Speaker 1: It's Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZY, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Thank you Nicole. The Bruins are in Keeba Quah. Used
Speaker 2: to be the Nord Deeks. Well no more Nord Deeks,
Speaker 2: but they'll get hopefully an expansion team up there again
Speaker 2: at some point. My name is Dan Ray, host of
Speaker 2: nights Side, and we have a great show coming up
Speaker 2: for you tonight. We'll be talking with Joe Kistigleone, the
Speaker 2: forty two year radio voice of the Boston Red Sox.
Speaker 2: Right after the nine o'clock news, Joe called his what
Speaker 2: would probably be his last regular season game for the
Speaker 2: Red Sox. He's going to be doing some work for
Speaker 2: the Red Sox going forward. Joe will explain that. But
Speaker 2: a great broadcaster and probably even a greater guy. We'll
Speaker 2: talk with Joe and you'll be able to call in
Speaker 2: and thank him for all the calls. He's had four
Speaker 2: pretty good years, well he had forty two good years,
Speaker 2: but four of them ended up in World Series. So
Speaker 2: he was there when the curse was broken in two
Speaker 2: thousand and four, two thousand and seven, in twenty thirteen,
Speaker 2: and again in twenty and eighteen. And we'll get to them.
Speaker 2: All of that other stuff later on. There's a week
Speaker 2: of rage schedule on college campuses next week by a
Speaker 2: group of students who I believe are more pro hamasd
Speaker 2: than they are pro Palestinian. But we'll deal with that.
Speaker 2: We have four really interesting guests this hour, and I
Speaker 2: got to tell you I'm so looking forward to talk
Speaker 2: with our next Our first guest this hour, Jeff Rohdemer. Jeff,
Speaker 2: along with another co author, Dave Brown, have written a
Speaker 2: great book, timed well called Shadows of Glory, Memorable and
Speaker 2: offbeat World Series Stories. So Jeff, welcome to Night's Side.
Speaker 2: You're talking to an audience in Boston, but around the country.
Speaker 2: We've had more than our share of World Series here
Speaker 2: in Boston during this century. I still think the Red
Speaker 2: Sox lead the league in World Series championships during the
Speaker 2: twenty first century. How are you tonight?
Speaker 3: I'm doing good as a Yankee fan, Dan, thanks for
Speaker 3: rubbing that in.
Speaker 2: No. No, I'm sure the Yankees will be back at
Speaker 2: some point. But uh, I think we I think we
Speaker 2: got four. They only have one if I'm not mistaken
Speaker 2: about but they're pretty good shape. The Orioles have been
Speaker 2: tipped over by the Royals, which is an interesting development
Speaker 2: in the playoffs. We could talk about that, but let's
Speaker 2: talk about I think.
Speaker 3: I think the Yankee fans are Yeah, they're they're They're
Speaker 3: They've learned to be cautiously optimistic in the last couple
Speaker 3: of years.
Speaker 2: They open up at home and when I don't like
Speaker 2: about the new which I haven't liked some of the beginning. No,
Speaker 2: a team like the Orioles plays really well all year
Speaker 2: and they they lose two out of three games and
Speaker 2: they're done. They're done. You know. I know the playoff
Speaker 2: system has its positives, but I don't know that that's
Speaker 2: fair when a team plays so well for one hundred
Speaker 2: and sixty two. And I'm not an Orioles fan. I'm
Speaker 2: just saying I think there's there's a little bit of
Speaker 2: in equity here when I don't know if you have
Speaker 2: a thought about that or not.
Speaker 3: Well, it is a tough beat, but it is far
Speaker 3: better than just the one and done wild card game.
Speaker 3: To me, that I really that really, I really, I'm
Speaker 3: a little bit more of a traditional life traditionalist, I guess,
Speaker 3: and that that was always to me sort of you know, well,
Speaker 3: that was the problem need to be fixed.
Speaker 2: I know MLB is trying to keep more teams involved
Speaker 2: in it. I get that. But at the same time,
Speaker 2: I go back and you do. You as well, go
Speaker 2: back to the days of a seven game World Series
Speaker 2: when you have the American League pennant winner against the
Speaker 2: nationallygue pennant winner. And let's talk about that some of
Speaker 2: those games, because some of those games are in your book.
Speaker 2: Where did the idea to do this book come from?
Speaker 2: There was always a point in time where the idea
Speaker 2: comes to the forefront of your mind.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So, so Dave and I met in college at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania,
Speaker 3: back in the seventies, and we discovered we had this
Speaker 3: kind of shared love of baseball, baseball trivia, history, the
Speaker 3: statistics of it, and you know, hardcore fans know that
Speaker 3: you can't separate one of those from the other. It's
Speaker 3: all sort of you know, how you grew up as
Speaker 3: a baseball geek, and you fast forward to around two
Speaker 3: thousand and days started writing in addition to his day
Speaker 3: job as a lawyer and has since had six books published,
Speaker 3: and many of them were either about baseball or about sports.
Speaker 3: And he called me at the end of twenty eighteen
Speaker 3: and just said I really want to get back to
Speaker 3: writing about baseball. His last book had been a true
Speaker 3: crime book, and he had a couple of ideas, and
Speaker 3: the one to me that kind of floated to the
Speaker 3: top was this idea of lesser known, odd maybe curious, underreported,
Speaker 3: less remembered stories about events that took place during the
Speaker 3: World Series. We both agreed on one thing, there's nothing
Speaker 3: that we can add about Don Larson's perfect game. There's
Speaker 3: probably nothing that we can tell anybody about Carlton Fisks
Speaker 3: home run or Bill Mazeroski's some of that Reggie Jackson
Speaker 3: three home runs his finale. So the idea really appealed
Speaker 3: to me. A few months later, he called me back
Speaker 3: and said, I think that's the idea that I want
Speaker 3: to write about. And at the time he asked me
Speaker 3: if I wanted to help him write it, and I
Speaker 3: told him I was just about to retire and I
Speaker 3: didn't want to take on any homework assignments. I didn't
Speaker 3: want any deadlines, commitments, obligations, and so I declined. And
Speaker 3: fast forward another nine months, circumstances for us both had changed.
Speaker 3: The guy that was going to write the book with
Speaker 3: him had gone dark. He was kind of struggling with
Speaker 3: some early chapters, and I suddenly had time on my hands.
Speaker 3: Winter was approaching here in the East, and slowly but
Speaker 3: surely I started working with him, kind of around the
Speaker 3: edges at first, and then finally to the point where
Speaker 3: we were co writing and working on everything in the
Speaker 3: collaboratory way, and the result were these eighteen chapters.
Speaker 2: Okay, so that's how the book crystallized. Give us a
Speaker 2: couple that some of my listeners might remember, others might not.
Speaker 2: But again, you're talking about memorable and offbeat world series stories.
Speaker 2: Give us a couple.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So two of my favorites and needs go back
Speaker 3: to the early chapters that Dave had had pitched in one. Well,
Speaker 3: I remember both world series, but one of the stories
Speaker 3: I did know pretty well, which was the seventy three
Speaker 3: world series between the Mets NBA's and going into the
Speaker 3: world series. Mike Andrews, who Boston fan remember well.
Speaker 2: And even a better human being as the head of
Speaker 2: the Jimmy fun for many years.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and he was brought over from the White Sox.
Speaker 3: Dick Williams was managing the A's and he liked Mike.
Speaker 3: He remembered him from the sixty seven team and thought
Speaker 3: he would be a great additions as a hitter and
Speaker 3: also as a backup second basement. Charlie Finley, the owner
Speaker 3: of the A's, was not so crazy about it, but
Speaker 3: in any event, Mike was on the roster, and when
Speaker 3: it came time for the playoffs, Finley actively tried to
Speaker 3: get Mike removed from the roster, and for the American
Speaker 3: League Championship Series he did that. He got the permission
Speaker 3: from the Baltimore Orioles to replace Mike with Manny Trio,
Speaker 3: and when the World Series came around against the Mets,
Speaker 3: he wanted to do the same thing, except the Mets declined,
Speaker 3: and so the World Series starts off. The Mets are
Speaker 3: big underdogs. They were probably the worst team record wise
Speaker 3: ever to get to the World Series at that point.
Speaker 3: But they had good pitching and they had pretty good defense.
Speaker 3: They couldn't hit. But after losing Game one in Oakland
Speaker 3: in a wild back and forth game Game two, and
Speaker 3: Charlie Finley's nightmare comes true. All of a sudden, you know,
Speaker 3: Mike Andrews is in the game. He came in as
Speaker 3: a pinch hitter, I think in the ninth inning, and
Speaker 3: now he's out there is the second baseman, and sure enough,
Speaker 3: after each team scores in the tenth in the twelfth inning,
Speaker 3: Mike makes well he was charged with two airs. I
Speaker 3: looked pretty closely at the video replays of that game,
Speaker 3: and really the second one was a blown call at
Speaker 3: first base, but in either event, it opened up the floodgates.
Speaker 3: The Mets won the game, and so after the game, Finley,
Speaker 3: in a rage, asked the team doctor to write a
Speaker 3: letter that he wanted Mike to sign, saying that he
Speaker 3: was injured and couldn't play, and from all accounts, he
Speaker 3: basically browbeat Mike until he signed it. Mike was so
Speaker 3: despondent that he left on a plane for Massachusetts to
Speaker 3: go back home. He never even got on the team plane,
Speaker 3: and Finley thought he had what he wanted. But eventually
Speaker 3: this all came out. First of all, the guys that
Speaker 3: were sitting on the plane on the runway ready to
Speaker 3: leave Oakland were waiting for Finley and his wife to
Speaker 3: show up, and meanwhile, Mike is not on the plane,
Speaker 3: and right away they know something's up. And by the
Speaker 3: time they get back to New York, the truth has surfaced.
Speaker 3: And on the off day when they're working out at
Speaker 3: Shay Stadium. Sal Bando and some of the other as
Speaker 3: now have these makeshift patches on their arms with Mike's
Speaker 3: number on it, and the New York Press starts getting
Speaker 3: into the story and the next thing you know, the
Speaker 3: whole thing blows up into a circus. There are press conferences,
Speaker 3: and finally Buie Kune gets involved, and Charlie Finley hated
Speaker 3: Louie Kune, and Bouie Kuen didn't like Charlie Finley, but
Speaker 3: Bouie said, no, you can't do this unless the guy
Speaker 3: was hurt before the World Series. He's on the roster,
Speaker 3: you can't. You can't remove him for another player. And
Speaker 3: the A's players were outraged because they thought Finley was
Speaker 3: trying to scapegoat Mike, and they had threatened to boycott
Speaker 3: at least one of the games coming up. And then finally,
Speaker 3: you know, cooler heads prevailed and they realized that they
Speaker 3: were going to lose that pr battle, and they went
Speaker 3: ahead and they played. But in Game four, with Andrews reinstated,
Speaker 3: he comes up as a pinch hitter at Chay Stadium
Speaker 3: and the Mets fands give him this like three minute
Speaker 3: standing ovation and clips, Yeah, sitting there like, yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, the the A's win that world series, so Mike,
Speaker 2: Mike gets a ring, Finley gets a world championship.
Speaker 3: Well, and it was a crazy story, and sal Bando
Speaker 3: was very generous with his time, the late sal Bando.
Speaker 3: It turns out, you know, he'd given us a couple
Speaker 3: of interviews and he also told us a story that
Speaker 3: didn't make it into the book. And I'll share it
Speaker 3: with you guys, because it's it is interesting. Uh, it's
Speaker 3: gonna be crazy.
Speaker 2: I hate to do this. I hate to do this
Speaker 2: to you, Jeff, but I'm running over a little bit.
Speaker 2: I could talk to you all night. But give us
Speaker 2: the Bandeau story if if you can.
Speaker 3: Well, the quick, the quick, dirty version of it was
Speaker 3: that Charlie Finley's wife got on the plane before Charlie
Speaker 3: and she had a pair of oversized sunglasses on and
Speaker 3: had two black eyes, and Charlie had gotten into a rage,
Speaker 3: got into a fight with his wife and he hit her,
Speaker 3: and the next spring training he confessed to sal how
Speaker 3: it all unfolded when she had filed for divorce. So
Speaker 3: that was not reported in the papers. You can't find
Speaker 3: any reporting on that, but that Schau told us that
Speaker 3: that had happened and told us the you know, the
Speaker 3: aftermath of it in spring training in seventy four.
Speaker 2: Finlan was a Shelman, no doubt, and he did bring
Speaker 2: Satchel Page onto the major league roster sometime in the
Speaker 2: mid sixties. It probably when Sachel was in the mid sixties.
Speaker 2: But other than that, not a great guy. The book
Speaker 2: is Shadows of Glory, Memorable and offbeat World Series Stories.
Speaker 2: Maybe what I'll do, Jeff, is have you come on
Speaker 2: later as we get to the World Series and let's
Speaker 2: do an hour. We can take some phone calls. You
Speaker 2: up for that.
Speaker 4: Oh you got it, man, I'd love to do that.
Speaker 2: All right. Jeff rodemir Ho, along with Dave Brown, wrote
Speaker 2: this great book, Shadows of Glory, Memorable and offbeat World
Speaker 2: Series Stories. We'll get back to you, Jeff. I appreciate.
Speaker 2: I wish I had more time. I could talk to
Speaker 2: you all night long, but I.
Speaker 4: Got three other pleasure all right, you.
Speaker 2: Hit late off tonight. Thank you, Jeff, appreciate it. Will
Speaker 2: we get back when we talk about a major high
Speaker 2: school in Boston, Cathedral High School been around for a
Speaker 2: long time and they have a one million dollar fundraiser.
Speaker 2: We're going to talk with the president of Cathedral High School,
Speaker 2: Dan Carmody right after this break.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan ray Line from the window World
Speaker 1: Light six Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: Anyone who has been around Boston for a while certainly
Speaker 2: knows Cathedral High School. Joining us now is the president
Speaker 2: of Cathedral High School, Dan Carmody. Dan, My first question
Speaker 2: is how many years this is now getting close to
Speaker 2: one hundred years old as a Catholic high school.
Speaker 4: Correct, Yeah, you got it. Thanks for having me, Dan.
Speaker 4: We're at ninety eight years, so the centennials right around
Speaker 4: the corner.
Speaker 2: Well, obviously the school has changed over the years in
Speaker 2: terms of the young people who have been educated there.
Speaker 2: Is it co ed at this point?
Speaker 4: Yeah, we're co ed. We're seven through twelfth grade. We're
Speaker 4: about three hundred and fifty students co ed. And you're right,
Speaker 4: so much has changed over the years and almost one
Speaker 4: hundred year history. But actually the mission hasn't changed at all.
Speaker 4: And so you know, to be.
Speaker 2: All boys, it used to be an all boys high
Speaker 2: school if I recall.
Speaker 4: Correct, If it was, it was a long long time ago.
Speaker 4: We've been co ed for as far back as that
Speaker 4: I'm aware of.
Speaker 2: Oh, okay, okay, I could be wrong on that. I'm
Speaker 2: sure one of my some of my listeners would know.
Speaker 2: Only nine percent of your revenue comes from tuition because
Speaker 2: a lot of kids who go to the school, the
Speaker 2: vast majority of them end up going to college on scholarship.
Speaker 2: As I say, you have a very special mission for
Speaker 2: kids in Boston and you are going you have a
Speaker 2: gala coming up on October twenty third. You hope to
Speaker 2: raise a million dollars. Where is the gala and do
Speaker 2: you have to have a connection to Cathedral High School
Speaker 2: to contribute or tend tell us about the gala.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So the gala is, when's October twenty third. It's
Speaker 4: at the Seaport Hotel. And we've been doing this gala
Speaker 4: for years and you're right, the goal is to raise
Speaker 4: a million dollars. We have a pretty a unique, remarkable
Speaker 4: mission at the school and it's simple. It's to provide
Speaker 4: a strong, transformational Catholic education for families who may not
Speaker 4: otherwise have access. And the only way we're able to
Speaker 4: do that is through incredible generosity of so many people
Speaker 4: that make the mission happen. And you know, most as
Speaker 4: you're I know you're aware of most you know, independent schools,
Speaker 4: seventy five eighty percent of the revenue comes through tuition,
Speaker 4: and we sit at nine. And so the gala is
Speaker 4: really an opportunity. It's to celebrate the impact of our
Speaker 4: mission and what we're able to do for students and
Speaker 4: with students. But it's an opportunity to bring so many
Speaker 4: generous people together and celebrate the mission and to raise
Speaker 4: the funds to make it possible. So we have we
Speaker 4: have an unbelievably loyal donor base. But yeah, it is,
Speaker 4: it is open. We would always love to welcome new
Speaker 4: people to our community. It's the only way our mission
Speaker 4: thrives is when new people find out what we're doing
Speaker 4: and they say, yeah, that's something I want to get
Speaker 4: behind and something i'd love to support.
Speaker 2: Well, the fact that only nine percent of your revenue
Speaker 2: comes from the tuition of students, there's a lot of
Speaker 2: students there who I'm sure are on full of partial scholarships.
Speaker 2: And I guess for over twenty years now, every senior
Speaker 2: who has graduated, and every senior has who's graduate has
Speaker 2: been accepted to college. Last year's class earned over six
Speaker 2: million dollars in college scholarships, which is an extraordinary nuance
Speaker 2: number number one. But then you're looking at another number.
Speaker 2: You hope to raise sixty million dollars to endow the
Speaker 2: feats of the school in perpetuity. Yeah, you got to
Speaker 2: do that. That's that's that's the Catholic Cathedral Forever campaign.
Speaker 2: Sixty million dollars. That is quite an ambitious efforts.
Speaker 4: It's a big number and it was a little daunting
Speaker 4: when we first came up with it, but yeah, it's
Speaker 4: a sixty million dollar Cathedral Now Cathedral Forever campaign And
Speaker 4: the short version we're inches from the finished line on it, actually,
Speaker 4: which is incredible thanks to so many amazing people. But
Speaker 4: the school has been around forever and we've had some
Speaker 4: generous folks in a particular alum who kind of said, hey,
Speaker 4: I want to make sure the school survives for the
Speaker 4: next century, and what do we need to do to
Speaker 4: make sure that happens. And you know, it came up
Speaker 4: that we needed to really grow an endowment to support
Speaker 4: our annual budget and perpetuity, and the number we needed
Speaker 4: was sixty million dollars, and he said, okay, I'll provide
Speaker 4: a thirty million dollar match dollar per dollar until you
Speaker 4: get to the sixty million, and so it's unheard of
Speaker 4: in a small Catholic school. It's just it's life changing generosity.
Speaker 2: And so where is that supporter remaining anonymous or would you.
Speaker 4: Like, Well, I won't say his name because he'll get
Speaker 4: mad at me, but he is. So he remains anonymous
Speaker 4: although so many people in our community know who it is.
Speaker 4: He remains anonymous simply because he just says, it's not
Speaker 4: about him, it's about the mission and it's about the students. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it's pretty admirable.
Speaker 2: Actually we respect that. And how many So you're seven
Speaker 2: through twelve? How many kids are in the school this year?
Speaker 4: Yeah, we're about three hundred and fifty students.
Speaker 2: Okay, see three hundred fifty students is seven through twelve.
Speaker 2: I did some long division short division here a plus
Speaker 2: sixty kids in every class and you know, seventh per grade.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, yeah, it's a little bit different balance. But yeah,
Speaker 4: that's that's it.
Speaker 2: And you've got a pretty good athletic program. I hope.
Speaker 4: We do. Yeah for a pretty small school, are our
Speaker 4: pride and enjoys. There's always our girls basketball team, back
Speaker 4: to back state champs, and I think like six out
Speaker 4: of the last eight years. But we have an awesome
Speaker 4: We have an awesome athletic department. But really, I think,
Speaker 4: you know, one of the things I'm most out of
Speaker 4: our school is really our entire faculty and staff. No
Speaker 4: one comes to Cathedral by accident, you know. Everyone comes
Speaker 4: because they're committed to our mission. And so it's a
Speaker 4: really awesome group of people who are are there just
Speaker 4: to make sure it happens for our kids.
Speaker 2: And so here's the most important question of our time tonight,
Speaker 2: and that is one how can people buy tickets and
Speaker 2: go to the event on October twenty third, which is
Speaker 2: going to be down in the seaport. And how can
Speaker 2: people who might be inspired and maybe want to reconnect,
Speaker 2: so maybe want to make a connection and would like
Speaker 2: to help contribute, give us a couple of ways or
Speaker 2: a single way in which they can get access, either
Speaker 2: as a contributor or as someone who will attend the gallap.
Speaker 4: Yeah, awesome. The singleiest way is obviously to go to
Speaker 4: our website, which is brand new. We love it. It's
Speaker 4: Cathedral Boston dot org and it tells the story of
Speaker 4: our mission and the testimonials and the success stories of
Speaker 4: what we've been able to do. But I guess the
Speaker 4: one request I'd always have for people is come visit.
Speaker 4: We always say that no one gets to know our
Speaker 4: mission through our students, by being in the building and
Speaker 4: kind of seeing the magic of cathedral. That's not then
Speaker 4: somehow motivated to be a part of it. And that
Speaker 4: can be financially, but it can also be through mentorship,
Speaker 4: through internships, through just being present in our building and
Speaker 4: with our students. So there's so many ways to contribute.
Speaker 4: We'd love to have folks at the gala. It's an
Speaker 4: awesome testimonial to what we're all about. But if that's
Speaker 4: not possible, come visit the school. We're right in the
Speaker 4: South End. Awesome location, awesome community, and then you know,
Speaker 4: the door is always open for folks who want to
Speaker 4: learn more about the mission.
Speaker 2: So great to talk to you. Sound like an inspirational leader.
Speaker 2: You answered the questions directly. You did a great job tonight,
Speaker 2: Dan Carmandy. How long you've been principal there on? How
Speaker 2: long you've been doing this?
Speaker 4: About five years?
Speaker 2: Wow?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a blessing.
Speaker 2: Your enthusiasm is infectious, and I hope a lot of
Speaker 2: people have been infected by enthusiasm for Cathedral High School
Speaker 2: and the upcoming gallop on October twenty third at the
Speaker 2: website Cathedral Boston dot org. Dan Carmedy, thanks very much
Speaker 2: for stopping buying. We'll keep keep tabs on Cathedral Awesome.
Speaker 4: I appreciate you bringing so much exposure to our mission.
Speaker 2: Very welcome. Thanks again. Okay, when we get back, we're
Speaker 2: going to talk about another great mission, and that is
Speaker 2: an event coming up this weekend, I believe. Yeah, on
Speaker 2: this Sunday, October sixth, the annual Jimmy Fund Walk. We'll
Speaker 2: be talking with Caitlin Fink. She's an assistant vice president
Speaker 2: of event fundraising for the Jimmy Fund Walk at Dana Farber.
Speaker 2: We'll be talking to Caitlin in just a few minutes,
Speaker 2: right after the news and a couple of commercials at
Speaker 2: the bottom of the hour.
Speaker 1: You're on night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's
Speaker 1: news radio.
Speaker 2: Well, one of the big charity events in Boston years,
Speaker 2: the Jimmy Fund Walk you can walk, you don't have
Speaker 2: to run, coming up this Sunday, October sixth with us
Speaker 2: as Caitlin Think, she's the assistant vice president of event
Speaker 2: fundraising for the Jimmy Fund walk slash Dana Farber. Now,
Speaker 2: I know that there's a big election coming up and
Speaker 2: different elections in November, and everybody disagrees. This is one
Speaker 2: we all agree on. Welcome to night side, Caitlin. How
Speaker 2: are you.
Speaker 5: Tonight, Hi, Dan, Thanks so much for having me.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I want to put it in the context here, okay,
Speaker 2: that no one, no one disagrees that that Jimmy Fund
Speaker 2: is just this great organization that has been around our
Speaker 2: parts for seventy seventy five years, all to cure children
Speaker 2: and find the cure for cancer in kids. How many
Speaker 2: people will be walking? And by the way, the weather
Speaker 2: this Sunday is supposed to be spectacular. How many walkers
Speaker 2: will you.
Speaker 5: Have looking good? Yeah, So we are expecting about eighty
Speaker 5: five hundred walkers to join us on Sunday. We're so
Speaker 5: excited to be back on the Boston Marathon course. And
Speaker 5: we have four routes along the course that walkers can
Speaker 5: choose from. So we have walkers starting right and early
Speaker 5: out in Hopkinton and walking that full marathon route.
Speaker 2: So that's that's the long route.
Speaker 5: Okay, that's the long route. Get up right and early
Speaker 5: for that one.
Speaker 2: Okay, And like the marathon, do do you with the marathon,
Speaker 2: they provide bus transportation. Do you have to get yourself?
Speaker 2: Do you have buses there? Or people have to actually
Speaker 2: get to a Hopkinton uh that day by themselves.
Speaker 5: You're gonna, yeah, well get out to Hopkinton by yourself,
Speaker 5: and then we will have bus service from the Common
Speaker 5: back out to Hopkinton at the end of the event.
Speaker 2: Great, okay, you can sleep in the bus going back.
Speaker 2: That's good. The logistics are important that I didn't mean
Speaker 2: to interrupt. We're are a couple of the shorter routes.
Speaker 2: Go ahead.
Speaker 5: Yeah, for those of you who don't want to do
Speaker 5: the full rout there's a half marathon option that starts
Speaker 5: at Wellesley High School, and we also have a ten
Speaker 5: k option that starts at Boston College and a five
Speaker 5: k start that's right outside of Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Speaker 5: on Brookline Apps. And all four of those will culminate
Speaker 5: in Boston Common this year. So down on the Common,
Speaker 5: we'll have a wonderful celebration with commemorative metals and team
Speaker 5: photos and lots of wonderful food and entertainment. It's a
Speaker 5: really fun festivities for all do.
Speaker 2: You still need Is it too late for people to
Speaker 2: sign up? Tell us what you know? It's Thursday and
Speaker 2: we're talking Sunday here, so Sunday's coming at us pretty quickly, Hocket.
Speaker 5: Folks don't absolutely, there's still an opportunity. Our online registration
Speaker 5: is closed at this point, but we are encouraging people
Speaker 5: to come down to early registration at Wellesley High School
Speaker 5: on Saturday between one thirty and three thirty. You can
Speaker 5: register then or come down to any of those start
Speaker 5: lines on Sunday and you can register day up. So
Speaker 5: we are excited to have as many people as possible
Speaker 5: join us this weekend and looking forward to, like you said,
Speaker 5: some great weather and a really inspiring day for all.
Speaker 2: Unlike the marathon, where you have start times and all
Speaker 2: of that, I assume you get there, you register, and
Speaker 2: you step off.
Speaker 5: You step off. So we do have a rolling start. So,
Speaker 5: for example, the people who are starting out in Hopkinton,
Speaker 5: some are starting as early as five thirty and we
Speaker 5: hope to get everybody onto the course by seven thirty
Speaker 5: am and similar to some of the other starts.
Speaker 4: But all of the.
Speaker 5: Information, everything you need to know is at Jimmyfundwalk dot org.
Speaker 5: So I encourage everyone to write that down, check it
Speaker 5: out and you can find all details there for start times,
Speaker 5: arrival times, and all of the fund activities that'll be
Speaker 5: taking place throughout the day.
Speaker 2: How does this year's turn out? And I don't know
Speaker 2: how much? How much do you hope to raise this year?
Speaker 2: What's the goal?
Speaker 5: Yeah, so last year we had a record breaking year.
Speaker 5: The Jimmy Fund Walk has raised more than one hundred
Speaker 5: and seventy six million dollars for Dana Farber in its
Speaker 5: thirty five year history. Last year we had a record
Speaker 5: breaking year with nine point four million. So we are
Speaker 5: hoping to surpass that number this year, and we are
Speaker 5: certainly on track to do so. And that's really because
Speaker 5: of those eight thousand walkers who are already registered and
Speaker 5: those that we know will register this weekend. So we're
Speaker 5: confident we'll hit those goals. And really a big goal
Speaker 5: for us on Sunday is to use it as an
Speaker 5: opportunity to celebrate the impact that this event has, not
Speaker 5: only in raising those funds, but in how it inspires others,
Speaker 5: how it supports our patients and their families on a
Speaker 5: whole different level.
Speaker 2: And I assume that the way you raise money is
Speaker 2: you get the walkers to pledge donations from their friends,
Speaker 2: in large part for how many miles they walk, and
Speaker 2: there's no limit on that. So if you have a
Speaker 2: friend who wants to contribute one hundred dollars for every mile, great.
Speaker 2: If you have a friend who wants to contribute one
Speaker 2: dollar for every mile, that's great too. Is that the
Speaker 2: way it works. I'm making an assumption here, and if
Speaker 2: I'm wrong.
Speaker 1: Correct, that's right.
Speaker 5: No, you're spot on. It's every dollar makes the difference.
Speaker 5: And I think the significance of the walk is that
Speaker 5: it really represents the power a community can have when
Speaker 5: it rallies around a single cause. So it's pretty incredible
Speaker 5: to see how this event has grown from a few
Speaker 5: hundred walkers to the largest single day one aca the nation.
Speaker 2: And I'm assuming that there'll be some water stations along
Speaker 2: the way, and you'll there'll be some medical people along
Speaker 2: the way if somebody twists an ankle or absolutely whenever.
Speaker 2: You guys have done this so well, you have it down.
Speaker 2: And I hope that everybody goes to the website if
Speaker 2: they just want to be able to say, hey, I
Speaker 2: spend Sunday raising money for the Jimmy Fund. And what a,
Speaker 2: what a what a great way to send us this
Speaker 2: first Sunday in October. The weather's going to be beautiful,
Speaker 2: no problems with rain or anything like that. Give us
Speaker 2: the website one more time where people can can check
Speaker 2: it out if you would, Caitlin.
Speaker 5: Thanks so much. It's Jimmy fundwalk dot org. And we
Speaker 5: are excited to see many of your listeners out joining
Speaker 5: us on Sunday. And Dan, thanks so much just for
Speaker 5: letting us come on each year and being such a
Speaker 5: great advocate for this event and for Dana Farber and
Speaker 5: then Jimmy Fun year after.
Speaker 2: Yes, you're always welcome. Those of us who know anyone
Speaker 2: who has been touched by childhood cancer, and even those
Speaker 2: of us who don't know, certainly understand that there's there's
Speaker 2: no more crueler disease than to have a child, you know,
Speaker 2: suffering with cancer early and early in their lives lives uh.
Speaker 2: And the Jimmy Fund is just a godsend. Again, it
Speaker 2: was you know, founded through the Red Sox. It's so
Speaker 2: closely associated with the Red Sox and it's I I
Speaker 2: think it's the greatest charity. Uh. In in Massachusetts, perhaps
Speaker 2: even New England. So Caitlin, thank you for your work
Speaker 2: and best of luck on Sunday. And I promise you
Speaker 2: I've watched all the way the forecast tonight. It's going
Speaker 2: to be a beautiful day. Beautiful day.
Speaker 5: Thanks Caitlyn, great, Thanks so much. Dan, have a great night.
Speaker 2: All right, we get back. We're going to talk with
Speaker 2: a editor of a of a company called lawn Starter
Speaker 2: about the fact that one in three Americans plan to
Speaker 2: display some sort of a pleadical campaign signed this year
Speaker 2: on the lawn and I think this would be kind
Speaker 2: of a fun conversation, obviously in the context of a
Speaker 2: very serious political campaign that is now ongoing. My name's
Speaker 2: Dan Ray. Please stay with us here on Nightside. Coming
Speaker 2: up at nine o'clock. Red Sox Hall of Fame radio broadcaster,
Speaker 2: the radio voice of the Boston Red Sox for forty
Speaker 2: two years. Joe Castiglione, a New England native. By the way,
Speaker 2: we'll get into that a little bit with Joe, and
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