Best of The Odd Couple
The Odd Couple with Rob Parker & Kelvin Washington
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4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Chris and Rob debate the narrative that Shohei Ohtani should be the American League MVP every single year that he has a healthy season, discuss the likelihood that Damian Lillard actually gets traded in the coming weeks and argue over whether or not Steph Curry is really the 'underdog story' he claims to be.
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| 0:26.8 | You're listening to the best |
| 0:28.8 | of the odd couple with Chris |
| 0:30.6 | Brousso and Rob Parker. |
| 0:35.5 | Everybody |
| 0:36.3 | it seems is a fan of showohayotani, except my partner, Rob Parker. |
| 0:43.5 | Who said I'm not? I don't like you. |
| 0:45.1 | I can tell the tone, the comments, the belittlement, the downplane. |
| 0:52.9 | Every time I bring up Sho Hey, Oe Otani, you bring up Aaron Judge. |
| 0:59.0 | And here is what Kurt Schilling, the great Kurt Schilling, had to say about Shohei Otani. |
| 1:06.7 | Joe Haye Otani. |
| 1:07.6 | He had his 24th home run on Sunday. |
| 1:09.4 | He's the fastest in Angel's history to 150 home runs. And that is not a small thing. And I honestly mean this. I've said many times that I think Mike Trout will be the greatest player alive. Anybody alive sees. I don't know that I can make that case anymore. I've never seen anything like it. I've never seen anything close to it. People want to talk about Babe Ruth. But again, Babe Ruth wasn't the cleanup hitter and the opening day started for the Yankees. Can you put into words how good he is? Nope, he's the MVP. There is no more valuable player in baseball than this guy. None. Not even close. If you're taking his offensive numbers alone, he might battle for the MVP. If he was a pitcher alone, he might battle for the Cy Young. But as an MVP, as long as he stays healthy, he should have the award every year. |
| 1:48.7 | Chris, you know I don't buy into that. I think it's the most, it's lazy. It's too easy. |
| 1:55.5 | We heard guys say this last year. Oh yeah, give him the, who was it, J.D. Martinez, |
| 2:19.3 | C.C. Sabathia. I could go on and on, all really good players, great players, and they all were on this old tiny train last year. And guess what? He got trounced in the MVP voting, Chris. He got trounced. Because it's not just about compiling numbers. It's still |
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