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Speaker 2: All right, see come August, shoheo Tani will be in
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Speaker 1: Oh that's right. We had Phil with the thumb and
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Speaker 1: which is where you can find this program. Northwestern has
Speaker 1: a new head football coach, the interim football coach there.
Speaker 1: They also need a new baseball coach. You know, maybe
Speaker 1: Northwestern goes the route of the IVY League. Maybe maybe
Speaker 1: they're not ready for the big time. Maybe de emphasize sports.
Speaker 1: I think they're raising a lot of money to refurbish
Speaker 1: the stadium practice facility. Baseball coach got fired. I guess
Speaker 1: he was abusive as well, and Pat Fitzgerald is going
Speaker 1: to sue the school he got let go. Now you
Speaker 1: have an interim head coach. You're not supposed to be
Speaker 1: good this year. Maybe you deemphasize. You know, there's going
Speaker 1: to be the haves and the have nots. Maybe you
Speaker 1: get a head start on everybody.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you are going to de emphasize sports, should
Speaker 2: you still be allowed in the Big Ten.
Speaker 1: Well that's why you don't want to leave the Big
Speaker 1: Ten because there's build in money there with that TV.
Speaker 2: Deal, and there's people in that would make a lot
Speaker 2: of sense that could theoretically join the Big Ten.
Speaker 1: Like Notre Dame. Yeah, yes, I was gonna say Rutgers,
Speaker 1: but oh they're already there. Yeah, they're already there. So yeah,
Speaker 1: they're Northwestern of New Jersey really what they're called.
Speaker 7: So the new head coach, interim head coach at Northwestern,
Speaker 7: David Ronn.
Speaker 5: He has no history there.
Speaker 7: He was at Northern Iowa and the Kota State, Winona State,
Speaker 7: all these places he just started. So in theory he
Speaker 7: is he joins after the Pat Fitzgerald era, the hazing era,
Speaker 7: and he was not involved in any way. He was
Speaker 7: a timeline works out well for him.
Speaker 1: NFL camps open up next week. Not every camp opens
Speaker 1: up next week, but I did find that interesting. You
Speaker 1: would think it would be universal that everybody is going
Speaker 1: to report on a certain day, or if you say,
Speaker 1: to teams that were sub five hundred, you get to
Speaker 1: show up a week before everybody, or if you're in
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame game, you get to show up
Speaker 1: a week before. Phone calls always welcome, Operator Tyler's standing
Speaker 1: by Buster only, the great baseball reporter for the Mothership. Yes,
Speaker 1: we'll talk show Heyo Tani, because that will be the
Speaker 1: story for the next couple of weeks in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 1: And I do think that there is an outlier, a
Speaker 1: team that nobody's talking about who could be interested in
Speaker 1: show hey Otani. So we'll talk to Buster and see
Speaker 1: which teams he thinks will be on that short list.
Speaker 8: Yes, Marvin, if he gets traded to a random team,
Speaker 8: can major League Baseball flex games like up Sunday Night Baseball?
Speaker 1: All right? Sure? I guess I don't know they should, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess. I mean the Astros and the Angels are
Speaker 1: playing this weekend on Sunday Night Baseball. I mean that's
Speaker 1: a big matchup with Otani. I don't know if he's
Speaker 1: pitching on Sunday Night, but yes.
Speaker 8: But I'm saying if he gets traded like to the Twins.
Speaker 1: He's not getting traded Twins.
Speaker 8: Well, I know, but just think.
Speaker 1: Of the right Uh yeah, yeah, you'd probably see more
Speaker 1: of him. Sure, yes, Paul, it'd be great.
Speaker 7: I Otani did something completely opposite, became a free agent
Speaker 7: and signed with Pittsburgh. You know, like just that was
Speaker 7: always his dream of some really random move that no
Speaker 7: one expects.
Speaker 1: You know, I grew up love thing. We are family,
Speaker 1: and I just want to I want to honor Pop
Speaker 1: Stargule and Roberto Clemente and Mannie Sengia.
Speaker 7: I'm a more in Milwaukee Brewer guy since I was
Speaker 7: a little.
Speaker 1: Kid Mark in Indiana. Hi, Mark, what's on your mind today?
Speaker 9: Dan? How you doing.
Speaker 10: The thing with Northwestern? Is the new interim coach? There's
Speaker 10: a lot of Fitzgerald's old staff left in other positions there.
Speaker 10: I don't know if they've been ventit or out or
Speaker 10: what the process is going to be. There might also
Speaker 10: be some criminal junication with some of the victims, as
Speaker 10: you mentioned a couple of days ago. The school newspaper
Speaker 10: did a real good job in bringing a lot of
Speaker 10: prima facia evidence with the investigtion with what happened in that,
Speaker 10: and they still got to have a formal investigation and
Speaker 10: everything and the press conference. But it's interesting if they'll
Speaker 10: be in a full season this year, a full uh,
Speaker 10: they might not have the vacate the season because there
Speaker 10: might also be some criminal implications.
Speaker 1: I think they're going to play football here. I just
Speaker 1: want to know what direction there. I mean, nobody cares
Speaker 1: about Northwestern football. We only care because Pat Fitzgerald had
Speaker 1: been there, he's a former player and had them, you know,
Speaker 1: playing some bowl games. You know, I get all that,
Speaker 1: but at the end of the day, nobody cares. Now
Speaker 1: the allegations and if they come to light then you
Speaker 1: know there's sensationalized then yes, then people care. Other than not,
Speaker 1: nobody cares about Northwestern football. Let's see what do we
Speaker 1: have here, Michael and fort Wayne. Hey, Michael, good.
Speaker 11: Morning, Dan, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 1: YEP.
Speaker 11: Yesterday you all were discussing the greatest unanswered sports mysteries
Speaker 11: and you mentioned Jordan's retirement to play baseball. Now, whenever
Speaker 11: the debate of the greatest athlete of all time comes up,
Speaker 11: one name often rises to the top. Bo Jackson, who is,
Speaker 11: of course, the only human being to be an All
Speaker 11: Star in two major North American sports, which he played
Speaker 11: from nineteen eighty six into the early nineties. Jordan retired
Speaker 11: from the Bulls in nineteen ninety three to play baseball.
Speaker 11: My question is, being the extreme competitor that we now
Speaker 11: know Jordan to be, do you think he was looking
Speaker 11: at Bo Jackson when he moved to play baseball, and
Speaker 11: between the two, is it obvious who the better athlete is?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Bo's a better athlete. Yeah absolutely. I mean Michael,
Speaker 1: if he grew up in the baseball environment, would have
Speaker 1: been a better baseball player. But you know Bo Jackson
Speaker 1: at football in baseball, hitting a baseball is supposed to
Speaker 1: be the hardest thing in all the sports hitting a baseball,
Speaker 1: and Bo was an all star. Michael was a double
Speaker 1: A talent basketball wise. We know how great he was. Well,
Speaker 1: what Bo did on the football field where they're allowed
Speaker 1: to tackle you and beat you up. Now, the Pistons
Speaker 1: sort of did that to Michael. But Bo Jackson at
Speaker 1: his peak doing that in baseball and football is more
Speaker 1: impressive than what Jordan did his basketball career.
Speaker 7: Yeah, pullm Michael Jordan. In that one year minor league baseball,
Speaker 7: he was double A. It wasn't rookie ball.
Speaker 5: He hit two O two.
Speaker 7: He had I think three homers and fifty one RBI
Speaker 7: and a thirty stolen bases. He was not the worst
Speaker 7: hitter on the team by slugging. There's four guys on
Speaker 7: the team that were with similar at bats at lower
Speaker 7: batting averages, lower slugging percentage, and way lower on base
Speaker 7: so like he was not the worst player.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but did any of those players make the major
Speaker 1: leagues who were below Michael Jordan?
Speaker 7: Below Michael, Yes, there was a guy named Joe Hall
Speaker 7: who hit two oh nine. Jordan hit two o two,
Speaker 7: So they were right about the same. Uh, and they
Speaker 7: Joe Hall made the major leagues for a few years,
Speaker 7: but yeah he was. There was a four guys in
Speaker 7: the starting lineup that worst batting average in Jordan.
Speaker 1: Well, but I go back to the question I posed
Speaker 1: either earlier in the week or last week, and one
Speaker 1: of my students at the full Sales School of Broadcasting said, Hey,
Speaker 1: what's more impressive what Showey Otani is doing or what
Speaker 1: Bo Jackson did? And I'm thinking you can make an
Speaker 1: argument for either one of those with what Bo did
Speaker 1: to be an All Star in BO Sports and then Otani.
Speaker 1: Imagine if Otani wins the cy Young and the MVP
Speaker 1: in the same season. How crazy. But it's possible Bo
Speaker 1: couldn't sustain it had the hip injury. But what he
Speaker 1: did when he did it, how he did it was
Speaker 1: pretty exciting. He just couldn't last either, And I wonder
Speaker 1: if he played football, he'd be a Hall of Famer.
Speaker 1: If he was healthy, he would have been a Hall
Speaker 1: of Famer. Well, that's part of the sport and that
Speaker 1: position baseball. If he just played baseball, he probably borders
Speaker 1: on being a Hall of Fame. Like talent, you know,
Speaker 1: I thought, you see a Puig was going to be
Speaker 1: that Bo Jackson kind of Oh my god, that guy
Speaker 1: can do everything, and then all of a sudden, it's like,
Speaker 1: where did he go?
Speaker 8: Yes, morph is bo Jackson the last mythical figure where
Speaker 8: everybody has this an insane story about him?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I'd say that's true. Yeah, feels like there's
Speaker 1: a bo Jackson story. You know, when you ask these
Speaker 1: former athletes, it'll be like, give me your Bo Jackson story.
Speaker 1: Boom got one. Everybody has a Jordan Boom Trying to
Speaker 1: think Kobe. There a lot of players, you know that
Speaker 1: they have their story about Kobe. I know there's not
Speaker 1: the Lebron. Hey you got a Lebron's story And they go, oh,
Speaker 1: I remember, you don't hear that. But Kobe and Jordan
Speaker 1: probably more than anybody in basketball. By the way, the
Speaker 1: great Jerry West will join us coming up next Tour.
Speaker 5: Yes, Punk, Yeah, Bo Jackson.
Speaker 7: There's a lot of printed stories about him in college
Speaker 7: baseball because on TV he didn't see it him hitting
Speaker 7: the lights in the game or something like that. He
Speaker 7: played four years for the Raiders at running back. He
Speaker 7: had five hundred and fifteen carries. He averaged five point
Speaker 7: four yards of carry.
Speaker 5: That would be going down.
Speaker 7: If he had a couple more years, a couple more carries,
Speaker 7: it would be one of the greatest all time with
Speaker 7: his there's Hall of famers who averaged four point four
Speaker 7: yards to carry.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but he had speed at that size that we
Speaker 1: had never seen. I mean, Dion was fast and and
Speaker 1: Darryl Green fast, but they weren't big and fast, and
Speaker 1: Bo was big and fast. Dion even talked about that.
Speaker 1: He said he when he tried to tackle him, maybe
Speaker 1: it was in college. He tried to tackle him, and
Speaker 1: Bo basically put his hand on Dion's helmet, you know,
Speaker 1: the evangelist, you know, I'm gonna I'm gonna heal you
Speaker 1: and put his hand on his helmet there, and uh,
Speaker 1: Dion realized there was and I always thought that there
Speaker 1: was friction between Dion and Bo, that Dion was trying
Speaker 1: to be Bo by playing baseball. Already a great football player,
Speaker 1: and then he wanted to play baseball. And from what
Speaker 1: I was told at the time that you know, Bo
Speaker 1: didn't like that. Dion was trying to be like Bo.
Speaker 1: Whether that's true or not, but I was told that,
Speaker 1: and Uh never asked Bo about that or Dion, But
Speaker 1: we did talk to Dion about Bo, and he did
Speaker 1: have a funny story about him. Uh, Dale, and Iowa, Hi, Dale,
Speaker 1: what's on your mind?
Speaker 12: Thanks for taking my call, Dan, Yeah, five of beefy
Speaker 12: two twenty five. So when you're serving food today, you
Speaker 12: might you still have time to probably serve Ryan or
Speaker 12: restraining order that way you get.
Speaker 4: Him out of there.
Speaker 3: And TI.
Speaker 12: So calling in for the playlist? Yeah, two and from
Speaker 12: My Youth Hawaii five vo and then the Green Hornet
Speaker 12: with Bruce leeus Cato al hurt with that trumpet. Those
Speaker 12: two were always the ones that I immediately if I
Speaker 12: was taking a nap, those are the one woke me up,
Speaker 12: all right?
Speaker 1: Thank you, Dale? Yeah, Marvin's cookout playlist. And really, I
Speaker 1: think it's the first theme song that you remember humming
Speaker 1: or that I remember. That's what I picked for my
Speaker 1: my theme song. I'll have that for you coming out here.
Speaker 1: And we already had Pauli's and already had Fritzi. Yeah.
Speaker 7: Point, we have the Bo Jackson story. Deane Sanders about
Speaker 7: a decade ago, was on the show and told us
Speaker 7: his Bo Jackson.
Speaker 3: Moment, all right, when I played for Florida State as
Speaker 3: a freshman. True story, bowl was it? Alburn back when
Speaker 3: the back to Brent Fullard. Probably the best hand of
Speaker 3: the running backs I've ever seen in college. These guys
Speaker 3: are unbelievable. And you know, you know you heard of
Speaker 3: Bo Jackson. You're kind of in awe. As a young collegiate.
Speaker 3: I'm seventeen years old playing Florida State eighteen at the time.
Speaker 3: Just during eighteen, Bow goes behind the huddle and Alburn
Speaker 3: and throws his hands up as if he was sickly
Speaker 3: designed the crowd to get it up. They start schearing
Speaker 3: and applauding. And I was playing left corner. Bow got
Speaker 3: a sweep to his left away from me and hit it,
Speaker 3: I mean hit it, and he was gone. I came
Speaker 3: out of nowhere because that was I could fly, came
Speaker 3: and got him, ran up on him like it was
Speaker 3: no other With his right arm. He extended it, placed
Speaker 3: it on my helmet like as if he was praying
Speaker 3: for me, palming my helmet and stiffed me down and
Speaker 3: kept going into the end zone like I wasn't even there.
Speaker 3: That was my Bo Jackson moment.
Speaker 1: So good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, now I could fly, but he hit it because
Speaker 2: I love end that same story, Dion is able to
Speaker 2: tell you how great he was.
Speaker 1: Yes, he was, and that he was no match for
Speaker 1: Bo Jackson. That's how great he was. More phone calls
Speaker 1: coming up, but up next buster O me and the
Speaker 1: topic of conversation here for well has been and will
Speaker 1: be for the next two weeks Show Heyo Tani and
Speaker 1: the Angels, and we'll run down the list the possible
Speaker 1: suitors who could be interested in show Heyo Tani. That'll
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Speaker 8: Whitist Show Blackest theme.
Speaker 5: Song, Yeah that was the original name of the show.
Speaker 4: I like that.
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Speaker 13: Did you hear that?
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Speaker 8: We were like, what will we do?
Speaker 5: Michael J.
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Speaker 1: The young Republican. Oh yeah that's right, Yeah, Paul.
Speaker 7: That's one of those people who went from not being
Speaker 7: known whatsoever to an absolute star in about six weeks.
Speaker 7: It's like Eddie Murphy and SNL. I remember when Alex Pakeaton,
Speaker 7: the character on Family Ties. He was very popular, real fast.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then uh, what was the other was he
Speaker 1: Spin City? Was he on that too?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I did a couple of them. But then you
Speaker 1: know Back to the Futures where it was like that's
Speaker 1: that's what he went global. Yeah.
Speaker 7: Well, he did a story at the interview with Michael J.
Speaker 7: Fox actor and he said he almost couldn't do Back
Speaker 7: to the Future because of the TV show. At first
Speaker 7: he was gonna be kept out of it. And his
Speaker 7: actor named Eric Stoltz remember him from the eighties and nineties.
Speaker 7: He was already shooting episodes like the movie.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he shot scenes, scenes.
Speaker 7: And then somehow they didn't like it and they found
Speaker 7: a way to get Michael J. Fox two months to
Speaker 7: shoot it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he was shooting both. He was shooting Family Ties
Speaker 1: back to the future. But man, history could have changed
Speaker 1: a little bit there with Eric Stoltz, and that's.
Speaker 2: Not a good sign if you're already shooting and there,
Speaker 2: let's stop down.
Speaker 1: I know this isn't working. That's crushing, man, That is
Speaker 1: that is crushing. I don't know has Eric Stoltz addressed that,
Speaker 1: because I think Michael J. Fox talked about it a
Speaker 1: little bit. But Eric Stoltz was in Mask. He was
Speaker 1: in Pulp Fiction.
Speaker 5: Yeah, some kind of wonderful John Hughes movie movie, but.
Speaker 1: He was in He was the drug guy who has
Speaker 1: to bring Uma Thurman back to life and pulp Fiction
Speaker 1: a great role, yeah, Lance, Yeah. And then Rosanna Arquette
Speaker 1: is in the scene with him. That's his girl, that's
Speaker 1: his uh, his girlfriend.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, those are great cameos that it's such a small
Speaker 2: role by both of them, but man, are they both
Speaker 2: so great in it?
Speaker 1: All right, we'll get to more phone calls coming up here.
Speaker 1: Buster Olney a great reporter and senior writer for the
Speaker 1: Mothership Sunday Night Baseball. Sunday Night Baseball Astros Angels coverage
Speaker 1: starts at seven Eastern on the mother Ship.
Speaker 9: Let me.
Speaker 1: Let me start there with show Hey Tani. It feels
Speaker 1: like it's the only story in baseball. How big is
Speaker 1: the coverage going to get with show Hey Tani over
Speaker 1: the next two weeks?
Speaker 6: Buster, Uh, it is going to dominate the sport where
Speaker 6: the question is going to be asked every day.
Speaker 4: You know, have you heard anything about the Angels putting
Speaker 4: the word.
Speaker 6: Out that they're ready to talk about Otawni? You know,
Speaker 6: Arti Moreno in the end, in this decision, it's not
Speaker 6: going to be Perrymanassi and the general manager you know this.
Speaker 6: I mean, it's going to be the owner, Arti Moreno,
Speaker 6: who said in spring training that he was not going
Speaker 6: to trade O'tawni as long as they were contending. Well,
Speaker 6: we're going into this two week period where they're chased.
Speaker 6: They're going to be facing teams that they're chasing. They
Speaker 6: start out with the Astros, then they play the Yankees,
Speaker 6: and a few series later they played the Toronto Blue Jays,
Speaker 6: and then they face the Atlanta Braves before the trade deadline,
Speaker 6: and at some point in those last seventy two to
Speaker 6: ninety six hours we should here, we probably might hear
Speaker 6: from Arti Moreno about whether or not he's going to
Speaker 6: trade o'tawni, and if he is traded, you talk about
Speaker 6: a frenzy. You know, idiots like me are going to
Speaker 6: be talking about this twenty four hours a day.
Speaker 1: Let's look at the possibilities here, because we do. I
Speaker 1: know there's a lot of speculation. There's probably wishful reporting
Speaker 1: for people in the media, But if you were saying
Speaker 1: how many viable candidates could trade for show Heyo Toni.
Speaker 4: Not as many as people think. Right A.
Speaker 6: He's making thirty million dollars this season, which means that
Speaker 6: to take him on for the last two months, you're
Speaker 6: taking on ten million dollars, and you're giving up a
Speaker 6: boatload of prospects, you know, young major league ready players,
Speaker 6: and they're just not a lot of teams who necessarily
Speaker 6: would entertain that. For example, if the Dodgers have made
Speaker 6: some of the biggest moves at the trade deadline over
Speaker 6: the last six seven years, Manny Machado, for example, what
Speaker 6: I'm hearing from general managers is they don't know if
Speaker 6: the Dodgers this year would do that type of move.
Speaker 6: I think the Yankees absolutely would be all in, which
Speaker 6: makes sense to me because you've got Aaron Judge and
Speaker 6: Garrett Cole and gen Carlos Stan essentially being middle aged
Speaker 6: in their major league careers, this is their opportunity to win.
Speaker 6: The Texas Rangers are competitively relevant for the first time
Speaker 6: in a decade. They're a team that might be in
Speaker 6: and maybe a wild card would.
Speaker 4: Be the Tampa Bay race.
Speaker 6: You know, their front office is not typically a team
Speaker 6: that would spend the kind of money and the resource package.
Speaker 4: But on the other hand, they had such a.
Speaker 6: Great first half before hemorrhaging ground toward the back end
Speaker 6: leading the All Star Break, and maybe they would be
Speaker 6: uniquely aggressive like when Freddie Freeman was a free agent.
Speaker 6: They finished second in that bidding, behind the Dodgers. So
Speaker 6: I think those are three teams to watch. It might
Speaker 6: be one or two others, but not nearly as many
Speaker 6: as what people think.
Speaker 1: I thought the Giants just because of the location. They
Speaker 1: were all in on Judge and Carlos Korea. Could the
Speaker 1: Giants be a wild card in this Yes.
Speaker 6: But I would say again this scouting reports provided by
Speaker 6: general managers around the sport. Far han z Aiety runs
Speaker 6: their Baseball operations department. This is not the type of
Speaker 6: move that he would typically make. Where again the combinations
Speaker 6: of dollars which they have a ton of. He didn't
Speaker 6: sign Judge, they didn't sign Korea, and the prospects that's
Speaker 6: going to be required. And you know, I think afar Han,
Speaker 6: in a clear eyed moment, you know, he'd probably asked
Speaker 6: himself the question, are we close to being a championship
Speaker 6: caliber team?
Speaker 4: And I think the honest answer at this moment would
Speaker 4: be no.
Speaker 1: Have the Angels made an offer.
Speaker 6: I don't know if they've actually put a number out there, because,
Speaker 6: as you know, you know, the way this works is
Speaker 6: they essentially approach the agent and ask the question, are
Speaker 6: you ready to hear a number?
Speaker 4: Are you ready to negotiate? And they get fended off.
Speaker 6: Scott Boris has made a career of doing this, and
Speaker 6: I suspect that a similar conversation has taken place between
Speaker 6: the Angels and Otani's agent, Des Bilelo sometime in the
Speaker 6: next six In the last six.
Speaker 4: Months, I asked this question in the last forty.
Speaker 6: Eight hours, Hey, any sign of any last negotiation where
Speaker 6: the Angels go to Otani and say, look, we're ready
Speaker 6: to put a big number in front of you.
Speaker 4: Are you ready to hear that? In the answer, I
Speaker 4: get back with no, which makes sense.
Speaker 6: I mean, he's this close to free agency, of walking
Speaker 6: into this perfect storm of desperate big market bitters, Dodgers, Mets,
Speaker 6: you know, Giants, you mentioned Mariners, maybe the Padres, maybe
Speaker 6: the Yankees. Why not play it out when you're this
Speaker 6: close to free agency?
Speaker 1: All right, I'm gonna make you already moreno, what do
Speaker 1: you do?
Speaker 4: And if I'm already moreno, not sleeping because on.
Speaker 6: One hand, it's pretty clear that the best baseball move
Speaker 6: is to trade him to get the prospects back. But
Speaker 6: on the other hand, why do we know the name
Speaker 6: Harry Frasy only for one reason? He was the guy
Speaker 6: who delivered this singular talent Boston into the hands of
Speaker 6: the New York Yankees. If you're already moreno, olytically with
Speaker 6: your fan base and maybe for your legacy, the easiest
Speaker 6: thing to do is to wait till the fall, give
Speaker 6: an offer to Otani. If he turns it down, and
Speaker 6: that's what people expect that he's going to do, then
Speaker 6: you're off the hook. If you deliver him out of
Speaker 6: town for prospects, that's going to be your legacy forever.
Speaker 6: It's why last summer I think when the front office
Speaker 6: of the Angels did its due diligence, they talked to
Speaker 6: other teams, they collected information, took it to Artie. From
Speaker 6: what I understand, Arty went crazy, like he was furious
Speaker 6: that they entertained the idea of trading Otani.
Speaker 4: My gut is that's where he lands in the end.
Speaker 6: Especially, I mean, Otani's having the greatest season we've ever seen.
Speaker 6: He's on a pace at fifty six homers, drive in
Speaker 6: one hundred and twenty five runs, strike out two hundred
Speaker 6: and thirty five guys, and you're going to trade that
Speaker 6: guy in the middle of that season for Arty. I
Speaker 6: think it's a lot more complicated than, Hey, what's the
Speaker 6: prospect package we get?
Speaker 1: We're talking to Buster only ESPN Sunday Night Baseball reporter,
Speaker 1: senior writer. Coming up Sunday Night, it'll be the Astros
Speaker 1: and the Angels. How long have you been to ESPN?
Speaker 4: Twenty years, just past my anniversary, just in June.
Speaker 1: And you were a baseball reporter, baseball writer and then
Speaker 1: you made the transition. How difficult was the transition to
Speaker 1: go from print to being on TV?
Speaker 4: Extremely difficult?
Speaker 6: And I get asked the question all the time when
Speaker 6: I speak in front of journalism students and your name
Speaker 6: always comes up because I tell the story about the
Speaker 6: first time I did a hit on SportsCenter with you.
Speaker 6: It was the first time I had ever met you,
Speaker 6: and of course I had a lot of nervousness. My
Speaker 6: heart ray was like two hundred. I got make up
Speaker 6: for the first time to go in studio, and I
Speaker 6: walk in and the stage manager put me in front
Speaker 6: of a camera what's known as a single shot, and
Speaker 6: I was relieved because I had done that before. It's
Speaker 6: a familiar ground for me. And then the show goes
Speaker 6: to commercial sixty seconds and all of a sudden, five
Speaker 6: cameras and you come moving toward me. You got your
Speaker 6: great TV voice, your comfort level that I'll.
Speaker 4: Never have, and you're like, hey, Buster, how's it going?
Speaker 6: And all I'm thinking about is, oh my god, where
Speaker 6: am I supposed to look? And you were very funny
Speaker 6: because you're kind of chatty, and you're also like, it's
Speaker 6: very easy. You look at the jib and then you
Speaker 6: come back to me, and then you look at camera one,
Speaker 6: you give your answer, then you come back to me,
Speaker 6: and then you look back at the GYP seconds and
Speaker 6: I'm on airon you asked me a question about Hobby
Speaker 6: Lopez signing with the Orioles, and I forgot everything. I
Speaker 6: forgot who he was, I forgot what city he was
Speaker 6: going to play for. I got forgot what position he
Speaker 6: was going to play. You know, you've seen broadcast and
Speaker 6: it was the flop set, you know scene that was
Speaker 6: me with about thirty more seconds. Thank god they got
Speaker 6: me off air in time, and you ushered me out
Speaker 6: of the studio, I'm sure.
Speaker 4: And I was met by Chuck Sullaturo.
Speaker 6: It was this, you know, great editor for ESPN for
Speaker 6: so many years. He met me and he said, don't
Speaker 6: worry about it. You know you'll you'll figure it out.
Speaker 6: We got you free your information. And so in that
Speaker 6: time have been able to reduce my heart rate from
Speaker 6: like two to eighty. It was in that moment too,
Speaker 6: now probably about one ten.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, it's tough being a talking hairdoo buster.
Speaker 1: Oh man, if you had to make a World Series
Speaker 1: pick today, who would it be?
Speaker 6: You know, I say the most dangerous team in baseball
Speaker 6: right now would be the Philadelphia Phillies, which is really
Speaker 6: odd because you know, the Braves have been playing out
Speaker 6: of their minds They've actually gained games in the standings
Speaker 6: over the last over the Phillies the last month. But
Speaker 6: since June third, the Phillies are twenty three and nine.
Speaker 6: They have a two nine six ERA. Their pitching has
Speaker 6: come together dramatically. They have an ERA more than half
Speaker 6: a run better than any other team. And you know,
Speaker 6: Dave Dombrowski had a Baseball ops. If they have holes
Speaker 6: before the deadline, they're going to fill them. They haven't
Speaker 6: seen the best out of trade turner. Rice Harper hasn't
Speaker 6: hit for power yet he will eventually. That's why I
Speaker 6: think the Braves head of Baseball ops Alexanthopolos, he needs
Speaker 6: to fix that pitching staff and plug holes. They're okay,
Speaker 6: haven't got Max Freed back yet, but at some point
Speaker 6: when they do, He's got to identify pitching because I
Speaker 6: think the Phillies are a really dangerous team in the
Speaker 6: postseason with the front of their rotation.
Speaker 1: What about the American.
Speaker 4: Boy, I would have told you a month ago that
Speaker 4: it would be the Tampa Bay Rays. I'm kind of
Speaker 4: conflicted now.
Speaker 6: I do feel like that if the Yankees make a
Speaker 6: big move, as much as they're struggling now, if they
Speaker 6: get judged back. This is their best postseason pitching staff
Speaker 6: that I think they may have put together in the
Speaker 6: last five or six years, because that bullpen is totally dominant.
Speaker 6: Rodin is back, you got Garrett Cole. Let's play it out.
Speaker 6: Let's say they do give up the players to get Otani,
Speaker 6: that would be the team to beat in the American Lake.
Speaker 1: But that added pressure on Judge then to come back.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think there is.
Speaker 6: But I also believe that the way the Yankees culturally
Speaker 6: their players, they always play the long game. You know,
Speaker 6: teams will often try to rest players back from injuries.
Speaker 6: The Yankees always consider to be October part of their season,
Speaker 6: so I think.
Speaker 4: They're going to slow play it.
Speaker 6: They'll follow his body because, let's face it, given the calendar,
Speaker 6: if he has one setback, then that's it.
Speaker 4: He's done for the year.
Speaker 1: Buster, are great to talk to you is always thanks
Speaker 1: for joining us.
Speaker 4: Thanks Dan, always fun to talk with you.
Speaker 1: Buster only ESPN Sunday Night Baseball and he's part of
Speaker 1: the festivities this Sunday night. It'll be the Astros and
Speaker 1: the Angels. I told you there was a surprise team,
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Rays, and you'd think, well, small market are
Speaker 1: they going to be able to afford him? And I
Speaker 1: thought that that was interesting. You know, you have the
Speaker 1: usual suspects here with the Yankees and the Dodgers, maybe
Speaker 1: the Padres, maybe the Giants. Feels like there's five teams
Speaker 1: that but you have to have you got to be
Speaker 1: able to afford him. But you also don't have to
Speaker 1: have the prospects to give to the Angels here. So
Speaker 1: it's not just hey, we're gonna pay you all this money. No,
Speaker 1: we're gonna pay you all this money, and we got
Speaker 1: to give you prospects here. Yeah, Pauling the.
Speaker 7: Highest payrolls in baseball right now. Mets are one, Yankees two,
Speaker 7: the Padres are three, the Philadelphia Phillies are four. Dodgers
Speaker 7: and Angels are both fifth and sixth. Then you go
Speaker 7: like Toronto, Atlanta, you gotta go. Tampa Bay is twenty
Speaker 7: eighth in salary team salary at seventy three million.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that would be a shocker if they were in
Speaker 1: the in the race for show, hey, TONI Yeah, And
Speaker 1: I left out the Mets too, especially with their owner
Speaker 1: and disappointing year. Disappointing year for the Padres and the
Speaker 1: Mets when you consider how much money they spent. A
Speaker 1: couple of phone calls Tom in North Carolina. Hi, Tom,
Speaker 1: what's on your mind today? Hey?
Speaker 3: Tom?
Speaker 9: Yeah, I do have a conspiracy, a sports conspiracy or
Speaker 9: mystery you guys are talking about. But first I wanted
Speaker 9: to give your heads up. Me and Doug in North Carolina.
Speaker 9: I'm going to head north because James in Virginia. You'll
Speaker 9: be up there sometime this afternoon.
Speaker 1: Okay, if you do, Ryan and Honolulu, Austin and Virginia,
Speaker 1: then everybody gets a pie to the face. All right,
Speaker 1: A good deal, Okay.
Speaker 9: All right, Dan. So my conspiracy theory is a lot
Speaker 9: of these conspiracies could involve Jordans. I was looking online.
Speaker 9: Is Michael Jordan the biological father of Jimmy Butler?
Speaker 1: Hey, I don't know, Tom. Probably not going to spend
Speaker 1: a lot of time this weekend thinking about that. Although
Speaker 1: I saw where Jimmy Butler could be dating. Who is
Speaker 1: he dating? I just saw this where I went, oh, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: Pauline Shakira, Yes, yeah, they had it. They had a
Speaker 1: cozy dinner in London, all right, yeah.
Speaker 5: I found multiple reports of that.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, all right, yeah, and everybody say the same thing.
Speaker 1: Him still wasn't Tom Brady also in that in the
Speaker 1: mix Shakira, I think they went to a Formula one race.
Speaker 1: No matter where Brady goes, if he's in the vicinity,
Speaker 1: I think they're they're trying to pair him with Emily Ratkowski.
Speaker 1: Well he was just getting paired with a Kardashian as well. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm mistaken. Yeah, all right, Yeah, I think Tom needs
Speaker 1: to find like a school teacher, you know, somebody who's
Speaker 1: on the school board, you know, some something that's a
Speaker 1: little bit you know, just not as fast, you know,
Speaker 1: slow down a little bit. Yes, I totally agree.
Speaker 7: It's like so cliche, just you know, find someone like
Speaker 7: a normal human being, doesn't have to be famous person
Speaker 7: with famous.
Speaker 1: Person all the exactly are you still eating peanuts? That
Speaker 1: just might be by certainly sounds like you're eating peanuts.
Speaker 8: I was before about Yes, Marv, he said, yeah, I
Speaker 8: can have a school teacher, but Kim Er Emily can
Speaker 8: dress like a school teacher.
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Speaker 5: I'm sure we have custom music for this maybe. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I've heard this before.
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Speaker 7: Where will show? Heyo Tan be playing in August? Who
Speaker 7: would like to first in August this year?
Speaker 1: Todd? Go first? Still with the Angels, all right, see
Speaker 1: no O'Connor Dodgers, Marvin Dodgers. I'm gonna go Angels.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna go Angels. Where would we play? Show here?
Speaker 5: Time to be playing in April?
Speaker 1: Ky Todd, I'll start with you. Still with the Angels, okay, Seaton,
Speaker 1: still with.
Speaker 8: The Dodgers, Marvin Cincinnati Stock Dodgers.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say, still with the Angels.
Speaker 5: I'll go to the New York Yankees.
Speaker 7: Okay, that's the entire all that's entire Okay, Now, none
Speaker 7: of us remember what you picked?
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, and then say that we called it once. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I told you. I mean I told you that.
Speaker 9: I know.
Speaker 1: You know what if you do this long enough, for
Speaker 1: as many hours as as we do it, and then
Speaker 1: you'll make a prediction. And then you'll go, God, is
Speaker 1: that counter to what I said like three weeks ago?
Speaker 1: Sometimes and it changes, but you forget because you feel
Speaker 1: strongly about this. A couple of weeks ago, I'm like,
Speaker 1: they got to keep him. They have to know that
Speaker 1: he wants to stay there. You have to have some
Speaker 1: kind of inkling. I just can't imagine being in the
Speaker 1: same building you're running the team that Artie Moreno doesn't
Speaker 1: go up to show hey and go help me out here.
Speaker 1: I want you to get paid. Do we need to
Speaker 1: go to free agency?
Speaker 3: Here?
Speaker 1: I want to build around you. I want to continue
Speaker 1: to do this, And how can I do that? Like,
Speaker 1: wouldn't you do that? Wouldn't you say? Just help me understand?
Speaker 1: And then he might go, you know what, talk to
Speaker 1: my agent. And then if that's the case, then I go, Okay,
Speaker 1: Then I got to I got to start thinking like
Speaker 1: a businessman. As much as I love having him, and
Speaker 1: you got lucky that you got him, because the Dodgers
Speaker 1: should have had show Aotani a couple of times when
Speaker 1: he was in Japan, but this time around, now you
Speaker 1: got to start thinking about the franchise. Gampum.
Speaker 7: One thing that stuck out to me about what you
Speaker 7: asked by Stroll, only have they made him an offer?
Speaker 7: He goes, well, Dan, I don't know that, but he goes,
Speaker 7: there might be a situation where the agent says, we're
Speaker 7: not prepared to accept offers at this time, where they
Speaker 7: can't even get the negotiation process started. There's no negotiation,
Speaker 7: Like they want to go to free agency so badly
Speaker 7: that they will not have any conversation.
Speaker 1: But if that's the case, then you say, all right,
Speaker 1: if you're going to do that, then we have to
Speaker 1: do what's best for us. Yeah, Like, at some point
Speaker 1: you have to call somebody's bluff and just say do
Speaker 1: you want to be here? Because if you do, we'll
Speaker 1: do everything possible to make this work. But if you don't,
Speaker 1: you want to take it to free agency. Now, you
Speaker 1: leave us as no choice because we may lose you.
Speaker 1: If you really love this team, this owner, this ballpark,
Speaker 1: this environment, help us, and if not, then we have
Speaker 1: to start looking at a trade partner. You don't like it,
Speaker 1: you know, keep in mind, the Red Sox didn't get
Speaker 1: players back for Babe Ruth. He was purchased Dad. You know,
Speaker 1: it's not like you've got you know, seven players, five players.
Speaker 1: It was just a transaction.
Speaker 3: What was it?
Speaker 1: One hundred thousand dollars?
Speaker 5: Yeah, anywhere?
Speaker 7: They said about one hundred and twenty five all told,
Speaker 7: which at that time was monstrous.
Speaker 1: Uh Al in Atlanta, Hi Al, what's on your mind today?
Speaker 11: Good morning, Dan.
Speaker 13: I also happened to be up in Exit in New
Speaker 13: Hampshire and when we heard Ryan and hall Lui was
Speaker 13: coming by.
Speaker 9: We hopped in the car to make this three hour
Speaker 9: drive in two hours.
Speaker 13: So we were wondering if we could come in too.
Speaker 1: Of course you can't.
Speaker 11: I'm kidding, Dan, Oh, I'm kidding.
Speaker 13: I'm tell a thousand miles south of ye.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 13: The reason I'm calling in today is there's an ongoing
Speaker 13: dispute between myself and my cousins in Seattle, and for
Speaker 13: the last six years we have been arguing about what
Speaker 13: is the worst way to lose to the Patriots in
Speaker 13: the Super Bowl, and we need you and the dan
Speaker 13: Nets to end this argument once and for all.
Speaker 1: Okay, So, Malcolm Butler or twenty eight to three? Yeah,
Speaker 1: which one was the worst? Twenty eight to three? I'm
Speaker 1: sorry now, Yeah still hurts. Yeah, twenty eight to three,
Speaker 1: because all you have to do is kick a field goal.
Speaker 1: Don't lose any yards. Kick a field goal to score game.
Speaker 1: Brady's not bringing you back from that. You had it,
Speaker 1: You had it. Then you go throw a pass, then
Speaker 1: you get sacked. Now all of a sudden you're out
Speaker 1: a field goal range. Now you give Tom the ball
Speaker 1: and some time ball game twenty eight three. Yeah, poem.
Speaker 7: Seahawks fans thought they were winning the Super Bowl for
Speaker 7: about two or three minutes and then it got taken
Speaker 7: up front of him. Falcons fans were about an hour
Speaker 7: of dining out, like we're gonna beat We're gonna smoke
Speaker 7: the Patriots. They went to halftime the whole third quarter
Speaker 7: they were celebrating probably for an hour.
Speaker 5: We're gonna smoke the Patriot.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Then then you get to the who's gonna be
Speaker 1: m v P? Like you're already at that that stage,
Speaker 1: you know that point of the game. It's halftime. Who
Speaker 1: do you who do you think? Falcon? Who's the m
Speaker 1: v P? Matty Ice?
Speaker 5: Are we gonna score forty or we just go fifty?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, we're really we're gonna embarrass them. This could
Speaker 1: be the biggest, you know, blowout in Super Bowl history.
Speaker 1: The Great Jerry West will join us coming up,