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Terry Collins

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568 total appearances

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Baseball Isn’t Boring
Pitch and Moan: We've Got Terry Collins On The Podcast

That runner with second base with two outs in the ninth to tie the game.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Pitch and Moan: We've Got Terry Collins On The Podcast

Nope, we had to get David Eckstein out, not Tony La Russa.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Pitch and Moan: We've Got Terry Collins On The Podcast

That's also a great call out.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Pitch and Moan: We've Got Terry Collins On The Podcast

Right, right.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Pitch and Moan: We've Got Terry Collins On The Podcast

Well, Tunnel to Towers is a foundation put together by a family of a guy named Stephen Siller, who was a FDNY fireman who was killed at 9-11, who was on his way to play golf when one of the planes hit the towers.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Pitch and Moan: We've Got Terry Collins On The Podcast

And he rushed back to try to get into Midtown.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Pitch and Moan: We've Got Terry Collins On The Podcast

He got to the battery tunnel between Brooklyn and they wouldn't let him in.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Pitch and Moan: We've Got Terry Collins On The Podcast

So he put his gear on.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Pitch and Moan: We've Got Terry Collins On The Podcast

He had his gear in his truck.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Pitch and Moan: We've Got Terry Collins On The Podcast

He put his gear on and ran three miles.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Pitch and Moan: We've Got Terry Collins On The Podcast

to get to the towers, and when he got there, the towers collapsed and he was killed.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Pitch and Moan: We've Got Terry Collins On The Podcast

And so his brother, Frank Siller, started this tunnel to Towers Foundation where they support first responder families, first responders who have died, their families.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Pitch and Moan: We've Got Terry Collins On The Podcast

Frank has paid, and I'm going to be wrong here, Courtney, so I don't want to throw it out, but I'm going to say like 250 mortgages.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Pitch and Moan: We've Got Terry Collins On The Podcast

He's paid off from these families.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Pitch and Moan: We've Got Terry Collins On The Podcast

He now also takes care of veterans, disabled vets.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Pitch and Moan: We've Got Terry Collins On The Podcast

They're putting together villages, veterans villages around the country where these disabled vets have smart homes where they can walk in and they can talk and they can put the lights on and start the TV.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Pitch and Moan: We've Got Terry Collins On The Podcast

And I was there.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Pitch and Moan: We've Got Terry Collins On The Podcast

I witnessed one of them in Bradenton, Florida.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Pitch and Moan: We've Got Terry Collins On The Podcast

I don't think I've ever had my heart...

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Pitch and Moan: We've Got Terry Collins On The Podcast

throb as much as it did when I saw this little girl walk in this home with her father who was in a wheelchair and she had a room for the first time all expenses paid no bills and now Tunnel to Towers are taking those kids that are in these veterans homes and are giving them college scholarships