>> bob: there are some of us who don't think statistics are really trivia. >> jim: but even trivia. >> bob: trivia is players' flames and ball clubs and ballparks. >> rob: names, date, history, geographical. >> bob: do you think we're explaining this away well at all? >> jim: no. >> rob: i don't think either. >> bob: 1-220 zimmerman. as rob mentioned, when he is doing well he hits the ball to center a lot and when he is bad he swings at breaking balls way outside a good inning for bergesen despite the hit batter. halfway through, the o's 3-1. cfo helps every dollar work harder. from the very first dollar to the last dollar of the day. get in touch with your new cfo. pnc. leading the way. >> bob: the at&t rapid rewi the pitchers doing pretty well early, but a couple of jams, ross detwiler got himself into, but the big 5-2-3 double play is the primary reason this is still just a 3-1 game. guzman able to make that play on the slow roller. at&t, the nation's fastest 3 g. network, at&t, your world delivered. bob carpenter is back with rob did i believe and jim palmer. so interesting ba

time for the aflac trivia question for the day. who did the reds acquire for adam dunn from arizona? >> rob: i know micah owings is one of them. >> johnny: let me put my thinking cap on here. >> rob: castillo and dallas buck? that is gist off the -- just off the top of my head. >> johnny: it is also incorrect. [laughter]. >> johnny: off the top of my head, let me see here. >> rob: i think dallas buck was a right-handed pitcher. and i think owings is a right-handed pitcher. i have watched him for five innings. >> johnny: beats me. >> rob: castillo i think was a catcher. ramon castillo? >> johnny: it is up to you, dibs. grounded to guzman at short. across the diamond, nice play. >> rob: very nice. >> johnny: throws out the lead-off batter in the 6th inning, ramon hernandez. >> rob: the first thing is you have got to catch it. you know you don't have a fast runner coming down 1st base and he throws it towards first. ramon hernandez, had a frustrating series. >> johnny: so, hernandez is retired. jay bruce as we look at it once again ou

let's pay off our aflac trivia. rookies of the year, position players. >> jim p.: it has to be cal ripken, and andre dawson. that's a way back. >> rob: i was going to say moises alou. that would have been my guess. >> bob: rob and i had this discussion a couple weeks ago, some of our fans don't want to hear about the expos. they consider that another lifetime. >> jim p.: so then we wouldn't have brought the nationals in there. >> bob: does anybody talk about the st. louis browns anymore? >> jim p.: 1954, yeah. >> bob: teams move and that's part of your history whether you like it or not. and the browns were not exactly stellar. i think they went to one world series in 44. >> jim p.: anything else you'd like to vent about tonight, bob? >> bob: no. >> jim p.: my shirt? >> bob: i love your shirt. >> jim p.: you guys really look good tonight. >> bob: thank you. >> jim p.: you've got a long sleeve shirt on, rob, and bob's got the shortsleeve. >> bob: i've got less ink. >> jim p.: that's true. >> rob: i don't want to scar

time for the aflac trivia. we've got to question to see what we can do with this. >> rob: gift -- give it up. which switch hitter hit the most home runs in a season? one down in the top of the 5th 5th. >> rob: eddy murray never played? >> johnny: no. >> rob: pete rose was a switch hitter. probably had 280 hits one year. i think -- >> johnny: let's get him on the cell phone. >> rob: i think carp started when frank howard was still playing. >> johnny: i was in fifth grade when i heard bob do a game. i loved him. it was great. in miami florida. >> rob: was that the toughest three years of your life? >> johnny: toughest three of my life. ryan hanigan, reds' catcher. 30 hits, 95 at bats. in last night's ballgame, 1-4 strike out. once again, the nationals can't get them to light up tonight, second straight night. >> rob: in the minor leagues one year, he threw out more than 40% -- >> rob: was young a switch hitter? >> johnny: could have been. >> rob: that's a good guess. >> johnny: i do believe he might have been. ri

guest: dead trivia, i do not know who that is. but that is the sense of the power of the federal reserve. it has a lot of authority over the economy and the currency. it is getting a lot of attention because of this worry about inflation even though it is right now very low. many are concerned it could shoot up in the aftermath of this crisis. host: let's talk about the fed and how they're trying to decide to change the monetary stance. guest: the traditional leader, interest rates, what is now between 0% up to .25% will probably stay there for quite some time. the issue now is what the fed will do with the rest of this program. it has been buying up long-term securities to bring overall rates down for loans and has had some success. with signs of improvement rates for mortgages have gone up. the fed has bought mortgage- backed securities and some of the debt from government- sponsored enterprises like fannie and freddie. they have had a lot of success. talk to people were getting mortgage rates around 4.26% which is remarkable. i

we have aflac trivia for you. here is medwik. >> aflac. >> bob: the manager with the best winning percentage in blue jays history. >> rob: the -- i know gibbons and cecil. bobby cox. >> bob: bobby cox is a great guess. i'm going to have to go with you on that one. coming into this season, cito was .753 and -- 753-687 total. they say if you copy somebody, it's called bridge rhythm. if you copy two people, it's called research [ laughter ]. >> rob: i like that. >> bob: scwoo willie harris puts that one away off the bat of vernon wells. just for that, i will look up my atlanta notes to see what it says about bobby cox. can you ask us a question. ask about the nats at masnsports.com. we are always eager to hear from you if you have your baseball questions about the nats. let's see. bobby cox, that might be a good one, rob, because it is four years in tron so. he won 78, 89, 89 and then 90 games. >> rob: he wasn't there long enough to have a bad winning percentage. >> bob: right. well hit. scott rolen has a ten-game hi

. >> you need to a trivia more countries to nato and this conference. we see an extension of special operations cooperation beyond nato, and those who participate in other operations, they may work with the country and they may become part of the team. the first annual conference was attended by some countries that were not in nato, because they choose to develop those relationships. this is very encouraging. >> this is in valuable, with the mantra of counterinsurgency. many of these nations are now involved. i want to talk to you about the contract in issues. we find ways to enable this to have a slightly more nimble approach, this is difficult when you are working with so much speed, by the time you have acquired the product, this is out of date. i am curious how you think this is going, and i want to have an opportunity to respond. the washington post has been critical of this, following the instances. i have a strong bias that this is inhibiting the ability to move forward. this does not mean that we do not need to have a transparent process and mak

caller: i have a trivia question for you and of the audience. i have been trying for the last week to find out what "d" in d- day means. host: winchester on our republican time. caller: i would give him an f. the problem i have is that when he went and at the beginning they had an opportunity to buy these at discounted rates, yet they give the banks a dollar for dollar buyout. that is insane. we had a tremendous opportunity if you wanted to control these banks are put them into the position to have to repay money you should have gone after the good assets, not the bad. then again, you have someone who was in the banking business running it -- and that is geithner. guest: in terms of tim geithner he has been criticized for being a part of the banking industry. he has been a public servant most of his career. he worked as a career professional at the treasury and then at the international monetary fund and then president of the new york fed. so, in terms of his background -- there's a perception since he came from the new york said that he is symp

aflac trivia talking about center fielders with lots of rbi's, 100 rbi seasons in theirs first two seasons. we know vernon wells of toronto is one of them. >> rob: junior, willie mays. >> bob: ken griffey, jr., jr., how did we miss those? the great yankee clipper and al simons. we were too contemporary in our thinking. >> rob: one of the things that was really cool about yankee stadium, they pay a lot of respect to the former players. it's all over the stadium. >> bob: yeah. >> rob: the retired numbers and statues and julien just really cool things. >> bob: fly ball right center. elijah dukes is there. vils vernon wells who is 2-2 will step in. wells on a distinctive list of center fielders with 100 rbi's seasons. in his rookie season 2002, he hit 23 homers, drove in 100. next year, he really put it altogether going to his first all-star game hitting .317, 33 homers, 117 batted in. vernon wells is from shreveport, louisiana, originally. his dad, vern orrin, was a wide receiver ironically in the canadian football league. >> rob: you're making that stuff up. >> bob: you can't make that stuff

heat is the 2009 trivia contest winter. guest: that is right. we're pretty good.ost: do you remember the toughest question? guest: there were some pretty tough ones in there. some of them were up our alley and some was who moderated which presidential debate. host: good morning, florida. caller: i love to talk about health care. i am in a predicament now. i have diabetes and had been shopping around. i would like to retire at 62 years old. i am having a difficult time. most insurance companies reject me for having diabetes. they do not even want to accept me. is that possible? that they can get away with that? issing said discriminating. i did not ask to have diabetes. -- it seems like discriminating. guest: is it adult onset diabetes? caller: yes, type 2 and i try to watch my weight, diet, exercise, but they say they cannot accept me. i am not asking for free. i'm willing to go up to a certain amount per month that i could afford. i am having a difficult time. i do not know that people in congress, the people in the senate -- they do not have a problem. we put th

and here is an interesting little piece of trivia for you. tampa, across the bay, was th spring training home of the washington nationals way back from 1920 to9 feat world series championship team of92. so this area knows a litt about washington history. that's in the bird, 2-2. >> rob: i know this area quite well. this is where i had about four spring trainings, three at the major league level. >> bob: i kn you just love plan city i. it's plan city, strawberry capital of the world. but tampa, now, the winter home of thdyork yankees. >> bob: used to play at al lopez field, didn't you? >> rob: al lopez field and played the florida state league. extended through spring training, group 5 here. >> bob: stammen does not want to walk the leadoff man after getting three gift runs. and he gets an out. >> rob: he walked the leadoff hitter in his last start. the fifth start of his career, don't give up. if you give up a hit on one of your best pitches, come right back with it. see what matt garza did. >> bob: facing the stolen base king in major leagu

of all the presidential trivia in this book i could say that's pretty much the one indisputable fact. everyone agreed harry truman drove too fast. he was very meticulous about his cars. he would measure the tire pressure. he would measure the tread regularly in the tire. of course, he washed them change the oil. he was very meticulous about keeping track of his gas mileage. he kept little cards in the glove compartment of the car and every gasoline purchase he made was truly marked down and the mileage calculated. i know a lot of guys still do that so -- it's not that unusual. i'm doing it on this trip myself. and, of course, he loved to drive. as a senator would drive from independence to washington, d.c. and back. he and bess made the trip quite often when he was in the senate. and so when he received an invitation to give a speech in philadelphia, he decided to accept it. i think one of the main reasons he decided to accept it was because it would give him an excuse to take a road trip. he said he wanted to give the new chrysler a real tryout. and this would be the perfect way to d

>> bob: he has trivia for us.00-plus home run players have played for bet of these organizations. interesting. who are they? >> jim: 200-plus home run players. >> bob: now that includes montreal. >> rob: right so the expos and the o's. >> jim: kenny singleton is earnly one of them. >> bob: a good breaking ball to josh willingham who pulled the ball for a base hit and scored washington's only run. >> jim: how about mike epstein? did he hit 200 home runs? i don't think so. >> bob: this has been like dump the band week. they have been killing us on these. >> rob: well, because they opened up an orioles' media guide and just like they were picking them out of the red sox media guide at our park. >> bob: what do they have against you guys? >> bob: it is a vast truck conspirator is what it is. josh willingham, by the way, his batting average is is up in the .260 range now and it took him most of the month of april to get off the interstate. he has really been swinging the bat well. he got jammed by that one, up the midd