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🗓️ 1 July 2015
⏱️ 24 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hey everybody it's Ian and Mike we are still on summer vacation Mike is in |
0:05.7 | Minnesota I am sitting in my childhood bedroom back in Minnesota and you are in your |
0:12.4 | childhood office back in Chicago. |
0:15.0 | We do want to bring you a few how-tos. |
0:18.0 | These are some segments from our early days. |
0:21.0 | This is John calling from Brooklyn, New York. |
0:25.0 | And I want to know how to become a baseball fan. |
0:30.1 | I've never been a baseball fan, but I want to become a fan for the rest of my life. |
0:37.3 | Thanks. |
0:38.3 | That's a great question, John, and I think maybe the best person to help you is a fan. |
0:42.7 | Yeah, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, |
0:45.7 | do you have any advice? |
0:46.8 | First, watch it on television, |
0:50.2 | and the TV announcers are going to hate me. |
0:53.0 | But turn off the sound of the announcers and put on the radio announcers. |
0:57.8 | Okay. |
0:58.8 | And the reason I say that is the radio announcers in words have to describe what's happening on |
1:05.8 | the field and so because you're not seeing it the TV announcers are doing |
1:10.9 | something else. |
1:12.5 | And if you're listening to them, |
1:15.8 | they will explain the strategy of the game. |
1:19.4 | They'll tell you where the pitcher is pitching and why, outside corner where, what the strengths and |
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