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The Odd Couple with Rob Parker & Kelvin Washington
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🗓️ 1 June 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Chris and Rob discuss whether other sports leagues like the NBA and the NFL should follow MLB’s lead after they retroactively integrated Negro League statistics, debate whether the Miami Dolphins extending Jaylen Waddle before Tua Tagovailoa is further proof that the team still isn’t completely sold yet on their starting quarterback and explain why Phil Handy when he suggests that members of the sports world owe Kyrie Irving an apology now that he’s back in the NBA Finals after years of controversy.
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| 0:26.3 | You're listening to the best of the odd couple with Chris Broussock and Rob Parker. |
| 0:34.6 | Yesterday we talked about the Negro League's statistics being integrated into Major League Baseball's official statistics. |
| 0:47.5 | And so that means that like instead of Ty Cobb having the all-time record for career batting average, I think |
| 0:57.3 | his was 362 or something like that? I think it was 366. Okay. Josh Gibson now has it and his is |
| 1:06.5 | 373 or 372. So things like that, you know, and now, Rob, I think three of the top five batting |
| 1:16.6 | averages of all time are players from the Negro leagues. |
| 1:21.2 | And that got me to thinking, Rob, what about should other leagues follow suit and maybe integrate, if there |
| 1:31.8 | were legitimate leagues going on besides their own, should other leagues kind of integrate |
| 1:38.8 | those into the statistics? And mainly the one I was thinking about, Rob, is the ABA and the NBA. |
| 1:47.9 | I thought that that's where you were coming up with this was the ABA and NBA. |
| 1:54.0 | And the only reason I'm going to say, I'm going to pause and say no, is that there wasn't some diabolical thing that stopped people from playing either either the |
| 2:06.0 | ABA or the NBA and they were separate entities that don't have the bear the the the |
| 2:12.9 | mark on it Chris uh it wasn. It wasn't discrimination. Right. |
| 2:17.6 | They just didn't, you know, like, there's nothing there that says that you couldn't have played in the ABA or you couldn't have been playing in the NBA. We talk about all the time. Dave Winfield was drafted by both the ABA, the NBA, the NBA, the NFL, and Major League Baseball, right? Like he could have played an ABA or he could have played in the NBA. |
| 2:17.1 | Where I think the only reason... the NFL and Major League Baseball. Like he could have played in the ABA or he could have played in the NBA. |
| 2:35.9 | Where I think the only reason why this works in baseball is because of what happened historically. |
| 2:46.8 | And it wasn't about people's lack of skill. |
| 2:52.7 | This wasn't a skills barrier, Chris. |
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