Mets and Astros sign-stealing scandal continues (1/22)
Nothing Personal with David Samson
David Samson
4.7 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Here you go. Here you go. |
| 0:05.7 | Whistleblower. God, that word is used quite a 50s days. That's my nothing personal word |
| 0:11.6 | of the day. Whistleblower, who am I talking about? God, we can be talking about anybody, |
| 0:17.5 | anytime. We're talking about Pedro Martinez, the former Hall of Fame pitcher, pitch for |
| 0:24.9 | the Red Sox, pitch for the Metz. Pedro Martinez was not much bigger than I am. A couple |
| 0:29.9 | inches five, nine. I think we listed him. He was listed at five, 10. What made Pedro so |
| 0:34.7 | amazing, he had hands that made a baseball look like a ping pong ball in his hand. And he |
| 0:42.8 | had fingers that were bent in a way. So when you would shake his hand, it would feel almost |
| 0:49.1 | inappropriate because his hand would envelop your hand. And because his fingers were curled |
| 0:55.8 | in a way that if you're not watching the show right now, you're listening, his fingers |
| 1:00.9 | went in like three different directions. The way it looks when you jam your finger |
| 1:04.3 | on a basketball, that it looks like it's permanently bent and you try to straighten it, but |
| 1:08.5 | can't. And the tip of his finger would go one way. Then the first knuckle to the second |
| 1:13.8 | knuckle, another way. And then below the middle knuckle, yet another way. And what it did |
| 1:18.4 | was it made the ball spin tremendously well. He was one of the players who actually stood |
| 1:24.0 | up and said, last year, the balls were different in Major League Baseball. And he could tell by |
| 1:29.4 | the seams, he was a big time seam guy, SE AM guy, because he would use the seams and his |
| 1:37.5 | crazy fingers to get spin on the ball that would make him unhittable. He decided, why |
| 1:43.0 | not? I'm in the hall of fame. I'm going to weigh in on the sign stealing scandal. And |
| 1:48.6 | so he did. He called Mike fires a bad teammate. He said that Mike fires. I think it's EI, |
| 1:56.2 | R S or I E R S. And I think it's pronounced fires, not fears. But what I do know is he's |
| 2:02.7 | the guy we remember. He threw it by accident. John Carlos sat in the face, not as bad as |
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