This week on Inside the (Rob) Parker, Rob discusses Jose Altuve falling victim to the yips, Aaron Boone surviving for another year with the Yankees, and Billy Beane leaving his 'Moneyball' behind in Oakland to join Red Sox owner John Henry's Fenway Sports business venture.
Guests: Former major leaguer and current Dodgers pregame host Jerry Hairston, Jr. looks at what the Dodgers need to do to escape an 0-2 LCS hole against Atlanta. Former NFL QB and current Houston talk radio host Sean Salisbury breaks down Altuve's yips, if the stress of the cheating scandal is partly to blame.
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You give us twenty two minutes and we'll give you
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of Fame voter number eighty six, Rob Parker. Welcome into
the podcast. We have a great show for you today.
We're gonna talk with former Major Leagua Jerry Harris did Junior.
He's gonna lew us in about the Dodgers in their
playoff Han also from Houston, Sean Salisbury, one of the
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hottest sports talk show host in Houston, and he'll get
us up to date on the Houston Astros and their
quest to get to the World Series. Let's go to
lead off. It's getting run off to keep him on.
Rob's hot take on the three biggest stories in Major
League Baseball. Number one, The most shocking thing going on
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in the Baseball Playoffs is the play of Jose Altwo Ray,
the former MVP man. Is he struggling? I mean he's
hitting home runs because he hit another one in Game three,
but he also made another era now has three errors
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in the ALCS, and that era was a big one.
It's sparked a five run sixth inning and helped the
Raids to a victory and a commanding lead in that series.
But our two Raids really struggling. He has I don't know.
They called the yips, the thing where you basically can't
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throw the ball. We've seen people do it. Steve Sacks
and the Dodgers did it. Chuck Knoblock did it with
the Yankees, where you can't make that simple throw from
second base no matter where you're going. This is unbelievable
to be honest at how bad it is and to
see a player of his caliber who struggled during the
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regular season. We know the whole cheating scandal. Whether or
not this is has pressed him or put him in
a different state of mind or whatever has happened. But
he's struggling. And he had a chance in Game three
to kind of make up four for some redemption in
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the ninth inning with two runners arm but he struck
out on a check swing, and after the final out
he sat there alone at the end of the dugout
on the bench with his chin resting on the railing, motionless,
and as everyone else cleared the field. So Jose al
two Rey is going through it and it is not
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pretty to watch Number two. The White Sox are looking
for a new manager. In fact, there are a few
teams looking for a new manager. Rick Rentaria and the
White Sox parted ways after they got knocked out of
the playoffs, so that job is open. The Red Sox
haven't opening and so due to Detroit Tigers. But there
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will not be an opening in the Bronx because a
Yankee ownership has already said that Aaron Boom will return
as Yankee skipper. The Yankees made it to the second
round of the playoffs, of course, lost a Game five
to the Tampa Bay Rays. People expected the Yankees to
make it to the World Series with the team that
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they had. They got off to a great start, they
swept the Indians, they won game won against the Rays,
but then wind up losing the series. And so it's
another year gone body, Yankees having won the World Series
since two thousand and nine. But Aaron Boone will be
back at the helm number three. Billy Bean. Yes, the
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architect of muddy Ball, is leaving the Oakland A's after
thirty years, and it's at this time did his vision
or focus on baseball and analytics? Did it work or
did it fail? Was it good or was it bad?
(04:44):
I'm voting for bad. It wasn't good. The A's only
won two playoff series during his thirty years with the team.
That's it. So it worked. During the regular season, they
were able to win some games, but they never won Jack,
Come on and even that movie, how in the world
(05:07):
could you make a movie feature in Billy Bean and
they didn't even win the World Series At the end
of the movie, the movie was about them winning twenty
games in a row. Come on, man, So Billy Bean
is leaving baseball and going to European soccer. All I
can say is, don't let the door hit you on
the way out. Billy Bean, I'm sorry. Number four. How
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about this baseball injected into the Supreme Court confirmation hearings.
That's right. Take a listen to Ben Sassey, the US
Senator from Nebraska, him roasting the Houston Astros. I'd like
to talk about the Houston Astros, who are miserable. Cheers.
(05:53):
Sorry Corn and Cruz, but both both of the Texas
senators sent on this committee. But I think all baseball
fans know that the Uston Astros cheat, they steal signs,
they bang on cans. They've done a whole bunch of
miserable things historically, and they deserve to be punished, probably
(06:14):
more than they have been. Here comes the big interview.
Listen and lart. It's so good. All right now, let's
welcome to the podcast. Jerry Harriston junior, of course, played
sixteen years in the major leagues, won a World Series
with the New York Yankees in two thousand and nine,
(06:35):
and now as an analyst for Spectrum sportsnet LA. Jerry,
Welcome to the podcast anytime. Rob, how are you doing
man doing good. You know, October baseball is upon us
and baseball every night. Let's just jump into it with
the Dodgers. How much did Clayton Kershaw being scratch hurt
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the Dodgers? And you know, not only in Game two,
but in this playoff run, well, it certainly didn't help.
You know, anytime you have your eight unable to to
go Game two, especially where he's been throwing the ball,
it certainly didn't help. But honestly, Rob, the biggest thing
for us has been our offense. You know, our offense
the first two games in the series. Yes, it woke
(07:18):
up in the last inning and we gave ourselves a
chance to get back in the ball game, but we
just couldn't push that final run to tie the game up.
In the nights that any our offense has the non existent.
So I've been really more concerned about our offense and
I'm hoping that ninth inning will carry over to Game
three and hopefully as to the rest of this series.
We know how great our offense has been throughout the season,
(07:41):
and if we have those school runs. Actor who we
have on the mound, whether it's kursh viewer, Urius is
going to Game three. We should put ourselves in position
to win every ball game. Let me you're right about that. Obviously,
on paper, the Dodgers have the best team in baseball.
I thought the Dodgers and Yankees we're gonna meet in
the World Series. The Yankees have already gotten knocked out.
(08:03):
The Dodgers are in a whole h The Atlanta pitching
has has like rewritten the playoff books record books as
far as what they've been able to do. Yes, the
Dodgers woke up, But Atlanta, I think something like Jerry
had had sixty of the sixty four innings in which
(08:23):
it pitched had scoreless innings. Like Oti he scored four
times four innings in sixty four innings. That's incredible in
Major League Baseball, isn't then it is incredible. But you know,
I think they're taking an advantage of the high swinging
this rate that the a lot of major league hitters
are at. Now. It's a strikeout league. Either getna walk,
(08:45):
strikeout or whole run, and they've taken advantage of that.
You know, in Game one match fraight you tip your hat.
He was Dominic, making no mistake about it. He made
one mistake to keep Karyanas and eat a home run
with it. But other than that, you know, you can't
hear look at a situation where we should have got
some runs here or there. In game two, you could
you know, the young man Ian Anderson, he started her
(09:08):
five walks five, We had twenty opportunities to push two
or three, only four runs across. He wasn't overpowering. He
had a pretty good changeup, but I really thought he
was more geared. H I should say, a better matchup
for Dodger hitters. Uh, then it showed. You know, I
really thought the Dodgers was taken to him last night,
(09:30):
but it just didn't happen. But Max freedon game one.
You tip your hat and you move on. But again,
it didn't happen last night. In Game two. You gotta,
you know, move on and figure out a way to
win Game three, Game threes of must win. Our guest
is Jerry Harriston Junior, of course, the former Major League
and current Dodger analysts on Spectrum Sports net LA. Uh.
(09:54):
The the other part of this is, and you know
when when teams that have great offensive scuffle in the
postseason and has a long history of that because pitching
has just stops good hitting. It's it's part of the game, Jerry.
But are there are enough grinders in the lineup? Is
there too many just big swingers? Sometimes you got to
(10:15):
grind out at bats in the postseason. What is the
Dodgers issue? You know what the issue is, and you're
right now. I would say that ninety five percent time
you got to grind out at bats, continue to work
or the picture getting tired. The Dodgers did that twice
in Game one and Game two. They were on the
pitch scount up the first couple of things, all starters.
(10:36):
But then you get too passive. You have to be
aggressive in the stripes zone. You get a pitch to hit,
you know, especially with the runners are base in the postseason,
if you don't swing at it, that may be the
last picture you're gonna see in that at bat to
do some damage with it. So you have to be
very you know, precise as far as when to pick
your spots on when I need to be aggressive and
(10:58):
then when I need to work the count I need
to Dodgers hopefully found that out late in the game
last night, and they will be more aggressive in this
strike zone early in this ballgame, Jerry, last thing. I mean,
the series has a ways to go. It's not over
by any stretch of the imagination. But can the Dodgers
really afford not to make it to the World Series
(11:19):
with this team? I mean, last year was a shocker
and Washington wind up winning the World Series after they
knocked off the Dodgers. But but this would be I
think with the addition of Mookie bets what happened during
the regular season where they totally dominated. To not get
to the World Series, this would be a bummer and
a big time fail. Well, I'm gonna speak for I
(11:43):
mean Afa, Justin Jurner, Clayton Hirshaw, Kenley Jansen, and really
the rest of the guys. I mean they say it
all the time. Hey, we know we have a smaller
window with this group. Claytonshaw is not getting younger, Kenley
Janson is not getting any other key. Justin Turner is
a free agent act so Scurnads, so is Jacques Peterson.
(12:03):
A lot of these guys may not be bad next year,
so they feel this is the year they have to
get it done. So if they feel this Seer, you
have to get it done, it would be devastating if
they didn't win the World Series. Forget what the World series.
You have to win the World Series right now with
this group. That's how they feel, Rob, no doubt. All right.
(12:23):
His name Jerry Hairston Junior, Jerry Man. Thanks for the knowledge.
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The analytic numbers you need to know? Well, maybe Anthony
(14:12):
Masterson is his name, BS analytics is his game. What
do you got from me, Anthony? In last week's show,
I wondered what it was going to take to be
successful this postseason, small ball or long ball, and judging
by the first two weeks worth of playoff games, the
answer is quite clear now through the games of Monday,
the thirteenth teams to out homer their opponents. This postseason,
(14:33):
we're ropping twenty four and one. And it's not just
the number of homers, it's the all or nothing style
taken by so many teams that's driving them forward. In
the last ninety years, there have been only five total
postseasons where at least half of the run scored came
via the home run, and twenty twenty is fixing the
set records. Through the first two weeks of playoff baseball,
(14:54):
fifty two point three percent of all run scored have
come via the long ball. Only one season in MLB
history has seen a higher number, nineteen fifty six, when
thirty one of the fifty eight run scored by the
Yankees and Brooklyn Dodgers, or fifty three point four percent,
came via the dinger. The Yankees, by the way, won
that series in seven games. Yogi Bear a Mickey Mantle
(15:15):
each at three home runs on their own. Now, the
Rays are the largest culprits so far, with nearly eighty
percent of their runs being scored on the wrong ball,
which during the regular season that number sat around forty
percent for Tampa Now, on the other end of the spectrum,
the Dodgers are under ten percent of their runs scored
via the home run in spacious globe by field after
their Game one loss to Atlanta, when during the regular
(15:37):
season they were second only to Cincinnati, sitting at a
cool fifty one percent. Now, small sample sizes are a
wonderful thing, but one thing is very clear this postseason.
Clout is king it was a big week in the
Big League? Or is it fair? And now? Here's Shadow
(16:04):
League dot Com MLB insider Jr. Gambo. The Dodgers were
looking like a team that was destined to finally get
to the World Series, and Clayton Kershaw was pitching as
good as he's ever had in the postseason. But a
back injury has changed everything. Is it foul or fair
(16:26):
to say that the Dodgers hopes of getting back to
the World Series are now in trouble without their ace? Jr?
Fair ball. I thought that this was the year that
the Dodgers finally got over the World Series home third time?
Is the charm? Isn't that what they'd say? Hey, they
have the lineup with Mookie Betts, Fellinger and those other
(16:46):
big boppers and Kershaw was pitching as well has he
ever had in the postseason, But this kind of changes everything.
Instead of being down one zero but knowing your aces
at his best and ready to even up for seven
game series. At won one, the Dodgers have to send
the rookie to the mouth in the crucial spot who
(17:06):
should be pitching later in the series. Don't count on
kers Shaw's returns because he's been struggling with back problems
since two thousand sixteen when he had the herniated disk
and also miss time the following two seasons. What a
disaster or disappointment it would be for the Dodgers to
lose the heart and soul of their team, especially at
(17:28):
a time when the bullpen is failing. You have to
ask yourself, is Dave Roberts jinx is that strolling based
against the Yankees and World Series with the Red Sox
going to be his only taste of championship Champagne. I
do know that before the fifth inning homer for the
Dodgers in the game won five one loss, Atlanta pitches
at her twenty three scoreless innings over the last six
(17:51):
playoff games. They have a zero point nine three r
A I believe that's the best sense of Orioles in
eighty three. Those big money back have to get going
for La and Atlanta can mash too. So I don't
see any weaknesses in this great team right now. It's
tough for the Dodges to pull this out, and even
if they do advance in the World Series, the cursor
(18:13):
is not available that caspell trouble. Take out the papers
in the trash, It's time for trash Talk Twitter, Twitter
with your chance to trash anyone or anything in Major
League Baseball. All right, This week's trash is from Dollar
Bill on Instagram. Quote, I'm trashing Zach Grinky. What does
(18:38):
he mean he likes pitching without the fans? The fans
are the game. How in the world could you diss
the fans like that? It's bad enough we can't come
to the games, but now you're telling us you don't
want us. Man. I gotta agree with Dollar Bill on
that the fans make baseball. If you want to be
(19:01):
on trash Talking, make sure you hit me up on
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And if you're the best trasher, you'll be on next
week's podcast. When Rob was a newspaper columnist. He lived
by this motto, if I'm writing, I'm ripping. Let's bring
in a writer and broadcaster, older new All right, let's
(19:24):
welcome to the podcast. Sean Salisbury, of course, former NFL
quarterback and one of the hottest sports talk radio guys
in Houston at Sports Talk seven nineties. Shawn, welcome to
the podcast. Rob ready to be on, Buddy, thank you,
no doubt. And the Houston Astros, America's most hated team.
(19:46):
Sean had got to the Alcs. They were in a
big hole. But the biggest story probably out there is
what's happened to Jose Altuve? And that's where we want
to start. Sean, have you seen anything like this? They
you know what they called it, the yips, the thing
(20:08):
where he cannot throw the ball. What's happened to Jose Altuve?
We're now listening to Dusty and being in Duson. That
was a topic all day, all morning, for hours on
the show. And I think what happens is it when
it comes from a guy who's been so highly revered
in that city, in this city that I'm in in Houston,
and has really put up Hall of Fame numbers it's
(20:29):
it's you know, it's one of those robblers, like, well,
the fans and just do we criticize him? And I've
always said, listen, as much as we compliment players, they're
not above criticism either, because this is not personal. The
fact of the matter is that Josiel Tuves having a
hard time throwing the ball to first and second base.
Yet the series before he was going fine. Now there
is the speculation and or the talk that he's a
(20:53):
guy who is so good to his teammates, and this
has been the talk in this city for a couple
of months. He struggled at the plate during the regular season. Robin,
We've all you know him, he's always a great hitter.
That he's been carrying this burden around that, you know,
through the cheating part and the Steelian signs that everybody says, well,
he didn't do it, yet that he cares so much
that it has worn on him all Now, whether people
(21:13):
believe that or not, that stuff to them, but that
that feeling that well, it's wearing on him. He's mentally
beat down and emotionally beat down, and it's affected him
not only at the plate, but now that he's done
this and that he wears that emotion and it's hard
for him to overcome. Now. I talked to the GM today,
James Click, and he said, I don't know if that
he goes, I'm not sure that's the reason he's pressing.
(21:34):
And he goes to the series before he played good site.
He played good second base for it. So and when
I asked if he's, you know, like the consideration of
what you put him at DH and move somebody else dust,
he's emphatically said no. And I get that part, you
want to let veterans fight through it, but y'a. Also
there's the part of the respect factory. Even though he
winning games matters. I think he's been got so many
skins in the game and on the wall as far
(21:56):
as trophies and what he's done and that Lifetime Achievement
Award that I think that they would feel it would
be disrespectful to him. Now, if he broots two more balls,
then it's gonna be a bad decision or throws two away?
Should I say? But yeah, it's been tough, and especially
coming from a guy who's been so consistent in his
whole career, it looks like he's mentally tired after this season.
It really does, Rob, it does. Sean. What about the
(22:18):
reaction from the fans in Houston. I mean, obviously they
had a great World Series when they won in twenty seventeen,
and people loved the whole thing on how this team
was put together. They fell in love with the team.
And then you know, to just hear the way you know,
this whole scandal went down or the talk of it.
(22:40):
Were people kind of indifferent about them making it this
far or were they embracing the team? Well, from this
is a rob I know this is a football state'
I mean you wouldn't be, but people would be shocked
to know that when you're up, for instance, we bring
up out two days name today and you can't keep
people off the phone. I mean they this is a
(23:01):
baseball town. And maybe it's because with Bill O'Brien and
now he's not here, but they haven't trusted the football team.
They've trusted the baseball team, and now that they're winning there,
they feel like this is the franchise. He gives them
the best chance every year. Well, you know, after the scandal,
then they went through it in the offseason, and you
know how it is, people get sensitive when you question
even when it was self inflicted, and it was self inflicted.
And then when you go through all those emotions, well
(23:23):
every other team was doing or other teams were. You
go through the excuse making too, the confidence, to the swagger,
to the fighting back, all those things. We'll head the
end of this year with COVID kicking in and and
the Verlander then going you know, not pitching, and Garrett
Cole signing elsewhere and going through it. I think the
expectations will high because there's a sense of swagger in
this town. You'd feel like at times, and I mean
(23:44):
this sincerely, that you were talking about a team like
the Yankees, who's hunt twenty seven banners after winning a
World Series and three now four straight American League Championship Series.
There's a swagger in this town of a team that's
like historic. I mean that's how they think, and that's okay.
These fans been so long without a I mean they
went after Bagdol and Visio. They struggled with a hundred
(24:05):
loss seasons, so there's this feeling of pride like see,
we told you so, and then this season comes up.
And I've said it on my show, but people said it,
I didn't expect this. I didn't expect them to get
this far. And I think for some fans it's like
that middle finger, like, see, well we went farther than
the Yankees, or nobody thought we'd be here. See, we're
not just a trash can, you know, beating a trash can.
(24:26):
We were good before it, we're going to be good
after it. So there's a sense of pride, a sense
of insecurity, a sense of fight back, all those things
that go with emotions, and I completely understand it, but
I don't think many people, even some people within that organization,
did not expect After COVID and injuries and the way
they were struggling swinging the bat and the controversy coming
(24:46):
out of it, nobody expected them to get by Minnesota,
let alone going into the As who won the division.
Yet they still think they're the best team in the division,
but they just thought they went too much. And I
think right now there's a sense of pride that they've
got at this point, even though they're down oh and three,
and there's a sense there's some that still are a
semi delusional, like we all are at times, about that
(25:07):
they're gonna win four straight. I guess it could happen,
But this team takes a lot of pride in the
Houston Astros, and they will fight back because anytime go
on Twitter rab you see it all the time. When
you say something about the Astros, they will battle you. Senseilly,
it doesn't matter what went on. So I give them
a lot of credit for rallying behind their team. But
there's a sense of sensitivity should I say about their
(25:28):
team and when you talk about their players, because they
feel like, well, we don't get treated like the Dodgers
or the Yankees of the Red Sox, and they feel
in Houston like over the last four years they should
because of their performance, notwithstanding twenty seventeen. But I think
they're proud of their team and they still think they
got a chance. But I think they also realize that
reality is kicking in and down O three against the
best team in baseball this year is a tough He'll decline,
(25:52):
all right. His name is Sean Salisberry. Sean man, thank
you for the insight. We appreciate it on the Astros
and where they are. Thanks again, Buddy, I appreciate I
guarantee if you ask the rob they think they're coming
back to with the World Series next year. That's the
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it was great to see people at the ball game.
And seventeen thousand showed up on Monday to see that
first NLCS game against the Braves and the Dodgers, and
it just added some life. Did you see those home
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runs going into the crowd and people there spread out,
giving room, But the atmosphere a little bit was back
at the ballpark. The fans make the game, There's no
doubt about it. And that's why we love going and
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you live in MLB America. This is Inside the Parker.
You give us twenty two minutes and we'll give you
the scoop on Major League Baseball. Now here's Baseball Hall
(00:45):
of Fame voter number eighty six, Rob Parker. Welcome into
the podcast. We have a great show for you today.
We're gonna talk with former Major Leagua Jerry Harris did Junior.
He's gonna lew us in about the Dodgers in their
playoff Han also from Houston, Sean Salisbury, one of the
(01:07):
hottest sports talk show host in Houston, and he'll get
us up to date on the Houston Astros and their
quest to get to the World Series. Let's go to
lead off. It's getting run off to keep him on.
Rob's hot take on the three biggest stories in Major
League Baseball. Number one, The most shocking thing going on
(01:32):
in the Baseball Playoffs is the play of Jose Altwo Ray,
the former MVP man. Is he struggling? I mean he's
hitting home runs because he hit another one in Game three,
but he also made another era now has three errors
(01:54):
in the ALCS, and that era was a big one.
It's sparked a five run sixth inning and helped the
Raids to a victory and a commanding lead in that series.
But our two Raids really struggling. He has I don't know.
They called the yips, the thing where you basically can't
(02:14):
throw the ball. We've seen people do it. Steve Sacks
and the Dodgers did it. Chuck Knoblock did it with
the Yankees, where you can't make that simple throw from
second base no matter where you're going. This is unbelievable
to be honest at how bad it is and to
see a player of his caliber who struggled during the
(02:36):
regular season. We know the whole cheating scandal. Whether or
not this is has pressed him or put him in
a different state of mind or whatever has happened. But
he's struggling. And he had a chance in Game three
to kind of make up four for some redemption in
(02:56):
the ninth inning with two runners arm but he struck
out on a check swing, and after the final out
he sat there alone at the end of the dugout
on the bench with his chin resting on the railing, motionless,
and as everyone else cleared the field. So Jose al
two Rey is going through it and it is not
(03:18):
pretty to watch Number two. The White Sox are looking
for a new manager. In fact, there are a few
teams looking for a new manager. Rick Rentaria and the
White Sox parted ways after they got knocked out of
the playoffs, so that job is open. The Red Sox
haven't opening and so due to Detroit Tigers. But there
(03:40):
will not be an opening in the Bronx because a
Yankee ownership has already said that Aaron Boom will return
as Yankee skipper. The Yankees made it to the second
round of the playoffs, of course, lost a Game five
to the Tampa Bay Rays. People expected the Yankees to
make it to the World Series with the team that
(04:00):
they had. They got off to a great start, they
swept the Indians, they won game won against the Rays,
but then wind up losing the series. And so it's
another year gone body, Yankees having won the World Series
since two thousand and nine. But Aaron Boone will be
back at the helm number three. Billy Bean. Yes, the
(04:23):
architect of muddy Ball, is leaving the Oakland A's after
thirty years, and it's at this time did his vision
or focus on baseball and analytics? Did it work or
did it fail? Was it good or was it bad?
(04:44):
I'm voting for bad. It wasn't good. The A's only
won two playoff series during his thirty years with the team.
That's it. So it worked. During the regular season, they
were able to win some games, but they never won Jack,
Come on and even that movie, how in the world
(05:07):
could you make a movie feature in Billy Bean and
they didn't even win the World Series At the end
of the movie, the movie was about them winning twenty
games in a row. Come on, man, So Billy Bean
is leaving baseball and going to European soccer. All I
can say is, don't let the door hit you on
the way out. Billy Bean, I'm sorry. Number four. How
(05:30):
about this baseball injected into the Supreme Court confirmation hearings.
That's right. Take a listen to Ben Sassey, the US
Senator from Nebraska, him roasting the Houston Astros. I'd like
to talk about the Houston Astros, who are miserable. Cheers.
(05:53):
Sorry Corn and Cruz, but both both of the Texas
senators sent on this committee. But I think all baseball
fans know that the Uston Astros cheat, they steal signs,
they bang on cans. They've done a whole bunch of
miserable things historically, and they deserve to be punished, probably
(06:14):
more than they have been. Here comes the big interview.
Listen and lart. It's so good. All right now, let's
welcome to the podcast. Jerry Harriston junior, of course, played
sixteen years in the major leagues, won a World Series
with the New York Yankees in two thousand and nine,
(06:35):
and now as an analyst for Spectrum sportsnet LA. Jerry,
Welcome to the podcast anytime. Rob, how are you doing
man doing good. You know, October baseball is upon us
and baseball every night. Let's just jump into it with
the Dodgers. How much did Clayton Kershaw being scratch hurt
(06:57):
the Dodgers? And you know, not only in Game two,
but in this playoff run, well, it certainly didn't help.
You know, anytime you have your eight unable to to
go Game two, especially where he's been throwing the ball,
it certainly didn't help. But honestly, Rob, the biggest thing
for us has been our offense. You know, our offense
the first two games in the series. Yes, it woke
(07:18):
up in the last inning and we gave ourselves a
chance to get back in the ball game, but we
just couldn't push that final run to tie the game up.
In the nights that any our offense has the non existent.
So I've been really more concerned about our offense and
I'm hoping that ninth inning will carry over to Game
three and hopefully as to the rest of this series.
We know how great our offense has been throughout the season,
(07:41):
and if we have those school runs. Actor who we
have on the mound, whether it's kursh viewer, Urius is
going to Game three. We should put ourselves in position
to win every ball game. Let me you're right about that. Obviously,
on paper, the Dodgers have the best team in baseball.
I thought the Dodgers and Yankees we're gonna meet in
the World Series. The Yankees have already gotten knocked out.
(08:03):
The Dodgers are in a whole h The Atlanta pitching
has has like rewritten the playoff books record books as
far as what they've been able to do. Yes, the
Dodgers woke up, But Atlanta, I think something like Jerry
had had sixty of the sixty four innings in which
(08:23):
it pitched had scoreless innings. Like Oti he scored four
times four innings in sixty four innings. That's incredible in
Major League Baseball, isn't then it is incredible. But you know,
I think they're taking an advantage of the high swinging
this rate that the a lot of major league hitters
are at. Now. It's a strikeout league. Either getna walk,
(08:45):
strikeout or whole run, and they've taken advantage of that.
You know, in Game one match fraight you tip your hat.
He was Dominic, making no mistake about it. He made
one mistake to keep Karyanas and eat a home run
with it. But other than that, you know, you can't
hear look at a situation where we should have got
some runs here or there. In game two, you could
you know, the young man Ian Anderson, he started her
(09:08):
five walks five, We had twenty opportunities to push two
or three, only four runs across. He wasn't overpowering. He
had a pretty good changeup, but I really thought he
was more geared. H I should say, a better matchup
for Dodger hitters. Uh, then it showed. You know, I
really thought the Dodgers was taken to him last night,
(09:30):
but it just didn't happen. But Max freedon game one.
You tip your hat and you move on. But again,
it didn't happen last night. In Game two. You gotta,
you know, move on and figure out a way to
win Game three, Game threes of must win. Our guest
is Jerry Harriston Junior, of course, the former Major League
and current Dodger analysts on Spectrum Sports net LA. Uh.
(09:54):
The the other part of this is, and you know
when when teams that have great offensive scuffle in the
postseason and has a long history of that because pitching
has just stops good hitting. It's it's part of the game, Jerry.
But are there are enough grinders in the lineup? Is
there too many just big swingers? Sometimes you got to
(10:15):
grind out at bats in the postseason. What is the
Dodgers issue? You know what the issue is, and you're
right now. I would say that ninety five percent time
you got to grind out at bats, continue to work
or the picture getting tired. The Dodgers did that twice
in Game one and Game two. They were on the
pitch scount up the first couple of things, all starters.
(10:36):
But then you get too passive. You have to be
aggressive in the stripes zone. You get a pitch to hit,
you know, especially with the runners are base in the postseason,
if you don't swing at it, that may be the
last picture you're gonna see in that at bat to
do some damage with it. So you have to be
very you know, precise as far as when to pick
your spots on when I need to be aggressive and
(10:58):
then when I need to work the count I need
to Dodgers hopefully found that out late in the game
last night, and they will be more aggressive in this
strike zone early in this ballgame, Jerry, last thing. I mean,
the series has a ways to go. It's not over
by any stretch of the imagination. But can the Dodgers
really afford not to make it to the World Series
(11:19):
with this team? I mean, last year was a shocker
and Washington wind up winning the World Series after they
knocked off the Dodgers. But but this would be I
think with the addition of Mookie bets what happened during
the regular season where they totally dominated. To not get
to the World Series, this would be a bummer and
a big time fail. Well, I'm gonna speak for I
(11:43):
mean Afa, Justin Jurner, Clayton Hirshaw, Kenley Jansen, and really
the rest of the guys. I mean they say it
all the time. Hey, we know we have a smaller
window with this group. Claytonshaw is not getting younger, Kenley
Janson is not getting any other key. Justin Turner is
a free agent act so Scurnads, so is Jacques Peterson.
(12:03):
A lot of these guys may not be bad next year,
so they feel this is the year they have to
get it done. So if they feel this Seer, you
have to get it done, it would be devastating if
they didn't win the World Series. Forget what the World series.
You have to win the World Series right now with
this group. That's how they feel, Rob, no doubt. All right.
(12:23):
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The analytic numbers you need to know? Well, maybe Anthony
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Masterson is his name, BS analytics is his game. What
do you got from me, Anthony? In last week's show,
I wondered what it was going to take to be
successful this postseason, small ball or long ball, and judging
by the first two weeks worth of playoff games, the
answer is quite clear now through the games of Monday,
the thirteenth teams to out homer their opponents. This postseason,
(14:33):
we're ropping twenty four and one. And it's not just
the number of homers, it's the all or nothing style
taken by so many teams that's driving them forward. In
the last ninety years, there have been only five total
postseasons where at least half of the run scored came
via the home run, and twenty twenty is fixing the
set records. Through the first two weeks of playoff baseball,
(14:54):
fifty two point three percent of all run scored have
come via the long ball. Only one season in MLB
history has seen a higher number, nineteen fifty six, when
thirty one of the fifty eight run scored by the
Yankees and Brooklyn Dodgers, or fifty three point four percent,
came via the dinger. The Yankees, by the way, won
that series in seven games. Yogi Bear a Mickey Mantle
(15:15):
each at three home runs on their own. Now, the
Rays are the largest culprits so far, with nearly eighty
percent of their runs being scored on the wrong ball,
which during the regular season that number sat around forty
percent for Tampa Now, on the other end of the spectrum,
the Dodgers are under ten percent of their runs scored
via the home run in spacious globe by field after
their Game one loss to Atlanta, when during the regular
(15:37):
season they were second only to Cincinnati, sitting at a
cool fifty one percent. Now, small sample sizes are a
wonderful thing, but one thing is very clear this postseason.
Clout is king it was a big week in the
Big League? Or is it fair? And now? Here's Shadow
(16:04):
League dot Com MLB insider Jr. Gambo. The Dodgers were
looking like a team that was destined to finally get
to the World Series, and Clayton Kershaw was pitching as
good as he's ever had in the postseason. But a
back injury has changed everything. Is it foul or fair
(16:26):
to say that the Dodgers hopes of getting back to
the World Series are now in trouble without their ace? Jr?
Fair ball. I thought that this was the year that
the Dodgers finally got over the World Series home third time?
Is the charm? Isn't that what they'd say? Hey, they
have the lineup with Mookie Betts, Fellinger and those other
(16:46):
big boppers and Kershaw was pitching as well has he
ever had in the postseason, But this kind of changes everything.
Instead of being down one zero but knowing your aces
at his best and ready to even up for seven
game series. At won one, the Dodgers have to send
the rookie to the mouth in the crucial spot who
(17:06):
should be pitching later in the series. Don't count on
kers Shaw's returns because he's been struggling with back problems
since two thousand sixteen when he had the herniated disk
and also miss time the following two seasons. What a
disaster or disappointment it would be for the Dodgers to
lose the heart and soul of their team, especially at
(17:28):
a time when the bullpen is failing. You have to
ask yourself, is Dave Roberts jinx is that strolling based
against the Yankees and World Series with the Red Sox
going to be his only taste of championship Champagne. I
do know that before the fifth inning homer for the
Dodgers in the game won five one loss, Atlanta pitches
at her twenty three scoreless innings over the last six
(17:51):
playoff games. They have a zero point nine three r
A I believe that's the best sense of Orioles in
eighty three. Those big money back have to get going
for La and Atlanta can mash too. So I don't
see any weaknesses in this great team right now. It's
tough for the Dodges to pull this out, and even
if they do advance in the World Series, the cursor
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is not available that caspell trouble. Take out the papers
in the trash, It's time for trash Talk Twitter, Twitter
with your chance to trash anyone or anything in Major
League Baseball. All right, This week's trash is from Dollar
Bill on Instagram. Quote, I'm trashing Zach Grinky. What does
(18:38):
he mean he likes pitching without the fans? The fans
are the game. How in the world could you diss
the fans like that? It's bad enough we can't come
to the games, but now you're telling us you don't
want us. Man. I gotta agree with Dollar Bill on
that the fans make baseball. If you want to be
(19:01):
on trash Talking, make sure you hit me up on
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And if you're the best trasher, you'll be on next
week's podcast. When Rob was a newspaper columnist. He lived
by this motto, if I'm writing, I'm ripping. Let's bring
in a writer and broadcaster, older new All right, let's
(19:24):
welcome to the podcast. Sean Salisbury, of course, former NFL
quarterback and one of the hottest sports talk radio guys
in Houston at Sports Talk seven nineties. Shawn, welcome to
the podcast. Rob ready to be on, Buddy, thank you,
no doubt. And the Houston Astros, America's most hated team.
(19:46):
Sean had got to the Alcs. They were in a
big hole. But the biggest story probably out there is
what's happened to Jose Altuve? And that's where we want
to start. Sean, have you seen anything like this? They
you know what they called it, the yips, the thing
(20:08):
where he cannot throw the ball. What's happened to Jose Altuve?
We're now listening to Dusty and being in Duson. That
was a topic all day, all morning, for hours on
the show. And I think what happens is it when
it comes from a guy who's been so highly revered
in that city, in this city that I'm in in Houston,
and has really put up Hall of Fame numbers it's
(20:29):
it's you know, it's one of those robblers, like, well,
the fans and just do we criticize him? And I've
always said, listen, as much as we compliment players, they're
not above criticism either, because this is not personal. The
fact of the matter is that Josiel Tuves having a
hard time throwing the ball to first and second base.
Yet the series before he was going fine. Now there
is the speculation and or the talk that he's a
(20:53):
guy who is so good to his teammates, and this
has been the talk in this city for a couple
of months. He struggled at the plate during the regular season. Robin,
We've all you know him, he's always a great hitter.
That he's been carrying this burden around that, you know,
through the cheating part and the Steelian signs that everybody says, well,
he didn't do it, yet that he cares so much
that it has worn on him all Now, whether people
(21:13):
believe that or not, that stuff to them, but that
that feeling that well, it's wearing on him. He's mentally
beat down and emotionally beat down, and it's affected him
not only at the plate, but now that he's done
this and that he wears that emotion and it's hard
for him to overcome. Now. I talked to the GM today,
James Click, and he said, I don't know if that
he goes, I'm not sure that's the reason he's pressing.
(21:34):
And he goes to the series before he played good site.
He played good second base for it. So and when
I asked if he's, you know, like the consideration of
what you put him at DH and move somebody else dust,
he's emphatically said no. And I get that part, you
want to let veterans fight through it, but y'a. Also
there's the part of the respect factory. Even though he
winning games matters. I think he's been got so many
skins in the game and on the wall as far
(21:56):
as trophies and what he's done and that Lifetime Achievement
Award that I think that they would feel it would
be disrespectful to him. Now, if he broots two more balls,
then it's gonna be a bad decision or throws two away?
Should I say? But yeah, it's been tough, and especially
coming from a guy who's been so consistent in his
whole career, it looks like he's mentally tired after this season.
It really does, Rob, it does. Sean. What about the
(22:18):
reaction from the fans in Houston. I mean, obviously they
had a great World Series when they won in twenty seventeen,
and people loved the whole thing on how this team
was put together. They fell in love with the team.
And then you know, to just hear the way you know,
this whole scandal went down or the talk of it.
(22:40):
Were people kind of indifferent about them making it this
far or were they embracing the team? Well, from this
is a rob I know this is a football state'
I mean you wouldn't be, but people would be shocked
to know that when you're up, for instance, we bring
up out two days name today and you can't keep
people off the phone. I mean they this is a
(23:01):
baseball town. And maybe it's because with Bill O'Brien and
now he's not here, but they haven't trusted the football team.
They've trusted the baseball team, and now that they're winning there,
they feel like this is the franchise. He gives them
the best chance every year. Well, you know, after the scandal,
then they went through it in the offseason, and you
know how it is, people get sensitive when you question
even when it was self inflicted, and it was self inflicted.
And then when you go through all those emotions, well
(23:23):
every other team was doing or other teams were. You
go through the excuse making too, the confidence, to the swagger,
to the fighting back, all those things. We'll head the
end of this year with COVID kicking in and and
the Verlander then going you know, not pitching, and Garrett
Cole signing elsewhere and going through it. I think the
expectations will high because there's a sense of swagger in
this town. You'd feel like at times, and I mean
(23:44):
this sincerely, that you were talking about a team like
the Yankees, who's hunt twenty seven banners after winning a
World Series and three now four straight American League Championship Series.
There's a swagger in this town of a team that's
like historic. I mean that's how they think, and that's okay.
These fans been so long without a I mean they
went after Bagdol and Visio. They struggled with a hundred
(24:05):
loss seasons, so there's this feeling of pride like see,
we told you so, and then this season comes up.
And I've said it on my show, but people said it,
I didn't expect this. I didn't expect them to get
this far. And I think for some fans it's like
that middle finger, like, see, well we went farther than
the Yankees, or nobody thought we'd be here. See, we're
not just a trash can, you know, beating a trash can.
(24:26):
We were good before it, we're going to be good
after it. So there's a sense of pride, a sense
of insecurity, a sense of fight back, all those things
that go with emotions, and I completely understand it, but
I don't think many people, even some people within that organization,
did not expect After COVID and injuries and the way
they were struggling swinging the bat and the controversy coming
(24:46):
out of it, nobody expected them to get by Minnesota,
let alone going into the As who won the division.
Yet they still think they're the best team in the division,
but they just thought they went too much. And I
think right now there's a sense of pride that they've
got at this point, even though they're down oh and three,
and there's a sense there's some that still are a
semi delusional, like we all are at times, about that
(25:07):
they're gonna win four straight. I guess it could happen,
But this team takes a lot of pride in the
Houston Astros, and they will fight back because anytime go
on Twitter rab you see it all the time. When
you say something about the Astros, they will battle you. Senseilly,
it doesn't matter what went on. So I give them
a lot of credit for rallying behind their team. But
there's a sense of sensitivity should I say about their
(25:28):
team and when you talk about their players, because they
feel like, well, we don't get treated like the Dodgers
or the Yankees of the Red Sox, and they feel
in Houston like over the last four years they should
because of their performance, notwithstanding twenty seventeen. But I think
they're proud of their team and they still think they
got a chance. But I think they also realize that
reality is kicking in and down O three against the
best team in baseball this year is a tough He'll decline,
(25:52):
all right. His name is Sean Salisberry. Sean man, thank
you for the insight. We appreciate it on the Astros
and where they are. Thanks again, Buddy, I appreciate I
guarantee if you ask the rob they think they're coming
back to with the World Series next year. That's the
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and the NFL. It's the fans. You know, it's the fans.
That's what makes baseball great. The fans showing up at
the ballpark. I've always said this, you know, baseball attendance
is incredible when you think about it, Uh, baseball outdoors,
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the NBA, the NFL, the NHL, I mean, the NBA, NHL,
NFL and Major League soccer combine nearly seventy million enough
fans by tickets every year. And you know what. Major
League Baseball opened its doors on Monday to the new
ballpark in Arlington Globe Life Field, and fans were able
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to buy tickets a limited capacity twenty five percent. But
it was great to see people at the ball game.
And seventeen thousand showed up on Monday to see that
first NLCS game against the Braves and the Dodgers, and
it just added some life. Did you see those home
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runs going into the crowd and people there spread out,
giving room, But the atmosphere a little bit was back
at the ballpark. The fans make the game, There's no
doubt about it. And that's why we love going and
spending our great summer and great weather out at the ballpark.
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It's the best quality time you can spend with friends
is at a ballpark at a baseball game. In the
words of New York TV legend the late Bill Jorgensen,
thanking you for your time this time until next time.
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