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How often do I get a chance to talk

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about regular season baseball? I am be able to

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do it all year. Haven't

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been able to do it all

2:19

year. The Soul series began at

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about three o'clock in the morning

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Pacific. Daylight. Time which

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you pass always and of

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it's about six am as

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you're on the east coast

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and perfect timing is your

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A in Seoul Korea and

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well. The. Dodgers magic

2:38

number has been reduced to one

2:40

hundred and sixty two and is

2:42

a couple things I wondered if

2:44

you gotta and your bingo card

2:46

regarding this particular game that was

2:48

play but before we do as

2:50

he was to the trivia question

2:52

street question was. What?

2:54

Team. Was. The last

2:56

team to start the season.

3:00

In an overseas series I

3:02

can tokyo in Australia and

3:04

soul to go on. To

3:07

the post season and scarred

3:09

horse Meyer. Got.

3:12

A Correct. The. Answer.

3:14

Believe. It or not, Is

3:17

Oakland. Oakland.

3:19

Was the last team to

3:21

make the postseason while beginning

3:24

the season overseas. In that

3:26

happened when the A's of.

3:29

When they played Tampa Bay and

3:31

Twenty Nineteen by the way both

3:33

of them a the pursuit to Tampa

3:35

Bay and Oakland post mates are

3:37

and I'm sorry Oakland Plates or

3:39

Seattle. In. The Tokyo

3:42

Dome and there was something cool about

3:44

that because each he wrote Join the

3:46

Team! And retired in

3:48

Tokyo. If you look officially each, you

3:50

have played two games in twenty nineteen

3:52

for the Seattle Mariners, but he actually

3:54

play them in Tokyo. He went to

3:56

Tokyo, retired as a mariner in Tokyo.

3:58

It was kind of. a combination of

4:01

all the worlds and they played Oakland

4:03

and Oakland went on to lose the

4:05

wild card game against Tampa Bay. I

4:07

often wonder what would have happened if

4:09

Oakland won that wild card game. There's

4:11

a lot of things I wonder what would

4:14

happen. I wonder if Marcus Simeon didn't absolutely

4:16

trounce the A's in the 2021 regular season

4:18

when the A's were trying to fight for

4:20

a playoff spot. A

4:22

lot of things, but yeah, well you don't

4:24

think about Oakland as a recent playoff team,

4:27

but they were in the postseason as recently

4:29

as the COVID year and they were contender

4:31

as recently as 2021. Things

4:33

change. A lot of things change. We were

4:36

this close to having an ALCS in 2020

4:39

between in the COVID year between

4:41

Tampa Bay and Oakland. I remember, I think

4:43

I said on this very pockets at that point, the

4:46

winner gets a new stadium. That

4:48

would make sense to me. But Scott

4:50

Horseman, I did get right. Oakland in

4:53

Seattle in the Tokyo Dome. It's early.

4:55

It's not seven o'clock

5:01

in the morning yet. I didn't

5:03

get a heck of a lot of sleep last night. But

5:06

yeah, a baseball game was played. A

5:08

real life counting in the standings baseball

5:10

game was played. There were some

5:14

interesting things in the game. First of all, on

5:16

your bingo card, did you have

5:19

ball going through a first baseman's

5:22

glove, going through the glove at

5:24

a critical juncture before you had

5:26

an extra base hit this season?

5:29

Well, that's what we got. When

5:32

a critical moment of the game,

5:34

a ball went right through the

5:37

first baseman who was a Cronewith's

5:39

glove of San Diego. Remember

5:41

the podium. Remember, you probably didn't

5:43

know the Padres took

5:46

a two one lead in

5:48

the fourth inning and

5:50

the Dodgers did not did

5:53

not cash in on a lot of

5:55

their scoring opportunities. Xander Bogart's,

5:57

who got a couple of hits, he got a

6:00

RBI single in the third inning.

6:03

There was another there was a another

6:05

RBI it was a Double

6:08

play where Mookie Betts the

6:10

new shortstop for the Dodgers made

6:12

the play that scored one of the one

6:16

of the runs for San Diego and

6:19

that made the game a two to one and Remain

6:22

two to one the there was a

6:24

lot of opportunities that the Dodgers had

6:26

that they just could not drive in

6:28

the runs And if

6:30

I was watching the game, I probably said would have said oh,

6:32

wow, this is gonna be one of those games But

6:36

then the ball went through Colonel

6:38

worse glove with Gavin Lux got the hit

6:41

and I guess it I guess it goes as an error That's

6:44

a rough error Did you the

6:46

error should be on the manufacturer of that glove?

6:48

I don't know what brand of glove he has

6:51

but this was the worst ever advertisement for whatever

6:53

brand of gloves He had that made it that

6:56

made it three to Los Angeles

6:59

Mookie Betts drove in another run make it

7:01

four to two and show you Tani who

7:03

was Picked off it

7:05

would double up at one point, but he drove

7:07

in the final run that made five to two

7:11

The pitching line for San Diego looked

7:13

a hell of a lot like it was still a

7:15

spring training game Darvish pitched

7:17

into the fourth obviously quality start

7:20

And then it was just a parade

7:23

Cosgrove de los Santos Matsui. No, not

7:25

that Matsui Peralta

7:29

Brito Morjan and a

7:31

strata Johnny

7:33

Brito who came over in the one

7:35

soda tray got credited with the loss

7:37

or saddled with the loss he

7:40

led up a one earned run and

7:42

one unearned run thanks to the ball

7:44

through Cronowith's glove and And

7:47

got the and got the tough luck loss on

7:49

that the Dodgers had slightly

7:52

more of a normal pitching line Tyler

7:55

glass now Pitch

7:57

five which is pretty much what you'd expect

8:00

You're not going to have someone go nine innings in

8:02

the open date. No one goes nine innings anymore anyway.

8:04

But you had a glass now pitched. Okay.

8:08

I mean, he led up two hits. He led up

8:10

four walks. That's not great in four innings. Only

8:12

allowed the two runs. And

8:15

then Brazier, Hudson, Kelly, Phillips,

8:17

a lot of members of

8:19

the 2018 Red Sox played in this

8:21

game. You had Mookie

8:24

Betts played in this game. You

8:26

had Brazier played in this game. You had

8:28

Joe Kelly played in this game. You had,

8:30

uh, Xander Bogart's playing

8:32

this game. If you're a fan of the 2018

8:34

Red Sox, let me tell you something. You should

8:36

have flown to soul, but now

8:38

the Dodgers wound up getting the win and

8:42

their dreams of a perfect season or a float.

8:45

It's a, the magic number is 162. Any

8:48

combination of Dodger victories and

8:50

a sec, the whatever second place

8:52

team is in the West that

8:55

equal losses that equal 162 will

8:57

indeed clinch the 2024 National League

9:03

West title for the Los Angeles

9:05

Dodgers. And of course this game

9:07

counts the game they're going

9:09

to play tomorrow counts. And then

9:11

they go back to spring training. And

9:14

again, I was, I have, I have more than a

9:16

slight issue on that. I have a huge issue on

9:18

that. But alas,

9:20

we got games slightly

9:23

anticlimactic that the Shohei

9:25

Ohtani era begins

9:27

in this manner. Uh,

9:30

it's kind of like dealing with the A-Rod era

9:32

began for the New York Yankees that

9:35

began in Tokyo dome. A-Rod's

9:37

first game with the Yankees was in

9:39

Japan. And again, I

9:42

think these series are cool. I think

9:44

they should have them in the middle of the

9:46

season because there is a sort of,

9:49

I don't want to say monotony because I love baseball,

9:51

but there's a rhythm. That's one of the reasons why

9:53

I liked it when interleague games were

9:55

only in the middle of the season because

9:58

it was that stretch of time that all. We're gonna switch

10:00

up who we play and maybe have

10:02

alright and then right in the middle We switch

10:04

up who's gonna you know, what's gonna happen to

10:07

maybe do that instead of an all-star game. How

10:09

am I wrong? That starting

10:11

the season with an all-star game would be

10:13

a better method than this Well

10:17

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10:21

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10:23

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10:26

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10:34

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14:46

there's still plenty of pitchers available. Lots of

14:48

other teams are out there looking

14:50

to put together a pitching staff and

14:53

I love it. There was a thing going on that I saw

14:57

I think it was on MLB trade

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rumors that said the pitching market might

15:01

be heating up. Well, you

15:04

know, seeing that

15:07

games have started, at least let's

15:09

turn on the stove. Jordan

15:13

Montgomery and Michael

15:15

Lorenzen, all you guys do is make

15:17

it on the front at this point. I mean if the

15:20

train is leaving and

15:23

at some point you have

15:25

to say, hey, I know you're not getting

15:27

the deal you wanted. I know Jordan Montgomery

15:29

wanted like a six, seven

15:31

year deal. I know that I'm sure

15:35

Lorenzen wanted a two or three year deal. How?

15:38

Snell wanted, you know, a

15:40

nine-figure deal. I'd

15:43

like a nine-figure deal but I haven't won multiple

15:45

Cy Young Awards. And, you

15:48

know, at some point you gotta just say I

15:51

gotta get on the train. Two

15:53

things kind of hit me. First

15:55

of all, I may embroider this on

15:57

a pillow. This is a good way to live

15:59

life. If someone offers

16:02

you over a

16:04

hundred million dollars, take

16:07

it. Blake

16:09

Snell, who signed it,

16:12

what was it, two year 62, 63 million,

16:14

I'm doing some of this off the top of my head and it's

16:16

still early, he

16:18

signed a two year, 60 some odd

16:20

million dollar contract. He

16:22

wanted a nine figure

16:25

deal and as a two time young award winner,

16:27

he felt like I'm entitled to nine figure, a

16:29

lot of other people getting nine figures, why

16:32

can't I get my nine figures with

16:34

my two side young awards? He

16:37

was offered that. The

16:39

Yankees remember they offered them

16:41

155 million tomatoes and

16:44

he said, I think there's more out there. I

16:46

think there's more out there. Turns

16:48

out there wasn't. He played and

16:51

look it, I understand Scott

16:53

Boris in the past has been the master at

16:56

this sort of negotiation and playing this

16:58

person off of that and that person off of

17:00

this. However, it's

17:03

tough to look yourself in the

17:05

eye and say, geez, I got

17:08

the offer for a hundred

17:11

some odd million dollars and I'm

17:13

the one who said no to it. It's

17:17

a weird market. And if he looked up

17:19

and said, I managed to turn a pretty

17:23

good career with two intensely

17:25

high peaks into a nine

17:27

figure contract, yet, you know,

17:29

suddenly, you know, after the after taxes

17:31

and everything, it's only going to be like 60, 70

17:34

million fine. He can use a

17:36

Bada to clip coupons and make

17:38

it through life with only 60 some

17:41

odd million dollars after taxes and fees. When

17:44

someone offers you a hundred some odd million, take it

17:47

because you don't know when you're going to

17:49

get it. So I have absolutely no problem

17:51

when you see a team offer

17:54

a player who's like a, you

17:56

know, like in the minor league or only played

17:58

a few handful of games. They offer

18:00

him a 10 million dollar contract and

18:03

people say like well wait a minute

18:05

That's gonna be way way below market

18:07

value if he projects to the player.

18:09

He thinks he's gonna be that's true

18:12

Or he could bust and

18:15

if you're dangling several million dollars in front of

18:17

someone said we're gonna buy out your entire prime

18:20

It may turn out that you

18:22

will be better than this and

18:24

we'll get a bargain or it may turn out

18:27

That you could be Matt Laporta no offense

18:29

Matt Laporta You made to the major leagues

18:31

everyone makes the major leagues as a quality

18:33

player but he was supposed to be this

18:35

great power prospects to the

18:37

point that the Cleveland

18:39

Indians made him the big

18:41

piece in the CC. Sabathia trade. It

18:44

didn't work out if You

18:46

get a player we say I'm gonna buy out your

18:48

prime You're making a bet

18:50

you're gonna make making more money early you

18:52

may make less money later But you know

18:54

you're getting those millions Someone

18:57

offers you a hundred million dollars and believe me

19:00

I've walked away from hundred million dollar contracts before

19:03

I am a public school teacher remember That's where

19:06

that Blake Snell should probably come to the Pasadena

19:08

Unified School District However at

19:10

some point you have to look up and

19:12

say why didn't I get the hundred million

19:14

dollar offer you did Here's

19:16

the other thing because you get

19:18

the draft pick is assigned to

19:20

it if they offer you the

19:23

qualifying offer I'm

19:26

wondering if more players should just

19:28

accept the qualifying offer Yeah,

19:31

I'm not I know some of the the

19:34

the Maconations of that has

19:36

changed since the last collective bargaining agreement But if

19:38

they offer you that and going geez this is

19:40

gonna put a noose around me when I go

19:42

out to free agency But they can't offer me

19:44

it again the second time screw it. I'll

19:47

sign on. I'll give you a more terrific year and

19:49

then Right off into the

19:51

sunset potentially the next year probably

19:53

would have given a lot of these players a lot less

19:55

of a headache I Still

19:57

think the Baltimore Orioles should sign Jordan McConaughey

20:00

Actually, I think a bunch

20:02

of teams should sign Jordan Montgomery. I still

20:04

think every central team should just go on

20:06

a shopping spree. It'd be like supermarket sweep,

20:08

running around putting things into the basket and

20:10

to say, hey,

20:12

we're just going to improve our team because 85 wins

20:15

is going to win the division. Let's just pile up

20:17

some extra wins right now cheaper than we can ever

20:19

have and offer a low ball offer. But

20:22

hey, this is what the market value has. Or

20:24

maybe, just maybe, baseball

20:27

should look in a totally different direction.

20:30

Today is the anniversary of an event

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Ah, this is the anniversary

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of someone named Babe

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Didrikson, who pitched the first

23:03

inning of a game with

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the Philadelphia Athletics in 1934, a spring training game

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against the Brooklyn Dodgers.

23:10

Ah, went, ah, and

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pitched one inning, one walk, no

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hits. The reason why

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that's significant that Babe Didrikson did that isn't

23:21

necessarily that the pitcher threw

23:23

tremendously well, but it

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was a woman. And

23:30

she did not pitch particularly well the second time

23:32

out, and that was the, that

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was one of the

23:36

last times, only the second time that

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a woman played in an exhibition with

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a major league team. Ah,

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in 1922, Lizzie Murphy played in

23:45

an AL All-Star game in

23:47

August in an exhibition. But

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I've been often thinking about this. And,

23:52

you know, the TV show Pitch came out a

23:54

few years ago was about this, and we're seeing

23:56

more and more arms going into

23:58

rehab. because the

24:01

arm isn't meant to throw the ball 100 miles

24:03

an hour and while

24:05

throwing sliders. And

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no matter how well you take care of it,

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evolution hasn't caught up with

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that particular type of pitching.

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I talked the other day about how we need to institute

24:19

the knuckle ball, which doesn't wear down the

24:21

arm as much, is much more unpredictable, and

24:23

you're going to be able to go deeper into games. And

24:27

maybe we start to develop pitchers

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who are women.

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I mean, like immediately when

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I was working, you know,

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coaching stuff at the, in

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my son's little league, immediately you're

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a girl, go to softball, boy, go to baseball,

24:44

you know, immediately you go there's separate routes. And

24:47

I'm not going to get into the politics of

24:49

gender in sports. That's not what this is. I

24:51

don't know enough about it. People that are much

24:53

smarter than me. But if

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you had someone who pitched well

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off speed pitches and, you know,

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maybe not bringing it up as fast as

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the boys do, but with breaking

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balls and knuckle balls and junk

25:06

balls, basically there's got to be

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a girl out there who's the

25:10

next Jamie Moyer who

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could come out there and maybe throw a bunch of

25:14

innings. I mean, maybe

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we should start developing that from little league. I

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remember my dad,

25:22

the greatest little league coach of all

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time, we always lost, but he managed

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to play everyone. There was a girl

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named Andrea Chopeck, who was in

25:30

our school and she

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didn't want to play softball. She wanted to

25:35

play little league baseball. And she approached my

25:37

dad said, can I be on your team?

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And the, my dad got pushback from

25:42

the little league saying like girls aren't supposed to

25:44

be on the team. And my dad

25:46

said, is there a rule about that? And

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I think verbatim. That's what they said. If

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you look at our team picture, Andrea is on

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her team. There she was. Maybe

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we should start from there. Start. start

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from that point. You know,

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they're terrific softball pitchers out there. Well, maybe

26:04

have one thrown... have someone

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throwing hardball. You

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know, maybe if there's a whole population

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we even tapped into an old mindset.

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Every scout's armed, throw 110, must be good. Geez,

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I don't understand why his

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arm didn't go through. You

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know, if there is intelligent design, none of them

26:23

said, yeah, let's design an arm to throw a

26:25

hundred mile an hour slider. It's

26:27

worth thinking about. Let's

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go to somebody who's did anyone write some comments

26:32

right now? Oh, Brian

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Jones says, Babe Dickerson, museums in Beaumont is rad.

26:37

My dad took me there a bunch of times

26:39

on the way to Houston. Yeah, let's... I

26:42

mean, how could it be worse than the Cy

26:44

Young Award winner not getting a big offer and

26:47

everyone's arm falling off? All

26:50

right. And then DJ dances, I made my

26:52

future bets on baseball over a month ago,

26:54

had to get the best odds possible. I

26:56

don't know how to bet. Unless I use

26:58

FanDuel, which I understand is America's number one

27:00

sports book. Oh, hey, by the way, the

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In Memoriam video I dropped the other day, I'm very proud of

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it. And naturally, the first person

27:08

who wrote to me about it was about

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a typo. I said,

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the typo, do you understand how many times

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I proofread this thing? How many times I

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made sure I had the correct accent on

27:20

Willie Hernandez? And by the way, I

27:22

had a big Guillermo Willie Hernandez, because

27:24

he preferred to be called

27:26

Guillermo, but in the sound clip, Mel Allen

27:28

called him Willie. I made sure the correct

27:30

accent was on there. Do you know that

27:32

they're like, Vic Davolillo, I had to make

27:34

sure the right number of L's and everything

27:36

like that. Ed Broussard, is that a D?

27:38

Is it an N? Jimmy Williams, only one

27:41

M? No idea why I did that. I

27:43

proofread it right to the T. So what

27:45

did I get wrong? Career.

27:49

John Lennon, the, the, the,

27:51

which one was it? The last one I did.

27:54

I said 12 year career

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and I spelled career wrong. I was

27:59

so concentrated in all the different names. I

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spoke career wrong. And I

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toyed with that. Oh god, I gotta take down

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the link. I gotta change that. I

28:08

gotta put that back up. I gotta frantically write all

28:10

the people I said to do. Don't use that clip.

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You guys spoke career wrong. And

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then I realized, no, I'm

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gonna keep it. It's an Easter egg. If

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you, if the thing about that

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video that I worked my butt

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off for, if the

28:28

thing about it is that I

28:31

spoke career wrong, if that derailed

28:33

your enjoyment of the video, I can't

28:37

help you. I really can't. I

28:40

spelled Dava Leo right. I

28:42

spoke Jimmy Williams wrong because that's what he

28:44

wants. So

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yeah, there you go. Better

28:49

luck next year. I spoke career

28:51

wrong. So sue me for

28:54

about two seconds. You're gonna have to have the

28:56

agony that had an extra R and not enough

28:58

E's in career. And career is one of those

29:00

words that spelled incorrectly looks right. It's

29:03

like rhythm never looks like it's

29:05

correctly spelled. I have no clue how to

29:08

spell Burley from Mark Burley. Is

29:10

it E U H R E or is

29:13

it white? Every time I spelled

29:15

Burley and when, when he was great pitching for

29:17

Chicago all those years, and I was writing my

29:19

blog about Burley, I don't

29:22

look up his name every time. And

29:24

right now, if you put $10 million

29:26

in front of me, it's spelled Burley

29:28

correctly. Chances are you're gonna have

29:30

to bring that money back because I'm not

29:32

getting it. Once again, I turned

29:34

down the millions. So there you

29:36

go. You're gonna have to live with Burley or you have

29:38

to live with a career being spelled incorrectly on the video.

29:41

I hope you can get through the day. I'm

29:43

gonna have to get through it. In the

29:45

past I've made some egregious mistakes and you

29:47

can't just, I can't just correct

29:49

it. I have to

29:52

go back and make a whole new video. I have

29:54

to go back and change that, take down the video

29:56

and upload it. And I can't use the same

29:59

link because YouTube does. and let you switch

30:01

links out. I would have to

30:03

tell everyone, don't click on that link, click on this

30:05

link because career is spelled right on this one. I

30:09

apologize to everyone who had to live through the

30:11

agony of me spelling career wrong on that video.

30:13

And my humblest apologies, I'll do better next time.

30:16

The trivia question, pitchers taking

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big free agent contracts, the original big

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free agent pitcher was

30:24

Catfish Hunter. Catfish Hunter,

30:26

who by the way is right there on my

30:28

wall back there, became a free agent

30:31

after the 1974 World Series due to a bizarre contract

30:36

glitch that made him basically

30:38

the pioneer of free agency. And he went

30:41

on to sign with the Yankees and

30:43

help lead them back to the World Series. But

30:45

the Yankees weren't the top bid. What

30:48

team offered Catfish

30:51

Hunter the most money when

30:54

he went into free agency after the 1974 World Series?

30:59

And it wasn't the A's and it wasn't the Yankees. It was one of

31:01

the other ones. Put that down there in

31:03

YouTube or Twitter or

31:06

whatever it's called now. I'm gonna go off

31:08

to my job, which is my career to

31:10

ease. So you can follow

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us at LockedOnMLBPods on Twitter and Instagram. I'm

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your pal Sully, SullyBaseball on Twitter, SullyBaseballPodcast on

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Instagram. Waking up and giving

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you another podcast. This has been

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the first of the regular season

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technically. This has been LockedOnMLB. I

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