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Episode Date: March 16, 2022

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It's time to go one-on-one with D.P. Coming at you live from the Coppull Chevrolet GMC Studios. Here is your host, Derek Pearson, presented by Beatrice Bakery, on 937 The Ticket and the Ticketfm.com. Welcome everybody to one-on-one 424-6485, so our hand your text line. On the Liga Hotline, you can join in on the conversation. Rico has made his picks for the women's bracket, and it is Nebraska. He chooses Nebraska to win it all. You guys can go to...

Rico, where do we post said bracket? Posted it on the Twitter. The Twitter. On the at 937 the ticket on Twitter and on our Facebook page. Just search 93.7, the ticket on Facebook. Should be able to find it there. Both places have the link to the group. If you have an ESPN account, you'll log into that.

You'll fill out your bracket. You'll join the group. Max of three entries per person because we- Somebody ruined it. Yeah, we decided to do no max entries and somebody put 25. So I had to make it three for the women's bracket. So I had to limit it to three, unfortunately. This is why we can't have nice things.

There's always somebody that wants to- Although it still has all of his on here. So I don't know if it's like three now. and his stay on there or what? I don't know if it's going to change it. I hope it does. Well, we can fix that after the fact. I don't know if there's a way that I can just kick his out.

I'll keep looking. I'll figure it out. But yeah. Like, we can't, I mean, it's basically, like, why can't do you know. Don't ruin things. Like, there are people that just go and fall into it. Like, just be decent. Yeah, what are you doing, man?

You don't have to do that. As we talked about at the end of the hour, today is a day where there is spring, there's spring training games. All right. The Twins and Red Sox, first pitch, 105. And it's a free game. It'll be on MLB.com. It's free.

And then at 4 o'clock, it's the battle for all of Chicago. One half of the fan base will be snipered off after this loss. Just kidding. They'll let them live. But White Sox Cubs. It's a battle. Nick, are you excited? They'll let them live.

to be sadness. No, the other one, you'll have to wear the other team's jersey. Ooh. If you had to wear a white socks jersey, Nick, whose would it be? Jordan. Tim Anderson? Jordans.

Jordan's 45. Eloy Jimenez. I hate you so much. Why? Because he was a former cub. Or Craig Kimbril. It wouldn't be Jordan. What has to be a current?

Current. It can't be a former. It has to be a current. Yeah, either that. Or rookie year, Jose. What if they forced you to wear Tim Anderson's? It would be cool. I mean, their swag connected with Tim Anderson's. You know what I want?

Now that I think about it. And I am a Jersey guy. Big Jersey guy. Not New Jersey. Jersey's. Well, well, no, I'm a big jersey guy these days. But the white socks and the Cubs back in the day, there was a stretch where everybody went with the powder blue jersey kind of.

Powder blue. Phillies went with it. The white socks were white with red. What? Yes. You don't remember. You guys don't know that. The white socks used to have a, yes, they did.

And there was a, there was a stretch where Dick Allen played for them. And Dick Allen was. Oh, interesting. Oh, aren't they like totally sexy? Yeah. I'm going to look it up. Oh, yeah. And the Cubs went powder blue.

Yep. Ooh, that's pretty nice. I do like the Cubs that have the powder blue with the bear, the bear face. The bear that says Chicago or the bear. The bear is the bear. The bear is the best. The bear is the best. I'm going to go back to a Ryan Sandberg, Cubs jersey.

I once was in possession of a Ferguson Jenkins. Mm-hmm. Cubs jersey. Oh, I love Fergie Jenkins. I did. And then they moved to Texas. And I was like... Powder blue is a very strong jersey color.

Yeah, Phillies have one. The Royals do it. I think they made it one of their regular rotation jerseys now. Because I know the Phillies do. The Phillies powder blue is probably my favorite powder blue baseball jersey. So sexy. It's gorgeous. And also, in a weird way, the brown for the Padres.

I love it. The brown and the yellow works. I'm not mad at the brown Padres jersey. I'm not... Like the old Steve Garvey, Tony Gwyn. Gaylord Perry. Nick is just breaking things in the... It's fine. He's okay.

In the other room. Yeah, I like the brown and gold Padres stuff. Like, I don't know. Like at first, I was like, brown, that's a stupid jersey color. And then after a couple games, I was like, you know what? Yeah, that works. Talking about Padres? Yeah.

Yeah, I like those. What are the best jerseys? You can't say Cubs. Yeah, I don't think it's the Cubs. And it doesn't have to be the jersey that a team currently... Like I have a cream I'll wear it tomorrow A cream

Washington Senators Jersey Which looks like the white socks One that you Oh the Marlins Miami Knights or whatever Whatever whatever they called it last year The bright blue ones

The bright blue ones Oh Those were gorgeous The Astros I like the Astros that say Or that have the Just the blue star Yes those are cool

with the big stripes with the big huge stripes there are people that hate those jerseys I like those but I also I also really liked the Phillies cream ones

the cream ones I don't know how I feel about with the red with the red stripes but the blue lettering I'm not sure how I feel about cream jerseys oh I like

I would be I will bring I'm wearing the Washington senators I my first baseball hero was the Washington Monument. His name was Frank Howard, 6.7, 265-pound masher. Like, it looked like he was holding a toothpick in his hand.

And he ran, he looked like Frankenstein when he ran. Should it be, should it be Jersey tomorrow for, at least this, for the early shows? Well, well, I could be for the only shows because we're not going to be. Because it's out of wings and rings. I don't want to wear a baseball jersey when we're talking basketball. I'm going to wear, it's supposed to be a little bit cooler tomorrow. Uh-huh. I'm breaking out the Baltimore bullets.

jacket tomorrow. Interesting. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, baby. Yeah, baby. We have Chris on the line that has a comment about Cubs and White Sox. Okay.

Hey, Chris. Hey, there. Well, yeah, first off, though, the Pittsburgh Fire at the late 70s pill hats, the best hat ever. So, yes. I love those hats. Nice. But in Chicago, having grown up in the suburbs, you know,

about 11% of the people are White Sox fans, and they hate Cubs fans with a passion. Cubs fans couldn't care less. You can tell the White Sox fans, I mean, they don't have many teeth. They're all messed out. They charge after umpires, relentlessly.

They run on the field and tackle umpires. I've never seen anything like it. It only happens with the White Sox. And they burn records. It's just kind of fun to watch. Yeah, and they burn records. I don't figure out of the White Sox if they win a title. You know, that's great.

I don't hate them. But, yeah, they would never consider anything coming. I mean, they don't want anything bluish around. I mean, they're just dark people. That's why they wear black. That's why they wear black. Thank you, Chris. But also the white socks with the short sleeve, short leg, they wore shorts with their uniforms.

They were short. What was that? They wore, it looked like. I remember this. I don't, well, I don't remember. The sleeveless, was it the reds? No, so they had like the old, nine. 1920s collar.

Oh. With shorts and then the boxed hat. That's weird. Well, it was weird because their knees were showing. You have a collar and knees. Like they were showing. They were showing like knees were showing. And I'm saying if you have a collar to anything,

I don't think your knees should be showing. No, but I mean, that was kind of the way it was, they dressed. I think the Whiteox were the only ones that did it. I don't remember anybody else wearing. the shorts because they still had the stirrups. They had stirrups and shorts. So another jersey that I thought about, the Florida Marlins, the white pinstripe jersey. That just says Marlins across?

Or the one that says. Nice and simple. Because I just remember watching Hanley Ramirez. Yeah. Playing. Devil race. The gray one that said devil race. Back when they actually had a cool name and it wasn't just race.

They're in the market for Freddie Freeman. and they're one of the finalists. Well, they'll have them for, they'll have them for a year and then they'll trade them away because they don't like, Freddie Freeman and Kevin Kirmyer. Good players on their team. DP, what's your,

what's your opinion on Kevin Kiermeier? Yeah. So that looks so, I don't like that at all. I don't like that at all. The high socks. Oh, it was the high socks. Sox of the shorts.

It was the high socks. It was just a neat. And, and, I mean, it was fantastic. Look at Ron Kittle. Like, you could see. Oh. Like, this is how. Too much knee.

No, that's awkward. Powder blue, I'd love the Texas Rangers powder blue. Back in the, and this was early on when they first got a team, they wore powder blue. If I wasn't, it just said Texas. If I didn't early on become a Yankees fan, I think I might have been a Rangers fan. I don't know why. Well, I was a Rangers fan because they were the senators. So when they left D.C. in 70, whatever, what, 72, 73, whatever it was, they were.

they moved straight to Texas. So they took all my heroes. They took all my players. So they took Jeff Burrell, so Jeff Burrell, David Clyde, those are the guys that were the young guys that we were following in D.C. And they were terrible, mind you. They were terrible in D.C. But when they got to Texas, it was like, okay, well, this is who we're going to root for. And David Clyde was a guy that was like a phenom.

He was supposed to be the Strasbourg of the day. Yeah. and he tanked. And he was in Texas. And we felt the pain all the way in D.C. Like we felt it bad. They had Toby Harrah, Jeff Greave. Burles was their home run hitter.

Our superhero with glasses. If that gives you any idea. The Braves with the feather on the sleep. Oh. Like the Hank Aaron. and the Hank Aaron like the flannel joints that the Braves wore back in the day

oh my mercy like my heart flutters oh the one with just the screaming chief on the front oh yeah you can't you can't you can't be like I'm a fan of the gray Arizona Diamondbacks jersey that says Dbacks on the front I don't know why I don't

I haven't been moved it's kind of simple I like Arizona I do like the red Braves jersey. The current one. The red one? That's nice. The red. I know a lot of Braves fans love the red. Yeah.

But I want them to go back to the, to the, well, they're powder blue with the Dale Murphy, Bob Horner powder blues. For the Braves. The Braves? The Braves. Oh, baby. Oh, my goodness gracious. Yes, sir. When did they have that?

Yes, sir. Back in the 70s. Show him. Yeah. Those are, those are sexy. Those aren't bad. Yeah. Those are...

Let me get a look. What's the best like current powder blue? Would it be... It's the Phillies. Would it be the Phillies or the Royals? It's easily the Phillies. Ooh, I easily the Phillies.

The Royals don't do enough with theirs. No, I think, do they only wear it on Sundays? I think, like I said, I think they made it part of their regular rotation now. The Cardinals wore powder blue more than the Royals did. But I can't get behind the Cardinals on anything. Can you see, can you see that? Oh, I've never seen that.

Oh, the Braves. Yeah, the Braves powder blue was fire. I'm trying to think like the Dodgers are state traditional the Yankees are stayed traditional Red Sox have stayed traditional You know what I don't I And this is unpopular with some folks But the Oakland A's vest

The sleeveless vest Were they the ones that were that? I thought the Reds did that The Reds did it like teams the Debecks did it There were seven teams that did it in the 70s The Reds did it pirates Oh my God The Pirates, Roberto Clemente vest.

With the black vest? No, it's a cream vest that they wore with either with black sleeves underneath. Interesting. Oh, so nice. Oh. The Oakland, the Oakland Green. The Oakland Green really pops to me. No, but the Red, the Reggie vest, the sleeveless, because Reggie was like Jack.

massive so reggie would wear like tight sleeves cut of course he did of course he did of course i mean i would too and then they did the yellow sanitaries uh they did it the pardres did it i'm trying to think who did yellow sanatories pirates did it with the black uh with their black uniforms with the black pants which was always interesting to me it was like whatever they the pirates the pirates bucked every trend that they could bucked love the pirates. Is that weird? But the vest, but the vest. Absolutely. Is that weird? Like, so have you seen the Clemente vest? I'm about to look it up. Yeah, it, it's a, I don't know, it just feels like, especially when I was, like, when I was young and jacked, like I would just wear baseball vests.

And it, okay, I do, I do know this one. Yeah, it's, it's from the famous picture. He has a Rico. Oh, that's a vest. I thought that was just a jersey. That's, no, that one. Yeah, that's a vest. Oh. With just sleeves under it. That's nice. D.P., how much do you pay attention to, like, minor league players? I used to be a minor league fanatic.

I am not anymore because it's so crowded. Well, yeah, it's crowded, and they've moved, like I was at Paul Tuckett, Rochester, Columbus, Richmond guy. So I knew all of those players coming up because they said, The VCU, we were the field crew for Richmond Braves. So we knew all the players coming up. We saw everybody before the Major League saw it. And so you imagine that I shared a locker with Brett Butler from the Indians. Like Brett Butler, I was in center field, Brett Butler was the center field.

So we could go out and shack five balls. And that Richmond team, when I was there was Brett Butler, Brooke Jacoby. They end up all being traded to the Indians for Len Barker. The Braves traded for Len Barker who were just throwing an overhitter, and they gave away just a ton of the young talent. But the guys who were on the team, Gerald Perry was at first. Rafino Lanares, who had the big base hit against the Pirates in the World Series, one that clinched the series.

Matt Sinatra, we had Ricky and Mickey Mailer, we had like we had and then and then we would get so we had Del Murphy when Del Murphy was a catcher at six foot four. Del Murphy came up. He came up as a catcher but he couldn't throw. Like he would throw it into center field. And so then they tried to move him and then they moved him to center field and all of a sudden he was a gold glove. So yeah, Terry Harper like that was that was but you followed you knew oh who was the guy for Columbus.

the Yankees Steve Balboni he was a guy that would hit 40 home runs a year for Columbus and then go up to the Yankees and bomb and they kept going back and forth so he'd hit 40 they'd send him up to the Yankees he'd hit 212 they'd send him right back down

he'd come back he hit 40 they'd send him up and they'd send him right back down oh text on said the Huskers have vests if Curtis cable account says the Huskers had vests too for a while Yes. See, so if if anyone, let me say this. I think they were gray. No, they have the white ones.

Oh, they're white. Oh, they're white. To anyone that has a, a, a two X or bigger vest, I want it. I want it now. So did you guys ever? I don't think, did you ever play? Did you guys even wear a vest? We wore vets.

Okay. So I'm old so old that when I was in Little League, we wore flannel. Oh, wow. Yikes. And it was, this is in Virginia. And it was hot. Yeah, that sounds awful. Little League, and Little League, it was terrible.

This was... It was bright idea. Oh, no, well, everybody in Little, if you're old enough, you played in flannel. And it was terrible. Like, it was just terrible. And then the next year, we got, like... We got the... We didn't get cotton.

We got polyester uniforms. Is a vest... Does the vest make it easier to throw? I mean, I don't know if it's... I don't know. It was less restrictive. We had a soft part of table. We wore a vest because it was just less restrictive.

We never wore vest. I mean, this shows my youth. We grew up in the dry fit age when dry fit was huge or just becoming such a big thing. And everybody was freaking out about it because they're like, oh, it's so light. So that's what we always wore. We did have a button up like jersey. Yeah. That was my favorite.

I was just wondering if the vest made it easier to throw. We didn't get buttoned. up until college. I hate it. I like, but it was all we knew. It was all we knew.

We played in pullover. And I didn't like them. I didn't like them. I didn't like polo. But coming from flannel? You'll take anything. Oh. Look,

I'm so old that we had, so we had the traditional sanitaries and socks, right? I was to say, was it stirrups? We had stirrups. But we were the ones that, the first ones that you would take elastic, white elastic, and you would cut the stirrup in half, and then you would sew the white elastic onto whatever the color.

So whatever, that's how you stretched it into the singlet where you had the single bar all the way up. But everybody looks stupid because you had like, so our colors, we had a blue. And then there was the white elastic that you would pull up and start. stretch into your pant leg and our coach was like okay that's really stupid like we're not going to do I'll just we'll figure out then somebody finally made stirrups that go around and yeah yeah so I never was able to handle stirrup like not handle I didn't enjoy stirrups because as a catcher I didn't trip on them I didn't like doing having having stirrups as catcher I just wanted the traditional long pant well you triple and just make it simple I didn't I wasn't a long pan without new savers

Don't ever use knee savers You're not a knee saver guy? No We didn't have the pants The pant leg like the loose bottom We didn't have those We have elastic at the bottom So they were they came

Oh so they were like tied around Either the ankle or you pulled them up Yeah the calf Yeah it was tough Then I would pull it up too Yeah We didn't I pulled it up and then we

Again we used the elastic And then we got to college And they were the first ones That had like the long stirrup Where it was a single stripe up the side and then some genius came along and just made socks with the color stripe in the sock which looks really stupid for whatever reason um but yeah we um like again i we played with wooden bats so aluminum came in when i was the junior junior in high school it's so weird

because like now there's i mean as as a high schooler you looked forward to going to kansas city or Des Moines and playing in woodbat tournaments. And now they're having younger kids going to like playing one woodbat tournament. You prefer wood and over aluminum? It was Louisville slugger Adirondah. I prefer wooden when you are

doing BP or hitting off of a tee. Yeah, that was the it was either Adirondack or a game. If it's in a game then, then yeah, use aluminum. But I keep telling people, if you're old enough to handle a wood bat, handle a wood bat off of BP. Because it just, you're

able to tell contact and and I mean obviously there's little things that you have to do don't hit with the label facing like hit the label facing you well broken bats is exactly is the price you pay yeah and that's usually an inexperienced hitter but also at high level then you get that same sort of thing that happens the aluminum bat i just felt like i could i was king cong with a lumenum bat like i felt like oh my goodness everything jumps off so now now i mean obviously with b b bcour they don't it doesn't feel like that anymore well because what what I loved was the thin handle I love the thin handle and then it was weighted right so you could get a different weight would you were kind of getting what you got weight wise but with aluminum you could get a 34

ounce bat and a 28 ounce weight exactly and I was like like my jam was 34 20 32 29 I could hit all day. Like my bat's speed was always on point. We have a phone call. Eric and Lincoln has a minor league story. Okay. Okay. Eric, what's up? Hey guys. How you doing?

Good. What's up? Good. So a few years ago, I would say five or six years ago, we went down to visit the family in Springfield, Missouri, and we got a chance to go to the Springfield Cardinals, the AAA affiliate of the Cardinals down there. And they were playing the AAA of the Dodgers. The reason why we went was because Matt Carpenter of the Cardinals was actually doing a rehab assignment. And so we went down to steam and all that and we got the VIP experience. Fun little thing about the Springfield Cardinals Stadium is on the third base side, upper deck,

if you pay a little extra, they have a buffet of all you can eat hot dogs, nachos, and oatmeal cream pies, which was probably the best concessions experience I've ever had. the ballpark. So if you're ever in the Springfield area, I recommend going down there. And then kind of a fun little thing is about four or five years later, I was looking at the scorecard just randomly and saw that Bellinger and Turner of the Dodgers were actually playing there. So if you ever go to a minor league game, save that scorecard because you never know what All-Stars might be able to see. So that's just my experience, and I thought you guys might enjoy that. Thank you. Good stuff. Good stuff. The Springfield Cardinals have a

really cool powder blue uniform. Do they? Yes. That's where, we'll toward the break. We'll come back. That part of the minor league deal was just seeing guys, I saw Bobby Benia, Barry Bonds when they were young. I saw, I saw Albert Pooleholz play in Princeville in Woodbridge, Virginia back when he was a rookie.

But I want to talk about Jersey. It's getting into state, but we're going to go Negro leagues. Okay. We'll go Negro leagues when we come back. Download our app by searching. 93.7 the ticket in your app store. You're listening to one-on-one with DP on 937 the ticket and the ticketfm.com.