Our first elect. He was a superstar at the
plate and in the field playing 21 seasons for the
Dodgers Mariners, Red Sox and Rangers. Today,
Adrian Beltre becomes a member of the National Baseball Hall
of Fame. Our second member of the class of
2024 played his entire career with one team, his
hometown Minnesota Twins. And tonight he becomes a member
of the National baseball Hall of fame. Joe Mauer
, welcome to Cooperstown and our third and final member
of the class of 2024 played his entire 17 year
career while wearing number 17 for the Colorado Rockies.
Today, Todd Helton becomes a member of the National
Baseball Hall of Fame. A historic announcement, a
three member class voted on by the writers, Billy
Wagner. He finished five votes short Sheffield now falls
off the ballot. But as we saw with Fred
mcgriff will have his day with veterans committees. Uh
, Andrew Jones still has a few years left.
Carlos is going to get in as you said earlier
, slap on the wrist for the Astros cheating scandal
. Then he goes up from that figure this year
. He's got plenty of time left on the ballot
. This is Jack o'connell from the baseball Hall of
Fame in Cooperstown, New York. You second home
. The baseball riders have elected you to the Hall
of Fame. Thank you so much. And obviously
I, I'm honored, uh, uh, it
, it, it's something that it is amazing to
be, uh, even just on about it.
Um, and to be able to, uh,
now call myself a Hall of Fame is something that
I even dream of. You know, I always
wanted to be a decent baseball player, a good
baseball player, but I never thought about being a
Hall of fame. Now that I'm in it.
It's really an honor. I'm humble to be uh
call that. And uh you know, um it
was, it was kind of, it was kind
of super sweet and nice the way you got that
call in you when you want to see Coopertown Cooperstown
and the phone call and then you kind of settled
in. Ok, man, I think you are
gonna make the Hall of fame. So it was
, it was really nice. This is Jack o'connor
with Baseball Writers Association. I think the last time
I spoke with you was to notify you of your
American League MVP. And I have a much bigger
message for you today. The baseball writers and elected
to the hall of fame. Sure. Wow,
Jack, that's unbelievable. I don't even know what
to say. I'm a why. Um I'll say
I can't wait until, uh, this summer and
, and, uh, seeing you shortly, this
is, this is unbelievable news and I'm just so
thankful and grateful, you know, I, I
kinda laid low, um, you know, during
that time of, of a possible call and I
just spent it with family and, uh, now
I had to sneak into my office because the,
uh, the number is growing with the friends and
family down here in my basement. So, uh
definitely thrilled to, to get that call, but
uh very emotional and uh you know, obviously leading
up to today, um you reflect on all the
people that have impact on your career and, and
who you are as a man and this is an
individual award, but there's so many people that I
need to thank um for helping me get there and
, you know, challenging me and, and pushing
me to uh to, to be great. And
um I, I just, like I said,
I got a lot of thank yous uh ahead of
me, that's for sure. Yes. Yes,
great. Thank you so much. I just um
ii I really didn't think the phone was gonna ring
and when it rang I was uh yeah, I
was still in shock. Um And it said Hall
of Fame on it. I was uh very happy
and, you know, it's, this is something
you don't play for but you obviously it's the,
the greatest. Um It's the greatest award you can
have as a baseball player, you know, 100
and 62 games. There's sometimes, uh where you're
just not feeling and, and you go out and
, and you play a course field, uh and
the fans get you energized and they get you ready
to play. And, um, you know,
you never know when the, when the one kid's
there. That, uh, that, that,
that's his first time watching you play. So that's
what I thought about when I went out there.
And uh uh to play is, is to try
to um show the, the young younger kids how
to play. Tweet from our friend Bob Nightingale.
The Dodgers are adding depth to the rotation signing veteran
James P to a one year deal. They will
get a base salary of at least 11 million with
incentives. He's not a guy who picked much last
four years just over 100 ins. So, you
know, you deal with who is in injury history
. This guy's been an ace in Seattle, he's
just got to stay healthy. And there's one thing
we've learned from the Dodgers and what's happened in the
past three or four years, they just ran out
of pitching and I think what they're doing is they're
adding a bunch of arms out there just in case
what if, what can happen, the modeling system
, we know it's completely stacked. We got Miller
Bueller is gonna be back. But for me,
when I look at this, you need, you
need about 11 or 12 starting pitchers to go through
a whole year. That's, if I'm the Dodgers
, that's the way I'm seeing it. I think
the pack and deals are fantastic. Fantastic. What
do you, what do you lose one year?
You know, incentive based. He's a west coast
guy. Yeah, he's a guy who wants to
be on that side of the, of the country
. So, I, I think it's a great
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