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Boomer & Gio

Sports & Analytics

Boomer & Gio

Audacy

Sports, News

4.2707 Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

An older caller criticizes modern baseball, blaming "analytics." C-Mac and Willie argue that sports must evolve for entertainment.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Tom and Babylon is a big fan of analytics.

0:02.0

What's up, Tom?

0:03.4

Well, you hit the nail on the head.

0:05.1

That's just restoring the game of baseball through the minor leagues,

0:08.5

as well as the major leagues, analytics.

0:12.7

Hey, listen, let me just give, if you don't mind,

0:16.5

a plug to a baseball rider that's on LinkedIn,

0:22.7

and this guy's phenomenal.

0:23.2

Sure.

0:29.0

His name is Owen Kelly, O-W-E-N-K-E-L-L-Y.

0:33.7

The guy's just spot on on a lot of stuff.

0:40.2

He's a former scout who's a ball player and he writes, I think, true stuff. About the a former scout. He's a ball player. And he writes, I think, true stuff.

0:44.0

About what, though? Okay, you got his name out there. What's your problem with analytics?

0:49.3

What's your problem with? Are we talking the conversation we're having now about the starting pitchers?

0:55.5

Is it exit velocity, launch angle, all of it? It's all killing the game of baseball?

0:56.9

If I may.

0:57.3

Yes.

0:58.2

It's all of it.

0:59.4

First one, I'm going to explain something.

1:05.3

The average pitcher today is going about four and a half innings.

1:06.7

Just check it out.

1:07.7

That's number one. Number two, I can name a whole slew of starting pitches in the 80s, the 90s, and the 2000s that went the full nine innings and never had Tommy John's surgery.

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