September 26, 2024 • 29 mins
On this week’s edition of Inside the (Rob) Parker, Rob discusses the the A's final days at the Oakland Coliseum, how a hurricane in Florida has completely derailed the MLB Postseason scheduled and why it's clear that business is booming in the world of baseball. Plus, Colorado Rockies pitcher Jaden Hill checks in for an enlightening conversation. Later, Chicago Sun-Times writer Kyle Williams swings by to discuss the historically bad season currently taking place within the White Sox organization. Finally, we’ve got appearances by MLBBro.com managing editor JR Gamble and analytics guru Anthony Masterson.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
From the Berkshars 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 seveny Rob Parker.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Welcome into the podcast. I'm your host, Rob Parker. What
a great show we have for you today, man oh Man,
as we get set for the postseason to begin in
Earnest on Tuesday. But Jade Hill, the young pitching phenom
for the Colorado Rockies, he joins us. Also Kyle Williams,
he's the baseball writer for the Chicago Sun Times. He'll
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give us a deep dive into the White Sox and
what went wrong there. Let's go.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Better to lead off it's getting robbed and keep them on.
Rob's hot take and the three biggest stories in Major
League Baseball. Number one, It's.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
An end of an era in Oakland on Thursday, the
final major league game in the fifty seven year history
of the Oakland Coliseum. It's going to be sold out.
They're expecting forty six thousand fans for the game between
the A's and the Texas Rangers a day game in
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northern California, and it's sad. They expect over two hundred
police to be on hand. They're not expecting hoping there's
not going to be any violence, people trying to take
seats and all kinds of stuff as they leave the stadium.
When they think of the city of Oakland, they think
of a major city in decline that has lost all
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of its sports teams. The Oakland Raiders they move. They're
now currently in Vegas. The Golden State Warriors a staple
in the Bay Area and in Oakland. They moved to
San Francisco, and now the Oakland A's are moving, first
to Sacramento for a couple of years and then to
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Las Vegas. Just unbelievable and how sad. I mean, we
get it. The age are sixty eight and ninety. They
have the lowest attendance in baseball, averaging less than eleven
thousand a game. They haven't drawn a million fans in
over five years, and haven't drawn two million fans in
ten years. I mean, this is where it is and
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where we are. But people need to remember the history
of this organization and it's good. Mark McGuire, Jose Conseco.
Remember the bash Brothers, Reggie Jackson, Caffish Hunter, those guys
that was the Golden ear in nineteen sixty eight to
nineteen eighty five. Reggie Jackson played there. The A's won
three consecutive World Series and reached the playoffs five consecutive years,
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averaging ninety five wins. Dave Stewart won twenty games multiple
times in Oakland. Another one, Ricky Henderson, a Hall of
Fame player for the Oakland A's. Ricky Henderson and Dave
Stewart will both be throwing out the ceremonial first pitch
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on Thursday. It's a sad day in Oakland. I get it.
Maybe Oakland without having a new stadium, just as in
a major league place anymore, but it is sad when
you think about all the history that was there with
the Oakland.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
A's Number two.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
The hurricane down in Florida has thrown a monkey wrench
into the baseball playoffs. It just has the Mets and
Braves separated by one game for the wild card spot
in the National League. Had their series postponed on Wednesday
and Thursday because of the bad weather blowing through that area,
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and now both teams will play a double header on Monday,
which is just weird. I think it's a disadvantage for
the Atlanta Breds, who trail the Mets by one game,
because it's hard to win a doubleheader. You know, they
have to win. All the Mets have to do is
win one unless things change over the weekend. But I
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mean that game can be monumental to have to play too. Obviously,
there's a weekend series that's gonna happen Before that, there's
one game that separates unless somebody gets swapped or something
like that, and then it becomes null and void, which
I just don't expect to happen. But a doubleheader on
Monday to determine what's gonna happen. It's gonna be interesting
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to see how it plays out. Hopefully the games will
mean something and hopefully it'll still be a one game
lead when they enter those final two games of the
season on Monday in Atlanta.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Number three good news.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
For Major League Baseball ESPN. Sunday Night Baseball finishes the
season the most watched in five years, So Sunday Night
Baseball ESPN generated the most watched in five years since
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twenty nineteen. According to the Nielsen ratings. That's up six
percent from twenty twenty three. Sunday Night Baseball also had
growth in several key demographics, including adults eighteen to twenty
four went up twenty six percent, women eighteen to thirty
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four sixteen percent, and adults eighteen to thirty four twelve percent.
I mean, these are good signs for baseball. We've seen
it with the social media, the impression, the hits are
all growing, the streaming stuff for baseball is growing, and
it's is just telling you an indication about the younger
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people and whether or not they're interested in baseball. So again,
Baseball TV ratings on Sunday Night Baseball up, and again
adults eighteen to twenty four went up twenty six percent.
It's a big number. Those are the guys you're looking for,
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Guys and girls eighteen to twenty four, high school college age,
and obviously they're watching Sunday Night Baseball and they're interested
in the game. So baseball should be happy about these numbers.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Here comes the big interview. Listen and learn.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
It's so good.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Now let's welcome into the podcast. Jaden Hill from the
Colorado Rockies. Picture Jayden, thank you for joining us.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Yes, their I appreciate you having me. Well, thank you.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
I want to talk to you about your journey to
the big league. You made it up September seventh. I
think it was your major league debut and just your
journey coming through.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Talk about that.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
What it's been like in the big league so far.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
It's been an amazing journey for me.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
You know, spend some time in the minor leagues injured,
then you know, having a bounce back, learn deal with
the ups, deal with downs. Was in Double A to
begin the year, stayed there for about half of the year,
went up to Tria A, and now you know, being here,
it's an amazing experience for me. That guys are amazing,
the talent is amazing, the stands, the stadiums are traveling.
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You know, it's everything that I dreamed of it, Moore,
So I'm very thankful to being this opportunity.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
How about a kid from Arkansas? How do you get
into baseball? Did you play football to basketball? What was
it about baseball?
Speaker 4 (07:48):
I feel like being from the South, it's just you know,
you grow with the ball in your hands. You know,
you grow up playing everything, depending on whatever season it is.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
That's what we're doing.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Me and all my friends, you know, we all gather up,
we meet at somebody's house, and whether it's baseball season,
in basketball, football, were always playing. So I played all
sports growing up, all the way up until my junior
year of high school. I played football and baseball. But
for me, it was just ball. Like, no matter what
I wanted to do, I always had to have a
ball in my hand.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
When did you know you had that kind of stuff?
You know, I'm sure you know, like you're like, Okay,
I'm pretty good at this. But was there a moment
or a situation.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
It depends on who you asked.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
If you ask my mom, she'd be like when I
was two, really, yes, that's what That's what she would say.
But for me, you know, I always had that belief
and I had that confidence in myself. You know, growing up,
I always played older with the guys two to three
years older than me, So I knew that I competed
at a high level. But I would say once I
once I got to my either senior or high school
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or college, you know, senior high school, I believed that
I could play pro ball by you know who, I was
getting recruited by you know how I was performing, but
then once I got to college, you kind of slidified it.
Being able to go to LSU and compete against big
time names, big time dudes, and seeing my stuff play against,
you know, and so it kind of let me know
I could probably make it to the big leagues rather
than just professional vall.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
And that's what I was going to ask you about
LSU and your career there. How was that?
Speaker 1 (09:06):
What was that experience?
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Like that's major based college basement.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
It was awesome. I learned a lot. You know.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
We had a great coaching coach, min area pitching coaching
Allen Done, a great staff, great team all three years.
You know, we weren't able to capitalize on that, but
we had a great group of guys, some guys who
are big leaders now and it was awesome. It taught
me a lot, you know, it made me grow up fast,
It made me become a good teammate. I worked harder,
and I know that I had a high expectation for
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myself there, and so I had to go out there
and do everything I could to compete at a high level.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Our guest is Jaden Hill picture for the Colorado Rockies.
Join us here on inside the Parker. You mentioned earlier
about injuries, and you did have in twenty nineteen, I
think a collar bone, and then COVID hit after that.
Talk about coming back from the collar bone and then
being pushed back to by the pandemic.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Yeah, so I had the color bone was in eighteen
eighteen eight in high school. So I broke it playing football,
and so I decided I was going to go play
two sports in college, and I decided just to play baseball.
Had that set me out for a while, but I
was able to play my senior year of high school,
went to college and dealt with elbow issues. My freshman year,
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I started the first two games, had elbow issues, missed
the entire freshman year, sophomore year, came back, COVID happened.
Junior started that I made maybe about six to eight starts,
I want to say, and then had Tommy John and
so it was a tough battle for me. I really
didn't understand at the time, but you know, it was
good for me. I learned a lot from it. I
was able to sit back. I learned a lesson from
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each injury, you know, And so now I think everything
that I do in my routine, what I do in
between outings. You know, it helps keep me away from
those and it makes me stronger, it makes me a
better player.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
And still end up being drafted in the second round.
So despite all of that, right, it really didn't. Your
chalnge was still big enough for people to understand it's
just injuries aside line.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Yeah, no, I'm thankful for that.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
I'm thankful that I got to present, you know, a
small preview of myself and what I am capable of
doing and what I think I can be. And so
I'm glad that the Rockies believed in that talent and
believed in me as a person, and I'm thankful they
gave me the opportunity to chase my dreams. And you know,
now I'm doing getting a chance to do that.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
It's Kenneth Jaden Hill. Why just Jayden not Kenneth.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Kenneth is my dad name.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
We got the same first name, and so I don't know,
I just didn't want I guess I didn't want to
go as the same name as him, and neither did he,
and so you know he is he is. I have mine,
and uh, it's just been a thing that I just
rocked to it.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
How about, like I said, growing up in Arkansas, what
baseball team did you follow? You don't have baseball they
are what what who's your favorite player that you watched?
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Uh, it was tough. You know, we don't have a
pro team.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
So you know, everyone loved the Yankees growing up in
my era. You got the a Rods, the Jeter Robinson Canoe.
You know that all makes sense. Yeah, that that all plays.
And then but closer to home, I love the Rangers
at the time. They had Josh Hamilton, they had Michael Young,
they had Ian Kinsler, Nelson Cruz. So that group of
guys right there, I grew up loving Josh Hamilton was
my favorite player of all time.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
He was amazing when he went right during his heyday.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Yeah, I mean he was the best. And so it
was somebody I followed a lot. I watched a lot.
But then you know, obviously you got Jeter and a
rot who didn't want to be a Rod and Jeter.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
No, no doubt. Last thing, what's the biggest difference once
you make that jump from the minor leagues to the
major leagues as far as the game faster, the hitters better.
What's the difference.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
That's a load of question. I think that obviously, you know,
everyone's here for a reason. So the hitters are really good.
They get paid a lot of money to be really good,
and so I think that there's no hiding your stuff,
there's no you know, going flying under the radar. I
think that they do their homework on you, and so
it's up to you to execute pitches, and you know,
just keep doing your job and just trust that whatever
you're doing is going to get them out.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
All right, Jane and Hill, best of luck to you
the rest of this year and the rest to your career.
I appreciate you.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Thank you, I appreciate youall is it.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Was a big week in the big leagues, believe Is
it foul or is it fair? And now from mlbdbro
dot com here's Jrgamba.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
The San Diego Padres are rolling and have been the
best team in baseball in the second half of the season, Jr.
Is it foul or fair to say that the Padres
will be the Dodgers' biggest obstacle for the NL Pennant?
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Fair?
Speaker 5 (13:40):
It's a fair ball, not only the pennant but the division.
Right now, they still have a chance. The Padres are
in the midst of a three game series with the Dodgers.
If they win all five of their remaining games, they'll
secure the division title. Regardless of what the Dodgers do.
If the Padre snatch it at least two of three
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from this series, they were still have an outside chance
to take the division, which was unthinkable some months ago.
The time is now for San Diego. When Manny Michado
signed that three hundred million dollar deal to go to
the Padres, I was one of the guys who.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Was down on him for.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
Choosing to go to what I call baseball obscurity after
being courted by baseball's elite franchises, including the Yankees. Ten years,
three hundred million through the twenty twenty eight season is
what the Padres gave him. Nobody thought he'd still be here.
At the time. The agreement was the largest for a
free agent in Major League history, so we understood why
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Machado took it, and it included an opt out clause
after the twenty twenty three season. But here we are
twenty twenty four. Despite coming up short year after year
and not meeting the high expectations, there were manager changes
in the like the Tattoos scandal for Steroioids and the
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rise of the Dodgers and Diamondbacks. Machata read Up signed
eleven year contract through the twenty thirty three season, committing
to end his career in San Diego. Now they have
ballers Lewis Arias, Fernando Tatis, Jorkson, Profar Jackson, Merrill, Xander Bogars,
with Dylan Sees in the mix and Blake Snell. The
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pitching is great. The team's the most balanced Machado's had
in his career. There eleventh in the league in pitching
and hitting nine in one in their last ten games
and riding a nine game winning streak entering Wednesday Night's game.
If I'm the Dodgers with my pitching problems, I don't
want to face the Padres and the baseball guards can
decide that this is finally Manny Machado's moment, and the
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franchise owes him everything. If they can do it, it's.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Time for the pocket protector Centro. The analytic numbers you
need to know, Well, maybe.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Anthony Masterson is his name, BS analytics is his game.
What do you got for me, Anthony?
Speaker 6 (16:04):
The twenty twenty four season is nearly done, and here's
what we're looking at historically as the season winds down.
Not only did shohe O Tani become the first fifty
to fifty player in MLB history, he is damn near
pushing sixty sixty. At this point, no team's going to
win one hundred games for the first time since twenty fourteen.
While the White Sox have already tied the sixty two
Mets for the most losses ever with one hundred and twenty,
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they saw five games left as of this recording. By
the way, the Tigers are making a push for their
first playoff appearance since twenty fourteen, though their playoff odds
in August eleventh were literally zero point two percent. Since then,
they've been the best team in baseball, going twenty eight
and eleven and knocking on October's door. The Red Sox
Jaron Duran is vying to become the first player to
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lead all of baseball in both doubles and triples since
Hall of Famer Rod Carew in nineteen sixty eight. The
Royals Bobby Witt Junior became the first player in MLB
history to have multiple thirty thirty seasons, four turning twenty
five and will be the first Royals player to lead
all of baseball in batting average since Willie Wilson in
nineteen eighty two. And while we might not get any
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trouble crowns at the plate this year, we have a
chance to get two on the mound as the Tigers
Trek Scobel and Braves Chris Sale lead their respective leagues
and wins, era and strikeouts heading into their final starts.
That has happened one time in the last one hundred years,
when Justin Berlander and Clayton Kershaw both pulled off the
feet in twenty eleven. Twenty twenty four has truly been
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a season for the record books.
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If I'm writing, I'm ripping. Let's bring in a writer
of broadcaster, old or new.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Now, let's welcome into the podcast Kyle Williams, who is
a baseball writer for the Chicago Sun Times. Kyle, thanks
for joining us here on the podcast.
Speaker 7 (19:51):
My man, No, thank you for having me. It's a
pleasure to be on.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Thank you, buddy. Well, let's go here because you cover
both the Cubs and the White Sox for the Sun Times.
Obviously you've been over there covering the White Sox off
and on all season long, and it's inevitable that they're
going to have the most losses in baseball history. On Wednesday,
they won, so that kind of, you know, held it
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off for a moment. They still have four games left.
They'd have to win all four games. That would tie
them with the Mets in nineteen sixty two for the
most losses. If they were to win all four. If
they lose one, they have the record by themselves. Just
what's the mood or feeling in Chicago about what's happened
this season.
Speaker 7 (20:38):
You know, it's been unfathomable.
Speaker 8 (20:40):
You know, Chris Getz, the general manager, said he didn't
expect the team to be this bad, challenging the Mets
for that record. You know, if you would have said
one hundred losses, that's a lot of losses, and even
then he was like, Okay, that would have been expected.
But to lose this many times in the fashion in
which they've lost. You know, they just won their first
game when they were trailing after the seventh inning on Wednesday.
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That was the first time they've had to come back
win this season. Wow, for all year, all year, and
so usually with this team is they go down and
then that's it. They're gonna lose, which you know they
roll over, but to lose in this fashion as many
times as they've had has been unfathomable. I mean, they
entered the season with an entirely new pitching staff. Garrett Crochet,
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who turned out to be an All Star, had never
been a starter at the major league level before he
was their opening day starter. And so when you have
him who blossomed and you still end up with this record,
it's unfathomable. I mean, Luis Robert Junior hasn't had the season,
he's been struggling with strikeouts. You have Yoma Kata's been
out the majority of this season, and then Eloy Jimenez,
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who's eventually traded, he's still dealt with injury. So now
you lose your three best position players and you have
one of the worst offenses in baseball, one of the
rows worstpens in baseball, and then an untested rotation. It's
a recipe for the predicament they find themselves in now.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
And it's hard to believe where they've gone because it
was a couple of years ago. Twenty twenty they were
in the playoffs wild Card they lost, and then in
twenty twenty one they went to the Al Division Series
and they lost. But people thought that was a good
team and they had a chance to make, you know,
a run at something. And then they went eighty one
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and eighty one in twenty twenty two, last year sixty
one and one hundred and one, and now here, I mean,
what has come undone. Obviously they traded away some really
good players and got rid of some people, but how
are they here?
Speaker 8 (22:47):
You you have to look back to when Pedri Graffole
was well, you have to look back to when Pager
Griffold was hired. You know, he was kind of brought
in from the Royals as a first time coach to
his last ditch effort to salvage what they could from
the previous rebuild, you know, the Tim Anderson era regime,
if you will.
Speaker 7 (23:06):
And then you know, last season.
Speaker 8 (23:09):
Twenty twenty three was a just in an awful season
all around too.
Speaker 7 (23:12):
It was one of the worst in team history.
Speaker 8 (23:14):
And then this and then you know, they fired Rick Han,
they fired Kenny Williams, and instead of going through a
you know search to find the next guy, they promote
Chris Guests from within because, as Jerry Reinsdorf said, he
wanted the he didn't want to bring somebody from the
outside because he wanted to get back to winning. Quicker Well,
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that was their first mistake, you know, the white size
of os operating kind of this insular fashion, and so
doing that was just more of the same. You know,
you have this guy and Chris Getz, who had never
been a general manager, he was actually in the organization
as they fell from grace, you know, making the playoffs
and then going slowly by slowly decreasing and went total.
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He was there for the entirety of this so it's
more of the same when you just hire him into
a general manager position. And so when that starts, it's
just it. It starts the process of what you're seeing today.
They go through the offseason, they want to get back
to playing defense, they want to get back to being
a stable organization. You know, paul Is Young had a
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solid season, wasn't the defender they thought he was. And
then they just weren't good at the fundamentals too. They
were one of the worst defenses in baseball for a
large point of this season. And that falls on the manager.
That falls on the general manager for bringing in these players.
And you get off to a three and twenty two start,
that just sets the tone for the season. And when
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you have that, the lack of fundamentals, a bad farm system,
and you have your rely you're trying to rely on
players also who have yet to show that they can
consistently stay healthy. It's just that's what that's where it starts.
It starts when Jerry Reinsdorp hired Chris gets in instead
of moving in a new Gentt and a new regime
and a new era of White Sox baseball. You just
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continuing more of the same.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Our guest is Kyle Williams. He is a baseball writer
for the Chicago Sun Times. I can't imagine that back
in twenty twenty one, when Tim Anderson hit that walk
off home run in the cornfield to field the Dreams game,
that the White Sox would be here, Tim Anderson would
be out of baseball like that is just mind boggling
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for those two things to be the same. Where the
Tigers are going to pass the nineteen sixty two Mets
for most losses, and Tim Anderson was a star, he
won a batting title in the American League is out
of the game. How surprised are you about by both
of those things?
Speaker 8 (25:39):
I mean, Tim Anderson was supposed to be one of
those new shortstops to kind of lead baseball forward. You know,
he was an exciting player, led the league in batting gaverage.
I believe in twenty nineteen he was one of the
most exciting young players in the sport. And then to
like you mentioned, to see him not even be out
of to be.
Speaker 7 (25:59):
Out of baseball so surprising.
Speaker 8 (26:01):
This guy was a two time All Star just a
couple of years ago, and now he's out of the sport,
and just this whole team has kind of the sense
of you can't believe this happened in this fashion, this quickly.
Where you had the White Sox who owned by Jerry
Reinsof who's a baseball guy through and through probably to
a detriment, and everything that could go wrong with this
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rebuild did go wrong. And it's you to challenge the
ninth Whenever you say the nineteen sixty two Mets, that
seems like a record that would be so out of
reach that.
Speaker 7 (26:34):
You would see it in the modern era.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
I totally agree. I just nineteen sixty two match.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
We get it.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
They were an expansion team. You know, everything went wrong.
Casey Stengel was the manager of the gait Yankee manager,
and you it's like like history like history, like that's
going to always be the worst team ever. And here
we are today with the White Sox four games left.
Kyle with uh, you know, the chance of them winning
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all four just not good. They will have this record,
all right. His name is Kyle Williams, baseball writer for
the Chicago Sun Times. Kyle continue your great work and
I'll see you on the road, my friend. Thank you
so much.
Speaker 7 (27:17):
No, thanks for having me. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Great job, buddy. I'm gonna send you something in the mail.
Thank you.
Speaker 7 (27:23):
Okay, now I appreciate you, mister Parker. Thank you again.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Yep. Stay well, okay, bye bye, have.
Speaker 7 (27:29):
A good one.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Now bring in the closer. Here's why MLB is better
than the NFL or NBA, and it isn't even close.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Reason number nine hundred and fifty five. Our Major League
Baseball is better than the NBA and better than the NFL.
We saw it on Tuesday night. Yes, a triple play.
Every time you go to a baseball game, you see
something you've never seen. I've been covering Major League Baseball
for almost forty years for zero and I've never seen
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a ball game end on a triple play. But that's
what happened in the Padres game against the Dodgers in LA.
Take a listen to this exciting game ending.
Speaker 8 (28:19):
Call nothing and one swinging away grand volto Machado.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
He hits third.
Speaker 5 (28:24):
That's one, goes to second in time what the first.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Hot triple play?
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Hot triple play and the ballgame is over. The Padres
clinch of postseason birth on a five four three triple play.
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In the words of New York TV legend the late
Bill Jorgensen, thanking you for your time, this time until
next time. Rob Parker out, he can't get it. This
could be an inside the Parker. See you next week,
same bedtime, same back station,
From the Berkshars 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 seveny Rob Parker.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Welcome into the podcast. I'm your host, Rob Parker. What
a great show we have for you today, man oh Man,
as we get set for the postseason to begin in
Earnest on Tuesday. But Jade Hill, the young pitching phenom
for the Colorado Rockies, he joins us. Also Kyle Williams,
he's the baseball writer for the Chicago Sun Times. He'll
(00:43):
give us a deep dive into the White Sox and
what went wrong there. Let's go.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Better to lead off it's getting robbed and keep them on.
Rob's hot take and the three biggest stories in Major
League Baseball. Number one, It's.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
An end of an era in Oakland on Thursday, the
final major league game in the fifty seven year history
of the Oakland Coliseum. It's going to be sold out.
They're expecting forty six thousand fans for the game between
the A's and the Texas Rangers a day game in
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northern California, and it's sad. They expect over two hundred
police to be on hand. They're not expecting hoping there's
not going to be any violence, people trying to take
seats and all kinds of stuff as they leave the stadium.
When they think of the city of Oakland, they think
of a major city in decline that has lost all
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of its sports teams. The Oakland Raiders they move. They're
now currently in Vegas. The Golden State Warriors a staple
in the Bay Area and in Oakland. They moved to
San Francisco, and now the Oakland A's are moving, first
to Sacramento for a couple of years and then to
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Las Vegas. Just unbelievable and how sad. I mean, we
get it. The age are sixty eight and ninety. They
have the lowest attendance in baseball, averaging less than eleven
thousand a game. They haven't drawn a million fans in
over five years, and haven't drawn two million fans in
ten years. I mean, this is where it is and
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where we are. But people need to remember the history
of this organization and it's good. Mark McGuire, Jose Conseco.
Remember the bash Brothers, Reggie Jackson, Caffish Hunter, those guys
that was the Golden ear in nineteen sixty eight to
nineteen eighty five. Reggie Jackson played there. The A's won
three consecutive World Series and reached the playoffs five consecutive years,
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averaging ninety five wins. Dave Stewart won twenty games multiple
times in Oakland. Another one, Ricky Henderson, a Hall of
Fame player for the Oakland A's. Ricky Henderson and Dave
Stewart will both be throwing out the ceremonial first pitch
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on Thursday. It's a sad day in Oakland. I get it.
Maybe Oakland without having a new stadium, just as in
a major league place anymore, but it is sad when
you think about all the history that was there with
the Oakland.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
A's Number two.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
The hurricane down in Florida has thrown a monkey wrench
into the baseball playoffs. It just has the Mets and
Braves separated by one game for the wild card spot
in the National League. Had their series postponed on Wednesday
and Thursday because of the bad weather blowing through that area,
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and now both teams will play a double header on Monday,
which is just weird. I think it's a disadvantage for
the Atlanta Breds, who trail the Mets by one game,
because it's hard to win a doubleheader. You know, they
have to win. All the Mets have to do is
win one unless things change over the weekend. But I
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mean that game can be monumental to have to play too. Obviously,
there's a weekend series that's gonna happen Before that, there's
one game that separates unless somebody gets swapped or something
like that, and then it becomes null and void, which
I just don't expect to happen. But a doubleheader on
Monday to determine what's gonna happen. It's gonna be interesting
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to see how it plays out. Hopefully the games will
mean something and hopefully it'll still be a one game
lead when they enter those final two games of the
season on Monday in Atlanta.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Number three good news.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
For Major League Baseball ESPN. Sunday Night Baseball finishes the
season the most watched in five years, So Sunday Night
Baseball ESPN generated the most watched in five years since
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twenty nineteen. According to the Nielsen ratings. That's up six
percent from twenty twenty three. Sunday Night Baseball also had
growth in several key demographics, including adults eighteen to twenty
four went up twenty six percent, women eighteen to thirty
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four sixteen percent, and adults eighteen to thirty four twelve percent.
I mean, these are good signs for baseball. We've seen
it with the social media, the impression, the hits are
all growing, the streaming stuff for baseball is growing, and
it's is just telling you an indication about the younger
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people and whether or not they're interested in baseball. So again,
Baseball TV ratings on Sunday Night Baseball up, and again
adults eighteen to twenty four went up twenty six percent.
It's a big number. Those are the guys you're looking for,
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Guys and girls eighteen to twenty four, high school college age,
and obviously they're watching Sunday Night Baseball and they're interested
in the game. So baseball should be happy about these numbers.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Here comes the big interview. Listen and learn.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
It's so good.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Now let's welcome into the podcast. Jaden Hill from the
Colorado Rockies. Picture Jayden, thank you for joining us.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Yes, their I appreciate you having me. Well, thank you.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
I want to talk to you about your journey to
the big league. You made it up September seventh. I
think it was your major league debut and just your
journey coming through.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Talk about that.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
What it's been like in the big league so far.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
It's been an amazing journey for me.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
You know, spend some time in the minor leagues injured,
then you know, having a bounce back, learn deal with
the ups, deal with downs. Was in Double A to
begin the year, stayed there for about half of the year,
went up to Tria A, and now you know, being here,
it's an amazing experience for me. That guys are amazing,
the talent is amazing, the stands, the stadiums are traveling.
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You know, it's everything that I dreamed of it, Moore,
So I'm very thankful to being this opportunity.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
How about a kid from Arkansas? How do you get
into baseball? Did you play football to basketball? What was
it about baseball?
Speaker 4 (07:48):
I feel like being from the South, it's just you know,
you grow with the ball in your hands. You know,
you grow up playing everything, depending on whatever season it is.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
That's what we're doing.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Me and all my friends, you know, we all gather up,
we meet at somebody's house, and whether it's baseball season,
in basketball, football, were always playing. So I played all
sports growing up, all the way up until my junior
year of high school. I played football and baseball. But
for me, it was just ball. Like, no matter what
I wanted to do, I always had to have a
ball in my hand.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
When did you know you had that kind of stuff?
You know, I'm sure you know, like you're like, Okay,
I'm pretty good at this. But was there a moment
or a situation.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
It depends on who you asked.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
If you ask my mom, she'd be like when I
was two, really, yes, that's what That's what she would say.
But for me, you know, I always had that belief
and I had that confidence in myself. You know, growing up,
I always played older with the guys two to three
years older than me, So I knew that I competed
at a high level. But I would say once I
once I got to my either senior or high school
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or college, you know, senior high school, I believed that
I could play pro ball by you know who, I was
getting recruited by you know how I was performing, but
then once I got to college, you kind of slidified it.
Being able to go to LSU and compete against big
time names, big time dudes, and seeing my stuff play against,
you know, and so it kind of let me know
I could probably make it to the big leagues rather
than just professional vall.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
And that's what I was going to ask you about
LSU and your career there. How was that?
Speaker 1 (09:06):
What was that experience?
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Like that's major based college basement.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
It was awesome. I learned a lot. You know.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
We had a great coaching coach, min area pitching coaching
Allen Done, a great staff, great team all three years.
You know, we weren't able to capitalize on that, but
we had a great group of guys, some guys who
are big leaders now and it was awesome. It taught
me a lot, you know, it made me grow up fast,
It made me become a good teammate. I worked harder,
and I know that I had a high expectation for
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myself there, and so I had to go out there
and do everything I could to compete at a high level.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Our guest is Jaden Hill picture for the Colorado Rockies.
Join us here on inside the Parker. You mentioned earlier
about injuries, and you did have in twenty nineteen, I
think a collar bone, and then COVID hit after that.
Talk about coming back from the collar bone and then
being pushed back to by the pandemic.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Yeah, so I had the color bone was in eighteen
eighteen eight in high school. So I broke it playing football,
and so I decided I was going to go play
two sports in college, and I decided just to play baseball.
Had that set me out for a while, but I
was able to play my senior year of high school,
went to college and dealt with elbow issues. My freshman year,
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I started the first two games, had elbow issues, missed
the entire freshman year, sophomore year, came back, COVID happened.
Junior started that I made maybe about six to eight starts,
I want to say, and then had Tommy John and
so it was a tough battle for me. I really
didn't understand at the time, but you know, it was
good for me. I learned a lot from it. I
was able to sit back. I learned a lesson from
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each injury, you know, And so now I think everything
that I do in my routine, what I do in
between outings. You know, it helps keep me away from
those and it makes me stronger, it makes me a
better player.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
And still end up being drafted in the second round.
So despite all of that, right, it really didn't. Your
chalnge was still big enough for people to understand it's
just injuries aside line.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Yeah, no, I'm thankful for that.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
I'm thankful that I got to present, you know, a
small preview of myself and what I am capable of
doing and what I think I can be. And so
I'm glad that the Rockies believed in that talent and
believed in me as a person, and I'm thankful they
gave me the opportunity to chase my dreams. And you know,
now I'm doing getting a chance to do that.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
It's Kenneth Jaden Hill. Why just Jayden not Kenneth.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Kenneth is my dad name.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
We got the same first name, and so I don't know,
I just didn't want I guess I didn't want to
go as the same name as him, and neither did he,
and so you know he is he is. I have mine,
and uh, it's just been a thing that I just
rocked to it.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
How about, like I said, growing up in Arkansas, what
baseball team did you follow? You don't have baseball they
are what what who's your favorite player that you watched?
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Uh, it was tough. You know, we don't have a
pro team.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
So you know, everyone loved the Yankees growing up in
my era. You got the a Rods, the Jeter Robinson Canoe.
You know that all makes sense. Yeah, that that all plays.
And then but closer to home, I love the Rangers
at the time. They had Josh Hamilton, they had Michael Young,
they had Ian Kinsler, Nelson Cruz. So that group of
guys right there, I grew up loving Josh Hamilton was
my favorite player of all time.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
He was amazing when he went right during his heyday.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Yeah, I mean he was the best. And so it
was somebody I followed a lot. I watched a lot.
But then you know, obviously you got Jeter and a
rot who didn't want to be a Rod and Jeter.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
No, no doubt. Last thing, what's the biggest difference once
you make that jump from the minor leagues to the
major leagues as far as the game faster, the hitters better.
What's the difference.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
That's a load of question. I think that obviously, you know,
everyone's here for a reason. So the hitters are really good.
They get paid a lot of money to be really good,
and so I think that there's no hiding your stuff,
there's no you know, going flying under the radar. I
think that they do their homework on you, and so
it's up to you to execute pitches, and you know,
just keep doing your job and just trust that whatever
you're doing is going to get them out.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
All right, Jane and Hill, best of luck to you
the rest of this year and the rest to your career.
I appreciate you.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Thank you, I appreciate youall is it.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Was a big week in the big leagues, believe Is
it foul or is it fair? And now from mlbdbro
dot com here's Jrgamba.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
The San Diego Padres are rolling and have been the
best team in baseball in the second half of the season, Jr.
Is it foul or fair to say that the Padres
will be the Dodgers' biggest obstacle for the NL Pennant?
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Fair?
Speaker 5 (13:40):
It's a fair ball, not only the pennant but the division.
Right now, they still have a chance. The Padres are
in the midst of a three game series with the Dodgers.
If they win all five of their remaining games, they'll
secure the division title. Regardless of what the Dodgers do.
If the Padre snatch it at least two of three
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from this series, they were still have an outside chance
to take the division, which was unthinkable some months ago.
The time is now for San Diego. When Manny Michado
signed that three hundred million dollar deal to go to
the Padres, I was one of the guys who.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Was down on him for.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
Choosing to go to what I call baseball obscurity after
being courted by baseball's elite franchises, including the Yankees. Ten years,
three hundred million through the twenty twenty eight season is
what the Padres gave him. Nobody thought he'd still be here.
At the time. The agreement was the largest for a
free agent in Major League history, so we understood why
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Machado took it, and it included an opt out clause
after the twenty twenty three season. But here we are
twenty twenty four. Despite coming up short year after year
and not meeting the high expectations, there were manager changes
in the like the Tattoos scandal for Steroioids and the
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rise of the Dodgers and Diamondbacks. Machata read Up signed
eleven year contract through the twenty thirty three season, committing
to end his career in San Diego. Now they have
ballers Lewis Arias, Fernando Tatis, Jorkson, Profar Jackson, Merrill, Xander Bogars,
with Dylan Sees in the mix and Blake Snell. The
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pitching is great. The team's the most balanced Machado's had
in his career. There eleventh in the league in pitching
and hitting nine in one in their last ten games
and riding a nine game winning streak entering Wednesday Night's game.
If I'm the Dodgers with my pitching problems, I don't
want to face the Padres and the baseball guards can
decide that this is finally Manny Machado's moment, and the
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franchise owes him everything. If they can do it, it's.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Time for the pocket protector Centro. The analytic numbers you
need to know, Well, maybe.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Anthony Masterson is his name, BS analytics is his game.
What do you got for me, Anthony?
Speaker 6 (16:04):
The twenty twenty four season is nearly done, and here's
what we're looking at historically as the season winds down.
Not only did shohe O Tani become the first fifty
to fifty player in MLB history, he is damn near
pushing sixty sixty. At this point, no team's going to
win one hundred games for the first time since twenty fourteen.
While the White Sox have already tied the sixty two
Mets for the most losses ever with one hundred and twenty,
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they saw five games left as of this recording. By
the way, the Tigers are making a push for their
first playoff appearance since twenty fourteen, though their playoff odds
in August eleventh were literally zero point two percent. Since then,
they've been the best team in baseball, going twenty eight
and eleven and knocking on October's door. The Red Sox
Jaron Duran is vying to become the first player to
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lead all of baseball in both doubles and triples since
Hall of Famer Rod Carew in nineteen sixty eight. The
Royals Bobby Witt Junior became the first player in MLB
history to have multiple thirty thirty seasons, four turning twenty
five and will be the first Royals player to lead
all of baseball in batting average since Willie Wilson in
nineteen eighty two. And while we might not get any
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trouble crowns at the plate this year, we have a
chance to get two on the mound as the Tigers
Trek Scobel and Braves Chris Sale lead their respective leagues
and wins, era and strikeouts heading into their final starts.
That has happened one time in the last one hundred years,
when Justin Berlander and Clayton Kershaw both pulled off the
feet in twenty eleven. Twenty twenty four has truly been
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a season for the record books.
Speaker 5 (17:33):
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When Rob was a newspaper columnist, he lived by this model.
If I'm writing, I'm ripping. Let's bring in a writer
of broadcaster, old or new.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Now, let's welcome into the podcast Kyle Williams, who is
a baseball writer for the Chicago Sun Times. Kyle, thanks
for joining us here on the podcast.
Speaker 7 (19:51):
My man, No, thank you for having me. It's a
pleasure to be on.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Thank you, buddy. Well, let's go here because you cover
both the Cubs and the White Sox for the Sun Times.
Obviously you've been over there covering the White Sox off
and on all season long, and it's inevitable that they're
going to have the most losses in baseball history. On Wednesday,
they won, so that kind of, you know, held it
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off for a moment. They still have four games left.
They'd have to win all four games. That would tie
them with the Mets in nineteen sixty two for the
most losses. If they were to win all four. If
they lose one, they have the record by themselves. Just
what's the mood or feeling in Chicago about what's happened
this season.
Speaker 7 (20:38):
You know, it's been unfathomable.
Speaker 8 (20:40):
You know, Chris Getz, the general manager, said he didn't
expect the team to be this bad, challenging the Mets
for that record. You know, if you would have said
one hundred losses, that's a lot of losses, and even
then he was like, Okay, that would have been expected.
But to lose this many times in the fashion in
which they've lost. You know, they just won their first
game when they were trailing after the seventh inning on Wednesday.
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That was the first time they've had to come back
win this season. Wow, for all year, all year, and
so usually with this team is they go down and
then that's it. They're gonna lose, which you know they
roll over, but to lose in this fashion as many
times as they've had has been unfathomable. I mean, they
entered the season with an entirely new pitching staff. Garrett Crochet,
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who turned out to be an All Star, had never
been a starter at the major league level before he
was their opening day starter. And so when you have
him who blossomed and you still end up with this record,
it's unfathomable. I mean, Luis Robert Junior hasn't had the season,
he's been struggling with strikeouts. You have Yoma Kata's been
out the majority of this season, and then Eloy Jimenez,
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who's eventually traded, he's still dealt with injury. So now
you lose your three best position players and you have
one of the worst offenses in baseball, one of the
rows worstpens in baseball, and then an untested rotation. It's
a recipe for the predicament they find themselves in now.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
And it's hard to believe where they've gone because it
was a couple of years ago. Twenty twenty they were
in the playoffs wild Card they lost, and then in
twenty twenty one they went to the Al Division Series
and they lost. But people thought that was a good
team and they had a chance to make, you know,
a run at something. And then they went eighty one
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and eighty one in twenty twenty two, last year sixty
one and one hundred and one, and now here, I mean,
what has come undone. Obviously they traded away some really
good players and got rid of some people, but how
are they here?
Speaker 8 (22:47):
You you have to look back to when Pedri Graffole
was well, you have to look back to when Pager
Griffold was hired. You know, he was kind of brought
in from the Royals as a first time coach to
his last ditch effort to salvage what they could from
the previous rebuild, you know, the Tim Anderson era regime,
if you will.
Speaker 7 (23:06):
And then you know, last season.
Speaker 8 (23:09):
Twenty twenty three was a just in an awful season
all around too.
Speaker 7 (23:12):
It was one of the worst in team history.
Speaker 8 (23:14):
And then this and then you know, they fired Rick Han,
they fired Kenny Williams, and instead of going through a
you know search to find the next guy, they promote
Chris Guests from within because, as Jerry Reinsdorf said, he
wanted the he didn't want to bring somebody from the
outside because he wanted to get back to winning. Quicker Well,
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that was their first mistake, you know, the white size
of os operating kind of this insular fashion, and so
doing that was just more of the same. You know,
you have this guy and Chris Getz, who had never
been a general manager, he was actually in the organization
as they fell from grace, you know, making the playoffs
and then going slowly by slowly decreasing and went total.
(23:57):
He was there for the entirety of this so it's
more of the same when you just hire him into
a general manager position. And so when that starts, it's
just it. It starts the process of what you're seeing today.
They go through the offseason, they want to get back
to playing defense, they want to get back to being
a stable organization. You know, paul Is Young had a
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solid season, wasn't the defender they thought he was. And
then they just weren't good at the fundamentals too. They
were one of the worst defenses in baseball for a
large point of this season. And that falls on the manager.
That falls on the general manager for bringing in these players.
And you get off to a three and twenty two start,
that just sets the tone for the season. And when
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you have that, the lack of fundamentals, a bad farm system,
and you have your rely you're trying to rely on
players also who have yet to show that they can
consistently stay healthy. It's just that's what that's where it starts.
It starts when Jerry Reinsdorp hired Chris gets in instead
of moving in a new Gentt and a new regime
and a new era of White Sox baseball. You just
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continuing more of the same.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Our guest is Kyle Williams. He is a baseball writer
for the Chicago Sun Times. I can't imagine that back
in twenty twenty one, when Tim Anderson hit that walk
off home run in the cornfield to field the Dreams game,
that the White Sox would be here, Tim Anderson would
be out of baseball like that is just mind boggling
(25:23):
for those two things to be the same. Where the
Tigers are going to pass the nineteen sixty two Mets
for most losses, and Tim Anderson was a star, he
won a batting title in the American League is out
of the game. How surprised are you about by both
of those things?
Speaker 8 (25:39):
I mean, Tim Anderson was supposed to be one of
those new shortstops to kind of lead baseball forward. You know,
he was an exciting player, led the league in batting gaverage.
I believe in twenty nineteen he was one of the
most exciting young players in the sport. And then to
like you mentioned, to see him not even be out
of to be.
Speaker 7 (25:59):
Out of baseball so surprising.
Speaker 8 (26:01):
This guy was a two time All Star just a
couple of years ago, and now he's out of the sport,
and just this whole team has kind of the sense
of you can't believe this happened in this fashion, this quickly.
Where you had the White Sox who owned by Jerry
Reinsof who's a baseball guy through and through probably to
a detriment, and everything that could go wrong with this
(26:23):
rebuild did go wrong. And it's you to challenge the
ninth Whenever you say the nineteen sixty two Mets, that
seems like a record that would be so out of
reach that.
Speaker 7 (26:34):
You would see it in the modern era.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
I totally agree. I just nineteen sixty two match.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
We get it.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
They were an expansion team. You know, everything went wrong.
Casey Stengel was the manager of the gait Yankee manager,
and you it's like like history like history, like that's
going to always be the worst team ever. And here
we are today with the White Sox four games left.
Kyle with uh, you know, the chance of them winning
(27:01):
all four just not good. They will have this record,
all right. His name is Kyle Williams, baseball writer for
the Chicago Sun Times. Kyle continue your great work and
I'll see you on the road, my friend. Thank you
so much.
Speaker 7 (27:17):
No, thanks for having me. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Great job, buddy. I'm gonna send you something in the mail.
Thank you.
Speaker 7 (27:23):
Okay, now I appreciate you, mister Parker. Thank you again.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Yep. Stay well, okay, bye bye, have.
Speaker 7 (27:29):
A good one.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Now bring in the closer. Here's why MLB is better
than the NFL or NBA, and it isn't even close.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Reason number nine hundred and fifty five. Our Major League
Baseball is better than the NBA and better than the NFL.
We saw it on Tuesday night. Yes, a triple play.
Every time you go to a baseball game, you see
something you've never seen. I've been covering Major League Baseball
for almost forty years for zero and I've never seen
(28:06):
a ball game end on a triple play. But that's
what happened in the Padres game against the Dodgers in LA.
Take a listen to this exciting game ending.
Speaker 8 (28:19):
Call nothing and one swinging away grand volto Machado.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
He hits third.
Speaker 5 (28:24):
That's one, goes to second in time what the first.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Hot triple play?
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Hot triple play and the ballgame is over. The Padres
clinch of postseason birth on a five four three triple play.
(28:51):
In the words of New York TV legend the late
Bill Jorgensen, thanking you for your time, this time until
next time. Rob Parker out, he can't get it. This
could be an inside the Parker. See you next week,
same bedtime, same back station,
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Rob Parker
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