1 00:00:01,680 --> 00:00:04,920 Speaker 1: From the Berkshars to the sound from wherever you live 2 00:00:04,960 --> 00:00:09,200 Speaker 1: in MLB America. This is inside the Parker. You give 3 00:00:09,280 --> 00:00:11,560 Speaker 1: us twenty two minutes and we'll give you the scoop 4 00:00:11,600 --> 00:00:15,120 Speaker 1: on major League Baseball. Now here's Baseball Hall of Fame 5 00:00:15,200 --> 00:00:21,520 Speaker 1: voter number six, Rob Parker. All right, welcome into the podcast. 6 00:00:21,640 --> 00:00:25,239 Speaker 1: I am your host, Rob Parker. Great show for you today. 7 00:00:25,840 --> 00:00:30,440 Speaker 1: Former Major leaguea Dmitri Young will chime in tell us 8 00:00:30,440 --> 00:00:34,840 Speaker 1: about the current state of Major League Baseball. Plus Fox 9 00:00:34,880 --> 00:00:38,800 Speaker 1: Sports Radios Bernie Fratto, who played minor league baseball and 10 00:00:38,880 --> 00:00:42,560 Speaker 1: covers the spoard. He'll join us as well. That and 11 00:00:42,800 --> 00:00:49,040 Speaker 1: much more. Let's go up to lead off. It's getting 12 00:00:49,159 --> 00:00:51,920 Speaker 1: robbed and keep him on. Rob's hot take on the 13 00:00:52,040 --> 00:00:57,520 Speaker 1: three biggest stories in Major League Baseball. Number one, keep 14 00:00:57,560 --> 00:01:02,120 Speaker 1: the season moving. I know Commissioner Rob Mann forgave everybody 15 00:01:02,120 --> 00:01:04,560 Speaker 1: a scare a week or so ago or whatever it 16 00:01:04,760 --> 00:01:08,319 Speaker 1: was about maybe pulling the plug on the season with 17 00:01:08,440 --> 00:01:12,320 Speaker 1: some outbreaks. But you know what, the Phillies are back playing, 18 00:01:12,680 --> 00:01:16,240 Speaker 1: the mall Ins are back playing. The Cards have been 19 00:01:16,280 --> 00:01:20,480 Speaker 1: cleared to play and face the Cubs on Friday. So yes, 20 00:01:20,640 --> 00:01:24,199 Speaker 1: baseball has had its hiccups. But for the most part, 21 00:01:24,280 --> 00:01:27,840 Speaker 1: the games have continued to play and players have stayed safe. 22 00:01:28,440 --> 00:01:32,800 Speaker 1: I don't think it's the idea of playing baseball that 23 00:01:33,200 --> 00:01:37,280 Speaker 1: players are worried about getting COVID, because you know, they're 24 00:01:37,319 --> 00:01:40,959 Speaker 1: socially distanced, they're not on top of each other. If 25 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:44,240 Speaker 1: the players do a better job after they leave the 26 00:01:44,280 --> 00:01:46,880 Speaker 1: ball park, and even if they're in the ballpark and 27 00:01:46,920 --> 00:01:50,120 Speaker 1: then the dugout and not hang out too close and 28 00:01:50,160 --> 00:01:52,360 Speaker 1: I give each other high fives and do too much 29 00:01:52,440 --> 00:01:56,920 Speaker 1: touching the spitting, I think baseball will get through the season. Uh. 30 00:01:56,960 --> 00:01:59,440 Speaker 1: There will be some more hiccups along the way, So 31 00:01:59,560 --> 00:02:03,000 Speaker 1: let's not act like everything's gonna be clear and that 32 00:02:03,160 --> 00:02:06,080 Speaker 1: we're smooth sailing from here on out. I don't think 33 00:02:06,080 --> 00:02:08,280 Speaker 1: it's gonna be like that, But I do not believe 34 00:02:08,919 --> 00:02:11,840 Speaker 1: that it will be enough to derail the game. I 35 00:02:11,880 --> 00:02:14,560 Speaker 1: don't know about you. I've been watching left and right, 36 00:02:15,200 --> 00:02:18,040 Speaker 1: and I've been enjoying it. So hopefully the season will 37 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:22,000 Speaker 1: keep on ticking on and we'll have a World Series 38 00:02:22,080 --> 00:02:26,960 Speaker 1: winner in October number two. You know, in this Cesspitous 39 00:02:27,480 --> 00:02:32,280 Speaker 1: is out. He's opted out of the season. Uh. After 40 00:02:32,760 --> 00:02:36,799 Speaker 1: being a no show at a Mets Braves game and 41 00:02:36,840 --> 00:02:40,560 Speaker 1: then deciding to opt out of the season completely, which 42 00:02:40,639 --> 00:02:43,799 Speaker 1: means it was probably the last time we'll see him 43 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:47,320 Speaker 1: in the New York Mets uniform because he's going to 44 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:52,400 Speaker 1: be a free agent after this season. And what a 45 00:02:52,520 --> 00:02:55,959 Speaker 1: crazy I don't know which way to look at cesspitous 46 00:02:55,960 --> 00:03:00,239 Speaker 1: to stay in New York. Remember, he was traded there 47 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:04,640 Speaker 1: in ten from the Tigers and was on fire for 48 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:08,359 Speaker 1: the Mets. He was unbelievable if you remember the run 49 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:12,480 Speaker 1: that he had UH and he basically in his first 50 00:03:12,520 --> 00:03:15,320 Speaker 1: forty one game with the Mets, he batt at three 51 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:18,600 Speaker 1: oh nine, seventeen home runs forty two r b i's. 52 00:03:19,200 --> 00:03:21,120 Speaker 1: He helped the Mets get all the way to the 53 00:03:21,160 --> 00:03:24,760 Speaker 1: World Series. They wind up losing to the Kansas City 54 00:03:24,760 --> 00:03:29,480 Speaker 1: Worlds in but Cesspeas was the big star and the 55 00:03:29,560 --> 00:03:33,480 Speaker 1: Mets were excited. Fans loved him. He was a player. 56 00:03:34,080 --> 00:03:37,160 Speaker 1: Uh signed that three year, seventy five million dollar contract 57 00:03:37,240 --> 00:03:41,560 Speaker 1: after after that, but then opted out for a four year, 58 00:03:41,680 --> 00:03:44,880 Speaker 1: hundred and ten million dollar deal with the Mets. Only 59 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:48,640 Speaker 1: problem is he kept getting hurt and basically was hurt 60 00:03:48,640 --> 00:03:51,760 Speaker 1: the last couple of years with the Mets, so the 61 00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:54,360 Speaker 1: Mets never really got him. He came back this year 62 00:03:55,680 --> 00:03:58,440 Speaker 1: and he looked like he was finally healthy and was 63 00:03:58,560 --> 00:04:01,800 Speaker 1: going to be able to contribute, and then the COVID 64 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:04,760 Speaker 1: and the missing game, and he's out. So when I 65 00:04:04,920 --> 00:04:12,800 Speaker 1: think about his tenure from tiften to and so much 66 00:04:12,840 --> 00:04:16,200 Speaker 1: missed time, I'm still gonna say that it was a positive. 67 00:04:16,880 --> 00:04:19,359 Speaker 1: I know it sounds crazy, but I think it was 68 00:04:19,400 --> 00:04:23,000 Speaker 1: a positive from this standpoint. He got the Mets to 69 00:04:23,040 --> 00:04:27,040 Speaker 1: the World Series in he was the reason why, one 70 00:04:27,080 --> 00:04:31,000 Speaker 1: of the reasons why so suspicious. Will bid you farewell 71 00:04:31,080 --> 00:04:35,240 Speaker 1: from New York. Thanks for the World Series trip, but 72 00:04:35,320 --> 00:04:40,120 Speaker 1: thanks for nothing after that. Number three, more history made 73 00:04:40,240 --> 00:04:48,040 Speaker 1: in baseball. Wednesday night, Melanie Newman became the fourth act 74 00:04:48,120 --> 00:04:53,000 Speaker 1: of female game broadcaster in the history of Major League 75 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:58,920 Speaker 1: Baseball and the first female broadcaster in Orioles team history 76 00:04:59,320 --> 00:05:03,120 Speaker 1: to call play by play for a regular season game. 77 00:05:03,920 --> 00:05:09,560 Speaker 1: It is incredible to see what's happened. And we all 78 00:05:09,600 --> 00:05:12,640 Speaker 1: know Susan Walman for a long time with the Yankees 79 00:05:13,160 --> 00:05:18,760 Speaker 1: on the radio and television. Uh. Jessica Mendoza now ESPN, 80 00:05:19,400 --> 00:05:23,520 Speaker 1: she is a very prominent woman did Sunday Night Baseball. 81 00:05:24,320 --> 00:05:28,560 Speaker 1: So we have seen now four women break through that 82 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:32,680 Speaker 1: glass ceiling and get an opportunity to broadcast baseball and 83 00:05:32,760 --> 00:05:38,040 Speaker 1: it's great Orioles being the latest again, Congratulations to Melanie Newman, 84 00:05:38,720 --> 00:05:43,520 Speaker 1: she's the newest female broadcaster in baseball to join the club. 85 00:05:44,720 --> 00:05:51,400 Speaker 1: Here comes the big interview. Listen. All right, let's welcome 86 00:05:51,440 --> 00:05:55,520 Speaker 1: into the podcast, of course, former Major Leaguer All Star 87 00:05:56,120 --> 00:06:02,240 Speaker 1: Dmitri Young, who also has a podcast called Wrestling with Sports. 88 00:06:02,760 --> 00:06:07,880 Speaker 1: It features uh, Dennis Ferrell, Jason Kendall, and Darren McCarty. 89 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:12,960 Speaker 1: Dmitri one of my favorite people. Welcome to the podcast, buddy, Hey, 90 00:06:12,960 --> 00:06:15,599 Speaker 1: thank you. Glad to be on, especially during the easy 91 00:06:15,760 --> 00:06:19,120 Speaker 1: rough times, No no doubt about it. Let's talk about 92 00:06:19,160 --> 00:06:23,320 Speaker 1: that Dmitri with the COVID nineteen and what's going on 93 00:06:23,440 --> 00:06:26,040 Speaker 1: major League Baseball. The season is rolling on. There's been 94 00:06:26,080 --> 00:06:29,479 Speaker 1: some hiccups, but they are playing games, and I don't 95 00:06:29,480 --> 00:06:32,360 Speaker 1: know about you. I'm watching because I'm enjoying it even 96 00:06:32,360 --> 00:06:35,159 Speaker 1: without the fans. Do you think you would be playing 97 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:40,400 Speaker 1: if you were still a player. It depends on what 98 00:06:40,520 --> 00:06:43,279 Speaker 1: portion of my life I'm living in early in my 99 00:06:43,400 --> 00:06:48,440 Speaker 1: career where I was young and dumb, and when I 100 00:06:48,480 --> 00:06:52,880 Speaker 1: became a family man and I had young children and 101 00:06:53,120 --> 00:06:56,839 Speaker 1: not really noring what's going on with the whole COVID nineteen, 102 00:06:56,880 --> 00:07:00,280 Speaker 1: how it affects the young uns and stuff. Probably believe 103 00:07:00,279 --> 00:07:04,679 Speaker 1: would have opted out. Okay, when you see like Mike 104 00:07:04,720 --> 00:07:07,360 Speaker 1: Trout who just had a baby, he was on the 105 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:11,320 Speaker 1: fence before the season started, and he wound up coming 106 00:07:11,360 --> 00:07:14,559 Speaker 1: back hit a Home Runners first step bat. And also 107 00:07:14,680 --> 00:07:18,720 Speaker 1: Nick mar caicus Uh with Atlanta he had he said 108 00:07:18,720 --> 00:07:21,720 Speaker 1: he wasn't playing, and then a week or ten days 109 00:07:21,720 --> 00:07:24,360 Speaker 1: into the season he joined back in what do you 110 00:07:24,400 --> 00:07:26,760 Speaker 1: what do you make of those guys just just love 111 00:07:26,840 --> 00:07:30,280 Speaker 1: ball and want to play. That's exactly what it was. 112 00:07:30,360 --> 00:07:34,160 Speaker 1: And then they found themselves at home and let's just 113 00:07:34,200 --> 00:07:37,400 Speaker 1: say the misses had to go do something. And I'm 114 00:07:37,440 --> 00:07:39,720 Speaker 1: speaking on Artekers because he was the one that opted 115 00:07:39,760 --> 00:07:42,680 Speaker 1: out at the beginning and then realized that old on 116 00:07:42,760 --> 00:07:44,960 Speaker 1: the boys are having a little too much fun without me, 117 00:07:45,680 --> 00:07:48,880 Speaker 1: and he felt that he probably probably could go and 118 00:07:48,880 --> 00:07:51,480 Speaker 1: and it's I mean, it's a very fine line to 119 00:07:51,600 --> 00:07:56,680 Speaker 1: walk between going out there playing and perhaps coming home 120 00:07:56,720 --> 00:08:00,080 Speaker 1: and and bringing that to the family. And and like 121 00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:01,960 Speaker 1: I said, we don't know what kind of effects that 122 00:08:02,040 --> 00:08:06,120 Speaker 1: can have on a young child, but you know. I mean, 123 00:08:06,160 --> 00:08:08,120 Speaker 1: that's a good sason that they had to make. And 124 00:08:08,120 --> 00:08:12,160 Speaker 1: and the guys that are opting out, I have absolutely 125 00:08:12,200 --> 00:08:15,160 Speaker 1: no problem with that because they're thinking about the long 126 00:08:15,240 --> 00:08:18,840 Speaker 1: haul as opposed to the short sprint. No, no doubt 127 00:08:18,880 --> 00:08:21,840 Speaker 1: about it. Nobody can tell a man what he should 128 00:08:21,880 --> 00:08:25,200 Speaker 1: do in a search circumstance like this. Our guest is, 129 00:08:25,240 --> 00:08:29,800 Speaker 1: of course, Uh, former Major League Baseball All Star Dmitri Young. Uh, 130 00:08:29,920 --> 00:08:34,360 Speaker 1: Dmitri early early thoughts on this season. The team that 131 00:08:34,440 --> 00:08:37,800 Speaker 1: jumps out to me is the Yankees. I mean, obviously, Uh, 132 00:08:37,800 --> 00:08:41,800 Speaker 1: they're off to a hot start. Uh. They added Garrick 133 00:08:42,160 --> 00:08:45,120 Speaker 1: uh Cole to the pitching staff top of their rotation, 134 00:08:45,600 --> 00:08:47,600 Speaker 1: and obviously they got the lineup. What do you make 135 00:08:47,640 --> 00:08:50,240 Speaker 1: of the Yankees in their hot start? Uh? Could this 136 00:08:50,320 --> 00:08:53,839 Speaker 1: team win a World Series? Not only can they win 137 00:08:53,880 --> 00:08:59,520 Speaker 1: a World Series, they can win forty plus games? Possibly? Yes, 138 00:08:59,640 --> 00:09:03,240 Speaker 1: I mean they look that dominant. You always knock on 139 00:09:03,280 --> 00:09:05,600 Speaker 1: wood and wish for the best, but look what happened 140 00:09:05,600 --> 00:09:08,400 Speaker 1: to Aaron Judge. He wouldn't have started out the season 141 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:11,880 Speaker 1: because he was hurt and he is not only fresh. 142 00:09:11,960 --> 00:09:15,560 Speaker 1: I mean, good god, what this guy is doing is 143 00:09:15,600 --> 00:09:21,120 Speaker 1: just I mean, that's that's that that hercules type status 144 00:09:21,120 --> 00:09:23,160 Speaker 1: stuff that you're seeing out of him. Is he gonna 145 00:09:23,240 --> 00:09:26,120 Speaker 1: keep that up the whole year? Well, it's a sixty 146 00:09:26,240 --> 00:09:29,280 Speaker 1: games sprint, and you never know what's gonna happen, especially 147 00:09:29,280 --> 00:09:32,120 Speaker 1: when these teams keep having days off and stuff. Because 148 00:09:32,160 --> 00:09:36,560 Speaker 1: other teams, you know, coming down with the COVID and 149 00:09:36,559 --> 00:09:39,640 Speaker 1: they had to postpone games. Which how are they gonna 150 00:09:39,640 --> 00:09:41,559 Speaker 1: make all these games up? Because one they're supposed to 151 00:09:41,600 --> 00:09:44,760 Speaker 1: play sixty games in sixty six days, right, So it's 152 00:09:44,760 --> 00:09:48,040 Speaker 1: gonna be double headers and there'll be some teams that 153 00:09:48,080 --> 00:09:50,720 Speaker 1: don't fink they won't finish your whole schedule. It'll be 154 00:09:50,760 --> 00:09:55,079 Speaker 1: based off of our winning percentage, not not actual games 155 00:09:55,120 --> 00:09:57,400 Speaker 1: because they're they're gonna be teams that won't be able 156 00:09:57,440 --> 00:10:01,240 Speaker 1: to get all of the games in. Um. When when 157 00:10:01,240 --> 00:10:05,320 Speaker 1: you look at uh the season and the way it's 158 00:10:05,320 --> 00:10:10,720 Speaker 1: set up, Uh, do you think that that maybe baseball 159 00:10:11,640 --> 00:10:14,360 Speaker 1: that this season people look at it and and and 160 00:10:14,520 --> 00:10:17,600 Speaker 1: counted or or will it be a little jankie you know, 161 00:10:17,679 --> 00:10:21,520 Speaker 1: because it's so short amount of game for baseball season. 162 00:10:23,400 --> 00:10:25,920 Speaker 1: You know, we gotta go old school with differing follows. 163 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:30,120 Speaker 1: Something it's gonna finish regardless of the sixty games, and 164 00:10:30,200 --> 00:10:34,760 Speaker 1: some teams only play games. And I mean the decision 165 00:10:34,800 --> 00:10:39,600 Speaker 1: was made to salvage season and give something back to 166 00:10:39,679 --> 00:10:42,680 Speaker 1: the fans because I live out here in southern California 167 00:10:42,679 --> 00:10:45,520 Speaker 1: where they usually block out the Dodgers, but they the 168 00:10:45,559 --> 00:10:48,720 Speaker 1: Dodgers have been cool and I've been seeing Dodger games 169 00:10:48,760 --> 00:10:52,120 Speaker 1: every single day, so I kind of like that from 170 00:10:52,160 --> 00:10:56,080 Speaker 1: a fan standpoint, but from a former player watching, No, 171 00:10:56,240 --> 00:11:00,600 Speaker 1: there's no asterisk anywhere, especially if somebody's gonna hit four hundred, 172 00:11:02,080 --> 00:11:04,040 Speaker 1: you know. I mean, of course it's not over the 173 00:11:04,080 --> 00:11:06,640 Speaker 1: course of a hundred sixty two, but it is a 174 00:11:06,800 --> 00:11:11,319 Speaker 1: season and it's still a full hundred. And you're gonna 175 00:11:11,440 --> 00:11:14,319 Speaker 1: argue about that to the cows come home. But since 176 00:11:14,400 --> 00:11:18,760 Speaker 1: the season started, everything counts. No, No, I'm with you. 177 00:11:18,760 --> 00:11:22,319 Speaker 1: You can't play that game. Everybody's playing under the same circumstance. 178 00:11:22,920 --> 00:11:26,679 Speaker 1: And last thing, it's weird. Obviously they're no fans you're 179 00:11:26,679 --> 00:11:30,600 Speaker 1: talking about watching the Dodger games. They have cardboard cutouts 180 00:11:30,679 --> 00:11:33,960 Speaker 1: behind home played. Uh, some of the Yankee games I've 181 00:11:33,960 --> 00:11:37,880 Speaker 1: watched they have, um, you know, virtual fans out in 182 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:40,880 Speaker 1: the outfield. Have you watched that? What does that look like, 183 00:11:40,920 --> 00:11:43,000 Speaker 1: what does that? Isn't that weird? Because you played in 184 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:45,520 Speaker 1: front of so many people, and I know you get 185 00:11:45,559 --> 00:11:48,600 Speaker 1: a little charge from fans being in the stands. How 186 00:11:48,640 --> 00:11:53,200 Speaker 1: weird is that for you to watch? You know, it's 187 00:11:53,440 --> 00:11:56,160 Speaker 1: I got a little comfortable watching it because I have 188 00:11:57,040 --> 00:12:00,320 Speaker 1: stayed up and watched the Korean Baseball organization and play 189 00:12:00,360 --> 00:12:03,600 Speaker 1: on ESPN and seeing no fans in the stand. But 190 00:12:03,640 --> 00:12:05,760 Speaker 1: it also reminds me of when I played in the 191 00:12:05,800 --> 00:12:09,640 Speaker 1: minor leagues. Nobody was going to watch minor leaguers play. 192 00:12:09,920 --> 00:12:13,199 Speaker 1: So during spring training you have eight or nine fields, 193 00:12:13,240 --> 00:12:16,040 Speaker 1: and all you have on there is some of the 194 00:12:16,080 --> 00:12:19,280 Speaker 1: front office, maybe a parent or two, or somebody brave 195 00:12:19,400 --> 00:12:22,360 Speaker 1: enough to let their girlfriend come out there where there's 196 00:12:22,440 --> 00:12:26,000 Speaker 1: nothing but two men on the field playing baseball, and 197 00:12:26,640 --> 00:12:29,000 Speaker 1: that's all the fans you're gonna get. So, in a sense, 198 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:31,880 Speaker 1: baseball is you still playing without a crowd. But I 199 00:12:31,960 --> 00:12:34,240 Speaker 1: tell you what, once you get in front of a 200 00:12:34,280 --> 00:12:37,640 Speaker 1: big league crowd and and you're at home and you 201 00:12:37,720 --> 00:12:40,760 Speaker 1: do something special and that crowd goes wild, and then 202 00:12:40,880 --> 00:12:44,280 Speaker 1: on that same token, when you're kicking the team's bet 203 00:12:44,320 --> 00:12:48,280 Speaker 1: at their place, those rounds of booze oh, I absolutely 204 00:12:48,320 --> 00:12:51,400 Speaker 1: love it, and I know those guys love it as well. 205 00:12:51,480 --> 00:12:54,640 Speaker 1: But right now they're getting they're getting virtual clocks from 206 00:12:54,679 --> 00:12:56,920 Speaker 1: the fans that are being able to watch the game today, 207 00:12:57,600 --> 00:13:00,080 Speaker 1: no doubt about it. His name is to meet you 208 00:13:00,080 --> 00:13:03,840 Speaker 1: Young of course, play with the Cardinals, the Rez, the Tigers, 209 00:13:03,880 --> 00:13:07,360 Speaker 1: and the Nationals, and was the comeback player of the 210 00:13:07,480 --> 00:13:11,319 Speaker 1: Year also in baseball. Dmitri, thank you so much, Buddy. 211 00:13:11,320 --> 00:13:15,600 Speaker 1: I appreciate you. Stay safe. Moh, certainly, were you too, Rob. 212 00:13:15,679 --> 00:13:21,120 Speaker 1: Keep doing your thing. It's awesome. It's time for the 213 00:13:21,200 --> 00:13:26,280 Speaker 1: pocket Protector Central the analytic numbers you need to know. Well, 214 00:13:26,440 --> 00:13:32,120 Speaker 1: maybe Anthony Masterson is his name, BS, analytics is his game. 215 00:13:32,160 --> 00:13:34,760 Speaker 1: What do you got for me, Anthony, Well, Jacob mcgraham 216 00:13:34,920 --> 00:13:37,839 Speaker 1: isn't seeking up on anybody anymore. In a two time 217 00:13:37,880 --> 00:13:40,280 Speaker 1: despending Cy Young champ who in is the lowest area 218 00:13:40,280 --> 00:13:42,600 Speaker 1: in baseball the last three seasons for the Mets, and 219 00:13:42,679 --> 00:13:44,960 Speaker 1: he did help kill the pitcher win as a myth 220 00:13:44,960 --> 00:13:47,880 Speaker 1: of a metric to measure success and this year, somehow 221 00:13:48,160 --> 00:13:50,800 Speaker 1: he looks even better thanks to his bread and butter, 222 00:13:51,040 --> 00:13:54,120 Speaker 1: his fass ball and normally averaging out in the mid nineties, 223 00:13:54,280 --> 00:13:56,199 Speaker 1: de Graham has done a few extra ticks on his 224 00:13:56,280 --> 00:13:59,760 Speaker 1: heat of this season, averaging point eight mile proud with 225 00:13:59,800 --> 00:14:03,080 Speaker 1: the hitch hitting one oh one with regularity, including a 226 00:14:03,120 --> 00:14:06,480 Speaker 1: career best five pitches at one hiring Monday Nights win 227 00:14:06,520 --> 00:14:10,400 Speaker 1: against Atlanta. For a full season, that average basketball velocity 228 00:14:10,440 --> 00:14:13,600 Speaker 1: would be the highest mark in history, best his teammate 229 00:14:13,640 --> 00:14:18,720 Speaker 1: Noah standerguards points zero mark from and the league predictably 230 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:21,760 Speaker 1: has done nothing this year, hitting him easily oh sixty 231 00:14:21,800 --> 00:14:24,440 Speaker 1: three against the pitch one for sixteen through his first 232 00:14:24,480 --> 00:14:26,920 Speaker 1: three starts, and at the rich needed needs to get 233 00:14:26,920 --> 00:14:29,360 Speaker 1: even richer. The gram sliders need enough to take in 234 00:14:29,480 --> 00:14:32,760 Speaker 1: velocity as well. At ninety three point two that be 235 00:14:32,800 --> 00:14:36,440 Speaker 1: the fastest average slider velocity in MLB history, and it's 236 00:14:36,520 --> 00:14:40,400 Speaker 1: changeup fits at p five, which would be second all 237 00:14:40,480 --> 00:14:43,960 Speaker 1: time only the Walker Buller's point oh mark from last year. 238 00:14:44,240 --> 00:14:47,400 Speaker 1: Now unsurprisingly, his fifty four swings and misses this season 239 00:14:47,480 --> 00:14:50,440 Speaker 1: read all of baseball and in an unfrectable season, the 240 00:14:50,520 --> 00:14:53,560 Speaker 1: grons improvements on perfection could have him in line for 241 00:14:53,600 --> 00:14:58,960 Speaker 1: more hardware, and it was a big week in the 242 00:14:59,040 --> 00:15:07,800 Speaker 1: Big League. Is it followed or is it fair? And 243 00:15:07,920 --> 00:15:13,640 Speaker 1: now Here's shadow League dot Com MLB insider JR. Gambo 244 00:15:15,920 --> 00:15:20,520 Speaker 1: the Marlands and Cardinals have both had COVID outbreaks, and 245 00:15:20,680 --> 00:15:26,400 Speaker 1: people are blaming baseball Safety protocol Jr. Is it foul 246 00:15:26,720 --> 00:15:30,480 Speaker 1: or fair to say that's even more important for players 247 00:15:30,560 --> 00:15:35,640 Speaker 1: to be more responsible to avoid another outbreak. That's fair, 248 00:15:36,040 --> 00:15:39,440 Speaker 1: That's a fair ball. The Marlins were reportedly hanging out 249 00:15:39,520 --> 00:15:44,000 Speaker 1: in Atlanta and club CEO Derrek to the staff, but 250 00:15:44,080 --> 00:15:47,480 Speaker 1: he says this trip, guys were around each other, the 251 00:15:47,600 --> 00:15:50,680 Speaker 1: gout relaxed, and they let their guard down. They weren't 252 00:15:50,680 --> 00:15:54,200 Speaker 1: wearing man so distancing. Either goes out to say that 253 00:15:54,240 --> 00:15:58,320 Speaker 1: the entire staff, coaches, and players are responsible. Looks like 254 00:15:58,360 --> 00:16:02,280 Speaker 1: the Cardinals players and staff, we're not very responsibilizing. They 255 00:16:02,280 --> 00:16:06,280 Speaker 1: have thirteam with COVID, six players including got There Molina. 256 00:16:06,760 --> 00:16:10,400 Speaker 1: Noether these outbreaks occurred on the baseball field, they both 257 00:16:10,480 --> 00:16:13,320 Speaker 1: does everything he could short of create some kind of bubble, 258 00:16:13,800 --> 00:16:16,600 Speaker 1: which might be possible for the playoffs once they have 259 00:16:16,680 --> 00:16:20,320 Speaker 1: lest team to accommodate. The players and staff especially have 260 00:16:20,400 --> 00:16:24,240 Speaker 1: a responsibility to practice those two businesses and heat the protocol. 261 00:16:25,160 --> 00:16:27,640 Speaker 1: Commissioner man Friend has done everything he can to keep 262 00:16:27,640 --> 00:16:30,600 Speaker 1: the season going. For the owners, the players who also 263 00:16:30,720 --> 00:16:32,760 Speaker 1: need the money, and the fans who seemed to be 264 00:16:32,760 --> 00:16:36,440 Speaker 1: tuning in despite the car or cutout and stake fan noise, 265 00:16:36,960 --> 00:16:39,320 Speaker 1: who wants to see the season and without saying out 266 00:16:39,360 --> 00:16:44,160 Speaker 1: dominant um the grounds can see or Seattle's nucleus and 267 00:16:44,280 --> 00:16:47,720 Speaker 1: coo with the Ape car works young black stars developed, 268 00:16:47,840 --> 00:16:51,200 Speaker 1: or Dusty can lead the Astro's redemption Tour. What about 269 00:16:51,240 --> 00:16:53,840 Speaker 1: Yankees slugger Aaron Dusk? Can you hit thirty homers the 270 00:16:53,920 --> 00:16:57,720 Speaker 1: sixty games we need this season? Covid and all but 271 00:16:57,920 --> 00:17:01,320 Speaker 1: understanding how easy it is to spread clears, have to 272 00:17:01,360 --> 00:17:06,679 Speaker 1: really take these ponsibility to live differently. Now almost become 273 00:17:06,720 --> 00:17:11,480 Speaker 1: hermit uncause the past is complete. Take out the favor. 274 00:17:12,680 --> 00:17:16,399 Speaker 1: It's time for trash talk. Twitter, Twitter with your chance 275 00:17:16,440 --> 00:17:21,400 Speaker 1: to trash anyone or anything in Major League Baseball. This 276 00:17:21,440 --> 00:17:26,280 Speaker 1: week's winner is Tony the Street sports Age, and he 277 00:17:26,359 --> 00:17:31,080 Speaker 1: tweeted me this, I'm trashing the New York Mets. They 278 00:17:31,119 --> 00:17:35,240 Speaker 1: reported cesspus as a no call, no show, like he 279 00:17:35,320 --> 00:17:37,480 Speaker 1: needed to be on the back of a milk carton 280 00:17:37,520 --> 00:17:41,199 Speaker 1: for missing person. Then came back and said, well he 281 00:17:41,320 --> 00:17:45,159 Speaker 1: decided to opt out. I guess Tom Thibodeau will be 282 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:48,800 Speaker 1: a part time manager too while he coaches the Knicks. 283 00:17:49,359 --> 00:17:52,840 Speaker 1: If you want to win a new era snapback hat 284 00:17:53,480 --> 00:17:57,120 Speaker 1: just like Tony, all you have to do is hit 285 00:17:57,160 --> 00:18:00,840 Speaker 1: me up on my Twitter at Rob Parker FS one, 286 00:18:01,160 --> 00:18:04,040 Speaker 1: and you too could be a new era cap winner. 287 00:18:05,080 --> 00:18:08,879 Speaker 1: When Rob was a newspaper columnist, he lived by this motto, 288 00:18:09,200 --> 00:18:12,639 Speaker 1: if I'm writing, I'm ripping, Let's bring in a writer 289 00:18:12,720 --> 00:18:16,440 Speaker 1: and broadcaster older new All right, now, let's welcome into 290 00:18:16,440 --> 00:18:20,119 Speaker 1: the podcast a friend of mine, longtime friend and UH 291 00:18:20,320 --> 00:18:23,399 Speaker 1: co worker. We did a radio in Detroit for a 292 00:18:23,440 --> 00:18:26,960 Speaker 1: long time, and of course he is a host on 293 00:18:27,040 --> 00:18:30,160 Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio. He is the one, the only Mr 294 00:18:30,200 --> 00:18:33,679 Speaker 1: Bernie Fratto, who, of course also for people don't know 295 00:18:33,720 --> 00:18:35,600 Speaker 1: how a cup of coffee in the sweet road with 296 00:18:35,680 --> 00:18:39,840 Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Resident minor league system. Mr Fratto, welcome to 297 00:18:39,880 --> 00:18:43,080 Speaker 1: the podcast. Rob. I'm good to be with you, and 298 00:18:43,520 --> 00:18:46,520 Speaker 1: of course we've come full circle and our friendship started 299 00:18:46,520 --> 00:18:49,879 Speaker 1: in no idea would love you after baseball, and I 300 00:18:49,920 --> 00:18:53,000 Speaker 1: think we share the commonality and that baseball is the 301 00:18:53,040 --> 00:18:56,399 Speaker 1: greatest game. It's a thinking man's game, and it's predicated 302 00:18:56,400 --> 00:19:00,119 Speaker 1: a failure. It was fifteen seconds and baseballer's failure at 303 00:19:00,160 --> 00:19:02,119 Speaker 1: your fails to throw a strike, the hitter fails to 304 00:19:02,160 --> 00:19:04,720 Speaker 1: make contact, the fielder feels to make a play, the 305 00:19:05,080 --> 00:19:07,639 Speaker 1: hitter fails to reach base, and it continues for three hours. 306 00:19:07,880 --> 00:19:10,119 Speaker 1: It's a metaphor for life, and it shows you that 307 00:19:10,240 --> 00:19:12,320 Speaker 1: failure is not final, and it's a part of the 308 00:19:12,359 --> 00:19:15,760 Speaker 1: process to be successful. So there's no time clocking baseball. 309 00:19:16,040 --> 00:19:17,879 Speaker 1: The beauty of baseball. I gotta get you out twenty 310 00:19:17,920 --> 00:19:19,919 Speaker 1: seven times. I think we both like it because it's 311 00:19:19,960 --> 00:19:23,359 Speaker 1: such a thinking man's game, no doubt about it. Bernie, 312 00:19:23,400 --> 00:19:28,440 Speaker 1: what sent you so far about this season? Obviously the Yankees, 313 00:19:28,480 --> 00:19:31,520 Speaker 1: a red hot, there, a big story, anything else has 314 00:19:31,560 --> 00:19:35,600 Speaker 1: piqued your interest. Nothing's picked my interest down the field, 315 00:19:35,640 --> 00:19:38,120 Speaker 1: other than the sense of urgency. You know, Sparky Anderson 316 00:19:38,160 --> 00:19:40,240 Speaker 1: always said that you could get a gauge on a 317 00:19:40,280 --> 00:19:43,879 Speaker 1: team into the season after forty games. Well that's not 318 00:19:43,920 --> 00:19:46,960 Speaker 1: off the fifty game mark. But I find interesting about 319 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:50,000 Speaker 1: this season as I do think teams recognize the sense 320 00:19:50,040 --> 00:19:53,000 Speaker 1: of urgency, and I think it's interesting in that just 321 00:19:53,119 --> 00:19:55,880 Speaker 1: about everybody is able to jockey for a playoff position, 322 00:19:55,920 --> 00:19:58,080 Speaker 1: given the fact that for the first time in history, 323 00:19:58,119 --> 00:20:00,720 Speaker 1: more teams will make the playoffs than not the playoffs. 324 00:20:01,040 --> 00:20:03,680 Speaker 1: Be there as a name. Rob an interesting statistic you 325 00:20:03,760 --> 00:20:06,320 Speaker 1: might want to know from a Vegas perspective, and that is, 326 00:20:06,359 --> 00:20:09,240 Speaker 1: in the last ten years, there have been twenty eight 327 00:20:09,240 --> 00:20:12,120 Speaker 1: teams that have been favorites of under ten to one 328 00:20:12,200 --> 00:20:14,840 Speaker 1: to win the World Series, and none of them won it. 329 00:20:14,920 --> 00:20:17,120 Speaker 1: Not a single team in the last ten years, Rob 330 00:20:17,400 --> 00:20:20,000 Speaker 1: had favorites of less than ten to one. Case in point, 331 00:20:20,119 --> 00:20:23,080 Speaker 1: last year, the Washington Nationals were eight team to one. 332 00:20:23,440 --> 00:20:26,240 Speaker 1: He had a situation. Those three Great Giants teams that 333 00:20:26,320 --> 00:20:29,040 Speaker 1: won in ten, twelve, and fourteen there were twenty one 334 00:20:29,680 --> 00:20:32,080 Speaker 1: to one and to one. That great Red Sox team 335 00:20:32,119 --> 00:20:35,040 Speaker 1: from three thousand thirteen, they were thirty one. What's the point? 336 00:20:35,520 --> 00:20:38,080 Speaker 1: He wouldn't surprise me if the Yankees and Dodgers, who 337 00:20:38,080 --> 00:20:40,600 Speaker 1: were both four to one, or the Astros eight to one, 338 00:20:41,160 --> 00:20:43,440 Speaker 1: didn't win the World Series, that would be the next 339 00:20:43,440 --> 00:20:46,000 Speaker 1: team in line, the Tampa Bay Rays, who were sixteen 340 00:20:46,040 --> 00:20:48,480 Speaker 1: to one. Don't be surprised if someone comes out of 341 00:20:48,560 --> 00:20:51,560 Speaker 1: left field. Rob, all right, that's something good coming out 342 00:20:51,560 --> 00:20:55,000 Speaker 1: of Vegas. Bernie, tell me why you believe that the 343 00:20:55,080 --> 00:20:58,880 Speaker 1: Baseball MLB will finish the season including the playoffs. Uh, 344 00:20:58,920 --> 00:21:04,400 Speaker 1: no matter what. Yeah, they've got about eight hundred million reasons. 345 00:21:04,440 --> 00:21:06,639 Speaker 1: Why what do I mean by that? They've got to 346 00:21:06,640 --> 00:21:09,880 Speaker 1: get to the playoffs, Rob, Manfred has guaranteed the owners 347 00:21:10,160 --> 00:21:12,919 Speaker 1: we're going to get that playoff TV share no matter what. 348 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:15,399 Speaker 1: They need that revenue. And the worst way had they 349 00:21:15,440 --> 00:21:18,320 Speaker 1: not played baseball this year, they would have been armageddon. 350 00:21:18,359 --> 00:21:20,200 Speaker 1: They would have gone eighteen straight months. You might have 351 00:21:20,240 --> 00:21:21,960 Speaker 1: seen the bankruptcy or two. You might have seen a 352 00:21:21,960 --> 00:21:23,840 Speaker 1: team or two for sale, and they would have had 353 00:21:23,880 --> 00:21:27,119 Speaker 1: to completely reconstruct the c b A from the ground up. 354 00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:29,560 Speaker 1: So I think they will move heaven and earth and 355 00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:32,359 Speaker 1: they'll have to mend, you know, navigate through this COVID thing. 356 00:21:32,440 --> 00:21:35,080 Speaker 1: But they've got to get to October and get that 357 00:21:35,160 --> 00:21:37,679 Speaker 1: TV playoff money. They're so desperate to do it. They 358 00:21:37,760 --> 00:21:40,480 Speaker 1: even added the additional teams, which brought them an extra 359 00:21:40,560 --> 00:21:43,360 Speaker 1: fifty million dollars of player revenue to share. So it's 360 00:21:43,400 --> 00:21:45,600 Speaker 1: all about the Benjamin's right. As you always say, we Rob, 361 00:21:45,600 --> 00:21:47,920 Speaker 1: it's always better with the Cheddar. If they don't get 362 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:51,320 Speaker 1: to the baseball postseason this year and collect that TV money, 363 00:21:51,520 --> 00:21:54,880 Speaker 1: they will feel the ramifications for years to come. Yeah, 364 00:21:54,640 --> 00:21:58,159 Speaker 1: I believe that as well. I do believe that, Uh, 365 00:21:58,240 --> 00:22:01,040 Speaker 1: they're going to finish this season. Been with the outbreaks, 366 00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:03,840 Speaker 1: if you really are honest about it. We saw the Cardinals, 367 00:22:04,200 --> 00:22:07,560 Speaker 1: we saw the Marlins. You know, there was a scaring Philadelphia. 368 00:22:07,600 --> 00:22:10,600 Speaker 1: But Bernie, most of the other games and players are 369 00:22:10,640 --> 00:22:13,600 Speaker 1: going on and and baseball is the least it is, 370 00:22:13,640 --> 00:22:17,119 Speaker 1: to me, the most social distancing kind of sport there is, 371 00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:20,040 Speaker 1: because the players really on on top of each other. 372 00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:23,280 Speaker 1: I think I'm with you. You're right on. You're right 373 00:22:23,320 --> 00:22:25,600 Speaker 1: on both counts, Rob. The vast majority of the teams 374 00:22:25,600 --> 00:22:27,480 Speaker 1: are navigating through this. Okay, they've been a couple of 375 00:22:27,520 --> 00:22:29,639 Speaker 1: our liyers. And there's one of the thing, Rob iss 376 00:22:29,680 --> 00:22:31,720 Speaker 1: you well, knowing all the clubhouses you've been in the 377 00:22:31,800 --> 00:22:35,280 Speaker 1: last three decades, they've got the best medical care, the 378 00:22:35,320 --> 00:22:38,320 Speaker 1: best team attendance, the trainers that money can buy. These 379 00:22:38,320 --> 00:22:40,560 Speaker 1: guys are well taken care of. Tommy the sort of 380 00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:43,720 Speaker 1: jokes about it. He says, you know, today's players, they're spoiled. 381 00:22:43,880 --> 00:22:46,760 Speaker 1: They got three team doctors, five team trainers, and six 382 00:22:46,800 --> 00:22:48,959 Speaker 1: team attendants. He goes, when I was playing, we had 383 00:22:49,040 --> 00:22:51,880 Speaker 1: one team trainer and he had one Bible loving alcohol, 384 00:22:52,040 --> 00:22:54,000 Speaker 1: and he was drank and all by the seventh Dadom, 385 00:22:55,480 --> 00:22:59,680 Speaker 1: there you go. All right, last thing from you, Mr Frado. Uh, 386 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:02,480 Speaker 1: why do you think it's a certainty that there will 387 00:23:02,560 --> 00:23:07,679 Speaker 1: be a work stoppage after the one season two lords 388 00:23:07,760 --> 00:23:10,840 Speaker 1: robbed and their line was salry cap. There is a 389 00:23:10,840 --> 00:23:13,560 Speaker 1: new breed of owner now that has been treating this 390 00:23:13,840 --> 00:23:16,480 Speaker 1: luxury tax the last few years as a de facto 391 00:23:16,720 --> 00:23:20,320 Speaker 1: salary cap. Case in point, baseball was a six billion 392 00:23:20,320 --> 00:23:23,280 Speaker 1: dollar industry in two thousand and six, is not eleven 393 00:23:23,320 --> 00:23:26,840 Speaker 1: billion dollar industry in two thousand and six. The luxury 394 00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:29,520 Speaker 1: tax thresholds a hundred and fifty five million per team 395 00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:32,720 Speaker 1: now still only a hundred ninety million per team. It's 396 00:23:32,720 --> 00:23:36,520 Speaker 1: the only got off yet revenues have almost doubled in 397 00:23:36,560 --> 00:23:40,520 Speaker 1: those last fourteen years. I think the owners want a 398 00:23:40,600 --> 00:23:43,400 Speaker 1: salary cap. They're gonna offer revenue insuring. They've tried it before, 399 00:23:43,440 --> 00:23:45,800 Speaker 1: They're gonna try it again. They're going to hit a 400 00:23:45,840 --> 00:23:48,960 Speaker 1: stalemate just like they did. This is one of those 401 00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:52,720 Speaker 1: cases where I hope I'm wrong, but they're miles apartner negotiations, 402 00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:55,520 Speaker 1: and we already saw how contentious they were with this 403 00:23:55,880 --> 00:23:59,240 Speaker 1: mini negotiation, just trying to get a season back on 404 00:23:59,280 --> 00:24:02,560 Speaker 1: the field. All right. His name is Bernie Fratto. You 405 00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:06,359 Speaker 1: can hear him on Fox Sports Radio and Mr Frattle. 406 00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:11,200 Speaker 1: Thanks for your input. I appreciate being with you. Now 407 00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:15,440 Speaker 1: it's time for some diamond dust with wish TVs. Phil Sanchez. 408 00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:21,520 Speaker 1: He played baseball in college. Now here is MLB knowledge. 409 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:24,320 Speaker 1: So what's happened over the past week. We'll We'll start 410 00:24:24,320 --> 00:24:27,040 Speaker 1: with my favorite team, the New York Mets. The Metropolitans 411 00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:30,080 Speaker 1: were in Atlanta for a weekend series against the Braves, when, 412 00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:33,960 Speaker 1: of course, unassuspis like a thief in the night, ended 413 00:24:34,040 --> 00:24:38,720 Speaker 1: up quitting. No phone call, no goodbye, no text message, nothing, 414 00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:41,760 Speaker 1: just gone. The Mets put out a statement during the 415 00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:45,359 Speaker 1: game saying that they hadn't heard from him, and later 416 00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:47,119 Speaker 1: on they said that he decided to opt down for 417 00:24:47,160 --> 00:24:48,840 Speaker 1: the rest of the season. Now, a lot of people 418 00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:52,280 Speaker 1: got on the Mets about how they handled this situation, 419 00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:56,359 Speaker 1: specifically on social media. For once, so I happen to 420 00:24:56,400 --> 00:25:00,399 Speaker 1: agree with how this god awful team an organization handled this. 421 00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:03,240 Speaker 1: I mean, what were they supposed to do cover for 422 00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:06,439 Speaker 1: a guy who didn't have the decency to at least 423 00:25:06,560 --> 00:25:08,800 Speaker 1: call the team to let them know that he was 424 00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:13,399 Speaker 1: opting out. Listen, Despis hasn't been a star in several seasons. 425 00:25:13,440 --> 00:25:16,760 Speaker 1: He's always hurt, and having him in the lineup blocked 426 00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:21,040 Speaker 1: opportunities for young players, specifically like Dominic Smith. So this, 427 00:25:21,240 --> 00:25:24,800 Speaker 1: in my opinion, a blessing in disguise, and for once 428 00:25:25,280 --> 00:25:28,119 Speaker 1: I can honestly say the Mets getting a plus to 429 00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:31,919 Speaker 1: Chicago now where White Sox fans have something to be 430 00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:34,840 Speaker 1: really really excited about this after calling up one of 431 00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:38,000 Speaker 1: the top prospects, Nick Madrigal. He was called up over 432 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:40,879 Speaker 1: the weekend and after going oh for eight, the second 433 00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:45,160 Speaker 1: baseman went four for four at the plate, busting out. Uh. 434 00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:49,040 Speaker 1: If you haven't seen Madrigal play, he's a mustwatch. He's 435 00:25:49,040 --> 00:25:52,399 Speaker 1: a former first round pick, was a star Oregon State. 436 00:25:52,760 --> 00:25:55,960 Speaker 1: It's about five ft seven inches tall, a hundred printy pounds, 437 00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:58,960 Speaker 1: so can wet proving once again that baseball is by 438 00:25:59,040 --> 00:26:02,120 Speaker 1: far the best in the world because in baseball doesn't 439 00:26:02,119 --> 00:26:04,760 Speaker 1: matter how big you are, how fast you are, and 440 00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:08,240 Speaker 1: how strong you are. All that matters is whether or 441 00:26:08,320 --> 00:26:12,399 Speaker 1: not you can play. In that sense, baseball there's a 442 00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:20,040 Speaker 1: lot like life now bringing the closer. Here's why MLB 443 00:26:20,359 --> 00:26:23,760 Speaker 1: is better than the NFL or NBA, and it isn't 444 00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:29,320 Speaker 1: even close. Here's another example of why baseball is better 445 00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:33,520 Speaker 1: than the n b A and the NFL. Did you 446 00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:39,240 Speaker 1: watch that Angels game Tuesday night when Mike Trout, fresh 447 00:26:39,280 --> 00:26:42,800 Speaker 1: off a brand new baby, gets up to the plate 448 00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:48,040 Speaker 1: and it's very first at bat and NBC you later 449 00:26:48,760 --> 00:26:53,240 Speaker 1: yelp a home run. What a way to welcome in 450 00:26:53,320 --> 00:26:56,199 Speaker 1: a new baby with a home run. This is like 451 00:26:56,320 --> 00:27:00,320 Speaker 1: typical baseball. You remember the old story about Babe Ruth 452 00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:03,359 Speaker 1: going to visit some sick kids in the hospital and 453 00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:06,080 Speaker 1: the one kid asked Babe Ruth to hit a home run, 454 00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:09,480 Speaker 1: and Babe Ruth came up to the play and pointed 455 00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:12,919 Speaker 1: to right feel in Chicago and said that's where it was. 456 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:15,040 Speaker 1: It was for, you know, a sick kid in the 457 00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:18,040 Speaker 1: hospital and Babe Ruth wind up hitting a home run. 458 00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:20,440 Speaker 1: I don't think you could do that in any other 459 00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:23,280 Speaker 1: sport where you can like make you know, try to 460 00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:25,720 Speaker 1: hit a home run for somebody. It ain't like in 461 00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:27,959 Speaker 1: the NBA making a basket. Oh yeah, I'm gonna make 462 00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:30,359 Speaker 1: a basket for you. That's just too easy, or in 463 00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:33,919 Speaker 1: the NFL making some sort of play or doing something. 464 00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:36,399 Speaker 1: I don't know if you could promise a kid to 465 00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:40,000 Speaker 1: score a touchdown, but a guy at the plate talking 466 00:27:40,040 --> 00:27:43,320 Speaker 1: about hitting a home run for somebody, uh is a 467 00:27:43,359 --> 00:27:48,200 Speaker 1: part of baseball lure and Mike Trout. Congratulations Mazel top 468 00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:57,600 Speaker 1: on the new baby and the home run. In the 469 00:27:57,680 --> 00:28:00,680 Speaker 1: words of New York TV legend the late Bill Jorgensen, 470 00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:03,760 Speaker 1: thanking you for your time, this time until next time. 471 00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:07,520 Speaker 1: Rob Parker out. He can't get it. This could be 472 00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:10,000 Speaker 1: an inside the Parker to see you next weekend. Save 473 00:28:10,119 --> 00:28:12,040 Speaker 1: bad time, Save Man's station.