Best of The Odd Couple
The Odd Couple with Rob Parker & Kelvin Washington
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4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Longtime sports media personality Alan Lee is in for Chris, and he and Rob discuss what they like and don’t like about the upcoming MLB rule changes, tell us why they have a big problem with Kansas City Chiefs offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy having to pursue an OC job with the Washington Commanders in hopes of one day becoming an NFL head coach and take the NBA to task for welcoming Karl Malone to All-Star Weekend now that it's public knowledge that he got a 13-year-old girl pregnant when he was in college.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:04.2 | Thanks for listening to The Best of the Odd Couple podcast. |
| 0:07.6 | Be sure to catch us live every weekday from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Eastern, 4-7 Pacific on Fox Sports Radio. |
| 0:16.6 | Find your local station for the odd couple at Fox Sports Radio.com or stream us live every day on the IHeartRadio app by searching FSR. |
| 0:26.2 | You're listening to The Best of the Odd Couple with Chris Broussard and Rob Parker. |
| 0:34.2 | Rob G., Major League Baseball, which they're using spring training to introduce some earth-shaking changes. |
| 0:41.7 | And we haven't seen rule changes in things in baseball in decades. |
| 0:46.4 | This is really big deal. |
| 0:48.2 | I mean, Alan, you remember when they lowered the mound because it was too high and people couldn't hit. |
| 0:53.3 | That was a big deal. |
| 0:54.6 | But there are three big changes coming this year and let Rob G. |
| 1:01.8 | Explain them and then we'll talk. |
| 1:03.2 | Okay. |
| 1:03.7 | Yeah, there's three of them coming, as you mentioned. |
| 1:06.1 | First and probably the smallest rule change is that they're going to be bigger bases now. |
| 1:10.1 | Right. |
| 1:10.4 | They're going to be 18 inches on each side instead of 15. If you saw a picture online, especially on Twitter yesterday, it's noticeably bigger, but it's not going to really fundamentally change the game, I don't think. So it didn't feel like people were going to be sliding into Mr. Pillow, my pillows are pillows. They're going to be running into a medium-sized pizza box. That's what it is. Number two, they're going to ban the shift. And there's a lot of rules beneath that as it relates to where a guy can stand. Outfielder can stand. But fundamentally, they're going to be banning the shift. And last but not least, this is the one that everybody's talking about, there's going to be a pitch timer. |
| 1:46.2 | There'll be a 30 second timer between batters and then a 15 second timer between each pitch. |
| 1:51.9 | If the pitcher doesn't adhere to it, then it's an automatic ball. |
| 1:56.0 | If the batter doesn't adhere to it, it's an automatic strike. |
| 1:59.3 | And those in a nutshell are the three changes that will be unveiled this week at spring |
| 2:04.8 | training. Thank you, Rob G. And Alan, I'm going to say right off the bat. |
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