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Ah but I decided why not
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have you guys wake up to
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another episode of the show. Because.
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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
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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
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he was to the trivia question
2:52
street question was. What?
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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.
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A Correct. The. Answer.
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Believe. It or not, Is
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Oakland. Oakland.
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Was the last team to
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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
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Team! And retired in
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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
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play them in Tokyo. He went to
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Tokyo, retired as a mariner in Tokyo.
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It was kind of. a combination of
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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
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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
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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
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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
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a critical juncture before you had
5:26
an extra base hit this season?
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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
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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
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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?
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I don't know what brand of glove he has
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but this was the worst ever advertisement for whatever
6:53
brand of gloves He had that made it that
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made it three to Los Angeles
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Mookie Betts drove in another run make it
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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
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10:07
maybe do that instead of an all-star game. How
10:09
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10:13
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there's still plenty of pitchers available. Lots of
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other teams are out there looking
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to put together a pitching staff and
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I love it. There was a thing going on that I saw
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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
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turn on the stove. Jordan
15:13
Montgomery and Michael
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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
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should look in a totally different direction.
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Today is the anniversary of an event
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that kind of, sort of is making
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me think that is this how
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Ah, this is the anniversary
22:58
of someone named Babe
23:01
Didrikson, who pitched the first
23:03
inning of a game with
23:05
the Philadelphia Athletics in 1934, a spring training game
23:07
against the Brooklyn Dodgers.
23:10
Ah, went, ah, and
23:14
pitched one inning, one walk, no
23:16
hits. The reason why
23:18
that's significant that Babe Didrikson did that isn't
23:21
necessarily that the pitcher threw
23:23
tremendously well, but it
23:26
was a woman. And
23:30
she did not pitch particularly well the second time
23:32
out, and that was the, that
23:34
was one of the
23:36
last times, only the second time that
23:38
a woman played in an exhibition with
23:40
a major league team. Ah,
23:43
in 1922, Lizzie Murphy played in
23:45
an AL All-Star game in
23:47
August in an exhibition. But
23:49
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
24:08
no matter how well you take care of it,
24:11
evolution hasn't caught up with
24:13
that particular type of pitching.
24:17
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
24:29
who are women.
24:33
I mean, like immediately when
24:35
I was working, you know,
24:38
coaching stuff at the, in
24:40
my son's little league, immediately you're
24:42
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
24:56
you had someone who pitched well
24:58
off speed pitches and, you know,
25:00
maybe not bringing it up as fast as
25:02
the boys do, but with breaking
25:04
balls and knuckle balls and junk
25:06
balls, basically there's got to be
25:08
a girl out there who's the
25:10
next Jamie Moyer who
25:12
could come out there and maybe throw a bunch of
25:14
innings. I mean, maybe
25:17
we should start developing that from little league. I
25:19
remember my dad,
25:22
the greatest little league coach of all
25:24
time, we always lost, but he managed
25:26
to play everyone. There was a girl
25:28
named Andrea Chopeck, who was in
25:30
our school and she
25:33
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?
25:40
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
25:51
I think verbatim. That's what they said. If
25:53
you look at our team picture, Andrea is on
25:55
her team. There she was. Maybe
25:58
we should start from there. Start. start
26:00
from that point. You know,
26:02
they're terrific softball pitchers out there. Well, maybe
26:04
have one thrown... have someone
26:07
throwing hardball. You
26:09
know, maybe if there's a whole population
26:11
we even tapped into an old mindset.
26:14
Every scout's armed, throw 110, must be good. Geez,
26:16
I don't understand why his
26:19
arm didn't go through. You
26:21
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
26:29
go to somebody who's did anyone write some comments
26:32
right now? Oh, Brian
26:35
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
27:04
In Memoriam video I dropped the other day, I'm very proud of
27:06
it. And naturally, the first person
27:08
who wrote to me about it was about
27:11
a typo. I said,
27:13
the typo, do you understand how many times
27:15
I proofread this thing? How many times I
27:17
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
27:56
and I spelled career wrong. I was
27:59
so concentrated in all the different names. I
28:01
spoke career wrong. And I
28:04
toyed with that. Oh god, I gotta take down
28:06
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.
28:12
You guys spoke career wrong. And
28:15
then I realized, no, I'm
28:18
gonna keep it. It's an Easter egg. If
28:22
you, if the thing about that
28:24
video that I worked my butt
28:26
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
28:46
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
30:19
big free agent contracts, the original big
30:22
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
31:12
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
31:25
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