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  1. “And just that moment, there are so many of those rolling through my brain of great announcers who have taken the language to another level and reparte and Beautiful linguistic flourishes and Sean's going to be mad that I keep doing this impersonation like I It's become like a thing at ESPN. But Sean's a wonderful guy, and Ian Eagle, and all of these people. And Vin who tell these stories in such a way that make it not robotic. Oh, yeah. It's a beautiful craft. It is absolutely art. And that's why to do this”

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  2. “I mean, the small things you recall people saying, whether it be wit or charm or a story, I mean Sean McDonough has turned into a very good friend, Sean who did the Red Sox for a long time, and I think it's a tragedy. He's not doing baseball for somebody because he's so good at it. I watched him do Big Monday on ESPN for so long. And there was one game he was working with Jay Billis and Bill Raftery. And they come on the air and Sean says they were in Hartford. He says, live from the XL Center with the two XL egos Bill Raftery and Jay Billis”

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  3. “You can't help but the people I listed earlier, the Sean McDonoughs, the Iron Eagles, Vincully, those types of people have this wonderful way of Hooking you about a person and bringing you in, and then there's a punchline at the end that you didn't expect, or maybe there's not a punchline, and maybe you just feel something. But this wonderful ability to navigate a game and a story at the same time, with wit, charm, whatever it might be, and humanity, that We all are better off for if we just wanted to narrate a game, we could have robots do that, but we want someone who sees something, has it remind him or her of something else, and then have that then be something that I never forget.”

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  4. “He's like an encyclopedia that turns its own pages. Which I wish we could have created in this society. The fact that he's no longer doing games is a melancholy thing for all of us who look at baseball through that type of creative prism because, and it might be a prison for some others. But through that prism, we. We see what baseball can do culturally and when Vin Scully started broadcasting, the world was a wholly different place. I mean, he got to know Jackie Robinson in the middle of what Jackie was dealing with in this country breaking the color barrier in Major League Baseball and all of the negatives that come along with that. If we think we have trolls today, then I mean, the Twitter trolls don't throw things at me. And”

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  5. “So my feeling is I go into a show knowing that I could pull from twelve hundred thousand million different realms. And that's the beauty of baseball. It's a jumping off point for a conversation about whatever it might be, where somebody's from. His love for pets, his interest in volcanoes, whatever it might be, that's what baseball is. It's a trampoline in a lot of ways. And as you're talking about sitting at the ballpark and spending time with the family, hey, that cotton candy vendor looks like blank. Or hey, this outfield sign reminds me of whatever. Baseball is a living memory”

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  6. “I think so, certainly, but I also think that the greater danger is that sports not embrace the teaching component, that sports can be a place where you learn about physics and social studies and math and all of that. I mean, that would allow for teachers to then slowly climb up the hero ladder once more. Which we could use a lot of.”

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  7. “Every day I look at what fangraphs is doing, what baseball reference has, some stuff that Darren Wilman and the Statcast people have done at Major League Baseball, I want to know about those things, but we got into this for stories too. I mean, data tell stories. You know that? Yes. So that if I'm just taking the numbers into the show with me, I'm not doing it right. I don't think they need to be there to help tell the story, but certainly they're not the only thing.”

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  8. “That's true. That's true. But I think the fact that there are some people in this country who are fearful of automation and then you get big data in baseball. And if you overwhelm people with that, that's going to cause some trouble. But I think if we get smarter about what baseball is and smarter about who the great players are, we're broadening the scope of who the stars can be in the game. I think that's great.”

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  9. “So we had this lengthy discussion, and there are people on both sides of that. For me, it's easy. The guy who gives up fewer runs and fewer base runners, I don't care if he won the game because he didn't really win the game the circumstances won him the game or lost him the game, but now we're having this nature versus nurture dispute on a major league baseball broadcast which doesn't exactly play. I mean, there's a reason not everybody's walking around with a psychology degree.”

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  10. “The best pitcher in the league. Right. And had numbers in both categories. But the win total, I think, propelled him even more so.”

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  11. “I said to Steve, who's going to get paid more? The guy with the three fifty ERA and twelve wins or a guy with a four fifty ERA and twenty wins, and there were a couple other numbers in there as well, but he was taking the guy with the win total. And Steve is a terribly smart man, and I love him. Who?”

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  12. “That is true. That's 100% true. But even when his run support has been there, it hasn't matched up with his best performances. So he has been low in the win column.”

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  13. “But to your point on the broadcasting end, Steve Stone and I had this lengthy discussion over the All-Star break right before the All-Star break last year about Jose Quintana, Sock's left-handed pitcher who historically has had difficulty getting wins in games, whatever that might be. Well,”

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  14. “I think the broadcasting I don't think it's changed broadcasting enough yet. And I did think it was interesting when you had Theo on that he said maybe three or four percent. Of the game we know about that was shocking to me For somebody who's really deeply in it to say that, I mean,”

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  15. “Yeah, we need time to ruminate about what would I do here strategically how would I go about this? I mean, we all, I think, when we went to the ballpark as kids, we thought, oh, should you put this person in? Would I put that person in? Which player do I want? Do I want Robin up? Do I want Frank up? You know, do I want Ray up? Who do you want up at that point? Should you pinch hit? Should you bring this reliever in? What's this? What's going to happen? And even keeping score, right? We all have our own ways. If you and I right now just showed each other how we kept score, we'd be like, wow. I didn't know one thing, two things, whatever it might be. That's even beautiful in itself. But the length of the game and the length of the season gives us something to think more deeply about than I think the other sports allow for.”

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  16. “Boy, I tell you, the chess ratings in this country, if we aired it a little more, would skyrocket, I think. No, but that's what I think about too. I've had this conversation with a friend of mine.”

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  17. “Meaning that, yes, sometimes it's going to be boring. It has to be boring at some points. But chess is boring when you're sitting and staring at a board. But those mental processes that go through night to E four or bishop to A two are”

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  18. “They have, if he call the strike zone like the strike zone is in the book, the game is probably quicker. If you do indeed tinker with extra innings possibly. And yeah, I know some people say well that's not the way the game's When the game was first invented, or at least early in the game's history, you could catch a batted ball on one bounce and have the person be out. If that was proposed by Rob Manfred right now, people would say you're changing the game completely, it's inherently different. That's what it was like. You could do that. At points the mound has been moved, the plate has been changed, everything has been changed at some point or another. I think the one thing you want to keep is the longitudinal nature of baseball in some way. I'm for changing the games. What do you mean by that?”

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  19. “I am fearful of Making the game into a three inning ten game season. Slippery slope is not lost on me certainly. I know Major League Baseball has data that suggest it's time to do some things. And I can understand that. Absolutely. But if we keep chasing attention spans down the hill, we're not going to end up with The most beautiful part of baseball, and that is the investment in something longitudinal. Baseball is a thousand page book And just because people aren't picking those up right now doesn't mean there's not great value in a thousand page book. So I have some fears about that. But I also think that there have been times in this game's history where games have yes been much quicker.”

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  20. “Which is always available always and has always been available, and in my experience, and that I do not speak for everybody else's experience, I know people have it harder than I do in a lot of ways, and I've met a lot of those people. But in my experience, that caring and that humanity and that rising tide lifts all boats. Action, not just words, but action of trying to help somebody maybe avoid that frictional unemployment or avoid the result that would be the easy result of not putting me on camera or whomever it is because of whatever trade it is. Anytime you move past that, you tend to have a really wonderful thing happen for you mentally and empathetically. And it's a feeling that is really not matched in humanity.”

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  21. “I mean, what happens if 15 people with disabilities who just happen to have disabilities but are not connected at all commit crimes next month? You comin' for me? Whomever that might be, whomever you is so it's It just leaves all of us exposed to being the next group. That's all that does. And that's what hurts me most is when we are all one trait. If that trait becomes the bad trait? In”

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  22. “That point The idea of discarding the first thought you have about somebody is to see them for their highest level of happiness, to help them achieve whatever that highest level is. And none of us know what the cap is for any of ourselves, but to have people trying to elevate that is. It's to me what makes living in a world where there are other people most worthwhile.”

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  23. “Those people all still exist. It's in all of us. It honestly is in all of us to be able to look past our first reactions about people. And I just, I think we don't need to be insidious in teasing the opposite out of people because we all have the ability to go past our first reaction.”

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  24. “Attractions. That type of, hey, I see this one thing about you, so you can't. That leaves us all in a vulnerable position. And it tries to take away our ability to go deeper. And I think, I mean, there have been so many wonderful books about what happens when we look past our first blush reaction. There's a reason eyewitness testimony doesn't get a whole lot of great love in our society and the psychological research works against it because we have high adrenaline when we first see something like that or meet somebody. My fear is that we're going to end up in a place where we're all being more reductive than we need to. Once people around me learn to look past their first reaction, my disability's gone to them. My friends have shown me that over the course of time. And my hope is simply this.”

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  25. “My concern is That there will be people Who are like me or like somebody else in an outgroup who won't be able to have the feeling that I've had, and others that I know of getting to do what they love to do, and having people see that their brains can fire in a way that Might be high level To be able to embrace the thing they love because there were no barriers to that. Silly barriers first blush barriers First reaction”

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  26. “When the brother realizes that he's red green colorblind and can't fly planes because of that, I think about that all the time. Like, what if somebody said there is actually a reason you can't do this thing you love and it hurts, but to have somebody like Jerry Reinsdorf say it's not even I don't care it's I don't even know it's not even in the realm of something that”

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  27. “It's what I've always wanted to hear. I want the work to speak for itself. I don't want someone to, and this is the cognitive dissonance when I see people being legislated against. I've never wanted someone to legislate me into a job, but then I think, well, what if there were actual barriers to me getting into this career? What if somebody in high school said, no, you can't, you actually can't because you can't look at the camera or you walk funny and we can't take you to a golf outing or whatever it might be. I wouldn't be here. It wouldn't have happened. So it's like the end of Little Miss Sunshine. Have you seen?”

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  28. “You don't want it to go away ever. Because you want that to always elevate you and elevate the thing that you're reaching for. And that's what I felt with Steve, and I was so overjoyed that we get to work together. Yes, it's the hometown team. And yes, that's everything that I had always thought it was going to be, and then some, but to have somebody like Steve next to me to work toward this common goal and just have some laughs and have a good time with it and think down the same lines is it's a beautiful thing.”

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  29. “Yeah. Chicago institution for a lot of great reasons. And we went to Don and Charlie's here in Arizona where we're sitting now and hit it off within 120 seconds. Same type of sense of humor, analytical type guy. I'm just thinking, sitting there at the dinner, this has to happen now. Like this is the final piece. I want to work with this person because, you know, if you're sitting on a panel with people or you're working with somebody, I'm sure it's the way of the campaign as well, where you just have this energy between two people or between six people.”

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  30. “Right, right. And my one thought as this kind of was hanging around and lingering after the meeting, and I was waiting for the socks to call was, man, did I just by not taking the cigar, did I just ruin this? Does he not like me? And I realized that he's not at all that type of person in any way, shape, or form. After the fact. But we talked baseball. It was great. The socks called me about a week later, flew me out to meet Steve Stone. Who's my partner?”

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  31. “Right, right. And so I met Jerry. I don't know whether or not he liked that I didn't take the cigar that he offered me. But we talk baseball.”

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  32. “WHFH from Homewood Philosophers having a reunion, a 50th anniversary type special for the media department. So I was going to that. I go to the event a couple days later. I go to the ballpark. The socks invite me in and I talk to a whole group of people from Comcast and WGN, the rights holders, and the socks. And we had a very nice meeting. I came in with some ideas. I was hoping that it went well. Got a call back maybe a month later. Hey, can you fly in and meet with Jerry Reinsdorf? And I thought I can clear my schedule, I think, and make that. Sherry,”

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  33. “Right, right. And I just thought it was extremely brave. So that's how my relationship started with him. And then he says, I think you should call the White Sox and tell them that you're interested, which, you know, is sort of the flip of I'm the one that doesn't want to go out on the limb here because look, I have a pulse and I'm an announcer. Of course I'm interested in the White Sox job. Why would they not know that? So I called the White Sox and I asked for Brooks Boyer, who's the head of marketing for the Sox and has been with the organization for a long time. And I said to the Secretary, hey, just have him give me a call or let him know that I'm interested. And here's my number. Call me a couple hours later, Brooks did, to apologize that it had taken so long, and then said, yeah, we're interested. Are you going to be in Chicago at any time? And I happened to be going in about a month for a reunion of my high school radio station.”

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  34. “Yeah, he just was worried always about what the audience reaction was going to be or whether he's done enough prep work or is he good enough, just that type of stage anxiety, I think, that comes with. Not that it's staged.”

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  35. “And the socks might have somebody take those games. They might be deciding to do that. So I called Lynn Casper and I said, hey, Len, and my relationship goes back with him to just sending him a tape at one point years ago and saying, will you watch this? And I had read some of Len's writing about his anxiety in the local papers in Chicago. And I think It really made him human for me, and I thought it was really, really brave for him to write something like that as a TV announcer, as somebody who's had inhibitions before, I thought, my goodness.”

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  36. “It is it is, and it was so surreal when it became possible when you first throw your hat in the ring figuratively for something like this, you think, well, that would be interesting, but I'm doing okay. I'm doing games for ESPN, and I'd love to have this, but it's kind of a pipe dream no matter what. And it was funny, I was going to Chicago. I'd heard that Hawk might be scaling back, Hawk Harrelson.”

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  37. “And it wasn't Are you Republican? Are you Democrat? Not at all. So I can hoist you up because I only care about you for that circumstance. Not at all.”

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  38. “Yeah, I had become aware of that by virtue of the magic of television. No, but it's a wonderful thing for the city. And I know Sox fans don't like it. There are some Sox fans who do, but some Sox fans who don't. And I get that. And I totally understand that. But in terms of bringing people together and having us, all of us, the one place you can get together is it's a big...”

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  39. “He's part of that organization is good enough for me to understand that it's a happy time for him. I mean, 345 in the morning, I found out when I woke up the next day I had a text from Len that was just a picture of him with the World Series trophy. Like, hey, guess what? We won, which is, I mean, it's not even fair. It was my first season. Like, what are the odds of that?”

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  40. “I think that's 100% true. As you look at, and it's not a tender subject in one way, I mean, Len Casper, the Cubs TV guy, is a wonderful friend and was such an advocate for me in getting this job. And I've had so many people like that that just even the reminder of the fact that”

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  41. “We have so many differences, so many their athletes, I'm not Paul and I are from cities, Kelly's rural, any number of other differences that you can have. The next month, we basically ate just about every meal on the road, talked freely about politics. What are you fearful of and what do you like and what are you interested in? And why is this hard for you? And why is this so easy for you? And whomever voted for who doesn't even matter. But three of us from completely different backgrounds sat down and talked about it. And we became such better friends because of that. It was a very healing thing for all of us to understand why each of us was hurting or elated or whatever it might be. And I thought my goodness. These people will be friends of mine forever in a different way than just about anybody else.”

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  42. “Also natural but selfish, but natural as well. And I travel with this crew. It's me, the play by play announcer and the color analyst and a sideline reporter. I'm from Chicago, I have a disability. The color analyst is a former quarterback named Kelly Staffer, who is from Nebraska, and the sideline reporter is a former lacrosse player who's from Yorktown in New York.”

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  43. “Problem is rallyable if you choose to make that the shining light that you rally people around, that will just that's possible. In groups and outgroups have always existed. But, I mean, for me, the coolest thing about sports in the last six months for me, having to do with that, is I travel every week with a football crew for ESPN. So same announcers, some of the same staff, things like that. And right after the election, you know, what you said was rolling around in my mind first and foremost, which is somewhat selfish.”

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  44. “Seen it? Had it happened to me? People say that. I never thought. Person saying that would end up being the president, but people who are leaders think things that maybe some of us don't think. And the way I it was hard. It is really hard for me, honestly, to see that happen and to see people rally behind it. But I do know that any outgroup.”

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  45. “If we're going to call that trolling, some people are just saying what's on their mind. They don't understand that maybe if they thought a little deeper, they wouldn't, there was one moment I was doing a game at Boise State, a football game, and I looked after the game at Twitter, and there was this thread. Somebody had tweeted something similar to, hey, look over here. And then they responded to their own tweet and said O jeez, I just looked up Jason Benetti. Now I feel awful. There was this existential”

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  46. “Yeah, that's what I think about when I see that is no matter who you are, you're going to get some reaction from somebody by virtue of them watching you. It's a very unnatural thing to watch somebody talk about sports, let alone the idea of talking about sports while they're live anyway and narrating what's happening. But no matter who you are, you're going to get some reaction, and sometimes people just want me to react to them. I don't. I don't respond to that. I've never really understood the whole responding to trolls thing.”

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  47. “Any game I do, honestly, if people are watching, I will get a tweet or two from people that say, Hey, look over here. Or, what's Jason looking at or whatever it might be? But that's the case with anybody.”

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  48. “Yeah, I It was probably a couple years into it that I felt really okay on camera. But part of it is I just with the way my eyes are because of the CP, I have an eye that drifts, and I never really felt comfortable with the way that looked. And I talked to some producers who were very good about it and tried to work with me on kind of angling my head and glasses, no glasses, that sort of thing. How does this look best? And then at some point I said, you know what? It's going to look how it's going to look. If a camera is going to look at me straight ahead, I can't look with both eyes directly at the camera. And whatever flows from that is going to flow from that.”

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  49. “Yeah, my TV stuff started while I was still in law school I was doing high school football for Time Warner up in Syracuse. I would fly up on Friday and then fly back on Saturday after doing the game and they were the ones that really gave me my first TV tape that I could hand to somebody like ESPN and then when I got some work with ESPN maybe two thousand twelve I believe it was You know I got four games the first year and then eight games the second year and it kind of just built from there”

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  50. “Boy, we didn't see anybody good. No, Stephen Strasberg was there, his season coming through the minors, he made six starts, and it was essentially like the biggest vaudeville show you would ever see. People came from Pennsylvania to see him pitch. Then the next year we had Bryce Harper. So the young nationals corps. That they were trying to make good with and still are, but maybe on the back end of it, those were the guys that came through Syracuse. And it was wonderful to watch.”

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