December 12, 2024 • 17 mins
On this week’s offseason edition of Inside the (Rob) Parker, Rob discusses a few of the biggest MLB Free Agency headlines, including: the New York Mets making Juan Soto the highest paid athlete in American professional sports history, the New York Yankees (Max Fried) and Boston Red Sox (Garrett Crochet) smart pivots after losing out in the Soto Sweepstakes and the Los Angeles Dodgers beating the rest of the market to the punch by signing Blake Snell so early on in the process. Finally, Rob closes the show by explaining why Shohei Ohtani - not Caitlin Clark - should have been named TIME Magazine's Athlete of the Year.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
From the berkshears 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 seven, Rob Parker.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Welcome into the podcast. I'm your host, Rob Parker, and
we have a very special free agent edition of Inside
the Parker. We'll talk about the moving and shaking going
on in the league and all the other stuff with
big signing. The historic contract with Juan Soto will do
(00:40):
that and much more. Let's go.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Better up to lead off. It's getting robbed to keep
them on. Rob's hot take on the three biggest stories
in Major League Baseball. Number one.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Juan Soto was introduced on Thursday in New York as
the newest New York Met, leaving the Yankees for the
Mets for a record breaking fifteen year, seven hundred and
sixty five million dollar deal. Hello is this on seven
hundred and sixty five million dollars? And a great quote
(01:19):
from the super rich, the richest owner in baseball, Steve Cohen,
who said that he misread the whole situation and didn't
think they had a shot at getting him because the
Yankees surprisingly offered seven hundred and sixty million dollars, but
it was over sixteen years and the Mets offer was
(01:40):
over fifteen You say, what's the big difference between five million, well,
five million plus a year. He would have been making
forty seven point five million with the Yankees per year
over the sixteen year contract. With the Mets. It turns
out to be fifty one million a year over the
fifteen years. But any Code told the UH members of
(02:04):
the media at the press conference quote, usually I'm a
pretty good I'm pretty good at reading the signals. This
one I totally missed, and he was saying. Soto's agent,
Scott Bars called me, and I realized, holy blank, this
could happen. I didn't expect it. I had no expectations
(02:26):
it was gonna happen. I was blown away. And Sodo,
of course, is twenty six years old. I spent his
first five Major league seasons with the Washington Nationals. He
won a World Series in twenty nineteen. The Nats offered
him four hundred and forty million dollars. We all know
(02:46):
that story. I was dead wrong. I thought he was
crazy not to take that offer at that time. He
bet on hisself. He went to the Padres and uh,
I think did okay. They never got a long term
deal done there and then after that they so they
traded him because they weren't going to get a deal
with them to the Yankees. Following the twenty twenty three season.
(03:10):
Of course, he goes to the Bronx as a career
high and home runs forty one. He's one hundred and
nine RBIs, one hundred and twenty eight runs scored. He
was an All Star, won still Silver Slugger Award, and
finished third in the American League in the MVP voting.
So all those good things there. Soda wasn't had a
(03:30):
huge role, of course in the Yankees getting to the
World Series for the first time since two thousand and nine,
and for the Yankees it was amazing. But I gotta
be honest, I'm not mad at the Mets, and he
has a right as a free agent to go and
do whatever he wants. I was a little surprised that
(03:50):
he would leave the Bronx with the fans there, the
Dominican fans who fell in love with him. The history
of the Yankees you know him in that lineup with Judge.
You know how good the Yankees were a year ago.
And I get it, the Mets made it to the NLCS.
I'm not convinced that he's the missing piece for the Mets.
(04:10):
And they go into the World Series this year, don't forget.
You got the Dodgers still in there. You got the
Padres in the National League. The Braves and Phillies are good,
so there's a lot of competition. And you know, I
wondered on the radio show if maybe he just didn't
want to have to live up to that contract. Weren't
pinstripes compared to playing in Queens, And it is a difference.
(04:33):
I grew up in New York. I grew up as
a Mets fan. Sure of fans want to win, but
it's not the same pressure as playing on the biggest
stage in sports at Yankee Stadium. The Mets haven't won
a World Series is nineteen eighty six. Fans want to win,
but it ain't the end of the world. People are
on Judge's head because the Yankees haven't won since he's
(04:55):
been there. Despite all the MVPs and the home runs
and all that. Want to win and the Yankees have
different standards, so uh, it was really really interesting to
see this thing unfold. I never believed the Dodgers are
gonna get him. They spent one point one billion last year.
Why in the world would they go and signed Soto.
They have a stacked team. I thought it would be
(05:17):
one of the two New York teams. I know Boston
made a push, but I believed that it would be
one or the other, and I thought he would stay.
Once I heard that the Yankees were gonna anty up,
because normally they're conservative, they're not gonna play it. Think
about this. They had seven hundred and sixty million dollars
on the table for Wan Soto, who's not one of
the MVP yet, and they paid Judge three hundred and
(05:40):
sixty million, almost double right, But Judge was older thirty.
He's thirty two now thirty one when he got his contract.
Soto's twenty six. He's so young. This guy plays ten
years with the Mets and has and is productive and
does it. He's still only be thirty six, ten years
(06:01):
into the contract, which is an incredible age for a
player that's still his prime. You know, he's been around
so long. He seems older than he really is, so
it's an incredible movement. The Yankees of course went out
and got Max Freed, the lefty from the Atlanta Braids.
(06:23):
That's a great pickup to add to their rotation. And
they're not done. They're going to make some other moves
and trades and different things. But as a baseball fan,
it is tough to see one so to leave because
he fits so much in the Bronx, the right field porch,
the fans Him and Judge and Stanton in that lineup
(06:47):
just dynamic. I mean, if you watch that postseason game,
post season series against Cleveland, those guys were incredible, all
three of them. Big home runs, big moments. There was
a great series. Even though it was only a five
game series out of seven, it still was fantastic and
there was a lot of big hits and big moments
(07:07):
in that So Juan Soto's in New York met and
this will be interesting to see how it all plays out,
and we're the Mets fit in now.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Number two.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
The Yankees didn't boohoo. They pivoted as soon as they
lost Juan Soto and came up with a big signing
of their own, Brian Cashman went out and got Max
Reed from the Atlanta Braves eight year, two hundred and
eighteen million dollar contract, the most ever for a left
handed pitcher. We know Max Freed has been tremendous for
(07:40):
the Braves. And you know, when you look at that
rotation now, Garrett Cole, Freed, Carlos ron Dome, I mean,
those are those are right at the top of your rotation.
And then you got you know, some other of the
Yankees got depth now, they really do in their rotation.
(08:01):
But those three, how how could you not like those
three uh coming in uh for a team? But Max Reed,
as I said, and and Aaron Boom said, he's really
one of the games the best pitchers. He really is.
Uh and and and they need if you want to
(08:22):
win a World Series, it is about pitching. It is
as much as we talk about hitting and all the
other stuff. Max Freed gives them another really big arm.
And that's a blow to the Atlanta Braids. I mean,
he was a big part of why the Braves have
been good the last few years because of Max Freed.
(08:43):
So the Yankees go out make a big signing, don't
talk their heads between their legs and act like it's
all over, So that was pretty impressive. Number Three, Garrett
Crochet is headed to the balls in Red Sox. They
were in on the Wan Solo deal. They wanted to
(09:06):
bring him to Boston. It did not happen. So they
go out and they make a big trade with the
White Sox to get their twenty five year old lefty.
You know, big strikeout numbers. He's a stud. He opted
out of his no trade clause. The twenty five year
old has a career ERA of three point twenty nine,
(09:30):
which is pretty darn good in Major League Baseball. So
the Red Sox they're trying to get back in the mix.
They were kind of out of it last year. Them
even wanting to go after Wan Soto tells me that
they're back in business. They're trying to win again, trying
to win back fans who think that the ownership doesn't
want to win, that they kind of got fat and
(09:51):
sassy from we know, winning those World Series that they
did after the long drought, and that they didn't want
to spend money and they kind of downgraded their team,
but they gave up some good young players and prospects
for a big time pitcher, a big time lefty. That
should help. And we talk about pitching all the time
(10:14):
because when you get a start at the top of
your rotation, you're not gonna be a bad team. You're
not gonna have eight game losing streaks. The guy's gonna
give you a chance to win every time he goes
out there. He's not gonna win every game, but he's
gonna give you a chance keep you in games that
you can come back and you can win. That's what
an ace kind of pitcher can do. And this is
(10:37):
the pickup that the Red Sox got. So this will
be interesting to see how the Red Sox continue to
rebuild their team and go after stars and try to
reload that roster number four. The world champion Los Angeles
Dodgers didn't rest and say, hey, we won the World Series,
we're good to go. They looked at their pitching and
(10:58):
they said, hey, we needed to do something about it
as we try to win again and be the first
National League team to repeat as World Series champions since
nineteen seventy five nineteen seventy six, and the first team
period in baseball at Duorge since the Yankees did it
in ninety nine and two thousand. Can you believe that
(11:18):
twenty four, twenty five years ago is the last time
a team repeated in baseball talk about competitive balance and
other teams having a chance to win. It's pretty amazing
that it's been that long since the team won back
to back. But the Dodgers went out and they went
and got a big one. Blake's now who opped out
(11:39):
of his deal with the San Francisco Giants. He signed
a five year contract with the Dodgers one hundred and
eighty two million dollars. Of course, he pitched in Tampa Bay,
where Dodger president Andrew Freeman worked and was running that team,
so he's reunited with Andrew Freeman. He also reunites with
(12:03):
Tyler Glass now, So now you know, think about the
Dodgers rotation next year, Snell, Yamamoto, Glass Now, and Otani
is supposed to be back in a rotation this I gave,
just gave you four names. That's pretty good, right, And
(12:24):
the Japanese phenom Sasaki. The Dodgers are in on them
as well. They're gonna be in the mix when he
finally decides where he's gonna go. It'll be interesting if
he also follows suits with the other two Japanese stars,
or does he want to go carve out his own
niche Sasaki somewhere else. But Blake Snell, as we know,
(12:47):
wanta say young last year, not this past year. In
twenty twenty three, he was phenomenal Major League leading two
point two five e RRA, two hundred and thirty four
strikeout and over one hundred and eighty innings. He was
really really good for the Padre. Signed a contract late
(13:08):
with the Giants, but had an opt out after one year,
and he opted out. So there you go, and Blake
Snell for people don't know how good he is. I
know he's playing Tampa Bay. I know you saw him
pitch a no hitter at one point against the Dodgers
in the World Series. But you're ready for this. Snell's
(13:29):
eleven point two career strikeouts per nine innings is the
highest in Major League Baseball history. Hello, eleven point two
per nine innings, highest in Major League baseball history, not
last year, not the two thousands in the history of baseball.
(13:49):
So the Dodgers have a stud They're going to be
in business again and have a real shot at getting
back to the World Series and winning it.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Now, bring in the closer. Here's why MLB is better
than the NFL or NBA, and it isn't even close.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Reason number five hundred and fifty five were Major League
Baseball is better than the NBA and better than the NFL.
It's because you can still see things in baseball that
you never see. And we saw it this past year
when sho hail Tani had fifty to fifty, fifty home
(14:29):
runs fifty stolen bases, actually over both numbers, but the
fifty to fifty club. No player had ever done that
in the history of baseball has been around over one
hundred and fifty years. Nobody had ever done that. And
somehow he didn't win Time magazine Athlete of the Year.
How Caitlin Clark who I Give You? Was a social
(14:55):
media magnet and moved the numbers TV way, but she
didn't win. She didn't win a championship in the NCAA.
She didn't get her team, uh the Indiana Fever. They
didn't win anything. They made the playoffs for the first
time in a few years, but they didn't win anything.
(15:16):
She didn't even make the Olympic team. How How in
the world is that the Athlete of the Is it
Is it moving the needle, is it social media or
what you do on the field. If show hailed Tony
can't be Athlete of the Year after doing something no
one had ever done in the history of baseball in
a single season, then how could he ever win? I
(15:36):
don't know. So you mean to tell me somebody doing
something else would win Athlete of the Year. I think
they swung a miss. They really did. They got it wrong,
and I get it. Caitlin was nobody cared about the
w n BA before she showed up. She didn't transform
the entire league. She transformed the Indiana fever. You can't
(15:59):
can't buy sold out those games the game she played in.
The TV ratings were good, but there's still the same league. Yes,
they're more eyeballs because of her, but show Hey. I
was at spring training this past year in Arizona, and
there were so many people there to see show Hey.
It was incredible. I just for spring training. I've been
(16:20):
covering baseball for almost forty years. I was stopped shocked
at the number of people who just wanted a glimpse
of him, And then for him to come to the
Dodgers his first year, way more pressure than the angels
and do all the stuff that he did. Impressive, just impressive.
They got it wrong. I'm right show Hey was the
(16:42):
athlete of the year. 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 Davin.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
This could be an inside of Parker. See you next week,
same bat time, same bat station.
From the berkshears 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 seven, Rob Parker.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Welcome into the podcast. I'm your host, Rob Parker, and
we have a very special free agent edition of Inside
the Parker. We'll talk about the moving and shaking going
on in the league and all the other stuff with
big signing. The historic contract with Juan Soto will do
(00:40):
that and much more. Let's go.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Better up to lead off. It's getting robbed to keep
them on. Rob's hot take on the three biggest stories
in Major League Baseball. Number one.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Juan Soto was introduced on Thursday in New York as
the newest New York Met, leaving the Yankees for the
Mets for a record breaking fifteen year, seven hundred and
sixty five million dollar deal. Hello is this on seven
hundred and sixty five million dollars? And a great quote
(01:19):
from the super rich, the richest owner in baseball, Steve Cohen,
who said that he misread the whole situation and didn't
think they had a shot at getting him because the
Yankees surprisingly offered seven hundred and sixty million dollars, but
it was over sixteen years and the Mets offer was
(01:40):
over fifteen You say, what's the big difference between five million, well,
five million plus a year. He would have been making
forty seven point five million with the Yankees per year
over the sixteen year contract. With the Mets. It turns
out to be fifty one million a year over the
fifteen years. But any Code told the UH members of
(02:04):
the media at the press conference quote, usually I'm a
pretty good I'm pretty good at reading the signals. This
one I totally missed, and he was saying. Soto's agent,
Scott Bars called me, and I realized, holy blank, this
could happen. I didn't expect it. I had no expectations
(02:26):
it was gonna happen. I was blown away. And Sodo,
of course, is twenty six years old. I spent his
first five Major league seasons with the Washington Nationals. He
won a World Series in twenty nineteen. The Nats offered
him four hundred and forty million dollars. We all know
(02:46):
that story. I was dead wrong. I thought he was
crazy not to take that offer at that time. He
bet on hisself. He went to the Padres and uh,
I think did okay. They never got a long term
deal done there and then after that they so they
traded him because they weren't going to get a deal
with them to the Yankees. Following the twenty twenty three season.
(03:10):
Of course, he goes to the Bronx as a career
high and home runs forty one. He's one hundred and
nine RBIs, one hundred and twenty eight runs scored. He
was an All Star, won still Silver Slugger Award, and
finished third in the American League in the MVP voting.
So all those good things there. Soda wasn't had a
(03:30):
huge role, of course in the Yankees getting to the
World Series for the first time since two thousand and nine,
and for the Yankees it was amazing. But I gotta
be honest, I'm not mad at the Mets, and he
has a right as a free agent to go and
do whatever he wants. I was a little surprised that
(03:50):
he would leave the Bronx with the fans there, the
Dominican fans who fell in love with him. The history
of the Yankees you know him in that lineup with Judge.
You know how good the Yankees were a year ago.
And I get it, the Mets made it to the NLCS.
I'm not convinced that he's the missing piece for the Mets.
(04:10):
And they go into the World Series this year, don't forget.
You got the Dodgers still in there. You got the
Padres in the National League. The Braves and Phillies are good,
so there's a lot of competition. And you know, I
wondered on the radio show if maybe he just didn't
want to have to live up to that contract. Weren't
pinstripes compared to playing in Queens, And it is a difference.
(04:33):
I grew up in New York. I grew up as
a Mets fan. Sure of fans want to win, but
it's not the same pressure as playing on the biggest
stage in sports at Yankee Stadium. The Mets haven't won
a World Series is nineteen eighty six. Fans want to win,
but it ain't the end of the world. People are
on Judge's head because the Yankees haven't won since he's
(04:55):
been there. Despite all the MVPs and the home runs
and all that. Want to win and the Yankees have
different standards, so uh, it was really really interesting to
see this thing unfold. I never believed the Dodgers are
gonna get him. They spent one point one billion last year.
Why in the world would they go and signed Soto.
They have a stacked team. I thought it would be
(05:17):
one of the two New York teams. I know Boston
made a push, but I believed that it would be
one or the other, and I thought he would stay.
Once I heard that the Yankees were gonna anty up,
because normally they're conservative, they're not gonna play it. Think
about this. They had seven hundred and sixty million dollars
on the table for Wan Soto, who's not one of
the MVP yet, and they paid Judge three hundred and
(05:40):
sixty million, almost double right, But Judge was older thirty.
He's thirty two now thirty one when he got his contract.
Soto's twenty six. He's so young. This guy plays ten
years with the Mets and has and is productive and
does it. He's still only be thirty six, ten years
(06:01):
into the contract, which is an incredible age for a
player that's still his prime. You know, he's been around
so long. He seems older than he really is, so
it's an incredible movement. The Yankees of course went out
and got Max Freed, the lefty from the Atlanta Braids.
(06:23):
That's a great pickup to add to their rotation. And
they're not done. They're going to make some other moves
and trades and different things. But as a baseball fan,
it is tough to see one so to leave because
he fits so much in the Bronx, the right field porch,
the fans Him and Judge and Stanton in that lineup
(06:47):
just dynamic. I mean, if you watch that postseason game,
post season series against Cleveland, those guys were incredible, all
three of them. Big home runs, big moments. There was
a great series. Even though it was only a five
game series out of seven, it still was fantastic and
there was a lot of big hits and big moments
(07:07):
in that So Juan Soto's in New York met and
this will be interesting to see how it all plays out,
and we're the Mets fit in now.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Number two.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
The Yankees didn't boohoo. They pivoted as soon as they
lost Juan Soto and came up with a big signing
of their own, Brian Cashman went out and got Max
Reed from the Atlanta Braves eight year, two hundred and
eighteen million dollar contract, the most ever for a left
handed pitcher. We know Max Freed has been tremendous for
(07:40):
the Braves. And you know, when you look at that
rotation now, Garrett Cole, Freed, Carlos ron Dome, I mean,
those are those are right at the top of your rotation.
And then you got you know, some other of the
Yankees got depth now, they really do in their rotation.
(08:01):
But those three, how how could you not like those
three uh coming in uh for a team? But Max Reed,
as I said, and and Aaron Boom said, he's really
one of the games the best pitchers. He really is.
Uh and and and they need if you want to
(08:22):
win a World Series, it is about pitching. It is
as much as we talk about hitting and all the
other stuff. Max Freed gives them another really big arm.
And that's a blow to the Atlanta Braids. I mean,
he was a big part of why the Braves have
been good the last few years because of Max Freed.
(08:43):
So the Yankees go out make a big signing, don't
talk their heads between their legs and act like it's
all over, So that was pretty impressive. Number Three, Garrett
Crochet is headed to the balls in Red Sox. They
were in on the Wan Solo deal. They wanted to
(09:06):
bring him to Boston. It did not happen. So they
go out and they make a big trade with the
White Sox to get their twenty five year old lefty.
You know, big strikeout numbers. He's a stud. He opted
out of his no trade clause. The twenty five year
old has a career ERA of three point twenty nine,
(09:30):
which is pretty darn good in Major League Baseball. So
the Red Sox they're trying to get back in the mix.
They were kind of out of it last year. Them
even wanting to go after Wan Soto tells me that
they're back in business. They're trying to win again, trying
to win back fans who think that the ownership doesn't
want to win, that they kind of got fat and
(09:51):
sassy from we know, winning those World Series that they
did after the long drought, and that they didn't want
to spend money and they kind of downgraded their team,
but they gave up some good young players and prospects
for a big time pitcher, a big time lefty. That
should help. And we talk about pitching all the time
(10:14):
because when you get a start at the top of
your rotation, you're not gonna be a bad team. You're
not gonna have eight game losing streaks. The guy's gonna
give you a chance to win every time he goes
out there. He's not gonna win every game, but he's
gonna give you a chance keep you in games that
you can come back and you can win. That's what
an ace kind of pitcher can do. And this is
(10:37):
the pickup that the Red Sox got. So this will
be interesting to see how the Red Sox continue to
rebuild their team and go after stars and try to
reload that roster number four. The world champion Los Angeles
Dodgers didn't rest and say, hey, we won the World Series,
we're good to go. They looked at their pitching and
(10:58):
they said, hey, we needed to do something about it
as we try to win again and be the first
National League team to repeat as World Series champions since
nineteen seventy five nineteen seventy six, and the first team
period in baseball at Duorge since the Yankees did it
in ninety nine and two thousand. Can you believe that
(11:18):
twenty four, twenty five years ago is the last time
a team repeated in baseball talk about competitive balance and
other teams having a chance to win. It's pretty amazing
that it's been that long since the team won back
to back. But the Dodgers went out and they went
and got a big one. Blake's now who opped out
(11:39):
of his deal with the San Francisco Giants. He signed
a five year contract with the Dodgers one hundred and
eighty two million dollars. Of course, he pitched in Tampa Bay,
where Dodger president Andrew Freeman worked and was running that team,
so he's reunited with Andrew Freeman. He also reunites with
(12:03):
Tyler Glass now, So now you know, think about the
Dodgers rotation next year, Snell, Yamamoto, Glass Now, and Otani
is supposed to be back in a rotation this I gave,
just gave you four names. That's pretty good, right, And
(12:24):
the Japanese phenom Sasaki. The Dodgers are in on them
as well. They're gonna be in the mix when he
finally decides where he's gonna go. It'll be interesting if
he also follows suits with the other two Japanese stars,
or does he want to go carve out his own
niche Sasaki somewhere else. But Blake Snell, as we know,
(12:47):
wanta say young last year, not this past year. In
twenty twenty three, he was phenomenal Major League leading two
point two five e RRA, two hundred and thirty four
strikeout and over one hundred and eighty innings. He was
really really good for the Padre. Signed a contract late
(13:08):
with the Giants, but had an opt out after one year,
and he opted out. So there you go, and Blake
Snell for people don't know how good he is. I
know he's playing Tampa Bay. I know you saw him
pitch a no hitter at one point against the Dodgers
in the World Series. But you're ready for this. Snell's
(13:29):
eleven point two career strikeouts per nine innings is the
highest in Major League Baseball history. Hello, eleven point two
per nine innings, highest in Major League baseball history, not
last year, not the two thousands in the history of baseball.
(13:49):
So the Dodgers have a stud They're going to be
in business again and have a real shot at getting
back to the World Series and winning it.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Now, bring in the closer. Here's why MLB is better
than the NFL or NBA, and it isn't even close.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Reason number five hundred and fifty five were Major League
Baseball is better than the NBA and better than the NFL.
It's because you can still see things in baseball that
you never see. And we saw it this past year
when sho hail Tani had fifty to fifty, fifty home
(14:29):
runs fifty stolen bases, actually over both numbers, but the
fifty to fifty club. No player had ever done that
in the history of baseball has been around over one
hundred and fifty years. Nobody had ever done that. And
somehow he didn't win Time magazine Athlete of the Year.
How Caitlin Clark who I Give You? Was a social
(14:55):
media magnet and moved the numbers TV way, but she
didn't win. She didn't win a championship in the NCAA.
She didn't get her team, uh the Indiana Fever. They
didn't win anything. They made the playoffs for the first
time in a few years, but they didn't win anything.
(15:16):
She didn't even make the Olympic team. How How in
the world is that the Athlete of the Is it
Is it moving the needle, is it social media or
what you do on the field. If show hailed Tony
can't be Athlete of the Year after doing something no
one had ever done in the history of baseball in
a single season, then how could he ever win? I
(15:36):
don't know. So you mean to tell me somebody doing
something else would win Athlete of the Year. I think
they swung a miss. They really did. They got it wrong,
and I get it. Caitlin was nobody cared about the
w n BA before she showed up. She didn't transform
the entire league. She transformed the Indiana fever. You can't
(15:59):
can't buy sold out those games the game she played in.
The TV ratings were good, but there's still the same league. Yes,
they're more eyeballs because of her, but show Hey. I
was at spring training this past year in Arizona, and
there were so many people there to see show Hey.
It was incredible. I just for spring training. I've been
(16:20):
covering baseball for almost forty years. I was stopped shocked
at the number of people who just wanted a glimpse
of him, And then for him to come to the
Dodgers his first year, way more pressure than the angels
and do all the stuff that he did. Impressive, just impressive.
They got it wrong. I'm right show Hey was the
(16:42):
athlete of the year. 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 Davin.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
This could be an inside of Parker. See you next week,
same bat time, same bat station.
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