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[18] Let's do another category three for the day.

[19] Let's go, Best Revelation.

[20] And now, the Suey nominees for Best Revelation.

[21] Tori went to school with Vivek.

[22] Are you a disappointment to everyone who went to Harvard, are you?

[23] Probably.

[24] I mean, there is a kid who's running for president who I went to school with.

[25] This guy, Vivek, Ramoswami.

[26] Oh, yeah.

[27] He used to sit in justice.

[28] I took a justice class.

[29] It's moral reasoning, 22, I think.

[30] And it was a big lecture hall in like a Harry Potter sort of auditorium.

[31] And I only knew Vivek Ramoswamy presidential candidate.

[32] I believe pulling third right behind Ronda because he would raise his hand in lecture in the shape of a V. Ew.

[33] I don't know.

[34] Look, I've read a lot about this guy, and that by far is the most alarming.

[35] Also, he went to our reunion.

[36] He went to our 15 -year reunion, brought a black SUV that he just kept parked outside with the driver waiting in it, and would, like, bring the food out of the reunion and eat it in his SUV and, like, have, like, private get -togethers in this car.

[37] Paul Pierce claims Ray Allen was shopping for Miami homes while playing for Boston against the heat.

[38] And this is about Ray Allen.

[39] And I'm not even sure if this is true.

[40] In game two or game five in Miami, before the series was over, I heard Ray Allen was already looking for houses in Miami.

[41] Oh, wow.

[42] I'm not sure how true that is.

[43] Oh, wow.

[44] Ain't that crazy while we're trying to beat them to go to the championship?

[45] Peter King prefers unfrosted, Pop -Tarts.

[46] Hello.

[47] How are you?

[48] Good.

[49] How are you?

[50] We are good.

[51] How's the pop -tart?

[52] Yeah, I'm having a pop -tart.

[53] Love it.

[54] What flavor?

[55] What flavor we talk in here?

[56] Straw -stery, unfrosted.

[57] And you seem like a room -temp guy.

[58] You know what?

[59] Let's start him right there.

[60] No, let's do this right now.

[61] Let's do it right now.

[62] Unfrosted.

[63] Listen, Peter King, this is a...

[64] I do not like the frosted pop -tarts.

[65] It's just...

[66] Blastphemous.

[67] What?

[68] David Samson.

[69] Austin's odd pop -tart habits.

[70] I love the frosted cinnamon, the brown sugar pop -tarts.

[71] I love the strawberry pop -tarts.

[72] I love the low -fat pop -tarts.

[73] I don't toast them.

[74] I eat them raw.

[75] Put them on top of dry cereal with peanuts and wasabi peas and some sort of spicy mix.

[76] Wait a minute.

[77] What?

[78] You're ruining pomp.

[79] What is that?

[80] That is a very common meal for me. Dominique Foxworth reveals that Ray Lewis would recycle speeches.

[81] He recycled.

[82] He recycled some speeches.

[83] Wow.

[84] Really?

[85] He'd been in the game for a long time, and he delivered a lot of impassioned speeches.

[86] And I hadn't been there long enough.

[87] But the guys who had been around for a while, they'd be calling out lines before he hit him.

[88] They call out the lines before they hit him.

[89] Call out lies before they hit him.

[90] Did anyone say, like, tell Ray, like, hey, you've done this before?

[91] That's the best part.

[92] And that was one of the best things about Ray Lewis is he didn't act like that.

[93] like unapproachable?

[94] Yeah, people were roasting for his speeches and he would laugh it off and keep it moving and I never did, but other people would.

[95] Roy Bellamy reveals the fake name he uses when checking into hotels.

[96] His fake name when he checks into hotels is Jack Slade, is that correct?

[97] Jack Spade.

[98] Jack Spade.

[99] I mean, you're not going to get him to say, I don't feel sexy.

[100] Hold on a second.

[101] What?

[102] That's my fake name is Jack Spade.

[103] Excuse me. me?

[104] Why?

[105] I'm going to get you sucker, I believe, is what I got that from.

[106] Out of boy.

[107] No, no, I get that part.

[108] The part that is why are you taking you with a fake name?

[109] After the game with Jake Spade is such a good show.

[110] Jack, it's a fine.

[111] I don't understand why you need a fake name.

[112] That just sounds nice.

[113] What are you worried about?

[114] Change of pace.

[115] So when they ask for your ID, I get what Roy's doing.

[116] Whether he feels like he needs it or not, it is kind of a move to say, can you put that under Jack Spade?

[117] The show reveals their laziness when it comes to getting dressed.

[118] Can I give you a suggestion where the pants have a belt in them that you never take off?

[119] Get out of here.

[120] You just keep the belt in there.

[121] That's the move I have.

[122] I have multiple belts.

[123] They're already in the jeans.

[124] So when I pull out the jeans, I put them on, they already have a dog.

[125] I'm not looping any belts anymore.

[126] I'm really embarrassed to say this is killing me, but I wouldn't be an honest journalist if I didn't say I also do this.

[127] Jess is about to be so disappointed It's good to be back You just take your pants off And just leave them there with the belt up?

[128] Yes, I do too What if you have to?

[129] There is, wow There are dozens of us Amazing.

[130] Me too.

[131] What?

[132] I have separate belts for separate pants.

[133] So you just drop trow And that's it.

[134] Yeah, actually this morning I forgot to put my, I put my sneakers on before I put my pants off.

[135] Oh, wow.

[136] And I was like, Nothing feels off.

[137] Chris Whittingham has no regrets about turning his back on the Panthers.

[138] Look, I mean, I acknowledge you guys are Stanley Cup champions.

[139] What I just feel is nothing.

[140] I'm vacant, empty nothingness.

[141] I did the whole cycle of thought that I've done probably eight times since I started, and I come back to the same conclusion every time.

[142] I'd do it again.

[143] As stupid as a loser.

[144] As ridiculous as it is, I would not change a single bit of thought process.

[145] Lighting, not one.

[146] Oh my gosh.

[147] I'm not gaslighting.

[148] Yes, you are.

[149] This is genuine.

[150] Gaslighting and I would do it all over again.

[151] Mike, stuff him in a locker, Mike.

[152] Come on.

[153] Mike Ryan and Chris Cody revealed that their wives have nice feet.

[154] Let me tell you something.

[155] Those in the audience, my wife's feet, very nice.

[156] Oh, mine too.

[157] Very nice.

[158] Delightful.

[159] You will dittle yourself to my wife's feet, no doubt.

[160] What is the shame here?

[161] I don't understand.

[162] It's why I thought Footgirls was such a funny thing.

[163] In fact, I was not connected to.

[164] My wife and I have a thing where sometimes when she's sleep.

[165] I'll pick up her foot and answer it like it's a phone.

[166] Hello.

[167] Oh, it tickles.

[168] That's a great bit.

[169] This is your wake -up call.

[170] It's cute.

[171] Chris Cody P's in the dark.

[172] I'm enjoying that your eyes are still closed as you deliver this information.

[173] You're getting deep into character of how you do it in the dark.

[174] You don't want to open your eyes.

[175] You don't want to wake up too much.

[176] I tend to aim right.

[177] So if I don't hear water, I go a little left.

[178] That's usually right.

[179] Wait, hold a second.

[180] But how many seconds have to go by before you get nervous?

[181] No water.

[182] What do you mean?

[183] Multiple seconds, we're talking about, fractions of a second.

[184] It does off.

[185] I'm so confused.

[186] So you're peeing in the dark, but you're also closing your eyes to add to the difficulty of it?

[187] Well, no, I'm closing my eyes here because it's light in here.

[188] Like, in my bathroom.

[189] To get into character.

[190] Oh, you're recreate.

[191] He's a method actor.

[192] You're recreating it in your head what it looks like.

[193] Maybe my eyes are closed.

[194] Do we know if our eyes are open in a dark room?

[195] Huh.

[196] What?

[197] David Sampson has anti -theft shorts.

[198] The issue is I have on shorts, too.

[199] I wasn't knock you for wearing shorts.

[200] it's the 90s ass shorts that you got on.

[201] Like, they stopped making those shorts in the 90s.

[202] They're brand new.

[203] It's all backwards.

[204] All the zippers are backwards.

[205] Has it?

[206] Does shorts have a panic room?

[207] That's exactly right.

[208] Have you ever been pickpocketed?

[209] No. Of course.

[210] But do you go to places that would pickpocket you?

[211] Any place.

[212] Any place in Europe?

[213] Really?

[214] Have you ever been to Europe?

[215] I agree.

[216] I agree that, well, we're not there now.

[217] Ever been to New Orleans?

[218] Ever been to the Elster Lobby?

[219] David Samson reveals he cries after sex.

[220] Look at him!

[221] He's radiant.

[222] He's post -coital.

[223] Look at him.

[224] It's unbelievable.

[225] What are you doing?

[226] He's coyote like cry.

[227] You're...

[228] What?

[229] And apologize.

[230] Every time?

[231] Sorry.

[232] So bad and short.

[233] I'm old.

[234] Drew Bledso reveals who wrote his Giselle joke at the Tom Brady Roast.

[235] I'm going to get in really, really big trouble for this.

[236] But I'm willing to wear it.

[237] The, uh, the Zazel joke.

[238] that actually came from my wife.

[239] Don't tell her I told you.

[240] Wow.

[241] But it was a, but the truth is, it was a replacement for a joke that I had written that was far worse.

[242] And she said, no, you can't do that one.

[243] And so then she got me right.

[244] Something was a little more of a softball.

[245] I want to hear that one so bad.

[246] Yeah, let's not do that.

[247] Yeah, no, we're not, we're not going there.

[248] She told me I couldn't say it.

[249] And then I really get in trouble if I actually told you the jokes that she wouldn't let me say.

[250] Greg Cody learned how to spell phonetically.

[251] I learned to spell by doing it phonetically.

[252] I learned to spell Europe by going EU ropey.

[253] I swear.

[254] That's why I became a good speller as a kid.

[255] I pronounced everything phonetically so it would learn me how to spell it.

[256] Did want to learn, did want to earn.

[257] Isn't it EU rope?

[258] It should have been EU rope, but I went EU rope so that I knew it ended in an E. Okay.

[259] Nick Wright will vanquish his rivals.

[260] I have a rivals list.

[261] Everyone in the media that is within two years of me or younger than me, I must vanquish and I must be more successful than.

[262] I have to do it.

[263] They are all my rivals.

[264] And the reason I mention it is right now, rising to the top of the rivals list is Pablo Tori, and he will be vanquished.

[265] You know what's going to be the hardest one?

[266] Because sometimes your dear friends become rivals.

[267] and you don't want to have to do it.

[268] But I checked the old Wikipedia day to birth.

[269] Mina Kimes, younger than me, rival.

[270] Wait a minute.

[271] Listen.

[272] Are you insane?

[273] Are you insane?

[274] I love Mina.

[275] She's outstanding.

[276] She is going, she I think, is going to be the final boss rival, but she's on the list.

[277] Oh, my God.

[278] Nick.

[279] She's on the list.

[280] She has to be vanquished.

[281] Be careful, Nick.

[282] Chris Cody and Greg Cody reveal Greg's old umpire routine.

[283] he -haw three sorry he -haw he's right yeah that's how my dad used to do strike three calls when I would pitch to him out of the front yard he -haw three that's right those are the days only if it was a strike though you don't abuse that call Lulu's a good name for a donkey Chris Cody reveals his incorrect understanding of Cecil Fielder I have a shameful admission I went most of my childhood being a very big baseball fan thinking that Cecil Fielder was a position.

[284] When I was like eight, I thought it was like right behind the second base, like a floating outfielder.

[285] I swear to God, this is not a lie.

[286] This is not for comedy.

[287] Not center fielder, but right in front of him was the Cecilfielder.

[288] Go out and play Cecil.

[289] Where was the prince?

[290] Lucy Rodin reveals that as a kid, she would give out her parents' private information.

[291] I definitely like gave out my mom's.

[292] social security number when I was a kid and we're just talking about this and it made me I entered my family and for like so many free cruises and I was like oh we're going to get it they're going to show up with a big check I'd ask my mom for her information she'd give it to me and I'd be like when this flat screen TV shows up I everybody's going to love me so it's her fault she should not have trusted like a 10 year old but that information why would an adult give a 10 year old they're social yeah that's a really great question I gave out so much of my mom's personal information.

[293] Crazy.

[294] There's nothing better.

[295] I run into this a lot when I re -listen to old Cynophobe episodes and we're talking about something and then someone says something and I'm like, I make the joke out loud to myself as I'm listening and then I hear myself make the same joke.

[296] It makes me feel so proud.

[297] You weren't a lot of those.

[298] I was.

[299] I feel like in all these.

[300] You've been in a lot of the sueyes.

[301] I've been working a lot lately.

[302] He -ha -3 and Cecil -Fielder.

[303] Those are both.

[304] But I have good ones.

[305] I mean, I have the opposite reaction of you where sometimes I hear these back and I have a different take.

[306] Oh, really?

[307] Like the belt thing, I was like, yeah, I've done that before.

[308] But on that day, I was like, what?

[309] You keep your belts and your loops, you heathens.

[310] But, like, I feel like that sometimes you're just going with what's happening, right?

[311] Whereas when I'm just, I'm not part of the conversation, I'm making an observation in my brain.

[312] And then I make the same observation out loud.

[313] Like, there's something comforting knowing that I'm consistent, man. It's like you're watching yourself an interstellar.

[314] You're like, say it.

[315] Come on, say it, say it.

[316] And then you say it, you're like, yeah.

[317] You know what's wild?

[318] It's like, think about this.

[319] People always ask, like, if you had a memory white, would you still fall in love with the same people?

[320] Would you still kind of live your life the same way?

[321] Like, if you didn't know that this is a mistake, would you still make the same mistake?

[322] And I would, I can comfortably say, yeah, absolutely.

[323] I would do everything the same way without the knowledge or the foresight.

[324] It's comforting.

[325] Hey, Jeremy, what's coming up next?

[326] Hey, we have the pitch clock.

[327] Remember baseball?

[328] That's still happening.

[329] Tim Kirchin?

[330] Yeah, we got Tim Kirchian on today's episode of the pitch clock.

[331] We'll finally find out where Cecil...

[332] Where the Cecilfielder plays.

[333] Yeah, we'll find out together.

[334] Did you guys ask him about Aaron Judge being more popular than what's the guy for the...

[335] 50...

[336] We asked him about Aaron Judge.

[337] We did ask him about Aaron Judge.

[338] Jeff Druskel.

[339] So you'll hear about that.

[340] Robbie Crickrack.

[341] That's what I was thinking about.

[342] Robert, Craig.

[343] Great interview with Bob.

[344] That interview was great, by the way.

[345] It was.

[346] Yeah, you got all sorts of baseball coming up.

[347] This one should be fun.

[348] We've got a Jersey -based trivia game and Tim Kirchion, so listen up.

[349] Go on.

[350] We're going to go see Genesis.

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[399] It sounds to me like, Everybody could use a hug because a hug is always the right size.

[400] Stugats.

[401] All I have put in my body today is three cups of coffee and an entire cup of honey.

[402] Don't let him fool you.

[403] He said in the break that he's jittery.

[404] This is the Dan Levitar show with the Stugats.

[405] Welcome to the pitch clock.

[406] Here's the pitch.

[407] A two -part baseball segment.

[408] Combining a nostalgic baseball tribute.

[409] game and an interview with an expert.

[410] This is the pitch clock.

[411] Back with another episode of the pitch clock and we're kicking things off with a guest in this game, Jake Storelli from John Boy Media, back for another week here on the pitch clock and this time it's to be a gamer.

[412] So Taylor, our producer, our esteemed producer, wearing his Yankee hat.

[413] I feel like there's some bias in this trivia game.

[414] It doesn't really feel very fair.

[415] But Taylor, why don't you let us know how this one's going to go down.

[416] Yeah, I'm not playing favorites, but I am a huge fan of Jay and baseball, and it's why I've tried to do more fun trivia here.

[417] I'm ref guessing, I'm doing the drafts, I'm doing this category.

[418] So everybody kind of has to go check those out.

[419] But the game today is three strikes, where you'll alternate guesses, Jake and Jeremy, three strikes and you're out, the last man standing wins.

[420] Great.

[421] The list you see is labeled 1 through 20 with team logos, and it's the best -selling jerseys from the 2010 season.

[422] Oh, my God.

[423] And you don't need to give me the exact spot on the list.

[424] You just have to name the player.

[425] And it's a forgiving game.

[426] From the 2010 season.

[427] So why don't you go ahead first here, Jake?

[428] Why don't you take the first swing at it?

[429] I'll play to the hat and it's number one.

[430] And I, again, I'm not great with years, but this is still Jeter time that I got to guess Derek Jeter.

[431] Number one?

[432] Derek Jeter is number one.

[433] Of course.

[434] I'm going to go ahead and write that one down.

[435] Number 13, the Washington Nationals, Stephen Strasbourg.

[436] That's a crazy first guess, but that is.

[437] Yeah, all right.

[438] All right, Steven Schroesberg.

[439] So through one round, we've got the number one in Derek Jeter off the board.

[440] We've got the number 13 in Steven Schroesberg off the board.

[441] Jake, your next selection.

[442] Jimmy Rollins.

[443] Jimmy Rollins, that's a strike.

[444] Ooh, no, Jimmy Rollins.

[445] Wow.

[446] Four Philly logos on the board, but that is not.

[447] Wow, is that possible.

[448] We're very excited for our guest here on the pitch clock.

[449] Chris Cody has stuck around from the shipping container with me because of how excited we are to welcome in Tim Kirkshan.

[450] You know him from ESPN.

[451] You know his new podcast with his son, Jeff.

[452] Is this a great game or what?

[453] What a good pod that is.

[454] It's amazing.

[455] And Tim Kirkshan, thank you so much for blessing us with the seal of approval here on the pitch clock, coming in and giving us the credibility of being the voice in Major League Baseball that we get to talk to.

[456] Couldn't be more excited.

[457] and we want to start with one of the most exciting players in Major League Baseball.

[458] That's Aaron Judge.

[459] Over the weekend, he became the fifth player ever to hit 50 homers in three different seasons.

[460] He's just the second to do it not linked to performance enhancing drugs.

[461] The other names, Babe Ruth, Sammy Sosa, Arod, and Mark McGuire.

[462] Tim, is there a way to properly put into perspective the greatness of Aaron Judge right now?

[463] It's pretty hard because he has been exceptional.

[464] And what has really impressed me is how he's become an all -round hitter.

[465] You know, he used to be, you know, just a big, strong guy who hit a lot of Homer struck out a million times hit for a relatively low average.

[466] Now he's hitting 330, more than that.

[467] And he's slugging over 700, and he plays center field, and he can run, and he's an athlete.

[468] So, you know, Barry Bonds had these seasons.

[469] There's no way around that.

[470] Offensively, Barry Bonds did this and more.

[471] But when it comes to playing every day in a premium defensive position and doing what he's doing right now is absolutely amazing.

[472] And every time I watch and play, I expect something incredible to happen.

[473] And you listed the guys with 3 50 Homer seasons.

[474] And I mean, when it starts with Babe Ruth, that's a pretty good place to start and to end.

[475] It's an incredible place to start.

[476] And when you look across at the National League, you have another record breaker over there in Shohei Otani.

[477] One of the guys now in the 40 -40 club, he becomes the six player ever to reach the 40 -40 milestone.

[478] And with him, that's not as a pitcher this season.

[479] He did it faster than anyone in the history of the league.

[480] Tim, what do you think the odds are that Shohei Otani becomes the first 50 -50 player in Major League history and just how ridiculous is it that Shohei Otani is doing this in the season where he's recovering from me?

[481] Tommy John's surgery.

[482] Right.

[483] Well, I think he's going to go 50 -50.

[484] And then we have to remember that he's one of the best pitchers in baseball and he's going to go 50 -50.

[485] He can throw 100 miles an hour and he's going to go 50 -50.

[486] That's all you need to know about him.

[487] And, you know, this is so classic.

[488] He gets to 40 -40 with a walk -off Grant Slam.

[489] It's the first walk -off home run of his career.

[490] And of course, he waits to do it to become, you know, the first guy to get to 40 -40 in 126 games, which is just remarkable in itself.

[491] And I told Chris a few times the first time I saw Otani play in that first spring.

[492] The first thing that struck me was how fast he was.

[493] He ran out of triple in the game that I went to and I went, I had no idea he could run like this.

[494] I mean, we heard he could run, but not like that.

[495] So you add in the incredible pitching, the incredible hitting, and now that kind of speed.

[496] Again, he is the most remarkable player.

[497] I know he's the most remarkable player I've ever seen.

[498] I don't think he's the best player because Babe Ruth still has as many career shutouts as Pedro Martinez.

[499] But it's amazing what he's doing.

[500] And you're right to make a huge adjustment.

[501] Just being in everyday DH, people think all that makes it easier.

[502] Not always.

[503] Sometimes it's harder when you're just a DH and look at the season he's having.

[504] Okay, so I'm going to take a Philly then just to kind of start narrowing things down.

[505] Chase Utley.

[506] Chase Utley is number four.

[507] Chase Utley is at number four on this list.

[508] So through two rounds, we have Jake with Derek Jeter and a strike.

[509] And then I've knocked off Chase Utley and Stephen Strasper.

[510] And the Rollins landmine gets me. I can't believe that.

[511] There's four Phillies and he's not one.

[512] None of them.

[513] Now, I mean, this is such bad strategy, but it's digging at me that I have to quote Ryan Howard.

[514] Ryan Howard just makes the list at 18.

[515] Wow, he's, who are that right?

[516] I'm never guessing another Philly.

[517] All right, hold on a second.

[518] So I'm trying to think, so this is right around the time they're going to the World Series all the time.

[519] So Roy Halliday.

[520] Roy Holliday is number three.

[521] Yeah, Roy Halliday.

[522] All right, Doc.

[523] Jake has one strike.

[524] Jake, you are up now in round four there's two twins options I mean one of them has to click let me guess Joe Mauer the twins are going to come off the board here I could feel it Joe Mauer is number two Joe Mauer is number two all right so there's another one you know what I'm gonna I'm gonna just for the risk of it I'm gonna pencil myself in here number five the last Philly Cliffley it's Clifley yes Clifley let's go all right so Cliff Lee and who was it?

[525] Joe Mauer come off the board.

[526] So we now have the top five.

[527] The top five jersey sellers in 2010 were Derek Jeter, Joe Mauer, Roy Halliday, Chase Utley, and Cliff Lee.

[528] Jake, you are up.

[529] I see a Cardinal there.

[530] I copied this guy's swing growing up.

[531] It did not work for me. It's, or actually, oh, not.

[532] Albert Pujols?

[533] It has to be.

[534] It is Albert Pujolos.

[535] All right.

[536] It had to be.

[537] There's two other Yankees on here, which makes me feel actually kind of confident.

[538] Alex Rodriguez.

[539] Arod is number nine.

[540] Arod is number nine.

[541] Had to be.

[542] Yeah, he had to be on that list.

[543] So thus far off the board, Jeter, Mauer, Holiday, Utley, Lee, Pujos, Arod, Ryan Howard, and Steven Strasberg.

[544] One strike to Jake.

[545] And that means we are on round five here on the pitch clock in this game.

[546] You know, you say it could be harder as now a DH as opposed to someone that gets out there every fifth day.

[547] Do you think he would have done this offensively?

[548] Had he been a pitcher this year for the Dodgers?

[549] Well, I've learned one thing from him.

[550] Never, ever, ever underestimate what he might do because just when you think you've seen him do something that you'll never see again, you just slap your forehead because here he goes and does something else.

[551] Whether it was 40 -40 and 126 or $700 million or ridiculous home runs at ridiculous times, home run derbies, everything else.

[552] So nothing would surprise me. But yes, I think he could be a 50, I think he had a chance to be a 50 -50 guy while pitching this year.

[553] But the fact that he's not pitching, I think, allows him to run the bases a little bit more aggressively.

[554] So maybe it would have been a whole lot harder if he was pitching.

[555] He just would have hit 70 homers and stole 30 bases instead.

[556] It would have just been fine that way.

[557] With these two players, you have Aaron Judge, you have Shohei Otani, seemingly runaways in their MVP races.

[558] But the question I have is when is the last time, Tim, in Major League Baseball, that we've seen not one but two individual seasons like this in one MLB season.

[559] So having, you know, someone doing what Judge is doing in this home run race and that's someone doing what Otani is doing.

[560] Well, I think it's been a really long time since we've seen two people, two players of this magnitude, of this stature, with this kind of.

[561] I'm not sure pressure is the word that we need to put on them, but everyone was expecting them to do something like this.

[562] And then not only have they done it, they've exceeded expectations.

[563] I think a lot of people thought entering the season, Judge and Otani would be the two MVPs.

[564] And now it looks like they're going to be.

[565] So I would have to go through my mind on years in which guys won the MVP in each league and each had stunningly great seasons.

[566] I'm sure there are a bunch of of those.

[567] But to do it like, if we have a 50 -50 guy and a 63 homer guy and both guys lead their teams to the playoffs, that's a pretty good combination.

[568] Jake, why don't you go ahead with your next pick?

[569] Okay, it's starting to get nervous for me and I still have a strike.

[570] How about, I see a San Francisco giant on here.

[571] How about Buster Posey?

[572] Buster Posey is 19.

[573] Buster Posey is 19.

[574] Wow.

[575] He speaks onto the list.

[576] Which makes me honestly want to go with the other giant.

[577] I believe that giant is Tim Linsicum.

[578] It's the freak.

[579] Oh, big time Timmy Jim.

[580] Timmy Jim.

[581] Timlicum, there he is.

[582] I need to believe in the starting pitchers more.

[583] Apparently they, hey, maybe MLB has a right with his six inning.

[584] They were stars back in the day.

[585] And half these guys burned out.

[586] But that's all right.

[587] That's all right.

[588] All right.

[589] So both giants go off the board.

[590] That's Tim Linsigam and Buster Posey.

[591] Round six.

[592] Jake has one strike.

[593] I have no strike.

[594] strikes thus far.

[595] I'm worried we're going to run out of spaces on this paper, Taylor, and you might need to start going to the next group.

[596] But Jake, who you got next?

[597] I mean, this Texas, one of these Texas Rangers has to be Josh Hamilton.

[598] Are you locking that in?

[599] I'm locked in.

[600] Number seven is Josh.

[601] Ooh, Josh Hamilton.

[602] Run Derby, yeah.

[603] Okay, there's Josh Hamilton.

[604] I'm going with a Boston Red Sock.

[605] And I'm going to say one of those is David Ortiz.

[606] Steeroy!

[607] That's a strike.

[608] Really?

[609] No David Ortiz on this list.

[610] No, David Ortiz.

[611] I had another red sock I was going to guess and I didn't go with him.

[612] Oh, no, all right.

[613] So each of us now has a strike.

[614] This thing just got evened up.

[615] That's really interesting.

[616] All right, Jake, what is your next pick?

[617] I feel like I've got momentum on my side.

[618] I need to like pull the rope where it is.

[619] It doesn't Padroia?

[620] That's who I was going to guess.

[621] Padraea is number eight.

[622] Oh, boy.

[623] Okay.

[624] I'm going to guess the Milwaukee Brewers, Ryan Braun.

[625] It is Ryan Braun.

[626] Ryan Braun, the Hebrew Hammer.

[627] All right.

[628] We're entering round eight, I believe, with 14 names off the board and a strike each.

[629] We only have six jerseys remaining.

[630] I'm starting to worry that this might come down to sudden death.

[631] Tim, when I see the story of Danny Jensen playing for the same team, playing for two different teams, in the same game.

[632] Like, you are the word association just with this.

[633] You love a good nugget like this.

[634] So I'm just wondering, put your historian hat on.

[635] What other stories in MLB history did this remind you of, this guy playing for two teams in one game?

[636] August 4, 1982.

[637] Love it.

[638] Joel Youngblood got a hit for two different teams in two different cities on the same day.

[639] No way.

[640] He got a hit for the Mets against.

[641] the Cubs against future Hall of Fame or Fergie Jenkins at 2 .30 in the afternoon.

[642] So the game's still going on.

[643] He's told you've just been traded to the Expos and they want you in Philadelphia tonight.

[644] So he ran, changed his clothes, took a cab, barely made a six o 'clock flight and got to Philadelphia to the airport at 9 p .m. He took his third cab ride of the day, was at the ballpark for less than 10 minutes in uniform.

[645] And Jim Fanning said, okay, you're up now.

[646] So good.

[647] So he goes up and he gets a hit against Steve Carlton.

[648] Oh my God.

[649] Future Hall of Famer.

[650] So he got two hits in the same day for two different teams in two different cities.

[651] So I called Joel Youngblood the other day about this.

[652] Of course you did.

[653] This is all on my, this is on our podcast for tomorrow.

[654] And he said, look, I know what Danny Jans is doing.

[655] He's trying to break my record.

[656] He's laughing while he's talking.

[657] And he goes, but he's not breaking my record because I got two hits in two cities in the same day.

[658] And he said, no one can match that.

[659] And he said, if I'd known how important it was, I would have kept the ball from each hit because each one was historic.

[660] And by the way, for the audience wondering, a historian hap is a combination between a hat and a cap.

[661] Yeah, well done.

[662] So when I tell him to put on his historian Hap, that's a combination between a hat and a cat.

[663] A kick save and a beauty.

[664] Thank you.

[665] Tim, what is your maybe favorite story in Major League Baseball right now that you think maybe we're not talking about?

[666] It's sort of going on under the surface and isn't quite as flashy as the judge or Otani or, hey, this team's been unbelievable type of story.

[667] Well, I'm not sure anything is unbelievable and maybe this is obvious.

[668] But fellas, I'm not sure I've ever seen a season where we've gotten to August the 25th, whatever we are.

[669] And we don't even know what teams are really, really good, what teams are great.

[670] The parody, whatever you want to call it, every really good team out there has had a terrible stretch this year.

[671] I don't believe anyone's won 80 games yet.

[672] So we had a team get to 100 losses before anyone got to 80 wins.

[673] That's pretty hard to do.

[674] But just when you think the Phillies were going to run away with the National League, then they had a terrible month.

[675] The Yankees had a terrible month.

[676] The Orioles have stumbled.

[677] The Dodgers have stumbled.

[678] A bunch of teams like the Astros got off to a terrible start, Padres, Diamondbacks, and they got red hot.

[679] I'm just not sure in all the years I've covered that we've gotten to this point of the season, and people ask you, as they ask me all the time, who's going to win the World Series?

[680] As if I know or something.

[681] when right now we have no idea because there are so many teams that are good and maybe, maybe no teams that are great.

[682] So, Jake, where are we at?

[683] Well, I think I'm going hunting for that ray because I think the rest have some landmines tied to them.

[684] I believe this is our guy, Evan Longoria.

[685] It's a long ago.

[686] Great pick.

[687] Great pick.

[688] That was well done because I'm not sure I would have gone Longoria or not.

[689] I'm trying to think of who those other rays would have been.

[690] I might set myself up for failure.

[691] 2010 Minnesota Twins, Johan Santana.

[692] It's not.

[693] It's not, which means you're going to get it.

[694] Damn, that was such a mistake.

[695] That was such a mistake.

[696] All right.

[697] So two strikes for me. We're headed to round nine, I believe.

[698] Oh, boy, two strikes for me. And now I know Jake's just chomping at the bit, waiting to get the next name off.

[699] Jake.

[700] I'm playing dirty.

[701] But, yeah, that was a potential landmine that I believe this has to be Minnesota Twins MVP.

[702] Just some more no. It's just me. God, I'm so angry with myself.

[703] Oh, I should have gone more no. Oh, boy.

[704] Ten seconds.

[705] Oh, boy.

[706] Oh, I don't know which team the name here.

[707] Braves.

[708] Five.

[709] Red Sox.

[710] Jacobi Ellsbury.

[711] It is Jacobi Ellsbury.

[712] He keeps it alive.

[713] I literally, I want you to know, I wasn't sure if Ellsbury was still with the Red Sox at that point, and I almost just said his name with the Yankees because I figured whenever he made that switch, he was a high selling jersey.

[714] Oh boy.

[715] All right.

[716] Kept myself alive on that one.

[717] So we both still have one striker.

[718] You have two.

[719] I have two strikes.

[720] I have two strikes.

[721] So I kept it alive.

[722] And we have three names left on this list.

[723] Wow.

[724] Jake, amongst the Yankees, the Braves and the Rangers, who is your guess?

[725] Man, this is getting ugly.

[726] Uh, man, man. This guy, no, I'm scared of it.

[727] I'm scared of it.

[728] I will go Yankees and I will go C .C. Sabathia?

[729] Oh, it's a strike.

[730] Wow.

[731] 2010.

[732] Who was still around at that?

[733] Like, this is that weird era where several players retire.

[734] I guess you're right.

[735] I do need it to stay alive.

[736] But the Yankees, it doesn't make me feel better.

[737] I have a kind of crazy guess, and I don't know if it's going to be right or not.

[738] 5 seconds.

[739] Atlanta Braves, Chipper Jones.

[740] Steer -Rey -R -I.

[741] He's gone.

[742] He's gone.

[743] That's Strike 3.

[744] All right.

[745] So Jake wins this one.

[746] I'm devastated.

[747] Taylor, why don't you let us know the final three names on this list?

[748] Number 11 Yankees, Mark Tashara.

[749] Ooh, Tashara.

[750] I wasn't going there.

[751] I was going Kno or like Rivera.

[752] Yeah, yeah.

[753] Number 12 Braves, Jason Hayward.

[754] Oh, my.

[755] Jason Hayward.

[756] Never would have guessed that.

[757] 17th from the Rangers.

[758] Kinsler.

[759] Oh, man. How about this?

[760] Two Jews in the top 20 of Jersey sales and Major League Baseball.

[761] I bet that's the only time in Major League History that that's happened.

[762] That's a good one for us, huh?

[763] And score one for the tribe.

[764] Jake, thanks so much for playing this game with us today, man. Hey, thank you guys.

[765] Appreciate you.