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WTOP
"bob gibson" Discussed on WTOP
"The second interaction is the one I love. We actually received a call where a mother was there with her son, and she was trying to enforce the curfew. The county is also stepping up park and recreation hours in crime hotspots this week in at least 8 centers. An update to a story we've been following for you on WTO. Another puppy recently stolen in our area has been found the humane rescue alliance as a family came forward and return the puppy whose name is link. After they unsuspected bought him, HRA will work with the family to return length, will also receive a reward for coming forward. The alliance says they hope to find the four other puppies that are still missing. They're asking anyone with information to contact them. And on the heels of that, I hate to tell you this, but a French bulldog puppy has been stolen in D.C.. It happened last night in the 1200 block of 22nd street in northwest. The dog is described as a 6 month old gray and white French bulldog named Hugo, his left ear does not always stand up straight. D.C. police are offering a $1000 reward for information tonight. Ten 13, sports next. The guy who said it's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game. What's crazy? Winning is what it's all about. Hi, this is on Solomon. And these words were spoken by bob Gibson. Legendary pitcher for the Saint Louis Cardinals. Now you know bob Gibson has a point. Winning is a wonderful thing. But Jesus had a comment to this as well in the Bible. He said, what good is it? If a person gains the whole world and loses their own soul. And how does a person avoid losing their own soul? It's by trusting Jesus Christ and what he did for us on the cross. Not a sermon just a thought. For more information on non a sermon just a thought, you can check out our website at non sermon dot com that's not a sermon dot com
WTOP
"bob gibson" Discussed on WTOP
"At least one of them a mass grave. Lots of long lines continue in London, CBS correspondent Steve fetterman tells us about the respect that they are paying all those people are paying in London to the queen, Queen Elizabeth II. The line is now around 5 miles long. The weights are around 20 hours, yet people keep showing up. We're not worried about it. We're going to manage. For a few hours, officials closed off the line to newcomers. No problem, people formed a line to join the line. Here to getting the queue. Nothing can stop the flow of people. We're still smiling. Late in the day, the queen's four children, including the king all dressed in military uniform, stood in silent vigil around their mother's coffin. Steve futterman CBS News, London. After traffic and weather changes coming for LGBTQ students in Virginia's public schools, 5 36. The guy who said it's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game. What's crazy? Winning is what it's all about. Hi, this is lon Solomon. And these words were spoken by bob Gibson. Legendary pitcher for the Saint Louis Cardinals. Now you know bob Gibson has a point. Winning is a wonderful thing. But Jesus had a comment to this as well in the Bible. He said, what good is it? If a person gains the whole world and loses their own soul. And how does a person avoid losing their own soul? It's by trusting Jesus Christ and what he did for us on the cross. Not a sermon just a
The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller
"bob gibson" Discussed on The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller
"And you can get the replays in, what's happening in football through the years is people realize that it's a better watch on television at home than in the stadium. So the franchises of the colleges realized we've got to do something and they've put in these gigantic gigantic scoreboards up in the end zone so that they can show the fan and the stadium, the replays like the folks are seeing at home, but it was the marriage. It was a marriage between television and football that elevated football ahead of baseball as a national pastime. That's good. It's kind of interesting because it works on it works on both levels. Being at a basketball game because it's far more intimate, your crowds are down in our 12, 15,000 as opposed to 65, 75,000 that a football game, 45,000 for a baseball game. But you can watch a big time basketball game like mark's madness. You can enjoy it as much on television. It doesn't last that long. The one thing about basketball is it's a lot more compact. Baseball, baseball has a time problem right now. Goodness when I used to cover the cuts along, I guess I covered everybody. Bob Gibson would come to town with the Cardinals. And invariably, he would hook up against Ferguson Jenkins. And I tell people this all the time. That our games lasted like one 45, one 55, less than two hours. These guys will be done with the game. I mean, they got the ball back, and they just started it. And also the hitters, the hitters today, if you watch them on television, particularly they step back out of the box and there were the batting gloves. And they have to reset the tape on them for whatever reasonable back in the day that I'm talking about. Only a handful, even walk that anglos. And they didn't step out of the box. They just kept on plate, maybe with a bad guy ready for the next pitch, but now the speed of a game of baseball is a problem. They're going to deal with it. I think they're going to bring in a pitch clock. And see what they do about speeding it up because baseball has a problem with the younger generation. And they have to address and they have to get to it and they will. It's still it's still a wonderful game and a wonderful way to spend a summer afternoon or a summer evening, whatever the case might be. Yeah, you okay with the changes we saw. We've seen in last couple of years of ghost runner when COVID started, they added the ghost runner in baseball, they're getting rid of that. They're getting rid of the shift, that's coming next year.
AP News Radio
Darvish shuts down Mets again, Padres beat Scherzer 4-1
"The Padres went up post All-Star Game matchup of star pitchers as they defeated the mets four to one You Darvish out pitched Max Scherzer giving up just one run on four hits while striking out 9 and 7 innings to race his record to 9 and four Darvish got all the offensive support he needed for Eric Hosmer who blasted a two run Homer in the fourth of Cersei to put the Padres up to nothing We knew we were going to be tested right out of the gates This is one of the better teams in baseball right now So we knew we had to clean a lot of stuff up to be able to compete with these guys and certainly showed a good sign of that tonight Sure as I struck out 8 passing both bob Gibson and cursed Schilling to move into 15th place on MLB's all time list Tom arram New
WNYC 93.9 FM
"bob gibson" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM
"Of events So Andre this Cardinals club won the World Series over the Yankees in 64 and then over the Red Sox in 67 how would you say that success the way Kurt fled described it helped further the civil rights movement Really in two ways One in being able to showcase the pure athleticism of these guys at really the highest level On the other hand I think the fact that what they were doing off the field like Kurt flood going down with Jackie Robinson to a march in Greenwood Mississippi They were frankly just trying to survive They didn't realize necessarily what the final result of that would be I mean Kurt flood is a perfect example of this of somebody who opened the door for free agency what we now call free agency He was just trying to be properly paid and live in a city where his family was and just trying to do basic things to survive But what they did was just open it up for so many generations of those two participate in the positive results of that And specifically for bob Gibson who was the cardinal's ace number one starting pitcher I think his success also showed if you can believe it that there was this thought that black players could not handle thinking positions in baseball that would be a starting pitcher or maybe a short stop The leadership role it is amazing that even when bob Gibson success that that didn't translate to leadership roles right away it still has taken a long time and probably for a lot of people not fast enough No it's true I mean the sad reality right now is that about 8% of the league is African American which was about the same when Jackie Robinson actually retired There was a huge renaissance especially of black players all through kind of the 70s 80s 90s up through Ken griffey junior who is someone we talked to in the film But they do make mention Ken griffey junior Mookie betts who's in the film CC sub Matthews in the film that they need to do more to get black kids and brown kids playing the game.
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"bob gibson" Discussed on Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"Technically that is true. Ted Williams batted three O 8 four 55 500 against Bobby shantz. So four 55 on base, yep, technically he did get out most of the time. However, in keeping with Bobby shins being good against Hall of Famers, that was actually bad for Ted Williams. Three O 8. Four 55, 500. That's nothing. His career line was three 44, four 82, 6 34. Gosh. So holding Ted Williams to 500 slug. That was pretty impressive. And against Charlie Maxwell, shanson and Maxwell as contemporaries. They went head to head quite often. They faced each other 36 times and the resulting line was two 86, 360 one, three 75, which, you know, that's kind of even, I guess they battled more or less to a draw there. As he said, chance was a pretty good hitter for a pitcher. He had a 38 career OPS plus, which, among the 191 pitchers with at least 600 career plate appearances, ranks 34th, thanks stathead, and I guess the corollary of chance being so great against great hitters was that maybe he was victimized more often by not so great hitters. So if you look at his top opponents, like the guys who hit him hard, he mentioned Roy receivers who did hit him well three 22, three 59, 5 76 and 64 played appearances, but he was not the worst offender. They were players like Chico car skell, Johnny gruff, sherm lollar, Clyde vollmer, and bob Neiman. They were his main nemeses. I'm glad I didn't have those names at my command when I was talking to him. I might have given him flashbacks, but the reason to hang up on you. Yeah, but if his theory is right, that he just didn't throw hard enough for the Hall of Famers to hit, like maybe they were all geared up for velocity or something, and they made their bones on hitting fast balls, and that was not his bread and butter, then I guess it would follow that well, maybe he was more hittable by guys with slider speed bats. So maybe there's something to that could just be chance or random or something. Chance chance, but that checks out that kind of tracks. It's a more plausible chance based reason than a lot of chance pastries. Let's put it that way. Right. I guess I'll be equal. You'd rather be better in a relative sense against good hitters who would be coming up more often and probably coming up more often with runners on base. And that famous game that we talked about briefly there where he ended up pitching 14 innings in one game in his MVP in 1952. He said he thought he threw 300 pitches in the past he has estimated three 50. Well, there is a formula for estimating pitch counts just from how many batters you face and how many strikeouts and walks you get. It's something Tom tango developed according to that formula. His estimated pitch count was two 20. So that's still a lot of pitches, even if that was it. If you threw 220 pitches, I guess I will give you some creative license and say that you can just claim 300. Why not? The headline on the story about that game in his hometown paper was Bobby shantz shows ability and understated headline, not exactly effusive, then the story starts by calling him little Bobby chants. It's amazing how every newspaper story every broadcaster just called him little Bobby sheds, which, hey, he was, we stand a short king. Last thing to mention, I think, about him. I talked at the very end there about the fact that he was going in the other direction in the famous Lou Brock trade, just another case where Bobby schinz was baseball zelig and was there at the important time when something was happening. Well, in December 1960, after the senators took him in the expansion draft as we discussed, the cardinals who wanted him even then, they almost traded bob Gibson for oh my gosh. For Bobby shits. According to the cardinal's GM, the senator said it would take a lot more than Gibson to get chance. And Gibson was young and not established at that point. He was a prospect, so they threw in a couple other players like another minor leaguer and another major leaguer, and they thought that they were going to get Bobby shins for this package fronted by bob Gibson and they didn't get him. The pirates outbid the cardinals or just had a package that was more to the senator's liking. And so the pirates got Bobby shins instead of the Cardinals getting him in exchange for bob Gibson. So instead of trading Gibson for chance, the Cardinals kept Gibson as we all know, and then they got Bobby shantz later and they traded him and others for Lou Brock so that worked out really well. Instead of just giving away bob Gibson, you got to keep him. Also get Bobby shins and then use babi schinz later to get Lou Brock in a famous franchise altering deal. So it's like, you know, anything you read about baseball history in those years. Bobby sheds was there or somewhere nearby. And unfortunately, he's still with us. Yeah, he's the friend. You're looking at just off camera and everyone of your exactly. Right? Well, that was just a joy. And I say bring on the non agency and although they're only a handful that are older than Bobby shit. So might have to set my sights a little lower next time potentially. But glad that we could have him on and that we could talk to him because just what an incredible career he had. Well, and you have to call me before you call them next time. Yes. I got so excited. I have another great cold call, and I was like, cool, and you were like, I already did it. Yeah. I was like, okay, yeah, you know, this is your joy, your unique special joy. So I won't begrudge it, but you should just call me first next time. Yeah, no, it was such a cold call that I was cold, too. It was not prepared. It was like you can't tell from the call, Ben. No, it was edited judiciously, but someone else picked up initially. Oh, really? Is this Bobby shit? So it's number, can I talk about your shit? Is this a good time to talk to Bobby sheds? I call back. I don't know. And then they just handed the phone to Bobby shins, and he seemed game, so I just talked because no time like the present, so. No. Definitely not. All right, that will do it for today. You know, sometimes I wonder when I spend hours on newspapers dot com, digging up articles from decades or centuries ago, whether the things that we write today will be equally accessible 60 or 80 years hence you'd think they would be more easy to access than newspapers that you had to print out and keep and that could physically disintegrate and at the time were often only available in one locality and yet all those things have been digitized and scanned and OCR and I can just search the text in a second. Whereas the things I write right now, who knows whether you'll be able to find them in the future with link wrapped and digital decay sometimes it's tough to access a story published just a few years ago on a website that was taken down. I hope that the history oriented podcasters of 2080 will be able to dig up the interesting and smart and sometimes dumb stuff that we are saying today with just as much ease. I don't know that Google and the wayback machine are cutting it. Maybe we should just print out all of our articles and scan them and just add them to newspapers dot com. That would work. In the meantime, you can support effectively wild on Patreon by going to Patreon dot com slash effectively wild the following 5.
Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney
"bob gibson" Discussed on Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney
"Likely to wind up doing now about there. And maybe I'm wrong. And I hope I'm wrong, is we go through this ten year slug where every year we're checking a rod's percentages climbing slowly and slowly and slowly. And just going to really come down to a matter of how many older voters fall off and how many newer voters come on. But aside from that, I think this is the same old story for the next ten years. Well, you know what, as you were talking, realizing, you know, what else might be working for Alex Rodriguez and Manny Ramirez? Barry Bonds about your Clemens, okay? 'cause I think they're getting in. I think one of these special committees is going to he's going to acknowledge the reality about PD users in the Hall of Fame. We talked on get up this morning about how look I think the Hall of Fame is a great museum, but not having bonds and Clemens in the Hall of Fame. Completely under credit undercuts the credibility of the plaque room. And I think that the Hall of Famers over time and you saw the late bob Gibson acknowledge in his comments, well, you know what? I can't say that I wouldn't use steroids if I had the opportunity. I think Johnny Bench has been more circumspect, I think that eventually bonds and Clemens get in, gets get in. And at that point, if you're a voter, if you don't see the writing on the wall and just acknowledge, like, boy, we gotta just put in the best players. I would be shocked. I do wonder if bonds and Clemens eventually getting into a special committee might help Alex. It would definitely help out. If bonds and Clemens get in via committee, it essentially allows the baseball writers to throw out all the rules to which they've been using for the last ten or 15 years. The only bit of pushback that I'll give you on the bonds and bonds of companies not getting in through the writers and what that might mean. I'm not convinced that this isn't sort of in its own kind of weird way buster, a charming thing about the baseball Hall of Fame. For my money, one of the most interesting things about it is that Pete Rose is not in it. And that's who mister Jackson is not in it. Now, baseball is the only sport that has a whole thing that we care about at all. And I'm not certain that bonds and Clemens Getty in. Although deserving would drive any more interest, would add any more credibility. And my judgment, it's one of these sort of unique baseball Y things that maybe it's just because I live in the sports talk radio world. But I've always thought that the Pete Rose debate, but she was show debates and now someday the bonds and Clemens debate actually add more relevance to the museum and the Hall of Fame than otherwise. I think the fact that bonds and Clemens are not in is just silly. And, you know, I can't at a fairness to players. I can't name names among guys, but I could.
View from the Cheap Seats
"bob gibson" Discussed on View from the Cheap Seats
"So funny in such an inherent way that that's that's exactly how normal is and he told one of the best stories about norm to us so they're at snl there. It's a wednesday night of snl could remember. I wish i remember what the sketches i'll find out and we'll update you guys on what that was. We talked to spain about this but they were having a hard time. Basically coming up with the blow to a sketch which is the final joke and they could not get it and they were there till four. In the morning. I mean people were at each other's throats it was writers cast members everyone was in the writer's room like the drugs have worn off so people aren't happy and all of a sudden at four in the morning norm. Whoever thought was asleep on the couch like rises up like a ghost pitches the funniest joke of denying the very obvious not obvious. It was kind of under their nose but the simplest most direct way to get there hitches. It it's perfect. It closes the sketch. It's hilarious and he gets up and walks out into the new york morning at four in the morning and space. So that was the greatest mic drop. He'd ever seen walk off walk off and he was that guy and he inspires that much joy when thinking about him so to lose that guy this week super sad and you know you have to tip your cat to a tip your cap on the best to ever do it and i know as the is a sports podcast but sports and comedy go back and watch his espy's nine hundred ninety eight opening monologue. There is no way he could do half. I'm amazed at the jokes that he was allowed to do. I don't think they knew what they were getting into. And i think this probably reshaped. It's like when bob gibson was so dominant than they had to lower the mound. I think he changed the game for everyone who followed him in. That's how dominant especially was so. We'll dedicate this episode to the great norm macdonald. Michael casa's on the side of the break. We're gonna talk about the. Us open novak djokovic. Talking about the pressure on people like new soccer and then later in crickets talk about john mcenroe's standing behind his comments that you know what sometimes the pressure is so great. It's not for everybody all that coming up on you for the chiefs plus rodman later We'll be right back. Hey guys welcome back to view from the cheap seats in case you're tuning in from another podcast and you're drilling down the podcast..
The Sean Salisbury Show
"bob gibson" Discussed on The Sean Salisbury Show
"I think you're right. And and bob gibson i think. Era was like an unbelievable like one point two something like one point one two or something. It was filthy. That's exactly right john. What's on your mind about frank. Was that what you were talking about. Exactly i just wanted to say how unbelievable a play he wasn't you know sadly sometimes he gets overlooked. You know with all the gaudy statistics that are out now but he was an unbelievable unbelievable way. Yeah he sure. Was john great point. Don't worry about showing your age. That's just called understanding. The history of the game and frank robinson own number. Twenty one of the best we've ever i take wore number. Twenty one of the best. We've ever had doing john. Thank you brother. Appreciate your calling in awesome. I'll be sixty six saturday. But i got seventy marathons under the belt then. Still going winston. Don't hang up yet. you're okay six first off happy birthday. Sixty six you've run you've run. Seventy is your goal. Run more marathons than your age over the course of your life. So this'll be seventy full marathons under your belt or yes sir. Yes sir yes sir so let me ask one quick question is are they. Even at seguin's last one ran. How how. How old are you iran. I was sixty five and iran. I had i had to run Of a houston virtual marathon low. Yeah yeah that's right. Have you ever run. Obviously you've had to run in boston and new york right Matter fact in seventy seven. Seventy eight iran The new york marathon and my time. That was that was my second marathon. They ran the three. Oh six and that was the year Bill rodgers want and a great greta. Waitz one for her. First time i had a twelve not stood. That's absolutely ridiculous. I'm not sure. I can ride a bike in three hours. Twenty seven that's phenomenon. Do you still run it right now. But you still running them. Yes sir sir correct. Yeah a little A lot slower actually allow the fact. You're finishing seventy twenty. Six point two mile marathons home run almost today and i'm going to feel bad about thirty one year or about to be thirty one years old. Have you even in your in your training john. If you've ever sub three three hours yes sir. yes sir. Matter of fact. I wanna say in houston. Nineteen eighty three iran. A to fifty and ten seconds. That's that's stupid. Don't ever call here again. In brag about does not kidding you. Yes not joking because the three of us are say. I'm not sure we could tag team. Twenty six point two twice. Let alone seventy them. What a great feat. What a great number congratulations. And i hope it's a great birthday week for you but thank you. Thank you so much shit you so much. Thank you great stuff. John guys think about that. Do the math real quick. So america's twenty six point six miles forty six point two twenty six point two okay mid twenty six times seventy so. Let's do the math. Twenty six to time. Seventy one thousand eight hundred thirty four that is that's just think about all the training that's longer the miles you do to trade taking the west coast you'd be few drive to california again and start your drive back through arizona coming back to texas..
GSMC Baseball Podcast
"bob gibson" Discussed on GSMC Baseball Podcast
"Four with a one nine zero he ra so again he was. Outdueling no-one nolan ryan when it comes to that year itself but the three pitchers that baseball reference identifies as close comparables to richard once. He established himself. Are steve busby. Tim lynch come. And bob gibson and just kind of referencing. Bob gibson. His post age thirty career illustrates what could have been for jr richer. I mean gibson pitched nine more largely productive seasons after his age thirty year. Winning one hundred and thirty nine games too a solid. Era of two point seven four so richards could have potentially double his win. Total to as many as two forty five which would put him in the top fifty for most wins all time and major league baseball. He could've potentially gotten up to three thousand six hundred innings his career era potentially below three point zero s. He had a career three point. One five era that was continuing to decline year after year. If richer would do that he would rank all time potentially as a top fifteen pitcher. And just the strikeouts. Back in the seventies i mean richard averaged one point one strikeouts per inning which may sound pedestrian when it comes to monitored standards but it was just off the charts back in the seventies. The average for major league baseball back then was only about one half a batter per nine innings. Which means richard struck out batters at a rate of one point six times the norm for his era and just for reference again. Chris sale yu. Darvish jacob degrom generate about one point two strikeouts per inning which is only about twenty percent above the norm. And those guys are the top strikeout guys when it comes to today's game so richard was about sixty percent above the norm when it came to his air and his time and his stuff was just absolutely electric he had a fastball. Six foot eight. So he was a huge intimidating. Figure on the mound. His fastball often touched one hundred miles an hour one hundred plus and he had one of the most unhittable pitches in all of baseball which was his slider that he threw on average about ninety two to ninety three book. Get up to ninety five. And just watching jacob degrom be about one hundred and throw that ninety to ninety three mile an hour slider. That's what you were getting from. Jr richard back in the seventies. It's just man and back. Then the average again fastball was nowhere near one hundred miles an hour so this guy was just above and beyond what it comes to his comparables in his stuff that had ultimately taking place or was common in the game in that era in jr. Richard had huge hands others a picture of him here on the front of a magazine where he's holding eight baseballs in one hand and your average human out there could probably get what three or four and he's holding eight nine baseball's in one hand so Just a fascinating career for jr. richard but again post stroke. He did try to make a comeback when it came to major league baseball in the early eighties. Unfortunately the stroke affected his performance to the point of his depth perception. His feel in his arm and unfortunately again wasn't able to make it back post baseball in the early eighties. And then after his reliefs from the astros in nineteen eighty four he. He had a tough life. He had some unsuccessful. Business deals went through two. Divorces led him to being homeless in nineteen ninety four. He then was able to figure things back out in his life and he found solace in a local church and later became a christian minister. So this guy again man. Just one of the craziest overall careers craziest. Life's when it comes to major league baseball but do yourself a favor and head. His baseball reference page or head to youtube and watch some of his highlights because man this guy was as dominant as gets and there's many quotes out there former. Mvp former hall of famer and he was one of the toughest guys that they were ever faced out there. Johnny bench dale murphy..
The Stephen A. Smith Show
"bob gibson" Discussed on The Stephen A. Smith Show
"Say ten five yankee lead man is he hod. Angels radio am eight thirty. Thank you and let me. Just say guys i wanna i. Don't wanna start with with otani the hitter on a second. What would you say about a guy who in eleven starts had a two point five. Era with eighty two strikeouts in under sixty innings. Fifty nine and a third innings. Eighty two ks and by the way fewer than a home run allowed per nine which in today's homerun era is good to five hundred. Eighty two ks in fifty nine and a third in eleven starts. Well you might say well. Look people do freaky things in errors that allow for it right will chamberlain average fifty points a game in an era. That allowed for it that same year oscar robertson. Thirty point triple double and and on average for the season and elgin baylor averaged thirty seven. And that's when you do stuff like that. Bob gibson gibson had a one one two year eight nine hundred sixty eight. Go look around the league. In sixty eight everyone was setting the world. Denny maclaine one thirty games thirty games in the american league so i can understand if you look at otani and say hey you know with the sticky stuff and spin rates and and launch angles three true outcomes type hitters. Walk home run. Strikeout yeah pitchers have a chance to dominates why we've had so many no hitters. I get it. Eleven starts two point five. Eighty or eighty two ks fifty nine and a third. It's easier for pitchers right. Well if it's easier for pitchers what the hell is a pitcher doing because if you wait. Eleven talks have a two five eight year pitcher. You're not a thrower an athlete. You're a pitcher. What the hell is doing leading the league. Not just in home runs. He has twenty eight home runs. He's leading the league in triples..
KGO 810
"bob gibson" Discussed on KGO 810
"No, no more than waist high. He got mad during a game of the Yankees because he thought, But Showalter told one of his pictures to throw it at someone's head. And he said that that's out of line, so I'm not a big believer in unwritten rules. Aziz. There seemed to be a million of them in baseball, and I don't have any problem with what the kid did with Mercedes. Did you know they've got a position player in there, which was 47 Miles an hour John 47 Miles an hour south of the border. I could hit that pitch. You know, I had a lot of 47 Mile an hour fastballs when I was in high school, um, not to record it now, but once upon a time, but so I understand where Tony was coming from, And he is old school. And there's this whole thing you know, between the old school guys, I mean, you could go back, Tonto. Um, you mentioned Michael Lewis. You could go go back to his book years ago on the A's and Billy Beane. Um, that, of course, became a movie. And and the old Scouts were treated very poorly in that book. And in that movie, especially the movie. Um, but I think that Um, I'm not a big believer that you know. There are rules. Quote unquote like that. I do believe that Tony's right when he says you should never throw it. Someone's head. My my favorite quote from all that has to go to Bob Gibson, who this may be apocryphal, but I heard, he said it. That an intentional walk was a waste of three pitches, You know, I mean, that's old school. You know, I'm talking to John School. He wasn't in Nolan Ryan. You know, you talk about the Bill Russell quote you mentioned. Um, if anybody today's players Had posed hitting a home run off a Bob Gibson or No. One. Ryan slipped the bat promise you that it never would've happened again. Talking to John Feinstein has got a new book coming out this August called mixed doubles, and when your book comes out about race and sports, we gotta have this back and make a longer segment because it's so important to talk about. They guess. You know, So is the last point here, I guess is we talk about you know these kinds of rival reason and why we love them, you know, and the characters on you mentioned Tiger. I remember when he didn't show up to Pebble Toe honor, Payne Stewart. You know, all these other golfers came out right and hit a ball into the ocean. He didn't show up and It always. You know, it got me. But I was standing next to the ropes from one sec. Torey pines and he walked by and I was having a particularly bad day. One gonna make the cut and this is after you know the incident. And I said, Hey, hang in there, tiger, and he looked up and looked me right in the eye and goes. Thanks, man. Really appreciate. It was like one of those things so occasionally You know when these guys they're there. This is a really difficult world, and nobody knows better than you at a very high level, and it doesn't matter how much money they have in the bank..
KNBR The Sports Leader
"bob gibson" Discussed on KNBR The Sports Leader
"You know, I don't think it's a total coincidence that Buster's back and the pitching has taken this gigantic leap forward from last year this you know some of the new guys deserve some credit for that, But I think having buster back there's been a big factor. So you know, Kevin Gausman certainly has an argument for it. Brandon Crawford's been great Longoria. But if he asked me one guy M v P of this team so far at that position what he's done, I take Buster. Yeah, it's the one guy you can't lose. But on the other hand, I chose Crawford. I just think he's been out there every day in that spoil the shortstop is that is the quarterback on the field. It's true, and the Giants don't have a lot of depth there either. So for you know the Giants to lose him would be a huge blow. I think both those guys were actually in the same sort of boat where you know if one of those two goes down for a long period of time giants could survive a couple weeks without Either one of them, But for a long period of time, the Giants would be in trouble. Well, enjoy your birthday. Anything special? Well, a ballgame. Hopefully, Giants win. It's an absolutely beautiful day there lots of fans here in the ballpark. Everybody appears to be poised to have a good time. And I rode my bike to the ballpark today, just to be outside. So think of me when I'm writing uphill into the wind going home that that's probably not the best birthday gift I've ever given myself, but Anyway, It's it's beautiful day, and I'm happy to chat with you, Marty. Pleasure. Always good to talk to you, David. Have a happy birthday and 12 to you next week. Bob Gibson years here. I've got to find out who number 46 is. I know we're gonna have to dig a little deeper for that one. Probably. Okay. Have a good day..
AM 1530 WCKG
"bob gibson" Discussed on AM 1530 WCKG
"Block home plate? Why would that be unfair? You know, there's no more. There's no more trying to take out a short stop at second base to avoid it, You know, T eliminated double play. All of that is stuff that people even playing the game people who have been injured. In those situations have grown up knowing and understanding. The players understand it, but But, you know, I look of all of all of the things that I have heard. They all they were doing the whole thing shortening the game because baseball games were running too long. Who's complaining about baseball games running too long? I've never heard that complaint. Not ever. Anybody who loves the game of baseball. You sit there and you watched the game, whether it's in the stands or at home on TV, and you love the game are the only feelings Uh, level of being upset that I had was when the game was over. I love baseball to the point work. Yeah, playing, Okay? I don't care 15 16 innings. It's a great day, but no, they they've gone way overboard in trying to correct something that really didn't need correcting. And and that's just the debts in various areas. It's not just it's not just this area or that area. They bought the whole thing about. Well, When can you take a picture out? When can you put it back? Ugh. I hate this shift. I can't stand the shift. Put two ballplayers on one side of second base and two on the other and leave him there, and everybody plays by the same rules. And I Now you got me started, John. Because now I'm all upset. Do you watch games anymore? Absolutely. Even with all this going up, you still do? Sure. Yeah, because you know what else would I have to complain about? Me ask you dance. How concerning is the strikeout right to you? Well, it's horrible. It's horrible because there are people who don't play and don't teach. The game of baseball anymore. Uhm, you know to me The strikeout thing in baseball is the very same as the three point thing in the NBA. It is out of control, and it's ruining the game. I think that I think. Well, gosh, was it three years ago? Four years ago, there was the New York Mets game. I was watching. And it cried out, cried out for a sacrifice bunt and after the game and he didn't look, I struck out and after the game, and they asked the manager, why didn't you have him bunk? He says Well, because he's never laid down a bunk in major league ball, and so I didn't think he could do it. That is criminal. Little leaguers learn how to bunt pony leaders, high school baseball. They all know how to book This guy couldn't lay down. Then shot is the idea is strikeout. The strikeout is the result of everybody in the lineup, talked about him trying to hit a home run. You can tell by the bag pictures that they swing it. You can tell by the mighty swing that's just out of control. You know, it's It's either a hit or miss, and there are way too many strikeouts. In major league baseball these days, and look, you're here. Over here. Over here In an ultra say, Oh, he was looking looking. He was caught guessing. Because there's no reason there's no reason to take a fastball from breakthrough waist high down the middle of And he guessed wrong. There are there are so many aspects of the game that are beautiful and on today's baseball, it takes a lot of that out. And that's that. That bothers me. They moved the mound back or that even necessary because this seems like it hit her problem, not a pitching problem. Well, I think it is a hitter problem and what they're doing. What they're doing is they're trying to get more there was was the same reason they did the D h which I think is hilarious because you get a d h ng. Well, how did that D h do last night? Oh, he went over four with four strikeouts. Well, Hell kind of a designated hitter is that You know, Um, no, I don't think I don't think that lowering the mound is the answer. I I think that what a little happen is, you will. You will have a lot more people hitting home runs. Then you do know because Maybe I have a mile or two off the fastball, eyes. All some guys need. You know, you lot of a lot of guys can't catch up to a 98 mile an hour Best fastball, but they catch up to one. That's 95. And and on down the line. I think it is which one of those things that they are. There is a trend. In sports in general form or Office. Because that is the ticket that they feel will sell their sport. I understand it to a degree because I feel that way about soccer. I am never, ever ever ashamed or embarrassed to say that I don't like the game of soccer. It's not that they're not terrific athletes and I know that they are not. The fact is That if you have a soccer game that ended 2 to 1, If you had played the game without goal is it would have been 3 to 2. That is how infrequently you get and the ball rolls up bones and the clock still goes, and I don't care if they had time at the end of the 90 minutes. I just think it's a weird, weird sport and the people are jumping out in the open down, understand there's no matter what's happening on the field. So So Suffice to say, I'm not a big soccer family, but the whole emphasis in all sports look, they eliminate that eliminated the two line past stability of more breakaways on the goalie in football. You know what they've done? You cannot. You cannot touch the quarterback and you cannot touch a wide receiver because basically that hinders Offensive thrust in in baseball. I think that's another step. You know, one of the things that that has hurt. The offensive side of baseball are these I'm gonna call him names. But these managers who will change pictures at the drop of a hat. You know there was there was a there was a story. Tom Seaver was pitching for the New York Mets and hey, was into the eighth inning and the bases were loaded on a tight game and Yogi Berra, the manager comes out of the dugout and the story is Yogi walks upon the amount and Tom Seaver looks at everything said Get your butt back into the dugout. Yogi and Yogi went okay. And he turned around and you bust the future's about there. There was a time you you would never do that to a Bob Gibson. You would never do that to Bob Cellar or Sandy Koufax, you know, but because of managers thinks that is That his picture might be getting weak. He comes in all the sudden here's a fresh pitcher in a crucial situation like the Yankees bring in a roll this Chapman he came in the other night. I watched the game. That they were playing angles against Detroit. He comes in and of his first three pitches and above 100 miles an hour. You're welcome G when we got through the rest of the order in order to get to that. In situation and I think that they believe that it sells the sport more. I don't I don't think that eat in any sport. You give enough credit to the defense and you should Is Rob Man for the worst commissioner in sports. Greg Um.
KLIF 570 AM
"bob gibson" Discussed on KLIF 570 AM
"Finished. We're going to Tampa. We're trying to run it back. They're gonna try and win it back or bring it back. The Chiefs are seeing 3.5 point favorite to win when they play in a couple weeks, So we got a couple weeks of height, but we don't have to worry about like we did. Those two environments yesterday. It was kind of chilly in Kansas City, much gold's gonna be where it is too weak, hyped up leading up to the Super Bowl is not going to involve any actual of team appearances. Two days before Super Bowl Sunday is is the soonest that the teams can show up to and and the and the media can be there. Today. Well, you know more than I do. So you're telling me the big media party is off? Yeah, it's all gonna be. You know that thing that makes sense in the NFL will do everything they can and both of these teams will to make sure That everybody's protected as you can be with covert 19 the other story, your producer Scott called me on Friday. This was said, Hey, Lambo can come on in talk about one of the great greatest baseball players of all time. Started thinking I grew up in ST Louis, and I lost two of the greats that I knew as a kid right in growing up in Lou Brock and Bob Gibson, right? Started looking at the list now alkaline. Tom Seaver brought Gibson, Whitey Ford, Joe Morgan, Phil Niekro, Tommy Lasorda, Don Sutton and now Hank Aaron. I like what our former President George W. Bush, the one time owner of the Texas Rangers, said. The former home run. King wasn't handed his throne. He grew up poor and face racism as he worked to become one of the greatest baseball players of all time. Hank never let the hatred That he faced consuming He also he's course being best known for beating Babe Ruth's home run record, but that actually kind of overshadows his entire career because he was one of the most prolific all time based hit. Hitters and R B I He could do it all. Yeah. I mean, he could do it all. Yeah. I watched him play several times when I was a kid, A son and I saw where in Atlanta, which is where he was. There will walkie and Atlanta they're wanting to change the name to the hammers. You should. Hammer and Hank Yeah. Instead of being called the Braves so little offend somebody. Somehow it probably all right there. Steve Lamb with a check of the big sports news of the weekend. 7 55 right now it K l I f It's traffic.
ESPN Chicago 1000 - WMVP
"bob gibson" Discussed on ESPN Chicago 1000 - WMVP
"Insider buster only on Greenie with Mike Greenberg and incredibly well rounded player. Someone who Um, you know, it was just a metro gnome of power in a year after year after year, hitting 40 homers. He actually, you know, while building toward that record of 755, he never hit more than 47 homers in any season. But he also was a great defender, and he was a terrific base runner. You know, he helped the Braves when the world Syriza and 1957. I've always thought of Willie Mays being the greatest major leaguer. I think Hank there and it would be in the top three. You know you someone when you would see him in person in retirement, it reminded you this was you know, baseball's greatest slugger was not a large man, but he had these unbelievably strong and quick wrists and you would hear stories. From his peers from Bob Gibson from Sandy Cove, fax, others talking about how how dead dangerous it was the pitching inside because of how quick those wrists were. He was a terrific all around player. It is lasting impact will certainly be continuing to take a sledgehammer to the color barrier in baseball while making his mark in the game and in society at large as today ago, McKay said on China and Golic Jr. Black America feels like they have lost a family member just because he was someone that was a figure in all of our homes, point into him and say, Look, you can succeed Despite all of the odds, and so first, you know, condolences to his family and also the greater culture. Who is mourning the loss of a giant and icon and another way to phrase it that we all love. When former MLB commissioner Bud Seelig called Hank Aaron and as he was awake, awarded the presidential Medal of Freedom Ah, Hall of Famer in each and every way, and that's sort of the imprint that he had. You love it when it happens to the game, where people are able to become icons, but also for the culture as a whole for black communities, but communities that just felt overlooked what Hank Aaron was able to do with succeed. In a way that it gave a lot of people hope optimism in the midst of a lot of challenges that society not too long ago presented.
ESPN Chicago 1000 - WMVP
"bob gibson" Discussed on ESPN Chicago 1000 - WMVP
"Extraordinarily call extraordinary call from Vin Scully? They're you know, Buster. We can talk about the significance of Aaron as a cultural figure, and we will do that endlessly. Can we talk quickly about him is a ballplayer because he that those are things that sometimes I think, get for gotten because he became so much larger than that. But Hemo sent me a slew of numbers here mean Buster. Let's talk about Hank Aaron is a ballplayer, first and foremost. And incredibly well rounded player. Someone who you know was just the Metrodome of power in a year after year after year, hitting 40 homers, he actually you know, While building toward that record of 755, he never hit more than 47 homers in any season. But he also was a great defender, and he was a terrific base runner of you know, he helped the Braves when the world Syriza and 1957. I've always thought of Willie Mays being the greatest major leaguer. I think Hank there and it would be in the top three. You know you someone when you would see him in person in retirement, it reminded you this was you know, baseball's greatest slugger was not a large man, but he had these unbelievably strong and quick wrists and you would hear stories. From his peers from Bob Gibson from Sandy Cove, fax, others talking about how how dead dangerous it was the pitch him inside because of how quick those wrists were. He was a terrific all around player that came in part from batting cross handed when he was growing up, and when he played in the Negro leagues, and that helped produce incredible hand and wrist strength, and I can I can talk to two other quick things. As far as him as a player if you took away all 755 of his home runs He would still have 3000 hips, is the only member of the 500 home run club in baseball history. Who could say that and of him? Here's another note. Hambo is just sending me notes left and right in its Chokes you up. Muhammed Ali once said of Hank Aaron. He's the only man I idolized more than myself. Was Mohammed Ali saying that if Henry Aaron whom we lose today, at the age of 86, buster, thank you for jumping in here, my friend I appreciated. I know you'll be busy all day long trying to put this into perspective as well. I we We will obviously cancel everything else we're planning on doing on the show today will come back in just a moment. We will talk at great length. I will tell you two stories. I have two personal stories. About Hank Aaron. He is What a gentleman. He was. What an incredible ball player. He was. What an extraordinary life he lived. Hank Aaron has died at the age of 86. We will have complete coverage coming up in just a moment. I'm Greenie, and this is ESPN radio. Every player matters and finding the right person can make.
WBZ NewsRadio 1030
"bob gibson" Discussed on WBZ NewsRadio 1030
"I mean, it was at one time was one of those social Mecca gathering places where people just turned out. I mean, and you expected to go there and see famous people walking in and out of there and rub elbows with the swell since the old thing is to go, Mimi, you know a lot about so much. It wouldn't be fair just to talk to you about sports, and I am not. Pigeonholing you you can and you will talk about the people that we have lost. In the world of sports in 2020, But if anybody wants to call in And talk about whatever name person that we had the wave goodbye to because of covert 19. Jimmy can him Well, I don't know. But all covert 19, but you know, baseball. The baseball network does a piece It's on right now, Uh, it plays often called lost icons. And I was just thinking about all the guys that I covered that in there. Whitey Ford Al K line. Bob Gibson. Joe Morgan. These guys are all gone. And I'm saying to myself, Could you believe this? I covered all these guys, and then you really start to feel old when you consider that these are some of the greatest players that have ever played the game, you know Whitey Ford still the greatest postseason picture. By percentage and record in history of the game you talk about Bob Gibson is 17 strikeouts is still at the top of the list of our World Series strike out for a single game, and that was the series. That the Cardinals didn't win. They lost to Detroit that year and alkaline hit 3 79 in that serious But, you know, I think about all these great men. We have lost in all the great people that we have lost your men and women and you know it. Really. It really makes me more aware of what part of our lives were in, you know, Um Bozeman dies. Chadwick Boseman and a bunch of other people and you say to yourself. When's my time? Not that I'm looking forward. Not that I'm praying for it, but no, I'm not. But But my my faith tells me that I will be Maura home. With my God it his kingdom. Then to be down here down here is a is a hard struggle every single day. Ladies and gentlemen, don't panic. I'm not thinking about going anywhere. But if the good Lord calls me home, I will not be arguing. So I'll just leave that at that. But I'm thinking of all the people that You know that have passed. Through my life and that I have lost. Casey was a very special person because Casey in 1969 when I was a sophomore BU and he was the coach at Harvard. He invited me into practice. One day. I just walked in sadness. Stan's After practice. He weighed me down. And he was a guy that He's my favorite Celtics player. I wore 25 in honor of him my whole playing career that 25 20 for Larry Sigfried. There's another favorite player, but mainly Casey. I've got to know him really well, and that was long before I had gotten into The professional side of the media. So you know you miss people like that, because he's one of the classiest guys that I've ever met. And you talk about a singer Morgan. Oh, my god. Casey had a voice that was just We leave a ble if he's singing the local, you know, clubs and so forth around Boston. You go to a game and see and coaching. Next thing you know, you hear his beautiful baritone voice singing at night. And to think that he, you know, he It's supper for Alzheimer's. In the latest stages of his life. He had a very difficult time was talking to Jeff Twist the longtime PR PR man for the Boston Celtics public relations director. In fact, and you know we were We would just sit and talk and also talk to Joe Fitzgerald. We simply because I talked to Joe a lot. And for all of you out there who big Joe Fitzgerald fans. Please say a prayer for him because Joe just you know, he's been battling some medical issues like so many of us And he's on the road recovery..
Weekend Edition Saturday
Los Angeles Dodgers win World Series, but also become super spreaders of the virus?
"They won with a powerful lineup. But did they risk turning the world Siri's into a corona virus super spreader into a super spreader event? It Let's let's talk about the good things for a Shall we then Los Angeles Dodgers win the World Series first time since 1988 and had been a long time coming in a lot of failed a lot of false starts at the beginning of this decade in terms of winning So many division titles and just sputtering in the playoffs, losing to the infamous Houston Astros in the 2017 world, serious getting beaten by the Red Sox in 2018, and this time they were great. They were fantastic. Even Clayton Kershaw that everyone talked about couldn't get the monkey off of his back. He comes out and wins. Two games in the series, and it was great for them. I think that they they did it the way that great teams are supposed to. They scored more than half of their runs with two outs. Everyone's looking for all that clutch. All those clutch performances and the Dodgers really did come through. They were They were fantastic. Even with the crazy game for 87 collapse that we thought was going to turn the Siri's around in a different direction tied it, too. But at the very At the next turn, The Dodgers come back and they never look back. They are champions, and they very much deserved it. Even though it was an eight game season. It was very much Before playoffs and everything else. Yeah, it's it's a legit championship. But but but but but Justin Turner removed from the game because it was positive for Corona virus. He returned for a celebration often mask lists hugging people. He sat next to Dave Roberts, the manager who is a cancer survivor, and therefore more at risk. How How do you finish that sentence? How do we characterize this? Well, he characterizes as a massive massive Hey, irresponsibility on the part of Justin Turner on the part of the Dodgers and certainly on the part of Major League baseball, even though Major League Baseball has tried to get out in front of this by laying the blame at the feet of Justin Turner, and it is his responsibility. However, I have a hard time believing that that he was allowed to play with an inconclusive test, so they took him off of the field after the test was Was found to be positive. But if you have an inconclusive test, how do you let him play in the first place? And so everyone's going to take responsibility for this, But this is what we're seeing across the board were seeing this at the University of Florida with all of their positive test. We're seeing it with the big 10 as well on the Big 10 had made the decision earlier not to play, and then they got bullied by the president into playing, and now they're canceling games. This is the thing Scott we talked about this months ago. Everyone saw this coming, but this country has just made a decision not to care about it. And, of course, the discussion of the weak. Ah, Kevin Cash, the Tampa manager, pulling Blake smell Blake Snell, Tampa Cy Young Award winning pitcher after he struck out nine after just 5.5 innings because of analytics. Tampa lost with almost the next pitch as this decision become emblematic of these over analysed times. Well, absolutely. But I had a revelation during this world serious guy and I think I've always known it, but it it wasn't crystallized until watching this. I don't watch baseball or I don't watch sports for wins and losses. I watch sports for competition. And this this thing they did not let Blake smell compete. And this happened at a time. When look at who we lost during this baseball season where you've lost the great picture, Whitey Ford, you lost the great competitor, Bob Gibson. And these players, they're legends come from competition, and if you're not going to let a player compete, what is the purpose of being a Cy Young Award winner? You're not even going to be allowed to have these classic championship moments. If they pull you out of the game. This is why we watch in baseball. At least the Tampa Bay Rays took that away from us. Howard Bryant of ESPN Well said, Thanks so much. Thank you.
News and Perspective with Taylor Van Cise
New York Yankee Hall Of Fame Pitcher Whitey Ford Dies At 91
"In the history of baseball's most successful team has died. NBC's Brian Clark has the details. Edward Ford was born in New York City, but of becoming the most decorated pitcher in the history of the New York Yankees. He was known as Whitey. The 91 Year old's Death. Friday was the third passing of a Hall of Fame pitcher in the last six weeks after Tom Seaver and Bob Gibson. Ford won his first of six World Series titles. A 21 year old rookie in 1950. He played 16 Major League seasons, all with the New York Yankees, despite a two year interruption for Korean War military service and eight time All Star The Ford retired as the Yankees career leader in strikeouts and winds. Brian Clark, ABC NEWS New York
News, Traffic and Weather
Bob Gibson, Feared Flamethrower for the St. Louis Cardinals, Dies at 84
"Legend Dies A bee sees Todd and intimidating and a fierce competitor, Bob Gibson is considered one of the greatest pitchers in baseball who spent his entire 17 year career with the ST Louis Cardinals gifts and, in fact, was named World Series MVP in the Cardinal's 1964 and 67 Championship seasons. He closed out his Hall of Fame induction speech in 1981 with this I want to be remembered. As a person that Comparator gave 100%. Every time I went out on the field, so Bob Gibson was 84 you're listening to ABC News.
Silicon Valley Insider with Keith Koo
Bob Gibson, fierce Hall of Fame ace for Cardinals, dies at 84
"Hall of Fame pitcher Bob Gibson has passed away at age 84 Following about with pancreatic cancer. Bob Gibson will always be honored as one of baseball's toughest competitors. He won two World Series MVP awards as he led the ST Louis Cardinals two championships over the Yankees and Red Sox. He fell short against the Tigers in 1968. Despite setting a serious record of 17 strikeouts in Game one. He holds numerous baseball and team records. Strikeouts earned run average shutout winds and an almost obsolete record Now in baseball complete games. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1981 was preceded in death just under a month ago by his long time teammate and fellow cardinals legend Lou Brock, who died at age 81 from diabetes.
Tim Conway Jr.
Bob Gibson, Hall of Famer and Cardinals legend, dies at 84
"In Major League Baseball Hall of Famer Bob Gibson has passed away at the age of 84. That's horrible. Yeah, he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2019. Man. That guy
Perspectives
St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Famer Bob Gibson battling pancreatic cancer
"Recipes top national story hall of fame pitcher Bob Gibson is under treatment for pancreatic cancer the St Louis post dispatch reports Gibson sent a letter to living hall of Famers that he's being treated for the disease the eighty four year old cardinals legend was a nine time all star of the National League MVP in nineteen sixty eight and helped lead Saint Louis through two World