DP reacts to the second round of the NBA Draft. Where does each team stand? Maury Povich breaks down his favorite guests on his new podcast "On Par with Maury Povich," and shares the one time his wife mistook Dan Hicks for Dan Patrick. And Seattle Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh humbly breaks down his historic season thus far and shares how he is just "an average-looking dude" walking around cities and not being recognized.
You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox Sports Radio. Made it to a Friday.
It's a meat Friday and apparently it's a surprise menure, secretive menu. Dylan and Tyler, they are doing double duty today. Don't know what the menu is for meat Friday? A collab here? Yes, Dylan, I just sent over to you Dan. Okay, well you can give me the menu, all right. So it's actually National Onion Day, Dan, and you know I hate onions, but we have to honor the national We do not have to honor onions.
So you don't want onion rings.
You guys can have onion rings. What else do you have?
Bloomin onion?
What else do you have?
French onion zoop in summer?
Oh my god? Okay, what else do you have?
We also have grilled revis and loaded baked potatoes, okay with onions, caramelized onions. I'm sure on everything. Okay, great, thank you? Thanks running it by the home office here. Welcome to me Friday. Who's got it better than we do?
No money?
Question mark the Minister of Humors here, Dylan's in for seating today. Marv is here, Paula, yours truly and the brgs.
Yes, Paul you I know you pretty well. You really don't like onions or eat things with onions? Are you gonna tap out?
Are you gonna? No? No?
I plow through it. Team player, you know, Meet Friday isn't all about me. It's about us, teamwork. This is what you do. So I'll try it, and you know, morale will pick up. I think I got'm low. Now I'm down in the dumps. Now, you know, I meet Friday and I'm not feeling great. Didn't know about the menu. You gave me a heads up that it was a National onion Day, and as soon as you said it, I go no. I hate onions. Feels like this was hidden from me. Feels like it was hidden from me. Yes, Dylan, what would be worse for you?
National onion Day or National mayo Day?
Mayonnaise that's number one. Yeah, it's a worthless condiment.
I'm gonna have to disagree. It's just it's bland. But a turkey sandwich needs mayonnaise on it.
No, it needs mustard on it.
I can't abide. I'm sorry.
Okay.
We played golf the other day some of the backroom guys, and then we went to Seven Seas and had some beers and wings, and then I ordered a Turkey club and the waitress goes mayo, and I go, no mustard. And then Dylan goes, what like you were offended? And I go, I'm not putting mayo on this flabbergas is actually the real It's tasted great with mustard. Okay, come on, let's go, let's get started. Come on, let's go, Come on, let's rally here. It's a Friday. It's our one ready to go. Stat of the Day, brought to you by Paninia America. The official trading cards of this program shout out to tire Rack. For forty years, they've been helping us get the right tires for how and what and where you drive, ship fast and freeback by free road hazard protection, convenient installation options like mobile tire installation, tire rack dot Com the way tire buying should be. NBA Draft Round two is over. No freshman taken in round two, eighteen taken in round one. Talk a little bit more about that coming up. The ex Baltimore Raven kicker Justin Tucker suspended ten weeks.
We'll talk about that. Says he's innocent.
Is rep says he's innocent, then why are you accepting a ten week suspension?
Have that for you coming up?
This almost feels like something that Maury Povich would have had on his show. Maury Povich, the former daytime host. He's got a new podcast, Golf Podcast, talks to some big stars. Maury Povich, the father will join us coming up. Marvin was a big Maury Povich fan because he liked when they would boo people when the guy would come out to see if he's the You know, two women are out there, both are pregnant, and then all of a sudden they do a DNA test and they'd introduced Jimmy Lipper and then the audience would go.
Boo, boom, Shut up, y'all don't know me. Shout up, y'all don't even know the whole story. Murray, this is what happened. It was never Moury, It was Murray, Murray, Murray Povich, Murray, let me tell you what happened.
Yes, Poe.
Maury Povich was pretty groundbreaking at the time because it was like Oprah and Phil Donahu in the late eighties, in the early nineties and Maury Povich just before Jerry Springer kind of took it in that racy direction.
And Springer took it to another level.
But Maury Povich, like Maury Povich, wasn't as you know, down in the trenches the dirt like Jerry Springer was. Like Springer, Springer was the mayor of Cincinnati and famously paid a prostate with a check and then they kind of check came back.
That's a bananas move. That's how I want to get caught here.
Yeah, but I think Maury gets lumped in with the Jerry Springer crowd.
And so we'll talk to Maury Povitch.
By the way, his father, Shirley Povich, that was his name, Shirley Povitch, longtime columnists, sports columnists for the Washington Post and like seventy years something crazy.
So we'll talk to Maury Povich. She'll join us.
And he's known as the Big Dumper, Cal Rolly, the Mariners catcher. He's hitting a lot of home runs. Okay, is this a good nickname? Most people get a nickname, like Kobe Bryant called himself the Black Mamba. You know, some guys just say, hey, this is my nickname. This is where you're called something, And sometimes you have no choice but to kind of accept it.
That.
Hey, I'm known as the Big dump. Yes, Pully, it's fun.
He's a big, thick dude, he's a catcher. It's easy to get to know him because of cal Rawley. Yeah, you kind of know that. But if you say, oh, the big dumper went yard, it makes you it crosses you over.
Well, let's go around the room. Yeah, your name Big Dumper Todd. I'm cool with it, okay, Uh, Dylan.
I'm absolutely cool with that.
Alright, Marvin, I like it, okay, PAULI.
I don't love it, but once it's in place, you don't fight it.
Yeah, I get you know, he's a thick guy. He's a catcher.
And I don't know. I don't know. What kind of sponsorship do you get with the big Dumper dude?
Wifes?
Oh okay, all right, total toilets. Oh okay, okay, we thought this out charming. How about a dump truck, big, the big dump truck.
Like a garbage company.
Yeah, something I don't know, maybe just him from behind, and that's the the dump truck logo, the big Dumper.
He'll join us a little bit later up, all right.
Phone calls always welcome eight seven to seven three d P show Tyler sitting by taking your phone calls, we say good morning if you're watching on Peacock, thank you for downloading the app, and we say good morning to our radio affiliates around the country over four hundred cities that carry this award nominated program.
All right, with the draft last night.
It was kind of interesting from the standpoint of you actually knew some of the players last night. They've been around for a little while. This is the youngest first round as far as age goes in NBA history, going back modern era the ABA NBA merger, so you can go back to the seventy you know, let's say nineteen seventy average age nineteen years, three hundred and eight days. You had eighteen freshmen taken in the first round. You also had eight consecutive freshmen taken in the first round. Second round. It was just a little bit different because you had guys who were actually juniors, seniors, and you go, yeah, I remember that guy. Then he played at Florida. Oh that guy, Yeah, he played at Creighton. And these guys can make rosters. You know, the guys you're drafting potential in that first round, the freshman who played one year, one and done. Where you get somebody who's a little more seasoned and they're going to be coming in They're going to be more mature and probably be more accepting of their role. And these guys will probably be making you know, there's a few guys in the second round who will make rosters. The Ace Bailey situation, to me is interesting because he was drafted by Utah and Danny Ainge. But Ace Bailey's rep said, Hey, there's teams that we don't want to go to, we don't want to work out for, and I believe Utah was one of those teams. In fact, one was told specifically do not draft him, and that team could have been Utah. Because Ace Bailey out of Rutgers, he wanted to go to Brooklyn or Washington, and there were teams that passed on him, seventy six Ers, Charlotte, but Utah Danny Ainge is saying, hey, too much talent here, I'm going to take you. They're not even sure if he's going to show up. Normally, this is the day or maybe Saturday, where the player shows up, holds up the jersey, and meets with the local media. I guess there's real concern in Utah that he might not be there. And Summer League starts pretty soon, and I think Utah they get started before just about anybody. There's real concern that you might have a guy who may not want to go to Utah and then what happens after that. And he's a guy who can play. I mean, he's athletic, but you know, I think he was just or his business people said he didn't want to go to seventy six for whatever reason. Like I think he wants. He wanted to go where he knew he was going to play right away. He can put up numbers right away, and those places. Philadelphia's going to share the ball with Embiid and you know Paul George Maxie, you know he's not going to get his touches. Charlotte kind of a mess. You know, you got a ball dominant guard there. But I mean they end up taking Canipple from Duke, but they probably would have taken Ace Bailey if he was willing to go there. But Utah Danny Ainge, Hey, he's one of the slicker gms that we've had in recent memory. And maybe he looked at this and said, it's too much of a bargain. I can't pass up talent even if the guy doesn't want to come here.
Yeah, Paul, it does feel like everyone's pointing that Utah saying that without saying it that Ace Bailey didn't want to go there. If this were the NFL, Danny Ainge would draft him and try to package a trade to Washington or to Brooklyn. But they would do that on draft night, like back in the day with Eli Manning. It wouldn't stretch over a couple of days.
Yeah, you wonder if you're taking talent, but what are you getting with that talent? I mean, I love talent, but there are times when you're dealing with talent. I love having it. I don't want to have to, like you got to deal with this. And you would think he would be excited to go there, but he might say, hey, I don't want to live there. Yeah, these other places, I know I could probably be a star sooner. Like I understand all that. And he was upfront with people, but just trying to understand exactly why or why not with Salt Lake. And you know, the Summer League starts July fifth, so it starts in California July fifth, It starts in Salt Lake July fifth, Then it starts in uh Vegas July tenth. Summer League July fifth is not very far away. What are we dealing eight days here before he's got to show up supposed to show up, Probably needs to show up before that, say a lo to the media and say how much you love Salt Lake City. Come in wearing a Karl Malone jersey, you know Mark Eaton? How about a horny jersey, Jeff HORNI sex, I'm.
Harny for Utah. Who is my guy? Adam Keith nice at all?
Oh, Andre Carolenko, Young, Darren Williams.
Oh okay, yeah yeah.
So that to me, that's that's that great curiosity of And I'm gonna guess they didn't even interview the guy.
I'm gonna guess they didn't talk to Hiss Bailey. This is one of those.
Now sometimes this happens in the NFL, and it'll be like a guy go, I didn't even talk to these people Jacksonville Blake Bortles. So they were drafting Blake Bortles. They never gave you the impression they were drafting Blake Bortles. They didn't even interview him because everybody thought, oh, man is Jacksonville taking Johnny Manziel. Then all of a sudden, they go Lake Bortles, and everybody went, wait a minute.
We didn't know anything about this. It does happen.
And I think he had like thirty five touchdown passes one year led the NFL maybe in touchdown passes.
Yes, Paul Lake Bortles is still one of the NFL mysteries that bothered me. I know I shouldn't be making this left turn. But his second year in the league, thirty five touchdown passes. Now he had eighteen picks, but thirty five.
I'll take the thirty five.
Four years later he's out of the sport.
Yeah, how that happened?
Yeah, look at Marvin all right.
Yes, that threw me off.
The thirty five touchdown passes.
Yeah, I knew he was the quarterback on the team that they were up. When the pages in the AFC champion Chip Gean.
He was going to go to the super Bowl.
He done seventeen.
He was going to the super Bowl eight years ago.
He should have been. Nick Foles.
Bounced around.
Yeah, okay, we'll take a break. We got to come up with the poll question. Dylan, that's your duty today, since you screwed up the menu.
Screwed up or carefully calculated?
Well with you might have been carefully calculated, Dylan line. Yes, carefully calculated, Tyler. Maybe it was something different, But it's a meat Friday and morale's high.
Yeah, let's go.
Wow. Goodbyes, baked potatoes.
Onions, onions, take a break here back after this Dan Patrick show.
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Hi, this is Jay.
I'm the producer of the Paula and Tony Fusco Show. Usually in these promos they ask you to listen to the show. I'm here to ask you please don't listen to the show. The hosts are two absolute morons who have the dumbest takes on sports imaginable. Don't listen to the show so it can get Camps.
Who wha, what the hell are you doing in our studio? Get him?
Ignore that fool.
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He is the former talk show host and he's got a new podcast on par with Maury Povich. So you can check that on it YouTube everywhere you listen to podcasts, new episodes dropping every Monday. As Maury Povich goes back to his journalistic roots in depth conversations with the most influential voices, legendary athletes, groundbreaking journalists, cultural icons, and more. As we bring in Maury Povich, what do you learn from somebody when you play a round of golf with them?
Well, I'll tell you. I think you'll learn everything. I think someone's entire personality comes out on the golf course.
The good, the bad, the ugly, It is all there.
And I think you can judge for yourself whether you want to play with this guy.
Again, I agree with you.
I think if I was interviewing somebody for a job, going out and playing golf, I find out how competitive you are, how honest you are, Are you a storyteller? Are you courteous to others? And those are all things that you have to have to work in, you know, a working environment.
Yeah, I think, boy, you can tell so much every you know, every demon that you have comes out, and every pleasure that you can enjoy comes out.
I mean, that's why I love it so much.
Why also, by.
The way, the other reason why I love it is and I don't know if you know the story. Dan, my father, of course, was the long time seventy five years sports columnist writer for the Washington Post. He was a fourteen year old can in Bar Harbor, Maine. That's where he grew up. And it was a caddie and he was thrown in with this guy when he was like fifteen years old. And the guy said, after my father caddied for him, you're the best caddie. Will my carriage will pick you up every day at Keebow Valley Golf Club. And after three years he goes to my grandmother says to my grandmother, I want to take your son with me to Washington, d C. I own my own golf course at my house, and I'll also give you give him a job. And my grandmother reluctantly said yes. My father showed up. The first person he caddied for was President Warren G. Harding, and the guy gave him job. The guy owned the Washington Post. That was a seventy five year experience for my.
Father, and your dad was a legendary columnist. Here is one of the great journalists of his time, and I'm curious when he sees his son during the you know, doing the Morey Covid show does what does dad think about what his son is doing.
Well, I'll tell you the first national show that he had to deal with was a current affair, this kind of tabloid crazy show that I did. And he said to me, well, son, just don't worry about it. I said, well, Tom Shales, the Pulitzer Prize winning television critic at The Washington Post, wrote this terrible story about me.
Dad.
He used every s word in the world, smarmy, swordid, everything in the world. Please don't show this mom today. Don't even look at it. He says, Well, son, you know, don't worry about Just go about your business.
It's fine, It's all right.
I said, yeah, But Dad, he says, you know I helped to hire Tom Shales at the Washington Post. I said, yeah, that, but I'm your son.
He says, you have.
But good writers are hard to find.
That was my father. Did you ever get injured on the Mariy Povich show.
No, no, never never.
I mean, you know, it's interesting. Everybody kind of compares my show with Jerry Springer Show, and Jerry and I were great friends, and Jerry always made the distinction. I give him full credit. He said, Mari, here's the difference. You're the real thing, and my show is wrestling, and.
That's how, and that's how.
By the way, I got a story to tell you, Dan about you many years ago. Connie Chong, as you know, my wife and I were at the Tahoe Celebrity Tournament and we're out there one time and this is after you, this is when you were on sports and she we loved watching you on Sports Center. I don't know who you were with at the time, Steiner or somebody who I can't remember, but we just were enthralled with you. And so we're at the tournament and I said to Connie at the cocktail hower, I said, there's Dan. So she goes over and starts talking and starts telling Dan how great you are on Sports Center, and how funny you are and how great you are. And I walk up behind her and I said, Connie, that's Dan Hicks, that's not Dan Patrick. And she says, oh, my gosh, I said, that's Dan Hicks. And then she turns to me and she says, well, you know, all these white sports guys look alike.
Fair enough, but I'll take those compliments even if they went through day. I do remember seeing you and Connie at Tahoe, Yes, oh yeah, but I've had people think that I was Stewart's which, yeah, let that one sink in.
Yeah, well, everybody always mistook me for Springer all the time on the street.
I mean, it's crazy.
Was there ever an episode where you had a hard time doing it or being convinced to do it?
Well, there was.
There was a couple of episodes the same theme that that just were astounding that this woman was accusing this guy of being the father of her twins. And I, of course, the best thing I ever did was I never knew the results of anything. I wanted to be like my guests, my audience. I want to be as a surprise as anybody. That's why the inflection you are the father, you are not the father. I open up this envelope and this guy is the father of one twin, but not the other. And so I turn around to the stamp, I went what is this? And then I find out that with fraternal twins and you're a very active young lady, you can have two fathers.
He's Maury Povich. He has a new podcast called On par with Maury Povich. New episode dump every Monday. It's available on YouTube or wherever you get your podcast. Who do you want to interview? Give me your wish list.
What I'd really like to interview is and by the way, an old golf buddy of mine is the forty third President.
Of the United States, George W.
Bush, who I really kind of admire in the way he's conducted himself after his presidency and so, and he doesn't give many interviews. I would love to interview him. I would also like to interview Shaq and Charles because you know, do they like each other? Don't they like they play this game. I'd love to have them on both Shaq as Shaq was always a great fan of the Marray Show because he said that he and his buddies used to bet on the guy was the father.
Did you ever feel sorry for a guest, like in a situation like that where you're revealing information.
Well, I felt sorry for the woman, the women who used to come on multiple times and the audience would boo them, and I was, I was, you know, and I was. I always felt that they had a certain amount of courage and bravery for keep coming on to find out who the father of their child was. And so I felt sorry for them every single time it didn't turn out to be the father.
Because these are life altering moments.
Absolutely, absolutely, and you know, and I used to get criticized all the time in the media that I was exploiting this theme and everything, and I always said, you know, if I can get two parents the child's life they have, those kids have a better chance.
That's it.
Just it's just for real. And so that's how I hang my hat.
Could you do your show today the same way you did it given today's guidelines parameters.
Yeah, I think so I could. I could, but I think the show ended at the proper time. And by the way, it hasn't ended.
The repeats.
I mean, you know about repeats. I mean the repeats are getting as good ratings as the originals, and so I mean, it's just it's a gift that keeps on giving.
Give me your favorite interview so far that you've had on your podcast.
Well, it's interesting. I've had so many different ones. I'll tell you one. I really like. You know who Jeff Perlman is, the sportswriter, the guy who wrote Winning Time. I thought he was fascinating. I think he had he had a lot of good things to say. I have Barbara Corkan from Shark Tank. Yeah, she's as feisty as they come, and they're great. And then I this week is a dear friend of mine, Lewis Black, the great comedian. And Lewis is a friend of mine. Lewis we knew Lewis a little bit. And then my wife gave me a surprise seventieth birthday party many years ago and hires, unbeknownst to me, Lewis to do the entertainment at my apartment in New York. Black comes on. The first thing he says is how far have I fallen? Broadway and Carnegie Hall and Povich's birthday party.
Well, good luck with the podcast. It's great to thank you and give my best to Connie. Tell her that Dan Hicks says, hello.
I sure will nice to talk to you.
Dan, my bud, Maury Povich, you are not the father. It's a podcast called on par with Maury Povich.
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Cal Rawley catcher for the Seattle Mariners, and he leads all the baseball and home runs and RBIs. Twenty twenty five is obviously a career season, but he's had home runs before each of the last three seasons. He's led all catchers twenty seven homers, then thirty, then thirty four and he joins US now.
Cal.
What's different this year as opposed to the last couple of years.
I think really just me trying to be consistent at the plate and not you know, going up and changing a bunch of things mid season, trying to.
You know, go down rabbit holes. So you know, even if I do have a bad game or two.
Just really trying to stay within myself and my approach and folks on what I can do rather than what the pitcher's shining to to me.
How often do you go up to the plate trying to hit a home run?
Well, usually when I do, it doesn't work out very well.
So it's, uh, you know, the I guess the old saying, you know, kind of happens by accidents, so you know pictures, you know, you take advantage of the mistakes when they do.
And I'm just trying to square it up and hit it through the middle of the field.
You're in there with some pretty famous people here, Like when you look at what you've accomplished, the number of players to reach thirty home runs before the end of June, Babe Ruth Ken, Griffy Junior, Sammy so said, Mark McGuire, Barry Bonds, Albert Poohols, Sho hey o Tani, Aaron Judge, Uh, pretty good list there?
Does that seem very fitting for?
But how do you do you embrace this that you belong? This shouldn't be viewed as who is this guy and where did he come from? If are you surprised at how great you have played this year?
I mean, you know, you always want to have that confidence as a baseball player going to the box. You want to feel like you're the player in the world, right But you know, I think you know the real side of it now, I don't. You know, it's hard to kind of fathom, you know, you know, especially when you're rattle off names like that. So anytime you're in that kind of you know company with with hearing those names, you know you're doing something, you know pretty good. So really just trying to you know, keep my head down and try to keep going, you know, not really trying to think about that too much and just trying to see how far I can go.
You get recognized outside of Seattle.
Outside of Seattle, yeah, not very much? No, sometimes, Yeah, but you.
Could walk out of your hotel in Arlington right now, Oh yeah, easy and go anywhere. You could go to lunch, you could wear your jersey, you could wear your full uniform and people might not realize who you are.
Yeah, it's uh, it's you know, just a pretty average looking dude.
So I'm not you know, Aaron Judge. He's pretty big dude. You can you can kind of recognize him. Not not me quite so much.
Okay, but you got a great nickname.
I think it's yeah, one of the better ones.
So okay when you first heard it, who gave you that nickname?
Uh so?
Jared kellnick We came up through the Miners. He played with us for a couple of years with the Braves. Now he he tweeted it out as soon as I debuted, and you know, I think people thought it was really funny at first, and then.
Wait, but what leads him to call you the Big Dumper?
So I have a I have a you know, a big butt, and that's that's It's kind of been a running thing since I've been in high school. You know, it's just kind of been It's like, wow, he just you know, just kind of sticks out like that guy's got a really big butt.
And he was always commenting on in the minor leagues.
And then and then obviously get called up and that happens, didn't really play well and then start playing well, and people just kind of like took off with They loved it that that was really funny, and Seattle's kind of made it, made it there kind of thing.
So so it's kind of a Kim Kardashian thing, you know. It's yeah, kind that kind of like your your calling card. There is there a sponsorship here with the Big Dumper?
No, I mean not yet. I mean we'll see what. We'll see what's out there. Maybe getting on this show, maybe we'll get.
Some how about how about dude wipes, Dude wives would be a good one, kind of fit.
Right, Uh, Toto toilets.
There you go. Any kind of a day.
Your agent should be doing this for you.
I know you you should. They should be on it after the show.
Yes, I mean this is a big deal there, big big opportunities. We're talking to Cal Rawley, the Mariners catcher. Who was your like idol or who did you kind of pattern yourself since you're a switch hitting catcher.
Not many of those?
Yeah, you're right, there's not a lot of those. I'd say.
I grew up a diehard Red Sox fan, so Jason Vertek was kind of my guy growing up.
Have you met him? Yeah, I've got to meet him a few times.
He's he's on staff with the Socks right now, so I got to chat with him a little bit. But yeah, I loved him obviously, him being a sweat tater catcher and you know, him having the sea on his chest, you know, as the captain was was a really cool thing growing up and just somebody I idled and or was my idol And it was great to watch. And you know, I watched a bunch of other catchers as well, you know, Bosey Molina, those are some really good ones as well.
But but Veritech's the one that sticks out.
I was wondering if there was any correlation between being a catcher and being a good hitter, because you're so used to seeing pitches that you call for these pitches, you know what it looks like, the spin, change up, how it comes out of the hand. Is there any correlation there of helping you was a hitter by being a catcher.
Yeah, I mean I believe so.
I mean, you know, I think as a catcher, you know, I spend most of my time doing scouting reports, talking with pictures about how they want attack hitters, going over their weaknesses. So I think you can kind of flip flop that and use that as an advantage as as a hitter, and you know, you can kind of you can kind of think along sometimes with with other catchers and other pictures and see how they're attacking you and go off the patterns and past how they pitched you.
So it's taking some time to kind of learn how to do that. But but so.
I'd say that it definitely helps be in the catcher because you can you can understand that part of a little bit. But at the end of the day, you still got to go out and put a good swing on the ball and and find something in the heart of the blake.
How do you feel when the pitch you called for is hit for a home run?
You don't feel good?
I mean, do you apologize? Have you pologize to your picture gone out to the mound?
Yeah?
Because sometimes, I mean, you know, I think at the end of the day, it's all about execution, you know, when it's coming out of the picture's hand. But there are sometimes where you're like, you know, maybe I I messed that one up, or you know, I think it just goes hand in hand as a as a battery, you know, as a picture and catcher. You're working together, and you know, sometimes you mess up, sometimes you get it right, and it's just.
Kind of how it goes.
As as the catcher, you know, you you you wear some of those a little harder than others, depending on the situation and depending on what you call it. So you know, sometimes it's on the picture, sometimes it's on the catcher. It's just kind of how it goes.
How long are you allowed to admire a home run that you've hit?
Uh? I think you can take a good look at it, but you know, you don't want to. You don't want to be that guy.
You don't want to take too long, and you know, you don't want to show anybody up on the opposing side. And next thing you know, you're one of your teammates getting thrown at or you're getting thrown at.
So but once you get past first base, cal oh.
I you know, I have a pretty decent job. You know, I don't take too much time around the bases. I just you know, you gotta show up to the bullpen because they're rooting on out there, so you give them a little point and then and then you crossed allme and you go get the gear on this?
How it goes?
What's a home run sound like?
I mean typically they sound pretty loud that usually when you get them good, you don't it doesn't feel like.
You hit anything.
It just kind of feels like it was just like a smooth swing, like almost like a dry, dry hack.
So it feels good.
And when you get it sweet though you can it's pretty loud the crack of the bat.
And what's the stolen bases? What do you got nine stolen bases?
Yeah? I got nine this year? I am are.
You deceptively fast? Say, are you you're sneaky fast?
Sneaky fast, I think I still I broke the record. Our manager, here's the catcher for a while with the Mariner, Stan Wilson, and he had he held the record for a catcher in the Oregon. I broke it this year and I thought about doing the whole Rocky.
After the game.
Today, I'm the greatest, that's right of all.
Did they give you the bag after you set the organizational record for soling bass?
No, it was Unfortunately it was only like seven, so it wasn't number.
Uh.
Johnny Bench, to me, the greatest catcher I ever saw, and uh, he's very impressed with you, has some great things to say about you. That's the highest praise I think you could get because Bench was a great athlete, power hitter, and I think the greatest defensive catcher of all time.
So yeah, that's I mean, getting getting that kind of lot from him. And what he said was, you know, it means the whole world to me. So I got to meet him this year at the at the Gold Globe banquet.
Oh cool.
Got to talk with.
Him for for a couple a couple hours and just sitting talk ball them and it was just amazing.
Hearing the stories and getting the chat with him was awesome.
Well, great to talk to you. Good luck.
I think your second in the MVP race according my odds this morning.
I've got Aaron Judge and then you.
So I appreciate that.
I mean, that's not bad not bad company here strike ing going yeah, all right, Well you can stay anonymous, maybe just walking around, but not when you come to the plate. So continue to do that and let's work on a sponsors ship there.
Cal, I appreciate you, thanks for having me on.
That's Kyle Raleigh calling the big dumper. He's fine with that.