Hey everyone and welcome to episode number 23 of the Chris Rose Rotation, a production of

John Boy Media. You'll notice I'm flying solo. There's no co-pilot today, a little quirk in

the schedule, but that's okay because I have brought with me one of the funniest most

entertaining people in the entire baseball world. No pressure, Stephen Vode, of the Arizona

Diamondbacks. How's that for an introduction?

That's daunting for as an introduction. Now I feel like I really have to bring my A game today,

which I always make sure when I'm going to be hanging out with you, I bring my A game because you do every day.

So got to, you know, play up to the competition. It's more like shoot for average and rarely get there in my book.

So that's kind of the way it is. Now, I want to spin the dial in the way back machine to when we

first met. I had heard of Stephen Boat. I knew who you were. But then Johnny Goams, your old teammate out

in Oakland, calls Malar, they're good buddies,

and says, hey, listen, I know I'm coming on intentional talk, but I want to bring this other guy,

Stephen Boadie's really funny.

And we're like, okay, we'll get another headset.

And history happened for people that never saw it.

Here you go.

Athletics, NBA referee right here.

Steve is Volt, the only guy with a silent T in the world to his name.

Go ahead and show him how you'd make a call real quick.

First off, I got a double tech.

I got a tech on Rosie for that pink shirt.

And I got a tech on my boy, one, five.

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