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Speaker 1: Podcast Unleashed presented by bet MGM. You're your host, Speedy
Speaker 1: Mormon and Olivia Arlen Decker. Welcome back to Unleashed from
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Speaker 1: the mound and talk baseball. The season has begun and
Speaker 1: we're gonna break it down with former MLB pitcher Mark Mulder. Plus,
Speaker 1: we got to talk about our favorite baseball movies and
Speaker 1: breakdown the weekend's best bets in our Lions Lock segment.
Speaker 1: All of that is coming up, but before that, Olivia
Speaker 1: is gonna walk us through the baseball season so far.
Speaker 1: Olivia from the other side of the world, What is
Speaker 1: going on on this side of the world in baseball? Well,
Speaker 1: what's up, Speedy. Yeah, you know, it's been a great
Speaker 1: start to the MLB season, but notably in terms of headlines. Recently.
Speaker 1: This past weekend there was a postponement due to COVID.
Speaker 1: It was the Twins Angels series. And you know, last
Speaker 1: year forty five games were postponed in the regular season,
Speaker 1: almost all of those were made up. This one's going
Speaker 1: to be tricky to make up. Just as scheduling works out,
Speaker 1: so that was pretty significant and I think it follows
Speaker 1: a greater storyline as many teams made a big push
Speaker 1: after spring training to vaccinate a lot of their players,
Speaker 1: people who work in their program. Obviously, players can opt
Speaker 1: out of this, as some have. The Twins had a
Speaker 1: couple of players who chose that the almost of the
Speaker 1: Twins organization has been vaccinated, so this was a surprise.
Speaker 1: They had at least four positive tests, and this was
Speaker 1: pretty significant in something that you know, you're just hoping
Speaker 1: that the landscape of sports will stop seeing that headline.
Speaker 1: But that is something that came up this week. But
Speaker 1: you know, in general, I mentioned the season has been
Speaker 1: off to a good start. There's been two no hitters
Speaker 1: the White Sox Carlos Rodone Padre Race Joe must Grove,
Speaker 1: so that that's always exciting or I guess not exciting
Speaker 1: if you like to see big home runs. And then
Speaker 1: just in general storylines, the Yankees not really living up
Speaker 1: to the preseason hype that they always get. Right now,
Speaker 1: they're last in the a L. The hottest teams right
Speaker 1: now are the Oakland A's. They've won seven straight. In
Speaker 1: the NL, the Dodgers have won eight straight, and then
Speaker 1: just kind of what I love to see. Year by year,
Speaker 1: I feel like we get to see a bit more
Speaker 1: expression and fun in the MLB. Usually it's kind of
Speaker 1: known to be so antiquated, and you know, in ten
Speaker 1: they started the players Weekend, and the players would wear
Speaker 1: their nickname on the back, and they could wear fun
Speaker 1: you know, gloves and cleats and and now we're seeing
Speaker 1: more and more of that, and it's it's like this
Speaker 1: influx of young and exciting athletes. They're now expressing themselves.
Speaker 1: They're celebrating, they're able to wear jewelry and and they're
Speaker 1: fun gear and show personality the bat flips even on
Speaker 1: social media. It's such a difference from even a couple
Speaker 1: years ago of what players are able to do to
Speaker 1: represent themselves, to market themselves, and just in general, it's
Speaker 1: it's more player friendly, more fan friendly, and some of
Speaker 1: these unwritten rules are are kind of slowly disappearing. Now.
Speaker 1: Obviously you're going to have old timey, traditional fans who
Speaker 1: don't like this movement. The purest of the game, right,
Speaker 1: the purest. But I think this is great for the league.
Speaker 1: I think it's great for baseball because it's such a
Speaker 1: long season, the games are so long. To really hook
Speaker 1: in fans and young fans, they've got to be on
Speaker 1: social media, They've got to have some flair and swagger,
Speaker 1: and you know, you see some of these players like
Speaker 1: Fernando Tatis, Mookie Betts, Ronald Kuna, like they're they're so
Speaker 1: swaggy and and exciting to watch as players and off
Speaker 1: the field. So that's to me kind of marked this
Speaker 1: season so far as I feel like we're seeing a
Speaker 1: lot of personality. What a great summarization. I will say,
Speaker 1: I love this kind of turning of the tide, right
Speaker 1: because we've seen other sports allowed to have that free
Speaker 1: reign to you know, express themselves however they wanted, and
Speaker 1: baseball was kind of late to the metaphorical race here,
Speaker 1: and it's nice to funnily see these guys get to
Speaker 1: have fun and and do their thing. Now, when it
Speaker 1: comes to the players of the MLB this season, are
Speaker 1: there people that you have your eye on, Maybe some
Speaker 1: people that you think are gonna do really well, maybe
Speaker 1: some people that you think won't live up to the hype.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean definitely. This is like I mentioned,
Speaker 1: it's kind of more of a player driven season. It
Speaker 1: feels like there's so many stars this year, and it's
Speaker 1: so fun to watch a lot of young stars too.
Speaker 1: So let's start in the a. L A Kiel the
Speaker 1: duo with the Detroit Tigers. He's a rookie, he's playing great,
Speaker 1: and he was a Rule five draft pick. And a
Speaker 1: lot of people don't understand that a Rule five draft pick.
Speaker 1: It's a redraft. It's held every December, so teams without
Speaker 1: the full roster, the allotted forty man roster, they can
Speaker 1: redraft guys who have been in the minors four or
Speaker 1: five years never been on a forty man roster. So
Speaker 1: a kielba Do is one of these guys. So it's
Speaker 1: it's kind of a you know, second chance. It so
Speaker 1: exciting when there's a success story out of the Rule
Speaker 1: five draft. So Akilbado with the Detroit Tigers is a
Speaker 1: huge storyline. And then also Shoheyatani he's with the l
Speaker 1: A Angels. He's a two way player and that's so
Speaker 1: extremely rare. He's like a modern day Babe Ruth. He
Speaker 1: pitches every five days as a starter, and then when
Speaker 1: he's not pitching and he's in the batting lineup, and
Speaker 1: the coolest thing about show hey he has the hardest
Speaker 1: hit ball this year at a hundred sixteen miles per hour.
Speaker 1: He also has the fastest pitch at a hundred two
Speaker 1: miles per hour. Oh yeah, he's going crazy. He's going crazy.
Speaker 1: He's Godzilla. Everyone loves calling him Godzilla. And I thought,
Speaker 1: what was so cool? His teammate Mike Trout, who a
Speaker 1: lot of baseball pendants say is the best player of
Speaker 1: all time. He says that show he is the best
Speaker 1: player he's ever seen. And then also Cec Sabathia, future
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame pitcher, he recently said he's the best
Speaker 1: he's ever seen. So that is I mean, talk about
Speaker 1: high praise. Some of the best ever do it. Are
Speaker 1: are just amazed at what they're seeing. The whole baseball
Speaker 1: community is amazed at what they're seeing from him. And
Speaker 1: then over on the NL I mentioned earlier Ronald Kuna Jr.
Speaker 1: With the Atlanta Braves. He's come out of the gates
Speaker 1: so strong. He's had such a hot start and he's
Speaker 1: such an exciting player. He's leading the league in home
Speaker 1: runs and he so personifies this new era of MLB players.
Speaker 1: The flair, the swagger, the bright accessories, the jewelry. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's so modernized, you know now and then also I
Speaker 1: talked about the l A Dodgers having a hot start there,
Speaker 1: the defending champs. They haven't lost a series, they've had
Speaker 1: three straight sweeps, and they're the first team in the
Speaker 1: MLB too ten wins. So Dodgers are hot, fun to watch,
Speaker 1: but also you gotta you gotta have some love also
Speaker 1: for the l A Angels and show Atani. He's kind
Speaker 1: of my favorite player right now. Before we wrap here,
Speaker 1: I'm wondering who you think. I know it's early, but
Speaker 1: who you think will win m v P. On the
Speaker 1: A L side? Will it go back to Mike Trout
Speaker 1: or will it be jose A Brao for a second
Speaker 1: year in a row or Yeah, is that that place
Speaker 1: in your bed? Yeah, I mean maybe it's tough right now.
Speaker 1: On the N L side too, I feel a little
Speaker 1: bit more comfortable in that one because I think Ronald
Speaker 1: Kuna Jr. Is making a strong case. So, yeah, you
Speaker 1: know it's early, but in terms of teams to watch,
Speaker 1: I think the Dodgers are are my team to win
Speaker 1: it all. But hey, we're so early, very early. Indeed,
Speaker 1: we're also early on in the show, but coming up,
Speaker 1: We've got former MLB pitcher Mark Mulder joining us in
Speaker 1: just a second welcome back. We are now joined by
Speaker 1: two time MLB All Star Mark Moulder. Mark, we were
Speaker 1: just talking about the Oakland A's and our producer even
Speaker 1: put on his Oakland A's hat just when we're talking
Speaker 1: about hot teams in the MLB right now this season.
Speaker 1: I'm just curious, off the bat, who who are you
Speaker 1: liking so far? Well, to be fair, I haven't watched
Speaker 1: a ton of it just because I've been so busy
Speaker 1: with my kids. I mean, I've obviously I've obviously seen
Speaker 1: you know, the Dodgers as good as as much talent
Speaker 1: as they have. I saw that Mookie Bets catch last
Speaker 1: night that was pretty incredible to end the game. There's
Speaker 1: just so much talent in the game right now. There
Speaker 1: are a handful of teams though that kind of stand
Speaker 1: out above the rest, which I I just don't know
Speaker 1: if I see someone when it comes to playoff time
Speaker 1: with the staff the Dodgers have, I don't know if
Speaker 1: I see someone really being a lot, a lot better
Speaker 1: than them. That's what I was just telling Speedy as well.
Speaker 1: So I'm glad you're making me sound smart here. We
Speaker 1: were also talking earlier about the kind of the evolution
Speaker 1: of what players are able to do on and off
Speaker 1: the field in terms of expressing themselves, the jewelry, the
Speaker 1: brightly colored accessories, social media. What do you make of
Speaker 1: the direction MLB is going and do you think that
Speaker 1: this is a smart way to be more fan friendly. Well,
Speaker 1: I'll give you an example. Yesterday I saw MLB. I
Speaker 1: forget which picture it was. They put something on Twitter,
Speaker 1: Instagram and it said, oh, his his shoes are on fire. Okay, Well,
Speaker 1: I can remember the day when Eric Chavez and I
Speaker 1: used to take a pair of the shocks, the Nike shocks.
Speaker 1: I'd get them from You Can Stay because they were
Speaker 1: green and white, and we would send those shoes and
Speaker 1: another pair of shoes to a company to take the
Speaker 1: spikes off of our shoes and put them onto the
Speaker 1: Nike shoes Naki shocks, basketball shoes, and Nike got so
Speaker 1: mad at us. They wanted to find guys when you
Speaker 1: didn't wear the conforming, the right color shoes. So it
Speaker 1: goes to show you just how much the game has
Speaker 1: changed to where now they're promoting what guys are wearing,
Speaker 1: and how different and how much people can express themselves
Speaker 1: and the things they put on their feet, and I
Speaker 1: think you've seen that in a lot of sports. I
Speaker 1: also once had to change my glove mid game in
Speaker 1: probably two thousand two because one side of it was
Speaker 1: black and one side was brown, so it was not
Speaker 1: a one colored glove. And at that time you weren't
Speaker 1: allowed to have a red one, you couldn't have a
Speaker 1: blue one. You couldn't do a lot of that stuff.
Speaker 1: And you think about that was less than twenty years ago,
Speaker 1: So it shows you the direction it's going. People are individuals.
Speaker 1: They can have opinions, they can dress a certain way,
Speaker 1: they can act a certain way, and there's nothing wrong
Speaker 1: with that. And I think that's that should be applied
Speaker 1: to to all sports. You know, I get it. Baseball
Speaker 1: is doing it, but it should be that way for
Speaker 1: a lot of other ones too. I mentioned the Oakland
Speaker 1: days earlier. Obviously that's where you were drafted. You had
Speaker 1: your two all star seasons. I'm kind of curious you
Speaker 1: had such a quick ascent. You were the second overall
Speaker 1: pick in you spent just two seasons in the miners
Speaker 1: and then immediately were called up. You were just twenty
Speaker 1: two years old. I'm fascinated as someone who covers a
Speaker 1: lot of sports, the amount that's put on a young
Speaker 1: person's plate years old, that's that's very young to have
Speaker 1: that kind of success. Attention everything. I mean, walk walk
Speaker 1: us through what goes through the mind of someone You
Speaker 1: probably thought you'd maybe have another couple of seasons and
Speaker 1: the miners, like most guys do well. The thing was is,
Speaker 1: so I was obviously drafted out of college, and so
Speaker 1: I was It's I I was not ready to play
Speaker 1: professional baseball. If I would have been drafted on the
Speaker 1: high school and signed, I was too young and immature,
Speaker 1: and I just I wasn't ready for that. So I
Speaker 1: needed college. I needed to be able to grow up
Speaker 1: a little bit. And then when they drafted me, I
Speaker 1: went to big league camp, and to be fair, in
Speaker 1: my mind, I want I thought I should have made
Speaker 1: that team that first year. But I also didn't have
Speaker 1: a routine. I didn't have I was not prepared for
Speaker 1: a big league lifestyle. I to play games day in,
Speaker 1: day out, do the work that needed to be done.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have been able to have handled it mentally.
Speaker 1: So I went straight to Triple A. I was lucky
Speaker 1: I didn't have to ride a bus. I didn't have
Speaker 1: to do the whole a ball double a ten twelve
Speaker 1: hour bus rides. We were flying commercial. I was in Vancouver, Canada,
Speaker 1: which was an incredible city that year, and then the
Speaker 1: next year was in the big leagues. But even that
Speaker 1: first year I struggled because I didn't have that work
Speaker 1: ethic yet. I didn't have the routine down. I didn't
Speaker 1: know what it took to be a major league player
Speaker 1: and have success and be prepared each day, day in,
Speaker 1: day out. And that second year I had a few
Speaker 1: uh older pitchers, Gil Horedia, who most people don't know.
Speaker 1: He was just kind of someone who took me under
Speaker 1: his wing and said, listen, man, you gotta are doing this,
Speaker 1: do this, you know. And I started getting a routine
Speaker 1: and and I was much more prepared for that that
Speaker 1: two thousand one season, and that I was able to
Speaker 1: kind of show who I was as a picture. Obviously
Speaker 1: I did have a lot of success and kind of
Speaker 1: then that carried over into those future years. But you know,
Speaker 1: it's a learning curve for everybody. Everybody learns at a
Speaker 1: different pace. Things like that. I don't believe everyone just
Speaker 1: shows up in the big leagues ready to go. Everyone
Speaker 1: has their own struggle to to find their way to
Speaker 1: have success, and I needed a little bit of time
Speaker 1: to find mine. Mark you speak about coming into your
Speaker 1: own as a player, finding that routine, and then finding
Speaker 1: the eventual success. I'm wondering who currently in the MLB
Speaker 1: right now is someone that you enjoy watching, whether it's
Speaker 1: their journey to start them or someone that you just
Speaker 1: got your eye on. I think I gravitate a little
Speaker 1: more towards left hand pictures just makes it yeah, you
Speaker 1: know so so guys like Kershaw David Price. I say,
Speaker 1: there's a ton of young guys that that I've seen
Speaker 1: that are left handed. There there's obviously a ton of talent.
Speaker 1: We saw Carlos Rodon throw that no hit or the
Speaker 1: other day with the White Sox. There's obviously a ton
Speaker 1: of talented guys. But I'm still in such a favor
Speaker 1: of a lot of the older guys because they they
Speaker 1: go deeper into games. I think we're gonna get to
Speaker 1: a point here coming up where you're you're not gonna
Speaker 1: see a whole lot of two inning pictures. You're not
Speaker 1: gonna see a whole lot of complete games. This whole five, six,
Speaker 1: seven inning thing. A lot of these young kids, they
Speaker 1: come up in the minor leagues only throwing five or
Speaker 1: six innings, and they're told that that's a great job,
Speaker 1: and there's nothing wrong with that. It's not their fault.
Speaker 1: But you know, you when I was doing TV stuff,
Speaker 1: doing games, you'd see these kids get into the six
Speaker 1: or seventh inning and they're they're kind of glanced into
Speaker 1: the bullpen to see, hey, is somebody getting up. So
Speaker 1: a lot of the veteran guys who still can can
Speaker 1: go deep into games. Whether it's Max Scherzer Verlander, I
Speaker 1: know he's hurt, but there's just a handful of those
Speaker 1: guys that I still love watching bitch because they want
Speaker 1: to They still want to start everything that they finished.
Speaker 1: But if a lot of these young guys, these young
Speaker 1: guys that come up the talent that they have and
Speaker 1: the stuff that they have, I would give anything to
Speaker 1: have had the stuff that they have now. I mean,
Speaker 1: every one of these guys is a hundred, it seems like,
Speaker 1: with wipe out sliders and and plus breaking balls with
Speaker 1: a good change up. And I think that's why you
Speaker 1: see the ones with the better command really have the
Speaker 1: success in today's game because a lot of them throw hard,
Speaker 1: but not all of them know where the ball is
Speaker 1: going at all times. Mark as a picture. I know
Speaker 1: you're gonna have a different answer for this than I am,
Speaker 1: But when I'm watching the game, the last thing that
Speaker 1: I want to see nine times out of ten is
Speaker 1: a pictures duel, a no hitter, or a perfect game.
Speaker 1: But as the guy in the driver's seat, what is
Speaker 1: it like to really be crushing it out there and
Speaker 1: knowing that these guys can't hit anything you're throwing. Well,
Speaker 1: when that's happening, it's effortless. There's no thought that's going
Speaker 1: into it. Everything is coming to you very easy. Whatever
Speaker 1: pitch you throw, you instantly know what you have to
Speaker 1: throw next. And the beauty of that is when you're
Speaker 1: on you and the catcher are so on the same
Speaker 1: page that the catcher puts down a sign and you're
Speaker 1: you're almost shaking your head yes as his fingers are
Speaker 1: going down. So the game goes real quick. When you're struggling,
Speaker 1: you can't slow the game down. So when I say
Speaker 1: that there you might have first and second no out.
Speaker 1: My rookie year, I couldn't slow that game down to
Speaker 1: to where I could really think about, Okay, this situation,
Speaker 1: what do I need to throw here? How do I
Speaker 1: need to execute this pitch. When you're cruising in a game,
Speaker 1: it's easy. And that's the beauty of it is that
Speaker 1: there's not a whole lot of thinking. It just flows
Speaker 1: and the innings go real quick. Your thought process is
Speaker 1: real quick. It's real easy. You never overthink anything. And
Speaker 1: I think that's where you get in trouble is when
Speaker 1: you start to question things. Is that game is going on.
Speaker 1: You gotta just go with your first instinct. You gotta
Speaker 1: you out a trust set catcher because most of the
Speaker 1: time the catcher is calling that game, but he knows
Speaker 1: your game plan. He he knows where you want to
Speaker 1: go in certain situations. But he's also the one who's
Speaker 1: a little more able to watch the hitters speed where
Speaker 1: they're in the box, because hitters move around in the
Speaker 1: box depending on the situation and depending on a pitch
Speaker 1: that maybe they're looking for an in at bat Manny
Speaker 1: ramire Is back in the day, he would sit in
Speaker 1: the box in a certain spot because he was gonna
Speaker 1: sit fastball every pitch, or he was gonna sit waiting
Speaker 1: for a curveball every pitch, But if you didn't throw
Speaker 1: that pitch, he'd strike out looking. I mean everyone has
Speaker 1: seen videos. If you followed baseball of Manny, the pitch
Speaker 1: is halfway to home plate and he already starts walking
Speaker 1: to the dugout. You know that was him because he
Speaker 1: knew he was guessing wrong and you weren't thinking along
Speaker 1: the way he was. So you win that battle sometimes
Speaker 1: and and a lot of it's a guessing game, but
Speaker 1: when you're rolling man, it's very easy out there. Mark,
Speaker 1: As a pitcher, how do you explain how impressive it
Speaker 1: is to see a two way player like show Yetani?
Speaker 1: We we were talking about him in the first segment.
Speaker 1: He has the fastest pitch so far this season, and
Speaker 1: the fastest hit ball this year, the hardest hit ball
Speaker 1: this year, I mean physically and mentally. How hard is
Speaker 1: it to be that successful as a two way player?
Speaker 1: It seems incredible as a layman, But as a pitcher,
Speaker 1: what's your take? Well, you know I was someone all
Speaker 1: through high school and college I played first base when
Speaker 1: I didn't pitch. I don't think I could possibly imagine
Speaker 1: doing that at a big league level, though, you know,
Speaker 1: doing it doing it in the minor league level, I
Speaker 1: I suppose I could maybe understand it. But at the
Speaker 1: big leagues, being prepared day in, day out to do that,
Speaker 1: that that to me is incredible. So the planning, the
Speaker 1: whatever they're doing with him, which I don't know how
Speaker 1: they're making it all work to where because he obviously
Speaker 1: has to throw a couple of sides in between his starts.
Speaker 1: I get it. He only pitches once every five maybe
Speaker 1: six days. If they have an off day, they can
Speaker 1: move him around a little bit more if they have
Speaker 1: to give him one more day rest, But to be
Speaker 1: able to get in the reps that he needs, it
Speaker 1: needs to be able to do in order to be
Speaker 1: ready to take the field that night, to hit each
Speaker 1: and every day, that's a lot. So they also got
Speaker 1: to prepare or to make sure he's not fatigued as
Speaker 1: the season goes along. If if he's taken bat in
Speaker 1: practice every day, and there's also strengthening things, workouts that
Speaker 1: he's got to do for his body, not only for pitching,
Speaker 1: but to be strong enough to swing that bad and
Speaker 1: be prepared every game. So whatever that Roustine is, I'm
Speaker 1: sure there's a lot of changes that they have made
Speaker 1: maybe from his first year until now. I know he
Speaker 1: had his injury, so he did miss some time. But
Speaker 1: that's got to be a tough juggling in order to
Speaker 1: keep him healthy and and make sure he's rested to
Speaker 1: succeed each time. Yeah, tough indeed. And Mark, before we
Speaker 1: let you go, there's a couple of lifestyle things we
Speaker 1: want to talk to you about. We love to talk
Speaker 1: to our guests about movies in their respective sports, and
Speaker 1: there are so many classic and iconic baseball inspired films.
Speaker 1: But I'm wondering, what are some of your favorites. Well,
Speaker 1: Major League you know that that's obviously one of the
Speaker 1: best ones. Feel The Dreams is awesome for the love
Speaker 1: of the game with Kevin Costner. You know, it's like
Speaker 1: I said to you at the end of that game,
Speaker 1: when everything goes blurry around him and it's just him
Speaker 1: and the catcher. That's a very real That was a
Speaker 1: cool moment that they put in that movie, because that's
Speaker 1: very real for a picture when you're out there where
Speaker 1: you don't hear the fans, you don't you don't see
Speaker 1: any of that stuff. It's just you and that catcher's glove.
Speaker 1: And so I thought that was really cool that they
Speaker 1: put that in the end of the movie as well.
Speaker 1: I like that that was not on any of my
Speaker 1: list I actually have not seen for the love of
Speaker 1: the game, but for me favorite baseball movies. And just
Speaker 1: to bring you up to speed mark last week was
Speaker 1: Our Master's Episodes All Golf. They're only like four or
Speaker 1: three golf movies, so there's so many more baseball movies.
Speaker 1: So this is awesome. But for me and Speedy, I
Speaker 1: can't wait to hear yours as well. Sand Lot is
Speaker 1: very special to me. My first crush ever was on
Speaker 1: Benny the Jet Rodriguez. It's like seven years old or something.
Speaker 1: But Sam, come on, that's gotta be the best baseball movie, right.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, my kids now that now that I
Speaker 1: think about, my kids have seen that a lot. Well,
Speaker 1: that movie is great. I was just a little bit
Speaker 1: older when that movie came out, so obviously it wasn't
Speaker 1: something that I saw. It wasn't something that I was
Speaker 1: watching when it came out, So that's I guess the
Speaker 1: only reason that's not as vivid to me or I
Speaker 1: don't think of that when I hear baseball movie. Now
Speaker 1: that's fair. Sand Lott is one of my favorites as well.
Speaker 1: For me, it's either sand Lot or Angels in the outfield.
Speaker 1: I'm a sucker. Yeah, well, you said you weren't watching
Speaker 1: as many games as you probably want to right now.
Speaker 1: But I'm curious, since retiring, how many games are you
Speaker 1: able to go to? And if you do go, do
Speaker 1: you like to indulge in ballpark food, because that's like
Speaker 1: the main reason a lot of people go to games. Yet. Well,
Speaker 1: now my kids are thirteen, eleven, and nine, and I
Speaker 1: would take them to games when they were I don't know,
Speaker 1: let's say eight six or whatever it is. And since
Speaker 1: we live in Arizona, we would go to the d
Speaker 1: Backs game. The Cardinals are the as were in town,
Speaker 1: the teams that I played for. We would be sitting
Speaker 1: first row behind the dugout, whatever it was. I take
Speaker 1: him in the clubhouse prior to the game, and my
Speaker 1: kids could have cared less. I mean, talk about being
Speaker 1: so lucky and so fortunate. I said, in the upper tank.
Speaker 1: I sat in the upper tank left field of old
Speaker 1: Comiskey Park as a kid, So that was as close
Speaker 1: as I have forgot. And now my kids have this opportunity,
Speaker 1: and I swear to you. By the fourth inning at
Speaker 1: the d Backs field up in left field, they have
Speaker 1: a little baseball field you can go hit whiffle balls
Speaker 1: and a speed pitch or a speed gun, things like that.
Speaker 1: By the second inning they wanted to go up there,
Speaker 1: and by the fourth inning they're like, can we go home?
Speaker 1: You know, So they weren't really into it. And I
Speaker 1: bet you I haven't taken them to a game now
Speaker 1: and probably two years. Obviously last season getting canceled change things.
Speaker 1: But well we'll go at some point. We'll go to
Speaker 1: a game or two this year. And when it comes
Speaker 1: to the ballpark food, I mean, yeah, I'm gonna eat
Speaker 1: something when out of there. I when I was doing
Speaker 1: TV stuff, I remember going to Dodger Stadium, had to
Speaker 1: go get a Dodger dog, things like that. You have
Speaker 1: to experience certain things Billy cheese steak when I was
Speaker 1: doing games in Philly, but I never when I was playing,
Speaker 1: we never really did the ballpark food because obviously they
Speaker 1: were making stuff in the clubhouse. But every now and
Speaker 1: then you still gotta you gotta go get the batting
Speaker 1: helmet with the ice cream in it. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: that's that's just that's kind of a given. That way,
Speaker 1: the kids can all take those helmets home. Oh for sure. Well,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining us. Thank you for
Speaker 1: your movie Inside as well. And I'm glad to hear
Speaker 1: that you have indulged in some ballpark food and you're
Speaker 1: a mere mortal like the rest of us, so that
Speaker 1: is good to know. Mark. Thank you so much. It
Speaker 1: sounds good. Thank you. Thanks Mark. Yeah, so, Olivia, we
Speaker 1: kind of got into it a bit with Mark, but
Speaker 1: it's time for us to really hash this thing out
Speaker 1: and talk baseball movies. Favorite of all time and maybe
Speaker 1: what you think is overrated. Let's hear it. Oh okay,
Speaker 1: well I think and like I was saying earlier, there's
Speaker 1: so many baseball movies, so this was an easy list
Speaker 1: to make. Moneyball is pretty high on my list. Classic
Speaker 1: love Moneyball. Also just fascinating and true story and just
Speaker 1: an amazing story, a league of their own. There's no
Speaker 1: crying in baseball. That is so good. I've watched that
Speaker 1: maybe a hundred times. In fact, this year for Halloween
Speaker 1: I was for the Peach. Oh my goodness, are you committed?
Speaker 1: I love that movie? And then Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm doing here? Yes, okay, for those listening,
Speaker 1: I'm doing the really fast pitch that what's what's the
Speaker 1: guy's name in the movie. I don't know, but that
Speaker 1: movie is so good Bookie of the Year. And then
Speaker 1: I mentioned earlier sand Lot like classic coming of age story.
Speaker 1: I love that time period it's in. I love their
Speaker 1: little town. And as I admitted earlier that was my
Speaker 1: first crush was Benny the Jet Rodriguez. I think it's
Speaker 1: it's so dope to watch the Sundlite guys just link
Speaker 1: up in real life today. Still it's dope. Every time
Speaker 1: I see them on Instagram, like all come together. It
Speaker 1: feels so nostalgic, but also dates me because then I
Speaker 1: feel old, way older than I should. You're not old, remember,
Speaker 1: I've got a couple of years on you. Okay, all right, Well,
Speaker 1: when it comes to baseball movies, for me, I am
Speaker 1: not a baseball purist, so I tend to like things
Speaker 1: that are just a little more lighthearted than that make
Speaker 1: me laugh. And so one of my favorite baseball movies
Speaker 1: of all time is The bench Warmers. Please tell me
Speaker 1: seen the bench Warmard I have not. Okay, Well, it's
Speaker 1: like the most immature baseball movie or not even just basically,
Speaker 1: this is one of the most immature movies you've ever seen.
Speaker 1: It's completely unrealistic. They build an entire ballpark in like
Speaker 1: seventy two hours or something like that. But it's about,
Speaker 1: you know, these guys just standing up for themselves and
Speaker 1: fighting against the bullies. And it's just a beautiful, beautiful
Speaker 1: tail uh immaturity and laughter. So Bench Warmers is up
Speaker 1: there for me for sure, and you should definitely check
Speaker 1: it out if you have some two and a half
Speaker 1: odd hours to waste that you'll never get back. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, we talked about this last week on our
Speaker 1: golf episode. I grew up in such a girl family.
Speaker 1: We never watched like the Billy Madison's that when you're
Speaker 1: going to watch the stupid humor things. I'm not saying
Speaker 1: I'm above it, but I just it already sounds like
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna like this movie. Yeah, you're probably gonna
Speaker 1: hate it, but it wouldn't be a good segment to
Speaker 1: hear you talk about it. So maybe one day when
Speaker 1: you get a chance to watch it, all right. Another
Speaker 1: one of my favorite Bowl movies is Mr. Three thousand.
Speaker 1: Have you ever seen this movie with the late Great
Speaker 1: Bernie mac No, but I know what when you're talking
Speaker 1: about and I think I'd watch that one. I would
Speaker 1: like that one. Yeah, so this one is a bit
Speaker 1: less immature. It's just the funny story about Bernie Mack
Speaker 1: retiring and he thinks he's, you know, reached a coveted
Speaker 1: mark of X amount of hits. One of those hits
Speaker 1: or a few of those hits rather become ineligible, so
Speaker 1: he has to come back to try to get like
Speaker 1: one hit to make him reach that coveted mark. I
Speaker 1: haven't seen it in a while, but it was a
Speaker 1: movie I saw as a kid, and that it just
Speaker 1: always made me laughing. It was pretty predictable, but a
Speaker 1: solid movie as a child, and then saying a lot
Speaker 1: of course, you know, I used to be so dap
Speaker 1: scared of that dog. I just was just starred forever.
Speaker 1: I almost gotten the elevator with a dog the other day,
Speaker 1: and I just get flashbacks to same like con traumatizing.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna just wait for the next elevator. That's how
Speaker 1: I feel. The beast. I mentioned that I had my
Speaker 1: first crustion sand lot. Did you too that Wendy peppercorn
Speaker 1: or pepcorn? I did not. I did not like the
Speaker 1: hot thing for like young boys for a couple of years.
Speaker 1: I feel like, yeah, maybe at that time, I was
Speaker 1: just still not not into it yet, you know, it
Speaker 1: was it was I was still coming of age at
Speaker 1: that point. At that point, it wasn't my first crush.
Speaker 1: But again, we're lucky because there are just so many
Speaker 1: good baseball movies. If you do a Google starts with
Speaker 1: just baseball movies, there's a plethora, like fifty sixty, you know,
Speaker 1: from Bad News, Bears Too, For the Love of the
Speaker 1: Game of course, to Knuckleball, The Perfect Game, Fever Pitch
Speaker 1: with Jimmy Fallon Fever Pitch, I forgot. I love that movie.
Speaker 1: Can we categorize the movie Ted as a baseball movie?
Speaker 1: Have you seen Ted? I have seen Ted, and I
Speaker 1: liked to and I think that falls under immature. It does.
Speaker 1: But they go to they go to Fenway. Does that
Speaker 1: make it a baseball movie? I don't know. Like you said,
Speaker 1: there's some all right, keep it, Let's keep it a
Speaker 1: clean category. So I'm going to say no, all right,
Speaker 1: Olivia reigning on my parade, Yeah, real quick, favorite ballpark food,
Speaker 1: my favorite. I'm kind of a sucker for dipping dots, man,
Speaker 1: just classic ice cream dipping dots. You can't go wrong.
Speaker 1: Are you a dipping dots lady? Love dipping dots, And
Speaker 1: like I said, I think the only time I ever
Speaker 1: get them is at the ballpark, and I'm not a
Speaker 1: My husband lives and breathes baseball, which is ironic. He's
Speaker 1: a basketball player. Baseball is by far his favorite sport.
Speaker 1: So we end up watching the Milwaukee Brewers all the time,
Speaker 1: and about twice this summer, so we'll go to a
Speaker 1: Brewers game, and I never complained because food is so good,
Speaker 1: the weather's gorgeous, Miller Park's amazing, So I feel like
Speaker 1: I'm a big baseball game fan. I love being at
Speaker 1: the ballpark. But in general, you know, he's the one
Speaker 1: watching every inning. He's the one if we're doing anything,
Speaker 1: he's got the Brewers game on his phone down here.
Speaker 1: So this is kind of my least favorite time of
Speaker 1: year because I feel like I lose my husband for
Speaker 1: a couple of months. Damn Well, don't worry, you'll get
Speaker 1: him back soon, I hope. Okay, but I'm glad that
Speaker 1: you enjoy the games because going to the bullpark is
Speaker 1: something that I missed so much, and one day we'll
Speaker 1: be able to go back and do it again safely,
Speaker 1: and I can't wait for that to come. But now
Speaker 1: we are wrapping things up with this week's Lions Lock.
Speaker 1: Peter Andrew, our guy and honorary co host, is actually
Speaker 1: out this week on some quote unquote important business. We're
Speaker 1: going to find out what that is. So we've got
Speaker 1: John Franklin joining us to fill in. It's going to
Speaker 1: be good. Well, we're wrapping things up this week with
Speaker 1: Lions Lock and Peter Andrew, who we've joked it's kind
Speaker 1: of like our third co host. He's out this week
Speaker 1: on some very very important business. So John Franklin with
Speaker 1: that MGM, is going to join us. John, First, I've
Speaker 1: got to ask where is Peter? What is so important? Hey, man,
Speaker 1: I don't know if important business was the right thing
Speaker 1: to call it. I got some pictures of Pete out
Speaker 1: on the golf course this week, so no exposing the
Speaker 1: man right here, But I'm not so sure it's as
Speaker 1: important as he's leading you to believe. Guys, the audacity,
Speaker 1: I feel cheated, yeah, I mean, hey, I'm here now.
Speaker 1: So maybe this is a big hosting switch. Maybe the
Speaker 1: early season at vibs switch from like fresh Prince, maybe
Speaker 1: I'm stepping in out. John Franklin is the new Lions
Speaker 1: lock for our show. Hey man, I'm trying, So let's
Speaker 1: see what happens and see if I can get it right. Well,
Speaker 1: that's a good place to start. Then let's let's kind
Speaker 1: of preview some of the events happening this week in
Speaker 1: the sports world, starting with golf, because Peter is out
Speaker 1: there working on his swing. Let's start with the Zurich
Speaker 1: Classic coming up this weekend. It's two verse two. Tell
Speaker 1: me what you kind of are liking this week and
Speaker 1: where's a good place to put your money? Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: the Zeri Class is a really cool event, and like,
Speaker 1: I love watching the Zeri Classic because it's always two
Speaker 1: golfers against the field, and they didn't get to play
Speaker 1: it last year, so there's a lot of lay overcoming
Speaker 1: this year. And John rom and Ryan Palmer the defending champs,
Speaker 1: so I think you got to watch them anytime you
Speaker 1: got defending champs coming back, didn't get to play last year,
Speaker 1: they got a chance to keep their title going. But
Speaker 1: if you're looking for a cool underdog in this situation,
Speaker 1: Victor Hovlin and Crispin Tura are a pair to watch.
Speaker 1: They played together at Oklahoma State. They were national champions
Speaker 1: together at Oklahoma State. They're both from Norway. I think
Speaker 1: they like that team kem could be like really cool
Speaker 1: going into the weekends. That would be like my sneaky pick.
Speaker 1: If you're trying to get a good payout this weekenda,
Speaker 1: what do you got for us in some other sports?
Speaker 1: Let's jump into hoops? Basketball? Yeah, basketball, We've got a
Speaker 1: good weekend coming up, right, So Friday is gonna be
Speaker 1: really interesting. You know, you've got Celtics Nets, which is
Speaker 1: a great matchup in the East. I think the Celtics
Speaker 1: are I think they've just underperformed a lot this year
Speaker 1: as far as I'm concerned. And I think the Nets
Speaker 1: you never know what lineup is going out there at
Speaker 1: this point, right You never know what superstar is actually
Speaker 1: gonna play, and who's gonna see the who's gonna be
Speaker 1: sitting on the pond. So I can see the Celtics
Speaker 1: maybe sneaking one from the Nets this weekend, and that
Speaker 1: would be kind of interesting to shake up the East
Speaker 1: a little bit, maybe expose them a little bit. Okay,
Speaker 1: and then how about baseball we're just kicking off into
Speaker 1: baseball season. Who do you like and who do you
Speaker 1: maybe dislike? Listen, I'm a Yankee guy. There's been a
Speaker 1: brutal start. I'm very upset, but I think this weekend
Speaker 1: could be a turnaround for them. But I know there
Speaker 1: it's just terrible. It's it's not great to start. But
Speaker 1: maybe this is the weekend they turned it around. And
Speaker 1: I think Pete had mentioned it previously. The Central is
Speaker 1: going to be the most fun division. The NL Central
Speaker 1: is gonna be so fun to watch. And I think
Speaker 1: if you watch those matchups going into the air, you
Speaker 1: know the Brewers Cubs had a great back and forth
Speaker 1: last week. Anything like that going on in the Central
Speaker 1: is prime time. You're gonna see some fireworks. Keep an
Speaker 1: eye on it. And Mookie Betts had a great catch
Speaker 1: this past weekend. I think the Dodgers are about to
Speaker 1: hit like a major stride, just taking down the Padre.
Speaker 1: So let's see what they can do hit into the
Speaker 1: weekend as well. Yeohn, If you're new to sports betting
Speaker 1: in baseball, what are various ways you can put your
Speaker 1: money down? What are some fun prop bets in baseball? Oh,
Speaker 1: there's a bunch of good ones, you know, like they're
Speaker 1: if you're looking for a better payout as far as
Speaker 1: baseball goes, you could do strikeouts by a picture, So
Speaker 1: like if you like over unders on on a picture strikeouts,
Speaker 1: and if you really like a specific matchup, always go
Speaker 1: with it. I'm a big advocate that pitching doesn't get
Speaker 1: the love it deserves nowadays with the home run ball,
Speaker 1: So that's an avenue I like to go down as
Speaker 1: well as Player to get a hit is a great
Speaker 1: prop bet. That's a that's one. Obviously it might be
Speaker 1: more on the favorite side at whatever player might be,
Speaker 1: whether you know it's Fernando Tattis Jr. Whoever might pick
Speaker 1: player to get a hit usually works out pretty good
Speaker 1: for you. You know, one of every three times they
Speaker 1: get to hit their Hall of Famer, right, So and
Speaker 1: that that's a Hall of Famer in your book because
Speaker 1: you get some money in your pocket. I like that
Speaker 1: you brought up Fernando Tattoos Jr. We're talking about him
Speaker 1: earlier as one of the kind of new age players
Speaker 1: who's showing so much swag and fun and eccentric and
Speaker 1: playing to the fan base. And so that's been a
Speaker 1: huge topic on this show. Another topic on this show
Speaker 1: has been best baseball movies, and we've brought in Mark Mulder.
Speaker 1: He told us his we've discussed ours, what is your
Speaker 1: top baseball movie? And then what's a close second and third? Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go. I think this is one that people
Speaker 1: sleep on. But A League of their Own is my
Speaker 1: favorite baseball movie. His hands shot into this guy. It
Speaker 1: is so good. You can't tell me that that movie
Speaker 1: isn't one of the most perfect movies. Sports Flies ever.
Speaker 1: I think for some reason people just like throw it
Speaker 1: in the backseat for no reason. Gina Davis is lights out,
Speaker 1: Madonna such a good cast. Tom Hayes, Yeah, Rose o'donald fantastic.
Speaker 1: John Lovett is in it for like a sprinkle in
Speaker 1: the marinade, like it's it's such a good movie, and
Speaker 1: so many iconic clients like there's no crying in baseball.
Speaker 1: But if I had to pick a second and third,
Speaker 1: I'd go second, sand Lot and third major league nostalgia fact.
Speaker 1: But love love Love A League of their Own me too?
Speaker 1: All right, Well, John, Look, I will say that the
Speaker 1: bar is pretty low because Peter doesn't always shoot that
Speaker 1: well from the field. And so we'll see how what
Speaker 1: you directed the direction that you directed us. Rather, we'll
Speaker 1: see if it pays off. Yeah, I mean, I hope
Speaker 1: it's well. I had to go with golf considering Peach
Speaker 1: marking on his swing this weekend. So you guys looking
Speaker 1: for a payout, I'm telling your Victor Hobland, Chris Mentora,
Speaker 1: that's your pick. Sounds like a plan, John, Thank you,
Speaker 1: Thanks guys so much. Great to be here, alright, Olivia,
Speaker 1: Well that is it for us and listeners. Thank you
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