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🗓️ 5 June 2024
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E and T Short: is there a nickname with staying power?
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0:00.0 | He has been incredible. Now keep this in mind about Louise Heel and this is not his fault. |
0:04.0 | Okay, so I will defend him much like I defended Jacob to Graham a couple years ago. |
0:08.0 | One of the big differences between Louise Heels dominance and the dominance of 25 years ago or 30 years ago or you know any |
0:16.2 | other picture you want to compare him to is that we now live in an era in which guys go |
0:20.2 | six innings and they're taking out maybe they go seven innings. seven innings. |
0:23.0 | Yeah. |
0:24.0 | Guys are going eight, nine innings. |
0:25.0 | So when you compare innings, of course he's going to come up small when you compare him to other |
0:30.3 | guys. |
0:31.3 | So if you're being fair, you always have to look at the context of now, the |
0:34.7 | context of this moment, and in this moment you're talking about a guy that does not give up hits. |
0:41.6 | That's the thing that jumps out at me.. He'll walk a few guys. He's averaging |
0:44.4 | four and a half walks per nine. He'll strike out a ton of guys. You don't get hits off of him. But he has been |
0:50.2 | incredibly dominant and now as we sit here in the first week of June he has |
0:55.0 | been the best pitcher in the American League he is the leader to be the AL |
0:58.8 | Suy Young he's the leader to be the AL rookie of the year and we're witnessing something that to me is box office |
1:05.8 | right in front of our eyes. |
1:07.4 | Now to be box office in New York City, Tiki, you need a nickname. |
1:12.3 | And you're well aware of that because you had some nicknames. Oh, Tiki's you need a nickname. And you're well aware of that, because you had some nicknames. |
1:14.3 | Oh, Tiki is my nickname. No, but I mean like your group had nicknames. |
1:17.4 | Right, right, right, right, right, right. Yeah, of course. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, something that's memorable. Yeah. I mean, that was 24 years ago. |
1:24.0 | And we still remember? |
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