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MLB ⚾ Baseball "Around the Diamond" ft. Jerzey Boy MJ & Sports Professor
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MLB Baseball "Around the Diamond" ft. Jerzey Boy MJ @iowsportsnetwork4035
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Transcript
Introductions and Podcast Excitement
00:00:00
Speaker
He's going to listen to us talk some shit. You know, it's it's what we do. Yes, sir. No, I'm super excited. I appreciate you having me on. As always, I'm glad you were able to come on my show a couple weeks ago. We rocked it, and I'm going to bring you on next time we do another one. so Oh, yeah, I appreciate being on your show. That was trying to get me back, you know, got me back into doing things.
00:00:22
Speaker
So it was it was a pleasure of being on your show and getting me that little little step in.
The Mets' Performance and Rivalries
00:00:35
Speaker
okay so omar let me ask question what do you think about your your what do you think about your meds getting their ass kicked right now and what they did for the trade deadline Oh, my goodness. First of all, getting our ass whooped lately has just been kind of depressing. Now, i did I do know we won six in a row a few weeks ago, but then getting swept by the Padres last weekend and then coming back to not have a greater showing against the Pirates, it's not it's not a good look. You know, you want to be able to keep up the consistency, and that's one thing the Mets have not done this year is been consistent all year long. They've been so up and down.
00:01:14
Speaker
They started the year... Soto wasn't on until just last month, but Lindor and Alonzo were. But then Soto came on and then Lindor and Alonzo went into a slump. We also had injuries to our whole bullpen and only had two-thirds of our, two-fifths of our starting rotation until we just got Mania and Montas back at the All-Star break. So ah hopefully...
00:01:40
Speaker
With Soto turning it around, Lindor and Alonzo starting to heat up again and the pitching back to health. Hopefully the second half will be a lot better. I know we just took the lead from the Phillies in the division, but we did. but I was just going to say, they just they finally just got on the board now, the Mets. Alonzo. Alonzo hit a three-run home run. He drove in Lindor and Soto.
00:02:02
Speaker
The polar bear, baby. polar bear.
00:02:06
Speaker
As of right now, it is Cleveland 5, the Mets 3, 1 out, bottom of the 6. You got, you know, Mark Vientos up. So, you know, you guys are, ah you know, I think Alonzo's actually 3 for 3. 3 for 3, 3 RBIs.
00:02:24
Speaker
Good for him. Still sucks, but good for him. I mean, again, look, the Phillies are going to be a hard team to hold off, right? They have an um amazing pitching staff. They've got a deep, deep lineup.
00:02:35
Speaker
um So, you know, the I'm not going to – and we talked about this on the show last week about how the Mets are always – you know, giving up big leads in the division when they have it close to the end of the year.
00:02:49
Speaker
It's happened now three times in the past 10 years that we actually had a lead at the end of the year, and we ended up blowing it all away, either to the Braves or the Phillies. So that's, you know, Phillies, Phillies, another team that, you know, they're, in my opinion, they're underperforming also, you know, because they, they got a really good team.
00:03:08
Speaker
And for Philly, they're, they're only, They're 15 games up in the win column, 63-48. With the team that they got built, you would think it would be a little bit more a little bit better record.
00:03:22
Speaker
you know when You look at their run score, 5-16, good number, but they've given up 4-48. So that's a differential of 68. They could work on that. you know They could definitely work on that.
00:03:35
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, the Phillies have not been playing up to their potential this year as they as they have in previous years.
Yankees vs. Mets: A New York Dilemma
00:03:41
Speaker
But also, we got to remember, Philadelphia is a second-half team. They always play really, really well in the second half and in crunch time down in the pennant race.
00:03:51
Speaker
So, again, I'm not going to count them out at all because I expect it to be a dogfight all the way to the end. It should be. yeah and And I spoke, I think, on your show, and I also spoke last week on my show,
00:04:06
Speaker
that if there's a dark horse in the National League, Mets might be that team. You know, because l l LA is LA, you know, with their fucking people, they got like $2.4 billion dollars deferred for like the next 57 years for Christ's sake. You know, so it eases up on their ah salary cap for, you know, these years, is which is, you know, that's a whole nother story.
00:04:35
Speaker
Well, you can say that, sir. But every time I seem to turn on one of your shows, all I hear is a bunch of Mets bashing, except when your cousin was on last week because you were trying to be nice to family.
00:04:47
Speaker
So I'm going to stay up and need you to stop because you know you're a Mets hater. And you might as well just go ahead and talk that shit. That's where you're wrong. That's where you're wrong.
00:04:58
Speaker
And you can ask my man, Carlos, that's commented. i have its I don't bash the Mets. Because honestly, i have I have nothing against them. They're not in my division.
00:05:11
Speaker
What they do has no bearing on the Yankees. Unless they play, you know, like Tampa, Boston, Toronto, all your Orioles. that's That's where the Mets, you know, you you you I root for them.
00:05:24
Speaker
you know But I'm not a Mets hater. I'm not a Mets fan. I'm just a baseball fan. I tell it how it is, tell it how it was, and tell it how it will be. Well, I mean, I think that every New York fan is going to be like that, right? You have to pick one or the other, right?
00:05:39
Speaker
i mean, that's the but that's the point. Not necessarily, you know. I mean, if you're a fan of baseball overall, you could you know become a different fan, whether it's Atlanta, Boston.
00:05:52
Speaker
One of my best friends that passed away, he was my childhood best friend and brother. He was an Oakland A fan. You know, so there's, you know. you you know um But I'm talking about you being from New York.
00:06:03
Speaker
It's Yankees or Mets. And if you choose one, you're disowning the other is basically how that works.
Personal Baseball Histories and Team Loyalties
00:06:10
Speaker
I mean, yeah. she It's like the Jets and it's like the Jets and Giants. Who's your football football team?
00:06:18
Speaker
I'm a joy fan. And I've been. But the thing is, like, I never I didn't have to choose between Jets, Giants or between the Mets, Yankees. You know, when i when I started going to baseball games, but through my my my late father, his PBA always ran bus bus trips every summer, Yankees games, Mets games, Yankee games, Mets games.
00:06:41
Speaker
my father My father was a Yankee fan. I started following baseball in like 1984 or so, 84, 85, around those area. you know And he was a Yankee fan, so it's kind of like, I didn't say, he never like pushed it on me, was just like,
00:06:57
Speaker
You know, getting into baseball like, all right, and this is when the Yankees suck for Christ's sake. You know, I became a Yankee fan. Mets had their run in 86 and whatnot. So, know, I went to many, many Mets games through my father's PBA, and I've actually actually been to Citi Field opening season.
00:07:16
Speaker
you know So I went to you know opening day at Yankee Stadium when they opened up, and then I also went to Citi Field you know you know to to see the Mets play there. So it's it's not it's not a hatred towards the Mets.
00:07:29
Speaker
yeah i I feel bad for y'all because y'all ain't worth a shit, man. You can't. that You guys can fuck up a wet dream.
00:07:40
Speaker
Here it is. There it is. There it is. I knew you couldn't hold it in long enough. There it is. I tell him how it is, man. No, I feel you though. And yeah, yeah. Y'all ain't won in almost 40 fucking years, y'all. Almost together and win.
00:07:54
Speaker
Almost 40 years. Get your shit together. Just like the Jets need to get their shit together. i've seen the I've seen my Yankees be shitty.
00:08:06
Speaker
I've seen them on their runs. And then I've seen them good but not good enough. Mets, you've seen them.
00:08:14
Speaker
I can't even say none. Now, let me ask you a question. As a person that comes from New York, and yeah yeah yke is one is it is it usually paired up a person would be a Yankees and a Giants fan and then you'd be a Mets and a Jets. Does that usually how that works?
00:08:29
Speaker
No. Okay. I mean, because my man Carlos here, he's a Met fan, but he's also a Giant fan. Okay. Well, there you go. you know and and And a good friend of mine, Nick, You know, the Nick Shine show on YouTube and IOW Sports, he is a
Fan Cultures and Nostalgia
00:08:44
Speaker
Jet fan, but he's also a Yankee fan.
00:08:47
Speaker
Okay. See, I had heard that. Somebody had told me that before. It was like, well, usually it's like, you know, you you they the pairs. But I was i don't know for sure. Okay, cool. It's all about, you know, kind of – I can't say it's how you're brought up.
00:08:59
Speaker
You know, you you have to make that choice yourself unless it's pushed over on you and you go with it. You know, but as a sports fan, you've got to figure out what's – who you feel is the best to root for. There's my cousin, there's my cousin, Mets and Giants.
00:09:14
Speaker
you know So there's a- Salute. Yeah, I mean, it's yeah it's all ah so about who you wanna root for. yes So I mean, yeah there there is a lot of biased opinions you between yeah the four teams. You can even throw in the Knicks and there's people that try to put put the Nets into like New York City talk.
00:09:36
Speaker
The Nets playing Barclay Center, you're not New York. Okay, all right. You know what I'm saying? The Knicks playing the Mecca of basketball. The Nets could have stayed in Jersey, and they didn't.
00:09:48
Speaker
you know They're a team that they're in disarray again. you know know They can play at Barclay Center all they want. They're not a king of New York, and they'll never will be. Okay, I will accept that. I'll accept the outsider perspective. And that's just like the Mets. they It'll never be the Mets' city.
00:10:05
Speaker
they will always be the little brother. I would agree. I would probably, I would, yeah, I would agree with that. i yeah that yeah You have to agree. mean, the number of championships alone would, would dictate that, I think.
00:10:16
Speaker
So I I've seen the Yankees. Let's see. I've seen the Yankees lose as many world series as the Mets have been to in the last
00:10:31
Speaker
Yeah, and and in my 45 years of living, I've seen the Yankees lose as many World Series as the Mets have been to. Well, ah look, I would get on the market and start saying that you didn't see most of them live anyways, like y'all got into last week or the week before.
00:10:49
Speaker
But I'm just going to let that go and say you're right. And the Yankees are definitely the bigger bigger dog on the block when it comes to New York baseball.
00:11:01
Speaker
Can't say anything about that. But look, I like being a Mets fan, even though they break my heart a lot. They're very scrappy, lovable bunch. And I've always been a fan. I the first i was alive for the 86 championship and remember watching it with my dad. It was my first baseball memories.
00:11:18
Speaker
So I love that team. Yeah, I remember the 86. I remember watching that. They had a badass team, even though they were all yade up. yeah. Oh, yeah, they were. They was yade up, you know.
00:11:35
Speaker
Yeah, they was. For months and years. But they had they had a dope squad. Don't get me wrong. They were good. But they were never able to run with that.
00:11:46
Speaker
They had a good team in place, and they floundered and couldn't do shit after 86. Yeah. They were good, but not good enough. No, you're right about that. you know Then it took you out 14 years to make it back, only to lose to the Yankees, of course.
00:12:00
Speaker
you know Yes, thank you for reminding me. and then losing it And then losing to Mars Royals. Like, damn it, I got both of y'all that beat us in the series, both on the same show right now.
00:12:11
Speaker
yeah you You're lucky I didn't wear my Royals jersey tonight. I will, though. I will one day.
MLB Team Analysis
00:12:17
Speaker
Well, look, what I'll say is I think the NL East is, again, going to be a dogfight just like it will be. i mean, if if we're looking at it right now, when you're looking at most of the divisions, if you're looking at the standings,
00:12:33
Speaker
the only – I mean, hold on. Let me take a look again because when I looked earlier today, um If I remember correctly, the Tigers are the only team with more than a five-game lead. Let me see if I'm correct. Yep, that is right.
00:12:50
Speaker
Yeah, they're at eight. They're eight and a half. Eight and a half. No other team in the league has has more than than three and a half games. So that means every other division is most likely going to come down to the end of the season. And so I'm really looking forward to all of those races. Can the Padres and the Giants keep up with the Dodgers? Or the does the Dodgers firepower really just overpower them? looking The Giants won't.
00:13:17
Speaker
Giants were sellers. No. san diego they they they put all their eggs in the basket so san diego is going to give a run for the money to it you know to l la you know i'm i'm curious to see you know even though you know i yeah i noted nl east know with the mets and whatnot um i'm curious to see how the central is going to play out you got milton milwaukee sitting at 67 44 then you got the cubs sitting at 65 and 46. milwaukee's up two games on them That's going be interesting.
00:13:47
Speaker
said you know Actually, the Dodgers are up three on San Diego. Interesting. And then you go up to the American League. You got Houston sitting two and a half of above Seattle. you know Seattle made a little bit of move.
00:14:00
Speaker
So did them cheaters in Houston. um We'll see if Carlos Correa makes any difference and or Arias. But, yeah. Yeah, they're going to.
00:14:13
Speaker
But I do want to go back to what you were saying about the NL Central. I really like that coming down the pipe because um that was, wow, major pause. The Cubs, they were actually leading most of the season, leading that division. And then the Brewers got hot about and end of May.
00:14:33
Speaker
ah Christian Yellick has really been having a bounce back season. um And the Cubs though, I believe they are the better team all around. So I believe the Cubs will end up pulling this out down the stretch.
00:14:45
Speaker
But you know, the Brewers are obviously seven and three in their last 10. So they're playing good ball right now. and And I did say on your show, I called Chicago Cubs, you know, yeah to make the world series.
00:14:59
Speaker
That's just my gut feeling, but Hey, you know We're in the second half push now, so you know so Milwaukee could really really tear some shit up. you know Could be in a battle with the Cubs.
00:15:12
Speaker
you know It's going to be a battle in most divisions. you know Philly's being ahead of the Mets. Ha-ha, Carlos. um Yeah, Philly's up on the Mets a half a game. Ain't nothing.
00:15:23
Speaker
know And then you go back to the American League, and then American League East. you know i don't I don't see Toronto... Keeping up with this, I'm going to say i think they're going to fall off a little bit.
00:15:36
Speaker
Because if you look at Toronto's record, okay, 65 and 48, 17 games up, 17 games up in a while in the win section. You look at their run differential.
00:15:48
Speaker
They've scored 531. Okay, decent. given up oh yes friend sixteen sixteen run differential you know, and you're, you're leading their division like that. i think they're going to that fall off.
00:16:05
Speaker
Yeah, that's a great point that you make there when you look at that kind of of of run differential in terms of win differential. Now, the only thing we're seeing, though, with the Blue Jays is that the offense has been as powerful as it needs to be. But really, it's more about their pitchers all getting healthy.
00:16:22
Speaker
Now they got the warrior god, Max Scherzer, you know, went seven innings of one hit ball or three hit ball, whatever it was the other day. So he's back from injury. If... Their pitching staff can keep it up.
00:16:35
Speaker
I mean, that's that's a tough staff to beat. So that's the only thing I would be concerned with as a Yankees fan if I was, which I'm not. And I hate that that just came out of my mouth, hypothetically. But ah but yeah, i think I think the Yankees will probably come back and take that. It all depends, really, when does Aaron Judge come back?
00:16:53
Speaker
And can the Yankees go 500 until he gets back? He's supposed to be coming back this week. But as I'm watching Gangston, it's now fucking 3-3. Suddenly Max Freed, certain teams like Max Freed, I don't know, man.
00:17:10
Speaker
It just feels sometimes this shit is set up.
00:17:14
Speaker
ah Look, man, Max Fried is a good pitcher. He had that he had the ACL injury with the Braves, but, I mean, hes he was a good pitcher before that. So no no no nothing wrong with taking taking some Ls to to Max Fried. Which I understand, you know, wins and losses. But it just certain teams, like, obviously he can't fucking and beat them.
00:17:35
Speaker
It's like some of these teams know what pitches are coming. They got your number here. You can't tell me that to the pitch com or whatever you want to call that, Oh, the pitch column. Yeah. You think hacked?
00:17:47
Speaker
You think it's getting hacked? You said that on my show, I think. Yeah, that's right. easy look at Look at what this government does That's great. This government, our government can fucking hack anybody. probably is right now.
00:17:58
Speaker
Oh, of course. you tell me that these teams can't hire somebody in their IT department to crack the code to listen, pay attention? I was, uh... Throw their fingers down and do it the old school way.
00:18:12
Speaker
Fuck that comm shit. Yeah, i was I was in the military, so I can tell you I know all about that. And yes, yes they do. Yes, they can. And yes, they do. Are the answers to both those questions.
00:18:25
Speaker
ah So, yeah. But, you know, i g look.
Yankees' Performance and Future Moves
00:18:31
Speaker
The Yankees, if they have full power with Aaron Judge, are the best team in the AL East, in my opinion.
00:18:39
Speaker
But, again, but just have to make – you'd have to – the Yankees would have to hold serve at least 500 until he gets back, whether that's this week or next week or whatever it is. Yeah.
00:18:53
Speaker
Jesus Christ. is You also mentioned the Padres though, AJ Preller. How do you feel about AJ Preller going full AJ Preller at the deadline and trading? You had to look at this list. I got the, I saw it the other day.
00:19:07
Speaker
It was all the prospects that they traded and they traded like eight of their top 10 prospects for these relievers and yeah And Ryan O'Hearn and and and you know ah Mason Miller and the other reliever they got. So they traded away all of their prospects, all of them.
00:19:27
Speaker
Because they they they going all in right now. they they They figured they got a window. let's Let's keep that window open and and and roll the dice, see we can do.
00:19:38
Speaker
you know It's not a bad thing. you know especially when you got that many prospects from all the deals you have made over the last few years ah so you got those prospects that's what they're there for be honest with you if you're not going to bring them up you know i mean and they're they're highly ranked where you can get you know these good players like rhino hurt that was a great pickup he's a good he's a good player with baltimore oh i agree yeah i think i'll help him a lot but again that The Dodgers have so much firepower there. You would have to – you'd have to have – Bogarts is going to have to have – at least stay somewhat consistent the rest of the year.
00:20:20
Speaker
Tatis is playing great, so you've got him there, obviously. Machado is getting a little older, but he's still got a little bit of a bat and a good eye. So, you know – Then they got Yerkson. Oh, Profar. That's it, yep.
00:20:37
Speaker
Thank you. cause My memory is you know not all there, but ah yeah, good call. No, you you you you served? Yeah, I was in the air Force. Yes, sir. You were damn right.
00:20:48
Speaker
I know you can't see me, but hey, salute you and thank you for your service. I appreciate you, brother. I can see you. You can't see me. Okay. I appreciate you, man. You serve for our country.
00:20:58
Speaker
I appreciate you. Thank you. Hey, I really appreciate that. It was a, it was an honor and my pleasure and I would do it over again in a heartbeat. Yeah. I did six years in the air force. I was, I was luckily stationed as most people would say in Hawaii for three years. I was stationed right next to Pearl Harbor, a Hickam air force base.
00:21:16
Speaker
And then I was stationed at the Pentagon for three years after that.
00:21:21
Speaker
Interesting story, man. That's, let's say that's, that's a, that's a hell of a thank you right there. You know, appreciate you. and Thank you, brother. But yeah, no, it was it was ah it's definitely a a the league that we're seeing this year is because we have to realize that every year it seems to go back and forth and vacillates between what's better pitching and hitting.
00:21:49
Speaker
And now we are seeing a lot, and we talked about this on the the baseball show last week that we had, but pitchers these days are not even going four, five innings.
00:22:00
Speaker
and So now it's super important where before we used to say you needed that top three rotation, which is still important in the playoffs, but it's going to be even more important that you are like the Mets and the Padres and do have a stacked bullpen because the bullpen is going to be that much more important in the playoffs. How do you feel about that?
00:22:21
Speaker
Yeah, my my my cousin my cousin Matt, who's named after me, he says thank you for your service also. Oh, Matt, Mets fan. Thank you, brother. I appreciate you. That that is my dear cousin.
00:22:32
Speaker
He's a Mets fan. I watched the show last week. smell s that's my that's my That's my blood. That's my heritage. He's he's family.
00:22:42
Speaker
Always will be, obviously. But Max Fried, he got through two innings. Now, you know how Max Fried has been pitching this year? Right now he's gone two innings, five hits, four earned runs.
00:22:57
Speaker
That's not great. Two strikeouts to a walk. 49 pitches and two innings. Yeah, that that's that's rough. That's rough. but know yeah Look at Patrick Corbin from Texas. Two inning two innings, 61 pitches.
00:23:15
Speaker
So he's thrown 12 more in the same amount innings. Patrick Corbin has not been good since the Nationals won their World Series. He completely fell off a cliff after that year and never recovered.
00:23:27
Speaker
He had like a five ERA for the Nationals the past five years. I know because I'm from D.C. And then he went on to to to suck at this new team. And again, it's not his fault necessarily, but he just lost it.
00:23:39
Speaker
He lost it after that championship season. It just disappeared. Oh, yeah. So let me let me ask you straight now. what What do you – is Frye cooked?
00:23:52
Speaker
No, he's not cooked. He's like, because he pitches, lights out one game, and then it seems like all a sudden, like, these certain fucking shitbox teams all of sudden could figure him out.
00:24:04
Speaker
I don't know. This shit is all rigged to me. It's all scripted. um Am I blaming that on Frye's – I don't know. he's He's good, but he's not cooked.
00:24:16
Speaker
But let me ask you, Omar – How do you feel about the Mets and what they did at the trade deadline? what was your what What was your good points and what was your bad points? i like you know Yeah, the good point would be definitely stacking the bullpen and making sure that you have – a bridge from your starters who, by the way, as I mentioned, as I mentioned earlier, our starters, half three of them were injured for half of the season.
00:24:43
Speaker
So these pictures are still working up. Frankie Montas only has two starts under his belt. Kodai Senga was hurt for for May and June. So these pictures are, are going to be working up their innings, but they're not going to get enough to to where they can get enough work before the end of the season where they're going to throw six, seven innings in the playoffs. They're just not going to.
00:25:03
Speaker
They're going to go four five innings, as I just talked about with all the other pitchers. The Mets definitely will because, again, they're just not they're not ready for that type of workload. So they're going to go four five innings. But now you've got relievers that can actually bridge you to Edwin Diaz, who was just named reliever of the month this past month for the National League earlier today.
00:25:22
Speaker
And so I really like the relievers that they got. But what I do not like is how much we gave up for Taylor Rodgers. Now, look, I get it. He's he's good. He's got the 2-3 ERA over the past few years. Fine.
00:25:34
Speaker
um I am a fan of Butoh. I thought he was good as it was. And it was really funny actually, because I was in the middle of just moving stuff out of my old apartment. and I quickly looked and saw the notification Mets trade for Taylor Rogers trade Jose Bouto.
00:25:51
Speaker
And I was like, damn, actually like Bouto. And I started thinking, I was like, I mean, I know he's not as good as Rogers, but like he could be in the future. And so I was like, well, you know, I, okay, I'm fine with that straight up, whatever.
00:26:03
Speaker
I didn't read the whole notification. So later when I actually, pulled it down and saw the whole notification. I saw we then gave up our number 10 and number 12 prospects. suspect yeah yep and And I don't like that. No, you didn't need to give up that much. Give up just Jose Butto, maybe one prospect, definitely not both. Blake Tidwell, live arm from here in Tennessee. I didn't like them giving him up, especially even though they say his control is not going to be good enough to make him a starter, more of a lever in the future. But still, I just think it's too much. And I think that even though, like you said earlier,
00:26:36
Speaker
we gather these prospects to be able to trade them, especially in baseball. That's a thing. um It doesn't mean you should be reckless with the, with the trades that you make and the amount of prospects you give up and the quality of prospects that you give up.
00:26:51
Speaker
So that would be my good and bad for that. One one one of my, you know, I, cause I go to a, what's called a neuro rehab, neurotherapy Monday through Friday, get therapy on my, you know, from my brain injury.
00:27:07
Speaker
Yes, sir. manager of my day program you know mean me and this guy became really really good friends because he's i'm a little bit older than him but he's also a diehard yankee fan but okay um mar let me tell you we were talking all obviously before tradeline meeting up to it he was saying that the yankees need to just package up spencer jonesray and get rid of them sell him what sell him why his stock is high and don't pull a gary sanchez and then then hold them And then let's say he doesn't pan out in the major, then you're stuck with, you know, you you don't have that high a prospect no more. And he, you know, very well might drop down.
00:27:48
Speaker
So he was saying, you know, package him up, you know, go go get what you need. Who else did he say? Well, I've heard the same thing about Anthony Dominguez. And I don't know how you feel about that, but I've heard the same thing. Oh, Jason and Dominguez. Oh, Jason Dominguez. Yeah, Jason Dominguez.
00:28:03
Speaker
You know, he's he's our our left fielder. The problem is... He's not naturally a left fielder. He's naturally a center fielder. You know, so you have an abundance of outfielders. So you could you could get rid of him, you know, if you go and pick up, let's say, Kyle Tucker in the offseason. You know, I don't know, you know, exactly who they could have got, you know, to you know for Jason Mingus. But I would have no problem shipping out either one of them if the price was right, you who they were going for.
00:28:37
Speaker
Oh, wow. Okay. I didn't think you were going say that because I know Jason Dominguez was such a prized prospect for y'all for so many years. Yeah. I mean, the the kids don't get it wrong. The kid's good, but I would package him if you could get, let's say you get one of those top end starters that you need, or you could go out and get yourself, you know, an even better left fielder, you know, just as much.
00:29:00
Speaker
Let's see what Jason Dominguez is doing. Hold on. Give me a second. All right. Jason Dominguez. right, he didn't start tonight, but he pinched it. So this year, Jason Dominguez.
00:29:13
Speaker
God, I got to see how many games he's played. Okay, 2020. He's played 93 games. He's got 319 at-bats. Okay, he's batting 263 with an on-base of, know, basically 33%, 34%. It's just 338.
00:29:29
Speaker
two sixty three with an on base of you know basically thirty three percent thirty four percent exist three three eight You know, he's got, let's see, 18 stolen bases.
00:29:43
Speaker
Not bad. But he struck out 98 times. And he's got only nine home runs, 37 RBIs. Okay, so he's having an average year. He's having – what's his war?
00:29:56
Speaker
His war this year is – 0.8. Yep. yep So he's just a Belville replacement player. Oh, but we he, he has improved. He was at negative 0.1 last year.
00:30:12
Speaker
Oh, well, there you go. that is't Negative. yeah is from improvement I mean, the rookie season when they brought him up, he only had 31 at bats.
00:30:23
Speaker
And even then his war was 0.2, but you know, he only had 31 at bats. He played eight games. But oh you all the that's pretty good overall for his career, he's got 119 games under the belt, 406 at-bats.
00:30:42
Speaker
He's got 15 career home runs, 125 strikeouts. easily walked He's walked 49 times in his career.
00:30:53
Speaker
He only has 15 home runs? For his career, yeah. Wow, I thought he was supposed to be a huge player. his His first year, they called him up in 2023. He played eight games.
00:31:05
Speaker
He had four home runs. The following season, he played 18 games, 56 at-bats. He only had two home runs. oh And then this year, you know, 93 games, 319 at-bats.
00:31:22
Speaker
He's only got nine. He's only got 37. So his power has not developed then like y'all really thought it was going to then. Listen to this. He's got 37 RBIs and he's got 36 walks.
00:31:34
Speaker
Interesting. But 95 strikeouts, that's a horrible a walk to strikeout ratio. lee that This year he's got 98 strikeouts. So you're telling me you strike out a lot and you're not hitting for power? Yeah, that sounds like a bad combination.
00:31:48
Speaker
Actually, I know it is because I know baseball. It's a very bad combination. you know Power, average, just it ain't there. It is not there.
00:32:01
Speaker
You know, yeah, I would. Yeah, now knowing those stats, I would probably trade him too for the right. You're you're completely right. Yeah. For the right price. Yeah, sure. And even, let's say, you know, hypothetically, let's say they do put him in center to give the shot in center field.
00:32:20
Speaker
Is that his natural position? Natural position with center field, right? So let's say you put him in center. He still isn't better at playing center than Judge, Bellinger, or Trent Grisham.
00:32:33
Speaker
That's a good point. That's a really good point. so you You have assets where you can afford to ship out the door and bring in something you need, like a top-end starter.
00:32:45
Speaker
you know Just imagine, Omar, just imagine if Paul Skeen's or Tyreek Scoble, if they One of them is coming to the Yankees. It's probably going to be Paul Skeens, and I'm gonna be pissed when it happens, but I know it's already going to happen. But at least... Yeah, you you know you know we'll probably get him, yeah. ah this you But anyway, the Mets have the pocketbook to do to do the things like they did with signing Soto.
Financial Strategies in Baseball
00:33:16
Speaker
So Steve Cohen, you know, will open up that checkbook you know and bring more and more, just like the Dodgers did. you Deferred money and all this shit.
00:33:28
Speaker
Stevie Cohen is what, the richest owner in baseball? Yes, he is. Yeah, he's like top two, top three. But he is the cream of the with the money.
00:33:40
Speaker
And he's not afraid to spend it. So let's see what else he can do for your Mets. Bring it in Soto? Okay. But what else are you going to bring in? Because that one man is not going to make your team a World Series champion.
00:33:56
Speaker
No, but I think also you need to look at it as the fact that it's it's indicative of what he is doing as an owner and that he's not afraid to spend that money. And you already know he's ah he's a very, very wealthy man, but hundreds of billions of dollars or whatever the fuck he has.
00:34:12
Speaker
So excuse my language. So, you know, he's going to um continue to pay for players. The only thing is the luxury tax or not luxury tax, the luxury tax in the NBA. Yeah.
00:34:26
Speaker
What is it that they have in and MLB? it's similar to the luxury tax. it's like penalties for draft picks and things like that when you're spending. Oh, it's not the luxury tax, but you know what I'm talking about. Yeah. I mean, they do have lot of tax in baseball.
00:34:41
Speaker
Oh, is it like is it called luxury tax too baseball? thought that was just basketball. Okay, so there you go. Yeah. let's look if If you go over the allotted amount of money, you know, you're supposed to, that's supposed to, let's say,
00:34:54
Speaker
and a number Let's say if your payroll goes over 300, you have that luxury tax for however much you spend above that. right like Oh, that's right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're right. Yep. There is a luxury tax. That is what it's called. Yep. You're right.
00:35:08
Speaker
And on top of it, you lose draft picks. So the Mets, they lost a first their first round draft pick. It dropped 10 spots all the way to the end because of the fact that they were over the luxury tax last year.
00:35:23
Speaker
It's going to happen. so And that is mess theing that's the shit part about l L.A., that they could keep rolling out these people and not have to worry about going over payroll and luxury tax.
00:35:38
Speaker
Yeah, I'm not sure how I feel about it. them letting them do the, now, I mean, everybody could do it. So it's not like the Dodgers are doing something illegal. It's technically legal to do, but if they're the only ones doing it and no one else does, it just seems like something that shouldn't probably be done. If not, everybody's going to do it.
00:35:56
Speaker
Well, you know, in my honest opinion, like I feel these guys are still getting paid, you know, let's say like Otani, you're going to tell me that Otani is making like four or 5 million this year.
00:36:08
Speaker
My why making so much in endorsements, it wouldn't matter anyways. But yeah, no if there's no way that l L.A. is paying him only five or whatever million it is this year. No fucking way. You know damn well he's getting money wired to him that he didn't know about that got wired from his translator.
00:36:29
Speaker
there You know he's getting paid money by l L.A. more than what they're saying is on the payroll. that's what you had That's where you have the manila envelope type deals back in the day.
00:36:40
Speaker
Yeah, a little ah no money under the table, baby. A little cash under the table. you know They won't know about this cash. Here you go. Here's $12 million. Boom. Here. twelve million boom yeah Take this. all All in ones.
00:36:54
Speaker
Not even in hundreds. All in ones. All in ones. but He could hit Magic City for some wings and cheeks. Wow, he went there. He would he would he took it to ATL. My man.
00:37:07
Speaker
Oh, man. How was it, though? It was amazing, including Magic City. It was tremendous. shoutout to Shout out to Rocky. ah a Nice dancer there that I engaged with for a long time during the evening. Oh, my God. I love it.
00:37:29
Speaker
Uh, I got some, got some, got some wings. They called me orange pepper. Oh, by the time I stepped out of there. Uh, but no, it was a good time. The wings were as amazing as they said. I did really get the lemon pepper lube ones, but I got the barbecue style. They have a barbecue style, lemon pepper lube wing.
00:37:44
Speaker
That joint was fire as fuck. Now the wings were a little small and so in terms of like the, the, the chicken on the actual, like bone, like how much chicken there is.
00:37:55
Speaker
It wasn't like plump wings or anything like that. I'm trying to say nothing pauseworthy while I'm describing this, but it was still really good. There were smaller wings, but they're still really good. But the dancers, cool. It was a lot smaller than I thought.
00:38:10
Speaker
Like, I thought it was going to be a huge club, but it's not. It's so small. It's like one room. That's what she said. That's what she said. Hey! That is so
00:38:22
Speaker
and oh Ah, so let's see. Lamar says that you brought up a good point. Dodgers aren't doing anything wrong, which they're not. Dodgers don't mind doing deferred payments because they know they'll have their capital down the road to those players.
00:38:38
Speaker
Which, yeah i'm I'm not saying that the Dodgers are doing anything wrong. It's just the amount of money that they are allowed allowed to defer. It's over a billion fucking dollars.
00:38:51
Speaker
And none of that goes towards your payroll. for like the next year. that's crazy. 15, 20, 58 years. um mean, they, he ain't no Bobby Bonilla.
00:39:04
Speaker
He ain't the OG. I was just about to say, they ain't giving him the Bobby Bonilla deal, so shit. You know There's only one Bobby Bo. Well, the problem with that, though, Carlos, and you and you and I both know from being former Mets fans when the Wilpons didn't want to spend any money, that when you have these teams where the owners don't want to spend money, I mean, look at the look at the Pirates right now that don't spend any money and don't even want to keep they're good players so it's just you know it's it's it's it's hard to incentivize teams to spend more if their owners don't want to win and if they don't have a history of winning or history of that money and and i've been so i've been saying this you know about about certain teams you know if you if you own this is more like funds that's fucking great
00:39:53
Speaker
wow You know, a lot of these owners, the you own you own a professional sports team. Professional. If you don't reinvest in your team, why are you owning a goddamn team?
00:40:09
Speaker
That's my thing. Like, as a sports owner, You either are doing it for one of two reasons. a you're a huge fan of the team or the sport in general. Like if I bought the Mets down the road, like that would be why, right? Because I'd want to.
00:40:22
Speaker
And I'd want to do everything really good to make the team as best as possible because I would want them to win. And then you look at the other side of why someone may invest in a baseball team because the owner wants to just make more money off of it and be as misery as possible and cheap as possible like some of these owners are.
00:40:41
Speaker
not spending money so they can make money for themselves while the while the team actually loses money as they go on so it's uh and i see i see what you're saying lamar these owners are the true dh you know but just just thinking about people i versus need a you know carlos need a minimum minimum cap these owners are greedy yeah they are greedy but it's hard to say a minimum cap because you can't someone convince players to want to stay there let's say you offer offer somebody like four years 60 mil or like four years 100 mil a lot of these guys might not want to take that money and these low market like going they're not going to go nowhere like signing signing with pittsburgh or signing with the white socks or the rockies like marlins you're not in shape to go anywhere so why would you want to go sign there when you could get that type of money if not better
00:41:39
Speaker
from another team. So it's hard to put out, you know, you gotta spend this much. As much as we wanted as a fan, that's hard to dissect and put that into words because guys maybe don't wanna play where they play.
00:41:54
Speaker
They just, they want out and they'll get better money or if not the same amount of money, but for a winning team. and dude As y'all both know, that's what the next is for so many years.
00:42:05
Speaker
But the thing is, even if you're an owner that only wants to make money, like wouldn't you want to make money by winning, not make money by losing and just being cheap? Like it would be more advantageous and probably more enjoyable for the owner themselves if they actually just tried to win and spend some money.
00:42:24
Speaker
Yep. Yeah, a lot of these teams, I just feel. Mets tied it up, baby. Mets tied it up. Marks again. Yankees are losing.
00:42:35
Speaker
yeah Let's go. Let's go. Alonzo, four for four. Is that four for four today? oh Let's go, Pete. Let's see what his average is up to, though. Find the five.
00:42:49
Speaker
Big Pete is still batting 267. two sixty seven ah And you look at it, he's got a – he's never hit for average, so that's not like a thing. and yeah Here's going to be a rundown.
00:43:03
Speaker
He is batting 267, okay? He's got a better average than Nemo, Lindor, Soto, McNeil, Vientos, Mauricio. The whole Yes, the whole Alvarez. I mean, Marte's got a better average, 275.
00:43:23
Speaker
two seventy five
00:43:26
Speaker
Man, your Mets are hitting us. I don't even need to tell you. know where yeah and you Look, he's having a great
Player Contracts and Future Decisions
00:43:39
Speaker
year, though. So I'm not i'm not even mad at that.
00:43:41
Speaker
He's having a really good year. she prepared to be Be prepared to lose him. Hey, you know what? He might opt out. i would. i would if I were him. I would opt out of the contract after this year. He's having an amazing season.
00:43:54
Speaker
He already has, what, 20, 27 home runs now or something like that with the one.
00:44:02
Speaker
He's got.
00:44:05
Speaker
All right. Big Pete now has. some mets He has almost 100 RBIs, and we're not even not even into August really yet. So Pete Alonso is having a great year. You're right. He probably will opt out and should opt out and try to get a big contract. And the Mets, if they were smart, would be the ones to pay him considering he's homegrown.
00:44:25
Speaker
I was thinking about that the other day. I was like, okay, we we could let Pete walk and keep Vientos at home. at first base or whatever, blah, blah, blah, blah. But look, man, Pete came up as a Met. He's about to break Darryl Strawberry's record for most home runs by a Met.
00:44:43
Speaker
he He has 251 now with 252 after tonight's home run. So he's now one away from tying Darryl Strawberry for the Mets all-time lead in home runs. He's homegrown. We drafted him.
00:44:55
Speaker
Keep him. He's a fan favorite. The fans love him. Like, come on, what are we doing? I mean Carlos have had this same conversation about like if you if you want to pay him pay the money.
00:45:09
Speaker
But I mean, yeah, this year right now he's got 25 home runs. He's up in 90 RBIs. You know, so I mean, you want you should pay him.
00:45:21
Speaker
You know, it's at what cost though. you i'm going Yeah, you're right. and with the With the luxury tax we talked about earlier, that would be the only thing. Because if not, you think the owner is is like afraid to actually pay him? He's not. He's just trying to pay the contract.
00:45:39
Speaker
Stanton just hit a two-run shot. He's back on top. 427 feet, miles per the bat. ask that's what he does
00:45:51
Speaker
It's the only thing you can use. was about to say, i was about to say you better you better be glad that's what he does because he don't do nothing else. I know. yeah the yeah That has been a horrible trade for y'all. like oh I don't remember what y'all traded for him, but I'm assuming it wasn't nothing.
00:46:08
Speaker
and He just hasn't panned out for y'all as he was with the Marlins. Of course it wasn't going what the Marlins were. It's something to replicate that.
00:46:22
Speaker
Let's see. Let's see. Let's see. We're going to go back and check him real quick. What he's done the Yankees, like his best season. Stanton.
00:46:32
Speaker
Hold on. The polar bear, baby. Polar Pete, baby. Let's go. All right. So his best years with the Yankees. Let's see. All
00:46:46
Speaker
right. His home run years with the Yankees. He's had 38. thirty eight Then he was hurt in 19 and 20, he had three and four. Then 2021, he 35. In 22, he had 31. In 23, he had 24. 24, he 27. and twenty twenty one he had thirty five and twenty two he had thirty one and twenty three he had twenty four and in twenty four he had twenty seven Okay, that's actually not as bad as I thought.
00:47:10
Speaker
That's actually, yeah I mean, 30 home runs and nowadays is not is not a bad number. Most people aren't hitting 50 or 60 like the big dumper is this year. They're just not, or Judge did a few years ago.
00:47:21
Speaker
Most people, the the the better home run hitters in the league are going to hit maybe 40 at the most. Like Pete might get you 50, but you're not really going to have outside of Judge and Pete and maybe Otani, you're not really going to have people having over 40 home runs really. So, and the dumper.
00:47:38
Speaker
look jump but looking Looking at his his career numbers, he's only had three seasons where he had 100 RBIs or more. Only one of them were with the Yankees.
00:47:52
Speaker
In 2017, his MVP season, 59 home runs, 132 RBIs. Damn, I forgot he was an MVP. That's crazy how far we've come.
00:48:03
Speaker
I completely forgot he was an MVP. His next best was 2014. You know, Miami, he hit 37 home runs, 105 RBIs. And then with the Yankees in 2018, that was his first year at the Yankees. He hit 30 home runs and 100 RBIs.
00:48:23
Speaker
So he's never hit – hasn't cracked 100, know, the rest the time the Yankees. this is Yeah, that's not good. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. This is his eighth season with the Yankees.
00:48:38
Speaker
His second high season was 97. That was in 2021. So you you get what you get from him, and so he's a bonus. Right.
00:48:48
Speaker
Yep. Your nemesis, the Red Sox, up big, 8-1 over the Royals. Yeah. Royals are losing. How do you feel about that, Marr?
00:49:03
Speaker
Blue Jays up 5-0, top of the third already. 5-0 with the Rockies. Rockies suck, man. The Rockies are going to be worse than the White Sox were last year. They're going to break that record that the White Sox set last year.
00:49:17
Speaker
Yep. No, he did not.
00:49:26
Speaker
Yeah, we're looking at Toronto. Toronto's got a subtle team, but I don't think they're going able hang. I think they're going to fall off. Red Sox, I think they're going to battle the fall off.
00:49:41
Speaker
nine sp so Well, you know, Brogan beat the Braves Phillies, you know, your Phillies won Yeah, they kicked the Orioles' ass.
00:49:55
Speaker
Reds and Cubs are in a good one, tied up 2-2 in the sixth. Yeah, 2-2, sixth inning, yep. And then, of course, you've got the Mets and Indians top nine.
00:50:05
Speaker
know So the Mets are going to be about to be coming up to possibly walk it off. Yeah, let's go, baby. how do you feel about the Orioles being so bad this year after being so good last year? I don't want to be honest with you. Like, if they are talking about underperforming, they've got so, so many top prospects on the major league level already.
00:50:30
Speaker
and the shit is just not connecting. I mean, they traded away over. you know, you spoke about Adley Richmond. You've got a Jerickson.
00:50:46
Speaker
I forget which one they have, but they have quite a few pieces.
00:50:51
Speaker
They're going to let them unload. Oh, Jackson holiday. Jackson holiday. Yeah, I knew it was something Jackson just didn't know which one. Yeah, they're going to.
00:51:01
Speaker
They're going to have a fire sale thing in the offseason. Because they're going nowhere, and they're going nowhere fast. you know I don't know how much they're going to um unless you're gonna want to invest in these guys.
00:51:16
Speaker
Baltimore is not known to baltimore known to sign these eight, nine, ten-year contracts, and unless your name is Davis. Right. Right.
00:51:28
Speaker
You know, Stanton has given you all your money's worth in the post. Yeah. Yeah, he has, but, you know, and it's like opposite, you know, Judge Kills, you know, regular season, not too good in the postseason.
00:51:44
Speaker
Stanton, know, has been too good in, quote, in the regular season, and then he's been on fire in the postseason. So you get what you get from him.
00:51:56
Speaker
It's a bonus.
00:51:59
Speaker
Hopefully he does get out the field because when he plays the field, he's actually a little bit better of a player than as opposed to being a DH. So get his ass out there, know, in right field or left field and let's see what he can do in the field.
00:52:15
Speaker
know, because he might be getting stiff, you know, because he's getting older and lazy. I can't even say lazy. He's getting older and maybe you get his ass on his feet and put him out there. know, give him a shout out and see what happens.
00:52:28
Speaker
Let's see. and givess my world to sing here it standpoint leading up to the postea stay is deensive ghost Yeah, he is.
Legacies and Hall of Fame Debates
00:52:42
Speaker
use some i can't i can't disagree with that either hundred
00:52:51
Speaker
right so i want i want yeah still here passing ethan doy's entire fucking career in an major league don't just give eat you know just past postea like oh no why did you do it no mar why did you do it god play and rise out of me damn providing use tim ready stey and anybody
00:53:21
Speaker
is as as bomb What the hell is his name? Aries Spears says he got it. As as he says about Angel Reese, she got it.
00:53:35
Speaker
Oh, Judd was terrible in the postseason. Yeah, you did, Lamar. I know what you're doing. yeah Yeah, you know what you're doing, Mark. You know what you're doing. And you knew was on here and I was going have to deal with it.
00:53:49
Speaker
He knows damn well that I'm not a No Tani fan. I just hate how he gets treated. It's just baffling. I mean, but come on, man. We haven't seen anything like him in in forever. he He pitches and he bats at a high premium level. You can't be mad at that.
00:54:07
Speaker
Did he park to see like Moses? No, he didn't park to see like Moses, but that don't mean that he's not one of the greatest baseball players of all time. He's not one of the greatest players of time. No way.
00:54:20
Speaker
I mean, he's on a better trajectory than Mike Trout was.
00:54:25
Speaker
Mike Trout in his heyday better than Ohtani, hands down. i don't I don't know about that. In his prime. In his prime, Mike Trout.
00:54:38
Speaker
Hands down better than Ohtani. Look, they were on the Angels together. What did Ohtani do? Didn't bring him a title. Well, neither did Mike Trout. He was there for eight years, ten years. He still ain't done nothing. What do you mean? That don't mean nothing. is They brought Ohtani in to pair with Mike Trout.
00:54:56
Speaker
And they ain't do shit together. Nothing.
00:55:01
Speaker
Yeah. No, you but something right you're not wrong about that. Yeah, you're completely right. My child needs to leave and just he needs to come come back this way. You know, he's he's from Jersey. I know he's a Phillies fan.
00:55:12
Speaker
He's got to come back this way if he wants to you know to win a title. yeah I know he wants to be faithful to the Angels, but you've made enough money. Do you want to win a title now? Oh, I completely have agree.
00:55:24
Speaker
Yeah, he needs to get the hell out of Anaheim. He's just going waste his career away. Putting up all the numbers and exit. I understand what to be loyal to your team, but at what point do you say, like, man, I just want to win?
00:55:40
Speaker
Yeah, he's given he's given enough. He's given enough. It's like when Damian Lillard left Portland. It's like I gave you my all, and now I need to want to go win, and we're not going to do that here. Sorry, you should be out before me. That's it.
00:55:53
Speaker
But, yeah, I agree with you. He needs to get the hell out of there. But I don't know that he's i don't know he's going to. I think you're right. I think he's maybe too loyal. It might be the issue. And answer my cousin, he says, I'm Mike Trout. He regular season war really mean anything if you don't win rings.
00:56:08
Speaker
I don't think war should mean shit, to be honest with you. That wins replacement shit, eh. You can't always look at that because if he's on the field, you know, let's say the Angels are 10-1.
00:56:22
Speaker
If you're off the field and they're, you know, five and six, you know, a four and seven, you can't always blame blame one player.
00:56:34
Speaker
Yeah, and and and I agree. I think war isn't like an end-all be-all, but it is a really good measurement statistic. So in terms of like comparing players, if you want to look at, okay, we got Mike Trout. Let's see what his war was this year or last year versus another player that we might might want to pick up in free agency.
00:56:54
Speaker
That's a good barometer of how good a player is and when and when you're doing measurements in terms of free agencies and trades and things like that. But yeah, your cousin is completely right. If you don't have 10 war, but you still don't win a ring, then it was all for nothing.
00:57:10
Speaker
Which, what, which might happen with Soto. You never know. It could. You're completely right. I mean, it could. Now, I do agree with your cousin. He said last week we're going to win at least one, possibly two. I agree with that. I think we're going – I'm pretty sure we'll win at least one with this core that we have over the next few years and then hopefully again. But, yeah, Soto's not – he's going to be a DH sooner rather than later.
00:57:38
Speaker
And as long as he can hit – and, look, hitting is a skill that – has been shown can be carried into your 40s. Hank Aaron was a great hitter into his 40s. So Ichiro was a great hitter into his 40s. So people can be good hitters, and he's one of the best hitters on the planet.
00:57:55
Speaker
So, yeah, Trout was. Trout was the better defender. Yes, of course. Agreed. But Otani pitches, and their offense is about to say it.
00:58:07
Speaker
My bad. i didn't mean to step on you, MJ. My bad. No, no, no. It's just baffling because Chow is a better fielder right right now.
00:58:18
Speaker
Always. Sure. i agree with that. you're He's been a better fielder since Otani's been up. Look at Otani. He's not playing the field.
00:58:29
Speaker
Chow is hurt. He is still better fielder than Otani. Without an arm injury, without shoulder or or an elbow. Yeah, Ohtani can come in swing a bat to the bases, but can't throw a ball.
00:58:44
Speaker
I mean, dude, he almost became the first 50-50 player ever. Mike Trout ain't never done that. Who cares about 50-50? I mean, that's a pretty big indication that you are a great player if you could have 50 home runs and 50 stolen bases, which has never been done ever before. that would say that's pretty good.
00:59:02
Speaker
Like I said the beginning my show. I think your Ohtani hate has gotten out of control, my friend. yeah You must not really know baseball, and Riff's not really know me. the man He's just a name that they're trying to put out there to attract the viewership yeah from Japan and other other places to see him.
00:59:24
Speaker
He's the fucking great thing from slow spread. That's wild, son. That is crazy. He never walked on water. ah he i didn't say that he did but damn i mean come on bro you're not giving him any credit whatsoever yo he couldn't even sell oh get the hell out of here mark get out of here with that but he he couldn't he couldn't sell salt to a slug we'd have a 50 50 season almost no okay
00:59:54
Speaker
i um Bobby Wynn is not better than Otani. That's not even close to true. I don't know what beat they have there in tc but you need to come up to Jersey and get that flyer.
01:00:09
Speaker
Down straight in your ass that people realize Otani is not Otani. yeah They altered the rules for this dude.
Impact of Rule Changes and Player Comparisons
01:00:17
Speaker
The base is bigger. You know, don't hold him on.
01:00:22
Speaker
Two throws, over if you third of you don't pick him off, he takes second. So he knows after those first two throws, he can get a walking lead. And they're not going fucking hold him on.
01:00:33
Speaker
Yeah, but anybody can do that. But why is he so much better at it then? Because they're catering to his punk ass. So you believe that they instituted all of the – and I've heard you say this before.
01:00:44
Speaker
You truly believe that they instituted all those rules just for Otani? not Not all, but i think a lot of this shit, that's that's why he's able to do what he's doing. Okay. I get it. And the time the pitch timing, like all that paul oh that plays a big part of the game Sure. Soto has 20 stolen bases this year, if you didn't know.
01:01:08
Speaker
Why? Because he does exactly what you're saying. He takes running leads when there's like, you know, they have the two pitches over already. He's got them timed to the point where he's, you know, whatever. Anyways, it is so yeah, I agree. It's gotten much easier to steal stole stolen bases. So I will give you that.
01:01:25
Speaker
Getting to 50 is probably same as getting to 40 would have been in the past. Think about this, Omar. Just imagine... If Ricky Henderson or Vince Coleman, they played with the rules now, played with the bases out of the arm now.
01:01:43
Speaker
Yeah. How many stolen bases do you think they could have had in the, they were already putting up like 130, 120, 130 stolen bases without all these rule changes Ricky would go for 250 and easily hit 30-35. 250? I don't know about 250. I'd go with maybe like 175, 200.
01:02:02
Speaker
two high Bro, he was putting up 120. um I'm going to pull it up just to to tell you the exactly. like He would have doubled up, doubled, if not more, than what he did with the Redwood Warriors.
01:02:18
Speaker
At 82, 162 games to get to 250 steals, he would have to average 1.5 steals a game. mean, that's not on point, but that's just off the top.
01:02:31
Speaker
So, yeah, it could be done. That could easily be done. Yeah, you're right. Listen these three years.
01:02:40
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Listen to these three years going back 80, 81, 82, and 83, okay?
01:02:45
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and eighty three okay so in 1980 he 100 stolen bases 100. 1980 we 1980 that was 1980 i read to you sorry very good he had 100 stone bases in 1980 and then 1981
01:02:59
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do nineteen
01:03:04
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that was nineteen i read to you sorry very good yeah had a hundred stall bases in nineteen eighty s and then nineteen eighty one 1981, he played 40, sorry, he played 50 less games, 50 less games in 1981, and he still had 56 stolen bases, led the league in stolen bases, led the leagues in hits with 135 and score with So the most ever that he had is only 100? thought he would have had more than that. was that was young on. In 1982, had that's more like
01:03:39
Speaker
130. And in 1983, he had 108. Yeah, so you could get 250. He could. Sure. You could double It would be somewhere between 200 and 250, most likely. Yeah.
01:03:48
Speaker
you yeah so you could get your fifty he could yeah he could sure you you need double those up you know if you know it would be somewhere between two hundred and two fifty most likely yeah he led this he led the league in stone bases one two three four five six seven years in a row one two three four five six seven nine ten eleven eleven years twelve years twelve seasons he led the league in stone bases and that was way before all this nonsense crazy yeah
01:04:22
Speaker
No, he was one i love Ricky Anderson. i i was a I was a Mets fan, obviously, but my favorite player ever that is but fi player ever is jose can is Jose Canseco, the godfather of steroids. And so I loved Jose when he came into the league back in 86 when I was watching the Mets.
01:04:44
Speaker
win the championship, him and Mark McGuire out there with Ricky Henderson, Dave Stewart, ah Dave Parker, and the rest of the crew. I used to watch as many A's games as I would Mets games because obviously I wanted to watch Conseco play.
01:04:59
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um So yeah, I know those. I know Ricky Henderson very, very well.
01:05:05
Speaker
yeah Yes, you're right, brother. The godfather of steroids. I got him to autograph his book for me last year when he came for the convention. I got him to put i've got him put the godfather of steroids and that baseball was wrong.
01:05:21
Speaker
You know, like Carl said, stolen bases, they're ruined forever. That stack has just changed. You know, can't respect that these stone bases and the other can not cause it's they they're acting like Otani like this is the first time anybody's ever hit these milestones he didn't even lead the league in home runs last year didn't even lead the league I don't think he led the league in stolen bases either so why are they making a big deal because this guy went 50 50 big fucking deal because i guarantee you if whoever was the league leader in home runs didn't get to anywhere close to 50 stolen bases that's why because usually you don't get usually you don't get power and speed like that you don't usually have both you have one or the other usually it's rare to find that combination
01:06:11
Speaker
Yeah, Mara, I agree to
Steroid Era Reflections
01:06:14
Speaker
a point. i think that it was i think that it was obviously unfair and it is cheating. But at the same time, there's been so much cheating in baseball. Like at this point, just at that time, just let them all do whatever the hell they want. Now, should they be in the Hall of Fame? No, I think i think if you're going to have them in, there needs to be their own wing.
01:06:32
Speaker
but But yeah, I mean, fuck it, whatever. I don't know. Look, one thing I will say, my favorite player in the world, Jose Canseco, was the first player ever with 40 stolen bases and 40 home run season, Mr. 40-40 himself.
01:06:46
Speaker
And that's when those stats mattered. So that's all I want to say. You know, when it comes to the juice, okay, the steroid era, Baseball needed that after the 94 strike season.
01:07:01
Speaker
Yep, you're completely That's the ever rejuvenated and brought baseball fans back. You are speaking big facts. That is total big facts. Here's one thing I don't agree with, okay?
01:07:12
Speaker
You got shit in the Hall of Fame, you know, that, you know, they banned Pete Rose back in the 80s. So you had shit in the Hall of Fame that was Darren Bonds, Pete Rose,
01:07:24
Speaker
You know, McGuire and Sosa-Taste have all that shit in the Hall of Fame. um Some of the greatest players ever. Yeah, no i agree. They have a plaque? Why you have their million in there if they can't have a plaque?
01:07:39
Speaker
You're going to show up to fans like, oh, so look at Barry Bonds. He had 73 home runs. You see that baseball like a caption to it. And then you look around, there's nothing else other than that memorabilia.
01:07:51
Speaker
That should not be in there if he cannot. How can this shit get in there if he's not allowed in there? You know, it's tough. I mean, yeah they got to look at the big picture here.
01:08:03
Speaker
You know, they to look at big picture. These guys, it's very bonzo, it's hanging down. You know, you can't tell the story of baseball enough. can't tell the story of baseball enough Yeah.
01:08:15
Speaker
he's He's one of those you know power hitters. I mean, teams absolutely fear him. And that's kind of the treatment that Judge is getting right now. And I'm not saying Judge is Bonds.
01:08:28
Speaker
But he's getting that treatment. you know People are fucking scared of him. Walking him like say, like the second inning. Walking the fucking guy.
01:08:40
Speaker
And but what you would also say to about Barry Bonds, though, and you know, like Roger Clemens as well, um is that these players or those two specifically, you could also maybe even extend that to McGuire and Sosa, but not as much so because they weren't as great of players.
01:08:59
Speaker
But Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens in particular were both Hall of Famers before they even started using steroids. Yep. So. Absolutely. You know, and and. and Not that I know anything about steroids, you know, because I've i've never done steroids, wink, wink.
01:09:20
Speaker
yeah But you need that hand-eye coordination. Yep, exactly.
01:09:30
Speaker
All right, We about to, what time it? Yeah, got to wrap things up. Yeah, content Yeah, we we ran pretty late, but, you know,
01:09:40
Speaker
I appreciate you coming on. You want you want let to know the let the audience know where they can find you and link up with you and and and kick this shit? Yeah, yeah.
01:09:53
Speaker
Yes, sir. No, I really appreciate you having me on. um Always a pleasure talking ball with you. I'm going to have you on the next time we do our MLB show. We're going to another one here in a couple of weeks. I'll let you know so we can get you back um for the next one. So for all y'all all of your fans, ah you can catch MJ on my channel. We talk baseball as well. If you'd like, please subscribe on YouTube.
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Closing Remarks and Listener Engagement
01:10:30
Speaker
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01:10:46
Speaker
Oh, thank you, man. Thank you for being on my show. And I will have you back again. You know this ain't going to like the one done. you know, you will definitely be back. so But ah I just want to give a shout out to every everybody that's listening.
01:10:59
Speaker
so You know, my man Lamar, brother mine, Carlos, brother mine, my cousin Nat. You know, I got you, Omar. You know, so i appreciate everything. So I just want to give a shout out, you know, to my family. i want to give a shout to my my a neurotherapy group.
01:11:16
Speaker
You know, Bancroft is my neurotherapy. I give appreciation to them because they helped me so much. I want appreciate I want to send out to NeuroRestorative, my personal, she was not my personal, she was my physical therapy, you know, physical therapist.
01:11:34
Speaker
Her name is Sandra. Thank you so much for how much you have helped me along my journey. Without you, I wouldn't be as far along as I am now. So now I'm at Bankrupt still following little bit with, you know, with therapies.
01:11:49
Speaker
um I want to shout out my man Ken at Bancroft and my man Andrew. Just want to shout you two out because guys are Yankee fans, and I appreciate you.
01:12:02
Speaker
I don't know. Let them juice across all the boards. Oh, yeah. LeBron James, he fucking juices. We all know that. yeah we'll We'll get into that again, Carlos. Absolutely. yeah A lot of them do steroids, and I just don't know about it.
01:12:16
Speaker
You can see it, but yeah you know they just don't announce it. But everybody, I appreciate y'all. You can catch me on IOW Sports Network, always flo floating around. yeah I'm here and there. you know you know Wherever you find me, I'm here.
01:12:33
Speaker
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01:12:47
Speaker
you know So Omar, I want to thank you again. i appreciate you guys. Everybody, I hope you have yourselves a good night. You'll get some rest. Jerry's boy MJ out, and I will see you next Monday.
01:12:59
Speaker
Be blessed, brother. Be blessed.