WEBVTT - PCA Said WHAT?? 0:00:05.040 --> 0:00:07.360 And welcome back to Is this a great game or 0:00:07.360 --> 0:00:09.680 what with the Hall of Famer Tim Kirkchin. I'm his son, 0:00:10.000 --> 0:00:13.640 Jeff Kirchin. Again, you have outdressed me, Dad, But you 0:00:13.680 --> 0:00:18.079 are again at ESPN doing all of the broadcasts. I 0:00:18.160 --> 0:00:21.280 see you on TV all the time, Sports Center, Baseball Tonight, 0:00:21.360 --> 0:00:24.479 doing all the things. And we're still talking about this 0:00:24.600 --> 0:00:28.640 trade deadline. We did a special episode back on Tuesday. 0:00:28.680 --> 0:00:31.240 We had Jim Bowden on the show the day before that. 0:00:31.480 --> 0:00:35.280 So this has been such a fun week in Major 0:00:35.360 --> 0:00:36.560 League Baseball, right Dad? 0:00:37.320 --> 0:00:38.000 Absolutely? 0:00:38.000 --> 0:00:40.839 And not only have I outdressed you, Jeff, I am 0:00:40.880 --> 0:00:45.440 wearing makeup today too. And for everyone in our business 0:00:45.520 --> 0:00:48.000 knows how to do his or her own makeup, I 0:00:48.200 --> 0:00:52.840 of course don't, so when I come into ESPN, they 0:00:53.000 --> 0:00:55.600 put makeup on me, which is always helpful. I remember 0:00:55.640 --> 0:00:59.160 my first year at ESPN. I looked at one of 0:00:59.160 --> 0:01:02.480 the makeup artists, I having never done makeup before, and said, 0:01:02.520 --> 0:01:05.640 do do I need makeup? It was a rhetorical question, 0:01:05.720 --> 0:01:08.240 but she said, yes, you need a lot of makeup. 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:13.000 I thought that was I thought that was a bit unnecessary, 0:01:13.040 --> 0:01:16.399 but she laughed. I laughed, of course, why wouldn't we 0:01:16.560 --> 0:01:20.160 more important, Jeff, this is your last Is this a 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:22.600 great game episode that we're going to do with you 0:01:22.720 --> 0:01:27.160 as a thirty two year old, because on Sunday, August 0:01:27.280 --> 0:01:30.560 the ninth, you will turn How old will you be? 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:32.000 You'll be thirty three years old? 0:01:32.040 --> 0:01:36.760 Jeff. Sorry, that's so great, right, And who's our greatest 0:01:36.840 --> 0:01:39.560 number thirty three in baseball history? Let's see if you 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:43.040 can remember that, Jeff. He hit the most sacrificed flies 0:01:43.080 --> 0:01:46.679 of anyone in history and yet never led the league 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:48.360 in sacrifice flies. 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:49.360 In any one season. 0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:54.960 He hit five hundred homers, and for me, after Mickey Mantle, 0:01:55.080 --> 0:01:58.320 he might be might be the greatest wwitch hitter ever 0:01:58.680 --> 0:02:04.720 Number thirty three, Jeff Eddie Murraha, Yes, yes, Jeff, you 0:02:04.840 --> 0:02:06.120 got it on the eighth clue. 0:02:06.360 --> 0:02:11.560 Well, really, the five hundred homers automatically, like tons of 0:02:11.560 --> 0:02:14.919 players just leave the memory, right, because you're just five 0:02:15.000 --> 0:02:19.320 hundred club is unbelievable. I mean, you're almost automatically a 0:02:19.320 --> 0:02:22.080 Hall of Famer. I'm not making takes here. I know 0:02:22.200 --> 0:02:26.440 steroid era excuse me really fast, but you know, excluding 0:02:26.480 --> 0:02:28.480 those guys, five hundred home runs pretty much put you 0:02:28.560 --> 0:02:30.000 in the Hall of Fame. It took me a second 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:32.600 to get there switch hitter and nailed it. So yeah, yeah, 0:02:32.680 --> 0:02:34.959 I don't ever get questions right. I got that one right. 0:02:35.560 --> 0:02:36.800 You did. Way to go, Jeff. 0:02:36.800 --> 0:02:39.800 All right, I need makeup today because I haven't slept 0:02:39.800 --> 0:02:44.360 in two days because my flight got canceled. My morning 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:47.480 flight got canceled two days in a row, which caused 0:02:47.480 --> 0:02:51.120 a few issues, especially for poor pop pop, who you know, 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:53.240 has to have things in order then when they get 0:02:53.280 --> 0:02:55.920 thrown out of order. But I made it, and I 0:02:56.000 --> 0:02:58.280 made it to ESPN today and I'll be here tomorrow, 0:02:58.400 --> 0:02:59.639 so we're all good. 0:02:59.720 --> 0:03:03.320 Every thing is good. But I need a little sleep, Jeff. 0:03:03.360 --> 0:03:07.200 Hopefully Wednesday night tonight, when we're after a recording, I'll 0:03:07.200 --> 0:03:07.840 get some sleep. 0:03:07.880 --> 0:03:08.280 We'll see. 0:03:09.040 --> 0:03:11.200 Oh that's good. Yeah, I mean, Dad, you taught me 0:03:11.320 --> 0:03:15.359 growing up you'll never remember how tired you were. And 0:03:15.680 --> 0:03:18.880 trust me, after raising one daughter now too, I surely 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:23.800 remember how tired I was. But the point you always 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:27.560 made to me was, hey, like do the things because 0:03:27.880 --> 0:03:30.840 it's gonna be a memory to have. You're always gonna 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:35.160 remember this trade deadline. It's been crazy, but it's been fun. 0:03:35.280 --> 0:03:37.240 I know you're having a great time hanging out with 0:03:37.280 --> 0:03:40.000 your friends at ESPN and doing all these shows and 0:03:40.120 --> 0:03:44.480 doing this dinky little podcast with me. I'm exhausted all 0:03:44.560 --> 0:03:48.400 the time. I just submitted a form, Dad, I'm an idiot. 0:03:48.640 --> 0:03:52.400 I submitted a form to run to be a director 0:03:52.520 --> 0:03:56.000 of our HLA in my new neighborhood. What am I doing? 0:03:57.320 --> 0:03:57.680 Jeff? 0:03:57.720 --> 0:04:01.200 That might be the dumbest decision you never made, other 0:04:01.240 --> 0:04:02.520 than growing a mustache. 0:04:02.640 --> 0:04:03.800 Why would you do that? 0:04:04.720 --> 0:04:10.960 Dad? Oh gosh, because I really care about this neighborhood. 0:04:10.960 --> 0:04:13.760 We're in a brand new build in Pennsylvania, forty two homes, 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:16.160 and I want to make sure that you know this 0:04:16.320 --> 0:04:20.400 neighborhood remained safe and clean and beautiful. And a bunch 0:04:20.440 --> 0:04:23.279 of neighbors came to me after I'd had a couple 0:04:23.279 --> 0:04:25.080 of drinks on the fourth of July and said, Jeff, 0:04:25.120 --> 0:04:26.919 you would be really good on the H twoa board. 0:04:26.960 --> 0:04:29.080 Everybody knows you and loves you. So I did it. 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:31.880 I said, Yeah, I'm going for it, all right, Jeff. 0:04:31.960 --> 0:04:34.240 But I Dad, you know what happened. I ran for 0:04:34.279 --> 0:04:36.039 the board in my old neighborhood. Have I ever told 0:04:36.040 --> 0:04:39.400 you this story. I became a member of the board, 0:04:39.440 --> 0:04:43.360 three members. Right the election comes up. I came in fourth, 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:47.520 and I was only brought onto the board because somebody died. 0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:53.320 So a guy died on the board, and they said, well, 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:55.520 let's just get the guy who came in fourth, and 0:04:55.600 --> 0:04:58.400 so they said, all right, you're so. I didn't even win, 0:04:59.040 --> 0:05:03.200 but somebody had hie. And listen, Las Vegas Police is 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:05.719 still trying to call me asking if I know anything 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:08.599 about this. I'm the number one suspect, but it was 0:05:08.720 --> 0:05:10.800 natural causes. I had nothing to do with it. I 0:05:10.839 --> 0:05:14.040 don't care that much about being on the h It 0:05:14.040 --> 0:05:15.160 wouldn't kill for it. 0:05:15.200 --> 0:05:15.560 Okay. 0:05:16.640 --> 0:05:20.880 The great Stephen Wright once said, Jeff curiosity killed the cat, 0:05:21.160 --> 0:05:27.000 but for a while I was a suspect. Love Stephen, right, 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:29.919 all right, but I also love Jeff Is. We still 0:05:29.960 --> 0:05:37.039 have people talking about a bases loaded walk off automatic 0:05:37.080 --> 0:05:40.280 double that Raphael Dever's hit. He got credit for a 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:44.560 single and one RBI instead of a double and two RBIs, 0:05:44.600 --> 0:05:47.240 and we still have people chiming in on that. I'd 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:49.599 love that. We've hit kind of a nerve here. But 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:53.279 Frank from the Elias just texted me out of nowhere 0:05:53.320 --> 0:05:55.760 the other day to say he was so intrigued by that, 0:05:56.120 --> 0:05:58.839 and he does this for a living, that he went 0:05:58.920 --> 0:06:01.159 back in baseball history and was looking like in the 0:06:01.200 --> 0:06:04.159 early nineteen hundreds, and there weren't many homers in the 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:07.080 early nineteen hundreds. But if you hit a walk off homer, 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:12.640 they would only give you the number of RBIs until 0:06:12.640 --> 0:06:14.640 the game was over. In other words, if you hit 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:18.320 a walk off Grand Slam with a one run lead, 0:06:18.440 --> 0:06:21.120 you would only get I mean, in a tie game, 0:06:21.200 --> 0:06:24.760 you would only get one RBI because you won the 0:06:24.800 --> 0:06:27.080 game with one run and the other three runs. 0:06:26.839 --> 0:06:29.200 Didn't even count. Are you surprised to hear that? 0:06:29.800 --> 0:06:32.480 I just love that he got excited about it, because 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:35.360 if he got excited about it, then we know there's 0:06:35.400 --> 0:06:38.280 something there for sure, right right? 0:06:38.640 --> 0:06:39.200 I love that. 0:06:39.360 --> 0:06:42.560 And also, you know, what should we call the three 0:06:42.640 --> 0:06:46.719 pitches three outs in one inning? I said we should 0:06:46.720 --> 0:06:50.440 call it a saying named after Johnny Saying, the great 0:06:50.480 --> 0:06:54.000 pitching coach and the very good pitcher Boston Braves and 0:06:54.040 --> 0:06:58.839 others in the forties and fifties. So somebody run and 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:01.920 Johnny saying, of course war number thirty three, which has 0:07:02.000 --> 0:07:05.599 something to do with the choice there. But somebody wrote 0:07:05.640 --> 0:07:09.960 in and said, if anyone ever retires three batters on 0:07:10.040 --> 0:07:14.720 three pitches two innings in a row, so six pitches, 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:23.600 six outs. It should be called an alfonseka oh ah, 0:07:23.880 --> 0:07:28.280 six and six because Antonio Alfonseca, who has come up 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:31.440 at least a dozen times on this podcast this year, 0:07:31.440 --> 0:07:34.440 has six fingers on each hand and six toes on 0:07:34.560 --> 0:07:39.680 each feet foot. So if we ever get anyone, and 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:42.720 we never will, who gets a three out, three pitch, 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:45.000 three outs in the first, three pitches, three outs in 0:07:45.000 --> 0:07:47.520 the second, we will call that an Alfonseca. 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:48.240 What do you think? 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:52.120 I think that's an absolute must. Hands up there, it 0:07:52.200 --> 0:07:56.080 is six and six. You did it? What is up 0:07:56.080 --> 0:07:59.040 with this podcast? Who is going to be the obscure 0:07:59.080 --> 0:08:03.480 player we mentioned five hundred times next season? Only time 0:08:03.520 --> 0:08:07.239 will tell because it just happens. I mean, watch Johnson 0:08:07.360 --> 0:08:10.440 makes sense, Alphanseeka. I mean, what are we doing here? 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:16.400 Dad? Right? I totally agree. It's so good? 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K twelve serving three million 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:18.679 students and counting. 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:28.439 The take Go ahead, All right, dad, let's roll right 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:29.840 into the takeaways. What do you got? 0:09:30.320 --> 0:09:31.080 All right? So in love? 0:09:31.120 --> 0:09:34.960 What the Yankees did? The Yankees are in trouble, especially offensively. Look, 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:37.520 they're gonna pitch their way into the playoffs and they're 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:40.679 gonna be a dangerous team in October. But we're still 0:09:40.720 --> 0:09:44.160 not sure about Aaron Judge when he's coming back and 0:09:44.200 --> 0:09:46.760 what he's gonna look like when he comes back. So 0:09:46.880 --> 0:09:50.719 the Yankees, needing like a burst of energy, called up 0:09:50.760 --> 0:09:54.720 George Lombard Junior, who is a twenty one year old 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:58.040 shortstop and their best prospect and one of the best 0:09:58.040 --> 0:10:02.880 prospects in baseball. And in his first game playing shortstop 0:10:02.960 --> 0:10:06.679 for the Yankees, hitting seventh in his second career at 0:10:06.679 --> 0:10:09.199 bad he had a home run. And I am a 0:10:09.240 --> 0:10:13.360 big believer Jeff that this is what you do when 0:10:13.400 --> 0:10:16.200 you need a spark. Sometimes the best thing to do 0:10:16.320 --> 0:10:18.280 is to not make a trade. It's to bring up 0:10:18.520 --> 0:10:21.600 your best kid in the minor leagues and see if 0:10:21.640 --> 0:10:24.480 he can provide the energy and at least for one game. 0:10:24.880 --> 0:10:29.120 George Lombard Junior, did that? You agree that that? You know, 0:10:29.160 --> 0:10:31.280 everyone looks around and goes, hey, the kid is here, 0:10:31.520 --> 0:10:33.920 Let's see what we do with this. And there's no 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:37.800 real pressure on the kid, because the pressure is winning 0:10:38.080 --> 0:10:41.439 games every night, as opposed to I've seen it, Jeff, 0:10:41.480 --> 0:10:43.800 you bring up a kid when the team is hopelessly 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:46.600 out of the Pennant race, and then it's all about him. 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:50.240 They dissect every single at bat and if he goes 0:10:50.320 --> 0:10:53.360 oh for six, people are saying, what's wrong with the kid? Well, 0:10:53.440 --> 0:10:55.280 they're not going to say that if he gets off 0:10:55.320 --> 0:10:58.120 to a bad start, because they have bigger things to 0:10:58.200 --> 0:11:01.120 talk about, that is the winning and losing of games. 0:11:01.160 --> 0:11:03.880 Are they gonna win the division title? Where you know 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:05.880 that type of thing. Do you agree that's the right 0:11:05.880 --> 0:11:06.400 way to go? 0:11:07.200 --> 0:11:09.600 I would agree, but I would also disagree in the 0:11:09.640 --> 0:11:13.360 sense of probably in twenty eight other cities that would 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:15.240 be the case, but not in New York. If you're 0:11:15.280 --> 0:11:18.960 playing shortstop for the Yankees, they're dissecting your box score 0:11:19.400 --> 0:11:23.280 and that pressure of the pinstripes. Hey, that could be 0:11:23.320 --> 0:11:26.520 a good book, Pressure of the Pinstripes, like a history 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:31.640 of Yankee players or something. Trademark I'm trademarking it right here, 0:11:32.440 --> 0:11:36.400 that pressure of the Pinstripes. That's tough. And Dad, you 0:11:36.440 --> 0:11:40.480 always mentioned the shortstop obviously, like shortstop historically is just 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:42.600 like a leader on the team. Then when you bring 0:11:42.600 --> 0:11:45.840 in Derek Jeters years as captain, I mean, it's just 0:11:45.920 --> 0:11:49.199 insane in New York and then he's the defensive captain 0:11:49.240 --> 0:11:51.800 I mean, if you're the best defensive shortstop, you might 0:11:51.840 --> 0:11:53.960 be the best defensive player in the league because it's 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:56.680 such a hard position to play. Nonetheless, Dad, there's a 0:11:56.679 --> 0:11:58.640 lot of pressure if you're a shortstop on a team, 0:11:58.720 --> 0:12:01.520 especially in New York. But you're he comes up, he 0:12:01.559 --> 0:12:04.000 makes a presence, he makes it known, and maybe a 0:12:04.040 --> 0:12:07.199 little less pressure on a young guy without feeling how 0:12:07.240 --> 0:12:09.800 important this job is. It's gonna pay off. 0:12:09.720 --> 0:12:10.360 For him, right. 0:12:10.520 --> 0:12:13.280 And the same night that George Lombard Junior hit a 0:12:13.280 --> 0:12:15.720 home run in his second major league at bat, his 0:12:15.800 --> 0:12:18.880 brother Jacob, who got drafted number one by the Marlins 0:12:18.920 --> 0:12:22.959 in this last draft, he made his pro ball debut 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:27.080 and in his second at bat as a professional. 0:12:26.400 --> 0:12:28.240 Player he hit a home run. 0:12:28.360 --> 0:12:30.839 So I would call that a pretty good night for 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:32.120 the Lombard family. 0:12:32.200 --> 0:12:34.600 Agreed, Yeah, no doubt about it. 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:38.480 That is a great night for Lombard's across and the board. 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:42.400 And I love that the Tigers, who have George Lombard 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:46.040 Senior as one of their coaches, allowed him to leave 0:12:46.120 --> 0:12:50.120 the team so he could watch his boys play in 0:12:50.200 --> 0:12:51.840 their the biggest games. 0:12:51.480 --> 0:12:55.680 Of their lives. You're an agreement that you know, we 0:12:55.720 --> 0:12:59.559 have sixteen eighteen coaches on some team. We love George Lombard. 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:02.640 He's gonna managed someday, but I think it's it's better 0:13:02.679 --> 0:13:04.480 for everyone if we just let him go for a 0:13:04.559 --> 0:13:06.079 day and let him go watch his kids. 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:06.480 Agreed. 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:11.439 Yeah, I've been pretty sad hearing stories of you know, 0:13:11.600 --> 0:13:15.840 dads in baseball missing important days. Help me here. We 0:13:15.920 --> 0:13:18.559 had him on last year at the beginning of the season. 0:13:18.720 --> 0:13:21.080 Former Angels manager. It's escaping me. 0:13:21.640 --> 0:13:25.240 Mike Sosha, thank you, No, not Mike Soshia. Phil Nevian. 0:13:25.840 --> 0:13:29.600 Yeah, we have Phil nevan On who missed so much 0:13:29.679 --> 0:13:33.000 of his son's career because he was in baseball. Now, granted, listen, 0:13:33.120 --> 0:13:36.400 that's your job. I'm not saying, you know, oh, take 0:13:36.440 --> 0:13:38.360 a week off in the middle of the season. That's 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:41.720 not happening. But it does bum me out when Phil 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:43.720 nevin told us he was missing big dates in his 0:13:43.880 --> 0:13:44.880 in his son's career. 0:13:45.000 --> 0:13:48.400 You know, I think, I think, I think it's really important. 0:13:49.480 --> 0:13:51.920 Yeah, dad, you would never ever miss my opening night 0:13:51.960 --> 0:13:55.720 of musical, that's for sure, Jeff Nicely. 0:13:55.480 --> 0:13:58.680 Nicely Nicely Johnson, not a chance I would miss that. 0:13:59.240 --> 0:14:01.679 So now you're on the boat, you know it. 0:14:01.760 --> 0:14:04.560 I love that story with that musical, because I have 0:14:04.600 --> 0:14:07.800 one big song my sophomore year called Guys and Dolls 0:14:07.800 --> 0:14:10.160 in the musical Guys and Dolls, And I told my 0:14:10.200 --> 0:14:12.319 parents I have a big song, and that song comes 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:14.840 on intermission. They're both saying that was a great song, 0:14:14.880 --> 0:14:17.080 and I said, just wait till the end. That's the 0:14:17.120 --> 0:14:20.080 song I'm talking about, not the dinky little duet. The 0:14:20.120 --> 0:14:22.760 real song is coming. Sit down, your rocking the boat. Anyway, 0:14:22.920 --> 0:14:26.560 Enough about me, enough about nicely nicely Johnson. 0:14:26.920 --> 0:14:30.680 Text about your team, Jeff, Luisa Rise goes to the 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:32.960 Phillies first game, he gets two it's and knocks in 0:14:33.000 --> 0:14:35.920 two runs. Will have more on him in the quirk Chins. 0:14:35.960 --> 0:14:39.440 But Jeff, you know, Luisa Rise is a different hitter 0:14:39.640 --> 0:14:43.400 than everyone else today. We've talked about this multiple times. 0:14:43.760 --> 0:14:47.000 In this strikeout era, he puts the ball in play 0:14:47.080 --> 0:14:51.160 and acknowledges I hate to strike out. I saw what 0:14:51.360 --> 0:14:54.960 happened to the Padres when they acquired Louisa Rise. I 0:14:55.000 --> 0:14:57.320 was around that team quite a bit for a while there, 0:14:57.840 --> 0:15:01.040 and to a man, they said, we're a better offensive 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:04.680 team because we're watching this guy on our team, and 0:15:04.720 --> 0:15:07.320 a bunch of guys looked around and said, you know, 0:15:07.560 --> 0:15:10.320 we we should hit more like him. We should put 0:15:10.320 --> 0:15:13.040 the ball in play more often, we should work a 0:15:13.080 --> 0:15:15.880 better count, we should swing at the first pitch if 0:15:15.920 --> 0:15:18.480 we see something that we can hit. So I'm telling 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:21.080 you that he's going to make a difference in the 0:15:21.080 --> 0:15:25.200 Phillies offense, not just from his production, but because he's 0:15:25.200 --> 0:15:28.200 going to show everyone else like this is a different. 0:15:27.840 --> 0:15:28.440 Way to hit. 0:15:28.520 --> 0:15:31.520 Now, that doesn't mean that Kyle Schwarber is going to 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:34.760 stop striking out and because they haven't swinging, miss team 0:15:34.840 --> 0:15:37.560 as does every other team in the major leagues. But 0:15:37.640 --> 0:15:40.800 I'm telling you, Luis a Rise will make a difference. 0:15:40.840 --> 0:15:42.040 Agreed. Yeah. 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:45.200 I just always thought him and Aaron Judge would make 0:15:45.240 --> 0:15:48.920 a great teammate team pairing. A Rise for. 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:52.240 The Judge, right, very good, Judge. 0:15:52.240 --> 0:15:55.120 I thought you all. Rise is his nickname, and it 0:15:55.160 --> 0:15:57.400 would have been a Rise Judge. 0:15:57.560 --> 0:15:59.600 A Rise, very good by Jeff. 0:15:59.720 --> 0:16:01.640 I mean on the Phillies. Trust me, I don't need 0:16:01.680 --> 0:16:03.480 them on the New York Yankees, no, thank you. 0:16:04.560 --> 0:16:06.840 I'm not sure what to do with the Red Sox, Jeff. 0:16:06.880 --> 0:16:08.600 We bring them up every week, and I don't think 0:16:08.640 --> 0:16:10.720 I can add to this story. But it has to 0:16:10.760 --> 0:16:13.520 be mentioned they've won twenty nine out of thirty four 0:16:13.600 --> 0:16:15.560 games coming into Wednesday. 0:16:15.600 --> 0:16:17.640 I mean, it's one of the. 0:16:17.600 --> 0:16:21.320 Greatest in season turnarounds that I've ever seen. Thirty two 0:16:21.400 --> 0:16:26.520 and forty six, arguably the most disappointing team in baseball 0:16:26.640 --> 0:16:29.880 this year, and since then they've gone twenty nine and five. 0:16:30.000 --> 0:16:31.680 I just don't see it. And I look at their 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:34.040 lineup and I still don't see it. And they're doing 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:37.440 all this without Garrett Crochet, even though they're pitching exceptionally well. 0:16:38.160 --> 0:16:40.600 Are you amazed as I am at this turnaround? 0:16:40.720 --> 0:16:43.800 I mean, Fenway Park is alive. I have friends who 0:16:43.800 --> 0:16:47.200 live in Boston. I remember texting them back in May 0:16:47.760 --> 0:16:50.760 and they're like, this place is dead. Everybody hates the socks, 0:16:50.840 --> 0:16:53.840 nobody wants to go to games. It's miserable. And now 0:16:53.880 --> 0:16:56.280 I'm texting them and they're saying, it is so alive. 0:16:56.360 --> 0:17:02.080 It's unbelievable how alive is. Because one hundred and sixty 0:17:02.120 --> 0:17:05.080 two is a long season. It can turn around, and 0:17:05.160 --> 0:17:08.400 it has. But it's August the fifth. We got two 0:17:08.480 --> 0:17:11.120 months left. But they are the hottest team in baseball Dad, 0:17:11.200 --> 0:17:14.840 and it isn't close with how good they've been playing lately. 0:17:15.000 --> 0:17:16.840 Oh incredible, it's amazing. 0:17:17.160 --> 0:17:19.920 And then they're the Tigers, Jeff who traded Trek schoobl 0:17:20.040 --> 0:17:23.000 and Casey Miyes, you know, throwing up a white flag 0:17:23.040 --> 0:17:25.040 that we're not going to the playoffs this year, and 0:17:25.119 --> 0:17:29.480 yet they've scored eight plus runs six games in a row. 0:17:29.640 --> 0:17:31.919 And you look at their lineup and you know, you 0:17:31.960 --> 0:17:35.399 see some pretty good hitters, but eight plus runs six 0:17:35.520 --> 0:17:37.840 games in a row. The last time and the only 0:17:37.880 --> 0:17:40.560 other two times in history that the Tigers have done 0:17:40.600 --> 0:17:43.719 that is nineteen twenty two and nineteen twenty seven. So 0:17:43.760 --> 0:17:46.199 it's pretty impressive what they're doing. And the timing is 0:17:46.359 --> 0:17:49.320 just amazing to be they trade away the best pitcher 0:17:49.359 --> 0:17:52.080 in the league and a really good one in Casey Meives, 0:17:52.600 --> 0:17:55.159 and they're starting to surge again, but they're doing it 0:17:55.160 --> 0:17:57.360 with their offense, not with their pitching. 0:17:57.800 --> 0:17:58.720 Amazing, isn't it. 0:17:59.080 --> 0:18:02.760 Yeah, the bats are hot right now and it's good 0:18:02.760 --> 0:18:05.680 to see. But it's also I mean that interview Dad 0:18:05.680 --> 0:18:09.200 with Trek Scooble after his final outing with the Tigers, 0:18:09.240 --> 0:18:12.280 knowing that pretty much was going to get traded. I mean, 0:18:12.640 --> 0:18:14.639 you know how you always say, how can you not 0:18:14.680 --> 0:18:17.399 be romantic about baseball. That's just like such a common saying. 0:18:17.760 --> 0:18:21.199 How can baseball not break your heart? I mean, just 0:18:21.440 --> 0:18:24.640 listening to that, I'm not even a Tigers fan, and 0:18:24.720 --> 0:18:29.600 I was almost in tears because these players mean it. 0:18:30.000 --> 0:18:32.560 They really don't tell me. 0:18:32.600 --> 0:18:36.320 The players don't care, Jeff, just don't because you listen 0:18:36.359 --> 0:18:39.160 to somebody like that, and it matters when you spent 0:18:39.240 --> 0:18:42.480 your whole career with one team. And Detroit is a 0:18:42.520 --> 0:18:46.480 great baseball town. I can certainly see it. I've seen 0:18:46.520 --> 0:18:49.560 stuff like that more. I've seen guys cry more than 0:18:49.760 --> 0:18:51.639 many times over the years when they have to go 0:18:51.720 --> 0:18:54.960 somewhere else. And he won't be crying at the end 0:18:55.000 --> 0:18:57.200 of this year because he's He's going to be great, 0:18:57.240 --> 0:18:58.360 and so are the Dodgers. 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:02.840 This is that time of year, aj. 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