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On The Morning Shift, the crew tackles a baseball debate: Is Shohei Ohtani more exciting than Ronald Acuña Jr.? From Ohtani's rare two-way talent to Acuña's power, speed, and flair, they compare two of the game's biggest stars in two of the biggest cities and discuss who brings more excitement every time they step onto the field.

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00:00All right, boys, fair or foul, Ronald Acuna Jr. is the most exciting player in baseball.
00:07Well, I'll take the hate first. It's foul.
00:11It's not anything to do with Ronnie.
00:17It's about Shohei Ohtani.
00:19He is absolutely the most exciting player.
00:22There's not many eras, I mean, there's not many players in baseball that have ever been what Shohei is.
00:29I mean, Babe Ruth is about the only one I can really think of.
00:31But even he tops that because Shohei essentially could win 20 games, hit 40 home runs, and still 40 bases.
00:45That's unheard of.
00:47And you can't tell me that any – and I love Ronald Acuna Jr.,
00:50but there's nothing that Ronnie does that Shohei doesn't do.
00:54Yeah, my gut feeling when she asked this question going into the break
00:58was no, but I couldn't decide why, right?
01:03And I think that for me, at least defensively, what we've seen over the last few weeks is not great.
01:07And I think of – when I think of exciting, I think of –
01:11I actually don't think of like a Shohei Ohtani.
01:13To me, exciting is like Andrew Jones, you know what I mean?
01:16Catch the ball, crash into the wall, things like that.
01:19So I would have veered towards somebody like a Bobby Witt or somebody along those lines,
01:24but I think Bo's right, Shohei kind of belongs in that category too.
01:28I think for me, exciting, and maybe I'm an outlier, I enjoy dominant pitchers.
01:34I love watching guys just mow through, you know, a lineup where they just can't do anything to them.
01:40And then the fact that the guy can flip over and come up to bat and you're like,
01:44he's legitimately the best hitter on the team.
01:48Like it's – that's – you know, it was fun when Max Freed would get a game-winning hit
01:52or Tom Glavin, right?
01:54But this guy is like literally the best hitter on the roster in L.A.
01:59Ronald has a cannon, man.
02:01Remember that throw last season?
02:03Yeah.
02:04Yeah, what's up?
02:04He made one of the day.
02:05You've got to catch it, though, before he can throw it.
02:06He made one of the day.
02:07He's been doing a very good job of catching it lately.
02:09Again, I had to do some introspection.
02:10He was like, uh-uh, no, no, no, you're not going to get me.
02:13I had to do some introspection on it to kind of check myself and say,
02:17all right, well, then who is it?
02:18You know, don't just point out that he's not.
02:19So it is what it is.
02:21Is there a problem, Bo?
02:22No.
02:23No, I just – nope, nope, not going to do it.
02:25All right, fair or foul, the crust is the best part of the pizza.
02:29Foul.
02:30I'm sorry, what?
02:30That's foul.
02:32That's absolutely nuts.
02:33I don't – I'm afraid that I'm going to get like –
02:36If I'm going to – I'm about to say – no.
02:38I mean –
02:39Allie, man.
02:39No way.
02:40Not even close.
02:41What on earth?
02:41Do you believe this?
02:42I do.
02:43No, what?
02:44Stop it, dude.
02:45Allie, no way.
02:45Regular crust, like not stuffed crust?
02:47Crust.
02:48Guys, I'm starting to get nervous, man.
02:50I'm starting to think we've got like a –
02:52Do you think the crust on a piece of bread is the best part of a sandwich?
02:55Yeah, do you eat the –
02:56That's different.
02:56Do you eat the hard part of the pie, too?
02:58I mean, like, what are we talking about?
02:59The crust?
03:00Yeah.
03:00Yes.
03:01So that part's better than the pie?
03:02No.
03:03Okay.
03:03We're not talking about dessert pie.
03:05We're talking about a pizza pie.
03:07It's the same thing.
03:08No.
03:09It's the same thing.
03:09Allie, okay, let me ask you this.
03:11When's the last time you've had a non-vegan pizza?
03:17I mean, at least 10 years.
03:18What is that?
03:19Yeah, I don't know.
03:19That matters.
03:20It doesn't matter.
03:23But if I'm saying it, Dylan, I feel like –
03:26I have always felt this way.
03:28Can I ask you a question?
03:29Do you like breadsticks?
03:30Love them.
03:31See, I like breadsticks, but I don't like the crust.
03:34I have a thing with marinara.
03:35Too much marinara is –
03:37Dude, my wife is like this.
03:39She's done with marinara.
03:41She has called it a career on marinara.
03:43You know the only time I eat the crust is when they get that garlic sauce?
03:48Oh, okay.
03:49Oh, man.
03:49Like from –
03:50Yeah.
03:50Apparently, they come out with a bottle of that now.
03:52You can buy it.
03:53Or if you have extra marinara sauce, you dip the crust in the marinara, too.
03:56Now, ew.
03:57That's goaded.
03:57No.
03:58Well, that's like – that's a breadstick.
04:01Yeah, basically.
04:01At that point.
04:02Basically.
04:03Allie, you're wild, dude.
04:04I don't like –
04:04You're wild.
04:05It's too hard.
04:06I'm a happy girl.
04:07All right.
04:08Well, I know what I'm getting Allie for her next birthday.
04:09I'm just going to bring her a loaf of bread.
04:12I'm like Oprah.
04:13I love bread.
04:15Fair or foul, Bajon Robinson will score the first touchdown of the season for the Falcons.
04:21I'd say it's fair.
04:22You know who scored the last – the first touchdown last year?
04:25Bajon.
04:26Yeah.
04:26I think it's fair.
04:27You know what?
04:28I'm going to say – I'm going to go Drake.
04:30I don't know why.
04:31Just to be different.
04:31Just to throw – just sometimes it's fun to have other –
04:34Getting crazy.
04:35Until I'm proven that Bajon's not going to have the receiving numbers this year that he did last year,
04:40I would have to go with Bajon.
04:41I'll make my guess right –
04:42If he teaches –
04:42Yeah.
04:43Sorry.
04:43I'm making my guess right now.
04:44I'm going to actually go with Jahan Dotson.
04:46Of course you would.
04:47Wow.
04:47Dang it.
04:48I didn't even think about the correlation there.
04:51I've never beaten the allegations.
04:53When do you think the last time Jahan Dotson ate a vegan pizza?
04:56See, it doesn't matter.
04:57Probably never.
04:58When's the last time he scored a touchdown?
04:59Oh, that's even better.
05:00Last year, I think.
05:01I think he had one.
05:02I'll check my notes.
05:02One or two.
05:03Fair or foul, a no-hitter is more impressive than hitting for the cycle.
05:08And I will say, these are normally subjective.
05:10This one's not.
05:11I got stats.
05:14To me, it's the cycle.
05:17But I'm like, well, I enjoy the no-hitter.
05:19I enjoy the perfect game and everything.
05:20I just think that hitting for the cycle is just – it feels like it never happens.
05:24Yeah.
05:24It doesn't.
05:25It feels like it's that once in a five or ten year kind of thing.
05:29I'm sure you have the stats to back it up.
05:31That's what it feels like.
05:32Jahan Dotson scored a touchdown last year, by the way.
05:34It's a cycle.
05:35Ding.
05:35It's a cycle.
05:36Hitting for the cycle is pretty hard.
05:40It's unique.
05:41That's why they tell you the last time somebody did it and so long.
05:45Of course, then again, I don't know.
05:46I think the Braves' last no-hitter was Kent Merker in the combined no-hitter back in, what, 93, I
05:51believe.
05:52There have been 325 no-hitters.
05:56There have been 349 players that have hit for the cycle.
06:02That is –
06:03Wow.
06:04Wow.
06:04You're wrong.
06:07You're both wrong.
06:08Slam the door on you right there.
06:09No, no, no.
06:10Read the stat again.
06:11Read the stat again.
06:12We took up for you with Dylan, and now you're just trying to make us feel stupid.
06:16It's a dark place.
06:16I'm telling you.
06:17325 no-hitters.
06:19Only.
06:20Okay.
06:20There are only 349 players that have hit for the cycle.
06:24So there's less no-hitters, meaning that it's harder.
06:26Yeah, but it's really close.
06:28Sample size is very close.
06:30Is there anybody that's hit for the cycle twice?
06:33That's not what we're talking about.
06:35Hey, is there anybody that's ever thrown a no-hitter and hit for the cycle?
06:39The way you're wearing it, it's throwing me off.
06:40Because you know what?
06:41That's why Shohei Itani is more exciting than Acuna, because he could do that.
06:44I'm going to figure it out during the commercial break.
06:46That would be crazy.
06:46I'm going to figure out what you're saying is throwing me off.
06:48I'm going to figure it out in a second.
06:49Something you're saying is not right.
06:51It's throwing me off.
06:52What?
06:53She's saying there's been no – like, how many pitchers threw for a no-hitter?
06:57Well, there are 325 no-hitter games.
06:59Okay, but some of those pitchers threw multiple no-hitters.
07:01This is Apple and the origin.
07:0210 through 7.
07:03That's what I'm saying.
07:04That's what I'm saying.
07:04So it's even crazier than that.
07:07I'm telling you, Allie.
07:08But you're proving her point, though.
07:10I know, but I'm saying something about the way she's saying it's throwing me off.
07:12I'm confused on what you're getting at.
07:14He just doesn't want to be wrong.
07:15Yeah.
07:16It's okay.
07:17I'm fully comfortable.
07:19If you told me that I could go to the ballpark tonight and you're going to guarantee one or the
07:22other happens,
07:23I'm picking the cycle.
07:24Yeah?
07:25Yep.
07:25No, I'd rather see a no-hitter.
07:27Yeah, I would rather see a no-hitter.
07:28Again, I'm a masochist, I guess.
07:32I enjoy defensive stuff.
07:34But there's a whole atmosphere about it.
07:36Like, don't talk about it.
07:37Don't talk.
07:37Yeah.
07:38There's a whole thing happening with that.
07:39My dad still has a ticket stub from his first ever baseball game.
07:42It was at Wrigley Field in like 1970, I want to say.
07:46And the pitcher threw a no-hitter.
07:48He was like, I didn't even know what was going on.
07:50I just knew I was with my uncle and I was standing on a chair and everybody was losing their
07:53mind.
07:54And I think he was like 80.
07:56It might have been like, he was born in 61.
07:58So maybe it was like 69.
07:59But yeah, pitcher threw a no-hitter.
08:00And it was like, they've only been like two the Cubs have had in the last 50 years.
08:04That was one of them.
08:06Sounds like it's pretty rare.
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