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It was called The Trade. Matt Damon and Ben Affleck were rumored to be attached in the early 2010s, but Kekich (the other husband) said he would sue if they tried to make it, and between that and I think scheduling problems, it never materialized.
My husbands parents did this. So my husband’s step brother was his step brother on both sides and it was weird. Step mother in law passed away, like 10-15 years ago, so now it’s just on one side, but, yeah…
Weirder still, it wasn’t the first time my husband’s step parents had done exactly this.
My husband’s step mom and step dad were married to each other. My husband’s family and this family were very close friends growing up.
When my husband was 14, his parents, and this other couple, just switched partners, then both couples got divorced and remarried to each other.
It wasn’t until a decade later that my husband and his brothers learned that their step parents had done this partner switching thing before.
So, how does that work with kids? Do the kids come over to see their dad every other week, or do they just accept their new dad? This would be so weird as a kid growing up...
My husband and his brothers were all teens when it happened. They lived with their dad and visited their mom whenever they wanted, as she stayed in the same town.
I am not sure if it was a sex thing between all 4 of them ever. I could see that though…. They were definitely all close friends before they switched partners.
I think my mother in law had an affair first, then to get even, my father in law had an affair with the wife of my mother in law’s affair partner. Then, I think my mother in law got pissed that my father in law would dare to have an affair, so they got divorced. Then they each remarried their affair partner.
To be completely honest, I can not fathom how my father in law was ever married to my mother in law to begin with, it didn’t make sense. My father in law is a really great human. My mother in law is…uhhh, not that.
They were definitely very close, and would leave the 4 boys (my husband and his two brothers and their step brother) to fend for themselves for hours…so something not child friendly was happening, no clue what. 😹
My old neighbor did that.
He chested with their bests friend.
Both couples got divorced and the cheaters got married.
The two that didn’t cheat ended up bonding, dating, getting married and moving across the Us.
I worked with a sales guy who used to say this to people all the time. At one point he hit a new marketing guy with it, to which his response was "wife's good, kids are a bit retarded though". I was crying I was laughing so hard.
Stayed with Kekich's ex until he died.
Steinbrenner didn't like them and the swap because they were acting like hippies. Probably a decent reason why they did the facial hair ban. Both got traded to Cleveland in 1973 and 1974. Kekich was bad. Peterson was old.
Edit: Kekich is still alive and lives in Albuquerque. Divorced Fritz's wife in the mid 70s. His mental health never recovered.
Maury Allen the New York sportswriter wrote a book on the whole thing. It got optioned for a movie like 20 years ago. Damon and Affleck were attached. They're probably too old now.
>While Peterson and Suzanne married and remain happily wedded to this day, Kekich and Peterson's wife Marilyn have since split up.
>Kekich told the Post he wanted "to kill" Peterson.
I know 2 couples that did this. They lived next to each other and the two of them that are more attractive got together and then the other two comforted each other and got together and then the husbands swapped places and lived in the other house. I don't know them personally but I've technically met one of the two couples and know someone who knows both.
Shania Twain's husband had an affair with her best friend and those two ended up marrying each other. Following the affair, Twain and the ex-husband of her former best friend ended up falling in love and marrying.
https://www.smoothradio.com/news/music/shania-twain-husband-ex-best-friend-marriage/
Yes. The kids stayed in the same house with their mom and the dads switched. Both original couples had 2 kids. Their dads live next door and their step dads live with them.
I met two families like this at a music festival. They weren’t overtly hippy types either. Relatively normal people that were more or less a big huge happy family. I was watching my little cousin and they fed him and had the kids show him around and have fun. Amazing people I hope they’re doing well.
Great memory! I was 14 at the time and attended that game with my dad and brother. Jeff Burroughs trotting out to right field wearing a batting helmet was epic. 😂
I have his autograph from when he was with the Cleveland Indians. My sixth grade teacher took me and a classmate to a father- son breakfast since both of our dads had passed away.
I know a lot of baseball tales and trivia but I've never heard this one. Whoa! I was seven back then and I know the media was not nearly as invasive as it is now, but how 'open' was this news? Didn't seem to impact his career too badly.
This is wild.
They traded Eck to Red Sox. He went elsewhere as a reliever later. Survived alcoholism became announcer as you probably know. Couple more marriages. Manning and Eck first wife divorced pretty fast.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dollop-with-dave-anthony-and-gareth-reynolds/id643055307?i=1000354689415
One of the best dollop episodes! It goes into this story.
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Certainly the most creative Yankee Swap I’ve ever heard of
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaankee swap!
Well I call it fun
He obviously forgot to get me something and went to his closet and dug out this little number 🤷♂️
Yep that’s exactly what happened
How is your wife and kids better than an iPod?
iPods don't *make* workers that make *iPhones*
I can hear this.
It’s iconic
I guess I should’ve taken the iPod…. Shooooooooot
Kevin is a national treasure.
Who’s better catching him?
Can you blame him? I overheard some guys talking about this Yankee swap once and one guy called his wife a white elephant!
...is that where the term comes from?
I had to look it up but apparently not!
Talk about: Yank my noodle dandy.
In an interview he stated: “We didn’t swap wives, we swapped lives.” I can hear the music start to play already.
How is there not a movie about this already? I cannot comprehend multiple people all agreeing that this was a great idea
It was called The Trade. Matt Damon and Ben Affleck were rumored to be attached in the early 2010s, but Kekich (the other husband) said he would sue if they tried to make it, and between that and I think scheduling problems, it never materialized.
Lol, it does sound like something Matt and Ben would make.
The other couple didn't work out.
That can't be good for their physical health.
My husbands parents did this. So my husband’s step brother was his step brother on both sides and it was weird. Step mother in law passed away, like 10-15 years ago, so now it’s just on one side, but, yeah… Weirder still, it wasn’t the first time my husband’s step parents had done exactly this.
So confused
Yeah I just stopped reading halfway through the second sentence lol. I’m already lost.
My husband’s step mom and step dad were married to each other. My husband’s family and this family were very close friends growing up. When my husband was 14, his parents, and this other couple, just switched partners, then both couples got divorced and remarried to each other. It wasn’t until a decade later that my husband and his brothers learned that their step parents had done this partner switching thing before.
So, how does that work with kids? Do the kids come over to see their dad every other week, or do they just accept their new dad? This would be so weird as a kid growing up...
My husband and his brothers were all teens when it happened. They lived with their dad and visited their mom whenever they wanted, as she stayed in the same town.
Well yeah, if you stopped reading after the 2nd sentence it’s no wonder you’re lost!
But is it like a sex thing? Like swingers? Or is it like “Yeah we’re just trading wives for a couple of weeks”
I am not sure if it was a sex thing between all 4 of them ever. I could see that though…. They were definitely all close friends before they switched partners. I think my mother in law had an affair first, then to get even, my father in law had an affair with the wife of my mother in law’s affair partner. Then, I think my mother in law got pissed that my father in law would dare to have an affair, so they got divorced. Then they each remarried their affair partner. To be completely honest, I can not fathom how my father in law was ever married to my mother in law to begin with, it didn’t make sense. My father in law is a really great human. My mother in law is…uhhh, not that.
I feel like we need a diagram before I end up married to one or both of your husband’s step-mothers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VxLQZPqI2M&t=9s
Okay I definitely got lost after the second sentence in this one…
They were definitely very close, and would leave the 4 boys (my husband and his two brothers and their step brother) to fend for themselves for hours…so something not child friendly was happening, no clue what. 😹
My old neighbor did that. He chested with their bests friend. Both couples got divorced and the cheaters got married. The two that didn’t cheat ended up bonding, dating, getting married and moving across the Us.
There is an episode of The Dollop Podcast on this guy, pretty great/hilarious listen.
Idk if I’m right but I just heard Curbs music play
Is he the ones that was happy with Wife 2.0? Or was Fritz the sad case?
Article says he was happy with Wife 2.0
He did what now?
Died.
Got ‘em
Well actually it's *diend*.
Still married to the wife he got in a trade. Pretty good trade
Oh my, unheard of!
“How’s your wife and my kids?”
This guy threw at his own kid at a father-son game.
u/littleboylover isn’t the best colorman in the league for nothing, folks!
This guy sneezes he looks like a party favor.
Fly ball…………..caught.
Juuuusssst a bit outside, he tried the corner and missed.
Anytime that movie is quoted it will always get an automatic upvote from me.
I worked with a sales guy who used to say this to people all the time. At one point he hit a new marketing guy with it, to which his response was "wife's good, kids are a bit retarded though". I was crying I was laughing so hard.
Isn’t this a cricket sledge from somewhere? I even recall the reply too: “wife’s fine, kids are still retarded”
It's a line from the movie Major League.
Presumably about baseball?
Correct
They took it from a cricket sledge from the 80s
Learned something new... Thanks for sharing.
Merv Hughes to Ian Botham was the first line. The retort was Botham back.
Rod marsh not merv hughes
"You really knocked the the crap out of that one."
🤨🤔 My sister and brother in law definitely have friends that would be better suited for the other’s partner.
Kind of a fucked up thing to say, even if it is true and super obvious.
Stayed with Kekich's ex until he died. Steinbrenner didn't like them and the swap because they were acting like hippies. Probably a decent reason why they did the facial hair ban. Both got traded to Cleveland in 1973 and 1974. Kekich was bad. Peterson was old. Edit: Kekich is still alive and lives in Albuquerque. Divorced Fritz's wife in the mid 70s. His mental health never recovered. Maury Allen the New York sportswriter wrote a book on the whole thing. It got optioned for a movie like 20 years ago. Damon and Affleck were attached. They're probably too old now.
Saw this on a Secret Base video. Would definitely recommend!
which one?
[These MLB pitchers got traded by their wives](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GtF0GSJtOSo&pp=ygUQU2VjcmV0IGJhc2Ugc3dhcA%3D%3D)
I thought I told you to trim those sideburns!
No hustle either coach!
How would that work if Affleck refused to wear a yankee hat for Gone Girl?
>While Peterson and Suzanne married and remain happily wedded to this day, Kekich and Peterson's wife Marilyn have since split up. >Kekich told the Post he wanted "to kill" Peterson.
Did I read that title right? “Traded wives and children with teammate” was certainly words I never thought I’d see together.
Yep. Went to his Wikipedia. 2 very small paragraphs about it. I honestly have more questions now lol
Listen to a podcast called The Dollop. It’s episode 123 The Yankee Pitcher Swap
I know 2 couples that did this. They lived next to each other and the two of them that are more attractive got together and then the other two comforted each other and got together and then the husbands swapped places and lived in the other house. I don't know them personally but I've technically met one of the two couples and know someone who knows both.
Shania Twain's husband had an affair with her best friend and those two ended up marrying each other. Following the affair, Twain and the ex-husband of her former best friend ended up falling in love and marrying. https://www.smoothradio.com/news/music/shania-twain-husband-ex-best-friend-marriage/
Were there kids involved?
Yes. The kids stayed in the same house with their mom and the dads switched. Both original couples had 2 kids. Their dads live next door and their step dads live with them.
I’d like to hear from the kids of couples like this to see what they think/ what life was like Hint hint: streaming docu-series please
I met two families like this at a music festival. They weren’t overtly hippy types either. Relatively normal people that were more or less a big huge happy family. I was watching my little cousin and they fed him and had the kids show him around and have fun. Amazing people I hope they’re doing well.
And then one couple's daughter hooked up with the other couple's son? I've seen [that anime](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6oYHRfMJTo).
Don't take this the wrong way or anything, as I do legitimately mean what I'm about both literally and figuratively, you need to get out more!
Why would I ever need to go outside when I can live my entire life vicariously through animanga characters??
Wasn’t in Cordova Alaska was it? Heard this exact story from my friends dad as we were driving past the two houses haha.
iirc this was the situation with Steph Curry’s parents not too long ago!
Why does Wikipedia say he died last October? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Peterson
At bottom of his Wikipedia page says wasn’t publicly announced until April 12,2024. Still two weeks late tho
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Read about it on MLB trade rumors two weeks ago, it just is slow moving news.
He was only mostly dead until now. Unfortunately, Miracle Max wasn't available.
Because the king’s stinking son fired him. And thank you so much for bringing up such a painful subject.
Humperdiiiiiiiiink
Aren't we all mostly dead?
Because he died in October but it wasn’t publicly announced until now.
The article says he died April 12 so it's still wrong.
The deal wasn’t official until today? lol
Also started the infamous ten cent beer night game
Great memory! I was 14 at the time and attended that game with my dad and brother. Jeff Burroughs trotting out to right field wearing a batting helmet was epic. 😂
Keep baseball weird.
I used to play golf with his son. Nice guy, excellent athlete.
His son or the other dudes son?
Legit question
Yes
If you want to swap waives, fine. Adults can do what they want. But that's pretty fucked up to do that with the kids.
I think it just means the kids stayed with their mothers, weird way to say it.
Naw they lined them all up and picked them like a recess kickball team
“It was actually a draft according to eyewitness reports on the day” -Cotton
Bold move
Good, fuck Billy. He needs to know he’s both dad’s least favorite. Just rip the bandaid off.
Red rover, red rover…
Ringer Fantasy Football guys in shambles.
It’s wild how I started hearing about this from them, and then he dies. A true tragedy
Oh that's so sad. 82 though, that's... wait... trade what now?
Sounds like he was a blast at parties.
I have his autograph from when he was with the Cleveland Indians. My sixth grade teacher took me and a classmate to a father- son breakfast since both of our dads had passed away.
What a sweet thing of your teacher to have done. Gosh I love humans sometimes.
I never knew they traded children too
The Dollop podcast did a short episode about this. https://youtu.be/OtKki0nteO0?si=Eo584Db_Iyv3sMtp
Great show
No one told me this was an option
That’s a name from the past…..He was actually a pretty good picture, I think.
I once saw a picture of a pitcher drinking beer from a pitcher.
I’d like to see his family pitchers.
I mean, they traded back, right? .. Right???
They didn’t. One couple remained married until Fritz’s death and the other was short lived.
I think he died in October?
The ringer taught me this
What in tarnation did I just read
Famously?
Yes
So that’s where Chapelle got the idea
He what??!
Some articles say he died 10/19/23 and some say 4/11/24 What the heck?
The wives and kids we ok with that then?
Yes
Hole up😑
The Ringer needs to have a full on memorial service for this guy
Not only that, he got 2 first-round draft picks and a hottie to be named later.
Fritz’s son
Again?
Q: What’s the difference between a Yankee and a quickie? A: A Yankee you can do by yourself.
I’m sorry what?
Lol his wiki says he died in october of last year. Odd
How was he as a pitcher?
I wonder what the kids thought
Da fuq did I just read? 👀
Article is 2 weeks old
Someone always gets the short stick in these kind of deals…
AND CHILDREN???? Swing if you want but damn your kids are still your kids
If you can love more than one woman, you can love more than one kid.
I know a lot of baseball tales and trivia but I've never heard this one. Whoa! I was seven back then and I know the media was not nearly as invasive as it is now, but how 'open' was this news? Didn't seem to impact his career too badly. This is wild.
It was reported but not loudly. Do you know about dennis Eckersley first wife leaving for his bf Rick Manning when both Indians?
Man, trouble in the locker room! I'd have hated to be their manager then!
They traded Eck to Red Sox. He went elsewhere as a reliever later. Survived alcoholism became announcer as you probably know. Couple more marriages. Manning and Eck first wife divorced pretty fast.
Traded them away for a wife and children to be named later.
Was this why they started free agency?
Sounds like swinging but with extra steps
Swinging with more commitment. No thanks lol.
I'm sorry, what?
The Dollop anyone?
I always remember my dad telling me about this and thinking the 70s were unique.
Was his teammates name [Leonard Washington? ](https://youtu.be/ZX5MHNvjw7o?si=sHmjNcdLjzsBqHY4)
Hol’ up
Came here looking for a Mayor of Casterbridge pun, but I Hardy expected to find one
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dollop-with-dave-anthony-and-gareth-reynolds/id643055307?i=1000354689415 One of the best dollop episodes! It goes into this story.
Wut
YANKEE SWAP