Jonathan Zaslow
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Podcast Appearances
He was sitting.
You've got to sit fastball there.
The guy throws 105 miles an hour.
Right.
You have to sit fastball.
What do you mean right?
I want to show all of you, for those of you who have not seen it, I want to relive the Levon Hernandez-Greg Maddox game.
The late Eric Gregg.
Early in this game, Eric Gregg was calling strikes that were in the opposite batter's box.
Levon Hernandez struck out 15 batters in this game, at least in part because the strike zone was the most ridiculous thing that there has ever been.
This is the only baseball game I have ever seen, right?
Ever.
Because players are fairly consistent when they say, I don't mind an umpire who is calling a very lenient strike zone.
I just want to know that he's going to consistently do that over the course of a game.
gave the same strike zone to Levon Hernandez that he did to Greg Maddux, but resourceful Levon Hernandez, who came from Cuba, realized in the first inning, wait a minute, he's going to give me a strike in the opposite batter's box every time, and he just started throwing all of his pitches in the opposite batter's box.
And Eric Gregg, you would say this is the worst umpired game that you've ever seen, correct, David?
It has to be.
There's never been a worse one.
It was a World Series.
No, it wasn't the World Series.