Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: Hello and thank you for choosing Men of a Certain Five. We're gonna break down top five everything from the world of pop culture and just the world in general. I'm Phil Rizzo. I'm gonna be joined by Brian Parks on this podcast. But a quick disclaimer. This podcast was originally called the High Five Podcast. We decided after recording a few episodes to change the name for a multitude of reasons. But yeah, now it's called Men of a Certain Five. So if you do hear us refer to it as the High Five podcast, please ignore that for the first few episodes. We think we have some good content. We didn't want to go back and re record the those episodes where we mentioned the High Five. So we're going to stick with it and we appreciate your patience. Listen, thank you so much for listening and yeah, we look forward to putting some pods out there for you.
[00:00:54] Speaker B: Well, hello, thanks for joining us. How are you? Thanks for hitting us up here on the High Five podcast. Welcome back. We're back for another episode, Episode two here. Hopefully enjoyed the Bugs Bunny episode. That was about a five hour episode, so we're hoping this won't take as long, but that was very tough to do. But I'm Brian Parks and I'm joined by Phil Rizzo, my compadre. Say hello there, Phil.
[00:01:15] Speaker A: What's up, buddy?
[00:01:17] Speaker B: Not much. How you doing over there?
[00:01:19] Speaker A: Doing well, doing really well. Hey, man, we had fun doing that Bugs Bunny pod. I don't care if it was five, six, ten hours, man. It was a blast. We were laughing our asses off.
[00:01:26] Speaker B: That's true. And I know the other day we played cards there and you brought up the list there and you're, you're John whoever. I haven't seen him in years. John Adams. See him, you know, he, he mentioned a few there. He, he got all pumped up. I wish we would have had him on as a guest right away.
[00:01:38] Speaker A: I could have had him on, you know, but you know, I wasn't thinking.
[00:01:41] Speaker B: We'Ll get him on down the line, other Looney Tunes for us to tackle. But, but he was rattling off some ones I kept. I was like, holy, I forgot about that one. I forgot about that one. You know what I mean?
[00:01:48] Speaker A: Like, yeah, he's old school. He's definitely more into like the, the, the like late 30s, early 40s, whereas we were definitely, you know, late 40s to early 60s kind of. He's, he's definitely a little early, early, early, early era Bugs.
[00:02:01] Speaker B: Right, right, right, right. But no, it was definitely a fun one. Like you said like it was hard to squeeze some of them into a five. I think that that's what makes the five kind of interesting. You know, you kind of, you can't, you don't have those other ones. You love that you, I mean, you get to talk about them a little bit. You know, we get some honorable mentioned shit here or there, but you know.
[00:02:16] Speaker A: Different challenge it is.
[00:02:17] Speaker B: It's a tight five here, you know, Tight five.
So what do we, what do we have Today? We went a little different here. You know, we, we decided to go away from the entertainment and go into sports. Although I guess the sports is entertainment. What the hell are we talking about here? Right now we're gonna, where we're going to count down our top five. The top five live sporting events we've been to. Now this. Everybody has their own. We've all experienced different things here. How were you? How did you come to this and how hard was it for you?
[00:02:40] Speaker A: Oh, this was hard. This was really hard, you know, really, because I've, you know, I've mainly just been doing baseball and hockey my whole life. I've only been to one football game, one basketball game my entire life. And they were both pretty unremarkable. So it was all baseball and hockey, which is pretty much all Devils and Mets. So, you know, I kind of, kind of came from that.
[00:03:00] Speaker B: Now did you only, did you only stick to the main four? Did you bounce out of that?
[00:03:05] Speaker A: You know what? I thought about it, but I don't think a couple came close to getting in there. But I don't think I've been to, you know, really major events that I, that I thought were better than the main four.
[00:03:14] Speaker B: Right.
[00:03:15] Speaker A: What about you?
I know there's going to be, I know there's going to be one that deters in the main four for you at least, I think.
[00:03:22] Speaker B: Yeah.
Yeah. Well, I was going to mention too, the fact that I did appreciate, even though, you know, the sport is ridiculous, but I'm not a big NASCAR fan. But it was fun going to a couple of those races with you.
[00:03:34] Speaker A: Yeah, that was fun. Back in the day, again, nothing that.
[00:03:36] Speaker B: I would put on the list, but it was just something that it was cool to experience kind of thing. It's like, you know, you check that off the list kind of deal, you know.
[00:03:42] Speaker A: Yeah. No, that's awesome. Yeah. For like a hot two years, man, I was so into nascar. We used to go to, we used to go to a bunch of races. That was a lot of fun.
[00:03:50] Speaker B: That was cool. Yeah, I did like the night race of Richmond. That was cool. That was fun.
[00:03:53] Speaker A: Yeah, that's a good one. Yeah. A little short track there. Good. Richmond.
[00:03:59] Speaker B: Yeah. So. But yeah, I mean, I, I mostly have been to football and I would say, I would say.
I would say within the last few years, I've definitely been to so many Devil games. But. But also, I mean. But overall in my life, I've been to a lot too. But. But I feel like I might have even seen them the most because to be honest with, the tickets are cheaper and they live right here. They play right here, you know.
[00:04:18] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, yeah. Why not?
[00:04:19] Speaker B: Right. At least right where I am anyway. But, but, but being a Cowboy fan, I. I've seen a few Cowboy games live, but never in Texas, so I'll have to do that eventually.
[00:04:27] Speaker A: Oh, you gotta do that. Yeah.
[00:04:29] Speaker B: I have traveled around a bit, seen a few different stadiums with football and.
[00:04:34] Speaker A: But what have you seen, what stadiums you've been to?
[00:04:38] Speaker B: I went to. Well, my brother's a Cincinnati Bengals fan, so we went to.
We watched this. Went to go see them play in Baltimore.
[00:04:46] Speaker A: Nice.
[00:04:47] Speaker B: They played the Ravens.
We did go to a Cowboys Redskin game a few years ago when they were still the Redskins. This was in Washington.
[00:04:54] Speaker A: Okay, well, it's not rfk. What was it, what was it called now?
[00:04:59] Speaker B: I don't even know.
[00:05:00] Speaker A: I'm a Redskins fan, folks. But that's only on paper. I haven't been really Die Hard football since high school, but on paper I'm still like a Redskins Commanders, whatever I call them, I'm still a Commanders fan.
[00:05:09] Speaker B: It's easier for me to tell you the older stadiums, I think, than the new. I can't. Because sponsors totally can't say. Like, you know, like, I still call MetLife Giant Stadium even. You know, like, what are we doing?
[00:05:18] Speaker A: I'll always.
[00:05:18] Speaker B: Giant fans do.
[00:05:20] Speaker A: Yeah, right.
[00:05:20] Speaker B: Exactly. Exactly. But I.
Yeah. And I gotta say, the, the coolest trip I ever did for sports in my life was again, this was an overall experience. So it's not really my top five because the games weren't necessarily the best. But just overall, just the quick story that we went to.
My brother planned this trip out with me and two of our buddies there. We went to Canton, Ohio to see the hall of Fame.
[00:05:40] Speaker A: Nice.
[00:05:40] Speaker B: On a Saturday.
And then because we're in Ohio, we went to the 1 o' clock game on Sunday. The 49ers played Cincinnati. And we saw that in Cincinnati. And then we drove. It was only an hour and a half to Indianapolis. And we saw the Sunday night Game was the Steelers at the Colts. So that was a fun.
[00:05:55] Speaker A: That's awesome. Little trip there.
[00:05:57] Speaker B: Yeah, a lot of fun there. Yeah.
[00:05:59] Speaker A: I recently, you know, took a trip to Montreal. You know this.
[00:06:02] Speaker B: Oh, that's right.
[00:06:03] Speaker A: Went up there and we. I got to see Canadiens play the Bruins at the Bell center in Montreal. Man, it was freaking awesome.
[00:06:10] Speaker B: Very cool.
[00:06:10] Speaker A: It didn't make my list, you know, but. But it was. It was, you know, cool experience. Seeing a very experience hockey game in hockey. Hello. Seeing a hockey game in Canada. 1. Seen an Original Six matchup. 2, and let me tell you, man, last game of the year, the Canadiens are way out of it. They're nowhere near the playoffs this year. This place was packed and rocking like it was the first game of the season. It was unbelievable. So, so much fun. Yeah. I thought we were just gonna be like, you know, oh, yeah, the Bruins are gonna come in, mop up, and then, you know, we'll walk around a stadium and just check out the experience. But it was fun. It was a close game, man. The Bruins, I mean, the. The. The Habs were up, I want to say 3, 2 in the third period, but then the Bruins came back 1, 4, 3. But nah, like a great experience. Like, you know, as far as, you know, me, I've been to some baseball stadiums. I was speaking Montreal. I was actually. I was at the old Expedome. I saw the exposure when I was in seventh grade. Yeah.
[00:06:59] Speaker B: Wow.
[00:07:00] Speaker A: I seen the Twins play in. In the.
What was that called? Is the. In Minneapolis? I can't remember what the name of the stadium was.
[00:07:08] Speaker B: There's a dome, though, wasn't it?
[00:07:09] Speaker A: Yeah, it's a. Something dome. I can't remember what it was. Not the Astrodome, obviously. It's like the.
Some. Anyway, I've been there. I saw a game at old Veterans Stadium. I've been to some baseball stadiums. I've been to a couple hockey arenas here and there.
One that, again, it's a bunch of. Almost made the list, but me, John Adams, who we'd mentioned before, my brother Drew, we all went to the NHL All Star game in 1992. That was pretty wild. At the Philadelphia Spectrum. Yeah, that was cool. Saw Scott Stevens score a goal for the. For the East. So, yeah, been to a lot. A lot of cool. A lot of cool stadiums. You know, seen a lot of good games. As far as football, I only saw Skins Giants at Giants Stadium back in the day. And a few years back, I took the family to see Knicks Heat at Madison Square Garden. First Knicks game we ever Saw. And that's it. Other than that, man, it's going to be hockey. Hockey and baseball, let me tell you.
[00:07:57] Speaker B: Yeah, I tried to spread it out a little bit here, but yeah, I went to two basketball games when I was a kid. I was on a basketball team. Like, I forget if it was high. I think it was grade school, actually, because we were running around the ring. We didn't really care too much about the game. This is when the Nets played in Brendan Byrne Arena. That's how long ago.
[00:08:10] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:08:12] Speaker B: Yeah, so. But so not a lot of no basketball on the list, but we tried to spread out everything else, so we'll see what we get down to.
[00:08:20] Speaker A: You know, I tried going outside the box a little bit. I was thinking, you know, I saw Globetrotters game once, you know.
You know, we saw a couple cool horses race at, you know, Monmouth, you know, which I know we're going to touch on, you know, horse racing at.
[00:08:32] Speaker B: Some point, but unfortunately we probably will.
[00:08:35] Speaker A: Nothing unfortunate. We got the Kentucky Derby coming up. What, Sunday? Saturday already?
[00:08:41] Speaker B: Yes. Not this Saturday. Next Saturday.
[00:08:42] Speaker A: Next Saturday. Okay. Yeah. So there you go. So the sport of kings, it's never goes away. I love it.
[00:08:48] Speaker B: Yeah, I horn Globetrot is a cool experience, though. I mean, you know, does Disney on ice count?
[00:08:52] Speaker A: I.
I don't know.
[00:08:55] Speaker B: No, no, no. I like that, though. Some different experiences. One thing I will say, I've never been to either. That I think I've always heard. Now, again, growing up in the Northeast here, it's not a big thing. I don't envision it being a big thing from where we live. But college football or even college basketball, although college basketball is bigger up here because they have Syracuse, you have Seton hall, you have St. John's but I've never been to a big time college basketball or football game. And that's got to be a sports experience. No.
[00:09:20] Speaker A: Well, I'll tell you what. I saw Rutgers beat Purdue last season live right there in the arena. So Purdue was the number one seed and Rutgers, you know, they had no business even being in that game. I was running the Pizza Hut there, you know, so I'm running the stand. We're watching the game. Like, holy, are they doing this? Are they in this game? So we just, we closed down early and we all went in there to watch, watch the end of the game and they fucking buzzer beater, boom. Rutgers beats number one, Purdue. That was, that was a thrill, let me tell you. That was, that was in contention.
[00:09:48] Speaker B: You know, there was a few people there that didn't give a fuck about the game. Like, where the. Is the pizza here?
[00:09:53] Speaker A: Stuffed crust. Closed down. Yeah. You know what's funny about you, too? I also thought about.
I saw the first year that Beckham came to the mls.
We saw the Red Bulls played a Galaxy at. At Giant Stadium.
A 54 win for, I want to say the Red Bulls, but no, it's just thinking outside the box, you know, I did see an MLS game once. I got to see David Beckham play, which is pretty cool.
[00:10:20] Speaker B: Very cool.
[00:10:21] Speaker A: Yeah. So, you know, I tried hard, but boom. Nope. Pretty much. Pretty much. Devils.
[00:10:26] Speaker B: You actually made me forget that. I mean, remember that? I totally forgot about that. I went to a open. What do you call it? Friendly game with England against usa Maybe I forget.
[00:10:35] Speaker A: Yeah, friendly. Nice exhibition game in the States. But they called it friendly out there.
[00:10:41] Speaker B: Yeah, it was like 20 years ago, at least. But it was. It was. It was a cool experience. And I know they. You know they have this Red Bull arena, right, in Harrison.
[00:10:49] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. They don't play the Giant Stadium anymore. Yeah, they have their own arena. And it's not the New York. New Jersey Red Bulls. Right. It's like just New York.
[00:10:56] Speaker B: I don't even know, to be honest with you.
[00:10:58] Speaker A: They used to be the New York. New Jersey Metro Stars.
[00:11:02] Speaker B: You're in Jersey. What are we doing here?
[00:11:04] Speaker A: I think they're New York Red Bulls, actually.
[00:11:05] Speaker B: I think they might be. Who knows? Yeah, but I hear the stadium's nice, and it's a fun, fun experience, but it is.
[00:11:11] Speaker A: Yeah. I saw a couple friendlies myself. It's fun, you know, when you start thinking about this stuff, you know. I know. I saw, like, Manchester United played Liverpool at the Link. It was when the Link was first built in Philly. We went out and saw that game there. So. Yeah. Been to a lot. A lot of sports in my life. So this was. This was no easy list, especially when you only had five.
But I will say this, it did for me. It came down to pretty much personal milestones as far as.
[00:11:35] Speaker B: Yeah, I think same for me.
[00:11:37] Speaker A: Nice. Nice.
All right. Yeah. You want to kick it off?
[00:11:42] Speaker B: All right. Yeah. So let's get to this now, you know, before I get to number five, too, I wanted to say another, you know, dumb sport that I've been to is I actually did go to the Greyhound racetrack in Florida. There was one in Florida. I know there's a few in Florida, I think in Connecticut, but that was me, too.
[00:11:56] Speaker A: Which, which. Which town in Florida did you go to?
[00:11:58] Speaker B: The one I went to was Called the West. West Palm Beach Kennel Club. I don't even know. Okay, this is. This is way back. This is. This has got to be in the mid-90s. I was a fucking kid there when my uncle went. Me, my brother, my uncle, whatever. But it was awesome, you know. And which one did you go to now?
[00:12:13] Speaker A: St. Petersburg. My cousin Keith was working there as a security guard. We were down in Clearwater for a vacation. My angel and I, My. My. My wife and.
And we. So. Oh, you're right there. Yeah, we went down there. It was freaking dog track. I had no idea. I was like, oh, shit.
[00:12:29] Speaker B: Yeah, my uncle had same thing. He was retired. He was. He worked a day or two there, actually, himself. He was like, swept the floor. Swept the tickets off the floor, that kind of shit, you know.
[00:12:36] Speaker A: Nice.
[00:12:37] Speaker B: But. But, you know, to watch them run, they cannot take the turns without falling over each other. It's the funniest thing, man.
[00:12:43] Speaker A: Is that right? I didn't see much of the races themselves, actually. It was. They had. They had a poker room. So you can imagine where angel and I were at the whole time.
[00:12:49] Speaker B: That's hilarious, actually. And, you know, they also. They. From what I remember being down there, too, is they had this simulcast thing for this high. Alive is a big thing. You know what I'm talking about?
[00:12:58] Speaker A: I do know the sport, but I've never. I've never seen it. I've never seen it. And they're watching.
[00:13:01] Speaker B: I saw it on the tv. Yeah. I didn't know what the hell I was watching. And I couldn't tell you how you would even bet on it, but I'm sure there's somebody out there that knows. But I just thought I was like, wow, this is. For some reason, I always put that with greyhound racing. I've never seen either one anywhere else.
[00:13:14] Speaker A: You know, so I'll tell you what, before we dive. Dive in. Like, are there any other obscure. Because I'm thinking now, I've been to a couple wrestling matches back in the day. I don't know if you categorize as entertainment or sports, but back in the day. Day I've definitely seen. I saw Andre the Giant, Hulk Hogan.
[00:13:26] Speaker B: Did you really?
[00:13:27] Speaker A: Oh, dude. Back. We saw Andre the Giant at Freehold High School.
[00:13:33] Speaker B: Wow.
[00:13:34] Speaker A: No, this was before wrestling blew up. It was the early. Early 80s, like 1982, I want to say. And we got to free old high school. They were there. It's ridiculous. And then it was like a year later that Hogan, you know, took the belt from Bob Backlin and Like, boom. It was off and running from there.
[00:13:50] Speaker B: Yeah, that was.
[00:13:51] Speaker A: I'm sorry, Big time. Iron Chic took it from Backlin and then Hogan beat the Iron Chic, like, a month later. Anyway, so, yeah, we saw a wrestling match. And I'm thinking, I've never been to a tennis match. I've never seen golf. I've never. Have you ever done tennis?
[00:14:04] Speaker B: No. Tennis. I would do golf. I can't understand anybody watching golf, you know, live or on television.
It has got to be the most confusing thing in the world to me that people actually do that.
[00:14:19] Speaker A: 100. I'm sorry if you're a golf fan out there, but I have no.
[00:14:21] Speaker B: I got nothing for golf, you know, especially if you're watching. I can, I can see maybe, you know, you know, Tiger's going to hit one. Let's watch him hit. Okay. Like, if he's on tv, I'll see him, you know, shoot the ball to the hole.
[00:14:34] Speaker A: I mean, not the, the Ryder Cup. Maybe if the US Is facing, you know, whatever they play, maybe I'll watch.
[00:14:41] Speaker B: But I'm saying, I don't know anybody sitting down, like a one o' clock going, I'm going to sit here till five watching golf. Like, oh, I can't.
[00:14:46] Speaker A: I don't get it.
[00:14:48] Speaker B: I mean, I can't think of anything else, you know, I'd rather watch, you know, the wall for five hours. What are we doing here?
[00:14:57] Speaker A: I'm with you, man. No, I have no idea. I have no idea what, what possesses people to watch golf. But some people are just. They're die hard. It's like nascar. I wouldn't watch a race now, but like, for a couple years there, I was, like, hooked. I was so into it. But I wouldn't be caught dead watching one now. I don't think.
[00:15:10] Speaker B: Yeah, no, I mean, but I, I'm trying to think if I would take nascar. I think I would take. I think I would take anything over golf. I can't, you know, like, if you're playing miniature golf, that would be different, you know, that would be a little. A little interesting.
[00:15:21] Speaker A: But I mean, NASCAR would still come in like sixth or seventh, I think, you know, and golf would be like 13th. So. Yeah, I'm with you.
[00:15:27] Speaker B: Well, there's a top top five sports you don't want to watch. There you go.
We'll get to that eventually.
[00:15:33] Speaker A: Last one, last one. I saw rug rugby match when I was up in Montreal once. That's it.
[00:15:37] Speaker B: Wow.
[00:15:37] Speaker A: Boom. If I think of any other screw ones, I'll shout them Out. But I think that's pretty much it.
[00:15:42] Speaker B: I saw a couple of friends of mine play ping pong once. Does that counter?
[00:15:47] Speaker A: It counts, buddy.
[00:15:50] Speaker B: All right, let's get to this. The high five. Unless you want to take it.
[00:15:53] Speaker A: No, take it.
[00:15:54] Speaker B: All right, well, we're going to go number five here now. Now just let's get this out of the way because you knew this is coming. Now, unfortunately, my, my father got me and my brother into horse racing when we're younger, so we, we did go to the track a lot growing up and still go now, you know, not, not, not as much as I used to because, you know, money is important and I'm not good at gambling. So what are we doing here? But I did grow up being a big fan of the game. And in fact, I got to tell you. So. So I live in New Jersey, so Monmouth park was someplace we used to go every summer. And their big race is called the Haskell, which I never went with as far as I remember, with my parents. If we did, I wasn't. I didn't really know the game back then. As far as knowing doing that. I don't remember us doing that. But me and you have been to many of these.
[00:16:35] Speaker A: Yeah, you got me into it years and years ago.
[00:16:38] Speaker B: Well, the first person I went to to a Haskell, believe it or not, was this kid Matt Margeson, who I was good friends with doing theater and in high school. And he actually does composing for movies now. He does like, he did like the music on like Lyle. Lyle Crocodile or something. He does like he movie. Not big, but he's, he's on his way. Yeah. So he went. He took me to my first high school. The horse, that one was called Skip away, that was 1996. But so, so anyway, to get, to get to the list here, I had to put this on there just because, you know, it's the only. The first Triple Crown horse I've ever seen win actually is American Pharaoh. And he won after doing that. He came to the Haskell and he ran his first race after winning the Belmont was at the Haskell at Monmouth park. And he buried everybody. And it was just a great thing to see.
[00:17:18] Speaker A: I think I was there. Yeah. I mean, watch. Watching him zoom past us when you went up to the rails, that was pretty spectacular. We're in a picnic area there and we walked right up to the, right up to the fence and just watching that freaking.
I'm gonna use the word majestic beast roll by us, was. Was a real thrill, especially, you know, after we won the goddamn triple crown. Amazing.
[00:17:37] Speaker B: Yeah, that was a thrill, definitely. You know, it was like. Especially when they were coming around the turn there and he started to take off. It was like, you. You knew he, you knew he was, he was gonna. He was in the crowd.
[00:17:46] Speaker A: I was gonna say there was a palpable excitement in the crowd, especially for that turn. Everyone was like, you know, it was pretty wild. It's pretty cool.
[00:17:54] Speaker B: It really was. You know, like I said, you know, I never got to see any of the Secretariats or Seattle Slews or.
You will ride me like Seattle Slew. What was it, the Liar, Liar line?
[00:18:06] Speaker A: Oh.
[00:18:09] Speaker B: What the hell. For some, when I said Seattle Slew, that line came into my mind, remember? I think he's talking about the defending the. My client's been written more times.
He throws that in there for some reason.
[00:18:19] Speaker A: There's a movie called A Fine Mess. It was this Blake Edwards movie. And Sorry sue was the horse in there that won backwards because they laced it with so much drugs. And I think that was a take on Seattle Slew. Sorry Sue. So that's what I thought you were thinking of at first.
[00:18:32] Speaker B: Was that how. How.
[00:18:33] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. Ted Danson.
[00:18:35] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah.
[00:18:35] Speaker A: Okay, great, great 80s movie. Loved it.
[00:18:38] Speaker B: Yeah, but that's my number five there. What do you got?
[00:18:41] Speaker A: All right. Hey, number five. So we're gonna. This is.
I don't know how to feel about this, but I can't deny that I was there to see it. So 2009, it's my birthday. Angel and I, we're gonna go to a Met game.
We're splurge. We're gonna get good seats. We have really good seats. We're really right.
Right on the bottom, bottom area there. If you, if it's a right handed batter up, you could see us right behind a batter. Every time they showed that angle from head on, really cool.
So we get there a little late, we miss it inside the park. Home run by Angel Pagan.
Mets are up 1, nothing. But before we even got to our seats, they were already down. Like I want to say 2, 1, 3, 1. Doesn't matter.
It really doesn't matter because they did not win this game.
So ninth inning, Mets are down, I want to say by two.
They're rallying. They got two runners on and, you know, and they're really starting to hit and use excitement. The whole crowd's like, holy shit. You know, nobody out, two runners on.
Here's the pitch. Game over.
We're like, what?
What the fuck happened?
So we saw something that is rarer than a perfect game.
We saw an unassisted triple play. We were there. Yep, Eric Bruntlet for the Philadelphia Phillies second baseman. He pulled off an unassisted triple play to end the game in the bottom of the fucking ninth. Instantly, half the crowd had no idea what had happened.
It has only happened 15 times in about 120 years.
[00:20:14] Speaker B: Holy. Well, I gotta tell you, I'm sitting here going, I don't know what the fuck happened. So you got to run this.
[00:20:19] Speaker A: An unassisted triple play. There's probably a couple ways it happens. But the main way this happened was so run around first and second. Eric Bruntlet is the second baseman. So he's standing just to the. If you're looking on tv, just to the right of second base, right?
Boom. Jeff. What the hell is his name? I can't think of. He was a hard hitter. Boom. Comes off the bat super hard. So the runners go, nobody out, right? But they think it's a base hit.
So the runners go. Bruntlet catches this line drive. Boom. One out.
[00:20:46] Speaker B: Oh, so that's one out right there, second base.
[00:20:49] Speaker A: Because the runner from second was already running to third tag, second base. Two outs. The runner from first ran right into his glove. Three outs.
Unassisted triple play. It's been 14 years since it happened, and it hasn't happened since that was the last triple play. Unassisted triple play in. In baseball.
Now, when you consider that there are 32 teams playing 162 games a year, even for 14 years, how many outs there are in a game? That's the idea that we. That our day was ruined by that thing. But looking back, it was fucking worth it. Being there, like, it's so rare.
[00:21:26] Speaker B: That's cool.
[00:21:27] Speaker A: So, yeah, so we saw the last Honesty triple play, maybe even the last Honesty triple play ever. I mean, who knows it'll ever be another one. There's only been, like I said, what is a 15 in 120 years? So who knows? So, yeah, so that was. That was. That sucked being a Met fan that day. Especially since we paid like, you know, 230 for the tickets and. But a little side note, it was funny. Angel's brother, rest in peace. He. He calls us. He calls angel while we're at the game. He's like, hey, angel, you enjoying that hot dog?
You can see they can see we had good seats. They can see that we were eating hot. They can see exactly what we're doing. Oh, yeah, they can see as clear as day. So that was hilarious. But yeah, crazy, unassisted triple play. Crazy. Hated it.
[00:22:11] Speaker B: But that's a cool.
[00:22:12] Speaker A: Looking back, that was quite, quite a thing to see. So my number five.
[00:22:16] Speaker B: Yeah.
Wow, that's. That's. That's tough to beat that one there. That's something that you don't really.
[00:22:21] Speaker A: And it's only my number five.
[00:22:22] Speaker B: Never really.
Yeah. I'm curious now.
[00:22:25] Speaker A: I got some good ones.
[00:22:28] Speaker B: Yeah. So my number four is.
I wanted to throw a baseball one on there. And I'm not the biggest baseball fan at all, so. But I am a Yankee fan mostly just because I was born in the Bronx and it was by default. I mean, you know, my dad was a Yankee fan, but I.
I haven't really been to a lot of Yankee games. I've been to maybe three or four, believe it or not, my whole life. But I met games we went to a lot when I was younger, just me and my brother and a couple of friends. Same guys we did the football trip with. Actually, because it was cheaper tickets. We sat upstairs in Shea back in the day and they didn't. It was just easier to do. But I had to put a Met game on here, the one we went to together. I had to put this on here.
[00:23:02] Speaker A: All right. Mets, Cardinals.
[00:23:04] Speaker B: Did you know this was coming? Yes. Now it. And now, now who did we go to this game with? Was it one?
[00:23:09] Speaker A: I know it feel like definitely one. It was Juan. It was Juan's cousin, Pops. And there was somebody else there. I think it was Pops's friend, but I remember Pops was there. Pops was a Cardinal. Oh, no, no. I'm sorry. Pops is a Braves fan. My bad.
[00:23:22] Speaker B: No Drew or anybody like me.
[00:23:24] Speaker A: You, Juan, Pops, and I think one other person, but I can't remember who it was.
[00:23:30] Speaker B: And I had to put this on it because just being at this was. I mean, this is the best baseball game I ever saw live was when the Mets were getting buried and they came all the way back. It was wild.
Late mid 2000s.
[00:23:41] Speaker A: 2006. 2006.
[00:23:43] Speaker B: 2006. Wow.
[00:23:45] Speaker A: Yeah. It was that magical season they had in 2006. It was crazy.
It was August 22, 2006, and we.
[00:23:52] Speaker B: Saw pool hole sit of one grand slam, right? Or what was it he hit?
[00:23:57] Speaker A: He had a three run.
He had a three run shot and a grand slam. Hits. He had seven rbis in that game.
[00:24:04] Speaker B: And they were up seven.
[00:24:06] Speaker A: Nothing or eight. They were up seven.
[00:24:07] Speaker B: Nothing was like.
[00:24:09] Speaker A: And then Delgado hit a solo shot and a grand slam. So it was seven, five, right.
[00:24:17] Speaker B: And then it was Beltran that's right.
[00:24:19] Speaker A: Beltran hit that homer at the end of the game. Yep.
[00:24:23] Speaker B: That. That place was.
[00:24:24] Speaker A: I mean, we were nuts. Like, we were hugging each other like we just won the. Like we won the goddamn Stanley Cup. It was insane.
But it was like. It was like there was something about that season, too. Like. And by the way, spoiler alert. This is coming on my list, too, so I have all the details about it, but. Oh, yeah, this has got to be on it.
[00:24:42] Speaker B: We could talk more about it then.
[00:24:44] Speaker A: Take it away. But I just want to say it was a magical season.
[00:24:47] Speaker B: This.
[00:24:47] Speaker A: You know, they just seemed to win every game, and especially they were winning every game that we were going to. So you were. I know that you were kind of caught up in, like, mine and Juan's, like, excitement, you know what I mean? Like, because it was just like, I can't believe they came back to make this a game. And then when he. When it went off his bat, we were like, no fucking way. Right? And then, boom.
Place went berserk.
Mvp. Mvp. Shouting MVP for Beltran. And it's crazy, right? Crazy.
How's it going?
[00:25:15] Speaker B: Yeah, just because, like I said, all the baseball games I went to, none of them had that kind of a climax. So I gotta have.
[00:25:21] Speaker A: Yeah, that was great. That was really good.
All right.
[00:25:25] Speaker B: Ready to rock?
Yeah, go ahead.
[00:25:28] Speaker A: My number four is the first Devils playoff game. Well, the first playoff game. Hockey, I ever went to.
Not just for the nostalgia, men. So this is what happened at this game. So I got some good luck in my life. I think so. First Devils playoff game. It was round two, 1987-88 season. The Devils, first time they made the playoffs on that John McClane overtime goal against. I want to say the Cat, the Blackhawks.
[00:25:48] Speaker B: So I think I was telling you, that was the.
Real quick. That was the game. First game I watched with my father that got me into hockey.
[00:25:55] Speaker A: Oh, and McLean scored that goal from the top, from the blue. Blue, man. Holy shit. That was fucking awesome.
[00:26:00] Speaker B: And I. I'll never forget that. Got him into the playoffs. And they had the redheaded coach, Jim Schoenfeld.
[00:26:04] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:26:04] Speaker B: I forget the guy's name.
[00:26:06] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:26:06] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Holy. Yeah.
[00:26:08] Speaker A: And they went. I mean, that was a Cinderella run, man. Sean Burke in goal. They went to game seven of the Eastern Conference finals against Boston. You remember that? They went far.
[00:26:16] Speaker B: No, I don't remember them, actually. Again, I was a kid. I remember watching that. I didn't even. I probably watched the third period in the overtime with my dad because he was getting so pumped up into it. But then after that, I don't remember anything else after. What year was this?
[00:26:26] Speaker A: 87. 88. So this is the year. 1988. This is playoffs. 88.
They beat the Islanders in, I want to say, six games. They destroyed the Capitals, I want to say, in five games. And then Boston and them had a crazy series, but it was too much. They. They lost in game seven. And, you know, the Oilers end up beating the. The Bruins. But I think. I think the Devils would have given the. The Oilers a little more room for the money because they. The Oilers. The Bruins did not do well against the Oilers that year.
[00:26:54] Speaker B: Yeah, the first year we. That we really. That I remember really watching hockey and somewhat paying attention to it, I believe was the year. I think it was 92, when the Islanders made the playoffs. I think Ray Ferraro was in the team.
[00:27:04] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:27:06] Speaker B: That I remember. That was my dad. My brother got into the Islanders and I was watching a lot of that with them. And then we started watching hockey. It's somewhat of a.
[00:27:13] Speaker A: That's when it started getting never not like you. That's when the Devils and Rangers started getting really, you know, Brodor came out in 92, I want to say 91 or 92. And the Rangers started getting good. That's when the rivalry really started with the Devils and the Rangers in this area. Definitely Islanders were still good, like you said. It was. It was a great time for hockey in the metro area, for sure.
[00:27:32] Speaker B: But go ahead.
[00:27:33] Speaker A: So. Yeah, so it was their Cinderella.
This is so. No, this is Devil's Capitals. This is the second round, game three.
First playoff game I've ever been to. My father, just my father and I.
Devils beat the caps 10 to 4.
Yeah, 10 to 4 games. So it was fucking so much fun. But here's why this game was special.
Not only was it my first playoff game, my first Devil's playoff game, but Patrick Sundstrom scored three goals and five assists for eight points in that game, beating Wayne Gretzky's previously held record of seven points in a playoff game. So we saw Patrick Stewart break. The record still holds today, by the way.
[00:28:11] Speaker B: Patrick Stewart.
[00:28:12] Speaker A: Did I say that?
Oh, that's hilarious. Holy shit. That's awesome. Patrick Sundstrom. I'm sorry, number 17, Patrick Sundstrom. Actually, was he 17? I think he was. So. My bad. So Patrick Sundstrom broke Wayne Gretzky's record. Gretzky previously had seven points in a playoff game. Sundstrom had eight points. That night, De Lemieux tied that record in 1989, but they both still. That record still holds today.
So. Yeah.
So no one's ever scored more than eight points in a playoff game. And we watched Patrick Sundstrom score a hat trick and five assists that night. They routed. Absolutely routed Pete Peters in net for. For the crapitals. And yes, I meant to say crapitals.
That's what. Yeah, called him back in the day. Although I will say, I used to love Peter Bondra. He was an amazing player. But. Yeah, so that was, you know, my first playoff game. Me and my dad, Devils just annihilate him. We saw Patrick Sundstrom tell Gretzky what was what Fucking great game.
[00:29:07] Speaker B: Now how was that with your father? I know your dad was a Ranger fan, right? I mean, big Ranger fan.
[00:29:13] Speaker A: But the thing is. So he would get two tickets at a time from his buddy at the airport. He worked at Newark Airport for years, so he would get two tickets at a time. So he would take Drew to one, me to one, Drew to one, me to one. So it didn't really matter, you know, what teams were playing, really.
It was Rangers. I would tend to let Drew go. And if it was Devils, you know, he would. You would tend to let me go.
Yeah. And I should say. Interesting. Yeah. So matter of fact, I think it was his turn when those tickets came up. But even though he was only was 87, so he was what, he was like 11 years old and he was still cool enough to be like, ah, no, you go. It's the Devil's playoffs, you know, Enjoy.
[00:29:50] Speaker B: Well, I. I gotta say, now that you brought the Devils into it, I'm gonna have to get. Get a Devil game in there, you know. What are we doing here?
[00:29:56] Speaker A: Let's hear it, baby.
[00:29:57] Speaker B: So I actually have only been to two playoff games. I don't know one. I remember going to, I think with you at.
I don't know if you remember this. I believe it was the eyes.
The Izod center at that time. They played the hot.
[00:30:08] Speaker A: It was probably Continental Airlines.
[00:30:10] Speaker B: They played the Hurricanes and they got shut out. Three, nothing. Do you remember this?
[00:30:13] Speaker A: I do remember. Yeah. It was the Sea of Red though, right?
[00:30:16] Speaker B: Everybody wore red. Yes. Yeah. And I can't remember what game it was. I don't know if it was. Was a game one, it was a game three.
I don't remember actually.
[00:30:24] Speaker A: I remember going to that game. I think I took. Martin was there.
[00:30:26] Speaker B: There was a bunch of us. I feel like there was definitely a few people there.
[00:30:29] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. I feel like there's a bunch of people there might have been. We took Laura and Tiffany to their first game too back.
[00:30:34] Speaker B: Oh, really?
[00:30:34] Speaker A: That.
Yeah, yeah. I remember a lot of the BK crew went to the games, but yeah, sorry, go ahead. So, yeah, I mean, it's great to.
[00:30:41] Speaker B: See a playoff hockey 100.
Yeah. So I was gonna say the only other one I went to was in 2012 when they made that run at the Cup.
[00:30:50] Speaker A: Devil's Kings.
[00:30:51] Speaker B: No, that was the year they lost to the Kings in the, in the finals.
[00:30:54] Speaker A: Yeah, they lost to the Kings. Okay.
[00:30:56] Speaker B: But I, I, this was, I want to say it was the first round or I forget. No, maybe it was the second round. I can't. I'm trying to remember that one. That was the year they beat the Rangers in the conference finals. Whatever. It was when Henrique scored the goal to get him there.
[00:31:08] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Yeah.
[00:31:09] Speaker B: Wow. That was great. That was one of the best goals we'll ever have. Right? But I feel like we're.
[00:31:16] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. No, it's up there. It's up there with the Arnuckle and.
[00:31:19] Speaker B: The year they played Philly and Florida, but I can't remember which one they played first or second. But I went to Florida. They were down in the series two to one. It was also my first game at the Rock.
[00:31:29] Speaker A: Oh, nice.
[00:31:30] Speaker B: So it was awesome. It was game four. They were down 2:1 in the series and they fucking buried them for nothing. So that was a, that was a great game to be act. The crowd was fucking berserk. You know, like I said, the energy was all pumped up. Especially when you need, when you need the game, you know, and then, and then the score and then keep scoring. Like four to me was a lot. But you saw 10. I mean, I can't beat that. That's pretty impressive.
[00:31:50] Speaker A: Crazy, right? It was like that night at BK when you and I were. You were getting calls, so they would call you every time. It was Devil's. Was the Stanley cup game. Devil's Ducks. Stars. Devil Stars.
Yeah. The Ducks were 03. This was 2000. The 2000 Cup. And it was game one. And Belfor was in that. And it was like a devil scored. Oh, cool. A double scored. Oh, cool. Like it was like seven to three or something. Like they ended up. They were up seven nothing before the stars even knew what happened. I was like, you fucking lie to me. This is amazing.
Awesome. I remember that. But yeah, when they score a lot like that and the place is just having a blast, like it's such a great be part of the energy and.
[00:32:28] Speaker B: It reminds me of these stupid argument these guys have on the fan sometimes where it's not stupid, but it's interesting from the standpoint of would you rather see your team blow out some other team or be in a very tight game coming down to the wire? Like, what would you rather have?
[00:32:39] Speaker A: You know, I mean, like, if it's playoffs, you want, you want a no.
[00:32:46] Speaker B: Brainer, but I mean, there is something to be in at that club, close game and you know, but at the end of the day, you want to win that game. If you lose that game, that's.
[00:32:52] Speaker A: You want to win that game.
[00:32:53] Speaker B: Like I would, I would love to like triple overtime, you know, Devil's Rangers at the Rock and win the game. That would, that's got to be, you know, exciting as. But if they lose it, I don't want to walk out of that stadium there. You, you know, I mean, tell you.
[00:33:04] Speaker A: What, same series, Same Stanley Cup, 2000. One of the best games I ever watched in my life was like a triple overtime,00 game was Belfort and Bordeaux just going back and forth. Save, save, save, save, save. I mean, the Devils lost that guy.
[00:33:16] Speaker B: Oh, yes, I do remember that.
[00:33:17] Speaker A: Yeah, Actually, that's the one. I have myself on videotape going berserk and punching the wa. You remember that video?
So I mean, you sit there and you watch because they could have won the cup that night. I was so pissed. Could have won it, you know, at home, blah, blah, blah. But anyway, one of the best games ever watched in my life and you know, the Devils lost it. So if they had won it, it probably would have been the best game ever watched.
[00:33:36] Speaker B: Wow.
[00:33:37] Speaker A: It was just, it was just end to end excitement for, for six periods of hockey. It was insane.
[00:33:42] Speaker B: All right.
[00:33:42] Speaker A: Insane. All right, all right. So let's, let's keep the Devils rolling here. My number three.
I mean, have to. I saw a Stanley cup game. I went to Stanley cup final, game three, 1995, Devils versus Detroit. Yeah, me and John Adams went, you know, we were both, you know, die hard, of course, June 22, 1995. So the Devils won this five times. They swept Detroit. I don't know if you remember that or not, but Detroit was, you know, the favorite. And the Devils just came in and swept them.
[00:34:13] Speaker B: Right.
[00:34:15] Speaker A: This was the, this was the shortened season. This was the truncated season. This was the lockout season. But the playoffs were full seven game series.
So, you know, a lot of people considered it a fake cup. You know, they went on to win, you know, two more in the next nine Years. So you. But, you know, this one was special. This was a Stanley cup game, man. We were game three. Can you imagine if we were at game four? We saw him win the Cup. That would have been insane.
[00:34:38] Speaker B: All those tickets had to be out the ass, too. I mean, you know, although I. I have a buddy of mine, Scott tomjack. He's been to a few games with the cup in the building. I think you've seen them win the. In one of those years. I think it was 2003.
[00:34:48] Speaker A: Oh, no, you know what? I'm misremembering. These were free.
And this was the one that Drew said, it's the Devil's go. Drew's turn. He could have seen a Stanley cup game.
[00:34:58] Speaker B: Wow.
[00:34:59] Speaker A: I'm remembering now. And he was like, nah, man, go. It's your team in the Stanley Cup. Go see it. That's cool. That was even. Was even better, right? Yeah, yeah, I remember that now.
[00:35:07] Speaker B: I mean, I mean, he wasn't 11 years old, but if it was the Rangers and it was your turn, you would have been like, I'm going to. You know, Drew would have killed you.
[00:35:14] Speaker A: Definitely not. But he, he even back then was more into hockey than I was.
[00:35:17] Speaker B: So, yeah, he's always.
[00:35:18] Speaker A: And he still hasn't seen a Stanley cup game, I don't, I don't think to this day. So that would have been something to see.
[00:35:23] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:35:24] Speaker A: Anyway, in this game. So Devils had goals by. I. I looked up some of this stuff.
[00:35:30] Speaker B: Good research on this. Yeah. Okay.
[00:35:32] Speaker A: Yeah, a little bit. You know, because I want. I wanted to really dive in and know what I was talking about because I wanted to remember properly as well.
[00:35:36] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:35:36] Speaker A: Bruce Driver, Claude Lemieux, Aaron Broughton, Randy McCain, Bobby Holik, all had goals for the Devils, but this was a cool thing. Even in a loss, I got to see Sergey Fedorov and Steve Eisenman score a goal for the Red Wings.
[00:35:46] Speaker B: So that was pretty cool. Wow.
[00:35:48] Speaker A: I've never seen those guys play before. I don't think so. It was cool just seeing them play at all. It was the first game ever played after the summer Stolzis summer solstice due to the lockout. Thought that might be interesting, worth noting.
[00:36:01] Speaker B: Wow.
[00:36:02] Speaker A: Yeah. It was a short season before playoffs, so. Yeah. Saw a Stanley cup game. Man.
[00:36:06] Speaker B: That's awesome. That's great. Geez, that's awesome.
Especially when, especially in a year, they won the cup too. That's great, right?
[00:36:13] Speaker A: Yeah, they went on to win it, so it's like even more, even more like, ah, you saw a Little piece of that, you know.
[00:36:19] Speaker B: All right, so we're getting the top two here, aren't we?
[00:36:21] Speaker A: We're in there. Let's do it.
[00:36:23] Speaker B: Now, believe it or not, even though it is my favorite sport, I only put one football game on my list. Yeah, interesting. Now, I. I mean, I've seen some good games, tight games. You know, it was a Jet Patriot game. I went to my brother in year 2000, I want to say they came all the way back, beat the Patriots. I was thinking about putting that on there. I've seen a few. All the co games I've seen, there hasn't been any real. I mean, watching them blow out the Giants was always great, but I.
I haven't seen one where I was like, I gotta. I gotta put this on there. So. But I'm putting this on here because it was the. Probably the best game I saw, and it was also the best player I think I've ever seen live. So I had to put this on here. So. Funny enough, my brother and I lived next to these.
This guy, this family that would go to games, Giant games on Sundays and had an extra ticket one day and me and my brother flipped a coin and I got to go. Believe it or not.
[00:37:08] Speaker A: Thank.
[00:37:09] Speaker B: Thank God. So it was mid-90s, maybe early-90s, it was giants, Lions, Believe it or not.
Doesn't sound sexy, but when.
[00:37:20] Speaker A: Early 90s Lions is all you had to say. So now Barry Sanders play.
[00:37:24] Speaker B: Yes. So not only that, but the game goes into overtime and I. I can't remember if the Giants had the ball first or Detroit had the ball first. I don't know if they, like Detroit stopped them. But anyway, when Detroit did get the ball, they were on like their own, you know, 30 yard line or, you know, 27 yard line somewhere down there.
And. And they gave the ball up to Barry and he ran like he ran. Actually, there might have been further than that because I feel like he went on like a 60 or 70 yard run and he did get tackled and they had to kick a field goal to win the game. But I just. Just to see that play alone was worth the whole fucking thing for me.
[00:38:01] Speaker A: Yeah, classic Barry Sanders run.
[00:38:03] Speaker B: And being a Cowboy fan, of course, I'd like seeing the Giants lose. So that was a win. So what are we doing here?
Yeah, so I had to put that on the list as far as. Just like I said, like a personal thing there. I had to throw that out there.
[00:38:16] Speaker A: Of course, man, it's awesome.
[00:38:19] Speaker B: But, yeah, that's what I got.
[00:38:21] Speaker A: All right. My Number two. So mine. This is the most nostalgic one on the list. So my number two was my first hockey game ever. Now, I had seen I made your sport game before. So actually, you know, I saw. I saw a Yankees Royals doubleheader in 1983. I saw Reggie Jackson play. He had a couple home runs that day. So that was a good day.
I was actually a Royals fan for a hot minute because of that game. But, yeah, so I'd been to a major sports game before. But, you know, we were. We were die hard hockey from an early age. And my mother wrote the date March 7, 1985 on the Cork board in our kitchen. And it sat there for months because we bought the tickets way ahead of time.
So, I mean, I could, to this day, I could vividly see that date on that cork board because I used to. I was. I was looking forward so much through our first hockey game ever.
So, yeah, so March 7, 1985, Devil's Islanders.
And again, it's not just nostalgia. This was a great game. So check this out. So Devils are down 4, 2 with 40 seconds to go.
[00:39:28] Speaker B: Wow.
[00:39:28] Speaker A: Okay.
They score a goal. I'm sorry I messed that up. So you would have. So they scored a goal. I'm sorry, they scored a goal. They're down with 50 seconds to go. The Devils score a goal with 50 seconds to go.
And then they score a goal with nine seconds to go.
[00:39:44] Speaker B: Nice.
[00:39:44] Speaker A: Put the game to overtime.
[00:39:45] Speaker B: Wow.
[00:39:46] Speaker A: Crazy, right?
The game ended in a tie.
[00:39:49] Speaker B: Oh, they're winning in overtime.
[00:39:51] Speaker A: But no, you know, they didn't win it.
Yeah, so it ended in a tie. The Devils didn't win it. But, you know, it's my first hockey game. You know, I'm super, super Devils fan at the time. You know, like I said, 85. The devils were garbage. Like, they sucked, you know, I mean, yeah, the Islanders were. The Islanders were just coming off their four Stanley Cups in a row. So they were this monster team. They were supposed to lose. Mike Bossy, Brian Trachier, you know, Billy Smithson. So, like, all those. Those championship players were still on the team, you know, Devils. You know, the only. The only person I was rooting for was they had a Kirk Mueller. I think I've told you this. Kirk, mother. Captain Kirk. Right, yeah. So. So he had three assists in that game. And Pat Verbeek, number 16, had two goals.
[00:40:33] Speaker B: They must have had Danico. Was that McLean and Danico and everything?
[00:40:36] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. McLean, Danico, Bruce Driver. Absolutely. Yeah.
Joe Sorella, you know, Phil Russell, number five, no helmet. On no helmets back then.
[00:40:47] Speaker B: Oh, wow.
[00:40:48] Speaker A: Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Mike Bossi scored a goal for the Islanders. So my first hockey game and there was nothing. There was nothing. I was blown away. There's nothing like seeing a hockey game live.
[00:40:56] Speaker B: I agree with you.
[00:40:57] Speaker A: For the first time. Interesting. I just took my daughter and her boyfriend to their first hockey game.
We saw Devil's Penguins. This was actually in contention because. Not just because, you know, I get to see my daughter experience hockey live for the first time. And she was blown away. She's been to baseball games and basketball games, but she was like, oh, my God. It was. It was. Every second was like, ooh, and on, you know, it's so exciting seeing a hockey game live. But it was. Devil's Penguins goes to ot.
The Penguins score a goal in overtime.
We're like, ah, fuck. It's disallowed because the Penguins in a three on three overtime, had too many men on the ice.
[00:41:33] Speaker B: Really?
[00:41:34] Speaker A: So the Devils come back, win the game, they win in overtime. It was a great game for. For Emma and Jacoby to see as their first game.
[00:41:41] Speaker B: Great.
[00:41:41] Speaker A: But yeah. So anyway, point is, your first hockey game, man, you never forget it. It's fucking amazing.
[00:41:46] Speaker B: That's awesome.
[00:41:46] Speaker A: And the only thing better than a hockey game is a fucking playoff hockey game.
[00:41:49] Speaker B: Yeah, it's.
[00:41:50] Speaker A: It's. I don't think you can match.
I know die hard college basketball fans, and I could see the argument there. March Madness, okay. Like, that's, to me, is the only thing that you can maybe compare to. To playoff hockey, in my opinion. Or like, at least overtime. Playoff hockey.
[00:42:05] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:42:06] Speaker A: So, yeah, man. My first. My first hockey game. My first Devils game.
We're going tops, baby.
[00:42:12] Speaker B: Very nice.
[00:42:13] Speaker A: All right.
[00:42:14] Speaker B: We're going. We're going to the tops here, aren't we now?
All right. Well, you know, again, this is a tough call here. I had to go with this just because of the whole. The whole experience was just out of control here. So we had. I had to put, you know, it's. It's like a buckle, this thing, but I had to put it on there. The Kentucky Derby. We had to put it on there. You know, of course. What are we doing?
[00:42:32] Speaker A: You went to the Kentucky Derby.
[00:42:34] Speaker B: Now, this was in 2004. So this was the Smarty Jones run. He actually had a cheap. I actually went to all three races that year, actually wound up going to the Preak and send the Belmont that year.
[00:42:44] Speaker A: That's fucking awesome.
[00:42:45] Speaker B: And I thought about putting the Belmont on here because that was the loudest sporting event I've ever been to in my life.
[00:42:50] Speaker A: Is that right?
[00:42:50] Speaker B: Yeah. In fact, I think Belmont has gone away from. And I can't remember if it was that race that day or if it was a Breeders cup race. I've been to a few Breeders Cups, too. Breeders cup, they move around like the super bowl, different tracks, and they have. They've had it at Belmont.
[00:43:02] Speaker A: Yeah. It was at Monmouth once, wasn't it?
[00:43:03] Speaker B: It was. It was a rainy slop day that day. It had it a mammoth.
[00:43:07] Speaker A: I don't know.
[00:43:07] Speaker B: I'm hoping they'll get it again. I don't know. But the tickets were insane. But, but, but Belmont, the tickets weren't too bad. When I went. I went twice. I went 2001, I think, in 2005, maybe, but it was one of those big events, or I want to say it was the Belmont. I got to say it had to be this Belmont because there was like, you know, now it gets to be like 130,000 people. And they used to do it. But the thing is, they had so many people, the bathrooms would get so backed up, people would be pissing in the stairwells.
It just gets to such a. Such an extent that they wound up capping the crowd. So when American Pharaoh won the triple crown in 2000, whatever year that was, we went to see him at moms was 2015, I think, or 14.
You know, Belmont said, we're only allowing 90,000 people in here. And I think that's all they do now, whatever the number is. It's less than 100, I want to say, because they don't want that. That chaos there anymore. It was. It just got to be too insane. So I'm not. But. But the fact that he lost that race and we all left there that day fucking pissed off. I couldn't put that there. But. But so I had to put the Derby on there. So what's interesting about this is now we went. Thank God we did. We. So we drove to Louisville.
I actually stayed in Cincinnati, I think, because it's not that it's like right over the. We got a cheap old town river, but. Yeah, but.
So the day before the Kentucky Derby, they run this race called the Kentucky Oaks. And it's just for three year old female horses.
[00:44:28] Speaker A: Huh.
[00:44:29] Speaker B: And it's specific. Yeah, exactly.
But they have races all day, obviously. But that's the big race of the day. But we went. We decided to go that day just to walk around, see the track. And I'm glad we did because we got a chance to see Churchill Downs walked around the grandstand, the walking ring and the whole, the whole thing, you know. Yeah, but then when we go for the derby, we bought. We didn't buy tickets like the millionaires row or tickets for the grandstand because we were like, they were pretty pricey. We're like, well, we'll just go in the infield.
And so what happens is you go. And you go underneath this tunnel and you're in the middle of the track now, you know.
[00:44:59] Speaker A: Yeah, they have that for NASCAR too.
[00:45:01] Speaker B: Exactly.
But the deal is on the day of the Derby, you were not. We're not allowed to cross over to the grandstand.
So when. Once you go in the infield, you're locked in. You can't get. You're not going anywhere. If you want to leave, you leave.
[00:45:13] Speaker A: In the trail day.
[00:45:14] Speaker B: Yeah, you can't. I mean, I mean, it's a big infields, not like, you know, but my point is you can't go over to where the, you know, you would regularly go with any regular track. You know, I mean, you, you're. You're locked into the infield. So I was like telling my brother, I'm like, thank God we went the day before because otherwise we wouldn't have had a chance to see Churchill. The whole kind of experience of it, you know.
Yeah, but. But that day was. It rained like a bastard. Probably not early, but halfway through the day it definitely rained. But you know, and as it got closer to the derby, the anticipations going, you know, and I forget this older lady next to me, you know, she was bullshitting with us, where you're from, this and that. And I said, you know, we're from Jersey. She said, oh, I'm from right around here. I've been coming here to. This is my. Since 1961. Carry Back won the Derby. I was like, holy, nice. That's a lot. You know, but. But anyway, so the, the whole thing is like when they getting it. When they're getting. We had. So we bought a table with us to sit on, you know, like it had full folded out, so had chairs on it, like. Like a picnic bench kind of table. And I went, my brother and my nephew Ryan.
You've met Ryan a few times.
[00:46:13] Speaker A: Sure, I know Ryan.
[00:46:13] Speaker B: Yeah. And just the three of us. And by the time it got. Now we're up against this fence in the infield, very close to where the starting gate is. You know, we got a good spot. You know, we got there early. This race is getting ready to go. Everybody crams up against this Fucking fence. Our table got absolutely fucking destroyed. It looked like a cartoon. I wish you. So once the race takes off, they take. They go, and everyone kind of like, you know, backs off a little bit. Then they rush back to see them come down the stretch for the. For the win, you know, for the. For the.
[00:46:42] Speaker A: Christ.
[00:46:42] Speaker B: And so when they left all of this, this table looked like it got into a. Like a truck ran over it. It was fucking hilarious.
But, yeah, Smarty Jones one. We had a decent day. It wasn't like, you know, it was like, we want any money. Major money rating. But it was just the whole experience of the whole thing was. It was great. The energy, the whole thing. It was really a phenomenal experience. And, you know, like I said, you're seeing people from all over. And the rain made it a different adventure.
You went to the bathroom. You.
It was on, like a decline. The hill, the bathrooms to get to. So you're walking through this water or there's mud. It was. It was just. Jesus, what a crazy goddamn scene. But everyone's drinking mint juleps. Everyone's bombed. It was just. Of course. Yeah, just a wild. And again, it's one of those things where it's, like, better than when. When I went to Pimlico for the Preakness, same thing. I was in the infield there, but you really can't see much there, you know, like, at least in Churchill, you could see the horses going around the track. But in Pimlico, Yeah, you can't really see them there, you know, but equivalent of the.
[00:47:40] Speaker A: The Pocono track.
[00:47:42] Speaker B: I was going to bring that up. We were talking about the NASCAR earlier because. Yeah. Oh, that's what I like.
[00:47:46] Speaker A: Horrible.
[00:47:46] Speaker B: That's why I like the Richmond one way better. First of all, was night. It was cooler when we went. But the Pocono one, totally, you could. Once they leave to get to the back stretch, you can't see shit. I remember walking around, me and you, I think we took a walk around. I can't do this. What are we doing here?
[00:47:57] Speaker A: I was ready to fucking leave. This fucking sucks. You know, what's the point?
[00:48:00] Speaker B: Yeah, that was brutal.
[00:48:01] Speaker A: But.
[00:48:03] Speaker B: But, yeah, so I had to put. I had to put that on there. Just being a horse racing fan, the whole thing. And of course, I'm dying to go back and experience it again, but, you know, we'll get there one day. But that's.
[00:48:12] Speaker A: That's.
[00:48:12] Speaker B: That's what I got for you.
[00:48:13] Speaker A: All right, well, hey, you know, Iris spoiled my. You know, it is my number One. The one we talked about already. So. On the Mets, Cardinals game.
[00:48:19] Speaker B: Oh, nice. Wow.
[00:48:20] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, come on, like that, you know, again, like the Mets, you know, back in 2006 and probably still now, like, the Mets are my number one team, my number one sport. And it's just like, you know, that season, 2006, I mean, they should have won that. You know, if not for Yachty or Molina, not for Carlos Beltrans, you know, they. They should have won that series. And, you know, so anyway, this game, like you said, the Mets come from, you know, I'm sorry, they were down 7 1. Not 7, nothing.
[00:48:47] Speaker B: I couldn't remember if it was 0 or 1. I remember the.
[00:48:50] Speaker A: Yeah, okay, okay, 7 1. But I do know that the first 12 runs were caused by only Carlos Delgado and.
And Albert Pujolz, Right?
[00:48:58] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:48:58] Speaker A: So Pool set two homers for the seven RBIs. Delgado answered with a solo shot in the fourth, which, by the way, was his 399th home run and then a grand slam in the fifth. So we were there for his 5, 400th home run. Another little added thing about that.
[00:49:12] Speaker B: And also to see two grand slams in one day. How rare was that?
[00:49:15] Speaker A: Right? The only thing rare is.
No, no, no, no. That was our bruntlet. But I think when. When Valentine, he had two grand slams in one inning one time.
I want to say that was 07. I don't think it was that year anyway.
[00:49:29] Speaker B: No.
[00:49:30] Speaker A: But yeah, two grand slams is phenomenal, right? And worst case scenario, my God, I met her in first place. I got to see pool. Holtz put on a clinic, right? Like, you know, pool. Haltz was probably, arguably the best player in the game at the time. Certainly best player in the National League, in my opinion. Certainly the best hitter in the National League, in my opinion. Either him or Miguel Caprera. But I would have said Albert Pool. So, yeah, worst case scenario, we got to see it, right? So it's 75 now, because Delgado's grand slam, you're like, all right, it's 400th home run.
So they got one run in the six to make it seven six.
So ninth inning, Jose Reyes grounds out. Then Paul Laduca. Remember that name? Paul Oduca. He gets on with a single. He was a catcher.
[00:50:10] Speaker B: Yes, I remember. I. If I'm not mistaken, I actually think he does a lot of stuff. I can't stop talking about horse racing now. But he wound up being. He does a lot of stuff for the New York tracks, like on television. Like, he'll cover Aqueduct and Belmont Savage. Yeah, I think he makes picks and all that. He's a big horse guy.
[00:50:24] Speaker A: If I remember, he was a cool personality. I remember he was, you know, this tiny dude. He's very.
[00:50:29] Speaker B: Yeah, right.
[00:50:29] Speaker A: Good head on the shoulders. Yeah. I remember he was fun to listen to in the post interviews and shit.
Actually, while we're talking about games, that same year, we go to the divisional game. Devils, Dodgers, I'm. Devil's Dodgers, Mets, Dodgers. And that was the game where he tagged out those two players at home, played on the same play. Remember seeing that clip?
[00:50:47] Speaker B: I do. I do remember that. Yes, I do remember that.
[00:50:50] Speaker A: We were at that game.
[00:50:51] Speaker B: The fucking crazy, crazy.
[00:50:53] Speaker A: Well, how they sent that second runner, I'll never understand. But a perfect relay throw, perfect throw at home. The Duka tags the guy out, turns around. Then he realizes someone else is coming. He's like, all right, tags him out. We were going nuts. We're like, holy.
Oh, it's crazy. Anyway, so Paul Oduca, he gets on with a single, and then first pitch, Isringhausen pitches it to Beltron. Boom. He just fucking laces it over the fucking right field fence. Right.
[00:51:20] Speaker B: Holy shit.
[00:51:21] Speaker A: We were. And remember, we were high up in the stands. We couldn't even see the home run land, remember? Because we have the awning. So we, like. I remember I ran down the stairs to see. To confirm that it went out, and we just went ballistic. It was like we had won the Kentucky Derby. Like, it was.
[00:51:38] Speaker B: It was insane.
[00:51:39] Speaker A: We were jumping up and down like we did something. We were hugging and, like, the whole place went.
Like you said, the whole place went for a regular season baseball game.
The place fucking exploded. It was insane.
And, yeah, like I said, Juan, Pops, Bomber, and me. Yeah. So, yeah, me, you, Juan and Pops were there, and there was somebody else, but it was fucking crazy.
[00:52:00] Speaker B: It's funny when you were mentioning that the, you know, being a playoff hockey game and, you know, college basketball during March Madness, the energy and everything, you know, you, you, you.
[00:52:10] Speaker A: It's.
[00:52:11] Speaker B: You can't get that in a regular season game unless something like that happens where you're getting buried and just, you know. And again, there was a lot of people still in the stands. Like, my brother went to Christ. It was a Jets, Dolphins game with our buddy Joey back, way back in the day, Monday Night Football, when they were getting smoked and they came back and won the game. So many people left that game. He's like, we were wondering, you know, there wasn't that many people left in the stands, but, like, for that met Game. I feel like there was so many people still there going nuts maybe because like you said, you had that kind of year.
[00:52:39] Speaker A: That was the season. 100%, man.
They just found a way to win every big game. Like, they couldn't lose that year. That was the year they won the NL East. Like before, like, almost like the beginning of September. It was just. They ran away with it. They were clearly the best team in. In. In baseball.
You know, again, if not for Yada Molina's home run, you know, right after Andy Chavez's great catch, like, I thought for sure they're gonna win that game.
But yeah, knowing a season of great wins, that was. That was probably the best one. And we saw some great wins. Even. Even, like, just live. Like, we went to, like, I don't know, like eight or nine games that year, and it seemed like everyone was special. Oh, we saw.
That was the year we saw Mike Piazza come back on the Padres and hit two home runs. He got a curtain call from.
From Shea Stadium, scoring off. Off Pedro Martinez for the other team, and we made the guy take a curtain call. It was great to see that. We saw John Maine's complete game shut out. That. Yeah, I mean, we saw some great games, but this game was by far just. Just probably the most fun game to watch. Exciting game to see finish.
Of course, the Cardinals went on to win the World Series that year, but.
[00:53:51] Speaker B: Yeah, that's right. That's. It. Came down to get. The Mets were against them to get to the World Series.
[00:53:56] Speaker A: Yeah. Yep, yep, yep. They, you know, they lost in game seven. Runner on Beltron, just bad on his goddamn shoulders, called strike three.
[00:54:05] Speaker B: What a shame. That game we saw. Couldn't have been that game for the.
[00:54:08] Speaker A: Oh, could you imagine? Holy.
[00:54:09] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:54:10] Speaker A: Yeah. And then. Yeah, and then Cardinals had that great, great World Series. David Eckstein won the mvp. It was a good year for. For baseball and for the Mets, but. Yeah, but it didn't matter. That game was magical.
[00:54:20] Speaker B: That was.
[00:54:21] Speaker A: That was like seven RBIs off two home runs. And then Delgado pretty much matches them.
It's just so good. And like I said, Delgado's 400th home run is just the. Just a footnote to how fun that game was.
[00:54:34] Speaker B: Yeah, like I said, you know, like, I've only been to a handful of Yankee games and over. Even Met games. Overall, maybe I've been to all. Definitely less than 10. Well, maybe. Maybe right around 10 baseball games in my life. But like, I remember going to Yankee games, a young game with my buddy Joey on a Thursday night and the packers were playing the Bears on Thursday Night Football. And they had a TV by a bar. I was like, let's, you know, can we stand here so I can see the baseball game and watch the football game? You know, Like, I'm not really that into it, but that Mech game, boy, that. That whole stadium was rocking, man. I was so fucking into that. That was great.
[00:55:04] Speaker A: You know, it's funny you mentioned that, like, John Adams got tickets to the Devil's lightning in 2000. Year 2000.
[00:55:11] Speaker B: I thought. I thought I remembered overhearing him just saying something like this at the party. I couldn't tell because I was gonna bring up my thing.
[00:55:18] Speaker A: I didn't hear him talk about it. But we went to see the Lightning. He used to get these amazing tickets, second row off the ice. So we'd be like, right at ice level, you know, there was amazing seats. Used to get from work. So we go to see this game, and the Devils are winning like, seven one. They ended up winning like, seven three, I want to say. But that was the night. That was the first Game 1 of the Subway Series that night. So that was Yankees.
[00:55:38] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:55:39] Speaker A: So we. We said, screw it. Devils are up like 7:1. Let's go. We went to the stadium bar, and it had the.
[00:55:43] Speaker B: Right.
[00:55:44] Speaker A: The baseball game on in the stadium bar. So we're watching Neil Mets, Yankees, of course, that was the game that Timo Perez didn't run out to. Fly ball.
Zeal hits it.
[00:55:54] Speaker B: Wow.
[00:55:54] Speaker A: He thinks it's. He thinks it's. It's gone. So he's trotting around instead of running fast, and it bounces off the very corner, top of the wall. He gets fucking tagged out and they, you know, they lose that fucking game. And it changes the whole complexion of the Series. They had a shot. They had a shot. I think if they won that game one, they really had a shot at the Series. But.
[00:56:11] Speaker B: Yeah, exactly. Like we were hanging out the other day. I thought I overheard him talking about something like watching and being at a game and watching a different game. And I'm like, you know. But I got. Must have got drawn into some other conversation. I didn't get a chance to talk about it. But yeah, like, you know, but at least that one. Like you said, there was a good reason there. I mean, Devil's a burying them. So you're gonna go check out the World Series. What the fuck? I'm sure a lot of people were doing that at that point, you know.
[00:56:31] Speaker A: Well, it's also the year the Devils. Devils were already in the playoffs, I'm thinking, you know, because it was probably one of the last games of the year because it's 2000. They won the cup that year, so they're definitely in the playoffs, you know, so we're probably like this game doesn't matter.
Let's go, let's go watch the Subway Series. You know, and John pretty much hates baseball, but I mean it's, it was the Subway Series. Everyone around here was caught up in it. I know the rest of the country didn't give a about it, but it was the most exciting time for sports around here that I can remember.
Mets, Yankees in a World Series. That was insane.
That, that, that's, that's our list, buddy. That was fun.
[00:57:03] Speaker B: That was fun. Yeah, a lot of. Bringing back a lot of memories, you know.
[00:57:06] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:57:07] Speaker B: A little sports.
[00:57:07] Speaker A: It's nice. I mean we talk about it a lot as friends, but you know, just talking about it, talking about it, pretty wild here was a lot of fun and neck, you know, next time we'll come out with, with a different top five. Something, something maybe equally different. Who knows? Maybe, maybe something similar. Maybe something different.
But hey, let me, let me tell you, if a few folks are in the top tens or top five lists, we do another podcast you might want to check out. I don't know if you're into Star Trek, but we do a Star Trek. It's called The Warp Top 10 Star Trek Podcast.
Check that out if you want. You know, if you're into into top tens just as much, you're into the top fives. We'll see. Maybe it's not your cup of tea, but if it is, you can listen to me and Bomber do that pod as well.
[00:57:45] Speaker B: So we don't know what we're gonna be hitting on next, but I'm sure it'll be interesting and please check us out.
[00:57:50] Speaker A: We'll see you then.
[00:57:51] Speaker B: Take care.
One swing could win it for New York.
[00:57:56] Speaker A: He whips it to deep right. That ball is out of here.
Out of here. The Nets win the ball game.
Belt drive with a walk off two run homer in the bottom of the night.
