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Echoes of the Stadium: Adventures in Minor League Baseball and Beyond
Austin Alegre shares his journey from hockey to baseball, highlighting his experience as a PA announcer for the Lake Elsinore Storm. He discusses the vibrant atmosphere of minor league baseball, the thrill of being the voice of the game, and the unforgettable memories it creates for fans.
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Ladies and gentlemen, you are now listening to your favorite baseball podcast, starring Ed and Valerie. This is the Dad had Chronicles. Is anybody there?
Speaker 3:All right, all right, all right. Well, welcome everybody to yet another episode of the Dad Hat Chronicles podcast. My name is Ed, also known as the Dad Hat, and with me, as always, my good friend, my fellow lover of Dad Hats, food girl val. How you doing, my girl?
Speaker 2:hi, I'm doing great. I'm so excited. It's it's monday, we've got a fun monday night football game on tonight and on top of that we've got an incredible guest for this show. Like I can't stop smiling. I'm so excited.
Speaker 3:No, you're not a dork at all like me. That would never happen. All right, so do tell. Who do we have?
Speaker 2:Today we have the one and only Austin PA of the Lake Elsinore Storm and the Long Beach Bombers right Hockey. Wow, that is so cool.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's a really, you know, really excited to be here. Honestly, this last season working in baseball it's been nothing but a dream and you know being able to continue going is what I hope to keep doing. You know, starting in slow single A, hopefully getting up to even triple A or major leagues if we're lucky. You know, starting in low single A, hopefully getting up to even triple A or major leagues if we're lucky. You know that's what I'm talking about?
Speaker 3:That's what I'm talking about, by the way, you're about to make me spend some money, dude. You're about to get me in trouble with the weapons.
Speaker 1:I'm on the website right now.
Speaker 3:See, this is what I do, right. Every time we go, we do these interviews right. The last interview that we did with the Apostle Chihuahuas. Where do I go? We go to the Apostle Chihuahuas website and then I want everything from there.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, their merchandise is awesome.
Speaker 3:Oh God, modern League merchandise is awesome. You know what I mean.
Speaker 2:And this teen store. It's the cutest teen store too, and it's next to a stand that sells one of the best stadium burritos I've ever tried.
Speaker 3:It's everything that's so I'm all about. I'm all about mexican food, so oh yeah, oh yeah, you come to the lake.
Speaker 1:Elsinore diamond, you go. You make a right as soon as you get into the concourse right there, the first stand, michi tacos.
Speaker 2:Oh my goodness when do we know if they're coming back?
Speaker 1:uh, I'm pretty sure they're. They installed a permanent like led sign on the wall so I assume they're going to be back next season.
Speaker 3:No other stand had that, oh yes, okay, new lcd sign and everything. All right, we're trying to big time it up in here, oh yeah oh yeah well, I like mentioned.
Speaker 2:I'm so excited, austin, talk us about, talk to us about like how your journey with this team got started and kind of like your everyday um, you know job with with this with this team. I I saw you once at work up in the booth and I have to say you look so legit up there window. Your voice is heard throughout the entire stadium. It is so freaking cool yeah, it's.
Speaker 1:Uh, it was definitely like. Uh, it was weird starting off, because I'm not used to hearing my voice, especially that loud when you're, when you, when you're in a stadium, especially when it's like like a tuesday game, you know, not too many people are there, just because everyone's working, you show up and when you hear your voice bouncing off of the lake elsnor mountains behind you and coming back, it's a weird feeling that is so cool wait, hold on a second.
Speaker 1:You can actually hear the like, the voice, like reverberate back probably because we got, you got the mountains right to the left and in right field and there's all these, all these buildings in between you. You can hear it bounce back immediately, that is so cool that's pretty legit and it would have to be.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it would have to be kind of weird to hear that, right as you're doing, the pa announcing right it took a lot of getting used to, especially because you know you want to have your window open because you want to hear the sounds of the game, but at the same time then you got to deal with the sound reverb and everything. But once you get used to it, honestly it's just.
Speaker 3:It just flows, every single game I could have never thought about it. I totally like didn't even think about that Especially with us and Lake Elsinore.
Speaker 1:We're all about our production. We're all about putting on the best show you've ever seen in baseball and minor league baseball Like our Saturdays. We call them the show Saturdays because it's basically a show. In between innings we always have some kind of game going on, whether it's you got kids in the outfield spinning on bats and then racing on bouncing balls just trying to win some kind of prize, or whether it's after the top of the first inning. We'll go get a fan at the stands, ask them to pick a player on the starting lineup and if that player hits a double at any point in the game, everybody in a certain section gets free double doubles from in and out oh, that is yo so legit well, literally right as you're leaving the stadium too exactly that.
Speaker 1:Not, not even 0.5 miles away.
Speaker 3:That's so perfect that's not so perfect, that's just not wrong. That's just wrong, that's just. We're about to go make you spend some money.
Speaker 1:If anything, Lake Ellsner is one of the best like values you can get in baseball, especially this last. It was our 30th anniversary season, this last one, so we had throwback Thursdays, so all the prices were the same prices that they were back in 94 when they first started playing, so you'd get tickets for like $9.50.
Speaker 1:We had $2 beers for sale and then on the last one of the season we ran out of $2 beers. The owner made an audible after like the third inning and said all right, all the tall boys are now $4. Go back to the stands.
Speaker 2:Wow, imagine a $4 tall boy, please.
Speaker 3:When you say old school, are you guys using this old school LE with a flash on top?
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, the storm cloud and everything I love that. That's legit though it's so many eras of storm baseball. That's legit though it's you know so many eras of Storm Baseball. It's just cool, like all the different logos we have for the team.
Speaker 3:Yeah. So let me ask you, like how did you fall into this job that you do? Like? I mean, there had to be like all of a sudden, I was like you know what? I think I can do this. I got this.
Speaker 1:Well, it really all started, uh, when I was 17. Go just going to hockey games with my friends after like a day at high school okay it was.
Speaker 1:It was ten dollars. It was right down the road, you know, and it was hockey on. You get to stand right on the ice because it's at the local rink, you know. Yeah, you just got to got to go out and have a good time. So we would go so many times that, uh, they started recognizing us, like all the game day staff and everything. So we were friends with like all the people that would run the games.
Speaker 1:And one day they asked like hey, our penalty box guy didn't show up. Do you, do you mind filling in? Like we're cool, we trust you. You know I was like, yeah, I'm there, I'm all for you. And then they from there. I asked like hey, how does the scoreboard work? And like, hey, how does a scoreboard work? And like hey, like, can I play music in between puck drops? Can I? Can I announce like goals? Cause they didn't, they weren't doing any of that. You know, it's just junior hockey. They were just doing the basics, just putting the score on the score sheet, playing music every now and then, and I just I wanted to, you know get a little lively in there and you know it, it worked.
Speaker 1:We had more people coming in. We start throwing out different promotions with tickets. That's really when I got my first introductions into the sports industry and and then from there, like I started asking like more and more, like what, what all can I do to like help out the team? Then all of a sudden, I'm in seattle with the team that my first ever flight I ever took is up with a junior hockey team going to se and just being able to drive around the Pacific Northwest exploring that while also doing my job and just watching these guys progress through hockey and everything. It's just, it's, it's so fun.
Speaker 3:That's sick.
Speaker 2:Wow, I'll be up to work one day, exactly, exactly, sunday.
Speaker 1:Exactly.
Speaker 3:Exactly so. You're like the Tom Brady and somebody was, you know, Drew Bledsoe, and then you're like I'll do it and then, never relinquish. I got you, I got you.
Speaker 1:And a similar story when it got into broadcasting. You know, we were on a road trip playing the team up in Lake Tahoe for a three-game series. It gets to Sunday, it's the last game of the series and I look um, it gets to sunday, it's the last game of the series, and I look over and their broadcast guy was gone and I see their cameraman. He has the mic in between his arms while he's controlling the camera and he's just trying to talk and everything. So I like asked him like hey, do you want some help? Like I was assuming you know I'll grab the camera for him. And then he just hands me the mic and I was like all right, I guess we're doing this, oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:And then from there I was like that was really fun, I want to keep doing that. And so they, they, let me hop on the broadcast there. And from then it brought me attention. Throughout the league I'll do, uh, different showcases in vegas, for we'll have the entire like all the western teams come out to vegas, we go to the golden knights facility and the henderson silver knights facility. We'll play tournament games there. I'll broadcast for all the teams in the league there and then, like it's just, yeah, it's so fun, that's sick.
Speaker 1:What a life yeah, it was just. You know, it got me the attention. And now, uh, I was working with the san diego team the last seven to eight seasons and this new season. You know, things got shooken up a little bit within the ownership committee and everything. A few things fell through, but I was able to get a call from the Long Beach squad up.
Speaker 3:I saw the video. By the way, I was on Instagram looking at your video, you know you got your, your, your, your. You had something to covering your shirt here the logo. Yeah, you know, I saw that. That's all I got you. I'll see you, I'll see you.
Speaker 1:I had to make a little bit of announcement, you know and ever since going up there.
Speaker 1:You know from from day one, because they knew me from before, I was the guy that came with the san diego team and I'd be, I'd be talking crap with the teams going off on them. You know their fans would be jawing back and forth and that's it's hockey. But then going up there, you know they were super supportive. Just immediately it just took me in and like, brought me, like there was times like my car broke down up there. My owner seriously like he hooked me up with his uncle who was able to take a look at it. It had to be. It was a problem that had to be fixed the next morning. So his uncle houses me at his own house. I didn't have to look for a hotel or anything and they're just super nice people up in Long Beach. It's been a good ride.
Speaker 3:That's awesome. Good for you, bro. That's awesome. I love it.
Speaker 2:Long Beach is kind of a drive from you, isn't it?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm still living in Carlsbad so I live, ironically, right down the road from the rink that the San Diego team plays for. I still work there part-time, you know, taking a few shifts and everything. But I just go up to Long Beach because they called me, they wanted me to go up there and so I wanted to return the favor in some way. And you know, it's more exposure. Just going throughout different teams looks good on the resume, gets more clips on the sizzle reels, you know.
Speaker 3:You know, good for you. I mean, listen, you're following your dream and that's all that matters, right, like I mean, as long as you're doing what you love and hold on. And also, hockey is a lot of fun yeah, it is a lot of you know, I, I, it's been like it hasn't I have, I've not always been. I'm a kid from puerto rico, okay, so like, oh yeah, hockey was not something that you grew up in puerto rico you know, uh.
Speaker 3:But when I moved to ohio, we had the uh, we had the lumberjacks, you know oh, yeah, yeah I go back that old yes, calm down, okay, uh, but we had the, we had the lumberjacks and everything, and then now the, the cleveland monsters and man, now listen, I don't care what anybody says, hockey is one of the most fun sports to watch in person.
Speaker 1:It's nothing but pure. It's action from whistle to whistle. Yeah.
Speaker 3:The hitting, the fighting, the scoring, oh my God, absolutely pandemonium, and I absolutely love every bit of it.
Speaker 1:I think hockey was definitely one of the best ways to get into the sports community. It really just started just like it just felt like everyone in a community you know, and you had your team, you had your support staff and then you had the fans. And then you had the fans that would house players and you would just start meeting more and more people throughout all of this. And now, like I know people who live in sweden, guys who are in denmark, I've got guys all throughout the us, throughout canada, and it's like I and I can still text any of them right now and they I would, could have a good conversation with them that's cool legit, really good connections I've made and like some of the best people I've ever met, like, and you know it's.
Speaker 1:It was always hard at the end of the season driving the guys back to the airport to go back home. It felt like I. I was like this is how teachers feel.
Speaker 3:Like on the last day of school I was like now I know why my teachers were crying on the last day of school yeah, I mean, you get to know them right, you become friends with them and all of that, and then it's like, then you're like, all right, got to go.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and six months just goes up like that. You know, hockey season seems so long, and then it gets to the end of it and you're like where did everything go?
Speaker 3:Like you're like. I just blinked.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was just Christmas, like yesterday yesterday.
Speaker 3:So so let me ask you then because you got to make that transition from hockey to baseball?
Speaker 1:pretty quickly, yeah, as you know how. How is that for you? It's, um, honestly, uh, it was a little bit of a challenge, especially going from such a fast-paced sport to, you know, more laid back. Even with the pitch clock, you know, it's definitely a lot more slower than it is in hockey, yeah, and but I I just saw on instagram actually lake elsnor just posted, you know, hey, we're having open auditions for pa announcers and play-by-play broadcasters. Send in a highlight tape that's at least 90 seconds long to this email and we'll get back to you if we're interested. So you know, I went through the motions, recorded a little, a little intro, threw in a few clips, you know, just kind of like, all right, if they take me, they take me, you know then I get.
Speaker 1:I got invited up to auditions and then it was myself and about 25, 30 other local broadcasters and pa announcers two people that I've known, that I met through like soccer clubs and everything that it was cool just seeing like old friends up there. And then they had us create like a script of our own ads with the sponsors that they have, and then you had to make your own ad for a theme game that was coming up and then they gave you an opening uh, opening visiting roster and an opening home roster, and you had to announce lineups in the stadium, like with no one in there and just you just had to go at it. They just sat you in front of the mic like, okay, you press that to turn it on, go for it now.
Speaker 2:That was the audition process oh, oh, no, the way I I was the second one to go off oh wow, oh, you were the second one oh yeah, nerves everywhere no, the no, no, no, no, the minute they, they say that you have to talk on the mic and there's no one there, I'm like, nope, this isn't for me. What are you?
Speaker 3:talking about. This is what you do now. You're a podcaster now like you do this.
Speaker 2:It's different, though it's different when you're seeing the stadium full of people.
Speaker 3:It's I mean, oh my gosh you know what to me and and correct me if I'm wrong I was like don't you get like this adrenaline shot when you know there's like people listening and there's a crowd that's ready, they're like I mean, I know my adrenaline would just go through the roof for that a hundred percent I had.
Speaker 1:I had my first sellout game three of the season. It was Little League night, so all the local Little Leagues are coming out. We had at least like 30, 35 different teams out there. This whole stadium was packed. Not a single seat was empty. I think it was over 5,300 people there and that's the biggest crowd I ever did anything for. The energy was crazy.
Speaker 3:That's wild.
Speaker 2:You know what, though I don't know if you were feeling the nerves when we were there back in June, but you sounded so natural and then, if I remember correctly, you were kind of like chirping the players' last names and I was like, wow, not only is he so good at this, but they, like, you've got to be loved by the owners or whoever, or by your manager to be able to just do all this. He's really got this down.
Speaker 1:I always asked him. I was like, hey, it's nothing mean, I just want to say a little something funny. So my favorite thing was so I'm going to pick on a player from a rival team here. It's a prospect. I believe he played for the Quakes and his name is Randy DeJesus. Now, if you broke up the syllables in Randy DeJesus, it just so happens to match up to the rhythm of True by Spandau Ballet.
Speaker 3:Okay, he would come out to bat.
Speaker 1:We'd start playing that song. I'd say, Now coming to bat, it's Randy.
Speaker 2:DeJesus, dejesus.
Speaker 3:Yes.
Speaker 1:And there was times I'd get the visiting, the whole bench on the visiting side. They'd look up and they'd point and laugh.
Speaker 3:That's amazing.
Speaker 2:No, it was. I was shocked at how much they let you chirp at the opposing team. It was so cool.
Speaker 1:They said you know, take it easy sometimes, but definitely don't say anything to the officials.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's probably you'll get kicked out on that.
Speaker 1:I don't want to end up on ESPN because I got kicked out of a minor league baseball game. You know.
Speaker 3:I mean, that's kind of legit though, Like you know like if you were to make it to ESPN because you were chirping a. An umpire would be so gold. I mean don't do it, because then you're going to be out of a job, so don't do that. But I'm just saying that'd be so good.
Speaker 2:You know, maybe one day if I you know, if I can call in a favor. No, that's, that's, that's so cool, and I know you do this every day. But I'm not even kidding something about driving into that stadium and seeing that outfield wall with the big logo. It just like yeah that's gotta be like the best way to start your day, like it's time it.
Speaker 1:It feels like home. Honestly, you, you drive in, especially getting there like an hour and a half before the gates even open. You know it's just you and your game day staff and everyone's just so. Everyone's in the same good mood, ready for a game to go, whether it's a late game or it's a sunday, and we're doing a 12 o'clock game, like everyone's just always in a good mood. We have our little, our meeting before the game, going over what we're going to do in between innings, all of our promos and everything, and then, once the gates open and we start doing all the ad reads and everything, it just everything just starts flowing perfectly. Even when it feels like we're stressed or like we're behind time, we always get perfectly on time that's so cool man to be doing that like doing what you love, right yeah, exactly I.
Speaker 1:I can't complain, even no matter how much I drive, how much wear and tear on my car, it's had like it's. It's what I love doing and I wouldn't have it any other way this past season?
Speaker 2:did you follow the team to any other stadiums?
Speaker 1:uh, unfortunately not this season, just because I was also working a summer security job, just like just doing a little extra work for more money and everything. But this next season I'm really hoping to at least go to a few away games, especially like rancho cucamonga or like bisalia or something like that, not super far away but closer than like mod Modesto.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Yeah, those are all good ones on my list too, so I don't blame you.
Speaker 3:That would be kind of cool.
Speaker 1:Away games are definitely really like. Nothing's better than being an Away fan. It's one of my favorite things to do.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Really. Yeah, you know, because like something about being able to go in there and support and just like be repping your team and everyone's against you, but especially if your team's winning and you just have that slight little advantage over them you're just giving that smirk to them like my first nhl game I ever went to was in ball arena in Colorado. I saw the Avalanche play the Golden Knights and I'm a big Golden Knights fan. My buddy's a big Avalanche fan. We were there for his 21st birthday.
Speaker 1:It's the third game of the season. It's getting super close. It's 2-1. Colorado just pulled their goalie and then Vegas sends it down the ice, gets an empty netter and people start getting up and leaving early. So I mean, you know, I had a few Coors lights in me.
Speaker 3:Of course.
Speaker 1:Where's everyone going? There's still two and a half minutes left. What are we doing?
Speaker 3:guys, see, I'm the kind of fan I will stay until the very end, even if my team is losing.
Speaker 1:Always.
Speaker 3:No matter what, I don't care. Like, listen, obviously fan fanatic right, but like I will always, no matter what, I will always stay. I cannot. Just not even during the world series where the Cleveland Indians lost to the the Cubs, I was there to the very end oh yeah especially if you're there that if you made it that far, you got to be there the whole time yo god, yeah, I'm already invested absolutely absolutely exactly like another good away day story.
Speaker 1:I just went to this last baseball season. I went up to angel stadium when the podgers are playing up there and um, so I'm sitting right in left field for the seats that I totally paid for and it's right behind the left fielder and I hear them say intentional walk on Manny Machado. So then I scream out. I was like pitch to him, you cowards. And then this one guy, absolute beauty, about six rows ahead of me, stands up, turns around like looking at Puffin out of stress, like hey, we may suck, but we are not cowards.
Speaker 3:And that is the best Angels fan in the world. That's awesome. That is awesome. Fan in the world that's awesome. That is awesome. Oh, we may suck, but we are not cowards hey, that is a bad business. He stood on business I'll give it to that. That is not a good team anaheim stand up good for them. Good for them, I mean good for you. At the same time, right, I mean you're repping your team. Oh, but good for them.
Speaker 1:I've been repping San Diego, since there's players that people couldn't even tell you were on that team. What do you know about Kristen Norfia? Who Exactly the caveman? You don't know about Kristen Norfia? What do you know about Will Venable man Come on?
Speaker 3:I do know Will Venable, that I do know, willie V.
Speaker 1:Willie V, your new head coach of the Chicago White Sox White.
Speaker 3:Sox. Yeah, man, I'm like holy crap.
Speaker 2:We'll blame Ricardo for not teaching me enough.
Speaker 3:Blame him, yeah, next time.
Speaker 1:you're just sitting in the living room with Ricardo. I swear to God, just start naming, pull up like San Diego Padres 2009 roster and, just every so often, just name a random player. He'll go for hours, yeah you're wrong.
Speaker 3:Also, let me ask you this out of as a fan now, because obviously you're a san diego padres fan. I have my favorite logo for the padres, but I want to know which one is your all-time favorite? Sandy san diego padres logo favorite padres logo.
Speaker 1:All right, so I. So I'm really, I'm really glad we brought back the Brown and gold. You know a lot of people outside of the San Diego community don't really like. They're like why that's such weird colors. You know the people get we get called the UPS drivers and stuff. You know people. But join back to the heritage of San Diego. It's real. I love the black and gold because it was just so different. You know, not every team is going to rock that color scheme but out of all the logos throughout my time being a Padre fan, my favorite one is I'm biased because it was the logo we had when we first had our inaugural season at Petco Park the home plate that was blue with palm trees behind it and it says San Diego Padres. Across home plate that is one of trees behind it and it says san diego padres. Across home plate that ice. That is one of the best padres logos out there I got some.
Speaker 3:I got some that I like. I'm a fan of some of those that I like. I just want you to know that. Uh, the 92 one where it says the circle of the san diego that's my number two club and that's my number two with a blue and oh my god, oh, the blue orange, oh, oh so sick. He's got a tony gwynn jersey with that I mean, that's what I was just literally was just gonna say tony gwynn in that jersey, oh exactly, that's, exactly.
Speaker 1:That's the number one person you think of when you see that jersey.
Speaker 3:Yeah, oh, that's so sick, so I'm a swing fryer girl.
Speaker 2:I love him.
Speaker 1:He's so cute, cutest mascot, cutest logo, he's fine, and he has a good time at the games too, he's so awesome, just everything about that stadium.
Speaker 2:I you know what I hope one day.
Speaker 1:This journey takes you to that, because to be at that ballpark every day, oh, what's that view anytime I go, and if I can find any ticket, I don't care if it's standing room only in gallagher square. I am at that stadium. I want to go visit every other stadium, but I'm like you know, like it's kind of hard when you're coming from the best. Already you know Wow.
Speaker 3:Okay, that is some strong words.
Speaker 2:No, I don't disagree. It is one of my favorite game day experiences. We are usually like an Oceanside San Marcos area. We take the train, we're riding along the water, we get dropped off at the Gaslamp District. We pregame go to gallier square. No, actually we have friends um, I'm sure you know them, like rojano, james them, and so like. We will go to the season ticket lounge, do like the five dollar cut waters. We're already that's how you do it, yeah it's buzzing and then you go downstairs and we're doing some more drinking.
Speaker 3:It's of course I mean because that's part of it, right.
Speaker 1:You got to go for the members pre-game happy hour, because that $5 can is then $13 after the first pitch is thrown.
Speaker 3:Oh gross.
Speaker 2:Jesus.
Speaker 3:It goes like oh, it's cheap, Too expensive.
Speaker 2:No. To go from $5 to whatever it is, $13 or even more for other drinks, is like no, no, no, I'll complain about it until I'm in the stadium.
Speaker 1:Then I'm like, oh, I'm so ready to pay $15 for this beer right now.
Speaker 2:Well, that's why you go extra hard at Gallagher Square to not even think about it.
Speaker 3:You pre-game there and then you go inside.
Speaker 2:I'm sorry at Gaslamp. Pre-game extra hard at Gaslamp. This way, when you're inside, you don't even care until you take your bank account the next morning you're not wrong.
Speaker 2:I mean, you're not really wrong but on that note of like game day experience, do you have like a game day experience at like Elsinore? Like I know, like you get there an hour before getting ready for work, but like do you ever get to go down and do it try any of the foods? Do you ever like, after the the game is over, like when do you get to come downstairs? Because I know last time we were there like you were upstairs for a while.
Speaker 1:So uh-huh, yeah, so I. Usually I spend most of my time upstairs but, like pre-game, I'm able to just walk around the concourse, do whatever I need to do. A lot of times, my my favorite thing to do is, like after a payday especially, you know, go, go, reward yourself with a little, with a Brookie, with some ice cream on top of it, from the batter up bakery, oh my.
Speaker 2:I'm so sad.
Speaker 3:Yeah, explain this to me.
Speaker 2:When we get you to lake elsinore there is this bakery that has been there for a few years now, thank god. It's called the batter up bakery and they sell the best desserts, the best lemonade, but they also sell this massive it's a massive half brownie, half chocolate chip cookie.
Speaker 3:Oh, that sounds delicious already.
Speaker 2:And it like glistens and it's just. It's so beautiful and it's so good. I know that our listeners cannot see, but this is what it looks like.
Speaker 1:Oh, my God.
Speaker 2:And then the chocolate chip part, or here underneath the chocolate chip chip part, that's all brownie, right there yowza, yeah, I'm not hungry at all I asked them to warm it up.
Speaker 1:Throw a scoop of ice cream on top of that. That is my pre-game snack.
Speaker 3:Oh, you gotta get ready. Oh god, that looks. Oh, that's, I'm so hungry. I'm not hungry. No, no, no, I'm not.
Speaker 2:And then that meaty taco spot too.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:It's probably in the I was looking for that place.
Speaker 1:In the press box. We get a little bit spoiled because we have all the sweet waiters. They'll come into the press box. We'll just write our order on a little piece of paper. They'll go to all the stands down there and they'll just come bring it up to us. Wow, so, so, michi Tacos I'll be like. Oh yeah, I'm feeling like three carne asada tacos today. Cool, write it down. It'll be up in about 10 to 15 minutes.
Speaker 3:Oh, my God.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh. And then, yes, the birria tacos. Oh that burrito, it's massive.
Speaker 1:It's so good, oof.
Speaker 2:I know.
Speaker 1:And then the aguas frescas are so good. Are you got this girl reminiscing on food right now? Oh no, you're, it's so good we have. We have a restaurant in left field, man like you go all the way down the left field line, all the way at the end of the concourse. It's a full restaurant, full bar. They got tvs in there for any big games going on. They host concerts in there during the offseason.
Speaker 3:Really, this is legit.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the diamond's awesome, it is the best.
Speaker 3:Okay, alright, you guys are okay.
Speaker 2:And then you got the cute little lake nearby and then the mountains. It's just like heaven. It really is, because it's like such a scenic view in and out right there if you've got like the alcohol post game, alcohol munchies still, but then you've got all the great food inside the stadium and, yes, that left field restaurant, which so good so many people too oh yeah, if they don't have.
Speaker 1:If they don't have the beer you want at the concession stand, I guarantee they have it at the Diamond Tap Room.
Speaker 2:Yeah, all right.
Speaker 3:So tell me the best thing about that ballpark, because I'm looking at a picture of it right now which is probably pretty legit. Are you able to do a full 360 walk around the ballpark?
Speaker 1:Not a full 360 walk, so our seats only go from the left, it only goes up the first and third base sides.
Speaker 1:I see that the entire outfield, that's all of our back area. That's mostly like our storage space, so that's like where we. That's where we have like the cages for pregame, uh, batting practice. We have like a few things back there. They're like for our mascot stuff and just like, uh, we'll shoot, we'll have the people for fireworks wait back there then when they when it's time to wheel out a trailer from back behind the center field wall and just shoot off fireworks in center field okay, okay, I mean, I do see the mountains.
Speaker 1:That's pretty legit yeah, yeah, and you're completely surrounded by those mountains too wow, and when we go we all have to sit.
Speaker 2:Talk to me about those green chairs, because I freaking love the green chairs.
Speaker 1:I've just never sat there so the green chair is what it used to be was the thunder family zone okay back then you'd be able to buy like cheaper tickets in that, in those seats and that was the family seats, because it was budget friendly for families and a lot of times they would come with like a hot dog or like a soda and like different things like that okay, that's pretty legit and then they had the they have the storm kids club.
Speaker 1:So a lot of times kids could like do certain things to earn free tickets and those are the tickets.
Speaker 2:They would be said city that okay, okay well, I'm, I want to do that because those are like like neon green, sure uh they're so cute, they're great, I love neon green.
Speaker 3:I love it. I'm not, don't get me wrong, that's one of my favorite colors of all time. So I'm.
Speaker 1:I just gotta say, though I'm sure during a day game those seats are probably a little tough I would say definitely, if you're gonna do, if you're gonna do the green seats, come for an evening game I was just gonna say because that's like there's no shade yeah, you gotta you kind of gotta wait for the sun to go behind the stadium, and then what you'll see during day games is they only the first two rows at first pitch really have any shade.
Speaker 1:And as it keeps going, as more roads get shaded, everyone starts migrating up to the top. Everyone just kind of has the same agreement like, yeah, we're all hot, I don't care what seat number we are, we're all just gonna come sit in the shade we're all suffering together so you know what I love about this ballpark.
Speaker 3:First of all, I gotta ask you about this okay, the scoreboard all the way in it and in the outfield, yes, is it uh? Is it uh, uh, electronic? You know, is it an electronic uh scoreboard or is it a?
Speaker 1:it used to be a uh a hand. He had to put the card in the window but, then, when we had to add in like different, we couldn't have open field bullpens, we couldn't have a certain we had. The nets had to be at a certain area.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And just like there had to be certain storage space, we had to build a whole new clubhouse, which is by far amazing. Our clubhouse is awesome. Oh and then, but I miss the old scoreboard but our new scoreboard, just the with the video board and the lights underneath it and you can edit. That's the small details for me, when you can edit the names and it doesn't just say home and away on a scoreboard. That's the tiny things I the good details that I love to see I got you.
Speaker 3:I because don't get me wrong I'm a massive fan of, like, the hand scoreboards. Oh yeah, it's very nostalgic, right. It's very baseball, right, like that's. I love it. I do love and I know people are going to laugh at me about this but the fact that you have all these signs are, like. They look so like very 90s baseball. There's so many of them in the outfield.
Speaker 1:That these baseball there's so many of them in the outfield.
Speaker 3:That's such a cool view. It's awesome, especially when a baseball hits one.
Speaker 1:Oh my god, that's so cool, like I'm literally looking at pictures right now of this ballpark oh yeah, oh my oh, we got to get you out this next season oh yeah yeah it's a four hour drive from us and I don't know why we only went once last season hey, but you came on wrestling day. That was one of the best days you could have came.
Speaker 2:I'm sorry. What Wrestling day was so fun?
Speaker 1:Sunday day game. That was our promotion. I don't remember the exact date, but we have local SoCal Pro Wrestling comes out, sets up a ring in the middle of the concourse. They're doing different like wrestling promos throughout the entire show. We're making wrestling references, we're playing wrestlers music throughout the whole day and once the game's over everyone meets at the ring. And we have two matches just in the middle of the concourse and it's just so fun have two matches just in the middle of the concourse and it's just, it's so fun.
Speaker 1:Listen, I'm not a wrestling fan, but I will go to just to see that. Oh yeah, and it's all included with your, with your ticket wow, that's cool.
Speaker 3:Let me ask you this how popular are the standing seats behind home plate, the standing uh tables?
Speaker 1:oh, oh, those are super popular. Those are our four top tables those are perfect, you get a. Perfect. It's like a bar seating you're sitting, so you're over the normal traditional seats.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you can see over them perfectly and right at home plate see, it's the little things that I like about ballparks, because every ballpark is different right every ballpark is totally different, like Every ballpark is totally different. You doing something in Lake Elsinore is going to be totally different than they're going to be doing up in New York, right? So I love those little different things that you guys are doing at different ballparks.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:It's Lake Elsinore. It's the middle of the desert. It gets pretty hot in the summer, so we'll have the misters above the seats going down.
Speaker 3:I like it, I like it, I like that. On the party deck.
Speaker 1:We got all the misters over there and everything. Plenty of ample shade. We'll be giving out water and stuff. I think the top heat we hit this season. I think we hit 112.
Speaker 3:Come again 112. Gross, I mean wow.
Speaker 1:That was a Sunday 1230 pm first pitch.
Speaker 3:So wow, first of all. Oh my God, I can't even. But is it that? Dry heat though?
Speaker 1:It's dry heat, but it's.
Speaker 3:It's heat, yeah, heat, nonetheless you feel like you're in an oven. I don't.
Speaker 1:There's no, there's no mistake in that part it's like I'm in the booth and we have ac in there, but it'll be 110 outside and 85 in the booth, which is I'll take it. I'll take it, yowza, must it.
Speaker 3:Yowza.
Speaker 2:Must be nice. We had really good seats and we were willing to give up our really good seats for going way back in the shade. It gets hot.
Speaker 3:Misters is where it's at. I like what you said. It's like, yeah, we do the Misters.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the ownership in Lake Ellison. They really care about the fan experience over pretty much most aspects of the game I love that and and it helps when you got a good product on the field. Lake elsinore made it all the way to the california league championships.
Speaker 3:Lost it in game three yeah, I mean it's, what are you gonna do right?
Speaker 1:yeah, lost by one run in the final game of the series. You know can't, can't be too mad can't be too mad, all right.
Speaker 3:So, by the way, I do have one of uh lake elsinore's head. I did I lie, I'm sorry, I apologize. I have their marvel 920 oh, the defenders of the diamond, yeah the defenders of the diamonds yeah, but I need to get me like the ones with the eyes. Those are cool. The ones with the eyes don't have one of those yet. Uh, all right. So, as I'm sure you are also a fan of merchandise, and I'm sure you're a fan of merchandise of your team as well, always in your opinion, what is your number one?
Speaker 3:like that you guys sell the most besides hats. Obviously that'll be the number one thing that everybody's gonna buy. What do you think everybody else buys there?
Speaker 1:I mean, it can't be hoodies uh, you'd be surprised, unless it gets when it comes at night, that gets pretty cold yeah it'll get, especially in the early beginning of the season. It'll be a night game and it's like easily a good, oh there goes, boom.
Speaker 3:It'll be like an easy, like 42 degrees outside I'll take that all day I'll take it all day, but then you look down and everyone's over there shivering and see the chatter in I was just at the arizona fall league and and there was no joke it what it got down that to that low in november in arizona.
Speaker 1:So it okay, so hoodies hoodies during the early in the season hoodies good, uh, but I think number one thing, especially this season, because we this is our first season in a few years we updated our jerseys so instead of having just you know, the block letters that said storm across the chest with the eyes above it, we went with more of a cursive uh font on it this time and then our way.
Speaker 1:Jerseys are just plain gray and it just says Lake Elsinore in that old school font that you like to see on a jersey. And everything was so perfect this year. I think the jerseys really sold really well this year.
Speaker 2:Let me look.
Speaker 3:That's what I was trying to say Okay. We were like yeah, let's go look at some jerseys right now. Let's see what's going on.
Speaker 2:These are nice that black one, that road replica jersey, the black one, and of course it's sold out.
Speaker 1:Uh-huh yeah.
Speaker 3:Wow, you know what it is. I like that because it says storm and it has the eyes in the bottom. You know, I love that a lot. That's pretty cool. Yeah, our marketing team kills it.
Speaker 2:Do you guys have the custom where you can customize the jerseys on the back of a team store?
Speaker 1:Not in our team store, just because it's a very small space. But we do sell blanks, and so it would be able to be customized after you buy it, but as of right now, we don't have customization available in store.
Speaker 2:Not yet, not yet, hopefully. I was just kidding.
Speaker 1:I'm definitely going to bring it up, though, because if there's interest, I'm guaranteed they'd be willing to take a look at it at least.
Speaker 3:You're like so can we take a look at you know, I don't know, possibly maybe you know, bring in this, because you know they'd be so interested yeah exactly in your opinion. What's your okay. So what's your favorite hat? What's your favorite logo hat? My favorite logo hat I might have to get me this at lake elson or a casual classic 920.
Speaker 1:Casual Classic 920. The one with the eyes, I'm going to have to go, probably our retro hats with the blue top with the folded brim, and you got the Lake Elsinore Storm Cloud with just the LE and a bolt going right through it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, dude, that's legit.
Speaker 1:Those are good.
Speaker 3:I saw that one, I'm like ooh, that's nice, that's a good one. I you know what, you're right, I like that one. I I'm getting kind of and kind of intrigued with the one that you're wearing right now, the one that says storm oh yeah, these.
Speaker 1:These were for our 30th anniversary season. These were our brand new hats that we came out with to go to go along with the jerseys I love how those eyes just stand out I know
Speaker 3:you can see it from a mile away oh you 100 can, although I do have to, might have to get me one of these glow-in-the-dark baseballs.
Speaker 2:My daughter would love these things also, real quick, let's talk about the prices at the team store. This, this hat was 20 bucks. I was like I feel like I'm stealing this hat and then we'll even have discount racks.
Speaker 1:You know we'll have overstock from last season that we need to get rid of and, like cert, we had certain hats from like when we won the cow league back in 2022, back when jackson merrill was on that team. Which who, jackson Merrill just got robbed from rookie of the year, just saying yeah definitely I.
Speaker 3:I don't know what you're talking about. I didn't see no Paul Skins winning or anything like that exactly nope, I didn't see nothing oh my god I might have to get oh and those hats with thunder are so cute too. Those are legit Dude. Those are nice man.
Speaker 2:What's.
Speaker 1:Thunder, the mascot. I'm telling you, the people love Thunder.
Speaker 2:He's so adorable.
Speaker 1:He is the two-time two-ton mascot of the year.
Speaker 3:Two-ton, what Two-time mascot of the year.
Speaker 1:Two-ton mascot of the year-ton I like that. I like that that's good.
Speaker 3:Let me ask you, obviously, because you guys have the defenders of the uh of the diamond, right, you guys have that logo, but you also have what I believe is a very nice, very underrated logo, and that is your copa nice, very underrated logo and that is your copa?
Speaker 1:oh, yes, the cadejos. Yes, how popular is that in your? In the ballpark, you know it. You see it's selling every now and I always see at least a few purchases and some new cadejos merch being moved every game, especially when we have our hispanic heritage night and the team is playing that on the field with the jerseys and everything. Oh, it's perfect.
Speaker 3:Not going to lie, that gray with the white cadejo and the blue eyes, with the blue brim, oof.
Speaker 1:That is nice, oh yeah.
Speaker 3:Oof that just man that looks nice.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Ed is a big Copa guy.
Speaker 3:I'm a massive Copa guy. Massive, I'm a big Flying Chunk.
Speaker 1:I'm a massive copa guy. Massive, I'm a big flying chunkless man. You know, I love that bro come on, bro.
Speaker 3:I love a flying chunkla. I cannot confirm or deny that I've never been hit by a flying chunkla. I'm just saying I'm a massive fan of the Chanclas.
Speaker 2:Oh my God Do you have plans, austin to go visit? I know obviously you've gone to San Diego, but do you have plans to go to El Paso? I know that the high team is a little far, but El Paso or San Antonio anytime soon.
Speaker 1:I definitely would like to. I remember I got to drive through through el paso once when I was driving through the country and I I stopped at the ballpark just as, just like, stand outside, wave high, because it was middle of december just like I really want to do. I I enjoy going to other ball parks and just stadiums in general, so it's definitely on my list of wanting to go to those stadiums. Even even with the uh, the fort wayne tin caps over in indiana, I wanted to see that stadium as well yeah, dude dude, and the only other minor league team stadiums I've been to is las vegas ballpark, which that was awesome.
Speaker 1:That was. That was one of my favorite ballparks I've ever been to I got to miss that one I've been to the the Omaha Storm Chasers in Omaha, nebraska, been there. That stadium is a minor league stadium if I've ever seen one.
Speaker 2:Ooh.
Speaker 1:You can go up to the ticket booth, pay $5 general admission, you can bring your own beach chairs, blankets, everything and you're in the outfield, on a grass hill In the outfield, behind all these outfielders that's a nice one, I'll. I'll give you that world series a little jealous you have to make it to the east coast.
Speaker 3:Okay, I'm in north carolina. I'm in raleigh, north carolina, okay I got it.
Speaker 1:I'm planning, I'm planning on hitting the east coast soon. I really am gonna. I'm gonna start York, rent a car and just hit as many states as I can.
Speaker 3:Hit me up. I'm telling you there's a lot of minor league. Listen, this is the mecca of minor league baseball. There's so many ballparks here. I'm telling you Durham Bulls ballpark. You go down to Kannapolis. That's a beautiful ballpark. You can actually walk that one in the off season. Really, really. Yeah, because it's a park. It's a city park as well, uh, so you see all the people and then the team store is always open. So you should definitely. That one is a cool one, uh, the charlotte knights in the middle of the charlotte.
Speaker 2:Let me tell you that you right that, yeah, with the view of downtown with the view of downtown.
Speaker 3:I'm telling you right now, that's gorgeous.
Speaker 1:That's all I'm going there this summer for, just to hit a couple games correct me if I'm wrong, but the durham bulls are the one that have the uh the promotion. If the home run hits the bull, then the player gets a steak. If it hits the grass, they get a salad. Yes, sir.
Speaker 3:Yes, sir.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, wait, wait wait.
Speaker 3:There's a giant bull. Just look it up. I'm telling you, just look it up. There's a big, huge, giant bull on the outfield. If the player hits a home run and it hits the bull, they get a steak.
Speaker 3:If they hit the grass, they get a salad, a free salad, oh okay, you can actually, during the game, you can stand under the ball and see the ballpark, because it's a full 360 and I'm telling you it is by far uh listen, I might be biased, but by far one of the best ballparks in minor league baseball I've I've always heard a lot about the durham bulls yeah, you, you will not be disappointed.
Speaker 1:I'm guaranteeing you that right now I'm in, I think, one of the number one minor league teams I always wanted to go to, just on the name alone, and their logo has always been uh, the jacksonville jumbo shrimp. Right been there, a giant buff shrimp. Are you kidding me? That's amazing.
Speaker 2:And the mascot the mascot in his costume, so cute.
Speaker 3:I'll say this go at night. Okay, it is Florida.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that is true, it is Florida.
Speaker 3:It gets toasty. I'll say that it's nice, though. It's really nice because there's a lot of areas where you can sit down, like in the berm area. There's a little tiki bar in the outfield. I went there a couple of years ago and let me tell you it was a lot of fun, so you definitely should. That's a good one. Their team store, Woo Magic.
Speaker 1:Fire. I'm in, I'm in.
Speaker 3:So I'm just saying there's a lot of cool ones there and they have a lot of cool alternate logos, right, and their fauxback logos yeah, that's why I love minor league baseball, because everybody has fauxback logos. Everybody does it.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, throwback logos are some of the best ones out there, because you're like oh man, why did they ever get rid?
Speaker 3:of this Exactly. But then you're like, oh, I see why, but I want it to come back.
Speaker 1:That's how I am. It's so hard for me to root for the Astros. But those retro orange Astro jerseys, oh my goodness, those are the best jerseys ever.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I could not stand that actual gold, gold ones that they had years back.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, oh, my God.
Speaker 3:Those were not, those weren't nice.
Speaker 1:Not it, not it, those weren't it.
Speaker 3:Like when there's like when you say oh yeah, you know throwback logos, yeah, absolutely yeah, no, not those.
Speaker 1:There's like when you say oh yeah, you know, throwback logos.
Speaker 3:Yeah, absolutely, yeah, no not those, not those.
Speaker 2:Nope, the only thing that sucks about a throwback logo that you love is that if you love multiple throwback logos, that's multiple hats that you have to buy.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, you have to get the hat you have to.
Speaker 1:Who are you?
Speaker 3:talking to girl. I got well, well, well over 600 hats because of that yeah, yeah I know I feel it oh, my god, uh, all right, at the end of the game and this is something I've been wanting to ask people it's like what is your, what's your routine? Like the the game's ending, like you know, what do you do? Because everybody's like, oh, I'll just shut everything up and then I go, but like I'm sure there's a routine for everything all right.
Speaker 1:I'm definitely very particular about my routine, especially if I have a little bit of time. You know, I don't have to go work at a different job afterwards, I can just enjoy myself I'll stack up all my papers. So if it's like a milestone game, you know I'll fold it up, I'll put the the attendant sticky note on it and I'll keep that one for myself. Like my first, first game. I kept that one. You know it's over in my room.
Speaker 1:I got the lineups, the ads, I read all the opening speeches for opening day. You know I knew I had to hold on to that stuff.
Speaker 2:But at the end of the game.
Speaker 1:I like to. You know I'm in the production booth. Everyone else who's part of production is in there. We just like to hang out, talk for a little bit and then we'll go downstairs. Everyone will clock out, but usually everyone will go to their cars. But I like to just hang around inside the stadium just a little bit. You know, just soak it in.
Speaker 2:You know it's being able to say like this is my office is just awesome. Just enjoying that empty ballpark. That last game had to have been like your last day there the season always has to be so hard.
Speaker 1:We had a lot me and the production crew, we we walked out, clocked out. It was a day game because it was the last playoff. It was a playoff game before they went to modesto to go finish the series. And so we're sitting there like damn, this really is the last game, like no matter what. And so they closed the gates and we're all just standing outside of the gates just sitting in a circle. We're like we don't want to leave.
Speaker 3:Oh, oh man god, I remember I did that like a couple years ago at the uh, the fireflies ballpark, like I was having so much fun right, uh, and and I just I didn't want to go, like we were just standing outside the ballpark and just talking and ended up being. You know, it's like we kind of have to go, it's kind of getting kind of late, you know no one's around, but it's like you hate to do that, you know yeah, it's the worst.
Speaker 2:no, I I went through the same same feeling when the triple all-star or a championship game was in Las Vegas in September and I was like that's it, this is the Championship game.
Speaker 1:There is no other game after this. That looked like so much fun from all your videos, though.
Speaker 2:Dude it was.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay. So Ed was supposed to go, but the hurricane ruined his career like three times so it was a lot of fun.
Speaker 3:So what was Kip looking on the plane track?
Speaker 2:I kept looking at the flight tracker to make sure he wasn't lying, and I was tracking flights from North Carolina to Vegas.
Speaker 3:Meanwhile, I'm just sitting in my daughter's gymnastics class. I'm like nope, I'm really not there, guys, I'm just hanging out here. Don't mind me, I'm just having fun.
Speaker 2:Austin it was a lot of fun. I bet it was. I'm not talking to you, ed, I know you know it was a lot of fun.
Speaker 3:I know it was Austin. Is there anything that we haven't asked you? You know it was a lot of fun. I know it was Awesome. Hey, is there anything that we haven't asked you? My friend, this is your time right now, because we're about to do a little something different and, val, I didn't pre-warn you on this.
Speaker 2:We always forget to let them know.
Speaker 3:I know right, but this is going to be a little baseball trivia challenge.
Speaker 1:I'm going to challenge you on your baseball trivia, my friend.
Speaker 3:All right, I've all right. That's this deck of cards at uh, at tj maxx. Uh, by the way, I love tj maxx or marshalls, it's a beautiful thing, uh. So we're about to, uh, we're about to test your, uh, your knowledge, my friend I know I'm I, I can already see it.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna get one wrong at some point and I'm gonna. It's gonna be 30 minutes after this call is over and I'll be like, ah, it was that, damn it I will be expecting a message from you after that.
Speaker 3:A redo, I know, right, all right, my friend, are you ready?
Speaker 1:I'm ready.
Speaker 3:Okay, so I'm going to start with which. I think it's an easy, pretty easy one.
Speaker 1:All right Before Shohei Otani in 2018, who was the only major league player since 1900 to have 10 plus home runs and four plus pitching wins in a season. 10 plus home runs and four plus pitching.
Speaker 3:I'll read it again was it a national league pitcher it was a player a player before shohei otani in 2018 who was the only major league player since 1900, the year I was born, to have 10 plus home runs and four plus pitching wins in a season. It was not national league it was, uh, was it.
Speaker 1:Was it, babe, ruth?
Speaker 3:ding, ding ding. It was babe ruth, my friend had to think about that one yeah forgot, he forgot, he also pitched he did. He was a pitcher. There you go. Um, okay, okay. Nolan Ryan threw the final two no-hitters of his Major League career. For what team? The last two no-hitters of his Major League career? For what team?
Speaker 1:Was it for Texas?
Speaker 3:I don't know Was it I'm going to go with Texas.
Speaker 1:Which Texas, though? Was it for Texas? I don't know was it I'm going to go with Texas.
Speaker 2:Which Texas, though?
Speaker 1:Texas, not Houston Texas.
Speaker 3:The Rangers, yeah, Texas Rangers.
Speaker 1:The only team with the Texas name, you know.
Speaker 3:He's right. He's right. The Texas team, that's the Rangers. You know what I'll say?
Speaker 1:this, he's right. He's right, because Houston doesn't have it. Yeah, the Astros the Texas team.
Speaker 2:Uh-uh, that's the Rangers. Yeah, you know what? I'll say this when I'm in stadium figure mode, I don't like to show my bias. But Texas all the time, rangers all the time.
Speaker 3:I'm not showing my bias. I'm a Cleveland Guardians fan. Okay, let me show your bias. Okay, I'm going to give you two more because you're doing pretty good. I mean, let's do five, all right. So two down, you're two for two. Sounds good, all right. While amassing 493 Major League home runs, what first baseman became known as the Crime Dog? Cool the crime dog All right, while amassing 493 major league home runs, what first baseman became known as the crime dog?
Speaker 3:This is a good one. Think about the name, think about why he was known as the crime dog. Because McGruff name think about why he was known as the crime dog because mcgruff.
Speaker 1:Well, I can't think of the first name, though 30 minutes later.
Speaker 3:He's gonna get.
Speaker 1:He's gonna call me this is gonna be the one. I swear, I'm stumped on this one. I I'm stumped on this one, you ready.
Speaker 3:You want me to tell you yeah.
Speaker 1:I'm ready. I'm ready.
Speaker 3:Fred McGriff.
Speaker 1:Fred McGriff Ah.
Speaker 3:Oh, I got to love this game All right In 1965, whose scoreless three-inning stint against the Boston Red Sox at the age of 59 made him the oldest player to appear in a major league game. By far my favorite baseball player to play in this era. Favorite pitcher so 1965. Whose scoreless three inning stint against the boston red sox at the age of 59 made him the oldest player to appear in a major league game.
Speaker 1:he was an entertainer he was tall, he was lanky. I'll give you another hint he played for the cleveland indians.
Speaker 3:Cleveland indians, tall, lanky, oh man if I, if I tell you what this other Hit, you'll figure it out. You ready, go for it. He played in the Negro Leagues.
Speaker 1:Oh shit, what's his name? What's his name? You got me with another one here, man, man.
Speaker 3:You ready.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm ready satchel page oh my god, I didn't know he was. I actually did not know. He was the oldest one to play he was the oldest satchel page.
Speaker 3:They need to make a moving movie about this man absolutely you know, what studio needs to do it? Someone needs to do it someone needs to do a movie about satchel page, by far one of my absolute favorite pictures of all time absolutely all right. So that was what that made it four correct yeah, I'm two for four two or two for four. I mean in the majors you're doing pretty good I? I'll tell you that's a 500 that's 500 there, so let's see how you finish. All right, you ready.
Speaker 3:As a 21-year-old in 1981, this is the year I was born, by the way who became the only pitcher to win Rookie of the Year and Cy Young Award in the same season? 1981, became the only pitcher to win Rookie of the Year and Cy Young Award in the same season.
Speaker 1:I know, I know this one because I know I was watching MLB Tonight at some point and they talked about this when they were talking about Paul Skeens RIP. Is it Fernando Valenzuela? It is Fernando Valenzuela RIP.
Speaker 3:Is it. Fernando Valenzuela. It is Fernando Valenzuela.
Speaker 1:RIP. I don't care what team he played for, that is a legend of the game.
Speaker 3:That dude was a legend right. He united a whole town, Not just the whole city, but all of baseball. He was electric.
Speaker 1:Yeah, especially for the Latino community.
Speaker 3:You know that was the guy Just give me chills man, yeah, only pitcher and rookie of the year inside Young Award, I mean that is. I mean, come on now.
Speaker 1:And he still is. He still is, has not changed, so Austin dude, and he still is.
Speaker 3:He still is has not changed. So, Austin dude, thank you so much.
Speaker 1:This was a lot of fun. Yeah, I loved this. This was super fun.
Speaker 2:Crying in the club.
Speaker 3:Three for five. You went three for five, so it's a good hitting right there for a baseball game Seas get degrees, baby Hell yeah.
Speaker 1:Let's go.
Speaker 3:I did. I know I got C's in that, so where can people find you on all the socials?
Speaker 1:You can find me on Instagram at Shebang Sports. That's my sports media account. That's where I'm going to be posting all my stuff. I'm going to be training to hockey and baseball. I'm going to try to be a bit more active on it. It's's been a weird long transition month between baseball and hockey, but I'm definitely gonna be posting some more hockey clips on there in the coming, in the coming weeks.
Speaker 3:Follow, yeah shebang sports on instagram and, uh, you know, just keep up with me there and I'll post everything else I have where it comes to broadcast or anything of the such yeah, that's good, and then make sure you you know, obviously, if you cannot make it to Lake Elsinore, go to their website, buy a hat, buy a merchandise, because you know, at the end of the day, every little bit counts and you're supporting minor league baseball.
Speaker 1:Absolutely. The eyes of the storm are all around the country, oh bro.
Speaker 3:Oh, love that Absolutely. Thank you so much, Austin.
Speaker 2:Thank you so much, austin, thank you.
