00:00it's time for baseball nuggets now i want to go around the best and worst of the rest of opening
00:09day alec would you suggest i talk about a variety of fascinating stories and really get in depth on
00:16them or cut right to the chase of the story that i think cory will become most fascinated by i
00:22think
00:22the latter of those two okay let's talk about carson binge carson binge with the new york mets he hit
00:31a
00:31home run it was an amazing start to his campaign but probably not the most noteworthy part
00:39in addition to hitting a home run in his opening an opening day in his major league baseball debut
00:48he was in the outfield where a bird died and fell on the ground in front of him oh gosh
00:56he's he's sitting out in or he's standing out in right field sitting out there yeah problems but
01:02he's like i just hit a home run guys what what else do i have to do yeah this is
01:05not little league
01:05where you got put in right field because you're the worst player uh all right so sorry if it broke
01:10some people's heart so he's standing there in right field and bird hits the ground this is his actual
01:16quote i heard a thud and i looked over it was just down for the count i looked around like
01:24is
01:24anybody gonna grab this does anyone see it no one was looking at it so i wasn't about to start
01:29stop
01:29the game for it he didn't want to stop the game to be like hold on dead bird yes i
01:34bet there's dead
01:35birds in the outfield all the time it's the less popular sequel to angels in the outfield dead birds
01:42in the outfield yeah not as much marquee value i am aren't you surprised with the with the amount
01:48of birds for sure that we don't just more of our cars haven't been pelted with dead birds just falling
01:54from the sky there's so many birds every adrian every time we drive like if they're if they're
02:00migrating if she sees a flock of birds she's just like oh it's so gross and i never understood why
02:06birds flying around was gross until she was like think about all the poop have you ever seen a show
02:11called nathan for you kevin do you think i've seen nathan for you i think you would love okay
02:18not but no so it's nathan fielder who does all this super awkward and weird comedy and he comes up
02:27with ways that he attempts to help small businesses okay yeah this i've seen yes i've seen trailers of
02:33this okay so in one of the episodes he tried to help a struggling car wash by putting like a
02:40whole
02:41bunch of birds on these trees and feeding them all this stuff so they would poop on cars right by
02:48the car wash and people would be like i gotta go get my car wash yeah that's that makes sense
02:53it's not
02:54every episode but pretty much every episode is like some bizarre variation of that do that bird got the
03:01jab uh no i don't know there's a lot of those birds anyways my point is he hit a home
03:08run and then
03:09eventually somebody trotted out from the mets bullpen to scoop the bird up and everybody in the
03:14audience cheered that's that's good so there's that birds you think uh what do you think they did
03:22with the bird threw it in the garbage viking funeral no send that little bird out in a like a
03:28shoebox out
03:29into the water and then with an arrow on fire okay well then i'm not gonna put it in a
03:34little shoebox
03:35i'm gonna put it in the biggest possible shoebox possible so i have a bigger target to hit dude those
03:40those bow and arrow people they're accurate great i don't think there's a whole lot of actually in new
03:47york never mind in new york i guarantee you there are many capable and able bow and arrow people as
03:56you put it archers that are ready to go the bow and arrow bow and arrow people yeah so there's
04:04that
04:04all right let's go back if we can to the outfield exploits of o'neill cruise we're gonna go to
04:12cut
04:12number eight where i guess paul skeins didn't have a good day he walked a couple people through
04:17a whole lot of pitches but one can make a pretty strong argument if he even got competent outfield
04:23play from o'neill cruise his day could have gone much different and the first pitch to marcus simian
04:30to start his new york career oh and cruise boxed that one a nightmarish start for o'neill cruise on
04:41opening day so paul skeins gives up what is dubbed a triple and then a double to marcus simian but
04:49we're
04:50really alec fair to say just poor outfield play that ran up the score on paul skein yeah the triple
04:57he took his first step in when it was clearly gonna be way above his head awful read and i
05:04even saw a
05:05post game he said well it's not fun when the sun's in my eyes it's like dude that's part of
05:09playing
05:10major league baseball and that's why he lost the second one he just didn't see it he just did not
05:14see it did he have flip glasses on oh i don't think so you remember the flip glasses alec that
05:21would be
05:22kind of cool if baseball players brought those back will clark oh yeah dwayne wayne he wore he wore
05:28actual like glasses yeah and then had the flip-ups i always wanted them because they looked awesome i
05:34remember when i was a kid i thought that was the coolest it was the coolest thing yeah and now
05:38you get
05:38laughed at for having those not by people i want to hang out so that's why you get the ones
05:43that
05:43just automatically turn dark when you walk outside okay like me but yeah uh o'neill cruz hits the ball
05:49very hard the rest of baseball kind of tough yeah i mean so for paul skeins first time he failed
05:57to get
05:57out of the first inning first time he failed to get two strikeouts in the start just his second mlb
06:03start
06:03with five or more earned runs given up ever now the unfortunate part of this that some people have
06:10started to bring up paul skeins pitched in the world baseball classic terrible start aaron judge
06:18world baseball classic terrible start there was another uh american pitcher who got the start
06:28yesterday and he got roughed uh roughed up as well and so the thought some people are trying to start
06:36the narrative that if you played in the world baseball classic at least for america
06:41was it worth it um i'm gonna say no because they lost yeah okay and they might lose every game
06:48for
06:48the rest of the season because of that i guess that you just throw our high schoolers out there now
06:53okay david cline i bet there's don't you think there's high school players you could build a
06:58high school team that could go out there and compete out of america maybe not maybe not be
07:04in the championship against brazil yeah yeah we'd win yeah because they had high schoolers out there
07:11let's talk about kevin mcgonigal kevin mcgonigal part-time professor at hogwarts lived up to his hype
07:20in his major league debut with the detroit tigers some people will say he is the best hitter to come
07:27out of the minor leagues in the past 10 to 12 years he went four for five with two rbis
07:34and two runs
07:35scored in his first game nice congratulations to him absolutely yeah this is why i like opening day
07:42see you're gonna like this too congratulations to jacob mizerowski he had 11 strikeouts which were
07:48the most on opening day in milwaukee brewers franchise history you're a huge mizerowski guy
07:55too aren't you yeah yeah absolutely i think if he gets it all together he could be a legit scion
08:01candidate this year let's talk about brandon lowe brandon lowe had not one but two home runs in
08:10the season opener for the pirates and have you seen their new celebration oh it is the iron mask
08:19as people have called it on social media it's essentially though it's a welding mask to highlight
08:25the steel city so he got the welding mask and then he flipped up the little uh kind of little
08:33visor to
08:34show off for uh social media i think it's pretty cool did paul skeins run over there and try and
08:39put it
08:39on also there is no question that paul skeins had probably destroyed part of the locker room by this
08:44point and was not it was no longer in the uh he was already doing squats somewhere by the time
08:52home
08:52run two came around he was he was long gone now put it on o'neill cruz in the outfield
08:57yeah it would
08:59have made yeah it might have helped it wouldn't have made a negative difference i promise you this
09:04you put that iron mask on o'neill cruz in the first inning it couldn't have been any worse nope
09:09it could have maybe been bad he might have seen that marcus simian hit well he definitely couldn't
09:14use the excuse of the sun being in his eyes dude we put a freaking iron mask on you all
09:21right
09:21let's go to francisco alvarez who was the first successful challenger to the abs you'll remember
09:30an opening night there was an unsuccessful challenge francisco alvarez will go down as the
09:34first successful challenge against the abs and then to the rangers oh the rangers will get a walk
09:41off is what they absolutely idiotic the article's fine but from cbs bold predictions for every team
09:48their bold prediction was for the rangers was they'll be the first winner on a walk-off abs challenge
09:55and i was like that's your bold prediction that's stupid it'll go down in history the rest
10:00the article was good all right now let's take you to the baltimore orioles did you see the first
10:06pitch of arthur green oh i didn't do you know how old arthur green is 64 74 your face except
10:16not really
10:17oh okay he's 89 89 except not really he's 99 except not really he was a hundred and nine years
10:28old
10:28he is a world war ii veteran he threw out the ceremonial first pitch i cannot imagine getting
10:36up to do anything at the age of 109 but that's why he's part of the greatest generation threw out
10:42the first pitch 109 i don't know if that dude has been like keto and salads his whole life you
10:48know
10:48like what's he been doing if he said every morning he smokes a cigar and eats a plate of bacon
10:53it's my
10:54favorite line from grumpy old man when he's like every morning i wake up and smoke a cigarette
11:01and then i eat a pound of bacon and then he said this at the end he's like for lunch
11:06more bacon
11:07and i usually drink my dinner if he said that i'd be like okay that's how i'm living life
11:15yeah oh well i'll see what i can find out i'd look forward to an update on that i'll do
11:21the best i can
11:22and
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