July 7, 2025 • 8 mins
Warner Wolf speaks with Mendte in the Morning about the Subway Series over the weekend and his ever growing issues with pitch counts in MLB.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And now it's time for the Ledgeria sportscaster Warner Wolf
than he's going to start with the with baseball, right water.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Yeah you got it, Larry. You know I'm thinking if
the Mets and oor Yankees lose the division by one game, man,
you can blame it on the two managers, Carlos Mendoza
and Aaron Boone. Last week, Mendoza took out Clay Holmes
with a two to one lead in the sixth inning,
allowing only three hits, and the fans, who could care
(00:30):
less about that pitch count booed Mendoza when he came
out to remove the pitcher and a Mets loss, and
Boone did the same thing, taking out Carlos Rodin with
a three to one lead to begin the sixth and
the Yanks lost five to four. When will the guys
realize it's not the pitch count, what's the score? And
(00:53):
how's he doing? Meanwhile, is Boone having amnesia? Two days
after the quick hook with Rodin, he watched his starting pitcher,
Will Warren give up no less than ten hits and
eight runs and four walks before taking him out. The
question is when did Boom finally realize that Warren didn't
(01:17):
have it. Oh, now here's an interesting thing I didn't
know about this. Do you know that the official betters
can bet on each pitch of every Major League game
whether the pitch will be a ball or a strike.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Never heard that, but yeah, I never heard that, But
it makes complete sense.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Yes, it's out of hand. So Cleveland right handed. Luis
Ortiz he's been placed on leave because he's being investigated
for two pitches. He threw one against Seattle and one
against the Cardinals. The two pitches in question came on
(02:00):
the first pitch of two separate innings. In other words,
the betters can say, well, I'll bet the first pitch
is a ball, or I'll bet the first pitch is
a strike. Well, you're taking a chance with a strike
because you don't know what you know, the umpire could say,
well the strike or ball, but a ball. So you
(02:20):
know what Artis did? Well, both pitches, he threw the
ball so far outside. One of them bounced in the
dirt and the other one hit the backstop. And the
investigators noticed that in both instances they have guys investigating this,
(02:41):
that the betting went up considerably on the balls. In
other words, they said the first pitch would be a ball. So,
in other words, if the betters knew it advanced the
first pitch was going to be a ball, they could
clean up. Man, this is I don't like this. The
(03:02):
betting is just so far out of hand. You know,
Pete Rose has to be rolling over in his grin.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Absolutely. And by the way, don't these guys make enough money?
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Yes, yeah, that's a good point. Yeah, but I'm gonna
have you know, you could be talking about millions bet
on each pitch. That's how many guys are involved. Oh,
the boy of the week has to go to the NFL,
they have defined this category called a hurry. A hurry
(03:35):
for the defensive player. If a defensive player disrupts a
quarterback's pass attempt, causing the quarterback to change his intended
action like throwing sooner than he had planned or scrambling,
then it's called a hurry. But the question is, unless
(03:56):
the official scorer knows the play, what does he know?
It just wasn't a bad pass or the receiver ran
the wrong route right.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
This is this is a cover for a draft pick
that hasn't panned out and gotten the sacks that he
was supposed to get I remember this happening with several
guys that came up that seemed like embarrassments that the
team said. Yeah, but did you notice how they hurried
the quarterback?
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Who cares?
Speaker 2 (04:27):
You know what I say, forget the hurry in a
hurry that was all right, here we go. It's time
now for the three stooges. All right. Stage number one
has to be the useless and outdated United Nations. Last week,
Iran told the UN Nuclear Watchdog Inspection Committee to get lost,
(04:51):
and they will shut out any international inspector from overseeing
their nuclear program. Did the UN do any thing, No, Instead,
they just give Iran more time to build up whatever
they want. The only thing the UN is good for
is taking up parking spaces on First Avenue. It deserves
(05:16):
a belt stuage number two base Oh, this is bad.
Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred, who obviously doesn't know history. He
compared the free agent players who can walk around and
sign anytime after the World Series to the infamous nineteen
(05:39):
forty two World War Two but ten death March. Now
fifteen thousand US and Philippine troops were forced to walk
around eighty miles without food or water and were bandeaded
to death if they were too weak. To compare any
(05:59):
form of baseball with the batan death march is inexcusable.
A commissioner, go read a history book, will you? Goodness gracious?
Speaker 1 (06:12):
It's ignorant.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Oh at steoge number three House minority leader Keem Jeffrey,
he broke the record for the longest and most boring
House speech ever delivered eight hours forty four minutes. Hey, Akiem,
either speed up your pains taking slow delivery which had
(06:37):
almost as many pauses as words, or how about play
some fast background music and keep the people awake. Nobody
wants to hear you drone on nobody. Yeah, Now this
(07:02):
day in sports. In fact, it was seventy seven years
ago today, July seventh, nineteen forty eight. The Cleveland Indians,
who would win the World Series that year, signed forty
two year old Leroy Satchel Page from the Negro Leagues.
He became the oldest rookie in Major League history and
the first African American ever to pitch in a World Series.
(07:26):
He went six and won that year. I once asked Page,
who pitched in over four hundred games in the Negro
leagues and Major leagues about starting pitches and pitchers of today.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
I didn't never heard of a relief pitch until nineteen
forty eight until I got with Cleveland. When I come along,
it wasn't no such a thing as a relief pitcher.
We had pitchers that could.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Go all away. Yeah, so you know, he once said,
he has had great sayings. He once said, age is
a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind,
it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
That's great water Wolf, the Great water Wolf, Thanks so much, Water.
Talk to you again next week.
And now it's time for the Ledgeria sportscaster Warner Wolf
than he's going to start with the with baseball, right water.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Yeah you got it, Larry. You know I'm thinking if
the Mets and oor Yankees lose the division by one game, man,
you can blame it on the two managers, Carlos Mendoza
and Aaron Boone. Last week, Mendoza took out Clay Holmes
with a two to one lead in the sixth inning,
allowing only three hits, and the fans, who could care
(00:30):
less about that pitch count booed Mendoza when he came
out to remove the pitcher and a Mets loss, and
Boone did the same thing, taking out Carlos Rodin with
a three to one lead to begin the sixth and
the Yanks lost five to four. When will the guys
realize it's not the pitch count, what's the score? And
(00:53):
how's he doing? Meanwhile, is Boone having amnesia? Two days
after the quick hook with Rodin, he watched his starting pitcher,
Will Warren give up no less than ten hits and
eight runs and four walks before taking him out. The
question is when did Boom finally realize that Warren didn't
(01:17):
have it. Oh, now here's an interesting thing I didn't
know about this. Do you know that the official betters
can bet on each pitch of every Major League game
whether the pitch will be a ball or a strike.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Never heard that, but yeah, I never heard that, But
it makes complete sense.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Yes, it's out of hand. So Cleveland right handed. Luis
Ortiz he's been placed on leave because he's being investigated
for two pitches. He threw one against Seattle and one
against the Cardinals. The two pitches in question came on
(02:00):
the first pitch of two separate innings. In other words,
the betters can say, well, I'll bet the first pitch
is a ball, or I'll bet the first pitch is
a strike. Well, you're taking a chance with a strike
because you don't know what you know, the umpire could say,
well the strike or ball, but a ball. So you
(02:20):
know what Artis did? Well, both pitches, he threw the
ball so far outside. One of them bounced in the
dirt and the other one hit the backstop. And the
investigators noticed that in both instances they have guys investigating this,
(02:41):
that the betting went up considerably on the balls. In
other words, they said the first pitch would be a ball. So,
in other words, if the betters knew it advanced the
first pitch was going to be a ball, they could
clean up. Man, this is I don't like this. The
(03:02):
betting is just so far out of hand. You know,
Pete Rose has to be rolling over in his grin.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Absolutely. And by the way, don't these guys make enough money?
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Yes, yeah, that's a good point. Yeah, but I'm gonna
have you know, you could be talking about millions bet
on each pitch. That's how many guys are involved. Oh,
the boy of the week has to go to the NFL,
they have defined this category called a hurry. A hurry
(03:35):
for the defensive player. If a defensive player disrupts a
quarterback's pass attempt, causing the quarterback to change his intended
action like throwing sooner than he had planned or scrambling,
then it's called a hurry. But the question is, unless
(03:56):
the official scorer knows the play, what does he know?
It just wasn't a bad pass or the receiver ran
the wrong route right.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
This is this is a cover for a draft pick
that hasn't panned out and gotten the sacks that he
was supposed to get I remember this happening with several
guys that came up that seemed like embarrassments that the
team said. Yeah, but did you notice how they hurried
the quarterback?
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Who cares?
Speaker 2 (04:27):
You know what I say, forget the hurry in a
hurry that was all right, here we go. It's time
now for the three stooges. All right. Stage number one
has to be the useless and outdated United Nations. Last week,
Iran told the UN Nuclear Watchdog Inspection Committee to get lost,
(04:51):
and they will shut out any international inspector from overseeing
their nuclear program. Did the UN do any thing, No, Instead,
they just give Iran more time to build up whatever
they want. The only thing the UN is good for
is taking up parking spaces on First Avenue. It deserves
(05:16):
a belt stuage number two base Oh, this is bad.
Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred, who obviously doesn't know history. He
compared the free agent players who can walk around and
sign anytime after the World Series to the infamous nineteen
(05:39):
forty two World War Two but ten death March. Now
fifteen thousand US and Philippine troops were forced to walk
around eighty miles without food or water and were bandeaded
to death if they were too weak. To compare any
(05:59):
form of baseball with the batan death march is inexcusable.
A commissioner, go read a history book, will you? Goodness gracious?
Speaker 1 (06:12):
It's ignorant.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Oh at steoge number three House minority leader Keem Jeffrey,
he broke the record for the longest and most boring
House speech ever delivered eight hours forty four minutes. Hey, Akiem,
either speed up your pains taking slow delivery which had
(06:37):
almost as many pauses as words, or how about play
some fast background music and keep the people awake. Nobody
wants to hear you drone on nobody. Yeah, Now this
(07:02):
day in sports. In fact, it was seventy seven years
ago today, July seventh, nineteen forty eight. The Cleveland Indians,
who would win the World Series that year, signed forty
two year old Leroy Satchel Page from the Negro Leagues.
He became the oldest rookie in Major League history and
the first African American ever to pitch in a World Series.
(07:26):
He went six and won that year. I once asked Page,
who pitched in over four hundred games in the Negro
leagues and Major leagues about starting pitches and pitchers of today.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
I didn't never heard of a relief pitch until nineteen
forty eight until I got with Cleveland. When I come along,
it wasn't no such a thing as a relief pitcher.
We had pitchers that could.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Go all away. Yeah, so you know, he once said,
he has had great sayings. He once said, age is
a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind,
it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
That's great water Wolf, the Great water Wolf, Thanks so much, Water.
Talk to you again next week.
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