Ray Durham

You get Bonds on Friday, you get Bonds on Saturday.

If you do your job, you get Ray Durham, Rich Aurelia, and you get Barry, and then you're out of the game because then coming up is Kent and Santiago with the right-handers.

He has also been a staunch advocate for the union since he jumped into the fray with the Detroit Tigers in the mid-1990s.

In his current role as a Special Assistant for Player Services with the MLBPA, Mike visits a lot of clubhouses, talks to a lot of players, and fields inquiries on everything from the pension and benefit plans to the whys and wherefores of moving expenses.

And Sundays in San Francisco is the same thing.

You get Bonds on Friday, you get Bonds on Saturday.

If you do your job, you get Ray Durham, Rich Aurelia, and you get Barry, and then you're out of the game, because then coming up is Kent and Santiago, the right-handers.

So I took pride in being able, and then if it was a blowout game, they'd be like, hey, suck up the last two innings, because we know you can pitch again tomorrow and still be effective.

The old football coach Ty Willingham from Stanford in Washington.

Ray Durham, who was a great baseball player for the Giants.

Tim Collier, another Super Bowl champ.

Greg Vaughn, who could hit, by the way, Sacramento's own.

Again, should have won the World Series, you could argue.

You go down the list, now again, few outliers, Tampa Bay Rays, ton of openers.

Detroit Tigers, A.J. Hinch, known to use a ton of openers.

Dodgers, Dave Roberts, ton of injuries, but again, known to use a ton of openers.

Well, if it's a crapshoot when it matters most, then why are you doing it at the extent that you do it? Meaning, why do you rely on the analytics so heavily? in the regular season, that in the post season, you're not even sure what your data is gonna work.

That I think is the frustrating thing to fans.

Because you look at a lot of these analytical teams, these highly analytic teams, the Brewers, the Rays, the Astros.

The Astros have really been the only team that have had a ton of success.

That was one of the more remarkable seasons I've ever seen.

I was going to say the Ray Durham season.

Oh, yes.

Ray Durham hit 24 or 26 home runs out of nowhere.

That was a fun.

Ray Durham was the ballpark recently.

I wasn't there that day.

Was he really? But Ray Durham was the ballpark, yeah.