The Show Episode 546

College Football Playoff, NCAA Tourney to 76 teams, Russini/Vrabel update, MLB Stats and talk

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:40

Welcome to the show, and you're listening to Sports Talk. What the host? This is episode 546. And we are back again, yes. And man, I'll tell you, I was sitting there this week as I was, you know, scrolling through all the big stories and all the current news and watching what's going on in the basketball playoffs, watching what's going on in the Stanley Cup, following along in the baseball. I was just gathering all this news. I was gathering all this information. Look at look, I got pages and pages of information to share with you. So I said, you know what? Instead of doing the usual weekly update where I come on, I talk about the playoffs and what's going on and go through my rents. I decided just to do, I got I got I had all this random info and current news to share. Uh that I decided that, hey, you know what? I could go on right now, do a show, and talk about some stuff that's going on right now in sports. And this is not just in football alone. This is not just in uh uh basketball. I got I got a little bit of everything here, including uh now I don't know if people have been following along, but I have. Well, I said I wasn't gonna talk about a few episodes ago. Now I just you're just intrigued by the whole story. That's the whole Diana Roussini, Mike Vaber story that's going on. I got an update with that in a in a little bit here, as we can do that. I got some I got some baseball stuff that is uh you know pretty interesting. Uh some guy, I guess there's a baseball realignment proposal out there. We're gonna talk about that. I got some stats and uh, you know, some other things, if if time permits here, is uh how we do this show. But first, I I gotta talk about this. Because this is just getting totally out of control, and this is with both sports. This is, of course, college football and college basketball. College football is debating, and they probably are going once this gets voted through, of going to a 2014 playoff system. And by going to a 2014 playoff system, that means they would have no more conference title games. So no more Big Ten Championship, no more SEC championship, no more Big 12, ACC, and down down on down along the road. They're just gonna have these teams, instead of having the winner get an automatic bid into the college football playoff, the two teams that were gonna be in the championship, they'll automatically be in the playoffs now. And these games are gonna start allegedly at the middle of December and be done by the middle of January. That's the new playoff format. Top eight would get a bye, and nine through 24 would play each other with the better seed getting a home game. Now, here's my problem with that. What do we got now? 12? I can't even keep track of how many teams we have. We got 12 teams now, and the 12 teams that make the college football playoff currently are the best teams or are the better teams. Now, teams one through four currently get a bye. Now, teams five through twelve, they play each other, and the better team, of course, gets a home game. Now, instead of the better and good schools getting a home team, because wouldn't you like to see again? We wouldn't you like to see a home game in January in Ohio State? Wouldn't you like to see a home game in January or December in Notre Dame? Wouldn't you like to see a home game in Alabama when it's a little colder out? How about a home game in Florida when it's a little cold out? A home game in Michigan or Pet State. Wouldn't you like to see? Wouldn't you like to see that? No, because those usual teams that are usually good football schools, if they're in the top eight, they're gonna have a bye. And teams nine through 15 would get a home game. So teams like what? Toledo? I know they'll never make the college football playoffs, but you see where I'm going at. Teams like uh North Carolina, uh, a team like SMU, uh a team like uh Iowa State, they're gonna get a home. They deserve a home playoff game. They're gonna get the extra money with the ticket sales, they're gonna benefit from all the extra sales of food, parking, and the tickets. Their school's gonna generate the extra income instead of one of the bigger schools that deserve it? Like Texas, you know, those schools, Oklahoma, Florida State. You know, you're gonna let the scrubby school now get a home game? 24 teams now in the college football playoff. Now here's the other thing: there's gonna be an alleged streaming battle to host these games. Oh, yeah, ESPN, CBS, NBC, oh, you won't you won't be getting any of these first-round playoff games. Because now, Netflix might get involved, Prime might get involved, but who knows? Peacock, Paramount Plus could get involved now. So you're gonna see now, because it's all about the money, all about generating, you know, revenue. So now you're gonna see these networks all lobbying and posting up and bidding to try to get these first-round games. Which, again, we already have 12 teams. Somebody let me know of the those first few games that we've seen over the last few years with 12 teams. How many of those have been competitive? I'll hang up and listen off the air. Exactly. One or two games have been really competitive, all the rest of the games have been blowouts. So now we're gonna get 12 crappy more teams in the college football playoff because everyone's gotta be included. And again, I'm just gonna throw this out there again as this keeps on getting brought up, and people keep on talking about it, and some people are excited about it. Some people feel the same way as I do about it. Not good. I'm just gonna throw this out there again. One of these times, you're gonna get a team that has a great team, has a great record. Say it is Ohio State, and they just don't show up and play well that day, and they get beat by a team like Iowa State, or they get beat by a team like Baylor, or they get beat by a team like SMU, where those teams just happen to put together the game of their lives that day, and they go on and win a playoff game. And now you got a college football playoff without one of the most popular teams not in it, because you had to add more teams. Because you think it creates more excitement. How how exciting is it to have one of those crappy schools in there? It's not. It's not. You may think it is, oh Cinderella, just like the college basketball, Cinderella! I got a Cinderella story going. Yeah, how far does that go? Because you just lost all of the Ohio State fans and people associated with that team. You just lost all the fans across America that want to see Ohio State lose, but they still want to see a play in a big game. And now you got some crappy school in there with no following, nobody cares about, and you lose your ratings now. But at the end of the day, you got 24 college football playoff teams in there. And now here's the other thing with this. We just had this past year President Trump, whether you like him or not, sign or put into law that the Army-Navy game is the only game played the third weekend in December. That's the only game. It's a national holiday. It's supposed to be a national holiday game. He just signed into that. No one else could play that day. Well, guess what? Now you got this college football 2014 playoff where they want to be done by the middle of January? Well, now that just put the damper in things. So, now that you eliminated the conference games, are you allowed now to move the Army Navy game back? I mean, is that gonna be in play? So, college football, just stretching the games out now. I don't know if this makes it more watchable or more unwatchable. I haven't decided yet. I gotta see how all this plays out. But I think it's gonna be no good. So, there you have it. College football going to a 2014 playoff. You know, just a few years ago, we had a simple computer process. It was called the BCS. And we just had two teams play for the national championship. Settled by a computer. Settled by Mr. Joshua. What was that computer's name in War Games? Was it Joshua? That program thermoduar war. Remember that old people who seen war games, Matthew Broderick? Remember? No, nobody knows that. I'm sure a lot of listeners don't know that. But that's how the BCS was programmed. Through a computer. Now we got 24 teams to decide who gets a championship game. Before we just had a simple computer. We had two teams. We had the two best teams play. Now, we might not have the two best teams play. We have two crappy teams play in the national championship game. Because we keep letting more and more teams in. And with that being said, you know I gotta talk about this now. How about college basketball now going to 76 teams for the tournament for years? We had 64 teams. Ever since I was a kid, as far as I can remember, we had 64 teams. They had the selection Sunday, the bracket came out, people who love to play those brackets got to analyze the bracket, they got to play their brackets, and everybody enjoyed the original format of 64 teams. Then we, a few years ago, we had to decide like, oh, we need a few more teams in there. And we need to create some more excitement before the round of 64. We need to create some excitement leading up to the Thursday with 68 teams. And that involved having two 16 seed play-in games and two 11-seed play-in games. Just think how ridiculous that is. We had to have two 16 teams play to see who decides to get killed by the number one team in that bracket. It's so stupid, you can't make it up. Um well, people over the years, and most recently this year, are still complaining. Our schools are being left out. We're not getting enough teams in. Our conference doesn't have enough at large bids. You're not letting enough mid-major teams in. So what do these guys do? Let's expand to 76 teams. Let's add 12 more to get 12 more teams. That gives us six more games to play. So now we got 12 more teams. Six more games. Now these games are gonna be played on Tuesday and Wednesday. They'll have three games on Tuesday, those three team winners will get into the Final 64. And then you'll have three more teams win or play on Wednesday, they'll get into Final 64. That'll be a total 64 teams. Just like you have now. You got two teams, you got the two 16th seeds now, blah, blah, blah, so on and so forth. So now you got all these teams getting it. And I think my math is wrong there. Maybe it's maybe it's more than that. Maybe it might be a few more games than that. Maybe I think the host is not very good at math, and I think it may be more than six games. Because I'm thinking that 12 teams gotta play. I I'm not gonna do this on the air right now. But maybe I do have my math wrong with that. Anyway, now you got more games on Tuesday, more games on Wednesday than the current two that you have now both played on Tuesday, Wednesday that leads into the tournament. So, for all you people out there that love taking Thursday and Friday off to watch the opening round games of the tournament ones at 64, what do you do now? You take the whole week off to watch these games? Because, you know, they're gonna have all these games on all day on Tuesday. They'll have all these games on TV Wednesday. And of course, you got Thursday and Friday. You got four weekdays of games being played constantly. So what do all you people do now? Take the Thursday and Friday off? Do you take the whole week off and celebrate the NCAA tournament that way? And what about you bracket people now? You people love to play those brackets. Just think, you got your bracket ready to go, but you gotta wait for the Tuesday and Wednesdays games to get done to fill out your bracket to get it ready. And what if you're are are the people in your office gonna wait for you to hand in your bracket because you gotta wait to see what the games end? And do people start having the bracket start on Monday? Do you give people one day to do a bracket? You know, the bracket comes out on Sunday night. You go into the office on Monday. Are you gonna have the people fill out a bracket in one day? Are people gonna have that all set up in time? The NCAA didn't think about this through. They didn't think about the fads out there. You know, the fads that, you know, watch your product. And again, I'm against filling out a bracket. I I've said it here before, you know my stance on it. I'm I'm against it. But that's part of the whole business of the NCAA tournament, basketball tournament, is people filling out their brackets and following along. Now, what the NCAA is doing is just screwing the whole thing up. You're given no time for people to analyze the bracket. You're given no time for people to fill out what they need to fill out. Now you go from having the teams picked on Sunday to writing the filling out the bracket on Monday. And I I just may be uh totally uh wrong about this whole thing that I'm ratting and raving about, but it just seems a little ridiculous. Why don't we just make the tournament two weeks? Let all every team in. Just like you're gonna end up doing anyway. How long before next year, when we go they go to pick 76 teams, who's the 77th team that's gonna bitch and complain that they didn't get in the tournament? You know that's gonna happen. And the only way to resolve any of this is just to let every team in. Let all 100 and some basketball D1 basketball teams in the tournament. And let them all play the weekend prior to the, you know, let them all play the week and weekend prior to the big week that the real tournament starts. And you could say, hey, you're in. Just to say, this one big, huge 128 bracket. Are there 128 D1 basketball teams? I don't I don't even know. Just have one big bracket. Let every team in and have fun. And then you could root on all your mid-major teams. Let all the mid-major teams in. That'll satisfy everybody out there. Scrap, scrap the uh what's what's the other the uh basketball tournament that goes on during the the uh big NCA one? Oh, NIT! Just scrap the NIT. Scrap the NIT tournament and just put all those teams in the main bracket. Just let everybody play. That's the only way to solve it. And then you when you get to 64, when you finally get down to 64, have like three or four days before you play the sixth final 64. That way you give people a chance to do their brackets. See, I got this all solved out for the NCA. And again, just like college football is doing, eliminate the conference tournaments. Let everybody in, eliminate the conference tournaments. The weekend that the conference tournaments are normally played, the week of the conference tournaments are played, let all those schools 128 through 64 play. Let them all play. And then they can all get in. Whoever the winner of all those games survives, all those teams that win and survive that week, the week of the conference tournament. And then you can have them put into the bracket on 64, just like you normally do on Sunday. And then you have a couple, three days off, so everybody who does brackets and everybody who bets can get everything lined up and organized, and then you could have a regular 64 team tournament. There, the host has it solved. I don't have it solved for college football yet, but I got the whole college basketball tournament solved for you guys. I don't know why nobody called the host to get his opinion on it. There. Again, real simple, right? Real simple. I got it all figured out for you guys. Real simple. The host has it. Throw out the conference tournaments, everybody makes the tournament, have all those teams play that week. Whoever all wins all those tournaments, they're in the final 64. And then you go and play from there. And everything stays on schedule. You got the three weeks of the tournament, and it leads right into playing at Augusta and the Masters in April. Here, solved. Somebody call the host, get them on the board for the NCA. I got it all figured out for. But I don't know, man. I just think it's getting out of control. Uh, it used to be, you know, it used to be something to make the tournament in college basketball. Now. You know, you could have a uh you know, you could have several teams in with a losing record and be playing in the tournament. We had some losing records with some teams this year in there. Even with 68. So, again, let everybody in. And again, I don't know what to do with college football. College football, I told you, I like the BCS. I I love the college football system the way it was with the BCS. I thought it was great. I think when they went to a 14 playoff, I thought it was great, uh, not good. Even with a 14 playoff, we did have good games. And a couple good games. Oklahoma and Subway was a great game one year. I don't even remember who it was. I think Ohio State, maybe. I don't even know. It was a great game. That was Baker Mayfield was on Oklahoma. That was one of the better games. We haven't had many since we've gone to a big college football playoff. We haven't had many. So I don't know how they're gonna fix this and resolve this, and I don't know how that's gonna be good. But that's what's happening in the world of college sports right now with these two big things going on. So this whole uh you know, sorry for the voice, people. Again, I I've been not to go off on a tangent here, like I just did for 20 minutes about college football and college basketball. I got some sickness about five weeks ago, and I still can't shake it. I don't I don't know what what I got, I don't know where I got this. I got the Hanta virus from the from the crews there out in uh out in Spain there where those people got it. I got the Hontavirus from the rats. I just can't shake this uh this whole sickness thing. I don't know. That's why my voice keeps on uh cracking cracking here and crapping out on you. I apologize for that. Uh if it's uh annoying and you're holding already annoying. Oh, I know, I know, but I'm just saying with my voice. Anyway, this uh I thought this whole Diana Roussini Mike Vrabel story was done. I thought we were done with it. And it just seems like it's a story with legs that never goes away. And I think the whole thing won't go away because uh Diana Roussini and whoever her reps are uh came out in complete denial, swear that wasn't her in Arizona, swear she was there with her friends, and of course, she could produce no receipts of anything. And then what didn't help the whole situation, Mike Rabel came out and without admitting it, kind of admitted it, just kind of said that uh, you know, he has to be a better person, better husband, better family man, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And he was taking a leave of absence. So right there, he he is uh not denying what he did uh with her, and he's saying that it basically did happen. And she's saying it didn't. And I think by her saying all that, instead of just admitting that the relationship happened, she just continues to double down and say no. Now I think people are like, oh yeah? Well, we're gonna keep digging stuff up, and people do. So uh last few days, uh this is crazy. Um, documents have surfaced of Diana Roussini and Mike Rabel renting a boat together in Tennessee and having a romantic afternoon on the boat together. And at the time of the dates of this rental of this boat, which they both had their signatures on, uh, Diana Roussini was pregnant at the time. Now, for those of you who don't know and don't remember the whole story, the baby that she's pregnant with happened to be a boy, and she named him Michael. Can't make this up, folks. Well, of course, when those documents surfaced, the next day, video surfaced. TFZ had video of Diana Rossini and Mike Vrabel on the dock, on the dock together, getting in the boat together. Like I said, this stuff never stops. At the same time, internet sluice uncovered a burner account that belonged to Mike Vrabel. And this burner account, which is on Twitter, and um you could go on the Twitters for people who have it, and you could go on there and search for this guy, Dov Kleman. I don't even know if this this dov Kleman guy is is uh a real dude. I don't even know who he is, but it's a guy who posts a lot of NFL stuff, and he's he's kind of good at it if he even is a real guy. I don't even know who who this dovem Kleeman guy can be. So he posted all of the messages of Mike Vrabel's burner account, and it's pages and pages and pages, and Mike Vrabel's burner account is called Mike Masters. No, now if you're gonna make a burner account and say the host is gonna make a burner account and go along and jab at people who are making fun of the host on Twitter, but I'm going on and disguising myself as another account to fight back and protect and stick up for the host, which would be me doing it as another account. I'm not gonna go on there and say this is host number two. I mean, why would you put your real name in the burner account? Mike Masters. You you couldn't think of a different nickname, or you couldn't come up with something different to help disguise that you're not Mike Vrabel? How about you put how about you put something uh, you know, like uh you know something that you wouldn't associate yourself when it could be you. Put, you know, mad Buffalo Bills fan or something, or yeah, mad Indianapolis Colts fan. You know, put it with something that you would think that it's not associated with you, Mike Masters. So then if you go through and you you read you go through, it's a it's a whole two-minute and eight video of scrolling through uh Mike Vrabel's burner replies to all these people who are commenting on the story of him and Diana Roussini. And he's getting mad at people. People are calling him out in this. Known sports people are on here calling him out uh on on some of these tweets. Uh Colin Cowherd and Jas Jason McIntyre on The Herd are calling him out on here. Uh Mike Masters replies back to them and and uh is saying stuff. And I and I went through all these and I was reading some of them and I can't believe it. And uh Mike Florial of Pro Football Talk is on here commenting about Mike Vrabel and the Patriots, and uh Mike Mike Masters, Mike Vrabel's burner account is replying to him with comments. It's just it's just crazy. Uh TFZ uh is on here with their TFZ sports, and they comment on the show on the Mike Vrabel boating thing with Diane Racini being pregnant, and Mike Masters responds with fuck off. Um Joe Osborne, a noted guy for covers.com, he's on here saying this is a story that doesn't seem to go away. Mike Vrabel's gonna be forced to step away from coaching, and then here's here's here's something, right? Mike Masters, who's really Mike Vabel, says, so the whole all the NFL is gonna be motivated to take coaches down? Are you guys gonna go after Ben Johnson too? So, what's that about? Mike Vrabel's got some dirt on Ben Johnson? So we got dirt on Ben Johnson out there that we don't know about? I wonder if now somebody's gonna dig into that with those with that being said out there. This goes on. There is pages and pages of Mike Vrabel commenting on this whole Diana Roussini thing with his burner account. You gotta go on there. You gotta go on there and look at it. It's great. It's it's it's a guy defending himself with a fake account. And like I said, if the host was gonna go on and defend himself, I wouldn't go on there and name it host too. It's just so ridiculous with the with this stuff. So it's just it's just all pretty interesting. And of course, you think the whole thing's just going away, and it never does. And like I just explained a few minutes ago, it's not gonna go away because of her her denial. If I think if she would just come out and say, Yeah, we did, we had an affair for eight years, we I have a kid with them. Just come out and admit everything. And I think it would just go away sooner than this lingering around. And who who here's the other thing. We we had this discussion amongst amongst the co-workers at work. Uh who would be the more person to be mad that would be leaking all this information? Diana Rossini's husband or Mike Vrabel's wife? Who would be more inclined to be more, you know, to say to give up this information about your personal lives of your significant other? Would it be the husband or would it be the wife? You would think it would be the wife, but it sounds like to me the wife has already forgiven Mike Ravel because he's still together with her. Meanwhile, Diana Rossini's whole life is falling apart. Mike Rabel's still right now the coach of the New England Patriots. They're doing rookie camp right now. Diana Rossini, she doesn't have a job. She's out. So curious to see uh what keeps on transpiring with this whole situation going on. But this is another update on that. And of course, this is gonna keep going on and on. I assume that we're gonna have updates about this whole thing uh all summer, which will be uh great because it's just part of something to talk about, especially on this show. Um so uh recently uh, you know, this guy uh proposed a baseball realignment. And I thought the whole thing was uh pretty interesting. And what I was what I found interesting about it was for uh all you baseball fans out there, uh this baseball realignment is based on 32 teams. Now, currently there's only 30 teams in Major League Baseball. So this realignment is uh you know drawn up and proposed to baseball to contain 32 teams. Now, I I I don't follow baseball the way I used to. And uh I watch it here and there, see the updates here and there. I didn't know that they were looking to add two new teams, and the two new teams, and which I again I had no idea about, the two new teams are located in Portland and Charlotte. Now, I didn't know we needed another team up Northwest. Uh we got Seattle. Do we really need a team in Portland? And did we really need a team in Charlotte? Is that really a hot spot for baseball? I thought the new hotspot for baseball would be Nashville. Uh, because, you know, all with the big a lot of people moving there. Uh they're putting a new uh football stadium there with a dome and hopes to get a Super Bowl. Uh I would think that the new hotspot for a baseball team would be Nashville. But I guess not. How come we don't have a team in Kentucky, Louisville? Louisville smuggled, they make the baseball bats there. But no, these two new teams in this realignment are in Portland and in Charlotte. So this guy realigned the teams, and I just want to give you the breakdown of it, and I don't know if true baseball purists would like this. So in the American League, we got in the AL Northeast, we got the Yankees. Now there's only four teams in each division. Okay, just like just like football. Football has 32 teams, they got they got four divisions in each league, and they got four teams in each division. So now with baseball, allegedly adding two more teams in the future, they got three divisions now with five teams. They're going to baseball wants to go to four divisions with four teams. So the AL Northeast would be the Yankees, the Mets, Boston, and now I know Yankees and Boston are the best rival in baseball. I don't know if the Yankees and Mets should be in the same division, let alone the same league. I think that's crappy. And I don't know who really cares about Philadelphia. Then they have the AL Mid-Atlantic. They got Baltimore, Washington, Pittsburgh, Cleveland. Okay. Alright. Then they have the AL Great Lakes Division, which would be the Twins, Detroit, Milwaukee, Toronto. Okay. Alright. Fine. Then they have the AL Southeast Division, which would be the Braves, the Marlins, the Rays, and the new team in Charlotte. That's your American League. International League. The NL Midwest. You'd have the Cubs, the White Sox, St. Louis, and the Reds. Now, again, I feel the same way about having the White Sox and the Cubs in the same division as I do the Yankees and the Mets. They should both be in one team should be in the National League, one team should be in the American League, and they should not be both in the same division. That goes for both Yankees and Mets and both Cubs and White Sox. I disagree with that. Then you have the NL Central, where you got Rockies, Royals, Rangers, and Houston. Now, I disagree with that because aren't the Royals a more Midwest team and they're more, they're rivals more with St. Louis? Wouldn't you have those two teams in the same division? Isn't the Rockies a little too far west of these other three teams? Then you got the NL Southwest, Dodgers, San Diego, Angels, Diamondbacks. Okay? And then you have the NL Northwest, where you got Seattle, Oakland, San Francisco, and the new expansion Portland team. That would be your realignment proposal that this guy came up with based on the two expansion teams that baseball hasn't even announced yet. But I don't know about that alignment at all. I disagree with almost all of it. Some of it's okay, some of it makes sense, and maybe it's because like you're so used to the way the teams have been so long. Like the Yankees, Red Sox, Baltimore, Toronto, uh, they've been in the AL East since I was a kid. They've been together in the AL East since I was a kid. And to see that them broken up now, it just doesn't make sense to me. And maybe baseball needs a change like that. Maybe baseball uh wants to create more excitement, uh, you know, less travel for teams uh as they play more games in division with each other. You know, maybe baseball needs something like that to create more excitement, to add new fans, to create new rivals. Maybe, maybe baseball wants to do something like that. But uh I mean that's me being an old school baseball game. I just may not like it. So uh, you know, as far as that, I I'm out. I'm out with it. I think somebody could come up with a better alignment. Uh maybe the host should, but I would have to see uh where these two new alleged uh expansion teams uh would be to uh have that. Uh the Tampa Bay Rays, uh they have been on fire. Uh they are currently one game behind the New York Yankees in the AL East. And how about this? Currently, Tampa Bay is 25-12 in the AL East. Yankees are 26-12. Currently, the American League has 15 teams in its league. Tampa Bay and the New York Yankees are the only two teams with a winning record in the American League. Currently, right now, as I sit here and record this podcast, the Tampa Bay Devil Rose have been so hot. They've won six in a row, 10 straight wins at home, 13 consecutive games allowing three or fewer runs. That is a franchise record. Most consecutive games allowing three runs or fewer in a single season in the wild card era are the 2010 New York Giants at 18. Tampa Bay currently at 13. Houston in 2022 with 13. Seattle in 2014 with 13. The Royals had 13 in a row in 2013, and the Diamondbacks had 13 games in a row in 2002. Only six teams have had that long of a streak, and Tampa Bay currently is now still going in that category. The Yankees, Aaron Judge, once again currently leads the American League in home runs with 15. He's again homered again the other night in the first inning of a game. Aaron Judge continues to have first inning home runs, which by let me explain to you. When you hit a home run in the first inning and have that many home runs in a first inning, well, one, you're going up against a starting pitcher. You're going up when the game is, if you're the home team, you may be behind maybe a run, a few runs. But if you're the visiting team, the game is tied usually at zero. So you're getting that bet that pitcher's best stuff that early, the hardest he's throwing, rested, and yet Aaron Judge is hitting home runs. He's got 91 career home runs in the first inning. Most home runs in the first inning by in Yankees history. Babe Ruth has 126. Mickey Mannell has 103. Aaron Judge is third on that list with 91. Luke Gehrig is fourth with 84. So Aaron Judge is third on the Yankees' all-time list of hitting home runs in the first inning. And by the way, the Major League Baseball record for home runs in the first inning is held by Albert Puholz with 154. So I was scrolling through uh a bunch of other baseball stuff. And like I said, I got I got all kinds of information to do a bunch of shows with you guys just to talk about it. I came across this 10 best World Series performances ever. So these are the 10 best performances ever in a World Series. Now, number one. Now I know this guy was a pitcher, and I know he pitched great. Madison Bumpgarner. He's number one. 2014 World Series for the New York Giants. I know he pitched. Great and he won a couple games. I just don't recall the performance being that outstanding. I remember he pitched good. I just don't remember the performance being that dominant where he would be number one on this list. I'm not saying that he shouldn't be on the list with all these other guys. I don't know if he's worthy of being number one. That's all. Number two, of course, is Reggie Jackson, 1977 World Series, where he hit five home runs in the World Series, including three in game six to clinch the Yankees' first World Series title since the 60s in that in that in that. Lou Garrick, number three, best all-time World Series performance in 1928. He's third. Fourth on this list, Babe Ruth in the 1926 World Series. David Ortiz, 2013 World Series. He is number five on this list. Of course, he was uh called the Spanish Mr. October. That's how he got his name. Senor October. That's how he got his name along with uh Reggie for being Mr. October. Uh David Ortiz is the Spanish version of Mr. October. That's how he got his nickname there in the 2013 World Series. Christy Matthew, 1905, best World Series. He is number six. Jack Morris, his great pitching performance with the Twins against the Braves in the 91 World Series. Jack Morris to me, his pitching performance in the 91 World Series is more memorable than Madison Bumgarner's in 2014. Just saying. Just throwing that out there. Bob Gibson, his performance in the 67 World Series, comes in at number eight. I never saw any of that, of course. I never saw Sandy Colfax, who's number nine on this list. I'm sure Sandy Colfax, from the way people talk and the way he used to pitch, I'm sure Sandy Colfax and Bob Gibson's performances were better than Madison Baumgartner's. We'll get the guest opinion on that. And number 10, uh, 1990, best World Series performance. Billy Hatcher. With the Reds? I guess the A's? Billy Hatcher. No, I know Billy Hatcher's not a big name. He had that great of a World Series against the A. They won four games a none. How could it be that great? A's didn't do nothing. Billy Hatcher was the guy who stood out? Billy Hatcher. Did he play for Houston? Wasn't that a Steven Segal character, Hatcher? Wasn't that his name in one of his movies? Marked for Death. Wasn't his name Hatcher? That's what that reminds me of. Billy Hatcher, number 10! I don't know. I don't know about that. Oh man. One more thing to uh go over here on the show before we wrap up. So you know how we always do uh football comparisons where I do player A and uh player B. So I came across these two guys. Uh both these pitchers uh pitched very well in the 1990s and had their career extend into the early 2000s, to give you any hint there. So on one side, I got player A. One side I got player B. Now, player A, he pitched for a couple different teams. Uh I'm not gonna tell you the teams right now, but he pitched for uh a couple teams. Uh in some World Series for a couple teams. One guy played his whole career with one team. Games played. Player A. 569, player B, 723. Games started. Player A, 436. Player B 481. Innings pitched. 3261 for player A, 3,473 for player B. Wins and losses, 216 and 146 for player A, 213, 155 for player B. Now this is where you might figure out who this is. Player A in his career, he was a starter his whole career, but he didn't have 22 saves. Player B was a starter, became a closer, and went back to a starter. He had a great run of three seasons where he had 154 saves. ERA for player A was 3.46. ERA for player B was 3.33. Strikeouts in his career, player A had 3,116. Strikeouts in his career for player B had 3,084. 711 walks for player A in his career. Player B had gave up over 1,010 walks in his career. Player A is not in the Hall of Fame yet. Player B is in the Hall of Fame. Player A won three World Series. Player B only won one World Series. Player A was an all-star six times. Player B was an all-star eight times. Cy Young, player B won once. Relief Man of the Year, player B won once. World Series MVP, player A. League Championship Series MVP. Player A won one. Player B won one. Everybody figure out who these players are. Now I gave you a great hit with player B. And again, who would you take? Without knowing these two guys right now, who would you take? Would you take player A? Or would you take player B? Well, you probably figured out player B. Player B is John Smoltz. Pitched many years as a starter for the Atlanta Braves, became a closer, went back to being a starter. To me. Well no, I'm not telling you who player A is yet. And I already know who player A is, obviously. I'm already taking player B. I think he had a better greater, better career. Even though he only won one World Series. Player A, folks, had a bloody sock in a World Series. Kurt Schilling. That's who player A is. Player A is Kurt Schilling. Phillies, Boston, Arizona. Or I think it's Phillies, Arizona, Boston is, I think, who he played for. Now, player A did play with some guts with that bad ankle in the World Series. I'll give him that much. But overall, for their careers, I'm taking player B, John Smoltz. I think John Smoltz was a better pitcher. Again, even though he didn't win as many World Series as Kurt Schilling did, overall he was a better pitcher. He sacrificed his career as a starter to go into the Braves bullpen and become their closer for three seasons when they didn't have one. He opted to go to the bullpen to help his team out. That to me, right there, shows that he was a better teammate and he knew exactly what baseball meant. And on top of that, John Smoltz is a very good color analyst when he's on the games for uh Major League Baseball. I'll give John Smoltz that. So I like John Smoltz as the better player here. Maybe some other people out there like uh Kurt Schilling. But for me, personally, I'm going with John Smoltz as our player comparison today. Is that the first time we ever did a player comparison with baseball? I don't know. Anyway, uh one more thing uh to uh wrap up the show here. I I thought this was funny. Uh and I don't know who's gonna be pissed at this. I don't know why how can you get upset at this? This is a non-sport thing. Delta Airlines plans to end in-flight services on hundreds of short flights starting May 19th. Delta Airlines will end food and beverage service on roughly 450 short haul flights beginning May 19th. The change applies to United States routes under 349 miles, meaning passengers in the main cabin will no longer receive meals, snacks, or drinks on these flights. The adjustment is expected to affect about 450 daily departures, including short routes from Los Angeles to San Francisco. The airline noted that the change does not apply to first-class passengers who will continue to get full if flight service. So, for those of you I like to fly Delta on your short flights, no more biscotti delta cookies, no more sun chips, no more chocolate chip granola bar, and no more pretzel chip snack mix for you. You're all denied. And so many people are upset about this. And by the way, I don't know who would be upset. Me personally, when I fly, no matter the distance, I always have two drinks with me. One of them is a water, and I always make sure I have snacks with me. Because, one, how many times have you been on a flight where you get up in the air and there's a bunch of turbulence, and the and the waitresses can't come and give you your snack or your drink, and you're stuck without something anyway. So aren't you isn't it better to be more prepared to have your own with you? So when I saw this story, I laughed because you know there's all those people. Well, I pay so much for the ticket, I expect a snack, I expect a drink. Remember when you used to fly and the waitress would come around and give you a full can of soda or a full can or a full bottle of water, or maybe you like a nice orange juice or a cranberry juice on a flight. Remember, you used to get the whole bottle. Then it went to you got this dinky plastic cup of ice and they pour some drink in there. And meanwhile, it's like two swallows. What are you gonna do with that? Now they're not doing that at all. And and they give you the little bag of uh uh chips or uh uh you know they people make a big deal. They give you that biscotti cookie on Delta, it's two crappy cookies in there. You're that upset that you're not getting that. Again, be prepared. Bring something on the plane with you, bring a drink with you. It's that simple. People are outraged over not getting a snack now on short flights on Delta Airlines. Outraged! And I bet you, I betcha, no offense to people getting upset. I bet you Delta raised their prices too. That's the better, that's the best part about it. I bet you Delta raised their ticket prices even higher. But man, I laughed when I saw all these people. The comments of the people that uh uh on the story afterwards are great. For people who have time to go out and read the story, go out and read the story and then go and read all the comments after. It's great. It's great. People are upset, they're not getting their drink from the waitress on the plate. The waitress comes down with the who would you like to drink? They have the they had that they had that little stupid pad with your seat number. Oh, oh, Diet Coke. Okay, oh, you want a Pepsi? Oh, okay. People are so the waitress taking your order. I'm surprised they didn't uh keep the drink service, you gotta tip them. Oh, don't worry on the next show. We got a tipping story for all of you. Anyway, you're not gonna get the show by now. You guys are great. Again, highest downloads ever. This is this is the 97th ranked sports talk show in America. And I appreciate you all listening. Again, Spotify, iHeartRadio, Google Podcasts, Podcast Tag, and of course, Amazon Music, and the Twitter feed or whatever it's called, X at Steel DF72, where you can see any of the host's tweets or what he's doing, and you can follow the show along there. And as always, it's nice to be important, but more important to be nice. This is another new Megadeth song off their latest album, their last album of their career as they set off and do their final tour. This is called Another Bad Day.