Russ Dorsey: All-Star Tristan Peters was 'really good find' for White Sox

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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?

Marshall Harris 0:01

Rahimi Harrison-Grody.

Vinny Rotino 0:03

We love having Russell Dorsey in studio.

Russ Dorsey 0:06

If you say something that I find offensive and then I invite you to my privates.

Marshall Harris 0:11

First thing I thought of when you just said that was Veronica Corningstone in Anchorman. Are you saying there's a party in your pants and I'm invited? Oh my gosh.

Russ Dorsey 0:21

Middays 10 to 2. Party with pants. Party with pants. On 104.3 The Score.

Vinny Rotino 0:31

We are back with Russ Dorsey here on Rahimi Harrison Brody on 104.3 The Score. The new episode of the Relay with Russ Dorsey podcast is out. Available on YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts. He has a fantastic article out about Jacob Mizorowski right now on Yahoo. Working for MLB Network, Friday Night Baseball, and Apple TV. This is Russ season. I know, I feel like we're probably going to repeat ourselves when it comes to the trade deadline talk. So I want to get... Your thoughts on what we've seen so far out of revamped All-Star. We didn't know what was going to happen with the new home run derby format. I feel like especially for us here to watch Mune, to watch Kyle Schwarber go head-to-head with Wilson Contreras.

Vinny Rotino 1:17

We see Jordan Walker. nemesis of the Cubs being with the Cardinals. There was a lot of Cub adjacency, I feel like, in the Home Run Derby. We got to see a White Sox represented in the Home Run Derby. What did you think about the event overall?

Russ Dorsey 1:32

Hmm. Okay. Number one, great ending.

Vinny Rotino 1:36

Yeah.

Russ Dorsey 1:37

Fantastic ending, which I think is the most important part that you have an ending that people can enjoy and appreciate. You had a winner that people were really excited about in Jordan Walker, who's having a breakout year. And so that was very fitting to go up against the hometown hero and Kyle Schwarber, who looked like he was going to win it. They booed. They tried to make sure those boos were raining down on Jordan Walker. And, you know, he was really excited about winning. He's out there with his family. It was really cool. The event in and of itself, to me, I think the ending made it better. I was actually a fan of the timer because it gave the Home Run Derby a pace and a flow with no timer. And a lot of, for everybody out there, some inside baseball pun intended here, the reason that you don't have a timer is that if I'm Netflix...

Russ Dorsey 2:32

and I just bought Home Run Derby, I'm going to get my money's worth, right? So, yeah, no timer kind of makes sense in the streaming model. But I do think you lose flow when there's no timer. So that's something that's just personal to me. I don't know if anybody else cares.

Vinny Rotino 2:51

You are somebody who floats between those formats, though.

Russ Dorsey 2:55

Yeah.

Vinny Rotino 2:55

Because Apple's like that.

Russ Dorsey 2:56

But I'm thinking of it in just the home run derby and non-game situation.

Marshall Harris 3:03

Our Odyssey colleague, Grant Paulson, was on earlier who was there hosting some shows. And he brought up the possibility of a hybrid where you maybe have the timer for the first two rounds, but you get to the finals just straight swings. I'd be down with that. Which would slow it down to your point. Right. And that makes the ending much more... The drama builds. Yeah, the drama builds in a way.

How did the new Home Run Derby format perform and what did Russ Dorsey think of the ending?

Marshall Harris 3:26

And I responded to him with what I've been thinking about for a couple of years now, which is why not have the pitch clock for the first eight innings of a baseball game and then turn the pitch clock off for the ninth inning and beyond?

Russ Dorsey 3:41

I don't think we should do that. Tell me why. Because I think it's shown that it works effectively doing it the way you're doing it. And I don't think it has... change the dynamic of the game. I think initially people were like, oh my God, what's going to happen? And we don't even think about it anymore, similar to what ABS has become.

Vinny Rotino 4:02

I don't know that players would like playing in two different formats either.

Russ Dorsey 4:05

I think with... pitch clock where you have it in the postseason now and it, you know, we haven't had a, oh, a game decided by a pitch clock violation, right? So there hasn't been some big egregious moment to make a change. And it would feel like making a change just for the sake of making a change. But I do like it in terms of