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Episode 29 - Tony Gwynn and Mickey Morandini
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We finally meet the man that defined hitting in the 1990's, Tony Gwynn. And he has a very particular set of interests.
Our Kisser this week is Mickey Morandini, a journeyman that hangs hit hat on what particular "accomplishment".
We discuss prolapse, relapse, time lapse, and sex with midgets.
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Influential Figures in Baseball: Morandini and Gwynn
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You know, Mickey Morandini and Tony Gwynn might not seem like natural bedfellows on the diamond, but these two sons of baseball's grubby golden age helped yank the game into a new gear in the 90s, each in their own delightfully different way. Morandini, that wiry little bastard out of Pennsylvania, brought a kind of scrappy dirt-under-the-nails intensity that made infield purists scream their pants.
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Gross. Second baseman who could turn a double play smoother than a bottle of wild turkey on payday. He wasn't afraid to get his uniform dirty or spike a motherfucker sliding into second.
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You wanted finesse? Go watch ballet. Mickey was all grit and balls, flipping the bird to an era of bloated power hitters with every slick pivot and headfirst dive into first.
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Tony Gwynn, on the other hand, was the goddamn professor putting bat to ball. Rotunda sassin with the swing of a cherub and the eye of a sniper. While juiced up meatheads were out there trying to rip the skin off the ball, Gwynn was slapping it through holes like he was cheating at Tetris.
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In an age when strikeouts became trendy everyone wanted to hit it like it was home run derby, Gwynn said, fuck that. Hit 394 in 94 like it was a stroll through the damn park.
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He studied pitchers like he was trying to blackmail them and then surgically embarrass them for nine innings straight. He didn't need bombs when he had precision and maybe a little belly to cushion the bat.
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or other
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Together, they showed that baseball wasn't just about roids and radar guns. Morandini proved defense could still make you hard, while Coen reminded the world that bat control was sexier than brute strength. They weren't loudmouths or showboats, just straight-up craftsmen with big-league swagger and fuck-you attitude toward trends, and a decade overrun by biceps and bullshit.
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These two kept it real.
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other
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One by diving into the dirt, the other by painting lines on a scorecard like a chubby Picasso with a Louisville slugger. Want to talk about impact? These guys changed the game without ever having to hit 40 home runs, and that's the whole ballgame.
From Baseball to Brunch: Comedic Tangents
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We got Mickey Morandini and Tony Gwynn today, Blakers. How you doing?
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Mr. Tom Fuck
Well, I guess if we got the biceps and the bullshit, we better go get the fucking brunch, huh?
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The Whole Ballgame
I suppose you're right about that.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
Hey, do you know what they usually put on the table when you have brunch?
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What's that?
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Mr. Tom Fuck
A nice flowery rose.
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You know, I was reading about roses this week.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
Where are you? what What were you reading?
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I was.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
You pervert.
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i was. Look, you know, ah if if Papa's taught me anything, it's that ah when when when you're crafting, when you're out here creating the way that you and I create, um you have to give of yourself to the process, right?
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Mr. Tom Fuck
Sure.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
Uh-huh. Yes.
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And so...
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When you mentioned, ah oh gosh, it must have been 12 hours ago now, that that that you had been ah researching and diving deep into anal prolapse.
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I thought, you know, ah ah that's not for me.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
Uh-huh.
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I don't want anything to do with that. And your response was, no, no, no, no.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
Uh-huh.
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no That's not what Papa taught us. And damn it if you weren't right again.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
Right.
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And so, ah you know, a good...
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Mr. Tom Fuck
hmm. Mm
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you know, six and a half of the last 12 hours, I've been researching anal prolapse and and exactly what it is, ah you know, how it's done, what why it's done, ah whether it's on purpose or accidental.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
hmm. Yes. Yes. Uh huh. Uh huh. Uh huh.
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um The difference.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
Now, let me ask you this.
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Mm hmm.
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do Do you know in your study now Of the prolapse. Do you know where the threshold is between what makes you an amateur lapse and a prolapse?
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Mr. Tom Fuck
There it is. Yeah.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
It's not bad.
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All I know, all I know is that I'm number one in the ring.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
Not bad.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
Ah. He's a real... Hey, you know that Claudio Castagnoli writes some tre tremendous limerks. Great shit. Cesaro, King of Swing. Get it?
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Got it. So there you go. ah Expect the the program this week to be ah peppered, ah just full of references to roses and prolapsed anus as we discuss ah our superstar, of course, Mr.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
so
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Tony Gwynn, and our kisser this week, Mr. Mickey Morandini, Northwest Indiana legend, by the way.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
Oh, wow. Not to beat this to death, but I do remember a few weeks ago that Marvin reminded me that he was a different type of gold, and that was... What was that?
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Mr. Tom Fuck
Are you are you? wrote you
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I'm...
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Mr. Tom Fuck
Marvin? Where's Marvin? Get Marvin in the room.
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God, well, hold on.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
God damn it.
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Jesus Christ, I don't know. It's not just on...
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Mr. Tom Fuck
I know he's dead and he's dynasty.
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Shit's not on demand. Hold on a second. Hey. Oh, you know what? I forget. Sometimes it's as easy as saying quail eggs.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
Look, it's a Faberge Dodo egg. I'm going to eat it.
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Turkey jerky.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
I have the rarest bird.
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Oh, my God, i yeah I was just messing with you. I've been listening the whole time. I just, I want to see how far you're going to take that gag, you know.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
Yeah, know.
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Oh, hmm.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
God damn it, Marvin. You're rose gold, Marvin. That's what you are, remember?
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Well, I'm not just any kind of gold.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
Say it. It doesn't sound the same when I say it. You gotta say it in that gravely voice.
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Oh, I understand now. Okay, you want me to say it out loud, do you?
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Mr. Tom Fuck
Yeah. yeah Yeah, yes.
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You want me to yeah me to dance for you like I'm going paint myself up in blackface and I'm going dance around like like the man used to do for the white man.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
Yes.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
the
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Is that what you that's what you mean?
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Mr. Tom Fuck
Roddy, don't play that.
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It's not just, I'm not just gold,
Marvin's Bizarre Stories and Humor
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Blakers. I'm rose gold.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
Ah, there it is. Hey, do you know about the prolapse anus, Marvin? Yeah.
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I'll tell you what, I don't have a lot of experience with it personal. brett ah Now, my my my second ex-wife, she she she enjoyed the taking things a little farther than the limit, if you understand what I mean.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
OK, yeah.
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ah ah we we incorporated small black midgets into our lovemaking quite a bit.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
Oh, uh
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And yeah you're familiar with Gary Coleman, I assume, from from The Facts of Life.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
huh. Oh, yeah sure.
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or Well, Different Strokes.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
think it's different. Yeah, yeah.
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Different Strokes, that's the one. Yeah.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
Was that about you too?
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yeah That one, not so much about me. Although ah Philip Drummond was a rich man like I'm a rich man.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
Uh-huh.
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There it is.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
Whoa!
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What might be right for you may not be right for some. See, I love that show. with that little
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Mr. Tom Fuck
Oh, baby, I'm dancing!
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little That little black child who was just a a real, real highlight of my life. Anyhow, um
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Mr. Tom Fuck
Marvin, that was like a 30-year-old man. Jesus
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well, I know we were having sex with it, you know.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
Christ. Jesus Christ.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
ah Gary. What about Webster? You didn't touch Emmanuel, did you?
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Mr. Tom Fuck
Manny! Manny! Manny Mo! Manny! Manny! Manny Mo!
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Well, let me tell you, I met Emmanuel Lewis a couple of different times. um What I didn't like about him was that he was a little bit smaller in stature than old Arnold, you know.
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um And you see, that was his name on a television program. ah ah we would
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Mr. Tom Fuck
Right, I recall, yeah.
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We would role play a little bit in the bedroom, me and Miss Patty.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
Sure.
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ah Anyhow,
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Mr. Tom Fuck
This sounds very wrong.
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um no, we was oh so right. Have you ever had sex with a black midget?
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Mr. Tom Fuck
no.
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I didn't think you had.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
Neither.
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Yeah.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
Neither. I'm
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Uh-huh. Yeah.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
open.
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What about you, Gabe? ah No, just one one one of the two. Not both.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
Which one?
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Well, now I'm curious. he over Me too, Blake. understand which one.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
Mm-hmm.
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i
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Mr. Tom Fuck
Yeah, baby, tell us. Which one, Gabe?
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i had i had i had sex with black girl once, yeah. Mm-hmm.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
Was it Linda Miles?
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It was not Linda Miles.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
Oh, damn.
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It was not. That's the like the exact opposite human being. Well, maybe not exact opposite, but the opposite end of the spectrum as as Gary Coleman.
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Linda Miles, seven foot tall black woman. Anyway, well, I'll tell you what.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
Yeah, baby, she's tall.
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i i the the the The prolapsation thing that, you know, the but Patty, she she seemed to enjoy. these sexual escapades quite a bit and I not it just wasn't my cup of tea you understand I want to you know i want to um I would like to come because that's what life is is as we well established here and elsewhere when it comes down to it if you if you ain't eating bird you better be coming
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Mr. Tom Fuck
Mm-hmm.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
Right.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
Sure.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
Correct, yeah.
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ah And so yeah what I think is probably the most important thing is is to remember that you got to take care of your insides.
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And they're supposed to be on the inside in my in my estimation.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
Mm-hmm.
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Now, Patty enjoyed it because it was ah kind of a freak show sort of thing. She you know she was probably likely abused quite heavily during her youth.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
Oh, OK.
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ah you know I did smack the shit out of quite a bit as well.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
It's not going to help, Marvin.
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Um, probably not, but you know, ah you when you piss me off, I don't know what to tell you.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
You know, you...
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Mr. Tom Fuck
ah You're coming to me like you're part of the solution, and then you're just like, yeah, you know, and I kind of smack her, and it's like, well, that's sort of a step back, isn't it?
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Uh,
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what? I mean, Hey, look, you know, this was a long time ago. And I didn't, if you want the story, I'll give it to you. If you want me to, to, to, to to make the thing pretty for you instead, i can do that too.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
i mean...
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If you'd rather not hear the truth.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
Well, I mean, you're dead, so I guess we should cut you some slack, I guess.
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and The world don't move to the beat of just one drum, Blake.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
It's fine.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
Well, that's what Mrs. Garrett told me about the facts of life.
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The Whole Ballgame
it's right it's right It's right there in the goddamn lyrics. Son of a bitch.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
Mm-hmm.
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The Whole Ballgame
Anyway, Miss Garrett, she can make a hell of a turkey. out Boy, oh boy, that them them red buns coming out of that that oven. whoo boy Oh boy.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
Got a great set of tits on her, too.
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no Oh my goodness, Miss Garrett. I preferred the brunette lady personally, but ah Miss Garrett was a good good second place for sure.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
Mm-hmm.
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that was it Was that her name, if I remember? Yeah, that sounds right. That sounds right.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
I would refer to her as one of the girls, really, not one of lady.
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The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, she...
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Mr. Tom Fuck
Miss Garrett was really the only lady.
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The Whole Ballgame
Oh, no, no, not Joe. I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about the other housekeeper on Different Strokes.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
Oh. Oh.
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The dark-haired woman that that replaced Miss Garrett at some point down the road, you know.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
I was hoping we'd talk Joe because I was into her, but that's, you know.
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Anywho.
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Look, i all them girls on Facts of Life were okay, except for that fat, piddling-ass one that looked like some kind of farm creature.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
Natalie, yeah.
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Sure, yeah, that's the one. Okay, yeah.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
Mm-hmm.
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She kind of looked like she her her father was a pig and her mother was a hornet.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
ah he I was gonna say a porn it, but it's porn it might be better because it's porn talking.
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Hey. Sure.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
All right, back to the asshole
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i i understand. Anyway, ah yeah I was never a fan of it personally. ah She enjoyed it when I licked it, which was odd. ah I didn't enjoy that as much.
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But I'm a plea for people pleaser, you understand. you know as a
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Mr. Tom Fuck
Yeah Yeah
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As a billionaire, there's not much else you can do other than and eat exotic birds and sit around your house all day and and please the people that you love as best as you possibly can.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
and Yeah.
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You start getting into kinky and weird sorts of situations, especially when you have a crazy bitch like Patty around.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
Yeah. Licking their and intestines, you know, that kind of thing.
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The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, yeah, that's right. Like, just you know, you just it it it was more just, you know, you stick your tongue out in it. Yeah, just like that. It's not even a not even a ah long, it's just a little poke like that.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
Uh-huh.
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like that You understand.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
Now, now here's my concern, Marvin.
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Yeah. you
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Mr. Tom Fuck
I'm worried if I try to shove my intestines out my asshole that they're not going to go back and work like they should. Is that not something to be concerned with?
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The Whole Ballgame
Well, it's funny you should mention, Blake. ah You know, Patty did run into some some gastrointestinal issues later in her life. and And I suppose that probably could have had something to do with it.
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And when I would ask her, because I was curious of the same thing, you know, it's coming out of your body. It's supposed be inside, right?
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Mr. Tom Fuck
Mm-hmm.
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And not outside.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
Right.
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it's Once it's outside, then, you know, how do you unwind the clock?
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Mr. Tom Fuck
Yes.
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how do you unwind a clock You know, how do you, how do you, how do you make that better?
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Mr. Tom Fuck
Right.
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Uh, if there was a hole in my front and some intestines came out, then I would need a doctor to put them back.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
Once. Mm-hmm. Right.
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But if it comes up, that's, um that's a perfect example.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
Or George Steele.
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The Whole Ballgame
You know, that man, he would eat up them, them turnbuckles. Uh, uh, you know, Babs, her, she, he, he taught at Babs's high school that, that, that George Steele, he sure did some bitch.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
That's what I hear.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
She tells Gabe.
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Tells me all every single time wrestling comes on. i I'm usually in ah the the the corner of the room listening, you know, as ghosts do.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
Right, yeah.
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The Whole Ballgame
A woman repeats herself more than Gabe repeats himself on this program. Anyway, ah wicked farts.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
I hear she's got wicked farts.
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You wouldn't believe it. i thought If a ghost can smell them, then they're wicked.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
Ha ha ha ha
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The Whole Ballgame
I'll tell you that right now. Anyway, ah yeah ah you know she would I would ask her, I'd say, how do you get them things back up in there? you know How do you get it back to normal? She said, well, sometimes it's just after a little while.
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What's funny? but du I don't know why I'm stealing her voice. Anyway, she says, sometimes they so you just, you you know how like if you're in a car and you get scared and you butthole puckers, you just squeeze it.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
uh-huh sure oh okay
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but You just squeeze it and it pops back right up in. you know And occasionally she would take a, well, I might have one here handy.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
no
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The Whole Ballgame
weird Where that s thing at? Oh, maybe I do, maybe I don't. that's that big bag full of feathers that i've been sending out to patrons i bought it off of amazon don't tell nobody though it's not they didn didn't come off a real turkey uh well once i get done with patty's asshole they might be diseased i don't know there it is yeah it's one of them
00:15:42
Mr. Tom Fuck
Oh, it's not. They're not diseased feathers. Really? They're going to be disappointed.
00:15:51
Mr. Tom Fuck
Oh, God, I'm going to have to mail out a prolapsed anus now, aren't I?
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The Whole Ballgame
one of these back scratches, she would take it and she'd reach underneath and she just pop that sumbitch right back up into a hole.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
how Jesus. Oh. That that that.
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Uh, just put, she just pushed a little bit. See that, that, that dull end there is just, you know, just, just enough to just right back up into your pooper.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
Yeah.
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The Whole Ballgame
Anyway, uh, a little bit.
00:16:13
Mr. Tom Fuck
It's like a hernia.
00:16:16
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, that's almost exactly, that's exactly right.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
Poke it back in with a stick.
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The Whole Ballgame
And, uh, you know, well, I mean, it didn't work out for She died of dysentery, but, um,
00:16:23
Mr. Tom Fuck
Yeah, yeah, that happens.
00:16:24
The Whole Ballgame
You know, would do it happens to the best of us. really does.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
Right on the trail.
00:16:29
The Whole Ballgame
I got to tell you, I wasn't expecting talking about prolapsing today, but I'm glad we got to bring up Gary Coleman. And we'll have to post that picture of me with him ah just before our third rendezvous.
00:16:42
Mr. Tom Fuck
Yeah, I... when I look at that picture, only one thing comes to mind and I guess it is love is love.
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but What's that?
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The Whole Ballgame
There it is. Boy, oh boy. If there ever was ah a way to end a segment on this program, I don't know what's better than that.
Tony Gwynn's Life and Career
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The Whole Ballgame
I'll say I'll see you later. Okay, Yeah, he ah he's we we've been learning a lot about Marvin lately.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
Bob Marvin.
00:17:03
Mr. Tom Fuck
Always a treat when the dynastic one himself, you know, the different
00:17:13
The Whole Ballgame
I got a couple of new articles. We'll we'll have to revisit his his past at some point in the future.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
They tell me he ate Hollywood one time.
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The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, well, he's a big man. He certainly was. He withered away to just about nothing, which if that Stephen King movie taught me anything, it's because of all of his sins.
00:17:33
Mr. Tom Fuck
Well, you know. You know what it is.
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The Whole Ballgame
What's that?
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Mr. Tom Fuck
i mean, look at what he was and then that. It's the yin-yang, man. That's it.
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The Whole Ballgame
Decadence and withering away.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
Coming...
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Mr. Tom Fuck
coming for all of us.
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The Whole Ballgame
One's... It really is.
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Mr. Tom Fuck
It's here.
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The Whole Ballgame
There's no question.
00:17:54
Mr. Tom Fuck
This is actually this is more accurate. It's not coming for all of us. It's always had us. You see, we are contained within it and we are trying to break out of it.
00:18:01
The Whole Ballgame
It's always been here. Yes, that's correct.
00:18:10
Mr. Tom Fuck
And that's I don't think that's possible in this life.
00:18:14
The Whole Ballgame
Probably not.
00:18:16
Mr. Tom Fuck
But you know who else got out of this life?
00:18:19
The Whole Ballgame
Who's that?
00:18:19
Mr. Tom Fuck
And looking at his 1989 tops baseball card is reminding me why as Mr. Gwynn's got a big old fat dip in and that is what eventually took his life.
00:18:32
The Whole Ballgame
so real When it comes down to it, wellll talk about a shame. My God. like that's That's what's going to take out ah who you know could very well have been the greatest baseball player of all time.
00:18:40
Mr. Tom Fuck
Yeah.
00:18:46
Mr. Tom Fuck
Yeah. Yeah. It, it was I remember when he passed away, it was very shocking. like I was not like, what? and i didn't i mean It might have been out there that he was sick. I don't remember, but I just remember being like just kind of blown away by it.
00:19:04
Mr. Tom Fuck
um but yeah As we'll find out, he was kind of sick there towards the end. It's a fucking shame. like it's That's the random chaos of life.
00:19:18
The Whole Ballgame
That's it. And so we'll we'll dive in and and we'll talk about the life of of Tony Gwynn here shortly. We'll talk about Mickey Morandini as well. um If you've never seen a picture of Mickey Morandini, I'm pretty sure we'll go ahead and make sure that the the photo ah this week is of Mickey's baseball card so that you can really just soak in the um well, the the suburban Pittsburgh of it all, quite frankly.
00:19:49
The Whole Ballgame
You just take a look at a man sometimes and you start to understand exactly where he's from and who he is just by looking at his face. And really that's the that's the essence of this entire program as we've weaved our way through several of these kissers week after week, um understanding that...
00:20:12
The Whole Ballgame
That being able to tell all you need to tell by looking at a face is kind of the thesis of the program overall, isn't it?
00:20:21
Mr. Tom Fuck
You know, you got to quit bouncing back and forth between program and program. Pick one or the other because you keep throwing me off.
00:20:27
The Whole Ballgame
I'm trying my very best to keep keep program ah Gabe's way of saying it and program the others.
00:20:29
Mr. Tom Fuck
yeah
00:20:33
Mr. Tom Fuck
oh
00:20:35
The Whole Ballgame
you know the others
00:20:37
Mr. Tom Fuck
I need you to.
00:20:37
The Whole Ballgame
ah
00:20:39
Mr. Tom Fuck
but and need you to understand i'm I'm keeping meticulous score on this in my mind, OK?
00:20:45
The Whole Ballgame
I love it. Makes me very happy.
00:20:47
Mr. Tom Fuck
I hope it makes you uncomfortable. I don't want you happy. You're better when you're uneasy. and
00:20:52
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, you're probably right.
00:20:53
Mr. Tom Fuck
We all are, though. What are you drinking tonight?
00:20:55
The Whole Ballgame
Mm-hmm. Dr. Pepper's zero sugar. um Just ah trying to keep the old you vocal pipes from prolapsing.
00:21:08
Mr. Tom Fuck
You sound better than you did the other night when we went to the performance center.
00:21:12
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, well, a lot of it had to do with the fact that I had to go to the Performance Center. um I'm going to be real honest with you folks. ah Thank you for listening to that program.
00:21:23
The Whole Ballgame
ah Thank you for ah thank you for ah giving us ah three hours to to lay bare exactly why it is we came together and and and how it is that we came to be.
00:21:39
The Whole Ballgame
ah It's going to take a Herculean effort on Blake's part to convince me to watch the second half of that WrestleMania and record it for you people. So you may get it at some point.
00:21:53
The Whole Ballgame
I'm just not sure how soon that's going to be. If you do get it, ah we may save it for a day ah to celebrate the life and career of John Cena when he dies, maybe, so that we can watch...
00:22:05
The Whole Ballgame
ah two dead men battle each other if we don't do that every night before for two hours before we go to sleep anyway. But, ah you know, that's just, that's correct.
00:22:13
Mr. Tom Fuck
And pray for the death ourselves.
00:22:17
The Whole Ballgame
um ah I think i I talked a little bit about the harrowing couple of weeks that I've had around here on the last program, but if you're not a wrestling fan, so you didn't listen, here, let me fill you in.
00:22:30
The Whole Ballgame
Excuse me, I am recovering from the flu. My kid is recovering from an ear, a major ear infection with high fever. Everybody in the household was sick at some point in the last two weeks. And then...
00:22:45
The Whole Ballgame
ah What is today? today today So almost two weeks ago now, I wrecked my Nissan. good Some asshole came across three lanes.
00:22:55
Mr. Tom Fuck
Doc and Daryl.
00:22:57
The Whole Ballgame
Yep, correct. Some asshole came across three lanes of traffic ah and tried to get off the expressway in front of me. And he ended up pushing me into a ditch and then drove away.
00:23:09
The Whole Ballgame
um And so I've also gone ahead and bought a minivan. which is just, ah ah it's ah it's a real step forward in in the life of Dad Krasnov and the fact that he's he's now also minivanned on top of everything else.
00:23:21
Mr. Tom Fuck
Mm-hmm.
00:23:26
The Whole Ballgame
But that's that's what's been happening. in my life here the last couple of weeks. And that's why you haven't gotten a ton of, ah well, much of anything from us in the last three or four weeks.
00:23:36
The Whole Ballgame
So my apologies there. We're going to make up for it in the next two weeks, though. We got ah ah quite ah a stacked docket that we laid out ah via via text message today.
00:23:41
Mr. Tom Fuck
Mm-hmm.
00:23:48
The Whole Ballgame
ah Blake went ahead and pulled some ah some rank and decided that we've got the next five ah episodes of the program um all all lined up for you and and it's it's going to be a tasty month.
00:24:03
Mr. Tom Fuck
Yep, yep. That's for the for the patrons over there. we will... Dad Krasnov, aka Lefty Giz Play, is back on track.
00:24:14
Mr. Tom Fuck
Jack. And he got... For those of you that don't know, the Doc and Daryl reference was the NWO running the Steiners off the road and um somewhere in Backwoods, Georgia in 1997, I believe.
00:24:24
The Whole Ballgame
Yes.
00:24:28
Mr. Tom Fuck
ah seven i believe
00:24:29
The Whole Ballgame
Six?
00:24:30
Mr. Tom Fuck
It was six or seven. But yes, as as they recorded on their camcorder, attempted murder and broadcasted on national television. But, you know, they were listening to Pac back then. So all bets were off and all eyes were on them, I guess.
00:24:48
The Whole Ballgame
Dear Mama.
00:24:48
Mr. Tom Fuck
Yeah. You look, don't let Gabe, don't let Gabe try to tell you he's going to get out it because we've got a 45 minute edge in Orton last man standing performance center.
00:24:59
Mr. Tom Fuck
ah match to watch. It's like a backstage brawl from SmackDown. Here comes the pain.
00:25:06
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, is that that...
00:25:06
Mr. Tom Fuck
they got They got to get all the environment in. and they It's the one where he hangs him.
00:25:11
The Whole Ballgame
yeah Right, yeah. like I remember at some point he like is hanging from the lighting fixture above a desk in a conference room.
00:25:19
Mr. Tom Fuck
Yeah, they do. a e e Somebody hangs somebody by the neck or something. I don't know. but you know Plus you know the Firefly Funhouse. You get the Saturday Night's Main Event thing. That was pretty neat.
00:25:32
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, at least there's that.
00:25:32
Mr. Tom Fuck
Anyway, I don't want to watch it either. It's like an hour longer than the other one too, but maybe we'll do some heroin and watch it.
00:25:34
The Whole Ballgame
Okay. Oh, God. Anyway. Yeah. Yeah. I'll just, I'll call Billy. It's fine. Um,
00:25:44
Mr. Tom Fuck
Hey, Soot!
00:25:46
The Whole Ballgame
we're, uh, We're getting back into the the swing of things, so bear with us here. But ah the way this usually goes is will will we'll start out ah by by heading over to the ah Society for American Baseball Research, Sabre.org, and find ourselves a nice, robust biography of our particular a superstar, and we'll start with him. And so this week we're going to start
00:26:18
The Whole Ballgame
with one Tony Gwynn. ah ah We'll go ahead and put the the links in the ah show notes so that you can follow along if you choose to. It's ah our friend Dan Diodona wrote this about our pal Anthony Keith Gwynn.
00:26:37
Mr. Tom Fuck
And we probably should mention, since it it probably has, we did do the wrestling show and been while here. The actual game is the philes Phillies and the Padres from the day after our independence was celebrated in the year 1994 we continue to journey back and look at at the we...
00:26:46
The Whole Ballgame
Yes.
00:27:03
Mr. Tom Fuck
the path we could have had and did not get. And, and we're getting closer to the end of it because we've got about a month left, a little over a month left in the season.
00:27:16
Mr. Tom Fuck
And after this game though, I believe we will have the mid summer classic coming up. So that will be quite a treat.
00:27:25
The Whole Ballgame
July 5th, 1994. Phillies at Padres or Padres at Philly.
00:27:30
Mr. Tom Fuck
Yep.
00:27:31
The Whole Ballgame
So they're perfect.
00:27:31
Mr. Tom Fuck
At Jack Murphy stadium.
00:27:31
The Whole Ballgame
Okay.
00:27:33
Mr. Tom Fuck
Yep.
00:27:33
The Whole Ballgame
It's a beautiful thing. And that will be on the next episode of the program ah right here.
00:27:39
Mr. Tom Fuck
Thank you.
00:27:40
The Whole Ballgame
The whole ball game. Let's get into Tony Gwynn and our friend, Dan D'Adona. ah Anthony Keith Gwynn. There's never been a sports icon linked to a city quite like Tony Gwynn is to San Diego.
00:27:58
The Whole Ballgame
The eight-time batting champion went to college at San Diego State. spent his entire Hall of Fame career with the San Diego Padres, and then returned to his alma mater to become a collegiate baseball coach for 12 seasons.
00:28:13
The Whole Ballgame
Gwynn's link to San Diego made him a larger-than-life icon, but meanwhile, his quiet personality balanced his play on the field, giving the city a homegrown legend who was ingrained in the community.
00:28:28
The Whole Ballgame
Anthony Keith Gwynn, old TK, was born May 9, 1960 in Los Angeles, the son of Charles and Vandella Gwynn. Charles was a warehouse manager.
00:28:41
Mr. Tom Fuck
Brother.
00:28:42
The Whole Ballgame
Vandella was a postal worker. Tony was the middle child between older brother Charles and younger brother Chris. The family moved to Long Beach when Tony was nine years old.
00:28:53
The Whole Ballgame
To avoid breaking windows with baseballs, the brothers would use a fig off of one of the trees in their yard God, that is pathetic. I got to stop right there because I read fig.
00:29:07
The Whole Ballgame
And what did I think? Did I think about the fruit that grows on a tree in California?
00:29:13
Mr. Tom Fuck
I would say he probably thought about a Fig Newton.
00:29:16
The Whole Ballgame
Nope.
00:29:17
Mr. Tom Fuck
No? Oh.
00:29:18
The Whole Ballgame
Nope. I thought of a wrestling figure.
00:29:21
Mr. Tom Fuck
Oh my god, you're even worse than I thought. I don't know, maybe Fig Newton's worse, but...
00:29:25
The Whole Ballgame
That just... Maybe. Boy, oh boy.
00:29:30
Mr. Tom Fuck
Well, you think they grabbed a tree of fucking Tatanka Hasbros or something? and Did Tatanka have a Hasbro even? Surely he did.
00:29:38
The Whole Ballgame
Yes, yeah, Tatanka had a Hasbro.
00:29:40
Mr. Tom Fuck
That's...
00:29:40
The Whole Ballgame
Didn't he? I think so.
00:29:42
Mr. Tom Fuck
Yeah, he had to have.
00:29:42
The Whole Ballgame
think, yeah, he had one. Anyway, the brothers would use a fig off of one of the trees in their yard or a homemade sock ball for the ball. Growing up, the Gwynns were Dodger fans, and Tony's favorite player was Willie Davis.
00:29:56
The Whole Ballgame
But in the backyard, Tony and Chris would pretend to be the Cardinals and the Pirates when they played. Because they had all the left-handed hitters, Tony said.
00:30:07
Mr. Tom Fuck
Yeah, Tony was a sweet swinging lefty.
00:30:10
The Whole Ballgame
Tony attended Long Beach Poly High School in Long Beach, California before attending San Diego State in 1977. He was a multi-sports star in high school and joined the Aztecs as a point guard on the basketball team, where he soon became a star.
00:30:24
The Whole Ballgame
He was an all-conference player twice in the Western Athletic Conference and is still the only WAC athlete in history to earn an all-conference honors award. earn all-conference honors in multiple sports. He holds the school record for assists in a game, a season, and a career.
00:30:42
The Whole Ballgame
Gwynn didn't play baseball until his sophomore year, and he had an immediate impact. He led the team in hitting twice and was a two-time All-American in three seasons. His junior season, Gwynn batted.423 with six home runs and 29 RBI.
00:30:57
The Whole Ballgame
As a senior, Gwynn batted.416 with home runs and RBI's. Gwen learned the balance learn to balance both sports even when he had to switch gears quickly.
00:31:10
The Whole Ballgame
One of Gwen's legendary feats came during his final season at San Diego State. On Saturday, March 7, 1981, he concluded the basketball season with a 16.16 assist performance at home against New Mexico.
00:31:24
The Whole Ballgame
Two days later, He was on the baseball field for a doubleheader against the University of Southern California. And in that twin bill, he went three for seven with a double three run scored five RBI and a stolen base.
00:31:36
The Whole Ballgame
He recorded game winning RBIs in both contests.
00:31:40
Mr. Tom Fuck
Not too bad for an old two-sport star, is it, old Gabe? but
00:31:45
The Whole Ballgame
Mr. Gwynn.
00:31:46
Mr. Tom Fuck
How you doing there, pal?
00:31:49
The Whole Ballgame
It's nice to have you here. um
00:31:50
Mr. Tom Fuck
Hey, it's great to be here, thanks. Hey, are you married, Gabe?
00:31:54
The Whole Ballgame
i
00:31:57
The Whole Ballgame
Yes, I am.
00:31:58
Mr. Tom Fuck
Well, that's great, pal. I am too. I think you're going to talk about that a little bit later, but let's talk about you right now. I got a question for you, Gabe. but
00:32:07
The Whole Ballgame
Oh, sure.
00:32:09
Mr. Tom Fuck
is by Is my foreignness, is it off-putting to you? Are you okay?
00:32:13
The Whole Ballgame
um um
00:32:14
Mr. Tom Fuck
I'm just a friendly guy.
00:32:15
The Whole Ballgame
I mean, sure. Yeah, no, yeah you're very friendly. um I will say that I'm i'm a little...
00:32:24
The Whole Ballgame
I'm a little shaken by, I guess I didn't expect you to sound the way that you sound. TK-19,
00:32:29
Mr. Tom Fuck
It's just me. It's TK19, buddy. Hey. Well,
00:32:33
The Whole Ballgame
the 19 for? got All right. Sure.
00:32:36
Mr. Tom Fuck
it's my number, pal. I'm number 19.
00:32:38
The Whole Ballgame
okay got it all right
00:32:39
Mr. Tom Fuck
You know, you got it. All right.
00:32:40
The Whole Ballgame
sure
00:32:40
Mr. Tom Fuck
That's my model number. All right. No, no. Next time I'm in town, you and me, we're going to get a nice white meat turkey sandwich, open face with a cool 1.5 Evian on ice. We're going split that one, pal.
00:32:52
Mr. Tom Fuck
But back to your wife. Could you get me a picture? Get me a picture of her and email that to podfather69 at angelfire.com. And here's the thing, pal. I don't even need to see her face. Just making a shot of her feet.
00:33:07
Mr. Tom Fuck
Get back to my story, buddy.
00:33:12
Mr. Tom Fuck
Send that email first, though. Well, you're on your computer. You can do it at the same time. I am a bit of a two-sport athlete. You can do the same thing, too. Heh heh.
00:33:24
The Whole Ballgame
um
00:33:28
The Whole Ballgame
Gwynn's success in both sports attracted plenty of interest from professional scouts in Major League Baseball and the National Basketball Association. In 1981, the San Diego Padres drafted him in the third round and the San Diego Clippers of the NBA in the 10th round.
00:33:46
The Whole Ballgame
Both franchises looking to capitalize on having a homegrown star.
00:33:51
The Whole Ballgame
Tony Gwynn met his wife, Alicia, in elementary school. The two dated in high school and attended
00:34:05
Mr. Tom Fuck
Hello, Mr. Tony. it is me, professional truck driver. Calm alone. Did you say that you met your wife in elementary school? I was just driving my truck by and I happened to hear that and I thought I would stop and see, hey, what's going on?
00:34:25
Mr. Tom Fuck
I'm just delivering the mail in my truck.
00:34:30
Mr. Tom Fuck
It's my old friend Gabe. Him and Mr. Dally Page. They working together now. Have you told the people about Mr. Dally Page, Gabe? but
00:34:39
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, I have actually. um the the The clip has not surfaced quite yet, but we're ah we've we've teased it a few times. and ah we're gonna I think we're going to use ah so our are good friends over at the Lapsed Fan because they have a ah larger megaphone to kind of publicize Dallas and and and my working together.
00:35:00
Mr. Tom Fuck
Hey baby.
00:35:03
The Whole Ballgame
Jimmy, what's up?
00:35:04
Mr. Tom Fuck
You see a megaphone baby? I got self conscious.
00:35:06
The Whole Ballgame
ah
00:35:08
Mr. Tom Fuck
Is my teeth looking okay?
00:35:08
The Whole Ballgame
Ah, no, you look, your teeth look um amazing as always, Jim.
00:35:13
Mr. Tom Fuck
You say okay thank you baby. I'm gonna get out of here then. Let me know if you need my megaphone.
00:35:20
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, but we'll ah we'll go wide with ah with that information here in the next couple of weeks for sure.
00:35:27
Mr. Tom Fuck
I'll just drive my truck away then. Get back to the elementary school, y'all.
00:35:35
The Whole Ballgame
The couple got married right after the draft, and Tony decided to sign with the Padres. He immediately reported to Walla Walla of the Northwest League.
00:35:45
Mr. Tom Fuck
Bruh, oh.
00:35:45
The Whole Ballgame
In rookie ball, he batted.331 to earn league MVP honors before being called up to AA. He spent the final three weeks of the season at AA Amarillo, where he hit.462 over 23 games.
00:35:59
The Whole Ballgame
He began the 1982 season with the AAA Hawaii Islanders of the Pacific Coast League. He was hitting.328 in 93 games there when he got the call to come play with the big boys.
00:36:13
Mr. Tom Fuck
I got to tell you, Gabe, but there's no better place to play baseball than out there in Hawaii. Shaka bra, bra.
00:36:21
The Whole Ballgame
did you Did you know Sid Fernandez?
00:36:24
Mr. Tom Fuck
Sid's great guy. said said Sid could catch a fish with his bare hands. And what we'd do, we'd take that fish, we'd fry it up, and we'd put it on a smooth turkey sandwich.
00:36:37
Mr. Tom Fuck
little bit of white mayo on that fish and turkey is good. You get a 1.5 cool Evian. Alpha, Sika, all the boys come by. We'd have a big ol' Hawaiian luau.
00:36:47
Mr. Tom Fuck
me Me, Sid, and the Budline. Little Roman running around with his little tiny jelly bean wiener.
00:36:58
Mr. Tom Fuck
Well, what?
00:36:58
The Whole Ballgame
Well,
00:37:02
Mr. Tom Fuck
It's Ron fucking Reagan!
00:37:03
The Whole Ballgame
ah Gwyn made his major league debut July 19th, 1982 against the Philadelphia Phillies. He went two for four with one RBI and went on to appear in 53 more games in 82 after his July call-up.
00:37:17
The Whole Ballgame
He had 209 plate appearances and batted 289 on the season. Astonishingly, this rookie year would be the only year of his career that he didn't bat 300. Gwynn was also a part-time player in 1983, hitting.309 in games.
00:37:34
The Whole Ballgame
But Gwynn's fortunes and those of his team changed when Gwynn became a full-time player. He made his first of his 15 All-Star games in 1984.
00:37:46
The Whole Ballgame
and would also go on to win the first of his eight batting titles with a.351 batting average. He also led the National League in hits with 213. He began to showcase his speed once reaching base, stealing 33 bases.
00:38:00
The Whole Ballgame
But more importantly, with Gwynn leading the team's surge, the San Diego Padres made the playoffs for the first time in franchise history. And their season wasn't over yet. The Padres faced the Chicago Cubs in the NLCS in 1984, Gwynn continued to hit.
00:38:16
The Whole Ballgame
He batted.368, scoring six runs and driving in three as the Padres erased a 2-0 deficit to win the final three games of the five-game series, yet another chapter in the Cubs' seemingly endless, futile quest for a championship.
00:38:33
The Whole Ballgame
Unfortunately for the Friars, despite their thrilling victory over the Cubs in their first World Series appearance, they had to play the American League monster Detroit Tigers. The Padres were no match for them.
00:38:45
The Whole Ballgame
Detroit, which had opened the year 35-5 and Cruz to the pennant, easily dispatched the upstart Padres in five games. The series featured the first of Kirk Gibson's pair of famous World Series home runs, clinching the final game win with a blast off of Hall of Fame fame closer and noted Donald Trump supporter Goose Gossage.
00:39:07
The Whole Ballgame
who didn't want to walk Gibson, Gwynn batted.263 in the series with five hits and one run scored.
00:39:07
Mr. Tom Fuck
i
00:39:15
Mr. Tom Fuck
Yeah, Goose was ah he was a real cocksucker, Gabe. that's ah You can take that to the motherfucking bank, pal.
00:39:23
The Whole Ballgame
Just so happen to have the 1984 World Series program here.
00:39:26
Mr. Tom Fuck
Mm-hmm. I remember one time in the in the locker room, I caught Goose. goose was Goose was taking a shit with the door open, and he was eating a ham sandwich. It reminded me of the Secretary of Border Czar or whatever the fuck his name is, Tom Holman.
00:39:41
Mr. Tom Fuck
ah
00:39:42
The Whole Ballgame
me
00:39:42
Mr. Tom Fuck
Real asswipe. And yeah, I can see shit from the afterlife, too. You know, you got a lot of dead guys around here.
00:39:49
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, we do have a lot of dead guys around here. Goose and Tom Holman seem like two peas in a podcast, as it were.
00:39:57
Mr. Tom Fuck
Oh, that's good shit, pal. We got Goose, we got we got me and my turkey, and we got Marvin and his bird. It's a real, uh, real avian festival around here.
00:40:08
Mr. Tom Fuck
Better than an Aryan festival, though.
00:40:12
The Whole Ballgame
There's no doubt about that. I'd rather have the avian flu than the Aryan flu.
00:40:18
Mr. Tom Fuck
Yeah, about, uh, probably 25% of the country is infected with that these days.
00:40:25
The Whole Ballgame
Truer words never spoken.
00:40:25
Mr. Tom Fuck
Well, hey, and...
00:40:29
The Whole Ballgame
The ah Padres right fielder followed up his stellar 1984 season with another strong one in 1985. Gwynn batted.317 with hits and runs scored.
00:40:41
The Whole Ballgame
it was just a taste what the rest of the eightyies would look like Gwynn batted.329 with a league leading 211 hits and 107 runs in 1986, proving he was an all-around star by winning his first of five Gold Glove Awards as the best fielder at his position.
00:40:59
The Whole Ballgame
He then soared to a.370 mark to win his second batting title 1987, the league 218 hits, scoring a hundred and nineteen runs and stealing a career- highg fifty six bases It was the first of three consecutive batting titles. In 1988, he won with a.313 average, earning his 1,000th career hit against Nolan Ryan on April 22nd in Houston, then followed with a.336 mark 1989, also leading the NL with 203 hits.
00:41:30
The Whole Ballgame
also leading the nl with two hundred three hits
00:41:35
Mr. Tom Fuck
I always found Tony to be a real straight shooter. Bunghole, it was just fine.
00:41:42
The Whole Ballgame
Gwyn was rapidly becoming one of the greatest hitters in the... Wait a second. You know what, Nolan? As long as you're here and as long as we're on the topic, um do you have...
00:41:48
Mr. Tom Fuck
Yes, sir.
00:41:51
Mr. Tom Fuck
We talking bungholes?
00:41:53
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, do you have an opinion on a prolapsed bunghole? ah Have you ever seen one? Have you ever had the chance to sniff at a rose?
00:42:04
Mr. Tom Fuck
Son, do you know how the the Catholics feel about abortions?
00:42:09
The Whole Ballgame
I'm familiar. They're very against abortions in the Catholic Church.
00:42:14
Mr. Tom Fuck
You understand my stance on the bunghole. It must be as tight as possible at all times, right? For maximum efficiency and effectiveness.
00:42:22
The Whole Ballgame
That makes perfect sense to me, yes.
00:42:24
Mr. Tom Fuck
i I don't understand. I cannot. ah don't. it It angers me. Uh. And it also makes me hard at the same time, and I don't know why.
00:42:36
Mr. Tom Fuck
um
00:42:36
The Whole Ballgame
Mmm.
00:42:37
Mr. Tom Fuck
I'm confused now, and um I'm not sure if I'm going to come or cry.
00:42:39
The Whole Ballgame
I'd imagine. Yeah.
00:42:43
Mr. Tom Fuck
and But my bunghole is tight, I know that. ah I don't know, I don't like you anymore, and I'm going to leave, okay?
00:42:53
The Whole Ballgame
All right. Thanks, Nolan.
00:42:54
Mr. Tom Fuck
I might come back some other time when I figure this shit out.
00:42:54
The Whole Ballgame
ah Well, see, see, yeah, this is, this is, this is what I'm going to task Nolan with thinking about is, is, I understand the confusion coming, crying.
00:43:07
The Whole Ballgame
It's, it's all kind of a, uh, uh, you know, a ah spectrum, right. And you got one end or the other, but, uh, if your bunghole always needs to be tight, what's, what's keeping, what's keeping your heart and, and, and your, your, your private areas from being excited, about, uh, uh,
00:43:14
Mr. Tom Fuck
Right.
00:43:22
Mr. Tom Fuck
Uh-huh.
00:43:33
The Whole Ballgame
a loose woman, you know, both both figuratively and literally.
00:43:37
Mr. Tom Fuck
Uh-huh.
00:43:40
The Whole Ballgame
Right.
00:43:41
Mr. Tom Fuck
The only assumption I can make is that what... and I mean, you know, because what he believes is that he is... He can only be made hard by a tight bunghole on a woman.
00:43:55
Mr. Tom Fuck
and And seeing this rose causing some ah hardness in his cock... has caused some confusion in his mind, and and now he's a mess.
00:44:09
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, well, uh, uh, yeah.
00:44:10
Mr. Tom Fuck
So he's going to have to figure it out. It's the yin and the yang of Noel and Ryan.
00:44:17
The Whole Ballgame
More to come. Gwen was rapidly becoming one of the greatest his history hitters in the history of baseball. While talent played a big role in his success, Gwen put in the work to master his craft.
00:44:28
Mr. Tom Fuck
I'm a natural hitter, but I have to work hard to keep it.
00:44:32
The Whole Ballgame
He did so with countless hours in the batting cages and on the tee, sharpening his hand-eye coordination. But what set Gwynn apart was the way he studied hitting. He became one of the first players to accumulate and watch video of himself and of opposing pitchers during games.
00:44:49
The Whole Ballgame
He was known to take multiple VCRs on road trips, taping the game on one and taping his at-bats on the other, then studying them in his hotel room afterwards.
00:45:01
Mr. Tom Fuck
I'd also bring a large briefcase of my Coliseum video collection, and that is the real reason I carried so many VCRs. i I like to have at least three Coliseum videos going at all times in the hotel room, Gabe.
00:45:17
The Whole Ballgame
Well, I've got to ask you then, Tony. i mean, we're a baseball community here on the whole ballgame, but that that pales in comparison to our our professional wrestling fandom. So, Blake and I appreciate it very much to get a ah better understanding of who your favorites were growing up and and both and and you know really at this time while you were on the road with the Padres.
00:45:40
Mr. Tom Fuck
right well i think first off what i should probably do is correct you and remind you that blake's baseball fandom is pretty equal to his wrestling you're the only real super pervert here and secondly what was that question again i wanted to get that out there first who's my favorites is what you want to yeah so you know back back in this time
00:45:58
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, yeah. From one super pervert to the other.
00:46:02
Mr. Tom Fuck
right right, right. You, yeah you know, there's lot of spirits in here, I guess.
00:46:06
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah.
00:46:06
Mr. Tom Fuck
Uh, you know, you're you're looking at 89. Um, I'm a big fan of Hercules and, uh, Coco beware at this time. Uh, really loving what Coco's doing.
00:46:18
Mr. Tom Fuck
It's, it's great shit, man. The pal driver, it's hitting, he's about to get that new, uh, that gospel song. That's, that's pretty cool. Um, you know, brain busters there, they're in the tag ranks. I'm loving that. Um,
00:46:32
Mr. Tom Fuck
This is right around the time, you know, No Holds Barred comes out. Did you see that movie, Gabe?
00:46:37
The Whole Ballgame
I did see No Holds Barred. Were you were you a big Hulk Hogan fan?
00:46:41
Mr. Tom Fuck
Nope, not at all. Huge racist.
00:46:43
The Whole Ballgame
Oh, okay. Got it. Yep.
00:46:47
Mr. Tom Fuck
Like Will Clark.
00:46:48
The Whole Ballgame
So what what did you what what was the point of bringing up No Holds Barred then? what what Did you enjoy the film? Is that...
00:46:57
Mr. Tom Fuck
Ah, Zeus and I mutually masturbated once
00:47:00
The Whole Ballgame
Got it. Okay. So, when but when you say mutually masturbated, do you mean like you touched him and he touched you or did you just masturbate in the same room?
00:47:09
Mr. Tom Fuck
No, you don't touch each other. That's an unusual masturbation. Everybody knows that.
00:47:13
The Whole Ballgame
Got it. Okay. Just wanted to put that, you know, there's an ongoing, kind of there's an ongoing conversation about it here on the program.
00:47:15
Mr. Tom Fuck
It can't be. It's not masturbation. i mean...
00:47:21
The Whole Ballgame
And and I wanted to to get your take. So we'll go ahead and shock that one up into the left-hand side.
00:47:28
Mr. Tom Fuck
Like lefty gunplay?
00:47:31
The Whole Ballgame
I don't know what that means.
00:47:33
Mr. Tom Fuck
He's a kid with a bar friend. It's fine. Whatever.
00:47:35
The Whole Ballgame
yeah okay. Got it.
00:47:36
Mr. Tom Fuck
I hear Blake's trying to get you into the scene, you know.
00:47:36
The Whole Ballgame
All right.
00:47:39
Mr. Tom Fuck
I don't know.
00:47:39
The Whole Ballgame
Yep.
00:47:40
Mr. Tom Fuck
I'm an old crooner myself.
00:47:42
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, I got it. Gwynn was rapidly beginning. Nope, we already read that one. Gwynn also perfected the art of hitting the ball the other way, shooting many of his hits between the third baseman and shortstop, something most left-handed hitters don't regularly do.
00:47:56
Mr. Tom Fuck
One of the reasons I get so many hits that way is because it's hard to read the ball off my bat. My hands come through the zone first and the barrel trails and it kind of hides the ball from the fielder until I've already hit it.
00:48:08
Mr. Tom Fuck
They don't see the ball hit the bat. They just see the ball off the bat. By the time they react, they can't get to it.
00:48:15
The Whole Ballgame
After three batting titles in a row, Gwynn almost amazingly didn't win another for four years. He still managed to average.324 with an OPS.124 from 1990 1993, the year he collected his career hit at the, at, uh,
00:48:29
The Whole Ballgame
the year he collected his two thousand career hit at the ah
00:48:36
The Whole Ballgame
The year he collected his 2000th career hit at home off of colo Colorado's Bruce Ruffin on August 6th. Then came 1994.
00:48:47
Mr. Tom Fuck
It always does, doesn't it?
00:48:50
The Whole Ballgame
Doesn't it? ah
00:48:52
Mr. Tom Fuck
Every fucking time.
00:48:52
The Whole Ballgame
You know, the more the more we get the more we go through this, the more we go through the same exercise week after week after week, I am just further and further convinced that your hypothesis about this being the nexus of the universe, ah it just starts to, it rings more true every time we get to this point in these biographies.
00:49:18
The Whole Ballgame
When amidst Gwyn's best season yet, a labor strike by the Major League Baseball Players Union heartbreakingly ended the season prematurely. Gwyn had been flirting, there it is,
00:49:28
Mr. Tom Fuck
You are heartbreak.
00:49:32
The Whole Ballgame
Gwen had been flirting with the 400 mark for much of the season and would have been the first player since Ted Williams before the U.S. entered World War ii to bat 400 had he maintained his torrid pace.
00:49:44
The Whole Ballgame
When the strike occurred, he was hitting 394 with a hits games. gwyn of course was disappointed
00:49:55
Mr. Tom Fuck
When you go through it in a strike year and they finally pull the plug on the season, you get kicked to the curb like everybody else. I'd be lying if I didn't say I wanted to smoke crack at 400. I wanted crack at 400. Mr. Tony.
00:50:10
Mr. Tom Fuck
mr tony
00:50:15
The Whole Ballgame
When after a rocky spring between players and owners, big league baseball finally resumed in a slightly truncated 1995 season, Gwynn resumed his batting title monopoly for the next four consecutive seasons.
00:50:31
The Whole Ballgame
He followed up his.394 1994 with similarly potent mark and.372 in 1997, with career-high 119 RBI 220 This last also leading, last also
00:50:38
The Whole Ballgame
and three seventy two and ninety ninety seven along with a career high hundred and nineteen rbi and two hundred twenty hits this last also leading his last also leading an l In 1996, the Padres returned to the playoffs but lost in the NLDS to the St.
00:50:59
The Whole Ballgame
Louis Cardinals in three games.
00:51:01
Mr. Tom Fuck
Mm-hmm.
00:51:02
The Whole Ballgame
Gwynn had a decent series, 308, 385, 692, but in 1998.
00:51:03
Mr. Tom Fuck
you
00:51:07
The Whole Ballgame
wasn't the padre's ear that would come in ninety ninety eight Even though for the first time he betrayed his age, the conventional performance measurements, 321, 364, 501 with an OPS of 133 were solid, but war, because that's what matters these days, slipped to 1.5 from 4.3 the previous year.
00:51:22
The Whole Ballgame
but his war because that's what matters these days
00:51:25
Mr. Tom Fuck
Mm-hmm.
00:51:26
The Whole Ballgame
slipped to one point five from four point three the previous year It was still one of the most special seasons for Gwynn. He batted a.321, ninth highest in the NL, and led the Padres to the National League West Division title and the spot for the franchise in the playoffs for the third time.
00:51:44
The Whole Ballgame
San Diego defeated Houston in four games in the NLDS. Gwynn sparked the Padres scoring the first run of the series after a hit, then knocked off the Atlanta Braves in six games to win the pennant and give Gwynn, who batted 200 in the Houston series and 231 against the Braves, but had two hits in the pennant-clinching game and the Padres a second chance at a World Series title. But again, the Padres faced a juggernaut.
00:52:12
The Whole Ballgame
The 1998 New York baseball Yankees, one of the greatest baseball teams ever, were in the midst of a 13-year stretch of straight playoff appearances that included four World Series championships and had no problem sweeping the Padres in the series.
00:52:29
The Whole Ballgame
Despite winning in four games, the Yankees did have a problem getting Gwen out. The crafty veteran batted.500 for the series with eight hits in 16 at-bats. He hit the only postseason home run of his career, drove in three runs, and scored twice.
00:52:45
The Whole Ballgame
For many fans who missed Gwyn's first fall classic 14 years before, 1998 showcased the incredible abilities of a mostly unsung future Hall of Famer at Yankee Stadium and in front of record television audiences.
00:53:00
The Whole Ballgame
Any memories of oh the World Series,
00:53:07
Mr. Tom Fuck
I got a blowjob from a prostitute out in the bullpen of Yankee Stadium because Mickey Mantle told me to.
00:53:16
The Whole Ballgame
Well, that sounds interesting. And and and can I ask? um I mean, because this is a curiosity for me based on what I've...
00:53:24
Mr. Tom Fuck
He told me in 86. told me in 86.
00:53:26
The Whole Ballgame
Say again?
00:53:26
Mr. Tom Fuck
Hmm.
00:53:28
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, no, no, no. Fine. That's fine. um What I'm curious about is because of oh some of the details that have come up in our conversations. You know, you've talked about your favorite sandwiches, things like that.
00:53:40
Mr. Tom Fuck
Turkey.
00:53:40
The Whole Ballgame
as ah As a man, i would i would appreciate knowing your taste in prostitutes. So what what did the the the the prostitute look like? What to you know what was their sex?
00:53:52
The Whole Ballgame
What was their ah hair color, ah body type, that sort of thing? Can you get into some details about the prostitute?
00:54:01
Mr. Tom Fuck
ah She was a black midget.
00:54:04
The Whole Ballgame
Quinn's World Series finale was also the last real goodbye for him on the national stage. He would never play a full season again, playing 111 games in 1999, the season in which he passed the 3,000 career hit plateau.
00:54:18
The Whole Ballgame
He got that semi got that seminal hit on August 6, 1999 at Montreal, a first-inning single to right center off Dan Smith. First base umpire Kerwin Danley had been one of Gwynn's college teammates, which added to the special moment.
00:54:37
The Whole Ballgame
Only a single player achieved 3,000 or more hits and fewer at-bats than Gwynn. Wade Boggs and just one did it in fewer games, Roberto Clemente. It should be noted that Boggs can make the same claim. Both he and Gwynn reached 3,000 in the same number of games, 2,440.
00:54:57
The Whole Ballgame
which is really astonishing when you stop to think about it.
00:55:00
Mr. Tom Fuck
Yeah, those two were, uh, you talk about the yin and the yang, man, that's black thunder and white lightning there. Those guys were the same fucking guy Like, you know, they played different positions, but man, I, I remember like even being as a kid and feeling and like that, it's just like, they were, I'm sure, you know, somebody could break it down, but like, fuck, those guys were really the same type of hitter.
00:55:10
The Whole Ballgame
good.
00:55:30
Mr. Tom Fuck
i almost to a T and to be that good, like, like they were the best, you know? And it wasn't.
00:55:39
The Whole Ballgame
Well, the the idea of hitting 3,000 hits, having 3,000 hits in 2,440 games, like, that's...
00:55:46
Mr. Tom Fuck
a
00:55:49
Mr. Tom Fuck
It's a lot of games with more than one hit, you know?
00:55:52
The Whole Ballgame
and Not just that, but, like, more than zero hits.
00:55:57
Mr. Tom Fuck
Yeah, it's true.
00:55:57
The Whole Ballgame
You know what i mean? like Like, the amount of times that you've got to blank... It's got to be really fucking low. The amount of times where you didn't have a hit in a game, which is just... You know, reaching base is one thing, but, like...
00:56:09
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, it's pretty incredible.
00:56:10
Mr. Tom Fuck
I thought you were going to call Kerwin Danley Kerwin selfies too.
00:56:14
The Whole Ballgame
I thought about it. I really did.
00:56:16
Mr. Tom Fuck
I thought that's what that pause might have been.
00:56:18
The Whole Ballgame
As his career wound down, Gwyn played just 36 games in 2000 and 71 the following season because of several injuries. He and fellow legend Cal Ripken Jr., who would both be retiring at the end of the season, were honored at the 2001 All-Star Game.
00:56:34
The Whole Ballgame
Both had played their entire careers with one team, and both would be first ballot Hall of Famers five years later. The Hall of Fame was all but automatic for a 15-time All-Star who was an NL starter in the Summer Classic a record 11 times.
00:56:51
The Whole Ballgame
an eight-time batting champion, tying the NL record with Honus fucking Wagner, and finished his career with a stunning slash line of.338,.388,.458, and an OPS of.132.
00:56:57
Mr. Tom Fuck
The Dutchman.
00:57:02
The Whole Ballgame
In 2007, he easily elected to the Hall Fame first try, and an op of one thirty two in two thousand and seven he was easily elected to the hall of fame on his first try with 97.6% of the vote by the Baseball Writers Association dipshits.
00:57:15
Mr. Tom Fuck
God. god
00:57:22
The Whole Ballgame
Gwynn's was the eighth highest voting percentage in Hall of Fame history. But by God, each row gets 100%. I don't, I mean, don't get me wrong. Very good player, but not Tony Gwynn.
00:57:35
Mr. Tom Fuck
It's just our standards have lowered. That's it.
00:57:38
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, the Hall of Fame was just the latest in a growing collection Gwynn was accumulating.
00:57:38
Mr. Tom Fuck
Like, you know.
00:57:44
The Whole Ballgame
In 1995, he was presented the Branch Rickey Award given to the top. can we You know what? Hold on a second. What the fuck are you doing?
00:57:51
Mr. Tom Fuck
right
00:57:52
The Whole Ballgame
Are you chewing on your fingernails?
00:57:52
Mr. Tom Fuck
Brother.
00:57:54
Mr. Tom Fuck
Me?
00:57:55
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah.
00:57:57
Mr. Tom Fuck
I guess I did. Yeah. Is that all right?
00:57:58
The Whole Ballgame
Okay. All right. No. a ah ah Well, i'll I'll stop down and I'll tell. I'll tell i'll say you why that bothered me as much as it did. The other night. um they they do these sort of like outings at the high school in this other little town for the preschool kids.
00:58:14
Mr. Tom Fuck
Mm-hmm.
00:58:18
The Whole Ballgame
And Jamie signed up Stella because ah cheese she's been doing like swim classes. And at the high school, they have a pool and they have like a recreation pool for little kids.
00:58:30
The Whole Ballgame
And they can, you know, it's whatever.
00:58:31
Mr. Tom Fuck
Mm-hmm.
00:58:32
The Whole Ballgame
It's fun. They get two hours and they can go swimming. So we go over there. I sent you a picture of this fucking predator that was the room in the room with us.
00:58:40
Mr. Tom Fuck
Oh, yeah, yeah. I remember this now. Yeah.
00:58:44
The Whole Ballgame
And the whole time we were in the room, he was chewing on the sides of his fingers, had his fingers in his mouth.
00:58:49
Mr. Tom Fuck
and
00:58:52
The Whole Ballgame
He was in the pool with his baby and his ugly lesbian-looking wife. But he, again, his hands wouldn't stop chewing on the sides of his thumbs.
00:59:04
The Whole Ballgame
And he had his fingers on his nose like this. And he's like looking around and he's chewing. And like a fucking rat chewing on his own fucking hands.
00:59:11
Mr. Tom Fuck
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
00:59:14
The Whole Ballgame
And, you know, I'm in this place, right, where um I'm in this room full of, I would say there's probably 30 kids that are anywhere from two to five years old.
00:59:26
The Whole Ballgame
And all of their parents are there. And so like, because of our shit, I'm just looking at people just like, where's the fucking pervert?
00:59:37
The Whole Ballgame
Where's he at? And it happened to be this guy in that room. Nobody else fit the mold, but this guy is beady fucking. You know what he looked like? He looked like a fat um Pete Buttigieg.
00:59:49
Mr. Tom Fuck
Oh, God, that's not a good look.
00:59:50
The Whole Ballgame
Uh, yeah. Yeah. Fat Pete Buttigieg with like, and just like a fucking rat.
00:59:56
Mr. Tom Fuck
You know what this is, right?
00:59:58
The Whole Ballgame
hey see And then I, out of the corner of my eye, I'm reading this and I see you, I see you going after like a hangnail, right?
01:00:02
Mr. Tom Fuck
You look like the penguin.
01:00:06
The Whole Ballgame
Like most of us do.
01:00:07
Mr. Tom Fuck
Yeah, yeah, I got like a little thing coming off.
01:00:07
The Whole Ballgame
of Right. i mean And you don't normally do that shit. So I was just like, what's going on? And then it triggered me and I so had to stop reading because I was so upset. Yeah.
01:00:18
Mr. Tom Fuck
this This is the universe punishing you for the fingernail gig with my boss and Rick. You realize that, right?
01:00:29
The Whole Ballgame
Jesus Christ.
01:00:30
Mr. Tom Fuck
You're getting it served back to you. yeah
01:00:32
The Whole Ballgame
Let me see. I think I got the fingernail box over here, too.
01:00:35
Mr. Tom Fuck
Yeah, yeah.
01:00:35
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, i sure do. Yeah, there you go.
01:00:38
Mr. Tom Fuck
We know how Rick likes to mix those in. and I'm still not sure. ah Does he put them in his penis? Is that what happens? Yeah.
01:00:45
The Whole Ballgame
I mean, it could very well be.
01:00:47
Mr. Tom Fuck
in the hole fuck sure yeah yeah look at that yeah
01:00:48
The Whole Ballgame
um There's some glue there.
01:00:53
The Whole Ballgame
you go. that and certainly That's one of them. one of the We sent one of these to to old Donnie and his wife opened the the envelope and found that Rick keeps Donnie's picture in his pocket while he sleeps.
01:01:04
Mr. Tom Fuck
ever
01:01:10
Mr. Tom Fuck
like luther lindsey
01:01:13
Mr. Tom Fuck
He's the only man that made me tap, so I keep a picture of him in my wallet.
01:01:14
The Whole Ballgame
Oh, man.
01:01:17
Mr. Tom Fuck
yeah Nothing gay about that, Stu.
01:01:21
The Whole Ballgame
Not even a little bit...
01:01:22
Mr. Tom Fuck
I mean, fuck.
01:01:22
The Whole Ballgame
ah
01:01:24
Mr. Tom Fuck
I believe the quote...
01:01:25
The Whole Ballgame
I don't think, i don't know that there's, that he's inserting. um But, you know, I could be wrong.
01:01:34
Mr. Tom Fuck
I believe the quote was, ah why do these people know where we live?
01:01:35
The Whole Ballgame
He might.
01:01:43
Mr. Tom Fuck
Something to that effect. Why did, how did these people have our address?
01:01:45
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, one ah and one of these letters is perverted. He's talking about having his picture your picture in his pocket while he sleeps.
01:01:51
Mr. Tom Fuck
Uh,
01:01:55
Mr. Tom Fuck
uh, the other one about a bird, something from a pervert and something from a man about a bird.
01:01:59
The Whole Ballgame
see
01:02:03
The Whole Ballgame
Yes, correct. Yeah, there's feathers. Why are there feathers? why are these Why do these people have our address?
Mickey Morandini's Career Highlights
01:02:11
Mr. Tom Fuck
Uh-huh, yeah. Well, at least, I mean, and i don't think I...
01:02:12
The Whole Ballgame
Oh, it's wonderful. wait until Wait until he gets the the the letter from Bob.
01:02:20
Mr. Tom Fuck
Oh, God.
01:02:22
The Whole Ballgame
Oh, yeah. No, it's it's a problem. i I don't know that you're allowed to mail you know organic things and that sort of thing, but if you if you do end up getting a box full of rotten turnips, um just let her know what it's for and that she's got to be the sacrifice.
01:02:36
Mr. Tom Fuck
Oh, those are going to be good luck. Mm-hmm. Yeah, that'd be good luck. Yeah, I don't think I had an angry spouse with my, I did send some of ah Terry's mustache shavings that were collected by Jimmy.
01:02:41
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah. Yeah.
01:02:50
Mr. Tom Fuck
ah
01:02:50
The Whole Ballgame
Sure.
01:02:51
Mr. Tom Fuck
Also, some instructions how to use them for sacrifice. But um yeah, you know, lots of lots of chemicals out there.
01:03:03
The Whole Ballgame
The Hall of Fame was just the latest in a growing collection Gwyn was accumulating. In 1995, he was presented the Branch Rickey Award, given to the top community activist in MLB as well as the inaugural Chairman's Award, given to the San Diego Padre, who best exemplifies community spirit.
01:03:21
The Whole Ballgame
He was inducted into the World Sports Humanitarian Hall of Fame in Boise, Idaho 1999. in ninety ninety nine Right after his retirement from Major League Baseball, Gwynn became the head baseball coach and his alma mater, joining San Diego State in September of 2001, officially taking over the program for the 2002 season.
01:03:42
The Whole Ballgame
He was named to the mountain west conference he was named the Mountain West Conference Coach of the Year in his second season after leading the Aztecs to the league's regular season title in 2004. In 2009, Gwynn led the Aztecs to a 43-21 record in its first trip to the NCAA Regionals since 1991. In 2013, San Diego State returned to the NCAA Regionals.
01:04:06
The Whole Ballgame
Gwynn's coaching record was an even 363-363, and he developed future major leaguers like Steven Strasburg and Justin Masterson.
01:04:19
The Whole Ballgame
Gwynne continued his devotion to community service in his hometown area after retirement from baseball. With his wife, Alicia, he established Tony Gwynne Foundation to help fund many worthy organizations supporting children in need, such as the Casa de Amparo, Neighborhood House, YMCA, and the Police Athletic League. For 14 years, he hosted the annual Tony Gwynne Celebrity Golf Classic to raise money for the foundation.
01:04:46
The Whole Ballgame
Tony and Alicia had two children, Tony Gwynn Jr., who also played at San Diego State, then made it to the majors, and Anisha Nicole, who is a recording artist. Tony's brother, Chris, was also an All-American at San Diego State, playing for the 1984 U.S. Olympic team before joining his brother in the big leagues.
01:05:06
The Whole Ballgame
It was while he was coaching at San Diego State that health problems began cropping up for Gwynn, who at one point weighed more than 300 pounds. had
01:05:15
Mr. Tom Fuck
This is about the time I start to die, Gabe.
01:05:15
The Whole Ballgame
he had a
01:05:18
The Whole Ballgame
I understand. Yeah, we're getting to that point in the the the biography here. He had a tumor in his neck removed for the third time in 12 years in 2000.
01:05:30
The Whole Ballgame
But the biggest issue stemmed from his career-long use of chewing tobacco.
01:05:39
The Whole Ballgame
He was finally able to quit, but it was extremely difficult and too late. The addiction took a toll on him as much as the effects.
01:05:48
Mr. Tom Fuck
I miss it every day. Every goddamn day. I screwed up. I made my mistakes. I'm living with them. I was pretty messed up and I didn't even know it.
01:06:00
Mr. Tom Fuck
I'm chewing tobacco.
01:06:03
The Whole Ballgame
After having two benign tumors removed, the third one turned out to be cancerous.
01:06:09
Mr. Tom Fuck
I just thought he was going to come back benign. And when it didn't, your life kind of stops that day when he tells you that he found some cancer. I guess I wasn't surprised, but I was still stunned.
01:06:21
Mr. Tom Fuck
Well, hey, kid.
01:06:26
The Whole Ballgame
Gwyn underwent radiation and chemotherapy for months for salivary gland cancer. and after years of treatment, he succumbed to the disease on June 16, 2014, at age 54.
01:06:41
The Whole Ballgame
Today, an outsized statue of Gwyn, the San Diego legend, overlooks right field at Petco Park in the city. Gwyn's legacy was honored in two different ways of the 2016 All-Star Game, which was played there.
01:06:55
The Whole Ballgame
The first was huh happened the day before the game when Chicago White Sox pitcher Chris Sale was selected the American League starter. Sale talked about his own history with chewing tobacco and the impact Tony Gwynn's death had on him during a news conference.
01:07:14
The Whole Ballgame
He actually made a very big impact in my life. I chewed tobacco from 2007 until the day he passed away. I remember seeing that and just being so shocked.
01:07:25
The Whole Ballgame
He was a larger-than-life person. He was an inspiration to the game for many, many people for a lot of different reasons, but I quit that day. Sale continued, and I haven't touched it since.
01:07:37
The Whole Ballgame
In a sense, I owe a huge thank you for not only myself, but for my family, and you know, hopefully I can maybe sway somebody in the right direction as well, like he did for me.
01:07:49
The Whole Ballgame
The other came just before the All-Star Game when Major League Baseball announced that National League batting crown would be named after Gwynn. His wife, Alicia, and his children were on hand to accept the honor.
01:08:01
The Whole Ballgame
Tony's considered one of the greatest histories in the history of National League, and there's no better place to honor him than in San Diego. I'm sorry, hold on one second.
01:08:09
Mr. Tom Fuck
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:08:10
The Whole Ballgame
Hold on.
01:08:10
Mr. Tom Fuck
you go. Cleary throat. Got that AIDS.
01:08:16
Mr. Tom Fuck
Hmm.
01:08:18
The Whole Ballgame
and you hit g ne eattin there's no better place to own him in San Diego, MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred said in a news conference following the presentation.
01:08:32
The Whole Ballgame
The entire crowd at Petco Park erupted into Tony, Tony chants that moved many, including members of the Gwynn family, to tears. Few players have ever received that sort of reaction, ovation, and emotion after their death, but few players have ever ingrained themselves so much into a community, a team, and a sport like Tony Gwynn.
01:08:57
Mr. Tom Fuck
Podfather69 at angelfire.com. Send me those pictures of your bitch's feet, Gabe.
01:09:02
The Whole Ballgame
you should hate You should have um
01:09:03
Mr. Tom Fuck
I'm out.
01:09:11
The Whole Ballgame
Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Tony Quinn on the whole ballgame.
01:09:16
Mr. Tom Fuck
TK19. He also had a TK Jr. 19. Well, I guess...
01:09:21
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, I guess he did.
01:09:23
Mr. Tom Fuck
I'm not sure if he was 19 as well. i'm trying to remember what... Yeah, I think Tony Jr. was 19.
01:09:30
The Whole Ballgame
Well, certainly at some point he was.
01:09:33
Mr. Tom Fuck
Yes. Yes, he was, wasn't he?
01:09:34
The Whole Ballgame
hey
01:09:36
Mr. Tom Fuck
So glad you're back.
01:09:36
The Whole Ballgame
um Yeah, that's good. You're welcome.
01:09:39
Mr. Tom Fuck
And better than ever.
01:09:40
The Whole Ballgame
You're welcome. Um, so that's Tony Gwynn on the whole ball game. We'll, we'll transition to Mickey Morandini, but before we do, I want to, I want to, to you there's, there's some, there's some pieces of Mickey Morandini out there that I, I found and I wanted to share with the audience before we got too deep into it.
01:10:04
The Whole Ballgame
Um,
01:10:04
Mr. Tom Fuck
Like which one's like an arm and a leg or a hand or what?
01:10:07
The Whole Ballgame
thank Yeah, well, a goatee, certainly.
01:10:08
Mr. Tom Fuck
His cock. Oh.
01:10:11
The Whole Ballgame
um ah No, there there are things that Mickey is known for um in baseball, and one of them ah is ah is, of course, he's one of only 15 players in the history of baseball to to get an unassisted triple play.
01:10:18
Mr. Tom Fuck
hmm.
01:10:33
Mr. Tom Fuck
That's true, yeah, yeah. There's a lot of the triple play that comes up in the Mickey search.
01:10:35
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah.
01:10:39
The Whole Ballgame
Uh-huh, and so I pulled the audio from the game that day. um The announcers are quite confused because they're not sure if it became a triple play or or what happened, but just to set the stage here, there's obviously there's zero outs. There's there's runners that I believe the bases are loaded here.
01:11:00
The Whole Ballgame
um That would make sense. No, no, no, no, just at first and second. There's runners at first and second.
01:11:08
The Whole Ballgame
The Phillies are playing the the Pirates. Andy Van Slyke is on second.
01:11:13
Mr. Tom Fuck
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
01:11:14
The Whole Ballgame
Barry Bonds is on first. and ah And then oh there's an at-bat.
01:11:33
The Whole Ballgame
See?
01:11:57
Mr. Tom Fuck
Some kind of Puerto Rican. I'm
01:12:05
Mr. Tom Fuck
sure Calus is drunk.
01:12:16
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, so basically what happens, and by the way, I did a little quick research on unassisted triple plays. Every single unassisted triple play in the history of baseball, Major League Baseball, exactly the same play.
01:12:29
Mr. Tom Fuck
Yeah.
01:12:32
Mr. Tom Fuck
Yeah, it kind of has to be.
01:12:34
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, it's a ah line drive. Yeah. a caught obviously a tag, ah tag the bag at second and tag the runner that's coming from first.
01:12:47
Mr. Tom Fuck
Yeah.
01:12:48
The Whole Ballgame
And, uh, and that's what happened there.
01:12:48
Mr. Tom Fuck
Yeah.
01:12:50
The Whole Ballgame
And, and, uh, and,
01:12:52
Mr. Tom Fuck
You're going to need the catch, and then you're going to need two base running, well, I wouldn't call them gaps, but, you know, because they could have been doing the right thing. It just happened to have been hit right at the guy. But, yep, that's... Yep.
01:13:07
The Whole Ballgame
And I mean, Barry was already at second by the time he realized even that the ball was caught.
01:13:11
Mr. Tom Fuck
Mm-hmm.
01:13:14
The Whole Ballgame
Uh, he obviously he was young, young enough that he was fast enough that he was already there and it was very, very quick.
01:13:14
Mr. Tom Fuck
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
01:13:20
The Whole Ballgame
Boom, boom, boom. And it was over with, um, what I happened to find here is, is exactly what gave me everything I needed as a peek into Mickey's Mickey psyche and Mickey's reality.
01:13:24
Mr. Tom Fuck
you
01:13:36
The Whole Ballgame
Um, Currently, Mickey is is coaching in the farm system for the Phillies. um But also, he is a Phillies ambassador, which basically means he's at a bunch of home games, signing autographs for season ticket holders and doing that sort of thing.
01:13:57
The Whole Ballgame
I happen to find Mickey is prolific on Cameo. and
01:14:04
Mr. Tom Fuck
Okay.
01:14:05
The Whole Ballgame
And the following is a cameo that Mickey recorded for a five-year-old who ah who had his own unassisted triple play during his little league game.
01:14:16
Mr. Tom Fuck
Oh.
01:14:17
The Whole Ballgame
ah This is a cameo from Mickey Morandini to Chase. And I want you to listen very carefully as it as it wears on um as as Mickey clearly needs a drink of water.
01:14:28
Mr. Tom Fuck
Okay.
01:15:17
Mr. Tom Fuck
There's five.
01:15:30
Mr. Tom Fuck
Well...
01:15:49
Mr. Tom Fuck
Arriba.
01:17:07
Mr. Tom Fuck
you
01:17:46
The Whole Ballgame
All right, Chase, we'll see you. I'll tell you, it just, it lights me up inside to to hear myself talking to that five-year-old boy and and making things, ah you know, making sure that that he's he's got his head on straight and, you know, focusing on the right things all through his career and all through his life and, you know, I'm
01:18:08
Mr. Tom Fuck
Yeah, yeah. Mm-hmm.
01:18:10
The Whole Ballgame
making sure that, uh, uh, as a five-year-old, he knows, ah exactly who the player was that I tagged out that day. ah that day, I don't know if you're aware or not, Blake, but I, uh, I, uh, one of only 15 players in the history of major league baseball to perform an unassisted triple play.
01:18:28
The Whole Ballgame
That was me. Uh, Uh, very few other people have ever done it. I don't know if you're aware of that. Uh, but, uh, you know, I think it's, you know, there's some guy named Wamsgans at some point in the, in the past, I recall correctly.
01:18:41
The Whole Ballgame
And, uh, uh, after me, there's only been, there's only been six more in the history of baseball, you know, and, uh, um,
01:18:41
Mr. Tom Fuck
Something like that.
01:18:48
Mr. Tom Fuck
Wow.
01:18:51
The Whole Ballgame
uh, they don't have, they don't have a Sabre, uh, biography lined up of me yet because, uh, they just, uh, they, they, I don't know if, uh, um, I'm, home I don't know.
01:18:55
Mr. Tom Fuck
No, no, not yet.
01:19:04
The Whole Ballgame
Uh, you know, I'm, I'm a little, it's, uh, it's a little upsetting if I'm being honest with you, you know, I spent all those days outside throwing tennis ball at the garage door.
01:19:04
Mr. Tom Fuck
need a drink?
01:19:09
Mr. Tom Fuck
They're breathless.
01:19:18
The Whole Ballgame
um
01:19:19
Mr. Tom Fuck
You and me both, brother.
01:19:21
The Whole Ballgame
And, um you know, Troy Tulewitzki, he's got a Sabre article, but, you know, and so does Raphael Fercal and John Valentin.
01:19:26
Mr. Tom Fuck
Oh.
01:19:34
The Whole Ballgame
Even Randy Velarde's got one, but not not not old Mickey.
01:19:36
Mr. Tom Fuck
They're all better than you.
01:19:39
The Whole Ballgame
Mickey ah still waiting on, even though, ah you know, none of these guys got an unassisted triple play against Barry Bonds.
01:19:39
Mr. Tom Fuck
Yeah. Yeah.
01:19:46
Mr. Tom Fuck
Oh, no, no. Look, look.
01:19:48
The Whole Ballgame
You know, Barry Bonds is...
01:19:50
Mr. Tom Fuck
He was on base.
01:19:53
Mr. Tom Fuck
Listen, Mickey, take a breath. Okay? Look, you're putting a lot of stock in this one play. and And a baseball career is a little more... oven and Please don't breathe into the microphone like that. That's just unsettling. Jesus.
01:20:09
Mr. Tom Fuck
um You know, like, all those guys you had, they're more accomplished players than you, Mickey. You had one really great year. I'll give you that.
01:20:21
The Whole Ballgame
Well, I mean, look, at the end of the day, think what everybody needs needs to remember is that, you know, go Phillies. And and i'm I'm one of only 15 players to ever ah perform an unassisted triple play on the baseball field.
01:20:30
Mr. Tom Fuck
Sure. Yeah.
01:20:37
The Whole Ballgame
And I think a lot of people forget that.
01:20:38
Mr. Tom Fuck
Yep.
01:20:40
The Whole Ballgame
And
01:20:40
Mr. Tom Fuck
Need your,
01:20:40
The Whole Ballgame
And, ah you know, if I'm if I'm here to do anything else, it's to to meet sponsors and the to to say hello to to fans and try to keep kids off drugs more importantly than anything else.
01:20:51
Mr. Tom Fuck
Sure, sure.
01:20:52
The Whole Ballgame
You know, me and Dave Clark. I don't know if you you remember this one or not, but.
01:21:27
The Whole Ballgame
yeah Everybody wins when you yeah you you don't drink. So Chase, I want you to remember, keep the keep the beer off your lips till you're at least 21, pal, because it's not the way to go.
01:21:36
Mr. Tom Fuck
Mm
01:21:40
The Whole Ballgame
ask ah ask i mean Ask Tony. You just talked about Tony. you know He succumbed to the the the the drink. or oh I guess that was that was tobacco, wasn't it?
01:21:50
Mr. Tom Fuck
hmm.
01:21:51
The Whole Ballgame
you You understand.
01:21:51
Mr. Tom Fuck
Mm hmm.
01:21:52
The Whole Ballgame
You know where I'm coming from. It's the same, same, right?
01:21:53
Mr. Tom Fuck
Mm hmm. Well, you know, not really, but I'm you know, it's ironic because you you look like a man who was born with fetal alcohol syndrome as I'm staring at your 1988 Tops USA card. And you also, for me personally, and this is very unsettling, you look like Mr. Livingston.
01:22:18
Mr. Tom Fuck
This is what he looked like about the same time, yet he was like a 14-year-old boy, but he looked almost exactly like this. is Is this...
01:22:28
The Whole Ballgame
Well, look, I got to tell you, Blake, I mean, you're saying things that are, you know, beyond my understanding.
01:22:36
Mr. Tom Fuck
Yeah.
01:22:36
The Whole Ballgame
ah all All I really know is, is ah at the end of the day, and let's not, I don't i don't i don't want to talk about such things.
01:22:38
Mr. Tom Fuck
He's a diddler. He tried to get... Oh,
01:22:46
The Whole Ballgame
You know, I don't need that kind of poison. Yeah.
01:22:48
Mr. Tom Fuck
okay.
01:22:49
The Whole Ballgame
kind of jumping into my brain and into my heart and into my soul. And that energy then comes out of me. And nobody wants that at this point and in life.
01:22:59
The Whole Ballgame
And but I guess what I'm trying to say is, well, let me take this out for you and show you.
01:23:02
Mr. Tom Fuck
Mm-hmm.
01:23:06
The Whole Ballgame
This is about a good six inches, yeah?
01:23:06
Mr. Tom Fuck
ah
01:23:10
Mr. Tom Fuck
but Well, I, my,
01:23:12
The Whole Ballgame
What do you think about that? About a good six inches? What do you think?
01:23:15
Mr. Tom Fuck
the only way i can properly.
01:23:16
The Whole Ballgame
i was i was about six inches from second base the day that I performed that unassisted triple play.
01:23:21
Mr. Tom Fuck
Jesus Christ.
01:23:22
The Whole Ballgame
ah You know, Barry Bonds was about six inches away from me too.
01:23:23
Mr. Tom Fuck
Fuck almighty.
01:23:27
Mr. Tom Fuck
You know, it's not like you struck him out. Okay. You caught a fucking ball.
01:23:30
The Whole Ballgame
I tagged him. i tag I tagged him.
01:23:32
Mr. Tom Fuck
Yeah. You tagged him.
01:23:32
The Whole Ballgame
I tagged.
01:23:33
Mr. Tom Fuck
You tagged him.
01:23:33
The Whole Ballgame
It was Barry Bonds.
01:23:34
Mr. Tom Fuck
Exactly. That's great.
01:23:35
The Whole Ballgame
That's correct.
01:23:36
Mr. Tom Fuck
um
01:23:36
The Whole Ballgame
I am the i'm the only one on that list that included Barry Bonds as one of the three outs I got at the same time ah within, you know, just about a half a second of each other.
01:23:46
Mr. Tom Fuck
Yeah, you only need ah two hands and a foot to count them all.
01:23:46
The Whole Ballgame
um
01:23:50
The Whole Ballgame
That's right. That's all you need. ah But you didn't do it. I did.
01:23:53
Mr. Tom Fuck
Right, right, yep. A lot of that shit I haven't done.
01:23:55
The Whole Ballgame
I just want to make that very clear.
01:23:58
Mr. Tom Fuck
Right. I also don't look like a pedophile.
01:24:04
Mr. Tom Fuck
And um you do. There's that. So I'd like to make that clear. But um I was going to tell you the only way I could properly judge the inches is I need to have a washcloth slowly float away over the water to slowly expose the penis.
01:24:23
Mr. Tom Fuck
You see?
01:24:23
The Whole Ballgame
Oh, wait, wait, wait. I don't know. i don't, you know, you started talking. dirty here. And I, I'm, I'm gonna, gonna have to stop you right there. Cause I'm not sure what you're talking about now.
01:24:33
The Whole Ballgame
And you know, you're talking about 14 year old kids and boy, I don't want nothing to do with none of that. Cause, um, well, look, Hey, at the end of the day, ah you know, you have to make your own decisions as a nine-year-old, just like Chase has to make his decisions as a five-year-old.
01:24:39
Mr. Tom Fuck
Me neither. i was nine.
01:24:48
Mr. Tom Fuck
Sure, yeah. Oh, God, no. Let's not bring Chase into any of this, please.
01:24:51
The Whole Ballgame
And, and, and then, you know, You know, old Livingston there, you say we we we looked a lot alike.
01:24:56
Mr. Tom Fuck
Yeah.
01:24:58
The Whole Ballgame
He was 14. You know, clearly he was, he had some kind of, I don't know, some kind of mentality where...
01:25:05
Mr. Tom Fuck
I don't like what you're doing with your hands.
01:25:09
Mr. Tom Fuck
it's it's this this so it's It's everything that's wrong with all of this is your hands. It's it's so fucking like people you gotta see. Now chewing on his fingernail.
01:25:23
Mr. Tom Fuck
Like everything every every third word, there's ah hi there's a ah big, exasperated hand explosion of some sort, and what you see is, I understand, as I understand, as I understand, and it explodes, you see. Yeah.
01:25:42
The Whole Ballgame
why you know what it i learned it my time with the cubs uh steve steve stone he is a big can talker guy and i you know i hung a lot hung around with stoney quite a bit and i uh you know there's not a not a lot i can oh boy oh boy
01:25:46
Mr. Tom Fuck
Yeah.
01:25:55
Mr. Tom Fuck
yeah
01:25:59
Mr. Tom Fuck
um I'm, I'm going to read your story. Okay.
01:26:03
The Whole Ballgame
well i suppose if that's that's what we're gonna do here and that's what we're gonna do um
01:26:08
Mr. Tom Fuck
You didn't have a saber bio, you know, like you ah mentioned. So some dude named centerfieldmaz, um, at centerfieldmaz.com wrote a little bio on you.
01:26:22
Mr. Tom Fuck
Uh, He classified you. I'm not sure if you're a former player or if you're a former Italian, but you are a former Italian-American player, Mickey Morandini.
01:26:34
The Whole Ballgame
um i'm i'm a i'm a i'm still italian american so uh that's why i talk with my hands i guess you know it's a very italian thing to do uh
01:26:41
Mr. Tom Fuck
Sure, yeah.
01:26:46
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, i so I'm a former player. I think he just did the, the from a, um gosh, what's the word I'm looking for?
01:26:53
Mr. Tom Fuck
No, yeah, you're good. I don't need you to explain it.
01:26:56
The Whole Ballgame
from From the standpoint of grant grammatically grammatically, he's just a little off. That's all.
01:27:03
Mr. Tom Fuck
Right, yeah.
01:27:03
The Whole Ballgame
ah i You know, that'll be fine.
01:27:04
Mr. Tom Fuck
Well...
01:27:06
The Whole Ballgame
lot of bright colors on this webpage, though. It makes my eyes kind of turn a little burny.
01:27:10
Mr. Tom Fuck
Yeah, this has a very Podfather69 and Angelfire.com vibe to it.
01:27:18
The Whole Ballgame
It's interesting. Maybe this could very well be Tony's website. i didnt um you know yeah ah Tony was not was not on the Pirates at any point, um or else you know that would have been it would have been good if it had been Tony and Barry on the bases. Maybe then I would have had my Sabre article written.
01:27:37
The Whole Ballgame
Oh, yeah.
01:27:38
Mr. Tom Fuck
Remembering 60 years of Vets history plus but the...
01:27:40
The Whole Ballgame
You know, Chase, you know, Chase, Chase, one more little note for you, Chase, as you grow older and and you start to, you know, talk baseball more with your Uncle Rich, who was so kind as to send me that beautiful note.
01:27:42
Mr. Tom Fuck
No. No. oh
01:27:54
The Whole Ballgame
um Here's what I would recommend. Go ahead and join the the Society of American Baseball ah Research and write write your so write a nice article about your old pal, Uncle Mickey Morandini here.
01:28:08
The Whole Ballgame
just as a ah nice It would be a nice thank you to me for the cameo that Uncle Rich already paid for.
01:28:11
Mr. Tom Fuck
ah
01:28:15
Mr. Tom Fuck
Yeah, and you could get Mickey off of centerfieldmaz.com where they are remembering 60 years of Betts history plus the New York baseball giants, Italian-American players, and a little bit of rock and roll.
01:28:30
Mr. Tom Fuck
So that's what Centerfield Maz is into, okay?
01:28:35
Mr. Tom Fuck
And it has two flags, an American one and an Italian one. And they're intertwined. Like Nikolai Volkov's Russian one and American one. Thank you.
01:28:45
The Whole Ballgame
yeah
01:28:47
Mr. Tom Fuck
Michael Robert Morandini was born on April 22, 1966 in Kittading, Pennsylvania.
01:28:56
The Whole Ballgame
yeah it's pronounced kittening blake uh kittening kittening is a real small little town
01:28:58
Mr. Tom Fuck
Oh, thank you.
01:29:04
Mr. Tom Fuck
Kittin' it on. The 5'11 second baseman. Yeah, yeah. Threw right, but batted left-handed.
01:29:14
The Whole Ballgame
They call me abodextrous. That's what I was. That's the word for it. I can use both hands, the same same efficiencies. you know i was always better at throwing with my yeah with my right, but you know when I'm up there at bat, you got to teach yourself you got to figure out ways to, to, to set yourself apart from the pack.
01:29:34
The Whole Ballgame
You know, that's what I always believed. And whether that was from throwing the tennis ball at the wall 50 times in a row or, uh, teaching myself how to bat left-handed or, uh, you know, uh, uh, bathing in, in tubs at random young boys households, you know, that's, uh, it's just, you know,
01:29:55
Mr. Tom Fuck
Yeah, yeah.
01:29:55
The Whole Ballgame
but borrowing, borrowing the, uh, the washcloths, uh, of, of, of the house, that sort of thing.
01:29:55
Mr. Tom Fuck
Mm-hmm.
01:30:04
The Whole Ballgame
Um,
Mickey's Personal Stories and Legacy
01:30:05
Mr. Tom Fuck
what else are you gonna do Keep him?
01:30:05
The Whole Ballgame
what, well, I mean, sure, you know, I mean, well, you know, if it depends on the household, I suppose, and depends on, well, you know, uh, sometimes I use, uh, the, the bathrobe or the lady of the house, you know, don't really need a, a
01:30:11
Mr. Tom Fuck
Borrow a towel, too, I hope.
01:30:21
Mr. Tom Fuck
Mm-hmm.
01:30:22
The Whole Ballgame
ah to double up on on the absorbency situation with a towel and a bathrobe, right?
01:30:28
Mr. Tom Fuck
Yeah.
01:30:28
The Whole Ballgame
You know, you don't want to dirty too many too many pieces of laundry for the folks to have to ah keep going and doing. Excuse me, hold on.
01:30:41
Mr. Tom Fuck
Now, can i ask you a question?
01:30:42
The Whole Ballgame
um I guess at the end of the day, what you really have to think about is is the efficiency of the washing machine that's on hand.
01:30:46
Mr. Tom Fuck
Yeah.
01:30:50
The Whole Ballgame
And whether, you know, that washing machine could, you know, ah say, sit ah between first and second base and potentially perform an unassisted triple play.
01:31:03
Mr. Tom Fuck
Yeah, I think that's probably the question you are going to want ask yourself.
01:31:07
The Whole Ballgame
You know, only 15 players in the history of baseball have done that, and I'm one of them.
01:31:07
Mr. Tom Fuck
But, man, huh? Yeah, that's right. That's what I heard. But before we ask ourselves that question, I did have one question because you kind of slid it in there.
01:31:16
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, yeah.
01:31:20
The Whole Ballgame
Oh.
01:31:20
Mr. Tom Fuck
what What are you doing taking the baths in the boys' homes?
01:31:30
Mr. Tom Fuck
Because you you went very detailed once you're in there and you're putting the robe on and all that.
01:31:30
The Whole Ballgame
um
01:31:35
Mr. Tom Fuck
But it was very casual that that we got in the house. And, you know, yeah you know I'm just in a random little boy's home taking a bath. And then, yeah, yeah. So how did we get there?
01:31:45
The Whole Ballgame
Well, I mean, you know, i think what it comes down to is, is yeah yeah you, you, you gotta find yourself, uh, the places where you can make the largest impact in the shortest amount of time.
01:31:58
The Whole Ballgame
And as a, as a, an ex-professional baseball player and a Phillies, uh, uh, a Phillies, uh, uh, ambassador, uh, you might not know what ambassador means.
01:32:07
Mr. Tom Fuck
Right.
01:32:09
The Whole Ballgame
You're only five, but, um, ah no, wrong guy.
01:32:11
Mr. Tom Fuck
Well, not me.
01:32:13
The Whole Ballgame
No, no, sorry.
01:32:13
Mr. Tom Fuck
Yeah.
01:32:13
The Whole Ballgame
That's I'm thinking of chase your Blake.
01:32:15
Mr. Tom Fuck
Yeah, yeah.
01:32:15
The Whole Ballgame
aid it's there's sound for It's that long a sound in the middle, you know?
01:32:19
Mr. Tom Fuck
Really like to disassociate Chase from this show.
01:32:19
The Whole Ballgame
Um,
01:32:29
The Whole Ballgame
Well,
01:32:30
Mr. Tom Fuck
ah
01:32:33
Mr. Tom Fuck
Win one for the Gipper.
01:32:37
The Whole Ballgame
I voted for Ronald Reagan twice, I did. I'll tell you that right now. Anyway, um here's here's the point I was trying to make is is when you're when you're out there and you're trying your best to to influence the the youth of America um and and teach them how to be better citizens,
01:32:55
The Whole Ballgame
uh better humans uh and and you know the way that i figure it is you know anybody who who sends a cameo uh i'll i'll offer a whole lot more than just a video you know so so i'll come to the house we'll have some one-on-one time we'll play a little game of catch out in the yard you know um
01:33:10
Mr. Tom Fuck
Mm-hmm.
01:33:17
The Whole Ballgame
will will reenact that day in and Philadelphia when I when i ah was the eighth player in Major League Baseball to ever perform an unassisted triple play.
01:33:31
The Whole Ballgame
um
01:33:32
Mr. Tom Fuck
ah
01:33:32
The Whole Ballgame
you know, I'll let the kid be Barry Bonds, you know, because, you know, I've got to be me. um If he makes a special request, occasionally I'll let the kid play as me as well.
01:33:43
The Whole Ballgame
ah We'll do it two or three different times and record it for posterity's sake. Then after a long day outside, you know, depending on the time of year, ah really, even if it's cold outside, you you you get a little sweat going when you're out there ah reenacting something that's quite, that's just, you know, so damn hard to reenact. You got to go, you got to do 15, 16 at bats to really get the kind of line drive you need to reenact it adequately.
01:34:08
The Whole Ballgame
And so, you know, after all of that time and all of that work, you end up in the bathtub. That's where you end up.
01:34:16
Mr. Tom Fuck
After attending Indiana University at Bloomington, Minnesota, he was one of the top players in the 1987 International Cup Tournament.
01:34:25
The Whole Ballgame
I got to stop you right there, Blake. I don't, uh, you know, look at, uh, Indiana university, uh, is in Bloomington, Indiana, uh, not in Bloomington, Minnesota.
01:34:27
Mr. Tom Fuck
ah Please do. Don't let get too far.
01:34:35
Mr. Tom Fuck
It sure is. Look at that. What an asshole.
01:34:37
The Whole Ballgame
Um, so, so this, uh, this, this dipshit WAP, uh, uh, uh, doesn't really, and it's okay.
01:34:38
Mr. Tom Fuck
Look at what they wrote.
01:34:46
The Whole Ballgame
I can say that cause I'm, uh, of the cloth as it were, you know, Um, but, uh, yeah, no, it's Indiana. I, I went to school at the Indiana University in Indiana, Bloomington, Bloomington, Minnesota is where the mall of America is.
01:34:54
Mr. Tom Fuck
A little too much rock and roll.
01:35:01
The Whole Ballgame
Um, another one of my favorite places you could scray.
01:35:02
Mr. Tom Fuck
Pasta mania.
01:35:04
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah. The Hulkster has, uh, uh, one hell of a linguine brother. Um, uh, you know, I, I went and met a young, young kid named, uh, named Steven, uh,
01:35:14
Mr. Tom Fuck
Jesus.
01:35:18
The Whole Ballgame
in uh just outside of bloomington as a matter of fact they're in the suburbs of uh minneapolis st paul and uh his his uh his grandfather peter had sent me a a cameo request and uh his kid's a little leaguer and and grandpa was a real big fan of mine when i was with the cubbies there in the midwest and so i came out to the house and we uh You know what we did? Something completely out of character for me, but we were reenacted the day that I performed the eighth unassisted triple play in the history of Major League Baseball.
01:35:56
The Whole Ballgame
Let, uh...
01:35:57
Mr. Tom Fuck
I fucking hate you so much. God damn.
01:36:04
The Whole Ballgame
I don't understand why. I mean, you're a baseball fan. You got a baseball podcast. You're talking about...
01:36:08
Mr. Tom Fuck
It just doesn't stop. won't fucking stop. Alright.
01:36:15
The Whole Ballgame
I don't, you know, like he he asked me to come on the program and, and here I am and we're, we're talking and, and I'm just, uh, I'm, ah you know, I'm correcting the mistakes of the, uh,
01:36:23
Mr. Tom Fuck
yeah Are we? I'm not sure if we are. We kind of just listed. assistant
01:36:32
Mr. Tom Fuck
You're going to get my bathtub. ah
01:36:38
Mr. Tom Fuck
He was also a member of Team USA's champion Olympic team in 1988. He was selected as a fifth round pick for the Philadelphia Phillies in 1988.
01:36:51
Mr. Tom Fuck
He got to the big leagues as a reserve infielder for the 90 and 91 seasons. 92, Mickey became the Phillies' main second baseman for the next six years.
01:37:03
Mr. Tom Fuck
On September 20, 1992, he that assistant triple play in a game against the Pittsburgh Pirates.
01:37:15
Mr. Tom Fuck
With Jeff King as the batter. oh that's it.
01:37:19
The Whole Ballgame
sure am. Well, I sure am glad you brought that up. Like, I, um, you know, well,
01:37:22
Mr. Tom Fuck
It's too descriptive and short for me. I was waiting for 50 more paragraphs.
01:37:32
The Whole Ballgame
what they failed to mention there is, is that, uh,
01:37:33
Mr. Tom Fuck
Yeah. Who's on first?
01:37:36
The Whole Ballgame
Well, uh, Jeff King was the batter.
01:37:38
Mr. Tom Fuck
ah Yeah.
01:37:39
The Whole Ballgame
Sure. You know, and and he, he really smacked the, smacked the heck out of that ball. Uh, you know, and I, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time. And I, I dove for that son of a gun and, and caught it.
01:37:53
The Whole Ballgame
I was close enough to second base, but like we talked about about six inches away, good six inches away.
01:37:58
Mr. Tom Fuck
Right.
01:37:59
The Whole Ballgame
And, uh, and, and ran over there and and wiped off with, uh, with my wash rag and, uh, Touched the bag. Andy Van Slyke was on second. I don't think I mentioned that already to you.
01:38:11
The Whole Ballgame
um But he he had already started running a third, and I was close enough to the bag to get him out real quick for that second out. and Boy, oh boy, you know, on first base that day was none other than, you know, a guy who, in my estimation, steroids or not, should absolutely be in the Hall of Fame.
01:38:33
The Whole Ballgame
Um, and has, by the way, one of the longest Sabre articles of anybody out there written about him, uh, Mr. Barry Bonds. And he, uh, he was so quick at the time by gum, by the time I got to second, he was already there. So I just laid the tag on him and lo and behold, there you go. ape ah Eighth, uh, eight unassisted triple play in, in major league baseball history, September 20th, 1992. Uh, it was a good day for me.
01:39:02
The Whole Ballgame
um I remember one time
01:39:09
Mr. Tom Fuck
You just casually fucking pull that goddamn wash rag out in the middle of that. You have a wash rag out. In the Phillies' 93 pennant season, he batted.247 with nine triples, three homers, 13 stolen bases, and 33 RBIs.
01:39:27
Mr. Tom Fuck
In the NLCS against the Braves, Mickey hit a two-run triple in the final. This centerfield Maz is not a as as ah not the poet laureate of the internet, and his site's not secure, so God knows what's going to happen to me.
01:39:44
Mr. Tom Fuck
ah In the World Series loss to the Toronto Blue Jays, he had just one start in favor of Mariano Duncans.
01:39:53
The Whole Ballgame
I'll tell you, you know, Mariano's a heck of a guy. I really enjoyed playing with him. um i will i will tell you what Mariano hasn't ever done and certainly didn't do 1992 or 1993 season there was was turning on assisted triple play.
01:40:11
The Whole Ballgame
But, you know, that's neither here nor the Mariano Duncan.
01:40:12
Mr. Tom Fuck
Morandini was not known for his hitting
01:40:15
The Whole Ballgame
Mariano marioa Duncan also does has a Sabre article written about him. I'm going to put that out there for For the folks who are listening, if anybody wants to jump on, Chase, I know you're listening.
01:40:26
The Whole Ballgame
um
01:40:26
Mr. Tom Fuck
pitch. No, Chase is not.
01:40:27
The Whole Ballgame
you know
01:40:28
Mr. Tom Fuck
Chase is too young for this program. It's marked explicit for Chase.
01:40:34
The Whole Ballgame
I'm not sure if you're aware, though, Blake. You know, that's something to think about, too, is, boy, oh, boy, we we weren't supposed to beat the Braves. though That Braves team, 10 times better than we were.
01:40:46
The Whole Ballgame
And we we ran right through them like a knife through hot butter, you know.
01:40:47
Mr. Tom Fuck
Mm-hmm.
01:40:50
Mr. Tom Fuck
Mm-hmm.
01:40:50
The Whole Ballgame
As a matter of fact, I don't know if you're aware of this or not, but I yeah i i turned an unassisted double play during that series.
01:41:03
Mr. Tom Fuck
I thought you might...
01:41:03
The Whole Ballgame
that's not true That's not entirely true. I don't know if that's true or not, to be honest.
01:41:06
Mr. Tom Fuck
I... I thought you might...
01:41:08
The Whole Ballgame
But it feels like feels like it could be true, right?
01:41:10
Mr. Tom Fuck
Mm-hmm.
01:41:11
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah.
01:41:11
Mr. Tom Fuck
I thought you were going to tell me about all your success against Greg Maddox instead of a fucking another goddamn unassisted glove play. But we'll get on with the goddamn story here.
01:41:23
Mr. Tom Fuck
And hopefully, you know, Mariano was the 1990 all-star second baseman, by the way. So maybe think about that. um Morandini...
01:41:33
The Whole Ballgame
You know, I took part in a couple of
01:41:34
Mr. Tom Fuck
not known for his hitting, but he did have some, nope, good seasons batting over 290 twice. He was in the league's top 10 in triples four times, doubles and singles two times. Hey, look at that. You made the all-star team in 95.
01:41:50
The Whole Ballgame
That's what I was about to tell you. I was going to say in 1995, made the NL team.
01:41:52
Mr. Tom Fuck
you?
01:41:57
The Whole Ballgame
ah he still ah you know
01:42:00
Mr. Tom Fuck
95. Nope. You can't go in the past. That's a new rule.
01:42:07
Mr. Tom Fuck
Tell a story from 95 on. You
01:42:22
Mr. Tom Fuck
got anything, Mick?
01:42:25
Mr. Tom Fuck
Tell me about a time when they called you the dandy glove man.
01:42:35
The Whole Ballgame
Cameo.com slash Mickey Morandini.
01:42:42
The Whole Ballgame
Did you know, you know, um, uh, there's a good story. Okay. Yeah, no, I was thinking about it, but, um, you know, I, uh, uh, um'm ah I'm an ambassador to the the Phillies these days.
01:42:54
Mr. Tom Fuck
yeah
01:42:55
The Whole Ballgame
Basically, what that means is is i'll I'll do a lot of morning news spots, ah you know, like the local...
01:43:02
Mr. Tom Fuck
uh-huh
01:43:05
The Whole Ballgame
the the local
01:43:08
The Whole Ballgame
I'm pretty sure he's a homosexual.
01:43:10
Mr. Tom Fuck
oh
01:43:11
The Whole Ballgame
he kind He comes out ah for the bigger games of the opening day and um you know that sort of thing. He'll be there out there on the field and he'll ask me a lot of stupid questions and I'll have to pretend like I don't think they're stupid questions a lot.
01:43:25
The Whole Ballgame
But uh, but yeah, they, they'll trot me out there along with like, uh, two other guys that people kind of vaguely remember from the Phillies back in the, the, the, the late eighties into the, the, the mid nineties there.
01:43:39
The Whole Ballgame
And, and, uh, so, so I'll do the little song and dance and I'll, you know, sign a wash rag or two, or throw them out to the audience, uh, that sort of thing.
01:43:46
Mr. Tom Fuck
Sure, yeah.
01:43:48
The Whole Ballgame
And, and then, uh, yeah.
01:43:49
Mr. Tom Fuck
Ron Garvin.
01:43:50
The Whole Ballgame
And then Johnny, uh, Johnny Mc, uh, make a gay boy, well we'll we'll we'll go backstage and, you know, backstage, listen to me like it's some kind of...
01:43:57
Mr. Tom Fuck
Oh, fuck.
01:44:01
Mr. Tom Fuck
Yeah.
01:44:04
The Whole Ballgame
ah You know, I'm from... you know yeah that that That co-host yours,
01:44:08
Mr. Tom Fuck
yeah
01:44:08
The Whole Ballgame
ah he i He lived in Chesterton too, and I lived in Chesterton for a little while.
01:44:13
Mr. Tom Fuck
Oh, really?
01:44:15
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, I used to listen to him and the Mullet Man over there on Indiana 105 quite a bit. i I didn't leave town until about 2013.
01:44:22
Mr. Tom Fuck
Really?
01:44:22
The Whole Ballgame
I was coaching the Valparaiso High School boys baseball team ah there in the the the the late 2000s, early 2010s.
01:44:32
Mr. Tom Fuck
about that?
01:44:33
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, yeah, right before i i yeah I got on with the Phillies again and
01:44:33
Mr. Tom Fuck
Yeah.
01:44:38
The Whole Ballgame
they brought me out to to coach one of their, their farm clubs out here in in Pennsylvania, back near home, you know.
01:44:43
Mr. Tom Fuck
Yeah. Wow. Did you guys ever happen to cross paths? You know, maybe at a county fair or something.
01:44:50
The Whole Ballgame
It could have very well been at the county, the the Porter County Fair there, or, you know, maybe we had a stationary business in Chesterton, me and the old lady.
01:44:59
Mr. Tom Fuck
Sure, sure. Mm-hmm.
01:45:01
The Whole Ballgame
ah It was called
01:45:10
The Whole Ballgame
Mickey Morandini had the the eighth unassisted triple play in the history Major League Baseball.
01:45:15
Mr. Tom Fuck
ah so and it's a
01:45:18
The Whole Ballgame
Paper supplies there in Chester.
01:45:19
Mr. Tom Fuck
Sure, yeah.
01:45:21
The Whole Ballgame
You know, you got to differentiate yourself and show... You know, there's a certain level of creativity about you. um
01:45:29
Mr. Tom Fuck
It's a big market.
01:45:29
The Whole Ballgame
You know, yeah, yeah.
01:45:30
Mr. Tom Fuck
It's
01:45:31
The Whole Ballgame
A lot of stationery stores in Northwest Indiana.
01:45:35
Mr. Tom Fuck
a pretty stationary place.
01:45:35
The Whole Ballgame
Uh-huh.
01:45:36
Mr. Tom Fuck
He was a solid...
01:45:37
The Whole Ballgame
Yep. Usually sticks around the same place. um I did once tell my wife about this time that back the ah we were we were on the road Uh, it was, it was September.
01:45:54
The Whole Ballgame
I, I was married at the time, obviously, but, uh, uh, we were, uh, we were in Pittsburgh and, and, you know, I grew up in, uh, in the, uh, uh, the outskirts of Pittsburgh there in Kittenden.
01:45:56
Mr. Tom Fuck
obviously yeah
01:46:10
The Whole Ballgame
And, uh, uh, so I would, I would see my folks and every every time I'd go to Pittsburgh and it just so happened that, uh, uh, my dad got ill, uh,
01:46:20
The Whole Ballgame
on the 19th, the evening of the 19th. And so on September 20th, that weekend, he was supposed to be there to come and watch his his boy play. And he he missed the the unassisted triple play that I had there in that game against the Pirates.
01:46:40
The Whole Ballgame
And I never forgave him for it. I never talked to him again.
01:46:45
Mr. Tom Fuck
After eight seasons in Philadelphia, he was traded to the Chicago Cubs in 1998.
01:46:52
The Whole Ballgame
hey Hey, I've been waiting for it for like 25 minutes. That guy doesn't stop talking. I don't know what the hell's going on with his head. If I have to hear him talk about this triple play one more goddamn time, I'm going to break my glasses and turn the whole world into a giant prolapsed anus.
01:47:10
Mr. Tom Fuck
Please do, Harry. Fucking kill him and kill me.
01:47:13
The Whole Ballgame
I mean, look, he lives in Gabe's head just like I do. You think it's it's calm in that sumbitch?
01:47:17
Mr. Tom Fuck
Oh.
01:47:19
The Whole Ballgame
It ain't calm by God.
01:47:21
Mr. Tom Fuck
ah He's...
01:47:21
The Whole Ballgame
I don't know what the hell's going on, but it ain't good. I think you got a check on your pal here.
01:47:26
Mr. Tom Fuck
He's my least favorite character ever, I'll tell you that right now.
01:47:29
The Whole Ballgame
I don't know. I don't blame you not doing not one bit. No, sir.
01:47:33
Mr. Tom Fuck
He's a total shit.
01:47:33
The Whole Ballgame
ah yeah Look, I used to i used to call call his games when he was in Chicago for the two years that he was there.
01:47:38
Mr. Tom Fuck
Mm-hmm.
01:47:40
The Whole Ballgame
Guy always sucked balls. ah But when he came up to bat, it was always fun to say his name backwards.
01:47:46
Mr. Tom Fuck
Oh, yeah. You would enjoy that, wouldn't you? don't you give us...
01:47:49
The Whole Ballgame
Idnid Naram, you know.
01:47:50
Mr. Tom Fuck
There it is. the name, Ryan, only 32 career homers in 4,500-plus at-bats, hitting a career-best eight while playing Wrigley Field 1988. On July 1, 1999, he had rare two-home run game. Hmm, yeah. This guy's not...
01:48:04
Mr. Tom Fuck
um july first ninety ninety nine he had a rare two homerun game
01:48:08
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, that's another typo. It's 1998 dipshit.
01:48:11
Mr. Tom Fuck
yeah this guy's not I got a feeling Centerfield Maz has got to be an old man, probably.
01:48:19
The Whole Ballgame
No, he's got these pictures on the left-hand side of the screen. He's a he's a Italian dipshit.
01:48:24
Mr. Tom Fuck
Is he?
01:48:25
The Whole Ballgame
Like, look at his face.
01:48:27
Mr. Tom Fuck
Where's he at?
01:48:27
The Whole Ballgame
He's got pictures with Mike Piazza on the left side of the screen. Yeah,
01:48:30
Mr. Tom Fuck
I don't see any of that. Maybe it's the way I got my thing going. I don't know. Fuck him, bitch.
01:48:35
The Whole Ballgame
anyway. Yep. Yeah.
01:48:41
Mr. Tom Fuck
After two seasons, you already said that.
01:48:41
The Whole Ballgame
On July 1st. Yeah.
01:48:44
Mr. Tom Fuck
It was a typo, right? Oh, no, 88.
01:48:48
Mr. Tom Fuck
Oh, yeah, I know. I was reading the July 1st. I thought you were saying July 1st was 99 was 98. That's what I was hearing.
01:48:54
The Whole Ballgame
No.
01:48:55
Mr. Tom Fuck
Yes. ah July 1st, 99, rare two home run game and a wild nineteen and twelve Cubs win over the Brewers at Wrigley Field. After two seasons of Chicago, Mickey closed his career in 2000 playing for the Blue Jays and
01:49:11
The Whole Ballgame
I had a little cup of coffee in Toronto there.
01:49:13
Mr. Tom Fuck
is
01:49:13
The Whole Ballgame
That was a good good time in my life. I did enjoy...
01:49:16
Mr. Tom Fuck
Tim Hortons.
01:49:17
The Whole Ballgame
ah Well, you know, Tim Hortons has expanded its footprint quite considerably. um There's a Tim Hortons actually in in Holland, Michigan, which is close to where where your co-host Gabe there. He lives, you know, and...
01:49:33
The Whole Ballgame
And so he gets the chance for his Tim Bits every once in a while if he wants them. Although the coffee's not as good at Tim Hortons as it is at Dunkin' Donuts. um i can I can attest to that.
01:49:45
The Whole Ballgame
Back in Philadelphia and and Pittsburgh, Dunkin' Donuts kind of on every corner, you know, and the the coffee's a lot better there.
01:49:51
Mr. Tom Fuck
Mm-hmm.
01:49:52
The Whole Ballgame
And I do appreciate a fine cup of coffee, you know, and a nice donut every once in a while. I like the Tim Bits okay, but certainly... ah not as much as I'd like a, you know, like a strawberry frosted with some sprinkles or, um, or perhaps like there was one time in 1992 when I, uh, I converted on the, uh, only the eighth, uh, uh, eighth ever unassisted triple play in major league baseball history and celebrated with a a dozen donuts from, from Dunkin' Donuts that night. Uh, uh, that was, that was how I, uh,
01:50:28
The Whole Ballgame
how I celebrated. Of course, they would, they would call me the dandy glove man. Um, because I had such a good glove there in the, the infield. Um, uh, as a matter of fact, there was one time in 1992 when I, um, I performed an unassisted triple play.
01:50:52
Mr. Tom Fuck
ah fucking with you.
01:50:53
The Whole Ballgame
Hello. Are you there?
01:50:55
Mr. Tom Fuck
With this one time.
01:50:56
The Whole Ballgame
Hello.
01:50:56
Mr. Tom Fuck
No, I'm in 1992.
01:50:58
The Whole Ballgame
Oh, okay.
01:50:59
Mr. Tom Fuck
waiting.
01:50:59
The Whole Ballgame
All right.
01:50:59
Mr. Tom Fuck
I took Harry's glasses back to 92. thought we were going back to watch this fucking triple play.
01:51:02
The Whole Ballgame
Oh, hold on. Yeah, here. I bet you if you think hard enough about it. Oh,
01:51:58
The Whole Ballgame
this ah This man who was, you know, the old guy who was Talking about it, I'm pretty sure he didn't know what way was up and what way we was down that day, huh?
01:52:09
Mr. Tom Fuck
There is not a ah ah play that's probably more dumb luck than this one, Mickey. So I'm glad you're hanging your hat on it.
01:52:18
The Whole Ballgame
I got to tell you, you know, you say that, but that's a that's an ignorant, uninformed opinion, and one that just is completely way off. the the ah A less talented man could not do it, and that has proven itself out ah millions, thousands certainly thousands, if not millions of times ah throughout the history of Major League Baseball, only thousands 15 times has it happened, and and you're looking at 1 15th of them right here, pal.
01:52:46
Mr. Tom Fuck
Yeah.
01:52:50
The Whole Ballgame
Look, Chase understands it, and he's 5. Why don't you?
01:52:54
Mr. Tom Fuck
If I was in the same point in space and time as you were when that ball was hit, I would have turned that triple play as well.
01:53:05
The Whole Ballgame
That's absolutely untrue.
01:53:06
Mr. Tom Fuck
All you have to do is catch the ball and put the tags on
01:53:06
The Whole Ballgame
You're a liar.
01:53:10
Mr. Tom Fuck
youre
01:53:10
The Whole Ballgame
That's all you have to Have you ever caught a Major League Baseball from a player?
01:53:11
Mr. Tom Fuck
the
01:53:14
Mr. Tom Fuck
Yeah, I have.
01:53:15
The Whole Ballgame
I don't believe you.
01:53:16
Mr. Tom Fuck
Yep.
01:53:16
The Whole Ballgame
I think you're a liar, sir.
01:53:19
Mr. Tom Fuck
I've had a Major League Baseball player throw me a ball before.
01:53:22
The Whole Ballgame
During a Major League Baseball game?
01:53:24
Mr. Tom Fuck
Yeah.
01:53:25
The Whole Ballgame
While you were on the field? Were you playing in the baseball game, Blake?
01:53:29
Mr. Tom Fuck
It only took you five fucking times to get to something for me to say no, you dumb shit.
01:53:38
Mr. Tom Fuck
In 11 seasons, Mickey hit 268 with 1,222 hits, 54 triples, 32 homers, 209 doubles, 597 runs scored, in three hundred and 351 RBIs and one triple play.
01:53:52
The Whole Ballgame
and What's your stat line look like, pal?
01:53:53
Mr. Tom Fuck
And yeah, not reading his fielding percentage. Jesus Christ, that's absurd. Morandini began coaching high school ball after his playing days.
01:54:03
The Whole Ballgame
Hey, um I'm going to have to stop you right there. I mean, look, one of the one of the more important...
01:54:05
Mr. Tom Fuck
In 2011, he was fancier of A-ball with his sword.
01:54:09
The Whole Ballgame
One of the more important things that I've ever done is is is put up a 989 fielding percentage.
01:54:15
Mr. Tom Fuck
Yeah, it's great. It's 12th best all time.
01:54:16
The Whole Ballgame
At second base, i mean it's 12th best all time out of in the history of baseball.
01:54:19
Mr. Tom Fuck
Yeah, yeah.
01:54:22
The Whole Ballgame
Well, there's only been 11 better second basemen than me is what that tells you.
01:54:22
Mr. Tom Fuck
Uh-huh.
01:54:26
Mr. Tom Fuck
Mm-hmm. Yeah. And 91st all time.
01:54:28
The Whole Ballgame
right and and And I'll tell you this.
01:54:30
Mr. Tom Fuck
Yeah. Yeah.
01:54:32
The Whole Ballgame
Let me let me tell you something. ah Only 14 other people have ever turned an unassisted triple play. And that puts me in rarefied air.
01:54:44
The Whole Ballgame
It's more rare than a perfect game. And in my estimation, it's it's it's more important historically as well.
01:54:52
Mr. Tom Fuck
Yeah, and you you only 90 more second basemen have turned more double plays than you as well. And and for my estimation.
01:55:00
The Whole Ballgame
How many more second basemen have turned double plays in your neck of the woods?
01:55:04
Mr. Tom Fuck
In my estimation, nobody's estimation means less than your estimation, my friend. And that is why you began coaching high school ball. In 2011, you were named the manager of the A-ball Williamsport Crosscutters.
01:55:19
The Whole Ballgame
Yeah, the Crosscutters, they were part of the Phillies organization back then.
01:55:19
Mr. Tom Fuck
And then...
01:55:22
The Whole Ballgame
Yes, indeed. And then I went to the Blue Claws. Yeah.
01:55:25
Mr. Tom Fuck
yeah And then Lehigh Valley. And then Centerfield Mavs wrote this. And then he... he
01:55:35
The Whole Ballgame
Then I became an ambassador for the Phillies there, working for the big club again.
01:55:40
Mr. Tom Fuck
I was talking about center field Maz.
01:55:40
The Whole Ballgame
and Really not doing a lot of anything else. Centerfield Maz is ah is a ah hell of a good guy, and I appreciate him putting this out there and doing the things that he does and taking pictures with the the different folks of Italian descent throughout the years here and old Mets and things. Got a little little Bobby Thompson. That's the the shot heard around the world.
01:56:04
The Whole Ballgame
right He called his shot that day. ah Ralph Branca, Joe Pignatato, Lenny Randall, Nelson Figueroa, Andy Chavez, Jose Buto, Paul Blackburn, Rick Reed, Butch Husky, Terry Collins, Jonathan Neese, Al Weiss, Art Shamsky, Gary Gentry, Ron Swoboda, one of my all-time favorites, Ray Knight, Wally Backman.
01:56:27
Mr. Tom Fuck
Mm-hmm. Uh-huh.
01:56:28
The Whole Ballgame
He's got a picture with Wally Backman here. ah I think actually this is one of the pictures you gentlemen use at some point with Wally Backman because Wally looks ah just as bum-fussled as he ever has.
01:56:40
The Whole Ballgame
And I know that you boys, you you make fun of Wally quite a bit.
01:56:41
Mr. Tom Fuck
ah
01:56:45
The Whole Ballgame
I should have known what I was getting into when I came this direction. Mookie Wilson, Ron Darling, Felix Milan, Ed Crangpool, Cleon Jones, Jerry Grody, Jerry Kuzman, Bud Harrelson.
01:56:59
The Whole Ballgame
uh, Dwight, Doc Gooden, right? Uh, Mike Piazza, Tom Seaver, this guy's got a relatively who's who's, uh, a list of people. He's not taking a picture with me though. So, uh, just so you know, you know, the next time you're in town, center field, Maz, you should come by and see me here at, uh, uh,
01:57:21
The Whole Ballgame
the the the the Lincoln Financial Fieldhouse, you know, and and come see me and Ted Turner and and will we'll take a picture together because Ted kind of hangs out here quite a bit.
01:57:38
The Whole Ballgame
ah If he's not here, he's over at Lincoln lincoln Field is with the the the Eagles watching football games or professional wrestling events. It's happened before.
01:57:50
Mr. Tom Fuck
I hear he's in Montreal a lot.
01:57:50
The Whole Ballgame
I'm sure it will happen again. Yeah, that too. i tried to trade some basketball players for a baseball player one time. I think that got him in a little bit of trouble, but, um, one thing's for sure.
01:57:57
Mr. Tom Fuck
ah
01:58:01
Mr. Tom Fuck
matt Maverick.
01:58:02
The Whole Ballgame
This is what I know about. This is what I know about Ted Turner and the Atlanta Braves.
01:58:05
Mr. Tom Fuck
Mm-hmm.
01:58:07
The Whole Ballgame
Uh, none of them have ever turned an unassisted triple play. And, uh, I turned the eighth in the history of baseball. Um, and, uh, ah like you say, that's what I'll hang my hat on so long as I've got a hat to hang, you know.
01:58:22
The Whole Ballgame
I'm a lucky man, and I just appreciate the the the time that you've offered to me ah so very much of it, especially considering I don't even have a Sabre biography.
01:58:33
Mr. Tom Fuck
Mm-hmm.
01:58:36
The Whole Ballgame
um So, you know, anybody listening out there that might want to jump on and do the the biography for me, do a little writing. You know, even if we just use Chad Cheap-E-T to write it and and just submit it to him, I won't tell him that you did that.
01:58:51
The Whole Ballgame
um You know, at least then ah we'll have ah something else to hang my hat on, you know, other than um the the unassisted triple play from September 20th, 1992, that didn't show um that my dad didn't show up to
01:59:08
Mr. Tom Fuck
Well, if you don't have a hat to hang, you can always use your neck. Thanks, Mickey, for coming by. It's been real. You've been my favorite.
01:59:19
The Whole Ballgame
I just got to ask one more thing of you, Blake, before we go. So, i you know, you've been so accommodating throughout this entire experience.
01:59:23
Mr. Tom Fuck
Oh. Sure.
01:59:26
The Whole Ballgame
And boy, oh boy, I'll tell you, you know, I wouldn't rely on anybody else to to read a biography cried quite as well as you were able to, um you know, especially considering the lack of grammatical knowledge.
01:59:27
Mr. Tom Fuck
um' the warm one.
01:59:42
The Whole Ballgame
uh, uh, uh, efficacy of the, uh, the, the riding itself.
01:59:43
Mr. Tom Fuck
Oh, it was awful. Biggest piece of shit we've ever used.
01:59:47
The Whole Ballgame
Um, uh, please head on over to cameo.com.
01:59:47
Mr. Tom Fuck
But...
01:59:50
The Whole Ballgame
Just search for Mickey Morandini and, uh, I'll send you a cameo and and we can, uh, I'll come to the house and we can, we can bathe together and, uh, uh, throw the ball around, and it'll be great.
02:00:02
Mr. Tom Fuck
Yeah.
02:00:04
The Whole Ballgame
And I'll wear your wife's bathrobe. It'll be fantastic. Uh, you just got to do it that way. And, um, I just got to ask you one more more more very serious question before we go.
02:00:17
Mr. Tom Fuck
Sure, yeah.
02:00:18
The Whole Ballgame
Would you say there's a good six inches?
02:00:20
Mr. Tom Fuck
You just got to do it that way, yeah. yep
02:00:27
Mr. Tom Fuck
Maybe five and three quarters.
02:00:37
Mr. Tom Fuck
I...
02:00:41
Mr. Tom Fuck
That was taxing. I...
02:00:43
The Whole Ballgame
July 5th, 1994. It is the Philadelphia Phillies at the San Diego Padres.
02:00:55
The Whole Ballgame
Next time, right here on...
02:00:59
Mr. Tom Fuck
I hope Mickey Morandini catches a ball to the fucking eye on the whole ball game.