Ernie "Schnoz" Lombardi Takes The Show By Storm | Hour 3
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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I don't know if we have it right that Joe Mack is one of the greatest names ever for a catcher. I believe that between all of us, we can come up with many names for a catcher better than Joe Mack. Start putting your lists together. We will see who it is that we go to here. You guys tell me who's got a better list of five catcher names than Joe. Joe Mack, we will see if we can temper some of Greg Cody's enthusiasm about this. He sounds a little bit breathless on the inside and wanting to get to this.
Me and Jerry Lee Lewis, breathless.
Which catcher names trigger the show's Top 5 debate?
I actually have a top five with six OLI. Does that set a record for OLI? Is that too many? Just a top ten with one OLI.
It could be a top ten. What's your favorite Jerry Lee Lewis fact?
Yeah.
My favorite fact? Yeah. Okay, you don't mean that he married his 12-year-old cousin? I mean, I'm not going to go there.
That's not my favorite, but keep going. That's your favorite, huh? That's your favorite. No, that's probably the most... You were saying, like, you don't mean that's your favorite. That's not my favorite. That's the most notorious thing about him. Yeah, his nickname was The Killer. Yeah, right. Because he... Might have been. Yeah, might have been. My favorite was when he drove drunk and he crashed into the gates of Graceland. And the police asked him what he was doing there. And he's like, I'm here to kill Elvis. And I'm pretty sure he meant it. Different time.
It was a different time. Took me a second to realize you guys weren't talking about Jerry Lewis.
Yeah. Flavin! Flavin!
George Jones was once arrested for driving drunk on a mower, on a lawnmower.
Didn't Bill Murray get a citation on something? A golf cart.
Can you give me the history of George Jones, and can you get me, please, the back-in-my-day music so that we can be in the wheelhouse of Greg Cody as he tells us all it is that he wishes to tell us about George Jones?
George Jones was a country music legend. Died fairly recently, I would say within the past six, seven years. He sang one of the greatest country songs of all time called He Stopped Loving Her Today. He was considered a little bit of an outlaw artist, although not like... Some of the others, you know, not like Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings and guys like that. But he was legendary. He was a great songwriter. He had a velvety voice, classic country voice. One of my all time favorites. Never got to see him live.
What's the opposite of a velvety voice?
I would say the opposite of a velvety voice would be... About to throw up. Gravelly would be the opposite of velvety.
You just stumbled through all of that. George Jones died 13 years ago.
13? Yeah, boy, time flies, doesn't it? He's self-loving her today. And let her breathe upon his door. All right. Anybody want my list of baseball catcher names?
Yes. These are the best that there have ever been. Or these are better than Joe Mack. Or is Joe Mack a monster?
Well, I can make him a top ten with one OLI.
Yeah, let's do that. For the name of efficiency, who in the shipping container is going to handle the competing top five list? Is it going to be Jeremy? Who's it going to be? I got one. Okay. It'll be Roy then. Okay. Your first and only OLI. Joe Mack. Yeah! Number 10. Johnny Bench. Yeah! That's a good one. Number 9. Pudge Rodriguez.
Yeah!
8. Clay Dalrymple.
Yeah!
Put it on the poll at Levitard Show. Is Clay Dalrymple one of the great catcher names of all time?
You've got to love Clay. I can't believe that that's that high. A catcher named Clay. Come on. And the clay. He's in the dirt right there. I got you. He's squatting on the clay, baby. All right. Where were we? Is that seven?
Yes.
You're on seven, I think. Ten, nine, eight, seven. Ten, nine, eight, seven was Clay Dalrymple.
Yeah!
I think that was eight. Oh, yeah, yeah.
Ten, nine, eight. It's confusing because they were all O-L-I's before.
Joe Mack was O-L-I.
Okay, seven is Clay Dalrymple. Nope, that was eight. That was eight. That was number eight. It was Mack was O-L-I bench.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:52
2
Which catcher names trigger the show's Top 5 debate?
0:52–7:51
3
How does Greg Cody build a vintage baseball nickname list?
7:51–11:35
4
Who was Ernie "The Schnoz" Lombardi and what’s the 'Big Snooze' story?
11:35–13:03
5
Are some of the catcher nicknames (like Al Backstop or Tools of Ignorance) real or fabricated?
13:03–36:13
Speakers
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