00:00but carlos beltram got into the hall of fame they've heard that yesterday and uh it's it's
00:06look his best years were with the mets his best postseason was with houston yeah but he's probably
00:11going to go to the new york met what's interesting about that is the player no longer gets there to
00:16decide what team he represents and the reason for that is because back in the day both wade boggs
00:21and fred mcgriff they sold that to the tampa bay rays so when wade boggs who obviously should have
00:27gone as a red sock right when he went into the hall of fame he went in as a tampa bay ray the
00:32tampa bay rays paid him a million dollars to rock a race cap for his bust and the major league base
00:39was like hang on a second you can't sell like hat rights to the hall of fame so the player gets a
00:46vote but does not get the only vote and a group of like nerds with pocket protectors on who break
00:52down analytics are going to say it makes more sense for you to go in as a representative of
00:58this team versus that team i think the only team that would really compete with the mets would be
01:02the royals if i'm right ethan for beltran is that right yeah that's he had the greatest postseason
01:09uh maybe of all time and that's how he got his money right that's how he got the big contract but
01:15that was with houston he was not with houston as long now he went back to houston of course he'll be the
01:20only guy in the hall of fame that played with the astros as both an american league team and a
01:24national league team yes but you know here's what's interesting about beltran getting in
01:27he's an admitted cheater not a steroid cheater but a cheater with the garbage cans absolutely it was
01:32his plan right and he admitted it it's his plan he was a player when it happened and everyone said
01:37they followed his you know his lead as a veteran player so now major league baseball is openly
01:43welcoming in a guy that has admitted cheating the game and let's not let's not get it twisted he cost
01:49the yankees a trip to the world series that year and that's not for debate and cost it likely cost
01:54the dodgers a world series as well and i'll take you one step further on that because you have steroid
01:59cheaters over here and then you have his type of cheating like sign stealing all that kind of stuff
02:04yeah if if you polled 50 baseball players from any era and you said to them which one of those cheats
02:11is worse for the game i think you'd have not unanimous but the majority would say i would rather know the
02:20exact pitch that's coming as a batter than have steroids in my body that lets me hit the ball farther
02:26and harder maybe run faster you know that kind of thing yeah i think the majority would say knowing
02:32the pitch is a far greater advantage than being on the juice
02:36you
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