On this week’s edition of Inside the (Rob) Parker, Rob checks in live from the MLB All-Star Game in Atlanta to share his thoughts on the debut of the Home Run swing-off format, the use of the ABS system, and where the MLB All-Star Game ranks amongst the best all-star games in American pro sports. Later, Minnesota Twins all-star pitcher Joe Ryan swings by. Plus, a conversation with MLB.com reporter Justin Morris, a hot and fresh edition of Pocket Protector Central with analytics maven Anthony Masterson, a mash-up of a few of Rob's hottest preseason takes on MLB Network, and a Hank Aaron-themed edition of the Parker Pushback.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
From the Burkeshars to the sound from wherever you live
in MLB America. This is inside the Parker. You give
us twenty two minutes and we'll give you the scoop
on major League Baseball. Now here's Baseball Hall of Fame
voter number fifty seven, Rob Parker.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Come on, I've been covering Major League baseball for almost
forty years now, in New York, in Cincinnati, in Detroit,
in LA.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
I love this game. Let's go.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
Welcome into the podcast. I'm your host, Rob Parker, and
what a show we have for you today. Coming up,
we'll talk with Minnesota Twins all star right hander Joe
Ryan he drops by. Plus we'll talk with Justin Morris,
a young baseball writer from MLB dot Com, experience his
first All Star Game this past week plus, So pushback
(01:01):
at much more.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Let's go better to lead off, it's getting.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Routed and keep them on. Rob's hot take on the
three biggest stories in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Number one, the Baseball All Star Game, which I attended
in Atlanta, ended with a bang, I mean literally with
the swing off the kind of home.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
Run derby the National League wins it.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Schwarber is the hero for the National League, and boy
was exciting for fans to see an All Star game
like that. I remember being in Milwaukee when the All
Star Game ended in a.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
Seven to seven tie.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
People were really bummed out and just didn't feel right
that a game, a baseball game, would end in a tie.
Speaker 5 (01:46):
But in this.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Case, it was different for baseball and it was enjoyable. Now,
pump the break for all these people are like, this
is what they should do, you know, for regular season
games instead of extra innings.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
And now I'm not.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
A big fan of putting the runner on second base
and starting there on the extra innings, but I do
not want to see a home run derby to determine games.
I really want full baseball games, regular season. For an
exhibition game, for an All Star game, this was special,
This was excellent. This was fun, and that's what an
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exhibition is supposed to be. So I'm all in on
the All Star Game being played this way. Regular season playoffs,
extra innings.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
No way, no how. Number two.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
We also saw on the All Star Game the abs
automated ball strike and guess what. There were five such
challenges during the game, and I think it was four
to one that they were overturned and yeah, you know what,
it was fine. One took seven seconds. It shouldn't be
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It should be really quick. I didn't have an issue
with it. Again, this is not something that I want
to be the norm, and we don't need umpires and
just use that system.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
I don't want baseball to get there.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
And I just question, is it the pitcher who challenges
the call? Should it be the catcher who challenges the call?
Actually he's catching the ball, he knows if it went
over the plate, or if it was high or low?
Or is it the manager from the dugout? It didn't
seem to interfere with the game, I must admit. I mean,
there's a lot of changes going on in baseball, and
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I know they want to try to implement this at
some point. And once you let the toothpaste out of
the tube, you know.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
It's hard to put it back in.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
So five such calls were challenged and it didn't hamper
or change the game or make me feel like, oh
this is ridiculous. This is taken forever, so it's going
to stick around. How much they use it and who
is the one who challenges it? And how many challenges
you get a game? Because to me, I think you
would want to save that for a big moment late
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in the game to get a strikeout, you know, when
it matters most, not using it early on in the game,
in the second inning or third inning on some call.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
It just depends on the circumstance.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Number three Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kersherw, of course, a future
Hall of Famer, got the commissioners invite to the All
Star Game, and after he got a nice ovation when
he walked off after getting a couple outs to the
crowd in Atlanta and talked about the All Star Game
and how it is the best all Star game in sports.
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And we know that the other games, the Pro Bowl
doesn't even exist anymore.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
They play flag football. We know about the hockey.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
In the NBA. It's just there's no defense. Hockey games
fourteen to eleven. It's not a hockey game, you know,
it's an exhibition, offensive exhibition. And the NBA were the
scores have reached two hundred points. Obviously that's not a
real basketball game. No defense in a lot of threes.
But baseball is still the same. They still play it,
they still compete. Crow Armstrong made a diving catch and
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left field, which you normally just wouldn't do it an
All Star he could have easily let the ball bounce
for a double.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
Pitchers, don't you throw softer? The let guys hit it.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
In the All Star Game, they're competing, they're throwing their
best pitchers.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
Things like that. So and the ratings bear it out.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Baseball had the highest TV ratings for an All Star
Game since twenty seventeen. Numbers were good over seven zero
point two million people, which is by far the biggest
ratings for any show on TV that night and dwarfs
all the other leagues, of course when you talk about
All Star games. So the All Star Game is in
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a good place. The Derby did very well, and again
in a good place Baseball. They've marketed and cornered the
Derby All Star Game way better than other sports.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Here comes the big interview. Listen and learn.
Speaker 6 (06:02):
It's so good.
Speaker 7 (06:03):
I know it's welcome to John By.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
And also our picture from the Minnesota Twins.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Can talk about your experience here in Atlanta and Lincoln
All Star too.
Speaker 7 (06:12):
How if you've been, it's been great.
Speaker 8 (06:14):
It's been a super fun a couple of days. Really
cool to be in the locker room, talk to all
these guys that you see. You get to do the
thing all around all over the league, and uh, go
compete with them today and try to try to win
a ball game here and have some fun and yeah,
learn some things.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
How about the all store of I'm in the home
run do I'll be just watching that and see what
that was like?
Speaker 5 (06:37):
What kind of experience was that for you? Oh, it's amazing.
Speaker 8 (06:40):
I mean get to share that with Buck and his boys,
and yeah, his family's here. Obviously he's from back Toley,
so he's close by, and uh, I think it was
just a cool moment for him and his family. And
then obviously Cal's been having.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
A great year.
Speaker 7 (06:53):
But just watching him go out there and do this
thing and and win it was was really special.
Speaker 8 (06:56):
But I mean, Cam and I put on a great
show as while I was I mean night, I didn't
think he was gonna get out of round the most
pretty posting to watch.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
Is it fun for a pitcher to watch the home
run derby? You don't you can would celebrate?
Speaker 8 (07:09):
Yeah, it's a little different. I guess I was kept
reminding myself, like these are the goals after me?
Speaker 1 (07:14):
A little bit different because you're just talking about it.
Speaker 8 (07:16):
The low line drives, just keep going. It was wild,
but no, it's a fun, a great event, and I thought,
and yeah, it was very great to be here.
Speaker 7 (07:24):
All right.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Last thing I want to disaster about the team, and
obviously the second half guys had some explodes this years
with the Tigers, pretty big lead.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
Where do you go into second half? Can you think
about wild card or making the playoffs still on this team?
Speaker 9 (07:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (07:39):
I think so.
Speaker 8 (07:39):
I mean that's always the goals.
Speaker 7 (07:40):
So I think we just stayed the course, keep playing
to baseball.
Speaker 8 (07:43):
And you never know what's gonna happen about know how
things are gonna shake out. I mean, we had a
pretty good lead in twenty three too, and we're sorry
you were there for the great forty two. We were
going pretty good and kind of slip back. But yeah,
so you never know what can happen to me.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Okay, Joe, appreciate you.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Thank you so much again, again, appreciate it.
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Speaker 11 (10:17):
After a fascinating All Star Game that saw the NL
win on a home run swing off that just set
the tone for what could be an all timer of
a second half, the Tigers owned baseball's best record at
the break, but that has not necessarily translated to a title.
Has only one team in the last fifteen years has
won the World Series with the best record at the break.
The twenty eighteen Red Sox, in fact, for the last
five were bounced in the Division Series, and the twenty
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twenty two Yankees were swept in the ALCS.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Cal Rawley is.
Speaker 11 (10:43):
Only the fourth player in history to win the home
run Derby when leading the league and long balls of
the break, but he's only ten dinger shy of the
all time record for a catcher. Should Raleigh falter, Aaron
Judge could become the second player in the Divisional era
to win the Triple Crown after Miguel Cabrera in twenty twelve,
light years ahead and average and only behind Rally in
both Homer's and RBI. Now, pitcher records are not very
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indicative of performance, but Paul Skeens is putting that to
the test, as he's in a dead heat with Zach
Wheeler for the NLCY Young yet owns just a four
and eight record. No starter has ever won the SI
with a losing record. Could Pete crow Armstrong become the
seventh player ever to join the forty to forty club.
He's only the third player at the break with twenty
five and twenty five, joining Eric Davis and Bobby Bonds,
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and could Judge no Tiny make history themselves. There has
not been a duo to each win MVP in back
to back seasons, and only once has it ever happened
when the same two players won MVP the same year,
Yogi Berra and Roy Campanella in nineteen fifty one. In
nineteen fifty five, the second half is just getting underway
and I cannot wait to see what happens.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
When Rob was a newspaper columnist, he lived by this motto.
If I'm writing, I'm ripping. Let's bring in a writer
or broadcaster, old or new.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
Now let's welcome into a podcast, Justin Morris MLB dot com.
A little vide you want to see graduated from seeing
all from New Jersey.
Speaker 7 (12:06):
Justin, Welcome to the podcast. Appreciate you for having me,
no doubt did Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
I wanna find out a little bit about your first
All Star game in the first experience.
Speaker 7 (12:14):
First of all, you're on the publisher at m opameia
dot com. Tell me about that. I mean it's been
very severe.
Speaker 9 (12:20):
I mean in terms of all start, I feel like
I'm just drinking it all there to.
Speaker 7 (12:23):
Be honest, I mean, so many things going on and
it will be media available, you know, at the games today,
obviously on.
Speaker 9 (12:28):
Under yesterday, I'll say events from Thursday to today.
Speaker 7 (12:32):
So at AGENC and Classic workoutse met so many great
victors of the game.
Speaker 9 (12:36):
Ralph Gard Kingrify Junior. That's been amazing because well the
fellowship has been great.
Speaker 7 (12:40):
So I might see rased in Miami, so it's a
little hot grey New Jersey. But it's been a great experience.
Speaker 9 (12:44):
I actually cover the road teams that come into Miami,
so different team like every three four days.
Speaker 7 (12:49):
In this story, just adding down my job. So then
re lighted before they experience br show. It's been great
so Arch So when they told you later story games,
when was your first three?
Speaker 5 (13:00):
Actually we are just pretty special.
Speaker 7 (13:02):
I've been coming along almost forty years a pace. It
never gets tired. Fool yours we got uh, honestly, I don't.
I don't know if I had too.
Speaker 9 (13:10):
Much time to really taking it out there.
Speaker 7 (13:11):
One say so. So I started at Mark and I
basically hit the ground running. It was out there, I
was spring training.
Speaker 9 (13:17):
I did like a bunch of games in a bunch
of days, and then I I got my stuff back
in Jersey, drove down to Miami and just hit the
rout winning the regular season.
Speaker 7 (13:26):
So I don't think I had took too much time
to really take it in.
Speaker 9 (13:28):
But now that I'm here, it's just kind of wild,
like you know, around the show, a no time and
they're a judge and like I said, even just the
left of the game that that have come before me
on me, I watched every y'all Fela get shot in
the kids every whole day as well, So I remember
diculably with Jade handled into a head and as when
you know some of the great all star moments to
the you know, just all runs, the different stuff that's
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happening to through outside.
Speaker 7 (13:50):
And this it's very survived. I think I'll really taken
it in and now come here. Uh And that's what
it made me. I play all start myself. Godam like
I got to judging Morris from n y'll speaking like,
grew up to Georgy and your SA and of course
you had a choice.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Could be a Mets fan, could be a Yankees fan
because the Phillies fans depending on where you lived in Georgy.
Speaker 5 (14:11):
And obviously you're a professional writer now, so I kind
of dropped that.
Speaker 7 (14:15):
Growing up at the school.
Speaker 9 (14:16):
One team grew next though they've been fatis that white
and White and Blue man tap playing a favorite players
there GIFO, that's a legitarative.
Speaker 7 (14:25):
That was my favorite play off. I remember going wrong.
I only got what because I'm.
Speaker 9 (14:29):
I was for ninety nine, I got to be about
to see it that I remember I've seen even in
I've been rocks and canoes, said to Marcus Sheridan, and
that against the Hilly was my favorite, big.
Speaker 7 (14:38):
One of my favorite big boom coming soul up and
downasas then obviously we got disappointment last year the duck
or another. I think we're going in the face. I
want to say leave because I might remember being down.
So they don't move nobody.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
You gotta ju tation.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
You just getting out of school, so did you get that?
Speaker 4 (14:55):
But at some point, you know what, that's a reason
for a for a long time, just rooved for the
fastest already in the past spot question.
Speaker 7 (15:01):
Yeah, yeah, I mean that's kind of the thing up
to this point is I'm looking for the stories to
kind of tell themselves. So I'm gonna have a good angle.
Speaker 9 (15:08):
Companies and so many games like young, this person's mother
is here, this person has this minute is.
Speaker 7 (15:13):
The regional lid stuff. I mean it kind of open
that the story they tell us, so, I mean it's
it's a grand degree. I think I grew up playing
the game as well and basically be fun. So when
I was a kid, you're good here in the infat
I was out fitted when I got up up inside
because they were like you can run and you you
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got an arm, so they don't get a.
Speaker 8 (15:35):
Set a deal.
Speaker 7 (15:36):
And went to high school.
Speaker 9 (15:37):
But that as a kid, I played short stuff that
bish wow, last thing, that MultiMate job.
Speaker 7 (15:42):
Meaning I'm saying reporter, small conce you just just talk. Yeah,
I mean I'm just getting started. I think be reported.
There could be a lane for me and that I think,
you know, I was up to some of the Yankees
at some point.
Speaker 9 (15:55):
That's amazing though honestly, even just working in the front
off so I'm not being here as I don't my it's.
Speaker 7 (16:02):
For a different avalere and so many people have worked
in like we just had.
Speaker 9 (16:06):
I want to say building this is uh this window
who the blackcaster, the HBCU game and.
Speaker 7 (16:12):
See you know there's happenings for us and in front
office and even to be an MLB executive. I think
those are things that after the other gets a little
love and I see it, do whatever I can do
to get back into hell.
Speaker 9 (16:23):
I think need a my bars filand the visa. You know,
HBCU start talking about basis deacons. You're talking about us
in this dro So whatever.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
I can do is trying to help people here, I
don't know arter us wars from MLB dot com join
us inside the partner appreciated us.
Speaker 7 (16:38):
Fill up team conversation here.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
In case you missed Rob Parker on the MLB networks,
here's his latest appearance on MLB No No.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Because of the MLB All Star Game, there was no
MLB Now on MLB Network this week. But instead we
want to take a look back at the first half
and some of the topics that I talked about with
Brian Kenny.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
And whether I was right or wrong.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Number one, Juan Soto did not make the All Star team.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
His stats look way better now, but before the season
start I said he would struggle early on in Queens.
Speaker 6 (17:19):
Rob Parker's in the showdown and just to give people
a little background, Robs on every week and Rob sends
in topics that he would like to discuss, and we
take that very seriously.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
And we're already I'm stunned.
Speaker 9 (17:28):
Rob.
Speaker 6 (17:29):
We're already in the I Told you So part of
the season April fifteenth, and you're telling me so, So
go ahead, what did you tell me and what should
I learn from your brilliance?
Speaker 3 (17:39):
B K, I was trying to warn you. I told
you earlier in the season.
Speaker 12 (17:42):
I know it's still early, but can we officially call
Wan Soto one?
Speaker 6 (17:48):
So?
Speaker 3 (17:48):
So that told you number two before the season started.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
BKA was all about Ellie day La Cruz winning the
National League MVP.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
I tried to on them, it wasn't gonna happen. How
about nationally MVP.
Speaker 6 (18:03):
You know what it's gonna be while you're pumping your
breaks all season long, Ellie Dela Cruz, that's the NBA.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
I want to bet you chicken wings on this one.
Speaker 12 (18:12):
I want to bet you ten all flat parmesan garlic
with a die cod because.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
He will not be nationally.
Speaker 6 (18:18):
How about a nice meal in Queens, New York for
old time's sake.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
We'll bet that right, all right? You picked this one? No,
let me pick the spot. I think I'll do better.
Speaker 6 (18:28):
And by the way, check out Rob's most recent Inside
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Speaker 12 (18:36):
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Speaker 3 (18:43):
Rob, You're the best. Thank you. Robb will talk to
you next week. Take care all right, thanks so much.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
BK.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
No, this is bolooning. It's the Parker pushback. Shut here.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Rob tackles the outlandish takes in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
You idiot shut up to today, I'm pushing back.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
On those who are looking for the AHA moment from
the All Star Game and a tribute to Hank Aaron.
Speaker 5 (19:09):
I happened to be in the ballpark. It was magnificent.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
I gotta admit I did not look at Oh well,
they cut Vince Gully and the whole thing about a
black man in the South and being applauded and cheered,
which was not in the clip.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
I just I didn't miss it.
Speaker 5 (19:30):
It didn't hit me at that very moment. And then
the other thing I thought, which was.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
Weird if baseball really was trying to avoid any mention
of black and white, and because of the White House
or whatever reason it was, they had the HBCU game
on Friday, right featuring black schools.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
Ludacris was a.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
Big part of the promotion, of course, being from Atlanta,
you know, and other celebrities were all over the place,
black celebrities, black.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
Life in Atlanta. I just didn't feel like that was
missing at all. Usher. They kept showing him on the
big screen.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
You know, maybe people who after the fact wanted to
look at something and pick at something, maybe they wanted
to do that. But I gotta admit, I just didn't
feel like Baseball went out of its way to avoid
the word black or black people at this All Star
game in Atlanta. To me, this was the blackest All
Star game I had ever attended. And I mean as
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far as out front, showing the community and showing the people.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
I'm Rob Parker and that's my pushback.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
In the words of New York TV legend the late
Bill Jorgensen, thanking you for your time this time until
next time.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Rob Parker out. He can't get it. This could be
an inside the Parker
Speaker 5 (21:03):
See you next week, same bedtime, same back station.
From the Burkeshars to the sound from wherever you live
in MLB America. This is inside the Parker. You give
us twenty two minutes and we'll give you the scoop
on major League Baseball. Now here's Baseball Hall of Fame
voter number fifty seven, Rob Parker.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Come on, I've been covering Major League baseball for almost
forty years now, in New York, in Cincinnati, in Detroit,
in LA.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
I love this game. Let's go.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
Welcome into the podcast. I'm your host, Rob Parker, and
what a show we have for you today. Coming up,
we'll talk with Minnesota Twins all star right hander Joe
Ryan he drops by. Plus we'll talk with Justin Morris,
a young baseball writer from MLB dot Com, experience his
first All Star Game this past week plus, So pushback
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at much more.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Let's go better to lead off, it's getting.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Routed and keep them on. Rob's hot take on the
three biggest stories in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Number one, the Baseball All Star Game, which I attended
in Atlanta, ended with a bang, I mean literally with
the swing off the kind of home.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
Run derby the National League wins it.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Schwarber is the hero for the National League, and boy
was exciting for fans to see an All Star game
like that. I remember being in Milwaukee when the All
Star Game ended in a.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
Seven to seven tie.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
People were really bummed out and just didn't feel right
that a game, a baseball game, would end in a tie.
Speaker 5 (01:46):
But in this.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Case, it was different for baseball and it was enjoyable. Now,
pump the break for all these people are like, this
is what they should do, you know, for regular season
games instead of extra innings.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
And now I'm not.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
A big fan of putting the runner on second base
and starting there on the extra innings, but I do
not want to see a home run derby to determine games.
I really want full baseball games, regular season. For an
exhibition game, for an All Star game, this was special,
This was excellent. This was fun, and that's what an
(02:21):
exhibition is supposed to be. So I'm all in on
the All Star Game being played this way. Regular season playoffs,
extra innings.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
No way, no how. Number two.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
We also saw on the All Star Game the abs
automated ball strike and guess what. There were five such
challenges during the game, and I think it was four
to one that they were overturned and yeah, you know what,
it was fine. One took seven seconds. It shouldn't be
(02:56):
It should be really quick. I didn't have an issue
with it. Again, this is not something that I want
to be the norm, and we don't need umpires and
just use that system.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
I don't want baseball to get there.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
And I just question, is it the pitcher who challenges
the call? Should it be the catcher who challenges the call?
Actually he's catching the ball, he knows if it went
over the plate, or if it was high or low?
Or is it the manager from the dugout? It didn't
seem to interfere with the game, I must admit. I mean,
there's a lot of changes going on in baseball, and
(03:32):
I know they want to try to implement this at
some point. And once you let the toothpaste out of
the tube, you know.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
It's hard to put it back in.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
So five such calls were challenged and it didn't hamper
or change the game or make me feel like, oh
this is ridiculous. This is taken forever, so it's going
to stick around. How much they use it and who
is the one who challenges it? And how many challenges
you get a game? Because to me, I think you
would want to save that for a big moment late
(04:02):
in the game to get a strikeout, you know, when
it matters most, not using it early on in the game,
in the second inning or third inning on some call.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
It just depends on the circumstance.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Number three Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kersherw, of course, a future
Hall of Famer, got the commissioners invite to the All
Star Game, and after he got a nice ovation when
he walked off after getting a couple outs to the
crowd in Atlanta and talked about the All Star Game
and how it is the best all Star game in sports.
(04:34):
And we know that the other games, the Pro Bowl
doesn't even exist anymore.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
They play flag football. We know about the hockey.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
In the NBA. It's just there's no defense. Hockey games
fourteen to eleven. It's not a hockey game, you know,
it's an exhibition, offensive exhibition. And the NBA were the
scores have reached two hundred points. Obviously that's not a
real basketball game. No defense in a lot of threes.
But baseball is still the same. They still play it,
they still compete. Crow Armstrong made a diving catch and
(05:06):
left field, which you normally just wouldn't do it an
All Star he could have easily let the ball bounce
for a double.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
Pitchers, don't you throw softer? The let guys hit it.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
In the All Star Game, they're competing, they're throwing their
best pitchers.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
Things like that. So and the ratings bear it out.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Baseball had the highest TV ratings for an All Star
Game since twenty seventeen. Numbers were good over seven zero
point two million people, which is by far the biggest
ratings for any show on TV that night and dwarfs
all the other leagues, of course when you talk about
All Star games. So the All Star Game is in
(05:44):
a good place. The Derby did very well, and again
in a good place Baseball. They've marketed and cornered the
Derby All Star Game way better than other sports.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Here comes the big interview. Listen and learn.
Speaker 6 (06:02):
It's so good.
Speaker 7 (06:03):
I know it's welcome to John By.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
And also our picture from the Minnesota Twins.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Can talk about your experience here in Atlanta and Lincoln
All Star too.
Speaker 7 (06:12):
How if you've been, it's been great.
Speaker 8 (06:14):
It's been a super fun a couple of days. Really
cool to be in the locker room, talk to all
these guys that you see. You get to do the
thing all around all over the league, and uh, go
compete with them today and try to try to win
a ball game here and have some fun and yeah,
learn some things.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
How about the all store of I'm in the home
run do I'll be just watching that and see what
that was like?
Speaker 5 (06:37):
What kind of experience was that for you? Oh, it's amazing.
Speaker 8 (06:40):
I mean get to share that with Buck and his boys,
and yeah, his family's here. Obviously he's from back Toley,
so he's close by, and uh, I think it was
just a cool moment for him and his family. And
then obviously Cal's been having.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
A great year.
Speaker 7 (06:53):
But just watching him go out there and do this
thing and and win it was was really special.
Speaker 8 (06:56):
But I mean, Cam and I put on a great
show as while I was I mean night, I didn't
think he was gonna get out of round the most
pretty posting to watch.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
Is it fun for a pitcher to watch the home
run derby? You don't you can would celebrate?
Speaker 8 (07:09):
Yeah, it's a little different. I guess I was kept
reminding myself, like these are the goals after me?
Speaker 1 (07:14):
A little bit different because you're just talking about it.
Speaker 8 (07:16):
The low line drives, just keep going. It was wild,
but no, it's a fun, a great event, and I thought,
and yeah, it was very great to be here.
Speaker 7 (07:24):
All right.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Last thing I want to disaster about the team, and
obviously the second half guys had some explodes this years
with the Tigers, pretty big lead.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
Where do you go into second half? Can you think
about wild card or making the playoffs still on this team?
Speaker 9 (07:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (07:39):
I think so.
Speaker 8 (07:39):
I mean that's always the goals.
Speaker 7 (07:40):
So I think we just stayed the course, keep playing
to baseball.
Speaker 8 (07:43):
And you never know what's gonna happen about know how
things are gonna shake out. I mean, we had a
pretty good lead in twenty three too, and we're sorry
you were there for the great forty two. We were
going pretty good and kind of slip back. But yeah,
so you never know what can happen to me.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Okay, Joe, appreciate you.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Thank you so much again, again, appreciate it.
Speaker 10 (08:04):
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It's time for the Pocket Protector Centrum. The analytic numbers
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Well, maybe Anthony Masterson is his name.
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Speaker 11 (10:17):
After a fascinating All Star Game that saw the NL
win on a home run swing off that just set
the tone for what could be an all timer of
a second half, the Tigers owned baseball's best record at
the break, but that has not necessarily translated to a title.
Has only one team in the last fifteen years has
won the World Series with the best record at the break.
The twenty eighteen Red Sox, in fact, for the last
five were bounced in the Division Series, and the twenty
(10:39):
twenty two Yankees were swept in the ALCS.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Cal Rawley is.
Speaker 11 (10:43):
Only the fourth player in history to win the home
run Derby when leading the league and long balls of
the break, but he's only ten dinger shy of the
all time record for a catcher. Should Raleigh falter, Aaron
Judge could become the second player in the Divisional era
to win the Triple Crown after Miguel Cabrera in twenty twelve,
light years ahead and average and only behind Rally in
both Homer's and RBI. Now, pitcher records are not very
(11:05):
indicative of performance, but Paul Skeens is putting that to
the test, as he's in a dead heat with Zach
Wheeler for the NLCY Young yet owns just a four
and eight record. No starter has ever won the SI
with a losing record. Could Pete crow Armstrong become the
seventh player ever to join the forty to forty club.
He's only the third player at the break with twenty
five and twenty five, joining Eric Davis and Bobby Bonds,
(11:28):
and could Judge no Tiny make history themselves. There has
not been a duo to each win MVP in back
to back seasons, and only once has it ever happened
when the same two players won MVP the same year,
Yogi Berra and Roy Campanella in nineteen fifty one. In
nineteen fifty five, the second half is just getting underway
and I cannot wait to see what happens.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
When Rob was a newspaper columnist, he lived by this motto.
If I'm writing, I'm ripping. Let's bring in a writer
or broadcaster, old or new.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
Now let's welcome into a podcast, Justin Morris MLB dot com.
A little vide you want to see graduated from seeing
all from New Jersey.
Speaker 7 (12:06):
Justin, Welcome to the podcast. Appreciate you for having me,
no doubt did Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
I wanna find out a little bit about your first
All Star game in the first experience.
Speaker 7 (12:14):
First of all, you're on the publisher at m opameia
dot com. Tell me about that. I mean it's been
very severe.
Speaker 9 (12:20):
I mean in terms of all start, I feel like
I'm just drinking it all there to.
Speaker 7 (12:23):
Be honest, I mean, so many things going on and
it will be media available, you know, at the games today,
obviously on.
Speaker 9 (12:28):
Under yesterday, I'll say events from Thursday to today.
Speaker 7 (12:32):
So at AGENC and Classic workoutse met so many great
victors of the game.
Speaker 9 (12:36):
Ralph Gard Kingrify Junior. That's been amazing because well the
fellowship has been great.
Speaker 7 (12:40):
So I might see rased in Miami, so it's a
little hot grey New Jersey. But it's been a great experience.
Speaker 9 (12:44):
I actually cover the road teams that come into Miami,
so different team like every three four days.
Speaker 7 (12:49):
In this story, just adding down my job. So then
re lighted before they experience br show. It's been great
so Arch So when they told you later story games,
when was your first three?
Speaker 5 (13:00):
Actually we are just pretty special.
Speaker 7 (13:02):
I've been coming along almost forty years a pace. It
never gets tired. Fool yours we got uh, honestly, I don't.
I don't know if I had too.
Speaker 9 (13:10):
Much time to really taking it out there.
Speaker 7 (13:11):
One say so. So I started at Mark and I
basically hit the ground running. It was out there, I
was spring training.
Speaker 9 (13:17):
I did like a bunch of games in a bunch
of days, and then I I got my stuff back
in Jersey, drove down to Miami and just hit the
rout winning the regular season.
Speaker 7 (13:26):
So I don't think I had took too much time
to really take it in.
Speaker 9 (13:28):
But now that I'm here, it's just kind of wild,
like you know, around the show, a no time and
they're a judge and like I said, even just the
left of the game that that have come before me
on me, I watched every y'all Fela get shot in
the kids every whole day as well, So I remember
diculably with Jade handled into a head and as when
you know some of the great all star moments to
the you know, just all runs, the different stuff that's
(13:49):
happening to through outside.
Speaker 7 (13:50):
And this it's very survived. I think I'll really taken
it in and now come here. Uh And that's what
it made me. I play all start myself. Godam like
I got to judging Morris from n y'll speaking like,
grew up to Georgy and your SA and of course
you had a choice.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Could be a Mets fan, could be a Yankees fan
because the Phillies fans depending on where you lived in Georgy.
Speaker 5 (14:11):
And obviously you're a professional writer now, so I kind
of dropped that.
Speaker 7 (14:15):
Growing up at the school.
Speaker 9 (14:16):
One team grew next though they've been fatis that white
and White and Blue man tap playing a favorite players
there GIFO, that's a legitarative.
Speaker 7 (14:25):
That was my favorite play off. I remember going wrong.
I only got what because I'm.
Speaker 9 (14:29):
I was for ninety nine, I got to be about
to see it that I remember I've seen even in
I've been rocks and canoes, said to Marcus Sheridan, and
that against the Hilly was my favorite, big.
Speaker 7 (14:38):
One of my favorite big boom coming soul up and
downasas then obviously we got disappointment last year the duck
or another. I think we're going in the face. I
want to say leave because I might remember being down.
So they don't move nobody.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
You gotta ju tation.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
You just getting out of school, so did you get that?
Speaker 4 (14:55):
But at some point, you know what, that's a reason
for a for a long time, just rooved for the
fastest already in the past spot question.
Speaker 7 (15:01):
Yeah, yeah, I mean that's kind of the thing up
to this point is I'm looking for the stories to
kind of tell themselves. So I'm gonna have a good angle.
Speaker 9 (15:08):
Companies and so many games like young, this person's mother
is here, this person has this minute is.
Speaker 7 (15:13):
The regional lid stuff. I mean it kind of open
that the story they tell us, so, I mean it's
it's a grand degree. I think I grew up playing
the game as well and basically be fun. So when
I was a kid, you're good here in the infat
I was out fitted when I got up up inside
because they were like you can run and you you
(15:34):
got an arm, so they don't get a.
Speaker 8 (15:35):
Set a deal.
Speaker 7 (15:36):
And went to high school.
Speaker 9 (15:37):
But that as a kid, I played short stuff that
bish wow, last thing, that MultiMate job.
Speaker 7 (15:42):
Meaning I'm saying reporter, small conce you just just talk. Yeah,
I mean I'm just getting started. I think be reported.
There could be a lane for me and that I think,
you know, I was up to some of the Yankees
at some point.
Speaker 9 (15:55):
That's amazing though honestly, even just working in the front
off so I'm not being here as I don't my it's.
Speaker 7 (16:02):
For a different avalere and so many people have worked
in like we just had.
Speaker 9 (16:06):
I want to say building this is uh this window
who the blackcaster, the HBCU game and.
Speaker 7 (16:12):
See you know there's happenings for us and in front
office and even to be an MLB executive. I think
those are things that after the other gets a little
love and I see it, do whatever I can do
to get back into hell.
Speaker 9 (16:23):
I think need a my bars filand the visa. You know,
HBCU start talking about basis deacons. You're talking about us
in this dro So whatever.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
I can do is trying to help people here, I
don't know arter us wars from MLB dot com join
us inside the partner appreciated us.
Speaker 7 (16:38):
Fill up team conversation here.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
In case you missed Rob Parker on the MLB networks,
here's his latest appearance on MLB No No.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Because of the MLB All Star Game, there was no
MLB Now on MLB Network this week. But instead we
want to take a look back at the first half
and some of the topics that I talked about with
Brian Kenny.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
And whether I was right or wrong.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Number one, Juan Soto did not make the All Star team.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
His stats look way better now, but before the season
start I said he would struggle early on in Queens.
Speaker 6 (17:19):
Rob Parker's in the showdown and just to give people
a little background, Robs on every week and Rob sends
in topics that he would like to discuss, and we
take that very seriously.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
And we're already I'm stunned.
Speaker 9 (17:28):
Rob.
Speaker 6 (17:29):
We're already in the I Told you So part of
the season April fifteenth, and you're telling me so, So
go ahead, what did you tell me and what should
I learn from your brilliance?
Speaker 3 (17:39):
B K, I was trying to warn you. I told
you earlier in the season.
Speaker 12 (17:42):
I know it's still early, but can we officially call
Wan Soto one?
Speaker 6 (17:48):
So?
Speaker 3 (17:48):
So that told you number two before the season started.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
BKA was all about Ellie day La Cruz winning the
National League MVP.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
I tried to on them, it wasn't gonna happen. How
about nationally MVP.
Speaker 6 (18:03):
You know what it's gonna be while you're pumping your
breaks all season long, Ellie Dela Cruz, that's the NBA.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
I want to bet you chicken wings on this one.
Speaker 12 (18:12):
I want to bet you ten all flat parmesan garlic
with a die cod because.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
He will not be nationally.
Speaker 6 (18:18):
How about a nice meal in Queens, New York for
old time's sake.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
We'll bet that right, all right? You picked this one? No,
let me pick the spot. I think I'll do better.
Speaker 6 (18:28):
And by the way, check out Rob's most recent Inside
the Parker podcast featuring me. Wow, well I'm on the
park and jo Adell two big stack cast guys.
Speaker 12 (18:36):
Look at that big time man. I appreciate you jumping
on the podcast. Please list your rate subscribe. It's a
fun list.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Rob, You're the best. Thank you. Robb will talk to
you next week. Take care all right, thanks so much.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
BK.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
No, this is bolooning. It's the Parker pushback. Shut here.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Rob tackles the outlandish takes in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
You idiot shut up to today, I'm pushing back.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
On those who are looking for the AHA moment from
the All Star Game and a tribute to Hank Aaron.
Speaker 5 (19:09):
I happened to be in the ballpark. It was magnificent.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
I gotta admit I did not look at Oh well,
they cut Vince Gully and the whole thing about a
black man in the South and being applauded and cheered,
which was not in the clip.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
I just I didn't miss it.
Speaker 5 (19:30):
It didn't hit me at that very moment. And then
the other thing I thought, which was.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
Weird if baseball really was trying to avoid any mention
of black and white, and because of the White House
or whatever reason it was, they had the HBCU game
on Friday, right featuring black schools.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
Ludacris was a.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
Big part of the promotion, of course, being from Atlanta,
you know, and other celebrities were all over the place,
black celebrities, black.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
Life in Atlanta. I just didn't feel like that was
missing at all. Usher. They kept showing him on the
big screen.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
You know, maybe people who after the fact wanted to
look at something and pick at something, maybe they wanted
to do that. But I gotta admit, I just didn't
feel like Baseball went out of its way to avoid
the word black or black people at this All Star
game in Atlanta. To me, this was the blackest All
Star game I had ever attended. And I mean as
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far as out front, showing the community and showing the people.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
I'm Rob Parker and that's my pushback.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
In the words of New York TV legend the late
Bill Jorgensen, thanking you for your time this time until
next time.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Rob Parker out. He can't get it. This could be
an inside the Parker
Speaker 5 (21:03):
See you next week, same bedtime, same back station.
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