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"WBC news time is coming up on 6 O 6. I'm bob Brown, remember the news never stops at WABC radio dot com. Talk radio 77 I love you baby he's here. Now broadcasting from the underground command post. Deep in the bowels of a hidden bunker somewhere under the brick and steel of a non district building. We have once again made contact with our leader Mark. Love him. Tell American Mark
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
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"Name, Michael eisen dot org, I believe you have a blog, right? Yes. It is not junk, which is it says a blog about genomes, DNA, evolution, open science, baseball, and other important things. So it is a baseball blog. And you're on Twitter at MBI. That's EIS EN. Anything else you care to promote while we have you? No, that's great. All right. Well, thank you for being our Mike Trout to your Patreon supporter. Thank you very much for having me. It was great. All right, here is the past blast, which comes to us from 1981 and from David Lewis and architectural historian and baseball researcher based in Boston and David writes 1981 baseball is a public good. In 1981, a Major League Baseball lockout sparked by owner's demanding compensation for players lost to free agency led to a nearly two month stoppage in gameplay, fans and sports writers alike were eager for a less greedy system of ownership one that promoted the enjoyment and experience of the game of baseball over profit margins. As told in a July 9th, 1981, UPI article, the system could be found in vesali, California, where the class a vesala oaks of the California league were owned and operated by the city. According to Visalia assistant city manager dick Anthony, the goal was to get professional baseball back to the community. The only goal was that ownership should be local. We solved that goal, we happened to be the owners. The city was left without a team in 1974 after a mets affiliate departed, but play resumed in 1977 when the city purchased a franchise affiliated with the Minnesota Twins for $14,000. The article reports that the twins paid for player salaries and some additional expenses, while the city funded transportation equipment and stadium costs at the time the article was written, the city had owned the team for 5 seasons and had lost just $8000 on the endeavor. Anthony continued on explaining that the ball club was financially positive for the city. We brought in three quarters of a $1 million from the Minnesota Twins in the past 5 years. That's money in salaries and expenses that came from Minnesota to the local community. There's also food and lodging expenses for visiting teams if we can get credit for the sales tax and bed tax revenues we've generated, where more than making it. Of course, so we know that sometimes arguments about municipality is raking in money based on ballpark funding, et cetera can be pretty dodgy. So I don't know if this meth checked out either, but this is a little different, at least the city was owning the team as opposed to just ponying up money for a team that owns itself and just reaps the rewards. It does seem importantly different. Yes. And David continues as of the time the Eric was written, the oaks had an average attendance of 629 fans per game as the article pointed out. That was a lot more than the zero that locked out major League clubs were seeing. The oaks now known as the vesala rawhide still play in town as an affiliate of the Arizona Diamondbacks. However, they are no longer owned by the city. David said I did a quick search and couldn't pin down exactly when the city sold the team. They were most recently sold in 2019 and articles from that sales state that the previous owners also not the city had owned the team for 18 years. The twins affiliation ended in 1992, so perhaps that could have been when they were sold, but he wasn't sure he said he did some additional digging and found out that the city of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, but the double-A senators in 1995 to stop relocation and owned the team until 2006. They similarly stressed the importance of keeping the team in town. So yeah, there have been examples of this in the miners in indie ball and college leagues, et cetera, obviously in other sports too with prominent teams in major leagues that are owned by some locality. So occasionally, we will get a question about that sort of ownership model. But this was one case when at least for a little while it seemed to be working out in one town for one team. Yeah. All right, just to remind everyone, we are soliciting submissions for a theme song. You heard the first entry at the top of today's show and it's a good one sent to us by listener Andy Ellison, who works as a studio musician in Nashville, and it shows he's a dab hand with the pedal steel and the lap steel and the dobro. I love a good pedal steel and a descending chord progression. So this is right up my musical alley, a strong start, and just like Andy submission, figure about one minute of music, maybe 30 seconds of lyrics and then an instrumental portion that can go under our podcast intro. So you have maybe a couple more weeks, we're hoping to find something by the end of this month and we'll play listeners submissions and hopefully find one that we like Aladdin could make a permanent solution for the show. So we look forward to whatever you come up with. Also, one small correction last time we did our usual team preview podcast trivia. We asked an insert various questions about players who had played for both the rays and the tigers, the two teams we were previewing on that episode. One of the trivia answers was, however, incorrect. We said that the first pitcher to have pitched for both the rays and the tigers was Julio Santana. In fact, it was Eddie gaillard, who made his debut for the devil rays on April 21st, 1998, he had pitched briefly for the tigers, the preceding year, so he was first and he was followed soon after that by Scott aldred apologies for the mix up there and finally, we got a message from our pal Dan Brooks, who's one of the organizers of saber seminar, which is going to be back this summer after a hiatus that lasted for a few years because of the pandemic. This is the sabermetric scouting and the science of baseball event. It is scheduled for August 12th to 13th this summer and it's actually going to be in Chicago. It's been in Boston in the past, but I have enjoyed attending and Dan wanted us to pass along that their info about scholarships is now posted as well, link to that on the show page and if you're a student and you give a talk, then you can attend for free. Dan also asked us to note that the submission portal for papers and presentations and talks is open now to abstracts must be submitted by May 15th. So I will link to the info and the forms on the show page, do check it out if you have some baseball research to share. And if you want to be like Michael eisen and support effectively wowed on Patreon, you can do that by going to Patreon dot com slash effectively wild. And the following 5 listeners have already signed up and pledged some monthly or
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
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"The Yankees traded for mccutcheon after he was past his MVP period, but what if he was MVP mccutcheon and he wouldn't agree to a trade or report to the team unless they let him keep his hairstyle would they really say no, the policy is more important than a superstar player. They're always saying they want to win the World Series and every season to bust unless they get a ring, so at some point the way to walk the walk and back up that talk would be to retire the policy. If it deprives you of a player who could help you win. Do you think that they care that this forecloses the possibility of certain collective superstitious things like we're going to grow beards for the whole playoffs or until the winning streak is over and has this impacted Yankees recent performance? Yeah, you can't have playoff beards. Right. So this seems like maybe this explains their trout. We could convince the Yankees fans of the world that this is true. They could turn on the policy. Do we know what the sanction is for violating it? Just not being played fine. I'm trying to remember whether anyone has taken it down to the wire and really made a serious threat held themselves out of the lineup or anything. I mean, there are definitely players who have not been happy about it, but I'm there may have been some case where someone really made a major stink of it, but there's just such a peer pressure, I guess, and just always a pressure with management and labor and everything. And so I guess for most people, it's not important enough. But what if you're one of these players who's been like curating a beard for years and waxing it and doing whatever one does to a beard and you're proud of your beards and you didn't opt in to this policy, you were just traded there. I think it would the first superstar to just refuse to do it. I think that would be the end of it. Remember when Miguel Castro got traded from the mets to the Yankees and cut not only had to shave the beard, but he got his dreads off. Yeah, yeah. I feel like it's shocking to me it hasn't happened already, but at some point, it really seems like they will get sued over this. Like it just feels like maybe not for those castros, maybe not a great example of that, but at some point, it feels like this will lead to litigation. So what if they got out ahead of it? And we're like, you know what? We understand that to be a Yankee. Also, Ben, just resent Yankees hole as a phrase that you uttered terrible. Really bad. But they could say, look, we understand that being a Yankee means a lot of things and what you have on your face or on your head doesn't undermine any of those things. You can personify that Yankee's way of life and they could do a whole thing about it. They have an opportunity to be like, you know, this is outdated. We're moving into a new era of Yankees baseball. We think that we want our understanding of what it means to be a Yankee to evolve past what it was when this policy was originally put in place. Or they could wait until somebody makes it a problem for them and then they're
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
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"Yeah, well, I think it's already quite uncommon and wasn't there a hidden ball trick success this spring. I feel like it was described as one in some places, but it was like, it was a deck, I think it was not really a hidden ball trick. So there hasn't been one that meets my definition at least for a while. Yeah, Freeman's right. I guess it's going to get even harder. There are those times when the pitcher comes over to play and fields a ball at first and they might be some sleight of hand that takes place in those circumstances, but you never know. All right, Jake, Patreon supporter says, I am in an old person baseball group, mostly for the opportunity to argue. One of my fellow old men made a casual remark about the 1989 season as back when games were always close. While obviously it's just nostalgia that they were always close, I feel like there was once a step last about whether or not baseball games were more likely to be close, one to two run different, say, plus extra innings or less likely to be blowout, 7 plus runs, let's say. I also believe you attempted a definition of the word blowout once does this discussion exist somewhere. We're baseball games once closer did the sun also shine brighter and we're dogs fur softer or were we all just once 12? So that's definitely part of it, but it is true in general that when baseball games are lower scoring, they are also closer. So yeah, relative to the peak of the PD era, let's say, or the more recent juiced ball era, games were typically closer in the late 80s, let's say after the 1987 rabbit ball year than they are now. So I think that is true. That is a closer and runs are in wind probability. Closer. I think yeah, right, it's true when there is a higher scoring era being down by more runs it's not the same as when it's a lower scoring era and you could come back more easily. So that is also a factor. But I think it is true that games are closer and also that comebacks, I think, are a little less common now to even given the same score difference, not just because of scoring, but also because late inning pitchers are more effective. I mean, we have good bullpens now in pictures aren't left in as long. So rap means has written about this at BP and Sam wrote about it as well, some years ago. And I think it's generally true that games were closer and also maybe that comebacks are harder now, but it's not like an enormous difference. And it's just because it's largely a function of just the scoring environment. So it's not like back in the old days in a way that we couldn't easily recapture or now that scoring was lower last season, let's say, with the ball being debtor and everything, then probably it was kind of true last season two relative to a few seasons ago. So it's always fluctuating. Is it true if you control for the sorry science gear? Sure, if you control for the talent differential between the teams. But if you take equally matched teams, our comebacks slash two different or is it a different variance and talent? That's true too. Yeah, in recent years, there have been bigger mismatches. There's kind of been a stratification in the league where you've had a bunch of hundred plus wind teams and a bunch of hundred plus teams and so you have more matchups of unequal talent and therefore you would be more likely not to have a comeback in that kind of game too. So that's true also. Almost could just do a live stop last year, but it's probably take a little bit too long. People start thinking dogs are less soft as they get
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"And well, in this analogy, I would assert that there are some baseball players who are just having to be really good baseball players and don't necessarily have the like, ah, about baseball. It's a strain in LG admittedly. And she had a bad situation, but it's a great movie. Everyone should watch it. I mean, great is, well, so anyway, it's very good though. And so I think there are baseball players who look at baseball as a job, you know, and they like doing it because you have to do it a lot. And so they can't hate it. But they don't have the baseball nerd reputation that some players do, because they're really good at it, but it's a job, and they want to do other stuff. Why am I talking about this? But in general, I think that most baseball players who reach the big leagues are there because they have a great passion to do the thing and they really want to win and they've wanted to win for a long time and that has motivated them through the trials and tribulations of rising through the minor leagues and reaching the bigs and then having to endure this gauntlet of a season that we put them through every year. And I want to reject the idea that the willing to cheat among them are like of a particular class of want. Because we have a weird relationship with cheating in baseball and there are degrees of it and I think there's some of it as we've talked about that we tolerate. Another things that we don't, but I want us to be able to draw the line of moral consequence around the stuff that is particularly egregious and not say, well, I wanted it more because you know, that puts us in weird territory. That notwithstanding, do we think that players are more likely to cheat for a good team than for a bad team? That is the desire to get that win. More important if you don't get many of them versus if you are more valuable? Well, I think it probably changes your calculus around potential consequences, right? Because if you're on a really bad team, let's pick a really bad team. I don't want to pick the ace because that's on generous to our guests. Let's say that you remember of the Cincinnati reds, okay? Your cheating might bring you a thing that you don't necessarily think you're going to have in abundance, which are wins, but also the potential consequences for being caught cheating are really high and the payoff is relatively low. You're not going to win a World Series by cheating. You might not even make the playoffs based on that. You'd have to all be in cahoots, right? You'd all have to cheat and you'd have to be really good at the cheating. And then not have anyone notice. And I think that if you're evaluating the potential consequence versus reward, maybe you're maybe you're really unrealistic about how effective the cheating would be. And so you deem it worth worthy of doing despite the potential consequence. But I suspect that the greatest incentive to cheat is on teams that are already very good in the idea that it might sort of push them even marginally toward a World Series when as opposed to, again, the reds. I'm not saying the reds are cheating. Bet on the reds and ace games. Yeah. Ruby, you'll know you're getting an honest and honest and honest wager. You might be, you might have, and here I'm going to just stay entirely away from naming a team. If you're on a crummy team, are you more likely to throw games to intentionally lose 'cause you think no one will notice? Probably, right? Or it would just be easier to lose just because you're more likely to lose to be good with. But yeah, I think you're right. I think that attitude that at least the esters seem to have of just exploiting every edge and just trying to be constantly on the cutting edge and extract every when you can. It's probably harder to have that mindset when you're bad and you just know that that extra wind is going to get you for 60 wins to 61 or something. It's kind of hard to have that attitude. I would think probably. But I want the lens of what you were saying, but I think you could say, yeah, that maybe someone who cheats is not actually less likely to be involved in match fixing and in game throwing that maybe those things could even go together because if you've decided that you are already going to do something to disrupt the competitive integrity of the game by cheating for some sort of personal gain, whether it's improving your own stats or I guess the teams collectively, which you're still benefiting from and participating in. If you've already decided, well, it's more important to do better in some ways than to make sure this is all on the level and above board, then maybe it's a smaller leap from that to, well, I'm just going to enrich myself financially by throwing this game. Who knows, I'm not saying they have to go hand in hand. But it's not necessarily the case that they would go, I don't know whatever the opposite of hand in hand is just no hints touching at any time. So I think that's probably not even something that we could console ourselves with and say, well, at least they really want to win. That's why we have cheating. All right, question from Raymond, the hidden ball trick relies on the runner losing track of the ball, but with the pitch clock starting when the pitcher receives the ball, runners can just stay on the base until they see the timer start ticking. It seems that, like intentional walk wild pitches, the hidden ball trick may be another baseball rarity that becomes a casualty of recent rules changes. So as we have discussed and lamented, it seems like the hidden ball trick is already a rarity, but Raymond's saying if it's already in danger, maybe it's just extinct because you can't really just hold onto the bow and definitely anymore and you can just use that as a tip off if you're a runner and you see that the pitch clock hasn't started yet. Who triggers the pitch clock? The pitcher getting the ball back. But who makes that decision? Is that because you could easily fool them as well, right? Well, does the empire, the empire is supposed to indicate it, I think. Right, but if you fool the umpire and you fake a throw back to the pitcher and you fool the umpire to start the pitch clock, then can the runner the runner appeal because they were counting on the pitcher having the ball because the pitch clock started. If you could do that and eke out extra time, then I guess that would be another advantage to trying the hidden ball trick, even if the hidden ball trick didn't work, then you'd get extra time on the clock for your picture to recover, but I don't know if you could get away with that. I mean, hopefully the umpires paying close enough attention and the pitch clock timer person is big, because the runner is fooled because he's not looking at the Fielder, right? So if you're looking directly at the person, it's hard to be fooled. If they fake a throw and you don't see the ball go, then that's a pretty good indicator. So usually when the runner is fooled, it's because they have their back turned, they didn't see it. They just assumed. So their fallible people too. Yeah, everyone's fallible. It's true. They are fallible, although I will say that umpires do have a fair amount of discretion within the current rule structure to call a violation if they deem that there is an attempt to obfuscate the whole process. So if you were doing that and the umpire realized it, I think they would assess you on automatic ball for trying to get around the pitch clock. Would you be getting around the pitch clock though? I mean, the assumption that they would they would reset it once you threw the ball back, I guess, but I don't know.
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
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"Sometimes it can be just the opposite. But as you were saying with Otani, it's like how do you follow that for me? It's hard to get as excited about any prospect because, well, they don't do what ottati does, but if they were kind of like that, like if every player ohtani esque in some way and that was the previous generation of players and then the players now were not as good. And you felt like, well, everything that a player could possibly physically accomplish has already been accomplished and now it's just a slow decline from there, then that would be a bummer, I think. It's more exciting to feel like they're getting bigger and faster and stronger and they're developing new powers and so I have to keep watching because there might be something new that we've never seen before. Also just related to what we were talking about with the talent pool. I'd refer people to episode 1954 when we talked to Adrian Burgos and Daniel eck about their method for calculating the talent pool in the league at any particular time and how it seems to have risen over time, although they have also accounted for the fact that baseball may not be quite as popular leak wide or country wide. And so that might lead fewer people to get into baseball, which could offset the greater number of countries participating and people allowed to participate, et cetera, et cetera. You'll be unsurprised to know that I downloaded their papers. And that's what prompted me to think of a different fundamentally different way of asking that question, which I will try to do someday because I thought it was a little wanting. All right, here is a question from Patreon supporter Peter in LA. Hearing the recent discussion on episode 1976 about finding more collaboration between pitchers and catchers, given the likely changes with. Here my idea out, Tinder for pitches. Both the pitcher and the catcher have a device on their arm that shows them various pitches and they can either swipe right or swipe left. Once they both sides swipe right on the same pitch, it is clearly agreed upon and both parties will proceed to their date, the ball being thrown. Of course, this is probably an awful idea, would take way too long, Edward probably somehow become worse than any dating app, but just want to throw out the possible option. This is not answering that question, but Ben Clemens recently published a piece of fangraphs about four player crushes he has based on a presentation he did at the saber research conference recently and he messaged me to say that he was quite pleased that the majority of the comments were just people discussing how hot certain players and so I agree that this would take too long and that it seems like have a pretty reasonable mechanism for sorting this stuff out now. But I do like us advancing the idea of sort of respectful longing having a bigger place in baseball. You know, you don't want to make anyone comfortable and you want everybody to be having a good time. So respectful, but you know we should have room for longing. That sounds better than horniness, but sure. Do we think that pitchers are routinely throwing a pitch they don't want to be throwing? You know, I guess there's an assumption there, but with the inverse and things like that, I don't think you need a you need to have them both paging through options. It's sort of one of them proposes and the other shakes their head, even if they have only one pitch in mind, you get to the right answer pretty quickly. I'm sure there are times, let's say either time pressure with the pitch clock or maybe in the past when the pitcher didn't have the option to call pitches themselves, so maybe they felt pressured to go along if there were younger and you have an established catcher back there. Maybe you're under pressure to follow their lead. I know that when the pitcher doesn't have full conviction in the pitch that's put down there that maybe that could set the quality somehow. And I would guess that it would be an added boost of confidence if you in the catcher both decided on the same pitch if you both swiped right on the same thing, then it'd be like, all right, we're both on the same page here and you know that the other person isn't just going along with it because you put down the sign or something, right? They independently decided that that would be the best idea. So I guess that would be a nice little jolt of reassurance. But you're right. I think probably for the most part, there are already throwing the pitch they want to throw and usually both parties are on the same page or reasonably close to it. It's the pitch calm data being logged. Yeah, I wonder about that. That's a good question. Not publicly, obviously, but I do wonder whether there's even an impression that has retained whether that's stored in memory somewhere I could see maybe them not wanting it to be. But it would be interesting day to analyze if so. For sure. Well, and now that can operate in the other direction, where in theory a pitcher could call his own game, if there's, if there's a lot of disagreement, I think you just get a guy who goes rogue and says, this is a bad match on a more fundamental level and swipes. What direction do you swipe on you? I don't even know. I don't even know anymore. You swipe. That's all I know. It's a good one, I think. I don't know. I don't know. I don't miss that at all. I have to assume that there are teams that pay attention to this. This seems like a very raise. Oh, sure. Thing to track. So I assume that even if it's not coming directly from that they're. Well, and I would imagine that, you know, it's sort of, it's the kind of thing that I would expect the catcher in the picture and the pitching coach and the manager to talk about fairly often. If you're standing there in the dugout and you notice that you have your guys getting crossed up a fair amount or there's a lot of sort of jockeying. I'm sure that's something you try to address pretty proactively because you don't want to let anyone stew in how far can we take the bad dating analogy, you know? It's like, are you at brunch? And you're like, oh, you should just break up with him. You don't seem to like him very much. All right, here is a question from Michael Patreon supporter, but a different one, I think. We'll see. That would be very funny. Yeah, I did actually write down the last name. So it's possible, but I enjoyed your recent speculation about a world in which pitchers and hitters each had their own collective bargaining units. Yeah, this is. Oh, this is me. Oh wait, that might have been to your question, originally. This is a Michael Hoffman, I believe. I see, oh, that was my question that prompted it.
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
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"Up their ticket prices absurdly, like I went to a game last year where I might have been one of hundred people in the stands. And so yeah, I'm an avid baseball follower. I pretty much always have a baseball game on in one way or another on my screen as I'm working. I love to go to games. I listen to your podcast religiously and I still dabble in analysis. I have a franchise and one of the original rotisserie leaks. So I'll do a lot of work for that too. Like a rest of us, baseball is a constant part of my life. You're a Professor of genetics and development at UC Berkeley, which sounds fascinating and you're Wikipedia page. As we mentioned, it has a baseball in biology subsection. So that does include your work with the Columbia mules, and also your history with strat, as you said, but also it includes the material about the parallels that baseball analysis has with your work or ways in which baseball stats of influenced your research. Can you shed some light on that? It's an interesting thing that in my profession, which is, you know, I work at the interface between experimental biology and computation. And an astonishingly large number of people in this field have a background in baseball. Stats. And as kids and then in various ways dabbling. And I started to realize that analyzing data and biology is, you know, it's a process where you have to just accept that there's a lot of variation in things that you can't control. So or biological organisms live their own lives, evolution does complicate things and weird things and quirky things. And I think baseball stats geeks got used to that. You know, we're used to correcting for stadiums and years and just thinking about stats in terms of all the weird things that can influence them. And I think, you know, having grown up thinking about baseball and dealing with that, trains your brain to be flexible in the way that you think about analyzing all sorts of other things. So yeah, it's certainly true that a lot of us have that, have that background, and I think that's probably the explanation. Yeah, and so in what ways is the work that you do now if you can discuss it with laypeople like us, even in what ways might it be semi analogous, at least? Yes, so for example, we do a lot of work where we make a lot of quantitative measurements of a cell or an organism or a tissue or a different scales. And we get a lot of measurements. And then it's our job to kind of make a story and learn something about it, try to figure out why is the cell different than the cell, which cell is behaving differently for the following reasons. And so we'll sometimes spend time where I've got one screen that's got a bunch of baseball stats and one screen has got a bunch of biology data. It's a giant table of numbers and our goal is to kind of organize it and make sense out of the complexity that sits there. So I kind of think baseball stats was the original data science in many ways, sort of dealing with it. I forget the guy's name that you are talking about in an earlier podcast, the guy who had published some papers in the 50s originally on stats analysis I was very inspired because I think it sounded a lot like he was thinking a lot of ways that that would eventually become kind of the way that that computation emerged in biology. Yes. Dick Truman, yeah. There's a very similar history. Biology was primarily an experimental field, dominated by people thinking like experimentalists and it took some time for people with a quantitative background and a stats, math background to wrap their heads around it. So it sort of came in slowly and then kind of similarly dismissed initially way and eventually it's now. Much like baseball, I think a lot of the computational work now dominates a lot of biology. What is the computational biologist equivalent of a bat flip and are there unwritten rules around it? Yeah, I've never thought of that question. The equivalent of a backflip, I think, is probably publishing a paper, but yeah. Well, it seems like baseball might be one of the less interesting subjects we could talk about with you. But that is what we do here. So we will get to that. I suppose I should have dug into the mailbag and looked for DNA genetics biology related questions, but I didn't really pursue a theme here. But we will start with this question from Brian, who says wondering if you're aware of tarantulas Sanjay, the ambidextrous pitcher for the Mississippi state bulldogs. He throws 96 from the right side 92 from the left, and so far this season has a .6 ERA. My question is this, aren't we doing this whole ambidextrous thing all wrong? Instead of using both arms for a platoon advantage in the same game, would he generate more value by throwing 80 plus pitches as a righty one game and then coming back two days later and doing the same from the left side wouldn't twice the number of starts, be more valuable than what he's doing now. Obviously this assumes some level of effectiveness that approaches what he's doing now, but it would seem like even a 20% drop may still make it worthwhile. His core would have to be fantastic though, so maybe he starts every three days instead still that's potentially 40 or more starts in a season, interested to hear what you all think. I mean, I think that if a guy had the repertoire to effectively start from both sides, he'd just be the best pitcher. I mean, isn't that the issue here that having if you're going to do a full start? Having a repertoire deep enough to handle an order multiple times from both sides. That sounds really hard. Yeah. I didn't mention this in my backstory, but I played high school baseball, although poorly. And however, one of the teams in our in our conference had a pitcher who got injured in his sophomore year, I think. It's a righty. Trained himself to pitch with his left hand and pitched as a junior as a lefty. And then the injury of his right arm recovered, and he did exactly what the caller suggests. He would pitch a game right handed and then pitch another game left handed. And they got a dispensation around the pitch limits. That our president in high school said that he counted twice as a righty.
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"Maybe because I'm on the fan side, I tend to side with the fans and the spectators and we're the ones who sort of justify its existence. I would say we fund it certainly in our interest is why it exists and it wouldn't exist without the players either, of course. But I think that if you look at it from the perspective of someone who thinks that just baseball is synonymous with MLB, then you might think, well, it's not worth losing a single player, right? And I think you could broaden your understanding of what baseball is, like, we always introduce this as a baseball podcast, not a Major League Baseball podcast. We certainly do talk about Major League Baseball more than any other kind of baseball, but we talk about a lot of other kind of baseball two and baseball can meet many things to many people. So MLB is the highest caliber league and the best known and most visible league, but it's not the only thing that we could care about. Shohei Ohtani threw a pitch that was clocked at a 102 mph against Italy. And he hasn't thrown a single pitch in MLB clocked that fast. And so part of me was thinking, well, this is awesome. I've never seen him do that before. That's amazing. There may have been angels fans thinking save it for the regular season. We know that throwing harder is associated with injury. And so you might say, well, it's undue risk to throw a pitch that hard against Italy when you have a whole regular season coming up, but also what about the regular season has given you the opportunity to dial it up like that. I mean, he hasn't gotten to play in a playoff game for the angels. He missed the WBC in 2017 with an injury, so this is like the most consequential game he's played in. This tournament means a lot to him, obviously. And when he looks back on the whole of his career, I'm sure he'll be thinking about his performance in the WPC as much as he's thinking of any particular angels game he's played thus far. It means a lot to him means a lot to his country. So you could reframe it as just sort of like this matters a ton to a lot of fans how he does there. So it's not like he's risking his performance in some other venue. He's just doing the best he can in this venue that also matters a lot. There's nothing inherently more meritorious about one game that this guy plays than another game. It's just what we all decide is important and that we care about and what the player cares about. And yeah, teams are probably thinking we're paying these players a whole lot to be available to us in the regular season and sure they can get covered by insurance if someone gets hurt in the WBC. But they're not going to be pleased about it if the mets build their bullpen around Edwin Diaz and then he's not available to them, contracts have clauses about certain activities that you're not allowed to perform because you could get hurt. But this is an MLP sponsored event and kind of MLB co created event and something that's collectively bargained. So even if the individual teams don't love it, the league likes it, the league is boosting it. It may be in the best interest of baseball, even if it's not in the interest of a particular team that loses a player, the entertainment value of it and just the brand boosting value for the sport as a whole, justifies the WBC. I spent the beginning of last episode talking about how I want it to be. More frequent than it is. And the Diaz injury hasn't changed my mind done that. I do think maybe we need to be careful about how we're celebrating. It baseball games. This has happened before. I don't want to be a buzzkill and be like everyone just has to politely shake hands and walk off the fields. I want players to be happy, obviously, in that moment. But the celebration injuries have happened enough times that, you know, be careful out there, I guess. I think after the Kendra's Morales broken leg, I think make socia banned the gathering at home plate and hopping up and down. So maybe we just, I don't know, we need a moratorium on the hopping up and down in groups because it can be kind of dangerous, but the tournament itself, I think, is worthwhile, even if some guys inevitably are going to get hurt. Yeah, I tend to agree. Ben, do you know what I realized I said in the midst of that? I said that I went to USA, Mexico. And I sure did not. I went to USA Great Britain. Let me tell you vibes very different between those games. Why did I say that? Well, you know, sometimes your brain is searching for a thing and it doesn't find it. It fills in a, it fills in a different thing. So I was going to say, let's record a pickup at the end, but instead I'll just be like, this brain didn't work the way I wanted to do in that exact moment. Yeah. Yeah, and when I was talking about how we should play the tournament more frequently last time, I should have noted that for one thing, only three years elapsed between the first and second WBCs, which took place in a different environment for international baseball, but also the next WBC is scheduled for 2026. So we only have to wait three years, although they haven't really changed the schedule exactly because of course this WBC was originally scheduled for 2021. And then the pandemic happened.
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"wbc" Discussed on Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"I'm all right. How are you? I am tired, but I am. Well, otherwise. Good. Well, we're much better off than Edwin Diaz. Unfortunately, which is how we have to begin this episode, sadly, we will be devoting most of the episode to emails and we'll be joined by a Patreon supporter shortly, but the big news of the day Edwin Diaz out for the regular season, unfortunately, out for the season as a whole. With a patellar tendon tear and it occurred after he closed out a very exciting game where Puerto Rico advanced over the Dominican Republic and the quarterfinals and it was super exciting and he was also super excited. And unfortunately, he was soon not excited because he heard himself celebrating. So we just talked the other day when Sam was on. We talked about the history of players entering themselves while celebrating. Didn't expect to see that happen again so soon. But it did. So he was in the midst of a scrum and they were all hopping up and down and kind of tough to tell what happened exactly in the footage that I've seen because he was sort of in the center, but just in the midst of the hopping up and down he just crumpled over and couldn't put weight on the leg and was supported as he hopped off the field and then was also in a wheelchair and I think everyone sort of feared that it was going to be a season ending injury as soon as we saw that. Seen that sort of thing before and indeed that is the case. So a big bummer for him for that team, just as soon as I saw it, I was like, oh no, because not only is it bad for him and the mets and mets fans and the Puerto Rico, WBC team and everything, but you just knew that it was going to lead to a wave of anti WBC's sentiments or at least inflame the anti WBC sentiment that was already out there and as someone who's been enjoying the WBC that was not what I wanted. Yeah, Ben, there have been some takes. Yes. There have been some hot hot takes. There have been some very bad hot takes. And I like to think, I mean, I am prone to feeling feelings as we all know. And even given that, I like to think that I am not overly work up able about Twitter. I don't want to spend too much time giving Keith olbermann airtime, but I will say, Keith, you takes her bad. And really nasty. You know, formulated in the nastiest possible way in a way clearly, almost feels like meant to be dismissive of the individual motivations of players to participate in this event. It is an unfortunate reality that when you are a professional athlete, sometimes guys are gonna get hurt and you know, I think that we make a certain amount of peace with the idea that they might get hurt in the doing of the thing they do, that they might get hurt actually pitching, they might get hurt running the bases in the field or whatever. It feels particularly cruel when they are hurt in ways like this where it wasn't like he threw the final pitch to win the game and he blew out, you know, that wasn't how it quite happened. It was proximate to that, but it wasn't how it quite happened. But I think that we spend a lot of time talking about baseball as an entertainment product, and I think that that is true, but I think that it's really important for us to remember that these guys are people and they get to have a variety of needs and wants as individual human beings. A lot of those are going to align with the wants and needs of the mets, and it's fine for them to have ones that don't. I mean, if you don't play for the mets and you're wants and needs a line with the mets, that's kind of weird. But if you're Edwin Diaz, I'm sure that he really wants to win a World Series for the mets, you know, he made a commitment to stay in Queens. But he gets to have wants and needs that extend beyond that. And they get to sometimes be baseball wants and needs. And if one of them is pitching for the Puerto Rican team, he gets to do that. Or he should get to do that. And sometimes that's going to carry consequences for him and for his big league club, but I think that he gets to sort of make those determinations and you don't have to like the WBC, but I think bauman wrote a piece for us at various yesterday this morning. Sometime. Recently, after this happened, he tried to contextualize this not only within what it means for Diaz, but this is a question of what does labor get to demand it do in the context of sports and one of those things might be saying it's really important to me to wear a uniform with my country's name across its chest and it clearly does. Like it matters to these guys. So and it matters to a lot of people who watch the WBC and so to sort of push all that away because an unfortunate injury took place even one to a star player, like just seems to totally misunderstand what baseball is. Like, yeah, they are in a lot of ways entertainers, but they're people and they get to, like I said, they get to have their own wants and needs. And if one of them is pitching in the WBC, there might be circumstances where that's not like a reasonable thing to prioritize. I think if a guy were just coming back from Tommy John, maybe a club would have more ground to stand on and say, hey, you know, this doesn't totally make sense within the context of you ramping up and you're rehab and whatnot, but I think that those justifications are fewer and farther between than we tend to allow and it's a really big bummer, but I don't think it diminishes the importance of the WBC as an event. So yeah. Yeah, it's almost like a worst case scenario, I think, for providing fuel for the detractors just in the sense that, yeah, you're going to get some injuries inevitably, you know, like the other day, Freddie Freeman tweaked his hamstring in a game. Well, you can tweak your hamstring anytime and I don't think he was necessarily more likely to tweak his hamstring in the WBC than in spring training, right?
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"wbc" Discussed on WBZ NewsRadio 1030
"WBC's Karen Regal has the details as you're arriving in the hands of 130 Kantor Bridge in Families, a pilot program targeting families led by a single person with an income below a certain level $500 a month to be used anyway, that family deems necessary, it's funded, says Cambridge mayor Some built Sadiki by a group of non profits and donors. And the goal is to lift up the neediest in a city that's often perceived as pretty well off. The mayor says. She really saw the need at the height of the pandemic. The goal is really for federal guaranteed income. You know, and for the government to help with this is right now Many pilots are back privately After Chelsea ran its pilot program, it was found recipient spent nearly 75% of what they got on food. Karen Regal WBZ Boston's news radio. It is now 5 37 switching things up south of the city. Wv is Chris Pharma, telling us about an exclusive outing for women. You hear the words brewing company and you immediately think beer but a church street brewing in Canton. Their specialty is bread and butter is cold Brew Copy. Still, co owner Dentist To me is an idea man, and he figured, let's diversify their Our niche doesn't always have to be donuts, Coffee don't copy or breakfast sandwiches. And with that ladies night at Church Street was born, complete with charcuterie board classes and champagne. I think a lot of women would like to converse with other women share ideas, You know whether it's a different kind of clubs for their kids, business opportunities. Entrepreneur sharing Ideas, and we thought that that would be a really fun event. Chris Pharma WBZ Boston's NewsRadio Well, They have it. 5 38 on this Thursday morning. It's time for business Live to Bloomberg. Here's an Cates. Either. Jim United Airlines brace for a spike in Covid 19 cases, as the weather turns colder, require employees with religious and medical exemptions from it's meant vaccine mandate to take a leave of absence, according to United Workers who are in customer relation roles, such as flight attendants, pilots and gate agents will be off the job until the pandemic appears to be over. NBC has set a record selling Super Bowl ads for up to $6.5 million. Newcomers to the February 13th game will include commercials on Cryptocurrency and digital wallets. S and P futures Down by 12. The Dow futures off 91 I'm an Cates Bloomberg business and WBC Boston's NewsRadio. Alright, Thank you there and coming up here in just a few moments taking you to Cape Cod and a preview of Some of these September 11th ceremonies and events that are going to be taking place this weekend. We have a preview just ahead and also the world famous literary festival in Salem. And is getting underway. Today We got a preview as well. It's a busy Thursday morning at 5 39. Are you looking for a podcast? That's.
THE FIGHT with Teddy Atlas
Oscar Valdez Allowed To Fight Despite Testing Positive For Banned Substance
"Got some serious business to discuss with the wbz basically allowing oscar valdez to go forward with this fight after a blatant violation. Not even show where we begin with this if you have a problem with some of the substances on the list that time to get those substances removed as before you're fighter test positive for them not after the fact and then allow them to fight anyway. Oscar valdez convicted of having some kind of stimulant of banned stimulant in his system. Which if you're struggling to make weight and now you can make it a little bit easier on yourself while your opponent kills himself to make weight. That's a huge advantage. No gray area about it. Diane to hear your take on this but bad bad. Look for the wbz to let this fight. Continue to go on as scheduled. I don't lean collapsed. When did they have a good look. Really i mean when when does this Become all news because it is old news with one thing or another with these organizations. This time it happens to be the wbz but does it matter. Which is what it is that useless. I mean except not to take money from the fighters in all. They know how to take those sanctions. She said that they're damn good. That believe me there would be. There would be no banned substance that would keep them from taking those action and that that wouldn't happen
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"All. Right hawk marilyn. What nasa big game going rebel. Good i love your show of your show of your show a like i said man. This is is wbz. I told you. Wbz runs the runs. We catch and release program for the for for boxing for for their favorites catch and release. Why even for the program together the catch somebody. If you're gone just leasing so they run the best per catch and release program for that fight it and he's like this was a football game. I say that and then he was. Wbz is running the game and they had the team on the failed or the players certain players on the field. Maybe step too far out of bounds. You gotta be on the side you know. He gets the ball. You tiptoe down inside but you might start out with what are out biggest new the line over the line. It's crazy man. It's just don't make no sense but not one that they may have as one of their players. They're out of bounds. Just when they saw tiptoeing down the side they already outback. And most of the time. It's black friday that are out of bounds on much less and and And i and i heard burn anything. Nothing get and that's amazing that spoke out on spent so quickly finding anything but he had nothing to say about. This is how it is. It's all set up. You know if if if a team effort by the big machines that's running in the sport. And i'm gonna they did fight i guarantee you. It's more views and more more views than any other fight this year. This this.
WBZ Morning News
Massachusetts Gaming Commission Mandates Vaccines for Employees
"Are rolling up again at another state agency, WBC's Carl Stevens, explains. State Gaming Commission executive director Karen Well says, given the evidence concerning the safety of the covid vaccines and the fact that there needed to stop the spread of the virus Commission requirement is in order. I am recommending that we go with the executive branch and says something about the attorney general's branches policy to acquire fascinations of employee expected Massachusetts Gaming Commission. The commission approved it unanimously giving commission employees until September 9th to either show proof of vaccination or to get one scheduled. Then they have to get the shot by October 27th. The commission, which met remotely also voted to fully reopen its downtown Boston office on Federal Street on November 1st.
WBZ Midday News
Worcester, MA Mandates Vaccines for City Workers
"The latest mandate vaccines well, all 7300 city workers WBC John Bay back is in the Worcester bureau city manager at Augusta says the vaccination policy is currently being drafted. It will be announced in the very near future city manager says It's the right time for the vaccine mandate. As the Pfizer vaccine has received full approval from the FDA U Mass Memorial Health Center in Worcester is requiring all of its employees to be vaccinated by the end of the fall Oyster trying to Clampdown is spiking and the numbers of coronavirus cases marked in part by the highly contagious, built a variant in the Worcester
WBZ Afternoon News
Naomi Osaka Gets Tearful in First Press Conference for Almost Three Months
"Her first comments since the Summer Olympics in Tokyo tennis star Naomi Osaka found herself overcome with emotion, talking about her struggles with mental health and her family's ties to Haiti. WBZ Easter Mulholland has more. This was an emotionally charged 10 Minutes in Ohio, Naomi Osaka had already announced shall be donating her winnings from the Western and Southern Open to Haiti relief. I feel like I'm not really doing that much like the prize money thing. It's sort of like the first thing that I thought of that. Could do and she got emotional during that answer, and it really started moments before that, with questions regarding her mental health. You remember she withdrew from the French Open because she didn't want to participate in news conferences. I wasn't really proud. I felt like it was something I needed to do for myself. I was a little bit embarrassed to go out because I didn't know if people are looking at me in a different way. Osaka says The Olympics was actually an eye opener with other athletes telling her thank you for speaking up. As for American gymnast Simone Biles Osaka says she sent her a message but also wanted Give her space Drew Mulholland WBC Boston's news radio, This WBZ
VB in the Middle
Spirit Airlines Cancels More Than Half of Scheduled Flights
"Today, thanks to the hundreds of cancellations by Spirit Airlines WBC's James Rojas with the UPDATE. Since Sunday, Spirit has canceled 60% of its flights well over 400 today, Logan five out of 10 flights for the airline cancelled as well. In addition to staffing shortages, spirit is also dealing with Mother Nature's bad weather. And system outages, A spirit spokesperson says they're refunding and canceling other flights for travelers as they work to reset operations. Also, today, the state announcing anybody
Family Financial Focus
Iowa Summer Camp Sends Campers Home Early
"Camp in New Hampshire abruptly shuts down and sends the kids home. WBC's art Cohen reports after just six days, parents whose Children were at Camp Quinta Barge in molten borrow New Hampshire were told to come and pick up their kids. Camp, officials said Delays in food shipments made it impossible to keep the camp open. But some parents told the Boston Globe that there were other problems, including hiring counselors just days before camp opened, who had little training. And some of the campers said meals were served multiple times on dirty dishes. Executive director Erik Karlsson blamed the problems on staffing and supply chain issues.
WBZ Morning News
Boston College Helped Football Player Who Refused to Get COVID-19 Vaccine Transfer
"Football player is on the move. And WBC stream. A. Holland tells us it's all because he refused to get a covid shot. The whole Boston College football team has already vaccinated coaching staff to NBC as a school has instituted mandatory vaccinations starting this fall. But we've learned that one football player was saying no to the vaccine, and now BC head coach Jeff Hafley says they have helped that student find another school. Yep, already transferred out Coach happily saying, this is pretty cut and dry. It's a school rule. You don't get vaccinated. You don't get to stay at the heights. Drew
WBZ Midday News
Child Tax Credit 2021: Payments to Be Disbursed Starting July 15
"Government in a partial advance on the annual child tax credit, Let's find out more half of the child tax credit families would have gotten next year when they file their taxes will begin showing up as early as Thursday in monthly payments. It's estimated that this could cut child poverty in the United States near The amounts have been raised somewhere between 1600 to 1000, depending on the age of your child that works out to $300 a month for each child under 6 $250 a month for each child age 6 to 17 monthly through the end of the year. The remainder will become available when you file your taxes or claim your credit at the end of the tax year. Neighborhood villages is a nonprofit advocating for child care policy reform. Lauren Kennedy is co president. These expenses don't get all lump. Together at the end of the year. What if you have a hospital bill that you weren't expecting the cost of childcare keeps going up and up. Certainly, this will help make it more affordable to raise a child. Sherry Small WBC Boston's NewsRadio, Massachusetts
WIBC 93.1FM
"wbc" Discussed on WIBC 93.1FM
"WBC Tony Katz. The morning news, Richard Branson went to space. He is the first of the rich people to be in space Jesus on his way Other people going Really weird. This is very odd as as a story. I know they're going to eventually sell spaceflight to those who can afford it For every day. I think it's like 50 something million dollars to go to space. I do want to play some of this audio, though This was put out by Richard Branson and his company. Um, I have several thoughts on the audio. I'm about to play, including this anchor lady who is not excited enough that people have gone to space. I don't know why this is a nonchalant thing for her. I would be quite a bit different if I were asked to anchor part of this, and then he got Branson. From his ship talking about being in space and again, I hear just let's listen to the audio first, then we'll weigh in more 321 release release release. Clean release, ignition and 60 seconds. And that is a fold aeration burn, folks. We are headed to space and the passengers in the back how to get not excited enough. That is not enough Excitement have been cleared to unstrap. We reached apogee. 282,000 ft, So all your kids down there. I was ones that child with a dream looking up to the stars now. I mean, I don't in a spaceship looking down to a beautiful, beautiful head for the next generation of dreamers. If we can do this, just in my jersey what you can do, I don't get Any of this to be. We went to space. We did that. A while ago. We went all the way to the moon. I thought that was very inspiring. I thought that was very uplifting. Now for rich guys to go to space. It just it feels different. I don't know. Maybe I can ask Matt Allison if they were motivated by hearing Branson in space, And if that makes the dreamers want to get up and do more, you know, inspiring and encouraging things. Anybody motivated by that audio. I mean, how can you not be? It's so moving. Honestly, Branson made it. He sounds like he's just like in shock, and he's just like trying to, like, put some inspirational thing together, and he just came right. Which I get I get. I get that too. I just What I think is so interesting is he was like barely in space for a little bit of time, but it's still a ridiculously, I guess valuable achievement to some. It's just so odd that this this race occurred between him and Bezoza. Now Bezos's going their second. Do you think that he'll be more disappointed whenever Bezos gets up there? Um I don't know. Depends on the speech he gets, right, right? Yeah, it depends on how moving how motivating that can be. According to so many, you know, I have to touch on something to that. Our news department is reported on today that John is talking about a bit the expensive video game. The most expensive video game ever sold. $1.5 million. Resealed copy of the 1996 Super Mario 64 a video game. I don't understand how this happened. I don't I don't know if why I messed it up myself because I had this video game. Why I didn't leave it sealed. Why is it worth 1.6 million bucks? And what does it say about video games? In general, that you can make this much money off of one that nobody ever plays, I guess. Well, I know I give a nostalgia part. I'm sure people or, you know, you know, but I can't imagine you spend $1 million and then you probably don't even play it. Right. It's not sealed. I mean, it's not used opened. It would be awesome for that person to crack it open, though, to buy it just immediately ruin the value of it. I would be tremendously if they did that in space. If Bezoza could buy this, go to space and open it there, that might be the most wonderful thing I've ever seen on television. That would be something. Yeah, that would. It would be incredible Influencers have also claimed that they are going to there's an influencer that claims she got banned from an airplane because of an outfit she had. She was told that this outfit would disturb families. She's 26 years old. What I thought was interesting about this story is how often we're seeing this hit the news. Now it actually is happening a lot in Disney world. And Disney Land to Tick tock. Influencers specifically, are going there in order to get free stuff I did see will give you a free shirt. If you show up, they're not really dressed, I guess appropriately for the theme park. I'm kind of wondering, And this this woman she's wearing short shorts and it and it tanked up. I'm kind of wondering if people are doing this on purpose. If this is the latest way to go viral on social media just claim that your outfit got you banned from something, and I don't know if it's appropriate to say this on the radio, But for 93 w I b. C. Maybe I do this. Maybe I do this to bring some cred to our social media accounts. Maybe I get panned. We're trying to show up somewhere with an outfit that's inappropriate. What do we feel? How do we feel about that? Alison, I probably would never come back. I assume. Oh, yeah. I mean, you could rocket bro tank and see what happens. Yes, I'm sure. Hammer, Nigel. Done worse. Have they? Okay. Well, maybe hammer, Nigel, go with them. Maybe all three of us show up in bro tanks somewhere and just hope to all get all get kicked out that it seems to be the goal and again, this influencer not dressed as provocatively. As I think some who've been kicked out to other things, but it's just social Media is an odd, odd place, and certainly the world of Tic Tacs specifically, is an odd place. But what it takes to go viral invent a candy like a cynical that's just a pickle and a Snickers bar together or show up somewhere inappropriately dressed and hope for the best. Another airplane story. I guess this is now airplane news for just a second. Someone got duct taped to a seat on an airplane for trying to open the door that door that, you know, escape hatch. Um, a lot of people in social media weighed in on the idea that you duct tape a woman to a You a seat. I don't hate this happening. I'm not saying that it should happen more. But if someone's going crazy if someone's you know, trying to endanger the lives of everybody on the aircraft. And you got the duct tape handy. Maybe this is a good middle solution to getting in more fights on airplanes. I'm not sure. Yeah, I mean, what would I mean? What would you do, Because you have to restrain them. And it's not like you have right. Any security on board. Correct. Yeah, Yeah, there's I don't think you want to leave a flight attendant sitting there the whole time trying to restrain them. I know that a lot of people had feelings about the duct tape world. But this might also discourage those from going crazy on the airplanes going crazy on any sort of, you know, transportation because that has to be the most stressful experience. Everybody else in the flight that they've had in a long time. And I know that we've dealt with a lot but to have somebody going nuts and trying to open the escape hatch like, Yeah, everybody on that flight probably supported the idea. Let's duct tape this human down immediately, and just hope for the best one other quick thing to and I know we've got to take a break for some traffic. A chick tac couple. Claims that they can taste Zodiac signs. Words and one of them actually claims she can taste Taylor Swift music before I tell you any of the things that they've tasted before, how would you feel if you were given the ability and I don't believe they have this? By the way to taste things like Taylor Swift music? I know you're a big fan, Allison. Oh, yeah. I mean, I'm sure would taste really sweet. Really Good, right? Really Delicious. Wonderful. Emotionally, you know, very just she should be right to the point. They're tasting all kinds of things. The latest trend is the tapes taste. I said the Zodiac signs, and I guess several of them are quite delicious. I don't believe any of this. By the way. I think this is complete crap. I think they're lying. But they're also viral, which shows you the power of the Internet. So many odd ways. I think it's time for some traffic.
Richard Eeds
Tyson Fury-Deontay Wilder Postponed After Fury Tests Positive for COVID-19
"Boxing rematch is headed headed to to the the ring. ring. In In October. October. ESPN ESPN reports reports that that the the new new target target date date for for Tyson Tyson Fury Fury and and Deontay Deontay Wilder. Wilder. The The fight fight was was supposed supposed to to happen happen in in two two weeks weeks but but had had to to be be postponed postponed due due to to a a covid covid outbreak, outbreak, furious furious among among several several in in his his gym gym who who tested tested positive positive after after getting getting a a source source vaccination vaccination shot, shot, but but not not the the second, second, you'll you'll be be defending defending the the WBC WBC heavyweight heavyweight championship. championship. The scripts National
WBZ NewsRadio 1030
"wbc" Discussed on WBZ NewsRadio 1030
"Kaufman, WBC Boston's news radio. It's 11, 43 traffic and weather together. The Subaru retailers of New England all wheel drive traffic on the threes and Kevin What do you see? Well, Tina, I see a lot of flooding in a lot of areas, so certainly going to need to keep those speeds down with these heavy rains out there. Flooding situations being reported on a lot of these secondary roadways, even some of the major highways like Route nine flooding out by route 1 26. In that Framingham stretch, And this certainly could be the case in a lot of areas. Also dealing with the number of crashes out there out to the West Pike eastbound crash after Route nine in Framingham over in Littleton, its route two weeks bound crash at Taylor Street and Alan Worcester to 90 westbound, right lane crash. Everyone 90 causing delays. You've got some more flooding south of Town Expressway northbound left Lane flooded out after Reece Melton Square. Southbound. Got the right lane taken for flooding here at Brian Avenue. Morrissey Boulevard. Southbound, Right lane closed for flooding here before Neponset Circle and dealing with a crash here at West Bridgewater 24 southbound at the rest area before 4 95. This report sponsored by indeed dot com shift hiring gears with. Indeed they go beyond the resume with 135 skills tests that help candidates show their abilities on things like computer proficiency or customer service. Indeed, skills tests reduce hiring time by 27% on average, visit indeed dot com slash credit. Kevin Brennan. WBC's traffic on the threes. We have 68 degrees in Boston. Right now we have a flash flood watch in place, as well as a tropical storm warning today. Heavy rain throughout today expecting up to three.
WBZ NewsRadio 1030
"wbc" Discussed on WBZ NewsRadio 1030
"Report. Around the city Soldiers field road eastbound, jammed or work through in the right lane by the BU Bridge. David stuff Alino WBZ traffic on the threes. We've still got the rain around will be dealing with that for the majority of the weekend, although it will be in varying in 10 cities tonight, just a couple of showers or two. There could be a heavier bursts of rain in a couple of spots tomorrow. Some showers. Some downpours, though. In a few areas with temperatures in the low to mid sixties showers. Tomorrow night temperatures 55 to 60. It gets a little better on Sunday. We will actually have a few breaks of sunshine, though we can't rule out a couple of showers. Temperatures 65 to 70 and then sun and clouds on Monday with temperatures near 80 live local and fiercely independent. This is WBC news radio. Good afternoon. I'm Ben Parker. Here are the five things you need to know. At 5 15, A bright man accused of stabbing a rabbi outside a Jewish school was arraigned in court today. Khalid Awad will have a dangerousness hearing on July 8th. Major League Baseball, putting Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer on administrative leave amid sexual assault allegations. Officials in Florida concerned about Hurricane Nelson that it make it in the way of searching efforts in that deadly condo collapsed. 20 people are confirmed at 128 Missing Massachusetts reporting 79 new covid cases. With a positivity rate seven day average. Some 70.38% was one newly confirmed death Today. The Boston Pops getting ready for the fourth of July. WBC's Mike Macklin checked out their rehearsal earlier today. For the first time in more than a year. The familiar strains of the 18 12 Overture.
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"And the WBC news radio Traffic copter A route one Dorton riding the brakes from Revere into Saugus, David Stuff, Alino WBZ traffic on the Threes. We've had some pretty nice weather today, up into the mid to upper seventies and we'll keep the decent weather around, at least for a while as we head into the evening, so not a bad night to sneak out. Take a walk at some dinner. Whatever you're gonna do later on, it'll go downhill, some drizzle shower late late tonight. Some fog develops along the coast. Temperatures dropped to about 60 on the shore of mid fifties inland. It will be a dreary start to your Friday which some Sprinkles in a shower. But eventually the cloud should break for some sunshine in the afternoon 75 to 80 and then turn up the humidity for the weekend will be muggy with temperatures 85 or so on Saturday, 90 or so on Sunday, a little cooler both days at the shore live. Local and fiercely independent. This is WBC news radio. Good afternoon. I'm Ben Parker. Here are the five things you need to know. At 5 45, the state Department of Public Health, reporting his 78 new covid cases in Massachusetts today, there were just over 32,000 new Test four newly confirmed deaths. President Biden announcing he has reached a deal with lawmakers on a nearly $1 trillion infrastructure package. It's only part of the deal with all three major hospital systems in Massachusetts announced they will require employees to get vaccinated against Covid 19. And President Biden says the federal government prepared to send resources immediately if need be, after part of a condo building collapsed near Miami, Florida, At least one person's nearly 100 are still on accounted for. Boston Mayor Kim Jamie says she supports the state Department of Conservation and Recreation as it cracks down on rowdiness at Carson Beach. We get more from WBC's Karen.
WBZ Midday News
Jan. 6 Commission Fails in Senate Following GOP Opposition
"Will check that dinner time forecast in two minutes. This just into the WBC news from again this hour. Republicans in the Senate have just blocked a bill that would have created a 9 11 style commission to study the January Capitol attack. The motion fails on the Senate floor minutes ago. Now the final tally was 54 votes in favor. But this legislation would have needed 60 votes to pass to avoid a filibuster. This is the first successful filibuster in the U. S Senate this year, but again D away dead on arrival. Republicans. Not there. Ah, handful did support this bill.
WBZ Afternoon News
Construction Worker Killed in Newton, Mass. by Collapsed Concrete Wall
"Accident this morning in Newton. One worker killed We get details from WBC's James RoHaas. It was in the backyard of this house that's under construction, where the concrete wall came crashing down, leading to one person being killed. Doing the fire chief Gino Lucchetti says It was just before eight o'clock when they got the call here on Winchester Street. We started out rescue operations into our rescue operations. We realized I had a certain time that the person under the wall was not viable and it turned into a recovery operation. The street was closed for hours as the Fire department police and OSHA investigated. It's not clear what caused the wall to collapse.
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FDA, CDC Lift Pause on J&J Covid Vaccinations
"Following the FDA and CDC decision to lift the pause and resume use of the Johnson and Johnson Corona virus vaccine. Health officials in the state say all providers are being notified. They may resume administration of the single shot vaccine effective immediately. Here's WBC TVs Christina Rex, that pause did not have a major impact on Massachusetts vaccination efforts. Out of 2.23 million people fully vaccinated here on Lee 204,000 have gotten Johnson and Johnson Jersey still out there. Still, people out in about aren't sure they trust the single dose vaccine doesn't apply to me because I already got fries, all right. But like emotionally speaking, if I didn't get it, and I was supposed to get it at me, opt out and try to get something else. But local doctors say the investigation should increase confidence in the system and emphasize the J and J shot greatly benefits vulnerable communities with limited access to vaccines. These people that most benefit from a single dose vaccine from a van that could drive around from an outreach group that can get to places the other places aren't going to get it to those groups of people we really need to get to, and I think the Johnson Johnson vaccine doesn't matter. Simply facilitate vaccinating those kinds of populations. Latest figures from the state Department of Public Health Show more than 1400 newly confirmed coronavirus cases 13 new deaths 644 people hospitalized 156 in the ICU and a seven day average positivity rate of just over 2%.
WBZ Morning News
Protesters in Boston denounce anti-Asian racism
"No justice, no peace. More than 100. People marched from Peter's Park in Boston to Chinatown and his WBC Suzanne Sauce. Full reports The out of the Orient March for Asian futures called for an end to white supremacy today. Is not the only day that we're going to resist, right. We're going to resist until we get demanded that they're calling on state legislators to doom or during the covert 19 recovery period to make sure by park families have homes and jobs. Caroline Chu was with the Asian American Resource Workshop. That is how we fight back against violence. We build stable, thriving communities. Our people do that in the face of so much, and we need the system to step up and give us our basic needs. Hey, the people way the people Asian coalition, Emma organized the march moving forward. They hope to create a mutual aid network called the Peace Walk Program, where volunteers walk Asians and other people of color home from places like train stations to help keep them safe from racist violence.
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Rapper DMX Dies At Age 50 In New York After Suffering Heart Attack
"Continue to pour in for rap icon and Westchester resident DMX. Who died at the age of 50 on Friday. Here's WBC surly Kessler. Hip hop legend DMX born Earl Simmons died in White Plains Hospital after being on life support for a week he'd suffered a massive heart attack, reportedly linked to a drug overdose fan stood vigil outside the hospital. He's one off log greatest rappers of all time. DMX was also an actor who starred in multiple movies. He leaves 15 Children.
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DMX, rapper and actor, dies at 50
"And Mount Vernon native DMX has died at the age of 50 years. WBC Sara Lee Kessler. Hip hop legend DMX born Earl Simmons died in White Plains Hospital today after being on life support for a week he'd suffered a massive heart attack, reportedly linked to a drug overdose fan stood vigil outside the hospital. He's one off log greatest rappers of all time. DMX was also an actor who starred in multiple movies. He leaves 15 Children. I'm Sara Lee Kessler
WBZ Overnight News
Boston Man Convicted Of Police Bombing Asks For Compassionate Release
"Officer officer and and the the severe severe wounding wounding of of another another asks asks for for a a compassionate compassionate release. release. WBC's WBC's Karen Karen Regal Regal says says it's it's because because of of covert covert concerns. concerns. Attorneys Attorneys for for the the now now 64 64 year year old old Alford Alford strangler strangler say say their their client client convicted of building the bomb that Killed Officer Jeremiah Hurley and severely wounded his partner Francis fully should be released because his heart issues make him more of a covert risk. Strangler did refuse the vaccine while in prison. His attorneys say their client was worried about how that would affect his heart. His attorneys also argue he has served more than enough trying for the crime of which he was convicted. But Hurley's daughter, Leanne, TN, herself, a Boston police officer. Well, the judge of a man who loved his job in his family officer fully son, Frank, a Boston firefighter, told the court of a severely wounded man with PTSD, he said of this compassionate release request. Alford Strangler chose his fate. Cameron Regal WBZ Boston's news radio. More
WBZ Afternoon News
Boston's USS Constitution Museum Reopens To The Public
"We get more on that from WBC TV's NIC MX. The USS Constitution Museum is now reopened to the public, and it just happens to fall on the 45th anniversary of its opening. Celebratory cannon fire to mark the re opening of a Freedom trail staple. There is no better attraction here on the Freedom Caroline in the city of Boston. The U. S s constitution is welcoming back guests once again after a difficult 2020 pandemic Safety precautions kept guests off Old Ironsides and out of the museum, where people young and old can learn about the rich history of the USS Constitution Museum is open Thursday through Sunday. 10 a.m. To five p.m. 4 51 traffic and weather together up
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Ex-Northeastern Coach Solicited Nude Photos From Students
"Northeastern track and field coach, is under arrest in Chicago. WBC's Karen Regal tells us he's accused of tricking students into sending him compromising pictures. Former Northeastern track and field coach Steve Wait was picked up in Chicago, accused of using fake social media accounts to try and get female students to send him nude or partially nude photos themselves. Here's how the feds say the scheme worked with would reach out to students allegedly starting at Northeastern and say he had seen such pictures online and offered to help get those pictures off line. He said he needed similar pictures for a reverse image search at Northeastern and other institutions He allegedly used fake Internet handles like privacy protector. Federal investigators also allege he cyber stalked one Northeastern student athlete. Court paperwork reveals wife allegedly searched online for answers to questions like Can anyone trace my fake instagram account back to
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"Ruwan, eh? Kevin Brennan WBC's traffic on the three Kevin So we have a nice morning little bit of spritzing earlier. It's pretty chilly out there. Looking at the winds right now is curious because I thought I felt pretty windy, especially along the coastal area. Windsor from the West northwest at around 12 Miles an hour on average, Justin just enough to make it feel a little bit colder than it is, And that's the story for the day. Our high will be 40. We're not there yet. I don't see that anywhere yet where the high thirties But it's never really going to feel like it's 40 degrees. And then here comes a little piece of energy. Thank you, New York. Bringing some snow showers. That could be a little bit intense at times for the afternoon commute. So you do want to listen to the forecast, especially if you're traveling and we will let you know we'll look at the Doppler radar for you and the like, and we'll have Whether every 10 minutes tonight breezy and cold, and then tomorrow pretty much like today again. We're looking at some snow flurries now upping in intensity. Heavier snow can't be ruled out, not in accumulating snow, necessarily, but enough that could cause some tricky driving Thursday again, we'll see that sunshine but then the chance of those heavier snow bands In the afternoon. Friday looks dry Nona's chili with sunshine and some clouds. This is more typical for meteorological winter. The temperatures this week and again in Boston right now, we're right at the freezing mark at 32 degrees, and we have some breaking news. This just in to the WBC news from it may not be a surprise, but it certainly will be a big disappointment for a lot of people in the city. The 2021.