Transcript
Don Hahn (0:00)
This is the Don Hahn and Rosenberg podcast.
Peter Rosenberg (0:04)
That sounds like heaven to me.
Don Hahn (0:05)
Listen live weekday afternoon starting at 3 on 8 80, ESPN, the ESPN New York app, and your smart speakers. This is Don Hahn and Rosenberg.
Peter Rosenberg (0:18)
Why would Major League Baseball want to change the torpedo bat? Major League Baseball's been handed a gift, a legal gift. Nobody's injecting their behinds with PDS to create home runs. Baseball didn't have to go. Jimmy switched to baseball baseball and juice it behind everybody's back to be able to increase home runs. They found a legal form to increase the offense. Why in God's name would baseball want to change it? You know why? Because they don't know what they're doing. They're a poorly run organization. That's why. They'll probably screw it up. Because if they know what they're doing, they'd leave it alone. They'd promote it. They would issue a press release. Good news, fans. We're now entertaining. We have a baseball bat that people are going to hit home runs. Enjoy. Thank you. You're welcome.
Don Hahn (0:59)
Don Hahn and Rosenberg on 8 ESPN.
Peter Rosenberg (1:06)
I saved the good stuff for radio. I don't need people.
Alan Hahn (1:09)
I mean, that was a phenomenal way to start the show. No, there's no question about it. You talk about a lead off home run. I mean, that was Don McGregor today.
Peter Rosenberg (1:18)
Yeah, I just. It kind of hit me because we were talking in the meeting about like the different angles on this thing. And I just keep thinking to myself, it's like every time baseball gets talked about because we heard it at nauseam with Michael because Michael was a baseball guy. Paul, there's not such thing as bad publicity. Baseball's loving this. Why? Every time baseball is the most talked about sport, it's around some controversy that ultimately isn't good. You know, it's pds, it's spider tack. It's now Torpedo bats or it's something that. Dude.
Alan Hahn (1:51)
But why is Don. I don't get it. Why is this version of the bat that now we're calling Torpedo bat? Why is there something bad with this? Well, I don't understand the bad connotation. Don't we love offense? Don't we love to see the ball hit? Are we sick and tired of seeing like, you know, again, it's the all or nothing home runs and strikeouts. Like, we all talked about how bad the game has gotten to a point where they had to make rules. They had to start curbing the idea of the. Of the defensive shifts. We had to change things about the game. We had to put a clock in so we had more pitches, we could have a game that doesn't last four hours. We had to change things because pitching became defense became too dominant. And we love seeing offense. If this helps the offense, there's nothing wrong with it. And there should be nobody out there listening who has a problem with this. If you do, you hate your sport. That's all it is. And any. You talked about this earlier in the show, Don, all the purists, and I love the voice you use too. The purists who are trying to protect the game and say, well, Babe Ruth didn't have this and he didn't have that and that there's. This is a numbers driven sport that has history tied to every number. And now the unfair advantage. Let me remind everybody that it's the only sport that does that. Because let's just take one look at the league that I cover on a daily basis, the NBA. LeBron James is now the all time leading scorer. He's the only human in history to score 50,000 points in a career in the NBA. And you know why? Part of the reason why Kareem Abdul Jabbar is now number two is because a, when he first got in the lead, they didn't have a three point shot. And then when he did play in the league, nobody really used it. Does that make it wrong? Should they not credit LeBron James because he shot a bunch of threes in his career and was able to get to that many points? No, it's a, it's, it's adaptation. It is evolution. It's what you do in a sport. And it includes equipment, it includes bodies getting stronger, it includes changing dimensions of the court in the field. But that's just part of sports. So don't use what happened in 1940 as something that I can't ever make my sport better because God forbid it's different than that, the way they played it all those years ago.