April 20, 2024 • 24 mins
The new Taylor Swift double album is out and Julie is stoked! If you’re a fan of baseball, you’re fully aware of switch-hitters. But what about switch-pitchers? Rhynes tells you the story of a college pitcher who can throw 95+ MPH with both arms!
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Let's begin the show by starting it. Look at us, Hey, look
at us, Look at us?Who would have thought not me? Two
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one is our time, two minutespast two pm Central daylight time, according
to the power of the friendly mercantier, and your tuner is set to ninety
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seven one the freak and this isthe speakeasy foreman screenings to one and all,
we are glad you are with us, no matter where you may be,
no matter how you may be receivingthis radio transmission, if you are
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on the other end of it someway, somehow, somewhere, we thank
you, and we will do ourdamnedest to make whatever time you spend with
us today time well spent. Itis Friday, the nineteenth of April.
I would be Mike Reiner join thisafternoon for the next four hours until the
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hour of six o'clock tonight by JeffCavanaugh Hello, and Julie Dobbs Hello,
and over at the helm there isShoopy Hello. Hello to each of you.
Happy to day, bitches. Arewe all happy about this today?
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Are you bubbling? Yeah? I'mlike just overflowing with songs that I'm trying
to listen to and dissect and alsogo through the day and is it complicated
in my brain? Have you heardit all the way through yet? No?
Because it was a surprise double album. Oh really? Thirty one songs?
Whoa, yeah, wow, thirtyone songs. Yes, it's a
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lot, man, that's longer thanany double album I've ever heard of.
Yeah, that's a double album andthen some right, because I think it
was like fifteen on the initial album. So I stayed up. That was
going to be released at eleven o'clockour time last night, and I shouldn't
have, but I stayed up untileleven to listen to that. And then
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once you start listening it's midnight.Then you're like, okay, I just
got to go to sleep. Iknew there was something coming at two am,
but I wasn't going to stay upthat late. Woke up to the
news that it was a double album. So at two am she released,
so you another album essentially, allright, let me get this straight here.
So you listened to what they putout? Uh huh? The whole
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album? Well, no, Ididn't make it all the way through at
eleven. I made it about fortyminutes, just kind of cruising around,
and then you went to sleep.Uh huh, thinking that the album that
you had been listening to, howevermuch of it you heard, was all
that there was going to be.Yes, I knew something was coming at
two, like maybe one bonus song. Yeah, somehow, that's what I
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would think too. Yeah, yeah, but no, that bonus song is
a whole bonus album. Yes,it's insane, the whole thing anthology.
Yes, many songs. She makessongs fast as f man. Yeah,
she'd just be churning them. Yes, she's very prolific. She is.
She lets other people get their shineon for like a few months, and
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then she's like, buy them moreme. Some people are like that.
There's some people with songs just Imean, they don't really write songs.
Songs come to them. Mm hmmm. I do think that's what happens to
her. By the way, asa man who's heard every song on these
new albums Mike and I have,I've heard them all. I think she
does like a lot. I don'tknow about a lot of people or what
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percentage of people do it, butI do it sometimes when I'm trying to
do the right thing. But alot of people will journal. It's a
good way to get thoughts from yourhead, out of your head into the
universe, right, it's good foryou. The lot of people will journal.
I feel like she just journals insong form. Yes, Like she
did thirty one songs or whatever,and they're basically journal entries. It's just
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like how she's feeling and what happenedin her life over and over over.
Yeah. So I think each nightshe gets in bed and she just writes
a song. It kind of seemsthough it's a journal entry song. I
also think she might go through lifewriting songs in her head more than just
like chit chatting with people like normal. Like there's always a song going on
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in her head. There's always somethinggoing on. It seems like I'm wondering
if she's walking down the street thinkingof why I'm walking down the street,
I'm thinking of music right now,you know what I mean, Like the
little voice in your head hers hasto be a song. It has to
be music. That's what I alwaysYelloe, there's a CV yes on the
right. Yeah, she's just doingsong. Yeah. I think that's how
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she must go through life. That'swhat I always wonder about people who write
songs. At what point do thesethoughts that they have, which many of
which are just average spare everyday thoughtsthat we all have nothing really special about
at them. But at what pointdo those thoughts turn into song? Right?
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You know? Yeah? And howdoes that process take its place?
That's what I never have understood aboutpeople who are able to do that,
because I can't. Songs don't cometo me. I don't know. Dude,
do you think that she could comeup with something as good as your
baseball song? Because I don't likeI think your baseball song. Okay,
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I'll give you that. I'd liketo see her come on something like this.
Yeah. I like baseball, baseball. That's the game, baseball,
baseball, that's my name. Ilike baseball, baseball, baseball, baseball,
baseball, baseball. I think youcan do that. No, she
couldn't do that. Probably not.No. By the way, if you're
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looking for bainers, I'm here totell you nobody could do that. Put
out some songs that I think aregood songs who enjoyable listen. If you
were looking for bainers and to havea great time, you're gonna want to
just not listen or find a differentalbum, go listen to shake it off.
Yeah, not a lot of likeDancy. It's another type poppy music
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in here. It's another therapy albumfrom Tayte. It really is, it
really is. There's a couple thatpick up a little bit. I can
do it with a broken heart.That one I think that you liked.
I also really liked it. Iliked it, but it was also very
much a journal entry. It wasdefinitely a journal interest, but it's a
little bit dancier. It was aboutthe shows that Julie and I went to.
Mike. Yeah, my swifty insidertold me that because I tweeted out
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that's my favorite song from the albumso far. I can do it with
a broken heart. A friend ofmine told me, she said, you
saw her because that song is aboutthe Texas shows. That's when she was
going through a breakup, and shewas like, I'm a badass. I
can do this even though I'm destroyedinside looking at the show I'm putting on.
Ye, that's what that one's about. Yeah, selling out stadiums and
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performing and no one knew that shewas like crying all the time and miserable
and heartbroken because she's a wonderful performer, and you couldn't tell well because she
just broke up with that guy.Yeah, Joe Alwen of six years.
She's got way more feelings than Ihave. But there's another guy that has
a large presence I think in thisalbum in Mattie Healy. And it seemed
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like it was maybe just a flingkind of deal, but it sounds like
it was a lot more than that. It was like he he He was
the guy that was like intertwined throughoutthe other relationships that she'd go back to
or whatever. He's kind of likethe bad boy too, so he destroyed
her as well. So she wasbasically like all messed up because of two
different people. So it's interesting becauseit's all it's a crazy heartbreak about these
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two guys, not just the onethat everyone thought it would be about.
There's another one in there too.Our girls sat a lot. But then
she met Kelsey. Her next album. If she's writing an album right now,
it'll have banners. It's gonna Butif she doesn't write it until they
break up, we're gonna give oneof these. So do you just gotta
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have banners? You gotta have bannersif you don't have any banners, Like,
don't get me wrong, it wasfine. I enjoyed it. I
listened to every song whatever. Iwas at the house all morning doing trap
and I just had it playing fine, hurt them all had a good time.
But I like to jam sometimes sometimesI like to shake my groove thing.
And she wouldn't let me shake mygroove thing. She was more like,
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God, I do need to grabmy journal and start writing, don't
I There is sadness in my life. Isn't there as so much sadness?
She really likes the people she dates. She's obsessed with this. I have
never been that sad after a breakup. I'm usually pretty ef and indifferent.
The congrats to her on all herfeelings. It must be cool to have
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that many feelings. What so,I suppose we're going to delve into this
a little further later on the presentation. Today, we're going four hours just
for these two textures that said stopit with the tatay. We're going four
hours already, song one thirty minutes. Gosh, I don't know, we'd
need well ten minutes on each songor whatever. Yeah, well, if
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you want to rest it here itis no what's for it? And then
change my mind? I have thesame way. What's a mind to day.
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Mike's mind is fueled by Celsius Essentialenergy drinks. So as long as
baseball has been around, I don'tknow, I don't know. I don't
know who the first one was,but probably as long as it's been around,
there have been people who messed aroundwith this, and then finally somebody
brought it into an actual game,and another guy did it, and another
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guy said, well, I cando that, and now, long story
short, it is just as mucha part of the game as anybody else.
Not everybody can do it. Thereare people who can do it that
don't do it, but those whodo it do it all the time.
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We're talking about switch hitting, there'vealways been guys who could hit just about
as well from one side as theother. So you see that and you
think, okay, when are wegoing to see a switch pitcher, because
nobody has ever done that. Thatdoesn't even get attempted, let alone pulled
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off in a game. However,that may be changing because there is a
guy in the college ranks right nowwho who is a switch pitcher. He
throws with both arms, right handedpitcher, left hander. He's been doing
it since he was a kid,and the older he gets, the better
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at it he gets and nobody alongthe way. Usually if you tried to
throw right handed and then left handed, somebody would come along, some coach
or something like that would come.Somebody like that would come along and tell
you, look, you can't dothat. There's no place for that in
baseball. And you would be wondering, well, why not, Why can't
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I be the first? And thecoach would tell you, because you just
can't, and then you'd go onabout your business and that'd be that.
Apparently this guy has not had thathappen to him because he is at Mississippi
State. He's a sophomore there.He showed up being able to do this,
and the older he gets at it, the better he gets at it.
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His name is I'm gonna butcher this. I'll tell you you can do
it. You can do it.I don't know if this is hard J
or soft J. So I'm goingto be the ugly American and give it
the hard J because that's what itgo. You have to pick one.
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You go soft. I don't know, I haven't seen the name, but
yeah, I like to I liketo go soft. It's a weird sentence,
all right. The first name iseither Harangelo or Gerangelo. That's j
U R R A n G E, l O Houran hullo. The second
the last name, second name,Yeah, the last name. And I
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do have a pronunciation here. It'sspelled really really weird and it looks like
an eye chart. But the theygive us the pronunciation it's sanja and that
is spelled ce I J N Pj E. You just said random letters.
Yeah, that's difficult. Yeah,that's difficult. We have in America.
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We do very specifically how we doour consonants in vowels, and when
other people start putting extra consonants inplaces, it confuses us. Yeah,
we don't know how to speak thoseletters. Only one modern day pitcher has
done this, and now I haveno doubt that they're Oakland right, that
there have been plenty who could doit. The name Billy Wagner got thrown
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into this story that I'm reading aboutthis guy, but it's just kind of
a an afterthought, which makes methink that possibly Billy Wagner could have done
I remember the A's guy who they'vemade rules for. Yeah, Pat Van
Didi, Yeah, yeah, yeah, Billy Wagner, like he grew up
right handed, but broke his armand decided, screw it. I'm just
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going to learn how to throw lefthanded. And yeah, basically, wonder
if maybe I'm just secretly left handedand that's why I can never throw real
hard. Maybe he's in the wronghand. Well, he says, he
throws ninety nine from the right topsout at ninety five from the left.
This started when he was six yearsold, when he was growing up in
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Curisow Down in the Caribbean. Hewas born a left hander, but his
dad was a catcher, and hisdad played professionally in the Netherlands. Well,
like I say, left handed catchersare virtually non existent in this world,
certainly in professional baseball. If you'rea left hander, you just can't
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catch for certain metaphysical reasons none ofus can possibly comprehend. So he began
working on the strength and accuracy ofhis right arm. And he said,
we were just hanging out one timein the backyard. My dad grabbed a
ball and put a screw in it, so when I threw the ball,
the ball would get stuck in thetire. They were throwing it at a
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tire. I was just throwing theball with a screw in it, and
I think that developed my arm.It didn't actually take long for me to
just start throwing with my right arm. It became almost natural. So I
guess he had a level of ambidexterousnessfrom the start at a very young age.
That is very rare, and hereally had no trouble of adapting to
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this. He may recall him inthe twenty sixteen Little League World Series.
He was in that and that's wherepeople first started to hear about him.
I don't know, maybe in oneof his games was on TV, but
along the way he stayed with itand nobody told him he can't. And
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now here he is in college baseballand he is doing that thing. He's
executing what for most is just aparty trick. If you can do it
at all. Do you think anybodyfor this guy will make the same mistake
that they made for Pat van Dittyin Oakland, where people get confused about
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what the word is that starts witha cause like make him, well,
take to him, look get onone side or the other here? Well,
No, like when Pat van Dittywas doing it for the A's The
East Oregonian, somebody wrote the headlinewas something about the amphibious pitcher for the
A's. Yeah, they missed onthe word ambidextrius, and they claim he
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could live in the water, whichthat's kind of been I think a running
joke for baseball for a little while, Like I think Yogi Berra used to
say, you know a switch hitterwas amphibious. Oh really yeaheah, Yeah,
So they kind of threw that headlineit is a little a wink amphibious
pitcher mis debut amazing. Yeah,I liked that a lot. Now he
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has been drafted already. He's beendrafted by the Brewers in the eighteenth round
the twenty twenty two draft, butby then he had already committed to Mississippi
State and he decided to stay there. He throws ninety nine from the right
ninety five from the left. Hehas bulked up from one seventy to two
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hundred during his time in college.In his freshman year, he led the
team in strikeouts and so far hasbeen its ace this season. He's six
and three with sixty four strikeouts ina three point eighty er. Those numbers
are not that great, but stillhe doesn't in his back pocket. He
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does have the party trick yeah.And to answer a Texter who asked the
question can he switch which arm he'sthrowing with between innings, the answer is,
uh, huh, you can actuallydo it between batters. Yeah,
you just have to declare one armorin the other, because there was I
think it happened to the point withhat where he was like, I'm holding
with my right hand and the batterstepped in and he's like, all right,
then I'll throw it handed. Thebatter it's like, let me walk
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around. Yeah, Like we haveto make a rule. And the rule
is the picture has to declare whicharm are you throwing with to this batter?
Otherwise it's a standoff. Yeah,they just keep walking around. It's
awesome. Yeah, and the hitteralways gets the last word there. He
has to declare. So when aleft he comes up, he would throw
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it with his left, and ifit's a switch hitter, then he would
pick whichever arm he thinks they're worsthitting from the other one. But yes,
he can't just go I'm throwing withmy right and then they step over
to hit left handed and he's like, now I'm throwing with my left and
they're like, hold on, letme walk back over. Hey, this
should help with all the Tommy Johnstuff. Right, wearing out your arm,
God, that would be great ifevery picture was like that. It's
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like, man, the right one'sreally starting to hurt him in the left
the rest of the year. We'llcheck it out later. And that was
how Vindetti was kind of used.Was you know, hey, he can
go a little bit less time betweenoutings. Oh yeah, wow, well
he's throwing two days in a row. Yeah, but he was right.
Let's put him in for a leftyrun here. You still have to count
for the rest of the body,but at least armwise doing Okay, that's
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an incredible ability because I am worthlesswith my left hand. I am to
about throwing with my off hand.Yeah, my left hand might as well
be a club and you see likea hook or a hook. I don't
know if he's the absolute best,but he might be because I can't think
of who the other people would be. But like, if you make it
to the NBA, you can troublewith both hands. Right, you can
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drive right, and you can driveleft for the most part, but you
know, right handed guys would liketo go right. Kyrie's about as good
as it gets where it's like,I don't care which hand I can shoot
it with either one. I cango either direction. I can do whatever,
And that is a hell of askill to have, quite useful,
not for me, because I don'tdo anything that would require that. I
wonder if he literally, if Kyrieliterally can if there is anything he can
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do with one hand that he can'tdo with the other, or with his
good hand, his strong hand,which I guess is right right. Yeah,
I think I bet he writes righthanded and does all that. We
could find that because like the guyyou're talking about, I believe. I
saw an article where it was hewas like, I can write with my
right hand. I can't write withmy left pretty much everything else I can
do with either, but writing hasto be right handed. Yeah, I
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do. I do one thing lefthanded, but I didn't know that I
did it. I shoot pool lefthanded, really, but I didn't know
that. Like, I just playedit growing up, And it wasn't until
I was a teenager that somebody's like, oh, you're left handed, and
I was like, no, Likeyou play pool left handed? I was
like no, no, And thenI watch other people play pool. I
was like, oh, I guessI play pool left handed. How about
that? This is a much lowerform skill. But if I'm going to
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do if I'm going to carry something, then chances are I'm going to carry
it with my left hand. Thatmakes sense though, because it keeps your
throwing arm free to throw things rightright. You never know when you might
need that out there. If youneed to throw a punch, you've got
your punch and arm free. That'simportant. But man, I can't think
of anything else that I do withmy left. Like I say, it
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might as well be a club.No, And like you try to work
out the mental image, because everybody'stried it with like a baseball or football
or whatever. Right, sure atleast fart around with it. And you're
like, here's something stupid. Watchthis, and everything about you looks absolutely
stupid when you try and you tryto picture your head. Okay, if
I with my right, I wouldlift my left and I would do this,
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and you try to flip that around. It's like that's wrong. Everything's
wrong. Yeah, you can't figureit out. It feels like you got
like a rubber band or something,you know, holding you back. Yeah,
something won't go back. I mean, I can't even make the hardly
make the motion of throwing with myleft let alone executing it. It just
goes from A to B. There'snothing smooth about it. I don't think
I do like anything with my lefthand. I can't think of anything.
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I'm sure there's stuff, but Ican't think of anything. I barely even
like even so like I hold mypurse on my right shoulder because that's my
good side. But I could putit on my left shoulder. But everything
just gravitates to the right side forme because that's my good hand. When
you were in school, uh huh, what hand did you carry your books
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in? Right right hand? Myleft arm in hand is just useless.
Might as well be a clue becauseyou can you have a thumb there and
you can pick things up you haveal I only I have to. Yeah,
but you know, two handed activities, it's there for you. You
don't do many two handed activities.I uh, when I play tennis or
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ping pong, I don't have abackhand. I do a left handed forehand.
Is that weird? I know itis weird because people don't do that.
Yes, but I can make itgo over the net with my left
hand and with a back hand Ican, so I just switch hands.
That's interesting. I'm almost to theirbackhand with their right hand, so they'll
do fourhand this way, they'll turntheir mind and do one handed back hand.
I just toss it into my lefthand and hit it. That's weird.
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I don't do sports properly. Yeah, which which hands on the steering
wheel? Obviously it's both at tenand two? Actually, I think they
changed the times on that. Ithink you're supposed to go lower? Now?
Which hands on the wheel? Well, everybody remember this guy's name,
right? Sometimes both Geronjeloan, Howare we okay? I'm gonna remember that
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j C j C. That's him. Yeah, and watch him on Draft
day, all right, kicking assand taking names. Welcome to the Speakeasy
m F Firs, Happy tay ADay. Coming up next, it's the
sports desk, Jewels, Where arewe hitded? It is playoff time in Texas
Let's begin the show by starting it. Look at us, Hey, look
at us, Look at us?Who would have thought not me? Two
(00:47):
one is our time, two minutespast two pm Central daylight time, according
to the power of the friendly mercantier, and your tuner is set to ninety
(01:12):
seven one the freak and this isthe speakeasy foreman screenings to one and all,
we are glad you are with us, no matter where you may be,
no matter how you may be receivingthis radio transmission, if you are
(01:34):
on the other end of it someway, somehow, somewhere, we thank
you, and we will do ourdamnedest to make whatever time you spend with
us today time well spent. Itis Friday, the nineteenth of April.
I would be Mike Reiner join thisafternoon for the next four hours until the
(02:00):
hour of six o'clock tonight by JeffCavanaugh Hello, and Julie Dobbs Hello,
and over at the helm there isShoopy Hello. Hello to each of you.
Happy to day, bitches. Arewe all happy about this today?
(02:20):
Are you bubbling? Yeah? I'mlike just overflowing with songs that I'm trying
to listen to and dissect and alsogo through the day and is it complicated
in my brain? Have you heardit all the way through yet? No?
Because it was a surprise double album. Oh really? Thirty one songs?
Whoa, yeah, wow, thirtyone songs. Yes, it's a
(02:46):
lot, man, that's longer thanany double album I've ever heard of.
Yeah, that's a double album andthen some right, because I think it
was like fifteen on the initial album. So I stayed up. That was
going to be released at eleven o'clockour time last night, and I shouldn't
have, but I stayed up untileleven to listen to that. And then
(03:06):
once you start listening it's midnight.Then you're like, okay, I just
got to go to sleep. Iknew there was something coming at two am,
but I wasn't going to stay upthat late. Woke up to the
news that it was a double album. So at two am she released,
so you another album essentially, allright, let me get this straight here.
So you listened to what they putout? Uh huh? The whole
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album? Well, no, Ididn't make it all the way through at
eleven. I made it about fortyminutes, just kind of cruising around,
and then you went to sleep.Uh huh, thinking that the album that
you had been listening to, howevermuch of it you heard, was all
that there was going to be.Yes, I knew something was coming at
two, like maybe one bonus song. Yeah, somehow, that's what I
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would think too. Yeah, yeah, but no, that bonus song is
a whole bonus album. Yes,it's insane, the whole thing anthology.
Yes, many songs. She makessongs fast as f man. Yeah,
she'd just be churning them. Yes, she's very prolific. She is.
She lets other people get their shineon for like a few months, and
(04:12):
then she's like, buy them moreme. Some people are like that.
There's some people with songs just Imean, they don't really write songs.
Songs come to them. Mm hmmm. I do think that's what happens to
her. By the way, asa man who's heard every song on these
new albums Mike and I have,I've heard them all. I think she
does like a lot. I don'tknow about a lot of people or what
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percentage of people do it, butI do it sometimes when I'm trying to
do the right thing. But alot of people will journal. It's a
good way to get thoughts from yourhead, out of your head into the
universe, right, it's good foryou. The lot of people will journal.
I feel like she just journals insong form. Yes, Like she
did thirty one songs or whatever,and they're basically journal entries. It's just
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like how she's feeling and what happenedin her life over and over over.
Yeah. So I think each nightshe gets in bed and she just writes
a song. It kind of seemsthough it's a journal entry song. I
also think she might go through lifewriting songs in her head more than just
like chit chatting with people like normal. Like there's always a song going on
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in her head. There's always somethinggoing on. It seems like I'm wondering
if she's walking down the street thinkingof why I'm walking down the street,
I'm thinking of music right now,you know what I mean, Like the
little voice in your head hers hasto be a song. It has to
be music. That's what I alwaysYelloe, there's a CV yes on the
right. Yeah, she's just doingsong. Yeah. I think that's how
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she must go through life. That'swhat I always wonder about people who write
songs. At what point do thesethoughts that they have, which many of
which are just average spare everyday thoughtsthat we all have nothing really special about
at them. But at what pointdo those thoughts turn into song? Right?
(06:05):
You know? Yeah? And howdoes that process take its place?
That's what I never have understood aboutpeople who are able to do that,
because I can't. Songs don't cometo me. I don't know. Dude,
do you think that she could comeup with something as good as your
baseball song? Because I don't likeI think your baseball song. Okay,
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I'll give you that. I'd liketo see her come on something like this.
Yeah. I like baseball, baseball. That's the game, baseball,
baseball, that's my name. Ilike baseball, baseball, baseball, baseball,
baseball, baseball. I think youcan do that. No, she
couldn't do that. Probably not.No. By the way, if you're
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looking for bainers, I'm here totell you nobody could do that. Put
out some songs that I think aregood songs who enjoyable listen. If you
were looking for bainers and to havea great time, you're gonna want to
just not listen or find a differentalbum, go listen to shake it off.
Yeah, not a lot of likeDancy. It's another type poppy music
(07:12):
in here. It's another therapy albumfrom Tayte. It really is, it
really is. There's a couple thatpick up a little bit. I can
do it with a broken heart.That one I think that you liked.
I also really liked it. Iliked it, but it was also very
much a journal entry. It wasdefinitely a journal interest, but it's a
little bit dancier. It was aboutthe shows that Julie and I went to.
Mike. Yeah, my swifty insidertold me that because I tweeted out
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that's my favorite song from the albumso far. I can do it with
a broken heart. A friend ofmine told me, she said, you
saw her because that song is aboutthe Texas shows. That's when she was
going through a breakup, and shewas like, I'm a badass. I
can do this even though I'm destroyedinside looking at the show I'm putting on.
Ye, that's what that one's about. Yeah, selling out stadiums and
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performing and no one knew that shewas like crying all the time and miserable
and heartbroken because she's a wonderful performer, and you couldn't tell well because she
just broke up with that guy.Yeah, Joe Alwen of six years.
She's got way more feelings than Ihave. But there's another guy that has
a large presence I think in thisalbum in Mattie Healy. And it seemed
(08:18):
like it was maybe just a flingkind of deal, but it sounds like
it was a lot more than that. It was like he he He was
the guy that was like intertwined throughoutthe other relationships that she'd go back to
or whatever. He's kind of likethe bad boy too, so he destroyed
her as well. So she wasbasically like all messed up because of two
different people. So it's interesting becauseit's all it's a crazy heartbreak about these
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two guys, not just the onethat everyone thought it would be about.
There's another one in there too.Our girls sat a lot. But then
she met Kelsey. Her next album. If she's writing an album right now,
it'll have banners. It's gonna Butif she doesn't write it until they
break up, we're gonna give oneof these. So do you just gotta
(09:03):
have banners? You gotta have bannersif you don't have any banners, Like,
don't get me wrong, it wasfine. I enjoyed it. I
listened to every song whatever. Iwas at the house all morning doing trap
and I just had it playing fine, hurt them all had a good time.
But I like to jam sometimes sometimesI like to shake my groove thing.
And she wouldn't let me shake mygroove thing. She was more like,
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God, I do need to grabmy journal and start writing, don't
I There is sadness in my life. Isn't there as so much sadness?
She really likes the people she dates. She's obsessed with this. I have
never been that sad after a breakup. I'm usually pretty ef and indifferent.
The congrats to her on all herfeelings. It must be cool to have
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that many feelings. What so,I suppose we're going to delve into this
a little further later on the presentation. Today, we're going four hours just
for these two textures that said stopit with the tatay. We're going four
hours already, song one thirty minutes. Gosh, I don't know, we'd
need well ten minutes on each songor whatever. Yeah, well, if
(10:09):
you want to rest it here itis no what's for it? And then
change my mind? I have thesame way. What's a mind to day.
(10:37):
Mike's mind is fueled by Celsius Essentialenergy drinks. So as long as
baseball has been around, I don'tknow, I don't know. I don't
know who the first one was,but probably as long as it's been around,
there have been people who messed aroundwith this, and then finally somebody
brought it into an actual game,and another guy did it, and another
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guy said, well, I cando that, and now, long story
short, it is just as mucha part of the game as anybody else.
Not everybody can do it. Thereare people who can do it that
don't do it, but those whodo it do it all the time.
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We're talking about switch hitting, there'vealways been guys who could hit just about
as well from one side as theother. So you see that and you
think, okay, when are wegoing to see a switch pitcher, because
nobody has ever done that. Thatdoesn't even get attempted, let alone pulled
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off in a game. However,that may be changing because there is a
guy in the college ranks right nowwho who is a switch pitcher. He
throws with both arms, right handedpitcher, left hander. He's been doing
it since he was a kid,and the older he gets, the better
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at it he gets and nobody alongthe way. Usually if you tried to
throw right handed and then left handed, somebody would come along, some coach
or something like that would come.Somebody like that would come along and tell
you, look, you can't dothat. There's no place for that in
baseball. And you would be wondering, well, why not, Why can't
(12:35):
I be the first? And thecoach would tell you, because you just
can't, and then you'd go onabout your business and that'd be that.
Apparently this guy has not had thathappen to him because he is at Mississippi
State. He's a sophomore there.He showed up being able to do this,
and the older he gets at it, the better he gets at it.
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His name is I'm gonna butcher this. I'll tell you you can do
it. You can do it.I don't know if this is hard J
or soft J. So I'm goingto be the ugly American and give it
the hard J because that's what itgo. You have to pick one.
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You go soft. I don't know, I haven't seen the name, but
yeah, I like to I liketo go soft. It's a weird sentence,
all right. The first name iseither Harangelo or Gerangelo. That's j
U R R A n G E, l O Houran hullo. The second
the last name, second name,Yeah, the last name. And I
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do have a pronunciation here. It'sspelled really really weird and it looks like
an eye chart. But the theygive us the pronunciation it's sanja and that
is spelled ce I J N Pj E. You just said random letters.
Yeah, that's difficult. Yeah,that's difficult. We have in America.
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We do very specifically how we doour consonants in vowels, and when
other people start putting extra consonants inplaces, it confuses us. Yeah,
we don't know how to speak thoseletters. Only one modern day pitcher has
done this, and now I haveno doubt that they're Oakland right, that
there have been plenty who could doit. The name Billy Wagner got thrown
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into this story that I'm reading aboutthis guy, but it's just kind of
a an afterthought, which makes methink that possibly Billy Wagner could have done
I remember the A's guy who they'vemade rules for. Yeah, Pat Van
Didi, Yeah, yeah, yeah, Billy Wagner, like he grew up
right handed, but broke his armand decided, screw it. I'm just
(14:54):
going to learn how to throw lefthanded. And yeah, basically, wonder
if maybe I'm just secretly left handedand that's why I can never throw real
hard. Maybe he's in the wronghand. Well, he says, he
throws ninety nine from the right topsout at ninety five from the left.
This started when he was six yearsold, when he was growing up in
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Curisow Down in the Caribbean. Hewas born a left hander, but his
dad was a catcher, and hisdad played professionally in the Netherlands. Well,
like I say, left handed catchersare virtually non existent in this world,
certainly in professional baseball. If you'rea left hander, you just can't
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catch for certain metaphysical reasons none ofus can possibly comprehend. So he began
working on the strength and accuracy ofhis right arm. And he said,
we were just hanging out one timein the backyard. My dad grabbed a
ball and put a screw in it, so when I threw the ball,
the ball would get stuck in thetire. They were throwing it at a
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tire. I was just throwing theball with a screw in it, and
I think that developed my arm.It didn't actually take long for me to
just start throwing with my right arm. It became almost natural. So I
guess he had a level of ambidexterousnessfrom the start at a very young age.
That is very rare, and hereally had no trouble of adapting to
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this. He may recall him inthe twenty sixteen Little League World Series.
He was in that and that's wherepeople first started to hear about him.
I don't know, maybe in oneof his games was on TV, but
along the way he stayed with itand nobody told him he can't. And
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now here he is in college baseballand he is doing that thing. He's
executing what for most is just aparty trick. If you can do it
at all. Do you think anybodyfor this guy will make the same mistake
that they made for Pat van Dittyin Oakland, where people get confused about
(17:11):
what the word is that starts witha cause like make him, well,
take to him, look get onone side or the other here? Well,
No, like when Pat van Dittywas doing it for the A's The
East Oregonian, somebody wrote the headlinewas something about the amphibious pitcher for the
A's. Yeah, they missed onthe word ambidextrius, and they claim he
(17:33):
could live in the water, whichthat's kind of been I think a running
joke for baseball for a little while, Like I think Yogi Berra used to
say, you know a switch hitterwas amphibious. Oh really yeaheah, Yeah,
So they kind of threw that headlineit is a little a wink amphibious
pitcher mis debut amazing. Yeah,I liked that a lot. Now he
(17:55):
has been drafted already. He's beendrafted by the Brewers in the eighteenth round
the twenty twenty two draft, butby then he had already committed to Mississippi
State and he decided to stay there. He throws ninety nine from the right
ninety five from the left. Hehas bulked up from one seventy to two
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hundred during his time in college.In his freshman year, he led the
team in strikeouts and so far hasbeen its ace this season. He's six
and three with sixty four strikeouts ina three point eighty er. Those numbers
are not that great, but stillhe doesn't in his back pocket. He
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does have the party trick yeah.And to answer a Texter who asked the
question can he switch which arm he'sthrowing with between innings, the answer is,
uh, huh, you can actuallydo it between batters. Yeah,
you just have to declare one armorin the other, because there was I
think it happened to the point withhat where he was like, I'm holding
with my right hand and the batterstepped in and he's like, all right,
then I'll throw it handed. Thebatter it's like, let me walk
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around. Yeah, Like we haveto make a rule. And the rule
is the picture has to declare whicharm are you throwing with to this batter?
Otherwise it's a standoff. Yeah,they just keep walking around. It's
awesome. Yeah, and the hitteralways gets the last word there. He
has to declare. So when aleft he comes up, he would throw
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it with his left, and ifit's a switch hitter, then he would
pick whichever arm he thinks they're worsthitting from the other one. But yes,
he can't just go I'm throwing withmy right and then they step over
to hit left handed and he's like, now I'm throwing with my left and
they're like, hold on, letme walk back over. Hey, this
should help with all the Tommy Johnstuff. Right, wearing out your arm,
God, that would be great ifevery picture was like that. It's
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like, man, the right one'sreally starting to hurt him in the left
the rest of the year. We'llcheck it out later. And that was
how Vindetti was kind of used.Was you know, hey, he can
go a little bit less time betweenoutings. Oh yeah, wow, well
he's throwing two days in a row. Yeah, but he was right.
Let's put him in for a leftyrun here. You still have to count
for the rest of the body,but at least armwise doing Okay, that's
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an incredible ability because I am worthlesswith my left hand. I am to
about throwing with my off hand.Yeah, my left hand might as well
be a club and you see likea hook or a hook. I don't
know if he's the absolute best,but he might be because I can't think
of who the other people would be. But like, if you make it
to the NBA, you can troublewith both hands. Right, you can
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drive right, and you can driveleft for the most part, but you
know, right handed guys would liketo go right. Kyrie's about as good
as it gets where it's like,I don't care which hand I can shoot
it with either one. I cango either direction. I can do whatever,
And that is a hell of askill to have, quite useful,
not for me, because I don'tdo anything that would require that. I
wonder if he literally, if Kyrieliterally can if there is anything he can
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do with one hand that he can'tdo with the other, or with his
good hand, his strong hand,which I guess is right right. Yeah,
I think I bet he writes righthanded and does all that. We
could find that because like the guyyou're talking about, I believe. I
saw an article where it was hewas like, I can write with my
right hand. I can't write withmy left pretty much everything else I can
do with either, but writing hasto be right handed. Yeah, I
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do. I do one thing lefthanded, but I didn't know that I
did it. I shoot pool lefthanded, really, but I didn't know
that. Like, I just playedit growing up, And it wasn't until
I was a teenager that somebody's like, oh, you're left handed, and
I was like, no, Likeyou play pool left handed? I was
like no, no, And thenI watch other people play pool. I
was like, oh, I guessI play pool left handed. How about
that? This is a much lowerform skill. But if I'm going to
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do if I'm going to carry something, then chances are I'm going to carry
it with my left hand. Thatmakes sense though, because it keeps your
throwing arm free to throw things rightright. You never know when you might
need that out there. If youneed to throw a punch, you've got
your punch and arm free. That'simportant. But man, I can't think
of anything else that I do withmy left. Like I say, it
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might as well be a club.No, And like you try to work
out the mental image, because everybody'stried it with like a baseball or football
or whatever. Right, sure atleast fart around with it. And you're
like, here's something stupid. Watchthis, and everything about you looks absolutely
stupid when you try and you tryto picture your head. Okay, if
I with my right, I wouldlift my left and I would do this,
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and you try to flip that around. It's like that's wrong. Everything's
wrong. Yeah, you can't figureit out. It feels like you got
like a rubber band or something,you know, holding you back. Yeah,
something won't go back. I mean, I can't even make the hardly
make the motion of throwing with myleft let alone executing it. It just
goes from A to B. There'snothing smooth about it. I don't think
I do like anything with my lefthand. I can't think of anything.
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I'm sure there's stuff, but Ican't think of anything. I barely even
like even so like I hold mypurse on my right shoulder because that's my
good side. But I could putit on my left shoulder. But everything
just gravitates to the right side forme because that's my good hand. When
you were in school, uh huh, what hand did you carry your books
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in? Right right hand? Myleft arm in hand is just useless.
Might as well be a clue becauseyou can you have a thumb there and
you can pick things up you haveal I only I have to. Yeah,
but you know, two handed activities, it's there for you. You
don't do many two handed activities.I uh, when I play tennis or
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ping pong, I don't have abackhand. I do a left handed forehand.
Is that weird? I know itis weird because people don't do that.
Yes, but I can make itgo over the net with my left
hand and with a back hand Ican, so I just switch hands.
That's interesting. I'm almost to theirbackhand with their right hand, so they'll
do fourhand this way, they'll turntheir mind and do one handed back hand.
I just toss it into my lefthand and hit it. That's weird.
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I don't do sports properly. Yeah, which which hands on the steering
wheel? Obviously it's both at tenand two? Actually, I think they
changed the times on that. Ithink you're supposed to go lower? Now?
Which hands on the wheel? Well, everybody remember this guy's name,
right? Sometimes both Geronjeloan, Howare we okay? I'm gonna remember that
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j C j C. That's him. Yeah, and watch him on Draft
day, all right, kicking assand taking names. Welcome to the Speakeasy
m F Firs, Happy tay ADay. Coming up next, it's the
sports desk, Jewels, Where arewe hitded? It is playoff time in Texas
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