Chapter 1: Who are the greatest curveball pitchers of all time?
Bob, we were just talking about great curveballs because Clayton Kershaw is getting interviewed by McAfee. Boy, Kershaw definitely doesn't lift weights, does he? I'm in better shape than him.
He's retired now for the most part. He's got a little bit of a dad bod going on, but 11-time All-Star.
And one of the great curveballs of all time, and I'm looking at, I think it's MLB.com here, how he's not put in the top five curveballs of all time. I don't know. Would you like to know who is in there, Bob? Burt Bly 11. Number one, Sandy Koufax. Number two, Bert Behome Bly Levin.
He was good when he had it, man. I fell off the table.
Who did he strike out to win the NL championship that year, Bob, on a curveball looking in 1979? Wrong. Cesar Geronimo. Cesar. Cesar Geronimo.
Geronimo.
The third greatest curveball of all time, Dwight Gooden. Dwight had a good one, yep. All he needed was a fastball and a curveball. If you get the fourth greatest, either one of you, I'll take Limits and Donnie to another steak dinner. Oh, jeez. The fourth one. Vita Blue. Good guess. No. Hold on. Steve Carlton. Camilo Pascual of the Washington Senators, followed by Satchel Paige.
An old pirate named Ron Nechey? Nechey? Nechey.
Nechey. Ron Nechey. He has the minor league record. How have I never heard of Ron Nechey? He's 95 years old right now. He has the record. He once pitched a nine-inning game in the minors and struck out every one of his 27 hitters.
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Chapter 2: What historical context surrounds Ron Nechey's achievements?
Watch this throw.
Whoever playing third dropped the ball. Oh, my. What a great throw that is. Davis is really good defensively. If he can just tick that offense up from wherever it was to 230 hitter, and that seems like a big jump with 10 to 15 home runs, I think I would take that right now.
You've both lost your minds. For breakout candidates, there's a man named Connor Griffin that I would like to see break out. No, everybody knows. The most important breakout candidate on the team isn't Connor Griffin.
He hasn't broken in yet.
No, once he breaks in, he'll break out, Bob. You're wrong.
You put your break foot in. You are wrong. You put your break foot out. Yes, you will. No, you're wrong. We all expect Connor Griffin to come up here and have a really good season. Yeah, he's not a breakout candidate. It's just going to happen.
He's not an important breakout candidate.
Yeah, you want him to be on the major league roster?
It's just going to happen.
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Chapter 3: Why is Henry Davis considered a breakout candidate for the Pirates?
But Roman Anthony was ranked higher than him in the prospect rankings for a large majority of this minor league career.
I go back to Chad Hermanson. I bring him up every time I talk about this. Could walk on water, they said. He was supposed to be this can't-miss, and he missed.
So... I know. That's why he's that's why Connor Griffin is still a breakout candidate. But in my lifetime, yes, limits. And I don't think it was possible in a previous lifetime. Like, I'm sure when I don't know, Dick Grote came up, there were expectations, but there just wasn't a machine like a media machine like there are to create them.
There was no MLB pipeline or Baseball America hyping him up or watching him on TV playing for the Pirates in spring and stuff like that.
How come Billy Cook hasn't been more hyped, Bob?
I think Ron probably didn't spend enough time with him when he was a child. He needed more of that kind of guidance.
Thank you, Bob, and thank you, Limits. Thank you.
All right, boys, we'll see you again on Wednesday.
See you Wednesday, Bob. What about Tuesday? That's you. Tuesday with Joe. There's no more Tomlin News Conference, Bob. What's going on here? Yeah, Bob, what's the excuse?
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Chapter 4: How does Henry Davis's performance impact the Pirates' season?
Do you guys go in and work till midnight? Tomlin News Conference. Do you stay till one in the morning? You stay up till three in the morning? Yeah, there are some times where I do the evening show. You're 27 years old.
I pull a double header, Bob. Is there a Mangum PI bobblehead? That's a Skeens bobblehead. What day is that, Lemons? The Skeens bobblehead?
Yeah. April 20th? They could probably do that every year. The last year they did it, they had people lined up all the way around the block. Look at this, Bob. Across the bridge. Where do you see the Connor Griffin bobblehead?
There we go. It's the 18th, Lemons. Would a Malsy bobblehead be bald, Bob?
He's looking right at you. He doesn't have any idea he just talked about you.
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