Chapter 1: What makes Nolan McClain a remarkable pitcher?
Watching Nolan McClain pitch is really remarkable. He is going to be a great pitcher. We all feel that way. We all think that he has got the goods to be really a great young player. It's the way the Giant fans feel about Jackson Dart. We all think and we feel like this kid could really be a superstar player.
And then there's one other player that is basically burst onto the scene and has taken over his respective league. And he broke two records again last night, and that's Matthew Schaefer for the New York Islanders. Not sure if you saw this, but he had two goals. He passed Phil Housley as the youngest person ever to score the most goals. 18-year-old in NHL history, and he led his team to victory.
Chapter 2: Why is Jackson Dart considered a potential superstar?
So there's a lot of really good young players around here. The Rangers are going to go through a rebuild. They have some young players. Whether or not they're going to end up turning into something, who knows?
But there are, like I remember when I was telling you yesterday, there was somebody who put out a top 10 young player list in New York sports, and I think at the top of that list right now has to be Matthew Schaefer of the New York Islanders.
Yes. Let's see, 8 o'clock.
Did that shock you? Did that shock you?
Well, I had Nolan McClain down for 8 o'clock. I thought we would get into that. But since you did, I was listening to the Met broadcast yesterday as I was driving around. And he had one of those. Again, it is February 26th.
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Chapter 3: What records has Matthew Schaefer broken in the NHL?
We're not going to go crazy. Based on the way we saw him pitch last season when he was brought up, and then to see him start this way, he's going to be leaving for the WBC, I believe. And then, yeah, you've got a new ace of the staff. But I look at this kid as the likely ace for years and years to come of this team.
And listening to the guys talk about him with Keith and Howie yesterday and Pat, it was electric for a spring training game. He goes four innings. He gives up a leadoff hit. And then nothing. And he's striking guys out. And he had that swing and miss stuff.
And he is going to be, I think, from what we've seen so far, the next great thing to the point where, Boomer, maybe you agree, maybe you don't. I don't know. I said this to G last week. He laughed at me for other reasons. But you had the feeling last year in August and September when this kid pitched. It was like, all right, they're not playing well. At least McClain's pitching.
Chapter 4: How do young players impact the future of New York sports?
You felt like he was going to be the stopper, and he was more times than not. So I look at this kid as a superstar in the making.
Yeah, well, all right. So last year, I made a couple of comparisons to certain pitchers. This is where G was making fun of me. Everybody's making fun of me, of course. And then, you know, if you want to say that maybe he's just generations Dwight Gooden or can be this generations Dwight Gooden, look, he's got to prove it. I mean, and spring training is not proving ground.
It's proving ground to make the team, of course. But getting up here and starting 33, 35 games and, you know, and having a low ERA and basically being the player that we all hope he's going to be, then we can really buy into it. But the great thing about... like the three players that I just pointed out, and I guess you could throw Cam Schlittler in there as well.
I mean, you could throw him in there as well as you want. As a fan base, you are jacked up because now you know you have a young player where the sky is the limit if the young player can stay healthy and the young player can stay focused. That's really what it comes down to. You know the ability is there. You know the arm strength is there for the quarterback.
You see the ability to throw all these different pitches for Nolan McClain. And then, of course, you see what Matthew Schaefer did last night. The only thing, the reason I bring up the hockey and stuff like that is just because these are young players now that just don't seem to be overwhelmed by anything. I remember being a young player in the league. I was overwhelmed completely.
For about a year?
Yes, for a year. You don't know whether or not you belong, and then you question. You do have questions in the back of your mind. Do I belong here? Can I figure it out? Can I learn my craft? Now, some of these kids are born. Nolan McClain, I'm sure, has been pitching since he's been, what, five years old?
And he's also older. He's also not 19 years old, which does help.
Well, 100% it does help. But the other part of this is that there's an intangible in each of these players that you can't manufacture. They either have it in them or they don't. And if they do have it in them, then the question is, do they want to be great and will they become great? And, you know, those are questions that, you know, a number of these guys have still got to answer.
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