Speaker 1: Let me address some news concerning Major League Baseball Commissioner
Speaker 1: Rob Manfred has floated an idea for an MLB rule
Speaker 1: change that caught fire this week, polarizing baseball fans all
Speaker 1: over the place. It's called the golden at bat. Once
Speaker 1: a game, a manager gets to put his best batter
Speaker 1: at the plate, regardless of where the batting order stands.
Speaker 1: So essentially, a picture facing the Dodgers could get show
Speaker 1: hel Tani out in a high level leverage situation. Then
Speaker 1: Dave Roberts plays his golden at batcard and you have
Speaker 1: to face a Tony all over again. It's important to
Speaker 1: note that Manfred said this idea is in the conversation
Speaker 1: only stage. I don't know whether it's a great idea
Speaker 1: or not. I like it. I like the fact that
Speaker 1: you have a commissioner with baseball forward thinking. I love
Speaker 1: the fact that he's willing to be innovation and take chances,
Speaker 1: because you see, what we have to remember is to
Speaker 1: call baseball on the carpet for always being the last
Speaker 1: at the party. It could be steroids, it could be amphetamines.
Speaker 1: It could be you know, a domestic violence. It could
Speaker 1: be a whole bunch of things. Baseball has a history
Speaker 1: of usually being the last acting. I'm not talking about
Speaker 1: the league. I'm talking about the players, as in the
Speaker 1: players association, because unlike football and unlike basketball, baseball was
Speaker 1: notorious for being the most powerful players association in sports.
Speaker 1: We get that, and so because of that, they would
Speaker 1: hold out, they could be locked out, they'd go on strike,
Speaker 1: they do a whole bunch of things, and their level
Speaker 1: of intestinal resolves seem to be at an elevated pace
Speaker 1: compared to basketball, football, and even hockey players. I get
Speaker 1: all of that, but because of that, it came attached
Speaker 1: with arrogance. And so when steroids was being brought about
Speaker 1: and all of this stuff, you know, Mark McGuire and
Speaker 1: Sammy So So ultimately you have to get The Game
Speaker 1: of Shadows with Barry Bonds and the excerpts and Sports
Speaker 1: Illustrated for the Game of Shadows and all of this
Speaker 1: others of the book. That is that's what that was
Speaker 1: the name of the book. All of this stuff has
Speaker 1: been going on, and it all came back to baseball
Speaker 1: and its arrogance was always of the mindset, we can
Speaker 1: police ourselves. Who the hell are y'all to tell us anything?
Speaker 1: And it was only as the numbers dissipated in terms
Speaker 1: of attendance, in terms of ratings, in terms of revenue,
Speaker 1: et cetera, did they take heed. And even then they
Speaker 1: still were reluctant, and even now they still are. So
Speaker 1: I implored Rob Manfred for saying, listen, I'm not gonna let
Speaker 1: this game sink. We're growing again. Some of the rule
Speaker 1: changes shifting in the pictures mound, along with various other things. Okay,
Speaker 1: those things have assisted in more runs being scored, and
Speaker 1: more home runs being hit, more stolen bases, all of
Speaker 1: that stuff. Athleticism being reinvited to the sport of baseball.
Speaker 1: Beautiful thing. But now he's trying to take it a
Speaker 1: step further. I'm not gonna knock Rob Manfred for that.
Speaker 1: Why not try it? Think about it. We're watching the
Speaker 1: World Series and Juan Soto comes up to bat, This
Speaker 1: brother knocks it out the park. But then guess what,
Speaker 1: Aaron Judge is gonna strike out if somebody else ain't
Speaker 1: gonna do what they're supposed to do. Okay, and there's
Speaker 1: no way you're gonna get back to Juan Soto because
Speaker 1: guess what, eight other dudes gotta bat until he comes
Speaker 1: back up the plate. This alleviates that concern and you
Speaker 1: can bring it right back up to the plate and say,
Speaker 1: damn it, let him go again. I love it. It works.
Speaker 1: But guess what rule really really needs to change in
Speaker 1: order to facilitate all of these things for happening for
Speaker 1: the better. You gotta get rid of the intentional walk
Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen. Somebody needs to say it, so I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say it. It's one of the weakest moves in sports.
Speaker 1: So let me get this straight. I'm aa picture get
Speaker 1: paid millions of dollars. My job is gull up there
Speaker 1: and get you out. But I get to look at
Speaker 1: you know, my nephew Josh is up at the plate,
Speaker 1: and I get to look at him and say, I
Speaker 1: don't want to pitch to him. I don't want to
Speaker 1: have to get him out. I don't think I could
Speaker 1: do it. Let me walk him. What kind of shit
Speaker 1: is that? So you don't want to guard Lebron James,
Speaker 1: You want to guard Steph Curry. You don't want to
Speaker 1: guard any of these people, No, you gotta deal with them.
Speaker 1: Baseball is the loan sport that enables you to completely
Speaker 1: conspicuously and unapologetically just circumvent competition, and then you wonder
Speaker 1: why you ain't as popular as football or basketball. We
Speaker 1: like competition. You a pitcher, I'm an hit her. Let's go.
Speaker 1: Could you imagine somebody walking up to Randy Johnson and
Speaker 1: telling him the intentionally walks someone. Somebody walking up to
Speaker 1: Roger Clemens and telling him the intentionally walks someone. Back
Speaker 1: in the days, Josh Gibson and Tom Stevens got intentionally walk,
Speaker 1: intentionally walk, I'm gonna be scared to face a batter.
Speaker 1: And then you wonder why it pisses people off. People
Speaker 1: ain't got time for that. We like competition. This suggestion
Speaker 1: conversations only by Rob Manfred, the commissioner of Major League Baseball,
Speaker 1: invites more competitive fervor that is good for the sport.
Speaker 1: It doesn't hurt baseball. It only hurts the feelings of
Speaker 1: the old fogus who want to hold on to the
Speaker 1: fifties and the sixties and probably earlier than that, rather
Speaker 1: than acclimating themselves to the times that we're living in.
Speaker 1: Trust me on this one. Trust me