00:00What, fellas, is the question of the day?
00:03Well, there's been some performances in sports that have been flatly wasted.
00:07I know you guys are talking about one of them very frustratingly.
00:10Jordan Alvarez has been fantastic this year on a team that is a 12-win baseball team right now at
00:17this point.
00:18A.O. Player of the Month, even.
00:20And then last night, if you were watching the hoops,
00:22Victor Wimbanyama, in true alien fashion, had 12 blocks in a loss.
00:27He's just unfair, man.
00:28He had 12 blocks in a loss.
00:30And so that led us to asking, what's the ultimate incredible effort that was wasted, sports or other loss?
00:35And it doesn't have to be sports, because my immediate one that came to mind was non-sports.
00:39Did Michael Jordan...
00:4063 against the Celtics.
00:42Did he win or lose that game?
00:43Loss.
00:43They lost a series, I know that.
00:45They lost that game.
00:45They lost that game, too.
00:46Well, that was the 86 Celtics that went 40-1 at home that year.
00:51I was living up there.
00:52I remember that.
00:53So you knew.
00:54I just said Michael Jordan.
00:55You knew exactly.
00:55I mean, I've played for 20 years.
00:56You knew exactly which game.
00:57He beat 63 points in his first ever postseason, and they lost to the Celtics.
01:02He was so...
01:03God, he was so good.
01:04And they didn't shoot threes back then, either.
01:05It was probably all mid-range stuff and dunks back then.
01:09This is not a wasted performance performance.
01:12But for me...
01:13And I've probably mentioned this before in answers to other questions of the day.
01:15For me, there's something about a big moment in sports that when your team goes on and doesn't
01:23win the championship or doesn't achieve expectations, it takes a little starch out of it.
01:28For me, the Jose Altuve, I can never fully enjoy what should be one of the most enjoyable
01:34moments for a Houston sports fan, which was Altuve's walk-off home run against the Yankees
01:39in 2019 to win the American League and send them to the World Series, an all-time moment.
01:44That's a great one.
01:45And because they lost four home games to the Nationals in the World Series.
01:50So that's kind of a...
01:51That's a moment wasted, I guess.
01:53Yeah, that's a really good one.
01:54Yeah.
01:54That's a really good one.
01:55So that's...
01:56I'm going to...
01:56Let's see.
01:57We already did Steve Carlton earlier.
02:00Is that what you were referring to?
02:01Were you listening then, Reginald?
02:03When we were talking about Steve Carlton?
02:04No, I missed that portion of the year.
02:05Oh, okay.
02:06Okay.
02:06Buckle up, youngster.
02:07Let's do it.
02:08I knew this.
02:09I vaguely knew of this.
02:10I didn't realize how drastic this was.
02:13So Steve Carlton in the year 1972.
02:17Oh, I love it.
02:18As soon as I type in Steve Carlton, 1972 season pops up.
02:22Yeah.
02:22He was...
02:23Okay.
02:23So listen.
02:24He was 27 and 10 with a 1.97 ERA.
02:27What?
02:27Pitch...
02:27Pitch...
02:28Listen.
02:29Listen.
02:30Pitch 30 complete games.
02:32So he had...
02:33He had...
02:34He had 27...
02:35He had 30 games this season?
02:3630 complete games.
02:38Complete games.
02:39What?
02:39A complete game, Reggie.
02:40A complete game is when they pitch all nine innings.
02:43Yeah, no.
02:43The younger generation not in tune with the complete game status.
02:46Never heard of these.
02:46Guys used to pitch all nine innings, Reggie.
02:48It's like three Spencer Errogettis in one game.
02:50Yeah.
02:50Yeah.
02:52So 27 and 10 with a 1.97 ERA.
02:5530 complete games.
02:57So he had 27 wins on a team that went 59 and 97.
03:02Yeah.
03:03He was responsible for almost 50% of the wins of that abysmal Philadelphia Phillies team.
03:10They were 59?
03:11With 30 complete games.
03:13So he...
03:13Okay.
03:1430 complete games.
03:15He had 37 decisions.
03:17Yeah.
03:18Which means there's probably, you know, three or four games where he had a no decision.
03:21Start of the eighth.
03:22Yeah.
03:22Yeah.
03:23Yeah.
03:23He left.
03:23The game was tied or whatever.
03:25And so that...
03:25So he probably pitched...
03:26I'm guessing we can look up how many games he started.
03:28Probably a minimum of 40 games.
03:30That means he was going out and taking the ball more than once every...
03:33Yeah.
03:34Like four days, three days.
03:36That kind of thing.
03:37That's crazy.
03:38Steve Carlton...
03:39There was at one point Steve Carlton was the best pitcher in baseball.
03:42Oh, God, yes.
03:43He had the...
03:45He was the all-time strikeouts leader.
03:47Him and Nolan Ryan were kind of like leapfrogging each other for the all-time strikeout leader.
03:52And then Steve Carlton ended up with, go figure, a guy who pitched 30 complete games on the
03:57regular in certain seasons, ended up with arm trouble and Nolan just shot past him.
04:01And we know how that ended.
04:03Steve Carlton on that miserable Phillies team pitched 346 in one-third innings.
04:08346 innings.
04:10Oh, is he still alive, Steve Carlton?
04:13Because if he is, he's got to think the game of baseball is the softest game ever right now.
04:17Get him on the horn.
04:19Yeah.
04:19Oh, I'd love to talk to him.
04:20If Palmer's eating chicken wings, we can at least get Steve Carlton appearance on Sports
04:24Radio 610 in Houston.
04:26Steve Carlton is still with us at 81 years age.
04:2881 years old.
04:29And I bet he could still loop a curveball over the outside corner, Steve Carlton.
04:33Steve Carlton...
04:34Steve Carlton, when I first became a baseball fan, was like 1979, 1980.
04:39The Pirates and the Phillies were my two teams because I was living in Pennsylvania.
04:42And so I love Steve Carlton.
04:44But I didn't know how sports worked.
04:46I just knew players did interviews.
04:47You'll remember this, John.
04:48Like, Steve Carlton, he was the first player I ever rooted for who would not talk to the
04:55media.
04:55And I remember saying to my dad, I'm like, doesn't he have to?
05:00Like, they have to.
05:01I'm like, no, he just doesn't do it.
05:02I'm like, well, that's kind of mean.
05:04He should talk to the media.
05:05That's not very nice.
05:06Hey, Seth, get this.
05:07He has 346.1 innings in 41 games, which means he averaged 8.4 innings a game.
05:14Jeez.
05:15And that's average.
05:16So 8 and a third every game.
05:19Average 8.4 innings a game.
05:21Easiest job.
05:21He didn't make it to the 90.
05:22That was happening.
05:23He honestly, he fills five roster spots for the Astros.
05:27It's unbelievable.
05:27Opener, starter, middle reliever, emergency setup, setup, and closer.
05:35If I was the closer on that Phillies team, I would have been so drunk that whole season.
05:40There's no need for you.
05:41They only won 59 games, so there's hardly any games to save.
05:44And then half of them, Carlton's pitching.
05:46So you know you're not going out there.
05:48Oh, I'd be wasted.
05:49I'd be so drunk if I were the closer.
05:51Did they even have closers in 72?
05:53I don't remember.
05:54I don't know.
05:54They just had the pitcher today.
05:57The guy who's pitching today.
05:58That's it.
05:58That's it.
05:59All right, boys.
06:00Well, looking forward to another awesome edition of In the Loop.
06:04Seth, antibodies to you, my friend.
06:06Antibodies to you.
06:07And I like what Tim McCarver said, because he was Steve Carlton's personal catcher.
06:10Yeah.
06:11Said that when they die, they're going to be buried 66 inches apart.
06:16So I would say antibodies to you and a burial plot three to four feet away from me.
06:21Yes.
06:22Yeah.
06:23Yeah.
06:23Let's do this.
06:23We're facing each other.
06:25Facing each other.
06:26Headphones on.
06:26You with that look on your face where you think I'm an idiot and me just scowling at you.
06:31Let's get our faces if you're listening.
06:35Hey, if you're a mortician that can do specific facial expressions, Seth and I have a request for you.
06:41My runner-up for best performance in a losing effort, James Garfield, president, 200 days before he was assassinated.
06:47We made sweeping civil service reforms.
06:51Honestly, go watch Death by Lightning on Netflix.
06:54Death by Lightning.
06:55It's awesome.
06:55It's awesome.
06:56There's a lot of historical inaccuracies.
06:58But I used to joke about James Garfield.
06:59I was like, yeah, James Garfield.
07:01Oh, man.
07:02What a guy.
07:05So there you go.
07:05Did you just recommend a documentary with a lot of historical inaccuracies?
07:09Yes.
07:10No, no, no.
07:10It's a docudrama.
07:12It's a docudrama.
07:12Oh, like a, oh, okay.
07:14So there's actors in it and whatnot.
07:15Michael Shannon.
07:17Reggie, it's based on a true story.
07:19Michael Shannon is the guy who plays Michael Shannon every single time, but he's awesome at it.
07:24Yep.
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