WEBVTT - Talking Baseball with Retired All-star Pitcher Mark Mulder 0:00:03.920 --> 0:00:08.559 From the King of Sports Books becomes the King Sports 0:00:08.560 --> 0:00:18.800 Podcast Unleashed presented by bet MGM. You're your host, Speedy 0:00:18.880 --> 0:00:29.160 Mormon and Olivia Arlen Decker. Welcome back to Unleashed from 0:00:29.200 --> 0:00:32.600 the King of Sports Books bet MGM. Today we take 0:00:32.640 --> 0:00:36.239 the mound and talk baseball. The season has begun and 0:00:36.280 --> 0:00:40.320 we're gonna break it down with former MLB pitcher Mark Mulder. Plus, 0:00:40.400 --> 0:00:42.959 we got to talk about our favorite baseball movies and 0:00:43.120 --> 0:00:46.920 breakdown the weekend's best bets in our Lions Lock segment. 0:00:47.280 --> 0:00:50.120 All of that is coming up, but before that, Olivia 0:00:50.240 --> 0:00:52.760 is gonna walk us through the baseball season so far. 0:00:53.400 --> 0:00:55.480 Olivia from the other side of the world, What is 0:00:55.520 --> 0:00:58.800 going on on this side of the world in baseball? Well, 0:00:58.840 --> 0:01:00.840 what's up, Speedy. Yeah, you know, it's been a great 0:01:00.880 --> 0:01:05.120 start to the MLB season, but notably in terms of headlines. Recently. 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:08.000 This past weekend there was a postponement due to COVID. 0:01:08.360 --> 0:01:11.080 It was the Twins Angels series. And you know, last 0:01:11.120 --> 0:01:14.000 year forty five games were postponed in the regular season, 0:01:14.080 --> 0:01:16.360 almost all of those were made up. This one's going 0:01:16.400 --> 0:01:19.080 to be tricky to make up. Just as scheduling works out, 0:01:19.160 --> 0:01:22.000 so that was pretty significant and I think it follows 0:01:22.040 --> 0:01:25.920 a greater storyline as many teams made a big push 0:01:26.000 --> 0:01:29.080 after spring training to vaccinate a lot of their players, 0:01:29.160 --> 0:01:32.440 people who work in their program. Obviously, players can opt 0:01:32.480 --> 0:01:34.600 out of this, as some have. The Twins had a 0:01:34.600 --> 0:01:37.800 couple of players who chose that the almost of the 0:01:37.880 --> 0:01:41.880 Twins organization has been vaccinated, so this was a surprise. 0:01:42.040 --> 0:01:44.600 They had at least four positive tests, and this was 0:01:44.600 --> 0:01:48.280 pretty significant in something that you know, you're just hoping 0:01:48.360 --> 0:01:50.960 that the landscape of sports will stop seeing that headline. 0:01:50.960 --> 0:01:53.360 But that is something that came up this week. But 0:01:53.720 --> 0:01:55.760 you know, in general, I mentioned the season has been 0:01:55.800 --> 0:01:57.720 off to a good start. There's been two no hitters 0:01:57.880 --> 0:02:01.000 the White Sox Carlos Rodone Padre Race Joe must Grove, 0:02:01.600 --> 0:02:04.200 so that that's always exciting or I guess not exciting 0:02:04.240 --> 0:02:06.360 if you like to see big home runs. And then 0:02:06.400 --> 0:02:09.840 just in general storylines, the Yankees not really living up 0:02:09.840 --> 0:02:12.480 to the preseason hype that they always get. Right now, 0:02:12.520 --> 0:02:15.120 they're last in the a L. The hottest teams right 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:17.800 now are the Oakland A's. They've won seven straight. In 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:20.839 the NL, the Dodgers have won eight straight, and then 0:02:21.120 --> 0:02:23.519 just kind of what I love to see. Year by year, 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:26.200 I feel like we get to see a bit more 0:02:26.440 --> 0:02:30.560 expression and fun in the MLB. Usually it's kind of 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:34.080 known to be so antiquated, and you know, in ten 0:02:34.080 --> 0:02:36.880 they started the players Weekend, and the players would wear 0:02:36.919 --> 0:02:39.280 their nickname on the back, and they could wear fun 0:02:39.560 --> 0:02:42.160 you know, gloves and cleats and and now we're seeing 0:02:42.160 --> 0:02:44.920 more and more of that, and it's it's like this 0:02:45.040 --> 0:02:49.520 influx of young and exciting athletes. They're now expressing themselves. 0:02:49.520 --> 0:02:53.359 They're celebrating, they're able to wear jewelry and and they're 0:02:53.440 --> 0:02:57.040 fun gear and show personality the bat flips even on 0:02:57.120 --> 0:02:59.919 social media. It's such a difference from even a couple 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:02.920 years ago of what players are able to do to 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:07.639 represent themselves, to market themselves, and just in general, it's 0:03:07.800 --> 0:03:10.920 it's more player friendly, more fan friendly, and some of 0:03:10.960 --> 0:03:13.960 these unwritten rules are are kind of slowly disappearing. Now. 0:03:14.040 --> 0:03:17.399 Obviously you're going to have old timey, traditional fans who 0:03:17.440 --> 0:03:20.000 don't like this movement. The purest of the game, right, 0:03:20.160 --> 0:03:23.560 the purest. But I think this is great for the league. 0:03:23.560 --> 0:03:26.120 I think it's great for baseball because it's such a 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:29.480 long season, the games are so long. To really hook 0:03:29.520 --> 0:03:32.520 in fans and young fans, they've got to be on 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:35.360 social media, They've got to have some flair and swagger, 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:37.240 and you know, you see some of these players like 0:03:37.320 --> 0:03:41.880 Fernando Tatis, Mookie Betts, Ronald Kuna, like they're they're so 0:03:42.000 --> 0:03:46.280 swaggy and and exciting to watch as players and off 0:03:46.280 --> 0:03:49.560 the field. So that's to me kind of marked this 0:03:49.640 --> 0:03:51.600 season so far as I feel like we're seeing a 0:03:51.640 --> 0:03:55.040 lot of personality. What a great summarization. I will say, 0:03:55.160 --> 0:03:57.880 I love this kind of turning of the tide, right 0:03:57.920 --> 0:04:01.000 because we've seen other sports allowed to have that free 0:04:01.000 --> 0:04:04.200 reign to you know, express themselves however they wanted, and 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:07.320 baseball was kind of late to the metaphorical race here, 0:04:07.600 --> 0:04:09.840 and it's nice to funnily see these guys get to 0:04:09.880 --> 0:04:12.480 have fun and and do their thing. Now, when it 0:04:12.520 --> 0:04:16.320 comes to the players of the MLB this season, are 0:04:16.320 --> 0:04:18.200 there people that you have your eye on, Maybe some 0:04:18.240 --> 0:04:20.839 people that you think are gonna do really well, maybe 0:04:20.839 --> 0:04:23.200 some people that you think won't live up to the hype. 0:04:23.560 --> 0:04:26.120 Oh yeah, I mean definitely. This is like I mentioned, 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:29.400 it's kind of more of a player driven season. It 0:04:29.480 --> 0:04:32.000 feels like there's so many stars this year, and it's 0:04:32.000 --> 0:04:33.720 so fun to watch a lot of young stars too. 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:35.720 So let's start in the a. L A Kiel the 0:04:35.760 --> 0:04:38.520 duo with the Detroit Tigers. He's a rookie, he's playing great, 0:04:38.760 --> 0:04:40.560 and he was a Rule five draft pick. And a 0:04:40.600 --> 0:04:43.159 lot of people don't understand that a Rule five draft pick. 0:04:43.440 --> 0:04:46.600 It's a redraft. It's held every December, so teams without 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:50.240 the full roster, the allotted forty man roster, they can 0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:53.000 redraft guys who have been in the minors four or 0:04:53.000 --> 0:04:55.800 five years never been on a forty man roster. So 0:04:55.839 --> 0:04:57.719 a kielba Do is one of these guys. So it's 0:04:57.920 --> 0:05:00.280 it's kind of a you know, second chance. It so 0:05:00.400 --> 0:05:03.640 exciting when there's a success story out of the Rule 0:05:03.680 --> 0:05:06.560 five draft. So Akilbado with the Detroit Tigers is a 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:10.400 huge storyline. And then also Shoheyatani he's with the l 0:05:10.440 --> 0:05:13.400 A Angels. He's a two way player and that's so 0:05:13.560 --> 0:05:16.800 extremely rare. He's like a modern day Babe Ruth. He 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:19.200 pitches every five days as a starter, and then when 0:05:19.240 --> 0:05:21.400 he's not pitching and he's in the batting lineup, and 0:05:21.440 --> 0:05:23.919 the coolest thing about show hey he has the hardest 0:05:23.960 --> 0:05:26.520 hit ball this year at a hundred sixteen miles per hour. 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:29.360 He also has the fastest pitch at a hundred two 0:05:29.360 --> 0:05:32.599 miles per hour. Oh yeah, he's going crazy. He's going crazy. 0:05:32.600 --> 0:05:35.760 He's Godzilla. Everyone loves calling him Godzilla. And I thought, 0:05:35.839 --> 0:05:38.279 what was so cool? His teammate Mike Trout, who a 0:05:38.279 --> 0:05:40.200 lot of baseball pendants say is the best player of 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:42.720 all time. He says that show he is the best 0:05:42.720 --> 0:05:46.320 player he's ever seen. And then also Cec Sabathia, future 0:05:46.320 --> 0:05:48.599 Hall of Fame pitcher, he recently said he's the best 0:05:48.600 --> 0:05:51.039 he's ever seen. So that is I mean, talk about 0:05:51.120 --> 0:05:54.040 high praise. Some of the best ever do it. Are 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:57.200 are just amazed at what they're seeing. The whole baseball 0:05:57.240 --> 0:05:59.719 community is amazed at what they're seeing from him. And 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:02.799 then over on the NL I mentioned earlier Ronald Kuna Jr. 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:04.839 With the Atlanta Braves. He's come out of the gates 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:08.000 so strong. He's had such a hot start and he's 0:06:08.040 --> 0:06:10.440 such an exciting player. He's leading the league in home 0:06:10.520 --> 0:06:15.960 runs and he so personifies this new era of MLB players. 0:06:16.080 --> 0:06:20.040 The flair, the swagger, the bright accessories, the jewelry. I mean, 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:24.000 it's so modernized, you know now and then also I 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:26.320 talked about the l A Dodgers having a hot start there, 0:06:26.480 --> 0:06:29.720 the defending champs. They haven't lost a series, they've had 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:32.599 three straight sweeps, and they're the first team in the 0:06:32.680 --> 0:06:36.080 MLB too ten wins. So Dodgers are hot, fun to watch, 0:06:36.200 --> 0:06:38.880 but also you gotta you gotta have some love also 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:41.720 for the l A Angels and show Atani. He's kind 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:44.440 of my favorite player right now. Before we wrap here, 0:06:44.600 --> 0:06:46.919 I'm wondering who you think. I know it's early, but 0:06:47.000 --> 0:06:49.640 who you think will win m v P. On the 0:06:49.640 --> 0:06:52.240 A L side? Will it go back to Mike Trout 0:06:52.640 --> 0:06:55.840 or will it be jose A Brao for a second 0:06:55.920 --> 0:07:00.279 year in a row or Yeah, is that that place 0:07:00.320 --> 0:07:03.440 in your bed? Yeah, I mean maybe it's tough right now. 0:07:03.800 --> 0:07:05.680 On the N L side too, I feel a little 0:07:05.720 --> 0:07:07.480 bit more comfortable in that one because I think Ronald 0:07:07.600 --> 0:07:10.760 Kuna Jr. Is making a strong case. So, yeah, you 0:07:10.760 --> 0:07:14.200 know it's early, but in terms of teams to watch, 0:07:14.560 --> 0:07:16.760 I think the Dodgers are are my team to win 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:20.200 it all. But hey, we're so early, very early. Indeed, 0:07:20.200 --> 0:07:22.160 we're also early on in the show, but coming up, 0:07:22.200 --> 0:07:25.240 We've got former MLB pitcher Mark Mulder joining us in 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:35.120 just a second welcome back. We are now joined by 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:38.760 two time MLB All Star Mark Moulder. Mark, we were 0:07:38.840 --> 0:07:41.320 just talking about the Oakland A's and our producer even 0:07:41.320 --> 0:07:43.760 put on his Oakland A's hat just when we're talking 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:46.480 about hot teams in the MLB right now this season. 0:07:46.920 --> 0:07:48.880 I'm just curious, off the bat, who who are you 0:07:48.920 --> 0:07:52.360 liking so far? Well, to be fair, I haven't watched 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:54.200 a ton of it just because I've been so busy 0:07:54.240 --> 0:07:57.200 with my kids. I mean, I've obviously I've obviously seen 0:07:57.280 --> 0:07:59.440 you know, the Dodgers as good as as much talent 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:02.400 as they have. I saw that Mookie Bets catch last 0:08:02.480 --> 0:08:05.400 night that was pretty incredible to end the game. There's 0:08:05.440 --> 0:08:07.840 just so much talent in the game right now. There 0:08:07.880 --> 0:08:10.520 are a handful of teams though that kind of stand 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:12.920 out above the rest, which I I just don't know 0:08:12.960 --> 0:08:15.040 if I see someone when it comes to playoff time 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:17.240 with the staff the Dodgers have, I don't know if 0:08:17.240 --> 0:08:19.160 I see someone really being a lot, a lot better 0:08:19.200 --> 0:08:22.160 than them. That's what I was just telling Speedy as well. 0:08:22.200 --> 0:08:24.320 So I'm glad you're making me sound smart here. We 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:27.400 were also talking earlier about the kind of the evolution 0:08:27.720 --> 0:08:30.080 of what players are able to do on and off 0:08:30.120 --> 0:08:33.240 the field in terms of expressing themselves, the jewelry, the 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:36.920 brightly colored accessories, social media. What do you make of 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:39.440 the direction MLB is going and do you think that 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:42.960 this is a smart way to be more fan friendly. Well, 0:08:43.000 --> 0:08:46.360 I'll give you an example. Yesterday I saw MLB. I 0:08:46.440 --> 0:08:49.120 forget which picture it was. They put something on Twitter, 0:08:49.200 --> 0:08:53.280 Instagram and it said, oh, his his shoes are on fire. Okay, Well, 0:08:53.360 --> 0:08:56.080 I can remember the day when Eric Chavez and I 0:08:56.200 --> 0:08:59.240 used to take a pair of the shocks, the Nike shocks. 0:08:59.240 --> 0:09:00.880 I'd get them from You Can Stay because they were 0:09:00.920 --> 0:09:03.800 green and white, and we would send those shoes and 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:06.400 another pair of shoes to a company to take the 0:09:06.440 --> 0:09:08.400 spikes off of our shoes and put them onto the 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:12.600 Nike shoes Naki shocks, basketball shoes, and Nike got so 0:09:12.640 --> 0:09:15.440 mad at us. They wanted to find guys when you 0:09:15.480 --> 0:09:19.440 didn't wear the conforming, the right color shoes. So it 0:09:19.520 --> 0:09:21.520 goes to show you just how much the game has 0:09:21.600 --> 0:09:24.560 changed to where now they're promoting what guys are wearing, 0:09:24.920 --> 0:09:28.280 and how different and how much people can express themselves 0:09:28.280 --> 0:09:30.040 and the things they put on their feet, and I 0:09:30.040 --> 0:09:32.080 think you've seen that in a lot of sports. I 0:09:32.160 --> 0:09:35.599 also once had to change my glove mid game in 0:09:35.800 --> 0:09:38.679 probably two thousand two because one side of it was 0:09:38.720 --> 0:09:41.200 black and one side was brown, so it was not 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:43.680 a one colored glove. And at that time you weren't 0:09:43.679 --> 0:09:45.440 allowed to have a red one, you couldn't have a 0:09:45.440 --> 0:09:47.679 blue one. You couldn't do a lot of that stuff. 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:49.880 And you think about that was less than twenty years ago, 0:09:50.000 --> 0:09:55.480 So it shows you the direction it's going. People are individuals. 0:09:55.520 --> 0:09:58.439 They can have opinions, they can dress a certain way, 0:09:58.480 --> 0:10:00.760 they can act a certain way, and there's nothing wrong 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:04.440 with that. And I think that's that should be applied 0:10:04.480 --> 0:10:08.000 to to all sports. You know, I get it. Baseball 0:10:08.040 --> 0:10:09.560 is doing it, but it should be that way for 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:12.320 a lot of other ones too. I mentioned the Oakland 0:10:12.400 --> 0:10:14.839 days earlier. Obviously that's where you were drafted. You had 0:10:14.840 --> 0:10:17.480 your two all star seasons. I'm kind of curious you 0:10:17.520 --> 0:10:19.520 had such a quick ascent. You were the second overall 0:10:19.559 --> 0:10:23.040 pick in you spent just two seasons in the miners 0:10:23.080 --> 0:10:25.560 and then immediately were called up. You were just twenty 0:10:25.559 --> 0:10:29.040 two years old. I'm fascinated as someone who covers a 0:10:29.040 --> 0:10:31.160 lot of sports, the amount that's put on a young 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:34.679 person's plate years old, that's that's very young to have 0:10:34.720 --> 0:10:39.000 that kind of success. Attention everything. I mean, walk walk 0:10:39.080 --> 0:10:41.439 us through what goes through the mind of someone You 0:10:41.559 --> 0:10:43.520 probably thought you'd maybe have another couple of seasons and 0:10:43.559 --> 0:10:47.200 the miners, like most guys do well. The thing was is, 0:10:47.520 --> 0:10:49.959 so I was obviously drafted out of college, and so 0:10:50.000 --> 0:10:52.920 I was It's I I was not ready to play 0:10:52.920 --> 0:10:54.760 professional baseball. If I would have been drafted on the 0:10:54.840 --> 0:10:57.240 high school and signed, I was too young and immature, 0:10:57.320 --> 0:10:59.600 and I just I wasn't ready for that. So I 0:10:59.640 --> 0:11:01.520 needed college. I needed to be able to grow up 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:03.520 a little bit. And then when they drafted me, I 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:06.160 went to big league camp, and to be fair, in 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:08.360 my mind, I want I thought I should have made 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:11.120 that team that first year. But I also didn't have 0:11:11.160 --> 0:11:14.640 a routine. I didn't have I was not prepared for 0:11:14.679 --> 0:11:17.640 a big league lifestyle. I to play games day in, 0:11:17.800 --> 0:11:20.400 day out, do the work that needed to be done. 0:11:20.679 --> 0:11:22.400 I wouldn't have been able to have handled it mentally. 0:11:22.400 --> 0:11:24.240 So I went straight to Triple A. I was lucky 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:26.000 I didn't have to ride a bus. I didn't have 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:28.559 to do the whole a ball double a ten twelve 0:11:28.600 --> 0:11:33.120 hour bus rides. We were flying commercial. I was in Vancouver, Canada, 0:11:33.160 --> 0:11:35.520 which was an incredible city that year, and then the 0:11:35.559 --> 0:11:37.440 next year was in the big leagues. But even that 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:39.920 first year I struggled because I didn't have that work 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:42.559 ethic yet. I didn't have the routine down. I didn't 0:11:42.559 --> 0:11:45.320 know what it took to be a major league player 0:11:45.360 --> 0:11:48.959 and have success and be prepared each day, day in, 0:11:49.040 --> 0:11:52.160 day out. And that second year I had a few 0:11:52.280 --> 0:11:55.600 uh older pitchers, Gil Horedia, who most people don't know. 0:11:55.760 --> 0:11:58.280 He was just kind of someone who took me under 0:11:58.320 --> 0:12:00.600 his wing and said, listen, man, you gotta are doing this, 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:03.400 do this, you know. And I started getting a routine 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:06.199 and and I was much more prepared for that that 0:12:06.320 --> 0:12:08.839 two thousand one season, and that I was able to 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:11.880 kind of show who I was as a picture. Obviously 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:14.400 I did have a lot of success and kind of 0:12:14.440 --> 0:12:17.440 then that carried over into those future years. But you know, 0:12:17.480 --> 0:12:20.080 it's a learning curve for everybody. Everybody learns at a 0:12:20.080 --> 0:12:23.320 different pace. Things like that. I don't believe everyone just 0:12:23.320 --> 0:12:26.640 shows up in the big leagues ready to go. Everyone 0:12:26.679 --> 0:12:29.840 has their own struggle to to find their way to 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:32.800 have success, and I needed a little bit of time 0:12:32.800 --> 0:12:35.640 to find mine. Mark you speak about coming into your 0:12:35.640 --> 0:12:38.040 own as a player, finding that routine, and then finding 0:12:38.440 --> 0:12:42.400 the eventual success. I'm wondering who currently in the MLB 0:12:42.559 --> 0:12:45.640 right now is someone that you enjoy watching, whether it's 0:12:45.640 --> 0:12:48.320 their journey to start them or someone that you just 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:51.360 got your eye on. I think I gravitate a little 0:12:51.360 --> 0:12:56.120 more towards left hand pictures just makes it yeah, you 0:12:56.160 --> 0:13:00.520 know so so guys like Kershaw David Price. I say, 0:13:00.559 --> 0:13:04.640 there's a ton of young guys that that I've seen 0:13:04.720 --> 0:13:07.280 that are left handed. There there's obviously a ton of talent. 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:09.439 We saw Carlos Rodon throw that no hit or the 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:12.160 other day with the White Sox. There's obviously a ton 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:15.120 of talented guys. But I'm still in such a favor 0:13:15.120 --> 0:13:18.839 of a lot of the older guys because they they 0:13:18.880 --> 0:13:21.560 go deeper into games. I think we're gonna get to 0:13:21.600 --> 0:13:24.120 a point here coming up where you're you're not gonna 0:13:24.160 --> 0:13:26.480 see a whole lot of two inning pictures. You're not 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:30.680 gonna see a whole lot of complete games. This whole five, six, 0:13:30.760 --> 0:13:33.559 seven inning thing. A lot of these young kids, they 0:13:33.559 --> 0:13:35.480 come up in the minor leagues only throwing five or 0:13:35.520 --> 0:13:37.520 six innings, and they're told that that's a great job, 0:13:38.120 --> 0:13:40.000 and there's nothing wrong with that. It's not their fault. 0:13:40.040 --> 0:13:42.600 But you know, you when I was doing TV stuff, 0:13:42.640 --> 0:13:44.920 doing games, you'd see these kids get into the six 0:13:45.000 --> 0:13:47.280 or seventh inning and they're they're kind of glanced into 0:13:47.360 --> 0:13:49.920 the bullpen to see, hey, is somebody getting up. So 0:13:50.000 --> 0:13:52.800 a lot of the veteran guys who still can can 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:56.280 go deep into games. Whether it's Max Scherzer Verlander, I 0:13:56.320 --> 0:13:58.640 know he's hurt, but there's just a handful of those 0:13:58.679 --> 0:14:01.000 guys that I still love watching bitch because they want 0:14:01.040 --> 0:14:03.560 to They still want to start everything that they finished. 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:05.920 But if a lot of these young guys, these young 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:08.200 guys that come up the talent that they have and 0:14:08.240 --> 0:14:11.320 the stuff that they have, I would give anything to 0:14:11.360 --> 0:14:13.640 have had the stuff that they have now. I mean, 0:14:13.720 --> 0:14:16.640 every one of these guys is a hundred, it seems like, 0:14:16.679 --> 0:14:20.840 with wipe out sliders and and plus breaking balls with 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:23.200 a good change up. And I think that's why you 0:14:23.280 --> 0:14:26.440 see the ones with the better command really have the 0:14:26.520 --> 0:14:29.200 success in today's game because a lot of them throw hard, 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:31.040 but not all of them know where the ball is 0:14:31.080 --> 0:14:34.080 going at all times. Mark as a picture. I know 0:14:34.200 --> 0:14:36.200 you're gonna have a different answer for this than I am, 0:14:36.240 --> 0:14:39.400 But when I'm watching the game, the last thing that 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:42.560 I want to see nine times out of ten is 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:45.280 a pictures duel, a no hitter, or a perfect game. 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:47.440 But as the guy in the driver's seat, what is 0:14:47.480 --> 0:14:50.080 it like to really be crushing it out there and 0:14:50.400 --> 0:14:53.440 knowing that these guys can't hit anything you're throwing. Well, 0:14:53.760 --> 0:14:57.440 when that's happening, it's effortless. There's no thought that's going 0:14:57.480 --> 0:15:01.240 into it. Everything is coming to you very easy. Whatever 0:15:01.360 --> 0:15:05.120 pitch you throw, you instantly know what you have to 0:15:05.160 --> 0:15:08.000 throw next. And the beauty of that is when you're 0:15:08.040 --> 0:15:11.200 on you and the catcher are so on the same 0:15:11.240 --> 0:15:15.120 page that the catcher puts down a sign and you're 0:15:15.320 --> 0:15:18.040 you're almost shaking your head yes as his fingers are 0:15:18.040 --> 0:15:22.280 going down. So the game goes real quick. When you're struggling, 0:15:22.320 --> 0:15:25.360 you can't slow the game down. So when I say 0:15:25.400 --> 0:15:27.240 that there you might have first and second no out. 0:15:27.240 --> 0:15:30.120 My rookie year, I couldn't slow that game down to 0:15:30.120 --> 0:15:32.640 to where I could really think about, Okay, this situation, 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:34.400 what do I need to throw here? How do I 0:15:34.440 --> 0:15:37.480 need to execute this pitch. When you're cruising in a game, 0:15:37.880 --> 0:15:41.040 it's easy. And that's the beauty of it is that 0:15:41.080 --> 0:15:44.440 there's not a whole lot of thinking. It just flows 0:15:45.080 --> 0:15:48.360 and the innings go real quick. Your thought process is 0:15:48.400 --> 0:15:52.120 real quick. It's real easy. You never overthink anything. And 0:15:52.160 --> 0:15:53.920 I think that's where you get in trouble is when 0:15:53.960 --> 0:15:56.400 you start to question things. Is that game is going on. 0:15:56.920 --> 0:15:59.280 You gotta just go with your first instinct. You gotta 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:02.280 you out a trust set catcher because most of the 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:05.800 time the catcher is calling that game, but he knows 0:16:05.840 --> 0:16:08.040 your game plan. He he knows where you want to 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:10.960 go in certain situations. But he's also the one who's 0:16:10.960 --> 0:16:14.080 a little more able to watch the hitters speed where 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:16.200 they're in the box, because hitters move around in the 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:19.480 box depending on the situation and depending on a pitch 0:16:19.520 --> 0:16:22.040 that maybe they're looking for an in at bat Manny 0:16:22.120 --> 0:16:24.520 ramire Is back in the day, he would sit in 0:16:24.560 --> 0:16:26.600 the box in a certain spot because he was gonna 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:29.400 sit fastball every pitch, or he was gonna sit waiting 0:16:29.400 --> 0:16:31.800 for a curveball every pitch, But if you didn't throw 0:16:31.840 --> 0:16:34.840 that pitch, he'd strike out looking. I mean everyone has 0:16:34.880 --> 0:16:38.000 seen videos. If you followed baseball of Manny, the pitch 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:39.800 is halfway to home plate and he already starts walking 0:16:39.840 --> 0:16:42.240 to the dugout. You know that was him because he 0:16:42.320 --> 0:16:45.640 knew he was guessing wrong and you weren't thinking along 0:16:45.680 --> 0:16:48.760 the way he was. So you win that battle sometimes 0:16:48.800 --> 0:16:50.440 and and a lot of it's a guessing game, but 0:16:50.480 --> 0:16:54.320 when you're rolling man, it's very easy out there. Mark, 0:16:54.400 --> 0:16:57.520 As a pitcher, how do you explain how impressive it 0:16:57.600 --> 0:17:00.440 is to see a two way player like show Yetani? 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:02.320 We we were talking about him in the first segment. 0:17:02.360 --> 0:17:04.560 He has the fastest pitch so far this season, and 0:17:04.680 --> 0:17:08.160 the fastest hit ball this year, the hardest hit ball 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:11.720 this year, I mean physically and mentally. How hard is 0:17:11.760 --> 0:17:14.119 it to be that successful as a two way player? 0:17:14.359 --> 0:17:16.440 It seems incredible as a layman, But as a pitcher, 0:17:16.480 --> 0:17:19.399 what's your take? Well, you know I was someone all 0:17:19.440 --> 0:17:21.560 through high school and college I played first base when 0:17:21.560 --> 0:17:24.840 I didn't pitch. I don't think I could possibly imagine 0:17:24.840 --> 0:17:27.119 doing that at a big league level, though, you know, 0:17:27.200 --> 0:17:29.720 doing it doing it in the minor league level, I 0:17:29.720 --> 0:17:32.080 I suppose I could maybe understand it. But at the 0:17:32.119 --> 0:17:36.879 big leagues, being prepared day in, day out to do that, 0:17:36.880 --> 0:17:40.800 that that to me is incredible. So the planning, the 0:17:42.000 --> 0:17:44.640 whatever they're doing with him, which I don't know how 0:17:44.680 --> 0:17:47.840 they're making it all work to where because he obviously 0:17:47.880 --> 0:17:50.320 has to throw a couple of sides in between his starts. 0:17:50.400 --> 0:17:53.240 I get it. He only pitches once every five maybe 0:17:53.280 --> 0:17:55.639 six days. If they have an off day, they can 0:17:55.680 --> 0:17:57.480 move him around a little bit more if they have 0:17:57.600 --> 0:18:00.960 to give him one more day rest, But to be 0:18:01.040 --> 0:18:04.320 able to get in the reps that he needs, it 0:18:04.440 --> 0:18:06.040 needs to be able to do in order to be 0:18:06.080 --> 0:18:09.440 ready to take the field that night, to hit each 0:18:09.440 --> 0:18:12.280 and every day, that's a lot. So they also got 0:18:12.280 --> 0:18:15.680 to prepare or to make sure he's not fatigued as 0:18:15.680 --> 0:18:18.480 the season goes along. If if he's taken bat in 0:18:18.520 --> 0:18:21.879 practice every day, and there's also strengthening things, workouts that 0:18:21.960 --> 0:18:24.720 he's got to do for his body, not only for pitching, 0:18:24.840 --> 0:18:27.560 but to be strong enough to swing that bad and 0:18:27.600 --> 0:18:32.160 be prepared every game. So whatever that Roustine is, I'm 0:18:32.200 --> 0:18:35.760 sure there's a lot of changes that they have made 0:18:35.800 --> 0:18:39.119 maybe from his first year until now. I know he 0:18:39.160 --> 0:18:41.639 had his injury, so he did miss some time. But 0:18:42.240 --> 0:18:44.800 that's got to be a tough juggling in order to 0:18:44.880 --> 0:18:48.320 keep him healthy and and make sure he's rested to 0:18:48.359 --> 0:18:52.240 succeed each time. Yeah, tough indeed. And Mark, before we 0:18:52.320 --> 0:18:54.040 let you go, there's a couple of lifestyle things we 0:18:54.080 --> 0:18:56.280 want to talk to you about. We love to talk 0:18:56.320 --> 0:19:00.439 to our guests about movies in their respective sports, and 0:19:00.480 --> 0:19:04.720 there are so many classic and iconic baseball inspired films. 0:19:05.160 --> 0:19:09.200 But I'm wondering, what are some of your favorites. Well, 0:19:09.359 --> 0:19:12.000 Major League you know that that's obviously one of the 0:19:12.040 --> 0:19:15.280 best ones. Feel The Dreams is awesome for the love 0:19:15.280 --> 0:19:17.760 of the game with Kevin Costner. You know, it's like 0:19:17.800 --> 0:19:19.320 I said to you at the end of that game, 0:19:19.359 --> 0:19:23.040 when everything goes blurry around him and it's just him 0:19:23.040 --> 0:19:26.119 and the catcher. That's a very real That was a 0:19:26.119 --> 0:19:28.800 cool moment that they put in that movie, because that's 0:19:28.920 --> 0:19:31.480 very real for a picture when you're out there where 0:19:31.480 --> 0:19:34.200 you don't hear the fans, you don't you don't see 0:19:34.200 --> 0:19:36.760 any of that stuff. It's just you and that catcher's glove. 0:19:36.800 --> 0:19:39.120 And so I thought that was really cool that they 0:19:39.160 --> 0:19:40.720 put that in the end of the movie as well. 0:19:41.240 --> 0:19:43.760 I like that that was not on any of my 0:19:43.840 --> 0:19:45.960 list I actually have not seen for the love of 0:19:45.960 --> 0:19:49.080 the game, but for me favorite baseball movies. And just 0:19:49.160 --> 0:19:50.760 to bring you up to speed mark last week was 0:19:50.800 --> 0:19:54.040