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Speaker 2: Thank you very much, Harry Small. As we started another
Speaker 2: week here on nightside. We really started yesterday. We had
Speaker 2: a fabulous event at the Narrouli Restaurant in Westwood. We
Speaker 2: had a two seatings for a nightside brunch, one at
Speaker 2: eleven and one at twelve thirty. We had folks from
Speaker 2: really all over Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, one hundred
Speaker 2: and seventy eight reservations and I think virtually all of
Speaker 2: them showed up. I spent two hours meeting and greeting
Speaker 2: nightside listeners, loyal nightside listeners, some of whom I knew,
Speaker 2: some of whom I met for the first time. We'll
Speaker 2: talk about that later on tonight. But for anyone listening,
Speaker 2: I really enjoyed yesterday. Never had brunch myself, spent really
Speaker 2: three hours meeting and getting to know a lot of
Speaker 2: our listeners. An incredible experience. I just want to say
Speaker 2: thanks to all who showed up, to thank the people
Speaker 2: at the early restaurant, and of course want to thank
Speaker 2: Bo and Bill Winnaker and their group. The Winnaker Band
Speaker 2: played for the better part of three hours. They were fabulous.
Speaker 2: Everyone enjoyed themselves. Now we are going to start off
Speaker 2: our first hour tonight. No phone calls on the eight
Speaker 2: o'clock are. We're going to interview four guests. We're going
Speaker 2: to start off locally with the National Baseball Poetry Festival.
Speaker 2: I suspect that probably some of you were unaware that
Speaker 2: there was a National Baseball Poetry Festival. But the founder
Speaker 2: of the National Baseball Poetry Festival joins me, Now, Steve
Speaker 2: beyond dough Lillo, Have I pronounced that correct, Steve? Or
Speaker 2: have gotten close?
Speaker 1: You've got a.
Speaker 2: Lot of vowels in there, man, there's a lot of vowels. Yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 2: I'll tell you well, Steve tell us the National Baseball
Speaker 2: Poetry Festival. This is the third year of the Poetry Festival.
Speaker 2: I guess it's held in Worcester in honor of the
Speaker 2: great author from Worcester, a poet from Worcester who wrote
Speaker 2: the one poet poet poem that all of us know
Speaker 2: about baseball, Casey at the bat. And we're not talking
Speaker 2: about Casey Steingele, We're talking about the mighty Casey exactly precisely.
Speaker 3: Ernest Staire was born and raised in Worcester, and indeed
Speaker 3: he is the author of Casey at the Bat right,
Speaker 3: the most famous ever baseball poem, but also arguably one
Speaker 3: of the most famous poems in all of English literature
Speaker 3: or American literature, I would say, And so it had
Speaker 3: to be Worcester, right, And Worcester has a deep history
Speaker 3: in baseball. Also, the first perfect game was pitched there.
Speaker 3: The industrial leagues of the late nineteen hundreds were really
Speaker 3: there in a very strong, strong way. And so you
Speaker 3: know Worcester, and you know Polar Park as you know.
Speaker 3: You know, it's been there now four years and it's
Speaker 3: just the newest, shiniest, best run tripa a ballpark in
Speaker 3: the country. Actually won the award this past year for that.
Speaker 3: So it had to be Worcester. We thought it up
Speaker 3: about five years ago. It took a couple of years
Speaker 3: to get off the ground. And I'll give you the
Speaker 3: origin story if I've got admit it, and that is
Speaker 3: I was reading a magazine on the West Coast and
Speaker 3: saw an article on the Fisherman's Poetry Festival, and I thought,
Speaker 3: Fisherman's Poetry Festival, how many how many poems are there
Speaker 3: about fish? I'm not exactly sure. I was an English
Speaker 3: major undergrad and grad, and then I said, okay, fish,
Speaker 3: all right, we've got commercial fishing, we've got recreational fishing,
Speaker 3: we've got sport fishing. Sport. My goodness, how come there's
Speaker 3: no baseball poetry festival. And that's a true story. That
Speaker 3: was the actual origin story of that about five years ago,
Speaker 3: a couple years to get it off the ground.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it looks to me like you're gonna have thirty
Speaker 2: poets of some level. I'm just counting the numbers here.
Speaker 2: I think it's about thirty poets, many of them with
Speaker 2: you know, great baseball names. None of them I don't
Speaker 2: believe played. But you have a will Cox in there.
Speaker 2: There was a Milt Willcox who pitched in the major leagues.
Speaker 2: You got a more head showing up, spelled a little
Speaker 2: differently than Dave moorehead of the Red Sox, no hit fame. Yeah,
Speaker 2: there's more than a few names here. There's a Tony Brown,
Speaker 2: There's there's fifty guys that have played with the last
Speaker 2: name of Brown. There's Alex Thomas. I assume no relation
Speaker 2: either to Frank Thomas or Lee Thomas from the Red Sox.
Speaker 2: The Angels and the Yankees of the nineteen fifties and sixties.
Speaker 2: She got to Thomas, She got a Paul Thomas and
Speaker 2: a Frank Thomas. Where are all these poet poets coming
Speaker 2: in from?
Speaker 3: Okay, so let me back out, say what a festival is?
Speaker 3: What is a baseball poetry festival? It's two things, right,
Speaker 3: It's a contest for adults in youth to write baseball poetry,
Speaker 3: write poetry about baseball. And the scenes are very broadly cast, right,
Speaker 3: it could be about.
Speaker 2: Poet what they call a poet. They call these a
Speaker 2: poet poetry slam, right, where people are up reading their poems.
Speaker 3: I guess, well, yes, that's the open mic dimension of it.
Speaker 3: But first, let me tell you the contest.
Speaker 2: So we've had we've got about two minutes left here,
Speaker 2: so you got to tell me that context quickly, Steve.
Speaker 3: Okay, So we've had adult poets send in their work
Speaker 3: from thirty seven states in four countries, right, and then
Speaker 3: we've had youth poets send in their poetry from nine states.
Speaker 3: And there's a contest, right, So we select twenty seven
Speaker 3: winners amongst the adult, sixty winners amongst the kids. The
Speaker 3: other side is the gathering, and we're going to have
Speaker 3: poets from all over the United States in Worcester with
Speaker 3: us reading their work. There are different opportunities a couple
Speaker 3: at Pollar Park to be doing open mic reading, at
Speaker 3: the Gene mcdone Art Centers of the open Mic Reading,
Speaker 3: and at Electric Haze there'll be open mic reading. So
Speaker 3: these poets will gather from all over the US. The
Speaker 3: thirty you see are the ones listed on the website.
Speaker 3: We're expecting closer to one hundred poets actually from around
Speaker 3: the US.
Speaker 2: Okay, so think where's the best. Here's the best thing
Speaker 2: we can do. You're giving me a lot of information
Speaker 2: in a brief period of time, which is great. You
Speaker 2: have a website. I assume it's called Baseball Poetryfest dot org.
Speaker 3: Right, you've got it, Baseball Poetryfest dot org. All the information,
Speaker 3: the schedules, the uh all the opportunities to listen to poets.
Speaker 3: Of course, we've got a couple of games this weekend,
Speaker 3: the Wu Saws versus the Toledo mud Hens, and so
Speaker 3: it's it's just a fun and fabulous weekend for people
Speaker 3: who love the art and who love baseball. Because baseball
Speaker 3: is the most intertwined sport with the fine arts, film, theater, literature, music, everything.
Speaker 3: So this is the celebration the uniting of sports. It's
Speaker 3: the first festival in the US to unite sports and
Speaker 3: the fine arts.
Speaker 2: All right, So all you got to do is go
Speaker 2: to the one word Baseball Poetryfest dot org. There's a slash schedule,
Speaker 2: but I think Baseball Poetryfest dot org will get you there.
Speaker 2: You have the schedule, the contest, venues and hotels, everything
Speaker 2: you could possibly need to know about the Baseball Poetry
Speaker 2: Fest that will be taking place this weekend in Worcester.
Speaker 2: So congratulations, Steve. I think it's a great idea and
Speaker 2: I wish you all the luck and I hope you
Speaker 2: have a big turnout and maybe maybe someone will come
Speaker 2: up with another poem, a poem to rival Casey at
Speaker 2: the Bat. Did you know that there's a section they
Speaker 2: talk about in Casey at the Bat how Casey strikes
Speaker 2: out and there was gloomy doing in Mudville that day.
Speaker 2: Mudville is no joy in Mudville, No joy in Mudville.
Speaker 2: Did you know that there's a there's a section of
Speaker 2: Holliston that's called Mudville that I believe is named after
Speaker 2: that poem.
Speaker 3: I think you might be right there, but you know
Speaker 3: Worcester is going to stand firm with the pride of place.
Speaker 2: Oh no, no, no no. I'm just saying that that
Speaker 2: the that the law of Casey at the bat extends
Speaker 2: even well across across the country at around the world. Staves.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much, best best of Luke with the
Speaker 2: National Baseball Poetry Festival this weekend. Thanks Dave, appreciate it.
Speaker 4: Thank you so much.
Speaker 2: Dan.
Speaker 4: Take care Now.
Speaker 2: Welcome we get back. There is now a Massachusetts high
Speaker 2: school tournament for nash for a national mascot showdown. I
Speaker 2: have gone over this group. There's uh the sixty four competitors.
Speaker 2: I think some of them are from around New England
Speaker 2: as well as Massachusetts, but we'll figure that out. We're
Speaker 2: going to talk with Justin Wu, who's, amongst other things,
Speaker 2: an entrepreneur, a fhil anthropis that's good work if you
Speaker 2: can get it, by the way, and founder of V
Speaker 2: sixty four, the group responsible for the competition. We'll be
Speaker 2: back with Justin Wu and we'll give you all the
Speaker 2: information you need to know about the high school mascot tournament.
Speaker 2: And yes, I don't think that there are any Native sadly,
Speaker 2: any Native American mascots. But well, we'll go through it
Speaker 2: with Justin and we'll figure it all out later on time.
Speaker 2: Go talk with Chris Price, Boston Globe sports reporter, and
Speaker 2: talk about how he views the NFL Draft by the
Speaker 2: Patriots that've signed a lot of players as free agents
Speaker 2: as well. And then we're going to talk with one
Speaker 2: of our most loyal listeners in Alaska, Joan Hamilton, who's
Speaker 2: a volunteer for be My Eyes. Coming up at eight
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Speaker 1: Night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: All right, we now are going to get to our
Speaker 2: next guest, who is Justin wo And Justin, I guess
Speaker 2: Justin you're the founder of this national mascot showdown. Tell
Speaker 2: us about it.
Speaker 5: So yeah, at the sixty four Dot com it's a
Speaker 5: new online platform we just launched, and it's all about
Speaker 5: fun competition and giving them a voice to what people love.
Speaker 5: And we definitely think that people love mascots and they
Speaker 5: have a lot of spirit. So that's what we're doing
Speaker 5: right now, is we have a high school mascot competition running.
Speaker 5: We have an East division and a West division because
Speaker 5: we got so many mascots that wanted to participate, and
Speaker 5: it's going right now. You can head over to the
Speaker 5: site and vote anytime.
Speaker 2: Now, let me ask you, is this this was pitched
Speaker 2: to me as a Massachusetts competition, but it looks to
Speaker 2: me like it's from There are a lot of Massachusetts competitors,
Speaker 2: but it looks to me like there's been some other
Speaker 2: states represented here. How many states are in this? Again,
Speaker 2: you're East competition.
Speaker 5: So I don't know exactly how many states are in
Speaker 5: the East versus the West, but we have most of
Speaker 5: the fifties states represented. We scoured the internet to look
Speaker 5: for all kinds of cool high school mascots.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So for example, I'm seeing Bangor Maine. Or I'm
Speaker 2: seeing Bangor, which I assume is Maine. I'm seeing Somerset,
Speaker 2: which I'm assuming is probably New Jersey, but there's also
Speaker 2: a Somerset, Massachusetts, so you don't have a rough I
Speaker 2: see Elizabethan, Elizabethan. I guess that could be made if
Speaker 2: it could be New Jersey.
Speaker 5: Yeah, not one hundred percent sure, but I know that
Speaker 5: we tried to get a couple from all different states
Speaker 5: in the lot of the major markets.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I see for example, Ashland, which I think is Massachusetts,
Speaker 2: but there's also Ashland, Kentucky. I know because there's a
Speaker 2: federal prison there. I see Denmark. I have no idea
Speaker 2: where Denmark's from. I know it's not from the from
Speaker 2: the country Deadmark.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: If you click the profile for the for all of
Speaker 5: these different places or the different mascots.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's Georgia video and then OK, yeah that's Georgia
Speaker 2: the location. I'm not going to steal your time and
Speaker 2: click all of them, that's for sure. How did people
Speaker 2: qualify for this? Did they just volunteer or did you
Speaker 2: did you actually go out and find them?
Speaker 5: We actually went out and found them. We scoured the
Speaker 5: internet and we were looking for a lot of unique mascots,
Speaker 5: so not the you know, the basic things like the
Speaker 5: tigers and you know what everybody has, but some really
Speaker 5: unique ones around the country. And then they all submitted
Speaker 5: videos and the videos are amazing to watch how much
Speaker 5: effort and energy the you know, the kids at the
Speaker 5: school and the schools put in to putting them up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm looking at Somerset. It's Somerset. It's neither New
Speaker 2: Jersey nor Massachusetts. At Somerset, Kentucky. I do notice that, Yeah,
Speaker 2: there are none of the the animal well, there's there's
Speaker 2: some referenced as like the antelopes, but the lions and
Speaker 2: the tigers and all of that. And there's no Native
Speaker 2: American mascot. So is this a Native American mascots? We
Speaker 2: have several up here in Massachusetts. Were they not considered?
Speaker 5: Oh no, everybody was considered. I just don't think that
Speaker 5: maybe they got picked. There's some really crazy, you know mascots,
Speaker 5: So yeah, I don't know. That just happened to be
Speaker 5: by chance.
Speaker 2: Okay, we got to hit one here from Massachusetts called
Speaker 2: the Milbury Woolies. I'm not sure what a wooly is,
Speaker 2: but that's a good looking mascot and that is now Yeah,
Speaker 2: Milbury mill the Milbury Woolies have advanced to the second round.
Speaker 5: And yeah, they're in the current round against the Staggy.
Speaker 2: So Staggy looks like an animal of some sort.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it looks like yer kind of thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, so that's kind of a traditional that's
Speaker 2: but again the staggy, that's that's pretty cool. I do
Speaker 2: see that you have, ah from Jacksonville, Florida. We have
Speaker 2: a crusader. Different times people have objective. Holy Cross also
Speaker 2: uses the crusaders, so you know in this day and
Speaker 2: a justin whenever you do these, it always gets into
Speaker 2: some sort of political conversation. And I see that you
Speaker 2: got the West coast here as well. Uh, and they're
Speaker 2: going on. I'm just looking for some of the more
Speaker 2: interesting ones that you have here. There's one here.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's a volcano. Yeah, there's some. Yeah, you have
Speaker 5: to he's around this one.
Speaker 2: That's pretty funny. Here's one that's pretty funny. It's a
Speaker 2: polka poka poka poka is in West Virginia, well.
Speaker 5: Poker Virginia.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the polka dots where.
Speaker 2: The poka poka dots? Okay, uh, yeah, I see what
Speaker 2: you got going on here? You got uh you do
Speaker 2: have a seat in Saint Bernard out of Cincinnati, Ohio. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's you got. You got an interesting group. When when
Speaker 2: will the ultimate winner? You're going to have two winners
Speaker 2: who looks like no, no, You're going to have a
Speaker 2: final playoff? Is that the deal with you?
Speaker 5: We're gonna have a final playoff in the fall. Because
Speaker 5: of such high demand for this, we divided it into
Speaker 5: the East versus the West, and then we'll take the
Speaker 5: best out of each each bracket or each tournament and
Speaker 5: put them into like a national And then the price
Speaker 5: for that is we're going to give us sixty four
Speaker 5: hundred to one of their you know, one of these
Speaker 5: schools to their athletic department towards something that they want
Speaker 5: that would help the school, so that they go and vote, yeah,
Speaker 5: sixty four And then users that come in and vote
Speaker 5: you can win things from gift cards to I think
Speaker 5: a PlayStation for the for these first ornament.
Speaker 2: So let me let me ask you. Something like this
Speaker 2: obviously costs some money. Who's sponsoring this or is this
Speaker 2: hob how do you how do you keep this afloat?
Speaker 5: So this one I sponsor, And then in the future
Speaker 5: what we're looking to do is get sponsors of kind
Speaker 5: of local community partners because one of the reasons why
Speaker 5: I came up with the site is a lot of
Speaker 5: media companies do you know, voting competitions, and they make
Speaker 5: the contestants pay for that in one way or another,
Speaker 5: and paying for it influences the outcome of the competition.
Speaker 5: This one, none of the contestants can ever pay for
Speaker 5: any of the you know things in the competition. There's
Speaker 5: nothing for them to buy, and so it's purely fan voted.
Speaker 5: And how much that they work on promoting themselves to
Speaker 5: their own audiences.
Speaker 2: Sure, sure, well, I would hope that in future years
Speaker 2: maybe you could get a couple of these big corporate
Speaker 2: sponsorship show the companies that are trying to get to
Speaker 2: teenage consumers. I mean, there's a lot of product out
Speaker 2: there that you know, high school students consume. And whether
Speaker 2: or not it's you know, a popular non alcoholic beverage
Speaker 2: or for sure or whatever it might be, I think
Speaker 2: I think you're onto something here. Justin thank you very
Speaker 2: much people, thank you for having me. Let's go to
Speaker 2: your website. The website is pretty simple. It's the word
Speaker 2: the th h and then the numbers the number sixty four,
Speaker 2: So the sixty four dot com slash Tournaments slash high
Speaker 2: school mascots. Great great Justice.
Speaker 5: Finishing brought us that right from the from the homepage.
Speaker 5: And you know, it's easy to register. It takes about
Speaker 5: five minutes. All you need is a phone numbers to
Speaker 5: do authentication. And that's because we want to be sure
Speaker 5: that the integrity of the boats is up there, that
Speaker 5: people can't create fake spots and whatnot.
Speaker 2: Sounds sounds sounds all on the level of me. Thanks Justin.
Speaker 2: I appreciate you taking the time.
Speaker 5: To Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2: Welcome, all right, thanks, good bye, all right, we get back.
Speaker 2: We're going to talk about the NFL Draft with Chris Price,
Speaker 2: Boston Globes sports reporter, specifically of course, with an emphasis
Speaker 2: on the New England Patriots. And they also signed a
Speaker 2: bunch of free agents after the draft. We can't forget
Speaker 2: about them, and we are going to talk about one
Speaker 2: guy who they drafted, Kobe Minor, joins the club as
Speaker 2: the twenty twenty six mister Irrelevant. We'll get to all
Speaker 2: of that, I promise, right after the break for news
Speaker 2: at the bottom of the hour.
Speaker 1: It's Night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much. Sherry joining us again is a
Speaker 2: great Boston Globe Sports reporter Chris Price. Hey, Chris, welcome
Speaker 2: back to Nightside.
Speaker 4: Good to talk to you.
Speaker 3: Dan.
Speaker 2: How you been I'm doing great. You studied the l Draft,
Speaker 2: I'm sure, and with particular specific emphasis on the Patriots.
Speaker 2: As a as an outsider, I think they had a
Speaker 2: pretty good draft. What's your take?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think think it was good. Of course, you
Speaker 4: never know until you know you see him put on
Speaker 4: the pads and get on the practice field down there
Speaker 4: in Foxborough. But I think on the surface, you can
Speaker 4: certainly point to the fact that they addressed a lot
Speaker 4: of meats that they had this off season. First and
Speaker 4: foremost with Will Campbell. I know, there was a lot
Speaker 4: of debate about whether or not his arms, you know,
Speaker 4: were too short for industry standards when you talk about
Speaker 4: the position, But the bottom line was that he was
Speaker 4: the best offensive lineman in the draft. The Patriots needed
Speaker 4: offensive lineman, and so it felt kind of like a
Speaker 4: natural marriage between the two. But yeah, I think it
Speaker 4: was a good draft by large.
Speaker 2: I read all that I read all that stuff about
Speaker 2: his arms, Okay, I think you know, his his wingspan
Speaker 2: would be another way to look at it is what
Speaker 2: a couple of inches shorter than maybe someone who's six
Speaker 2: foot six should be. I don't understand. I mean, if
Speaker 2: his arms were you know, yeah, I don't understand what.
Speaker 2: Maybe you can explain to me what the theoretical difference.
Speaker 2: I mean, is he going to stop some guy with
Speaker 2: an extra fingertip? I didn't get that.
Speaker 4: Well. I think it's a great debate, it really is.
Speaker 4: And I'll start by saying there there are a number
Speaker 4: of really good offensive linemen, particularly at the tackle position,
Speaker 4: who do have kind of shorter arms an inch or two.
Speaker 4: Like I said, the industry standard is thirty three inches
Speaker 4: for arm length. And he actually measured at his pro
Speaker 4: day at LSU thirty three inches exactly. Now he measured
Speaker 4: at the combine. A couple of you know, a month
Speaker 4: or two before that just shy of that. And so
Speaker 4: you know, you wonder if someone is you know, taking
Speaker 4: a look at the numbers and kind of fudging, you know,
Speaker 4: fudge the stats. But I think really for a lot
Speaker 4: of people, when you talk about the people who play
Speaker 4: that position, you need that you need as much length
Speaker 4: as possible to kind of hold off those big edge rushers,
Speaker 4: those big, fast, quick guys coming around the corner. You
Speaker 4: want to keep them at arm's length for as long
Speaker 4: as possible. Now, the Patriots had a guy like that
Speaker 4: a few years ago in Nate Solder, who I thought
Speaker 4: that a very very good job, and in the he
Speaker 4: had long arms and he was you know, was able
Speaker 4: to do that. Now the question is here, Dan, if
Speaker 4: you look at history, he's a really good offensive lineman.
Speaker 4: But there are a lot of other good offensive linemen
Speaker 4: who had similar situations going into the pros who moved
Speaker 4: inside to guard, you know, where you don't necessarily need
Speaker 4: the long arms. So the question might be could he
Speaker 4: move inside if he necessarily you know, the shorter arms
Speaker 4: thing becomes an issue with the NFL level. So, like
Speaker 4: I said, bottom line, though for me he was the
Speaker 4: best offensive lineman in the draft. They need those guys.
Speaker 4: They need guys for protection for Drake May upfront. So
Speaker 4: again it was kind of a natural marriage for the
Speaker 4: two as far as I was consumed.
Speaker 2: Well, the protection can't be any worse than it has
Speaker 2: been the last couple of years. I also, I love
Speaker 2: the guys who are either undersized or you know, I
Speaker 2: love the Julian Edelman type player, the guy you know,
Speaker 2: he as a kid was a quarterback in college and
Speaker 2: it comes out and ends up one of the best
Speaker 2: wide receivers in the history of the league. He got
Speaker 2: all these guys who were six' four and they have.
Speaker 2: Butterfingers you, know you throw a ball anywhere Near, edelman
Speaker 2: and he was going to get it and then he
Speaker 2: was going to. RUN i don't, KNOW i want to.
Speaker 4: Guy here you, Go, Dan i'll give you a guy
Speaker 4: to roote. For how about this this guy The patriots
Speaker 4: signed as an undrafted free, agent didn't wasn't even, Drafted Lann.
Speaker 4: Larison And i'm not Sure i'm pronouncing his name, right
Speaker 4: but AT. L. A. N. Lawson he's a running back
Speaker 4: FROM Uc davis who put up incredible numbers over the
Speaker 4: course of his career at you See davis just and
Speaker 4: he did a bunch of. Things he was a you,
Speaker 4: know he was a running. Back he put you, know
Speaker 4: he threw some. Passes the other, thing he was a
Speaker 4: high school rodeo. Champion so if you want a guy
Speaker 4: to wish if you want to like a long shot
Speaker 4: to wish on, to you, know to who can maybe
Speaker 4: follow that same sort of. Career Arc i'm not saying
Speaker 4: he's going to Be, edelman but a guy to ren
Speaker 4: a late. Run got a root For Lane. Larrison he's your.
Speaker 2: MAN i liked. IT i liked, that and have a
Speaker 2: two choice that guy from The Ohio State.
Speaker 6: Stevenson yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah henderson is a really.
Speaker 2: Mixing him up with the with the guy that said
Speaker 2: the problem, fundling the question is the.
Speaker 4: Steer you go.
Speaker 6: Exactly you know what's really, interesting Dan is and you
Speaker 6: talk About stevenson And henderson and maybe the positional battle
Speaker 6: that will kind of start to brew there as a result,
Speaker 6: of you, know The patriots getting that guy while they
Speaker 6: have an established running back.
Speaker 4: Already one of my favorite coats From Mike rabel is
Speaker 4: that he said when he was a, player he used
Speaker 4: to watch the draft every year to see who they
Speaker 4: were trying to replace me. With and SO i think
Speaker 4: we look at some of these positions here. Now at running,
Speaker 4: back they drafted a wide receiver when they already had
Speaker 4: a couple of young wide receivers in. There you, know
Speaker 4: they drafted a kicker when they already have a kicker
Speaker 4: on the. Roster there's going to be some really fun
Speaker 4: position battles to watch for this team moving.
Speaker 2: Forward, well the, thing the thing going back To. Stevenson
Speaker 2: WHAT i loved About stevenson was he had he had
Speaker 2: a great. Backstory AND i don't know if it was your, Article,
Speaker 2: chris or someone else who talked about. HIM i think
Speaker 2: he had dropped out of college and he was, working you,
Speaker 2: know kind of a dead end, job and somehow he
Speaker 2: got back into school and all of a sudden started
Speaker 2: to play football and just his life turned.
Speaker 4: Around and he's a really he's a really fascinating.
Speaker 2: Guy, yeah and he had a great first season for
Speaker 2: a bad, team and then last, year you, know there
Speaker 2: were you, know a couple of guys punch the ball
Speaker 2: out on him and you, fumble and you get that
Speaker 2: reputation and it's tough to. Shake and every time you're
Speaker 2: carrying the, football you're thinking about holding onto the, football
Speaker 2: not hitting the. Hole You you just wonder if his
Speaker 2: days are. Numbered, now EVEN i, Was i'm rooting for.
Speaker 2: Him i'm going to continue to roof for him because
Speaker 2: he's got such a great.
Speaker 4: Backstory well you know. What the other thing, too is
Speaker 4: that when The, patriot if you look at and part
Speaker 4: of this goes back To, belichick but The patriots Under
Speaker 4: belichick never had a guy rush for a thousand yards
Speaker 4: in back to back season as those fantastic, teams but
Speaker 4: they always consider running backs a little fungible kind of you,
Speaker 4: know you can just rotate them through there and get
Speaker 4: the next. Guy and SO i wonder if that's kind
Speaker 4: of playing into their thinking here with bringing in a
Speaker 4: new guy to a. Place, stevenson who rushed for one
Speaker 4: thousand yards a couple of years, ago had really done
Speaker 4: a good job to establish himself as an every down,
Speaker 4: back and NOW i JUST i wonder if they're going
Speaker 4: to keep kind of that that spin cycle, moving or
Speaker 4: maybe it's just kind of part of the you, know
Speaker 4: the way people are looking at the position these. Days
Speaker 4: SO i don't, know but, it's LIKE i, said it
Speaker 4: sets up a really intriguing positional battle on this roster moving.
Speaker 4: Forward not a.
Speaker 2: Lot of job security in THE. Nfl there's a much
Speaker 2: more job security in, baseball, basketball and hockey THE. Nfl
Speaker 2: AND i don't know why. That maybe there's just too
Speaker 2: many talented guys and this too many. Injuries why is, That?
Speaker 4: Chris in your, OPINION i think part of it is
Speaker 4: the physical nature of the. Sport it's just an inherently
Speaker 4: violent sport and so you're gonna have guys with shorter.
Speaker 4: Careers but, look the bottom line is that you, know
Speaker 4: the old acronym that people think it stands For National Football,
Speaker 4: league and, really in a lot of, ways for a
Speaker 4: lot of, guys it's not for long that you, know
Speaker 4: you've got to make your. Money you've got to do
Speaker 4: whatever you can do to you, know to kind of
Speaker 4: stake your claim there in THE, nfl and then you
Speaker 4: kind of move on because teams are always looking, for you,
Speaker 4: know as their reference with the raybel. Thing teams are
Speaker 4: always looking to replace the older guys with younger. Guys
Speaker 4: it's just it's a constantly churning.
Speaker 2: Machine that next. GUY i, Think, okay your, Piece i'm
Speaker 2: not sure if it ran, today if it runs, tomorrow mister,
Speaker 2: Irrelevant Toby mine a great. Piece so little suggests a
Speaker 2: little advice For Marty, moore who's who actually was also
Speaker 2: the final. Pick, Hey i'd like to be a FINAL
Speaker 2: i would have liked to have been a final LEFT nfl.
Speaker 2: Pick nothing to be ashamed. Of tell us About Kobe.
Speaker 2: Minor can he make the.
Speaker 4: Team Kobe minor can definitely make the team if he
Speaker 4: Follows Marty moore's. Advice Marty moore was the last overall
Speaker 4: pick in nineteen ninety four and he ended up going
Speaker 4: to Two Super. Bowls you want to ring with the
Speaker 4: two thousand and one. Team so this is a guy
Speaker 4: who knows of what he. Speaks he, Says, look don't
Speaker 4: shy away from that mister irrelevant. Label embrace. It be
Speaker 4: an underdog to come the kind of guy That patriots
Speaker 4: fans want to root, for they want to cheer. For
Speaker 4: people love those stories like you just referenced with with Romondre.
Speaker 4: Stevenson people love a great comeback. Story people love a
Speaker 4: good underdog. Story and if this guy just goes out
Speaker 4: there and just. PLAYS i mentioned this someone. Before he's
Speaker 4: got to play every snap like rent and food are
Speaker 4: on the line every single. Play you just got to
Speaker 4: go hit it, all hang out and he'll make the.
Speaker 4: Team you, know he's certainly done. Enough like you, said
Speaker 4: it's an honor really in a lot of, ways And
Speaker 4: marty references in the, Story, look it's an honor just
Speaker 4: to be. Drafted this is just this is LIKE i,
Speaker 4: said you, know it's they're just there's turnover all the
Speaker 4: time in THE. Nfl and if you get to a
Speaker 4: stage where you play even one snap in The National Football,
Speaker 4: league you, know you've got a social currency THAT i
Speaker 4: think goes a long way with a lot of.
Speaker 2: People so, LOOK i, mean, yeah if you play one snap, here,
Speaker 2: well you play one, staff you're in the. Book my
Speaker 2: great friend of many, Years Ted, lepsio who played for
Speaker 2: The Red, sox used to talk, about you, know one
Speaker 2: at bat or one game in right field where you'll
Speaker 2: get it at bat or, something you're still you're in the.
Speaker 2: Book it Was ted's. Phrase so any of these guys
Speaker 2: who get in the, book they're they're better than the
Speaker 2: rest of, us that's for. Sure, Hey, chris no one's
Speaker 2: better than you on this. STUFF i really appreciate every
Speaker 2: time you come. ON i learned something every. Time thank,
Speaker 2: you my. FRIEND i appreciate it so. Much enjoy yourself.
Speaker 2: Tomorrow is that piece on myster? Irrelevant has that did
Speaker 2: that hit? TODAY i read The Globe sports.
Speaker 4: Batge, yeah it's it's it's online now and it should
Speaker 4: be in it should be in print.
Speaker 2: Tomorrow let's look for it, tomorrow sports. Fans it's a great.
Speaker 2: Piece i've had a peek at it. Here, okay Thanks Chris,
Speaker 2: price will talk.
Speaker 4: Soon thanks, fan take care doctor You.
Speaker 2: Okay we get. Back we're gonna talk about and a
Speaker 2: great program that one of our long distance night, Siders Joan,
Speaker 2: hamilton is involved. With it's called Be My. Eyes this
Speaker 2: is a great. Story we'll be back On nightside read
Speaker 2: after the.
Speaker 1: Break you're on Night side With Dan. Ray i'm W
Speaker 1: Z boston's news.
Speaker 2: Radio, well one of our most loyal listeners lives In.
Speaker 2: Alaska her name Is Joan, hamilton and she's also explained
Speaker 2: to me that she's the volunteer for a program Called
Speaker 2: Be My. EYES i never realized what a big, program
Speaker 2: volunteer program this, Was. Joan, welcome welcome back. Home how
Speaker 2: are you?
Speaker 7: Tonight, well thank, you and it is home to. Me.
Speaker 7: Still i'm wonderful And i'm thrilled that you're doing.
Speaker 2: This so tell us about Be My eyes and tell
Speaker 2: us about the, program and then tell us what you
Speaker 2: have to do if. YOU i guess they're always looking for,
Speaker 2: volunteers absolutely.
Speaker 7: So about a year and a half, ago my daughter
Speaker 7: told me that she was a volunteer for this wonderful.
Speaker 7: Outfit bet My eyes is a company that started about
Speaker 7: ten years ago In denmark and it provides people who are,
Speaker 7: blind low, vision or even dyslexic to be able to
Speaker 7: use an. App access the, app and a host of
Speaker 7: volunteers all over the world will answer their call and
Speaker 7: be able to help a person who's visually impaired to
Speaker 7: navigate anything in their world that's going on that they
Speaker 7: need help.
Speaker 2: With and SO i watched A ted talk from the
Speaker 2: founder From, Denmark Hans Jorgen. WEIBERG i think was how
Speaker 2: he pronounced his name Of. Vieburg he. Was he did
Speaker 2: A ted talk In. COPENHAGEN i guess he has very narrow.
Speaker 2: Vision so it's there's a lot of people who have vision.
Speaker 2: Problems they don't necessarily have to be one hundred percent,
Speaker 2: blind but you, know not at. All if you are
Speaker 2: one hundred percent, blind this program can still help you. Correct.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 7: ABSOLUTELY i talked to people who are completely blind who are.
Speaker 7: Amazing it's been one of the most uplifting experiences for.
Speaker 7: Me i've always had a pension for blindness SINCE i
Speaker 7: was a kid AND i had a friend and situate
Speaker 7: who was, blind And i've just always had a heart
Speaker 7: and being amazed by what someone could.
Speaker 2: Accomplish, okay so how explain to us how this? Works,
Speaker 2: logistically you're sitting at home In. Alaska you're listed as a.
Speaker 2: Volunteer so if somebody, has you, know a low vision
Speaker 2: problem and they're trying to read a label on some
Speaker 2: cooking don't, whatever give us a couple of examples of
Speaker 2: people that you've. Helped give us make it tensible for. Us.
Speaker 7: Okay so one of my first, calls And i've been
Speaker 7: doing this for about a year and a half my,
Speaker 7: iPhone i live recliner. Life so my daughter was looking
Speaker 7: for a way for me to continue to be. Useful
Speaker 7: i'm an old bird. NURSE i answer a call and
Speaker 7: the screen is. BLACK i, say how CAN i help?
Speaker 7: You and the woman had her phone facing what was
Speaker 7: the back of her. Television she had knocked over something
Speaker 7: and all of her cables from the back of HER,
Speaker 7: tv HER hdmi cables music input had pulled away from THE.
Speaker 7: Tv she was completely, blind and she was able to
Speaker 7: show me the back of her, phone AND i was
Speaker 7: able to talk her through plugging the mill back. IN
Speaker 7: i had another fellow who had a LITTLE docs and
Speaker 7: a little fifteen year OLD docs who was acting unusual
Speaker 7: and he thought that he had a. Problem he showed
Speaker 7: me the dog and was able to poke along AND
Speaker 7: i had him move the dog around and look at
Speaker 7: this and, that and we were able to figure out
Speaker 7: that the dog was just having a hard moment as
Speaker 7: a fifteen year old Doccun and Sometimes i'll chat with
Speaker 7: people after and they'll be amazed That i'm In alaska and.
Speaker 7: Whatnot but it's.
Speaker 2: When they call, you would they call, you it's they
Speaker 2: could be connected with any volunteer anywhere in the.
Speaker 7: World they have it all set up so that volunteers
Speaker 7: only get calls between their time zone eight and nine,
Speaker 7: pm eight am to nine, pm but anyone who uses
Speaker 7: the service gets connected with someone within fifteen. Seconds there
Speaker 7: are only there are they're approaching a million users, now
Speaker 7: but there are eight million volunteers, worldwide one hundred and eighty.
Speaker 7: Languages and the other thing is this company is creating
Speaker 7: AND i think will be a landmark resource to people
Speaker 7: who are low vision. Worldwide they have partnered With meta Through,
Speaker 7: facebook you, know THE meda and now people can get
Speaker 7: The RayBan meta. Glasses And i've had two people call
Speaker 7: that we're using those and they have the glasses on
Speaker 7: and they can show me what they're looking at through this.
Speaker 7: App AND i talked them through whatever issue they're. Having
Speaker 7: one fellow, was you, know trying to find a certain
Speaker 7: component on a piece of. Equipment and it's just. Phenomenal
Speaker 7: and with all of the seniors now getting macular degeneration and,
Speaker 7: cataracts this app is free to. Use there's no imprint
Speaker 7: left on your phone or their. Phone it's just it's.
Speaker 2: Miraculous, well let's let's give the website so people can
Speaker 2: check it. Out and this is perfect for people who have,
Speaker 2: uh you, know good general. Knowledge you don't have to
Speaker 2: BE i guess a television technician or Specific yeah.
Speaker 7: And so And i'm, sorry, no go.
Speaker 2: AHEAD i just wanted to give The i'm going to
Speaker 2: give this a couple of. Times it's all one WORD
Speaker 2: b B e my m y ies dot, com simple
Speaker 2: as that bmiyes dot. Com and you can contact, them
Speaker 2: you can download the. APP i assume that you, can
Speaker 2: uh you'll be able to, volunteer uh and and and
Speaker 2: get right into the. System, God, joan you were making
Speaker 2: a point THAT i interrupted on. You go. Ahead that's.
Speaker 7: OKAY i THINK i forgot the point for a. Second
Speaker 7: the benefit is just you don't have to have any
Speaker 7: technological skills to be able to, talk and if you
Speaker 7: can't handle what's going on in the, call you can
Speaker 7: hang up and they just Say i'm not able to do,
Speaker 7: this and within fifteen seconds they'll have another volunteer, answer,
Speaker 7: well we have got many.
Speaker 2: People, wow what a great oh to give you an
Speaker 2: immense amount of. Satisfaction, oh it's.
Speaker 7: Tremendous AS i, said if you're someone who can't be
Speaker 7: out and about very, easily if you're someone who just
Speaker 7: wants a moment of, encouragement it's you, KNOW i had
Speaker 7: a woman who was trying to decide what yarn to use,
Speaker 7: crocheting and WHEN i saw the things that she was,
Speaker 7: crocheting and she's completely, blind but she wanted to know
Speaker 7: if the color was the same as the one she
Speaker 7: was using in the. Project you, know AS i, SAID
Speaker 7: i grew up with a young gal this is in the,
Speaker 7: fifties who was blind and this was down In, situate
Speaker 7: Mass AND i used to get down on the ground
Speaker 7: WHEN i was seven or eight years old and make
Speaker 7: a sound near the croquet hoop and try to track
Speaker 7: her to play. Croquet and so this is like full circle.
Speaker 7: Fruition to be able to see what technology is, DOING
Speaker 7: i could tell stories about or explain the experience for
Speaker 7: hours to. People it's been so uplifting to.
Speaker 2: Me, well you can hear it in your. VOICE i
Speaker 2: think that it's wonderful what you're. Doing and you're helping
Speaker 2: people literally all over the. World it's well and in my,
Speaker 2: eyes what they're, doing NO i, understand but you're representing them.
Speaker 2: Here so be my eyes is so. Important be my
Speaker 2: eyes just spelled. Us it sounds dot. Com and you,
Speaker 2: know we had had a great chance to meet your
Speaker 2: sister and your brother in law the event In, westwood so.
Speaker 7: Please WELL i, WAS i was there by, proxy so good.
Speaker 2: Enough, absolutely it was a great. Time. Joe we'll talk, Soon,
Speaker 2: Okay i'll see you, SOMETIMES i hope.
Speaker 7: So AND i just thanks so.
Speaker 3: Much, Dan you're very, Welcome.
Speaker 2: Joe be my. Eyes great. Work, okay bye bye bye.
Speaker 2: Bye so now we get back here on night. Side
Speaker 2: we're going to right after the nine o'clock news talk
Speaker 2: about the latest and The karen Retrow and there was
Speaker 2: a lot that would end today AND i think today
Speaker 2: was a tough day for For. Karen read now, again
Speaker 2: the prosecution is putting their case. IN i think it's
Speaker 2: being put in pretty. Effectively i'll explain, why but i'd
Speaker 2: like to hear your take on it as. Well we'll
Speaker 2: be back right after the nine