Hey part of my take listeners, you can find every episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime members can listen, add free on Amazon Music. On today's part of my take, we review the Long Gone Summer, the documentary Mark McGuire and like a little piece of Sammy Sosa and then they blamed all the steroids and barri bonds. We have Dallas Braden to talk about what's going on in baseball right now The steroid error or the end of the steroid error when he was a rookie in baseball We have who's back of the week and a great great great Mount Flushmore It is Monday who knows what day it is anymore. Oh also, we're gonna talk a little Kyrie Irving because that is an interesting story that I don't know where it's gonna end up

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Download the cash app right now down too He let's break our venue And then we're taking higher Oh we're gonna rock it down too He let's get tape Welcome to part of my tape presented by the cash app go download it right now use code bar still you get $10 for free $10 the ASPCA today is Monday June 15th and the long gone summer Stunk It was impressive in the fact that it was a two hour long documentary that taught me absolutely nothing new It was I've never sat down and watched what should be like a detailed look at an era. Yes, where they there were no new facts. Okay. So it was a YouTube compilation with some radio calls which that is nostalgia great like there was a couple of moments like, oh, that's cool. Any documentary that gives us a glimpse of 90s fashion also love. But other than that, it was the Mark McGuire documentary with a small part supporting role of Sammy Sosa, which was weird because Sammy was equally as electric obviously he didn't get the, you know, the home run king. You won the MVP that year. I'm a little biased. 20 home runs in fucking June. They just passed over that. But it was, I actually think it was kind of like, you know, let me go, let me go. Trey Wingo for a second. anchor man when he hits the conch shell I'm and news team assemble. Yep. They did that for this documentary. It was just a white old sports writers Assemble and it was just a fucking who's who if you are Oh, an old like 60 plus white sports writer and you weren't in this documentary fucking retire, dude You're done Rick Riley is So Costas and George will are like the greatest that is that is a Jordan and Pippin of Of white old guy sports writers and cost is almost crying about steroids Bob cost is definitely cold called his way to that Documenter he found out that there was there was a documentary that would be premiering on ESPN that was going to be heavily centered around St. Louis Cardinals

baseball and that was like the bat signal for Bob. It was a tiny like a five foot two bat symbol that shot up into the sky. Bob was like I must be there. It was crazy. I'm just thinking now how how could they have all those those broadcasters not have Joe Buck like he was in the documentary. Yeah. Dad's crying.

I was there.

He was, yeah.

I blamed Joe Buck for not-

Well, no, he probably knew he was gonna be like,

so many trash.

I'm not trying to be one of these scrubs in the documentary. His dad tried. He was there. Yeah, I blame Joe Buck for not

on.

Well, he probably knew he was like,

what's going to be trash?

I'm not trying to be one of these scrubs

in this documentary.

Joe Buck was complacent interviewing both Sammy and Mark McGuire and didn't ask him about steroids for shame. Joe, it is crazy though that that was. I want to watch a documentary about the stereotype of baseball. It's a fascinating point time. The summer of 98 saved baseball.

Truly did. I know that that that sounds crazy, but it really did like capture the attention of a nation. Think about this. The fucking the Cubs played 163 games that year. They got in with the extra game and got swept by the breeze. The Cardinals were in third place. Like this story swept up the country and you're talking about a third place team. It was the biggest story and it was so much fun to watch and then I watched this documentary. Maybe it's because it's the nostalgia factor. Well, everything we know, the summer of 98 and the whole and the steroid baseball era as like in totality, which I'll never like point of finger and be like, man, those guys, you know, I can't believe they did that because everyone was doing it one. You can't tell me that Barry Barnes is in a fucking hall famer or Sammy Sosa is in a fucking hall famer, Roger, like all these guys should be in the hall famed. But it does change it a little bit just because you look back and you're like,

wow, those numbers like everyone was hitting.

I was going through them. And the fact that Griffey at 56 at your Greg Vaughn hit 50. And then in the next year, they went 65 and 63. And then the next year or sorry, two years later, bonds at 73 and so's hit 64, which was the Brady Anderson years. That to me will always be the funniest example of the year to get Brady Anderson was in there with the home runs from the lead off spot, the sideburns, the Delrose place sideburns. But it wasn't just when I say it wasn't like it was everyone, I truly mean it was everyone. So I went back and looked, there were nine guys in 1998 who had over 45 home runs there were nine guys in 2001 who had over 45 home runs. There were nine guys in 2001 who had over 45 home runs Since since like the last in the last like 10 years It's basically been one to three guys floating sometimes zero guys fucking Miguel Cabrera won the home run title in 2012 with 44 home runs like it was used to be monster numbers back in the day, right? was crazy it was very funny how they did pennant they didn't mention steroids until berry bonds came along and broke my glass record and they're like wait so dirty how they did that like steroids and then here comes berry bond i say i say let them all into the whole family let them all in because you can't take back the dingers yes the fingers were incredible berry were incredible. Barry Bonds was so good that year that he was smashing

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