WEBVTT - One Week Down & What A Week It Was 0:00:04.920 --> 0:00:07.720 Is this a great game or what with the Hall 0:00:07.720 --> 0:00:08.719 of Famer Tim Kirkshen. 0:00:08.800 --> 0:00:10.120 I'm his son, Jeff Kirkshon. 0:00:10.240 --> 0:00:14.480 Another Friday edition and officially we have one week of 0:00:14.600 --> 0:00:17.000 Major League baseball in the book. 0:00:17.239 --> 0:00:19.160 Dad, Hi, how are you dealing with? 0:00:19.360 --> 0:00:24.919 Jeff? Again? I'm not sure I've ever seen a more wacky, remarkable, 0:00:25.120 --> 0:00:30.240 noteworthy first week of a baseball season than what we saw. 0:00:30.280 --> 0:00:34.360 All sorts of bizarre, crazy things happen. Will detail some 0:00:34.440 --> 0:00:39.120 of them. And today Jeff is also April fourth, so 0:00:39.479 --> 0:00:43.440 in the calendar that's four to four. So in honor 0:00:43.479 --> 0:00:48.080 of that, our team Tim is going to be the 0:00:48.159 --> 0:00:51.400 all four by four teams. So we have a player 0:00:51.560 --> 0:00:56.520 at each position with exactly four letters in his first 0:00:56.840 --> 0:01:01.960 and last name. Okay, now, again, only only pathetic people 0:01:02.040 --> 0:01:04.800 like me do stuff like this, but what a perfect 0:01:04.800 --> 0:01:07.920 time to do the all four by four team. And 0:01:07.959 --> 0:01:10.319 we'll we'll give away one because he was such a 0:01:10.319 --> 0:01:11.120 great guest. 0:01:10.920 --> 0:01:13.279 To us, who who Adam done? 0:01:13.440 --> 0:01:14.520 Did he make that done? 0:01:14.680 --> 0:01:14.800 Our? 0:01:15.000 --> 0:01:16.440 I was about to ask. 0:01:16.319 --> 0:01:19.760 Adam Dunn is the DH on our team? So he 0:01:19.880 --> 0:01:22.360 so you know you can use your own DH. Adam 0:01:22.440 --> 0:01:25.720 Dunn is the DH on our team? All right? So Jeff, 0:01:25.760 --> 0:01:27.800 I want to see how much you were paying attention 0:01:28.680 --> 0:01:31.480 from the first week. Okay, Remember we had to tape 0:01:31.560 --> 0:01:34.880 on Monday afternoon because it's a two man show here 0:01:35.200 --> 0:01:37.839 and we don't have enough man power to be doing 0:01:37.880 --> 0:01:41.000 stuff until midnight and releasing at twelve oh one because 0:01:41.040 --> 0:01:44.720 you're the only technical advisor, producer and director that we have. 0:01:45.760 --> 0:01:47.800 Well, even if we had a staff of one hundred, 0:01:48.120 --> 0:01:50.720 I still wake up at three point thirty in the 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:54.080 morning to do morning radio country music Morning show in 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:57.520 Philadelphia on ninety two five XCU, and the show gets 0:01:57.520 --> 0:02:00.200 played in Boston on Country one oh two five in 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:02.800 Las Vegas on one of seven nine Kyoti Country. 0:02:02.880 --> 0:02:04.840 So I need to go to bed at some point. 0:02:05.040 --> 0:02:08.560 So yeah, just like today, we might miss some Thursday 0:02:08.680 --> 0:02:11.320 action because we're doing this kind of during the games 0:02:11.320 --> 0:02:13.920 on Thursday. But you know, we do the very best 0:02:13.960 --> 0:02:16.840 we can to stay updated. But did something happen on Monday? 0:02:18.480 --> 0:02:21.040 Now, if you were reading the box scores, there was 0:02:21.120 --> 0:02:25.080 one player that stood out on Monday, and I think 0:02:25.120 --> 0:02:28.400 he is the highlight of the rest of the week. 0:02:28.560 --> 0:02:31.880 And I will give you a huge hint. Okay, this 0:02:32.160 --> 0:02:36.680 is a relationship show, This is personal so this guy 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:40.480 is my favorite player in the game today, even though 0:02:40.480 --> 0:02:43.440 he's not my favorite. I don't have favorite players, I 0:02:43.480 --> 0:02:46.640 don't have favorite teams. I'm not rooting for anyone. But 0:02:46.800 --> 0:02:52.920 this guy's name alone makes him my pseudo favorite player 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:55.800 in the game. And he had a remarkable day. And 0:02:55.840 --> 0:02:59.800 I'll give you one more clue, Jeb he did it 0:02:59.840 --> 0:03:02.760 in a place that we were talking about on Monday 0:03:03.360 --> 0:03:04.480 with Dallas Braden. 0:03:07.200 --> 0:03:08.880 Oh my gosh. Yeah. 0:03:08.919 --> 0:03:11.960 So we had Dallas Braiden on the show earlier this week. 0:03:12.000 --> 0:03:15.120 He's a broadcaster for the Athletics, and you have to 0:03:15.160 --> 0:03:18.520 be talking about Carson Kelly, who hit for the cycle 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:19.920 for the Chicago Cubs. 0:03:20.000 --> 0:03:24.440 I am so proud of you. You're actually watching. They 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:29.000 said in Ghostbusters, you've never studied, Jeff, you're studying. I 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:33.120 appreciate it so well. And he also went Kelly to 0:03:33.200 --> 0:03:34.000 our listeners. 0:03:35.000 --> 0:03:37.480 Well, okay, first of all, it's four to four. He 0:03:37.520 --> 0:03:41.320 went four for four, hit for the cycle, had two 0:03:41.360 --> 0:03:43.880 walks as well, So good on him. He in the 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:46.800 first ever game played for the Athletics. 0:03:46.360 --> 0:03:47.880 In their new temporary home. 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:51.160 But the reason why Carson Kelly is important to our 0:03:51.240 --> 0:03:55.720 show is because your grandson's name is Carson, and his 0:03:55.880 --> 0:03:58.320 mom's name is Kelly, your daughter, my. 0:03:58.360 --> 0:04:03.720 Sister, So, so my firstny has Carson. Firstborn child is 0:04:03.840 --> 0:04:09.520 named Kelly. My firstborn grandchild is named Carson. So Carson 0:04:09.640 --> 0:04:13.160 Kelly hit for the cycle. First player ever to hit 0:04:13.200 --> 0:04:17.520 for the cycle in the month of March, seventeenth catcher 0:04:18.279 --> 0:04:23.320 to hit for the cycle. Fourth number nine hitter to 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:27.400 hit for the cycle. And let's test you one more time, Jeff, 0:04:27.480 --> 0:04:30.760 Let's see if the studying continues. One more time. Give 0:04:30.800 --> 0:04:33.520 me four guys who never hit for the cycle. Four 0:04:33.560 --> 0:04:36.560 guys who didn't do what Carson Kelly just did. 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:47.400 You've got Willie May, Barry By, Yes, hank eras. 0:04:45.560 --> 0:04:47.520 And it's Babe. 0:04:47.200 --> 0:04:50.640 Ruth, Babe Ruth. I thought he did everything. 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:54.719 It is what team is he on, Babe Ruth? 0:04:54.839 --> 0:04:57.120 For of course he's on the All four by fourteen, 0:04:57.160 --> 0:04:58.240 which we're going to be getting to. 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:01.040 I have to stand correct. Did I do have a 0:05:01.080 --> 0:05:04.160 favorite player in baseball? And I am not hiding this. 0:05:04.720 --> 0:05:06.400 He's been up and down in the big leagues. His 0:05:06.520 --> 0:05:11.720 name is Blake Sable. Blake Sabol. Now, let's see if 0:05:11.760 --> 0:05:14.240 you can remember, as I quiz you for a third 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:19.279 time in the first five minutes. What is what differentiates 0:05:19.360 --> 0:05:23.120 Blake Sable from anybody else? And you know how much 0:05:23.160 --> 0:05:25.760 I love Jez, I'm giving it away. How much I 0:05:25.839 --> 0:05:26.960 love anagrams? 0:05:29.120 --> 0:05:32.760 Oh does his name go into baseball or something like that? 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:38.480 Blake Sable has the word baseball in his name when 0:05:38.520 --> 0:05:42.920 it's an anagram, so you can either say okay baseball 0:05:43.680 --> 0:05:51.040 or baseball okay when you use Blake Sable's name, Dad. 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:55.920 The things that keep you going throughout the day I love. 0:05:56.200 --> 0:05:59.279 It's like when my daughter gets a new toy. I'm like, 0:05:59.320 --> 0:06:01.600 this is so look how excited she is. It might 0:06:01.640 --> 0:06:05.120 not excite me, but seeing her excited gets me excited. 0:06:05.120 --> 0:06:07.000 And that's the way I feel about your antecroth. 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:10.080 Yep. Again, these were things that I was doing when 0:06:10.120 --> 0:06:13.440 I was seven years old, and I'm now sixty eight 0:06:13.560 --> 0:06:15.760 years old and I'm still doing them and I'm not 0:06:15.880 --> 0:06:20.200 apologizing for him because they make me happy and baseball 0:06:20.200 --> 0:06:22.360 should make you happy. And that's what we do on 0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:25.960 this show. Hopefully we make people happy. We make them smile, 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:29.520 and we make them laugh and they learn something while 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:31.000 they listen to our podcast. 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:34.320 Before we get to the takeaways, Dad, I want to 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:36.920 do a quick announcement and this is kind of down 0:06:36.960 --> 0:06:40.440 the realm of poor pop pop really fast. Is we 0:06:40.520 --> 0:06:45.039 are now officially on TikTok dad at great game? 0:06:45.200 --> 0:06:47.040 Or what if people want to follow us? 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:51.839 So you are on TikTok with your own account, how 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:52.760 do you feel about that? 0:06:53.560 --> 0:06:57.440 Well, I assume you are managing that account, because I 0:06:57.600 --> 0:07:01.479 promise you I couldn't find TikTok with a map and 0:07:01.520 --> 0:07:05.400 a flashlight. And even though, of course we've all acknowledged 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:09.400 I was a star for one day on TikTok when 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:13.400 I danced with Jojo Seewah at the twenty twenty one 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:20.520 Celebrity Softball game, You and Andy Jacobsen, our producer, demanded 0:07:20.760 --> 0:07:25.200 insisted that I danced with Jojo Sewah? And how many 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:28.560 how many views? What is it? Jeff? How many hits? What? 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:31.040 How many hits did we get on TikTok? 0:07:32.200 --> 0:07:34.760 We got more hits than ty Cob. 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:38.800 I had to do. 0:07:38.880 --> 0:07:41.200 I mean way more than that, Jeff, Way more than that. 0:07:41.200 --> 0:07:46.920 We got more hits than ty Cob and Pete Rose 0:07:47.120 --> 0:07:53.400 and each row combined, including each Rose hits in Jiff. Yeah, 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:55.360 I think all of that is true. I think we 0:07:55.480 --> 0:07:57.200 got millions of hits and I don't even know what 0:07:57.280 --> 0:08:00.560 it is, but the point is bron TikTok, whatever that is. 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:04.840 And I'm happy about that because whatever anything that you 0:08:05.240 --> 0:08:07.680 work so hard to try to grow this show, so 0:08:08.000 --> 0:08:09.800 I'm in for whatever you need. Okay. 0:08:10.320 --> 0:08:13.000 Yeah, And it sounds self serving, Dad, and we joked 0:08:13.000 --> 0:08:13.920 about it at the top. 0:08:14.200 --> 0:08:15.320 We are a two man show. 0:08:15.320 --> 0:08:18.920 We're the only people who work here, and so anyway 0:08:18.960 --> 0:08:21.520 that people can spread the show, share it with a friend. 0:08:21.520 --> 0:08:24.800 Take this episode, hit subscribe at the top, then send 0:08:24.840 --> 0:08:27.200 it to a friend who you think would love it, 0:08:27.280 --> 0:08:29.800 because you want to share the laughter and the fun 0:08:29.800 --> 0:08:32.600 of this great game and what we get to do together. Dad, 0:08:32.679 --> 0:08:34.280 I have a blast doing this, so share it with 0:08:34.320 --> 0:08:38.040 your friends. Let's jump right into the takeaways. With one 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:41.000 full week of Major League Baseball regular season under the 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:42.280 belt held you have, there are. 0:08:42.200 --> 0:08:45.600 A million ways to go, but the low hanging fruit 0:08:45.760 --> 0:08:50.600 is the only place to start. The Dodgers through Wednesday. Now, okay, 0:08:50.640 --> 0:08:53.680 we're not going to update through Thursday night. We don't 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:56.040 have time. The Dodgers are eight and oh so this 0:08:56.200 --> 0:09:01.559 is the best start ever for a defending world champion, 0:09:02.040 --> 0:09:04.880 and it's not just that they've won eight in a row. 0:09:05.080 --> 0:09:08.760 It's the way they have won. Look at wednesday Nights game. 0:09:09.720 --> 0:09:12.760 They win, you know, way behind the Braves early five, 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:16.320 nothing after two, come back and beat the Braves six 0:09:16.360 --> 0:09:19.600 to five on a walk off homer of course by 0:09:19.679 --> 0:09:23.880 Shohei Otani. We've been talking about this, Jeff for three weeks. 0:09:23.880 --> 0:09:27.120 The Dodgers are one of the deepest teams I've ever seen. 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:30.640 And even though they're in a division right now with 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:34.200 the Podres and the Giants. So this is the first 0:09:34.320 --> 0:09:39.400 division since divisional play began in nineteen sixty nine where 0:09:39.760 --> 0:09:44.520 this many games into a season a Division one division 0:09:44.679 --> 0:09:49.320 has twenty five victories and no more than seven losses 0:09:49.720 --> 0:09:53.200 as an entire division. That's how good the Padres have been. 0:09:53.440 --> 0:09:56.080 That's how good the Giants have been. And even even 0:09:56.120 --> 0:09:59.320 the Rockies have won a couple games. So this is 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:01.960 the point with the Dodgers, how great they are. The 0:10:02.040 --> 0:10:05.920 depth in their starting rotation is preposterous. The depth in 0:10:05.960 --> 0:10:09.120 their everyday lineup is the same. And show hey now, 0:10:09.160 --> 0:10:12.120 speaking of the Rockies, the Rockies have scored ten runs 0:10:12.120 --> 0:10:16.080 this year. Sho Hay has scored eleven by himself, so 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:21.000 he has outscored the Rockies. The Astros have scored twelve 0:10:21.120 --> 0:10:25.200 runs this year. They've been they go to the LCS 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:29.199 every year, and they've only scored one more run than 0:10:29.240 --> 0:10:32.560 Sho he O Tani and the Braves have only scored 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:36.640 fourteen runs. And they're supposed to be a great offensive team. 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:39.360 Of course they're not because of all their injuries. But 0:10:39.400 --> 0:10:42.120 it just shows you how dominant Sho Hay has been. 0:10:42.480 --> 0:10:47.040 But the entire team, Tommy, Edmund, Moky, bets everybody. It's 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:50.480 really just been breathtaking to watch that. Everyone was wondering 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:54.000 how great is this team gonna be, and under that 0:10:54.120 --> 0:10:55.800 kind of pressure they're eight No. 0:10:56.559 --> 0:10:59.719 Incredible, Yeah, and you know, talk about the Braves. I've 0:10:59.720 --> 0:11:03.360 brought some stats to the table, Dad. No team has 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:07.520 ever made the playoffs in Major League Baseball history after 0:11:07.559 --> 0:11:11.000 starting with seven straight losses, no team ever. 0:11:11.240 --> 0:11:14.920 They are the thirtieth team ever to start out zero 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:19.720 to seven, and none of those thirty has ever made 0:11:19.760 --> 0:11:20.760 the playoffs. 0:11:21.600 --> 0:11:25.480 And even only fourteen teams in the history of Major 0:11:25.559 --> 0:11:30.120 League Baseball have ever made the playoffs after losing four 0:11:30.320 --> 0:11:33.760 or more games to start the season. So think about 0:11:33.760 --> 0:11:35.560 how many years we've been playing the game. 0:11:35.800 --> 0:11:40.400 Right, it's incredible. And along that line, don't ever forget Jef. 0:11:40.440 --> 0:11:43.960 I covered the nineteen eighty eight Orioles and they lost 0:11:44.080 --> 0:11:47.040 twenty one games in a row to start the season. 0:11:47.480 --> 0:11:50.439 So you look again, that team was terrible and the 0:11:50.440 --> 0:11:53.640 Braves are good. But the Braves would have to lose 0:11:54.040 --> 0:11:58.760 fourteen more consecutive games to start the season to match 0:11:58.800 --> 0:12:01.640 what the Orioles did in nineteen eighty eight. 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:04.080 How do you even write for that team, though? Dad? 0:12:04.200 --> 0:12:06.640 Like, at what point did you write a lead that 0:12:06.800 --> 0:12:08.720 was like when will this end? Like? 0:12:09.640 --> 0:12:13.200 I wrote that multiple times. After game number fourteen in Milwaukee, 0:12:13.320 --> 0:12:16.000 Scott McGregor, one of the pitchers, one of the great 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:19.120 guys ever, said, why are all these national media with 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:22.240 us every day? I said, Scottie, just win a Gabe 0:12:22.320 --> 0:12:25.079 and they're all going to go home. And I told 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:30.040 you the story, Jeff. After lost number eighteen, Frank Robinson, 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:32.560 the manager, took all the writers out to dinner. I'm 0:12:32.559 --> 0:12:35.560 going to tell you again. Halfway through dinner, I said 0:12:35.559 --> 0:12:38.360 to Frank, has anyone called, you know, to give you 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:41.880 any support during this streak? And he goes, yeah, the 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:44.880 President called me today. Now, Frank was a big Kidder. 0:12:45.080 --> 0:12:48.520 So I challenged him three times on this and he said, 0:12:48.600 --> 0:12:52.199 damn it. The President of the United States called me today. 0:12:52.720 --> 0:12:55.240 I said, Frank, what did he say? He said, Frank, 0:12:55.600 --> 0:12:58.360 I know what you're going through. And Frank said, mister President, 0:12:58.600 --> 0:13:01.640 you got no idea what I'm going through. That's how 0:13:01.679 --> 0:13:05.360 bad oh and twenty one was. And the Braves who 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:09.319 are going to go home to start their home schedule, 0:13:09.600 --> 0:13:12.360 are going to go home oh and seven having gotten 0:13:12.480 --> 0:13:15.760 pounded by the Dodgers and pounded by the Podres. 0:13:16.520 --> 0:13:19.720 Well, you'll be happy to know, Dad that neither do 0:13:20.200 --> 0:13:24.280 the Padres or the Dodgers or the Braves play on Thursday, 0:13:24.320 --> 0:13:27.600 April third, with this releasing on Friday, April fourth, so 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:29.280 we won't miss anything. 0:13:29.360 --> 0:13:31.160 Right. First, I got to tell you about the Padres 0:13:31.200 --> 0:13:34.360 real quickly. They are seven and oh and the one 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:36.679 thing to keep in mind about the Podres a they 0:13:36.679 --> 0:13:41.160 have really good starting pitching. Their bullpen is breathtaking when 0:13:41.200 --> 0:13:43.880 it's going really well. The most important thing, though, they 0:13:43.920 --> 0:13:47.000 are not afraid of the Dodgers. They have gone toe 0:13:47.040 --> 0:13:49.959 to toe with the Dodgers in that division and multiple 0:13:50.040 --> 0:13:52.400 times in the playoffs in recent years, so I'm not 0:13:52.440 --> 0:13:55.680 suggesting for a second that they're better than the Dodgers, 0:13:55.720 --> 0:13:58.000 are going to beat the Dodgers, but they are not 0:13:58.240 --> 0:14:01.920 intimidated by the Dodgers. That those are my three takeaways. 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:04.880 The Dodgers, the Padres, and the Braves pretty easy given 0:14:04.920 --> 0:14:08.319 that two teams are undefeated and one team is winless. 0:14:09.400 --> 0:14:11.640 You know, I gotta say, though, I'm a little disappointed. 0:14:11.720 --> 0:14:13.720 I'm looking at the schedule right now. We won't see 0:14:13.720 --> 0:14:17.640 the Dodgers meet the Padres until June the ninth. 0:14:17.720 --> 0:14:20.440 That's that's incredible, But Jeff, this is what happens when 0:14:20.480 --> 0:14:23.760 you're not playing your division nineteen times a year, only 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:26.560 you know, ten times a year, twelve times a year, 0:14:26.600 --> 0:14:29.040 whatever it is. So keep that in mind. 0:14:29.080 --> 0:14:32.000 All Right, we got the quirk chins for is this 0:14:32.040 --> 0:14:33.440 a great game or what? What do you have dat 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:33.720 for the. 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:37.720 Last few days to pick from? Normally I have a week, 0:14:37.760 --> 0:14:40.160 but now we're going every two weeks, so it's a challenge. Well, 0:14:40.160 --> 0:14:43.040 first off, Rafael Dever's got a hit finally. Okay, he 0:14:43.240 --> 0:14:47.800 was over nineteen, Jeff with fifteen strikeouts, then he extended 0:14:47.800 --> 0:14:50.800 it to oh for twenty one, and then he finally 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:54.280 got a hit. So we said last week, through four games, 0:14:54.480 --> 0:14:57.800 he had twelve strikeouts, a record, and that was as 0:14:57.840 --> 0:15:01.880 many as Yogi Bearra had in the nineteen fifty season. 0:15:03.000 --> 0:15:07.200 Then he through five games he had fifteen strikeouts, which 0:15:07.280 --> 0:15:09.720 is the most ever in the first five games of 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:15.000 any season. Tony Gwynn had fifteen strikeouts in the nineteen 0:15:15.600 --> 0:15:20.400 ninety five season. The entire season, Jeb over five hundred 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:23.640 at bats. I mean, that's just so I bring up 0:15:23.720 --> 0:15:27.840 this point because Raphael Devers is an elite Major league hitter. 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:30.320 He is on a Hall of Fame track, and it 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:33.720 just shows you again how difficult this game is to 0:15:33.760 --> 0:15:37.240 play when the best players in the game. Granted, he's 0:15:37.280 --> 0:15:40.520 had some elbow issues and he didn't have a complete 0:15:40.520 --> 0:15:44.040 spring training, so their excuses involved, but it just shows 0:15:44.080 --> 0:15:48.440 you again how hard this game is to play. Okay, 0:15:48.440 --> 0:15:53.800 speaking of which, Juhanio Suarez of the Diamondbacks, his first 0:15:53.920 --> 0:15:57.560 five hits this year, Jeff, have been home runs, so 0:15:57.640 --> 0:16:00.440 he doesn't have any other hits other than a home run. 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:05.120 Rob Deer's first five in nineteen ninety two were home runs, 0:16:05.480 --> 0:16:09.560 and Rudolfo Castro in twenty twenty one his first five 0:16:09.640 --> 0:16:12.800 hits were homers. So no one's ever gone their first 0:16:13.000 --> 0:16:16.720 six hits in a season were all homers. So Eugenio 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:19.720 Suarez has a chance to do that. And Jeff, he 0:16:19.840 --> 0:16:23.400 has all the vowels in his when you combine his 0:16:23.560 --> 0:16:27.960 first and last name. I love that, although as we know, 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:33.440 Nelson Figueroa and Ed Figueroa, they had all of their vowels, 0:16:33.520 --> 0:16:37.040 all vwels in their last name. Think about that for 0:16:37.080 --> 0:16:37.520 a second. 0:16:38.320 --> 0:16:41.440 I know this is where you live right now. Five homers. 0:16:41.480 --> 0:16:45.200 He as of Thursday, leads the league with the most 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:47.920 home runs and zero other hits. 0:16:47.680 --> 0:16:50.320 As of Jeff. This is how the game is played today. 0:16:50.760 --> 0:16:54.320 Eugenio Suarez and so many other big power hitters are told, 0:16:54.880 --> 0:16:56.920 we don't need you to hit a line drive single 0:16:56.960 --> 0:16:58.840 to right field. We want you to hit it in 0:16:58.920 --> 0:17:02.080 the stand somewhere. So he's just doing what he's been 0:17:02.120 --> 0:17:05.520 asked to do. Okay. On Opening Day, the home opener 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:09.359 for the Orioles, they grounded into three double plays, Jeff. 0:17:09.359 --> 0:17:14.320 And that's only significant because last year they grounded into 0:17:14.400 --> 0:17:18.359 seventy one double plays the whole season, and that was 0:17:18.440 --> 0:17:23.920 the fewest gidps in a full season of any team 0:17:24.040 --> 0:17:26.880 in Major league history. And if you don't think that matters, 0:17:27.359 --> 0:17:30.960 just remember, Jeff, what a downer it is when you 0:17:31.040 --> 0:17:32.960 got a rally going and a guy grounds into a 0:17:33.000 --> 0:17:35.840 double play. They set the record last year and they 0:17:35.840 --> 0:17:38.520 already got three in their home opener. I don't know 0:17:38.520 --> 0:17:42.119 if that's a sign of anything. And I always remember, Jeff, 0:17:42.160 --> 0:17:46.280 a GIDP is different than a hitting into a double 0:17:46.320 --> 0:17:49.960 play because you could line out into a double play. 0:17:50.280 --> 0:17:54.760 GIDP is a separate category where you hit a groundball 0:17:54.880 --> 0:17:56.639 and it results in a double play. 0:17:57.680 --> 0:18:00.560 That it's actually something I didn't now like from a 0:18:00.600 --> 0:18:01.479 scoring aspect. 0:18:01.560 --> 0:18:04.280 It really it's important that you know this, Jeff. It's 0:18:04.440 --> 0:18:08.840 just I just need to clarify the difference between gidps 0:18:08.880 --> 0:18:11.680 and whatever else. And last thing, Jeff, I got such 0:18:11.680 --> 0:18:14.000 a kick out of this. I'm not sure why, but 0:18:14.200 --> 0:18:18.520 Jack Lighter of the Rangers pitch. He's made two starts 0:18:18.520 --> 0:18:21.560 this year and has pitched really well. And he's the son, 0:18:21.640 --> 0:18:25.840 of course, of Al Lighter and Jack Lighter's I'm getting 0:18:25.840 --> 0:18:29.400 to the point. Jack Lighter's grandmother was born in England 0:18:29.560 --> 0:18:33.160 and still has a British accent to this day. And 0:18:33.320 --> 0:18:38.840 your grandmother, Nana was born in England, and she had 0:18:38.840 --> 0:18:41.840 a British accent until she died at age ninety six. 0:18:42.160 --> 0:18:42.879 How cool is that? 0:18:44.440 --> 0:18:45.600 It was definitely cool. 0:18:45.640 --> 0:18:47.959 But I have to and I would never talk badly, 0:18:48.200 --> 0:18:51.000 especially of somebody who's passed. But in the days she 0:18:51.200 --> 0:18:55.040 lived with us, she would sometime sometimes pull out these 0:18:55.320 --> 0:18:59.560 ridiculous words when I would play scrabble with her, claiming 0:18:59.720 --> 0:19:02.760 that they were in like a British slang term. 0:19:04.000 --> 0:19:06.199 And I'm like, no, no, there's no words that have an 0:19:06.320 --> 0:19:08.640 X and a Z next to each other. And she said, yes, 0:19:08.760 --> 0:19:09.280 there is. 0:19:09.520 --> 0:19:12.959 Yes, they're all right, there's seventy four points. And of 0:19:12.960 --> 0:19:14.840 course she's my elder. 0:19:14.440 --> 0:19:16.560 You know, my elder. I'm not gonna tell her. Nos, 0:19:16.680 --> 0:19:18.399 I put it down. I lose by one hundred and 0:19:18.480 --> 0:19:19.879 ninety points in scrabble. 0:19:20.400 --> 0:19:23.679 Well we like going to get away Fiftiana was one 0:19:23.720 --> 0:19:26.399 of the great scrabble players ever. But when you're playing 0:19:26.440 --> 0:19:30.280 scrabble at ninety four, uh, we're gonna get We're gonna 0:19:30.280 --> 0:19:32.840 give a little leeway there. So and last thing about 0:19:32.920 --> 0:19:34.959 Jack Lighter, So this one I got a kick out 0:19:35.000 --> 0:19:37.560 of them. I'm watching the game on TV and one 0:19:37.600 --> 0:19:42.280 of the camera guys at bank in Cincinnati that day 0:19:42.600 --> 0:19:46.280 was named Jack Lighter. So Jack Lighter is the camera 0:19:46.400 --> 0:19:50.000 guy and Jack Lighter is the pitcher. I'm not sure 0:19:50.040 --> 0:19:52.280 we've ever seen anything quite like that. 0:19:52.240 --> 0:19:55.560 Dad, This is a part of the show that's really important. 0:19:55.760 --> 0:19:57.480 So if you're driving right now. 0:19:57.359 --> 0:20:00.560 Or mowing your lawn or whatever, listen careful because we 0:20:00.640 --> 0:20:04.320 want you listening to the show to be a part 0:20:04.400 --> 0:20:08.520 of the show with our I Am a seam Head 0:20:09.359 --> 0:20:12.400 segment that we brought to the podcast this season. 0:20:12.640 --> 0:20:14.680 And the point of this is is, you know, Dad, 0:20:14.720 --> 0:20:15.280 we got so. 0:20:15.320 --> 0:20:17.600 Many amazing messages last year, whether it was on our 0:20:17.600 --> 0:20:20.000 website or on social media, of. 0:20:19.920 --> 0:20:22.920 People sharing hilarious things of what makes them big fans 0:20:22.920 --> 0:20:24.960 of this game. So you came up with the great 0:20:25.000 --> 0:20:26.600 idea of letting. 0:20:26.280 --> 0:20:29.399 Them send us a voice memo, a message, an audio 0:20:29.440 --> 0:20:32.280 message that we can play on the podcast explaining why 0:20:32.440 --> 0:20:34.840 they are a seam head. Right, And so it would 0:20:34.880 --> 0:20:37.360 sound something like this, I am Jeff Kirkshen, and I'm 0:20:37.359 --> 0:20:42.280 a seamhead because I collected every single rookie card from 0:20:42.400 --> 0:20:45.680 cal Ripken Junior's rookie year and I have them displayed 0:20:45.680 --> 0:20:48.200 above my bed. I'm Jeff Kirkchhen and I am a 0:20:48.240 --> 0:20:51.119 seam head, right Like those kind of things are things 0:20:51.160 --> 0:20:54.120 you can recall and remember. And Dad, you've tapped into 0:20:54.200 --> 0:20:57.200 some of your baseball friends to provide us the first 0:20:57.240 --> 0:21:00.480 couple seam heads. But listen, if you're part of the 0:21:00.480 --> 0:21:02.520 family of is this a great game or what we 0:21:02.600 --> 0:21:05.360 need you and your messages of why you're a seam head. 0:21:05.400 --> 0:21:08.040 So you can reach out to me email Jeff at 0:21:08.080 --> 0:21:10.320 great game or what dot com, or you can just 0:21:10.359 --> 0:21:12.359 go to great game or what dot com and submit 0:21:12.400 --> 0:21:14.760 it there, reach out ask how can I send this? 0:21:15.040 --> 0:21:17.040 And I'll reach out to you personally in order to. 0:21:17.000 --> 0:21:18.840 Get that message your dad, We have a special one 0:21:18.840 --> 0:21:20.080 today from a friend of yours. 0:21:20.200 --> 0:21:22.679 Yes, and this is Jeff Bennett. He is probably the 0:21:22.680 --> 0:21:26.480 greatest researcher in the history of ESPN, which is really 0:21:26.600 --> 0:21:29.720 saying something. Since Mark Simon, who did I am a 0:21:29.800 --> 0:21:33.680 seam head? Sarah Langs, Who's gonna do imam a seam head? 0:21:34.240 --> 0:21:37.359 This time it's Jeff Bennett. And let's take a listen 0:21:37.560 --> 0:21:40.240 to this because this is incredible. 0:21:40.800 --> 0:21:43.520 Now, I'm not artistic or musically inclined, so it's possibly 0:21:43.520 --> 0:21:46.080 my greatest talent is my recall fronts and backs of 0:21:46.119 --> 0:21:49.320 baseball cards, my sweet spot being tops from about nineteen 0:21:49.359 --> 0:21:52.080 eighty two to eighty five. So some examples these are 0:21:52.119 --> 0:21:55.320 their primary cards, not super veteran or inaction or all 0:21:55.320 --> 0:21:59.280 star cards. We'll say nineteen a two Steve Garvey posing 0:21:59.320 --> 0:22:01.159 with a bat in a big smile. He's a Dodger, 0:22:01.440 --> 0:22:03.600 very simimuch to his eighty five card when he's a Padre, 0:22:03.720 --> 0:22:04.760 also smiling with the bat. 0:22:04.800 --> 0:22:05.560