00:00Pleasantly surprised home run derby last night it delivered Jordan Walker six straight swings
00:07into the Philly night sky as those fans booed him mercilessly booed people kids who couldn't
00:13catch balls in center field it was awesome the environment the format you could let things
00:17breathe no clock no bonuses the only downside was it was on Netflix and some people just
00:22didn't see it just didn't see it a tree falls in the forest now before the home run derby
00:27Justin Verlander hanging out with the Fox Sports crew and I want to play one clip of what
00:32it should be and and then whatever Alex Rodriguez was doing let's start with Justin Verlander
00:38talking about his final moments against David Ortiz and Derek Jeter
01:24talking about the
01:43it's kind of cool to hear him be giddy
01:45like yeah about these other
01:47athletes well I mean
01:49and it's it's the
01:51the matchups that he
01:53remembers yeah right and it's the last
01:55time that he faced Big Poppy it's the
01:57last time he faced Jeter and
01:59Jeter you know set it in the
02:01bat and it just
02:03those are great moments
02:05that I don't know if he's ever told that
02:07story before no but
02:09you get a you get a peek behind the
02:10curtain of what these guys
02:12the admiration are like and how they
02:15respect each other yeah you respect each other you know
02:17stuff about these guys you're aware generally
02:19of their journey
02:21and then there's a rod
02:43what famously second overall pick Justin Verlander
02:49with the Tigers never being
02:52DFA'd yeah fade twice as a late
02:54round pick whose notes was he reading
02:56shouldn't even need notes I know
02:58these guys are top level
03:00peers that played at the same time
03:02Passover cross at least a little bit
03:04career-wise yeah this guy
03:06man I'm telling you what
03:07I think a rod is the biggest
03:10DB in the history of sports
03:11and that a lot of times I'll
03:14I'll go back to Aaron Rodgers because
03:15he's playing now and he but he talks a lot
03:18yeah that's why Aaron Rodgers always gets out
03:19there he talks a lot says nothing there
03:21isn't one likable quality about Alex
03:23Rodriguez there
03:25isn't
03:28there's not no is there what's one tell me one
03:30thing you like about a rod good call us
03:34it's a very good shortstop
03:36there you go
03:38um there's even a third baseman so you can't
03:39say that it it would be well one thing if I
03:45don't know maybe maybe pre event he was
03:49talking to Jordan Walker and didn't know a
03:52lot about Jordan Walker even though he is
03:54one of the contestants eight contestants
03:57like not kind of an unnamed guy having a
04:01breakout season but you're talking to a
04:06first ballot hall of famer you're talking
04:09to a guy that that you faced at some
04:12point in your career and you don't you
04:16you bring up that and it's couldn't be
04:20more wrong to Tom's point you shouldn't
04:22need notes it's a little different like
04:23John when you're interviewing like
04:25Olympian sport athletes at Michigan in
04:27the past and you're going you got I
04:29better double check this I don't want to
04:30screw this up did she go to high school
04:32in Illinois or not like that's a mistake
04:33I'm sure you're afraid to make that's
04:35Justin Verlander you shouldn't need any
04:38notes you should be aware of who he is
04:41and that it just blows your mind and the
04:45funny part too is if you watch the video
04:48and you see Big Poppy who's sitting on
04:51the other side of JV JV sitting right
04:53next to A-Rod you see Big Poppy and he
04:56starts laughing see it's hilarious my
05:00problem with this is that A-Rod was a
05:03high pick you know and these high picks
05:06like he had established his career when
05:08JV was coming these guys are well aware
05:10of the huge prospects that are coming
05:14up it's almost like like a lot of these
05:16guys kind of want to teach him a lesson
05:18when they first show up in the league
05:19but to have no clue that JV was a second
05:22overall pick or a high pick I don't he
05:24did off the top of his head he doesn't
05:25need to know maybe that he was second no
05:27but hey you were a high pick a highly
05:30regarded prospect these guys know who's
05:32in the pipeline well A-Rod was one and
05:34then Justin Verlander was drafted second
05:36so it was a later on draft pick he was
05:37late everybody after number one overall
05:39is not making excuses for his DB no you
05:42mentioned DFA twice could be more wrong
05:47like Schurzer got sent down googled who
05:50do you think he googled I'm asking I
05:51don't know or or I wonder is this a Ron
05:55Burgundy moment where somebody just like
05:58keep he pissed off the wrong person and
06:01somebody gave him the notes producers
06:03intentionally do it because I don't like
06:05him yeah why would anybody not like Alex
06:08Rodriguez that it I didn't even think
06:10about it till just now that might be the
06:12Ron Burgundy moment and he had no idea he
06:15was just reading off card speaking of Ron
06:17Burgundy I am happy that Will Ferrell was
06:19for the intros and the intros only because
06:20it was a boy that was rough it was awful I
06:22thought we were gonna have to listen to
06:24this all night long and I'm just glad
06:26that that that was limited I want to be
06:29clear some of the camera work some of the
06:31audio some of the announcing I don't
06:33think Netflix presentation was very good
06:35no exit velos none of that stuff but I
06:37am happy the format change paid off for
06:39baseball last night and if they had it
06:41on a real network would have been even
06:43better
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