July 14, 2025 • 9 mins
Warner Wolf talks to Mendte in the Morning about Wimbledon and robot umps being used in the MLB All-Star Game tomorrow.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And with that, let's get right.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
So Warner Wolf a lot happening this weekend, and Warner
is going to start with maybe the biggest event, the
biggest in the international event at least, well maybe not,
maybe the World Cup was, but Wimbledon's Wimbledon's close.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
You got it, Larry. As far as tennis goes, I think,
barring an injury, we're going to just see two guys
for the next ten years, twenty three year old Jannix
Center and twenty two year old Carlos Alcairez. They're going
to be in all or most of the majors. They're
just in the league by themselves, unless there's a twelve
(00:37):
year old prodigy right now waiting in the wings.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
But that type of rivalry is pretty good for the sport,
isn't it.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Yes, absolutely, you always need two guys, and you know
Ali and Fraser. Poor Djokovic, who will go down as
one of the greatest players of all time. He's probably
played his last grants, won his last Grand Slam. It's
like when you had Federer, Nadal and Djokovic without a
(01:08):
third player and say it isn't so go ahead, Larry
said it. No. At tomorrow Night's All Star Game. The
game will use fake umpires for balls and strikes. It's
called ABS Automatic Balls and strikes, each team receiving two challenges.
(01:33):
If the hitter challenges the call, he taps the top
of his helmet and a replay on the scoreboard will
show if he was right or wrong. Wow, no more
booing the umpire to Booty or the scoreboard and speaking
the All Star Game, how about that pumped up, overhyped
(01:54):
home run derby tonight? The hitters choose their own warm
up pitchers were not major leaguers who throw it right
down the middle with nothing on it every pitch. Make
it a real test. Get established pitchers who try and
strike the batter out, and let's see how many home
(02:15):
runs he hits.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Yeah, any fun Warner.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
No, I know, I'm just I'm a curmudget and the
uh oh the Huspa Huspa Award of the week. Mets
right fielder Won Soto. You know he signed a fifteen
year deal for seven hundred and sixty five million dollars.
(02:42):
First of all, he's hitting only two sixty two. He's
complaining about not being selected for Tonight's All the samaw
Nights All Star Game. The so called snub will cost
him an extra bonus of one hundred thousand. Here's a
guy signed for seven hundred and sixty five million tomorrow one.
(03:04):
That's chump change for you. Hey, wait a minute, Wait
a minute, Yeah, wait a minute, stop the music.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
You had to start the music to stop it.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
What's going on? We actually had four complete games last week,
four Giants Robbie Ray, Philly, Zach Wheeler, Red Sox Brian Bellow,
and believe it or not, just four days later, Red
Sox Garrett Crochet so Red Sox manager Alex Cora. He
(03:42):
let two of his pitchers go all the way in
the same week. That's twenty three total complete games this year,
Old time, Baseball, Old time?
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Does that mean it's coming back?
Speaker 3 (03:56):
I wonder maybe this will start a trend. You know,
we're twenty three complete games this year. Nineteen sixty eight,
Bob Gibson had twenty eight complete right, I.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Know, I understand, but yeah, you have to start somewhere, right,
So maybe this is the.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Week, you know, because of his record that year, He's
twenty two to nine with an earn run averager one
point twelve. That's when they changed the mound the height
of the mound. It used to be fifteen inches, so
they lowered it to ten inches, which is what it
is now. That was the Bob Gibson rule. Okay, time
(04:39):
now for the three stooges hit it all right. Stage
Number one New York Times contributor Matthew Walter, who described
President Trump by writing the pointless triumph of a hapless president.
Hapless president. Hey, Matthew, if President Trump is a hapless president,
(05:03):
what did that make Joe Biden? Come on, Matthew, get real?
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Can I make a guess? How about brainless president?
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Well? You said it?
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Yeah, yeah, I did.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Okay, here's number two. The dumbest three Jewish elected officials
in US history New York Senator Chuck Schumer, who never
met a microphone he didn't like, Vermont's Senator Bernie Sanders,
and New York Congressman Jerry Nadler, who have all gone
(05:37):
on record supporting anti Semite Holocaust denier Johan Mandanni. What
the hell is wrong with you dumbasses being Jewish? Supporting
an anti Semite, you know that's bad enough, but supporting
a Holocaust denier where many of your ancestors were murdered.
(06:01):
It's inexcusable. Go read a history book, you schmndricks and
stouge Number three, Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass, who insisted
last week that the riots in Los Angeles in which
demonstrators attacked immigration officers and police never happened. It never happened.
(06:31):
Give her a blood test for alcohol or drugs or
an eye exam. Hey, Karen, we all saw it on TV,
those all the three stooges. And finally, this day and
sports actually was yesterday, July thirteenth, nineteen fifty four. Washington
Senators American League pitcher Dean Stone won the All Star
(06:54):
Game without ever throwing a pitch.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
You're gonna go ahead. No, I was waiting for it.
But yes, hell, could that happen? Possibly?
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Funny? You should ask? Well. The score was nine to
eight National League top of the eighth, two outs and
Red Shandean's the Cardinals. He was thrown out trying to
steal home. Stone came into the game. He never threw
a pitch while Shanean's was thrown out. So since the
(07:27):
American League scored three runs in the bottom of the
eighth to win it eleven to nine, Stone, because he
was the pitcher of record, is the only man in
history to win an All Star Game without throwing a pitch.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
I love that story. I love stories like that. That's
what makes baseball great, isn't it. Yes, exactly, those type
of moments that you can remember for years. It's what
makes it special and different than all the sports.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
And it's one of the few sports where you can
go and actually see something you've never seen before. In
all the other sports, you've probably the good chance you've
seen what you're seeing, it's happened before. But in baseball,
there's always something that you've never seen.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Oh that's wonderful. That's exactly right. I love baseball because
it's much more than a game. It's a memory of
a father. It's a memory of taking your son, you
know what I mean. And the other sports don't have
that because you don't just sit there and enjoy it
for a couple of hours.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
You're absolutely right, father and son. My father took me
to the games. That's how it became interested in sports.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
And look at you now.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
I once saw Jim Lemon was an outfielder for the
old Washington Senators. One night he hit three home runs
off of Whitey Ford and the same guy caught two
of the balls of the three home runs, you're not
going to.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
So it was it was a fan. You're talking about
a fan that was sitting out there, and then yeah,
that's amazing, that's amazing. Yeah, just in case anybody thought
that it was caught there and they're sitting there going, well,
how was that home run if somebody caught the ball,
and so just yeah, I wanted to clear it up.
Water Wolf, thank you very much. A y'all done than
(09:23):
water Wolf legendary sportscast
And with that, let's get right.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
So Warner Wolf a lot happening this weekend, and Warner
is going to start with maybe the biggest event, the
biggest in the international event at least, well maybe not,
maybe the World Cup was, but Wimbledon's Wimbledon's close.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
You got it, Larry. As far as tennis goes, I think,
barring an injury, we're going to just see two guys
for the next ten years, twenty three year old Jannix
Center and twenty two year old Carlos Alcairez. They're going
to be in all or most of the majors. They're
just in the league by themselves, unless there's a twelve
(00:37):
year old prodigy right now waiting in the wings.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
But that type of rivalry is pretty good for the sport,
isn't it.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Yes, absolutely, you always need two guys, and you know
Ali and Fraser. Poor Djokovic, who will go down as
one of the greatest players of all time. He's probably
played his last grants, won his last Grand Slam. It's
like when you had Federer, Nadal and Djokovic without a
(01:08):
third player and say it isn't so go ahead, Larry
said it. No. At tomorrow Night's All Star Game. The
game will use fake umpires for balls and strikes. It's
called ABS Automatic Balls and strikes, each team receiving two challenges.
(01:33):
If the hitter challenges the call, he taps the top
of his helmet and a replay on the scoreboard will
show if he was right or wrong. Wow, no more
booing the umpire to Booty or the scoreboard and speaking
the All Star Game, how about that pumped up, overhyped
(01:54):
home run derby tonight? The hitters choose their own warm
up pitchers were not major leaguers who throw it right
down the middle with nothing on it every pitch. Make
it a real test. Get established pitchers who try and
strike the batter out, and let's see how many home
(02:15):
runs he hits.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Yeah, any fun Warner.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
No, I know, I'm just I'm a curmudget and the
uh oh the Huspa Huspa Award of the week. Mets
right fielder Won Soto. You know he signed a fifteen
year deal for seven hundred and sixty five million dollars.
(02:42):
First of all, he's hitting only two sixty two. He's
complaining about not being selected for Tonight's All the samaw
Nights All Star Game. The so called snub will cost
him an extra bonus of one hundred thousand. Here's a
guy signed for seven hundred and sixty five million tomorrow one.
(03:04):
That's chump change for you. Hey, wait a minute, Wait
a minute, Yeah, wait a minute, stop the music.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
You had to start the music to stop it.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
What's going on? We actually had four complete games last week,
four Giants Robbie Ray, Philly, Zach Wheeler, Red Sox Brian Bellow,
and believe it or not, just four days later, Red
Sox Garrett Crochet so Red Sox manager Alex Cora. He
(03:42):
let two of his pitchers go all the way in
the same week. That's twenty three total complete games this year,
Old time, Baseball, Old time?
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Does that mean it's coming back?
Speaker 3 (03:56):
I wonder maybe this will start a trend. You know,
we're twenty three complete games this year. Nineteen sixty eight,
Bob Gibson had twenty eight complete right, I.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Know, I understand, but yeah, you have to start somewhere, right,
So maybe this is the.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Week, you know, because of his record that year, He's
twenty two to nine with an earn run averager one
point twelve. That's when they changed the mound the height
of the mound. It used to be fifteen inches, so
they lowered it to ten inches, which is what it
is now. That was the Bob Gibson rule. Okay, time
(04:39):
now for the three stooges hit it all right. Stage
Number one New York Times contributor Matthew Walter, who described
President Trump by writing the pointless triumph of a hapless president.
Hapless president. Hey, Matthew, if President Trump is a hapless president,
(05:03):
what did that make Joe Biden? Come on, Matthew, get real?
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Can I make a guess? How about brainless president?
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Well? You said it?
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Yeah, yeah, I did.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Okay, here's number two. The dumbest three Jewish elected officials
in US history New York Senator Chuck Schumer, who never
met a microphone he didn't like, Vermont's Senator Bernie Sanders,
and New York Congressman Jerry Nadler, who have all gone
(05:37):
on record supporting anti Semite Holocaust denier Johan Mandanni. What
the hell is wrong with you dumbasses being Jewish? Supporting
an anti Semite, you know that's bad enough, but supporting
a Holocaust denier where many of your ancestors were murdered.
(06:01):
It's inexcusable. Go read a history book, you schmndricks and
stouge Number three, Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass, who insisted
last week that the riots in Los Angeles in which
demonstrators attacked immigration officers and police never happened. It never happened.
(06:31):
Give her a blood test for alcohol or drugs or
an eye exam. Hey, Karen, we all saw it on TV,
those all the three stooges. And finally, this day and
sports actually was yesterday, July thirteenth, nineteen fifty four. Washington
Senators American League pitcher Dean Stone won the All Star
(06:54):
Game without ever throwing a pitch.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
You're gonna go ahead. No, I was waiting for it.
But yes, hell, could that happen? Possibly?
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Funny? You should ask? Well. The score was nine to
eight National League top of the eighth, two outs and
Red Shandean's the Cardinals. He was thrown out trying to
steal home. Stone came into the game. He never threw
a pitch while Shanean's was thrown out. So since the
(07:27):
American League scored three runs in the bottom of the
eighth to win it eleven to nine, Stone, because he
was the pitcher of record, is the only man in
history to win an All Star Game without throwing a pitch.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
I love that story. I love stories like that. That's
what makes baseball great, isn't it. Yes, exactly, those type
of moments that you can remember for years. It's what
makes it special and different than all the sports.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
And it's one of the few sports where you can
go and actually see something you've never seen before. In
all the other sports, you've probably the good chance you've
seen what you're seeing, it's happened before. But in baseball,
there's always something that you've never seen.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Oh that's wonderful. That's exactly right. I love baseball because
it's much more than a game. It's a memory of
a father. It's a memory of taking your son, you
know what I mean. And the other sports don't have
that because you don't just sit there and enjoy it
for a couple of hours.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
You're absolutely right, father and son. My father took me
to the games. That's how it became interested in sports.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
And look at you now.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
I once saw Jim Lemon was an outfielder for the
old Washington Senators. One night he hit three home runs
off of Whitey Ford and the same guy caught two
of the balls of the three home runs, you're not
going to.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
So it was it was a fan. You're talking about
a fan that was sitting out there, and then yeah,
that's amazing, that's amazing. Yeah, just in case anybody thought
that it was caught there and they're sitting there going, well,
how was that home run if somebody caught the ball,
and so just yeah, I wanted to clear it up.
Water Wolf, thank you very much. A y'all done than
(09:23):
water Wolf legendary sportscast
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