Dan Shulman

Hi, guys.

How are you?

So every year, the first time, sorry, it's kind of like I'm part of the story, so I apologize for that.

The first thing I think about is, as you guys know, I do college basketball in the winter, and Dusty, like many people, loves U.S.

college basketball.

So every year, the first time I would see Dusty, April, May, whether he's with Cincinnati, San Francisco, Washington, Houston, whatever,

I'd walk into his office for the media scrum or whatever with whoever I was working for with ESPN.

He had a toothpick, you know, always had a toothpick in his mouth.

And he'd just look up at me and he'd go, I've been watching you.

I've been watching you all the time.

I'll tell you another quick little story.

Many, many, many years ago, I was doing a Sunday night game in Cincinnati.

And on the Saturday, I went in a day early and I took a young boy by the name of Ben Shulman with me.

Ben was probably nine years old then.

And we went to the Reds Hall of Fame.

He loved it.

He soaked up all the history.

We went with a buddy and his son.

And I, you know, pulled a string or two, whatever.

And on Saturday, we were down on the field for BP.