it.
01:42:59
Connor Downing
I like to put the fingernails between my teeth too.
01:43:01
The Whole Ballgame
Oh.
01:43:04
The Whole Ballgame
Well, Keith, I didn't realize that you were into that sort of thing when we were playing ball together. we would ah We would have had some conversations, I reckon.
01:43:13
Connor Downing
I would prefer not to talk to you. You are a strange man.
01:43:18
The Whole Ballgame
Well, that's awful mean. Huh. Goodness, I never juiced a man before, but he got me in the... Well, I mean, if you don't count old Gabe here, ah different kind of juice than you understand.
01:43:34
Connor Downing
Yeah, sure. His dad did work at a juice factory.
01:43:38
The Whole Ballgame
American juice, as I recall. Anyway, ah ah Billboard charts. I looked this up. It looked like for a minute there, it looked as if that I was looking at a an alternate universe because I don't remember the song.
01:43:51
The Whole Ballgame
You might remember it, but to we'll start at number 10 here.
01:43:52
Connor Downing
Okay.
01:43:55
Connor Downing
Was it I walk alone?
01:43:55
The Whole Ballgame
no one's to No One's to Blame by Howard Jones and Danger Zone by Kenny Loggins.
01:43:56
Connor Downing
Okay.
01:44:00
The Whole Ballgame
Of course, we know that tune. When the Heart Rules the Mind by GTR.
01:44:04
Connor Downing
No.
01:44:05
The Whole Ballgame
ah On My Own, Patti LaBelle and Michael McDonald. We know that one. I miss you by climax. That's a two X and a K say, you say me.
01:44:14
Connor Downing
No, that one.
01:44:15
The Whole Ballgame
Well, Lionel Richie, uh, Dionne Warwick and friends with that's what friends are for.
01:44:15
Connor Downing
Oh, yes. Good.
01:44:21
Connor Downing
Oh, okay.
01:44:22
The Whole Ballgame
Walk like an Egyptian, uh, the bangles number three, I want to wake up with you by Boris Gardner. And number one, On the Billboard Hot 100, September 17th, 1986, Don't Leave Me This Way, by the Communards.
01:44:43
The Whole Ballgame
I have no idea what this is. I'm going to try to hunt it down and see if we can't play it for you here.
01:44:50
Connor Downing
Don't leave me this way by the...
01:44:58
Connor Downing
Thelma Houston, Don't Leave Me This Way. Oh, there's the comm.
01:45:22
The Whole Ballgame
absolutely nothing even resembling memory of that song.
01:45:29
Connor Downing
Nope. They have a very, uh, this is some very Russian-looking album art. They are the Communards.
01:45:36
The Whole Ballgame
Yep.
01:45:37
Connor Downing
I don't know if this is a, are they Russian?
01:45:38
The Whole Ballgame
Yep.
01:45:47
The Whole Ballgame
Moreland gets back on that one and
01:45:52
Connor Downing
Don't Leave Me This Way by Tina Turner. There's a lot of Don't Leave Me This Way songs.
01:45:59
The Whole Ballgame
We head to the top of the seventh. It's three nothing Mets.
01:46:03
Connor Downing
Oh, we got to change.
01:46:04
The Whole Ballgame
Rusty Staub in the booth.
01:46:07
Connor Downing
Rusty and ah Pete Zabriskie, I believe they said.
01:46:13
The Whole Ballgame
I need a break. ah i we I won't be back, but go Mets.
01:46:19
Connor Downing
Ralph's got to go to Louise's funeral.
01:46:20
The Whole Ballgame
Go. Can
01:46:23
Connor Downing
So Keith...
01:46:24
The Whole Ballgame
you bring my suit? i name my I need my suit. i knew no I need a black tie. No, the red won't do. No. Uh-uh.
01:46:36
The Whole Ballgame
Well, no, I can't wear the Mets tie. That's just, and that's uncouth.
01:46:43
The Whole Ballgame
Uh-huh. No. Did we we send flowers or are we bringing them? What are we doing? Ah, it's across town. It's at the, uh-huh.
01:46:55
The Whole Ballgame
It's at the Brooklyn Eagles Club. Uh-huh. That's right. No, Martha and Louise both. They'll both be there. Dual caskets. Both them all open. Uh-huh.
01:47:08
The Whole Ballgame
Oh, no. She didn't get shot in the face. It was a heart attack. It's fine.
01:47:12
Connor Downing
Oh, Oh, that one got me in the heart.
01:47:14
The Whole Ballgame
Okay.
01:47:18
The Whole Ballgame
Well, that's what you want to do. Your gas is 87 cents a gallon. I don't...
01:47:26
Connor Downing
but
01:47:29
The Whole Ballgame
No, it's at Peter Luger's afterwards, yeah?
01:47:34
Connor Downing
that's blowa oh that one got me into the heart Not Peter Lugers.
01:47:43
The Whole Ballgame
Oh, boy.
01:47:44
Connor Downing
okay Oh, boy. Ralph is absolutely... He's at Peter Lugers once a month, isn't he?
01:47:53
The Whole Ballgame
Maybe more. Maybe once every two weeks. That's the first. That's the first. Sean Dunson almost fell on his ass swinging at that ball, by the way.
01:48:00
Connor Downing
Oh, man. Well, I didn't want to interrupt to what you had going there, but fucking he threw a curveball and Keith Moreland
01:48:04
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah.
01:48:10
Connor Downing
about fell over like trying he turned his back so fast and it was a strike he thought he was about to catch a fastball to the oof
01:48:20
The Whole Ballgame
Uh... i was i we we got it We got an interview with Doc Gooden talking about his curveball, and this is what he had to say.
01:48:28
Connor Downing
oh god thank you wonderful i really thought we had something
01:48:34
The Whole Ballgame
Dunstan doubles.
01:48:38
Connor Downing
He hurt his back, I think, on that fucking swing.
01:48:40
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, oh no, he tweaked that shit. yeah Yeah, of course he did.
01:48:45
Connor Downing
He always had back problems.
01:48:48
Connor Downing
Look, he's hurt. He's wanting out.
01:48:52
The Whole Ballgame
Yep, he tweaked that shit. Frank DiPino on deck in the bullpen there.
01:48:55
Connor Downing
know Oh, yeah.
01:49:00
The Whole Ballgame
That's Luigi. That's the Luigi to Balboni's Mario. Frank DiPino.
01:49:04
Connor Downing
Oh, there's Bob Deneer. He looks fine.
01:49:08
The Whole Ballgame
Who is this? Is this... Not the guy talking, but the other guy in the announce booth. Who is it?
01:49:16
Connor Downing
Rusty Staub?
01:49:17
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, so this is not Rusty Stolz. This is the other guy, right?
01:49:20
Connor Downing
Yeah, Rusty's gonna...
01:49:21
The Whole Ballgame
The big broadcaster guy is the other guy this guy, and Rusty's the guy that sounds like a ah Brooklyn WAP, right?
01:49:23
Connor Downing
Yeah, yeah.
01:49:28
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah.
01:49:28
Connor Downing
Yeah, he's gonna be the guy that sounds like his nickname was La Grande Orange.
01:49:29
The Whole Ballgame
yeah
01:49:34
The Whole Ballgame
Got it.
01:49:34
Connor Downing
Because it was. When he was an ex... He was... You know the story of Rusty in Montreal?
01:49:40
The Whole Ballgame
Nope.
01:49:41
Connor Downing
So when the Expos were...
01:49:42
The Whole Ballgame
I'm familiar with the Rusty trombone. Ooh.
01:49:44
Connor Downing
Sure, yeah. There's a beautiful major league base or the MLB network did the colorful story, the Montreal Expos and it explains it. But so Rusty went to a Montreal. I think it's 68, 69, whatever, when they first started.
01:50:02
Connor Downing
And he was like their first guy, you know, then they, they loved him and he was the only guy on their team that was worth a shit. Cause you know, they're expansion team. So they sucked and, and they called him like Grande Orange.
01:50:15
Connor Downing
Because he had orange hair. Right hair. Whatever. And he was very big. It's like Hulk L'Orange.
01:50:26
Connor Downing
Maybe it was Le Grand L'Orange. Whatever. You know it.
01:50:28
The Whole Ballgame
The Grand Orange.
01:50:33
Connor Downing
So yeah. Rusty Staub was the first Montreal Hogan.
01:50:40
The Whole Ballgame
Outstanding is the right word, Steve.
01:50:44
The Whole Ballgame
Look at them knees.
01:50:45
Connor Downing
That is the voice of a man that's had a hell of a time in Montreal.
01:50:46
The Whole Ballgame
Aww.
01:50:50
The Whole Ballgame
When them knees start buckling, that's when it's time to get to the strip club in Montreal.
01:50:53
Connor Downing
That's right. Look, Rusty is front row at the burlesque shows in Montreal, okay?
01:50:54
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah.
01:50:59
Connor Downing
He's not at the strip club. No, he is there for the theater and the mix of the eroticism, and it's all going to end and in the climax, you understand?
01:51:09
Connor Downing
Mm-hmm.
01:51:09
The Whole Ballgame
We got, we got sad Bosley in here, pinch hitting for, uh, for Guy LaDuke, whatever his name was Hoffman, Guy Hoffman.
01:51:20
Connor Downing
Guy Fieri, I believe.
01:51:24
The Whole Ballgame
Put that on a flip flop.
01:51:25
Connor Downing
Guy Fawkes.
01:51:26
The Whole Ballgame
Hmm.
01:51:30
The Whole Ballgame
When you were at Disney last year with the family, did you guys eat at at a Chicken Guy? Guy's Chicken Tender Restaurant?
01:51:40
Connor Downing
No, didn't even see it. Hmm.
01:51:42
The Whole Ballgame
It's at Disney Springs, and the you know, that outdoor mall. um
01:51:46
Connor Downing
Hmm.
01:51:48
The Whole Ballgame
ah Delicious chicken fingers, great sauces, you know, absolutely, you know, high quality sort of shit, but very, very expensive, like Five Guys expensive for chicken fingers. Mm-hmm.
01:51:58
Connor Downing
Five guys are going cost you more than two.
01:52:01
The Whole Ballgame
That's
01:52:02
Connor Downing
just economics.
01:52:06
The Whole Ballgame
good point.
01:52:08
The Whole Ballgame
yep
01:52:12
Connor Downing
Look, five guys...
01:52:12
The Whole Ballgame
Thad flies out to end the inning here. We head to the bottom of the seventh. Three nothing.
01:52:21
Connor Downing
Five guys is well worth it.
01:52:24
The Whole Ballgame
I haven't been in a long time. um
01:52:28
The Whole Ballgame
But yes, I think about it pretty often.
01:52:31
Connor Downing
I am...
01:52:31
The Whole Ballgame
i love a sma i love I love a burger that's got that ah crunchy shit around the outside. and That's problematic.
01:52:39
Connor Downing
I am less than a mile from one.
01:52:43
Connor Downing
It's one on the corner, for God's sakes.
01:52:48
Connor Downing
I am less than a mile from a Taco Bell, a Dairy Queen, a Five Guys, and a McDonald's.
01:52:55
The Whole Ballgame
And that other place too, the place we went to when I was down there.
01:52:56
Connor Downing
And a Pizza Hut.
01:52:58
The Whole Ballgame
What's that place called? Not the pizza place. That was all right. But I'm talking about the burger joint.
01:53:08
Connor Downing
Olive Garden.
01:53:10
The Whole Ballgame
That's the one.
01:53:10
Connor Downing
That's where that Tesla got keyed.
01:53:11
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah. It's the exact same one where the Tesla guy keyed.
01:53:13
Connor Downing
mean
01:53:15
The Whole Ballgame
That's right.
01:53:16
Connor Downing
And then that cunt...
01:53:16
The Whole Ballgame
That guy in his pants. My God.
01:53:18
Connor Downing
Yeah, yeah, that guy. Fuck him, he's an idiot. But then that cunt goes on... Look, this bitch goes on the fucking news, okay? In her scooter.
01:53:26
The Whole Ballgame
Uh-huh.
01:53:27
Connor Downing
And...
01:53:28
The Whole Ballgame
Listen to that. Listen to that ovation from Magadin here. Unbelievable................
01:53:31
Connor Downing
She... She had to go out of her way to say... you know, and I'm already in a wheelchair, so I got it bad enough kind of shit. Like, she had to introduce that into the goddamn conversation.
01:53:46
Connor Downing
And then she was also stupid enough to say, well, look, I'm not, uh, you're not even hurting Elon. You're, if anything, you're giving him more money from the repairs.
01:53:56
The Whole Ballgame
Jesus fucking Christ.
01:54:00
Connor Downing
Yeah, because you think Elon owns the fucking car repair shop?
01:54:00
The Whole Ballgame
They don't understand. They understand nothing.
01:54:05
Connor Downing
You think he, like, Fucking get out of here. She was so intellectually dishonest.
01:54:12
The Whole Ballgame
I will say this. You know, to Larry's credit, Larry would never use his being in a wheelchair as ah an excuse to bitch about something.
01:54:22
Connor Downing
Uh-huh. You know...
01:54:24
The Whole Ballgame
That's for sure.
01:54:25
Connor Downing
You know when you don't have to let the... You don't and you don't have to introduce the words. Yeah, and I'm in a wheelchair. You know when you don't have to do that? When you're sitting there in your fucking wheelchair on camera.
01:54:36
Connor Downing
Okay? Okay.
01:54:38
The Whole Ballgame
Ooh, there's an error on...
01:54:44
Connor Downing
I saw...
01:54:44
The Whole Ballgame
Magadin reaches base again.
01:54:46
Connor Downing
ah I know. It wasn't hard to see through what the fuck she was doing, is my point. And it was gross.
01:54:52
The Whole Ballgame
of course not. Like, look, it's... theres There's... There's real victims and there's fake victims, right? Like... And... That is The...
01:55:06
The Whole Ballgame
the the the false victimization of the right in America lately is, um, is exactly what they're, Oh, look at that little curtain call for mags.
01:55:20
Connor Downing
Mm-hmm.
01:55:21
The Whole Ballgame
That's, that's, that's very nice. Um, it, it's kind of the m MO, right? It's, it's the, that they've been treated so poorly for so long and You know, they're finally rising up and they're getting what they're doing.
01:55:40
The Whole Ballgame
they are cockroaches and the lights are off. And so they all come out of the cabinetry at night together. And as soon as we figure out how to turn the fucking light back on, they go away.
01:55:56
The Whole Ballgame
And we can't get our heads out of our asses, thank you, Dally, fast enough to get them back in the cabinetry. Because as soon as the light goes on, they're gone. It's over.
Philosophical Musings on Wealth and Power
01:56:08
Connor Downing
Look, brah, I don't like politics, brah.
01:56:08
The Whole Ballgame
And we can't figure out how to turn it on.
01:56:12
Connor Downing
They're all garbage, brah. I'm telling you. But this Bobby Kennedy, brah, he's on to something.
01:56:19
Connor Downing
By the way, did you see the spike in the vitamin A toxicity poisoning in Texas after all Bobby encouraged everybody to dose their vitamin A to fight the measles?
01:56:32
Connor Downing
Fucking dipshit. Can you hear his voice, people?
01:56:38
The Whole Ballgame
Well, I don't know. You know, I don't know. It's just Jefferson's chicken sandwich at McDonald's. Right.
01:56:45
Connor Downing
Disqualified.
01:56:45
The Whole Ballgame
yeah
01:56:46
Connor Downing
Disqualified.
01:56:46
The Whole Ballgame
if she didn't have dennet anyway
01:56:46
Connor Downing
Disqualified. Fuck off.
01:56:48
The Whole Ballgame
but you judge you no way we
01:56:49
Connor Downing
Fuck off.
01:56:50
The Whole Ballgame
ah is judge jefferson even a chicken sandwich mean mcdonal'
01:56:55
Connor Downing
No. No.
01:56:56
The Whole Ballgame
yeah i don't
01:56:57
Connor Downing
No, you don't get to play. Sorry. go be Go be a fucking disadvantaged Kennedy, you poor bastard. Fuck off.
01:57:07
The Whole Ballgame
right
01:57:08
Connor Downing
You... God...
01:57:09
The Whole Ballgame
I you see it's here's what sucks for me. Like personally. All right. Here's my wheel look at me in my wheelchair moment. um I.
01:57:23
The Whole Ballgame
I started watching Curb Your Enthusiasm again about a week ago.
01:57:30
Connor Downing
Yeah.
01:57:30
The Whole Ballgame
Like just going through it because i I love the Seinfeld stuff. I love his shit. Like. I get.
01:57:39
The Whole Ballgame
very, very uneasy whenever fucking Cheryl Hines is on camera now.
01:57:44
Connor Downing
yeah
01:57:44
The Whole Ballgame
it It is affected the way that I look at at at her, like, even on screen. Like, the fact that this woman has bought into this nonsense and and bullshit and, like, and she's a Democrat, like, she's a real Democrat on, like, dip... Ah, listen to me.
01:58:02
The Whole Ballgame
I shouldn't even say it. It just sounds like...
01:58:06
The Whole Ballgame
right wing versus left wing bullshit. She's, she had seemed to be an intellectually honest person before.
01:58:12
Connor Downing
yeah yeah no
01:58:13
The Whole Ballgame
Let's put it that way. Right. And clearly that's just not the case. And it's, it's kind of disgusting. Um, but it's affecting that for me and shoot, you know, if it's affecting like my entertainment, then we got a problem. So back to Seinfeld it is.
01:58:28
Connor Downing
it's all going to be connected from here on out or you're just going to be not a serious person those are going to be your two options
01:58:30
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah.
01:58:35
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah.
01:58:37
The Whole Ballgame
If I don't have to look at her, it's fine. But yeah, no, every time she's always just like, oh yeah, she married that dipshit that has absolutely no backbone or ability to speak.
01:58:49
Connor Downing
No, this, I think what we find is, you know, people will compromise themselves for far, far less than we tend to think they will.
01:59:01
The Whole Ballgame
Well, and that's the wild thing, right? It's like people aren't putting together that it's not about money. ah Certainly not in his case. It's just about um living up to what he he believes is a legacy for his family and having some power beyond you know getting half a percent of the vote in a primary.
01:59:22
Connor Downing
It's all power.
01:59:22
The Whole Ballgame
Right?
01:59:23
Connor Downing
That's all it is. What, what, yeah what, yeah.
01:59:24
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, power. Correct. Correct.
01:59:26
Connor Downing
What's the richest people in the world? They don't need anything, right? Like, yeah, they're just doing now the goodness. Like that is, It's for power.
01:59:32
The Whole Ballgame
Give me a fucking break.
01:59:32
Connor Downing
so So they can control.
01:59:33
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah.
01:59:34
Connor Downing
that When you're that fucking rich, that is all that is left.
01:59:36
The Whole Ballgame
That's it.
01:59:38
Connor Downing
What they should do if they were decent fucking humans and normal is they would withdraw from fucking society and go live their goddamn just rich fucking awesome life or fucking be, you know, do something good with that money and create something good and not do shit to have power.
01:59:39
The Whole Ballgame
That's it.
01:59:58
Connor Downing
Like, yeah, I don't know, you gotta worry about a really rich motherfucker that wants a lot of power.
02:00:07
The Whole Ballgame
Right.
02:00:09
Connor Downing
Because guess what? You get the money and you get the power and then you can fucking control everything.
02:00:14
The Whole Ballgame
Mm-hmm.
02:00:15
Connor Downing
So it's probably a good idea to keep the power and the money separate.
02:00:19
The Whole Ballgame
Ooh.
02:00:20
Connor Downing
But that doesn't...
02:00:21
The Whole Ballgame
Darryl.
02:00:21
Connor Downing
Ah, shit. Fuck, it fell down.
02:00:28
Connor Downing
Big Daddy Cool with a ribby.
02:00:29
The Whole Ballgame
Arb. Yep.
02:00:33
The Whole Ballgame
And it is four nothing.
Humor in Baseball Memories and Rituals
02:00:37
The Whole Ballgame
here in the bottom of the seventh.
02:00:38
Connor Downing
Oh, shit. That was fucking Keith with his hat on sideways, being one of the guys.
02:00:40
The Whole Ballgame
Oh.
02:00:44
Connor Downing
He's celebrating, you know. We had our problems, and this is what I told him, you know. It's not about you, motherfucker. And see, its this is what it was like in the good times.
02:00:58
The Whole Ballgame
He gets a day off and
02:01:03
Connor Downing
We went out and had an RC Cola.
02:01:09
The Whole Ballgame
I always liked the moon pies. They sold moon pies at the strip club.
02:01:16
Connor Downing
You know, we used to call...
02:01:16
The Whole Ballgame
I'd be, uh...
02:01:17
Connor Downing
oh sorry.
02:01:20
The Whole Ballgame
i I'd have, uh...
02:01:22
Connor Downing
yeah
02:01:23
The Whole Ballgame
God damn it.
02:01:24
Connor Downing
that
02:01:25
The Whole Ballgame
Didn't know what what that was, and then I figured it out.
02:01:32
Connor Downing
I thought you were going to tell us a story about Round Robin, but I'll tell you his story. It wasn't about a girl named Round Robin, but it was about a chick named Flat Tamra.
02:01:45
Connor Downing
Anyway, she had an A and a C and a massive, massive turd cutter, though.
02:01:56
Connor Downing
Anyway.
02:01:57
The Whole Ballgame
You talking about her dumper, daddy?
02:01:59
Connor Downing
Yeah, same thing. So anyway, I fucked her.
02:02:05
The Whole Ballgame
You get pink eye?
02:02:07
Connor Downing
Double barrel.
02:02:09
The Whole Ballgame
Double barrel pink eye is like that's the the top level. that's that that's That means you're doing something right.
02:02:18
Connor Downing
Goo goo kachoo.
02:02:28
Connor Downing
like we're backstage at the pod in Anaheim. to
02:02:35
Connor Downing
That was fucking dark. Rest in peace.
02:02:42
Connor Downing
Sort of.
02:02:42
The Whole Ballgame
Pretty sure Doc is still alive.
02:02:44
Connor Downing
but You know what I mean.
02:02:45
The Whole Ballgame
Oh, oh, okay. Yeah, never mind.
02:02:47
Connor Downing
whole multiverse thing we got going.
02:02:52
Connor Downing
Read some of this.
02:02:55
Connor Downing
Uh-oh. I'm gonna swipe a fucking bag.
02:03:00
Connor Downing
That was a shit call.
02:03:02
The Whole Ballgame
ah How's your quads, Daryl? You all right? You went a little fast there.
02:03:09
Connor Downing
That fucking out blew the call. Not my fault. He didn't even get the tag on me. Look at that shit. Somebody get the fucking Zapruder film out and let's roll thing back.
02:03:23
Connor Downing
Look. Look. Back and to the left. The tag is back to the left. And Mookie...
02:03:30
The Whole Ballgame
Mookie fell down. My God, what a terrible game for Mookie Wilson.
02:03:34
Connor Downing
God. Mookie's not doing... Jesus Christ.
02:03:39
The Whole Ballgame
In the name of Satan, the ruler of Earth, the king of the world, I command the forces of darkness to bestow their infernal power upon me. upon wide the gates Open wide the gates of hell and come forth from the abyss to greet me as your brother and friend.
02:03:52
The Whole Ballgame
Grant me the indulgences of which I speak. I have taken thy name as a part of myself. I live as the beasts of the field, rejoicing in the fleshly life. I favor the just and curse of the rotten.
02:04:07
The Whole Ballgame
I'm sorry. I favor the just and curse the rotten.
02:04:10
Connor Downing
Thank
02:04:12
The Whole Ballgame
by all the gods of the pit, I command that these things of which I speak shall come to pass, come forth and answer to your names by manifesting my desires. Oh, hear the Azazel, Balbarith, Balaam, Baphomet, Bast, Beelzebub, Behemoth, Beherit, Bileh,
02:04:40
The Whole Ballgame
Shemash, Simmeres, Coyote, Dagon, Dambala, Demogorgon, Diabolus, Dracula, Emma-o, Euronymous, Fenris, Gorgo, Heberim, Hekate, Ishtar, Kali, Lilith, Loki, Maman, Mania, matt Mantis, Marduk, Mastema, Malictau, Mephistopheles, Methsili,
02:04:56
Connor Downing
Brother, what dude? Devil push?
02:05:05
Connor Downing
Oh, brother, brother.
02:05:07
The Whole Ballgame
Mikdian, Midgard, Milcom, Moloch, Mormo, Nama, Nergal, Nihasa.
02:05:14
Connor Downing
Brother, Nihasa push, dude?
02:05:17
The Whole Ballgame
Nija, Oyama, Pan, Pluto, Prosperine, Puka, Raman, Sabazios, Samael, Samnu, Sedit, Sekhmet, Set, Shaitan, Shamad, Shiva, Supay, Ta'anmo, Tehort, Teskalepaka, Thammuz, Thoth, Tunrida, Typhon, Typhoon, Yelzin, Yenlo, Wang,
02:05:37
Connor Downing
Brother, Ottman, dude. The B-A-Double-D Steelman, dude. Brother, not a B-A-Double-D Steelman push, dude. Not a Pan push, dude. Not Pan.
02:05:50
The Whole Ballgame
Nothing opened up in my yard or anything. So I think we're we're safe. I think Anton's belief system is...
02:06:00
Connor Downing
I mean, everything's fine other than there's Bob Horner in your hallway in the background. Uh-oh. Gabe's... Gabe's convulsing or he's dancing like akeem the african dream i think he might be doing that thing like with oh is there he has a trash can in the background it's on fire and there's the doctor of style from down the road in detroit and babs is dancing around
02:06:17
The Whole Ballgame
I forgot to mention that name, Akeem. oh
02:06:32
Connor Downing
And they're throwing the one-man gang gear in the trash. And now there's a big fire poof. And, oh, there's Gabe. It's a jive-so-bro.
02:06:45
The Whole Ballgame
Bring me my colchicine.
02:06:49
The Whole Ballgame
My gouge is flaring up. Yes, please. Yeah, now it's in my big toe on the left foot. Uh-huh.
02:06:57
Connor Downing
those deli meats.
02:06:57
The Whole Ballgame
Well, no. it's ah It's a buildup of uric acid. That's correct. Yes. I've been eating too much steak. Yeah, maybe we should rethink... Yeah.
02:07:11
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah.
02:07:14
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, we'll rethink... Yeah. Uh-huh. Yeah, no steaks tonight. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The broccoli rabe would be okay, I suppose.
02:07:27
The Whole Ballgame
Fried chicken? Sure, sure.
02:07:32
The Whole Ballgame
invite Joe, though. Joe West. Yeah. Yeah, he's at the game. where She can meet us there. Uh-huh.
02:07:40
The Whole Ballgame
Oh, I love him. I think he's wonderful.
02:07:44
The Whole Ballgame
Thank you, Louise.
02:07:47
Connor Downing
I thought she was dead.
02:07:52
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, she probably is.
02:07:54
Connor Downing
They're throwing streamers on the field. I think they threw that little kid, Ryan, from YouTube out there.
02:08:01
Connor Downing
I tickled myself there. You get it? Streamer?
02:08:06
The Whole Ballgame
and do
02:08:07
Connor Downing
Okay. I've said far less funnier things that you've laughed at, and you didn't even give me a courtesy giggle at that. See, it's funny because it's a small child.
02:08:17
Connor Downing
And he sucks. And it's 1986, which he wouldn't even gonna be born for like 30 years. So it makes it ridiculous, too. And no, thank you.
02:08:25
The Whole Ballgame
Thank you.
02:08:29
Connor Downing
Glad we're doing this.
02:08:32
Connor Downing
Little Wee Wee Walker. Oh, look at look at John McSherry. What a body.
02:08:41
The Whole Ballgame
He looks like the the fat guy in every frat movie from the nineteen late 1970s. Mm-hmm.
02:08:46
Connor Downing
He really does. Yeah, he's got that quality about him. I tell you, watching these old games, man, watching the transformation of the umpires into neutered fucking bitches has been something.
02:08:59
The Whole Ballgame
Got Pat Patterson there at first.
02:09:01
Connor Downing
Like...
02:09:01
The Whole Ballgame
don't if you saw his face, the craters in the inside of his face, and his big but fucking nose looked just like Pat Patterson.
02:09:06
Connor Downing
Jesus Christ. He wasn't even close to that.
02:09:09
The Whole Ballgame
Swing and a miss. That's just another strikeout for Doc.
02:09:12
Connor Downing
So late. But I mean, I guess it even extends the players, though.
02:09:14
The Whole Ballgame
Wild.
02:09:17
Connor Downing
Like, they're all just like, I think all these personalities we see and then we just had it all fucking choked out of us.
02:09:28
Connor Downing
Like.
02:09:28
The Whole Ballgame
That's best way to put it. Choked out.
02:09:30
Connor Downing
We should still be like this.
02:09:38
The Whole Ballgame
Raphael Palmeiro here. he looked my gun he and He and Keith could be brothers.
02:09:46
Connor Downing
Yeah, I mean, you know.
02:09:50
Connor Downing
Uh-oh. Got a hold of that one.
02:09:55
Connor Downing
Out of here.
02:09:56
The Whole Ballgame
Ah. There it is.
02:09:59
Connor Downing
Look at that.
02:10:02
The Whole Ballgame
Two run homer for Rafael Palmeiro and Doc is not happy about it.
02:10:08
Connor Downing
I got a Raphael Palmeiro patch card. Cubs.
02:10:12
The Whole Ballgame
Wonderful.
02:10:13
Connor Downing
Cubs, too.
02:10:15
The Whole Ballgame
That's pretty good. and That's...
02:10:19
Connor Downing
How could they possibly know they have a Rafael Palmeiro jersey from 1987, like 30 years later, laying around? That's what I want to know.
02:10:29
The Whole Ballgame
They might've gotten it from him. They they they'll buy from the the players.
02:10:35
Connor Downing
I guess.
02:10:38
Connor Downing
They could lie about it and nobody would ever be able to figure it out. You know that, right?
02:10:44
The Whole Ballgame
Oh, they, do and they do like, there's been tons of instances where both of the companies, people open them up just to check. And like, it'll be somebody else's last name on the patch.
02:10:56
The Whole Ballgame
Like, yeah, yeah.
02:10:57
Connor Downing
That's good.
02:10:58
The Whole Ballgame
They don't,
02:11:01
The Whole Ballgame
There's no real way of knowing you got to just believe in it. That's all just like everything else, right?
02:11:06
Connor Downing
Yeah, it sounds a lot like everything else, really. Like all of our social constructs in this fucking... You know, we're in a holographic simulation game.
02:11:17
Connor Downing
The pyramids, they're basically just... What you are what you're doing, that. That's being sent out in a hologram from Egypt.
02:11:28
The Whole Ballgame
ah From what I can figure out, there really are only two things um that last forever. It's the pyramids and the the legends of professional wrestling.
02:11:39
Connor Downing
No, you see, that's where you got it wrong.
02:11:41
The Whole Ballgame
Oh, okay.
02:11:42
Connor Downing
It's pussy and pimento, loaf pal.
02:11:46
The Whole Ballgame
Got it. Okay.
02:11:47
Connor Downing
Time fears only the pyramids and the legends of wrestling.
02:11:48
The Whole Ballgame
Baloney blowout?
02:11:51
The Whole Ballgame
Oh, okay. Got it.
02:11:54
Connor Downing
We're going baloney blowout tonight?
02:11:58
The Whole Ballgame
Let's see why not.
02:11:59
Connor Downing
Fuck it. Fantasy draft baloney blowout 25. Like the butt bongo fiesta. Let's get some whores. What do you say?
02:12:10
The Whole Ballgame
Sounds good. Heading to the bottom of the eighth. Mets lead Old
02:12:16
Connor Downing
got to appreciate the three errors by the Cubs.
02:12:16
The Whole Ballgame
and all well
02:12:21
The Whole Ballgame
o Ray Knight here going to lead off the bottom of the eighth.
02:12:31
Connor Downing
Ray looks like a man who was the representative house representative from South Carolina in 1982. He's
02:12:45
Connor Downing
he's smelling little girl's hair in church.
02:12:50
Connor Downing
Like Gabe did it to Topanga. But not when she was young. She was an adult Topanga. And if he did it when she was young, it would have been fine too because he would have been the same age.
02:13:00
The Whole Ballgame
I would have been the same age. That's right. Ray Knight. Base hit.
02:13:10
Connor Downing
Gabe ain't no Baca. Wop, wop, wop, wop.
02:13:17
The Whole Ballgame
think Baca was one of the names in here.
02:13:21
Connor Downing
Is Drake?
02:13:25
The Whole Ballgame
It's not. known No, no. Dracula, though.
02:13:28
Connor Downing
That's close enough for me.
02:13:29
The Whole Ballgame
Close enough. yep
02:13:31
Connor Downing
we We do far worse with far less.
02:13:35
The Whole Ballgame
There's no question about it.
02:13:40
Connor Downing
Raphael Santana's got an interesting face, doesn't he?
02:13:45
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah.
02:13:52
Connor Downing
think it's the mustache.
02:13:55
The Whole Ballgame
Usually that is the answer is the mustache. Yeah.
02:14:04
Connor Downing
Oh yeah, so this is Rusty's first year out of the game.
02:14:12
Connor Downing
ah September to remember. See that out there?
02:14:15
The Whole Ballgame
Uh-huh.
02:14:18
Connor Downing
That fan had a sign that said, own the oligarchs.
02:14:27
The Whole Ballgame
Something about clinching something. I don't know if it was a it was for McCarver or what.
02:14:33
Connor Downing
it said clench your penis, Teb. Clench your penis before you shit yours yourself.
02:14:44
The Whole Ballgame
No. No, no, we're okay. They're clean. Yeah. No, I thought maybe because of the hot dogs earlier. Yeah. No, no. I just went and checked and there's no, you know, no brown marks, no no skids, nothing like that. So just the suit is fine. I don't need to change the underwear.
02:15:08
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah.
02:15:10
The Whole Ballgame
No, I clinched it. Yeah.
02:15:17
Connor Downing
Bobby Denier with the pop-up from Santana because he's so smooth.
02:15:21
The Whole Ballgame
Well, sure, sure yeah. No, that lamp is still in here, and I don't understand where it came from. Uh-huh.
02:15:32
The Whole Ballgame
Well,
02:15:37
The Whole Ballgame
why is there that tiny little bed in there, too? i don't I can't fit on that thing.
02:15:48
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, Martha, thank you. OK.
02:15:52
Connor Downing
Still, I'm not sure who's dead and who's alive.
02:15:59
Connor Downing
Both?
02:15:59
The Whole Ballgame
Doc looking to bunt here.
02:16:05
Connor Downing
Surprising, you know, the you shirt eat the certainly wouldn't see that today. pitcher, you know, giving up a two-run homer in the last inning and then being up to bat, which he wouldn't do anyway, but.
Strategic Gameplay and Surprise Guests
02:16:20
Connor Downing
Clearly Davey gonna let Dot go the distance.
02:16:26
The Whole Ballgame
Sacrifice for Doc there.
02:16:29
Connor Downing
It's a sacrifice.
02:16:37
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, Ray Knight got a good jump off of the bag at first there.
02:16:45
The Whole Ballgame
He almost wheeled it right down the right field line. Yeah, that's right.
02:16:52
Connor Downing
Len Dykstra.
02:16:57
Connor Downing
Not Lenny.
02:17:04
Connor Downing
The Spanish chicks like to call me Len.
02:17:12
Connor Downing
I think they're the hottest ones, Gabe. I don't know what they are. They're just some kind of Spanish.
02:17:18
The Whole Ballgame
Is that John Starks?
02:17:21
Connor Downing
That was Nails.
02:17:22
The Whole Ballgame
Oh, okay.
02:17:23
Connor Downing
They both got a lisp.
02:17:26
Connor Downing
No, if it's John Starks, he would have called you a bitch and insulted you.
02:17:29
The Whole Ballgame
That's right. That's true. We head to the ninth inning here. It is four two It's the last chance for the Cubs.
02:17:37
Connor Downing
Hey, since you guys are in my town, I thought I'd swing by and say, what's up, you stupid fuck? Starks on your head, bitch. There he goes.
02:17:47
The Whole Ballgame
Thank you.
02:17:47
Connor Downing
He's out. You did that to yourself.
02:17:49
The Whole Ballgame
Appreciate it, John. good Good to have had you here.
02:17:54
Connor Downing
See, we told you we hate ourselves more than anybody. And Gabe hates John and he brought that upon himself. An act of self-flagellation. He's now doing Hindu squats.
02:18:06
The Whole Ballgame
Not to be mistaken with self-flatulation.
02:18:14
Connor Downing
Wicked brah.
02:18:18
Connor Downing
You like apples?
02:18:26
Connor Downing
the The crowd is alive in Queens. These people believe Gary Carter is yelling at someone.
02:18:32
The Whole Ballgame
They are standing with, with every
02:18:41
Connor Downing
Oh.
02:18:44
Connor Downing
We need a light turned off. The country Christ is going to get that done.
02:18:50
Connor Downing
He's over there talking to the army.
02:18:56
The Whole Ballgame
Joe West. What a kisser.
02:18:59
Connor Downing
Just, boy, wonder who he voted for.
02:19:04
The Whole Ballgame
Well, let's ask him, Joe, who'd you vote for?
02:19:12
The Whole Ballgame
In the 2024 election, mean. four election i mean
02:19:17
Connor Downing
i don't like to talk politics.
02:19:22
The Whole Ballgame
I understand. and I can appreciate it as well. I'm just, I'm asking because, you know, given the state of baseball today and and everything that's happening and ah we we anticipate there be there will be some sort of effect on the the game itself from this administration. I just wanted to get an understanding of whether you support the administration or you're you're on the other side of the aisle.
02:19:48
Connor Downing
Well, if you must know, Gail, I voted for Kamala because I said to myself, I'd like to see four years of that dumper. Her. Know
02:20:02
Connor Downing
so what you wanted, pal?
02:20:06
Connor Downing
What the fuck else I'm going to do with that? Yeah.
02:20:15
Connor Downing
You know, I like the ah like to get a fried egg burger at Round Robins. I mean Red Robin. They got bottomless fries.
02:20:24
The Whole Ballgame
Round Robin is hell of a chick.
02:20:29
Connor Downing
okay I take it she's dead the way he said that.
02:20:32
The Whole Ballgame
Oh, no question about that. a A dumper like that, you don't last forever.
02:20:40
Connor Downing
Yeah, I guess so. Never really thought of the correlation between the Lasting Forever and the Dumper.
02:20:49
The Whole Ballgame
Roger McDowell warming up in the bullpen.
02:20:54
The Whole Ballgame
Is Doc going to
02:20:59
Connor Downing
Champagne's on ice.
02:20:59
The Whole Ballgame
finish this thing or not? Champagne's on ice. That's right.
02:21:03
Connor Downing
day note Davey went out there and gave him the strike this motherfucker out.
02:21:12
The Whole Ballgame
Lou Brown.
02:21:17
Connor Downing
This poor bastard's back is killing him.
02:21:19
The Whole Ballgame
John Dunstan's back still hurts. Yes, absolutely. Into the mouth, out into the nose, out to the mouth. There we go.
02:21:25
Connor Downing
Six to... Nope.
02:21:29
Connor Downing
Jeez, Wally. He could have tried it to turn it at least.
02:21:38
Connor Downing
Guy's got a bad back. He might have got him.
02:21:52
Connor Downing
Oh, well, Rusty says, good job not trying.
02:21:57
The Whole Ballgame
This guy looks like fucking
02:21:58
Connor Downing
Oh, boy. It's Chris Spire.
02:22:02
The Whole Ballgame
Wayne Gretzky.
02:22:04
Connor Downing
No ear flaps.
02:22:07
The Whole Ballgame
you know, bitch.
02:22:13
The Whole Ballgame
My family is the worst mess, Linda said in a tearful video, which has since prompted a response from Brooke.
Celebrity Dynamics and Nostalgia
02:22:21
The Whole Ballgame
Linda Hogan shared an emotional video on social media about her fractured family dynamics, calling her ex-husband, Hulk, a liar and sex addict.
02:22:29
The Whole Ballgame
She also shared that she had been estranged from her daughter Brooke, 36, for about eight years. It's been 15, however, long years since I left Hulk Hogan, and my family is the worst mess, Linda said in an Instagram story video.
02:22:45
The Whole Ballgame
I've given him more opportunities to come back and make up the family, she said of Hulk whom she was married to between 83 and 2009. It's been 20 years and I'm still this sad.
02:22:58
The Whole Ballgame
Somebody please explain that.
02:23:03
Connor Downing
Explain. flame
02:23:03
The Whole Ballgame
I do love living alone. i don't ever want to be married again after him. Trust me. Linda also said Hulk does not have a relationship with Brooke or their son, Nick. 34. We mean nothing to him, she said, also stating that she had to be honest about what I went through in my marriage with her ex.
02:23:23
The Whole Ballgame
He's a complete liar. He's a sex addict. addict Yet he marches on like, oh, I'm promoting my own beer. Yeah, look at me, Linda said of his beer brand, Real American Beer.
02:23:36
The Whole Ballgame
Of her estrangement with her daughter, Linda said Brooke doesn't talk to us and did not inform them that she had gotten married to her partner, the former professional hockey player Stephen Oleski, in 2022 and his welcome twins.
02:23:50
The Whole Ballgame
Linda claimed Brooke stopped speaking to them after she got into a fight with her father eight years ago. I don't know how that reflected onto me, but she cut me out too, Linda said.
02:24:01
The Whole Ballgame
Brooke, for her part, has since responded to the claims in her own Instagram statement. I have completely separate reasons for going no contact with each of my parents. No contact with my mom has nothing to do with my dad, and no contact with my father has nothing to do with my mother.
02:24:16
The Whole Ballgame
What I'm about to say is not pointed at either person. It is my own personal truth. Brooke shared she was extremely verbally and mentally abused during her childhood, and it would frequently turn physical.
02:24:27
Connor Downing
Oh. Good.
02:24:28
The Whole Ballgame
Cycles must be broken, Brooke said. At this point, my husband, my children, and my relationship with God is my priority. There have been more than enough chances and reprieve given. It has to stop. It ends now.
02:24:41
The Whole Ballgame
Reps for Hulk Hogan didn't immediately respond. Linda is best known for headlining the 2005 Hogan family reality show. Hogan knows best ran for four seasons.
02:24:51
The Whole Ballgame
It's interesting that she's not, she's not talking there. Nick's not talking to him either.
02:24:57
Connor Downing
Yeah, I don't...
02:24:57
The Whole Ballgame
Cause last I saw Nick was doing karaoke for his dad at the beach shop and shit.
02:25:01
Connor Downing
Yeah, he's always fucking with him. He's with him on doing the beer stuff. He's like at the god...
02:25:06
The Whole Ballgame
Oh, is he? Okay.
02:25:06
Connor Downing
Yeah, he's at the goddamn...
02:25:07
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah. So that's just poor reporting on entertainment weekly spark.
02:25:10
Connor Downing
Or... our She's talking out her fucking ass.
02:25:13
The Whole Ballgame
Well, I mean, yeah, of course she is.
02:25:15
Connor Downing
Like, you know, can't even keep her shit straight. Ah, what a mess, man. What garbage people are garbage people, dude.
02:25:21
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah.
02:25:23
Connor Downing
Like, what do you fucking expect?
02:25:23
The Whole Ballgame
Yep.
02:25:24
Connor Downing
Good for Baruch.
02:25:25
The Whole Ballgame
But she's right about ending the cycle. It's absolutely true.
02:25:27
Connor Downing
Yeah.
02:25:28
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, good for her.
02:25:29
Connor Downing
If she didn't cut them off, she would just be in it.
02:25:30
The Whole Ballgame
ah
02:25:33
The Whole Ballgame
You see Keith is in the game here now?
02:25:34
Connor Downing
Yep, yep.
02:25:36
The Whole Ballgame
Because they took Magadan out early in the game earlier with a pitch hit with a pitch hitter, I think.
02:25:42
Connor Downing
I was feeling much better. I had a completed my mission and the ball game is over, you see. We are the guys.
02:25:47
The Whole Ballgame
And that this is the ball game.
02:25:48
Connor Downing
We have won the championship.
02:25:50
The Whole Ballgame
Nope, wait, that's two outs. Mm-hmm.
02:25:52
Connor Downing
Ah, the kid. He got me excited. I'm also high on drugs.
02:25:56
The Whole Ballgame
They watched that. He watched it.
02:26:05
The Whole Ballgame
I am also high on drugs.
02:26:08
Connor Downing
It explains anything, basically.
02:26:14
The Whole Ballgame
Oh, that's good.
02:26:15
Connor Downing
As long as you can own it, it is fine, you know? Fuck it.
02:26:20
The Whole Ballgame
Wee Willie Walker.
02:26:22
Connor Downing
Hey, is that Wee Willy Walker?
02:26:24
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, yeah here's there's there's a... Oh, Joe West is going to get real pissed off real quick. Oh, there you go.
02:26:33
Connor Downing
Oh, Doc. Doc looked.
02:26:34
The Whole Ballgame
Nice satin jacket back there.
02:26:36
Connor Downing
That's a st strike.
02:26:38
The Whole Ballgame
That was absolutely a strike.
02:26:43
Connor Downing
Abuse the field.
02:26:43
The Whole Ballgame
There's a swell of fans coming down now.
02:26:44
Connor Downing
Remember
02:26:45
The Whole Ballgame
I hope they don't abuse the field.
02:26:48
Connor Downing
when fans used to store in the field, Gabe?
02:26:53
Connor Downing
Now there's a net.
02:26:55
The Whole Ballgame
And people also don't give a fuck.
02:26:58
Connor Downing
And I'm not talking about Annette Yeather.
02:27:01
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah.
02:27:02
Connor Downing
Yeah, that's it too, isn't it? Like, they don't care enough. Like, they just... I was thinking about that the other day. when um i've been ah so I started watching this fucking like Rangers rangers and Brewers from opening day, 91.
02:27:15
Connor Downing
And Nolan's on the mound.
02:27:16
The Whole Ballgame
Mm-hmm.
02:27:17
Connor Downing
And it's a tremendous fucking game.
02:27:18
The Whole Ballgame
Mm-hmm.
02:27:20
Connor Downing
And I think I'm like in the eighth inning. I think it's five four But it's just so fucking clear. like how much those goddamn people care on opening night in the stands and I mean whatever outfielders are scared they're scared they're gonna get killed that's right
02:27:48
The Whole Ballgame
Daryl is terrified out there. Got run with a torn quad.
02:27:54
Connor Downing
I would fucking scared as shit I'd jackknife any of these godamn marks god had his fucking taser on him.
02:28:20
The Whole Ballgame
Over the public announce system.
02:28:24
Connor Downing
God, the worst wrestling... so They never should have ever done that. like Even with the Mountie and shit, like the shock stick is the worst wrestling gimmick ever.
02:28:36
The Whole Ballgame
Cubs are down to their last strike, Blake.
02:28:38
Connor Downing
I came in and I slapped razor on the ass and I said, let's go fuck some bitches after this.
02:28:46
The Whole Ballgame
I have a bucket full of cocaine.
02:28:50
Connor Downing
I did not know Felix Vermeen was on our team. Sometimes he hits the ball, sometimes he does not.
02:28:57
The Whole Ballgame
It's okay. Whatever.
02:29:01
Connor Downing
It is the yin and the yang, you know? Fuck it.
02:29:12
Connor Downing
This motherfucker has been out there for the whole game, and they have wanted that.
02:29:21
The Whole Ballgame
And that, my friends, is the ball game.
02:29:24
Connor Downing
There was a fan at first base soon as Keith came off. do you see that?
02:29:28
The Whole Ballgame
a
02:29:28
Connor Downing
Look at these people. God damn, that's beautiful. The crowd has stormed the field.
02:29:36
The Whole Ballgame
Keith's got that ball locked in that glove.
02:29:40
Connor Downing
Fuck, man.
02:29:40
The Whole Ballgame
Yep, and the crowd is...
02:29:41
Connor Downing
They're celebrating with the players. Look at the kid. Kid's running for his life.
02:29:49
The Whole Ballgame
Well, I don't want anything to do with any of that.
02:29:52
Connor Downing
Oh, I saw Sid. I saw Sid just run by. Shaka brah.
02:29:59
The Whole Ballgame
I got the chicken skin, brother. I don't know what to tell you.
02:30:02
Connor Downing
Look, if this don't give you the chicken skin, Sid, nothing will.
02:30:02
The Whole Ballgame
You know? It's true.
02:30:08
Connor Downing
Shit. That's it, man. That's what it's all about right there.
02:30:13
The Whole Ballgame
My goodness, look at them all.
02:30:20
Connor Downing
Shut up, Rusty. Just shut the fuck up.
02:30:23
The Whole Ballgame
late Lay out, goddammit! Lay out!
02:30:28
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, this is just... You don't need ah commentary track over this. Look at it. It speaks for... Shut up!
02:30:34
Connor Downing
I would just like say for the record that I hope the the field is not molested in any way.
02:30:42
The Whole Ballgame
Oh boy. Oh boy. um so that's the ball game.
02:30:45
Connor Downing
What a game.
02:30:46
The Whole Ballgame
Mets, Mets clinched the, uh, the NL East on this one. And of course they go on to win the 1986 world series. We'll probably do that game at some point in the future. We still want to do that retrospective and we'll go through all that for you. eventually Blake, i believe I know where we're going next, but you want to tell these fine folks exactly,
02:31:09
The Whole Ballgame
where we're taking Harry's glasses to the next time we we meet with them for for some baseball.
02:31:16
Connor Downing
Yeah, well, you know, for the for the patrons, we'll see them over on Patreon as we journey back to um late March 88 and the night that WrestleMania 4 and the Clash of Champions went head-to-head.
02:31:31
Connor Downing
We'll be doing both of those, but on the main feed here, we will take a ah journey across country, actually, um And it is the day after we celebrate our independence in the year 1994 when the Philadelphia Phillies come to Jack Murphy Stadium to visit Tony Gwynn and the San Diego Padres on whole ballgame.
02:31:47
The Whole Ballgame
yeah