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My first game was in 1979 with my uncle versus the Milwaukee Brewers. Mike Flanagan started and Eddie Murray ended it. It was my first taste of Ed-die Ed-die Ed-die. O’s won 3-2.

They haven’t lost the “I give a D——— factor” which is important in this process of rebuilding/competing. When you have a group of young players that didn’t have this opportunity in the past, they are going to go balls to the wall to show that they belong on a 25 man roster. I get frustrated with the boneheaded mistakes like throwing to the wrong base or missing the cut off man, but they are making aggressive mistakes that will police themselves up with time. As long as they stay aggressive and learn from mistakes they will be fun to watch no matter the outcome. Fighting thru the low times makes the winning times that much sweeter!

I don’t remember that particular story but he and Thorne shared quite a few Rickey Henderson stories of Rickey talking in the third person all the time. The funniest one was when the team (A’s or Yankees) was boarding a bus and rookie or a young player sat in the seat Rickey normally sat in. One of the vets yelled out, “Hey Rickey you have tenure you can sit anywhere!” Rickey responded with “No, Rickey has twenty years!”