March 27, 2025 • 37 mins
Rob Parker and Kelvin Washington celebrate Opening Day and identify what they believe are the best baseball towns in the country. MLB Bro dot com Managing Editor JR Gamble joins the guys to discuss the Dodgers' odds of repeating as champions. Plus, how much do concession prices make an impact on if you'll be eating and drinking at a game?!
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Speaker 3 (01:29):
So we know it's opening day.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
We talked about it and uh By, some baseball games
are still going on, and you know I was out
at the ballpark today.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
You know you were there as well.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
We were both at Dodgers Stadium way before the action started,
but still just the atmosphere and everything.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
And we know what a town.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
We both live in Los Angeles and we know what
a baseball town. I know everybody LA, the Lakers, LA
is the Dodgers as well, like.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Don't do it, get it very close.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
It's like fifty fifty forty nine, right, yeah, it's it's
whichever side you want to say. It is very much
a baseball town for sure.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
And people who don't know the Dodgers draw like four
million people every year, four million like people go to
Dodger games.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
People have on.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
If I told you that three or four of our
producers have on Dodger Hatson and uh Jersey's Ryan and
who else Shay has his.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
On, Well, don't look at don't look at you got
yours on too? Mind your business.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Danny g does he have his own? Sure, Jason Stewart
did as well.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Yeah, Jason Stewart, I mean, everybody and their uncle. But
my point is it's a big baseball talent. And the
question is, as you know, I've covered baseball for thirty
nine years. I've been to all the ball parks, all
the stadiums and everything that you can talk about. And
I know it's easy to just look at New York
(02:57):
and Los Angeles and maybe Philly or Boston or whatever
and say those are, you know, the best baseball towns.
But I'm gonna tell you something different. And I've been
saying this for a while. The best baseball town to
me in America, and Kelvin you've heard me say this
(03:26):
is Saint Louis, Missouri. I think Saint Louis is the
baseball capital of the United States. And I don't know,
I've been there, obviously, and if you go to a
game everybody has read on it's pretty amazing. And here's
the thing, Okay, they draw look at their attendance. I
(03:49):
think in the last twenty five years, maybe one year
under three million. Okay, right, And you say, well, what's
the big deal. Do you know what the pop population
is for the city of Saint Louis, and I'm talking
about in the city proper, Okay, two hundred and eighty
one thousand.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Now, no, it's not the metro area. Don't get me wrong.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
I'm not trying to pretend that everybody in their uncle
from only the city are going to games. But don't
you find that to be unbelievable? Seriously, a city that's
small to a track that's not like Tampa. Tampa and
places like that probably have a bigger population. Bryan, look
up Tampa's population. I guarantee you it's bigger than Saint Louis.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Oh yeah, Tampa might. Yeah, that probably my guess off
the six seven hundred thousand, right.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Boston four hundred thousand. Boston has like six hundred thousand.
I'm talking about city prop proper, Right, New York has
eight million, LA has like five million five ye, right,
I'm talking about so LA has five million and it
draws four million a year, and Saint Louis has two
hundred and eighty one thousand and they drew.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Three million a year.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Saint Louis is the baseball capital of the United States.
And I'm from New York that has two teams and
when they opened up the two new stadium City Field
and Yankee Stadium that year two thousand and nine. You ready, Kelvin, Yeah,
New York so eight million baseball tickets in one year,
and the two new stadiums eight million tickets. So for
(05:27):
me to city here and tell you that Saint Louis
is the baseball capital of the United States.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
They loved that team.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
That city's run two football teams out of Saint Louis.
Think about that. As big as football is around the
United States. Don't mess with their Cardinals and don't mess
with their Saint Louis Blues.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
That's what that town is about.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Baseball first and the NHL second, without a doubt.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
I mean, when you when you think of kind of
the some of the teams that are blue bloods. If
you in baseball, you mentioned it. We talk about the
New York teams. We talk about LA because of the
size of the cities and what they mean. But when
you're talking about impact, what the teams mean in that city,
you gotta absolutely put Saint Louis up there. I mean,
very passionate is the city. I've never been to the city,
(06:16):
but I only hear that, I only hear how dedicated
they are. I only hear how educated they are. I
only hear how passionate their fans are. And that's again refreshating.
I think every team has every city has rob those
teams where yeah, we have multiple teams, but this franchise
matters more as much as the Celtics. Mean, in Boston
(06:38):
you always hear it's the Bruins or it's the Red Sox.
It isn't the Celtics as much as you think, because
obviously they want so much back in the sixties and seventies.
But with the Saint Louis Cardinals, that's all you hear.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
And you know, the Detroit thing, like people don't understand.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
I know Detroit is a football town, but don't get
you don't get it twisted. You know that when the
Tigers are really good, out of out Tigers are a
big deal. I mean obviously especially the Red Wings. You
know that ninety two thousand run was huge.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
So Saint Louis is up there now, as somebody who
hasn't been there, I can't overly.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Speak for them.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
What city would you say?
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (07:15):
So yeah, So I'll say this, I think, well, Boston
clearly is up there. We know that just the way
they feel about their Red Sox. It's on another level.
But I will speak for the city that I've lived
in now for thirteen fourteen years and say one of
the things that makes LA fans, specifically the Dodgers, we
ain't talking about the Angels. We talk about the Dodgers.
(07:36):
Makes it interesting to me, is you just mentioned it?
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Dude.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
They have so much going on here. You have like
eight professional teams. You got two football teams, you got
two baseball got amusements, you got amusement parts, you got Disneyland,
you got the Trojans are good, you got theater, you
got Hollywood, mountains, oceans. And for the Dodgers, who consistently
draw what they draw consistently, be the water cooler, talk, consistently,
(08:03):
be the thing people wear consistently, you know, drawn a
fervor from the city and had a rough relationship with
the Mexican and Mexican American community here. Back they fixed
exactly in the in the you know, his fifties, sixties, sixties,
and if you don't know, for those who maybe don't,
obviously we're a national show. The way they kind of
(08:23):
came in where they put Dodger Stadium and Chavez Ravine
and kind of knocked out the community, the Mexican in
the Mexican American community that was there, there was some
beef and they have they have done an amazing job
mending that relationship, infusing the Latin culture here and the Dodgers.
And then obviously sometimes God gives you an alleyute them
(08:47):
getting Fernando Valenzuela when.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
They got him robbed, that was huge.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
Come on, they land him in nineteen eighty, Well, you
know he ends up coming up eighty eighty one, perfect timing,
the cities coming around. And you'll hear it from the
people themselves, right, they'll tell you I was a little
out on the Dodgers, or I watched them, but I
wasn't all in, like you know, I felt a little
certain way about them. And then for them to land
him the timing they did, they win that year. He's special,
(09:14):
the team special. It was just absolutely huge for them.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
So that was all.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
You go to a game and see the Latin population.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
It is mass and mass and the female population.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
The ladies do not play out here about their Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
We talked about Rodney Peach's wife, Holly Robinson. Pete is
the biggest Dodger fan.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
You would think Rodney don't even like the Dodgers if
you compare those two. How much he's in talking about it,
supporting it. And my last point too, and I think
you'll appreciate this. We talked about it yesterday, I believe
two days ago. But the organization is very aware of
some things culturally. They make it a point. And I'm
gonna say this. You know, I don't tout in post
(10:01):
like a lot. I talk about a lot of things
that I do and all this, but there are days
where the director in my ear is a black person
to meet a black person on the stage with Jerry
Harrison Junior on the set, I mean, you know, And
I'm tossing it out to Kirsten Watson, black sideline reporter.
(10:22):
I mean, that's a rarity, you know, to have. You know,
it's just be so many people in baseball. You know
that as somebody MLB bro Baseball is trying to get
back to growing the game in the African American community,
and the Dodgers have made it up, you know, make
it a point to like, you know, have that that
awareness of the culture the city where they live, multicultural
(10:45):
city like La and uh and some of the new
things that they do is really cool. So but it's
an awesome place. And not to mention the Paul Parkers,
you know, that's incredible out there.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
It is.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
It's incredible out there, dude.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
What a night you know, to go out to Dodger Stadium.
The weather seventy five degrees, not humid, It's it's just
beautiful to go hang out.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
Yeah, one part behind you is the beautiful just ravine
and mountain esque. Then the other side behind you is
downtown in LA with a beautiful look of the skyline.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
It's just it's absolutely incredible.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
I want to bring in Ryan.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Yeah, and Ryan is a huge baseball for a huge
Dodger fan, but he's been around. Ryan, You've been to
ballparks around the country, not saying not not counting Dodger
Stadium because that's your hometown team. Any place you've been
that you consider like like just a great baseball atmosphere
or city or fan base.
Speaker 6 (11:41):
I've I've been lucky to go to a handful of
historic parts. I've been to Fenway, I've been to Wrigley,
I've been the Yankee Stadium, camping yards, beautiful.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
That's my that's my favorite Campvin yard.
Speaker 6 (11:54):
Yeah, and that's I think all of those really are.
Every every place I've been to, you can definitely feel
the passion that these fans have, especially these these older
fan bases where you know, these franchises have been there
for hundreds of years now. I would probably say Wrigly.
It's hard to say it specifically, as.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
I get it. It's a great place to go.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
And have you been there yet, Kelvin, No, I mean
that's on your It gotta be on your bucket.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Line for sure.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
And you want to go to a day game, you
know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
You want to go to a day game and it's
in the neighborhood in Chicago, like people's.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
House around the corner. Uh, but it's quite it's old school.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
They'll never build a new one, you know what I mean,
Like the club won't get a new place, and neither
will fend Way.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
But Chicago is a great town for baseball.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
I mean, and they're passionate and to the point where
you know, they thought they literally have people die and the.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Curse.
Speaker 5 (12:57):
Yeah, people first thought they were cursed in they wanted like,
all right, go ahead, lord, you can take me now.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
No, doubt all right, eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Here's your chance to get in, especially on Opening Day,
and we'd love to hear what's the best baseball town
in America? And tell us why. I don't care where
you're calling from. What city is you going to just
make your case? Kelvin says, Los Angeles hard to argue.
I'm saying Saint Louis is the baseball capital of the
United States.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
So I might disagree with that.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
A smaller city, but I've been there a number of
times and I can.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Swear yeah, really, I get it. I do get it,
and everybody praises.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Him no doubt eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
On This TV Theme Song Thursday, Rob Parker, Kelvin Washington
right here on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 5 (13:45):
Stick and Stay unless you believe anything besides Detroit is
the baseball capital in the USA.
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Speaker 4 (14:04):
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Speaker 5 (14:05):
Hey get it Up, Hey, get it up, Hey, get
it rup, get it up, Get it Up. I hope
somebody was recording that so we can make sure we
put that up on it.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Saga, do not put that off anywhere.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
Oh, saga. We need to see Rob shaking his hips.
The streets want to see it. It's they couple Robin
Kelvin on a TV theme song Thursday.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
Is there a show Rob?
Speaker 5 (14:29):
I know it's like illegal to talk about the Cosmy
Show now, but is there a show that had more intros?
Speaker 1 (14:35):
No? I mean they change it like every year and
a half two years, which is weird.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
But I still thought it was weird.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
I just think, you know, like classic, you have a
classic open, you should hold on to it.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (14:48):
Well, I think the theme that the song was, the
melody was the same, but they definitely changed the top
style of music, the genre of music, the video as well.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
We got people are ready loaded for Bear.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
The Ready Yeah they ready let us have it?
Speaker 5 (15:04):
Like, hey, you telling me you're talking about Mot's team,
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All right, we're talking about best baseball cities. Who you
got eight seven, seven, niney nine on Fox?
Speaker 1 (15:44):
All right, let's kick it off with Mike and Augusta.
You're on the odd couple Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
How are you? Mike?
Speaker 7 (15:51):
I'm good at.
Speaker 8 (15:51):
What's going on?
Speaker 7 (15:52):
Fellas, Yo, So you can't mention the best baseballas without
missing missing in Atlanta Braves Country, I'm gonna take my case,
uh Ted Turner with the Braves in every household with
the superstation TVs number one, uh number two.
Speaker 9 (16:07):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (16:07):
The Braves controlled an entire region of the country. If
you look at a map of the SEC and the ACC,
it's all Braves Country. If you ask anybody from the
age who the top five athletes in the history of
Atlanta is and three of them are going to be Braves.
And that's my case.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Well that's a real good case, good case, and I
know how popular they are, although they did have some
playoff games that did not sell out.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
I'm just saying, how about that he didn't want to
hear that.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
He hung up radio off Steve in Kentucky. You're on
the couple of Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
What's up, Steve?
Speaker 10 (16:44):
Not much. I appreciate your gentleman a lot.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Thank you.
Speaker 10 (16:48):
When I heard you lead into it, I kept I
was driving. I said, if he does not say Saint Louis,
If he does not Saint Saint Louis, Bob Barker is
not very white smooth, all right.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
And you know, Steve, I'm a base guys, so you
know you're not shocked that I said Saint Louis.
Speaker 10 (17:03):
What about no, because I live one hundred and fifty
miles from it, and as I said earlier, you would
think this was part of Saint Louis. Here people were
traveling all the time to go and the traffic's terrible
around Saint Louis to get to it. So I'll end
it with that that it's to me at Saint Louis
and Steve.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Everybody wears red when they go to a Cardinals game, Calvin, everybody.
Speaker 10 (17:26):
If they're not wearing Kentucky blue right now, they're wearing
Cardinals red from here on out to the summertime.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
No doubt. Thanks for the call. Appreciation you.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
How about Ramone in Indianapolis, You're in the couple of
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
What's up, buddy?
Speaker 9 (17:41):
Hey, what's up buddy? How y'all doing? Boy? You got
some great takedown. I'm gonna throw one at you that
I'm sure Rob you, me and you are in the
same youth bracket. But Alto, Alto Cincinnati in there, my mom,
I remember going to see the Big Rig Machine seventy
five and seventy six. They were just powerful team even
in the eighties, even went back to Eric Davids before
(18:04):
mid shot, you know, maybe a shell of himself. Cincinnati
was always a great baseball.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
And you know what, I'm gonna say this, Ramon, let
me say this and I'll let you keep talking. But
you know I worked there for two years. Cincinnati Opening
Day is a holiday there. Cincinnati is the first professional
sports team in the history of the United States. It
has a lot of tradition, and like Saint Louis, it's
not a big city. Ryan, look up the population of Cincinnati.
(18:30):
It's got to be less than four hundred thousand people.
And they do well, they do they draw.
Speaker 9 (18:36):
They do very well. I went to two or three,
I mean Indianapolis, and now I go to many games year.
I go see the Cubs there because of course Riggity
Field is a little bit pricing now, but you know,
it's a great place to see a game. It's easy
to get get the in and out of their downtown,
so they haven't make it accessible. It's just always was
a great town. And we go back to those days.
(18:57):
I want to throw them.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
In appreciate that. Yep.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
And population three and eleven thousand Kelvin. So yeah, not
a real big city. Let's go Bran in Michigan. Buddy,
you're on the couple of Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
What's up beat?
Speaker 7 (19:11):
Hey, what's going on?
Speaker 11 (19:12):
Gentlemen?
Speaker 12 (19:13):
What a great day for Opening Day?
Speaker 1 (19:15):
You know, ron Tigers just took the lead over the Dodgers.
Speaker 12 (19:18):
Right there you go, there you go, And you know
I'm gonna say that the it's you know, Detroit. I've
been to a few ballparks myself, and I'll make my
case fellas you guys both spent some time up here.
Speaker 8 (19:31):
Now.
Speaker 12 (19:31):
You know they've got all the sports teams downtown now,
so yeah, you know, the regular season is a lot
of fun.
Speaker 8 (19:37):
It's a good time, man.
Speaker 12 (19:38):
But I have never seen a town come alive like
when the Tigers make the playoffs and they have games downtown.
That's that pointing.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
Do you know what I love? A man?
Speaker 5 (19:50):
I love now that that Detroit is really and Rob
you can you can speak to this too. They're really
embracing the culture because Detroit proper, you know what it
is is just like eighty I think it's literally like
eighty percent black. But they're really all the sports teams
are really embracing the whole community, like bringing certain artists
there and just like it is a great renaissance right
(20:12):
now with what they're doing in the city of Detroit.
All the all the teams are there, Ford Field, Little
Caesars Arena, all of it's right there, compact, so you
can feel the energy of all the teams.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
It's it's really cool right now downtown.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Detroit, no doubt about that. Ken In California, you're in
the couple of Fox Sports Radio. What's up Ken, Okay,
ro up ka, Kevin gonna get have it baby, because
it's in northern California, not southern California.
Speaker 13 (20:36):
The city by the pay it tires man, I don't
give you that, Fernando cam if you head or horse Tiger,
we have the freak, we have the beard. When and
Barry Fox came up, the whole damn stadium, stop the
deer man, stop just to walk to meet they hit
it out and get walked for the three hundred times, come.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Out, appreciate it, said. And when I talk of.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Out the stadiums, the top three stadiums, I said, Camden Yards,
pack Bell, they don't call it that anymore, Ryan, What
do they call it?
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Oracle or something? Is that what it's called now?
Speaker 1 (21:11):
In San Francisco it used to be called pack Bell Beautiful,
But I don't think that's like, yeah, I think it's
oracle now.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
And the third one would be Pittsburgh. Have you been there, Ryan,
Pittsburgh yet, I have not known beautiful. And you know it,
Kelvin thirty thirty eight thousand seats all great view and
you get to see the city skyline of Pittsburgh behind you.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
It is beautiful.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
Pittsburgh is a sneaky, little nice town like as far
as sporting, like all the arenas and the stadiums and
all that. Yeah, there's little they're a little sneaky with
that time I watched Let's see It good good. You
gotta get sneak one more in.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Yeah, let me, let's squeeze one more in. And it's
John and Lexington. You're on the couple of Fox Sports Radio.
What's up John?
Speaker 4 (21:56):
Hey?
Speaker 10 (21:57):
What's up? John? Love you?
Speaker 11 (21:58):
Happy Opening Day? Go cat. Hey, you just stole my thought.
Speaker 9 (22:03):
Man, I was.
Speaker 11 (22:03):
Gonna tell you I'm a Cup stand. I've been to
Wrigley It's it's probably the best. But Pittsburgh bang for
your buck. Oh my god. I've been to several games there.
I real close to Pittsburgh. That is a beautiful stadium.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
You're right.
Speaker 11 (22:16):
There ain't a bad seas.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
There ain't a bad seat in the house. That's a
must that's a must go. PNC Park is a must go.
Speaker 8 (22:24):
I watched the.
Speaker 11 (22:25):
Cup when they when they beat him in the one
game playoff. I was at the top and I loved it.
So Pittsburgh is it should be on everybody's list if
you get.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
To go to the game, there no doubt.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
All right, all right here, yeah, I mean we had
a good variety of Uh I knew it wouldn't be
just one or two cities.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
And look, no New York votes right right, and we
got set.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
It's up top.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Yes, so there you go. All right?
Speaker 4 (22:52):
Hey, JR.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
Gambles gett ready to be our guests here at the moment,
Managing editor for MLB bro dot Com.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
We'll talk some more baseball with him.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Odd Couple
with Rob Parker and Kelvin Washington weekdays at seven pm
Eastern four pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the
iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
We have JR.
Speaker 5 (23:11):
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Because if you don't know, now you know, uh JR.
You want to put a little button on this conversation.
Best baseball city, baseball park? So we got all cons JR.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Saint Louis, Chicago, Boston, LA, New York, Pittsburgh, Atlanta.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Which one would you say.
Speaker 8 (23:31):
Is the best ballpark?
Speaker 11 (23:32):
No?
Speaker 3 (23:33):
Best, just baseball town? What's the best baseball town?
Speaker 8 (23:37):
Best baseball town?
Speaker 9 (23:39):
Uh? Uh?
Speaker 8 (23:41):
You know, I I think New York. New York is great.
I don't see why New York wouldn't be always in
contention for the best baseball town. I mean, they filled
the stadium, Yankees in the mess. For me, a town
I really like is Saint Louis, though, And the reason
why I do like Saint Louis is because they come
out out regardless.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
Right.
Speaker 8 (24:01):
You never really hear a lot of drama with Saint
Louis Cardinals fans. They respect the game, whether the team
wins seventy games or one hundred games, they're the same.
They pack the ballparks, they come out. They maintain that
old American tradition of baseball being important, you know, to
the fabric of our society teams today. So I love
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Saint Louis and everything that they represent. But there's nothing
wrong with New York, like, you know, just because you
don't have to win every season. New York teams don't
win every season. They spend money, but fans go through
struggles and tries and tribulations like everybody else, and they
still come out and pack the ballparks as well. There's
some ballparks where the fans don't come out every game
(24:46):
and left they're winning.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
So okay, Saint Louis, New York, those are two good ones.
Hard to argue with those. Let's go here. The Dodgers
are playing the Tigers as we speak. Dodgers won their
first two games of the season in Japan. We know
that against the Cubs, and on paper they should be
the team to repeat.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
But in baseball is very hard.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Where are you as far as the idea of the
Dodgers repeating.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
It's harder than people thinking baseball, isn't it.
Speaker 8 (25:15):
Of course, it's very hard to compete in baseball. They
could run away with it and stuff a toe in
the playoffs. Rob you know this very well. There's been
team with records wins that didn't advance to the World Series.
So if any sport is uncertain, it's baseball. And that's
why I actually laugh when people say, oh, the Dodgers
(25:35):
are just going to buy their way to another World Series. Look,
they were very fortunate to win last year as well.
Some things could have gone awry. You know, Tony got
a little banged up, and the pitching did come through,
but they were a little short handed in that regard.
But the hitters, you know, they're perfect. They played to
the back of baseball cards, and they proved to be
(25:57):
too deep. But I don't know. There's a lot of
uncertain team injuries can occur. Will Ow tiny pitch this season.
I don't think he should. They're counting on a lot
of very bulls of different things to work. We know
two baseball seasons, Kelvin Robb will never be the same.
So look, you already started off with Mookie Betts having
a mysterious stomach illness. And I love Mookie, we all do.
(26:21):
I'm watching the game. He looked about one hundred.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
And fifty counds and you know what, and you know,
television puts wede on you.
Speaker 5 (26:30):
You know what, imactly yeah, And you know that's how
you know he's super thin.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
I mean he already is thinner.
Speaker 8 (26:36):
Goal okay, and it jammed him a little bit, sure,
but he hit the ball and didn't go but three
hundred and forty feet. So the Dodgers should, on paper
be the best team. But I would not at all
be surprised. We saw the Diamondbacks make it to the
World Series a couple of years ago. This is baseball.
You get a couple of rookies developed a couple of
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pitchers have some career season, a couple of hitters really
get on a run. It's particularly late in the season,
and you never ever know, So don't just tencil in La.
They might they might look very stronger on the regular season,
of course, but don't just pencil in La. The Podjas
has something to prove his yet as well. Those games
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in the National League West are going to be all
out wars. No one's handing anything to the Dodgers. And
it also looks like on the low that the Astros
are gonna have a comeback season. Although they won the division,
they came back to when division last year. I think
they're gonna be much stronger this year and they have
championship experienced.
Speaker 5 (27:38):
So all right, so let me let me stay on
that vein of just not being the same season the
next season you the Tigers, was such a small payroll
and they had some success. You had, of course, the Mets,
you had the Yankees, And so I'm looking at what
teams you say, take a step back, or maybe a
question or take a step forward that that you you know,
(27:58):
maybe we're not thinking about there. The Tiger was that
a fluke? Can they do it again. Do the Mets
gets solo, but it doesn't help.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
What are you making?
Speaker 8 (28:06):
The Mets are in a very tough division. The Tigers
have a better chance than the Mets to actually make
big noise. If you ask me, you look at that
season they had last year, eighty six seventy six. How
they finished so strong. I spent a large part of
the season all the now the Funk Sports Wrap Radio
discussing the Tigers every single day because they couldn't generate
(28:30):
any offense. But they have the pitching reech Alster Jack
Flawherty to reschool bl The Tigers are problem if the
hitting works out this season right, if thetting labor torus,
if that helps, if Bias is actually healthy, if Riley
Green takes the next step, if yeah, Keith Colt can
(28:51):
take the next step, I don't think ticket is going
to be the problem. I really like the Tigers. I
actually like the Tigers to win that division potentral this season. Yes,
I've seen enough of them to know that it's not
a huge leap they have to take offensively to be
able to compete with the Guardians the Royals. The Royals
are tough too. Three points.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
You know, yeah, that was that was a year.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Okay, we got one minute left. Just give us the
two teams you have in the World Series and who wins. Wow,
We're not gonna hold you to it.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
That's just.
Speaker 8 (29:26):
I like, I like the Dodgers to get there again,
and I like I like I like the Yankees to
go back. Even without even shorthanded. I think the Yankees
go back and they win this time. I think it's
a different type of Yankees team, gonna be more spunky.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
I think you gotta repeat the Yankees and Dodgers again.
Yes base, yes, no doubt, all right.
Speaker 8 (29:56):
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Speaker 3 (30:58):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (30:59):
Gotta appreciate you brother as always. All right, man, Hey,
shop talk on the way. Ryan's cooked something nut for us.
We got a little shop talk for you. And it's
relevant too. We just talked about ballparks and going to games,
spending money at the ballpark. We'll break it all down next.
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You know what Tom, it is right, it's top shop talk,
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Speaker 6 (32:42):
What we got for us today, That's right, This is
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we uh talk about anything. It doesn't have to be
within the world of sports. It can it can go beyond.
Speaker 11 (32:52):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (32:53):
But this is tied to sports of course, being opening
day today. Uh, we're now all getting that itch to
go back to the ballpark and take in the game.
And there's nothing like it, right, It's it's one of
the best experiences in sports. Of course, then you go
up to the concessions. He sees the price of the
food and the beer and everything, and it hurts.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
It hurts a little bit.
Speaker 6 (33:15):
So today we want to talk about just how much, guys,
does the price of concessions, of food, of drinks anything?
How much? How much do you? How much do you
care about that? When you're at it?
Speaker 3 (33:27):
Could you figureing?
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Ryan? Like, you're out for the night, You're trying to
enjoy yourself, right, are you really?
Speaker 3 (33:33):
You're paid for tickets, paid for parking.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
Are you gonna bark because the hot dogs two dollars
more than you think it should be? Or the beer's
a little bit more, you know what I mean? Like
and Kelvin, where are you?
Speaker 11 (33:45):
Like?
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Okay, you're at the concessions there, you're at the ballpark
having a good night. And then they say, oh the
hot dogs eleven dollars? Will you do you lose your appetite?
Speaker 4 (33:54):
That's a great question. I think.
Speaker 5 (33:55):
Here here's where it is. Who am I with? And
how many am I with? The whole squad? I mean,
I got my whole family.
Speaker 4 (34:01):
It's just me and Rob. It's just me.
Speaker 5 (34:03):
You know that starts to making you start doing the
mat twenty twenty thirty sixty eight.
Speaker 4 (34:07):
All right, oh how much? No?
Speaker 5 (34:09):
But I mean I go to the ballpark and I expect,
you know, for like I say, I'm getting the chicken
strips and fries or something that's twenty bucks, twenty twenty
two bucks. I'm just I know that I'm expecting it.
I've thrown at the towel. I already know what to
expect coming to the ballpark. It sucks, but you already
know that.
Speaker 4 (34:26):
Now. Gear, I don't the gear merchandise I can't do.
I can't do it.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
You don't want to buy a seventy five dollar sweatshirt?
Speaker 5 (34:32):
No, I can't do the gear merchandise and gear, I'm
more like nah.
Speaker 4 (34:37):
Food, I'm like, all.
Speaker 5 (34:38):
Right, I gotta I'm here for the next you know,
anywhere from hour and a half to three and a
half hours. I gotta eat, So I take the al
and I know I'm about to pay more for lesser
quality food too.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Ryan, Where are you you go to a lot of games?
I mean sometimes you look at the price and go,
I want it, but I can't do it.
Speaker 6 (34:55):
It It hurts, but I figure every time I'm going.
First of all, I gotta eat because the man's gotta
eat and why.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
And I can't.
Speaker 6 (35:05):
I could, I could put plenty away, but I so
I'll eat something, whether if it's just a hot dog
or I mean, Dodger Stadium is really really up to
their food game these last few years, and they keep
adding some more oh yeah stuff.
Speaker 5 (35:21):
We had it on the show today. Shout out to
Chef Christine. They had that river. I showed you that
eight sixteen inch dog sausage. It's a pound, Rob and Ryan,
it's a pound.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
That's a lot.
Speaker 5 (35:35):
It's insane. But yeah, Ryan, you're right, the Dodgers keep
adding some new good food.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
Martin Wie, So you're looking at your wallet when you're
buying concessions out at an event, sporting event.
Speaker 14 (35:44):
It depends on how much I pay for the ticket.
If you got free tickets, get some food to get
something to drink. But if I had to, you know,
I'll spend an arm and a leg for the ticket.
I only got one more arm and one more leg.
Speaker 3 (35:58):
As you know. For me, I put a limit.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
I could be this the one time I really want something,
I'll be like, I really want this slice of pizza,
but I'm not paying nine dollars I'm not, and I
will like not do it. I will not buy it
even though I really want it, because I just it's
against my principal to spend nine.
Speaker 5 (36:19):
So, you know what, I'm like that on at the ballpark,
sodas eventually, if I have to get what I have
to get, but sodas and candies, you know, like, oh
box of M and MS and it'll be like eight
point fifty that I know, that's a buck twenty five.
In the streets, I'm like, no, no, no, no, no,
candy is my candy.
Speaker 4 (36:35):
And desserts you know your Dodger game.
Speaker 5 (36:36):
And they bring the little the little cookie and cake tray.
Speaker 4 (36:40):
Oh, You're like, how much for this slice?
Speaker 5 (36:42):
And they're like whoa, no, no, no, no, no, that's
desserts and sweets.
Speaker 4 (36:47):
I cannot do. I gotta eat something.
Speaker 5 (36:49):
Well, I'm here, so a burger a you know, a dog,
chicken strips, all right, pizza, I gotta do it.
Speaker 4 (36:54):
Dessert sweets, candies, nah, noa.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
No, prices were a little lower, you would buy two dogs,
you know what I mean, Like they would sell more product.
When I got to look at a nine dollar hot dog,
I'm only having one.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
But if they were like four point fifty.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
I would have two, and they would make more money
on volume rather than just because a lot of people
won't buy the dog, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (37:17):
Yeah, it's a great point. I'll spend.
Speaker 5 (37:19):
I'll buy two, three more if it wasn't as crazily priced.
But you know, desserts and sweets for me, that's my line.
Because I see that little box of M and M's
or Twizzlers or something they want fourteen dollars. I'm like,
what are you crazy? Do I get to get an
at bat after the game? Did I get to try
to hit a home run?
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My goodness? All right?
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Speaker 3 (01:29):
So we know it's opening day.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
We talked about it and uh By, some baseball games
are still going on, and you know I was out
at the ballpark today.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
You know you were there as well.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
We were both at Dodgers Stadium way before the action started,
but still just the atmosphere and everything.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
And we know what a town.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
We both live in Los Angeles and we know what
a baseball town. I know everybody LA, the Lakers, LA
is the Dodgers as well, like.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Don't do it, get it very close.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
It's like fifty fifty forty nine, right, yeah, it's it's
whichever side you want to say. It is very much
a baseball town for sure.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
And people who don't know the Dodgers draw like four
million people every year, four million like people go to
Dodger games.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
People have on.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
If I told you that three or four of our
producers have on Dodger Hatson and uh Jersey's Ryan and
who else Shay has his.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
On, Well, don't look at don't look at you got
yours on too? Mind your business.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Danny g does he have his own? Sure, Jason Stewart
did as well.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Yeah, Jason Stewart, I mean, everybody and their uncle. But
my point is it's a big baseball talent. And the
question is, as you know, I've covered baseball for thirty
nine years. I've been to all the ball parks, all
the stadiums and everything that you can talk about. And
I know it's easy to just look at New York
(02:57):
and Los Angeles and maybe Philly or Boston or whatever
and say those are, you know, the best baseball towns.
But I'm gonna tell you something different. And I've been
saying this for a while. The best baseball town to
me in America, and Kelvin you've heard me say this
(03:26):
is Saint Louis, Missouri. I think Saint Louis is the
baseball capital of the United States. And I don't know,
I've been there, obviously, and if you go to a
game everybody has read on it's pretty amazing. And here's
the thing, Okay, they draw look at their attendance. I
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think in the last twenty five years, maybe one year
under three million. Okay, right, And you say, well, what's
the big deal. Do you know what the pop population
is for the city of Saint Louis, and I'm talking
about in the city proper, Okay, two hundred and eighty
one thousand.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Now, no, it's not the metro area. Don't get me wrong.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
I'm not trying to pretend that everybody in their uncle
from only the city are going to games. But don't
you find that to be unbelievable? Seriously, a city that's
small to a track that's not like Tampa. Tampa and
places like that probably have a bigger population. Bryan, look
up Tampa's population. I guarantee you it's bigger than Saint Louis.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Oh yeah, Tampa might. Yeah, that probably my guess off
the six seven hundred thousand, right.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Boston four hundred thousand. Boston has like six hundred thousand.
I'm talking about city prop proper, Right, New York has
eight million, LA has like five million five ye, right,
I'm talking about so LA has five million and it
draws four million a year, and Saint Louis has two
hundred and eighty one thousand and they drew.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Three million a year.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Saint Louis is the baseball capital of the United States.
And I'm from New York that has two teams and
when they opened up the two new stadium City Field
and Yankee Stadium that year two thousand and nine. You ready, Kelvin, Yeah,
New York so eight million baseball tickets in one year,
and the two new stadiums eight million tickets. So for
(05:27):
me to city here and tell you that Saint Louis
is the baseball capital of the United States.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
They loved that team.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
That city's run two football teams out of Saint Louis.
Think about that. As big as football is around the
United States. Don't mess with their Cardinals and don't mess
with their Saint Louis Blues.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
That's what that town is about.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Baseball first and the NHL second, without a doubt.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
I mean, when you when you think of kind of
the some of the teams that are blue bloods. If
you in baseball, you mentioned it. We talk about the
New York teams. We talk about LA because of the
size of the cities and what they mean. But when
you're talking about impact, what the teams mean in that city,
you gotta absolutely put Saint Louis up there. I mean,
very passionate is the city. I've never been to the city,
(06:16):
but I only hear that, I only hear how dedicated
they are. I only hear how educated they are. I
only hear how passionate their fans are. And that's again refreshating.
I think every team has every city has rob those
teams where yeah, we have multiple teams, but this franchise
matters more as much as the Celtics. Mean, in Boston
(06:38):
you always hear it's the Bruins or it's the Red Sox.
It isn't the Celtics as much as you think, because
obviously they want so much back in the sixties and seventies.
But with the Saint Louis Cardinals, that's all you hear.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
And you know, the Detroit thing, like people don't understand.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
I know Detroit is a football town, but don't get
you don't get it twisted. You know that when the
Tigers are really good, out of out Tigers are a
big deal. I mean obviously especially the Red Wings. You
know that ninety two thousand run was huge.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
So Saint Louis is up there now, as somebody who
hasn't been there, I can't overly.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Speak for them.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
What city would you say?
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (07:15):
So yeah, So I'll say this, I think, well, Boston
clearly is up there. We know that just the way
they feel about their Red Sox. It's on another level.
But I will speak for the city that I've lived
in now for thirteen fourteen years and say one of
the things that makes LA fans, specifically the Dodgers, we
ain't talking about the Angels. We talk about the Dodgers.
(07:36):
Makes it interesting to me, is you just mentioned it?
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Dude.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
They have so much going on here. You have like
eight professional teams. You got two football teams, you got
two baseball got amusements, you got amusement parts, you got Disneyland,
you got the Trojans are good, you got theater, you
got Hollywood, mountains, oceans. And for the Dodgers, who consistently
draw what they draw consistently, be the water cooler, talk, consistently,
(08:03):
be the thing people wear consistently, you know, drawn a
fervor from the city and had a rough relationship with
the Mexican and Mexican American community here. Back they fixed
exactly in the in the you know, his fifties, sixties, sixties,
and if you don't know, for those who maybe don't,
obviously we're a national show. The way they kind of
(08:23):
came in where they put Dodger Stadium and Chavez Ravine
and kind of knocked out the community, the Mexican in
the Mexican American community that was there, there was some
beef and they have they have done an amazing job
mending that relationship, infusing the Latin culture here and the Dodgers.
And then obviously sometimes God gives you an alleyute them
(08:47):
getting Fernando Valenzuela when.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
They got him robbed, that was huge.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
Come on, they land him in nineteen eighty, Well, you
know he ends up coming up eighty eighty one, perfect timing,
the cities coming around. And you'll hear it from the
people themselves, right, they'll tell you I was a little
out on the Dodgers, or I watched them, but I
wasn't all in, like you know, I felt a little
certain way about them. And then for them to land
him the timing they did, they win that year. He's special,
(09:14):
the team special. It was just absolutely huge for them.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
So that was all.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
You go to a game and see the Latin population.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
It is mass and mass and the female population.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
The ladies do not play out here about their Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
We talked about Rodney Peach's wife, Holly Robinson. Pete is
the biggest Dodger fan.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
You would think Rodney don't even like the Dodgers if
you compare those two. How much he's in talking about it,
supporting it. And my last point too, and I think
you'll appreciate this. We talked about it yesterday, I believe
two days ago. But the organization is very aware of
some things culturally. They make it a point. And I'm
gonna say this. You know, I don't tout in post
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like a lot. I talk about a lot of things
that I do and all this, but there are days
where the director in my ear is a black person
to meet a black person on the stage with Jerry
Harrison Junior on the set, I mean, you know, And
I'm tossing it out to Kirsten Watson, black sideline reporter.
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I mean, that's a rarity, you know, to have. You know,
it's just be so many people in baseball. You know
that as somebody MLB bro Baseball is trying to get
back to growing the game in the African American community,
and the Dodgers have made it up, you know, make
it a point to like, you know, have that that
awareness of the culture the city where they live, multicultural
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city like La and uh and some of the new
things that they do is really cool. So but it's
an awesome place. And not to mention the Paul Parkers,
you know, that's incredible out there.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
It is.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
It's incredible out there, dude.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
What a night you know, to go out to Dodger Stadium.
The weather seventy five degrees, not humid, It's it's just
beautiful to go hang out.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
Yeah, one part behind you is the beautiful just ravine
and mountain esque. Then the other side behind you is
downtown in LA with a beautiful look of the skyline.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
It's just it's absolutely incredible.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
I want to bring in Ryan.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Yeah, and Ryan is a huge baseball for a huge
Dodger fan, but he's been around. Ryan, You've been to
ballparks around the country, not saying not not counting Dodger
Stadium because that's your hometown team. Any place you've been
that you consider like like just a great baseball atmosphere
or city or fan base.
Speaker 6 (11:41):
I've I've been lucky to go to a handful of
historic parts. I've been to Fenway, I've been to Wrigley,
I've been the Yankee Stadium, camping yards, beautiful.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
That's my that's my favorite Campvin yard.
Speaker 6 (11:54):
Yeah, and that's I think all of those really are.
Every every place I've been to, you can definitely feel
the passion that these fans have, especially these these older
fan bases where you know, these franchises have been there
for hundreds of years now. I would probably say Wrigly.
It's hard to say it specifically, as.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
I get it. It's a great place to go.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
And have you been there yet, Kelvin, No, I mean
that's on your It gotta be on your bucket.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Line for sure.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
And you want to go to a day game, you
know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
You want to go to a day game and it's
in the neighborhood in Chicago, like people's.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
House around the corner. Uh, but it's quite it's old school.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
They'll never build a new one, you know what I mean,
Like the club won't get a new place, and neither
will fend Way.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
But Chicago is a great town for baseball.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
I mean, and they're passionate and to the point where
you know, they thought they literally have people die and the.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Curse.
Speaker 5 (12:57):
Yeah, people first thought they were cursed in they wanted like,
all right, go ahead, lord, you can take me now.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
No, doubt all right, eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Here's your chance to get in, especially on Opening Day,
and we'd love to hear what's the best baseball town
in America? And tell us why. I don't care where
you're calling from. What city is you going to just
make your case? Kelvin says, Los Angeles hard to argue.
I'm saying Saint Louis is the baseball capital of the
United States.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
So I might disagree with that.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
A smaller city, but I've been there a number of
times and I can.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Swear yeah, really, I get it. I do get it,
and everybody praises.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Him no doubt eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
On This TV Theme Song Thursday, Rob Parker, Kelvin Washington
right here on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 5 (13:45):
Stick and Stay unless you believe anything besides Detroit is
the baseball capital in the USA.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Odd Couple
with Rob Parker and Kelvin Washington weekdays at seven pm
Eastern four p I'm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and
the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
Hey get it Up, Hey, get it up, Hey, get
it rup, get it up, Get it Up. I hope
somebody was recording that so we can make sure we
put that up on it.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Saga, do not put that off anywhere.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
Oh, saga. We need to see Rob shaking his hips.
The streets want to see it. It's they couple Robin
Kelvin on a TV theme song Thursday.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
Is there a show Rob?
Speaker 5 (14:29):
I know it's like illegal to talk about the Cosmy
Show now, but is there a show that had more intros?
Speaker 1 (14:35):
No? I mean they change it like every year and
a half two years, which is weird.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
But I still thought it was weird.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
I just think, you know, like classic, you have a
classic open, you should hold on to it.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (14:48):
Well, I think the theme that the song was, the
melody was the same, but they definitely changed the top
style of music, the genre of music, the video as well.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
We got people are ready loaded for Bear.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
The Ready Yeah they ready let us have it?
Speaker 5 (15:04):
Like, hey, you telling me you're talking about Mot's team,
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All right, we're talking about best baseball cities. Who you
got eight seven, seven, niney nine on Fox?
Speaker 1 (15:44):
All right, let's kick it off with Mike and Augusta.
You're on the odd couple Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
How are you? Mike?
Speaker 7 (15:51):
I'm good at.
Speaker 8 (15:51):
What's going on?
Speaker 7 (15:52):
Fellas, Yo, So you can't mention the best baseballas without
missing missing in Atlanta Braves Country, I'm gonna take my case,
uh Ted Turner with the Braves in every household with
the superstation TVs number one, uh number two.
Speaker 9 (16:07):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (16:07):
The Braves controlled an entire region of the country. If
you look at a map of the SEC and the ACC,
it's all Braves Country. If you ask anybody from the
age who the top five athletes in the history of
Atlanta is and three of them are going to be Braves.
And that's my case.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Well that's a real good case, good case, and I
know how popular they are, although they did have some
playoff games that did not sell out.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
I'm just saying, how about that he didn't want to
hear that.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
He hung up radio off Steve in Kentucky. You're on
the couple of Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
What's up, Steve?
Speaker 10 (16:44):
Not much. I appreciate your gentleman a lot.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Thank you.
Speaker 10 (16:48):
When I heard you lead into it, I kept I
was driving. I said, if he does not say Saint Louis,
If he does not Saint Saint Louis, Bob Barker is
not very white smooth, all right.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
And you know, Steve, I'm a base guys, so you
know you're not shocked that I said Saint Louis.
Speaker 10 (17:03):
What about no, because I live one hundred and fifty
miles from it, and as I said earlier, you would
think this was part of Saint Louis. Here people were
traveling all the time to go and the traffic's terrible
around Saint Louis to get to it. So I'll end
it with that that it's to me at Saint Louis
and Steve.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Everybody wears red when they go to a Cardinals game, Calvin, everybody.
Speaker 10 (17:26):
If they're not wearing Kentucky blue right now, they're wearing
Cardinals red from here on out to the summertime.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
No doubt. Thanks for the call. Appreciation you.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
How about Ramone in Indianapolis, You're in the couple of
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
What's up, buddy?
Speaker 9 (17:41):
Hey, what's up buddy? How y'all doing? Boy? You got
some great takedown. I'm gonna throw one at you that
I'm sure Rob you, me and you are in the
same youth bracket. But Alto, Alto Cincinnati in there, my mom,
I remember going to see the Big Rig Machine seventy
five and seventy six. They were just powerful team even
in the eighties, even went back to Eric Davids before
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mid shot, you know, maybe a shell of himself. Cincinnati
was always a great baseball.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
And you know what, I'm gonna say this, Ramon, let
me say this and I'll let you keep talking. But
you know I worked there for two years. Cincinnati Opening
Day is a holiday there. Cincinnati is the first professional
sports team in the history of the United States. It
has a lot of tradition, and like Saint Louis, it's
not a big city. Ryan, look up the population of Cincinnati.
(18:30):
It's got to be less than four hundred thousand people.
And they do well, they do they draw.
Speaker 9 (18:36):
They do very well. I went to two or three,
I mean Indianapolis, and now I go to many games year.
I go see the Cubs there because of course Riggity
Field is a little bit pricing now, but you know,
it's a great place to see a game. It's easy
to get get the in and out of their downtown,
so they haven't make it accessible. It's just always was
a great town. And we go back to those days.
(18:57):
I want to throw them.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
In appreciate that. Yep.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
And population three and eleven thousand Kelvin. So yeah, not
a real big city. Let's go Bran in Michigan. Buddy,
you're on the couple of Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
What's up beat?
Speaker 7 (19:11):
Hey, what's going on?
Speaker 11 (19:12):
Gentlemen?
Speaker 12 (19:13):
What a great day for Opening Day?
Speaker 1 (19:15):
You know, ron Tigers just took the lead over the Dodgers.
Speaker 12 (19:18):
Right there you go, there you go, And you know
I'm gonna say that the it's you know, Detroit. I've
been to a few ballparks myself, and I'll make my
case fellas you guys both spent some time up here.
Speaker 8 (19:31):
Now.
Speaker 12 (19:31):
You know they've got all the sports teams downtown now,
so yeah, you know, the regular season is a lot
of fun.
Speaker 8 (19:37):
It's a good time, man.
Speaker 12 (19:38):
But I have never seen a town come alive like
when the Tigers make the playoffs and they have games downtown.
That's that pointing.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
Do you know what I love? A man?
Speaker 5 (19:50):
I love now that that Detroit is really and Rob
you can you can speak to this too. They're really
embracing the culture because Detroit proper, you know what it
is is just like eighty I think it's literally like
eighty percent black. But they're really all the sports teams
are really embracing the whole community, like bringing certain artists
there and just like it is a great renaissance right
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now with what they're doing in the city of Detroit.
All the all the teams are there, Ford Field, Little
Caesars Arena, all of it's right there, compact, so you
can feel the energy of all the teams.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
It's it's really cool right now downtown.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Detroit, no doubt about that. Ken In California, you're in
the couple of Fox Sports Radio. What's up Ken, Okay,
ro up ka, Kevin gonna get have it baby, because
it's in northern California, not southern California.
Speaker 13 (20:36):
The city by the pay it tires man, I don't
give you that, Fernando cam if you head or horse Tiger,
we have the freak, we have the beard. When and
Barry Fox came up, the whole damn stadium, stop the
deer man, stop just to walk to meet they hit
it out and get walked for the three hundred times, come.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Out, appreciate it, said. And when I talk of.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Out the stadiums, the top three stadiums, I said, Camden Yards,
pack Bell, they don't call it that anymore, Ryan, What
do they call it?
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Oracle or something? Is that what it's called now?
Speaker 1 (21:11):
In San Francisco it used to be called pack Bell Beautiful,
But I don't think that's like, yeah, I think it's
oracle now.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
And the third one would be Pittsburgh. Have you been there, Ryan,
Pittsburgh yet, I have not known beautiful. And you know it,
Kelvin thirty thirty eight thousand seats all great view and
you get to see the city skyline of Pittsburgh behind you.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
It is beautiful.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
Pittsburgh is a sneaky, little nice town like as far
as sporting, like all the arenas and the stadiums and
all that. Yeah, there's little they're a little sneaky with
that time I watched Let's see It good good. You
gotta get sneak one more in.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Yeah, let me, let's squeeze one more in. And it's
John and Lexington. You're on the couple of Fox Sports Radio.
What's up John?
Speaker 4 (21:56):
Hey?
Speaker 10 (21:57):
What's up? John? Love you?
Speaker 11 (21:58):
Happy Opening Day? Go cat. Hey, you just stole my thought.
Speaker 9 (22:03):
Man, I was.
Speaker 11 (22:03):
Gonna tell you I'm a Cup stand. I've been to
Wrigley It's it's probably the best. But Pittsburgh bang for
your buck. Oh my god. I've been to several games there.
I real close to Pittsburgh. That is a beautiful stadium.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
You're right.
Speaker 11 (22:16):
There ain't a bad seas.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
There ain't a bad seat in the house. That's a
must that's a must go. PNC Park is a must go.
Speaker 8 (22:24):
I watched the.
Speaker 11 (22:25):
Cup when they when they beat him in the one
game playoff. I was at the top and I loved it.
So Pittsburgh is it should be on everybody's list if
you get.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
To go to the game, there no doubt.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
All right, all right here, yeah, I mean we had
a good variety of Uh I knew it wouldn't be
just one or two cities.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
And look, no New York votes right right, and we
got set.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
It's up top.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Yes, so there you go. All right?
Speaker 4 (22:52):
Hey, JR.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
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Speaker 4 (22:56):
We'll talk some more baseball with him.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Odd Couple
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Eastern four pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the
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Speaker 4 (23:09):
We have JR.
Speaker 5 (23:11):
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Because if you don't know, now you know, uh JR.
You want to put a little button on this conversation.
Best baseball city, baseball park? So we got all cons JR.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Saint Louis, Chicago, Boston, LA, New York, Pittsburgh, Atlanta.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Which one would you say.
Speaker 8 (23:31):
Is the best ballpark?
Speaker 11 (23:32):
No?
Speaker 3 (23:33):
Best, just baseball town? What's the best baseball town?
Speaker 8 (23:37):
Best baseball town?
Speaker 9 (23:39):
Uh? Uh?
Speaker 8 (23:41):
You know, I I think New York. New York is great.
I don't see why New York wouldn't be always in
contention for the best baseball town. I mean, they filled
the stadium, Yankees in the mess. For me, a town
I really like is Saint Louis, though, And the reason
why I do like Saint Louis is because they come
out out regardless.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
Right.
Speaker 8 (24:01):
You never really hear a lot of drama with Saint
Louis Cardinals fans. They respect the game, whether the team
wins seventy games or one hundred games, they're the same.
They pack the ballparks, they come out. They maintain that
old American tradition of baseball being important, you know, to
the fabric of our society teams today. So I love
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Saint Louis and everything that they represent. But there's nothing
wrong with New York, like, you know, just because you
don't have to win every season. New York teams don't
win every season. They spend money, but fans go through
struggles and tries and tribulations like everybody else, and they
still come out and pack the ballparks as well. There's
some ballparks where the fans don't come out every game
(24:46):
and left they're winning.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
So okay, Saint Louis, New York, those are two good ones.
Hard to argue with those. Let's go here. The Dodgers
are playing the Tigers as we speak. Dodgers won their
first two games of the season in Japan. We know
that against the Cubs, and on paper they should be
the team to repeat.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
But in baseball is very hard.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Where are you as far as the idea of the
Dodgers repeating.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
It's harder than people thinking baseball, isn't it.
Speaker 8 (25:15):
Of course, it's very hard to compete in baseball. They
could run away with it and stuff a toe in
the playoffs. Rob you know this very well. There's been
team with records wins that didn't advance to the World Series.
So if any sport is uncertain, it's baseball. And that's
why I actually laugh when people say, oh, the Dodgers
(25:35):
are just going to buy their way to another World Series. Look,
they were very fortunate to win last year as well.
Some things could have gone awry. You know, Tony got
a little banged up, and the pitching did come through,
but they were a little short handed in that regard.
But the hitters, you know, they're perfect. They played to
the back of baseball cards, and they proved to be
(25:57):
too deep. But I don't know. There's a lot of
uncertain team injuries can occur. Will Ow tiny pitch this season.
I don't think he should. They're counting on a lot
of very bulls of different things to work. We know
two baseball seasons, Kelvin Robb will never be the same.
So look, you already started off with Mookie Betts having
a mysterious stomach illness. And I love Mookie, we all do.
(26:21):
I'm watching the game. He looked about one hundred.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
And fifty counds and you know what, and you know,
television puts wede on you.
Speaker 5 (26:30):
You know what, imactly yeah, And you know that's how
you know he's super thin.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
I mean he already is thinner.
Speaker 8 (26:36):
Goal okay, and it jammed him a little bit, sure,
but he hit the ball and didn't go but three
hundred and forty feet. So the Dodgers should, on paper
be the best team. But I would not at all
be surprised. We saw the Diamondbacks make it to the
World Series a couple of years ago. This is baseball.
You get a couple of rookies developed a couple of
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pitchers have some career season, a couple of hitters really
get on a run. It's particularly late in the season,
and you never ever know, So don't just tencil in La.
They might they might look very stronger on the regular season,
of course, but don't just pencil in La. The Podjas
has something to prove his yet as well. Those games
(27:19):
in the National League West are going to be all
out wars. No one's handing anything to the Dodgers. And
it also looks like on the low that the Astros
are gonna have a comeback season. Although they won the division,
they came back to when division last year. I think
they're gonna be much stronger this year and they have
championship experienced.
Speaker 5 (27:38):
So all right, so let me let me stay on
that vein of just not being the same season the
next season you the Tigers, was such a small payroll
and they had some success. You had, of course, the Mets,
you had the Yankees, And so I'm looking at what
teams you say, take a step back, or maybe a
question or take a step forward that that you you know,
(27:58):
maybe we're not thinking about there. The Tiger was that
a fluke? Can they do it again. Do the Mets
gets solo, but it doesn't help.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
What are you making?
Speaker 8 (28:06):
The Mets are in a very tough division. The Tigers
have a better chance than the Mets to actually make
big noise. If you ask me, you look at that
season they had last year, eighty six seventy six. How
they finished so strong. I spent a large part of
the season all the now the Funk Sports Wrap Radio
discussing the Tigers every single day because they couldn't generate
(28:30):
any offense. But they have the pitching reech Alster Jack
Flawherty to reschool bl The Tigers are problem if the
hitting works out this season right, if thetting labor torus,
if that helps, if Bias is actually healthy, if Riley
Green takes the next step, if yeah, Keith Colt can
(28:51):
take the next step, I don't think ticket is going
to be the problem. I really like the Tigers. I
actually like the Tigers to win that division potentral this season. Yes,
I've seen enough of them to know that it's not
a huge leap they have to take offensively to be
able to compete with the Guardians the Royals. The Royals
are tough too. Three points.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
You know, yeah, that was that was a year.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Okay, we got one minute left. Just give us the
two teams you have in the World Series and who wins. Wow,
We're not gonna hold you to it.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
That's just.
Speaker 8 (29:26):
I like, I like the Dodgers to get there again,
and I like I like I like the Yankees to
go back. Even without even shorthanded. I think the Yankees
go back and they win this time. I think it's
a different type of Yankees team, gonna be more spunky.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
I think you gotta repeat the Yankees and Dodgers again.
Yes base, yes, no doubt, all right.
Speaker 8 (29:56):
Why not? Why not?
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Speaker 5 (30:59):
Gotta appreciate you brother as always. All right, man, Hey,
shop talk on the way. Ryan's cooked something nut for us.
We got a little shop talk for you. And it's
relevant too. We just talked about ballparks and going to games,
spending money at the ballpark. We'll break it all down next.
It's the Oca of Robin Kelvin on an opening Day
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Speaker 2 (31:20):
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with Rob Parker and Kelvin Washington weekdays at seven pm
Eastern four pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the
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Uh.
Speaker 6 (32:53):
But this is tied to sports of course, being opening
day today. Uh, we're now all getting that itch to
go back to the ballpark and take in the game.
And there's nothing like it, right, It's it's one of
the best experiences in sports. Of course, then you go
up to the concessions. He sees the price of the
food and the beer and everything, and it hurts.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
It hurts a little bit.
Speaker 6 (33:15):
So today we want to talk about just how much, guys,
does the price of concessions, of food, of drinks anything?
How much? How much do you? How much do you
care about that? When you're at it?
Speaker 3 (33:27):
Could you figureing?
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Ryan? Like, you're out for the night, You're trying to
enjoy yourself, right, are you really?
Speaker 3 (33:33):
You're paid for tickets, paid for parking.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
Are you gonna bark because the hot dogs two dollars
more than you think it should be? Or the beer's
a little bit more, you know what I mean? Like
and Kelvin, where are you?
Speaker 11 (33:45):
Like?
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Okay, you're at the concessions there, you're at the ballpark
having a good night. And then they say, oh the
hot dogs eleven dollars? Will you do you lose your appetite?
Speaker 4 (33:54):
That's a great question. I think.
Speaker 5 (33:55):
Here here's where it is. Who am I with? And
how many am I with? The whole squad? I mean,
I got my whole family.
Speaker 4 (34:01):
It's just me and Rob. It's just me.
Speaker 5 (34:03):
You know that starts to making you start doing the
mat twenty twenty thirty sixty eight.
Speaker 4 (34:07):
All right, oh how much? No?
Speaker 5 (34:09):
But I mean I go to the ballpark and I expect,
you know, for like I say, I'm getting the chicken
strips and fries or something that's twenty bucks, twenty twenty
two bucks. I'm just I know that I'm expecting it.
I've thrown at the towel. I already know what to
expect coming to the ballpark. It sucks, but you already
know that.
Speaker 4 (34:26):
Now. Gear, I don't the gear merchandise I can't do.
I can't do it.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
You don't want to buy a seventy five dollar sweatshirt?
Speaker 5 (34:32):
No, I can't do the gear merchandise and gear, I'm
more like nah.
Speaker 4 (34:37):
Food, I'm like, all.
Speaker 5 (34:38):
Right, I gotta I'm here for the next you know,
anywhere from hour and a half to three and a
half hours. I gotta eat, So I take the al
and I know I'm about to pay more for lesser
quality food too.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Ryan, Where are you you go to a lot of games?
I mean sometimes you look at the price and go,
I want it, but I can't do it.
Speaker 6 (34:55):
It It hurts, but I figure every time I'm going.
First of all, I gotta eat because the man's gotta
eat and why.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
And I can't.
Speaker 6 (35:05):
I could, I could put plenty away, but I so
I'll eat something, whether if it's just a hot dog
or I mean, Dodger Stadium is really really up to
their food game these last few years, and they keep
adding some more oh yeah stuff.
Speaker 5 (35:21):
We had it on the show today. Shout out to
Chef Christine. They had that river. I showed you that
eight sixteen inch dog sausage. It's a pound, Rob and Ryan,
it's a pound.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
That's a lot.
Speaker 5 (35:35):
It's insane. But yeah, Ryan, you're right, the Dodgers keep
adding some new good food.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
Martin Wie, So you're looking at your wallet when you're
buying concessions out at an event, sporting event.
Speaker 14 (35:44):
It depends on how much I pay for the ticket.
If you got free tickets, get some food to get
something to drink. But if I had to, you know,
I'll spend an arm and a leg for the ticket.
I only got one more arm and one more leg.
Speaker 3 (35:58):
As you know. For me, I put a limit.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
I could be this the one time I really want something,
I'll be like, I really want this slice of pizza,
but I'm not paying nine dollars I'm not, and I
will like not do it. I will not buy it
even though I really want it, because I just it's
against my principal to spend nine.
Speaker 5 (36:19):
So, you know what, I'm like that on at the ballpark,
sodas eventually, if I have to get what I have
to get, but sodas and candies, you know, like, oh
box of M and MS and it'll be like eight
point fifty that I know, that's a buck twenty five.
In the streets, I'm like, no, no, no, no, no,
candy is my candy.
Speaker 4 (36:35):
And desserts you know your Dodger game.
Speaker 5 (36:36):
And they bring the little the little cookie and cake tray.
Speaker 4 (36:40):
Oh, You're like, how much for this slice?
Speaker 5 (36:42):
And they're like whoa, no, no, no, no, no, that's
desserts and sweets.
Speaker 4 (36:47):
I cannot do. I gotta eat something.
Speaker 5 (36:49):
Well, I'm here, so a burger a you know, a dog,
chicken strips, all right, pizza, I gotta do it.
Speaker 4 (36:54):
Dessert sweets, candies, nah, noa.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
No, prices were a little lower, you would buy two dogs,
you know what I mean, Like they would sell more product.
When I got to look at a nine dollar hot dog,
I'm only having one.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
But if they were like four point fifty.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
I would have two, and they would make more money
on volume rather than just because a lot of people
won't buy the dog, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (37:17):
Yeah, it's a great point. I'll spend.
Speaker 5 (37:19):
I'll buy two, three more if it wasn't as crazily priced.
But you know, desserts and sweets for me, that's my line.
Because I see that little box of M and M's
or Twizzlers or something they want fourteen dollars. I'm like,
what are you crazy? Do I get to get an
at bat after the game? Did I get to try
to hit a home run?
Speaker 4 (37:36):
My goodness? All right?
Speaker 5 (37:37):
Hour two down, Hour three on the way, stick with
your boys, Robin Kelvin, I couple.
Speaker 4 (37:41):
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