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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"howard gilbert" Discussed on Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"So they're but yes. He does seem if if one could sort of drop central casting for a yankees player. It does seem like joey. Gallo would come on down from from central casting so we have not yet. Talked about the tyler. Gilbert no hitter. Which i was actually moved to write about that. A no hitter guy really that one was just so improbable in every way that like part of it for me why i don't care that much about no hitters. Is that you know. Sometimes it's someone was pitching incredibly well and sometimes it's largely luck and defense and more team accomplishment than an individual accomplishment as retrieved it and so i kinda discount the accomplishments at times. And you could definitely do that with this tyler gilbert no hitter but it just one so far over into the totally improbable end of the spectrum that i completely enjoyed it for just how far fetched it was that this would happen. So tyler gilbert who probably could have been a candidate for me to major leaker segment if everyone hadn't met him through this already but he was the kind of player we tend to talk about in that segment. Because who knew tyler gilbert a twenty-seven-year-old who just made his major league debut with diamondbacks this year former sixth-round phillies pick who was then on. the dodgers. never actually pitch for the dodgers because of the pandemic and then was plucked away from the dodgers by the diamondbacks in the minor league phase of the rule five draft that aaa portion so all the dodgers had to do to keep him was just put him on the triple a roster. They didn't do that. And the diamond backs snagged him and this was his fourth major league game but his first major league start and so he joined a very exclusive club of pitchers who have pitched no hitters in their first major league. Start technically. it's four guys. At least in what used to be defined as the major leagues. It's two previous pitchers in the al or nl. The immortal pompous jones in eighteen. Ninety two and also immortal. Bobo holloman in nineteen fifty three which like howard gilbert really kind of falling short in the name department. If you're not a compass or bobo not be allowed to do this thing. But this was improbable in so many ways. That was kind of what i wrote about. Just counting the ways in which this was exquisitely unlikely. And i is just the fact that it's tower gilbert who is still never really a ranked prospect in even any individual system and took this long to get his first major league. Start for a reason although he is pitched pretty well in the minors lately. But you had that. You had the fact that he's going up against the padres who have not been all that was hoped for them but still a top ten team by batting average this year. And he's in chase field. Which is park. that really inflates. Hit totals more than almost any other park and the padres just crushed the ball in this game which was great thing and the thing that i sort of explored in. The piece was that he gave up so many balls that were hit hard and were right at people and he acknowledged as much he said it was one of those games where they were just hitting right at my fielders and the diamondbacks not a great defensive team as you expect so you would not expect them to be the club. Bid is coming up with all kinds of great fuel been performances here so it was just so unlikely like there were. It'd be six balls. Hit a hundred miles per hour or more. I think it was and there were ten balls that were defined as hard hit by. Mlb that's ninety five miles per hour plus or more in a couple more that were extremely close to that so it looked on baseball savant and in terms of the difference between his actual batting average allowed which was zero and the expected batting average allowed based on the batted ball angle and velocity and sometimes the speed of the hitter which was to forty three in this game which is basically like the league batting average so this this was like it. Based on the batted ballsy allowed. You would have this to be just another start but no it was a no hitter. And it was the biggest gap between expected batting average and actual batting average allowed of any start in the stat cast era. That went as deep as this one. He faced twenty eight hitter. So no other pitcher in those years had faced so many hitters and had such a big gap between actual and expected results and granted like expected batting average. Doesn't take into account spray angle. So sometimes it does seem to kinda overestimate the likelihood that about is going to be a hit but even so it was just so improbable in so many ways and i know that this is the year of the no hitter but it had been almost three months since the previous solo. No hitter at least and of course the batting average has climbed up as the weather has gotten warmer as sticky stuff has been banned so it had been a while so tower gobert broke the streak and also set the record for most no hitters single-season in the modern era and no one in the world saw that coming and his family was there and his girlfriend was there and his girlfriend's parents. Were there until you got the greek crowd reactions. It was just joyous so as improbable as it was. I really just reveled in the improbability of it all. I remain a sucker for crying baseball dad. I'm i'm a sucker for ben and there were tears there moments trying to hold back the tears there was succumbing to the tears or getting down to the field to say hi it was just it was it was really quite lovely all around and i don't know if you know bamba this season has not gone. It's been it's been pretty bad. And so i think that in years like that when a player can give his teammates something to feel excited about and give fans something to feel excited about it's really lovely however improbable at ends up being so it was good. It felt nice. It really did. It was good story just of nice feel-good story and one of those. You can't predict baseball hall kind of emblematic of the sport as a whole and just how variable it is and batted ball results in its fickle and you never really know what is gonna happen from game to game. I included a quote at the top of my piece which i've enjoyed in hip. Been trying to look for a place to us which is from the former outfielder. Ralph garr who said in nineteen seventy-one when you hit the ball good that's talent when nobody is able to catch it. That's luck which is true. So you need both of those things for something like this to happen. I'd want to suggest that he had no talent here. Clearly there was some talent involved as rain but the padres were really crushed. The politics nut in the right place and it was a five strikeouts. Three walk game so not really impressive peripherals. Yeah things not going. Great for the padres lightly. I mean they raided the ship in the following game..
Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction
"howard gilbert" Discussed on Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction
"We're reggie reasonably educated people and we're telling you straight out it's a life record record you can't you can't live the life you think you were going to on any of these drugs appreciate you saying that it is a life recor- i appreciate you coming on this show and i've heard you tell a lot of crazy stories. It was weird. I listen to you on gilbert godfrey podcast right here and and he opens up the show by telling a story of you and him having sex with the same woman in an alley. Did you remember that story when you agreed to do the colossal podcast or was it just like he dropped it on. You know it Both really but here's the thing on that whether he had an me or anything like that. So what there is not a story that you have heard. There's not an arrest you can find. There's a sexual as on that you mentioned going to hurt my feelings damage my reputation. I've one of the world all time. Worst reputations. I don't know how i keep a job but no. I certainly didn't tell me about that. But it's one of my fondest stories. I tell it all the time. It's hysterical hysterical. I'll tell you something about gilbert godfrey because he was one of the early podcast that i did. That guy was so informed. I couldn't believe like. I've known gilbert god. That's a pretty intimate thing to only a torso away from another guy so gilbert. I know each other a pretty well. I was shocked how much time he had put into research to do. A podcast with news. Pretty impressive awesome. It was awesome. Why do you think howard gilbert on anymore I stink as where when you say. What was the last time you gilbert was on. I have no idea. i haven't heard him on in years. Okay then. I don't know i would say a falling out but howard doesn't have some of the main guests and hang on that he used to. I would have had some some kind of an. He is shocking appalled by his own behavior on his own radio. Show talking to his own friends and embarrassing them and making them squirm He's years and years and years of he's come to the point that he wants to be the real howard stern and maybe we're godfrey did not fit into that. Were so funny together. I have another question about your recovery. Like they talk about a psychic change right from when you're fucking totally out there in the in the mass having a nice life. Do you feel like you had the psychic changed. You feel like people discount your psychic change because antabuse pay played a part of your story No i don't i don't know if that's the case. Sometimes i think it. But i think and then think. Don't go off this drug ever no matter what what people you no matter what you feel no appeal your sobriety cheapened and you should make it better by doing just on your own. Don't do it. i'm so that's what counts that the only thing that counts. And you know there are some people that You know there are people in recovery. That don't take pain meds after the dentist right. That's crazy right right. no i hear you. I'm not like that either. I i used to take a nyquil. Every time i couldn't sleep which might not have been the right thing to do but some people were shocked and appalled. People who get really sick will never take it. You know right now. I do know. And that's what is it. Twenty five proof or twenty five percent. Whatever it is. There's a boatload of alcohol in nyquil as well as other drugs it can give you a little bit of amnesia. The next day like what happened. When did i take that So i you know what i say. Whatever medicine makes you better in the sense of cures the common cold. Take it If you go to the dentist nations here take these painkillers. Although my dentist actually no matter how much pain. I'm going to be in an extensive. Dental work. Says tylenol tylenol three. That's what you get that will do and it does you know and anytime i want to go begging around joe drugs. 'cause i'm allegedly and paying. I've stopped my tylenol three now. I just want drugs and luckily it took a while but i don't ask doctors and dentists for You know like it anymore. When's the last time you wanted to use Do you mean anything including alcohol hour ago. Is it really like that. It's kinda like that too bad but I was far out in the boondocks over the state of washington. And i had to come back and i came back in the past really nice places. Drink like dive bars big fan. Gimme an applebees. Gimme a red robin and my heart racist so yeah literally an hour ago all right. Do you still do meetings or no no i. I don't 'cause i don't like him. I do like them. They become too long with permissions. It's now time for the first time for the seven and just a lot of people talking about things. That aren't drinking right right right right right. I hear you danny. I cannot thank you enough for this time. You've been incredibly generous. And it's and i and i i'm happy to hear your sober like i didn't. I didn't know you know what i'm saying like it's hard to to find that out because like i think you told the story on On one of those shows about hulk hogan and he said he asked you if you were sober and then he handed you a bucket of vicodin. And i couldn't tell i couldn't tell that story if you were sober now so i was like we'll see what happens with this thing. Well i gotta tell ya. Okay is a good friend of mine and we met doing promos for different reality shows. I had this disaster breaking each any ad. Hogan knows best or whatever it was and we're doing the thing and the joke is it's we're playing the theme from the couple. If you remember in the i couple Won an oscar those cigarette or cigar down the four. And the other guy. tony randall. Picks it up with an umbrella what we did there. And i flicked cigar out of my mouth and hulk goes to take this giant beach umbrella out of a table at a restaurant and it doesn't come fix so he picks up the whole cable and does the that was awesome. So i'm talking to him and he goes Are you sober now. And i was as a matter of fact at the time but it didn't it didn't he. Goes how about pills. Vans me a bunch of biking. And which i immediately took. And they're not as fun as they used to be but yeah. That's that's a very true story. And hulk is up those pills. And i am up those bills. Well good for you man and then the most fucked up story. I can't resist making you tell this one more..