Tuesday: Steph Castle, named NBA Rookie of the Year

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:08):
I was just looking at this box score because they
uh which box score, the one that Isaac just talked about. Oh,
the Yankees and the Orioles. Yeah, first four Yankee guys
hit home runs today.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
Good for them.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
I'm sure this will be the first time ever in baseball,
you know that this has ever happened.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
I'm trying to figure out who the the lame dot
pitcher is. It's about ready to go back to the minors.
Uh let's see here, see what they're he didn't say
it in the uh in the Uh, well, it was
a guy named Gibson. But I'm just looking at the
box score and it's certainly not Bob.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
Let's see, it's Kyle Gibson. Kyle Gibson.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
One innings pitch, seven hits, five runs, five earned runs,
no strikeouts, and four home runs and a forty five
e r A.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
This dude is tall Andy six six.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
Yeah, well he needs to be shorter because uh well
he is a little older. Grisham, Judge, Rice and Belle
and Gerl hit home runs.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
He's just he's just first. He just had an off day.

Speaker 3 (01:13):
So far, He's eight and eight this year with a
four to two four ERA, with one hundred and fifty
one strikeouts and a one point three five whip.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
I don't know what the hell any of that means.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
Walks and hits per innings, pitch uncle, whatever, there are
some price.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
I know that.

Speaker 3 (01:29):
No, I'm not, uh, I just I think it's hilarious
that there are so many unnecessary stats and categories.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
We gotta have something to talk about for three and
a half hours on a baseball broadcast. I mean other
than that, you just want to hear the announcer with
dead air.

Speaker 3 (01:47):
You know what, Just give me, Just give me John
John Sterling could probably come up with something I don't
need to hear about.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
You know, if you're an old time guy that's done
it for fifty years, you can tell stories. But if
you're a young guy that's never done it before, then
you need to give us a brefalos stats.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
Man whatever, whatever.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
Yeah, the whole whip and war and all this other
it's just how many wins, how many longs. Still to
this day, I still don't even understand e R. I
know it's earned run average.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
Right average per nine innings.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
So it's like and if you got committed error, that
doesn't count as an earned run that's an.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
Unearned run whatever.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
But an earned run is if you if you allow
a person on base and that person scores, that's an
earned run. And you want to have as little as
you can for nine innings, pitch. I know, like golf,
low score wins.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
Yeah, I know that, but it's just I don't get
this the mathematics that comes behind it, where it's like,
you know, Justin Erlander gives up one home run and
it's like, oh, well, it's e er just jumped from
one to like ninety.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
For that for that because it may well because if
he were to continue on this pace, he might give
up nine home runs in a game, which would be
a nine e r Are nine nine runs?

Speaker 2 (03:02):
Agree with me? Ty? Just be like it's it's it's ridiculous.
Just it's part.

Speaker 4 (03:07):
Of the ridiculous. But there's as it's baseball, Susan, it's baseball,
Susan exactly. Anyways, all right, let's get into basketball, and
this is not only basketball, but this is pretty much
all sports. The players who play the game are human,
and the referees that referee it, it's the last I saw,
at least for one more year, are human.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
Why can't we just have human error from time to time. Now,
I think that the replay rules are good to determine
whether a guy stepped out of bounds or not. I'm
okay with a replay determining whether.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
Whether we're advocating for for the forever which one like,
if it's out of bounds, if it well, yeah, is
it a foul? Or did I touch it because it
go out of bounds off of me because I was
foulid I'll get to that.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
I'll get to that in a second. I'm okay with
uh to check on injuries. Did somebody get hit in
the head? Is it? Is it a flagrant foul in basketball?
Or or is it up? I don't think it's even
a ten. It's like targeting in football. If you see targeting,
I want to make sure you verify it on replay
because it may not be because it happens so quickly.

(04:17):
I'm okay with that. Did the did the ball get
off in time before the shot clock or the game clock?
I think that's fine to do that. But it's like
the foul that didn't get called against the Knicks the
other day. The referee is up literally as close closer
than you and I are right now, we're about four
feet apart in the studio and he doesn't even think

(04:39):
it's a foul. And then, oh, we missed that one
we should have called a foul. Well, okay, that's just
that's just a mistake. I'm gonna let that go if
it's But if the at the in the last two
minutes of a game, who touched it last, we got
to go look at the replay. If I can't retroactively
call a foul and the guy that caused it to
go out of bounds, then a replay is worthless. I

(05:00):
think there's some things with replay, but we just constantly
deal with the replay stuff. And like I you know,
I thought that the scrum they had last night, and
I think, well, Draymond Green was involved in it.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
I don't remember who it was with New York, I
mean with with Houston.

Speaker 1 (05:17):
But as soon as they crashed on the floor and
they're going for the loose ball, they roll over one
another and Draymond's leg makes contact with the Houston player's head. Okay,
you have no control over where the rest of your
body goes when you're in a scrum. And I like
the fact that you got two players diving on the

(05:37):
floor for a loose ball. Can we see that in
December once in a while now probably not. They probably
running away from it. Nobody dives on the floor in December.
Now it matters in May or late April. But now
we have to go to the replay, and we're going
to give a flagrant foul on Draymond because the other
guy ran his head into Draymond's leg. At least that's
the way I saw it. I'm not a Draymond fan

(05:59):
per se. I just that was just an objective look.
I was like, Okay, that's just a couple of guys
going after going after the ball.

Speaker 2 (06:08):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (06:08):
And so anyway, I'm I think we do way too
much replay.

Speaker 2 (06:14):
It slows down the game.

Speaker 1 (06:16):
We're gonna most likely have robot umpires in baseball next
year with challenges. I just we we it's been a
game that's got humans playing it. Let's let humans officiate
it and if they and I think one of the
backfires that I see coming from from the from the

(06:36):
robot umpire. And I don't know that I know that
managers look good when they when they get ready for
a series, they look at the umpire crew and they
know who's behind home played on each day. Now, they're
gonna still stick with their rotation as much as they can.
But if you've got a sinker ball pitcher, he needs
the low strike in order to be to perform well.

(06:58):
A sinker ball pitcher that pitches an inch above the knee,
he's going to get hit because there's not enough velocity
on it. There may be a little bit more of velocity.

Speaker 2 (07:07):
Now.

Speaker 1 (07:07):
Aaron Judge was talking about this about a year or
so ago, about the difference between a foul ball and
a home run that's four hundred feet away and it's
basically less than an inch as to where the bat
and ball connect. And he had video and he had
all these analytics that said, you know, if look where
I hit this one foul ball to the right side,

(07:28):
and then lead literally showed a frame on the next
pitch that it goes end of the seats and it's
a quarter of an inch difference and the bats there
a third zero point zero zero three seconds faster than
it was on the previous pitch. That's how close these
are when it comes to hitting. And so if I

(07:51):
am a sinker ball pitcher and I have to pitch
letters below the letters to above the knees. I'm going
to get hit because I can't throw what undred miles
an hour sinkers coming in there at eighty six. I
need you to give me the one inch below the
k need strike. And there are umpires that do that,
and there's umpires that call write at the letters, and

(08:11):
there's some that call it right under. And people are saying, well,
then let's just make it universal. So everything a strike
is a strike and.

Speaker 2 (08:17):
A ball is a ball.

Speaker 1 (08:18):
Well, the umpires know how to adjust as the game
goes along, and they and if everything that is legitimately
a strike and it's a true strike, the pitchers are
never betters are never going to are going to hit it.
Joe Tory was infamlessly saying pitchers don't have to throw strikes.
They have to throw pitches that look like strikes so

(08:39):
that you get the swinging strike. And there's so many
games right now that don't have swinging strikes because the
athletes know that they're going to get the ball if
they're going to get a ball call if it's borderline,
and especially with the robot umpires, so I don't want
to take the human element out of all the things
that are happening, and that's that's where we're gonna where

(09:03):
we're going. And basketball last night there was four hundred
replays last night and that was the slow game. It
seemed like it could have lasted a lot longer had
there been more replace.

Speaker 3 (09:13):
Yeah, I know we've had this issue before, and obviously
anything is better than Angel Hernandez.

Speaker 1 (09:20):
Well, he just flat out didn't care. He was arrogant,
and he knew he made mistakes and he didn't.

Speaker 2 (09:24):
Care that too.

Speaker 3 (09:27):
And you know, when you have the Baseball Umpires Association
behind you, you.

Speaker 1 (09:31):
Know, uh, well, any union it's going to defend it's
it's it's workforce, even the bad ones. And that's one
of the reasons why we don't have as many unions
as we used to have, is we couldn't lead out
the bad employees because they were protected by the union.
But even the baseball umpires were starting to get a
bad name because of Angel Hernandez and the balls and

(09:51):
strikes and the in and the outs and the not
outs that he called. Were he he would he had
the most mistakes, the most egregious mistakes, and he was
never sorry when he had one. Uh, there's so many
different umpires that when they've made mistakes, they they own
up to them.

Speaker 2 (10:12):
Angel Ornandez never did.

Speaker 3 (10:13):
Yeah, I do think that they we could get to
a situation to where, yes, you do have a universal
strike zone, but it's also it's going to be adjusted for.
Obviously you have the gigantic Aaron Judge and then you
have the teeny tiny Jose Altuve. But also you've mentioned

(10:35):
as well the umpires. You know, unless you're specifically getting hey,
only umpires that are six' one through six, two you're
the only ones that are going to be.

Speaker 2 (10:46):
Behind they're not going to do. That.

Speaker 1 (10:47):
Everybody everybody wants to man to do one every four
games behind the. Plate that's why those crews stick. Together
by the, way we have some breaking. News yeah, Yeah
Steph castle is.

Speaker 2 (10:57):
The rookie of The. Year, yeah, shocking, right. Shocking so
congratulations to.

Speaker 1 (11:04):
You just got through the conversation with With kenny on
inside THE nba or tip off or whatever they're doing right.

Speaker 2 (11:11):
Now yeah, yeah so not.

Speaker 3 (11:12):
Surprising so to You Atlanta hawks fans that thought That.

Speaker 2 (11:17):
Zachary resche deserved to be A rookie of The.

Speaker 3 (11:21):
Year, yeah, Sorry, yeah go back To, france Step, castle more,
consistent more twenty point.

Speaker 2 (11:26):
Games, yeah and thanks for the.

Speaker 1 (11:28):
Pick again by the, Way, yes, absolutely all, right let's
talk about SOME nfl. Stuff we're going to talk About
shaq doing something and a couple other things in the
next few. Minutes that's coming up. Next it's The Andy
Everage show at six thirteen on the.

Speaker 2 (11:42):
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