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Welcome back to starting nine episode two 76.

It's September 16th. It's Thursday night that we're recording this podcast because the Oakland

A's had a day baseball game against the Kansas City.

Well, the poor Perez's. Yeah, wow.

Um, glad, glad to get out of town. Yeah, I mean, he, he, he, Homer in every single game, I believe. Yeah.

Yeah, sure did. Sure did. So now they're saying that he passed Johnny Bench. Like they're acknowledging that like, yeah.

Yeah, he sure did. That's how that works. Yeah, remember like, like, we, we have no tied tied tied tied. Okay. So this is from Fox Sports MLB tweeted.

Salvador Perez is now tied with Johnny Bench for most home runs in a single season by a catcher with 45.

So I'm sure I'm not going to be that guy. I personally do not give a fuck and I, I agree with the point that you made.

I think it was last episode. If you're, if you're catching moat, if most of your games played or as a catcher, you're a catcher.

Of course, you're going to have some days as a DH. You're a catcher. That's how we're going to qualify it.

But I believe in the season that Bench hit 45 home runs. He hit probably 10 more.

As an actual like, I'm in the lineup as a catcher today.

As opposed to any other position he played. Yeah, like if he probably played, did he play like first base or something?

That's the whole point is, let me see. Johnny Bench, he hit 45 home runs when he was 22 years old, damn, in 1970.

So let's see the splits here. Johnny Bench, 45 home runs, 38 of them came as a catcher that year.

One is a first baseman, five is a left fielder, one is a right fielder.

Yeah, like I said, like I, I, we're not arguing this anymore.

Now, yeah, no, that is, but Salvador, like, dude, and, you know, I, I have to be careful in what I say that he's a catcher.

You know, Salvador, or excuse me, he DH today.

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