PHNX Arizona Diamondbacks Podcast - Lockout Lookout

Episode Date: December 10, 2021

On this all locked out episode, Jesse and Derek are discussing updates on the Lockout, best Lockout related names, and reminiscing about the times they've been locked out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Hello and welcome to the PHNX DBAX podcast right here on PHNX. My name is Derek Monta, occasionally known as your mayor of PHNX, and this show is brought to you by the fine folks at the Draft King Sportsbook app. Go download the Draft King Sportsbook app now, and new users can bet $1 on any NFL team to score, and as long as they score any points at all, you will score with $100 in free bets instantly from the Draft King Sportsbook app. And then go turn that $100 into some same game parlays, make yourself a nice, tidy holiday shopping, you know,

amount of money. And then go have yourself a great holiday season. Of course, I am joined by my friend, my vice mayor, my co-host, the one and only thunder stick, Jesse Friedman. Jesse, how are you doing? How's life? How's life in the lockout? We're going to have some fun today, Derek.

We're going to go very, very literal with the lockout. We're going so literal with the lockout for it. Because Jesse, of course, it's lockout season. Let's not forget. It's lockout season. And it's not going to stop being lockout season for unfortunately a significant amount of time. January 28th. Wow.

You're just 50 days. 50 days on the dot. I've never seen you so confident about something like this. It's absurd. But I appreciate it. And I applaud your confidence. We do have a little bit of. baseball transactional news to talk about.

Yaseel Pugge. Ysiel Pug, former Thorn in the side of the Arizona Diamondbacks, has signed a one-year deal worth $1 million, reportedly, with the Kai Womb Heroes in the KBO. Heroes. Heroes is an awkward name of a team for Yaseel Pug to go to. But, yeah, he is now part of the KBO, which is something we talked about that we could see.

of guys of that caliber, right? Somebody who feels like they still have something to give and somebody who has performed at a high level at one point in his career, still, you know, trying to go up to the KBO and get some time in and, you know, either impress maybe some people back here in the States or just find himself a nice little career

as part of a really fun baseball league. Let's be honest. The KBO is my new favorite side piece as far as baseball. it is yeah this is uh this is interesting uh yasio pleg it to me derrick it feels like looking back the period of time where yasio pleg just absolutely tore the diamond backs to shreds it's like some like vague dream that like it didn't last for very long right yesio pleg was only he was an elite player for about a season maybe a little bit past his first season in the league and then he just kind of nose died from there.

But yeah, I mean, it was not that long ago. The Yassio Pueig was not just a little bit obnoxious from time to time with his on-filled antics, but he was also a really, really good player. He would just knock the cover off the ball. Hello, Ruler 14. Hello, Ruler 14. Yeah, absolutely. Happy to have you here.

And happy to have you guys in the comments. I will do my best to steer the ship here by myself while also hosting. but I do want to say that I can't believe thinking back upon the kind of trend that was started in baseball, mostly due to Pueig's success where we're at now, right? It started kind of a little movement of teams going and doing a lot of international signing, yeah. Including the Arizona Diamondbacks going after both Yismani Tomas and Yon Lopez. We can blame Yassio Pueg for, each of those moves, I think. No, you're absolutely right. It was such a weird thing. And I still

blame Ken Kendrick because I still feel like that's such a baseball card collector move to want, I want one of those on our team, you know, can we have him? No, you can't have him. Well, we'll pay a lot of money for him. No, they won't accept a lot of money. Okay, well, let's get one of our own, right? And it seemed like money did not matter at that point, which is just crazy to think five, six years ago how money didn't matter and now they seem to be quite stingy with their spending. But it doesn't matter. None of it matters because we're on a lockout. We're not even allowed to talk about play.

We're not allowed to say players names, I don't think. I don't know. MLB.com has removed all likenesses. I can only imagine if it was just straight illegal to say the name of a major league baseball player during the lockout. Right. We don't know. I mean, we don't know the legal ramifications of what's happening on our show right now, Derek.

I know, I don't at all. I will say that I turned on my MLB the show and was thankful not to see Joe Random as my starting centerfielder. That very, that was very scary. I was glad to see that that was happening. But yeah, all my players were all their normal names. That's an interesting thing because obviously there's a lot that goes into MLB, the show. And I didn't really think about it until I did play it recently.

because there's just updates and cards and all this stuff, it's all connected to the Players Association. Right. And, you know, I know that- It's not connected to like Major League Baseball's relationship with the players. Correct. So I guess that's how this still goes on. That's how it still goes on.

You're absolutely right because it's kind of like a separate entity. And it's something that, you know, that the likenesses and stuff are courtesy of the players association. But like you said, it's not a controlled MLB. entity. It's just a video game. It's just weird though because yeah, they do like, you know, card specific like card specials on players and things. And I really was, you know, expecting to turn it on and see all of that stuff kind of turned off. And it wasn't. It wasn't. In many ways right now, Derek, MLB the show is more reflective of reality than like Major League Baseball's own

website is. You will find more real life things in MLB the show than you will on even MLB.com in some senses. You can't even find right players pictures and all of the transactional news is gone. It's all gone. We've talked about this a lot. We can talk about how they suck so badly last year. Rule 14, man, I don't know. I don't think anybody expected them to be that bad last year. So I will just say going forward again, with how bad they weren't expected to be last year is why I have faith that the debacks are going to have such a big turnaround this year. I could be foolish. We had Jack Summers on yesterday and Jack was very, uh, he was, he's very realistic about it. He's going to tell you how it is. Yeah. About how long it was

going to take to turn this team around. So unfortunately, I think it will probably take closer to Jack's estimate than mine, but I do still hold out hope for next season because I think between, uh, them underperforming so much last year and the injuries and the new coaches, I mean, I don't think that they're going to make the playoffs or anything like that, but I think they'll be a lot closer to 500 than people are expecting them to be. But you know what? I don't even know if we're allowed to talk about that, right? Because it's lockout season.

So we're locked out. What we're going to talk about, though, best lockout related baseball names of all time, Jesse. Yes, yes. We're going best lockout, right? Why not? You did some quality research here, there. I did. I did do some quality research.

Not making the top. five is chipper jones uh you know come on like chip away at a lock you're in a prison it's that's why he gets honorable mention he's he's on the bubble uh there's not a lot there is not a lot of lock related nicknames or names in baseball jesse i'll tell you that much but uh we what we had is a tie for fifth place with just your common lock name whether it had an e at the end or uh it's a first name in the case of Locke St. John. We had Don. There's a guy whose first name was Locke.

Locke St. John. Yes. Lock St. John. Yes. There's Jeff Locke with an E at the end. Don Locke spelled in your classic lock fashion and also Bobby Locke with an E at the end. That's our fifth place accommodations. They all tied. They all tie for fifth.

Those all tied for fifth. And you know what? I think we'll all take 500 at this point for this team. 82 and 82 might be tough. They need to play two extra games to do that. But 81 and 81, yeah, I mean, we'd all take that for sure. Don't attack the man's math. Don't attack the man's math.

Jesse, in fourth place in our best lockout related nicknames, Sky Bolt. Nice. Sky Bolt, right? Sky is a great first name, too. Sky is a great. Yeah. That's like a, that's like a, that's like a,

I don't know, a superhero name, right? Yeah. That would be the real name for somebody like Firestar, whose, you know, alias is Sky Bolt or something. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's a, all right.

I'm sorry, I'm watching too much Hawkeye lately, which I suggest everybody goes out and does episode four, made watching the first three episodes. Totally worth it. Just like all Marvel shows do. So you just got to stick around through those first couple of episodes, by the way. I feel like I feel like I need some history on these guys, Derek. Like, like when did Sky Bolt?

play sky bold just figure this out yeah i can i can pull that up for you you know oh wow he's a he's a he's a current player 21 that's what i'm saying these are not Oakland athletics yeah i feel now i feel now i feel ignorant apparently there's this outfielder with the oakland a's i didn't know you should you should uh he was also with the san francisco giants uh for a couple of games i don't know what happened there i don't know if he got traded or what happened but uh yeah Oakland ace also uh great name like we said let's go on to our top three, Jesse, because these are the ones that we really need, we really need these guys in order to end the lockout. Coming in at third, Wighty Lockman. Wighty Lockman. Yeah,

yeah, Whitey Lockman. Okay, there's no way that someone named Whitey is a current. You're right about that. 1945 to 1960. He was also a manager in MLB as well. So, yeah, played from 45 through 1960. Did not play in 46 due to time in military service. So we're talking about that far back when the Giants were in the state of New York. So that's Whitey Lockman, Jesse. Coming in at second, of course, is Ricky Pickett. Ricky Pickett.

Ricky Pickett. That's a pretty good one. I don't know what could possibly top Ricky Pickett. You would think that there's no way that anybody's going to top Ricky Pickett, right? Ricky Pickett played in the major leagues for one season in 1998, and he played for the Arizona Diamondbacks. Okay. All right.

Now I feel even more ignorant than I did earlier in the show. He pitched two-thirds of an inning. Okay. And he has an ERA, a career ERA of 81. So not a great. Six earned runs given up in his two-thirds of an inning pitched for the Arizona Diamondbacks. We have Evan Thompson chiming in here. Wydie Lockman was the first baseman on the 1951 Giants and he's in Evans book.

All right. Here we go. He's in Evans, go get Evans book. That's what this is now. This is a pitch to go get Evans book. All right. What else do we got? Oh, yeah. So, of course, we got number one, right?

Number one. How do you bait Ricky Pickett? Of course, in a lockout-related situation, you beat it with Jimmy Key, Jesse. Jimmy Key, played from 1984 to 1998, a member of all the ALAs teams, Toronto for the majority of his career, Yankees, and the Baltimore Wargis. So there you go. Wow, that's a long career. 84 to 98. Wow.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, know your history about lockout related names. There we go. That's where we're at now. It's a big lesson for all of us today. Yeah. It's, this is lockout season, folks.

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Maybe not from a company or a boss, but just in general, have you ever been locked out? Yeah, yeah. Have you ever been locked out stories? Like nothing super interesting, right? Yeah. In college, I would get locked out of my dorm room and you'd have to pay the RA $5 in order to let you in. What a scam.

I know. I think I only did it. You just have a key and you can just let me in and I have to pay you five dollars. Well, it's because they didn't want people to abuse it, right? So just like always leave their keys in the room and then come back and like always rely on the RA. That'd be pretty frustrating. You know, I had a weird thing at that time where I hated taking my keys with me places. So.

When you were in college? Yeah. I, it's stupid to say, but I kind of know what they're talking about. Like I just wanted to go like without a wallet, without keys. I just wanted to go and do stuff. If I wasn't driving somewhere, you know what I mean? Yeah, I mean, if you live on campus in particular, it's kind of like you're not really ever like going, going anywhere.

It's like you're at a hotel. Yeah. Yeah. Like, where you want to go down the lobby. I don't need my wallet. I don't need my keys. Exactly. You know, it's just a little journey down the sidewalk.

We're going to go drink somewhere. I don't know where we're going. I don't know how long we'll be gone for. But I just want to leave my room unlocked the whole time and I can't. Right. I definitely never locked my room. My dorm room and well, so my dorm room did get locked, hence how I somehow wound up locked out occasionally. But in the years following that, I really never locked.

At that point, I lived in apartments and we really never locked our apartment, which to this day was probably a very, very bad idea. But it kind of worked out. We never got broken into as far as I'm aware. So, yeah, what about what about you, Derek? you have any more interesting stories being locked out of anything? Well, my wife recently locked herself out of her car, like not too long ago, I mean,

just a couple of weeks ago. That sucked because she stopped her car along the side of the highway, which I was mad at her about doing that just in general. And she got out because she heard her car making a noise. And the noise that's when she locked herself out. So she got out because she wanted to check what this noise was. And it was, I don't know what it's called, but like the undercarriage part of your car.

That plastic flap, like, had come undone and was just, you know, banging around underneath there and making a lot of noise. So when she realized it was that nothing major, she went to get back in her car, had locked her keys and her phone in the car with the car running on the side of a highway, nonetheless. How? I feel like that, like how many people have done that? Like, she's got to be on a pretty short list, like being locked out of your car. car while on the side of the road.

That's quite an accomplishment, Derek. Yeah, I was pretty amazed by it. I'm like, you just couldn't go where you were going? Like, why don't you just? If my car was making a noise unless like lights were coming on or something or I thought it was a flat tire or something. And that's what she said she thought it was. She thought it was a flat tire.

Flat tires, you want to pull over. Right. So, but interestingly enough, she flagged down some firemen who were passing by, who stopped and helped her. and they helped her by putting a device in her car that kind of blows up and then allows them to like stick a thing in there and pull the lock open right but the problem is is it does permanent damage to your car so they make you sign a waiver before they even do it and this entire time all I could think about was why didn't you just use the fireman's phone to call me because I was home and And I had your extra key. But let's not even bring that up. Clearly you've gotten over it, Derek.

I have not gotten over, Jesse. Evan says he got locked out of his room at youth camp on one year as a prank. The ensuing events were hilarious. We're going to have to ask him about that at a later time. Jesse, I've been locked out several times. I was a latchkey kid. So I got locked out of my goddamn house all the time. And I always found new and exciting ways to get into my house.

I remember one time I actually. I actually climbed up onto my roof because I had been thwarted at all ways. And I knew of a way to possibly- How does that even help you getting on top of the roof? My house at the time was a, it was a tri-level house with kind of like that half-basement, bottom level, mid-level, and then a top level. And we had like a little kind of window thing that could open to get into our attic, which I did.

This is a Spider-Man level of being locked down. Here's the thing, though, when people ask why in National Lampoons Christmas vacation, did Clark Griswold not just, you know, push the ladder thing down? It's because like ours at my house, it locked. So then the odd part was, even though I got in, I couldn't really get out. So now I was just stuck in the attic, which was even worse than being locked out. Because at least I could go places, but now I was locked and stuck in my attic. Now you're more locked in than that was locked in.

That point, correct. Yeah, and it was very, very Griswold. Had I broken a part of my ceiling by stepping on it, though, I would have gotten into the house from that hole, unlike Clark, who just waits up there the whole time. Another story I have is that my father used to be the GM of a hotel. He was for years, my entire life. So back at one point in the, like, kind of mid-90s, he was the GM of a Hilton in Woodland Hills. And I used to just run all over that hotel. I was, you know, like, a teenager 12, 13 years old. It's what you do when your dad, when your dad is the general manager of hospital. Yeah, totally. You order the, you order the shit out of room service and you run ramp it around. And that's what you do. And I did all of that and I had a good time. And I used to like to go up on the roof and the roof had one of those doors that locked behind you, but they, uh, it was broken for a long time. So I just grew to have this confidence level that it was never actually going lock behind me and at one point apparently

somebody fixed it and so when I went out it actually locked behind me Jesse let me tell you there is nothing more terrifying than being locked on the roof of a hotel and having no one legitimately know where you are like the movie of the hangover that shit hit home

with me because I was like oh my God I've had that happen to me and yes I could imagine people going to look for me everywhere and not finding me even though I'm right there at the hotel that we were all at, you know, because who's going to think to look on the roof? My dad, I don't think my dad even knew I went up there. I just like to go up there because I was kind of terrified of heights a little bit.

I like to go up there and just kind of, you know, live on the edge and kind of get over my fear. You're in that phase of life or if you're terrified of something, that's exactly the thing that you do. Yeah, you're trying to like, you're trying to kind of like look it in its face and yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And man, I just, it's funny because I hated elevator. so I used to actually walk all the way up.

It was like a 15-16-story hotel. Yeah, I mean, yeah, I had a lot of dedication to do it. But let me tell you, I mean, sunburned, lips chap, the whole bit. Like, I was up there for like six, seven hours because my dad was working, right? So my dad- How did you find you? Eventually someone came up because they heard me from down. Because at one point, I just started yelling like a maniac.

Because there's like concierge and bell people. stuff but I'm like on the roof you know like I can't hear me it's like eventually though I guess someone heard me uh and then they sent like a like a maintenance guy and a cleaning lady came up and then they were like the maintenance guy was like he was like your dad's been looking for you I was like oh I know shit don't we need to have a conversation about you know cell phone or something uh this was pre-s this was pre everybody having cell phones obviously but yeah that's that's pretty much it I mean that one that one really sucked. That one makes you never want to do stuff like that.

Like again, I still to this day double check doors before I go out and do anything like that. You know, like sometimes my friends are a little, they're a little scamps and they like to, when we're on a little wrestling vacations and other stuff we do, they like to kind of go places and check stuff out. And yeah, I'm the one making sure that we do not get locked out anymore ever again. But that's our lockout stories, guys. We promise to have more for you next week. Jesse has pending stuff to do tonight. So we wanted to definitely keep it short.

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Yeah, tomorrow. Okay. I forget, where are we even at? It's Friday already. Oh, my God. This week passes by. It's Thursday now, but if people are listening to the recording, it's probably Friday.

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I'm terrible at that, apparently. I got all my bets wrong on the bets podcast, Jesse. I go on to the tailgate show. I get all the bets right. I go on the bets podcast and talk about bets. I don't know why they still have you on there, dare. Why would they have me on? I don't know either.

Stop asking me to come on. I feel like a fool. You like, and then they, then they poke fun at me when I'm not there. John Betterable. Meanwhile, he's shrinking every single episode. He's becoming the tiniest man on PHNX. But you can find his content, Jesse's content, my content, all that content over at go phnx.com.

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We hope you guys are having a blast. And again, sign up over at go phnx.com and become a member. Use our code of PHNX over at Draft King's Sportsbook. Jesse, let's get this lockout ended. I need to get back to baseball activity. And when I say that, Like we didn't even get a pick in the rule five draft. They didn't even give us that in the minor league rule five draft. They gave us nothing. Give us baseball back. We need it.

It's all right, Derek. I'll get locked out of something this weekend. Yeah. Hey, hey, tell a lockout story. Oh, we always got mailbag Monday. So make sure you got to drop us some questions for mailbag Monday. And we will be sure to answer them. And then we will talk about Jesse's lockout story.

Yeah. I'll pull something on Tuesday. I'm a pretty, I'm pretty stupid. from time to time, keeping keys in the right place. Probably get locked out of my own, you know, apartment at some point. Aren't we all, Jesse? I've been spending a lot of time on my back patio in the inflatable hot tub. I got my wife for her birthday, which now has somehow become my daily office.

So maybe I'll get locked out in my backyard. We'll see what happens. But again, we thank you guys so much for checking out the show. On behalf of Jesse and myself, we appreciate the support so much. And remember, kids, baseball is fun. But God damn it, it's so. much more fun when they actually have baseball stuff going on. You know what I mean? Get back to baseball.