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Chapter 1: What insights does Josh Donaldson share about his recent softball game?
All right, welcome back to Blair and Barker. Whoa. Why are you yelling like that? That's a good question. Shouldn't do that. 707 will be the first pitch tonight from the Rogers Center as Max Scherzer makes his return to the mound. Winning edition. For the Blue Jays. Eh? Winning edition. Yeah, we're doing Blue Jays talk after the game. I'm not saying anything more than that.
I'm not saying it's a winning or losing edition. Yeah. Um...
Chapter 2: What challenges does Max Scherzer face upon returning to the Jays' rotation?
It's always a pleasure to welcome our next guest to the show. He is Josh Donaldson, 2015 American League MVP, and of course, the bringer of rain. How you doing, Mr. Donaldson? Yeah, how you guys doing? We're doing well. How'd you hit him today? Yeah. Straight?
Yeah, hit him pretty good. We had a little scramble over here at the Joe Carter Classic, so it was always nice to
The other question I have to ask is, how'd you hit him in that beer league game? And can you please tell me... Yeah.
Chapter 3: What does John Schneider say about the Jays' upcoming game against the Phillies?
Can you please tell me what people have to do to get Josh Donaldson to come and play?
You're pimping homers, too, in a beer league game? Yeah, that was... Well, I was okay.
Chapter 4: How can Vladimir Guerrero Jr. regain his power at the plate?
I would, too. I mean, a homer's a homer's a homer.
I had to give him the full experience. They wanted the show, so I gave them the show. That's what it was about. Yeah. How did they get you to do that?
They...
Yeah, I've been here for, or I'm going to be here for 11 days. And we were doing some stuff for the podcast. And, you know, I was like, you know what? I went through my DMs and somebody DMed me about playing in the slow pitch softball league. Their team needed help. I was like, you know what? I think this would be a great opportunity to, uh,
Chapter 5: What are Pete Walker's expectations for Max Scherzer's performance?
to do that. And I was in town and I had a Monday off from not doing anything and so I decided to do that. That's the first swing you've taken in a while?
A long time. That was the first one in a while. It doesn't hurt? I tried that once, almost broke myself in half. Yeah, you did. I was limping for two months. Didn't hurt at all?
Chapter 6: How does the Jays' pitching staff manage expanded workloads for young pitchers?
Yeah, well... I swing a golf club quite often enough to where the swing wasn't affected. It's more of I was worried about the other stuff, the lower body, hoping I wasn't going to pull anything. And I kind of tweaked the cap a little bit on my last at-bat when I hit a homer. But I was like, all right, whatever. I didn't know that we were going to be playing nine innings.
We played a full nine-inning game. And I was like, all right. And, you know, I was giving the boys some good effort out there.
They didn't tell you that you were playing nine innings? No.
Wow. I've never played in a full-page softball game that was going to be normally like six or seven or something. But, you know, we went the full Monty.
What did the opposing team think when you showed up?
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Chapter 7: What strategies does Pete Walker use to maintain pitching performance under pressure?
Did you show up with everybody else and just, you know, get out of the Chevelle or whatever the hell everybody was driving? Oh, there's Bob. I remember Bob from accounting. And there's Johnny. Johnny from who the hell is that? Oh, my God. It's Josh Donaldson.
It was they the game was at seven. I think I showed up about 655 to the field. And I would say the other team didn't.
Chapter 8: How does Josh Donaldson view the current state of the Blue Jays' lineup?
I think most of the guys on the team that I was playing for knew that I was coming, or so it seemed. They were all excited. And the other team was like, what is going on? They were trying to figure it out at first. And then they all came over, and they were all excited about it, too.
All right, well, we did get to see you hit a home run. We showed the visuals of that. Barely went out, too. Ball scraper. I mean, and tonight. Wind blowing out. Tonight we're going to see Max Scherzer pitch. So what should be more surprising to me, Josh Donaldson still hitting bombs or, you know, Max Scherzer still pitching?
Hmm.
Oh, I would say probably me hitting bombs at this point because I didn't think that I'd be strapping him any time soon after, you know, stop playing. But, yeah, sure. He's obviously going to go down as one of the great pitchers that we've had in the game. Hopefully tonight he's able to get back on track. I know he's had some injury problems this year and
you know, start, you know, giving some quality starts for this.
Josh, how hard is it when you've been elite for so long and, you know, Max is obviously, Max is going to the hall of fame. He's been elite for so long. How hard is it when you get to that point in your career where it's, it is, you know, it's just the body, the body just doesn't let you do what you want to do. You're not elite every day.
No. Yeah. I was actually explaining that to somebody earlier, not too long ago. It was like,
where i was at at the end it was like i felt like i could play at like 40 without really hurting myself and you know the major league level at that time you know it was um it required more than that and you know it's not fun it's not fun when you've been elite and you go out there and it's so that you can't do what you want to do it's just the amount and time and
For him, it would be the amount of pitches. Or he's got a lot of mileage, too, on his arm and on his body. So that's what I miss. I don't miss not playing anymore. That's not what I miss. I miss playing at the top of my game. And that's where... you know, whatever, it was time for me to hang him up. I was like, yeah, I'm done.
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