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Minimum age and eligibility restrictions apply C show C show notes for details. All right, mailbag, John. Let's start with a thing that wasn't a mailbag, but just a quote from our guy Oakland a retiree Steven vote his quote when he retired.

I've been one of the best players in the league. I've been one of the worst players in the league. He looks like maybe he'd have to retire injured several years ago.

Came back came back again. We've gone back to the beginning with Steven vote or big fans congrats on a great career to him. He wants to hang on our show. He's just been all around great guy to us.

He wants. I don't know if it's quite a forgettable year had to be a pretty cool year for him. The year he played with the Giants and Bruce Bochie clearly loved him.

Do you remember he had a pitch hit home run, I think in like the ninth inning or wasn't the 10th inning. Remember a walkoff home run for the Giants.

That was that today we interviewed him. No, this is this is a cut. This is after we were done with radio. This is, you know, when he played for the San Francisco Giants got it, you know, I think it was 18 or 19.

I just remember him like crying after the game. It was a cool moment. Yeah. I'll always remember the fact that he started his big league career over 32. Then I had to wait like a year and a half to get called back up by the A's.

And eventually his first big league hit was a pinch hit home run. Actually, I was there for it. And I remember thinking this guy's going to get sent down. He'll never get a hit. He'll be like moonlight Graham and field of dreams. It'll be sad.

And then he had like a 10 year career. And then he got the game winning hit for the A's in the playoffs against the Tigers. I remember that.

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