Deuces Wild with Eric Byrnes & Will Clark
Chapman, Merrill, Merrifield & more on the DAILY HUSTLE with Eric Byrnes
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Yesterday's daily hustle that went out and I actually shared on the show yesterday that had no audio. I mean, what a shame. It really does suck. When you go and you do a whole show and yesterday's was only like, I don't know, maybe 10, 15 minutes. But still, I've gotten caught up with some audio issues the past couple of days. So no big deal onward and upward. I could sit here and complain all I want about it, but it will not do anybody any good. As a matter of fact, I read a fantastic quote this morning and I like screenshotted it. It was from Plato and basically what he said, it's not basically what he said. What he said, I know 'cause I favorited it. So let me hit my favorites. There are two things a person should never be angry at. What they can help and what they cannot. Simple as that. So if you can help it, meaning you can make adjustments and you can figure out a way to fucking fix it, why are we getting upset? And then on the flip side of that, if we can help it, if there's nothing we can do, why are we gonna get upset back the other way? So certainly this is something that I do, I can do something, I run this off the iPad. And then flux between, it's not flux in like transition between computers and getting the full bow and kick ass podcast set up up here in the office. And I've had it a couple times, it's just my computer connector flamed out and I'm trying to figure out if it's a computer or the connector, whatever in the meantime, I've been traveling all summer. So to be able to do the shows off the iPad, I get it and I understand if you're listening on Apple, you're listening on Spotify, the audio quality is not the pristine ideal. Oh, this is amazing, I understand that. We will get there, but I will also say, because I'll go back and listen, I'll listen to other shows with similar audio, typically after the first minute or two, you don't think about it that much so long as it's not crackling and doing some other shit. Another thing I want to share with you guys this morning, I tweeted this out, so good. I was rolling through Derek Jeter's Instagram account last night. And it was just like a post that he had a standard post. It's like something about like, oh, hey, what a wonderful summer it was. And so there's pictures of him and a lot of them with, you know, at the Yankees, old-timer game here, there, wherever. Well, then I come across this gym and there's just something that's just so fucking right with this picture. I don't know if it makes me feel good because this is my childhood hero and then somebody I looked up to the entire time I played major league baseball, maybe there's something that is just so classy about the two individuals. One on the West coast in San Francisco, obviously in Joe Montana and then the other one on the East coast in Derek Jeter. One, you know, the football legend, the other, the baseball legend, but I just can't get enough of that pick. Yesterday, let's see here, was the fourth. And the Daily Hustle electronic email communication that went out was kind of practice is a privilege. Buenos dias, today is wooden Wednesday, September 4th. So that was yesterday. On this day 2006, we lost one of the most daring the animal-loving savages who was ever graced this year is when the crocodile hunter, Steve Irwin was pierced in the chest by a stingray. Tonight, as I did last night, let's raise one up and pour some out for an international icon that provided next level entertainment by educating the world and bringing us closer to the most ferocious and deadliest animals around the world. So I was in Medford, Oregon, I just signed with the Oakland A's. And my rule, oh shit, a fucking coyote! Wow! Yeah! Yeah! Look out for the coyote! Whoo, this thing looked like a fucking wolf. All there's more, but wait, there's more! Where else will this happen? But on no filter network, that was a trip. Hey, how? So, Jason Dovis from University of Minnesota is my roommate. And we literally have like, I don't know, five channels. There's like, click, click, click, click, right? Old school Motel 6, I mean, this place was fucking terrible. So, we found the Crocodile Hunter. And every night he would come on at like 11 o'clock. And this was before anybody knew who it was, 1998. And I literally, we both would stay up all night watching this fucking guy. And Dovis is like, "Yo, Burnsy, this guy's crazy, he's crazy." And that was just amazing. So, when he passed in 2006, it hit home. Goodnessy, his family has continued his latency, chasing wild animals around the world. And educating all of us on them, that's the beauty of it. The deal he also quoted today. Practice is a privilege. Daily hustle translation, on occasion when John Wooden felt his teams were not getting their full effort, the basketball court, he would escort his players out of the gym, shut up the lights, locked the doors and go, "Oh, I love this." Coach Wooden felt that practicing at UCLA was a privilege when his players were not displaying the right attitude or effort, they did not deserve the opportunity to practice on such hell and grounds. This certainly did not happen often, but when it did, it would immediately freak the players out and not shockingly get them begging coach Wooden to open back up the gym and restart practice. In short, this was coach Wooden's brilliant way to remind his players of how lucky they are not only to be physically able to practice and play the sport of basketball, but also of how much of an honored privilege it was to be able to do it collectively as a team with the guidance of a coaching staff dedicated to making each and every one of them better basketball players. Way too often, teams and individuals will take practice for granted and lethargically go through the motions. The issue with this is that our brains are a complex computer system that sends messages to our bodies allowing us to perform complex actions. When we have fast shit and practice, we are teaching our bodies to have fast shit in games. Bottom line, yes, practice can't seem tedious at times, but it's our duty as both coaches and athletes to keep gratitude at the forefront of everything and remind ourselves that practice is a fucking privilege. E.B., and there's the pick I had there with John Wooden at the diner. So that's somewhere in the valley, just what an awesome opportunity to be able to do that a couple years before. If you're a facilities manager at a warehouse and your HVAC system goes down, it can turn up the heat, literally, but don't sweat it, Granger has you covered. Granger offers over a million industrial grade products for all your operations, including warehouse HVAC maintenance. And even better, they offer access to experts and fast delivery, so you and your warehouse can both keep your cool. Call 1-800-Granger, click Granger.com or just stop by. Granger, for the ones who get it done. The pass. All right, let's hit some pertinent topics that I want to talk about. I think right off the bat, let's just do this. Matt Chapman of the San Francisco Giants assigned a six-year deal worth $151 million. This is an incredible sign for the San Francisco Giants. He had an opt-out at the end of this season. He thought he was going to get this deal last off season. Obviously, it did not happen. He signed with the Giants late. Who gives a shit? I think this is the perfect example of somebody that went out there and proved that he was worth every bit of that money that Giants saw it, recognized it. Look, Matt Chapman is good. Matt Chapman's really good. But he's hitting 247-333 on base, 445 slugging. This is who he is. He didn't go out there and try to over-perform. He went out there and just did him. You do that, you play Gold Club defense. And that's what the Giants thought they were getting. A leader in the clubhouse. Somebody that is incredibly representative of the San Francisco Giants organization come from the same cloth as the busted posy. He's humble. He wears his ass off. Biola counts. Just a fucking stand-up human being. Great sign by the Giants. It's going to keep him in San Francisco for the next six years, which it's nice to have that continuity, especially when you have other guys surrounding him. If you think about this, you get a Elliott Ramos. You have Tyler Fitzgerald. There is a core nucleus of this team now that's not going anywhere. And so when you have Matt Chapman there to help bring these guys up, yeah, it's on. So the other guy, this was very interesting too. Let me go back to it for a second. The other guy that's chilling it right now in the San Francisco Giants organization, their number one prospect, Bryce Eldridge. He was the club's 2023 first-year-old traffic. He earned a promotion of double A Richmond on Tuesday. It says cap in a hugely successful season for the 19-year-old first baseman. He didn't stop breaking. So he went from, let's see, single A San Jose up to Eugene. He hit 335 with over 1,000 OPS and 12 homers and 48 games, which is what led him to get the promotion up to Richmond. This guy's legit, man. I mean, he's big too. So we'll see how quickly he continues to progress. But when you're putting up those numbers in the minor leagues, it's no accident. The problem is when you have those guys that are kind of the fringing numbers where they're hitting 250, 260 in the minor leagues, and some homers, but not great homers. You look to walk to strike that ratio. You usually can tell a lot. But Bryce Eldridge is coming. So this ties in with the whole Chapman thing. Ramosing for Cheryl Day on and on and on with all their young players. Like, you want that dude to be there as these guys get to San Francisco. And I'm not just talking about a pitcher because totally different. Pictures and position players are playing two different sports. And if you're a leader on the pitching staff, great. But you need a leader from the position player side of things. And Matt Chapman is your fucking dude to go ahead and not only continue to produce and play the great defense that he does, which sets his tone for everybody else. But what he does offensively on just a nice steady pace. Nothing too crazy. And then if you get some bats in there, let's not forget the Giants lost a lead at the beginning of the year, right? That was the biggest contract far in and had handed out before that chapter. That was $115 million. Well, champion now is going to get 150 coming his way. Um, let's see here, don't have a ton of time. But let's get into the Whit Maryfield debacle yesterday. So Whit Maryfield got hit in the head by Colorado Rocky's pitcher, Jeff Chriswell. Maryfield then just went off. He said it's ridiculous where the game is at right now. It's just ridiculous. The pitchers are throwing now. There's no remorse or regard for throwing up an end. Guys are throwing as hard as they can and they don't care where the ball goes. He says it's bullshit. You can hit it. You can't hit a guy back anymore. So there's no fear of that. And oh, if I hit this guy, then our guy is going to hit. That's not in the game anymore. pitchers don't have to hit anymore. So they don't have to stand in the box. Maryfield is a player representative on M.O.B's competitive committee and said he planned to have a long discussion with other committee members during a meeting on Wednesday. So that meeting apparently would have taken place yesterday. But look, he's fucking right, they're bringing guys up who throw 100 and something miles per hour and they have no fucking idea how to pitch. They rear back, they throw as hard as they can, they all blow out, I don't, it's dangerous. It's fucking dangerous and it's not that guys don't throw in or whatever else. Guys don't pitch, they're not nearly as good pitchers as they're more back in the day. And so with that, here's the problem, is that they have no fucking control. So look, Atlanta's lost like three dudes. Now with Maryfield, he got this CAT scan that he had to go through and everything else. He's right, I just don't know what you do about it. What can you do? I mean, you can tell teams not to bring guys up throwing 100. I'd like to see him get more control, but at some point, you gotta run him out there. Now I guess there are certain things where you could say, hey look, if you hit a fucking batter and you hit him in the head, you're out, out of the game immediately, that's not a bad idea. If you go ahead, whether intentional or not, if you go ahead and look at the NFL, a lot of times you'll have these helmet contacts that are unintentional. They didn't mean for it to happen, but if they happen, at least I know in college they throw them out of a fucking game. Why wouldn't we have that same mentality and concept in Major League Baseball? You have an object that literally can fucking kill somebody going right at somebody's head and I get it, maybe it wasn't intentional. But if you can't throw a fucking strike and you can't control it from hitting a guy in the head, you should be on the fucking mouth, get off the goddamn field. Simple as that. So MLB, if they want to do something about it, you really want to protect your fucking players. Number one, teaching pitchers how to throw strikes and that's as throw as hard as they fucking can every time they take them out. And number two, throw them out of the fucking game, get them out of there. You can't throw a strike, you're getting through from the head, get the fuck out. I think it's going to hit multiple batters. I don't know, let's just say three batters in a game, automatic ejection. You hit a guy in the head, automatic ejection. That's it. I get it. Everyone's going to have their all their stuff, baseball, that bad bad bad bad. Fuck off. If you're trying to protect the players, that's going to protect the players. And if you're trying to get these guys to throw fucking strikes, that's how you get them to throw strikes. Simple as that. All right. I got a roll. So much left on the table here, including the white sucks, but I got chit. I can't keep talking about the white sucks. The last one. All right, so this is fascinating because right now, if you look at the naturally rookie of the year race, you instantly think of two guys, Paul Skins, who's been killing it in Pittsburgh, started the all-star game. How could he not be at the top of everybody's list, right? Well, there's a guy named Jackson Merrill, who was at his tricks again last night, killing it for the San Diego Padres. The Padres are not in the position they are right now, which is in playoff position without Jackson Merrill. So the two of those guys, you're thinking one, two in the naturally rookie of the year. Well, hold on a second, because there's another Jackson, Jackson Trio from the Milwaukee Brewers that's been absolutely fucking slaughtering it for the brew crew, who also, by the way, they have the largest division lead in all of baseball and are certainly a playoff team. So check this out. Since June 1, Jackson Merrill, 298 batting average, 18 homers, 902 OPS, Jackson Trio, 320 batting average, 14 homers, 929 OPS. So there they are. I think this is one of the greatest races that we've seen in a long time, whether it's an MVP, rookie of the year, whatever. And I don't think it's going to get too much national attention, because people outside of the baseball world really don't give a fuck. But for those of us in it, I think it's absolutely fascinating. All right, could come back on later today. Oh my goodness. There's not so much shit to talk about and I had to show cancel yesterday. So we might run either a second, DH probably induces later in the evening tonight. But after that, pick a ball, golf, full day plan ahead. Bet online. Yeah. We forgot that off the talk, our number one online gambling destination, bet online. You get all the latest news, scores, odds, predictions, bet baseball, bet college football, bet the NFL, which is coming. All of it, bet online is there for you putting the promo code B, capital B, L, E, A, V to get 50% off your first deposit. Bet online. The game starts here. All right. And we're on a fantastic day. Bingo. All right, Phil, we're recording now. So it's live. Go ahead. Pick on me the way that you want to. Did I say that? I would say that to my son and I mean, come on, man, just go. This isn't CBS. Be quiet for a few seconds. Why would people want to listen to the Sims complete podcast? Well, a couple of things, one, if you like to see sons pick on their father, this might be the place. If you want to see a place where the father just kicks the **** out of his son, this will be the place. How? What do you like about it, Matt? Ditto father, son dynamic duo talking about the game of football that we love and share and appreciate together. And, you know, hey, it's an extension of what we did right growing up. I was able to watch my father play football, then obviously watch him as a broadcaster. And then he taught me the game of football and share the wisdom that he learned throughout his playing career. And, you know, hey, sometimes we're full of it and sometimes we actually know a thing or two. Well, we do do a lot of research. At least I do. You, you little spotty, but you know, you're, you hang in there. It's fun. I love doing this. And it's been awesome. Sims complete. Check us out wherever your podcasts are available on the Believe Network. Appreciate it.