Best of The Odd Couple
The Odd Couple with Rob Parker & Kelvin Washington
Fox Sports Radio and iHeartPodcasts
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Rob and Kelvin tell us why they believe Major League Baseball got it right in a big way with their decision to have a sudden death Home Run Derby to close the MLB All-Star Game, explain why they didn't have a problem with MLBselectively editing Vin Scully's iconic home run call during their Hank Aaron tribute, and explain why they have zero interest in seeing a potential Floyd Mayweather vs Manny Pacquiao rematch.
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| 0:29.6 | Major League Baseball on a glorious night. |
| 0:32.6 | A little rain there, but it didn't stop the party. |
| 0:35.7 | And then to finish, the home run derby, which I get, and you know me, I'm a traditional kind of baseball guy, but I thought that was cool, and I'm all right with it. There was a couple things we got to see the challenge of pitches, right, which was interesting the way that that went. As long as they don't overdo it. Like, there was a couple, right? Yeah, this was with the launching pad, if you will. Yeah, I didn't want to see how people react to it. But I think it should be, and Martin brought this up, and I think he's right. It should probably be the manager, not the pitcher in the game, like, thinking of the ball and stras? Because why wouldn't it just be the catcher? |
| 1:07.9 | I mean, that would... Like, to me, like, why is the pitcher? You don't want the pitcher that, first of all, you mentioned it. It should be the catcher. You're literally caught the while you were there. You saw it. You just had it over the play. You framed it. And or the manager also because the manager's thinking, long, okay, do we do it now? |
| 1:08.4 | What is the challenge? |
| 1:09.1 | What's the situation? |
| 1:10.2 | The game time moment. |
| 1:11.4 | Are we wasting this? |
| 1:27.7 | Right. You framed it and or the manager also because the manager's thinking, okay, do we do it now? |
| 1:28.2 | What is the challenge? |
| 1:28.9 | What's the situation? |
| 1:46.7 | The game time moment. Are we wasting this? Yeah, versus the player. You're just ticked off because no, that was a strike versus, hold on, hold on a player. We need, we need, we need, we need one. We need one. We need it when it really matters. And it was used early. obviously the All-Star game and Scoob was going to pitch long so he had to kind of throw it in there and it was used early. Obviously, the All-Star game and Scoob was going to pitch long, so he had to kind of throw it in there. |
| 1:48.0 | And it went from two strikes to a strikeout instead of a ball. |
| 1:51.7 | But anyway, the home run derby, just your thoughts, because the fans bought, ate it up. |
| 1:57.5 | I know there's some people like, oh, dude, stop. |
| 2:01.5 | It's an exhibition game. |
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