Ben & Woods On Demand Podcast
9am Hour - The Reindl Report + MLB Hall of Fame
Ben & Woods kick off the 9am hour with The Reindl Report and Paulie's top stories of the morning. Then the guys talk about the WNBA All-Star Game from over the weekend, and how Major League Baseball could actually improve their ASG based on how the W runs their game. And we discuss this weekend's MLB Hall of Fame ceremony and take a look at the newcomers on the 2025 ballot before we say goodbye on this Monday morning! Listen here!
- Duration:
- 58m
- Broadcast on:
- 22 Jul 2024
- Audio Format:
- mp3
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And this is not the regular season anymore. They're doing like a summer tournament while the rest of the top players are playing in the Olympics, but they did win three to one over Bay FC on Saturday night and then last night, unfortunately, our San Diego Legion saw this. We're eliminated from the playoffs with the 30-28 loss to the Seattle Sea Wolves. Now I watched that guy. I was working last night and pulling some highlights. So I actually watched most of the game and I like, I'm trying to get into rugby as a sport. Good aspects to it. It remains confusing and I don't think it's just me. I get that I'm not, you know, die hard rugby fan and some of the rules just, I mean, even the referee seem kind of confused about it. The announcers are confused about what's going on in the field at times. I don't think it's just me not knowing rugby that well. I also feel like everybody on the field is sometimes confused about the actual rules of rugby. Just a lot of confusion. And what, like what a knock on and there was a penalty, there was a penalty try awarded. No one in the booth could explain really what it was. The referees had discussed it for about six minutes before they, they've kind of figured it out and no one really had an idea. It's a confused, some of the elements of the sport are a bit confusing. I've been calling NLL games in the box. You can't get any closer to the action than unless you're a player than I get. I've been doing it six years. I've never missed a game. I rarely miss games on television. I watch on my iPad. Right. You're die hard now. There are times when things happen and the referee comes up through the hole, he goes, all right, we got him. And I'm like, and I have to then go on the mic and be like, we have a penalty on numbers. And the penalty is for holding the stick under his wiener and that is in fact a penalty and I had no idea that you couldn't hold the stick with your wiener. I'm a pretty savvy sports watcher. I've done this professionally for 25 plus years and I, I'm giving rugby a shot and, and I do like it. I just cannot quite grasp it and I wish the announcers could do a better job of explaining it to me, but they can't. Well, I can't. Something happens and they just don't know what's going on. There's one guy, by the way, one. There's one referee in the NLL and I don't know his name, but when I see him walking towards the glass, I go, oh, no, because every, I'll look to him and go, what was that? And he go, I have no idea, no, I zero and he's the guy. They won't let him out on the floor. He stays in the box with me. He has, he hasn't the foggiest idea of what's going on and he's an actual official in the sport. When he walks in, I go, oh, yeah, I'll look at my guy next to me and I'll go, we're dead. I got no idea. I mean, it rugs me, they'll do the scrum, which is where all the teams, you know, push each other, get together and then it'll break up and sometimes they'll do it again, sometimes they'll give it to the other team, sometimes they'll give it to one team. And there's never any rhyme or reason why this happens. So they're in a scrum and then there's the balls on the ground. Yeah, but they pass it around. One team gets to roll the ball in their direction. So they always have the inherent advantage unless the other team like pushes them back like five yards. There's no way they're going to get it, which I don't quite understand why one team gets to the other. Is it a rotate? But then I don't know. I don't know. I think it's dependent on what caused the scrum to begin with, but I can't figure it out. She's going to jump ball. And they do those, the, the side outs like in soccer, if you kick in the ball out of bounds or like basketball, the other team gets to throw it in, but in rugby, sometimes the team that kicks it out gets to keep it, but then sometimes the team that doesn't kick it out gets to keep it. And I just, and I've watched about, I don't know, 10 to 15 Legion games. Wow. Still over the last three years, I still can't figure this sport out. And then McKee in the chat says, best rugby position, hooker second, tighthead prop. Sounds good to me. Yeah, they talked about the backup hooker a lot at the, in the game yesterday, he scored a try. The lot lesser. I felt like, I don't, I don't think I want to be known as the backup hooker. You would be in front of the line. Not the bullpen. The ace. Yeah. You want to be the ace? Yeah. Crickets. Another one. Trying to watch that. It's, it's crickets. So, and I've been, because of, you know, John Boy's videos, I watched a little bit more and I get a little understanding, but then they post the score of a cricket game and I'm going, I, I don't, I mean, I have no idea what that means, no idea what that means. I'll tell you what, man. I went out and, and played some pickleball recently, which is, I was really down on it. And then I had a really fun time playing it with some friends. The scoring, you have to have a Masters in Latin to actually understand how you score pickleball. For me at least, they kept explaining, I'm like, somewhat, someone just tell me what the score is. Cause I, am I up? Am I down? I have no idea. It's the weirdest scoring. It's not like tennis. It's not like ping pong, which is moronically. You guys score in tennis? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. 15, 30, 40, deuce, if you tie, add, add, add, add, add in or out. And yeah, no problem. Some people like five instead of 15, which always confuse me, but instead of 15, yeah. But in professional tennis, it's always 15. Yeah. 15, three. Why can't we just do one? One, two, three, three, three, three, four. Why 15, 30, 40, six, 12, minus 18 for the last. That it's so weird, but yeah, I really enjoyed the pickleball experience. I just, the scorekeeping is enough. It's, let's put it this way. It's enough to keep me away from doing it. Does that make sense? Like I really like it. It's just zero to 11. You only score when you're serving. No. That's not it. You don't, there's all sorts of weird stuff that you can score when you're not serving in ping pong. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You have to. Polyball, you can score when you're not serving either. That rally score. Yeah. The pickleball was really, it was not just one for 11. Maybe you're playing some rudimentary version, but I was playing like apparently the real deal and it was, I could not keep trying to figure rug me out. All right. While we do that, let's get some headlines from Paulie in the rattle report and get things started here with our edition today's edition of the rattle report. Now tuned it to the Moth greatest. Welcome to the rattle report. With Paul Reindel. Hi Paul. All right. Two stories from the world of sports that we haven't gotten to yet. We'll start off in major league baseball. And one story that you didn't know you needed. Are you laughing beyond? It's the rattle report. Hey Paul. How you doing? Okay. How are you? On 97.3 the fan. Are you ready to blast the mood? I need some help please. That was good. I need a hoo. Yeah. All right. All right. All right. Good morning gentlemen. What? We will start off in the NFL next Thursday. We will have a football game. Good. Thursday, August 1st. It's the Hall of Fame game, Houston and Chicago. And then after that preseason is on and sideline here about the Packers and their quarterback. And I go, I've heard this story before. Yeah. This is a tale as old as time. Now, I'm dying to know if you guys think this is a quarterback thing. If this is a Jordan love thing or if this is a Packers thing or it's just how it is. But Jordan Love told the Packers that he will not practice until he gets a new contract. And under contract current. When I read that I go, huh, they did this every year it seemed like with Aaron Rodgers. Yeah. And they must have thought, oh, we got rid of that problem. You know, he's New York's problem. Yeah. Get that guy out of the building happening again. Now it seems like it's pretty amicable between the two sides. You know, he showed up for training camp on time, but, you know, he's basically said, like, look, I need a new deal. And the Packers have said we understand where he's coming from. And we want to get this done. So it doesn't sound like it's going to get too crazy. But I see that headline, number one NFL headline on ESPN, I go, do they not deal with this like every other year in Green Bay? It sure feels that way. It says without a new deal, Love would have only made 11 million this season on the final year of many extension he signed last May. The deal added one year this season, 2024 season to his rookie contract. So they added a year base salary for last year was $1 million. Now he's in line for one of the richest contracts in the league. It appears likely to join the $50 million a year club for Jordan Love. Wow. Yeah, I mean, Trevor Lawrence got a huge deal, Burl got a huge deal, Prescott's going to get a huge deal. I mean, it's just when it's your turn, you're going to be the next highest paid ever quarterback. But I think to answer your question, Paulie, I think it's more of a football thing. And it's for a couple of different reasons. First of all, their contract structures, they're not entirely guaranteed, you know, there's just weird things where they cut you, then they don't have to pay you in a lot of those deals. They're on one of the quarterbacks, you're getting more guaranteed deals. And then the nature of foot more likely that one day you get tackled the wrong way, Allah Joe Thizeman, and you're just done. And like, if you're not protected and you don't have that deal in place, if you're Jordan Love, yeah, you can play for 11 million. If you don't have that future deal in place and you have that one moment and you're like, I may never walk again, then you're not getting another dollar from your team after that. It's just a cold, hard reality. Doesn't that work the other way too, though? Yes, it does. You know, we are within these one play away, but I think if you're the, I think if you're the player and you feel like I'm risking my body for the team, they should be the ones that are stepping up and accepting more of that financial risk than me. I shouldn't have to accept the physical and financial risk at the same time. Yeah, bro, I don't, we don't play in the NFL. I won't work a day without a contract. I'm not a day, not one. I learned my lesson, well, not one single show, not one minute of one show will I work without a side deal. I just won't. And I, I'm not, my life isn't at risk every day. There's a, we're a contract employee's, we have a contract. So, you know, it doesn't mean I'm a bad teammate. It means I'm looking out for myself. So I, and especially in his case, yeah, man, you got to, you got to do what's right for you 100% and they'll get it done. They will absolutely get it done. It's great. It's going to be a shocking number for Jordan Love. Sure. Yeah. But they'll, they'll be shocking. Yeah. All right. Next up, kind of branching away from sports. I got two stories that I think you guys will enjoy here. We will start off, this one's a little bit selfish, but he's one of my favorite musicians of all time. Chris Cornell. And I know Woodsie. You feel the same way. He would have turned 60 over the weekend, what has celebrated his 60th birthday on Saturday. And his widow, Vicki, she went on to his Instagram, the official Chris Cornell Instagram account and just posted a bunch of photos and videos, just kind of a tribute to him. Very sweet, warm message. But it was the song that was used in the post that everyone was talking about. She shared a clip of a cover of Chris Cornell singing fast car by Tracy Chapman. Wow. And everyone released before. I've heard all his covers. Yes. He's got a million. Where the hell has this been? And she kind of teased, like, yeah, this may be released. Something along the lines of more music to come. Think about the archives of stuff. Oh, yeah. We haven't heard yet. Yeah. I just wanted to play. It was just a snippet of fast car by Chris Cornell. It's incredible. Enjoy. Because this, I mean, he's incredible. And that song's incredible. You thought, yeah, I need this. I want to take it anywhere, maybe we can make it deal, maybe the other we can get somewhere. Any place is better. Jesus. Starting from zero, got nothing to lose. Maybe we'll make something. We myself, I got nothing to prove. So, man, I know that we were driving, driving in your car. Speed so fast, I felt like I was wrong. I had a little Cornell on the drive, had a little wildland on the drive the other day, and just was thinking to myself, my favorite people are just gone. And it's just the worst. It's the worst that man at 60 would have been still making incredible, beautiful music. Yeah. Well, we were robbed. It was my soul. As fans of his, the quote that Vicki used in her message was, he's an icon and he gave us all so much, his unique voice, his poetry, his creativity. His life was a gift so many. And as you can hear, there's more to come. So everyone's like, okay, like, bring it on. Bring it on. There's a song he does. It's called The Keeper. It was for a movie called Something About A Preacher. It was with, it was like the, remember the preacher went to Africa and built churches and like, you know, he had to like fight people to build these churches? What was he called? Sounds like a good movie. It really wasn't really good. Gerard Butler's in it. He's a badass. But the name of the song is called The Keeper, it, it, I can't even play it because I just start sobbing every time I hear it. I mean, it's one of his more machining, machining preacher, yeah, Gerard Butler. The great Gerard Butler and the title track is The Keeper and it just, it brings you to your knees. It's that beautiful. And when you watch the movie and listen to it, it's incredible. So I'm just really bummed. And then finally, you said this story over my way. Oh, my fantasy. It's my fantasy, it's my sexual fantasy. So I had to read this story because it was kind of misleading. I thought somebody stumbled across something at a Goodwill searching through a Goodwill store and they found something that they thought was incredibly valuable, which we've seen those stories before, designer clothes or something like, this is worth a thousand dollars. I can get it for 50 cents. A Banksy painting or something that's at Goodwill or you peel back one layer like, oh, look at the fan go like my fan out of the basement. It's my favorite. So this was a little bit different than that. He didn't just stumble across it in a store, but Goodwill, I didn't know this, they have an online thrift store and part of that online thrift store is an auction. And somebody bought this a piece of a tent belonging to George Washington, George Washington. Wow. They believe it's been authenticated. They believe it was from his dining tent and it's framed and there is like a letter on there. And it looks really cool. It went to auction on Goodwill's site and it sold the guy bought it for $1,700, knowing or believing that this has to be worth it. That's authentic. It's got to be worth it. Thousands of bucks. Yes. So it wasn't like, he wasn't just like, shopping in person who's like, wait, what is this? What is this? Because I was like, I don't think good will sell stuff for $1,700 and their stores, they would have thought it was fake and maybe sold it for 20 bucks. But yeah, he went on there and bought it for $1,700 and he said, you know, he was very skeptical about it being a fake or something and wants to get it authenticated and he believes he can turn it around and make a ton of money on it. That's a cool ass artifact. Now the opposite side of that. Did you see the story over the weekend of the entire Stegosaurus skeleton that was put up for auction and they thought maybe about $6 million is what it would be worth. It was over $44 million like an entire dinosaur skeleton. Now people are upset. They think these should be in museums private people shouldn't be able to just buy full dinosaur skeletons, but it was worth someone paid $44 million for a 150 million, 150 million year old Stegosaurus skeleton. I would like to be that wealthy where you walked in guys, come on over for a barbecue and you walk in. What is this? It's a Stegosaurus. It's just a full right in the foyer of my house, probably what they're doing. Big ass Stegosaurus real deal. What'd you pay for this? 66 mil? This is money to burn. This is our Stegosaurus room? Yeah, Stegosaurus. Stegosaurus. Mind the Stegosaurus, please don't get too close to it. Now it's my dream to like go to a garage sale and find some some record. You know, the Nirvana's love buzz record that's worth like four grand. Get it for a quarter or something. That's like my fantasy. I'm sure people out there have found hidden treasures. What was that show? Antiques Roadshow? Yeah. Now I would watch it hung over and just watch it for hours and hours and hours. I really want to take the Civil War pickles. The Civil War pickles. It's like your greatest art of that. See what that would sell for. It's a real pickle from the Civil War, you guys. I've seen it. It's white now. It's in a jar. It's in a jar. I mean, you need to bring that to the pawn shop guys. Next time you go to Las Vegas. Yeah. Pickle in a jar. You would be featured on the show for the 1860s, the 1860s Civil War. You have authentication for it? I don't have any documentation, but I mean, it's a Civil War pickle. I mean, you're probably like carbon dated or something. Something. I don't know. They had to grow it in the bottle. And then they pickled it. Look, like any collectible, you got to get it authenticated. I mean, there's a process. I'm not a thief, but I have considered stealing the Civil War pickle. I've told him I want it for my own self. I want it in the sport team. I was a, I was like a Civil War buff when I was a kid. I used to go to Civil War battle sites called Shiloh and Tennessee. I don't think this pickle fought in the Civil War was taken to any battle. It was around it. Yeah, man. There was war around that pickle that pickle is seeing more than you give it credit for, but I want it. I want it bad. Paul, you good job? As always. All right. We'll take a break. When we come back, we got Sebastian Manna. We'll take it to give away plus what was the most underrated sporting event of the weekend. You probably have no idea. I have no idea. I will let you know when we come back after traffic here at 97-3 the fan. What kind of programs does this school have? How are the test scores? How many kids do a classroom? 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But it was probably the most compelling All-Star game I've ever seen. I heard they played actual defense. They did. So many storylines because the WNBA All-Star had Kaitlyn Clark and Angel Reese on the same team and then they had Enrique Aguimba-Wale who scored 0 in the first half, 34 in the second half. Oh my God. And Team USA, which has, you know, all the Olympic stars like Diana Tarasi who are going to Paris, they end up losing, which is like kind of a little bit embarrassing to the, you know, the non-Olympic stars who didn't make the team, but they cared, you know, both sides definitely wanted to win that game and it just added a little bit of extra drama and theater that I don't know how you could ever create that in a basket, you know, a non-Olympic basketball or a baseball game, you know, but with, you know, like last week, Major League Baseball, Rod Manfred talking about ways they could change the All-Star game. We talked about it a little bit too. Now that there's inter-league play, every season, every team, the All-Star game loses some of its luster, just being a national league versus American League format every year because the leagues aren't quite as separate. It's not like you don't get a chance to see your pitchers go against Aaron Judge. Every year we get to see Padres now face Aaron Judge or the other, you know, the American League gets to face show Hayo Tani now. Would there be anything that you could do that could up the drama for a Major League Baseball All-Star game by changing the composition of the two teams? No, it's awesome. East versus West. Yeah, you wouldn't change it at all. I love it. American and national just keeps with tradition. I changed uniforms. That's it. Just put them back in their, their normal teams uniforms. If you're the away team, the away league, then you wear your your road stuff and you go. I mean, I, I think you do. I'm at the point where I'd rather watch them play a wiffle ball game. That's garbage. I'm watching Paul Skeenster 100 miles an hour. He's not taking anything off. I think in the world baseball classic, it was awesome. Here's a show. Hey, go against trout because they were actually competing for some. Here's my idea and, and granted, there'll probably be more people who hated it and missed the tradition. You'd probably be one of them. But what if instead of American League versus nationally, you did like the young stars, guys who were still under team control, first six year players against veterans and it was the young guys are under 30 against over 30 or 28 or whatever. I'm all with that not be compelling. Would that not be a little more incentive? Both sides would not be want to be embarrassed. The veterans wouldn't want to be embarrassed by the rookies. The rookies, the young guys would want to kind of show up the other players down a thousand percent. This is my own idea. Would you have enough of each? Of course. I mean, I think it's a pretty even mix right now. I mean, look at this year's all-star game. How many young guys were there, but there's always going to be some veterans that fill out an all-star team. Yeah. And you just have two teams. One, you know, 30, 30 guys who were like under 20, wherever you set the line, and then wherever you set the line, you have 30 guys that are over 28. Okay. And that's who plays against each other in the all-star game. I'm all in. I think that would be high drama, high drama. What did that though? Because I watched, dude, I watched a, there was a, I think it's the PLL, the premier lacrosse league. It's not the NLL. It's the outdoor, right? There was a big controversy last week, you guys. A rookie in his first all-star game did some crazy move and juked out this veteran guy. This veteran guy went on Instagram, was like, try hard rookie, and everyone attacked him. Because this rookie was in his first, he didn't, and people, they had miked up segments. And the guys like, hey, have you talked to him yet? You told him this is not what we do. And people were like, bro, he's a, he's a rookie, like playing in an all-star game. He's playing hard. He's playing hard, right? And so the veteran got mad, like, hey, what do you do in try hard, Charlie Hussle? It was pretty dope. I mean, think about, you'd have like the swaggy, young team with the tatices and celebrating their home run. Get your rosters up. Let's like the, I want to be older players, like the Verlanders and stuff on the veteran team. Pull up the rosters. I want to see what we could, what would it come up with in the next segment? All right, let's, let's do that in the next segment right now. What would it have looked like? Let's, yeah, what would it have looked like? That's very, I'm very curious about that idea. Let's give away some tickets right now. We got a pair of tickets to Sebastian Maniscalco at VA, on August 16th. Tickets are on sale now at ticketmaster.com, but you can win a pair right now, be the fourth caller, 833-288-097, three-fourth caller. Going to win a pair of tickets to see comedians, Sebastian Maniscalco at VA, on August 16th. We'll come back, talk a little more of the my all-star idea and then come back maybe some of the Hall of Fame stuff. Good speeches, good moments yesterday from Cooperstown and then the class of 2025. Who's next up? Possibly as we wrap things up with Bennett Woods, a 97-3 the fan. Seeing some positive reaction to my idea for the MLB all-star game. Get to Rob Manfred on the phone. I doubt he'd care to take your calls. Young guys versus old guys and so we just did a quick review and I'm just going to go with the start, the starting lineups for the National American League from the game just played last week and obviously you'd have to account for positions but if you went with just the young guys, like if you made 28th the cut-off line, the under-2018 would have William Contreras, Alec Baume, Paul Skein starting, Stephen Kwan, Gunnar Henderson, Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Adley Ruchman would all be stars for the Unders and then the overs would have, you know, Shohei, Trey Turner, Bryce Harper, Yellich, Teosker, Jurexson would be on the overs, Judge would be on the overs, Corbin Burns would be the pitcher on the overs. So you kind of have a, and let's see, Juan Soto would be on the Youngers, Jose Ramirez would be on the overs. I mean, it'd be a pretty interesting separation and mix for the two teams. Yeah, you know, probably year one, you know, let's kind of feel this thing out and if the Youngs beat the Olds, the Olds next year would come to play. I think that's really good. All-star MVP, Jaren Duran would have just been on the Youngers, just 27. So you'd have some of those kind of cut-off guys, but it would be, it would definitely be interesting. And spice it up a little bit. I think so. I think so. I think the player was not the wrong with it. Now you're doing this and now I'm going to miss this next year. I feel like the players would care a little bit more than they do. You know, playing for the pride of the National or the American League now just doesn't mean as much. No, it definitely does. But kind of playing for your generation, you know, millennials versus the older guy ever are all kind of millennials at this point. But still, I just feel like there is kind of a line there where it's young versus old would have a compelling factor maybe more than the other sports, even the young versus the old. I like it. In baseball is something lined up all 50 all-stars or whatever and had two captains, maybe the top two and MVP voting the year before or whatever and miked up and on the field in uniforms, they go sandlot rules and they do like the baseball bat, you know, the hands. All right, I'm first captain. They kind of did that in basketball. They did the draft inside the NBA, I think, during a Thursday night game. So kind of that same idea. And then they're like, all right, I got show, hey, all right, I got to tease. I've got I've got so I just kind of pick and choose. And then all of a sudden you're like, who's going to be last? Who's going to be last? David Fry from the Cleveland Guardians. He's like, I'm a big leaguer. I thought I got away from this. Just starters then. You just do starters and then kind of kind of whack up the net. I don't know how you would do it with two guys standing on the field by themselves. That's my CTV, Matt Strong standing there. You might need to left in here. Bryce Harper didn't pick Matt Strong. He's like, I'm sorry, I had a chance to get Corbin merged. What do you want me to do? I'd watch that. I'd watch the hell out of that too. I think it'd be great. I think it'd be great. I think it'd be phenomenal. Yeah, I mean, I love it as it is. I love it. I love the All-Star game. Love it. Love it. Love it. The Derby needed some work this year. It just needs a more star power. Fewer short stops in it. And as good as those guys are. What can the league do about that though? Nothing. Nothing. Can't do anything. You can't make Otani and Soto and Judge do the home run. Of course they don't want it. Peel out those young guys that's running, waving, campaigning to get in it. He's one guy that wants to do it. You have one guy that wants to do it every year. And then a couple of the the guy like they wanted LeBron to do the dunk constantly every day. There's no amount of money that LeBron needed. I don't know why he never did it. Never did it once. Once when he was 20. Well, he couldn't after his first three years or whatever. That's the rising stars. Yeah, they changed it. Yeah, it's true. Which sucks. I'm sure if you read the channel, if you said I'll do it, I'd like to do it. They completely changed the rules of this one. The coincidence is what we just got rid of the rising. So we're going back the old way. Right. But like, show him, Otani, you can't say, hey, you'll get 10 million dollars if you win. He's like, I don't need 10 million dollars. So much fun. Well, he might. Actually, but all right, why? Because if a stole 16 million. Oh, show it. Show it. I think you know, LeBron. Show it might need to make up all that money that he had stolen from. Yes. All right. Let's check traffic. When we come back, Paul, he's got a list of the potential 2025 Hall of Famers after yesterday's induction ceremony in Cooperstown. And you'll hear why Woods was tearing up a little bit earlier this morning. Coming up next year on 97 three, the fan. I feel like if baseball does end up doing this next year, I want to get credit for it. I think you should be, I think you should be the man at home plate. Somebody's steal your idea. I know. I didn't trade market or anything. You're no Michael buffer, are you? Exactly. I do it. No, no, no, we have to sign like three. No, don't do it. You're going to get fired. We have to sign like documents every year saying, we will not say those words on the radio. The second radio station that we worked at that just got the plug pulled on. My last day on the air. Should I just leave everybody with a Michael buffer and two middle fingers up? Don't just get it. Just get it. Somebody's listening right now, though. He got really close. He had two notes. Michael buffer's nephew is probably listening. Yeah. Listen, they listen to every say let's get. No, no, no, we're allowed to say let's get it. Let's let's get talking about the Hall of Fame induction ceremony. Hey, are you ready? So tell us the story of the Hall of Fame and something feet. Rumble. Rumble. Those rumble strips on the freeway and the lanes. Hate them. Kind of bumble is bumble and rumble. I missed literally just sitting there. He's in jury duty right now. Yes, he is. Sucker doing his civic duty this morning. I haven't heard from him. I wonder if you got picked for a trial. Hey. Hey, do you imagine you're stuck in the jury for hours and Adam? Hey, he's guilty of all charges. We're a hung jury. I think he would like it because I've done I actually have done kind of juries. We the people have seen you. It's kind of like a round table when you're in. Oh God, he loves it. You're discussing something. I'll give a bunch of people all around the table discussing something. I think he's going to love it actually. It's so good. All right. What were we doing? We're going to do Hall of Fame. First of all, let's play some of the sound because Woodsy was kind of tearing up a little bit this morning. Jim Leland got me. Jim Leland. Yeah, one of the four inductees yesterday in Cooperstown, New York, the former manager of the Detroit Tigers and won a World Series with the Miami Marlins or Florida Marlins back then. And he came prepared with his speech, knocked it out of the park. Say this to the fans. No matter which Hall of Fame you're here to support today or which team you cheer for, your presence has always felt. On your feet in the ninth with the home team playing into a one run lead, turning on your television for the first game of the World Series and seeing 50,000 fans waving towels, hoping and praying that this may be their year or a little boy or girl getting their first autograph and scurrying back to the stands to show mom and dad their latest treasure. Ladies and gentlemen, that's you. That's baseball and this is the Hall of Fame. Thank you very much. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Big shout out to the fans. Just love it. Love Jim Leland always. Another really funny story. Did you see what he said? He didn't line up a cigarette. No, he was not ripping at speed. That would be very appropriate. That would have been pretty epic. But he did say, so this is pretty funny. Jim Leland recalled a coffee date with his wife a couple of weeks after being elected into the Hall of Fame. I said, Katie, could you believe in your wildest dreams that I'd be going to the Hall of Fame? Katie replied, Jim, you're not in my wildest dreams. Very Hannah and Carol Woods of her. Just incredible. Just an incredible, incredible feat to get to the Hall of Fame. Yeah. So it was Adrian Beltre, Joe Maurer, and Todd Helton, who are all inducted, was not like a thousand degrees like it seems like it is every year. It was actually a pretty nice day. Anisha Gwen was there to sing a national anthem, which was cool. I did not know that that was going to happen, but she performed lovely rendition and they had the ceremony and now it's time to look ahead to 2025. And obviously, you got some of the holdovers who didn't get 75% of the vote this year, but who are the new Polly 2025 first year eligible players for the Hall of Fame? The holdovers. You had to receive more than 25% of the votes. So it's Carlos Beltran, Andrew Jones, Manny Ramirez, Alex Rodriguez, Chase Utley, and Billy Wagner. And then the newcomers eligible for the first time are Felix Hernandez, Ian Kinzler, Dustin Padroya, and Sissy Sabathia, each hero. I don't know about Padroya. How many look at his numbers? There's no question for me. Such a gamer. Such an elite player. Never liked him. Always respected him. What is it? It's 140 home runs. How many years? 299 batting average. He played about 13 seasons. I don't think so. Really? Hall of very good? My gut when I just read the name was no. See, my gut said absolutely. It's such a big game player too. I think did win the MVP in 2008. I think a lot of CC in each year. Who are they again? CC each year? Felix Hernandez. Felix is a lock. I mean, I think so. I think so. I agree. I mean, each row is the biggest player. Each row is potentially a unanimous, unanimous choice. 100%. I feel like CC is a strong choice. It may not be unanimous, but very strong. Felix, I think very, very strong. He might get, you know, 80 to 90. I think somebody out there would be like, I didn't pitch the playoffs. The only year he would enjoy him. You might get in, but I don't think it's first year. I don't think it's a first ballot. I guess if Jeff Kent's not in, he can't really put Dustin Padroya in as a second baseman. I would, he's in my personal woods. He's Hall of Fame, which is filled to the rafters. Yeah, really good players. You know, I'm, I don't get my, I don't get too upset about the Hall of Fame anymore. After Harold Baines got in, all bets were off as far as I was concerned. So that's a, that's a pretty big new class though of guys who are going to take a lot of the votes, which means the holdovers might have a tougher time getting in because usually, okay, well, we've got more votes to spread around, but with, with all those guys coming in, you won't have as many votes to spread around the bottom of your ballot, which bonds obviously. Do you think Arod ever gets in? No, I don't think so. Not the, not the voting way. Nope. I mean, the writers have made it fairly clear that, well, most of them do agree that they should be in not 75% and it's never going to be 75%. You're going to need some churn, you know, he needs to turn it. If Arod gets in, it will be probably only 10 years on the ballot and it's not going to be enough churn by then. So no, you know, maybe some other way veterans type committee way in the future after some attitudes change and things are viewed maybe through a different items. Yeah, David Ortiz got in. Yep. David Ortiz was on the Mitchell report. Doesn't work that way. He didn't, Arod didn't smile enough. It's not goofy enough. There is a difference between the Mitchell report and actually like being suspended. Sure. But none of these guys tested positive. Very bond them. Very bonds never true. Never. So, I mean, yeah, if we're doing letter or the law type bits here, it's interesting how that works. But it is weird. It's a little lot of politics, which by the way, it's just like life. I mean, it's no different than life. A lot of politics to you know, it's how you act. It's how you acted in your career and that some guys pissed off some sports writers that will never get over it and they'll never get in. But, you know, if in my mind, I just remember Pedroia just always in the action, just always, always winning. He's just a winning player. I've showed my son play like him. But it was not very tall. He's got a lot of kids are kind of getting tall over him and I go, it's fine. Play like him. Play just like that dude. And you will be, he's a dirt bag, just an elite, elite, second baseman, gamer type player, play just like him and you will be fine. Mailman Rob says, just name it the hall of very good. He says that thing is a joke now. I don't think it's a joke, but it's omitting a lot of the best baseball players. Well, but it's also including some who aren't truly transcendent. Yeah, it's just kind of a weird mix of guys who are really truly spectacular. And others had good long careers or a few good years and were very well liked by people, especially writers during their time. All right, that is, that is all our time for today. We will be back tomorrow morning at six. Get you ready for the Padres National Series in Washington, the reunion with James Wood coming up. We'll talk all about it. Jesse Agar will join us for Paul Reidel and Stephen Woods. I've been Higgins. Have a great rest of your Monday. Annie and Elston up next year on 97 through the fan. Seeing some positive reaction to my idea for the MLB All-Star game. Get to Rob Manfred on the phone. I doubt he'd care to take your car. Young guys versus old guys. And so we just did a quick review. And I'm just going to go with the starter, the starting lineups for the National American League from the game just played last week. And obviously you'd have to account for positions. But if you went with just the young guys, like if you made 28, the cutoff line, the under 28 team would have William Contreras, Alec Bohm, Paul Skeen, starting Stephen Quand, Gunnar Henderson, Vladimir Guerrero, Jr., Adley Rochman would all be stars for the Unders. And then the Overs would have, you know, Show-Hey, Trey Turner, Trey Turner, Bryce Harper, Yellich, Taosger, Jurikson would be on the Overs, Judge would be on the Overs, Corbin Burns would be the pitcher on the Overs. So you kind of have a, and let's see, Juan Soto would be on the Youngers, Jose Ramirez would be on the Overs. I mean, it'd be a pretty interesting separation and mix for the two teams. Yeah, you know, probably year one, you know, let's kind of feel this thing out. And if the Youngs beat the Olds, the Olds next year would come to play, I think that's really good. All-star MVP, Jaren Duran, would have just been on the Youngers. Yep. 27. So you'd have some of those kind of cut off guys, but it would be, it would definitely be interesting. And spice it up a little bit. I think so. I think so. I think the player was not the wrong with it. Now you're doing this, and now I'm going to miss this next year. I feel like the players would care a little bit more than they do. You know, playing for the pride of the National or the American League now just doesn't mean as much. No, it definitely does. But kind of playing for your generation, you know, millennials versus the older guy, they're all kind of millennials at this point. But still, I just feel like there is kind of a line there where it's, it's young versus old would have an compelling factor, maybe more than the other sports, even the young versus the old. I like it. In baseball is something lined up all 50 all-stars or whatever, and had two captains, maybe the top two and MVP voting the year before or whatever. And miked up and on the field, in uniforms, they go sandlot rules, pick and they do like the baseball bat, you know, the hands. All right. I'm first captain. They kind of did that in basketball, a couple years ago, draft inside the NBA, I think, during a Thursday night game. So kind of that same idea. And then they're like, all right, I got show Hey, all right, I got to tease. I've got, I've got judge, I got soda, I just kind of pick and choose. And then all of a sudden you're like, who's going to be last? Who's going to be last? David Fry from the Cleveland Guardians. He's like, I'm a big leaguer. I thought I got away from this. Just starters then. You just do starters and then kind of kind of whack up the net. I don't know how you would do it without two guys standing on the field. That's my ctv. Matt Strong standing there. You might need to left. Bryce Harper didn't pick Matt Strong. He's like, I'm sorry. I had a chance to get Corbin Burns. What do you want me to do? I'd watch that. I'd watch the hell out of that too. I think it'd be great. I think it'd be great. I think it'd be phenomenal. Yeah. I mean, I love it as it is. I love it. I love the all-star game. Love it. Love it. Love it. The derby needed some work this year. It just needs a more star power. Fewer short stops in it. And as good as those guys are. One thing you can do about that though. Nothing. Nothing. You can't do anything. You can't make Otani and Soto and Judge do the home run. Of course they don't want to. Peel on. So he's the only guy that's running, waving campaign and to get in it. He's one guy that wants to do it. You have one guy that wants to do it every year. And then a couple of the guys like maybe I wanted LeBron to do the dunk constant. There's no amount of money that LeBron needed. I don't know why he never did it. Never did it once. Once when he was 20. Well, he couldn't after his first three years or whatever. That's the rising stars. Yeah, they changed it. Yeah, it's true. Which sucks. I'm sure if he raised his hand and said, I'll do it. I'd like to do it. They completely changed the rules if they want. Just the quintessence is what we just got rid of the rising. So we're going back the old way. Right. But like, show how Tony, you can't say, hey, you'll get 10 million dollars if you want. He's like, I don't need 10 million dollars. He's so much fun. Well, he might actually. But all right. Why? Because if a stole 16 million. Oh, show it. Show it. I think you know, show it might need to make up all that money that he had stolen from. Yes. All right. Let's check traffic. When we come back, Paul, he's got a list of the potential 2025 Hall of Famers after yesterday's induction ceremony in Cooperstown. And you'll hear why Woods was tearing up a little bit earlier this morning. So coming at you next year on 97.3, the fan feel like if baseball does end up doing this next year, I want to get credit for it. I think you should be. I think you should be the man at home plate. Some of these you steal your idea. I know. I didn't trademark it or anything. You're no Michael buffer, are you? Exactly. Do you have to sign like documents every year saying we will not say those words on the radio. The second radio station that we worked at that just got the plug pulled on. My last day on the air. Should I just leave everybody with a Michael buffer and two middle fingers up? Don't just get it. Just get it. Somebody's listening right now though. He got really clear. He had two notes. Michael buffer's nephew is probably listening. Yeah. Listen, you can say let's get. No, no, no, we're allowed to say let's get let's get talking about the Hall of Fame induction ceremony. Hey, are you ready to tell us the story of the Hall of Fame induction fee? Rumble, rumble. Those rumble strips on the freeway and the lanes. Hey, the kind of bumble is bumble and rumble. I miss literally just sitting there like this. Just he's in jury duty right now. Oh, yes, he is. Sucker doing his civic duty this morning. I haven't heard from him. I wonder if he got picked for a trial. Hey, do you imagine stuck in the jury for an hour and Adam? Hey, he's guilty of all charges. We're a hung jury. I think he would like it because I've done I actually have done kind of juries. We the people have seen you. It's kind of like a round table when you're in. Oh, God, he loves it. You're discussing something. I'll give a bunch of people all around the table discussing something. I think he's going to love it, actually. It's so good. All right. What were we doing? We're going to do Hall of Fame. First of all, let's play some of the sound because Woodsy was kind of tearing up a little bit this morning. Jim Leland got me. Jim Leland. Yeah, one of the four inductees yesterday in Cooperstown, New York, the former manager of the Detroit Tigers and won a World Series with the Miami Marlins or Florida Marlins back then. And he came prepared with his speech, knocked it out of the park. Say this to the fans. No matter which Hall of Fame you're here to support today or which team you cheer for, your presence has always felt. On your feet in the ninth with the home team playing into a one run lead, turning on your television for the first game of the World Series and seeing 50,000 fans waving towels, hoping and praying that this may be their year or a little boy or girl getting their first autograph and scurrying back to the stands to show mom and dad their latest treasure. Ladies and gentlemen, that's you. That's baseball and this is a Hall of Fame. Thank you very much. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Big shout out to the fans. Just love it. Love Jim Leland always. Another really funny story. Did you see what he said? He didn't line up a cigarette. No, he was not ripping a feed. That would be very appropriate. That would have been pretty epic. But he did say so. This is pretty funny. Jim Leland recalled a coffee date with his wife a couple of weeks after being elected into the Hall of Fame. I said, Katie, could you believe in your wildest dreams that I'd be going to the Hall of Fame? Katie replied, Jim, you're not in my wildest dreams. Very can of man Carol Woods of her. Just incredible. Just an incredible, incredible feat to get to the Hall of Fame. Yeah. So it was Adrian Beltray, Joe Maurer, and Todd Halton, who are all inducted, was not like a thousand degrees. It seems like it is every year. It was actually a pretty nice day. Anisha Gwen was there to say the National Anthem, which was cool. I did not know that that was going to happen. But she performed lovely rendition and they had the ceremony and now it's time to look ahead to 2025. And obviously you got some of the holdovers who didn't get 75% of the vote this year. But who are the new Poly 2025 first year eligible players for the Hall of Fame? Yeah. The holdovers, you had to receive more than 25% of the votes. So it's Carlos Beltran, Andrew Jones, Manny Ramirez, Alex Rodriguez, Chase Utley, and Billy Wagner. And then the new comers eligible for the first time are Felix Hernandez, Ian Kinzler, Dustin Padroia, Sissy Sabathia, each hero. I don't know about Padroia. I don't really look at his numbers. There's no question. For me, such a gamer, such an elite player. Never liked him. Always respected him. What is it? It's 140 home runs. How many years? 299 batting average. He played about 13 seasons. I don't think so. Really? Hall of very good. My gut when I just read the name was, no, but see, my gut said absolutely such a big game player too. I think did win the MVP in 2008. I think a lot. CC in each hero. Who are they against? CC each Felix Hernandez. I think I think so. I think so. I agree. I mean, a lot. Each hero is the biggest player. Each hero is potentially unanimous. unanimous choice. 100%. I feel like CC is a strong choice. It may not be unanimous, but very strong. Felix, I think very, very strong. He might get, you know, 80 to 90. I think somebody out there would be like, I didn't pitch in the playoffs. The only year he would enjoy him. You might get in, but I don't think it's first year. I don't think it's a first ballot. I guess if Jeff Kent's not in, you can't really put Dustin Pedroia in as a second base. But I would, he's in my personal woods, he's Hall of Fame, which is filled to the rafter. Yeah, really good players. You know, I'm a, I don't get my, I don't get too upset about the Hall of Fame anymore. After Harold Baines got in, all bets were off as far as I was concerned. So that's a, that's a pretty big new class though of guys who are going to take a lot of the votes, which means the holdovers might have a tougher time getting in because usually, okay, well, we've got more votes to spread around. But with, with all those guys coming in, you won't have as many votes to spread around the bottom of your ballot, which bonds obviously get it. Do you think Arod ever gets in? No, I don't think so. Not the, not the voting way. Nope. I mean, writers have made it fairly clear that well, most of them do agree that they should be in not 75% and it's never going to be 75%. You're going to need some churn. You know, he needs to turn it. If Arod gets in, it will be probably 10 years on the ballot and it's not going to be enough churn by then. So no, you know, maybe some other way veterans type committee way in the future after some attitudes change and things are viewed maybe through a different lens. Yeah, David Ortiz got in. Yep. David Ortiz was on the Mitchell report. It doesn't work that way. No, he didn't, Arod didn't smile enough. It's not goofy enough. There is a difference between the Mitchell report and actually like being suspended. Sure. But none of these guys tested positive food. Very very bond. Very bond, very bonds never true. Never. So I mean, yeah, if we're doing letter of the law type bits here, just interesting how that works. But it is weird. It's, it's a little lot of politics, which by the way, it's just like life. I mean, it's no different than life. A lot of politics, two, you know, it's how you act. It's how you acted in your career. And that some guys pissed off some sports writers that will never get over it. They'll never get in. But, you know, in my mind, I just remember, Pedro, just always in the action, just always, always winning. He's just a winning player. I've showed my son, play like him, but it was not very tall. He's got a lot of kids are kind of getting tall over him. And I go, it's fine. Play like him. Play just like that dude. And you will be, he's a dirtback, just an elite, elite, second baseman, gamer type player, play just like him. And you will be fine. Man, mailman Rob says, just name it the hall of very good. He says, that thing's a joke now. I don't think it's a joke, but it's omitting a lot of the best baseball players. But it's also including some who aren't truly transcend it. Yeah, it's just kind of a weird mix of guys who are really, truly spectacular. And others had good long careers or a few good years and were very well liked by people, especially writers during their time. All right, that is, that is all our time for today. We will be back tomorrow morning at six. Get you ready for the Padres National Series in Washington, the reunion with James Wood coming up. We'll talk all about it. Jesse Agar will join us for Paul Reindel and Stephen Woods. I've been Higgins. Have a great rest year. Monday, Annie and Elston up next year on 97-3 The Fan. What kind of programs does this school have? How are the test scores? How many kids do a classroom? 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