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Bryce Harper solo home run gives Phillies the 1-0 lead
"Bryce Harper homered in Aaron nola pitch 6 and two thirds innings as the Philadelphia Phillies shut out the Saint Louis Cardinals two to nothing to win their first playoff series in 12 years Harper homered in the second inning and said he was not going to let this game slip away We're not losing this game No chance we're not losing this game I'll be the heart and soul that we have in this team So we have this organization We're going to keep going Albert Pujols went to for four and Yadier Molina added a hit in their final game of their careers for the central division champion Cardinals The Phillies will face the
Accessible Astrology with Psychotherapist + Astrologer Eugenia Krok, MA
"molina" Discussed on Accessible Astrology with Psychotherapist + Astrologer Eugenia Krok, MA
"There's no room left to have a discussion about sexuality. It's gone so extreme the other way, which is kind of natural because it was so extreme in the other way before that now it's doing this pendulum swinging thing. But this is where cancel culture comes in. And then enters the Pluto Scorpio generation, the millennials. And when it comes to Scorpio, Scorpio like Ares are both two signs that are ruled by Mars and they're very cutting in their energy. Right, they are very brutal in their energy. It's about it's Mars literally the God of War, okay? So I will cut your head off. If you offend me or my family or whatever, I'm going to cut your head off. I'm going to go to war with you, right? So this mentality of the Molina generation, again, no judgment, I'm just talking now, whatever, I don't give a shit if you try to cancel me or whatever.
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Wainwright, Molina make history, then lead Cards over Brews
"Signal was pitcher Adam Wainwright and catcher Yadier Molina start their 325th game as battery mates to set the MLB mark in the cardinals four to one win over the brewers Wainwright pitches 5 inches to pick up the win and says setting the record in St. Louis is meaningful I would have felt weird going somewhere else I'd look at myself in the mirror and just ask myself what am I doing You know like I belong here and this is where I belong and this is where I should have been and this is where Yadier should have been and has been and this is just home for us Know that Ariana and Lars newt bar hit home runs while Molina and Albert Pujols deliver run scoring hits for the NL central division leading Cardinals I'm Mike Reeves
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Wainwright, Molina tie battery record in Cards' loss to Nats
"Alex call goes four for 5 with a home run at 5 RBIs in the nationals eat Levi to 6 win over the Cardinals the left Fielder was not in the nets original starting lineup It is a fun one No doubt about it You know David tapped me on the shoulder and said hey you're in play left today And I was like sweet So obviously it wasn't in the lineup But I was prepared and ready to go I think Louis pitcher Adam Wainwright and Kentucky out of your Molina make their 324th career start as battery mates to tie the MLB record melina hits two homers and drives in three Mike Reeves St. Louis
AP News Radio
Paul Goldschmidt hits 34th homer as Cardinals beat Cubs 8-4
"Yadier Molina delivers a pair of hits and drives in three as the Cardinals beat the cubs 8 to four to pick up their third consecutive victory We haven't fun Winning is fun right We're waiting good with pitching good and playing good defense We're doing a we're doing them all right now I mean right now we're playing good baseball So my dad was a Paul Goldschmidt Tommy Edmond and Tyler O'Neill go deep for the red birds who continue to sit atop the NL central Adam Wainwright wins on the mound the law goes to drew smiley Mike Reeves St. Louis
AP News Radio
Mikolas deals, Goldschmidt hits 30th HR, Cards beat D-backs
"Miles Michaelis Paul Goldschmidt and Nolan Arenado pushed the Cardinals past the Diamondbacks 5 one Michaelis gave up just one hit through 7 scoreless sittings before the D back scratched across a run in the 8th Goldschmidt had three hits including his 30th home run while Arenado provided three doubles in a single Yadier Molina added a season high three hits and scored a run The red birds broke it open after Tommy Henry held them to a run in 6 hits through 5 and a third innings I'm the fairy
AP News Radio
Wainwright, reunited with Molina, hurls Cards past Cubs 6-0
"Paul Goldschmidt Homer's and drives in three is the Cardinals down the cubs 6 to nothing the long ball is the 25th of the season for the first baseman It helps move the red birds to within two games of the first place brewers in the in el central We're definitely capable but the other teams are very good as well It will be a tough challenge and we'll try to go play well and there was a lot of games ago but hopefully play well these last couple months St. Louis also gets homers from Dylan Carlson and Nolan Arenado to back winning pitcher Adam Wainwright who tosses 7 innings Keegan Thompson takes the loss Mike Reeves St. Louis
WTOP
"molina" Discussed on WTOP
"Acquire Miguel berry from Columbus for cash considerations. Rob wood fork WTO sports. All right, rob thanks. Top stories we're following for you right now on WTO and Texas the Department of Public Safety there has launched an internal review over the slow response to the uvalde school massacre. It comes after a report released by state lawmakers over the weekend, which revealed wide failures by all levels of law enforcement. Doctor Anthony Fauci says he will retire before the end of President Biden's term. The 81 year old chief medical adviser to the president tells Politico his team at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases can carry out his vision and a fairfax county man accused of killing his wife Sunday afternoon has been arrested in South Carolina. Police say Jose, Hernandez, mejia, went on the run after stabbing, heavily Molina in the rolling road home back in Springfield. Stay with double DT op for more on these stories and just minutes. In other news, two Chinese American business people have been facing charges in a complex scheme to swindle Chinese investors out of political donations. Now federal authorities say the pair falsely told their victims their donations would get them to an exclusive dinner with then president Trump. They're being held without bail on federal conspiracy charges, prosecutors are not accusing the Republican political action committee of any criminal wrongdoing for, accepting the hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations. Up ahead in money news. By the close the Dow was down 216 points. Got a teenager working a summer job? I'm Jeff Gable. It's 6 48. Traffic and weather on the 8s, let's go to Dave dildine in the WTO traffic set in Virginia 66 westbound year 28 had a bus, maybe a truck stopped along the left side, but delays extend west of there into the work zone beyond 29 toward manassas, where the left lane is blocked for a little bit longer. 95 southbound, they're looking for an overheated vehicle in the easy pass lanes near fairfax county Parkway, mainline will be slow southbound in woodbridge, and at least one slow stretch in southern Stafford county. On the beltway, rush hour is pretty much over in Maryland two 70, good to go from Rockville to Frederick, 50 of the bay bridge wet but only brief delays east and westbound. Baltimore, Washington Parkway, northbound just a little sluggish in the vicinity of green belt, no times are slowdowns noted on 95 beltway to beltway, and in the district in decent shape, riding east and westbound on the southeast Southwest three 95 freeway along with D.C. and interstate two 95. I'm Dave dildine WTO traffic. It's time to check in with Mike stennett at storm team four as we've had quite the afternoon and early evening what do you see right now, sir? Things are fairly quiet. I got a little bit of shower activity long interstate
AP News Radio
Molina homers, Edman drives in three as Cards beat Giants
"The the the the cardinals cardinals cardinals cardinals won won won won four four four four of of of of their their their their last last last last five five five five games games games games as as as as they they they they beat beat beat beat the the the the giants giants giants giants seven seven seven seven one one one one Tommy Tommy Tommy Tommy Edman Edman Edman Edman was was was was three three three three for for for for four four four four with with with with three three three three RBIs RBIs RBIs RBIs Tyler Tyler Tyler Tyler o'neill o'neill o'neill o'neill and and and and Juan Juan Juan Juan Yepez Yepez Yepez Yepez also also also also with with with with RBI RBI RBI RBI singles singles singles singles Yadier Yadier Yadier Yadier Molina Molina Molina Molina with with with with a a a a home home home home run run run run miles miles miles miles Michael's Michael's Michael's Michael's got got got got the the the the when when when when he he he he pitched pitched pitched pitched five five five five two two two two thirds thirds thirds thirds innings innings innings innings giving giving giving giving up up up up seven seven seven seven hits hits hits hits and and and and a a a a run run run run with with with with three three three three strikeouts strikeouts strikeouts strikeouts like like like like everything everything everything everything they they they they hit hit hit hit hard hard hard hard was was was was an an an an out out out out and and and and everything everything everything everything they they they they had had had had soft soft soft soft kind kind kind kind of of of of got got got got through through through through so so so so that that that that was was was was an an an an odd odd odd odd day day day day and and and and with with with with some some some some great great great great defense defense defense defense which which which which is is is is great great great great and and and and that's that's that's that's great great great great so so so so I I I I think think think think overall overall overall overall it's it's it's it's a a a a good good good good game game game game but but but but I I I I can can can can tell tell tell tell the the the giants giants giants used used used nine nine nine pitchers pitchers pitchers out out out of of of the the the bullpen bullpen bullpen my my my guest guest guest rescue rescue rescue with with with an an an RBI RBI RBI single single single but but but they they they were were were just just just one one one for for for six six six with with with runners runners runners in in in scoring scoring scoring position position position leading leading leading ten ten ten men men men on on on base base base Johnson Johnson Johnson scored scored scored only only only three three three runs runs runs in in in their their their last last last three three three games games games and and and lost lost lost four four four straight straight straight Ryan Ryan Ryan Leon Leon Leon San San San Francisco Francisco Francisco
WNYC 93.9 FM
"molina" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM
"The Argentine singer and guitarist juana Molina has always plowed her own furrow in the music business She began her career without even knowing it Her father was a tango singer and released a song that juana had recorded as a Mother's Day present She went on to become a TV star and one of Argentina's most popular comedians but that she said was just so that she could make enough money to really work at her music Over the past couple of decades Molina has developed her own unusual dreamy slightly off kilter approach to pop with her voice her instruments and her virtuosic use of live looping technology In the present in the Lhasa by juana Molina she plays a solo show tomorrow evening at laplacian rouge For details and to hear her live set in our studio go to new sounds dot org 21 with clouds out there right now sunny and 57 for a high today breezy tonight mostly clear in 45 and then tomorrow partly sunny and 61 this trend continues on Friday mostly sunny and 70 and then your weekend Boyd looks great Partly sunny in 62 on Saturday and Sunday partly sunny and 64 told you we can look great doesn't it So it's the rest of the forecast for this week All I wait Wednesday all the way through Sunday It's WNYC at 5 46 Yeah it's morning edition from NPR news I'm Steven skip And I'm Leila faulted More than 28 million poultry birds like chickens and turkeys have been lost in the U.S. because of a new bird flute The virus either made the bird sick or they were cold to prevent its spread Unlike previous.
Origins with James Andrew Miller
'Insecure' Showrunner Prentice Penny on How the Show Changed Him
"How did insecure change you? I think it changed me as a creator profoundly I started on girlfriends with primarily in African American show but certainly feeling like we were a marginalized and UPM CW not taken seriously by our peers and I think after having gone to network shows where I was the only person of color in the room. You sort of get used to like accepting things as they are, right? And going to do a secure with Easter Molina, but that energy of a young energy wanting to come in and take over as I did too, but you're also feeling like you're on the island all the time. Off of that experience was just like, no, we're not asking for permission anymore. We're just going to do the thing and speak up for what we want to do, how we want to build our crews, right? Saying that we're not going to 50% has to be people of color on women. And saying we're doing this or we're not doing this, right? And I just think it made me be much more vocal about the types of things that I would want going forward as a producer, like any other person, right? Like any other white creator gets to say, I want to do this. I want to do that. But sometimes when you're the only one you don't feel empowered to do that because you have to justify or explain why it just gets kind of tiring. So it definitely made me much more assertive in terms of what I would expect and what I want to do going forward. And I think as a writer, I would say insecure reminded me why I wanted to write in the first place was when I read that script, it just felt super fun. And it reminded me when you're in the network world or just the business a long time, you can kind of get hammered or drill. This is the way we do things, right? Or don't do it like this, or do do it like this. We're kind of getting this copycat formula and it really just reminded me when you're a kid and you're like coloring a picture and you might call it a cactus pink. You might cover the sun purple, and nobody tells a 5 year old, don't make the sound purple. You just let them create. And I was like, that's what this experience reminded me of. Like just create. Remember to have fun. That's why we're doing it. As opposed to being afraid to fail or not thinking about the business part. Then I went to go make insecure. It didn't make sense to be financially to go to a secure. It wasn't my material. I was losing money, but it was something in the tuning fork of it felt like the right thing to do creatively. So from that place, it has made me a better writer. It just freed me from the anxiety or the insecurity of a fear of what the business can kind of put into
Dennis Prager Podcasts
There Is No Left Without a Lie
"So anyway, I was telling you about the world of the left in which they live, right? Where kids need vaccines. And where they believe that if you have fewer police you will have less crime. You understand. I mean, it's up there with men give birth. And it's fair for a biological man. To compete in women's sports, these people are crazy. They're crackpots. Not just bad they're crackpots. They're trying to move us backwards said Molina Abdullah cofounder of Black Lives Matter Los Angeles. This is the LA times. We don't want to move backward. We want to move forward. A villa called avant's killing, remember this woman? In Beverly Hills, two 30 in the morning, shot dead in her home. She called a killing horrific and appalling and said Black Lives Matter mourns with her family. But she said officials must not be allowed to use avant's death, or recent property crime to push for more policing, cash bail or other tough on crime measures. That she said have been proved not to work. Is that amazing? I told you, without lying, there's no left. I mean that literally, I swear before my holy God. I believe that if truth prevailed, there would be no left. They are based on lies. This is a lie.
The RCWR Show with Lee Sanders
"molina" Discussed on The RCWR Show with Lee Sanders
"You're laying down the foundation. And you're making the path better for those that's gonna come after you so nutshell camille really rubbing off. Molina the wrong way This interview segment got interrupted by hot mess chelsea green We are continuing to see evolutionary of chelsea green. and she's got the whole stuff sharpie and all that stuff written all over her body the makeup all that craziness. You still running around with that cup. She took some shots. There at molina wondering who it was exactly did molina defeat. Is she ever beat multiple women particularly to win a tournament like she did chelsea date as she beat nine other women. Of course right going back to the whole empower and everything and that interview just pretty much ended that way as may bounce. I'm pretty much just cut it off but one thing to take away from that chelsea green say hey if it would have been me. I probably would be the one to go on and be camille so interesting little dynamic that we got going on right here so on one hand we got molina that is trying to get ultimately we see where it is as going. It's going to be molina and camille but at the same time we've also got hot mess chelsea green. That is just so unstable right now. You just can't help but wonder okay. Where where are we going with this here. Where it will you know san so we got that nice little trifecta and there's they're gonna colli. These world are definitely gonna colli. Make no mistake about it. When i can't quite figure out just yet is if chose e. is possibly going to be the one that puts the screws there soon. Molina becoming in w a women's champion and if that's the case then it basically the The backlash from that the aftermath of that it essentially becomes molina tied up with chelsea green while maybe camille goes onto a new opponent. That's what i can't quite figure out right now so it's still pretty early. We gotta get a couple more episodes in really getting idea. What's going on here but love and the continuation there of nwea reintroducing hot mess chelsea green. Good good touch right..
AP News Radio
Cardinals set team record with 15th straight win, beat Cubs
"The cardinals picked up their fifteenth consecutive win is Harrison bait or Tyler o'neill and Paul the young homered in an eight five win over the cubs in Chicago the young sac fly broke a four four tie in the seventh catcher Yadier Molina and center fielder bait or were part of a pair of run down to the game a double play preserving the Redbirds one run lead in the eighth it was the fourth double play of the afternoon for the cards who have homered eleven times in the first three games of the series St Louis topped the previous club record to fourteen wins set in July nineteen thirty five on the ferry
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Goldschmidt homers twice, Cards beat Brewers for 12th in row
"The cardinals winning streak is now at twelve games after they stormed back from a five nothing deficit to beat the brewers eight to five Paul Goldschmidt homered twice and had three RBIs for the cardinals alone their longest winning streak since the nineteen eighty two World Series team goldsmith said it was a great comeback started pretty small there in the seventh inning with a couple walks at least maybe three us forget how the first guy got on and then you know just a big kid here there and you know the next inning so everyone just kind of doing their job St Louis is to offer club record for consecutive victories set in nineteen thirty five Yadier Molina had two RBIs including the run scoring single bit ignited the cards come back the brewers magic number remains three for clinching the NL central I'm Dave Ferrie
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Molina Homers, Wainwright Wins as Cards Beat Dodgers 5–4
"Adam Wainwright wins his fourth consecutive start leading the cardinals past the Dodgers by before the forty year old now has a record of fifteen and seven after working eight and a third innings allowing four runs on seven hits to help the red burst into a four game losing skid today is a must win game yeah I just I did I just felt like we had to have it well we gotta get split from them in my opinion we just it was just it was just a must win game your your Molina belts a two run home run in Tyler Neal solo shop for the repairs next month he gets his thirty first Homer for the Dodgers who fall two games behind division leading San Francisco in the you know west the losing pitcher has met twice the same goes to Giovanni guy Aigles Mike Reeves St Louis
AP News Radio
Arenado Hits 2 of Cards' 6 HRs in 15-4 Blowout of Brewers
"Nolan arenado homered twice in the first three innings of the cardinals fifteen to four dismantling of the brewers Yadier Molina hit a grand slam Harrison Peter had a three run Homer Tyler o'neill provided a two run blast and a bando Sosa added a solo shot when he pitcher Adam Wainwright held Milwaukee to Warner run over six and a third innings deadly of good rhythm going out there definitely feel like of I'm in sync with with their with them is going to continue to keep working my delivery really tight Freddy Peralta was reached for four runs over two frames the cardinals pulled within one and a half games at Cincinnati for the second NL wild card the brewers still lead the NL central by ten games over the Reds I'm Dave Ferrie
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"molina" Discussed on Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"You've actually been throwing on than sixty six now right. Yeah some pretty torn about this whole thing because on the one hand. I think it's a good idea to move the mound pack or at least that's a good idea to figure out if it would have the effect that i suspect that it would have over a long period because as i've said before it just makes sense to me that you have pitchers who were throwing harder than ever. They're bigger than ever. So they're releasing the ball closer the plate. There's just a lot less reaction time so it would seem that you know you're using a a distance from eighteen ninety three and so many things have changed since then that it just it makes sense to me that this might be a way to change strikeout rates contact rates offense. You know even more so than has already happened with the sticky stuff cracked down in all. And yet i am somewhat concerned about the circumstances here in the way that this was implemented so. I guess we're still waiting for more information to be able to say whether this had the intended effects and also whether there were any unintended side effects when it comes to injuries and everything which i hope and think wouldn't be a huge problem and there are those studies that suggest that but again it's not mimicking these real life conditions so that still sort of We have to wait for further information here. So what what do you think is the next step when it comes to this. I mean i guess the games have gone on and there was no widespread protests. It's not a complete disaster or embarrassment so far but it's also too soon to say that it has actually been a success in terms of the stats and the results. So do you think there is any viable pathway toward porting this over to affiliated ball whether it's in the minors and then kinda working. Its way up the ladder. Or is this just gonna be a non-starter. I'm gonna guess that they're going to give it. Never full season and i wanna notes were added the article or not read the article that is implemented in a way that really did not allow pitchers time which us most of the pictures i talked to you so they not actually get a chance to throw off sixty one feet and so they were in a game and i think that's an excusable and i should have schedule an all-star break like event or at least a few days off received so they could have thrown a open session before getting out there and an environment. So i think that you don't just because of how it was. There might be some skewing of data it wouldn't have existed otherwise and my guess is they're going to you that realize what we probably need at least will season and beating multiple four seasons where we could really make the type inclusions from this data at that point. You know we'll see honestly. I go back to what i said about orlando earlier. It's hard for me to see them taking the sue. Big league pitchers veteran bigly pitchers and having max scherzer sale. Yeah sure bound like i. Just don't see that happening. I think we're far more likely to get the automatic whilst right system who are more likely to get some of these ever fixes at the big league level. But i don't know. I just have a hard time. We're seeing a situation where teens willingly allowed. A prospects throw from sixty one feet next year or two. Yeah that's a situation. I guess like a lot of others where there could potentially be some benefits for the sport for the game if this did produce more balls in play but i guess for any individual player or any individual team. There isn't really much incentive to take the risk. I mean no one knows exactly. What the risk is maybe. There is no risk but there's a possibility that there could be a risk in so if your career is at stake or one of your prospects. Careers is at stake than wire. You're going to volunteer or be enthusiastic about that. So it's another case. Where like an i guess is always kind of you know trying to find some middle ground. Wear the incentives of the sport or not always perfectly aligned with the incentives of the players are the teams. Were just you know understandably looking out for themselves. Even if teams constantly optimizing performance may actually make it a a less fen friendly or interesting to spectators sport and you have to balance its ause ultimately in the entertainment and unfortunately allies is like telling the players well teams in the league also owned in that matthew that mine. Gosh i just saw this conversation about owner whether you'll be running the team as a man and under just like in whatever industry would you say well this individual ryan this help any this failing because they're trying to get the best possible products and also energize consumer base. I mean isn't that the name of the game yard saying and it just goes to show that you know we're in a weird place in baseball history. Hopefully hours of figuring out gained back on the right shot as we look at the young talent you look at the technology and the data. We have access to nowadays. It's really wonderful time via base off fan. You know it's a shame that we spent so much time talking about negatives. Yeah it's it's similar really in a lot of respects to the sticky stuff situation. Because it's something where you think. It might possibly have some benefits for baseball but pitchers obviously were not happy about it and we're not pleased and part of it was as he said like guys kind of going cold turkey at sort of similar to just moving around back by foot now. I guess with the sticky stuff matter. At least there were warnings. There were memos like you can practice without sticky stuff in bullpen. Anytime you want to. Whereas with the mounds you kind of need amount. That is moved farther. Pack them in. I guess could stand farther back. But if the rubbers. Not in the right place. I mean you know you need to be able to practice in that situation. So if that didn't happen here. I think that's bad but it's also maybe sorta similar in that post. Crackdown like initially you had friction. And you had people being mad about inspections but that die down right away you know after a few flare ups and then since then it seems like well. Actually some of the safety concerns the control concerns. Like walk. rate isn't aprio. Hit by pitch rate isn't really significantly up and it does seem like it's have some benefits so that seems like it's kind of been a success for the most part. Even though there were sorta similar concerns about the way that was implemented midseason. So i guess i guess that could be a model a guide for the way that this could potentially work. It's just that there were issues with how it was put in place in whether people actually had time to practice. But you know just kind of you know pitchers are gonna make a stink about these things like probably no matter how you do them which makes sense from their perspective. But maybe after a while it'll just die down and be okay at least in some cases in other cases who knows maybe wouldn't actually have you know negative effects and i think that the stuff situation again highlights the needs to get the.
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"molina" Discussed on Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"And how does that match up. With what rob seems to offend. Yes rick white again. The president of atlantic league said he didn't have numbers on them but when he had observed he felt that there were more balls being implied meaning fewer strikeouts. He don't that ishers had changed. Mitch mix throw more fastballs abrasion boss and again on a make sense because when you think about it basketball specifically highest been fastballs or less likely to be impacted by the extra foot and he also said that piracy told him that league-wide short gotten worse. Civically over those rape walls again. That's the extra of movement and perhaps some of those mechanical adjustments come into play but when you looked at rob arthur's analysis he said strikeouts were up. He said the home runs were up. He said that batting average on balls and play with static. And i think he did mention that about wall. Profile has changed a little bit but forgetting what exactly that entails so i would encourage everyone to read that were landscape landscape of these changes. Yeah i'm looking at his peace. Now he says five dollars or up but line drives are down pop. Ups are also higher. The suggests more fly. Bob contact up in the zone and also accords with the idea that fastballs have been downgraded breaking pulse upgraded due to having more space to move. Of course this is only a few weeks and there aren't so many teams in this league. So i guess it's not an enormous amount of data yet and as rob mentioned in his piece. There some possible confounding. Factors here in that. This is not the only change that the atlantic league made the season. They also have the automated strike zone which was present in the atlantic league in twenty nineteen as well but they changed the definition or the configuration of the zone. This year although that happened from the start of the season rate this year. And so i believe so and i know the pitchers hate it. You wanna talk about suffering. Pitcher against is the automated ball strikes. Eighty eight it. Yeah yeah so the fact that you have these multiple changes happening at once. Makes it tougher to tease out the impact of any individual one. Although i guess it helps a little bit if you had at least know mound move for the first half of the season and then the mount moves for the second half of the season but still. There's a lot going on there and yet the automatic strike zone so we had a couple players on the podcast back in twenty nineteen. I guess it was to talk about the first season of the automatic strike zone in the atlantic league and they didn't like it then either. And there's been an experiment with that in the lower levels of the miners this year to and from what i gathered. That didn't go great either. At least in the first half of the season i think they have subsequently changed the orders of the strike zone which is got to be tough for batters and pitchers to to adjust to that in the middle of the season as well. But i think you know. They're trying to use that to get feedback because if you use the rulebook strike zone then you're going to get some called strikes that no one is accustomed to having called strikes and probably most people don't even think should be called strike so it makes sense to adjusted as you go even though that's gotta be hard on players but from what i saw in the level where they were testing that in the affiliated minors this year like walks were way up. Strike outs were way up. Like everything was totally out of kilter. You know much more so even than other leagues at that level. So it seems like we're getting closer to the automated strike zone but it seems like there is still a lotta kinks to work out in that system. Which would make. Jose molina happy as we just heard. He's not a huge fan of it. But really like i guess. That's the point is figuring out how to make it better but even if the technology is ready in terms of the accuracy in the quickness of making calls seems like we're still a ways away from actually having players be satisfied with the system of feeling like it's fair or improvement over the human element. Yeah it gets back to throughout my article on his terminal progresses. It's the say whether it's always good. And what happens to those. Who are left behind by. I think jose molina a good example of the human costs at progress. If if and when. I should say they implement the automatic ball strike system at the major league level. Because you know. I think emily was one of our favorite waiters and jose molina would not be employed not become one of our players have robot ups throughout the last decade loss rate. So another thing. I was kind of wondering about with this i. I don't know whether this came up in your reporting it. Also one of the obstacles to doing amount move on a large scale is of course that you have to physically move the mount her. Move the rubber at least in some way and that's not easy in depending on the configuration of the field. I mean you have to dig it up. You might have to use all kinds of tools and everything and this could be viable at the upper levels but that would be tough if you did it on a sweeping basis and you have hundreds thousands of baseball fields over the country and all over the world. Where you would have to move the mound. Not that you'd have to do it at every level of baseball at least initially necessarily but did you find out anything about that or hear anything about the actual work that was required just to move them out. I did not buy. We'll tell you that. I heard this story from rick white. It's all me that and soul. Two years ago there had been majorly. Seeing who's mallon was actually ten inches deeper and was supposed to be and he said that no pitchers ever noticed complain. They know about it until they actually went measure and he also said that was shoe of one of the teams that the atlantic league but difference was only two inches so it just goes to show that you know as as recessional and we assume seem so professional that everything's measured to see and then when you actually get advocate measure sometimes turns out..
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"molina" Discussed on Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"It's hard itself. There was fire to the smoke there certainly as a mechanism that would with the players fearful of having to. Why do you think they're didn't end up. Being some sort of walk out or or player's protesting was it because of those threats were perceived threats or the risk or was it because a lotta pitchers just figured one foot maybe. It isn't actually that big a deal. I mean why didn't this come to a head. i think it's probably a little bit of both. And he wants. The pitchers got on the mound and realized okay. This is necessarily the game changer. That we're fearful of then animosity. Who'll off a little bit. But i do think you know if you're a player in this league and now you feel like maybe your career is already being By a thread. Do you really want risk it. You really wanna basically injured career voluntarily and one player socks. You said it was hard to get the younger players on board of this idea because they didn't want to prematurely in the rear you out twenty three twenty four years old before they really had a chance to even avid. So i certainly have empathy for anyone who had to make this decision. The player i talk to her empathy for those younger players and said they weren't sure what they would have done if there were other age. So i think it's a combination of things as these aspects entity. But i believe that's probably the best guess to why a walkout did not. How do you have an opinion about the best way to implement tests like this. 'cause meghan i have talked in the past about the idea of having like a lab league as where basically it's just explicitly set up for the purpose of testing stuff like this and it's just like in a laboratory somewhere it's not an actual league but everyone knows coming in. Yeah i'm signing up for lab league. This is going to be weird like you know. Maybe you do it if you're at the tail end of your career and you don't really have much to lose but there is obviously an appeal to this from his perspective. Because you're getting to test these things in a high level league with players who maybe future or former major leaguers in some cases but it's outside of affiliated ball. There's no union you know so it's kind of exploitative in a way and it is also informative if you're trying to get good data on these things that you can put into the majors potentially without actually springing it on major league players who would certainly revolt. I think if you just did that without testing it anywhere and might revolt regardless. So do you think this is a viable approach or do you feel like the negatives outweigh the positives. And that they should just set up. Some sort of alternate testing ground for this type of experiment. Yeah it's kinda funny. You mentioned what will be players. One thought to keep kept going through my head throughout this process was what would justin verlander. Say if rob manford or someone from the league's that hey we're gonna move the mountain sixty wanted years. I just can't imagine that going but to answer this question. I do think that allowed league would have appeal. I think the key is that you have to allow the players the sense of agency of input. Here you know maybe used compensate better. You know the players. I talked to were this specific piece. They wondered where did the money that the atlantic supposedly received as artist partnership where that money go because these guys are still eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. They're still you know living arguably a worse lifestyle minor league players so if you're willing to use them as guinea pigs basically it why not improve their life. Why not makes them feel like they're pioneers and make them feel like they're doing something important and that just means getting better nutrition. And there're home living saudis. Gosh is not a small ask. So i think that you really asks you a treat these players are you know you're doing lab league street. The persists offense as human beings who are very important arguably the most important part of the experiment right. You know you can't just you can't make them feel like they're less than human and they are simply fungible widgets a great machine and i think that's ultimately with the players feel like that. They have no say here that this is going to happen regardless of what they say or do and that really good position of the end. You know when it feels like the system is working against you. Robbing you of your aspirations. Robbing you potentially l. and just putting you in an unwinnable situation. So what did you hear from players. About what adjustments they made if any after this actually went into effect on august third both batters and pitchers so that actually have pretty clever solution and that was the move up in the batter's box and when you think about it move up to the fire on the box from the bat and boss you're negating the effect that the extra is having on pitches right us basically seeing the same distance that you would otherwise so. That was pretty clever enough. I heard batters. That's that's funny. Because if they did that then that suggests that they think that the extra foot of distance would not be an advantage to them right like that must believe that the additional break that would happen over that extra foot would not be outweighed by the extra foot the extra tiny bit of reaction time that they would get so in a way. It's like it. It almost defeats the experiment. If enough batteries are doing that and so it. The man moves backed by a foot but better also moving forward by foot or some fraction foot. Then you're kind of like back where you started at essent. Yeah i think we saw that. Arthur yes can strike out Strike outs are actually up. Since this experiment happen. So not having the effect. Mlb anticipated asri pitchers though the really talked about adjusting recite lines and it makes sense. Because you know if you're accustomed to essentially aiming were one specific area while if you move a foot bath you have to adjust that sideline relation to gravity and extra movement. So that was the major one. But i know that one pitcher also mentioned the ads to adjust how they released the rating ball because otherwise it was ending up l. to often so i think those are probably two three biggest differences. These players have had suit make to their game since the implementation of sixty one foot now yes eluded to rabs piece at baseball perspectives. From this week. I will link to that as well as your piece at. Cbs sports but rob kind of found that at least in some ways there didn't seem to be much of a difference at all or the difference isn't what was hoped for it. Seemed like the league or the league's perhaps told you that the difference had been what they wanted to rate. So what are they saying about what the effects have been..
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"molina" Discussed on Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"About ten years ago bay area so it's big shoes to follow my bass. Yeah you and. I are probably among the league leaders in all-time words i would imagine not that much competition. Probably things we should up. So you did not write about jose molina. This time you wrote a great reported long form feature about the atlantic league in about the decision to move the mound back which is sort of a joint process just a little more than well. Not even a month ago at this point and the mount was moved back by a foot to sixty one feet and six inches on august third and this is a subject that is close to my heart. Also like jose molina moving the mount back a bunch of times too but not since it actually went into effect in the antiquated. And you have done the legwork here and looked at the results and talk to a lot of the players in the league how this went down so for anyone who is not aware. Can you just kind of give us a snapshot of what the atlantic league is. You know who are the players who are in this league. What are they hoping to accomplish where they coming from. Where do they hope they're going. And how has that changed since this became an official partner league of mlb if at all yes so the atlantic league is i would save a top independently in american baseball. What that means basically is that teams are not affiliated with major league organizations. So there's an endurable situation where the farm seem tampa bay rays these teams exist in the hobby even if they are a partnership now and the players. Go there usually. It's to revive their careers. Usually it's you know players who are aa or better quality a lot of times you see teams pluck replacements aaa level from atlanta. you can. Sometimes those players do work their way to the major. So you know it's considered to be trip. Wear one eight week. The most are used to be considered that. Yeah unfortunately as again into in the peace it seems like wadia. Competition has slipped since the atlantic partner lobby and became a mobile laboratory. You know a lot of new rule changes intestinal atlantic league the last few years since his partnership began twenty nineteen including this year. Where you have the sixty foot mounds you have a couple of d. h. Which basically means that a team the when removed the starting pitcher and just like that there have been all kinds of experiments ran there and some of them had made their way into minor. A major league baseball and some of them have not yet way. But yeah it's it's definitely changed since years ago ryerson partnership and it's not necessarily the better talked to the players. Yeah so about that. So i wrote about moving back in mid march and that was before it was officially announced that the atlantic could be doing that this year. I think that announcement came. I don't know maybe th in the weeks or months after that article came out and this was something that they had talked about doing in twenty nineteen that they were going to implement a two foot move in the mound and the atlantic league at midseason. And that didn't end up happening in the sense that i got when i was working on my piece earlier. This year is that basically. They were worried about players. You know having workman's comp concerns or or having injuries occur and basically that players would not be happy with this change and that there would be a lot of objections and so they didn't end up doing it that year and then they did this year but only half of the distance just a one foot move and even so hit did not go over well so tell us a little bit about what you learned about how players responded to this both when it was announced if they were even aware of it at that time and since it went into effect earlier this month. Yes so it's more than a handful of players. Mostly pitchers are a feel for what it's like to be in this league. Vins experimenting in a way. That in run countermeasure you. Your career aspirations your individual performance and also your health because there's a lot of sixty one foot now and we don't know about regarded to where it goes to your body and your arm health whatnot. And i think it's fair to say that the players are not overly pleased with how the week has shifted when it comes to the sixty one foot mount self. All the pictures basically agree that had been able to adjust and it wasn't a big deal anymore. Now you know. They did mention like similar. Soffer tossing teammates have issues like there are actual effects on each quality men quality. And what have you so. I don't wanna make it sound like there's no difference whatsoever. Just they were overcome those despite some let's say less than i he'll scheduling and logistical aspects to it but what players are really stressed about. Is that yes. The weakest mobis laboratory and they're fearful that it's going to impact the rear prospects. They're skeptical of the study. The atlantic league Asked along to them. That showed that there's no necessary There's no measurable difference throwing from sixty six versus sixty six. I actually was at sixty six sixty three six letting you know. There's just a lot of confusion of animosity. And would i get into ease. The players had actually discuss a work. Stoppage the active labor and and they were kind of scared off of that by murmurs essential backlash. So you know. If you're just trying to summon up. I would say the players kind of conflicts up the sixty one but now by the Stances larger contracts. Still very much in moi's so i know it was kind of murky the sequence of events in who said what and how that perception cut started. There was a rumor going around that the league or mlb. you're both had. Maybe threatened to black ball. Players suspend players. They wouldn't be able to get a job anywhere in north american baseball if they decided to stop pitching over the mound move and the truth of it is tough to untangle as you discovered. But what did you find out about how that actually got started like. Was there anything official or was it sort of a game of telephone that maybe got blown out of proportion even though probably up in the atlantic league may have been happy to have pitchers thinking that they had to go along with this. Yeah so i heard. I heard various genesis. I heard you know one player told me it. Hurt from an higher will meet her from coaches and it is unclear whether either the leaves behind it. so i'm not implicating though. But i will say that. The mechanism declares ascribed in terms of being essentially been playing baseball void on the atlantic league or any other north. American league does sound a lot like these suspended. Listen innocent and i asked the president rick white it. What would happen if a player opted out. And i a business ahead. You players opt out without repercussions he described. This suspended bus mechanism. Were basically player would go on here for violating their contracts and it would not be able to play for another atlantic league team and the league you check on was on our league suspended lists and obviously you know if you're suspended from mlb partner league you roughly not going to get a job in a league that doesn't want to annoy mlb or that partner leafs. Oh yeah. the players were in the situation. Where after a short grace period past with a west to trade felt like the kind of pushed into this although again as the leaves of said liedholm me you know these plans were publicly available and like they were known before the season as you mentioned earlier they actually. I've been planning this review years now. And they talked about moving the mount sixty two feet six inches two seasons ago. So that's basically what i came away with. It's hard itself. It was just the game of telephone..
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The MLB, the Atlantic League and Moving the Mound Experiment
"I wrote about moving back in mid march and that was before it was officially announced that the atlantic could be doing that this year. I think that announcement came. I don't know maybe th in the weeks or months after that article came out and this was something that they had talked about doing in twenty nineteen that they were going to implement a two foot move in the mound and the atlantic league at midseason. And that didn't end up happening in the sense that i got when i was working on my piece earlier. This year is that basically. They were worried about players. You know having workman's comp concerns or or having injuries occur and basically that players would not be happy with this change and that there would be a lot of objections and so they didn't end up doing it that year and then they did this year but only half of the distance just a one foot move and even so hit did not go over well so tell us a little bit about what you learned about how players responded to this both when it was announced if they were even aware of it at that time and since it went into effect earlier this month. Yes so it's more than a handful of players. Mostly pitchers are a feel for what it's like to be in this league. Vins experimenting in a way. That in run countermeasure you. Your career aspirations your individual performance and also your health because there's a lot of sixty one foot now and we don't know about regarded to where it goes to your body and your arm health whatnot. And i think it's fair to say that the players are not overly pleased with how the week has shifted when it comes to the sixty one foot mount self. All the pictures basically agree that had been able to adjust and it wasn't a big deal anymore. Now you know. They did mention like similar. Soffer tossing teammates have issues like there are actual effects on each quality men quality. And what have you so. I don't wanna make it sound like there's no difference whatsoever. Just they were overcome those despite some let's say less than i he'll scheduling and logistical aspects to it but what players are really stressed about. Is that yes. The weakest mobis
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"molina" Discussed on Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"When you're older brother benji debuted in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight and then you followed the next year so it still so amazing that all three of you made the majors and had long careers and i know benji co wrote a book about your father and how he helped you all succeed and yati says he plans to retire after twenty twenty two and it'll be a sad day when he finally calls it a career and and they're no more molina's playing big league game so i have to ask. Is there a successor in the family. Do any of you have kids or relatives who could be catcher. Someday and carry on the tradition well daddy have culpable is one of twelve and the other one is just five That's the only two boys in the family. So you know one of the big play so he could be We know who knows what the future bring us you know but for sure you know It's been a special right for an. I know from talking to my brothers and you know. We never expect to be in disposition. We we know we were hard. But we never never thought that we're gonna play twenty five years society. The big never re always praying. Got just to thank you for having us healthy and and being able to do this for so long and Like i say yati just son. His last year last guns raga have played a lot of years. Hopefully people see it as a hall of fame. Lucy in that way too but you know he He's a special and he had done a lot of good things for the people of san luis. And i'm for baseball too so Hopefully people keep talking about His whole career. Hopefully he get in and we can see each other again out there and the you know but we we are proud. We've proud of An humboldt just to to be in the big leagues and spent many years into bigly. That's make us proud and You know hopefully another family Big crummy Comes around and and and you know and enjoy it while we did and and get a big right that we have. We have right now. But what do you attribute that to because obviously you guys had a lot of talent but was it your dad instructing you was it something about way you were raised. How did it happen. Poundage were the best They still the best Their shows that way to to be care about other people and you know he. He chose the right way. The right way and win you at home when you raise the right way is a lot of things a lot of good things going to happen in your life and and basically it was a big part but everything was at home with my mom that and last thing you mentioned yadi and his hall of fame case and i think he has a strong one and i do think he'll get in and i think now that especially you can factor in the framing value which we can measure and he's been very good at that too. I think that definitely puts him over the top if there was doubt before but you still always hear about yati that there's things he does that still are not showing up in the stats whether it's the game calling whether it's how he works with pitchers whether it's how he sets the defense i mean what are some of the things that you appreciate about him. Maybe you're not as obvious just from the box score or even from some of the advance stats the endurance. He plays he plays the game. He's not in the bench displaying every day and Now many people believe in that you know no matter how many people see that. He's like grind. It's a lot easier to playing in the outfield. That plane behind the play when you get imperatives after relative after relative and add to this somehow you have to come back next day play You had done it for nineteen years. So i mean anyone can tell me whatever they want about. Other positions catchers the mo the best position into planet is a reason why we are looking at or everybody's looking at you said catcher so It's really special. And i think that he Had put it in. You know under map us one of the best ones and And he's done a great job there Did it take a physical toll on you. I don't know whether you had any concussions during your career broken fingers anything else but do you have old catching injuries that you're still dealing with my name. Oh yeah yeah. that's all you have to deal with. You know me and it is what it is. That's Pussy tennis shoes and i know daddy wouldn't regret anything. Benji don't regret eh. that happened to us. We had the play. So that's why we we always gonna be catcher and You know we always going to think that catches the best vision and i. I agree with you there and you mentioned the importance of game calling. I don't know whether you've heard about the new system that they're testing now. Where instead of just putting down the signs with your finger. It'll be like the catcher will press a button on a wrist pad and then it'll get beamed to the pitcher sort of silently to try to prevent sign stealing. Do you think something like that would work kind of an electronic system for sending signs instead of the old fashioned finger method. I mean the only thing that they are Trying to take care of the distilling science. It won't change anything from from calling their game. You just changing from stealing sign so honestly probably health because you know Especially if you have a guy trying to steal signs from second and You know you don't want that happening in a gang. Seven seven or the world series. So if that's the case. I i don't mind if the cooper players do you said well we don't use it is not fun game. Yeah and i guess you know they say maybe it'll save some time if you're less likely to get crossed up and have to go out to the mound to make sure you have your signed straight whether that's true or not but maybe that could help to. I don't know the rule house going to be a hope comes We already so in the spring training. a little bit of what they have. I think it will work for fifty bucks. Who knows we'll see what basil bring us next year. All right well. I will let you get to the game and i really just enjoyed watching your career and writing about your career and also talking to you today so thanks very much for making some time. Jose appreciate it..
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"molina" Discussed on Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"Calling pitches than framing doesn't seem like it'll matter anymore. So how do you feel about that. And how do you think the position of catcher would change. Well it will completely because now the frightening part is become it really will matter now become the part of the other side of the game you know blocking the ball calling a good game and and throw they still you know. That's that's how what is going to do I wish it goes that way. Because i always liked to come throw Unblock especially you know minute at their base To strike all the situation that comes then. I really wanted to come back but i think we are long ways. I wave from from have that so I don't think it will happen. That's my opinion I don't think will happen. I let them pursue their job. Good or bad the job so if you take it away then the game just become more computer side than than just real baseball right. Yeah i mean. I i see why people are in favor of it but i would really miss that aspect of watching catchers and seeing the skill that they have in receiving pitches. And because you were so good at that i imagined that you would be sorry to see that go. Even if it means that there's more emphasis on other aspects of the game you know not to have framing anymore. I mean that changes. Everything in terms of how catchers have been taught and practiced for decades centuries almost since the beginning of baseball. So would you be sad to see that happen. But then today that's what those guys get paid to to do and we respected and whatever it is it is and we just have to adjust of the system and can do much about it. Just have to learn how to live with it. Yeah and you know since it is fooling umpires. I mean you were a hitter to and so if there was a framer behind the plate when you were batting than sometimes there were strike stolen against utah which. I am sure. You probably weren't happy about so. Do you think it it would be better for baseball. I mean it's is it fairer to have a consistent zone even if it means that catchers don't get show that ability no no I don't i don't care what people say about I don't like a robot taking charge in my mind. It there we go we just if we rather not even a baseball and we just play the game weighed. It is and And see how you know daily. Take us so Like i say Before the game is available. Let let them. I call the games and we yet. There were so many cases. I remember watching videos of your career when you were catching when you would get a call on a pitch that was you know. Maybe a few inches off the plate and it was just so common to see the hitter. Turn around and get flustered and get frustrated. And every time i would think up yup. That's jose molina. Doing his thing again was was that satisfying for you. If a if a hitter got kinda mad about a call that you probably wasn't in the strikes. But i'm doing my job. Sure of course everybody's doing our jobs. I mean they go. Everybody's doing the job that they supposed to do. So yeah. I'm sorry human too They're gonna make me stay away. Made me steak you know. Sometimes i mean let's put it this way. What about when both are in the mail and they don't call and not better yesterday. That happened but it happened. So honestly just go go both ways. Man i think you know in this game And you know what honestly what he has done to the basal When people look at frame and that's really important in baseball What is done is just and part. Just concentrate more and work hotter and to it so I really like that. I really like fired that were but up on on on trying to get greedy. Kohl's trying to get the best outta outta the no. That's true definitely. Umpires have gotten better and more consistent over time and one question that i get often is. You can't umpires adjust because if they know that you have a really good framer who is going to be catching that days game. Then kent the empire to say. I'm not going to be fooled. Because i know that this is what he does. So you know going into this with my eyes open but it doesn't seem like that's the case like even if they know that is a catcher who's good at getting those extra strikes you know. It's still pretty tough for them not to call them. I guess just because of the way they make it look. Yeah yeah that's what that's what it does so they just concentrate in kobo strike than and not worry about the glove or anything else. So i think they're doing a great job and that's why they continued that route. I think they will be No robots so. I think everyone who plays works for the angels has been asked about shohei ohtani at some point this year. And i've gotta ask you to because we're talking few hours before he pitches so as a pitcher i mean he has such good stuff and so many pitches but he's also smart and he really knows how to hold something back for big moments and he really adjusts his approach from game to game in inning two innings so i wonder whether he reminds you of anyone that you caught and from watching him work with suzuki and stacey what do you think are the keys to catching him into helping. Him thrive in any given came. Well shows a special. That's the only thing i no matter. It could be the wall behind the plane and he will deal anyway. So yeah. I mean this is special. That's the only thing i going to say. Because he's not other stuff that you can talk or say show. He's a special. What is he like as a teammate as a presence in the clubhouse the best with a great teammate. he's a great person. Gray human beer. Does he reminds you of of anyone. You worked with in terms of his repertoire. His pitches or the way he adjusts. You know what. I can remember reading not too many guys that i had in my life. It's kind of hard to just put a name right now. but he. he's a special. That's something that's changed even since the beginning of your career. There's so many pitchers used you know every game and over the course of a season that it's got to be tough for catchers just to keep track of everyone and i know that you know they have the the little guide that they have on the risks that they can check maybe which is probably something that didn't exist when you were catching really. But how much of a challenge is that just to know the repertoires of every pitcher on a team when you have so many guys who were coming in from came to came in over the whole year. That's that's part of this study as a cashier you had to do. You know you gotta watch videos So you know guys coming up you got to watch videos and and make sure you know what he throws stuff to the guy trying to make in the most comfortable. You tend to be with that guy so when when you are in you know catching a pitch and then become a lot easier to To catch it you know and in the bishop comfortable thrown at you younger brother yadira just signed a contract extension with saint louis so next year will be the twenty fifth consecutive season with a molina in the major leagues. And dating back to..
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"molina" Discussed on Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"I am happy that i got to do it for this episode. I think i might make this my ringtone. Hey ben jose molina speaking here. Although i do make that my ring tone. I guess i'll be disappointed when it turns out that the person calling the isn't actually jose molina anyway. This week it was. I have found one of the few people who appreciate catcher framing as much as meg to sub in for her so without further delay. Let's hear jose. I am joined now by longtime major leaguer and master of framing and current. Angels catching coach. Jose molina jose. Welcome to the show. Thank you for having me. So i wanna start by telling you about when i realized just how valuable a good defensive catcher could be also how valuable. Your defense was in two thousand nine. You were catching for the yankees. And i was an intern in the yankees baseball operations department that year. So we both got to ride in the parade. After the team won the world series. But only one of us got a ring and it wasn't me anyway. In late april of that year yukata game where the yankees shut out the tigers behind phil hughes and some members of the front office were so impressed by your performance that they started talking about whether you might actually be more valuable than the starting catcher at the time where he peseta. Because you're receiving skills were so good and pitch tracking technology was still pretty new then so they hadn't really studied how much screaming mattered. But just before. I showed up for my first day at work in early. May there is an intern. Name alex rubin who started to look into that and discovered that framing really mattered. More than they thought. You were the best in baseball at it at the time so when i walked in people were talking about you and comparing peseta which surprised me because he was such a good hitter and five time all star and was making so much more money. And you know. I knew you had a reputation for being a great defender and i knew you played an important defensive position but i just didn't understand how huge difference it made to have someone who could make pitches more likely to be called strikes and i'm sure you knew that all along but when did you find out that people had finally figured out what framing was worth and started to quantify it and that your numbers were so good. Well i mean honestly. I worked hard on my defense. So that's that's people talk about. Just framing Yeah freeman is a huge part of the game because you cut one hundred. Fifty to two hundred pitches tonight Yes issues But when you work everything And you take pride on everything. I think The whole game become really important. So yes my Was good and and what i did and am my You know framing skills But but you know what a really work hard on it. I work hard on annoying. My pitching staff. I work hard on knowing What type of teachers they have spent work hard on Give them so much confidence that they trust a man what what to put and Put down and they follow it and Honestly you know. It's just a skills i mean. They just had to have the skills to receive the ball to see the bogut. All the way to your love I was a nighttime. I was really quiet. Yeah i don't know what the as comes with everybody's moving the glove If you say my videos and i'm happy to hugh see it yes. I was really quiet. So that's that's the only difference that i don't Especially these days. I see from my cell so I really don't know where that come from. Not from me for. I mean. I'm really happy to knowing by like good framing guy to But for sure not a guide to move the club a lot. That wasn't me. Oh yeah for a few years. After i found out and and i realized how important this west my favorite kind of baseball highlight was watching. You catch pitches. Because i watched a lot of catchers to try to figure out what the good ones were doing and why they were better than others and you always stood out because when you pitches your body was so still and your gloves. Just barely budged. And there wasn't any motion could make an umpire. Thank you had to reach for the pitch and when you did pull a pitch toward zone. It was so quick and subtle. You weren't yanking the ball in an obvious way. So were you always able to do that or did you learn from someone or have some specific way to train that the way i learned how to catch you know that's the way i learned how to catch it just to be steadying quiet. Use my hands instead of my buddy You know the last move you have in your glove the more Patients you're gonna get cold these days. I don't know it's it's it's incredible. How guys tried to move their glove and just think about it. Just how hard to hit a moving target you know we. We tell the pitcher to hit a moment target It's it's going to cost them but you know what that's the way we're going these days i think crown office people like it so We just had to just stay back and let them do their job. for me. That's not a way that i will learn I mean story There's not a way that i will teach. That's not my way so it's up to them you know. Let me work away. I want to or i guess. Find somebody else to do it the wrong way. Yeah and i guess you always had this ability and we're always trying to do that but late in your career when the computers came along and they finally figured out how to quantify this. Were you aware of that. You know when you were with tampa bay or toronto. Did you know that front offices were finally figuring out what that was worth and really putting priority on it No not really. I wasn't even put in tension to that. Because i knew the way a Frame it is still frame and current hundred thirty years so we just the way computers are to this day that they they can calculate it and they can make that up in work for the best. So i mean when when you know way first of all if you know yourself you can that you are a good defensive catcher in a metal whether computers you're gonna be good you know so for them when you when you had that confident in yourself to do it that you're good and you can do it that way then the computer in just for them now for you. These days. this the way they do it they go ahead and finish the game up there. i in. They're looking to see if their numbers were. I know my numbers were good. So i don't even have to go through their right. Yea and what. Your career was kind of unusual in that you played more games and you had your highest single-season salary toward the end when you were in your late thirties. And i'm guessing it's not because you got better. It's just because teams like the race. Who signed you in twenty eleven had finally learned how good you always were so i i wonder if you had debuted later or the pitch tracking technology had come along sooner and everyone had really understood. What a difference you were making. I wonder whether you would have gotten more playing time or made more money over the course of your career. Is that something you've thought about it. I'll never how is you know the less. I think the better but i will be so I know because you cannot put yourself in this time of the where where you plant or you know this new era. You cannot do that. That will be hard for yourself. what you try to do in this new era strategy what you did a couple years ago. Six seven eight ten years ago and because he worked for you. But like i say i mean it's not everybody that wanted to do it the way. He's they go different route. That's okay. I don't i don't mind Best ways but i know my way. It went comfortable. we really works and I wish. I just wish that people start going to towards that direction again because it's how hard is to move to like i say before to hit a moving target and we make in tougher and teachers try to hit moving targets but like i said before the best way..
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"molina" Discussed on Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"My podcast emails have been getting stuck in the spam filter lately so after this had been going on for awhile i checked by spam filter and guess what there were many more emails about this and they're expected to stuck getting telegrams or faxes. Maybe i'll go check my mailbox in a few days. I'll have some letters in there about this so to try to forestall future emails. I am mentioning this dall- acknowledging the oversight thanking everyone for pointing it out. We had frequent correspondence reading in. We had first time e-mailers reading in. I'd briefly considered just posting an entire episode. Just like a one minute long episodes to say hey got your email thank. You should've mentioned the three batterman bump thing. But i figured i would wait it out in note here and really well. It was not fun to get this constant stream of emails about a single subject. Each one of which reminded me that we probably should have brought that up on the episode. I will say that all of the emails were unfailingly polite. Nobody was reading in to say. Hey you dummies should mention the three bedroom minimums. They were all very courteous and people just trying to be helpful. Many people said somewhere in their message. You may have already got some messages about this. Oh yeah believe me. We did although there are other times when people will email us and say. I bet you're getting lots of emails about this and we're not there the only one so. I don't want to discourage anyone from emailing about possible omissions and oversights in the future by all means let us know. I answered every message although i will confess to copying and pasting after awhile and you know we respond to a lot of podcast emails. We don't respond to all of them but we do read all of them and they actually just go to my regular impacts with a label for the podcast. But i get notified a path them the way i do about an email from my mom or my boss so my phone is constantly buzzing with podcast emails about the three batum this week anyway while there was a certain monotony to the messages it really made me grateful for our audience in our listeners. Because all of these people were responding to a segment that was more than an hour into that episode. i think and it was about the most inconsequential of possible baseball subjects. Which pitcher issues. The intentional walk in a small subset of all intentional walks. Were talking about like ten percent of intentional. Walks here and intentional walks. Infrequent as it is in this era of baseball and many people who pay attention to baseball would say who cares rich pitcher issues the intentional walk and yet our audience cares and not only. Are they listening. But they are listening actively an attentively and thinking along with us and in some cases out thinking us and taking the time to write in and that makes me feel good is the only thing worse than not noting the three batterman ruin a stat plas than getting fifty messages about it would be not noting it and getting zero messages about it. Which would suggest that no one was listening and no one cared so far. Prefer it this way. Listener responses are a huge part of this podcast. More so than any podcast. I listened to and please please keep them coming. Just you know. Not about the three batum and intentional walks. Now let me tell you about our first guest. Today jose molina the middle molina brother. Here's how this happened. I contacted the angels last week to invite shohei ohtani interpreter. Epa mizuhara on the podcast. Anti thank this for the request but respectfully declined likes to stay out of the spotlight but the angel say hey. We like faint graphs. We're happy to help in the future. If we can and so i said hey why have you might as well shoot mesh at. Could we talk to jose. Molina for those of you who have been listening to me or reading me for awhile. You know that. Jose molina is one of my favorite players of all time. Which probably makes me some sort of baseball hipster. It's true jose molina is my muse and the reason is that he is the best framer in recorded baseball history and of course when it comes to framing recorded history only goes back to two thousand eight four pitch fx or one thousand nine hundred eighty eight for ball strike data but in the pitch tracking era. Jose molina lapsed the field a link to the spreadsheet on our show page but there are one hundred forty catchers who've caught at least one thousand innings since two thousand eight molina's framing according to fan graphs was worth thirty. Five point seven runs per thousand innings. Which is roughly a full season. i starting catcher. No one is even close to that. Greg john is the next highest at twenty five point. Six they're only four guys molina's zahn paulblanco and david ross over twenty and he is over thirty five. I didn't even have to set an innings minimum and he was still the highest on a framing runs per inning basis. So that means even without being much of a hitter and even before factoring in his other defensive abilities she was worth three to four wins a year or would have been if he had played regularly just for making pitches more likely to be called strikes and some people wish that were to think maybe in a fairer world. it wouldn't be but as of now it is and it matters and almost no one knew it at the time. So i know it's not the sexiest l. But jose molina was about as good at that aspect of his job as any baseball player has been anything now. Part of that is that he was catching at the advent of pitch tracking technology when there was less awareness of framing and teams were prioritizing less and so there were still some terrible framers tat time ryan dome it still roamed the earth and so that made him look a little bit better relative to the average but even so he's a framing savant and he's been a pretty important figure in my professional life in that as you will hear me. Tell him on my first day as a baseball operations intern for the yankees. In two thousand nine. I learned that framing mattered. Way more than i had ever suspected in that. Jose molina was much more valuable than i ever thought. And if you look at fan graphs war right now. You can see that. Jose molina in the pitch tracking era had higher wars than horrid kasahda in his years with the yankees beside of course was a great hitter during his career but once the framing stats get factored in his work. Kind of dropped off a cliff. Of course he was getting on in years by that point to a went on to write about molina many many times at baseball prospectus. The first piece i ever wrote for grantland was about catcher framing and had many gifts. I still have some emails at spreadsheets. From when i was an intern in late. Two thousand nine and one of them the result of this early framing study before there was really much public work in that area said this our best estimates of pitch framing say that a team with jose molina catching instead of four hypothetic gives up point five eight fewer runs per game to help put point five eight runs per game into context. We'll try to answer the question of how much better must be with the bat to make up the difference. A gap of point. Five eight runs per game as equivalent to a five hundred point swing. Ps that means a posada. Were to put up an eight forty in two thousand ten. As long as lina had an opium of three forty or better. Lena would be the more valuable player. In fact tori assad hit like albert pools and jose. Molina could hit. Like jose molina and molina would still be better. I didn't write that. Another intern wrote that. My friend and fellow intern alex rubin wrote that was one of the most underappreciated and underpaid players in baseball harry police at baseball prospectus later dubbed him framing jesus and the reason why it made such an impact on me was as statistically speaking. It was pretty cool to find out that someone. I thought was a marginal backup. Catcher was actually a very valuable player and more valuable than some star. Starting catchers but also because aesthetically speaking. I came to appreciate the skill that went into receiving and i really grew to love watching him work so i wanted to talk to him for a long time..
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"molina" Discussed on Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"I will be joined by. Rj anderson from cbs sports to talk about the atlantic league moving. The mound backed by a foot. Rich happened early this month and will discuss some of the early effects of that as well as some of the consternation caused among players. And we'll discuss how changes like this should be handled and why this particular tweet caused such an uproar before bring in rj. I will be joined by. Jose molina the former major league catcher. Who had a fifteen year career with the cubs in the angels and the yankees and the blue jays and the raise is currently the catching coach for the angels and talk to him about catcher framing and robot umpires and the future and some of the finer points of the position while also talk about his brother and how the molina's l. made the majors more on melina in a moment before i get to. Our guests must for the sake of my peace of find in my inbox. Follow up on something from our previous episode. Have you ever been on an email thread that turned into an endless string of people replying all whether because the initial sender forgot to bcc everyone or because the recipients of the email on necessarily replied all instead of just replying to the sender. It's like a train wreck you can see coming. You get those initial emails that you didn't need to receive and then there's a flurry of those and then people start replying all to those saying you don't need to reply all and it goes on and on and it's the self perpetuating process and before you know it your impacts is clogged with tons and tons of emails all saying some variation of the same thing. Well something a lot like that happened to my in in begs impacts at podcast. Thank dot com this week. And i will tell you why so an episode seventeen thirty seven. We did a couple of staff blasts and one of them was about intentional. Walks specifically the question of whether when there is a pitching change. The outgoing pitcher issues intentional walk or the incoming pitcher issues. The intentional walk and in the course of that step last discovered that over the past five seasons. The percentage has shifted from its historic rate of about eighty five percent of the time. It would be the outgoing pitcher guy who got in the jam in the first place would be the one charged with that runner to now. It's about fifty fifty or even slightly leaning towards the incoming pitcher and we noted that one potential explanation is that starting in twenty seventeen when this shift began to happen. Intentional walks went from throwing four balls to just signaling for the automatic intentional walk and we noted that whereas in the past managers were sometimes reluctant to have fresh pitcher. Come out of the pen in immediately. Throw four pitches out of the strike zone now. That's not concerned. And so we have seen the shift in the rate which has coincided with that change to the automatic intentional walk now one factor that we neglected to mention which we should have is that there has been another rule change that has probably had some impact here the change in two thousand nineteen to three batter minimum. So now if you bring in a reliever he either has to face three batters or he has to finish the inning. And thus there is more incentive for the manager to have the incoming pitcher issued the intentional walk because that does count as a batter faced. And then you have one down only to go now. I think you're usually hoping the pitcher you bring in mid inning. We'll finish the inning. But not every time and it doesn't hurt to have that. I better face down just in case things go wrong. The decline in the outgoing pitcher percentage started before the three better minimum went into effect and the magnitude of the change has been split about evenly between after the intentional walk but before the three better minimum and after the intentional walk and after three bedroom last season was the first year with the three better minimum in effect and the rate barely changed at all. It has changed subsequently this season. So i don't think that explains all of it. But i'm sure it explained some of it and really when you factor that in managers probably should be using the incoming pitcher almost all of the time. Because why not you know. Last time we said well it might as well be fifty fifty because it doesn't make a difference anymore but if you take the three better minimum into account then it probably does make sense to have the incoming pitcher do it. Anyway that slipped our minds. Baseball analysis can be complicated. They're all kinds of confounding factors. We were focusing on one rule change and failed to bring up another. That's also playing a part. So i posted this episode. I think it was about four a m eastern and often. I'll do that. I'll post an episode early in the morning. Then i'll go get some sleep. Then i'll come back. And i'm always surprised and gratified to find that by the time i get up again. They're already people who have listened to the entire episode and have taken the time to email us about something well this time. I posted that episode early. Monday morning by the time. I got up later on monday. We already had several emails about this one thing people pointing out. Hey i was just thinking that maybe the minimum has had some effect here. And i thought to myself. Oh because if we already had a bunch of emails about it by that time i just knew there was going to be a day lose and they were going to keep coming and coming and coming and what they have as i record this. I think we're up to about forty emails on this same subject. That is not counting the tweets about it. The facebook comments about the comment on the show page at fed graphs about it. At least one g chat. I got about it for some reason..
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"molina" Discussed on Zero Credit(s)
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860AM The Answer
"molina" Discussed on 860AM The Answer
"And now Carl Jackson for the sage on the Larry Elder show. Hey, welcome back to the Larry Elder. So let me just share this real quick and I'll say it, elect elder dot com. Like the elder dot com elect, elder dot And that comes so in the L. A Times columnist goes there according to how they're Larry older, Uh, it's the black face of white supremacy. Apparently, this was printed in the disgusting L A times. So I don't know whether the author of this column, uh, that was published today in L a times And actually, I'm quoting from hot Air, wrote the headline. But it reads Larry Elder is the black face of white supremacy. You've been warned. Apparently, this is from someone from the Uncle. BLM movement. Black lives matter this person. Molina Abdullah says that he's a danger a clear and present danger. Um, she's a co founder of Uncle BLM in Los Angeles. Abdullah Black lives matter. Anytime you put a black face on white white system of white supremacy, which is what Larry Elder is. There are people who will utilize that as an opportunity to deny white percent of white supremacy. They say, How could this be white supremacy? This is a black man, but everything that he's pushing everything that he stands for. He is advancing white supremacy. This coming from an ignoramus that buys into Marxism. Do you understand? A German Marxist. So this ignoramus is following the policies of a white man, and she's calling Larry Elder, a white man. This is the problem with these people. They don't want to see a black man coming up if they believe differently than them. What What? What? What's white supremacy? What? When it comes to owning a home When it when it comes to being able to afford a home. That's a white supremacist move like black people don't want to home. When it comes to the homelessness problem. In Los Angeles. You mean black? People don't want to see the streets cleaned up. You mean black people don't want to see people lifted up off their feet and perhaps getting the correct medical mental treatment they need. This lady is asinine. This is from the Los Angeles Times. These people don't care about you. They care about power. See, this is going to mess up Uncle Blm's gravy train. This is going to mess up the L A Times gravy train. It's going to mess up their narrative that America systemically racist. How dare this Black man rise to the top. And become the governor of California. How dare he? Oh, You mean black people can make it in the United States of America. This is this is sickening These people literally. They need God badly. This is sickening. Black people. You know there was an old remember to pack succor. Said this, you know, and it's so true. I feel the same cinnamon, cinnamon black people want their streets safe. Is that a white supremacist moved to vow to make sure that the streets are safer for everybody in California. That's whites a prayer. If that's white supremacy, go ahead and lay it on me. Because I want my streets safe. I want to be able to afford a home. These people are absolute idiots, and then they're going after elder. He made some minor mistake. Minor mistake that we all would do filling out these forms. He's running for running for office. California Fair Political Practices Commission has opened an investigation into the governor. Governor, Toe Real recall candidate Larry Elder. Why have they done so just because something that he had forgot to put on the form The invested. The investigation comes after the California Democrat Democratic Party filed a complaint against Elder accusing the Republican have not properly disclosing aspects of his finances and business following a story reported by the Los Angeles Times earlier. This month. This, according to the outlet, Basically, Elder is associated with a group. Um and and and one of those groups. He derive some income from And he just had to place it on the whatever the petition, Whatever it may be the forms, he went ahead and made the correction. Put that on the forms. Enough, said Enough done. He's good to go. He's He's good to go. And these people are trying to, uh, trying to say he's dirty somehow or, I mean, it's just it's just senseless. It's just senseless. They know that they're in danger. There's so many other things to work on Elder. They're starting 13 things the next California governor can do after this recall. Had to forgotten man, and that's reverse The state mask and vaccine mandates that businesses want to do it. Those are businesses, but the.
Talking Tech
How to Store Your COVID Vaccine Card on Your Phone
"Listeners. It's molina welcome back to talking tech co host. Mike snyder is off today as the delta variant of the cove in nineteen virus runs rampant throughout the. Us we're starting to see a renewed push to get more americans vaccinated and we're also seeing a lot of businesses and governments step forward to require more employees to get the vaccine for example president. Joe biden said last week he would require federal workers to verify david vaccinated or undergo regular testing. We've also seen companies and some local governments. Do the same. Even broadway said it's gonna make the same request of theatergoers before they can attend to show this of course means grabbing that cove in nineteen vaccine card that verifies that we got our vaccines. The question is how do you carry it because obviously it's not a small like i personally can't fit it in my wallet if you have a bag in a purse. Maybe but then you're also dealing with the annoyance of digging for it and pulling it out every time or because it's only the one card you might end up losing it. Fortunately we have something that we carry around with this all the time that can offer solution and that is our smartphone I write about this on tech that today dot com. I offer a few ways that you can add your covert card your smartphone to make the process easier and allow you to keep your card at home so you don't have to worry about losing it. Let's start with the easiest path which is take a picture seriously. It's that simple. You just put it down on the table. Hold it in your hand. Take a picture. You're done couple other things you want to consider. Though if you do this you wanna place it in a hidden album. So it can't be viewed in her library couple of reasons for this if say someone is using your phone and they're looking through your photos they can't see your cova card there but also you avoid that awkward scenario where you're having to find your cova card for some reason in your camera roll and you're you're having to scroll through repeatedly pictures of your family or dog your vacation just to get to one photo that you need to verify that you've been vaccinated. This takes a lot of that issue out of the way and you can have just one album with that. One image that alleged to quickly access it. If you plan to do this on an iphone basically what you do is you go to the share
Talking Tech
Big Changes Coming to Twitter
"Listeners. It's mike schneider here and i'm brett. Molina welcome back to talking tech. So there are changes coming soon on twitter. That's right brit. The social media platform has many new features of writing including spaces. Which is it's take on the audio chat app clubhouse clubhouse by the way no longer requires an invite so if you were interested in that you can check it out but back to twitter. Twitter is also starting to show up a feature called tip jar which allows users to send money directly to their favorite accounts. So there might be someone you see on twitter. You want to pay them. you know. Support them kind of like patriotic. Without going through victory on. I guess I guess i'm not a favorite yet. 'cause i tried to add this to mind. You know to supplement my income and no dice. so twitter's also seeking users to test it's super follows feature which will allow you to charge a monthly subscription fee for extra interactivity and content and another charging option ticketed spaces or you could charge for exclusive audio content. Now what's interesting here is that the company will take a cut based on the amount of money user makes until the user makes fifty thousand dollars. Twitter's cut his three percent after that twitter fee will increase to up to twenty percents on future earnings now. These are moves. Obviously increased revenue as the platform has grown from one hundred ninety nine million to two hundred six million monetize -able daily active users or another description. That is twitter users who could see ads when they're on the platform also in the works is something i and many other twitter's of ask for for a long time and undo tweet function. You ever sent a tweet and then you're like oh god i'd like to undo that will you can't delete it but you know a new tweet might be more elegant Twitter's testing blew a new subscription service. Let you undo tweets. That's being tested in canada and australia. how bad do i want to undo tweets. Bad enough to pay twitter. We may find out also in the early stages of testing is a down vote button which showed up for some users testing the upcoming apple. Ios fifteen now. This isn't a dislike button but sounds more like the upa vote option on. Read it and it's only on reply. So i guess you can vote or download replies on yours and others tweets now. Twitter says it's testing to understand the
Talking Tech
Peloton Making Its Own Fitness Video Game
"Listeners. It's brought molina here. And i'm mike schneider and welcome back to talking. Tech fitness giant. Peleton wants to turn your workouts into a game. Yes that's right. Mike peleton revealed its first endeavor called lane break. It's a rhythm based game for its bike and bike plus models. David tackles the company's senior director of product of product management said in a statement posted a peleton's website that the game requires players to match or sustain their cadence or resistance during a workout to get the highest possible score now bike. Riders can control their cadence with their legs speed and switch lanes by turning the resistance. Knob on their bikes. They'll also face multiple obstacles which are all synchronized to the beat of the music. They're listening to Tackle cities excited at the prospect of games helping the fitness space appeal to a wider audience. Of course it shouldn't be too surprising because we've seen a lot of big companies lately seem to dip their toes into the gaming space Amazon is about to launch a new open world. Online game called new world later this year. Meanwhile google continues work on. Its stadia cloud gaming platform and of course as we mentioned in yesterday's talking tech episode netflix hired a video game veteran from electronic arts which has fueled speculation the streaming giant might also make a play for video game fans. Well there's certainly seems to make sense. Amine peleton bike rides are kind of interactive experiences. Anyway you know and fitnesses made for application you know to keep exercisers interested in state. Of course you know it. It helps break the monotony of whatever. You're a regular workout is. I'm as you know. For instance like the apple. Fitness app has three rings for exercise. Stand in a movie in each
Life Transformation Radio
"molina" Discussed on Life Transformation Radio
"I wanted to make sure that I wasn't going to be used because I was going to make my mark and make my make myself be worth. Worthy live, right? So I I one time, I asked the audition lady. She's like, you're so beautiful. Just keep on going sweetie. You're gonna make it one day and I asked her, how come I didn't get the part cuz I was like, I'm going to get this, I practice I Smiled On Cue. I did everything that I was told in it as a kid. You're like I did what I had to do, why didn't I get it? And she said sweeping you don't understand right now but we're looking for the American Girl look and you're not that. So I went to school. Okay. So I want to just rewind a little bit. So the person who molested say you did. There was there a consequence? Did they get caught or has this? I just need to know. There's a happy ending to this happy, not a happy ending but that there was a consequence because it's terrible what he did. Oh yeah, so because I didn't get to speak about it and it had to be like, put away because that would have damaged my possibilities for the future, right? As a woman as a girl, I didn't get speak up again and it was like, I don't know if like it was a shock. Like my father never found out until like many, many, many years later. But I thought, you know, that he was another child. Another person spoke up. I think it was his own nephew spoke up. And once he spoke up, there were about like thirty other children that came forward and I know that they were looking for him. And I think he left to another country. I'm not quite sure. I haven't followed up, but you know, and not that. I feel good about other people spoke up, but I know that it wasn't in my head because sometimes you think like did it really happen, right? So but but you know, he hasn't. Thank God done anything. Else. But last, I heard, I know that the authorities were looking for this person. Wow, that's intense. So you're modeling, you're finding out that you don't have the right. Look at home. So, how did you overcome that? Oh my goodness. You know, I think I need to stop saying, I think I know life in the universe puts things in Europe in your path. Yeah. So I went to school like as a child module that actor. I was, you know, auditioning on the weekends going to dance class modeling class sitting in class. I'm not a great singer but all the other things I do pretty well. And so I went off and I asked my teacher and I said to her, you know, I think it was mr. Scott, oh I said mr. Scott oh, can I ask you a question? And she said, yes. I said why wage? What is the American look? And she, I remember till this day she took a big sigh and she was like, oh I'm going to have to have this conversation. And she said, why do you ask And I told her I went to a casting and I wanted to get this commercial. I practiced my lines and I was I smiled. Perfect. My dimples were out and I didn't get the part and they said it was because of this. And she said, you know, she explained to me what characters were. And I'll tell you very briefly because I don't know how much time we have. But she said, first of all, she explained to me that well in school, you wear uniform, and you're a student, right? When you're outside at a party, you wear a dress in your, the party girl. When you're at a casting, you wear uniforms. So you're different people and sometimes that doesn't always show me everywhere..
Pop Culture Leftovers
"molina" Discussed on Pop Culture Leftovers
"Can't we go the garfield one. I'm the one fucking shirtless. Jay traits the swaddled with this goddamn v neck shirt folk. Oh my god. I don't know i can get this story out. I'm so sorry. Oh my word story basically confirming that is going to be in the yes. Yes yes so. We can also basically take this story as confirmation. That jamie fox will in fact return electrodes. Well so probably a couple more like the fact that they're letting this out of the bag means they still got some big surprises for us. Yeah maybe gambit shows up as channing. Tatum tries to wrap his. He's got no odin fight. Talk so sorry. i'm so sorry winkler. You're so quiet now. What is going on in your head brown. Have this snort thing. When i last interest and i can't wait for fucking semi-dry chicken to post the spoilers about. That's what i was thinking. Oh my god all right guys. That's all i got. I don't know any thoughts. I don't know. I don't know any thoughts on this. I mean excited about. Alfred molina different. Thank you thank you very excited about me was so fucking good in spider man two. I loved him in spider man to a loved his portrayal. I just think alpha molina's this is a talented actor. Alfred molina also in indiana jones movies in in in the first one yeah very very small role but yeah i just i think he's a very talented actor. I think he's just a really awesome. Human being. He sent a letter like really cool stuff in his. You know his real life and excited for this. You know the jenin. Kate himself is just icing on the cake. I mean if he's really does walking around with no shirt on trying to wrap his chicken a shirt. I mean i'm just thinking about like about like all of alfred molina's appearances in every movie. And then chang just showing up his dick thinking about like molina seen in boogie nights guys. Throwing firecrackers man happens in saga la..