July 12, 2024 • 52 mins
On today's Dan Patrick Show, NBA on TNT's Adam Lefkoe joins the show to discuss the WNBA Rookie of the Year race, the U.S. Men's Olympic basketball team, and the future of NBA on TNT. Pittsburgh Pirates rookie sensation Paul Skenes stops by to receive a surprise announcement from NL All-Star Manager Torey Lovullo.
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the weekend, maybe the man of the All Star Game.
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Paul Skeen's the Pirates rookie pitcher. He had seven innings
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Paul Skeens was the big news yesterday afternoon. Seven no
hit innings, now six and zero, and the question is
going to be Tory Lavello is the Arizona Diamondbacks manager.
(02:14):
He is the National League manager for the All Star Game.
There are a couple of pitchers that he could pick.
I mentioned Chris Sale yesterday, who has twelve wins. Rangers
Suarez of the Phillies is also another, you know, well
documented great stats with him, So Rangers Sworez and Chris Sale,
and then you have Paul Skeenes. So Paul Skeens certainly
(02:37):
has been He's been a rocket ship here. He has
been a comet and illuminating there over Major League Baseball
and becoming sort of the face of Major League Baseball.
But well, I don't know when they make the decision,
but I know Paul Skeens will join us today. I
don't know if he's been told anything but what he's
(02:58):
done so far. And we'll discuss the strategy behind polling
him after seven innings.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
We'll have that for you coming up. All right, Seaton
pull question today.
Speaker 6 (03:08):
I think we start right there with Paul Skeins. Do
you leave him in the game if he's throwing a
no hitter?
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Okay, I had no problem with him being pulled yesterday.
I just this is baseball now. This isn't when I
grew up, and I know it's a no hitter. Let's
say he had a one hitter going, You're going to
leave him in And the answer is no, No one
would have a problem with that. If you had a
one hitter going, this was the you gotta leave me in.
(03:34):
He's got a no hitter going. Well, that's true. I
understand the historical perspective here, but you know, ninety nine
pitches and maybe that's where you know, we'll find out
when he joins this. But is there a pitch count?
Was there around one hundred pitches? Did it maybe kind
of play out the way the manager wanted it to?
(03:56):
And that is Hey, after seven innings, if he goes
into the eighth inning, he's got a no hitter, then
he's going to pitch the ninth inning. And that's the
biggest issue I have with that. If you put him
in the eighth then he let's say, has a twenty
two pitch inning. Well, now all of a sudden, we're
up to one hundred and twenty pitches. Now I got
(04:16):
to bring him back. Do I want him to come
out for the ninth This is one outing? This is
your future here? I know, boy he had a no hitter,
but if he had a one hitter, you wouldn't have
kept him in here. But here's the thing. Here is
the manager, Derek Shelton, the Pirates manager, on why he
pulled schemes.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
He was tired.
Speaker 7 (04:38):
It really didn't have anything to do with the pitch count.
Everybody makes it about pitch counts. It was about where
he was at. It was about trusting your eyes, trusting him.
When I went and talked to him after that, I
mean he was tired. They did a good job of
wearing him down, and I mean he gave us everything
he had.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Okay, here's the call. Paul Skeens finishes seven no hit innings.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Here's a one owed to Freelick. So I got a
bouncer on the third.
Speaker 8 (05:04):
Hays gloves throw the first got him seven no hit
innings for Paul Schimes in Milwaukee on this Thursday afternoon,
the all star rookie of the Pirates getting applause from
the Brewers fans. That's how well he has pitched today,
and rightfully so. He had one pitch that went one
(05:25):
O two point six. When you have pitches that are
FM radio like one O two point six Paul's schemes
radio then his uh, his sinker is ninety seven miles
an hour. It's different when you have pitchers who are
throwing a no hitter who may have a great change up.
I always go back to Johann Santana with the Mets.
(05:48):
They left him out there.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
I think he threw one hundred and forty pitches, but
not every pitch is between ninety seven and one oh two.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
That's different. That's the difference.
Speaker 9 (05:58):
Here.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
You're throwing harder, more pitches that are going to be
up towards triple digits and the you know, the wear
and tear, the stress on that. And it feels like
pitchers nowadays are programmed to pitch five innings, maybe six innings.
He hasn't pitched in the eighth inning this year. But
it's a wonderful story, and it's a story that I
hope baseball can capitalize on. And that's you have him now,
(06:23):
you put him out there, and I know you can
look at other pitchers and say, maybe they deserve this more.
This is an exhibition game. Utilize this, get some eyeballs
on this. You have thirty two first time starters or
players in the All Star Game. Take advantage of that,
get eyeballs on it, so maybe people will look and say, oh,
(06:45):
I didn't know about that player. On May seventeenth against
the Cubs, Schemes pitched six hitless innings. He struck out eleven,
he got pulled. Pirates won the game. And you can't say, hey,
I'm going to keep him out of the eighth because
I want him to be ready for the All Star Game.
You know, the manager can't say that. But this made sense.
(07:06):
It just made sense. You can't go, hey, we have
a plan, always got a no hitter. Now we throw
the plan out the window. If he had a one
hitter going, this would not be a discussion. And yes,
you're having people who were in their fifties who were going,
what about in my day with Nolan Ryan, what about
in my day with Steve Carlton or Tom seaver A, Bob.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
I understand that that's not baseball anymore.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
And they throw as hard as they can for as
long as they can. That's not the their throwers, not
necessarily pitchers. It's a different philosophy here, and that's what
you saw yesterday. The Pirates did the right thing. It's
not for our benefit. The manager and the pitcher have
to look at this and say this is long term.
(07:54):
Now you can say, wow, what's you know, twenty more pitches? Okay,
what if it's not twenty what if it's thirty five
more pitches? That's why to me it's it's not an argument. Yeah,
you're right, it's not an argument, but it is tough
to swallow.
Speaker 6 (08:15):
Sometimes the uh, you know, seven no hit innings, eleven
strikeouts under one hundred pitches pull them, okay, but that
is tough to well. Yeah, when you're just the sort
of eye test of that kind of feels like really really.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Okay, you can be it's a smart decision. I understand
what you're saying. But you know, this is different than
what pictures did before. How many pitchers throw between ninety
seven and one oh two for seven innings? Not many,
So you have to factor that in as well. I mean,
(08:55):
look at pitchers who you know, you throw an off
speed pitcher, curveball, you're changed up, Skemes is thrown between
ninety seven and one oh two.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
That's different.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
So your ninety nine pitches are a whole lot different
than somebody else's one fifteen that they may be throwing.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Would we like to see this?
Speaker 2 (09:12):
It's like you go to the movie theater and then
all of a sudden, there's no ending.
Speaker 10 (09:18):
Wait.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Wait, we're supposed to see the ending of the movie. Wait,
he's supposed to stay out there. I would just argue,
if it's one hitter, nobody has a problem with this,
and would we like to see a no hitter? Yes,
we would, but we'll talk to Paul Skeins later. He'll
join us in the final hour. I don't know how
much of an argument you have when you're a rookie,
(09:38):
when your manager comes out or says, hey, I'm taking
you out, can you have much of a discussion.
Speaker 6 (09:43):
I mean, I've had a pretty great two months, coach.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
You skip yeah, And then if i'm his manager, I
say yeah, and I want you to have a couple
more great months this year. And if this is September
and if you're fighting for a playoff spot, you're probably
leaving him in. I go back to LSU. He pitched
more innings, he pitched late into games, but they were
trying to win the College World Series, which is what
(10:07):
they did. But I have no problem with this where
they took him out. Would i'd like to have seen it. Absolutely.
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All right, So that's the pole question. Should they have
pulled Paul's skeins yesterday? Is that what you're going to
go with if you were the Pirates manager? Okay, what
would you have done? We also could throw in there,
should Paul Skins be in the home run derby?
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Because why not? Let's just get him everywhere?
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Well, he is a great hitter, and when he was fifteen,
he went to see show Hey Otani pitch and Otani
dominated pitching and hitting. And he went to the Ajeels
game and he was a really good hitter at LSU.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
And then I'm.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Looking at a scouting report on Poles schemes. He probably
would have been a first or second round draft pick
just on his hitting. Now I wonder which I'll ask,
do you want to be sho heo Tani. Would the
Pirates allow you to be that because maybe you can
(11:25):
utilize that bad you're the Pirates, or they might just say, no,
he's a pitcher. We don't want to mess with anything,
all right? Would anybody have kept Paul's schemes in yesterday?
If you're the Pirates manager. So let's answer the poll
question that we're going to ask the audience to answer, Marvin,
would you have left him?
Speaker 11 (11:42):
Then?
Speaker 9 (11:43):
No?
Speaker 3 (11:43):
I ain't Seaton now Paul.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
Yes, his last ending, he threw six pitches at the
seventh inning, he threw six pitches to get through it.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Yeah, but if I get to the eight and he
throws twenty five pitches.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
I think he's getting out for ant with one hundred
and twenty pitches.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
I got to I got it. Having go to the night, I.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
Would probably in the moment lean towards doing it.
Speaker 12 (12:04):
Man Todd, Yeah, because of how hearty throws, I take
him out of the game.
Speaker 9 (12:07):
I'm fine with the decision that was.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Yeah, so am I It's one game. Hey, he's only
been pitching for a couple of months here dominating for
a couple of months. But well, we'll talk to Paul.
Skin shall join us coming up a little bit later
on this morning, but one O two point six, and
then he was throwing a sinker. At does a Paul
have time to sink if you're throwing it ninety seven
(12:30):
miles an hour. I'm just wondering if it's ninety seven,
it's pretty damn quick that all of a sudden you're going,
that's a sinker.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
How much is it sinking? By the way, Yeah, Paul, John.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Tuby are fantastic stats guy. Just sent me this stet.
Paul Skeen's right now is fifth in a league and
pitches per start. Hunter Green of the Reds one hundred
and one pitches per start and Skeens and eleven starts
is averaging ninety seven point four pitches.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
That's fifth in the league. So they're not babying.
Speaker 11 (12:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
I go back to this and I saw this article.
Skeen is fifteen, and he goes and watches Otani. Otani
made his pitching debut this is twenty eighteen. He saw
him throw a perfect game into the seventh inning, finished
with seven innings of one hit, twelve strikeout.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Baseball.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
The scheme sees that he's fifteen years of age, and
then he eventually goes to Air Force Academy. He's a
two way player there and then transfers to LSU and
ends up winning a national championship. So he'll join us
a little bit later on. I'll say, we'll talk NBA
with our good buddy Adam Lefgo from TNT. Your phone
(13:37):
calls always welcome. A seven to seven three DP show.
Wembledon wraps up this weekend and USA Soccer still looking
for a new manager. Jurgen Klop said no. I like
how they said he politely declined. Couldn't he at least
you know when a jury comes back after deliberating and
they only wait, like, you know, thirty minutes, they're like, damn,
(13:59):
that's not good, and you know they come back quickly.
That was Jurgen Klop. Come on, Jurgen, could you at
least entertain this a little bit. This is legendary and
this is this is one of the great managers in
the history of the sport. And it would have been
a great coue to get Jurgen Klop for the United States.
I wonder how they approached. Hey, Jurgen, uh, Team USA,
(14:23):
all right, We're going to politely decline.
Speaker 6 (14:25):
Yeah, politely decline feels like it's like, oh, sweetie, no, no,
I'm sorry, no, thank you, though you're on the top
of it.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Oh no, yeah, you know that's really cute that you ask.
Speaker 6 (14:36):
Yeah, oh no, you know, thank you so much. But
I'm gonna have to say no, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Sweetye, gonna politely decline.
Speaker 10 (14:41):
I appreciate your thinking.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
This is what.
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two great guests today. Paul's schemes was easy to book.
(16:10):
You know, threw a no hitter for seven innings. This
guy was tough. Adam Lefgo NBA on TNT Inside, the
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with Shack.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
But we got him.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
We somehow got Adam leftgo. Thank you for taking time
out from your busy schedule.
Speaker 10 (16:29):
Some call me the Paul Schien of broadcast Television, Dan Patrick.
I come in with a flurry and then suddenly, wait,
why isn't he out there? Anymore.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Yes, what was that?
Speaker 10 (16:38):
I was in a sportsbook in Vegas at like twelve
thirty I think it was, and everyone in there is
just looking at the monitor, going, wait, he's got a
no hitter. And for me, I love when an old
veteran manager goes, I don't care about the numbers. I
could see it with my eyes and you go. You know,
(17:01):
I guess him being in the game for this long
should mean something. But man, that sounds dumb in twenty
twenty four.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Okay, but let's a big round of applause for Fritzy.
Speaker 10 (17:11):
Congrats Fritzy. That's but proud of you. Buddy, nailed it.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Wait, nobody else is Why am I the only one
of planting?
Speaker 10 (17:18):
They're weak. It's a weak group.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
I'm still the only one of Okay, we got the
elusive Adam, Yeah we did. We got him. Okay, if
it was a perfect game after seven innings.
Speaker 10 (17:31):
Oh yeah, no, Well I wouldn't have pulled him anyway.
So for me, he could have one hit and I'd
keep him in. I want to watch Paul Schemes.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Okay, so selfishly, But if you're the manager of the Pirates,
what you've said, Hey, I just want to watch Paul's schemes.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
I don't care how many pitches go out there, Paul.
Speaker 10 (17:50):
I mean, what do you think you've been covering.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
I had no problem with them taking him out right.
Let's say he's given up one hit, one hit? Are
you going to leaving him in there in the entwer
is no?
Speaker 10 (18:03):
Was it a zero zero game or a one zero game?
Speaker 2 (18:05):
I think it was one nothing, but I don't know.
I don't know if it matters.
Speaker 10 (18:10):
Look, I was sitting there, going it's a random game
in the middle of July. And that's how you know
where we are in the schedule. We're getting ready for
NBA Summer League. I'm over here betting every w NBA
basketball game that I can. I know I've watched more
WNBA basketball than ninety nine percent of your listening audience,
(18:31):
and arguing about whether or not a rookie pitcher should
still be in there after seven. That is July sports.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Yes it is.
Speaker 10 (18:38):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Yes, that's good.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
But also we've gotten to the point where I don't
know if we've graduated to this point, but maybe we're
looking for topics. Caitlin Clark or Angel Reese Rookie of
the Year and that you have men who are arguing
this and talking about, well who's got the better record?
Speaker 3 (18:56):
What about head done?
Speaker 9 (18:57):
Man?
Speaker 10 (18:58):
You factured rebounds? Damn the pea. Like I heard I
heard two people arguing about p R with Kaitlyn Clark,
and I was like, oh, we have reached.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
It fully Wait wait which pr PR?
Speaker 10 (19:14):
Like that metric that we use to judge how players
are overall. Like we're getting to that granular of an
argument right now between like we're talking about plus minus
is an on offs with Angel and Kaitlyn Clark, And
normally you're like, where, who would even care? But it's
it is so fascinating. I actually thought Angel Reese's double
(19:36):
double streak was going to end last night. I did so.
She had five rebounds heading into the fourth quarter and
I was like, oh, no, it's going to come crashing down.
And then she had six in the fourth, which was insane.
I'm very invested in this, and I think that we
have a dead even race right now in Rookie of
the Year. I do not think that there is a
leader right now.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
This is this is silly, This is silly.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Caitlin Clark goes out with a target on her back,
every single time down the floor. Angel Reese is just
she works the glass. That that's it she ages. Okay,
if she's averaging fourteen and nine and nine double dumbers, okay,
it's the it's the convenience of a double double. Like
(20:20):
the triple double for Russell Westbrook Junior the third it
became easy for voters to go, he's averaging a triple double.
Well what if he only averaged nine assists? Well, not
averaging a triple double.
Speaker 10 (20:33):
It's convenient not talking to one of your normal guests.
I'm telling you you are talking to the most watched
WNBA analyst on TV that doesn't get asked about it.
I have made a lot of money on both of
these players.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Okay.
Speaker 10 (20:46):
I invented a parlay called the left goo parlay. Let
me ten Angel Reese rebounds and six Kitlin Clark assists.
I was getting it at plus money and now it's
minus two ninety. You are talking to a expert. Here
is the issue in your argument. Let's not even talk
about stats. Caitlin Clark is the Indiana Fever. I agree
(21:08):
with you right now. She has the highest usage. She
has the ball all the time. They go as she
goes completely understand. But this Chicago Sky team, the identity
of Angel Reese and Teresa Witherspoon, their coach, is shocking
teams across the league. They went into Seattle and they
pushed a team around that had been dominating teams. They
(21:31):
are built around Kennedy Carter, the woman that pushed Caitlin
Clark and everyone got upset. She's been kicked off multiple teams,
and she is completely reborn. The Chicago Sky are the
bad girls of the WNBA. They take what they want
and they punch you in the face. And these other
teams have no idea what's coming. I'm telling you. They
stand there at the tip and they shake each other's hands,
(21:53):
and then five minutes later they have six seven Camilla
Cardoso just bodying them, and then Angel Reese jumping in
their face and going, you can't guard me. There is
no team in the w that is like this team,
and so her identity has completely woven in. When she's
not on the court, they take a huge step back.
I understand that you're making.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Imagine if Caitlin Clark is not on the floor, that
come on, This is silly.
Speaker 10 (22:19):
So but you're saying that because Caitlin Clark is so
important to her team that she's the Rookie of the Year.
And what I'm saying is is that it's very similar
how important each is, and I still think we have
room to go. I would like to say how these
two perform against the top three teams, the Aces, the Liberty,
(22:39):
and the Lynx, is how I judge them, because dude,
there's twelve teams in this league, and like three or
four of them you can just destroy. Atlanta's a joke,
like there's a few other teams that are just Dallas
as a joke, but the real when you're going against
John Quell Jones and Sabrina I and Escu and Brianna Stewart,
you're going up against Asia Wilson and Jackie young A,
(23:02):
Kelsey Plumb, whoever comes down the stretch. I'm going to vote,
just like, oh, I don't have a vote. I wish
I had a vote, but like I voted for SGA
because the SGA's team had the better record at the
end of the year, and so I want to see
who gets that eighth playoff spot.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Okay, did you do this with Victor Wemba Yama? Did you?
Speaker 10 (23:18):
Did you I vote Victor a defensive Player of the Year.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Well no, but did you did you judge him in
accordance to how he did against Joe el Embiid, Jannis
and the Joker? And the answer is no, you didn't.
But you're doing that right now with these two players.
We're creating an argument.
Speaker 10 (23:36):
We didn't have any We didn't have an even race
in the NBA. A chet was never a realistic rookie
the year.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
I know, but you didn't do this. You didn't factor
in the Spurs record. People are factoring in the better
record between Caitlin Clark and Angel Reis.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
We don't do the lease.
Speaker 10 (23:52):
This is everyone loves to say this.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
This is Mark Gasol versus Derrick Rose.
Speaker 10 (23:57):
Let's say it.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
This is Mark Gasol and Derek Rose. Yes, I said it.
Speaker 10 (24:03):
Have you watched a Chicago Sky game or have you
just seen the memes online of her like catching like
three remounts in.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
A linn Why didn't you watch your mouth here? And
you called me dude, Yes, I watch, yes, Okay.
Speaker 10 (24:17):
I gotta look carried away as you could tell. I
get very emotional about this.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
Were you drinking last night?
Speaker 10 (24:23):
No, I was on a flight back from vacas. Okay,
I was. I chucked you bottles of water and I
had eight packs of vegan gummy bears.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
He is, oh you did gummies?
Speaker 11 (24:33):
Well damn.
Speaker 10 (24:35):
Now it's a flight. It's a flight.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Adam Lefko NBA on TNT. Is the NBA still going
to be on TNT?
Speaker 10 (24:45):
Man? I hope? So it's I mean, I'm watching Barkley
doing interviews from Tahoe. Yeah, you know, and I will
say this, what what were you gonna say?
Speaker 3 (24:55):
That's dangerous? Barkley doing interviews in Tahoe.
Speaker 10 (24:59):
Yeah. Oh, just make sure we're good, and we're good. Okay,
I'm gonna stand here. Okay, wife is going to the bathroom.
It really hit me. What really hit me when I
was watching Barkley's recent thing because he's always talking about
the people of TNT, and that is what I keep
thinking about now, is like the hundreds of people that
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you know, everyone at home is like, oh, this is
gonna be so inconvenient, Like it's so hard to switch
from one streamer to another streamer. You know, what does
this mean for League pass? And I'm thinking about like
the fact that we all use photoshop today and there's
a guy at TNT named Alex who's been there for
like decades and he's the guy that invented putting Charles
Barkley's head on something else. Like, think about how ahead
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of its time that was. And now that guy who
like is a friend of all of us. I'm like, man,
I really hope Alex is okay. And so I also
think it's gonna be very interesting to have one last
year with Charles bike Barkley with an open mic. If
that happens. I had hoped there was going to be
like a fourth smaller package. I hope that they can match.
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But this sounds way above my pay grade in a
lot of forms.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
Do you think Charles is to retire?
Speaker 9 (26:17):
Man for me? Want shame on me?
Speaker 10 (26:20):
Follow me twice, shame on you for me three times.
I'm an idiot, so I don't. I was reading about
George Washington.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Dan, do you not want to answer this? Is that
what you're doing? You're reading about George Washington.
Speaker 10 (26:32):
Well, because when they knocked off the British Big Upset
sixteen over one, they all went around and they were
like who should be president? And George Washington was like
not me, not interested, and everybody was like we gotta
make it George, he doesn't want it, and I kind
of think that's what Barkley does. Barkley does like the
George Washington thing where he's like, too bad, I'm not
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going to be here and everyone's like, we need to
get him right now. So Charles is kind of like
the George Washington this sewards broadcast.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Okay, that's not a comp that I thought I was
going to get.
Speaker 9 (27:06):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
The team that the country that makes you nervous with
Team USA is USA.
Speaker 10 (27:14):
They're the only team that's beaten this team because you
know when like right now, we're like, man, this team
is so deep. This second unit could beat Canada like
that was like other than the first quarter with all
the turnovers. It didn't even look the same. But then
you start wondering, man, if we need to throw in
certain guys for a matchup and they're cooled off the bench,
are they going to be Okay, this team should beat anybody. Mbat.
(27:39):
It was very interesting watching him trying to draw fouls
and realizing very quickly this is not a format for that.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
Adam. He fouled out in like eleven minutes.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Yeah, and you only get five fouls in you know
Olympic play nine six, Can you just worry.
Speaker 10 (27:55):
Because like, is Anthony Davis good enough?
Speaker 8 (27:58):
They?
Speaker 2 (27:59):
I would have Cooper Flag just waiting, you know, just
put him in the in the locker room, just in
case I might say to it, Embiid, why didn't you
do what Kawhi did?
Speaker 3 (28:08):
And why didn't you go back home?
Speaker 10 (28:11):
As a six Ers fan. I'm not against that.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
Of course you're look rested up.
Speaker 10 (28:14):
But I'm also hoping that Embiid, Like because after I
watched the stuff about the Redeemed team, and you hear
the stories of Lebron and Wade watching Kobe and they're
coming back from the club at four am and they're
in the elevator and he's going to the practice court
at four am, and you hear that, You're like, oh,
that ushered in the next wave of great basketball. That's
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what we hope, Like, we hope that Anthony Edwards comes
back and truly knows how to lead to a championship
after this experience, or a Halliburton or any of the
young players. I'm also noticing, though, man, love Kaitlin Clark,
you just you're threw in Cooper Flag a Kaitlin Clark
Cooper Flag twenty twenty four presidential ticket doesn't have a chance.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Last name is Flag? I mean, come on, red, very
white and Duke blue.
Speaker 10 (29:08):
Have we come up with a name yet for the
tanking for Cooper?
Speaker 7 (29:13):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Yeah it was. When did they say Seaton?
Speaker 10 (29:16):
So like poo poop for like poop.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
For coopop for Coop. Yeah, yeah, that's a good one.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
I'll leave you with this. Jalen Brown is not on
the Olympic team because.
Speaker 10 (29:28):
I really the Nike stuff is interesting. I just want
to paint this picture. This is the highest paid player
in the NBA that won the Eastern Conference Finals MVP,
the World Finals MVP. Even when the game was over,
they put a camera in Jason Tatum's face, who came
out with three different slogans. They're rarely showing Jalen Brown
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in the crowd. They get introduced at Fenway and Jalen
Brown walks out with Jason Tatum like this really should
be the summer of Jalen Brown and where not giving
it to him. This is a person that when he
signed a contract, unlike just giving money away, is building
bridge programs in the city of Boston to help underserved youth.
He was on the front lines when they were in
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the bubble. Who was the most outspoken person trying to
fight for civil rights? It was this guy, Jalen Brown.
When the Big Three in ice Cube was like, I'm
not getting enough attention, Jalen Brown's like, I will be
the only NBA player to come and support you. And
then we're like, man, we lost a defensive star small forward,
that's his position, and I for Steven A. Smith to
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go out there and just keep questioning this man's character
when he is the least blemish guy in the entire
NBA who's done everything perfect and finally reaches the summit
and we're still like, man, can't believe he's being selfish
and won't let Derek White just make it to the
team you take Some would say the fourth best player
on his team, on his own team. It's just crazy.
(30:59):
This is the same he was drafted at twenty sixteen.
People were like he might be too smart for the NBA,
went to cal Berkeley, and so this guy is sitting
there and Stephen as like, and this is the reason
you're not marketable. Where what are we in this world?
Jalen Brown has every right right now to be like,
you guys are crazy. At the same point, he's making
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sixty million dollars a year and has a title and
he's dating like the now, I'm not going to say that,
but what the hell are we doing? This is crazy?
Speaker 3 (31:30):
How about?
Speaker 2 (31:31):
I was kind of listening to you, but I was
also thinking of mottos for teams with Cooper. Flag right,
gag for flag, love.
Speaker 10 (31:40):
It, sag for flag. Paul Is chat gpt this the
other day and they were coming home some good ones.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
PAULI says, lolly gag for flag.
Speaker 10 (31:50):
See, that's just not a phrase we use anymore.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
Okay, gag for flag.
Speaker 10 (31:54):
That's a little bit too much. I didn't this kind
of sexual.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Okay, I'm just telling you the truth.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
Time to wrap it up here, time.
Speaker 10 (32:05):
Yeah, that's okay. Hold on, So fail for flag, drag
for flag, lag for flag, sag for flag bag the flag.
I also like flatline for flag, crash for Cooper, flop
for flag, pay for Cooper. And I didn't realize that
Cooper had a twin brother. So you have a built
in the NASA Santa Takupo element, which is really cool.
(32:26):
Do you have to take his twin brother? Is this
a brook Lopez.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
Blake or like, what are the Lopez Robin Robin Robin.
Speaker 10 (32:38):
See, we knew who he was because his name was
Robin's built into the relationship.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
It's it's been fun to talk to you and thank
you once again. Very difficult to book Adam Lefko today.
Speaker 10 (32:48):
What's your what's the question you're most excited to ask Paul?
Speaker 3 (32:54):
I'm not going to tell you, Okay, but don't put it.
Speaker 10 (32:59):
On put on the Paul. Does Dan actually have questions
for Paul's He's just going to make it up on
the fly and wing it.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
I make it up on the fly and I wing it.
Speaker 10 (33:10):
I love you, Uh Todd again? Congratulations Todd.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
Yeah, you were a tweet.
Speaker 10 (33:17):
They were like Todd killed it today there's no bad
mouthing a Todd on Twitter Tonics. Nice to get a
little love.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
It's all the other days when they killed Todd for
not killing it.
Speaker 10 (33:28):
And just laugh every day like these guys.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Are killing we're killing it, We're killing it. Thank you,
Thank you, Adam. That's Adam Lefko, popular host on NBA
on TNT, also a co host with a Shack on
his big podcast There All right, let me take a break. Well,
come back after this, we'll hear from Dion Sanders, and
we're gonna look at where we were last year in
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sports and everything that unfolded and all these things that
you couldn't have scripted.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
So I have that for you coming out.
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six shutouts in baseball on Thursday, and that ties the
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most in one day this season. One of those shutouts
the Pirates, led by Paul Skeins over Milwaukee, and Paul
Joins has now struck out eleven and seven no hit innings.
How's the arm today?
Speaker 3 (34:48):
A little sore.
Speaker 9 (34:49):
I've moved it around too much, but yeah, it's.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
A little sore. But how normal is that?
Speaker 9 (34:55):
That's normal? Yeah? Every time I pitched, just you know,
little stiffness, a little soreness, but I mean that's kind of
how it goes.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
How is your bullpen session before you started yesterday?
Speaker 9 (35:07):
It was good. I had to it took a little
bit to loosen up. I think the day games will
get you sometimes so, but it was a good bullpen,
probably one of the better better ones this year.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
Is that always an indicator because some pitchers will say
I was terrible in the bullpen, and then I got
on the mount and I was lights out.
Speaker 9 (35:24):
Yeah, I will say having a terrible bullpen seems to
be a good thing. Sometimes you get all the bad
pitches out of the way before you then you go
out there and just pitch. But sometimes it's a good
thing to have a good bullpen before the game too.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
All Right, when did you realize you had something special yesterday?
Speaker 9 (35:42):
Probably after the game, to be honest, In the moment,
it was just kind of going out there and competing
and executing, executing the game plan. But yeah, in the moment,
I wasn't too caught up in it.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
When you go into the dugout, you just completed the
seventh what's the conversation you're having or is there a
conversation you're having with your manager.
Speaker 9 (36:05):
Yeah, I mean I was talking with with our pitching
coach and our game planning coordinator more than more than Shelter,
our manager, but just kind of telling them how I
was feeling, and and you know what I thought about
the hitters, you know, going to the next inning, and
I wasn't really expecting to go back out for the
eighth in general, So it wasn't at all a surprise
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when when they pulled me.
Speaker 3 (36:29):
You realized you had a no hitter.
Speaker 13 (36:31):
I did.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
Yeah, if you had a perfect game, poll, would you
have fought to go back out?
Speaker 3 (36:40):
Probably?
Speaker 9 (36:42):
I think just just the way that I am. I think,
going all the way back to high school and then
in college too, like you don't if you get pulled,
you get pulled, you're not you're not talking. You're not
talking yourself back into the game. And so that's something
that I think I'm getting used to a little bit,
is we have a little bit more pull here than
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I've had in the past. So maybe going forward I
will start to fight. But that's kind of just not
how I not how I do it.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
I guess, well, I wondered about that because you're a rookie,
so you got to be like, what am I allowed
to do as a rookie and not allowed to do?
Speaker 3 (37:22):
You know?
Speaker 2 (37:22):
Does my manager want me to fight to go back
out there? I don't know if you have those range
of emotions thereof am I allowed to say anything here?
Speaker 9 (37:32):
Yeah? And I think it's happened a couple of times
already this year, where you know, he tells me I'm
out of the game, not just here, but also in
ta A two. You know, he tells me I'm out
of the game, and and then he comes up to
me after the game and he's like, well, I was
expecting you to fight a little bit more. And next
time I think you should fight a little bit. And
I'm like, well, you're my manager, You're you're not supposed
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to be advocating for me to fight against it. But uh,
I mean it's a little different.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
How important is is velocity when you're pitching, When you
see something on the gun where I think you had
to pitch one oh two point six or your sinker
was ninety seven? Like are those what kind of indicators
are those for you that you can use in a game?
Speaker 9 (38:15):
If any it's it's really good and a lot of
the stadiums have metrics on the scoreboard too now that
show exactly how your pitches are moving, and and that
that stuff can only help pitchers. I feel like, because
it gives them a it gives us. It gives us
a better indicator of where we are, you know, if
our fastballs flatter, if our you know, my sinker is
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running more, my slider has more more sweep on it
than normal than it gives, gives me a better indication
of how to use those pitches and where I need
to throw them to get you know, takes and swing
and miss and that kind of thing.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
When did you know you were great?
Speaker 9 (38:51):
I don't know if I am yet.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
The potential for being great, Yeah, I don't know. It
had to be one of those moments where you go, damn,
I'm pretty good.
Speaker 9 (39:04):
Maybe, uh, I think I think we we kind of
started to realize what we had a little bit in
college last year, you know, because I went to to
L s U from Air Force and I was I
was a good pitcher at Air Force, but it wasn't
It wasn't anything crazy, I don't think. And then got
got to L s U and and kind of grew
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into my body and learned how to pitch a little bit,
and then you know, started facing college hitters, SEC hitters
and that kind of thing, and and there there was
a little bit more noise around it too, so it changed,
it changed. It changed quick for me really once once
we got into the season at LSU. But that's you know,
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college college baseball and pro baseball are very very different things.
Speaker 3 (39:48):
Could you have stepped out of l s U right
into the major leagues?
Speaker 9 (39:54):
I don't know, especially looking over the past year, because
from LSU, I only had one fastball. Now I now
I have two fastballs, and just as a pitcher, it's
a lot easier to pitch with two fastballs than it
is one.
Speaker 3 (40:09):
Explain that. Explain the two fastballs.
Speaker 9 (40:12):
Yeah, basically, if they're if they're you know, if they're
sitting on heater and they know that it's going to
do this, and then they have to worry about the
breaking balls and that kind of thing. Uh, those are
very different things. But if you're throwing two, you know,
fastballs with somedillo and one of them does this and
one of them does this, you it's it's hard to
cover both of them. And so you know, swing and
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miss is one thing but also getting early contact and
and weak contact and ground balls and that kind of thing.
That's what a sinker, uh specifically is good for. That's
why a lot of guys throw sinkers and cutters and
four teams. A lot of guys have three fastballs now,
but I didn't have two fastballs when I was at LSU.
So that was something that came along after that that
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I you know, started working on when I got to
pro ball, and but that I think that's the one
thing that has made the transition a lot easier for me,
is just having too fast balls.
Speaker 2 (41:08):
He's Paul Schemes, the Pirates pitcher and on the All
Star team. Did you know, like, are you pitching? Have
you heard anything? If you're pitching in the All Star Game?
That's the plan I'm lined up to do it. That
The you know, the convenient thing about that as I
pitched on a Thursday and the All Star Games on Tuesday,
so that would be a you know, four days rest,
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which I haven't done in the big leagues this year,
but I did it in Triple A a couple of times,
so that that which is normal rest for a starting
pitcher for the most part. So the plan the plan
is definitely to throw in the All Star Game.
Speaker 3 (41:45):
Where's your power come from from my lower half?
Speaker 9 (41:48):
I put one thing on it, but I think I
think just being strong in the lower half.
Speaker 2 (41:54):
And then but explain that though to parents or younger
kids who like growing up. I always thought, I mean,
you're throwing with your arm. But you see some of
these guys lower body, especially pitchers. You know Verlander and
Nolan Ryan, and you know all of these guys who
are power pitchers. But explain how you use your lower
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body to create that power.
Speaker 9 (42:17):
Yeah, I think having lower body strength is one thing,
and lower body power is one thing. And you can
lift a lot of weight and you can, you know,
do all that, but then you know you have that,
and then the sequencing comes into play about how your
lower body is moving in comparison to your upper body,
making sure that it's all timed up because they're you know,
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you can you look at bodybuilders and that kind of thing,
and they can, you know, lift a lot of weight,
but they can't sequence their body to throw a baseball
correct And that that's a that's an extreme example, but
that's kind of the way I think about it. And
then you look at guys that are, you know, super skinny,
and if I had to guess, they probably can't put
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up four hundred pounds in a back squad, and they
can still throw a hundred just because they they have
good power output and they sequence their body up right
and everything kind of falls into place.
Speaker 2 (43:16):
You're kind of like a scientist here. I try to
be like, are you fascinated with the science of of
all of this?
Speaker 9 (43:23):
Yeah, I mean I think you can run yourself into
a hole with some of that, and and some guys
do with like, you know, you just go down to
too much of a rabbit hole thinking about that kind
of thing. So I try to find the medium there
of you know, the science of it and then actually
going out there and competing. But everything matters for sure,
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and I think the I've been I've been super blessed
to have a lot of coaches over the past, you know,
a few years who have helped me with my development
and pitching and allowed me to figure it out a
little bit on my own as well as you know,
providing me some directions. So I think I know where
to look and what to look at and what to
not look at.
Speaker 2 (44:08):
Just as importantly, what was it like April eighth, twenty eighteen.
When you go watch show Heyo Tani pitch.
Speaker 9 (44:18):
You got the actual date? Huh, yeah that was what
was that? His first? Yeah, home start? Yeah? Uh, it
was cool. And so I think we got the tickets
because Matt Chapman was on the A's and he was
playing against him, and so he got him through our
our high school coach.
Speaker 3 (44:38):
He struck out twelve in that game.
Speaker 9 (44:40):
Yeah, And I remember guys were, you know, swinging at
splitters that are bouncing on the grass and he's throwing
a hundred and and it was just it was it
was cool. And I'm watching it from the stands and
but it is. It is cool to watch the games
from the dock.
Speaker 10 (44:56):
Do you want to be?
Speaker 3 (44:57):
Do you?
Speaker 9 (44:58):
Do you want to?
Speaker 3 (44:58):
I mean, you're you how much do you miss hitting?
Speaker 9 (45:01):
I miss it, but I don't miss how my body
felt when I was hitting. In pitching and the amount
of work that you have to do to stay on
the field and stay healthy, it's a lot which you know,
all the power to show to do that every single day.
That's unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (45:20):
He's Paul Skin's the fourth pitcher since eighteen ninety three
to record zero hits and ten strikeouts in multiple outings
in a single season.
Speaker 3 (45:29):
He's six and zero. ERA is one point nine to zero.
Speaker 12 (45:33):
Yes, Ton, We've just received a call from Arizona Diamondbacks
manager Tory Lavello wanted to check in with you and
Paul Night.
Speaker 2 (45:42):
Well, Toy's the National League All Star manager. Hey, what's up?
Speaker 10 (45:48):
What's up?
Speaker 11 (45:48):
Dan? How are you doing this morning?
Speaker 10 (45:50):
Good?
Speaker 9 (45:50):
Good?
Speaker 3 (45:51):
I'm conducting an interview here. What's going on?
Speaker 11 (45:54):
Yeah, well, I look at I thought it was my
time to just butt in on a really special moment.
I could see you guys are having your your special time.
But Paul, first of all, how are you doing? I
just wanted to, uh, congratulate you. I've chosen you to
be the starter for the Nationally and the twenty twenty
four All Star Game. I'm really really excited for you.
So unbelievable honor and one that's so.
Speaker 3 (46:14):
Well, thank you sir.
Speaker 9 (46:20):
That's that's unbelievable. That's awesome.
Speaker 11 (46:23):
Yeah, like I said, so well deserved. And we're we're
super excited to make this announcement. And uh, you know,
you represent so many great things that this game, this
game craves, you know, it's it's such a great story.
The way you've come on the scene scene, the way
you've done done it with such humbleness. It's it's noticeable.
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And uh, you know, I'll be honored to be your manager,
and I'm gonna be honored to be watching you throw
your first pitch. Super excited about that.
Speaker 2 (46:53):
Are you accepting this, Paul? Okay, I just wanted to
make sure we got to get it official here, Toy.
Speaker 3 (46:59):
Is Paul on a pitch count?
Speaker 9 (47:04):
You know, Well, we'll see what's going on.
Speaker 10 (47:06):
Yet, we got to leven.
Speaker 11 (47:07):
Pictures to get through. So listen, Dad, that's a tough
question for me right now, but we got to love
of guys get through. Paul's getting He's gonna throw up
a big zero there the first day for us and
we'll take it from there.
Speaker 2 (47:17):
It's awesome you called in. Thank you, Toy, Thank you
very much, thank you.
Speaker 3 (47:24):
Well, how about that?
Speaker 9 (47:27):
That's cool? That's really cool. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (47:31):
Do you ever get really excited like crazy, like that's
a big deal. You're you're starting the All Star game?
You want to tell your parents? You want to call
any money right now?
Speaker 9 (47:40):
Yeah? I think my parents are watching the show right now.
But so but you know, I'll give him a call after. Yeah,
that that's cool. Uh, And I'll probably get more excited
leading up to the game, hopefully I have a full
night sleep before. But yeah, I haven't. I haven't put
much thought into it because I've been getting asked about
a little little bit, you know, the past few days,
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and I haven't given much much thought into it just
because I had, you know, the game yesterday obviously too,
So now I can focus my attention on that. And
that's pretty dang cool.
Speaker 3 (48:14):
Who you looking forward to facing that first hitting?
Speaker 9 (48:17):
Oh man, I can't put one guy above the others
because you Yeah, I'm guessing it's gonna be Henderson, Soto
and Judge. So they're all pretty dang good players. So,
you know, just folks on getting.
Speaker 2 (48:34):
Them out of you know what, You're not this flustered.
You don't get flustered when you're on the mound. You're
flustered right now.
Speaker 9 (48:41):
It's a yeah, that was a surprise. Yeah, I wasn't
expecting that.
Speaker 2 (48:46):
Well, we say all over to your parents and congratulations
to them, because behind every great athlete or great parents
who helped you along the way. So congrats. It's a
great moment here and uh hope many more for you.
Speaker 9 (49:00):
Yeah, thank you very much, really cool. Thanks for being
able to share it with me.
Speaker 2 (49:04):
Yes, we'll always have this, Paul, Yes, sir, Yes we
did it. We got you on the All Star team.
It's the starting pitcher. Thanks, thank you, Bud. Paul Skeans,
all right, let's go.
Speaker 3 (49:19):
We'll always have this.
Speaker 2 (49:24):
You know, that's one of those where somebody's out of
their element when they're being interviewed. If he was on
the mound and I'm at the plate, I would be acting,
you know, probably like he was acting with I don't know. Yeah,
it's awesome. Mom and dad, congratulations as well. That's that's
a great, great honor and well deserving.
Speaker 3 (49:44):
Yes, Paul.
Speaker 4 (49:44):
Yeah, if you couldn't see that, the first ten minutes
you and Paul Skeens, you're discussing baseball, nuts and balls.
He's like a scientist walking you through it. And then
when he sees that it's the manager of the Diamondbacks,
he kind of has this what's going on here?
Speaker 5 (49:56):
Face is great?
Speaker 2 (49:59):
Todd, good job, and thank you to MLB because I
just said, you know, Todd asked them if they if
they're going to announce it, do they have a press conference.
If they don't, can they join us? And I'd love
for Toy and Tory, thank you great Sport to be
able to take time to join us because I wasn't sure.
Speaker 3 (50:18):
And then Todd goes, uh, Tory Leavello's on the phone.
He's got to get ready.
Speaker 10 (50:22):
They're hosting the Blue Jay side.
Speaker 5 (50:24):
That's not the All Star.
Speaker 10 (50:24):
We just yeah, he's got stuff to still do for
the week.
Speaker 2 (50:26):
Yes, And then I put it together. It's like, oh,
I nationally goal star manager. Oh all right, so thank you.
Speaker 3 (50:34):
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (50:34):
Yeah, I know we should single out just that. When
I when I when I tell him, and then his reaction.
Speaker 3 (50:41):
Is, that's awesome. Working on the shirt, that's awesome.
Speaker 13 (50:47):
Hey yeah, nice destroying the hotel room that he was
in those I think Paul's still watching here.
Speaker 2 (51:00):
I can see him on zoom here. Call your mom,
call your parents, bring bring his audio back up, bring
his audio Paul, Are you just hanging out with us?
Speaker 6 (51:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (51:14):
Guys, I didn't. I didn't know if if you were
done with we're.
Speaker 3 (51:18):
Done with you.
Speaker 1 (51:19):
Yeah that was you.
Speaker 2 (51:22):
Went seven innings. All right, it's time to pull you.
You're done, You're done with your interview. And by the way,
we have our trigger grills fired up. I believe you're
a trigger grill guy.
Speaker 9 (51:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (51:35):
Yeah, so we got hamburgers there on the trigger grill.
You're officially done. Okay, all right, the man.
Speaker 3 (51:44):
I love that guy. He was a hysterical you want
to go back, so sorry, I know that, all right,
he's the best. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (51:53):
All of a sudden I look over at the monitor,
I go, wait, oh, he's listening.
Speaker 3 (51:59):
And then he was just laughing, and I go, oh, all right,
we'll bring it back. That's great.
Speaker 2 (52:04):
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Paul Skeens was the big news yesterday afternoon. Seven no
hit innings, now six and zero, and the question is
going to be Tory Lavello is the Arizona Diamondbacks manager.
(02:14):
He is the National League manager for the All Star Game.
There are a couple of pitchers that he could pick.
I mentioned Chris Sale yesterday, who has twelve wins. Rangers
Suarez of the Phillies is also another, you know, well
documented great stats with him, So Rangers Sworez and Chris Sale,
and then you have Paul Skeenes. So Paul Skeens certainly
(02:37):
has been He's been a rocket ship here. He has
been a comet and illuminating there over Major League Baseball
and becoming sort of the face of Major League Baseball.
But well, I don't know when they make the decision,
but I know Paul Skeens will join us today. I
don't know if he's been told anything but what he's
(02:58):
done so far. And we'll discuss the strategy behind polling
him after seven innings.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
We'll have that for you coming up. All right, Seaton
pull question today.
Speaker 6 (03:08):
I think we start right there with Paul Skeins. Do
you leave him in the game if he's throwing a
no hitter?
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Okay, I had no problem with him being pulled yesterday.
I just this is baseball now. This isn't when I
grew up, and I know it's a no hitter. Let's
say he had a one hitter going, You're going to
leave him in And the answer is no, No one
would have a problem with that. If you had a
one hitter going, this was the you gotta leave me in.
(03:34):
He's got a no hitter going. Well, that's true. I
understand the historical perspective here, but you know, ninety nine
pitches and maybe that's where you know, we'll find out
when he joins this. But is there a pitch count?
Was there around one hundred pitches? Did it maybe kind
of play out the way the manager wanted it to?
(03:56):
And that is Hey, after seven innings, if he goes
into the eighth inning, he's got a no hitter, then
he's going to pitch the ninth inning. And that's the
biggest issue I have with that. If you put him
in the eighth then he let's say, has a twenty
two pitch inning. Well, now all of a sudden, we're
up to one hundred and twenty pitches. Now I got
(04:16):
to bring him back. Do I want him to come
out for the ninth This is one outing? This is
your future here? I know, boy he had a no hitter,
but if he had a one hitter, you wouldn't have
kept him in here. But here's the thing. Here is
the manager, Derek Shelton, the Pirates manager, on why he
pulled schemes.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
He was tired.
Speaker 7 (04:38):
It really didn't have anything to do with the pitch count.
Everybody makes it about pitch counts. It was about where
he was at. It was about trusting your eyes, trusting him.
When I went and talked to him after that, I
mean he was tired. They did a good job of
wearing him down, and I mean he gave us everything
he had.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Okay, here's the call. Paul Skeens finishes seven no hit innings.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Here's a one owed to Freelick. So I got a
bouncer on the third.
Speaker 8 (05:04):
Hays gloves throw the first got him seven no hit
innings for Paul Schimes in Milwaukee on this Thursday afternoon,
the all star rookie of the Pirates getting applause from
the Brewers fans. That's how well he has pitched today,
and rightfully so. He had one pitch that went one
(05:25):
O two point six. When you have pitches that are
FM radio like one O two point six Paul's schemes
radio then his uh, his sinker is ninety seven miles
an hour. It's different when you have pitchers who are
throwing a no hitter who may have a great change up.
I always go back to Johann Santana with the Mets.
(05:48):
They left him out there.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
I think he threw one hundred and forty pitches, but
not every pitch is between ninety seven and one oh two.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
That's different. That's the difference.
Speaker 9 (05:58):
Here.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
You're throwing harder, more pitches that are going to be
up towards triple digits and the you know, the wear
and tear, the stress on that. And it feels like
pitchers nowadays are programmed to pitch five innings, maybe six innings.
He hasn't pitched in the eighth inning this year. But
it's a wonderful story, and it's a story that I
hope baseball can capitalize on. And that's you have him now,
(06:23):
you put him out there, and I know you can
look at other pitchers and say, maybe they deserve this more.
This is an exhibition game. Utilize this, get some eyeballs
on this. You have thirty two first time starters or
players in the All Star Game. Take advantage of that,
get eyeballs on it, so maybe people will look and say, oh,
(06:45):
I didn't know about that player. On May seventeenth against
the Cubs, Schemes pitched six hitless innings. He struck out eleven,
he got pulled. Pirates won the game. And you can't say, hey,
I'm going to keep him out of the eighth because
I want him to be ready for the All Star Game.
You know, the manager can't say that. But this made sense.
(07:06):
It just made sense. You can't go, hey, we have
a plan, always got a no hitter. Now we throw
the plan out the window. If he had a one
hitter going, this would not be a discussion. And yes,
you're having people who were in their fifties who were going,
what about in my day with Nolan Ryan, what about
in my day with Steve Carlton or Tom seaver A, Bob.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
I understand that that's not baseball anymore.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
And they throw as hard as they can for as
long as they can. That's not the their throwers, not
necessarily pitchers. It's a different philosophy here, and that's what
you saw yesterday. The Pirates did the right thing. It's
not for our benefit. The manager and the pitcher have
to look at this and say this is long term.
(07:54):
Now you can say, wow, what's you know, twenty more pitches? Okay,
what if it's not twenty what if it's thirty five
more pitches? That's why to me it's it's not an argument. Yeah,
you're right, it's not an argument, but it is tough
to swallow.
Speaker 6 (08:15):
Sometimes the uh, you know, seven no hit innings, eleven
strikeouts under one hundred pitches pull them, okay, but that
is tough to well. Yeah, when you're just the sort
of eye test of that kind of feels like really really.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Okay, you can be it's a smart decision. I understand
what you're saying. But you know, this is different than
what pictures did before. How many pitchers throw between ninety
seven and one oh two for seven innings? Not many,
So you have to factor that in as well. I mean,
(08:55):
look at pitchers who you know, you throw an off
speed pitcher, curveball, you're changed up, Skemes is thrown between
ninety seven and one oh two.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
That's different.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
So your ninety nine pitches are a whole lot different
than somebody else's one fifteen that they may be throwing.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Would we like to see this?
Speaker 2 (09:12):
It's like you go to the movie theater and then
all of a sudden, there's no ending.
Speaker 10 (09:18):
Wait.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Wait, we're supposed to see the ending of the movie. Wait,
he's supposed to stay out there. I would just argue,
if it's one hitter, nobody has a problem with this,
and would we like to see a no hitter? Yes,
we would, but we'll talk to Paul Skeins later. He'll
join us in the final hour. I don't know how
much of an argument you have when you're a rookie,
(09:38):
when your manager comes out or says, hey, I'm taking
you out, can you have much of a discussion.
Speaker 6 (09:43):
I mean, I've had a pretty great two months, coach.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
You skip yeah, And then if i'm his manager, I
say yeah, and I want you to have a couple
more great months this year. And if this is September
and if you're fighting for a playoff spot, you're probably
leaving him in. I go back to LSU. He pitched
more innings, he pitched late into games, but they were
trying to win the College World Series, which is what
(10:07):
they did. But I have no problem with this where
they took him out. Would i'd like to have seen it. Absolutely.
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All right, So that's the pole question. Should they have
pulled Paul's skeins yesterday? Is that what you're going to
go with if you were the Pirates manager? Okay, what
would you have done? We also could throw in there,
should Paul Skins be in the home run derby?
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Because why not? Let's just get him everywhere?
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Well, he is a great hitter, and when he was fifteen,
he went to see show Hey Otani pitch and Otani
dominated pitching and hitting. And he went to the Ajeels
game and he was a really good hitter at LSU.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
And then I'm.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Looking at a scouting report on Poles schemes. He probably
would have been a first or second round draft pick
just on his hitting. Now I wonder which I'll ask,
do you want to be sho heo Tani. Would the
Pirates allow you to be that because maybe you can
(11:25):
utilize that bad you're the Pirates, or they might just say, no,
he's a pitcher. We don't want to mess with anything,
all right? Would anybody have kept Paul's schemes in yesterday?
If you're the Pirates manager. So let's answer the poll
question that we're going to ask the audience to answer, Marvin,
would you have left him?
Speaker 11 (11:42):
Then?
Speaker 9 (11:43):
No?
Speaker 3 (11:43):
I ain't Seaton now Paul.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
Yes, his last ending, he threw six pitches at the
seventh inning, he threw six pitches to get through it.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Yeah, but if I get to the eight and he
throws twenty five pitches.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
I think he's getting out for ant with one hundred
and twenty pitches.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
I got to I got it. Having go to the night, I.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
Would probably in the moment lean towards doing it.
Speaker 12 (12:04):
Man Todd, Yeah, because of how hearty throws, I take
him out of the game.
Speaker 9 (12:07):
I'm fine with the decision that was.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Yeah, so am I It's one game. Hey, he's only
been pitching for a couple of months here dominating for
a couple of months. But well, we'll talk to Paul.
Skin shall join us coming up a little bit later
on this morning, but one O two point six, and
then he was throwing a sinker. At does a Paul
have time to sink if you're throwing it ninety seven
(12:30):
miles an hour. I'm just wondering if it's ninety seven,
it's pretty damn quick that all of a sudden you're going,
that's a sinker.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
How much is it sinking? By the way, Yeah, Paul, John.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Tuby are fantastic stats guy. Just sent me this stet.
Paul Skeen's right now is fifth in a league and
pitches per start. Hunter Green of the Reds one hundred
and one pitches per start and Skeens and eleven starts
is averaging ninety seven point four pitches.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
That's fifth in the league. So they're not babying.
Speaker 11 (12:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
I go back to this and I saw this article.
Skeen is fifteen, and he goes and watches Otani. Otani
made his pitching debut this is twenty eighteen. He saw
him throw a perfect game into the seventh inning, finished
with seven innings of one hit, twelve strikeout.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Baseball.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
The scheme sees that he's fifteen years of age, and
then he eventually goes to Air Force Academy. He's a
two way player there and then transfers to LSU and
ends up winning a national championship. So he'll join us
a little bit later on. I'll say, we'll talk NBA
with our good buddy Adam Lefgo from TNT. Your phone
(13:37):
calls always welcome. A seven to seven three DP show.
Wembledon wraps up this weekend and USA Soccer still looking
for a new manager. Jurgen Klop said no. I like
how they said he politely declined. Couldn't he at least
you know when a jury comes back after deliberating and
they only wait, like, you know, thirty minutes, they're like, damn,
(13:59):
that's not good, and you know they come back quickly.
That was Jurgen Klop. Come on, Jurgen, could you at
least entertain this a little bit. This is legendary and
this is this is one of the great managers in
the history of the sport. And it would have been
a great coue to get Jurgen Klop for the United States.
I wonder how they approached. Hey, Jurgen, uh, Team USA,
(14:23):
all right, We're going to politely decline.
Speaker 6 (14:25):
Yeah, politely decline feels like it's like, oh, sweetie, no, no,
I'm sorry, no, thank you, though you're on the top
of it.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Oh no, yeah, you know that's really cute that you ask.
Speaker 6 (14:36):
Yeah, oh no, you know, thank you so much. But
I'm gonna have to say no, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Sweetye, gonna politely decline.
Speaker 10 (14:41):
I appreciate your thinking.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
This is what.
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And we welcome shut ins, those recovering from surgery's, those
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(16:10):
You know, threw a no hitter for seven innings. This
guy was tough. Adam Lefgo NBA on TNT Inside, the
NBA host and a co host of the Big Podcast
with Shack.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
But we got him.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
We somehow got Adam leftgo. Thank you for taking time
out from your busy schedule.
Speaker 10 (16:29):
Some call me the Paul Schien of broadcast Television, Dan Patrick.
I come in with a flurry and then suddenly, wait,
why isn't he out there? Anymore.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Yes, what was that?
Speaker 10 (16:38):
I was in a sportsbook in Vegas at like twelve
thirty I think it was, and everyone in there is
just looking at the monitor, going, wait, he's got a
no hitter. And for me, I love when an old
veteran manager goes, I don't care about the numbers. I
could see it with my eyes and you go. You know,
(17:01):
I guess him being in the game for this long
should mean something. But man, that sounds dumb in twenty
twenty four.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Okay, but let's a big round of applause for Fritzy.
Speaker 10 (17:11):
Congrats Fritzy. That's but proud of you. Buddy, nailed it.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Wait, nobody else is Why am I the only one
of planting?
Speaker 10 (17:18):
They're weak. It's a weak group.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
I'm still the only one of Okay, we got the
elusive Adam, Yeah we did. We got him. Okay, if
it was a perfect game after seven innings.
Speaker 10 (17:31):
Oh yeah, no, Well I wouldn't have pulled him anyway.
So for me, he could have one hit and I'd
keep him in. I want to watch Paul Schemes.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Okay, so selfishly, But if you're the manager of the Pirates,
what you've said, Hey, I just want to watch Paul's schemes.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
I don't care how many pitches go out there, Paul.
Speaker 10 (17:50):
I mean, what do you think you've been covering.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
I had no problem with them taking him out right.
Let's say he's given up one hit, one hit? Are
you going to leaving him in there in the entwer
is no?
Speaker 10 (18:03):
Was it a zero zero game or a one zero game?
Speaker 2 (18:05):
I think it was one nothing, but I don't know.
I don't know if it matters.
Speaker 10 (18:10):
Look, I was sitting there, going it's a random game
in the middle of July. And that's how you know
where we are in the schedule. We're getting ready for
NBA Summer League. I'm over here betting every w NBA
basketball game that I can. I know I've watched more
WNBA basketball than ninety nine percent of your listening audience,
(18:31):
and arguing about whether or not a rookie pitcher should
still be in there after seven. That is July sports.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Yes it is.
Speaker 10 (18:38):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Yes, that's good.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
But also we've gotten to the point where I don't
know if we've graduated to this point, but maybe we're
looking for topics. Caitlin Clark or Angel Reese Rookie of
the Year and that you have men who are arguing
this and talking about, well who's got the better record?
Speaker 3 (18:56):
What about head done?
Speaker 9 (18:57):
Man?
Speaker 10 (18:58):
You factured rebounds? Damn the pea. Like I heard I
heard two people arguing about p R with Kaitlyn Clark,
and I was like, oh, we have reached.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
It fully Wait wait which pr PR?
Speaker 10 (19:14):
Like that metric that we use to judge how players
are overall. Like we're getting to that granular of an
argument right now between like we're talking about plus minus
is an on offs with Angel and Kaitlyn Clark, And
normally you're like, where, who would even care? But it's
it is so fascinating. I actually thought Angel Reese's double
(19:36):
double streak was going to end last night. I did so.
She had five rebounds heading into the fourth quarter and
I was like, oh, no, it's going to come crashing down.
And then she had six in the fourth, which was insane.
I'm very invested in this, and I think that we
have a dead even race right now in Rookie of
the Year. I do not think that there is a
leader right now.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
This is this is silly, This is silly.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Caitlin Clark goes out with a target on her back,
every single time down the floor. Angel Reese is just
she works the glass. That that's it she ages. Okay,
if she's averaging fourteen and nine and nine double dumbers, okay,
it's the it's the convenience of a double double. Like
(20:20):
the triple double for Russell Westbrook Junior the third it
became easy for voters to go, he's averaging a triple double.
Well what if he only averaged nine assists? Well, not
averaging a triple double.
Speaker 10 (20:33):
It's convenient not talking to one of your normal guests.
I'm telling you you are talking to the most watched
WNBA analyst on TV that doesn't get asked about it.
I have made a lot of money on both of
these players.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Okay.
Speaker 10 (20:46):
I invented a parlay called the left goo parlay. Let
me ten Angel Reese rebounds and six Kitlin Clark assists.
I was getting it at plus money and now it's
minus two ninety. You are talking to a expert. Here
is the issue in your argument. Let's not even talk
about stats. Caitlin Clark is the Indiana Fever. I agree
(21:08):
with you right now. She has the highest usage. She
has the ball all the time. They go as she
goes completely understand. But this Chicago Sky team, the identity
of Angel Reese and Teresa Witherspoon, their coach, is shocking
teams across the league. They went into Seattle and they
pushed a team around that had been dominating teams. They
(21:31):
are built around Kennedy Carter, the woman that pushed Caitlin
Clark and everyone got upset. She's been kicked off multiple teams,
and she is completely reborn. The Chicago Sky are the
bad girls of the WNBA. They take what they want
and they punch you in the face. And these other
teams have no idea what's coming. I'm telling you. They
stand there at the tip and they shake each other's hands,
(21:53):
and then five minutes later they have six seven Camilla
Cardoso just bodying them, and then Angel Reese jumping in
their face and going, you can't guard me. There is
no team in the w that is like this team,
and so her identity has completely woven in. When she's
not on the court, they take a huge step back.
I understand that you're making.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Imagine if Caitlin Clark is not on the floor, that
come on, This is silly.
Speaker 10 (22:19):
So but you're saying that because Caitlin Clark is so
important to her team that she's the Rookie of the Year.
And what I'm saying is is that it's very similar
how important each is, and I still think we have
room to go. I would like to say how these
two perform against the top three teams, the Aces, the Liberty,
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and the Lynx, is how I judge them, because dude,
there's twelve teams in this league, and like three or
four of them you can just destroy. Atlanta's a joke,
like there's a few other teams that are just Dallas
as a joke, but the real when you're going against
John Quell Jones and Sabrina I and Escu and Brianna Stewart,
you're going up against Asia Wilson and Jackie young A,
(23:02):
Kelsey Plumb, whoever comes down the stretch. I'm going to vote,
just like, oh, I don't have a vote. I wish
I had a vote, but like I voted for SGA
because the SGA's team had the better record at the
end of the year, and so I want to see
who gets that eighth playoff spot.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Okay, did you do this with Victor Wemba Yama? Did you?
Speaker 10 (23:18):
Did you I vote Victor a defensive Player of the Year.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Well no, but did you did you judge him in
accordance to how he did against Joe el Embiid, Jannis
and the Joker? And the answer is no, you didn't.
But you're doing that right now with these two players.
We're creating an argument.
Speaker 10 (23:36):
We didn't have any We didn't have an even race
in the NBA. A chet was never a realistic rookie
the year.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
I know, but you didn't do this. You didn't factor
in the Spurs record. People are factoring in the better
record between Caitlin Clark and Angel Reis.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
We don't do the lease.
Speaker 10 (23:52):
This is everyone loves to say this.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
This is Mark Gasol versus Derrick Rose.
Speaker 10 (23:57):
Let's say it.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
This is Mark Gasol and Derek Rose. Yes, I said it.
Speaker 10 (24:03):
Have you watched a Chicago Sky game or have you
just seen the memes online of her like catching like
three remounts in.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
A linn Why didn't you watch your mouth here? And
you called me dude, Yes, I watch, yes, Okay.
Speaker 10 (24:17):
I gotta look carried away as you could tell. I
get very emotional about this.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
Were you drinking last night?
Speaker 10 (24:23):
No, I was on a flight back from vacas. Okay,
I was. I chucked you bottles of water and I
had eight packs of vegan gummy bears.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
He is, oh you did gummies?
Speaker 11 (24:33):
Well damn.
Speaker 10 (24:35):
Now it's a flight. It's a flight.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Adam Lefko NBA on TNT. Is the NBA still going
to be on TNT?
Speaker 10 (24:45):
Man? I hope? So it's I mean, I'm watching Barkley
doing interviews from Tahoe. Yeah, you know, and I will
say this, what what were you gonna say?
Speaker 3 (24:55):
That's dangerous? Barkley doing interviews in Tahoe.
Speaker 10 (24:59):
Yeah. Oh, just make sure we're good, and we're good. Okay,
I'm gonna stand here. Okay, wife is going to the bathroom.
It really hit me. What really hit me when I
was watching Barkley's recent thing because he's always talking about
the people of TNT, and that is what I keep
thinking about now, is like the hundreds of people that
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you know, everyone at home is like, oh, this is
gonna be so inconvenient, Like it's so hard to switch
from one streamer to another streamer. You know, what does
this mean for League pass? And I'm thinking about like
the fact that we all use photoshop today and there's
a guy at TNT named Alex who's been there for
like decades and he's the guy that invented putting Charles
Barkley's head on something else. Like, think about how ahead
(25:44):
of its time that was. And now that guy who
like is a friend of all of us. I'm like, man,
I really hope Alex is okay. And so I also
think it's gonna be very interesting to have one last
year with Charles bike Barkley with an open mic. If
that happens. I had hoped there was going to be
like a fourth smaller package. I hope that they can match.
(26:06):
But this sounds way above my pay grade in a
lot of forms.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
Do you think Charles is to retire?
Speaker 9 (26:17):
Man for me? Want shame on me?
Speaker 10 (26:20):
Follow me twice, shame on you for me three times.
I'm an idiot, so I don't. I was reading about
George Washington.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Dan, do you not want to answer this? Is that
what you're doing? You're reading about George Washington.
Speaker 10 (26:32):
Well, because when they knocked off the British Big Upset
sixteen over one, they all went around and they were
like who should be president? And George Washington was like
not me, not interested, and everybody was like we gotta
make it George, he doesn't want it, and I kind
of think that's what Barkley does. Barkley does like the
George Washington thing where he's like, too bad, I'm not
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going to be here and everyone's like, we need to
get him right now. So Charles is kind of like
the George Washington this sewards broadcast.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Okay, that's not a comp that I thought I was
going to get.
Speaker 9 (27:06):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
The team that the country that makes you nervous with
Team USA is USA.
Speaker 10 (27:14):
They're the only team that's beaten this team because you
know when like right now, we're like, man, this team
is so deep. This second unit could beat Canada like
that was like other than the first quarter with all
the turnovers. It didn't even look the same. But then
you start wondering, man, if we need to throw in
certain guys for a matchup and they're cooled off the bench,
are they going to be Okay, this team should beat anybody. Mbat.
(27:39):
It was very interesting watching him trying to draw fouls
and realizing very quickly this is not a format for that.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
Adam. He fouled out in like eleven minutes.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Yeah, and you only get five fouls in you know
Olympic play nine six, Can you just worry.
Speaker 10 (27:55):
Because like, is Anthony Davis good enough?
Speaker 8 (27:58):
They?
Speaker 2 (27:59):
I would have Cooper Flag just waiting, you know, just
put him in the in the locker room, just in
case I might say to it, Embiid, why didn't you
do what Kawhi did?
Speaker 3 (28:08):
And why didn't you go back home?
Speaker 10 (28:11):
As a six Ers fan. I'm not against that.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
Of course you're look rested up.
Speaker 10 (28:14):
But I'm also hoping that Embiid, Like because after I
watched the stuff about the Redeemed team, and you hear
the stories of Lebron and Wade watching Kobe and they're
coming back from the club at four am and they're
in the elevator and he's going to the practice court
at four am, and you hear that, You're like, oh,
that ushered in the next wave of great basketball. That's
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what we hope, Like, we hope that Anthony Edwards comes
back and truly knows how to lead to a championship
after this experience, or a Halliburton or any of the
young players. I'm also noticing, though, man, love Kaitlin Clark,
you just you're threw in Cooper Flag a Kaitlin Clark
Cooper Flag twenty twenty four presidential ticket doesn't have a chance.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Last name is Flag? I mean, come on, red, very
white and Duke blue.
Speaker 10 (29:08):
Have we come up with a name yet for the
tanking for Cooper?
Speaker 7 (29:13):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Yeah it was. When did they say Seaton?
Speaker 10 (29:16):
So like poo poop for like poop.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
For coopop for Coop. Yeah, yeah, that's a good one.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
I'll leave you with this. Jalen Brown is not on
the Olympic team because.
Speaker 10 (29:28):
I really the Nike stuff is interesting. I just want
to paint this picture. This is the highest paid player
in the NBA that won the Eastern Conference Finals MVP,
the World Finals MVP. Even when the game was over,
they put a camera in Jason Tatum's face, who came
out with three different slogans. They're rarely showing Jalen Brown
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in the crowd. They get introduced at Fenway and Jalen
Brown walks out with Jason Tatum like this really should
be the summer of Jalen Brown and where not giving
it to him. This is a person that when he
signed a contract, unlike just giving money away, is building
bridge programs in the city of Boston to help underserved youth.
He was on the front lines when they were in
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the bubble. Who was the most outspoken person trying to
fight for civil rights? It was this guy, Jalen Brown.
When the Big Three in ice Cube was like, I'm
not getting enough attention, Jalen Brown's like, I will be
the only NBA player to come and support you. And
then we're like, man, we lost a defensive star small forward,
that's his position, and I for Steven A. Smith to
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go out there and just keep questioning this man's character
when he is the least blemish guy in the entire
NBA who's done everything perfect and finally reaches the summit
and we're still like, man, can't believe he's being selfish
and won't let Derek White just make it to the
team you take Some would say the fourth best player
on his team, on his own team. It's just crazy.
(30:59):
This is the same he was drafted at twenty sixteen.
People were like he might be too smart for the NBA,
went to cal Berkeley, and so this guy is sitting
there and Stephen as like, and this is the reason
you're not marketable. Where what are we in this world?
Jalen Brown has every right right now to be like,
you guys are crazy. At the same point, he's making
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sixty million dollars a year and has a title and
he's dating like the now, I'm not going to say that,
but what the hell are we doing? This is crazy?
Speaker 3 (31:30):
How about?
Speaker 2 (31:31):
I was kind of listening to you, but I was
also thinking of mottos for teams with Cooper. Flag right,
gag for flag, love.
Speaker 10 (31:40):
It, sag for flag. Paul Is chat gpt this the
other day and they were coming home some good ones.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
PAULI says, lolly gag for flag.
Speaker 10 (31:50):
See, that's just not a phrase we use anymore.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
Okay, gag for flag.
Speaker 10 (31:54):
That's a little bit too much. I didn't this kind
of sexual.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Okay, I'm just telling you the truth.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
Time to wrap it up here, time.
Speaker 10 (32:05):
Yeah, that's okay. Hold on, So fail for flag, drag
for flag, lag for flag, sag for flag bag the flag.
I also like flatline for flag, crash for Cooper, flop
for flag, pay for Cooper. And I didn't realize that
Cooper had a twin brother. So you have a built
in the NASA Santa Takupo element, which is really cool.
(32:26):
Do you have to take his twin brother? Is this
a brook Lopez.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
Blake or like, what are the Lopez Robin Robin Robin.
Speaker 10 (32:38):
See, we knew who he was because his name was
Robin's built into the relationship.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
It's it's been fun to talk to you and thank
you once again. Very difficult to book Adam Lefko today.
Speaker 10 (32:48):
What's your what's the question you're most excited to ask Paul?
Speaker 3 (32:54):
I'm not going to tell you, Okay, but don't put it.
Speaker 10 (32:59):
On put on the Paul. Does Dan actually have questions
for Paul's He's just going to make it up on
the fly and wing it.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
I make it up on the fly and I wing it.
Speaker 10 (33:10):
I love you, Uh Todd again? Congratulations Todd.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
Yeah, you were a tweet.
Speaker 10 (33:17):
They were like Todd killed it today there's no bad
mouthing a Todd on Twitter Tonics. Nice to get a
little love.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
It's all the other days when they killed Todd for
not killing it.
Speaker 10 (33:28):
And just laugh every day like these guys.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Are killing we're killing it, We're killing it. Thank you,
Thank you, Adam. That's Adam Lefko, popular host on NBA
on TNT, also a co host with a Shack on
his big podcast There All right, let me take a break. Well,
come back after this, we'll hear from Dion Sanders, and
we're gonna look at where we were last year in
(33:53):
sports and everything that unfolded and all these things that
you couldn't have scripted.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
So I have that for you coming out.
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six shutouts in baseball on Thursday, and that ties the
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most in one day this season. One of those shutouts
the Pirates, led by Paul Skeins over Milwaukee, and Paul
Joins has now struck out eleven and seven no hit innings.
How's the arm today?
Speaker 3 (34:48):
A little sore.
Speaker 9 (34:49):
I've moved it around too much, but yeah, it's.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
A little sore. But how normal is that?
Speaker 9 (34:55):
That's normal? Yeah? Every time I pitched, just you know,
little stiffness, a little soreness, but I mean that's kind of
how it goes.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
How is your bullpen session before you started yesterday?
Speaker 9 (35:07):
It was good. I had to it took a little
bit to loosen up. I think the day games will
get you sometimes so, but it was a good bullpen,
probably one of the better better ones this year.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
Is that always an indicator because some pitchers will say
I was terrible in the bullpen, and then I got
on the mount and I was lights out.
Speaker 9 (35:24):
Yeah, I will say having a terrible bullpen seems to
be a good thing. Sometimes you get all the bad
pitches out of the way before you then you go
out there and just pitch. But sometimes it's a good
thing to have a good bullpen before the game too.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
All Right, when did you realize you had something special yesterday?
Speaker 9 (35:42):
Probably after the game, to be honest, In the moment,
it was just kind of going out there and competing
and executing, executing the game plan. But yeah, in the moment,
I wasn't too caught up in it.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
When you go into the dugout, you just completed the
seventh what's the conversation you're having or is there a
conversation you're having with your manager.
Speaker 9 (36:05):
Yeah, I mean I was talking with with our pitching
coach and our game planning coordinator more than more than Shelter,
our manager, but just kind of telling them how I
was feeling, and and you know what I thought about
the hitters, you know, going to the next inning, and
I wasn't really expecting to go back out for the
eighth in general, So it wasn't at all a surprise
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when when they pulled me.
Speaker 3 (36:29):
You realized you had a no hitter.
Speaker 13 (36:31):
I did.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
Yeah, if you had a perfect game, poll, would you
have fought to go back out?
Speaker 3 (36:40):
Probably?
Speaker 9 (36:42):
I think just just the way that I am. I think,
going all the way back to high school and then
in college too, like you don't if you get pulled,
you get pulled, you're not you're not talking. You're not
talking yourself back into the game. And so that's something
that I think I'm getting used to a little bit,
is we have a little bit more pull here than
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I've had in the past. So maybe going forward I
will start to fight. But that's kind of just not
how I not how I do it.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
I guess, well, I wondered about that because you're a rookie,
so you got to be like, what am I allowed
to do as a rookie and not allowed to do?
Speaker 3 (37:22):
You know?
Speaker 2 (37:22):
Does my manager want me to fight to go back
out there? I don't know if you have those range
of emotions thereof am I allowed to say anything here?
Speaker 9 (37:32):
Yeah? And I think it's happened a couple of times
already this year, where you know, he tells me I'm
out of the game, not just here, but also in
ta A two. You know, he tells me I'm out
of the game, and and then he comes up to
me after the game and he's like, well, I was
expecting you to fight a little bit more. And next
time I think you should fight a little bit. And
I'm like, well, you're my manager, You're you're not supposed
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to be advocating for me to fight against it. But uh,
I mean it's a little different.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
How important is is velocity when you're pitching, When you
see something on the gun where I think you had
to pitch one oh two point six or your sinker
was ninety seven? Like are those what kind of indicators
are those for you that you can use in a game?
Speaker 9 (38:15):
If any it's it's really good and a lot of
the stadiums have metrics on the scoreboard too now that
show exactly how your pitches are moving, and and that
that stuff can only help pitchers. I feel like, because
it gives them a it gives us. It gives us
a better indicator of where we are, you know, if
our fastballs flatter, if our you know, my sinker is
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running more, my slider has more more sweep on it
than normal than it gives, gives me a better indication
of how to use those pitches and where I need
to throw them to get you know, takes and swing
and miss and that kind of thing.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
When did you know you were great?
Speaker 9 (38:51):
I don't know if I am yet.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
The potential for being great, Yeah, I don't know. It
had to be one of those moments where you go, damn,
I'm pretty good.
Speaker 9 (39:04):
Maybe, uh, I think I think we we kind of
started to realize what we had a little bit in
college last year, you know, because I went to to
L s U from Air Force and I was I
was a good pitcher at Air Force, but it wasn't
It wasn't anything crazy, I don't think. And then got
got to L s U and and kind of grew
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into my body and learned how to pitch a little bit,
and then you know, started facing college hitters, SEC hitters
and that kind of thing, and and there there was
a little bit more noise around it too, so it changed,
it changed. It changed quick for me really once once
we got into the season at LSU. But that's you know,
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college college baseball and pro baseball are very very different things.
Speaker 3 (39:48):
Could you have stepped out of l s U right
into the major leagues?
Speaker 9 (39:54):
I don't know, especially looking over the past year, because
from LSU, I only had one fastball. Now I now
I have two fastballs, and just as a pitcher, it's
a lot easier to pitch with two fastballs than it
is one.
Speaker 3 (40:09):
Explain that. Explain the two fastballs.
Speaker 9 (40:12):
Yeah, basically, if they're if they're you know, if they're
sitting on heater and they know that it's going to
do this, and then they have to worry about the
breaking balls and that kind of thing. Uh, those are
very different things. But if you're throwing two, you know,
fastballs with somedillo and one of them does this and
one of them does this, you it's it's hard to
cover both of them. And so you know, swing and
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miss is one thing but also getting early contact and
and weak contact and ground balls and that kind of thing.
That's what a sinker, uh specifically is good for. That's
why a lot of guys throw sinkers and cutters and
four teams. A lot of guys have three fastballs now,
but I didn't have two fastballs when I was at LSU.
So that was something that came along after that that
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I you know, started working on when I got to
pro ball, and but that I think that's the one
thing that has made the transition a lot easier for me,
is just having too fast balls.
Speaker 2 (41:08):
He's Paul Schemes, the Pirates pitcher and on the All
Star team. Did you know, like, are you pitching? Have
you heard anything? If you're pitching in the All Star Game?
That's the plan I'm lined up to do it. That
The you know, the convenient thing about that as I
pitched on a Thursday and the All Star Games on Tuesday,
so that would be a you know, four days rest,
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which I haven't done in the big leagues this year,
but I did it in Triple A a couple of times,
so that that which is normal rest for a starting
pitcher for the most part. So the plan the plan
is definitely to throw in the All Star Game.
Speaker 3 (41:45):
Where's your power come from from my lower half?
Speaker 9 (41:48):
I put one thing on it, but I think I
think just being strong in the lower half.
Speaker 2 (41:54):
And then but explain that though to parents or younger
kids who like growing up. I always thought, I mean,
you're throwing with your arm. But you see some of
these guys lower body, especially pitchers. You know Verlander and
Nolan Ryan, and you know all of these guys who
are power pitchers. But explain how you use your lower
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body to create that power.
Speaker 9 (42:17):
Yeah, I think having lower body strength is one thing,
and lower body power is one thing. And you can
lift a lot of weight and you can, you know,
do all that, but then you know you have that,
and then the sequencing comes into play about how your
lower body is moving in comparison to your upper body,
making sure that it's all timed up because they're you know,
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you can you look at bodybuilders and that kind of thing,
and they can, you know, lift a lot of weight,
but they can't sequence their body to throw a baseball
correct And that that's a that's an extreme example, but
that's kind of the way I think about it. And
then you look at guys that are, you know, super skinny,
and if I had to guess, they probably can't put
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up four hundred pounds in a back squad, and they
can still throw a hundred just because they they have
good power output and they sequence their body up right
and everything kind of falls into place.
Speaker 2 (43:16):
You're kind of like a scientist here. I try to
be like, are you fascinated with the science of of
all of this?
Speaker 9 (43:23):
Yeah, I mean I think you can run yourself into
a hole with some of that, and and some guys
do with like, you know, you just go down to
too much of a rabbit hole thinking about that kind
of thing. So I try to find the medium there
of you know, the science of it and then actually
going out there and competing. But everything matters for sure,
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and I think the I've been I've been super blessed
to have a lot of coaches over the past, you know,
a few years who have helped me with my development
and pitching and allowed me to figure it out a
little bit on my own as well as you know,
providing me some directions. So I think I know where
to look and what to look at and what to
not look at.
Speaker 2 (44:08):
Just as importantly, what was it like April eighth, twenty eighteen.
When you go watch show Heyo Tani pitch.
Speaker 9 (44:18):
You got the actual date? Huh, yeah that was what
was that? His first? Yeah, home start? Yeah? Uh, it
was cool. And so I think we got the tickets
because Matt Chapman was on the A's and he was
playing against him, and so he got him through our
our high school coach.
Speaker 3 (44:38):
He struck out twelve in that game.
Speaker 9 (44:40):
Yeah, And I remember guys were, you know, swinging at
splitters that are bouncing on the grass and he's throwing
a hundred and and it was just it was it
was cool. And I'm watching it from the stands and
but it is. It is cool to watch the games
from the dock.
Speaker 10 (44:56):
Do you want to be?
Speaker 3 (44:57):
Do you?
Speaker 9 (44:58):
Do you want to?
Speaker 3 (44:58):
I mean, you're you how much do you miss hitting?
Speaker 9 (45:01):
I miss it, but I don't miss how my body
felt when I was hitting. In pitching and the amount
of work that you have to do to stay on
the field and stay healthy, it's a lot which you know,
all the power to show to do that every single day.
That's unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (45:20):
He's Paul Skin's the fourth pitcher since eighteen ninety three
to record zero hits and ten strikeouts in multiple outings
in a single season.
Speaker 3 (45:29):
He's six and zero. ERA is one point nine to zero.
Speaker 12 (45:33):
Yes, Ton, We've just received a call from Arizona Diamondbacks
manager Tory Lavello wanted to check in with you and
Paul Night.
Speaker 2 (45:42):
Well, Toy's the National League All Star manager. Hey, what's up?
Speaker 10 (45:48):
What's up?
Speaker 11 (45:48):
Dan? How are you doing this morning?
Speaker 10 (45:50):
Good?
Speaker 9 (45:50):
Good?
Speaker 3 (45:51):
I'm conducting an interview here. What's going on?
Speaker 11 (45:54):
Yeah, well, I look at I thought it was my
time to just butt in on a really special moment.
I could see you guys are having your your special time.
But Paul, first of all, how are you doing? I
just wanted to, uh, congratulate you. I've chosen you to
be the starter for the Nationally and the twenty twenty
four All Star Game. I'm really really excited for you.
So unbelievable honor and one that's so.
Speaker 3 (46:14):
Well, thank you sir.
Speaker 9 (46:20):
That's that's unbelievable. That's awesome.
Speaker 11 (46:23):
Yeah, like I said, so well deserved. And we're we're
super excited to make this announcement. And uh, you know,
you represent so many great things that this game, this
game craves, you know, it's it's such a great story.
The way you've come on the scene scene, the way
you've done done it with such humbleness. It's it's noticeable.
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And uh, you know, I'll be honored to be your manager,
and I'm gonna be honored to be watching you throw
your first pitch. Super excited about that.
Speaker 2 (46:53):
Are you accepting this, Paul? Okay, I just wanted to
make sure we got to get it official here, Toy.
Speaker 3 (46:59):
Is Paul on a pitch count?
Speaker 9 (47:04):
You know, Well, we'll see what's going on.
Speaker 10 (47:06):
Yet, we got to leven.
Speaker 11 (47:07):
Pictures to get through. So listen, Dad, that's a tough
question for me right now, but we got to love
of guys get through. Paul's getting He's gonna throw up
a big zero there the first day for us and
we'll take it from there.
Speaker 2 (47:17):
It's awesome you called in. Thank you, Toy, Thank you
very much, thank you.
Speaker 3 (47:24):
Well, how about that?
Speaker 9 (47:27):
That's cool? That's really cool. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (47:31):
Do you ever get really excited like crazy, like that's
a big deal. You're you're starting the All Star game?
You want to tell your parents? You want to call
any money right now?
Speaker 9 (47:40):
Yeah? I think my parents are watching the show right now.
But so but you know, I'll give him a call after. Yeah,
that that's cool. Uh, And I'll probably get more excited
leading up to the game, hopefully I have a full
night sleep before. But yeah, I haven't. I haven't put
much thought into it because I've been getting asked about
a little little bit, you know, the past few days,
(48:02):
and I haven't given much much thought into it just
because I had, you know, the game yesterday obviously too,
So now I can focus my attention on that. And
that's pretty dang cool.
Speaker 3 (48:14):
Who you looking forward to facing that first hitting?
Speaker 9 (48:17):
Oh man, I can't put one guy above the others
because you Yeah, I'm guessing it's gonna be Henderson, Soto
and Judge. So they're all pretty dang good players. So,
you know, just folks on getting.
Speaker 2 (48:34):
Them out of you know what, You're not this flustered.
You don't get flustered when you're on the mound. You're
flustered right now.
Speaker 9 (48:41):
It's a yeah, that was a surprise. Yeah, I wasn't
expecting that.
Speaker 2 (48:46):
Well, we say all over to your parents and congratulations
to them, because behind every great athlete or great parents
who helped you along the way. So congrats. It's a
great moment here and uh hope many more for you.
Speaker 9 (49:00):
Yeah, thank you very much, really cool. Thanks for being
able to share it with me.
Speaker 2 (49:04):
Yes, we'll always have this, Paul, Yes, sir, Yes we
did it. We got you on the All Star team.
It's the starting pitcher. Thanks, thank you, Bud. Paul Skeans,
all right, let's go.
Speaker 3 (49:19):
We'll always have this.
Speaker 2 (49:24):
You know, that's one of those where somebody's out of
their element when they're being interviewed. If he was on
the mound and I'm at the plate, I would be acting,
you know, probably like he was acting with I don't know. Yeah,
it's awesome. Mom and dad, congratulations as well. That's that's
a great, great honor and well deserving.
Speaker 3 (49:44):
Yes, Paul.
Speaker 4 (49:44):
Yeah, if you couldn't see that, the first ten minutes
you and Paul Skeens, you're discussing baseball, nuts and balls.
He's like a scientist walking you through it. And then
when he sees that it's the manager of the Diamondbacks,
he kind of has this what's going on here?
Speaker 5 (49:56):
Face is great?
Speaker 2 (49:59):
Todd, good job, and thank you to MLB because I
just said, you know, Todd asked them if they if
they're going to announce it, do they have a press conference.
If they don't, can they join us? And I'd love
for Toy and Tory, thank you great Sport to be
able to take time to join us because I wasn't sure.
Speaker 3 (50:18):
And then Todd goes, uh, Tory Leavello's on the phone.
He's got to get ready.
Speaker 10 (50:22):
They're hosting the Blue Jay side.
Speaker 5 (50:24):
That's not the All Star.
Speaker 10 (50:24):
We just yeah, he's got stuff to still do for
the week.
Speaker 2 (50:26):
Yes, And then I put it together. It's like, oh,
I nationally goal star manager. Oh all right, so thank you.
Speaker 3 (50:34):
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (50:34):
Yeah, I know we should single out just that. When
I when I when I tell him, and then his reaction.
Speaker 3 (50:41):
Is, that's awesome. Working on the shirt, that's awesome.
Speaker 13 (50:47):
Hey yeah, nice destroying the hotel room that he was
in those I think Paul's still watching here.
Speaker 2 (51:00):
I can see him on zoom here. Call your mom,
call your parents, bring bring his audio back up, bring
his audio Paul, Are you just hanging out with us?
Speaker 6 (51:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (51:14):
Guys, I didn't. I didn't know if if you were
done with we're.
Speaker 3 (51:18):
Done with you.
Speaker 1 (51:19):
Yeah that was you.
Speaker 2 (51:22):
Went seven innings. All right, it's time to pull you.
You're done, You're done with your interview. And by the way,
we have our trigger grills fired up. I believe you're
a trigger grill guy.
Speaker 9 (51:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (51:35):
Yeah, so we got hamburgers there on the trigger grill.
You're officially done. Okay, all right, the man.
Speaker 3 (51:44):
I love that guy. He was a hysterical you want
to go back, so sorry, I know that, all right,
he's the best. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (51:53):
All of a sudden I look over at the monitor,
I go, wait, oh, he's listening.
Speaker 3 (51:59):
And then he was just laughing, and I go, oh, all right,
we'll bring it back. That's great.
Speaker 2 (52:04):
The round of applause there for MLB for helping us,
and Time did a great job.
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Dan Patrick
Patrick "Seton" O'Connor
Paul Pabst
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