Ron Coomer
speaker
1,294 appearances
34 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 1 Sep
Ron Coomer’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Do you
Yeah.
Well I I would say I I listened uh to Will's comments after the PCA walk off Homer and I understood it.
I there's there's different trains of thought and and I we were talking about this in the booth yesterday, well before the game with you know
Darren Jackson and Jeff Francore and I you know, ex players that played the era before this.
And we were always taught, and this is straight from my manager, this is from Joe Torrey and um Kelly, uh Tom Kelly with Minnesota.
They would flat out say in the team meeting before the series, if they had a star player, we are gonna do our best not to have that guy beat us.
And I watched Roger Clemens in the final game of a series.
ready to chew nails because Joe would not let him pitch to Barry Bonds.
And finally we're up eight to two in the seventh and Clem just looks into the dugout and the skipper just gives him the shrug of the shoulders like go ahead big boy go get him and
I'm playing first base and holding the runner on and I come off the bag and Bonds hit a ball so damn hard.
I went like, whoa and the ball went over my head and hit the upper deck, the third deck, and I flinched and I was like, Oh my god.
makes sense, right?
And I I I went, boy, skipper's pretty smart, man.
He's had my life in his hands, me playing that close to the hitter.
That was no good.
If it wasn't the godfather Joe Torre, Clem would not Rock would have never agreed to that.
He'd been uh uh.
I'm pitching to him.
And what are you gonna say to Clemens?
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