April 21, 2023 • 26 mins
Welcome back for another week of MLBbros, baseball, beats, and the biggest stories from around the big leagues. Da Gambler and the rest of the team give you no easy outs. This lineup is stacked.
Track list: Intro. Rundown (Sunshine & Roses). Classic Hits with David Grubb. Going Deep with OG Mark Gray. Black Ace Report with JP the Rook. Let's Cook with Devon Cook. Laid to Rest. The Numbers Man with Sebastian Baugh. Chritt's Countdown with Young Chritt. Gambler's Choice. Rob's Rant. The Walk-Off.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You are now rocking with the MLB Brochow Podcast The Mixtape,
where we bring you the latest and greatest in Black
and Brown baseball players from the field to the dugout
to the locker room, midnight to high noon to doubleheaders.
In June, we got it covered, so lock in with
the Gambler, d Grubb, Young Correct JP, the rook Og,
(00:24):
Mark Gray, and the Boss the Skipper Rob Parker. Let's
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You are now entering the world of MLB bro Show
Podcasts the Mixtape. Do not adjust your speakers. What you
are hearing is real. It is the sound of black baseball.
It's not always sunshine and Roses. The Bros Flow from
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fun on the poses and sherry tail when they've done.
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Is now the Mota, The Science of the Pitchstone, Live
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Stop stealing signs, stop shooting pistols. Come in to enjoy
the mirror. Cole the bro Ritual. Watch Jimmy Rollins, watch
(01:19):
George Forster. Derek Bell had a spot where he parks Porschell.
Remember when Joe Carter he tore the Norfolk walk off
rings and things those days. Was also MLB bro Show,
So follow us, we hit and a thing out the
park like band Bam Callia. It's not always sun shining roses.
The bro flow from the Holy brother mana Moses Brey,
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pick when they run, and now the motor the science
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count like double overtime. Work this clown like the bottom
other than nine. It's not always shining roses. The Bros
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It's those classic kids with David grub grow podcast. It's
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Speaker 4 (02:48):
What's up everybody? I'm David Grub and welcome to Week
four of Classic Kids on the MLB Bro Show podcast
The Mixtape. Kim Griffy Junior retired from the big leagues
more than a dozen years ago, but the kid remains
one of the most popular people in and around the game.
This summer, he was part of Team USA's coaching staff
for the World Baseball Classic, pushing the mild mannered Griffy
back into the spotlight. His bat, his glove, and his
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smile typically did the talking for Junior, who transcended the
game of baseball and became a cultural icon. His Nike
Air Griffies are considered classic kicks, and Junior remains one
of the few players to have a signature shoot and
their own video game. In nineteen ninety four, he became
the face of Nintendo's King Griffy Junior Presents Major League Baseball.
Just like the baseball world was blown away by Junior's talent,
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the digital world was blown away by the groundbreaking addition
to the sports gaming landscape. I have seen every type
of baseball video game from Atari to MLB the Show,
and there was nothing like what Nintendo and Griffy put
together at that time. While Junior was the only name
in the game. The stats and the stadiums were taken
straight from the majors For the first time. You got
to see what it was like to hit one over
the Green Monster in Boston or off of the Warehouse
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in Baltimore. You could play a full season of up
to one hundred and sixty two games, customize your roster
and keep up to eight stats. The uniforms were accurate,
and the balls and strikes were called by a real
big league umpire, and there was a home run derby.
Nobody had done so much with a baseball game before.
The game broke a lot of new ground and became
incredibly popular, selling more than one point two million copies
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and spawning three more games in the series. For Griffy.
There have been other video game cover athletes, but Griffy
resides in an area code reserved for the greats like
Wayne Gretzky, Tiger Woods, Tony Hawk, and of course John Matten,
who have multiple titles to their credit. Now, with baseball
growing in popularity and touching every corner of the globe,
maybe there's an MLB Brower too who might get their
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own title in the years to come. Until then, King
Griffy Junior remains Baseball's video game in Hall of Famer.
That's my time. I'm David Grubb and this has been
classic Kids. On the MLB Bro podcast.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
Mixtape Going Deep with Og Markray, there.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
Was no player who was bigger in the clubs for
championship teams in Oakland and New York and Reggie Jackson
under the brightest of lights and on the biggest of stages,
mister October was like Tom Brady and Stirrups or better yet,
Brady was Jackson with shoulder pads. On What's up, Folks,
It's the MLB bro Og Mark Gray and I'm going
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Deep for the mixed Team. For all Reggie Jackson's exploits
on the field which to find him as a baseball
legend and Hall of Famer, his exploys off the field
and the Big Apple are second perhaps Dune Derek Jeter,
but for totally different reasons. After Jackson dropped his documentary
Reggie earlier this year, which followed Jeter's late last year,
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Jackson went into his vault to bring back his own
version of a throwback and didn't have to call Mitchell
and Nes to do it. Following nearly a half century
in exile, the concoction of milks, chocolate, peanuts and caramel
has made its triumphant return in the form of the
Reggie bar, even though its shape is more circular. If
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you know anything about the Baby Ruth, the Jackson bars
made with the same ingredients milk, chocolate, caramel and peanuts. Frankly,
when I was younger, it was incredibly delicious and only
cost twenty five cents at the local Potega confectionery or
drug score. The reggie bar was just supposed to be
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nothing more than a novelty candy that got has first
started the Yankees home Opener in nineteen seventy six, but
the gooey richness of this decade intreat proved to be
so popular that it had a six year run before
getting unformally retired in nineteen eighty two. But just like
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everything that was cool black in the day where you
could go down the block to buy one, now you
gotta go travel to the suburbs, like hide Bark from
Long Island, and it's gonna cost you three bucks if
you want them to balk online to order from where
else Amazon Where the retail cars for a box of
twenty four will set you back about sixty eight bucks.
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That's like waiting for the flashing red lights of Krispy
Kreme to come on in Baldwin Hills, Dungewoodie or Silver
Spring to get an overpriced hot donut. Well, that makes
you feel a certain way, but you do it anyhow. Now,
you can't write the story of the Yankees without pages
of legends like Ruth Jackson O Cheetah. But you also
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can't write the history of candy endorsement deals in sports
without talking about the Reggie bar as Well. I'm the
mlbog Mark Gray going deep for the mixtape.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
It's the black Aser Pole, the Black Aga Pole, It's
the black as Re Pole, the Black As Reports.
Speaker 7 (08:03):
What's up everybody? This is Justin Patrulli with the Black
Ace Report on the MLB bro Show podcast mixtape. Here's
where you get the latest on the melanated malt marauders
who are shoving with precision and popping out all across
the big leagues. So let's check the report. It's all
green for Hunter Green after he and the Cincinnati Reds
agreed to a six year, fifty three million dollar contract extension.
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The Red's either young flame or as one of the
cornerstones for future success, but we'll have to wait a
few extra days to see his next start after he
was pulling in the fourth inning from his last start
due to a bright tibia confusion after getting hit by
a comebacker against the Rays. Pastrow shows dominance early in
the year continued on April seventeenth, as the Oakland A's
were his most recent victim. He pitched six innings, allowing
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two hits and fan five. In all four of his starts,
he has pitched exactly six innings in each of them
and now has an ERA of zero point seventy five.
Tai Jon Walker made another quality start on April nineteenth,
as he allowed two runs over six and a third
innings pitched and has earned his second straight win of
the season. Josiah Gray suffered another tough loss on April eighteenth,
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after only giving up one run in five and he's pitched.
He has given up four runs in his last three
combined starts, but the team hasn't been able to score
a single run during those three games. TODs Briley had
another terrific start for the race and is now two
to zero to start his career. That's the black Aps
report for this week. This is JP the rook now
back to the mix.
Speaker 8 (09:38):
Stanton is really having an issue staying healthy. In the
past few seasons. He's a fantastic player went healthy. He's
one of the top two hitters on the depth shot
for the Yankees this season his fifty two.
Speaker 6 (09:49):
Times that bet.
Speaker 8 (09:50):
He's posted fourteen hits, eleven RBI in a two sixty
nine bat and THEMA. Unfortunately, Stanton has been placed on
an injury list for the tenth times since twenty nineteen.
The notion around the league is his pattern on injuries
each year is becoming more of an expectation from the
PCL tear. It's pretty tough because your lower extremity muscles
have to be exerted more to substitute for that PCF.
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He has multiple strains to his hamstrings, quads, calves all
the way down to his the key leads his huge
thirteen year, three hundred and twenty five million dollar contract.
When you make this type of investment in the player
and he misses two hundred and fifty nine games of
the last five hundred and sixty two, which is forty
six point one percent it is kind of worried to him.
A grade two hamstring strain will keep you on the
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dugouts nearly for to six weeks. So stand on a
positive note. Hopefully the muscle can get enough rest in
the next two months and we can see it full
healthy send back running at full speed with a clear
piece of mind on his body will be able to
withstand a full MLB regular season.
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the double play, Go Glove, JP Grofford do It, Faded,
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the mic like Jeta in the Ninth Joe and Joe
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a bro loading the clip at the stadium, chilling the
batters on grip hop on the maund Complexion Brown, We
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Plus Baseball is a game of stats. I'm sebastianball and
I'm the numbers man. MLB bro Hunter Green has started
the season much better than his traditional stats are giving
him credit for. He's actually been nasty and he's setting
himself up for a big leap in his sophomore season.
The Green Machine is known throughout baseball for his eye
popping fastball velocity, reaching triple digits regularly. However, there's much
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more to his game than just he Green has started
the twenty twenty three season with a very strong foundation
as of April lateen maintaining his thirty point nine percent
k rate from twenty twenty two at a thirty point
eight percent clip so far in twenty twenty three, while
lowering his walk rate more than a four percent to
seven point seven percent. The most impressive changes game so
far is the cutdown and home runs allowed, going from
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the sixteen percent home run fly ball rate in twenty
twenty two to just five percent so far this season,
while reduced the fly balls he allows from forty eight
point five percent to forty three point five percent. These
strekout to walk numbers, combined with his home run prevention,
translates to a fielding independent pitching of two point five
which is a huge improvement from the four point three
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to seven of last season. This, along with his ability
to limit hard contact, means he has a scale interactive
ERA of three point four and an expected ERA of
three point three one. And these numbers show how unlucky
he has been so far of an overall ERA of
four point two four. So why has the Green Machine
been an improved pitcher so far? He has increased his
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fastball usage from fifty three point seven percent to fifty
seven point eight percent at the expense of his changeup,
and the hot zones of the fastball all remain in
the upper third of the zone. This, combined with a
slide that has a whopping thirty six point seven percent
with rate, makes for a deadly pitch combo. And here's
how struggled greatly when faced against And that's it. Numbers
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never lie. So until the next episode this is Sebastia
involve the numbers Man bringing you the metrics on the
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Ball Young krit.
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He had to tell you about the bro Bombers.
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He had to tell you about me.
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Drama woke up everybody.
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This is Young krit and this is my weekly countdown
or the biggest plays made by MLB bros over the
past seven days. This week, coming in at number five,
we had Bro Marcus Simmon who's hitting up. He puts
together a nice three game hitting streak over the weekend
and on Sunday, best to the home run to go
along with this for RBI.
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Up next to number four.
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The Vetters back got it again as the Indie MC
country continues to cook. In this return to Pittsburgh, the
Burke got it hit in five of seven games last
week and he hit a home run and it went
over the Cardinals on Saturday. Sitting in the free spot,
We've got fame throwing brow Hunter Green who points out
ten batters and six innings against Atlanta Break. And then
to this week, we had Milwaukee Broys reliever Devin Williams
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who's been lights out for a squad over his last
five audience, He's pitched five scorers, innings, only line one hit,
and punched out ten batters. And finally number one on
Chris countdown, we have Bro Michael A. Taylor who had
a six game hitting street for the Minnesota Twins kills
me in three home runs in that stretch as well,
including two and an eleven to two win over the
New York Gange. And that's it until next week. I'm
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you on Chris And this has been Chris Countdown on
the MLB Bro Show podcast mixtape.
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Now back to the mix ball.
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It was a big week in a big league.
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Is it follow or is it fair?
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And Now from mlbdbro dot com, here's JR. Gamba.
Speaker 14 (18:00):
Minnesota Twins star DH Byron Buckston is mired in a
bad slump coming into Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
He was hindless in his previous fifteen at batch with
eleven strikeouts spanning five games.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Jr.
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Is it foul or fair to say that Buxton is
not slumping.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
He's hurt?
Speaker 6 (18:25):
Fair?
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Also fair ball.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
He's also won for his last nineteen. This might be
a case of Byron Buxton listening to the headlines and
not to his body rob the past few years while
he was injured time and time again, and then he
got that huge one hundred million dollar contract for his
potential and got hurt after and he's been hurt again,
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and then he's only played more than one hundred games
once in his career back in twenty seventeen. He only
played ninety two in two thousand and twenty two, so
we have there's a lot of pressure as the superstar
franchise face of that team along with Carlos Korea. He
also knows the Twins aren't the same playoff contender without him.
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Two weeks ago, Buston smashed his shoulder and faced on
the steeling temper and was shaken up. I was surprised
he stayed in the game. Last week, he had a
nasty collision on the base pass that left him with
the head abrasion and he had to leave the game.
He was actually off to a solid star, but has
not looked right since these two incidents. Buckston slumps like
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everyone else. We also know he's usually a fast starter,
and he's definitely not an eleven K and fifteen at
bats guy when healthy. Something's up there with Buckston and
Minnesota at mbbro dot Comedy to keep an eye in
that situation with Big Bucks and his health.
Speaker 12 (20:00):
Coming into the showdown between show Hey Otani and Aaron
Judge this past week at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx,
people were asking the question, who's the main event, who's
the headliner who gets top billing?
Speaker 14 (20:17):
And of course most people said it was show Hey. Otani.
Of course the two way player. He can pitch, you
can hit. But you must be crazy to think that
Aaron Judge would take a back seat to show Hey.
Speaker 10 (20:32):
I'll give you that.
Speaker 14 (20:33):
When show Hay's pitching, it's a great and a marvel
thing to watch him pitch and hit in the same game.
Speaker 12 (20:40):
Incredible.
Speaker 14 (20:42):
But on a day to day basis, if he's not
pitching and is.
Speaker 12 (20:46):
Show Hey against Judge, are you kidding me?
Speaker 14 (20:49):
Aaron Judge rates he's a top billing kind of guy.
And we saw that Wednesday night. You remember that's when
Judge rob the home run from Otani jumping over the
center field fence in the first inning, and then in
the bottom of the first inning he had a two
run home run. That's right, He's a dual threat in
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the field.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
And at the play.
Speaker 14 (21:16):
Make no mistake about it, Aaron Judge takes no backseat
to anybody in Major League Baseball. Otani's a star in
his own right, but so is Aaron Judge. Don't get
it twisted.
Speaker 12 (21:32):
I'm Rob Parker and that's my rand.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
I mean, we're doing this for them. They need a movement.
It's like the pipeline is flooded with players but advanced
and pass certain levels like a beating against Mike Tyson
and Mike Tyson punch out that I'm saying, the water
Temple the legend is Zelda level. So we had to
pour into these players and promote them as as much
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as possible with our talents. I love for the game
a better reason where we played the dream, we see
through the talents of our sons and daughters. We get
these black players a chance to be heard and seen.
Because despite the push for diversity in the game, Umby's
at the NLB level of doing list. So nobody should
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be walking around thinking they don't need our help. We
are frontlining this Black Baseball movement. If you're black and
you play baseball or culture, manage and hold a position
where you influence the future of the game, that you
owe it to the community to help nurture the black
generation of baseball players. Same way we do a MB
broke with our staff for over sixty young people between
the ages of eighteen and fifty five. We have every
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generation covered and our mission is to help shine a
light on our mess, talents and struggles and triums to
black baseball players. Man, come on, man and normalize the
culture so that we can support not only players diverse
and colors, but diverse the personalities, beliefs, interests, up bringing.
We gotta win. We gotta win, and we're gonna be
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the mouthpiece and I'll be bro that brings attention to greatness.
They just gotta step away from it every day and tapping.
Speaker 11 (23:15):
I was a cat playing in the back streets almost
every day, and I made my way. Baseball's the game
to play, hit the field and take a couple of swings,
stole and base.
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Culture.
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But I was a part of Don't take it away,
don't take it away. That's baseball part of me.
Speaker 11 (23:44):
Don't take it away, take it away.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
It's a part of me.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Yo, you can't take baseball from me. It's a part
of me. You got damn dummy. Some have tried and
something to hit.
Speaker 7 (23:59):
This is the run down.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Next is the classic hits. George Springer had five hits
on opening day. Dave Roberts keeps winning like he's supposed
to be. Great Jazz Chisholm has a vision for changing
the game through the prism of strategy. We making our
way five two bombers with the ghetto persona put and
ketchup on earth things, street fighting pajamas. I swear to
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your honor the Rosby spasm. Don't need NBA two p
for a night or Madden. Just get to the captain,
some late night heroics a night been in triple just
to say that the moment baseball was live when Jimmy
Rollins was holding Royce Lewis still waiting for his superstar moment.
Doctor Sticks had big plans to probamb on the league,
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but this golden Gnam is suffering from fatigue. He'll be
back soon, Like I look for twists and faking the
awful doctor stadiums with movies blazing, Take me.
Speaker 11 (24:50):
Your way way, take it away, No baseball part of me.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Don't take it away.
Speaker 9 (24:58):
Don't take it away, just part of it.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Baseball as a part of me.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Like fighting against this is the billdor oppression and being
selective about the kind of black folks you want in
the game, Like for the Stick Hills of Memphis and Georgia,
where Yo got here and Killer Mike rose out of
inhumanly oppressive situations to become business mobiles and fuel the
dreamer of a talented people of color the streets in
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the eighties. You know what I mean With dudes like
Eric Davis. The Dawns Doorbay rose up out of poverty
and it just started because they were giving a chance
and allowed to be themselves. I mean, baseball should legislator
swag man. It's a beautiful game with enough room for
anybody and what they bring to the game, you know
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what I mean. That concludes another episode of the MLB
Bro Show podcast mixtape for this week. Remember we will
gladly pay you on Tuesday from an NLB bro doubleheader today.
The heart of the game lies in the diversity of
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the game and the spirit of black baseball that dates
back to the legal leagues. ID the Gambler, your friendly
neighborhood diamond checker, making sure that you stay on top
of the game and in touch with the soul of MLB.
See you next week, ladies and sharm we out of
here and drop the mic please,
You are now rocking with the MLB Brochow Podcast The Mixtape,
where we bring you the latest and greatest in Black
and Brown baseball players from the field to the dugout
to the locker room, midnight to high noon to doubleheaders.
In June, we got it covered, so lock in with
the Gambler, d Grubb, Young Correct JP, the rook Og,
(00:24):
Mark Gray, and the Boss the Skipper Rob Parker. Let's
get it.
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You are now entering the world of MLB bro Show
Podcasts the Mixtape. Do not adjust your speakers. What you
are hearing is real. It is the sound of black baseball.
It's not always sunshine and Roses. The Bros Flow from
the Holy Grail, Amanda Moses, the Very Year strategies, we use,
fun on the poses and sherry tail when they've done.
(00:56):
Is now the Mota, The Science of the Pitchstone, Live
in Velocity, The man behind the physical building Methodology. Dave Winfield,
Dave Parker, Dave Roberts, Dave Justice, Dangerous Deep for simple destruction,
Stop stealing signs, stop shooting pistols. Come in to enjoy
the mirror. Cole the bro Ritual. Watch Jimmy Rollins, watch
(01:19):
George Forster. Derek Bell had a spot where he parks Porschell.
Remember when Joe Carter he tore the Norfolk walk off
rings and things those days. Was also MLB bro Show,
So follow us, we hit and a thing out the
park like band Bam Callia. It's not always sun shining roses.
The bro flow from the Holy brother mana Moses Brey,
(01:43):
his strategies we used running on the posers camp cherry
pick when they run, and now the motor the science
of the pitch. Don't buy in velocity, the man behind
the physical building methodology. Strike one, strike two, work this
count like double overtime. Work this clown like the bottom
other than nine. It's not always shining roses. The Bros
(02:05):
flow from the home league growl the Mony, Moses the
Memmy gets struggles that would get a button on them.
Posers can chevy penny when they running down the motor.
MLB Broth Show podcast, the Mixtape catch us every Friday
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It's those classic kids with David grub grow podcast. It's
those classic kids but day Girls show podcast.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
What's up everybody? I'm David Grub and welcome to Week
four of Classic Kids on the MLB Bro Show podcast
The Mixtape. Kim Griffy Junior retired from the big leagues
more than a dozen years ago, but the kid remains
one of the most popular people in and around the game.
This summer, he was part of Team USA's coaching staff
for the World Baseball Classic, pushing the mild mannered Griffy
back into the spotlight. His bat, his glove, and his
(03:11):
smile typically did the talking for Junior, who transcended the
game of baseball and became a cultural icon. His Nike
Air Griffies are considered classic kicks, and Junior remains one
of the few players to have a signature shoot and
their own video game. In nineteen ninety four, he became
the face of Nintendo's King Griffy Junior Presents Major League Baseball.
Just like the baseball world was blown away by Junior's talent,
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the digital world was blown away by the groundbreaking addition
to the sports gaming landscape. I have seen every type
of baseball video game from Atari to MLB the Show,
and there was nothing like what Nintendo and Griffy put
together at that time. While Junior was the only name
in the game. The stats and the stadiums were taken
straight from the majors For the first time. You got
to see what it was like to hit one over
the Green Monster in Boston or off of the Warehouse
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in Baltimore. You could play a full season of up
to one hundred and sixty two games, customize your roster
and keep up to eight stats. The uniforms were accurate,
and the balls and strikes were called by a real
big league umpire, and there was a home run derby.
Nobody had done so much with a baseball game before.
The game broke a lot of new ground and became
incredibly popular, selling more than one point two million copies
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and spawning three more games in the series. For Griffy.
There have been other video game cover athletes, but Griffy
resides in an area code reserved for the greats like
Wayne Gretzky, Tiger Woods, Tony Hawk, and of course John Matten,
who have multiple titles to their credit. Now, with baseball
growing in popularity and touching every corner of the globe,
maybe there's an MLB Brower too who might get their
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own title in the years to come. Until then, King
Griffy Junior remains Baseball's video game in Hall of Famer.
That's my time. I'm David Grubb and this has been
classic Kids. On the MLB Bro podcast.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
Mixtape Going Deep with Og Markray, there.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
Was no player who was bigger in the clubs for
championship teams in Oakland and New York and Reggie Jackson
under the brightest of lights and on the biggest of stages,
mister October was like Tom Brady and Stirrups or better yet,
Brady was Jackson with shoulder pads. On What's up, Folks,
It's the MLB bro Og Mark Gray and I'm going
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Deep for the mixed Team. For all Reggie Jackson's exploits
on the field which to find him as a baseball
legend and Hall of Famer, his exploys off the field
and the Big Apple are second perhaps Dune Derek Jeter,
but for totally different reasons. After Jackson dropped his documentary
Reggie earlier this year, which followed Jeter's late last year,
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Jackson went into his vault to bring back his own
version of a throwback and didn't have to call Mitchell
and Nes to do it. Following nearly a half century
in exile, the concoction of milks, chocolate, peanuts and caramel
has made its triumphant return in the form of the
Reggie bar, even though its shape is more circular. If
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you know anything about the Baby Ruth, the Jackson bars
made with the same ingredients milk, chocolate, caramel and peanuts. Frankly,
when I was younger, it was incredibly delicious and only
cost twenty five cents at the local Potega confectionery or
drug score. The reggie bar was just supposed to be
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nothing more than a novelty candy that got has first
started the Yankees home Opener in nineteen seventy six, but
the gooey richness of this decade intreat proved to be
so popular that it had a six year run before
getting unformally retired in nineteen eighty two. But just like
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everything that was cool black in the day where you
could go down the block to buy one, now you
gotta go travel to the suburbs, like hide Bark from
Long Island, and it's gonna cost you three bucks if
you want them to balk online to order from where
else Amazon Where the retail cars for a box of
twenty four will set you back about sixty eight bucks.
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That's like waiting for the flashing red lights of Krispy
Kreme to come on in Baldwin Hills, Dungewoodie or Silver
Spring to get an overpriced hot donut. Well, that makes
you feel a certain way, but you do it anyhow. Now,
you can't write the story of the Yankees without pages
of legends like Ruth Jackson O Cheetah. But you also
(07:35):
can't write the history of candy endorsement deals in sports
without talking about the Reggie bar as Well. I'm the
mlbog Mark Gray going deep for the mixtape.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
It's the black Aser Pole, the Black Aga Pole, It's
the black as Re Pole, the Black As Reports.
Speaker 7 (08:03):
What's up everybody? This is Justin Patrulli with the Black
Ace Report on the MLB bro Show podcast mixtape. Here's
where you get the latest on the melanated malt marauders
who are shoving with precision and popping out all across
the big leagues. So let's check the report. It's all
green for Hunter Green after he and the Cincinnati Reds
agreed to a six year, fifty three million dollar contract extension.
(08:25):
The Red's either young flame or as one of the
cornerstones for future success, but we'll have to wait a
few extra days to see his next start after he
was pulling in the fourth inning from his last start
due to a bright tibia confusion after getting hit by
a comebacker against the Rays. Pastrow shows dominance early in
the year continued on April seventeenth, as the Oakland A's
were his most recent victim. He pitched six innings, allowing
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two hits and fan five. In all four of his starts,
he has pitched exactly six innings in each of them
and now has an ERA of zero point seventy five.
Tai Jon Walker made another quality start on April nineteenth,
as he allowed two runs over six and a third
innings pitched and has earned his second straight win of
the season. Josiah Gray suffered another tough loss on April eighteenth,
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after only giving up one run in five and he's pitched.
He has given up four runs in his last three
combined starts, but the team hasn't been able to score
a single run during those three games. TODs Briley had
another terrific start for the race and is now two
to zero to start his career. That's the black Aps
report for this week. This is JP the rook now
back to the mix.
Speaker 8 (09:38):
Stanton is really having an issue staying healthy. In the
past few seasons. He's a fantastic player went healthy. He's
one of the top two hitters on the depth shot
for the Yankees this season his fifty two.
Speaker 6 (09:49):
Times that bet.
Speaker 8 (09:50):
He's posted fourteen hits, eleven RBI in a two sixty
nine bat and THEMA. Unfortunately, Stanton has been placed on
an injury list for the tenth times since twenty nineteen.
The notion around the league is his pattern on injuries
each year is becoming more of an expectation from the
PCL tear. It's pretty tough because your lower extremity muscles
have to be exerted more to substitute for that PCF.
(10:12):
He has multiple strains to his hamstrings, quads, calves all
the way down to his the key leads his huge
thirteen year, three hundred and twenty five million dollar contract.
When you make this type of investment in the player
and he misses two hundred and fifty nine games of
the last five hundred and sixty two, which is forty
six point one percent it is kind of worried to him.
A grade two hamstring strain will keep you on the
(10:34):
dugouts nearly for to six weeks. So stand on a
positive note. Hopefully the muscle can get enough rest in
the next two months and we can see it full
healthy send back running at full speed with a clear
piece of mind on his body will be able to
withstand a full MLB regular season.
Speaker 9 (11:02):
Show White players, Balance gets st MB Birds Speakers gets
is she the bruise and Balance Speakers gets.
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The bruise.
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It's the MLB bro show Disciples with brighte moves and
exits of the blosity and power that's moving like the
pilot in the eighties, still pissing babies. Everything cases when
the bros is on the basis that Luke Rockton Anderson
School of New Rock thirty thirty thirty Birds is puzzive
the centric Mullins without the shift. These dudes are straight
poland abusing the side leading pictures in ruins waked up
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in the morning, cat the pistols. That's the biggest speech
that means up ready for VP in that ninety eight
my master of prism, quick like jazz chism, my versatility
with technique like Bond Whizzle. This ain't the NBA with
superstars to gunplay, MV Rose, shoot the shit and turn
the double play, Go Glove, JP Grofford do It, Faded,
Wade air Bender, Devin Williams, Sauces made the bake, put
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it in the oven. You got Andrew McCutcheon a Mookie
Bett's MVP pedigree on his set twenty twenty three. The
brosers in the Punnings when it's twenty of us, they say,
it seems like a hundred MMB bro shows mixtape production, hunting, stunting,
running and gunning. The three outcomes that we smashed like
the Pumpkins. We want all the smoke, we do, all
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the functions. Ricky coming with the spikes. We Kurt flooding
the mic like Jeta in the Ninth Joe and Joe
Carter Back flip for the chip. There's nothing rather than
a bro loading the clip at the stadium, chilling the
batters on grip hop on the maund Complexion Brown, We
really bout it. The sound of black. Frank White's here
to excite. Bluff Topper crowd ducking from the Texas to
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Lapper MLB broke written of course the baseline all hand
Aaron in Heaven, I want to face time all pro
show with broke browers of a game when Phil Tall
and satur Pates made who he best keep winning the
crowds of maids. But O'Neil phild he's not in loving
the game from money, Michael Harvey smoke just like a
challenge our spelt out in Cleveland, Sidley In and Dallas,
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Jos Nader Lee and Taylor Brian a gm Carlos Stanton,
by whom in the Lions Cage, Tommy fanm Drank, Richard
Duffy's wisdom, Let the rhythm hit, Let the gifted lift,
m Letta be broke from gangs, from outfield traps, the
grassroots fields with the futures Blacks will come one galla
around on the mound. It's it's it's the run down.
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Brost Speakers gets in little with heat.
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The bruise back from man m B Ballness get center insures.
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Burrough stubs Speakers gets in little with heat.
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The bruise back from malb.
Speaker 9 (14:05):
War wins ops aera.
Speaker 10 (14:08):
Plus Baseball is a game of stats. I'm sebastianball and
I'm the numbers man. MLB bro Hunter Green has started
the season much better than his traditional stats are giving
him credit for. He's actually been nasty and he's setting
himself up for a big leap in his sophomore season.
The Green Machine is known throughout baseball for his eye
popping fastball velocity, reaching triple digits regularly. However, there's much
(14:32):
more to his game than just he Green has started
the twenty twenty three season with a very strong foundation
as of April lateen maintaining his thirty point nine percent
k rate from twenty twenty two at a thirty point
eight percent clip so far in twenty twenty three, while
lowering his walk rate more than a four percent to
seven point seven percent. The most impressive changes game so
far is the cutdown and home runs allowed, going from
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the sixteen percent home run fly ball rate in twenty
twenty two to just five percent so far this season,
while reduced the fly balls he allows from forty eight
point five percent to forty three point five percent. These
strekout to walk numbers, combined with his home run prevention,
translates to a fielding independent pitching of two point five
which is a huge improvement from the four point three
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to seven of last season. This, along with his ability
to limit hard contact, means he has a scale interactive
ERA of three point four and an expected ERA of
three point three one. And these numbers show how unlucky
he has been so far of an overall ERA of
four point two four. So why has the Green Machine
been an improved pitcher so far? He has increased his
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fastball usage from fifty three point seven percent to fifty
seven point eight percent at the expense of his changeup,
and the hot zones of the fastball all remain in
the upper third of the zone. This, combined with a
slide that has a whopping thirty six point seven percent
with rate, makes for a deadly pitch combo. And here's
how struggled greatly when faced against And that's it. Numbers
(15:56):
never lie. So until the next episode this is Sebastia
involve the numbers Man bringing you the metrics on the
MLB Bros.
Speaker 6 (16:03):
Some well known't like the number man.
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He's the numbers Man mlbbro dot COM's analytical whiz Sebastian.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
Ball Young krit.
Speaker 11 (16:16):
He had to tell you about the bro Bombers.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
He had to tell you about me.
Speaker 6 (16:20):
Drama woke up everybody.
Speaker 13 (16:22):
This is Young krit and this is my weekly countdown
or the biggest plays made by MLB bros over the
past seven days. This week, coming in at number five,
we had Bro Marcus Simmon who's hitting up. He puts
together a nice three game hitting streak over the weekend
and on Sunday, best to the home run to go
along with this for RBI.
Speaker 6 (16:41):
Up next to number four.
Speaker 13 (16:42):
The Vetters back got it again as the Indie MC
country continues to cook. In this return to Pittsburgh, the
Burke got it hit in five of seven games last
week and he hit a home run and it went
over the Cardinals on Saturday. Sitting in the free spot,
We've got fame throwing brow Hunter Green who points out
ten batters and six innings against Atlanta Break. And then
to this week, we had Milwaukee Broys reliever Devin Williams
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who's been lights out for a squad over his last
five audience, He's pitched five scorers, innings, only line one hit,
and punched out ten batters. And finally number one on
Chris countdown, we have Bro Michael A. Taylor who had
a six game hitting street for the Minnesota Twins kills
me in three home runs in that stretch as well,
including two and an eleven to two win over the
New York Gange. And that's it until next week. I'm
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you on Chris And this has been Chris Countdown on
the MLB Bro Show podcast mixtape.
Speaker 6 (17:32):
Now back to the mix ball.
Speaker 14 (17:44):
It was a big week in a big league.
Speaker 10 (17:51):
Is it follow or is it fair?
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And Now from mlbdbro dot com, here's JR. Gamba.
Speaker 14 (18:00):
Minnesota Twins star DH Byron Buckston is mired in a
bad slump coming into Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
He was hindless in his previous fifteen at batch with
eleven strikeouts spanning five games.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Jr.
Speaker 12 (18:18):
Is it foul or fair to say that Buxton is
not slumping.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
He's hurt?
Speaker 6 (18:25):
Fair?
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Also fair ball.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
He's also won for his last nineteen. This might be
a case of Byron Buxton listening to the headlines and
not to his body rob the past few years while
he was injured time and time again, and then he
got that huge one hundred million dollar contract for his
potential and got hurt after and he's been hurt again,
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and then he's only played more than one hundred games
once in his career back in twenty seventeen. He only
played ninety two in two thousand and twenty two, so
we have there's a lot of pressure as the superstar
franchise face of that team along with Carlos Korea. He
also knows the Twins aren't the same playoff contender without him.
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Two weeks ago, Buston smashed his shoulder and faced on
the steeling temper and was shaken up. I was surprised
he stayed in the game. Last week, he had a
nasty collision on the base pass that left him with
the head abrasion and he had to leave the game.
He was actually off to a solid star, but has
not looked right since these two incidents. Buckston slumps like
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everyone else. We also know he's usually a fast starter,
and he's definitely not an eleven K and fifteen at
bats guy when healthy. Something's up there with Buckston and
Minnesota at mbbro dot Comedy to keep an eye in
that situation with Big Bucks and his health.
Speaker 12 (20:00):
Coming into the showdown between show Hey Otani and Aaron
Judge this past week at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx,
people were asking the question, who's the main event, who's
the headliner who gets top billing?
Speaker 14 (20:17):
And of course most people said it was show Hey. Otani.
Of course the two way player. He can pitch, you
can hit. But you must be crazy to think that
Aaron Judge would take a back seat to show Hey.
Speaker 10 (20:32):
I'll give you that.
Speaker 14 (20:33):
When show Hay's pitching, it's a great and a marvel
thing to watch him pitch and hit in the same game.
Speaker 12 (20:40):
Incredible.
Speaker 14 (20:42):
But on a day to day basis, if he's not
pitching and is.
Speaker 12 (20:46):
Show Hey against Judge, are you kidding me?
Speaker 14 (20:49):
Aaron Judge rates he's a top billing kind of guy.
And we saw that Wednesday night. You remember that's when
Judge rob the home run from Otani jumping over the
center field fence in the first inning, and then in
the bottom of the first inning he had a two
run home run. That's right, He's a dual threat in
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the field.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
And at the play.
Speaker 14 (21:16):
Make no mistake about it, Aaron Judge takes no backseat
to anybody in Major League Baseball. Otani's a star in
his own right, but so is Aaron Judge. Don't get
it twisted.
Speaker 12 (21:32):
I'm Rob Parker and that's my rand.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
I mean, we're doing this for them. They need a movement.
It's like the pipeline is flooded with players but advanced
and pass certain levels like a beating against Mike Tyson
and Mike Tyson punch out that I'm saying, the water
Temple the legend is Zelda level. So we had to
pour into these players and promote them as as much
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as possible with our talents. I love for the game
a better reason where we played the dream, we see
through the talents of our sons and daughters. We get
these black players a chance to be heard and seen.
Because despite the push for diversity in the game, Umby's
at the NLB level of doing list. So nobody should
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be walking around thinking they don't need our help. We
are frontlining this Black Baseball movement. If you're black and
you play baseball or culture, manage and hold a position
where you influence the future of the game, that you
owe it to the community to help nurture the black
generation of baseball players. Same way we do a MB
broke with our staff for over sixty young people between
the ages of eighteen and fifty five. We have every
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generation covered and our mission is to help shine a
light on our mess, talents and struggles and triums to
black baseball players. Man, come on, man and normalize the
culture so that we can support not only players diverse
and colors, but diverse the personalities, beliefs, interests, up bringing.
We gotta win. We gotta win, and we're gonna be
(23:05):
the mouthpiece and I'll be bro that brings attention to greatness.
They just gotta step away from it every day and tapping.
Speaker 11 (23:15):
I was a cat playing in the back streets almost
every day, and I made my way. Baseball's the game
to play, hit the field and take a couple of swings,
stole and base.
Speaker 5 (23:33):
Culture.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
But I was a part of Don't take it away,
don't take it away. That's baseball part of me.
Speaker 11 (23:44):
Don't take it away, take it away.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
It's a part of me.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Yo, you can't take baseball from me. It's a part
of me. You got damn dummy. Some have tried and
something to hit.
Speaker 7 (23:59):
This is the run down.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Next is the classic hits. George Springer had five hits
on opening day. Dave Roberts keeps winning like he's supposed
to be. Great Jazz Chisholm has a vision for changing
the game through the prism of strategy. We making our
way five two bombers with the ghetto persona put and
ketchup on earth things, street fighting pajamas. I swear to
(24:21):
your honor the Rosby spasm. Don't need NBA two p
for a night or Madden. Just get to the captain,
some late night heroics a night been in triple just
to say that the moment baseball was live when Jimmy
Rollins was holding Royce Lewis still waiting for his superstar moment.
Doctor Sticks had big plans to probamb on the league,
(24:41):
but this golden Gnam is suffering from fatigue. He'll be
back soon, Like I look for twists and faking the
awful doctor stadiums with movies blazing, Take me.
Speaker 11 (24:50):
Your way way, take it away, No baseball part of me.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Don't take it away.
Speaker 9 (24:58):
Don't take it away, just part of it.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Baseball as a part of me.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Like fighting against this is the billdor oppression and being
selective about the kind of black folks you want in
the game, Like for the Stick Hills of Memphis and Georgia,
where Yo got here and Killer Mike rose out of
inhumanly oppressive situations to become business mobiles and fuel the
dreamer of a talented people of color the streets in
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the eighties. You know what I mean With dudes like
Eric Davis. The Dawns Doorbay rose up out of poverty
and it just started because they were giving a chance
and allowed to be themselves. I mean, baseball should legislator
swag man. It's a beautiful game with enough room for
anybody and what they bring to the game, you know
(25:59):
what I mean. That concludes another episode of the MLB
Bro Show podcast mixtape for this week. Remember we will
gladly pay you on Tuesday from an NLB bro doubleheader today.
The heart of the game lies in the diversity of
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the game and the spirit of black baseball that dates
back to the legal leagues. ID the Gambler, your friendly
neighborhood diamond checker, making sure that you stay on top
of the game and in touch with the soul of MLB.
See you next week, ladies and sharm we out of
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