Athletic Endeavors

Bob talks about his long and illustrious baseball career, while Miles learns how square dancing is a rite of passage for some. Subscribe Random show from the last 25+ years Random Post https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffin5oyZzUs Bad AI Transcript of the show this week writing for it on my end. Okay, recording is on. Look at that. Oh, great value. Okay. we can't afford me up. So you have great value it's uh it's yeah you know what you know, it's for poor people like me i know yeah okay yeah don't you don't have to say it. You don't have to say it. Don't say it basically that's the drip tray at the cafe. They have all the drinks. Make your jokes go ahead yes it's from the drip tray. Mm-hmm. Remember when you were a kid, baseball, you'd say, I want a suicide. That would be all the flavors from the machine. You ever do that? Yeah, I know what that is. Then it evolved, and you're like, I want a suicide, last one, seven up. Yeah. Because then it would taste like seven up, because that was the last one.Ah, okay. Yeah, I didn't know you could do that, but okay. Oh, you didn't do that one? No. Well, I know. I just thought you just put flavors in it. I didn't know you could control what it tastes like. Yeah, if you put the 7-Up in last, it usually tasted like 7-Up then, as opposed to the nastiness that was all the flavors. Yeah. You want squirt? I want squirt. I did I didn't do that a lot. I was the kid that was like, I'm not doing that. I'm not allowed. No, I was like, I don't want, if I'm getting a free drink, cause usually the coach, right? So I'm not ruining it by having all these other flavors in there. Uh, you kids like beer, right? Coach butter maker. That's right. I was in the bad news bears. Yeah.I was the stats kid, yeah. You were Eggberg, right? No, I was the catcher. I was the guy with the glasses with the pen and keeping all the stats. I got to be jealous of you. I never actually was in any of that, so I'd actually be jealous of you. Really? You never did Little League or anything? Mm-mm. There was a really short period of time. Just be glad that you weren't. Yeah. Because it was a really short period of time. My brother was like a really good pitcher for a while. Okay. When he was younger. Right. Yeah. So, well, because he's really, my brother's really tall. Right. And he's got really long arms and everything. So whenever he was really tall, when he was young and the combination of, of that,And being, you know, mildly coordinated made him a really good pitcher for little league. Okay. All right. Because he could like, you know, really step off the bag, you know, step off the pitcher's mound forward and really sling that ball because he had this big, long ape arms. He's throwing feces. That's right. And so then I get, I'm, I'm, you know, several years younger. So then I get to be of Little League age, and all these people want me on their team because my brother was such a good pitcher. Your legacy. Right, exactly. They're like, well, if Monkey Boy did really good, then maybe his little brother. Sally. That's right. We'll do just as well. I wasn't as tall. I was tall, but not as tall as him. I still am not. And it was a big letdown.I got on a team. I had no talent whatsoever. They're trying to make me a pitcher, and they're like, this guy sucks. You're going to break it to him, and he's shit. Nothing like your brother. I didn't say I was. Oh, my God. This is hilarious. This is the funniest show. Oh, my God. I got this huge, huge letdown. I got built up because all these people are like, you got to be on our team, son. And I'm like, okay. And then like right during practice before the first game, it's like, we made a big mistake. Bringing on that kid. Lord, us. Yeah. They're like, I mean, it'd be all right if he couldn't hit, but he can't hit and he can't throw. Could you run? No. Oh, gee. I couldn't do any of it. I thought you were this mud volleyball guy that you're always bragging about. You're always like, oh. I didn't do that later in life. I did it better. But when I was a little kid. Mm-hmm.For Little League, no. I was just terrible. I was a benchwarmer, but nobody knew it. They all just knew my brother. Like, yeah, that kid can throw. He can put some pepper on that ball or whatever the fuck. Old Chuck's pretty good. Yeah. So, yeah, he got to be kind of a star for a while, and then he kind of got tired of that. Then we got Christy Brown on our team here. That's right. And so would my foot. And, yeah. I don't feel so bad about myself. I feel good about myself now. I thought you were going to say what a star you were and all this. No, I was terrible. I became Mr. Right Field. Yeah. If you've ever seen WKRP in Cincinnati where Les Nesman gets stuck in right field, that's me. Oh, okay. All right.You know, with the piano, the violin lesson playing. Yeah. They tell the kids, you know, again, the coach back in the day, you know, hey, you know, the left-handed batter comes up to hit. It's going to go to right field. Hey, center field and left field, move over to right. Oh, that is so sad. You guys shift. Shift over. Yeah, yeah. Bob, go all the way to the baseline. Yeah. Just stay out of the way. Now, how did I know that? Because I hated playing. I hate playing baseball. I hate it. I hate it. I used to. I mean, I would enjoy playing baseball whenever, you know. See, I'd play right field, but I didn't know about that, but I would be so far out. I'd actually almost be like in foul territory. Cause I hate it. Yeah. So that was my little league experience. And then my brother kind of aged out a bit. I think he, as you know, other people got better as they got, he got older and then he got tired of it and, you know, but for a while there, he was, he was quite the, uh, you know,sought after person right right yeah i remember because the terrible thing is uh i and i mean i knew my little league coach until he died. Uh, and my, who played for my brother played for him and i played for him and so forth, even though he kind of jerked to me but uh but yeah he was a neighbor. He was a neighbor and, uh, he was a a Uh, like a steel worker. He's a tough, tough guy. Very tough. You know, a whole thing, right? Move over, move over, get your ass over. Everything was, you know, it was, it was very, I grew up in a very blue collar environment. Yeah. Yeah. Not blue collar, but yeah. I was always, always, always the last kid to get picked in gym class. Like no one. Yes. Yes. Cause I hated sports. Like I hated. Yeah. I was that bad. But you know, I had no coordination. I wasn't good at it. I'm like, no, I'm not the least bit interested. Believe it or not. Believe it or not. Believe it or not. I know you don't believe me. Well, I mean, you have, you always are wearing sweats. I just assumed you were a Jack. Nope.Yeah. You're always wearing the sweats. No, no, but yeah, I didn't. Yeah. I didn't fare very well in the, uh, little league. I, I had high, terrible to have your bubble pop like that. So young, you know, it's like, okay. Yeah. Get your ass out there. Yeah. You know? Yeah. There was a lot of that. I did better. I do better in the non-competitive stuff, you know, where you just, that was my, Yeah. We used to play all the time in the neighborhood with the neighborhood kids. Right. That I could do much better. I was never any good at it, but you didn't have anybody yelling at you from across the field, you know? Yeah. Right. Like a real game. Yeah. Like a real, yeah, exactly. Like a real. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'd be more neighborhood. Yeah. So we played in the neighborhood a lot. Although like a lot of the kids, like,probably be like six years older than me or older. So pretty much like my kid. No, there wasn't that many kids like my age though. You know, and that kind of rolled around. It was like, it wasn't really that many neighborhood kids, you know? Yeah. Gotcha. That baby boom thing, you know, kind of dropped off like. Right. Yeah. That's true, I guess. But I mean, you're kind of in between, I suppose, me and my brother, I suppose, in a way. Right. A little bit. Yeah. I'm only like a year older than you. What are you talking about? I'm just saying. That year was a big year. Everybody stopped screwing. Yeah, pretty much. Pretty much. So how do we get on this? This wasn't even my story for the night. I don't know. I thought it was your story. I'm like, well, he has no story. He's going to go to this old, you know, the coach. I don't know what the story is. He got a bad touch from the coach or some shit. No, no. He was always a good guy to me. I was friends with his son, and I would go over and help him with his computer and whatnot. What the fuck?And he was always like, hey, Bobby. I don't want him on the goddamn team. Yeah, I don't want him on the computer. That's all right. An autistic kid comes over with a computer stuff. He's pretty good. But, yeah, he was always, hey, how you doing? He was always nice to me after that. He just wasn't nice during the game. Hey, JoJo, come here. Always got carried away. I mean, it was – I think everybody, you know, this was before the age of everybody gets a trophy. Yeah. And I mean, you know, it was really a little hard on your psyche when everybody's like, Oh my God, you're, you didn't say your shit, but they did everything but say your shit. You know what I mean? Right. No, you know, no trophy for you. You don't, you don't get a suicide drink or maybe they pin you and they're like, yeah, you can have one, I guess. Right. You know, no, no accolades.You know, you get the stink eye. Oh, what's the batting? What's the batting lineup? Oh, fuck. The men's on there. We're going to lose. Crap. Let's switch. Can we switch him? Can we switch him? Is it too late? I'm going to hit you an ankle with his back. Yeah, exactly. What? We got to pinch hitter here. He's got diarrhea. He can't go on. Yeah, that's good here....