Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
After these three days. First, we have the three days. We have to figure out who's going to be in the postseason. What teams feel good about themselves heading into the postseason.
Chapter 2: What teams feel good heading into the postseason?
What teams are going to play each other in the postseason. What players are going to thrive in the postseason. All of that. That, of course, is after these three days. But we have three days to figure it all out. And then, boom, the reality hits. And let me just tell you.
Chapter 3: Which players are expected to thrive in the postseason?
We have had Rich Hill on a ton. A lot. A lot. But when he gets going about something, especially something that he's lived through and knows a lot about and can offer insight better than anyone, then you just have to sit back and listen. Today, I sit down with him. And after I try to get him to retire on the podcast, you're going to have to listen to find out if I've succeeded or not.
We talked mainly about two things. The actual ABS system that is being implemented next year, and while I know that that's not off top of mind, perhaps heading into this last weekend, it is a huge, huge deal. It was a huge announcement, and we have to get the proper perspective of exactly what's around the corner. It's not what you think.
It's not the perspective that you probably heard because it's coming from Rich. All right? And then the other thing is, Something that we've dabbled in for the last week or so, and that is living life in the postseason and how front offices, how managers, how players should view playing in October and how it is different. You have to listen to this.
You have to listen to Rich talk about the difference between regular season, postseason, and also how players are maybe valued more In the wrong way, the right way, all of it. Anyway, it's educational. It's entertaining. It's insightful. All of it. It's all in this podcast with Rich Hill. We always love having Rich on.
And this is a perfect, perfect time to listen, to sit back and listen as we head into this final weekend. All right. At BB isn't boring. At BB isn't boring. Follow, listen, subscribe, rate, review, subscribe. Producer Evan doing an outstanding job. You're going to want to follow along. ABB isn't boring. All the socials. All right. I'm boots in the ground. By the way, great, great.
I had a great time in Toronto. I love Toronto. That's where the Baseballs and Boring Roadshow was this week. And I stayed. I'm staying extra day. And the reason was because, well, I chose to... be one of those people who took the extra money to not fly on the scheduled flight and fly a later flight. But you know what? That's good.
I don't do it a lot, but I wanted to stay in Toronto another day anyway. So there you go. Toronto's in it.
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Chapter 4: What is the significance of the ABS review system in baseball?
Red Sox are in it. Yankees are in it. Houston are in it. Detroit's in it. Cleveland's in it. San Diego's in it. Los Angeles is in it. Philadelphia's in it. Chicago's in it. Milwaukee's in it. Cincinnati's in it. Arizona's in it. I'd probably miss someone. But if I could be there for each and every one of these series, I would.
But we're going to be traveling around and still get you greatest interviews, the greatest perspective, the greatest insight. I think we did a pretty good job of that today with Rich Hill. All right, here you go. Here's Rich. There's no... Pitcher who I keep trying to ask if he's going to retire, but he won't give me an answer that I'd rather be talking to than Rich Hill.
Hey, Rob. Hello. It's in the horizon. It's in the horizon somewhere.
Somewhere. I mean, isn't that the case for everybody?
True.
It's just the horizon closer.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're seeing the sunset. Sun setting and rising on another venture.
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Chapter 5: How do front offices and managers view postseason play?
We'll see. All right. You know what I think you should do?
I think that whenever that moment comes... You should do it. Because if you're going to retire, don't be one of those guys, first of all, that just fades off and we have to keep it. If you're going to do it, do it right. And I'm going to be like your wedding planner, right? I'm going to be your retirement planner.
How do you do it right? I don't even know how to do it. I guess guys have had one or two.
As someone who has gotten multiple people to retire, there's different ways that you can do it. Yeah. You can just say, do what Rick Porcello did, which is, hey, Rick, have you retired? No. You want to retire?
Chapter 6: What is the difference between regular season and postseason performance?
Okay, sure. Rick Porcello, are you retiring? Yes. Okay, we're moving on. James Paxton was sort of the same way. Sean Casey texted me in a movie theater. So anyway, here's what I think we should do. I'm like a wedding planner, like you said. I think you should be basically in a tattoo chair getting your baseballs and boring tattoo.
We'll have all the cameras, we'll have all the high-level video production. I might bring in a director and we'll say, okay, you spring out of the chair after getting your baseballs and boring tattoo and you say, I'm retired, but not from the great game of baseball. And it will always be. Oh, I like that. It will always be on my skin and in my blood. I just thought of that, by the way.
That's right. That's great. That's incredible. You should copyright that. Write it and patent it. There we go. Write that down. I would get a baseball isn't boring tattoo on my neck if you could get me a World Series ring. That would be I put it right here. Right there.
Wait, so you would?
So this isn't like Yahoo or Amazon replica ring. I'm talking about like, hey, on the team.
To add context to it, I have, you know, obviously Joe Kelly got the tattoo by winning doing exactly that. He got a tattoo. As a guy who has tattoos, even he didn't get it on his neck. Yeah, that's true.
I'd step it up.
Other people have committed throughout the year, Cora, Giolito.
Yeah, I saw the other day the hitting coach for Toronto, possibly. Yeah, possibly. He thought about it.
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Chapter 7: How do players manage the pressure of postseason games?
Oh, all right. All right. All right. We've solved a lot of the world's problems when it comes to retirement, I think. So just let me know. I got, I got, I got some ideas.
All right. Yeah. I was thinking, uh, you think big, you want to do a big mine is fade off into the distance and, and, uh, you know, that's us. Not, not, no, no, uh, no frills.
You could do it that way, or you could get a tattoo on your neck and, again, spring out of the chair and say.
I know. That comes. I mean, I even thought about it. I thought about this long and hard because I said face tattoo. I don't know. Do you get one? Do you get one, you know, forehead? I mean, that's bold. The neck is very bold. That says I, you know. Hey, listen. We're not going. Corporate America is not calling.
The good news is that if you do get baseball as a boring tattoo on your forehead, the hats are in, so you could put the hat down over your forehead, and so it will never leave you. It will be there forever. Yeah, you either have it on the hat or you take off the hat and it's right there. It will never leave you. Right. Yeah, it's kind of like what I have.
Every time I rip my shirt off and go all groundskeeper Willie and I'm like – Like, hey, just because I don't have my T-shirt on doesn't mean you're going to be smacked in the face with a baseballs and boring tattoo. That's right.
You know, under the hair, under the hair. And then, like, when you feel like it, you shave it, it comes out. I'll let it grow back in. You know, it's kind of like a shade.
The ideas are popping. This is why I actually think that you would make a good GM. Because you think outside the box.
That's true. That's true. I think outside the box, the creativity would be high. For the record, I have zero tattoos.
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Chapter 8: What insights does Rich Hill share about retirement?
I told Mike Cameron, by the way, we had him on the podcast yesterday. And it was like, I'm going to try to get Rich Hill to retire. Anyway, so before we came on, speaking of creativity, you wanted to talk about the ABS system, which you had a great, what do you call it, abbreviation for?
Yeah, what was that? It was anti-BS, aggravated bullshit, I don't know. Now I can't remember what I said.
I think it was automated bullshit.
Yeah, that's it. That's it. Automated bullshit. That's it. Yeah.
So by that, I suspect that you are not a fan of this decision. Please elaborate.
I just, you know, you want it to be fair.
You don't want any input from a couple of, now it's everywhere in the country, but gambling, you know, who's in charge, you know, obviously there'll be under strict guidelines and under control of where the strike zone is and how it's going to be appropriated for, you know, every hitter and, and accurate, you know, the accuracy of it is, is the biggest thing. Yeah.
And I understand the human element of the game and being able to have the accuracy of a human being, the umpire, behind the dish. But they work extremely hard at what they do. I know that the criticism never ends for that job, as it does for a player. But at the same time, I still think that human element part of the game is something that...
you know a lot of people want and uh if it's not going to be that that's my biggest thing is that if the abs is not accurate then it's not going to be something that's going to be fair and you know they're the biggest thing that i see is happening is trying to divide the union and if you can divide the union between hitters and pitchers which a cba is on the horizon and coming up
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