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Speaker 1 (00:01):
All right, five thirty six on the ticket. You ready
for that's baseball.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
I was about to say, this is Anthony Volpi's theme
music right.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Now, don't stop believing, man, I'll stop. Okay, here's a
that's baseball. In twenty twenty four, Anthony Volpi was promoted
from the miners to be the starting everyday shortstop for
the Yankees, and he was a Gold Glove finalist. He
lost to Bobby Witt. I guess statistically, Bobby Witt was
just a little bit better. He was a vacuum at shortstop,
(00:31):
great shortstop, had a decent rookie year, hit a little
bit for power, a little bit for average that you know,
it's not Derrek Jeter, but no one ever will be so.
And everybody in New York loves him. So this year
he's committed fifteen errors so far in the season, which
is a lot if he didn't know. And he's nowhere
near a gold Glove shortstop. And he struggled at the
(00:54):
plate a lot. He was like one for thirty four
at one stretch during the season. And to show you
that that's baseball, he gets the Yankees on the board
with the second ending sold the home run so that's baseball.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
That's baseball, Susan.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Yeah, I just thought it was hilarious because I was
sitting here asking you who it was, and I was like, oh,
so that's the guy that you know, one of your
many guys that's always hurt.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
And you were like, no, no, no, you just can't hit
her field. You just can't hit her field.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
And it's like, of course, because this is the stupid
analytics part, you know, because again the Yankees part of
this where early in the or midway through the season,
you're telling me about the number nine here to who
was like couldn't hit, but then all of a sudden
was four for four that day and they decided to
pull him out of the game.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
That was the Rangers game.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
That was the Rangers game was Telez, who I guess
was hurt or something, but he got a single, a double,
a single, and two runs scored and he was batting ninth.
Uh And it wasn't It wasn't it was Tellez who
they pinch hit. I didn't pinch hit the guy. Guy
hadn't played much. I think he only had like sixty
at bats for the year when I don't remember all
the numbers but you know they took him out of
(02:02):
the game because they were down by one, and the
analytics said, well, he's three for three, he's not going
to go four for four. Better get the home run
hitter who's cold to go out there and wave it
three fastballs in the dirt and call it a day.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
And that's exactly what happened.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Speaking of that, by the way, the Rangers today and
Bruce Boshe decided he would not return to the dugout.
He's been offered a front office position if he wants it.
I have no idea what that means. I guess you
sit in the front office and play a solitaire on
your phone and get paid for it. I have no idea.
But somebody else will manage the Rangers next year. Somebody
(02:35):
else will manage the Twins next year, and somebody also
will manage the California Anaheim Los Angeles Orange Orange County Angels.
And it doesn't matter because Arty Morino is their owner,
and they'll still suck next year.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
I really feel bad for Mike Trout.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
I feel so bad for Mike Trout, but I appreciate
and I applaud his commitment and loyalty.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Well, Artie Marino put the team up for sale a
couple of years ago, and there was this giant applause
throughout all of southern California that are not Dodger or
Padre fans. Thank god, we got rid of this guy.
Maybe the new owner will come in and make us
competitive again. And then at the eleventh hour, after they
find something, somebody that wanted to buy the team, and
(03:21):
pretty much all the ice were dotted and the tees
were acrossed. About ten days before the sale was to
go through, Artie Marino comes down, goes, now I'm gonna.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Keep the team.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Wow, what a tease. What a tease. I could think
of a few other words that.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Most angel fans can't would would have come up with first. Yeah,
but those are they're not you know, they're not They're
not appropriate for what we're doing here today.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Yeah, I mean, not to rumors wise or whatever, but
if you wanted to just I get that Artie Marino
wants to have some type of draw.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
You have to have a star in the LA market.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
I don't think he cares. I just think he wants people.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
I think he wants two and a half million people
to show up every year, pay his exorbitant prices for
him to be sixty five and whatever, and oh, we'll
do it again next year, and I can take October
off because I don't have to worry about.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Ever being in the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Yeah, I mean, I don't understand why you want to
be an owner of a team when you refuse to
do anything to try to compete. And listen, I'm not
a billionaire, and probably unless I win the lottery and
then turn all that into you know, cryptocurrency or something,
will I ever be one imaginary money? Imaginary money? Well,
it still spends, I guess in some places. But yeah,
(04:31):
but I can't imagine why you would just want to
own a team for the sake of owning a team.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Because you get to own a team on your business card,
you get to flex.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
So what if I'm not whatever business Hardy Marino or
any other owner was in. They were very competitive at
what they did for a long time, and to have
that competition, you transfer that competition over to whatever you're
doing next. And I just don't you know, you can
go to the country club, guess he hangs out at
(05:02):
bel Air or Riviera or wherever he hangs out and
tells people how great he is that he owns the team,
But well, yeah, that's a little way.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
You have to take the helicopter that far.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
But it's why are you owning a team when you
refuse to spend money to make them competitive, and you've
refuse to develop a minor league system that you can
develop players, and you leave a guy like Mike Track
hanging out for years with no protection in the lineup
and he still hits four hundred career home runs for you.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
That's my I don't understand why you.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Got in the business of owning a team if you
weren't really interested in winning once you got there. And
the teams that are put winning as a priority, to me,
those are There's so many teams that every year.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
I mean, we're still.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Seven months away from the start of next baseball season,
and we already know which teams are going to be
bad simply because they have no form system, they have
no plan, and they have a bad ownership that doesn't
about winning. And we already know which NBA teams are
going to be bad. The Purgatories are already going to
be bad and the season has even started yet, Wow,
we know they're not going to make the playoffs unless
(06:10):
everybody else gets hurt.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Sure, I mean you never know, you never know.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
If they win thirty five games, they should give but
a statue of somebody out in front of whatever building
they play in. Now in Washington, Okay, they're terrible. Their
organizations terrible, and it's been terrible for a long time.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
I don't even know what you could what you could
potentially get for Mike Trout.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
I mean, clearly, I don't think Mike Trout wants to leave.
I think his family's there. He probably lives in a
mansion someplace nearby. His kids are in school, or if
they're not. If they're not in school, they're about to
be out of school. And it's southern cal and the
beaches right down the street. And I make fifty million
a year. Life is great. I don't care if I
go anywhere or not, and especially if I have to
(06:55):
move my family. If you want to trade me to
the Dodgers or Padres, we'll talk. But van Orange County
to San Diego is quite a haul.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Yeah, speaking of speaking of, you know teams that are
probably gonna suck next year. I saw that we got
confirmation next year, Andy because the Oakland Oakland A's that
will soon turn into the Las Vegas A's next year.
Did you see what they're going to be wearing across
their chest.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
I did not.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
It is going to say Sacramento. It's so weird.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
So they're going to be the Sacramento it's because this
year they were just the A's correct, did not claim
Oakland or Vegas.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Correct.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
They are going from what the article that I read,
they are going to be the Sacramento A's next year,
and then I'm guessing what is it The year after.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Is when I think they should just make the A's
play one hundred and sixty two road games.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
I'm sure there's something along the lines of some type
of collective, collective bargaining agreement that they can't do.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
You're just going to be on the road the whole year.
You're never going home.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
I mean, it's not as if James Dolan is going
to miss any of that money.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Well, it's and somebody a Dolan owns the Knicks, thought
whoever owns the A's. I can't fault the A's owner
completely because because they have won in Oakland before, when
Charlie Finley owned the team in the seventies and eighties.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
They were competitive.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
I mean, that's where Ricky Henderson started his career, and
Ricky you know, you know, it was named Ricky Henderson
Field after he retired. That's how valuable he was to
the organization. But that to me, the city of are
the Oakland Raiders, Oakland A's and Golden State Warriors. Demise
is on the leadership of the City of Oakland, who
(08:39):
basically said, we're gonna let crime run rampant. We're gonna
not fix up our community, and we're not gonna make
it safe for people to go to the games. I know,
by the way, if you still want to play here, fine,
but we're not gonna do anything about it. And they did.
They did nothing to make the city compatible for teams
to be successful and to make money. Nobody wanted to
go to the games. Even when the Warriors were winning CHAMPIONSHI,
(09:00):
they didn't really want to go there. And certainly the
Raiders were average and the A's were averaged over the
last decade and they didn't want to go there either.
So that's on the City of Oakland, not necessarily on
the ownership group.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
With the A's.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
We'll see how how efficient they are when they're in Vegas,
because I would imagine they'll have more money to spend.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
They should change the name of the A's and just
call them the Fighting Rickey's, the Fighting Henderson's.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
I would love they should totally do that.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Just call you the just call it the Henderson's, call them,
call them the Hendersons. All right, let's talk about leadership
again at the league level. And if he should call
you you're not very happy with Kathy Engelbert, we'll tell you
what she had to say next.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
It's five forty six on the ticket.
All right, five thirty six on the ticket. You ready
for that's baseball.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
I was about to say, this is Anthony Volpi's theme
music right.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Now, don't stop believing, man, I'll stop. Okay, here's a
that's baseball. In twenty twenty four, Anthony Volpi was promoted
from the miners to be the starting everyday shortstop for
the Yankees, and he was a Gold Glove finalist. He
lost to Bobby Witt. I guess statistically, Bobby Witt was
just a little bit better. He was a vacuum at shortstop,
(00:31):
great shortstop, had a decent rookie year, hit a little
bit for power, a little bit for average that you know,
it's not Derrek Jeter, but no one ever will be so.
And everybody in New York loves him. So this year
he's committed fifteen errors so far in the season, which
is a lot if he didn't know. And he's nowhere
near a gold Glove shortstop. And he struggled at the
(00:54):
plate a lot. He was like one for thirty four
at one stretch during the season. And to show you
that that's baseball, he gets the Yankees on the board
with the second ending sold the home run so that's baseball.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
That's baseball, Susan.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Yeah, I just thought it was hilarious because I was
sitting here asking you who it was, and I was like, oh,
so that's the guy that you know, one of your
many guys that's always hurt.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
And you were like, no, no, no, you just can't hit
her field. You just can't hit her field.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
And it's like, of course, because this is the stupid
analytics part, you know, because again the Yankees part of
this where early in the or midway through the season,
you're telling me about the number nine here to who
was like couldn't hit, but then all of a sudden
was four for four that day and they decided to
pull him out of the game.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
That was the Rangers game.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
That was the Rangers game was Telez, who I guess
was hurt or something, but he got a single, a double,
a single, and two runs scored and he was batting ninth.
Uh And it wasn't It wasn't it was Tellez who
they pinch hit. I didn't pinch hit the guy. Guy
hadn't played much. I think he only had like sixty
at bats for the year when I don't remember all
the numbers but you know they took him out of
(02:02):
the game because they were down by one, and the
analytics said, well, he's three for three, he's not going
to go four for four. Better get the home run
hitter who's cold to go out there and wave it
three fastballs in the dirt and call it a day.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
And that's exactly what happened.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Speaking of that, by the way, the Rangers today and
Bruce Boshe decided he would not return to the dugout.
He's been offered a front office position if he wants it.
I have no idea what that means. I guess you
sit in the front office and play a solitaire on
your phone and get paid for it. I have no idea.
But somebody else will manage the Rangers next year. Somebody
(02:35):
else will manage the Twins next year, and somebody also
will manage the California Anaheim Los Angeles Orange Orange County Angels.
And it doesn't matter because Arty Morino is their owner,
and they'll still suck next year.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
I really feel bad for Mike Trout.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
I feel so bad for Mike Trout, but I appreciate
and I applaud his commitment and loyalty.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Well, Artie Marino put the team up for sale a
couple of years ago, and there was this giant applause
throughout all of southern California that are not Dodger or
Padre fans. Thank god, we got rid of this guy.
Maybe the new owner will come in and make us
competitive again. And then at the eleventh hour, after they
find something, somebody that wanted to buy the team, and
(03:21):
pretty much all the ice were dotted and the tees
were acrossed. About ten days before the sale was to
go through, Artie Marino comes down, goes, now I'm gonna.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Keep the team.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Wow, what a tease. What a tease. I could think
of a few other words that.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Most angel fans can't would would have come up with first. Yeah,
but those are they're not you know, they're not They're
not appropriate for what we're doing here today.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Yeah, I mean, not to rumors wise or whatever, but
if you wanted to just I get that Artie Marino
wants to have some type of draw.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
You have to have a star in the LA market.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
I don't think he cares. I just think he wants people.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
I think he wants two and a half million people
to show up every year, pay his exorbitant prices for
him to be sixty five and whatever, and oh, we'll
do it again next year, and I can take October
off because I don't have to worry about.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Ever being in the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Yeah, I mean, I don't understand why you want to
be an owner of a team when you refuse to
do anything to try to compete. And listen, I'm not
a billionaire, and probably unless I win the lottery and
then turn all that into you know, cryptocurrency or something,
will I ever be one imaginary money? Imaginary money? Well,
it still spends, I guess in some places. But yeah,
(04:31):
but I can't imagine why you would just want to
own a team for the sake of owning a team.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Because you get to own a team on your business card,
you get to flex.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
So what if I'm not whatever business Hardy Marino or
any other owner was in. They were very competitive at
what they did for a long time, and to have
that competition, you transfer that competition over to whatever you're
doing next. And I just don't you know, you can
go to the country club, guess he hangs out at
(05:02):
bel Air or Riviera or wherever he hangs out and
tells people how great he is that he owns the team,
But well, yeah, that's a little way.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
You have to take the helicopter that far.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
But it's why are you owning a team when you
refuse to spend money to make them competitive, and you've
refuse to develop a minor league system that you can
develop players, and you leave a guy like Mike Track
hanging out for years with no protection in the lineup
and he still hits four hundred career home runs for you.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
That's my I don't understand why you.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Got in the business of owning a team if you
weren't really interested in winning once you got there. And
the teams that are put winning as a priority, to me,
those are There's so many teams that every year.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
I mean, we're still.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Seven months away from the start of next baseball season,
and we already know which teams are going to be
bad simply because they have no form system, they have
no plan, and they have a bad ownership that doesn't
about winning. And we already know which NBA teams are
going to be bad. The Purgatories are already going to
be bad and the season has even started yet, Wow,
we know they're not going to make the playoffs unless
(06:10):
everybody else gets hurt.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Sure, I mean you never know, you never know.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
If they win thirty five games, they should give but
a statue of somebody out in front of whatever building
they play in. Now in Washington, Okay, they're terrible. Their
organizations terrible, and it's been terrible for a long time.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
I don't even know what you could what you could
potentially get for Mike Trout.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
I mean, clearly, I don't think Mike Trout wants to leave.
I think his family's there. He probably lives in a
mansion someplace nearby. His kids are in school, or if
they're not. If they're not in school, they're about to
be out of school. And it's southern cal and the
beaches right down the street. And I make fifty million
a year. Life is great. I don't care if I
go anywhere or not, and especially if I have to
(06:55):
move my family. If you want to trade me to
the Dodgers or Padres, we'll talk. But van Orange County
to San Diego is quite a haul.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Yeah, speaking of speaking of, you know teams that are
probably gonna suck next year. I saw that we got
confirmation next year, Andy because the Oakland Oakland A's that
will soon turn into the Las Vegas A's next year.
Did you see what they're going to be wearing across
their chest.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
I did not.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
It is going to say Sacramento. It's so weird.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
So they're going to be the Sacramento it's because this
year they were just the A's correct, did not claim
Oakland or Vegas.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Correct.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
They are going from what the article that I read,
they are going to be the Sacramento A's next year,
and then I'm guessing what is it The year after.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Is when I think they should just make the A's
play one hundred and sixty two road games.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
I'm sure there's something along the lines of some type
of collective, collective bargaining agreement that they can't do.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
You're just going to be on the road the whole year.
You're never going home.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
I mean, it's not as if James Dolan is going
to miss any of that money.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Well, it's and somebody a Dolan owns the Knicks, thought
whoever owns the A's. I can't fault the A's owner
completely because because they have won in Oakland before, when
Charlie Finley owned the team in the seventies and eighties.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
They were competitive.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
I mean, that's where Ricky Henderson started his career, and
Ricky you know, you know, it was named Ricky Henderson
Field after he retired. That's how valuable he was to
the organization. But that to me, the city of are
the Oakland Raiders, Oakland A's and Golden State Warriors. Demise
is on the leadership of the City of Oakland, who
(08:39):
basically said, we're gonna let crime run rampant. We're gonna
not fix up our community, and we're not gonna make
it safe for people to go to the games. I know,
by the way, if you still want to play here, fine,
but we're not gonna do anything about it. And they did.
They did nothing to make the city compatible for teams
to be successful and to make money. Nobody wanted to
go to the games. Even when the Warriors were winning CHAMPIONSHI,
(09:00):
they didn't really want to go there. And certainly the
Raiders were average and the A's were averaged over the
last decade and they didn't want to go there either.
So that's on the City of Oakland, not necessarily on
the ownership group.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
With the A's.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
We'll see how how efficient they are when they're in Vegas,
because I would imagine they'll have more money to spend.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
They should change the name of the A's and just
call them the Fighting Rickey's, the Fighting Henderson's.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
I would love they should totally do that.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Just call you the just call it the Henderson's, call them,
call them the Hendersons. All right, let's talk about leadership
again at the league level. And if he should call
you you're not very happy with Kathy Engelbert, we'll tell you
what she had to say next.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
It's five forty six on the ticket.
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