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Now here's Bobby and Matt.

Hey, everybody, welcome. I saw a really cool picture.

It was you and Kurt Gibson.

Yes. I do remember him hitting the home run. I was just old enough. I remember him hitting the home run. Dodgers. Was it off Dennis Accurously? Yeah. World Series. And it, I mean, it was my earliest childhood memory of like a sports moment. It 1988 i was seven years old and i remember watching

that game with my my family and we're sitting there and he walks up and he looks awful when he

walks the plate you you've seen it you've remember watching it and then it goes like oh two early in the

count and he doesn't even look like he can swing the bat and he fouls off a few. And then I just remember him hitting that bomb. And I mean, we erupted, but just watching the stadium and everybody go and erupt. And then the legendary fist pump as he was going around. I was like, is he going to make it to home? And the hobble. He's hobble. The hobble was for real. But the coolest part was being

able to, we got to talk to him. I got to talk to him for about 20 minutes. And it was interesting.

A lot of people don't know his story, right? He played four years of football at Michigan State

was an all-American, like third all-time and wide receiving yards at Michigan State.

And he only played one year of baseball at Michigan State because his coach told him,

you know what, you should go out and play baseball.

So he goes out there, rakes, that's almost like 400, hits 20 bombs, gets drafted by the Detroit Lions his junior year and said,

there's one condition that I get to go back and play my senior year. And so he goes back and plays and then he goes on to the Detroit Tigers at that point. But incredible story. And then the cool part was him standing there. And he goes, Matt, when you used to come out on the field, what was the first thing that you looked at when you came on the field for warmups? And was like, kind of cut off guard because I usually would run out,

check the clocks a little bit, and then just kind of go to the area. He's like, I used to love to go right there to middle field because that's where all the DBs were. And they used to always chirp at me and talk smack, right? And my dad taught me not to talk smack, but that's when I started taking numbers. and I said, I'm going to run through that guy's face.

I'm going to run by this guy.

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