The Fifth Hour: Omar Vizquel, 11-time Gold Glover!
The Ben Maller Show
Fox Sports Radio and iHeartPodcasts
4.8 • 863 Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Omar Vizquel is the personification of defense at shortstop in MLB history, an 11-time Gold Glove winner, he set the standard for excellence. Part of the glory days of the mid-1990s Cleveland Indians, Omar started his career with the Seattle Mariners in 1989, when he retired he was the last player left in any North American sports league who appeared in a game in the 1980s. Vizquel will be honoring his fellow Venezuelan Miguel Cabrera in Miami soon. Omar regales us with stories about his career, the changes to the game including the pitch clock and analytics, and much more. You can follow him on Twitter @VizquelOmar13. Follow Danny G Radio on Twitter @DannyGradio, Follow Big Ben on Twitter @BenMaller, and listen to the original "Ben Maller Show," Monday-Friday on 450+ terrestrial Fox Sports Radio affiliates, iHeart stream, and SiriusXM Radio channel 83, 2a-6a ET, 11p-3a PT!
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| 0:00.0 | If you thought four hours a day, 1,200 minutes a week was enough, think again. |
| 0:07.7 | He's the last remnants of the old republic. |
| 0:10.4 | A sole bastion of fairness. |
| 0:12.4 | He treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the rich pill poppers in the penthouse. |
| 0:17.9 | Wow. |
| 0:18.5 | The clearinghouse of hot takes break free for something special. |
| 0:22.6 | The fifth hour with Ben Mallor starts right now. |
| 0:28.4 | In the air everywhere. |
| 0:33.9 | Welcome into the audio dojo and an exciting fifth hour with Ben Mallor and Danny G. Radio, a show that I have been looking forward to providing you. |
| 0:45.9 | We talked about it on the overnight show this week. |
| 0:49.4 | And here it is. |
| 0:50.6 | You're going to hear the full unedited version of a conversation we're going to have here in a few minutes with Omar Visckel. I love having these baseball guys on the podcast. We've had a few of them on over the years, but we can now add the name of Omar Visckel. If you're not familiar, you should know who this guy is if you're a baseball fan, |
| 1:11.7 | but one of the finest defensive short stops that I've ever seen in my lifetime and in |
| 1:19.9 | baseball history. |
| 1:21.5 | And he retired over a decade ago. |
| 1:24.6 | 2012 was his last season. |
| 1:26.6 | But Visckel played 24 years. |
| 1:30.3 | He spanned four decades in Major League Baseball, came up in 1989, and his name is constantly |
| 1:40.3 | brought up in the Hall of Fame conversation. |
| 1:42.7 | There's this great debate because of his defensive prowess, whether he should be in the Hall of Fame or not. |
| 1:48.2 | We'll get into that at some point. |
| 1:50.8 | The pride of Venezuela, he retired as the all-time hits king from Venezuela. |
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