The Herd with Colin Cowherd - Parker – Inside the (Rob) Parker - Stop robot umps; Top trade deadline needs; Puig's resurgence; Rob's Top 3 teams; Guests: Dale Murphy, Bip Roberts

Episode Date: July 17, 2019

Listen to Inside the (Rob) Parker in Podcasts. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/inside-the-rob-parker/id1460750158.  This week on Inside the (Rob) Parker, Rob on why he is against robot umpires like those being tested in the minor leagues, why he's excited  about the looming trade deadline, and how Yasiel Puig is reviving his career in Cincinnati. He also names his Top 3 MLB Teams of the Week, this week's 'Twitter Trash Talk' Winner, 'Foul or Fair' and the Analytic Stat of the Week. Guests: Dale Murphy - Braves great and 2X MVP on Atlanta's young stars and the HOF; Bip Roberts - Former Major Leaguer and A's broadcaster on transitioning from the field to broadcasting and the A's playoff chances. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Two-time National League MVP Dale Murphy is on the program. Also, former second baseman and outfielder and current Oakland A's TV analyst, Bip Roberts. He also drops by. That and much more is coming up. Let's go. Better up. To lead off, it's getting rough. And keep them up.

Rob's hot take on the three biggest stories in Major League Baseball. Number one. No way, no how should Major League Baseball even consider this horrendous experiment by the Atlantic League. You know, the independent minor league. It has robot umpires. This is what they're trying. They've installed radar enabled strike zone technology and its ballpark. park this month and they're having the balls and strikes called by an umpire

upstairs in the press box and he has like a device in his ear and the umpire behind the whole play doesn't make the call the call is made from upstairs and he relays what the call is what are we talking about where are we life is about human beings the players are real The umpires should be real. The game's been around for 150 years. People make mistakes. They're bad calls. They're a good cause.

We do not need robot umpires. Baseball. Stop it. There's nothing wrong with the game. Get better umpires. When umpires don't do a good job, fire them. That's what you should be worried about. Let human beings do these jobs and stop with the electronics.

umpires. Number two. The baseball trade deadline is looming July 31st and it's a hard deadline unlike the past. This will be the only time a team can improve itself as we move forward to the second half of the season and the postseason.

There are no waiver-wire deals or anything else. Those have all been done with. They've all been done away with. So here we go. This is the most significant thing about this and why you should expect to see a lot of trades coming up. Because the last nine World Series winners, you know what they all have in common?

They all made an important trade at the deadline. And they added pieces and pieces parts that they needed. That's including the 2018 Red Sox, the 17 Astros and the 16 Cubs. Sometimes you just have to go out and get what you need to put you over the hump. So I get it. You remember when the Astros went out and got Justin Verlander from the Tigers? They wouldn't have won that World Series without Justin Verlander.

No doubt about it. How about when the Cubs picked up a Walrus Chapman from the Yankees? They don't get that World Series either without Chapman. So this year, the two teams I think need to make key, trades in order to reach the World Series, the Dodgers need somebody in the bullpen because their bullpen is the weak link. There's no if, if, ands or buts. If they don't fix that bullpen, they will not, NOT make it to the World Series for a third year in a row, and they won't win it. And the New York Yankees. The Yankees need a starter. They have to add a starter.

They've done a great job. They've done everything they need. to do, but they need another starter for that rotation. If those two teams... Last night, a blown call changed a game. This morning, the internet lost its mind. Highlights are trending, opinions are flying, and nobody's telling you exactly what happened. That's where Sports Slice comes in.

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Listen and learn. Oh, it's so good. Let's welcome to the podcast, former Major League outfielder, two-time National League MVP, seven-time All-Star. Yes, his name is Dale Murphy. Dale, thanks for joining the program. Thank you, Rob.

Thanks for having me on. No doubt. Tell me, Dale, the Atlanta Braves, I just want to jump right in, have been a great story the last couple of years. How much do you follow them? How much do you like that young team? And tell me, do you have something brewing?

down there? Yeah, they do have some, Bruin. I check every day what they're doing and try to check now that you can see games on your phone and you don't have much excuse to at least see what happened. So I check in what happened. If I didn't see the game, check the highlights. And I love what they're doing. And I think they're going to get stronger here before the trade deadline. They have predicted that this group was coming online, and they're exactly right. Acuna is fantastic. The Albi's at second is fantastic. Dan Sby Swanson has improved his offense.

The signing of Josh Donaldson was tremendous, and Freddie Freeman at first. First I'll mention the infield. Infield's going to break all kinds of records this year as far as a power-hitting infield for the Atlanta Braves. And then they added Brian McCann, which is more than his

he's more than his statistics, which I think is, you know, a great thing about great players. He's just such a solid catcher and experienced catchers helping this young pitching staff along. And we haven't even got to the pitching staff yet.

There's just some really solid good young pitchers. And And, and, I was going to say, I was just going to say, Dale, and give the Bray's credit. They went down and got Dallas Keikle. Oh, yeah, yeah, there's a lot of good things happening that I haven't mentioned. You're right, Dallas Keikle. You know, and they made a great decision organizationally a couple years ago to give Brian Snicker a chance. He's kind of a Bobby Cox, you know, out of that mold, loves his players, good to play for.

and they just, they're just solid, Rob. They really are. And, you know, the Phillies, you know, kind of not doing great. Washington's come on a little bit. But this, I feel really comfortable by where this Braves team is. No doubt about it. I think they are having. What a good year.

We saw Freddie Freeman with an unbelievable sizzling hot month of June. He broke all kinds of records for the Braves. That guy is a star. No, no question about it. remember, you know, a million years ago, and we had the few good years when I played with the Braids. We got really good when we got Trishambas from the Yankees as our first baseman. First Baseman really solidify and cover up a lot of things. And Freddie's one of the best defensive players, you know, on a hitball. But, you know, and I don't know the numbers of

errors he saved for the infielders. And, you know, add to that, he hits third and is a great hitter. So first baseman, I tried it one year. You can't hide over there. No, you can't. That ball will find you. That's right, especially at first base. It is nothing to mess around with, obviously, but I think sometimes people think, you can just go to first.

It doesn't work that way. He's just an all-round superstar and should be in MVP talk. No question about it. Let's talk about your career because it was tremendous. Obviously, I mentioned earlier, you won back-to-back National League MVP's at 82 and 83, and that's not easy to do. You hit 398 career home runs. That was when cable was starting, and TBS was a super station right, and the Brazier on around the country.

You guys became America's team because everybody could watch you. What was that like? I know you guys never really got to where you wanted to go or to win a World Series, but tell me about how much you enjoyed playing in Atlanta and your career. Well, you're right, Rob. I travel the country now and I run into fans, Atlanta Braves fans, that started back in the 80s with Ted Turner and putting us on TBS every night around the, well, around the world,

but obviously around the country. And I think it's a great lesson to learn that baseball is always better with more exposure. And we can see baseball a lot of. different devices now. And I just think, you know, the more exposure, the better. And I think TBS and what Ted Turner did is just a great example. We have a generation of Atlanta Braves fans that have passed it down to their kids because they saw baseball every night.

And it's just been a great thing to travel a country and meet fans. I spoke in Florida, North Dakota, a couple years ago, a whole bunch of Braves fans. literally all over the country. And especially in the towns, which are not close to major league teams, obviously, but even some people who didn't like their local team came on the Braves train. So it was a great experience. It was really unique and something that still lives on, Rob. It really does.

No doubt. You didn't get into the Hall of Fame. You know, there was always a debate about you. where were you have are you uh obviously you would love to be in and be immortalized and it's not a lot of guys as i said who won two mvps and put up almost 400 home runs are do you do you do you have you accepted it or you still think that you you belong and probably been overlooked because your team didn't win as much uh i think there's a couple things going on and and i'm i'm i'm good with where we're at first of all i got to thank the hall of fame they've

They've changed the voting a little bit that have given the guys in the 70s and 80s and early 90s more looks. Alan Trammell and Jack Morrison as an example. Right. They both got in after not being voted in by the riders, right. Right. So I got some other opportunities. But I think you make a good point as far as exposure. I think one of the good things about being in postseason, not only a chance,

to win a World Series, but it does, you get more exposure, higher, you know, just better exposure. It was really only in the postseason for three games. We got swept by the Cardinals. So I think that would have helped. And so, no, I have, you know, I knew if it did happen, if it does happen, it was going to take a while. So, you know, I have some other opportunities, and we'll see what happens. All right. His name is Dale Murphy, two-time National League MVP.

Don't forget his restaurant. I'm going down to do SunTrust Park in August. I'm going to check out your restaurant, Murph. It's called MERS. Right near the ballpark. Absolutely, Rob. Look, I think we've got to be the only restaurant in Atlanta that has fried cheese curds and fried Oprah. So check it out.

All right. We'll do that. Thank you so much for joining the podcast. Thanks, Rob. It's time for the Pocket Protector Central. The analytic numbers you need to know. Well, maybe. FS1's Anthony Masterson is his name.

BS Analytics is his game. What you got for us today, Anthony? We can track so many things in today's game. Most that highlight great hitters and hurlers, but identifying great defenders has still come back to the eye test more often than not. But that may be starting to change. Just like we've talked about expected batting average on the pod,

the reverse of that is catch probability. Catch probability is a likelihood of batten ball to the outfield will be turned into an out based on four pieces of info. How far the fielder out to run? How much time did he have to get there? What direction did he need to go? And how close was he to the wall? Measureed in percentages, the more time of fielder has to react to the ball

and the less distance needed to reach it, the higher the catch probability. Now, another element to this is that catches are given stars by degree of difficulty. A one-star catch has a catch probability of 95% or higher, while a five-star catch is any play made with a catch probability of zero to 25 percent. Now, only three players this season have made at least three catches. They can be considered five-star.

Two of them are speedy center fielder's in Byron Buston and the Cardinals Harrison Bader. The other? Well, that would be the Dodgers, Cody Bellinger, who's also hitting 340 and leading the league in home runs. Starting grading that MVP trip from Bellinger already right now. Thanks, Tony, for all that knowledge. That ball is. It was a big week in the big leagues. Who's up?

Who's up? Or is it fair? And now, here's shadowleague.com, MLB insider, J.R. Gamble. All right, J.R., let's get going. The Mets who made bold trades in the offseason started Tuesday 15 games out in the NL East. Is it foul or fair for them to give up the season and trade their assets? at the trade deadline. Oh, man, that's foul.

That is a foul ball. By asset, you mean one of their prime pitchers, but wheel is on the injured list and already have Tommy John, and that's is shaky. What is anybody going to get from them? I seriously doubt that the Metro Trade's Indigard, but that's possible. The bold trades haven't panned out.

Cano's deteriorating and Diaz is struggling. The Mets need to, one, hire Boatport as manager and get some support for Brody Van Wagman when it comes to evaluative talent and spend the money on free aliens. The mess of solid building blocks and McNeil and Alfonso and Cindergarde and DeGrom

gives you something to build on. Clearing house, trading assets, nah, that's not the move. You can go to worst to first, quickly in baseball. The guys at the top have to go first. No need to panic, though. Fasten your seat back.

Give me fuel, give me fire, give me double-trial desire. Here comes Parker's top three MLB teams this week. Number three. The twins. Yes, I know people think that the twins are going to fall off the face of the earth in the second half, but they didn't do it. Not yet at least. And I don't think they will. Last night, a blown call changed the game.

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Search Learn the Hardway and listen now. What's up, fam? It's Isaiah Thomas. And I'm C.J. Toledano, and our podcast Point Game is about defying the odds. Like LeBron heading into the playoffs without Luca and Austin Reed. And finding ways to win no matter what. He's the smartest player to ever play the game. His IQ is at a level that we've never seen before.

And he knows without Luca and Austin Reeves, I got to manipulate the game. We get a player's perspective on the challenges of the playoffs. I think Joker's going to be exhausted this series because when they don't have Rudy in the lineup, he has to really guard guys like Nas Reid. He has to guard Julius Randall. And then he has to give us everything he gives us

on the night-to-night basis on offense. And when IT's friends stop by like Quentin Richardson, we dive into some playoff history too. Steve Nash will get that thing. That man, hell get the flying. He running up the court, licking his fingers why he got the ball. Like, after you go through a training camp

with that, Isaiah, you figure it out real quick. Get your ass up and down the court, and you're going to get the ball. So listen to Point Game on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. What's up, guys? This is Clever Taylor the Fourth. And on my podcast, The Cliver Show,

I'm bringing you conversations about all kinds of stuff. Like being an internet famous referee. We're in the middle of a game. This linebacker, this linebacker walks up to me, he goes, hey, ref, my mom wants you to wave at her. What? Time out. Quarterback on office blue with 42.

Hey, rep, my mama want you to wave at her. What? Where's she at? Hey, Miss Parker. Listen to the Clippers show on the I-Hart Radio app, Apple Podcast or wherever you get your podcast. I had a statement win against the tribe in Cleveland, right? There was a chance that the twins, had they been swept in that series,

could have seen their once double-digit lead in the Central and the American League shrink down to less than three games. And instead, they won the first couple of games in the series and left town with a bigger lead than they arrived. The Minnesota Twins are for real. Number two. The New York freaking Yankees, I've been telling you all year. And I know Monday night was a horrendous loss to Tampa Bay.

You can't give up a three-run jack in the ninth and lose a game like that in the Bronx. But let's just be honest. Given all that the Yankees have been through coming into Tuesday night, they just had one less win than the dollar. And the Dodgers have been unbelievable all year long, pounding the baseball. So the Yankees are strong. Eventually they're going to have their team at full strength, and they will be a force in baseball like they have been with spare parts.

The Yankees are the second best team in baseball. Number one. The Los Angeles Dodgers, it's hard to not look at. at this team and not think they're the best team in baseball because they take their hitting shoes on the road. They pounded the Phillies on the road. They also won an important nighttime game Sunday night baseball in Boston after dropping the first couple of games. So they put together back-to-back impressive wins. They have the best record in baseball as of Tuesday. The only one concern is the bullpen and that is a real concern that will have to be addressed

at the trading deadline. But right now, right here, the Los Angeles Dodgers are the best team in baseball. Trash Talk Twitter. Your chance to trash anyone or anything in Major League Baseball. This week's winner is at John Quinn 83 and he's trash in Philadelphia. He tweets, The Phillies were emasculated Monday night by the visiting Dodgers In the top of the night, two outs, the batter struck out And the Phillies didn't even start moving off the field Not realizing it was the third out And earlier in the game, the Dodgers catcher stole home

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Major League second baseman left fielder. Bip, thanks for joining the podcast. Hey, thanks for having me, Rob. I didn't know, man. You do everything, don't you? You know I do, man. I'm a hustler. Come on, man. How long you know me, Now. That's right.

That's how we do it, man. That's how we do it. No doubt about it. Bip Roberts played 13 years in the big leagues, 294 batting average. And Bip, now you're into television. You're working for NBC Universal. You do the pre-and-post game analysis work for the Oakland A's.

And, you know, I got to cover you in Cincinnati when you played there. You always glib and, you know, answer the questions and all that. How was it to be on the other side now doing 10? television and, you know, talking to the players and stuff that you do. I tell you what, Rob, it keeps me close to the game, and then I get a chance to learn who all the new players are. So even though I've retired, still been around the game for a long time. So I think it's been one of those things where now that I don't have to play, I think I'm enjoying

it a lot more, you know, and I look forward to it each and every day. And it's just been one of those things that's evolved into something that has become. come a second career. And now that I'm on this side of it, you know, I try to be fair, but I tried to explain exactly what happened out there. So whereas it used to be, I was a player, and I had to hear what people said. Now I'm the guy that they have to hear saying what I think about a certain player. So it's just been one of those learning experiences where, you know, what to say and what not

to say. So, and all in all, it's been fun, it's been a second career. and I've been blessed. See, now you appreciate when I was the beat writer for the Cincinnati Enquirer what I had to go through, am I right? It ain't that easy. Absolutely. People think, oh, these writers and these guys are hacks,

and they're just ripping on us, and it is definitely a tough spot, but it is fun, like I say. Did you ever imagine being a broadcaster? I did not. You know, my last year playing ball. talking with Greg Popper, one of our big guys out here, you know, and ask them, hey, how did you get into this industry? And what made you going to this industry? And I was just thinking of things, what would I do if baseball ended today?

And, you know, I still wanted to be around the game at some capacity without having a coach or living in everyday life. Because every day life in baseball is tough, man. Yeah. You know, so, you know, just him talking to me and explaining how he got into it and what it all entailed. I said, hey, you know, there's something I could do. I love a game and I love to talk to the game and just keeps the game along with talking the game. How do you love this new baseball, because you used to steal bases, I think you had 264 lifetime. But basically, it's all about home runs and strikeouts.

It's a totally different game. Not the same hit and run. They're not guys on the base pass, all the shifting, which takes a lot of hits away. Do you like it? It's just so different to me. I see balls here and I go, that's a base, oh, guys, stand? What are you doing right behind second base, you know? And then there's a ball hit the right field.

And wait, there's a guy standing right in the field. What kind of baseball is this? Right. I just look at it like this sometime, Rob, and I have fun with it. I go, I want to think they could do that against it in our generation. There's no way. We would pick that apart. You'd have guys in 350.

So it's a different time. I understand it. You know, it seems like the ball. right now is a little different than it used to be. You ain't just saying Bip is juiced, right? It's juiced. Have you felt one of those balls? Have you put one of those

where you put in your fingertips and go, wait a minute. This doesn't feel like the normal baseball. Wow. And the scenes just don't feel the same. I cannot really like pitchers could stick their fingernails in the scenes and raise them. You can't do that. And when the sound and the ball, when it hits the back,

when it comes off the bat, I don't know if you play golf, but when the driver hits the golf ball solid, how it takes off, there's no drag to the baseball, to the golf ball. That's what it seems like when the baseball hit now. Like there's no drag. And like if it hit really good, it might just go out the stadium. Wow.

Tell me about, you cover the A's, obviously. Tell me about them. They made the playoffs a year ago. They're in the hunt again and playing well. What's going right for the game? Oakland A's this year? The timing, it's always around this time of year, where they all of a sudden

start to play well and consistently play well and beat teams that they should beat and compete against those teams that they should, you know, have to compete against. And it's just a calendar. It's that way every year around here. They could get, you know, close to 500 around the break. And then also

before the break, they get hot. And then it carries over. It's almost like, used to say back in the day, what you've done is what you're going to do the second half. And this is what they do. They carry it over to the second half, and they play consistent baseball. They have players who, but maybe nationally are not known, but these are so really good players. They can play some baseball. So they're on one of those streets now where consistently they're going to play well for a

month at a time. And now it's the matter of who's in front of them, how consistent they are to keep them off. Will they make the playoffs? Yes or no, the Rangers are in the mix. Of course, the Astros, and the Angels are also in the mix, but not as much as the Rangers. Willie-Ais make the playoffs, yes or no? It's going to be a dog fight, Rob.

But I'm going to go with my boys over here in Oakland. All right, I appreciate it. His name is Bip Roberts. And yes, former Major League Second Baseman outfielder and a broadcaster for NBC Universal up there in Oakland. Bip, always a pleasure. Thank you, my man. All right, man.

Thanks for having me, man. And good luck and everything that you do. Appreciate it. Now bring in the closer. Track one. Track two. The right three. Here's why MLB is better than the NFL or NBA.

And it isn't even close. Here's reason 1,000 why Major League Baseball is better than the NBA and better than the NFL. I was at Yankee Stadium on Sunday with my buddies. And of course, the seventh inning stretch came around. and no other sport has a song in any point of the game like baseball does where everybody gets up, everybody's a part of it, and everybody sings Take Me Out to the ball game. No other sport has that.

It is the biggest and greatest bonding you can do with buddies, with friends, with family, with kids. It's awesome. I don't care how old you are, how young you are. Everybody knows the words. Everybody gets up. everybody joins in. It's a fun time at the ballpark.

Could you imagine doing that at an NFL game or NBA game? No, you can't. And I know me and my buddies aren't good singers, but here we are. Mike, Walt, Mikey, and myself singing, take me out to the ball game. I don't know about you, but I got goosebumps. That's sports.

In the words of New York TV legend, the late Bill Jorgensen, thanking you for your time, This time until next time. Rob Parker, out. He can't get it. This could be an inside of Parker. See you next week.

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