October 23, 2020 • 56 mins
Doug Gottlieb explains what the Philadelphia Eagles proved to the NFL world on Thursday night and says the New York Jets will hold off on firing Adam Gase until after the season! Yankees 1B Luke Voit joins the show to preview World Series Game 3. Plus, is it time to view Derek Carr as an elite quarterback?
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Welcome in. We got a World Series game tonight. We
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got Big ten football kicking off tonight. We got a
huge college and pro football weekend up coming. We got
a lot to get to. Uh. Let me let me
begin with this. You know there's this six Russian and
John Robinson. I think you can. I think you get
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a test to it. In parenting, the days are long,
but the years go fast, right, that is correct. I
don't ever think nobody ages you more or tells you
that the time by the time fly by is fast
than children. Okay, let me let me play something to
see if this I'll turn up your mic alright, I
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care off. I never get back a party. Gods it say, don't.
It's a shame for app out of the game with
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the Macaronian cheese is important. Okay, that was That was
seven years ago. Oh today. We were cheering for the
Cardinals because my good friend Matt Holiday was playing for
the Cardinals. You remember, uh that was the second World
Series I think he had played, and they had one previously.
I'm gonna say like two thousand and eleven when they
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beat the Texas Rangers. He actually didn't play in game seven,
got hurt in Game six, hurt his wrist and they
were down the last strike twice. Remember that was David
Freeze was the was the MVP of that World Series. Anyway,
I mentioned it because, like I remember that at the time,
I was living in like just down the street from
where I lived now, in a rental house that we
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actually came back and rented when we moved back here.
I remember my son sitting on my lap like that
feels like maybe not yesterday, but it feels like six
months ago, a year ago. It's seven years ago, you
know now. My Now, I literally watched baseball with my
son and he went through this pattern where he didn't
like watching games. It was two. Now he's back kind
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of watching and talking about and talking about pitches and
like it's a completely different experience, but it's seven years ago.
Like my sounds eleven. Now my daughters are fourteen. I
have two daughters in high school. The days when you're
a parent, there are some days you're like, oh my god,
is this the thirty six hour day? Is this a
forty hour day? If you haven't done the parenting thing yet.
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Here's generally the way it works, right. My kids don't
sleep in They have never been great, huge long, deep sleepers,
late sleepers. You know. Now one of them kind of
will kind of lay in bed all day if you
let her. But you know, when you're when they're little kids,
like they get up at six six thirty and then
they're doing stuff and once once they get out of
the nap thing, like they're up and you kind of
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got a manage them. Just it's like a you know,
like a goat rodeo up until like eight o'clock at night,
eight thirty at night. Then they go to bed and
then you wake up. You do it again. You're like
hamster on a wheel it's a tough deal, but you'll
miss those days when they're gone, you know. Now I
have one that she has friends that pick her up
and they take her here, and they take her there,
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and like some of it's cool, but someone's like, hey,
I kind of actually like I we started to be
able to watch movies together and hang out together, and
now you're never here. The days are long, but the
years are fast, years ago, really fast. I point that
out because last night I was I was watching the
Eagles play, and I was thinking also about the Odell
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Beckham Jr. U wine Fest, where he's clearly trying to
get traded and using his the friends he has in
the media to to claim that he's being there's some
unfair double standard. There is a double standard. It is
not unfair, um. And I realized that the days are long,
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but the season is actually long. That it's the opposite
maybe in football, where that the days the games go fast,
but the season it is long. I tell college basketb players,
I gotta when I go to a practice and I'm
gonna I'm gonna make some rounds this year and go
and watch teams practice, watch teams work out. I love it.
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I love the spirit. I hated practice when I was
in college this time of year because you've been working
out with your teammates for a while, and you know
it's once you know the offense and the things you're doing.
It's a little bit of hamster on the wheel, and
you know you may play a scrimmage, but you're playing
against the same guys. He's like, give me some new
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competition to play. So I gotta tell you I see things.
I see it different when it's a football team, different
when it's a basketball team. And I tell kids this
all the time, like, look, you just stay with it
and you're going to get your shot. The season is long.
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Normally a college basketball season is only five months long.
You know this year, we nobody knows how long it's
gonna go. But five months seems quick until you realize
you play games starting in November. You end games playing
in March or in April, and all of those games
somebody gets hurt, somebody gets suspended, somebody gets in the doghouse.
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You're gonna get your opportunity. Well, the same goes for
the National Football League. What do they what's the expressions?
Water finds its level? I watched the Eagles come from
behind last night, and granted, everybody's making fun of Daniel
Jones tripping over the thirty yard line, it was funny.
I should point out that one of the things are
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missed is Daniel Jones is running, by dudes, that guy
is a great athlete. I heard a friend I'm not
gonna name names, who hosts the radio show, who was like, yeah,
I look like an uncle at a barbecue, you know,
running and he's drunk. And he's like, no, no, uncle
runs a four five and is running away from defensive backs. Yes,
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he tripped and fell and it was embarrassing, but that
dude's got some wheels. But the point is that instead
of giving up on the Eagles season when they had
that disastrous start and they had a surefire win and
then all their offensive lineman went down and people were
down on Carson Wentz and some were suggesting that you
go and turn to jail and Hurts and you have him,
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you know, and you have him play for you go
with the young kid and you run a more simple
offense and and now the season's long, dude, And instead
of having in fighting and quotes of guys that don't
like the way that Carson Wentz is playing, or the
fourth down play call that Doug Peterson called. Instead, the
Eagles figured they woke up today like, hey, we're two
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four and one, well right there in first place in
the NFC East. We're gonna get healthier. Carson Wentz is
playing better, our defensive front is still pretty good. The
Cowboys are miss the Giants can't win any of these
close games, and the Redskins have no chance. Like this
is Carson Wentz after the game, the same thing that
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I echo every game when we're down here, just keep believing,
just one play at a time, and the big play
is gonna hit. It's gonna happen. And John had the
big one on that first drive, and obviously Boston the
second drive, and guys just keep believing and keep rallying together.
And that's what it's gonna take to win a lot
of these ball games. It's it's really true. It's a
it's a it's a cliche, right, you know, or it's
a it's actually so don't stop thinking about tomorrow, right right, like,
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but it's you know, um, what's the what's the other one? Um?
What's the when the White Sox used when they won
the World Series, right, not don't stop believing, don't by journey, right,
don't stop believing by journey. But the the idea is
still the same, like, look, it's a long seeing, the
games are long, there are there is time to make comebacks,
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believe it or not. And if you keep the faith,
if you keep believing in each other and what you're doing,
and you have a coaching staff that figures it out, like,
that's part of what's happened here. I that was the
reason I know the Eagles didn't cover. But my logic
behind the Eagles winning last night was I watched them
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against the Ravens kind of same thing where they couldn't
have looked worse in the first half, but clearly they
got together at halftime and said, well, if we do this,
this and this, we'll start to move the ball. We'll
take some deep shots, we'll find some mismatches cars, you
can throw it up to our bigger wide receivers and
let's make some place. And damn, they should have tied
that game. One bad play call on a read option,
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you know, and they had a bad staff and he
runs into his running back, but they don't have their
running back they don't have their tight end, they don't
have their top two wide receivers, they don't have their
offensive lineman, and you know what, they just kept playing
and so much kind of the opposite of parenting, where
the days are are long but the years go quick.
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This year is gonna be long long. You know. It
started with some guys opting out. Then you had teams
not really ready to play because of the lack of
preseason games no O t A s. You had massive,
massive injuries. You know, last two drives Carson Wentz five
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for seven d two pass yards are twenty one past yards,
two touchdowns, hundred fifty three point three pass rating, Like
I think Carson Wentz is terrific. I think the Eagles
have their quarterback, and I get that Doug Peterson cannot
be a little bit all over the map. But if
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you've watched the past couple of weeks, they're figuring it out.
The ability to adjust on the fly, the ability to say, hey,
that game plan we came in with was wrong, this
is the right way. That's the stuff that wins you
games in the long run. The long play is the
smart play. So I don't know if you want to
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go don't stop believing or whatever it is. But but
I think I think the games are long, and this
year is long, and this year is long, and instead
of soaking it up and enjoying it because it will
be gone into heartbeat much the way that your child,
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kid's childhood is, I think you just got to look
at the big picture instead of the short term picture.
Not to freak out over one loss, not to freak
out over one one weird play. Be sure to catch
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you don't remember, like A J. Brazinski. This is like
their the their theme song. I know this when this
this was actually the theme song for Clinton when he
when on re election campaign, not his election. I saw
him speaking Santa Barbara. I was in high school. I
got in the car my high school girlfriend and I
we drove up to UM Santa Barbara City College and
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he he spoke and he was, I mean, jam me
to this song. But he was definitely doing white Man's over,
you know, not quite as not quite as uncomfortable as
as Trump the other day without Yeah, it was a
tough one, you know, but I mean like, look, uh,
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you know you're seventy one year old. Seventy one year old,
you know, white golf dude. Like that's that's it was
every cliche ever, right. What was Mark Batson's problem? Remember
him and the Lakers dance parade? Matson? Yeah, he he
didn't have any a lot going on there neither. He
was a lot younger than either. Yes, no, no, no excuse,
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no excuse, I mean bad parenting. That's what it is.
Mark's a beautiful guy. He's a great human being. Was
real quick my Mark Matson story. So I three different
offseasons I got it was like on some level training
with the Lakers. One year, I was on the summer
league team. Um, all three years, I would be in this.
They'd have this um like free agent mini camp the
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week or two weeks before they were going to Hawaii
for their actual camp. I never made the camp, okay,
but the guy organization was great and I got to like,
you know, he ended up getting to know kind of
everybody in there. And mad Dog was there all three years,
and you know, at the time he still he drove
a white minivan. He was just the greatest, you know,
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this kind of guy that you'd work out. You'd have
a practice and you work out. And because mad Dog
was on the team and playing only really he played
a little bit with us in Devin George rather than that,
but he like, you know, he was making better money
than the rest of us, and he like, you guys
want to go to lunch, and you know, he go
down the street to the sandwich shop, take you in
his minivan and pick up and drop you off of
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your hotel which is right next to practicaility. Just a
nice guy. It's not I mean, honestly, most pro athletes,
especially down the pecking order. Derek Fisher's the great dudes
like Fish would come in there at the time and
know he's a starting point guard of the NBA champion Lakers,
and you know, you want to get lifted, you wanna
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get some shots up. And we had a mutual friend
Adrian Peterson, who I played with um in college at
Ocahoma States from North Little Rock and they grew up
through the same Arkansas Wings a you program. Why think
Fish as dad coached anyway, So I mean, so we
had like a loose connection, but really good people. Most
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professional athletes are really good people. And what it's It's
interesting because when I lash out at an Odell Beckham Jr.
Most guys like, yeah, he's like, you're a terrible teammate
if when your team is born to two you just
lost the game and three you're making about yourself. Um.
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But but one of the reasons that I'm so bothered
by it is I not like most dudes are really
good dudes. And I don't think Odell Beckham Jr. Is
a bad dude per se. He's just kind of the
classic cliche super selfish wide receiver that thinks everything every
game revolves around his happiness and success. And that's not
even close to accurate. But my experience with pro athletes
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is most of them are really good guys because they've
they're not only from different backgrounds, but they people they
play with it from different backgrounds, and in order to
be successful, unlike like tennis players, you have to learn
to work with people. It's there's a group of young
NBA players that I think are struggling with this because
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they've kind of been bubble boys where their dads have
raised them to be NBA stars. And they are in
terms of you know, Michael Porter Jr. Trey Young's like
this where their dads have been a little bit overprotective
to keep them away from some of the illicit elements
of sport. But because they've done that, they haven't been
around people enough each other. But like not around various teams.
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They don't have sleepovers when their kids like, there's a
certain whereas most of the guys I came into contact with,
I gotta tell you I really like and I still
do really like them. I don't know how I got
on that tangent. When a train is a vehicle or
a railway crossing, the results are often deadly. Be cautious
at crossings, and if the signals are going, don't be
tempted to try and sneak across the tracks even if
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you don't see a train stop. Trains can't paid for
by NITZA. The Jets don't have anybody on staff who
has a legit shot at at at being the next
head coach. Right so I believe my guess is that
Joe Douglas is not going to make a coaching change
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right now. I do think eventually he'll make a coaching
change Um, but I don't think it's right now, and
I do think it will happen eventually. And here's the logic,
and I mean not only happened eventually, but happened before
the season is done. You're like, wait, why would they
make an in season coaching change and not make it now.
The reason you make it before the season ends is
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you want They're gonna want Woody Johnson when he comes
back from from Ireland or whatever. You're they're going to
investigate various candidates, Maybe go see them coach in person,
go talk to people, meet with people, really making a
well rounded search to find who the right guy is,
because it's pretty obvious Adam Gates is not Joe Dougs.
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But you can't do that when you have a current
head coach. You can. But when that gets back to people,
it just looks bad. So when I look at the
Jets and I think, Okay, well, is he coaching for
his job this week because they're coaching against the Buffalo Bills,
I don't think the answer is yes. Um, my guests
would be it's you're talking about the last three or
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four games of the season. So at O N six,
you got you know, they're not beating Kansas City next
week doubtful in terms of New England the week after that,
then they have a bye Could you make a coaching change?
Then you could, But do you want to reward Greg Williams?
Is that what you want to do? Like the defense
has been bad and he's not. He can be seen
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as a bit of a divisive force. Um. I don't
know if you guys know this, but I mean, listen
to the Jets schedule at the end of the season.
Raiders at Seahawks at Rams, Brown's at New England. I mean,
you're gonna take over his interim coach. You're not gonna
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win any games. So my guess is that if they
were to make a change, you can do the bye week,
give a guy legit chance, or more likely you know
you do it, you do it sometime during that tumultuous
run in December. That way, it gives you a chance
to really go out and explore who the possibilities are.
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gott Leap Show we days at three p m. Easter
noon Pacific. What Up Doug Otlive Show, Fox Sports Radio.
I hope you are having a splended day. We're getting
you ready for tonight's World Series? Is Game three already? Right?
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I did kind of mentally, in all honesty skip over
Game two. I think a lot of Dodger fans did.
They're like, oh, yeah, Kershaw was good. We're good, Like, yeah,
that's not actually the how it works. You have to
win four times, not just one. Um, but like, look,
this is this is a really interesting series. So so tonight,
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and I completely understand because in many ways, like I'm
I'm with you on a little bit different scale, Like
I'm obviously a huge sports fan, but you know, I like,
look your bandwidth. You can only bring in so many sports.
So maybe you got back into looking at the NBA,
and then you had the NFL and need a fantasy
team plus heed your kids, you're like, uh, and you
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wanted to keep up with baseball be like you know,
baseball bubble, or maybe you're totally into the baseball thing. Um,
So tonight there's a good pitching matchup, really really good. Um,
it's really good because the best picture for the Dodgers
starts tonight. Right. Walker Bueler, what a great name. So
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Walker Bueler has had this blister problem and apparently the
blister problem really appears, really rears its ugly head on
his slider, you know who. It actually give us a
little bit better perspective on the blister problem of Yeah,
a guy who's played Major League Baseball plays for the Yankees.
Luke Void First Basement, New York Yankees, joins us in
the Doug Otlip Show. You're on Fox Sports Radio. First, Luke,
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how are you. I'm doing good man, everything's going well. Um, well,
i'd be better if you as you're playing in the
World Series. No, yeah, slightly disrespect like everybody wanted Dodgers Yankees,
and then you get you what's it do do you watch?
I mean, I just I remember in basketball when we
be beaten and the tournament was going on, like hard
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to watch. Do you watch? I've watched a little bit,
but same, you know, especially it's nice to having football
and you know, it feels like it's almost on every night. Um,
it's always games getting rescheduled. So I'm a huge football fans,
so it's nice to watch that and get in my
mind off it. But yeah, for sure, you know, it
takes a while to get interest. But you know, with
social media now it's hard not to you know, see
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what the score is or what big hits happened in it,
you know through Twitter and Instagram stuff. So um, but yeah,
I'm I'm I'm kind of off it, dude. It's you know,
once you baseball teams over so long, you just you
want to, you know, get away from it. Why were
you so incredible this season? Like it all? I mean,
twenty two home runs in fifties six games is just ridiculous.
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And to see, I'm sure part of it you're gonna
say is, look, I got the at bats. You know,
I haven't got a chance to get this this many
But but what was it that just clicked for you?
You know, I'm just I think I'm just growing, man.
I've just taken a lot of information in and you know,
my body, I'm learning, you know, my swing and um,
you know, I'm just you're turning more as a person
and growing and um, you know, you know, I'm turning
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into a more student of the game. And you know,
I'm keep an open mind to different things and talking
to guys you know, as players are coaches, and I'm
just trying to get better. Man. I'm a blue collar
guy and I have always been like that, and I
do whatever I can to get better, and um, there
are some things I worked on. You know. I always
finished with one hand, but this year I started finishing
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with two hands too, to get better extension with the ball,
and I think that helped me. But hit had better
spin on the ball, and you know, instead of those
doubles and fly balls, I was hitting more homers this year.
And um see, I thought, I thought rod a rod
brought in the one hand finished. I thought the one
hand finished was the home run finished? Why is that now?
It's now everything's going back. Now we're going to the
two hand finishes. Hit a lot more home runs than
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if so whatever works. But again, he did not hit
two and fifty six games. Yeah, but his career is
pretty pretty impressive. But I mean, you got you got
guys like Craig Counsel, who did amazing you know, and
the guy hit with his hands to two ft above
his head. And then you guys like Jeff Bagwada you know,
hit you know, and he had the widest stance I've
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ever seen. So I mean, everything works in baseball, man. Yeah,
Um okay, uh, Wildwood, Missouri, um kind of a border town. Whatever,
you're and you were a big football player as well
as baseball player, and you're big dude, six three to
your little league was what was like Wildwood? It was
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like Wildwood little league? Was there a different name for it?
I played Slava baseball. I was like travel baseball called
Sat Louis Redbirds. All right, Sat Louis Redbirds. And did
you always play first? Huh? We're like, hey, you staf,
you know, yeah, you know, I I gotta. I got
a son who does the the pony pony stuff, but
now it's he's moved all to to club. Were you
always the first baseman? No? I played first when I
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was growing up, when I was widow, and then um,
I caught when I was in high school and that's
what end up getting me drafted by the Royals, and
then caught in college, and then I caught my first
very good. So they've made me. You miss catching? I
just I used to love catching, Like you control see
the whole game first. First is a little similar in
terms of the amount of times you're you're kind of
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involved in the play. But do you miss catching? Yeah,
like you said, I missed the mental side of it,
you know, just figuring out the hitter and trying to
get him out and then it's a chess match. And
but I'll tell you one thing, my knees don't miss
it at all. In my body feels better without catching
all the time. But there's parts of it you miss.
But you know, I think I made the right decision
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or I guess the Cardinals did by not let me
catch anymore. Yeah, it's it's interesting because going up so
close and playing for you know, essentially the Cardinals when
you're in the a U, and then coming up through
their system and playing for the for the Cardinals, now
you're with the Yankees. What are the two organizations like
to play for? Like compare and contrast? Um, you know,
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the Cardinals always have you know, everyone says the Cardinal's way.
They're just very um, you know, strict and what they
want and they developed players at a very good level.
They've always try to They always seen the find guys,
you know, hidden gyms, and you know, everybody's on the
same team. Everybody wants to win. But I mean I
go to the Yankees and they have you know, twice
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as much and more, you know, and they know how
to win man and um, you know, It's obviously different
styles of ball in in the n L and a L.
But you know, obviously now everyone has the dah and stuff.
But um, I just like the I didn't really feel
it in saying Louis as much as I do with
New York. Is just the camaraderie and how guys on
locker room and you know, the leadership that was over there.
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And that's both you know, in the in the front office,
you know, coaches and with teams. You know, with all
those guys that you know, all those championships they've won
in the last you know, thirty years, and they just
keep that tradition going and going and going. And you know,
those guys still stick around and show up for spring
training and show up during the season to help you
and to try to make you a better baseball player.
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So it's something that always has been great to me.
And what the Yankees have done to provide me with
you know, such a huge, um you know, analytical side
and that with everything I need to become a better
player is something that I steel like the Cardinals a
little bit beyond. Yeah, that's it's that's it's that's that's interesting.
Um Luke Void joining a US Doug Gotlip Show, Fox
Sports Radio. Sorry if I'm bounce around. There's like when
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I knew we were having you on, there's so many
things I want to ask you. Um, I want to
ask you about DJ and you, like you mentioned how
you're you're taking in all this information and changing and
evolving your swing. Um to the layman, how because he's
he leads the league and hitting. You lead league in
home runs and he you guys both had amazing seasons.
What what do you when you watch his swing? What
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and you take from it that you kind of like, oh,
I like that, I want to add that to what
I do or or is it just body types so different?
Like when you watch DJ, what do you see the
only guy in baseball doesn't get shifted. He's the guy
that like, if you're hitting behind him and he and
there's two outs, you know you're gonna get the beat.
It's crazy. Um, It's his routine is so simple. But
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it's the same thing every day, which is something that
I try to emulating. That's something I took from him.
I mean, well, that's the same. He's the same thing
for breakfast, he gets the same coffee every day. He
shows at the same time he goes to the same routine.
I mean, there's a reason we call him the Machine
is because the guy is literally a machine and the
guy freaking races, Um, you know what. And the you know,
the best thing that I can give him a compliment
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to is he's the same person every day. You know.
I know it's a really easy cop out for someone,
but you guysn show emotion. You know, he's always gonna
show up. He's gonna, you know, work his butt off,
and um, it's it's impressive to see what he does.
I mean, I grew up watching the original Machine and
Albert Poohos. It's pretty cool watching him play too. And
you know, two years ago I get to be on
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the first base of him. And you know, I used
to watch him hit when I was like thirteen or
fourteen in the same batting cages. But it's impressive, how
you know, even though it's sixty games and last year,
I mean, he won't two batting titles and two batties
I was both of each league. It's it's it's unbelievable, man,
I mean, it's um, it's fun to watch. He's a
great dude to talk to you because he's a guy
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that's like just when if it's like in the third ending,
we'll sit there and we'll talk about the picture and stuff.
It's just crazy information the guy can see and what
he what he knows is coming, and what he looks for. Um,
all right, Charlie Morton, when you when you get into
the box, Charlie Morton, would what do you see, Charlie Morton?
If it's he's got a nasty slider. Um, if it's
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it starts front hip, you let her, you let it rip.
But then he's also got the command to throw backdoor sinkers,
which you can never give up on. Um. And then
he's got a little cutter two to keep you off
balances everything. But you know, Charlie's one of those guys
that doesn't make a lot of mistakes. You know, in
his curveball is one of those pitches that he always
usually locates it off the plate or it's a strike.
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You know, it doesn't leave a lot of balls over
the middle of place. So UM. One thing too, is
he's trying to pitch more up in his own so
you know he's trying this. We can sneak those you know,
sinkers down and then and he's an old school pitcher man,
He's gonna brush you off in a little bit to
try to get the away pitcher. You know, he's his numbers.
You know, when he gets deep into counts, he's better
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than early in the the counts. On the other hand, the
Dodgers are are known for a let's let you know,
we we want the run up that pitch count. So
knowing that when you're sitting the hitters meeting and you
see that, like, are you taking an earlier opportunity when
you see something or are you still trying to stick
to your philosophy of running out the pitch count. I mean,
(29:53):
I think the goal every time is to get into
the bullpen. And even though I know the Raids bullpen
is good, I mean you want to learn him out,
especially like in a seven game series, so you know
they don't have as many bullets left towards the end
of it. So for sure, Um, but again, you know,
in my opinion, and as a hitter, I'm you know,
everybody knows I'm an aggressive hitter, and you know, if
there's something there to hit, man, I'm let dat. So
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um talker is gonna attack his own with that stuff.
And I know Charlie is too, but you can also
you know I've seen him both, you know in the
third fourth inning have seventy pitches too, So it's it's
a chess game in But um, you gotta do what
you gotta do, and you gotta do your homework, and
you know, see how he's feeling because you know he
could go out there and can put pitch completely different
(30:34):
than what your game plan was. Luvoid joining us dot
got lip show, Fox Sports Radio first base in leath
the American League in home runs twenty two and fifty
six games. Remarkable, remarkable stuff. Um, we were talking about
Bellie's home run in game seven. Then he hit one
in game one, but the game seven is like he's
left handed, you know, he gives a little cock of
the walk look and struts and it's just the coolest look.
(30:56):
What is that feeling like? Like? What is what is
it like a Yankee stadium to hit a bomb? Uh,
it's um like Christmas morning? Then, Um, it's like especially
when I get the loop chance and I'm running around
and you know it's a big game, you know, whether
it's Boston or Tampa, whoever we're playing. Um, there's nothing
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that beats him, man. And you know, I'm sure it
was pretty cool for those guys who actually get to
play in front of fans this here and you know,
get to do that, experience that. And you know I
came up, you know, playing against him and the daughter's
organization of the monors too, and he's a he's impressive
that you could tell at a younger age that he's
going to be an m VP caliber player. And um,
but yeah, when you're not on the ball, and it's
there's no better feeling then better on at home or
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on the road, because I do think like at the
whole on the road, like you're in your in Fenway, right,
and I know you didn't have fans this year obviously,
but like when they're they're yelling again and all of
a sudden it goes silent and then you just hear
it like hit against something or somebody catches it and
tries to throw it back. Better at home when they
go crazy and cheering your name, or better on the road,
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it's the best when you get to take the leader.
It's in the playoffs, so um it is. It is
pretty cool though, like you know, because um, you all
you hear is your boys're streaming yelling too, so when
you hit a homer and on, the crowd goes quiet.
So it's it doesn't matter. Man home runs are great
whether there's no fans, fans were playing in Japan, London
(32:24):
or wherever. Man home runs are homers and college. I
got one more for you. We were talking earlier. I
don't know if you saw this Army Navy game is
being moved on campus to West Point. You know your
brother was captain of the You used to beat up
on your brother. You were not a good big brother.
Used to pummel him and noogie him, and you hold
him down, you do the I'm sure you did the
(32:44):
spit thing where would come down right in front of him,
the slipper slipper back up. He became captain of of
of the Army football team. To somebody, who, what does
that like? To watch your little brother play for Army
at West Point like that, Scott, I was trying to
tell the guys I've in there. It's an amazing place. Yeah,
I think the Army game is one of the funnest,
if not the best football game ever been to my life.
(33:06):
I think it's beat the Super Bowl that just with
how much those guys care and how much those guys
want to win, and you know they only get you know,
a couple of years of it, and those guys will
beat the snot out of you. Man, It's impressive. And
what my brother did you know? You know, about a month?
So it's stuff form minute always always get their ass.
(33:35):
Uh Okay, So tell me what you're doing with the
mobile TM mobiles donating And I mean if you were playing,
obviously they'll be donating lots of money. But ten dollars
per home run to the T Mobile Little League Call
Up Grant program? How does it work? Yeah? So I'm
I'm happy to be a team Mobile. There a very
dynamic and innovative brand and you know, I've had a
(33:55):
lot of fun working on them during this and you
see one in five kids that you know don't have
a chance to play little anymore just because of financial
stuff and you know everything going on with COVID, and
you obviously mentioned the ten thousand dollars per home run.
And then if you text literally to three one, three
on three or one team I will donate five dollars
to support a local grant recipient in your community. So
(34:17):
these donations are awesome, and you know, I think it's
huge because you know, I can't I couldn't imagine being
a little kid not being on to play a little
you know, baseball or you know, going out with the boys,
you know, uh, you know, for a little road trip
and playing somewhere around your city. So I hope everyone
can donate a little bit and um, you know, let
these families let their kids, you know, girl boy play.
So it's um, that's an awesome thing. Um and uh,
(34:38):
you know, let the let the look the what young
ones played. Luke, congrats on a great season. Thanks so
much for joining us and sharing with us so much
your baseball knowledge. Really appreciate it. Yeah, you're welcome, man,
good looking, uh said, all right, that's Luke Voit stud
for the New York Yankees. Twenty two home runs in
fifty six games. Go ahead. You can do the math
(35:00):
of what that looks like with a D sixty two.
That's not hard math. You're like, he did what, Yeah,
that's exactly what he did. Yes. And to have Stanton
and um uh Aaron Judge on the same team and
you're out hit him when home runs, that's gotta be awesome. Yes, well,
they're all big, like he's he's like six three two
I think you know, Stanton's like six five six six, right,
(35:23):
Judges like six eight. Like, these dudes are monsters. They
are monsters, absolute monsters. What what did Aaron call him? Savages?
My guys are savages up there? He's there savages? Yes, yes,
they are, they are savages. Fox Sports Radio has the
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listen live. A guy who's played Major League Baseball plays
for the Yankees. Luke Void first Basement, New York Yankees,
joins us in the Doug Gotlip Show. You're on Fox
Sports Radio. Uh first, Luke, how are you? I'm doing
good man, everything's going well. Um well, I'd be better
(36:07):
if you guys are playing in the World Series. No, yeah,
slightly disrespect like everybody wanted Dodgers Yankees and then you
gets you what's it do do you watch? I mean,
I just I remember in basketball when we be beaten
and the tournament was going on, like hard to watch?
Do you watch? I watched a little bit, but same
(36:28):
you know, especially it's nice to having football on. You know,
it feels like it's almost on every night. Um, it's
always games getting rescheduled. So I'm a huge football fans,
so it's nice to watch that and get my mind
off it. But yeah, for sure, you know, it takes
a lot to get interest. But you know, with social
media now, it's hard not to you know, see what
the score is or what big hits happened in it,
you know, through Twitter and Instagram stuff. So um, but yeah,
(36:50):
I'm I'm I'm kind of off it, dude. It's you know,
once your baseball teams over so long, you just you
want to, you know, get away from this. Why were
you so incredible? This seas like it all. I mean,
twenty two home runs in fifty six games is just ridiculous.
And obviously I'm sure part of it you're gonna say is, look,
I got the at bat. You know, I haven't got
(37:12):
a chance to get this this manty. But but what
was it that just clicked for you? You know, I'm
just I think I've just growing, man, I've just taken
a lot of information in and you know, my body
I'm learning, you know, my swing and um, you know,
I'm just you're turning more as a person and growing
and um, you know, you know, I'm turning into a
more student of the game. And you know, I'm keep
(37:34):
an open mind to different things and talking to guys
you know, as players are coaches. And I'm just trying
to get better. Man, I'm a blue collar guy and
I have always been like that, and I do whatever
I can to get better. And um, there are some
things I worked on. You know, I always finished with
one hand, but this year I started finishing with two
hands too, to get better extension with the ball, and
I think that helped me. But hit had better spin
(37:56):
on the ball, and you know, instead of those doubles
and fly balls, I was hitting more homers this year.
And um see, I thought I thought rod a rod
brought in the one hand finished. I thought the one
hand finished was the home run finished? Why is that? Now?
It's now everything's going back. Now we're going to the
two hand finishes. Hit a lot more home runs than
I fit, so whatever works. But again, he did not
hit twenty two and fifty six games. Yeah, but his
(38:21):
career is pretty pretty impressive. But I mean, you got
you got guys like Craig Counsel, who did amazing, you know,
and the guy hit with his hands two ft above
his head, and then guys like Jeff Bagwada you know,
hit you know, and he had the widest stands I've
ever seen. So, I mean everything works in baseball, man. Yeah,
um okay, uh. Wildwood, Missouri, um kind of a border town.
(38:44):
Whatever you're and you were a big football player as
well as baseball player, and you're big dude, six three
to your little league was what was like Wildwood? It
was like Wildwood little League? Was there a different name
for it? I played Slava baseball. I was like travel
by small called San Louis Redbirds, all right, Sat Louis Redbirds.
And did you always play first? Huh? We're like you stuff,
(39:07):
you know? Yeah, you know, I I gotta. I got
a son who does the the pony pony stuff. But
now it's he's moved all to club. Were you always
the first baseman? No? I played first when I was
growing up, when I was widow, and then um, I
caught when I was in high school and that's end
up getting me drafted by the Royals, and then caught
in college and then I caught my first, very good.
(39:28):
So they made me you miss catching? I just I
used to love catching, like you control see the whole
game first. First is a little similar in terms of
the amount of times you're you're kind of involved in
to play. But do you miss catching? Yeah, like you said,
I missed the mental side of it, you know, just
figuring out the hitter and trying to get him out
and then it's a chess match. And but I'll tell
(39:50):
you one thing, my knees don't miss it at all.
In my body feels better without catching all the time.
But there's parts of it you miss. But you know,
I think I made the right decision. Are I guess
the Cardinals did by not let me catch any more? Yeah,
it's it's interesting because going up so close and playing
for you know, essentially the Cardinals when you're in the
a U, and then coming up through their system and
(40:12):
playing for the for the Cardinals now you're with the Yankees.
What are the two organizations like to play for? Like
compare and contrast? Um, you know, the Cardinals always have
you know, everyone says the Cardinal's way. They're just very um,
you know, strict and what they want and they developed
players at a very good level. They've always try to
They always seen the fine guys, you know, hidden gyms
(40:34):
and you know, everybody's on the same team. Everybody wants
to win. But I mean I go to the Yankees
and they have you know, twice as much and more,
you know, and they know how to win man and
um you know, it's obviously different styles of ball in
the n L and a L. But you know, obviously
now everyone has the d ah and stuff. But um,
(40:55):
I just like the I didn't really feel it in
saying Louis as much as I do with New York
is just the Camarado and how guys on locker room
and you know, the leadership that was over there, and
that's both you know, in the in the front office,
you know, coaches and with teams. You know, with all
those guys that you know, all those championships they've won
in the last you know, thirty years, and they just
keep that tradition going and going and going. And you know,
(41:17):
those guys still stick around and show up for spring
training and show up during the season to help you
and to try to make you a better baseball player.
So it's something that always has been great to me.
And what the Yankees have done to provide me with
you know, such a huge um, you know, analytical side
and that with everything I need to become a better player.
(41:37):
Is something that I steect the Cardinals a little bit
beyond on. Yeah, that's it's that's it's that's that's interesting.
Um Luke Void joining us, Doug Gotlip show Fox Sports
Radio story. If I'm bounce around, there's like when I
knew we were having you on, There's so many things
I want to ask you. Um, I want to ask
you about DJ and you, like you mentioned how you're
you're taking in all this information and changing and evolving
your swing. Um to the layman, how because he's he
(41:59):
leads the league and hit you lead league in home
runs and he you guys both had amazing seasons. What
what do you when you watch his swing? What can
you take from it that you kind of like, oh,
I like that, I want to add that to what
I do or or is it just body types so different?
Like when you watch DJ, what do you see the
only guy in baseball doesn't get shifted. He's the guy
(42:22):
that like if you're hitting behind him and he and
there's two outs, you know, you're gonna get that bad.
It's crazy. Um it's his routine is so simple, but
it's the same thing every day, which is something that
I try to emulating. That's something I took from him.
I mean, one that's the same. He's the same thing
for breakfast. He gets the same coffee every day. He
shows at the same time, he goes to the same routine.
(42:44):
I mean, there's a reason we call him the Machine
is because the guy's literally machine and the guy freaking races, um,
you know what. And the you know, the best thing
that I can give him a compliment too, is he's
the same person every day. You know. I know it's
a really easy cop out for someone, but you guys
can show emotion. You know, he's always going to show up.
He's gonna, you know, work his butt off, and um,
it's it's impressive to see what he does. I mean,
(43:05):
I grew up watching the original Machine in Albert Pools.
It's pretty cool watching him play too. And you know,
two years ago I get to be on the first
base with him. And you know, I used to watch
him hit when I was like thirteen or fourteen in
the same batting cages. But it's impressive, how you know,
even though it's sixty games in last year, I mean
he won two batting titles and two battes that was
(43:27):
both of each league. It's it's it's unbelievable, man, I mean,
it's Um, it's fun to watch. He's a great due
to talk to you, because he's a guy that's like
just when if it's like in the third ending, we'll
sit there and we'll talk about the picture and stuff.
It's just crazy information the guy can see and what
he what he knows is coming, and what he looks for. Um.
All right, Charlie Morton, when you when you get into
(43:48):
the box, Charlie Morton, would what do you see, Charlie Morton.
If it's he's got a nasty slidder, um, if it's
it starts front hip, you let her, you let it rip.
But then he's also got the command to throw backdoor sinkers,
which you can never give up on. Um. And then
he's got a little cutter two to keep you off
(44:08):
balances everything. But you know, Charlie's one of those guys
that doesn't make a lot of mistakes. You know. In
his curveball is one of those pitches that he always
usually locates it off the plate or it's a strike.
You know, it doesn't leave a lot of balls over
the middle of place. So um. One thing too is
he's trying to pitch more up in his own so
you know he's trying this. We can sneak those you know,
(44:28):
sinkers down and then and he's an old school pitcher man,
he's gonna brush you off in a little bit to
try to get the away pitcher. You know, he's his numbers.
You know, when he gets deep into counts, he's better
than early in accounts. On the other hand, the Dodgers
are are known for a let's let you know, we
we want the run up that pitch count. So knowing
that when you're sitting the hitters meeting and you see that, like,
(44:51):
are you taking an earlier opportunity when you see something
or are you still trying to stick to your philosophy
of running at the pitch count? Uman, I think the
goal every time is to get into the bullpen. And
even though I know the race bullpen is good, I
mean you want to wear him out, especially in the
seven games series, so you know they don't have as
many bullets left towards the end of it, so for sure. Um,
(45:12):
but again you know, in my opinion, and as a hitter,
you know, everybody knows I'm an aggressive hitter, and you know,
if there's something there to hit, man, I'm let an
eat so um and Scer is gonna attack his own
with that stuff. And I know Charlie is too, but
you can also you know, I've seen him both. You know,
in the third fourth inning have seventy eight pitches too,
So it's it's a chess game in but um, you
(45:35):
gotta do what you gotta do, and you gotta do
your homework, and you know, see how he's gone, because
you know he could go out there and pitch completely
different than what your game plan was. Luvoid joining us
dot got lip show, Fox Sports Radio. First basemen led
the American League in home runs twenty two and fifty
six games. Remarkable, remarkable stuff. Um, we were talking about
Bellie's home run in game seven, then he hit one
in game one, but the game seven is like he's
(45:57):
left handed. You know, he gives a little to the
walk look and struts and it's just the coolest look
what is that feeling like? Like? What is what is
it like a Yankee stadium to hit a bomb. Uh,
it's um like Christmas morning then. Um, it's like especially
(46:18):
when I get the loop chance and I'm running around
and you know it's a big game. You know, whether
it's Boston or Tampa, whoever we're playing. Um, there's nothing
that beats him, man. And you know, I'm sure it
was pretty cool for those guys who actually get to
play in front of fans this here and you know,
get to do that, experience that. And you know I
came up, you know, playing against him and his daughter's
organization of the Monors too, and he's a he's impressive
that you could tell at a younger age that he's
(46:40):
going to be an m v P caliber player. And um,
but yeah, when you're not on the ball, and it's
there's no better feeling, man, better on at home or
on the road, because I do think like at the
whole on the road, like you're in your in fenway, right,
And I know you didn't have fans this year obviously,
but like when they're they're yelling again and all of
a sudden it goes island and then you just hear
(47:01):
it like hit against something or somebody catches it and
tries to throw it back. Better at home when they
go crazy and cheering your name, or better on the road.
It's the best when you get to take the leader.
It's in the playoffs, so um it is. It is
pretty cool though, like you know, because um you call
you here as your boys. You're streaming yelling too. So
(47:22):
when you hit a homer and on the crowd goes quiet,
so's it doesn't matter. Man, home runs are great, whether
there's no fans, fans were playing in Japan, London or wherever.
Man home runs are homers and college. I got one
more for you. We were talking earlier. I don't know
if you saw this Army Navy game is being moved
on campus to West Point. You know your brother was
(47:43):
captain of the You used to beat up on your brother.
You were not a good big brother. Used to pummel
him and noogie him, and you'd hold him down. You
do the I'm sure you did, the spit thing where
would come down right in front of him, the slipper back,
slipper back up. He became captain of of of the
Army football team. To somebody, who what does that like
to watch your little brother play for Army at West
(48:05):
Point like that, Scott, I was trying to tell the guys.
I've been there. It's an amazing place. Yeah. I think
the Army to the game is one of the funnest,
if not the best football game ever been to my life.
I think it's be Super Bowl that just with how
much those guys care and how much those guys want
to win. And you know, they only get you know,
a couple of years of it, and those guys will
beat the snot out of you. Man. It's impressive. And
(48:25):
what my brother did you know, you know, out a
month so stuff form minute always get their ass. Uh. Okay,
So tell me what you do with T Mobile that
T Mobiles donating And I mean if you were playing,
(48:48):
obviously they'd be donating lots of money. But ten tho
dollars per home run to the T Mobile Little League
Call Up grant program. How does it work? Yeah? So,
I mean, I'm happy to be with two all of
their a very dynamic and innovative brand. And you know,
I've had a lot of fun working with them during
this and you see one in five kids that you
(49:08):
know don't have a chance to play literally anymore. Just
because of financial stuff and you know, everything going on
with COVID, and you obviously mentioned the ten thousand dollars
per home run. And then if you text literally to
three one, three on three or one team, I will
donate five dollars to support a local grant recipient in
your community. So these donations are awesome, and you know,
I think it's huge because you know, I can't I
(49:28):
couldn't imagine being a little kid not being able to
play a little you know, baseball or you know, going
out with the boys, you know, uh, you know, for
a little road trip and playing somewhere around your city.
So I hope everyone can donate a little bit, and um,
you know, let these families let their kids, you know,
girl boy play. So it's, um, that's an awesome thing.
Um and uh, you know, let the let the little
let young ones play. Luke, congrats on a great season.
(49:51):
Thanks so much for joining us and sharing with us
so much your baseball knowledge. Really appreciate it. Yeah, you're
welcome man. Good looking, Uh, they said, all right, that's
Luke Voit stud for the New York Yankees. Be sure
to catch the live edition of The Doug Gottlieb Show
weekdays at three p m. Easter noon Pacific on Fox
Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio ah app. You know,
(50:13):
it's always interesting to me on how people, um, what
what they do to completely change history? Right, that's what
they do to completely or or there there. What's what's
the how would I how would I term it? Um?
(50:36):
In terms of history? I find this to be fascinating. Um,
in terms of history, they miss misrepresented. That's that's what
they do. They misrepresented. Like for example, this is a
big one. So one of the one of the things
that that Lebron James Uh fans and sometimes like sick
(51:00):
of fans will say is they were like, well you
remember that year oh seven, Booby Gibson went to the
NBA finals. Remember that that was awesome, That was amazing.
That shows what he could do. Now, look if and
I understand that he's been in the finals ten times,
(51:20):
I get that. Um, there's some similarities in that year.
And remember Allen Iverson took the seventies six ers to
the finals as well, kind of a one man band
like what we What no one has mentioned ever in
the history of national radio is hey, that year the
Eastern Conference was an abject disaster. I believe that was
(51:44):
the first year of Shaquille O'Neal with the l at
with the Miami Heat, right, and the Lakers were a
dysfunctional mess. The Lakers had won three in a row
and then the Pistons won the year before. But the
Pistons were only good for kind of that one playoff
from They had all of those parts. They had Chauncey Billups,
(52:06):
they had Rashid Wallace, they had Ben Wallace, and they
kind of kept it together for a year and won
a championship because the Lakers all got The Lakers had
a bunch of injuries and a bunch of dysfunction and
like no one points out that, Yeah, Lebron got to
the finals, but like who he beat along the way?
(52:28):
You know, the Wizards weren't any good. Ah. They beat
the the Raptors who were like Chris Bosh and t J.
Ford and Anthony Parker, right, and they beat uh and
then they beat the Pistons, who were a shell of
their former selves. All right, Flip Saunders was the coach.
(52:49):
Larry Brown was gone, remember then, Yeah, like that's who
they beat along the way. It's not like he went
through the Celtics, then he and through the eight Lakers,
then he went through the Golden State Warriors. You know,
like that year in the NBA playoffs, the best teams were,
(53:12):
without any question, it was the Spurs, the Mavericks, the
Phoenix Suns, and the Utah Jazz. Those were the four
best teams. This is the Utah Jazz that had UH
that were led by a really really um young and
athletic Darren Williams and Carlos Boozer and the Meato Corps
(53:34):
and Derek Fisher and Matt Heartpring and Gordon Gerchick. Like,
those were the four best teams in the sport. So
we do this thing when we look back at history
and we only look at one person's failures or one
person's accomplishment. And I don't think that's a fair way
to do it. Let's get to what fox uh. This
(53:56):
was Colin cow heard talking about Derek Carr. It really
comes down to this with the Raiders. Do you like
Derek Carr? I do always have. Derek Carr to me
is the twelve best quarterback in the NFL. I do
these lists from time to time, and that's what he is.
For the record, I went and looked it up this morning,
Derek Carr. Since the start of last season, that's with
Jon Gruden, thirty two touchdowns, nine picks, completion percentage and
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a hundred and five quarterback rating. I'm in. I don't
think he's Rogers or Russell. I don't think he's Mahomes
or Lamar. I don't think he's quite big Ben, but
he's a top twelve quarterback. The Raiders, if they win
this weekend, will have Beaten Breeze and Peyton, Andy Reiden, Mahomes,
Bruce Arians and Tom Brady. Remember Raiders off of by
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Buccaneers just came off a huge win over Green Bay.
Natural letdown, keep your eye on the Las Vegas Raiders. Okay,
so I I agree there. The problem is I don't
know if he's gonna have an offensive line. All of
that makes total it's in a normal year. This is
not a normal year. Trent Brown got COVID and then
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all the rest of the offensive linemen who are in
the meeting room have been sent home immediately, and they're
just hoping to have a football game. That's the weird thing,
which is you can make all of these points which
are completely accurate in a vacuum. But the game is
not played in a vacuum. It's played inside a television
set um. You know what's funny about the Daniel Jones
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run is this is what I love about sports most,
the highs and the lows. Have you buyer? You played
football as a kid, your defensive back and a wide receiver,
right in the great feelings you'll ever have taking a
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ball to the house, like like from fifties sixty yards
where all you see is green grass and you hear
everybody behind you. That's like one of the greatest feelings
in life, right, So to go from an eight yard
run where you're gonna score a touchdown as a quarterback
two shipping you over your own feet. Like, if that's
not sports, I don't know what is. Be sure to
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Boom Up, America, Doug got Leave Show, Fox Sports Radio,
coming to you from the overcast city of Los Angeles, California.
Welcome in. We got a World Series game tonight. We
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got Big ten football kicking off tonight. We got a
huge college and pro football weekend up coming. We got
a lot to get to. Uh. Let me let me
begin with this. You know there's this six Russian and
John Robinson. I think you can. I think you get
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a test to it. In parenting, the days are long,
but the years go fast, right, that is correct. I
don't ever think nobody ages you more or tells you
that the time by the time fly by is fast
than children. Okay, let me let me play something to
see if this I'll turn up your mic alright, I
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care off. I never get back a party. Gods it say, don't.
It's a shame for app out of the game with
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the Macaronian cheese is important. Okay, that was That was
seven years ago. Oh today. We were cheering for the
Cardinals because my good friend Matt Holiday was playing for
the Cardinals. You remember, uh that was the second World
Series I think he had played, and they had one previously.
I'm gonna say like two thousand and eleven when they
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beat the Texas Rangers. He actually didn't play in game seven,
got hurt in Game six, hurt his wrist and they
were down the last strike twice. Remember that was David
Freeze was the was the MVP of that World Series. Anyway,
I mentioned it because, like I remember that at the time,
I was living in like just down the street from
where I lived now, in a rental house that we
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actually came back and rented when we moved back here.
I remember my son sitting on my lap like that
feels like maybe not yesterday, but it feels like six
months ago, a year ago. It's seven years ago, you
know now. My Now, I literally watched baseball with my
son and he went through this pattern where he didn't
like watching games. It was two. Now he's back kind
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of watching and talking about and talking about pitches and
like it's a completely different experience, but it's seven years ago.
Like my sounds eleven. Now my daughters are fourteen. I
have two daughters in high school. The days when you're
a parent, there are some days you're like, oh my god,
is this the thirty six hour day? Is this a
forty hour day? If you haven't done the parenting thing yet.
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Here's generally the way it works, right. My kids don't
sleep in They have never been great, huge long, deep sleepers,
late sleepers. You know. Now one of them kind of
will kind of lay in bed all day if you
let her. But you know, when you're when they're little kids,
like they get up at six six thirty and then
they're doing stuff and once once they get out of
the nap thing, like they're up and you kind of
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got a manage them. Just it's like a you know,
like a goat rodeo up until like eight o'clock at night,
eight thirty at night. Then they go to bed and
then you wake up. You do it again. You're like
hamster on a wheel it's a tough deal, but you'll
miss those days when they're gone, you know. Now I
have one that she has friends that pick her up
and they take her here, and they take her there,
(04:07):
and like some of it's cool, but someone's like, hey,
I kind of actually like I we started to be
able to watch movies together and hang out together, and
now you're never here. The days are long, but the
years are fast, years ago, really fast. I point that
out because last night I was I was watching the
Eagles play, and I was thinking also about the Odell
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Beckham Jr. U wine Fest, where he's clearly trying to
get traded and using his the friends he has in
the media to to claim that he's being there's some
unfair double standard. There is a double standard. It is
not unfair, um. And I realized that the days are long,
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but the season is actually long. That it's the opposite
maybe in football, where that the days the games go fast,
but the season it is long. I tell college basketb players,
I gotta when I go to a practice and I'm
gonna I'm gonna make some rounds this year and go
and watch teams practice, watch teams work out. I love it.
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I love the spirit. I hated practice when I was
in college this time of year because you've been working
out with your teammates for a while, and you know
it's once you know the offense and the things you're doing.
It's a little bit of hamster on the wheel, and
you know you may play a scrimmage, but you're playing
against the same guys. He's like, give me some new
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competition to play. So I gotta tell you I see things.
I see it different when it's a football team, different
when it's a basketball team. And I tell kids this
all the time, like, look, you just stay with it
and you're going to get your shot. The season is long.
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Normally a college basketball season is only five months long.
You know this year, we nobody knows how long it's
gonna go. But five months seems quick until you realize
you play games starting in November. You end games playing
in March or in April, and all of those games
somebody gets hurt, somebody gets suspended, somebody gets in the doghouse.
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You're gonna get your opportunity. Well, the same goes for
the National Football League. What do they what's the expressions?
Water finds its level? I watched the Eagles come from
behind last night, and granted, everybody's making fun of Daniel
Jones tripping over the thirty yard line, it was funny.
I should point out that one of the things are
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missed is Daniel Jones is running, by dudes, that guy
is a great athlete. I heard a friend I'm not
gonna name names, who hosts the radio show, who was like, yeah,
I look like an uncle at a barbecue, you know,
running and he's drunk. And he's like, no, no, uncle
runs a four five and is running away from defensive backs. Yes,
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he tripped and fell and it was embarrassing, but that
dude's got some wheels. But the point is that instead
of giving up on the Eagles season when they had
that disastrous start and they had a surefire win and
then all their offensive lineman went down and people were
down on Carson Wentz and some were suggesting that you
go and turn to jail and Hurts and you have him,
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you know, and you have him play for you go
with the young kid and you run a more simple
offense and and now the season's long, dude, And instead
of having in fighting and quotes of guys that don't
like the way that Carson Wentz is playing, or the
fourth down play call that Doug Peterson called. Instead, the
Eagles figured they woke up today like, hey, we're two
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four and one, well right there in first place in
the NFC East. We're gonna get healthier. Carson Wentz is
playing better, our defensive front is still pretty good. The
Cowboys are miss the Giants can't win any of these
close games, and the Redskins have no chance. Like this
is Carson Wentz after the game, the same thing that
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I echo every game when we're down here, just keep believing,
just one play at a time, and the big play
is gonna hit. It's gonna happen. And John had the
big one on that first drive, and obviously Boston the
second drive, and guys just keep believing and keep rallying together.
And that's what it's gonna take to win a lot
of these ball games. It's it's really true. It's a
it's a it's a cliche, right, you know, or it's
a it's actually so don't stop thinking about tomorrow, right right, like,
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but it's you know, um, what's the what's the other one? Um?
What's the when the White Sox used when they won
the World Series, right, not don't stop believing, don't by journey, right,
don't stop believing by journey. But the the idea is
still the same, like, look, it's a long seeing, the
games are long, there are there is time to make comebacks,
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believe it or not. And if you keep the faith,
if you keep believing in each other and what you're doing,
and you have a coaching staff that figures it out, like,
that's part of what's happened here. I that was the
reason I know the Eagles didn't cover. But my logic
behind the Eagles winning last night was I watched them
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against the Ravens kind of same thing where they couldn't
have looked worse in the first half, but clearly they
got together at halftime and said, well, if we do this,
this and this, we'll start to move the ball. We'll
take some deep shots, we'll find some mismatches cars, you
can throw it up to our bigger wide receivers and
let's make some place. And damn, they should have tied
that game. One bad play call on a read option,
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you know, and they had a bad staff and he
runs into his running back, but they don't have their
running back they don't have their tight end, they don't
have their top two wide receivers, they don't have their
offensive lineman, and you know what, they just kept playing
and so much kind of the opposite of parenting, where
the days are are long but the years go quick.
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This year is gonna be long long. You know. It
started with some guys opting out. Then you had teams
not really ready to play because of the lack of
preseason games no O t A s. You had massive,
massive injuries. You know, last two drives Carson Wentz five
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for seven d two pass yards are twenty one past yards,
two touchdowns, hundred fifty three point three pass rating, Like
I think Carson Wentz is terrific. I think the Eagles
have their quarterback, and I get that Doug Peterson cannot
be a little bit all over the map. But if
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you've watched the past couple of weeks, they're figuring it out.
The ability to adjust on the fly, the ability to say, hey,
that game plan we came in with was wrong, this
is the right way. That's the stuff that wins you
games in the long run. The long play is the
smart play. So I don't know if you want to
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go don't stop believing or whatever it is. But but
I think I think the games are long, and this
year is long, and this year is long, and instead
of soaking it up and enjoying it because it will
be gone into heartbeat much the way that your child,
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kid's childhood is, I think you just got to look
at the big picture instead of the short term picture.
Not to freak out over one loss, not to freak
out over one one weird play. Be sure to catch
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you don't remember, like A J. Brazinski. This is like
their the their theme song. I know this when this
this was actually the theme song for Clinton when he
when on re election campaign, not his election. I saw
him speaking Santa Barbara. I was in high school. I
got in the car my high school girlfriend and I
we drove up to UM Santa Barbara City College and
(12:11):
he he spoke and he was, I mean, jam me
to this song. But he was definitely doing white Man's over,
you know, not quite as not quite as uncomfortable as
as Trump the other day without Yeah, it was a
tough one, you know, but I mean like, look, uh,
(12:32):
you know you're seventy one year old. Seventy one year old,
you know, white golf dude. Like that's that's it was
every cliche ever, right. What was Mark Batson's problem? Remember
him and the Lakers dance parade? Matson? Yeah, he he
didn't have any a lot going on there neither. He
was a lot younger than either. Yes, no, no, no excuse,
(12:53):
no excuse, I mean bad parenting. That's what it is.
Mark's a beautiful guy. He's a great human being. Was
real quick my Mark Matson story. So I three different
offseasons I got it was like on some level training
with the Lakers. One year, I was on the summer
league team. Um, all three years, I would be in this.
They'd have this um like free agent mini camp the
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week or two weeks before they were going to Hawaii
for their actual camp. I never made the camp, okay,
but the guy organization was great and I got to like,
you know, he ended up getting to know kind of
everybody in there. And mad Dog was there all three years,
and you know, at the time he still he drove
a white minivan. He was just the greatest, you know,
(13:38):
this kind of guy that you'd work out. You'd have
a practice and you work out. And because mad Dog
was on the team and playing only really he played
a little bit with us in Devin George rather than that,
but he like, you know, he was making better money
than the rest of us, and he like, you guys
want to go to lunch, and you know, he go
down the street to the sandwich shop, take you in
his minivan and pick up and drop you off of
(13:59):
your hotel which is right next to practicaility. Just a
nice guy. It's not I mean, honestly, most pro athletes,
especially down the pecking order. Derek Fisher's the great dudes
like Fish would come in there at the time and
know he's a starting point guard of the NBA champion Lakers,
and you know, you want to get lifted, you wanna
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get some shots up. And we had a mutual friend
Adrian Peterson, who I played with um in college at
Ocahoma States from North Little Rock and they grew up
through the same Arkansas Wings a you program. Why think
Fish as dad coached anyway, So I mean, so we
had like a loose connection, but really good people. Most
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professional athletes are really good people. And what it's It's
interesting because when I lash out at an Odell Beckham Jr.
Most guys like, yeah, he's like, you're a terrible teammate
if when your team is born to two you just
lost the game and three you're making about yourself. Um.
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But but one of the reasons that I'm so bothered
by it is I not like most dudes are really
good dudes. And I don't think Odell Beckham Jr. Is
a bad dude per se. He's just kind of the
classic cliche super selfish wide receiver that thinks everything every
game revolves around his happiness and success. And that's not
even close to accurate. But my experience with pro athletes
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is most of them are really good guys because they've
they're not only from different backgrounds, but they people they
play with it from different backgrounds, and in order to
be successful, unlike like tennis players, you have to learn
to work with people. It's there's a group of young
NBA players that I think are struggling with this because
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they've kind of been bubble boys where their dads have
raised them to be NBA stars. And they are in
terms of you know, Michael Porter Jr. Trey Young's like
this where their dads have been a little bit overprotective
to keep them away from some of the illicit elements
of sport. But because they've done that, they haven't been
around people enough each other. But like not around various teams.
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They don't have sleepovers when their kids like, there's a
certain whereas most of the guys I came into contact with,
I gotta tell you I really like and I still
do really like them. I don't know how I got
on that tangent. When a train is a vehicle or
a railway crossing, the results are often deadly. Be cautious
at crossings, and if the signals are going, don't be
tempted to try and sneak across the tracks even if
(16:31):
you don't see a train stop. Trains can't paid for
by NITZA. The Jets don't have anybody on staff who
has a legit shot at at at being the next
head coach. Right so I believe my guess is that
Joe Douglas is not going to make a coaching change
(16:52):
right now. I do think eventually he'll make a coaching
change Um, but I don't think it's right now, and
I do think it will happen eventually. And here's the logic,
and I mean not only happened eventually, but happened before
the season is done. You're like, wait, why would they
make an in season coaching change and not make it now.
The reason you make it before the season ends is
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you want They're gonna want Woody Johnson when he comes
back from from Ireland or whatever. You're they're going to
investigate various candidates, Maybe go see them coach in person,
go talk to people, meet with people, really making a
well rounded search to find who the right guy is,
because it's pretty obvious Adam Gates is not Joe Dougs.
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But you can't do that when you have a current
head coach. You can. But when that gets back to people,
it just looks bad. So when I look at the
Jets and I think, Okay, well, is he coaching for
his job this week because they're coaching against the Buffalo Bills,
I don't think the answer is yes. Um, my guests
would be it's you're talking about the last three or
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four games of the season. So at O N six,
you got you know, they're not beating Kansas City next
week doubtful in terms of New England the week after that,
then they have a bye Could you make a coaching change?
Then you could, But do you want to reward Greg Williams?
Is that what you want to do? Like the defense
has been bad and he's not. He can be seen
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as a bit of a divisive force. Um. I don't
know if you guys know this, but I mean, listen
to the Jets schedule at the end of the season.
Raiders at Seahawks at Rams, Brown's at New England. I mean,
you're gonna take over his interim coach. You're not gonna
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win any games. So my guess is that if they
were to make a change, you can do the bye week,
give a guy legit chance, or more likely you know
you do it, you do it sometime during that tumultuous
run in December. That way, it gives you a chance
to really go out and explore who the possibilities are.
Be sure to catch the live edition of The Doug
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gott Leap Show we days at three p m. Easter
noon Pacific. What Up Doug Otlive Show, Fox Sports Radio.
I hope you are having a splended day. We're getting
you ready for tonight's World Series? Is Game three already? Right?
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I did kind of mentally, in all honesty skip over
Game two. I think a lot of Dodger fans did.
They're like, oh, yeah, Kershaw was good. We're good, Like, yeah,
that's not actually the how it works. You have to
win four times, not just one. Um, but like, look,
this is this is a really interesting series. So so tonight,
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and I completely understand because in many ways, like I'm
I'm with you on a little bit different scale, Like
I'm obviously a huge sports fan, but you know, I like,
look your bandwidth. You can only bring in so many sports.
So maybe you got back into looking at the NBA,
and then you had the NFL and need a fantasy
team plus heed your kids, you're like, uh, and you
(20:05):
wanted to keep up with baseball be like you know,
baseball bubble, or maybe you're totally into the baseball thing. Um,
So tonight there's a good pitching matchup, really really good. Um,
it's really good because the best picture for the Dodgers
starts tonight. Right. Walker Bueler, what a great name. So
(20:30):
Walker Bueler has had this blister problem and apparently the
blister problem really appears, really rears its ugly head on
his slider, you know who. It actually give us a
little bit better perspective on the blister problem of Yeah,
a guy who's played Major League Baseball plays for the Yankees.
Luke Void First Basement, New York Yankees, joins us in
the Doug Otlip Show. You're on Fox Sports Radio. First, Luke,
(20:53):
how are you. I'm doing good man, everything's going well. Um, well,
i'd be better if you as you're playing in the
World Series. No, yeah, slightly disrespect like everybody wanted Dodgers Yankees,
and then you get you what's it do do you watch?
I mean, I just I remember in basketball when we
be beaten and the tournament was going on, like hard
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to watch. Do you watch? I've watched a little bit,
but same, you know, especially it's nice to having football
and you know, it feels like it's almost on every night. Um,
it's always games getting rescheduled. So I'm a huge football fans,
so it's nice to watch that and get in my
mind off it. But yeah, for sure, you know, it
takes a while to get interest. But you know, with
social media now it's hard not to you know, see
(21:37):
what the score is or what big hits happened in it,
you know through Twitter and Instagram stuff. So um, but yeah,
I'm I'm I'm kind of off it, dude. It's you know,
once you baseball teams over so long, you just you
want to, you know, get away from it. Why were
you so incredible this season? Like it all? I mean,
twenty two home runs in fifties six games is just ridiculous.
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And to see, I'm sure part of it you're gonna
say is, look, I got the at bats. You know,
I haven't got a chance to get this this many
But but what was it that just clicked for you?
You know, I'm just I think I'm just growing, man.
I've just taken a lot of information in and you know,
my body, I'm learning, you know, my swing and um,
you know, I'm just you're turning more as a person
and growing and um, you know, you know, I'm turning
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into a more student of the game. And you know,
I'm keep an open mind to different things and talking
to guys you know, as players are coaches, and I'm
just trying to get better. Man. I'm a blue collar
guy and I have always been like that, and I
do whatever I can to get better, and um, there
are some things I worked on. You know. I always
finished with one hand, but this year I started finishing
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with two hands too, to get better extension with the ball,
and I think that helped me. But hit had better
spin on the ball, and you know, instead of those
doubles and fly balls, I was hitting more homers this year.
And um see, I thought, I thought rod a rod
brought in the one hand finished. I thought the one
hand finished was the home run finished? Why is that now?
It's now everything's going back. Now we're going to the
two hand finishes. Hit a lot more home runs than
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if so whatever works. But again, he did not hit
two and fifty six games. Yeah, but his career is
pretty pretty impressive. But I mean, you got you got
guys like Craig Counsel, who did amazing you know, and
the guy hit with his hands to two ft above
his head. And then you guys like Jeff Bagwada you know,
hit you know, and he had the widest stance I've
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ever seen. So I mean, everything works in baseball, man. Yeah,
Um okay, uh, Wildwood, Missouri, um kind of a border town. Whatever,
you're and you were a big football player as well
as baseball player, and you're big dude, six three to
your little league was what was like Wildwood? It was
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like Wildwood little league? Was there a different name for it?
I played Slava baseball. I was like travel baseball called
Sat Louis Redbirds. All right, Sat Louis Redbirds. And did
you always play first? Huh? We're like, hey, you staf,
you know, yeah, you know, I I gotta. I got
a son who does the the pony pony stuff, but
now it's he's moved all to to club. Were you
always the first baseman? No? I played first when I
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was growing up, when I was widow, and then um,
I caught when I was in high school and that's
what end up getting me drafted by the Royals, and
then caught in college, and then I caught my first
very good. So they've made me. You miss catching? I
just I used to love catching, Like you control see
the whole game first. First is a little similar in
terms of the amount of times you're you're kind of
(24:31):
involved in the play. But do you miss catching? Yeah,
like you said, I missed the mental side of it,
you know, just figuring out the hitter and trying to
get him out and then it's a chess match. And
but I'll tell you one thing, my knees don't miss
it at all. In my body feels better without catching
all the time. But there's parts of it you miss.
But you know, I think I made the right decision
(24:51):
or I guess the Cardinals did by not let me
catch anymore. Yeah, it's it's interesting because going up so
close and playing for you know, essentially the Cardinals when
you're in the a U, and then coming up through
their system and playing for the for the Cardinals, now
you're with the Yankees. What are the two organizations like
to play for? Like compare and contrast? Um, you know,
(25:14):
the Cardinals always have you know, everyone says the Cardinal's way.
They're just very um, you know, strict and what they
want and they developed players at a very good level.
They've always try to They always seen the find guys,
you know, hidden gyms, and you know, everybody's on the
same team. Everybody wants to win. But I mean I
go to the Yankees and they have you know, twice
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as much and more, you know, and they know how
to win man and um, you know, It's obviously different
styles of ball in in the n L and a L.
But you know, obviously now everyone has the dah and stuff.
But um, I just like the I didn't really feel
it in saying Louis as much as I do with
New York. Is just the camaraderie and how guys on
locker room and you know, the leadership that was over there.
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And that's both you know, in the in the front office,
you know, coaches and with teams. You know, with all
those guys that you know, all those championships they've won
in the last you know, thirty years, and they just
keep that tradition going and going and going. And you know,
those guys still stick around and show up for spring
training and show up during the season to help you
and to try to make you a better baseball player.
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So it's something that always has been great to me.
And what the Yankees have done to provide me with
you know, such a huge, um you know, analytical side
and that with everything I need to become a better
player is something that I steel like the Cardinals a
little bit beyond. Yeah, that's it's that's it's that's that's interesting.
Um Luke Void joining a US Doug Gotlip Show, Fox
Sports Radio. Sorry if I'm bounce around. There's like when
(26:38):
I knew we were having you on, there's so many
things I want to ask you. Um, I want to
ask you about DJ and you, like you mentioned how
you're you're taking in all this information and changing and
evolving your swing. Um to the layman, how because he's
he leads the league and hitting. You lead league in
home runs and he you guys both had amazing seasons.
What what do you when you watch his swing? What
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and you take from it that you kind of like, oh,
I like that, I want to add that to what
I do or or is it just body types so different?
Like when you watch DJ, what do you see the
only guy in baseball doesn't get shifted. He's the guy
that like, if you're hitting behind him and he and
there's two outs, you know you're gonna get the beat.
It's crazy. Um, It's his routine is so simple. But
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it's the same thing every day, which is something that
I try to emulating. That's something I took from him.
I mean, well, that's the same. He's the same thing
for breakfast, he gets the same coffee every day. He
shows at the same time he goes to the same routine.
I mean, there's a reason we call him the Machine
is because the guy is literally a machine and the
guy freaking races, Um, you know what. And the you know,
the best thing that I can give him a compliment
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to is he's the same person every day. You know.
I know it's a really easy cop out for someone,
but you guysn show emotion. You know, he's always gonna
show up. He's gonna, you know, work his butt off,
and um, it's it's impressive to see what he does.
I mean, I grew up watching the original Machine and
Albert Poohos. It's pretty cool watching him play too. And
you know, two years ago I get to be on
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the first base of him. And you know, I used
to watch him hit when I was like thirteen or
fourteen in the same batting cages. But it's impressive, how
you know, even though it's sixty games and last year,
I mean, he won't two batting titles and two batties
I was both of each league. It's it's it's unbelievable, man,
I mean, it's um, it's fun to watch. He's a
great dude to talk to you because he's a guy
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that's like just when if it's like in the third ending,
we'll sit there and we'll talk about the picture and stuff.
It's just crazy information the guy can see and what
he what he knows is coming, and what he looks for. Um,
all right, Charlie Morton, when you when you get into
the box, Charlie Morton, would what do you see, Charlie Morton?
If it's he's got a nasty slider. Um, if it's
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it starts front hip, you let her, you let it rip.
But then he's also got the command to throw backdoor sinkers,
which you can never give up on. Um. And then
he's got a little cutter two to keep you off
balances everything. But you know, Charlie's one of those guys
that doesn't make a lot of mistakes. You know, in
his curveball is one of those pitches that he always
usually locates it off the plate or it's a strike.
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You know, it doesn't leave a lot of balls over
the middle of place. So UM. One thing too, is
he's trying to pitch more up in his own so
you know he's trying this. We can sneak those you know,
sinkers down and then and he's an old school pitcher man,
He's gonna brush you off in a little bit to
try to get the away pitcher. You know, he's his numbers.
You know, when he gets deep into counts, he's better
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than early in the the counts. On the other hand, the
Dodgers are are known for a let's let you know,
we we want the run up that pitch count. So
knowing that when you're sitting the hitters meeting and you
see that, like, are you taking an earlier opportunity when
you see something or are you still trying to stick
to your philosophy of running out the pitch count. I mean,
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I think the goal every time is to get into
the bullpen. And even though I know the Raids bullpen
is good, I mean you want to learn him out,
especially like in a seven game series, so you know
they don't have as many bullets left towards the end
of it. So for sure, Um, but again, you know,
in my opinion, and as a hitter, I'm you know,
everybody knows I'm an aggressive hitter, and you know, if
there's something there to hit, man, I'm let dat. So
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um talker is gonna attack his own with that stuff.
And I know Charlie is too, but you can also
you know I've seen him both, you know in the
third fourth inning have seventy pitches too, So it's it's
a chess game in But um, you gotta do what
you gotta do, and you gotta do your homework, and
you know, see how he's feeling because you know he
could go out there and can put pitch completely different
(30:34):
than what your game plan was. Luvoid joining us dot
got lip show, Fox Sports Radio first base in leath
the American League in home runs twenty two and fifty
six games. Remarkable, remarkable stuff. Um, we were talking about
Bellie's home run in game seven. Then he hit one
in game one, but the game seven is like he's
left handed, you know, he gives a little cock of
the walk look and struts and it's just the coolest look.
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What is that feeling like? Like? What is what is
it like a Yankee stadium to hit a bomb? Uh,
it's um like Christmas morning? Then, Um, it's like especially
when I get the loop chance and I'm running around
and you know it's a big game, you know, whether
it's Boston or Tampa, whoever we're playing. Um, there's nothing
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that beats him, man. And you know, I'm sure it
was pretty cool for those guys who actually get to
play in front of fans this here and you know,
get to do that, experience that. And you know I
came up, you know, playing against him and the daughter's
organization of the monors too, and he's a he's impressive
that you could tell at a younger age that he's
going to be an m VP caliber player. And um,
but yeah, when you're not on the ball, and it's
there's no better feeling then better on at home or
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on the road, because I do think like at the
whole on the road, like you're in your in Fenway, right,
and I know you didn't have fans this year obviously,
but like when they're they're yelling again and all of
a sudden it goes silent and then you just hear
it like hit against something or somebody catches it and
tries to throw it back. Better at home when they
go crazy and cheering your name, or better on the road,
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it's the best when you get to take the leader.
It's in the playoffs, so um it is. It is
pretty cool though, like you know, because um, you all
you hear is your boys're streaming yelling too, so when
you hit a homer and on, the crowd goes quiet.
So it's it doesn't matter. Man home runs are great
whether there's no fans, fans were playing in Japan, London
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or wherever. Man home runs are homers and college. I
got one more for you. We were talking earlier. I
don't know if you saw this Army Navy game is
being moved on campus to West Point. You know your
brother was captain of the You used to beat up
on your brother. You were not a good big brother.
Used to pummel him and noogie him, and you hold
him down, you do the I'm sure you did the
(32:44):
spit thing where would come down right in front of him,
the slipper slipper back up. He became captain of of
of the Army football team. To somebody, who, what does
that like? To watch your little brother play for Army
at West Point like that, Scott, I was trying to
tell the guys I've in there. It's an amazing place. Yeah,
I think the Army game is one of the funnest,
if not the best football game ever been to my life.
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I think it's beat the Super Bowl that just with
how much those guys care and how much those guys
want to win, and you know they only get you know,
a couple of years of it, and those guys will
beat the snot out of you. Man, It's impressive. And
what my brother did you know? You know, about a month?
So it's stuff form minute always always get their ass.
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Uh Okay, So tell me what you're doing with the
mobile TM mobiles donating And I mean if you were playing,
obviously they'll be donating lots of money. But ten dollars
per home run to the T Mobile Little League Call
Up Grant program? How does it work? Yeah? So I'm
I'm happy to be a team Mobile. There a very
dynamic and innovative brand and you know, I've had a
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lot of fun working on them during this and you
see one in five kids that you know don't have
a chance to play little anymore just because of financial
stuff and you know everything going on with COVID, and
you obviously mentioned the ten thousand dollars per home run.
And then if you text literally to three one, three
on three or one team I will donate five dollars
to support a local grant recipient in your community. So
(34:17):
these donations are awesome, and you know, I think it's
huge because you know, I can't I couldn't imagine being
a little kid not being on to play a little
you know, baseball or you know, going out with the boys,
you know, uh, you know, for a little road trip
and playing somewhere around your city. So I hope everyone
can donate a little bit and um, you know, let
these families let their kids, you know, girl boy play.
So it's um, that's an awesome thing. Um and uh,
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you know, let the let the look the what young
ones played. Luke, congrats on a great season. Thanks so
much for joining us and sharing with us so much
your baseball knowledge. Really appreciate it. Yeah, you're welcome, man,
good looking, uh said, all right, that's Luke Voit stud
for the New York Yankees. Twenty two home runs in
fifty six games. Go ahead. You can do the math
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of what that looks like with a D sixty two.
That's not hard math. You're like, he did what, Yeah,
that's exactly what he did. Yes. And to have Stanton
and um uh Aaron Judge on the same team and
you're out hit him when home runs, that's gotta be awesome. Yes, well,
they're all big, like he's he's like six three two
I think you know, Stanton's like six five six six, right,
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Judges like six eight. Like, these dudes are monsters. They
are monsters, absolute monsters. What what did Aaron call him? Savages?
My guys are savages up there? He's there savages? Yes, yes,
they are, they are savages. Fox Sports Radio has the
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listen live. A guy who's played Major League Baseball plays
for the Yankees. Luke Void first Basement, New York Yankees,
joins us in the Doug Gotlip Show. You're on Fox
Sports Radio. Uh first, Luke, how are you? I'm doing
good man, everything's going well. Um well, I'd be better
(36:07):
if you guys are playing in the World Series. No, yeah,
slightly disrespect like everybody wanted Dodgers Yankees and then you
gets you what's it do do you watch? I mean,
I just I remember in basketball when we be beaten
and the tournament was going on, like hard to watch?
Do you watch? I watched a little bit, but same
(36:28):
you know, especially it's nice to having football on. You know,
it feels like it's almost on every night. Um, it's
always games getting rescheduled. So I'm a huge football fans,
so it's nice to watch that and get my mind
off it. But yeah, for sure, you know, it takes
a lot to get interest. But you know, with social
media now, it's hard not to you know, see what
the score is or what big hits happened in it,
you know, through Twitter and Instagram stuff. So um, but yeah,
(36:50):
I'm I'm I'm kind of off it, dude. It's you know,
once your baseball teams over so long, you just you
want to, you know, get away from this. Why were
you so incredible? This seas like it all. I mean,
twenty two home runs in fifty six games is just ridiculous.
And obviously I'm sure part of it you're gonna say is, look,
I got the at bat. You know, I haven't got
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a chance to get this this manty. But but what
was it that just clicked for you? You know, I'm
just I think I've just growing, man, I've just taken
a lot of information in and you know, my body
I'm learning, you know, my swing and um, you know,
I'm just you're turning more as a person and growing
and um, you know, you know, I'm turning into a
more student of the game. And you know, I'm keep
(37:34):
an open mind to different things and talking to guys
you know, as players are coaches. And I'm just trying
to get better. Man, I'm a blue collar guy and
I have always been like that, and I do whatever
I can to get better. And um, there are some
things I worked on. You know, I always finished with
one hand, but this year I started finishing with two
hands too, to get better extension with the ball, and
I think that helped me. But hit had better spin
(37:56):
on the ball, and you know, instead of those doubles
and fly balls, I was hitting more homers this year.
And um see, I thought I thought rod a rod
brought in the one hand finished. I thought the one
hand finished was the home run finished? Why is that? Now?
It's now everything's going back. Now we're going to the
two hand finishes. Hit a lot more home runs than
I fit, so whatever works. But again, he did not
hit twenty two and fifty six games. Yeah, but his
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career is pretty pretty impressive. But I mean, you got
you got guys like Craig Counsel, who did amazing, you know,
and the guy hit with his hands two ft above
his head, and then guys like Jeff Bagwada you know,
hit you know, and he had the widest stands I've
ever seen. So, I mean everything works in baseball, man. Yeah,
um okay, uh. Wildwood, Missouri, um kind of a border town.
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Whatever you're and you were a big football player as
well as baseball player, and you're big dude, six three
to your little league was what was like Wildwood? It
was like Wildwood little League? Was there a different name
for it? I played Slava baseball. I was like travel
by small called San Louis Redbirds, all right, Sat Louis Redbirds.
And did you always play first? Huh? We're like you stuff,
(39:07):
you know? Yeah, you know, I I gotta. I got
a son who does the the pony pony stuff. But
now it's he's moved all to club. Were you always
the first baseman? No? I played first when I was
growing up, when I was widow, and then um, I
caught when I was in high school and that's end
up getting me drafted by the Royals, and then caught
in college and then I caught my first, very good.
(39:28):
So they made me you miss catching? I just I
used to love catching, like you control see the whole
game first. First is a little similar in terms of
the amount of times you're you're kind of involved in
to play. But do you miss catching? Yeah, like you said,
I missed the mental side of it, you know, just
figuring out the hitter and trying to get him out
and then it's a chess match. And but I'll tell
(39:50):
you one thing, my knees don't miss it at all.
In my body feels better without catching all the time.
But there's parts of it you miss. But you know,
I think I made the right decision. Are I guess
the Cardinals did by not let me catch any more? Yeah,
it's it's interesting because going up so close and playing
for you know, essentially the Cardinals when you're in the
a U, and then coming up through their system and
(40:12):
playing for the for the Cardinals now you're with the Yankees.
What are the two organizations like to play for? Like
compare and contrast? Um, you know, the Cardinals always have
you know, everyone says the Cardinal's way. They're just very um,
you know, strict and what they want and they developed
players at a very good level. They've always try to
They always seen the fine guys, you know, hidden gyms
(40:34):
and you know, everybody's on the same team. Everybody wants
to win. But I mean I go to the Yankees
and they have you know, twice as much and more,
you know, and they know how to win man and
um you know, it's obviously different styles of ball in
the n L and a L. But you know, obviously
now everyone has the d ah and stuff. But um,
(40:55):
I just like the I didn't really feel it in
saying Louis as much as I do with New York
is just the Camarado and how guys on locker room
and you know, the leadership that was over there, and
that's both you know, in the in the front office,
you know, coaches and with teams. You know, with all
those guys that you know, all those championships they've won
in the last you know, thirty years, and they just
keep that tradition going and going and going. And you know,
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those guys still stick around and show up for spring
training and show up during the season to help you
and to try to make you a better baseball player.
So it's something that always has been great to me.
And what the Yankees have done to provide me with
you know, such a huge um, you know, analytical side
and that with everything I need to become a better player.
(41:37):
Is something that I steect the Cardinals a little bit
beyond on. Yeah, that's it's that's it's that's that's interesting.
Um Luke Void joining us, Doug Gotlip show Fox Sports
Radio story. If I'm bounce around, there's like when I
knew we were having you on, There's so many things
I want to ask you. Um, I want to ask
you about DJ and you, like you mentioned how you're
you're taking in all this information and changing and evolving
your swing. Um to the layman, how because he's he
(41:59):
leads the league and hit you lead league in home
runs and he you guys both had amazing seasons. What
what do you when you watch his swing? What can
you take from it that you kind of like, oh,
I like that, I want to add that to what
I do or or is it just body types so different?
Like when you watch DJ, what do you see the
only guy in baseball doesn't get shifted. He's the guy
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that like if you're hitting behind him and he and
there's two outs, you know, you're gonna get that bad.
It's crazy. Um it's his routine is so simple, but
it's the same thing every day, which is something that
I try to emulating. That's something I took from him.
I mean, one that's the same. He's the same thing
for breakfast. He gets the same coffee every day. He
shows at the same time, he goes to the same routine.
(42:44):
I mean, there's a reason we call him the Machine
is because the guy's literally machine and the guy freaking races, um,
you know what. And the you know, the best thing
that I can give him a compliment too, is he's
the same person every day. You know. I know it's
a really easy cop out for someone, but you guys
can show emotion. You know, he's always going to show up.
He's gonna, you know, work his butt off, and um,
it's it's impressive to see what he does. I mean,
(43:05):
I grew up watching the original Machine in Albert Pools.
It's pretty cool watching him play too. And you know,
two years ago I get to be on the first
base with him. And you know, I used to watch
him hit when I was like thirteen or fourteen in
the same batting cages. But it's impressive, how you know,
even though it's sixty games in last year, I mean
he won two batting titles and two battes that was
(43:27):
both of each league. It's it's it's unbelievable, man, I mean,
it's Um, it's fun to watch. He's a great due
to talk to you, because he's a guy that's like
just when if it's like in the third ending, we'll
sit there and we'll talk about the picture and stuff.
It's just crazy information the guy can see and what
he what he knows is coming, and what he looks for. Um.
All right, Charlie Morton, when you when you get into
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the box, Charlie Morton, would what do you see, Charlie Morton.
If it's he's got a nasty slidder, um, if it's
it starts front hip, you let her, you let it rip.
But then he's also got the command to throw backdoor sinkers,
which you can never give up on. Um. And then
he's got a little cutter two to keep you off
(44:08):
balances everything. But you know, Charlie's one of those guys
that doesn't make a lot of mistakes. You know. In
his curveball is one of those pitches that he always
usually locates it off the plate or it's a strike.
You know, it doesn't leave a lot of balls over
the middle of place. So um. One thing too is
he's trying to pitch more up in his own so
you know he's trying this. We can sneak those you know,
(44:28):
sinkers down and then and he's an old school pitcher man,
he's gonna brush you off in a little bit to
try to get the away pitcher. You know, he's his numbers.
You know, when he gets deep into counts, he's better
than early in accounts. On the other hand, the Dodgers
are are known for a let's let you know, we
we want the run up that pitch count. So knowing
that when you're sitting the hitters meeting and you see that, like,
(44:51):
are you taking an earlier opportunity when you see something
or are you still trying to stick to your philosophy
of running at the pitch count? Uman, I think the
goal every time is to get into the bullpen. And
even though I know the race bullpen is good, I
mean you want to wear him out, especially in the
seven games series, so you know they don't have as
many bullets left towards the end of it, so for sure. Um,
(45:12):
but again you know, in my opinion, and as a hitter,
you know, everybody knows I'm an aggressive hitter, and you know,
if there's something there to hit, man, I'm let an
eat so um and Scer is gonna attack his own
with that stuff. And I know Charlie is too, but
you can also you know, I've seen him both. You know,
in the third fourth inning have seventy eight pitches too,
So it's it's a chess game in but um, you
(45:35):
gotta do what you gotta do, and you gotta do
your homework, and you know, see how he's gone, because
you know he could go out there and pitch completely
different than what your game plan was. Luvoid joining us
dot got lip show, Fox Sports Radio. First basemen led
the American League in home runs twenty two and fifty
six games. Remarkable, remarkable stuff. Um, we were talking about
Bellie's home run in game seven, then he hit one
in game one, but the game seven is like he's
(45:57):
left handed. You know, he gives a little to the
walk look and struts and it's just the coolest look
what is that feeling like? Like? What is what is
it like a Yankee stadium to hit a bomb. Uh,
it's um like Christmas morning then. Um, it's like especially
(46:18):
when I get the loop chance and I'm running around
and you know it's a big game. You know, whether
it's Boston or Tampa, whoever we're playing. Um, there's nothing
that beats him, man. And you know, I'm sure it
was pretty cool for those guys who actually get to
play in front of fans this here and you know,
get to do that, experience that. And you know I
came up, you know, playing against him and his daughter's
organization of the Monors too, and he's a he's impressive
that you could tell at a younger age that he's
(46:40):
going to be an m v P caliber player. And um,
but yeah, when you're not on the ball, and it's
there's no better feeling, man, better on at home or
on the road, because I do think like at the
whole on the road, like you're in your in fenway, right,
And I know you didn't have fans this year obviously,
but like when they're they're yelling again and all of
a sudden it goes island and then you just hear
(47:01):
it like hit against something or somebody catches it and
tries to throw it back. Better at home when they
go crazy and cheering your name, or better on the road.
It's the best when you get to take the leader.
It's in the playoffs, so um it is. It is
pretty cool though, like you know, because um you call
you here as your boys. You're streaming yelling too. So
(47:22):
when you hit a homer and on the crowd goes quiet,
so's it doesn't matter. Man, home runs are great, whether
there's no fans, fans were playing in Japan, London or wherever.
Man home runs are homers and college. I got one
more for you. We were talking earlier. I don't know
if you saw this Army Navy game is being moved
on campus to West Point. You know your brother was
(47:43):
captain of the You used to beat up on your brother.
You were not a good big brother. Used to pummel
him and noogie him, and you'd hold him down. You
do the I'm sure you did, the spit thing where
would come down right in front of him, the slipper back,
slipper back up. He became captain of of of the
Army football team. To somebody, who what does that like
to watch your little brother play for Army at West
(48:05):
Point like that, Scott, I was trying to tell the guys.
I've been there. It's an amazing place. Yeah. I think
the Army to the game is one of the funnest,
if not the best football game ever been to my life.
I think it's be Super Bowl that just with how
much those guys care and how much those guys want
to win. And you know, they only get you know,
a couple of years of it, and those guys will
beat the snot out of you. Man. It's impressive. And
(48:25):
what my brother did you know, you know, out a
month so stuff form minute always get their ass. Uh. Okay,
So tell me what you do with T Mobile that
T Mobiles donating And I mean if you were playing,
(48:48):
obviously they'd be donating lots of money. But ten tho
dollars per home run to the T Mobile Little League
Call Up grant program. How does it work? Yeah? So,
I mean, I'm happy to be with two all of
their a very dynamic and innovative brand. And you know,
I've had a lot of fun working with them during
this and you see one in five kids that you
(49:08):
know don't have a chance to play literally anymore. Just
because of financial stuff and you know, everything going on
with COVID, and you obviously mentioned the ten thousand dollars
per home run. And then if you text literally to
three one, three on three or one team, I will
donate five dollars to support a local grant recipient in
your community. So these donations are awesome, and you know,
I think it's huge because you know, I can't I
(49:28):
couldn't imagine being a little kid not being able to
play a little you know, baseball or you know, going
out with the boys, you know, uh, you know, for
a little road trip and playing somewhere around your city.
So I hope everyone can donate a little bit, and um,
you know, let these families let their kids, you know,
girl boy play. So it's, um, that's an awesome thing.
Um and uh, you know, let the let the little
let young ones play. Luke, congrats on a great season.
(49:51):
Thanks so much for joining us and sharing with us
so much your baseball knowledge. Really appreciate it. Yeah, you're
welcome man. Good looking, Uh, they said, all right, that's
Luke Voit stud for the New York Yankees. Be sure
to catch the live edition of The Doug Gottlieb Show
weekdays at three p m. Easter noon Pacific on Fox
Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio ah app. You know,
(50:13):
it's always interesting to me on how people, um, what
what they do to completely change history? Right, that's what
they do to completely or or there there. What's what's
the how would I how would I term it? Um?
(50:36):
In terms of history? I find this to be fascinating. Um,
in terms of history, they miss misrepresented. That's that's what
they do. They misrepresented. Like for example, this is a
big one. So one of the one of the things
that that Lebron James Uh fans and sometimes like sick
(51:00):
of fans will say is they were like, well you
remember that year oh seven, Booby Gibson went to the
NBA finals. Remember that that was awesome, That was amazing.
That shows what he could do. Now, look if and
I understand that he's been in the finals ten times,
(51:20):
I get that. Um, there's some similarities in that year.
And remember Allen Iverson took the seventies six ers to
the finals as well, kind of a one man band
like what we What no one has mentioned ever in
the history of national radio is hey, that year the
Eastern Conference was an abject disaster. I believe that was
(51:44):
the first year of Shaquille O'Neal with the l at
with the Miami Heat, right, and the Lakers were a
dysfunctional mess. The Lakers had won three in a row
and then the Pistons won the year before. But the
Pistons were only good for kind of that one playoff
from They had all of those parts. They had Chauncey Billups,
(52:06):
they had Rashid Wallace, they had Ben Wallace, and they
kind of kept it together for a year and won
a championship because the Lakers all got The Lakers had
a bunch of injuries and a bunch of dysfunction and
like no one points out that, Yeah, Lebron got to
the finals, but like who he beat along the way?
(52:28):
You know, the Wizards weren't any good. Ah. They beat
the the Raptors who were like Chris Bosh and t J.
Ford and Anthony Parker, right, and they beat uh and
then they beat the Pistons, who were a shell of
their former selves. All right, Flip Saunders was the coach.
(52:49):
Larry Brown was gone, remember then, Yeah, like that's who
they beat along the way. It's not like he went
through the Celtics, then he and through the eight Lakers,
then he went through the Golden State Warriors. You know,
like that year in the NBA playoffs, the best teams were,
(53:12):
without any question, it was the Spurs, the Mavericks, the
Phoenix Suns, and the Utah Jazz. Those were the four
best teams. This is the Utah Jazz that had UH
that were led by a really really um young and
athletic Darren Williams and Carlos Boozer and the Meato Corps
(53:34):
and Derek Fisher and Matt Heartpring and Gordon Gerchick. Like,
those were the four best teams in the sport. So
we do this thing when we look back at history
and we only look at one person's failures or one
person's accomplishment. And I don't think that's a fair way
to do it. Let's get to what fox uh. This
(53:56):
was Colin cow heard talking about Derek Carr. It really
comes down to this with the Raiders. Do you like
Derek Carr? I do always have. Derek Carr to me
is the twelve best quarterback in the NFL. I do
these lists from time to time, and that's what he is.
For the record, I went and looked it up this morning,
Derek Carr. Since the start of last season, that's with
Jon Gruden, thirty two touchdowns, nine picks, completion percentage and
(54:21):
a hundred and five quarterback rating. I'm in. I don't
think he's Rogers or Russell. I don't think he's Mahomes
or Lamar. I don't think he's quite big Ben, but
he's a top twelve quarterback. The Raiders, if they win
this weekend, will have Beaten Breeze and Peyton, Andy Reiden, Mahomes,
Bruce Arians and Tom Brady. Remember Raiders off of by
(54:43):
Buccaneers just came off a huge win over Green Bay.
Natural letdown, keep your eye on the Las Vegas Raiders. Okay,
so I I agree there. The problem is I don't
know if he's gonna have an offensive line. All of
that makes total it's in a normal year. This is
not a normal year. Trent Brown got COVID and then
(55:07):
all the rest of the offensive linemen who are in
the meeting room have been sent home immediately, and they're
just hoping to have a football game. That's the weird thing,
which is you can make all of these points which
are completely accurate in a vacuum. But the game is
not played in a vacuum. It's played inside a television
set um. You know what's funny about the Daniel Jones
(55:30):
run is this is what I love about sports most,
the highs and the lows. Have you buyer? You played
football as a kid, your defensive back and a wide receiver,
right in the great feelings you'll ever have taking a
(55:50):
ball to the house, like like from fifties sixty yards
where all you see is green grass and you hear
everybody behind you. That's like one of the greatest feelings
in life, right, So to go from an eight yard
run where you're gonna score a touchdown as a quarterback
two shipping you over your own feet. Like, if that's
not sports, I don't know what is. Be sure to
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