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Monday, June 3rd, 2024. It's

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the first show of June,

1:00

which means it's time to talk about Major

1:03

League Baseball and what happened in May. And

1:06

can you imagine that teams have played

1:08

between 57 and 61 games already? Anytime

1:13

you get below 100 games left, you

1:15

know that it is no longer early.

1:18

And I wanted to start with the top story

1:20

lines for May. We're going to go over May.

1:22

We're going to talk about some predictions. We're

1:25

going to talk about predictions that I predicted

1:28

for May that may or may not have

1:30

come true. We're going to

1:32

catch up on a bunch of things. Let's

1:34

start with what I think is the top

1:36

story line in Major League

1:38

Baseball. Not

1:40

because that's where I am. I

1:42

think everyone in baseball is talking about the Yankees. They

1:45

were 21 and 7 in May. They

1:48

have two of the top

1:51

three, maybe two of

1:53

the top two, if you did

1:55

American League MVP voting right now

1:58

with Otani out of the American League. lead. I

2:01

think you have to say that Juan Soto and Aaron

2:03

Judge would finish two of the top three. In

2:06

what order? Unclear. Aaron

2:09

Judge had a season. What

2:11

is with people? Aaron Judge

2:14

done doing terribly. Remember

2:16

how tough his start was?

2:18

Anyone remember April? Well,

2:21

May was not exactly tough for

2:23

Aaron Judge. He hit

2:25

361 versus 207

2:28

in April and March. He

2:31

had 14 home runs, 12 doubles, 27 RBI. It's really

2:36

quite staggering what he's doing. He's

2:39

got power. He's hitting for average. He's

2:41

getting on base and he

2:43

is with Soto forming the

2:45

best one, two punch in all baseball,

2:48

which is helpful given the fact that

2:50

they've been able to pitch as well

2:52

with no Garrett Cole. And

2:55

that's how you get a 21 in seven months.

2:58

And so the Yankees are sitting

3:00

relatively pretty in

3:02

the American League East. They

3:05

have a lead on Baltimore. We're going to talk about

3:07

Baltimore in a minute. But when I

3:09

think about what Brian Cashman

3:11

is doing, what Hal

3:13

Steinbrenner is doing, this was

3:15

the month that Hal Steinbrenner yucked on

3:17

everyone's yum to talk about the fact

3:20

that he doesn't have a lot of

3:22

payroll flexibility, that it's not sustainable

3:24

to have the payroll of where he is. This

3:27

is the month where Scott Boris,

3:29

who's won Soto's agents, came

3:32

out after Steinbrenner said, I'll negotiate during

3:34

the season with Soto. You can go

3:36

back to a previous episode. Love that.

3:39

And then Steinbrenner said, well, you know, we

3:41

don't have all the money in the world.

3:45

And then Boris, for whatever

3:47

reason, decided to give an

3:49

interview. I think nj.com talked

3:51

about this. And it was funny because

3:54

you know Boris's comments are so

3:56

absolutely ridiculous. He

3:58

called Juan Soto as Centurion. Is

4:02

Centurion Koka the thing with the

4:05

the horse body

4:07

but the human face? Is that

4:09

a centaur? I'm forgetting what

4:11

a centaur is right now but I think

4:13

that may be it. A centurion I

4:16

think he meant a player of the

4:18

century but of course Boris

4:20

always has players of the

4:22

century, generational players. He

4:25

called Soto one of the top 100 players

4:28

to ever play the game. I

4:30

started to think about making

4:32

a list of the top 100 players to ever

4:35

play the game and that would

4:37

require a little a little research because

4:39

it would have to have players who I

4:41

didn't see play quite obviously. Now

4:43

of course we have a whole Josh Gibson is on

4:45

my is on my list on everyone's list right now

4:47

as he should be. Juan Soto

4:49

is not in the top 100. He may

4:52

be close I don't want to say that. No I don't even think he's

4:55

close. You can't play for

4:57

the number of years he's played where he

4:59

hasn't even attained free agency and

5:02

on top of that you can't be

5:04

ringless and be in the

5:06

top 100. I just don't think you can but

5:09

Soto is in the top 100 to ever

5:11

play the game and Boris is

5:14

famous for this with owners and

5:16

it's it's a good one.

5:18

Stein my guy your team

5:21

will go up and value

5:23

more than the cost of his

5:25

contract. It's

5:28

absolute horse hockey. There

5:31

is no correlation between

5:34

a player being added to your team

5:36

as a free agent and the immediate

5:38

increase in the value of your team

5:41

and especially the Yankees whose valuation

5:43

is based on market it's based

5:45

on local revenue including

5:48

broadcast revenue gate revenue it's

5:51

based on the Yankee trademark

5:55

whether you have Soto or you let

5:57

him go the theory there. According

6:00

to Scott, is that if the

6:02

Yankees choose not to sign Soto,

6:04

that means their team value would

6:06

go down and the signing teams

6:08

would go up. We've

6:11

never seen it. I told you

6:13

when we sold, when I helped

6:15

sell the Marlins for our owner, not

6:18

one bidder asked about

6:20

Stanton, do you want him? Are we going to

6:22

keep him or are we not going to keep him? We should

6:24

keep him. Nobody. Oh,

6:27

Soto did win a ring, by the way. Thank

6:29

you. Thank you. You won a ring

6:31

with the Nationals in 2019. All right, he's top 100. I changed my

6:33

mind. No, he's still not. It's

6:36

Harper that didn't get the ring yet. That

6:39

is exactly what I was thinking. Coker just

6:41

whispered, Harper doesn't have the ring. That's

6:44

true. I was thinking of Harper. But

6:46

my point stays the same. Franchise

6:49

values do not increase and decrease given

6:51

a signing of a player. Perspective

6:54

owners don't ask about a particular player.

6:56

They do not change their bid for

6:58

your team based on a particular player's

7:01

existence. Oh, you've got a player who's

7:03

not even arbitration eligible, one of the best

7:06

players in the game. That's

7:08

worth an extra 80 million in my bid. It's

7:11

just not the case. On

7:13

the baseball side, they do

7:15

value players financially

7:18

because there's a value of what it

7:21

is per win. You'll

7:23

say you have to spend $8 million to get a win. We

7:27

never bought into that. So I would

7:29

say the Yankees for me are the

7:31

top storyline of this month. They

7:34

got to keep it going. But so far, so good. The

7:37

other top storyline is Acuna

7:39

for the Braves. He is

7:41

out for the year. The Braves are three and

7:43

four since his injury. They

7:45

are six and a half games

7:48

behind the aforementioned Philadelphia Phillies with

7:50

Bryce Harper. The

7:52

Braves likely will have a

7:54

hard time catching the Philadelphia Phillies. It

7:57

is a big loss. It is not the end of

7:59

their world. make the playoffs, but it was a

8:01

big story for sure. He is

8:04

not going to be replaced. At

8:06

the deadline, there will be some sort

8:08

of marginal ad by

8:11

Alex Anthopolis, but you can't replace

8:13

an Acuna. Now the Braves, of

8:15

course, this I remember, won the

8:17

World Series without Acuna, but it

8:19

still was a big story. And

8:21

I'm going to put in the three hole for

8:24

the big stories. I'm going to put Paul Skeens

8:26

in his debut. He debuted in the month

8:28

of May. He is 2-0 in his

8:30

four starts, 30 k's and

8:32

22 innings pitched. He's going to

8:34

start this Wednesday against the Dodgers lineup. Can't

8:36

wait to see what that is. It may

8:39

be my pick of the day. We'll see what happens. But

8:43

the excitement of Skeens debuting, and

8:45

it was exciting. The

8:47

Pirates, what was their record this month, Coker?

8:49

I'm going to guess that they were below

8:52

500. It is rough

8:55

to have a great prospect,

8:57

all the excitement. He's 2-0.

8:59

Everything's looking great, and

9:01

your team is just not getting

9:03

better incrementally. Let's

9:07

go to the, they were 12 and 14?

9:10

Nice. Let's go to

9:12

biggest surprises in May in Major

9:14

League Baseball. And I'm

9:16

going to lead it in two cities that

9:18

you know I love, and I talk about

9:20

Cleveland and Milwaukee. Not many

9:23

people talk about Cleveland and

9:25

Milwaukee, but how do you not, when you

9:27

look at this Major League Baseball season, the

9:29

Guardians just continue to win. They're

9:33

19-9 in May, which

9:36

is a great month. They have a four

9:38

game lead in their division, and

9:40

we'll get to in a minute why it matters

9:42

when I tell you who is leading

9:44

the division right now. They have

9:46

a four game lead over the

9:48

surprise royals, who also

9:50

have been great, but I can't

9:53

call them one of the biggest surprises, but

9:55

the Guardians certainly are. Other

9:57

than Jose Ramirez, who you may have I

10:00

think he's leading the league and runs better than they've

10:03

had starting pitching. They've had

10:06

bullpen success. They've

10:08

had tremendous offense. Everything,

10:10

which I guess is how you

10:12

win. And what

10:14

about my Brewers? I'm going to spend two minutes on

10:16

this if you don't mind. Anytime I

10:19

could talk about Milwaukee, I love it. Going

10:21

into the season, all I

10:24

was thinking and texting with

10:26

Yellich, hey, you know, keep

10:29

going, keep going, because it's frustrating

10:31

when you trade your best pitcher, which

10:35

is what the Brewers did by trading Corbin Burns

10:37

to the Orioles. It's

10:39

almost as though the Brewers are

10:41

now the Rays, where they continue to win.

10:44

They lost Craig Council to the

10:46

Cubs. They trade Corbin Burns. The

10:48

thought is the offense was not

10:50

going to be nearly good enough.

10:52

They made incremental additions

10:54

to their team on the margins.

10:58

We're talking like Rosario Duval Soler, Atlanta

11:00

Braves. Oh, my God, we won the

11:02

World Series type of ads is what

11:04

the Brewers did. Yellich

11:07

has missed some time with the

11:09

back, but he has

11:11

been outstanding. The Yellich, who I

11:13

know, the power up and down

11:15

the lineup rivals the best lineups

11:17

in baseball. As a

11:19

matter of fact, the Brewers have a

11:21

more complete lineup. I

11:24

think I may be struck dead, so I'm just going to look up. The

11:26

Brewers have a more complete lineup, one to

11:28

nine than the Dodgers. So

11:31

it is no surprise that the

11:33

Brewers have a seven game lead

11:36

over the Cardinals. They have the

11:38

largest division lead in all of

11:40

baseball, in all the six divisions.

11:42

The Brewers do. It's helped that

11:44

the Cubs actually cracked

11:47

the bed this month. The

11:49

Cardinals started playing better, but

11:52

we got to give props to Murphy,

11:54

the new manager. We got to

11:56

give props to Matt Arnold, an executive

11:58

who we interviewed. at one point

12:00

for GM we knew he was going to

12:03

be an up and

12:05

coming executive and he

12:07

has turned into a fantastic head.

12:10

The irony is that

12:13

the trade of Stearns

12:15

for Arnold has

12:18

been really really good for the

12:20

brewers and horrible for the

12:22

Mets. It wasn't a trade trade because

12:24

Arnold was there but it

12:27

was supposed to be the other way around. Stearns was going to

12:29

get to the Mets and everything was going to be great. So

12:31

I got the Brewers as a surprise. How

12:34

about the Phillies? They are

12:36

running away with the NL East. The

12:38

Acuna injury helped but there's six

12:40

and a half over the Braves. Let's

12:43

get to some player surprises. If

12:45

you had Louie Heal and Seth Lugo

12:47

as two of the best pitchers in

12:50

baseball you're just a liar. And

12:52

any GM who says it of

12:54

course the Royals could say oh we knew it

12:57

when we signed Lugo. We knew he was going

12:59

to be leading the league in wins and

13:02

leading the AL and ERA after

13:04

two months in the season. You

13:06

are so full of it. I used

13:09

to like that when our scouts

13:11

would say oh yeah that's we told you.

13:13

I mean you were getting we had a

13:16

player personnel guy. That's that would be it.

13:18

The king of the rear view mirror. Oh

13:21

this is exactly what we said

13:23

was going to happen. Really? Wanted

13:26

us to sign Ohtani

13:28

not Lugo. He's been

13:30

unbelievable. He just wins for

13:34

a dollar. Do you know who's leading the National

13:36

League in the ERA? Because

13:39

it ain't Nola or Wheeler.

13:41

It's Ranger Suarez who's leading

13:43

all of baseball in the

13:45

ERA. Marlin's

13:48

fans plug your ears for a

13:51

minute. Arias he's been really

13:53

good for the Padres. Really really

13:55

really good. Now the Padres aren't going to

13:57

catch the Dodgers. You know that. But

14:00

since the trade, he's hitting almost 400. I'm

14:03

sorry. He has more multi-hit

14:06

games than strikeouts. I'm sorry. This

14:08

is Arias. Someone,

14:10

Koka said to me, would

14:12

it be the first time ever to win three

14:15

batting titles in a row for three different teams?

14:17

How about that? Twins, Marlins,

14:19

Padres. It's possible he could win

14:21

three batting titles in a row

14:24

for three different teams. That would be

14:26

pretty cool. One

14:30

of the things I like doing is reviewing. I

14:33

don't want to be... I'm not

14:35

going to be the gas bags that you listen

14:37

to or that are

14:39

really, really popular in sports media. I

14:42

had predictions for May. I want to review them

14:44

and tell you how I did, because

14:46

it wasn't great. I said the

14:48

Mariners would pull away in the AL West. They

14:51

have a four-game lead over the Rangers. They

14:54

started the month with a one-game lead. But

14:57

Koka pointed out, as the judge and

14:59

jury, that's not pulling away. So

15:02

I got that one wrong. I

15:05

said the Orioles would pull away in the AL East. Nope.

15:08

The Yankees have the best record and have...

15:11

I think they may have the best record in baseball, but

15:13

they did not. I told

15:15

you a manager would get fired in May. I

15:17

cannot believe there has not been

15:19

a managerial firing. Where

15:22

are all the Samsons out there as team presidents?

15:24

Where are they? Fire

15:26

somebody. Do something. It's

15:29

June. The season

15:32

is a third over, more than a

15:34

third over. But

15:36

no manager got fired. And

15:38

I thought the Astros would start to turn

15:40

it around. The Astros are one

15:42

of those teams where, like our team in 0-5, hey,

15:45

we're going to turn it on. Don't you worry. Snap

15:47

of a finger. We're going to make the playoffs. Everything's going

15:49

to be fine. So I thought the Astros

15:51

would play at a 600 clip. Nope.

15:54

They were 15 and 14. So I had four

15:57

predictions for May. 0 for 4. Alright,

16:03

let's do June predictions. It's

16:06

sort of cheating because it's June 3rd,

16:08

but it doesn't matter. June

16:10

predictions, number one. Let's

16:12

go north of the border with Toronto. You

16:15

want me to predict that John Schneider is going to get

16:17

canned? I can't do it,

16:19

though Atkins, the GM, gave him

16:22

the dreaded vote of confidence this

16:24

weekend. We love you,

16:26

Johnny Boy. You

16:30

are part of the solution, not

16:32

the problem. I

16:34

don't want to make change for change's sake.

16:36

He used I, but it's really Shapiro, not

16:38

Atkins, so that was, he should have said

16:40

we. But

16:43

apparently, the Blue Jays don't want to fire

16:45

their manager, and on top of that, they

16:48

don't want to trade Guerrero or Bachete. He came

16:50

out and said, I don't know even why people

16:52

are discussing, because it was a big thing this

16:54

month. Will the Blue

16:56

Jays sell? Because the Blue Jays, my team

16:59

to win the ALE, didn't get

17:01

that right. I believe they are

17:04

starting the month of June in last

17:06

place. But

17:10

all of that said, my

17:12

June prediction is that the Blue

17:14

Jays are going to add and

17:16

not subtract. Because I thought

17:20

it would go one of two ways, add

17:22

or subtract. You could stamp that, but

17:26

it was all dependent on the owner. And remember,

17:28

the owner is a corporate owner, and

17:30

there's a corporate representative, but it's a corporation.

17:33

And I can absolutely envision

17:36

a world where the corporate

17:38

body says to Shapiro,

17:42

listen, we're operating in the black. Let's

17:45

add, let's just try, let's maybe

17:48

see if July, August, September can

17:50

be the month. Maybe we'll be

17:52

the team that improves and runs

17:54

hot all the way to the

17:56

World Series. So my prediction for the Blue

17:58

Jays is that the Blue Jays are going to add or subtract. for this month

18:00

if you're gonna do it, if the Blue

18:02

Jays are instructed to do it, June,

18:07

because then it gives you all of

18:09

July to then sell once you've bought.

18:13

Two, do

18:15

you know the Oreo player, Gunnar Henderson, MVP candidate?

18:18

I guess he's probably top three with Soto and

18:20

Judge, if I had a guess. I

18:23

believe he will end the month hitting

18:25

more home runs in June than Aaron

18:28

Judge. This shortstop is a home run

18:30

hitter. I believe he hit his 19th

18:32

the other day, still

18:34

behind Judge, but my

18:37

prediction for June is that Gunnar will stay

18:39

hot and he will hit more

18:41

June home runs than Aaron Judge. And

18:44

my last prediction for

18:47

June, I'm

18:50

gonna run it back. There's nothing

18:52

wrong with running it back. The

18:55

Astros will play at a 600 clip. It

18:59

just can't be there too good. Now,

19:01

Joey Ispada, first year manager, may be

19:04

overmatched. It is true

19:06

that a Breu was a disaster.

19:09

It is true they've got tremendous injuries, but

19:11

it's the Astros. That's

19:14

my final prediction of June. So

19:17

I was talking about standings

19:20

and this always depressed me as a team

19:22

president. As a matter of fact, COCA, I

19:24

totally ignored it, but

19:26

it happens to be true. 58%

19:30

of teams in sole possession of first

19:33

place on June 1st win their division.

19:36

So that means out of six divisions, you're

19:39

talking about three to four

19:42

teams are going to

19:44

win their division. So it's

19:46

over. Now the Dodgers

19:48

have a six and a half lead over the Padres.

19:50

You assume the Dodgers are gonna win. The

19:52

Brewers, you would think, may not be able to sustain

19:55

it, but they have the biggest division lead. You

19:57

think the Mariners may not be able to sustain it. So

20:00

that'd be two right there, but he can't say Brewers. So

20:03

we're down to one. Maybe the Guardians

20:05

will get caught. They can't stay that hot.

20:08

Could the Orioles catch the Yankees? It's

20:10

possible, but the stat is 58%. That

20:18

will do it for our

20:21

May recap. We're gonna

20:23

try and we're gonna succeed. The first of every

20:25

month, we will go through the previous month. It

20:28

is almost once the NBA finals and

20:30

NHL finals finish. It's baseball

20:33

season until the NFL training

20:35

camps open. So it's gonna

20:37

be baseball season for like a month. So

20:40

get excited. COCA,

20:46

we are up to a topic

20:48

that we had so many questions

20:50

on davidsampsonpodcast.com. So many people

20:53

got into my Twitter at David P. Sampson about

20:55

this topic. You knew we were going to

20:57

address it. So play me the

21:00

music. You

21:03

know what I want. I

21:07

wanna talk to Sam. So

21:10

you wanna talk to Sampson. I

21:12

gotta get right to this. What

21:15

is going on with the

21:17

WNBA and Kaitlyn Clark, David?

21:21

That's funny. Why wouldn't it be David? What is

21:23

going on with the WNBA and Kaitlyn Clark? It's

21:26

totally up to you and how you ask your question. Why

21:28

do all the players not realize their

21:31

actions are hurting themselves?

21:38

I hate the fact that I have to tread carefully,

21:40

although that's my job. You get the microphone, you

21:42

get the red light. You

21:45

gotta tread carefully, which I don't tend to

21:47

do. I totally

21:49

trust myself because I don't think

21:52

the things. So therefore I wouldn't say

21:54

the things that could get me in trouble.

21:57

But this Kaitlyn Clark situation has. me

22:00

riled up. Caitlin

22:02

Clark from

22:04

where I'm sitting in the

22:07

sports world as an executive for

22:10

18 years since the turn of

22:12

the century, I

22:14

have not seen an athlete have

22:17

more to do with incremental

22:19

attention for a league, for

22:22

incremental revenue for a league anywhere

22:27

than Caitlin Clark. Not when Jordan was

22:30

drafted, not when

22:32

Ewing was drafted, not

22:34

when Connor McDavid was drafted

22:36

or LaFernier. What do you think

22:38

of that Sarah? None of it. Her

22:43

impact in the WNBA beyond

22:49

anybody else's in any sport. Yet,

22:53

for whatever reason this season,

22:55

which is her first season, which is

22:57

just starting, she's been

23:00

a subject of a lot of

23:02

strange behavior, a lot of

23:04

strange comments, a lot of

23:06

jealousy. You've had people talking about it

23:08

from Barkley to entertainers

23:11

with late night shows. Caitlin

23:13

Clark has transcended sports, made

23:15

it into the mainstream. And

23:19

I'm not just talking about the get in

23:21

prices or what it is to buy a

23:23

game, use jerseys or to go see her

23:25

play. I'm talking about a conversation

23:29

about a player. Doesn't

23:32

matter. She's on the worst team, terrible team.

23:34

That's how you get the number one pick.

23:36

Doesn't matter that she can go one for

23:38

10 yesterday or score 25 points

23:41

or the team can win a couple of games. I'm

23:43

not talking about that. I'm

23:45

trying to figure out all

23:48

of the people in the league and

23:50

the hatred that they have for her. Let

23:53

me say it better. Many

23:55

of the people in the league and

23:58

the apparent hatred they have for.

24:02

To the point where it is

24:05

manifesting itself through physical

24:08

actions on the course. You

24:10

know, if you're going to have the occasional Twitter sully,

24:14

I'm good. A little clapping

24:18

back and forth. I'm sure I'm using that

24:20

expression wrong, but just a little bit of

24:22

back and forth in social media, a little

24:24

bit of competition. I love it.

24:28

I love playing hard against Caitlin Clark.

24:31

You want to play defense. You want to get

24:33

right up in her face, not let her shoot

24:35

threes. You want to make sure the no layup

24:37

rule. I grew up. Pat

24:40

Riley, Nix, no layup rule in.

24:44

But here's a question. Why

24:46

is it that

24:48

there are players who are doing

24:51

both taking cheap shots on the

24:53

court and criticizing

24:56

her off the course? I

25:00

was trying to think, is it jealousy? Is

25:04

it actual evaluation player

25:06

on player? Because

25:08

that happens where you'd have

25:10

a player. I had many times where a player would come

25:13

to me and say, I don't know why I keep giving

25:15

this guy innings. Why is this guy

25:17

at the back of our bullpen? Why is this guy

25:19

getting all these at bats? This guy

25:21

is not good. I love

25:23

him. I'll take him for drinks on the road, but

25:25

he's not good. That happens.

25:29

But there's one thing that doesn't

25:31

happen, and that is

25:33

having your teammates back even when

25:35

you don't like your teammates. Let's say for

25:37

the sake of argument, that Caitlin Clark is

25:40

not liked by your teammates. And

25:42

I have no information about that

25:44

whatsoever. Let's say that

25:47

she's rude and mean and stuck up

25:49

and all the negative things that would

25:51

just make you unlikable. Let's

25:54

take that as a given. When

25:58

you are on a team. When

26:01

you've got a player who

26:03

gets attacked by the other team, you

26:05

back up your player. You

26:08

back up your player. Did

26:11

you see the play? It

26:14

was just this weekend where

26:16

Carter Forearm shivered her and

26:20

nobody basically came to help her

26:22

on her team. She

26:24

got celebrated by her teammate, Angel Reese.

26:29

After the game, there was a whole presser

26:32

where the aggressor,

26:36

and I don't even feel like naming her. I really

26:39

don't feel like giving attention to her except to say

26:41

she wanted to make you believe that

26:44

Caitlyn Clark only shoots threes and that

26:46

other than that, what does she do

26:48

for our game or the game? I

26:52

can't dismiss it as total idiocy or

26:56

total ignorance. But

26:58

what I can do is

27:00

dismiss it, if

27:03

you don't mind, as

27:07

a blame for her

27:09

fever teammates. Hear

27:12

me out and see if you can walk

27:15

this bridge with me. If

27:18

people who have been attacking Clark on the court

27:21

and the no layups, the shivers, whatever

27:23

they're doing. If you had

27:25

people on the fever, any player on

27:27

the fever, who would go to a

27:29

hard foul, who would say something

27:31

publicly, who would do anything to indicate,

27:33

hey, you can't do that to one

27:35

of our players. I don't care if

27:37

she's a rookie or a veteran. You're

27:40

not going to do it. And we will manifest

27:42

our anger over what's being done to her both

27:44

on and off the court. If

27:47

that were happening, it

27:50

wouldn't even be news now. The

27:53

reason why all of the. about

28:00

what happened with Clark is that

28:02

there's been no retaliation. And

28:05

I don't necessarily agree with

28:07

violence. I don't want to hurt anybody,

28:10

but you're damn right. I love having Oakley

28:12

on my team. Or I

28:14

would have loved having a Rodman or a

28:16

Lambier or a what's, Oh,

28:19

I want it to be so cool. Sarah, this

28:21

was my moment to be so cool

28:23

in hockey. And I can't remember the name of

28:25

the ranger, the big guy, the six foot eight

28:28

guy, read or be it or feed

28:30

read. Rempy. Thank

28:32

you. That was coca

28:34

nailing that. I

28:38

need to see that. Carter

28:42

for her play got assessed to flag room

28:44

one. Angel Reese,

28:46

her teammate got fined not for celebrating

28:48

with Carter. When Carter came off the

28:50

court celebrating her for knocking

28:53

Clark out and down. She

28:55

was fined for not meeting the media. I'll

29:00

have a solution. The

29:02

Indiana fever. If I'm running the Indiana

29:04

fever, I'm happy to release every single player

29:07

I have, except for Clark. I'm happy

29:09

to get rid of every single one of them. I'm

29:11

happy to sign a team of all

29:14

Rempees because they're

29:16

not winning games anyway. But

29:18

I'm going to protect. And if

29:20

I am the WNBA

29:24

and I am trying to

29:26

move our league into a

29:28

new dimension of valuations into

29:30

a new world of popularity,

29:34

it's not very helpful. The conversations that are

29:36

going on around the WNBA right now, where

29:39

the focus is way more on

29:41

whether or not there's some sort

29:43

of weird prejudice or weird problem

29:46

with Caitlin Clark, as opposed to

29:48

her being completely, absolutely

29:51

accepted and loved. There

29:54

are people. They

29:56

want to compare her to when bird and

29:58

magic entered the NBA. Could

30:00

that be recent Clark? There

30:03

were people back then who hated the Celtics,

30:05

hated the Lakers, didn't like Larry, didn't like

30:07

Magic. I get it. Except those

30:09

people weren't their teammates. So

30:13

if you're running the fever, you've got

30:15

to get rid of everyone. I cut

30:17

them all. I don't care

30:19

if they are prospects. I

30:22

want people who will support each other.

30:26

And the last thing I have on Clark is this. And

30:29

it is the last thing about this issue. I

30:32

don't want to give it more oxygen than

30:34

it deserves because it angers me so much.

30:37

Not because it's Kaitlyn Clark. It

30:39

angers me when teammates do not have each other's back because

30:42

it shows what the problem is with your team.

30:47

But if the WNBA wants

30:50

to be a league

30:52

where Nike tweets, hey,

30:54

there haven't been an NBA Finals for

30:57

a week, there's no basketball, and then

30:59

they have to delete it because everyone's

31:01

upset they didn't mention the WNBA. If

31:04

you want to become a major league, even

31:07

get your own broadcast deal nine years from now

31:09

because it's not going to happen this time. If

31:12

you want to have teams that are worth

31:14

money, that make money, you

31:18

have to have more than

31:20

conversation off the court.

31:24

You have to have your players sell

31:26

and market on the court.

31:29

You have to have them competing hard even

31:32

if they're not competing in love. You have

31:34

to have them competing in respect. The

31:37

WNBA better start changing that or

31:40

the progress that people perceive they've

31:42

made. It will all be

31:44

for naught and there won't be any progress at all.

31:46

When we come back, let's

31:51

take a break, Koka. I

31:53

want to review the new Ryan Gosling Emily Blunt

31:55

movie, which I watched, called The Fall Guy. And

31:57

then we're going to talk a little hockey. because

32:00

that's exciting. I

32:02

cannot believe how much I love NHL

32:04

playoffs. And then we're gonna do one

32:07

more baseball story. Our

32:10

baseball story and it's White Sox related,

32:12

I'm sorry. I love you Chicago, I'm

32:14

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Welcome. Back Nothing personal if everyone had a

34:21

good weekend. I do not like

34:24

starting my weeks the way this one started. Last

34:27

night I could not sleep even for a

34:29

minute. I. Can't wait to

34:31

review the documentary. What I'm going review

34:33

tomorrow. When I watched Spoiler Alert it's

34:36

on Netflix, It's about colds and it's

34:38

about tic toc. Check

34:40

it out! I've. Gotta. I

34:43

just couldn't sleep. Anyone else gets an

34:45

sea legs. Men are trying to sleep.

34:48

Real. Legs just can't stop moving.

34:50

And therefore he can't sleep see, just get up

34:52

and start watching movies. That's.

34:54

Me on a Sunday in. and the worse than a

34:57

Sunday when the work week is starting. One.

35:00

Of the movies that I've seen recently

35:02

is the new movie called The Fall

35:04

Guy. Ryan Gosling, Emily Blunt. It is

35:06

about. A. Stunt man. And.

35:09

A movie director and their

35:11

relationship. And it is a

35:13

comedy about stunt men giving love

35:15

to stunt men in the movies.

35:18

And Aaron Taylor Johnson.

35:21

Rumored. To be the next James Bond.

35:23

Actually. Ways the movie star

35:26

and Ryan Gosling. It is very

35:28

rare that the stunt man. Is.

35:31

A matinee idol, Even. Better

35:33

looking than the actor, but obviously

35:35

in this case I think you'd

35:37

have to give Ryan Gosling the

35:39

Edge. Over. Air until Johnson.

35:41

both and some. The.

35:44

Movie itself. Is funny to

35:47

me. I. Enjoy to all

35:49

of the stance that the stunt

35:51

men did. That. weren't ryan

35:53

gosling so imagine this ryan gosling

35:55

plays a stunt man but has

35:57

to have a stunt man the

36:00

stunts for Ryan Gosling because Ryan Gosling

36:02

was doing the stunts for the actor

36:04

Aaron Taylor Johnson. It's

36:08

so cool. And then during the credits, spoiler

36:10

alert, if you don't do what I do,

36:13

which you should do, give respect to

36:15

everyone who makes movies to entertain you.

36:17

You may want to watch the credits. It's

36:20

not Marvel like where there are, there's

36:22

a whole scene at the end of

36:24

the credits, but it's good enough that

36:26

you need to watch all the credits. The

36:29

Fall guy is totally entertaining, not

36:31

a waste of your money. You can rent it

36:34

or buy it. Eventually it'll stream on one of

36:36

the streaming services for free. I

36:38

don't know when that is, but totally worth the

36:40

investment because for an

36:42

hour, 48 maybe, I don't

36:45

remember the running time, but I'm going to go 108 minutes. I

36:48

smiled. I enjoyed it. Last

36:53

night I watched the Edmonton Oilers

36:55

clinch the Western Conference. So

36:58

we've got a Stanley Cup matchup of

37:00

the Edmonton Oilers and the Florida Panthers.

37:03

Much to the chagrin of US broadcasters,

37:05

because Canada doesn't count, leagues

37:08

do not root for Canadian teams. Leagues

37:11

don't root when the Raptors won the

37:13

NBA title, the league office does not

37:15

root for any of the Canadian NHL

37:18

teams because it just, the networks don't

37:20

care. I'm sorry to say

37:22

that, but it's true. There has

37:24

been no Canadian Stanley

37:26

Cup winner, I think

37:30

since 1993 when the

37:32

Canadians did it, which is

37:34

unbelievable because it's not like it's just

37:36

the Blue Jays. There are a ton

37:39

of Canadian teams. Of course, wouldn't it

37:41

be amazing if I had the exact

37:43

number off the top of my head,

37:46

Toronto, Montreal, Edmonton, Calgary,

37:48

Winnipeg? So

37:51

it could be five, Vancouver, six. I

37:55

clearly am missing one, I would assume, but maybe

37:57

not. That could be the total number.

38:00

Pretty amazing. Everyone's excited down

38:03

in Miami. I'm sure that Dan's show

38:05

is getting all jacked up. I

38:07

wonder who will fly to Edmonton.

38:09

It is so far away. Miami

38:11

and Edmonton. It is the

38:14

longest distance ever. It has to be

38:16

for a Stanley Cup final. It's worse

38:18

than Edmonton playing the

38:20

Seattle Kraken. So

38:23

the Panthers are now

38:25

a mini-dynasty. They've

38:27

been at a Stanley Cup two years in a row. They've

38:30

got to win one to become a full-fledged. And

38:33

I believe this is their year, their favorite to

38:35

win the Cup. The Oilers, however, have the best

38:37

player in hockey. If you didn't watch any of

38:39

the Western Conference, Connor McDavid likely

38:42

wins his fourth MVP called

38:44

the Hard Trophy this year. It's

38:46

fun watching NHL. Stanley

38:49

Cup hockey. It's just fun. The

38:51

final start, June 8th. Did

38:54

the NBA, Koka? I did not check this.

38:57

I assume, because the NBA is on

38:59

ABC and hockey may be on ESPN

39:01

and ABC, I assume they never play

39:04

on the same day. So

39:06

we're going to have, while we've had no

39:08

NBA for a week, if you don't remember,

39:10

it's the Mavericks and Celtics. Starting

39:12

Thursday, we'll talk about that later in the week. And

39:15

now, Oilers and Panthers, I

39:17

would assume that it will be alternating

39:19

days and

39:22

miss those sports. Let's

39:26

talk about, I got to give you a correction before I move on, if

39:28

you don't mind. A quick correction. I

39:32

like giving corrections.

39:34

I don't like making mistakes. This correction,

39:36

though, in 1,064 episodes, someone

39:41

tweeted at David P. Sampson, or

39:43

V.M. to me, it's the worst mistake I've ever made

39:45

on nothing personal. We

39:49

were doing a story about, something,

39:55

don't remember what, because I can't remember.

39:59

And I told you in two days, 2003

40:01

oh it was a road victory. It's

40:03

when I was cheering for the Panthers

40:05

against the Rangers Wearing

40:08

a Panthers jersey for

40:10

game five, which was last week

40:12

Thursday night So this must

40:14

have been on Friday's show when

40:16

I said how great it is to win on the

40:18

road Which has always been my favorite thing as a

40:21

baseball executive always having

40:24

People cry love it I

40:27

said that we went through the playoffs

40:29

in 03 on our way to a

40:31

World Series ring Clinching on the road

40:33

in San Francisco, Chicago and New York

40:36

and I got it wrong. I had

40:38

a brain moment We clinched

40:40

at home against San Francisco on

40:43

the road in Chicago and on the road

40:46

in New York Thank you for

40:48

sending me that correction whoever did That

40:51

was not ideal You

40:55

know what else isn't very ideal Tommy

40:59

fam Tommy

41:01

fam. I can't believe he's even a story

41:03

He's the guy who held out because he

41:06

wanted more money, which is ridiculous He ended

41:08

up getting the exact amount of money that

41:10

anybody was offering him earlier But he only

41:12

is making that on a pro-rated basis. He

41:14

got 3 million by the white Sox Good

41:17

for you for being stuck on the worst

41:19

team in baseball They

41:21

played a little better after they find him

41:23

Tommy fam is the player who slants Jack

41:26

Peterson in the outfield over fantasy I don't

41:29

know if you remember that he went out an

41:31

opposing teams BP went into

41:33

the field and like Chris and

41:35

Will Smith jock

41:37

Peterson Tommy fam did

41:40

something yesterday that is Not

41:42

going to get enough attention on a Monday because there's

41:45

so much other sports news and so much other stuff

41:47

going on But I want you

41:49

to hear what Tommy fam

41:51

actually said You

42:00

know, I hear a tough guy with all the

42:02

hoorah, you know, so I'll

42:04

never start anything, but I'll

42:07

be prepared to finish it. There's

42:09

a reason why, you know, I do all

42:11

kinds of fighting in the off season because

42:13

I'm prepared to f***ing my yup. So, you

42:15

know, take it as what it is. What

42:20

does that even mean? I

42:22

was thinking about, does he oversee chicken

42:24

fights or dog fights? Does

42:26

he fight Jake Paul? What

42:29

does he do during the off season

42:31

that he does all sorts of faults?

42:34

And this is a story Christian Yelich, they were

42:37

playing the Brewers, the White Sox have lost 11

42:39

in a row. They're a hundred loss team. Clearly

42:42

one of the worst teams, the worst, they're

42:44

the worst team, let's face it, they're the

42:46

worst team in baseball. Tommy Pham

42:48

has not helped at all. And

42:50

he gets thrown out by Yelich, short

42:52

left field, for whatever reason the third base

42:54

coach sent him. Here's the reason.

42:57

You were down a run, make the

42:59

player make the play. Yelich

43:01

made the play, you were out. Contreras

43:03

tags him, Brewers win, and

43:05

Pham gets a little

43:08

crazy on the field. He

43:11

starts like he put up his dukes

43:13

almost. It was very bizarre, but

43:15

that was it, goes back to the dugout.

43:17

And Tommy Pham has this reputation where the

43:20

league office is looking for things to do

43:22

to Tommy Pham. There's

43:24

a problem with him for sure. He may

43:26

need help, so I'm going to give him

43:28

the benefit of the doubt and say that

43:30

there's some level of help that he needs.

43:34

But then he does this interview, and

43:37

that is a post-game interview after he's

43:39

dressed. He did

43:41

something there that was

43:43

a little subtle. Coco,

43:47

will you play again only the first

43:49

10 seconds of that video?

43:52

Listen to what he says in

43:55

the first 10 seconds. I'm

44:00

going to the dugout and you can

44:03

stop there tough guy with all at

44:06

home by a mile He's

44:08

basically calling out his third base

44:10

coach He's

44:12

saying I shouldn't have even gone

44:14

on such a short fly ball to left

44:17

field president of a

44:19

team Clubhouse

44:23

a I don't think I would have signed him period certainly

44:25

not give him three million I'm

44:28

going down to that clubhouse and I'm wondering

44:30

to myself I'm gonna speak to the manager

44:32

who is not long for managing that team

44:35

And I'm gonna ask What do

44:37

you want to do about about this? I'll

44:41

deal with the fact that he

44:43

wants to fight and he fights during the offseason

44:45

because that's just crazy

44:47

talk But what do

44:49

you want to do about a player calling out

44:51

your coach or manager? Do you tolerate

44:54

that? On a

44:56

good team you tolerate that from your best player you

44:58

go sit with the player and try to deal with

45:00

it On a bad team

45:03

with a player on a one-year deal See

45:05

you later alligator Tommy

45:09

fam could not be

45:12

on the white Sox as a

45:14

matter of fact I'm

45:16

going to give you a wait to

45:18

see you know the white Sox have

45:21

lost 11 in a row They're 1 in

45:23

15 in their last 16. They're just horrid

45:28

Now Chris gets overmatched

45:31

Jerry Ryan's sort of doing his best to

45:33

get a couple billion dollars Remember

45:37

this was the story we did where all

45:39

Jerry wants to do is win. He's all

45:41

excited about winning Meanwhile, they

45:43

can't win a game guess what

45:45

you can't have on your

45:48

team in that Circumstances

45:51

I'm happy to say in any circumstance, but in

45:53

that circumstance You can't

45:55

have Tommy family The

45:57

white Sox are going to designate Tommy

45:59

family for assignments. He will be

46:01

off the team. Wait

46:03

to see. We'll revisit it if we

46:05

get it right. We'll revisit it if we get it wrong.

46:08

But the wait to see is that Tommy

46:10

Pham will get designated this month. I should

46:12

have made that. What was I doing? I see.

46:16

COCA, my brain, is a little

46:18

strange. Why wouldn't that

46:20

be a June prediction? I'm

46:24

adding that as a June prediction. Oh,

46:27

the first ones are not wait to see. That's

46:29

why. Thank you. Well done. Well

46:32

done, you, on a Monday morning. That

46:34

is my official wait to see

46:36

that Tommy Pham will get designated

46:39

for assignments. Nothing.

46:42

Personal pick of the day. How

46:46

do we do? Do you remember what we did Friday? Raise

46:48

your hand if you're sure. Raise your

46:50

hand if you remember there was a Patrick Corbin

46:52

start and we had the Guardians over the gnats

46:54

and the Patrick Corbin start. We

46:57

won. Guardians beat the

46:59

gnats. We're

47:01

doing, are we up, COCA? Are

47:04

you doing a separate calculation on

47:07

just the Corbin wagers? Now

47:09

remember, I took two losses when

47:11

I forgot to put them as picks of the day

47:14

and I counted them as losses. I

47:16

don't know if we're counting that as units lost. We'll

47:19

get back to you on that, but we won that

47:21

on Friday. We're 75 and 84. What do we

47:24

got today? Let's

47:27

talk about the Blue Jays. I don't know

47:30

if you remember from only

47:32

a few minutes ago that they're

47:34

not trading Guerrero. They're not trading Bachete.

47:38

Kevin Gausman's on the mound tonight. They

47:40

are getting 102 over the Orioles

47:45

and we are taking them. The

47:48

Orioles are good. You know the

47:51

relationship we have with Brandon Hyde. We've

47:53

got a bunch of coaches who are now managers,

47:55

COCA. That'd be a good story to do. Joey

47:57

Espada was one of our base coaches, Brandon Hyde.

48:00

and hide. We've got a bunch of

48:02

pitching coaches. We've been out of the game for

48:04

a while and we still have coaches who are

48:06

still highly thought of. That's pretty cool. I

48:09

still think the Blue Jays, I'm going

48:11

to die with this of course, I

48:14

still think they have a shot. Gowsman,

48:17

102, Blue

48:19

Jays over the Orioles. My

48:22

Corbin tracker were five and three. Coca

48:25

got that quickly. We're down $5.92 based on

48:27

$10 units. So we're five and three but down

48:32

because when the Nats lose, it's obviously

48:34

we're laying two to one. So

48:37

we're getting screwed on that. All

48:40

right, to end today, I want to remind you

48:42

of a story that's going to be a screenplay.

48:44

Someone's buying the rights to this, I

48:47

assume. Have you heard about

48:49

Birmingham Southern and their baseball team?

48:52

They're a Division III school. No, they're not.

48:56

Let me do that better.

48:58

4-8-69. They're a

49:00

collection of players playing in a Division

49:02

III college world series for

49:05

nobody. They

49:07

used to be a school called

49:10

Birmingham Southern and

49:12

then they went out of business. They

49:14

ceased to exist. Schools

49:19

get money from donors, they

49:21

get money from alums, boosters,

49:24

they get money from the state in which

49:26

they're in. Schools

49:28

don't make money. And you're going to

49:31

say, well, what about Ivy Leagues with

49:33

all their endowments and the interest on

49:35

their endowments? Trust me, operationally,

49:38

schools do not make money.

49:42

Birmingham Southern is a school that

49:44

needed to borrow money from Alabama.

49:46

Alabama said sorry. And after 160 years,

49:50

this college actually

49:52

shut down. That

49:56

sounds strange, doesn't it? You don't read about that too

49:58

often. When I say shut down, I'm going to say shut Sounds

50:00

like see a later. From the

50:02

clean people to the professors to

50:04

the students to the for to

50:06

release their done. It ceases

50:08

to exist. At

50:10

the baseball team said you know what. We're.

50:13

Nothing else to do. Let's keep playing. And.

50:16

They end up. In. The College

50:18

World Series Division Three. And.

50:20

They go on this amazing run! They're.

50:23

Winning games in winning games and everyone's

50:25

rooting for them. The. Other calling

50:27

them the underdog. But. Of

50:29

course, the quality of the team has

50:31

nothing to do with the fact. That

50:34

there's no school that the

50:36

representing that isn't existence. And.

50:39

The reason why it was such a funny

50:41

story. Is. That wouldn't it be

50:43

cool to have a team when the

50:45

World Series. But. Guess what?

50:48

Everything. Was going great. The story

50:50

book, the movies been written. They're

50:52

winning games. They're coming back from

50:54

deficits. They lost yesterday

50:57

to Wisconsin Whitewater. If.

50:59

Done. The entire

51:01

Feel Good story that I couldn't

51:03

wait to talk about. They did

51:05

not win the elimination game last

51:07

night. And now. That's.

51:10

The end. So. They have a coach named

51:12

J. Weisberg and. He had these

51:15

gray words in, there were ears

51:17

and everyone was emotional because it's

51:19

not the end of the season.

51:22

It's. The end of the

51:24

sports. In Birmingham Southern.

51:27

There's. No wait till next season, there's

51:30

no nothing. Whether you are freshman her

51:32

senior, you gotta find a new college.

51:35

Because. The Totally Gone.

51:37

So. We got very emotional about it.

51:40

And. He gave this quote make It

51:42

is out to be this story. Us

51:45

against the world every assuming that we

51:47

weren't gonna win. And then we were

51:50

on this run. Talking

51:52

about toughness and the greatness.

51:55

And all I was thinking about during

51:57

this story. Was. The President

51:59

of the Universe The the Provost of

52:01

the Reverse. The I was thinking about.

52:04

The. State and how they allocate their

52:06

budget. And what

52:09

made me laugh is that

52:11

they. Could. Not

52:13

care less. About.

52:15

The baseball story. They looked at

52:18

the university and said. Were.

52:20

Shut Down. Because.

52:22

It's just business. Sorry.

52:25

J. This. Is nothing

52:27

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