Sept. 15, 2025

Pipeman Interviews The Baseball Project at Bourbon & Beyond 2025

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Bourbon & Beyond is the World’s Largest Bourbon, Food & Music Fest

Bourbon & Beyond Kicked Off America’s 8 Biggest Days In Music on September 11-14 In Louisville, Kentucky

World’s Largest Bourbon, Food & Music Festival Featured Headliners The Lumineers, Benson Boone, Alabama Shakes (Thursday), Phish, Khruangbin, Joe Bonamassa (Friday), Sturgill “Johnny Blue Skies” Simpson, Jack White, Vance Joy (Saturday), Noah Kahan, Goo Goo Dolls, Megan Moroney (Sunday), Plus Dozens More Rock, Americana, Bluegrass And Alt Rock Artists Along With Elevated Bourbon & Culinary Experiences.

The seventh Bourbon & Beyond welcomed fans from over 50 states and around the globe and over 120 music artists on five stages to Louisville, Kentucky over the weekend. The World’s Largest Bourbon, Food & Music Festival was held from September 11-14 at the at Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville, Kentucky and featured an incredible music lineup of music legends and rising stars with headliners The Lumineers, Benson Boone and Alabama Shakes on Thursday; Phish, Khruangbin and Joe Bonamassa on Friday; Sturgill “Johnny Blue Skies” Simpson, Jack White and Vance Joy on Saturday; and Noah Kahan, Goo Goo Dolls and Megan Moroney on Sunday. The lineup also included Cage The Elephant, Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo, Collective Soul, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Iron & Wine, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, Switchfoot, Third Eye Blind, Ringo Starr & His All Star Band, Pixies, Lake Street Dive, Dashboard Confessional, Foreigner, Blues Traveler and many others.

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Yes, that's true. W w cra you you. This is

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the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe Man W

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four c Y Radio, and I'm here with Steve.

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Win Scott McCoy of the Baseball Project.

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Nice here at bourbon and beyond we are Are we

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gonna drink some bourbon? Have a baseball game?

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Well one of us has a bourbon right now actually,

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and we will momentarily have this interview be checking baseball scores.

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So yeah, pretty much.

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Nice.

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One of us is off bourbon because it killed my life.

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It was awesome.

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I'm still thinking about it. I might have some before

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I go today, but right now I'm holding off.

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There you go.

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That might be a smart move, especially in this It

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might not be a great move in this heat. But

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I got a funny story for you too. Like the

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funniest interview I've ever done in over three thousand music

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interviews was this band called Airborne or I Have Australia.

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They kind of like ac DC, and they were at

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Louder than Life, which is next week, drinking bourbon before

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my interview with Fred Minnick, who's the master bourbon guy,

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and they were so drunk they announced a Mets baseball

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game on my interview.

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Oh cool, we could do that anytime.

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I want to hear it. But do the yet? Can

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you do the Yankees? Mets? Yankees?

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Yeah?

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Got Aaron Judge me from the plate. Aaron Judge shoeing

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Canada for the MVP this year. On a bit of

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a hot streak right now and hopefully we'll keep that

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to the end of the year. Three into the count

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and bitch comes into slider outside and he hits it

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going deep. Looks like it might be it is. It's

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a home run to left field. Yankees win one.

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Nothing nice.

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I love it. Okay, So how did this project all begin?

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You know? What was the brainchild of it?

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We kind of came up with it together at the

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same time. But it was at the Rim Hall of

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Fame induction. They had a party before before they got

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in the night before and we were having a big

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party and at the end we were two of the

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last people standing, and apparently Steve said, I want to

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make an album about baseball songs, and I said I.

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Do too, Let's do it together.

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I completely forgot the next day, but Steve said, so,

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you know, we got to do that baseball album, right

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and I was like.

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Yeah, sure, yeah.

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Then right then we just we started laying plans and

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six months later we were in the studio and recording

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the first record.

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We didn't know it was going to be a band

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or anything like that.

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Wow, it was just a project, just to make a

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record of passion, yeah exactly. And then it six months

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after that we were on David Letterman playing our first song.

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So it's kind of crazy.

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And now this September you're on tour and you're cell

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Brain a ten year round anniversary.

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Right, it's a tenure indistory of a record we made.

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That's kind of a little angle we use for the tour.

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But actually the band has been a band for eighteen

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years now, right, And like Scott says, it began a

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passion project, a side project apart from other bands, because

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we were in bands like The Dreams, Synic and Young

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Fresh Fellows and Minus five and Rim and that one

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and just a little bit, and so this was meant

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to be saying we just did for fun. Well it's

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almost twenty years now and we're still doing it.

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That's the way it kind of happens. But yeah, that's

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what I meant about the album ten year. It is

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kind of happens when you do music just for passion.

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It always works out that way. I always find that

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the artists that set out to be rock stars are

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the ones that never become them because it's for the

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wrong reason, right, Right, you have to have the passion

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for the music and play the music for yourself, and

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then everybody else will love it.

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We're really good at playing it for ourselves.

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And I think what you say is actually right, because

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I think at this point, anybody who's doing this, say

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over the age of fifty years, doing it for a

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certain amount of time, whether it's a little band or

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even the Rolling Stones, are Bob doing If you're doing

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it at this point, is because you love doing.

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It, Like I'm sure that.

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I'm sure those bigger bands like I just mentioned are

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very happy to get a payday, But really they're out

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there because we all started because we love music, right,

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We all start because this is our favorite thing to

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be doing and in our case to be doing with

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our best friends.

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So why would you not want to do that?

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And look at you mentioned the Rolling Stones. They have

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no reason to play for paycheck anymore at all, So

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you know they just do it because they love it

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so much. Just like Ozzie, I always felt that once

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he was done musically that he was done right.

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You know, that was so true, so right, he just

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got it together for that last show and then it

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was like, okay, I'm done, sign it off.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, And it was a beautiful way to

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sign off. Like magic, if we all had that opportunity

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that we could just do everything we wanted right before

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and say goodbye to everybody we want, I feel that's

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the way you did.

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Unfortunately it doesn't work that way for everybody, but it

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was really sweet the way it worked out for Rozzi.

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Absolutely. And so what can we expect from a live

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show here at Bourbon beyond from you guys.

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Well, I can tell you because we already did it

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right and let's see. Yeah, of course, and we employed

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had a great show. We know, we're on tour right now,

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we're about four. It is our fourth show on a

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three week tour, so we're pretty already into the groove.

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We already had spring training as it were, and we

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just went out there and you know, the five of

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us have been.

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Playing for a long time.

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I haven't bothered the count how many shows between all

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the shows we've played, but it's a lot, so we

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wouldn't we get out for a show like This's a

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great show at a great festival like this, with a

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great audience out there, there's always a side that's going

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to get a little more excited because it's a festival,

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it's a big thing.

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But also we've we just have fun.

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We went all down, so we made a point to

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go out there, look at each other, count off.

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And just have a good time.

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And we did.

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It was really it was wonderful.

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Yeah, it was a half an hour, so it's just full.

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Just go for it. The crowd was really great too.

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They were amazing this early the last day at the festival,

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after a Saturday night of probably party, you know.

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Yeah, but the ones were there were really there to

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see us and just celebrate and they're all you could tell.

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We had a lot of fans out there, a lot

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of and a lot of baseball fans, and yeah, it

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was just it was really fun show, really fun.

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So you guys have probably done a lot of festivals

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in your career, how do you feel Danny Wimmer treats

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the artists at his festivals being this.

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It's amazing so far, I mean everybody told us and

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our agent told us that this is the one you

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want to do. This is a great festival, and it's

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absolutely true. So far, I can just say this is

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a really great, great vibe, and it's a great scene,

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and it's really comfortable.

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I mean, we played from the festivals.

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Where you're out in the mud with a lone porta potty,

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you know, with aun ten people standing in the mud

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waiting to get in. This is not like this. This

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is very comfortable and very very fun.

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Yeah.

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Now here's a really important question each one of you.

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Who is your favorite baseball team?

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I'm current or of all time.

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Let's go both.

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Okay, team, okay, oh team, he said.

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Oh he's a player I've talking about that. We could

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do players.

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Team. Well, I live in New York. I'm a Yankees fan.

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That's simple.

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There you go.

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I love it, and I live in Portland, but I

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grew up with the Giants, and the San Francisco Giants

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are my team, followed by the Oakland A's, who are

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going to be wiped out when they go to the

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Legas because I won't go there. Yeah, and I lived

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in Seattle for twenty five years, so I like the

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Mariners too, but those Giants are San Fransco Giants, the first.

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That's why I'm wearing this Pablo sand full nice panda

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hat that a fan just gave me the other night

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at one of our shows.

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This is really cool and he signed it too. Ah,

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look at that.

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That was way cool. And you know it's finely my

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best brow of life. His wife, she's a total Giants fan.

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Oh really, of course I'm a Yankee fan. As if

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you didn't know by we request you do the Yankee,

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I was wondering, as you know, Okay, I didn't ask

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the other guys to do the man did it. Yeah,

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But so going back to what you thought, the question was,

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who's your favorite Yankee of all time? Oh?

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Yankee of all time? Because of course, like current, it's

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hard not to love Aaron Judge. What a great player

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and exciting to watch him play every day. Yeah, of

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all time. You know, there's so many absolute greats it's

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hard to narrow down just one.

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I'm gon go with Mickey Mantle. I guess he's a

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kind of player.

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We sing about somebody who's a colorful character, who you know,

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didn't mind having a few bourbons maybe before after a

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game and still managed to be fantastic.

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So we're singing about him again in our next record,

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Baseball after Dark.

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Oh I love it. I love it, and you should

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perform it in that old park right across the street

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from the original Yankee Stadium where you don't really go

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after the game. Yeah, you don't go to that park

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after the game, before the game. It's okay, you know,

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I was because I was a pitcher for nine years.

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Mine was Catfish Hunter.

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Great, fantastic, right, And how.

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Many people would actually say that name, and how many

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people today of younger generations would even know what I'm

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talking about. That's why I know.

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You know, he's hit one of our songs. You'd be

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glad to know.

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Really, we have a song about all the pictures are

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throwing perfect games, so he's one of them.

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He's nice. They're the Oakland A's song.

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Yeah, because because I remember listening to that game when

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I was a kid on the my clock radio in

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my room when I was supposed to be asleep listen

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to him pitch that perfect game on the radio, and

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it was so exciting, so exciting. I was just that's

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just such a great memory for me.

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Yeah, when I played, I would try and model after him.

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The coach would try it, No, don't do it that way.

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This way, I'm like, no, I'm doing the catfish always pitch.

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I'm gonna get him pitched like sidearm, side arm, and

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that's the one because I'm the left eat Like if

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I was down the count, I could strike him out

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if I saw going side arm. And the coaches kept

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trying to break me because they didn't want me to

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do side arm because it's so bad for your arm.

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But that was my clutch pitch. I could get it

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over to plate every single time.

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How'd you do on the radar gun? What was your

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what's your top speed you got?

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I don't know. I don't even that's a while ago.

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Being in the baseball projeck, we get to do a

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lot of fun stuff because we thrown out first pitches.

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We've all thrown first pitches of major league games, and

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you know, singing the national.

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Anthem, we go on the field. We get to do

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some fun.

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We did on one event at Cincinnati where for the

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first time I left, I got to clock my pitch.

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I'm not I've never played on any level, but I

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figured I huffed and I puffed, and I reared back,

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and I gave it all. I got fifty five miles

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an hour, very humbling.

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And I never let you in.

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My arm was totally shot after the first bat pitch.

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I think what mine would be now, Like I stopped

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in high school, I my dream was to be a

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major League baseball player, but then I don't know, you

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know how it goes. You get to high school and

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you get two different dream too.

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But we had to end up being rock stars instead.

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Yeah it's tough, right, Yeah, tough choice.

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And I use rock stars euphemistically.

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Yeah, you know what. To me, a rock star is

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the guy that like just loves music so much that

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that is their passion and their love no matter what,

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has nothing to do with fame, fortune or any of that.

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That's my opinion of ploy rock star is.

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I think I think you're right anyway, we're of a

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certain age.

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I was just saying, and you would have told any

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of us, including Peter Mike Scott as well, who played

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with Ram, had some pretty heady, exciting times in their career.

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But if you would have said to any of us

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when we were twenty, you'll be doing this fifty years

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from now, we would have been pretty happy about that.

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So right, yeah, I probably told people you're not selling

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that probably ain't gonna happen, but you would be pretty

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happy about it. You know, you wouldn't think it when

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you get into it, you don't think of it like that.

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When you're that young. You think, I just want to

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do it, and you don't think. You don't even think

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you're gonna be a live fifty years later. Right, I'm like,

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I remember in the eighties. I'm like, me and my

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brother are like, it doesn't matter, the world's gonna blow

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up anyway. We won't even be make it to thirty.

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We'll bring it back to Mickey Mannele who said, if

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I knew I was going to live this long, I

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would have taken better care of myself.

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There it is. I wish I took that advice too. Well.

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Tell everybody how they reach out to you guys on socials,

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on the web. Get your merch. I'm sure you got

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badass merch that they need to buy because they can't

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listen to my show. And let's say buy your merch.

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You can find the Baseball Project on of course why

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by name on Instagram, Facebook X. We have a website

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Baseball Project dot dot net, and we have merched there

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and also on band camp as well, so doesn't have

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to look all that far thing.

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We're everywhere. Yeah.

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Nice, Yeah, any final words you want to leave the

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listeners with?

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My favorite player of all times is Willie Mays.

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Nice.

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Yeah, Yeah, it's pretty obvious, but he's the greatest giant

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and maybe the greatest player ever too.

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There you go, but and he was really fun to watch.

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Do you guys think, since you follow it so much still,

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that you have the same type of players that we had,

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those iconic players like Mickey Man or Willie Mays, Yogi

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Bearra who I used to hang out with because I

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was a VIP second row Blue Line Devils season ticket

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holder and he owned part of Devil's Well many people

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know that.

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That's funny.

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Yeah, and so yeah, do you really think there's anybody

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today that is like that in those iconic days?

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I think there's players that are probably even I hate

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to say this, but even like average players now might

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be better than the players used to be like fifty

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or sixty years ago, even though just because they're so

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their conditioning is it's such a different level now.

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Yeah, that's true.

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But the thing about the older players that we enjoy

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is there just were such personalities and such characters, and

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you get a lot less of that these days. You

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get occasional interesting period.

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They're the reason baseball the American pastime.

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That's what I Yeah, it's like, it's so hard to

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get to that level now where you can't mess around,

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you can't be a fuck up, or you're just not

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gonna you're just not gonna get You're not gonna get

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to stay, you know. So yeah, so it's a whole

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different thing. It's a whole different quality of players capability there.

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They may be heading shoulders above the great from the twenties.

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Who knows, although Babe Ruth could probably still get fifty

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home runs if he was around today.

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There you go, I don't know. But yeah, but what

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do you think?

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I will say.

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I think there are more great, really young players right

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now than anytime I can remember.

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And some of them are pretty fun.

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So I think the NBA had this big comeback when

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you start having players who are really exciting and charismatic.

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Hopefully baseball take a lesson from that and the players

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be a little wild and a little interesting.

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There it is I like Elie de la.

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Cruz, I know it's close to here, so you know

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that's an exciting player to watch.

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Well, you guys rock and thanks for being here at

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Bourbon Beyond. And thank for being on the Adventures of

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pipe Man.

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Thank you.

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