Deuces Wild with Eric Byrnes & Will Clark

Recent Success of the Oakland A's on the DAILY HUSTLE

EB discusses the recent success of the Oakland A's - finishing the month with the best record in all of the American League. He highlights the Padres' sweep of the Dodgers, which narrowed their deficit in the NL West to just four and a half games.

Duration:: 36m
Broadcast on:: 01 Aug 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

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From Mike Crudelli, great friend of the program, and it was Dwayne Kuiper talking about his favorite moments from the "Babered" series because this is it. This is it. It's over. And stuff like that, I don't think, really resonates too much. You know, we're right, you're like, "Okay, there's changes here, there's the age you want to sack." And it starts to hit home a little bit when you potentially, like, this is it, this is over. Things will change when the A's do move to Sacramento and then eventually Vegas allegedly. But regardless, it was Logan Webb last night fucking dealing. And it's good because he's been struggling. He goes CG, study a rare combo in the game today, just for the fact that dudes just don't throw that many pitches. Well, he was masterful last night. I believe he struck out six. The thing that really got me, though, was the A's. Even with the loss, finished 15 and eight for the month of July. The best in all of the American League. It's fucking crazy to think about. We basically give them so much shit. And I said it the other night when we were on Deuce's Wall, they have dudes. They just don't have enough of them. And they do do a really good job of stockpiling guys with tremendous talent, whether it's Phil Nevin's kid, Mike Cameron's kid. Both of those guys haven't reached their potential in the big leagues, but yet these guys are dudes that certainly do have an incredible amount of ability. And then obviously what Rooker's doing is speaking for itself. He's having an incredible year, probably the most undercover year of anybody in all of baseball. So let's give a certain round of applause for the Oakland A's finishing the month of July with the best record in all of the American League. Okay, let's just hit up a few stories here. Starting with the Olympics in Paris. The Olympian who is 61 years old in destroying athletes half her age. This is fascinating, obviously. It says that she unzipped her jacket and adjusted her knee strap and began stretching for her first table tennis match of this Olympics. An odd sensation came over the most unlikely player. The world suddenly, Nia Leon felt nervous. It was strange because Nia, former World Champion, had seen this all before. The bright lights of the International competition, the Olympic rings, painted on the net and the rashes crowd ready to erupt for her. But this time she felt the full weight of a nation in her shoulders and she knew that she would need to summon all of her experience. It gets you settled into the match. As it turns out, she had more of that than anyone in the building. That's because Nia, the grand duchess of Lusseborg, table tennis, is 61 fucking years old. This is incredible. There are other sex, I don't even know how to say this. Sexagenarians at the... That means a sexagenarian means you're 60 plus. Okay. Sexagenarians. What a whacked out word. There are other sexagenarians at the Paris Games, but the only athletes older than the compete in Equestrian, which means she is the oldest Olympian here who doesn't ride a horse, which she made her international debut in 1979. Almost nobody in this year's Olympic field was even born. Nia won her first world championship in 1983. Her first round opponent here was born in 1993, which makes her younger than Nia's son. Quote, "I'm a table tennis grandma," says Nia. He was also a six-time Olympian. "I'm not a grandma yet. I'm waiting." She retired and unretired before Michael Jordan, then she did it again. In fact, she wasn't her prime before table tennis was even an Olympic sport. These days, the Olympics have, the Olympics have raged. They can't quite believe that Nia is still here. It's absolutely mind-boggling, says American table tennis star Loli Zhang, but to me, it makes perfect sense. Quote, "I have double the age," she says, "and double the experience." This is just a really cool story. So she has gone out there and absolutely freaking dominated. It's one of those things where there was an article that came out recently talking about the longevity of life and its correlation to racket sports. Well, it was Dr. Ayman, I believe, who's good friends of the gloss family. And he was saying that you're essentially triggering these reflexes and neurons, everything else, and that table tennis, above all, even pickleball, or tennis, was the number one racket sport. So if there is any motivation to continue to play table tennis, ping pong, as we like to call here in the United States, look no further because you could be an Olympian, even if you happen to be pushing the age of 70. All right, from there, let's get into the biggest upset in Paris thus far, and this just happened. And of course, we are going to continue on the table tennis, the world's best table tennis player was crushing the Olympics. He got his paddle crushed, and it went all downhill from there. China's Wainchak Queen was a gold medal favorite in three table tennis events, but after a photographer accidentally stepped on his paddle, he was on the losing end of the biggest upset at the Paris Games. It was a perfect start to the Olympics for the world's best table tennis player after years of toiling in China's grueling training program. Wainchak Queen finally won a gold medal in mixed doubles. The first of three events he was expecting to dominate in Paris, but before the celebration was even over, his triple medal prospects changed in a flash. A photographer accidentally stepped on his paddle. Elation turned a fury, Wainch shouted at the photographers. A coach physically restrained him. "I lost control of my emotions," literally said shortly afterward. "I believe I'll still be able to play well with my back of paddle." Less than 24 hours later, it turned out Wainch was wrong. In the marquee men's single tournament, the world's number one with paddle number two was on the losing end of one of the biggest upsets in Olympic table tennis history. On the 32, the top-seater Wainch dropped the first two sets to number 19. Trull's more guard of Sweden. He battled back even up before dropping the last two sets in the best of seven matches, shocking the Asian nation that has absolutely dominated its national pastime on the global stage. Okay, dude, you're telling me you don't have a back up paddle ready to go? I mean, we have fucking tennis players that show up with nine rackets. Why would ping-bong be any different? I'm going to go to the court today and play pickleball with four rackets. I got four of them, four. So for me to sit here and bitch, I didn't even know what my number one rack is. I don't, I'll reach into my bag and just grab one. That's a weak ass excuse. It really is. And, hey, you've got to control your emotions. You have to. Kippy did all of these photographers. I mean, get your paddle out of the fucking way. That's on him. So sorry, Wainch. You fucked up. Hey, it sucks. Sometimes it happens, but you've got to be able to get over it. Here potentially could be one of the biggest stories yet coming out of Paris as well. Olympic boxer deemed to have male chromosomes wins a fight in 46 seconds. Her opponent left in tears after hard hits. An Algerian boxer was deemed to have male chromosomes won a fight in the 66th program. Women's division at the Paris Olympics on Thursday. Iman Khalif defeated Italy's Angela Karini after Karini abandoned her match. The fight lasted all of 46 seconds before Karini went to her corner men to call off the fight. Khalif celebrated the win while Karini was left in tears after the fight. Karini was heard yelling to hear coaches in Italian questioning the fairness of the bout. She then broke her silence on why she abandoned the match. "I got into the ring to fight," she said, via Italy's ANSA. "I didn't give up, but one punch hurt too much, so I said enough is enough." "I'm going out of my head held high." Karini's coach, Emmanuel Rosini, said that quitting the match wasn't any part of the plan ahead of time. "It would have been easier not to show up because all of Italy had been asking her not to fight for days." "But Angela was motivated and wanted to do so." Of course, when she met her opponent at the draw, she said, "It's not fair." But there was no premeditation here today. She quit after taking one punch. She told me she didn't feel she could fight. Kaleef fought under a firestorm of controversy regarding a failed gender eligibility test. Okay, this is interesting. Kaleef was disqualified during the 2023 World Championship sanctioned by the International Boxing Association. The organizations say Kaleef and Taiwan's Lin Yutin failed to meet gender eligibility standards. IBA president Umar Kremlev explained the decision at the time, according to the Russian test news agency. Rooters reported at the time that Kaleef tested positive for having high levels of testosterone based on DNA tests. We identified a number of athletes who tried to trick their colleagues into posing as women. According to the results of the test, it was proved that they have XY chromosomes. Such athletes were excluded from competition, Kremlev said. Kaleef and the Algerian Olympic Committee both denied the claims. The International Olympic Committee also cleared Kaleef to compete in the games. "Everyone competing in the women's category is complying with the competition eligibility rules." IOC spokesman Mark Adams said, "They are women in their passports, and it's stated that this is the case that they are female." The COA called the claims "baseless." COA strongly condemns the unethical targeting and maligning of our esteemed athlete, Amin Kaleef, with baselip propaganda from certain foreign media outlets. The committee said Wednesday via Rooters. Such attacks on her personality and dignity are deeply unfair, especially as she prepares for the pinnacle of her career at the Olympics. The COA has taken all necessary measures to protect our champion. Italy's answer quoted Rod Sario Coco, the president of Gay Net Communications in Italy, as saying that he learned Kaleef was "intersex and not transgender." In contrast to the reports that have been circulating, the Algerian athlete, Iman Kaleef, is not a trans woman. Coco told the news agency, "From the information we have about her, she is an intersex person who has always socialized as a woman and has a sporting history in women's competition." Okay, I'll let you guys be the judge. There she is. If it looks like a dude, and it's got XY chromosomes, it's probably a fucking dude. So, what do we do about it? It's tough, because I don't know the science behind it. Intersex is really different than trans. Trans, no chance. Now, it almost makes me feel like intersex, which is meaning that, look, you have an extraordinary amount of extra testosterone that would make it an unfair competition between a woman and an intersex person. Use the fucking best judgment possible here after the IOC. And obviously, the world boxing federation who had banned her, him, whatever, earlier, they did it for a reason. Well, it's pretty simple. If you resemble more of a dude and you're dealing with testosterone levels that are extremely elevated, you're probably a fucking dude. Now, there's other ways, I guess, you could find out. And I don't know what sort of organs that he/she is possessing. We have to stop trying to put males or even intersex people going up against women. It's just not fair. That's it. I think when we look at this, ultimately what we all want, whether we're male or female or intersex, we're trans. I want a fair fucking competition. That's not a fair competition. You're putting this intersex person who has extreme, extreme male characteristics in there with a fucking woman. It's just bullshit. Think about that. It's not right. So I'd like to believe that we could use our best judgment going forward here. And there has to be a way to measure testosterone levels. Let's just start with that. And if your testosterone levels are elevated above a certain amount, that's it. You're done. You can go fight with the males. Or if the IOC wants to create an entire intersex division, you guys do you. I'm okay with that too. But it's proven that there's no way this is fair. It's just fucking not. And that's bullshit. So I am with Italy in this one. It's, you know, you gotta feel bad for him. Him hurt a little bit. I mean, I get it, I understand. Because he she wants the box. But if you want a box, I mean, go box someone with the same fucking XY chromosome that you got. Anyway, all right. Onward and upward. We got the, there's a fun one. The five sports that the US has never meddled in. See if you guys can get this ready for this. Here they are. I'll just run them out there. The five Olympic sports that the US has never meddled in. Number one, badminton. 329 metal events, 32 sports, endless drama. Catch all the action. The Paris Olympics. Okay. Whatever. All right. Let's try this again. Badminton is number one. The US has had a tough time even advancing within the first, within the five badminton tournaments at the Olympics. Men's and women's singles and doubles have been full medals since 1992, while mixed doubles entered in 1986 and eight Olympics with the sport of all the US has only reached a quarter finals of any tournament one time and the men's double team of Howard Bakken, Bob Malaythong reached a round of eight in 2008 at Beijing. But, by Wednesday, got two wins in the women's singles in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics before falling to the round of 16, Tempe, Lamb and brothers, Philip Chu and Ryan Chu went winless on the men's side. All right. The other sport, the US has never meddled in. Handball. The US has not even qualified for the men's and women's Olympic. Handball tournaments since 1996. When it was a host nation in the Atlanta, games of men's squad has participated in the Olympics tournament six times at this highest finish being six plates back in 1936. What the fuck? I mean, did we all play handball on a recess when we were kids? No, it doesn't make sense. The next one, rhythmic gymnastics. Rhythmic gymnastics makes Olympic debut as an individual event in 1984 and added a team event in 1996. Europe has completely dominated the sport since the beginning with China, Canada and Israel as the only three countries from other continents to claim a medal across 10 Olympics. United States highest finish in the event is 11. The next sport the US has ever meddled in. Table tennis. I mean, what the fuck? Seriously? Who did grow up playing ping pong at some point, right? This one doesn't make sense to me. The US has not won a medal in table tennis since it was introduced as an Olympic sport in 1988 despite being one of 16 countries to participate in the sport at each of the 10 Olympics. Jen Wang owns the best American finishing Olympic table tennis history ever reaching the women's singles quarterfinals in Beijing. Juan Lu had the most successful run of any American table tennis player in Tokyo according to the women's singles fourth round advancing the women's singles fourth round as the number 68 seed. All right, I mean, that's got to end. I don't know what's going on, but we got to figure it out, especially knowing the longevity numbers now on what racket sports do you're like. I don't care if we got to go get a fucking Ram up like we have earlier that we were talking about we need somebody to represent the United States of American table tennis. I mean, this could be my new obsession. Really, we can't just let China keep dominating it like this. We I got to believe where we the creators of beer pong could that be a sport because I bet you if that was a sport, I mean, we go to the south and just grab any of the college students from the SEC schools and it's fucking hot. It's an absolute travesty that we do not have an Olympic medal in ping pong. The last one here trampoline trampoline will be making the seventh Olympic appearance during the Paris Games 10 countries have combined to win 36 medals, dulled out since 2000, but the US has not taken home any of them Savannah Vincent and Nicole Ashenger had the best finishes of any American planes placing six in 2012 and 2020 respectively. Once again, what the fuck trampoline? That's another staple in American backyard ping pong tables are trampoline. How we've never meddled in ping pong or trampoline is fucking beyond me and it's like we really need to figure this shit out. I don't know who's in charge, but you can't have that many Americans playing ping pong and jumping on trampolines and us not being able to go ahead and capitalize on that. We have the greatest athletes in the world, the greatest. This is all kind of making sense now because obviously, and men's soccer, we're not very good either. How does every single athlete in basically American history have some point play fucking soccer, right? I mean, I would say 80% of the kids through their childhood are out there kicking a soccer ball, yet we somehow lose all these athletes to other sports. Well, ping pong and trampoline are the same fucking thing. At some point, every kids play ping pong just about. At some point, every kids, now instead of trampoline, but we lose them, we can't fucking lose them. We need organization. We need somebody to figure out how to collectively align these great athletes to do a few different things. Number one, I have to play soccer because that's been a fucking disaster. And then the ping pong thing, let's start taking this shit serious trampoline. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. So. All right. I'm done with that. Audrey's went ahead and this is, this is actually wild. So they pull off the sweep of LA and I read an article the other day saying, oh, the pods are chasing the daughters down. I'm like the, no fucking way. Like this isn't happening. Oh, guess what? It is happening. And with San Diego straight, they might be the better baseball team at this point. And it's a race and is on in the Ashley West, a day after the Padres walked off the Dodgers in dramatic fashion. The reinforcements are riding the peckle park on Wednesday for the first time San Diego manager might show who I have a lot of respect for. By the way, had the entirety of his new look, high octane bullpen and his disposal, best bullpen and baseball, then the Padres made quick work and Clayton Kershaw absolutely lit him up. The full force of the bullpen could wait for another night. This was a laugh or an eight one San Diego victory with the sweep of their two game series against the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Padres narrowed their deficit in the analyst. You just four and a half games, the smallest the gap has been since May 4th. They also clinched the season series over the Dodgers for the first time since 2010, which essentially narrows the gap even further because the Padres would own a potential tiebreaker. The division race, everyone expected in 2023 might end up materializing a year later instead. Quote, our goals haven't changed at any point during the season part of the manner, Mike Schilke said, it's been to win the division. We know it's a tall order and a competitive division. So we're just going to go out here and keep taking care of our business in an encore to his no-hitter, right-hitter, Dillon Seast works five and two thirds in any one-run ball. Such is the nature of Seast's recent dominance that qualified us, perhaps, his worst start in four weeks. Jason Hayward's second inning infield single snap a string of 46 plate appearances by opposing hitters without a hit against Seast, incredible. The idea of another no-hitter is very appealing, definitely crossed my mind, Seast said with a smile, but at the end of the day, difficult to do. Seast ultimately surrendered three hits and three walks along with his first run since July 7th, his command wasn't as sharp as it had been during a remarkable three-start stretch in which he allowed only two hits, but he could be forgiven, having thrown a career-high 114 pitches to know hit the gnats his last time out. Plus, it's not like the Padres needed Seast to be pinpointed on Thursday. They daked him to an early four-run lead and then just kept tacking on. San Diego took advantage of three daughters, errors equating Kershaw's misplay of Bryce Johnson's bot in the second inning. That fueled a four-run frame for the pods. Two innings later, they added three more chasing Kershaw with two outs in the four. So look, look, the Padres are for real and still four and a half days back, so I don't want to get too far ahead of myself, but I could see this coming down to the last week of the season. Another bullpen is the best in baseball. So you're talking about putting together a winning team. If you look at the recent success of some of the best teams and baseball and the teams that make these postseason runs, they're the ones with extremely strong bullpen. So look, the fuck up, all right, Jackson Holiday called back up to the big leagues. It's his first career, home run, an absolute ball onto Utah Street. Really cool moment. So awesome to see the fans and Baltimore go absolutely berserk for holiday. This is a kid that got called up. He's obviously the number one prospect in all the baseball struggled mightily in the first call up, went back to triple A, absolutely killed it, comes back up and then ends up hitting a grand slam, his first big league homer. At just 20 years old, he becomes the youngest Baltimore Orioles to hit a grand slam and just knowing what this kid has gone through and how difficult it must have been having to go back to triple A and then come back up and to have that success, it looked like he took good at bats, start to finish. I think that's what the O's were looking for and this guy could be an absolute difference maker down the stretch. Really fun. It says the moment wasn't too big for Jackson Holiday, a 20 year old has dreamt about delivering critical hits in baseball games since he was a toddler and is disappointing debut. Stint MLB didn't even come close to shattering his confidence from the moment Holiday connected with this particular pitch in Wednesday afternoon. He knew his first big league homerun, a massive grand slam was about to be logged into the record. That's all. That's about it. The best I could hit at baseball. The real second baseman said and son of seven time all-star outfielder Matt Holiday, that's about all I got. That's got me cool for Matt too because you have to imagine that he felt the pain of Jackson in the first go around. It wasn't, I don't think anybody questioned him, it was just a matter of having to make a few adjustments and one of the big things that you guys watched in the way they attacked Jackson Holiday was breaking ball after breaking ball after breaking ball after breaking ball. So you know what he was going to get, you know how he was going to get pitched. Well guess what? He goes back to triple A and what, how do they pitch them there? I'm breaking ball, breaking ball, breaking ball. So now, now it's on, right? Now it's a matter of just getting used to the way they're going to pitch you. Now it's going to become a cat and mouse game back and forth. But for him to be able to come up and do that right away, we'll keep monitoring his progression. But I think he has the potential to really help the O so if I'm not mistaken, have the best record in all of, ah, actually I do not know. We'll check out these standings right now. But not before we talk about the five year old fan with big dreams, return holidays home run ball. So it says after the 20 year old Jackson Holiday became the youngest player in O's flash brown franchise history hit a grand slam while doing it. In his first MLB game, April 23rd, the boot, his day wasn't done his first MLB game since April 23rd. Geez, it was that long they sent him down, huh? The next, next mission go track the ball down. I believe that some kid got a holiday set after the game in reference to his first career home run ball. So hopefully I'll be able to get that back from him and maybe give him something in return. Fortunately, that wasn't so difficult after the game holiday was able to track down the ball's recipient, a five year old Maryland native named Wyatt Sartel and his father, Tim White gladly gave holiday his home run ball and in return, holiday provided a youngster with a bat. Quote, I appreciate you guys being easy about a holiday told to father son duo. If he ever gets the opportunity, I'd hope he gets his ball back just as a dad, Tim said before turning to Wyatt one day. If you get that chance, that'd be cool. Wyatt had only one question of his own for holiday after thanking the rookie for meeting him. How did the Gatorade deal cold holiday said without skipping a beat and here's holiday getting his Gatorade bath after the O's? They're really easy to root for Brandon Hyde's Bay Area guys, manager of the O's obviously. This is one of those teams that you know, they're in this dog fight with the New York Yankees. The Yankees all of a sudden turn all the one five in a row. Everyone panicking about the Yankees. Talking about this last week. It's like stupid. It's a 162 game season for a reason and the Yankees went through a little bit of a culture. I mean, just the A's have the best record in July should tell you guys enough. That's why the law of averages works out. That's why they play 162. That's why they should ensure this season. It takes a while to figure out who the best fucking team is. And when you go through the ultra marathon season, eventually you come out with the team on top. Yeah, the Orioles are at 65 and 44. That's the second best record in the American League to the 65 and 62 Cleveland Guardians. And then you got the Phillies in the national league at 65 and 43. Mentored the Dodgers earlier, they're 63 and 46. So taking a look the entire playoff picture, it would be Cleveland, Baltimore, and Houston as the division leaders right now with the Yankees, twins in Kansas City being the wild card teams in the American League. Boston would be two back of that last spot in the national league. It's a Phillies, Dodgers and Brewers, your division leaders and then Atlanta, San Diego. And don't look now, but the Arizona fucking Diamondbacks, seven and three in the last 10 went three in a row. They are back in the wild card spot in that last spot. The New York Mets just a half game behind St. Louis, a game and a half behind. How about Pittsburgh, gain around two and a half behind and then San Francisco is four and a half back. So they got a leapfrog a lot of teams. We'll see if that is able to happen. All right, ball of shows that was one everyone have a fantastic day. I'm off to play some. And bigoted peninsula Mets this weekend to be fun to watch as a first travel team I ever played for. And now things kind of come full circle where kids are going to go guest play for the weekend and cousin John, John goal that is president USA baseball will be out there coaching. So it should be fun to watch. All right. Have a fantastic day and yep, try to get back at you tomorrow, another DH. See you. a lot of you. [Music]