Watch Out for the Toronto Blue Jays

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Speaker 1 (00:23):
Gidding me.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Everybody walking the second half ourt doubleheader. We have professor
and people with Steve Raschell and I leading off. He asked,
pun intended tayball, why not leading off? But that said,
we had the second half of our doubleheader. Let me
introduce the crew and watch top of the Toronto Blue
Jays people because Katie, Emily and I had a chance
to see them on Saturday. We have a special treat

(00:46):
about the Blue Jays night, So stay with us, all right,
rom Roskill, I had great time on Friday night. Then
we watching summarize with what we were talking about that
night on MLB song.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
Yeah, we had a great Scott, you really did a
great job. Our other guests had some problems, technical difficulties,
couldn't make it, and you stole the show. We talked
everything MLB and it was just great. We had a
great time and our listeners loved it. They're still sending

(01:17):
me messages. I got a couple today. They can't wait
until Friday night.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
It work twelve for us, doesn't it, Skip, Yes, it
does on Friday night on it New York MLB Talks,
Rob and Chris are gonna allow Skip and I to
go ahead and promote our show Talk at Baseball, so
over those of you and I want to join us
ten o'clock pm Eastern time. We'll be there.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
They have Rob Chris, myself and my manager. Here we go,
and Jennifer Cobb one of my favorite people out there.
She's coming in on LinkedIn and I'll say she's one
of my favorite people out there. I'm missed Jen. Can't
wait to go ahead and bring out a show at
some point. I hope everything is going well so of
her and she has time. She used to be a
former Saint Louis Rams cheerleader. We actually ended up meeting

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on social media, brought her on a few shows. Thanks
Jen for being on. You are great, Jen. I really
miss your big time. Hopefully we'll get you on some point.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
There we go.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
So with that said, Andy, you know you. I guess
that you got out of Friday night was yours? Truly
didn't get any sleep that night.

Speaker 4 (02:23):
That's true. Huh, that's not anything new.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
Yeah, I miss you, Jen, I really do missya. She's
checking in by the way with us on LinkedIn. Great South,
John and George Iicorn Hello show that show was way
past her death time on a Friday night.

Speaker 5 (02:43):
But boy, oh yeah, I gotta go back and do
that one man. I heard some good things about that.
Anytime Old or City is out there talking about Detroit,
I'm all for.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
Him and me to day we're gonna get you out there.
But nevertheless, of glad to have you in the night.
We ushould get the manager once a week, no matter what.
So until you ultimately come on that Saturday show.

Speaker 6 (03:05):
With us, don't oh, don't worry, Scott.

Speaker 7 (03:08):
I'm as soon as as soon as this summer, as
soon as this summer concludes, you you got you got
me all in.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
Yeah, that sounds good. So how you doing Scott?

Speaker 2 (03:17):
Oh, Michael, thanks for chiming in tonight, my friend, hope
all is well with you as well. Never know, we're
still looking for quality basketball people out there, so if
anybody wants to apply for a basketball position let us know,
well we'll bring you on. And of course, my manager,
Mickey Callaway, I love this guy. I'm telling you that
he's one of my biggest acquisitions here. And my manager

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knows that we got a lot of things are working
on right right Skip.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
Yes, we do.

Speaker 8 (03:42):
We're very excited about it and there's gonna be a
big week for us, so you know, hopefully everybody can
tune in.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
Yeah, we're gonna have Jim Riggleman, former coach manager on
and Skip is working on some more guests, right Skip.

Speaker 8 (03:54):
Yes, sir, all right, without further away, a really good
lineup coming up.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
Well, I have no doubt as far as you're concerned,
we're going to come up with them. Between my resources
and yours, there's no doubt in my mind that we're
going to put together a lot of good people.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
And I'm excited about what I'm going to be doing
as well.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
All right, Well, you know we talk about the Toronto
Blue Jays night and I want to spend the central
thanks of the communications PR people who did an awesome job. Oh,
Michael Kant see shows volunteering to come on to the bay.
We'll have to talk and see how things are going.

Speaker 1 (04:27):
I don't know. I'm looking for quality.

Speaker 2 (04:29):
NBA applications are out there, so that your spot would
be on a Wednesday night, pal, so they expect everybody
when they come out on an NBA show to start
and finish and learn a little bit more about it.
We'll proceed from there. Spread the word. Michael, and I
would advise you to appear in the chat room as
often as I can so I don't forget about Yeah,
the more I see you, the better off I am.

Speaker 1 (04:48):
Thanks Michael for being on the night. Nonetheless.

Speaker 2 (04:51):
All right, well let's get back to what happened over
the weekend again. Special thanks to the Toronto Blue JAYSPR people.
Not only were they great last year when Candy and
I went up to the SkyDome, Rogers Center, whatever the
heck you want to call this play, and they allowed
me to connect with Donnie, but this time they really
did a hacted with job. When they contacted Candy, tell

(05:11):
him how all this came down, and we'll go from there,
because I know you're the one doing a lot of
the emails.

Speaker 4 (05:17):
So basically, we contacted them and wanted to interview Don Mattingly.
And he is not someone that just gives just anybody
an interview. He has some special few. But Scott was
on that special few list, so we contacted the meeting department.
They arranged for us to meet him down on the

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field before the game, next to the dugout.

Speaker 1 (05:45):
Oh got it worked out. One on one, Don and
I go back a long ways.

Speaker 2 (05:50):
We're gonna give you a piece of the Toronto Pie tonight,
and then we encourage everybody else to go out there
and watch it. Teck with time, we were scheduled between
eight and ten minutes down, so I can only give
you a nine.

Speaker 1 (06:00):
There you go, What do you aff do you think happens?

Speaker 2 (06:04):
I got it nine minutes on the button because I
prepared that hard for it. What are the odds are
having an episode right on nine minutes on the button
when we planned it all? It was an unbelievable show.
And then as time goes on, we'll put certain xs
surf tonight. This one's very impertinent. Let's talk about the
Toronto Blue Jays though, and then we'll get to the

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dom Anningly stuff. Just so you know, Boba shit did
break a Blue Jays franchise record with nine hits and
nine straight as bats. That to me is unbelievable. Row,
what are you talking about?

Speaker 1 (06:34):
Nine for nine?

Speaker 3 (06:36):
Nine for nine is amazing. I mean, what else am
I going to say about it? That's just an amazing feat.
How many times has that been done in Major League
Baseball history?

Speaker 1 (06:48):
Good point? All right, Candy.

Speaker 4 (06:50):
You know you see batting averages around two point fifty
three hundred. You're saying they're doing good three fifty, but
nine for nine, come on, that's unheard of. That's awesome.
Good job.

Speaker 1 (07:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (07:06):
Well, a few weeks back, maybe a month or so ago,
we talked about Caesar gucci Eras. He was seven for
seven extra innings for the Tigers. But boyle boy, he's
got this guy has got him beat the shat great, great, fat, great,
great football player. He's been a great ballplayer for years.

Speaker 1 (07:27):
Eric.

Speaker 6 (07:28):
I mean, nine for nine, that's kind of that's hard
to that's hard to do. I mean, in order to.

Speaker 7 (07:32):
Remain that keep that focused and be able to stay
be able to stay in the box that long and
still see the baseball at a beach ball, that's a
that's pretty impressive.

Speaker 6 (07:41):
He's always been a good hitter.

Speaker 7 (07:42):
I mean, it's nice to see that he's kind of
back to doing what he does best after an off
year last year. But and given that's going to be
a free agent year, he could probably he could probably
use that in negotiations.

Speaker 1 (07:53):
All right, Skip, you have the last word on this.

Speaker 8 (07:56):
Yeah, yeah, I mean when you get in that zone,
right and you're just playing the game care free and
everything's just clicking, those type of things tend to happen.

Speaker 1 (08:07):
They're very very rare.

Speaker 6 (08:08):
But to be able to.

Speaker 1 (08:09):
Go nine for nine, that is insane.

Speaker 8 (08:11):
Like everybody said, I love when those when those players
are in that zone. The odd thing to me is
how the opposing pitchers just kept on letting them go,
just let them get hit after hit after hit. If
I was the pitching coach on the opposing team, I
would have probably said, hey, let let's pitch around this

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guy a little bit and make him chase because you know,
those guys that are so locked in like that you
can throw any pitch you want and they're gonna barrel
it up, you know, and if they don't hit it
at somebody, nine for nine can happen.

Speaker 6 (08:46):
Super rare.

Speaker 8 (08:46):
But you know, those players that are able to do
something like that, there's that internal confidence and that free
swinging just you're your mind allows your body to do
what it wants when you're in that zone. You know

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what we might say, as a player, so what in
a special feat for him? And obviously it's something that's
gonna really get him going for the rest of the year.
I wouldn't be surprised if he doesn't just go off
for the rest of the year, including the playoffs, because
of that nine for nine stint.

Speaker 2 (09:26):
Yeah, I knew when I threw this out there, Iicorn
took the bait, and I knew he was gonna put
Caesar gouty Eras on there.

Speaker 1 (09:32):
We had to get that Detroit reference earlier. But don't
feel bad, I corner. There may be one or two
poundsun as well.

Speaker 2 (09:39):
We don't have my time on this show, but he
makes it sure that he gets his version of every
single show. All right, Well, let's talk about the Jays.
They won seventy four games in twenty twenty four. They're
curly at seventy six and in first place in the
American leagues. They had one hundred and fifty six home
runs in twenty twenty four and one hundred and fifty
home runths through one hundred and twenty seven and give

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it in twenty twenty five, Skiff, I'm telling you there
a much different team than they saw last year. By
the way, Manningly is the bench coach. So look that said,
I'm going to start off with my manager. Were were
talked about the turnaround going on in Toronto.

Speaker 8 (10:16):
Yeah, you know, you know, Scott, I think the first
show that we all did together that I was a
part of, at least, we talked a little bit about
Toronto and that they were kind of turning things around there,
and right I remember talking about the front office and
how they just stay the course.

Speaker 1 (10:32):
Right there.

Speaker 8 (10:33):
I guarantee you Ross Atkins and Mark Schapiro are doing
everything they can to support the players and give them
all the resources possible to succeed.

Speaker 6 (10:43):
And they've been patient.

Speaker 8 (10:44):
Right. They could have easily fired you know people in
the last two years or whatever, especially after last year
and cleaned house, and they didn't. They stayed the course
and it's paying off for them. And I think I
would love to see more baseball teams do this because
you have have to build a culture and then you
have to have a steady leadership that's going to go

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out there and know what's going on with the players.
And now it's it's paying dividends for them and hopefully
they win a World Series.

Speaker 1 (11:13):
I would love to see that, all right.

Speaker 7 (11:16):
Eric, Well, part of that too is, you know a
big reason for their success to spit because they've had
a lot of injuries this year too. I mean, people
forget about that, but part of that part of it
is is asim Barger. Asim Barger has developed into a
nice player for them, and he's been a big reason
for there on success.

Speaker 6 (11:31):
Obviously, you know, you can't count out vote Bow and
Vlad and all that.

Speaker 7 (11:34):
I'm not not counting them out because obviously they're they're
both a big part of the of the of the
Toronto Blue Jays, but ASTHM. Barger is really developed into
a nice to a nice player prob and more importantly,
they're playing team baseball. There is not one guy carrying
that offense. They're getting contributions up and down the lineup,
and you know, that's ultimately what it takes to win,
not just relying on just one guy to just consistently

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pound the baseball. And but you know the fact that
they're getting contributions up and down the lineup is big
for them.

Speaker 6 (12:00):
I know, John Schneider, you know, terrific manager.

Speaker 7 (12:02):
You know, he's proven that he can he can win,
and I think it's great to see that. You know,
Toronto opted to play the long game and just you know,
stay the course of what's going on and just attribute
it to just one bad year.

Speaker 6 (12:16):
And you know, but the fact that they're turning around
this year.

Speaker 7 (12:19):
You got to give Schneider credit though, I really do
believe that if Toronto can hold on and they ultimately
go to the postseason and perhaps whin the Al East,
you got to give Schneider the Manager of the Year
award because that division is not easy to navigate, Like
that's the that is, like, you know, that's a hard division,
especially with teams like the Yankees and the Red Sox.
And also you know, when Baltimore's relevant, when their young

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players are healthy and hitting, you know, that's another difficult team.

Speaker 6 (12:44):
So you got to give Schneider credit there.

Speaker 5 (12:47):
Okay, well ahead, George, Well Shane Bieber's back. That was
one of the highlights of the weekend series against the Marlins.
You know, it's been a long time coming, sixteen month absence.
So you just add these storylines on top of story lines.
You guys already talked about the hitters and all that.

(13:08):
George Springer, I love George, great hitter, but getting Beaver
back and getting him into that start, into that pitching rotation,
he did a great job. He struck out nine over
six innings in his return the other night, And uh,
and absolutely, I mean that that is a killer division
that has been for years. Don't forget about all the

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great Tampa teams as well. Uh you know, it's it's
a it's a killer. And I'll tell you what. The
blue Jays have stayed the course for a number of
years and haven't made the playoffs, but this sounds like
a really special year for the Blue Jays and their fans.

Speaker 1 (13:43):
Scott George bringer Wall, He's a heck of a player.
They have a lot of good players in there. I
saw this guy them up. Okay, we'll go ahead over
a Robin turn over the candy.

Speaker 3 (13:55):
I just I think the key was when they signed
Lad to their extension. I think everything just fell into place.
I think that was a big deal. I think everyone
got once that happened. I think everything just turned around.
And I think that's the biggest reason.

Speaker 1 (14:14):
Let's go to the chat room. TVK got agree with
Chris with the Yankees' favorite interfigure to win the Al
East after a year no one can honestly say they
saw Toronto comment.

Speaker 2 (14:25):
That's a great, great comment by TVK. It really has
dark horse potential for sure. I'll love comments like this, TVK,
thank you very much. That was just yeah, call him
a dark horse. All you have to do get in
the tournament, that's all the manaers and goes Toronto. But
they might be favorite in a wide open ailed and
in the postseason. This guy's on a role And I

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like TVK here on Rob's recommendation, gave y'all a sub
and and liked on the stream going to hang out
and watch the show.

Speaker 1 (14:53):
Much appreciated, TVK. You hang out with us. Never know,
maybe one of.

Speaker 2 (14:56):
These days are gonna bring you want to hang out
with us, great self, We appreciate your partipation. They're doing
a great thing. And by the way, before shore in
a candy great mind stake alike. I think the Vlatimeric
Guerrero signing definitely stabilized baseball in Toronto, which is what
they need. So Rob, g MG, a great mind stack
Like that's all I'm gonna say about the top of it.

Speaker 1 (15:14):
But Kendy's gonna finish it off.

Speaker 4 (15:19):
Hey, Toronto's playing really good ball. Let's face it, they're
what five games up on on the Yankees, they're five
and a half on. Let me just see I head
it up on the Red five. I'm sorry, there are
five games up on the Red Sox five and a
half up on the Yankees, twelve and a half on
the Rays, and fifteen and a half on the Oreos.

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That that division is tough. I mean that typically you
don't you don't always see the yank or the Blue
Jays up there. You always, you know, see the Yankees.
But they're playing good ball, they're they're hitting their stride
at the right time. They they're just having fun and
you can tell that they're having fun, and that makes

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a difference, you know, Yes, I mean it was. It
was good to see them. It was good to see
I haven't seen them in a while because, let's face it,
when growing up, the Brewers used to be in the
same division with them because they used to be in
the American League, so I used to see them a
lot more. And now that we're down here in Miami

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and the National League, we don't see him quite as much.
It is good, good, We got you want.

Speaker 1 (16:30):
To what's that picture?

Speaker 2 (16:35):
Yeah, once you put that picture up first, then we're
going to go to there you go. Now you have
Don Manning and I how about that?

Speaker 1 (16:41):
Not too bad? You have the one with Max in
the background. Now, oh yeah, he's.

Speaker 2 (16:51):
In the background. Okay, that's where my eyes are. So
there you have it, Johnny and I with a microphone
in from one of my favorite people. They are unbelievable stuff.
But that said, we'll continue to the arder with Don
and he's gonna talk about what he thinks he has
in Toronto.

Speaker 1 (17:06):
Go ahead, Candy, Okay, let me get there.

Speaker 9 (17:09):
Get it, scream, and we're going to go to right here,
Tody mad Mile show. Here in my I mean, I'm
here with baseball wifer Don Manning. Don, welcome to the show.

Speaker 5 (17:30):
Thank you.

Speaker 10 (17:31):
It's good to be here back in Miami and to
see you so glad to be on.

Speaker 1 (17:35):
Well, glad to have you. Sorry, let's we'll go out
there and talk about things in Toronto real quick. You
have a pretty good ball club.

Speaker 6 (17:42):
We do.

Speaker 10 (17:42):
We've we've kind of started off the year kind of
floating around five hundred and then seemed to catch fire.
We swept the Yankees in Toronto and from there we've
kind of taken off.

Speaker 1 (17:52):
How far do you think this ball call can go?

Speaker 10 (17:55):
Well, we believe we can go all the way. We
have a good combination of pitching. Our bullpen's been pretty good.
We're scoring runs. We played pretty good defense, and that's
a pretty good recipe for having a chance to be
just about anybody.

Speaker 1 (18:12):
There you go, that's what he thinks.

Speaker 2 (18:14):
I'll tell you, don Manning, you hadn't had a lot
of success in the postseason, but I'm gonna tell you
you've got a chance of something pretty good over the here.
So all right, Rob, some real quick thoughts on what
you heard from mister Manningley.

Speaker 3 (18:27):
I love I love the interview. I watched the whole thing.
It was great anytime listen. I love listening, even though
I'm a big Mets guy. Love listening to Donnie baseball.
But one thing I have to say, Chris, that kills
Chris Seeing Madden Lee in or Toronto Blue Jay uniform.

Speaker 5 (18:48):
That's prett you wrong. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (18:49):
See, well, Kadie, you heard it firsthand. So some recollections
of what you saw with my man.

Speaker 4 (18:58):
You know what, It's always good to see you Scott
in your element, because when you're one on one interviewing somebody,
you always you're in the moment, you like think on
the fly. It's just really cool and to see, you know,
when I talked to the PR guy about the interview afterwards,

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the PR guy goes you know, Don must really have,
must really be friends with Scott because there aren't very
many times that he grants interviews, and so he's he's like,
I was so happy that he did it, that he
granted it to you. I know when I told the
PR guy, I said, well, if you knew the background,

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Scott goes way back to the Fort Lauderdale Yankees with
the honey way back. And he's like, wow, he goes,
I guess I didn't realize how far back that relationship went.
And that's the one thing I'm going to say is
I've seen, more so in baseball than any of the
other sports, is that your relationships go long and deep

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and that they really hold true to form. So it
was great to see you. And if anybody hasn't seen
the whole interview, I mean it's only nine minutes long,
go check it out.

Speaker 5 (20:13):
George, good job, good job, Motor City mad Mouth. I'm
proud of you, and I know you, like Candy said,
you've got a great relationship with Don, going back all
the way to your Fort Lauderdale days.

Speaker 3 (20:25):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (20:26):
Keep in mind he also played for the Greensboro Hornets,
and as you look at that interview, everybody else tell
you about George Steinbrenner trading with his young players. I
won't give that one away, but it's between the Fort
Lauderdale Yankees and the Greensboro Hornets.

Speaker 1 (20:41):
That's unbelievable. So yeah, thanks George.

Speaker 5 (20:43):
That's great, that's great, good stuff.

Speaker 1 (20:45):
Glad to heck you, Cassie, you're muted.

Speaker 6 (20:51):
Cats Oh, I'm back, Yep.

Speaker 7 (20:53):
You can't go wrong with you can't go wrong with
a with an interview with the hit Man. I mean,
you know, obviously it's one, it's one of the best
there is with the fact that, no, but to be truthful,
Scott didn't surprise me you could get that interview because
it's because remember you're the same person who managed to
get Sammy Soso to remember you from the days when
you covered him in the minor leagues and made the
PR and told the PR lady to to get out

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of the way because he because he was because he
came over to you, and so so you know that
that part didn't surprise you. But you know, if don
you know, Don's you know, all class, great player. Obviously
he's doing great things in Toronto right now and you know,
hopefully continues for him. I know, it's killing me as
a Yankee fan seeing the blue Jay's doing well. But
you know, happy for don Happy to see that he's

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happy because I know he had a know it toward
the end there in Miami, he kind of had a
rough go of it. But nice to see that he's
kind of, you know, in a good situation.

Speaker 1 (21:42):
Now.

Speaker 2 (21:43):
So what do you think, Skip, you'll learned about me?
I think my manager is starting to see, Hey, my
tag team partner's got a lot from his bag of tricks.

Speaker 1 (21:51):
Does this convinced you more? Skip? I got a lot
more coming and you're just looking for it. To hang
out and see what we got.

Speaker 8 (21:57):
You were a lot easier on him than you were
on me.

Speaker 1 (22:00):
There's Scott, that was the beginning.

Speaker 8 (22:04):
It is, but it is Donnie Baseball, and he deserves
all the respect in the world. You know, he's one
of the greatest guys around. You know, he talks to everybody.
He's always even keeled no matter how things are going.
And I think that probably is a huge, huge presence
for you know, Schneider and the coaching staff there with
the players, right, he carries so much clout and just

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the way he handles himself is amazing and the players,
the players all love him.

Speaker 5 (22:33):
You know. I think that the most interesting thing.

Speaker 8 (22:35):
About what everybody said is baseball is such a unique sport.
Like you got to meet him when he was doing
minor league stuff, and.

Speaker 11 (22:46):
That is so unique to baseball.

Speaker 8 (22:48):
I've met so many members of the press and and
you know, guys that are calling games and umpires and
other players and other coaches during my mind league career
that end up, you know, you end up coaching with
them or playing with them in the big leagues, and
you have these special relationships. And that's what's so unique

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about baseball and so cool about baseball.

Speaker 1 (23:13):
See, Skipped, you know what, here's the thing just those
people want to know. On your first show at the
MotorCity Man Mile Show, you did a heck of a job.

Speaker 2 (23:21):
I told you it was going to be an easy
show at the beginning. But the only thing I liked
about you, Skip is you knew it going in. We're
going to make sure that you have an opportunity to
talk about certain things in the past, and you were outstanding.
How much more difficult does it got? Sinned you there?
I haven't been too bad, right, Skip, I mean, you
only have your own show, and you're on here every

(23:43):
Monday night and we're getting there getting easy, aren't they?

Speaker 1 (23:45):
Skiff?

Speaker 4 (23:48):
They think he's having some technical difficulties right now?

Speaker 1 (23:51):
You're there, Skip, Okay, there we go. If somebody was
calling me again, okay, one of those deals.

Speaker 2 (23:57):
Okay, So Skip, I have to ask, has it gotten
easier since that first show? All you did was get
your own cott pick and showing you come here Monday
night talking about anything you want.

Speaker 1 (24:07):
Yeah, it has.

Speaker 8 (24:08):
I mean, I'm really enjoying it, and I appreciate this opportunity.
It's great to sit on here with you guys and
uh just be able to talk baseball. You know, what,
what else are you going to do on a Monday night?

Speaker 1 (24:20):
You pass with fly colors? What are you talking about it?

Speaker 2 (24:23):
I'm I'm proud of my manager, and we got a
lot of stuff to work, you know, Don Manningley and
I go back.

Speaker 1 (24:28):
But I'll tell you it's not the only one. I got.
Brian Butterfield, Kevin ran part of and Rex Huntler.

Speaker 2 (24:37):
I mean those are people I got to know as well,
and that's all part of my relationship going back to
minor league baseball. Baseball is good for me. That's all
a lot of these relationships. These people don't forget you.
You may not see you for a few years before
once they say how you do it, It's like yesterday is.

Speaker 1 (24:53):
Really what it is? You think about it.

Speaker 11 (24:55):
It's the best.

Speaker 8 (24:56):
We have to get butter We'll have to get butter
on on Saturdays.

Speaker 6 (25:00):
Coach.

Speaker 1 (25:00):
You have his phone number.

Speaker 11 (25:01):
He is the greatest.

Speaker 1 (25:03):
You have his phone number.

Speaker 6 (25:03):
We love to come on.

Speaker 1 (25:04):
I bet I love it him on.

Speaker 11 (25:06):
I'll call him.

Speaker 1 (25:07):
We'll light it up.

Speaker 6 (25:08):
Yeah, coach with Buck Showalter with the Yankees.

Speaker 2 (25:13):
Brian, all right, skip, do you have a little homework
to get Brian Butterfield out. Let me go over a
little bit of other stuff about Don Manniglee. We have
other things I want to get to as well.

Speaker 1 (25:22):
Well. I won't give you a few fyis on Don Manningly. Okay.
He hits his fourth Grand Slam of the season, tying
Luke Garrig for the most by Yankee. This goes back
to July sixteenth, nineteen eighty seven, and that was one
side of the MLB mark.

Speaker 2 (25:43):
Now in a single season. On July seventeen, Don Manniglee
homers in the seventh consecutive game, first Gale player player
doing so, this guy comes with some cachet when it
comes to hitting the home runs. We all know that
his lifetime batting averages three to seven. Pretty good career,
and I encourage you to watch this. So, but when

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do you think about it? Fourth Grand Slam in one
year and then the guy homers in the seventh consecutive game.
Those are tough things to do, Scam, they really are. Mickey, Well, okay,
we'll come back to him, all right, we'll go back
to you. We'll go to you, Eric.

Speaker 6 (26:27):
I mean, I know about the home run streak that
that he had.

Speaker 7 (26:30):
It was like o'b seeing the time because he literally
had just come off the injury list at that point.

Speaker 6 (26:35):
That was when like the back issues like started.

Speaker 7 (26:37):
Now, they weren't quite they didn't quite flare up like
what they eventually became, but but it happened, but you know,
they were starting to happen. Next thing you know, he
comes off the il, hits homers and back to back game.

Speaker 6 (26:47):
The next thing you know, boom, he's just.

Speaker 7 (26:48):
Hitting the balls left and right, not just at the
short porch at Yankee Stadium, but he's going Apo Taco
with him as well.

Speaker 6 (26:53):
And it was.

Speaker 7 (26:54):
And the great thing about it was the year he
hit he hit all those Grand slams. He never hit
a Grand Slam again for the rest of his career. So,
you know, baseball is kind of weird like that.

Speaker 2 (27:02):
All right, we'll go back to my manager, let me
go over everything with you real quick, and we'll call
the in addition part of the show.

Speaker 1 (27:08):
So here, So here we go.

Speaker 2 (27:11):
So on July sixteenth of eighty seven, manically hits his
four Grand Slam of the season. Time Luke Garrick promost
May Yankee one side of the MLV mark in a
seatonal season. And if that isn't good enough, manally Homer's
in the seventh consecutive game, first Ale player to do it.

Speaker 1 (27:30):
That's not bad stuff, is it, Skiff.

Speaker 8 (27:33):
That's that's amazing. You know, we talked about it earlier.
When those guys getting those zones, they can they can
just ride that you know zone and that streak out
for a week or so and swing the bat really well.
So you know, I'm sure he was feeling the flow
and and enjoying playing those seven games. You know, when
you're when he was always a threat, Let's face it,

(27:55):
I mean, you just didn't want to be a pitcher
on the mound when when Donnie Baseball was. But you know,
when you start feeling that way at the plate, it's
just you know, something clicks and you do it uncomstantly.
You're not even thinking. You just go out there and
play the game. You're nice and loose. And what amazing

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numbers you just read off.

Speaker 1 (28:17):
That's that's.

Speaker 5 (28:21):
Thanks, Skip, okay, George, Yeah, yeah, he has some great accomplishments.
You know, the home run targets that you had mentioned, Scott,
and you know, fix grand slams in one season. That's phenomenal.
I mean, you know, he had some very very great
seasons as a Yankee as a batter, and obviously, you know,

(28:44):
still being considered for the Hall of Fame by the
Era Committee. But boil boy, yeah, I did not realize
that he had that six and one season, So appreciate
you bringing that up. Those slams and then of course
the uh, you know, the streak about heating and what
was it eight consecutive you know, the Yankee games. A
home run just just phenomenal. That's great stuff, man, Candy.

Speaker 4 (29:08):
You know, as I listened to all the different stats
you put up and I listened to him talk in
his interview about his playing days and we talk about
does he belong in the Hall or not, And the
one thing that keeps ringing through in my head was

(29:28):
him saying how his career was cut short by his
back injury. And I just wonder if he hadn't had that,
the injuries in his back and everything like that, how
much more would he have done? And then would there
be no doubt we would have put him in, you.

Speaker 1 (29:47):
Know, And so well, we'll save that candy for those
individuals that want to go ahead and watch it.

Speaker 2 (29:53):
But yeah, you're right, he's a very humble individual about
what could have been. Hopefully the Veteran Committee will be.

Speaker 1 (30:00):
But I'm with you all the way, and you were
there to watch it. So if anybody definitely you appreciate that,
and so be it. I appreciate where you're coming from.

Speaker 4 (30:11):
Yeah, I mean, I'm just saying that. You know, he
he had some impressive numbers, and I can only imagine
how many more impressive numbers he could have had in
his career.

Speaker 7 (30:23):
Yes, mister Eric, I'll tell you what though, Like his
last season in ninety five, when just before he was
about to go where he was about to say, about
to say the end. He carried the Yankees for the
last two months of the season and just had a
spectacular postseason, especially it was his final year and he
finally got in and you know, it's you know, and
the fact that he carried the Yankees that.

Speaker 6 (30:44):
Far, that's all fit that. That was a couple of
months alone.

Speaker 7 (30:47):
We're Hall of Fame worthy because he carries the Yankees
to the postseedson then the first he's practically unstoppable in
the postseason, he came, he came within a Edgar Martinez
RBI double away for potentially going to the alc Yes that.

Speaker 3 (31:00):
Yeah, mm hmm, yeah, Rob, Yeah, well, I you know,
I remember those games and his he was in the
zone when you watched him at bat during that period.
I mean any period, let's face it, don Mattingly, but
that period it was he just could not miss, and

(31:23):
it was he was just amazing. And and like Candy
said and everyone else, those back injuries. If he didn't
have those back injuries, he he definitely would be in
the Hall of Fame.

Speaker 11 (31:35):
I have no doubt about that.

Speaker 1 (31:39):
Okay, as he.

Speaker 7 (31:43):
Was also people, I mean, we talk about his bat
I mean, at one point he was more than likely
to hit a double then strike out. But we forget
though the guy's a nine time goal glover. The guy
could do it in the field as well. I mean,
as much as we rave about his bat, this guy
was like the best defensive first basement in the the
league probably probably throughout the nineteen eighties, I'd probably say

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him and Keith Hernandez were the premier defenders at that position.
I mean, you know, you couldn't go wrong with Picket
either of them. But you know, Matt, we people forget
Maduly won nine goal gloves, which that's hard to do
at that position.

Speaker 5 (32:17):
Heck, yeah it is. Wow.

Speaker 3 (32:20):
Yeah, listen, New York at that time had two gold
gloves first basements for the for you know, all those years.

Speaker 11 (32:28):
How could you beat that? And that's what the And
that was fun. It was fun because Mets fans would
go against Yankee fans who was the better first baseman, Madden,
Lee or Hernandez. And it was great. A lot of
great discussions.

Speaker 2 (32:42):
Okay, just a few fyi s would throw at everybody.
Number one at the game that we're at, Dalton Varshall
had a home run on Saturday, night and the Jays
flat to win over the Miami Maryland's another FYI out there.
The record since July fourth, Colorado Rocky, who were actually
a team that could have been going after Chicago's utility

(33:06):
record gone seventeen and twenty three, since the LAFE or
the LA Dodgers are sixteen and twenty three as well.

Speaker 1 (33:12):
I just thought, I get.

Speaker 2 (33:13):
Those pieces of information and we'll continue to move on.
This would be up, George Iicornsaley. On August twenty second,
nineteen seventy eight, Rond Lafloor blades his way into the
record books with his twenty seventh consecutive stolen base, a
seven to three win over the Minnesota clint It seems
like yesterday does that, George.

Speaker 5 (33:34):
But yeah, it sure does. It sure does. Ronnie Lafloor,
despite his problems off the field, was a hell of
a hell of a runner obviously, base runner, center field,
any outfield position. You know, they stuck him in his
career obviously wasn't as long as he would have liked.
But that's an amazing streak he did bring to Detroit.

(33:57):
That to mention that they had lacked for such a
long time, they really did and they're not. They're not
known for their basically these Tigers, even this year's or not.
But I'm just saying that Lafour was a great man.
Won in a million. They had that movie, they made
a made for TV movie on his career, and obviously

(34:17):
he had a tough upbringing with with the record that
he had and uh off the field. But yeah, that's
a that's a great feat. That's a wonderful feat, and
we will never forget that. Ronnie Laflour will never be
forgotten by Tiger fans.

Speaker 1 (34:31):
No, well, Eric, you're gonna go next anyway, so I
don't worry about to put your hand up now you.

Speaker 7 (34:35):
Can just I was gonna say though, Billy Martin was
the one who got him a work released from jail.
Of all people, Bill Billy was Detroit's manager, and before
that was kind of before he eventually made his made
his way to Texas and then and obviously New York,
where he had a very storied time there.

Speaker 6 (34:53):
To say the least five different.

Speaker 1 (34:54):
Times, do you want to have any more than the
LA Floor?

Speaker 6 (34:59):
I mean, I mean it wasn't a million.

Speaker 7 (35:01):
I mean, you know, from from where he came from,
he played Major League baseball for a little bit. It's
pretty amazing in the story how they found him. That
was even crazy, with Billy Martin literally going into the
jail and finding him.

Speaker 11 (35:12):
I remember, you know, I remember that movie that made
for TV movie that George brought up.

Speaker 1 (35:17):
When I was a kid.

Speaker 11 (35:18):
I watched it and I'll never forget that movie.

Speaker 3 (35:23):
You know, he was he was so fast too, You're right, George,
and the Tigers really haven't really been known for speed,
So yeah.

Speaker 6 (35:34):
They don't. They don't have many burners in Detroit.

Speaker 1 (35:37):
Anything else you want to add to that, rom.

Speaker 3 (35:40):
No, it's just that I I remember that time period,
and it is funny if Billy Martin got him got
him out.

Speaker 11 (35:48):
Yeah, I know it really was. But like I said,
I really I remember that movie well when I.

Speaker 5 (35:54):
Was a kid.

Speaker 4 (35:55):
Okay, Candy, not much more to add that that everybody
else hasn't already talked about.

Speaker 5 (36:02):
So yeah.

Speaker 4 (36:02):
I mean, you know, anytime movies remind you of real life,
it kind of reminds me. And I know this is
a baseball show, but kind of reminds me of the
replacements when the coach had to go get them out
of jail too, you know. So yeah, it's always it's
always good and fun to you know, reminisce and have

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movies remind us of real real times, as long as
it's you know, not real serious, let's.

Speaker 6 (36:32):
Put it that way.

Speaker 1 (36:35):
But all right, let's go ahead.

Speaker 4 (36:37):
You want me to do a station break, Scott, are
you good?

Speaker 2 (36:40):
Well, we'll go with one more topic and then we'll
go to a station break. Just you know, the Minnesota
Twins will not be sold, so four hundred million dollars
in debt. Robert here talks about the pact of Minnesota
Twins will be I don't know. I think they're gonna
be bringing on local investors anyways to help the full
lads out.

Speaker 1 (36:59):
Time.

Speaker 3 (37:00):
Yeah, they really it's a shame what's going on right
now with Minnesota. And you know, they unloaded everybody at
the trade deadline, so they have to do something because
they really were they were a great franchise right in
the eighties nineties, and you know, it's a shame what's
going on. And they if they could get local investors

(37:24):
or whatever they have to do, but something has.

Speaker 11 (37:26):
To be done.

Speaker 3 (37:27):
And you wouldn't want to see the Twins leave Minnesota, Oh,
no doubt about that.

Speaker 4 (37:33):
Candy as I affectionately call them the Twinkies. You know,
I just can't imagine the Twins moving out of Minnesota.
I just just shocking. And it's always surprising that they're
not more competitive, that they've gone really done, they've regressed

(37:57):
as badly as they have. That surprise to me too,
because I always remember them being up there and you know,
competing and heart competing hard. Now, the fact that they
had a fire sale as much as they did surprised me.
I mean, most teams, even if you even if you're

(38:18):
not doing well, and even when like Miami was doing
not well, you wouldn't see that many people in the
roster get moved or shifted. But if you need to
regroup and try and restart, this is this is That's
what they did. I mean that they have a complete
different roster, and it's just crazy to think.

Speaker 5 (38:43):
Okay, George, yeah, it is crazy to think. You're right, Candy,
and especially during the middle of the season. You know
you're doing that. You're doing it to your fans, who
your fan base. If I was there, I wouldn't be
happy right now. I mean, you know, the Twins are
like you had said earlier, they're a team that wasn't
contingent for a number of years, and and they handed

(39:05):
it to the Tigers back in eighty seven, you know,
when they played each other and that in that Showdown
series and then they went on to win it all.
You know then They've had some great players there in
their history. But I'll tell you what this this owner,
you know, this is a tough situation now, and it's
obviously a very tough sell. And like you said, Scott,
I think the answer is, you've got to get some

(39:26):
local supporters. You've got to get some people in there.
I'm sure Major League Baseball is concerned to try to
get some investors in there that'll keep baseball in the
Twin Cities. Because you hit it right, You nailed it, Candy,
that's it. That would be a shame for major League
Baseball to leave that that that Minneapolis Saint Paul Vicinity,
because that's rich in tradition, as we all know, dating

(39:47):
back to Calvin Griffith, one of the fellas that Scott interviewed,
I remember a long time ago. And you know, so anyways,
that's it. That's a great franchise. Let's keep it. Okay.

Speaker 7 (39:59):
Yeah, Well, first off, I strongly doubt they're gonna leave Minnesota.

Speaker 6 (40:03):
They've they've they wasn't that.

Speaker 7 (40:04):
Look, their ballpark now at target Field opened up in
twenty ten, so the ballpark is like fifteen years old
right now. So I strongly doubt they're gonna be going
anywhere anywhere anytime soon.

Speaker 6 (40:13):
They've never actually floated the idea of them possibly leaving.

Speaker 7 (40:16):
It's just never come up, especially because they decide to
twist the state of Minnesota's arm to give them public
funding to fund that, to fund that very that very
fancy ballpark, which I which for which I had the
good fortune of going to.

Speaker 6 (40:29):
I'm telling you, locals are mad.

Speaker 7 (40:31):
The locals are mad because you know, they were okay
with the fire sale first thing, and all right, it's
gonna be easier for them to sell a team the
new ownership comes in with a blank slate. But no,
they decide to pull out the last minute and decide
to anger the entire state.

Speaker 6 (40:45):
I mean, there's a reason they call them. The people
call them the cheap pull ads for a reason. They're
just you know, that's just what they are.

Speaker 7 (40:52):
And it's the same family that if people I don't
know if people remember, but the expos and the Twins
were up for contraction, meaning they were going to eliminate
those two teams, particularly the expos which had problem which
had problems all up and up and down there, up
and down their team. Several books and documentaries have been
have been made and written on that on that since then.

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But the Twins were having some problems at time with
their with the stadium when they're at the metro Dome
at the time, and and good and the pole Ads
were willing to take up to take a buyout and
let the team be contracted. That angered the state of Minnesota,
and it took a judge intervened saying you must play
out your lease at the Metrodome before you can even

(41:34):
think about doing anything. And then eventually about twenty ten,
they ended up getting They ended up getting the stadium.

Speaker 6 (41:39):
It's it's just been awful for them.

Speaker 7 (41:40):
I feel terrible for Twins fans that, you know, you
commence a fire sale with the intention of trying to sell. Yeah,
they got local investors on board, but they haven't really
named them who and how how deep their pockets are.

Speaker 6 (41:52):
But you know, shame on the pole Ads. They just
they're just in it for the money.

Speaker 7 (41:56):
I mean, Joe, there's a reason, you know, you know,
when you when you have an ownership fam when a
sibling takes over it, most of the time, it generally
doesn't go well, save for a few times here and there.
You know, if I'm them, you know, pay down the
dead's butcher. You can then sell it to somebody else
who actually cares. It's awful, It's terrible. I feel awful

(42:16):
for Twins fans that they're gonna have to endure was
most likely going to be a very long season in
twenty twenty six.

Speaker 2 (42:23):
Yeah, that's a shame too, because Pablo Lofez I thought
I'm glad they still kept him. Anyways, Ryan Differs will say,
really good solid catcher, and they have a few and
we know about fire and Punchton, but but at those
saying you have a fire sale of the mit like that,
it's a shame.

Speaker 1 (42:41):
I'll be cursed to a direction.

Speaker 6 (42:42):
They're definitely going, Joe, Ryan, Joe Ryan too.

Speaker 1 (42:45):
Yeah, Well that's a good point.

Speaker 2 (42:46):
So all right, we'll go on to one more topic
we're gonna do with the station break. We're hoping to
get Mickey Callawan for one more one or two more topics.
I real he's having some internet issues, but he'll be
ready to go Friday and Saturday for sure, we'll try
to get him on. So but that said, this year
will be Bob Carpenter's final season for the Washington Nationals.
Lot of people that know he also was with the
Saint Louis Cardinals. So Robin here talks about Bob Carpenter.

Speaker 11 (43:11):
Well, you know, he's great. You know, a lot of
people don't realize that he also did Met games on
TV for two years and he won an Emmy.

Speaker 3 (43:23):
He won an Emmy for Great Sports Casting in New York.
So you know, hey, he's a legend. He's one of
those broadcasters who's a legend who everyone knows. And you know,
it's great that he's been around so long and just
wish him, you know, great retirement. But yeah, I remember

(43:43):
when he did the Mets for a couple of years.

Speaker 1 (43:47):
George.

Speaker 5 (43:49):
Yeah, anytime we a great announcer like Bob Carpenter, you know,
we shed a little bit of a tear. And and
certainly he has had a great career, very distinct wishable
and you know, like you said that, you know, even
had some years there in New York. I think the
Carpenter probably, you know, he he's always going to be

(44:09):
remembered for for his call of games, no question about it.
These guys today now, sometimes they don't last very long,
and the teams, unfortunately, some of them only last a
few years, and teams, for whatever reason, make changes. But
Carpenter has done a great job. He's very knowledgeable on
this on the game of baseball. And I'm really going

(44:30):
to miss him, and I think a lot of people
will miss him heading into next season and beyond. But
that's a personal decision he wanted to make and move on,
and and certainly it's a tough decision for a broadcaster,
no question about it.

Speaker 7 (44:43):
Eric, I mean, Bob Cappenter, he's one of them. He's
one of the more more known names out in baseball.
And yeah, he was with the Cardinals. He was with
the Cardinals for a while and then and then eventually
he was he made it. He's moved to the Nationals now.
I know he has his own score book that that's
custom made for him that he actually he sells and
makes a significant amount of money on. And but you know,

(45:04):
it's uh, you know, he's been on TV for a while,
he's had a very long run on television. It's hard
nowadays with you know, with TVs these days, with you know,
with everything coming down to sponsors and money and all
and all that other good stuff. And he's also known
for doing you know, the he's called the NCAA tournament
six times, he's been out. He was one of the
early voices I think on ESPN. But it's you know,

(45:28):
you know, yeah, what a run. I mean, I'm sure
he's gone. I'm sure you know. Now it's time to
kind of uh kind of kind of look ahead and
see what's next to Guy's seventy two years old. So
you know, I know everybody, everybody wants to there's a
difference between wanting to be Scully and actually being Scully
where you're on TV until you're ninety five plus years old.
But you know, it's a it was a good run

(45:49):
for him. Obviously, he's going to uh, you know, he's
he's going to be missed. I'm sure sooner. I'm sure
he'll he'll be he'll get a he'll get the Frick
Award in the Hall of Fame very soon.

Speaker 1 (45:59):
Yeah, that for trick Award that Tack Awards didn't get it,
and there's no reason to think that he definitely deserves it,
all right, Candy.

Speaker 4 (46:07):
From seventy eight to eighty four, he called soccer games.
He's also called NC two A Basketball on CBS, as
well as college football and basketball games for USA Sports
and Major League Baseball for NBC. In addition to baseball
in college sports, he's called tennis the US Open in
ninety five, golf the Masters from eighty six to eighty

(46:31):
eight for USA Network. He's also called six NC two
A basketball tournaments for ESPN and CBS, plus the two
thousand and five Final Four in Saint Louis for NC
two A International. He has also called seven no hitters.
How many Gasters can say that, Like, I think about

(46:53):
as many games as I have been to in my life,
like I went as a kid, I've only been to one.
I've only seen one no hitter, and he's called seven
no hitters.

Speaker 6 (47:04):
That's just kind of crazy.

Speaker 4 (47:06):
I mean, it's amazing. But kudos for him to pick
the time that he wants to go out on, you know,
I mean, how many of us can say, you know,
we get to pick when we want to leave, Like
some of us, it's not by choice. Some of us
it might be health, that might be other reasons, but

(47:27):
you know, he's he's served a long career and he
gets a chance now to enjoy. And too many of us,
some people, you hear, work way too long and then
what do they have, you know, how many years do
they have to enjoy. I've often said it's too bad
that the retirement age around here isn't like fifty, so

(47:47):
you have some years to really enjoy, you know, doing
things before. I mean, let's all face it, most people's
health goes downhill after a while. But kudos to him.

Speaker 1 (48:00):
Bob Carpenter's concerned. His versatility says it all. When you
talk about guys that are very versatile, you're talking about
guys like Kenny Albert. We all know how good he is, right,
Brian Harlan's right, and Bob Carpenter. Now, a lot of
your best announcers generally end up with baseball gigs anyways.
So this guy, Brian Anderson, I think, is another one

(48:21):
you have back in Milwaukee, right, Candy, Brian Anderson is
another guy baseball. It's sad for a lot of these guys,
it really, really, really is. And that's why Bob Carpenter
is a guy that, to me is should be a
fourth frick a word at some point or another. And
I'm glad that Bob is going out his own way

(48:41):
and know, hey, I've gone out there and done what
I had to do it and he knows when to
leave on his own terms. Not every announcer gets to
leave on his own terms, but at least he's going
to be able to do that, George. And I know
if it weren't wasn't for Mike Gillig, the Ernie Harwell
situ would have been a first class tobacle and the
Detroit Tigers never have recovered from that, though Mike gill

(49:02):
have saved Tigers in a lot of different ways. So
if that said, we're gonna go to we're gonna talk
about Bob Seymour. How about that? Okay?

Speaker 2 (49:14):
Bob Seymour becomes the first Bob to hit an MLB
homer since two thousand and two, twenty three years with
the Rain Bob's. My goodness, we have a Rob talking
about a Bob.

Speaker 11 (49:27):
What's going on? What's going on with the no Bob
home runs in that many years? That is just crazy.
I think we need more Bob's in Major League baseball
and we need them to hit some more home runs.

Speaker 1 (49:40):
Katy, I think he.

Speaker 4 (49:43):
Took the words right out of my mouth, like, I mean,
how hey. It amazes me because Bob is such a
popular name. Like we just talked about Bob the broadcaster.
Now we're talking about Bob Seymour and the think twenty
three years Really, I mean it just that's just very surprising, Scott.

(50:06):
But where you come up with some of these odd facts,
I love it where you come up with them.

Speaker 8 (50:11):
I do not know.

Speaker 2 (50:13):
I have a broadcasting mentality inside of the candy. If
I were doing this stuff on radio, as our friend
tom Gage George suggested.

Speaker 1 (50:21):
On our show, I'll have a lot more of these.
I enjoyed digging this stuff up. That's what makes this
stuff really good, right, George. Oh, that's educating my following.
I love when we do this stuff, so hey, that
is what it is. I love tumbling up with this stuff.
And when we get countway on hopefully later tonight, other

(50:44):
it doesn't make a a difference. We have a lot
of stuff. So all right. With that's that, George, Let's
talk about the phenomenon called a Bob.

Speaker 5 (50:53):
Yeah. I can't believe that either. That seems unbelievable to
be true. Uh man, that's that's a lot long drought
for our friends that named Bob oh Man, oh Man,
these crazy stats got oh, it's incredible. I just yeah,
you for me on that one, man, You for me.

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I'm glad the streak is broken out.

Speaker 1 (51:18):
Finally it's not a stat at ninety six years old.

Speaker 5 (51:25):
Bob from the first basement for the Rays, right, yeah,
and you know, good for him. Good for him, man, No, no.

Speaker 2 (51:33):
No disrespect to my competition on the Baseball podcast. But
they can talk about anything they want. Yeah, I'm too
old to mess around. I want something that they're not
going to come up with. And some of my mentors
have gone out there and told me to be different.
And that's exactly where stats like this and other ones
come from.

Speaker 1 (51:52):
You bet.

Speaker 7 (51:53):
I mean, that's incredible. Though, if you're to go that
long without a guy named Bob Homer, if you have
to really work, you have to really you have to try.
He will really have to try. But yeah, good for
him though. I mean, if he does nothing else in baseball,
at least got that going for him.

Speaker 1 (52:08):
All right, Well, there you have it. Hey, we got
TVK justice for Bob. We can. We want Bob home runs.
I love this guy.

Speaker 2 (52:16):
Great stuff. Okay, Cay, do you better write those down
his hashtags? Okay, because those will be two that I
probably won't be able to get on here as well.
She will drop those down. Thanks TVK for putting those
out there as well. She's gonna put those down there
in her section all right. Well, and Bob we trust
with the Tampa Bay Rays anyways, so great stuff. A

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week ago, we talked about Johan Santana. Since we have
a Mets guy on here, we're gonna talk about him again.
Guess what August nineteen, two thousand and seventies strikes out
seventeen a new club record that was for Minnesota, had
two hits, no walks, and eighth inny gym one. They

(53:02):
went over the Raiders. If that wasn't good enough, Oh,
let's go back to Santana and that says he hits
his first and only home run, needs a mess with
three tough they win over the Reds.

Speaker 1 (53:16):
How about that Rob? This guy can hit. He helped me.
He only allowed three hits in that game.

Speaker 3 (53:24):
I remember that game listen. It wasn't as big as
the home run by big sexy against the Padres.

Speaker 11 (53:33):
But I mean that that was a big home run.
I remember that.

Speaker 3 (53:37):
We talked about it last week. Santana. You know, he
was great, but although he was starting I don't think
the no hitter totally did it. I think he was
starting to go a little downhill before that no hitter,
But really that no hitter, after that, he was he
was never the same pitcher. You know, getting the first

(53:59):
no hit or in Mets history, that was great, but
you know I think that that was really that didn't
help his arm.

Speaker 1 (54:10):
Well, Candy, you know.

Speaker 4 (54:15):
What more can we say? I mean, no hitters are
hard to come by, just much less one, two or
three hitters. Like you think about it, you're paid to
You have players that are paid to hit, and you

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have hey, players that are paid to not get somebody
allow somebody to have a hit. So kudos to hit
for his career and for that stat where you come
up with some of these guys, I swear I do
not know.

Speaker 1 (54:54):
I like that theme tonight where I come up with
a lot of research into these shows. I know you do, George.

Speaker 5 (55:03):
Yeah, I can't exactly remember that. I can't admit I
mean that I remember that when it happened. But you
look at his stats and he had a pretty decent career.
You know, he's he's really a four time All Star,
you know, one hundred and thirty nine wins, strikeouts. Listen
to this, one thousand and nine eighty eight. So he
missed that by twelve strikeouts to get the two thousand.

(55:26):
But all that being said, oh, you won the Triple
Crown ones too as a pitcher and so and you know,
but Santana, yeah, he he was on the cusp of greatness.
He just didn't quite get there as a as of
course he wanted. But he is in the Venezuelan Baseball
Hall of Fame. He received eighty one percent of the

(55:46):
vote on that Hall of Fame. But Johannes Santana I
have some great years with the Twins and the and
the Mets as well. Yep, yuh.

Speaker 7 (55:56):
I mean, he was a big part of the Twins
success early on when they were when they were, it
seemed like every year it was them winning the Al Central,
not the Chicago White Sox. Back when, back when those
two teams, back when it was those two teams practically
running the divisions to sprinkling Cleveland here and there. But
you know, unfortunately for him though he I think had
had his arm not given out when it did, I

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think he would have had a chance at getting.

Speaker 9 (56:21):
In the hall.

Speaker 6 (56:21):
But now, just with the arm giving out.

Speaker 7 (56:23):
As early as it did, you know, that's what that's
what ultimately held him back. But fun Pitcher, you know,
Fun Pitcher, to see, pitch was was a big part
of the Twins success early on with the mets. He
had them, he had them rolled in the right direction.
Unfortunately though that his arm just gave out, and eventually
it just you know, his career, his his career kind
of went with.

Speaker 11 (56:43):
It, okay.

Speaker 1 (56:46):
Well then as a little Baseball Hall of Fame new information, Georgie,
great stuff, Oh no problem.

Speaker 5 (56:51):
And he also was in the Twins Hall of Fame too,
so good for him.

Speaker 1 (56:55):
Our kind for Station Break.

Speaker 4 (56:59):
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all right, So let's talk about the I'm going to
give you three red Sox and give me the best
of the three, Jim Rice, and I'll tell you what

(01:00:46):
I really.

Speaker 1 (01:00:46):
Know about this w A R War. I'll just look
right off numbers and we go from there.

Speaker 2 (01:00:50):
But let's talk about Jim Rice, who had a career
war forty seven point seven, Fred Lynn fifty point two,
and then Dwight Evans sixty seven point two.

Speaker 1 (01:00:59):
Who's the best of the three.

Speaker 11 (01:01:00):
Rob It's so tough, Scott, But you know what I'm.

Speaker 1 (01:01:06):
You think I'm supposed to make these easy?

Speaker 3 (01:01:09):
Really, come on, I'm gonna I'm gonna go with Jim
Rice just because of the power.

Speaker 1 (01:01:17):
But he's right.

Speaker 3 (01:01:18):
Listen, all three of them are great, Fred Lynn, Dwight Evans.
I saw all of them play. Of course, Jim Rice,
remember from the eighty six team that almost won the
World Series. But you know somebody stopped him. But I'm
gonna go with I'm gonna go with Jim Rice. But
that's just barely.

Speaker 1 (01:01:40):
Okay, that's fair enough, George.

Speaker 5 (01:01:42):
I just see, like, well, we all know that Jim
Jim Rice was a great ballplayer. Oh my god, I
loved him. But that guy Fred Lynn, he would destroy
the Tigers more often than you could imagine. You know,
in his career he had some unbelievable stats at the
old Tigers Stadium. I mean, he just loved playing there.

(01:02:04):
He loved it so much, in fact, that the Tigers
made a trade. People forget that he came to detried
he was. He wasn't in in many ballgames. I think
in eighty eight he was in what twenty seven games
and batted only two twenty two.

Speaker 12 (01:02:19):
So it's kind of a weird story only because when
he was a Tiger he did not light it up
as he did when he was a Red Sox coming
and playing at Tigers Stadium.

Speaker 5 (01:02:30):
So for the sake of argument, I'm gonna go with
Freddy lynn on this one.

Speaker 1 (01:02:34):
Yeah, I knew you were going to see him after
the stats I've bombarded you with the last time you're
on the show with Red Linn. No reason why they're
no klon All two. Well, what do you think, Eric,
do I have to pick one?

Speaker 6 (01:02:46):
As a Yankee fan?

Speaker 1 (01:02:49):
I gave you three choices and you got to work
with this group. Brother?

Speaker 7 (01:02:53):
Well, oh man, I mean, had I think had fred
Lynne stayed healthy though, he would have been I think
he would have been a Hall of Famer. You know,
I've been Rookie of the Year in and MVP in
the same season. That's like on her of the guy
who you know, the guy was Cup. Close to that
recently was Aaron Judge.

Speaker 6 (01:03:09):
But you know it's a you know, obviously you know
Evans was good, but I gotta go with Rice. The
power there. He was the Reds.

Speaker 7 (01:03:19):
He defined the Red Sox during the eighties, probably him
and Roger Clevens at that point in time. So I
gotta go with Rice because he single handedly, you know,
owned the decade. I think you could probably stay for
you know, you could probably stay for you know, he
was a big part of American League Baseball during the eighties.
Next two next to John Magley, because those two both
were constantly battling for MVP awards, KNDy.

Speaker 4 (01:03:46):
He played so Jim Rice played his entire sixteen year
MLB career with Boston Red Sox. He has over two
four and fifty two hits, three and eighty two runs,
and fourteen and fifty one bet runs betted in. He's
eight time All Star, two times Silver Slugger Award, three

(01:04:11):
time AL home run leader, two time AL RBI leader.
He was a player for the Red Sox from seventy
four to eighty nine, and then he was a coach
for the Red Sox from ninety five to two thousand.
You know, he was an eight time American League All

(01:04:31):
Star and was named al's Most Valuable Player in seventy eight.
After becoming the first major leaguer in nineteen years to
hit for four hundred total bases, he went on to
become the ninth player to lead the major leagues in
total bases and consecutive seasons. He joined Ty Cobb as
one of two players to lead the AL in total

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bases three consecutive seasons. Anytime you get compared to the
likes of a Tie Cob, how do you not put
him up there?

Speaker 1 (01:05:04):
You know?

Speaker 4 (01:05:05):
He batted above three hundred seven times during his sixteen
season career season career and collected one hundred plus runs
batted in eight times. He also had two hundred hits
in four seasons and twenty plus home runs eleven times.
He he just you know, he was a great hitter.

(01:05:29):
That's who my pick would be would be. Jim Rice.

Speaker 1 (01:05:32):
Yeah, I don't know why I'm gonna say Duight Evans.
I am going to say Duyight Evans. I love his defense.

Speaker 2 (01:05:40):
He's a threat defensively, hit for an adequate amount of
power as well. But yet you can't go wrong with
Jim Rice and then actually played those tires at sale
n But Jim Rice didn't get in the Hall of Fame,
but he got in late in his candidacy. He didn't
get in early, but he's in. That's all that, man.

Speaker 7 (01:06:00):
Well, yeah, I got it, got in on his final
year of his final year of eligibility on the Writer's ballot,
which you know, happy he got in though was was
you know, I think it was a bit overdue on
his part exactly.

Speaker 2 (01:06:12):
That's my point, Thank Siric, appreciate you putting that in there,
But I don't know why. I just think in my mind,
like to just the feeling that I have and I'm
going to do.

Speaker 7 (01:06:21):
With you have to you also have to look at
like who he played with, though that could also factor in,
because some guys get in the Hall of Fame late
just because just because you know, that's just the era
they played, and there were guys who were like looked
at a little more.

Speaker 6 (01:06:33):
Highly than they are.

Speaker 7 (01:06:34):
That's the unfair thing about the ballot is sometimes it
really depends on who you play with. Like, there are
some very good players who probably won't get in because
of who they play who they were playing with.

Speaker 6 (01:06:43):
During that time. Otherwise any other year they're in.

Speaker 1 (01:06:47):
Okay, all right, Milwaukee Brewards are the first teams in
twenty fifteen.

Speaker 2 (01:06:52):
Toronto Blue Jays. Well, this is unbelievable. Since fifteen to
Toronto Blue Jays. It's a record multiple win streets of
eleven plus games in a season. They earned a street
by crushing the Pittford players fourteen and nothing. I believe
that was a game Paul Skean's played in. Wasn't that
when he got hammered? I remember, right, Candy.

Speaker 6 (01:07:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:07:12):
So with that said, can we see the Toronto Blue
Jays and the Milwaukee in the early series.

Speaker 6 (01:07:18):
I wonder the field is wide open this year, Scott.

Speaker 1 (01:07:24):
Yeah, go ahead, Eric, you can lead off.

Speaker 6 (01:07:25):
Of it possibly. I mean, the field is wide open.
There is no there is no clear cut favorite. Everybody
can go with the Dodgers.

Speaker 7 (01:07:34):
Well, San Diego and at certain points during the York
San Francisco was given LA a run for their money.
They're not letting them walk away with the division. There's
no way they're gonna have And everybody was thick and
they're not letting people get letting people, you know, have
the idea that the Dodgers that have it clinched by
Labor Day.

Speaker 6 (01:07:51):
You know they're up. You know it's wide open this year.
Anybody can grab it.

Speaker 7 (01:07:56):
And I have a feeling Scott's going to be the
kind of year where either A some team who hasn't
won it since since you had hair is going to
get in or B it's going to be a team
that nobody expected. And I hope you enjoyed the comments
where the team a team who hasn't won it since

(01:08:17):
you had hair was a good one.

Speaker 1 (01:08:19):
I always enjoyed her comments. Everybody gives me credit for
where I come up with some stuff. Hey, you're not
bad either, kid, You did? You come up with some
great stuff. That's what I love having. This can'tcy on
this show. Unbelievable stuff, great sound. Of course, he was
trained by me, but he didn't need to be trained
by me when it came to baseball. This kid simply
has it all right, Go ahead, George.

Speaker 5 (01:08:41):
Three and six. The Brewers are three and six in
their last nine games. But they've had a great run.
They really have first team to win eighty games. Tremendous
year they're having, and uh, I'd like to see them.
I wouldn't mind them I you know, I'd like to
see the Tigers get in there, But if I'm a

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betting man, I would have to say Milwaukee's got just
as good a chance as anybody. I mean, you got
it wide open, You're right, can't say it is wide open.

Speaker 6 (01:09:10):
You know.

Speaker 5 (01:09:10):
San Diego's got a chance. The Dodgers have a chance,
you know, because she's bomping down the list in the Ashley.
The Milwaukee's got just as good a chance as anybody
to get there. And that is an accomplishment that is
unheard of. These eleven game winning streaks.

Speaker 6 (01:09:25):
Much less have two of them.

Speaker 5 (01:09:28):
Quite yeah, in one year. Look at that unbelievable hats off,
Kudos to your team, miss Candy.

Speaker 1 (01:09:36):
Yeah, I will good segue, Go ahead, Candy.

Speaker 4 (01:09:40):
So the Brewers are playing inspired baseball. Part of it
is in part to the tribute that they did yesterday.
And yeah, I know they lost the game yesterday to
San Francisco, but they had a tribute to Bob Baker.
They renamed the press spot Bob Buker's Broadcast Center. If

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you don't know, Bob passed away in January. He had
been an icon. He had been a fixture in Milwaukee
baseball for over fifty five years, and more than that
because that's how long he's been broadcasting for over fifty years.
Pat Murphy has them playing like they're they're having fun

(01:10:29):
inspired no pressure. The only pressure they felt was if
you don't know, they had to win their twelve to
get give free burgers from George Webb, and that they
they did. I think I read it was over two
hundred thousand burgers they gave away free. It was like
twenty pounds of meat and just astronomical numbers. But kudos

(01:10:54):
to them for having these streaks. Kudos because nobody, nobody
predicted them the beginning of the year to do well,
and they've they're consistently been doing better than most people thought.
Now my only thing is they've got to stay hot
and in September, I don't see them dropping off, but

(01:11:16):
they need to stay hot as well. But I Eric,
you're right, I would love to see them in the
and you know, in the World Series. That would be great.

Speaker 6 (01:11:28):
Mm hm, that would be great for the city.

Speaker 11 (01:11:30):
It would yeah, of course. Like like like Kat said before,
it's wide open. No one's running away with anything.

Speaker 3 (01:11:39):
When you thought Detroit, George was gonna just you know,
just slide on down with no problems.

Speaker 11 (01:11:47):
You know, they've had their problems. Every team has.

Speaker 3 (01:11:50):
They're having their up and downs. It's a marathon, we
know that. But yes, of course Milwaukee could could play Toronto.
You know, why not anyone? You know, whoever's hot during
the playoffs is going.

Speaker 11 (01:12:05):
To get into the World Series. You know, that's the key.

Speaker 3 (01:12:08):
And they got to have a good bullten that's another key.
But Pat Murphy, like Candy said, he's done an amazing job.
I didn't think Milwaukee was going to do that great
because of the way they were shocked out of the
postseason last year. I thought that they might have a
little hangover from that. But no, he's doing a great

(01:12:30):
job with them. They're playing great and you know, of
course it could be a Brewer's Blue Jays World Series.

Speaker 2 (01:12:37):
Well, it certainly seems like an intriguing possibility, that's for sure.
We'll stay with the Brewers, and we'll talk about Bob Melvin,
who they actually said, I hate to admit this at
this point, because the team was sixty three and sixty
at this point. I hate to admit that we're at
a point where haf the bench players to look at
others after their.

Speaker 1 (01:12:55):
One hundred and twenty first game.

Speaker 2 (01:12:57):
Meanwhile, the Giants did take two or three from the Brewers,
So Bob Melvin has his hands full and the Brewers,
like Candy and you guys alluded to, but they did
take two or three, including Uker's Day. So we're your thoughts,
Rob about the situation that Melvin is in and what
we saw over the weekend.

Speaker 3 (01:13:18):
Well, you know, the Giants in the beginning of the
year gave a little hope, right you know. They people
thought they were in it with with the Dodgers and
the Padres because of all the Dodgers problems, and you know,
they were for a while, but they're not. And it's
time to, you know, let young kids play so that
they could get a better look at them. So, you know,

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he's doing what teams do when they're out of it.
They you know, let the young guys play and they
get a look at them.

Speaker 4 (01:13:48):
Candy, you know, any this is the reason why you
play a game, because any team can be any other
given team on any given day. But it's exciting to
see young blood being infused into some of these teams.

Speaker 6 (01:14:09):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:14:11):
You know, San Francisco they played well against the Brewers,
and I would venture to say, one of the things
that you have to make sure is that you're not
making some mental mistakes. And I would say there was
a couple of mental mistakes that I saw in the
Brewers in the game that I saw the other day.

(01:14:31):
But they're still playing good. And kudos to the Giants.
One of the things that they have is they have
one of one of the Brewer former Brewer players that
is a fan favorite in Willia Damas. And he played well.
I mean, let's face it, he came out Friday night
against his former team and hit two home runs. You know,

(01:14:53):
they're playing loose and that's what you that's what you need,
the no pressure and that's when you you do well well.

Speaker 2 (01:15:00):
Number One, Bob Melvin didn't forget how to manage overnight.
The guy the heck of a manager.

Speaker 1 (01:15:05):
He really is. His track record thinks for himself. They're
in transition in San Francisco. They've traded away some talent
at the trade deadline. I don't think I Bob Melton's fault,
but yeah, you're right, Yes, that's what's going on, and
I hope he has a chance to go there at
least another year to the continue doing. George.

Speaker 5 (01:15:23):
Yeah, I've always admired Bob as a manager. He's really
done a great job in his career, and certainly he
didn't anticipate this. The fans didn't anticipate this. They thought
they had a shot at it this year. But obviously
you got to play the games and you got to win,
and they had a lot of losing streaks so far
this year, the Giants, And to me, yeah, it was

(01:15:44):
surprising that they would spoil the the Bob Euker weekend
and take take two games in a row off of
the plate of the Milwaukee Brewers. But I'll tell you what,
Bob's a great manager.

Speaker 4 (01:15:56):
He is.

Speaker 5 (01:15:57):
He always seems to bounce back. He's he's got a
good reputation, and he knows how to uh to train
and manage young young guys, young players. So I would
expect them to bounce back. It's a very difficult division.
But if anybody's gonna do it, uh, I would say,
Bob Melvin is the kind of manager and I and

(01:16:18):
I'm like you, Scott, I sure hope they give him
another couple of years at least.

Speaker 6 (01:16:26):
Well, you know, in terms of Bob Melvin, stay.

Speaker 7 (01:16:28):
And that's also going to greatly depend on what Bruce,
on what Bruce Bochie does, because I'm hearing, I'm hearing
the stuff that he's going to walk, he's going to
walk away from Texas.

Speaker 6 (01:16:36):
And then he's free.

Speaker 7 (01:16:37):
And and you know, his current their their president Baseball
Operations or you know, whatever you call him these days,
it happens to be Buster Posey his form who who
Boach you won three World Series rings with? So we'll wait,
We'll wait and see on that front. But Bob, Bob's
seen everything this sport has to offer. He's been at
it for a very long time. He's used to managing

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young players because he did that every year in Oakland
when Oakland would let go of what would have to
let go of their guys and then move forward with
with a younger core. He's also done it, and he
also has managed veteran guys in in San Diego when
when San Diego would have their annual free agency palooza.

Speaker 6 (01:17:17):
But you know, but you know, he's about seeing at all.

Speaker 7 (01:17:21):
I know, San Francisco is not not spending money like
drunken sailors like they do in San Diego, but they
but you know, it's still a mix of it's still
a mix of veteran guys, and I know that they're
trying to get some young guys in that lineup, and
right now, it's right now they're kind of toward the
end of the year where they're trying with them kind
of most likely not going to the postseason that they're
trying to see kind of what the future looks like now.

(01:17:44):
You know, it's and we'll see what happens though, because
Posey's only been there a year, so he really hasn't
put his stamp on the team yet. He's kind of
just sorting through the wreckage of barhan z I d
who you know, who had a little bit longer of
a lease than he really should have in San Francisco.
So right now he's kind of sorting through that garbage.
And it's gonna be interesting to see what Posey decides
to do with the manager at this afseason, because you know,

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he didn't because Zid hired Bob Melvin, Posey didn't hire
hire them hirem excuse me, Posey didn't hire him. So
it's it's really going to see whether Posey. But I
think what's gonna come down to whether Melvin keeps his
job or not. Yeah, I think he deserves another year
or two add it. But it's going to greatly come
down to whether or not, you know, Bruce Bochie walks

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away from the Rangers, because I promise you, if Bochie
is out on the market, you know, Posey is going
to go after him. I can guarantee it because there
is nothing there was nothing would make Posy happier more
than seeing Boachi in the dugout, you know. But again,
it's going to greatly depend on what Boachie decides to
do in the off season.

Speaker 1 (01:18:50):
You know, I've heard that too, Eric. I think he
makes some valid points.

Speaker 5 (01:18:53):
But the fact that.

Speaker 1 (01:18:55):
Bochie could return to San Francisco and Posey's the reason
I'm glad you brought.

Speaker 5 (01:18:59):
Well, let me ask her just real quick, Scott, why
did he leave that in the first place? When he left,
he retired, He retired.

Speaker 6 (01:19:08):
He was I think he was.

Speaker 7 (01:19:09):
I think he was just you know, the team was
kind of a transition. The team was kind of in
transition at that point.

Speaker 5 (01:19:19):
Answers, Yeah, why he left?

Speaker 7 (01:19:21):
Yeah, and then and then he goes to Texas wins
the World Series. He's having fun again. Texas kind of
stuck in the middle of the road now and so
so now he's kind of now he's thinking about walking
away there, not necessarily to retire, because I think Bo's
I think she's having fun with it again, even regardless
of the situation. And I think that what you'll see

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is when when he if he gets on the open
mar because I know San.

Speaker 6 (01:19:46):
Francisco is not going to be the only team that's
going to go after him, but.

Speaker 7 (01:19:48):
I know Posey's going to make a serious run out
of I'm telling you what Posey wants a guy, he's
going to go make a run at him.

Speaker 1 (01:19:57):
The Chatman real quick. Pat Murphy Manager of the Year
and won at last year. Continue's the ways going. I
don't see a reason why I can't do it twice
as manager in Milwaukee Brewers history to win that honor,
I believe, right, Candy, So so go ahead, Candy, anything
you want to add to this topic.

Speaker 4 (01:20:13):
I was gonna say for that if we ended the
voting today, yes, I would say Pat Murphy for the
Manager of the Year. But there's still a good month,
month and a half of baseball to go, and I think,
as Eric said before, it's wide open. No team is
really running away with it. So I think that depending

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on how things pan out this last month and a
half of the season will determine whether that stays to
fruition or not.

Speaker 1 (01:20:43):
Okay, thanks stuff, all right, still Jeral team, want you guys,
choose every one of these one of these players, Pete Rose,
Tony Gwynn, Wade Boggs, Rod Carew We'll lead off with
you Rob.

Speaker 11 (01:20:58):
Yeah, that another tough one. You really don't make it easy.

Speaker 3 (01:21:01):
But you know I was gonna say Gwyn, but I'm
gonna go with Charlie Hustle, Pete Rose. Let's get away
from all the betting and all that other crap. Nobody
nobody played the game harder than Pete Rose. Nobody wanted
to win more than Pete Rose. And you know, Pete,
we know some of the things Pete Rose did. But
if I'm starting a team, you know I wouldn't mind

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starting with Pete Rose.

Speaker 1 (01:21:28):
Yeah, Candy, you know, how do you not do?

Speaker 4 (01:21:32):
Rod cru who had over three thousand hits one thousand
and fifteen runs batted in. He also was eighteen time
All Star, eighteen time seven time AL batting champion Minnesota
Twins retired his number, and the Angels retired his number.

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I'd go Rod Carew.

Speaker 5 (01:21:57):
George although the two top contender as far as I'm concerned.
But I will go also with with what Rob said,
Charlie Hustle Pete Rose without all the outside distractions and
what happened to him, unfortunately his own fault. But a man,
this guy was a hustling dude. We all know what

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he did to Ray Fosse in the All Star Game
of all places. And you know, I really think this
is a very very difficult choice. You got that right,
But I'm gonna go with Hustle. Okay, you know, Cincinnati
was a wonderful franchise and a big red machine and
had a lot to do with Pete Rose's career. So

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he's number one in my book.

Speaker 2 (01:22:41):
But you Eric, by the way, Ay Prayler. I would
love to see both of you at the Yankees. And
you never know that intrigues me. It's a very intriguing possibility.
I know Eric could probably love it, love it wins.

Speaker 6 (01:22:54):
Everywhere coaches went, everywhere he's gone.

Speaker 1 (01:22:58):
I like, I like pray there. You are one of
the choices he can put each troll in there. Okay,
I'll give him that, but it's not one of the choices.
But we'll Pia for the internal people if he wants
to come up with each Trollzuki has no problem with that.

Speaker 6 (01:23:12):
I gotta go Pete Rose.

Speaker 7 (01:23:13):
Nobody, nobody hustled harder and played the game harder than
Pete Rose. I mean he, I mean he helped two
different teams win the World Series, the Philadelphia Phillies and
the Cincinnati reg with the Phillies didn't win the World
Series until about two thousand and eight, and that was
years after Rose retired. So if you think about that
for let's think about that for a second. You know,

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it's you know, you can't go wrong with Pete Rose.
I mean, say what you will about the guy and
what he did and the things that he did to
himself and and all that other stuff, but you can't
you can't deny what he did on the field.

Speaker 6 (01:23:46):
It evidently never got in the way of him on
the field, because.

Speaker 7 (01:23:49):
The guy bashed the ball to the tune of over
four thousand hits, which I don't think anybody's gonna break
anytime soon, given how how they don't let these guys
play every day anymore.

Speaker 6 (01:23:59):
So, you know, gotta go with Pete Rose.

Speaker 7 (01:24:02):
I think he also get he also instills his team
with an attitude of playing hard every day. I mean,
you talk to his players now, his former Reds players now,
like guys like Paul O'Neil and others who who played
under him, and they've they've got nothing but good things
to say about him. When he managed, obviously he never
went to the postseason. That's because at the time there
was no wild cards. So you know, maybe at a
different time, Pete Rose's team go to the playoffs, and

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who knows what happens.

Speaker 2 (01:24:25):
And so the obvious choice according to the panel is
Pete Rose. But if I had to put a vote
in there, I go with Tony Quinn. This guy was
just one of the best pair of hairs that's ever
played the game, and he was always challenging Ted Williams
in terms of batting average at all. So I think
everybody across the board is valid, because really, I don't
think there's one of the reasons I throw this topic

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in there is I don't think there's a bad decision
you can make if you have to go with any
of the panel, And that's why I opted to put
it in there. There are no wrong answers as far
as I'm concerned with this, which is why I put
this out there.

Speaker 1 (01:24:58):
All right, Santle Mariners catcher Keil Rowley hit forty nine
home runs.

Speaker 11 (01:25:03):
He just said he just hit number fifty.

Speaker 1 (01:25:08):
Well, that's okay, I don't think Dale. Well, now he's
up to fifty.

Speaker 2 (01:25:10):
Brookes cellars almost catchers and and Selver obviously had forty eighth.
All right, Well, since you've given us the updates and
talks about kel row.

Speaker 3 (01:25:21):
Well, listen, we we talked about it last week. Right,
Just unbelievable hitting for a catcher?

Speaker 11 (01:25:28):
What what power?

Speaker 1 (01:25:31):
All Star.

Speaker 11 (01:25:33):
Home Run Derby winner? Uh, Seattle is where they are.

Speaker 3 (01:25:39):
Because if he's one of the main reasons Seattle is
where they are. So the guy is just great, and hey,
who wouldn't want him catching for their team?

Speaker 11 (01:25:47):
Right?

Speaker 1 (01:25:49):
Fifty home runs unbelievable from that position, Candy, Yeah, you know.

Speaker 6 (01:25:56):
I don't.

Speaker 4 (01:25:58):
I get fifty home runs for catcher is a lot.
But I've always thought of catchers as the one that
they should be the ones that are hitting these because
they've seen so many pitches. They see how many ones
are balls, how many are strikes? They know all the
ins and outs and how to beat get distract the batter,

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so they should be able to, you know, take the
other catcher out. And I've always thought they've had to.
The one thing catchers had to have are strong legs
because they're always crouching down for how much of the
game and if they have such strong legs and if
they use those, they would have they would hit for
a lot more power. So kudos to him hitting fifty.

(01:26:43):
I mean, he's twenty eight years old, but that's a position.
I really think there should be more more home runs
being hit from. I mean, I remember back in the day,
Gorman Thomas and Ted Simmons and the likes of them,
you know, hitting for power as well.

Speaker 5 (01:27:05):
George, Yeah, that's off man, that's unbelievable streak. I'll tell
you what, though some of them were as a DH,
but they've already looked at that. That's that's that that
still doesn't harm anyone as far as setting this record,
because even though he was a DH for some of
those games, so with the other guys too that he
was chasing. Yeah, I mean, you know, talk about a

(01:27:28):
lift for Seattle, unbelievable. And and you talk about man
a power hitter. Who wow, you know, it's really remarkable,
you know. Uh. Johnny Bench of course was one of
the great hitters of all time the catcher, and there
were others of course, like you mentioned Gorman Thomas and
Lance Parrish and a few others. But I'll tell you what,

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this guy's this guy's just over the top grade greatness man.
Next contract extension or a new contract for him. Look out,
this guy's the limit.

Speaker 1 (01:28:00):
We'll see. Have the money to pay for it. They'll
pay for it out there they Yeah, ownership for sure.

Speaker 7 (01:28:05):
Yeah, Eric, Well, well they already signed him to an
extension this past offseason, which what they signed him for.
They're practicliating a bargain for him right now. So you know, yeah,
I don't worry about that, but the fact he's doing
this as a catcher and having to staying offense. Okay,
in today's game, every power hitter is going to have
their turn as designated hitter. That's just the way we're
going right now. You know, that's just every power hitter. Judge, Judge,

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that judge does it, Soto does it. All the power
hit you name a power hitter, I'm sure they've seen
some time as designated hitter. I know Adlie Rutchman's done it,
like every power hitter in the league today has seen
some time this year as a designated hitter. So what
are we doing saying, oh, he did it from he
did it as a designated hitter. Well, when Judge hit
the home runs, he saw hit all those home runs
in twenty twenty two, he saw some time as d H.

Speaker 6 (01:28:50):
So you know, I don't get what what the what
what the issue is there?

Speaker 7 (01:28:53):
Because you still got a sea ball hit ball, So
it's not you know, nothing's really changing there, and it's
never been harder too.

Speaker 6 (01:28:58):
We hit the baseball in the game today.

Speaker 7 (01:28:59):
But the fact he's doing this as a catcher, a
mentally and physically taxing position.

Speaker 6 (01:29:06):
Gosh, most of the time when you're catcher, you're too
beat to hit the ball, you know.

Speaker 7 (01:29:08):
That's why you're seeing a lot of a lot of catchers,
you know, come to the plate and they're not in
you know, they're not really hitting the ball because you know,
they're managing a pitching staff, taking balls off all parts
of their body, sometimes uncovered with the padding there, which
is which is gruesomely painful, and sometimes off the helmet too.
But the fact what he's doing as a catcher is unbelievable.

(01:29:31):
I mean, he's doing it also in a ballpark that's
offensively challenging, where it's very very hard to hit a
home run there where the batter's eyes right in your face.
I mean, we've heard people several we've heard people players
in the league complain about it. But the fact that
he's taking it like no big deal and just launching
these titanic home runs is just unbelievable. Actually, I was

(01:29:51):
fortunate enough to see him in Chicago and watch him
hit one of those home runs as well, where it
wasn't hit I don't think particularly hard, but man, it
kept carrying though up. I guess you can credit the
Chicago win for you can credit the wind off Lake
Michigan regally feel for that one.

Speaker 6 (01:30:06):
But you know, what's unbelievable he is doing. I wrote
about it earlier in the years, you know, saying like
what he's doing is just incredible. In the fact that he's.

Speaker 7 (01:30:12):
Already shattered Salvador Perez is catcher's home run records unbelievable.

Speaker 6 (01:30:17):
I mean, what do I think he'll he.

Speaker 7 (01:30:20):
Has a shot at getting Aaron Judges record perhaps, but
he's gonna have to he's gonna have to get up.
He's gonna have to get a move on here though,
because we're starting to get late in the year. But
fifty home runs for a catcher, that's that's that's unbelievable.
I mean, he's gonna probably blow this catcher's home run
record into another generation.

Speaker 6 (01:30:39):
I really do believe that.

Speaker 1 (01:30:40):
Yeah, you know what, I'll make my talents brief.

Speaker 2 (01:30:43):
I have a few more things when we get to
but I'm with Yellow Eric to do it as a catcher,
to me is unbelievable, period. And when you talk about
guys like Johnny Ben should put him in a classification
of unbelievable. How rowing is a major reason why the
Scattle Mariners are taking to US team and as everybody mentioned,

(01:31:03):
these playoffs will be a wide open Keep in mind
Seattle Mariners have never been.

Speaker 1 (01:31:09):
To a World Series in their history. We'll see if
that can change.

Speaker 6 (01:31:12):
So they've got a nice rotation. They got a nice rotation.

Speaker 1 (01:31:16):
Yeah, they sure wouldn't be amazing. And this is just
a hypothetical. Little dwell on it. He had a Seattle
Mariners Milwaukee Brewers World Series.

Speaker 7 (01:31:23):
Oh my god, the Brewers started in Seattle before they
came back, And that's my point. I used car salesman
named Bud Seey bought them. And also, yeah, I know,
I know, I know, I.

Speaker 1 (01:31:37):
Did throw it out there. I will wait for you
to come back anyway.

Speaker 6 (01:31:40):
And you did exactly what all four came from there?

Speaker 1 (01:31:43):
Yeah, we did it.

Speaker 6 (01:31:45):
Yeah. The Seattle pilot Jim Bowden.

Speaker 1 (01:31:47):
Oh okay, there you go. All right.

Speaker 2 (01:31:48):
Well, not everybody knows as much history as you do. Anyway,
I read the book now, I figured you did as
long as you read mine.

Speaker 1 (01:31:55):
And he read that.

Speaker 2 (01:31:55):
I'm good, all right, ten year contract. Who would you
give one too? The choiceter Albert Poolhols, Ken Griffy Junior,
Barry Bonds started off with E Rob Junior.

Speaker 3 (01:32:08):
I would give it to Junior because, let's face it,
when he was with Seattle, no one was better than.

Speaker 11 (01:32:14):
Ken Griffy Junior. All right.

Speaker 3 (01:32:16):
He did fade when he ended up with Cincinnati towards
the end of his career with the injuries, but really, well,
for those Seattle teams under Lou Panella, let me tell you,
Griffy Junior was awesome and he had the highest percentage
votes of votes getting into the World Series into RIVERA

(01:32:38):
got in unanimously, So I would pick out it.

Speaker 11 (01:32:41):
And you know, all of them are are great, but
I would pick Junior Oka Candy.

Speaker 4 (01:32:49):
I'd picked Junior as well. He played twenty two years.
He you know, he was a thirteen time All Star,
ten time goal Glove, seven times Silver Silver Slugger Award,
four time Al home run leader. Uh yeah, I would

(01:33:10):
pick I would pick Ken George.

Speaker 5 (01:33:18):
Continue the streak. I'm gonna say Ken Griffy Jr. Also,
I love his stance, I love his perseverance. I like
the way he hustled. I like the way he contributed
to his team in so many different ways, hitting especially,
but also fielding and running. And you know, he's just
a really good ballplayer. Ken Griffy Junior is my choice.

Speaker 6 (01:33:40):
All right, gotta go Griffy Jr.

Speaker 7 (01:33:43):
You know, best, probably the best player of you know
of two of two different up two or three different decades,
you know, Yeah, and Cincinnati.

Speaker 6 (01:33:50):
Part of that was was he got hurt a lot.
You know, that's part of the reason why he faded.

Speaker 7 (01:33:54):
You know, I wouldn't I wouldn't put it completely on
skill though, because because you know, there was no there
was Nobody had him more beautiful swing at that point
in time than Ken Griffred Junior.

Speaker 6 (01:34:03):
I mean, I mean, you look at a boom.

Speaker 7 (01:34:05):
It was featured on commercial It was so marketable, it
was featured on commercials all that you couldn't even turn on.
He was the equivalent of what Taylor Swift was when
you can't even turn on the TV without seeing him everywhere.

Speaker 6 (01:34:15):
And yep, and so you know you can't you cannot
go wrong with Ken Grifford Junior.

Speaker 7 (01:34:20):
There, great, great player, was a huge part of the
resurgence of the Seattle Mariners in Seattle.

Speaker 6 (01:34:25):
And you know there's just you know, just know one better.

Speaker 1 (01:34:29):
Well, maybe I'll go ahead and make this unanimous too.
I'm going with Ken Griffy Jor. I can tell you
what I wouldn't put bonds in there, that's for sure.
The Jersey which one you want? The Pittsford version of
San Francisco, No way on bonds. And the other choice
that we have in this group here is you have
Albert Pooles. So I think they tried that long tenure

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deal with him in the Angels and how did that
work out? He faded on the back end of it
and we'll stand on the unanimous theme here and and
go to Ward Pools is the unanimous Hall of Fame selection.

Speaker 11 (01:35:04):
Rob Uh, Yeah, yeah, I think so. I think he'll
get in.

Speaker 1 (01:35:11):
He definitely getting into one thing. One hundred percent.

Speaker 11 (01:35:14):
Now one hundred Oh you okay, I thought you met
with us saying.

Speaker 1 (01:35:21):
I don't.

Speaker 3 (01:35:22):
I don't know if he's going to get one hundred percent,
because look he Cheero did. There's going to be someone
out there who doesn't do it. So I misunderstood your question.

Speaker 1 (01:35:31):
But now that I know what it was, all right,
that's why.

Speaker 11 (01:35:36):
He's not getting in one hundred percent?

Speaker 4 (01:35:39):
Can he not one hundred percent?

Speaker 5 (01:35:41):
No, George, Hey, listen, if they didn't do it for
a lot of the other guys are not going to
do it for him. I'll say no, he will not
get one hundred percent. He'll get in the mid nineties.

Speaker 1 (01:35:52):
Though, thanks for you for the kind of words. We
appreciate it. I don't know if you're referring to Mickey
earlier he was having the Internet albums. But you'll see
him on Saturday as well as on Friday Night with
Rob and Chris. But he'll address some of the topics
and we're making sure everybody gets a crack at him anyway, Eric.

Speaker 6 (01:36:12):
I don't think he'll get in unanimously.

Speaker 7 (01:36:14):
I mean Ichiro didn't, and Ichiro probably is the position
player who probably deserved, probably deserve it the most. Again, Unanis,
I think they're gonna use I think they're gonna use
a few of his fading years with the Angels against him,
especially the years where he's injured. I mean, he still
had some good seasons in Anaheim, but he wasn't but
he wasn't like the same guy as he was with

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you know, he wasn't the same guy as he was
you know when he was in Saint Louis. I mean,
still good, still got still productive, but not nearly what
he was when he had when he was hitting over
one hundred and twenty plus rbi every single year.

Speaker 6 (01:36:51):
But but you know, I wouldn't, uh, you know, I
don't think they will.

Speaker 7 (01:36:56):
I think they're going to use a few of those
years against him. And besides, they didn't put your Chiro
in unanimously. They didn't put Derek Jeter in unanimously. And
you know, I just even even before him, there were
some great ballplayers who were significantly better who didn't get
in unanimously, who were just good forever until they retired
to the point where you thought they could play until
they were fifty.

Speaker 6 (01:37:16):
But you know, I don't I.

Speaker 7 (01:37:18):
Don't see him getting in. That's just that that's unanimously.
He'll get in obviously at first ballot, but I don't
think it'll be unanimously because you know, we've seen what
the writers have.

Speaker 1 (01:37:25):
Done hiting praisers on target.

Speaker 2 (01:37:28):
Mariano over the Bear was the only one that got
one hundred percent the really ones that should.

Speaker 1 (01:37:31):
Have gotten in for sure, there's no question about that.

Speaker 6 (01:37:34):
Absolutely. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:37:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:37:36):
A couple more times want to get to moving along
roll well here tonight, mainly just a couple f on
my eyes. Two fourth, nineteen seventy four, the Cleveland Indians.

Speaker 1 (01:37:45):
Beer Night.

Speaker 6 (01:37:46):
It was bad, Yeah, unbelievable, it was bad. Was that
it was really bad? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:37:53):
Yeah, I can imagine. I only imagine what those beer knights.
Anybody else want to come in on that real quickly?

Speaker 11 (01:37:59):
I remember that when I was a kid. Oh I'm sorry, dad, George.

Speaker 5 (01:38:04):
Well, the crew chief was Nester Shylac, one of the
best umpires in history, and he was forced with his
crew to talk about this and whether there was going
to be a forfeit in that game, and some stupid
fan got out of hand and they hit Ester Shylac
with a chair and it was just a horrible situation.

(01:38:26):
Uh Mester Shylack is a Hall of Fame umpire and
obviously his number is even retired by Baseball. It's not
just because of that incident, but it does go to
show that when you get this liquor or this beer
in you so much at such a high rate and
for a low price, you're opening yourself up to some

(01:38:48):
riots in the stand, so to speak. And that's that's
what I remember most about the tensir Beard night Scott.
It was a black eye for baseball, but especially for
the Cleveland Indians.

Speaker 1 (01:38:59):
Point okay, but who isn't commented.

Speaker 11 (01:39:02):
On this me.

Speaker 3 (01:39:04):
I just wanted to quick say something real quick. From
there was a brawl on the field too, if you remember,
and that's what started. Besides you know, everybody being drunk,
that really started it. And then you know, over twenty
five thousand fans with ten cent beers and a streaker
ran on the field too. So, like George said, it

(01:39:26):
was just a mess.

Speaker 1 (01:39:29):
Yeah, who's left?

Speaker 6 (01:39:32):
Yeah, no, it don't.

Speaker 7 (01:39:34):
Oh er, Yes, Well, first off, you know, you put
beer that cheap, you're just asking for something bad to happen.
I mean, I mean that that that event made the
eighty six Mets celebration when they won, when they won
the NL's Division look like a tea party, even though
that was pretty bad too, but not nearly what ten

(01:39:54):
cent beer Night was. But you know, I mean they
had to forfeit the game. There were twenty five thousand
some people on the field. There's that that that got
out of hand real fast. And I can guarantee you
there were no more ten set beer and I think
Cleveland from then on.

Speaker 6 (01:40:09):
But you know, it was just, you know, it's just bad.

Speaker 1 (01:40:11):
You know.

Speaker 7 (01:40:12):
You mean, when you when you put when you put some,
when you when you lower the price of liquor, it's
you got to know that there's gonna be some problems
to come with it, especially when when when you lower
the price and everyone's wallets become a little deeper.

Speaker 6 (01:40:24):
You know. Oh boy, Okay, make your hand.

Speaker 1 (01:40:28):
If the other spoken on this candy, do you want
to talk about it?

Speaker 4 (01:40:32):
I mean, like Eric said, I mean, you drop a
price of liquor, you're going to expect people to drink
too much because hey, it's it's cheap, and it was
probably cheaper than buying SODA's at that point at ten
cents of beer, you know, and so people are gonna

(01:40:53):
drink that. And some people that normally don't you know,
you have a couple and you're you're just asking for trouble.

Speaker 1 (01:41:02):
That's all I'll like to get any further Disco demolition
that was also bad. Oh yeah, yeah, great. Thanks. And
by the way, just so you know on here you
are one of the leading candidates. Uh till Leonard giveaway.

Speaker 2 (01:41:17):
Keep producing these types of comments and you're gonna move
back to the to the front of the pack, passing
than you can realize. So it's about engagements as far
as what this contest is with Steven Ruschell and I.
And you keep those engagements, in my opinion, you'd be
my odds and favorite too one or going to be
promoting sooner or later.

Speaker 1 (01:41:36):
All right, Rob, did you get your two cents in?
Or has everybody said.

Speaker 11 (01:41:39):
On that I got my two cents?

Speaker 2 (01:41:40):
I'll say that ten cents of beer. I don't even
buy it for two three dollars a beer. So they
didn't make any different. But I understand the promotion. I
get what they had to say.

Speaker 7 (01:41:51):
All right, Eric, go ahead, I will say I was
in Cleveland this I was in Cleveland in August, and
they have something that before the game is called two
dollars beer.

Speaker 6 (01:41:59):
So you know I still got something going there.

Speaker 7 (01:42:01):
But I can promise you the atmosphere is a little
more control because we have too many cameras nowadays.

Speaker 1 (01:42:06):
That's true.

Speaker 6 (01:42:08):
Otherwise otherwise we'll have Otherwise we're gonna have bigger fish
to fry here.

Speaker 3 (01:42:14):
I like that.

Speaker 1 (01:42:15):
Okay, I'm known in the day.

Speaker 2 (01:42:17):
On August eighteen eighty nine, who was gonna say, oh
my god, you came up with another different one.

Speaker 6 (01:42:23):
You got it.

Speaker 2 (01:42:25):
A guy by the name of Jack Glass sock hits
for the Cycle, helping Indianapolis to a fourteen to one
win over New York. I don't know what New York
team it is, and I'm not gonna go back and
research that much, but yes, we have cycles. People in
eighteen eighty nine, Well, you think you want to even

(01:42:46):
we don't want the.

Speaker 3 (01:42:47):
Match, no, but you want to listen and do you
know what else happened? Because you research? I research that good.

Speaker 11 (01:42:56):
It was the Giants. It was the New York Giants.

Speaker 3 (01:42:58):
By the way, they lost their baggage on their way
to the game from Chicago, so they had to wear
the old Indeapolis uniforms. So it was a mess on
the field that day.

Speaker 1 (01:43:12):
Okay, that's good. No fact he made it know. It
was the Giants, a New York baseball giant. Candy.

Speaker 4 (01:43:22):
I'm still doing research because obviously this was way.

Speaker 5 (01:43:25):
Before my.

Speaker 1 (01:43:28):
My great grandparents weren't even born then, or maybe they were.

Speaker 3 (01:43:31):
No.

Speaker 6 (01:43:31):
Actually, really, Scott your time, or they were close. Really,
Scott your time.

Speaker 1 (01:43:36):
I won't come back to candyard, all right, Well, I go.

Speaker 4 (01:43:40):
So he was nicknamed heavily Jack. He was the top
player at his position in the eighteen eighties during the
sports bare handed era. He led the National League in
fielding percentage seven times and an assists six times. He
was the only shortstop to lead in fielding position percentage

(01:44:02):
and total chances in a season three times until Lewis
Parichio Maxi Oslie Smith eventually surpassed him. He led also
led the National League in double plays four times and

(01:44:22):
in putouts twice. He won the eighteen to ninety bad
title with a three thirty six average for the Giants
and led the league in hits twice. In his final season,
he became the sixth major league player to make two
thousand hits. He was the first player to appear in
over six hundred games as a shortstop, and ended his

(01:44:45):
career in the major league records for games, putouts, assists,
total chances, double plays, and fielding percentage. At the time
when he retired, he ranked fifth in major league history
in games at bad with seven thousand and thirty, and
seventh in total bases and eighth in doubles. So gives

(01:45:08):
you some stats for him.

Speaker 2 (01:45:10):
There you go, all right, So there you go. For
those of you that did not know who Jack Glassic is,
now you know, all right, George, I did.

Speaker 5 (01:45:19):
Not know who Jack is. Thank you for filling me
on his career. Good jobst No, that's that's some remarkable stuff.
Even back then, you know, they you look at those
films of those old guys trying to catch a ball,
and those myths were like, you know, so small and everything.

(01:45:40):
It was just a different game back then as far
as hitting goes, and hey, he did it all that. Yeah,
I definitely know who he is. Now.

Speaker 2 (01:45:55):
Well, I'm going to find out that jet if uh,
Mickey callaway and and the other manager, wriggle Man knows
who he is.

Speaker 1 (01:46:05):
Does that sound all right? We'll find out.

Speaker 2 (01:46:07):
You know, this one will definitely carry over since Mickey
unfortunately when able to get past his Internet problem, but
we'll have him back a couple of times later this week.

Speaker 1 (01:46:15):
So all right, Eric, you have the last word on
mister Glass.

Speaker 6 (01:46:18):
Well, from how you describe it, Scott, it sounds like
you were actually at the game. I had to. I
had to throw it out a little lightning bullet.

Speaker 1 (01:46:32):
Did that?

Speaker 6 (01:46:36):
I came from the top rope. I could not resist.

Speaker 1 (01:46:39):
I know you did pretty well. Yeah, okay, is this
one flu with a cuckoo's nest? Or what's that? What's it?
What's it? Yeah?

Speaker 6 (01:46:53):
I went, Yeah, Jack Nicholson was in it?

Speaker 1 (01:46:55):
You have, But who's the one where you had those
old people were at the cafeteria.

Speaker 6 (01:46:59):
I'm trying, remember U pond No, No, that it was
Jack Nicholson. And because I'm trying, I'm no, never mind,
I mean the bucket list. You mean the bucket list, No,
not that one.

Speaker 1 (01:47:15):
It'll come back to me at a later date.

Speaker 7 (01:47:16):
I know it well, But yeah, I mean, it's pretty
impressive though that they were hitting for cycles back then too.

Speaker 6 (01:47:21):
Because the ball was significantly larger.

Speaker 7 (01:47:23):
It was basically the you could probably argue with the
size of almost the side of a bowling ball, and
they picked up They probably didn't have bullpens back then.

Speaker 6 (01:47:30):
The starter threw at.

Speaker 7 (01:47:32):
Least two could throw up the two hundred and three
hundred plus pitches with no elbow problems. And they had
no players association back then, so the only the only
people that got rich in this game were owners.

Speaker 6 (01:47:41):
So but you know, pretty impressive though, especially for the time.

Speaker 5 (01:47:45):
For sure.

Speaker 1 (01:47:47):
Yeah, that blows me away.

Speaker 2 (01:47:48):
But that's why I enjoy come up with this stuff
because again, unlike our podcast competitors in the right mind,
when come up with this stuff, that's why I'm not
in my right mind.

Speaker 1 (01:47:58):
That's why they aim to educate, entertain and in form
and that's what we're here. Let's try to do that.

Speaker 2 (01:48:04):
Said, as we get ready to wrap up the show, Rob,
why don't you let everybody know how they can get
a hold of you up where.

Speaker 3 (01:48:13):
We're just expanding all over the place, so you could
get us that ny MLB talk on Facebook or Rob Moroska.

Speaker 11 (01:48:25):
But we are big.

Speaker 3 (01:48:26):
We have a big audience on Facebook too, YouTube, x,
TikTok everywhere, just like you guys, And we can't wait
until next Friday night when Scott's Scott returns with Mickey Callaway.
We're looking forward to that. Everyone's there's a buzz about
it already with our audience, and you know, we're just

(01:48:46):
looking forward to it.

Speaker 11 (01:48:47):
And Eric Katz is coming on too.

Speaker 3 (01:48:49):
I'm going to talk to Eric after the show, and
you know, we're just you know, your guys are really great.

Speaker 11 (01:48:55):
They they've been coming on the show and we've been
having fun with them.

Speaker 1 (01:48:58):
Well, I'm glad that they ant the exposure on your show.
Why not you and Chris do a wonderful job. I enjoyed.
My guys get other opportunities to go on everywhere else. Candy,
something you want to add.

Speaker 4 (01:49:08):
I want to add one thing to mister Glascock.

Speaker 6 (01:49:12):
He was one.

Speaker 4 (01:49:13):
He was one of the most difficult players of the
nineteenth century to strike out, doing so just once in
every thirty three at bats.

Speaker 2 (01:49:27):
And Candy just couldn't wait to get more stants out
and you know what on this one. But I'll tell
you what, Candy, you probably volunteered your say self to
come on our show with Wriggleman and Mickey when you
have to.

Speaker 1 (01:49:40):
Come up with these facts and educate these guys too.

Speaker 2 (01:49:43):
So I wouldn't go too far away from it, because
these guys gonna be pulling away, especially our man Wriggleman,
because he's gonna rude awakening when he comes down here
with all that stuff I dig up beyond what he's
used to manage it. Okay, George, go ahead, let everybody.

Speaker 1 (01:49:59):
Know how to get hold you.

Speaker 5 (01:50:00):
All right. You can follow me on the South Florida
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provides you a link to get my book, which is
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years of broadcast history in Detroit and the great late

(01:50:21):
Ernie Harwell is part of that book, and so is
Scott and so am I. But you can reach me
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continue to was visit these shows be part of these

(01:50:46):
shows great. Scott and I've known each other for over
forty years, and we've got a strong history with that
sports exchange name we back in the days. Yeah, all right, Eric.

Speaker 7 (01:51:01):
You can follow me on my Twitter at sports Team
News sports Team News, or check out my blog at
alf sports dot com, where I'm writing about all things baseball.
And if I'm going after your team, it means I
probably don't like them either.

Speaker 1 (01:51:13):
Hey, can you take us for away?

Speaker 4 (01:51:16):
South Florida Tribune Publishing Company published a book, Lessons from
the Microphone, Tuning into the enduring Wisdom of Visionary Leaders.
It has many stories that Scott tells. Scott wrote the book,
George wrote the foreword. You have to get your copy
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(01:51:37):
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(01:52:00):
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I mean, come on, we have some of the.

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(01:52:32):
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(01:52:55):
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(01:53:17):
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(01:53:38):
big shoes there, Scott for someone to fill can.

Speaker 1 (01:53:41):
Really build me up. Oh no, that's okay.

Speaker 2 (01:53:44):
I just try to do the best I can every show,
trying to make it real, make sure we have the
best things to talk about.

Speaker 1 (01:53:49):
That's my goal. The only way I look at is
my goal to make sure we do better the next time.
That's how I've always believed in.

Speaker 2 (01:53:56):
Like Tom Manny's even Keel like to do the same
thing as their manager, a guy who I think clearly of.
So I encourage everybody to hopefully have an opportunity to
watch the Time Manningly interview. And we have a lot
of other ones that I'm working on as well. So
with that said, so I want to thank Mickey Callaway
for being on partner the night anyways, at least we

(01:54:17):
got him in on the manning league comments and some
of the important ones, and you'll see him again later
in the week. So on behalf of Mickey Callaway, Rob Morosca,
Kandy Hamblin, George I. Cord and Eric cath. My name
is Scott Morgan, Rothwater City, Manmouth. Thank you for joining
us on this edition of hundred eighty, just as Baseball
Talk will be back next my day.

Speaker 1 (01:54:36):
I take care of everybody, have yourself a great week
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