This week on Inside the (Rob) Parker, Rob discusses the likely coming relocation of the Oakland A's, why the overload of no-hitters is making them less special, and why it's probably the end of the line for Albert Pujols, following his Angels release. Also, Betting on the Bases, Pocket Protector Stat of the Week, Diamond Dust.
Guests: Author Rocco Constantino discusses his new book detailing the history of African Americans throughout the history of Major League Baseball. MLB.com writer Mark Feinsand on the Jacob DeGrom's arm issues, if Shohei Ohtani can win the MVP, the best fits if the and when the Rockies move SS Trevor Story, and where the A's could end up if they leave Oakland.
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It's getting run to keep him on. Rob's hot take
on the three biggest stories in Major League Baseball. Number one,
Say it isn't so, but the Oakland A's could be
moving out of Oakland Baseball has given its blessing that
the AI's ownership can start looking around for a new home.
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The A's have been there in Oakland since nineteen sixty eight.
We get it, it's a bad stadium. They desperately need
a new place to play, But man, what a blow
it would do to the city and to the fans.
There have a longstanding tradition. People forget that the Oakland A's,
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you know with the Bass Brothers, go back to the
seventies when they had Reggie Jackson and Joe Rudy. They
also had Ricky Henderson. There as a lot of history, Catfish, Hunter,
Vida Blue. I can go on and on and on
about all the great players who came out of Oakland.
And at one time they won three World Series in
a row nineteen seventy one, seventy two, and seventy three,
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and an amazing franchise. But this could be the n
if they don't get a stadium, and my gut is
that this will be the m number two. Enough already
with the no hitters, what kind of baseball is this?
We had four no hitters in forty days of the
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twenty twenty one season. I mean, that's at a record pace,
which is ridiculous. It used to be like unbelievable to
actually see a no hitter or witness it, or go
to a ball game or watch it on TV. And
now it's happening almost once a week in his very
young baseball season. And obviously, you know, there's a couple
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of things at hand here. Baseball played with the baseball.
They didn't want as many home runs, so they kind
of dockered the ball. Number two, the average batting average
is two thirty four in the big leagues. That's the
fourth consecutive year. So guys don't hit for average anymore.
It's feast or famine strikeouts or home runs, which is bad.
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And here's another stat that we shouldn't be happy with.
Strikeouts are outpacing hits. We now see more strikeouts than
we see hits in the major leagues. Ma'am. Something's got
to be figured out. This feels like nineteen sixty eight
when the mound was too high, and you know, people
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couldn't hit for average. I think only one player in
the American League hit over three hundred and nineteen sixty eight,
if you could believe that. And Bob Gibson and all
these pictures dominated in that era, Mickey Lowlitch and you know,
Sandy Colfax. It was just unbelievable. So yeah, baseball needs
to get this figured out. We need more offense, we
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need more contact, we need more balls in play, and
we don't need more no hitters. Let's keep him at
a minimum where people can appreciate them and not make
them one where we see every ten days or so.
That's not what we're looking for. How about a little
law hit and runs. How about some doubles, some triples?
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Get the ball in play? Number three. It's been about
a week since the Angels cut Albert Poolholes, one of
the all time great players, one of the greatest right
handed hitters who've ever played the game. And Albert Poole
said he wasn't done and he wants to play again.
But after that was shot down by his former manager
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Tony LaRussa with the White Sox that there was no
room at the end for Poolholes. I'm not so sure
he's gonna get another opportunity. Here comes the big interviews. Listen, Hendler,
what's so good? All right? Now, let's bring in author
Rocco Constantino, who's written a new book that I'm very
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interested in. It's called In Beyond Baseball's Color Barrea, The
Story of African Americans in Major League Baseball, Past, Present
and Future. Roco Man, I'm interested in this book. Tell
me why I need to pick it up. Thanks a lot,
rob It's great, great to be on your show, you know,
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it's it's I'd say the main reason to pick up
this book is it's a comprehensive history. We start in
eighteen seventy nine and we examine how the color line
was eventually drawn in Major League batesball, and then we
look at the efforts to erode it, and we get
to Jackie Robinson. But you know them, between Jackie Robinson
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and the modern day, Yeah, we celebrate all those great
African Americans players, the guys that played through the sixties, seventies, eighties,
and all the way up through today. And then there's
you know, last half of the book is looking towards
the future, and there's been you know, very well publicized
downtrend in participation among African Americans in the majors, but
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it's kind of leveling off and we think we see
some hope for the future, and that's where the book ends. Up. So,
like I said, I'm very proud of the research that
was done. And it's comprehensive. Like I said, it starts
in eighteen seventy nine, it goes all the way through
today to look at the future, has some great firsthand
interviews in there, and yeah, I'm really happy with the
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finished products. Roco, tell me about the eighteen hundreds, but
tell me about the black players playing in the major
leagues during that time. What was that like for them?
How dangerous was it was? You know, did people not
really make a big issue of taller? How did that
play out? It was? And we actually started off with
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an interesting case, a guy by the name of Will
White who played one game in eighteen seventy nine, and
it was pretty much a footnote in Major league history
until two thousand and four when they discovered that Will's
mother was half half half black and she was married
to a slave owner. And like I said, that goes
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back to eighteen seventy nine, and he played one game
as a fill ins, and you know, he represented himself
as a white person. But at the time, you know,
he had a if he would have been following the laws,
he would have been considered African American, but he tried
to get around that because he had light skin. Anyway,
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there's a lot of thought that he was found out
after one game and maybe you know, wasn't allowed to
play after that because he played one game and did well.
But anyway, the first part can openly play as an
African American and not try to hide behind that. With
Moses Fleetwood Walker and he played on the eighteen eighty
four Toledo Bluestockings one year in the majors with his
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brother Weldy. He was the last African Americans to play
before Jackie Robinson. And yeah, he faced all the same
stuff that you know that you could imagine from that time.
He had players like cap Anson threatening to boycott games
with him. You know, there were different in the minor leagues,
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you know, International League, and in nineteen a one, I
believe it was past their role. You know, they had
seven African American players in the league that were good,
and they were, you know, starting to get a little
nervous that they were going to take other people's jobs.
And so you know, they formally passed the law spanning
any future contract for African Americans. And then some other
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league either adopted that in writing or in you know,
in threory and in general with the general gentleman's agreement
major League Baseball, and you know, examine all that kind
of stuff. It was very very interesting to dig into.
Guests here on inside the Parker's author Roco Constantino. Uh,
he's written a book called in Beyond Baseball's Color Barrier.
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Tell me about Jackie Robinson And did you find out
anything new about that? We all know about Jackie Robinson,
how important he was not only to baseball, Roco, but
also to America. He changed America when he took the
field for the Brooklyn Dodgers in nineteen forty seven. Were
there any interest in tim bids you find out about
about Jackie? Yeah? I I. You know a lot of
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the stuff that you know, he's so well researched and
written about. It was its always great to read. Um.
One thing that that struck me was, you know, and
you've always heard that he had the support of the fans.
Um I was reading about. Uh, you're a year in
East Coast New York City kind of guy. But Jackie's
debut in the minor league the year before he played
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for the Dodgers and the first game he played was
at Roosevelt Stadium, New Jersey City. And then just reading
the newspaper account now at that time, I mean there
was general, i mean genuine excitement about him playing minor
league baseball. There were fans outside the ballparks, you know,
selling pins that said I'm with Jackie and had his
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face on it, and you know, he was he was beloved.
I mean it's you read the papers and you read
the stories from from what we're written during the time
that he played, and it's fascinating. And one of my
favorite ones was he you know, when he played for
the Montreal Oils in nineteen forty six and they they
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won the championship and they're one of the great minor
league teams of all time. And after the game was
over and they won their championship in their home ballpark,
the fans rust the fields and they stormed Jackie and
they you know, we're ripping his shirt off and they
wanted a piece of them. And it said he had
to run clear out of the stadium with all his
fans chasing them. And you know, there was a comment
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in one of the books that I read and said,
like it was you know, for once there was a
uh you know, a marvel people chasing an African American
for a good reason, and it just kind of struck
at the time, like, wow, that's what these people really
nery went through. And um, you know, it's just very
striking to read a lot of the stuff the accounts
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from that time. And then you had the players boom
black players between the seventies and the nineties. I mean,
the league and the game was literally black stars all
over the place. We already know, and when you can
think about that, black players really weren't able to play
until nineteen forty seven. Yet you look at the record
books and black players are represented all over the place. Uh,
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that was a great time in baseball. I mean there
were just stars everywhere, wasn't there? It was. And that's
that's where my book kind of takes that turn from
the you know, the historical and digging into the influence
and of all the black players had on the subsequent generations.
And I was watching a podcast just last night with
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Bob Kendricks, the president of the Negro League Museum, and
he had David Price and CC Sabatia on there, and
they were talking about you know, CC was talking about
learning about Bob Gibson and the generation before, and Dave
Stewart was another person that was on the broadcast with them,
and Stewart said, you know, to David Price, there's going
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to be some kids, you know, young African American pitcher
that looks up and says, Wow, I want to be
like David Price. So when you see them talking about
how influential all the previous generations were, it really kind
of hits home and uh, and that was something I
covered in the book, right, Hank, Aaron, Willie Mays, they
grew up watching Jackie Robinson and being influenced by Anton,
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Larry Doby. You know, all these guys and then those
stars of the seventies and eighties, they watched Willie Mays's kids,
they watched Tank Aaron, they watched Bob Gibson, and and
you know, there was never a time even during segregation.
You know, there were the Negro League stars were big too.
They drew the drew a lot, So there was never
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a time where there was a shortage of black stars. Um,
it's just a matter of hoping that they start to
gravitate towards back to baseball. Well, Rocco, Where can people
get your book? The book is in Beyond Baseball's Colabaria,
the Story of African Americans in Major League Baseball, Pass,
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Present and Future. Where is it available? All right? It's
available everywhere online. It's on Amazon and Barnes and Nobles
through my publisher of Roman and Littlefield, or on my website,
Roco Konstantino dot com. Um now, it's it's available widely
all over the place. All right, Rocco, We appreciate you,
good luck with the book, and we'll definitely be looking
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to read this one. I appreciate it, Thank you, Thank you, sir.
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What do you got for me? Anthony? We spoke last
week about just how good pictures have been so far
this season. Four no hitters or five if you're generous,
putting off into the spot we haven't seen since the
divisional araby in nineteen sixty nine. We see the results,
but why are we seeing pitches dominate the way they are.
Fangrafts Check Gutwine had a very positive last week, and
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the numbers do bear it out. In the first six
weeks of the season, we've seen hurler's pouring pitch after
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to thirty nine different zones. Zones one through nine considered
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zones just on the edges, twenty one to twenty nine
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the chase zones, while thirty one to thirty nine are
considered waste pitches. This season, we're seeing a swinging strike
rate over twenty percent of pitches into the top shadow
zone of the plate, up a full percentage point from
last year, while batters are swinging and missing at nineteen
point two percent of pitches at the top heart of
the zone. Normally the pitches guys can barrel up most consistently,
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up over two full percentage points from last year and
nearly five percent from twenty seventeen. Spin rates and velocities
on fastballs are at an all time high in the
stat Cast era, and it would appear the pitchers are
finding hitter's weaknesses better than ever before. Turned money into
more money. Now it's time for betting on the bases
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with Dave Gascott. Love that money, money we'll get. The
weekend started off right at Fenway Park. You get the
Angels and the Red Sox. Boston only ten and ten
a home this season, but twenty two and fifteen overall.
They're one of the surprise teams at the American League.
And who would have thought. Nick Pavetta this season is
five and oh with an ERA at three nineteen against
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Griffin Canning three and two with an ERA at five nineteen.
I'm taking the over in that game. Also, I'm taking
the Cardinals and the Padres that has won the night
Caps on Friday Night, I'm taking the Saint Louis Cardinals
in this one against Joe Musgrove. Musgrove, who had a
no hitter earlier this season. The San Diego native has
given up nine total runs his last two games. I'm
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taking the Cardinals as a road dog in that affair.
The other game, I'm taking as the Cubbies and the Tigers.
I'm taking the Chicago Cubs on the road Jake Arietta
versus Teek Scoball in the pitching matchups scoopball. The season
is o and five with a five sixty seven ERA.
Tiger's the worst team in Major League Baseball. I'm taking
the Cubbies with a little bit of shock. When Rob
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was a newspaper columnist, he lived by this motto, if
I'm writing, I'm ripping. Let's bring in a writer and
broadcaster older new All right, now, let's welcome to the podcast.
Mark Fine Sam the fine baseball writer from MLB dot com. Mark,
welcome to the podcast. How you doing, my man, I'm good, Rob.
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How are you doing? Buddy doing great? Man? I want
to pepper you with some questions about all over baseball.
Let's start in New York with the Metropolitans and did
they make a mistake putting Jacob deGrom back out on
the mound after he had come out of a game.
And there was questions about an injury and they put
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him back out there. Now he's on the ten day.
I L is this something to be worried about or
not so much? I would say not so much. I
don't think it was a mistake. I mean, they scratched
him from a start when he had some tightness. They
did test, they didn't find anything. He said he was
good to go. Obviously, he threw him aside and felt fine,
went in it's five innings and then came out again.
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You know, I'm not sure it was a mistake. I
think it was a very smart move for them to
put him on the IL, even though the MRII revealed nothing,
because this is not a guy you want to mess
around with. And the fact that he's had, you know,
the issue twice in a matter of a week or so.
You know, the fact that it's a ten day I L.
Now this only means he really misses one start that's
pushed back a day on a second start. So I
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thought it was a good move for them to put
him on my IL. But I didn't have a problem
with him storring him to make too much Mark, Let's
go to the angels and show hey Otani, who is
putting together a season baseball people, I haven't seen since
Babe Ruth where guy's pitch thrown over a hundred miles
an hour, he's hitting home runs. The other day he
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pitched and played white field. I mean, they didn't want
to take his bat out of the lineup. What do
you make of this season? This could be an MVP
season if he puts it together. I love it. I mean,
there's no more fascinating player in the league to watch
right now. And it's not just that he's pitching and hitting.
He's doing both of them at all star levels, right.
I Mean, you've been talking about a guy. He doesn't
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have the innings pitch as some of the top guys,
but he's started twenty five innings. He's got a two
ten r A. You know, the walks are an issue,
but he doesn't give a very many hits, strikes out
well over a batter at inning, and he's a been slugver.
And you know, I don't know if the MVP thing
is going to happen for two reasons. Number One, he
plays on a team that is not very competitive at
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the moment. He is one of their few pitchers who's
actually pitching for their capabilities. And secondly, he plays to
Mike Trout, and Mike Trout is such a good player
and he's such a generation talent that he is always
going to beat MNMB conversation as well. And if you
have two guys in that conversation from a losing team,
it's almost hard for me to see either of them
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winning it. But if the Angels can turn things around
and contend, and time he keeps doing what he's doing
both pitching and hitting, you know, the sky's the limits
of this guy. He's just such an impressive talent and
it's taken a few years for him to stort of
put it all together where he can do both and
do both well. But man, he's fun to watch. Our
guest is Mark Finsen from MLB dot com, and you
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had a story on the site on Wednesday, Mark about
Trevor's story to shortstop of the Rockies, and you said,
if there is a deal, it looks like there could
be a deal. He's going to be a free agent
next year, right, so they unload him get what they
can if they're not going to resign the guy. And
these clubs you said are the best fits. Tell me
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tell me the best fits for him, well, I mean,
I think the obvious best fit is the Yankees. Their
team is not afraid to be aggressive, to go out
and make a big move at the deadline, you know,
to add a big talent. You know, if they're willing
to go over that luxury attacks threshold, which they might
have to do if they add his six million over
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the last couple of months, you know, you can move
claveror Tours back to second base, which I think is
a better natural position for him, and and put story
in as short there there to me, the most obvious
fit the Aids or a team again Billy Bean. Every
time he sees a windows, he's an opportunity. He's not
afraid to go out and make a deal. Shortstop has
been a bit of a problem there. Elvis Andrews has
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been a huge disappointment in Oakland, so I think there
a possibility. And then the Brewers or another team, the Reds,
a couple of n L Central clubs that I put
in there not getting the production, had a shortstop and
in a very witnable division, and the last team I
had was to raise you know, the money is what
would get in the way there they've got more than
enough prospects. It's operated form system in the league, accorded
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at MLBA pipeline. You know, So the question is would
Colorado kay downs some of that salary to increase the
level of prospect they get back if they are and
the Raiss aside, that's a spot that they need some
help in. Willia Donnas Joey Wendell not combined for very
much offense out of the shortstop position this year. You know,
the Rays could could be a stealth team to get
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into the story sweepstakes. All right, Mark, do you just
mentioned the A's and the news. Of course Baseball's given
it's blessing that they can look around possible relocation because
they don't have a new deal. Give me two or
three cities that the Oakland A's could wind up. Well,
Las Vegas is a very popular potential destination obviously that
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you know, they've played some games there in the regular season,
some of the teams, you know, they've had success of
Triple A Baseball there and just like they finally got
an NFL team that sort of broke the ice in
terms of professional sports in Las Vegas, they've got an
NHL team now So the idea that you can't have
a team in Vegas because of the gambling aspect, that's
out the window now. Sharpe in another city that's been
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talked about a lot, Nashville, where Gave Dombrowski was before
he went to the Phillies. They've been trying to get
a team. So there are options out there, and now
with MLB sort of giving the aids they're blessing to
look around, that's going to put some pressure on, you know,
the city of Oakland to step up and get that
that ballpark built downtown because you know, they've already lost
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the Warriors, they've already lost the Raiders. You have to
imagine that Oakland does not want to lose a third
professional team. Yeah, it sounds like it. We'll see what
happens there. Last thing, something fun. You've been covering baseball
forever and you've been to every ballpark and all around
the country. The best hot dog at a Major League
Baseball stadium, let's see. I like the Fenway Frank The
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Dodger dog has a unique sort of flavor and appeal
to it. I wouldn't want that to be my every
day hot dog, but for the few times that I
go to La and Dodger dogs always a muss. But
if I have to pick one, I'm gonna go with
the sausages a Yankee Stadium. I know it's a hometown
pick and it's not technically a hot dog, but you
give me a spicy sauce in the Yankee Stadium, I'll
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take that every time. You know what what I love
about Yankee Stadium and the hot dogs is that you
have three brands you can get there. How many ballparks
mark have three? I could get a Subrette, you could
get a Nathan's, or you can get what was the
other one. There's three hot dogs you could get at
Yankee Stadium. But I'm a subret s guy. Give me
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some red onions, give me some spicy brown mustard, and
I'm good to go. You gotta cheat a little bit.
You gotta go to Sabrett hot Dog and then go
from stand and get some meat strides. Now it's time
for some diamond dust with Wish TVs. Phil Sanches. He
played baseball in college. Now here is MLB knowledge. Well,
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it's been announced that the Oakland Athletics will start to
explore the possibility of relocating with the blessings of Major
League Baseball. The A's declaration likely designed to pressure the
city of Oakland into approving plans for new Waterfront Ballpark.
The proposal includes a privately financed stadium, but it also
requires an eight hundred and fifty five million dollars commitment
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from the city. Now, should they move, the A's would
become only the third Major League Baseball team in the
last fifty years to relocate, joining the Texas Rangers, who
moved from DC in the nineteen seventies and the Washington
Nationals who moved to DC in two thousand and five.
It's been reported that there are cities five of them
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that would welcome the A's with open arms. Those cities
Las Vegas, Portland, Montreal, Nashville, and San Jose. Out of those,
my money would be on Nashville. The music city has
been trying to get an MLB team for years now,
and they have a lot of support to inside and
outside of baseball, including a number of famous musicians like
Justin Timberlake. The only problem would be convincing the team
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to move east, which might mean realignment, which could be
a bad thing or could be a good thing, depending
on which side of the ball you fall on. There,
Stranger things have happened, But in the end, I think
the city of Oakland will wake up and try to
keep the a's right where they belong. So await fu more,
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is bringing up the rear. Oh, but the diaper bag
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so on and so forth. I was reason why the
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the hot dog vendor, being the person that was taking
the tickets. So a lot of jobs that was generated
for the community. And it's unfortunate to see that another
team could possibly be leaving. Hopefully that deal and water
Front Park will be something that can happen, hopefully, but
I will hate to see the Oakland A's leave like
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all the other teams of Oakland. You know, just memories
are growing up. My favorite athlete of all time, Ricky Henderson,
going to watch him play the bass. Brothers. I mean,
back in the day with my baseball team, we would
catch bark go up there. We played pickle on the
bar train and we would uh, you know, go watch
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batting practice. It just be unfortunate if the A's aren't
able to make something happen. To stay in. In the
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both leagues, that and much more. Let's go to lead off.
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It's getting run to keep him on. Rob's hot take
on the three biggest stories in Major League Baseball. Number one,
Say it isn't so, but the Oakland A's could be
moving out of Oakland Baseball has given its blessing that
the AI's ownership can start looking around for a new home.
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The A's have been there in Oakland since nineteen sixty eight.
We get it, it's a bad stadium. They desperately need
a new place to play, But man, what a blow
it would do to the city and to the fans.
There have a longstanding tradition. People forget that the Oakland A's,
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you know with the Bass Brothers, go back to the
seventies when they had Reggie Jackson and Joe Rudy. They
also had Ricky Henderson. There as a lot of history, Catfish, Hunter,
Vida Blue. I can go on and on and on
about all the great players who came out of Oakland.
And at one time they won three World Series in
a row nineteen seventy one, seventy two, and seventy three,
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and an amazing franchise. But this could be the n
if they don't get a stadium, and my gut is
that this will be the m number two. Enough already
with the no hitters, what kind of baseball is this?
We had four no hitters in forty days of the
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twenty twenty one season. I mean, that's at a record pace,
which is ridiculous. It used to be like unbelievable to
actually see a no hitter or witness it, or go
to a ball game or watch it on TV. And
now it's happening almost once a week in his very
young baseball season. And obviously, you know, there's a couple
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of things at hand here. Baseball played with the baseball.
They didn't want as many home runs, so they kind
of dockered the ball. Number two, the average batting average
is two thirty four in the big leagues. That's the
fourth consecutive year. So guys don't hit for average anymore.
It's feast or famine strikeouts or home runs, which is bad.
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And here's another stat that we shouldn't be happy with.
Strikeouts are outpacing hits. We now see more strikeouts than
we see hits in the major leagues. Ma'am. Something's got
to be figured out. This feels like nineteen sixty eight
when the mound was too high, and you know, people
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couldn't hit for average. I think only one player in
the American League hit over three hundred and nineteen sixty eight,
if you could believe that. And Bob Gibson and all
these pictures dominated in that era, Mickey Lowlitch and you know,
Sandy Colfax. It was just unbelievable. So yeah, baseball needs
to get this figured out. We need more offense, we
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need more contact, we need more balls in play, and
we don't need more no hitters. Let's keep him at
a minimum where people can appreciate them and not make
them one where we see every ten days or so.
That's not what we're looking for. How about a little
law hit and runs. How about some doubles, some triples?
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Get the ball in play? Number three. It's been about
a week since the Angels cut Albert Poolholes, one of
the all time great players, one of the greatest right
handed hitters who've ever played the game. And Albert Poole
said he wasn't done and he wants to play again.
But after that was shot down by his former manager
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Tony LaRussa with the White Sox that there was no
room at the end for Poolholes. I'm not so sure
he's gonna get another opportunity. Here comes the big interviews. Listen, Hendler,
what's so good? All right? Now, let's bring in author
Rocco Constantino, who's written a new book that I'm very
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interested in. It's called In Beyond Baseball's Color Barrea, The
Story of African Americans in Major League Baseball, Past, Present
and Future. Roco Man, I'm interested in this book. Tell
me why I need to pick it up. Thanks a lot,
rob It's great, great to be on your show, you know,
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it's it's I'd say the main reason to pick up
this book is it's a comprehensive history. We start in
eighteen seventy nine and we examine how the color line
was eventually drawn in Major League batesball, and then we
look at the efforts to erode it, and we get
to Jackie Robinson. But you know them, between Jackie Robinson
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and the modern day, Yeah, we celebrate all those great
African Americans players, the guys that played through the sixties, seventies, eighties,
and all the way up through today. And then there's
you know, last half of the book is looking towards
the future, and there's been you know, very well publicized
downtrend in participation among African Americans in the majors, but
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it's kind of leveling off and we think we see
some hope for the future, and that's where the book ends. Up. So,
like I said, I'm very proud of the research that
was done. And it's comprehensive. Like I said, it starts
in eighteen seventy nine, it goes all the way through
today to look at the future, has some great firsthand
interviews in there, and yeah, I'm really happy with the
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finished products. Roco, tell me about the eighteen hundreds, but
tell me about the black players playing in the major
leagues during that time. What was that like for them?
How dangerous was it was? You know, did people not
really make a big issue of taller? How did that
play out? It was? And we actually started off with
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an interesting case, a guy by the name of Will
White who played one game in eighteen seventy nine, and
it was pretty much a footnote in Major league history
until two thousand and four when they discovered that Will's
mother was half half half black and she was married
to a slave owner. And like I said, that goes
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back to eighteen seventy nine, and he played one game
as a fill ins, and you know, he represented himself
as a white person. But at the time, you know,
he had a if he would have been following the laws,
he would have been considered African American, but he tried
to get around that because he had light skin. Anyway,
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there's a lot of thought that he was found out
after one game and maybe you know, wasn't allowed to
play after that because he played one game and did well.
But anyway, the first part can openly play as an
African American and not try to hide behind that. With
Moses Fleetwood Walker and he played on the eighteen eighty
four Toledo Bluestockings one year in the majors with his
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brother Weldy. He was the last African Americans to play
before Jackie Robinson. And yeah, he faced all the same
stuff that you know that you could imagine from that time.
He had players like cap Anson threatening to boycott games
with him. You know, there were different in the minor leagues,
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you know, International League, and in nineteen a one, I
believe it was past their role. You know, they had
seven African American players in the league that were good,
and they were, you know, starting to get a little
nervous that they were going to take other people's jobs.
And so you know, they formally passed the law spanning
any future contract for African Americans. And then some other
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league either adopted that in writing or in you know,
in threory and in general with the general gentleman's agreement
major League Baseball, and you know, examine all that kind
of stuff. It was very very interesting to dig into.
Guests here on inside the Parker's author Roco Constantino. Uh,
he's written a book called in Beyond Baseball's Color Barrier.
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Tell me about Jackie Robinson And did you find out
anything new about that? We all know about Jackie Robinson,
how important he was not only to baseball, Roco, but
also to America. He changed America when he took the
field for the Brooklyn Dodgers in nineteen forty seven. Were
there any interest in tim bids you find out about
about Jackie? Yeah? I I. You know a lot of
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the stuff that you know, he's so well researched and
written about. It was its always great to read. Um.
One thing that that struck me was, you know, and
you've always heard that he had the support of the fans.
Um I was reading about. Uh, you're a year in
East Coast New York City kind of guy. But Jackie's
debut in the minor league the year before he played
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for the Dodgers and the first game he played was
at Roosevelt Stadium, New Jersey City. And then just reading
the newspaper account now at that time, I mean there
was general, i mean genuine excitement about him playing minor
league baseball. There were fans outside the ballparks, you know,
selling pins that said I'm with Jackie and had his
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face on it, and you know, he was he was beloved.
I mean it's you read the papers and you read
the stories from from what we're written during the time
that he played, and it's fascinating. And one of my
favorite ones was he you know, when he played for
the Montreal Oils in nineteen forty six and they they
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won the championship and they're one of the great minor
league teams of all time. And after the game was
over and they won their championship in their home ballpark,
the fans rust the fields and they stormed Jackie and
they you know, we're ripping his shirt off and they
wanted a piece of them. And it said he had
to run clear out of the stadium with all his
fans chasing them. And you know, there was a comment
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in one of the books that I read and said,
like it was you know, for once there was a
uh you know, a marvel people chasing an African American
for a good reason, and it just kind of struck
at the time, like, wow, that's what these people really
nery went through. And um, you know, it's just very
striking to read a lot of the stuff the accounts
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from that time. And then you had the players boom
black players between the seventies and the nineties. I mean,
the league and the game was literally black stars all
over the place. We already know, and when you can
think about that, black players really weren't able to play
until nineteen forty seven. Yet you look at the record
books and black players are represented all over the place. Uh,
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that was a great time in baseball. I mean there
were just stars everywhere, wasn't there? It was. And that's
that's where my book kind of takes that turn from
the you know, the historical and digging into the influence
and of all the black players had on the subsequent generations.
And I was watching a podcast just last night with
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Bob Kendricks, the president of the Negro League Museum, and
he had David Price and CC Sabatia on there, and
they were talking about you know, CC was talking about
learning about Bob Gibson and the generation before, and Dave
Stewart was another person that was on the broadcast with them,
and Stewart said, you know, to David Price, there's going
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to be some kids, you know, young African American pitcher
that looks up and says, Wow, I want to be
like David Price. So when you see them talking about
how influential all the previous generations were, it really kind
of hits home and uh, and that was something I
covered in the book, right, Hank, Aaron, Willie Mays, they
grew up watching Jackie Robinson and being influenced by Anton,
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Larry Doby. You know, all these guys and then those
stars of the seventies and eighties, they watched Willie Mays's kids,
they watched Tank Aaron, they watched Bob Gibson, and and
you know, there was never a time even during segregation.
You know, there were the Negro League stars were big too.
They drew the drew a lot, So there was never
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a time where there was a shortage of black stars. Um,
it's just a matter of hoping that they start to
gravitate towards back to baseball. Well, Rocco, Where can people
get your book? The book is in Beyond Baseball's Colabaria,
the Story of African Americans in Major League Baseball, Pass,
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Present and Future. Where is it available? All right? It's
available everywhere online. It's on Amazon and Barnes and Nobles
through my publisher of Roman and Littlefield, or on my website,
Roco Konstantino dot com. Um now, it's it's available widely
all over the place. All right, Rocco, We appreciate you,
good luck with the book, and we'll definitely be looking
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to read this one. I appreciate it, Thank you, Thank you, sir.
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What do you got for me? Anthony? We spoke last
week about just how good pictures have been so far
this season. Four no hitters or five if you're generous,
putting off into the spot we haven't seen since the
divisional araby in nineteen sixty nine. We see the results,
but why are we seeing pitches dominate the way they are.
Fangrafts Check Gutwine had a very positive last week, and
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the numbers do bear it out. In the first six
weeks of the season, we've seen hurler's pouring pitch after
pitch into the upper part of the zone. Now stat
Cast breaks down where pitches end up and into up
to thirty nine different zones. Zones one through nine considered
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zones just on the edges, twenty one to twenty nine
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the chase zones, while thirty one to thirty nine are
considered waste pitches. This season, we're seeing a swinging strike
rate over twenty percent of pitches into the top shadow
zone of the plate, up a full percentage point from
last year, while batters are swinging and missing at nineteen
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the zone. Normally the pitches guys can barrel up most consistently,
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up over two full percentage points from last year and
nearly five percent from twenty seventeen. Spin rates and velocities
on fastballs are at an all time high in the
stat Cast era, and it would appear the pitchers are
finding hitter's weaknesses better than ever before. Turned money into
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with Dave Gascott. Love that money, money we'll get. The
weekend started off right at Fenway Park. You get the
Angels and the Red Sox. Boston only ten and ten
a home this season, but twenty two and fifteen overall.
They're one of the surprise teams at the American League.
And who would have thought. Nick Pavetta this season is
five and oh with an ERA at three nineteen against
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Griffin Canning three and two with an ERA at five nineteen.
I'm taking the over in that game. Also, I'm taking
the Cardinals and the Padres that has won the night
Caps on Friday Night, I'm taking the Saint Louis Cardinals
in this one against Joe Musgrove. Musgrove, who had a
no hitter earlier this season. The San Diego native has
given up nine total runs his last two games. I'm
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taking the Cardinals as a road dog in that affair.
The other game, I'm taking as the Cubbies and the Tigers.
I'm taking the Chicago Cubs on the road Jake Arietta
versus Teek Scoball in the pitching matchups scoopball. The season
is o and five with a five sixty seven ERA.
Tiger's the worst team in Major League Baseball. I'm taking
the Cubbies with a little bit of shock. When Rob
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was a newspaper columnist, he lived by this motto, if
I'm writing, I'm ripping. Let's bring in a writer and
broadcaster older new All right, now, let's welcome to the podcast.
Mark Fine Sam the fine baseball writer from MLB dot com. Mark,
welcome to the podcast. How you doing, my man, I'm good, Rob.
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How are you doing? Buddy doing great? Man? I want
to pepper you with some questions about all over baseball.
Let's start in New York with the Metropolitans and did
they make a mistake putting Jacob deGrom back out on
the mound after he had come out of a game.
And there was questions about an injury and they put
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him back out there. Now he's on the ten day.
I L is this something to be worried about or
not so much? I would say not so much. I
don't think it was a mistake. I mean, they scratched
him from a start when he had some tightness. They
did test, they didn't find anything. He said he was
good to go. Obviously, he threw him aside and felt fine,
went in it's five innings and then came out again.
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You know, I'm not sure it was a mistake. I
think it was a very smart move for them to
put him on the IL, even though the MRII revealed nothing,
because this is not a guy you want to mess
around with. And the fact that he's had, you know,
the issue twice in a matter of a week or so.
You know, the fact that it's a ten day I L.
Now this only means he really misses one start that's
pushed back a day on a second start. So I
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thought it was a good move for them to put
him on my IL. But I didn't have a problem
with him storring him to make too much Mark, Let's
go to the angels and show hey Otani, who is
putting together a season baseball people, I haven't seen since
Babe Ruth where guy's pitch thrown over a hundred miles
an hour, he's hitting home runs. The other day he
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pitched and played white field. I mean, they didn't want
to take his bat out of the lineup. What do
you make of this season? This could be an MVP
season if he puts it together. I love it. I mean,
there's no more fascinating player in the league to watch
right now. And it's not just that he's pitching and hitting.
He's doing both of them at all star levels, right.
I Mean, you've been talking about a guy. He doesn't
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have the innings pitch as some of the top guys,
but he's started twenty five innings. He's got a two
ten r A. You know, the walks are an issue,
but he doesn't give a very many hits, strikes out
well over a batter at inning, and he's a been slugver.
And you know, I don't know if the MVP thing
is going to happen for two reasons. Number One, he
plays on a team that is not very competitive at
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the moment. He is one of their few pitchers who's
actually pitching for their capabilities. And secondly, he plays to
Mike Trout, and Mike Trout is such a good player
and he's such a generation talent that he is always
going to beat MNMB conversation as well. And if you
have two guys in that conversation from a losing team,
it's almost hard for me to see either of them
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winning it. But if the Angels can turn things around
and contend, and time he keeps doing what he's doing
both pitching and hitting, you know, the sky's the limits
of this guy. He's just such an impressive talent and
it's taken a few years for him to stort of
put it all together where he can do both and
do both well. But man, he's fun to watch. Our
guest is Mark Finsen from MLB dot com, and you
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had a story on the site on Wednesday, Mark about
Trevor's story to shortstop of the Rockies, and you said,
if there is a deal, it looks like there could
be a deal. He's going to be a free agent
next year, right, so they unload him get what they
can if they're not going to resign the guy. And
these clubs you said are the best fits. Tell me
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tell me the best fits for him, well, I mean,
I think the obvious best fit is the Yankees. Their
team is not afraid to be aggressive, to go out
and make a big move at the deadline, you know,
to add a big talent. You know, if they're willing
to go over that luxury attacks threshold, which they might
have to do if they add his six million over
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the last couple of months, you know, you can move
claveror Tours back to second base, which I think is
a better natural position for him, and and put story
in as short there there to me, the most obvious
fit the Aids or a team again Billy Bean. Every
time he sees a windows, he's an opportunity. He's not
afraid to go out and make a deal. Shortstop has
been a bit of a problem there. Elvis Andrews has
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been a huge disappointment in Oakland, so I think there
a possibility. And then the Brewers or another team, the Reds,
a couple of n L Central clubs that I put
in there not getting the production, had a shortstop and
in a very witnable division, and the last team I
had was to raise you know, the money is what
would get in the way there they've got more than
enough prospects. It's operated form system in the league, accorded
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at MLBA pipeline. You know, So the question is would
Colorado kay downs some of that salary to increase the
level of prospect they get back if they are and
the Raiss aside, that's a spot that they need some
help in. Willia Donnas Joey Wendell not combined for very
much offense out of the shortstop position this year. You know,
the Rays could could be a stealth team to get
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into the story sweepstakes. All right, Mark, do you just
mentioned the A's and the news. Of course Baseball's given
it's blessing that they can look around possible relocation because
they don't have a new deal. Give me two or
three cities that the Oakland A's could wind up. Well,
Las Vegas is a very popular potential destination obviously that
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you know, they've played some games there in the regular season,
some of the teams, you know, they've had success of
Triple A Baseball there and just like they finally got
an NFL team that sort of broke the ice in
terms of professional sports in Las Vegas, they've got an
NHL team now So the idea that you can't have
a team in Vegas because of the gambling aspect, that's
out the window now. Sharpe in another city that's been
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talked about a lot, Nashville, where Gave Dombrowski was before
he went to the Phillies. They've been trying to get
a team. So there are options out there, and now
with MLB sort of giving the aids they're blessing to
look around, that's going to put some pressure on, you know,
the city of Oakland to step up and get that
that ballpark built downtown because you know, they've already lost
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the Warriors, they've already lost the Raiders. You have to
imagine that Oakland does not want to lose a third
professional team. Yeah, it sounds like it. We'll see what
happens there. Last thing, something fun. You've been covering baseball
forever and you've been to every ballpark and all around
the country. The best hot dog at a Major League
Baseball stadium, let's see. I like the Fenway Frank The
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Dodger dog has a unique sort of flavor and appeal
to it. I wouldn't want that to be my every
day hot dog, but for the few times that I
go to La and Dodger dogs always a muss. But
if I have to pick one, I'm gonna go with
the sausages a Yankee Stadium. I know it's a hometown
pick and it's not technically a hot dog, but you
give me a spicy sauce in the Yankee Stadium, I'll
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take that every time. You know what what I love
about Yankee Stadium and the hot dogs is that you
have three brands you can get there. How many ballparks
mark have three? I could get a Subrette, you could
get a Nathan's, or you can get what was the
other one. There's three hot dogs you could get at
Yankee Stadium. But I'm a subret s guy. Give me
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some red onions, give me some spicy brown mustard, and
I'm good to go. You gotta cheat a little bit.
You gotta go to Sabrett hot Dog and then go
from stand and get some meat strides. Now it's time
for some diamond dust with Wish TVs. Phil Sanches. He
played baseball in college. Now here is MLB knowledge. Well,
(25:50):
it's been announced that the Oakland Athletics will start to
explore the possibility of relocating with the blessings of Major
League Baseball. The A's declaration likely designed to pressure the
city of Oakland into approving plans for new Waterfront Ballpark.
The proposal includes a privately financed stadium, but it also
requires an eight hundred and fifty five million dollars commitment
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from the city. Now, should they move, the A's would
become only the third Major League Baseball team in the
last fifty years to relocate, joining the Texas Rangers, who
moved from DC in the nineteen seventies and the Washington
Nationals who moved to DC in two thousand and five.
It's been reported that there are cities five of them
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that would welcome the A's with open arms. Those cities
Las Vegas, Portland, Montreal, Nashville, and San Jose. Out of those,
my money would be on Nashville. The music city has
been trying to get an MLB team for years now,
and they have a lot of support to inside and
outside of baseball, including a number of famous musicians like
Justin Timberlake. The only problem would be convincing the team
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to move east, which might mean realignment, which could be
a bad thing or could be a good thing, depending
on which side of the ball you fall on. There,
Stranger things have happened, But in the end, I think
the city of Oakland will wake up and try to
keep the a's right where they belong. So await fu more,
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sense of wonder, and our family bonds grow too, because
when we disconnect from this and connect with this, we
reconnect with each other. The forest is closer than you think.
Fine the forest near you and start exploring. I discover
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here outside the Perez family home, just waiting for them,
and there they go almost on time. This morning, Mom
is coming out the front door strong with a double
armed kid carry looks like Dad has the bags, daughter
is bringing up the rear. Oh, but the diaper bag
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wasn't closed. Diapers and toys are everywhere. Ooh, but mom
has just nailed the perfect car seat buckle for the toddler.
And now the eldest daughter, who looks to be about
nine or ten, has secured herself in the booster seat.
Dad zips the bag clothes and they're off. Ah, but
looks like Mom doesn't realize her coffee cup is still
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on the roof of the car and there it goes. Oh,
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It's a part of their lives in DNA and there's
no better example than Eddie House, the former NBA guard
and NBA champion, was you know, taken aback by the
notion or the idea that his hometown team, the Oakland
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A's could actually move, and he expressed themselves really, really
well and it was heartfelt on mlbbro dot com. Take
a listen, sad news I'm here today about him, will
be trying to force Oakland to get up out of
the coliseum. I know it's a ran down stadium and
(30:14):
so on and so forth. I was reason why the
Raiders left. Being the Oakland native and native of the
Bay Area. It seems like everybody's leaving the city of Oakland,
which to me is a sad thing. It the Warriors
are gone over in San Francisco, the Raiders are in
Las Vegas. A lot of people depending on those jobs
at the coliseum, be at the park and attendant being
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the hot dog vendor, being the person that was taking
the tickets. So a lot of jobs that was generated
for the community. And it's unfortunate to see that another
team could possibly be leaving. Hopefully that deal and water
Front Park will be something that can happen, hopefully, but
I will hate to see the Oakland A's leave like
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all the other teams of Oakland. You know, just memories
are growing up. My favorite athlete of all time, Ricky Henderson,
going to watch him play the bass. Brothers. I mean,
back in the day with my baseball team, we would
catch bark go up there. We played pickle on the
bar train and we would uh, you know, go watch
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batting practice. It just be unfortunate if the A's aren't
able to make something happen. To stay in. In the
words of New York TV legend the late Bill Jorgensen,
thanking you for your time this time until next time.
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