 Amongst four named to the Baseball Hall of Fame today the right-handed great Mike Messina who joins us now on the phone Mike first of all congratulations I know you've had a very busy day including coaching your high school basketball teams tell us about what happened and were there any nerves in waiting for that phone call and then what happened after the phone call well um no it wasn't really a nerve this is my 60 year on the ballot and and you know I knew I knew jumping from 63 or whatever it was last year up over 75 was gonna be a big jump and I knew I'd been doing okay and but you never know when the private the votes that are publicized come in you never know where you're gonna be so I thought it was gonna be close and we had practice we had practice after school and and we were just finishing up because there's a girls game coming in behind us and and you know my phone rang and I had in my pocket because I knew if they were gonna call they were gonna call about the time practice was closing out so I had to take the call and leave the leave the gym so that so that I could get some place where nobody could hear me because of course they don't want me to tell anybody until it's on television and so I ran and ran in the head and came back and had to make up some some bunch of crap and told my son that we got to go so that's how it ended and out the door we went hey Mike first of all congratulations and earlier I was telling the story about how you would go to the bullpen before your starts and you would figure out what type of stuff you had that day and then you would tell the catcher how you're gonna get that lineup out on that particular night did you have that from day one or did you learn that along the way no I think that's something that kind of learned I think when you're young you know you just want to impress from the very first time you're out there and you want it to be the best stuff that you've ever had every single time and and you you learn quickly that it's not going to be that way when you're throwing every fifth day and and so I kind of learned that well listen that if this was a game plan what if I don't have a breaking ball that day or what if I don't have good location that day or so let's go to the pen and let's get ready for the game and figure out what works the best and then when we get to the game see if the same stuff carried over from the pen and if it did we're going with it and if it didn't we've got to figure something else out because you know they're counting on me to get to the latter part of this game I'm not going to bail out because I'm going to say well my stuff wasn't good that day so I just try to do my job and figure something out and stay in there as long as I could Mike I'm sure you've got a lot swirling around in your head right now but you had 10 years and 147 wins with the Orioles eight years 123 wins with the Yankees how much thought have you given to what cap you would like to have on your plaque in Cooperstown I got to be honest I mean I wouldn't be on this call with you guys if it wasn't for both organizations so I won't be able to choose how that's gonna be I mean I started my career in Baltimore and had and had 10 seasons and had some success there and I went to New York and had eight more seasons and had some success there and I wouldn't I wouldn't be able to do this without without one place or the other so I mean I'm proud of playing for both organizations I'm glad that I had the opportunity to play for both organizations but I couldn't sit here and choose one over the other