June 29, 2023 • 38 mins
Brian Noe fills in for Ben Maller and talks about Domingo German's perfect game, a really bad take from the past involving Shohei Ohtani, World Series of Poker, Coop's Poops, and more!
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it's not really the same thing in other sports. We
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So we got a new member the perfect game category here,
Domingo Hermon gets it done as the Yankees squashed the
Oakland A's. It's the first perfect game since twenty twelve.
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You gotta go all the way back to King Felix
Mariner's pitcher, Felix Hernandez. It was in August of twenty twelve,
the last time there was a perfect game. Felix had
his against the Rays. But on Wednesday night, it was
all about Domingo Herman, who got it done against the
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Oakland A's, the twenty fourth perfect game in MLB history.
And one of the things I started thinking about immediately
was the obvious how cool this is. This is history
right here. You go all the way back to the
first two perfect games. They were in the eighteen hundreds,
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it was in eighteen eighty, Like, there's really been twenty
four perfect games in the history of Major League Baseball.
And we know the Oakland A's are a complete grease fire,
but they could have, you know, been the victims of
a perfect game every single time this year and it's
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only happened once, probably will only happen one time the
entire season. So I wouldn't, you know, look sideways at
this whatsoever. It's an awesome achievement in true Oakland a style.
What did the hitters struck out? Try to do the
old Bo Jackson like break the bat over his leg.
He didn't do it. He messed that up to That's
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just complete meltdown for the Oakland A's on Wednesday but
Herman joins the list. It's the fourth time in Yankees history.
It's happened twenty fourth time overall. So just from a
historical standpoint, that's awesome. When you're literally watching history in
front of you, that's cool. And of course he joins
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the other Yankees. Don Larson in the World Series, of
course Game five when he had his perfect game. Also
David Wells go all the way back to ninety eight,
and then the very next year David Cohne in ninety nine.
Those are the other Yankees perfect games, and a pretty
illustrious list here. When you look at some of the
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big names, it's a mixture of big names and like wow,
one hit wonders basically. But if you look at some
of the big names on the perfection list, you've got
Cy Young through a perfect game. You've got other guys
that are bigger names. I thought King Felix had a
really good MLB career. Obviously, Sandy Kofax is one of
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the greats. Randy Johnson all time great, Roy Halliday is
on the list. Matt Kin certainly not in that classification,
but a good MLB pitcher. He had a perfect game.
So you've got the Mingo Herman joining that list now,
So when you expand it beyond baseball, this is one
thing where you can tell sports will separate themselves from
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the others in certain aspects, in certain ways, and this
is one of the aspects that baseball separates itself from
the other major sports in this country is that perfection
really doesn't exist elsewhere. If you look at football, and
I'm a football guy, I am an absolute football junkie.
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So don't take this as me, you know, talking smack
about ball. I would never do such a thing. But
the truth is the truth. If you look at MLB
compared to the NFL, how do you attain perfection in
the NFL? What is it? I mean one of the
first things that came to mind was Phil Simms in
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the Super Bowl when the Giants beat the Broncos and
he was twenty two of twenty five. Yeah, that's close
to perfection, but it just doesn't quite exist. It's not
like baseball where unless it goes into extra innings, it's
twenty seven outs. That's what it is. You know, we
have it clearly defined. Maybe the closest thing. I'm sure
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there are many examples in basketball. Christian Latner came to mind.
Remember in the ninety two tournament. It's insane to talk
about it like this. Ninety two was a long freaking
time ago. But ninety two for the right to go
to the final four an absolute epic game, classic in
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every sense of the word. Duke in Kentucky and Latner.
He hit the shot. Remember Grant Hill threw him the pass,
He faked it, hit it at the free throw line.
But he was perfect in that game. He was ten
for ten from the field, ten for ten from the
free throw line. But even that, it's just not like
baseball throwing a perfect game. There's no hey, you've got it.
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To get a perfect game, you gotta go ten for
ten from the field, ten for ten from the free
throw line. It's just not defined like that. It's just
different in baseball. So I think that aspect of it
is cool. Just the no hitter, the perfect game, some
of the hallowed numbers in baseball. I think from a
historical standpoint, baseball's got something that some other sports just
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can't touch. And I think now that baseball has sped
things up, the pitch clock has been marvelous. I absolutely
love it. But the historical aspect mixed with let's move
it along, let's go action action. Come on. I think
that's something that baseball has going for itself that some
of the other sports just don't. It's they're different games,
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they're different rules, and based on those rules, like perfection
can be attained in baseball, though very seldomly, but that
aspect of it is very very cool. Now the call
here on the YES network, Ryan Ruco did a great job.
I thought he killed it. This is how it sounded
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on Yes.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Crowdy to Dirt dal to Mingo Hermon.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
Pased through mix twenty fourth perfect game in baseball history.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
The fourth perfect game eighty Yankee's history. Yeah, it's a
great call. This was This is on NBC Sports California. Coincidentally,
Dallas Braden, who has one of the perfect games in
MLB history, he was the color commentator while they're doing
the game, so he's in the booth as the newest
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member of the Perfecto club. Domingo Herman is doing his thing.
But this was the call on NBC Sports California.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
Has swung on and on up to Donaldson donalson the
first he has done it. Domingo Herman is going the
twenty fourth perfect game in Major League history, and he
has been lobbed by his teammates. Incredible.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Yeah, you know, just went through my head where remember
the whole thing with Glenn Kuiper who accidentally said the
N word and got fired and he was not on
the call for the perfect game, and I that I would.
That's rough. That is rough. Have you just called up
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Glenn and said, hey, Glenn, man, what's going on? I
didn't get to called that game? And it's a sad
layer to it. We will get you. There was something
that I just heard the Spanish call of it. Domingo
Herman is from the Dominican and there was just a
sensational call, like just the passion, the exuberants. It's hard
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to duplicate, man, it really is, but shout out to
Domingo Hermann. Absolutely awesome job. Twenty fourth perfect game in
MLB history. So we start off with some history on
tonight's show. Very nice. I'm Brian no In for Big
Ben Meler here on Fox Sports Radio. Let me shift
things for you real quick. We'll hit on a lot
of stuff tonight, but one thing that I just wanted
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to start off with at the top of the show.
So these gambling suspensions are gonna be handed down in
the NFL here at the end of the week. According
to Adam Schefter, it's right around the corner. And it
looks like Isaiah Rogers, he's a cornerback for the Colts,
He's going to be suspended, probably for the entire season.
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He possibly placed bets on his own team, the Indianapolis Colts.
So yeah, he's gonna be gone for the season, and
there are supposed to be a couple of others that
will be announced. Now, this is the thing. Let's keep
it as simple as possible because there are a lot
of people that at it sounds very I don't know,
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hoity toity of me to say they're struggling with this,
but they are. They're talking about the hypocrisy quote unquote
of the NFL where they're punishing some of the players,
yet they're in bed with some of these sports betting
companies and their official sponsors and all this type of stuff.
I just I don't know why gambling is looked at
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so much differently than say alcohol. It's very easy to
understand that you look at the NFL, they have some
relationships with alcohol companies, Nobody says if somebody drinks at
the facility or I don't know, drives drunk or something
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like that. No one says, Oh, the hypocritical NFL, Huh
they're taking money with this sponsorship agreement with Hennessy or whatever. Uh,
but they have the audacity to suspend a player who
is breaking the rules. It's like, no, no one would
say that. You would understand, you would get it. So
I don't know why gambling has looked at so much differently.
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It just doesn't make sense to me. If you look
at PTI pardon the interruption on ESPN, it's been sponsored
by Captain Morgan, Like is then is it okay then
for like Tony Kornheiser to be drinking on the job
or will Bond to get behind the the wheel of
a car, Well, he's you know, had one too many
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and drive around. No, it's not okay. I don't understand
how that's such a thing. Some people say, well, the
NFL they're in bed with these companies and then they
suspend the players. It's like, yeah, what's wrong with that equation? Exactly?
Break that down for me, Like, who who cries hypocrisy?
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And we've had players get popped for driving drunk. We've
had executives popped for driving drunk. Who has ever said, oh,
here's the hypocritical NFL suspending a player or punishing a
team owner whatever for drinking when they've got a sponsorship
agreement with an alcohol company. Nobody says that. Why do
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I keep on hearing this when it comes to gambling.
It doesn't make sense to me, But a lot of
people think that way. And I can understand if you say, hey,
they're trying to make sure these games are on the
up and up, yet they've got a sponsorship agreement with
a sports betting company that doesn't quite add up. That
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makes sense to me. That's fine, Okay, I can understand
that argument. But to claim hypocrisy when they punish a
player for gambling, that doesn't make any sense to me,
because nobody makes that argument when it's an out call
hall related issue. If a player gets punished and yet
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they're still taking money from they've got a couple of
sponsors right now. There's a spirits based company, there's a
wine based company. Those are sponsors of the NFL right now.
No one's gonna say they're hypocritical. If a player gets
suspended while they've got a sponsorship agreement with those companies.
I don't know. I don't know if just because the
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boom of gambling is new. This is just over the
last five plus years where gambling is just popping up
all over the place outside of Las Vegas. So I
don't know if it's just because it's relatively new and
we're seeing a lot of players get popped for it
in this NFL offseason. We saw it last year with
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Calvin Ridley. He was suspended for the entire season. I
don't know, just because it's becoming newer, newer, newer, that's
like fueling the bad logic. But that's not hypocritical to
have a sponsorship agreement with the sports betting company and
yet have rules for the players to not engage in
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sports betting. Like who would say it's okay for Isaiah
Rodgers to bet on his team or against his team.
We don't even know if he was betting on or
against the Colts. If he's betting against the Colts, that's
a whole other situation right there.
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So we've got a lot going on over here, got
a lot to do. Oh Man, maybe in the running
for the worst sports take of all time. This is
a take that did not age gracefully whatsoever, made its
way around social media on Wednesday. We will dive into
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militia here momentarily, but let me throw this at you first.
Mike Francessa just randomly was making its way around social
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media today where it was a take that he had
a few years ago about show Hey Otani, and he
was a guest on High Heat. He was with Chris
mad Dog Russo they're talking some baseball, you know, give
him opinions, talk some hardball over here, and Otani's name
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got brought up, and both mad Dog and Francessa they
were like, thank goodness, Yankees didn't get this guy. More
so francessa so again on MLB Networks High Heat check
this out. How about Otani now?
Speaker 5 (15:55):
And the funny if the Yankees had gotten Otani and
they wanted them him in here, he not only would
in Obinia. The question is is he going to embarrass somebody?
Is he gonna be as bad as everyone says that
your talk And this is a guy who people were
talking about being the greatest player in baseball. They have
the best player baseball on that team. They bought a
guy in and they were talking to this guy up
like crazy and he hasn't produced anything yet. The Yankees
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are looking it didn't get him.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Hah yeah, yeah, that's rough. That's rough right there. It's
one thing, you know, audio and video it just takes
it to a whole other level right there. It's one thing.
If there's a tweet that doesn't age well, there are
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a lot of people that have those. And we're talking
about just an incorrect opinion. We're not talking about something like,
you know, racist or sexist. We're just talking about being
really incorrect with the sports opinion. It is so much
worse to have audio of it and video of it.
That's that's next level right there. And then you look
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at it. I know it's funny because John Carlos Stanton
hit a home run on Wednesday night during the perfect
game for the Mingo Herman, and it's like, Okay, that's nice.
But think about that, think about how that's aged. It's
wrong in so many ways. It's like, first off, the
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obvious is thank goodness the Yankees didn't get this guy.
Then there's is this guy gonna embarrass everybody for believing
in him? No, that didn't happen. And then the Stanton thing,
Oh man, they wouldn't. They would have Stanton if they
had Otani. Oh my gosh, think about the Yankees. If
you just went to Brian Cashman and said, hey, what
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do you think Otani straight up for Stanton, would you
do it? He would walk away like you're a moron,
Get out of my face. They would never do that.
It would make no sense. It didn't age well, not
age well whatsoever. I'm trying to think of. I shouldn't
even open this door, but sorry, my mind went here,
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so I will. I was trying to think of, man,
what's my worst sports take of all time? And I'm
I'm sure there have been some doozies. I'm sure there
are some that I'm not even thinking of right now.
I will tell you one. I will tell you one
dirty secret, actually two two one year. This is more
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funny than anything. So we always do our Super Bowl picks.
I don't know what year, and I have to look
it up. But years ago, my super Bowl prediction was
Texans Falcons, and they were both supposed to be good
that year they were not. One team had two wins,
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the other team had four wins, so hilariously, if you
combine their wins, they still collectively wouldn't have had enough
wins to even get to the playoffs. That's how bad
my super Bowl preview was. Or my prediction was that
year another one. I think it's way worse the way
it's aged I and people will think I'm crazy right now,
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but I think at the time it made sense. This
is only like a year or two ago I said
that Andy Reid was the most overrated head coach of
all time. Now he just won his second Super Bowl
and so it looks like the dumbest take of all time.
But at the time I looked at it, and we
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start with what's overrated, it's something that's that's not as
good as it's commonly believed to be. Right, that's overrated.
And that's what I thought Andy Reid was where he
had a lot of regular season success but a lack
of big postseason success. He had one super Bowl win
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with Patrick Mahomes and then a lot of with the Eagles,
NFC title game appearances not winning, playoff disappointments, not winning,
and yet overwhelmingly it was just oh Andy Reid, what
he does schematically and all this guy and the next
level and oh he's just borderline genius. And I'm like,
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where are the rings? Where are the rings? And so
at the time I thought it made sense, it doesn't
make any sense anymore. It happens. It happens. Sometimes it
takes don't age very well, but that bails in comparison
to Thank goodness, the Yankees don't have Otani or the
stuff that he turned out to be. And I don't
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think there's any video or audio of the old Andy
Reid takes that did not age well at all from me,
but that would be on my list. If you've heard
me from time to time, feel free, feel free to
check in with some of the worst takes that you
can remember either on the on the phone line eight
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seven seven ninety nine on Fox or on Twitter at
the No Show. If something comes to mind, let me
know that's the thing. You're throwing out opinions so often
just opinions, opinions, opinions, and you forget, You forget about
some of the stuff that you throw out there and
truly believe at the time. So it's out of sight,
out of mind. If there's something I said two three
years ago, chances are I have no idea what was said,
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but a diehard fan of that team who is like, oh,
that's way wrong, way wrong, and it turned out to
be they will not forget, like, you know, memories, like
a steel trap over there, one of the other things
before I get to the militia. Let me throw this
at you real fast. Otani, just the fact that he
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is a two way player is amazing. YEAHOO Sports had
this story over the last week. I thought it was
really well done. But Otani, he was just like telling
all these teams in the Japanese League don't draft me,
don't bother, I'm going to America to play baseball. And
so all these teams backed off except one team. I
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don't know how to pronounce the name. I'm sorry, I
have limitations. They're known as the Fighters, though I don't
know all the other fancy stuff beforehand, but they're known
as the Fighters. So the Fighters were the one team
that were like, let's make a run at Otani. And
their pitch to Otani was, look, man, do you really
want to go grind it out over in America and
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minor league baseball? Plus, you're probably gonna have to choose
between hitting or pitching. They're probably gonna make you choose
between the two. Come play for us. We'll let you
do both, and when you want to go play in America,
will grant your release. And Otani said, all right, yeah,
that sounds good. Let's do it. So he played five
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seasons in Japan and he wasn't great at first. His
batting average his first year was two thirty one, pitching
record was only three and two. Imagine if Otani came
to the States and they made him pick between pitching
or hitting, he wouldn't be the phenom he is right now.
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That's amazing to think about. The Other part of it
is what happens next with Otani having this amount of success,
Are we gonna see more pitchers slash hitters. I know
there's a guy at Florida he got sheld in Game
three of the College World Series. But he's doing the
same thing he's pitching, he's hitting. There will be athletes
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trying to be the next Otani. I wonder if we're
gonna start seeing this in another sport. Think about the NFL,
where we've seen a couple of guys. I remember what
Troy Brown, remember the wide receiver for the Patriots, he
played some defensive back. He played dB in the NFL
out of need a couple of times. Champ Bailey, he
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played both ways in college. So I wonder think about
this the running back position. Think about how devalued it
is in terms of the money that's generated from running backs.
I'm not telling you you're gonna see, you know, one
after another after another after another be two way players.
But that's a way to boost your value. Like Dereck
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Henry'd probably play lane backer, but most of these guys
would play corner, free safety, something like that. Could you
ever see that? Now? The thing is, you take such
a beating playing running back. I mean your self life
might be even shorter if you played like dB also,
But it's just a thought, you know, are you gonna
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see more of that? Not just in baseball? But could
you see it every now and then in football? I
would say, yeah, you could because you have already Again,
you saw Troy Brown do it, so I cham't Bailey
do it at times. So it's just something to think
about it.
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Man Eddie, our guy Coop, he said, into Vegas here
pretty soon. Fancy poker tournament. I'm excited for the guy.
Speaker 9 (25:49):
Yeah, that's awesome. World Series of Poker.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Would you I didn't think of it until now, but
it's a very common thing in poker where you would
steak someone like you would help him buy in, and
then if he cashes, you would take a percentage. Do
you feel strongly enough where you would stake Coop in
a poker tournament? And we're talking, you know, like nothing
that's gonna like be a significant chunk of change, but
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something that what do you think would you invest in
Coop's poker skills there?
Speaker 9 (26:20):
Well, I don't have the pockets to be Coop's benefactor.
But if there was like a Fox Sports radio contribution,
you know everybody was like kicking in, I'd be I'd
be a part of it.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
You'd be up for that?
Speaker 9 (26:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (26:34):
Yeah, hell yeah. Let's start a fun to get me
a buy into the main event?
Speaker 9 (26:39):
What is what is that?
Speaker 8 (26:40):
Ten thousand dollars?
Speaker 3 (26:41):
Whoo man?
Speaker 8 (26:45):
I mean honestly, I wouldn't need a bit more of
a resume in order to.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
I ain't pay for that.
Speaker 8 (26:51):
Feel confident having people you know, you know, yeah, that's
where of my action.
Speaker 9 (26:56):
That's if Rob Parker would not be going in on that.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
I'm pretty sure, by the way, Coop, would you if
I don't know, someone steaked you or a handful of
people staked you for like half? Do you think you'd
play tighter if other people had money on you or
looser than if it was just your own money? Looser
you would, yes, you'd be like it's their cash, you.
Speaker 8 (27:19):
Know, but that would be I think better overall, because
I'm I'm a pretty tight player just in general.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Yeah, yeah, man, So when is it? When's the tournament there?
Speaker 6 (27:34):
Coop?
Speaker 4 (27:35):
Uh?
Speaker 8 (27:35):
Friday? Oh man, okay, one of the tournaments. I'm my
plan is to play in multiple bracelet events there you go?
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Oh man? Can you imagine if you want a bracelet?
My god, if you rocket that out every overnight shift,
I would think.
Speaker 9 (27:52):
How many uh, how many people usually take part in these?
And how often are they held?
Speaker 8 (27:59):
The like the bracelet events, the world Series Bracelet.
Speaker 9 (28:01):
Events, the thing you're competing in.
Speaker 8 (28:03):
Okay, so the World's but what is that?
Speaker 3 (28:08):
Gambler?
Speaker 8 (28:09):
Okay? No, no, I'm just I just I don't know why.
I just don't know why it's playing right now trying
to light the moody here. Uh, it's distracting. I can't think. Oh,
all right, cool music radio. I forgot your question now, no.
Speaker 9 (28:35):
So much?
Speaker 8 (28:36):
Oh no, I didn't forget your question. Every year turn.
Speaker 9 (28:40):
Off, all right, it's gone.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (28:47):
The WSOP is held every year and they have like
it's like for over the course of like a month
or so, and they have about like eighty or so
bracelet events within that month, and so you can win
a bracelet at any of those tournaments. And the buy
ins range from this year was the lowest ever at
three hundred dollars for one event earlier in the month,
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and then obviously they go up to like I think
two hundred and fifty thousands. The biggest one.
Speaker 9 (29:15):
Do you like sign up online? Is there like a deadline?
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Like?
Speaker 9 (29:18):
How does it work?
Speaker 8 (29:19):
You can sign up, you can pre register online, you
can sign up in person at the casino either way.
Speaker 9 (29:25):
Okay? Interesting?
Speaker 8 (29:26):
Yeah, And like back to what you said, Brian, if
I ever want a bracelet, I would not be working
here anymore. Really, you just call it a day, Oh,
turn pro, I would definitely not work here anymore. Are
you kidding me? Because if I, first of all, if
I want a bracelet, like I I've accomplished everything I'd
ever wanted to accomplish. Secondly, I would have won so
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much money that I could probably work here for the
next like two decades and not make what I won
with the bracelet.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
Wow. Well, hey, best of luck to you, Coop. I
still I enjoy working with you, but I want you
to reach this life goal of getting a bracelet. You
know that.
Speaker 8 (30:08):
I mean that would be awesome. But I mean, look,
if I'm just I'm just trying to cash. I'm just
trying to cash.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
Yeah, yeah, man, you were you. I don't know you
like listen to music, you wear sunglasses? What's your general
approach here?
Speaker 8 (30:22):
I do not listen to music, and a lot of
people do, and I just I've tried it many times,
but I don't know. I feel like when I listen
to music, it's distracting to me.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
We got a taste of that just a second ago.
Speaker 8 (30:36):
Yes, Well, because I'm thinking of the song and then
and then I'm like thinking of the lyrics, and then
I'm singing the song in my head, and then I'm
not paying attention to like what other people are doing
at the table, and so like my my fiance listens
to music while she's sitting at the table, and I
don't I don't understand how she does that.
Speaker 9 (30:55):
You just got like instrumentals where you had no lyrics
to listen to. Would that help? I could? Maybe I
do that when I when I walk for exercise, I
have to have something in my ear. I can't just
walk with no music or anything.
Speaker 8 (31:08):
Yeah, I just you know, I like listening to I know,
I'm sure a lot of people like put headphones in
the ears and the play it really low so they
can still hear everything. I like listening to the table
talk and just like hearing what people are saying.
Speaker 9 (31:21):
How much trash talking goes on?
Speaker 8 (31:24):
Uh, I would say not much. Yeah, I mean most
people are pretty respectful. You might come across, you know,
one person at your table like that. But some of
these events, like the first one that I'm gonna enter
on Friday, they're probably gonna get like ten thousand entrants
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in that tournament.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
So I'm surprised, Coop. I hadn't thought about that until
Eddy brought it up. It's a great question. But you
think about poker players being on tilt, and that could
cause them to make horrible decisions. But I think a
good trash talker just getting under your skin, I think
that could completely throw some people off their game. I'm
surprised you don't get more trash talking.
Speaker 8 (32:07):
Oh, it absolutely doesn't, I would say, just because I'm
talking about like when you start these tournaments, there's so
many people, there's so many tables that those like type
of people are, you know, few and far between. But
I'd say once it starts narrowing down, then then you
might find more of that style of play.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Yeah, well, hey man, we're pulling for you.
Speaker 8 (32:29):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
Hope it works out you. I hope it works out.
I hope it's a great experience and a major cash.
But if it's not a major cash, hopefully it's a
great experience.
Speaker 8 (32:38):
The one time that I did cash was during the pandemic,
so I had a mask on the entire time. So
I wonder how much that helped me.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
Actually, you know, it's the greatest feeling when the last
person gets bumped and you're in the money.
Speaker 8 (32:51):
Oh my god, I'm I'm not even kiddy.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
I came.
Speaker 8 (32:55):
I came close to tears when that happened. It was
it was so and it wasn't even close to like
the most I've ever won playing poker, and not even close,
and I had just played, but I just played for
the twelve hours, you know, and it's it's the middle
of the night, and everybody like the last person gets
like eliminated in every like they're like, you're everybody remaining
is now in the money, and everybody starts cheering, and
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I just got like like, oh it was awesome.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
It's funny too, because when you're not quite in the money,
it always seems like you get that hand. That's like
why now, oh yeah, why would I get pocket tens
right now? What?
Speaker 8 (33:32):
You know, if I'm like, if I'm a short stack
and it's really close to the bubble, I'll just I'll
throw everything away.
Speaker 9 (33:38):
I don't care.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
I don't blame you, don't blame you.
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on coops very nice.
Speaker 8 (34:06):
Mostly just wanted to play that open again, yes, since
we haven't in years, So I mean, this one's a
little bit different than than what I used to do
with uh with you back on the overnights, because it
was I would pick something that was pretty uh current
and relevant, but it ties in and I and I
and I kind of use this as an excuse just
to pose a question to you. So I'm gonna I'm
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gonna give the coops poop to Jim Joyce. Hear me
out the old Galarraga umpire. Yes, yes, I was thinking
about this as you know, as I you know, the
of course, uh Domingo Herman throwing the perfect game, twenty
fourth perfect game in MLB history, and it really should
be the twenty fifth perfect game in MLB history, And
(34:49):
it got me to thinking how how awful it is,
because nothing like that could ever happen again, because we've
got the manager's challenge, which came I believe, so the
the Armando Galarraga perfect or you know, twenty eight out
perfect game or whatever it was twenty ten, and the
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Coach's Challenge or manager's challenge came in I believe twenty fourteen,
so it was not too long after that. And I
want to pose this question to you, Brian. I feel
and you know it's I feel like I'm going to hear, oh,
the slippery slope, But I feel like they should give
him that perfect game. They should go back and change it.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
I hear your book, because it was the very final out,
that's the thing. Yes, this was the first out in
the final inning. That's different. It was the absolute final out.
There's an argument to be made, and they're not going
to just be changing stuff left and right, like, yeah,
I hear you, but it's been so long. I don't
think they ever will, but there's a legitimate argument to
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make that they should.
Speaker 8 (35:57):
Yeah, no, you're right, it probably never would. But I
I feel like that's one thing where it's just I mean,
but I guess you could also argue that he is
much more famous because of what happened than he would
be had he gotten the perfect game.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
Oh gal Raga, Yes, absolutely, he handled that so well. Yeah,
he was so professional about it.
Speaker 8 (36:20):
And I remember Jim Joyce crying.
Speaker 3 (36:22):
Yeah, the next day, like gal Raga went out with
the scorecard or the lineup or something like that, and yeah,
Jim Joyce was in tears. Had kind of like patted
him on the on the shoulder like thanks man, thanks
for being gracious.
Speaker 8 (36:36):
So I guess in the end, it created a nice
moment in baseball. But still it's it's interesting. You know,
he doesn't get to be listed among those, you know,
twenty four to twenty five players, but you know who
remembers you know, everybody remembers Mondo Galaaga, who remembers the
Philip Humber you.
Speaker 3 (36:54):
Know, right right totally? Like, what what do you think
would be Galaga's answer? Would you if you rather don't
have if he called him out right? Or you you
got the technically you got the perfect game, but technically
you didn't. But everybody knows that it was and it's
way more famous the way it went down. He might
(37:15):
just keep it the way it is. Yeah, you might
be right interesting, crazy right there. I like the question though,
ku yeah nice, And that's Coop spoops there. It is
what Jim Joyce thinks about that whole thing. You know,
I think he would be more up for them reversing
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it than Galaraga would. Oh yeah, right right, you would
feel horrible if you got that call wrong. He probably
still feels bad about that. It's funny. I like how
you put that together because I didn't even think about
Jim Joyce based on The Domingo Herman Perfect Game on
Wednesday Night. But I'm sure Jim Joyce thought about Armando
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Galarraga on Wednesday Night coop because absolutely, oh you'd have
to have to yeah, wild
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So we got a new member the perfect game category here,
Domingo Hermon gets it done as the Yankees squashed the
Oakland A's. It's the first perfect game since twenty twelve.
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You gotta go all the way back to King Felix
Mariner's pitcher, Felix Hernandez. It was in August of twenty twelve,
the last time there was a perfect game. Felix had
his against the Rays. But on Wednesday night, it was
all about Domingo Herman, who got it done against the
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Oakland A's, the twenty fourth perfect game in MLB history.
And one of the things I started thinking about immediately
was the obvious how cool this is. This is history
right here. You go all the way back to the
first two perfect games. They were in the eighteen hundreds,
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it was in eighteen eighty, Like, there's really been twenty
four perfect games in the history of Major League Baseball.
And we know the Oakland A's are a complete grease fire,
but they could have, you know, been the victims of
a perfect game every single time this year and it's
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only happened once, probably will only happen one time the
entire season. So I wouldn't, you know, look sideways at
this whatsoever. It's an awesome achievement in true Oakland a style.
What did the hitters struck out? Try to do the
old Bo Jackson like break the bat over his leg.
He didn't do it. He messed that up to That's
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just complete meltdown for the Oakland A's on Wednesday but
Herman joins the list. It's the fourth time in Yankees history.
It's happened twenty fourth time overall. So just from a
historical standpoint, that's awesome. When you're literally watching history in
front of you, that's cool. And of course he joins
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the other Yankees. Don Larson in the World Series, of
course Game five when he had his perfect game. Also
David Wells go all the way back to ninety eight,
and then the very next year David Cohne in ninety nine.
Those are the other Yankees perfect games, and a pretty
illustrious list here. When you look at some of the
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big names, it's a mixture of big names and like wow,
one hit wonders basically. But if you look at some
of the big names on the perfection list, you've got
Cy Young through a perfect game. You've got other guys
that are bigger names. I thought King Felix had a
really good MLB career. Obviously, Sandy Kofax is one of
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the greats. Randy Johnson all time great, Roy Halliday is
on the list. Matt Kin certainly not in that classification,
but a good MLB pitcher. He had a perfect game.
So you've got the Mingo Herman joining that list now,
So when you expand it beyond baseball, this is one
thing where you can tell sports will separate themselves from
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the others in certain aspects, in certain ways, and this
is one of the aspects that baseball separates itself from
the other major sports in this country is that perfection
really doesn't exist elsewhere. If you look at football, and
I'm a football guy, I am an absolute football junkie.
(04:29):
So don't take this as me, you know, talking smack
about ball. I would never do such a thing. But
the truth is the truth. If you look at MLB
compared to the NFL, how do you attain perfection in
the NFL? What is it? I mean one of the
first things that came to mind was Phil Simms in
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the Super Bowl when the Giants beat the Broncos and
he was twenty two of twenty five. Yeah, that's close
to perfection, but it just doesn't quite exist. It's not
like baseball where unless it goes into extra innings, it's
twenty seven outs. That's what it is. You know, we
have it clearly defined. Maybe the closest thing. I'm sure
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there are many examples in basketball. Christian Latner came to mind.
Remember in the ninety two tournament. It's insane to talk
about it like this. Ninety two was a long freaking
time ago. But ninety two for the right to go
to the final four an absolute epic game, classic in
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every sense of the word. Duke in Kentucky and Latner.
He hit the shot. Remember Grant Hill threw him the pass,
He faked it, hit it at the free throw line.
But he was perfect in that game. He was ten
for ten from the field, ten for ten from the
free throw line. But even that, it's just not like
baseball throwing a perfect game. There's no hey, you've got it.
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To get a perfect game, you gotta go ten for
ten from the field, ten for ten from the free
throw line. It's just not defined like that. It's just
different in baseball. So I think that aspect of it
is cool. Just the no hitter, the perfect game, some
of the hallowed numbers in baseball. I think from a
historical standpoint, baseball's got something that some other sports just
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can't touch. And I think now that baseball has sped
things up, the pitch clock has been marvelous. I absolutely
love it. But the historical aspect mixed with let's move
it along, let's go action action. Come on. I think
that's something that baseball has going for itself that some
of the other sports just don't. It's they're different games,
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they're different rules, and based on those rules, like perfection
can be attained in baseball, though very seldomly, but that
aspect of it is very very cool. Now the call
here on the YES network, Ryan Ruco did a great job.
I thought he killed it. This is how it sounded
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on Yes.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Crowdy to Dirt dal to Mingo Hermon.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
Pased through mix twenty fourth perfect game in baseball history.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
The fourth perfect game eighty Yankee's history. Yeah, it's a
great call. This was This is on NBC Sports California. Coincidentally,
Dallas Braden, who has one of the perfect games in
MLB history, he was the color commentator while they're doing
the game, so he's in the booth as the newest
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member of the Perfecto club. Domingo Herman is doing his thing.
But this was the call on NBC Sports California.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
Has swung on and on up to Donaldson donalson the
first he has done it. Domingo Herman is going the
twenty fourth perfect game in Major League history, and he
has been lobbed by his teammates. Incredible.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Yeah, you know, just went through my head where remember
the whole thing with Glenn Kuiper who accidentally said the
N word and got fired and he was not on
the call for the perfect game, and I that I would.
That's rough. That is rough. Have you just called up
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Glenn and said, hey, Glenn, man, what's going on? I
didn't get to called that game? And it's a sad
layer to it. We will get you. There was something
that I just heard the Spanish call of it. Domingo
Herman is from the Dominican and there was just a
sensational call, like just the passion, the exuberants. It's hard
(09:00):
to duplicate, man, it really is, but shout out to
Domingo Hermann. Absolutely awesome job. Twenty fourth perfect game in
MLB history. So we start off with some history on
tonight's show. Very nice. I'm Brian no In for Big
Ben Meler here on Fox Sports Radio. Let me shift
things for you real quick. We'll hit on a lot
of stuff tonight, but one thing that I just wanted
(09:20):
to start off with at the top of the show.
So these gambling suspensions are gonna be handed down in
the NFL here at the end of the week. According
to Adam Schefter, it's right around the corner. And it
looks like Isaiah Rogers, he's a cornerback for the Colts,
He's going to be suspended, probably for the entire season.
(09:40):
He possibly placed bets on his own team, the Indianapolis Colts.
So yeah, he's gonna be gone for the season, and
there are supposed to be a couple of others that
will be announced. Now, this is the thing. Let's keep
it as simple as possible because there are a lot
of people that at it sounds very I don't know,
(10:04):
hoity toity of me to say they're struggling with this,
but they are. They're talking about the hypocrisy quote unquote
of the NFL where they're punishing some of the players,
yet they're in bed with some of these sports betting
companies and their official sponsors and all this type of stuff.
I just I don't know why gambling is looked at
(10:27):
so much differently than say alcohol. It's very easy to
understand that you look at the NFL, they have some
relationships with alcohol companies, Nobody says if somebody drinks at
the facility or I don't know, drives drunk or something
(10:50):
like that. No one says, Oh, the hypocritical NFL, Huh
they're taking money with this sponsorship agreement with Hennessy or whatever. Uh,
but they have the audacity to suspend a player who
is breaking the rules. It's like, no, no one would
say that. You would understand, you would get it. So
I don't know why gambling has looked at so much differently.
(11:13):
It just doesn't make sense to me. If you look
at PTI pardon the interruption on ESPN, it's been sponsored
by Captain Morgan, Like is then is it okay then
for like Tony Kornheiser to be drinking on the job
or will Bond to get behind the the wheel of
a car, Well, he's you know, had one too many
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and drive around. No, it's not okay. I don't understand
how that's such a thing. Some people say, well, the
NFL they're in bed with these companies and then they
suspend the players. It's like, yeah, what's wrong with that equation? Exactly?
Break that down for me, Like, who who cries hypocrisy?
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And we've had players get popped for driving drunk. We've
had executives popped for driving drunk. Who has ever said, oh,
here's the hypocritical NFL suspending a player or punishing a
team owner whatever for drinking when they've got a sponsorship
agreement with an alcohol company. Nobody says that. Why do
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I keep on hearing this when it comes to gambling.
It doesn't make sense to me, But a lot of
people think that way. And I can understand if you say, hey,
they're trying to make sure these games are on the
up and up, yet they've got a sponsorship agreement with
a sports betting company that doesn't quite add up. That
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makes sense to me. That's fine, Okay, I can understand
that argument. But to claim hypocrisy when they punish a
player for gambling, that doesn't make any sense to me,
because nobody makes that argument when it's an out call
hall related issue. If a player gets punished and yet
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they're still taking money from they've got a couple of
sponsors right now. There's a spirits based company, there's a
wine based company. Those are sponsors of the NFL right now.
No one's gonna say they're hypocritical. If a player gets
suspended while they've got a sponsorship agreement with those companies.
I don't know. I don't know if just because the
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boom of gambling is new. This is just over the
last five plus years where gambling is just popping up
all over the place outside of Las Vegas. So I
don't know if it's just because it's relatively new and
we're seeing a lot of players get popped for it
in this NFL offseason. We saw it last year with
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Calvin Ridley. He was suspended for the entire season. I
don't know, just because it's becoming newer, newer, newer, that's
like fueling the bad logic. But that's not hypocritical to
have a sponsorship agreement with the sports betting company and
yet have rules for the players to not engage in
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sports betting. Like who would say it's okay for Isaiah
Rodgers to bet on his team or against his team.
We don't even know if he was betting on or
against the Colts. If he's betting against the Colts, that's
a whole other situation right there.
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So we've got a lot going on over here, got
a lot to do. Oh Man, maybe in the running
for the worst sports take of all time. This is
a take that did not age gracefully whatsoever, made its
way around social media on Wednesday. We will dive into
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militia here momentarily, but let me throw this at you first.
Mike Francessa just randomly was making its way around social
(15:19):
media today where it was a take that he had
a few years ago about show Hey Otani, and he
was a guest on High Heat. He was with Chris
mad Dog Russo they're talking some baseball, you know, give
him opinions, talk some hardball over here, and Otani's name
(15:40):
got brought up, and both mad Dog and Francessa they
were like, thank goodness, Yankees didn't get this guy. More
so francessa so again on MLB Networks High Heat check
this out. How about Otani now?
Speaker 5 (15:55):
And the funny if the Yankees had gotten Otani and
they wanted them him in here, he not only would
in Obinia. The question is is he going to embarrass somebody?
Is he gonna be as bad as everyone says that
your talk And this is a guy who people were
talking about being the greatest player in baseball. They have
the best player baseball on that team. They bought a
guy in and they were talking to this guy up
like crazy and he hasn't produced anything yet. The Yankees
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are looking it didn't get him.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Hah yeah, yeah, that's rough. That's rough right there. It's
one thing, you know, audio and video it just takes
it to a whole other level right there. It's one thing.
If there's a tweet that doesn't age well, there are
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a lot of people that have those. And we're talking
about just an incorrect opinion. We're not talking about something like,
you know, racist or sexist. We're just talking about being
really incorrect with the sports opinion. It is so much
worse to have audio of it and video of it.
That's that's next level right there. And then you look
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at it. I know it's funny because John Carlos Stanton
hit a home run on Wednesday night during the perfect
game for the Mingo Herman, and it's like, Okay, that's nice.
But think about that, think about how that's aged. It's
wrong in so many ways. It's like, first off, the
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obvious is thank goodness the Yankees didn't get this guy.
Then there's is this guy gonna embarrass everybody for believing
in him? No, that didn't happen. And then the Stanton thing,
Oh man, they wouldn't. They would have Stanton if they
had Otani. Oh my gosh, think about the Yankees. If
you just went to Brian Cashman and said, hey, what
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do you think Otani straight up for Stanton, would you
do it? He would walk away like you're a moron,
Get out of my face. They would never do that.
It would make no sense. It didn't age well, not
age well whatsoever. I'm trying to think of. I shouldn't
even open this door, but sorry, my mind went here,
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so I will. I was trying to think of, man,
what's my worst sports take of all time? And I'm
I'm sure there have been some doozies. I'm sure there
are some that I'm not even thinking of right now.
I will tell you one. I will tell you one
dirty secret, actually two two one year. This is more
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funny than anything. So we always do our Super Bowl picks.
I don't know what year, and I have to look
it up. But years ago, my super Bowl prediction was
Texans Falcons, and they were both supposed to be good
that year they were not. One team had two wins,
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the other team had four wins, so hilariously, if you
combine their wins, they still collectively wouldn't have had enough
wins to even get to the playoffs. That's how bad
my super Bowl preview was. Or my prediction was that
year another one. I think it's way worse the way
it's aged I and people will think I'm crazy right now,
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but I think at the time it made sense. This
is only like a year or two ago I said
that Andy Reid was the most overrated head coach of
all time. Now he just won his second Super Bowl
and so it looks like the dumbest take of all time.
But at the time I looked at it, and we
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start with what's overrated, it's something that's that's not as
good as it's commonly believed to be. Right, that's overrated.
And that's what I thought Andy Reid was where he
had a lot of regular season success but a lack
of big postseason success. He had one super Bowl win
(19:57):
with Patrick Mahomes and then a lot of with the Eagles,
NFC title game appearances not winning, playoff disappointments, not winning,
and yet overwhelmingly it was just oh Andy Reid, what
he does schematically and all this guy and the next
level and oh he's just borderline genius. And I'm like,
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where are the rings? Where are the rings? And so
at the time I thought it made sense, it doesn't
make any sense anymore. It happens. It happens. Sometimes it
takes don't age very well, but that bails in comparison
to Thank goodness, the Yankees don't have Otani or the
stuff that he turned out to be. And I don't
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think there's any video or audio of the old Andy
Reid takes that did not age well at all from me,
but that would be on my list. If you've heard
me from time to time, feel free, feel free to
check in with some of the worst takes that you
can remember either on the on the phone line eight
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seven seven ninety nine on Fox or on Twitter at
the No Show. If something comes to mind, let me
know that's the thing. You're throwing out opinions so often
just opinions, opinions, opinions, and you forget, You forget about
some of the stuff that you throw out there and
truly believe at the time. So it's out of sight,
out of mind. If there's something I said two three
years ago, chances are I have no idea what was said,
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but a diehard fan of that team who is like, oh,
that's way wrong, way wrong, and it turned out to
be they will not forget, like, you know, memories, like
a steel trap over there, one of the other things
before I get to the militia. Let me throw this
at you real fast. Otani, just the fact that he
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is a two way player is amazing. YEAHOO Sports had
this story over the last week. I thought it was
really well done. But Otani, he was just like telling
all these teams in the Japanese League don't draft me,
don't bother, I'm going to America to play baseball. And
so all these teams backed off except one team. I
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don't know how to pronounce the name. I'm sorry, I
have limitations. They're known as the Fighters, though I don't
know all the other fancy stuff beforehand, but they're known
as the Fighters. So the Fighters were the one team
that were like, let's make a run at Otani. And
their pitch to Otani was, look, man, do you really
want to go grind it out over in America and
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minor league baseball? Plus, you're probably gonna have to choose
between hitting or pitching. They're probably gonna make you choose
between the two. Come play for us. We'll let you
do both, and when you want to go play in America,
will grant your release. And Otani said, all right, yeah,
that sounds good. Let's do it. So he played five
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seasons in Japan and he wasn't great at first. His
batting average his first year was two thirty one, pitching
record was only three and two. Imagine if Otani came
to the States and they made him pick between pitching
or hitting, he wouldn't be the phenom he is right now.
(23:13):
That's amazing to think about. The Other part of it
is what happens next with Otani having this amount of success,
Are we gonna see more pitchers slash hitters. I know
there's a guy at Florida he got sheld in Game
three of the College World Series. But he's doing the
same thing he's pitching, he's hitting. There will be athletes
(23:33):
trying to be the next Otani. I wonder if we're
gonna start seeing this in another sport. Think about the NFL,
where we've seen a couple of guys. I remember what
Troy Brown, remember the wide receiver for the Patriots, he
played some defensive back. He played dB in the NFL
out of need a couple of times. Champ Bailey, he
(23:57):
played both ways in college. So I wonder think about
this the running back position. Think about how devalued it
is in terms of the money that's generated from running backs.
I'm not telling you you're gonna see, you know, one
after another after another after another be two way players.
But that's a way to boost your value. Like Dereck
(24:18):
Henry'd probably play lane backer, but most of these guys
would play corner, free safety, something like that. Could you
ever see that? Now? The thing is, you take such
a beating playing running back. I mean your self life
might be even shorter if you played like dB also,
But it's just a thought, you know, are you gonna
(24:40):
see more of that? Not just in baseball? But could
you see it every now and then in football? I
would say, yeah, you could because you have already Again,
you saw Troy Brown do it, so I cham't Bailey
do it at times. So it's just something to think
about it.
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Speaker 3 (25:42):
Man Eddie, our guy Coop, he said, into Vegas here
pretty soon. Fancy poker tournament. I'm excited for the guy.
Speaker 9 (25:49):
Yeah, that's awesome. World Series of Poker.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Would you I didn't think of it until now, but
it's a very common thing in poker where you would
steak someone like you would help him buy in, and
then if he cashes, you would take a percentage. Do
you feel strongly enough where you would stake Coop in
a poker tournament? And we're talking, you know, like nothing
that's gonna like be a significant chunk of change, but
(26:15):
something that what do you think would you invest in
Coop's poker skills there?
Speaker 9 (26:20):
Well, I don't have the pockets to be Coop's benefactor.
But if there was like a Fox Sports radio contribution,
you know everybody was like kicking in, I'd be I'd
be a part of it.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
You'd be up for that?
Speaker 9 (26:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (26:34):
Yeah, hell yeah. Let's start a fun to get me
a buy into the main event?
Speaker 9 (26:39):
What is what is that?
Speaker 8 (26:40):
Ten thousand dollars?
Speaker 3 (26:41):
Whoo man?
Speaker 8 (26:45):
I mean honestly, I wouldn't need a bit more of
a resume in order to.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
I ain't pay for that.
Speaker 8 (26:51):
Feel confident having people you know, you know, yeah, that's
where of my action.
Speaker 9 (26:56):
That's if Rob Parker would not be going in on that.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
I'm pretty sure, by the way, Coop, would you if
I don't know, someone steaked you or a handful of
people staked you for like half? Do you think you'd
play tighter if other people had money on you or
looser than if it was just your own money? Looser
you would, yes, you'd be like it's their cash, you.
Speaker 8 (27:19):
Know, but that would be I think better overall, because
I'm I'm a pretty tight player just in general.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Yeah, yeah, man, So when is it? When's the tournament there?
Speaker 6 (27:34):
Coop?
Speaker 4 (27:35):
Uh?
Speaker 8 (27:35):
Friday? Oh man, okay, one of the tournaments. I'm my
plan is to play in multiple bracelet events there you go?
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Oh man? Can you imagine if you want a bracelet?
My god, if you rocket that out every overnight shift,
I would think.
Speaker 9 (27:52):
How many uh, how many people usually take part in these?
And how often are they held?
Speaker 8 (27:59):
The like the bracelet events, the world Series Bracelet.
Speaker 9 (28:01):
Events, the thing you're competing in.
Speaker 8 (28:03):
Okay, so the World's but what is that?
Speaker 3 (28:08):
Gambler?
Speaker 8 (28:09):
Okay? No, no, I'm just I just I don't know why.
I just don't know why it's playing right now trying
to light the moody here. Uh, it's distracting. I can't think. Oh,
all right, cool music radio. I forgot your question now, no.
Speaker 9 (28:35):
So much?
Speaker 8 (28:36):
Oh no, I didn't forget your question. Every year turn.
Speaker 9 (28:40):
Off, all right, it's gone.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (28:47):
The WSOP is held every year and they have like
it's like for over the course of like a month
or so, and they have about like eighty or so
bracelet events within that month, and so you can win
a bracelet at any of those tournaments. And the buy
ins range from this year was the lowest ever at
three hundred dollars for one event earlier in the month,
(29:10):
and then obviously they go up to like I think
two hundred and fifty thousands. The biggest one.
Speaker 9 (29:15):
Do you like sign up online? Is there like a deadline?
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Like?
Speaker 9 (29:18):
How does it work?
Speaker 8 (29:19):
You can sign up, you can pre register online, you
can sign up in person at the casino either way.
Speaker 9 (29:25):
Okay? Interesting?
Speaker 8 (29:26):
Yeah, And like back to what you said, Brian, if
I ever want a bracelet, I would not be working
here anymore. Really, you just call it a day, Oh,
turn pro, I would definitely not work here anymore. Are
you kidding me? Because if I, first of all, if
I want a bracelet, like I I've accomplished everything I'd
ever wanted to accomplish. Secondly, I would have won so
(29:50):
much money that I could probably work here for the
next like two decades and not make what I won
with the bracelet.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
Wow. Well, hey, best of luck to you, Coop. I
still I enjoy working with you, but I want you
to reach this life goal of getting a bracelet. You
know that.
Speaker 8 (30:08):
I mean that would be awesome. But I mean, look,
if I'm just I'm just trying to cash. I'm just
trying to cash.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
Yeah, yeah, man, you were you. I don't know you
like listen to music, you wear sunglasses? What's your general
approach here?
Speaker 8 (30:22):
I do not listen to music, and a lot of
people do, and I just I've tried it many times,
but I don't know. I feel like when I listen
to music, it's distracting to me.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
We got a taste of that just a second ago.
Speaker 8 (30:36):
Yes, Well, because I'm thinking of the song and then
and then I'm like thinking of the lyrics, and then
I'm singing the song in my head, and then I'm
not paying attention to like what other people are doing
at the table, and so like my my fiance listens
to music while she's sitting at the table, and I
don't I don't understand how she does that.
Speaker 9 (30:55):
You just got like instrumentals where you had no lyrics
to listen to. Would that help? I could? Maybe I
do that when I when I walk for exercise, I
have to have something in my ear. I can't just
walk with no music or anything.
Speaker 8 (31:08):
Yeah, I just you know, I like listening to I know,
I'm sure a lot of people like put headphones in
the ears and the play it really low so they
can still hear everything. I like listening to the table
talk and just like hearing what people are saying.
Speaker 9 (31:21):
How much trash talking goes on?
Speaker 8 (31:24):
Uh, I would say not much. Yeah, I mean most
people are pretty respectful. You might come across, you know,
one person at your table like that. But some of
these events, like the first one that I'm gonna enter
on Friday, they're probably gonna get like ten thousand entrants
(31:45):
in that tournament.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
So I'm surprised, Coop. I hadn't thought about that until
Eddy brought it up. It's a great question. But you
think about poker players being on tilt, and that could
cause them to make horrible decisions. But I think a
good trash talker just getting under your skin, I think
that could completely throw some people off their game. I'm
surprised you don't get more trash talking.
Speaker 8 (32:07):
Oh, it absolutely doesn't, I would say, just because I'm
talking about like when you start these tournaments, there's so
many people, there's so many tables that those like type
of people are, you know, few and far between. But
I'd say once it starts narrowing down, then then you
might find more of that style of play.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Yeah, well, hey man, we're pulling for you.
Speaker 8 (32:29):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
Hope it works out you. I hope it works out.
I hope it's a great experience and a major cash.
But if it's not a major cash, hopefully it's a
great experience.
Speaker 8 (32:38):
The one time that I did cash was during the pandemic,
so I had a mask on the entire time. So
I wonder how much that helped me.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
Actually, you know, it's the greatest feeling when the last
person gets bumped and you're in the money.
Speaker 8 (32:51):
Oh my god, I'm I'm not even kiddy.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
I came.
Speaker 8 (32:55):
I came close to tears when that happened. It was
it was so and it wasn't even close to like
the most I've ever won playing poker, and not even close,
and I had just played, but I just played for
the twelve hours, you know, and it's it's the middle
of the night, and everybody like the last person gets
like eliminated in every like they're like, you're everybody remaining
is now in the money, and everybody starts cheering, and
(33:17):
I just got like like, oh it was awesome.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
It's funny too, because when you're not quite in the money,
it always seems like you get that hand. That's like
why now, oh yeah, why would I get pocket tens
right now? What?
Speaker 8 (33:32):
You know, if I'm like, if I'm a short stack
and it's really close to the bubble, I'll just I'll
throw everything away.
Speaker 9 (33:38):
I don't care.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
I don't blame you, don't blame you.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
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on coops very nice.
Speaker 8 (34:06):
Mostly just wanted to play that open again, yes, since
we haven't in years, So I mean, this one's a
little bit different than than what I used to do
with uh with you back on the overnights, because it
was I would pick something that was pretty uh current
and relevant, but it ties in and I and I
and I kind of use this as an excuse just
to pose a question to you. So I'm gonna I'm
(34:28):
gonna give the coops poop to Jim Joyce. Hear me
out the old Galarraga umpire. Yes, yes, I was thinking
about this as you know, as I you know, the
of course, uh Domingo Herman throwing the perfect game, twenty
fourth perfect game in MLB history, and it really should
be the twenty fifth perfect game in MLB history, And
(34:49):
it got me to thinking how how awful it is,
because nothing like that could ever happen again, because we've
got the manager's challenge, which came I believe, so the
the Armando Galarraga perfect or you know, twenty eight out
perfect game or whatever it was twenty ten, and the
(35:09):
Coach's Challenge or manager's challenge came in I believe twenty fourteen,
so it was not too long after that. And I
want to pose this question to you, Brian. I feel
and you know it's I feel like I'm going to hear, oh,
the slippery slope, But I feel like they should give
him that perfect game. They should go back and change it.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
I hear your book, because it was the very final out,
that's the thing. Yes, this was the first out in
the final inning. That's different. It was the absolute final out.
There's an argument to be made, and they're not going
to just be changing stuff left and right, like, yeah,
I hear you, but it's been so long. I don't
think they ever will, but there's a legitimate argument to
(35:55):
make that they should.
Speaker 8 (35:57):
Yeah, no, you're right, it probably never would. But I
I feel like that's one thing where it's just I mean,
but I guess you could also argue that he is
much more famous because of what happened than he would
be had he gotten the perfect game.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
Oh gal Raga, Yes, absolutely, he handled that so well. Yeah,
he was so professional about it.
Speaker 8 (36:20):
And I remember Jim Joyce crying.
Speaker 3 (36:22):
Yeah, the next day, like gal Raga went out with
the scorecard or the lineup or something like that, and yeah,
Jim Joyce was in tears. Had kind of like patted
him on the on the shoulder like thanks man, thanks
for being gracious.
Speaker 8 (36:36):
So I guess in the end, it created a nice
moment in baseball. But still it's it's interesting. You know,
he doesn't get to be listed among those, you know,
twenty four to twenty five players, but you know who
remembers you know, everybody remembers Mondo Galaaga, who remembers the
Philip Humber you.
Speaker 3 (36:54):
Know, right right totally? Like, what what do you think
would be Galaga's answer? Would you if you rather don't
have if he called him out right? Or you you
got the technically you got the perfect game, but technically
you didn't. But everybody knows that it was and it's
way more famous the way it went down. He might
(37:15):
just keep it the way it is. Yeah, you might
be right interesting, crazy right there. I like the question though,
ku yeah nice, And that's Coop spoops there. It is
what Jim Joyce thinks about that whole thing. You know,
I think he would be more up for them reversing
(37:35):
it than Galaraga would. Oh yeah, right right, you would
feel horrible if you got that call wrong. He probably
still feels bad about that. It's funny. I like how
you put that together because I didn't even think about
Jim Joyce based on The Domingo Herman Perfect Game on
Wednesday Night. But I'm sure Jim Joyce thought about Armando
(37:58):
Galarraga on Wednesday Night coop because absolutely, oh you'd have
to have to yeah, wild
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