Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Chapter 2: What does Cal Ripken Jr. think about the 2008 election candidates?
And... I guess if you really wanted to influence people or you wanted to get involved in something, then you use it, but just to use it for no real reason. Or if you're not comfortable using it in regard to politics, religion, whatever, I think that you should have the ability to keep it to yourself.
Fair to say that the only place that you've chosen to use it most passionately and most comfortably is with helping children? Well, I mean, that's the platform that I'm most comfortable with because as a kid, I looked up to the baseball players and I just thought that it was the greatest thing in the world.
And then when you become a baseball player, you realize that you have that sort of influence. And, you know, there's no getting around that. I mean, you are a role model in many ways just for the fact that you're a baseball player.
I tend not to fight it on that argument, but say, let me try to do as many positive things I can so I can be a good influence to the kids when it comes in the arena of sports or baseball. Cal Ripken Jr. with us on 790 The Ticket. Are you opinionated in private? Really opinionated, like passionate, banging on tables, yelling at your friends about what you believe? I think that...
I like to debate things. I like to ask questions. And so I like to get to the bottom of things with a series of questions. And maybe I try to win a debate or two by... what was it called, the Socratic method, as opposed to yelling and screaming across the table to be heard. A-Rod learned at your knee, had a poster of you up in his room, and modeled himself after you.
He has told me one time that he asked you the proper way to shake hands once. He's like you when asking questions of everybody. Did you notice the first time that he came up to you, or every time thereafter, did you notice how much he patterned himself after you or wanted to learn from you? Well, I mean...
It was a high form of compliment when a kid, and I say kid because I met him when he was 16 years old, had a chance to shake his hand then, and my first impression was that he was still a boy in many ways, but he was a grown-up man in a physical nature, and his talent was just off the charts.
But he's his own guy, and I think modeling himself after, in the same way I think I modeled myself after Brooks Robinson in many ways, But then you start to get comfortable with who you are and what you want to be. And I don't think he models himself or he copies me. I think he tries to take certain things that I've done that he thinks is good and add that to his game, so to speak.
Hall of Famer Cal Ripken Jr. with us on 790 The Ticket. He's a part of a new website that's offering a video game and online community for baseball enthusiasts all over the globe. We'll talk to him about that in a moment. Go rapid fire with me here a little bit, though, Cal. Who's a guy in your sport, your time, that you looked at and you said, that guy worked harder than I did? Mattingly.
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Chapter 3: How does Bomani Jones play 'True or False' with the hosts?
So I'd say most offensive players. I didn't say better than you. I know you're going to defer to some offensive players who you think might be better than you, but consistent playing. I guess consistency gets associated with you. Are you consistent in other things other than playing every day?
Chapter 4: What led to Joan Rivers hanging up during her interview?
Yeah, I think my demeanor and the approach and consistency I think would be defined as as what kind of contributions, all the contributions can you make on a daily basis that allows you to be consistent in your effort and consistent with being valuable to the team.
Again, I think a lot of people, you know, when you play big league baseball and you go to the bat, shoot 550, 600 times, there's going to be times when you can't hit, but there's a lot of other things you can do. So... I don't know. I mean, consistency, a model of consistency.
I used to like to think that George Brett, when I played against George all those years, even when he looked bad in swinging, he looked like he was still hot. So, yeah, George Brett would probably be a model of consistency. Paul Mulder would probably be one as well. Kyle Ripken, Jr., the Hall of Famer, with us on 790 The Ticket. More impressive streak, you or Favre? Favre.
I didn't have people gunning at me. I had a few people coming at me at second base, but I could always see them coming. But Brett's got to hang in there, hang in the pocket for a long time, knowing he's going to get hit. And there's a lot bigger, faster, stronger people coming after him.
I was going to say, at second base, there weren't a whole lot of 290-pounders coming at you other than Mo Vaughn.
Yeah, and he just wasn't fast enough to get there.
Real quick, last question before we let you go. We don't know if this is lore or we've got this story told to us, and I want to know in the baseball community if there's any sort of authenticity to it. Apparently, Julio Franco, there is legend around Julio Franco and his substantive gifts. You either know what I'm talking about or you don't. Do you know what I'm talking about?
No, I don't know what you're talking about. All right. And I'm glad I don't. All right, yeah, and I am too, frankly. We're going to let you go on that note. Kyle, thank you for being on with us. Okay, you're quite welcome. Bomani, Barry Bonds would be forgiven just as readily today if he confessed and had raised $500 million for cancer. True or kakua? Kakua. Kakua. Why is that?
Look, man, we don't care about everybody's philanthropic efforts. There are a lot of people that we despise out here that's raising a lot of money for a lot of good causes. We don't ask it about everybody. Sometimes we decide that people's charity matters. Sometimes we don't.
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