Cal Raleigh won the derby last night but the contest lacked true star power. Is the derby turning into the slam dunk contest considering that stars arent participating? Many people have taken issue with the fact that Jacob Misiorowski was named as an all-star replacement. Should Julio Urias get another shot in MLB?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let's do this freend Rogan Rodney Pete on AM.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Five to seventy LA Sports, A big three hour show
today one o'clock. Our buddy Ned COLLETTI jumps on Rodney.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
We love Ned. The Godfather is gonna give us something
at the halfway point of the season. He always does, Freddy,
you know he does all right. A lot to get to,
and let's start with last night's home run derby. Did
you watch it? I did? You did watch it? I did?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Okay, well, from what I've been told today, the Big Dumper, Yeah,
we might have been the only two. It doesn't seem
like there was a lot of interest. I watched it.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
I did too. I actually.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Yeah, I don't know, because I think the feeling was
where are the stars? We'll talk about the home run
derby in a second, but where are the stars? So
if you're a baseball fan, you know the names are
gonna pop right nationally, Cal Rowley, the Big Dumper is
a great story that's not really gonna ring the bell
at the county fair nationwide show how Otani would right
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show TONI would definitely do it, of course, of course
Aaron Judge would definitely do it. Yes, But they chose
not to compete. You think the Stars should have to
compete in the Home Run Derby.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Well, first off, you can't make somebody do it. That's
just not that's just not the way it works. I mean,
you know, I know it's a there's been a lot
of comparisons to the Slam Dunk Contest and all that,
but you can't force someone to do it because you know,
let's face it, the stories out there is that if
you participated in the home run Derby, this whole myth
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that your your second half of your season is going
to be lost and your swing is gonna get damaged
and you're gonna go into a slump. And you know,
some guys have and some guys have thrived after the
home run Derby. So I don't think that's a it's
a jinx or anything like that, but it's out there
and it's in the minds of a lot of people.
And so if you're you know, at the halfway pointed
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the season, not everybody's one hundred percent like they are
to start the season. So you've got nicks and bruises
and bangs and all that kind of stuff that you're
trying to deal with. And you have this opportunity to
take a break. A lot of guys want to take
a break, but I don't believe. But you shouldn't be
forced to do it. I'd like to see it. Like
you know, the best slam dunks were Michael Jordan going
against Dominique Wilkins back in the day, you know, and
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having the superstars in that dunk contest was great. And
I think the same thing, you know when back in
the day when Barry Bonds and Ken Griffy Junior competed,
that was what we wanted to see. So it is
unfortunate that those guys and I don't know, the money
is so great now that I don't know if money
would even be an incentive for these guys to go participate.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
What do you think's better the slam dunk contest or
the home run dirty hm?
Speaker 1 (02:50):
That might be a toss up. Now slam dunk has
gotten I mean since what since Aaron Gordon went up
against who do you go up against? That was the
last great one. The other cat that played in Chicago,
I forget his name now, but Aaron Gordon went toe
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to toe and that was that was a great dunk contest.
That's the last one I really remember. Home Run Derby.
I think the Home Run Derby is better because there's
also stories involved, like last night with cal Raley having
his dad pitched to him and having his brother catch
and his brother hyping him up behind the plate. I
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thought that was that was fantastic. It was great for TV,
it was great for the fans. It was just, you know,
a great moment Robinson Cano back in the day when
he had his dad pitched to him and he won it.
Cody Bellinger had his dad pitched to him when he
entered the Home Run Derby. So you know, lately, I
think the home Run Derby still outpaces the Dunk Contest,
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and dunk contests turned into a yawner a little bit now,
where the Home Run Derby still has some flavor, still
has you know, it's a little bit cachet and a
little bit story to it. Even with O'Neill Cruz hitting
at eight million miles out of the stadium, you know,
had some wow moments to it. So I didn't think
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it was as bad as people are making it out
to be. Friend. Yeah, I liked it.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
I enjoyed it, But there was controversy and I'm glad
you brought up the big dumper, cal Rawley.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Who won it.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
And I think they had a video of him as
a kid when he was talking about I just want
to I want to, you know, hit home runs and stuff.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
So it was great, it was great, but I gotta
tell you.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
There seemed to be some confusion about the rules at
one point, and it had to do with cal Rawleigh.
So he is battling Brent Rooker of the A's. Yeah,
that guy can hit. Rooker can really hit. Yeah, And
this is in the preliminary rounds. This is early on,
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and Rooker looks like he was going to win, but
then it was it's a tie. Now it's a tie.
So normally, if it's a tie, what do you go to?
You go to the old swing off?
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Swing off? Yes, right, go to the swing off.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Yes, you know, you get five more, ten more, whatever
it is, and then whoever hits the most outwins. But
that's not what they did. They said, well, you know,
when you really look at it, Raleigh's longest ball went
like three inches further than Rookers. So Raleigh advances, and
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everybody sat there and just looked at each other and said,
are we just making up rules.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Where did that come from? Yeah? How did that happen?
What do you mean? It was like, how do you
actually get the exact distance? I mean, how do you
really get that? I mean like they said, you know
the ONEO Cruz they hit at five hundred and other
How do you actually really know unless you've got a
guy out there with a tape measure and said, this
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is exactly where it land This is where it went out,
or is it hit the ground or if the guy
reaches up in the stands and he catches it high,
where would it have landed? Uh? For the for the distance,
I mean, there's so many gray areas to that, and
then measuring a home run and to have that be
a deciding factor? Was it? Did it a disservice? You're
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right they should have had to swing off.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Well, But the question is why did they do that?
That's the question. I mean, watching it, you thought, no,
there's something wrong here. Even the guys on the field
were like, what happened?
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Right? What he won? Oh? Great? They didn't know the
rules right then? Nobody knew going in this this is
how they're gonna do a tiebreaker? Well, I don't think
anybody knew the rules going in, because I don't think
there were any rules.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
That's what I'm saying. That's what I what was a rule?
The rule is what we just made up. We need
Raleigh to advance here. He's a great story. And by
the way, I'm glad he won. I'm glad he won. Yeah,
that is a great story.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
But watching that, it was like what yeah, and then
it's forgotten at the end because the great story paid
off right right, And it was you know, it was
a good competition. You know. I like the way and
it happens in every stadium that the home crowd gets
behind their guy and and Olsen you know, got hot
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for a minute, but he couldn't sustain it. But but
you know, Raleigh and Jr. Are going at it like that,
and it was the difference of what eighteen to fifteen
I think it was. But yeah, it was good competition.
And seeing Raleigh sitting there waiting and sweating it out
as Junior was hitting him was was pretty cool to watch.
So how about the how about the kid that robbed
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the home run? Though he saw that, Oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Kids one in the kid in front of him was
like put his hands out, like what the hell you doing.
I'm sure you know that before any of those kids
went out there put on that pink shirt. Before they
went out they were told explicitly, do not rob a
home run, do not jump up over the fence and
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catch a ball, let it go if it's even close.
And that kid went up and got it, and then
he realized he realized what he did.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
It was like the look on his face. He was like,
oh man, what did I just do. It's almost like
the look I had on my face in Japan when
I caught the foul ball on the Max Muncie. I
was like, what did I do? What did I do?
But thank god, because they did rule that a home run,
So that was good that they gave it to him.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Yeah, you can't lose the home run derby on a
controversial call by a kid in the outfield. It's a
home run derby. You cannot lose that where a kid
takes a home run away. So that was really a
good call over. I thought it was great. I thought
it was a fun night.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Again.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
It was a little odd on how cal the big
dumper advanced early on, but nonetheless it played out the
way was supposed to. He seemed like a terrific guy.
His dad was thrilled, his brother was thrilled. It really
was a really sweet family moment. Yeah, it really was.
It really was. And you know, you know, there was
a lot of first I guess in there. First first
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catcher to win in I guess, first switch hitter to
win it like that, and that.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Was that was a big part of it too. That
had some drama too. Does he hit right handed? Does
he stay left handed? And that talk and that conversation
of I'm gonna go I'm gonna start left and I'm
gonna hit right and then you gotta warm up a
little bit and get to rhythm going if you're gonna switch.
But he ended up going back to left hand side
to finish it up, which was great. But that was
a little drama that they had in it. But I loved
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I really did love the interaction that he had his
little brother had with him.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
You could tell they're pretty tight. Yeah, it's great. Okay,
So the game is tonight. Dave Roberts of course, managing
the league, managing the National League team. There's one story
as we begin the All Star Game tonight, everybody's talking
about it. Jacob Miseroowski. He's the pitcher from the Milwaukee Brewers. Now,
I'll tell you what he brings it. I mean that
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guy can fire the ball. Yeah, he's tripled digit on
the regular and down the road you might think he'll
be pretty good. And I say down the road because
he's had five stars five five in Major League Baseball
and he made the All Star team. He had five stars.
He might be pretty good. But I don't think you
can make that determination after five starts.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Twenty five innings. Five starts, twenty five innings, how about that?
And despite the fact when he's pitched he's looked pretty good. Yeah,
Dodgers know that.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Dodgers know that firsthand. But that guy's an All Star
now I know. The Philadelphia Phillies lost their mind.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Yeah, Now let me ask you this, so new to
the story. I was out, But was he a replacement
or he was added? I think he was a.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
Pitcher picked, but he was their injury replacement, injury.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Replace, yes, okay, so yeah, so instead of going with
someone as a replacement, like you said, from one of
the Phillies organizations, somebody that started you know, double digit games,
they went with a kid that's you know, a phenom,
young young kid. That it only had five starts, I
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get why so many people are living no matter how
good he is, he did he really deserve to be
on the All Star roster. And so that brings up
what is the All Star game? What is the All
Star game? You know what?
Speaker 2 (11:40):
They put him there because people have caught wind of
them and they want to see him, because he looks
like a phenom, because he throws one hundred and fifty
miles an hour. I mean, there's a lot of reasons,
but after only five games, it's a little tough to
make a determination that this guy deserves to be. There
were other guys deaf were there were there questions about
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Kershaw on the team. No, because he was sort of
the honorary selection. He didn't replace anybody, right, he was
an added guy, right, and.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Because Dave Roberts is the manager, he gets to do
that too.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
But it was romantic for the dinner, he said, all right, Well,
I'm sure the Dodgers said, yeah, Rob, come on, make
this happen.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
But you know, but yeah, that's different. But if you're
if you're I don't know, you know, I don't know
who didn't make it from the Phillies or you know,
I'm sure they're not the only team that was frustrated.
But if you're one of those guys, say, did Aaron
Nola make it? I don't know. Some of one of
those guys. They got a great staff in Philadelphia, so
they they've they've got a number of guys that probably
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could have made it. But the thing you also think about,
Fred is every one of these guys have an incentive
in their contract if they make the All Star Team. Yeah,
I think they made two hundred grand. Some may make more,
not not just you know being there. I'm talking about
in their actual contract, like if you make the All
Star Team, there's an extra two million dollars for you,
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or if you you know, actually the players that play
at it now that's that's the two hundred grand. But
I'm talking about in their actual contract that they sign,
like if you are League MVP, or you're in top
five and batting, you're in this and blah blah blah,
and you make the All Star Team, there's an extra
incentive to you. There are a number of guys that
have that in their contract, and they look up and
see a guy go in after five starts, Yeah, you
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would be pissed. I guess you might be thinking that, Okay,
if somebody's injured, I'm the next man up. You know,
I'm thirteen and four, you know, to start the first
half of the season. You tell me you're gonna put
a guy that started five games? Come on, Well, here's
the thing. So what are they trying to accomplish? What
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are they trying to do?
Speaker 2 (13:47):
He's young, social media following certainly making headlines when he pitches,
just because of how fast he throws the ball and
how dominant he's been, so Major League will probably thinks
it's a pretty good idea. Let's put him in there.
It'll expose people to the game. Maybe somebody will tune
in to see him, see if he pitches. But what
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is the All Star Game? The old NBA All Star
Games were a collection of guys that everybody knew. Let's
be honest, Yeah it was, you know, even if somebody
wasn't having a great year.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Yeah, but you know, he's got to be there. He's
a fan favorite. Yeah, he's got to be in that team.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
All the guys you always knew showed up every year,
good year, bad year, in different year.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Didn't matter. Petere Rose was always in it, you know.
You know, guys like that were always in it. Their
Jeter was always in it, you know. And especially basically
back in the day when it was really competitive in
the seventies, you saw the same guys always there.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
NBA All Star Game, always there. And I always made
the point with the NBA All Star Game, it's the
All stars of the first half of the season. So
nationally you might not know all these guys, but of
course you know the ones.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
That are always there. But the argument was.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Turned around on me and said, no, no, no, the
All Star Game is a celebration of the game, and
people want to see the people they know. Well, that
doesn't make them All Stars. That makes some people they
know maybe they're great players, but not necessarily an All
Star in the first half of the season. So now
we get to this in baseball, what is the All
Star Game? Is this a celebration of the players in
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the first half of the season that performed the best
Some of it's a popularity contest because the fans voted,
But aside from that, the other players, are they the
best players in the first half of the season, or
do we have oh, this guy's got to be on
here because everybody knows him, or do we have? This
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guy's young and people seem to like him. Let's put
him on. Let's put Misarowski on. Let's see what happens.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
It'll be great because it certainly wasn't a fan vote,
was it. No? No, so so who determined he was
going on? Uh? Yeah, doesn't. But doesn't the managers have
any say and all of that. I'm sure they do.
I'm sure they get a vote, But what's Dave gonna say? No,
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I don't know. It's gonna be. Hey, here's what we're
gonna do. Okay, all right, Yeah, that makes sense. Go ahead,
I'm sure they give them the respect. Don't you think
so and so should be in there? I mean, the
kid is ten and two already in the first half
of the season. Don't you think he deserves it. I mean,
there may be an argument in there. There could be,
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but it's gonna be here's the argument. Don't you think
so and so deserves to be in there? He's ten
and two? Yeah, you know what, you make a good point.
He's having a great year. But we're gonna go with
the other guy.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
You're with us, right, You're one hundred percent on board
with us, right, Yeah, yeah, I am, because what am
I doing here. I'm here to manage the All Star Game,
and I'm not making any real choices. You give me
the players, we'll go out, we'll take pictures, we'll shake hands,
we'll laugh during the game. We're gonna try to win. Yeah,
I don't want anybody to get hurt. I'll try to
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get everybody in and that's what we'll do.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
By the way, I just looked it up. So the
manager has no say when it comes to pitcher injuries.
The Commissioner's office solely chooses who gets to be an
injury replacement if a pitcher is not unable to pitch
or unable to play.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
I guess that makes sense because if you're the manager
of the All Star Game, you're gonna pick your guy.
If somebody gets hurt, you're gonna bring your guy in. Yeah,
he would have taken Blake Snell. I think he should
be an All Star. Ruggie Sazaki. That's my guy because
he will be one day. Yeah, so we'll get him
in here this year. I'm about Hasan Kim and they
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just put him in there too. You know, he got
hot he's hitting three something, three fifty or whatever he's hitting.
He's a young phoenom from Korea. Let's put him in there.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
I've voted for that, right, you know what, Friends, Lindor,
I'm sorry, you're not going to make it, but Kim
from the Dodgers is going to make it because he's
more exciting than you are right now. Yes, yes, And
that's how we're going to base our decisions.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Now. There's excite. That's a slippery slope that they just did,
isn't it. That's a I don't Yeah, yeah, I got it,
you know. And they have Phillies whoever else that they
have every right to be a little bit irate.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Oh yeah, I think the Phillies gave the guy fifty dollars.
Just sait here. We're sorry, we're not going to give
you all two hundred, but at least we'll give you something.
That's a team, by the way, that's a team, that's
a real team. That's a team that sticks with us, guys.
Those guys all stuck together. Yeah, and the Phillies are
scary when it's all said or down, don't be surprised
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to see the Phillies right there Phillies spent a lot
of money too. People don't really do they're like third
or fourth and money spent. And then they've got, first
of all, they've got a lineup that can rival.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Rival to Dodgers. Not quite, but they can. They can
go right there, toe to toe almost with the guys
that they got in that lineup, not as much big guns,
but with Schwarber and Turner and you know, and Harper.
I mean, they got a squad and their pitching staff
if they're healthy, pitching staff wise, they're as good as
anybody in baseball. So I think Fox will do a
good job tonight. I love the way Fox covers the
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All Star Game. I think you do a great job. Seriously,
Yeah they do. What about the year they had the
pitcher Mic There was a guy from Toronto after that
his career right into the Cracker. Yeah, they had him,
but then they had didn't they have a catcher too? Yeah?
But who was the guy was taking Was it Nester Cortes?
That was Mike And he was talking. He was just
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having a good old time. Never go, baby, here we go.
Oh they got him, got him with that one. Oh,
he was just talking all the way through. Good play
Timmy good, play baby good. Oh yeah, oh yeah, I'm
gonna get him with this one. Oh got him. He
was talking. I loved it. I loved it, But I've
gotta be careful for which guys you might up though,
well said they had Nester, I remember that.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Then he got hurt, gave up a grand slim to
Freddie Freeman, and the All Star Game has ever been
the same.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
They miked the guy from Toronto. I think.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Alec Manoa exactly. He went out there, he was having
a fantastic season.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
He he was miked.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
He didn't do as well as Nester did in the game,
but he still did well. Then fell right off a cliff.
It was over for him too.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Maybe wearing that mic is the picture is not a
good idea. Maybe that comes with it, It stays with you.
You think that's that's the new Jinks instead of the
home run derby is don't be miked as the picture
at the gate.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
You know what they should do tonight, now that I
think about it, tell me if you think this is
a good idea. I think they should mike the whole
infield at one time. Everybody should hold tea. Yeah, like
the entire infield, for example. He can't do that, Fred,
because they're all going to be talking over each other. Well,
before they start, they go all right, uh, you always start,
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or somebody asks one of them a question, right, and
then they can all respond. After that, then we can
just hear him talk to each other. I think that
would be great. Move over, move over, Well, you know
he's gonna hit over here. Come here, somebody's on second base.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Just start shooting the bull with them telling stories and stuff.
I think, so they get both sides can hear each other.
Then both teams can hear to you. Okay, it would
be great. Guys give each other crap. So if they
should do the picture, Here comes a curveball. Here comes
a curveball, going to curveball to you. You're ready for
a curveball? Ready, fastball up and in right.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
See, don't be hanging out over the plate or you
know what's going to happen now I'm messing with you.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Don't you think that'd be a good idea. That would
be a terrible idea, Fred? Oh all right, well I
thought about a good idea that would be great. That
would be a terrible idea. You can't have that guys
distracted because it would be a bunch of guys talking
over each other once you said, okay, you start, and
then everybody's gonna be a free for all. Hey, that
is not true. That's not true. Hey, and then you
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got guys that would be speaking Spanish in the middle
of Oh, Kevin, what disaster.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
I understand the concept, and I'm not totally off on him,
But for Rodney's point, the fact that everybody will be
talking over each other will be a giant cluster. So
but I like the way you're thinking, Frank, because you
need to be outside the box. And the fact that
they started micing up players over the last few years
has been a good thing. But having you know, nine guys,
ten guys micd up all at the same time, it's
a it's a disaster waiting to happen.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Right, Maybe they have two two at a time, maybe
like the shortstop and the second basement.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
How about that. Okay, that might not be bad. That
might not be bad because they could talk to each other. Yeah,
I like that the short stop second basement, or the
pitcher and the catcher can talk to each other. Maybe
the center fielder and the short stop at one point yeah,
third baseman, first baseman, two guys.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Yeah, how about every batter, Every batter is mic. Guy
gets the first base, he starts talking to the first baseman.
How about every batt So does he does he does
the mic turn off once he gets a hit and
gets on first base? Or does does it go to
the next batter or does the guy on first base
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get to keep the mic on as a new batter
comes up? Well, they decide, the production team decides, so
the guy in first base will keep his mic hot
now and the guy at the plate will turn it off.
The guy at the plate hits, you know, ends up
on second base, We open his mic now and we
listened to him.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
I thought you wanted the batter to have the mic though.
That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. It's a
bat or mike. He said, the mic stays on the
guy first Well, yeah, but what I'm saying is all
it can change everybody's wearing it.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
So it's up to the audio guy and the producer
to decide who's mic we're going to open. And now
you're just hearing them out there talk to people.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
M h okay.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
So I will say that they have had multiple guys
micd up in the past. They'd have two outfielders who
are out in the outfit at the same time defensively,
and they, you know, go back and forth with them.
Ask one of them a question, ask the other person
to respond to it. Uh, every single batter. That's also
seems like a bit of a logistical nightmare to be honest.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Okay, Well, since nobody likes my ideas, I'm not going
to have anymore.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
I don't believe that at all. You're absolutely gonna have
more ideas, And.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Eighty percent of them would be horrible, yes, but that
twenty percent will knock it out of the park. You
better know that. Uh.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Let her on this hour. Julio Orius, Well, you know
what happened to him with the Dodgers. His agent says
he's back, he's ready to go. Will somebody sign him?
We'll talk about that.
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Speaker 1 (25:31):
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Rodney Pete fred Rogan on a Tuesday, Come on now,
All Star Game tonight. Are you excited? You fired up?
Which lineup is the better lineup for Ed? Offensively? BUKA
is the National League? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (25:49):
But here's the problem. First of all, I am excited.
I used to hate the Baseball All Star Game. I
thought it was terrible. Now I really like it. I
look forward to it every year. But here's the thing.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
No, before you move on, you're the opposite of a
lot of other people. So why did you hate it before?
Because the reason to like it before was you saw
batchups you would never see. There was no inner league play.
People looked forward to it for that reument. Yeah, it
was competitive. So what was it about it back then
that you didn't like and what is it about it
now that you do.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
It went through a period of time where it wasn't competitive,
where they decided they were going to determine who had
the World Series with home field advantage.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
So it wasn't the product on the field. It was
the fact that they did they use that?
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Yeah, how about the year it was a tie?
Speaker 4 (26:30):
Remember that, which is why they decided to make it
for home field advantage, because they didn't want to end
in tiese anymore.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Bud Seliks sitting in the crowd. They took a shot
of him. He looked like he was clueless. It was
just like the commissioner. I don't I don't know. I
mean it was bad. Now I think you do a
much better job of marketing the All Star Game. I
like the technology that Fox employees. Also, now the players
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have more personality. Remember I think the guy is late
to the game in social media and personality. Were baseball
players The only guys worse than them are hockey players
because hockey is the ultimate team game. Nobody stands out,
you know baseball, if you did something, you were showing
up the game or being disrespectful to somebody. Mike Trout
(27:19):
the perfect example, the best player in baseball, and you
know he just played baseball.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
But it's more than that today and now.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
I think with the guys becoming better known and very
much in the NBA for example, you know, young fans
don't watch the NBA for teams, so a young fan. Sure,
if you live in LA, you watch the Lakers, maybe
the Clippers.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
I get it. But more often than not nationally, they
watch for players. They root for players. Doesn't matter what
team the players are on, they root for players. That's
what social media has done. I think same thing in
baseball now. Yeah, remember that campaign they had in the
years back. You know, I think they had Griffy on
air with the hat backwards and they're like, let the
kids play, Let the kids play, and that they've made
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a big, big push, And I think it took a minute,
but but I think they eventually got it. Now you
do see some flair, and you see some individuality and
some guys with some swagger. They got the red carpet
going tonight with guys are dressing up and doing their
thing walking down the red carpet. They never did that
before baseball for sure. You know. Now guys are coming
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out and suits, you know, kind of like the NBA
does when they you know, shoot guys before the games
and what they're wearing, and it's a big deal. You know.
The number one question of the MLB network the other
day was what are you wearing on the red carpet?
You know, and and guys were getting fired up about it,
you know. And you got guys like Pete crow Armstrong
who's got a little swagger, got a little attitude to him,
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you know, O'Neil Cruz, you know, you got you got,
you got some flair. Couna Junior, you got some flair
out there right now that that is attempting to get
close to the NBA in the NFL in terms of swagger. Yeah,
So I like it now.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
I think it's very engaging and it's fun to watch.
And we mentioned in the last segment, if you're selected
to the All Star Game, you make two hundred grand.
Well that's not a bad paid ain't anybody's mine. But
one Soto of the Mets was asked about it because
he didn't make it, and what he said was, yeah,
I missed out on that two hundred grand or got it.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Yeah, that's a lot of money, two hundred grand. And
he took some heat.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
For that because people are going, that was the first
thing you came up with, you missed out on two
hundred grand, instead of I really wanted to be an
All Star. And maybe it's nuanced and maybe it's subtle,
and maybe it doesn't mean much, but he took heat
for that, and I think he probably should have. You
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should want to be there because it's an honor, not
because you're paid.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
But how was the question to asking him? And remember
he's Dominican, right, and I get o, Okay, he's been here,
he should, you know, understand the nuances of English and
speaking the language and all that kind of stuff. But
how was the question asked? For a day? It could
have been, you know, missing out on two hunder grand?
(30:13):
Oh wow, that's two under grand. That's a lot of money.
But I just wonder if the question was asked to him,
are you disappointed on being an All Star? He would
have said, yeah, I'm disappointed. I wanted to be an
All Star. Well let's find out. We've got the question
and the answer here. Yes, let's find out.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
Would you have like to make tian and I think
it's a it's a lot of money on the table.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Would rather sleep I make it? Mmmm? Well his first
answer was what do you think? Yeah? Well that was
his first answer, but then he right, wait, whoa whoa? Whoa? Whoa? Whoa?
Would you like to make the All Star team? What
do you think? Okay? Yeah, what you think, yes, it
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would be obviously, yes, I would like to make the
All Star Team. Look, he's not he's not a you know,
media darling. Come on, what But like I said, but
like I said before, though, Fred, it it's not just
a two hundred grand. A lot of these guys got
millions of dollars in their contract to make the All
Star Team. It's not just two hundred grand. I know,
(31:25):
I hear you. But what I'm saying is even even
that being the case, would you like to make the
All Star team?
Speaker 2 (31:32):
What do you think? Everybody laughs? It's a great honor.
It's a great honor. Sure, I'm out there with the
you know, the best place whatever. He so sure, not
a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
On the table, absolutely answered, it could have answered it
a much better one. So is it wrong?
Speaker 4 (31:54):
I mean, if the motivation is to get money out
of it, I mean, who are we to argue with that?
Speaker 1 (31:58):
You know?
Speaker 4 (32:00):
Yeah, maybe he doesn't.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
He's been an All Star before right by the way,
Mets one.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
In his Mets contract he does have a one one
hundred thousand dollars incent of bonus when he for every
All Star selection he gets. So that's on top of
whatever money he actually gets from Age League Baseball just
for being an All Star.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
I think what fans would like to hear, and maybe
it doesn't matter, but I think what fans would like
to hear is, yeah, I'd want to be out there.
It's a great honor to be with the best players
in the game, to be acknowledged any any line of BS.
Aside from that's a lot of money on the table.
Speaker 4 (32:36):
It's probably tone deaf for a guy that just signed
a seven hundred and sixty five million dollar contract to
say I'm missing out on one hundred grand plus. Sure,
But if his motivation is I want to get extra
money and that's the big reason why I want to go,
and oh, by the way, you get to see me play,
I certainly understand it. He's being honest too. To a
certain degree. We asked, We say we want athletes to
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be honest. We don't want to get hand bs answers,
but then when we get an honest response, we rip
them for it. So a lot of time just a
lose lose situation for these.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Guys, exactly exactly. Look, I've been in situations where guys
that make a lot of money and they lose five
hundred bucks gambling and they're pissed off for a week.
You know. So money is money, you know, that's that's
two hundred grand that you would never have otherwise, and
(33:27):
you could it's easy money, easy money. Just going to
then All Star Game. You get two hundred grand, three
hundred grand for him. I mean, that's that's a lot
that he probably you know. Yeah, in the scope of thing,
that is tone death. It really is. But whenever we
ever sat here and thought Juan Soto was the sharpest
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knife in the drawer and always spoke heloquently when it
came to answering questions, you know, he was brutally honest
about it. So what are you gonna do? What o'clock?
Speaker 2 (34:07):
The Godfather, the man in the Big Chair, Ned Kalletti
will join the show while we come back. Julio Urias
wants back into baseball. Would you let them?
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Speaker 1 (34:40):
Oh Yes, Today's Afternoon Delight Is Is It? By Tyler?
This song dropped over the weekend along with the music video,
and is the second single off the twenty twenty five
for the twenty three year old South African native. The
Grammy winner is coming on her debut performance at Coachella
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in May and is expected to release her sophomore album
later this year. Again, Today's afternoon, Delight Is is It?
By Tyler? All Right? Again?
Speaker 2 (35:22):
Ned Collennial jump on here, top of the hour? All right,
what do you think about this? And it's entirely up
to you. The facts of the facts. Julio Urius was
suspended by Major League Baseball after a video was obtained
showing he charged his wife in a September twenty three
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incident outside of Bemo Stadium, pulled her hair aside, shoved
against defence. After the two were separated. The video showed
Rias swinging at her with his left hand. There was
another situation back in twenty nineteen. He was arrested after
an incident in the Beverly Center parking lot and fiance
she said she fell. No charges were filed. Now in
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the case of the most recent situation, he was on
suspension of felony domestic violence. LA County District Attorney determined
neither the victim's injuries nor the defendant's criminal history justified
a felony filing, said the attorney. Offerer's office subsequently filed
five misdemeanor charges against Ureus. He pleaded no contests to one,
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the other four were dropped, and he agreed to enter
a year long domestic violence treatment program.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
Okay, so there you go. He was charged, he was
not convicted, Certainly, the court of public opinion saw it
quite differently. No, he was not charged with a felony,
no rest on it. He was arrested on it, but
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not charged with a failiure. He dropped to a misdemeanor
so in which he pleaded no contest, in which he
served the suspension, or and then when had to go
to treatment. Correct right, correct, right, So no colony chargers
are against him. Right, everything's gone. Put it like that,
we're dropped. Yeah, everything's gone. It's done.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
As it turned out, that was an ugly scene, but
everything is done.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
And now Scott Boris' agent says, yeah, he wants to
come back. He's twenty eight years old, and you'll have
to get into shape. We'll see who's interested in him.
We'll see where his skill set is. But he has
paid his price with Major League Baseball and he wants
to come back. Rodney, would you take a shot at him?
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Would you sign him? How old is Julio now? Twenty eight?
Twenty eight yep, twenty eight. He's young. He can pitch, Yeah,
he still can pitch. Now, if you're the Dodgers, I
don't think you do it because you know he's worn
out as welcome. They've given him a chance after chance,
and you know, sometimes you just got to cut that
loose and you got to just allow a guy to
go and get a fresh start somewhere else. So the Dodgers,
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if I'm the Dodgers, I don't. But that's not to
say I think a team in Major League Baseball shouldn't
take a fly on him, because I think they should.
If a team is in need of a picture, and
you can prove that he's in shape and that he
can still do it. He's only twenty eight years old,
I take a fly on him because you never know,
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you know, a lot of pictures don't get into their
real prime, you know, until they hit thirty. And so
he you know, he's got some time left. You just
don't know the time off and what that has done
to him and has he been staying in shape during
that time. But for me, yeah, it was an ugly incident,
a couple of incidents that he had and there's no
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excuse for it. But he seems to have paid. He's
paid a price, a big price because he was about
to get paid from the Dodgers. So you got to
remember that he lost a lot of money when that happened.
But I think, yeah, he's paid his price, and I
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wouldn't I wouldn't mind a club taking a shot on him.
What do you think? I don't know what the reaction
would be, to be honest with you, no idea what
reaction would be in Dodge Stadium, but reaction anywhere else?
What do you think?
Speaker 2 (39:22):
Well, I think this kind of thing follows him. I
think that video is damning and I think if anybody
decides to sign him, they will face a backlash. Now,
how he overcomes that, how the club overcomes it, And
then it comes down to this, is it worth it
to them?
Speaker 1 (39:37):
Right? Is that worth it? Okay?
Speaker 2 (39:39):
We think he can pitch, we think he can help us.
He has gone through treatment. You know that he was
convicted of nothing. He has apologized, he says he's a
different person and we're going to give him a shot.
I don't know how open minded people would be. Example,
look at Trevor Bauer, right, look at Truvor Trevor Bauer.
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Look when it was all said and done, you know what,
Trevor Bauer did nothing.
Speaker 1 (40:05):
Nothing. Now, given the stories that came out, you might
be upset, repulsed. You might think that was awful. All
of those things are true.
Speaker 2 (40:17):
You can think that and in your mind, in many
people's minds, they were choking people all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
All right.
Speaker 2 (40:25):
I don't think anybody would say to her, go, that
was a good thing. Damn, that was a good thing.
But at the end, it was nothing. What you got
was a glimpse into Trevor Bauer's life. Trevor Bauer can't
find a job. Yeah, you can't find a job. He
did not think that he did nothing. He did nothing.
Speaker 1 (40:45):
Uh. And then sometimes, unfortunately in the case that you
talk about things following you, Trevor Bauer was a controversial
person and player prior to all of this. If there
was a lot of questions before the Dodger signed him.
A lot of guys were not. Even a lot of
teammates were not. There's silly fo them signing Trevor Bauer.
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You know, he had the YouTube thing going on, and
he had a lot of stuff going on, spoke his mind,
he was kind of a hot head, so there was
questions on him to begin with. Uh, and then this happened.
I guess that gave him the license. They'll forget it,
We're done with you. But like you said, all said
and done, everything was consensual. It turns out that the
woman lied and he still can't find a job, and
(41:34):
he had no charges against them, and he's probably not right.
He's probably not career. But but again, it's just the
thing where you know, the public chooses who they're wanting
to forgive and who they don't. And again we don't know,
you know what it's going to be with who you
I agree with you that it probably will follow him,
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because that is one of the things that out there
that that is really unacceptable, is domestic violence.
Speaker 4 (42:02):
Well, you know, it's probably an even better example in
Julio's particular case is Ray Rice because yeah, now he
did have criminal charges, but those were eventually dropped. He
did not do any jail time or anything like that.
But once the video came out and people saw what
he did, it was over for him. And the one
thing Julio has working against him is that there's video
evidence out there for everyone to see of exactly what
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he did and that stigma.
Speaker 1 (42:28):
Yeah, that's what he's finding. Yeah, ray Rice was was
convicted of nothing, that's right. But what team was going
to sign ray Rice after that? Yeah? Right, Yeah, nobody
because you saw the video, Uh, the video of p
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didny in the hotel, in the hotel room in the hotel.
Will never come back from that? How do you come back?
Even though a lot of those charges were dropped and
you know, he's a lot less than people thought he
was gonna get, he still can't come back. Nobody's going
to do business with him. You can't, Yeah, you can't.
Speaker 2 (43:08):
If you do do business with him, that's on you
all of a sudden because of the public and probably rightfully.
So it's like, if you're going to associate with him, yeah,
we're not going to associate with you. If you're going
to sign Julio Reus to pitch, then what are you
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accepting in your organization, if you're going to send Trevor
Bauer out there to pitch, given what we've found out
about his behaviors, we don't accept that. See the thing
about it is this professional sports, whether we want to
acknowledge it or not. You're in the people business. You're
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in the public perception business. That's what sports sells. They
sell you hope. For your hope, you get to pay them.
That's how it works. So anything anybody does can be
and usually is scrutinized. If you look at John Morant
when he went through his gun phase, he's lucky he
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ever played in the NBA again.
Speaker 1 (44:18):
Lucky he ever played again. And even that, as awful
as that phase was, I have to tell you, I
think domestic violence probably ranks higher in people's in people's minds. Yeah,
you're flawting a gun around, then you're trying to be
a tough guy, trying to be a gangster. Yeah, that's
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one thing. But when you're putting your hands on a
female or a woman, that's that's right below. As they say,
going to jail and you're a child molester, right, you can't.
You know, you can do a lot of You can
murder fifty people. But if you go to jail as
a child molester, you'll probably be dead in a week. Yeah,
you're not coming out, not coming out, And I'm not
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saying that's on that level, but but domestic violence is
very high on the lists as people will never forgive it.
Speaker 2 (45:09):
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man in the big Chair, the Godfather, Ned Coletti, is
going to join us.
Speaker 5 (45:16):
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Speaker 2 (00:03):
Five to seventy LA Sports, A big three hour show
today one o'clock. Our buddy Ned COLLETTI jumps on Rodney.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
We love Ned. The Godfather is gonna give us something
at the halfway point of the season. He always does, Freddy,
you know he does all right. A lot to get to,
and let's start with last night's home run derby. Did
you watch it? I did? You did watch it? I did?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Okay, well, from what I've been told today, the Big Dumper, Yeah,
we might have been the only two. It doesn't seem
like there was a lot of interest. I watched it.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
I did too. I actually.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Yeah, I don't know, because I think the feeling was
where are the stars? We'll talk about the home run
derby in a second, but where are the stars? So
if you're a baseball fan, you know the names are
gonna pop right nationally, Cal Rowley, the Big Dumper is
a great story that's not really gonna ring the bell
at the county fair nationwide show how Otani would right
(01:03):
show TONI would definitely do it, of course, of course
Aaron Judge would definitely do it. Yes, But they chose
not to compete. You think the Stars should have to
compete in the Home Run Derby.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Well, first off, you can't make somebody do it. That's
just not that's just not the way it works. I mean,
you know, I know it's a there's been a lot
of comparisons to the Slam Dunk Contest and all that,
but you can't force someone to do it because you know,
let's face it, the stories out there is that if
you participated in the home run Derby, this whole myth
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that your your second half of your season is going
to be lost and your swing is gonna get damaged
and you're gonna go into a slump. And you know,
some guys have and some guys have thrived after the
home run Derby. So I don't think that's a it's
a jinx or anything like that, but it's out there
and it's in the minds of a lot of people.
And so if you're you know, at the halfway pointed
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the season, not everybody's one hundred percent like they are
to start the season. So you've got nicks and bruises
and bangs and all that kind of stuff that you're
trying to deal with. And you have this opportunity to
take a break. A lot of guys want to take
a break, but I don't believe. But you shouldn't be
forced to do it. I'd like to see it. Like
you know, the best slam dunks were Michael Jordan going
against Dominique Wilkins back in the day, you know, and
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having the superstars in that dunk contest was great. And
I think the same thing, you know when back in
the day when Barry Bonds and Ken Griffy Junior competed,
that was what we wanted to see. So it is
unfortunate that those guys and I don't know, the money
is so great now that I don't know if money
would even be an incentive for these guys to go participate.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
What do you think's better the slam dunk contest or
the home run dirty hm?
Speaker 1 (02:50):
That might be a toss up. Now slam dunk has
gotten I mean since what since Aaron Gordon went up
against who do you go up against? That was the
last great one. The other cat that played in Chicago,
I forget his name now, but Aaron Gordon went toe
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to toe and that was that was a great dunk contest.
That's the last one I really remember. Home Run Derby.
I think the Home Run Derby is better because there's
also stories involved, like last night with cal Raley having
his dad pitched to him and having his brother catch
and his brother hyping him up behind the plate. I
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thought that was that was fantastic. It was great for TV,
it was great for the fans. It was just, you know,
a great moment Robinson Cano back in the day when
he had his dad pitched to him and he won it.
Cody Bellinger had his dad pitched to him when he
entered the Home Run Derby. So you know, lately, I
think the home Run Derby still outpaces the Dunk Contest,
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and dunk contests turned into a yawner a little bit now,
where the Home Run Derby still has some flavor, still
has you know, it's a little bit cachet and a
little bit story to it. Even with O'Neill Cruz hitting
at eight million miles out of the stadium, you know,
had some wow moments to it. So I didn't think
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it was as bad as people are making it out
to be. Friend. Yeah, I liked it.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
I enjoyed it, But there was controversy and I'm glad
you brought up the big dumper, cal Rawley.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Who won it.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
And I think they had a video of him as
a kid when he was talking about I just want
to I want to, you know, hit home runs and stuff.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
So it was great, it was great, but I gotta
tell you.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
There seemed to be some confusion about the rules at
one point, and it had to do with cal Rawleigh.
So he is battling Brent Rooker of the A's. Yeah,
that guy can hit. Rooker can really hit. Yeah, And
this is in the preliminary rounds. This is early on,
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and Rooker looks like he was going to win, but
then it was it's a tie. Now it's a tie.
So normally, if it's a tie, what do you go to?
You go to the old swing off?
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Swing off? Yes, right, go to the swing off.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Yes, you know, you get five more, ten more, whatever
it is, and then whoever hits the most outwins. But
that's not what they did. They said, well, you know,
when you really look at it, Raleigh's longest ball went
like three inches further than Rookers. So Raleigh advances, and
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everybody sat there and just looked at each other and said,
are we just making up rules.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Where did that come from? Yeah? How did that happen?
What do you mean? It was like, how do you
actually get the exact distance? I mean, how do you
really get that? I mean like they said, you know
the ONEO Cruz they hit at five hundred and other
How do you actually really know unless you've got a
guy out there with a tape measure and said, this
(05:59):
is exactly where it land This is where it went out,
or is it hit the ground or if the guy
reaches up in the stands and he catches it high,
where would it have landed? Uh? For the for the distance,
I mean, there's so many gray areas to that, and
then measuring a home run and to have that be
a deciding factor? Was it? Did it a disservice? You're
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right they should have had to swing off.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Well, But the question is why did they do that?
That's the question. I mean, watching it, you thought, no,
there's something wrong here. Even the guys on the field
were like, what happened?
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Right? What he won? Oh? Great? They didn't know the
rules right then? Nobody knew going in this this is
how they're gonna do a tiebreaker? Well, I don't think
anybody knew the rules going in, because I don't think
there were any rules.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
That's what I'm saying. That's what I what was a rule?
The rule is what we just made up. We need
Raleigh to advance here. He's a great story. And by
the way, I'm glad he won. I'm glad he won. Yeah,
that is a great story.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
But watching that, it was like what yeah, and then
it's forgotten at the end because the great story paid
off right right, And it was you know, it was
a good competition. You know. I like the way and
it happens in every stadium that the home crowd gets
behind their guy and and Olsen you know, got hot
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for a minute, but he couldn't sustain it. But but
you know, Raleigh and Jr. Are going at it like that,
and it was the difference of what eighteen to fifteen
I think it was. But yeah, it was good competition.
And seeing Raleigh sitting there waiting and sweating it out
as Junior was hitting him was was pretty cool to watch.
So how about the how about the kid that robbed
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the home run? Though he saw that, Oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Kids one in the kid in front of him was
like put his hands out, like what the hell you doing.
I'm sure you know that before any of those kids
went out there put on that pink shirt. Before they
went out they were told explicitly, do not rob a
home run, do not jump up over the fence and
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catch a ball, let it go if it's even close.
And that kid went up and got it, and then
he realized he realized what he did.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
It was like the look on his face. He was like,
oh man, what did I just do. It's almost like
the look I had on my face in Japan when
I caught the foul ball on the Max Muncie. I
was like, what did I do? What did I do?
But thank god, because they did rule that a home run,
So that was good that they gave it to him.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Yeah, you can't lose the home run derby on a
controversial call by a kid in the outfield. It's a
home run derby. You cannot lose that where a kid
takes a home run away. So that was really a
good call over. I thought it was great. I thought
it was a fun night.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Again.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
It was a little odd on how cal the big
dumper advanced early on, but nonetheless it played out the
way was supposed to. He seemed like a terrific guy.
His dad was thrilled, his brother was thrilled. It really
was a really sweet family moment. Yeah, it really was.
It really was. And you know, you know, there was
a lot of first I guess in there. First first
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catcher to win in I guess, first switch hitter to
win it like that, and that.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Was that was a big part of it too. That
had some drama too. Does he hit right handed? Does
he stay left handed? And that talk and that conversation
of I'm gonna go I'm gonna start left and I'm
gonna hit right and then you gotta warm up a
little bit and get to rhythm going if you're gonna switch.
But he ended up going back to left hand side
to finish it up, which was great. But that was
a little drama that they had in it. But I loved
(09:42):
I really did love the interaction that he had his
little brother had with him.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
You could tell they're pretty tight. Yeah, it's great. Okay,
So the game is tonight. Dave Roberts of course, managing
the league, managing the National League team. There's one story
as we begin the All Star Game tonight, everybody's talking
about it. Jacob Miseroowski. He's the pitcher from the Milwaukee Brewers. Now,
I'll tell you what he brings it. I mean that
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guy can fire the ball. Yeah, he's tripled digit on
the regular and down the road you might think he'll
be pretty good. And I say down the road because
he's had five stars five five in Major League Baseball
and he made the All Star team. He had five stars.
He might be pretty good. But I don't think you
can make that determination after five starts.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Twenty five innings. Five starts, twenty five innings, how about that?
And despite the fact when he's pitched he's looked pretty good. Yeah,
Dodgers know that.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Dodgers know that firsthand. But that guy's an All Star
now I know. The Philadelphia Phillies lost their mind.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Yeah, Now let me ask you this, so new to
the story. I was out, But was he a replacement
or he was added? I think he was a.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
Pitcher picked, but he was their injury replacement, injury.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Replace, yes, okay, so yeah, so instead of going with
someone as a replacement, like you said, from one of
the Phillies organizations, somebody that started you know, double digit games,
they went with a kid that's you know, a phenom,
young young kid. That it only had five starts, I
(11:27):
get why so many people are living no matter how
good he is, he did he really deserve to be
on the All Star roster. And so that brings up
what is the All Star game? What is the All
Star game? You know what?
Speaker 2 (11:40):
They put him there because people have caught wind of
them and they want to see him, because he looks
like a phenom, because he throws one hundred and fifty
miles an hour. I mean, there's a lot of reasons,
but after only five games, it's a little tough to
make a determination that this guy deserves to be. There
were other guys deaf were there were there questions about
(12:01):
Kershaw on the team. No, because he was sort of
the honorary selection. He didn't replace anybody, right, he was
an added guy, right, and.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Because Dave Roberts is the manager, he gets to do
that too.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
But it was romantic for the dinner, he said, all right, Well,
I'm sure the Dodgers said, yeah, Rob, come on, make
this happen.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
But you know, but yeah, that's different. But if you're
if you're I don't know, you know, I don't know
who didn't make it from the Phillies or you know,
I'm sure they're not the only team that was frustrated.
But if you're one of those guys, say, did Aaron
Nola make it? I don't know. Some of one of
those guys. They got a great staff in Philadelphia, so
they they've they've got a number of guys that probably
(12:40):
could have made it. But the thing you also think about,
Fred is every one of these guys have an incentive
in their contract if they make the All Star Team. Yeah,
I think they made two hundred grand. Some may make more,
not not just you know being there. I'm talking about
in their actual contract, like if you make the All
Star Team, there's an extra two million dollars for you,
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or if you you know, actually the players that play
at it now that's that's the two hundred grand. But
I'm talking about in their actual contract that they sign,
like if you are League MVP, or you're in top
five and batting, you're in this and blah blah blah,
and you make the All Star Team, there's an extra
incentive to you. There are a number of guys that
have that in their contract, and they look up and
see a guy go in after five starts, Yeah, you
(13:24):
would be pissed. I guess you might be thinking that, Okay,
if somebody's injured, I'm the next man up. You know,
I'm thirteen and four, you know, to start the first
half of the season. You tell me you're gonna put
a guy that started five games? Come on, Well, here's
the thing. So what are they trying to accomplish? What
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are they trying to do?
Speaker 2 (13:47):
He's young, social media following certainly making headlines when he pitches,
just because of how fast he throws the ball and
how dominant he's been, so Major League will probably thinks
it's a pretty good idea. Let's put him in there.
It'll expose people to the game. Maybe somebody will tune
in to see him, see if he pitches. But what
(14:10):
is the All Star Game? The old NBA All Star
Games were a collection of guys that everybody knew. Let's
be honest, Yeah it was, you know, even if somebody
wasn't having a great year.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Yeah, but you know, he's got to be there. He's
a fan favorite. Yeah, he's got to be in that team.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
All the guys you always knew showed up every year,
good year, bad year, in different year.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Didn't matter. Petere Rose was always in it, you know.
You know, guys like that were always in it. Their
Jeter was always in it, you know. And especially basically
back in the day when it was really competitive in
the seventies, you saw the same guys always there.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
NBA All Star Game, always there. And I always made
the point with the NBA All Star Game, it's the
All stars of the first half of the season. So
nationally you might not know all these guys, but of
course you know the ones.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
That are always there. But the argument was.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Turned around on me and said, no, no, no, the
All Star Game is a celebration of the game, and
people want to see the people they know. Well, that
doesn't make them All Stars. That makes some people they
know maybe they're great players, but not necessarily an All
Star in the first half of the season. So now
we get to this in baseball, what is the All
Star Game? Is this a celebration of the players in
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the first half of the season that performed the best
Some of it's a popularity contest because the fans voted,
But aside from that, the other players, are they the
best players in the first half of the season, or
do we have oh, this guy's got to be on
here because everybody knows him, or do we have? This
(15:48):
guy's young and people seem to like him. Let's put
him on. Let's put Misarowski on. Let's see what happens.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
It'll be great because it certainly wasn't a fan vote,
was it. No? No, so so who determined he was
going on? Uh? Yeah, doesn't. But doesn't the managers have
any say and all of that. I'm sure they do.
I'm sure they get a vote, But what's Dave gonna say? No,
(16:18):
I don't know. It's gonna be. Hey, here's what we're
gonna do. Okay, all right, Yeah, that makes sense. Go ahead,
I'm sure they give them the respect. Don't you think
so and so should be in there? I mean, the
kid is ten and two already in the first half
of the season. Don't you think he deserves it. I mean,
there may be an argument in there. There could be,
(16:39):
but it's gonna be here's the argument. Don't you think
so and so deserves to be in there? He's ten
and two? Yeah, you know what, you make a good point.
He's having a great year. But we're gonna go with
the other guy.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
You're with us, right, You're one hundred percent on board
with us, right, Yeah, yeah, I am, because what am
I doing here. I'm here to manage the All Star Game,
and I'm not making any real choices. You give me
the players, we'll go out, we'll take pictures, we'll shake hands,
we'll laugh during the game. We're gonna try to win. Yeah,
I don't want anybody to get hurt. I'll try to
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get everybody in and that's what we'll do.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
By the way, I just looked it up. So the
manager has no say when it comes to pitcher injuries.
The Commissioner's office solely chooses who gets to be an
injury replacement if a pitcher is not unable to pitch
or unable to play.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
I guess that makes sense because if you're the manager
of the All Star Game, you're gonna pick your guy.
If somebody gets hurt, you're gonna bring your guy in. Yeah,
he would have taken Blake Snell. I think he should
be an All Star. Ruggie Sazaki. That's my guy because
he will be one day. Yeah, so we'll get him
in here this year. I'm about Hasan Kim and they
(17:47):
just put him in there too. You know, he got
hot he's hitting three something, three fifty or whatever he's hitting.
He's a young phoenom from Korea. Let's put him in there.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
I've voted for that, right, you know what, Friends, Lindor,
I'm sorry, you're not going to make it, but Kim
from the Dodgers is going to make it because he's
more exciting than you are right now. Yes, yes, And
that's how we're going to base our decisions.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Now. There's excite. That's a slippery slope that they just did,
isn't it. That's a I don't Yeah, yeah, I got it,
you know. And they have Phillies whoever else that they
have every right to be a little bit irate.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Oh yeah, I think the Phillies gave the guy fifty dollars.
Just sait here. We're sorry, we're not going to give
you all two hundred, but at least we'll give you something.
That's a team, by the way, that's a team, that's
a real team. That's a team that sticks with us, guys.
Those guys all stuck together. Yeah, and the Phillies are
scary when it's all said or down, don't be surprised
(18:44):
to see the Phillies right there Phillies spent a lot
of money too. People don't really do they're like third
or fourth and money spent. And then they've got, first
of all, they've got a lineup that can rival.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Rival to Dodgers. Not quite, but they can. They can
go right there, toe to toe almost with the guys
that they got in that lineup, not as much big guns,
but with Schwarber and Turner and you know, and Harper.
I mean, they got a squad and their pitching staff
if they're healthy, pitching staff wise, they're as good as
anybody in baseball. So I think Fox will do a
good job tonight. I love the way Fox covers the
(19:21):
All Star Game. I think you do a great job. Seriously,
Yeah they do. What about the year they had the
pitcher Mic There was a guy from Toronto after that
his career right into the Cracker. Yeah, they had him,
but then they had didn't they have a catcher too? Yeah?
But who was the guy was taking Was it Nester Cortes?
That was Mike And he was talking. He was just
(19:41):
having a good old time. Never go, baby, here we go.
Oh they got him, got him with that one. Oh,
he was just talking all the way through. Good play
Timmy good, play baby good. Oh yeah, oh yeah, I'm
gonna get him with this one. Oh got him. He
was talking. I loved it. I loved it, But I've
gotta be careful for which guys you might up though,
well said they had Nester, I remember that.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Then he got hurt, gave up a grand slim to
Freddie Freeman, and the All Star Game has ever been
the same.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
They miked the guy from Toronto. I think.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Alec Manoa exactly. He went out there, he was having
a fantastic season.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
He he was miked.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
He didn't do as well as Nester did in the game,
but he still did well. Then fell right off a cliff.
It was over for him too.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Maybe wearing that mic is the picture is not a
good idea. Maybe that comes with it, It stays with you.
You think that's that's the new Jinks instead of the
home run derby is don't be miked as the picture
at the gate.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
You know what they should do tonight, now that I
think about it, tell me if you think this is
a good idea. I think they should mike the whole
infield at one time. Everybody should hold tea. Yeah, like
the entire infield, for example. He can't do that, Fred,
because they're all going to be talking over each other. Well,
before they start, they go all right, uh, you always start,
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or somebody asks one of them a question, right, and
then they can all respond. After that, then we can
just hear him talk to each other. I think that
would be great. Move over, move over, Well, you know
he's gonna hit over here. Come here, somebody's on second base.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Just start shooting the bull with them telling stories and stuff.
I think, so they get both sides can hear each other.
Then both teams can hear to you. Okay, it would
be great. Guys give each other crap. So if they
should do the picture, Here comes a curveball. Here comes
a curveball, going to curveball to you. You're ready for
a curveball? Ready, fastball up and in right.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
See, don't be hanging out over the plate or you
know what's going to happen now I'm messing with you.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Don't you think that'd be a good idea. That would
be a terrible idea, Fred? Oh all right, well I
thought about a good idea that would be great. That
would be a terrible idea. You can't have that guys
distracted because it would be a bunch of guys talking
over each other once you said, okay, you start, and
then everybody's gonna be a free for all. Hey, that
is not true. That's not true. Hey, and then you
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got guys that would be speaking Spanish in the middle
of Oh, Kevin, what disaster.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
I understand the concept, and I'm not totally off on him,
But for Rodney's point, the fact that everybody will be
talking over each other will be a giant cluster. So
but I like the way you're thinking, Frank, because you
need to be outside the box. And the fact that
they started micing up players over the last few years
has been a good thing. But having you know, nine guys,
ten guys micd up all at the same time, it's
a it's a disaster waiting to happen.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Right, Maybe they have two two at a time, maybe
like the shortstop and the second basement.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
How about that. Okay, that might not be bad. That
might not be bad because they could talk to each other. Yeah,
I like that the short stop second basement, or the
pitcher and the catcher can talk to each other. Maybe
the center fielder and the short stop at one point yeah,
third baseman, first baseman, two guys.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Yeah, how about every batter, Every batter is mic. Guy
gets the first base, he starts talking to the first baseman.
How about every batt So does he does he does
the mic turn off once he gets a hit and
gets on first base? Or does does it go to
the next batter or does the guy on first base
(23:35):
get to keep the mic on as a new batter
comes up? Well, they decide, the production team decides, so
the guy in first base will keep his mic hot
now and the guy at the plate will turn it off.
The guy at the plate hits, you know, ends up
on second base, We open his mic now and we
listened to him.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
I thought you wanted the batter to have the mic though.
That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. It's a
bat or mike. He said, the mic stays on the
guy first Well, yeah, but what I'm saying is all
it can change everybody's wearing it.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
So it's up to the audio guy and the producer
to decide who's mic we're going to open. And now
you're just hearing them out there talk to people.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
M h okay.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
So I will say that they have had multiple guys
micd up in the past. They'd have two outfielders who
are out in the outfit at the same time defensively,
and they, you know, go back and forth with them.
Ask one of them a question, ask the other person
to respond to it. Uh, every single batter. That's also
seems like a bit of a logistical nightmare to be honest.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Okay, Well, since nobody likes my ideas, I'm not going
to have anymore.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
I don't believe that at all. You're absolutely gonna have
more ideas, And.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Eighty percent of them would be horrible, yes, but that
twenty percent will knock it out of the park. You
better know that. Uh.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Let her on this hour. Julio Orius, Well, you know
what happened to him with the Dodgers. His agent says
he's back, he's ready to go. Will somebody sign him?
We'll talk about that.
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Speaker 1 (25:31):
Yeah, it is the summer time when the weather's hot.
Rodney Pete fred Rogan on a Tuesday, Come on now,
All Star Game tonight. Are you excited? You fired up?
Which lineup is the better lineup for Ed? Offensively? BUKA
is the National League? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (25:49):
But here's the problem. First of all, I am excited.
I used to hate the Baseball All Star Game. I
thought it was terrible. Now I really like it. I
look forward to it every year. But here's the thing.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
No, before you move on, you're the opposite of a
lot of other people. So why did you hate it before?
Because the reason to like it before was you saw
batchups you would never see. There was no inner league play.
People looked forward to it for that reument. Yeah, it
was competitive. So what was it about it back then
that you didn't like and what is it about it
now that you do.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
It went through a period of time where it wasn't competitive,
where they decided they were going to determine who had
the World Series with home field advantage.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
So it wasn't the product on the field. It was
the fact that they did they use that?
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Yeah, how about the year it was a tie?
Speaker 4 (26:30):
Remember that, which is why they decided to make it
for home field advantage, because they didn't want to end
in tiese anymore.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Bud Seliks sitting in the crowd. They took a shot
of him. He looked like he was clueless. It was
just like the commissioner. I don't I don't know. I
mean it was bad. Now I think you do a
much better job of marketing the All Star Game. I
like the technology that Fox employees. Also, now the players
(26:56):
have more personality. Remember I think the guy is late
to the game in social media and personality. Were baseball
players The only guys worse than them are hockey players
because hockey is the ultimate team game. Nobody stands out,
you know baseball, if you did something, you were showing
up the game or being disrespectful to somebody. Mike Trout
(27:19):
the perfect example, the best player in baseball, and you
know he just played baseball.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
But it's more than that today and now.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
I think with the guys becoming better known and very
much in the NBA for example, you know, young fans
don't watch the NBA for teams, so a young fan. Sure,
if you live in LA, you watch the Lakers, maybe
the Clippers.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
I get it. But more often than not nationally, they
watch for players. They root for players. Doesn't matter what
team the players are on, they root for players. That's
what social media has done. I think same thing in
baseball now. Yeah, remember that campaign they had in the
years back. You know, I think they had Griffy on
air with the hat backwards and they're like, let the
kids play, Let the kids play, and that they've made
(28:04):
a big, big push, And I think it took a minute,
but but I think they eventually got it. Now you
do see some flair, and you see some individuality and
some guys with some swagger. They got the red carpet
going tonight with guys are dressing up and doing their
thing walking down the red carpet. They never did that
before baseball for sure. You know. Now guys are coming
(28:25):
out and suits, you know, kind of like the NBA
does when they you know, shoot guys before the games
and what they're wearing, and it's a big deal. You know.
The number one question of the MLB network the other
day was what are you wearing on the red carpet?
You know, and and guys were getting fired up about it,
you know. And you got guys like Pete crow Armstrong
who's got a little swagger, got a little attitude to him,
(28:47):
you know, O'Neil Cruz, you know, you got you got,
you got some flair. Couna Junior, you got some flair
out there right now that that is attempting to get
close to the NBA in the NFL in terms of swagger. Yeah,
So I like it now.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
I think it's very engaging and it's fun to watch.
And we mentioned in the last segment, if you're selected
to the All Star Game, you make two hundred grand.
Well that's not a bad paid ain't anybody's mine. But
one Soto of the Mets was asked about it because
he didn't make it, and what he said was, yeah,
I missed out on that two hundred grand or got it.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Yeah, that's a lot of money, two hundred grand. And
he took some heat.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
For that because people are going, that was the first
thing you came up with, you missed out on two
hundred grand, instead of I really wanted to be an
All Star. And maybe it's nuanced and maybe it's subtle,
and maybe it doesn't mean much, but he took heat
for that, and I think he probably should have. You
(29:47):
should want to be there because it's an honor, not
because you're paid.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
But how was the question to asking him? And remember
he's Dominican, right, and I get o, Okay, he's been here,
he should, you know, understand the nuances of English and
speaking the language and all that kind of stuff. But
how was the question asked? For a day? It could
have been, you know, missing out on two hunder grand?
(30:13):
Oh wow, that's two under grand. That's a lot of money.
But I just wonder if the question was asked to him,
are you disappointed on being an All Star? He would
have said, yeah, I'm disappointed. I wanted to be an
All Star. Well let's find out. We've got the question
and the answer here. Yes, let's find out.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
Would you have like to make tian and I think
it's a it's a lot of money on the table.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Would rather sleep I make it? Mmmm? Well his first
answer was what do you think? Yeah? Well that was
his first answer, but then he right, wait, whoa whoa? Whoa? Whoa? Whoa?
Would you like to make the All Star team? What
do you think? Okay? Yeah, what you think, yes, it
(31:01):
would be obviously, yes, I would like to make the
All Star Team. Look, he's not he's not a you know,
media darling. Come on, what But like I said, but
like I said before, though, Fred, it it's not just
a two hundred grand. A lot of these guys got
millions of dollars in their contract to make the All
Star Team. It's not just two hundred grand. I know,
(31:25):
I hear you. But what I'm saying is even even
that being the case, would you like to make the
All Star team?
Speaker 2 (31:32):
What do you think? Everybody laughs? It's a great honor.
It's a great honor. Sure, I'm out there with the
you know, the best place whatever. He so sure, not
a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
On the table, absolutely answered, it could have answered it
a much better one. So is it wrong?
Speaker 4 (31:54):
I mean, if the motivation is to get money out
of it, I mean, who are we to argue with that?
Speaker 1 (31:58):
You know?
Speaker 4 (32:00):
Yeah, maybe he doesn't.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
He's been an All Star before right by the way,
Mets one.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
In his Mets contract he does have a one one
hundred thousand dollars incent of bonus when he for every
All Star selection he gets. So that's on top of
whatever money he actually gets from Age League Baseball just
for being an All Star.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
I think what fans would like to hear, and maybe
it doesn't matter, but I think what fans would like
to hear is, yeah, I'd want to be out there.
It's a great honor to be with the best players
in the game, to be acknowledged any any line of BS.
Aside from that's a lot of money on the table.
Speaker 4 (32:36):
It's probably tone deaf for a guy that just signed
a seven hundred and sixty five million dollar contract to
say I'm missing out on one hundred grand plus. Sure,
But if his motivation is I want to get extra
money and that's the big reason why I want to go,
and oh, by the way, you get to see me play,
I certainly understand it. He's being honest too. To a
certain degree. We asked, We say we want athletes to
(32:58):
be honest. We don't want to get hand bs answers,
but then when we get an honest response, we rip
them for it. So a lot of time just a
lose lose situation for these.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Guys, exactly exactly. Look, I've been in situations where guys
that make a lot of money and they lose five
hundred bucks gambling and they're pissed off for a week.
You know. So money is money, you know, that's that's
two hundred grand that you would never have otherwise, and
(33:27):
you could it's easy money, easy money. Just going to
then All Star Game. You get two hundred grand, three
hundred grand for him. I mean, that's that's a lot
that he probably you know. Yeah, in the scope of thing,
that is tone death. It really is. But whenever we
ever sat here and thought Juan Soto was the sharpest
(33:48):
knife in the drawer and always spoke heloquently when it
came to answering questions, you know, he was brutally honest
about it. So what are you gonna do? What o'clock?
Speaker 2 (34:07):
The Godfather, the man in the Big Chair, Ned Kalletti
will join the show while we come back. Julio Urias
wants back into baseball. Would you let them?
Speaker 5 (34:19):
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Speaker 1 (34:40):
Oh Yes, Today's Afternoon Delight Is Is It? By Tyler?
This song dropped over the weekend along with the music video,
and is the second single off the twenty twenty five
for the twenty three year old South African native. The
Grammy winner is coming on her debut performance at Coachella
(35:02):
in May and is expected to release her sophomore album
later this year. Again, Today's afternoon, Delight Is is It?
By Tyler? All Right? Again?
Speaker 2 (35:22):
Ned Collennial jump on here, top of the hour? All right,
what do you think about this? And it's entirely up
to you. The facts of the facts. Julio Urius was
suspended by Major League Baseball after a video was obtained
showing he charged his wife in a September twenty three
(35:43):
incident outside of Bemo Stadium, pulled her hair aside, shoved
against defence. After the two were separated. The video showed
Rias swinging at her with his left hand. There was
another situation back in twenty nineteen. He was arrested after
an incident in the Beverly Center parking lot and fiance
she said she fell. No charges were filed. Now in
(36:05):
the case of the most recent situation, he was on
suspension of felony domestic violence. LA County District Attorney determined
neither the victim's injuries nor the defendant's criminal history justified
a felony filing, said the attorney. Offerer's office subsequently filed
five misdemeanor charges against Ureus. He pleaded no contests to one,
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the other four were dropped, and he agreed to enter
a year long domestic violence treatment program.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
Okay, so there you go. He was charged, he was
not convicted, Certainly, the court of public opinion saw it
quite differently. No, he was not charged with a felony,
no rest on it. He was arrested on it, but
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not charged with a failiure. He dropped to a misdemeanor
so in which he pleaded no contest, in which he
served the suspension, or and then when had to go
to treatment. Correct right, correct, right, So no colony chargers
are against him. Right, everything's gone. Put it like that,
we're dropped. Yeah, everything's gone. It's done.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
As it turned out, that was an ugly scene, but
everything is done.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
And now Scott Boris' agent says, yeah, he wants to
come back. He's twenty eight years old, and you'll have
to get into shape. We'll see who's interested in him.
We'll see where his skill set is. But he has
paid his price with Major League Baseball and he wants
to come back. Rodney, would you take a shot at him?
(37:42):
Would you sign him? How old is Julio now? Twenty eight?
Twenty eight yep, twenty eight. He's young. He can pitch, Yeah,
he still can pitch. Now, if you're the Dodgers, I
don't think you do it because you know he's worn
out as welcome. They've given him a chance after chance,
and you know, sometimes you just got to cut that
loose and you got to just allow a guy to
go and get a fresh start somewhere else. So the Dodgers,
(38:04):
if I'm the Dodgers, I don't. But that's not to
say I think a team in Major League Baseball shouldn't
take a fly on him, because I think they should.
If a team is in need of a picture, and
you can prove that he's in shape and that he
can still do it. He's only twenty eight years old,
I take a fly on him because you never know,
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you know, a lot of pictures don't get into their
real prime, you know, until they hit thirty. And so
he you know, he's got some time left. You just
don't know the time off and what that has done
to him and has he been staying in shape during
that time. But for me, yeah, it was an ugly incident,
a couple of incidents that he had and there's no
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excuse for it. But he seems to have paid. He's
paid a price, a big price because he was about
to get paid from the Dodgers. So you got to
remember that he lost a lot of money when that happened.
But I think, yeah, he's paid his price, and I
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wouldn't I wouldn't mind a club taking a shot on him.
What do you think? I don't know what the reaction
would be, to be honest with you, no idea what
reaction would be in Dodge Stadium, but reaction anywhere else?
What do you think?
Speaker 2 (39:22):
Well, I think this kind of thing follows him. I
think that video is damning and I think if anybody
decides to sign him, they will face a backlash. Now,
how he overcomes that, how the club overcomes it, And
then it comes down to this, is it worth it
to them?
Speaker 1 (39:37):
Right? Is that worth it? Okay?
Speaker 2 (39:39):
We think he can pitch, we think he can help us.
He has gone through treatment. You know that he was
convicted of nothing. He has apologized, he says he's a
different person and we're going to give him a shot.
I don't know how open minded people would be. Example,
look at Trevor Bauer, right, look at Truvor Trevor Bauer.
(40:01):
Look when it was all said and done, you know what,
Trevor Bauer did nothing.
Speaker 1 (40:05):
Nothing. Now, given the stories that came out, you might
be upset, repulsed. You might think that was awful. All
of those things are true.
Speaker 2 (40:17):
You can think that and in your mind, in many
people's minds, they were choking people all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
All right.
Speaker 2 (40:25):
I don't think anybody would say to her, go, that
was a good thing. Damn, that was a good thing.
But at the end, it was nothing. What you got
was a glimpse into Trevor Bauer's life. Trevor Bauer can't
find a job. Yeah, you can't find a job. He
did not think that he did nothing. He did nothing.
Speaker 1 (40:45):
Uh. And then sometimes, unfortunately in the case that you
talk about things following you, Trevor Bauer was a controversial
person and player prior to all of this. If there
was a lot of questions before the Dodger signed him.
A lot of guys were not. Even a lot of
teammates were not. There's silly fo them signing Trevor Bauer.
(41:09):
You know, he had the YouTube thing going on, and
he had a lot of stuff going on, spoke his mind,
he was kind of a hot head, so there was
questions on him to begin with. Uh, and then this happened.
I guess that gave him the license. They'll forget it,
We're done with you. But like you said, all said
and done, everything was consensual. It turns out that the
woman lied and he still can't find a job, and
(41:34):
he had no charges against them, and he's probably not right.
He's probably not career. But but again, it's just the
thing where you know, the public chooses who they're wanting
to forgive and who they don't. And again we don't know,
you know what it's going to be with who you
I agree with you that it probably will follow him,
(41:55):
because that is one of the things that out there
that that is really unacceptable, is domestic violence.
Speaker 4 (42:02):
Well, you know, it's probably an even better example in
Julio's particular case is Ray Rice because yeah, now he
did have criminal charges, but those were eventually dropped. He
did not do any jail time or anything like that.
But once the video came out and people saw what
he did, it was over for him. And the one
thing Julio has working against him is that there's video
evidence out there for everyone to see of exactly what
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he did and that stigma.
Speaker 1 (42:28):
Yeah, that's what he's finding. Yeah, ray Rice was was
convicted of nothing, that's right. But what team was going
to sign ray Rice after that? Yeah? Right, Yeah, nobody
because you saw the video, Uh, the video of p
(42:48):
didny in the hotel, in the hotel room in the hotel.
Will never come back from that? How do you come back?
Even though a lot of those charges were dropped and
you know, he's a lot less than people thought he
was gonna get, he still can't come back. Nobody's going
to do business with him. You can't, Yeah, you can't.
Speaker 2 (43:08):
If you do do business with him, that's on you
all of a sudden because of the public and probably rightfully.
So it's like, if you're going to associate with him, yeah,
we're not going to associate with you. If you're going
to sign Julio Reus to pitch, then what are you
(43:28):
accepting in your organization, if you're going to send Trevor
Bauer out there to pitch, given what we've found out
about his behaviors, we don't accept that. See the thing
about it is this professional sports, whether we want to
acknowledge it or not. You're in the people business. You're
(43:51):
in the public perception business. That's what sports sells. They
sell you hope. For your hope, you get to pay them.
That's how it works. So anything anybody does can be
and usually is scrutinized. If you look at John Morant
when he went through his gun phase, he's lucky he
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ever played in the NBA again.
Speaker 1 (44:18):
Lucky he ever played again. And even that, as awful
as that phase was, I have to tell you, I
think domestic violence probably ranks higher in people's in people's minds. Yeah,
you're flawting a gun around, then you're trying to be
a tough guy, trying to be a gangster. Yeah, that's
(44:39):
one thing. But when you're putting your hands on a
female or a woman, that's that's right below. As they say,
going to jail and you're a child molester, right, you can't.
You know, you can do a lot of You can
murder fifty people. But if you go to jail as
a child molester, you'll probably be dead in a week. Yeah,
you're not coming out, not coming out, And I'm not
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saying that's on that level, but but domestic violence is
very high on the lists as people will never forgive it.
Speaker 2 (45:09):
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going to join us.
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