Transition w/ Spiegel & Holmes

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Who are the guests and what segments open the show?

Matt Spiegel 0:00

Physical, tough, smart, and detailed.

Vinny Rotino 0:02

PTSD. Whatever is necessary today. Y'all knocked it, but he had a point, now didn't he? Now didn't he? Thanks to our guests. Thanks to the Twitch mob for messing with a delusional Dallas Cowboys fan. We call that NFL fandom. Thanks to Ray Diaz, Tyler Beterbaugh, Brandon Pryor. Thanks to Cody Westerlin, Connor O'Donnell, Jacob Stutz, Max Curtis, thanks to our bevy of guests today. We had Nick Friedel. We had Luis Medina, John Gonzalez, and Kaylin Kaler with just an absolutely outstanding article. I think I need to read a few times to fully absorb. Yep. Yeah. Yeah. Thanks to Mark Burley. Thanks to Alexi Ramirez.

Laurence Holmes 0:48

Thanks to Ramon Castro. Amen. That's who was catching.

Vinny Rotino 0:52

Ah. Did he catch Umber's perfect game? I forget.

Matt Spiegel 0:57

He did not. I was just looking it up as we were discussing. Was he already with the Rangers at that point? I'm getting to the Umber. It was caught by A.J. Pruszynski. Hold on. Hold on a second here. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. He's not dead. He didn't catch the burly. Ramon Castro caught the burly. That's what I just said. Yeah.

Vinny Rotino 1:17

Just listen to Lawrence. That's what happens when you get real deep.

Matt Spiegel 1:22

I was Googling Lawrence.

Vinny Rotino 1:23

When you get real deep in the stats. Yeah.

Matt Spiegel 1:26

The only person to catch two perfect games is Ron Hasse. who caught Len Barker and Dennis Martinez a decade apart.

Vinny Rotino 1:36

Isn't that cool? Do you remember how close A.J. got? It was the U. Darvish versus the Astros where the last batter, the last batter of the game was Marwin Gonzalez. Ends up getting like a weak, weak single. It's your cousin, Ma Wynn. Listen to this. And Umber, I think, was still on the Astros at the time. And he told me, he's like, I looked at AJ and we just looked at each other and he was like, almost, man.

2:04

Wow.

Laurence Holmes 2:04

I caught a no-hitter in college.

Vinny Rotino 2:06

That's impressive.

Laurence Holmes 2:07

Shout out to Dan Bolin, the pride of D.D. Eisenhower High School. He went out there and it's seven. Went seven innings and no hit. Still pretty good. Ironically, I got hit twice in that game. What the hell? Yeah. It wasn't fun. Life as a catcher. I got beat up in that game.

Matt Spiegel 2:26

Were you waiting until the very end of the pitch clock to make eye contact with the pitcher?

Laurence Holmes 2:32

Is that what you were doing? I was like turned. I would have thrown at your ass. I was turned, and then I was like, all right, now I'm ready to hit.

Vinny Rotino 2:40

Of all the sports things that I would like to do,

Laurence Holmes 2:44

buzz the dome high and tight every now and then would be one for me and then just pretend you weren't like rattle the cage sorry about that i'm like i'm sorry i'm a girl i can't throw i didn't know what i was doing i don't don't want to go high and tight on someone but fair rib cage rib cage make you spin out a little bit what about the love tap

Matt Spiegel 3:05

The thigh. How about just the thigh? The big meaty part of the thigh.

Laurence Holmes 3:09

If you've got pinpoint control. I feel like this is a good area, but you want to get inside and be like, oh, slipped.

Matt Spiegel 3:17

Got away from me. What you don't want to be is Riley O'Brien in the All-Star game when he hit Junior Cabanero. Good God. He looked so sad and freaked out.

Which memorable baseball perfect-game catching stories are they discussing?

Matt Spiegel 3:25

Yeah. And then he did it again, by the way. He did it again to lose a game the other night for the Cardinals.

Laurence Holmes 3:30

Yeah.

Matt Spiegel 3:30

Hit somebody with the bases loaded for a walk-off HPP.

Laurence Holmes 3:33

You never want to hurt someone. And, like, that's, it's a weapon. And it definitely is a weapon at that speed. And you never want to hurt someone. It's a terrifying feeling. And that sound, if you hit someone clean and you hear it hit bones. On the bone, yeah.

Vinny Rotino 3:49

Or, like, the hammy bone that they, you know, that's always the one. Oh, no, no, no.

Matt Spiegel 3:52

A.K.A. the Jose Ramirez is back. Jose Ramirez is back last night. What do you have, two for five?

Vinny Rotino 3:57

In a loss.

Matt Spiegel 3:58

In a loss. It doesn't matter. You're right.

Vinny Rotino 4:00

It doesn't matter.

Matt Spiegel 4:01

It doesn't matter because it's scary. This is when it gets real. Stephen Kwan has turned it on, by the way. It's getting very real. They make a trade for a little more offense, you know, with their treasure trove of pitching and the minus. Okay, okay, Steve. You're not going to talk me off that ledge. Well, Lawrence is the one who talked me onto it.