Episode 9: Todd Walker
The Stretch
Barstool Sports
4.8 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2017
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
12-year MLB veteran, nearly a career .300 hitter, former Cub heart-throb and current SEC/ESPN's 'Baseball Tonight' analyst, Todd Walker, joins the podcast.
Is Avisail Garcia actually good?! (3:26); Carl's early Cubs-related frustrations (6:05); Todd Walker (21:40) waxes poetic on his jersey being retired at LSU (21:40); The hype around being drafted 8th overall in 1994 (27:04); Opening up his wallet at the casino in the minor leagues (32:13); Regrets re: not picking Paul Molitor's mind on baseball stuff more often (33:50); No wonder steroids are called a 'wonder drug' (36:02); Why David Ortiz didn't succeed in Minnesota (38:38); You hit .330 in the minors -- What makes you so different? (47:32); How he was able to crush Pedro Martinez (49:26); Potential White Sox draft picks from the SEC (55:25)
EP 111 will feature SB Nation Insider and 21-year old phenom, Chris Cotillo (@ChrisCotillo)!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Redline Radio listeners, you can find us every Thursday on Apple podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. |
| 0:06.8 | Prime members can listen to Ed free on Amazon music. |
| 0:10.6 | Well, the bulls are actually the fucking one good team surprise. Believe it or not. Believe it or not. |
| 0:16.8 | The Cubs are in the midst of a four game losing streak at home for the first time since 2014 and as it stands |
| 0:22.5 | They are currently down four runs against Milwaukee Brewers again a team that I thought that they would absolutely punish |
| 0:28.8 | After a three game just embarrassing series at all against the pirates. What the fuck? |
| 0:32.8 | I said I don't want to talk about the cops. What's going on with the white socks? The white socks are doing they're like |
| 0:38.5 | Okay, there's a handful players in the white socks lineup that this is their last shot and these players are |
| 0:45.1 | Playing their asses off. They're playing pretty well. Tyler Saladino playing great on the ground second base Saladino tough play who cares? |
| 0:52.9 | He got him |
| 0:54.7 | Socks are playing some deep beds on the infield tonight one nothing. Amos Al Garcia playing outside of his mind |
| 1:01.0 | So I have a cell Garcia hit a ball tonight. Yeah, I see ten minutes ago like it might land in Maine. Hi |
| 1:07.4 | Dean |
| 1:09.4 | He's back looks up. You can put it on the board. Yes |
| 1:16.4 | Yes |
| 1:17.6 | Three run bomb by Harvey NSA for nothing soxley |
| 1:21.9 | It's like just one of the farthest and he turned on it which is a which is a big problem that |
| 1:26.7 | Abigail Garcia has always had he is so reliant on trying to go Oppo |
| 1:30.7 | He doesn't turn on pitches and he turned on a pitch night. What do you murder? What do you think it is? |
| 1:35.4 | He okay, so first off first off first up |
| 1:37.7 | He's leading the big leagues right now going into tonight's gaming |
| 1:41.3 | He's leading the big leagues and hits with 21 average with 447 his OPS is what is it? |
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