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Speaker 2: Baseball reopening day got some weather issues for a couple
Speaker 2: of teams. Their games have already been postponed. We'll talk
Speaker 2: to the great reporter Jeff Passon, who will join us
Speaker 2: coming up. I have a few questions. At what point
Speaker 2: does Mike Trout say to the Angels I think I
Speaker 2: need a change of scenery? Or at what point do
Speaker 2: the Angels say to Mike Trout do you need a
Speaker 2: change of scenery? And also the Oakland A's how awkward
Speaker 2: is this going to be? They're still trying to find
Speaker 2: a temporary home before they find their new home while
Speaker 2: still being in their old home. So we'll talk some
Speaker 2: baseball with Jeff Passon coming up here in a little bit.
Speaker 2: Christian Letner former Duke Starr, Olympic Champion, Dream Cheamer, NBA player,
Speaker 2: but not in the Basketball Home Fame. I don't think,
Speaker 2: PAULI did you check that this morning?
Speaker 3: I can find that he's not in the Basketball Hall
Speaker 3: of Fame as an individual, you know, like, you know,
Speaker 3: like any other person would be the Dream Teams in
Speaker 3: the Hall of Fame as a group that has nothing
Speaker 3: to do really with Christian Later, he's still eligible on
Speaker 3: his own.
Speaker 2: How is he not in the basketball Hall of Fame.
Speaker 2: He's one of the five most decorated greatest college players
Speaker 2: of all time. Like, you can't argue with the resume,
Speaker 2: And it's the basketball Hall of Fame. If it's like,
Speaker 2: if you had just a football Hall of Fame, not
Speaker 2: a pro football Hall of Fame, Tim Tebow would be
Speaker 2: a Herschel Walker would be on. Christian Latner should be
Speaker 2: in the basketball Hall of Fame, yes, Marvin.
Speaker 4: Tim Tebow and just a football Hall of Fame. Yeah,
Speaker 4: if we're just going to college football Hall of Fame, yes.
Speaker 2: No, it's if they had football the way they do basketball,
Speaker 2: then it's what you do in college and or the pros.
Speaker 2: What did he do in the pros? Well, that doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: It's what he did in college. Mike Krzyszewski never coached
Speaker 2: in the NBA, Bob Knight never did. It's what they
Speaker 2: did in college that would put you into the basketball
Speaker 2: Hall of Fame or the football Hall of Fame. I
Speaker 2: mean Tim Tebow didn't do anything in the NFL, so
Speaker 2: he's not getting in because of that. But if I
Speaker 2: take him with his college resume, I mean, Johnny Manziel
Speaker 2: might get in, Heisman Trophy winner, he might get into
Speaker 2: the Hall of Fame. But Christian Laytner should be in
Speaker 2: the Basketball Hall of Fame. I mean, you have international players,
Speaker 2: you have coaches in there, executives in there. Christian Laytner
Speaker 2: should be in the Basketball Hall of Fame. Yeah, Paul, and.
Speaker 3: I double checked. He's eligible. He's been out of the
Speaker 3: game for five or more years. You know, they have coaches, players, referees.
Speaker 3: There's nothing about you know, your pro or college career.
Speaker 3: It's very undefined.
Speaker 2: It was on this date in nineteen ninety two Christian
Speaker 2: Laytner hit a fifteen foot turnaround jumper at the buzzer,
Speaker 2: giving Duke a one point overtime went over Kentucky and
Speaker 2: one of the more controversial games of his career, well
Speaker 2: the most contra versial game. Ten for ten from the floor,
Speaker 2: ten for ten from the line, scoring thirty one points.
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Speaker 2: three DP Show. When we talk about the best time
Speaker 2: of the year, a lot of times we'll look at
Speaker 2: maybe September, October or March or April, and here we
Speaker 2: are Major League Baseball opening up and March Madness still
Speaker 2: going going on. We get to the sweet sixteen, now
Speaker 2: we get some real competitive basketball. The NFL Draft a
Speaker 2: little under a month away, and now you're having pro days.
Speaker 2: You had Moleik neighbors with Jaden Daniels at LSU yesterday.
Speaker 2: Drake May and Michael Pennix Junior expected to have their
Speaker 2: pro days soon. Those types of workouts can propel somebody
Speaker 2: a little bit higher in the draft, for instance, Zach Wilson.
Speaker 2: So we get to sit back and enjoy all of this,
Speaker 2: and you don't get this much diversity as far as
Speaker 2: sports goes in a single week. All right, what's poll
Speaker 2: question we're going to go with today, Seaton? We got
Speaker 2: a few of them. We could go with better time
Speaker 2: of year September, October, March, April. Okay, just based off
Speaker 2: of what you were just saying, that could be fun. Okay,
Speaker 2: Paul sent one over sort of random. Would you want
Speaker 2: to would you rather have a solid ten yure career
Speaker 2: as a baseball player, basketball player, or football player MLB, NBA, NFL?
Speaker 3: Okay, yes, my rationale for that, even though football is
Speaker 3: by far my favorite sport to watch and enjoy, I
Speaker 3: think as a lifestyle, I think I would choose a
Speaker 3: ten year career as a good baseball player. When you
Speaker 3: leave the sport, you're probably not racked with injuries. You
Speaker 3: get to play more than practice. It's all playing, and
Speaker 3: you know the travel is a little tough, but the
Speaker 3: lifestyles it seems fun being a baseball player.
Speaker 2: You're not kind of it seems so mundane. And boring, but.
Speaker 3: You get to play baseball every day as opposed to
Speaker 3: meetings and practice and lifting weights.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's just it's the same thing. It's one
Speaker 2: hundred and sixty two games.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: See, I would kind of use the same mostly the
Speaker 6: same rationale or logic. But for an NBA player, I
Speaker 6: feel like lifestyle wise, NBA is great. Yeah, nearly as
Speaker 6: long as season, you go into different cities, you're sort
Speaker 6: of in and out, you're making a great living.
Speaker 2: You have a hell of a union. Yeah, what's wrong
Speaker 2: with that?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I would say NBA it's eighty two games, I can
Speaker 2: have load management. What other sport do you get load management?
Speaker 2: We're okay with it. Maybe I play sixty five games maybe,
Speaker 2: and uh get a good, good living, yes, Marvin.
Speaker 4: And what if your team is sorry, if you're a
Speaker 4: NBA player, the season is over mid April, you don't
Speaker 4: go back until September, so you get the whole summer
Speaker 4: off and then some you're still making twenty five thirty
Speaker 4: million dollars a year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but the Piston season and the Spurs season and
Speaker 2: the Wizard season has been over long before that. I
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Speaker 2: Christian Laitner enshrined in the Basketball Hall of Fame as
Speaker 2: a member of the Dream Team. He's the only player
Speaker 2: from the Dream Team who hasn't been inducted into the
Speaker 2: Hall of Fame individually, so officially he's not in. Technically
Speaker 2: he's in. Officially he's not in. Yes, Paul, it'd.
Speaker 3: Be like Dave Grohl getting in for Nirvana, but not
Speaker 3: on his own, like if he went solo.
Speaker 2: So Christian Latner is the Dave Grohl. Yeah. Ever, using
Speaker 2: that comparison, I thought you might have gone Travis Barker
Speaker 2: on me. But okay, fine with that. No problems with them.
Speaker 2: By the way, I was watching some basketball last night
Speaker 2: and I was watching Golden State because these are really
Speaker 2: important games. Phoenix and Golden State. Houston's playing really well.
Speaker 2: Denver lost to the Suns last night, and I'm watching
Speaker 2: Golden State, so they're just starting against Orlando, and all
Speaker 2: of a sudden, this happens the other side.
Speaker 6: Grammont is chasing the officials the middle of the floor
Speaker 6: and at point somebody's gonna come in.
Speaker 2: Totally threw him out. He didn't. I'm glad we didn't
Speaker 2: go to plant.
Speaker 7: Breta Consta not here for it.
Speaker 5: Hit the roll jack.
Speaker 2: So that's a courtesy of the game. In Orlando, Draymond
Speaker 2: got thrown out. What was the score, six to four
Speaker 2: something like that, And you see Steph Curry really emotional
Speaker 2: with this, like he's despondent, he's upset. He pulls his
Speaker 2: jersey over his face, looks like he's wiping away tears.
Speaker 2: And then Steph Curry was asked about Draymond getting ejected.
Speaker 5: What did you think of the Draymond injection?
Speaker 2: Oh, I said, we need how He knows that and
Speaker 2: we all know that.
Speaker 8: So whatever it takes to keep him on the floor,
Speaker 8: he's gonna be available.
Speaker 5: That's what's gotta happen, especially this point here. So it's
Speaker 5: a way to start the game.
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's Steph's responsibility to keep Draymond
Speaker 2: on the floor. They created this monster, and now they
Speaker 2: have to live with this monster. This is on Steve Kerr.
Speaker 2: They've enabled Draymond. You know, Draymon can act like a
Speaker 2: fool sometimes on the floor. I mean, he's a wonderful
Speaker 2: basketball player when he wants to be, or at least
Speaker 2: he used to be, and he's really a high basketball IQ.
Speaker 2: I just don't know why he can't all of a
Speaker 2: sudden getting these moments and go Draymond. No, don't, but
Speaker 2: he can't. But really, during the regular season, how often
Speaker 2: do we talk about Draymond Green? Only when he does
Speaker 2: something like this? Maybe in the postseason when he plays well.
Speaker 2: We've talked about him in the Boston Series. I thought
Speaker 2: he was out of control, and then he finally started
Speaker 2: to play like Draymond Green. He's going to be a
Speaker 2: future Hall of Famer at some point. It's on Draymond Green.
Speaker 2: The Warriors created this. Now all of a sudden, you
Speaker 2: can't go Draymond when he's playing well. You put up
Speaker 2: with this. I mean, go back to when he punched
Speaker 2: Jordan Poole. How many players, coaches, assistant coaches, trainers, anybody
Speaker 2: ran to Draymond Green and grabbed him as if to say,
Speaker 2: what did you just do? No one did, no one.
Speaker 2: I mean, look at Steph Curry there, he's just like
Speaker 2: all right, as if Jordan had it coming, and no
Speaker 2: big deal here. That affected the Golden State Warriors last year.
Speaker 2: But you can't sit here and go, oh my god,
Speaker 2: I'm not surprised when Draymond does this stuff. But it's
Speaker 2: unfortunate because these now they did win the game because
Speaker 2: it's Steph Curry, but they're not good enough. They just
Speaker 2: can't turn it on and off the way they used to.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's a dynasty that is holding on by
Speaker 2: its fingertips.
Speaker 4: Here.
Speaker 2: Are they dangerous? Yeah, sometimes they're dangerous to themselves. But
Speaker 2: you're watching that, you just go, Does anybody say to
Speaker 2: Draymond you gotta stop this? Can they keep him next year?
Speaker 2: I don't know how easy it to be to move
Speaker 2: on from it.
Speaker 9: Now.
Speaker 2: There's teams that will probably want him, Like you could
Speaker 2: put him in Miami, you could put him with the
Speaker 2: Phoenix Suns like he's gonna give you something. It's just
Speaker 2: you gotta be ready and you have to have somebody
Speaker 2: who is going to monitor him. It just feels like
Speaker 2: Draymond is being Hey, that's just Draymond being Draymond. Yes,
Speaker 2: when he plays well, there's a sliding scale. Hey man,
Speaker 2: you're a lot of trouble, You're worth it, and then
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, you're a lot of trouble. You're
Speaker 2: not worth it? And do you want to sign up?
Speaker 2: I mean, what's Golden State? Do you know? And Steph
Speaker 2: is an older basketball player. He looks young. He's not
Speaker 2: Klay Thompson's not the same. Now, they do have some reserves.
Speaker 2: You know, they survive the James Wiseman bad pick. But
Speaker 2: now you look at the future there Steve Kerr signed
Speaker 2: up to a for a few more years, but they're
Speaker 2: not as threatening. Can they win back to back games
Speaker 2: in the playoffs? If they're in the playing game, I
Speaker 2: guess because of Steph And that's it. But watching last night,
Speaker 2: and I'm going you've got to be kidding me, it's
Speaker 2: six to four, Like you get tangled up and you
Speaker 2: got your arm around somebody's neck and I go ninety
Speaker 2: six to ninety four, not six to four. But that's
Speaker 2: what we saw last night. Also, there was a moment
Speaker 2: with the seventy six ers. Kelly Oubrey, the Sixers forward,
Speaker 2: he got tossed last night and it was he was
Speaker 2: pointing at officials saying basically, bleep you, bleep you, bleep you,
Speaker 2: and then he was asked about it afterwards.
Speaker 5: I'll try to put you on a bad spot.
Speaker 4: How do you try to break down and digest the
Speaker 4: last few minutes back games?
Speaker 2: Well, first and foremost, heated a moment.
Speaker 8: It's an intense basketball game, of course, and you know
Speaker 8: we're not perfect, the refs aren't perfect.
Speaker 5: I want to apologize for.
Speaker 8: Just losing my cool because that's something I try to
Speaker 8: work on each and every day and try to represent
Speaker 8: God in the best way I possibly can.
Speaker 5: And that wasn't it.
Speaker 2: So you know, I just ask for forgiveness.
Speaker 8: But I saw coach Nurse getting riled up, and if
Speaker 8: our coach is all fight for us, and you know
Speaker 8: he's going there, then I'm right behind him. So but
Speaker 8: at the end of the day, it wasn't cool. So
Speaker 8: you know, I'll take whatever penalties come with that, and
Speaker 8: you know, I do have to move on, but I
Speaker 8: got to be better in the sense.
Speaker 2: Now he's six years younger than Draymond Green, but he
Speaker 2: certainly sounds like, hey, I made a mistake in the moment,
Speaker 2: I apologize. Dramon's never done that and never will do that.
Speaker 2: Clippers beat the Sixers one o waight to one oh seven,
Speaker 2: But it was one of those moments where you're going,
Speaker 2: somebody better grab a hold of Kelly Oubrey because this
Speaker 2: is going to be a larger fine than he expects.
Speaker 2: But maybe it. You know, he's doing some damage control
Speaker 2: there by apologizing, and nobody's perfect and the officials and
Speaker 2: all of those things. But yeah, a couple of moments
Speaker 2: last night the UH Denver game, Denver at home, losing
Speaker 2: to the Phoenix Suns. The Knicks blow out the Raptors,
Speaker 2: and the Rockets have won ten in a row. They
Speaker 2: beat the Thunder last night in overtime. So some interesting moments.
Speaker 2: But keep an eye on the Phoenix Suns because they
Speaker 2: have one of the toughest schedules as far as winning
Speaker 2: percentage wise in a long long time. In fact, if
Speaker 2: you go back to Memphis in twenty fifteen, nobody has
Speaker 2: had a more difficult final ten games of the season,
Speaker 2: at least percentage wise, winning percentage wise. Of the teams
Speaker 2: that are going to face than Memphis did in twenty fifteen,
Speaker 2: twenty sixteen. Stat of the day, stat of the day,
Speaker 2: not bust stat of the day. Stat of the day.
Speaker 2: Here comes that what stat of the name? All right,
Speaker 2: Jeff Passing will join us. We'll get you ready for
Speaker 2: opening day. Also the situation with Shoheiu Tani what is next?
Speaker 2: And also the Oakland A's future, Mike Trout's future teams
Speaker 2: to watch his picks for the World Series. So Passing
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Speaker 2: and also Ice Cube talks about the five million dollar
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Speaker 2: Jeff passing to the Mothership. You can see him today,
Speaker 2: all day, all night, and opening night of Baseball here,
Speaker 2: and then you have the Rangers hosting the Cubs at
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Speaker 2: have you back on, Jeff. Let me start with the
Speaker 2: Dodgers with Shoho Tani and any updates or anything that
Speaker 2: you expect here in the next couple of days.
Speaker 5: This is gonna be a while, Danne. And it's gonna
Speaker 5: be a while, I think, because we have to understand
Speaker 5: what the investigations going on into this situation are. Number One,
Speaker 5: there is a federal investigation into the book making operation
Speaker 5: that allegedly was taking place in southern California, and you know,
Speaker 5: Shoho Tani is like a tiny little speck of a
Speaker 5: much more sprawling look into what was going on. And
Speaker 5: because he's show Hao Tani and because of the silaciousness
Speaker 5: of the allegations, it feels like he's a much bigger
Speaker 5: part of that. But in reality that this case is
Speaker 5: so big it could take a while yet for there
Speaker 5: to be resolution there, and Major League Baseball at the
Speaker 5: same time, generally speaking, its investigation tends to align at
Speaker 5: least when being wrapped up with the larger criminal investigations
Speaker 5: that are going on. And if the criminal investigation is
Speaker 5: not going to be wrapped up for a long time,
Speaker 5: chances are Major League Baseballs is not going to either
Speaker 5: unless there is clear and obvious establishment of sho Hao
Speaker 5: Tani's version of the story that we've heard so far,
Speaker 5: which is that I Beemisuhara, his interpreter, stole four and
Speaker 5: a half plus million dollars from him to payoff gambling debts. Now,
Speaker 5: one thing we still do not know is who Otani's
Speaker 5: camp reached out to in terms of law enforcement official
Speaker 5: to say, hey, this guy stole four and a half
Speaker 5: million dollars. Start looking into it. And start looking into charges.
Speaker 5: And not only do we not know it, but when
Speaker 5: our reporters, Fish Confin and Paul of Dene are asking
Speaker 5: Otani's camp, there's in We're not going to tell you anything,
Speaker 5: and so it's it's a missing piece, and that would
Speaker 5: go a really long way, I think, to validating Otani's story.
Speaker 5: Right now, we have his version of the story, and
Speaker 5: logically a fair bit of it makes sense, but there
Speaker 5: are also questions that are unanswered. And when you have
Speaker 5: unanswered questions and the story changing like it did at
Speaker 5: the beginning, you know there's going to be skepticism and
Speaker 5: cynicism about the version that he's telling.
Speaker 2: When's the last time you remember a team that it
Speaker 2: was World Series or bust, like the Dodgers.
Speaker 5: Last year with the Dodgers, like every year with the Dodgers,
Speaker 5: I mean, when you.
Speaker 2: You know, let's but it's more so this year.
Speaker 5: Every year with them, I really do, because they put
Speaker 5: these mega teams together like that that's what they are.
Speaker 5: And I'm sorry, and they don't put teams together go
Speaker 5: win the NL West. They don't put teams together go
Speaker 5: win the National League. Pennant if they don't win the
Speaker 5: World Series, it's a disappointing season because they've got Mookie Betts,
Speaker 5: who is still in his prime isn't always going to be.
Speaker 5: They've got Freddy Freeman, who's still in his prime isn't
Speaker 5: always going to be. And yeah, they added Joho Kanye
Speaker 5: and Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Tyler glass Now and tay Oscar
Speaker 5: Hernandez and turned a team that had World Series aspirations
Speaker 5: into a team with maybe like a little more World
Speaker 5: Series aspiration. So I understand what you're saying, But I
Speaker 5: look at the Atlanta Braves too, Like, let's consider the
Speaker 5: window that they're in right now, when they have this
Speaker 5: incredible core of players, and they've got Chris Sale coming over,
Speaker 5: you know, a guy who's no Spring Chicken, and Charlie
Speaker 5: Morton who in all likelihood is going to be retiring
Speaker 5: after this season. Things are going to change for them too.
Speaker 5: So are they World Series or bust? I mean, I
Speaker 5: would suggest that yes, they're in the same boat that
Speaker 5: the Dodgers are.
Speaker 2: A couple other things before I get to baseball today,
Speaker 2: the Oakland a situation. How awkward is this that they're
Speaker 2: trying to find what a temporary home before they get
Speaker 2: to their new permanent home, but they still have their
Speaker 2: old home.
Speaker 5: Yeah, imagine the most awkward situation that you've ever been in,
Speaker 5: and then multiply it by ten, and it's still not
Speaker 5: as awkward as the A's being in Oakland. The A's
Speaker 5: essentially have said to the city of Oakland, we don't
Speaker 5: want to be here. And you know that is against
Speaker 5: the backdrop of all of these players playing in this
Speaker 5: awful stadium and fans feeling like this isn't even our
Speaker 5: team anymore. And so you're going to have an empty stadium,
Speaker 5: You're going to have a city in Las Vegas that
Speaker 5: maybe doesn't want them, because why would you want a
Speaker 5: team owned by someone in John Fisher who is so
Speaker 5: willing to gut the franchise to the point that it's
Speaker 5: major league. And now, granted the A's on the field
Speaker 5: this year, dan are not going to be nearly as
Speaker 5: bad as they were last year. They may, you know,
Speaker 5: they may not be the worst team in the American League,
Speaker 5: but they're still going to stink. And it's like you
Speaker 5: have twenty nine Major League Baseball franchises in one team
Speaker 5: that's called Major League Baseball franchise but is run like
Speaker 5: the worst minor league gap that you've ever seen.
Speaker 2: But is there a record for the fewest number of
Speaker 2: fans to go watch a team their home games? I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't know if somebody PAULI do have. Did the
Speaker 2: A's set the old time record last year?
Speaker 3: We're checking. They had eight hundred and thirty two thousand
Speaker 3: on the season. They averaged ten thousand a game. In comparison,
Speaker 3: the Dodgers had three point eight million people show up.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's definitely not the lowest that it's been, but
Speaker 5: we may see it this year.
Speaker 2: It's true. Mike Trout, I think is turning thirty three.
Speaker 2: At what point does Mike trold say, maybe I need
Speaker 2: to have a change of scenery? Or when do the
Speaker 2: Angels say are you thinking about a change of scenery?
Speaker 5: The really good question like there there are a few
Speaker 5: things every spring that I try to go to because
Speaker 5: they're interesting or because they're going to be particularly newsworthy,
Speaker 5: And Mike Trout's first media availability this year was high
Speaker 5: on that list, because you know, I wanted to ask
Speaker 5: him that same question, like how much longer can you oblige?
Speaker 5: How much longer are you going to stay with the team?
Speaker 5: That you've been to the playoffs with one time in
Speaker 5: your illustrious career, and that one time you got swept
Speaker 5: out by the Kansas City Royals. Like that, that's the
Speaker 5: wildest part of Mike Trout's career. He's one of the
Speaker 5: you know, one of the five to ten best players
Speaker 5: that we've ever seen, and he still doesn't want a
Speaker 5: playoff game. And you know, if Klock has taken now,
Speaker 5: he's not. He's not going to be getting a whole
Speaker 5: lot better in his mid to late thirties, and I
Speaker 5: think he desperately wants to be somewhere where he can win.
Speaker 5: But there's that tug of loyalty too. Dan like he's
Speaker 5: been an angel his entire career and if he's going
Speaker 5: to win, he wants it to be with that organization.
Speaker 5: But the question is can that organization win with Ardi
Speaker 5: Moreno owning the team and making the decisions that get
Speaker 5: in the way of its ability to do so. They've
Speaker 5: got some really interesting young players. I think Logan Ohapi,
Speaker 5: their catcher, is going to be really good, Zach Metto,
Speaker 5: their shortstop, Nolan Shanuel at first base. Like They've got
Speaker 5: some guys, but do they have enough in that division
Speaker 5: not even close, because the American League West is nasty.
Speaker 5: This year, the Texas Rangers won the World Series last year,
Speaker 5: the Houston Ashers have been to seven consecutive American League
Speaker 5: Championship Series. And I think the Seattle Mariners have the
Speaker 5: best rotation in baseball. So you've got You've got all
Speaker 5: these teams around, and then the Angels, who have gutted
Speaker 5: their farm system, have not spent intelligently at the major
Speaker 5: league level and couldn't win when they had arguably the
Speaker 5: two best players in the entire game there at the
Speaker 5: same time for a six year period. So what suggests
Speaker 5: that they're going to be doing it now?
Speaker 2: Talking to Jeff Passon of the Mothership, ESPN has the
Speaker 2: national presentation of Opening Night, it'll be the Rangers and
Speaker 2: the Cubs at seven point thirty Eastern, all right, If
Speaker 2: not the Dodgers or Braves in the National League, then who.
Speaker 5: There's a really good argument to be made that the
Speaker 5: Phillies are a better team, or at least a better
Speaker 5: playoff team, when you've got Zach Wheeler and Aaron Nola
Speaker 5: at the top of a rotation and a team that
Speaker 5: has not just the hitting depth that they do. They're
Speaker 5: bullpen's really really good and I do not sleep on
Speaker 5: this bullpen good group, and so I think Philadelphia is
Speaker 5: probably the obvious answer. What about Arizona, though, Like, let's
Speaker 5: not forget they made it to the World Series last
Speaker 5: year and then they go out and add Jordan Montgomery,
Speaker 5: they add Eduardo Rodriguez, they bring back Lordis Gouriel, they
Speaker 5: bring in Jock Peterson and Randall Gritchick.
Speaker 2: Like were the story or great team?
Speaker 5: They were a great team in October, Dan and in October.
Speaker 5: Caveat is important, and I think it speaks to the
Speaker 5: sport of baseball right now, give a damn what you
Speaker 5: did between April and September. If you played better in
Speaker 5: October than someone else, the way that baseball is, you
Speaker 5: can be walked in glory forever. All it takes is
Speaker 5: one really good hot month. And that's what the Diamondbacks had.
Speaker 5: So even if they were a mediocre to slightly above
Speaker 5: average team during the regular season. I remember doing a
Speaker 5: story in the World Series about just toward the end,
Speaker 5: like five games in how clean it had been, Like
Speaker 5: the amount of incredible defensive plays that tax of strangers
Speaker 5: in Arizona Diamondbacks made in the World Series made it
Speaker 5: an extremely enjoyable series to watch, even if it was
Speaker 5: only five games, like there was good ball being played,
Speaker 5: and in the Diamondbacks adding those two starting pitchers that
Speaker 5: I mentioned, on top of Zach Gallen and Merril Kelly,
Speaker 5: and you know, tapping that rotation with Brandon Fott, who
Speaker 5: in the World Series was really good. Like it's a
Speaker 5: formidable roster. And I'm excited to see year two of
Speaker 5: the Corbyn Carrol Show. I think he's got a chance
Speaker 5: to be a top five MVPI this year after winning
Speaker 5: Rookie of the Year and being in the mix last year.
Speaker 5: And I think he's going to be even better this
Speaker 5: season than he was.
Speaker 2: The American League Rangers defending champs. Mastros always get there.
Speaker 2: Yankees brought in some talent. So if it's not, oh
Speaker 2: you're you're not quite all in on the Yankees there.
Speaker 5: I'm not there on the Yankees right now. The Garrett
Speaker 5: Cole injury is an absolute killer. And yes, they added
Speaker 5: Marcus Stroman to their rotation, and sure like Luis Heel
Speaker 5: looked great in spring training. But I worry that they're
Speaker 5: too old. I worry that they are injury prone, and
Speaker 5: they lost the best picture in Major League Baseball for
Speaker 5: at least two months to an elbow injury that you know,
Speaker 5: if we're just assuming it's going to heal, I've known
Speaker 5: elbows for too long to know that they do not
Speaker 5: heal on a schedule. Like I've just seen it too
Speaker 5: many times where you assume a guy is going to
Speaker 5: be back at a particular point. This is not a
Speaker 5: soft tissue injury. You know, this is nerve and this
Speaker 5: is ulner collateral ligament, and these are things that when
Speaker 5: you try and put them on a schedule, laugh at you.
Speaker 5: So if they listen, if they get Garrett Cole back
Speaker 5: and get them back healthy and back at the level
Speaker 5: that he's been at, and if Carlos Verdon can pitch
Speaker 5: to his contracts, then yeah, they're going to be in
Speaker 5: the mix. I still do not think they're as good
Speaker 5: as the Orioles.
Speaker 2: Then we were talking about this the other day with
Speaker 2: how tough it's going to be for Hall of Fame
Speaker 2: voters looking at starting pitchers moving forward, because Vernlander is
Speaker 2: a Hall of Famer, Herschell is. I mean, there's only
Speaker 2: a Hall of Famer.
Speaker 5: Those are the three.
Speaker 2: But after that is there a starting pitcher currently in
Speaker 2: baseball who you could see is on the projection to
Speaker 2: be a Hall of Famer.
Speaker 5: I mean, I think Cole is probably in the mix.
Speaker 5: I think Zach Wheeler is putting himself into the mix.
Speaker 5: I think if Jacob de Gram hadn't been hurt, he's
Speaker 5: got you know, the twu cy youngs. But his career
Speaker 5: feels more lensitomy right now than it does Hall of Fame.
Speaker 5: And you know, he's going.
Speaker 2: To be adjusting our numbers of like you, oh, two
Speaker 2: hundred wins. That's not going to happen with these younger guys.
Speaker 5: I mean, I mean, you have to adjust your numbers.
Speaker 5: And in the same way, I think that voters now
Speaker 5: dan take into account something like on base percentage more
Speaker 5: than they did in the past. I think I think
Speaker 5: we're smarter as a collective when it comes to Hall
Speaker 5: of Fame voting in terms of figuring out what's right
Speaker 5: but also contextualizing it throughout generations. And if you hold
Speaker 5: starting pitchers who pitched in the twenty ten, twenty twenties
Speaker 5: for the same sort of standards that guy used to have,
Speaker 5: you're literally not going to have a single pitcher who
Speaker 5: goes in the Hall of Fame from this generation, Like,
Speaker 5: you're just not because if it's a different job and
Speaker 5: it's a different game, and it's you know, I think
Speaker 5: it stinks. I don't like that this is where starting
Speaker 5: pitching is gone. It's my biggest pet peeve about baseball
Speaker 5: these days that you took this group of players who
Speaker 5: collectively take up half of the sport and you essentially
Speaker 5: said we are not going to allow you to be
Speaker 5: a star because you're not going to go more than
Speaker 5: five or six innings, And that I think has been
Speaker 5: detrimental to the game and it's problematic going forward, and
Speaker 5: something that whether it's through active rule changes or something
Speaker 5: a little bit more passive at the youth level where
Speaker 5: they start emphasizing going deeper into games rather than throwing
Speaker 5: really hard. You know, it's just a priority that the
Speaker 5: sport hasn't put at the forefront, and it's been detrimental
Speaker 5: to the game accordingly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's almost like, if I'm a pitcher, a young pitcher,
Speaker 2: I want to be a closer than I do a
Speaker 2: starter because I probably have a better chance there of
Speaker 2: being a star, maybe making a lot of money and
Speaker 2: having I don't know, if you want to pitch five innings,
Speaker 2: that's great, but you might have a shit.
Speaker 5: I still think. I still think my kid's a pitcher
Speaker 5: and he wants to be the ace. You know, there's
Speaker 5: still something among players about starting. It's just that they
Speaker 5: don't look at what their duty is the same way
Speaker 5: that they have in the past. If you get through
Speaker 5: five or six innings, you've done your job.
Speaker 2: Yeah, But would you rather start a game or close
Speaker 2: a game? I'd rather close a game in today's baseball,
Speaker 2: I'd rather close a game.
Speaker 5: That's really interesting because you get paid fifty million bucks
Speaker 5: for one inning of work. Yes, Like because you get
Speaker 5: to sit in the clubhouse until the sixth inning. Yes, Meander, Yeah,
Speaker 5: it's a better job. You're right about that. Like, it's
Speaker 5: a much better job. But would you you know you're
Speaker 5: a star, Dan, Well, you are, and I feel like
Speaker 5: you want to be on the mound at the beginning
Speaker 5: of the game rather than Yeah.
Speaker 2: But if I'm only going five and a half, then no, okay, okay,
Speaker 2: that's fair. I want to be the guy who shut
Speaker 2: you down and then all of a sudden everybody comes
Speaker 2: out congratulates me, and then you know, I'm i walk off,
Speaker 2: He roes, well.
Speaker 5: What kind of what kind of closer would you be?
Speaker 5: Would you be the closer who who over time just
Speaker 5: got fatter and fatter and just embraced that. Now I'm
Speaker 5: not saying you have gotten you look fantastic, but I'm
Speaker 5: saying I feel like you would embrace the lifestyle of
Speaker 5: the closer where you would be the guy who you know,
Speaker 5: was drinking beers after the game and having snacks and
Speaker 5: sitting in the bullpen and flicking seeds like if you're.
Speaker 4: Going to beat.
Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly, if you're going to be a closer, like
Speaker 5: go fullth send on your closer.
Speaker 2: Yes, I'm going to tell you what I'm throwing and
Speaker 2: I'm going to see if you can.
Speaker 5: Hit it and they can't because they can pat it.
Speaker 2: Absolutely. Thank you, Jeff. Hey, have a great day. Always
Speaker 2: great to catch up with you.
Speaker 5: Take it easy, Boddy, Happy Opening Day.
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Speaker 2: poll results. Couple of phone calls in here as well.
Speaker 2: Let's see how about Zack and Knoxville. To lead us off,
Speaker 2: Good morning, Zach, what's on your mind?
Speaker 11: Hey, DP, I just wanted to take a look at
Speaker 11: the bright side of this Draymond Green issue. At and
Speaker 11: T might be forced to pull those commercials that are
Speaker 11: so cringey after this. I'm not sure how that's going
Speaker 11: to go down.
Speaker 5: Hopefully they do.
Speaker 11: Up other questions just real quick with the Washington commanders,
Speaker 11: do you think they should trade that pick or no?
Speaker 2: If you love your quarterback, take your quarterback. The Patriots
Speaker 2: same thing. If you love your quarterback, take your quarterback.
Speaker 2: If you don't, then trade down. Don't take a quarterback
Speaker 2: because you need a quarterback, Take a quarterback that fits
Speaker 2: your needs. Used to be that GMS would do that.
Speaker 2: Got to have a quarterback. Is that the right quarterback? No,
Speaker 2: but it's the guy best quarterback available. That's not the
Speaker 2: way you draft. Tim and Jersey. Hi, Tim, what's on
Speaker 2: your mind today?
Speaker 9: PDP boys, I'm gonna call in regarding a pile of
Speaker 9: the face bet regarding the Enel Central. I'm gonna take
Speaker 9: my Pistsburgh parts to win, and I'm going to offer
Speaker 9: the field to anybody who wants it.
Speaker 2: All right, Marvin will take that.
Speaker 4: I'm taking it.
Speaker 2: Let's go right, all right? All right? So you know,
Speaker 2: how about we do this reds versus pirates. To be
Speaker 2: fair to Tim, would you be willing to take that Marvin.
Speaker 2: I mean okay, wait, wait, so whoever has the better record? Yes? Okay, yes, yeah.
Speaker 6: Can I like double down on all of them and
Speaker 6: take the Cardinals?
Speaker 2: Yes you can, Paulie.
Speaker 3: The Cardinals had seventy one wins last year. The Pirates
Speaker 3: had seventy six. The Reds had eighty two.
Speaker 2: Okay, Seaton's taken the Cardinals. Marvin has the Reds, Tim
Speaker 2: has the Pirates. All right, Lance in Bloomington, Good morning Lance,
Speaker 2: what's on your mind today?
Speaker 12: ADP six, Hey, wanted to get your take on taking
Speaker 12: the Show on the road this summer to the MLB
Speaker 12: All Star Game. You guys did a great job at
Speaker 12: the Super Bowl, and I thought it'd be a good,
Speaker 12: good show to be at the All Star Game that week.
Speaker 2: What do you think where is the All Star Game?
Speaker 12: I think it's in Arlington.
Speaker 2: Uh okay, yeah. I mean there's a lot of moving
Speaker 2: parts to get there. To take the Show on the road.
Speaker 2: I mean it takes months to get ready for the
Speaker 2: Super Bowl. Months, even when we went to Dublin. I
Speaker 2: mean it took a lot of people, a lot of
Speaker 2: moving parts to be able to find a place, set
Speaker 2: it up. The cost there. How many days do we do,
Speaker 2: what kind of guess can we get? So, I mean
Speaker 2: we would consider these, but it's probably unlikely that we
Speaker 2: would go to Arlington for the All Star Game.
Speaker 3: Yes, poem, Dan, as much as I and everyone loves
Speaker 3: Texas in July, I think I speak for all of us.
Speaker 3: The last time we took the gate took us to
Speaker 3: the roads for the All Star Game, I think was Houston, Me,
Speaker 3: you and Fritzi went and it was one thousand degrees.
Speaker 3: Was a high daily You didn't a lie?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Arlington brings back bad memories because that's where I
Speaker 2: had my confrontation with a Rod in the locker room.
Speaker 3: Hey backtime.
Speaker 2: I don't know, he's not gonna be well, he'll be there. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: that that's not nobody wins. If we get together, they'd
Speaker 2: be just a high a Rod and then he might say, Hi, Dan, Yes,
Speaker 2: Tod I'm looking at the NBA All Star Game in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five being in San Francisco, hosted by the
Speaker 2: Warriors at the Chase Center. But we were talking about
Speaker 2: the Baseball Star Game. Oh you should show. I thought
Speaker 2: he was going to the basketball start.
Speaker 5: I'm totally soon.
Speaker 3: I thought he was talking about the basketball Star Game.
Speaker 2: No, dear, No, he's talking baseball, but thank you, Todd.
Speaker 6: Where's the NBA to San Francisco is great though, Yeah
Speaker 6: it is.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't mind going good play, Yeah, yeah it is.
Speaker 2: Ice Cube was on Pat McAfee show and he talked
Speaker 2: about the offer that he made to Caitlin Clark to
Speaker 2: play in the Big Three.
Speaker 13: You know, it's always fifty to fifty till we get
Speaker 13: a note you know, at the end of other day us.
Speaker 13: It is a generous offer, you know, and look, you
Speaker 13: know we're in the New Age. You know, it's like
Speaker 13: ni l you know when when we came up with
Speaker 13: the idea, you know, our sponsors, our partners, they all
Speaker 13: want to make it happen. So you know, we was
Speaker 13: able to make that generous software. It's definitely doable. You know,
Speaker 13: both leagues play on CBS, so of course they love
Speaker 13: it if we can make it happen. And so it's
Speaker 13: you know, it's up to the player. You know, as
Speaker 13: the league, we'll make it happen. We'll our offers in
Speaker 13: you know, we just need to answer as soon as
Speaker 13: they ready to.
Speaker 3: Yes, Paul, I'm assuming Caitlin Clark's going to play for
Speaker 3: the Indiana Fever. Their season goes all through the summer,
Speaker 3: including games almost every Saturday or Sunday. She would have
Speaker 3: to miss, I'm looking here, eight games with her w
Speaker 3: NBA team.
Speaker 14: To play for this other league. Yeah, it's not a
Speaker 14: realistic pitch. No, no, no, he got publicity, that's all
Speaker 14: it is. He wanted publicity, got publicity. Had a day
Speaker 14: where people were talking about the Big Three. I don't
Speaker 14: even know when the season is. I don't care to
Speaker 14: watch the Big Three, but okay, it's late summer where
Speaker 14: you don't have the NBA and they're trying to capitalize
Speaker 14: on it. But Caitlyn Clark, herr day job or night
Speaker 14: job will be the WNBA. That'll be far more important
Speaker 14: than the five million dollar pay day with the Big Three.
Speaker 14: Although I did like some of these players who play
Speaker 14: in the Big Three, like, oh, she'd never get a
Speaker 14: shot off, she'd never score, like slow.
Speaker 2: Down here, slow down here? All right? Oh yeah right,
Speaker 2: we put her on lockdown. Okay. Christian Latner will join
Speaker 2: us coming up next hour. Why isn't he in the
Speaker 2: Basketball Hall of Fame? We'll ask him