June 2, 2025 • 16 mins
Hartford Courant columnist Dom Amore discuss the Colorado Rockies and more.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And that's Zamamory from the Hartford Current, and he's always
covering something. And right now you're at City Field as
the Rockies are there with their new manager. And have
you been able to talk to the new skipper or
are you waiting to talk to the new skipper?
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Yeah, waiting to talk to him at five in the dugout.
So it's kind of like old times at being at
Dunkin Park, right only it's a big league park.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
What difficult is his job? You're you're nine to forty
seven and you just don't have the horses, man. I mean, yeah,
they're major leaguers, but they're they're just getting smoked by
the competition.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Well you know while, but in these situations, I've always
felt like, you know, possession is nine tenths of the law.
You know, he's in the job. It's his job, you know,
until somebody tells him it's not. And so really he
could approach it if he chooses to that. He's zero
and zero and all he really has to do is
(00:54):
get the team to play better than it was playing
before from here on end. I mean, see, you're not
going to get out a lot place. We know that.
But if they look better, and they play better, and
their younger players get better, and he becomes you know,
well respected in the clubhouse and in the city. Then
you know he could maybe get something done. You know,
(01:15):
some of the some of the worst teams in baseball
history were coached by were managed by Hall of famers.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
And silver Lining. Yes, well said, let's talk about whereas
teams in baseball history? How did we get here?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Man?
Speaker 3 (01:31):
I mean nine and forty something, that's tough, that is
tough to do. How are the Rockies in this position
today in your estimation?
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Well, you know, they haven't developed a lot of pitchers.
You know, they've they've always developed hitters through their system,
but they just haven't been able to develop to develop pitchers.
Nor have they been able to acquire or sign pitchers
because who wants to go and pitch in that thin air?
So they never really seem to have enough pitching. And
then you know in todays of the unbalanced schedule, Uh,
(02:03):
you know, they're in the they're in probably the strongest
division in baseball, and they're just getting pummeled the extra
series that they have to play the Dodgers and the
Giants and the Padres and and the and the Diamondbacks.
So it's kind of a perfect, uh perfect you know
what kind of storm where it's just got everything. Everything
is just conducive to and in baseball today anyways, conducive
(02:27):
to extremes like the White Sox last year because of
just the way, uh, some teams just unload everybody, and
then other teams by everybody. So you have these polar
extremes to begin with. So you put all that together
with a young team and the and and the division
that they're in, and I guess that's how you get
to whatever they are, nine and forty seven. But even there,
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it's awfully harder. But you would think by accident they'd
have twenty but uh, you know, nine and twenty seven,
I mean, wow, what does that translate over the over
the full season? But like thirty wins?
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Yeah? And then I mean even the two teams that
are playing in minor league places like the Rays and
the A's, they're doing much better than the Rockets. And
you remember too dom years ago they were like, Okay,
we need a bunch of sinker ball guys, and they
started with Mike Hampton and stuff like that. And sometimes
even that, no matter how much money you throw with that,
it's a great point. It's a great point. So I
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played there in the minor leagues. I actually played at
Mile High Stadium before they built cores, and when we
were the Denver Zephyrs, a guy could tap a fly
ball and if the winds going out, it's a home run.
It was awful and it's an awful mental thing that
it does to the pitchers because they know their era
is going to be one to two runs more at home.
(03:48):
So but like, I love your point though, that you're
starting because even like my former teammate Dave Martinez, who
took over the Nationals, they were bad, made them good,
they won a championship. Now they're back to being bad again.
You know, you you could still turn things around if
you can get them to believe that. And I think
that right now, there's some good enough players on that team.
(04:08):
He's got to get them to believe it first, before
the guys who aren't as good as like tovar On
those other guys believe in it. They've they've got to
get a nucleus of guys to start believing in it.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
You know what they have to do, rob they have
to win more games than the White Sox won last year.
You know you.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Agree, you don't want to already won is the number?
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Yep?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Yeah, yeah, you don't want you don't want to look
at it at a forty one and twenty one team,
and so hold my beer, right yep?
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Unreal? All right? So they're playing the Mets though, and
I've I've been trying to keep kicking this can down
the road and keeping it alive. And Dibbs wants me
to shut up about it. But Wanson's getting paid seven
hundred millions, bad.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Man.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Come on, dude, this has got to be a weekend
for him that you would think that he's going to
get things right.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Well, yeah, I mean, you know, it's starting to get
late in the season, where one third of the way
into the season and he's sitting two twenty four or
two twenty five. I don't think anybody had anybody would,
I mean, you know, you would expect maybe he'd get
off to a slow start or have an adjustment period
or or whatever it is that's wrong, But no, I
wouldn't have expected him. He's just too good a hit her, right,
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you know, to be to be where he is. So
you have to believe that you know, he's probably gonna
hit three hundred the rest of the way, that he's
just that eventually he's going to settle in and he's
going to hit But you know, it's unfortunate that, you know,
the narrative that he's not happy here, that he wishes
he went back to the Yankees, and and and that
he he doesn't look like the same guy. Where where's
his smile, where's his passion? Uh? You know that that
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narrative is starting to set in stone, and it's going
to be very difficult to get rid of that in
this town when when something like that takes hold.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
I remember when Bobby Benia said, you'll never wipe the
smile off my face and then talk on the other
side of that. Historically, Ted Williams last to hit four
oh six. Aaron Judges dipped a little bit below four hundred.
But like you said, he's a third of the year
in and his power numbers are just exceptional. What what
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have you seen as this guy has progressed, let's just say,
the last five years as opposed to the first five
years of his career. What have you seen him do
better than when he was a young player.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Well, I just think he's a more complete hitter now, Rob.
You know, he hits the ball where it's pitched. He'll
take the single when when when it's offered, you know,
he'll maybe he's not necessarily walk, strikeout or home run anymore.
He'll he'll put a ball in play, you know, in
this when the situation calls for that. I think that's
why he's hitting for such a high average because I think,
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you know, pictures, if they stay out of his hotstone
for home runs, he'll get his single or a double.
So I just think he's a much more complete hitter
than he was five years ago. And you know, there
are not many hitters today who go that direction. You
know a lot of hitters who did what he did
as a rookie year, who did what he did even
a couple of years ago, would have said, hey, you
know what, this is who I am. This is what
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kind of hitter I am. I'm going to hit you know,
to sixty with fifty home runs and then strike out
one hundred and eighty times, and hey, you take the
good with the bad. But he's been able to He's
nutsa has not offered the good with the dad. He's
offered to keep the good and fix the bat and
that's something that not a lot of guys do today.
You know, not a lot of guys improve a segment
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or a part of their offensive game the way he has.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Big weekend, I mean out there on the West Coast
in LA nine thirty pre game tonight on our station
ten ten. With the first pitch, it's Max Freed versus
Gonsolin in the first one. Dodgers Yankees. Just great matchups
all the way through, going to be great at bats
all the way through. You've got a guy with twenty
home runs to lead the league and show hey Otani
and everything that goes with the fifty to fifty guy
(07:53):
from last year MVP, the guy you guys are just
talking about, Aaron Judge. Can't wait for those at bats
for you, you as such a fan and a guy
who covers this stuff for a living. Where your eyeball
is at this weekend in that series, Like, what's something
that you're looking for?
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Well, I'm looking for the Yankees to play hungry, you know,
to play hungry and to play angry, uh and to
really to you know, to to just play a better
brand of baseball than we've seen them play against the
Dodgers in the past. You know, we we kind of
saw the shot across the bow this week when they
were talking about how they got their American League Championship rings,
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and it's like they don't want to wear them. They
don't want them. This is the one coming up that
that that they want. I imagine they'll be on eBay
fairly soon, but you know, you just to hear that,
and I just feel like, uh, you know, the Dodgers
are going to see a very you know, the series
and the scheme of things doesn't mean a whole lot.
I mean, if somebody wins to Auto three, great, If
somebody sweeps somebody, then the end they put a dent
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in the in the standings. But for the most part,
I just look for the Yankees to play with a
lot of pride and a lot of hunger and a
lot of fire this week because I think it means
something to them to kind of leave a calling card
with the Dodgers that hey, you got us in the
World Series, but you're going to see us again and
it's going to be a different story. I think the
Yankees would like to leave that, leave that with the
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Dodgers this weekend if they can.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
I haven't looked this up and I've been doing this
a long time total base records, and Babe Ruth is
number one with four fifty seven right now, Judge is
at one fifty three. Show Hey, tied Barry Bonds last
year for sixteenth all time with four eleven. Let's just
start with four eleven and getting like maybe into the
top fifteen. Do you think Judge, Judge has a shot
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to get over four hundred total bases this season?
Speaker 2 (09:42):
You know, it's it's really really hard to do today
because the ballparks don't have the deep power allies that
they had in Babe Ruts day or Leuke Gerrick day
or Jimmy Fox's day. You know that the Polo Grounds
was five hundred feet to center field and Tiger Stadium
was four forty and Kamiski was four forty five. You
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don't have those kinds of power allies today, so you're
not going to get the triples. You know, when you
look at guys like Babe Ruth and even slow guys
who played in the thirties, they'd have twenty triples in
a season because the ballparks were so caverleted.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
In the Gay.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Yeah, so I think it's I think it would be
very I mean to do it, you've really got to
do it with a lot of home runs and a
lot of doubles, and it's tough to get there without
without that ability to get that triple maybe ten twelve
times a year.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Yeah, show, hey got the four to eleven. This is
going to shock you and Ben's gonna love it. Sammy
Sosa number seven all time, four to twenty five. He's
also a run also fourteenth with four sixteen. So Sammy
Sosa's got two in the top fifteen of total bases
all time, which I think is pretty Those are the
years he.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Had sixty six and sixty three home runs, right, yep, yep.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Yeah, Dom and Maury Hartford current not only Major League
baseball coverage, but you do lot in the college ranks
as well. This is one of my favorite weekends down
because the regional series, the Road to Omaha has begun
at noon. What can you teach us about CCSU and Fairfield.
They're in the regionals. They have had pretty good seasons,
but typically they get bounced out of these regionals. What
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did they have to hang their hat on that maybe
they can win some games.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Well, you know, I think you know, obviously Central can hit,
and I think they can hit with anybody. I think
they can score some runs to stay in a game.
So if they're if their number one pitchers, you know,
can give them, could give them a decent game because
the teams they're playing, of course, they're going to be
able to hit. You know, they might be able to
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outscore somebody and win a game. They're going to be
tough outs. And you know, particularly if a team tries
to sneak past that first game and not use their
best pitcher, they have their best pitcher for the second game.
That's where Central could maybe jump up and surprise somebody
and make a game a lot closer than it is.
You know, I don't know a lot about Fairfield, but
they do have they can also hit. Hitting is the
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thing in college baseball this year. There's not a lot
of great pitching out there anywhere. But I think you know,
when you put these two teams, really they're mid majors
in these situations, you know, it's kind of like a
one versus sixteen. The fact that's exactly like a one
versus sixteen and the NCAA basketball tournament. You know it's
going to be a tough order. But what they have
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to do is concentrate on on giving a good account
of themselves and looking and looking good. Maybe if they
do lose this first game, they have a shot to
win the second game against the three seed. You know,
in a three versus four game, you know you just
have to you know, basically, you just let it fly
and have fun and if you can, if you can
win some game, if you can win a game and
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maybe just stay alive an extra day, you know you've
done yourself proud. I know when when Central went to
Arkansas a few years ago, the fans there fell in
love with with Central. The Arkansas fans because of how
how hard they played and how scrappy they were and
how they were didn't appear to be afraid. And I
think that's one thing both of these coaches, you know,
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Charlie Hickey, I've seen a lot more of him and
his teams over the years. You know, they won't be
afraid of the moment. They'll just go let it fly
and have fun. And that's the most I think that's
the most important in the regional you know, U coon's
different if you kind of gets into the regional. They're
trying to get to the World Series for the first
time in a long time. They've knocked on the door
a few times, you know, a little more pressure on them.
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But to me, Fairfield Central, what do they have to
lose here? Just let it fly and has too fun.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Yeah, Fairfield takes on number thirteen Coastal Carolina at six o'clock.
Possible man tonight. Yes, so anything's possible. So how'd you
get down there? Did you take the train?
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Yeah? I do the train in the in the seven train.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
So so and how long does that usually take you
go to new Haven to get it?
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Yeah? I live near new Haven, so it's about two
hours to the Grand Central and it's about I got
stuck with the local seven, so it took me about
thirty minutes on the on the seven. But that's that's
how I'd love to go here, you know, to try
to drive here, especially on a Friday when everybody's going
to the Hamptons, it would just be it would just
be a nightmare at to drive here. I used to
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do that a lot back in the day. And you know,
since it's just a one shot deal and and I
don't necessarily have to stay for the game, do my
interviews beforehand. I prefer the train subway mode of transportation.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
There you go, you're a game. Mike Walt used to
always take me by train in New York. That was
my favorite thing when I was a kid. Uh you know,
he could easily drive me, but he's like, let's take
the train. Thanks, let somebody else drive us. So appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
So yeah, you got You always love going Yankee Stadium
when when the train breaks out into the open and
the first thing you'd see is the stadium in front
of you, bigger than life. That was always a great moment. Yeah.
But anytime guys to talk baseball.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Wait wait, wait, don before you go. I heard a
rumor that Ryan Daniels, Yukon player of the Year in
the Big East, is probably going to test the draft out.
What are your thoughts on that and where do you
think he would possibly end up? What round? What kind
of player to be?
Speaker 2 (15:06):
I see him as a middle round guy. I mean
that bat is terrific. He I mean he doesn't just
hit home runs, he hits a way over four hundred feet.
You know, the question with him is going to be
if he has a position. Can he stay at second base?
You know, if he has to go to a corner,
you know that that that may make it a look,
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that may drop his stock a little bit. But if
the scouts think he can stay at second base, I
see him going fourth or fifth round somewhere. I'll tell
you what with that lefty swing he's got. Boy, he
reminds me a little bit of Chase Sutlely. He'd looked
pretty good in the ballpark with his short port.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Yeah, that's a great comparison. Six foot about two hundred pounds.
All right, donal Lorii safe travels back. Tell Shaef we
said hello and good luck, and uh we got it.
You know, hopefully he can get at least a.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Better records man.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Do think of it, Jackie Robinson, Jackie Robinson, don't.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Make that kind of history.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Thank you man. We're blessed to have you to be
a part of our show. Thank you, Dom, Thanks Tom,
you got it guys.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Any time, let's good weekend.
And that's Zamamory from the Hartford Current, and he's always
covering something. And right now you're at City Field as
the Rockies are there with their new manager. And have
you been able to talk to the new skipper or
are you waiting to talk to the new skipper?
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Yeah, waiting to talk to him at five in the dugout.
So it's kind of like old times at being at
Dunkin Park, right only it's a big league park.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
What difficult is his job? You're you're nine to forty
seven and you just don't have the horses, man. I mean, yeah,
they're major leaguers, but they're they're just getting smoked by
the competition.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Well you know while, but in these situations, I've always
felt like, you know, possession is nine tenths of the law.
You know, he's in the job. It's his job, you know,
until somebody tells him it's not. And so really he
could approach it if he chooses to that. He's zero
and zero and all he really has to do is
(00:54):
get the team to play better than it was playing
before from here on end. I mean, see, you're not
going to get out a lot place. We know that.
But if they look better, and they play better, and
their younger players get better, and he becomes you know,
well respected in the clubhouse and in the city. Then
you know he could maybe get something done. You know,
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some of the some of the worst teams in baseball
history were coached by were managed by Hall of famers.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
And silver Lining. Yes, well said, let's talk about whereas
teams in baseball history? How did we get here?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Man?
Speaker 3 (01:31):
I mean nine and forty something, that's tough, that is
tough to do. How are the Rockies in this position
today in your estimation?
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Well, you know, they haven't developed a lot of pitchers.
You know, they've they've always developed hitters through their system,
but they just haven't been able to develop to develop pitchers.
Nor have they been able to acquire or sign pitchers
because who wants to go and pitch in that thin air?
So they never really seem to have enough pitching. And
then you know in todays of the unbalanced schedule, Uh,
(02:03):
you know, they're in the they're in probably the strongest
division in baseball, and they're just getting pummeled the extra
series that they have to play the Dodgers and the
Giants and the Padres and and the and the Diamondbacks.
So it's kind of a perfect, uh perfect you know
what kind of storm where it's just got everything. Everything
is just conducive to and in baseball today anyways, conducive
(02:27):
to extremes like the White Sox last year because of
just the way, uh, some teams just unload everybody, and
then other teams by everybody. So you have these polar
extremes to begin with. So you put all that together
with a young team and the and and the division
that they're in, and I guess that's how you get
to whatever they are, nine and forty seven. But even there,
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it's awfully harder. But you would think by accident they'd
have twenty but uh, you know, nine and twenty seven,
I mean, wow, what does that translate over the over
the full season? But like thirty wins?
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Yeah? And then I mean even the two teams that
are playing in minor league places like the Rays and
the A's, they're doing much better than the Rockets. And
you remember too dom years ago they were like, Okay,
we need a bunch of sinker ball guys, and they
started with Mike Hampton and stuff like that. And sometimes
even that, no matter how much money you throw with that,
it's a great point. It's a great point. So I
(03:24):
played there in the minor leagues. I actually played at
Mile High Stadium before they built cores, and when we
were the Denver Zephyrs, a guy could tap a fly
ball and if the winds going out, it's a home run.
It was awful and it's an awful mental thing that
it does to the pitchers because they know their era
is going to be one to two runs more at home.
(03:48):
So but like, I love your point though, that you're
starting because even like my former teammate Dave Martinez, who
took over the Nationals, they were bad, made them good,
they won a championship. Now they're back to being bad again.
You know, you you could still turn things around if
you can get them to believe that. And I think
that right now, there's some good enough players on that team.
(04:08):
He's got to get them to believe it first, before
the guys who aren't as good as like tovar On
those other guys believe in it. They've they've got to
get a nucleus of guys to start believing in it.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
You know what they have to do, rob they have
to win more games than the White Sox won last year.
You know you.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Agree, you don't want to already won is the number?
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Yep?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Yeah, yeah, you don't want you don't want to look
at it at a forty one and twenty one team,
and so hold my beer, right yep?
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Unreal? All right? So they're playing the Mets though, and
I've I've been trying to keep kicking this can down
the road and keeping it alive. And Dibbs wants me
to shut up about it. But Wanson's getting paid seven
hundred millions, bad.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Man.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Come on, dude, this has got to be a weekend
for him that you would think that he's going to
get things right.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Well, yeah, I mean, you know, it's starting to get
late in the season, where one third of the way
into the season and he's sitting two twenty four or
two twenty five. I don't think anybody had anybody would,
I mean, you know, you would expect maybe he'd get
off to a slow start or have an adjustment period
or or whatever it is that's wrong, But no, I
wouldn't have expected him. He's just too good a hit her, right,
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you know, to be to be where he is. So
you have to believe that you know, he's probably gonna
hit three hundred the rest of the way, that he's
just that eventually he's going to settle in and he's
going to hit But you know, it's unfortunate that, you know,
the narrative that he's not happy here, that he wishes
he went back to the Yankees, and and and that
he he doesn't look like the same guy. Where where's
his smile, where's his passion? Uh? You know that that
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narrative is starting to set in stone, and it's going
to be very difficult to get rid of that in
this town when when something like that takes hold.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
I remember when Bobby Benia said, you'll never wipe the
smile off my face and then talk on the other
side of that. Historically, Ted Williams last to hit four
oh six. Aaron Judges dipped a little bit below four hundred.
But like you said, he's a third of the year
in and his power numbers are just exceptional. What what
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have you seen as this guy has progressed, let's just say,
the last five years as opposed to the first five
years of his career. What have you seen him do
better than when he was a young player.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Well, I just think he's a more complete hitter now, Rob.
You know, he hits the ball where it's pitched. He'll
take the single when when when it's offered, you know,
he'll maybe he's not necessarily walk, strikeout or home run anymore.
He'll he'll put a ball in play, you know, in
this when the situation calls for that. I think that's
why he's hitting for such a high average because I think,
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you know, pictures, if they stay out of his hotstone
for home runs, he'll get his single or a double.
So I just think he's a much more complete hitter
than he was five years ago. And you know, there
are not many hitters today who go that direction. You
know a lot of hitters who did what he did
as a rookie year, who did what he did even
a couple of years ago, would have said, hey, you
know what, this is who I am. This is what
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kind of hitter I am. I'm going to hit you know,
to sixty with fifty home runs and then strike out
one hundred and eighty times, and hey, you take the
good with the bad. But he's been able to He's
nutsa has not offered the good with the dad. He's
offered to keep the good and fix the bat and
that's something that not a lot of guys do today.
You know, not a lot of guys improve a segment
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or a part of their offensive game the way he has.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Big weekend, I mean out there on the West Coast
in LA nine thirty pre game tonight on our station
ten ten. With the first pitch, it's Max Freed versus
Gonsolin in the first one. Dodgers Yankees. Just great matchups
all the way through, going to be great at bats
all the way through. You've got a guy with twenty
home runs to lead the league and show hey Otani
and everything that goes with the fifty to fifty guy
(07:53):
from last year MVP, the guy you guys are just
talking about, Aaron Judge. Can't wait for those at bats
for you, you as such a fan and a guy
who covers this stuff for a living. Where your eyeball
is at this weekend in that series, Like, what's something
that you're looking for?
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Well, I'm looking for the Yankees to play hungry, you know,
to play hungry and to play angry, uh and to
really to you know, to to just play a better
brand of baseball than we've seen them play against the
Dodgers in the past. You know, we we kind of
saw the shot across the bow this week when they
were talking about how they got their American League Championship rings,
(08:29):
and it's like they don't want to wear them. They
don't want them. This is the one coming up that
that that they want. I imagine they'll be on eBay
fairly soon, but you know, you just to hear that,
and I just feel like, uh, you know, the Dodgers
are going to see a very you know, the series
and the scheme of things doesn't mean a whole lot.
I mean, if somebody wins to Auto three, great, If
somebody sweeps somebody, then the end they put a dent
(08:51):
in the in the standings. But for the most part,
I just look for the Yankees to play with a
lot of pride and a lot of hunger and a
lot of fire this week because I think it means
something to them to kind of leave a calling card
with the Dodgers that hey, you got us in the
World Series, but you're going to see us again and
it's going to be a different story. I think the
Yankees would like to leave that, leave that with the
(09:12):
Dodgers this weekend if they can.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
I haven't looked this up and I've been doing this
a long time total base records, and Babe Ruth is
number one with four fifty seven right now, Judge is
at one fifty three. Show Hey, tied Barry Bonds last
year for sixteenth all time with four eleven. Let's just
start with four eleven and getting like maybe into the
top fifteen. Do you think Judge, Judge has a shot
(09:37):
to get over four hundred total bases this season?
Speaker 2 (09:42):
You know, it's it's really really hard to do today
because the ballparks don't have the deep power allies that
they had in Babe Ruts day or Leuke Gerrick day
or Jimmy Fox's day. You know that the Polo Grounds
was five hundred feet to center field and Tiger Stadium
was four forty and Kamiski was four forty five. You
(10:03):
don't have those kinds of power allies today, so you're
not going to get the triples. You know, when you
look at guys like Babe Ruth and even slow guys
who played in the thirties, they'd have twenty triples in
a season because the ballparks were so caverleted.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
In the Gay.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Yeah, so I think it's I think it would be
very I mean to do it, you've really got to
do it with a lot of home runs and a
lot of doubles, and it's tough to get there without
without that ability to get that triple maybe ten twelve
times a year.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Yeah, show, hey got the four to eleven. This is
going to shock you and Ben's gonna love it. Sammy
Sosa number seven all time, four to twenty five. He's
also a run also fourteenth with four sixteen. So Sammy
Sosa's got two in the top fifteen of total bases
all time, which I think is pretty Those are the
years he.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Had sixty six and sixty three home runs, right, yep, yep.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Yeah, Dom and Maury Hartford current not only Major League
baseball coverage, but you do lot in the college ranks
as well. This is one of my favorite weekends down
because the regional series, the Road to Omaha has begun
at noon. What can you teach us about CCSU and Fairfield.
They're in the regionals. They have had pretty good seasons,
but typically they get bounced out of these regionals. What
(11:15):
did they have to hang their hat on that maybe
they can win some games.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Well, you know, I think you know, obviously Central can hit,
and I think they can hit with anybody. I think
they can score some runs to stay in a game.
So if they're if their number one pitchers, you know,
can give them, could give them a decent game because
the teams they're playing, of course, they're going to be
able to hit. You know, they might be able to
(11:40):
outscore somebody and win a game. They're going to be
tough outs. And you know, particularly if a team tries
to sneak past that first game and not use their
best pitcher, they have their best pitcher for the second game.
That's where Central could maybe jump up and surprise somebody
and make a game a lot closer than it is.
You know, I don't know a lot about Fairfield, but
they do have they can also hit. Hitting is the
(12:02):
thing in college baseball this year. There's not a lot
of great pitching out there anywhere. But I think you know,
when you put these two teams, really they're mid majors
in these situations, you know, it's kind of like a
one versus sixteen. The fact that's exactly like a one
versus sixteen and the NCAA basketball tournament. You know it's
going to be a tough order. But what they have
(12:23):
to do is concentrate on on giving a good account
of themselves and looking and looking good. Maybe if they
do lose this first game, they have a shot to
win the second game against the three seed. You know,
in a three versus four game, you know you just
have to you know, basically, you just let it fly
and have fun and if you can, if you can
win some game, if you can win a game and
(12:44):
maybe just stay alive an extra day, you know you've
done yourself proud. I know when when Central went to
Arkansas a few years ago, the fans there fell in
love with with Central. The Arkansas fans because of how
how hard they played and how scrappy they were and
how they were didn't appear to be afraid. And I
think that's one thing both of these coaches, you know,
(13:04):
Charlie Hickey, I've seen a lot more of him and
his teams over the years. You know, they won't be
afraid of the moment. They'll just go let it fly
and have fun. And that's the most I think that's
the most important in the regional you know, U coon's
different if you kind of gets into the regional. They're
trying to get to the World Series for the first
time in a long time. They've knocked on the door
a few times, you know, a little more pressure on them.
(13:25):
But to me, Fairfield Central, what do they have to
lose here? Just let it fly and has too fun.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Yeah, Fairfield takes on number thirteen Coastal Carolina at six o'clock.
Possible man tonight. Yes, so anything's possible. So how'd you
get down there? Did you take the train?
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Yeah? I do the train in the in the seven train.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
So so and how long does that usually take you
go to new Haven to get it?
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Yeah? I live near new Haven, so it's about two
hours to the Grand Central and it's about I got
stuck with the local seven, so it took me about
thirty minutes on the on the seven. But that's that's
how I'd love to go here, you know, to try
to drive here, especially on a Friday when everybody's going
to the Hamptons, it would just be it would just
be a nightmare at to drive here. I used to
(14:10):
do that a lot back in the day. And you know,
since it's just a one shot deal and and I
don't necessarily have to stay for the game, do my
interviews beforehand. I prefer the train subway mode of transportation.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
There you go, you're a game. Mike Walt used to
always take me by train in New York. That was
my favorite thing when I was a kid. Uh you know,
he could easily drive me, but he's like, let's take
the train. Thanks, let somebody else drive us. So appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
So yeah, you got You always love going Yankee Stadium
when when the train breaks out into the open and
the first thing you'd see is the stadium in front
of you, bigger than life. That was always a great moment. Yeah.
But anytime guys to talk baseball.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Wait wait, wait, don before you go. I heard a
rumor that Ryan Daniels, Yukon player of the Year in
the Big East, is probably going to test the draft out.
What are your thoughts on that and where do you
think he would possibly end up? What round? What kind
of player to be?
Speaker 2 (15:06):
I see him as a middle round guy. I mean
that bat is terrific. He I mean he doesn't just
hit home runs, he hits a way over four hundred feet.
You know, the question with him is going to be
if he has a position. Can he stay at second base?
You know, if he has to go to a corner,
you know that that that may make it a look,
(15:26):
that may drop his stock a little bit. But if
the scouts think he can stay at second base, I
see him going fourth or fifth round somewhere. I'll tell
you what with that lefty swing he's got. Boy, he
reminds me a little bit of Chase Sutlely. He'd looked
pretty good in the ballpark with his short port.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Yeah, that's a great comparison. Six foot about two hundred pounds.
All right, donal Lorii safe travels back. Tell Shaef we
said hello and good luck, and uh we got it.
You know, hopefully he can get at least a.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Better records man.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Do think of it, Jackie Robinson, Jackie Robinson, don't.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Make that kind of history.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Thank you man. We're blessed to have you to be
a part of our show. Thank you, Dom, Thanks Tom,
you got it guys.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Any time, let's good weekend.
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