 this year. Is he there now? There you go. I think I'm going to do a television ad for some telephone company. Perfect. How you doing, buddy? I'm doing all right. Oh, you hang it in there. Tell me what that game was like, Gary. Well, it was I mean, obviously very strange. There was a lot of anxiety surrounding it because a couple of games have been postponed in the question of whether or not that game should have been played at all. Remained in the air. Was it going to cause a centerpiece for further problems? Or was it going to be a centerpiece for kind of calming things down? And nobody knew the answer to that. And then you get the ballgame itself is just so strange. You realize how much the crowd really matters to the broadcast and obviously to the players too. And I think the attitude that whole day for everybody involved was, you know, let's do this thing. Let's get it over with and let's get out of here with the hope that there would be no further problems and there weren't. Yeah, that's a great comparison because as you said, there are a lot of people who felt like it shouldn't have been played. That was kind of the feeling going into the possibility of these games because of the coronavirus being played in front of an empty building like should the game be played and and having your heart not completely in something that you're doing in the challenge of that, not just for the players, but for you as a broadcaster. Yeah, because you're it's a whole different set of circumstances and the things you think about. I mean, going I remember going to the ballpark is like, how am I going to? What am I going to do here? Can I get excited? Should I get excited? Is it okay to get excited? Do I remain the, you know, just completely calm? And at one point I thought, you know, it's more like doing the masters and the 18th hole with a couple guys going for birdie into the jacket than it was doing a baseball game because you felt as though you had to be silent almost. But you couldn't be silent because there was no other noise to fill the gap. So you had to be saying something. But what what should you say? So there's all kinds of that kind of mental stuff going on. And I think for the players that may have been we're going to go out and play. I mean, this was like a pick up basketball game that you have a doing noon lunch hour or something or a pick up baseball game you had as a kid, you're going to go out and play. Nobody's going to be there. You're still get involved in the game. You try and perform. You do the best you can. But there's very little there's very little excitement about this. Now kind of just going through the motions. Do you believe? I mean, obviously the press box is is raised from the field. But if there's nobody in the crowd and you have a great voice that really carries, did you think the players heard you? Was that were you conscious about that? Adam Jones came out and told me to hold it down. That was during the game. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I mean, you you really you really were conscious of that, that your voice was echoing all over the place and could be heard because it wasn't another sound in the ballpark. So yes, yes, players did hear you. And he said it with a smile on his face. He was joking, but it was just to point out just how quiet it was. Gary, I think this is such an interesting subject in one day. I think there'll be a fascinating 30 for 30 on this event and how it played out in Baltimore. One of the storylines there. I really think has to be Buck Showalter and the role that he played in Baltimore during that time and how outspoken he was. How did you guys process sort of the role that Buck played? And do you think the community was aware and sort of appreciative of his outspokenness during that time? I think I don't think he's ever gotten enough credit for his response to the whole situation, not just the ballpark situation, but what was going on in Baltimore. I don't think a lot of people know, you know, but Buck's dad was in his own way a very strong civil rights advocate as a teacher, superintendent in a school system where there was racism. And Buck grew up with that and has very strong feelings about racism against and very strongly speaks out when he thinks it's there. And part of that, I think, is what led Buck to be so strong in the support of the community, in support of the city. It wasn't about taking sides. It was about trying to realize how this was a community problem that was going on, that the community was going to have to solve it, that it was going to have to involve people of all color in all backgrounds. And Buck preached that, if you will, and how he conducted himself and in what he said. And I think he had a tremendous impact in that setting more, I think, than people know. I was thinking that we're trying to find positives that come out of this, Gary. And one of the positives is you don't have to announce Glabor Taurus for the first three games of the season. Glabor Taurus. Glabor Taurus? I don't know him. The way you handled that was spectacular, Gary. We loved it. We played that back a bunch. It was honest to God, look, it was just me. That's just me. There was nothing planned there. I love him. I congratulate him on the way he has performed overall, but particularly against the Orioles. But it was just so devastating. I mean, it was every at that he was doing tremendous damage. And maybe that is the positive out of this. Amazing. Yeah, it's great. Gary, thank you for joining us. We really appreciate it, buddy. If I can have just any time. Wait, wait, Don has another question, Gary, just because I might have told him this story years ago, but I don't know if the audience ever heard this story. I don't know if Gary even remembers 1989. I'm a young devil fan in the devil fan club. I'm going to sit with a devil at a dinner they had the devil that I wanted to sit with canceled. He was Jim corn. Remember Jim corn? Jim corn. Yeah. And they said to me they came to me, they apologized to me and said, Listen, Jim canceled. We're going to put you with the announcers and me being a young like wanting to be in the sports business wanting to do NHL get play by play. They put me with you and Chris Moore, who was the radio announcer for the devils. Yep. And it wasn't anything you said, Gary, you just allowed me to chew your ear off for like three hours. And it's somebody that is in the business and I'm getting to do NHL play by play. Thank you. And I still have your autograph in my man cave. Wow, from the table. It's like the devil logo with the table we're at yeah, and Gary autographed it and so to Chris Moore and I haven't hanging up there. So that was a long time ago over 30 years ago. But thank you. That was very nice of you. That's a nice pilot. And I've always said that's what makes this business worthwhile. I mean, I didn't even know the story. Gary, I'm so sorry. He annoys me for four hours a day. And I had worked with him. I can't even imagine what he did to you. Listen, Doc's amazing. I mean, doc is phenomenal. But boy, do I miss Thorne and Clement doing a big NHL game on the SPN or ABC. Do you miss it, Gary? Thank you. I miss the playoffs. Always have to me. There's nothing in sports that equals the two and a half months of the NHL playoffs. It's to me, it's the most spectacular sports presentation that there is and the players give more in those two and a half months when I think any any players given any of the sport. Hopefully we get to see it this year. Yeah, stay safe, my friend. Exactly. All right, follow. Take care. Be well. All right. Thank you. Now, variety is just reporting Peter. Yeah. You want to read it? No, no, that's not what I had. It's something else. Go ahead. WWE moves Smackdown live to Orlando Performance Center with no live audience due to Corona virus. So that was speculated yesterday and then the WWE said they were still planning to move forward in Detroit tomorrow night. I'm not surprised. They're going to move it to the PC in Florida. It's probably the right thing if that's in fact true. You said it was Hollywood reporter. No variety variety. So yeah, it's probably legit and also we were talking to Gary Thorne. Of course, the voice of the Orioles and just a few minutes ago I heard from my friends in Maryland. All public schools closed in the state of Maryland March 16th to March 27th. So it's going to be interesting to see how that plays out across all 50 states and we were talking