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Hi, I'm Eric Bradlow. >> is Shane Jensen. >> Hi, this is Kate Massi. Hi, I'm
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Professor Adi Wyner and I'm one of the co-hosts of Wharton Moneyball. Obviously, I've lived here in
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Philadelphia, I'm a professor here at Wharton for 30-plus years. I still love
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the Yankees the most. And so, to me, all my favorite or most important childhood
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memories around sports involved the Yankees. I was a small child during the '77 and '78 seasons. I remember watching
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Reggie Jackson hitting three home runs in a World Series game off three pitches off three different pitchers. I remember
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the Bucky Dent home run. This was a guy who hit very few home runs in his career
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and hit one in a very big moment. >> I'll have to give a shout-out to Lanny
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McDonald, a Hall of Fame hockey player for the Calgary Flames. He was my hero when the
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1989 when the Calgary Flames won the Stanley Cup when I was a young man. And so, he was always an inspiration. The
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kind of battle between Edmonton and Calgary in the '80s is part of what got me looking at hockey box scores and
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getting into the analytics of things. >> I was raised in Texas in the '70s and
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so, it was peak Dallas Cowboys, Roger Staubach, and that whole crew, but I was raised in Texas Longhorn
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family and that was the era of Earl Campbell and tearaway jerseys. So, Earl Campbell wearing the number 20
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and having his jersey torn to shreds playing college football is early early childhood hero memory. My
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favorite childhood player was Reggie Jackson and before that it was Thurman Munson. I'm a Yankee fan, so.
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Yankees of the '70s are my idols still to this day.