June 29, 2023 • 37 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon react to the 24th perfect game in MLB history thrown by Domingo German of the NY Yankees. German struck out nine and threw just 99 pitches. The Yankees beat the A's in Oakland, 11-0.
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Speaker 1 (00:28):
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dad and Babiano and I just said, Wow, perfect game
through eight and I'm waiting to see what they x
back as Domingo Herman is three outs away from the
twenty fourth perfect game in Major League Baseball history. Yankees
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lead the A's right now eight nothing Naga nine nothing
now as they're batting in the top of the ninth inning,
So the game is clearly not in any kind of
dispute anymore. But Herman will take the mound for the
ninth inning at ninety three pitches. Here in this Dave Roberts.
Here's Dave Roberts. Ninety three pitches going back out there
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to try to get a perfect game. Ninety three pitches,
nine strikeouts, of course, no hits, no walks, no errors,
three errors by the A's and they will have, of course,
the bottom of the batting order coming up to try
to avoid another in a long line of bad stigmas
this year from a team that's the worst team in baseball.
(01:54):
We're moving. Nobody likes us, reverse boycott. Now we can
get a perfect game thrown against us again. Yankees batting
in the top of the night, thinking Domingo Herman, just
three outs away from what would be the first perfect
game since twenty twelve.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Now, a couple of things here. Number one, do you
lean into one?
Speaker 1 (02:15):
You may get a no hitter, but I am not
giving you a.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Perfect a bunch. Do you lean into one?
Speaker 4 (02:20):
I mean, I'm asking for a friend, Mike.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
Just remember it probably hurts more coming from him because
he has better grip than most people.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
This is true. You know what I mean, I do, man,
I'll tell you the A's tonight worst night. We're worst
night tonight, the aids and stop stop they're only the
third worst night, worst night tonight the A's or Saint Kits.
Who's who's having the worst night?
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Well both respects. I mean, if you're gonna fail, fail spectacularly.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Yeah, okay, and at least people were watching the same Kits.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Yeah, no, that's true. Curiosity for the men's national verse
is with the A's a main couple of guys with
drums and rove azelas and that's about it. Actually, no,
they probably drew, okay, because it is the Yankees.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Oh yeah, I'm sure. Well, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
I'm seeing rows.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Look, man's going up there. There's the wildlife is taken.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Over for Joe Tory sitting behind home play.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
There is not a lot I think Joe Tory is
actually catching in this game right now. Yeah, I'm not
seeing a lot of people. I'm not the former MVP
Joe Torri.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Has your dad texted you back middle fingers yet?
Speaker 1 (03:37):
No? Not yet. I texted him and Fabiano boy perfect
game through eight, and neither of them texted me back.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
Fabiano is probably the fan that wouldn't even watch it
or know about it and then start tweeting like he
watched the whole game.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Oh no, no, no, here's who Fabiano is. Fabiano's the fans.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
He's got to be that guy, right, No, No, he's.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
The guy who would the Yankees would get a perfect game,
and he would go perfect game. They stink like that.
That's the kind of thing.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Because he because he is one of the prototypical children
from our era. If you won and we're on TV
a lot, he's one of your guys.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Here's the that's how he That's how all his fans
all Fabiana because they were all the teams that were
good in the seventies and eighties when he grew up.
He likes the Lakers and basketball, the Yankees and baseball,
the Cowboys and football, North Carolina and basketball. I mean
all his teams.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
What did he flip a coin for Duke or North Carolina.
I didn't know he was a Laker fan.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Oh oh yeah, yeah, Oh no, loves the Lakers. Yeah,
all the teams that were good in the early eighties.
That's who Fabiana likes. Really, that's everybody. Yankees, Cowboys, Lakers,
North Carolina and basketball.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
The huge Carl Lewis fan.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Oh sure, yeah, not Ben Johnson, he picked Carl Lewis. Yeah.
Absolute uh so again, uh, this is absolute history. We
are three out away, and you know, so many times
we look at this and say, yes, he's really gonna
get there. It's so tough, and he falls short. No, Yankee,
this is the A's Yeah. I think he's gonna get it.
I think he's gonna get it. We're gonna be talking
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about perfect game number twenty four at MLB history.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
So real quickly it would be twenty five. But there
was this day in Minnesota that we all remember. Sure,
thanks for nothing, Dave.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
I'll tell you no galaraga. I mean we could go
through a number of near misses.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Oh yeah that.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
So here we are the the Yankees are three outs away.
They're still batting in the top of the ninth ending.
Oh by the way, putting up run. They got three
runs in the top of the ninth. Now they're winning
eleven to nothing.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Grimm's got his hands on glue instead of ice.
Speaker 6 (05:47):
Nice, hey, mister Steinbrenner, are the Yankees back? Spider Tag,
Spider Tags, Spider Man, Spider Tags, Fighter tag.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
The middle of the ninth is here, the Aches lead eleven.
Nothing to Bingo. Herman will be out there for Major
League Baseball history.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
So is Brad Pitt turning his car his truck around
Right now, Dad, you have.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
To get back to the game, Dad, you have to
get back. I mean, really, wouldn't wouldn't this be the quintessential.
It's never It can't get any worse. This is rock
bottom for the A's. We're moving and we have we
have a perfect the first perfect game in eleven year.
It's like the biggest gap between perfect games I think
in baseball history. Like, I know, I've only seen twenty four,
but we get him more than every ten years, right, No.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
I mean a huge ga. Yeah, three from sixty four
to sixty eight when the Mound was the mound. Then
you had three in the eighties, four in the nineties too,
in the next decade, and then Felix was the last,
right yeah, and Felix was the last.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
M Yeahea Felix or Nandez and Philip Humber did it
like back to back years? Right? Well, you had three
in the same year, Joe twelve. Oh wow, Oh, Matt Kin,
that's right. I forgot about Matt Kine.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
You can forget about that is the Giants.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
That doesn't count giants, ten astros nothing.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Oh man, So here we are getting ready for I
hated that guy history. Uh So we'll have more in
this story coming up in a few minutes. Again, Uh,
Domingo harn needs to get through the ninth and against
the A's, where it could be a perfect game in
MLB history. Meanwhile, a big story out of the NFL
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today and and something that's going to play its way
in the next few days. Is there going to be
a number of suspensions, year long suspensions coming to NFL
players for gambling. Now we had heard potentially this was
coming for a while with Adam Schefter reports. Hey, the
gambling suspensions are coming, and you know, we'll have some
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fun with the with the uh uh, with with the
the actual rules and stuff in a few minutes. But
just think about this for a second, right, Like, here's
the NFL. They finally embrace gambling, and what happens. Players
are getting in trouble. And it's not a headline that
you couldn't see coming. Of course, you knew if everybody's
gambling players are gonna want to gamble. Of course players,
they know the game, they know what's going on. I'm
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allowed to gamble. I can gamble like oh, I can't
gamble on the NFL. Okay, but I can gamble on
college football. I gamble on other things. I have money,
now I can do all this. You knew this was
gonna be an issue. And look, I'm glad that the
that the NFL is, you know, is moving into this
this century with a Okay, we understand that people gamble
on games. But the thing that always gets me about this,
(08:34):
Mike is is that for the longest time the NFL,
it was fans were saying, you have to embrace gambling.
It's part of the future, It's where the game is headed.
Embrace gambling, Embrace gap What are you doing. You seem
like you're stuck in the in the seventeen hundreds when
you're when you when you're not embracing gambling. Everybody's gambled,
everybody's playing fantasy football, everybody's doing it. And then something
like this happens, and it's you say, we knew what happens.
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The players can't take it. Look when you happens when
you get next to gambling, this is what the NFL
is afraid of. You have a team in Vegas, what
are you doing? All these players are in trouble. It's
like you knew it was gonna be one or the other.
And in this case, it's the NFL saying, well, if
we're gonna be people are gonna go crazy on us
one way or the other. Let's take the way that
makes us some money. So yeah, okay, we're okay, we'll
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figure out the rest of these headlines with the players. Well,
but it.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Always goes back to, you know, as we talk about
with all of the the outliers as in the bad actors,
and I'm not saying that, you know, when you add
it all up together, it's not a number of people
that maybe you know, people can use as ammunition against
the league and everything, but it's a very small percentage
of players to get in trouble for different disciplinary things. Hell,
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in a lot of cases, it's been here's the same
guy at it again, that kind of situation. So it's
it's the rare the exception that we we have all
the talking points for whereas the NFL and the owners
and everybody else looked around and said, this is what
it increases and and the.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Rest of the players.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Right, because the players and the CBA and business deals
and everything else, they get half of every dollar that
comes in. That they looked around and said, yeah, we'll
we'll agree to whatever for the knuckleheads that and whatever
policies have to be put in, And some of them
are gonna be honest mistakes. Some of them are just
the you know, ignorance is not an excuse, right, you
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still still committed the infractions, So you'll take your year punishment,
which for a lot of these guys probably means the
end of their NFL careers. Good luck, you know, going
the back channels and circling back and hoping you get
a second shot. But you know, certainly for the league.
And I laugh at everybody doing the you know, Robert Ficker,
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the famous guy that would be quasi reading books and
shouting at Michael Jordan while pointing his finger at him
in Washington, and then later on it came out I
guess he got paid by Charles Barkley to do some
of that Jordan back in the day. But you know,
the same kind of thing. We've got our media folks
that have written their missives and now they're reading them
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aloud to you to tell you what a horrible scourge
this is on the league and society as all as
you know, it's it's an opportunity to expand things, opportunity
to make money, and it's pretty clear as day. Don't
do this. The checks will keep coming.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
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It is now over in Oakland. Do we have history?
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Time to find out from Nick kop Who's got breaking
news here from the Fox Sports radio studios.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Breaking news from Fox Sports.
Speaker 7 (11:49):
All right, guys, it is a final in Oakland, Domingo.
And Armand has just thrown the twenty fourth perfect game
in Major League Baseball history. The Yankees beat the A's
alvan and Nothing. Armand very efficient, just ninety nine pitches.
He had nine strikeouts, only six pitches to get through
that bottom of the ninth. He got through the A's
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quickly and so Arman the first perfect game since Felix
Hernandez did it in August of twenty twelve.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Thank you very much, Nick. There. It is the first
perfect game in eleven years in Major League baseball, and
if Dave Roberts had anything to say about it, this
would have been done after eight. I'm taking you out,
got eight, You're ninety two pitches.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Man.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
I can't have you out there for the ninth man.
Can't do it. Can't have you out there. Frostburg, it
up for you. You just come.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Frostburg had the idea for the next fallout boy cover, Okay,
go for it.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
No, he had ninety nine pitches, but an a wasn't one.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Oh, I will work on it. Well, we've got to
work shop. I had a workshop it, but it's workshopd
will workshop.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
It's good jumping off point.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Uh. The last five perfect games in MLB history?
Speaker 4 (13:04):
Okay, you ready, cants let's see.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Oh yes, the last five perfect games now? Uh coming
in tonight? You have tonight from Domingo Hermont. We talked
about the three that happened in twenty twelve, right, Felix Hernandez,
Matt Cain, Philip Humber. What were the two before that?
You guys remember the two perfect games in Major League Baseball?
Both were in twenty ten. Well that's Burley for sure. No,
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Burley was before that, he was before that. Yep, yep, No,
one was by a very famous pitcher who was really
good and one who I think was able to turn
his perfect game into a big broadcasting career for a
little while. Uh too soon on one of the guys, well,
well he pitched a perfect game.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
I gotta sayida game.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Roy Halliday, yes, twenty and Dallas Braden was the other. Yeah. Yeah.
Then suddenly Dallas.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Up thing to say tonight in the ninth inning.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Yeah apparently, Oh see too soon on that too soon?
On ye that that's too soon. That's too soon, that's
too soon.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
The ninth inning watching the A's fans all cheer for
min Mom was just crazy together.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Oh my goodness, yeah, my guy Burley, it was the
year before.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Yeah, it was, I mean, really something. I mean again,
twenty four and this is what this is why.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
We should be twenty five. We went over this.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
This is why when you go back and Clayton Kershaw
is like man seven innings ninety I was at ninety
pitches or seven innings. They took me out of the game.
Perfect game. We had a perfect game against the Twins.
I would have had that. Really, I keep going back
to that seven innings. You're perfect coming out of the game. Really, really,
come on, man, really, that's what you're doing. Really, But
here it is ninety nine pitches for Domingo Hermont, a
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perfect game for the New York Yankees.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Came came into the game with a five to ten era.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
It was just a few days ago there was a
story in the New York Post about him saying, I
don't have it like to the extent of I don't
have confidence. I have too many problems right now. I
don't know what's working and what's not. Now Here as
well that I'm perfect now, my name is etched in
baseball history forever.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
He's immortal. Yeah, eighteen game winner in twenty nineteen, four
wins in twenty two games. In twenty one, twenty twenty two,
he was two and five.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Man, I'll t that. In his postgame he said, we
are the sticky bandits.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
I'll tell you there are dozens of fans at this
game who will never forget they were there for a
perfect game?
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Will they give them a printed out ticket on the
way out so I'll ememorate it?
Speaker 4 (15:42):
He can one into that place.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Come on, man, they don't have a don't have printers there?
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Why is it making a zapping noise.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
They don't have.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
I had to go out of my way not to
get electrocuted in the booth there.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Oh no, I have no doubt. What's this river running
through the booth?
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Hey congratulates, which is to all two hundred and eighty
four fans. Bring this ticket stuff, but you will get
it free.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Here's a sandwich.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
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Speaker 1 (16:18):
Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon live from the tay Iraq dot Com studios. There,
we have just seen absolute history in Major League Baseball.
Baseball's been played now for the better part of one
hundred and forty years, and only twenty three times coming
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in tonight, have we seen a perfect game from a pitcher. Well,
as you mentioned a few minutes ago, make it twenty
four after Domingo Herman sets down twenty seven a's in order.
Here's how it sounded like the final out of the game,
and her.
Speaker 8 (16:54):
Mind there righty deals to the plate, swung on, grab
all a third.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
Donaldson's up with it.
Speaker 8 (16:59):
He throws to to Mingo, Herman has pitched a perfect
game for the fourth time in the history of the
New York Yankees. Perfection attained Hermon being mobbed at home
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plate by a fool Yankee tugout coming out to congratulate
the thirty year old from the Dominican Republic on a
chilly night in.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
Oakland, California.
Speaker 8 (17:31):
To Mingle, Herman has tossed the twenty fourth perfect game
in Major league history.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
Where's John Sterling?
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Justin Shackle on the call. Sterley's not traveling, not going
as much.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
He Michael kay is not on the call either.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
No, Well, because it was the A's we're going out
to Oakland. I'm not going to Oakland. We're not going there.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
Have the apostums all talk him in the booth now, other.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Guys can go. Dude, I'm not taking that trip. What
is someone gonna throw a perfect game? Come on? What
am I? Come on, It's not gonna happen. What Judge
is hurt? He's not gonna I'm not gonna miss a
four home run game from Judge. Yeah, I'm absolutely fine.
Not going to that one. Well, you also have to
take care of it.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
I got to imagine on the other side of the
other call when you look at the A's going yeah,
I mean this figures what else can we have in
twenty twenty?
Speaker 1 (18:16):
There you go, yeah, yeah, check that off your bingo car.
There it is.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
He playing in Vegas this weekend.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Hey, they play again tomorrow. There could be another perfect
game against the tomorrow. You never know the watch out
it could be what do you think.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
The opening line odds are for that?
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Uh? Now, this final out, I want to talk about
this for a second, because this was the final out.
You heard ground battle Josh Donaldson. This was not your
garden variety two hopper. Donaldson up with it, looked at
the seams and throw the first base. This was a
line drive that was hit. That was a that was
a that was a good play by Donalds.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
He picked it clean.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
It's not like he saved it. But this was a
one hop on the dirt, right, So it's a line
that hits the dirt for the first time and he
comes up with it on the side and makes the
throat at first, and he picks it really clean. That's
a pretty good play by Donaldson. And now you amp
it up and you realize that it's much different when
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you think about the end of a perfect game versus
the end of a no hitter, because guys in the
field no hitter are going, okay, no hitter. I just
have to do everything I can to get to the ball.
If I throw the ball into the stands, or if
I dive to catch it and I kick it, I'm
okay with an error because the pitcher still has a
no hitter. I can still be aggressive. Meanwhile, perfect game,
it's I gotta make this play. I can't kick this thing, man,
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I gotta be able to do it. I always look,
I always wanted the ball hit to me in when
there was a big situation in baseball or softball, because
I knew I would make the play and I wanted
the ball. But I'll tell you what last out of
a perfect game forget hit it somewhere else. Don't hit
to me. I'm not gonna be the guy that in
that moment something happens and I throw it away or
I just come up. I don't want that guy. That's
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the one time I would say, hit it someplace else.
I don't want it.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Did you I don't want to Did you use a
regulation glove with those panda hands, you know, actually didn't.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
He was always used a pretty big glove. I always
like to having a big glove because I felt like
I could catch. I could catch more balls with it,
could catch the world.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
I can watch a fourth perfect game in Yankee history,
and the first thrown against the A's since they were
back in Philadelphia, all the way back in nineteen oh
four when Cy Young did it.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Oh well, we gotta have the nineteen oh four game.
Later on, the a Is getting a perfect game thrown
against for the first time in one hundred and nineteen years.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Fall fall Off boyd a song.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
For that fall up boy and we gotta get the
mingo hermant in. All right, fine, what are you gonna replace?
Take out the Warriors or take out the Knicks. It
doesn't matter to put that do one in. No, but
I did. I would not want that ball hit to me.
And I know every baseball player. Oh, I got confidence,
I'll make it. No, I bet you there's lots of
guys who would say the same thing. No, no, not
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to me. I'm not gonna score a perfect game. Hit
it to me. It hit it hitted somebody else, So
I don't I don't want even even when it's coming
down to it in the seventh or right things, I'd
be like, I don't want the ball hit to me.
I don't don't hit to me. I'm not gonna I'm
not gonna go a little bit of a different psychology there.
And that's why you're a messting the metal of the
players there.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
But you know, with Donaldson here, as you said, you
know Frostburg, right, I mean that was a rope. Yeah,
he picked it off the off the field and off
and went with it. What becomes an easy throw over.
But man, it doesn't take nothing from it.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Amazing.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
Yeah, you don't want to be that guy that messes
it up, you know, that's just it.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
He's got a long time to make that.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Row that guy. I don't want to be that guy.
I'm not gonna come up.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
What would you know about pressure? Though?
Speaker 3 (21:46):
That is becoming the theme of the show these last
couple of weeks. What would you know?
Speaker 1 (21:51):
And you and you want to know something where where
life kind of comes full circle. So you know, I
coached my daughter's softball team and we're getting ready for
the state tournament right where hopefully hopefully gonna win the
state tournament. This year. We made to the Semis last year,
and uh so today we we had practice and I
wanted to have a practice where we had live VP.
So there's only you know, you know, ten or eleven
(22:12):
girls on the team. You know, that's our roster, and
a couple of them are away there. Well yeah, it's
all stars, five people. Yeah, you gotta play nine. You
gotta play nine, and we have to eleven. Yeah. Yeah,
Well because because that that's the we we took all
the girls that were that were good enough to play,
that we thought were enough to be All Stars. That's
kind of it.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
That's kind of where you draw the line.
Speaker 6 (22:34):
No watering down and having rostered depth for Smith and
his crown.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
No, well we're going with eleven.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
We've got our we've got our team.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
What do you Here's the thing is that you want
all the this is part. You want all the girls
to have a great All Star experience because there's a
lot of practice for the month and a half, you know,
going through and playing tournaments, and when you go to
the state tournament, everybody on your team has to play
and has to hit. So if you so now you
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got girls who are gonna be coming, if you take
a roster of like fifteen girls. Hey, that's great that
fifteen girls get to be All Stars. But guess what,
you're coming to practice and busting your ass the whole time,
and then it gets to tournaments and you're maybe playing
an inning and you're batting once. I mean, what kind
of experience is that, you know, because everybody's got to play,
that's the rule. Everybody who's on the roster has to play,
and they have they have to hit in the batting order.
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So you got to go one through however long that was.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
You just did want those fourteenth and fifteenth round.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
No, no, no, it didn't know we you didn't want
to have to pick your spot, just like you didn't
want the ball hit to you in the seventh, eighth
or ninth fitting. Well, no, here's the thing about not
getting the ball out to me. So because we have
eleven and a couple of them were missing because you
know they're they're leaving early for the for the long weekend. Uh,
so we're doing live BP and so one of the
other coach and I like, you know what, we'll step
in and play positions. So we could have nine. So
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everybody hitting when when they're hitting for live VP, they
could have nine. So I go in and you know
for the last few year. No, I haven't played soft pipe.
I played for a long time. I was a great player,
like I had. I had nine hundred one year in saft. Well,
I was a good salt.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
Did you wear your hat backwards like Griffy?
Speaker 1 (24:05):
No? No, no, come on, man, respect the game. Man
wear it forward, always wear it for ye And I
was really I played shortstop, I played center field. I
was really good player. But I haven't played competitively really
since I started my radio career, Like it was over
at that point because I couldn't play at night anymore
because I was hosting all night and then I'm on
with you. So I just don't play anymore. So now
I coach, which is what I want to do. So
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I really haven't taken a ground ball and anger in
a long long time, like almost almost twenty years. So
today at practice, I'm like, okay, so here's the first Okay,
so let's do here, you go, here, you go here,
I'll play first base since our first baseman was hitting right,
I'll play second base now because so then I went
after a couple of times when our third base and
shortstops were hitting, and that was and that's that's that's
(24:46):
my daughter, Zoe. It's this other girl who's phenomenal, Khalia,
this other girl, Debra. They're well, I'm like, okay, you
know what, you guys play short I'll play third base
because that was my that was mainly my position, as
I get always playing third base. And so the first
batter up is Zoe and and she gets and she
rips a one, one hot grounder to my left that
I just have don't even have a shot at. And
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it's at this point I realize I am really ill
equipped to feel the ground ball at this point. And
so then and the other two girls are big power
hitters too, and they come up and I'm going, they're
just gonna rip a ball down here. And I'm not
afraid of the line drive, but I'm like, if I
get a grounder and I get a ball that comes
up and hits me in the face or something, I'm going,
this is not gonna go well. So the entire time
(25:29):
I'm at third base, I'm thinking, I don't I don't
want the ball hit to me. I do not want
the ball hit the ball, And of course, you know
the ball finds me because they hit a couple of rounders.
They're like, oh man, and I like, oh, lay a
couple of balls. The girls are going, oh, come on, coach,
come on, coach. I'm like, ah, you know, I'm fifty.
Come on, you girls have to make the play. I tried.
I tried. I'm going I just want to get out
of here. Man, I want to get out of here
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with my teeth because I am really not equipped to
field a ground ball. That's how I would have been
out there with Josh Donelson. I am not equipped to
handle the ball in this kind of pressure. Hit the
ball somebody else, not me. I think it might have.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Been pretty cool if one of the girls, uh laid
down a bunt on you.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
You know, one of them tried and I ran in
and I'm like, don't do that again. You don't do
that again. I'm not doing it again again.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
It's a wide berth for the word run.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Don't do that again, no, I I well, no, no, no.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
Yoga.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Well, you're not supposed to You're not supposed to run
all the way. You're supposed to kind of come in
at three quarter speed because they can pull the bat
back and then you don't want to be too close.
So I went in but still me at three quarter speed,
one run from a couple of steps behind the bag
at third to like even with the pitcher's mound. I'm like,
don't do that again. I'm not running. Don't do it again.
Just hit you don't bunch, just it, just it, just it.
And she didn't. She didn't bunt again, so that would
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have been okay, there you go, all right, just like
Donaldson hit the ball, someplays else not to me. I mean,
that's some kind of pressure play for him to make
a one hop and he picks a clean That really
was something, Jason.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
I'll say it again. What would you know about?
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (27:01):
I mean, and you pull it back. I mean again.
You know two big headlines that come out of this,
one saying quote, dude busted for having a legal substance
on hand. Twice in twenty three he throws perfect game.
It's parody account, of course. The other on June twenty second,
he allowed ten runs against the Mariners, first guy in
MLB history to throw a perfect game after allowing double
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digit runs in his previous start.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Man, you know there's more, there's more to get to
with that coming up in a couple of minutes, because
that's that's really, you know more at the heart of
this game as well. We talked about the final out
Domingo Harman again in twenty fourth pitcher in MLB history
to throw a perfect game.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
He responded better getting caught with a sticky substance.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
And sure, dude, we say twenty four and a half.
Speaker 5 (27:49):
I mean Kershaw's day in Minnesota has got to be
worth a half, right, will.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
In Ormando Galarraga, don't forget that perfect game. It should
have been could have been twenty.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Five because he legitimately got I mean, he got screwed
by a call. I mean, Dave is just he's day.
Speaker 4 (28:02):
What about Andres the Big Cat.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
The big cat El Grande Gatto.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
Uh, let's say that on a T shirt.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
You could say that's big Cat.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
I'm not sure.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Goto cat Goto.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
Would dump it. I'm gonna need to dump.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
And okay that I don't know that you could see
it would be it would be grand You would use
grande if you put it after.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
So L L L gatto Grande. There you go, all right, yeah,
because you do it. That's right. The the yes it
is it does come after you. I finot understand you know,
you do a pretty good Keanu Reeves. That is pretty good,
ty shirt I got do you practice that?
Speaker 5 (28:42):
A lot of actually practice on air?
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Apparently, I'm just I'm just pressing it now with you.
It's definitely no, it is it is it. It's pretty good.
I'm I'm being honest with you. That's a pretty good
Keanu Reeves impression.
Speaker 4 (28:56):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
You should go on TV shows and do interviews or
radio shows, do interviews as.
Speaker 4 (29:00):
I could definitely do the radio ones.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Yeah, No, TV be too tough. I've had to say radio.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
Yeah, I have to grow my hair out.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
You are Yeah, you just just talking and say things
like that. It's perfect need a gun, all right, Well
you have to give actual life. Hello. Thank you for
having me.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
Oh I can do that here.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
We things like that too.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
I appreciate the invite. Jason, Okay, a.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Little bit a little bit less, uh, you know, I'm I'm, I'm,
I'm I'm doing something else while I'm talking to you.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
I was gonna say that was kind of a how
you doing kind of a kind of responsor.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
That's a little bit of I'm trying to open this
jar of peanuts and just two difficult are making me thirsty?
Do it right here.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
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Speaker 1 (29:51):
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Or we are breaking down the twenty fourth perfect game
in Major League Baseball history Yankees Domingo Herman twenty seven up,
twenty seven down against the A's, which is the equivalent
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of a complete game shutout against just about any other
team in baseball. But it's the A's, but it still counts.
It's still a perfect game. One hundred years from now,
no one's gonna remember that was the year the A's
couldn't get anybody and they had that reverse boycott and
they moved to Vegas.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Ah No, this perfect part part of the next A's
movie when they finally get sold and they win something
in Las Vegas. This has got to be part of
the journey.
Speaker 9 (30:37):
Money didn't hit a real row when Domingo Hermand, who'd
been awful and he'd give it up ten runs in
his prior shoot up, and who'd been busted multiple times
for the sticky stuff on his hands, came in and dominated,
I mean to four and a half with this performance.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Look, Moneyball ends with the twentieth one row. How does
Moneyball to end with the A's getting a perfect game
thrown against them? Said? And then it's the and then
it's the white over black and after this year, the
A's moved to Las Vegas.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
That's not how it ends, is it.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
That's how Moneyball too, it end wins. Well, the first
one ended with the twentieth win.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
They're they're winning streak.
Speaker 4 (31:20):
He cost in these movie studios.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Gosh, man, well to do it?
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Okay, But you know you you talked about something that's
a really big deal. What baseball has that other sports don't.
And you hear all the time that baseball is about failure, right,
because ah, you know, a great, someone who's great in
baseball fails seven out of ten times.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
Right?
Speaker 1 (31:42):
You've been told that how many times over your life?
You've seen it in so many different TV shows where
writers think, oh, you know, baseball is about let me
write about that, and the best players fail seven. Tony
Gwinn was the best hitter ever lived, and he failed
seven out of ten times. Yeah, okay, everybody gets that.
But what baseball gives you that other sports don't it.
It's a little about failure, but that's not what it is,
(32:02):
is that baseball constantly allows you to hit reset and
move on from failure, more so than any other sport.
Because look at Herman. Right, his two starts to go
against Boston, he went two innings and gave up seven runs,
all earned. Right then his next start against Seattle a
few days ago, three innings, eight hits, eight runs. Right,
(32:24):
this is a bad stretch here, and hey, the guy's
got to figure it out. But this is what happens.
Pitchers go through lulls up and down that here he
is out in Oakland, complete game, perfect game, twenty fourth
in Major League Baseball history. In all other sports, when
you are going bad, you do not get the chance
to bounce back from failure. If you're a quarterback and
(32:45):
you throw three picks in a game, the next chance
you're gonna get to get back at that is in
a week. And are you gonna really throw four touchdowns
and you fix everything for four games? You don't get
that chance in the NBA. If you're going bad for
a while, I guess what you're gonna find yourself out
of the rotation. You're gonna find so much you not
gonna get the chances. You're not gonna shoot the ball
as much they're gonna get. They're gonna gain plan a
way around you. Because that's just how the NBA goes.
(33:07):
But Major League Baseball is predicated on every day. Is
an even slats why you can't get too high and
too low in a baseball season because every day is different. Right.
The old phrase momentum is only as good as the
next day starting pitcher, which is which is very true
to an extent. But just think about this, and baseball
is not about failure as much. It's about it gives
you the chance to move on from failure and reinvent
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yourself and get a fresh start and clear your head,
more so than any other sport. Because here's Domingo Herman,
who's had chance after chance to get going. The guy's
thirty years old and he's had issues up and down,
but here he is still getting a chance to play. It's,
you know, in football or basketball, his career would be
over by now. That's it. The guy can't do it.
He's not this but In baseball, you keep getting chances,
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and you get to have nights like tonight when it
suddenly all magically works for you. The next game. It
could be the same as Alaska. I. You pitch the
next game and go three and to give up eight
rong and he's out again. But baseball always gives you
that chance to move on from failure. No other sport
does that. And you're able to keep your confidence in
baseball more than you are in other sports because you
(34:11):
get that chance the next day. Okay, you know what,
tonight was zero for three. I don't feel good about it.
You know, I struck out three times. I made an
error in second base. Not my night. But you know what,
we got a game coming up in like thirteen hours,
and I got to be ready for that. And everything
starts new. And I make a play in the first
inning and I draw a walk or or a bleeder,
you know, in the first thing, and I get a
base hit the first time up, and everything changes for me.
(34:33):
I mean, baseball gives you that chance. No other sports due.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
It's the ultimate story of redemption. It's why Terrence Mann
wrote about it so brilliantly. It's voiced by James Earl
Jones right as you go through the history of the game, right,
it's the ebb and flow. So how can you not
be romantic about baseball? All of that stuff, the things
you see nightly that when was the last this, and
(34:57):
stat sync or some other stats company. It's gonna tell you.
I mean, I can't wait to see all the different
uh spidering effects and storylines that come out of this
performance from Jermon. But uh, you know, to your point
about failing, you know, seven out of ten times, I
think we're gonna have a new metric that eventually comes
(35:18):
up and challenges that old theory because you could still
have a good at bat and making out right, sure, right,
Tony Quintin, you said, hey, seven out of ten, all right,
not quite seven, six, six and some change. But how
many of those at bats did he draw an extra
couple of pitches? Follow a couple of pitches off to
get a look at what the guy had because he
knew back in the day you were gonna see him
(35:39):
a second time. Nowaday, you don't, you don't bank on that. Uh,
So you're working, you're working to get to the bullpen,
working to.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
Stretch that pitcher.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
I mean, there's gonna be a whole new metric where, yes,
you've got batting average, but you're gonna have you've already
got ball batting average on balls and play. Now we're
gonna extend it to did you have some effect on
the over arching uh? And not just that immediate beat.
That's that's what I'm challenging your conventional wisdom right here.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
Wow, Okay, well I think that's about baseball. Thought, that's fine,
that's fine, But look, it's it's it's that this is
what baseball has that other sports don't have, that that
people don't want to get into. You could talk about
the mysticism, the romanticism of baseball, but certain things that
and life lessons that you can apply out of baseball.
(36:26):
I don't want to get too syrope. And but that's
like you said, how can you not be romantic about baseball?
But but that's what it is. I mean, you know,
her mom has had some kind of crip. But now
I have this and maybe this is a springboard, but
if not, it's the one moment that everybody will He'll
think about this game every day for the rest of
his life, for the rest of his life. He's gonna do.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
He's gonna make money for the rest of his life.
He got a chance to see inscriptions forever.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
Baby.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
Yeah, there it is, yeah, d G zero, you know, perfect,
whatever it is. But legitimately, I mean, he's gonna be
able to charge seventy five or more per inscription for
the rest of his life. Man, I'll tell you that's
cash flow. We have more in this breaking story, the
twenty fourth perfect game in Major League Baseball history Yankees
beat the A's coming up next right here, Jason and Mike,
(37:14):
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dad and Babiano and I just said, Wow, perfect game
through eight and I'm waiting to see what they x
back as Domingo Herman is three outs away from the
twenty fourth perfect game in Major League Baseball history. Yankees
(01:13):
lead the A's right now eight nothing Naga nine nothing
now as they're batting in the top of the ninth inning,
So the game is clearly not in any kind of
dispute anymore. But Herman will take the mound for the
ninth inning at ninety three pitches. Here in this Dave Roberts.
Here's Dave Roberts. Ninety three pitches going back out there
(01:33):
to try to get a perfect game. Ninety three pitches,
nine strikeouts, of course, no hits, no walks, no errors,
three errors by the A's and they will have, of course,
the bottom of the batting order coming up to try
to avoid another in a long line of bad stigmas
this year from a team that's the worst team in baseball.
(01:54):
We're moving. Nobody likes us, reverse boycott. Now we can
get a perfect game thrown against us again. Yankees batting
in the top of the night, thinking Domingo Herman, just
three outs away from what would be the first perfect
game since twenty twelve.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Now, a couple of things here. Number one, do you
lean into one?
Speaker 1 (02:15):
You may get a no hitter, but I am not
giving you a.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Perfect a bunch. Do you lean into one?
Speaker 4 (02:20):
I mean, I'm asking for a friend, Mike.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
Just remember it probably hurts more coming from him because
he has better grip than most people.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
This is true. You know what I mean, I do, man,
I'll tell you the A's tonight worst night. We're worst
night tonight, the aids and stop stop they're only the
third worst night, worst night tonight the A's or Saint Kits.
Who's who's having the worst night?
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Well both respects. I mean, if you're gonna fail, fail spectacularly.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Yeah, okay, and at least people were watching the same Kits.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Yeah, no, that's true. Curiosity for the men's national verse
is with the A's a main couple of guys with
drums and rove azelas and that's about it. Actually, no,
they probably drew, okay, because it is the Yankees.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Oh yeah, I'm sure. Well, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
I'm seeing rows.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Look, man's going up there. There's the wildlife is taken.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Over for Joe Tory sitting behind home play.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
There is not a lot I think Joe Tory is
actually catching in this game right now. Yeah, I'm not
seeing a lot of people. I'm not the former MVP
Joe Torri.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Has your dad texted you back middle fingers yet?
Speaker 1 (03:37):
No? Not yet. I texted him and Fabiano boy perfect
game through eight, and neither of them texted me back.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
Fabiano is probably the fan that wouldn't even watch it
or know about it and then start tweeting like he
watched the whole game.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Oh no, no, no, here's who Fabiano is. Fabiano's the fans.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
He's got to be that guy, right, No, No, he's.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
The guy who would the Yankees would get a perfect game,
and he would go perfect game. They stink like that.
That's the kind of thing.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Because he because he is one of the prototypical children
from our era. If you won and we're on TV
a lot, he's one of your guys.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Here's the that's how he That's how all his fans
all Fabiana because they were all the teams that were
good in the seventies and eighties when he grew up.
He likes the Lakers and basketball, the Yankees and baseball,
the Cowboys and football, North Carolina and basketball. I mean
all his teams.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
What did he flip a coin for Duke or North Carolina.
I didn't know he was a Laker fan.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Oh oh yeah, yeah, Oh no, loves the Lakers. Yeah,
all the teams that were good in the early eighties.
That's who Fabiana likes. Really, that's everybody. Yankees, Cowboys, Lakers,
North Carolina and basketball.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
The huge Carl Lewis fan.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Oh sure, yeah, not Ben Johnson, he picked Carl Lewis. Yeah.
Absolute uh so again, uh, this is absolute history. We
are three out away, and you know, so many times
we look at this and say, yes, he's really gonna
get there. It's so tough, and he falls short. No, Yankee,
this is the A's Yeah. I think he's gonna get it.
I think he's gonna get it. We're gonna be talking
(05:11):
about perfect game number twenty four at MLB history.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
So real quickly it would be twenty five. But there
was this day in Minnesota that we all remember. Sure,
thanks for nothing, Dave.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
I'll tell you no galaraga. I mean we could go
through a number of near misses.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Oh yeah that.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
So here we are the the Yankees are three outs away.
They're still batting in the top of the ninth ending.
Oh by the way, putting up run. They got three
runs in the top of the ninth. Now they're winning
eleven to nothing.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Grimm's got his hands on glue instead of ice.
Speaker 6 (05:47):
Nice, hey, mister Steinbrenner, are the Yankees back? Spider Tag,
Spider Tags, Spider Man, Spider Tags, Fighter tag.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
The middle of the ninth is here, the Aches lead eleven.
Nothing to Bingo. Herman will be out there for Major
League Baseball history.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
So is Brad Pitt turning his car his truck around
Right now, Dad, you have.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
To get back to the game, Dad, you have to
get back. I mean, really, wouldn't wouldn't this be the quintessential.
It's never It can't get any worse. This is rock
bottom for the A's. We're moving and we have we
have a perfect the first perfect game in eleven year.
It's like the biggest gap between perfect games I think
in baseball history. Like, I know, I've only seen twenty four,
but we get him more than every ten years, right, No.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
I mean a huge ga. Yeah, three from sixty four
to sixty eight when the Mound was the mound. Then
you had three in the eighties, four in the nineties too,
in the next decade, and then Felix was the last,
right yeah, and Felix was the last.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
M Yeahea Felix or Nandez and Philip Humber did it
like back to back years? Right? Well, you had three
in the same year, Joe twelve. Oh wow, Oh, Matt Kin,
that's right. I forgot about Matt Kine.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
You can forget about that is the Giants.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
That doesn't count giants, ten astros nothing.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Oh man, So here we are getting ready for I
hated that guy history. Uh So we'll have more in
this story coming up in a few minutes. Again, Uh,
Domingo harn needs to get through the ninth and against
the A's, where it could be a perfect game in
MLB history. Meanwhile, a big story out of the NFL
(07:31):
today and and something that's going to play its way
in the next few days. Is there going to be
a number of suspensions, year long suspensions coming to NFL
players for gambling. Now we had heard potentially this was
coming for a while with Adam Schefter reports. Hey, the
gambling suspensions are coming, and you know, we'll have some
(07:51):
fun with the with the uh uh, with with the
the actual rules and stuff in a few minutes. But
just think about this for a second, right, Like, here's
the NFL. They finally embrace gambling, and what happens. Players
are getting in trouble. And it's not a headline that
you couldn't see coming. Of course, you knew if everybody's
gambling players are gonna want to gamble. Of course players,
they know the game, they know what's going on. I'm
(08:13):
allowed to gamble. I can gamble like oh, I can't
gamble on the NFL. Okay, but I can gamble on
college football. I gamble on other things. I have money,
now I can do all this. You knew this was
gonna be an issue. And look, I'm glad that the
that the NFL is, you know, is moving into this
this century with a Okay, we understand that people gamble
on games. But the thing that always gets me about this,
(08:34):
Mike is is that for the longest time the NFL,
it was fans were saying, you have to embrace gambling.
It's part of the future, It's where the game is headed.
Embrace gambling, Embrace gap What are you doing. You seem
like you're stuck in the in the seventeen hundreds when
you're when you when you're not embracing gambling. Everybody's gambled,
everybody's playing fantasy football, everybody's doing it. And then something
like this happens, and it's you say, we knew what happens.
(08:56):
The players can't take it. Look when you happens when
you get next to gambling, this is what the NFL
is afraid of. You have a team in Vegas, what
are you doing? All these players are in trouble. It's
like you knew it was gonna be one or the other.
And in this case, it's the NFL saying, well, if
we're gonna be people are gonna go crazy on us
one way or the other. Let's take the way that
makes us some money. So yeah, okay, we're okay, we'll
(09:17):
figure out the rest of these headlines with the players. Well,
but it.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Always goes back to, you know, as we talk about
with all of the the outliers as in the bad actors,
and I'm not saying that, you know, when you add
it all up together, it's not a number of people
that maybe you know, people can use as ammunition against
the league and everything, but it's a very small percentage
of players to get in trouble for different disciplinary things. Hell,
(09:43):
in a lot of cases, it's been here's the same
guy at it again, that kind of situation. So it's
it's the rare the exception that we we have all
the talking points for whereas the NFL and the owners
and everybody else looked around and said, this is what
it increases and and the.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Rest of the players.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Right, because the players and the CBA and business deals
and everything else, they get half of every dollar that
comes in. That they looked around and said, yeah, we'll
we'll agree to whatever for the knuckleheads that and whatever
policies have to be put in, And some of them
are gonna be honest mistakes. Some of them are just
the you know, ignorance is not an excuse, right, you
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still still committed the infractions, So you'll take your year punishment,
which for a lot of these guys probably means the
end of their NFL careers. Good luck, you know, going
the back channels and circling back and hoping you get
a second shot. But you know, certainly for the league.
And I laugh at everybody doing the you know, Robert Ficker,
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the famous guy that would be quasi reading books and
shouting at Michael Jordan while pointing his finger at him
in Washington, and then later on it came out I
guess he got paid by Charles Barkley to do some
of that Jordan back in the day. But you know,
the same kind of thing. We've got our media folks
that have written their missives and now they're reading them
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aloud to you to tell you what a horrible scourge
this is on the league and society as all as
you know, it's it's an opportunity to expand things, opportunity
to make money, and it's pretty clear as day. Don't
do this. The checks will keep coming.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Twitter at how about a fresco? Mike gets swollen down
the Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon.
It is now over in Oakland. Do we have history?
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Time to find out from Nick kop Who's got breaking
news here from the Fox Sports radio studios.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Breaking news from Fox Sports.
Speaker 7 (11:49):
All right, guys, it is a final in Oakland, Domingo.
And Armand has just thrown the twenty fourth perfect game
in Major League Baseball history. The Yankees beat the A's
alvan and Nothing. Armand very efficient, just ninety nine pitches.
He had nine strikeouts, only six pitches to get through
that bottom of the ninth. He got through the A's
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quickly and so Arman the first perfect game since Felix
Hernandez did it in August of twenty twelve.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Thank you very much, Nick. There. It is the first
perfect game in eleven years in Major League baseball, and
if Dave Roberts had anything to say about it, this
would have been done after eight. I'm taking you out,
got eight, You're ninety two pitches.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Man.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
I can't have you out there for the ninth man.
Can't do it. Can't have you out there. Frostburg, it
up for you. You just come.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Frostburg had the idea for the next fallout boy cover, Okay,
go for it.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
No, he had ninety nine pitches, but an a wasn't one.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Oh, I will work on it. Well, we've got to
work shop. I had a workshop it, but it's workshopd
will workshop.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
It's good jumping off point.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Uh. The last five perfect games in MLB history?
Speaker 4 (13:04):
Okay, you ready, cants let's see.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Oh yes, the last five perfect games now? Uh coming
in tonight? You have tonight from Domingo Hermont. We talked
about the three that happened in twenty twelve, right, Felix Hernandez,
Matt Cain, Philip Humber. What were the two before that?
You guys remember the two perfect games in Major League Baseball?
Both were in twenty ten. Well that's Burley for sure. No,
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Burley was before that, he was before that. Yep, yep, No,
one was by a very famous pitcher who was really
good and one who I think was able to turn
his perfect game into a big broadcasting career for a
little while. Uh too soon on one of the guys, well,
well he pitched a perfect game.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
I gotta sayida game.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Roy Halliday, yes, twenty and Dallas Braden was the other. Yeah. Yeah.
Then suddenly Dallas.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Up thing to say tonight in the ninth inning.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Yeah apparently, Oh see too soon on that too soon?
On ye that that's too soon. That's too soon, that's
too soon.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
The ninth inning watching the A's fans all cheer for
min Mom was just crazy together.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Oh my goodness, yeah, my guy Burley, it was the
year before.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Yeah, it was, I mean, really something. I mean again,
twenty four and this is what this is why.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
We should be twenty five. We went over this.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
This is why when you go back and Clayton Kershaw
is like man seven innings ninety I was at ninety
pitches or seven innings. They took me out of the game.
Perfect game. We had a perfect game against the Twins.
I would have had that. Really, I keep going back
to that seven innings. You're perfect coming out of the game. Really, really,
come on, man, really, that's what you're doing. Really, But
here it is ninety nine pitches for Domingo Hermont, a
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perfect game for the New York Yankees.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Came came into the game with a five to ten era.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
It was just a few days ago there was a
story in the New York Post about him saying, I
don't have it like to the extent of I don't
have confidence. I have too many problems right now. I
don't know what's working and what's not. Now Here as
well that I'm perfect now, my name is etched in
baseball history forever.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
He's immortal. Yeah, eighteen game winner in twenty nineteen, four
wins in twenty two games. In twenty one, twenty twenty two,
he was two and five.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Man, I'll t that. In his postgame he said, we
are the sticky bandits.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
I'll tell you there are dozens of fans at this
game who will never forget they were there for a
perfect game?
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Will they give them a printed out ticket on the
way out so I'll ememorate it?
Speaker 4 (15:42):
He can one into that place.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Come on, man, they don't have a don't have printers there?
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Why is it making a zapping noise.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
They don't have.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
I had to go out of my way not to
get electrocuted in the booth there.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Oh no, I have no doubt. What's this river running
through the booth?
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Hey congratulates, which is to all two hundred and eighty
four fans. Bring this ticket stuff, but you will get
it free.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Here's a sandwich.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern seven
pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon live from the tay Iraq dot Com studios. There,
we have just seen absolute history in Major League Baseball.
Baseball's been played now for the better part of one
hundred and forty years, and only twenty three times coming
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in tonight, have we seen a perfect game from a pitcher. Well,
as you mentioned a few minutes ago, make it twenty
four after Domingo Herman sets down twenty seven a's in order.
Here's how it sounded like the final out of the game,
and her.
Speaker 8 (16:54):
Mind there righty deals to the plate, swung on, grab
all a third.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
Donaldson's up with it.
Speaker 8 (16:59):
He throws to to Mingo, Herman has pitched a perfect
game for the fourth time in the history of the
New York Yankees. Perfection attained Hermon being mobbed at home
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plate by a fool Yankee tugout coming out to congratulate
the thirty year old from the Dominican Republic on a
chilly night in.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
Oakland, California.
Speaker 8 (17:31):
To Mingle, Herman has tossed the twenty fourth perfect game
in Major league history.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
Where's John Sterling?
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Justin Shackle on the call. Sterley's not traveling, not going
as much.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
He Michael kay is not on the call either.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
No, Well, because it was the A's we're going out
to Oakland. I'm not going to Oakland. We're not going there.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
Have the apostums all talk him in the booth now, other.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Guys can go. Dude, I'm not taking that trip. What
is someone gonna throw a perfect game? Come on? What
am I? Come on, It's not gonna happen. What Judge
is hurt? He's not gonna I'm not gonna miss a
four home run game from Judge. Yeah, I'm absolutely fine.
Not going to that one. Well, you also have to
take care of it.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
I got to imagine on the other side of the
other call when you look at the A's going yeah,
I mean this figures what else can we have in
twenty twenty?
Speaker 1 (18:16):
There you go, yeah, yeah, check that off your bingo car.
There it is.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
He playing in Vegas this weekend.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Hey, they play again tomorrow. There could be another perfect
game against the tomorrow. You never know the watch out
it could be what do you think.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
The opening line odds are for that?
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Uh? Now, this final out, I want to talk about
this for a second, because this was the final out.
You heard ground battle Josh Donaldson. This was not your
garden variety two hopper. Donaldson up with it, looked at
the seams and throw the first base. This was a
line drive that was hit. That was a that was
a that was a good play by Donalds.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
He picked it clean.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
It's not like he saved it. But this was a
one hop on the dirt, right, So it's a line
that hits the dirt for the first time and he
comes up with it on the side and makes the
throat at first, and he picks it really clean. That's
a pretty good play by Donaldson. And now you amp
it up and you realize that it's much different when
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you think about the end of a perfect game versus
the end of a no hitter, because guys in the
field no hitter are going, okay, no hitter. I just
have to do everything I can to get to the ball.
If I throw the ball into the stands, or if
I dive to catch it and I kick it, I'm
okay with an error because the pitcher still has a
no hitter. I can still be aggressive. Meanwhile, perfect game,
it's I gotta make this play. I can't kick this thing, man,
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I gotta be able to do it. I always look,
I always wanted the ball hit to me in when
there was a big situation in baseball or softball, because
I knew I would make the play and I wanted
the ball. But I'll tell you what last out of
a perfect game forget hit it somewhere else. Don't hit
to me. I'm not gonna be the guy that in
that moment something happens and I throw it away or
I just come up. I don't want that guy. That's
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the one time I would say, hit it someplace else.
I don't want it.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Did you I don't want to Did you use a
regulation glove with those panda hands, you know, actually didn't.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
He was always used a pretty big glove. I always
like to having a big glove because I felt like
I could catch. I could catch more balls with it,
could catch the world.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
I can watch a fourth perfect game in Yankee history,
and the first thrown against the A's since they were
back in Philadelphia, all the way back in nineteen oh
four when Cy Young did it.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Oh well, we gotta have the nineteen oh four game.
Later on, the a Is getting a perfect game thrown
against for the first time in one hundred and nineteen years.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Fall fall Off boyd a song.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
For that fall up boy and we gotta get the
mingo hermant in. All right, fine, what are you gonna replace?
Take out the Warriors or take out the Knicks. It
doesn't matter to put that do one in. No, but
I did. I would not want that ball hit to me.
And I know every baseball player. Oh, I got confidence,
I'll make it. No, I bet you there's lots of
guys who would say the same thing. No, no, not
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to me. I'm not gonna score a perfect game. Hit
it to me. It hit it hitted somebody else, So
I don't I don't want even even when it's coming
down to it in the seventh or right things, I'd
be like, I don't want the ball hit to me.
I don't don't hit to me. I'm not gonna I'm
not gonna go a little bit of a different psychology there.
And that's why you're a messting the metal of the
players there.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
But you know, with Donaldson here, as you said, you
know Frostburg, right, I mean that was a rope. Yeah,
he picked it off the off the field and off
and went with it. What becomes an easy throw over.
But man, it doesn't take nothing from it.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Amazing.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
Yeah, you don't want to be that guy that messes
it up, you know, that's just it.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
He's got a long time to make that.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Row that guy. I don't want to be that guy.
I'm not gonna come up.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
What would you know about pressure? Though?
Speaker 3 (21:46):
That is becoming the theme of the show these last
couple of weeks. What would you know?
Speaker 1 (21:51):
And you and you want to know something where where
life kind of comes full circle. So you know, I
coached my daughter's softball team and we're getting ready for
the state tournament right where hopefully hopefully gonna win the
state tournament. This year. We made to the Semis last year,
and uh so today we we had practice and I
wanted to have a practice where we had live VP.
So there's only you know, you know, ten or eleven
(22:12):
girls on the team. You know, that's our roster, and
a couple of them are away there. Well yeah, it's
all stars, five people. Yeah, you gotta play nine. You
gotta play nine, and we have to eleven. Yeah. Yeah,
Well because because that that's the we we took all
the girls that were that were good enough to play,
that we thought were enough to be All Stars. That's
kind of it.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
That's kind of where you draw the line.
Speaker 6 (22:34):
No watering down and having rostered depth for Smith and
his crown.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
No, well we're going with eleven.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
We've got our we've got our team.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
What do you Here's the thing is that you want
all the this is part. You want all the girls
to have a great All Star experience because there's a
lot of practice for the month and a half, you know,
going through and playing tournaments, and when you go to
the state tournament, everybody on your team has to play
and has to hit. So if you so now you
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got girls who are gonna be coming, if you take
a roster of like fifteen girls. Hey, that's great that
fifteen girls get to be All Stars. But guess what,
you're coming to practice and busting your ass the whole time,
and then it gets to tournaments and you're maybe playing
an inning and you're batting once. I mean, what kind
of experience is that, you know, because everybody's got to play,
that's the rule. Everybody who's on the roster has to play,
and they have they have to hit in the batting order.
(23:23):
So you got to go one through however long that was.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
You just did want those fourteenth and fifteenth round.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
No, no, no, it didn't know we you didn't want
to have to pick your spot, just like you didn't
want the ball hit to you in the seventh, eighth
or ninth fitting. Well, no, here's the thing about not
getting the ball out to me. So because we have
eleven and a couple of them were missing because you
know they're they're leaving early for the for the long weekend. Uh,
so we're doing live BP and so one of the
other coach and I like, you know what, we'll step
in and play positions. So we could have nine. So
(23:51):
everybody hitting when when they're hitting for live VP, they
could have nine. So I go in and you know
for the last few year. No, I haven't played soft pipe.
I played for a long time. I was a great player,
like I had. I had nine hundred one year in saft. Well,
I was a good salt.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
Did you wear your hat backwards like Griffy?
Speaker 1 (24:05):
No? No, no, come on, man, respect the game. Man
wear it forward, always wear it for ye And I
was really I played shortstop, I played center field. I
was really good player. But I haven't played competitively really
since I started my radio career, Like it was over
at that point because I couldn't play at night anymore
because I was hosting all night and then I'm on
with you. So I just don't play anymore. So now
I coach, which is what I want to do. So
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I really haven't taken a ground ball and anger in
a long long time, like almost almost twenty years. So
today at practice, I'm like, okay, so here's the first Okay,
so let's do here, you go, here, you go here,
I'll play first base since our first baseman was hitting right,
I'll play second base now because so then I went
after a couple of times when our third base and
shortstops were hitting, and that was and that's that's that's
(24:46):
my daughter, Zoe. It's this other girl who's phenomenal, Khalia,
this other girl, Debra. They're well, I'm like, okay, you
know what, you guys play short I'll play third base
because that was my that was mainly my position, as
I get always playing third base. And so the first
batter up is Zoe and and she gets and she
rips a one, one hot grounder to my left that
I just have don't even have a shot at. And
(25:07):
it's at this point I realize I am really ill
equipped to feel the ground ball at this point. And
so then and the other two girls are big power
hitters too, and they come up and I'm going, they're
just gonna rip a ball down here. And I'm not
afraid of the line drive, but I'm like, if I
get a grounder and I get a ball that comes
up and hits me in the face or something, I'm going,
this is not gonna go well. So the entire time
(25:29):
I'm at third base, I'm thinking, I don't I don't
want the ball hit to me. I do not want
the ball hit the ball, And of course, you know
the ball finds me because they hit a couple of rounders.
They're like, oh man, and I like, oh, lay a
couple of balls. The girls are going, oh, come on, coach,
come on, coach. I'm like, ah, you know, I'm fifty.
Come on, you girls have to make the play. I tried.
I tried. I'm going I just want to get out
of here. Man, I want to get out of here
(25:50):
with my teeth because I am really not equipped to
field a ground ball. That's how I would have been
out there with Josh Donelson. I am not equipped to
handle the ball in this kind of pressure. Hit the
ball somebody else, not me. I think it might have.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Been pretty cool if one of the girls, uh laid
down a bunt on you.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
You know, one of them tried and I ran in
and I'm like, don't do that again. You don't do
that again. I'm not doing it again again.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
It's a wide berth for the word run.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Don't do that again, no, I I well, no, no, no.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
Yoga.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Well, you're not supposed to You're not supposed to run
all the way. You're supposed to kind of come in
at three quarter speed because they can pull the bat
back and then you don't want to be too close.
So I went in but still me at three quarter speed,
one run from a couple of steps behind the bag
at third to like even with the pitcher's mound. I'm like,
don't do that again. I'm not running. Don't do it again.
Just hit you don't bunch, just it, just it, just it.
And she didn't. She didn't bunt again, so that would
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have been okay, there you go, all right, just like
Donaldson hit the ball, someplays else not to me. I mean,
that's some kind of pressure play for him to make
a one hop and he picks a clean That really
was something, Jason.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
I'll say it again. What would you know about?
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (27:01):
I mean, and you pull it back. I mean again.
You know two big headlines that come out of this,
one saying quote, dude busted for having a legal substance
on hand. Twice in twenty three he throws perfect game.
It's parody account, of course. The other on June twenty second,
he allowed ten runs against the Mariners, first guy in
MLB history to throw a perfect game after allowing double
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digit runs in his previous start.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Man, you know there's more, there's more to get to
with that coming up in a couple of minutes, because
that's that's really, you know more at the heart of
this game as well. We talked about the final out
Domingo Harman again in twenty fourth pitcher in MLB history
to throw a perfect game.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
He responded better getting caught with a sticky substance.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
And sure, dude, we say twenty four and a half.
Speaker 5 (27:49):
I mean Kershaw's day in Minnesota has got to be
worth a half, right, will.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
In Ormando Galarraga, don't forget that perfect game. It should
have been could have been twenty.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Five because he legitimately got I mean, he got screwed
by a call. I mean, Dave is just he's day.
Speaker 4 (28:02):
What about Andres the Big Cat.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
The big cat El Grande Gatto.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
Uh, let's say that on a T shirt.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
You could say that's big Cat.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
I'm not sure.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Goto cat Goto.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
Would dump it. I'm gonna need to dump.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
And okay that I don't know that you could see
it would be it would be grand You would use
grande if you put it after.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
So L L L gatto Grande. There you go, all right, yeah,
because you do it. That's right. The the yes it
is it does come after you. I finot understand you know,
you do a pretty good Keanu Reeves. That is pretty good,
ty shirt I got do you practice that?
Speaker 5 (28:42):
A lot of actually practice on air?
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Apparently, I'm just I'm just pressing it now with you.
It's definitely no, it is it is it. It's pretty good.
I'm I'm being honest with you. That's a pretty good
Keanu Reeves impression.
Speaker 4 (28:56):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
You should go on TV shows and do interviews or
radio shows, do interviews as.
Speaker 4 (29:00):
I could definitely do the radio ones.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Yeah, No, TV be too tough. I've had to say radio.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
Yeah, I have to grow my hair out.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
You are Yeah, you just just talking and say things
like that. It's perfect need a gun, all right, Well
you have to give actual life. Hello. Thank you for
having me.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
Oh I can do that here.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
We things like that too.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
I appreciate the invite. Jason, Okay, a.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Little bit a little bit less, uh, you know, I'm I'm, I'm,
I'm I'm doing something else while I'm talking to you.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
I was gonna say that was kind of a how
you doing kind of a kind of responsor.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
That's a little bit of I'm trying to open this
jar of peanuts and just two difficult are making me thirsty?
Do it right here.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon Live from the tai iraq dot Com Studios.
Or we are breaking down the twenty fourth perfect game
in Major League Baseball history Yankees Domingo Herman twenty seven up,
twenty seven down against the A's, which is the equivalent
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of a complete game shutout against just about any other
team in baseball. But it's the A's, but it still counts.
It's still a perfect game. One hundred years from now,
no one's gonna remember that was the year the A's
couldn't get anybody and they had that reverse boycott and
they moved to Vegas.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Ah No, this perfect part part of the next A's
movie when they finally get sold and they win something
in Las Vegas. This has got to be part of
the journey.
Speaker 9 (30:37):
Money didn't hit a real row when Domingo Hermand, who'd
been awful and he'd give it up ten runs in
his prior shoot up, and who'd been busted multiple times
for the sticky stuff on his hands, came in and dominated,
I mean to four and a half with this performance.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Look, Moneyball ends with the twentieth one row. How does
Moneyball to end with the A's getting a perfect game
thrown against them? Said? And then it's the and then
it's the white over black and after this year, the
A's moved to Las Vegas.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
That's not how it ends, is it.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
That's how Moneyball too, it end wins. Well, the first
one ended with the twentieth win.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
They're they're winning streak.
Speaker 4 (31:20):
He cost in these movie studios.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Gosh, man, well to do it?
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Okay, But you know you you talked about something that's
a really big deal. What baseball has that other sports don't.
And you hear all the time that baseball is about failure, right,
because ah, you know, a great, someone who's great in
baseball fails seven out of ten times.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
Right?
Speaker 1 (31:42):
You've been told that how many times over your life?
You've seen it in so many different TV shows where
writers think, oh, you know, baseball is about let me
write about that, and the best players fail seven. Tony
Gwinn was the best hitter ever lived, and he failed
seven out of ten times. Yeah, okay, everybody gets that.
But what baseball gives you that other sports don't it.
It's a little about failure, but that's not what it is,
(32:02):
is that baseball constantly allows you to hit reset and
move on from failure, more so than any other sport.
Because look at Herman. Right, his two starts to go
against Boston, he went two innings and gave up seven runs,
all earned. Right then his next start against Seattle a
few days ago, three innings, eight hits, eight runs. Right,
(32:24):
this is a bad stretch here, and hey, the guy's
got to figure it out. But this is what happens.
Pitchers go through lulls up and down that here he
is out in Oakland, complete game, perfect game, twenty fourth
in Major League Baseball history. In all other sports, when
you are going bad, you do not get the chance
to bounce back from failure. If you're a quarterback and
(32:45):
you throw three picks in a game, the next chance
you're gonna get to get back at that is in
a week. And are you gonna really throw four touchdowns
and you fix everything for four games? You don't get
that chance in the NBA. If you're going bad for
a while, I guess what you're gonna find yourself out
of the rotation. You're gonna find so much you not
gonna get the chances. You're not gonna shoot the ball
as much they're gonna get. They're gonna gain plan a
way around you. Because that's just how the NBA goes.
(33:07):
But Major League Baseball is predicated on every day. Is
an even slats why you can't get too high and
too low in a baseball season because every day is different. Right.
The old phrase momentum is only as good as the
next day starting pitcher, which is which is very true
to an extent. But just think about this, and baseball
is not about failure as much. It's about it gives
you the chance to move on from failure and reinvent
(33:29):
yourself and get a fresh start and clear your head,
more so than any other sport. Because here's Domingo Herman,
who's had chance after chance to get going. The guy's
thirty years old and he's had issues up and down,
but here he is still getting a chance to play. It's,
you know, in football or basketball, his career would be
over by now. That's it. The guy can't do it.
He's not this but In baseball, you keep getting chances,
(33:51):
and you get to have nights like tonight when it
suddenly all magically works for you. The next game. It
could be the same as Alaska. I. You pitch the
next game and go three and to give up eight
rong and he's out again. But baseball always gives you
that chance to move on from failure. No other sport
does that. And you're able to keep your confidence in
baseball more than you are in other sports because you
(34:11):
get that chance the next day. Okay, you know what,
tonight was zero for three. I don't feel good about it.
You know, I struck out three times. I made an
error in second base. Not my night. But you know what,
we got a game coming up in like thirteen hours,
and I got to be ready for that. And everything
starts new. And I make a play in the first
inning and I draw a walk or or a bleeder,
you know, in the first thing, and I get a
base hit the first time up, and everything changes for me.
(34:33):
I mean, baseball gives you that chance. No other sports due.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
It's the ultimate story of redemption. It's why Terrence Mann
wrote about it so brilliantly. It's voiced by James Earl
Jones right as you go through the history of the game, right,
it's the ebb and flow. So how can you not
be romantic about baseball? All of that stuff, the things
you see nightly that when was the last this, and
(34:57):
stat sync or some other stats company. It's gonna tell you.
I mean, I can't wait to see all the different
uh spidering effects and storylines that come out of this
performance from Jermon. But uh, you know, to your point
about failing, you know, seven out of ten times, I
think we're gonna have a new metric that eventually comes
(35:18):
up and challenges that old theory because you could still
have a good at bat and making out right, sure, right,
Tony Quintin, you said, hey, seven out of ten, all right,
not quite seven, six, six and some change. But how
many of those at bats did he draw an extra
couple of pitches? Follow a couple of pitches off to
get a look at what the guy had because he
knew back in the day you were gonna see him
(35:39):
a second time. Nowaday, you don't, you don't bank on that. Uh,
So you're working, you're working to get to the bullpen,
working to.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
Stretch that pitcher.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
I mean, there's gonna be a whole new metric where, yes,
you've got batting average, but you're gonna have you've already
got ball batting average on balls and play. Now we're
gonna extend it to did you have some effect on
the over arching uh? And not just that immediate beat.
That's that's what I'm challenging your conventional wisdom right here.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
Wow, Okay, well I think that's about baseball. Thought, that's fine,
that's fine, But look, it's it's it's that this is
what baseball has that other sports don't have, that that
people don't want to get into. You could talk about
the mysticism, the romanticism of baseball, but certain things that
and life lessons that you can apply out of baseball.
(36:26):
I don't want to get too syrope. And but that's
like you said, how can you not be romantic about baseball?
But but that's what it is. I mean, you know,
her mom has had some kind of crip. But now
I have this and maybe this is a springboard, but
if not, it's the one moment that everybody will He'll
think about this game every day for the rest of
his life, for the rest of his life. He's gonna do.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
He's gonna make money for the rest of his life.
He got a chance to see inscriptions forever.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
Baby.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
Yeah, there it is, yeah, d G zero, you know, perfect,
whatever it is. But legitimately, I mean, he's gonna be
able to charge seventy five or more per inscription for
the rest of his life. Man, I'll tell you that's
cash flow. We have more in this breaking story, the
twenty fourth perfect game in Major League Baseball history Yankees
beat the A's coming up next right here, Jason and Mike,
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