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On today's starting nine, Jake and Carl prepare for their inaugural trip out to Los Angeles for

the All-Star game. We're also joined by four-time All-Star Charlie Blackman for just an amazing

interview conversation. It's a great show. It's a great time to be alive. We're ready to have a

wonderful starting nine. Let's get into a voice. Action! Let's go. Welcome back to starting nine.

It's Jake and Carl. Uh, stay dude. Unbelievable conversation coming up with Charlie Blackman.

You look great. Sleeveless. Everything vibes our eye. Yeah, he's just, he's the guy that I thought he

was from talking to him. Uh, so much respect for him as a player doing it as long as he has.

12 seasons. He's at 10 years or almost at 10 years. He takes great care of himself. You know,

ask him if he's gonna, how long he thinks he's gonna play for it. That's a question. Players hate

to get asked. So I kind of, I'm an idea for asking him that. But he's right. You gotta take it day

by day because you never know. He might feel great now. I might feel like shit next month. Uh, and it's

just, it's a cycle. So, uh, but he's been good for so long and what we learned about him, uh,

uh, where he, where he started his college career and then being a pitcher for all of that and

then hitting his last year and then going to the Texas collegial league and turning into Charlie

Blackman, like in a woodbat league. Like it doesn't make sense. It does not make sense. It doesn't

make sense. I want to like normally, I think we were talking a little pre show like we'll, we'll do

Charlie Blackman a later. We're gonna get to it very early in the show because I just want to set

the tone. I'm very excited. Yeah, I was a good one. That was a good one. And he had, uh, he had to leave.

He had to go, um, you know, talk to a softball team that I guess is in town. But we could have sat

and, you know, messing around him for another half hour. It's one of those things where sometimes I

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