The Dodgers Killed The American Dream

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, I've mentioned it a couple of times here. It
is Los Angeles Doddriers manager Dave Roberts committing a crime
against baseball last night, pulled his ace pitcher, Clayton Kershaw
from the game with a perfect game through seven. Has
anybody ever done that before? It happens now and again.

(00:21):
So he was six outs away from a perfect game,
that is correct, nobody had reached base and they pulled
him pitch count you know, well, he was up to
his pitch count. H It's crazy. It's pointed out by
Albert Berneko in his Defector blog, which is about baseball,
among other things. There have been only twenty three perfect

(00:42):
games in the onety five year history of Major League Baseball,
and Kershaw was seven nights of the way there to
recording the twenty four. He's thirty four years old. The
odds against him ever getting that close to perfection again
are like the odds that the same individual grain of
sand will fly into your eye on two different occasions,
on two different continents, not allowing that performance to end

(01:03):
on its own terms. Either, with the completion of what
was shaping up to be one of the greatest pitching
performances in the history of baseball, or with a twin,
reaching base is a horror, an abomination. It is like cannibalism.
And then he rates and no, my beliefs on this
matter will not be swayed by the fact that Kershaw
himself agreed with his manager's decision to remove him from
the kid. He did he did? Did he be or

(01:25):
did he feel like he should? I don't know, but
I will say this to both Dave Roberts and Clayton Kershaw.
I would like to fight you. I would like to
fight There's no way. There's no way as a as
a professional athlete on the cusp of doing the greatest
thing that that's the sort of thing you've been dreaming

(01:47):
up since you're nine years old. If you're him, there's
no way he thought that was a good idea to
come out. No way. I don't believe it. Well, I know,
I know, but that maybe he's that cold blooded and
just thanks. Well, I just want to keep my career going,
making millions of dollars a year. I don't want to sick. Well,
that's why I don't want to fight him. And listen,
he's an elite athlete in his thirties, all right, I'm

(02:08):
a Doughey guy, well into my fifties, of the arthritist
the rest of it. But here I will fight him
because as he pummels me, there's a chance that he
will hurt his hand, and that would be striking a
blow enough for me throw his shoulder out. Yes, Michael,
you have come and throwing a fit out of the mound.
If I was a pitcher just walked out there, You're

(02:28):
gonna have to call the police because I am not right.
If Clayton Kershaw had any cojones. So how did the
crowd react? Sick? How did the crowd react when they
realized it? I don't know. I wasn't there. Somebody, somebody
tried to come up with that, Alex. See if you
can come up with any sound okay, Well, if the
home game or away game, I don't know that either. Well,

(02:49):
as as a bit of a baseball freak, let's see,
that's a game against the Minnesota Twin. Although I don't
know if I was. If I was a fan of
either team as a as a big baseball fan, and
I see a reliever come out, I would have lost
my s right. But if it's the home crowd, that
would have they would have gone crazy. I think that

(03:12):
first of all, Hey, hey, hey, manager, you realize the
whole point of this. The whole point is to entertain people.
That's why you get paid a lot of money. It's
for the entertainment. And nothing is hardly more entertaining than
a perfect game. You get to say it for the
rest of your life that you saw a perfect game.
I'm stunned. I'm shocked. It says something about the modern

(03:32):
world baseball. I I am fully willing to embrace your
idea that this says something about the world about America.
It's just ah, that makes me ill. May I add
something to this, gentleman, This is not the first time
Dave Roberts has pulled somebody while they're throwing a perfect game. Yes, yes,

(03:56):
this bomb. He's no American. Compare this too. At During
World War Two era Greatest Generation era, Ted Williams, the
last man to hit four hundred, had a double header
on the final day of the season, and he had
enough hits through the first game to secure having hit
four hundred for the season, but he went ahead and

(04:16):
played the second game. He could have sat out the
second game to ensure that he hits four hundred for
the season, but he went ahead and played the second game,
got enough hits to stay above four hundred, but he
went out there and played risked it because you know what,
he's a freaking baseball player. He's gonna play as hard
as he could on the last game. That's a difference
of attitude from then to now. I hate this story

(04:37):
so much, you know. In a related story, I think,
and we'll talk about this more later. San Diego's biggest
high school there woke principle quietly secretly eliminated most of
the honors classes because of equity arguments. We can't have
a top students and not top students. All students should

(04:59):
have equity and end up equal. So eliminated the chance
for excellence. I hate, hate, hate, hate, hate this stuff.
We gotta clip Clayton Kershaw the picture saying something there.
As much as I would have wanted to do it,
I've I've thrown in the same game, you know, and
I hadn't gone six innings, let alone seven, And um,
sure I would have loved to do it, but um,

(05:21):
you know, maybe we get another chance. You know, Boo boo.
I don't like that attitude. I don't like that attitude
at all. That's not the attitude of striving for the
best and the joy of the game and entertaining people.
Boo boo, I had on hiss that sucks, And this
is a game in April. Well, it's a long season
and you gotta stay healthy for the playoffs and blah

(05:43):
blah blah. That's not what we want. I say again,
it is an abomination. It is like cannibalism, you know
what I mean. People have worried and now get getting
deep into sports talking, then I'll shut up about it.
But people have worried about this catching on with professional
sports for years. If the NBA wanted to do to
look at their season the way the Dodgers did last night,

(06:05):
you wouldn't have your stars play hardly ever, because you
only got to make it into the top half to
make the playoffs. Lebron James would play half the games, right,
All the stars would play half the games. If if
you're going to take that attitude, is that what you
want just for the best result possible, not to entertain
people are described for the best. Boom boom, you suck.

(06:27):
I get the businessman argument. No, I've got to protect
my resource Boom. I don't come to the ballpark or
turn on the TV for the businessman argument.