WEBVTT - Baseball For The Dads... 0:00:05.720 --> 0:00:06.960 Is this a great game or what? 0:00:07.280 --> 0:00:11.799 And welcome to our Father's Day edition of the show. 0:00:11.920 --> 0:00:14.239 We're going to be joined by Karl Ravich and his 0:00:14.360 --> 0:00:19.320 son Sam Ravich, who both are broadcasters for ESPN. Yeah, 0:00:19.400 --> 0:00:23.479 big baseball broadcasters. And Carl also dips right into college 0:00:23.480 --> 0:00:24.320 basketball as well. 0:00:24.360 --> 0:00:27.040 And it's a special episode for us because well we're 0:00:27.040 --> 0:00:29.480 a father son duo as well, right, And this is 0:00:29.560 --> 0:00:34.199 your first Father's Day as a father. McKinley Kirchen was 0:00:34.240 --> 0:00:38.720 born on August tenth of twenty twenty three. So what's 0:00:38.760 --> 0:00:40.960 it like for you to be a father the first time? 0:00:41.080 --> 0:00:42.519 With Father's Day coming up? 0:00:42.640 --> 0:00:47.159 It's probably the coolest feeling because I always knew I 0:00:47.200 --> 0:00:48.800 wanted to be a dad, and that's because I had 0:00:49.040 --> 0:00:52.000 my dad as an example as a great father. But 0:00:52.360 --> 0:00:54.400 you know, people always tell you, oh, you don't know 0:00:54.560 --> 0:00:56.680 love until you hold your baby for the first time, 0:00:56.680 --> 0:00:59.040 and not that I would roll my eyes at that, 0:00:59.120 --> 0:01:01.240 but I always thought, oh, yeah, I kind of get No, 0:01:01.480 --> 0:01:05.520 there's no comparison of the first time I got to 0:01:05.560 --> 0:01:08.119 hold our baby girl. And I mean I was also 0:01:08.160 --> 0:01:10.600 happy for other reasons because while my wife was in labor, 0:01:11.200 --> 0:01:13.360 Michael Lorenz in to the Phillies at the time was 0:01:13.600 --> 0:01:14.080 throwing a. 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:17.000 No hitter and did so successfully. So there's two reasons 0:01:17.000 --> 0:01:19.720 to be happy, right. So we thought McKinley was going 0:01:19.760 --> 0:01:22.360 to be born on your birthday and on the same 0:01:22.440 --> 0:01:24.440 day that Michael Lorenza threw a no hitter. 0:01:24.640 --> 0:01:26.880 Yeah, I turned thirty at the hospital and then my 0:01:26.880 --> 0:01:29.399 wife went into labor at like nine pm on the 0:01:29.480 --> 0:01:31.840 night of my thirtieth birthday, and then she labored for 0:01:31.959 --> 0:01:34.160 quite some time and we had the baby the next morning, 0:01:34.240 --> 0:01:36.679 so she would have her own birthday August the tes. 0:01:36.680 --> 0:01:39.440 So McKinley has been how many major league games and 0:01:39.480 --> 0:01:41.920 she's not even eight months old? Oh my gosh. 0:01:41.959 --> 0:01:46.480 So she how she's three major league games, including the 0:01:46.520 --> 0:01:48.960 game we went to and did a live show from 0:01:49.200 --> 0:01:52.360 for the Als game, which was really really special, the 0:01:52.400 --> 0:01:54.520 first time we ever brought McKinley to a baseball game. 0:01:54.560 --> 0:01:55.160 It was really cool. 0:01:55.200 --> 0:01:56.640 And I know a lot of ballparks do this, but 0:01:56.920 --> 0:02:00.920 you have to go get a certificate, a first game certificate. 0:02:00.960 --> 0:02:03.360 Every team does it and we still have it to. 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:04.800 This day, and it was really I got to put 0:02:04.800 --> 0:02:07.360 it in a frame. It's a basketball ticket. Happy Father's Day, 0:02:07.440 --> 0:02:08.640 Jeff for the first time. 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:10.800 And happy fathers, say to you, Dad, And we're gonna 0:02:10.800 --> 0:02:14.680 get more into fathers, including fathers and sons of baseball. 0:02:14.800 --> 0:02:18.200 But I first have to ask you about the London series, 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:21.320 because as we are recording this on Monday afternoon to 0:02:21.360 --> 0:02:25.240 release on Tuesday, you have just flown in from London 0:02:26.120 --> 0:02:29.600 and drove from the Philadelphia airport to my home forty 0:02:29.639 --> 0:02:32.600 five to fifty minutes north of the airport we're recording. 0:02:32.680 --> 0:02:35.720 How jetlaged are you? I'm very tired, but I had 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:39.160 such a great time in London. That's the takeaway from 0:02:39.200 --> 0:02:42.600 this week, Jeff, is what a great job everyone in 0:02:42.639 --> 0:02:45.480 London did. There wasn't one hiccup through the whole thing. 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:49.680 Major League Baseball did a great job. The ballpark was 0:02:49.720 --> 0:02:52.720 in great shape, it was pack The Brits are really 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:55.320 starting to get it in baseball much more. You know, 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:58.679 it's an acquired days, Jeff. They don't play baseball over there. 0:02:58.680 --> 0:03:01.960 It's a soccer and a cricket country. But it was really, 0:03:02.000 --> 0:03:04.000 really good. And you know I told you I went 0:03:04.120 --> 0:03:07.600 last year. Cubs and Cardinals traveled like I couldn't believe. 0:03:07.639 --> 0:03:10.040 I couldn't take five steps in London without seeing a 0:03:10.080 --> 0:03:13.280 Cubs or Cardinal fan. This year, the Mets traveled very 0:03:13.320 --> 0:03:18.200 well and the Phillies traveled exceptionally well. They were Philly 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:21.280 fans were everywhere. So we talked to Rob Tubbs and 0:03:21.320 --> 0:03:25.240 the manager of the Phillies, and he heard from one 0:03:25.280 --> 0:03:28.760 of the coaches that there was a Phillies bar. In fact, 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:34.840 there were three Phillies bars in London, and one was 0:03:34.880 --> 0:03:39.440 at you know, what's it called Passaic Passion pass Avenue 0:03:39.560 --> 0:03:43.320 was the name of one of the bars. So Rob said, well, 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:45.120 if a couple of coaches are going, we're all going 0:03:45.200 --> 0:03:48.600 to go. So the coaching staff and the manager of 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:52.560 the Philadelphia Phillies go into this bar in London and 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:56.839 Rob said, the place what absolutely bananas because they're all 0:03:56.920 --> 0:03:59.680 Philly fans in there. And then these guys roll in. 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:01.960 So I thought, I said, Rob, what did you say, 0:04:02.000 --> 0:04:04.880 maybe fifteen minutes just to make an appearance, and he goes, no, 0:04:04.960 --> 0:04:07.920 we stayed two hours. We had a great time. That's 0:04:07.920 --> 0:04:10.760 how great that part was. Bryce Harper was the star 0:04:10.840 --> 0:04:14.240 of the weekend, mostly in part because he had a 0:04:14.280 --> 0:04:18.160 home run in the game on Saturday. Now he had 0:04:18.200 --> 0:04:21.000 planned I asked him all about this. He had planned 0:04:21.000 --> 0:04:23.400 it in advance that if he hits a home run, 0:04:23.880 --> 0:04:26.760 he's going to go do a slide on his knees 0:04:27.320 --> 0:04:32.400 like soccer players do when they score a goal. So typical. 0:04:32.560 --> 0:04:34.640 Bryce Harper goes, well, I got to hit a homer 0:04:34.680 --> 0:04:36.320 to do this, and then he hits one of the 0:04:36.360 --> 0:04:39.159 third deck. It was just ridiculous. As Dave Debrowski the 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:42.400 GM told me, he said, only Bryce could pull off 0:04:42.440 --> 0:04:45.120 something like that. So he hits the homer and he 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:48.560 starts running towards the dugout and then he hits his 0:04:48.640 --> 0:04:52.919 knees and slides. Rob Thompson told us like he's looking 0:04:52.960 --> 0:04:56.119 at Bryce running right after him, at him, going what 0:04:56.200 --> 0:04:59.320 in the hell is he doing here? And then Rob 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:03.360 didn't really recognize until after the game in the postgame 0:05:03.400 --> 0:05:07.240 that this was a soccer slide. So when I asked 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:10.760 Bryce about it, I said, did you practice this? And 0:05:10.760 --> 0:05:13.080 he goes, no, I've never really done that before. And 0:05:13.080 --> 0:05:15.320 he said, and yes, I was a little worried that 0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:18.760 I might get something caught underneath me, but he said, 0:05:19.000 --> 0:05:20.680 I said, what the heck. When I hit it out 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:22.800 of the ballpark, I said, I'm going to do a 0:05:22.880 --> 0:05:25.480 slide into home plate. I mean into the dugout. It 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:28.719 was absolutely tremendous. So you talked about the Sunday game, Jeff, 0:05:28.720 --> 0:05:31.560 So I called the Sunday game with Michael Ka and 0:05:31.600 --> 0:05:34.440 Doug Lamville on excellent job. It was so much fun 0:05:34.480 --> 0:05:37.680 as always. So we get to a play at the 0:05:37.839 --> 0:05:40.040 end of the game. You know, Jeff, you know my mantra. 0:05:40.160 --> 0:05:42.359 I tell people, like every day of my life, the 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:44.920 greatest part about baseball is you can go to a 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:48.239 game and you might see something that you've never seen before. 0:05:48.440 --> 0:05:52.160 And I've seen whatever four thousand games in person, and 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:55.159 I saw something that I know I'd never seen before. 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:59.279 So bases loaded one run lead in the ninth inning, 0:05:59.760 --> 0:06:03.120 Nick Cassianos is up with one out. He hits a 0:06:03.120 --> 0:06:06.240 little tapper in front of the plate, breaks his bat 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:10.360 into one thousand pieces, and Luis Enz, the catcher for 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:14.479 the Mets, jumps out in front of the plate, grabs 0:06:14.560 --> 0:06:17.520 the ball which is rolling just in front of the plate, 0:06:17.920 --> 0:06:22.000 runs back, tags the plate, and throws to first for 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:27.200 a double play. That is a two two three double play. 0:06:27.520 --> 0:06:30.320 So I say immediately on the air, that's one of 0:06:30.320 --> 0:06:33.520 the craziest finishes to a game that I have ever seen. 0:06:33.600 --> 0:06:37.840 And I said, I'm guessing no games, especially a one 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:41.159 run game, has ever ended quite like that with a 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:45.320 two two three double play. So of course I called 0:06:45.400 --> 0:06:48.840 Frank at the Alive Sports Bureau. We counted grounded into 0:06:48.839 --> 0:06:52.240 double plays starting from nineteen forty on in both leagues, 0:06:52.640 --> 0:06:55.200 and that was the first time why the game had 0:06:55.279 --> 0:06:58.240 ever ended one run game had ever ended on a 0:06:58.279 --> 0:07:02.120 play quite like that. It was absolutely crazy, as slapped 0:07:02.160 --> 0:07:04.800 my forehead about five times after the game, like how 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:06.960 can it end like that? But the bottom line is 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:10.640 it was a fabulous, fabulous time in London, and I 0:07:10.680 --> 0:07:13.840 hope we keep going back there all right. Other takeaways 0:07:13.840 --> 0:07:17.920 from the week, of course, Aaron Judge had another preposterous week. 0:07:18.320 --> 0:07:22.200 He has thirty one extra base hits in his last 0:07:22.240 --> 0:07:25.640 thirty games through Sunday. The only other Yankee that has 0:07:25.800 --> 0:07:29.800 ever done that is Joe DiMaggio in nineteen thirty seven, 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:34.480 and for a thirty two game stretch, Judge had a 0:07:34.640 --> 0:07:39.119 higher had the highest ops of anyone in baseball since 0:07:39.240 --> 0:07:43.119 Barry Bonds in two thousand and four, and of any 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:47.080 Yankees since Babe Ruth in nineteen twenty four. That's how 0:07:47.200 --> 0:07:50.640 hot Aaron Judge has been lately, he has been an 0:07:50.760 --> 0:07:53.680 absolute machine, and as we talked about last week, all 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:56.920 of this happened after he got ejected for the first time. 0:07:57.480 --> 0:07:58.080 Just crazy. 0:07:58.240 --> 0:08:01.000 It's funny how the way base all works that way. 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:02.880 You know, maybe that was what he needed to kind 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:04.560 of turn things around because it was not a good 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:07.040 start to the session. Who is your game changer of 0:08:07.080 --> 0:08:08.520 the week this week now, Jeff? 0:08:08.560 --> 0:08:12.280 Our game changer is we're trying to present somebody who 0:08:12.360 --> 0:08:15.400 has persevered, who has made a change in his career 0:08:15.440 --> 0:08:19.080 and has done something remarkable when it didn't look like 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:21.320 he was ever going to get there. So Matt Waldron 0:08:21.480 --> 0:08:25.720 is a pitcher for the Padres and he throws a knuckleball, 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:29.280 and in his last six starts he's three and one 0:08:29.440 --> 0:08:32.440 with a one point seven eight era. Jeff, when I 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:34.719 grew up covering the game, and when I was a 0:08:34.720 --> 0:08:37.920 little kid, there were knuckleball pitchers, not everywhere, but it 0:08:38.040 --> 0:08:40.960 was not uncommon to see a knuckleball pitcher. Well, he's 0:08:41.040 --> 0:08:44.160 basically the only knuckleball pitcher in the game today, and 0:08:44.200 --> 0:08:46.600 he throws a knuckleball thirty seven percent of the time. 0:08:46.640 --> 0:08:50.000 It's not like Phil nicro or Charlie Huff or you know, 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:53.360 or Tim Wakefield. But he's still throwing a knuckleball. He 0:08:53.480 --> 0:08:57.400 started experimenting with it in twenty twenty one and now 0:08:57.440 --> 0:09:00.600 he's really got going really well. And Jeff, we don't 0:09:00.720 --> 0:09:05.679 throw knuckleballs anymore because we're so velocity conscious that we 0:09:05.720 --> 0:09:08.240 want everyone to just blow everyone away. So no one's 0:09:08.320 --> 0:09:11.280 teaching the knuckleball. So this guy has gone to an 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:13.720 area where no one is even teaching. In fact, they're 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:17.160 not encouraging anyone to learn to throw a knuckleball, which 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:20.680 I think is a mistake. And he has really succeeded 0:09:20.880 --> 0:09:23.680 because Jeff, when you throw a knuckleball, it is really 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:26.920 really hard to do. So years ago, the Orioles had 0:09:26.920 --> 0:09:29.720 a guy named Daniel Boone. That was his name, and 0:09:29.760 --> 0:09:33.560 he was a direct descendant of the Daniel Boone and 0:09:33.679 --> 0:09:35.960 Daniel Boone weighed one hundred and forty pounds, it was 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:39.360 five 't eight and his second incarnation of baseball, he 0:09:39.480 --> 0:09:43.480 came back as a knuckleball pitcher. So I asked him about, 0:09:43.800 --> 0:09:46.679 you know, throwing the knuckleball and being a direct descendant 0:09:46.720 --> 0:09:50.600 of Daniel Boone, and he said, yeah, I thee Daniel 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:53.720 Boone was must have been a really courageous man. But 0:09:53.800 --> 0:09:57.080 he said, I don't think he would have the courage 0:09:57.240 --> 0:09:59.840 to throw a knuckleball with on a three to two 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:03.000 pitch with the basics. That's how hard it is to 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:05.640 throw a knuckleball. And by the way, I don't think 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:08.640 I ever told you this. I faced a knuckleball pitcher, 0:10:08.880 --> 0:10:13.040 a major league knuckleball pitcher, Charlie Huff in nineteen eighty four. 0:10:13.360 --> 0:10:15.520 He was coming off the disabled list. He had a 0:10:15.600 --> 0:10:19.319 knee injury, and he wanted to throw a simulated game 0:10:19.559 --> 0:10:24.120 before he came back. So I'm at Arlington Stadium covering 0:10:24.160 --> 0:10:26.400 the simulated game to see if the best pitcher on 0:10:26.440 --> 0:10:29.240 the team, Charlie, is coming back. And Doug Rader, the 0:10:29.280 --> 0:10:33.720 mischievous manager of the Rangers, literally picks me up and says, 0:10:33.880 --> 0:10:36.480 you're gonna face Charlie Huff. And I said, I'm not 0:10:36.679 --> 0:10:39.559 facing a major league pitcher. He said, yes, you are. 0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:43.160 So I took four at bats against Charlie Huff throwing 0:10:43.280 --> 0:10:46.280 a knuckleball, and it was one of the great experiences 0:10:46.760 --> 0:10:49.679 of my life because I wreck because all sorts of 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:52.400 hitters have told me you can't hit a knuckleball. I'd 0:10:52.440 --> 0:10:54.800 rather face one hundred miles an hour than a knuckleball. 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:57.200 First off, it can mess you up for the next game, 0:10:57.440 --> 0:11:00.320 and you can't follow it when it's thrown. Well, here, 0:11:00.400 --> 0:11:02.800 it's there, it's everywhere. So needless to say, I didn't 0:11:02.800 --> 0:11:04.880 put a ball in play. I didn't even make contact 0:11:05.000 --> 0:11:09.080 in four at bats against a great knuckleball pitcher. But 0:11:09.360 --> 0:11:11.480 at least now I can say I faced Bob Feller 0:11:11.559 --> 0:11:14.520 in an exhibition game, and I faced Charlie Huff in 0:11:14.600 --> 0:11:17.959 a stimula game. Two major league pictures. Love that. That's 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:18.760 pretty impressive. 0:11:18.920 --> 0:11:20.880 Let the record show that this was mentioned on the 0:11:20.880 --> 0:11:22.360 podcast before Bob Feller. 0:11:22.440 --> 0:11:24.040 How old was he when you faced? It was like 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:28.080 sixty two years. I mean not discrediting you. No, you 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:30.719 can discredit me, believe me. Yes, we have with the 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:34.680 quirtchins for the week. Let's see the quartions. Okay. So, 0:11:34.679 --> 0:11:37.120 so you know how much I love sacrifice flies. This 0:11:37.200 --> 0:11:39.720 is way over the top even for me. So on 0:11:39.840 --> 0:11:45.319 his thirtieth birthday, Harrison Bader of the Mets hit two 0:11:45.360 --> 0:11:50.400 sacrifice flies on his thirtieth birthday. So I called the 0:11:50.440 --> 0:11:54.720 Elias and said, has anyone ever hit two sacrifice flies 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:56.560 on their birthday? Because you know, we have guys who 0:11:56.600 --> 0:11:59.480 had homers on their birthday. Strike we talked about Paul 0:11:59.520 --> 0:12:02.800 Skeins dragging it out nine on his birthday, and we 0:12:03.000 --> 0:12:07.000 found out that Bobby Meacham in nineteen eighty four and 0:12:07.120 --> 0:12:10.240 Roy McMillan in nineteen sixty one are the only two 0:12:10.320 --> 0:12:13.959 players other than Harrison Vader now to hit two sacrifice 0:12:13.960 --> 0:12:16.880 flies on their birthday. So I told Harrison Bader this 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:19.800 and he stops me. Man, he goes, tell me, I'm 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:22.480 the only one that's ever done this. I said, sorry, Harrison, 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:25.719 you're the third guy that's ever done it. But I 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:30.280 just love stuff like that. So Jaron Duran of the 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:34.280 Red Sox hit his tenth triple of the season, and 0:12:34.320 --> 0:12:37.120 the you know, we're only sixty six games in, so 0:12:37.840 --> 0:12:42.080 I checked for the last player to have that have 0:12:42.240 --> 0:12:45.240 ten triples in so few games of a season, and 0:12:45.280 --> 0:12:48.720 that was Jose Reyes in two thousand and eleven. Because 0:12:48.760 --> 0:12:51.319 as we know, Jeff, we don't hit triples anymore. We 0:12:51.440 --> 0:12:53.560 hit a lot of home runs, but not many people 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:56.280 hit triples. So it really stands out that somebody's got 0:12:56.320 --> 0:13:01.520 ten triples already. Ellie Day. Look who we talk about 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:04.880 every week on this because he's so spectacularly talented. But 0:13:05.200 --> 0:13:10.080 he recorded his fourth four strikeout game this season. So 0:13:10.160 --> 0:13:12.720 keep in mind the Major League record for a for 0:13:12.840 --> 0:13:16.680 four strikeout games in one season is seven by Dick 0:13:16.760 --> 0:13:20.720 Allen in nineteen sixty five. Ellie de la Cruz is 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:24.200 over halfway there. My guess is that that record is 0:13:24.240 --> 0:13:27.600 going to fall and again Jeff different time, different era, 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:34.320 but Tony gwyn Stan, Musial Joe DiMaggio had three three 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:39.240 strikeout games in their careers combined, one each, and Elie 0:13:39.240 --> 0:13:42.480 de la Cruz, granted those guys didn't see the pitching 0:13:42.520 --> 0:13:47.640 we're seeing today, already has four four strikeout games. Plus 0:13:47.679 --> 0:13:50.160 we had a game the other day. It was the 0:13:50.200 --> 0:13:54.240 White Sox against the Cubs, and Corey Jenks led off 0:13:54.280 --> 0:13:57.040 the game with a home run on the first pitch, 0:13:57.440 --> 0:14:01.440 and Mike Takman ended the game with a walkoff homer. 0:14:01.559 --> 0:14:04.200 So the first pitch of the game was a homer 0:14:04.679 --> 0:14:07.360 and the last pitch of the game was a homer. 0:14:07.640 --> 0:14:09.800 So I was surprised that we didn't have to go 0:14:09.920 --> 0:14:13.440 back very far. Jose Altuve in nineteen I mean, in 0:14:13.480 --> 0:14:15.839 twenty twenty two let off a game with a first 0:14:15.880 --> 0:14:19.480 pitch Homer and Aaron Judge ended it with a walkoff Homer. 0:14:19.760 --> 0:14:21.960 So those are the quirtions for the week. That's impressive. 0:14:22.320 --> 0:14:23.760 What about birthdays this week? 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:25.600 I know we're celebrating Father's Day on the show, but 0:14:25.600 --> 0:14:27.920 do you have any birthdays for Is this a great 0:14:27.960 --> 0:14:28.360 game or what? 0:14:28.560 --> 0:14:28.800 Yeah? 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:32.880 Brock Holt, this is his thirty sixth birthday today. Brock 0:14:32.920 --> 0:14:36.320 Holt is the only player ever to hit for the 0:14:36.400 --> 0:14:42.080 cycle in a postseason game. And I've told you many times, Hank, Aaron, 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:45.640 Willie Mays, Barry Bods, Babe Ruth never hit for the cycle. 0:14:45.800 --> 0:14:47.560 Brock Holt is the only player to hit for the 0:14:47.600 --> 0:14:52.160 cycle in a postseason game. And in eighteen sixty And 0:14:52.200 --> 0:14:55.320 this is for you, Jeff, A guy was born. His 0:14:55.480 --> 0:14:59.080 name was Pop Joy. That's his name. Now, what is 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:02.560 the name of our our company that does the podcast 0:15:02.760 --> 0:15:06.000 Joy Pop Production? Right? So this was Pop Joy. 0:15:06.000 --> 0:15:10.280 And for anybody you know, we Joy Joyce Kirkshen is 0:15:10.320 --> 0:15:14.240 my dad's mom, my grandmother, and Pop is what we 0:15:14.320 --> 0:15:16.400 call my grandfather who is originally. 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:19.240 Jeffs And Father's Day we have we have a shout 0:15:19.240 --> 0:15:23.200 out to Pop Joy. Major league player was born at 0:15:23.200 --> 0:15:28.200 eighteen Joy eighteen sixty amazing. Who is he playing along with? 0:15:28.520 --> 0:15:31.680 I'm not sure you only had names like pop Joy 0:15:31.680 --> 0:15:35.280 of the eighty nine Toe Johnson. He was toeing the 0:15:35.320 --> 0:15:37.560 rubber right And we also had some pretty good things 0:15:37.640 --> 0:15:39.960 on this date in baseball history, and this date in 0:15:40.080 --> 0:15:43.040 nineteen thirty eight, Johnny Vandermere through the. 0:15:42.920 --> 0:15:47.120 First of his two consecutive no hitters. Of course, no 0:15:47.160 --> 0:15:49.720 one else has ever done that. Nolan Ryan on this 0:15:49.840 --> 0:15:54.080 date in nineteen ninety through his sixth no hitter. Of 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:57.000 course he would finish with seven. No one else has 0:15:57.120 --> 0:16:00.560 more than four. Nolan Ryan is the greatest power picture 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:03.160 of all time, the hardest pitcher to hit in Major 0:16:03.240 --> 0:16:05.960 League history. And last thing is the Brewers on this 0:16:06.080 --> 0:16:10.760 date retired Paul Molechers number four. We talked about great 0:16:10.840 --> 0:16:14.400 number fours last week. So Molitor becomes the manager of 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:18.680 the Twins and he's walking around the ballpark in Milwaukee 0:16:18.760 --> 0:16:21.960 when the Twins go to Milwaukee and there's his number 0:16:22.040 --> 0:16:24.200 up there, and one of the younger young players on 0:16:24.240 --> 0:16:27.480 his team came up to him and said, is that 0:16:27.560 --> 0:16:30.280 you up there? Is that your number up there? And 0:16:30.480 --> 0:16:32.440 Paul Maler is the most humble guy in the world. 0:16:32.480 --> 0:16:35.480 Looks at me, he goes, yeah, let's be up there. 0:16:35.560 --> 0:16:38.640 So I just wish some of our young players would 0:16:38.680 --> 0:16:43.320 actually remember exactly who came before that. It's in the cards. 0:16:43.360 --> 0:16:46.760 We're gonna rip them a pack of tops cards here 0:16:46.800 --> 0:16:47.800 and we start with. 0:16:48.280 --> 0:16:52.400 Oh my gosh, what a great card. Raoul one of 0:16:52.400 --> 0:16:56.480 my favorite players. So, Raoul Lebanya's Jeff has the most 0:16:56.680 --> 0:17:02.840 career homers of anyone whose last name starts with I. 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:05.760 Of course, I know the all time home run leader 0:17:05.800 --> 0:17:08.480 for every letter of the alphabet. I could do it 0:17:08.520 --> 0:17:10.760 for you right now, but that would be ridiculous and 0:17:10.760 --> 0:17:14.560 it would take too much time. Plus, Raoulabanyez is one 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:18.480 of three players joining Hank Sour and Davy Lopes. Try 0:17:18.560 --> 0:17:23.200 to picture this, Jeff more homers in his forties than 0:17:23.240 --> 0:17:26.239 he hit in his twenties. That's crazy. Think about that 0:17:26.320 --> 0:17:26.919 for a second. 0:17:27.240 --> 0:17:29.679 All right, next step, not the country star, but the 0:17:29.680 --> 0:17:31.879 baseball player. It's Kenny Rogers. 0:17:32.119 --> 0:17:35.240 Oh love Kenny Rogers. So Kenny Rogers was a left 0:17:35.320 --> 0:17:39.919 handed outfielders shortstop in high school. Weighed one hundred and 0:17:40.040 --> 0:17:43.360 thirty five pounds, but because he had such a great arm, 0:17:43.480 --> 0:17:47.840 the Texas Rangers drafted him as a pitcher, but he 0:17:47.920 --> 0:17:51.440 had never pitched before. So he goes to spring training 0:17:51.600 --> 0:17:54.760 for the first time as a professional baseball player, and 0:17:54.800 --> 0:17:58.320 Sid Hudson, the pitching coach for the Rangers, says, Okay, 0:17:58.880 --> 0:18:00.600 let's see you throw off the mount and then he said, 0:18:00.640 --> 0:18:04.000 all right, let's see you go from the stretch. The stretch, 0:18:04.160 --> 0:18:06.760 not the wind up. And Kenny Rogers looks at Sid 0:18:06.840 --> 0:18:09.760 Udson it said, I don't know how to do that. 0:18:10.760 --> 0:18:13.439 He had never done that before, and the ilready is 0:18:13.520 --> 0:18:15.920 a He turns out to win over two hundred games 0:18:15.920 --> 0:18:18.320 in his major league career and had one of the 0:18:18.320 --> 0:18:22.000 best pickoff moves I've ever seen, and yet he didn't 0:18:22.000 --> 0:18:24.280 even know how to go from the stretch when he 0:18:24.359 --> 0:18:26.520 first became a professional baseball player. 0:18:26.560 --> 0:18:29.280 One player who has been really stepping up this season 0:18:29.400 --> 0:18:32.520 at Mundo Sosa since Trey Turner went Yeah, and Trey. 0:18:32.320 --> 0:18:34.440 Turner is going to be back in the next week, 0:18:34.560 --> 0:18:37.440 which is great news for the Phillies, but Sosa has 0:18:37.480 --> 0:18:42.040 been absolutely tremendous for them. First twenty seven games that 0:18:42.080 --> 0:18:46.080 he played in shortstop replacing Trey Turner, did not make 0:18:46.080 --> 0:18:49.719 an error and really swung the bat exceptionally well. And 0:18:49.760 --> 0:18:52.760 he's won of Rob Thompson's all time favorite players. So 0:18:52.760 --> 0:18:59.080 Sosa in London overslept and is because of the time 0:18:59.160 --> 0:19:01.480 change and everything else. And he showed up late to 0:19:01.520 --> 0:19:05.160 the ballpark for the Friday workout. And he's never late, 0:19:05.200 --> 0:19:08.280 He's always the first guy there. So he comes running 0:19:08.280 --> 0:19:11.560 out to the outfield and to Rob Thompson who's on 0:19:11.600 --> 0:19:16.800 the field, and he's literally crying, weeping, like I'm so sorry. 0:19:17.000 --> 0:19:20.119 My cell phone died when I was asleep and I 0:19:20.160 --> 0:19:22.399 got caught up in the in the jet lag. He 0:19:22.520 --> 0:19:24.560 was crying, and Rob Toombs had to say, and Mundo, 0:19:25.040 --> 0:19:28.040 don't worry. You're good. So he ed. He played like 0:19:28.520 --> 0:19:30.040 he played really well over the weekend. 0:19:30.200 --> 0:19:34.040 All right, Miles Michaelas all right, Miles Michaelis is a 0:19:34.040 --> 0:19:36.600 good major league pitcher. But what struck me about him 0:19:36.760 --> 0:19:40.840 was last year at the London Series, he went all 0:19:40.880 --> 0:19:45.800 over London like experimenting, being an adventurer and seeing everything 0:19:45.840 --> 0:19:48.120 he could possibly see. He said a very interesting thing 0:19:48.119 --> 0:19:50.560 to me, he said, he said, this is what the 0:19:50.640 --> 0:19:53.640 trip to London is all about, is what. 0:19:53.520 --> 0:19:57.640 You see beyond baseball, he said. I played three years 0:19:57.680 --> 0:20:00.040 in Japan, he told me, and he goes. I you 0:20:00.040 --> 0:20:03.879 can probably remember three games that you know, specific games 0:20:03.920 --> 0:20:07.000 like shut out here, But he said, but I'll never forget, say, 0:20:07.080 --> 0:20:11.600 going to the concentration camps in Japan or Hiroshima. These 0:20:11.600 --> 0:20:14.600 are the things that we take away from these trips. 0:20:14.600 --> 0:20:17.120 It was such a profound look at things by major 0:20:17.200 --> 0:20:21.880 League Baseball player, very encouraging. How about a Doug Glanville 0:20:22.000 --> 0:20:24.919 dog Landville, my friend. You just hung out with him 0:20:24.960 --> 0:20:28.040 in London. I hung out a lot with Doug in London. 0:20:28.119 --> 0:20:31.159 He is so much fun. And I said this at 0:20:31.200 --> 0:20:34.119 the beginning of the broadcast. He wrote a poem to 0:20:34.280 --> 0:20:37.639 kick off the broadcast, and I had to say on 0:20:37.760 --> 0:20:40.240 the air to Michael, Okay, you know, this just isn't 0:20:40.320 --> 0:20:43.879 fair that Doug Glanville played the Major League for a 0:20:43.920 --> 0:20:46.280 long time and he's a better writer than me. That 0:20:46.520 --> 0:20:49.520 just isn't right, because he wrote a beautiful poem to 0:20:49.640 --> 0:20:52.280 kick off the Sunday game in London. 0:20:53.000 --> 0:20:55.600 Well not the swar as I named my dog after 0:20:55.840 --> 0:20:56.760 as in Ranger. 0:20:56.840 --> 0:21:00.520 This is oh, I'm gonna screw it. New Haneos. Thank you. 0:21:00.600 --> 0:21:03.280 I was gonna call you Jenny O right heineo sar. 0:21:03.640 --> 0:21:06.439 Very popular guy with the Mariners was traded to the 0:21:06.480 --> 0:21:09.760 Diamondbacks in the offseason. Strikes out a lot, has gotten 0:21:09.840 --> 0:21:12.760 much better defensively, and he hits the ball out of 0:21:12.800 --> 0:21:14.879 the ballpark. Not at the same rate this year as 0:21:14.920 --> 0:21:17.560 other years. But Jeff, this this just shows you how 0:21:17.680 --> 0:21:21.080 your poor dad sometimes just goes way overboard. I thought 0:21:21.160 --> 0:21:24.120 Suarez was going to lead the league in homers one year, 0:21:24.200 --> 0:21:30.040 and he's got all the vowels in his name aeio, 0:21:30.080 --> 0:21:34.640