On this week’s edition of Inside the (Rob) Parker, Rob discusses Kansas City Royals' OF Tyler Tolbert's impressive streak of 12 straight plate appearances with a hit, the drama involving Anthony Volpe and the New York Yankees, and St Louis Cardinals OF Jordan Walker agreeing to participate in the Home Run Derby. Plus, San Diego Padres OF Samad Taylor swings by, as does NBC Los Angeles sports anchor Olivia Garvey. Finally, we drop Rob's latest appearance on MLB Network and the latest edition of Pocket Protector Central with analytics maven Anthony Masterson, and reveal the fourteenth installment of Rob’s Memory Lane series.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
From the Burkeshars to the sound from wherever 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 of Fame
voter number fifty six, Rob Parker.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Come on, I've been covering Major League Baseball for almost
forty years now, in New York, in Cincinnati, in Detroit,
in LA.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
I love this game.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Let's go.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Welcome into the podcast. I'm your host, Rob Parker. What
a show we have for you today. San Diego Padres
outfielder Sama Taylor joins us here on the program. Also
from KNBC and Los Angeles, she hosts a postgame MLB
show on Sunday nights none other than Olivia Garvey. Yes,
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Steve Garvey's daughter I happen to work with. Plus a
little pocket protector that and much more.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Let's go better up to lead off. It's getting rocked
to keep them up. Rob's hot take on the three
biggest stories in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Number one, Tyler Tober from the Kansas City Royals. Remember
that name, the outfielder who went on an unbelievable he
had twelve hits in twelve plate appearances. Twelve hits in
twelve straight playoff appearances, the fifth player to do it
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in Major League Baseball history, tied to record. I happened
to be watching when he got the twelfth hit. It
was a check swing roller to shortstop. And you gotta
have some luck when things like that happened. But anyway,
that's a pretty amazing feat. When you think about if
you get three hits every ten at bat, you're a
Hall of Famer. Right, that's a three hundred batting average.
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That's how hard it is to hit. So to come
up to the plate and get twelve hits in twelve
straight playoff straight twelve straight plate appearance is an incredible feat,
one to be proud of and hold on to. And then,
of course on Wednesday he went zero for three and
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that's the end of that ride. But boy, what a
ride it was. It was fun to watch.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
At the end.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Number two, of course, there's controversy in the Bronx. That's
what happens when Aaron Judge gets hurt and you start
losing the way the Yankees have been losing.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
It's a miracle.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
There are only five games out of first place in
the al least behind Tampa. But that's where they are.
Anthony Volpi now saying reports are BS that he refused
to move to second base. Obviously, Vopie won a Gold
Glove playing shortstop for the Yankees last year, was banged up, injured,
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played through it, had a really rough time in the field,
wound up losing his job, going to the minor leagues,
coming back up, and now you know, people are trying
to figure out. It's really murky here and they got
to figure out what they're going to do. Is confidence
has to be kind of shot at this point that
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he was heard. He came back and the job wasn't
automatically his at shortstop. It's really hard to win a
gold Glove at shortstop in the big leagues, but he
did it. But then he followed that up with some
really bad plays. So this will be interesting to see
how this shakes out. The report came from Michael k
from the YES Network and ESPN Radio in New York.
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I know Mike forever be shocked if there's no truth
to it. I just can't see where Mike would be
making up a story. But Anthony Volpi calls BS drama
in the Bronx.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
No surprise number three.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Bravo to Jordan Walker, the Saint Louis Cardinals right fielder
who's had a breakout year, made the All Star Team
and now has agreed to partake in the Home Run Derby,
which is great. You love to see the young stars
of the game out there flexing their muscles. We've seen
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Aaron Judge perform. We've seen all these other guys like
it's a part. This is what fans want to see
when I hear people don't want to partake in the
All Star Game and don't want to take a part
in the effect. We've seen it in the NBA. Lebron
James never did the Slam Dunk Contest even once. You
don't have to do it every year, but at least once.
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Michael Jordan knew the importance of it, and he did
the Dunk Contest more than one year in the NBA,
which was great. So it's great to see this young
breakout star, Jordan Walker come and say, not only have
I made the All Star Team and I'm happy about that,
I'm gonna take part in the Home Run Derby and
I can't wait to be in Philadelphia on Monday for
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the home run derby Tuesday for the All Star Game,
still the best All Star game of any sport in
this country.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Here comes the big interview. Listen and learn.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
It's so good. All right, now, let's welcome into the podcast.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Sama Taylor from the San Diego Padres.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Sama, how are you.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
I'm doing good. Thank you for having me, No.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
No, thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
And let's talk about your stint with the Padres and
your major league career. Kind of get to know you
in your journey before we get to the Padres and
what you're doing. Now. Just tell me about breaking into
the big leagues Kansas City twenty twenty three, I believe,
and getting a game winning hit for your first hit
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in the big leagues. Just talk about that experience, what
it was like.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
First and foremost, so it was a blessing, a blessing
just to be able to chase my dream and ful
phil something that I've always dreamed of. Twenty three, I
had the opportunity to debut with Kansas City at home
against Angels and a former teammate was throwing. Griffin Cannon
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started the game and then had a couple good at
bats and then Chris Davinski came in, knew the report,
stuck to my plan. He threw change up, put a
good swing on it, and the rest is history, and
we ended up winning the game. And that was my
first novel.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
What was that?
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Just your feeling, you know, when you knew it was
down and you were gonna win the game, You're around
it first.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Just what was going through your head? Just on contact?
I knew, I knew the game was won, just because
I knew bowls in the air. It was deep enough.
I didn't know how deep it was gonna go. But
I ended up short hopping the wall. And the only
thing I remember after the blackout was the first base
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coach telling me to touch the bag. And after that, like,
I don't remember anything. The only thing I only reason
I remember half of the things I remember is just
because of pictures and watching videos and stuff like that.
But it was a blessing. I mean, it's a dream
come true. You can't you can't ask for anything better
than that.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Talk about growing up in Corona, California, And you know,
obviously you said at home playing the Angels, of course
the closest team to you. But where did your baseball
JORDI begin as a kid, where did you fall in
love with the game?
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Uh, shout out to my father. Pops kind of introduced
the game to me, and I mean it stuck with me.
I was a baseball player, loved soccer, loved other sports,
but it was just big eyed when I played baseball.
It was something that like I shoot, I enjoyed a
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lot going out in the front yard, just being young
and and trying new stands. Is trying to hit like Griffy,
trying to hit like Samuel Selsa. You're trying to do
things that guys already and the big leagues are doing.
And then the love just grew, got got better, grinded harder,
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was out in front of more people, and then it
kind of became real when I turned about fifteen as one,
like the opportunity really showed itself. And I mean, to
be a young kid that is chasing a dream, when
you hear about MLB draft and stuff like that, like
that kind of puts a lot of things to this perspective.
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And then I just put my head down and just
grinded and grinded and had the ability to be drafted
by the Cleveland Indians in twenty sixteen. So I mean,
like I said, you can't ask for anything better than
being an opportunity to chase your dream. If you fill
your dream.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
You also played in Australia, so it tells you about
your love and desire for the game to even go
that far and say I'm gonna keep playing until like
at my opportunity.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Tell me about what that was like.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
I went to Australia in twenty twenty during COVID. It
was kind of kind of struggled the year before nineteen.
So I went out there just to get at bats
and just to keep playing. And then I went into
a position change and that's when I started playing the
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altfhold again. But you're talking about a fourteen hour flight
from lax.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
And overall water. I've taken that flight. It's amazing about right, It's.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
A long it's a long try, and you don't really
understand how slow time moves until you're on the airplane
for fourteen hours. But it was great. I would one
thousand percent go down again just to be in Australia,
even if I'm not playing baseball. A beautiful, beautiful country,
and it just shows that baseball just isn't in America
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and baseball just isn't an American sport or Latin culture sport.
Every everybody plays it. Yeah, Australia is known for cricket
and in rugby, but I mean they still have a
bunch of ballers out there. You look at starting taking
basement for Cleveland right now, Travis. I played against him
when he was a young buck in Australia, and I
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kind of I knew he was gonna be something special
in the game just off of how hard he grinded
and what it took to get out of Australia. I mean,
like I said, it's a place of rugby and cricket
and the guys that do play baseball out there yet
it's a small handful of guys, but the guys that
are doing it are are ballers and they just need
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the opportunity. And he had the opportunity and look at
him now.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Sama Taylor's our guest here on Inside the Parker. I
want to ask you about you talked about changing positions.
What is the biggest difference between playing the infield and
the outfield and how much do you love defense because
you've made some fantastic plays as well in the outfield.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
You just got more time to react in the outfield.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
I would say, the ball is on you in the infield.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
The ball's on you in the infield. I mean, you're
you're talking about guys that are hitting ground balls a
one hundred and five and stuff like that. But defense
for me is a big thing because I mean, there's
no better feeling than robbing somebody or taking away a
hit or throwing somebody out. Just understanding that. I mean,
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I pieced balls up and you're like, oh, that's the
base hit, and then centerfield comes in and dies and
makes it play and it's just like man, So like
that's that's where I get my thrill on the defensive
side is just taking away hits and making sure that
guys don't take extra bags and stuff like that, and
just helping pictures out. So I hone in on the
defensive side and I just try to do whatever I
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can do to be better every day.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
You also played in Seattle and now here in San Diego.
You got your first big league home run against Baltimore.
Tell me about that. What it was like to leave
the yard? You know what I mean, another one of
those moments you remember, right.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
I mean, it's just another another thing to check off
at bucket list. We have an extraordinary, an extraordinary amount
of goals. Once you get drafted. You have goal to
get your first had, and goal get your first win,
and just to have your first home run, I mean
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first big league home run. That's one thing that nobody
can ever take away from me. It's a moment that
you kind of close your eyes and make a swing
and you wake up and it's it's real. But to
leave a to leave a ballpark like cam and Yards,
and I mean you're talking about one of the biggest
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ballparks in all baseball. Yes, they move defenses in, but
I still don't think that that plays a role into
how big that ballpark is. Put a good swing on
the pitch and by the grace of God, the wind
took it and took it out and we could we
call those home runs. They don't. They don't really. When
you look at the back of the car, it doesn't
say it's a wind dated or not a home runs
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a home run. So that's a blessing, it's a it's
another another check mark on my buckle list for sure.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Favorite player growing up. No were you an Angels fan
or Dodger fan.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
I was a New York Mets fan.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
I was a Mets fan. How did you become a
Mets fan?
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Jose? Guy, Jose is my favorite player. If I had
to pick a player that I watched a lot growing
up on the West Coast, it'd be Sean Figgins. Those
two guys, I mean, smaller guys, fast calls, havoc, kind
of play the same game that I play. So those
are the guys I looked up to.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
No doubt. All Right, my man, thank you so much.
Appreciate your time and your energy. Continued success.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
I appreciate you, guys. Thank you again.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
It's time for the pocket Protector Centrum. The analytic numbers
you need to know?
Speaker 5 (14:09):
Well, maybe Anthony Masterson is his name, BS analytics is
his gay.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
What do you got for me, Anthony?
Speaker 6 (14:17):
Plenty of surprise teams this season, some good and some bad.
Who's the third best team in the American League? Who cares?
The NL has six or seven teams buying for that
final wildcard spot, and none are more shocking than the
Miami Marlins. Since June first, the Marlins are a league
best twenty four and eight, posting the second best era
of any National League team in that time. Everything that
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Marlins aren't first in From a pitching perspective, they're seconds
only behind the Brewers, and they're no slouts with the
bats either, second only to the Rockies in every categorical
slash line, while the run differential is only behind Milwaukee.
Now who's leading the charge on South Beach? Oh, let's
start with All Stars shortstop Auto Lopez, hitting a major
league best three forty three through July seventh, leading the league,
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and hits a doubles here after hitting one hundred points lower.
In nearly six hundred played appearances. Since June first, eight
different Marlins have an opius over eight hundred, eight have
driven in double figures in runs, and eleven have hit
a home run, led by household name Heroberto Hernandez is
ten and former All Star Kyle Stowers has turned this
season around, driving in twenty nine runs since June first,
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fourth in MLB, and Liam Hicks is hitting three p
forty one, top five in baseball.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
But it's not just the bats.
Speaker 6 (15:29):
Perennial trade candidate Sandy Alcantara has a two nine to
eight ERA, maybe making a case to keep him around.
While All Star Max Meyer as a one to nine
to six. Now, no one thinks they're going to win
the NLS for the first time ever. But they're just
three games back in Atlanta. As we near the break,
stranger things have happened.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
When Rob was a newspaper columnist, he lived by this motto,
if I'm writing, I'm ripping. Let's bring in a writer
of broadcaster old or new.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Now let's welcome into the podcast.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Olivia Garvey, of course, sportscaster for k NBC in Los
Angeles and she does the baseball postgame live on every
Sunday night on NBC. I have the privilege of working
with you every Sunday, and of course I'd be remiss
not to say, the.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Daughter of Steve Garvey baseball great. How are you?
Speaker 7 (16:18):
I'm good.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
I love the name inside, I love it inside the Parker.
That's it. It works, Okay, thanks for having me on,
no doubt.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Let's talk about you and of course your love for
the game of baseball. When your dad's an all time
great when did you fall in love with baseball?
Speaker 8 (16:33):
I really think my whole life, I think I really
started to realize I loved baseball when I chose to
have my birthday at Dodger Stadium every single year, beginning
at ten years old.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
I always that's amazing, that's a great story.
Speaker 8 (16:48):
Yeah, I always wanted to have my birthday at Dodger Stadium.
I would bring all my girlfriends. My dad and mom
would be like, what are we doing for your birthday?
Oh wait, we're going to the Dodger game. And you know,
it's so crazy that most of and the home games
were on my birthday. So we would go, and ever
since I was ten years old, we would do that.
And I just realized I really love this game. And
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I was so incredibly best to be able to sit
next to my dad and former players and just listen
to their conversations and I really was so into everything
that they were saying.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
And yeah, I just I really love it. When did
you know your dad was a baseball star? You know
what I mean?
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Like kids, you come home, dad his dad, and then
one day somebody that says something to you, or you're
watching TV. You know your mom's excited, But when did
you When did it really?
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Like sink in.
Speaker 8 (17:36):
I don't know if I can pinpoint in an exact moment,
but I think you know, going to Dodger Stadium my
whole life. I think I really started to, you know,
understand maybe around eight or nine, when all these people
would swarm my dad at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
I'm like, what is going on?
Speaker 8 (17:52):
And you know, and you see his pictures everywhere, and
I was always someone that, you know, anytime my dad
went on a business trip and it was on the weekend,
and I raised my hand and said, I want to
go with you. Every you know, business trip in his
field is going to Dodger Stadium, going to the All
Star Game, you know, doing speaking arrangements, and it was
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just something I always wanted to be a part of.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
So how about a great moment that you remember, like
with your dad? Obviously one it was in the World Series,
all kinds of different things.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Was there one moment where you were just like, wow,
that was amazing for my dad and for the family.
Speaker 8 (18:28):
Legends of Dodger Baseball, you know, they have their legends
and some of the greats are a part of it.
And my dad's I believe, was in twenty nineteen and
our whole family went on the field and you know,
some of his former teammates spoke and so many fans
got to the ballpark early to see the ceremony and
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I was like, wow, like he made such an impact
here at Dodger Stadium and for the fans of the Dodgers,
and that's when I realized, Okay, he is just I
knew he was amazing before that, but it was just
so emotional and so incredible to be a part of
that moment.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Our guest is Olivia Garvey, KNBC Los Angeles and of course,
host of Postgame Live, the MLB postgame show on Channel
four here in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
I do want to ask you about yourself.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
And getting into the business of journalism and the media.
And I think you worked at NFL networking before somebody
said hello, Hello, like hello.
Speaker 8 (19:30):
Right, yeah, yeah, So I actually I got into this
field very late. And everybody, I think has their own path.
I think that there's no sentenced, own way of doing this.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
And I was.
Speaker 8 (19:44):
In Los Angeles. I actually wanted to be an actress.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
I grew up.
Speaker 8 (19:47):
Around you know something wrong with that now, No, but
you know I left an audition one time for an
MTV show. I'll never forget this, and I called my
dad and I said, you know what, I don't know
what I'm doing, Like, why am I not on a
field reporting and being a part of a world that
I grew up a part of and truly truly love. So,
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you know, the next day I said, Dad, is you
know he helped me get through the door.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
It's my.
Speaker 8 (20:16):
It's my responsibility to stay in there and show that
I can do it. And I think some people get
mixed up with that. But of course I said, you know,
how do I do this? And he said, you know,
I'm gonna call a few people and we'll see. And so,
you know, I went to Arizona. I went to the
University of Arizona and then went to a su and
I started at the Dodgers' spring training Dodgers in white sox.
I was a field girl. Like when I say I
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started low, I started very low on the total poty.
Didn't just make it here. So and then you know,
and then the Dodgers said, hey, would you like to
do show people around camel Back And those were you know,
VIP guests, and you know, I had so much fun
meeting so many different people. But this business is also
about networking, and so the people that I met, you know,
so what do you really want to do, and I said,
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I really want to be in sports, and some at
the NFL network, you know, gave me their number and
they said, hey, look, everyone's got to start somewhere. And
I was an AP and I did the Good Morning
Football Show from one am to ten am. That was
my schedule.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
That was a tough schedule, it was, but it.
Speaker 8 (21:17):
Really makes you understand where you are now when you
have a schedule like that. And so I did that
and then I worked with Scott Hansen on Red Zone.
I called out plays and that was the time of
my life. And then someone said, there, you know, why
are you.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Not on air?
Speaker 8 (21:33):
And I said, what are you talking about? They said,
you have this personality you know baseball.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
And you're beautiful.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
You are.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
I'm not even going to sit here on that like
you're not. You're beautiful.
Speaker 8 (21:42):
And they said, you know, you have this personality where
you just love talking to people and understanding them. And
so yeah, just kicked off from there and here I
am with you.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
And there you are. Unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Last thing, the Dodgers obviously working in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
They've won back the back World Series. You follow them?
I don't know, I mean, I feel.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Like sure on paper, they should win. It seems so
hard to win three in a row. Do you have
a vibe for this team? Is it there yet or
you're still not sure that they can repeat? Yeah.
Speaker 8 (22:16):
I never go into a season saying this is the
Dodgers year they're winning a World Series. That It never
works out When someone says that, the fans will say that,
and I love that. You have to as a fan,
and I am a fan, but now that I'm working
in it, it's different.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
It's different.
Speaker 8 (22:29):
It's a completely different viewpoint. And I don't think some
people understand that sometimes, but it's a completely different viewpoint.
So I never say, you know, they can definitely win
three World Series. And don't get me wrong, I mean
look at the roster, but you never go in being
like it's happening, because remember one hundred and sixty two
game season, and then on top of that, playoff baseball
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is no joke.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
And let's not forget that last year the Blue Jays
had about eight chances to win the World Series and
they didn't get it done.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Right, but the Dodgs won.
Speaker 8 (22:58):
No, they didn't get it done, got it it was
you know, back to back is crazy. Back to back
to back is even crazier. But if there's a team
that can do it, it is the Los Angeles Dodgers,
and I will ride through them with it because it
has been such an incredible journey.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
All Right, Her name Olivia Garvey, KNBC Los Angeles, joining
us here on Inside the Parker Continued success.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
I appreciate you me.
Speaker 8 (23:22):
Thank you, and thanks for always coming on our show.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
In case you missed Rob Parker on the MLB Networks,
here's his latest appearance on MLBINA.
Speaker 7 (23:36):
All right, show down time.
Speaker 9 (23:38):
Rob Parker is here as he is every week.
Speaker 7 (23:40):
Rob, great to have you back on. Hello, what's up?
Speaker 6 (23:43):
BK?
Speaker 3 (23:43):
How are you from Los Angeles? You are?
Speaker 7 (23:45):
Oh excellent? Le's good? Oh se you're up early? Is
that what you tell us?
Speaker 2 (23:48):
All?
Speaker 7 (23:48):
He got up earlier? You're you're a trooper. You're a
troop bro.
Speaker 9 (23:51):
You're also such a sports writer because your topic here
was Verlanders retiring. We did a whole work up on
him there. Talk to his brother and you immediately, oh,
what hat will he wear? And you're saying he should
go into the hall as a what.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
As a Houston astro?
Speaker 2 (24:06):
And I say that being a guy who of course
was a sports columnist at the Detroit News when he
broke into the big leagues.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
And covered a lot of his career up close.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
I was at the Ballpark America all the time watching
JV pitch.
Speaker 7 (24:23):
But you can't now, Rob, let me jump in. Ho
are you taking toll? Yep, you can't. I mean it does.
Speaker 9 (24:27):
It's fourteen years and seven years right, and he did
voluminous work for Detroit. It's not like well he was
languishing and then he won titles with Houston.
Speaker 7 (24:37):
He was great for Detroit.
Speaker 9 (24:38):
Detroit was a powerhouse team didn't win a World Series.
It's got the here. It is what's happened, the era,
the innings. It's got just too much work with Detroit.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
I got the work, but the damage was done with
Houston and helping them win.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
Two were not one. Two World Series.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
And I just when you win somewhere, I think that
that is important as well.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
I get the Detroit connection. What the team they had there.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
They despite having David Price, Max Scherzer and Justin Berland
in your starting.
Speaker 7 (25:13):
Rotation, they were stacked. They were so stacked didn't win
and did not win. By the way, the Hall.
Speaker 9 (25:19):
Makes the final call on that anyway, because they don't
want any shit atigans happening.
Speaker 7 (25:23):
I'd be stunned if he goes in as an astro,
but we'll ask him. All right. I want your take
on this.
Speaker 9 (25:28):
Another pitcher pulled with a perfect game going, Jared Jones
pirates six innings, seventy seven pitches.
Speaker 7 (25:35):
On the other hand, I just want to throw this in.
Speaker 9 (25:37):
Rob John Schneider of the Blue Jays let Dylan Cees
go through seven.
Speaker 7 (25:42):
He had a no hitter, not a perfect game.
Speaker 9 (25:44):
He had one hundred and six pitches, so he kind
of let him roll.
Speaker 7 (25:48):
Where are you on all this?
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Stop cheating the fans up from great moments.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Give a guy a chance to do it.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Now, if you pitched innings in the eighth inning, you
walk the first guy or give up a hit.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
Come out.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
But the idea that you're stopping people from fans witnessing
some of these great feats. As a sports writer for
forty years, I only saw one perfect game, David Wells.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
I was there.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Can you imagine if they took David Wells out against
the Twins as he's mowing them down, worries about him.
Speaker 9 (26:21):
Jones has been so hard. Yeah, now in their defense.
Jones has been really hurt. He's he's like a would
be ace. He's been hurt so much, he's been on
the pitch count. I hate it too, but Rob, it
makes sense if you're if you're the Pirates manager, you
don't let you go.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
It doesn't b K.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
It doesn't make sense because taking guys out in those
situations don't mean that they're not going to get hurt
down the line, or something else is gonna happen.
Speaker 7 (26:47):
You can get her to there.
Speaker 9 (26:48):
It's you're adrenaline, you're fatigued, You're pushing past the point
no one you know.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
For a chance at immortality and chance at dory like
it is it?
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Bob Costs?
Speaker 7 (27:00):
Is it immortality? You're in the book Perfect Game? What's it?
Speaker 1 (27:04):
More?
Speaker 7 (27:04):
Statues don't get erected for you.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
It's stay kay, you're poo pulling a perfect game?
Speaker 7 (27:09):
Now, Yeah, Lenn Barker had a perfect game? Who else
Domingo Hermann had it? We don't. Yeah, I like it.
Speaker 9 (27:17):
I like it's it's it's tense, it's dramatic. I wouldn't
put a guy at risk at that all right, now.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Okay, okay, My problem is what about the fans, who
are there who can talk about the game that they
got a chance to see.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
That's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 9 (27:29):
Yeah, no, it's a legitimate point, But I see why
you take it out. But right, it'd be nice to
see again, we're not going to see it. Mike Trout
is back hit a home run. He's actually like top
ten overall and hitting. I have to say, I want
to ask you, if you're a general manager, you got
four years after this, right, one hundred and fifty million,
will you make a deal for Mike Trout in the
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later years?
Speaker 2 (27:54):
No way, No, how really, And unfortunately his track record
and as you get older, you don't get better or healthier.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
It actually deteriorates.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
So this has been a nice bounce back year for
him for the most part.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
He still got hurt.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
I just wouldn't I would rather not spend the money
with the idea that this guy might not be available
for me. If I'm making a playoff on wo or
down the road, I wouldn't do it.
Speaker 9 (28:19):
You used to be like this old time sports writer,
big big town, big city, big money guy. Now you're
like running the Rays. You're like a baseball ops kid.
Speaker 7 (28:27):
For the Rays.
Speaker 9 (28:27):
Now I can't risk this. I've run the numbers on this.
Listen to you, all right, National League MVP. You're not
gonna like this. Perhaps perhaps it's not show. Hey Otani,
here's Pete crow Armstrong. Right, he had another two homers
like this week. Last six weeks got.
Speaker 7 (28:43):
A war of four. I know you don't follow war,
but follow me on this.
Speaker 9 (28:46):
The hitting is about the same weighted run scred plus there,
slugging is about the same, home runs, about the same,
on base about the same. Otani a little better base
running runs PCA is better fielding run value PCA crushes
Otani now pitches eighty five minutes. I get it, but
you know what the total contribution, Rob, I'm saying, this
is a race right now.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
No way, no, how is this a race? Stopping b K,
what are you doing? You know it's not a race.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
And because old tiny pitches, he's gonna get way more
extra points and you can't.
Speaker 7 (29:21):
He doesn't deserve it.
Speaker 9 (29:21):
Though I've laid it out. Otani doesn't field right, better,
fields better. That's important to I know. I know he's
pitched eighty five innings. It's huge, we've never seen it.
But I'm saying the total contribution Armstrong's there.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
This is coming from a guy who sold me on
Ellie Dayla Cruz being the MVP.
Speaker 9 (29:41):
Now now you move in the cheese. Now you're just
pot shotting me. Now it's just a cheap shotting me.
That does not count. Let's talk about what we're talking
about here. You see what he did, and you saw
what he did. Don't about what we're talking about. I'm saying,
who would you rather have this year? I'm saying it's close.
You have the best center fielder in the game fielding.
He's now slugging like Otani. He doesn't pitch, but he
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outruns and the outfields Otani and Otani doesn't field at all.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Look at all the MVPs that Otani wins, and it's
because he can pitch, and it's always going to be
the case unless he's just terrible and has a chubby
fifteen heel ray.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
Other than that, I don't know how you're gonna look
at anybody.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
And unless Armstrong's numbers are so much bigger, which they aren't.
They're they're comparable, but they're not so much bigger. Where
you go always having a once in a lifetime season
at the plate, He's not having that.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
That's how Aaron.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Judge won the MVP last year, our catcher setting a
record for home runs.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
Yeah, because the season.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Was so great that it was hard to ignore.
Speaker 9 (30:45):
Yeah, PCA is on a tear though it's moving, it's
moving up. Just saying stay tuned, all right and just
watch the chief shots. I'm gonna take a point away
next time I take a point away.
Speaker 7 (30:54):
Take a point away. Take a point away, take a
point away. That's it. You get dqued all right? Thank you,
Rob well.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Always and you know what to Bob Constance, he knows it.
Bob knows what I'm talking about.
Speaker 7 (31:06):
Was agreeing with me? What are you about?
Speaker 9 (31:08):
All?
Speaker 3 (31:08):
I forget that's what you said.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
It's time for the pocket Protector Centrum. The analytic numbers
you need to know?
Speaker 5 (31:17):
Well, maybe Anthony Masterson is his name, BS.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Analytics is his gay? What do you got for me, Anthony?
Speaker 6 (31:25):
Plenty of surprise teams this season, some good and some bad.
Who's the third best team in the American League? Who cares?
The NL has six or seven teams buying for that
final wildcard spot, and none are more shocking than the
Miami Marlins. Since June first, the Marlins are a league
best twenty four and eight, posting the second best ERA
of any National League team in that time. Everything that
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Marlins aren't first in. From a pitching perspective, there's seconds
only behind the Brewers, and they're no slouts, with the
bats either, second only to the Rockies in every categorical
slash line, while the run differential is only behind Milwaukee.
Now who's leading the charge on South Beach. Well, let's
start with All Star shortstop Otto Lopez, hitting a major
league best three forty three through July seventh, leading the
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league it hits and doubles here after hitting one hundred
points lower. In nearly six hundred played appearances. Since June first,
eight different Marlins have an opus over eight hundred, eight
have driven in double figures in runs, and eleven have
hit a home run, led by household name Harroberto Hernandez
is ten and former All Star Kyle Stowers has turned
this season around, driving in twenty nine runs since June first,
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fourth in MLB, and Liam Hicks is hitting three forty one,
top five in baseball. But it's not just the bats.
Perennial trade candidate Sandy al Kantara has a two to
nine to eight era, maybe making a case to keep
him around while all star Max Meyer as a one
to nine to six Now no one thinks they're going
to win the NL East for the first time ever,
but they're just three games back in Atlanta as we
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near the break, Stranger things have happened.
From the Burkeshars to the sound from wherever 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 of Fame
voter number fifty six, Rob Parker.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Come on, I've been covering Major League Baseball for almost
forty years now, in New York, in Cincinnati, in Detroit,
in LA.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
I love this game.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Let's go.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Welcome into the podcast. I'm your host, Rob Parker. What
a show we have for you today. San Diego Padres
outfielder Sama Taylor joins us here on the program. Also
from KNBC and Los Angeles, she hosts a postgame MLB
show on Sunday nights none other than Olivia Garvey. Yes,
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Steve Garvey's daughter I happen to work with. Plus a
little pocket protector that and much more.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Let's go better up to lead off. It's getting rocked
to keep them up. Rob's hot take on the three
biggest stories in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Number one, Tyler Tober from the Kansas City Royals. Remember
that name, the outfielder who went on an unbelievable he
had twelve hits in twelve plate appearances. Twelve hits in
twelve straight playoff appearances, the fifth player to do it
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in Major League Baseball history, tied to record. I happened
to be watching when he got the twelfth hit. It
was a check swing roller to shortstop. And you gotta
have some luck when things like that happened. But anyway,
that's a pretty amazing feat. When you think about if
you get three hits every ten at bat, you're a
Hall of Famer. Right, that's a three hundred batting average.
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That's how hard it is to hit. So to come
up to the plate and get twelve hits in twelve
straight playoff straight twelve straight plate appearance is an incredible feat,
one to be proud of and hold on to. And then,
of course on Wednesday he went zero for three and
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that's the end of that ride. But boy, what a
ride it was. It was fun to watch.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
At the end.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Number two, of course, there's controversy in the Bronx. That's
what happens when Aaron Judge gets hurt and you start
losing the way the Yankees have been losing.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
It's a miracle.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
There are only five games out of first place in
the al least behind Tampa. But that's where they are.
Anthony Volpi now saying reports are BS that he refused
to move to second base. Obviously, Vopie won a Gold
Glove playing shortstop for the Yankees last year, was banged up, injured,
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played through it, had a really rough time in the field,
wound up losing his job, going to the minor leagues,
coming back up, and now you know, people are trying
to figure out. It's really murky here and they got
to figure out what they're going to do. Is confidence
has to be kind of shot at this point that
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he was heard. He came back and the job wasn't
automatically his at shortstop. It's really hard to win a
gold Glove at shortstop in the big leagues, but he
did it. But then he followed that up with some
really bad plays. So this will be interesting to see
how this shakes out. The report came from Michael k
from the YES Network and ESPN Radio in New York.
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I know Mike forever be shocked if there's no truth
to it. I just can't see where Mike would be
making up a story. But Anthony Volpi calls BS drama
in the Bronx.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
No surprise number three.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Bravo to Jordan Walker, the Saint Louis Cardinals right fielder
who's had a breakout year, made the All Star Team
and now has agreed to partake in the Home Run Derby,
which is great. You love to see the young stars
of the game out there flexing their muscles. We've seen
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Aaron Judge perform. We've seen all these other guys like
it's a part. This is what fans want to see
when I hear people don't want to partake in the
All Star Game and don't want to take a part
in the effect. We've seen it in the NBA. Lebron
James never did the Slam Dunk Contest even once. You
don't have to do it every year, but at least once.
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Michael Jordan knew the importance of it, and he did
the Dunk Contest more than one year in the NBA,
which was great. So it's great to see this young
breakout star, Jordan Walker come and say, not only have
I made the All Star Team and I'm happy about that,
I'm gonna take part in the Home Run Derby and
I can't wait to be in Philadelphia on Monday for
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the home run derby Tuesday for the All Star Game,
still the best All Star game of any sport in
this country.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Here comes the big interview. Listen and learn.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
It's so good. All right, now, let's welcome into the podcast.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Sama Taylor from the San Diego Padres.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Sama, how are you.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
I'm doing good. Thank you for having me, No.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
No, thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
And let's talk about your stint with the Padres and
your major league career. Kind of get to know you
in your journey before we get to the Padres and
what you're doing. Now. Just tell me about breaking into
the big leagues Kansas City twenty twenty three, I believe,
and getting a game winning hit for your first hit
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in the big leagues. Just talk about that experience, what
it was like.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
First and foremost, so it was a blessing, a blessing
just to be able to chase my dream and ful
phil something that I've always dreamed of. Twenty three, I
had the opportunity to debut with Kansas City at home
against Angels and a former teammate was throwing. Griffin Cannon
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started the game and then had a couple good at
bats and then Chris Davinski came in, knew the report,
stuck to my plan. He threw change up, put a
good swing on it, and the rest is history, and
we ended up winning the game. And that was my
first novel.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
What was that?
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Just your feeling, you know, when you knew it was
down and you were gonna win the game, You're around
it first.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Just what was going through your head? Just on contact?
I knew, I knew the game was won, just because
I knew bowls in the air. It was deep enough.
I didn't know how deep it was gonna go. But
I ended up short hopping the wall. And the only
thing I remember after the blackout was the first base
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coach telling me to touch the bag. And after that, like,
I don't remember anything. The only thing I only reason
I remember half of the things I remember is just
because of pictures and watching videos and stuff like that.
But it was a blessing. I mean, it's a dream
come true. You can't you can't ask for anything better
than that.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Talk about growing up in Corona, California, And you know,
obviously you said at home playing the Angels, of course
the closest team to you. But where did your baseball
JORDI begin as a kid, where did you fall in
love with the game?
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Uh, shout out to my father. Pops kind of introduced
the game to me, and I mean it stuck with me.
I was a baseball player, loved soccer, loved other sports,
but it was just big eyed when I played baseball.
It was something that like I shoot, I enjoyed a
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lot going out in the front yard, just being young
and and trying new stands. Is trying to hit like Griffy,
trying to hit like Samuel Selsa. You're trying to do
things that guys already and the big leagues are doing.
And then the love just grew, got got better, grinded harder,
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was out in front of more people, and then it
kind of became real when I turned about fifteen as one,
like the opportunity really showed itself. And I mean, to
be a young kid that is chasing a dream, when
you hear about MLB draft and stuff like that, like
that kind of puts a lot of things to this perspective.
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And then I just put my head down and just
grinded and grinded and had the ability to be drafted
by the Cleveland Indians in twenty sixteen. So I mean,
like I said, you can't ask for anything better than
being an opportunity to chase your dream. If you fill
your dream.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
You also played in Australia, so it tells you about
your love and desire for the game to even go
that far and say I'm gonna keep playing until like
at my opportunity.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Tell me about what that was like.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
I went to Australia in twenty twenty during COVID. It
was kind of kind of struggled the year before nineteen.
So I went out there just to get at bats
and just to keep playing. And then I went into
a position change and that's when I started playing the
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altfhold again. But you're talking about a fourteen hour flight
from lax.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
And overall water. I've taken that flight. It's amazing about right, It's.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
A long it's a long try, and you don't really
understand how slow time moves until you're on the airplane
for fourteen hours. But it was great. I would one
thousand percent go down again just to be in Australia,
even if I'm not playing baseball. A beautiful, beautiful country,
and it just shows that baseball just isn't in America
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and baseball just isn't an American sport or Latin culture sport.
Every everybody plays it. Yeah, Australia is known for cricket
and in rugby, but I mean they still have a
bunch of ballers out there. You look at starting taking
basement for Cleveland right now, Travis. I played against him
when he was a young buck in Australia, and I
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kind of I knew he was gonna be something special
in the game just off of how hard he grinded
and what it took to get out of Australia. I mean,
like I said, it's a place of rugby and cricket
and the guys that do play baseball out there yet
it's a small handful of guys, but the guys that
are doing it are are ballers and they just need
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the opportunity. And he had the opportunity and look at
him now.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Sama Taylor's our guest here on Inside the Parker. I
want to ask you about you talked about changing positions.
What is the biggest difference between playing the infield and
the outfield and how much do you love defense because
you've made some fantastic plays as well in the outfield.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
You just got more time to react in the outfield.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
I would say, the ball is on you in the infield.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
The ball's on you in the infield. I mean, you're
you're talking about guys that are hitting ground balls a
one hundred and five and stuff like that. But defense
for me is a big thing because I mean, there's
no better feeling than robbing somebody or taking away a
hit or throwing somebody out. Just understanding that. I mean,
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I pieced balls up and you're like, oh, that's the
base hit, and then centerfield comes in and dies and
makes it play and it's just like man, So like
that's that's where I get my thrill on the defensive
side is just taking away hits and making sure that
guys don't take extra bags and stuff like that, and
just helping pictures out. So I hone in on the
defensive side and I just try to do whatever I
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can do to be better every day.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
You also played in Seattle and now here in San Diego.
You got your first big league home run against Baltimore.
Tell me about that. What it was like to leave
the yard? You know what I mean, another one of
those moments you remember, right.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
I mean, it's just another another thing to check off
at bucket list. We have an extraordinary, an extraordinary amount
of goals. Once you get drafted. You have goal to
get your first had, and goal get your first win,
and just to have your first home run, I mean
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first big league home run. That's one thing that nobody
can ever take away from me. It's a moment that
you kind of close your eyes and make a swing
and you wake up and it's it's real. But to
leave a to leave a ballpark like cam and Yards,
and I mean you're talking about one of the biggest
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ballparks in all baseball. Yes, they move defenses in, but
I still don't think that that plays a role into
how big that ballpark is. Put a good swing on
the pitch and by the grace of God, the wind
took it and took it out and we could we
call those home runs. They don't. They don't really. When
you look at the back of the car, it doesn't
say it's a wind dated or not a home runs
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a home run. So that's a blessing, it's a it's
another another check mark on my buckle list for sure.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Favorite player growing up. No were you an Angels fan
or Dodger fan.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
I was a New York Mets fan.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
I was a Mets fan. How did you become a
Mets fan?
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Jose? Guy, Jose is my favorite player. If I had
to pick a player that I watched a lot growing
up on the West Coast, it'd be Sean Figgins. Those
two guys, I mean, smaller guys, fast calls, havoc, kind
of play the same game that I play. So those
are the guys I looked up to.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
No doubt. All Right, my man, thank you so much.
Appreciate your time and your energy. Continued success.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
I appreciate you, guys. Thank you again.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
It's time for the pocket Protector Centrum. The analytic numbers
you need to know?
Speaker 5 (14:09):
Well, maybe Anthony Masterson is his name, BS analytics is
his gay.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
What do you got for me, Anthony?
Speaker 6 (14:17):
Plenty of surprise teams this season, some good and some bad.
Who's the third best team in the American League? Who cares?
The NL has six or seven teams buying for that
final wildcard spot, and none are more shocking than the
Miami Marlins. Since June first, the Marlins are a league
best twenty four and eight, posting the second best era
of any National League team in that time. Everything that
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Marlins aren't first in From a pitching perspective, they're seconds
only behind the Brewers, and they're no slouts with the
bats either, second only to the Rockies in every categorical
slash line, while the run differential is only behind Milwaukee.
Now who's leading the charge on South Beach? Oh, let's
start with All Stars shortstop Auto Lopez, hitting a major
league best three forty three through July seventh, leading the league,
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and hits a doubles here after hitting one hundred points lower.
In nearly six hundred played appearances. Since June first, eight
different Marlins have an opius over eight hundred, eight have
driven in double figures in runs, and eleven have hit
a home run, led by household name Heroberto Hernandez is
ten and former All Star Kyle Stowers has turned this
season around, driving in twenty nine runs since June first,
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fourth in MLB, and Liam Hicks is hitting three p
forty one, top five in baseball.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
But it's not just the bats.
Speaker 6 (15:29):
Perennial trade candidate Sandy Alcantara has a two nine to
eight ERA, maybe making a case to keep him around.
While All Star Max Meyer as a one to nine
to six. Now, no one thinks they're going to win
the NLS for the first time ever. But they're just
three games back in Atlanta. As we near the break,
stranger things have happened.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
When Rob was a newspaper columnist, he lived by this motto,
if I'm writing, I'm ripping. Let's bring in a writer
of broadcaster old or new.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Now let's welcome into the podcast.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Olivia Garvey, of course, sportscaster for k NBC in Los
Angeles and she does the baseball postgame live on every
Sunday night on NBC. I have the privilege of working
with you every Sunday, and of course I'd be remiss
not to say, the.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Daughter of Steve Garvey baseball great. How are you?
Speaker 7 (16:18):
I'm good.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
I love the name inside, I love it inside the Parker.
That's it. It works, Okay, thanks for having me on,
no doubt.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Let's talk about you and of course your love for
the game of baseball. When your dad's an all time
great when did you fall in love with baseball?
Speaker 8 (16:33):
I really think my whole life, I think I really
started to realize I loved baseball when I chose to
have my birthday at Dodger Stadium every single year, beginning
at ten years old.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
I always that's amazing, that's a great story.
Speaker 8 (16:48):
Yeah, I always wanted to have my birthday at Dodger Stadium.
I would bring all my girlfriends. My dad and mom
would be like, what are we doing for your birthday?
Oh wait, we're going to the Dodger game. And you know,
it's so crazy that most of and the home games
were on my birthday. So we would go, and ever
since I was ten years old, we would do that.
And I just realized I really love this game. And
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I was so incredibly best to be able to sit
next to my dad and former players and just listen
to their conversations and I really was so into everything
that they were saying.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
And yeah, I just I really love it. When did
you know your dad was a baseball star? You know
what I mean?
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Like kids, you come home, dad his dad, and then
one day somebody that says something to you, or you're
watching TV. You know your mom's excited, But when did
you When did it really?
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Like sink in.
Speaker 8 (17:36):
I don't know if I can pinpoint in an exact moment,
but I think you know, going to Dodger Stadium my
whole life. I think I really started to, you know,
understand maybe around eight or nine, when all these people
would swarm my dad at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
I'm like, what is going on?
Speaker 8 (17:52):
And you know, and you see his pictures everywhere, and
I was always someone that, you know, anytime my dad
went on a business trip and it was on the weekend,
and I raised my hand and said, I want to
go with you. Every you know, business trip in his
field is going to Dodger Stadium, going to the All
Star Game, you know, doing speaking arrangements, and it was
(18:12):
just something I always wanted to be a part of.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
So how about a great moment that you remember, like
with your dad? Obviously one it was in the World Series,
all kinds of different things.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Was there one moment where you were just like, wow,
that was amazing for my dad and for the family.
Speaker 8 (18:28):
Legends of Dodger Baseball, you know, they have their legends
and some of the greats are a part of it.
And my dad's I believe, was in twenty nineteen and
our whole family went on the field and you know,
some of his former teammates spoke and so many fans
got to the ballpark early to see the ceremony and
(18:50):
I was like, wow, like he made such an impact
here at Dodger Stadium and for the fans of the Dodgers,
and that's when I realized, Okay, he is just I
knew he was amazing before that, but it was just
so emotional and so incredible to be a part of
that moment.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Our guest is Olivia Garvey, KNBC Los Angeles and of course,
host of Postgame Live, the MLB postgame show on Channel
four here in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
I do want to ask you about yourself.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
And getting into the business of journalism and the media.
And I think you worked at NFL networking before somebody
said hello, Hello, like hello.
Speaker 8 (19:30):
Right, yeah, yeah, So I actually I got into this
field very late. And everybody, I think has their own path.
I think that there's no sentenced, own way of doing this.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
And I was.
Speaker 8 (19:44):
In Los Angeles. I actually wanted to be an actress.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
I grew up.
Speaker 8 (19:47):
Around you know something wrong with that now, No, but
you know I left an audition one time for an
MTV show. I'll never forget this, and I called my
dad and I said, you know what, I don't know
what I'm doing, Like, why am I not on a
field reporting and being a part of a world that
I grew up a part of and truly truly love. So,
(20:09):
you know, the next day I said, Dad, is you
know he helped me get through the door.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
It's my.
Speaker 8 (20:16):
It's my responsibility to stay in there and show that
I can do it. And I think some people get
mixed up with that. But of course I said, you know,
how do I do this? And he said, you know,
I'm gonna call a few people and we'll see. And so,
you know, I went to Arizona. I went to the
University of Arizona and then went to a su and
I started at the Dodgers' spring training Dodgers in white sox.
I was a field girl. Like when I say I
(20:36):
started low, I started very low on the total poty.
Didn't just make it here. So and then you know,
and then the Dodgers said, hey, would you like to
do show people around camel Back And those were you know,
VIP guests, and you know, I had so much fun
meeting so many different people. But this business is also
about networking, and so the people that I met, you know,
so what do you really want to do, and I said,
(20:57):
I really want to be in sports, and some at
the NFL network, you know, gave me their number and
they said, hey, look, everyone's got to start somewhere. And
I was an AP and I did the Good Morning
Football Show from one am to ten am. That was
my schedule.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
That was a tough schedule, it was, but it.
Speaker 8 (21:17):
Really makes you understand where you are now when you
have a schedule like that. And so I did that
and then I worked with Scott Hansen on Red Zone.
I called out plays and that was the time of
my life. And then someone said, there, you know, why
are you.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Not on air?
Speaker 8 (21:33):
And I said, what are you talking about? They said,
you have this personality you know baseball.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
And you're beautiful.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
You are.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
I'm not even going to sit here on that like
you're not. You're beautiful.
Speaker 8 (21:42):
And they said, you know, you have this personality where
you just love talking to people and understanding them. And
so yeah, just kicked off from there and here I
am with you.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
And there you are. Unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Last thing, the Dodgers obviously working in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
They've won back the back World Series. You follow them?
I don't know, I mean, I feel.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Like sure on paper, they should win. It seems so
hard to win three in a row. Do you have
a vibe for this team? Is it there yet or
you're still not sure that they can repeat? Yeah.
Speaker 8 (22:16):
I never go into a season saying this is the
Dodgers year they're winning a World Series. That It never
works out When someone says that, the fans will say that,
and I love that. You have to as a fan,
and I am a fan, but now that I'm working
in it, it's different.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
It's different.
Speaker 8 (22:29):
It's a completely different viewpoint. And I don't think some
people understand that sometimes, but it's a completely different viewpoint.
So I never say, you know, they can definitely win
three World Series. And don't get me wrong, I mean
look at the roster, but you never go in being
like it's happening, because remember one hundred and sixty two
game season, and then on top of that, playoff baseball
(22:50):
is no joke.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
And let's not forget that last year the Blue Jays
had about eight chances to win the World Series and
they didn't get it done.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Right, but the Dodgs won.
Speaker 8 (22:58):
No, they didn't get it done, got it it was
you know, back to back is crazy. Back to back
to back is even crazier. But if there's a team
that can do it, it is the Los Angeles Dodgers,
and I will ride through them with it because it
has been such an incredible journey.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
All Right, Her name Olivia Garvey, KNBC Los Angeles, joining
us here on Inside the Parker Continued success.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
I appreciate you me.
Speaker 8 (23:22):
Thank you, and thanks for always coming on our show.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
In case you missed Rob Parker on the MLB Networks,
here's his latest appearance on MLBINA.
Speaker 7 (23:36):
All right, show down time.
Speaker 9 (23:38):
Rob Parker is here as he is every week.
Speaker 7 (23:40):
Rob, great to have you back on. Hello, what's up?
Speaker 6 (23:43):
BK?
Speaker 3 (23:43):
How are you from Los Angeles? You are?
Speaker 7 (23:45):
Oh excellent? Le's good? Oh se you're up early? Is
that what you tell us?
Speaker 2 (23:48):
All?
Speaker 7 (23:48):
He got up earlier? You're you're a trooper. You're a
troop bro.
Speaker 9 (23:51):
You're also such a sports writer because your topic here
was Verlanders retiring. We did a whole work up on
him there. Talk to his brother and you immediately, oh,
what hat will he wear? And you're saying he should
go into the hall as a what.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
As a Houston astro?
Speaker 2 (24:06):
And I say that being a guy who of course
was a sports columnist at the Detroit News when he
broke into the big leagues.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
And covered a lot of his career up close.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
I was at the Ballpark America all the time watching
JV pitch.
Speaker 7 (24:23):
But you can't now, Rob, let me jump in. Ho
are you taking toll? Yep, you can't. I mean it does.
Speaker 9 (24:27):
It's fourteen years and seven years right, and he did
voluminous work for Detroit. It's not like well he was
languishing and then he won titles with Houston.
Speaker 7 (24:37):
He was great for Detroit.
Speaker 9 (24:38):
Detroit was a powerhouse team didn't win a World Series.
It's got the here. It is what's happened, the era,
the innings. It's got just too much work with Detroit.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
I got the work, but the damage was done with
Houston and helping them win.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
Two were not one. Two World Series.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
And I just when you win somewhere, I think that
that is important as well.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
I get the Detroit connection. What the team they had there.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
They despite having David Price, Max Scherzer and Justin Berland
in your starting.
Speaker 7 (25:13):
Rotation, they were stacked. They were so stacked didn't win
and did not win. By the way, the Hall.
Speaker 9 (25:19):
Makes the final call on that anyway, because they don't
want any shit atigans happening.
Speaker 7 (25:23):
I'd be stunned if he goes in as an astro,
but we'll ask him. All right. I want your take
on this.
Speaker 9 (25:28):
Another pitcher pulled with a perfect game going, Jared Jones
pirates six innings, seventy seven pitches.
Speaker 7 (25:35):
On the other hand, I just want to throw this in.
Speaker 9 (25:37):
Rob John Schneider of the Blue Jays let Dylan Cees
go through seven.
Speaker 7 (25:42):
He had a no hitter, not a perfect game.
Speaker 9 (25:44):
He had one hundred and six pitches, so he kind
of let him roll.
Speaker 7 (25:48):
Where are you on all this?
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Stop cheating the fans up from great moments.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Give a guy a chance to do it.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Now, if you pitched innings in the eighth inning, you
walk the first guy or give up a hit.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
Come out.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
But the idea that you're stopping people from fans witnessing
some of these great feats. As a sports writer for
forty years, I only saw one perfect game, David Wells.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
I was there.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Can you imagine if they took David Wells out against
the Twins as he's mowing them down, worries about him.
Speaker 9 (26:21):
Jones has been so hard. Yeah, now in their defense.
Jones has been really hurt. He's he's like a would
be ace. He's been hurt so much, he's been on
the pitch count. I hate it too, but Rob, it
makes sense if you're if you're the Pirates manager, you
don't let you go.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
It doesn't b K.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
It doesn't make sense because taking guys out in those
situations don't mean that they're not going to get hurt
down the line, or something else is gonna happen.
Speaker 7 (26:47):
You can get her to there.
Speaker 9 (26:48):
It's you're adrenaline, you're fatigued, You're pushing past the point
no one you know.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
For a chance at immortality and chance at dory like
it is it?
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Bob Costs?
Speaker 7 (27:00):
Is it immortality? You're in the book Perfect Game? What's it?
Speaker 1 (27:04):
More?
Speaker 7 (27:04):
Statues don't get erected for you.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
It's stay kay, you're poo pulling a perfect game?
Speaker 7 (27:09):
Now, Yeah, Lenn Barker had a perfect game? Who else
Domingo Hermann had it? We don't. Yeah, I like it.
Speaker 9 (27:17):
I like it's it's it's tense, it's dramatic. I wouldn't
put a guy at risk at that all right, now.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Okay, okay, My problem is what about the fans, who
are there who can talk about the game that they
got a chance to see.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
That's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 9 (27:29):
Yeah, no, it's a legitimate point, But I see why
you take it out. But right, it'd be nice to
see again, we're not going to see it. Mike Trout
is back hit a home run. He's actually like top
ten overall and hitting. I have to say, I want
to ask you, if you're a general manager, you got
four years after this, right, one hundred and fifty million,
will you make a deal for Mike Trout in the
(27:51):
later years?
Speaker 2 (27:54):
No way, No, how really, And unfortunately his track record
and as you get older, you don't get better or healthier.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
It actually deteriorates.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
So this has been a nice bounce back year for
him for the most part.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
He still got hurt.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
I just wouldn't I would rather not spend the money
with the idea that this guy might not be available
for me. If I'm making a playoff on wo or
down the road, I wouldn't do it.
Speaker 9 (28:19):
You used to be like this old time sports writer,
big big town, big city, big money guy. Now you're
like running the Rays. You're like a baseball ops kid.
Speaker 7 (28:27):
For the Rays.
Speaker 9 (28:27):
Now I can't risk this. I've run the numbers on this.
Listen to you, all right, National League MVP. You're not
gonna like this. Perhaps perhaps it's not show. Hey Otani,
here's Pete crow Armstrong. Right, he had another two homers
like this week. Last six weeks got.
Speaker 7 (28:43):
A war of four. I know you don't follow war,
but follow me on this.
Speaker 9 (28:46):
The hitting is about the same weighted run scred plus there,
slugging is about the same, home runs, about the same,
on base about the same. Otani a little better base
running runs PCA is better fielding run value PCA crushes
Otani now pitches eighty five minutes. I get it, but
you know what the total contribution, Rob, I'm saying, this
is a race right now.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
No way, no, how is this a race? Stopping b K,
what are you doing? You know it's not a race.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
And because old tiny pitches, he's gonna get way more
extra points and you can't.
Speaker 7 (29:21):
He doesn't deserve it.
Speaker 9 (29:21):
Though I've laid it out. Otani doesn't field right, better,
fields better. That's important to I know. I know he's
pitched eighty five innings. It's huge, we've never seen it.
But I'm saying the total contribution Armstrong's there.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
This is coming from a guy who sold me on
Ellie Dayla Cruz being the MVP.
Speaker 9 (29:41):
Now now you move in the cheese. Now you're just
pot shotting me. Now it's just a cheap shotting me.
That does not count. Let's talk about what we're talking
about here. You see what he did, and you saw
what he did. Don't about what we're talking about. I'm saying,
who would you rather have this year? I'm saying it's close.
You have the best center fielder in the game fielding.
He's now slugging like Otani. He doesn't pitch, but he
(30:03):
outruns and the outfields Otani and Otani doesn't field at all.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Look at all the MVPs that Otani wins, and it's
because he can pitch, and it's always going to be
the case unless he's just terrible and has a chubby
fifteen heel ray.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
Other than that, I don't know how you're gonna look
at anybody.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
And unless Armstrong's numbers are so much bigger, which they aren't.
They're they're comparable, but they're not so much bigger. Where
you go always having a once in a lifetime season
at the plate, He's not having that.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
That's how Aaron.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Judge won the MVP last year, our catcher setting a
record for home runs.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
Yeah, because the season.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Was so great that it was hard to ignore.
Speaker 9 (30:45):
Yeah, PCA is on a tear though it's moving, it's
moving up. Just saying stay tuned, all right and just
watch the chief shots. I'm gonna take a point away
next time I take a point away.
Speaker 7 (30:54):
Take a point away. Take a point away, take a
point away. That's it. You get dqued all right? Thank you,
Rob well.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Always and you know what to Bob Constance, he knows it.
Bob knows what I'm talking about.
Speaker 7 (31:06):
Was agreeing with me? What are you about?
Speaker 9 (31:08):
All?
Speaker 3 (31:08):
I forget that's what you said.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
It's time for the pocket Protector Centrum. The analytic numbers
you need to know?
Speaker 5 (31:17):
Well, maybe Anthony Masterson is his name, BS.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Analytics is his gay? What do you got for me, Anthony?
Speaker 6 (31:25):
Plenty of surprise teams this season, some good and some bad.
Who's the third best team in the American League? Who cares?
The NL has six or seven teams buying for that
final wildcard spot, and none are more shocking than the
Miami Marlins. Since June first, the Marlins are a league
best twenty four and eight, posting the second best ERA
of any National League team in that time. Everything that
(31:47):
Marlins aren't first in. From a pitching perspective, there's seconds
only behind the Brewers, and they're no slouts, with the
bats either, second only to the Rockies in every categorical
slash line, while the run differential is only behind Milwaukee.
Now who's leading the charge on South Beach. Well, let's
start with All Star shortstop Otto Lopez, hitting a major
league best three forty three through July seventh, leading the
(32:08):
league it hits and doubles here after hitting one hundred
points lower. In nearly six hundred played appearances. Since June first,
eight different Marlins have an opus over eight hundred, eight
have driven in double figures in runs, and eleven have
hit a home run, led by household name Harroberto Hernandez
is ten and former All Star Kyle Stowers has turned
this season around, driving in twenty nine runs since June first,
(32:31):
fourth in MLB, and Liam Hicks is hitting three forty one,
top five in baseball. But it's not just the bats.
Perennial trade candidate Sandy al Kantara has a two to
nine to eight era, maybe making a case to keep
him around while all star Max Meyer as a one
to nine to six Now no one thinks they're going
to win the NL East for the first time ever,
but they're just three games back in Atlanta as we
(32:51):
near the break, Stranger things have happened.
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