i can't believe daddy actually bought a minor league baseball team. i love coming to the ballpark. doing? this is tailgating, son. it's where you bring all your trash and you leave it for someone else to deal with. here, help me get this christmas tree out of the back. [snapping, cracking] meg's estrogen supplements? [deep voice] i'll take that. thank you. so, what do you think of your first tailgate, stewie? it's so great. dad gave me a sip of beer. i'm gonna mention that to my teacher, and it's gonna be a big problem. -[thuds] -oh, there's bonnie. we always have so much fun at these things. hey, bonnie, who's on first? who, the person's name or the pronoun? ha! and it goes on like this. hey, joe, how's it going? sorry, peter, no time to talk. -it's my day to shine. -what? [chuckles] yeah. handicapped person at the ballpark-- ramps, private escort, meet the team. [crew] is there a joe swanson? -[grunts] -right here! meet me at that sad balcony! [♪ organ playing "charge"] well, here it is. what do you think? wow, daddy, it's beautiful! yeah, it's really great up here. there's free

with special training by his owner michael the official bat dog for the durham bulls minor league baseball team a few years ago. >> ripken will carry away one of those bats. >> first learned to retrieve at 8 weeks old, working with him, it grew to my college bat, which then grew to major league baseball bat. >> reporter: they knew ripken's talent hadn't been unleashed yet. >> he retrieved different things by repetition. >> reporter: with that skill ripken started fetching tees at ncaa football games and quickly became a star. videos of him on social media went viral. now no matter the sport ripken has become best in show. >> people take pictures, they ask for h his autograph. >> reporter: even t-shirts. >> his own merch, with his own designs. >> reporter: but most importantly, ripken gives fans a reason to smile. >> it's great to see what it does for the teams, the stadiums, the fans, because it doesn't matter if you're cheering for nc state, durham bulls or the opposing team, you still want to see ripken. >> reporter: since we last caught up with ripken, he's added another sport to his ro

but today we're learning major league baseball is a step closer to using robots on the field. minor league baseball teams have been testing the robots for a few years now. they're acting as umpires during the games, but the engineers are still working out the kinks. one of the biggest hurdles is the robots aren't accurately calling strikes. major league baseball says it plans to test those robots at spring training next year, and they'll use the robots at 13 ballparks across the nation. the mlb says it hopes to integrate the robots into the regular season in 2026. and as always, i will be posting links to the other stories you voted for on my instagram. thanks so much for voting. okay, sharks fans getting ready to celebrate an nhl legend joe thornton, at city hall today. mayor matt mahan declared this saturday joe thornton day. that is when his jersey number 19 will officially be retired at the shark tank. it will happen before the sharks game against the buffalo sabers. thornton retired last year. you'll remember after 24 years in the league, 15 with the sharks. he is just the seco

great minor league baseball park. there you can see this has been fairly red recently.ald trump won by ten points four years before that. he won by 13. so what harris wants to do is keep the margins closer here, a little bit closer like it was four years ago. finally, she's going to milwaukee democratic stronghold. the most populous county in the state. she wants to run up the margins here. now one thing i want to talk about in wisconsin, i'm going to use this tool for the first time. i hope it's more of a magic wall, not a mughal wall here. so i hope it works. i want to talk about how the vote is counted in should say wisconsin. the polls close at 8:00. okay. and you can see four years ago well, fast forward a little bit. you can see 9:00 945, 10:00. it's going back and forth. and then at about 11:00, what happens? donald trump starts to go ahead 50% to 47%. why well, it's because they're counting the in-person election day vote largely in wisconsin. you can't start counting the mail in vote until election day itself. so it takes some time. so trump was ahead at 11:00

in fact, when he was at that veterans home, they took him out to some kind of minor league baseball game, and their names are in lights, people are standing up and he's going, this is ridiculous. just stop it. yeah. he's not going viral at that point and he's not posting to instagram and everything. he never was online. no understand the whole thing. what questions do you guys have for, for howard tonight, anything that he said, anything from the book, if you may read it, but there are just so many stories about why a 19 year old would get into a bomber plane a second time. the first time, it's like, i don't know what to expect. yeah. and then the missions were set early. the war, you had to go through 25 missions before you could be rotated. then it became 35 missions and was up to, you know, 45, whatever, 50. but what, what fortitude, a 19 year old to go through that first flak mission and the 100 irons, the messerschmitt coming at you and seeing people die and how do you get back in the plane a second time? that's amazing. person wouldn't know exactly. that's okay. you go through the

league or -- little leaguer? cal: i knew pretty quickly. i grew up in and around baseball. my dad was a manager of the minoreagues for the orioles for the first 14 years of my life. i went to work with my dad as early as eight or nine. he put me in a uniform. i was in the outfield. i had a chance to ask the players how they caught the flyball, how they swung the bat. i had all these teachers in front of me. i had skill that was pretty obvious early on. david: you played in high school. i assumed you did will in high school. cal: yes. david: at what point in the minor leagues did you realize that you weren't just going to begin average player? -- bam average player? or did you not realize that at the beginning? cal: i was the second round draft pick by the orioles. turned 18 at the end of the summer. my birthday is august 24. i was playing a couple months before my 18th birthday. when i first went away to play pro ball, i was a big fish in the small pond in high school. then you go and you are part of a team. you look around and you are not the big fish anymore. there was one shortstop by the name of bob bon

leagues? cal: i knew pretty quickly. i grew up in and around baseball. my dad was the manager for the minoreagues of the orioles for the first 14 years of my life. i went to work with my dad as early as eight or nine. he put me in a uniform, i was the bat boy. i shagged in the outfield. i had a chance to ask all the players how they caught a flyball, how they swing the bat. i had all these teachers in front of me, but i had the skill, that was pretty obvious. david: you played in high school and i assume you did very well. cal: yes. david: you get drafted by the orioles. at what point when you were in the minor leagues, all the players playing in the minor leagues for a while, did you realize you weren't just going to be an average player or did you not realize that in the beginning? cal: i was 17, a second round draft pick by the orioles. i turned 18 at the end of that summer. my birthday is august 24 so i was playing a couple months before my 18th birthday. when i first went away to play pro ball, you are a big fish in a small pond in high school. you thought you were pretty good. and the

the tampa bay rays, the baseball team, appear to be joining the a's, playing in a minor league or spring training ballpark next season. the rays home turf, tropicana field, was damaged. take a look at that in hurricane milton. the stadium can be fixed for $55 million and would be ready for the 2026 season. however, saint petersburg must decide if it will play, if it will pay for the repairs, or continue with plans to open a new ballpark in 2028. in that case, the rays will most likely play at the phillies or yankees spring training park in the tampa area for next season. always come to the coliseum. it's open. yeah. jessica aguirre joins us with what's coming up next. right now, at 6:00, a report against san mateo county sheriff christina corpus. we're tracking the back and forth after that scathing 400 report was released today. we're live in redwood city, talking to sources and digging into the claims against the sheriff. also, an officer searching a home and car in contra costa county after leaving behind a pair of golden handcuffs during an arrest. but the family involved says the se

in the minor leagues, so i learned through his instruction of everybody else, but he never stood over me and said you have to do this or that. david: when you are a former professional baseballr, people come up all the time and want autographs and selfies and they say i hate to bother you, but can i bother you? what do you say? do you say i'm too busy, or do you just do it? when you go to a hotel, and you are a major-league baseball player, people have all of these kids, how do you deal with that? cal: when you get old, they don't do it so much anymore. [laughter] i'm thankful. i still can't believe i get recognized as readily as i do. to me, you always keep in mind that sometimes someone approaching you, they are nervous and they lose their mind and they say you are my biggest fan and i go, i am? you have to keep in mind it is meaningful to them. that moment, by signing your name for a little kid, and they run back to their mom or whoever else and say look what i got. you help that happen. if you remember what happens afterwards, you just manage it and get through it. david: what was it like, the day you broke the record of lou gehrig? there was an enormous fan outpouring,

minor league free agents. every avenue we can to acquire players, we're going to look up and down. >> so you're a baseball liferu come from a baseball family. your brother is the gm of the angels. we're not going to hold it against you that tommy lasorda of the dodgers legend is your godfather was your godfather. yes. but do we put that low in the bio that you know, tommy, you know the dodgers. >> i think the people who know me best. and i have three older brothers and, you know, four boys in a very sports related family. you're kind of having to scratch and crawl for everything. and whether that's attention winning a pickup basketball game and whether i liked it or not, i probably developed this little chip on my shoulder that i had to prove myself and try and get that attention. so in reality, uncle tom being my godfather, i actually think it's the perfect fit for me to be in this role with the giants now, people may not know you started like as a little kid working in the texas rangers clubhouse. >> so i was told to ask this and i wish i had a prop, but you're supposedly really good at folding towels. >> i'v

minor leagues by the braves. >> reporter: if uecker's onfield inadequacies hampered his playing career, they provided some of his best material in a lengthy and lucrative second career as an actor and comedian. >> mr. baseballe bob uecker. >> reporter: employing a bone-dry wit, he made more than 40 appearances on johnny carson's tonight show. >> i did tonight shows whenever they wanted. >> give me as fast as you can all the teams you've ever played with. >> braves, cardinals, phillies and the cardinals again. braves again. and then june i was with -- >> i would leave here on a sunday afternoon, fly to l.a., do the monday night show, take a red-eye back here, and be here for tuesday's game. >> all right. maybe i wasn't the greatest player of all time, but fans, they forgive and forget. >> reporter: the carson guest spots led to a series of notable tv commercials. >> you're in the wrong seat, buddy. come on. >> oh, i must be in the front row. >> reporter: as well as a starring sitcom role. >> nice hands, 47. >> yeah, i could have caught that one. >> let's not go crazy. >> reporter: and perhaps most memorably -- >> hello again, everybody, harry doyle here. >> reporter: the role of the perpetually blitzed annou