Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
Thomas Hardinge joins us now here in Rockies All Axis
and Thomas, I want to ask you first of all
about the new Rockies City connect jerseys. We got to
look at them today. Give me your thoughts my fashion.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Man, Well, I'll have to say at course field, especially
as we get into May and June, you see on
social media everybody taking a picture of the Denver Baseball skuy.
They call it the baseball Skuy. Why not design your
uniform off of that? I was thinking, what are they
going to do after doing the license plate, which I
(00:31):
always thought was a good touch. Little story about that.
There was a young TV reporter who came to West
Virginia where I was living, and I saw that license
plate and I'm like, man, I would love to add
one of those in the back of my car. Eventually
I did. I mean, I wouldn't say it was a
dream that you know, it was the sole goal in life,
(00:52):
but I did. So what would they do? And this
one is a little bit different from the last one.
The last one was very I guess the word conservative
is used for it, and this one whole lot of
colors and kids like colors.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
You're a designer, you're an artist yourself. Did you ever
think about maybe contributing to something like this.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
They would probably never let me contribute to it. Actually,
you know, they have their people at Nike and with
the club. But yeah, I do help out with some
high schools, with some amateur teams and a lot of
different sports. I've done a couple of baseball uniforms, one
girl's volleyball uniform, and a number of football helmets. I
think my first football uniform will come out, but yeah,
(01:36):
it's and it's all local right now. I'd love to
do more, but hey, it's something fun to do when
I'm not here because I've got to have something to
keep me off the streets.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
I've seen some of your football helmet designs very impressive,
and I mean that you brought some of the in
the media room in Denver a couple of times. All right,
let me ask you about this team off to a
slow start. Thomas, obviously at three and ten, I think
through type of the worst record in baseball right now.
Are you surprised one way or the other with the
start after thirteen games with this.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Team going into the season, my thought about this team was,
is this team going to get better? As the season goes,
if this leads to something good down the road, then hey,
it's worth it. Okay, Coming into the season, I looked
at the rest of the division, and as young as
this team was in some spots, and also as uncertain
(02:25):
as it was, It's more it's not just young, it's uncertain.
I mean, you have Brenton Doyle, you have Ezekiel Tovar,
Ryan McMahon is a solid veteran player. The rest of it.
There were questions all over the field when it came
to position players and the offense. So it doesn't shock me.
I'm surprised at how bad it's been. I do think
(02:47):
that the hitters are better than this. I do think
that like a guy like Jordan Beck who's down at
Triple A, I think he's a better offensive player than
what he showed. Michael Tolia is a better offensive player
than what he's shown. He's going to have to have
one of his good streaks. So there's that. But I
did expect some struggle. I'm not sure that it was
to this degree.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Just seems like to me, Thomas, and tell me if
you agree. The margin for error is so slim with
this team, and I think example, last night, the catcher
interference call just led to the floodgates being opened up
and the air on Goodman throwing trying to throw a
runner ound second just seems to bolster everything you've seen
it that way too.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Yeah, especially last night, because I thought that Hermi Mark
has pitched decently. Yeah, some of those hits kind of
went to where people weren't. But if it wasn't for
the catchers interference, and this is what we don't know,
because obviously the catchers bad hit the ball. It's a
double play, but maybe that would have gone over the
fence as far as we know. But something like that happens,
(03:47):
it does seem that things unravel. You talk about a
low margin for error. Look at the beginning of the season,
the way that the starting rotation pitched with a sub
two ear and they won what one or two games
within that I mean, come on, you know that's but
they weren't scoring runs. And if one reliever had a
hiccup at all, or if the defense had a hiccup
(04:08):
and that that's happened twice all season, not very often,
then then games got out of control. So yeah, there
is very little margin for error with this club.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Talk about your thoughts about Bud Black. I mean, he's
gone through a lot the last couple of years, but
this guy seems to be so steady. You never know,
at least I don't Thomas from day to day whether
the team lost or won the game night before. To me,
that's impressive. How about you?
Speaker 2 (04:30):
It is impressive. And there are a couple of things
that I've noticed about it, And number one is when
he is speaking publicly, he understands that his audience just
isn't the folks out there that admire Jerry Shemlin keep
us keeping his poster on the wall. He's thinking about
his players, how is it going over with them now?
Within the club, he does have a high standard. I
(04:50):
mean he does ask those young players to do a
lot and he makes sure he holds them to it.
Part of it is right now they aren't experienced enough
to know much better, and you see a lot of
things happen. But what happened after the team went to
the playoffs for a couple of years and then the
roster started to I've used the word disintegrate with them
with players going free agency, maybe decisions not to sign guys,
(05:13):
the trade of Nolan Arnado when that was happening, he
decided to dedicate himself to being part of the solution
and not part of the problem. And that's hard to do.
I've had managers tell me that after they go through
a rebuild or something like that, they want nothing to
do with that. They don't want their record, their legacy
as a manager to take such a hit. Bud Black,
(05:36):
he wants to win, and he feels like that there's
going to be winning at the end of this. I
don't know when that's going to come, though.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
All Right, Tonight, Chase dol Lander gets the second Star
of the season. Solid in that first one, actually got
some run support, one of the very few starting pitchers
this year that's had that but him. Your thoughts on
this young right hander, the number one prospect pitching wise.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
It's funny. I'm watching that major league debut, and I
watched him through spring training. I kept thinking, this reminds
me of somebody. He reminds me of a young Ubaldo
Jimenez in that he's going to attack the strike zone.
You're not going to see big walk games, but in
his youth, are you going to see home runs that
we saw too? In that game? Against the Oakland Athletics.
(06:15):
We saw a lot of them in spring training. There
were some walks, but he quickly cleaned that up. The
fact that he's in the strike zone and he's a
durable guy. All he has to do really is find
good strikes and he can stay in the game a
long time. You don't worry about pitch count with him.
That's what we learned when he was in the minors.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
First roadstart formula. It should be fun. Always fun with
you too, Thomas. Thank you so much. We'll talk to
you on Tuesday.
Thomas Hardinge joins us now here in Rockies All Axis
and Thomas, I want to ask you first of all
about the new Rockies City connect jerseys. We got to
look at them today. Give me your thoughts my fashion.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Man, Well, I'll have to say at course field, especially
as we get into May and June, you see on
social media everybody taking a picture of the Denver Baseball skuy.
They call it the baseball Skuy. Why not design your
uniform off of that? I was thinking, what are they
going to do after doing the license plate, which I
(00:31):
always thought was a good touch. Little story about that.
There was a young TV reporter who came to West
Virginia where I was living, and I saw that license
plate and I'm like, man, I would love to add
one of those in the back of my car. Eventually
I did. I mean, I wouldn't say it was a
dream that you know, it was the sole goal in life,
(00:52):
but I did. So what would they do? And this
one is a little bit different from the last one.
The last one was very I guess the word conservative
is used for it, and this one whole lot of
colors and kids like colors.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
You're a designer, you're an artist yourself. Did you ever
think about maybe contributing to something like this.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
They would probably never let me contribute to it. Actually,
you know, they have their people at Nike and with
the club. But yeah, I do help out with some
high schools, with some amateur teams and a lot of
different sports. I've done a couple of baseball uniforms, one
girl's volleyball uniform, and a number of football helmets. I
think my first football uniform will come out, but yeah,
(01:36):
it's and it's all local right now. I'd love to
do more, but hey, it's something fun to do when
I'm not here because I've got to have something to
keep me off the streets.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
I've seen some of your football helmet designs very impressive,
and I mean that you brought some of the in
the media room in Denver a couple of times. All right,
let me ask you about this team off to a
slow start. Thomas, obviously at three and ten, I think
through type of the worst record in baseball right now.
Are you surprised one way or the other with the
start after thirteen games with this.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Team going into the season, my thought about this team was,
is this team going to get better? As the season goes,
if this leads to something good down the road, then hey,
it's worth it. Okay, Coming into the season, I looked
at the rest of the division, and as young as
this team was in some spots, and also as uncertain
(02:25):
as it was, It's more it's not just young, it's uncertain.
I mean, you have Brenton Doyle, you have Ezekiel Tovar,
Ryan McMahon is a solid veteran player. The rest of it.
There were questions all over the field when it came
to position players and the offense. So it doesn't shock me.
I'm surprised at how bad it's been. I do think
(02:47):
that the hitters are better than this. I do think
that like a guy like Jordan Beck who's down at
Triple A, I think he's a better offensive player than
what he showed. Michael Tolia is a better offensive player
than what he's shown. He's going to have to have
one of his good streaks. So there's that. But I
did expect some struggle. I'm not sure that it was
to this degree.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Just seems like to me, Thomas, and tell me if
you agree. The margin for error is so slim with
this team, and I think example, last night, the catcher
interference call just led to the floodgates being opened up
and the air on Goodman throwing trying to throw a
runner ound second just seems to bolster everything you've seen
it that way too.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Yeah, especially last night, because I thought that Hermi Mark
has pitched decently. Yeah, some of those hits kind of
went to where people weren't. But if it wasn't for
the catchers interference, and this is what we don't know,
because obviously the catchers bad hit the ball. It's a
double play, but maybe that would have gone over the
fence as far as we know. But something like that happens,
(03:47):
it does seem that things unravel. You talk about a
low margin for error. Look at the beginning of the season,
the way that the starting rotation pitched with a sub
two ear and they won what one or two games
within that I mean, come on, you know that's but
they weren't scoring runs. And if one reliever had a
hiccup at all, or if the defense had a hiccup
(04:08):
and that that's happened twice all season, not very often,
then then games got out of control. So yeah, there
is very little margin for error with this club.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Talk about your thoughts about Bud Black. I mean, he's
gone through a lot the last couple of years, but
this guy seems to be so steady. You never know,
at least I don't Thomas from day to day whether
the team lost or won the game night before. To me,
that's impressive. How about you?
Speaker 2 (04:30):
It is impressive. And there are a couple of things
that I've noticed about it, And number one is when
he is speaking publicly, he understands that his audience just
isn't the folks out there that admire Jerry Shemlin keep
us keeping his poster on the wall. He's thinking about
his players, how is it going over with them now?
Within the club, he does have a high standard. I
(04:50):
mean he does ask those young players to do a
lot and he makes sure he holds them to it.
Part of it is right now they aren't experienced enough
to know much better, and you see a lot of
things happen. But what happened after the team went to
the playoffs for a couple of years and then the
roster started to I've used the word disintegrate with them
with players going free agency, maybe decisions not to sign guys,
(05:13):
the trade of Nolan Arnado when that was happening, he
decided to dedicate himself to being part of the solution
and not part of the problem. And that's hard to do.
I've had managers tell me that after they go through
a rebuild or something like that, they want nothing to
do with that. They don't want their record, their legacy
as a manager to take such a hit. Bud Black,
(05:36):
he wants to win, and he feels like that there's
going to be winning at the end of this. I
don't know when that's going to come, though.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
All Right, Tonight, Chase dol Lander gets the second Star
of the season. Solid in that first one, actually got
some run support, one of the very few starting pitchers
this year that's had that but him. Your thoughts on
this young right hander, the number one prospect pitching wise.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
It's funny. I'm watching that major league debut, and I
watched him through spring training. I kept thinking, this reminds
me of somebody. He reminds me of a young Ubaldo
Jimenez in that he's going to attack the strike zone.
You're not going to see big walk games, but in
his youth, are you going to see home runs that
we saw too? In that game? Against the Oakland Athletics.
(06:15):
We saw a lot of them in spring training. There
were some walks, but he quickly cleaned that up. The
fact that he's in the strike zone and he's a
durable guy. All he has to do really is find
good strikes and he can stay in the game a
long time. You don't worry about pitch count with him.
That's what we learned when he was in the minors.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
First roadstart formula. It should be fun. Always fun with
you too, Thomas. Thank you so much. We'll talk to
you on Tuesday.
Popular Podcasts
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!