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This is the Weekly Scramble,

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a place where we chat about life over

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a cold one or two. It's

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time to belly up to the pod with

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Mike Fradlone and your host, Chris Revers.

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Yes, sir. It's time for the Weekly

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Scramble. My name is Chris Revers. By

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my side, his name is Mike Fradlone

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with Fradlone's Hardware and Garden Store. Hello,

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Michael. How you doing, Revers? I'm

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good. In my disclosure, we did have a show

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last week that you and I had previously recorded,

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so we were both out of town on vacation with

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our families over the week. So,

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I got to tell you something. You

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were right. I

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think I'm right about a lot of things,

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but what was I specifically right about this

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thing? Well, okay. So, I have always contended

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that I like to travel a certain way

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because I like seeing the country.

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Americana. Being on the open road with

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nothing but time to kill. I do

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enjoy it. To

1:01

a certain extent. So, the drive was

1:03

taxing, is what you're saying? Well, the

1:06

drive down, for the first time, I

1:08

was accompanied by my beautiful wife and

1:10

my sons. Awesome. First

1:12

time. We've ever done it that way. It was because the

1:14

boys had always wanted a road trip with me. That

1:17

went great. We did GarageLogic on

1:19

Friday afternoon. I hightailed at

1:21

home, picked them up, and we hit the road. We

1:24

got all the way down to Topeka,

1:26

Kansas. A couple

1:29

of quick stories. My wife is

1:31

really, really bad at booking hotels. Okay.

1:34

Things like that. It's because it's

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not that she's deliberately trying to find somewhere

1:39

seedy. It's just that she

1:41

doesn't really do a ton of research. She's only

1:43

looking for, okay, does it have a gym? Does

1:46

it have a pool? Is

1:48

there breakfast included? Just typical mom things that

1:51

you're looking for. So,

1:53

she says, well, hey, I found a place. It's

1:55

not too terribly expensive because we rolled into town

1:57

at about 10 o'clock at night. place.

2:01

So when I'm hungry, you know, the boys, we

2:03

were eating on the way down, but I don't eat because once I eat,

2:06

I get tired and I don't want to get tired when I'm behind the

2:08

wheel. I was going to wait till we get there. And

2:11

I had a chuckle because as we pulled into

2:13

the parking lot, there just so happened to be

2:15

a restaurant right

2:17

next door. Okay. Hooters.

2:20

Hooters. Not even

2:22

next door, Mike. They shared the

2:25

same parking lot. Maybe

2:27

your wife's an angel for picking that place. Could

2:29

be. Yeah. Um, to the point where, um, the

2:33

youngest one says, well, do

2:35

they serve owl? Like, well, I don't understand

2:37

because, you know, they're the giant owl. No,

2:39

that's not really what, what, what, what they

2:41

serve their buddy. It's chicken wings and things

2:43

like that. Oh, okay. And we go

2:45

in and check in. Sorry. Um,

2:47

did not take him there. God, no,

2:49

I mean, are you kidding me? Who have you ever

2:52

been to a Hooters? They're

2:54

the most benign nothing. Right.

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They're nothing. I know. But that point has to

2:58

learn. We're all because we've got a long day,

3:00

the next day on the road. So it was,

3:03

we just, we're here to take

3:05

a shower, crash and get up and get back on

3:07

the road as soon as possible. The next morning, I

3:09

think I took my nephew to a Hooters and he

3:11

was real young. He was like eight years old and

3:14

the waitress came over and he said, Hey, you want to

3:16

see something cool? I thought, Oh, what's going to be, got

3:18

down and started doing pushups. I thought, ladies

3:21

and gentlemen, I think my nephew might be straight because

3:25

it was like, uh, how do I

3:27

impress this girl? I'm going to do some

3:29

pushups. I know. I'll do

3:31

some pushups. Oh my God. There you go,

3:33

buddy. You already get how to pick up girls.

3:36

Was that the one at the wall of America? Uh, no,

3:38

this was a different one. I'm forgetting where. Yeah. I must've

3:40

been the mall of America. Yeah. This was years ago. Okay.

3:42

It was pretty darn funny, but that's down on the ground

3:44

and say, I'm going to do push up

3:46

to show her what I got. I was like, you

3:48

go, you go. So we continue

3:50

on and we, we do the, we got to

3:52

do the four corners, which was very, very cool.

3:55

It was really windy and cold though. That day.

3:57

So it was, it was pretty tough.

4:00

standing there, you know, just getting the photo and things

4:02

like that. Yeah, pushing you out of Nevada or what?

4:04

Well, each one of us picked a state. I think

4:06

I got stuck with New Mexico. But it was kind

4:08

of neat to say we did that, you know, and

4:10

then we get back in and then we stood on

4:12

the corner, Winslow, Arizona. Oh, wow. We do

4:14

that. That's a fine side I heard. Yeah, exactly. I

4:17

get to buy a t-shirt for $30. And

4:19

then we finally get to our destination. We get

4:22

checked into the house. We rent it. Everything

4:25

was great. Yeah,

4:29

I'll save part of that for later. So

4:32

then we go to not one, not

4:35

two. Oh, no. But three baseball

4:37

games, Michael. And one was a college baseball game.

4:39

And you know whose idea that that was? It

4:42

can't be your wife. It was my wife's

4:44

idea. Why? What

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is she? I think she's playing the long game here.

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Okay. I think she's trying to

4:51

show them. Isn't this a

4:53

great place to come and watch games?

4:55

Maybe you should move down here. Because

4:57

my wife hates winter with a bloody

4:59

pattern. She hates winter. So I think

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she's playing the long game. You're trying

5:03

to set this up like you guys should move down. I

5:06

have a place to go to come visit. So

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I think that's what it was. And the boys all wanted to

5:11

go to these three games? Oh, it was a blast. We had

5:13

a good time. Yeah, but let me re- I didn't ask if

5:15

they had a good time. I asked did

5:17

they want to go to the games. They did? Oh,

5:19

for sure. I got bummed that

5:22

we didn't get to Phoenix soon

5:24

enough on Sunday to attend a

5:27

spring training game on Sunday. Because we didn't pull

5:29

into town until about 7 o'clock Sunday night. 6

5:32

or 7 o'clock in that area on

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Sunday night. You're giving me that look. That

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is really sweet. I did not go

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to any baseball game. Because you were in Florida. I was in

5:40

Florida. I did not. But on my

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flight back, and this is kind of weird for me

5:45

to talk about, but I'm going to talk about it

5:47

anyways. Because I saw a local Minnesota hero, Joe Maurer,

5:49

on our flight home. Oh, you're kidding. Okay. Because

5:52

he has a place in Fort Myers, right? Yeah, he does. And

5:54

I don't know where, but down there someplace. And

5:57

He sat two rows in front of me on

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the flight. In Comfort class.

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And so I'm frugal. I.

6:05

Was income for glass or my wife was uncover.

6:07

Plus my kids are way back in the plane.

6:10

I had no idea sexism place cells are they

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are going to I saw that want on like

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don't even technically it's I got to be for

6:16

them to they weren't in my class to get

6:19

in right? so they.on and they're old enough that

6:21

they can do that by themselves. But I was

6:23

weirdly proud of Joe. That.

6:26

He didn't like he didn't take a fifty thousand

6:28

dollar flight in a private jet down there. right?

6:31

And you had said that, he's pretty frugal.

6:34

And. I and the I find that

6:36

so refreshing and I'm so excited for

6:39

him that he's doing that. and he

6:41

is incredibly philanthropic. You know that road

6:43

for sure later. But. I would

6:45

like see as a D H as the

6:47

Joe Mauer Field House right So shows a

6:49

young man and he gave them money for

6:52

the Joe Mauer feel how so a green

6:54

Durham Hall he does I am my kids

6:56

good antibody and he gives like a fifteen

6:58

thousand dollar prize way for nativity for a

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charity or tools and I I thought well

7:02

maybe he's. See. To meet

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for five hundred million bucks Play baseball? Ah

7:07

well. because that but said it it would

7:09

have been a lottery. Stuff like that Outdoorsy

7:11

make his and all. I first tried to

7:13

I meet. Let's say let's say. Three

7:16

hundred million dollars? Well, that's enough to

7:18

be able to fly first class no

7:21

matter what their rights and or private.

7:23

Because that's plenty of money private. I

7:25

was so excited to see him on

7:27

the flight. Hours a lot

7:30

with. This is an example of an

7:32

athlete that every person would want their

7:34

kid to become That athlete he's got

7:36

a beautiful family, is super generous like

7:38

incredibly so you don't worry about him

7:40

off the field at all. not at

7:42

the about that. Steve looks like just

7:44

ear. Proud Dad edges a nice

7:46

guy is a blue collar guy from say

7:49

Pop and how close That's right and I

7:51

was just as I saw him and I

7:53

said i said hey Joe congratulations on your

7:55

Hollis entrance like that was so cool. They

7:57

said it, it must be a big deal.

8:00

You can. I felt like it was a big

8:02

deal to me fss and I'd assume for you

8:04

it was even more than I sell it for

8:06

and I really did disease it a hometown hero

8:08

and is just such a nice guy. but I

8:10

was. I was just like I but I think

8:12

I was more impressed is very impressive that he

8:15

made the whole same but I was more impressed

8:17

that he's not a moron with and seventy nine

8:19

million dollar Jed that he drives. Attorneys who are

8:21

my bike is there are athletes that will do

8:23

that every blow. Their money that blow their money

8:25

on a job will be able to give generously

8:28

like he's been doing his wife or his majesty.

8:30

Oh it's young and his family give generously

8:32

for life times if he keeps doing what

8:34

he's doing and it's just super super cool

8:36

I was that was my cool claim to

8:39

fame on and then I saw i'm oh

8:41

you know wells I saw a crap we

8:43

were just talking about him couple shows ago.

8:45

You're saying they a guy had a me

8:48

too movement or something where he said that

8:50

the wrong and he had a starter are

8:52

gambling thing is an older I'm he's an

8:54

older Louis Ck known on an ohm he

8:57

Okay oh wait one second Minnesota connection. No

8:59

not Minnesota. Not Marv

9:01

Albert, but somebody like Marv Albert.

9:04

That. Etc. Then he went into the

9:06

gambling world. He started again and must heard or

9:08

read most burger he lives by my parents down

9:11

there. You're kidding We? are you? That bull's eye

9:13

water? The chance of that we just talked about.

9:15

I'm. Literally. On our little under the

9:17

show Maybe. and then he was right There Are likely

9:19

to introduce them to the podcast. I know I didn't

9:21

say we just talked about you and your to. They

9:23

could remember if he had a me too movement or

9:25

if he said something lol. No, it wasn't really a

9:27

excuse. Me

9:30

it was it roughness sir that he just get

9:32

kind of got a little pervy on our age,

9:34

immature and scarves fiancee now weiss armed at the

9:36

national championship for I was an awesome is I

9:38

did the gossiping the others probably most but some

9:40

people made made a big deal about yeah so

9:42

but he was there and he looks like he

9:44

was doing well as all family was there were

9:46

also now my the pool dollars funding as one

9:48

of those as I do want to take a

9:50

picture of I'm Nicole said you want to go

9:52

get a pitcher with a and it's a reverse

9:54

why not. i don't care of

9:56

money off of like i don't know it's

9:58

a pillar of magazine cover Okay, so

10:00

let me let me explain to you down where

10:02

this is where I went on the

10:04

storm came right through Naples Oh, yeah, and so everything

10:07

got destroyed Well, there's a bunch of houses down there

10:09

and I don't live in one of those houses down

10:11

there I live in the condos down the way right

10:13

and my the only reason I have one of those

10:15

was cuz my parents gave it to Me right they

10:17

they they own them and and we get to stay

10:19

in one of their places super generous of my parents

10:22

Right, they don't technically give it to us. But you

10:24

know what I mean, right? We can use it It's

10:26

a family thing. And so these

10:28

houses that were One-point-time in

10:30

1990 they were five hundred thousand then they

10:32

decided to be two and a half million

10:34

and then when they got to two and

10:36

a half Million everybody knocked them down and

10:38

built seven a half million dollar houses And

10:41

then the seven and a half million

10:43

dollar houses lasted to about two thousand and

10:45

then someone said well We really need fifteen

10:47

million dollar houses here So now they're all

10:49

fifteen million dollars then the storm came and

10:51

the storm whipped half of them had enough

10:53

damage that the people said Let's

10:56

knock this one over because now we have the

10:58

storm damage and let's build a new one Someone's

11:00

building a forty five million dollar house

11:02

on the beach in

11:04

Benita Springs Wow And

11:06

I'm looking at it. I'm like what? Who

11:10

has and this is not like a city block

11:12

long like, you know a block by block of

11:14

beach This is your next-door neighbor.

11:17

You could throw a newspaper to and hit

11:19

right? I mean you are right next to

11:21

another house I thought who

11:24

who is that guy who's building a 45

11:26

million dollar house? And it's two houses with

11:28

this skyway to it and his mother-in-law is

11:31

gonna have half Oh God his wife are

11:33

gonna have the other half and I don't

11:35

know who it is I am sure I

11:37

could find out because everyone down there's from

11:39

Minnesota everyone down there Sure, Minnesota, and I

11:42

just think I'm really excited to see who

11:44

that is, but it's funny in my lifetime, right?

11:46

I was I'm longer than my lifetime

11:48

But my memory of like in college from 1991

11:50

when we first started going down there the

11:52

houses have like Regenerated themselves over

11:55

and over they just keep knocking them down

11:57

knocking them down knocking them down and I

11:59

remember my dad and I looking at one of

12:01

the houses I'm like a million dollars who would spend

12:03

a million dollars to be on the beach and Now

12:06

that house it's been ripped down

12:08

twice or three times. Sure. Just the property's worth

12:11

six million dollars or whatever I'm like, what is

12:13

going on? They don't make more

12:16

beachfront property FYI Well, that's just it and

12:18

that's part of what I was gonna bring

12:20

up is the fact that The

12:22

last time I was in Arizona was about

12:24

six years ago My wife does she

12:27

works for Park Nicklin and they do a conference down there

12:29

So I've been able to tag along a couple of times

12:32

and I remember just the drastic change between

12:35

That time and now where I

12:37

am NOT kidding that I did a

12:39

lot of driving. Yeah, you can't go Two

12:42

miles. It's just like Florida in areas that

12:44

you cannot go without seeing another. Oh, they're

12:46

building another place Freaking

12:49

believable and it's not I mean because

12:52

I was meaning I met

12:54

up with my buddy Troy who's happens to be

12:56

a huge listener to the show and And

12:59

he was told me that when they when he and his

13:01

wife moved down there He's he's a firm of Minnesota guy

13:03

when he and his wife moved down there about two and

13:05

a half years ago They

13:07

couldn't even put a bid in on a place

13:09

because if you want like a property if you

13:11

want a house Well, good luck

13:13

to you because you're gonna get outbid before you even

13:16

think about going to look at the place level and

13:18

make a bid I don't know. Yeah, and so and

13:20

that will obviously 2022 the Housing

13:24

market was on fire back then but

13:26

it's still somewhat the case now because

13:28

that's why all these condo buildings and

13:30

and What do we call those?

13:32

It's um? Low maintenance living, you

13:34

know where you don't have to worry about well,

13:36

nothing outside. Yeah, so it's a lot of those that are

13:39

being built And throw it up. It's like my god We

13:43

bought all of our trips. We could not believe how many we

13:45

saw it was You can

13:47

just keep growing out right? Yeah, there's no

13:49

line of water that stops you from growing

13:51

out true But in this Fort

13:53

Myers Benita Springs Naples area you you can

13:55

go to the middle of the state right?

13:57

You can go away from the coast and

13:59

ever Everything's going out from the coast where

14:01

they're just building brand new these housing developments

14:04

in these communities. And

14:07

it's really cool, but I'm going to tell you, I

14:09

really enjoy it down there. I've been going down there

14:11

pretty much all my life. But you're ready to come

14:13

home. But it is driving, and driving can take 10

14:15

minutes or an hour and 10 minutes to go to

14:17

the same distance, depending on what time you leave. The

14:20

only nice part is, I

14:22

like to usually eat a little early, but we

14:24

said, hey, let's eat at 7.30 or

14:26

8 o'clock, and the restaurants are

14:28

empty by 7.30. Someone

14:32

starts eating at 4.30, another group comes in at 5.30,

14:34

and then by 6.37, everyone's gone.

14:38

So you have pick of the litter with all the restaurants, and

14:40

you can drive back and forth. Everyone's in bed by 8.15. I

14:42

mean, I get it, right? If you have nothing to do and

14:44

you're just kind of waiting to go to dinner, you go to

14:46

dinner at 5 o'clock. You don't want to wait till 8 o'clock

14:49

to go to dinner. But you do have to get

14:51

adjusted to that. It's something

14:53

about traffic. It just drives me bonkers. Speaking

14:57

of that, that was the other part where

14:59

I was going to say, so basically, the

15:01

extent of your spring training baseball activity was

15:03

you meeting Joe Maurer on the airplane. That's

15:06

right. And just me just beaming in

15:08

pride of what an impressive Minnesota he is, right?

15:10

Just a guy that I just want my kids

15:12

to know and what a great... Everybody's

15:16

cool. They're just so impressive. So

15:20

you were right. What was I? You were.

15:23

I set forth to come back

15:26

to the great over-tax state of

15:28

Minnesota Friday morning. I

15:31

drop off Jess and the boys at the airport.

15:34

They drove down with you, but they flew

15:36

home. Correct. Because that was enough

15:38

for them. The one drive down. Then we went to

15:40

it. We did a couple of excursions.

15:44

We got to go see the

15:46

man-made lake in Phoenix.

15:48

It's huge and it's very, very cool. And

15:51

there's a lot of hiking trails. Do

15:53

you see the automotive barnyard thing that

15:55

you are going to drive by that

15:57

where the trucks are planted in the

15:59

ground in Kansas? I was gonna,

16:02

but when we drove through there, because when we

16:04

drove by it, it was dark. So

16:06

it was kind of like, we could stop, but I don't

16:08

really want to stop. I did think about it though, I

16:10

really did. So coming back, we had

16:13

to check out of the house by noon and

16:16

their flight was at 9.45 in the

16:18

morning. So

16:20

I had to get them to the airport by about 7.30, whatever,

16:24

and Phoenix traffic in the morning is god awful.

16:26

Afternoon's it's not too bad, but in the morning

16:28

it's really bad. We

16:30

got up, got in the car, got

16:33

into the airport, get back to the house by eight

16:36

o'clock or whatever it was. So

16:38

then I begin the process of packing all the S

16:40

up. We gotta pack everything up, we gotta pack the

16:42

truck, and I want to pack in a certain way

16:44

where I can grab stuff as I need to, because

16:47

I need to spend the night on my way back. So

16:50

I'm packing up the food, I'm packing up this, I'm packing

16:52

up that. I finally hit the road at

16:54

about 10.30 Friday morning. My

16:57

goal was to get to

16:59

Salt Lake City by Friday

17:01

night, because I thought, well,

17:03

if I do that, I think I

17:05

can get all the way back home the

17:07

next day, getting in late. That was my

17:10

plan. Is that the most direct route? That

17:12

seems like a, so you went from,

17:14

I mean, I'm just trying to picture it. You went straight

17:16

north. Straight north, there's no somewhat angled off

17:18

road that you can get. There's two different ways

17:20

you can go. You can either go through, like

17:22

when we came down, we did the southern route

17:24

through New Mexico, and that way,

17:27

and that took a little bit longer, but we weren't in

17:29

a hurry. But the way back, you

17:31

can go through Salt Lake City, and then through

17:33

Wyoming, and why not, or you can go through

17:36

Colorado, well, they were gonna get snow. Oh, okay.

17:38

And so I didn't wanna do that, and risk

17:40

the chance of getting caught

17:43

in the Rocky Mountains and the snowstorm. That was

17:45

like the worst possible scenario. Sure. So

17:48

I'm looking at the map before I leave, and I think, well,

17:50

there's two routes I can take to Salt Lake City. One

17:53

is the direct route through Flagstaff, which

17:56

we somewhat came down that way, and

17:58

driving through the mountains, they got snow. on our

18:00

way down and it was little harrowing at times. And

18:03

so I already did that. I want to go the other way. So I wanted

18:05

to do the other

18:07

route which clipped the southern

18:09

tip of Nevada and then shot

18:11

straight up towards Salt Lake City.

18:14

Okay. All right, we're going to go.

18:16

We're going to do it. That'd be

18:18

great. Three-lane highway gets reduced to one

18:20

lane about an hour and ten

18:22

minutes in because of a car accident. Oh

18:24

no. And I don't know if you

18:26

know this, but you're bleeped because

18:29

there's no other route. This

18:33

is the way. So that kind of

18:35

sent me back a little bit. I barely got

18:37

to Utah Friday night. Utah

18:40

is a big state. Yeah, it takes a long time to get through. And

18:43

so I checked in at some Podunk

18:47

Motel 6 in

18:49

the middle of freaking nowhere to

18:51

the point where I didn't even want to

18:53

shower when I got there because I just

18:55

thought, ech. You just laid

18:58

on top of the cover. Exactly. That's

19:00

exactly what I did. I'm watching the college basketball game

19:02

going, I'm just going to nod off for

19:04

a few hours and I'm getting the hell out of here

19:06

as soon as I can. So then

19:09

I get in, we get through Utah and

19:11

of course I hit

19:13

a snowstorm on Saturday. And

19:15

I'm thinking, okay, well, what am I going to do

19:17

here? So I end up, I'm going through Utah

19:20

and then I'm kind of going through Wyoming and I'm

19:22

not going, you know, it's a 70 or

19:24

80 mile an hour speed limit, but I'm going 62 because the

19:28

weather's lousy. And I

19:30

barely get to South Dakota. I mean, rapid, I'm

19:32

like, I get it. I've been in

19:34

the car for 13 hours. I'm exhausted.

19:36

Oh no. The only cool thing

19:39

was I did end up making it to Wahl where

19:41

my wife went to high school. So I ended up

19:43

there maybe. I stayed at

19:45

her best friend's family's hotel

19:49

that they own in Wahl. So I got to

19:51

stay there. That was kind of cool. But

19:54

by God, by the time I got home, I was

19:56

done. I said, I'm never doing this again. I'm going

19:59

to travel like a normal. normal person from here

20:01

on out. Yeah. I

20:03

just, you were right. Yeah, I need to stop traveling

20:05

that way. You know, don't give up. Don't

20:08

give up. So? Because you've

20:10

been, just think of all the times you had a

20:12

great time doing it, right? So that's

20:14

one out of 20 that was sour.

20:16

That's true. That's true. So it's like 5% sour,

20:18

95% sweet. And you know, again, all

20:20

of those little, I got to do the Hoover Dam.

20:23

Yep. Which is cool. Yep.

20:26

And I still don't for the life of me realize. How

20:29

big it is? Well, not only that, but there

20:32

are people who do the overlook

20:34

on the bridge way up there where the

20:36

freeways I'm thinking, I'm getting

20:38

nervous watching them up there. I can't even

20:40

imagine being up on that overlook looking

20:43

down on everything. I would, what are you

20:45

nervous about? Do you know how far up

20:47

in the air that that is looking down

20:49

at the, at the, where we are, where the

20:51

Hoover Dam is? And? Oh

20:53

God. I just, well, see,

20:55

I think people who are afraid of heights fear that

20:57

they're going to jump. I

21:00

like looking, I'm getting jittery thinking about it now. I never

21:02

would think about it at all. Yeah. I

21:04

just, anyway, that's really funny. But I can tell you

21:06

one thing. One thing

21:08

that saved me. Let's see. This would have

21:10

been. Podcasts. No, this would have been that

21:12

too. But this would have been Saturday

21:15

night in the beautiful metropolis

21:17

known as wall, South Dakota. And

21:20

that was my bottle of harmony spirits. It's

21:22

all I kept thinking about. We'd

21:24

like to welcome harmony spirits back in the

21:26

fold here on the weekly scramble podcast. They've

21:28

been with us. God, how many

21:30

years now has it has harmony been with us? It's you. It's

21:33

been, it's been a while, but they are back

21:35

and you know what? It's going to be great

21:38

to be working with these guys once again, harmony

21:40

spirits.net. That is their website. And if you go

21:42

to their website, you can see

21:44

all sorts of tastings and all sorts of cool

21:46

events that they have tied in. I know they

21:48

do really cool car shows down there at their

21:50

tasting room in harmony, Minnesota, and

21:53

they do make wonderful handcrafted spirits right here

21:55

in the great state of Minnesota. And

21:57

I got to tell you, the bourbon got me

21:59

through. Saturday night. I'm just gonna tell you that

22:01

right now. Because that was the one thing, right? You can

22:03

be like looking forward to, okay, this

22:05

is harrowing and this is everything, but I'm gonna

22:08

get checked in, I'm gonna put on college

22:10

basketball, and I'm gonna pour myself a nice

22:12

tall, maybe two cubes, maybe two cubes of

22:14

my bourbon. But I'm looking forward to

22:16

it. I know Mike is as well with our

22:18

continued relationship with our friends at Harmony Spirits.

22:21

You can also visit their Twitter account or

22:23

X as we like to call it now,

22:25

at Harmony Spirits on social media. But do

22:27

this for me, please go into your local

22:29

liquor store and ask for their Harmony brand

22:32

by name because I don't think that people

22:34

realize just how big of a voice that

22:36

they have when it comes to things

22:38

like that. So please do us a favor and ask

22:40

for their Harmony brand by name. We would really

22:42

appreciate it. So I

22:44

neglected to bring this up yesterday

22:47

on Monday Night Sports Talk, but you know what? I'm almost

22:49

glad I did forget. Really? Because you know

22:51

what happened over the weekend. You know

22:53

what? I've been so out of it. I haven't. And I

22:56

have to a certain extent too, and it almost bums me

22:58

out that I wasn't able to watch most of this in

23:00

real time. But my school, Minnesota

23:03

State Mankato, became history

23:06

makers over the weekend. Do you know this?

23:08

No. They not only won

23:10

the Division 2 National Championship in

23:13

men's basketball. Okay. They won

23:15

the Division 2 National Championship in women's

23:17

basketball. Really? Only the second time in

23:20

the history of college basketball that that's

23:22

ever been done. I think I saw

23:24

them. Was it a last-minute

23:26

shot that he made? Yeah. Yeah. What a

23:28

great shot. In fact, what makes it even

23:30

better is the one kid

23:33

that passed it to the other kid,

23:35

their brothers. Their brothers

23:37

from Waseca, Minnesota. You're kidding. I'm

23:39

not kidding. And they're both unbelievably

23:41

good. It's cool because I

23:44

had the chance to go to three games,

23:46

four games this year, three or four games

23:49

this year. And it's because

23:51

again, when I was in school, yeah, they had

23:53

a basketball team, but they weren't, they were okay.

23:55

We would maybe go to a game here and

23:57

there, but they've become like, when I

23:59

went to the because Glen Taylor built them the

24:01

Taylor Center, which is right on campus. And

24:04

it's really, if you get the chance

24:06

next year, and you're, and if

24:08

you've got a kid that's a basketball fan, take

24:10

them to a game there. And I'm telling you

24:12

why it's worth it. It's a beautiful arena. You

24:15

get to sit really close to the action

24:18

and you're taking your kid for five

24:20

bucks. Yeah. It's nothing. And

24:22

it's, it's really good basketball. But

24:24

it was so cool to see. And I know

24:26

they had a, I think they had

24:28

scheduled a parade, but because of the weather, I

24:31

think they did everything indoors instead right

24:33

there on campus. What? Yesterday

24:35

it was, it was pouring in Mankato. Oh,

24:38

it was. Rain and not snow. Yeah. So

24:41

they decided to move everything indoors. So I saw some

24:43

of the clips and footage and things that were circulating

24:45

on social media, but it was, it

24:47

was cool to see like, Oh yeah, I

24:49

went to school there. Sure. And

24:51

to see them being put on like the national

24:53

stage was pretty freaking cool. The girls game, uh,

24:55

close or did they do the girls game? Wasn't

24:58

as close as the boys. I think they won

25:00

by six, but they had

25:02

a couple of close games leading up to

25:04

the champion game. I can't

25:06

remember. Did you see what a dink

25:09

thing for no, but it was just a

25:11

joke. Actually I've watched more female college

25:13

basketball than men's college basketball. Got suckered in

25:15

last night. Didn't I got suckered into everything?

25:18

Yeah. All Caitlin Clark. That's all

25:20

I could tell. Okay. And

25:22

park all the time. Yeah. Is there

25:24

a nickname? I thought it was,

25:26

I don't know, white chocolate. It was something really

25:28

cool. It was, it was super cool like that.

25:30

It was super smooth. Well, the neatest thing she

25:32

did, I thought was, did you see after the

25:35

game where they're huddling? Yeah, we're going back to

25:37

the final four and she has the game ball.

25:39

Caitlin Clark has the game ball and

25:42

she passes it to her brother in

25:44

the stance. Oh really? And

25:47

absolutely drills him in the chest. Just perfectly

25:49

a perfect pass from it had to have

25:51

been a hundred feet away. I really enjoyed

25:53

when the dad, when she was complaining and

25:55

the dad told her to shut up. Oh

25:57

yeah. It's like, Oh yeah. That's

25:59

pretty like. So I mean. Sea

26:02

is. Revolutionizing.

26:05

Room: Women: Sports. People. Are pain

26:07

a ton of attention to her and rightfully

26:09

so. Nothing's cooler than walking across mid court

26:11

and saying i get a real chance of

26:13

making a three years I'm just gonna go

26:15

and tax credit check for it. I read

26:17

your legs as you know in my lifetime

26:19

thrown a bunch balls in from half court

26:21

like plan around but I don't think ever

26:23

in a game scenario have I'm ever made

26:25

a three point. I hadn't slept all this

26:28

as I played his even his backyard ever

26:30

be I did number like in the game

26:32

I've never actually made one for me. I'm

26:34

when she's make them from near half court

26:36

with complete. Impunity where she's like I'm doing as

26:38

I don't care what you do see, the is

26:40

just the difference and Emmett, you can even see

26:42

it not to bring it back to. The

26:45

trip You can even see it when you're

26:47

watching different levels of guys playing spring training.

26:49

Base bomb that will discuss. Got no shah

26:52

sir he says here cause he's a body

26:54

the of oh my god isn't that sad?

26:56

I forgot to tell you one of the

26:58

craziest stories. So. We're at.

27:00

I know, I know, we're at the Brewers

27:02

Rocky Spring Training game. I admire as as

27:04

know my goodness and so. On.

27:07

Earth is ah, the spectrum my son's that we

27:09

get our pictures taken with the line up on

27:12

the Milwaukee Sausages. And. Did not see if

27:14

they had a sausage race like they always do it.

27:16

The bird games wasn't a festival. Internal they

27:18

are they in that it's seventh inning and

27:20

the five sausages race against each other and

27:22

sense of and so. We. Said hey

27:24

number for be old we were. We're here to

27:27

celebrate. I'm a firm or line up with all

27:29

of and I'll buy a bunch of kids, look

27:31

at it, get in the picture with them to

27:33

and number Five commented on my photo on twitter

27:35

and saying hey I got screwed was literati. our

27:37

guy. that's not what I want to see Me.

27:40

Are getting settled in and I bought us

27:42

law and seats because my wife loves to

27:44

just sit on the ground in the sunshine

27:47

and doesn't care what the score as he

27:49

just wants to be at the ballpark rain.

27:51

So they so the grass and I was

27:53

trying to be really careful what not getting

27:55

fried the first day. they are them. So

27:57

I'm standing about. Thirty. feet

27:59

away from them under the canopy of

28:03

the stadium, the grandstand. And so

28:06

I'm standing there and right next to me are

28:08

two women. One's

28:10

in a wheelchair, she's probably 90, and then

28:12

another woman who was a little bit younger

28:14

but had the walker. So they're

28:17

sitting in that wheelchair

28:19

accessible area. That's kind of

28:21

fenced in area. Correct. And

28:24

next to them was, I'm assuming, one of

28:26

their sons, who was probably in his early

28:28

mid-90s. And they were super sweet.

28:31

They had their brewer shirts on. And

28:34

we were down the third baseline. And

28:36

keep in mind, when you're in a spring training game,

28:39

you're close to the X, right? Yeah, yeah, you're really

28:41

close. And I've been in a ballpark every day of

28:43

my life, essentially. So I know to always, you got

28:45

to watch the batter. You got to pay attention. You

28:47

got to pay attention. You got to watch the batter.

28:49

So we're down the third baseline, and left-handed hitter Jake

28:51

Cave for the Rockies, former twin is up to bat.

28:54

And he kind of slaps at a fastball

28:56

to just try to fight

28:59

off strike three. And

29:01

this thing is screaming right for

29:03

us. Really? Because I'm standing right

29:05

next to these three people. To the

29:07

point where I can tell in a

29:10

split second, like, one of them is

29:12

going to die. Yeah, if I don't catch this, I'm going to

29:14

say yeah. Well, and I'm behind them. Yeah, okay. So

29:17

I scream heads up. And

29:21

in front of them, in a seat, is some 34-year-old guy who

29:23

is not sober. Okay.

29:30

And thank God he wasn't, because he stood

29:32

up like, I'm going to catch it. And

29:35

it ricocheted off of his

29:37

bare hand, preventing it from

29:40

hitting and killing, potentially killing

29:42

this elderly woman. And

29:44

it rocketed off of his hand,

29:48

and it went down

29:50

the aisle in some cases. But this guy saved

29:52

this woman's life, and I am not

29:54

exaggerating. Isn't that nice? Because it would

29:57

have really done some damage. I'm

29:59

fearful. I think you would have seen that and she would

30:01

have died you would have never been able to go

30:04

to another baseball ever And ever again would have totally

30:06

dampened all the next two games that I plan to

30:08

go to into a Brewers What what game brews Rockies

30:10

and then what other game did you go to so

30:12

that that was Monday Mike and then on Tuesday? The

30:15

Diamondbacks played at their own stadium Which was really

30:17

neat because I did want to go to their

30:19

stadium as long as we were down there and

30:22

they hosted an exhibition game against

30:24

Cleveland So we did and we got

30:27

Decent seats at a fairly low price the

30:29

problem is they're selling their concessions for the exact

30:31

same Sure, there was a lot of other beers a

30:33

12 dollar beer Did you

30:35

um are do you have a do you have

30:37

a scorecard there? And are you keeping score are

30:39

you keeping like you know that guy got a

30:41

bunt? I don't mean you're doing that

30:43

I would be the sweetest thing in the world

30:45

because I I want to show my Sons how

30:47

to do the book okay? And they've been around

30:49

the game enough to know Kind

30:51

of how to score certain things because my

30:54

little guy my nine-year-old He's all

30:56

about like the numbers in the math and all

30:58

that Yeah So he loves because he helps to

31:00

do the book for his older brothers team Okay, when

31:02

he tags along sure and I think that that's just

31:04

good for him to learn How do you sit down

31:06

and look at the book you

31:08

say oh, I remember when that guy sure wanted

31:10

Oh sure and and stole home and because you

31:12

can see it there. Yeah, so it's like it's

31:14

like baseball idiot Braille

31:18

Just see it and you're just like

31:20

I remember that game so much that

31:23

Exhibition game between the Diamondbacks and someone

31:25

else so you'll love this part, too

31:28

So the biggest thing was when we

31:30

when we went there and that where

31:32

the ballpark is in Phoenix It's actually

31:34

it's very cool because they

31:37

have a lot of cool bars and

31:39

restaurants around got it the

31:41

ballpark in fact where the Suns play basketball, it's a

31:44

Block maybe away from where the baseball stadium is

31:47

and that whole area is developed with cool sports

31:49

bars and stuff. It's really neat and So

31:52

we had we went there to one of the

31:54

places over beforehand so the boys could get something

31:56

to eat Dad

31:58

could have a quick beer and then we We could walk into the

32:00

baseball team. And

32:02

I saw the prices at the concession stand.

32:04

Because of course, what do they need right

32:06

away? Well, we want something to drink. It

32:08

just went fine, whatever. So

32:11

I said, well, let's go sit down and watch a little bit of the

32:13

game first. We go down, I'm like, well, God, this is going to cost

32:15

me like $100 just to go to the concession

32:17

stand. But then she says, oh, hey,

32:19

look, there was a sign for the kids

32:22

menu in section 122

32:24

or whatever. So,

32:26

okay, let's walk over there. We wanted to walk around and see the bone

32:29

bark anyway. So

32:31

we go to section 122. And there wasn't many

32:33

people at this game. So the concourses weren't packed. It

32:35

was actually, it was perfect. Although my

32:37

youngest was really mad that we didn't get seats,

32:39

but we're by the pool in the Diamondbacks. Because

32:41

Diamondbacks have a pool in their stadium. So

32:45

I see the kids menu, all items, 299 children, 12 and

32:47

under. Perfect.

32:51

We walk up, I order the hot dog. Here

32:54

comes the hot dog. It's basically

32:56

the size of a little smoky. Oh, you're kidding.

32:59

With the bun. And then

33:01

I got him a rip beer, which was basically

33:04

like a dixie cup. It's half the

33:06

size of a can of Coke. Okay.

33:09

It's, you know, those like fun sized

33:11

cans. It was smaller than that. Oh

33:13

no. And I'm thinking, come on. What

33:16

is this? Why even bother? Yeah.

33:18

Why insult us with that? And I just thought, and again,

33:21

God bless the Arizona Diamondbacks. They're

33:24

trying. Anyway, I did have some

33:26

sporting events with my daughter. We played some, uh, a

33:28

couple rounds of golf down there. Oh, fantastic. And my

33:31

daughter, I've been playing golf mine, you know, all my

33:33

life, five, six years old. I started

33:35

playing and I'm not good, but I can hit the

33:37

ball long. I feel like I could do some things.

33:39

You play. I play. And, um,

33:41

sometimes if I could chip her pot, like

33:43

I'd, I'd shoot really well. This

33:46

day I could not chip her pot when we played

33:48

on Friday, but my daughter gets up on to a

33:50

tee. It's a 232 yard par

33:52

four from the women's tee. Where

33:54

is she? She's played golf for fun

33:57

with her friends. Sure. Doesn't

33:59

play on the golf team. She misses

34:01

a hole-in-one by about one inch. I

34:03

got to off 30 yards I

34:06

would have freaking killed her rivers if

34:08

she would have gotten I've never had a hole-in-one If

34:11

she would have gotten a hole-in-one on a

34:13

par-4 in Florida not really caring whether

34:15

she's there or not I

34:17

would have murdered her I I I

34:20

was like thank God she it was the most Selfish

34:23

thing I've ever done in my entire life and

34:25

she was playing great She was playing great and

34:27

I would have been it kind

34:29

of ruined the round for me because I thought if that would have

34:31

happened I would have had to take

34:33

her out of the car and sitting there You got to walk right

34:36

because I I would have had to penalize her somehow She

34:38

doesn't have any money so I would have had to buy

34:40

drinks for everybody. Yep unacceptable, right? There

34:42

would have been so many I would have made

34:44

her pay me back for every drunk guy

34:46

who needed a beer because my 16 year old

34:48

daughter got a whole One on a

34:50

par-4 it would have been Unbelievably

34:53

cool. She was out driving Everybody

34:55

everybody that were playing it not me, you know,

34:58

why I don't know what have been really cool

35:01

is if She would

35:03

have got the hole-in-one. Yes, she

35:05

would have turned to you She would

35:07

have put said club back in the bag and

35:09

said I'm good. I'm done. I'll never play another

35:13

You know, she's such a cool character. This is

35:15

my daughter Adelaide, right? She's such a cool character

35:17

She was at oh, yeah, I got a hole-in-one

35:19

like it wouldn't have been it wouldn't have phased

35:21

it wouldn't have a is her She was she would have

35:23

been kind of she's played so little golf She

35:25

was so well don't everybody doesn't everybody get a hole-in-one every once

35:27

in a while Yeah, like every 15,000 shots

35:30

So yeah It doesn't happen that much and

35:33

very few people get a hole-in-one on a

35:35

par-4 some ladies do right It's

35:37

a little shorter and I was playing

35:39

from way back. So my hall was

35:41

like 380 yards and hers kind of

35:43

cheating whatever She's a

35:45

darn right here. I mean, I was so proud of her

35:47

though. She was playing so cool She was playing with my

35:49

dad my cousin Cool man, and she was just playing so

35:51

sweet and I thought I could play with her every day

35:53

like this unless she beats me And I'll never play with

35:55

her again. So I don't know how

35:57

my dad plays with me. Although I think he beat me

36:00

that day Sure, but I don't know what it feels like

36:02

to have your son. Just best you all the time. He

36:04

listens to the show religion FYI

36:07

so he's gonna give me a bunch of crap Well,

36:10

I'm glad you had a great vacation. I'm glad you wasted 15

36:12

hours of it Watching

36:16

baseball not playing baseball. Just

36:18

watching me watch it. Yeah, and tapped

36:21

off by the epic thriller of the

36:24

Arizona State Sun Devils and the Cal

36:26

Bears Yeah on Thursday

36:28

night. I gotta say though That's

36:31

if you are the baseball coach at Arizona

36:33

State. It's a good gig You have no

36:35

better recruiting tool and just

36:37

take them there at seven o'clock on

36:40

a whatever night The Sun

36:42

sets off of the red rocks outside

36:45

of your freaking ballpark. It's beautiful.

36:47

It's unbelievable And

36:49

then if you walk the young man Through

36:52

the stands. Yes, that's gonna seal

36:54

the deal. Yeah, I have two daughters I want

36:56

to go to ASU and I said let's go.

36:58

Let's go. Let's get down there. It's a nice

37:00

campus Yeah, so it's it's it's a nice camp

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37:11

name is Chris Reavers We'll talk to you again

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next week until then. Cheers