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Helpline today the college free this program is not available to Medicare or Medicaid customers call 80296125 to 80296125 to 802961252 that's 802 nights 61252. This is America's sports talk show Sports USA Here's. If you take a look at the world of baseball Major League Baseball there's a name that synonymous with it and you may not recognize it but the name is Montague there was Ed Montague Sr and now Ed Montague his son is a higher who's umpired for some $28.00 seasons and the lineage continues as Ed Montague son now is playing in the Dodger organization yeah 1921 is the last year you have to go back to the Montague was not to involved with Major League Baseball Ed Montague the 28 year long umpire in the Bash joins us Ed nice to have you back here on Sports Byline when I say that and you think about the number of years that you and your family a bit I'm involved with baseball What do you think of. I think of my dad a lot you know I was. Growing up in baseball and being around the minor league organizations going out when my dad was scouting and being around the big league clubhouse when the Giants came to San Francisco was it was a treat I mean it was just you know you talk about a wide eyed kid it's something that you know I'll always remember when did you realize what your dad was involved with which was baseball Well I think we were I remember the 1st time I saw him on television and I was like 4 or 5 years old and he was doing an interview back in New York I think was a Yankee game or something they had him on t.v. And that's when we had the T.V.'s with the massive fighting class they can look a little big. And and I remember being mad at him because he didn't you know he would talk back to me when he was on the t.v. You know I was like 4 years old 3 or 4 years old and then I saw him on What's My Line show the old What's My Line show and realize you know that he has something important to do in baseball well he played back in the twenty's in the thirty's talk to me about some of the players that he played with and how he talked about those well he broke and he was assigned as a 16 year old kid out of Poly High School. As Dad died so he had to go to work and they signed with the San Francisco seals and then he was later on to become a player with a Cleveland any and sign with Cleveland and the players that he played against were . You know household names Babe Ruth Ty Cobb Luke Gehrig you know pie Traynor by trainer and my dad were good friends along with Lefty Gomez Joe Cronin and my dad grew up as a high school buddies you know and you know backyard friends and it was you know he just had so many stories to tell about all these guys you know one of those great stories is one of his play against Babe Ruth and I got taken out of 2nd base share that with us well babe my dad said it was like another world from all of the ballplayers they used to sit in the dugout and watch him take batting practice a. One go back into the dressing room and he just hit mammoth drives and one day my dad was playing shortstop and Ruth took him out came in pretty hard to come out and my dad was out of the ballgame and they had a minute trainer's room and after the game babe came in and said How you doing kid . That was the greatest thing in the world the Babe Ruth My dad was a big league ball player but you know the king was and say hello to him and see how he was doing here Dad gravitated toward the Giants and also our scouting and what was that world like at that time well of course when he was with the Braves and at 1st I was just you know born that was I think 4849 and then he went to the Giants and. He was on the road quite a bit and like I am today I think I'm actually on the road a lot more than he was but you know it was my mom that you know had the iron fist and held us and tackle and my dad was away and then every now and then he'd take us on the road and you know we followed the Giants when they were in New York because of his signing Willie Mays and and we watched amazed as a young ballplayer whenever we got a chance on the t.v. And so that was just a thrill and then just when they came to San Francisco you know you know I was elated to be able to go down to seal stadium for the 1st game ever played and and get to meet Willie Mays that same day you know and it's interesting how he came to sign him because he had gone off to Alabama on a scouting mission back in 1950 but it wasn't Mays that he was looking at wasn't no there was a 1st baseman name Alonzo Perry that the Giants had sent my dad out to go see and so my dad went down to Birmingham and to watch Alonzo and this young and I think he was 17 years old at the time kid out in the outfield caught his eye you know make an spectacular catch is he had a cannon for an arm and he had to. All seals with power and could run like the wind and my dad forgot all about Alonso Kerry and went right to Willie Mays and you know it was interesting but I read in the story that Mays was paid by the Giants won $15000.00 and they gave the barons $15000.00 that $15000.00 to Willie Mays was an awful lot of money at that yeah you know I don't even know if it was if it was quite that much you know I mean my dad told stories about 5010000 and then they did have to give the parents money. But you had to them at that time of course I was a lot of money at that time one of the other things to add is the dead that time when your dad was a scout the scouts would go out and sign players but they also would be their friends to some degree and I think in the case of your dad in Willie Mays that was important because this was a young black kid that was coming out of Alabama and your dad was there in more than than baseball ways was me yeah he was that one down and you know he kind of willy under his wing and try to explain to worldly. Things you know that he had to do and stuff like that any knew was going to be tough not only because well he was black because but because he was just a young young kid and the great ballplayer that he was in Birmingham he had to go through the minor leagues and I remember you know many applets he had a pretty good year up there in Minneapolis and then when he went to the Giants. He had a rough start and I think he was over 2021 or 25 something like that before he got his 1st hit which was a homerun off of Warren Spahn and you know and my dad used to see Willie and talk to him and stuff and you know it's just like a lot of those young kids they have to be nurtured and it's you know going into a big world and. 1958 The Giants are playing on the West Coast and seal Stadium in San Francisco you're a 9 year old kid and you're introduced to Willie Mays and seal stadium Tell me about it but I want to end you know and my dad took me in the dressing room and the 1st person we met when we walked in there was Jeff Chandler the movie actor and I really didn't know who he was at the time and I really think Carol because my eyes were fixed on Willie Mays all I wanted to see was Willie Mays and I remember go on back to the locker my dad introduced me to him and you know Willie was so personable and just full of life and you know there I was again that white kid and after talking to Willie he turned and gave me one of his brand new gloves you know out of his locker and I mean I remember going home still stadium out the window going this is really made. Of course and when I got home you know and show the neighborhood kids you know it was really a conversation piece of course I was left handed and my dad. Made me give it to my younger brother Gerry who was right handed and so Jerry ended up with like a lot of. Also the kids in the neighborhood used to get the old broken badge did they not or did you all use a soft Willie Mays is bat once a story there well I remember I told this to Willie a few years back I was. Went down to one of these houses and he had signed some stuff for a charity and we were talking about it in the bats and he goes Well you must have a couple bad I said Nah I said when we were kids and my dad used to bring home the bats for the giant rookies my dad had to manage that team down in Orange Park in South San Francisco and we'd get all the uniforms and you know uniforms hats and bats and stuff while the bats were too big for us to swing so you know I remember sawing off the maze bats the early Kirkland bats and we just saw him off about 3 inches off the top of the bat and I was making a lot lighter as I said I wish I had those bats today is there a particular moment you remember as a kid about Willie Mays. I just like I said going in to meet him for the 1st time and then I had a funny story I was working as a vendor out there so I got to see quite a few games and I mean from Daly City I used to either hitchhiker take me over to the ball park and I remember getting dropped off on 3rd Avenue one day and I kind of wanted to get back into the candlestick and I was going to run at the same time and we made a stop to pick me up now we had no clue. Yet but he stopped and picked me up and then when I got in and I told him he goes oh you're ready set and stuff but I mean I just I think that happen to be my wife you know going to the right place right time and you know I'm just watching Well it. Was a thrill I mean the greatest ballplayer that I've ever seen and hold on just a 2nd we're talking baseball with 28 years and I'm far in the National League he had the desire to play Major League Baseball as well didn't quite make it change direction became an umpire We'll talk about that path and how he got there and as we continue across the country and around the world on the American Forces Radio network the Internet Sirius satellite radio we've got. Reach out to help others from fires and floods to the home. Help to give a. Family the post. Help with the holidays fast approaching. Here. With an emphasis on. Your help. Well make. Time. No matter how big or small. Put a smile on a face to show you care. For others holiday. We can. Because k. 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A check of the numbers on the scoreboard and the National Hockey League it was Pittsburgh tripling up on the Islanders 6 to 2 as the Pens scored 2 in the 1st then they put it away with 3 goals in the 2nd period castle and tank each scoring twice for the pens and also Crosby had a goal and 2 assists again Pittsburgh $62.00 over the isles Columbus in overtime beats Philadelphia for 3 Blue Jackets get their 16th when of the season thanks to Seth Jones a 2nd goal of the game it came in the overtime period it was the game winner Colorado easily passed Florida 5 to abse women by breaking a 2 to tie with 3 goals in the 3rd period Saddam Berg scored his 10th 11th goals as Colorado outshot the Panthers in this one in overtime it was Detroit 5 Toronto for only the Leafs 8th loss of the season Red Wings jumped out to a $31.00 1st period lead and it was Dillon Larkin's 11th goal of the year in overtime that wins this one Tampa Bay 3 Boston 2 as the lightning raised their league best record 22 $7.00 and $1.00 dominate gets the win with $31.00 saves Braden points scored his 21st goal and also was Montreal over on a while that final 5 to a 2 goal Montreal 2nd period gave the Canadiens a $31.00 lead and Paul Biron scored twice in this one and that's your sports update we love watching sports but these days it's nearly impossible to catch all the best moments of your favorite game still with the new sport flip app you can receive real time customized notifications so you know when your games are back after commercial break period change or rain delay download sport clip from the App Store today and watch more sports and Montague has joined us here on Sports Byline Ed you had that dream to want to play Major League. Baseballers well worded to go in the different direction want to turn on pirate instead of baseball like every young kid when I was growing up you know we always played across the street and sandlot and and dreams of being in the big leagues and you know I played in high school and then I played. Semi-pro ball around the Bay Area and my dad used to say you know you had a good glove and everything but I had a tough time in the curveball and. As I got older I you know in my head when I got about 19 or 20 I got a little bigger and got better but just not good enough to make it and my dad said you might go to a ball double a tops and that's about as far as you're going to go solve course you're disappointed and you don't know what you're going to do with your life and I don't number of jobs around the Bay Area and it was my mom's idea came up she saw an advertisement for our school and she said want to try and parse all. So I gave it a shot yeah you go down to Florida what was that experience like well I remember it it took me. A week to get down there because I had a Toyota Corolla and I'm just by myself and I got into Phoenix and I got out of Phoenix and I got real sick and I ended up spending about 2 days in Houston and I remember you know I was just too sick to drive and then finally got into Florida and you know it was just like going to summer camp I thought I really. Cost at the time $300.00 to go to school and that included you know I was 5 weeks and include your meals and it was great and you know you know I never. Thought I mean I thought about being a big league umpire but it was just more more like going to summer camp for me we always hear about the big leagues for the ballplayers in the big leagues for the umpires but a lot of people don't realize what the minors are like but the umpires Well you started in the California leg you were earning $300.00 per month in salary in about $300.00 more in expenses those minor league experiences what are the pros and cons of those and and also how does it shape up when somebody might ultimately become one to become a major league umpire Well I think you know it gives a character for one thing if you're driving around the Cali was a pretty good league and I was staying in the Alltel fixes when they were really $6.00 so it was. Work with one other partner and it was $3.00 a night and like I said it was $300.00 a month expenses so $10.00 a day wasn't a whole lot to go on. It did give you character there were a lot of times where they were beaten down a dressing room doors trying to get to us you know. It's called like that but. You know something you look back on and I wouldn't change it. If you survive the minor leagues and where there's a lot of kids that go in the minor leagues and and don't like it they don't like the lifestyle they don't like people screaming at him all the time and they end up quitting it's interesting because as a kid growing up I'd spend the summers in West Virginia and I played some semi-pro ball down there and it was a very interesting because we'd play in white snow in Mullens and towns like that in which they had the lights on the telephone poles on the ball got above the light you ran in the dugout because you weren't sure was when I was coming down what was it like in the California League where there are some unusual places that you work well I remember Bakersfield The sun was always setting right over the left field you know and just left center field wall and it was very difficult to see I don't know how the headers and well of course a lot of those letters and do anything there but and I remember the dressing room was like a 10. Had a 10 roof on it and it was just like walking into a sauna It was a brutal. Role I remember being I'm a definite Californian when I had a play at 3rd base and I was working with a guy named Billy Malone and Billy already had been in the the late for a couple years so he was the senior guy and Billy was about 5 foot 7 he didn't have a neck as he said just sat on his shoulders and he always had a toothpick and his mouth and we had a play at a play at 3rd base that that was supposed to end the game it was a tag up guy scores in the Dust Bowl wins the ballgame Reno loses but they appealed to 3rd base and I called the runner out Oh most of the people now ballpark were leaving because they and celebrate because Modesto won now they appeal and we're back on the field again and it was one of the biggest brouhaha I've been in in the minor leagues and lasted quite a bit and as a young on par and experienced Bill Malone got the players away from me and. We walked out the to right field to discuss the play because there was another one they threw back the 2nd it was a mess and Billy had that toothpick in his mouth and his head was probably on your shoulders. He says Fast Eddie he says here we are in Modesto California and we are . Kind of broke the ice and then we went back and settled a thing and that we still got stuff thrown at us on the way the dressing room but the minor leagues were Chow right now the 1st major league game you did was actually a spring training game was it not know the 1st game I ever did in the big leagues I was 24 years old it was a candlestick it was a Giants and pod race and the national league office at that time was in San Francisco and they had. Gotten recommendations are made so if red flag was our supervisor wanted to see me work. So he said. He called the house and my brother said the nationally called I said Yeah right. Well then he called back and said We'd like you to work next week the last couple games of the season you work 3rd base and 1st base and then home plate and I was really excited and then about the day of the game he called me back and said he had to go out of town on that Saturday so I'm going to open up behind the plate so the 1st game I ever worked in the big leagues was behind the plate and it was 2 hour and 5 minute ballgame went by like a blur and I think there were about 1800 people in the stands. That 176 said 1974 Ok 74 was the 1st time because the note that I have here says you reach the majors for good in 1976 when it was kind of a period of time when there was a lot of conflict between managers players and empires at that time Oh yeah absolutely I open up in Cincinnati. At 3rd base Rick standing right next to Pete Rose who who I watch when I was a kid so it was and in front of 52000 people there and so that was my 1st experience on a big league field and then that year I think I tossed out about 18. And it was it was there it was there were tougher than the managers and players you know it was just a different different time than well your most implements ejection I guess happened in 1987 right. Was a car now all of the spring training game Yeah right yeah and that was. It was an easy play came around 1st base and missed 1st base by a $42.00 and that's a play that an Empire is not going to call once your 100 percent sure so he gets the 2nd base thinking he has a double and they appealed the 1st because everybody else saw it and I called him out and he was crazy on me and I thought you know that's not for me that was an easy play so. I finally got him off the field Herman Franks was the manager and I'm at 1st base and this is in Palm Springs where plan and all the sudden I look and he's out in the outfield want to you know doing his lap so I stopped the game and I said get him out of there Herman and I'm yelling from 1st base all the fanfare and Herman says he says well can he run I said yeah he can run all the way to the bus. The fans enjoyed that so you threw him out of the game and then you threw him out when he was running his wind sprints right and then I tossed them the next day but he started. Hurling Franks hands in the lineup card and you grabbed the pan I understand and did what actually was Ron Lucy and I had the plate I told Ronnie before we went out there arise American League umpire and I said and he's working with Jim quick and I to national of empires and I said we were in a runway Jim and I stand in the runway and Cardinal came up the runway and he sees us and he spits towards us. You know he's done. You know I told c.n.n. He says I don't think we can do that I said writing I said he's not playing today so I don't think we can do that so we get out on play the next Florida brought that line of course up and I'm looking over his shoulder it was you know shoulder and there's Cardinal in the line if I said Right he let me see those cards a 2nd and I grabbed the cards grabbed a pen I scratch card now and I said peanuts go back until our minute cardinals not out of the game is out of the game that day. Herman comes out and we told them what happened and he had no problem with that he just said that's fine we got about 25 seconds before we have to break but who took you under their wing as an empire because everybody always mentors somebody that young well it was Bruce for me. Who gave me my 1st chance asked me to work a spring training game and then. Took me under his wing and then I when I went to the Pacific Coast League only and I only my 2nd year in a game I jumped legs and was too fast it was all wrong ironically that that nurtured me and kept me going and just want to best some parts of it really work with Ed Montague as with possibly keep him a little bit longer but we're going to talk about his great career 28 years as an umpire he seen some great moments including Box $3010.00 Pete Rose of course breaking Cobbs all time hits record and he also was involved in the games in which Barry Bonds hit home run 717273 back in 2001 we do that as we continue with more of you and American sports talk show if you're a loved one is suffering from a physical or emotional condition that has left you unable to work then listen carefully take this number down 805937491 that's 805937491 when you call you'll speak with a Social Security Disability expert and get a free evaluation to see if you may qualify for disability insurance benefits from the u.s. 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Umpire Ed Monica has joined us and you here on Sports Byline And let's talk about some of those great moments that I alluded to before our great moments kind of just seemed to happen but you seem to have been involved with a lot of great ones did you ever have any sense about greatness about to happen in a particular ballgame Well it appears Rose is probably one of the most exciting moments I've ever been out you know on the field. I thought at that time will cause he knew he was going for this $4192.00 and an hour in Cincinnati and. You know I was hoping it was going to happen while we were there and fortunately I did and it was just it was a number Leavell moment because I mean with the crowd was electrifying and you know you had to Goodyear blimp flying overhead and it was the the time of day it was like at sunset and it was just the sky was real pain was like something out of a movie like out of the natural and all of a sudden you know he's hit the shot the left field. And the flash bulbs and everything were gone it was just it was electrifying and also Lou Brock's $3000.00 hit that was a special moment as well yeah be I work the play in that game and that was you know that was very exciting of course there's been a few guys get 3000 hits so that didn't compare to the rose. To the rose thing but it was you know was an honor to be behind the plate one who broke that record one of the other things that I thought was interesting you were involved in the World Series back in 1901 and Kirby Puckett game winning homerun in game 6 now I know in that World Series the home team won each of the games and in the Metrodome it was deafening in there what was that really like well it was it was deafening it was. Very hard to hear and I think that cost the Braves. Lonnie Smith I remember there was a play and. He had a ball the outfield and he stopped running the 2nd baseman dictum because he couldn't hear the you know neither the coaches telling them to keep running keep running and it's so loud in there I mean you wouldn't you you know you just wouldn't believe it and they had the home rankings go and. It was quite a spectacle you upset about the World Series Ed it's like you're in a bubble it's an out of body experience when you're working those games having said that how hard is it to keep one's concentration was so much on the line well it's not hard to keep the concentration at all because that's what I mean it's like an out of body thing you're just you're so focused on every single pitch every single play and you know your biggest fear is to make a mistake and it's happened in those games and I've been fortunate enough to see. That all these years and but it is it's it's a it's a different it's different work in those it's just so much more pressure and it's so much more magnified working those games and. When I've worked them it seems I've gone extra innings or I've had 4 World Series and 3 out of the 4 of gone the game 7 . For my plate jobs I think 3 of my work extra innings work the that game was 11 Any it's in Minnesota and then the $97.00 World Series we went to Game 7 and that was 11 any of us and then I had the Subway Series and opened up behind the plate I think that was 11 or 12 Anees that was the longest game in World Series history so I'm not due for a cut on the side of those big games what differentiates the difference between a World Series game both emotionally and maybe technically as compared to a regular season game. I guess it's just all the hype and everything that's on the line in those games and like I say they're magnified everybody in the world watching it and you know I'd like to go in with the attitude it's just a regular game but it's you really know that it's not and you know you're just you're just under the microscope I know where I was for Game 6 of the 1906 World Series and I know where you were because you were on the field there and of course you witnessed one of the most interesting moments in the World Series tell everybody about it well yeah was that I was in right field that game and of course we thought Boston had it wrapped up and you know everything was going on Boston's favor I think they had the champagne on ice and they were putting the tarps up in the dressing room and and all the sudden you know the Mets catch up and here comes Moki Wilson the bat and. It said dribble are down to 1st base and went right through Buckner's legs and I was in right field at the time and I knew that ball was going to be special so when Marty Barrett came over to grab it I said I got it Marty and I just picked it up and put it in my pocket. But you know I kept that ball for a couple we got rained out the next day actually and I put a little mark on the ball and. One of the Mets executives at that time Arthur Richmond who is now with the Yankees just a nice man and you know he came in and congratulate the guys on a good series and everything so I said already I said I got something for you I said this is the ball that one for us so this is a ball that went through Buckner's legs and you know you don't want to take it and you know I forced it on him and a couple years after that he called me and asked if he can auction it off for charity and I said Sure he says we'll probably get about 5 or $6000.00 so that's fine and I was over an ally at the time and watching e.s.p.n. Early in the morning and they came on the air and said Record dollar amount for baseball baseball just sold for $93000.00 through Buckner's legs. When you look at firing from when you broke in at the major league level to today how much more difficult is it. Hard to work a game when you're behind the plate on a base pass where wherever you might be well when I broke in I don't think that we didn't have the games televised like we do today every single games televised every night here on e.s.p.n. . And you know they are saying there's a lot more controversy with the umpires. This is what they're saying a few years ago in my theory was well there's their games are on the s.b. Every single night I mean in the old days when you just said that game of the week you didn't see all the controversy around the league or you didn't hear about it and then again here we are everything the media hype and. Television it makes it a lot more difficult and now of course they've got the K.'s on they've got quests to act they've got you know laser beams telling you where the strike zones are and it's just it's it's crazy nowadays Yeah Has the game lost some of that personalized human touch because of the fact that they tried to make it so mechanical I think that I think it has and I think the players agree with that and you know you don't see you know if you look at the empires today gosh a lot of them look alike I mean they're they're they're like out of a mold were you know in the old days where you had the al Barr looks on the Jocko columns in the you know in the Dutch runners in the lee wires and you really don't see that different. And the styles are different everybody is pretty mechanical Now yeah I was just going to say is baseball kind of in a sense trying to Him personalize the game at least from the officiating standpoint I think yeah I think so I think they want everybody to be you know they talk about consistency which is fine with with your judgment in the strikes and I think that's terrific that we're getting to that but I think you know there are the styles of disappeared you know the characters of the game. And it all used to be that if you work the National you work the National you work the American League you work the American League but that is kind of become blended as if not as of 3 years ago they've taken us all under one roof and so we're working both legs right now and and which is different but. You know you got to go at the time yeah the quest tech that you talked about I know that's in grievance right now what are they trying to do with that system made they say meaning Major League Baseball that they're trying to use it as a teaching aid for umpires and to try to help them but yet they have not implemented across baseball all together so you've got maybe 10 stadiums that have it and the other stadiums the dome Yeah we've only got the I think it is about 10 stadiums that have it and so you know in the way the schedules are you could go for a long time and not have a quest tech machines. But they are rating a song those now. They said it's a teaching tool but what they are using those to evaluate us and you know I think the idea is good to get consistency with the strike zone and I think it is a good it could be a good teaching tool if used in the right way and it has a lot of kings and and Major League Baseball recognizes that and their work and to correct those kinks and maybe down the road. You know will be a good thing what is the hardest call for an empire to make and I know you and I have talked about this before but has that changed that what the hardest call is I think a trap ball in the outfield is a difficult call and also a swipe tag. I've always said that usually one on par misses a play big it's usually because the player made the 1st error of throwing the ball somewhere or. You know you go to a position that you think you're going to be and that you anticipate and now the balls thrown errantly and now you've got to move and you got a swipe tag. So I think I think the swipe tag and probably the trap ball now filled I think because of the human factor we all know that mistakes are going to be made but when you look back on your career you made more perfect calls than you probably made mistakes but do the mistakes kind of eat at you if you know that there was a mistake made on the call Oh absolutely I mean nothing then it bothers me more probably today you know you don't you don't want to take a pitcher away from a head or a pitch away from a pitcher and you know you don't want to make a mistake we're kids going to strike out you know and and I've always taken him home and my dad used to say leave the game at the ballpark but they've always you know it always eats at me when I do best supply you know when you see it it comes back to haunt you and it's just like a player making an error and. You know I know that it's at them you certainly have been able to see a lot of great players both as a kid growing up hanging around with your dad around ballparks and now as an umpire What's the commonality that the truly great players have what is it that they commonly do whether a pitcher a position player or a hitter or I think it's again consistency and I mean Tony when's probably one of the greatest setters I've ever seen seems like I think you can hit the phone with a p. Had to use to foul balls off when you needed follow him off or you know he'd see holes up the middle and I think it's that they just work so hard at. That particular part of their game whether it be pitching or not I just always used to go into the workout rooms and you'd see the same guys in there you see Steve Carlton and you see Nolan Ryan in there and the good ballplayer side and this is before the days where you didn't get a lot of guys you know in the workout rooms all the time and but it was always those great ones that were always and they're always going that extra mile when you see somebody like a Barry Bonds and what he's been able to do so consistent with his consistently and then you know being witness to the 71st 72nd and 73rd home run balls that were hit by him What is it that amazes you and that you can appreciate about this athlete Well when I look at Barry I mean it's just that he's made I saw Barry when he was in high school etc high school I watched him play and and when he 1st came up to Pittsburgh and I think he's just worked. To make himself better every year these last few years he has just been so locked down like no other place I've ever seen when you stand behind him I look at him and I think it's he looks like a homerun waiting to happen you know he's going to hit the ball hard somewhere and you see as many times as they walked him over the last couple years and you know I asked Barrett I asked him that question I said all these walks and everything I said What do you do he says he says I just look for one good pitch to hit I'm not going to get all those pitches good pitches to hit so I look for one and I'm going to put it somewhere and play hard yeah I know Tony Gwynn told me at each it bad you only get one good pitch he had one final question and that is when you stand out there on the field getting ready to our empire game and you think about growing up as a kid on the playgrounds in the Bay Area and now you're standing on a Major League ballpark field in everything do you just kind of shake your head with disbelief that this is what your life has been Yeah you know every now and then I catch myself looking up like especially at Pac Bell and you look up and I still see a couple of vendors that are still work in the stands that that were there when I was a vendor. And you know it was it's. You know I'm just thankful for what I've had and been lucky to be you know doing what I'm doing well I got to tell you for your dad and for yourself you a bonnet the Montague name it's a name that is associated with baseball has been for a long time and I always look forward to our conversations and thank you very much for giving us the time I know our worldwide audience has enjoyed it take care my friend wrote in one other thing before I go I want to you know I said we're listening to a worldwide audience and I just want to you know thank you all the men and women overseas thank you very much Take care Ed Ok Thank you Ed Montague 28 years a national league umpire his Dad of course a played Major League Baseball was a scout as well and signed Willie Mays will take a break come back continue with more of you and Sports Byline. 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Saw Boston bury the New York Knicks 128 to 100 as the Knicks dropped 800 Celts had a trio 30 plus point quarters Boston shot 53 percent out rebound in New York and 7 Celtics scored in double figures led by Kyrie Irving has 22 on the ice Pittsburgh tripled up the Islanders 6 to 2 scoring 2 in the 1st putting it away with 3 in the 2nd period Cassel and Tang each scored twice and up one overtime win for Columbus $43.00 over Philadelphia Blue Jackets get their 16th win thanks to Seth Jones 2nd goal of the game it came in the overtime period Colorado easily passed Florida $52.00 as the abs win it by breaking $22.00 time with 3 goals in the 3rd period Saddam Berg scored his 10th and 11th goals overtime win for Detroit that final was 54 over to run a wholly beliefs 8th loss of the season Red Wings jumped up 2 or 31 1st period lead Tampa Bay 32 over Boston saw the lightning raise their league best record of 227 and one dominate gets the win with 31 says' Braden points scored his 21st goal and it was Montreal of 3 to make it 52 winner over a one and not your sports update we love watching sports but these days it's nearly impossible to catch all the best moments of your favorite games there with the new sport flip app you can receive real time customized notifications so you know when your games are back after commercial break period change or rain delay download sport flip from the App Store today and watch more sports I just love talking to guys that have been in sports for a long time from different perspectives and certainly add Montague junior 28 years an umpire in the majors and his dad was a scalp he played baseball but it was a scout for the San Francisco Giants that signed Willie Mays to his 1st pro contract hang around we're going to be talking college football the next hour because a 2 coaches are going to be in the studio with us Mark Antonio the head coach of Michigan. State and from the University of Oregon Mario Christabel will be with us as well and those 2 teams Michigan State and Oregon will face off in the red box ball that'll be played in the San Francisco area on December 31st I'm Ron Barr good to have you with us on sports. Freaks of speed and Motorhead to Kenny Sargent would speed freaks Be sure to catch crash gladdest stat man and yours truly every Sunday night 7 tonight Pacific to debate night Eastern that's right speed freaks on the sports by my radio networks. F.m. One o 4.5 k. 2 a 3 c.m. Auburn an Am 900 k. He chopped. News this hour from townhall dot com I'm wrong to launch to the day after his state funeral in Washington and Texas said goodbye to George h.w. Bush Thursday in the Houston church where the Bush family warships there were personal touches. After years of playing for the president the Oak Ridge Boys performed in his honor they were hymns the president himself chose and a tribute from his eldest grandson George p. 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