August 6, 2025 • 8 mins
Tricia Whitaker is the sideline reporter for Friday Night Baseball on Apple TV. She'll be working Reds/Pirates on Friday night, so she joined us on ESPN1530.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Baseball broadcast could not be cleaner. It's done. Uh, and
do a really good job with those games.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
On the sidelines for Friday Night Baseball and Apple TV
is Tricia Whittaker, who is going to be in Pittsburgh
on the call with that game on Friday six forty
first pitch and kind enough to join us and I
you alum as well, Tricia.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
It's it's awesome to have you. Good afternoon.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
How are you now, listen, I'm great. I'm not just
an IU alum. I actually teach it at you. So
I live about two hours from Cincinnati, so I could
have just driven there and come into your studio with you.
But yeah, I teach it at you, and I do uh,
I do Apple TV, do a little of CBS Sports Network,
so I do all of it.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
So now we're going to talk about Redspirate.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
You know, we got to talk about you in a
pancake from Pat Murphy's pocket the.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Other night on on the Apple broadcast. You know we're
going to start with that. Correct color me surprised, No,
this is I don't.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
I don't surprise anybody anymore. So you're you're You're on
the call for Milwaukee on on Friday night and you're
doing an in game interview with Pat Murphy, the manager
of the Brewers, who's obviously doing a great job. Brewers
have the best record in baseball right now. And you
ask him a question about a mid game snack and
he pulls a pancake out of his uniform pocket and
(01:15):
you take a bite.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Uh, is everything okay? That did survive that.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
I survived it. And everybody was like, I cannot believe
you took a bite out of that pancake. And I'm like,
get out of here. I was raised in the Midwest,
Like I was raised next to a cornfield. A pocket
pancake is like my least of my words. But I
let me tell you that I'm Pat Murphy.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
He is.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
He's a great combination of like an old school manager
but also like he takes his job very seriously, but
he doesn't like take himself too seriously, you know. So,
Like before the interview, I'm talking to him and I'm like,
he mentioned something about in game snacks and I was like,
in game snacks, you mean like sunflower seeds. He's like, no, pancakes.
I think, Pat, what are you talking about? I think
you eat pancakes? During the game and he goes yeah,
(02:01):
and I'm like, you're lying. I was like, you're stop.
I was like stop, stop, stop stop. He's like I
do and I'm like, what do you mean and he goes,
I put him in my pocket. I go, you're a liar,
like you don't put pancakes in your pocket. He goes, yes,
I do. So during the manager interview, I go, uh,
I hear you like snacks during the game and he's
like yeah. But I didn't want to be singled out.
(02:22):
I'm like, liar, you did too, and I go, what
do you eat? Whips a pancake out of his back
pocket and then ask me if I want to bite,
and I took a bite because you know, do it
for the live broadcast. But it was hilarious and.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Then it exploded.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
I mean, this thing went viral and there's T shirts.
People have been contacting me from all sorts of T
shirts companies like being like, hey, we're going to send
you one of the T shirts if y'all want to
promote it. And I'm like, this is insane, this is insane.
I gained three thousand followers on Twitter after that, three
thousand for pocket pancakes.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Yeah, and now you're doing radio interviews in Cincinnati. Well,
what's interesting is, like I saw that happen. The Reds
played Friday afternoon. So the Apple TV. I'm watching, it's
the Brewers, and I'm watching with my wife and she
says to me, I think the reporter just ate a
pancake out of the manager's pocket. And you know, she's
asking me like, is this the kind of thing that
usually happens? And I said, well, no, no, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
In a short, no, short, no, this does not usually happen.
I've never heard of a pocket and pancake. But hey,
I it was a good time. He was a good
sport about it, and hey, whatever works, do you? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Well, and you know, I mean not to keep dwelling
on this one particular story, but I'm thinking, like, if
I'm Terry Francona or Don Kelly, the manager of the
Pirates on Friday, I don't know if we're going to
go like a bacon out of the pocket, some sort
of wrap.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
I don't know, un to Terry. And you know, Terry
is I love covering Terry. I worked for the Tampa
Bay Rays for six years as their sideline reporter. And
Terry Francona and Kevin Cash have the best relationship, the
most hilarious, so you see everything they do together, it's
the most hilarious relationship. And one time when I was
interviewing Terry for an in game interview, I asked him
(04:01):
about the seating used to sit on in Cleveland, which
he took from his old fishing boat. Yes, and put
in the dugout in sat in it every game. So
he did play ball with me a little bit on
those manager interviews, and he was entertaining just he didn't,
you know, take a pancake out of his pocket, but
he did talk about fishing well, you.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Know, I mean be prepared for everything, which in your
profession you have to be.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
You're gonna get.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
You know, the Pirates haven't been very good this year,
but the Reds, you know, all year long, Tricia, we
keep waiting for them to kind of, you know, spiral
out of control. And every time you think, oh the
ends here, Terry frankonas team figures out a way to
get the season back on track, it happened last night
in Chicago. It has happened all season long. This though,
is the kind of series against Pittsburgh on the road
(04:45):
that they've got to take care of business.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
In they do. You got to win the games you're
supposed to win, right. I remember one year when I
was covering the Rays, they went something like nineteen and
one against the Orioles when the Orioles were horrifically bad,
and at the end the season, when you looked at
the Al East, it came down to who played the
best against the Orioles, really, and so I think you're
(05:08):
exactly right. I think they got to take care of
business against the Pirates. And I liked how you mentioned,
you know, when they got to Chicago what they did.
I think that that, in my opinion, you hope that
that game is the DNA of this team for the
rest of the season, because they got to Chicago tired
as heck after that tobacle at the Speedway, you know,
(05:29):
the rain, and then playing the next day and using
half of their bullpen. I mean that was just wild.
And they get there, they're fighting for a playoff spot,
and they perform right under pressure in a close, tight
game when they are exhausted and you look at the
standings and you think, okay, how can they gain ground
(05:51):
here in the wild card standings at least, and you
look at a series like the Pirates and you think,
all right, those are gimme games. Hopefully it's never a
gimmi game in baseball, but you hope that they can
get the job done there because that does help the
rest of the way. Now, I think this series that
Wrigley is voting well for them, But you're right, you
(06:14):
go into Pittsburgh, you get the job done. Then we
go from there. And I know what it's like to
cover a team where it's just stumping down all season
long and you think, all right, well they're really going
to flame out here, and then they never do. I
think that if the Reds can get hot down the stretch,
you might be looking at it getting interesting.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
No, I mean, like we talked about this in relation
to last night's game. We talked about it in relation
to the game they played on Friday, where they have
suffered some of these losses where look, they haven't made
the postseason in a full year since twenty thirteen.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Right, We're used to expecting the worst.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
And I give this team a lot of credit because
every time you expect the Cincinnati Reds to do something,
Cincinnati Reds, like with Terry Francona, they have figured out
a way to not do that. They pull themselves off
the plank. I think they deserve a lot credit for that.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
I agree, I agree, And I also think you know that.
I just I think I just have a soft spot
for Cincinnati in my heart because I was raised in
the Midwest, right, But I would just love to see
that city, you know, experience the postseason again with Ellie
day La Cruz there. I mean, that would just be electric.
(07:22):
I would love to see it. It would make my
heart so happy, and so I really, I mean, you're
not supposed to really root for teams as a reporter,
but I am pulling for the Reds down the stretch
because I think it's good for baseball when a city
like that does something, and I think it would just
be awesome to see.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Yeah, I'm all on board.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
You will.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
You don't have to convince me at all. Six p
forty on Friday Night, Apple TV, Trisha Whitaker on the
sideline for Reds v.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Pirates.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
If either manager offers you something to eat, I can't
wait to see how you handle it.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Nonetheless, we'll be watching, thank you.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Very much, anytime thank for having me.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Guys, you got it. Trisha Whitaker Apple TV rides Pirates
on Friday,
Baseball broadcast could not be cleaner. It's done. Uh, and
do a really good job with those games.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
On the sidelines for Friday Night Baseball and Apple TV
is Tricia Whittaker, who is going to be in Pittsburgh
on the call with that game on Friday six forty
first pitch and kind enough to join us and I
you alum as well, Tricia.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
It's it's awesome to have you. Good afternoon.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
How are you now, listen, I'm great. I'm not just
an IU alum. I actually teach it at you. So
I live about two hours from Cincinnati, so I could
have just driven there and come into your studio with you.
But yeah, I teach it at you, and I do uh,
I do Apple TV, do a little of CBS Sports Network,
so I do all of it.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
So now we're going to talk about Redspirate.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
You know, we got to talk about you in a
pancake from Pat Murphy's pocket the.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Other night on on the Apple broadcast. You know we're
going to start with that. Correct color me surprised, No,
this is I don't.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
I don't surprise anybody anymore. So you're you're You're on
the call for Milwaukee on on Friday night and you're
doing an in game interview with Pat Murphy, the manager
of the Brewers, who's obviously doing a great job. Brewers
have the best record in baseball right now. And you
ask him a question about a mid game snack and
he pulls a pancake out of his uniform pocket and
(01:15):
you take a bite.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Uh, is everything okay? That did survive that.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
I survived it. And everybody was like, I cannot believe
you took a bite out of that pancake. And I'm like,
get out of here. I was raised in the Midwest,
Like I was raised next to a cornfield. A pocket
pancake is like my least of my words. But I
let me tell you that I'm Pat Murphy.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
He is.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
He's a great combination of like an old school manager
but also like he takes his job very seriously, but
he doesn't like take himself too seriously, you know. So,
Like before the interview, I'm talking to him and I'm like,
he mentioned something about in game snacks and I was like,
in game snacks, you mean like sunflower seeds. He's like, no, pancakes.
I think, Pat, what are you talking about? I think
you eat pancakes? During the game and he goes yeah,
(02:01):
and I'm like, you're lying. I was like, you're stop.
I was like stop, stop, stop stop. He's like I
do and I'm like, what do you mean and he goes,
I put him in my pocket. I go, you're a liar,
like you don't put pancakes in your pocket. He goes, yes,
I do. So during the manager interview, I go, uh,
I hear you like snacks during the game and he's
like yeah. But I didn't want to be singled out.
(02:22):
I'm like, liar, you did too, and I go, what
do you eat? Whips a pancake out of his back
pocket and then ask me if I want to bite,
and I took a bite because you know, do it
for the live broadcast. But it was hilarious and.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Then it exploded.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
I mean, this thing went viral and there's T shirts.
People have been contacting me from all sorts of T
shirts companies like being like, hey, we're going to send
you one of the T shirts if y'all want to
promote it. And I'm like, this is insane, this is insane.
I gained three thousand followers on Twitter after that, three
thousand for pocket pancakes.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Yeah, and now you're doing radio interviews in Cincinnati. Well,
what's interesting is, like I saw that happen. The Reds
played Friday afternoon. So the Apple TV. I'm watching, it's
the Brewers, and I'm watching with my wife and she
says to me, I think the reporter just ate a
pancake out of the manager's pocket. And you know, she's
asking me like, is this the kind of thing that
usually happens? And I said, well, no, no, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
In a short, no, short, no, this does not usually happen.
I've never heard of a pocket and pancake. But hey,
I it was a good time. He was a good
sport about it, and hey, whatever works, do you? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Well, and you know, I mean not to keep dwelling
on this one particular story, but I'm thinking, like, if
I'm Terry Francona or Don Kelly, the manager of the
Pirates on Friday, I don't know if we're going to
go like a bacon out of the pocket, some sort
of wrap.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
I don't know, un to Terry. And you know, Terry
is I love covering Terry. I worked for the Tampa
Bay Rays for six years as their sideline reporter. And
Terry Francona and Kevin Cash have the best relationship, the
most hilarious, so you see everything they do together, it's
the most hilarious relationship. And one time when I was
interviewing Terry for an in game interview, I asked him
(04:01):
about the seating used to sit on in Cleveland, which
he took from his old fishing boat. Yes, and put
in the dugout in sat in it every game. So
he did play ball with me a little bit on
those manager interviews, and he was entertaining just he didn't,
you know, take a pancake out of his pocket, but
he did talk about fishing well, you.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Know, I mean be prepared for everything, which in your
profession you have to be.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
You're gonna get.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
You know, the Pirates haven't been very good this year,
but the Reds, you know, all year long, Tricia, we
keep waiting for them to kind of, you know, spiral
out of control. And every time you think, oh the
ends here, Terry frankonas team figures out a way to
get the season back on track, it happened last night
in Chicago. It has happened all season long. This though,
is the kind of series against Pittsburgh on the road
(04:45):
that they've got to take care of business.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
In they do. You got to win the games you're
supposed to win, right. I remember one year when I
was covering the Rays, they went something like nineteen and
one against the Orioles when the Orioles were horrifically bad,
and at the end the season, when you looked at
the Al East, it came down to who played the
best against the Orioles, really, and so I think you're
(05:08):
exactly right. I think they got to take care of
business against the Pirates. And I liked how you mentioned,
you know, when they got to Chicago what they did.
I think that that, in my opinion, you hope that
that game is the DNA of this team for the
rest of the season, because they got to Chicago tired
as heck after that tobacle at the Speedway, you know,
(05:29):
the rain, and then playing the next day and using
half of their bullpen. I mean that was just wild.
And they get there, they're fighting for a playoff spot,
and they perform right under pressure in a close, tight
game when they are exhausted and you look at the
standings and you think, okay, how can they gain ground
(05:51):
here in the wild card standings at least, and you
look at a series like the Pirates and you think,
all right, those are gimme games. Hopefully it's never a
gimmi game in baseball, but you hope that they can
get the job done there because that does help the
rest of the way. Now, I think this series that
Wrigley is voting well for them, But you're right, you
(06:14):
go into Pittsburgh, you get the job done. Then we
go from there. And I know what it's like to
cover a team where it's just stumping down all season
long and you think, all right, well they're really going
to flame out here, and then they never do. I
think that if the Reds can get hot down the stretch,
you might be looking at it getting interesting.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
No, I mean, like we talked about this in relation
to last night's game. We talked about it in relation
to the game they played on Friday, where they have
suffered some of these losses where look, they haven't made
the postseason in a full year since twenty thirteen.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Right, We're used to expecting the worst.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
And I give this team a lot of credit because
every time you expect the Cincinnati Reds to do something,
Cincinnati Reds, like with Terry Francona, they have figured out
a way to not do that. They pull themselves off
the plank. I think they deserve a lot credit for that.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
I agree, I agree, And I also think you know that.
I just I think I just have a soft spot
for Cincinnati in my heart because I was raised in
the Midwest, right, But I would just love to see
that city, you know, experience the postseason again with Ellie
day La Cruz there. I mean, that would just be electric.
(07:22):
I would love to see it. It would make my
heart so happy, and so I really, I mean, you're
not supposed to really root for teams as a reporter,
but I am pulling for the Reds down the stretch
because I think it's good for baseball when a city
like that does something, and I think it would just
be awesome to see.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Yeah, I'm all on board.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
You will.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
You don't have to convince me at all. Six p
forty on Friday Night, Apple TV, Trisha Whitaker on the
sideline for Reds v.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Pirates.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
If either manager offers you something to eat, I can't
wait to see how you handle it.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Nonetheless, we'll be watching, thank you.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Very much, anytime thank for having me.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Guys, you got it. Trisha Whitaker Apple TV rides Pirates
on Friday,
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