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In the 1980’s, things were a bit different.  Coaches had sweet mustaches and they didn’t hesitate to pitch batting practice shirtless with a cigarette hanging from their mouth.  And there was NO question about a team gathering after a game at a local restaurant like Barnaby’s and as us players knocked back our pizza and Cokes, our coaches enjoyed the fruits of their labor as they guzzled ice cold Budweiser... sometimes straight from the pitcher. 
In the last episode, you heard a few reasons why the original East Side Little League on McKinley Ave in South Bend, IN meant so much to us.   In this episode, we share a few stories about some East Side Little League legends.  
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From the late late 1950’s to the early 1990’s, there was a small two field little league league park on McKinley Ave in South Bend, IN.  Many kids on our side of town had a blast playing there, but the space was simply too small, with no room for expansion, so the original East Side Little League closed its doors and relocated.  Therefore, all we have left are the fond memories that will be etched in our minds the rest of our lives.  
The majority of this episode is simply a collection of our memories about East Side Little League and while listening, you’ll get a feel for how much this place meant to us.  Then at the end of the episode, my parents and I take it WAY back, back to the beginning.   
Even though the stories we share are from 30 plus years ago, you can tell from the excitement in our voices that East Side Little League was special place.   
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There once were four dumb asses,
Ignorant to heated, pressurized gasses.
Can in the fire!
Situation dire!
They didn't even wear safety glasses!
A 4TH OF JULY BLAST FROM THE PAST (originally aired July 2021)
If you would have taken a stroll through our neighborhood, Sunnymede, in the early to mid 1990’s, you might have seen random firecrackers flying through the air,  bottle rockets being used as projectiles, sporadic booms at odd hours, and the smell of slowly extinguishing campfires in the morning…  except this was a neighborhood, not a campsite.  In this episode, we share stories that are all based around fire, explosions, bottle rocket wars, and fireworks shows that lit up the night sky over Sunnymede and made many in South Bend mistake Wall St for the Las Vegas strip.  Beavis and Butthead were watching an episode of us, when Butthead chuckled as Beavis chanted, “Fire, Fire, Fire”
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As you heard in Open Lunches Part 1 "Pep, Pib, & a Race", it was sheer craziness that we were allowed to leave school at lunch & literally head anywhere our heart desired as long as we could cram it into the 45 minute lunch period.  Challenge accepted.  As you heard, safety was only secondary to getting the food we wanted.  
In this episode, we share that open lunches provided us with more than just food.  Students learned many life skills and picked up many habits, good AND bad.
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There once were open lunches.
Ain’t talkin’ no fancy brunches!
“We were immortal.”
Jack did chortle. 
As his Festiva engine scrunches!
Open lunches…. a high schoolers dream...  a city and a school district’s nightmare.  Open lunches were the decades long practice where high schools would simply open their doors up at lunch time and release hundreds of 14 through 18 year olds throughout the community to go wherever their little hearts desired, as long as they were back within the 45 minute lunch period.
As you can guess.... we took FULL advantage of this in the 1990's at John Adams High School. As you'll hear, at the exact same time we were enjoying the freedom of open lunches, there was actually a large community debate to close them. Any reasonable human listening to this episode will understand why the debate ensued.
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T’was a wild weekend that fall.
Bad choices had come to call.
Hank Jr. singin’
And cave wall clingin’.
Single-digit IQs shown by all.
When we purchased Hank Williams Jr. concert tickets our senior year of high school in September of 1995, we had NO clue that this weekend would be one that we will never forget. What you’ll hear in this episode, is my good friend Mike and I sharing the story behind our September 1995 trek from South Bend, to Bloomington, to Kentucky, to Bloomington, to Indianapolis, to Bloomington, to a cave, and back to South Bend, all……. in a little more than 48 hours. And all.... at 17 years of age.
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