 All right. As promised, here we go. Let's talk some baseball movies, shall we? And how much did your love of the movies influence your love of baseball? You know, my love of baseball started first and foremost with my father. And then it kind of branched out from there. The first movie I could remember watching is The Bad News Bears. And I'm not talking about the one that just came out with Billy Bob Thorne. I'm talking about the one with Walter Matthow as butter maker. That solidified my love for the game of baseball. And how progressive was The Bad News Bears in the late 70s when you had Tatum O'Neill as their starting pitcher who was fanning boys left and right on the mound. You couldn't get any better than that. And you had such the cast of characters in that movie. Whoever casted those kids as part of that ensemble was truly amazing. They did a tremendous job all around with that movie. Some of the stuff doesn't play today and I understand that. But it's still that classic baseball movie that continued my love affair with the game really sparked me interest in it. Did you say that was the very first movie you saw, baseball movie you saw? Probably, yeah, Bad News Bears, probably the natural sometime after that. The natural to me as a kid, I didn't really understand all the goings on and you know the gambling and the throwing of games. I didn't know what the heck was going on. All I was concerned with was Robert Redford hitting the light stanchions and making them explode at the end of the movie. There's so many baseball movies that not only do I go back to but they happen when I'm on the golf course with my friends. Just the lines that come from these movies. Major League is one of the biggest by the way. You can't get into the first hole without me saying Euker just a bit outside. Now if you knew my slice you know exactly why I'd say just a bit outside because I'm probably about three fairways over on the first T-Box. Okay that leads me right to because from the moment we met almost 20 years ago we've been here forever. Oh my god it's been too I'm thinking back I'm thinking gosh this guy recites baseball movie quotes every 10 minutes. Yeah yeah it's it's it's terrible but it's it's a way of life. I mean I can't help it it's just the way it all again it all starts with my dad and the love of the game through him and my brothers with him and then we watch the baseball movies and everything just kind of clicks in and I gotta tell you this quick story because Major League has to be one of my top movies and this is my list you could anybody watching this could debate me to till they're blue in the face but Major League the original is where like I make most of my bones with my baseball movie knowledge and I was actually at the 1997 World Series with NBC when I worked for them and I was standing in the bowels of pro player stadium at the time and I was watching the giants and bangles it was a sunday around one one o'clock they had just kicked off maybe eight minutes into the first quarter and I feel somebody on my left hand side and I hear the voice because I'm intent on watching my giant so I hear the voice and the giant's winning and I was like wait a minute that's Bob Uker and he was calling the games with Bob Costas and Joe Morgan so I knew I have this innate ability to know a voice I mean if you play me a soundbite of a voice I know it so I knew it was Uker so I turned and it was like a 12 year old child going you and that's exactly what I did and I was so embarrassed by just saying that but we proceeded Nancy to stand and watch the giants and bangles for the next 20 minutes while both of us did lines from Major League it was a true out-of-body experience plus before he left he said hey Chris I got to get out of here I said can you do me one huge favor my mother loves you she still has my business card when I worked for MSNBC and it was signed to Carol just a bit outside Bob Uker so that's one of my favorite baseball stories one of my favorite baseball movies with one of my favorite not only actors players Miller like commercial person Bob Uker I mean it was just it was the culmination of watching this guy my entire life and then getting to spend 20 precious minutes with him was fantastic Chris that's great what a great story yeah I know there's so many in your head do you have favorite movie quotes favorite movie quotes well I don't want to bring it down but I'll try to keep it positive at the same time but I turn into an absolute puddle to this day when Ray Kinsella asks his father to have a catch and feel the dreams and everybody asks me why and everybody has their problems with field of dreams because Shula's Joe Jackson was lefty and Ray Leota batted righty in the movie I remember Chris Maddog Russo went up one side of that movie and down the other if you could just stop with the technical aspects of everything and just just take it for what it is I mean it's a baseball movie it's a it's a son trying to reconnect with his father that is one of the reasons those of us that love this game is because it does become fabric in our lives it's an everyday thing it bonded me with my father as well and I too memories about field of dreams so many impactful moments and it's interesting what parts hook different people and for me the line was if you build it he will come because that's a metaphor of life really absolutely and you know I didn't know this until maybe about a week ago but the actor who plays Kevin Costner's father his father actually died the week before they filmed that scene so you could imagine what that was like for him filming that scene a week after his own father passed away so that to me even makes that scene even more powerful than it was before so I don't know how soon I could watch that movie again I mean I did put myself through it my father passed in November I did put myself through it maybe a month after that just so I could see how I would react and as you can imagine I was a puddle but it's it's it's not it's not a sad puddle it's it's a cathartic it's a cathartic puddle because it brings back great memories of my dad 100% I totally understand that so let's end on a positive a funny line from a movie funny line from a movie okay there's so many the sandlot the sandlot brings so many to to to mention but I gotta go back to major league bold Durham major league I'll give you one from bold Durham I'll give you a one from major league the one from bold Durham is when the manager goes in and talks to Kevin Costner and says I don't know what we're gonna do you know we stink I'm just paraphrasing your course and Kevin Costner says their kids scare them and he takes a bunch of bats and he goes into the shower he throws the wooden bats all into the shower and he goes everybody be it better be into the shower in 10 seconds Larry and and Larry starts counting back from 10 and I mean I'm just I'm dying laughing as I'm thinking about this and as I watch it every time but it's the whole lollygag thing you guys lollygag around you lollygag in and out of dugout you lollygag your way down the first you lollygag and what does that make you Larry lollygag what's our record Larry 8 and 16 8 and 16 how do we ever win eight it's a miracle it's a miracle so there's the one from bold Durham and major league it's funny because I told you the golf course does not happen without lines from major league my cousin maybe two weeks ago text me he goes right now AMC major league so I went right to it and every scene Nancy has a quotable line every every damn scene has a quotable line you cannot go a scene without it whether it's hats for bats with serrano whether it's the by play between Roger Dorn and the manager when they're sitting around the conference table figuring out who to bring in and and one of the guy says this guy is dead and the owner says well cross him off then and I don't want to I know we're pressed for time but anything Euker said and it goes back to that story with him sitting there at pro player stadium he said to me Chris there were so many lines that hit the cutting room floor that you never even know about I asked him to give me a couple I cannot say them on this zoom cast right now but let me just tell you they were funny and they could have been added in there he asked me what my favorite one was I also can't say that either on this zoom cast because we got to keep okay two of the most quotable movies ever major league and also caddy shack right okay oh caddy shack bull Durham don't get me started on caddy shack we'll be here forever our time is done we could go on but I love visiting with you great to see you teammate see you soon you too Nancy stay safe