The Herd with Colin Cowherd - Parker MLB - Opening Day Approaches; Celebrating Negro League 100th; Ian Desmond Criticism; Bobby Bonilla Day; Guest: Bobby Valentine

Episode Date: July 2, 2020

This week on Inside the (Rob) Parker, Rob gives his thought as opening day gets closer, reflects on the importance of the Negro League as it turns 100, and why he thinks Ian Desmond made some valid points in a scathing criticism of baseball's culture. Former MLB manager Bobby Valentine and Tigers beat writer Anthony Fenech join the pod to discuss the pros and cons of a shortened season. Click here to subscribe and download all of the latest Inside the Parker podcasts!! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Former Major League manager, Bobby Valentine, drops by the podcast. Also, we'll talk some baseball rule changes for the upcoming season with baseball beat writer Anthony Finneck from the Detroit Free Press. That plus foul affair and much more. Let's go. To lead off, it's getting robbed. And keep them up. Rob's hot take on the three biggest stories in Major League Baseball.

Number one. Wake the kids, call the neighbors. July 1st, that's right. Players reporting to makeshift spring training facilities all over Major League Baseball. Here we go. Basically three weeks. And we could have a Major League game. The 2020 season can get started.

July 23rd. That is the scheduled opening day. Who knows what to expect? It's going to be strange. It's going to be weird. But I'm going to tell you this. I am embracing it. Embrace the 2020 season.

Except what we have. It's better than nothing. I'm not going to poo-poo it. I'm not going to call it. illegitimate on any nonsense like that. We're in a pandemic. If you want to read more, go read my column on deadspin.com. It's an open letter to MLB America talking about this very thing.

We just have to embrace what we have. And will it be legitimate 60 games? To me, it's legitimate if everybody's playing the same amount, given the circumstances we have in the country right now with the pandemic, this is the best that can happen. There's no other way around it. I'd rather have this than 18 months with no baseball. So it won't be long.

22 days and we'll hear play ball. And yes, baseball America will be open for business, even without fans, but the national pastime will be back. Number two. A few days ago was the 100th anniversary of the Negro leagues. Yes, you remember prior to Jackie Robinson being allowed to play in the major leagues in 1947, black players, brown players were barred from playing in Major League baseball. So of course, they started their own league, the Negro leagues. And there were teams all over and fans showed up and they had great. uniforms and team names, Kansas City Monarchs, the Black Yankees, I mean, the Newark Bears. There's so many different teams and names, the Cleveland Clowns, just crazy, crazy names. But let's celebrate. And you should take a look, how many Negro League teams can you name?

And we know some of the great players who played there. including Satchel Page, Josh Gibson, all kinds of great players who never got a chance, in case of Josh Gibson, never got a chance to play in the majors, who was considered one of the greatest hitters who ever played baseball, period. And that's a shame. But it is the 100th anniversary, and I think you should Google and look it up. Read on it. It's very fascinating.

try to figure out some of the teams and the players and celebrate black baseball, yes, the Negro leagues and it's 100th anniversary. Number three. The Rockies Ian Desmond had some interesting and harsh words about Major League Baseball this week, talking about baseball, leaving behind minorities, especially in the game when you talk about the financial ramifications of what baseball has turned into, from kids playing on sand lots and neighborhoods to now, you know, this whole organized baseball and elite level and showcases and players have to pay

$1,000 to be seen by scouts at these big tournaments, weekend tournaments and whatnot. And the response to it obviously is that that is not good because you do separate and you limit some players from having access to that stuff. So the only players who are being seen and drafted are the same people who can afford to go to these showcases. Baseball has done a lot to try to bring baseball back to the black and brown faces, especially the black kids in the inner city. They have the RBI program reviving baseball in the inner city.

It's been around since 1989 and just more than a million kids of participate. participated over the years. And that's a good thing. But there needs to be more. We've seen the numbers and Hispanic players explode to 27%, which is incredible. Baseball had a small uptick of African Americans from 6.4 to 7.3, somewhere like that, about a point up, which is good. It's not going the other way, so it's growing.

But there needs to be more. And I think baseball recognizes it, understands it, and I hope it does more to make the game more inclusive and more accessible to everybody. Here comes the big interview. Listen and learn. Oh, it's so good. We've got former Major League Baseball manager Bobby Valentine here on the podcast. And Bobby, I want to start with this. I need you to clear this up for me.

rumor has it back in 1999 when you showed up to the dugout wearing sunglasses and a fake mustache. That wasn't a one-time thing. That was a crazy. It was a crazy day. Yeah, there's a catcher's balk called a Mike Piazza by the home plate umpire. I had never seen, but I heard about catcher's balk, but never seen one called in a game. And now in this very close game that we felt we had a win, at least I'm. I felt I had a win because I had 55 games to go 40 and 15, or else I was going to quit. Okay?

I made that a public statement. I would go 40 and 15 in the next 55 games. And when I was asked, what if I didn't? I said, I quit. And this is like the fourth game of that 55 game stretch. and they call this ridiculous call on Mike Fiasu, who I starts argue with the umpire, and I run out to the umpire to get in between them and say, hey, guys, let's not do this, Mike, I can't lose you.

It's extra inning. Stay in the game. And as I was walking away, I turned around and I said, hey, Randy, can you throw me out for what I'm thinking? And he said, no. I said, well, I'm thinking you're a waltzy umpire. And then a couple other things. And he threw me out.

And so when I got up into the clubhouse, the guys said, said, hey, you've got to go back down to the dugout because we had just changed coaches, and they weren't sure that the coaches knew everybody who was in the bullpen. And so it was extra earnings, and I went down after putting on glasses and a hat and a t-shirt, and then went into the training room and looked to see what I looked like and saw that they had these eye stickers that you put underneath your eye to keep the sun from having too much clear. and one of the eye stickers and I put it underneath my nose along my top of my lip, and I click another one and put it down the other way.

I looked at the guys in the clubhouse and they said, they'll never know. And with that, they'll never know. I went out and put it and dug out and got to find $10,000 in a three-gain suspension. And then when I threw myself on the mercy of the court president of the National League, Leonard Coleman reduced the three days to two days and reduced the fine from 10,000 to 5,000. So whoop do you do, that's that whole story. So Bobby, but when was the second time? Did you do it another time?

The first time I did it, I was in the American League, and I got suspended for three games, and the league president then said I couldn't be in the stadium after batting practice. And so it was like, oh, it couldn't be in the stadium, huh? Well, how, if we're in the Metro Dome, am I going to watch this game? Because somehow, I've got to watch this game. It's my team playing, and it wasn't on TV in the bar across the street. So I went to these little street vendors, and I found a lead Zeppelin T-shirt, and I got some baby powder.

At this time in my career, my hair was like jet. black. And I took that talcum powder and I poured it all over my head to make my hair look like it was gray and I got a pair of sunglasses and I got a fake mustache and turned

it gray and I put a hat as though I was going to leave the stadium as I was directed to and I turned right and went up an escalator to go to the left field bleachers. The only problem was

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With the preponderance of data at our fingertips, we are always looking for new ways to rank hurlers. That today, we're going to look at a metric called Sierra, or Skill Interactive ERA. Now, like FIP or DRA, we talked about earlier, Sierra is measured like ERA, but instead of taking into account only strikeouts, walks, and home runs, like FIP does, it uses balls and play

to find out why certain pitchers are so successful at not limiting runs. Now, strikeouts, they're very good. High strikeout pitchers usually allow weaker contact, which limits runs. Walks, they're bad, duh, but pitchers who limit them will feel Sierra numbers improve. Balls and play, that's where Sierra differs. Pitchers who can maintain a low batting average on balls and play or bad-bip, either by coaxing weak contact or a high-strikeout rate will perform very well, according to Sierra. Now, with those parameters in mind, let's look at last year's leaderboard.

No shot, but seeing guys like Cole, Scherzer, Verland, or DeGromoam up there as 1 through 4, really helps to legitimize the metric. And in fact, each of the top 12 pitchers on the leaderboard struck out at least 10 batters per nine innings while walking less than three batters per nine innings. Now, Sierra year-to-year is one of the most accurate predictors of success for pitchers and should be one for baseball fans everywhere to keep tabs on going forward. It was a big week in the big leagues.

Or is it fair? And now, here's shadowleague.com MLB Insight. J.R. Gamble. In a nine-page letter on Instagram, Colorado Rockies player, Ian Desmond, reflected on racism he's faced through his life and recently became one of four players sitting out the MLB season. He said he's enduring it to improve the Sarasosa Little League parks

and inspire better Little League baseball culture and more diversity in the game. Is Desmond sitting out the season for these reasons? reasons foul or fair jr it's fair it's a fair ball ian desmond is biracial which is a completely unique experience to most people he says he sometimes feels like he belongs everywhere and nowhere all at one he says the image of george floyd murder was his breaking point and sent him on a whirlwind of reflection and the racial challenges he faced such as when he was in high school and the baseball team got in the circle and shouted white power before the games,

or he says racist remarks that he heard in the pro locker room, he's kept his emotions hidden for so long. Instead of playing this season, he's committed to making baseball more affordable to kids. So many African-Americans get priced out of the sport, and that hurts him because baseball has so much to offer all kids as far as development as a person. He also wants to change what he calls a white coach.

of baseball, one that doesn't penalize black players for, in his words, having fun, tipping home runs, or playing fancy. He thinks it will help reconnect black athletes to the game and just make it more fun. So kudos to Ian Desmond for being one of four major leagues to sit out for acknowledging these things and wanting to help improve baseball culture from the youth levels on up. It's time for Trash Talk Twitter. Your chance to trash anyone or anything in Major League Baseball. This week's winner is Alon comma Ball is Life, and he hit me up on Twitter with his trash.

Quote, I'm trash and Judge Rakoff. There's absolutely no reason at all to unseal Manfred's letter to the Yankees. That investigation is over and done with. The Yankees were fined already for illegally using a dugout fight. With everything that's going on, there's no need to bring this up. It's old stuff. Baseball doesn't need any more scandals. We should all just be happy with the fact that we're having a season.

If you want to be like Alon and win a new era snapback hat, make sure you hit me up with your trash on my Twitter at Rob Parker FS1. That's right, trash anyone or anything in the world of baseball. When Rob was a newspaper columnist, he lived by this motto. If I'm writing, I'm ripping. Let's bring in a writer or broadcaster, old or new. All right, now let's welcome into the podcast, Anthony Fenwick. He's covered the Detroit Tigers for seven seasons for the Detroit Free Press,

and of course covers baseball. Anthony, welcome to the podcast. Rob, my man, thanks for having me. Always good to talk some ball. No doubt. And, of course, July 1st on Wednesday. players started to report to the makeshift spring training or summer training, whatever you want to call it. Just talk about the anticipation of maybe having baseball in three weeks.

I tell you what, I think there's anticipation, but to be honest with you, Rob, I think there's more holding of the breath because I don't think anybody knows for certain that Major League Baseball can get through these next three weeks with the way that the coronavirus cases are up ticking across the country. I don't think anybody's confident that they can get through these next three weeks, let alone an entire 60-game season. I think that there's still optimism, and they're calling it summer camp. I don't know how I feel about that. But, yeah, there's optimism. But is this the baseball? Everybody wants to see a 60-game season in the height of uncertainty.

So I think it's kind of tempered, especially with the bad taste that remains in everybody's mouth from the labor negotiations. I get it, but I think at this point in the pandemic, if you're a baseball fan, Anthony, you're just looking for, if we can get a fast and furious season in, I get all the other stuff and what's going on, and you're right. But if we can get a full regular postseason and some ball in, given the circumstances, I think most fans would take it. I think so, too, and I think it's unfortunate the players and the owners were not. able to come to an agreement because I think in this format, 60 games, if you would have increased the postseason teams to expand the field, I think it would have been that much

more wide open. A team like the Tigers might have an opportunity to sneak in there. So I think baseball is better than no baseball. Sports is better than no sports. And we'll just have to see how they kind of handle it throughout the spring training in the summer. Our guest is Anthony Fenwicky covers the Detroit Tigers for the Detroit Free Press. Let's talk about some of the things we could see if there is baseball on July 23rd, which is the scheduled opening day. So all National League games will include the designated hit or where are you on that? You like that?

Yeah, I think that's a long time coming. If it wasn't going to be now, it was going to be at the next CBA in a couple years. I think the game has just been trending that way. and I think that, look, it's got some flaws right now, especially in a society that has such a short attention span as it does now, I think the game needs to pick up a little bit. And I think that if they substitute a pitcher for a designated hitter, a guy that's just in there for the bat, the offense will increase,

and they'll get their goal there. So I think especially because it adds another high-price position to those NL teams, I think it's okay, but you know what, Rob, I'm going to miss this strategy. And I know people say it's outdated and pitchers are getting hurt and that. I understand it. But there was something unique about National League Baseball. No doubt.

I'm with you growing up watching National League Baseball in New York as a kid. That's what I was accustomed to. This one, I hope this is just for 2020. But putting an extra inning, putting a runner on second base, you know, to start the inning or, you know, where are you on this? And my argument, Anthony, is that there aren't that many extra inning games, my God, that you're making it like it happens every day. Do you like this? No, I also don't like the other rule change, which is the, you have to have a reliever finish the entire inning, pitch to three batters, etc. No, first, extra innings.

I mean, what's going to happen do you think, Rob? They're going to, they're going to bun a guy over to third base, and then they can try to score them with a, with a sacrifice fly. I think that those 17, 18 inning games, that's part of the beauty of baseball. But I will say that, look, this isn't a normal baseball season. I think one of those games, if you were to have a 16, 17, 18 inning game,

I think that could really handicap a team for the next week or two. And given the fact that there's 60 games, I see where they're coming from. I don't think it helps the brand of baseball, the brand of game that it is. And then, look, the reliever. it's like, look, is a manager going to have to sit there if he knows that his reliever isn't, he doesn't have it today?

If he can have to sit there and watch him blow the game because of this new rule, so I don't like either. And I do think baseball has a little bit of a problem on their hands because these rules are so new. And it's something that they have to get more life into the game because these are the best players that ever played it, but the product is very poor at this time. All right. Last thing, as we said, you've covered the Tigers for seven years. And the real guy who, if it was a regular season, could have had a chance to hit his, hit maybe, isn't he close enough to hit 500 home runs or maybe not? I think he's... 25, 30 away. I think we're talking about the same guy, Miguel Cabrera. Right. Miguel Cabrera could have done it under normal circumstances. I doubt he's going to do it this year in 60 games, hit 25.

but Miguel Cabrera, what can we expect? Can he bounce back? Is he healthy or is still a question, Mark? Well, I'll tell you what, Rob. I just got back from watching Miguel Cabrera, who was one of my close, warm, personal friends. I watched him take some batting practice at a local batting cage, and he looks better than I have seen him since I've been covering him.

I mean, this guy, he's slimmed down, and he's appeared to kind of maintain that shape over the three-month layoff. He was hitting rocket after rocket, and I think that it's really easy. 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.

I'm Timbo. Every episode, we're cutting through the noise, breaking down the plays, the controversies, and the stories behind the headlines. We go straight to the source, the athletes themselves. Their locker room stories, their reactions, the stuff nobody gets to hear. The laughs, the drama, the triumphs,

the moments that never make the highlight real. From viral moments to historic games, from buzzer beaters to controversial calls, we break it down, give you context, and ask the questions everybody wants answered. SportsSlice brings you closer to the action with stories told by the people who live them.

Listen to SportsClyce on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. And for more, follow Timbo Sliced Life 12 in the TikTok podcast network on TikTok. Do you remember when Diana Ross double-tap Little Kim's boobs at the VMAs? Or when Kanye said that George Bush didn't like black people.

I know what you're thinking. What the hell does George Bush got to do a little count? Well, you can find out on the Look Back at it podcast. I'm Sam J. And I'm Alex English. Each episode, we pick it here, unpack what went down, and try to make sense of how we survived it. Including a recent episode with Mark Lamont Hill,

waxing all about crack in the 80s. To be clear, 84 is big to me, not just because of crack. I'm down to talk about crack on day, but just so you all know. I mean, at this point, Mark, this is the second episode where we've discussed correct. So I'm starting to see that there's a through line. We also have AIDS on the table right now. Thank you finishing that sentence. Yes.

I don't think there's a more important year for black people. Really? Yeah. For me, it's one of the most important years for black people in American history. Listen to look back at it on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. What's up, guys? This is Clifford 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? Quarterback on office blue with 42. Hey, ref, my mama want you to wave at her.

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I wholeheartedly think, you know, you hit 30. You shouldn't have to share one with anybody. Mm-hmm. From navigating friendships and healing to setting boundaries and prioritizing your mental health. These are real honest conversations. We don't always get to have out loud. Totally unreasonable with different parts of life, right? Like, oh, have all three meals and make sure you're mindful during all of them?

Absolutely not. During one meal, I'm standing. I'm standing and handing my children food. Because healing, empowerment, and resilience aren't just ideas. They're practices. And this Mental Health Awareness Month, there's no better time to pour back into yourself. Listen to cultivating her space on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. To look at Miguel Cabrera as a 36, 37-year-old player who's past his prime, it's harder to look into it deeper.

And you know how this guy was. This is one of the greatest right-handed hitters of all time, if not the greatest. And I think he still has something to prove the 60-game season should do him well. I'm expecting big things from Cabrera in 2020 because I think that he's really put in the work to make his body get his body in shape and that should help him, especially in the 60 game teaser. All right, his name, Anthony Fenwick from the Detroit Free Press.

Thanks for joining us on the podcast, Anthony. And maybe just maybe this will all work out and we'll have baseball on July 23rd. Hopefully, man. Thanks for thinking of me, Rob. Appreciate it. Now it's time for some diamond dust with Wish TV's Phil Sanchez. Out of here!

He played baseball in college. Now here is MLB knowledge. Baseball might be right around the corner, but COVID-19 isn't going anywhere anytime soon, and some MLB players have decided not to play this season because of the virus. On Monday, Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Mike Leak and Washington National First baseman Ryan Zimmerman announced they are opting out. of the shortened season because of the pandemic. And later in the day, Colorado Rockies Outfielder, Ian Desmond,

released a statement saying that he, too, would not be playing this season. Desmond has four children and a pregnant wife at home, and he said that being home this summer is more important than playing. In an Instagram post, Desmond, who is my racial, also points to the civil unrest as a reason for opting out of the season. Desmond said, quote, home is where I need to be right now. Home for my wife.

Home to help and guide. Home to answer my older boys' questions about coronavirus and civil rights and life. Home to be their dad, end quote. Hat tip to Ian Desmond for doing what's right for him and his family. Funderstruck, adjective. Shocked and amazed by the power of fun on Carnival. Riding Bolt, the world's first roller coaster at sea.

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Here's why MLB is better than the NFL or NBA, and it isn't even close. Here's why baseball is better than the NBA and the NFL, and it ain't even close. What other sport can celebrate a player? Wednesday, July 1st, was Bobby Bonilla Day. What? You're asking me Bobby Bonilla, the former third baseman and outfielder in the Major League? Yeah, that Bobby Bonilla. somehow some way the Mets owed them $5.9 million and instead of paying him the money they decided to defer the payments for what seems to be ever.

So Bobby Bonilla on July 1st of every year gets a check for about $1.1 million from the Mets. And this has been going on. He's last, he hasn't played since 1999. And he will get that check until 2035, if you can believe that. There's still 15 more years. So what was supposed to be a $5.9 million payout has turned into a $35 million windfall. The New York Mets, what were you thinking?

You couldn't have been smart. No other sport has such a kooky story that happens every year. on the same day. 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.

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Last night, a blown call changed a game. This morning, the internet lost its mind, and nobody's telling you exactly what happened. That's where Sports Slice comes in. I'm Timbo, and every episode we're cutting through the noise, breaking down the biggest moments in sports and giving you the real story behind the headline. And we're going straight to the source, the athletes themselves. Their locker room stories, their reactions in the moment, and the stuff nobody gets to hear.

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