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We're back second time in a week November 21

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2025 the bristle boys Not in the studio tonight.

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Not at the Don father's house, but joining us

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the Don father Under the weather all week playing

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hurt angry J Always angry. Yeah, I'm not right

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though Crocker playing hurt Hey, how you doing?

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One of the best nurses in Bristol right there.

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Crocker, under the knife, just a day or two ago,

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but he's here. Studio engineer, extraordinaire

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Kevin Ross. No load management for Crocker. Oh

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no, no, he plays every night. But speaking of

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playing every night, how about bringing the noise?

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Studio engineer Kevin Ross, he's got us all dutted

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up. We've got merch now. We travel, we can do

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remotes. We're going to do them virtual soon.

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We're really taking off. Anyway, thank you to

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the Bristol Sports Hall of Fame committee for

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having us. And we look forward to this gala evening.

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alive. Well planned. Speaking of well planned,

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we've got quite an agenda here for you tonight.

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Inductees include Brian Archibald, Gretchen Cheson,

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Tom Dickow, Andy Freemuth, John Greenleaf, David

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Hernandez, and Bryant Lishness. We'll get to

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them later. Speaking of Hall of Fames, came across

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an interesting tidbit about some former Yankees

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eligible for the Baseball Hall of Fame this year.

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Hoping to have these names right, but obviously

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the one that's in the news and started making

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some noise about it the last few days, A -Rod.

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Guys Hey rattle Hall of Famer No Yes, can't make

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it you can make first ballot, but he has can't

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make it Are you saying if bonds doesn't make

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it he can make a mortal player You're not even

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looking at stats you're just saying does he make

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it Because forget about he's a talent does he

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make a more he's like one of the best players

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of all time If you'll get a stat without question

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The question is, are you overlooking the PED

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factor? And nobody has overlooked it for any

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of those guys. You've made me change my mind.

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Unless your last name is Ortiz. Bonds doesn't

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get in, he's not getting in. Well, he said, I

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heard him say that Barry Bonds, the greatest

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baseball player that ever lived. He is. And that's

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an opinion. I mean, I might still take the chubby

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guy from the from the 20s and 30s. But and maybe

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this guy that's at Dodger now, but. Bottom line

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is we're just gonna keep holding this against

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these guys when all these other gamblers and

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losers are in there gamblers and drunks and losers

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and Yes, okay, I don't have a vote so Once it

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once a cheat always a cheat. So yeah, I'm out

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speaking of Alex Rodriguez said you guys watched

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any of the I haven't seen it. Yeah, I watched

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part three last night. I watched part one. It

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was actually Better than I thought for guy. I

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hate yeah And it was actually good. The third

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one, which was last night, I think that's the

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end of it. Dr. Drupinski in the house. Nice.

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Nurses and doctors everywhere. Alex Rodriguez.

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He actually looks like a normal person now. Like

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the way he admitted he was a loser. He basically

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said he was a loser. He was right. He called

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himself a loser? Basically, yes. He's smarter

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than I thought. He says he doesn't care. He made

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mistakes. He understood that he was not. He was

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not going into the Hall of Fame when he took

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the HGH for the second PED suspension. He got

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a full year, which is unlike anybody else. So,

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yeah. All right, we're going to suspend the A

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-Rod talk. This is the way the night's going

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to go. When special guests come by, and we have

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a special one right here, the athletic coordinator

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at the Bristol Boys and Girls Club And someone

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that the student -athletes for years now can

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always look back on and say, this guy supported

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him. He had our back. That's Mr. Steve Beecher

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from the Bristol Boys and Girls Club. How about

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that, everybody? How we doing? Mr. Steve Beecher.

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Steve? Happy to be here. Welcome to the Bristol

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Boys. You know the Don Frother, it's Angry J,

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Crocker, and studio engineer Kevin Ross. How

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we doing, guys? Yep. What brings you to this

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event tonight, Beech? Can't be the Packers. I'm

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here to, and the Packers, yeah. I'm here to represent

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the Boys and Girls Club. Coach Lish is getting

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nominated. And he's been like, you know, my right

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-hand man as far as the gladiator wrestling is

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involved. I've been with the club for 20 years,

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so a lot of kids have come through the doors

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of the Boys and Girls Club. And, you know, just

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kind of happy to see some familiar faces, including

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you guys. Have you been inducted yet? I have

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not, no. Do you know of a nomination yet? I believe

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there's been talks about it. I know you're not

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the bragger type, but can you just take us through

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your football career real quick? Yeah, so I went

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to Western Connecticut. I really didn't have

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any thoughts of playing college football, but

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I did go there. My dad helped me do all my recruiting.

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I got recruited by nobody. I went to Westcon.

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I got red -shirted my freshman year. And then

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sophomore to senior year, I was All -Conference.

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And then my senior year, I was All -American.

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Who did you play for? Western Connecticut. The

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head coach was? The first year was Bob Serrace.

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And then it was John Burl after that. And when

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I got there in 2001, the team was like 10 -1.

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It was phenomenal. I mean, some of these kids...

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Could play D1. Muscle Beach. Yeah. They scrimmaged

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Maris that year, and they beat them 41 -7. The

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Foxes? Yeah. Let's go. And that's a Division

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3 versus a 1AA. So, yeah, I mean... I think that

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my opinion on the Hall of Fame in Bristol, and

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this is just my opinion, is I just think there's

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some kids out there, or athletes, that have done

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some really great things. And in my opinion,

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you know, there's some kids that maybe we need

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to look into and, you know, kind of dig a little

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deeper. That's awesome. Hey Beach, I know you've

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always been great to all the local teams. You

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helped me practice. I coached for you for a couple

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years. Now you see all these kids going through

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your programs. It's basketball, volleyball, wrestling.

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You guys do everything. At one point, you're

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going to be maybe inducting some of these people

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because they went through you to get there. Absolutely.

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Are there kids you're like, all right, that person,

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they're going to be here one day. 100%. Well,

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within the last two years, there's three girls

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that have come out of my basketball program that

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have scored 1 ,000 points. And for the city of

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Bristol, I think there's only maybe 12 in total.

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It's all three schools and three of them came

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out of just my program so it's pretty cool to

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see and you know it's just the start you know

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there's other kids that are gonna you know there's

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kids basketball that's just basketball we don't

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realize that there's maybe a dozen kids right

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now wrestling in college. You know, college wrestlers

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that came out of our Gladiator program, their

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wrestling college. You know, so, you know, there's

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kids that are swimming, there's kids that are

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doing volleyball. Kids that are golfing. Kids

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that are golfing. So it's sports in general in

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Bristol is on the rise, in my opinion. Angry

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Jay, you're going to love this about Big Beach,

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which one of his other nicknames. You should

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have seen a picture of this guy when he played

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back then. This guy who walks on the trails and

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goes jogging nowadays looks like Lance Armstrong

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compared to this maniac that was playing football

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back in the day. But anyway, Beach, tell the

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audience and Angry Jay and Crocker, like, if

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you have your after -school program going on

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or a basketball tournament going on and somebody's

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out there playing air hockey or something and,

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you know, the disc goes flying off the table

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and it's not picked up or somebody's bouncing

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the ball against the windows in there, what happens?

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They get hollered at, in a nice way. Big Beach

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is, I yell a little bit, I raise my voice, but

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it's all love. It's never like yelling at a kid.

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It's all positive. But you're old school. There's

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expectations in the club. Absolutely. I love

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it. Play with whatever you want, but put it away.

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Yep. And the one good thing about the Boys and

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Girls Club is that we've had kids that have come

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through our program that can't necessarily afford

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it. and we always find a way. We always scholarship

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kids. Your family's been great about that too.

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My mom will scholarship a couple basketball players

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every year and her only requirement is like a

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letter saying thank you and that means more to

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her than anything, than any recognition. The

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Beach family, unbelievable. How did you guys

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become Packer fans? You know what it was my dad

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I guess loved the color of the uniforms back

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in the day and I love it because there's not

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a lot of Packard fans around and You know, we're

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die -hard. We go to Lambeau every year. It's

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great. I like it because they play one of my

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favorite songs after touchdowns. What's that?

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Well, because I don't want to work, right? They

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play that Big Beach. Last thing, were you offense

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or defense? Offense. I was an offensive tackle.

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Could you pancake a bitch or no? Oh, yeah. I

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have film. I walked in my senior year at 330

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pounds. He wasn't into the Hall of Fame either.

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Well, the push is on and we're going to let the

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right people know. They brought us down here.

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some influence. Big Beach, we need you in the

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Hall of Fam. Thank you brother, appreciate you

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guys. Thank you for stopping by. Take care. Go

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club. Thanks Beach. Big Beach. Alright, let's

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get back to the Yanks. Andy petted a Hall of

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Famer? Yes. No. Angry Jay, I know you're a big

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petticoat. The Red Sox fan says yes and the Yankees

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fan says no. I love it. Well the bar's been lowered,

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keep that in mind. He tested positive for HGH,

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he's out. I love the guy. What if he didn't?

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Absolutely. Absolutely. How many total wins?

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The over 200? Oh, yeah. He's like 250. Is he?

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Yeah. Okay. And you put in his postseason stats,

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which are... Supposed to be excluded though,

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right? No. I mean, why do you think Kirby Puck

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is in? Yeah, I guess. Then why is Bernie not

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in? I mean, this is ridiculous. That's a great

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question. Bernie one should be in the Hall of

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Fame. Andrew Jones on this list. You know, he's

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actually a great question. I don't think he has

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enough hits. Burnie should get it over him. What

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about the 10 gold gloves? That's not good enough.

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It is. I mean, that's a huge factor. He's one

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of only four guys to hit 400 home runs and win

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10 gold gloves. Who are the other ones? Griffey,

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Schmidt and Mays. Look at this guy. Only one

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non -center fielder in that list. Right. He's

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an interesting case because he's an all -time

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outfielder. Again, he's got 1 ,800 hits. His

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average isn't great. But the question is, how

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much do you weigh defense? Because he's one of

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the best outfielders of all time. Back then and

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now, you feel bad for a guy like Jones, who got

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those gold gloves. And guys voting now might

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not consider that as much as they did 20 years

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ago. He ruined a night for me in 1998, I think.

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Yeah, 96 against Pettit in the first game. Oh,

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96. He was 19. He sent Dingers off Pettit. Two

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in a game. But they didn't win that series. Larritz,

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King. The King. He hit him off the pettit too,

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by the way. He's actually a great one to bring

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up because of the 10 goal gloves and the 450

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home runs or whatever he has. If you have a vote,

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what are you voting? You know, nowadays... What

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are you voting? I'm gonna explain it. I'm gonna

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explain it to you. Nowadays, guys get in that

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are like, I would probably vote for him now.

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I would. I don't think he's getting in because

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of the hits. And if he got over 2 ,000 hits,

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I think he'd be an arm addict. Is that Johnny

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Unitas? Yeah, he's an interesting guy to me.

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I know he's not a Yankee, but the more I look

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at Elvira Bell and some of these guys that get

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in, she'd be in too. Hey, Mac, I gotta roll it

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out, because I only have one baseball trivia

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question, so I want to ask analysis. You're talking,

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you're okay. It's not a guy in the 2 ,000s, so

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I'll fair warn everybody. Why does that guy got

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a white shirt on with a blue number 19 on it?

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Johnny you know go ahead Okay, this angry you'll

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probably get this Who hit 86 home runs in the

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state of New York, but never played for a New

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York team? 86 home runs in New York stadiums

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never played for a New York team. That's the

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most By a non. Yeah, it's an older guy. So it's

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an older guy. Yep. It's I would go he's a very

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well known guy Never played for either team.

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Never played for any New York team. It's like

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something like Stan Musial or... Jesus, are you

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kidding me? Did he? Is it Stan Musial? Yeah.

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I mean, they played against the New York Giants,

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the Brooklyn Dodgers, those guys. The Ted Williams

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at a National League? They played at a National

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League team. They played a bunch of games against

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them. Brooklyn, yeah, I mean it was... Nice job

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by me. That was impressive. You'd almost think

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we set these up or else maybe we just know too

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much stupid stuff. Don Father, great question.

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Wow. You gotta bring better than that, dude.

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Johnny Damon, we've actually discussed him just

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real quick and around. No, out. As a Sox fan,

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I still say out. I mean, as a Sox fan, why do

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you guys dislike him? Because he went to the

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Yankees. So you don't like Clemens and Boggs?

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He helps you guys break a long curse. He loved

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Boggs. He went to the Yankees. But you love Boggs?

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I love Boggs. I love Boggsies. You can't drink

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126 beers in an airplane. You're not like the

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guy. That's garbage. There's no way I believe

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that. Andre the Giant, 6 hours did that by the

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way. That's 10 gallons of beer by the way. You

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do the math, that's 10 gallons of beer. We don't

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do math on this podcast. Yeah, teacher by day.

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Johnny Damon. He's got over 2 ,700 hits. I didn't

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see, honestly I didn't realize you had over that

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many hits to be honest with you. And he still

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doesn't make it. Has anybody with 3 ,000 hits

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not gotten in? No. That's an automatic. Here's

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a question for you, too. If Stanton gets to 500

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home runs and he's only like 40 away, is he in?

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Well, is that an automatic? Everybody else that's

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hit 500 is in. I'm going to tell you something.

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I boasted that to some people that just teased

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me about the Yankees, and I don't love them.

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But if he hits 500 home runs... After getting

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hit in the face and taking half a year off for

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the last five years? Yeah, he's in the Hall of

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Fame. I'll go with you over with that. Will that

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be next year? Seven years, I think he's taking

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half the year. Calm down, calm down. Nobody wants

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to hear all this Yankee talk. But while we're

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on it, Bobby Abreu. No. Never a dominant player.

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No. At no point did you say, well, you know,

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that guy's great. You always said, hey, he's

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in the Hall of Pretty Good. Yeah, OK. He'd be

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phenomenal right now. Yep. Yep. And Carlos Beltran.

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Yes. Yes. But I think he might have... Did he

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get the steroid thing? No, what did he get in

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trouble for? No, he didn't fail anything, but

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he obviously got suspended from being part of

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the Astro thing. He was cheating. And he lasted

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as the match manager for 45 days in the offseason.

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So you can cheat that way, you just can't cheat

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by taking steroids. Is this right? Exactly. Exactly.

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Okay. Angry. We're not going to try to answer

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right now unless we got one on the tip of our

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tongue, but... You mentioned having a great UConn

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trivia question. So we're going to shift gears

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to some UConn stuff. I got several. Alright.

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In honor of Alex Karaban, who could break several

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records this year, and being one of the few guys

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that actually plays four years at one institution

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now, he is within 30 -something games of breaking

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the all -time record for games played at the

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University of Connecticut. Do you guys know who

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holds that distinction? Most games played at

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the University of Connecticut men's basketball

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program. Caravan came into this season with 111.

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He's 28 games played to break the record. Jake

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Vasco? No, but that's a hell of a guess Don Fowler.

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T. Knight played four years. No, a little more

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recent. You have an up already? Two time national

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champion. Ricky Moore? Oh, Shabazz. Shabazz Napier.

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Really? With 143 games played. So, Caraban also

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has 110 career starts. He's 25 away from breaking

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the record going into the season. Now he's got

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four starts, so I guess he's a little closer.

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Who holds the record for most games started?

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And then there's not Shabazz Napier. Most games

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started. Talik Brown. No, that's a hell of a

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guess, but he was on the first national championship

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team. Oh, Freeman. No, that's another great guess.

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Tate George? Tate George was not on that team.

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He wasn't on that team, buddy. You're like 20

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years old. He was a big guy. He had blonde hair.

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Vasco, like you said. Jake Vasco, 135. No, you

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go down to the left there, champ. Oh, look at

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this. How about this? What's up, buddy? How are

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you? Most games won. Alex Kierbren has 92 games

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won in his career at UConn. If the Yankees, if

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the Huskies win 24 games this year, which if

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they don't, it'll be a disappointment. Who has

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won the most games in the University of Connecticut

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uniform? And it is not a... Have we said the

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name yet? No. And it's not a guy that you think...

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Wes Balasuknia. No. Corny Thompson. Recent guy.

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Recent recent? Recent recent. This century? Alright.

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Yes, as in the last few years. Oh. They've been

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pretty good lately. You guys haven't paid attention.

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Yeah, but guys don't stay. Right, that's what

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I'm trying to... Correct. Four -year player.

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Was Sanogo four? No, he was three. He was a backup

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to those guys though. Kevin might know, he's

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a Yukon guy. A back up to those guys? I thought

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you said start it. Most games won as a men's

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basketball. Murray Conments. No. Who was it?

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Sampson Johnson. 115 wins. He played four years?

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115 wins. He just signed somewhere, didn't he?

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Here's another one. The Caravan. Oh, G -League,

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yeah. Alex Caravan can break. The record for

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most Connors. Connors, Connors, what? Betts?

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The most three -pointers in the University of

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Connecticut history is 276. By this individual,

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Alex Carabane has 215 coming into the season.

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He needs to drain. 62 -3 is coming into this

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year. I don't know how many he has correct right

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now. I gotta say Rashad Anderson. That'd be correct.

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276. Nice job, Max. Nice job. You'd almost think

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it was a setup. You'd almost think he went to

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UConn. If Carabane takes 167 three -pointers

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this season. He will also break the career record

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held by this guy, and it is not Rashad Anderson.

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For three -point attempts. I would have never

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got this one myself. It was during the lull.

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So, and Ali... Vital? Yes, sir! Nicely done.

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Can you tell I hate you? Nicely done. All right.

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All right, so we're... Christian Vital is the

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only guy I've ever seen try to quiet the home

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crowd. Johnny Unitas and Ryan Fitzpatrick in

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tonight's attendance. Yeah, we should try to

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get one of them on the pod after this. They are

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all -timers. So the school record for most tournament

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games played, most NCAA tournament games played

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at the University of Connecticut is 15 Alice

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Caraban. If he plays in two this year, breaks

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the record, one he ties it. 15? Chavez? No. Tournament

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games. So Chabazz, I mean he's, oh no, were they

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suspended? He just said it. We just got it before.

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Chabazz? No. Sanogo? No. Not Ricky Moore. Oh,

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Rashad? Samson Johnson. Oh Jesus, come on. He

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also holds the tournament record for wins. Caravan

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and Samson Johnson with 13. We'll skip that.

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This is an easy one. Got three more, real quick

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ones. Most points at the University of Connecticut

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is held by? Carabanesca got really hot to break

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this record. He needs 793 points. He's probably

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not gonna do it. Who holds the record at 21 .45?

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Points? Ray? No. Rip? No. Mecca? No. Those guys

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all played three years. This guy played four.

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That's the difference? Shabazz? No. Damn. Tate

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George? No. That arrow though. Can I get home?

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Can I get home? Chris Smith? Chris Smith. 21

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-45. He's the leading scorer of all time. Shame

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on any of us for not knowing that. That's terrible.

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Alright, this one is pretty safe. Alex Kariband

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has 112 career blocks. If he blocks over 300

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shots this year, he'll be in second place. Who

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is the all -time leader in block shots at Uncon?

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Emeka. Emeka. And here's the last tough one.

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Okay, we have... Oh, you got another guy in here.

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Ronnie Davis. There is one, two, three, four,

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five, six, seven, eight guys at the University

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of Connecticut in their history to have won two

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national championships. Can you name the eight

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guys? Will Shabazz, correct. Klingen, correct.

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Caravan, correct. Newton, correct. Johnson, correct.

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There's another guy from last year, or two years

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ago. He played last year too. Not Samson? He

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already said Samson Johnson. Backup point guard?

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I forget already. But no. Backup point guard.

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For Newton. I don't remember who it was. Hassan

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D 'Ariere. So there's two guys. There's two guys.

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One guy, one... Both guys won a title with Calhoun

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and one with Ali. German guy made three pointers

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in the corner. Oh, Niles. Niles Giffey. And the

00:23:03.109 --> 00:23:06.670
other guy was a Connecticut guy also. Biggie.

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Big guy. Last name starts with an O. Oh, yeah,

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yeah. Up there at E .O. Smith. Olander. Tyler

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Olander. Correct. That is our UConn trivia. How

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are you, man? Good to see you. Stepping to the

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mic right now is Bristol Eastern Principal Michael

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Higgins. Principal Higgins, we're only going

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to take you for like two minutes here. I know

00:23:29.920 --> 00:23:31.920
you got work to do. How we doing? We're doing

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great. Love the setup. Good to see you, Higgy.

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It's a nice new addition. Love it. Are you here

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supporting anybody specifically or are you here

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just because you're a part of this community?

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Love the whole thing, love the history. Gotta

00:23:42.869 --> 00:23:44.670
give a shout out to Archie and Lish tonight though

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as guys that I know personally for a long time.

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What I love hearing the stories from the past,

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all the great traditions that come through here.

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What's the best concert you were at this summer?

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A little number down in New Haven that I went

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to with some friends. Who was the main event?

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A little bit of Cypress Hill. You could just

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kill a man. Sometimes you gotta. Just real quick,

00:24:04.240 --> 00:24:07.259
we'll let you go. How important is sports for

00:24:07.259 --> 00:24:09.859
your students at Bristol -Easter? It's massive,

00:24:10.240 --> 00:24:13.619
man. Scholar -athletes are one of the backbones

00:24:13.619 --> 00:24:16.500
of the school. School spirit, competitiveness,

00:24:16.839 --> 00:24:19.380
the life lessons, the collaboration, the communication.

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It's an essential piece for hundreds of kids

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in our building. Love it. Higgie, your daughter

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was a scholar -athlete at Bristol Central, obviously

00:24:27.019 --> 00:24:30.539
your rival. Yes, sir. with a bunch of Rams. Does

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it mean something for these kids to be named

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a scour athlete? Bristol Sports Hall of Fame

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has their event every year for scour athletes.

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For parents, I know it would mean something,

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but for kids, does it carry any weight? It does.

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It's huge. I think that they take with them.

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My daughter, for example, a lot of these kids

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come out of Bristol and they go to other places.

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And they take that with them as a badge of honor.

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I think it means a lot to them. It's part of

00:24:55.460 --> 00:24:58.039
tradition, you know. Bristol has a long -standing

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athletic tradition, one of the best in the state,

00:25:01.299 --> 00:25:04.299
and that's another important emblem of that.

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Peggy, when you step away from this microphone,

00:25:07.230 --> 00:25:09.569
we're nominating you for Administrator of the

00:25:09.569 --> 00:25:11.509
Year. I love it. I love it. We're going to put

00:25:11.509 --> 00:25:13.029
it in motion. Love to wreck the mic with you

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guys. Hold on, Angry Jack, one question for you.

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Yes, sir. Give you a shout out to some of your

00:25:17.809 --> 00:25:19.809
coaches. Who are some outstanding coaches that

00:25:19.809 --> 00:25:22.329
you have at Bristol Eastern right now? They're

00:25:22.329 --> 00:25:25.049
all fantastic. I go back with a lot of them.

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You know, I've had Coach A .J. Julius is a former

00:25:27.670 --> 00:25:30.089
student of mine. Coach Bunchy Ray is a long -standing

00:25:30.089 --> 00:25:31.529
friend of mine. I've known him since I'm about

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eight years old. I'll end up missing important

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people but they're all an outstanding coaching

00:25:37.700 --> 00:25:40.359
staff. I'm proud to say that many, many of them

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are Bristol folks and even Eastern folks and

00:25:43.079 --> 00:25:45.339
they like to come back so it's always awesome.

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But we have a really great staff of coaches that

00:25:47.859 --> 00:25:49.960
work with our kids. Final question, who's the

00:25:49.960 --> 00:25:52.460
best athlete since you've been at Bristol Eastern

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to ever come out of Bristol Eastern? Best athlete

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to ever come out of Bristol Eastern? Man. It's

00:25:58.089 --> 00:25:59.329
hard to say. How long have you been at Bristol

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Eastern, first of all? I've been there for a

00:26:01.069 --> 00:26:07.190
total of 22 years. And the funnest person I watched

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was actually when I was still in high school,

00:26:08.970 --> 00:26:11.430
and it was Ronaldo Soto. He was a beast. Oh,

00:26:11.430 --> 00:26:13.630
yeah. He was a beast carrying the football, man.

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But there's been too many great ones since I've

00:26:15.650 --> 00:26:17.710
been there. Hard to pick one. He's allowing his

00:26:17.710 --> 00:26:18.829
son to wear maroon, though. What do you think

00:26:18.829 --> 00:26:20.930
about that? I know. I know. Hey, listen, like

00:26:20.930 --> 00:26:23.789
I said, a lot of maroon in the house. It's difficult

00:26:23.789 --> 00:26:26.920
sometimes, but I've got to embrace it. Principal

00:26:26.920 --> 00:26:28.720
Higgins, thanks for stopping by, buddy. Thanks,

00:26:28.859 --> 00:26:32.140
guys. Hold on, cracker. I gotta ask Mike, you

00:26:32.140 --> 00:26:34.160
know it's coming. What's the prediction on the

00:26:34.160 --> 00:26:36.880
Thanksgiving Day game? I said this the other

00:26:36.880 --> 00:26:39.019
night to Bob Fiorito. It's like that movie, you

00:26:39.019 --> 00:26:41.359
know, or the old saying, Any Given Sunday. The

00:26:41.359 --> 00:26:44.539
records go out the window on Thursday, on Turkey

00:26:44.539 --> 00:26:47.500
Day. I love Eastern, baby. Let's go. We need

00:26:47.500 --> 00:26:49.740
that bell. We need that bell back in the building.

00:26:50.200 --> 00:26:52.240
Principal Higgins, thanks for stopping by. Thanks,

00:26:52.240 --> 00:27:02.859
Higgins. Boy, what a treat. What a guy. Getting

00:27:02.859 --> 00:27:06.619
back to some sports banter. Angry Jay, were we

00:27:06.619 --> 00:27:09.559
done or no? Did you have one more, right? No,

00:27:09.640 --> 00:27:12.940
you got it. You got the tough one was the eight

00:27:12.940 --> 00:27:15.099
guys that won two national championships and

00:27:15.099 --> 00:27:17.940
you guys pulled it off. Bobby did. Nah, well,

00:27:18.019 --> 00:27:21.619
with a little help. From you. Yeah. You want

00:27:21.619 --> 00:27:26.480
one more? Yeah, one more. Let's go. Caravan has

00:27:26.480 --> 00:27:29.380
an 84 % free throw percentage. I think he somehow

00:27:29.380 --> 00:27:32.220
bumped it up over 93%. Who holds the record for

00:27:32.220 --> 00:27:35.220
most, for best free throw percentage in UConn

00:27:35.220 --> 00:27:38.900
history? Era. Ray Allen? I'll give you this.

00:27:39.079 --> 00:27:45.339
It's 75 attempts, so it's a one -year guy. And

00:27:45.339 --> 00:27:50.920
it's really recent. Newton? No. Hawkins? Close.

00:27:51.680 --> 00:27:58.059
That era. The second of two. Oh, Cam. Cam Spencer,

00:27:58.259 --> 00:28:02.940
91%. I should have known. I should have known.

00:28:03.759 --> 00:28:05.200
He's actually doing fairly well with the Memphis

00:28:05.200 --> 00:28:07.720
Phillies, by the way. Yeah, he's crushing it,

00:28:07.779 --> 00:28:11.380
man. He can shoot it. Apparently, he found his

00:28:11.380 --> 00:28:14.960
stroke right after he left Jersey. What's up,

00:28:15.039 --> 00:28:21.519
buddy? How you doing? Great arm in Raponi. Hey,

00:28:21.640 --> 00:28:23.700
Max, speaking of Huskies, did we all watch the

00:28:23.700 --> 00:28:26.160
UConn Arizona game the other night? I did. You

00:28:26.160 --> 00:28:30.000
guys want a quick Arizona story? Yeah. So the

00:28:30.000 --> 00:28:32.359
University of Arizona obviously played UConn

00:28:32.359 --> 00:28:35.519
on Wednesday. They called Eastern Connecticut

00:28:35.519 --> 00:28:39.940
State University over the weekend asking if they

00:28:39.940 --> 00:28:43.259
can hold a practice at Eastern Connecticut. Oh,

00:28:43.299 --> 00:28:46.599
that's awesome. On Tuesday. And we said absolutely.

00:28:46.960 --> 00:28:49.779
Any time after. 230 they could have it because

00:28:49.779 --> 00:28:52.559
we had an away game the women had an away game

00:28:52.559 --> 00:28:54.900
and they said they had a practice between one

00:28:54.900 --> 00:28:57.859
and three and we said well the gym is not available

00:28:57.859 --> 00:29:00.019
to 230 but you could have it anytime after that

00:29:00.019 --> 00:29:03.279
so they were disgruntled I made the suggestion

00:29:03.279 --> 00:29:04.920
if they didn't like it they could practice outside

00:29:04.920 --> 00:29:07.119
because we have outdoor courts yeah they didn't

00:29:07.119 --> 00:29:09.660
take me up on it and they did not respond after

00:29:09.660 --> 00:29:11.400
we told them they could have it after 230 just

00:29:11.400 --> 00:29:13.759
sulked away and they found another gym really

00:29:13.759 --> 00:29:16.980
yeah West Coast. They're not on the shit list.

00:29:17.839 --> 00:29:20.559
Anytime they play, I'm not rooting for them.

00:29:21.039 --> 00:29:22.460
It doesn't take much. It would have been neat

00:29:22.460 --> 00:29:28.000
to have Bryce James in the gym now. Yeah, he

00:29:28.000 --> 00:29:31.839
could have. He could have came at 2 .30. That

00:29:31.839 --> 00:29:37.819
is a great nugget right there, Angry. I guess

00:29:37.819 --> 00:29:40.279
a ton of Husky student fans were kicked out the

00:29:40.279 --> 00:29:44.690
other night because of You know, they're having

00:29:44.690 --> 00:29:48.809
fun with Brycey there. I can remember being a

00:29:48.809 --> 00:29:50.789
heckler at that age. I never did anything like

00:29:50.789 --> 00:29:56.210
that. I never did anything like that. Donovan

00:29:56.210 --> 00:29:58.150
Klingon's uncle in the house here. Just saw him

00:29:58.150 --> 00:30:02.289
in Miami a couple weeks ago. Yeah, so that game.

00:30:02.710 --> 00:30:04.309
I want to know what you guys think about this.

00:30:05.910 --> 00:30:08.089
Last year Hurley gets knocked off in a tournament

00:30:08.089 --> 00:30:09.650
or whatever he goes. I'll never go back to another

00:30:09.650 --> 00:30:15.730
tournament. So he does They bring in or you know

00:30:15.730 --> 00:30:18.329
ranked opponent to ranked teams going at it they

00:30:18.329 --> 00:30:21.390
lose that home in their backyard not in Hartford

00:30:21.390 --> 00:30:24.910
and You think maybe he doesn't cry about this

00:30:24.910 --> 00:30:26.490
when he got what he wanted because you don't

00:30:26.490 --> 00:30:28.930
win every all the time. You don't win Sometimes

00:30:28.930 --> 00:30:31.309
you know somebody's losing that game, but he

00:30:31.309 --> 00:30:34.240
had to cry He had to cry and complain that they

00:30:34.240 --> 00:30:36.720
got they leave the country and this and that

00:30:36.720 --> 00:30:39.339
Sprains or whatever he said like does he have

00:30:39.339 --> 00:30:41.880
to bitch and moan all the time? Or can he just

00:30:41.880 --> 00:30:43.960
stand up there and say we got beat we're moving

00:30:43.960 --> 00:30:47.420
on he gave credit He gave Arizona credit. You

00:30:47.420 --> 00:30:51.440
like this guy. I do early. Yeah, I can't stand

00:30:51.440 --> 00:30:54.119
him He's the only team that has an injuries right

00:30:54.119 --> 00:30:57.539
now ankles and knees and come on Just to let

00:30:57.539 --> 00:31:00.339
the listeners know, if you hear the sounds like

00:31:00.339 --> 00:31:02.640
the running of the bulls here, they did set us

00:31:02.640 --> 00:31:05.700
next to the bar, and the patrons are rolling

00:31:05.700 --> 00:31:10.839
in for this special event. So if you hear this

00:31:10.839 --> 00:31:12.519
background noise, it's all the drunks trying

00:31:12.519 --> 00:31:15.339
to get to this bar behind us. You've got to give

00:31:15.339 --> 00:31:17.640
Mark credit. Mark set us up nice to start this

00:31:17.640 --> 00:31:19.700
evening off. Now he's got to put up with these

00:31:19.700 --> 00:31:25.359
guys. But getting back to that game. Pretty good

00:31:25.359 --> 00:31:31.539
atmosphere. Is UConn back all the way? Is the

00:31:31.539 --> 00:31:35.140
hysteria back or are we kind of spoiled? It hasn't

00:31:35.140 --> 00:31:37.460
left. It hasn't left? I think it left. I think

00:31:37.460 --> 00:31:41.059
it left with the Ali era. Oh no. Oh no, it's

00:31:41.059 --> 00:31:44.880
back. It's back. Hold on, somebody's checking

00:31:44.880 --> 00:31:54.410
in here. What table are you sitting at? I thought

00:31:54.410 --> 00:31:56.450
he was scanning our bar, our QR code so we could

00:31:56.450 --> 00:31:59.569
subscribe. Somebody's trying to check in here.

00:32:00.089 --> 00:32:02.190
Like I said, they put us right near the bar where

00:32:02.190 --> 00:32:05.049
you think you're gonna check in. Johnny United,

00:32:05.190 --> 00:32:08.789
Ryan Fitzpatrick, now we're checking in. The

00:32:08.789 --> 00:32:13.230
inductees have not made their way up yet, but...

00:32:13.230 --> 00:32:19.309
That was one of the inductees. That was John

00:32:19.309 --> 00:32:23.779
Greenleaf from Australia. It was not? It was

00:32:23.779 --> 00:32:26.500
the brother -in -law of one of the inductees,

00:32:26.660 --> 00:32:28.880
Brian Lishness. That was Phil Suzy, who's now

00:32:28.880 --> 00:32:30.740
the head wrestling coach at Bristol Eastern.

00:32:31.200 --> 00:32:32.920
Oh, really? So I think he would have loved it.

00:32:33.519 --> 00:32:35.319
Most likely. Yeah, he gets no air time until

00:32:35.319 --> 00:32:39.720
next year. We got to get him inducted. Doppelgangers

00:32:39.720 --> 00:32:45.839
around here. Doppelgangers. What was it? Zero

00:32:45.839 --> 00:32:52.319
chance. Oh, yeah. Moving right along. So Angry

00:32:52.319 --> 00:32:55.539
J, say it's all the way back. It won two national

00:32:55.539 --> 00:32:57.220
championships, dude. Like, what's going on? What

00:32:57.220 --> 00:32:58.519
do you mean it's not back? And they're a top

00:32:58.519 --> 00:33:00.819
five team this year. Jesus Christ. You know what

00:33:00.819 --> 00:33:09.480
I'm saying? It's not back? College basketball,

00:33:10.019 --> 00:33:12.299
really getting exciting here. You'd think that

00:33:12.299 --> 00:33:14.539
the guys who are getting paid are going to, you

00:33:14.539 --> 00:33:17.339
know, get the best of the little guys every night.

00:33:17.339 --> 00:33:19.900
It's not really happening. Still college basketball.

00:33:20.339 --> 00:33:23.799
But tonight, in New Brunswick, there's a heck

00:33:23.799 --> 00:33:28.779
of a match -up. Jeffy's alma mater, CCSU taking

00:33:28.779 --> 00:33:32.420
on the Rutgers Scarlet Knights after just bumping

00:33:32.420 --> 00:33:37.980
off their first power five ever. Getting their

00:33:37.980 --> 00:33:43.000
first power five victory. All right everybody,

00:33:43.220 --> 00:33:45.279
we're gonna welcome Bryant Lishness to the mic

00:33:45.279 --> 00:33:51.309
here. Bryant. Thanks for joining us. Bristle

00:33:51.309 --> 00:33:59.569
boys, come on in. Congratulations on your induction

00:33:59.569 --> 00:34:02.210
tonight. Congratulations, sir. Thank you, appreciate

00:34:02.210 --> 00:34:08.510
it. So, are you still involved with Gladiator

00:34:08.510 --> 00:34:11.730
to this day? Yeah, yeah. I'm there probably doing

00:34:11.730 --> 00:34:13.829
more coaching now than I did when I was at Eastern.

00:34:14.190 --> 00:34:17.280
Really? Yeah, we're there year round. Okay, and

00:34:17.280 --> 00:34:19.519
it's Steve Beecher. He works closely with you

00:34:19.519 --> 00:34:21.980
guys. Yes. He runs out of the club. Yep. What

00:34:21.980 --> 00:34:23.659
can you say about Steve? We already had him on

00:34:23.659 --> 00:34:25.360
tonight. What can you say about him and his support?

00:34:25.599 --> 00:34:28.579
I think Steve's a Hall of Famer. I think he deserves

00:34:28.579 --> 00:34:31.780
to be enshrined here. I really do. He was an

00:34:31.780 --> 00:34:35.940
All -American in college. He was a great wrestler

00:34:35.940 --> 00:34:37.940
at Eastern. He only came out for one year and

00:34:37.940 --> 00:34:40.559
he placed in the States and then he parlayed

00:34:40.559 --> 00:34:42.840
his football abilities to be an All -American

00:34:42.840 --> 00:34:48.239
at Western and then... He's been doing the work

00:34:48.239 --> 00:34:50.960
for a long time. So many kids down at the Boys

00:34:50.960 --> 00:34:53.780
Club just dedicate themselves to those kids.

00:34:54.760 --> 00:34:57.320
So I love Steve. I think Steve's someone that

00:34:57.320 --> 00:35:00.300
they should be considering. I agree. I'm a transplant,

00:35:00.300 --> 00:35:03.219
transplant Bristol guy, but I've worked with

00:35:03.219 --> 00:35:06.679
him for a while. Love him. Going back to your

00:35:06.679 --> 00:35:08.699
early days, who can you look back on and say

00:35:08.699 --> 00:35:11.059
for some of your biggest sports influences from

00:35:11.059 --> 00:35:14.420
this city? From this city, probably the top of

00:35:14.420 --> 00:35:17.820
the list would be John Benoit. I'd consider him

00:35:17.820 --> 00:35:21.619
the father of Bristol Eastern Wrestling. He was

00:35:21.619 --> 00:35:25.579
my coach when I was a freshman, and then he stepped

00:35:25.579 --> 00:35:28.480
back a little bit, but John never leaves. He

00:35:28.480 --> 00:35:31.949
never leaves. I think he's turning 80 this year,

00:35:32.150 --> 00:35:34.550
and he's still volunteering and coaching and

00:35:34.550 --> 00:35:37.030
helping out. He was taking the photos here today.

00:35:38.929 --> 00:35:40.630
He still comes down to the Boys and Girls Club

00:35:40.630 --> 00:35:44.449
and helps out. So I'd say he's probably, I consider

00:35:44.449 --> 00:35:47.010
him my coach and role model and mentor. Hey,

00:35:47.070 --> 00:35:49.409
it seems like wrestling, and I might be wrong,

00:35:49.510 --> 00:35:52.289
but it seems like it's not like a really big

00:35:52.289 --> 00:35:56.239
on a really, lower level as far as youth goes.

00:35:56.719 --> 00:35:59.139
But I know the gladiator program, you know, would

00:35:59.139 --> 00:36:01.219
say otherwise. It seems like coming from a small

00:36:01.219 --> 00:36:03.519
town, kids gravitate toward wrestling a little

00:36:03.519 --> 00:36:07.940
later. You know it's funny because in our town

00:36:07.940 --> 00:36:10.719
I think you know Bristol's a big sports town

00:36:10.719 --> 00:36:13.920
and everyone you know really I think if you ask

00:36:13.920 --> 00:36:16.059
people they say oh it's a it's a baseball town

00:36:16.059 --> 00:36:18.639
and then we've had some great basketball players

00:36:18.639 --> 00:36:21.039
and we've had some great football players and

00:36:21.039 --> 00:36:23.659
volleyball etc there's there's been a lot of

00:36:23.659 --> 00:36:27.079
good programs but you go outside of Bristol and

00:36:27.079 --> 00:36:30.039
Bristol's considered a wrestling town. You get

00:36:30.039 --> 00:36:32.480
Bristol Central, Bristol Eastern, the Gladiators,

00:36:32.559 --> 00:36:36.579
walk into a gym and The gym kind of adjusts,

00:36:36.599 --> 00:36:38.300
you know, you can feel the air go out a little

00:36:38.300 --> 00:36:41.760
bit. There's a saying that you win matches at

00:36:41.760 --> 00:36:45.179
weigh -ins sometimes, and when we'd walk into

00:36:45.179 --> 00:36:48.300
a gym, you could see the kids, we'd walk in 60

00:36:48.300 --> 00:36:51.239
deep to a program that has 20 kids on the roster,

00:36:51.599 --> 00:36:53.760
and you could see forward. They were defeated

00:36:53.760 --> 00:36:55.960
sometimes at Wayne's. How long has the Gladiators

00:36:55.960 --> 00:37:00.079
been in existence, Brian? Since the 80s. I thought

00:37:00.079 --> 00:37:03.199
it was 88 but Dennis Sigmund saying it was 85.

00:37:04.639 --> 00:37:07.420
So I think what happened is you had Dennis Sigmund

00:37:07.420 --> 00:37:09.239
and John Benoit who were the head coaches at

00:37:09.239 --> 00:37:11.679
Central and Eastern. And they realized they needed

00:37:11.679 --> 00:37:13.699
a solid feeder program. They wanted to be great.

00:37:14.139 --> 00:37:16.380
So they started with kind of an in -house program,

00:37:16.500 --> 00:37:19.480
an introductory program. And it quickly developed

00:37:19.480 --> 00:37:23.900
into a travel team. And then it's grown by leaps

00:37:23.900 --> 00:37:26.579
and bounds. You guys at Central put on an amazing

00:37:26.579 --> 00:37:28.460
invitation. I think you do it together. Is that

00:37:28.460 --> 00:37:30.860
right? No, no, no. Central hosts that by themselves.

00:37:31.039 --> 00:37:32.159
They've been doing that for years. But I thought

00:37:32.159 --> 00:37:34.280
that the JVs go over to Eastern, though. Yeah,

00:37:34.280 --> 00:37:36.179
that was just something when I was coaching at

00:37:36.179 --> 00:37:40.079
Eastern. My goal was always for my JV kids. Because

00:37:40.079 --> 00:37:42.599
we had such a big program that I wanted my JV

00:37:42.599 --> 00:37:46.099
kids to get as many matches as possible. So my

00:37:46.099 --> 00:37:48.519
goal was always to get them 40 plus matches.

00:37:49.280 --> 00:37:51.980
So we decided that was a good weekend to host

00:37:51.980 --> 00:37:54.880
a JV event. Because we would partner with them

00:37:54.880 --> 00:37:57.780
and take all the JV teams and the teams that

00:37:57.780 --> 00:37:59.639
were going to the Central Tournament and bring

00:37:59.639 --> 00:38:01.980
it to our place. This is a special night for

00:38:01.980 --> 00:38:03.800
a number of you guys. Two wrestling guys going

00:38:03.800 --> 00:38:05.760
in, you and Archie. Yeah, that's awesome. Let

00:38:05.760 --> 00:38:07.699
me ask you a question. You guys throw on singlets

00:38:07.699 --> 00:38:15.480
and go out and nap. It's funny Archie's I think

00:38:15.480 --> 00:38:17.500
Archie might have been a freshman when I was

00:38:17.500 --> 00:38:21.460
a senior I believe or he might have been a freshman

00:38:21.460 --> 00:38:25.059
after I graduated I know my my training partner

00:38:25.059 --> 00:38:28.119
who's probably my my biggest he's one of my best

00:38:28.119 --> 00:38:31.940
friends Dave Thompson he's a he's a D1 wrestling

00:38:31.940 --> 00:38:37.610
official now He wrestled Archie. He was a year

00:38:37.610 --> 00:38:39.309
behind me, even though we're the same age. I

00:38:39.309 --> 00:38:42.769
was one of those young seniors. We're only a

00:38:42.769 --> 00:38:44.769
couple weeks apart. But anyways, Dave had another

00:38:44.769 --> 00:38:47.030
year on me, so he got to wrestle Archie twice.

00:38:47.829 --> 00:38:50.550
And probably wasn't fair. Dave's a senior captain.

00:38:50.789 --> 00:38:53.010
Archie's a freshman, even though he was a stud

00:38:53.010 --> 00:38:55.469
wrestler, 100%. Dave got him? Yeah, Dave beat

00:38:55.469 --> 00:38:59.719
him twice that year. Did he? Oh, we need Archie

00:38:59.719 --> 00:39:02.079
over here. I bet you Archie can strike both of

00:39:02.079 --> 00:39:04.280
you guys out though, is that true? I'm sorry,

00:39:04.280 --> 00:39:06.300
say again? I say the Gladiators feeds into Eastern

00:39:06.300 --> 00:39:08.139
and Central, right? Oh yeah. So is there any

00:39:08.139 --> 00:39:10.519
Friday night lights moving mailboxes to make

00:39:10.519 --> 00:39:13.539
sure they go to certain programs? No, none of

00:39:13.539 --> 00:39:17.260
that. Believe it or not, there's some towns that

00:39:17.260 --> 00:39:20.219
you can do that. Like I've heard Meriden, you

00:39:20.219 --> 00:39:22.099
can basically pick what school you want to go

00:39:22.099 --> 00:39:24.820
to, whenever you want to go. You can switch mid

00:39:24.820 --> 00:39:29.880
-year, all that stuff. But for Bristol, they're

00:39:29.880 --> 00:39:32.880
real strict with it. But it's interesting, it's

00:39:32.880 --> 00:39:34.940
fun. I'm really excited that Archie's going in

00:39:34.940 --> 00:39:37.860
too because a lot of the wrestling people...

00:39:38.429 --> 00:39:40.610
I mean, as I said, outside of Bristol, we're

00:39:40.610 --> 00:39:42.909
considered a wrestling town. We can go anywhere

00:39:42.909 --> 00:39:45.030
and people know who we are. We've traveled the

00:39:45.030 --> 00:39:47.010
country and people know who the Gladiators are

00:39:47.010 --> 00:39:52.389
and we've had a lot of success. So with Archie

00:39:52.389 --> 00:39:53.670
getting in tonight, there's a whole bunch of

00:39:53.670 --> 00:39:56.030
central people here, but a lot of those kids

00:39:56.030 --> 00:39:58.409
came up through the Gladiators, so it's really

00:39:58.409 --> 00:40:00.650
cool. I've seen a whole bunch of them, the parents,

00:40:01.110 --> 00:40:03.389
the kids, they've all come up. Well, not kids

00:40:03.389 --> 00:40:06.090
anymore, they're all adults, saying congratulations,

00:40:06.130 --> 00:40:08.559
so it's really special. It's pretty cool. gladiator

00:40:08.559 --> 00:40:11.000
program. When do you guys try to break the kids

00:40:11.000 --> 00:40:14.599
in? At what age? We start pretty young. We have

00:40:14.599 --> 00:40:16.960
some kids as young as four or five starting with

00:40:16.960 --> 00:40:20.800
us. How about six, seven? Swing and a miss by

00:40:20.800 --> 00:40:23.940
me there. I say that all the time and I'm doing

00:40:23.940 --> 00:40:25.780
my speeches to the little kids. It's so funny.

00:40:25.940 --> 00:40:28.500
I'm like, we'll do six or seven. Six, seven.

00:40:28.760 --> 00:40:32.099
Six, seven. They go bananas. So yeah, we do that

00:40:32.099 --> 00:40:35.199
quite a bit. So obviously your record is incredible.

00:40:36.300 --> 00:40:39.030
There's got to be one guy. That you wrestled.

00:40:39.710 --> 00:40:42.469
That was a pain in the ass. That was... that

00:40:42.469 --> 00:40:45.809
gave you big problems. Who was it? Me personally,

00:40:45.949 --> 00:40:48.090
I'm a much better coach than I was a wrestler.

00:40:48.230 --> 00:40:50.909
I was a decent wrestler. My claim to fame is

00:40:50.909 --> 00:40:53.369
I was like all conference and I won the Central

00:40:53.369 --> 00:40:55.690
Tournament but I didn't have the accolades that

00:40:55.690 --> 00:40:58.750
like Archie's accolades as an athlete are much

00:40:58.750 --> 00:41:01.030
better than mine. Alright, they gave me a program

00:41:01.030 --> 00:41:04.269
that was as a coach because your record through

00:41:04.269 --> 00:41:08.590
19 to 41 is who was the biggest challenge? I

00:41:08.590 --> 00:41:12.619
would say For us, I don't think I ever was able

00:41:12.619 --> 00:41:15.719
to beat New Milford. New Milford's coach is Chris

00:41:15.719 --> 00:41:17.599
Peel, one of my closest friends in wrestling.

00:41:18.599 --> 00:41:20.679
We beat him in tournaments, but head to head,

00:41:20.739 --> 00:41:23.780
we only matched up two or three times, and they

00:41:23.780 --> 00:41:26.630
caught us every time. So that was the tough one

00:41:26.630 --> 00:41:28.969
for me, but I mean Chris Peele is a Hall of Famer

00:41:28.969 --> 00:41:32.250
for Connecticut. He's one of my favorite guys

00:41:32.250 --> 00:41:33.969
in wrestling. I'm really close to him. We still

00:41:33.969 --> 00:41:35.690
talk, even though I'm not in high school ranks.

00:41:36.530 --> 00:41:39.550
We still talk and communicate. He's the guy.

00:41:40.489 --> 00:41:46.010
Loudon Swain or Shoop? Loudon. Yeah, I love the

00:41:46.010 --> 00:41:48.170
overachievers. I love the overachievers. All

00:41:48.170 --> 00:41:49.789
right, since he's breaking it out. I love that

00:41:49.789 --> 00:41:51.789
movie. Do you remember what they wrestled at?

00:41:51.849 --> 00:41:55.619
What was the weight? I got everybody on this.

00:41:55.840 --> 00:41:57.780
I think he dropped down, well the weights change

00:41:57.780 --> 00:41:59.840
every single year, but he dropped down to like

00:41:59.840 --> 00:42:03.780
the 165, 167 range. 168. Okay, yeah. I'll get

00:42:03.780 --> 00:42:08.139
the hang of it. Partial money now. 160s. Brian,

00:42:08.219 --> 00:42:11.360
thanks for stopping by and sincere congratulations.

00:42:11.559 --> 00:42:13.820
Congratulations. Enjoy your night. Thank you.

00:42:13.920 --> 00:42:18.260
Appreciate it, you guys. All right, after a brief

00:42:18.260 --> 00:42:24.739
intermission, we're back. Being joined by really

00:42:24.739 --> 00:42:29.340
the only person I knew in this class, Brian Archibald.

00:42:30.119 --> 00:42:32.619
Brian, welcome to the Bristle Boys, and congratulations

00:42:32.619 --> 00:42:37.519
on your honor this evening. Thanks, guys. Real

00:42:37.519 --> 00:42:40.840
quick, we're going to get into some of your accomplishments,

00:42:41.719 --> 00:42:44.719
but you were a fantastic wrestler and wrestling

00:42:44.719 --> 00:42:47.639
coach. You also played professional baseball

00:42:47.639 --> 00:42:52.119
and had quite a baseball path. Can you tell me

00:42:52.119 --> 00:42:57.659
if your experiences in a one -on -one combative

00:42:57.659 --> 00:43:00.960
type of situation as wrestling helped you when

00:43:00.960 --> 00:43:05.400
you towed the rug to go one -on -one with batters,

00:43:05.440 --> 00:43:10.860
with hitters? Absolutely. You know, pitching

00:43:10.860 --> 00:43:14.599
is absolutely a one -on -one kind of portion

00:43:14.599 --> 00:43:20.349
of the game of baseball. It's a chess match to

00:43:20.349 --> 00:43:25.550
an extent. You try and exploit the other person's

00:43:25.550 --> 00:43:27.989
weaknesses and they try and do the same thing.

00:43:28.349 --> 00:43:31.630
It's just like wrestling. It's the same move.

00:43:37.309 --> 00:43:39.650
I wasn't a guy who danced around a whole lot.

00:43:40.440 --> 00:43:43.900
I kind of was like, all right, man, here you

00:43:43.900 --> 00:43:46.920
go. This is what I got. On a mat or on a mount?

00:43:47.440 --> 00:43:50.380
A little bit of both. A little bit of both. Well,

00:43:50.460 --> 00:43:52.199
angry Jay and I have faced you, so we know that

00:43:52.199 --> 00:43:54.159
you weren't messing around. Yeah, I mean, you

00:43:54.159 --> 00:43:57.340
know what? I'd like to kick the door down rather

00:43:57.340 --> 00:44:00.260
than kind of knock and see what's going on. I

00:44:00.260 --> 00:44:03.239
love it, man. That's cool. All right. We always

00:44:03.239 --> 00:44:05.659
put, you know, ask people questions they don't

00:44:05.659 --> 00:44:07.940
want to answer. But let's just say hypothetically,

00:44:08.260 --> 00:44:11.519
you're going to some deserted island or some

00:44:11.519 --> 00:44:13.400
afterlife and you can only play one of those

00:44:13.400 --> 00:44:16.820
two sports for the rest of time. Which one are

00:44:16.820 --> 00:44:19.840
you picking? You want to play baseball or do

00:44:19.840 --> 00:44:25.079
you want to want to wrestle? I want to wrestle.

00:44:25.469 --> 00:44:29.349
I love it. I want to wrestle. How about as a

00:44:29.349 --> 00:44:31.030
coach, would you rather coach wrestling or baseball?

00:44:31.110 --> 00:44:33.389
I'd rather coach wrestling. Okay. There's too

00:44:33.389 --> 00:44:36.250
much stuff going on with baseball. Like there's

00:44:36.250 --> 00:44:39.969
a lot, like I got to deal with nine dudes and

00:44:39.969 --> 00:44:41.769
nine different things happening with baseball

00:44:41.769 --> 00:44:45.010
and that's a lot going on man. I really like

00:44:45.010 --> 00:44:48.929
to focus in and pay attention on one thing that's

00:44:48.929 --> 00:44:52.809
going on and I can really give that specific

00:44:52.809 --> 00:44:58.300
athlete everything I got right and on the baseball

00:44:58.300 --> 00:45:01.420
diamond you really got it that's why I think

00:45:01.420 --> 00:45:04.820
baseball coaches are some of the best coaches

00:45:04.820 --> 00:45:07.659
period because they got to split themselves up

00:45:07.659 --> 00:45:12.199
around nine different places and and then still

00:45:12.199 --> 00:45:15.280
deal with with with the other half of the side

00:45:15.280 --> 00:45:17.059
right like whether you were hitting the number

00:45:17.059 --> 00:45:23.300
and then we're defending man and honestly man

00:45:24.390 --> 00:45:30.210
the sheer aspect of the physicality of wrestling.

00:45:32.250 --> 00:45:36.909
Man, it's me and that other dude. Or my guy against

00:45:36.909 --> 00:45:42.110
the other guy's guy. That's my jam. You make

00:45:42.110 --> 00:45:44.809
it personal. Yeah, it is personal. And that's

00:45:44.809 --> 00:45:47.269
wrestling, man. It's personal. And so is baseball,

00:45:47.269 --> 00:45:51.210
right? Like, I mean, you know, we played against

00:45:51.210 --> 00:45:55.170
and whatever else to know that it's personal.

00:45:57.469 --> 00:46:01.309
But as far as coaching, Baseball spreads that

00:46:01.309 --> 00:46:04.309
head coach out so much. There's so many moving

00:46:04.309 --> 00:46:06.949
parts, so many different scenarios, and there

00:46:06.949 --> 00:46:11.050
are in wrestling too, but baseball's a special

00:46:11.050 --> 00:46:12.989
thing. What did you wrestle at? What weight?

00:46:14.469 --> 00:46:18.829
I wrestled at 160 for three years, and 152 as

00:46:18.829 --> 00:46:20.989
a freshman. So were you one of those crazy guys

00:46:20.989 --> 00:46:23.369
that got up to like 170, 180, then dropped 20

00:46:23.369 --> 00:46:27.369
pounds for the 8 sweatshirt sedans? He's asking

00:46:27.369 --> 00:46:28.889
if you were a while in the swing in high school.

00:46:29.070 --> 00:46:31.050
I'm sorry for asking you. No, I went off your

00:46:31.050 --> 00:46:32.590
Bryant's shoe, actually, because he was better.

00:46:32.869 --> 00:46:36.150
Yeah, I looked like Bryant, like Loudon Swain.

00:46:39.530 --> 00:46:42.250
I played soccer my senior year. That was my senior

00:46:42.250 --> 00:46:46.690
year was the toughest one. But my senior year

00:46:46.690 --> 00:46:51.090
I played soccer at 185. Wow. And you wrestled

00:46:51.090 --> 00:46:57.070
that? at 160, yeah. Things are different then.

00:46:57.409 --> 00:46:59.849
Wrestling, thank God, has evolved just like everything

00:46:59.849 --> 00:47:02.690
else, and that kind of thing isn't happening

00:47:02.690 --> 00:47:06.630
as much at the high school level, for sure. Brian,

00:47:06.630 --> 00:47:09.389
you have a pretty impressive resume here. You

00:47:09.389 --> 00:47:11.489
have probably the longest bio of anybody. What

00:47:11.489 --> 00:47:13.670
on here are you most proud of that you've done?

00:47:13.889 --> 00:47:17.889
Any sport? Anything in your bio? You can read

00:47:17.889 --> 00:47:24.570
it if you want. I don't know that there's one

00:47:24.570 --> 00:47:30.110
specific thing that I'm most proud of. I think

00:47:30.110 --> 00:47:35.949
the coaching aspect would separate. The coaching

00:47:35.949 --> 00:47:42.969
aspect, where it's not about me. Kids believing

00:47:42.969 --> 00:47:47.840
in what we're saying. being okay with doing the

00:47:47.840 --> 00:47:52.159
things that we're asked to do, and the coaching

00:47:52.159 --> 00:47:55.699
piece, absolutely. The playing and the athlete

00:47:55.699 --> 00:48:00.800
part, man, you know, Frankie, you know, I don't

00:48:00.800 --> 00:48:03.559
know, I just did the thing. I just, I believed

00:48:03.559 --> 00:48:06.079
in the coaches I had, and I don't know, they

00:48:06.079 --> 00:48:08.199
told me to do something, I did it, and then when

00:48:08.199 --> 00:48:10.579
they told me it wasn't good enough, I did it

00:48:10.579 --> 00:48:13.659
again. And better. I would have said striking

00:48:13.659 --> 00:48:16.019
these guys out, but you're going the other way.

00:48:16.420 --> 00:48:18.340
Listen, striking me out wasn't a great accomplishment.

00:48:18.659 --> 00:48:21.360
That could be high on his list. Archie threw

00:48:21.360 --> 00:48:23.800
Hargo. He didn't want to get in there. Well,

00:48:25.019 --> 00:48:28.460
there's the wrestling piece, right? Absolutely,

00:48:28.559 --> 00:48:32.099
like you said, the wrestling piece shaped all

00:48:32.099 --> 00:48:38.059
of my athletics in a lot of my life. in life

00:48:38.059 --> 00:48:40.280
and whatever, there's times when you gotta be

00:48:40.280 --> 00:48:42.440
like, yeah, all right, dude, no, this is what's

00:48:42.440 --> 00:48:45.659
gonna happen. I love it, I love it. So if you

00:48:45.659 --> 00:48:51.099
enlist us today, after your speeches, go a couple

00:48:51.099 --> 00:48:52.599
rounds on the mat, who comes out on the mat?

00:48:52.679 --> 00:48:54.400
He already gave us his answer. I know, yeah.

00:48:54.760 --> 00:48:57.579
First of all, I don't know if it would go a couple

00:48:57.579 --> 00:49:02.280
rounds. Ooh! Number one. I think the two of us

00:49:02.280 --> 00:49:05.639
both, it's like that country song. I'm good once

00:49:05.639 --> 00:49:12.480
as good as I ever was, right? Listen, I'm younger

00:49:12.480 --> 00:49:17.699
than him, right? I don't know. How many seconds?

00:49:17.699 --> 00:49:23.340
He said you would win. He said he was a better

00:49:23.340 --> 00:49:28.940
coach than a wrestler. Listen, I'm younger than

00:49:28.940 --> 00:49:34.039
him, so him as a wrestler... I don't know. He's

00:49:34.039 --> 00:49:36.000
certainly a better coach than me, man. He's got

00:49:36.000 --> 00:49:38.800
three titles, right? Bobby brought the uniform,

00:49:38.900 --> 00:49:40.260
so we'll figure that out when we're done, you

00:49:40.260 --> 00:49:42.500
know? Yeah, we're doing it afterward. There's

00:49:42.500 --> 00:49:44.900
been a lot of conversation for a while about

00:49:44.900 --> 00:49:47.000
the fact that him and I are in together, and

00:49:47.000 --> 00:49:50.619
there's a lot of stuff going on here tonight.

00:49:50.860 --> 00:49:53.880
Archie, as a lifelong Ram, what are your feelings

00:49:53.880 --> 00:50:00.440
on the Lancers? You don't have to answer that.

00:50:00.619 --> 00:50:07.019
I think that... They're always competitive. Whoa.

00:50:08.500 --> 00:50:10.519
Alright, alright. Would you ever put the blue

00:50:10.519 --> 00:50:12.400
on? Listen, let me ask you this. The blue? Would

00:50:12.400 --> 00:50:15.860
I put the blue? Listen, I gotta tell you right

00:50:15.860 --> 00:50:18.719
now, my wife, just so you know where I come from

00:50:18.719 --> 00:50:22.369
and what my life has been like. My wife yesterday

00:50:22.369 --> 00:50:24.550
was out shopping for a new shirt or new clothes

00:50:24.550 --> 00:50:26.210
or whatever. She called me. She goes, hey, I

00:50:26.210 --> 00:50:30.050
found this great shirt, but it's blue. I go,

00:50:30.329 --> 00:50:32.610
it's all right, honey. Like, whatever. Do you

00:50:32.610 --> 00:50:34.389
like it? How's it look? Oh, it looks wonderful.

00:50:34.670 --> 00:50:38.849
But just do it. Go for it. She was like, OK.

00:50:40.250 --> 00:50:42.510
And tonight, when she was getting dressed, I

00:50:42.510 --> 00:50:44.349
said, where's that blue shirt? She goes, I couldn't

00:50:44.349 --> 00:50:49.190
do it. So maybe that... That sums it up. That

00:50:49.190 --> 00:50:52.690
answers the question. Go Rams? Hey, man. Maroon

00:50:52.690 --> 00:50:58.030
and white. Archie. Happy for you. This is well

00:50:58.030 --> 00:51:00.110
deserved. There's other things you've done, the

00:51:00.110 --> 00:51:01.989
cycling and all that kind of stuff. You're a

00:51:01.989 --> 00:51:05.449
man of many interests. And as far as the wrestling

00:51:05.449 --> 00:51:09.639
and baseball goes, We actually know about a very

00:51:09.639 --> 00:51:11.539
deserving honor. Hope you have a great night.

00:51:12.039 --> 00:51:14.860
Do not speak longer than Bunty Ray spoke last

00:51:14.860 --> 00:51:18.519
year, please. So it's funny you say that. I don't

00:51:18.519 --> 00:51:22.230
think I'll be as long as Bunty. They're telling

00:51:22.230 --> 00:51:24.510
us five minutes. I said, Hey man, that's ridiculous.

00:51:24.630 --> 00:51:27.789
We wrestled for six. There you go. There you

00:51:27.789 --> 00:51:30.889
go. So we'll see what happens. But I'm last.

00:51:31.289 --> 00:51:33.829
So about the one extra inning. So yeah. Well,

00:51:33.829 --> 00:51:39.250
he never pitched. Right. I like being a closer.

00:51:39.449 --> 00:51:42.550
So we'll try and throw some strikes. I love it,

00:51:42.650 --> 00:51:44.769
man. Congrats, buddy. Thank you very much. Have

00:51:44.769 --> 00:51:47.829
a great night. Thank you very much. Thank you.

00:51:51.530 --> 00:52:00.469
Congrats, man. I love it, man. One thing I don't

00:52:00.469 --> 00:52:03.849
get about this town, and maybe I'm never supposed

00:52:03.849 --> 00:52:07.869
to get it, and Angry Jay, I really want you to

00:52:07.869 --> 00:52:11.909
hear this. Like, these guys that are Rams or

00:52:11.909 --> 00:52:16.070
Lancers, not to mention St. Paul, They don't

00:52:16.070 --> 00:52:17.889
get over it, no matter what age they are. He's

00:52:17.889 --> 00:52:19.670
still wearing a maroon shirt. No, they don't

00:52:19.670 --> 00:52:21.869
get over it. He's wearing a maroon shirt. The

00:52:21.869 --> 00:52:25.170
school colors for his introduction. They don't

00:52:25.170 --> 00:52:28.150
get over it. I partly love it, but I also don't

00:52:28.150 --> 00:52:29.929
understand it, because we came from a postage

00:52:29.929 --> 00:52:32.750
stamp, you know? Yeah. That's hilarious, though.

00:52:33.409 --> 00:52:37.550
And it's over 30 years later, and he's talking

00:52:37.550 --> 00:52:39.989
about not letting his wife wear a blue shirt.

00:52:42.280 --> 00:52:48.840
Archie's back for the photo, photo op. I want

00:52:48.840 --> 00:52:51.940
to welcome in the next guest Hall of Fame inductee

00:52:51.940 --> 00:52:54.519
Andy Freemuth. When I hear that name I think

00:52:54.519 --> 00:52:58.420
Plainville. Is that your father? Yeah, it's great

00:52:58.420 --> 00:53:00.820
to be with you guys here. We have my father,

00:53:01.179 --> 00:53:03.539
Bob Freeman, longtime coach, playing ball high

00:53:03.539 --> 00:53:05.380
school. Yeah, and won a few state championships,

00:53:05.480 --> 00:53:07.820
right? Yeah, won a few state championships. That's

00:53:07.820 --> 00:53:10.059
crazy. Grew up watching those teams, you know,

00:53:10.179 --> 00:53:11.500
spending a lot of time at the practice field

00:53:11.500 --> 00:53:14.840
with them, so. Great place to be, great place

00:53:14.840 --> 00:53:17.619
to raise a kid. High school sports fields and

00:53:17.619 --> 00:53:20.619
courts or whatever. As I did that with mine and

00:53:20.619 --> 00:53:23.840
they seemed to be really addicted to athletics

00:53:23.840 --> 00:53:25.800
which is great. Became friends with a lot of

00:53:25.800 --> 00:53:27.800
those guys that were on his teams. That's cool.

00:53:27.900 --> 00:53:29.480
You know they looked after me and some of them

00:53:29.480 --> 00:53:33.119
were close in my age and you know it was a great

00:53:33.119 --> 00:53:35.340
experience. Did you go to the Plainville baseball

00:53:35.340 --> 00:53:38.360
camp that they? Spent a lot of years there. That's

00:53:38.360 --> 00:53:40.360
still a good one. Yeah my dad dragged me around

00:53:40.360 --> 00:53:43.079
to every camp. the Hololized Fundamental Baseball

00:53:43.079 --> 00:53:45.460
Camp? I went to it. Yeah. I'm way older than

00:53:45.460 --> 00:53:46.739
you, but I went to that. You'll probably hear

00:53:46.739 --> 00:53:49.300
a little bit of that later on when I get to address

00:53:49.300 --> 00:53:52.019
the crowd. Coach Jones from Plainville. Yeah.

00:53:52.260 --> 00:53:53.900
Coach Jones. Hey, let's get back to Bristol.

00:53:53.900 --> 00:53:56.380
Coach Greg Ziogas. Oh yeah. Let's get back to

00:53:56.380 --> 00:53:57.900
Bristol real quick. The reason you're here going

00:53:57.900 --> 00:54:00.940
into the Bristol Sports Hall of Fame. What besides

00:54:00.940 --> 00:54:04.340
your father in Bristol will you look back on

00:54:04.340 --> 00:54:06.960
and say, that person influenced me or I'm this

00:54:06.960 --> 00:54:09.079
way because this is how it was in Bristol. What

00:54:09.079 --> 00:54:10.880
is it about Bristol and the people that have

00:54:10.880 --> 00:54:12.539
influenced you? Yeah, I was fortunate enough

00:54:12.539 --> 00:54:15.880
to have a lot of great coaches all of all the

00:54:15.880 --> 00:54:19.219
way through played all the sports Baseball obviously

00:54:19.219 --> 00:54:21.519
was my number one sport but the amount of time

00:54:21.519 --> 00:54:24.420
that the folks in Bristol gave up to look after

00:54:24.420 --> 00:54:27.599
You know young athletes all the way through So

00:54:27.599 --> 00:54:29.119
many of them touched me in so many different

00:54:29.119 --> 00:54:32.480
ways. So I think that's that's the key that the

00:54:32.480 --> 00:54:34.579
The folks who coached in Bristol, I think made

00:54:34.579 --> 00:54:37.559
an impact on kids, especially me. Talk to me

00:54:37.559 --> 00:54:40.130
about your experience at Trinity Trinity is an

00:54:40.130 --> 00:54:42.750
amazing place. Played for Coach Bill Decker there.

00:54:42.789 --> 00:54:45.969
Oh, a legend, right? Absolute legend. You know,

00:54:45.989 --> 00:54:48.449
he was a younger guy at the time that I was there.

00:54:49.210 --> 00:54:50.989
Never really realized how close in age he was

00:54:50.989 --> 00:54:54.309
until after the fact, but a great guy taught

00:54:54.309 --> 00:54:57.409
me a lot about life, a lot about baseball, and

00:54:57.409 --> 00:54:59.670
met some of my best friends there, all on the

00:54:59.670 --> 00:55:02.190
baseball team. And Trinity is a great school,

00:55:02.230 --> 00:55:04.570
so the education was fantastic as well. You stay

00:55:04.570 --> 00:55:07.329
on campus. Yeah, couldn't imagine a better experience.

00:55:09.440 --> 00:55:12.639
No concerns or regrets about going there. That's

00:55:12.639 --> 00:55:16.219
awesome. Yeah. One more minute. Are you still

00:55:16.219 --> 00:55:18.099
involved in sports today, coaching or anything?

00:55:18.559 --> 00:55:21.559
So I'm really just playing golf today. Not too

00:55:21.559 --> 00:55:23.000
much involved. I coached my kids when they were

00:55:23.000 --> 00:55:24.960
growing up, but my son's a senior in high school

00:55:24.960 --> 00:55:27.860
now. My daughter is a sophomore. So I'm sort

00:55:27.860 --> 00:55:30.400
of out of the coaching at this point, leaving

00:55:30.400 --> 00:55:32.760
that up to their high school and their club coaches.

00:55:33.159 --> 00:55:35.659
But certainly was involved early on with them.

00:55:36.289 --> 00:55:39.429
And they both really took the sports and athletics,

00:55:39.510 --> 00:55:41.590
which is great. So now I just kind of sit back

00:55:41.590 --> 00:55:43.309
and watch them. You were being chased out of

00:55:43.309 --> 00:55:45.030
here. What was it like to play in that game at

00:55:45.030 --> 00:55:47.610
Fenway all -star game? Fenway Park was amazing.

00:55:47.909 --> 00:55:50.170
I was just talking to somebody about that. Just

00:55:50.170 --> 00:55:52.670
being in the locker room, being in the dugout,

00:55:53.489 --> 00:55:56.010
being in the presence of the green monster. It

00:55:56.010 --> 00:55:58.610
was awesome. How'd you do in BP? You got close

00:55:58.610 --> 00:56:01.250
in BP? Yeah, they didn't let us take BP on the

00:56:01.250 --> 00:56:02.849
field. Oh, get out! No, we had to hit it in the

00:56:02.849 --> 00:56:05.150
cage. But taking infield was amazing. And I know

00:56:05.150 --> 00:56:06.550
we're getting rushed out of here. But the crazy

00:56:06.550 --> 00:56:09.269
thing about Fenway is that at the time it was

00:56:09.269 --> 00:56:11.730
very crowned. And I was playing shortstop. So

00:56:11.730 --> 00:56:13.690
taking ground balls and trying to throw the ball

00:56:13.690 --> 00:56:15.889
the first base, you actually had to aim for the

00:56:15.889 --> 00:56:18.090
guy's first baseman's knees in order to hit him

00:56:18.090 --> 00:56:20.150
in the chest. Get out of here. First throw, you're

00:56:20.150 --> 00:56:21.489
trying to hit him in the chest. And you fire

00:56:21.489 --> 00:56:23.130
it over there just because of the crown. But

00:56:23.130 --> 00:56:26.000
awesome experience. Yeah. We're getting a hook

00:56:26.000 --> 00:56:27.559
and he's got to get back in there. He's an important

00:56:27.559 --> 00:56:29.380
man tonight I could talk to you guys all night.

00:56:29.380 --> 00:56:30.900
Oh, yeah fun. Well, you know what? We're gonna

00:56:30.900 --> 00:56:32.559
have you for a whole episode one day I could

00:56:32.559 --> 00:56:34.480
tell you got a lot to talk. Yeah, that sounds

00:56:34.480 --> 00:56:37.500
great. I'd love to let's go. Thank you Congratulations.

00:56:38.039 --> 00:56:39.460
Thanks a lot. Appreciate it. Have a great night.

00:56:39.800 --> 00:56:48.590
Don't be bristly in there. Yep How about Bob

00:56:48.590 --> 00:56:50.010
Callett? Are you being rushed in there, too?

00:56:50.190 --> 00:56:53.489
We need you for two minutes, Mr. Callett. Come

00:56:53.489 --> 00:57:01.130
on. Come on. We need you for two minutes. Are

00:57:01.130 --> 00:57:08.429
we live, Kevin? Guys, we're back after a brief

00:57:08.429 --> 00:57:11.289
intermission. For the man who made this possible,

00:57:12.610 --> 00:57:15.610
Bob Callett. Are you president? President. President

00:57:15.610 --> 00:57:17.690
of the Bristol Sports Hall of Fame committee.

00:57:19.130 --> 00:57:21.530
You guys put on a heck of a night tonight. I

00:57:21.530 --> 00:57:23.050
was at last year's and I went to the dinner you

00:57:23.050 --> 00:57:27.590
had here in between those two awesome events.

00:57:28.530 --> 00:57:31.570
But thanks for having us here and just talk to

00:57:31.570 --> 00:57:34.989
me a little bit about why you got involved in

00:57:34.989 --> 00:57:40.510
this. Well, yeah. I had a friend of mine that

00:57:40.510 --> 00:57:43.590
told me that he went to a dinner 28 years ago,

00:57:43.690 --> 00:57:45.550
Hall of Fame dinner, and I didn't know anything

00:57:45.550 --> 00:57:47.489
about it. And I said to myself, that's something

00:57:47.489 --> 00:57:50.250
I'd like to get involved in. So the following

00:57:50.250 --> 00:57:53.070
year I contacted Bob Montgomery and the rest

00:57:53.070 --> 00:57:55.489
is history. I've been involved for the last 28

00:57:55.489 --> 00:57:58.369
years, served as vice president and president,

00:57:58.769 --> 00:58:02.289
and I'm just involved in about every single aspect

00:58:02.289 --> 00:58:06.590
of it. I just wanted to say that I'm very proud

00:58:06.590 --> 00:58:09.090
to be president of the Hall of Fame. As you know,

00:58:09.110 --> 00:58:11.570
we have these speakers programs. I don't think

00:58:11.570 --> 00:58:14.429
there's another Hall of Fame in the state of

00:58:14.429 --> 00:58:16.909
Connecticut that does everything that the Bristol

00:58:16.909 --> 00:58:19.530
Sports Hall of Fame does. With the scholarships

00:58:19.530 --> 00:58:22.630
we give out, with our scholar -athlete dinner,

00:58:22.869 --> 00:58:27.690
with our leadership programs. Very, very, very

00:58:27.690 --> 00:58:29.369
proud to be involved with it. That's all I can

00:58:29.369 --> 00:58:31.070
say. Well, you should be. And then the function

00:58:31.070 --> 00:58:34.010
I came to this past winter, you know, people

00:58:34.010 --> 00:58:36.489
came here to take a picture with 7 -foot -2 Donovan

00:58:36.489 --> 00:58:39.710
Klingon, who did a heck of a job speaking. But

00:58:39.710 --> 00:58:45.829
maybe... the overlooked speaker that night, one,

00:58:45.849 --> 00:58:47.869
is a huge contributor to what you guys are doing,

00:58:47.909 --> 00:58:51.289
and two, had a tremendous story. And Donovan's

00:58:51.289 --> 00:58:53.469
and his story and our guest tonight, all their

00:58:53.469 --> 00:58:56.190
stories go back to what they were taught along

00:58:56.190 --> 00:58:59.349
the way on the baseball diamonds and courts and

00:58:59.349 --> 00:59:01.730
boys and girls clubs of Bristol. Can you speak

00:59:01.730 --> 00:59:04.889
about how proud you are to be a citizen of Bristol?

00:59:05.570 --> 00:59:08.989
Yeah, I've been a citizen of Bristol my whole

00:59:08.989 --> 00:59:10.789
life. I was involved with the forceful Little

00:59:10.789 --> 00:59:14.929
League. for 20 years as a treasurer. I was in

00:59:14.929 --> 00:59:16.730
the beginning of the Eastern Region Little League.

00:59:17.110 --> 00:59:18.789
I was there in the beginning when they started.

00:59:19.889 --> 00:59:22.710
I was a 30 -year volunteer. I served as an uncle.

00:59:22.949 --> 00:59:26.449
I served as a director of stream relations. I

00:59:26.449 --> 00:59:31.469
handled the finances for two years. So I've always

00:59:31.469 --> 00:59:34.650
felt it's better to give than to receive. And

00:59:34.650 --> 00:59:37.139
my wife has been right. Beside me all the way.

00:59:37.219 --> 00:59:39.039
I'm very, you know, proud of that fact. She you

00:59:39.039 --> 00:59:40.900
saw here tonight. She's working registration

00:59:40.900 --> 00:59:44.360
She's not a director, but even for the golf tournament

00:59:44.360 --> 00:59:48.440
she comes and she sells raffle tickets and So

00:59:48.440 --> 00:59:50.059
she's you know, she's right there for everything.

00:59:50.099 --> 00:59:52.340
So we're a partner. We just celebrated our 50

00:59:52.340 --> 00:59:56.820
-50 anniversary We won't hold Kevin against you

00:59:56.820 --> 01:00:03.019
either but no Mr. Callett Did you bring my dad

01:00:03.019 --> 01:00:05.260
to one of those dinners? I do miss your dad.

01:00:05.760 --> 01:00:07.679
You know, your dad used to play in our golf tournament

01:00:07.679 --> 01:00:09.940
with us every year. Billy Ryan and your dad.

01:00:09.940 --> 01:00:14.780
Oh my God. We, you know, we thoroughly enjoyed

01:00:14.780 --> 01:00:17.519
playing with Sleeper, I'll tell you. So, you're

01:00:17.519 --> 01:00:20.119
Bristol born and bred, but can you tell everybody

01:00:20.119 --> 01:00:23.860
what your real favorite high school is of all

01:00:23.860 --> 01:00:26.679
time? Well, I guess it would have to be Thomason

01:00:26.679 --> 01:00:32.539
High School. I graduated from Bristol Easton

01:00:32.539 --> 01:00:42.320
in 67 and Kevin teaches at Central. I was a teacher

01:00:42.320 --> 01:00:46.199
at Thomason High School for 35 years. A lot of

01:00:46.199 --> 01:00:48.860
good memories in Thomason. I know you taught

01:00:48.860 --> 01:00:54.099
the shop. What did you teach? I was a tech ed

01:00:54.099 --> 01:00:58.690
teacher. How many people lost limbs under your

01:00:58.690 --> 01:01:01.670
watch? None of them. Let's go. I really have

01:01:01.670 --> 01:01:03.550
to go. That's why he's taking all the time. Mr.

01:01:03.809 --> 01:01:07.250
Callett, the president. President Callett. Four

01:01:07.250 --> 01:01:11.670
more years. Welcoming in our last guest of the

01:01:11.670 --> 01:01:14.010
evening. We always save the best for last. Save

01:01:14.010 --> 01:01:19.469
the best for last. Coach Bunty Ray. You hate

01:01:19.469 --> 01:01:22.269
to label Bunty Ray as a coach because before

01:01:22.269 --> 01:01:26.179
that he had a heck of a resume as a player. But

01:01:26.179 --> 01:01:30.219
coaching nearly 70 seasons among over three sports.

01:01:31.340 --> 01:01:33.619
Over three sports or three sports? Across three

01:01:33.619 --> 01:01:36.860
sports. I meant you want to get. Are we really

01:01:36.860 --> 01:01:40.300
going to go there? It's been a long night. I

01:01:40.300 --> 01:01:43.320
just know after coaching two sports for just

01:01:43.320 --> 01:01:46.880
a few years it is a grind. Every season is a

01:01:46.880 --> 01:01:49.579
grind and to do all three and then have you know

01:01:49.579 --> 01:01:52.519
a life beyond that is difficult. So Coach Bunty

01:01:52.519 --> 01:01:55.079
Ray is here to join us and this guy has put in

01:01:55.079 --> 01:01:58.739
his time on the court, on the fields. And as

01:01:58.739 --> 01:02:01.860
Archie said, coaching baseball is, you know,

01:02:02.300 --> 01:02:04.119
a thousand times more difficult than most sports.

01:02:04.260 --> 01:02:05.840
I mean, when he was saying I was thinking football,

01:02:05.940 --> 01:02:07.360
but he got all these minions running around.

01:02:07.599 --> 01:02:09.960
Baseball, you're running the show. So welcome

01:02:09.960 --> 01:02:13.380
Coach Bunty Ray. Last year, 2024 Hall of Fame

01:02:13.380 --> 01:02:16.139
inductee, Coach Bunty Ray. Hey, thanks for having

01:02:16.139 --> 01:02:20.829
me. Before you start, Bunty, we're just going

01:02:20.829 --> 01:02:22.730
to tell you that this segment is brought to you

01:02:22.730 --> 01:02:25.030
by one of our biggest sponsors, Vice President

01:02:25.030 --> 01:02:27.090
of Capitalist Securities, Senior Vice President,

01:02:27.210 --> 01:02:30.570
Joe Moriello, alive. It's a good thing because

01:02:30.570 --> 01:02:36.469
he has all my money. Bunty, last year you knocked

01:02:36.469 --> 01:02:39.090
it out of the park with your speech. These guys

01:02:39.090 --> 01:02:41.250
have got a tough act to follow this year, but

01:02:41.250 --> 01:02:43.480
they're going to tell their own story. My speech

01:02:43.480 --> 01:02:45.679
was way too long, Bob, I can tell you that right

01:02:45.679 --> 01:02:47.300
now, but I had to thank the room because that's

01:02:47.300 --> 01:02:49.940
what Bristol is. There's so many people and there's

01:02:49.940 --> 01:02:54.679
so many, when I'm walking through even the line

01:02:54.679 --> 01:02:56.760
for the cocktail hour and this and that, it's

01:02:56.760 --> 01:03:00.179
just such a special place. And a lot of people,

01:03:00.280 --> 01:03:02.179
their kids have gone through here, the coaches,

01:03:02.579 --> 01:03:05.679
the history of this place is just outstanding.

01:03:06.139 --> 01:03:09.119
So as far as that kind of lineage and tradition,

01:03:10.500 --> 01:03:13.139
when you were going through it, and you look

01:03:13.139 --> 01:03:15.840
back today, who were those people, aside from

01:03:15.840 --> 01:03:19.019
family, that influenced you most? Oh, it would

01:03:19.019 --> 01:03:21.719
be all my coaches. It would be Jim Ziogas, Legion

01:03:21.719 --> 01:03:24.119
coach. It would be Mike Givinazzo, Bill Sweet,

01:03:24.360 --> 01:03:27.619
57 years. 57 years, I'm still coaching with him.

01:03:27.659 --> 01:03:32.309
Mike Givinazzo. 600 wins, it's, you know what,

01:03:32.409 --> 01:03:34.829
Speck Monaco, it's just all of them. I just had,

01:03:34.889 --> 01:03:37.289
I was fortunate to have a lot of great coaches

01:03:37.289 --> 01:03:40.510
that were just great people. You know, Tom Moylan.

01:03:41.110 --> 01:03:44.010
Longevity is lost upon a lot of things that happen

01:03:44.010 --> 01:03:46.869
now, right? Everybody wants to win now. I'm more

01:03:46.869 --> 01:03:48.670
impressed with the guys that stick it out. They

01:03:48.670 --> 01:03:51.469
stick out the tough seasons, they stick out the

01:03:51.469 --> 01:03:53.730
great seasons, and they're consistent. So to

01:03:53.730 --> 01:03:55.949
me, when you walk down that room, and then when

01:03:55.949 --> 01:03:58.500
you sit there and you're watching kids, that

01:03:58.500 --> 01:04:01.139
now come back to honor these people I think that's

01:04:01.139 --> 01:04:02.980
the most important. Well last year you had a

01:04:02.980 --> 01:04:05.239
ton of former players here. But to get a question

01:04:05.239 --> 01:04:07.460
I know you've coached your kids forever and obviously

01:04:07.460 --> 01:04:09.000
we all coach our kids and they were you know

01:04:09.000 --> 01:04:10.619
eighth grade seventh grade but you've coached

01:04:10.619 --> 01:04:13.659
now in high school against your son and you've

01:04:13.659 --> 01:04:16.420
coached your son correct? So what's harder coaching

01:04:16.420 --> 01:04:19.380
against your son or coaching yourself? I'll tell

01:04:19.380 --> 01:04:20.840
you this year it might get a few more minutes

01:04:20.840 --> 01:04:25.699
this year you know but you know what to me We

01:04:25.699 --> 01:04:28.710
go home, sports are what they are. You know,

01:04:28.710 --> 01:04:31.650
we talk about sports and the competition. I think

01:04:31.650 --> 01:04:35.210
it's a great story. So stories are stories. Sports

01:04:35.210 --> 01:04:37.989
are the vehicle for everything. It's going to

01:04:37.989 --> 01:04:39.590
be one day we're going to sit. We're going to

01:04:39.590 --> 01:04:42.130
have a conversation about how he felt about it,

01:04:42.130 --> 01:04:45.210
not me. I just went and just did my job. You

01:04:45.210 --> 01:04:48.469
know, and he knows that he sat in. My kids are

01:04:48.469 --> 01:04:50.010
funny. When they went to high school, they threw

01:04:50.010 --> 01:04:51.690
away all their Eastern stuff. But when they were

01:04:51.690 --> 01:04:53.730
younger, they had a lot of Eastern stuff. You

01:04:53.730 --> 01:04:56.449
won't catch them in blue anymore. If Jackson

01:04:56.449 --> 01:04:58.119
scores against you, when you guys play a month

01:04:58.119 --> 01:04:59.559
or whatever it is, are you going to be happier?

01:05:00.529 --> 01:05:05.230
Yeah, I don't know yet I'll tell you I'll be

01:05:05.230 --> 01:05:07.429
on the next podcast if we're up 20 and he scores

01:05:07.429 --> 01:05:09.849
I'll be happy if it's a close game and he scores

01:05:09.849 --> 01:05:12.449
and I don't know but I'll be proud of him either

01:05:12.449 --> 01:05:14.110
way I'm proud of all the kids in Bristol, you

01:05:14.110 --> 01:05:16.369
know I mean like I haven't been I have a unique

01:05:16.369 --> 01:05:18.429
situation where I get to see him in class you

01:05:18.429 --> 01:05:19.909
pull for those kids and when you're competing

01:05:19.909 --> 01:05:22.050
you're competing and that's that's what it is

01:05:22.050 --> 01:05:24.550
I don't know anybody that's ever competed I could

01:05:24.550 --> 01:05:27.369
see this table right now and I was at a game

01:05:27.369 --> 01:05:30.730
with Harlow and I was probably I don't know.

01:05:31.779 --> 01:05:35.019
40 years old and he was yelling at me in a timeout

01:05:35.019 --> 01:05:41.500
in an over 40 game. I was just filling in and

01:05:41.500 --> 01:05:43.119
Bob actually he's like he brought me up there

01:05:43.119 --> 01:05:45.199
and Bob didn't even he's like he had to stay

01:05:45.199 --> 01:05:47.539
home and I went up to Thomaston in that game

01:05:47.539 --> 01:05:49.980
and Harlow basically said hey listen we got to

01:05:49.980 --> 01:05:52.900
do that. I said wow I better toe the line. Competition

01:05:52.900 --> 01:05:54.519
is competition. I appreciate him. That's why

01:05:54.519 --> 01:05:56.659
he's a college coach. He's successful. There's

01:05:56.659 --> 01:05:58.860
no one there that's not and Bob is about as successful

01:05:58.860 --> 01:06:02.659
as he gets. Same thing with Mikey McMahon last

01:06:02.659 --> 01:06:06.000
year, you know? I mean, he's my guy in baseball,

01:06:06.079 --> 01:06:07.900
and then I'm coaching against him, and you know

01:06:07.900 --> 01:06:10.980
what? It's a hug at the end of the day. You've

01:06:10.980 --> 01:06:13.659
got unbelievable stories as far as playing both

01:06:13.659 --> 01:06:18.099
sides of this rivalry. And we talked before,

01:06:18.699 --> 01:06:20.519
as an out of town or coming from a small town,

01:06:20.559 --> 01:06:22.579
I don't get the fact that the three schools hate

01:06:22.579 --> 01:06:25.760
each other so much. And I'm talking about the

01:06:25.760 --> 01:06:27.800
blue bloods of those three schools. Now, you

01:06:27.800 --> 01:06:32.650
have gone, you grew up a Lancer. teach as a Ram,

01:06:33.150 --> 01:06:36.670
coach two sports back as a Lancer, but your passion

01:06:36.670 --> 01:06:40.139
baseball you coach for the Ram. In other words,

01:06:40.380 --> 01:06:42.699
you're all over the place. So how do you feel

01:06:42.699 --> 01:06:45.800
about these people that just can't see across

01:06:45.800 --> 01:06:49.719
the line? My story goes back to youth. So I grew

01:06:49.719 --> 01:06:52.119
up in the parks in this town. I grew up in the

01:06:52.119 --> 01:06:54.019
boys club. I grew up in the things that made

01:06:54.019 --> 01:06:57.239
us who we are. So I have an old soul. But no,

01:06:57.340 --> 01:06:59.420
I see it. I think they get it, too. I think the

01:06:59.420 --> 01:07:01.800
kids are more respectful than you think. I think

01:07:01.800 --> 01:07:04.340
they understand each other now. Well, before,

01:07:04.440 --> 01:07:05.980
back in the day, we had the Boulevard, we had

01:07:05.980 --> 01:07:08.730
Northeast. I didn't even know threes. three streets

01:07:08.730 --> 01:07:11.690
across the town I didn't even know I didn't even

01:07:11.690 --> 01:07:13.769
cross there was a Farmington Avenue was like

01:07:13.769 --> 01:07:18.269
the you know it was like a bis you couldn't you

01:07:18.269 --> 01:07:19.809
couldn't walk by it but you don't want to be

01:07:19.809 --> 01:07:21.869
honest with you the respect I mean Archie and

01:07:21.869 --> 01:07:24.329
I were adversaries he's getting in tonight and

01:07:24.329 --> 01:07:28.079
I'm so proud of him and I played Against them

01:07:28.079 --> 01:07:30.860
and I think it's just great. It's unique and

01:07:30.860 --> 01:07:32.860
when you say small town this and that I don't

01:07:32.860 --> 01:07:34.579
know I think you guys have the same thing I mean

01:07:34.579 --> 01:07:37.820
you had your rivalries you understand and I seen

01:07:37.820 --> 01:07:40.119
you guys compete and I know how you guys compete

01:07:40.119 --> 01:07:42.400
I think you guys would have done the same the

01:07:42.400 --> 01:07:44.039
difference for me is you go where their opportunity

01:07:44.039 --> 01:07:46.300
is You know me you're trying to break in as a

01:07:46.300 --> 01:07:49.960
coach and you know my my coaches were Eastern,

01:07:50.039 --> 01:07:52.179
so they had me as an assistant. I had an opportunity

01:07:52.179 --> 01:07:53.880
as a head coach in baseball, but you want to

01:07:53.880 --> 01:07:56.159
know something? I never saw it that way. I always

01:07:56.159 --> 01:07:57.780
thought just helping Bristol was what we were

01:07:57.780 --> 01:08:01.000
at. And a night like this shows it. You can see

01:08:01.000 --> 01:08:03.860
the energy in the room in terms of that. The

01:08:03.860 --> 01:08:05.780
unique part about tonight is you got this wrestling,

01:08:05.980 --> 01:08:08.199
Eastern Central wrestling. Oh, man, I was surprised

01:08:08.199 --> 01:08:11.179
they didn't do weigh -ins at five o 'clock. Who

01:08:11.179 --> 01:08:14.039
says they didn't? The 103s aren't 103s anymore.

01:08:14.539 --> 01:08:16.140
I tell you, 20 years ago, they might be around

01:08:16.140 --> 01:08:20.289
190 by now. I gotta ask you Sponti, you're coaching

01:08:20.289 --> 01:08:22.250
all these sports, is there one you like the best?

01:08:22.329 --> 01:08:24.409
Whatever one I'm winning in. Whatever one you're

01:08:24.409 --> 01:08:26.050
winning in. Yeah, no, no, you know what? At the

01:08:26.050 --> 01:08:27.630
end of the day, I would have said that. That's

01:08:27.630 --> 01:08:30.890
a bad answer 20 years ago. I don't know. I just

01:08:30.890 --> 01:08:33.029
went and saw a couple of my former players play.

01:08:33.529 --> 01:08:35.489
You know, what we do, and I think you guys realize

01:08:35.489 --> 01:08:37.390
as you get older, you know, 10 years from now,

01:08:37.390 --> 01:08:39.289
you want to just see them get better. I don't

01:08:39.289 --> 01:08:41.829
know if we even coach in the moment when we were

01:08:41.829 --> 01:08:43.390
young. We're trying to get credibility. We're

01:08:43.390 --> 01:08:46.270
trying to do this. But now, when I hear a story

01:08:46.270 --> 01:08:48.970
about the 15th man on my bench that's doing really

01:08:48.970 --> 01:08:52.409
well and you're talking about soccer and basketball

01:08:52.409 --> 01:08:54.010
and baseball, you just want to see the kids do

01:08:54.010 --> 01:08:56.289
well. I think that's where you can actually breathe.

01:08:56.310 --> 01:08:58.710
When you finally get older and you kind of sit

01:08:58.710 --> 01:09:00.449
there and you you know what sports are about,

01:09:00.630 --> 01:09:02.949
I think that's the most important thing. When

01:09:02.949 --> 01:09:05.510
you're competing, obviously, I'm not gonna lie

01:09:05.510 --> 01:09:07.430
to you, we're trying to win. But afterwards,

01:09:07.689 --> 01:09:10.489
that story that you hear from a kid, I just heard

01:09:10.489 --> 01:09:12.949
a story about a kid that played three innings

01:09:12.949 --> 01:09:16.409
for me the other day. I went to a wake and his

01:09:16.409 --> 01:09:17.810
father was sitting in the parking lot and he

01:09:17.810 --> 01:09:20.630
told me, he says, my kid is graduating from the

01:09:20.630 --> 01:09:23.010
Marines. And I said, wow, I could talk about

01:09:23.010 --> 01:09:24.789
his three innings. No, we don't remember it.

01:09:24.970 --> 01:09:27.350
But the kids, he struggled. And you know what?

01:09:27.350 --> 01:09:28.970
That struggle is real and that's what sports

01:09:28.970 --> 01:09:32.949
are. So for me, that's where I am now. I wish

01:09:32.949 --> 01:09:35.329
I was like that when I started, but that's how

01:09:35.329 --> 01:09:37.210
you get here. I think we're all kind of like

01:09:37.210 --> 01:09:39.869
that, too. I was a little more hot headed when

01:09:39.869 --> 01:09:42.689
I when I first started. But you just see it differently

01:09:42.689 --> 01:09:47.649
when you see it. There's some stories. Gun to

01:09:47.649 --> 01:09:50.510
your head. I don't. If you only could coach one

01:09:50.510 --> 01:09:55.899
sport. Superintendents tells you you're coaching

01:09:55.899 --> 01:09:58.180
one. Well, I'm known as a baseball guy and everybody

01:09:58.180 --> 01:10:00.319
thinks I'm a baseball guy But I sat in your living

01:10:00.319 --> 01:10:02.560
room you convinced Bob McMahon convinced me to

01:10:02.560 --> 01:10:04.159
take the basketball job and you know what to

01:10:04.159 --> 01:10:06.699
be honest with you that that sport is intoxicating

01:10:06.699 --> 01:10:09.300
but You want to know this is gonna sound as a

01:10:09.300 --> 01:10:10.920
surprise. They just finished a soccer season

01:10:10.920 --> 01:10:14.539
and watch what Bill Sweet said I grew up in that

01:10:14.539 --> 01:10:16.979
program too. I did something about that pick

01:10:16.979 --> 01:10:20.640
one I'm a baseball guy true and true. I guess

01:10:20.640 --> 01:10:25.979
all right best best coach in Bristol in your

01:10:25.979 --> 01:10:29.819
lifetime? Not answering that. Come on, man. No,

01:10:30.100 --> 01:10:33.039
that's... No, I can't answer that. No, I can't

01:10:33.039 --> 01:10:35.140
answer that. Bob Fiendel, my little league coach.

01:10:35.840 --> 01:10:37.979
Done. You answered it. There you go. Because

01:10:37.979 --> 01:10:39.779
he got me to love baseball. Why don't I tell

01:10:39.779 --> 01:10:41.140
Gene and say him? One player to take the last

01:10:41.140 --> 01:10:43.960
shot. One player to take the last shot at Bristol

01:10:43.960 --> 01:10:46.199
Eastern? Yeah. Because I take Donovan Klingon

01:10:46.199 --> 01:10:48.609
because I watch him take a lot of them. Against

01:10:48.609 --> 01:10:52.590
me for Bristol Eastern You got to draw one up

01:10:52.590 --> 01:10:55.609
one guy's taking it as an assistant or head head.

01:10:55.630 --> 01:11:01.170
No either either Cody Bain Okay, fair thousand

01:11:01.170 --> 01:11:03.250
-point score. He means he made more than your

01:11:03.250 --> 01:11:06.630
Western He went to Western. All right. Yeah one

01:11:06.630 --> 01:11:08.569
guy to tow the rubber and get out of a bases

01:11:08.569 --> 01:11:11.979
loaded. No out jam Mm, Blandino or Lejeune, I

01:11:11.979 --> 01:11:13.880
say Blandino just because he can strike somebody

01:11:13.880 --> 01:11:16.520
out, but Craig can get it out. Depends who's

01:11:16.520 --> 01:11:19.140
behind him picking up the ball, but Matt Blandino

01:11:19.140 --> 01:11:21.979
can strike guys out. Two outs, full count, tying

01:11:21.979 --> 01:11:25.840
on third, winning on second. Who's batting? You

01:11:25.840 --> 01:11:27.779
could pinch hit anyone that you've ever had.

01:11:28.779 --> 01:11:32.850
Mitch Gilmett. Left -handed hitter. Why? because

01:11:32.850 --> 01:11:34.630
he wouldn't he wouldn't try to hit it out of

01:11:34.630 --> 01:11:36.670
the park he'd shorten up with two strikes and

01:11:36.670 --> 01:11:39.189
he would he would hit it to all fields that's

01:11:39.189 --> 01:11:41.949
a lost art now and if you're a baseball guy you

01:11:41.949 --> 01:11:44.170
know what i mean somebody that can hit it to

01:11:44.170 --> 01:11:46.470
all fields that's tough to strike out that has

01:11:46.470 --> 01:11:49.949
that little bit of extra yeah he's not sexy you

01:11:49.949 --> 01:11:51.449
know i don't know if anybody will ever say i've

01:11:51.449 --> 01:11:53.710
had a lot of guys that have probably done more

01:11:53.710 --> 01:11:57.229
but he's the guy you trust okay penalty kick

01:11:58.369 --> 01:12:01.069
Jake Wasnicki. He scored 63 goals, I'm sure.

01:12:02.909 --> 01:12:05.850
Goalie against a penalty kick. Oh, Dan Mikolovsky.

01:12:06.369 --> 01:12:09.810
Easy. Never made a never made the state tournament,

01:12:10.109 --> 01:12:12.229
but you know what? That's because he had to make

01:12:12.229 --> 01:12:16.029
45 saves. Not our best teams, but I'll be honest

01:12:16.029 --> 01:12:18.229
with you, Dan Mikolovsky is a Hall of Famer.

01:12:18.369 --> 01:12:21.409
He's unbelievable. One defensive stop in basketball.

01:12:23.130 --> 01:12:26.689
One defensive stop. Who's my guy? Who's the guy

01:12:26.689 --> 01:12:30.949
that, you know, you just gotta grind with? Hmm,

01:12:30.970 --> 01:12:33.750
that's a tough one, man. One defensive stop.

01:12:33.810 --> 01:12:35.829
Who are you gonna go? Is it a guard? Is it a

01:12:35.829 --> 01:12:37.289
big? What am I trying? What am I trying to stop?

01:12:37.310 --> 01:12:39.189
A player. That's a player. I just gotta stop

01:12:39.189 --> 01:12:44.569
somebody. Oof. Matt Goulet. Wow, he's liking

01:12:44.569 --> 01:12:46.130
the French names here. Who's the best teammate

01:12:46.130 --> 01:12:48.529
you ever had at Eastern? It's Connecticut. Oh,

01:12:48.569 --> 01:12:51.069
Christom Otto. Okay, other than present company.

01:12:51.470 --> 01:12:54.909
Who's your best? Who's your best? Business partner

01:12:54.909 --> 01:13:02.949
at the person. I'm kidding With the receipts

01:13:02.949 --> 01:13:07.449
Hey angry J. Hey, um one guy to make a bucket

01:13:07.449 --> 01:13:11.609
for me in your high school career at a bunny

01:13:11.609 --> 01:13:17.310
this college Tyler Rowe Play that he actually

01:13:17.310 --> 01:13:19.550
transferred out there. I remember him. I miss

01:13:19.550 --> 01:13:23.240
half that Western he played at Central Yeah,

01:13:23.240 --> 01:13:26.520
he's playing now some Canadian basketball a little

01:13:26.520 --> 01:13:31.520
5 -eleven guy from Windsor. Yeah Does Terry Bulls

01:13:31.520 --> 01:13:33.720
Dom Dowell class s does he get a sniff anywhere

01:13:33.720 --> 01:13:37.189
on a list like that a stop or a bucket? He's

01:13:37.189 --> 01:13:39.029
in the conversation, but he's not getting the

01:13:39.029 --> 01:13:41.189
final vote. Guys, I don't mean to cut you off

01:13:41.189 --> 01:13:43.710
because I got a wife sitting at a table and I

01:13:43.710 --> 01:13:46.289
got to get in there and I had to do the speeches.

01:13:46.890 --> 01:13:49.170
I'll be honest with you. We finally made him

01:13:49.170 --> 01:13:53.449
stop talking. I would love to do this to come

01:13:53.449 --> 01:13:55.970
back. This is outstanding. I love talking sports,

01:13:56.350 --> 01:13:58.069
especially with all these guys that are up here

01:13:58.069 --> 01:14:00.649
that I know that... You're coming back. We finally

01:14:00.649 --> 01:14:04.010
got him to put the mic down. He dropped it. Thanks,

01:14:04.090 --> 01:14:06.949
Bunty. Thanks, Bunty. Well, if I don't do a Sporty's

01:14:06.949 --> 01:14:08.930
plug right now for the podcast, then I am not

01:14:08.930 --> 01:14:12.109
doing my job. Sporty's is on Judd Street. They

01:14:12.109 --> 01:14:14.789
do a really good job. They have good wings. And

01:14:14.789 --> 01:14:16.869
Eddie just kind of moved over there, so the kitchen's

01:14:16.869 --> 01:14:20.829
the best. So Sporty's is just, it's amazing.

01:14:21.369 --> 01:14:23.670
And then, hey, I love talking about sports with

01:14:23.670 --> 01:14:25.109
you guys, because I know how good you guys are.

01:14:25.109 --> 01:14:26.470
You're welcome any time, Bunty. Thanks for coming.

01:14:26.489 --> 01:14:28.590
Bye, Bunty. Have a great night. All right, everybody,

01:14:28.590 --> 01:14:30.350
we're going to wrap it up. We got plenty other

01:14:30.350 --> 01:14:31.869
fillers, but it's not a filler night. This was

01:14:31.869 --> 01:14:34.729
about the inductees. and those Bristol lifers.

01:14:35.409 --> 01:14:37.229
Studio engineer Kevin Ross, unbelievable job.

01:14:37.270 --> 01:14:39.789
Crocker limping around getting us guests. Angry

01:14:39.789 --> 01:14:43.130
Jay, the Don father, and myself. Thanks for putting

01:14:43.130 --> 01:14:46.170
up with us. Guests were tremendous. Congratulations.

01:14:46.630 --> 01:14:49.010
Bobby Callit, Thomas in high school, 30 years.

01:14:50.069 --> 01:14:53.329
Bristol Sports Hall of Fame, 2025. See you next

01:14:53.329 --> 01:14:53.729
time, guys.