Speaker 1: Welcome back to Is this a great Gamer? What with
Speaker 1: the Hall of Famer Tim Kirkshin. I'm his son, Jeff Kirkshon.
Speaker 1: Another episode of our show, Dad, And this weekend is
Speaker 1: going to be a crazy one. The trade deadline is
Speaker 1: coming up on Monday. We're gonna have a very special
Speaker 1: interview on Monday. We have former general manager Jim Boden's
Speaker 1: going to join us on Monday morning, so a little
Speaker 1: bit of shake up from the show. Instead of having
Speaker 1: him the day after the trade deadline, we'll have him
Speaker 1: on the trade deadline to talk about his favorite GM
Speaker 1: stories and moments and so.
Speaker 2: Much great perspective from him. Dad, Hi, how are you good?
Speaker 3: Jeff? So hope Jim Boden is going to put you
Speaker 3: in the room when trades are being made on trade
Speaker 3: deadline Monday, like we're gonna see. And then the Tuesday show,
Speaker 3: which is usually our interview show, that is going to
Speaker 3: be a recap of the trade deadline, So Jim Bowden
Speaker 3: on Monday. The regular Monday show will run on Tuesday.
Speaker 3: And speaking of Tuesday, Jeb, thanks again to Jason Bennetti.
Speaker 3: How funny was that guy that was so good last week?
Speaker 2: Dad? It was so much fun.
Speaker 1: He is such a for lack of a better term,
Speaker 1: softball guest.
Speaker 2: He is so easy and I.
Speaker 1: Want to shout out friend of the show Matt Friedman,
Speaker 1: who's been a listener since day one. A Syracuse graduate
Speaker 1: as well. He said he took a picture of his screen.
Speaker 1: He was listening to the Jason Bennetti episode, he said,
Speaker 1: listening in traffic at the intersection where Chad Smith said
Speaker 1: his dad got the ice cream containers that became his
Speaker 1: first drums. He shouted out the intersection on the local
Speaker 1: podcast True Story, How cool is that? So he's listening.
Speaker 1: We talked about him, We talked about yellow card. Who
Speaker 1: would have thought that came up? And then get this, dad,
Speaker 1: we have yellow car to come out of nowhere. And
Speaker 1: we had somebody over at our house on Monday, a
Speaker 1: friend of ours.
Speaker 2: She brought her two kids. Her name's Heather.
Speaker 1: She's absolutely a fantastic mom.
Speaker 2: We go to the gym with.
Speaker 1: Her and she said, yeah, you know, we're going through
Speaker 1: our schedules. I said, what are you doing that weekend?
Speaker 1: You got Oh, I can't go. We're going to a
Speaker 1: CEA yellow card.
Speaker 2: I'm not cidreous. I swear I said, how is yellow
Speaker 2: card coming up this often at this time of my life?
Speaker 2: But it was so funny.
Speaker 1: Jason was so good.
Speaker 2: Dad so funny, right right?
Speaker 3: And Jeff, speaking of people weighing in, last week, we
Speaker 3: talked about because Mike Sure, the commissioner of is this
Speaker 3: a great game or why, brought up the notion that
Speaker 3: when Raphael Devers hit an automatic double that bounced over
Speaker 3: the fence and ended the game, it should not be
Speaker 3: a walk off single because the bases were loaded and
Speaker 3: one RBI it should be a walk off double and
Speaker 3: two RBIs. And we threw this out there and the
Speaker 3: response we got, Jeff, from our really smart, clever, sophisticated
Speaker 3: listeners and viewers was tremendous. Jeff, you saw all that stuff.
Speaker 3: How many people weighed in on what that rule should be,
Speaker 3: what is right, what is wrong? It was amazing, wasn't it.
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people are trying to argue
Speaker 1: that they should be the commissioner ass this is a
Speaker 1: great game or what.
Speaker 2: But the point is it was a very.
Speaker 1: Good conversation to be had amongst baseball fans and Dad listen,
Speaker 1: like if any of our wives knew that we were
Speaker 1: debating this. They would say, what's the difference, and we
Speaker 1: would say it is a big difference because this game
Speaker 1: has been around forever and the fact that that wasn't
Speaker 1: two runs. I made the argument too, Dad, a home run,
Speaker 1: a grand slam, when you're only down by one, you
Speaker 1: win by three. An automatic double, the ball also leaves
Speaker 1: the park. You should get it bounced before it left
Speaker 1: the park, and that's the flip side. But true, Jeff, Jeff,
Speaker 1: did it leave the park before the run skilled or what? Yeah,
Speaker 1: these are all the details that make this game so
Speaker 1: fun to debate.
Speaker 3: Right and again, Jeff's people mentioned if it's called an
Speaker 3: automatic double, then how can it be a single, because
Speaker 3: if it bounces over and it's an automatic double, it
Speaker 3: should be it should be two RBIs. So again, I
Speaker 3: was just really pleased with how involved and engaged our
Speaker 3: listeners and viewers were on that and the other thing, Jeff.
Speaker 3: We talked about the immaculate inning last week that Gavin
Speaker 3: Williams had for the Guardians, and people are asked a
Speaker 3: bunch of really smart questions like what exactly is an
Speaker 3: immaculate inning. We decided you can have five foul balls
Speaker 3: during those nine pitches that you throw as long as
Speaker 3: you face three batters, you strike them out on nine pitches.
Speaker 3: But somebody asked, what happens if one of the strikes
Speaker 3: is a you know, a pitch clock violation. What about that? Well,
Speaker 3: that's still an automatic strike and you still get credit
Speaker 3: for an immaculate inning.
Speaker 1: If that happens, what about then it's a drop, third drop,
Speaker 1: third strike? Runner gets thrown out at first? Is that
Speaker 1: still an immaculate I mean, I know, it's still strikeout.
Speaker 2: I'm not discrediting.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, and Jeff when you know, also, just to
Speaker 3: clarify for everyone, if you strike somebody out on a
Speaker 3: and with a pitch pitch clock violation, so it's a strike,
Speaker 3: the pitcher gets credit for throwing the ball. There, that
Speaker 3: is a pitch thrown even though he didn't throw the
Speaker 3: pitch because the hitter was not engaged with the pitcher
Speaker 3: with eight seconds ago. So that's another little thing that
Speaker 3: nobody asked about and probably nobody cares about except for
Speaker 3: the people on the show. So, Jeff I was also
Speaker 3: taken that a couple of our listeners and viewers said,
Speaker 3: we need a name for something that's even more amazing
Speaker 3: than an immaculate inning. Well, maybe not more amazing, but
Speaker 3: three pitches, three batters, three outs. So you a pitcher
Speaker 3: pitches an inning, he faces three batters, he throws one
Speaker 3: pitch to all three batters, and gets out of the
Speaker 3: inning in three pitches. First off, we need a name
Speaker 3: for that, Jeff. And someone asked, like, how unusual is that? Well,
Speaker 3: it happened twice last year. Adrian Hauser and Garrett Hampson
Speaker 3: both had a three pitch inning in which they started
Speaker 3: the inning, faced three batters and were out of the
Speaker 3: inning in three pitches. Do you understand the distinction, Jeff?
Speaker 3: In other words, why I explained it properly?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I definitely think.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's extremely rare, obviously, within I don't think
Speaker 1: it's as impressive as an immaculate inning. No, it's definitely
Speaker 1: not because you're throwing three First of all, to throw
Speaker 1: three strikes at the speed people are throwing the ball.
Speaker 2: At these days can be difficult.
Speaker 1: It's more it's similar to that Dad, in my opinion,
Speaker 1: to the triple play, the unassisted triple play. Excuse me,
Speaker 1: where it's like kind of it's impressive, yes, but it's
Speaker 1: more of like a lot of things have to happen,
Speaker 1: and it's kind of quirky in a way, right, or
Speaker 1: even to the point where you make an argument about
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 2: The cycle. Yes, it is the cycle.
Speaker 1: Impressive you got four hits in a game at a minimum,
Speaker 1: but like once, you rather have four homers. It's not
Speaker 1: the greatest thing you could do out there, right, So
Speaker 1: I know you're not discrediting a cycle. You're not discrediting
Speaker 1: a three pitch inning. But yeah, I mean, what we
Speaker 1: need to do, Dad, here's what we need to do.
Speaker 1: We need to get Frank from the Alias to tell
Speaker 1: us what pitcher did this the most amount of occurrences.
Speaker 3: Well, I talked to Frank this morning about this, and
Speaker 3: I wasn't about because you can only go back so
Speaker 3: far when it comes to pitch counts. But I was
Speaker 3: intrigued that one of our listeners said, we need a
Speaker 3: name for three up, three down on three pitches. So
Speaker 3: let me give you my thought process, Jeff. First off,
Speaker 3: it has to be named after a pitcher like a
Speaker 3: Maddox is a shutout thrown in under one hundred pitches
Speaker 3: because he was so efficient, all right, So we need
Speaker 3: the name of a pitcher, right, and we need the
Speaker 3: pitcher needs to wear the number thirty three because three outs,
Speaker 3: three pitches. So I went looking for the pitchers who
Speaker 3: wore number thirty three and might have a connection. So
Speaker 3: I found Johnny sayin sai n. Johnny Sayinne was a
Speaker 3: star for the nineteen forty eight Boston Braves. He won
Speaker 3: twenty games like three different times. He also went on
Speaker 3: to become one of the great pitching coaches ever, a
Speaker 3: guy who understood the art of pitching about as well
Speaker 3: as anybody. So I think we should call that three pitches,
Speaker 3: three batter's face, three outs in one inning. I think
Speaker 3: we should call it a sane What do you think?
Speaker 2: I think that's insane?
Speaker 3: Did he right?
Speaker 1: I mean it kind of works in that way, right.
Speaker 3: But Jef, it has two meanings. How sane is it
Speaker 3: to throw three pitches and get out of the inning? Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's what everyone. That's what Greg Maddocks and Tom Glavin
Speaker 3: used to root for. Throw three pitches. Then I could throw,
Speaker 3: you know, one hundred more in the game and still
Speaker 3: be around because I only threw three in one inning.
Speaker 3: So from now on, I'm gonna call it if I
Speaker 3: ever see it again, because we haven't seen one this year.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna call it a sane okay.
Speaker 2: I mean I'm here for it, Dad.
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Speaker 3: I think it's going to be fantastic. I think there's
Speaker 3: going to be a lot of movement. I think it's
Speaker 3: going to be really interesting. And just think for a second,
Speaker 3: if this works out. The Blue Jays, who came one
Speaker 3: win away from winning the World Series last year, it's possible.
Speaker 3: I'm not saying it's going to happen. It's possible that
Speaker 3: they will be sellers at the deadline instead of buyers
Speaker 3: at the deadline. Now, what are the chances of that?
Speaker 3: So you know, they have some expiring contracts, Kevin Gossman,
Speaker 3: who could really help somebody, Dalton Varshow who could really
Speaker 3: help somebody. But they could really help the Blue Jays.
Speaker 3: But isn't it interesting that maybe the blue Jays are
Speaker 3: going to sell, whereas maybe now the Nationals and the
Speaker 3: Pirates are going to buy. When at the beginning of
Speaker 3: the season you would have never guessed that those possibilities
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Speaker 3: single day, and at the trade deadline time, things change
Speaker 3: by the hour. It's a fascinating thing.
Speaker 1: You agree with that, Dad, I mean, we're gonna get
Speaker 1: a lot more insight from Jim Boden. We just recorded
Speaker 1: the episode with him, So Monday morning again, Jim Boden
Speaker 1: joining us.
Speaker 2: Former general manager.
Speaker 1: It's gonna take us inside the office of a general
Speaker 1: manager and of a team of what that's like. But Dad,
Speaker 1: is this not the most exciting, most chaotic time of
Speaker 1: the year. And with the addition, I want a little perspective,
Speaker 1: just a tiny bit from you, With the addition of
Speaker 1: the more wildcard spots. I mean, I grew up in
Speaker 1: the era of four teams per league and now I mean,
Speaker 1: and it wasn't always that way. I understand that, but
Speaker 1: now I mean everybody could be a buyer. If you're
Speaker 1: five hundred or a game or two under, you're a buyer.
Speaker 3: Jeff I just in PTI the other day and Tony
Speaker 3: Corneiser asked me, Tim, twenty one out of the thirty
Speaker 3: teams have a chance to make the playoffs, which is
Speaker 3: great for baseball. When almost seventy When seventy percent of
Speaker 3: the teams have a chance to make the playoffs on
Speaker 3: July the twenty eighth, that's a really good thing. So yeah,
Speaker 3: and I think the extra playoff round, I mean extra
Speaker 3: playoff team. Sure, that makes a difference, especially in the
Speaker 3: American League. You get into the playoffs, you have a
Speaker 3: chance to go deep into the playoffs, especially in the
Speaker 3: American League. So the trade deadline is going to be fascinating.
Speaker 3: Can't wait till Monday. Wait you listen to Jim Bowden
Speaker 3: and him tell all of his stories about Ken Griffy
Speaker 3: Junior and trades that fell apart and trades that came together.
Speaker 3: It was fascinating. All right, Jeff, we can't do any
Speaker 3: takeaways without Jacob Mizerowski, who's now back to form, it seems,
Speaker 3: after having a bit of a dead arm period. Dead
Speaker 3: arm for him means he was only throwing ninety nine
Speaker 3: miles an hour. But the other day, Jeb, he became
Speaker 3: the first pitcher since nineteen sixty one. That's as far
Speaker 3: back as we could go to be accurate about it,
Speaker 3: to go four innings into a game, after four innings,
Speaker 3: no hits allowed, an eleven strikeouts, Jeff, that was, Jeff,
Speaker 3: that was sixty five years ago, was what Jacob Mazerowski did.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's just amazing to me. Are you as
Speaker 3: amazed as I am? That he does this like every
Speaker 3: week he has a note that hasn't ever been done.
Speaker 1: Let me just say, Dad, I am so blessed that
Speaker 1: I logged into your MLB account on all of my
Speaker 1: TVs so I can watch him in the first inning
Speaker 1: of any game I want. It has been so so
Speaker 1: thank you for letting me steal your password, but it
Speaker 1: has been so fascinating to see him.
Speaker 2: And can I just say, I.
Speaker 1: Mean no disrespect by this.
Speaker 2: But when you look at him, he's not this.
Speaker 1: Strapping buff guy.
Speaker 2: This is the beauty of baseball.
Speaker 1: His arms are in at least his four arms, I
Speaker 1: should say. But that's the point is anybody can pitch,
Speaker 1: no matter your body type. I mean, look at him
Speaker 1: versus Pedro Martinez, Randy Johnson, all these other different body types.
Speaker 1: Dad can do this, our oldest chapman who it spans
Speaker 1: across physical bodies to be able to throw a pitch
Speaker 1: like that.
Speaker 2: It's it's so incredible watching.
Speaker 3: And again, Jeff, he's six'. Seven he has extension that others.
Speaker 3: Don't As i've told you multiple, times that armslot is
Speaker 3: a little bit lower than most. Pitchers hitters can't see
Speaker 3: it coming out of that arm. Slot that deception really.
Speaker 3: Works for, him he's. AMAZING a couple other. Things First,
Speaker 3: Off Max munsey hit his one hundred and thirtieth home
Speaker 3: run At Dodger, stadium and so that Ties eric carras
Speaker 3: for the most homers ever hit by A, dodger of
Speaker 3: course At Dodger. Stadium Max, munsey who is working out
Speaker 3: with his high school team years ago when he got
Speaker 3: released by The a's because he was a four to
Speaker 3: a player who didn't have a, position and he's turned
Speaker 3: himself into this, really really good power hitter for The,
Speaker 3: dodgers and his next homer will give him more homers
Speaker 3: At Dodger stadium than anyone since the club moved there
Speaker 3: in nineteen fifty. Eight it's just amazing to.
Speaker 2: Me so what an incredible story he.
Speaker 1: IS i love following his story given the comeback right.
Speaker 3: RIGHT i had a couple other. Things The, Angels, jeff
Speaker 3: who are really. Struggling of, course they just lost their
Speaker 3: ninth game this year in which they led entering the ninth,
Speaker 3: inning and that is the most games that any team
Speaker 3: has ever lost entering the ninth inning before the month
Speaker 3: Of august in the history of. Baseball And Jordan, ramato
Speaker 3: who used to be their closer this. YEAR i believe
Speaker 3: still is their save leader this year and he hasn't
Speaker 3: pitched for them since Since, april and now he's tied
Speaker 3: for the save leader with The Colorado, rockies his second.
Speaker 3: Team so it just shows you when you have a
Speaker 3: bad bullpen and you can't hold a ninth inning, lead
Speaker 3: that's how you end up with the worst of not
Speaker 3: one of the worst records in. Baseball Poor angels and
Speaker 3: the Poor. Marlins, Finally jeff ended their twelve game losing
Speaker 3: streak and they did it with three runs in the
Speaker 3: bottom of the, ninth so they became the first team
Speaker 3: since the two thousand and Two rays to break a
Speaker 3: twelve game losing streak going into the ninth inning down
Speaker 3: by two. Runs so it just shows you when you
Speaker 3: lose twelve in a, row it's a good chance you're
Speaker 3: gonna lose thirteen in a. Row but the last team
Speaker 3: to do what The marlins did the other night was The.
Speaker 3: Rays and by the, Way, jeff this is an OMEN
Speaker 3: i guess The marlins are the one hundred and fortieth
Speaker 3: team now to lose twelve games in a, row, right
Speaker 3: and The mets also did it this, year so two
Speaker 3: teams have done it this. Year of the previous one
Speaker 3: thirty eight before this, year none of those one thirty
Speaker 3: eight has ever gone on to make the playoffs with
Speaker 3: twelve consecutive. Loss so, look in other, words they can
Speaker 3: make history if they make the playoffs this. Year pretty.
Speaker 1: Cool you, know their game as of recording is their
Speaker 1: third game of the series with The, phillies but they
Speaker 1: already took two out of three from The, phillies and
Speaker 1: SO i mean they could be changing it. Around this
Speaker 1: has been a strange. Season and, again as we, Said,
Speaker 1: dad the field is wide. OPEN i heard a guys
Speaker 1: say on social media thirty three out of the thirty
Speaker 1: teams might be buyers this. Year that's just how especially
Speaker 1: when you talk about THE Al central in The American,
Speaker 1: league is wide open for people to be playing and doing.
Speaker 1: SO i, mean if you're A marlins fan out, there
Speaker 1: do not count this team. Out do not count anybody.
Speaker 1: Out if you're still floating around five. Hundred this is
Speaker 1: an excite, season.
Speaker 3: Right it's good for, baseball even though teams that are
Speaker 3: under five hundred are still in. It it's good for
Speaker 3: baseball that you go to the ballpark thinking we have
Speaker 3: a chance to make the, playoff maybe an outside, chance
Speaker 3: but we have a chance And.
Speaker 1: November remember most importantly that it's all about just getting To, october.
Speaker 2: Right this is my favorite part of the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Is sometimes the best teams win The World series because
Speaker 1: they just got hot at the right. Moment it isn't
Speaker 1: always about it's just let's get to one sixty. Two
Speaker 1: let's add another series to our, roster and then maybe
Speaker 1: we can make a run for.
Speaker 2: It you never.
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Speaker 1: let's hear the quark gins from you here.
Speaker 2: On is this a great game or?
Speaker 3: What all? Right So Tommy white of The a's had
Speaker 3: his second four hit game this, season and he's only
Speaker 3: played ten games in his major league, Career so in
Speaker 3: his first ten games in the major, leagues he's got
Speaker 3: two four hit games and the rest of The a's
Speaker 3: have one four hit game By Carlos cortes all. Year
Speaker 3: so he's been there ten days and he's got more
Speaker 3: four hit games than the rest of of the team.
Speaker 3: Combined is that? Amazing that's.
Speaker 1: Incredible that's a, good good, start good?
Speaker 3: Start? Alright all, right speaking of a good, Start Eduardo,
Speaker 3: valencia backup catcher for The, tigers who's no longer a
Speaker 3: backup catcher for The, tigers he is the first player
Speaker 3: ever to hit five hundred and hit four home runs
Speaker 3: in his first seven major league. Games so he comes
Speaker 3: up for his first. Seven he's hitting over five hundred
Speaker 3: with four homers in his first seven. Games so it's
Speaker 3: unbelievable how productive he's been when he just got to
Speaker 3: the big. Leagues and by the, Way Jeb On, tuesday
Speaker 3: The tigers scored in all all eight innings that they,
Speaker 3: Batted so remember The royals did that this year, Also
Speaker 3: so we had two teams do it in like a
Speaker 3: three week. Span and the last time any team scored
Speaker 3: in all eight or all nine innings was the twenty
Speaker 3: Sixteen White, sox so we didn't have any for ten,
Speaker 3: years and then we had two teams do it in three.
Speaker 3: Weeks pretty, cool? Huh pretty?
Speaker 2: Neat?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Absolutely and go look at That tigers box. SCORE
Speaker 3: i don't know if two three one is an area,
Speaker 3: code but it looks a lot like a phone number to.
Speaker 3: Me and it wasn't the only phone number out, there
Speaker 3: that's for.
Speaker 1: Sure let me do a Quick google search, here two
Speaker 1: three to one is, well it's northwestern and western Central.
Speaker 3: Michigan really, yeah and The, tigers The, tigers they Played michigan.
Speaker 2: Two three, one? Right is that what you said?
Speaker 3: There it? Is oh my, gosh we love it when
Speaker 3: we find out this. STUFF i should have checked them,
Speaker 3: myself all, Right, jeff love it, right all? Right Shane. Bieber,
Speaker 3: really you, know Former Cy young, winner guy who's usually
Speaker 3: got good, control walked six batters in the first inning
Speaker 3: the other, day six in the first. Inning the last
Speaker 3: pitcher to do that Was Daniel, cabrera who's that big
Speaker 3: if you remember that big six' nine guy who threw,
Speaker 3: really hard had electric stuff but didn't know what to do.
Speaker 3: With it by, The Way daniel cabrera is also The
Speaker 3: guy jeff as a hitter he struck out in his
Speaker 3: first seventeen at bats in the. Major, leagues look he
Speaker 3: didn't even pretend to be a, good hitter but over seventeen.
Speaker 3: Seventeen strikeouts then he hit a ground ball to the
Speaker 3: first baseman and then is next to bat, he walked
Speaker 3: which is. Just incredible first, of all how do you
Speaker 3: walk a guy who's, six,' nine right and how do
Speaker 3: you walk a guy who's over eighteen, was Seventeen Strikeouts
Speaker 3: but hayden. Penn walked him i'm sure he looks back at,
Speaker 3: THAT and goes.
Speaker 2: I don't know. How, that, Happened yeah.
Speaker 3: Right and, Our, last one jeff is our box score line.
Speaker 3: Of The week jacob Young of the nationals the other day,
Speaker 3: batted three times walked, all three times so he had zero.
Speaker 3: Official at baths he, scored a run, had no, hits
Speaker 3: of course and drove. In two runs so, His batting
Speaker 3: line jeff, is zero. One zero two and again devouring
Speaker 3: the BOX scores like i do every morning with great
Speaker 3: glee and with a great diet mountain do these things
Speaker 3: just leap? Off THE page so i Had to call,
Speaker 3: frank and say when's the last time we had, a
Speaker 3: zero One Zero two zach, Cozart twenty eighteen so it
Speaker 3: was eight years ago that anyone had the same Batting
Speaker 3: Line that. JACOB young had i think you might have
Speaker 3: had one of, Those, batting lines jeff that day that
Speaker 3: you played In, the doubleheader ridgeview when you were like.
Speaker 3: ELEVEN years old i think you walked five times. In
Speaker 3: a game i'm pretty sure the bases were loaded. AT
Speaker 3: least once i know you. SCORED a run i know
Speaker 3: might have had, a zero.
Speaker 1: One zero two my greatest accomplishment in my baseball career
Speaker 1: was walking with the bases loaded to.
Speaker 2: WIN a game i had a.
Speaker 1: Walk, off walk.
Speaker 2: Yeah one time.
Speaker 1: There you go and the fact that that's my biggest
Speaker 1: accomplishment speaks volumes to. My baseball, Career, all right dad
Speaker 1: on this date, in baseball history what do?
Speaker 3: You, have got yeah, Nineteen fifty nine willie McCovey made his.
Speaker 3: Major league Debut hall of Fame first, Baseman willie McCovey
Speaker 3: and in his, major league debut he went four to four,
Speaker 3: with two triples both of Them Off, of robin Roberts
Speaker 3: who's A hall. Of fame pitcher So that's How willy made,
Speaker 3: that's how Right that's how willy McCovey made his major
Speaker 3: league debut on this date in. Nineteen fifty nine this.
Speaker 3: Is sad jet but on this date In. Nineteen, eighty
Speaker 3: jr richard who was just an over houring Pitcher For
Speaker 3: the houston, astro six' eight had a slider that nobody
Speaker 3: could hit through really hard as intimidating A right Handed
Speaker 3: pitchers i. Think i've ever seen he had a stroke
Speaker 3: that day and never pitched again. In the major leagues and.
Speaker 3: This is equally awful but eleven years, Later To, the
Speaker 3: day jeff gray, another major league pitcher. He suffered a stroke, what,
Speaker 3: are the chances yes to the day two guys suffered
Speaker 3: eleven years later. On the same day, that is, so
Speaker 3: weird all right off? And up? Of that, All Right
Speaker 3: twenty seventeen adrian beltray got. Hit Number, three THOUSAND noticed
Speaker 3: jeff how i say hit number three thousand instead of
Speaker 3: his three thousands OF the hit because i can't put.
Speaker 3: That thh very easily it's like, you and what brewery don't.
Speaker 1: Even bring it Up We were at ironhill brewery, for
Speaker 1: a live show AND the whole time i wanted to,
Speaker 1: be anywhere but there even though they were, the best
Speaker 1: hosts ever they Were. So great, in philadelphia But yeah
Speaker 1: right with adrian, is a.
Speaker 3: Tough, One right right yes and he Of course Is.
Speaker 3: A hall of famer he had the most home runs
Speaker 3: ever by anyone who never hit A Home. Run ON
Speaker 3: opening day and. I bring this up I'm not sure
Speaker 3: why i'm so. Tickled by these things but he never
Speaker 3: wore a cup playing third base in. His MAJOR league
Speaker 3: career and i said to a madri how is that
Speaker 3: possible that you? Did wear a?
Speaker 7: Cup especially, played, third he goes well that's. What these
Speaker 7: are for he put.
Speaker 3: Up, his hands like wow that's that's called, Trusted, YOUR
Speaker 3: hands there, jeff i, gotta say all right we have a.
Speaker 3: Couple of birthdays here. Jeff Nineteen thirty four Bud Selig,
Speaker 3: was born bud celg former commissioner and of course Former Owner.
Speaker 3: Of the, Milwaukee Brewers and look Bud selig's In. THE
Speaker 3: hall of fame i, Can. Tell you this jeff IN
Speaker 3: all the, Years i covered baseball i've never seen an
Speaker 3: owner come into the box the pres and, talked to
Speaker 3: the writers. Including the visiting writers we All Got to
Speaker 3: know bud sealing pretty darn well for my ten years
Speaker 3: on the beat at a newspaper because, every Time my
Speaker 3: teams The, rangers of The, Orioles Went to milwaukee bud
Speaker 3: selig always came in and talked. To the visiting. Writers
Speaker 3: it was amazing. He knew our names and he wasn't doing.
Speaker 3: That to curry favor he just did it. Because he
Speaker 3: loved baseball so you could say Whatever You, want about
Speaker 3: bud ceiling but. He loved the game he. Still loves
Speaker 3: the Game Happy, birthday to bud ceiling And Happy, birthday
Speaker 3: to doug raider who was born on this date. In
Speaker 3: nineteen forty four he was The manager of the rangers
Speaker 3: in nineteen. Eighty THREE and beyond when i covered The
Speaker 3: Team For, The Dallas morning news doug rader taught me an.
Speaker 3: Awful lot about baseball he's one Of the smartest people
Speaker 3: i've ever met wearing. A major league uniform he, was
Speaker 3: incredibly well read, he was incredibly sophisticated and yet he.
Speaker 3: Was A complete lunatic and i mean. That as a
Speaker 3: compliment He once told me, jeff BY the way and
Speaker 3: i always got a, kick out. OF this he said
Speaker 3: i thought. This was, very descriptive you know he was
Speaker 3: a five time goal glove. Winner at, third base he
Speaker 3: said playing third base is. Like recovering a fumble that's
Speaker 3: how he. Described playing third base does that? SOUND right,
Speaker 3: To you i mean paul, Hits off your chest paull gets.
Speaker 3: You in a hurry you gotta fall down, to make
Speaker 3: the play, you gotta charge it you. Got to backhand it,
Speaker 3: very Underrated Position defensively and doug rader likened it. To
Speaker 3: recovering a fumble?
Speaker 2: DO you like that i think that's a beautiful. Way
Speaker 2: of describing.
Speaker 3: It, that's perfect Right, ALSO on those rangers i, covered
Speaker 3: for one year, Maybe, just one spring yeah For One,
Speaker 3: year only ellis valentine who's one of The greatest throwing.
Speaker 3: Outfielders I'VE ever seen and I Had never met ellis
Speaker 3: valentine until He came TO the rangers and i got
Speaker 3: to talk. To him one day, He looked at me,
Speaker 3: i'll never, FORGET this he goes i got more ten
Speaker 3: in my pinky finger than most players have. In Their
Speaker 3: entire body. And i'm. Disputing that of course he, was,
Speaker 3: a really big strong fast guy who could really throw
Speaker 3: as well As almost any. Outfielder I'VE ever seen but
Speaker 3: i thought that was a Really Honest thing that ellis.
Speaker 3: Valentine had to say and, One Of, my Favorites tom,
Speaker 3: pagnazi former cardinals catcher was born on this date. In
Speaker 3: nineteen Sixty two so during mark McGuire's heyday, As A,
Speaker 3: Power Hitter tom pagnazi david howard Who was on the
Speaker 3: cardinals At The time with Tom pagnazi, And With mark
Speaker 3: McGuire david howard was a, kind of a slight little
Speaker 3: middle infielder and he was going into The Weight room
Speaker 3: and tom pagnazi stopped him before he went into the, Weight,
Speaker 3: room and said david. Don't go in there McGuire is.
Speaker 3: In there lifting weights. You might get hurt. You need
Speaker 3: to stay he Was Poking, fun at david howard but
Speaker 3: he was also acknowledging how Big and how, strong mark
Speaker 3: McGuire was, how often he lifted and. How much he
Speaker 3: lifted so that those are this date In baseball history,
Speaker 3: For July. The thirtieth.
Speaker 1: Alpha best we're, onto a new letter and this. ONE'S
Speaker 1: a tough one i know you have been dreading a
Speaker 1: pitcher and a position player. With the last names you
Speaker 1: need to pick the best for both with.
Speaker 2: Our alphabet, This, Week.
Speaker 3: All right well I'm Going to Take mike schmid and
Speaker 3: i'm going To Pick. Him, over tris's speaker now Just A.
Speaker 3: Word about, tris speaker first off. He's a double UNIQUE as,
Speaker 3: Far as I know triss and speaker are the no
Speaker 3: one's Had a first named tris and no one's Had,
Speaker 3: A last name speaker so that puts him on a.
Speaker 3: Pretty pretty cool list he also had Three forty five
Speaker 3: lifetime he had a nine. To twenty eight ops he
Speaker 3: Had a war which, i'm not big on but one,
Speaker 3: hundred and thirty six which is exceptionally high at The
Speaker 3: most doubles in major league, history seven ninety two and
Speaker 3: he had. Six unassisted double. Plays as an outfielder he's
Speaker 3: one of the five greatest center. Fielders OF all time
Speaker 3: and i didn't put him AS my s and i,
Speaker 3: Feel Terrible about that but I'm Gonna. Go With mike
Speaker 3: schmidt mike, schmidt won three MVPs He made, Twelve all
Speaker 3: star teams he won. Eight home run Titles He. Won ten,
Speaker 3: gold gloves you know it's like a five man group
Speaker 3: of people who have hit as many home runs it
Speaker 3: as him and. Won Ten goal gloves So i'm Going With.
Speaker 3: Schmidty OVER tris speaker am i? Still, In the family
Speaker 3: jeff you're.
Speaker 1: ABSOLUTELY in the family i think you've done a good
Speaker 1: job at. A very, Hard Task this morning dad on
Speaker 1: ninety TWO, To five x, tu philadelphia's COUNTRY station the
Speaker 1: station i Work for, in the philly area we Play
Speaker 1: a Game Called. Minute to win it, one of the
Speaker 1: questions it's a bunch of trivia questions, all over the
Speaker 1: map ten questions to, get them all right you win. A, thousand,
Speaker 1: dollars right well today one of the ten questions was
Speaker 1: what player holds the record for the most home runs hit,
Speaker 1: In a single, season and without, Hesitation The. Contestant said
Speaker 1: mike schmidt if That's not the Most philadelphia caller, RESPONSE
Speaker 1: i've ever heard i don't know what, is obviously not
Speaker 1: right but amazing.
Speaker 2: That that was the first thing that came.
Speaker 3: Out, Of, Their Mouth right well mike schmid is the
Speaker 3: greatest third. Basement of ALL time that's, why i chose
Speaker 3: him and All, apologies to trust speaker because he, was
Speaker 3: an amazing player and just because he played over. ONE
Speaker 3: hundred years ago i don't Care that, stuff still matt
Speaker 3: TODAY and probably statistically i Should Have, gone With tris
Speaker 3: speaker But I'm. Going with mike schmidt i'm. Gonna live
Speaker 3: with it as, hard as that was the, Pitcher. Is,
Speaker 3: Even harder jeff Now i'm going With Tom, Sever OVER
Speaker 3: warren spond and i can't even begin to tell you
Speaker 3: how much THAT hurts me because i grew Up To
Speaker 3: stories about warren. Spond from. My Dad your grandfather warren
Speaker 3: spahn won three hundred, and sixty three games most ever by.
Speaker 3: A left handed Pitcher He Made, seventeen all star games had,
Speaker 3: thirteen twenty, win seasons, and he's you know maybe the
Speaker 3: most durable. Pitcher of all time pitched in relief, occasionally
Speaker 3: during a season never missed a start through, batting practice
Speaker 3: in between and had almost As many complete games jeff
Speaker 3: after He Turned, forty as kurt schilling who's a warrior
Speaker 3: during his time as far, as being a workhorse had.
Speaker 3: In his Entire career that's. Who warren spawn was so
Speaker 3: let's make sure Anyone Who votes for warren. SPINDIER no
Speaker 3: argument here i have to make, a REALLY difficult choice
Speaker 3: And I. Went With tom sever tom, SEVER won three
Speaker 3: MVPs i. Mean three cy youngs he's. The best met
Speaker 3: Ever he won The. Rookie of the Year He made, Twelve.
Speaker 3: All star games jeff he won three, hundred and eleven
Speaker 3: games had a TWO, point eighty six era and, struck
Speaker 3: out three thousand six. Hundred, and forty batters now this
Speaker 3: is a this is, A, quiz for you jeff and
Speaker 3: you are off the show if. You get it wrong
Speaker 3: only One Other pitcher in major league history has won at,
Speaker 3: least three hundred games struck out at least, thirty five
Speaker 3: hundred BATTERS and had. An era under three only One
Speaker 3: Pitcher other than tom? Seaver ever did? That who? Is It?
Speaker 2: Give ME walter johnson.
Speaker 3: Did I ever tell You I Went To? Walter, johnson
Speaker 3: high School. Yeah that was jeff i'm so. Glad YOU
Speaker 3: got it tom c is. The GREATEST met, Ever As
Speaker 3: i said and i'm going to. TELL this quick story
Speaker 3: i had, dinner one, Night With, among Others Dick shaff
Speaker 3: and dick shaff. Tells This, Amazing Story dick shapp jeremy
Speaker 3: shapp's dad used to say that HE collected people, Like.
Speaker 3: I collect stories, jeff he collected people is. How he
Speaker 3: put it so one night he gets a bunch of
Speaker 3: his sportswriter friends and they all. Go out to dinner and,
Speaker 3: also included in dinner and this, is like late Sixties
Speaker 3: Early seventies Is muhammad. Ali and tom sever they are
Speaker 3: invited to dinner with these Sports Writers. And with, dick,
Speaker 3: Shaff All right now muhammad ali was a, very very
Speaker 3: intelligent man but apparently not the. Biggest baseball fan ever
Speaker 3: so about three quarters of them, Time Through the night
Speaker 3: Muhammad Ali looks at, tom seaver and says what newspaper?
Speaker 3: Do you work for.
Speaker 7: So He THOUGHT he thought tom c was just one
Speaker 7: of the sports writers who was there Along With the
Speaker 7: great Dick Shapp and with Muhammad, ali and de seemer,
Speaker 7: to his eternal credit kind of laughed, out loud, AND
Speaker 7: said you know i Pitched for the bat so that
Speaker 7: was that was greatly only with when you go Out To,
Speaker 7: dinner with dick shapp are you going to get? A, Story, LIKE.
Speaker 1: That well dad i want to take A quick minute
Speaker 1: because i got a package today from a. Member of
Speaker 1: the Family His name is Peter, Burr, out of cincinnati
Speaker 1: ohio and he sent me a really really. Cool umpire
Speaker 1: garden gnome it's. Not a garden home it's like a
Speaker 1: small gnome done by the artist And Art, Professor At,
Speaker 1: davidson college TOM clark and, it's i was like this is.
Speaker 1: Going to be perfect it probably stands about four. Or
Speaker 1: five inches tall now There's a reason why i'm not
Speaker 1: showing it to anybody. Right now on video and THE
Speaker 1: reason is when i came home my. Daughter out of
Speaker 1: nowhere We'll be, three on, August, tenth McKinley goes daddy?
Speaker 2: WHAT'S in.
Speaker 1: YOUR backpack i didn't i come home with the backpack, Every,
Speaker 1: day from, work Dad every day and, i'm like my
Speaker 1: laptop my, Water bottle, my headphones.
Speaker 2: Like, what and she goes can?
Speaker 1: You open, it, PLEASE i'm like, okay i MEAN dad every.
Speaker 1: Day i come home she's. Never asked me to she
Speaker 1: never even. Looked at my backpack so she opens it
Speaker 1: up and She sees the.
Speaker 2: Gnome, umpire and?
Speaker 1: Says daddy thank you?
Speaker 2: Is this for ME.
Speaker 7: So what am? I?
Speaker 2: Gonna tell her no so she takes.
Speaker 1: It and brings it to her playroom and she has
Speaker 1: little windows in her playroom and she puts it on
Speaker 1: the window sill and.
Speaker 2: He's looking, at, it and.
Speaker 1: It's OH that's perfect so I Want to let peter
Speaker 1: burn know thank you so much.
Speaker 2: For the kind.
Speaker 1: Gift it's very sweet he referenced, my love of umpiring
Speaker 1: which was my first EVER job AND something i look
Speaker 1: i look back at. Those days very fondly it was
Speaker 1: very important to me to help under stand the game
Speaker 1: in a different way, and made some, money but most
Speaker 1: importantly it. Was a Great job but now i'm never going, to.
Speaker 2: See IT again sir so i felt bad that it's
Speaker 2: not on.
Speaker 3: The set behind, Me, but you know jeff that's in
Speaker 3: your house and you gave it to your nearly. Three,
Speaker 3: year old, daughter McKinley. Take it, it's great. Maybe, yeah
Speaker 3: and umpired look umpiring. Is a great profession i'm going
Speaker 3: to save for the million. Times very difficult job umpires
Speaker 3: deserve a whole lot more credit. Than they are given
Speaker 3: you're looking.
Speaker 1: For your three cards, that's my best guess because you started.
Speaker 1: Looking around your table?
Speaker 2: Your cards?
Speaker 3: Where here they?
Speaker 2: ARE here they are.
Speaker 1: I got all right dad found the three, cards in
Speaker 1: the bathroom which he, put on his desk ready to
Speaker 1: go here on is?
Speaker 2: This a great game? Or what hit me? What do?
Speaker 3: You got all Right Number. One Is. Tommy herr tommy
Speaker 3: Herr he's in, A twins uniform here but of course
Speaker 3: he did his Best Work For. The saint louis cardinals
Speaker 3: and In Nineteen eighty six tommy hurr had eight homers
Speaker 3: and drove in one. Hundred and ten runs so the
Speaker 3: only guy since then that has had fewer than ten
Speaker 3: homers and driven in one hundred Or More runs was
Speaker 3: paul molitor, in nineteen ninety six who had nine homers
Speaker 3: and one. Hundred and, thirteen RBIs, And, again back then
Speaker 3: jeff you were paid. To drive in runs not everyone
Speaker 3: was trying to hit a home run getting a two
Speaker 3: run double or a single to right to. Drive in a.
Speaker 3: Run That stuff mattered tommy hurr was a great run
Speaker 3: producer and he did it without hitting the ball. Out of, The.
Speaker 2: Ballpark it's crazy.
Speaker 3: Okay Number, two Is, gary matthews the sarge. One of
Speaker 3: my Favorite he's in. A Mariner's, outfit here, gary matthews
Speaker 3: of course Came. Up with the giants number thirty six
Speaker 3: was in The Same outfield With Gary. Maddox and bobby
Speaker 3: bonds what an. Athletic outfield, that was of course He,
Speaker 3: played for the phillies and his big deal was when He.
Speaker 3: Was with the cubs one of. The great leaders ever
Speaker 3: and this is really going, To, be SELF serving jeff
Speaker 3: but i. Hope everyone recognized him just doing, This. FOR
Speaker 3: a laugh Okay i speak at williamsport in the off
Speaker 3: season Every year at the, crosscutters like winter banquets like five.
Speaker 3: Years in a. Row i've done it they. KEEP asking
Speaker 3: me back. I love going. There it's really fun so
Speaker 3: one year The Other, speaker was gary matthews and we
Speaker 3: each had a big poster of ourselves that we we
Speaker 3: autographed and then we auctioned it, off and the money
Speaker 3: of course went to help people who need help and.
Speaker 3: Support charities and everything and my signed.
Speaker 7: Poster Went for more than, gary matthews side posters, and,
Speaker 7: he was pissed, like oh my god how could the
Speaker 7: dicky little sports writers picture go?
Speaker 3: For more than by he laughed all. THE way through
Speaker 3: it i think he's, Still laughing about it and just
Speaker 3: another reminder What A great. Dude GARY matthews is.
Speaker 1: And i mean, yours was, you know actual size so
Speaker 1: his was on like a three foot by five feet
Speaker 1: yours was on an index card and it, still went.
Speaker 3: For me, Right, right very. Funny jeff all right, And,
Speaker 3: the Last One, jeff is bob welsh a very underrated,
Speaker 3: pitcher in His day Not, a hall of. Famer But
Speaker 3: really good steve carlton won twenty seven games, in the
Speaker 3: early seventies and the only pitcher to win twenty seven
Speaker 3: Games Since, then was bob welsh who won twenty. Seven
Speaker 3: In nineteen ninety and i've told you many times in one,
Speaker 3: Of My, baseball heroes tony quinn struck out three times
Speaker 3: in a game. Once. In, his career once okay so he.
Speaker 3: Gave me, The Details he said bob wells struck me
Speaker 3: out three times in one game and then he kind,
Speaker 3: of whispered, to me he goes he actually struck me
Speaker 3: out four, times in that game but the. Umpire MISSED
Speaker 3: a call otherwise i would have struck out four times
Speaker 3: in one game. Against the same Pitcher That's how good
Speaker 3: bob welsh. Was in, His, product.
Speaker 1: All right dad team tim to, wrap up today's? Show
Speaker 1: what's her theme what?
Speaker 3: Are?
Speaker 2: You, Going, with.
Speaker 3: Okay well jeff with, the trade deadline approaching and again this,
Speaker 3: is ALMOST a cliche but i, just took each position
Speaker 3: and there's. No science to this there are a million.
Speaker 3: Possibilities AT each position but i looked at some of
Speaker 3: the worst or the most lobsided trades made in baseball.
Speaker 3: History one per position, and let's be clear. This is
Speaker 3: a trade this. Is Not a sale babe ruth Was
Speaker 3: Sold by the Red, sox TO the yankees and i think.
Speaker 3: There's a distinction there so these Are just trades that.
Speaker 3: I'm bringing up here and it was really hard to
Speaker 3: do because there were. A lot of options But My,
Speaker 3: catcher is jason Veritech Who went with Derek Lowe to
Speaker 3: The red Sox From. Seattle for heathcliff slocum and We
Speaker 3: All know what jason veritech did in His Career with
Speaker 3: the red. Sox pretty Darn Good first base jeff bagwell
Speaker 3: nineteen Ninety Was, traded for larry anderson who's the maybe
Speaker 3: the funniest player ever To play in the major leagues
Speaker 3: and had a great slider And Really helped the red.
Speaker 3: Sox in nineteen Ninety But of course jeff bagwell went
Speaker 3: On to Become a hall. Of fame, First Baseman second
Speaker 3: Base Ryan sandberg and larry boa Were Traded for yvon
Speaker 3: da haysues from The, f to the Cubs and of
Speaker 3: course sandberg went On to Become a hall. Of fame.
Speaker 3: SECOND baseman third BASE i must say i had some
Speaker 3: trouble coming up, with The Third baseman but scott rowland
Speaker 3: was traded Basically Even, up for placido polanco who was,
Speaker 3: a good little player so please don't. Anyone take this wrong.
Speaker 3: He set fielding records, he could play second, he could
Speaker 3: play third he was a, magician around the. Bag He
Speaker 3: Could hit but scott roland went On to Become a hall.
Speaker 3: Of fame third baseman philly Sent him To The. Cardinals
Speaker 3: for placido Polonco Our. Shortstop is Jim Fergozi and again
Speaker 3: jim fragozi was Traded Even, up For Nolan ryan and
Speaker 3: nolan Ryan went from The mets to, the angels and
Speaker 3: Became of Course a. Hall of Fame Pitcher even though
Speaker 3: jim fergozi's career was, obviously mostly behind him outfield was
Speaker 3: A Little bit Easier Frank robinson for milt PAPIs and. Other,
Speaker 3: people were, involved frank of course that first year now
Speaker 3: eineteen Sixty six for the orioles Not Only, won the
Speaker 3: world series BUT he won The Mvp and the triple crown.
Speaker 3: In his first year AND Never Forget what i. Brooks
Speaker 3: Robinson told. Me frank, Robinson's Teammate he said frank robinson
Speaker 3: taught us How. To, Win, in, baltimore now jeff seriously
Speaker 3: we talk about. Teammates all the time is that not
Speaker 3: the greatest compliment you? Can pay to anyone he taught.
Speaker 3: Us how to win it's.
Speaker 1: The Greatest, compliment ever and dad you've said this before in,
Speaker 1: reference to so many including Your. Late brother uncle matt
Speaker 1: it's a great compliment to be told, you're a, great
Speaker 1: player of course but it's the best compliment to be told.
Speaker 1: You're a great teammate and teammates help teach other, teammates
Speaker 1: how to, win how TO operate How To i mean don,
Speaker 1: mattingly comes To Mind right with ruben sierra after he
Speaker 1: was pimping A Home run in new york for the
Speaker 1: first homer He, had is a, YANKEE and he. SAID i,
Speaker 1: got this i mean if that didn't speak to him.
Speaker 1: Becoming a future, manager by the way that's what managers
Speaker 1: talk about when they see, Players acting like that like
Speaker 1: that guy's going to be, a manager one day because
Speaker 1: that's the, way he treats it being a great teammate
Speaker 1: and teaching others how to win and how to play.
Speaker 1: Baseball in that way that, goes a, Long, Way.
Speaker 3: Right right Okay Lou brock for ernie brolio, and Others
Speaker 3: were involved but brock Ended up Being a hall of Fame,
Speaker 3: outfielder for The cardinals but the cubs traded him. In
Speaker 3: nineteen sixty four it turned out to feed a Bad.
Speaker 3: Move by the cubs they made a few. Bad, moves
Speaker 3: back THEN.
Speaker 2: Yeah and remember i can't remember if it was last.
Speaker 1: Or two years ago we did a simulation With our
Speaker 1: friends at Stratumatic seeing if the cubs Would Have won
Speaker 1: a world series if they Had never traded lou brock
Speaker 1: because it was around the trade deadline when we did
Speaker 1: this to see the trades that. Never would have Happened
Speaker 1: We also Did Ted. Williams for joe DiMaggio remember that
Speaker 1: was like a whole rumored thing For A while with
Speaker 1: Ted Williams better in yankee stadium And Vice. Ver for,
Speaker 1: joe DiMaggio, and so you. Know those are fun we're
Speaker 1: gonna have to bring some of those back for our
Speaker 1: friends With our, friends at stratt.
Speaker 3: Right and there there are a bunch of outfielders, who are,
Speaker 3: involved in you know. Some Really lopsided trades but i'm
Speaker 3: Gonna Go with your Don, alvarez of the astros who's
Speaker 3: basically the best hitter, in baseball this year power's got
Speaker 3: a Chance To. Win the triple crown he Was traded
Speaker 3: from The dodgers To The, astros for josh fields who
Speaker 3: really didn't, work out Very Well and jor don alvarez
Speaker 3: is really really good and before, his career is over
Speaker 3: there's no telling what those numbers are going. To Look,
Speaker 3: like pictures steve carlton, who we mentioned earlier was Traded Even,
Speaker 3: up for rick wise who. Was a good Pitcher but
Speaker 3: When The phillies got Steve, carlton from the Cardinals he
Speaker 3: Became a, hall of fame pitcher one of the greatest left.
Speaker 3: Handers Of, all time, rick wise of course. Was Was
Speaker 3: really good rick wise it two home runs a game
Speaker 3: in which he, Threw, a no hitter, jeff, pretty darn, impressive,
Speaker 3: Right pretty good easy and there are. A Bunch Of
Speaker 3: yes for john smoltz was Traded Even, up for doyle
Speaker 3: alexander who Was. Acquired by the tigers and you did A,
Speaker 3: great job for detroit helping. Them Win A division but
Speaker 3: john Smoltz went to the braves in that deal and
Speaker 3: Became a First. Ballot hall of famer and as, We Mentioned,
Speaker 3: Last Week, John Smoltz tom GLAVIN greg maddox and i
Speaker 3: all ended up In the bathroom at Cooperstown. At the,
Speaker 3: Four urinals i'm sorry, jeff TO overdo this but i
Speaker 3: still get a big. Kick out of that how about
Speaker 3: that you turn around and those three Guys, there Are
Speaker 3: four urinals and i'm. With, those three guys.
Speaker 1: Yeah and This Definitely trump sure nelson cruz in the
Speaker 1: bathroom story from a couple of years, ago, during the
Speaker 1: playoffs right you?
Speaker 2: Said what'd you say you know how many home runs
Speaker 2: are in? This bathroom right now? AND you had zero.
Speaker 3: I know what Happened on that was i'm doing The Radio,
Speaker 3: call with carl, ravish MY Dear, friend and edwardo, perez
Speaker 3: MY dear friend. And i come back it's like the seventh,
Speaker 3: inning OF the game and i just get back on
Speaker 3: the air. And THERE'S a, PAUSE so i Say I
Speaker 3: just saw nelson cruz In the bathroom and. Ravi is like,
Speaker 3: speechless he's never, speechless and he goes what? WHAT does, that,
Speaker 3: mean i said Well Can't you see aaron judge just?
Speaker 3: Hit A Home run john carlos stanton just, Hit a
Speaker 3: HOME run and now i just saw four hundred and
Speaker 3: fifty eight home. Runs in the bathroom can't? You connect
Speaker 3: the Dots and, he, and eduardo goes no we. Can't
Speaker 3: connect the dots It's the stupidest, thing i've ever, heard
Speaker 3: and it was but we got a big. Chuckle out OF.
Speaker 3: It jeff and i that's. What we're here for we
Speaker 3: laugh when we. Learn on, this show thank, goodness not
Speaker 3: enough laughter and we don't learn, enough in today's, World
Speaker 3: including in baseball so hopefully we do that, ENOUGH on.
Speaker 3: This show i know so that's All We did With. Jason,
Speaker 3: bennetti on tuesday.
Speaker 1: Yeah that was fun and we're gonna have A Great
Speaker 1: time with jim Bowden.
Speaker 2: And you on monday so make.
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Speaker 1: REST of your weekend i hope you get some sleep
Speaker 1: around the trade deadline because it's going to be a.
Speaker 2: Big weekend for baseball not, A.
Speaker 3: Chance on sleep. Jeff but that's okay. We can sleep
Speaker 3: later let's get through the deadline that is a mile post.
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