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why did the melon jump into the lake? It wanted to become a
water melon. I am not going to rebuttal on this joke. We're just
going to skate on past that. And it's summertime and people like to enjoy
watermelon during the summertime. And uh yeah, so good on that melon for
wanting to be a water melon. Melons are fun. I wonder if it'll
ever become part of the watermelon crawl. Maybe. You know what's bad is
that there was a couple Mothers Days ago, I want to say it was
three maybe four years ago. We went to a Mother's Day brunch and it
was me, my wife, my son, my two my in laws,
and my father in law's mom, right, and we're just having conversation and
somehow that song gets brought up. And this is how it's bad, because
like, I do know country. I'm not a fan of country, but
I do like nineties country, and because I like it now, because as
a kid. It was forced upon my ears. Right. It was like
being a kid in the Catholic church. You don't really like anal sex until
you get older, right. But what I do remember is we're having a
conversation. She was like, oh yeah, yeah, the Watermelon Crawl.
My mother in law was Watermelon Crawl Alan Jackson. I looked right at her.
I'm like, Alan Jackson didn't sing that song, and she goes,
yes, he did. I'm like, no, it was Tracy Bird.
And she looked right at me and she goes, no, he didn't.
And I just pull up my phone. I'm like, this bitch about to
be proven wrong right now, grabbed it and I flipped the phone and she
was like, huh, I thought it was Alan Jackson for the last thirty
years. I'm like, it's Tracy Bird. I'm like, that's part of
the problem with country and sometimes they all just sound the same. Oh shit.
I mean, Alan Jackson's got a pretty it's a distinct twang, but
but Tracy Bird falls a little bit to that twangy line a little bit.
But but yeah, it was it was comical that I got to school somebody
who is pure listening to the country doesn't listen to anything else. Yeah,
and and that was that was a fun time. So yeah, yeah,
speaking of country, I hope you guys had a great Fourth of July.
Yeah, happy Independence Day for all those of you that celebrate. And if
you don't, you can just gooot the fuck on out of here. We'll
give you a couple of seconds here. All right. Good, I'm glad
you're gone. To the rest of the people that like the bald eat them
Bald Eagle Freedom Party, to eat them, bald eat them, bald eat
them. I always have trouble with them, Bald Eagle Freedom Party. As
as the Bleach bros like to say, it's American America only. Everything else
is just simulated. They're not really countries. No, no, no,
so. But yeah, hopefully everybody had a good fourth And what do you
got for You got anything for Dad week? No? Same thing that happened
about an hour ago. I got him. Oh that one hurts. Oh
for those that didn't. For those of you who didn't listen to the last
episode. If you're new, welcome in. Check out last week's episode.
This stands on. I'm known. No, everything's good, Everything's good.
You guys will hear about the trip next next episode, stay tuned, Cliffs
absolutely, Oh man, I can't wait to tell you that story. No,
you know, I was actually thinking since we recorded last episode that,
uh, there is something that's happening in Grayson's life. Grayson is he's getting
into video games like hard, but his level of knowledge in the game is
getting stronger. Okay, So, like like earlier today, he's like,
Dad, can I can I play some Can I play some video games?
Yeah? Sure, go ahead. So I'm laying in bed and just kind
of relaxing and sitting back, and I hear him from across the house.
That's a critical hit. I was like, what the fuck? And then
like a couple of seconds later, you take all that DPUs and I'm like,
my fucking kid, wait, this is he's getting into it right?
He was playing Pokemon. Hey whatever, Yeah, he was playing Pokemon.
He was into it. He was he was digging it and starts somewhere yeah.
And then uh, and then we were earlier, we were cooking some
we were doing some hard boiled eggs, cutting up some candlo and getting some
stuff ready for the trip, you know, and and uh, a song
came on the radio and he stops and he just kind of looks around like
with this like I know this song kind of look you know, he's like
that's from Rocket League. Scored five goals to that song. I was like
against who exhibition on rookie he goes myself practice mode. Yeah what but what
game? Do you remember? What game? Got you hooked on video games?
Yes? I do, like nostalgic feeling got you hooked? Yes,
Okay, what was it? So? So when I the games? The
games there were multiple games that got me hooked were from the n E S.
I can't remember the exact baseball game, but there was a baseball game
on the NES where you you had to pick the individual team. It didn't
have the exact team name. It was just n y Y for New York
Yankees and for Boston it was BOS, but it didn't actually say the team's
names because they didn't have the rights to the team's names. And then Super
Mario Brothers, like so the original the original Super Mario Brothers n YEP,
Nintendo, and then from there I ended up having kind of a gap where
I didn't have anything. I didn't have the Super Nintendo when it first came
out, but then but once it was out for a little while, I
ended up playing Street Fighter fucking all day and all night. Street Fighter all
day and all night. That's good. Yeah, like what about you?
So definitely sports wise, I would go with NHL ninety four. Yeah,
it had the blue rink. Oh yeah, that was my jam dude,
the sound effects in that game. And I also had I believe it was
on the Sega Genesis and it was Joe Montana Football nineteen ninety four and it
was so shitty in comparison now, yeah, but that was that was Those
were like the sports games that got me hooked into sports. But then you
also had I would say Super Mario on the Super Nintendo. I did play
Mario on the Nintendo and I did like it, but I'd say the one
that really stands out like would have been Mario World on n sixty four.
But I did play a lot on Super Nintendo, so that that would be
on there. I never got There was a there was a period of time
where I did get into like the fighting stuff like Mortal Kombat. The sixty
four had a Mortal Kombat that was like the first time where it was like
prety different characters and you could go through levels and stuff like that. But
I never liked tech in and like I did play Street Fighter, I never
just got it wasn't my jam, you know I was. I loved sports
games for the longest time. Base Baseball would be one of my favorite.
I had two all time favorites. One of them was on PlayStation two I
think, no, maybe it was the original the OG PlayStation and it was
MLB ninety nine PlayStation two, was it PlayStation two, and that had that
It had that space level, Yeah, and you'd go like you'd just pick
Ken Griffy and do a home run derbyond that thing and you'd be hitting thousand
yeah, you know, thousand foot bombs on that thing. Yes, uh
yeah, that MLB ninety nine. And the other one that I really really
enjoyed was on the original Xbox and it was a college baseball game. Really
it was really fucking fun. So there was the college basketball game that I
fucking loved and I would just absolutely dominate. I would pick I would pick
Georgia Tech. I would pick Georgia Tech, or I would pick Yukon and
I would just fucking dominate. I would change the bars. Remember when you
can change the slider bars. Yeah, I would change the slider bars and
I would literally just be throwing up the full court fucking shots, dude,
like literally just get the ball, gone, gone gone, and I would
just yeah, and I would just be I would be making threes. I
would end the game with like some like twenty some odd threes, like eighty
steals, like it'd be was fucking ridiculous. Yeah, that's ridiculous. Then.
But the game, you know, you know what sports game I actually
liked the most was Tiger Woods Golf. Oh, my favorite one was Tiger
Woods. I believe it was four. Yeah, And what was cool about
that on the Xbox was you could you could burn a CD into the Xbox,
and on games, you could change the soundtracks to CDs that were on
your Xbox. And so I still remember I would play the ship out of
that game and I and the soundtrack that I had was one of the ragingst
Machine albums, okay, and I would would loop and I would just play
that game like crazy. That was a really really fun game, dude,
before it got too technical. Yeah, I mean you you could actually play
with the game. You can. I mean, granted, there were times
when I would get like fucking thirty forty under. But I mean, you
know that's because I knew how to play the game, you know, And
then and then it started getting extremely technical. It's where you had to like
maneuver the controller while the ball was moving. That was too much. I'm
like that I took the fun out of it for me, because I thought
about that the other night. I should buy a golf game and I'm like,
I don't feel like playing like that technicality and like I want the fun
yep, I want the fun back. Yeah, but yeah, so m
M, what about as a so coming up? Actually, I believe right
after this episode drop, we just had the All Star Game happen, So
we don't know the outcome of that, right, we know, we know
it's the we know it's the All Star Game. What do you what are
your memories as a child with baseball? Well, I mean, so the
first game I ever went to was the Mets versus the Reds, and in
the third or fourth inning it was a fucking benches clearing brawl that ended the
game because somebody got hit in the head with a pitch and like it was
it. So memories, So baseball, Baseball is special for me. Because
I had I had multiple people in my family who were into baseball more than
other sports. Like my grandfather was a diehard Yankees fan, loved the Yankees.
I grew up watching guys like, you know, kind of Don Mattingly
towards the end, but Jeter, you know, even even a Rod you
know, I'll even give some shots out the guys like Manny Ramirez and David
Ortiz, right, you know, as a as a whole, Ivan Rodriguez,
Mike Piazza. You know, they're like there was a different time for
baseball where this is gonna sound kind of misogynistic, kind of sexist, but
men were men. Like when I was growing up watching basketball, guys guys,
guys played hard, Like there were there were guys that played hard in
basketball, and they were they were tough, they were defensive minded. But
you had this shift into the flare of a sport. Football was kind of
going the same route. Football was kind of changing into this flared sport,
whereas baseball, baseball was just fucking It just wasn't that. It wasn't about
the flair. It wasn't about until well, I mean until Mark McGuire and
Sammy Sosa and Barry Bond started doing steroids and shit like that. But even
then, I don't know, it was just different. So like with baseball,
I got to watch baseball a lot with my grandfather, with my dad,
with my cousins, with a couple uncles. Like so baseball was kind
of a constant thing, whereas football football was like a here and there thing.
Basketball was whenever I got to watch it, right, But baseball was
always on at someone's house consistently. That's true. Like there was always a
game on at someone's house, even if it wasn't a team that we liked,
even if it wasn't the Yankees of the Mets, it was always something.
There was always a game on. So to me, the second I
think about baseball, I think about, you know, nostalgia. I think
about good feelings, good times. I think about hearing my grandfather their cuss
at the you know, the TV for the first time. That was like
the first and only time I heard my grandfather cuss, you know. So
baseball to me is the epitome of summer spring and I don't know, just
good feelings. Yeah, no, that makes sense. I I try to
think back on it, like I do definitely remember the Braves and and their
big run that they had, like that ninety five ninety six Braves team,
Greg Maddox, I do the pitching, the pitching, the pitching lineup that
the Braves had. As much as I fucking hate the Braves, this is
part of why I hate the Braves. But the pitching lineup that the Braves
had at one point in time, why and that it was insane, fucking
insane. Yeah, I so, And there was people from that team.
Ironically enough, I remember Chip Jones. There was a post when you and
I started like barely like becoming like friends. Yes, and there some posts
and it was like like, if you like, you comment on here and
I'll pick a player for you. Yep. And I commented and the player
you picked for me was Chipper Jones. And ironically enough, he was my
favorite fucking player as a kid. And you would you had never known that
we had not had that conversation, but Chip, I loved Chipper Jones.
And but I think the first World Series that I like distinctly remember was I
believe it was in ninety seven when the Florida Marlins won it, okay for
the first time, I think, or was it earlier than that that,
Yeah, it was, it was somewhere in there. And I just remember
that because it was so different, like the team they they weren't supposed to
be the team to win it, and I distinctly remember that. And then
and then it transitioned into the home run race with Maguire and Sosa and and
I was really avid into baseball then, but growing up in Vegas, we
didn't have baseball. We had my League baseball, and I went to those
games a lot. And in high school I went to a lot of UNLV
baseball games, which were a fucking blast to go to college games because the
stadium was small, like the amount of seats that were there, and there
was always these like hecklers that were always there, and it was just it
was fun, like it was always a good time. It was probably super
fucking cheap for my dad and I how to go to but dude games.
It was probably like five bucks to go to a game like that. It's
another thing too, like you're right behind the fucking plate with baseball games.
There's a smell to them too, Like when you go to a baseball game,
there's a certain smell, a very distinct smell to the field, to
the game. You don't get that with hockey. Well you kind of get
that with hockey. You get the chill, you get the cool, crisp
air feel feel of hockey, right, but the smell, but the smell
is different, right, there's no there's no smell with football. You don't
get a smell like that with football. Do you get a smell with basketball?
Not really, No, I've never been a professional basketball. You get
a lot of squeaks. Yeah, yeah, that's true, you do.
That's true. We see the first basketball game I ever went to. We
sat behind Joe Garret Gioli, you know them. But yeah, okay,
yeah. It is fun though when you go when you first go to a
sports game live and you don't realize how quiet it is because you're used to
watching it on TV where it's constant talks, and then when you go there,
like, yeah, you have the crowd noise and stuff, but it's
this weird, serene quiet until something big happens and you're just like you're sitting
there kind of watching, like if it's hockey or baseball or football, and
it's just kind of quiet and until something happens and it's just it's kind of
comical. But yeah. And the other thing too, from like nostalgia from
being a kid, was like I always wanted to have after watching The Sandlot.
And I mean, like if you if you were to tell me,
like name top five movies of all time, like right now on the fly,
the Sandlot would probably be in my top five. Yeah, crazy,
I still want to do the whole Fourth of July thing where we rent the
we rent the softball field or you know, and go and hang out and
have a barbecue while the fireworks are going off and we're sitting there playing.
Yeah, I'd still want to do it. Yeah. The only reason why
I haven't done it is because I can't get the fucking city to let me
have the fucking the park after night, right, because there's no one to
knock up the gates. Right, I've been fucking playing softball on these fields
for twenty years. You can't trust me to lock up the goddamn game by
now. Jesus Christ. But yeah, it's like I remember watching it and
growing up in a big city like Vegas and then, but it would have
been fun to be in like a smaller town and have that feel of like
a group of fucking degenerate guys that are this baseball team. You know,
it's it was just good times and and baseball is one of those weird things
that as I'm older, baseball is probably my least watch sport, But when
I was younger, it was probably one of my most watched sports. Like,
there was something about baseball that I always loved watching as a kid.
But now as an adult, it can just get get pretty boring when you're
not live. Well that's starting to change now, it is. There's a
bunch of fucking controversy with every damn game that you freaking have. That's true.
What ends up happening is is with these pitch clocks and the runs now
are and fucking get outrageous. Dude. You're used to, you know,
baseball where it's like, you know, you know, three to one,
five to four. Now you're like fifteen to two. Somebody twenty four runs
the other day. Yeah, Yeah, that's fucking absurd. Yeah, I
saw one the other day. It was like one of the betting apps popped
up on my phone, Like the Dodgers in Colorado. Ninety percent of betters
today are betting on this game and out of the ninety percent of betters,
like seventy five percent of them are taking Dodgers' money line, and they were
minus two ten And I was like, oh cool, whatever, I just
so happened. The next day, I'm like, oh, what happened in
that game? They won? They won fifteen to two against the Rockies.
Yep, And You're just like, that's the fucking blowout. But what's weird
about that is like the next game it could be eleven to eleven to one
Rockies. Yeah. Like, it's just fucking baseball's wild with the rightest right
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and come done. Oh absolutely, that's it. There's no other options,
no other options. I started using spray this year on my on my hands
and my gloves. Yeah yeah for softball. Yeah, game changer. It
sucks worse now so all Star game, right. I feel like in the
last couple of years. I used to love the fucking All Star Game,
the Home Run Derby and All Star Game. I think one of the problems
I have with it now is, if I'm right, the Home Run Derby
takes place on Monday, and it's usually starts at like fucking four pm Pacific
time. If not earlier, it's either three or four, right, And
then so it's like you're lucky to get home in my case, right,
if I'm done at five and I'm living I work forty minutes from home,
I'm lucky to see the last round. And it sucks because I felt like
the Home Run Derby was something to watch, like it's even still like watching
highlights now it just sucks that you miss it, right, Yeah, some
of the rules I don't really like is my much nowadays is the old school
home run Derbys. But then the same thing. Then the next night's the
All Star Game on a fucking Tuesday, and it's like, why can't we
make why can't we make the Home Run Derby on a Friday? It should
be a weekend and yeah, and if it's if it's if it's being hosted
in the East Eastern time zone, let it start at nine because it's a
home run derby, it's only the last hour, hour and a half.
Who gives a shit about the celebrity softball game after it's played that earlier in
the day doesn't anymore. So the home run Derby lasts like two and a
half hours because, yeah, they drag it out because they end up doing
they end up doing a tournament style now correct instead. But that's what I'm
saying. Let's do it on a Friday night, or or let's do it
Saturday, because then the entire nation would you'd have I feel like you'd have
better ratings watching this thing if you so, if you had, if you
had an All Star weekend, like true all Star weekend where Friday you did
the celebrity game. Right Saturday you come out and you do the all do
the home run derby, and then maybe do like this, like do something
like the foot like NFL does, where you do like skills drills yeah,
like like longest throw yeah, or like a like a catcher throw to second,
like mix in some skill competitions exactly right, quickest stolen base type thing
you know, hit hit where the batters have to hit signs or different targets,
right, like a contact batterower. Do you do all of that mixed
in with the home run derby on Saturday to cap it off as a whole
day, and then then you can even take Sunday as the break and have
the All Star Game on Monday. Yeah, you know what I mean,
and then give them their couple days off. Yeah, and then yeah,
so you could do like the last game of the regular of the first half
on Tuesday or Wednesday, then you do All Star weekend and then you resume
back the following Wednesday. Yeah, because I just think it'd be better.
It'd be nice to do it on a weekend where you're actually able to fucking
watch this thing, Like why is it on a fucking Yeah, well,
it still manages to get decent ratings. Another part of another part of the
problem that I have with the All Star Game now is that nobody wants to
fucking get hurt. So a lot of the people that play the All Star
Game, even though the All Star Game means something in baseball, whereas you
know, and that's the reason why they made it mean something. They made
it mean home field advantage, right, But there are still players that like
just they just don't want to get hurt, so like I'm gonna play one
fucking inning, I'm gonna play half a fucking inning. Whereas when I grew
up, Jeter was like, if you fucking pull me from this All Star
Game, I'm gonna beat your ass. Like we're not. We're out to
win, like we want to win this. The guys that were in the
All Star Game wanted to win this because every guy in the All Star Game
thought they had a shot at the World Series. The game meant something to
them. It doesn't feel like it means as much to these players now.
It feels like it's more of just a media grab and an attention grab and
some extra cash. But I could be wrong. That's just the way I
feel. I agree with that. One of the things that I do like
about the integrity of baseball when you think of All Star games, so like
hockey, the way it used to be in hockey was East versus West,
and it was a traditional game, five on five, three periods, right,
and then now they've breaking it down where it's it's you have Metropolitan versus
Atlantic three verse three two ten minute periods. You have Pacific vers Central three,
verse three two ten minute periods. Winner of those two games plays each
other. Somebody's getting their ass whooped home three on three, right and ten
minutes. But you get a lot of high scoling because there's not you're not
supposed to contact, you know, it's more of a flair thing. Basketball,
same thing, right, the one thing about baseball, Baseball doesn't change,
no, because it's still a baseball game. Right, So yeah,
your starting pitcher isn't gonna pitch for five, six, seven innings. Your
your first ace is only gonna pitch one or two. Yeah, they're gonna
bring the next guy in. Then they're gonna bring their middle relievers. So
it's a little different there. But one thing I like about the integrity of
the game is that the scores are not outlandish in the All Star Game like
for other sports, the scores are outlandish, but the current like last year
are I'm sorry, back in twenty eighteen, eight to six high scoring.
That's the highest, that's one of the highest one the year before that.
Two to one, yeah, right, four to two, six to three,
five to three, three nothing, eight nothing, five to one three
one four three four three five four three two, seven to five, Like
they're always close games. Yes, yeah, there's only been. Like you
said, it does, it means something because the winning division or the winning
conference gets home field advantage for the World Series. Yep, So despite records,
it falls on. You can have a team that's a wild card team
playing the number one team and the number one team doesn't get home field unless
that conference won. Correct the All Star Game? Which is it keeps it
meaningful? It does, and it should it should. Yeah, I've always
said that about football. I've always said that about basketball and even hockey.
I think I think the All Star Game should mean something. I like that
Baseball does that. Does it suck for a team that has an amazing record
and they're all in the and their conference lost the All Star Game? Sure,
but maybe you should have just fucking played a little harder in the All
Star Game or or it just you get to show us how good of a
fucking team you are when you when when you don't get home field advantage,
you can still win the World Series. Yeah, that's a big deal.
Yeah, I think the one that's the biggest fucking joke for an All Star
Game though, by far, hands downs football. Oh yeah, it's gotten
to be just disgusting yeah, I haven't watched it. I haven't watched an
All star game in probably six Pro Bowl, maybe seven years for Pro Bowl.
It's just it's gross. Yeah, dude. The offensive lineman just kind
of like fucking laugh at each other. Nobody makes contact at all else.
And I remember, like when we were younger, the Pro Bowl was it
was time to shine, always time to shine. It was. It was
as nasty as a regular season game. I remember Edred Troy, Paulamaloose taking
some motherfuckers out. Yep. Yeah, I remember Curtis Martin running over for
yep, yeah, yeah, yep. What's uh? What's something that is?
What's one of your most memorable baseball moments, like me playing or just
like it happening? No, no, no professional baseball by far. It's
Randy Johnson blowing up that bird. Dude. You know what happened again this
year? Really Diamondbacks picture, Wow, blew up a bird. That's crazy.
The last time it happened the Diamondbacks on the World Series. Wow.
Yeah, I remember I was actually watching that game live on TV when that
shit happened, and it was it was crazy. It was absolutely crazy.
And then and that that team, that team with with him and Kurt Shillings
and Greg Counsel and Gonzales and those guys, that that team was so underrated
at the beginning, Like everybody talked about Randy Johnson and Kurt shilling and how
they were, you know, great pitchers and everything, blah blah blah,
but the team as a whole team that was kind of womack. It was
kind of underrated. And then all of a sudden, it was just all
the pieces fucking came together for that team, and then they hit it on
all strides. And then they went in against the Yankees and there and everybody's
like, the Yankees are just too strong, there's too much power, there's
too much there's too much knowledge, and it's it's not gonna work. And
they fucking turned around and showed everybody they're like whatever, we don't care,
Like they ignored all of it. Yep, yeah, yep. And ironically,
so this year a bird was taken out by a pitcher for the Diamondbacks,
and that year the Diamondbacks won the World Series. This year it happened
again, and the Diamondbacks are in first place in their division. Wow.
Yeah, I couldn't tell you one. Almost for the diamond Backs right now,
they're almost at a six hundred winning percentage. Really five to ninety right
now. That's not bad. No, And they've played like the games already.
Yeah, Dodgers I think are two games behind them right now. Yeah.
That that's gonna be. Yeah, that's gonna be. The key is
where where the Dodgers come, you know, next month? Well, and
I think the thing is you got to stay out of that wildcard game because
that first Wildcard game it's it's one game playing, yes, and it's like
you can just have a bad game. You could be the better team,
you just have a bad game. Yeah, Yeah, And that that is
one thing that is one thing about about baseball is like, you know,
you could have the yips, you know, you you could come out and
just fucking be dry. It happens. It happens to everybody. You know.
Hitters go through dry spells. Pitchers end up, you know, not
being able to hit their mark and they just get raked. Yep, you
know, I don't know, I don't know if you saw, uh,
speaking of crazy, So the College World Series just wrapped up this last weekend.
Did you see that? Florida? Yeah, so Florida loses the first
game, I think in twelve innings, three to two. Yeah, they
win the second game against LSU. So LC wins the first game, second
game they win twenty four to four, Florida does, and then the final
game they lose eighteen to four to LSU. Absolutely wild. Two fucking games.
Yeah, they those both those games. Well, I mean it's not
just both those games, but those both of those games I think allowed for
the talk to happen where they are starting to invest college baseball to see if
the bats and balls are loaded for the season. Yeah, because they were
like, it's this is too much and that's and that's college college baseball.
They use, they use bat they use aluminum bats correct, which they've dumbed
down over the last couple of years because they used to be hotter than ship.
Yeah, because you used to watch college college World Series. You get
a lot of home runs, and there's been a couple of years in a
row where it's just lackluster. It's actual baseball, it's not home runs.
But this year's was wild. Dingers yea, Dingers. We want to take
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let's wrap up the baseball talk here. First off, predictions because we don't
know what's gonna happen in the game because we're recording this like ten days early.
Who's winning a N L or ao AO final score six to two,
NL seven to three. Okay, that's it. That's what I'm going with
baseball dynasty. So we recently talked about sports dynasties. What are you baseball
dynasties. What stands out to you in baseball because I think the harder part
about baseball dynasties is how long the baseball seasons are. Yeah, So the
one thing about baseball dynasties is do you have such a grueling schedule? Like
it's a little bit like hockey, right, Like you have fucking game after
game after game after game. And it's not that you it's not like you
don't fucking give it your all. I mean, yeah, sure, there's
a couple of games sprinkled in there where I know some teams just kind of
phone it in. But for the most for the most part, you're talking
about a grueling, unrelenting, fucking schedule that goes from April to October.
That's a long schedule. It's a very very long schedule, you know,
and for a team to consistently do well year after year after year, it's
it. It's tough, you know. And I think the one knock when
it comes to baseball that that has been there for the longest time was you
know, you could just buy your team there were teams that were out there
with the salary cap issue, where like the Yankees, where you could just
come in and just purchase whatever player you wanted and that just solidified your team.
It's definitely gotten a lot harder for teams to do that now. Agree
it is a lot fair, it's a lot more even you know, players
contracts are fucking absurd. But that's a different story. I would say modern
day, there's there's only two teams in the last ten years that really stand
out to me. Okay, maybe three. You could count San Francisco from
like twenty ten to twenty fourteen, Yeah, so they would be three.
But the other two that stand out to me Houston Astros despite cheating allegations,
they've been a top team for the last five six years. Yeah, and
the Dodgers. The Dodgers have been They knocked on that door for a couple
of years in a row where they were hitting that NL championship but they couldn't
bust through, and then they finally bust through. But they have been a
pretty dominant team for the last six six to seven years for the most part
they've been there. I mean, it's it's tough because the divisions. The
way the divisions break up with baseball is a little tricky too, Right,
Well, when when you look up dynasties for baseball, a lot of them
are gonna come from old times because they didn't play as many games. There
wasn't as many teams. But you do have like one of them that I
saw on a list that I was looking at was the was also the Dodgers
from forty seven to sixty six. So there's a twenty year stretch, right,
they made the World Series. They appeared in the World Series ten out
of those twenty years. Yeah, that's it's a lot. That's that's a
lot. Yeah, that's a lot. I mean, you know, it's
tough because like the Yankees, the Yankees as a whole have they have more
They have more fucking World Series than anyone. Correct, they have more World
Series appearances than anyone. They have more Playoff appearances than anyone. You know,
they're they're not they haven't been there as of as of late, but
I mean they have, but they haven't. But as a whole as a
team, they're consistently in the talk of where are they going to be this
year? What are they going to finish? This year, are they going
to break a record? What are you know? What players do they have
this year? They they constantly have some of the best talent in the league.
You know. But the the Yankees from what was it like two thousand
and six to twenty eleven or nineteen ninety six to two thousand and one,
two thousand and three, Yeah, ninety six to two thousand and three,
that that fucking run was incredible and that roster, and that roster was it
was riddled with all stars from top to bottom, like guys that didn't even
start. You know. The pitching staff was insane. You had like fucking
three cy young winners on it at any given time, like you had.
They had the most dominant closer in MLB history. Oh by far, not
even close. Yeah, they they won like three out of they won like
four out of five years. They won three straight and what was it in
ninety eight to two thousand was their three peat? Had they and they lost
in game seven in two thousand and one of the Diamondbacks. Had the dim
Backs not one game seven, four in a row? Yeah, and in
this modern day baseball, im fucking possible. The fact he won three in
a row two in a row, but then three three in a row.
They were the first team to do it since nineteen seventy four, which was
the Oakland which was Oakland rate or Oakland A's But I mean, yeah,
just you know that that team, that team's number one on my list,
just because they were so dominant. You had Jeter, you had Clemens,
you had fucking George or Jorge Pasada, you had Mariano Rivera, Paul O'Neill,
Yeah, Paul O'Neill like that. That team as a whole was just
dominant from top to bottom. Yea. You know, and in ninety eight
they won one hundred and fourteen games, yep, one hundred and fourteen games
they won, yeah, which and then they also swept in the World Series.
Yeah yeah, yeah that was that was like sweeping in the World Series.
Yeah, it doesn't happen often, but it's it's happened enough in our
life that we've seen. Yeah, you've seen it a couple of times.
Right. But then you have the fact you won one hundred and fourteen out
of one hundred and sixty two city two something like that. That's wild.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. You had the the seventies, you had the
Reds. Yeah, the Reds seventies seventy nine. Yeah, that team was
good. That team, that team was just as good because that team was
dominant both on offense and defense. And that team was that you want to
talk about smash mount fucking baseball, Like, no joke that that team.
If I bet you, that's one stat you could look up and see if
that team had more collisions on base collisions than any other team, I bet
you, I bet you in there the seventies to seventy to seventy nine,
one of those Reds teams is probably closer to the earlier early seventies. One
of those Reds teams had to have had like more at home collisions, more
fucking collisions at second base, Like, I guarantee that's a stat somewhere that
somebody knows. It's got to be. It has to be. Do you
think that as a player, p ro should be in Yeah, absolutely,
yeah, one hundred percent. I've always thought that he didn't even fucking bet
on his own team. Well, I think the problem is as a coach.
Doing it as a coach, and then you've shunned the guy his entire
life as a player, and he's I think he should have been put in.
Yeah, one hundred percent. And if you look at if you look
at all of the things that other people have done that have just been you
know, slid under the rug, his minuscule compared to it. Yeah,
So the only explanation for this has to be that there is something more to
the story that no one knows still to this that's possible. There has to
be. There's no fucking way that this can just still be on principle,
zero fucking chance, because there's too many other examples out there of people doing
the same thing or worse and being let to continue to have the option to
get put in. Most of them aren't going to be put in, But
I mean there's a couple, there's a couple that might. Yeah, fuck,
ray Lewis murdered somebody, so different sport, but whatever, you know,
isn't it funny how ray Lewis ray Lewis allegedly allegedly murdered somebody, right,
Yeah, ray Rice knocked his wife out and was gone, oh yeah,
never heard from again. Yeah, never heard from again. He hit
his wife, knocked her out cold, not excusing the behavior. But then
ray Lewis comes back and wins would he win to too Super bowls? Yep,
one of I think he was fucking defensive MVP one of them. The
first one, yeah, pretty sure, pretty sure, the one against the
Giants and Carrie Collins. Yeah, Carry Collins and Trent dilfer Is the two
started quarterbacks at that Super Bowl. Jesus. Yeah. Anyway, who's your
favorite baseball player of all time? Last question? Probably King Garvey Jr.
It's tough because there's a couple like like I like Mike Piazza, Like,
I'm not gonna lie. Mike Piazza was a fucking stud. Ivan Rodriguez was
a stud. I had a thing for catchers growing up. I don't know
what it was. Yeah, you got something saying no, no, Yeah,
I had a thing. I had a thing for catchers growing up.
But but Griffy, Griffy was something different. Because when Griffy came along,
he he was He was a good human, right he was. He was
kind hearted, he was honest. He was a kid that was coming up
trying to outlive his dad's shadow, you know. But he didn't he didn't
present himself that way. Like he didn't present himself as somebody who constantly had
something to prove because his dad was so amazing. Yeah, he just wanted
to come play that yeah, and that and and everything about him from from
the way he played in the outfield to the way he swung the bat at
home plate like he was just so fluid. He was so fucking fluid.
I also like John Rocker, the fucking animal. Yeah, he was such
a wild card. For as much as I hate the Braves, but like
I said, though, I mean that goes back to it, like the
Braves had a little mini mini dynasty at in the nineties they did, and
but like, but John Rocker was such a fucking animal in a time where
you you were you were starting to get that like whole like, well,
you gotta be nice, you gotta be clean cut, you gotta wear a
suit. John Rocker was like he was literally major League Baseball in real life.
Yeah you know what I mean? Like, yeah, yeah, so
he was. He was fun to watch. And then another one for me
that I really admired. I wouldn't say he was my favorite, but Cal
Ripken Jr. His work ethic, yeah was off the fucking charts. Yeah.
Jeter was another one, but yeah, yeah, but cal Ripken Jr.
Was another one that I admired, but I would say as a whole,
King Griffy was my was my favorite. Yeah, I like that pick.
I really liked King Griffy growing up. And uh, I would say
Jeter would be in conversation. I really like no more Garcia Para too.
Yeah, he was great, just like a dude, you know, like
he was just an average guy. And that's what I liked about Jeter too,
is like Jeter you could tell had to work his ass off to be
as good as he was. Yeah, and he was just he was like
when you to me, when you ask me New York Yankees, go Derek
Jeter, it's Jeter. It's it. It's not Babe Ruth, No,
it's Jeter. It's Jeter. Yeah, no offense, no offense to the
babe, but it's Jeter. Yeah, it's it's definitely cheater. It's just
that's just what it be. But another good one was each Row. Yeah,
not to kind of stick with the Seattle Mariners there, but each year
was another great player who was just he was just fun to watch. Yeah,
and he was so he was so polite and kind and like almost innocent.
Yeah you know what I mean. Yeah, but he was a badass.
He was such a badass. He I would say each row outside of
Bo Jackson probably had the best arm in baseball. Yeah that's that's a Yeah.
Each year had a fucking cannon. And he was tiny. Yeah,
and he was super tiny. Yeah. Tony Wins another good Tony. I
admire Tony win is hitting yea more than anything. Yeah yeah, yeah,
Tony gwen he he Yeah, that man, that man was a baseball player.
Yeah. And it's funny because it like we caught him more towards the
end of his career, and he's like this fat, out of shape guy
who could still hit the ship out of the ball. Yeah, but when
you look up his stats, you're just like, that guy was a baseball
player. Yeah. Yeah. It was wildly good. Yeah. Yeah.
I wish I could have seen more of guys like Ricky Henderson, Ozzie Smith.
I wish I could have seen more Pete Rose live. You know,
I didn't get to see any of those guys live. But yeah, all
right, well we're good. We could wrap it. Yeah, we could
wrap it. Wrapped this bitch up with a bow. Yeah, fifty minutes,
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