Jeff Bird

And I started recognizing, A, by watching two of my best friends do it successfully, and B, realizing that I had a lot of ideas that were constantly coming to me and an incredibly supportive group of people around me.

Um, shout-out Jeff Bird, director, who every time he directed an episode of The Flash pulled me next to him at the monitor and said, "What's wrong with you? When are you gonna direct?"

Oh my God.

Yeah.

Bird has, uh, begun to throw already in the Kansas City bullpen, the right-hander.

Jeff Bird is starting in the Royals bullpen.

Jeff Bird.

Oh, there've been two singles with a walk in between.

Also an error by Kansas City, and the Yankees have three men on and nobody down.

To reflect that, the theme is celebrations, rituals, and gatherings.

This podcast is produced by Jeff Bird.

The executive producer is Sarah Cudden, and the director is Catriona Bolt at Fern.

The patchwork format draws on my almanacs, alongside new words written just for this podcast.

Nothing yet on the Orioles game.

Uh, Jeff Bird warming up for the Blue Jays, and Ross Grimley, uh, Grimsley rather, for the Orioles.

Speaking about the Toronto Blue Jays, they're unhappy about the amount of indemnity a home team gets for a forfeit.

They said so today in a letter to American League President Lee MacPhail.

Toronto and Baltimore, no score after three innings now at Memorial Stadium.

Bird against Grimsley.

Jeff Bird, the rookie, veteran Ross Grimsley.

Here it is to White, a soft curve, a strike call on the outside corner.

[laughs] Just, it'll all be fine.

Oh, remember our, uh, friend, uh, Jeff Bird?

Yes.

He's wondering wh- why we're not on SWX.

Rather than the song was told, I wanted the story to be told, right? So I just figured out how to make that story told.

Like, uh, those early songs, like especially around Black Eyed Man, um, which is our fourth record, uh, Jeff Bird who's been with us as a musician forever, says, "Oh, that, that's your, that's your chordy period," right? [laughs]

[laughs]

So I just took, I just, however many chords I had to use, [laughs] I just used to tell the story, right? Um, and I just did it because that's, I didn't know any better or-

Nothing yet on the Orioles game.

Uh, Jeff Bird warming up for the Blue Jays, and Ross Grimley, uh, Grimsley rather, for the Orioles.

Speaking about the Toronto Blue Jays, they're unhappy about the amount of indemnity a home team gets for a forfeit.

They said so today in a letter to American League President Lee MacPhail.

We have nothing more on that.

Nothing-nothing after one inning of play.

Jeff Bird for Toronto and Ross Grimsley pitching for Baltimore.

National League after seven, Montreal leading St. Louis, score is four to two.

Thank you for joining me for this episode of Opening Lines.

It was produced by Jeff Bird, and the reader was Eric Stroud.

It is a peer production of BBC Radio 4.

All the episodes are available on BBC Sounds, where you can also subscribe to the series.