Toucher and Rich: Dave Mellor talks about his life with PTSD (Hour 4)
Toucher & Hardy
Beasley Media Group
4.3 • 735 Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2019
⏱️ 41 minutes
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On this hour: Head groundkeeper at Fenway park Dave Mellor discusses his book "One Base At A Time" which goes over multiple tragic events in his life that lead to his PTSD and how he came to treat it. It's Nick's birthday.. Phil Kessel is a strange guy. The Stack and Zolak join in from Gillette for the crossover
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| 0:00.0 | B-Pod Studios |
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| 0:15.0 | Toucher and Rich on 985, the Sports Hub. 985, the sports hub. |
| 0:40.2 | We're toucher and Rich in studio we have Dave Meller. |
| 0:43.9 | He's a senior director of grounds for Fenway Park. |
| 0:47.5 | And his book is one base at a time. |
| 0:50.0 | How I survived PTSD and found my field of dreams. |
| 0:53.7 | It's not just Dave Meller. It's also the first dog I think we've ever had in this studio. Oh, your dog. In this one? No, I don't think they've ever been in this one. No, no, no, no. And he was any other one. No, Jeannie and Lemmy. Oh, Lemmy, that's right. I was got a slap in the wrist for the lemmy. You did, but the great Drago, the German Shepherd, is gracing. |
| 1:13.5 | He's actually christening this dude. I was got a slap in the wrist for the lemmy. You did, but the great drago, the German shepherd, is gracing. |
| 1:16.3 | He's actually christening the studio, the very first dog you've had in your day. |
| 1:21.1 | If it's anything like mine when they visit, they immediately urinate under a boss's desk. |
| 1:34.5 | At the old building, I had, my dog came to work one day, And for real, we were in the basement, ran upstairs and peed under like the head of everything's desk. |
| 1:37.4 | So she didn't like me. |
| 1:38.3 | She wanted me to get fired. |
| 1:39.5 | Well, Dave just wrote a book. |
| 1:43.0 | And a lot of people, when they go to Fenway Park, have seen you. |
| 2:04.6 | You're the guy who has a dog on the field, which at Fenway Park, which is sacred grounds. And we know how obviously strict they are about, you know, stay on the dirt. Like if you visit it, you know, stay on the warning track, don't go on the grass. So to see a dog out there. It seems kind of strange. But your story is absolutely unbelievable. So, Dave, can kind of you when you were younger you you've always loved baseball and you were a big baseball prospect and then unfortunately disaster |
| 2:10.1 | happened when you were younger correct yes thank you so much for the opportunity to be on your show |
| 2:14.3 | we're glad you're here you know my dream was to make it to the majors as a player. My grandfather played 1902 in the majors, and I played throughout high school and had |
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