33: You Don't Know Mike

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

History, Society & Culture

4.9 • 40.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2016

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Sometimes, all you can do is watch.

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0:00.0	This is the way I heard it.
0:02.0	You don't know Mike, but maybe you know how he feels.
0:12.1	The maple wood leopards and the Kenwood cracker jacks have battled into extra innings.
0:17.2	The score is tied at nine.
0:18.9	The bases are loaded and Mike's daughter is at the plate.
0:23.1	The leopards have a chance to bust things wide open.
0:26.2	Wait for one you can hit Lauren and give it a ride.
0:29.7	Lauren waits patiently to do that very thing, but alas the pitcher lobs another brick
0:34.8	high into the air.
0:36.5	Lauren can only watch as it bounces three feet in front of her and slowly rolls across
0:41.1	home plate.
0:42.6	Ball four.
0:44.4	Coach Mike's size and claps.
0:46.5	Good eye kiddo.
0:47.5	Wait a watch him.
0:49.5	Lauren drops her pink bat and skips down to first.
0:52.5	Caitlin crosses home plate with the go ahead run and it occurs to Mike that sometimes all
0:58.5	you can do is watch.
1:00.3	Fifth grade is the first year the girls are allowed to actually pitch to each other and
1:05.6	so far neither side has found the strike zone with anything approaching regularity.
1:12.1	Okay Charlotte wait for one you can hit and give it a ride.
1:16.5	Charlotte watches the first pitch sail over the catcher's head.
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