00:00dan shaughnessy uh he's joining us here now uh dan we were talking about uh when i saw you
00:06downstairs when i first got here my first uh full-time-ish gig i guess that was a saturday
00:12show once a week though you know what i mean it was the first consistent gig yeah first
00:15consistent gig not full-time full-time seems like first full-time gig was with keith i broke you in
00:19you did you did you did indeed that's true and so that was the first uh real consistent show i did
00:24was the dan shaughnessy show hosted by adam jim yeah that wasn't that wasn't mentioned
00:28yeah well i'll have to yell at mike about that uh but yeah but good to good to have you on the
00:33show dan thanks for coming in good to be with both of you guys i sort of worked with uh keith in early
00:38days as well with the key for madness one of the stronger segments yeah i care for it and that
00:44clip lives on forever that was also one of the first things i think that helped i think that
00:47actually helped the segment it did knowing how much dan didn't like it had to fire you up a little
00:52bit i want your best word uh that is true so those things i knew uh something i i i didn't realize
00:58dan is that uh your daughter uh years ago was a patient at the jimmy fund uh so you remain
01:03involved you're part of the coverage today uh at nesson uh and so i don't know i guess that's where
01:08your involvement began absolutely this is the only way you're going to get me on nesson and eei
01:12places i hate so here we are but no it's uh no that's the true fact i mean it was remarkable this
01:21morning uh on nesson with dale because the family you guys just talked to a patient and it's great work
01:26that everybody's doing here and i appreciate that so when um i was on with dale this morning the
01:32family had a three three and a half year old daughter who's afflicted with the same thing that
01:37that our daughter had 32 years ago young kate shaughnessy was eight years old acute lymphoblastic
01:43leukemia and uh today is 40 years old has has three little boys coaches and teachers at newton north
01:50and we're so blessed and i always as everybody you guys are around here enough you know this
01:57is a new england mission it's a red sox jimmy fund thing and 72 years old and there's nothing like it
02:04in all of american sports slash charity um alignments and uh and that's why this is the best two days of
02:11the year for for everybody around here and growing up around here i i grew up with the jimmy fund boxes and
02:17and the whole bit and i think those are still in existence they are yeah in groton massachusetts
02:23they were at the ballpark and everywhere and as little kids we were aware of it and um
02:27in the 90s jimmy came forward uh he was a truck driver from from new sweden maine and everybody
02:34thought the young child had died in the 50s uh when the boston braves kind of went to his hospital
02:40bedside there was this national radio program and the jimmy fund was born and then when the braves left
02:44town in the 50s the red sox picked up the charity and and that was that so i i i discovered jimmy
02:51and put the story in the globe and had all that and then our daughter was afflicted and it was uh
02:56these families go through they go through hell it's it's in our case was two years of treatment for kate
03:01but we have a happy ending and and what we want to get to is a hundred percent happy endings and and
03:07less and less side effects that these kids go through but the support system of the jimmy fund i mean
03:12i'm talking downstairs when adam came by with lisa i know when she was lisa graceffa she wasn't even
03:18married yet now her kids are out of college yeah and the continual care over there there's a woman
03:22named phyllis used to draw kate's blood in 1993 she's still over there wow wow um phyllis booker and uh
03:29really it's it's a family over there the support they give these families because it affects everything
03:35in in your lives and uh and of course the nurses and the the support system that you get
03:42is unparalleled so you say the jimmy fund we all come running that includes me with you guys here
03:47today and you've seen this thing evolve too i mean this is what year 23 of this uh the radio telethon
03:53but just the amount of people that are involved the amount of money that has been raised i mean it truly
03:57is unlike anything else it's fantastic and the red sox connection going back to ted williams our
04:03daughter kate got to know ted williams because he would find you he didn't know me i was a writer
04:08that he hated that he was not a fan of you that was it that's a plus they he called the hospital to
04:13find this little kid wow and tell her how unfair this was that he knew dr farber and we always he
04:18always told me we're going to cure those kids ted and and and he said i'm going to come up and watch
04:23you play ball and you tell me if you want to hit in lessons or anything and he just he had a real
04:29sense of the unfairness of it and then you'd go over there and you'd see the robert kraft blood
04:34donor center and the carl yostromsky treatment room and jim lonborg's wife is working in the clinic and
04:40it was just wall to wall in the socks roger clemens gets a lot of grief around this town too much in my
04:45view uh he still is loyal to the jimmy fund and when he pitched here he would go down in his uniform
04:51full uniform and just and be with those kids uh and you can go up through and just you know mike
04:57andrews with director the jimmy fund red sox second baseman of course ken coleman red sox broadcaster
05:01director jimmy fund brock holt today and director jimmy fund and and you know mike andrews all those
05:06years and i just remember when kate john valentine was a star player here and she always wore number
05:1213 because john valentine was nice to her and to this day you know they take those trips down to the
05:17spring training and they'd go to wrigley field lisa's taking these kids everywhere it's nice to see the
05:22teenagers and it's it's an important thing for them to have each other and to have kindred spirits
05:27and and those kids if you're in that hospital and and those kids are hooked up to the to machinery
05:33when these players come into the room the you see those monitors start jumping the hearts are going
05:38because it's it's a big thrill for them and i've seen great athletes be a big part of this and it's
05:43it's really we're all lucky to have it uh you mentioned the red sox and their involvement uh which
05:48you know goes back a long long way i think it's 67 they they uh gave world series uh to the jimmy
05:54fund uh baseball team on the field uh how you feeling about the team right now um i picked them to be in
06:00the i picked them to finish first and they still got a shot you know i don't know what was going on
06:04those first three months that was ugly and uh really bad so but right now when you look at it i mean
06:10they're going to be in the playoffs i you know i also thought the red sox were in 2011 going to be
06:16be in the playoffs there's a famous heidi watney and go oh you don't worry about that thing they're
06:19in they're in don't worry about it but uh yeah so i mean you look at it now cleveland would have to
06:25catch somebody and they're i just don't see that so um to my view there's 37 games left they're in
06:31the playoffs they're the team we hoped they'd be and there's some holes no question and the bullpen
06:36caught up with them over the weekend and i understand that but uh schedule's a little bit lighter
06:40a lot of division games you got to take care of the orioles take care of business those four
06:44new york should be good they're only half game separated there and uh i think anthony has really
06:50changed the dynamic on the team and story being so good he wasn't that player here for three years
06:55so that's that's a game changer i really find them entertaining i mean they're they're sort of
06:59must must see tv they can be must see tv and can't be can't see tv in the same weekend you can't get the
07:04game but uh but yeah there's a lot there's a lot they're a good watch uh they have enough in
07:11the rotation and the bullpen in your mind should they have done something yeah i wish they had
07:14done more and i caught up with them yesterday matt's gave it up and he's he's been okay to until
07:19then but and you know may had a good start is his second one was better than his first it didn't do
07:25enough at the deadline i would like to have seen more and uh the bullpen they're really relying on
07:29two guys in the back to the eighth inning guy ninth inning guy chapman's better than i've ever seen him
07:34i mean he wasn't when he was with the yanks red sox abused him he's a roller coaster yeah he
07:39couldn't throw strikes now he's a machine he's head he's he's all 23 out of 25 and the philly one
07:46was a little sketchy but um he's he's he's been nails so yeah and i understand not pitching yesterday
07:53they make that decision so i was just gonna ask so that decision made before the game i heard uh
07:57chris and and greg talking about that this morning you know you think that's uh it goes above cora yeah
08:02i it's organization-wide and don't forget i know he had he pitched three straight earlier in the
08:08season but he also came out with a back injury 10 days ago or something came out of a game they
08:13want him in you know in five weeks from now they want that guy the guy's been nails all year and so
08:18to decide before the game and then not not retract on that i'm okay with it and don't tell me about
08:24he only threw four pitches three pitches whatever it was on saturday when they get up that's a day of
08:29work and it's it's it's more than you know what goes into that it's not four pitches it's it's a
08:34whole day you know the last time i saw you was actually during the celtic city documentary you were
08:38in that quite a bit how did that all come together how much footage did you have i feel
08:42like you were all over that thing that thing was sensational they did a great job that they
08:46you know i did three sessions they were all like two or three hours they came to my house twice
08:50you know bob ryan lee montville you know so it was uh i learned a lot there were things you know
08:56there was a thing about um red taken taken boston off the jerseys on the road and just celtics so
09:05i found pictures where they're playing the lakers in the finals and some guys have boston some guys
09:09have celtics in the same game really in the same game but you don't even kind of notice um so yeah
09:15it was i thought nine parts it seemed like a lot but i'm gonna watch it again it was uh it was really
09:20appointment tv it was and and learned a lot and that's a franchise is just so much history that we're
09:25lucky to have it and and uh i mean they do they kind of get less abused than the other franchises
09:30i guess maybe because of that okay dan shaughnessy boston globe great to see you uh thanks for uh
09:35coming in uh excellent coverage nice to see my young man doing so well all these years i taught you
09:40everything you know about radio it's just showing you guys doing great thanks that is very much true
09:46uh dan shaughnessy thank you so much
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