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Watch Ken Griffey Jr. and Mike Piazza receive their Hall of Fame phone calls

By Matt Monagan

Answering a random phone call is a frightening endeavor. Why is somebody callling me? What did I do wrong? Why didn't they just text me or send a dumb cat GIF?

But do you know which phone calls are great? Which phone calls you should always pick up? A phone call that you've been elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Ken Griffey Jr. and Mike Piazza were elected on Wednesday night and they both received said calls. The ever-so-cool Griffey went speaker mode:

While Piazza nearly broke down right from the get-go:

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