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the iraqis were utopia this is radio diaries

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and to richmond the daily

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show we're bringing you a chapter from a new story

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we produce to the spm thirty for thirty

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podcast it's called the longest

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game

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redditors producer now legal us

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the boy sometimes called the timeless

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game i'm like football or basketball

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or soccer there's no clock the

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team playing until there's a winner the

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, the game to go on

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and on forever forever

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for decades ago one game can close

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on april eighteenth st eighty one two

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teams played the longest baseball game in history

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the ferry

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and as a game

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the absolutely no consequence

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girl i were around here

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at my toy very amount or back and rhode

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island

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the target rhode island the is a city of about

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seventy thousand working

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class blue collar

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my name is dan barry i'm a long time

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journalist with the new york times and

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i wrote a book about this game

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tuck it was quite proud of it's distinction

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the triple a

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base for the boston red sox

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and they had this stadium colt mccoy stadium

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it was kind of run down in those days and gonna

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beat up that they ran a clean

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shot they watched the drinking they watched

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the swearing the only took the kids

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there and it was one don't

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you i i was the official scorekeeper

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it was an early season saturday

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night

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there wasn't much we were playing for one it

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was just baseball as usual my

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name is mike tempura why was the general

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manager of the protected red sex

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the

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early me off aaa where

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every player is hoping to get noticed and

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called up to the major on , field

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that night where to future hall of famers

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businesses got ripped him i played third base for the

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register redwings all of

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us were the same boat we were all young

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and will have the same fears the same anxieties

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oh we wanted to make it and we met and make it bad

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this is wade boggs i was the starting

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from basement from the pawtucket red sox

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on that infamous and i have nineteen eighty

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one here ,

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an interview

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the first pitch with around a little after

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eight o'clock the wind made it hard to score

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and by the end of nine innings the two teams

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were tied

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one one

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and it stay that way the name after

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any

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oh right as the runway baseball

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on wp xm it'll

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be learn the house and student

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the midnight and no one's come close

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to scoring this know score in the

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tenth of the eleventh with the twelfth

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of the thirteenth or the fourteenth

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the crowd was thinning out more

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and more and more

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the easter ease

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people want to get home and get the baskets

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ready for their

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the our plate umpire sit there

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and day today dennis wins the game going

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to be called egos they had no idea

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we're just gonna continue to play

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the big question was

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what about the curfew

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the players on the field and the managers

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in the dugout know that

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baseball as a curse you know

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, shall continue beyond

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twelve fifty in the morning

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blah blah blah blah blah blah would

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never had to play to play curfew and

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now we're right up against it

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the athletes was the third base umpire and

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, called jack over and i said you know there's

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a curfew with twelve fifty am he

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says mike that doesn't mean shit

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to me said there's no curfew

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is that now manual i've gotta

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manual i've my manual

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normally there would be a paragraph

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it was a boilerplate paragraph talking

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about curfews

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for some reason that particular paragraph

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disappeared from the nineteen

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eighty one manual

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when it was being retired by

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secretary who knows it fell off the

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page and rolled under a table no

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one knows but the paragraph

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is not there

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it's just unbelievable that

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somebody made a proofreading era

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they created the opportunity for this

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crazy night

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you know common sense would

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dictate that you would postpone the

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game

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the

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that is somehow umpires think they

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are trained to follow the book is tell

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moric this interpretation

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manual is something that you must

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go by

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it could be what you call the umpires

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bible my name is toni

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mainers i was was

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umpiring aaa baseball

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yes it was cold and name was a

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good name better the players were so tired

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there were swinging miss and they're almost

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like robots gone up there or

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mummies or so i mean they just couldn't

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perform but there was no

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point no point evenings where

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i would have even thought

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of going against what

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are book is actually saying

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the twenty second inning the two teams

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were still deadlocked now tied it to

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the record the two thirty in the morning the

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few fans left in the stands were cold

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tired and hungry and the concession

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stands and started giving away free food

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and coffee everybody by that

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time was just

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hunting silly eyebrows

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the

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we have somebody coming

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out of the runway dugout

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all covered

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and as we were getting colder

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we found a metals trash

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can

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and we started building a fire so that we can

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form our hands are ,

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bad became firewood you're

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breaking off answer that would bench to burned

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in a way through that in there

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we got invited to come down to bend

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the , box and that slam

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the service

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those guys cases since

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we're sitting there are they yours

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the debbie been live lodges

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huddled under all these blink

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he has taken when the out

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of the bottle a lot like a

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fight all of you people know whether

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tonight older and a big party back

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in rochester and are gonna try

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to work for you

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where people calling the ballpark

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because there has been our

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sun or whoever was not coming

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home

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then as craig the

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plate umpire

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it brought his nephew to the ballgame

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at one o'clock

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his mother is so concerned

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this was before the cell phones before

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the internet

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he called the city

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who called county who called

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the slate

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they were looking over every bridge looking

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for taillights

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finally they traced back to the ballpark

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the officer cause the mother says ma'am

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we have found your son

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you face

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there in the twenty seventh inning

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it's to thirty quarter three three

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o'clock three ,

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ten fifty my on on a cruise and three

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and embark on a five twenty six twenty

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five and say or twenty eight family

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doctor mccoy stadium physicists forty

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a lot of as ours

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haven't seen honored we're down to twenty eight

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wouldn't

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for one second that i everything's

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okay i'm going to go home and sleep now there

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was no way

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i was there till

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the bitter end

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adnan a

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pinball for the first

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right back in rochester our

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like fetus listen to the post

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the show right out to the conclusion of his

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ballgame if it ever

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does it

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beginnings mounted

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we got to twenty five innings

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twenty seven innings thirty years

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we pick it would look gotta be close

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to a record here

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baseball history puts

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a lot of emphasis on records most hits

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a game of most home runs hytner

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seasons most this most that all

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kinds of crazy record

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edit wow we have a chance

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here tonight and little pathetic rhode island

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to get in the history books

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it became what you were playing for

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at some point

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because something good had to come out of is crazy

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night roast we all froze arrearage

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or for nothing

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in either everyone kind of wanted to be over

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then again you don't want to give up a

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when i

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, get

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twenty to twenty five i

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made three diving plays i

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don't want to go home that night that loser

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thirty three thirty zero

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as competitors and i bought

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a battle it was just the battle

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for the last run the ones that

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will gonna come in and in the game

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try to break the deadlock

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and same time simply twenty

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for

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we played exactly eight hours

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and sell it for me i had a big mouth with

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her i didn't know didn't can read our

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here it is four o'clock in the

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morning the thirty second inning

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it's even absurd to say that in

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baseball to say the thirty second

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innings righteous the gets a guy

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and second base the ,

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tits a single to write sealed

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sealed at my throat ira allen

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right away right john

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hell is rounding third tale

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was trying to score that would have been

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the ballgame your foot rodgers bread

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the manager for the rochester redwings

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is waving his arms like his windmill get

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your ass windmill get home the

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right fielder for were abducted red fielder

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is sam bowen now

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bowen has to try and throw this guy

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out an entire game rides

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on this play sought

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palms here imagine

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being sample and

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n in right sealed for

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seven plus hours

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the north

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i asked bowen the

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you ever think about

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not giving it your best throw

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maybe throwing it over the backstop

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the coen really

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i got angry with me

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he said

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this is what i do i'm not going to

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do anything less than my best

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even though this guy this never gonna make it back

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to the major leagues and he knows it

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goddamn it he is not gonna let the sky score

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semi takes him to to hops

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it makes a throw a tremendous

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throw feals the runner at the plate

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unbelievable you

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, get clean the top the night it's a great

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play he makes it plain tap the thirty

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second second a it's a historic

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play to me

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it's spoke to the true

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great of , professional

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baseball player that in the

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top of the thirty second inning at

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four o'clock in the morning morning

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he would throw out a guy at home play in

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those circumstances urbana

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party thoroughfare all tied up

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to

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the for the morning mentally iti

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the last guy was say baseball could

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kiss my ass tonight because this is

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not the way based was supposed to be playing

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we did to sit gotta and

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so over through the night ever

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since the sistine thinning

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my tim burrow of the protected

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red sox has been calling columbus

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ohio he's been calling the home of

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a guy named harold cooper who is

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the press

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the of the international league and

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who has authority to call the game

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we got a two o'clock and he didn't pick up

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and we call the three o'clock and he didn't pick

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up we called the three thirty

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eight he didn't pick up it wasn't

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until above quarter of

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for in the morning that he finally year

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to the phony he was in a deep sleep he

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was out in some gin mill someplace

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a limited up harold

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the quarter of for the morning were still playing

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ball he seduced still playing baseball

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it absolutely you curfew

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i got jack leads to third base umpire

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one him into the office our

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a third base umpire about

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to the part that to done for we don't

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know what the heck's going on super

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easy says ended now

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and the fucking

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ab ab for

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oh

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robin in the morning on easter sunday

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the umpire that violates a spend of

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the ball games and the well as the

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made by it off at a later date

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we decided which two discs

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when rodgers the would make the next appearance

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set mccoy stadium the

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of these players at least some

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time off to get some rest

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regular final word

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for a job well done to die

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what began the final car around

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one second rhode island arrive at

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the red wine soon as a for talk at right back

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through in a good friend

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there are people rather

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than our parents our parents their back up

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your vs and

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than by drew song everybody

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i looked over right field fence i

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sold wait in the sky it was actually

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the

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getting of dawn it

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was a beautiful easter sunday morning

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after eight hours and thirty two innings

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the game still wasn't over the

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teams would have to wait one before finishing

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the ballgame when he finally resumed

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play instead of nineteen fans and the san

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there were nearly six thousand and

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reporters from around the world

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there were there to watch the end of the

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longest game in history the year

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that chapter and more even find the full story

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on e s p n thirty for thirty podcast

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the voices you heard in today's episode where

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players wade boggs cal ripken

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jr dallas williams and dave closer

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causes wait for the time anyway general

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manager mike camberwell i'm tired

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tony mainers scorekeeper bill

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george and journalist and buried wrote

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a book about it on bottom of the thirty

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third the

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door he was pretty funny nellie gillis

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was edited by deborah george venture bureau

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and joe richmond and mixed by brandon

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bigger than very with are consulting

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producer meghan coil it our cable

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prepare and delilah writer at our production

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