Holy Smokes, A Final Broadcast

(upbeat music) Hi again everybody, and welcome back to the MilesBath cast, the flagship podcasts of Final Broadcasts. And now this is my final broadcast. No, no, no, no, this podcast will go on for better or worse. But it's Rick versus Final Broadcast on Sunday. I've covered this, I've talked about it at length. It's gonna be a very, very sad day. I'm grateful that Ken will have the girls so I can just like, I can sit there and listen to it. I realized I'm not a super emotional person. I don't cry much. Like I cried when I was trying to do my vows when I got married and when Emmy and Gabby were born. And any movies where dogs die, obviously that's where it all happens. But man, oh man, all this stuff about Rick Riz being done. Like there was a video on how Cal Rally their catcher got like the specially designed catcher's gear that he's gonna wear during his final weekend at the season, which is this weekend. And it's like a tribute to Rick Riz. It's got all these pictures of him with different people on it and it's awesome. But just like watching that, I'm close tearing up or when Rick, he's kind of the same way. Like when he's talking to people kind of for the final time, he was talking to different broadcaster and he was saying how grateful he was. Like he gets close to the agiteers and then I'm right there with him. Like there's a soft spot there that is gonna be breached wide open on Sunday. But anyways, it's sad. And it's kind of this whole last week. I'm trying to listen to his many games as possible just because like this is a last shot. Like I was listening to when they got blown out by the Astros was like seven and nothing. Like I listened to the whole thing because the way that they do it is Rick Riz calls innings one and two, five and then eight and nine. So I'm listening all the way to the end. Whether or not it's a hopeless, kind of a pathetic baseball night or not. But I was rewarded last night because it all kind of came full circle. Growing up I loved listening to games like after we'd gone to bed. Back then baseball games lasted longer because of the pitch clock and the games just started a little bit later. Sometimes they'd start a little bit earlier now. But back then they always started at seven. So the games would routinely get over between 10, 10, 30, sometimes a little bit earlier, but generally it was late. And we'd have a bedtime obviously growing up, going into elementary, middle school and high school. And I would always like later. I had my little alarm clock radio and I could turn that on and I could have it kind of nice and quiet and just like listen to Rick Riz and Dave Nehau's kind of call the rest of the games. And there was just something so comforting about that. Like you're laying in bed but somewhere out there like these guys are still doing their thing. And it was awesome and a special. And it was also special. It was like this listening on an old fashioned radio. Nowadays you can listen to it like through streaming which is great, but there's a little bit of a delay and then if something big happens and Garrett and Dad are listening from the radio, they'll text me and I'll see that before that thing happens on the delay and it kind of ruins it. So I've been listening to it on the radio. This little transistor radio all week. And last night I was laying in bed. I was listening to it and I had my headphones in and it. It kind of took me back because generally, again the games get over a little bit earlier now. I don't have a bedtime. I can stay up and listen to them but it was late. I was like, "Side in like, do I do I stay up? Do I go to bed?" 'Cause we're going into extra innings. This game ultimately isn't a big deal. I mean, the Mariners are all but mathematically eliminated. But hey, let's stay up and like, let's maybe something special can happen. So anyways, I'm laying in bed and it takes me back. We come full circle. The top of the tent happens. It's not good. They give up a run on some bad plays. Bob in the tent. Now it's kind of getting really late. It's probably 10-15 right now, 10-20. I'm tired. It's like do I just do I risk hearing a potential loss? Like if they don't score, which odds are, they're probably not. And it's not even like raise call in the sitting. Like usually, again, like he'll call. They eat the ninth. But then if it goes to the 10th, Gary Hill calls it. Gary Hill is great. But, you know, is it worth staying up super late for that? No. But anyways, I decided like, let's just do it. So Bob in the tent comes on and Rick Riz opens up the innings as they sometimes do. And I was waiting for him to turn it over. And he never did. He must have decided like, "Hey, let's give Rick one last shot at this." Like, let's give him one more potential walk-off in that he can call. Even though this isn't normally his inning, he can do it. And Josh Hader's on the mound for the Astros. He's like 26 for 26 and save opportunities. Like he's been perfect. He's been nails all year. Like it is not looking good for the Mariners. And anyways, Magic happens to make this long story short. They end up getting the bases loaded. They walk in a run. Like just hearing Rick Riz and how excited he is. Like something so special about him. I've seen posts this year. Like somebody the other day, I screen shoted it. He said, "Ben Renieri, whoever that may be." He said, "Lately as a feeling of finality of the space ball season sets in, I've been spending more time listening to Rick Riz, despite how gut wrenching this season has been." He's called today's game as if it was game seven of the World Series. Which he does that. It's so true. I remember this game and it says 41 years with the Mariners and he was as giddy as he could possibly have been describing the last out. He's an absolute treasure. And that's the case. Like last night's game. Again, there's really nothing on the line. Like they need an absolute miracle. The point where even the most optimistic of people, like you need the Rangers and the Astros to go O and 4 in the last four games. You need the Mariners to win out. It's just, it's bad odds. But man, here in the end of that game and Justin and they're getting that bass in the center field, you would have thought they were in the playoffs because he's so excited and it's so cool. And the way that he calls it, it's just radio magic. And it takes me back between the nostalgia mixing with the excitement and almost near the end. Like I'm listening to it nearly getting tearied again. Cause it's just like, that's probably gonna be the last, last walkoff he calls. And the fact that I stayed up late and made it all worth it. It was awesome. Full circle moment. But he's a treasure. I'm sure I'll mention it again because man, Sunday's gonna be a rough day and maybe I'll mention it next week. But oh, we've reached the end and it's sad. I hope he, I hope he started his own podcast. That's all I can hope for. But it's awesome. Here in the, here one more walkoff. Look it up, listen to it. It's, it's great. It's Rick Rez and it's great. Today in the show, tell me something good. I got a couple quick ones and I owe you one. We've kinda trained us to do a new place and it's been awesome for the girls. And then last but not least, the, the big thing I've got coming up next week. But to kick it off, tell me something good. Tell me something good. I, a couple of small ones here. First, I, I was out running the other day as I want to do at lunchtime and I, I'm still training and I, I pass this guy walking down the street and I kinda nod at him as I, as I do. And I, I make my lap. What I do is I kinda make laps around like this. Several city blocks or several like neighborhood blocks. And now this guy's like waiting by the bus stop and I run by him and I see him again and I kinda nod at him. He's still there the next laugh. It's getting awkward. Still there the next laugh and I'm like, God do I, this is awkward. Like the poor guy's waiting for the bus standing in the sun and here I am just like running laps more or less around him and on the final time I, I, I just go around the corner and I see him and it's like, do I cut off early and kinda like go through his back alley to avoid him. And I'm so glad I didn't because he, he held at me as I ran by. He's like, hey man, you work at that doctor's office, right? Or are you used to? And I'm like, yeah. And he's like, you used to see my son and he tells me that his son's name. And I'm like, of course, like his son is a kid that I will never forget. Like one of the standout personalities as challenging as the sessions could sometimes be. He was, I look back with happy memories on him but he said he's in high school now and he's doing great, which is just insane because time passes at some weird time warp level when you haven't seen kids for a while. And it was just awesome. I'm so glad that he somehow recognized me and then had decided to finally yell at me after I passed him for the fourth time. But that was really cool. It made me really happy. It's one of those things when you're running, you don't only notice if you've done it. But like for whatever reason, like if a certain song comes on, or if it's like in my case of you, see a certain person I say hi. Like there's like some weird extra thing that gets dropped into the tank, like some little can of nitro. And also when you've got energy, you didn't think you had. And that's kinda where it was. The other small, tell me it's small. Vilella in English. The other small, tell me something good. Last week I was kind of acting as a single dad. Kendall's a way on a work trip, which you can shout out to the single parents. Like that is just, it's no easy feat, like being a single parent. And I'm lucky to have a lot of help between my mom this last weekend. And Kendall's mom has been fantastic. But it was a Saturday night. And I had had the girls, I was tired. They were kind of tired. And we were down at the playground. And to one of the members I kind of like look back, I was like that was great. We'd been playing the playground. And right above the playground is this baseball field. It's really close. Yeah, you just walk up a little sidewalk. It's right there. It's kind of set up above everything. It's beautiful. A brand new baseball field. It looks awesome. There's dugouts. There's yellow piping around the fence in the outfield. It's just a really well done field. The grass is great, the dirt's great. And the girls wanted to go up there and play. So I just, I walk into one of the dugouts and I sit on the bench and I watch them just kind of play. And they're not kind of playing in the dirt. And then they asked if they could use like these little bowls we had, like play in the dirt with. So they're out there just like just playing in the dirt. And the sun's setting. It's getting, it's getting pretty late. Long shadows in the fall time. And I'm just sitting there like listening into the game and watching them play. And it was just, it was such a peaceful moment because you're sitting there in a baseball field which has magic just built into itself with the sun going down. And they're just happily playing with each other. You're just playing in the dirt. And I'm just able to sit there and listen to the baseball game, the Mariners game. And I don't know, it's just one of those moments that you look back upon. It's like, wow, that was, that was special. That was so great. As simple as it was just sitting there watching them play, it was awesome. It was really great. Okay. I owe you one. ♪ You know who you are, yeah, who you are ♪ First off, to Miss Jen. For Jennifer, we, she bailed us out this summer. That's where the girls have been at for daycare all summer long. And we kind of, last minute had to switch spots. And it's been great. It's really, really close to our house. It was a great daycare. The girls were able to go there each day in play. Kind of could just walk down and pick them up at the end of the day. Like we got in a really good routine and it was great. And she really helped us out all summer. But with that said, she'd already had spots booked out for the fall. So it wasn't going to work out long term. The, I owe you one here is also for Kendall. For somehow always magically finding new places. Like it's, it's, it's always been wild to me how hard it is to find daycares. Like there's, there's like no, you know, registry. Like there's no way of like finding all these places. And like I, I would Google over and over. or just trying to do whatever I could to find these places and I couldn't find them and then Kennel goes out and finds tons of them. It's amazingly difficult for how common that should be. But anyways, for her as well, for finding this, but they started a new spot on Monday. It's been really, really cool. Miss Christie, she's been great. It's a little bit further away. It's like several miles outside of Airway Heights, so it's a 20-minute drive or so. But the girls have been loving it. We're off to a great start. It's nice to know that we can like be here and we're not again up against like having to find a new place again because all these transitions, you know, it can't be easy and it's been really cool. And maybe the best part about it is A, she makes a month, which in all fairness, they did at Jennifer's as well. But that's, it's always nice because there are more willing to try foods there as opposed to our house where we're just getting on routines. But better yet, she drives them home every night. They get to ride home like in this giant white van. We call it a school bus. But each night, she drives them all the way out to her house, which again is 20 minutes away. And just that simple fact and that somehow this place is actually relatively cheaper than how it was before. What we were paying, like it's all great. Like this has been a great transition. She's got a great place out there. It sounds like the girls are really happy and it's been a great start yet another transitioning to a new day care place. And the other ones again, for Jen, for having them all summer, for Kendall for some out finding this place and now for Miss Christie for. Running a great place and driving the kids home in the afternoon. Like what a concept and man, oh man, is that helpful because it just saves Kendall right next to drive out there at night. And I'm sure I'll talk about it more when I hear more about it, but so far so good. The transition has been smooth and and we're all happy at a new school. It's really great to have that. All right, last but not least. All right, listeners, it's time for hidden passions, wild hobbies and that one thing they didn't know miles was obsessed with. Buckle up. It's time for Sean's. What are you into? Again, this whole year, training for the Grand Canyon, trying to cross them back and it's not happening. I got the email the other day from the hotel place and it sounds like they have to cancel all reservations because they still don't have a locked in water service there. Like their pipeline was damaged and they just don't have reliable waters like they're bringing in temporary water and they just can't operate the hotels that are in the park just because they don't have enough water. So that was actually canceled. The trails still closed. They've had actually more flash floods since the initial one on August 29th, so it's just it's been a disaster and it just sucks knowing that. Hey, I trained all summer for that and it's been a massive amount of work. And now the like a looming idea of man, I might have to probably do that again now next year like it just seems it seems crazy. So anyways, backup plan in place got to make the most of it. On next Tuesday, I'm leaving for Mount Hood. It's on this side of Portland by now. It's about a five hour drive away. And there's something they're called the Timberline Trail. I think I've talked about this before, but I'm going to go through a little bit thoroughly. The Timberline Trail, it's like a 40 mile trail around Mount Hood, which in my mind, like I picture that and I'm like, oh, it's just like you run, you know, run this path around a mountain. It's like, no, there's, you're running up and down other mountains that connect to this mountain and like you're running through this mountain chain. It's like, it's 40 miles. It's 10,800 feet of elevation gain, which is the exact same thing that it did last year, which is odd, oddly enough. When I did the cactus to clouds in Palm Springs last year, it was a 10,800 feet elevation gain where you started and you climbed all the way up this mountain and then you turned around and you went back down again. And then again, this is the same. This is a little bit different though, because it's, it's up and down, up and down. I think it starts off by going down and you got to climb a little bit and you go back down and you finish by climbing a ton. So again, it's just, it's hard for me to conceptualize this. Like I just, I know I'm going to get there and I'm like, oh my god, what I get myself into. But it's a lot. And to put that in perspective, I remember looking this up last year, 10,800 feet of elevation gain from standpoint to the top of Schweitzer mountain, the very, very top of Schweitzer mountain. That is about 4,000 feet. So imagine climbing from downtown standpoint up to the very, very top of Schweitzer mountain, up to the top of the, what is it? Share one all the way to the very top, doing that once, going back down, doing it again, going back down and then going up again halfway just for good, just just for good measure. Like that's, that's 10,800 feet of elevation gain. There's also as like multiple stream crossings, which they had a very low, low. There was a lot of snow there last year and they've had a relatively dry year. So there's not a ton of runoff, which is great. But I saw a video that somebody had like on Facebook of somebody crossing one of the streams there and it's like, I say stream, it's probably, it went up to the person's thigh, probably like two and a half, three foot deep of pretty fast moving water that's probably six feet in diameter. So long story short, like there's sometimes you can cross these things by like jumping across on rocks. Other times you got to go right on through them and I thought about like putting garbage bags over my legs. I think what I'm going to do is just take my shoes and socks off and just go barefoot and then take a cloth and like dry everything off and start again. The die hearts go straight through their shoes on and keep running. I'm not interested in those blisters. So I'm going to try it by just taking my shoes off, but we'll see. Anyways, it's like a true ultra marathon on a trail, totally unsupported. I got to carry all my own food. I got to bring like a water like one of those smart straws. What do you call them? Life straws? I have a water bottle that does it where you can like put water in and automatically filters everything that runs through it and I can fill up in these streams that are throughout there because there's not going to be stations there where I can just grab a cup of water that somebody offers me and there's not going to be food stations. I got to carry everything on my own. Last time when I did cactus to clouds, I had a picture of like everything that I took the food that I packed for like an all day thing or again like you just got to carry all your food. I took two packs of pop tarts. The smores ones like that's in other words like four pop tarts. That was a disaster like pop tart sound awesome and the idea of like just being able to pound four of those sounds great. The problem is they are so dry, especially when you've been doing all this work in your mouth's already dry like I couldn't even get through one let alone two of those things like it was just a waste so we're not taking pop tarts. Four incrustables. Uncrustables worked great. I'll be taking more incrustables. Chomp sticks were really good like you can eat those things even when you're tired and your mouth's dry those worked out great. The other really good one is like you want to take something salty so I decided I would like take prangles because like chip bags like they're going to get crushed. Not going to work so well like let's take a can of prangles also didn't work just the joshling josh joshling and the the banging around just destroyed the chips in there and you just again dry just didn't work. So I'm not taking those so I'm going to take chopsticks we're going to pack on crustables I'm going to take a ton of like the little like. Energy cubes you know the energy gel things we take a lot of those and just hope for the best hopefully my stomach doesn't reject those I've had him and I can have him fine I've never had him like all day long so we're going to see how that goes. I think what I've seen a lot people say is like when you're sick when your stomach just ends up taking sugar after sugar after sugar after sugar like it eventually rebels we're hoping that doesn't happen we're going to see how this goes. I last time I looked it up it took me what like 14 hours little almost 15 hours 14 hours 45 minutes I had it like a dark there on a picture in my office. And I burned 5700 calories and that time so you just you got to pack a ton of food to be able to cover that place like your day I'm I got a pack around 7000 things worth of calories which is just insane but that just how it goes. So I think I'm ready I got a pack bear spray probably got to bring hiking poles because of all the different climbs in there. But it's going to be interesting again I'm going out of my own it's going to take all day long when I finished when I finished last year I got to the bottom like the first thing I texted my family was never again. But now I look back on doing that and I like I've got fond memories of that like I would love to do it again if someone was willing to you know fly me down there and you know cover all the opportunity cost associated with it I love to do it again. And I'm feeling it's probably how this is going to go to like halfway through I'm going to be wondering what the heck why did I train all year for this why do I strive to do this kind of thing. And basically it's because I love I love doing things that like scare me that truly make me nervous and I'm out there on my own for and. You got over coming I'm that that's truly living like I look back on again last year it was so hard but you just it's a different level of living when you break out of that daily routine and you're doing something that you've worked hard for. That truly scares you that like it's like I you know again I'm out there on my own like there's no ripcourt here. And there's no way out there's no support and I know that's cool for me I love that being they've gone out there and doing it on your own and. Overcoming something that's truly hard one of the hardest things I will inevitably ever do and that's where we're at next Wednesday so I leave on Tuesday. I'm going to do that on Wednesday and then drive back on Thursday and somehow get to work on Friday and somehow survive that because I can't imagine my body's going to move in all that well. It's going to be a high train to turn this year I feel like I'm under trained I haven't done a ton of like long runs anyone who does marathons knows that like when you do a marathon like you have like these long runs spurs throughout so you run like 15 miles one week you wait maybe two or. One or two weeks and you do 17 and the new 19 and the new 21. I haven't any of that I've just been relying on bulk volume of a ton of running ton of hours just put in like hundreds and hundreds of hours of running literally. And hoping that's enough and I also haven't done a ton of elevation training a ton of like climbing up and down things we're going to see how that goes. Oh it's going to be interesting it's going to be while it makes me nervous and anxious and excited all the same time just thinking about it but I'm ready to go I'm excited about it at the end of the day. The other about all the other thing the other bummer the little town little mountain town kind of like standpoint that they have there is called government camp Oregon. I looked and it's one of those towns that sometimes it's great but in this case it's not there's not a single chain restaurant in this town which I know there's a lot people like to say oh that's great like you get like their authentic food no I need something that I can count on that I know exactly how my body is going to handle when I know the next day I'm next day I'll have to go out and run 40 miles. idea of randomly ordering a pizza from someplace and hoping that pizza's like done without, in a way that I know is not gonna wreck my stomach the next day, or it's not gonna feel heavy and exhaustive. I don't know what I'm gonna do for food yet. I might have to like stop. Like there's no, there's no subways. There's no Starbucks. I had a mod pizza last year before I did the my thing last year and that was great because mod pizza works really well. Other places like I couldn't do that with dominoes. So I just, and the idea of having a non-chain restaurant and gambling on it, that sucks. So I don't know what I'm gonna do there yet. I might have to like stop it somewhere and like have a cooler and like bring my own food and go through all that. So I have something reliable tonight before in the morning of, but it's gonna be interesting. I'm excited about it. I'm sure I'll report back what I'm in it. What I might try and do is like, just use like my voice recorder on my watch to like record like little snippets throughout it and like how I'm doing. I don't know if everybody's like this, but like when you run enough, like the endorphins and the dope, I mean, everything that kind of flesh into your brain just kind of makes you just, I don't know, I just, like your mind just kind of wanders in a crazy way. And who knows what I'm gonna think about or say, but I'm gonna try and like record like little snippets throughout, whether I'm out there dying or it's easier than I thought or it's God forbid raining or crossing these streams. Hopefully I have like some live stuff that I can put into the podcast next week. Hopefully. And I don't know what I'm gonna record it next week. It might be going out late if I have to record on Friday 'cause I'm driving back Thursday. I don't know, we'll see. But anyways, account on that next week. Thank you all for listening for indulging in that for a very long period of time. I appreciate you as always. Talk to you all next week after all this goes down, after the manner of season comes to an end. I don't know, maybe they're still playing. Maybe that's maybe some miracle kind of happens. But if nothing else, we get one more glorious, known last day or a time and a foric result I'm looking forward to. All right, Emmy Gabby Soundbite on the way out. Thank you all for listening and we'll talk to you all next week. Bye. (upbeat music) - What was that, what were you eating? - Tequila. - What is that? - Tequila. - Is it yummy? - Yeah. - Only one out in the inning and here's Josh Naylor. Pitch on the way to Josh. Swing and a light drive in his center field. Base hit, the Mariners walking off. Josh Naylor with an RBI single and the Mariners come from behind, walking off and they beat the Astros. Six to five and the Mariners will live for another day. Holy smokes, what a finish. here at T-Mobile Park.