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in downtown Cleveland where the Guardians are taking on the White Sox to open up
a new homestand it began on Friday night, runs through the weekend, and
then the Blue Jays come to town for a four game series next Monday through
Thursday. So some good baseball coming up on this homestand Guardians trying to hang
in there in the American League Central Division chase despite some moves at the trade
deadline that have made it more challenging and some injury issues as well. And
we will get the full rundown later on in the show. In case you
missed it. On Wednesday, Chris Antonettie, the president of Baseball Operations,
joined Tom Hamilton on the broadcast and just explained the moves, why they were
made, why he was in Houston on the final day of the road swing,
all of that that's coming up in the second half of our show today.
We'll also here from outfielder Stephen Quan and infielder Gabriel Arias. And we'll
have much more as well coming up on this edition of Guardians Weekly. But
first our weekend review, and it was on the yield. A tough week
certainly for the Guardians to begin, as they were swept three straight in Houston
on Monday, a seven to three loss against the Astros, and then on
Tuesday, history made by Houston as we saw a no hitter from from bert
Valdez. He had everything working in the no hit bid. And here's Hammy
with the final out in the ninth inning with the Guardians facing a no hitter
from from Bervaldez, thirty three thousand, seven h three ready to erupt.
Here's the wind up. Here's the O two pitstick Allagher swinging a broken bet
flare to short talk by Penya, a no hitter for from Bervaldez. Dam
up scene between whole plate and the pictures bound only a fifth inning walk keeping
this no hitter from being a perfect game. And folks, you may come
to baseball for the next fifty years and not see a more dominant performance.
Not a hard hit ball all night long, and from Burveldez if there is
such a thing, seemingly cruised to a no hitter as Veldez tonight no hits
Cleveland, making ninety three pitches, striking out seven, he walked one,
and he finished the ball game with a broken bat looping liner to the shortstop
Jeremy Painia. And so the final here tonight in Houston from Burveldez taking center
stage and putting his name in the record book with as impressive an outing as
you may ever see, a no hitter for veld and Houston beats Cleveland by
a final score of two to nothing. And again, always tough when your
team is on the losing side of that, and certainly the guardians felt that,
but when you have a chance to witness history, it is something special.
And the fans there in Houston treated to a big night from Frombervaldez.
How about that the sixteenth no hitter in Houston Astro's history, including the postseason,
as they had one in the World Series a year ago. But just
remarkable when you consider some of the other teams that have had very few no
hitters, and when you consider Cleveland such a pitching rich organization, especially lately,
and their last no hitter was the Perfect Game by Lenny Barker back in
May of nineteen eighty one. Moving on with the weekend review, Thursday was
an off day after a loss on Wednesday to wrap up the road swing,
so the team returned home on Friday night looking to get back on the winning
track against a White Sox team that also was in full cell mode during the
trade deadline period, and the Guardians jumped out to an early lead in the
first inning when second baseman Andre Simenez doubled, bringing up Jose Ramirez, now
the one one a swing on a groundball base it into center, stayed back
on a changeup, and rips an RBI singled a center as Jimenez will score
all right, now, Cleveland's doing a nice job staying back on the Clevinger
changeup, and Ramirez with an RBI, singled a center to score Jimenez from
second Jose Ramirez with his sixty fourth RBI. In the second ning, the
Guardians added another run thanks to the legs of Miles Straw and Stephen Quan.
He lets it fly, runner goes pitches low throw by grandall Head first slide
ball got away from Anderson Carns into shallow center going to third as Straw,
that'll be a steal his thirteenth and likely a throwing air on Grand All because
it hit the runner the pitch Kuan's going and he goes without even a throwbing
met So that's sixteen steals for quon second, This sending for Cleveland. Now
base hit could make it a three nothing game. Here's the one two delivery
to Jimenez, bounces all the way to the backstop. The wild pitch will
score Straw and put Kwan at third to nothing. Cleveland. Chicago tied the
game, scoring twice in the third inning and then in the fourth. A
few fireworks followed the at bat from Brian Rokio. Here's Mike Clevenger's won one
swung on and that's line to right, sinking fast and it gets down for
a base hit. On his way to second is Rokio. He slides safe
at second base as that ball got down just in front of the right field
or Trace Thompson. H Rokio has a double. It's his first in the
big leagues. Well, it was a close play at second and the White
Sox want to challenge it. So this one is in the hands of New
York. Now, on replay, as Rokio is trying to kind of hang
onto that bag, he almost overslid it. Maybe he did, or maybe
Anderson knocked his hand off, which is the angle we just saw. After
the review the call, the field has overturned. The runners out Chicago will
retain their child. Wow. So they say that he was tagged out after
Anderson appeared to move his hand off the bag, and Terry Francona has come
out to talk about it with Bruce Dreckman. And this is a tough one
because the call came from New York, but I think Tito wants a further
explanation if he can get it, which I don't think he will, but
at least from the angle we had, it looked like Anderson moved moved Rochio's
hand off the bag with his glove. Tito has already been ejected recently from
a game, and he's now talking about it with the third base umpire Malachi
More. And now Bruce Dreckman gets between Tito and More, and I don't
know this is gonna end well for Terry Francona. And he's getting hotter as
we go, and he's been tossed and now he's gonna go have words with
more boy, and looking back at the replace not good and Tito, it
sure looked like he had a legitimate argument there and that call was overturned and
the base runner taken away and maybe that little spark who knows. But next
inning, the Guardians regained the lead courtesy of Andre Simenez. Here comes the
two two swung on and hit high in the air to deep right way back
there, hot run, Andre simens. The Guardians had moved back in front
four two Cleveland as he launched his tenth home run of the season. Did
Andre Simenez and the Guardians are back in front. Meanwhile, on the Mount,
Logan Allen turned in a strong performance. Now the payoff pitch four to
two Cleveland sixth inning swing, and it has got him of the high heat.
That'll be pitch number ninety six and in all likelihood the last bitch of
the night for Logan Allen, and he has given Cleveland six complete innings.
And as he heads to that third base dugout, Cleveland still leads Chicago four
to two. Man it was still four to two in the ninth inning with
a manual Class A on trying to close things out. Class as ready.
Here it comes a swinging a liner toward right. Brennan is there, pall
game Class gets the saved. Cleveland starts the homestand with a four to two
win over the Chicago White Socks. So that's your weekend review. And when
we come back, we'll hear from a couple of Guardians players outfielders Stephen Klarn
and also shortstop Gabriel Arius. That's next as we continue on the Cleveland Clinic.
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Gabby with us Son this summer weekend here in August. Another sellout crowd on
Friday Night for the homestand opener the Guardians with their sixth sellout of the season,
and the fans have really turned out big this year and they've seen some
fun baseball too. And then the same hell true certainly on Friday Night and
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That means a noon start on Sunday twelve oh five if you need extra
five minutes, but it'll be a tight one turnaround wise on Sunday, so
an early start on Sunday for the series finale against the White Sox with the
Blue Jays coming in on Monday. Well, Stephen Quan has had a real
solid season here in his second major league season after that tremendous rookie campaign.
We had a chance to catch up with him on Monday, and that was
when the trade deadline was in full swing for the Guardians. They had just
traded Aaron Savali earlier in the day. Savali their top remaining starting pitcher,
certainly most veterans starting pitcher and a candidate for July American League Pitcher of the
Month on her So he had been throwing very well and we talked to Quan
about how the news hit him, especially as well as some of the other
young players who looked up to Savali for guidance and experience in their first go
round in the major leagues. Yeah, it's definitely, it's definitely tough.
Obviously when I debuted last year, he's one of the guys, so I
kind of attributed this team to and Aaron's Voli in the same kind of breath.
He kind of took me under his wing with a lot of stuff.
He gave me some advice off to the side, clothing stuff, just how
to handle myself. And to see him go is his real bummer and a
quiet at least hourly, very quiet, but inside the clubhouse pretty helpful.
Yeah, definitely, And again he was one of those guys who could just
kind of take you off the side, just kind of give you a little
advice, and it was never like condescending or scolding. It was very much
like you know, trying to hear it. Help you just apply this someone
told me when I was a rookie, and now he's passing it off to
me. So I always appreciate him for that. And you see him pitch
a game like yesterday, it's about as as good as he's been. Yeah.
I mean I feel like people just forget whenever he's healthy, he's always
done really well. I think it kind of gets missed out just because you
know, he's had the injury by a couple of times, but whenever he
pitches, he gives us a chance. So it's it's yeah, it's sad
to see him go. So it comes at a time where the team's only
a half game out of first place right now. How do you handle trying
to make sure you stay focused and give this give yourself and the team a
real good chance to win and stay in it. Yeah, I mean I
think you just have to take it day by day. I think that's you
know, I say that all the time, lazy excuse to say, but
you know, just taking a day by day. Um, there's always gonna
be a lot of stuff kind of going around. But as long as you
can lean on the people that are still here right now and just kind of
believe that we're going for something bigger, you just got to keep going with
that. Stephen Kuan joining us home run yesterday, And I know it's not
who you are, but it seems like it's a part of your game when
you're going well and what's going on lately that's allowed you to drive the ball
a little more. Yeah, I think it's just kind of the second half
stuff. A lot of the pictures that I've I've gotten good hits off of,
we've seen a couple of times now, So it's just kind of the
sample size of understanding what their plan is against me taking a chance when I'm
able to, and yeah, just being able to see them more than once.
And there's been inevitable hiccups along the way, But this team really for
a couple of months now has been scoring more, hitting for average more.
What are you seeing up and down the lineup? That's really encouraging. Yeah,
I think early on it was just kind of small sample size. We're
hitting a lot of balls hard at people, but I think the age old
wisdom is hitting his contagious and once we get kind of people going, I
think everybody else wants to follow, and especially starts with Jose. I mean,
once you start seeing him hit and you just want to you just want
to hit with him. I'm staying with Josh. I mean, once those
guys get hot, I think it trickles down. Stephen, thanks slot for
comba. I appreciate it. That's outfielders Stephen Quan always with some good perspectives
on a lot of things, not just hitting, and always nice to have
him along. We had a chance to visit as well with Gabriel Arius.
The shortstop is getting an opportunity now with the trade recently of Ahmed Rosario opening
up that spot at shortstop for Arius, Tyler Freeman, Brian Rocchio among others,
and with some translation help from Aggie Rivero, we asked him about getting
that chance for some more regular playing time and he said how much that's helped
him relax, especially at the plate. Okay, you know, yeah,
I feel like I wouldn't call it kind of like a relax a little bit
like about the position. I know they're a little very talented and fielders in
the organization, so I feel like I need to keep putting the airfore you
putting the work. And I think what he has benefited me more is like
the fact that having more chances to put in practice adjustment that I put it
on the play, you know, And that comes from playing more right with
early butterfield. It comes out from being able to to make the judgment that
I of my game that I thought I needed to do. And we saw
in the last night's game a couple of line drives to write, and it
is that more your game. Once you get that down, it can open
up some other things for you. No, No, I feel like I
mean, even though I've been goetting the results recently going out side of the
field to the right field, but always my approach is going to the right
field. So in all the instances what I got in either to left field
a third base, it's just now that I'm trying to do that, it's
just like I've been a little bit like open too early to something in that
regard. But normally my approach is always trying to drive the ball to the
right field. Gabby, your baget short, it looks like it's going to
be that that'll be your spot. After playing all over the diamond. Do
you just have one glove now or do you still keep the other ones around
just in case? I mean, now for the games, I always bringing
my inful glove, but I know the other two they're always in the in
the tunnel because A ready for anything and anywhere that I can help. And
obviously we're at that point where it's the trade deadline, an uneasy time of
year. You've been involved in a huge trade to come here, but very
much on the other end of it as a young prospect, how has it
been for you and your younger teammates losing a pair of veteran players who mean
a lot to this team and still trying to hang in there in the division
raceho but ing is always difficult. I think in the personal side, you
know there are at more emotions involved in sent sent tentiment because at the end,
you know you're there's the guys that you have like live with you,
that like your family. But at the end I feel there we may lose
some leaders in the clubhouse, but we have different leaders in the clubhouse,
and I feel the presence is going to keep us going, to try to
keep us competing. And even though it's been difficult. I feel that's part
of the game and that's how we got to respond to it. Gabrielle,
thanks a lot for the time. Appreciate it. Thank you, Algie,
thank you, Thank you guys at short stop gabriel Arius with some translation help
from Augie Rivero. Stay tuned. When we come back, we'll hear from
President of Baseball Operations Chris Santonetti. That's next the Cleveland Clinic Guardians Radio Networking.
Welcome back to Guardians Weekly. Jim Rosenhouse back with you from Progressive Field
in downtown Cleveland. It's been quite a week for the Guardians with the trade
deadline coming and going on Tuesday at six pm local time, and the Guardians
were active last week trading Amed Rosario to the Dodgers for Noah Synder guard and
then earlier this week Aaron Savali heading to Tampa Bay in exchange for Kyle Manzardo,
very high regarded first baseman who's at the Triple A level. And then
Josh Bell was sent to the Miami Marlins right at the trade deadline for a
top prospect as well from the Marlins organization, and also some salary things being
moved around as well, so some trades that short term will make it challenging
for the Guardians, and you throw in some injury issues too, and there's
a lot going on. So Chris Antonetti stopped by to visit with Tom Hamilton
during the broadcast, we are pleased to be joined by Cleveland Guardians President Chris
Samtonetti. I think to pull the curtain back a little bit for our fans.
Chris, you and Cherney Mike Chernoff, the general manager. You're on
a six thirty flight this morning from Cleveland to Houston. How come, Chris,
Well, I think we wanted to be here. Obviously, we've made
a number of decisions in the last week or so that you affected our team,
and we wanted to make sure we were here and accountable and talked through
the ration out with everyone. Is this a case I know you didn't have
a team meeting per se, because Tito had already done that. We did
so yes, Actually, I mean we didn't meet as a team, but
it gave us an opportunity to connect with the coaches. We were here early.
When the coaches came in, we had a chance to talk through things
with them. As players started to filter in, we met with a lot
of guys individually, just to hear what was on their mind, both individually
and on the team level. And again, I know those conversations are private.
I'm not trying to pry, but you know emotion of a clubhouse.
You've been down there. Yeah, you know guys aren't going to be thrilled.
Do you do this so that they have a chance to come right to
you and say, hey, this is what I think exactly. And we
want to make sure we're available and you're around Tom, you know, you
see, we're here in present and we never want our players to be wondering
what's going on? Why do they do what they do? And so hopefully
they feel comfortable engaging, and we're grateful for the conversations this morning, because
the last thing we want them to do is just read maybe some things and
interpret from that, or maybe not even read things and interpret what it might
mean for them, and things get left unsaid. So this gives us an
opportunity to connect with them directly. Was it in your mind worthwhile? Did
you find some things out? Or did at least maybe they get a better
understanding. I think that's the important part. It doesn't matter how it sets
for me, it matters, is it helpful for them? And at least
the players we connected with express the appreciation, and we had some substantive conversations
that lasted a while, and I think we're in a good place now as
a team and we're ready to move forward and turn the page on what's happened
over the last week or so. And I know you were there for Tito
when the coaches, I know you guys spoke today because the same thing.
I mean, you've got a very competitive group down there, including your coaches
exactly, and we want to make sure they understood the rationale and kind of
where we saw things and hopefully we can, like I said, build from
here. Gonzalez bags one by the diving third baseman Alex Bregman. Just a
sidebar here. Pretty encouraging to see Oscar Gonzalez twice go the other way.
Now pulls the single. It has been hopefully Oscar, you know, the
time in Triple A will benefit from him. He got consistent at bats outside
the spotlight of the major leagues, and can you know, put together more
consistent at batswords in the zone a little bit more. And I think what
we've seen is when he doesn't have to walk a lot, but when he
controls his zone and swing it pitches, he can do damage. He can
be an effective major league hitter. So hopefully he builds in that direction.
Okay, Chris, and I'm not trying to play the bad guy here,
but obviously I'm sure players said to you, Chris, are we trying to
win? Yeah? And I think again there maybe a couple of different elements
to it. With Ahmed and Josh both extraordinary teammates, but in Amed's case,
you know, we were hopeful that we'd be able to head Spark offensively
and go on that run and that his defense would improve, and just it
got to a point where it wasn't and we started to feel that we had
some better options, and we weren't comfortable having him in Bentroll didn't feel that
would be fair to him as a free agent, and so we're will make
k tray that we think help Boast, helps both teams. And an important
element of that was we were able to bring back Noah sinder Guard. He
who provides some another option for us in the starting rotation. Had an encouraging
start the other night, and hopefully you can build from that and then in
Josh's case again, another tremendous human being. I'm not sure there's a better
guy in the game of baseball, a great teammate, But in the end,
we were as we looked at our team construction moving forward, we got
to the point where we felt his offensive production and where he was didn't justify
having that full time DH, and that we could be better if we had
the opportunity to DH Josh Nail or Stephen Kuan, Jose Ramirez to keep them
fresh and productive and in the lineup and give some of the other young guys
an opportunity to produce. Savali I'm sure was a different conversation. That is
a different conversation, And if you look at how our teams have been built,
some of the players we see today are a function of trades, difficult
decisions we've made during the season. If you look back at the Mike Clevinger
trade, which is a trade we made when we were in first place,
you know we brought back a lot of guys in that deal that are now
helping us. President Chris Antonetti and Mike Chernoff to GM flying down this morning
to be able to get the pulse of this club but more importantly to be
able to talk to guys, let guys ask questions about the moves that were
made with Aaron Savali as well as he pitched. Chris was in a case
you felt like you had to take advantage of selling high. Well. I
mean, I'm hopeful and believe that Aaron will continue to be a productive major
league pitcher, but it is an area where you know, as we look
zoom out and look at where we have some depth, that's a place where
we feel we know, as we've seen him with some of the guys that
have emerged in the major league level this year and depth in our system that
you can never really have enough pitching. But we really have been searching for
players that can impact the ball offensively and contribute, especially either major league guys
or at the upper level of our minors, and they've been it's been proven
it's really difficult to acquire those types of guys, and in Kyle Man's Arto,
we feel we have a guy that's capable at some point of developing into
a really good major league hitter. And that's really what compelled us to make
the move, not something that we were necessarily looking to do. I'm guessing
you're trying to get pitching at some point, correct, because of the the
endings that need to be covered. We did, and that was the some
of the impetus with a Noah Synderguard trade and bring him back, and I'm
Edwardsario, and you know, we will continue. We have some guys coming
off the IL and you know, and guys that are still pitching in Triple
A that we feel can come up and contribute and keep us in games and
help us win. And hopefully after that, shortly after that, cal Quantrill,
who's going to throw a live VP here on Friday or Saturday, can
continue his progression to rejoin the rotation. And then you know, as we
turn to calendar, hopefully to September and early September, we can be looking
at Tristan McKenzie and then after that Chaine Bieber. Is McKenzie a point where
you've got to make a determination does he need Tommy John or not? I
think that that's one of the goals. As we try to ramp up his
intensity, we'll learn a lot more. Hopefully he gets through this with conservative
treatment and doesn't need surgery, but if he does, we want to know
that as soon as possible. Shames not at that degree of severity, is
he that's correct? Yes, based upon what we know right now, Shane's
imaging was very was different than Tristan, So we have no reason to think
that surgers on the table for him at this point. You had to do
it with the logan Alan, send them to Columbus, then pitch him,
not shut him down, but pitch him three innings at a time, some
honor to the innings. Do you have to do that with Gavin or Tanner?
Baby, We'll take it. We'll continue to see how those guys do.
We want to have an individual plan that makes sense for each of them,
and what works for one may not be the same as the others.
So what we'll do is we'll look at each guy. Look are there signs
of fatigue? How are they recovering between starts? Are they maintaining their mechanics,
are they maintaining inequality of their stuff? And as long as they're able
to do that, then you know, we can continue to give them extra
days when we can, but continue to have them pitch if we start to
see signs where you know they're wearing down or showing fatigue will definitely pull back.
Are you worried about the bullpen? Do you think they've shown some fatigue
here? It might be fatigue there, It might be other factors that are
a play with different guys. I think maybe some guys are showing fatigue.
Other guys simply just aren't executing the way they've been able to execute in the
past. So it is an area we need to get back on track.
That's such an important part for us as we construct our team, and when
we're good, it's usually our bullpens a week part of it. Well,
talk about how competitive guys are in that dugout. Same thing holds true with
you in Journey. We've seen that first ten. You still think you can
catch the Twins, don't you. I think we have the ability to do
that. I recognize that you know it will be a challenge. We have
a very challenging schedule. The Twins are a good team that are getting healthy,
and we are still very young. But I would go back and say
the success of our season was will be determined by how well our young players
do. How well are they how well did they do at developing and contributing
to help us win games at the major league level. That was true in
April first, and it's certainly true today. Chris. I know we have
two months to go and you're focused on winning, but are these times now
for Rokiel Freeman Arius. I mean, you have a glut of middle infielders
on your forty man too many, I don't believe. So I don't believe
you can have too many talented players. We will have to be thoughtful about
how we get them at bats. And again, as I talked about earlier,
in a roundabout way, you know, moving Josh Bell to the Marlins
does free up some of those at bats because we can start to DH Hosey
a little bit, We can move some we can DH those guys, we
can move other guys around, So that does free up one spot in the
lineup to be able to give at bats, whether it's the Tyler or Brian
or Gabby or someone else. That's a place where we could do that,
Chris andton Edie with us. Chris, again not getting ahead of ourselves,
but you're still lasting home runs, yep. Will you look in the offseason,
do you feel, as much as you guys value contact, you need
more guys here with power. We want to score runs. That's the ultimate
goal. Power certainly helps that we thought, and again, obviously in retrospect,
it didn't work out the way we had planned with Mike Zignino and Josh
Bell adding some power to our lineup for variety of reasons. It just didn't
work the way we envisioned. So we will go into the offseason. I
think we believe that the group here has more offensive potential and hopefully we can
tap into that, and then we will continue to explore avenues to improve our
offense in other ways, and power certainly a big part of that. Okay,
let's talk a little bit about Kyle man Sardo because you actually could have
drafted him in the second round two years ago. Tells you what you must
have thought of the kid you got from old miss Nick Haze A picture.
Ye, who's having a good year at Double A and now you have both
kids. Yeah, we're excited. He was actually on our board and a
guy we really liked that of the draft. Have followed him in his time
in the minor leagues and he's done nothing but continue to hit. He's raked
at every level. He's been especially good against right handed pitching, controls the
strike zone, well makes good makes consistent contact impacts the ball well capable of
extra base hits. Has had a little bit of a down year this year,
but it's mostly kind of balls in play and where they whether they have
or not, they fell for hits. But he's got the ingredients. It's
to be a really good major league hitter. Now how quickly that might happen
or what type of hitter we'll have to see because no one has a perfect
crystal ball. But he's got the attribute to look for for a guy to
be success. How far away to see from joining Columbus. So he started
his rehab progression from a shoulder injury he had an early July, and you
know, we're hopeful in the next couple of weeks he can be able to
join the Columbus team and continuous season. There is the Khalil Watson kid like
a lottery ticket in that you might hit the jackpod with him, hopefully a
little bit more better odd than the lottery. But yes, he's got a
great and unbelievable upside. He's an explosive athlete. He mean, you watch
him and you can see he uses athleticism. You know, he's got a
good eye at the plate, he can really impact the ball when he makes
contact. He's athletic defensively, so you can see the tool and skill package
for him to emerge as a really good player. He hasn't done that yet
in the minor leagues, but has the pedigree you know as a former first
round pick, and when you look at his skills and tools to develop into
something that could be really exciting for us. He's Want twenty. He's twenty
drafted out of high school. He had some maturity issues that are growing pains
that he's still working through, but he's made progress for that and hopefully he
can continue the right direction there too. Because of what you've got here in
the system to handle that kind of stuff, are you less concerned about them?
Do you feel like, hey, look, we have a culture here,
We've got the kind of people that we think we might be able to
better help some of these kids. I believe so. We're not naive,
and we know that we don't change anyone. People have to make the determination
themselves to make progress on things. But I do believe we have the right
environment, the right culture, the right resource, and the right people to
help people. What wong in that regard. Yes, Chris, we can't
thank you enough. This was really helpful. We really appreciate my pleasure to
be with you as always, Tom, thanks for having me. Good stuff
there from Chris Anton Eddie. Stay with us. We'll have our final segment
after this time out on the Cleveland Clinic Guardians Radio Network. Progressive knows we're
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our final segment as we take you up until the top of the hour,
and if you are tune to us on the radio network today and not
in podcast form, this air is before Rock and Blast this night too of
Rock and Blast, and as a specul feature between the end of Game and
the start of Rock and Blast, the band The Heavy Heavy is going to
be performing court Berry Trip. Part of the great PR department for the Guardians
is here with us in a court part time record promoter, concert booker,
something along those lines. But I know you reached out to this band that
has really started to climb in popularity, and how does this happen in such
a short period of time. It seems where you can get them to come
and play a venue like this right on, Rosie, thank you for having
me. This band's got an interesting story. They're from the UK, They've
only been out a couple of years putting out music and I finally got to
see them the first week in June at their show in Detroit. First US
tour talked to Will and Georgie, the two primary vocalists. It's a five
piece band, and the tour manager at the time got back to Cleveland,
talked to Kelly Dredge and Tracy Enji from our Fantastic Live Experience team and this
just fits with, you know, the generation's theme of rock and Blast,
our city's history, especially breaking artists from the UK. Like David Bowie,
his first show is here in nineteen seventy two, September I think, and
then he came back and did two more in November the same year. So
Cleveland did a lot to help him WMMS as part of that, and you
know, maybe we can do the same for this crew. So they're from
the UK. What are their feelings about playing a baseball ballpark, a sport
that maybe they're not that familiar with. What does it mean to them to
be here tonight? Well, we literally just drove them upstairs after Lowden got
their equipment out of the van they left it. They left Appleton, Wisconsin
this morning around eight am and drove all the way here. So it was
cool and the golf card on the way up here to hear some of some
of their thoughts and feelings. But they've never played in front of a crowd
quite this large. They're playing festivals, but you know, even the biggest
ones generally don't get up to thirty five thousand people. So that, paired
with the fact that I don't think that they've yet attended an American sporting event,
I think this is going to be a really unique experience for them.
Give us a kind of a synopsis of the music that the fans will hear
if they're here tonight. Yeah, in their own words, I think Will
and Georgie talk a lot about bringing forth the best sounds of the sixties and
the seventies, So it's almost a mix between you know, that Laurel Canyon
rock folk Americana type sound and the British Invasion, and I think what you
have there is maybe a psychedelic version of Peter Green era Fleetwood Mac really reverb
soaked vocals, a lot of cool sounds that you would have heard from those
previous eras. And again that fits a lot with the theme that our live
experienced team came up with for this summer. Generations. Your full time job,
you're around players, coaches, managers, teams. Any similarities of what
this group here does. It's a small team of five, but any similarities
that you see absolutely. I mean, I don't envy the way that they're
traveling night after night and loading their own equipment in and out. But as
you can also relate to the travel, it does become a grind and you've
got a like a family on the road traveling circus more or less On the
flip side of that, I think there's a lot of adrenaline and getting to
tour the United States the way that they are sort of resembles what we do
in that regard. We go to great cities and see new things and meet
new people. So there's a lot of overlap between the ven diagrams of sports,
entertainment and music, and I think those of us that do one have
a lot of curiosity about the other and vice versa. Well, thank you
for booking The Heavy Heavy for tonight's Rock and Blast two. It should be
a lot of fun. Thank you, Rosie, and I'd also like to
send out a special thank you to our friends at AEG who did play a
part in helping them make this happen. So I want to mention that The
Heavy Heavy will also be playing Cleveland Sunday night at Jacob's Pavilion alongside the Revivalists
and Band of Horses, great stuff from court Berry Trip, part of the
PR Department and a music aficionado as it were. And again, if you're
listening to this on the radio network prior to Game two of the series between
the White Sox and the Guardians, you can come on down if you are
coming on down. You can catch the Heavy Heavy after the game, prior
to Rock and Blast. And if you don't have tickets yet, there are
still some tickets available. Limited, but are still some tickets available for tonight's
game. And that's going to do it for our show this week. Until
next time. This is Jim Rosenhouse reminding you that you've been listening to Guardians
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