Deuces Wild with Eric Byrnes & Will Clark
MLB All-Star on DEUCES WILD with Eric Byrnes & Will Clark
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Yep, no, evidently old, Otani, he had a three run bomb to put him up and then Logan just gave up a two run double of Soto. So that's 3-2. So here we are in the great state of Texas. You had an opportunity to play for the Rangers, obviously, after leaving the San Francisco Giants. What was, you know, let's start with this experience of playing in Arlene. A little bit about the city. Do you know what? I mean, when I first got there, it was all, you know, cowboys this, cowboys that, cowboys this, and then I was like, you know, when we showed up, it was like, wait a second, we got a good ball club here, we ought to be able to do something. And so, well, we get to striking and erupt everything and all that sort of stuff. But for two years there, we won division championships, which is the first time it ever happened in Ranger history. And yeah, it became kind of right in the middle of everything on the, and I guess you would want to say the central division of the AL. So, yeah, so we just had a classic match between Aaron Judge and Logan Webb. He's got the ground out to third base. Yeah, Logan Judge. Did you notice that right there? Logan didn't throw him no slider, he threw him in San Francisco. He threw him a freaking sinker in on his hands. Yeah, dude. How do you like the unis, man? The unis that's on the all star games, they suck. The unis are terrible. Whoever designed those unis for major league baseball, it needs to be fired. That's like a idiotic city connect uniforms that are shitty. Whoever the hell did the all star game uniforms, you ought to be fired. I will go on record as saying that that is only half of the Deuce's wild opinion here on no filter network because because freaking pink and you know he's going to love him. You know he's going to love him. Well, I'm also wearing a Mississippi state hat drill because I am in the great state of Mississippi right now. Hey, you can't say anything about Louisiana, Mississippi because you're in the middle of it and you had to play a freaking Louisiana team. Dude, we just got done with the PGI National Championship. 32 of the best teams in the country all in one spot had to be invited to go another base hit here. And the American League's going to tie the game at three. I mean, dude, how do you not like those helmets, man? Those things are fucking firemen. It doesn't get much better than those. Come on Logan, find a way to get out of this. The giant pitchers in general drill, I don't think have had a lot of success in all-star games. Um, or I'm just thinking of Big Daddy, Rick Pruschel, and Bo Jackson, and Nuke and his athlete off the game in Anaheim and what was that like 1986? Yeah, I know Kruco had an outing in '86 where he did well. After that, I mean, yeah, I mean, we had some issues with some of our pitchers, but that's okay. It's all right. That'd be fun to look into. So yeah, so I'm still in Mississippi. The tournament just finished for us last night, late last night. And it was a banger, man. I mean, every single game we played was a dogfight. There are no shitty teams here. And we ended up barely making the gold bracket, lost our first game in the bracket, and then came back and beat a good team out of Illinois called a hit dogs back that up by beating the number three team in the country, Feria National, just a really, really talented group, and then ended up losing our next one, but got down to the final eight teams. So it was a hell of a ride for the let them play 12 year boys. I'm real proud of them. Nice job. Nice job. Look, they finished, what did you say? Eight out of eight. Yeah, seventh or eight. Hey, they're in it. They're in the top 25 percent. Dude, that's awesome. Congratulations to them, you know, and on top of that, you know, as you will know, I mean, traveling the country, whenever you go to these tournaments and stuff like that, dude, you're going to face some hellacious competition. So, you know, for the guys that do what they did, man, congratulations, man, that's awesome for me. Congrats. So, Thrill, you took part in seven all-star games. Yeah. What is your greatest memory from one of them? Well, let's see. I was the leading vote-getter for the National League, so that was a big deal. I think that was '89, '88, '89, one of them up in there. And, you know, so that was a big deal going at all-star game. And then, favorite memory was a little three-run bomb off of Rick Aguilera down in San Diego. In San Diego? Yeah, we were losing pretty good, but kind of got us back in the swing of things. So, little oppo taco, as you would call it. So, it was a lot of fun. So, that was my all-star game memory. There's nothing to, you know, I mean, I got them right here, right by my desk, but I got all the pictures, all the presidents. You know, when I was there was Reagan and George Sr. And, yeah, so it was a lot of fun every time being there and meeting the presidents. So, that was good. That's pretty cool, dude. So, by the way, I just poured myself a cast of Migos officially not a sponsor of Deuce's Wild, but they fucking should be. And, on top of that, we do have an official sponsor. It's bet online, the number one online gambling destination for all of you degenerates. I imagine they will have a big bet right now. That would be the radio attorney's translators first pick. That guy. Yep, absolutely. E-pay. Let's raise one up for E-pay tonight, by the way. Here. Here you go, E-pay. Here, wait a, wait a take, wait a take the Brunnerty abuse for everybody. Nice job. Yeah, we still don't know exactly what happened. Yeah, we don't know, but everybody else deep down inside knows. 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It's called a shop called baseball, and they got a lot of neat stuff in there, and they got a Tony, they got a Ken Griffey Jr. collection, and then they added some of the Tony Gwynn stuff. And when Trey and I went in San Francisco last time, he wanted to go in baseball ism. He got some neat shirts. And when I saw this one, I was like, oh yeah, we getting this one, and this one's going on no filter. I'm promising. Yeah, that's a super cool one, dude. It reminds me of the All-Star game in 1999, I believe it's Fenway Park, the one where Ted Williams was there. Yeah, yeah, matter of fact, they just showed that, they just showed that yesterday, you know, before the home run, Derby, they were, they were going through, you know, some of the memories and all that. And that, that Boston Red Sox All-Star game where all the Hall of Famers came out there was epic. And, you know, having Ted Williams struck first bitch, and Tony Gwynn kind of held him up and escorted him on out there. That was pretty awesome. Did you ever get a chance to meet Ted Williams? I met Ted Williams twice. And I mean, fabulous guy, fabulous guy. The only problem was every time I met him, it was like in a crowd and just he and I were trying to talk and people were just all over us. And it was hard for us to kind of like get away to just talk all by ourselves. But we had a, we had a, I mean, just a fabulous man. And I even told him, I flat out told him to his face, I said, I learned your swing second hand. And then I gave him the guy's name, Barry Betera. And he goes, I recall that name son, I recall that name. And I was like, I was like, well, you taught him how to swing a bat. And then he taught me how to swing a bat. And, and so I said, I got your teaching set second hand. So I said, thank you so much. Dude, that's incredible. Put it on there too. Nice job, Luke. Put on the baseballism website thing. I'm a Bob where you can get all kinds of stuff. But, you know, there's, there's another shirt that I wore to the Eugene club when I was there this last week. It's a red one. It's got a big cross on it. It says rub dirt on it. Rub dirt on it. Yeah. So I went into clubhouse. I was like, here are you bastards. This is what happens when y'all get a freaking hang nail and a pinky or whatever. Rub a little dirt on it, run back out there. Let's go. Dude, going back to 10, we'll answer a second. He had to have been fucking, I don't want to say like taken aback, but here you were, you know, in the late 80s, obviously became one of the greatest about the greatest left handed hitter in baseball. And here he is having to hear this. Yo, like by the way, I learned how to hit indirectly through you. I just, we're talking, we're talking like, we're talking like, I learned all of stuff that you taught. 40 years later, I learned from you 40 years later. And, you know, it's, it, for me, personally, it was the, the ultimate compliment that I could give Ted Williams. And look, there he is, boom. They just pull it up. Is that awesome? That's freaking awesome that we talking about it. And it pops up on TV. That's what no filter does right there. No coincidence. No coincidence. Yeah, it's, it's fascinating, man, because, you know, he basically, you know, he talked about getting on plane with the baseball, right? And he talked about like how the swing arcing coming down. And he talked a lot of a lot of what even some of the modern day gurus are trying to teach. Right. Although you can make the argument they've taken away too far by dipping this right away, whatever. But if you watch Ted, it was just like a, it was a Nike swoosh, right? That came through and it was just prettier than anything I ever seen. So the way that I, it was put to me and is exactly kind of like you're talking about the swoosh, it is your, you're kind of short to the ball. So you're up here. All right, here we go. So you're up here, right? And you want to get down on plane like you're talking about. So here we come, we get down on plane and then it is staying on that plane for as long as you can before you get out. Okay. And what that does right there is it keeps, all right, the baseball is coming this way, you're going this way. I mean, so you're on that same plane as the baseball and you're creating momentum, you're creating length through the strike zone. So by length, I mean, you can hit it here, you can hit it here, you can hit it here, you can hit it here, as long as you stay on that plane of the baseball. And that's why your timing doesn't have to be absolutely perfect. And that's what the problem with the game now is, especially with the young guys, balls coming this way and they're coming up. So their timing has to be absolutely perfect. And so that's why I'm talking about getting on the plane of the baseball. If I could tell you how many times I said that in Eugene, Oregon this last week, you'd beat me upside to head. I mean, it was, oh my God, we got so many, so many problems as far as getting on plane of the baseball. How was Eugene, Oregon, you spent what about a week there with all the Giants rookie A level kids? Yeah, no. And it was a lot of kids that I had not seen because they were in San Jose, California last year. And I didn't get a chance to see that team, you know, because I had the surgery and all that. But, you know, we have a pretty good amount of talent there. Rice Eldridge was there. So that's the big first baseman from San Jose. From last year, right? First round draft pick. He actually was there. I got a chance to work with him for three days. And then he went to the futures game. The shortstop from San Jose, Cole Foster got brought up there, so worked with Cole a little bit. And then we got some other, we got some other talented individuals. Here's a name for you that you need to pay attention to. Actually, two of them. One of them is Jonah Cox. We got him from, I think we got him from the A's, if I'm not correct, if I'm not correct. But anyway, we got him in one of the trades earlier in the year. And this young man, six foot three, probably 215, 220 pounds. Eric, this bastard can fly. I'm talking about fly. So for everybody in the chat room, if I put a stopwatch on you and you take a full swing, I mean a full swing, and then you get to running, right? Four two, four point two seconds is above average. Four flat is cooking. I mean, that's running your ass off, right? Jonah Cox ran two, three, eight, something's for me. And then he put a bunk down and he ran a three, seven. Come on. He hit a triple down right field line and he ran a 10.6 all the way to third base. When I looked at the stopwatch, I had to, I had to go up to the guys and I go, you got to be shit me. I said that bastard was rolling. I haven't seen anybody run like that in a while. I'm just telling that right now. So that's Jonah Cox, his problem. All right, just like a lot of other guys, you got to put the ball in play. Swings had a bunch of balls out the zone. Okay, I get it. But he made some real good, good adjustments while I was there. So you'll be hearing that name. Another kid who was outfielder thrill? Outfielder, outfielder. Another kid who was not on anybody's radar, another outfielder. And he's on my radar. I promise you that kid's name's Alexander Suarez, big right-handed hitter. And he, young kid, but figuring it out, got a real decent, you know, approach pretty simple. He's leading a team in home runs and he doesn't have near the at-bats anybody else does on the team. And another guy that can fly ran like five or six four flats to first base with a swing. So I mean, cooking, cooking, going down. From the left side or the right side? Right side, both of those guys are from the right side. Like that's, that's next left, dude. 42 from the right side back. And they're like, that's what I used to run consistently. And if I got a jailbreak, I could get down there in like a three nine, but it has to be like outside slider perfectly. That's why I brought it up to you. I knew you would appreciate how good these kids are running down the line. And on top of that, they running down the line hard every time like that. They put pressure on the defense and I'm like, that's a freaking Eric Burns type of hustle right there. Oh, bro, there's only so many things you can control in life. Your attitude, your effort, your hustle. That's it. No, anyway, so anyway, so those are two names for you. Pitching wise, got a kid, I just saw him for the first time. He was in San Jose, got bumped up. This was his third start in Eugene, Joe Whittaker, big tall left-hander, 93, 95 slider change up. He made it look simple. He just blew guys doors off. He came in after the first inning. And I was like, I mean, the other team, who was the Blue Jays, by the way, Blue Jays affiliate, they didn't even touch him. And I went up to him. I go, I go, Joe said, your fastball is freaking electric. I said, do not deviate from the game plan until they catch up to your fastball. He wound up just on the pump and these bastards in there, mixed in the slider, mixed in a change up. 77 pitches, six complete innings, made it look easy, made it look like a piece of cake. So that sounds promising for the Giants, right? You will speed arms. Yes, you will be seeing Joe Whittaker at some point down the road. Remember that name? Oh, here's Vladimir Guerrero Jr. The bat takes off. We got, we got an aborigine chunking some shit, hoping it's coming back to him. It ain't coming back to you. You're not throwing a boomerang, hang on in a goddamn thing. That's what they make pine tar. Did you ever let go of a bat? Never once in my life. Never once did I ever let go of the bat. I put so much pine tar on in front of the south. You're in the middle of the south. You know, it was 97 degrees today down here. I had so much pine tar on that I could go like this. I could go like this in the bat with sticking my hands. There was no way that I'm chunking this bat until after I get through hitting something. I know I asked you this before, but did you sniff the pine tar? Whoa. There is nothing better in pine tar. There is nothing better in pine tar. And Josh knows Tommy Luke knows, Big Mike knows, because they've been on a ranch. When you walk through a pine plantation and you can smell the sap and stuff like that is the frickin best. You got that, and then you got the evergreen smell from the pine needles and all that? That's smelling the world. By far. What's a pine plantation? The pine plantation is when you have an area of land and you've planted pine trees and they're in rows. And so the rows make it easy to go in and harvest the trees when you got to cut the trees. Like, I mean, we have pine plantations in Tahoe, but they're just scattered. Yeah, no, but they're on spacing. So like the trees are four by four. They're either four feet this way and four feet that way or six by six. Six feet this way, six feet that way. And then that creates the rows. If you see a picture from above, it looks like a big checkerboard is what it looks like. They have Adley Richmond up right now. It says the first Orioles catcher to start an all-star game since 1987. Who was the catcher for the Orioles in 1987 that made the all-star game? Oh my God, I don't know. All right, wait, wait, let's think about that. It wasn't... The chat's got to be firing away right now. My chat is whatever these girls were going to play with me. Good lord, who was the catcher? Lenny Webster? No, he was before Lenny Webster. Oh, Rick Dempsey was there. Well, was Rick Dempsey the catcher? I don't know if he was a catcher. He was there with the ones at eight. Yeah, he was, yeah, 87. I would imagine. Lucer, what's that set? Oh, Lucer dropped a Terry Kennedy on us. Oh, very nicely done for fire. Go ahead, oh, baby. Oh, interesting. By the way, we'll get, we'll get to it later on. We'll get to it later on, but you know how you and I always are talking about, you know, your back shoulder and keeping your back shoulder up, not ducking down and not kind of trapping that elbow in there. Yeah. I saw that tricking a hundred times in Eugene. That is the common, common problem that these young guys got to get. Tills? Coming out of college. That right there, exactly what you just did. Exactly what you just did. That. So, exactly what Eric's doing. So, Eric's right here and you drop that, you drop the back shoulder and then first thing that happens is that elbow comes up, shoulder comes up and look what happens to the bad hit. That hit drops, drops, right? So you apply to the ball to start out with and then the only way to get on top of it is to roll. And so, you get these guys that either hit nine mile high pop-ups, they roll over hit routine grounders while they swing and miss. And if I could tell you, I saw one guy do it, no. So, not only five guys from our team, but five guys from the other team doing it. How were the guys receptive towards you? Do they understand who the fuck you are? You know what? There were some of the guys, well, I mean, the guys from San Jose knew me because I was just there two weeks ago, but most of the guys were like, oh, I just hung around. You make a catch? Yeah, sick. Good job. That was actually a good jump right there, everybody. I mean, you guys are coming back up after his home run and based on balls. So, back in the day that you like when you played, how many at best did you get? Any all-star game? Yeah. Two starters, starters got two and then whoever else was behind them kind of finished up. So, you know, I was on both ends of that. I mean, I started a few times, got two at bats and then I was out and then I was also in Pittsburgh coming in on a tail end, got two at bats and would have got another at bat if the game would have gone extra innings. How did you get to the games? Like as in drive? Did you hop on a United flight? Yeah. Yeah. Basically that, I mean, now these guys, because of what they make in a line, I mean they chartered these jets and all that. So, shit, no, I went to the airport and jumped on a United flight and had to connect and whatever else. Yeah. I mean, so it was like flying normal, but now these guys are, they're a little foiled, so they do that. Yeah, but I enjoyed, I enjoyed the all-star experience. It wasn't routine oriented by any stretch of the imagination. When you're out there taking baton practice, there are so fricking many people on the field, you legitimately cannot take a full swing. If you take a full swing, you're going to hit somebody. So, you mean, you know, so you do whatever you do in the cage to get loose and come out on the field. But the all-star game is just, I mean, for me, it was a bunch of PR running around, you know, talking to members of press and doing interviews. And, you know, when you get to the clubhouse, you got to sign 9,000, 100 million baseballs. And then, like I said before, you know, I enjoyed meeting the presidents. I was like, I'll do whatever to meet the presidents. I thought that was cool as shit. So, Thrill, I never played an all-star game. I certainly should have been in at least one of the old seven. Ironically, I end up in a kayak in my Covey Cove right before each row hits the only inside the parker ever hit an all-star game. I'm working for Fox doing some TV shit. I think I don't give you a role, like, in general, like, of course you want that feather in your cap sort of thing. Super cool, great experience, homerun derby, all of it. You just kind of, whatever. But I got to imagine, because I heard Bryce Harper say it tonight, something about his other teammates sitting on a beach somewhere. There's something to be said when you have that all-star break off and I was shooting up the fucking Lake Tahoe and kicking it with the boys. Chavi and I went up there one year, brought the families and everything. It was just, there was something to be said for that time off and that release had recharged to get ready for the second half. So, what about the years you did not go to the all-star game? Oh, hell, the years I did not go, I literally had no idea what to do with myself, had no idea because we're in the middle of the season. I'm in a routine and I'm doing this routine every day. You know, even if I went to the all-star game, I was doing something baseball-wise, so it's fine. You know, if Harper is going to think that way, well then hit 220, son, you ain't got to worry about going to an all-star game. You know, that's, you know, but if you keep freaking pole and balls out the yard, you're going to go to the all-star game. So, suck it up. That's part of being a stud. That's part of being an all-star. That's part of being a superstar, is you have to do things that other people don't do. So, there you go. I think he embraces it for the most part, right? He's done a really good job. But probably somebody asked him the question, he's like, man, I could probably use a few days off. Well, guess what? Too bad. You ain't going to get it. 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You get rid of all your studs. So there you go. Take that with you. Yeah, it's it's not a good look right now, man. And I was 103 Mason Miller's throne right now. Holy shit. 10 fucking three. Got it. Loose big boy. You in your you in your uniform that looks like barf. Oh, I like it. But you're you got a really good point. It does look a little bit like puke with that slight pink to it. Hey, I have been around college. A lot of college shall we say throwing up at this and it all looks kind of the same. And that's what those unis look like. So whoever from Major League Baseball for the second time made those unis. Fuck you. You fucking did a terrible job. I still disagree. I like the puke pink. So dude, I knew he did. I know you love. Hey, anytime I got one, you you're gonna argue. And that's a great thing. I love it. I love it. Mason Miller went 88 mile per hour slider after 102 and on your hands. Oh God here. Hit this one. But then he hit this one. Oh God. Hang with them. Dude, what are these guys thrown into minor leagues? Same shit. So the kids, the kids I saw in Eugene, two of them were throwing like I said, 93, 95. And everybody else was in the 90, 92 range right in there. So normal. Yeah, exactly. The thing that I saw and this is what has, I mean, stuck out like a sore thumb. It did. It didn't matter whether it was in double A Richmond. It did matter who was in high Eugene or low A in San Jose. The guys who had small misses. I'm talking about they were around the plate up and down in and out, right? Okay. They had small misses. Those guys dominated anybody that had big misses. I'm talking about like spiking sliders or missing fastballs way up or, you know, that kind of thing. Those guys always went to three, two and their pitch count skyrocketed and they couldn't go deep in the game. That's crazy, dude, because I mean, I was, we were up against it this past week and with our just pitching in general. And we had all variations of pitchers kids that through 79 miles per hour. And we had other kids that were, you know, mid 60s, right? And when it comes down to it, and I almost, if you gave me a second shot at this, I'd approach it a little bit differently. Because I think I would have used the 65 dudes that were like perfectly placing shit. We have this kid SC that did a terrific job for us and he came and he didn't get a single at bat and he was just ready to pitch. He pitched like three different times. And he just, he would dot it up and dot it up and we're going up against this freaking gigantic, he's got an escrow team. And, you know, our kid was throwing 79 Carter did a great job, but it was, you know, they were on it, man. They were just on it. And so then we bring him to the soft throw and left the insurance shit. What do you think happens? Pop ups, rollovers, work quick, work efficiently. And it's just, it's all a process of, you know, I think the combination of the two, we purposely were going to go from that to that. It's just a lot of it's just pitching man and learning how to pitch. Yeah, exactly. But I'm glad that you're letting them learn that on the fly, because I'm telling you right now, all right, I'm telling you right now, those kids, it doesn't matter, you know, on your level, it doesn't matter on the minor league level, doesn't matter on the major league level, if we're looking at that all stars, all right, it is the guys that keep their misses small. I like how you say that. Okay. And I mean, I'll take a guy, and I'm telling you, because I saw it, I saw it, you know, this whole season going to see these minor league teams, I'll take your guy throwing 88, 89, and dotting it up and knowing what he's doing as opposed to a guy throwing a 93, 94, rearing back and just chunking the shit out of it, falling behind and counting and he's got to come in the zone. No. All right, here's another one. Here's another one. You and I haven't talked about this, but I have seen this and I saw it in Eugene, Oregon, and it about blew my freaking mind. Okay. Like I said, we're playing the Toronto Blue Jays minor league club. We lost game one and game two, both by five or six runs, right? Okay. All of their relievers came in and through one, oh, two, one, two, oh, three, one, three, two, and on two different occasions, three, oh, breaking balls, all with five or six run leads. Five young lead and a kid flips up a three or breaking ball. I am in the dugout going, you have got to be shitting me. When you cannot locate a fastball, that's the Atlanta Braves. When they won all of those championships in a row, that's the one thing those guys did. Greg Maddox, Tom Glavin, John Smoltz, Avery, Millwood, you name it, all of those guys, they could throw a fastball down and away for a strike. Yeah. You can't see a kid locate a fastball, but he's going to flip up a breaking ball on you all the time. And I told, I told this to the coaching staff. I said, if I, if I got reincarnated today, whether it be college or whether it be in Pro Ball as a hitter, if I got reincarnated today, I would sit breaking ball the whole time. Nobody is going to throw you three straight fastballs. You will see a breaking ball in there. It's time to hit. It's, well, it would make just as much sense to sip breaking balls. It would fastball because essentially it's like 50/50 now. Unbelievable. Right. And that's why I went up, you know, we talked about that kid Joe Whitaker. That's why I went up patting him on the back, told him how freaking great it was. I was like, dude, you challenged people with fastballs and blew them out the water and got into freaking six didn't it? With, with no pitches. If you'd have been throwing your breaking ball and shit, you'd have had 70 pitches in four innings. We had to go to the pin. The only time that, and we, we did this the other day, kid was, couldn't, didn't have control of his fastball. So we're like, you know what? Let's throw the 3-0 breaking ball just so he can get the feel back. And then 3-1, we went right back to the fastball. That wasn't even, that's nothing to do with the hitter trying to do anything. It was like, let's change a feel right now, because he spiked two fastballs and he threw into the fucking back stop. I get it. I get it. It's sense. But what I'm saying is with a six run lead in professional, Oh, no, I gave you bro. And you were throwing a 3-0 slider. What are you scared of? You push. Uh, Thrill, Cal Ripken Jr. is up on the screen, getting compared to Gunnar Henderson. Of course, we've heard your infamous Cal Ripken Jr. story. I believe it was in Minnesota. Yes. Oh, it's so good, man. Gunnar Henderson is an unbelievable talent, but he's not Cal Ripken. Sorry. This ball driven deep, Jared Duran, a fucking incredible story, making his first all-star game going deep, Thrill. This is a guy who just recently told a story about how his dad was upset with them after a little he gave, because he didn't want to go back out on the field. And he basically dragged his house out back onto the field. And then one of the moms called Child Services on him, and his old man got arrested and hauled off from the Little League field. Well, he caught the old deal heater from Hunter, Hunter Green, and got a hope of it. Oh, it's awesome. Good for him. What a great story. He told this story on TV not too long ago, and he was miked up for a game. And everybody was just kind of in shock. Like, wait, you said what? Yeah. Yeah, huh? Uh oh. We got Eric Burns locked up. Bringing up the story was that his dad was right. And he was happy that his dad instilled the discipline in him and like, look, you're not quitting on your teenage. And he dragged him back out there and said, you're going out there. So small lessons in life as, you know, we certainly deal with the pacified generation. Yes. This is good. Yes. Hey, um, you know, we're, we're talking, we're talking about the unis. And, uh, and there's been a comment in here about like prison unis and stuff like that. I'm actually going to turn it around. Do you know that the last, and I don't know why this has happened? Don't get me wrong. I have no earthly idea. But the last two years in a row, I have been invited to Washington DC. You know, they play that Congressman's game and all that stuff. Yeah. Yeah. That's where the, there's a shooting there a few years ago. Police police, uh, you know, a member of the Republican party, Scalise got shot a few years ago, you know, I have been invited two years in a row to go and coach those guys up and all that sort of stuff. But the only problem is, as usual, they try to do it in the middle of the season when I got to go see teams, you know, for the Giants and stuff like that. So I can't do it. But I thought that was pretty interesting. Dude, I'll go with you. Oh man, I will vote too much. If you want to go, I mean, dude, I can get it set up. We just got to, we got to clear some schedule with the Giants so that I can go because you're going to be there for like a week. On that note, drill, um, I got to bring this up. Usually we don't talk politics here on no filter network. At least you and I don't. I figured it'd come into play today. As as it well, you who is an experienced rifleman, uh, as well as a good fucking patriot, obviously former president, uh, President Trump shot at this past weekend, grazing the ear, I mean, it's just, I've never, he had a hole in the ear. I mean, this fucking wild man. What, what are your thoughts and what went down? Oh my God, where to start with this one? Uh, I can tell you one thing, as far as shooting a high power rifle from 130 yards, it's like, uh, me trying to hit this microphone like right there. I mean, it's easy. It's so easy. How this, how this guy missed him? I have no earthly idea. Thank God he missed him because, I mean, that would have been a catastrophe of monumental proportions. But, uh, it just also goes to show you that, I mean, there's, there's a lot of screw ups that go on. You know, we're talking about, you know, guys that, you know, drop their back shoulder and all that sort of stuff and, you know, secret service, let a guy with a high power rifle get within 130 yards of the president and get off eight rounds. I don't know who's to blame, but that is a major, major fuck up. All right. And especially when those snipers had him in the sights and nobody gave an order to shoot. You want to shoot him before he shoots at the president. So, you know, that's, that's my thoughts on it. You know, we don't need to get into Democrat, Republican, all that sort of shit. But shooting a high power rifle from that distance, piece of cake. I mean, one of the easiest things to do in the world with a scoped rifle and thank God he missed him. I was wondering and I wanted to ask you immediately because you're probably the most experienced rifleman that I know and I know you're an incredible shot. How easy of a shot that was. So, you're saying it's just not an easy shot at all. No, I mean, it is an easy shot. It's an incredibly easy, right? It would be like, it would be like you taking a fork full of food and putting it in your mouth. Fricking you do it every day. One, two, three, same shit. And, you know, hey, look, you know, we're going into, you know, the fall. It's going to be, you know, a big time, big time election. A lot of things at stake for both parties, but you do not want that to happen. And. Oh, that just, in my opinion, I just solidified the fucking presidency for him. Well, whether it did that or not, it's the fact that, it's the fact that you would have thrown this country into turmoil. I mean, you're talking about like two, what, two or three days before the Republican National Convention. That whole convention would have been in disarray. Then you talking about trying to find somebody else from the Republican Party, then the trust and distrust of party to party and people of people and neighbor to neighbor. I mean, oh, my. >> [INAUDIBLE] >> [INAUDIBLE] >> [INAUDIBLE] >> [INAUDIBLE] >> Yeah, the one thing's real, as my internet's kind of shitting out here, I don't know if it's because I'm Mississippi or you're in back with Louisiana or whatever. >> [INAUDIBLE] >> We got fucking better down here and you get out of California. You freeze your ass up all the time in California. >> So before the night was over, when the shooting took place, you're actually even just like a couple hours after, I got this on my phone. Hold on. >> Yeah, yeah, right, it's so beautiful. >> You started coming out like that, the memes started coming out like that. Yeah, I got all cards of shit. I got a, as a fact I sent it to Josh and Tommy and I got a picture of a freaking, a big lion and it said, don't miss the king, you know that kind of shit, so same shit. >> Oh, fuck man, yeah, that was certainly a wild couple days. I haven't paid a ton of attention since then and how much more has come out about this kid that took the shot and everything else. The shittiness of this is kind of what you said in that here he was. As Bryce Harper sends one deep to left center and just misses it. >> My, he's up against the fence, he didn't miss it by much. >> No, you saw Harper as soon as he hit that ball, he just kind of got that, yeah, just missed it, sort of. >> You can't quite all of it, yeah. >> What I was in like right there was one click earlier, one click on top. That's the difference between a fly out in a homer, right? >> Yeah. >> So, anyway, dude. >> Yeah, it's just, it's fast, the whole thing was incredibly fascinating to me. But I did watch one interview of a guy that was saying, he's like, I saw the guy on the fucking roof. And I'm telling everybody would listen, like the police, everybody. There's a guy in the fucking room for the rifle. Someone's got to stop him. And he's like, they want, listen to me. I'm like, what the fuck is wrong? >> And, and this, and this sniper, this sniper that was behind Trump that you saw was pointed that way. He was on him for like two or three minutes. Nobody would give him the clearance to shoot. He, as soon as somebody pops up on a roof and nobody's supposed to be there, that fucker gets shot. >> Yeah. >> You know, fuck who you are, all right? You are within 130 yards of the president. You get fucking shot. You're not supposed to be there. >> No, especially if you have a rifle, like if your on a roof is one thing, if you're unarmed, but do they have the scopes they can see, right? >> Yeah, you want to shoot, I'll go grab you a fucking scope and you can see what I'm thinking about. I mean, I, I got shit that where you freaking dial it up. It's like, it's like you're right here on me, you know? And it's one of them things. But anyway, there's some little sketchiness, shall we say, in that shooting. I can tell you that right now. There is no way, no way. And it was, I mean, I hate to say, but it was even brought up. It's like, this is the grassy gnoll all over again. >> Yeah, it is, it is. >> It is, dude, you know? >> No one knows what, no one knows what really went down. And then who's the secret service working for it? I guess, the grassy gnoll, I mean, I had an opportunity. And I just, I love history, I'm fascinated with it. I believe wholeheartedly in our American political system. >> Yep. >> You know, honestly say we're the greatest democracy in the world because of the way we're set up with the exact grants and judicial. >> Correct. >> You know, in legislated, like there's checks and balances in life, ooh, are these out? No, they fucked that up. >> You think? >> Ah, I think so, but maybe I'm wrong. >> Who knows? >> It's not like Josh Miller's. >> Yeah, they'll probably appeal. >> Did he step on him? >> Ow, fuck, ow. >> Oh, he stepped on him. >> Yeah, he stepped on him. >> Right, but Miller's right on the outside of the bag. >> Right there, that right there, I just went and had a lesson with all of our first basement about how to be on the corner of the bag and stay out the middle of the bag because you're going to be stepped on. I had that exact same freaking speech for 30 minutes on the field with the guys in Eugene, Oregon. And you got a major leaguer that just got his ass stepped on because he's a moron. >> What was he doing? Why are you in the middle of the bag? You're going to be stepped on dumbass? >> Well, the variety was in the on the bag, and number two, why would you be on, I mean, they're both feet now hit the bag at the same time, it looks like, right? >> Yeah, let's see what they said, let me go, let me go right now. >> So that's, so that's Naylor, all right, that's Naylor from Cleveland who, I can't, I can't say anything about his body type. >> No, it's not, man, it's not, he's a stud, but he's a kidding guy. >> Yeah, it's a stud, but you got a plate of the other side of the ball and the ball is stayed out the middle of the bag, so you don't get stepped on dumbass. >> No, no, dude, I got it, I totally agree. >> Time. >> Oh, dude, yeah, this conversation is freaking going all over the place tonight. >> As it should. >> And yeah, I mean- >> That's it always does. >> It's been two weeks since we've been together, we needed to do this. This is freaking awesome, I'm loving life right now. >> So, true. >> We're going to do that next week, but hang on one second, I have a quiz for the audience. Let's see if they can get it. All right, since we're doing some, all-star game stuff, all right? >> Yeah. >> We always challenge everybody right here. Okay, this was something that Trey Clark brought up to me. All right, I'm going to go with U, E, B, and then we'll let everybody chime in. What are the seven ways, seven ways that you can get on first base? >> Okay. >> All right, so there's a bunch of them that are no brainers, we got it, all right? Then there's a few little quirky ones, all right. >> Okay, can I go? >> Go. >> All right, number one, a base hit, number two, a walk, number three, an air, number four, other's choice, number five, catcher's interference, ooh, you got one of the toffees. You got one of the toffees, all right, so you got two more, two more, right? You got two more, okay, number six would be intentional walk, there's walks walk, right? >> Yeah, no, walks walk, okay, hit, walk, fielder's choice. >> And then you said, error, and then you catch his interference. >> He catches his interference, I said, there's dose, boss, all right, dose, boss. One of them's easy, one of them's a little kind of weird. We talk about it all the time, right here, oh, hit my pitch, I'm sorry. >> There you go, six, all right, and then the last one, the last one, redolfo, actually got it right, and it's a weird one, but it is a drop strike three, boss. >> Drop strike three, yeah, okay, so I've got, yeah, I've got geez. >> So there's your seven, all right, so here we go, ready, walk, hit my pitch, a hit, hit, which is normal shit, drop strike three, okay, then you got error, field of choice, and catches interference. And so that teaches everybody right there, I mean, I'm up on top of this stuff, and there were two that I really stuck with, Trey came up with this, and I was loving it, I was loving it. >> The catches interference and drop threats, right, why you just don't think about it? >> The catches interference is a big one, and then you forget about the drop strike three. >> Drop strike three, that roll sucks. >> Yeah. >> If you strike, yeah, you're fucking strike out, go back to the dugout. >> All right, all right, and I'll give this to you, and then I'll let the audience jump in there a little bit, all right, who has the most gold gloves at any position? >> It doesn't matter. >> I do, I do, anywhere on the field, I'm pretty sure I know this. >> Yep, Greg Maddox, boom, you got it, and Tommy Luke got it, right out the tube. >> 18 gold gloves as a pitcher. Look, I played against that bastard, that bastard is unfrickin' believable. I did not know he had eight, bro, I played against him too, he'd be like this dude, watch him, he goes like this, ready? >> And he's breaking into his position, I've never seen anybody through the pitch, and he was literally getting into like a pre-step, because he knows the ones that were gonna be hit. >> Well, he's saying that Greg Maddox was so fucking, Greg Maddox might be, you know, with the shit he had, and you could tell me, and I had good numbers off him, but I just don't even want to, that's not even worth fucking mentioning, this has been about me, this is about who I think might be the greatest pitcher has ever lived. I'm serious, this pitcher, because he didn't have the shit that fucking Nolan Ryan had, that Roger Clements had. I can't judge Cy Young and Walter Johnson and all that shit back, and I like this, of our generation though, he was number one, he was the guy that manipulated a baseball, like nobody else in the fucking world. >> Nobody could do it, nobody could do it, and then filled in his position as well. >> Yeah, like you said, he worked on his mechanics to where when he followed through, he was in a great position to field and help himself get out of innings. So, you know, hey, I had to hit against him, I was never fortunate enough to be a teammate, but I definitely tipped my cap to one of the best of my generation, so there you go. >> But dude, like if your name comes up, in association with Greg Maddox, all anybody will ever fucking think about is, basketball inside. >> The basketball in baby, don't throw it, don't throw it. >> Okay, I want to go back to it real quick. >> So, a little bit later on, okay, this is, God, I couldn't even tell you what it was. I mean it, and we're talking about like down the road, so I hit that in '89 off of him. And we're talking about maybe 96, 97, something like that. And I'm watching a broadcast, Braves are playing, you know, their own role, or whatever. And Maddox, I don't know how it happened. Maybe error, base hit, you know, that kind of shit. But he had a base, his loaded situation. And the announcers came on there and they said, Greg Maddox has never given up a grand slam. And I was like, I was on the outside TV going, yes he has, yes he has. You know, but he hadn't given up a grand slam in the regular season. >> And the regular season is what they meant, but anyway, so we go from there. >> Dude, he was, he, what did he do with the baseball, like, he threw a ball one time. And this is, it's one that, so I faced him really early in my career when I was with the A's. And he threw a ball that started a foot off the plate, a foot, maybe even 18 inches. And then ran back to Harvey Lopez's glove, who was set up off the plate. And they called this thing a fucking strike. It was a worst call that I've ever had on me in the history of my majorly career. And from that point on, I literally walked back to the dugout. And I told whoever was in front of me. I said, it's the last fucking time I'll ever let that happen to me. The next time I faced him, I put my dick on the fucking dish, man. And I've gone up all over that. And I said, you want to play fucking ball, we'll play ball. And I didn't give a shit if I got jammed. None of it mattered to me. I was taken away that bullshit outside corner, that manics, bolts, and lab. And used to always get fuck off. I told you, I told you that. I told you that. I mean, you had to. You had to move around the balance box. So much on the outside corner that if you took it, you know, they were going to call it a strike. But it's like, dude, seriously that much out there, but anyway, I never do that today. Don't never do that today. This is where the games change more than anything. Umpires won't do it because they're held accountable, or at least the strikes don't think holds them accountable. Yeah. Right? Yeah. Yeah. So they, like, they get raided now. They didn't get raided back then. Here's the thing. Even the guys now that are like right around the dish and they're missing by this much and this much and this much, they don't give them nothing. No. Back in the day, back in the day, they'd been like, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. We're in the sixth inning, you know, because they're trying to get the fuck out of there. I know they want to go home back. Did you know that? They were. Yeah. Now it's all about me and how I'm judged and all that and fuck these guys now. Hey, I got one for you. All right. I printed this one out because I, for whatever reason, I don't know why. I don't know whether somebody sent it to me or what, but when I was in St. Louis, you know, Tony LaRouza was my manager, he's freaking awesome. I loved him. One of his best friends was this gentleman right here and he came in, not once. He came in two or three times while I was in St. Louis, had a chance to sit in a dugout and talk to him. What a freaking beauty. Here we go. You ready? Yeah, I'm ready. Ladies and gentlemen, that is Coach Bobby Knight. Oh, yeah. Okay. That's what was Bobby Knight like. Bobby Knight. He just passed away recently. Yeah. No, he passed away in November. Matter of fact, Trey and I even talked about it, freaking awesome. I mean, one of us, I mean, he's definitely one of us. He's just a super, super freaking dude and, you know, I even told him, I flat out told him to his face. I said, I like the fucking way you coach and I like the way you discipline people. He goes, he goes, that's how I was brought up and I taught, I taught how I was brought up. And I'm like, thank you. That's like me teaching the same shit to these kids that my dad taught me. So thank you. What a beauty. What a beauty. Ellie Day of the cruise 46 stolen bases on the year the Tigers, or he has 48, the tires have 46 and he gets a bullet into the gap. This guy is the most electric player in baseball. Oh, he's going to go. He would have been safe. He should have gone. No, he wouldn't know. He wouldn't have been safe. Hey, but there's a thing. There's a thing. All right. The old adage and that's why I told you about Jonah Fox and Alexander Suarez in Eugene and when I told these guys this, I said, I put that guy right there on display. I said, you guys can be the next day of the cruise and they'll be like, what do you mean? And I go, you do not know how speed like affects a ball game. I know how speed affects a ball game. You know how speed affects a ball game, but they don't. They don't know how much pressure they put on a defense. And that's what Della Cruz does. And look at Jackson Merrill. Do you see the Chester sticking out? No, dude, he's going old school burns button down, but he has no undershirt. This guy's like this, and he's got like, I mean, it looks like a few pubic hairs popping out of his chest, but holy shit, yeah, he might be good for chess. But he don't, he don't shave his shit like you do because you need to be, Oh, I don't shave it. I don't know. I don't know, I don't know how dynamic. Yeah. I never shave though. No, no, no, no hair. I'm Irish. That's bullshit. Seriously. Seriously. You got no Chester? No, nothing. All right. This is it. That's it. Yeah, you see the flippy though. Oh, yeah. I see the flippy. Yes. Next level flippy. I can just tell you, I can just tell you, uh, fucking the hair on my chest grows fucking as much as the hair on my fucking head. Well, does that mean this doesn't grow at all anymore? I mean, we could do, we could do a shirtless, deuce, deuce, no, look, look, I got fucking chest hair out of my ass. I got nipple hair. How about that one for you? You know, you know, one of my favorite lines for the boys is when it comes to hitting a high fastball. What? I always tell them. I said nothing about the titties. No. Nothing about the titties. That's what I'm talking about. Nothing. That's a no zone. No zone titties and below. There you go. That's it. There you go. It used to be. It used to be when, when it was the old school, it was cocking below, but not anymore. Yeah. I mean, I, one of, one of, one of our 12 year olds the other day as we were explaining this. And I'm like, yo, like boys, titties and below, because there's a guy, you know, he's from mid seventies, whatever titties in below, let's make sure we get the ball down. He goes coach. I said, yeah, what's up? And I'm not going to tell you which one it was. He goes down the dick, take a rip. I go, yeah. (laughing) You got it, son. - That's what he talking about. That's what he talking about. You ain't kidding right there. - Oh, that's so good. So I have a question. - Wait a second, I ain't even checking on this bastard. L's up because your boy hit the homer. All right, and L's trying to battle back. They got two runners on. - Yeah, this is actually a really good game, huh? - Yeah, no. Five, three. - Did you like when it meant something and they were playing for Home Field Advantage? - Well, that was the thing. I mean, whoever won the All-Star game, I mean, had Home Field Advantage in the World Series. - Yeah, did you like that or no? - I thought it was good. It was like, dudes, whoever makes it from our team to the World Series, you guys gonna have Home Field Advantage if we bust our ass right there. If not, you guys gonna spend at least four games on the road. - Yeah, I liked it. Why not? - It added a little extra incentive. You play for something, make it mean something. But then again, too, it was also considered an exhibition, and everybody got in the game. And then for a while there, because it was Home Field Advantage and shit like that, they had to keep pitchers back, they had to keep position players back. So they basically had three days in whatever city was never sniffed the field. So, anyway. - Which I think is bullshit too, I don't know. I like these guys have an opportunity to be on display, like Mason Miller, the A's guy. Like, I mean, don't be wrong, he throws 103. If I'm a coach, I'm putting him in the fucking game anyway. - But here's the thing, here's the thing. You and I, and everybody in the chat room, you know, unless it's fricking game in a week, when are we ever gonna see Mason Miller? Like, I mean, we don't see much, man. - Yeah, unless you got MLB TV and stay up till all hours at a fucking morning, you and your Steve Mason Miller, and you might not know what this bastard features. So anyway, so this is something that was really good for a guy like that, you know. - Where are you going next week? - I am going tomorrow morning to Reno, Nevada. I will be with big Mike Lusagi. And then I'll see if I can't find a way to get Eric Burns 30 miles from his house, maybe even Tara Burns, and treat them to a little dinner or something like that, as I have the pace Reno's deal. And then I actually, my wife has a family reunion in Kansas City. So I'm flying from Reno to Kansas City. Then I go back home, I'm home two days, and I go back to San Francisco. So I'll be back to San Francisco for the end of the month homestand. - How long are you in Reno for? Like, from what days to what day? - There, tomorrow, two, Saturday morning. - Hey, I'm gonna miss you. - Yeah, no. - Fuck. - You're a sucker. - And do I gotta go to Oregon? I'm gonna go to Oregon for ski camp. I'm going to strip from Mississippi to fucking, where I like, who lives his life? - You do? - Apparently. - Who goes from Mississippi? - Well, I just came from Oregon to Louisiana, and I'm going back to Reno, then I'm going to Kansas City, coming back to Louisiana, then going to San Francisco. So welcome to the world travel, Jack. - You live this life. You're the one that lives this life. We're living like this. - Thank you. - I love nothing more than just go chill in. - By the way, I got a bone to pick. Rodolfo, God damn it. I hung around in San Jose to talk to you, and you bailed on me. You could have come down there, we did talk. No big deal. You know me. You know me. I wouldn't have let security boot your ass out of there. I've been like, hey, I'm talking to him. So you bailed on me, Rodolfo. - Rodolfo is supposed to. We got Bruce Bocey on the mic right now. - I mean, Rodolfo, I'm teasing. Don't worry about it. Shit happens. I get it. - Isn't it crazy how Bocey was at your retirement ceremony? - It's amazing. - And then, Bocey was at my retirement ceremony, and like a year or two later, he's fucking worst serious champion again. - I mean, it's this. - I felt like it was yesterday. We were all there. Battle board Mike was there, and Jason was there. And Ron Polk was there. - Yeah, yeah. - And they were like, we're all just hanging. - I thought he was there. All of them, all of them. - Everyone was there. - Yeah. - But I fucking boogie bear. Like, we're not gonna say anything. But I felt like that was like not that long ago. And now this guy in the midst of everything has won a World Series. And now he's coached at a gasket all-star game. - Amazing, man. Absolutely amazing. - And it's a beauty of life. And all-star games in his home ballpark. Freaking awesome. - So fucking good. It's only the third time it's ever happened. - Really? - In the history of the all-star game, where you actually had the team that had won the World Series, host the all-star game the next year. - Oh, that's freaking awesome. I didn't know that. That's freaking great right there. - Yeah, super cool, man. Super cool. - Hey, yeah. - When you traveled. - Did you smell a vision yet? - No, I don't have any, I mean, it's 918. I mean, it's late out here. Usually I get done like early and I haven't eaten shy. We eat like a late lunch. - All right, I got you. - But yeah, I'm just right now that Ticubo's a dinner and then I'll figure something out, you know, when we get off here. But what'd you have for dinner night? - A little Lisa beef stew. She had a little leftover roast, a hoya, and made a beef stew out of it. It was awesome, freaking dynamite. - What do you normally eat for breakfast? - This is like a great question. - I am a breakfast guy. I'm a big eggs and bacon sausage. You know, I like, you're in the south. You might want to try it. Corn beef hash. - I'm that kind of guy. Trae, on the other hand, is like pancake, chocolate chip pancakes, port of fricking, you know, syrup on it. The whole works. - No, what about Waffle House? - I'm an omelet guy too. - What about Waffle House? You go to Waffle House, which you don't know. - Oh, crush Waffle House. And crush I-hot. Both of those, crush them. - Oh, as you should do, Waffle House is good, man. - Oh, oh, oh, oh. Biscuit wants to do is go to Waffle House. - Hey, I can tell you one thing. I can tell you one thing. When I walk in, I hop here in Baton Rouge, freaking everybody in the Grandma are like, oh, I got Mr. Clark, I got Mr. Clark. 'Cause Mr. Clark tips pretty damn good in the I-hop. Instead of giving, you know, $2 and some change, Mr. Clark will give me 10. - I used to order, I used to go to I-hop all the time, and I ordered those skinny pancakes. - Oh, yeah, like the crepes? - Yeah. - Those, oh, look at you. - I don't know how to say the word is like lingerie or- - No, it's- - Langenberry. - Is that a lingerie? What's going on? - It's a Langenberry. - Langenberry. I used to order the Langenberry crepes, dude. - Oh, those are good. - Oh, so fucking good. - Oh, hell yeah. Hell yeah, those are awesome. - Dude, this is like, this is one of my favorite shows. When we were all of them, we've talked politics. - What happened? - Langenberry. - We talked about it. - Dingleberry pancakes. - Dingleberry. (laughing) - Oh my God. That's freaking beautiful right there. - Yeah. - I mean, we've had a homerun head in the all-star game. I mean, it's just all kinds of shit going on. The homer was hit by Jared Duran, who has a story of the old man getting a little aggressive and thrown on the field. - All right, how about this one? - I don't know, you know what I mean? I watched it. Don't get me wrong, I watched it. But the homerun Derby yesterday, Trey and I sat there and watched it, right? - I did not watch it. Oh yeah, let me go to the start. Give me your thoughts on yesterday's homerun derby. - So they changed up the format? - Yes. - All right, all right, fine. You change up the format, you do whatever, okay? Which, once again, MLB has to get involved, yeah. Dumb bunch of bastards, Rob Manfred, stay the fuck out the game. Anyway, Taosger Hernandez, right? He beats three guys in a row, but legitimately, one homer every round. And one's up winning. There were three guys in a row that had at least two or three swings to get one homer to tie him or beat him, and they couldn't do it. And, you know, he was up against Bobby Whit Jr. at the end, and, you know, needless to say, I played with Bobby Whit Sr. - Yeah. - I was pulling for Jr. pretty bad, but, you know, hey, Taosger took it to the kids, and he came out on top, and God bless him. He did a good job, nice job. - Yeah, they were saying there was this big hombron drought from the Dodgers. You know what's funny, you're the one that when the Dodgers signed Taosger Hernandez, you told me that he was gonna be a difference maker. You're like, dude, this is like, you know, 'cause it's not bad, it wasn't a super sexy sign. It wasn't Otani, you know, it wasn't trading from Mookey Bats. It wasn't like this gigantic name, it was Taosger Hernandez, but you were the one that you're like, dude, this guy's fucking legit. - I told you, I told you, I said, I don't know much. I said, but I said, this guy can freaking play. - Yeah. - And he's gonna add a layer of protection to the lineup for Bats, Freeman, and Otani, and you were like, really? And I go, yeah, and look what the hell happened. I mean, he's done kind of what, you know, you and I projected, so. - And he says, you have Wilson, dude, after Bats, Freeman, Otani, then you have Will Smith, and then you have Taosger Hernandez. It's like, that's where the Dodgers don't quit. I don't think the Dodgers have played up their potential yet, you know? Like, they gotta get healthy and they're pitching and everything else, but. - Yeah, and here's the nothing. I mean, frickin' Traven came up to me the other day and he's like, dad, dad, and I go, what? He goes, Will Smith hit full homeless for our Bats? Then I was like, oh, really? Evidently, he hit three in one game. He hit one in the next game, and he's only got 15 or 16, so he hit, you know, a quarter of his homers in the span of, you know, a few at Bats. But I said, Trae, I said, that's the thing. You provide protection for everybody in front of you, and that's what Taosger has done, and that's why Freeman sees decent pitches, or Tommy sees decent pitches. You know, Bats sees decent pitches. It's because they know it's coming down the line and they don't want those guys to get on and have big innings. - Yep, dude, seven stack in a lineup is huge. It's like, if you could have a lineup that continues to have the depth like that, it's everything. You know, I just go thinking about putting together these uke lineups, of course. Like, we always draw it back to that. It's like, when we're at our best, it's when our three hitter, Jesse, like he's a man amongst boys, and then when we have Frankie there, he's also a man amongst boys. And so when you can stack those two, it's a whole 'nother layer of protection, and then we can take our guys who say when they're not there are hitting three, four, then now those guys are hitting five, six. Now, okay, now, right? That eighth ranked team in the country, like all of a sudden becomes the top four team in the country because shit gets different. We missed Frankie this weekend, who wasn't there. And it certainly hurt. I did, I was shuffling in the four spot. You don't want to shuffle a fucking four spot. Yeah, we had to though. - I get it, I get it, bro. But then you look at it from kind of a bigger picture standpoint. So it's me, Kevin Mitchell, Matty. - Yeah. - Me, Matt, and Barry later on, right? And that's why it was so important for me to go out to Brad Butler and say, "You go, we go." Because guess what? Yeah, we're gonna do some damage in the middle of the lineup. But if it's a one-run homer, a solo shot, or, you know, I gotta hit a double and I gotta get on for him or whatever. But if we can get a fricking few things rolling, dude, we can put up a four spot in a hurry. I mean, a hurry. And so now, that was the same thing that I was trying to tell Darren Lewis, when he was a younger player and it was me, Matt, and Barry, I'm like, "Darren, I don't give a rat's ass "how you do it, you need to get on the base." I said, "Just get on the base." I said, "We're gonna make shit happen." I said, "But I need you on there." And so that goes to what you're talking about right there, you know? - Yeah. Yeah, do you know how this moment said, but obviously the consistency wasn't there over the long run. - Look, I went from Brett Butler, who's arguably one of the best ever lead-off hitters. - Right. He was 400 on base percentage, scored a fricking boatload of runs and all that. I went to D-Loo, and D-Loo was, I don't know, 280, 300 on base percentage. - Yeah, I mean, but I had to keep firing him up because he's in front of me. So let's go, let's go, come on, come on. You know, because if you get on, then I get on, and Manny, you know, I mean, just the snowball gets rolling. - The snow ball gets rolling. - Yeah. - That's why I tell Biscuit and Giannis, I tell our first student, I'm like, "Bro, "if both of you guys get on, it's on." Yeah, you guys don't-- - That's right, yeah. - And I go, "But we have to have "one of the two of you on base." Like, there's no option of going on my car. - Big hole, you make it out? - Giannis, you have to get on base. So, the irony is that our turning turned around. We had a game where, like, literally it went Biscuit, off the wall to lead off the game, double. Gianni, triple, right center field gap. Jesse, homerun, three fucking nothing. Like, do you know how demoralizing that is for the opposing team? - Yeah, without a shadow of a doubt. - Oh, it said so beautiful. Here's Will Smith as we speak of him. One for one today, too. - It was Elliot Ramos just struck out swinging on balls out of the zone. So-- - Oh, my bad, I'm sorry, this is at that? - No big dip. - All right, here's-- - Yeah, who now? - Will Smith, the guy we're just talking about, I mean-- - Yeah, he's-- - Super hot, obviously. - Yeah, he's already one for one in the All-Star game. So, let's see what happens. - Yeah, they're talking about the four consecutive at bats and, which he hard, roll over ground ball third base. So, my favorite All-Star-- No, my favorite, but my most memorable All-Star story goes beyond the kayak and Maccovee Cove, actually. And it was when I stayed home in 2005. And typically, I would go to Tahoe, I'd go to the beach in Southern California, I'd do something. But I was really committed and focused on my craft. And I wanted to have a fantastic second half of the season. I was getting hot towards the end of the first half. And I went in to just work out the Coliseum every day. I'm like, I'm gonna chill in half in bay, I'm gonna play a little golf. And so, I go in there one day, go bang in the cage. I go watch some video and watch it, whoever it was that we were gonna play to start the second half of the season. And I get a tap on the shoulder from David Forrest, the assistant general manager of the Oakland A, he goes, "Bernsy, can I see them Billy's office for a second?" I'm like, "Yeah, sure, cool." Like, he's kind of weird, man, but whatever. And so, we walked into Billy's office and Billy wasn't there. He sits down and Billy being chair and I'm sitting across from me, he goes, "We traded you to the Rockies." I go, you did fucking what? We traded you to the Rockies. Mickey will have all the information you need. He gets you in touch with the traveling secretary from Colorado and Billy said he wanted to be here, but he's not here. And, you know, here's his number, call him on his cell and, you know, "Hey, thanks for your contributions to the A's organization." Say it! I'm like, "Oh, fuck." Emotional, man. I mean, that was the first time, like, at first shock. And then it was, as I packed all my shit and grabbed it, like right then right there. And I remember driving across the San Mateo Bridge and there was still that big shock. And when I got about halfway across the San Mateo Bridge, like tears. Yeah. It was real. I can tell you one thing right now, after, you know, me knowing you, I knew that those tears would flow. That's first off, but then second off, that's why I have problems with Billy being, you piece of shit. You were not there to tell one of your men that he had to go. You fucking put it off on some flunky. Once again, Billy being, fuck you. All right? You came to first base and you are a piece of shit hitter and you're at first base with me. You are a piece of shit. Fuck you once again. Okay, I do. I fucking love you. You're my boy. That's why you're my boy. That's why you're my boy. I love that boy. That's why I'm in your fucking corner. I know, I don't want to make it personal. I don't want to make it personal. I don't wanna make it personal. He has a chance to fucking have Dynasty. Dynasty, fucking Dynasty. Fucking in Oakland, California. You have a Dynasty. But instead, he fucking trades everybody away. And guess what? They wind up in fucking Las Vegas, Nevada. Fuck you, Billy. It's sad, man. By the way, I don't give you permission to-- No, I'm not putting any of that shit out there. I'm not, I'm not, that's between me and you. I know. I don't know, that's the best of you. Bro, you didn't have to say that. I'm not doing that. Just be so fucking, you know. Because-- The fact that-- Hey, hey. You're my fucking boy. No, no, that's, but that's why. Yeah, I got you. Dude, that's not even, Billy. Here's the thing about Billy. Like, you wonder how much he came from ownership, right? And how much he made, he goes. I have bullshit. That's bullshit. I don't know. He's a fucking-- I don't know. He bought into the fucking movie. Hey, fuck you, Billy. Because you fucking forgot to say in the movie that you had Mulder, fucking Zito, and Hudson. Yeah, three fucking 20-game winners. We don't have to score no runs. All we got to do is get one fucking run and we'll fucking win the majority of the game. Get dumb ass. So, Thrill, there was a thing that was done about Oakland. And it was also our article. And they actually went and they talked to guys that are from Las Vegas. And they were asking them how or why the A's should be moving to Las Vegas. And it was, for the most part, overwhelmingly negative from the players, it was Bryce Harper fan. Well, you know, if there's a team that's going to move there, it should be their own expansion team. It shouldn't be the Oakland A's. The A's should say an Oakland type of thing. And then Mason Miller, who I believe it is from there, he had some comments from around the area. Maybe it wasn't Mason Miller. Maybe I'll just read-- Tommy fan certainly was from there. And Tommy fan was saying, he's like, look, man, I think Tommy fan was the one that made the most sense. He's like, if they're coming here, fine. He goes, everyone talks shit and said, oh, we can't support the Golden Knights. We can't support the WNBA team. What do they have? The Raiders, right? So you're getting all these major sports coming into Las Vegas. And he goes, fuck off. He goes, of course we could support him. He goes, but if the A's come here and start doing all the fucking dumping salary shit and everything, he's like, that's never going to fly here. But if they come here and they spend, and then they quote from Fisher and Fisher talking about, hey, look, we just got to get there. And then that'll allow us to spend. I don't-- I get it. I really do. I just know that the city of Oakland and the A's could not come up with an agreement. And so because they could not come up with an agreement, everybody fucking loses. Yeah. Everyone lost. Everybody loses. Everybody loses the freaking history of the game. And that, for me, is not OK. And so we'll go from there. Do you know what I think is going to happen? Here's my call. A's go to Sacramento. Stadium gets built in Las Vegas. A's spent four years in Sacramento. They sell out every single fucking game. They have in Sacramento for the next four or five years. Sacramento and the A's go, look, we obviously have a good thing going here. Let's expand-- they build up a season ticket list. They get that season ticket list, like 30,000 in the city of Sacramento, right? Like, theoretically, if we had a season ticket list, would you be on it? 30,000 people say, yes. They then take Rayleigh Field. They do a whole renovation on Rayleigh Field. They make it a 30,000 each stadium. A's stay in sack. Las Vegas then gets the expansion team in the new stadium that's built. That's what I'm-- that's what I am predicting will happen. We can take this no further fucking clip from July the 16th, 2024, and in 2026 when they announce this shit, we're going to go back to this fucking show. We got it, I got it, I got it, I got it. All right, man, we got a couple of knocks. I ain't even trying to look at it. We need knocking, nobody. We've been knocking. I mean, you are coming to Reno, Nevada. We've been on a roll. All right, we've been on a roll all night. We've covered freaking everything, all right? And on top of that, god damn it, you're in the south. You are in freaking Mississippi enjoying the heat with the rest of us. As you can see, your computer has not jammed up for the last hour, you know? So maybe it's a California thing, but I'm fixing to head your way tomorrow. I will be in Reno, Nevada all the way through Saturday morning. What is your flight taking? You go, oh, I'm going to gas your flight. Oh, there's no airport, is there airport in Baton Rouge? No, yes, there's an air. There is your dumb ass. Baton Rouge, got the airport? Uh, we're, we're, we're guessing. Okay, guessing. Baton, Baton Rouge, Baton Rouge, Baton Rouge, Baton Rouge to Dallas, Dallas to Reno, you're taking American. Baton Rouge to Denver. Oh, United. Denver to Reno in the United. I got it. You can fuck me. I'm not going through Dallas. You piece of shit. Don't ever go through Dallas. They, everything, go through through Dallas. Don't go through Dallas. Don't ever book it, take it through Dallas. You're right. You're an American, ladies and gentlemen. No, you're going to get rude. Uh, it's okay, right, so, so when are you home? I'm not, did I'm not home? I'm not home until, if you were telling me that you were going to stay until like Monday, I would have, I would have, I honestly, I would have come home like on Saturday or Sunday. But the problem is, I, here's, here's a funny thing. We might be in fucking Reno to, my flight leaves late, I'm, I'm three o'clock out of here tomorrow out of, out of Memphis to Denver and then Denver to Portland. Okay. Portland. What do we got? We all got, y'all got another tournament going on? No, it's a ski camp. The kids got a ski camp. Oh. So they're, yeah. He is in like water ski? No, snow ski on a green, in the summer, how do you get a snow ski in the summer camp? It's a fucking glacier. Like a legit, a legit, a legit, Oregon, come on, frill, give me your thoughts. I get, I get, I get this today. He goes, here, here, here's the caption, will Clark dot, dot, dot, this from my assistant coach, LTP, will Clark dot, dot, dot, this stadium is fucking legit. Ready? Oh, he is at Mississippi State University. That is the Will Clark statue as you walk into the front gate of Mississippi state slash Ron Pope stadium, bro, I, I mean, I don't have a statue of myself. I would create a bust of myself just for the reason of, I'll give you a bust made of yourself. Yeah, just like a bust. Yeah, right? I see the head and it'll have a little flat back ass hat and if I had, if I had a statue of myself, though, and let's get real up close to this, I would want one just like yours that basically is portraying a gigantic cock. Wait a minute, what the fuck, yeah, you're the only one, the only person that has picked up on something like that. Everybody's like, man, we love your follow through and, you know, your statues, 13 feet tall and all that sort of stuff. And you're worried about my cock. Very nice. It looks like it starts in your belly button, but hey, they, they, they, they, they, they did, they, you're right. Hey, hey, what can I say? Sometimes that's why they call me the thrill. I don't know. Yeah. Oh, fuck. We got in the show, Matt, you're a mess. You are such a mess. Of course I am. Yeah. Look, look, seriously, I mean, I'm glad I'm glad you're in the south and the boys played good. You know, they finished up strong, yeah, they didn't win, but they, they played a great tournament and they learned a lot of stuff. They learned a lot of stuff. So that's a great thing. We covered freaking everything. We covered Eugene, me and Eugene, we covered the all-star game. We covered the Giants. We covered politics. Jesus Christ. We're talking about fricking presidents and shit. Yeah, but this was, this was one of our arguably best shows ever. Totally agree. We were fricking all over the board. Totally agree. We were all over the board. I loved it. I loved it. How about clapping? We're, we're now on the top of the ninth inning. You got Pita Lanzo up, you got Class A throwing 101 miles per hour. Have you had a chance to go to the new steam in, in Texas yet? Yes, I've been there one time. What'd you think of it? Solid, really nice. Really? I agree. I, I liked it too. I got a tour. I really enjoyed it, man. Yeah, no. I mean, there was, there was nothing I could like pick a part of it. I thought, I thought when they made all of their, you know, adjustments from the last stadium, I think they did a great job. I, I mean, these, yours, yours nuts is that as you watch this as a launch of swing through a 93 mile per hour slider, I mean, he's got some serious, I mean, that's purple hair, like straight purple hair. Now, this is a matchup thrill. Let's watch this because it's Ellie gave the crews against a manual class A and crews obviously one of the most electric, I thought the most electric player in the game of baseball going up against arguably the most electric closer in the game of baseball. I mean, this is a fucking heavyweight matchup right now. Okay. So fastball inside 101 miles per hour. So, so I have not, believe it or not, I've never seen like class A, I mean, is he very similar to like the ball? Yeah. Fastball cutter type of guy. Yeah. Fastball. He's got like a slider. Yeah. All right. It's certainly slower. Okay. You threw one down the deck that, you know, lawns are just slowly missed at, you know, there's, that's 102. I mean, it's devolved about that, right? He's the 100. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, devolved 98 to 100. So he's in the same mode and that's why I'm, I'm asking about class A. Yeah. I mean, he's been fantastic. I mean, one of the reasons the Indians are just so fucking good. Yeah, the Indians, the Indians have been having a, you know, I mean, I can't say it quiet, but they've had a very successful under the radar year, you know, you, it has been quiet. It has. Like, I don't, I don't give a shit that they haven't gotten the attention. No, right. They just have it. The Orioles have gotten some attention to, you know, the Yankees get their attention. The Phillies have gotten their attention as far as talking about, you're talking about that. You're talking about Orioles, Phillies, and Yankees. That's East Coast. Tough play. You know, he's safe. Cleveland's not East Coast. So yeah. I mean, Cleveland's, it's fucking Cleveland. Yeah. They did a thing on Bobby, before Cleveland has been a great baseball talent. Real good. Ever since Jim Tomi and Manny Ramirez and all those guys, Burdo Alomar, ever since they've been there, they've, you know, Cleveland's been a great baseball talent. So here's Jackson Merrill, 21 years old. I mean, he's got, he's 21. He's got more chess than me. Yeah, he does. I'm bad. I want a little bit. I want a lot. I don't need to like a bush come out of there. So now you got Brian, you got Brian Reynolds up here. Brian Reynolds was a San Francisco giant farm hand. I was actually in Richmond, Virginia when Brian Reynolds got traded. Really? Yep. Well, they fucked that one up. Brian Reynolds got traded for one of the ones back in the day to try to help us win a World Series. Yeah. I did. I remember that. And I love the aggressiveness, but Brian Reynolds has ended up being a pre-no all-star that, well, struck out the end of the game so fuck him. He's a sea leader now, but. But Brian Reynolds has become a quality major leader. Oh, certainly. He's a badass. All right, Thrill, safe travels out west. Maybe we run into each other in Denver, man. Yeah. What's up? What's up? What's up? What's up? What's up? What's up? What's up? What's up, Brian Reynolds has become a quality major leader. Oh, certainly. He's a badass. All right, Thrill. Safe travels out west. Maybe we run into each other in Denver, man. Yeah. What's up? What's up? What's up? What's up? And then hopefully I get it. Well, now you're going to be gone so I can't see you in mama burns, but I'm going to try to change plans. Yeah. I'm going to try to go to Portland. I'm going to try to go to Portland. You leave Saturday though. So unless I can get to Reno by Friday night, it's not worth it. Yeah, but then again, here's the thing. I'll be back home three days and I'll turn around and come back to San Francisco. I'll be in San Francisco the whole end of July. So maybe maybe we get together there. Maybe. Yeah, maybe just send me Pepe, Manueli and I can go have a hotel via night. Yeah, we can we can do that. We can do that for sure. Yeah. Hey, man. Freaking awesome show today. Great show. I loved it. I thought it was great. Fuck. Yeah, dude. Safe travels, man. All right. Hey, the south absolutely love this place. You can take the fucking weather and get to thaw, you can take the weather and get out of it. But then when everybody's walking around saying Mr. Burns, thank you, Mr. Burns. The best. The best. So polite, so cool. Yeah. So engaging. Like everyone's in. I've been playing pickle on here with all these people like boom, boom, there you go. Amazing. Amazing people. Holy shit. It's different. It's totally different. Yeah. And thanks for representing Mississippi State. Appreciate it, my man. Come on. Come on, man. Yeah, we got you. Thank you. She bought it. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. (upbeat music)