Hour 2: Hall of Fame Pitcher Jim Abbott on his New Documentary & Journey to the Big Leagues

Brock and Salk

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🗓️ 15 July 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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We are witnessing the season of Cal Raleigh, he is breaking record after record and showing up in big moments on the national stage. His most recent accolade was winning the MLB Homerun Derby last night, becoming the 1st catcher to ever win it. // Need to Know: Cal Raleigh almost did not make it out of the 1st round of the HR Derby, he beat out Brent Rooker by less than an inch to advance to the semi-finals and goes on to win it all. He is the 1st catcher ever to win the Derby. The Mariners went through day 2 of the MLB Draft highlighted by Pitcher Mason Peters and outfielder Korbyn Dickerson. Ernest Jones received some votes for being one of the top off ball linebackers in the NFL but did not make the top 10 list // Hall of Fame Pitcher Jim Abbott joins the show to talk about his new E60 documentary “Southpaw” which breaks down the career of Jim Abbot and the struggles that came with his journey to MLB and throwing a no-hitter. How did he manage to find success on the mound while missing one of his hands?

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0:00.0	Get me a freaking auto!
0:01.4	From the Quantum Fiber Studio, this is Brock & Sock on Seattle Sports.
0:07.3	Brock Heward and Mark, Matt, Markers.
0:10.3	Sorry about just Mike.
0:12.4	Mike.
0:12.9	Heward, not exactly Joe Cap there in the pocket.
0:15.8	Now here are your hosts.
0:17.2	Brock Heward and Mike Salk.
0:21.3	All right, thank you to everybody who texted in.
0:23.2	Yes, I see the Sandy Go Chicken was played by a guy named Ted Giannoulis,
0:28.0	Giannoulis, so that's why he called him Ted, and then other people saying that was obvious.
0:33.0	Well, I don't know.
0:33.5	It's the only mascot I've ever heard of where you get to know who the person is playing it.
0:37.8	I guess it's a cool story, though, of this dude who was a student who kind of pitch the whole idea of taking this chicken and turning it into something at Padres games.
0:46.8	And he just wanted to go see games for free and ended up being the San Diego chicken for years and years.
0:51.5	So that's actually kind of an awesome story.
0:53.4	I might need to go back and read a little bit more of it. Speaking of awesome stories, that's kind of where we're out today. Jim Abbott is going to join me in a half hour at 730 and tell his awesome story, which is part of a new E60 documentary called Southpaw that I watched. A plusplus, remarkable, tremendous story and just incredibly inspirational.
1:13.4	So we will talk to Jim Abbott coming up in a half hour.
1:16.8	The story of Cal last night is, look, I mean, from a Seattle perspective,
1:22.5	there's, you know, watching one of our own here become great, become noticed, become a major part of the national
1:31.0	lore of baseball and become one of the best and most engaging players in the game, not to mention
1:39.9	everything that he does for the Mariners, right? And has this team currently in a playoff spot after getting them into the playoffs of that
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