All right, back here, Touchardy.

Mark Dundaro, Dan Roach, 98, 5 of the Sports.

So please be joined now by Andrew Callahan of the Boston Herald. Andrew, happy new year. How are you? Good morning, happy new year. I feel like today is the appetizer mark for a full show tomorrow. Correct. Dan, I'll do respect. You are always the main course. But just as far as my scheduling, it's good to be here. No disrespect taken.

It's good to see you.

Not yet.

I'm sorry we were... But just as far as my scheduling, it's good to be here. No disrespect taken. It's good to see you.

Not yet. I'm sorry we were... Anyone ever call you Andy when you're growing up? No. Really? No. Okay. Yeah, I was worried I was going to call you AC. We had a thing yesterday where I called Alex Barth, A.B. And Ryan didn't like it. I don't know if Barth... Tony O'Brien.

Yeah.

Wildly uncomfortable and inappropriate.

He sees Alex Cora.

There are no two people in my life, a term I use, you know, very generally because I don't have Antonio Brown's phone number like I do Alex Barth. That could not be more disparate. Like, I cannot think of someone who is less like Antonio Brown than our friend Alex Barth. But how did. But how did he take to AB? I think he was fine. I think Ryan had more of a producer. I had more of a problem with it than he did. But it just, it spawned this conversation about how I have this bad habit of kind of assigning nicknames in an attempt to sort of become more endearing towards the person. But without, you but without actually knowing them all that well or asking them their take or their input on the actual nickname. The non-permission nickname. You know what that is? That is a youth coach in you. Would you definitely coach something? Yeah. I've coached my kid's sports. Yeah. There we go. Yeah. That's what it is. You just give the kid a nickname. that's our identity in the dugout on the sideline on the whatever it is

that's where that comes around. And drives my wife crazy when people call me Roach and not Roachie. Oh, I don't know why. Yeah. I'm fine. She doesn't like your last name. Rochey would be the nickname. Roach is just your name. And my dad, everybody called my dad Rochie.

So my daughter, they call her Roachie. What are they? To some extent, yes. What do they call your wife? Her name is Pam Rance. Pamela. Just Pamela. Oh, Pamela. I do. You know. Hi, Pamela. What about when you're mad at her? like your kids get the full name.

Never, come on.

I can't.

Wow.

Dan.

You know?

Come on.

I don't. what about when you're mad at her like your kids get mad at my wife never come on i can't wow dan

you know come on i don't buy it i'll say woman that gets her bad right away there you go there you go

you go you want it you go with a three-syllable name all the time yeah wow i couldn't do it i used to have a

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