¶ Introduction to Five Questions
It's straightforward as long as it takes . If it's 20 minutes , it's 20 minutes . If it's 30 minutes , it's 30 minutes .
I'll talk real slow .
Right , super slow , all right . Well , welcome everybody to . I guess I'm calling this right now , five questions . Uh , a baseball fan should know , right , like you know , you know five questions to ask a baseball fan , right ? So , uh , and with me is my good friend kelly robinson . I Guys , I have to say that on my phone I have him as Kelly Baseball .
It goes from when we first met . I honestly didn't know his last name , so I just put him as Kelly Baseball and then it stuck .
You even mailed the packages that said Kelly Baseball . I do .
So it is Kelly Baseball . So , kelly , you are the minor league nerd . How are you doing , my friend ? I am good , happy to be here , glad to be on , all right , awesome , awesome , all right , my friend . So let's get started . Let's just jump right in my question to you , and then this one is really cool , because everybody has their own story .
¶ Falling in Love with Baseball
So for you , kelly , when did you fall in love with baseball ? It was definitely when I was really young . I can't . I can't pinpoint the exact moment , but I do know my I the very first . It's funny because virgil said he can't say that it was when he was three years old and it's like , right , I can . It was .
I was three years old the first time my parents took me to comiskey Park to see a White Sox game .
Unreal .
Unfortunately I don't know the exact date . The oldest date I can go back to was a doubleheader against Detroit in 1980 . Man , but my family have been White Sox fans going back to 1900 , when the team started . Oh dude , so this is like tradition here . Yes , yeah , this is family tradition . It's more my mom's side of the family , my dad's side .
My dad was a baseball fan , but my dad was more of a Bears fan .
Also , he was a football fan more than anything else .
He was more a football fan than baseball . My mom absolutely loved the White Sox . I mean , I had friends in the 90s who only knew my mom as sitting in the front room in the dark watching White Sox games Wow , so it's like my mom's side of the family .
We can have different political beliefs , different tastes in movies , music , but the one constant with the entire family is the white socks . That's cool man , yeah , and which which ? Which is what makes everything that's been going on the last several years hurt even more , cause it's it's not just me , it's it's a family tradition .
Yeah , and I do feel bad for a lot of White Sox fans . I mean , obviously we're on the same division . I'm a Cleveland fan , right Right . But to see what has been going on with that team , it's sad to see .
To be honest with you , it all comes down to Jerry Reinstorf , and nothing is going to change until he's no longer with the team , which at the earliest will be 2029 , which isn't soon enough , but at least we have a path at least you have something .
Yes , right , yeah , but you know it could be , could be sooner , could be sooner , it could be , you know . So we'll see , at least you , you've won a World Series in your lifetime . Yes , I am still waiting .
Yes , and it's funny because 2005 started off as a terrible year for me . Mm-hmm . End of an eight-year relationship and I thought it was going to be a horrible year , and then it turned out to actually be one of the best years of my life and baseball was there was like home up here .
I got you home , boy , exactly it's , and it's funny because I'm I'm , I'm not superstitious , I'm a little stitious .
No , I'm not superstitious we're not superstitious , but we're a little stitious yeah , you're right , but , but like you know , like most baseball fans not not as bad as paul , but like most baseball fans there's you know certain things you don't say , you don't when . So I went to socks fest in 2005 .
It was my first socks fest um , which is just their their fan convention usually in january and I went with my sister and I and when I left I'm like I have a good feeling but I didn't tell anyone . It's like I'm not saying we're gonna win the world series , but which will be there , I think we'll go far , but did not .
Did not say anything you want to jinx it .
You didn't want to jinx it no , no , I , because I know don't don't ever jinx it . I don't talk about a no hitter , or don't talk about a perfect game correct until it it's done right or it it's broken right and don't say how about those phillies to paul on opening day ?
absolutely , absolutely , don't ever say that . That's just crazy talk . No , so all right . Here's's question number two how , up to this point , you know being 2025 right now , right ?
¶ How Baseball Changed My Life
But you know , how has baseball changed your life ? It's , it's one of those things . It's funny Cause you you asked that with Virgil . It's like I know the answer , but it's just it's . It's affected my life in so many ways . It's like I know the answer , but it's just it's . It's affected my life in so many ways . It's like you know .
First off , you know , I said I've I've been a fan of of baseball since I was three years old . So we're going on what , almost 50 years of just baseball being important . You know , there there was a point after the strike where it kind of faded back a little bit .
Yeah , yeah , just out of anger , but out of anger , but also just like with a lot of people , you know , you , you get older , you start getting new interests . Yep , you do other things , but in in 03 is when I finally started going back um , but with with my wife , with christina . She , fortunately , when we met she was already a baseball fan .
Oh , that's good . And she likes to travel . Oh my God , check , check , yes , perfect . So , like the year before she and I met in in in , we met in 06 . So in 05 , I took my first baseball road trip . So , like so many people talking on other podcasts or just in general .
I got I've gotten to see so much of the country that I probably wouldn't have gone to see if it wasn't for baseball yeah like you know , the sawmill museum in clinton , iowa . I never would have gone to that , but I'm going to clinton to see the lumber kings , so why not ?
let's not make it stop there , yeah right , so .
So so something for christina and I can do , because you know she loves to travel , she loves baseball , I love to travel , I love baseball , so that was great right there .
And then , like , even when I was saying with before , about with my family , is you know , we might , you know that might not really have much to talk about , but we can always talk about the white socks , even if it is to complain about jerry which is you know it's a , it's a unifying thing , right ?
exactly ? I mean I , I for for us is the dolan's . You know we can , it's what we do , yeah uh , but then in more recently .
so when I I first joined and I'm still gonna call it twitter I first joined twitter in in 2010 , but didn't really use it much for like the first eight years , and so then , come 2019 , I'm like you know what .
I'm going to start using it more because I want to connect with more White Sox fans , and I connected with some really cool ones , but I also was connecting with a lot of like the type of fans I don't really like to begin with , and it's like I don't like what you at the ballpark , I don't know , and I I kind of feel bad saying this , but they're not
going to see this anyway . But it wasn't really until 2020 , which which first , you know , for all of us , was just freaking terrible . It was the shit show , yeah , but one good thing came out of it , and is that so many of us who are actually huge baseball fans , focusing more on the minor leagues , all started to meet .
So so it's like back in 2004 , I had an explosion of friends when I started on LiveJournal , which pre-Facebook yeah , like I can point so many friends of mine that came from LiveJournal , and now , in 2025 , I can look and point at so many friends that I've met through Twitter because of my love of minor league baseball .
That's when Twitter really took off for me , which makes what happened to it even worse . Yeah , it's like it's all just comes back to negativity , but but it's like I so many friends I mean , I can't even tell you how many new phone numbers I've gotten in my phone in the last five , six years . Different area codes , different area codes yeah .
area codes , different area codes yeah and so it's like so baseball has opened a whole new world of friends and and then it's , you know , creating the minor league nerd youtube channel and podcast , and then coming on with curb media just over a year ago yeah , it's been , it's been a .
It's same with bees . Like since 2020 , it's been a one hell of a ride so far , yeah , and it's amazing . And then you know , at the time of this recording right like um , we're just mere days away from our current media meetup , which is going to be , up to this point , the the largest one that we've had .
You know what I mean because , like , we've had a lot of people we started with , like I think it's like less than 10 people the first time that we did it right , and now look at us , it's like this is amazing we got 30 people for the dogs on saturday that's , that's you know how awesome that sounds and 23 for the boomers , but that's just .
Certain people just can't make it .
Yeah , and I get it , I understand , but yeah , I , it's like I I'm like I was like hoping , like hope we can at least get 20 , just because then it looks a bit happy with 20 with the team , and then all of a sudden it just kept people just kept coming and coming and coming and then it's like and it's just great , because it's not just people from out of
town , it's local chicago people too . Yeah , so , which is great . Yeah , my sister and brother-in-law are going to be there , but they have dog tickets for that night . Anyway , friends of mine who know nothing really about curved brim , they're going to be there . So it's going to be a great time , that's going to be amazing .
You can't wait .
It's just so much positivity on top of positivity on top of positivity , which is what we need right now .
Which is what we need right now ? We need right now . Which is what we need right now exactly um ? All right , question number tres . All right , here we go um . Give me , you know , give me a couple of your favorite baseball memories okay , so the oldest memory I have is with baseball .
¶ Favorite Baseball Memories
I again I can't place it exactly , but it's definitely in the late seventies , right , when we would go to White Sox games . We usually went on Sundays for double headers .
Back when , you know , almost every Sunday , almost every other Sunday , was a double header Because my dad figured , if I'm taking a family of well at that point , four , soon to be five , I want to get my money's worth Absolutely .
So we used to sit in the upper deck right Either I can't remember if it was over our left shoulder or right shoulder we would see Harry Carey . Oh . So it's like so my oldest memory is looking and seeing him singing , just broadcasting and then singing . Take me out to the ball game .
And people only think that Harry Carey was Cubs . Yeah , you know , he wasn't he started with .
He was in Chicago . He started with the white socks in Chicago .
That's what I mean In Chicago . He started with the white socks .
Yeah , yeah , it was long time with the , the st louis cardinals until he got let go for . Uh , just not getting along with augie bush , yeah I mean yeah , but one one funny thing is .
so when , when I was a kid , I remember sitting at a game wondering where the park was because we're at comiskey park and I wanted to go play at the park , me thinking a park was like a playground because you , my mom , would say , oh , I'm taking play at the park .
Me thinking a park was like a playground Cause you , my mom , would say , oh , I'm taking you to the park . Yeah . And we'd go to the park and you know there's all the rides and everything on .
So I remember sitting up there looking around like maybe it's out there , pointing at the bullpen or maybe it's somewhere around here , it's somewhere around here , I don't know , I don park kind of a letdown . But then you're like , I get it , yeah , but I got to see baseball , so it was okay .
Um , but I'd say , probably like for me personally , like just with me and and my sister and my dad , because , uh , even though my dad , my mom , was the bigger white socks fan , my dad went to more games , but , like I said , 2005 was definitely a great season .
Um , opening day , a guy we're like I think we're the second row in the upper deck guy and on first base side a guy hits a foul ball . A fan catches it right by us , holds it up and says we're going to the world where we're winning the world series this year , and everyone's like , oh , yeah , sure , whatever , dude .
And well , you know , nine months later he was right , yeah , yeah . But then from that season there was a game it was a Saturday night against the Dodgers , uh , where AJ persinski hit a walk-off home run to win . Actually it wasn't , it wasn't . It wasn't a walk-off , it was a go-ahead home run to win .
And that was like when both my sister are like neither one looking at each other , like neither one of us wanted to say it , but we're both like I think we're going to win the World Series this year , right , and then obviously just winning the World Series .
I wasn't able to get tickets to the World Series , even though I tried at one point at my job I had five computers going and couldn't get tickets oh my god for for game four , the bowls or the united center , uh , showed it there on on the big screen and so it's like the club level .
And then when they ran out of space in the club level , they started going downstairs . So I went there with with my dad , my sister , a friend of mine , my boss at the time , and his son , and it was it really was unbelievable , it's like you know that's cool but just just experiencing it with my dad and my sister was just amazing .
I bet dude , I love it . That's amazing .
But then just traveling around with Christina just too many memories to list . Like I said , we're traveling all around the country seeing places when we first started . Like I said , I did it first in 2005 . She and I have been doing it since 2007 and have done it every year except 2020 . And it started off with friends at first .
Like wait , you're just traveling around to watch baseball games . Like no , no , no , no , we're going to baseball games . That's the point but there's other things to do .
Right .
We're stopping at museums . We're stopping at weird roadside attractions . We're going to the Vac vacuum museum in portland , oregon . We're going to this cool restaurant , these , this awesome bar . We're going hiking you name it .
We're doing it , we're doing it , and then , yeah , then it's funny , just you know , finally meeting more and more people who do the same thing that's true .
now there is and I'm surprised you haven't said it which is the story that you told me of your which . I'm sure you know this , but , like your wedding , oh yeah , that's a cool , you know , cause it's tied to baseball .
Yeah , yeah . So we we had a vintage style wedding circa 1953 . So our we , actually we got married on leap day . Uh , we wanted to do it inside the ballpark at guaranteed rate at the time , but I just had . It was just about a year off of a long bout of unemployment year , and a half thanks .
You know , 2008 crash , um , and it was just it's really expensive to get married in the ballpark , so , and it was leap day , so it's like it wasn't even a baseball game going on .
So we got married in front of the ballpark , out in front of guaranteed rate or rate field Now there's a monument to the 2005 world series , so the plan was to get married right there , but it was so incredibly windy that day we had all four seasons in one day . Yeah . And it was so windy Christina's Val was just flying all over the place .
So we went around the corner into the shade and air out of the wind and it was just a small ceremony . It was . It was us both my parents , her mom , my brother and sister , my niece and nephew , um , my brother's wife , and then one of my aunts and , uh , and Christina's mom were all there .
And so a friend of ours married us in front of the stadium and it was right in front of the ticket booth for the socks , which tickets are on sale .
And as we're finishing up , guy from the ticket booth is like oh , you should go inside and get a picture with the world series , yeah , because with the world series trophy , because the , the , the entrance in is like right there .
So we walk in and it's like you walk in , there's the desk out in front of you and over to the left there's a a case with the world series trophy in there and the American league championship trophy . And we walk in and said to the woman working there's like we just got married out in front , can we take a few pictures ?
And she's like oh sure , no problem , married out in front , can we take a few pictures and she's like , oh sure , no problem .
So we , we took pictures , my family , everyone , we're all taking turns taking pictures and they have off next to it seats from old comiskey park oh so christina and I are sitting in there and the woman comes up and she's like , do you want to go on the field ? like , uh , yeah .
She's like , yeah , you know you can't go on the actual field , but you can stand on the warning track , which is something that you would actually have to pay for if you're getting married there .
And so , yeah , we got to spend like 20 minutes on the warning track taking pictures showing everyone where our season tickets were at the time and , yeah , for nothing , nothing that's amazing and that's a cool story .
I tell everybody , like man , if you want to know a cool baseball story , you got to talk to my good friend , uh uh kelly he'll . He has a good story for you .
When a baseball and wedding related yeah , and it it wasn't just me , it's all christina as well yeah , absolutely , christina was like obviously he was there .
Yeah , right , so you got to talk to kelly and christina .
You guys are not going to regret that and then then two days later is when we actually had our reception , because leap day was on , uh , on a wednesday that year , and so what we did is around the wall where we had our reception there were , they were like hooks . So we put all uh 16 caps actually 15 , because I don't have a cubs cap we did the 15 .
We did the 15 caps in order of how they finished that year .
So , like the yankees won the world series , so they were up top and I don't remember in 53 , I do don't remember who won the nl pennant , but they were kind of lower and then , like american League was all on one side and the National League was on the other side , and then our centerpieces we actually had on a stick like a little card that had the team's
logo from about that time and time on one side and on the back like the ballpark . They played in the pennants . They won in the World Series . They won .
This is a very much a Kelly and Christina type of deal . It really is . You guys . I mean , there's no other way of putting it .
It's definitely you guys and our invitations were copied from the 1933 All-Star Game , the first All-Star Game which was held at Comiskey Park . There you go I found an old ticket . A friend of mine designed it for us . Uh , we had a website full of all kinds of pictures , of baseball pictures , and another friend did that .
So , yeah , I mean in and we , we rickrolled everyone at our wedding . Love it , christina .
Christina came out to a , uh , a cello version of never going to give you up , nice , and and it was great because you could hear the laughter when , when it hit people , yeah , what it was like , as it's laughed , the rolling through , laughing other people like what's so funny , and and it's like this is , you know , never going to give up .
And so there's a great picture of , like , the two of us laughing with our , our officiant , sean , like looking at us , like he's going to kill us both for doing it .
That's amazing , that's awesome .
Yeah , it truly was a great time . I love it , and , and , and we had hot dogs at our wedding . That's what I'm talking about had hot dogs at our wedding , that's what I'm talking about .
Yeah , we had hot dogs and uh and middle eastern wraps , hey , so I like that an actual hot dog , stand a cart .
There was a cart there umbrella everything . That's amazing .
Yeah , it was a great time , all right question number four give me some baseball traditions or rituals for you okay , so
¶ Baseball Traditions and Rituals
one of them .
I'll start just from the beginning . One of them is we always buy when we're traveling somewhere , going to someplace that's not you know where we have tickets for . We always buy our tickets in advance and we always usually try to avoid day games , but if we do go to a day game , it's always in the shade .
Um , I score every single game yes , you do yeah , I and uh I . I've been scoring since every game since 2012, . But I took it a step further because I , in 2012 , I actually started and I this is done I scored every single game I went to before then that I didn't score , going all the way back to the seventies .
Jesus , dude , that took , that must've taken you .
And yeah , it , it . It took quite a while , but the worst is , at one point I forgot we were up in , uh uh , the john hancock and I forgot my backpack in there and it I didn't get it back and they had a whole bunch of scorecards in there so I had to start over . Yeah , yeah , it sucks .
Yeah that I took a long break after that Cause I was so frustrated , but , but on the tradition , so , yeah , we buy our tickets in advance . So if it's , if it's a new ballpark we haven't been to , or even one that we don't go to regularly , like we don't , we typically do it like white socks .
When we our first white socks game , we'll always walk the concourse . Anytime we go , the first thing we do is we get in . I usually try to get there when gates open , at least for minor league parks , which is typically an hour .
Get there and usually the first place we go to the team store , figure out what caps going to get and whatever mascots for Christina , maybe a jersey , any other merch and then , after we're done with that , then we we walk the concourse . 360s are always the best , absolutely .
Um , and as we're walking the concourse , we're looking at the food , which typically because I'm a pescatarian , so I eat a vegetarian who eats seafood isn't always the best choices for me , like I'm lucky . You know , cheese pizza tends to be the big one , and it's .
It's great when you go somewhere that has a lot more option , but Christina is stopping at every stand to see because she wants to make sure she gets exactly what she wants and what she's going to be craving , and so after we get our food , we go to our seats , and which actually will usually check and see where our seats are at the beginning , just so we
know .
Just to have a general idea .
Right , right and so , yeah , so after we get our food , we're in our seats and usually there before the game starts . At that , that's something that my dad did when we were kids . You go there , you get your food , you sit , you eat and you're ready for the game .
True , it's like I know , like other people like to , to walk around during the game , get different perspectives , which I can totally yeah , I can totally , I can totally appreciate that . Or people like you know , mark Vick as , or or Spencer Collins , who do travel videos .
It's like I would love to do that , but I want to sit in my seat and watch the game and score .
Yeah , yeah , yeah . So I'm , I'm , I'm , I'm the . I'm that guy Like I like to sit down for a couple of innings Right , and then I need to walk around , I need to sit and look from different point of views , and things like that . Usually , the berm is where I like to be at . Yeah , the berm is my , that's my spot .
Right , yeah , it's like , it's not that I never get up . No , no , no , no , no I'll go get a snack , or go take a snack , or , or you know , go take a picture or go to the bathroom , and the great thing is that when I do get up , christina knows how to score .
So so you guys can switch .
She can take , she can take over . Typically also , I'll take like an inning or a half an inning break anyway , yeah , and she'll score there . Might you know , if I'm gone there'll be like sometimes she'll be like I don't know what happened . You're going to have to look that up and that's what the app is for .
The app is for and that's what you come in and you're like all right , let me you know like you can go back later on that day or whatever , when you get home . And then let me review this real quick and exactly .
That's what happened in 2016 . The White Sox had three triple plays and we were there for all three of them Nice dude and the first one happened . I went to the bathroom , I came back and she's like I don't know what happened .
There was a triple play and I don't remember the exact order , but it's a triple play that had never happened before in the history of baseball .
That's amazing .
So and and it's always great too when , like , she's scoring , and someone walks by usually a guy and they'll comment like to their friend like dude , did you see that that woman is scoring ? And that's wild . I mean it's because you know most people you don't see it anyway , and then typically you don't don't tend to see a lot of women .
I mean there are women who do it . I mean I , yeah , I have friends who do it that are that are women , uh , but typically , yeah , you don't don't tend to see a lot of women . I mean there are women who do it .
I mean I , yeah , I have friends who do it that are that are women , uh , but typically , yeah , you don't , you just you don't see it , and if you do , it's usually not a woman , so it's people are blown away when it happens it's true , that is true , but she wouldn't . She wouldn't do an entire game .
No , she's like no , no see , I and I tried to do it . Don't get me wrong , I did , I tried . It's just my attention span does not allow for me to be sitting there the full nine innings . I gotta look , I gotta walk around , because I'm more of a . I like to see what's going on . You know , like the , uh , the , the players , what they're doing .
All of that , that's just I can't good for you man , I I have nothing but respect for people who actually can't sit there and do that see the thing .
For me is it also it .
It forces me to pay attention more , not true , very true , not that I was , you know am not , but it's like no , no , no right , because you don't need to know every pitch and all that like lat at last year's meetup , I , I , I didn't , I .
I tried scoring holly springs , I couldn't . It was just there was just too much going on too much going on , too much going on and it you know , there weren't that many people there , so we were able to spread out and joke around . We were talking , yeah yeah , but in the war was wonderful yeah , they , they asked for volunteer and christina signed us up .
I'm totally okay with this , uh . But then , yeah , then , like durham , it's like we're , you know , we couldn't move around as much , we were all like stuck , so true , it was easier . And then , uh , in zebulon , with the , uh , the mud cats , it's like , well , this is where the shade is . I'm not leaving the shade , no but it was hot as all get out too .
Yeah , I know , I know you didn't , did you ?
I know donnie went upstairs and said it was I stood , I I had no , I couldn't do go upstairs because it was like the sun was hitting it and I knew better than that .
I , uh , I said I stood back in the uh , in that section right up right below you guys , where we were at , so I wasn't too far , it's just I had to stand up because there's just there's no airflow whatsoever no , no , I mean , and that's the thing it's like , I know everyone was concerned about getting shade .
It's like , don't worry , I'm on it because because that was that was our concern initially about going . It's like there's no way christina could be in the sun that long . I couldn't take it either , but she would overheat in like two minutes and pass out .
Yeah , it's just , I get it , my friend . All right , here you go . You ready for the last question , number five ? Question number five , numero cinco All right , kelly , why baseball dude Like
¶ Why Baseball? The Final Question
? Why ?
So it's funny when you ask Virgil this question , I'm like I know the answer . I figured the answer out like 15 , 16 years ago , so there's many reasons . It's just , of course , it's just that it makes me feel happy .
It makes me feel happy and it's like I said this on on John Southie's YouTube channel when we went it's like and it used to be this way with the white socks , but for many reasons it's changed , not just Jerry , but it's this way with the dogs Like if I have a terrible day , I'm as soon as they scan my ticket and I go into impact field , I just get a
big smile on my face and I just feel happy and at home . And it's the same whenever we travel and go to another ballpark . Like you know , it could have been traffic getting there , it could have been hell and I , you know . But as soon as they scan the ticket , all changes and I walk in . It's like this is where I need to be , this is my home .
I figured out . My happy place is traveling the country with christina seeing baseball games . That's amazing , um so . And then there's just like the you know , it's the connection with my family , knowing that my family has loved baseball since at least 1900 .
that's amazing , like you have family members doing like the black socks , you know , like , yeah , that that was .
That was that experienced that my , my dad , was born in 1945 . He remembers going to white his first white sox game .
I think he said it was in like 1948 , 1949 , and he remembers there used to be a bar across the street and my parent , my grandparents , would go in there for a drink at they'd sit at the bar , my dad would sit at a table having his coke . Yeah , and he , like he , clearly remembers that that's you see , that's why , why baseball right there , right .
That's why but then another not as like as a big reason is I figured this out in in 2008 , 2009 . So I I grew up , I was a hockey fan , but I wasn't a blackhawks fan , because you could not watch Blackhawks games in Chicago . Of course . Bill Wurtz thought , oh , if I put like a lot of the old owners or if it's on TV no one will come .
Yeah , just like when , when Charlie Finley owned the California golden seals and he put names on the back of his players jerseys , the other owners resisted because they thought , if the names were on the jerseys , we're not going to sell programs .
Jesus , yeah , you know the 50 cent program , um , so , like , blackhawks were not on tv until after bill wirfs died , and so when he died , I was like you know what time I think things are going to start changing . Things are going to happen . So in the 2008 2009 season , we got blackhawks tickets .
It was a nine game plan , um , but one day , while going to the game , I realized , like , one of the reasons it's baseball and then then hockey and then then soccer , is because , like , right now , I know who's playing and it's like it's you know . So , like right now , the dogs are off .
Today , tomorrow , wednesday and Thursday , they're in Milwaukee playing the the milkmen . Saturday , friday , saturday , sunday , they're at home playing gary . You know the white socks . I don't know who they're playing next , but actually , no , yeah , right now , the white socks are off . Tuesday , wednesday , thursday , they're playing st louis .
It's the consistency , it's the series , yep , yep , it's like you know , hockey or full football . You know , it's sunday , sunday , which is , you know , sunday and then thursday , and it's like I , when I was younger , I was more into football , but as I got older I kind of fell out of it . I'm more more into the history of football still .
Yeah , um , but it's like , yeah , it's every sunday and like that's cool because you know people get together and they have parties or they go to the game . It's an event , it's an , it's a total event . Well , for me it's like it's not great knowing that that event is going on six , seven days a week with my team .
And then then , just in general , I mean , yeah , we don't get affiliated ball on Monday , but we get minor league , occasionally independent , we get collegiate summer league .
So it's the consistency of you have seven days a week if you want it Right Again .
Right , right Hockey . It's like yeah , ok , you're playing two , three , maybe if you're four times a week , that's great . And then like soccer again it's once a week , four times a week , that's great , and then like soccer again , it's once a week , occasionally twice a week , depending .
If there's any , like you know , any tournaments going on or something like that , then you may get a couple of games , but other than that , yeah , you're right .
Right , or like lower divisions , especially in england . You know you play saturday and you play tuesday , yep , so it's it's knowing and that that that was .
It was that day , while driving to a baseball game , and I remember talking or texting a friend of mine about it Actually the friend who married us , my friend Sean and like saying , you know , I realized why I like baseball so much .
It's the consistency of the schedule , it's the series , it's knowing that this , this is who they're playing for , these , you know , sometimes two games , sometimes three , sometimes four days , yep , and now the terrible minor league schedule of six games . I hate the minor league schedule your your poll from like a few weeks ago .
I didn't see it until after it ended . Yeah . And I put on yeah , yeah , yeah , and I it's like when I saw that people's like , the majority of people said they liked it it's like like what ?
the hell are you talking about ? Do you even know exactly ? Like , yeah , I , and I don't think people really understood , like I said , minor league baseball . Some people were talking about major league baseball . It's like no , no , no , no , no , not , not major league , like major league has its own .
Yes , m-i-l-b , yeah , m-i-l-b , minor league baseball , right , and um , you know , people have their love for it , but it is what it is yeah , I , I and I saw someone comment like I couldn't imagine being a season ticket holder and seeing the same team six days six days . It's just , it's just .
And they , they're saying it for the sake of like , you know , the sake of like saving money or whatever I'm . I'm not too keen on that , but whatever .
No yeah , well , if they're , if it's to save money , why are they doing interleague play like , why did ? Why did uh durham open ? Uh on the west coast ?
right , exactly like all the way over the in the west . You know what ? Never mind . Yeah , we don't want to dive into that this is a different podcast wrong show yeah , yeah , yeah , uh , make sure you follow the uh dsc sports show tuesday and thursdays , 9 pm eastern time . We'll talk about that there , kelly . Thank you so much , my friend .
I really appreciate you coming on and giving us a little bit of time and talking about these five questions . Where can people find you on the socials ?
So my personal stuff I'm on . Pretty much the only thing that's really public is my Twitter , which is just Calibration , but then for Minor League Nerd , so it's a YouTube channel and a podcast . Youtube channel is just minor league nerd . Same with the podcast . It's a podcast , is it's basically the same , just audio format only just audio format only .
It's just search minor league nerd .
It's on all platforms and all the social media handles are minor league nerd there you go and uh , as far as myself , uh , same thing I just look for uh , the dad hat
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So make sure you guys uh follow my good friend kelly and uh we will see you guys on the next episode . All right , thanks for having me . Absolutely , my friend .