May 9, 2025 • 5 mins
- KT breaks the news about the Texas Rangers signing Kim Sung Joon, an 18-year-old Korean two-way player. The hosts debate whether it's fair to label him the "next Ohtani" and discuss the pressures young athletes face. Also, the team delves into the challenges of living up to legendary parents, highlighting Tiger Woods' son, Charlie, and his recent struggles in golf. This segment is filled with empathy and humor as they reflect on the realities of high expectations.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now let's cool around the sports.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
KT tweets has all the sports.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
The Rangers signed what is being called perhaps the top
high school talent in Korea. His name Kim Sung June.
Kim Sung is eighteen, and he plays both offense and defense.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
He got both.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Most baseball players.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Do that, that's true.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
He's a pitcher an hitters. What I meant to say,
yeah yeah uh.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Anyway, they signed him for a little more than one
million dollars in signing bonus money. So there's a big
article out and it's like Texas Rangers to sign the
top Korean two way teenage star.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
People start taking on it's o Tani.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
They got to sign the next so Tani and I
can't help but think it's not very fair to this
little guy who's eighteen and kind of small.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
He looks small to me.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Not small skin. He looks like he might fight John mulaney.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
But you're right, that is that that's like saying the
next Babe Ruth or the next Michael Jordan or the
next Tiger Woods, Like that's a huge thing to throw
on somebody. I guess they're just saying it because he's
he wants to be a two way player. He wants
to pitch and he wants to be a hitter.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
I guess yes, he plays shortstop and wants to pitch,
and that's that's what he wants. So whatever he got
signed by the Rangers. Rangers had some money and threw
it at him. But it made me think of another guy.
This is the top headline on ESPN when I opened
up this story today, it's the number two headline on
ESPN right now. Charlie Woods, son of Tiger, fails to
(01:41):
qualify for the US Open because he's not even very
good on his own high school team. How old is he?
Speaker 1 (01:48):
He's in high school, so.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Sixteen, seventeen?
Speaker 1 (01:51):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
He's sixteen, okay. Is he supposed to be able to
make a major at sixteen?
Speaker 1 (01:57):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
That's what's so strange. You have he's like US Open
qualifying tournaments. He shot a seventy five in it, So
I'd be ecstatic with that.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Oh, I know, right, we would all take it on
an incredibly difficult course.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
So it's not that he sucks. He's sixteen, and there
are people because they're like, dude, he can. He's good player.
He's not the best golfer on his own high school team.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
It is just so hard when your dad was the
best ever. I mean, I really think it's pretty amazing
that Bronnie James has gone as far as you guys
ever seen Michael Jordan's something.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Who No, I've just seen him hook up with Scottie Pippens.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
I mean, it's just he was just a normal guy,
because the reality is you're probably going to be a
normal guy. It's the numbers are just.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
It is weird.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Michael Jordan said was in the news way more than
Michael Jordan was for a while though, Yeah, just because
he was tapping into Larsa.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
By the way, Pippen's son is good. Scotty Pippen Jr. Yes,
he put with the Grizzly.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
He plays for the grizz and by the end of
the year he was starting. Oh really, his his dad was,
you know, six'. Eight he's like six' three or something.
Like that, BUT yeah i mean he was not a highly.
Touted prospect to get working and working and working and
getting better, and dude he's, a good GOOD young, nba.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Player, All RIGHT so i get overly excited. About prospects
i've done it for Years and i'm trying not to,
do THAT but i it's this pushes a lot of buttons.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
For me, i'm like oh, my god they got The.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Next dotani so that headline, gets me which is unfair to,
the Kid but, i'm, like oh he's a two.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Way player he's gonna pitch. And hit.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
That's incredible he's the number. One player, i'm, like wait how?
Come up just now hearing? About this was there a?
Big sweepstakes? Was everybody Because that sasaki the guy That the.
Dodgers got there was a ton of talk leading up.
To that he hasn't been, very good by, the way
he hasn't. So far but, you know, it's.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Like oh, my god Could the rangers?
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Get him could they save all their international money and
GO after i didn't hear anything about, this guy and
so is it a? Big DEAL because i would assume
that anybody, who's Good the dodgers can just have him anytime. They, will.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
YEAH right i always just seeing these stories like come out.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
OF nowhere i always get a, Little, like okay how
come we hadn't heard anything about THIS until i.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Got him that makes me think he's probably not. Very
good it doesn't probably hard to know because, he's eighteen if.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
You are a, huge prospect first, of all the way
it is now, with scouting there's not some under the
radar guy that nobody knows about except for one guy
that only happens in. The movies and if you're an
eighteen year old and they're able to sign you for one,
million dollars that means that you're probably a, decent prospect
but not necessarily a sure thing. For anything they're jumping
(04:28):
on a headline because He's a pacific islander guy that pitches,
and hits and so they're immediately, you know but a
million dollars for an eighteen year, old prospect that's great
money for the eighteen. Year old that is not some
big time money for.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Some guy hopefully he, can hit and he can hit
quick because there iners need some offense. Really Fast Otherwise
brett boone's.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Gotta, go yeah, you know he's only he's very selective
on which games.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
He.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Coaches everyone he'll coach a couple, of games they'll, hit
well then he'll take a, game off and suddenly they
get shut out.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Against, respect, IT guys i got. A podcast i.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Gotta, go yeah, all right there you. Have it there's around.
The Sports the rangers get the. Next Show heo tani can't.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Do that that's what the.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Headline is, hey dude coming up, next here we have
more important things to, think about Like the metroplex. Is Sinking,
what Yes the metroplex. Is sinking we'll discuss next
Now let's cool around the sports.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
KT tweets has all the sports.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
The Rangers signed what is being called perhaps the top
high school talent in Korea. His name Kim Sung June.
Kim Sung is eighteen, and he plays both offense and defense.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
He got both.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Most baseball players.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Do that, that's true.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
He's a pitcher an hitters. What I meant to say,
yeah yeah uh.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Anyway, they signed him for a little more than one
million dollars in signing bonus money. So there's a big
article out and it's like Texas Rangers to sign the
top Korean two way teenage star.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
People start taking on it's o Tani.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
They got to sign the next so Tani and I
can't help but think it's not very fair to this
little guy who's eighteen and kind of small.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
He looks small to me.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Not small skin. He looks like he might fight John mulaney.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
But you're right, that is that that's like saying the
next Babe Ruth or the next Michael Jordan or the
next Tiger Woods, Like that's a huge thing to throw
on somebody. I guess they're just saying it because he's
he wants to be a two way player. He wants
to pitch and he wants to be a hitter.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
I guess yes, he plays shortstop and wants to pitch,
and that's that's what he wants. So whatever he got
signed by the Rangers. Rangers had some money and threw
it at him. But it made me think of another guy.
This is the top headline on ESPN when I opened
up this story today, it's the number two headline on
ESPN right now. Charlie Woods, son of Tiger, fails to
(01:41):
qualify for the US Open because he's not even very
good on his own high school team. How old is he?
Speaker 1 (01:48):
He's in high school, so.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Sixteen, seventeen?
Speaker 1 (01:51):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
He's sixteen, okay. Is he supposed to be able to
make a major at sixteen?
Speaker 1 (01:57):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
That's what's so strange. You have he's like US Open
qualifying tournaments. He shot a seventy five in it, So
I'd be ecstatic with that.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Oh, I know, right, we would all take it on
an incredibly difficult course.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
So it's not that he sucks. He's sixteen, and there
are people because they're like, dude, he can. He's good player.
He's not the best golfer on his own high school team.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
It is just so hard when your dad was the
best ever. I mean, I really think it's pretty amazing
that Bronnie James has gone as far as you guys
ever seen Michael Jordan's something.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Who No, I've just seen him hook up with Scottie Pippens.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
I mean, it's just he was just a normal guy,
because the reality is you're probably going to be a
normal guy. It's the numbers are just.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
It is weird.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Michael Jordan said was in the news way more than
Michael Jordan was for a while though, Yeah, just because
he was tapping into Larsa.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
By the way, Pippen's son is good. Scotty Pippen Jr. Yes,
he put with the Grizzly.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
He plays for the grizz and by the end of
the year he was starting. Oh really, his his dad was,
you know, six'. Eight he's like six' three or something.
Like that, BUT yeah i mean he was not a highly.
Touted prospect to get working and working and working and
getting better, and dude he's, a good GOOD young, nba.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Player, All RIGHT so i get overly excited. About prospects
i've done it for Years and i'm trying not to,
do THAT but i it's this pushes a lot of buttons.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
For me, i'm like oh, my god they got The.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Next dotani so that headline, gets me which is unfair to,
the Kid but, i'm, like oh he's a two.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Way player he's gonna pitch. And hit.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
That's incredible he's the number. One player, i'm, like wait how?
Come up just now hearing? About this was there a?
Big sweepstakes? Was everybody Because that sasaki the guy That the.
Dodgers got there was a ton of talk leading up.
To that he hasn't been, very good by, the way
he hasn't. So far but, you know, it's.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Like oh, my god Could the rangers?
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Get him could they save all their international money and
GO after i didn't hear anything about, this guy and
so is it a? Big DEAL because i would assume
that anybody, who's Good the dodgers can just have him anytime. They, will.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
YEAH right i always just seeing these stories like come out.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
OF nowhere i always get a, Little, like okay how
come we hadn't heard anything about THIS until i.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Got him that makes me think he's probably not. Very
good it doesn't probably hard to know because, he's eighteen if.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
You are a, huge prospect first, of all the way
it is now, with scouting there's not some under the
radar guy that nobody knows about except for one guy
that only happens in. The movies and if you're an
eighteen year old and they're able to sign you for one,
million dollars that means that you're probably a, decent prospect
but not necessarily a sure thing. For anything they're jumping
(04:28):
on a headline because He's a pacific islander guy that pitches,
and hits and so they're immediately, you know but a
million dollars for an eighteen year, old prospect that's great
money for the eighteen. Year old that is not some
big time money for.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Some guy hopefully he, can hit and he can hit
quick because there iners need some offense. Really Fast Otherwise
brett boone's.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Gotta, go yeah, you know he's only he's very selective
on which games.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
He.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Coaches everyone he'll coach a couple, of games they'll, hit
well then he'll take a, game off and suddenly they
get shut out.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Against, respect, IT guys i got. A podcast i.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Gotta, go yeah, all right there you. Have it there's around.
The Sports the rangers get the. Next Show heo tani can't.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Do that that's what the.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Headline is, hey dude coming up, next here we have
more important things to, think about Like the metroplex. Is Sinking,
what Yes the metroplex. Is sinking we'll discuss next
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