Speaker 1: Welcome back to another episode of Is This a Great Game?
Speaker 1: Or What with the Hall of Famer Tim Kirkshin. I'm
Speaker 1: his son, Jeff Kirkshin. Dad, I had a late night
Speaker 1: last night, even though I have a two week old
Speaker 1: I was out at a concert for my country music
Speaker 1: radio job. We had an artist, Hardy, who you don't
Speaker 1: need to know who he is. It's okay, he's a
Speaker 1: country artist, he's rock artist. He kind of does it all,
Speaker 1: but Dad, we hosted a lookalike contest, so listeners all
Speaker 1: across the concert dressing as him, kids, adults, men, women,
Speaker 1: everybody to try to meet him. So whoever looked the
Speaker 1: most like him on voting got to meet him. And
Speaker 1: I too, did a lookalike contest with him, and quite frankly,
Speaker 1: I got to say I looked I looked pretty good.
Speaker 1: I looked pretty good.
Speaker 2: You looked a little bit like him, is what you're saying.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah. I I decided that if we're gonna do
Speaker 1: a Hearty lookalike contest, I myself need to try to
Speaker 1: look like him, and so I'm gonna put a picture
Speaker 1: up if you follow us on YouTube. I'm also gonna
Speaker 1: put it on our social media, but Dad, just so
Speaker 1: you can kind of see it's it's it's tough with
Speaker 1: the lighting. But he's clearly eight inches taller than me.
Speaker 1: But I dressed like.
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna say, is is he five feet tall?
Speaker 2: Because that's the only way you could look like him.
Speaker 2: There's a guy who's two three inches shorter than you.
Speaker 1: He's probably six even, maybe five ten, five eleven. But uh,
Speaker 1: it's just you know, it was just funny, and I'm
Speaker 1: sure that kind of stuff has happening across Major League Baseball.
Speaker 1: Maybe a giveaway they did in a stadium where you
Speaker 1: got to dress like, you know, Steve Carlton or something
Speaker 1: like that.
Speaker 2: Right, well, yeah, they've done all sorts of things. One
Speaker 2: of my favorite things evolves Tito Francona. Of course, almost
Speaker 2: everything involves Tito Francona. But he wanted to pope fun
Speaker 2: at Dustin Pedroia, his great second baseman, because they were
Speaker 2: absolute best friends when Tito was the manager and Dustin
Speaker 2: Pedroia was the second baseman. So Tito arranged for John Clayton,
Speaker 2: the late great John Clayton, one of the great football
Speaker 2: guys ever. And he arranged for John Clayton, who looks
Speaker 2: a little bit like Dustin Pedroia. I don't see I
Speaker 2: don't see it. But he arranged to have John Clayton
Speaker 2: like do a little video of Dustin Pedroia, like pretending
Speaker 2: to be Dustin Pedroia. And then they played it throughout
Speaker 2: the clubhouse, and apparently the whole place went crazy. They
Speaker 2: were laughing so loud. It was so typical of Tito
Speaker 2: to take you know, John Clayton, one of my favorite
Speaker 2: people ever, but a non athletic looking football writer, was
Speaker 2: playing the part of Dustin and pretending to be him.
Speaker 2: And Jeff, when you're playing baseball, the game is this
Speaker 2: hard to play. It's it's okay to have a little
Speaker 2: fun and poke fun, especially in people like Pedroia who
Speaker 2: could take it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely that. And and Tito is known for his
Speaker 1: clubhouse being a place of baseball, yes, of course, but
Speaker 1: also of fun. I mean he made those runs with
Speaker 1: those Red Sox teams and those Guardians teams and now
Speaker 1: that Red team who did not look like a playoff
Speaker 1: team for most of the year. You have to give
Speaker 1: a lot of credit to him and the clubhouse that
Speaker 1: he keeps. And we love him and he's a former
Speaker 1: guest of the show. We caught him in his retirement
Speaker 1: era that one year he took off, which was so
Speaker 1: much fun. That was a great interview, right.
Speaker 2: And and Brent Souter, who can picture for the Angels? Now?
Speaker 2: Who can impersonate like anyone does? The greatest Jim Carrey ever.
Speaker 2: I told you this that he can do a great
Speaker 2: Tito francona personation when he was with the Reds last year.
Speaker 2: And Tito told us his spring he said, you know,
Speaker 2: Suitor used to just come into my office and want
Speaker 2: to talk to me about things and everything. I don't
Speaker 2: think he ever really wanted to talk to me. I
Speaker 2: think he was just trying to work on his impression
Speaker 2: on my manners. So he would just stop in and say, hey, Skip,
Speaker 2: like what are we doing in the bullpen tomorrow or
Speaker 2: something like that. He was like working on his impersonation.
Speaker 2: I that's so brent Suitor to do that, because he's
Speaker 2: wicked smart and really funny and a great teammate guy.
Speaker 2: And Tito, of course, anyone can make fun of him
Speaker 2: and he will take it better than anybody.
Speaker 1: Well. I remember years ago spring training, Jonathan Papplebond did
Speaker 1: an impression of Tito Francona on Baseball Tonight with you guys.
Speaker 2: Right. Yeah, I was standing right next to him, and it.
Speaker 1: Was like eight thousand seeds, right, because that's what he's like,
Speaker 1: spitting him out while he's talking like Tito.
Speaker 2: It was his It's derekally funny. It was so so good.
Speaker 2: And again, gotta have a good sense of humor to
Speaker 2: play this game, because the game will tear you to
Speaker 2: pieces if you don't. I Jeff's speaking of a good
Speaker 2: sense of humor. I need one this week. You'll need
Speaker 2: one every day for the next twenty five years until
Speaker 2: your children are grown up. Okay, but I'm doing a
Speaker 2: lot of traveling here, Jeff, And I don't know why
Speaker 2: I found this kind of amusing, but I checked in
Speaker 2: the airport the other day and I had to show
Speaker 2: my ID and all this, and the lady behind that
Speaker 2: counter looks at my license, which my driver's license, which
Speaker 2: expires in twenty thirty three, which I didn't even know that,
Speaker 2: But she looks at me and says, just checking a
Speaker 2: few things. You're born in nineteen thirty three, correct, that's
Speaker 2: what she said. No, she read my license wrong, So
Speaker 2: I just I just looked at her because she really
Speaker 2: wasn't looking at me three years old. I said, I'm
Speaker 2: not yet. I said, yes, I am ninety three years old,
Speaker 2: and she, I guess, got a little bit of a
Speaker 2: kick out of that, but she was She apologized. I said,
Speaker 2: don't worry, I'm not ninety three years old. But that's
Speaker 2: what she said, born in nineteen thirty three. Yes, ma'am,
Speaker 2: I'm ninety three years old. That was really, really.
Speaker 1: That is hilarious.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: I remember a friend of mine's a bartender, and he said,
Speaker 1: you know when I can't remember well, I mean, obviously
Speaker 1: it's by the time twenty twenty hit. When he would
Speaker 1: check IDs, he said, I would just have to look
Speaker 1: at the nineteen for the and that was it. You
Speaker 1: didn't even need to look at the rest of the
Speaker 1: year because if you were born in nineteen something. And
Speaker 1: then it made me feel dad Like when I'm a
Speaker 1: grandfather and we're talking, like when it's twenty seventy and
Speaker 1: I'm seventy odds some years old, right, my grandkids are
Speaker 1: going to look at me and say, you were born
Speaker 1: in nineteen insert year here, and yeah, I was born
Speaker 1: in a different generation, a different decade, different millennium. I mean,
Speaker 1: my goodness, I'm gonna feel I'm ninety three, so nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety three not ninety three years old, and I'll be
Speaker 1: able to, you know, wear that until the end of
Speaker 1: the twenty first century, probably.
Speaker 2: Right, Jeff. A lot of travel this week for me,
Speaker 2: A lot of trips to Bristol for baseball, Tonight's Sports Center,
Speaker 2: a bunch of things, all good, no complaints here, But
Speaker 2: never forget what my dear friend Alex Wolf. I worked
Speaker 2: with him at Sports Illustrated, one of the great writers
Speaker 2: ever and one of the great basketball minds that I've
Speaker 2: ever seen. We were talking about all the terrible travel
Speaker 2: we've had, and I've used this a million times with you, Jeff,
Speaker 2: stealing it, of course from Alex Wolf. He looked at
Speaker 2: me once and he goes, Tim, Never forget traveling is
Speaker 2: a violation, and boy is it ever There's no telling
Speaker 2: what could happen when you're traveling. You might be mistaken
Speaker 2: for someone who is ninety three years old. How about that, Dad?
Speaker 1: Top three things you quoted when I was a kid.
Speaker 1: Traveling is a violation, Pumba, you are a pig and holgad.
Speaker 1: If I had to make three, you've quoted more than anything.
Speaker 1: It's those three.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Jeff, I was such a good teacher teaching. We
Speaker 2: use so many good lessons in life. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: Well, I knew who's on first before I knew my alphabet.
Speaker 1: So when I went to kindergarten, people said, well, what's
Speaker 1: on second? And they said, ABC, I have no idea,
Speaker 1: but I don't know. He's on third base?
Speaker 2: Right right? Teacher would say I don't know, and you
Speaker 2: would say third base idea? All right?
Speaker 1: Why because we're not getting into him. He's our picture,
Speaker 1: all right, Dad, before we jump into the takeaways. Tomorrow's
Speaker 1: guest is gonna be iconic, so funny. I'm so excited
Speaker 1: to bring it to members of the family.
Speaker 2: Yeah, my dear friend rich Donley will be our guest tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Rich is the greatest batting practice pitcher ever, and I
Speaker 2: don't think we've ever talked about great BP pictures on
Speaker 2: this podcast. He's also maybe one of the greatest third
Speaker 2: base coaches of all time. There is an art and
Speaker 2: a skill to being a third base coach. Uh. He
Speaker 2: tells the greatest stories ever. I've known him for almost
Speaker 2: fifty years, and few people make me laugh as loud
Speaker 2: as Rich Donley does, so tune in tomorrow. He'll tell
Speaker 2: you a bunch of stories about BP and about coach
Speaker 2: at third and you know he worked with Doug Raider
Speaker 2: and Jim Leland and he's seen but he was on
Speaker 2: the same team as Barry Bonds. Some great, great stories
Speaker 2: from Rich.
Speaker 1: Plus some Home Run Derby stories. You know, we're coming
Speaker 1: up on the All Star break and he, I mean,
Speaker 1: he is the OG, as we would say, you know
Speaker 1: what that means.
Speaker 2: Dad, offensive guard? Right, that's it.
Speaker 1: You nailed it. He is the offensive guard of the
Speaker 1: Home Run Derby. Nailed it, Dad, And so we're going
Speaker 1: to talk a lot.
Speaker 2: What is an OG? Jeah? What is it going to it? There?
Speaker 1: So technically means original gangster, but like it's just become
Speaker 1: like the original, like the first, the most important. Right
Speaker 1: when you think of the Home Run Derby, you can
Speaker 1: think of rich Donnelly because he was known as the
Speaker 1: guy who who was throwing VP for the Home Run
Speaker 1: Derby before it got to the way it is today.
Speaker 1: So that's what the OG means.
Speaker 2: Og original Gangster. Was there any reason, I.
Speaker 1: Take thousands of things, I didn't think Tim Kirschen would
Speaker 1: ever say original gangster?
Speaker 2: Yea, if it doesn't make any sense, how can that
Speaker 2: be a thing. If it doesn't make any.
Speaker 1: Sense, it does make that it's well, it's from you know,
Speaker 1: hip hop and rap culture. I'm sure it's from a
Speaker 1: song that I can't even quote at this point, but
Speaker 1: it basically means the first right, He's an original gangster.
Speaker 2: I got it.
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Speaker 1: Let's jump into the takeaways, Dad, what do you have
Speaker 1: across Major League base?
Speaker 2: All right, So the White Sox beat the Royals the
Speaker 2: other day twenty two to one, and they had a
Speaker 2: ten run inning. And Jeff, we have had seven ten
Speaker 2: run innings this year. So the only season in it
Speaker 2: was in two thousand and five in which there were
Speaker 2: more ten run innings before the month of July was
Speaker 2: in two thousand and five when there were eight. So, Jeff,
Speaker 2: it's odd to me. I'm confused and I'm intrigued that
Speaker 2: I say every week on this podcast, how does anyone
Speaker 2: get a hit anymore? But once guys start to get hits,
Speaker 2: that just seems to snowball. And they scored ten runs
Speaker 2: in an inning seventh time this year that a team
Speaker 2: has scored ten runs an inning. Do you have any
Speaker 2: thoughts on this, Like, why does this happen? Teams can't
Speaker 2: score any runs these days. It's so hard to get
Speaker 2: a hit, and then all of a sudden they're thrown
Speaker 2: up ten in an inning. What is that?
Speaker 1: Well, it's all or nothing. And I also feel like
Speaker 1: in the element of keeping our pitchers safe, I don't
Speaker 1: have the stats to back this up, but I do
Speaker 1: have what I believe to be kind of an opinion.
Speaker 1: When it comes to pitchers, you're staying in longer when
Speaker 1: it comes to not starters per se, but like relievers,
Speaker 1: like just leave him out there, he'll give up a
Speaker 1: couple more runs, because at that point, when you're giving
Speaker 1: up five runs, the teams are saying, we're gonna lose
Speaker 1: this game anyway, right, because we're not going to come
Speaker 1: back because it's so hard to get a hit. So
Speaker 1: I feel like these relievers are taking more and more
Speaker 1: damage out there before they get changed out to prevent
Speaker 1: injury and running too many pitchers at one time, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, like you're throwing thrown position players.
Speaker 2: That's a good point, right, And position players are giving
Speaker 2: up some of these home runs and some of these runs.
Speaker 2: Once you get to a ten run inning, nobody hesitates
Speaker 2: any more to put a position player in. As I
Speaker 2: told you, Jeff, when I first started covering late seventies,
Speaker 2: early eighties, you would see one, maybe two position players
Speaker 2: pitch during a season. Now it's all almost every night
Speaker 2: you see a position player pitch in order to keep
Speaker 2: the real pitchers healthy. I understand, and I think this
Speaker 2: next note is, you know, kind of connected. Also helped
Speaker 2: me here. But Hunter Goodman of the Rockies hit three
Speaker 2: homers in a game the other day. So he's the
Speaker 2: sixth guy this year to have a three homer game.
Speaker 2: We've had four of them in the last twelve days.
Speaker 2: Is this the all or nothing thing? Also, do you
Speaker 2: think that we know they're going to the play thinking
Speaker 2: damage where let's hit it in the upper deck as
Speaker 2: opposed to a soft single to left field? Do you
Speaker 2: think that's where we are.
Speaker 1: On this one thousand percent we're swinging for the fences
Speaker 1: or we're striking out and going back to the digout's
Speaker 1: that's baseball in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2: It's no doubt, all right. The other thing we've done
Speaker 2: on the podcast, Like every week, Jeff, least at least
Speaker 2: about ten weeks, I have asked you to name three
Speaker 2: five hundred home run hitters who never hit three homers
Speaker 2: in a game. I think we did this last week.
Speaker 2: Let's see if you can remember.
Speaker 1: Davidez, Yes, definitely one of them. For Thomas No, well, he.
Speaker 2: Might not have, but I don't know that. Gary Sheffield
Speaker 2: and Raphael palmerow all hit five hundred homers, never hit
Speaker 2: three in a game. And yet we've had four guys
Speaker 2: do it in the last twelve days. And speaking of explosions, Jeff,
Speaker 2: you're a big Phillies fan because you live in PHILADELPHIAU
Speaker 2: and Emily loved the Phillies. I think it's great. So
Speaker 2: the Phillies became the first team ever, Jeff to hit
Speaker 2: a go ahead Just finish the note, Jeff, first team
Speaker 2: ever to do what?
Speaker 1: Hit a go ahead home run in the ninth inning
Speaker 1: in three straight games?
Speaker 2: Jeff? That is I mean, this is why I love
Speaker 2: baseball so much. Is that things happen that make you
Speaker 2: slap your forehead, things happen that you've never seen before. Well,
Speaker 2: in this case, no one has ever seen is because
Speaker 2: no one has ever done that before.
Speaker 1: And here here's the embarrassing part of the note. Every
Speaker 1: single night I went to bed before the ninth inning
Speaker 1: because I have a two week old son sleeping in
Speaker 1: the bedroll.
Speaker 2: You right, and you have have to get up at
Speaker 2: four thirty to go to work.
Speaker 1: Every day I'm up at three thirty. I leave the
Speaker 1: house at four thirty. So every morning I open my phone,
Speaker 1: I open the box score, and I go, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: they won, and I'm happy. Night two, Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: they won, and I'm upset because I didn't watch it.
Speaker 1: Night three. Morning, next note, I go, oh my, I'm apoplectic.
Speaker 1: I'm so angry that I didn't stay up at that point.
Speaker 2: Come on, So the day after the third game in
Speaker 2: which the Phillies hit a go at homer in the
Speaker 2: ninth against the Nationals, of course I saw the Nationals
Speaker 2: against the Orioles in Baltimore, and I saw Blake Butterra,
Speaker 2: thirty three year old manager for the Nats. Really smart guy,
Speaker 2: really good guy, and has done each job with that
Speaker 2: team so far. So I see him, and essentially the
Speaker 2: first thing he asked me, which was right away, was
Speaker 2: how many great notes did you get out of that
Speaker 2: our last three games. Now, Look, he was crushed, he
Speaker 2: was furious. He was I said, did you even sleep?
Speaker 2: He goes, I haven't slept in three nights. That's how
Speaker 2: much those games hurt him. But because he loves baseball,
Speaker 2: he is intrigued that we've played for, you know, one
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty years of baseball and what just happened
Speaker 2: in those three games had never happened before. Even though
Speaker 2: it happened to his team and nearly killed him, he
Speaker 2: was still intrigued by you do you find that to
Speaker 2: be healthy for a manager? I think it is.
Speaker 1: I think losing sleep is something that we don't talk
Speaker 1: about enough when it comes to our baseball players. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, you've talked about players who say they feel
Speaker 1: like they're never going to get a hit again when
Speaker 1: they go on to a slump and they're having trouble
Speaker 1: sleeping and they're traveling. But if you love the game,
Speaker 1: you got to recognize, like, this is crazy that this
Speaker 1: would happen. But yeah, when you blow that many saves,
Speaker 1: it's a little tough to.
Speaker 2: Be the right And another really healthy thing that that
Speaker 2: happened while I was talking to Blake but Tero and
Speaker 2: I had a nice chat with him. After about fifteen minutes,
Speaker 2: he looked at me and said, how well do you
Speaker 2: know Buck Showalter? And I said, well, I know it
Speaker 2: better than almost anybody. I talked to him all the time.
Speaker 2: And Blake but Terra said, I would love, love, love
Speaker 2: to talk to Buck Showalter. I've never met him before,
Speaker 2: but I would just love to pick his brain. And
Speaker 2: I found this to be very healthy that a thirty
Speaker 2: three year old manager isn't walking around like, hey, I'm
Speaker 2: one of thirty now, I'm smarter than everyone else. He
Speaker 2: is saying I need to reach out and talk to
Speaker 2: Buck so I can learn more about my craft, about
Speaker 2: the game and everything else I don't know. I thought
Speaker 2: I was very encouraged that any young person in the
Speaker 2: game today would reach out to someone who's my age,
Speaker 2: sixty nine years old and say, I really need to
Speaker 2: talk to him. So I hope them up. I'm not
Speaker 2: sure if they've talked yet, but I thought that was great.
Speaker 2: That's just me.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's a sign of maturity for sure. I mean,
Speaker 1: you can't doubt that he wants to learn and pick
Speaker 1: his brain. And that's just the love of the game.
Speaker 1: It's love of baseball. And we've had Buck Showalter on
Speaker 1: the podcast twice and every time I learn something, every
Speaker 1: time I'm sponging it up because he's just got a
Speaker 1: wealth of knowledge in such a great perspective and a
Speaker 1: great storyteller.
Speaker 2: Oh absolutely, all right, Jeff, we had a rough week
Speaker 2: for defense this week in baseball. Now, look, let's be clear.
Speaker 2: These guys are so amazing athletically, you know, they get
Speaker 2: to balls that nobody got to fifty years ago. They
Speaker 2: jump over the fence and make catches, they make diving throws,
Speaker 2: they make throws diving catches, they make throws that you
Speaker 2: can't believe. So let's be clear today's player are They're
Speaker 2: more athletic than they've ever been. But like the Mets,
Speaker 2: we'll get to them in a minute. The Mets made
Speaker 2: six errors in one game, Jeff, and all four infielders
Speaker 2: made an error. In the same game. The Yankees had
Speaker 2: such a terrible game that Cam Schlitzler gave up six runs,
Speaker 2: all of them unearned, so the only runs scored against
Speaker 2: the Yankees in that game were unearned runs. The last
Speaker 2: time the Yankees gave up six runs or more, all
Speaker 2: of them unearned, was in nineteen thirty one. And then
Speaker 2: the Orioles, who I saw the other night, had a
Speaker 2: terrible final inning, had a difficult trip to Anaheim, but
Speaker 2: they had a terrible final inning, and a scout friend
Speaker 2: of mine told me it was like watching kids during
Speaker 2: a snowball fight. That's how the ball was being thrown
Speaker 2: all over the place. And again a former manager told me,
Speaker 2: you know, Tim, just face it. And I don't believe this,
Speaker 2: but he said, face it. Defense what players do in
Speaker 2: between there at bats, And he was trying to say,
Speaker 2: we don't concentrate enough on defense today. I think the
Speaker 2: defense is really really good, but when you see lapses
Speaker 2: mentally and six errors in a game, it makes you wonder,
Speaker 2: you know, do we care too much about how far
Speaker 2: we can hit it as opposed to how well can
Speaker 2: we catch it and throw it? Am I being too
Speaker 2: critical here?
Speaker 1: I firmly believe omar Viskel, I don't have this indirect knowledge,
Speaker 1: probably doesn't like watching a lot of Major League Baseball
Speaker 1: games anymore because the defense of the game just isn't
Speaker 1: an emphasis anymore.
Speaker 2: Right, defense right, And they should, especially with as hard
Speaker 2: as it is to pitch today. Speaking of the Mets Jet,
Speaker 2: we have to mention that they fired their manager, Carlos Mendoza,
Speaker 2: and they're moving on from here. It's not just at
Speaker 2: this writing, at this taping jet that they're thirteen games
Speaker 2: under five hundred since June thirteenth of twenty twenty five,
Speaker 2: when they had the best record in baseball they have played,
Speaker 2: they have They are thirty games under five hundred. They
Speaker 2: are seventy three and one hundred and three since June thirteenth,
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. You know, they're twenty sixth in the
Speaker 2: league in run scored, they're twenty seventh and starters era
Speaker 2: and again they've been just crushed by injuries Francisco Lindor
Speaker 2: and Lon Soto and Luis Robert Junior. But they have
Speaker 2: a long way to go, and I just don't see
Speaker 2: them making the playoffs this year. You see the same thing.
Speaker 1: Well, and also in NL East, where the Marlins are
Speaker 1: surprising everybody. I mean, as of taping, they won four straight.
Speaker 1: The Phillies have turned it around since getting rid of
Speaker 1: their manager, Rob Thompson and going towards you know, a
Speaker 1: new era, and they've been playing great baseball. And of
Speaker 1: course the Braves. Braves have always been good. But now
Speaker 1: they're top the NL East and they, you know, slowing
Speaker 1: down a bit. But I mean that's three great teams
Speaker 1: you have to get past. And not to mention the Nationals.
Speaker 1: I mean, they just dropped three straight against the Phillies,
Speaker 1: but they were over five hundred for a good portion
Speaker 1: of the season. So it's it's a strong NL East,
Speaker 1: and I just don't see the Mets pulling away, not
Speaker 1: this l y.
Speaker 2: I agree. And we can't do a takeaway without talking
Speaker 2: about Jacob Mazerowski because every time he goes to the mound,
Speaker 2: something happens that just makes you slap your forehead. So
Speaker 2: this in his last start, he threw a pitch at
Speaker 2: one hundred and five point five miles an hour. Chet,
Speaker 2: I mean, what is the end to this? Is someone
Speaker 2: going to throw it one hundred and ten miles an
Speaker 2: hour someday? I can't imagine, but I never imagine anyone
Speaker 2: throwing it at one hundred and five miles an hour. So
Speaker 2: I worked with Adam Attavino the other day on Baseball Tonight.
Speaker 2: Former pitcher went to Northeastern. Really really smart guy and
Speaker 2: can break down the mechanics and pitching just about as
Speaker 2: well as anyone. So he was still He told us
Speaker 2: off air the other day that he had to break
Speaker 2: down the Mizowski fifteen strikeout, no walk, one hit complete game,
Speaker 2: in which he threw ninety five pitches, the last one
Speaker 2: at one hundred and three miles an hour. So he said,
Speaker 2: I had to break it down, And he said, and
Speaker 2: I couldn't because it was just it was just too easy.
Speaker 2: Here's what he said. This guy throws so fast that
Speaker 2: nobody can hit it, and because he throws so many strikes,
Speaker 2: you have to swing at it, and therefore you swing
Speaker 2: and miss. That was his analysis on one of the
Speaker 2: greatest pitching performances ever. And you know what, he's right, Jeb,
Speaker 2: you could talk about all this other stuff, and I
Speaker 2: talk about the armslot and all that stuff, how different
Speaker 2: it is. And he six' seven and extension one hundred and,
Speaker 2: four one hundred and five and you can locate. It
Speaker 2: that's the end of the, analysis AM i?
Speaker 1: Right that's. It and when you're that efficient and throwing
Speaker 1: that many, strikes, right you gotta. Swing so oh that's. Incredible,
Speaker 1: hey It's Jeff. Kirchin let me tell you you've got
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Speaker 1: dad let's go into the court. Gins what do you.
Speaker 2: Have, well it's a little, late But Dansby swanson of The,
Speaker 2: cubs hitting ninth in the, order basically drove in eleven
Speaker 2: runs in a doubleheader the other day against against The.
Speaker 2: Mets Ron santo had The cub record with ten in
Speaker 2: a double header In july nineteen. Seventy swanson also drove
Speaker 2: in fifteen runs in three games against The. Mets they
Speaker 2: played a four game. Series he didn't drive in a
Speaker 2: run in the fourth. Game but the only other players
Speaker 2: to have fifteen RBIs in a three game stretch against
Speaker 2: the same team Are Reggie, jackson lou gerrig And Tony,
Speaker 2: lazeri All hall of. Famers that's What Dansby swanson. Did
Speaker 2: eleven RBIs jeff in a double he but you remember
Speaker 2: the Great yogi Bear astat from the minor? Leagues how
Speaker 2: many runs did he drive in in that double? Header
Speaker 2: and his Granddaughter Lindsey right absolutely confirmed all of.
Speaker 1: THIS i can't remember the.
Speaker 2: Number Yogi barra drove in twenty three.
Speaker 1: RUNS i THOUGHT i was twenty.
Speaker 2: RIGHT i went To yogi AND i, Said, yogi how
Speaker 2: is that? Possible and typically and he only hit one
Speaker 2: homer with twenty three RBIs and a. Doubleheader he had
Speaker 2: twelve in the first, game eleven in the, second And,
Speaker 2: yogi Typical yogi just, said, well every time he came
Speaker 2: to the, plate the bases were, loaded and then he
Speaker 2: hit like three three run, doubles three three run. Triples
Speaker 2: it was just. Insane it was absolutely. Crazy so that's,
Speaker 2: it all. Right, So Kyle, schoreber your boy was intentionally
Speaker 2: walked with nobody on base in the ninth inning the other.
Speaker 2: Night so he gets an intentional walk with nobody on,
Speaker 2: base and you, know you just don't see very much of.
Speaker 2: That but remember two thousand and, two just to show
Speaker 2: you how Great Barry bonds was in his, prime he
Speaker 2: got walked eight times in one season intentionally with nobody on.
Speaker 2: Base is that stunning to, You, Jeff you're a.
Speaker 1: Threat it's the greatest compliment a player could. GET i
Speaker 1: really believe that in eight times in one season For Arry.
Speaker 2: Bonds. Right willie McCovey used to own the record for
Speaker 2: most intentional walks in a season with forty, five and
Speaker 2: Then barry came along and had a season in which
Speaker 2: he had one hundred and twenty intentional. Walks one hundred and.
Speaker 2: Twenty he had more intentional WALKS i believe than any
Speaker 2: nationallygue player that year had walks. Total he had one
Speaker 2: hundred and. Twenty, yeah that's very bonds for, you all, Right,
Speaker 2: JEFF i got a kick out of. This Eric louer
Speaker 2: of The dodgers the other day pitched six hitless innings in.
Speaker 2: Relief you, know it's one of those opener situations where
Speaker 2: he's the second pitcher in and he pitched six no hit.
Speaker 2: Inning SO i Called frank from The elias to, say
Speaker 2: who's the last guy to do? That And Ken walld
Speaker 2: To chuck of The a's did it in twenty twenty,
Speaker 2: three so it's only been two. Years three. Years but
Speaker 2: three days After Eric lawerd, Did Ian seymour of The
Speaker 2: rays did the same. Thing he came into a game
Speaker 2: and pitched six and two thirds hitless. Baseball is that
Speaker 2: amazing that it hadn't happened in three years and the
Speaker 2: guy two guys did it in three.
Speaker 1: Days that always shocks. Me, DAD i definitely didn't think
Speaker 1: it would have been three. Years but you know who
Speaker 1: it reminds me of is is our Guest Kent. Murker,
Speaker 1: right that very much reminds me of. Him, now he
Speaker 1: was a starter and a believer and a closer in his.
Speaker 1: Career but that just sounds like A Kent merker stat
Speaker 1: something he was involved, in, right.
Speaker 2: Right, Yes Kent murker's so, funny all, Right Dylan. Cees On,
Speaker 2: Saturday jeff of The Blue jays had a ten strikeout
Speaker 2: game and he only pitched four and two thirds. Inning
Speaker 2: so that's the third time in his career that he
Speaker 2: has struck out ten or more in less than five.
Speaker 2: Innings and he's the first pitcher ever since the mound
Speaker 2: was moved to its current distance in eighteen ninety, three
Speaker 2: to have three different starts in which he had ten
Speaker 2: or more strikeouts in fewer than five. INNINGS i, mean
Speaker 2: he's the only guy ever to do. That he's done
Speaker 2: it three. Times it's, amazing isn't.
Speaker 1: It that's. Incredible that is, nuts all, Right.
Speaker 2: Jeb, now speaking of, incredible you know not how MUCH
Speaker 2: i Love James wood of The. Nationals his, Dad Kenny,
Speaker 2: wood is a good friend of. Mine we played old
Speaker 2: dog basketball for, years so, Please i'm not picking on.
Speaker 2: Anyone this is the game we play. Today But friday
Speaker 2: NIGHT i went to The Nationals orioles, game and that
Speaker 2: Night James wood struck out twice and therefore now has
Speaker 2: more strikeouts in his. Career and he's in his third,
Speaker 2: season not a third full, season because we're. Not we're
Speaker 2: halfway through this and didn't play a full season three years.
Speaker 2: Ago he now has more strikeouts Than tony gwyn did
Speaker 2: in his. Career So Tony wynn played twenty years And
Speaker 2: James wood has now played part of three. Years and
Speaker 2: he struck out for the four hundred and thirty fifth
Speaker 2: time to Pass Tony, gwynn who struck out four hundred
Speaker 2: and thirty four times in his. Career that's, amazing is it.
Speaker 1: Not it's a different. GAME i, mean we look at
Speaker 1: how many times did Did Ted williams strike out in one?
Speaker 1: Year And Joe DiMaggio And Yogi. Berra it's just a
Speaker 1: different world right, now right And jeff speak speaking of that,
Speaker 1: NOW i think the guys AT Opta, STATS i don't.
Speaker 2: Know who those people, are but they are. Great they're
Speaker 2: on the internet all the time and they come up
Speaker 2: with some MAD i think they came up with this
Speaker 2: stat BUT i have absolutely confirmed it That James wood
Speaker 2: has now faced more different pitchers in his major league
Speaker 2: career Than Ted williem, did So James wood has now
Speaker 2: at this at the taping as of the other, day
Speaker 2: had faced four hundred and fifty six different pitchers in
Speaker 2: his major league. Career AND i, repeat he's in his
Speaker 2: third year And Ted williams in his major league career
Speaker 2: faced four hundred and forty seven pitchers. Total, now so
Speaker 2: this kind of Supports this is How James wood has
Speaker 2: so many, strikeouts more Than Tony Gwinn and this could
Speaker 2: be said for a million guys in the. Game i'm
Speaker 2: just Using James wood as an. Example but when you
Speaker 2: see a different, picture like you go into a, game
Speaker 2: you see a guy five different pictures and you never
Speaker 2: faced any of. Them how hard do you think that,
Speaker 2: is especially when most of lever throwing ninety five to one.
Speaker 1: Hundred you, Agree, well you look at teams that have
Speaker 1: so much depth in their pitching, rotation they will throw
Speaker 1: a starting pitcher for way less innings and then put
Speaker 1: another quality starter in there because the more often you
Speaker 1: hit against the same, picture you start to recognize their.
Speaker 1: Mechanics so If Ted williams is only facing x amount
Speaker 1: of pictures And James wood has done that in two
Speaker 1: and a half. Seasons he's always got to try to figure, Out,
Speaker 1: okay who is this. Guy i've never seen him. Before
Speaker 1: that's crazy to think. About it's another, Portion. Dad it's
Speaker 1: not just the, speed it's not just the ability of the,
Speaker 1: pictures but it's the diversity of those pictures that they're.
Speaker 1: Facing they don't have time to learn a picture Because
Speaker 1: Ted williams FACED i don't, Know i'm making up a,
Speaker 1: number maybe the same picture ten, eleven twelve times in a,
Speaker 1: season and he's, like, OH i know this. Guy and
Speaker 1: when You're Ted, williams you don't forget what a guy's
Speaker 1: throwing where he's throwing. It because he's the greatest hitter
Speaker 1: of all time when it comes to the science of the.
Speaker 1: Game for goodness, sake he wrote.
Speaker 2: A book on, it, Right, yeah so. Jeah but let's be,
Speaker 2: clear as AS i always do defend the guys that came,
Speaker 2: before as people are going to, say, Oh Ted williams
Speaker 2: couldn't hit, Today look look out few pictures he. Faced, no, no,
Speaker 2: No Ted williams would figure anything. Out and this stat
Speaker 2: is just there to provide some context on What james
Speaker 2: would and today's hitters are up. Against. Not, Oh Ted
Speaker 2: williams had it easy facing these guys over and over. Again,
Speaker 2: No i'm not buying. That i'm not all. Right last, Thing,
Speaker 2: JEFF i BET i got twelve text messages emails from
Speaker 2: people who, said did you notice the matchup in The
Speaker 2: dodgers padres? Game Jack Dryer Face Gavin? Sheets so we
Speaker 2: had The Dryer sheets. Matchup, look we had it last.
Speaker 2: YEAR i was all over it last year and it
Speaker 2: happened two games in a row over the. Weekend, like
Speaker 2: how great is? That SO i don't want to be
Speaker 2: insulting and say when people are saying did you see? It,
Speaker 2: yes this is WHAT i live, for Our Dryer sheets.
Speaker 2: Matchups so it's just. Beautiful and you know how MUCH
Speaker 2: i love the names of the, game so it's really really.
Speaker 1: Good it really is. Great we got so many. Messages
Speaker 1: if you ever see a great, matchup you can go
Speaker 1: to Great game or what dot, com scroll down message
Speaker 1: us directly. There that's how my dad AND i can
Speaker 1: see your messages and respond to you. Directly we love
Speaker 1: people obviously who dms on, social but we get a
Speaker 1: lot of messages. There it's hard to get through them.
Speaker 1: All our red site is the real place to get
Speaker 1: to us great game or what dot? Com all?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: Dad so moving on from our, questchns we go to
Speaker 1: on the state and baseball. History what do you have for?
Speaker 2: Us all? Right nineteen seventy, Seven Willy stargell hit on
Speaker 2: this date home run number four. Hundred so what did
Speaker 2: we learn About Willie stargell in the last couple of?
Speaker 2: Weeks he hit the most? Homers When jeff in the
Speaker 2: decade of the. Seventies oh, remember, Yeah REMEMBER i went
Speaker 2: to a. GAME i sat in the. Stands the knucklehead
Speaker 2: behind ME i don't even, know asked a trivia question
Speaker 2: to anyone who cares to and, said who hit the
Speaker 2: most homers in the? Seventies AND i knew the answer
Speaker 2: Was Willie. Stargell and he looks at me and he, goes, good,
Speaker 2: Guess but that's. Wrong he, Said no one's ever gotten
Speaker 2: this question. Right the answer Is Dave. Gigman well it
Speaker 2: Wasn't Dave. Gigman the reason no one ever got it
Speaker 2: right is because he had it. Wrong So Willie stargell
Speaker 2: hit the most homers in the, seventies and on this
Speaker 2: date in nineteen seventy, seven he hit number four hundred
Speaker 2: And Willie stargell was A hall Of fame player and
Speaker 2: one of the great team leaders ever. NOBODY i, MEAN
Speaker 2: i love being Around Willy, stargell and his teammates loved
Speaker 2: it even more THAN i. Did that's how great he,
Speaker 2: was all, Right. Jeff on this date in nineteen, Ninety
Speaker 2: Dave stewart And Fernando balezuela threw a no hitter on
Speaker 2: the same. Day wo pretty. Odd the last time that
Speaker 2: had Happened Hippo vaughn and Fred tony in nineteen. SEVENTEEN
Speaker 2: i remember that. Night it was crazy that there were two.
Speaker 1: Hitters you remember the nineteen seventeen. One you're, saying, right.
Speaker 2: Well i'm ninety three years, Old. Jeff as we've established
Speaker 2: from my trip to the airport the other, DAY i, said,
Speaker 2: YES i was there all. Right two thousand and, Five
Speaker 2: Craig bigio was hit by a pitch for the two
Speaker 2: hundred and sixty eighth, time which Passed Don baylor for
Speaker 2: the most in the modern. Era only in baseball in
Speaker 2: the modern era be defined as nineteen hundred on that's
Speaker 2: the modern, Era. JEFF i remember Asking. Bigio i've asked
Speaker 2: him many times about getting hit all the, time and he,
Speaker 2: SAID i promised, You, Tim i've taken more advil than
Speaker 2: anyone in the history Of basel because he got hit
Speaker 2: all the time and he played the. Game SO i
Speaker 2: checked With frank from The elias and for the first
Speaker 2: time he, Said, TIM i can't help you with. That
Speaker 2: we don't have advil in our data. Bank. Here is
Speaker 2: that the stupidest thing you've ever? Heard?
Speaker 1: Now adville consumed ac not a stat line on the
Speaker 1: box score On Baseball.
Speaker 2: Reference oh, BOY i remember Asking Don, baylor don'll be
Speaker 2: two hundred and sixty seven times that you got? Hit
Speaker 2: which one hurt the? Most and Remember Don baylor was a, big, big,
Speaker 2: strong tough man and one of the great Guys i've ever.
Speaker 2: MET i, SAID i said his nickname Was. GROOVE i, Said,
Speaker 2: groove which one hit the? Most and he looked at
Speaker 2: me and he, goes none of? Them and then we moved.
Speaker 2: On that's just how he looked at, it standing, There
Speaker 2: take it and run to first. Base so that was.
Speaker 2: Great on this date in twenty, Twelve Aaron hill hit
Speaker 2: for the cycle for the second time in a two week.
Speaker 2: Stretch two cycles in two, WEEKS i, mean that's that's pretty.
Speaker 2: Hard to. Do on this, date in nineteen thirty, Six
Speaker 2: Harmon killbrew was. Born he's one of the nicest People
Speaker 2: i've ever met in the, game one of the great
Speaker 2: power hitters of all. Time hall Of famer of, course
Speaker 2: five hundred. Homers let's see, If, jeff you'll never get this.
Speaker 2: One our Friend Bruce brown From, saber who's an absolute.
Speaker 2: GENIUS i can't even begin to tell you how UNCOMFORTABLE
Speaker 2: i am WHEN i have to talk to him because
Speaker 2: he knows so much more than me and everyone. Else
Speaker 2: he has come up with something called double unique about.
Speaker 2: Players do you know what a double unique, Is, JEFF
Speaker 2: i THINK i told you, THIS i can't. REMEMBER a
Speaker 2: double unique player is someone who has a first name
Speaker 2: that no one else in the history of baseball has
Speaker 2: and a last name that no one in the history
Speaker 2: of baseball. Has And harmon killer is a double. Unique
Speaker 2: Killer brew sounds right because how many people are Named.
Speaker 2: Killbrew BUT i was, surprised and this was a couple
Speaker 2: of years. Ago he told me this that there's no
Speaker 2: other player major league history with the first Name. Harmon
Speaker 2: So Harmon killerbrew is a double. Unique And Bruce brown
Speaker 2: has this entire list of players like hundreds and hundreds
Speaker 2: of them who are double, uniques Like, Urbina like you
Speaker 2: got a really weird first name and then an odd last,
Speaker 2: name But Harmon kilbrew is a double. Unique does that
Speaker 2: surprise you at?
Speaker 1: All, no it, doesn't BECAUSE i mean the first name
Speaker 1: that came to mind for, me and this is total
Speaker 1: fail was Yachti, Air like no one has that. Name
Speaker 1: but then of Course. Molina he's got multiple brothers played
Speaker 1: in the. Game SO i couldn't even come up with
Speaker 1: another double. Unique why don't we ask our. LISTENERS i
Speaker 1: know there's a list out, there And i'm not gonnaquiz.
Speaker 1: You i'm gonna ask our listener send us who you
Speaker 1: think is a double unique Across Major League. Baseball maybe
Speaker 1: we'll even get the commissioner to chime in as. Well
Speaker 1: not The commissioner Of, baseball he's really. Busy but we'll
Speaker 1: get our dear Friend. Mike, sure great game or what dot?
Speaker 1: Com give us a double unique that you love in
Speaker 1: this great game of? Baseball?
Speaker 2: Okay last this date in baseball, History. Jeff on this
Speaker 2: date in Nineteen Moonlight graham played only in the only
Speaker 2: game he ever played In Major league. Baseball you know
Speaker 2: he never got into. Bad he went and played right
Speaker 2: field for The New York giants or a couple innings
Speaker 2: in nineteen oh.
Speaker 5: Five no one's called Me Moonlight graham for fifty.
Speaker 2: Years one are the great movies, ever, Right.
Speaker 1: JEF a lot of people don't realize he he's a real.
Speaker 1: Player it's based on more or less a real name
Speaker 1: and a real, player and that stat line that they put,
Speaker 1: up it's. Real AND i absolutely love that, Movie. Dad
Speaker 1: it is our favorite baseball, Movie field Of, Dreams AND
Speaker 1: i remember the MOMENT i figured out that this is
Speaker 1: not about. Baseball it's about a father and a. Son
Speaker 1: if you build, it he will. Come and we're all
Speaker 1: thinking Shoeless Joe. Baby well sorry spoiler, alert but it's
Speaker 1: been like thirty, years so not quite a spoiler alert.
Speaker 1: Anymore it was his, dad Ray. Kinsella, OH i just love.
Speaker 2: GOOD i love it all. Right so it's a tribute
Speaker 2: To Moonlight. Graham i've never we've never used this on the, Podcast,
Speaker 2: jeff so it's, fresh even THOUGH i used this a
Speaker 2: long time. Ago, anyways all The All Eclipse, team because
Speaker 2: we have to Have Moonlight graham on. It our catcher
Speaker 2: on The All eclipse team Is Fernando lunar L u N. A.
Speaker 2: R Razor shines is our first. Baseman Razor shines was
Speaker 2: on our our list the other day right for The
Speaker 2: All Summer. Team Razor shines made The Team tim list
Speaker 2: two weeks in a. Row has anyone else ever done?
Speaker 1: That you better do The All barber team because we
Speaker 1: could have them on that next.
Speaker 2: Week very?
Speaker 1: Good, wait, dad let's have. You it doesn't have to
Speaker 1: be All, barber but can you come up with a Team? Tim,
Speaker 1: sorry now you're not gonna be able to sleep the
Speaker 1: rest of the week that Involves Razor. Shines you name it,
Speaker 1: well but it has to start With Razor, shines meaning
Speaker 1: like he has to be on the. Team so it
Speaker 1: could Be All barbara, team All Sharp instrument, team whatever
Speaker 1: you want to call, it but that is that is
Speaker 1: the Assignment i'm giving you and, family great game or
Speaker 1: What i'm on?
Speaker 2: It i'm on, it. Okay our second basement Is Moon.
Speaker 2: Mullen our third basement Is Hector. Luna our shortstop on
Speaker 2: The All Eclipse, Team Alvin Dark Moonlight graham is one
Speaker 2: of our. Outfielders of, Course Jorge solaire another, One Wally
Speaker 2: moon another. One Sky bolt is our designated hitter and
Speaker 2: our pitchers are Sun Wo Kim Ken cloud and this
Speaker 2: ONE i stole from one of our. GUYS i don't
Speaker 2: know who it, was but whoever Was Carl, hubble WHICH
Speaker 2: i thought was pretty Cool Hubble Sonny. Gray that makes,
Speaker 2: sense And JEFF i went back and looked at the
Speaker 2: list THAT i sent out On twitter like three years
Speaker 2: ago when there was a real, eclipse AND i LEFT
Speaker 2: i Left Blue Moon otum off the, list and no
Speaker 2: one was really angry about, it but they, like you
Speaker 2: can get angry On. Twitter but like everyone, said how
Speaker 2: could you leave blue Moon otem? Off, Well i'm not
Speaker 2: leaving him off this time on The All eclipse. Team
Speaker 2: the team tim On Is this A Great game or?
Speaker 2: What so that is My All eclipse, team all based
Speaker 2: on the fact That Moonlight graham was made his major
Speaker 2: his only major league appearents on this date in nineteen oh.
Speaker 1: Five so let's let's do it. Again Dad Razor shines
Speaker 1: next episode Of Is this A Great? Game Or what
Speaker 1: if members of the family want to come up with
Speaker 1: a team great? Game or what Dot com? Involve Razor
Speaker 1: shines more creative to better and we'll shout your team
Speaker 1: out next week or at the end of this, week
Speaker 1: because you know we're doing team tims that absolutely every
Speaker 1: single episode at this point a, Week.
Speaker 2: Jeff you know what kind of pressure that puts me
Speaker 2: under to come up with two a. Week And i'm
Speaker 2: working on one For july the, Fourth so that's gonna
Speaker 2: run this, week and it's may be the dumbest one,
Speaker 2: ever But i'm really working hard on. It probably too,
Speaker 2: hard but that's.
Speaker 6: Okay the wheel wheel up up curteed Who.
Speaker 1: All, right so thanks to your suggestions, again no, intro just,
Speaker 1: me uh your.
Speaker 2: Suggestions does everyone know what the wheel Of fortune mean the?
Speaker 2: Show everyone knows, that, Right it's a takeoff on The
Speaker 2: wheel Of, fortune, Right.
Speaker 1: Yeah for? Sure, YEAH i think it's it's common enough
Speaker 1: to know for. Sure this is the wheel Of. Kirkchain
Speaker 1: we've put your suggestions in my terrible handwriting onto the.
Speaker 1: Wheel we're gonna spin it And dad has to riff
Speaker 1: off of whatever we land. On are you ready pop?
Speaker 2: Up? Yes all, right here we.
Speaker 1: Go that's. WEIRD i don't ever call you pop up
Speaker 1: on The, pope BUT i do call you pop up
Speaker 1: exclusively outside of the.
Speaker 2: Pocket, okay here we. Go most people. Do, yeah most
Speaker 2: people call me poor pop.
Speaker 1: Up poor pop. Up Oh World? Cup how perfect is?
Speaker 2: That?
Speaker 1: Dad do you have any Soccer World cup baseball?
Speaker 2: Stories, Well i've told you how many great soccer players
Speaker 2: have played in the major. LEAGUES i told you That omar. Vs.
Speaker 2: SCALE i went to do a story on him in
Speaker 2: nineteen ninety five and HE i went out in his
Speaker 2: garage in his house In, seattle and he just dribbled
Speaker 2: a ball on his foot for like three. Minutes it
Speaker 2: was it was. BREATHTAKING i, MEAN i Can't i'm not
Speaker 2: a soccer, player never, was but it was pretty. Impressive
Speaker 2: AND i, Said, omar when's the last time you tried
Speaker 2: to do? That he, said like ten years? Ago and
Speaker 2: then he just picks up a ball and bounces it
Speaker 2: off his. Foot all, right, Now i'm gonna Set i'm
Speaker 2: going to ask a stupid hypothetical for, This. Jeff and,
Speaker 2: again this is just a compliment completely to all soccer
Speaker 2: players and soccer. Teams IF i picked up the best
Speaker 2: baseball team made out of former soccer, players, okay so
Speaker 2: all of them have to have some sort of soccer
Speaker 2: background to be on this baseball. Team playing soccer and
Speaker 2: they played against A World cup team where it's a real.
Speaker 2: Competition would the final score of that game Be let's
Speaker 2: say they play THE us team or any, Team, argentina,
Speaker 2: anybody and it's.
Speaker 1: Final all of these baseball players are in their, prime,
Speaker 1: right so.
Speaker 2: Right these are athletic. Guys they've all played soccer, before
Speaker 2: but they just haven't played in a long time because
Speaker 2: they're major league baseball. Players so and, again this is
Speaker 2: a compliment to soccer players, only not anything. Else would
Speaker 2: the final score be five to, nothing ten to, nothing
Speaker 2: fifteen to, nothing twenty to, nothing thirty to, nothing or
Speaker 2: something higher than thirty to. Nothing what would be the
Speaker 2: final score of a soccer game if The argentina team
Speaker 2: in The World cup were to play the best of
Speaker 2: the baseball player what's the final? Score?
Speaker 1: JEFF i think it's fifteen fifteen.
Speaker 2: NIL i.
Speaker 1: DON'T i don't think the baseball players are. SCORING i, think, well.
Speaker 2: We know they're not, Scoring. Jeff and that's not a
Speaker 2: blast On these are the best soccer players in the.
Speaker 2: World you think they would only score fifteen.
Speaker 1: GOALS i think eventually the all baseball team would just
Speaker 1: load the box and just say like we're we're not
Speaker 1: even going on the. Offensive, Right we're just gonna we're
Speaker 1: just we're just gonna line up by the goalie and
Speaker 1: hope that they don't get it past, us, right all
Speaker 1: defense AND i mean, granted their defensemen aren't even gonna
Speaker 1: have to worry about doing any work.
Speaker 2: Either so, yeah who would your who would your goalie
Speaker 2: be on the on the baseball player? Team how About Aaron?
Speaker 1: Judge Aaron judges.
Speaker 2: Athletic six?
Speaker 1: Hunter Was Tory hunter a soccer? Player or was he
Speaker 1: a Football he was a football.
Speaker 2: Player it was a football. Player, yeah all, right all,
Speaker 2: right so that let's throw it out there to our.
Speaker 2: Listeners and, again a compliment only to our soccer, players
Speaker 2: not a rip on baseball. Players AND i think it's
Speaker 2: at least twenty five to nothing at. Least BUT i
Speaker 2: don't know soccer very. WELL i don't know if YOU
Speaker 2: i don't. Know all, right keep, going all.
Speaker 1: Right let's spin the. Wheel here we, go next, One
Speaker 1: oh landed On World?
Speaker 2: Cup?
Speaker 1: Again here we, GO, pa, Guys, Dad, yeah.
Speaker 2: Public address guys are kind of lost in baseball. History
Speaker 2: and some of them are just the, greatest Like Sherm
Speaker 2: feller In boston was an absolute. Icon At Fenway park
Speaker 2: because that incredible raspy voice that he had an, evening
Speaker 2: boys and, girls it WAS i can't do any of.
Speaker 2: That he's one of the most famous of all. Time of,
Speaker 2: Course Rex barney worked In baltimore as THE pa guy
Speaker 2: in all those years THAT i covered The, orioles And
Speaker 2: rex was famous for saying whenever anybody caught a ball
Speaker 2: in the, stands he would, say give that fan a.
Speaker 2: Contract BUT i think the GREATEST pa guy of all
Speaker 2: time has got to Be Bob, shepherd who did The
Speaker 2: Yankee games for all those. Years And Bob shepherd is
Speaker 2: A english lit, professor one of the smartest people in the.
Speaker 2: World the language was so important to. Him the advice
Speaker 2: he gave To jeremy shapp once was you can never
Speaker 2: talk too. Slowly so When jeremy's learning how to do,
Speaker 2: television that's What Bob shepherd told, Him, like not only
Speaker 2: should you not rush through, anything don't ever do, that
Speaker 2: but you can never walk but talk too. Slowly So
Speaker 2: i'm going to give you the worst impersonation in the
Speaker 2: history of. Impersonations this is My Bob shepherd now.
Speaker 5: Betting full of The. Yankees the shortstop number Two Derek
Speaker 5: jeta number two pretty, Bad.
Speaker 1: Jeb that was pretty. GOOD i found it interesting that
Speaker 1: you had to have your eyes closed the whole, time
Speaker 1: but the impression itself was pretty.
Speaker 2: Good all. Right So John, miller the, hilarious Hilarious hall
Speaker 2: Of fame, Broadcaster he, said what If Bob shepherd is like,
Speaker 2: this like wherever he, goes like if he goes to order?
Speaker 2: Breakfast is this What Bob shepherd says in the? Restaurant he, says.
Speaker 5: Yes, MA'AM i will have the number two eggs over
Speaker 5: easy with toast number two?
Speaker 2: Two is that how he would order? Breakfast John miller
Speaker 2: does that. IMPERSONATION i almost peeded my. PANTS i was
Speaker 2: laughing so. Loud so don't ever underestimate how important THE
Speaker 2: pa guys are in baseball.
Speaker 1: History, McKinley i need your. Help this is my, daughter.
Speaker 1: McKinley she's almost. Three come, here. BEBY i need you
Speaker 1: to spin this wheel for.
Speaker 2: Me, Okays oh, boy, McKinley hope here we. Go put
Speaker 2: this down for a.
Speaker 1: Seconds she's been delivering me pizza slices as we.
Speaker 2: Record ah Thear, okay all, right, McKinley this is the.
Speaker 1: Wheel Of Kirchin, okay can you spin the ready? One, two?
Speaker 1: Three what did we? Get july? Fourth good job?
Speaker 2: Kidding oh, my that is, great. McKinley and we're coming
Speaker 2: up On july the, fourth And, jeff you can't talk
Speaker 2: About july the fourth unless you talk about the famous
Speaker 2: game where The braves and The mets played On july the,
Speaker 2: fourth When Rick camp hit the home run and the
Speaker 2: game ended at four o'clock in the, morning and they
Speaker 2: shot off the fireworks at four o'clock the, morning And
Speaker 2: Ron darling got the final out of that. Game the
Speaker 2: only reason we're bringing this, Up jet is if you
Speaker 2: haven't listened To Ron darling on the podcast last. Year
Speaker 2: the entire podcast was about That, july Famous july fourth
Speaker 2: Game mets And. Braves so that's Where i'm gonna leave.
Speaker 2: It there's no story THAT i could tell that can
Speaker 2: top anything that That Ron darling said that, day because
Speaker 2: he summed it up. Perfectly he captured it. Perfectly it was.
Speaker 2: Amazing way to, go, McKinley Hope july the, Fourth so
Speaker 2: she did at.
Speaker 1: Job all, right we have time for one, More. DAD i,
Speaker 1: mean this is the most friends we've.
Speaker 2: Gone let's do.
Speaker 1: It here we Go wheel Of kirchin final spin head first.
Speaker 1: Slides what do you got for?
Speaker 2: That, okay, yeah this is a little bit. TECHNICAL i
Speaker 2: don't THINK i have any really great story, here BUT
Speaker 2: i just know That Ricky henderson slid head first like
Speaker 2: almost every single time he stole a, base and he
Speaker 2: stole more bases than anyone in. History Lou, brock of,
Speaker 2: course stole the second most bases of anyone in. History
Speaker 2: and he always went feet. First And Luke brock told,
Speaker 2: me he, SAID i used my feet as a, weapon
Speaker 2: Like i'm going in there hard with, spikes and my
Speaker 2: legs are, strong and they don't want to tag me
Speaker 2: If i'm coming in that. Hard so there are two
Speaker 2: ways to look at the head first. Slide DO i
Speaker 2: go with feet first or DO i go? Headfirst AND
Speaker 2: i always Thought Louke brock made a lot of, sense
Speaker 2: But Ricky henderson told, Me, hey the fastest way to
Speaker 2: get there is head. First And Roberto alomar used to
Speaker 2: tell you used to slide headfirst into first. Base almar
Speaker 2: is one of the greatest base Runners i've ever. Seen
Speaker 2: he could, fly but HE i wouldn't say, routinely BUT
Speaker 2: i saw him a lot of times slide headfirst into first.
Speaker 2: Base AND i, Said, robbie most people people will tell
Speaker 2: you it's not the fastest way to. Go and he, goes,
Speaker 2: well you're, right because most people don't know how to
Speaker 2: slide head. First but he, SAID i know how to
Speaker 2: slide head. FIRST i know how to use my momentum
Speaker 2: and just take it into the. Slide and he, said
Speaker 2: but other guys have to slow down in order to
Speaker 2: get their body. Ready you should never slide into first
Speaker 2: base head first unless you really know what you're. Doing
Speaker 2: does that make sense to, You, Jeff.
Speaker 1: Yeah AND i know this isn't a head first. Slide
Speaker 1: BUT i always love when THE nfl and college football
Speaker 1: season's on and you hear the broadcasters, say, well you
Speaker 1: could tell that kid played baseball growing up if they
Speaker 1: make a great slide giving themselves up, right or if
Speaker 1: they make a terrible, one you, think, yep they never
Speaker 1: stole second in a little league game in their life
Speaker 1: because they never slid.
Speaker 2: Right sliding is an, Art. Jeb people practice. Sliding Buck
Speaker 2: showalder always told us you have to be able to
Speaker 2: slide on both, legs meaning you have to know how
Speaker 2: to slide on your left leg on your right leg, hook,
Speaker 2: slide everything, else but headfirst is a very interesting. Dynamic
Speaker 2: i'm all for sliding, headfirst but if you don't know
Speaker 2: how to do, it you shouldn't go headfirst into first
Speaker 2: base because it's the only base that you're allowed to run.
Speaker 1: Through, so if you learned two things from the podcast,
Speaker 1: today sliding is an art form and traveling is a
Speaker 1: violation that and is this a great game or what?
Speaker 1: Right and we also learned that Pop up is ninety
Speaker 1: three years, old so that's. Great born in nineteen thirty. Three,
Speaker 1: dad you look. Great y'all look. Great thank, You Jeff,
Speaker 1: well thank you so much for, listening Rich donnelly on
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