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Welcome to Stay Hot.

I'm Bladen Kirk, joined as always by my two favorite co-hosts of all time in Matthew Spine Hour, Theo Ash.

Today we are joined by the one and only Caleb Green.

And we're live here from the MLB All-Star House.

Again, big shout out to Apple TV Plus, Friday Night Baseball for inviting us out here. It is a ton of fun to be a part of this watch party. You know, tonight's game features game one, Pirates and Rockies, Game 2, Diamondbacks, and Padres. And again, shout out to all the influencers that are here for hashtag Friday Night Baseball at the MOB All-Star House. We have a great episode plan for you all today. Again, we're going to be here with Caleb Green because we're primarily a football and basketball podcast, so we have a very special baseball. I'm going to call you a baseball expert because in my eyes you are. In my eyes, you're a baseball expert with his experience. You know, you've played baseball before you even played a little bit in college. So what has that really been like for you? And what does that really mean for you to be here today? I think it's a beautiful thing. You know, it's a beautiful thing to be able to do baseball for fun, right? But then be able to intermingle some of the things that I do for fun, for real, I'm here on behalf of Major League Baseball making content, and I never thought that I'd be able to do something like this. And I think it's incredible that MLB has something like this to allow creators to thoroughly express themselves. So it means a lot to be here. I'm glad to be on the podcast. Thank you all for allowing me to sit with you all here today. Thanks for coming on.

So it's great to be here.

No, it's great to have you, man. It really is.

I think we should just hop right in.

You know, one thing we were talking about a little bit earlier and just kind of, you know, within ourselves is, you know, just the way that the MLB All-Star is set up,

it's very similar to a lot of the other, you know, pro-sports All-Stars where you see guys like, you know, that might be getting towards the end of their career and maybe they get a vote to an All-Star game that maybe... Like some fan voting kind of stuff, right? Yeah, there's some fan voting that goes on a little bit. Like a legacy All-Star type type thing. Do you think that's a valid take that be had?

I think it is. I believe that when you have someone, for example, Albert Pujolz, he's, he's legendary, right? He's one of those athletes that when you look over his career, he's done well for the duration of his entire career. And so like, you know, someone who's getting close to the end of their career, you want to give them an opportunity to kind of get their last hurrah in. And that's just a biased take that I have just because I think, you know, I think if you've done the job well, you should be able to finish it well, you know? And I think that participating here is going to be good for him. And, you know, as he gets ready to end his career, he can say, hey, I finished as an all-star. Where would you rank him all-time? If we're just going to go, if he's going to, if he's going to intro us with like, oh, we got the hot takes, pool all-time, where would you put him on a baseball list? Yeah. This one is an incredibly difficult one because there are so many great players that you have to consider, right? But since you asked, I'll say he's in top five. I'll say top five. Top five? All time. All time. Do you have a top five? Not readily available. What? The lists are always tough, man. They are. We don't want't want to upset anybody honestly when you think of the game of baseball and if you think from a historical

perspective like there's just too many right and then like you think current day like present

day there are too many there too so i'll say top five okay okay okay that's fair enough um

do you do you think that like over guys that are performing better though, like there's also

a lot of young guys that feel like, oh, maybe I deserve that more and I've proved myself

as a younger player, do you think that those guys have a valid case or do you think that,

again, it's just like these guys have already put in their work, let them have their

moment? Yeah, I think that's a it's just like, these guys have already put in their work. Let them have their moment. Yeah, I think that's a tough one because, like, at the end of the day, like, we aren't the ones that end up making that final decision for an older player to get that, you know, experience back into the all-star, all-star experience. But, I mean, if you're, if you're good enough to get there, you know, you'll get there.

Like, you think about Danesby Swanson, for example, and I'm a huge Danesby Swanson guy, by the way. You know, he's been in the league for, what, like six years now, and this is his first time being in it. So it's kind of like, you know, if you're good enough to get there, you'll get there. but then again those older you know season athletes have been doing this for a while, if they want to get in, let them in.

Yeah, I mean, the NBA has done before, like, the legacy All-Stars, where they've had, like, Dwayne, Wade and Dirk, I remember one year, got in, like, extra spots. Would you like to see the MLB do something like that and let everybody who's, like, you know, the best however many players on each side get in but then have special spots for special guys

yeah i think that would be a pretty good pretty good model uh who's like, you know, the best, however many players on each side get in, but then have special spots for special guys.

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