63: Hard Eights and Husky Boys

Family Ghosts

Sam Dingman

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.8 • 4.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Stories about inscrutable older men with vital wisdom to share - if only we could figure out how to talk to them.

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0:00.0	You're listening to WALT.
0:02.0	VONGRONG
0:06.0	Homemade Radio
0:08.0	When I was a teenager, I used to go to baseball games with my dad at Oral Park at Camden
0:15.6	Yards in Baltimore.
0:18.2	And we would sit and watch the game.
0:22.1	And I used to just marvel at the fact that my dad seemed to know everything there was
0:28.3	to know about all of the players on the Orals.
0:33.8	This guy cannot hit breaking balls.
0:36.4	This pitcher gets flustered when there's runners in scoring position and he can't throw
0:40.8	strikes.
0:42.5	This pitcher is going to throw a fourth change up in a row here because he knows that
0:46.7	the batter has just seen three change ups in a row and he's expecting a fastball.
0:51.2	So when he throws that fourth change up, the batter is going to be completely flimaxed
0:54.9	and he's going to strike out.
0:55.9	You see that?
0:56.9	It just happened.
0:59.2	And I would sit there and I would think, how does he know all this?
1:03.1	That's so cool.
1:04.1	I wish I could understand what's happening on that deep of a level.
1:09.3	But I couldn't.
1:10.8	And so I would go home and I would read box scores and I would read scouting report books
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