00:00My guy, the great Keith Bullock.
00:02KB, it's good to see you, man.
00:03Thanks for having me.
00:04I'm digging the studio.
00:06Obviously, we went to college together.
00:07Grew up in New City together.
00:09Played Little League together.
00:11Little League, Babe Ruth prep, too.
00:12By the way, can we tell that story quickly?
00:15Well, first of all, Babe Ruth, okay, when we were 13,
00:19New City Phillies won a championship together.
00:21Champions.
00:21Champion.
00:22You played short, I played first.
00:24We're in the all-star team together.
00:25All-star team.
00:25Each fish kill.
00:26That's right.
00:27Living the dream.
00:28Utica.
00:29Utica.
00:29Utica, New York, baby.
00:31Lost the first game.
00:32Yep.
00:32Double elimination.
00:34Won every game after.
00:35Every game.
00:35And then lost the final game.
00:37Obviously, you know, my baseball skills wore out pretty soon after that.
00:42Well, let's get into that, too.
00:43I'll give you another story.
00:45Right?
00:45I mean, let's do it.
00:47So we're 15 years old.
00:48The following year.
00:49So 15 years old, and they take 19 kids on the all-star team.
00:52Yes.
00:53They have to cut it down to 15.
00:55The other four that don't make it become alternate.
00:58Alternates.
00:59Alternates.
00:59So you're pretty much not on the team.
01:01You're not on the team.
01:01Not on the team.
01:02So you go from all-star to non-all-star.
01:04Yeah.
01:04And they tell me when I say something that's not right.
01:07They changed the rules.
01:08Where it went from New City to Clarkstown.
01:11To Clarkstown.
01:12To expand the rosters.
01:14Because they thought they were making a run to the 15-year-old Babe Ruth World Series.
01:18They thought they were.
01:20And then, two of the four cuts.
01:22These two guys right here.
01:24And they did it.
01:24Like, you played in the NFL.
01:26They did it publicly.
01:27They called us out on the field.
01:28Yeah.
01:29I'm crying.
01:30You put your arm around me.
01:31Then, the team that was ultimately the roster lost the first two games and eliminated.
01:36They lost the first two games.
01:37And then, I actually got a call to come by then.
01:42I was playing AAU basketball, man.
01:43I'm not taking, you know, second fiddle.
01:45But, that was really the last time I played baseball with that team.
01:51And, it all worked out for us.
01:53We did okay.
01:53We did all right.
01:55You know.
01:56But, we'll never forget that.
01:58I always say that's the only team I ever got cut from.
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