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Buffalo meet with the ball. Buffalo meet over to Running Deer. It's one more thing. Armstrong and Getty. One more thing. That would be an actual quote from my brief play by play career when I was doing announcing for a basketball game in college. More on that in just a second. A couple of play by play things or sports things made the news recently. First you got the squirrel that ran onto a baseball field. And we got two different versions of play by play calls on that. The chase for the squirrel is on and the squirrel is in the corner. And the squirrel is ill, eluding an entire horde of grounds crew members. And the squirrel's free once again. Hemmed in. No, I won't be hemmed in. I have freedom on my mind. Trying to go between the legs. And eventually he gets away again and hops through the towel. And hops through another towel. The force field is activated. Towels can't stop him. Or maybe they can. Well, that's funny. Do you hear the crowd at the end? Were they booing because they caught the squirrel? Yeah. Yeah. Is this another play by play of the same event? Here we go. Yeah, this is the other team's play by play, guys. Okay. Ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to thank the ground screw. Let's give them a round of applause. The Detroit Tigers grounds crew. Thank you. That's Bill Miller, the GR chief. He just got on his bike to thank the Groats crew and got booed. It took 67 of them to catch one scroll or highly amused by that. Baseball, play by play. And color commentators are unlike any other sport. And I love it so much. I miss listening to baseball on the radio, which I used to do more just because it was so. They're like your friends. I would have loved the team, done baseball play by play more than the other sports, which I was going to talk about in a second, like, because I did. I've only done football and basketball, and it's constant action, pretty much. And so it's just your ability to understand what's happening and get the words out of your mouth. But baseball, there's a lot of time to kill in baseball with storytelling and anecdotes and all that sort of stuff, which I think I'd be better at. I wish I'd done that too. And I just. I love the game of baseball so much too, because I would. I would do basketball and football. Like you said, I was doing color in football. I was doing this big high school program in Springfield, Illinois, that our. Our little station was the. What do you call it? Flagship station. This is a long time ago, Gladys. He's hearkening back many years ago. Play by play or color for a football. Football game. I was mostly there to set up the gear and make sure it worked. But. So the play by play guy was actually quite good. Very good. So he could rest his voice now and again. I was the color commentator and I liked football, but I didn't know much about it. And so I'd be like, yeah, boy, that sure was a good run. He busted right through the middle. I mean, you didn't need to. I mean, it's just no need for that. You're sure right about that. So. And at one point, some of the fans who would be listening at the game got a little hostile. Like, who is this guy? Why is he the. The color commentator? He's not a football expert. And I'm like, do you have any idea what I'm being paid, how cheap all of this is? That guy's getting 20 bucks. I'm getting like 10. And they just need me to set up the gear and ask me to do this. I know I'm not an expert. I don't want to be here, but I need the 10 bucks. Maybe a better story is we weren't doing play by play in the radio. We were doing courtside play by play for tennis. Remember when we did that? Oh, my God, that sucked so bad. We're the PA announcers, were we at Mix 96? I don't yes. So this was before you even knew us, Michael. We had to do play by play for some professional tennis. And it was just horrific. Mostly because the guy we were doing it for, we couldn't figure out what he wanted. So he was a crazy, overbearing nut. He acted like he wanted us to make funny comments in between shots. But then anytime we would, the players would get mad for talking too much. They're professional tennis players. This sounds great. Oh, it was horrible. It's so stressful. I hated every second of it. Oh, they'd yell at us. What about this? What about this? We're like. We've never heard that phrase in our lives. So you know nothing about tennis. I know something about tennis. I'm not exactly sure what. I never understood what they wanted out of us was the problem. Everything we did was wrong and just people yelling at us and it was just ridiculous. I don't think this was a very long time ago, friends. I wouldn't do that now for $50,000 a game. Well, I'd think about it. I don't know. I think I might have been solo on this. Did I have a color? It must have been. I think I was solo doing community college basketball for a year. And I mean, I'm a basketball fan, but I mean, I'm not an X's and O's expert. So it was, it was a lot of ad libbing. If you were, if you were watching the game and listening to me at the same time, it wouldn't have matched up very well. I think if you're only listening, you probably were. Okay. But if you're watching and listening, you'd have thought, what? Right. And if you're watching and you'd like you knew X's and O's. Yeah. And listening, you'd think, this guy has no idea. One thing I noticed right off the bat is, and I had, I eventually talked to the coach about it, I had no idea the distances. So if a guy is standing here, how far a shot is that? Is that 10ft or 20ft or. Because, you know, I want to be able to say a 20 footer from the outside or whatever. I didn't have any idea. So I finally nailed that down. But wow, you were worse than me. And knewing knowing the players on your own team, you know, you do a whole season, you get to know them by sight and their name, but you roll into a town and you got a new roster of players you never heard and you don't. You got to quickly figure out because you can't just keep saying the no. Number eight with the ball. That doesn't do any good for whoever's listening. Or look down your list. That's Jones with the. Because Jones has passed it to Smith, to Brown by the time you find Jones on the list. And now you're way behind. Behind guy shot. And he made the shot anyway. That's so good. If you don't. If you've never done it, you don't appreciate like listening to a hockey call or basketball. These guys, they have everything absolutely memorized and they work really hard to do that. They do. I have friends who do that. And they put in so much prep time so you're not scanning the list trying to figure out who somebody is or, or anything else. But the one that always stuck about out of my mind is we would travel twice a year to Haskell Jr, Haskell Indian Jr College. And it was a Native American junior college. And at least back then, I don't know if it's still true, they all had Indian names, Native American names on the basketball team. So what I said at the end of this thing, their best player was. Buffalo Meat was the best player on the team and he usually had the ball. And it was him and Running Deer, they only had, I think they had six guys. And in one of the games that I did, six of the dudes, two of them fouled out. So then they only had four. Oh, my gosh. So they had to took one guy off. Circle the wagons.
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Oh, I was young and not gutsy or I would have used some of those jokes probably back in the day. Down by six with only 20. Time to circle the wagons and time to make the. The lane. Your reservation foul on Buffalo Meat. He's John with the referee, but I think he speaks with forked tongue because that looked like a foul to me. Oh, boy. I didn't do anything major. Many friends, but it was a lot of Buffalo Meats. Running. Running Deer with the buffalo Meat with a layup. So, yeah, it was a lot of that. But then they, they fouled out and they got down. I think eventually they had three. At the very end of the game, they only had three guys. And then there was some conversation. Well, do we take one off the other team to make it even, or is that their fault that they don't have enough players? So it's five on four or five on three. They just discussed that in the middle of the court. I don't forget what they decided. Man, that's some small town community college basketball Right there with eight people in the stands. Yeah, yeah, boy. I, I did high school boys and girls basketball because I needed the money and I'm a sports fan, so I didn't hate it. I think, I think it was ten bucks to do play by play for a game and five bucks to do color commentary. If you can imagine. Now, this is in the 80s, so adjusted for inflation, that's still nothing. But I, and I've told this story before, I was doing a girls high school basketball game. And you have to understand, and these are small towns in central Illinois. You have to understand that they were sponsored by, you know, Jones Paint Store there in the little town in Illinois, and you know, Jenny's Dress Shop and you know, Hal's Auto Body or whatever. These are small towns and you had to keep them on your side. So you're not going to go like Jim Rome or. Well, this is a golf reference. Johnny Miller famously, as a golf commentator would, would say, that guy's choking, he's hitting bad shot. That was a terrible shot. He was not sunshiny. He would criticize. I couldn't do that at all. So famously, somewhat famously, I was doing a girls basketball game a couple of small towns. And it was. The score at the half was 4 to 2. At the half, one team managed to put the ball in the bucket twice, one team once, and I believe both teams were over their free throws. So the ball had penetrated the hoop a total of three times in a half of basketball. And I'm trying to describe this action without being in the least bit negative and in fact being positive. Oh, that was an excellent effort, but it did not go in the rebound taken down, going up the other way goes, you know, Gerard or whatever little town it was. And oh, there's a miss on the ten footer. The rebound gathered up and Verdon has the ball. And that ball almost went high enough to conceivably go in the rim. You see, the ball would have to be at least higher than the rim to go in. If I understand my physics correctly, the one girl from Gerard who's actually made a basket has the ball. This is exciting. Oh, man. As I recall, the. The offenses really opened up in the second half and it ended up being like 14 to 8 or something like that. I mean, it was a scoring just smorgasbord there and late going. But oh, man, you know what a lot of nice people involved. I like the guys I was working with. I was making a little money. I look back at it kind of fondly, honestly, it wasn't miserable. It was just another challenge. Oh, that's going to be a charge on Johnson against buffalo Meat. Tried to push him off his land, but he wasn't having it uncomfortable.
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Do you guys want to hear the Irish play by play? Oh, yeah. Yeah. I haven't. I don't know what this is. What is this, Michael? This is Irish football league and Irish play by play guys. And their team hasn't been in the finals in 75 years and they're pretty darn excited. Hang on now. What kind of football are we talking about? No, I believe it's regular football in Ireland. There has not been American football in Ireland in seven for 75 years. Not a chance. No. You don't think so? Well, I. I know so. There's. There. There's hardly been American football in America for. No, there's been. But anyway, let's just hear it. I'll bet it's Sock. Whatever. Get it out of there. Get it out of there.
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Go on.
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Get men loose. They have men loose. It's Taylor McBride. It's Taylor McBride. 30 seconds ago. We're 45 yards to the county goal. He's got Tommy Gunner. Tommy Conrad's in for the goal. Tommy Conroy. Oh, my God. Delirium. Five seconds. The family's over. Hit the negro button. One guy sounded like A money python. I thought he said they. They caught one. So it has to be regular football. You can't use your hands in soccer. There's no way they're playing, like, American football in Ireland for 75 years. Well, I don't know. Can't be. And you've taken all the fun out of cheering and everything like that. You've done poorly. All right, announcers are funny. Joe's doing the research now whether they have American football in Ireland and for how long. Do we know the name Football team. That's Gaelic. All right, now I gotta ask, what is Gaelic football? It's a fast paced Irish team sport combining elements of soccer, rugby and basketball, governed by the Gaelic Athletics association, played by two teams of 15 players on a rectangular grass pitch. As I recall, the goal is to score by kicking or punching a round leather ball into the net. Three points are over the crossbar between upright posts. One point. Wow. I never heard of this sport. It sounds kind of fun, but it's a combination of soccer, rugby, and basketball. Yeah, essentially. No, we don't. Yeah, Good one, Michael. You allowed us to learn something today. Thank you. Well, I guess that's it.
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