00:00You know, I, I've been asking this question to everybody and I'll ask you this one.
00:04Would you be a fan of seeing like the MLB players in LA 28?
00:09I mean, I know it kind of is going to be a little difficult, especially with the start
00:12of a season, like you have in the middle of the, uh, you know, NHL season, you have to
00:18go to the Olympic break, but in your opinion, would you be a fan of those guys playing in
00:23LA 28?
00:24I really would look, look what it does for hockey.
00:27Look how, you know, I'm a, I'm a very low key hockey fan, but boy, when, when those
00:32national tournaments, especially the Olympics come on board, boy, man, I'm, I'm watching
00:36team USA, I'm watching Canada, watching all those good teams.
00:39I think it'd be a good thing, but you know, you're protecting pitchers, you're in the middle
00:43of the season and with the money involved with MLB, you know, how hard that's going to be
00:46Dan, but yeah, I would love to see it.
00:48I'll tell you what Bobby Valentine's suggestion was.
00:51He was on our show a couple of weeks ago and he made this comment.
00:55Hey, put the baseball in the winter games and have them in the winter games where you
01:00can have them play in the winter Olympics and it wouldn't overlap a season.
01:04And if anybody ended up getting injured, you'd have time to kind of rehab yourself, getting
01:08ready for the spring.
01:09I mean, that'd be another option is instead put them in domes, give them an opportunity
01:14to play and put them into winter games.
01:16I mean, you get a chance not to overlap the season.
01:20I had not heard that.
01:21I think that's a genius idea.
01:22I think that's a fantastic idea.
01:24You know, a lot of guys are playing winter ball anyway, and you can get a bigger roster
01:28with guys that, you know, can go in and do that.
01:30I think that's a fantastic idea.
01:33And you'd get a lot of eyes on that as well.
01:36Absolutely.
01:37You know, you bring up Shohei Otani and I have this conversation.
01:40I covered the San Francisco Giants for about three years when I was out in San Francisco
01:45working on their network.
01:46You know, I never saw a player in my entire life ever, anyone near that came close to
01:51Barry Bonds.
01:53Is this guy just a different unicorn type of player?
01:56Because again, he hurts his arm.
01:58He creates a 50-50 stolen bases, 50 home runs.
02:02I mean, give me, give me an example.
02:04Or is he just a one of, of what we see in Major League Baseball that there's nothing,
02:09nor have we ever seen anything like him?
02:12Yeah, I guess the easy thing to say is time will tell, but time is telling already.
02:17You know, I grew up in the era of Barry Bonds, Canseco, McGuire, those massive power hitters
02:23that just crushed baseballs.
02:24But when you talk about Otani, like you said, it's a unicorn.
02:28It's something so different.
02:30And, you know, Barry Bonds was unbelievable.
02:33And I don't think I would have ever seen a hitter, you know, regardless of the enhancements,
02:39as you would say, or not, physical enhancements.
02:42What I'm seeing out of Shohei, yeah, it's generational.
02:44I think when people were watching Babe Ruth, I think this is the same thing that, you know,
02:49our generation or being alive right now, seeing Shohei, it's kind of the same thing.
02:53It's a once in a hundred years player.
02:55And it's a pleasure to watch.
02:57As a Dodger fan, obviously, it's even that much sweeter.
03:00But it really is incredible what he's doing.
03:02And hopefully he stays healthy and can play another 10 years at a high level.
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