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Been a lot of fun first hour talking about show. Hey o Tani did talk some football with Booger McFarlane as the Jets looked impressive last night, but then now people are downplaying the Patriots. The Patriots who went to Cincinnati and beat the Bengals, the Patriots who at home went into overtime before losing to Seattle, and then they don't put up much of a fight last night against the Jets. We'll talk a little bit more about.
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This is how it.
Sounded in case you missed it last night or yesterday afternoon.
And the pitchcot like the show. Hey old Tony, Hey swings HiT's a track to left. This goes back there last good fifty.
The first player in a history up majorly baseball to have a fifty to fifty season.
He is incredible, Yes he is.
That's Curtsey a in five seventy LA Sports Dodgers Radio Network. And then to go six for six, three home runs, a couple of stolen bases, and this is a getaway day and it's an afternoon game in Miami, and all of a sudden it's one of those wait they're playing wait he did what?
And then you're trying to find it.
As I was, I'm like, oh my god, I didn't wear to look and then eventually found it, but Show had already done his damage.
Let's go around the room, a Seaton.
Is this the poll question of what would you do if you caught the fiftieth home run ball of Show Hey o Tani? Historical landmark, nobody's ever joined the fifty to fifty club?
Correct the poll?
Okay, all right, you want those results right now?
Well you can ask the question like the full like, what would you do? You could sell it, keep it?
Uh?
I think there are options there.
Right right right, So what would you do if you caught showhyes fiftieth home run ball? You would give it back to Otani and maybe get a pick or a bat or something like that. You could sell it almost immediately for the best offer, or would you hold it for a decade plus and then sell it?
Okay, let's go around the room.
Then we'll bring in Darren Ravel because Darren's all over this, founder of collect Media, Todd, what would you do with the home run ball yesterday afternoon?
I would strike while the iron is hot and everyone's talking about it. I wouldn't want to risk many years from now, I don't know what the collectible industry is going to be, maybe great, maybe not as good. I think I'm going to try to do it within the next couple of days or a week and get the best offer I can.
Okay, Seating, what would you do?
I'm seeing like anywhere between two hundred and fifty k and a million dollars for the ball. For the ball, Okay, I'm selling it.
Okay, Well, that's a big separation between two hundred and fifty k and a million.
It is.
However, I could tell you this much. A million sounds awesome, and two hundred and fifty k right now in my pockets sounds amazing.
Marvin, what would you do? I'm gonna sell that thing right away, right away, PAULI.
I'm holding it for a decade. I don't think this is going to happen again, whether it's him or someone else. So in ten years it becomes more special and more unique.
I think, I.
This is what I would want. I would want the third base, so he steals the base. I would want the base. And if I have the ball, and then I just hold on to those I don't I don't sell those. I mean that base is valuable. I don't know what the Marlins are going to do with that, but that is historical as well. The stolen base, Yes, Tod, whose property is that?
The Marlins? Major League Baseball? Like, where can the whole thing? That basis is ours? We want the base?
Well, they could ask for it, but it's the Marlins.
It's really it's a property of the Marlins.
The basis, Yeah, who did you think it's a.
Property of Major League Baseball? The bases of the stadiums, I don't know if they belong there to the individual things.
Bring in Darren Revel, the founder of collect Media. What would you do if you had the home run ball? Depends on the trade.
So if I engaged in a trade, because after the greatest game in baseball regular season baseball history, I would love to have a picture, would show hey, I might trade the ball if he were willing to give me something else on his body, so I might get a picture I might want. I might take the jersey, but usually they don't do that. Usually they just give you a random bat or something else. Like I would need his exact cleats. It would have to be some trade and a picture because pictures are just going to become more and more valuable. Now let me just tell you this, Dan, So, because people have asked me this NonStop, what does show hey own? So he owns his cleats, his bat and his bats. The team, at least, per the collective bargaining agreement, owns the hat, the batting helmet, the jersey, the pants, and the socks. Now they could give it to them, but that's just those.
Are just rules.
And the fan of course owns the ball once it goes and so that that's kind of how it works. But I'm thinking, originally I thought this ball was around a half a million dollars, but now I think because it being associated with and I check with my guy, Dave Schoenfield at ESPN, who is my historian. He says, it's the greatest single game performance ever, taking outside all the other factors, whether it's a World Series or not. Given that, I think this is at least a million dollar ball.
Would you hold on to it for a decade as Paulie.
Was suggesting, I agree with paul that it's not going to happen again, although I would fear that Otani would do it.
So I don't know what I don't think he's going to get this chance again.
Okay, if he goes back to pitching, you know, he's a dh he's not gonna be running as much. He's only missed three games this year.
So I don't.
Like anything. It depends on how much money means to you in the moment, you know. But most of these things, the milestones as they happen. If you look at history, the Mark McGuire ball, the Samisosa ball. You know that Mark McGuire ball in the moment, or at least what it traded, was worth three million dollars.
That ball.
You never know what happens over time. That ball today is probably worth around one hundred and twenty thousand.
Yeah, that's another thing. But you did have controversy attached to that. Let's assume that sho hey o Tani, there is no controversy, no asterisk, none of that.
It's like Michael George.
Why would you assume that, Dan.
It's like Michael Jordan's shoes.
If you sold them ten years ago and you got whatever for one hundred and twenty thousand dollars, now now they're millions. Yeah, yes, I wonder if holding on to a baseball and plus you've got a worldwide market there too.
For Sho Heeo Tani that yeah.
I mean, you know, the Asian market is rabbit. You could even see that with his cards. Spoke to a memorabilia dealer in Los Angeles and he said, don't you know, Yes, it is a worldwide market. And I think the statistic is eighty percent of Japanese this year who traveled from Japan to Los Angeles showed up at Dodger Stadium.
Wow. Wild, that is a big market.
The person who catches the is the ball got a special marketing on it too? They have to authenticate and do we know so we knows it?
Yes? So R Matt Lieberman, who does, I mean, he's done a lot on authenticity confirmed with Baseball last night that before the game they hadn't marked anything obviously because he needed one stolen base and two home runs.
But in the.
Sixth inning, after he hit his forty ninth home run, they started marking the balls and then they have you know, there's someone marking which ball is going into rotation, so they know the number and what the infrared or whatever the secret marking is looks like. That allowed the guy to leave the stadium. So in most cases, the only times we've really seen it is recently Aaron Judge when he got to fifty nine to sixty sixty one, sixty two, those balls were marked, and now the Otani balls were marked right after forty nine. That allows someone to leave the stadium. In any other case, if you leave the stadium.
Forget about it.
Also, in any other case, once it goes into the stands, Baseball will no longer authenticate it for you because who knows whether someone's pulling a second base ball from their pocket.
Wow. Now, okay, way, by.
The way, if this was in Dodger Stadium, no one would have called. It would have because centerfield there's nothing. I mean, it would have been Baseball's property or Atani's property. It's kind of interesting.
But did you have the information that this was an eighteen year old high school senior on his birthday who had the ball and it was ripped out of his hands.
Yes, So this is our story up right now. This kid, Max Mattis, he was turned eighteen yesterday, went with his father's real estate firm. They got those seats of the bullpen, they were fifteen of them there, and his father's associate Ryan Wold was the guy who I think he missed it with his left hand by about five inches. It bounced off the table. He missed it with his right hand, like it touched his fingertips fell below. And this kid, Max, he was standing like right beside the bullpen. He if you see some of the videos, he's in the red and he runs in from the if you're looking at it left hand side, A couple guys running from the right hand side, and this guy in a black shirt. They're fighting for it. Max told us he got his got in some sort of lock. He had the ball and then lost it to this guy. This guy was whisked away by security, but he is. He is in class this morning, and he did tell me he got a full night sleep, knowing that he gave it the best effort.
On a side note, how strong is the Caitlin Clark memorabilia market.
It is pretty strong. I mean that the ticket for there's gonna be plenty of tickets, but at least the first sign ticket from her debut went for more than ten thousand dollars. We have a story up on collect too that the record card price came in. You know, was I think as they ate more than eighty thousand dollars a couple of days ago.
So it's there.
It's definitely there. She's she's holding up and captivating the world more than I thought she would.
Great to talk to you, so always, thank you got it.
Thanks Darren Ravel collect Media figured he'd have all the information. We interview the kid who had the ball before he goes to class.
Revel's great. Uh.
Jeremy in South Florida. Hi, Jeremy, what's on your mind today?
Hey?
Dan?
First time, medium time five eleven and three, five eleven, three fourths, two thirty nine and three fourths.
Also milk first if you go, if you're curious.
Hey, I'm a lifelong Dodger fan since eighty one World Series transplanted to South Florida for Orange County about nine years ago. I was at Game one of the World Series eighty eight when Gibson hit his homer. Never thought I'd see an event like that again. But my birthday was in July, and my daughter and some of them I bought us tickets for ironically last night's game a few months ago. No idea of what we were, you know, in for and just an incredible event.
To be at.
I wish it had been a little more electric crowd like in LA, but it was just amazing to be there. His fifty first homer went right over my head. I was I thought it was coming right to me, but you know, just missed it. So yeah, just incredible situation, situation and game. But also had a quick T shirt idea since we're smacked down the middle of Heisman season. I noticed something recently, and being a guy who loves a good plan words like you guys, especially Fritzy, I noticed that the word Heisman says he is man if you look at if you break it down, and just thought you guys could do something cool with your creative team, like he is the Man or something like that kind of T shirt.
So all right, well, thank you, Jeremy, thank you.
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There have been thirty fifty home run seasons since nineteen sixty nine. One player had more than twenty four stolen bases.
That was show Hey.
This year, three players had at least twenty stolen bases while hitting at least fifty home runs Alex Rodriguez, Brady Anderson, and Ken griffiud Junior. Other players had at least ten stolen bases Aaron Judge twice, Barry Bond, Sammy Sosa, Greg Vaughn, A Rod and Ken Griffy Junior. I mean, that's the rarity of this of getting to fifty stolen bases with fifty home runs when nobody else is close to that.
With a fifty home run season.
As I mentioned Ronald Lacunya, that is a quietly talked about forty one homers and seventy three stolen bases. So if you're looking at somebody who could possibly do fifty to fifty, that would be the first person.
I know. He's been injured.
But they'll they'll be players who will now make this their goal that they will. Now the stolen base is back a little bit because before that, guys weren't running. As a Rod famously said to me, I said, why don't you steal bases? He said, when they start paying me more to steal bases, I will. Now it feels like the stolen base is back a little bit. Ready to bring the big screen to your screen. It's Ryan Going and Emily Blunt. It's the fall Guy. The Fall Guy extended cut only on Peacock. We got let me see here. I got a couple of things that I wanted to mention. Best games of the weekend. As we slide into the weekend, brought to you by our partners at King Sawaiian, you get together with family and friends, enjoy the weekend, making every Sunday a slider Sunday Ravens Cowboys. That's at the top of the list. Baltimore. This is about as must win as possible this early in the season. We all know the numbers. When you start out zero and three, you're in a very very very very limited category of making the playoffs. The twenty eighteen Texans the lone franchise that managed to turn things around and make it to the postseason after losing three in a row.
The Eagles at the Saints.
The Saints have become a real popular bed to make it to the Super Bowl. I think more money has been on the Saints in the first two weeks or after two weeks to go to the Super Bowl. They beat up on Carolina and they beat up on the Cowboys. This might be a little bit more of a signature win. The expectations are there. The Eagles are coming to town. The Eagles coming off a bad loss. USC at Michigan.
That's fun.
So the start of the season, Michigan was listed as an eleven point favorite against USC. Michigan is now a five point underdog in this game. They have looked pedestrian like, Yes, Paul.
If Michigan loses this. Later this season, they have Illinois Oregon Ohio State. You're looking at a possible five loss season.
Wait are you putting Illinois in there as a team that could beat Michigan?
Now?
I am okay? Now could be how the Mighty have fallen? Well, we'll wait till we get to that.
Game, and then maybe there's a pie of the face on that one.
Yes, see, a game like USC at Michigan just sort of either reminds me or reinforces the idea that I could be a sucker for brands, because like when you look at my USC Michigan, I don't even care who's ranked, who's nights Like this is going to be fun. Yeah, it doesn't matter. It's just just based on the branding of the schools. That's a lot of fun. How often have they played like Rose Bowl? I don't know the last I don't know how often they played.
How about at Michigan ever?
Checking?
Okay, you also have Utah in Oklahoma State. Alan Bowman is in his seventh year. I think he's doctor Alan Bowman cam Rising. He's the Utah quarterback in his seventh year. So their combined age. Have we had a quarterback matchup where the two quarterbacks are combined forty nine.
Years of age, Jim Kelly versus Dan Marino.
To put it into perspective, not that I need to. Jade and Daniels, Anthony Richardson, c J. Stroud, Caleb Williams, Brice Young all younger than these quarterbacks. Tennessee at Oklahoma, So number six Tennessee at number fifteen Oklahoma.
I like that.
That's a lot of fun the volunteer. Now their schedule, this is a little deceptive there. Their point differential in three games is one hundred and seventy eight. But I don't think they've played a quality opponent. Do you have the Michigan USC.
Yeah, com Michigan in the history Michigan is four and six historically versus USC. They only played once at Michigan in an Arbor nineteen fifty eight.
MM Michigan won by a point.
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Here Andrew and Florida. Hi Andrew, what's on your mind?
Hey?
DP six two to ten, really really really tough to see the Patriots last night the way they were, especially after that Cincinnati game. I really was hopeful that we were going to have something to look forward to this season. But then again in the off season, everybody that you know, we we didn't.
There.
There wasn't the the bar was not set too high. And but I got a question for the group. Are the Bengals that bad? Obviously because of the AC game, but losing.
To the Patriots.
Are the Paths that bad because we went into overtime against Seahawks beat Inincinnati?
Or what are the Jets?
It's too early to tell, Thank you, Andrew. I think the Bengals always start slow. I mean, they are one play away from beating the Chiefs in Kansas City, so I have to take you what you did most recently. It shocked me that they were going through the motions against the Patriots.
And I do like I do, like drawd Mayo.
It feels like it's a different team like that, you know, it's not Belichick, and I think that's a good thing for a young team to have drawed Mayo. Maybe he can get some magic like we have with the Texans. Maybe, And I would be kind of sprinkling in Drake may through the course of the year when the game's out of reach.
Bring him in now.
He got roughed up last night when they brought him in. Welcome to the NFL. But I would ease him in. He's not ready to go, but I would let him get a little little taste there.
Yes, Ton, I know it's only.
Three games in and the Bengals start out slow, But don't you feel comfortable saying the Patriots of last night is probably more of what we're going to see than the Patriots that upset Cincinnati.
Probably. Yeah.
I mean, it's like the Bengals upset the Bengals. It wasn't the Patriots. It's like the Bengals went through the motions and you had t Higgins out, Jamar Chase drama there, and they start slow, and you know, all of a sudden, you go, that's one of those where teams think they can just flip the light switch and go, you know what, We're gonna be ready to go, and then all of a sudden, you're not ready to go and then it's too late.
Yes, Marvin, so was last night not a quality win? It's a win.
That's it. You know what. It's like.
The Jets beat the Titans and didn't deserve to, but it's still a win. At the end of the year, when you go, oh, they just made it in you can look back on that game or the Patriots game.
Yes, Seaton got a problem.
With the Jets uniforms.
Oh, you've better go through Paully first with that quality control. When it comes to uniform What was the problem with the Jets uniform? Why is your helmet a different color than your uniform? Why is the green on your helmet a different color green? I have a problem. I'm right there with you. I have a problem. I need MATCHI matching. Yeah, that's not it, that's not the look.
I do know what you're saying. It seems like a much darker helmet. Plus it's shiny, and the uniforms are more of a more of a matted green. I think it's the shine, not the color, but it definitely seems I'm going to go two shades darker on the helmet.
It's got to be matted, right, the helmet should be mad. Yeah. Oh boy, well, I don't think I can make the uniform shine.
If the uniform is like a matt green, then your helmet should be And I agree.
And matted that's I mean, that's cool. Yeah.
Oklahoma State football has that issue a little bit when they go the orange on orange. The orange helmet has this burnt red orange look. It's like a sunburst red orange. It doesn't match the jerseys.
Yes, that's the reason number one and twelve why I hate the Cowboys. Their helmet doesn't match their uniform, the star navy blue, the numbers and the stripes royal blue.
He's got a point. Yes, it's kind of any green.
Justs faux pap that they would do that.
Huh.
Green, just just just you know what, Just don't be part of the second Yeah, you don't have to wait.
Isn't rhyme time today? It is?
Yes, you don't take it away from you. I'm not going Let's bring in Dylan. Let's bring in Dylan. Dylan are graphics Gy also full time Gambler, part of the Gambling Podcast.
I don't really have anything that rhymes though.
Yeah, so we're gonna kick Todd out of his chair. And we'll bring in what.
Rhymes murder graphics guy, Dylan, killing Dylan, killing Dylan.
These picks, he's killing with these picks.
That's what killing the graphics guy.
I just had a rime time for you. Yeah all right, Dylan, Yeah yeah, it was murder graphics guy killing Dylan.
Okay, So Dylan is the graphics guy here. He worked with the big German and he also is part of the gambling podcast. I don't know how you did last week. I can tell you, Dan, Okay.
So on when I came on last week, I gave a few of my best bets. I had the under in the Iowa game, Nah, I would to cover the spread, Nah, Oregon State to cover against Oregon that went poorly. I had the Ravens minus eight and half against the Raiders.
So these are your best bets, He's were my best bets? Did you go over? How about that?
That's not easy to do just as hard, Dan, you are the Chicago White Sox of prognosticators. You Okay, so maybe people just bet against you. Maybe that's the great last week? Okay, what do you have for us this week?
Dylan?
So this week I'll start with college Tonight I got San Jose State plus twelve and.
A half against Wazoo. Of course you do. I love San Jose State.
This year they've been good to me.
Okay.
I got UCLA plus twenty four against LSU. Really, yes, I watching LSU. They are They're not good.
Their defense is awful.
Okay, yes, Yes, UCLA has been a no show so far this year. Dylan, are you you like LSU because they keep people in games?
I think they'll keep them around, Like twenty four is a lot. I think they'll hang around. I think LSU will win. But if UCLA does win, everyone in LA can go to Buffalo Wild Wings and get six free wings. So that's incentive.
Okay, Wow, that's that's quite the motivation with a minimum purchase.
Yes, my favorite thing about the Gameling podcast is when Dylan and Shay give real sports analysis and give reasons why I know, and it completely backfires on them.
The defense has been great.
The more research that they do, the less likely that they're gonna win their bets.
What else do you have?
The only thing I've learned is that logic is your enemy.
Yeah, most of the time. What else? Did I mean?
I have a system, Dan, as we all know. So I am taking under thirty five in the Iowa Minnesota game. I always been very mean to me this year, they were very generous last year to you. They are They're clawn it all back, okay. And then NFL. I've got the Texans minus two against the Vikings. Jefferson's a little banged up, and I think Darnold's do to kind of ye floundering.
Okay.
And I got the Commanders plus seven and a half against the Bengals. The Bengals I think have taken the most money on them of any team this week. Okay, And those are my best bets, Dan, So let's see if we can turn it around.
All right.
Well, thank you, Dylan, Thank you Dylan the graft. Thanks Scott nailed it. I don't know if he nailed it. All right, Let's take a break. Dave Roberts will join us, coming up. More of your phone calls as well, and Will Ferrell coming up next hour.
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Dodgers hosts The Rockies later on tonight the weekend series with Colorado. We spoke with Dave Roberts yesterday. This is prior to yesterday's game. We reached out because I said to Fritzie, I think that show Hey will break this record join the fifty to fifty club over the weekend, and we wanted to talk to Dave Roberts and get that opportunity. So he joined us prior to the game with Miami yesterday. And the first thing I ask is how much credit do you take for show Heyo Tony's season.
Zero? He is mad. He is one of one. It's been fun to have a front row seat watching what he does each night.
If I told you in March that he was approaching a fifty to fifty season, you would have said, what.
Very unlikely, very unlikely, but wouldn't be shocked.
But he has this. What were you told after the procedure?
I was told that he was just going to DH and the plan was to rehab him on the pitching side, the arm, to get him ready for twenty twenty five, but count on him as a full time hitter.
Where does he stand in his progress of pitching.
He is.
Throwing active complete bullpens as far as using his pitch mix but not facing hitters yet, So he's still a ways away what I see being in a competitive game.
There's no possibility that he's pitching in the postseason, you.
Know, I think that I guess I left the door open, and I think that with Showhy, I've learned that nothing is impossible. But I still feel that the progression is still a long ways away from being in a major league game. But I think it's okay to leave that door just slightly cracked.
Well, that's what I was wondering.
Given the pitching staff, the state of your starting pitching, you know, do you you kind of run that risk of we can we speed it up a little bit or can you take a chance maybe sooner than you had thought with using him.
I don't think so, And certainly with the starting staff injury injuries that we've accrued throughout this season, thinking of him as a starter to give us any length that is in that there's a zero percent chance of that happening.
Talking to Dave Roberts, Dodger manager, how would you describe this season if somebody didn't know what the Dodgers had done, only saw your record, how would you sum it.
Up challenging, I think is a very fair word.
You have before guaranteed a World Series.
God, you just never let that lie. And I love the way it's such a bias take. That's great, great, well done.
So that leads me to how do you feel about your team this year?
I like our team. It's certainly with the potential roster, it's not the talent how we envisioned it. And I think that any team that's contending for the World Series this year probably to say the same thing. And I do know that with baseball, it's not always the most talented team. You know that that that wins the World Series. And I think for our club, Dan and I and I say this is talent is the floor for our ball club, which we certainly still have a lot of talent, and our fight is going to be the ceiling. So I expect our ceiling to be significantly raised this postseason.
I talked to Jeff Passon of ESPN yesterday. I said, how many teams could win the World Series? Take a guess how many teams? He said, every.
Team that gets a good that gets an invite to the postseason.
Yes, that's exactly what he said. He said, twelve team. Do you think it's that wide open?
I do.
I do because I think that, you know, I think that each all twelve teams that are going to get in, I think that have some strengths clearly and then have some clear flaws. And then so I think with that it just comes down to, you know, which team is playing the best. And I know everyone says it every year, but when you have twelve different participants, there's a lot of variables. And so yeah, so I agree with.
Jeff, best team you face this year, you know, that's a good question.
I think the it's interesting is I could say the Cubs, you know, they they every time we play them, they seem like they're just kick our butts and they're playing the best. But I think, you know, at one point, I thought the Phillies weren't going to lose a game this year, you know, I thought, you know, we fortunately caught the Indians at the right time. The Brewers have obviously had a great season. I think probably the best team that we've played this year probably the Padres.
Okay, yeah, certainly second half of the season they've been great. I'm just curious go back to the Phillies can you ever remember a player who was like Kyle Schwarber.
You know, No, you know, he's certainly a three what do they call three potential outcomes or whatever type of hitter as far as they hit the walk and then the homer, the walk and the strikeout.
Ye.
But I just love this guy's GrITT. He's very tough. I think that, you know, you see this guy and you can clearly see that his teammates kind of take his personality. And you know, even with the WBC, I've talked to some players and they say he was kind of the guy that was like the heart and soul of that that you team.
I say, but to go up there in homer that first at bat, that has to be so demoralizing when you're the opposing manager or pitcher.
It is, you know, because I think that, you know, and that's why we have show Hay hitting in the one, you know, because pitchers want to get into the game and they want to throw that heater for a strike. But a guy like Schwarber can make it one zero pretty quickly. And when they when he's in the batter's box like show Hay, they're already in scoring position. So, uh, you know hitter. Pitchers like hitters, and they have egos. They don't want to throw a first pick slider or break invall. But if you don't, you throw it over the plate, it's going to be damaged.
I was wondering about this, since you had one of the more famous stolen bases in the history of baseball. Have you helped or how have you helped show Hay with stealing bases?
You know what I actually, Dan, I haven't. I've left that to show Hey and Clayton McCullough and they do a great job at setting. And it started in spring training with show Hay working on his explosiveness, his jumps and the way he studies pitchers tendencies tells it's really remarkable. It really is. And I will say this is that, you know, there was a point I think sometime May where I really saw show Hey as a base dealer and not just an athletic past the baseball player that outruns the baseball because in years past his stolen base percentage was was, you know, really pedestrian. But this year it's very efficient.
And see, that's what I wondered.
With injuries coming off of procedure surgery and then allowing him to run as much as he's been running. I was surprised at them.
Yeah, but it's he doesn't dive, he slides, he uses legs, So you're talking about the right elbow. And I just don't think that there's any real risk with the stolen bases. And I do think that it's thought out in the sense that this is the only year that he expects to not pitch as well, So that's why I think he's using his legs a lot more and just a more dynamic hitter.
Any chance that Mookie Bettz plays all nine positions in a game.
I will guarantee Dan, there's no chance that he plays all my physicians in a game.
How about for fun one day?
There's no chance I see him behind the plate? That can happen?
All right, eight positions? Can you see Mookie playing eight positions?
Can I see him playing eight positions in a game? You know what, there's a possibility.
Okay, that's all I'm asking.
I think there's a possibility of that. We'll see if we can make that happen.
Well, Hey, good luck with Colorado. Thanks for joining us. Always great to talk to you. All right, DT, take care that's Dave Roberts. We talked to him yesterday prior to the game, and so in case you're wondering that he didn't react to Show Hey what he did yesterday, we talked to him yesterday right after the show ended and talked about this season in totality. But I was surprised that he left open the opportunity of maybe maybe Show Hey pitching in the postseason. I don't see it happening. I would hope that they don't, but obviously they'll take all the precautionary measures if they're going to put him out there. It's just their pitching staff is so depleted, and it might be if you're using him, you can't have him as a starting pitcher. I think maybe you have him for an inning or two. That would be probably the max of what you would want to do. But even then I wouldn't run the risk. I mean, this is a long term investment. You know, you may have to chalk this one up that you might not be the team to beat. You know, your lineup is great, but it's going to come down to pitching, and that pitching staff is not very good.
Yeah, Pauling.
When I heard Dave Roberts say it, though, my mind starts churning, as if Otani season can get any better somehow deep in the playoffs, the Dodgers are in need of a pitcher, a bullpen arm for three innings, whatever may be, and he saves the day. It's like, can this get any better?
Edward in San Antonio? Hi, Edward, what's on your mind today?
Good morning, mister Patrick. This is the first time ever I call into your show, and I'm honored for the opportunity. Please forgive me for disagreement with you, But on the tany situation, I think it's completely wrong to be saying that he's a first baseball player to the fifty to fifty club, Albert Bell, as I understand, unless I'm wrong, But as I understand, Albert Bell had fifty home runs and more than fifty doubles. And that's in comparison in the NBA, if you get ten points and ten rebounds, you're giving credit for a double double. If you get ten points in ten that's you're considered getting a double double. You get ten points in ten brocks, you considered getting a double double, you're credited, or any combination thereof. So it should be the same thing in baseball.
Well, will agree to disagree with that seat and did bring that up, and thanks for the phone Calloyd were Seaton brought up Albert Bell with a fifty homer fifty double season. Edward gets it, But that's just that's hitting. So let's say, and it's impressive. It is absolutely impressive, but it's we're dealing with two different disciplines here. You're running and you're hitting with power. Albert Bell hit with power, and if you didn't hit a home run, you hit a double. Once again, I get it. That's a fifty to fifty. Which one's more impressive to you? Somebody's stealing fifty and hitting fifty home runs. Yeah, that's the right answer. Final Hour on This Meet Friday,