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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"jason stark" Discussed on Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"This was in 2010 where they offered him a 17 year $102 million deal, but I think that the terms were it was likely rejected by the commissioner by the league because the all star was slated to earn only $550,000 in each of the last 5 seasons of the contract. So the contract would have run through when he was 44, and he was supposed to earn 98 and a half million in the first 11 years and then 550,000 in each of the last 5 years when he obviously would not be playing and this was just to spread out the money and just reduce the average baseline and this was rejected as just taking it too far right like other teams had gotten away with lesser versions of this, but this was just so obvious that they struck it down. And it's kind of happening in MLB right now, not nearly to the same extent. Dan was joking on the episode the other day that he would just try like a 30 or 40 year contract and just see what happens and I would say, well, I don't think that would work. I think probably rap would step in at that point. And we're not at that point with what's happening here, especially because they're not like front loading it like that. I mean, even though Bogart's got the 11 year deal, like he's still going to be making a lot at the end of it. So it's not quite as transparent like that even though it is still obviously an attempt to reduce the average the cap hit the soft cap hit the competitive balance tax threshold penalty associated with this. And it's happened in all over and it's interesting because one of the other trends that you would think would be a competing trend is that teams are not spending as much on old players and have become more cognizant of the aging curve and so Jason stark has a piece at the athletic where he talked to some executives about what is happening here how is all of this money going to old players and some executives are throwing up their hands. Here's one quote it's insanity grumbled an executive of one analytically inclined team. It's a rational people. The Red Sox. Yeah, I don't know. It's a rational people operating in an illogical market.
Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney
"jason stark" Discussed on Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney
"Nature. But generally speaking, I felt that, you know, folks within the game are okay with it in a way that I didn't expect. What about you? Yeah, that's what I've heard too. I was watching the Jason stark Doug lanville starkville podcast the other day and they had Joey Votto on and Jason, our dear friend, said, you know, Joey, you're kind of a deliberate hitter. You like to back out and Joey likes stopped Jason right in the middle of it and said, look, I'm taking whatever they give me, okay? But he said, if you need me to be ready in ten seconds to hit, I'll be ready in ten seconds to hit. And I think the same is going to go for our pitchers. Eventually, they're going to figure out they're going to have to speed this up and they're going to have to go faster. And I think they can do it. I know they can do it. If they are forced to do it, if there's a penalty involved, if there's a balk involved or a ball involved, they are going to make sure that they deliver the ball in the right amount of time. I think this is worth a try because all we hear about is there's not enough action and there are games with last too long. The players themselves need to recognize and I think they do that our game needs an adjustment. And I think it's coming. David Ross, the cubs manager spoke to us before the game, not surprisingly, because I can remember those days when he was catching for John Lester and he Lester would start to gripe about the umpire. He'd go out to the mountain and he'd chew Leicester and say, let's go. Let's pick up the pace. David Ross told us in a pregame meeting that he absolutely believes that an enhanced pace helps the pitcher. He feels like that it makes the hitters on the defensive, and it was interesting to me that Gabe kapler, when we went over and talked to the Giants manager before the game on Sunday, he felt the exact same way. He said, look, when I face those guys who work fast and he mentioned Mark Burley, who's famously one of the fastest workers of all time, he said, I felt like that those guys were throwing down hill at me. Like they had some momentum as they went along, I know when this conversation started at the outset, a lot of the people complaining were actually pictures because they felt like, look, I need to do what I can do to get ready to throw each pitch. We're seeing this generation of relievers who come in and throw 1500 sliders, they'll circle behind the mound and they'll take time between pitches. You know, folks that I've spoken with last four or 5 days really believe that this could actually turn out to be a good thing, not only for pace, but actually for pitchers. Yeah, and to Sunday Night game, we saw how quickly weighed Miley worked, which was great, and it helps the pitcher I totally agree. And remember when Eduardo said on the broadcast, he said, these are the guys that drove me crazy. Not just a soft throwing left hander, but someone that worked really fast. He basically said, I enjoyed getting myself ready for it at bat. And if somebody is going too fast, I didn't enjoy that. I think the hitters could be affected even more than the pictures, like you say. But again, some of our really slow work and pictures are going to have to make an adjustment. Otherwise, they're going to be in some trouble, but again, facing trouble, they will adjust. So after the Dodgers won on Sunday, the in theory, they had clinched a playoff spot. That's what they were told. That's what we were told. I saw pictures. They didn't see video of this, but I saw pictures with the Dodgers toasted each other because they clinched a playoff spot, which at this .10 straight years in the postseason isn't that big of a deal. But then we got word yesterday from Major League Baseball. Oh, wait. Sorry about that. They didn't actually clinch into the Dodgers clinch last night. Have you seen anything comparable to that in your time covering baseball? Well, I'm actually not shocked that that happened. I did game with Roxie Bernstein the other day on the radio, and he was with Dave Roberts doing another game. And this is not a criticism. Dave Roberts did not know what the Dodgers record was going into a game. Like 90 and 40, he didn't know what their record was because he doesn't care about their record. It's just, it's the biggest cliche ever. The only thing that matters is tonight's game. We have to win tonight. But for a major league manager to not know how many wins they have or not know what their record is, I found that interesting. So that kind of connects to what this is all about. They were going to clinch tonight or the night before. It's no big deal. Ten in a row, I get it. I just remember though, I've told you this story buster. The Orioles in the mid 70s were like 50 over and they lost a game in September in Kansas City and they're leaving Kansas City to go to another city in Earl weaver growls to no one in particular. He said, damn, it's hard to stay 50 games over 500. And that shows you how few teams have ever done that, but Earl knew every record every game of whatever was going on. Dave Roberts doesn't, and that just means they're not worried about whether they're going to win a 116 games. They just want to win the World Series at whatever comes first comes first. So you know Ben walker works for The Associated Press, right? Of course. Okay, so he's in the middle of this story I'm going to tell you from 1998 when he had the Yankee team, which was running away, he had a huge lead. They finished the season with a 114 wins and 48 losses. The regular season, then they blitzed through the postseason. They finished with a 125 wins. The Yankees that you're applying the Mariners in a series at Yankee Stadium. And I remember this very clearly, it was a Saturday afternoon game. The games played the ballpark empties out and all of a sudden from the front row of the press box, Ben walker says out loud, I think they clinched a playoff spot. And I was like, huh? No. That's not right. I don't think they have. And then he explained because the Mariners are the rangers and some other team. We're going to play each other. It was a guaranteed loss or something like that. And he was right. And nobody knew it. Nobody knew the Yankees glitched to play off spot that day on August 30th and nobody knew it. And so my story the next day was to a sleepy Sunday morning was to greet the Yankees that came in the Clubhouse and say, hey, congratulations, Scott Rosie. She made the playoffs. What do you think? But no one had figured it out until Ben walker started going through the math and the press box. Well, first off, no surprise that Ben walker would figure that out. He's smarter than the average bear. And yes, look, when you're clinching at the end of August buster, when we're talking about magic numbers at the beginning of September, that just that kind of takes away your too good at that point. And I think it takes away some of the drama, but that's great. And only in baseball can somebody say, hey, those teams are playing each other. Somebody's got to lose the Yankees are in. Yeah. And by the way, it made for a challenge in writing an artful game story from that Saturday because I had to write that the Yankees made the playoffs, but I didn't have any player quotes and no reaction from anybody. And this is before the time when everyone was texting and Ed cell phones. Before you go, when I ask you about Mike Trout, who's on this unbelievable role, I feel like it's a little bit like the pools run at the end. I'm happy for Mike Trout that he's reminding everybody here in these last 7 games, home run in each of these games, a chance tonight to tie the record of Homer's neat straight games. I'm happy he's reminding everybody, yeah, he's still here and he's still pretty good. Yeah, he's got 35 homers in 365 at bats, just put those numbers together. He is still the best player in baseball.
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"jason stark" Discussed on Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"Think it would be bad. I'm just trying to imagine, oh my God. Oh, I'm like sweating. Tried to play themselves into better playoff position in an ultimately played themselves out of playoff position. I just think that you never, you never want to employ a strategy where someone can look back in hindsight and be like they were too cute. You don't try to be cute. 'cause you might be too cute. And then right. Yeah. Yeah. Having a fit. Yeah. I think that also like baseball is less susceptible to tanking, at least the type that should be a is susceptible to for a few reasons like when it's just not as advantageous to get a high draft pick and MLB as it is in other leagues. But also, I think it's like harder to lose. It's purpose. Yeah. Once you've assembled your team, you can assemble a non competitive team, but it's harder to say, okay, given the players we have on hand, we're going to reduce our odds of winning today because you have a bigger team in their more players and what are you going to do like your entire lineup? NBA, you can sit like one star and significantly impair your odds, but in baseball, as we know, like having one or two superstars doesn't make you a great team and being down to start two doesn't make you a terrible team, so there's only so much you can do realistically without making it incredibly glaring that you're doing this. So between that and the fact that there's probably not going to be so huge a difference in the standings between the teams that are in the wild card position and the teams that are just out of it, maybe there's not that huge, maybe it's like more of a, this doesn't look good because it's not great to have a team that is not as good, be rewarded for not being as good, so that's not good. Just from a optics perspective. But maybe it's not as dangerous from a competitive integrity standpoint. No, you still shouldn't do it. It's just bad. It's just so bad thing to mess with it and just do your job. Work your head down. Go in some baseball games, play in October, and let me have a happy family text threat. That's all. I want. Yeah. And also, just wanted to briefly salute what Zach gallen is doing for the Diamondbacks. I almost caught myself when we were talking about Keiko and saying that he had played for a couple of bad teams well, arguably he's only played for one. Diamondbacks, not so bad. Now, in fact, they're half a game behind the Giants in the west. How about that? How about that? I guess says as much about the Giants as it does about the Diamondbacks. But they're only three games under 500 or four games at this point and a lot of that is because Zach Allen has a 41 and a third inning scoreless streak going. Spectacular. Yeah, so he's close to entering the top ten score of a streetwise and he has already tied the record for most scoreless starts in a row, so he has tied Don Drysdale in 68 oral hershiser 88 Zac cranky 2015 with 6 scoreless starts. Of course, he has pitched fewer innings than all of those guys over those starts and significantly fewer than Hershey's or drysdale, her shows are streak of course is the record of 59, and this will be fun to watch gallon chase this dense and borsky gives him about a 2% chance, according to his new fan grafts post on the subject, but everyone's talking about gallon, there's a fan grass post about gallon in a baseball perspective post about gallon and people have been expecting big things out of gown for a while, like he was good and then he got hurt. He had a stress fracture in his arm, right? And so he was not so effective last year, but now he's healthy. He is making some changes. He's maybe throwing some higher fastballs and working more secondary stuff in basically like every other picture, I guess, but he's been better and he's been just really great lately and has propelled the Diamondbacks to respectability, so Craig Calcutta raised a question in his newsletter. He said, if gallon does keep going and challenges her scoreless innings record, there's an argument to be made that it's more impressive for it being over more starts. I mean, the more starts you make, the greater the odds you show up one day and simply don't have it or that you'll face a team with their hitting shoes on, right? I guess I understand that perspective. I still think that probably going deeper into games is harder just because it requires greater durability. It requires you to face the same hitters, multiple times in the same game. So yeah, like you're rolling the dice, I guess a little bit that you won't have it one day, maybe, but also you're having an easier assignment in each given outing. So I think if anything I would go with gallons being a tad easier, but it's an impressive accomplishment, nonetheless. And yeah, it's happening when offense is down a little bit, but so did it when drysdale did this or when her scissor did this, like, as we talked about recently, often record or near record setting performances require the conditions to be right for that, which is what makes judge and what he's doing so impressive because the conditions aren't really ripe for it. But good job Zack gallon in the Diamondbacks have been a lot more watchable lately in part because of him. Yeah, I mean, I have been to, so I was present for his start against nola when the Phillies came through, and then I was just at the ballpark to watch burns versus Bumgarner, which went the brewer's way, does not involve Zach Allen, importantly, but not because bunga earner was particularly bad, which is its own interesting, but a business. But there's just like, there are a lot of people at D back games, and they are excited about the D backs. And it's pretty cool. You know? Like, there have been stretches where that is not true. I remember, I remember in early 2021, I went to a Diamondbacks game and I think I had had, I think I had had one of my vaccine shots, but not both. And so I won, and I was like, oh, is this a bad idea? And then I was like, oh no, I'm very socially distanced. This is in fact fine, 'cause you know, it was a warm enough day that they had the roof closed because they wanted the air on. And I was like, it's still a big space, but I don't know. Is this the right thing? And then as I know it's, it's fine. And that hasn't been the experience lately. People are there and they're excited and, you know, you got gallon doing what he's doing and you have some of the young guys coming up and it's cool. It's nice to be there and see the corner start to see them starting to turn the corner, you know? It's the difference between groaning and respectable baseball. That's pretty fun. Yeah. The Diamondbacks headlines are looking up lately and last thing is that Joe Maddon former angels manager was on Jason stark's podcast starkville with Doug glanville and he had some things to say about analytics and managers, perhaps not surprising things he is maybe said some somewhat similar things since his dismissal from the angels, but he is really harping on this. He basically thinks that analytics have been taken too far and teams implementation of them have gone too far. And it's somewhat notable, I think, when he says it just because he was such a standard bearer for more progressive managers who were incorporating front office input when he was with the rays or even earlier in his time with the cubs and things have changed and he has not changed along with them and he thinks that they've changed for the worst and maybe he makes some valid points here.
Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney
"jason stark" Discussed on Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney
"Already buster bleacher tweets for a Wednesday. First up, our power Regina Wilson writes in at margarita noir, what ohtani B, the two way player he is today if his development had taken place in the U.S. instead of Japan. No, it wouldn't have because he wouldn't have had a chance to do it. He would have been basically forced to declare by a team, the reason why is a two way player here is because he established himself as a two way player in Japan, and he had to leverage to talk to every interested team before he joined the angels and say, I want to be a two way player. And only agree to sign with a team that went along with the plan. So no, it wouldn't have happened. Specialization in American sports. There it is. Tom Strauss at Tom Strauss writes in buster. Could you explain the changes in schedule next year? It sounds like the Mariners from the Mariners broadcast, like there will be fewer rivalries and more travel, what is the plan? Yeah, I've seen some reaction from colleagues in the media and they're like, woohoo, this is so much better. I think it's stinks. I grew up with a balanced schedule with teams in the 70s would play an equal number of games across the board. They wouldn't play a division rivals as much. I think it works, but this is what they're doing next year. This is from Jason stark's original reporting on this in the spring. Each team will play 14 games in each against each division rival, they'll play 60 games against the rest of the league, 6 verses each remaining team, and then they'll play 46 games of interleaved play three games apiece versus 14 teams in the other league, four games versus natural rival. Taylor, you know, I know you're coming from the perspective of an Orioles fan who has had an unfair scheduled through the years having to face the Red Sox and the Yankees. I'd rather face the rivals. I don't really see the big juice about Yankees rockies. Yeah, I guess on that end, it is a little black, but I mean, to see the Yankees, the rays, the Blue Jays and the Red Sox 5 fewer times each. I mean, that's a peeling to me, for sure, but I get why it would be for the Blue Jays and for the race. Look, the schedule has been unfair against those teams in particular, or if you're say in the same division as the Dodgers, the Padres and the Giants now. I get it. Overall, though, it is kind of it does take a little juice out of it. We'll see how it goes. Corey Rupert at Corey R underscore 12 writes in is Major League Baseball crossing their fingers for an all New York World Series with both the Yankees and the mets being real contenders this year. Yeah, I think in theory they would, but I will tell you this and I don't know if this would apply because this is more than 20 years ago now, the ratings for the 2000 World Series between the Yankees, the mats, the subway series, they were down, like, clear that they were a base of casual fans were like, you know what? I don't want this. I think that if you get truth serum to folks at baseball, in terms of a series that would be really highly rated, Yankees Dodgers would probably be number one. Mitchell at tigers are Detroit. If you had to start a rotation with a young star, would you go mcclanahan or manoa? Yeah, mcclanahan has better stuff. I love Alan minow. He's just a great personality. He is great presence. I just started thinking in terms of trying to build a winning team and I don't mean this like Shane mclanahan is not a winning player, but I like minoa special. Like I just love watching a pitch. He's got the vibes. Last one for today, PK Steinberg, writes in, and idea to speed up the game and improve on field quality, implement a designated Fielder and remove his spot from the batting order, go to an 8 man lineup discuss. PK, no. Come on. What are we doing? There are a lot better changes we can make in the sport. Put a pitch clock in. I don't want to hear about an 8 man lineup. If PK made that one of his patented polls on his Twitter feed, I would have selected shut up on there. So thanks for saying that PK's awesome. I love PK, but I always hit shut up on his polls. He does. It's an option. Taylor, never disrespect PK ever again. I'm not telling him to stop sending his questions. I'm just saying. That's what I selected in the poll. He puts it in there. I didn't do it. All right, that's it for bleacher tweets. Thanks, everyone. And that's it for today. My thanks to Jeff Todd, Sarah Taylor, have a great day everybody. Thanks for listening. Listening, stay safe. And remember, hate and inequality based on skin color or something we need to fight against every single day.
Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney
"jason stark" Discussed on Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney
"Josh and John. Thank you to the baseball writers association, especially the Baltimore Washington chapter, Dan Connolly, Mark zuckerman and Ken Rosenthal. Thank you to all of my baseball writer friends, Dan shaughnessy, my mentor who taught me how to do this job. Peter gammons, the greatest baseball writer of all time who taught all of us how to do this job. And Jason stark, who taught me where to look for and to find great stats and notes. Thank you to all my editors at newspapers at Ukraine, Dave Smith and Marty Kaiser. Thank you to all my editors and Friends at Sports Illustrated. David Bauer, Steve rushin, and Steve Wolfe. Thank you to all my editors and Friends at ESPN. Greg collie, Ed McGregor, Nick Petra savage. And thank you to everyone at ESPN over the last 25 years. Scott van pelt, buster olney and my dear Friends, Carl ravage, and Eduardo Perez. Congratulations to the Ford Frick winner, Jack graney, and congratulations to the 7 players who are going in the Hall of Fame tomorrow, including Jim cott. The day I won this award, I got a text from Jim cott, saying, Tim, we are connected now. Connected forever to a player is great and a man is great as Jim cot is a thrill of a lifetime for me. And of course, congratulations to David Ortiz, big poppy. I checked with the Elias sports bureau, which I do on virtually everything. And we've established that it is the largest disparity in
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"jason stark" Discussed on Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"Got a guest also recently returned from the LA all star scene. Fan graphs lead prospect analyst Eric long and Hagen, who is here to end grant frisbees one episode rain in sole possession of first place on the all time effectively wild guest appearance leaderboard, and also to talk about prospects and all star stuff. Hello, Eric. Hey, how's it going? It was very tempting yesterday to be. I was working on writing day two and three draft stuff up in the hotel as May was on with you and grants and Jeff and took every ounce of self control I had not to just yell a few things. Get on that episode one time. So the effectively wild wiki curators, I know that's very important to you. It is important for me to be Nadal and for grant to be Djokovic. Yeah. Right. I guess that makes sense. Wrestle carleton Roger Federer. I know grant was taunting you on Twitter earlier, which you probably didn't see. No, probably not. We're not looking at Twitter. Haven't tweeted since Marge buddy. Wait a little bit to check on that, grant. Your thoughts are for not if the tanti does not see them. So we have a lot to talk about. We want to talk about everything that went down in LA from the futures game to the draft to the All-Star Game to the home run Derby. I do have a couple non all star week related or at least not explicitly all star week related questions for you, Eric. And one I've been wanting to ask you for a while because we've seen a ton of top prospects promoted this season. It's been kind of cool to see them all come up. And the range of results is really wide. And in a Jason stark article earlier this season, Mariners AGM Justin hollander, who has been on the show suggested that what Bill James called the transition tax basically how long it takes prospects to adjust to the majors is as high as it's ever been. I wonder whether you think that's true. But I also wonder what you think it counts for the variability in that transition tax among players who have major league ability and are judged to be big league ready. For instance, you have guys who started slow, but subsequently turned it on, like Julio Rodriguez, who we will be talking about later, or Bobby witt, or adley Richmond, and then you have guys like Jeremy Pena or Nolan Gorman who hit the ground running and started hot. Then you have someone like Kel Nick, who has so far flamed out, or, say, Spencer torkelson, who I believe was one spot below Julio on your pre season rankings, albeit with a lower future value, and then got sent down recently after putting up a 68 WRC plus an almost 300 plate appearances, so I guess you would expect some players to start fast and others to start slow just by chance, but beyond that, what factors might make someone acclimate more or less quickly than someone else? Yeah, I think the big leaguers making adjustments, if you have a whole or something, there's something about you to which I can adjust and start to exploit than I believe that's a key variable. And then of course, you know, we've seen this sometimes it is just a smaller sample, but you think about some of the guys who have had huge beginnings to their careers. Think about how hot Reese Hoskins was at the very, very beginning. Think about how good Chris paddock was. And then just over time these things tend to play out where, oh, you only have these two pitches well. Now that I've seen you, I can eliminate them or I think I wrote about it in the Astros prospect list. Here's where Jeremy Pena is. Issues are if there's going to be a regression here, it's going to be for this reason. You know, it's a guy who's running a 5% walk rate when surprised me, Michael Harris is running a three and a half or so percent walk rate. They lowered his hands, changed his swing upon entry to the big leagues. He already had kind of a hole at the very, very top of the zone. That's the type of thing that over time you get not just big league advanced scouts, but people looking at heat maps and data and swinging approach angle intersection data and they start to find ways of going at you that makes a huge difference. And maybe it doesn't make a huge difference for the first four or 5 innings of the game, but the relievers that face you start to change and the way you're approached starts to change and so there's some of that. I think that that's a Nolan Gorman thing. I think that's a one yepez thing where you sort of learn, oh, this guy just kind of swings, doesn't he? Why don't we just dump sliders out of the zone and one yap as he goes, oh, well, I guess I'm going to have a sub 300 on base. And not have any defensive value when sometimes you can see that's the coming, which was like the case with yep, where even though he began so hot, his profile is what it was. He's just more likely to be the guy that he's been his whole career. Then he is the guy he was for the first month of his big league career. And so I think some of it is that, but I also think that there's just something about the difficulty of majorly baseball that some of them can't do. Like I can't consistently win on all Madden. I can't do it. I've never been able to do it. I can score a hundred points on all pro. But I can not consistently win on all Madden. It's just too much for me and my 33 year old brain to do anymore.
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"jason stark" Discussed on Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"So to go straight to not the source, I guess, but the eventual origin, the idea is that, well, if you're going to use sticky stuff wherever you have it stuck initially, it's going to end up on your hand if it's going to have any effect. So now we will see sort of a sensual baseball grasping of hands potentially during these empire inspections where they'll check the top of the hand and check the bottom of the hand. And if the players wipe off their hands, then that will be taken as an admission of guilt and they can be thrown out of the game anyway. So this is just another manifestation of the cat and mouse cheaters versus crackdowns on cheaters kind of dynamic that we see in every sport always. So kind of doubt that this will completely do away with that sticky stuff abuse either, but I guess it's the natural next step, right? Is it gonna be like when you go through TSA and you get selected to have them run those strips over your hands to see if you've been handling explosives or whatever it is that they're testing? Is it going to be like that? I think you just kind of like rub your hands on their hands. I hope they put on white gloves. Yeah. But could you detect the stickiness if you did? I mean, this is something you definitely couldn't do during COVID protocols, I guess, even though COVID is mostly airborne, this probably would have been a bridge too far a year or two ago, but maybe now it's considered safe and sanitary enough to do, but I wonder, I mean, I don't know what the way around this is because you do have to have the sticky stuff on your hands to actually apply it to the balls, so unless you really pick your spots and you're able to hide it at the precise moment that you're going to get inspected without wiping it off suspiciously and then reapply it somehow. You just wait until they inspect you. And then do it after that. Right. I mean, if they only do the inspections after the inning, then you could get away with it pretty easily, right? Because you could just apply it between innings or at the start of the inning and then it would be gone. It would wear away or you could wipe it off surreptitiously by the time you were walking off the field. So I don't know, maybe they'll check at the start of innings too. I mean, it's just going to be constant like we'll do this and then you'll do that. So unless they eventually develop just a tacky ball or they legalize some sort of foreign substance, then I guess this is what we're stuck with, but the initial crackdown did work. I had to give them some credit for that too. And after the first day or two, it wasn't that much of a sideshow. Maybe because the inspections were not actually rigorous in any way and pitchers soon found ways around them. But it makes sense that this would be the next thing they try. It just seems like it's going to get awkward. Feel up the players to make sure that they're not too sticky. Umpires with good hand massage skills. Yeah. Yeah. Well, and it's like how do they, you know, I guess it's better than them having to touch their hair, which is the other place or really reach in on their belts. Max Scherzer was not happy about the sweaty hair debacle. Yeah, so if you're gonna do it, I guess this is what you're signing up for, like otherwise it's just too vulnerable to gaming, but it does seem awkward that you're gonna be like, rub it on their hands. Like, what if someone just is really sweaty hands? Yeah, I mean, I guess there's a difference between natural, sweatiness and sticky sweatiness. Some people are sweatier and stickier than others. Just naturally. But with the umpires be trained to detect stickiness in sweat. I mean, that was like one of the excuses that was sort of proposed last year was like, oh, well, they didn't have time to train the umpires or at least they can't actually train the umpires to recognize certain substances and distinguish pine tar from other stuff initially at least when it was just a blanket ban and it was like, well, if you have anything, then you're gone because they can't actually tell because we're just implementing this in the middle of the season. So I don't know. I think there should be a special session of hand rubbing and there has to be like a double blind test or something where it's just like feeling suspicious sticky hands versus non suspicious sticky hints. Non suspicious, sticky hands is just, I mean like some of this stuff is gonna be obvious, right? Like I know that not all of the substances look as dark and goopy as some of the others, but sometimes it's not gonna take a lot for them to be like, hey, you look at your hands, look at all that gunk on your hands. Yep. And you gotta be careful not to get any of the official cerveza of Major League Baseball on your hands. If you're having a cold one between innings, because that presumably that will be legal. Right. Right? Right. Yeah. Maybe for the official beer and the official survey of maybe there'd be an exception made. I don't know. The other potential rule change that will be tested in the miners and evidently already was tested in some minor leagues last year without anyone actually being aware of that or an announcement being made is that second base is being moved. So this is not just bases being bigger or telling players where they can and can't stand, it is a subtle shift in the actual position of second base on the field. Jason stark reported this. And I feel like the story disturbed people. They kind of questioned whether they actually knew anything about baseball at all because he had a diagram in historian. This part of it was not news. I mean, this had been exposed and explained before, but I don't think that people were generally aware of it, but second base historically has not been positioned the same way that the corner bases have. And if you look at a diagram of the field, first and third base are positioned really at the juncture of the lines, basically, like just at the corner so that the edge is at the foul line, whereas second base is bisected really by the base pass between first and second and second and third. And I don't know that a lot of people realize this without looking at the diagram and they were suddenly questioning the quote unquote perfect symmetry of the 90 foot paste pass and all of that, which is always sort of a fiction. So now what they are doing is they're actually going to shift second base slightly forward so that it too will be positioned at the intersection of those baselines essentially. And this will have the effect of slightly shortening the distance between bases. So it was never actually 90 feet when you take into account that the base extends beyond like the center of the base on both sides. But now we're going from 88 feet 1.5 inches to 87 feet even and unlike the bigger bases, which is partly a safety issue so that players won't be as liable to step on each other. This is just to shorten the distance between those bags to hopefully encourage base stealing. And whether that will actually happen in any appreciable.
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"Come back. I want to talk more about that, Khalil Mack, acquisition out here, setting up our number two. Jason stark of the athletic and MLB is going to be joining us in our tutor explain exactly what these new rules are. Don't worry, we're not going to get into international draft pool money in the last coming up. Back here on the rich eisen show 8 four four two O four rich is the number to dial right here. Jeff and Detroit, you're here on the rich eisen show. What's up, Jeffrey? How are you doing, brother? What's my cover? What's happening? What's going on? I'm good on the phone. Listen. I have a question. What's going on with these Green Bay quarterbacks? Because I remember this happened in once before where the quarterback was followed to retire, go to another team holds the team hostage. Seems like deja vu all over again, don't it. It does, but guess what? Green Bay is going to have if Rogers finishes the contract. What? 34 years in a row of first ballot Hall of Fame quarterbacks? Pretty much. You know what I mean? That's pretty good. Three straight. My question to you though is this is so many stories popping off like it did this week. I mean, from start to finish Khalil, everybody, just, I mean, from Calvin Ridley at the beginning, what was the top story of the week? NFL wise. It's Rogers saying that he's sticking with the packers. I mean, we've been waiting two years to figure out what was going on there and it was a year to year thing. The crazy thing is Andrew Francis, it could still be a year to year thing, although Joe banner thinks that this means he's staying with the packers the rest of his career. We'll see how that plays out, but there's no doubt about that. And Russell Wilson is no longer a seahawk, ending the era in which Bobby Wagner also got released. It's kind of crazy. That's it right there. Yeah, you had to wear a seat belt this week, my guy. I agree. You guys have a good week. Thanks, Jeffrey. You take care of Jeff and Detroit always great checking in with him. The Calvin really thing just kind of got buried in Calvin Ridley was going to be the top story coming on here, but then roger says I'm staying and then an hour and a half later Russell was the rest of my beer. Big trade coming that will be official next week is Khalil Mack is back in the AFC west as we all know that that was his first destination after balling out at the university of buffalo and the Oakland Reuters at the time selected him sent him to Chicago, Chicago, unfortunately, for the bears could not win a championship with him, the closest they got to that was trubisky getting double joined out of the divisional playoff round, was at the wildcard round. I can't remember anymore. But that was as close as they got. And now the bears are trading away Khalil Mack to the Los Angeles chargers for a second rounder this year and it's a 6th rounder next year. And what this means is the bears are just saying, we get it. We're just last year, we try to do everything by half measure, thinking that we could get fields up to speed, a la Patrick Mahomes sitting there watching Andy Dalton get this team that could potentially make the playoffs as they did the year before withdrew Biscay as a 7th seed and let's see what we can do. The offensive line was terrible. As predicted, it was not going to be Andy Dalton's year. They put Justin Fields in there. He looks lost behind that line. There were a couple of moments where his Huggies did drop and you could show what he could do. Once again, Alan Robinson, poof disappeared to re Cohen got hurt, defensively. That was their strength, but Mac is now a charger. And the bears are saying, we're just not going to be that good. We need to just get as much as we possibly can in terms of draft choices. So I totally understand what the bears are doing right there. As for the Los Angeles chargers, they realize what time it is, what time it is, is a couple of times. Number one, it's time to win with Justin Herbert right now while he's on his rookie contract. This is year three. After this year, as Kyler Murray has shown after three years, you can start asking for a new contract, certainly if you have shown you are all that plus the biscuit, which Justin Herbert did basically in his first career game. Now he's entering year three. And this team needs to win right now if Herbert is going to force the issue after year three, similar to Kyler Murray, even though Kyler seems to be unique in that regard. But he could also take that extra step forward, sort of like Josh Allen did and the teams like we got it. Let's just do it now. And if that's the case, you get guys certainly when you've got the cap space right now, they sign Mike Williams to a three year deal that's very rich. They bring in Khalil Mack, and I think they're just potentially getting started. They might have a heck of a week next week. And it makes total sense on that front. Hey, it's rich eisen. And my first guest of season three of.
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"Few days, right? With a new league year coming up and he's Josh McDaniels, a Derek car guy, is he not? Would the colts go Yolo for him? Do they have the draft capital for him? What about the Carolina Panthers? And then the Raiders would then suddenly be in the quarterback needy market unless they go and get the Jimmy G 'cause you know McDaniels knows him very well. And he would be just plug and play into the Josh McDaniels system. So that's no way good for a while, and now sticking with the plan. How has that changed over the last few days and weeks? Sticking with the plan. Well, Titan's sticking with their plan are not going away from tanning although they were supposedly on the Rogers front. The jets are sticking with it, clearly the bears are. We put the commanders here. That's their new plan. It's Wentz. We're sticking to it. We don't care if you call us desperate. The niners are sticking with the plan. They still got Lance. The browns are sticking with their Mayfield play on the Giants are sticking with their plan. The dolphins are sticking with their plan. And we added a new tile. It's not a team logo for those listening on radio. And we placed it underneath the San Francisco forty-niners logo. Sticking with the plan, question mark, Tom Brady. Are you sticking with the plan? Are you sticking with your plan to retire? Because if he pulls the linchpin on that, you go to the bucks, do the forty-niners say, okay, if you're talking about on Freddie couple's podcast about sleeping in your own bed that you grew up in and your folks house, maybe you're thinking about it. Oh no, we'll give you enough. We'll give you enough scratch. You could buy a new bed. A whole house. Yeah. In addition. Another boat? Bedrooms on top of it. So it is the plan with Tom Brady. Is he sticking with the plan to retire? 'cause if he doesn't, oh, baby. And I think he's going to see his all play out, he's going to hang out with the fam. He's going to go see the folks again. We'll see him. We'll see him. Yeah, come out the coast. And then if not, then we'll welcome him back to the party pal. That's lurking. And that's the way the quarterback carousel currently looks going into next week's and this weekend's frenzy as we will call it on NFL network. We'll take a break, come back, 8 four four two O four rich number to Dow, phone calls on the way, the next phone call from Jason stark, baby. Baseball. What's going on? Baseball. Baseball. Man stands alone at the plate. We're back. He'll tell us how it happened. We won't get too deep into the weeds, but then how are the changes going to hit and then free agency? Freddie Freeman would look really good in The Bronx, New York. Stop it. You would, he would look. Please, you wouldn't know that too, Christopher. Amazing. How would he look in Fenway pack? Trying to yanking around pesky's pole. I think he's great, right where he is. It's not a you were just such a homebody man. Just a very loyal partner. Stop it. Looks great, right, where he is. When a title run it back, please. Go breath. That's weak sauce. So you have multiple teams now too? We'll talk about someone that I live with. He's got to go home. Come on. That's why it's weak sauce. He's got to come on the rich eisen show and give you take. Of course you want him in Boston. I'll speak for you. Sorry, Sarah. It's all good. Why are golfers usually play a blade putter? Is it the way it feels or looks? Maybe it's the pros they see on TV playing one and think maybe I should too. Truth is you sacrifice a lot of forgiveness to play a blade until aha. The new try hot 5 K from Odyssey has come along and it's built a blade unlike any other engineered using multi material construction tube dramatically increased forgiveness called MOI at 5000 MOI. That's where the 5 K comes in in the try hot 5 K it's the kind of forgiveness you'd expect from a mallet. Now it's delivered in a blade..
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"Agreement has been hammered out and Jason stark will be joining us a Hall of Fame writer baseball writer will be joining us to tell us the how it quickly came together, but once that, I'm just kind of curious how it just came so together so fast. It just proves again. They know what the number is. They know what the number that they're willing to do is it just takes forever for pig heads and alpha males to get the F out of the room and out of the way. And sanity to actually land. I'm serious, man. I've been through enough of these. It's that simple. They all know what it would take. They all know what it would take. And thankfully they did, but now there's a universal DH as apparently 12 teams making the playoffs, 6 in each league and the top two division winners. There's three division winners. The division winners with the two best records get a buy. And then the third best division winner, unfortunately, has to play a first round series against what appears to be the weakest link on the wild card ladder. The third best team outside of a division winner. And then the two wild card teams would normally make it would play one another. I believe that's what it is. I've tried to read up on this a little bit, and then there is a universal DH, meaning hard. Thank God. You don't need to see Max Scherzer hit, which by the way is like watching paint dry. I've done that before. I've done both. And so that should pet things up a little bit. And then I was looking for that whole business that the shift is gone. But it's not gone. It's not going to all but it's going to be in front of some competition committee that's being formed with players and owner representatives. So because the commissioner used to just be able to say, we're doing it and you've got a year to get used to it. And I guess now they're going to be more collaborative to get the players on board for bigger bases and then a pitch clock and then the shift first order business. Get rid of that F and shift. Get the F out. Get rid of it. Oh my God. I don't understand the need for the larger basis. They're trying to save it for safety. Like a first base, but I do ask a Dodger fan what happened to max muncy at the end of the season last year. It just happens once. I get it. But that's all it takes. Buster Posey, right? Then a rule change gets put in there. Bigger paces. What does it matter? Well, now it's not 90 feet between bases. I guess. Now it's like 89 feet. Well, the beginning of the bag is still in the same spot. So the feet wouldn't change with only, right? If it's a larger space, if a base ends here and now it's here, then it's closer between the bases. The whole thing is crazy. It just doesn't even make sense. I guess. It's still 90 feet from home to first. But now from the first to second. The first. I didn't think. I think what we need to do though is we need to stop this conversation here because we're slowly inching into the territory of.
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"Sure. And it sounds like that, how did you put it that requirements has led to awareness because they have to. If you want to, if the content provider wants to say, this is they need to provide this. And can we talk a little bit about the intersectionality when it comes to closed captioning for deaf people? And blind or low vision students that I'm imagining that those two things can work together. It has to work together for the way the dcn P works. But have you found some ways that they help each other out? Yeah, you know, so early early on when we started doing description, which would have been in the early 2000s. We experimented with including the description dialog in captions on the screen at the same time as the narration. And so we literally captioned the dialog, you know, bottom the bottom quadrant of the video like it normally is. And we tested doing the description and in the upper quadrant. And then in our testing, many of the people just were overwhelmed with that amount of text. So certainly providing real-time access to the description elements for death viewers. We seem to not get much buy in or perceived benefit from that. Again, you know, I'd like to say that our interactive transcript feature provides some of that of that accessible the access to that content regardless of what accessibility options are actually turning on in the player. You can turn captions on in the player, but have the interactive transcript only showing the description or again showing that mix. And so it just says a lot of visual information. I think that was the kind of consensus of the testing we did was just it was just so much at one time. Well, very cool. And looking at the dcn P itself, your focus, obviously, and everything that you've said just in this interview and also what you represent that academic achievement is the core of everything that that seems to be your guiding force. Is that would you find that that's the big thing? Is it academic achievement or what is what would you say would encapsulate what's the big thing with D.C.? Absolutely from the department of bed standpoint, we're all about documenting improving student outcomes. So it's all about, you know, is the use of this accessible educational media, improving the educational outcomes for the students who are viewing it. So for us that's everything from are we selecting the right content? Do we have enough content in enough areas in the right grade levels, you know, that sort of thing is the accessibility accurate and of high quality, all of those metrics go into play. Obviously, as to whether or not people are using the DCP content and whether it's improving student outcomes. And you know, I think the awareness side of it is the other thing that obviously is huge for us because again it doesn't matter that you have a great service with all this educational content if people don't understand don't know that it's there. Don't know why it's better than what else is out there. And so again, it's the challenge of working with the content partners.
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"A challenge because part of what we do, the model of dcn P is to secure the rights to distribute the content in exchange for providing the accessibility back to the content partners. So they allow D.C. and P to distribute the accessible version to our members who have to qualify for an account. And in exchange, we give them back the accessibility. Well, it's a big enough challenge to get some of the content partners to even care enough about description to want to utilize the accessibility that we give back. Almost a hurdle we can't overcome when we're asking them to deal with this augmented version of their product that we've extended. And so, you know, typically what we do is we actually describe it both ways. We have a standard version that we describe as much as we can, prioritizing as appropriate and that's what we give back to the producer. But then because we're all about giving the kids what they need, you know, that if we deem that there are these elements that need to be included in the description that just lose that make the video lose that educational punch then we don't hesitate to do the expanded version. Great. And you did bring up the content provider, the people, the organizations that are bringing the content to you to become that augmented version. I love that. That's so cool. That kind of approach. I'm imagining. And this is where my assumptions need to be clarified by you. I'm assuming that those content providers after they've experienced the work that you do, they understand they start to come back more. That awareness builds builds a trust as well as could it be a passion? Do they find that this is really helpful? We really appreciate what we're doing. And now we're looking at, what about this? What about, does it excite them in a way once they experience your work? Yeah, absolutely. We have several content partners that that absolutely describes their response. A lot of them are driven by the almighty dollar. And, you know, as we experienced with captioning, you know, the same struggle happened with captioning on on media across the board, but certainly educational media and it wasn't until the laws were passed in school districts and across the country were basically saying we will not buy your product if it is not captioned. You know, that's what encouraged many of the content partners to jump on the captioning bandwagon. Well, I think until some of those same requirements are put into place for describe content. Many of the content partners just just don't see the monetary value. Now, certainly, again, for the DCP model, we're providing that accessibility for free. And so at least they're not having to come up with the cash out of pocket to pay for that. You know, they're in exchange they're giving us those rights to distribute. And I don't that's not not all of the content partners are that way. We absolutely have some great content partners who are excited to be offering description. We've got one partner that literally has completely revamped their website to support a media player that includes description and they're hosting all of the versions of the described content that we're providing them. And so it definitely is a snowball effect. It's just been kind of slow to.
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"You know what I'll tell you, I'll tell you an interesting story that's more focused on how to work with a tester. That happened to us. And so as we were developing our website and we were testing the usability of the menu structure, how easily can someone find a certain feature? How can you, where do you where do you go to do this thing? Well, so in the testing process, we would we would ask those types of questions. You know, as we were watching the tester screen, where would you go if you wanted to apply for an account? And what we were hoping they were going to do was actually use the Arya tagged elements on the page and their screen reader to navigate through the topography of the site to find that what we found is we were actually disclosing to him the words and he was actually searching searching for the specific word. And so I don't know, it was just was an interesting experience for us because we learned what not to do when doing these monitored testing with them, which was just kind of a neat experience. And so now we've learned to really think through how we cryptically ask for someone to do a task so that we don't give it away. What a great example. And it's kind of neat to hear how that tester experience of being able to do the search has also had a ripple effect in the sense that what you're sharing with the example of the farm animals in the chicken. The spider or whatever. You can now search that as it seems like all these things are kind of integrated in the way that you're doing business. Right, right, absolutely. Yeah, yeah. Let's talk specifically about audio description in the context of education that I know this is only one part of accessibility of what dcm P does..
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"Very great. And to hear about that technology barrier to where we are today, I'd imagine that both the culture of access when it comes to disability representation, whether it's entertainment media, which most of our podcasts focus on or also and in addition to that, also the educational aspect that the technology barriers are being reduced just by the growth of technology as well as the changing culture. Do you see those two tied together culture and technology or are they kind of separate in your approach? Oh yeah, most definitely. Obviously, for us and I guess it's all in terms of what people what people are expecting, whether that's the type of media that that has changed dramatically even in the classroom. You know what used to be a title that you would get from a traditional media producer might be a 20 minute classroom production. And the teacher would use that or it might be a longer documentary that they'd break up. Well now, you know, we're a get it now get a quick society and the clips and the short form content. So certainly, you know, we have to adjust to that. And we've realized that if we don't keep up with those trends, we'll become obsolete, just I mean, again, even though we might be the only the only source out there for this wide collection of certainly described content, we just have to keep up with the pace. Very cool. And those expectations that get it now thing that you mentioned, I'm imagining that ties in really well to the clips and the lessons. I'm imagining LEGO building blocks being able to have this full lesson but being able to disassemble it and put this piece over here. Is that consistent with what you absolutely, the example that I use, which is kind of silly, but is, you know, we may have a video on farm animals and the video talks about cows and pigs and horses and chickens..
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"Welcome to the audio description network alliance, they were very happy to have another bonus episode today we're honored to have Jason stark, he is the director of described and captioned media program D CMP. Thanks so much for joining us, Jason. Yeah, absolutely. Thanks so much for having me. Out the gate can you introduce us to DCM P? Yeah, absolutely. DCP is funded by the United States Department of Education. And our core service is a video on demand service that includes 10,000 educational media items all subject areas focused on preschool through grade 12. And all that content is aligned to state and national curriculum standards. And is distributed via an accessible platform. We've got a website that's fully accessible. All of the features of our platform are developed with accessibility first in mind and so we've got things like an interactive transcript feature. That's kind of cool because not only does it include the caption data, which you see often in interactive transcripts on other video services. But we also expose the description script text. And so for users on the web, they can search through to find specific content to jump to that content. But what it's really cool about it is it opens up a whole nother level of accessibility for individuals who are deaf blind who may not have enough vision to get benefit from the video or enough hearing to benefit from the audio. And so they can take this text transcript using whatever accessibility feature of choice, whether that be a refresher will display or downloading with and listening with the screen reader, have access to that full content, both the audio and the visual. The platform also has ASL support. We recently debuted that. So we have some titles with American sign language interpretation and users can turn that on. And then we really focus on the utilization of accessible media with students. So we recently released our clips and lessons tool, which allows users to take clips.
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"Him on talk some sports But first, here's Isaac Lowenkron with what's trending? Oh, Jason, what's trending? You were just talking about Social media Well this morning In the latest chapter of the saga involving the Shawn Watson and the Houston Texans, Watson today removed any mention of the Texans from his social media profiles. That's again the NFL equivalent of deleting pictures of your ex from Facebook. No word. Yet If Watson has changed his relationship status to it's complicated elsewhere. Detroit Lions head coach Dan Campbell told the Detroit Free Press today that the Lions have white, a few offers her longtime quarterback Matthew Stafford, Campbell saying, quote. It's pretty hot and heavy right now. Are you wear the eye? Not part of the boat. That was just me. We've got quite a few offers. And so it looks like we've got some trade partners. We're just trying to work out the best scenario and see what's best for us. Ultimately. I mean, we're mindful of trying to give him what he wants as well. But he also knows that listen, we're going to find the best value for the Detroit Lions and what's best for us. That's kind of what we're doing Unquote again. It's pretty hot and heavy right now. In Major League Baseball. Ken Rosenthal reports the Colorado Rockies agreed to trade all star third baseman Nolan a. Renato to the Cardinals, along with approximately $50 million in cash. Okay, Thank you, Randy in exchange for a package of prospects. Bob Nightengale adds that the Rockies and Cardinals told him today that the air in auto trade will not be finalized for a matter of days because The complex financial aspect involved Jason Stark reports. Didi Gregorius has a two year agreement in place to return to the Phillies. Mets owner Steve Cohen issued a statement today explaining why he abruptly deleted his popular Twitter account, saying, quote I've really enjoyed the back and forth with Mets fans on Twitter, which was unfortunately overtaken this week by Miss Information unrelated to the Mets. It led to our family getting personal threats, So I'm going to take a break for now, unquote. Finally headed into the third round of the farmers Insurance Open. Engulf Victor hobbling is a one.