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The Celtics go to the NBA Finals tonight. They beat the Pacers one oh five, one oh two, And I know that Rick Carlyle is whether he's gonna say it out loud publicly or not, he's gonna sit and blame the officials and say, oh, calls. We didn't get calls first couple of games against the Knicks, didn't get the calls. In game three, we should have gotten some original fans. You got swept. It's over what I would like to see Rick Carlyle do because he took the onus for losing Game one, right, which is this which is the game that ended this series? Because that was the game the Pacers had to have. Celtics will give you, they'll give you one game a series. That was the game they had to have, And it was misconstrued the day after by so many talking heads as I feel great if I'm the Pacers, Oh, I feel awful.
We told you that much. This is the game they had to have. This is the game they had to have.
Because that is the quintessential homage, tribute, celebration of the life and times and Dennis Green, if there ever was one.
We knew who they were and we let them off the hook.
They had to have that game because the Celtic people forget the Celtics are a better team all of a sudden, it was oh look, oh good, the pays. No, the Celtics play down to you sometimes, and when they play down, you have to have that game. Not getting that game, that's what lost.
The series for them.
And Rick Carlisle's got to own it because there's a couple of things he could have done. They should have fouled, he should have called time out and moved the ball. All these things that the Pacers didn't do in Game one that he owned. He's got to own the last thirty seconds of this game because this was just utterly ridiculous for a guy who has been a really good coach for a long time. And the way they biffed the last thirty seconds, I just don't get And it still doesn't make sense to me. With thirty seconds left in the game, the Celtic are up three, right, the Pacers missed a shot, and yes, it was tough for them. Without Haliburton, they have nobody down the stretch really to make shots.
It's very difficult, and I get that, but the Celtics have the ball.
Fouls committed against Jason Tatum, so the Celtics have the ball twenty nine seconds left in their up three. What do you do if you're the Pacers here, you foul, and you extend the game, and you give your team as many chances as possible to try to win the game. You foul right away, you felt whatever you need. You get guys onto the free throw line, you make them make their free throws. If the Celtics make their free throws and they win, they make their free throws and they win. That's how the game is supposed to go. But you do whatever you can to try to extend the game. Instead, what Rick Carlisle did was allow the Celtics to take the shot clock all the way down to zero and get a last shot. Now I get that philosophy of hey, well, if you know, we think that they can miss and we can get the ball back. But in the best case scenario, Jason tatums a three, and we can argue with the fact that he took a three, probably should have gone to the hoop, but still he took a three, And maybe that was part of it was I know, if I miss, we're getting a long rebound and maybe we can get that. Or it's not one of those plays where it's simple where if I go in for a layup and I miss. The Pacers are right back out throwing it down court. Right with a long rebound, it's harder to get a handle on the basketball, which I can understand that part of it.
So best case scenario.
Is the Celtics miss, and the Pacers have the ball or get the ball somewhere between seven and five seconds left. By the time they corral the ball, they go up court and it's a rushed, harried three from somewhere likely just inside the just inside a half court to try to tie this game and send it to overtime, Like, how is that an acceptable strategy? Like that's the best case scenario that Rick Carlos said, We're okay with doing that. And meanwhile, when you do that, you lessen the chances you have to win the game and increase the chances the Celtics have to win because what do we see happen? Tatum missed the shot, but it doesn't matter because it was a long rebound. Celtics got it and the Pacers could never even foul, and the Celtics had the balls the clock hit zero, they go on they win at one oh five, one oh two, And I don't understand that and that's a complete biff by Rick Carlisle because he turned it into an all or nothing play. That was a low percentage all or nothing play. It was very low percentage. And I win this argument by simply saying, Okay, what's a bigger advantage for a team? Well, what's what's a bigger deficit you have to overcome if the team is beating you by three points with thirty seconds left, or if the team is beating you by three points with seven seconds left. It's a lot harder to overcome that with seven seconds left. But Rick Carlisle was okay with that, and it made absolutely no sense, and I'll never understand why.
But hey, let's take it down.
Take it down, and let's take a chance by we think they'll miss one shot. Yeah, but you only have a few seconds to get the ball back up the court and you have to you have to hope they miss and you get the rebound and everything goes right as you get the ball up court, and still you get a really bad shot.
You extend the game. Make them hit free throws.
Make because here's the here's the thing about free throws is that they can hit a couple of free throws, and you can come down and hit a three, like you can come down and do that. So just because they get a two doesn't mean they're to continue that lead. Hey, we're up by three, they hit, they get their free throws, We come down and hit a three. Guess what, They're up by two. Now we foul again and send them to the free throw line they hit. The weekend said you can keep hitting threes. You can cut into their lead if you need to. And so nothing makes sense why the Pacers didn't try to extend the game at the end.
And I want Rick Carlisle to own.
It, because hey you should, because if you're gonna sit here and blame the officials and say this is why we lost a couple of games, here go okay, yeah you gotta say, hey, game one was my fault.
Game four was my fault because it was.
Don't forget game three, man three games you should have won in this series, right if you go down to percentages and odds and where we were in you know, the old fun and excitement win probability. I did like the way you enumerated things because you were truly Elliott Gould in Ocean's Eleven Unless we forget You're still in the middle of the bleeping desert, right, you have a five second differential between the game clock and being able to run out the shot clock.
That's it.
And you let them bring the ball up and take I would I would argue that Tatum was looking more style points than strategy when he Oh.
He was because he was ready. He was ready with the hand up in the air, like we're going to the other like I'm ready.
For this for the Yeah, yeah, that's what I'm doing right instead, But like we talk about this with regular season games on Tuesday and Wednesday nights when we're on air together, Jason, like, you extend the hell out of these and you fight, you claw, and you make them earn every bit at the free throw line, because you know what, free throws, except for a very few number of players in this league, are not automatic anymore.
Right.
You send Kyrie, you send Steph. There's a few of these guys, Yeah, they're ninety one, ninety two percent. A lot of the rest of the league, no, not so much, right, So let them earn their metal there and grab as many possessions as you can. Now, they couldn't hit the broadside of a bar and I guess they did hit two three pointers for their final shots, made you know their only shots made the final six thirty three of this game to your point earlier, Yeah, nobody was shooting particularly well, So the fact that White hit that wide open three point shot, I think we were all a bit stunned the way the game had been playing out to that point. But yeah, just for Carlisle once again. And we talked with Mark Medina a little bit about it, Like you got a veteran coach and three times in a four game sweep, there's a lot of questions about strategy, decision making and just process of how do you utilize and find your way to bleed out the final seconds of a clock to get yourself a win in adverse situation like we understand you're undermanned, right, Haliburton being out and they've got superstars on the other side. Uh, and you Pascal Siakam was fantastic during the series One Man One Man Gang oftentimes, and you got great contributions from McConnell and from Obi topping uh for the majority of this series. But in the final minutes of a game, it's just unconscionable. Some of the decisions or the all right, just let him play, not calling timeouts in this case, not fouling. Just will will stand up forever like no matter what else you want to say, It's like droughts and and yeah, we we played with great heart. Whatever, Well, you didn't play smart. You played with a lot of heart and conviction. You didn't play smart in the final minutes.
Yeah, and look, and playing with playing with heart and conviction will can get you by a team like the Knicks, who are struggling to stay healthy and only have so many guys on the guts and guy all yeah, I mean we got that. They got guts and guys, we feel okay. St Oh, just stop, man, Joe, you're embarrassing yourself.
Dude. Wait you know what, my dude, I gotta let America know the truth.
No, no, no, no, that only happens when you're talking pro Nicks on a show. Didn't you hear the budsmen of our sports media.
World here, Let me just say this, the Lakers are close to hiring Doc Rivers as their next head. Oh no, because I know it. No, because I know you go home and there's a statue you sit in front of it.
Go.
Jason said that the Lakers are getting Doc Rivers, they got to sit here and pray for at least a half hour so that doesn't happen.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's the last thing I do.
It's not gonna you know, it's gonna be jj Reddick's gonna get the job, and he's gonna say, I'm excited to lean on a guy I'm bringing in who's been through the wars. I'm bringing in Doc Rivers to be my assistant coach, and he's gonna help me out with everything.
Just wait, just wait, just the way.
No, but look, when you get to the final, when you get to the Eastern Conference Final and you and you're you're playing a team that is more talented you are.
I mean that that's the whole thing, is that.
You know, when when you play a certain way for a while, even though it's flawed, I can see where you fall into that trap of yeah it's not, but we haven't had to pay for it. And when you don't pay for things, you tend to blow them off as something that I we need to be doing a little bit better, need to be doing a little bit cleaner, need to be doing it better.
Here.
We need to go over this a little bit crisper on this. Need to button this down.
No, when it's when it's not costing you, it's like, hey, next time, can't have that.
Okay, great, great, but I'm but hey, but we're winning.
But this was where the Pacer has done one thing for a long time and they were able to win. Now you get to the the Eastern Conference finals, of what happens, Rick Carlisle, making bad decisions about fouling is what sent you home because you have to worry about that. With the Knicks, it wasn't something that was there. But here it is game one when what's the what's the biggest thing? We didn't foul and we should have. We really should have fouled here at the end. Why are you're not fouling? I don't I don't get it is a Rick carl This thing anti fouling and it just doesn't. We don't put guys in the free throw line. When you get away with your mistakes, it becomes easier and you get looser. And this is what happened with the Pacers. They got loose with their mistakes and the Celtics made them pay because they are more talented than the Pacers.
Are you scratch and your claw, like Paccino talked about, for all of those inches, and then when it mattered most, you left those behind.
Right.
You played a gutty forty eight and you got contributions from guys that were little used or kind of afterthoughts all season, and then in the final minutes. It's it's coaching blunders and omissions that send you home. It's if you're an Indiana Pacers fan. Yeah, you could say, well, they're a better team and look at how great they were with the regular season or whatever else. You should be pissed because you gave away three games.
As many people on social media saying what a great run. I'm so proud of our guys. The other half saying Rick Carlisle gotta go. This guy's gotta go, man, he was he killed us in series. Like as many, it was a great run. And yes, were you gonna beat the Celtics? Probably not. Did you get to your high point?
Yes you did. You were missing Halliburn and understand that that run was gonna end on We gotta get rid of Carlisle. Man, Carlile's gotta go.
No, it's tough, right, because time it again, we just saw coaching decisions where you're just scratching your head, going all right, riddle me this, Batman. And after game one he owned it, right, I should have done this, should have done that. And then he came back to game three and did the same damn thing. And then tonight it wasn't and let's extend it. It's and let's go home.
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Jason, Yeah, what you got Frostburg. I'm pretty sure this is the one dead song he didn't like.
I would walk out like me when Guns N' Roses plays COMA. I'm going to the bathroom. How dared going to the bathroom? Go to the back, horrible human being, I'm going to the bathroom? Songs ever constructed? Oh stop stop man, that's like that's like not even a hot take. That's like a take that no one can that's like everybody's saying. That's like people saying, oh yeah, I like the fact that I don't like the fact Angel Hernandez is retiring.
No, everybody's excited.
About man variability and the human error is sports great. Look, man, nobody has that take where you take away the variability and the potential for chaos behind the plate, we all lose.
Uh.
Yes, we lost Bill Walton today, an absolute legend at the age of seventy one. He had been fighting cancer for a while and look this is this is a guy who was still working while he was fighting cancer, still seeing the PAC twelve, the Conference of champions through till the end.
And something weird and.
Connected with the fact that we watched the Celtics, one of his former teams, go to the NBA Finals tonight. The end of the PAC twelve as a conference was a day and a half ago. With the baseball you saw the highlight out there as the last play from the PAC twelve conference before it's gone for good. Something connecting there with Bill Walton, who was really synonymous with UCLA and the PAC eight and the PAC ten and then being an NBA superstar and only injuries prevented him from being one of the greatest ever to play the game as it was, he was really really good, but boy, injuries really robbed him. But then hitting his next level as a broadcaster that everybody loved listening to.
There was nobody who didn't like it.
He had that kind of career, that kind of impact on people, and all the story I've seen today, Then this is honestly what the fun part of social media is, because look, for the large part of social media is a really tough placement. It's becomes it's become such a tough place and it's very difficult. But this is when I look at social media, this is what it's for. So I can see people tell crazy stories about Bill Walton. I saw a friend of mine I worked with for a long time at ESPN, Ryan McGee, who has a radio show on the weekends. He writes for ESPN. He's does a lot of college football. He told a story real quick on social media. Couldn't stop laughing at that. He was on his way to interview Bill Walton to do a story about him for something at some point. And then there was a big college story breaking about sanctions that we're going to be filed against a couple of teams. So we had to postpone his interview with Bill Walton to go interview players from like Syracuse and Duke. I think it was because there was this big story breaking, he said. I told Bill Walt, Bill, I'm so sorry I got to reschedule ESPN sending me here. And Bill Walton said, if I told you this was the first time the Federal Bureau of Investigation was getting in the way of Bill Walton, I'd be lying, right, just you know, just saying stuff like that.
That's how he spoke. It's how he thought about things.
And and and you know, you say you were unique in one of a kind, and you know that's it gets overused a lot in superlatives, but that's who Bill Walton was.
Man, Well, I.
Gotta say, my my favorite thing is floating about like all the stories of just random interactions. We've had a couple of folks chime in, Hey, getting cards autographed and and talking about times and you know, guys he was playing against that he's pictured against, and and those battles and everything. But the number of stories that kind of echo yours in terms of an on air interview of Yeah, I really didn't get to say much in the interview It's one of the finest things I've ever gotten to do. Right, so many of those. Yeah, it was a twenty five minute interview. I said four words.
I know what's up, dude. I'm telling you, man, I'll never forget. Well, look first of my meg, Bill Walton, where's Richard Jefferson. I never did my Bill Walton impression to him, like Frank callienda, which I kind of wish I want at some point because it's a good one. Justin Frozberg, let me tell you about what it means to interrupt a host when he is talking.
So didn't you ever do it for him? Because I just didn't. I don't know. I just didn't. I don't know. Well you did, and see.
Harmon, Now you got married coming over the.
Top, buddy, Yeah, okay, well remember see see Harmon's comment about you only get a certain number of words in when you're.
Interviewing Bill Walton.
This is about maybe twelve or fourteen years ago, when I was doing the NBA on ESPN podcast and it was new, and I was doing it from the beginning, and then I stopped doing it because ESPN wanted to pay me fifteen dollars a podcast and I said, no, I'm not doing that. So I just wanted to get that in there because it still kind of pisses me off.
Anyway, So well, you still were making money, that would be it comes one the podcast world.
I'm like, a fifteen dollars.
They wanted me to work an hour or two hours a day on it, three days a week, and they wanted to pay me fifteen dollars. I go, fifteen people are getting paid fifteen one hundred bucks a podcasts. You want to give me fifteen dollars. I go, it's not worth it to take two hours out of my day. And it was a good podcast.
I know what folks get paid. It was sometimes I'm like, dude, come.
On, man, give it fifteen dollars for two hours worth of work.
That's less than minimum wage. But that's what they wanted to offer me in the contract. It was like it was really it was like fourteen dollars and ninety six cents a podcast. I'm like, wow, okay, seriously, they really That's why I knew, Okay, you know, I don't want to do this. But anyway, at the beginning, when I did it, before we figured out uh, before we figured out the money.
Uh.
Bill Walton was on one of the first ones I did, and it was like, you know, Mark Stein was.
On a couple that we did and everything. So Bill Walton comes on. Ben Stein was not and I took all his money.
He took it. He took your money, and.
Uh, that's why you got fifteen hours. Jimmy Kimmel had to have all of it.
So he comes on and we're taping the interview because it's you know, he can't stay up too late, and that was the whole thing when he was coming on with us for a while that it was too late for him to come on. So he comes on and I go, hey, Bill, Jason, Jason, how are you this evening? Hey Bill, everything's great. We'll get going here. Thanks for staying up late. I always appreciate it. We'll get going here in a second and we'll go through. He goes Jason asked me, ask me anything I am anything you want to say? Okay, great, So okay, my producers all right, we're ready. We'll roll whatever he wants. And I said, okay, great. Bill Walton NBA Today Podcast an interview coming down.
Three to one.
Hey, welcome in. It's the NBA ESPN Podcast. We'll get back into whatever it was coming up in a few minutes, but right now, time to talk to Bill Walton, NBA legend, Hall of Famer Bill. What's happening, Jason, What an unbelievable night in the NBA. It was Phoenix Suns and Steve Nash. What a pleasure it is to watch him play. They beat the Blazers tonight one thirteen to ninety six. My Blazers, who didn't put up a fight at all. And that was the last I spoke for four minutes. He went through every single game in the NBA that it was like a heavy night. It was like a Wednesday night, like they were like ten games and he was four minutes.
Seems pretty short.
But he goes.
He goes thirty seconds with the high scores of what he liked. And Steve Nash. I love the way he sees the floor, his big dime at the end to Sean Marion for the three. That is just something that is absolutely exquisite. And speaking of exquisite, the Lakers come up with a big win. Kobe Bryant has thirty five points. He never met a shot he didn't like, but it doesn't matter, and he goes he does every single game, and I'm sitting here going, he's really gonna go through every single game? And my producer is texting me, going, are you gonna jump in? I go what am I gonna do?
What?
He's going through all the games? What do you want?
We're talking about the NBA tonight. Bill is just doing it this way. And we see some saying what games he gonna do next? Like, oh, he's gonna do the Knicks next. Oh no, he's gonna do the next next. And he went four minutes and he just gave the recaps of all the games, and then he finishes by saying, show an unbelievable night, Jason, where would you like to start?
And I'm like, Bill, the interviews hope for you already said everything. What are we gonna say? Now? You talked about everything going on in the game tonight? What what else are we gonna do?
Because they said keep the interviews to about like eight minutes, I'm like, okay, well, just saying hi was four and a half minutes. How many more questions am I really gonna get in? So when we sent him the interview the next day and go here's a Bill Walton interview. It's fourteen minutes. Well that's way too much. You know what you said, you booked Bill Walton, that's gonna be the interview we're using all fourteen minutes. You're the guy that booked them for me, and the first one unless you want to take out the first four minutes of recapping the games.
That's what the interview is gonna be. But that's what he was. He did.
He did the whole night in the NBA, all ten games. It was like my own personal sports center. He's just saying everything happening, and what a night for Carmelo Anthony. He scores twenty nine, the Nicks break a four game losing streak.
There's just a big win over this seventy six ers. And never said that, and that was everything. That was that part.
Well, he may have. I'm just I'm just giving an example. I'm just giving an examples.
Trying to pull stuff out of the air here.
That but that was him. But that was Billboard.
That was the guy he was, and he would just say whatever was on his mind, and he would and he would do it entertainingly, and he would do it intelligently and He did it in such a self deprecating kind of way where you knew how smart he was, but he didn't have to always show you he was the smartest guy in the room.
He really He was just a joy.
And I just keep I keep thinking back to the fact that I just I wish I always wanted to see the sports world the way he did, because he saw it the right way. He saw it with. It's a serious thing and we should take it serious. It's a big money thing and.
People enjoy it, but they also want to have fun.
And I'm gonna do these PAC twelve after Dark game and it's Arizona State and USC or it's Washington State and Oregon and nobody cares.
So I'm gonna play the xylophone. Dave Pesh, listen to me.
I will play your song on the xylophone, and you try to understand and tell me what song it is. It's gonna be an old name that tune, which is a game that was played way before you were born. We're gonna play it anyway right here. I mean, all that stuff worked. It just worked because it was Bill and it was I could see the game in front of me, and I can still watch guys go in for alliops and I could still listen to Bill Walton say stuff like that and do bits like that, and I can even not care about the game at all, but just watch it because I enjoyed listening to him say what he said. And there's not a lot of guys out there as much as Fox is paying Tom Brady, as much as CBS is paying Tony Romo. Hey, if it's a bad game, people are gonna go to another game. It's more fun. But when Bill Walton's doing a game, what else are you gonna do? Oh, I'm gonna go No, I'm gonna sick with Bill Walton. But it's Arizona State and USC. It that both these teams are seven and fourteen doesn't matter. Bill Walton's doing something fun. He's he's singing with the song girls, now the USC song girls. Let's watch Bill Walton do that.
That was who he was.
No, but that's the thing, right, you go down and you know someone will probably get mad at me. You know, Kevin Harlan's on the short list. But how many guys do you really say, or women that are calling games that you tune in that you're gonna watch like regardless of game like Walton was it right for us.
Part of it was the love that was.
You know, there were live games on while you and I are on air, going deep into the night, and obviously as we come on air there's always something going. But you know, ten ten thirty, we still had back twelve basketball games going on that Bill Walton was giving us absolute gold. And to your point, towards the last couple of years, what did we have Bill Walton's on campus. Here's what he did earlier today and there he is running around, you know, with with the rowing teams or whatever else. And it was always just that passion and positivity that just radiated through and the old I never know what's gonna come out of his mouth next, right, It's like me growing up in Chicago. We've been playing Ken Harrelson and I'm sure we'll hear him again before the night's done. Go back to Harry Carey when he was a White Sox announcer before his many years on the North Side, rushing home from school because you had no idea where the story was gonna go next and done. And with Bill Walton, it was just the infectious love of what he was broadcast. If the game was terrible, he would sell the hell out whoever, whoever the guy or next guy up was, or the coach, Oh it's a down recruiting cycle, he had a guy transfer or whatever else. I can only imagine how crazy it would really get in this new NI album.
None of these guys were on the team last year. You know, it's it's really just it's a huge loss.
I mean you just saw it from all the competitors during his time in the in the NBA, showing up old photos, fans, broadcast partners all the way through, folks just saying you know, and on the broadcasting side, you know, just one after another going.
My career would have never been made without him.
Dave passes.
Anyone listening to this or watching this anywhere, this is a twenty five point burial, and.
There's ten minutes left to go in the gate. Is anybody really watching?
Well, then he said, let me tell you about a time, and then there would be a story to fill the time.
And then the producer gets in, Dave Passes here and says, Dave, keep everybody here. Don't tell people it's okay to turn off. Don't tell people it's okay to tell it. Well, you know, Bill, I tell you USC had a big comeback about a month ago. They were down eighteen of the second half and they came back to tit up.
Oh man, I'll tell you he was something. What a legend.
Coming up next, we are going to examine the rarest of things in sports, a retirement that everybody loves.
That it's very rare.
You get a topic that everybody is on one side of. But that's what we have coming up next. Right here, Jason and Mike, this is Fox Sports Radio.
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And I know we were all surprised. We watch the Celtics win tonight. Yes, I'm not surprised of that boring.
Wow. Look, the Pacers failed spectacularly again.
But the gift we all got, and I say we all got because there's there's nobody that was not a fan of this story. Angel Hernandez is retiring as an MLB umpire effective immediately, no long term goodbye.
No hey, he's gonna have a big tour and.
And all stadiums are gonna boo the crap out of him, you know, for the next sheit. No, no, he is retiring effective immediately. He had been working on a bit of a negotiation with Major League Baseball on his paperwork the last few weeks about a buy out in the settlement, and uh, he's done. Angel is widely regarded as the worst umpire any of us have ever seen. We all have beef with Angel Hernandez. It's kind of like Scottie Pippens got beef and there we all have beef with Angel Hernandez. He's gone, and major League Baseball fans and I all linked up hands and they're singing like it's the end of Return of the Jedi. They're all singing yep nub in their party with stormtroopers heads on on on top of sticks in their b Oh. Yeah, I mean that's what Billy D Williams is sitting there clapping, and you're seeing the the the holograms of of of Anakin, And I mean, you know, put in with with obviously with with getting rid of the old guy and getting you Yeah, well you have to do that, you know, yeah, you know you can buy.
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Art's gotten.
Uh you know a little bit of a rebound here.
You can almost say more hated that or hating christiansen.
Do that.
The kid, the kid took a lot of incoming.
Yeah, you know the Phantom Menace.
Yeah no, not great, Bob, not great, uh no, but I mean universal. That's the party going on right now. There's bonfires and people are clapping and they're singing Yub nub.
Don't give up. Pao yeh nub don't give up.
It was a pretty crazy story, right.
We started pushing uh some things back and forth earlier today, and like I wanted to do.
Like triple takes to make sure that it was right.
I know, right, I never thought it would happen, like a day you never thought you'd see.
Yeah, I know, it's it's crazy.
It's great on a day where we find out we're about a year away from robot umpires, which he would retire. Right, I'm not gonna have some uh you know, automated ball strike zone telling me what a strike at a ball as I'm retiring before that.
But but as we talked about a little bit earlier, a guy who sued the lead, I haven't been promoted and you know, I don't get.
The top nine Wonder Opera opportunities.
And then they went and they had to publicly shame him. They rang the bell and everything.
I mean, look, everybody has a story.
And then all the videos that have gone up tonight about here's what Angel Hernandez did to my team. Everybody's got it.
Steve McMichael singing the seventh inning stretch. I'll see him in the parking lot after the game. And he got thrown out.
But maybe there is no better call about a bad Angel Hernandez call. Let's go back in the way back machine and get this from Hawk Harrelson and the White Sox. But we've been playing most of the night, but now you get the full experience of it.
Can't get him who he was safe? No, no, well, Angel Hernandez blew the call and the infield being back should have cost him the game.
It didn't.
Right there, he's safe, he is half the ball and.
Another boom call by Hernandez, you.
Should have never come back, just so to Harold's yelling, now he is safe.
No, no, yep, no, don't give up your love.
Yeh no. This is the reaction for Angel Hernandez. And I've never seen this.
I I defy someone, I defy the hottest of hot takers that just completely go rogue tomorrow on TV or the radio and say, you know we're gonna miss Angel hernandezh.
No, but you were trying it off. Man couldn't do it. Man, No, I didn't do it. Let's go. You couldn't do it.
I need human error and failure is part of my games because we need to have that extra intensity knowing that the bad call is just around the corner.
Dude, you're watching the White Sox this season. It's all about failure. Shit, it's face, I'm correct, book.
I got the failure.
The manager back to back days talking about how these guys are lazy and don't run it out and we owe it to these people, to these people and to the owner or whatever. And the players are like, what the hell, that's what I got. Fifteen wins and a flaming dumpster.
You have all the loose the boom call, all the losing. There is nobody say you know, Baseball's gonna miss him, and no, there's none of that.
There's not.
The closest I can say is that with the IS, I do feel bad for umpires overall, because it's never been harder to be an umpire or any kind of official in sports that it is right now with all the second guessing, the video evidence and replay. Because MLB umpires now, once it comes to a year from now when we're gonna get the automatic balls and strike calls, they've been they're just guys in suits. Now they're just guys in uniforms because they only get to make the call if it's obvious. If it's something that's close, it gets reviewed and by by replay. So it's like the so you're talking about, the umpires on the bases really don't have any authority. They get the easy calls, but now the home plate umpire is not gonna get to call balls and strikes.
Sarah's gonna be called from a machine.
So you're just guys in suits hanging out because we have to have at least some air of authority on the baseball diamond, Like I don't even know if you get to if you have to go through training to be an umpire.
Oh you could just be. You can just finish suit and go right out on the field. Ye I'll stay right.
Here, I'll call out, I'll call safe, and if if the call is too close, you're just gonna go look at it anyway.
So what do you really need me for?
Yeah, you're like, what my job is to just review the monitor?
This No, being the home plate umpire was always a badge of honor because I can screw things up. I can eye end in law, you know, versus on the base pass. I might get one or two plays that actually matter anyway, And as we saw with Rick Carlile and the Pacers, you leave it to one or two plays, you're gonna lose.
Oh yeah, hey listen, hey, the officials, NBA officials, they're still living large, right, NBA still live in large. Major League Baseball not so much. That's as far as I can go. I do feel bad for the umpires what's coming up? But do I feel bad for Angel Hernandez.
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