Again, they're referencing this lunch today, and Gary takes Keith off the hook, says you don't have to pay because apparently, uh, Keith is a little lighter in the wallet right now, thanks to his dog.

Well, it's not my wallet, my money clip, and thank God it's gold 'cause Duffy got, uh, got it off the console and I had two $100 bills and 20s in it, and 5s and 10s.

It had around $300.

Uh, n- I'm not...

You know, I just, I carry that kind of money around me, just in case.

"What could go wrong?" Uh, which bills did young Duffy target?

He didn't touch the five, the one, the 10, the 20.

He gobbled up the two $100 bills.

Is it more than just the wins? Were the personalities? What do you, what do you think?

Oh, I think it's a combination of a lot of things.

Um, I, th- th- Yankees are Manhattan.

They're, they're the white collar team.

The Mets are the blue collar team, and, uh, this is a National League town, I firmly believe that.

And, um, the Met fans are the real, I think, the guys that go 9:00 to 5:00 and, and work their fannies off, and that's what we were as a team.

I think it appealed to that, to, to that Met crowd.

Talk about Greg LaRonde for a second.

When you came into the big leagues, what did you think a great baseball life looked like? And now that you have lived one, how does the great baseball life that you have lived compare to that?

[sighs] That's a good question.

That's something I've never really thought about.

I mean, it's something that I wanted as, uh, when my dad sawed off a Little League bat and, on h- on his lathe and made it into a bat when I was five, that would be, I would be able to swing.

And, uh, I wasn't big enough to swing at what it was, a 28-inch bat, which was Little League back in those days if you remember, the Louisville Sluggers.

Uh, and he started throwing tennis balls in, uh, in front of our garage, and, um, teaching us the basics of the game basically.

I remember the first thing was he taught us how to throw properly, and, um, thenUh, on through Little League.

What do you do to, to keep the mind working, uh, in tip-top shape?

Mm-hmm.

And, um, looks like he's not trying to pull.

He tried to pull last year too much, hit a home run to dead central.

Um, he's...

Looks like the old Pete and being more selective.

Uh, ironically, the last two games it looked like Soto kinda got, uh...

Soto was s- taking great at-bats.

Hmm.

Keith, when did you get interested in Stratomatic? When did you start playing and did you play in a league or did you play by yourself? How did that work as a young man?

Well, we used to always get, when we were kids, we couldn't wait to get the Street and Smith spring edition of every baseball season.

Of course.

And always in the back, there was this little ad in the back, a black and white ad of a pitcher and his windup, which was their logo.

Right.

It always intrigued me.

And it intrigued me when I was in Little League.

Do you remember those? Why would they take the best defensive first baseman of all time and play you in the outfield even for one inning? Do you remember one of those