Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
I'm going to play a couple of things. You're going to wonder why, but I'll get to it in a second. If I take you back 25 and a half years ago to what a moment in New York sports. The barrel of the bat comes back at Roger Clemens, and he fires the bat back toward Piazza, who is going down the first baseline.
Chapter 2: What incident involving Roger Clemens and Mike Piazza is revisited?
A young Joe Buck back in the day on Fox. We all remember that quite vividly. How could you forget? Then they showed the replay, and Tim McCarver, who was still with us at the time, had this reaction when watching it. I'll tell you, that is a blatant act right there. Piazza has every right to be upset. Now, why would I be playing this? Well, yesterday on the Carton Show with C-Mac.
Now, what do we think of C-Mac as the Yankee fan? What's he known? He's a shill. He's a shill. It's like they're doing a Yankee-ography on him right now. Yeah, yeah. This one's interesting, as this was his take, that Clemens didn't do what we all think he did. He didn't intentionally throw the bat at him. Excuse me? He didn't intentionally throw the bat at him. Of course he did. No, he didn't.
What do you think he was doing? That's a very fair question. Yes. Here's his cockamamie answer. Throwing the bat, which was garbage, off the field in anger because he thought he had the out. He was being a good citizen. No, no, no. He saw garbage in his room. He decided, let me throw that out. And it just happened to be aimed directly for Piazza's head. Coming off the bat. Come on.
He thought the bat was the ball for half a second. Oh, man, he is. I went back and watched this. I'm like, did I remember it wrong? He's staring right at him as he heaves the bat right towards him. But, hey, good for Chris. You know, you believe what you believe, and he stuck with it. He goes to field and thinking it's the ball. I thought it was a baseball.
Then when it's the bat, he's like, damn it, I thought I had it out, and chucks the bat off the field towards the dugout. He doesn't know that Piazza is running up the first baseline. Even Clemens would tell you he threw the bat at Piazza. No, he didn't. Okay, and then lastly.
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Chapter 3: What was C-Mac's controversial opinion on Clemens' actions?
Now, was he wearing his smock as he was going through this? I don't know what he was wearing. His Yankee smock? He was wearing a Yankee shirt, I believe. I'm sure he does. He wears one every day. Craig was the one to point out. That's why you have a nickname as the shill. He just didn't. That's the shilliest thing you've ever said. It's the truth. Come on now.
I don't care either one way or another. I don't care. Of course you care. No, I don't.
Chapter 4: How did Clemens justify throwing the bat at Piazza?
Again, watching the video, I don't know what he's looking at. I remember the whole thing. It was so intense. I know, but he keeps saying that he's throwing the bat towards the dugout. I'm thinking for a moment, man, do I misremember that? Like Clemens, and he turned and threw it towards the dugout. No, he throws it right at him.
As ridiculous as it was, you could make a case that to the point where C-Mac says he thought it was the ball for a second, realized it wasn't, then threw it off the field. You could almost like 10% stay with him until he says he didn't know Piazza was running up the baseline because he's only seen, what, 100 million batters run up the baseline to first base after hitting a baseball?
And he's staring at them. Yeah, I mean. All right, so here's the thing. I asked ChatGPT, did Roger Clemens throw a broken bat at Mike Piazza? And the answer is yes. And the answer is yes. During the 2000 World Series, Roger Clemens threw a piece of a shattered bat towards Mike Piazza. There you go. I mean, I don't know. How can C-Mac defend that? The photo's hilarious. How can he defend that?
He thinks that's a ball? It looks like a knife he's throwing. How does he think it's a ball?
Chapter 5: What was the reaction to Clemens' explanation of the bat throw?
He's crap. He's holding it like a football. I mean, if you would have thrown it the other way, you could have thrown it like a spear. Yeah, absolutely. It's just really funny. Just Craig in disbelief to wrap this part up. You can't sit here and tell me that you actually believe that A, first he thought it was a ball. For half a second, he thought he was fielding it.
Never once when it was in his hand. And then B, he was merely trying to clean up garbage. Well, not clean up garbage. He was annoyed. It wasn't the ball because he thought he had Piazza out. All right, so a little bit later on in the response from AI, Clemens later said he thought the broken bat was the ball and reacted instinctively. Yes, he said that.
However, many observers, including Piazza himself, questioned the explanation, of course. And by the way, I knew this. He did not get ejected for that. That's the crazy thing about it. That's what Met fans wanted. Right. And this is, I think, the common opinion on this was that those matchups were so crazy between those two guys. And Clemens was insane on the mound.
Well, Clemens hit him in the head earlier in the season. Obviously, yes. We know. With that actual ball. This guy was trying to hit him with a bat. Right, so now you've got the intensity of this, all the fans on their feet. The bat comes flying at him.
He's just angry and pissed because of this whole thing, and he's heard about Piazza and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, and he just grabs the thing and throws it at him out of just instant reaction, which was him being a nutcase. Correct. Yaha. Yaha. Yaha. Yaha. So I'm ready about the head hit incident. Hold on, let me ask Rock why Boomer said... It's interesting.
ChatGBT, why did Boomer say... Is that one me repeating him or is that actually Boomer? That's Boomer? Wow. Oh, well, it was funny anyhow. And then remember you had the... Who was the pitcher that went out there and had to... Throw it? Sean Estes. Number 55. Refused to throw it at him, threw it behind him. So kind of funny. Didn't he hit a home run in that game, Sean Estes, too? Maybe.
I feel like he hit a home run in that game. All I remember was waiting for him to plunk Piazza in the shoulder and throwing it three feet behind him. That's all I remember. You could be right about that. Meantime, current day Yankees. Aaron Judge on the McAfee Show. Just, you know, talking about what it means to represent the country and the WBC this week, which starts Friday night.
When I put on the uniform, honestly, looking at the flag, just really reminded me of all the men and women out there that have fought for this country or are fighting for this country. You know, I get a chance. My family's safe at home. I get a chance to go play a kid's game every single day. You know, I get to see my daughter at home. I get to see my wife, see my family. So it's just...
That was my first thought. I was like, man, there's people overseas, everywhere around the country, people in the past that have lost their lives. Yeah, and a lot more of that going on right now. So it certainly resonates. A lot of gratitude. Yeah. That's what that is. Yep, no doubt. So the U.S. will start with Brazil on Friday night. Some spring baseball today. The Mets, not the Marts.
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