Tim Kurkjian

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907 appearances 11 recordings 3 series first heard Nov 2024 last heard 15 Jul

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The Dan Le Batard Show · The Big Suey: Buster Olney Looks Like… (feat. Tim Kurkjian) · 16 Apr 2025 podcast

They are today, yeah. Now, that's going to change because everything changes in baseball. But, fellas, they got six shutouts already. Their starting pitching is really good. Their offense even hasn't really gotten going. Manny Machado, Jackson Merrill is hurt. Louisa Rice hasn't gotten going yet. And they still find a way to score runs. They're really good.

But I'm telling you, fellas, the season began and I saw the six, maybe seven best teams in baseball were all in the National League and the Padres were one of them. So they are a very dangerous team and they're not afraid of the Dodgers. The Dodgers are going to be the best team in baseball before this is over.

But right now, I would I just did our power rankings this morning and I picked the Padres first in baseball.

Well, I had the Braves definitely go into the playoffs and I'm not giving up on the Braves yet, but they have really labored. Now they got Spencer Strider coming back today, which is a real helpful thing because he throws 100 with nasty, nasty secondary stuff. But I thought the Braves would be obviously better than this, but once they get Acuna Jr.

back and we're not positive when, that's been the big surprise for me is how they have struggled and how good the National League West has been. I knew the Giants were better. I knew the Diamondbacks were good. Padres are good. Dodgers good. But right now that is a historically good division three weeks into the season.

Yeah, I think team-wise, but Roy, the best part about this season is just how crazy and how unpredictable it has been, which has been every year. I mean, you know, Rafael Devers went 0 for his first 21, but first 19 at-bats, he struck out 15 times. In 19 at-bats, he's a really good hitter, at least at

At least two dozen times I've slapped my forehead this season saying, how in the world could this have happened? I mean, right now, Tyler Soderstrom is leading the major leagues in homers. Wilmer Flores is leading the league in RBIs. Jonathan Aranda is leading the major leagues in batting average.

This cannot happen in the NFL or the NBA that three weeks into the season, three players who are good players would be leading the entire major leagues. This is why baseball is the greatest game is it is way too good to be predicted. Good players are bad. Bad players are good. It makes absolutely no sense.

All the time. And look, I don't want to be Mr. Ethical here, but I was taught at a very young age in the newspaper business, you do not take anything from anybody. I did a golf tournament in 1981, the Memorial, and they gave me a little notebook to take home with me that said Memorial on it. And my boss, Dave Smith, made me mail it back to the golf course saying, you

You don't give any of our guys anything for free. Yes, people ask me for tickets all the time, and I just have to politely say no. One guy, former pretty good player, Sandlot player, asked me if there's any way I could get him on the field, he was 55 years old, to hit and see if he could hit a ball over the wall at Fenway Park. He asked me if I could arrange that for him.

I think that was the last day I spoke to him because that was the most ridiculous request ever.

Zaslow, I'll tell you what, I'm pretty certain that Timmy knows Eddie Vedder. I'm pretty certain.

Is this a true story, Tim?

I met Eddie Vedder once at the ballpark in Wrigley, but typically I wasn't sure how great he was until people told me, hey, you met Eddie Vedder. He's like the greatest of all time.

Well, I met Nickelback on an airplane once. The entire band was on the – and they – so I – somehow we got in a conversation with them. So I said, so who are you guys? And they said, we're Nickelback. And there was absolutely – No understanding on my part. And I said, honestly, this is so bad. I'm so embarrassed. It's not that bad. It's all right. I said, what is that?

And he said, oh, we're a musical band or a group or whatever they called it. So I was sitting with Nickelback. They explained who they were, and I didn't know who they were. That's how bad poor Pop-Pop is at so many things.

Pop-Pop, that's fine.

We have a segment every week, Dan, called Poor Pop-Up, because we go over something that everyone else in the world is capable of doing, except for me. And then Jeffrey, who is a magician at doing so many things. He can fix anything. He can figure everything out. He explains how the world works in our weekly segment called Poor Pop-Up, where I just explain what a dope I really am.

Stu Gatz, have you heard from your guy yet? I have not, no.

Well, I'm sure I accepted a pen. But back in the newspaper days, Dan, when I covered the Texas Rangers, they, of course, used to feed us in the press room every night. And it was for free because back then in the early 80s, the press room didn't charge as they do today. But my boss, Dave Smith, the guy who made me send the satchel back to the Memorial Golf Tournament,

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