Wimp Sanderson, former men's basketball coach at Alabama, tells McElroy & Cubelic who were all-time great baseball players & what in-helmet communication will bring to the game
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McElroy and Kubelik in the morning starts now. All right, welcome back in. McElroy and Kubelik in the morning. Get back to our position groups here shortly. Major League Baseball last night. Brewers take out the Dodgers 5-4. Dodgers now 71-50. Brewers 68-52. Reds take out the Cardinals 9-2. Both of those teams are 60-61. Braves smashed the Giants last night.

13-2. Braves now 64-56. Giants 61-62. Olsen, Riley, Murphy, Harris all homer for the Braves last night. And Aaron Judge goes two for four with the home run. His 43rd of the season. His 300th of his career, GMAC. He is the fastest of 300 home runs in the history of Major League Baseball. No one's done it faster than Aaron Judge. Short porch.

That's definitely it. Yep. Yep. As long as you know that. 955 games. Ralph Kiner took 1,087. Ryan Howard, 1,093. Juan Gonzalez, 1,096. Juan Gonzalez, man. People forget how good he was early on. Golly, he was good.

I think he was just sweating HGH, but also, I mean, but just, yeah, he could rake. He had a great swing though. I mean, he was like one of those guys with a great swing that could still bomb it. Even if he never did the, uh, like underrated event, go, go. If you can go find it, the home run Derby at Camden yards, Griffey allegedly hitting it off the wall. Allegedly hit the building. I don't, you can't see it. I don't know.

But go watch Juan Gonzalez in that home run derby. He's hitting the third deck multiple times out in left field. He has won over like the batter's eye wall in center field. I mean, just bombs that he was hitting. So judge needed just 955 games to get his 300th home run. Seventh player to hit 300 home runs for the Yankees in franchise history. I think you can name any of those.

Seventh player to hit 300 home runs for the Yankees in franchise history. I got it. Do you want me to go now? That would be one. Yeah. All right. So, Ruth, Mantle. Yep. Maris. No. Did not hit 300 bombs? For the Yankees. Oh, for the Yankees. What a joke. Jeter. Nobody cares. No. Canseco. He may have hit three. A-Rod didn't get 300 with the Yankees. He did. He did? All right. So, A-Rod. I don't count him, but yeah.

DiMaggio? Yes. All right. Posada? No. George? Hideki Matsui. Lou? Lou Gehrig? Yes. Okay. Yogi? Barra? There. That's it. That's only six. Oh, yeah. Well, judge is seven. Dumb. Stupid dumb. On pace for 57 home runs this season, by the way, would be his third 50 home run season with Ty A-Rod for the fourth most in Major League Baseball history.

Do you know who has the most 50 home run seasons in MLB history? Bonds? No. Sosa. Correct. Tied with? Griffey. McGuire? That's one. You already named one of the others, John. Ruth? Yes. All tied with four. Really surprising that Bonds is not there. Really surprising. Yeah. All right. Almost like he peaked a couple years for whatever reason. Boy, when he peaked. It's pretty normal to go from 45 to 73. Yeah.

I do that in the car every day. A couple extra CCs. Get right there. Extra cycle. Cycle up. He joins us each and every week. Thanks to our friends at Coke and Piggly Wiggly. It's the coach, Wim Sanderson. What's on your mind today, coach? Why do you cut me out of the baseball talk and take three minutes off my time?

Ralph Kiner was one of the greatest hitters in my time. You don't even know who Ralph Kiner was. Yeah, but you were going to say the greatest, Coach, and I can't let you say it. I know more about baseball than you guys ever thought about knowing. That's not necessarily true. Oh, yeah, that's true. I guarantee you that's true. I'm not debating that you know more than me, but know more than I've ever thought about. That's false. Well, congratulations. You thought about something. All right.

If I'm coaching football, I want both you guys to correct me. Aaron Judge, top five home run hitter of all time, yes or no? Top five home run. Top five power hitter ever, yes or no? No. Where does Bonds rank in your power hitting rankings of all time? I don't have any idea. I don't rank them.

I don't know. He's good. I don't have any idea where he ranks. I don't know. You get one at-bat to win the World Series. Ralph Kiner, Barry Bonds in his prime. The biggest screwing in the history of baseball was when, what's his name, had a chance to pitch a perfect game in the World Series, and the umpire missed the call on first base.

The worst in it. We don't need to talk about baseball, about home runs. This wasn't that long ago, like 10 years ago? Longer than that. Come on, you guys. Armando Galarraga. Y'all were sucking your thumb. Y'all were sucking your thumb. Y'all were sucking a bottle back then. Tigers. Y'all were sucking a bottle back then. Y'all were kids. But he missed the cotton-picking call to make it a perfect game. Sandy Koufax or Bob Gibson? Who are you taking?

Probably Sandy Koufix. Probably Sandy Koufix. Let me ask you two guys something. Y'all are so smart. Tell me, after you have known pretty much right now who your ones are in football, with the injuries that you have, would you not be smart

And he'd tell me, correct me, would you not be smart to your next two scrimmages to go with twos and threes? Because you know who the ones are. You don't have to announce it publicly. You don't have to announce it to anybody. You don't have to say it to anybody. But to keep Texas lost two running backs, they almost lost a running back. I know where you're going, Coach, but here's the thing. You can't just park them. You can limit them, but you can't just park them. That would be like me saying –

Okay, Roy Rogers was your starting center two weeks away from the season beginning. Are you not going to make him condition for two weeks because you don't want him to pull a hamstring? No, he's got to be ready for the year still. So he's still going to go get his post-up drills in. He's still going to condition, even though he might have a toenail injury. I should have referred this to scrimmage. I'm sorry.

I should have referred this to the scrimmages. The twos and threes go against each other. Now, I know that Greg's not going to like it because you're quarterback, but I'm just saying in Alabama's case, the quarterback's a quarterback. Maybe Auburn's still looking a little bit. Maybe they're probably not. But I don't know about the quarterback situation. Greg can answer that. Yeah, from an Auburn perspective, Coach, I would tell you, I'm not sure outside of running back, I don't know if they're good enough many places to sit guys down.

And that's not that they're not going to be good in certain places, but they still probably need some work and they need work together. At Alabama, I think there are a couple of guys that I could think of. Like Tyler Booker doesn't need a scrimmage again. He's fine. Does Milrow need to go? A new quarterback in a new offense? I would say probably. He's non-contact, so who cares? He can go. He's fine. Like does Deontay Lawson need all the reps? No, probably not. Greg, what do you think? I think that these guys are still young.

I think the likelihood for injury in a scenario like that when guys are really taking care of each other. Like if you if a guy gets if you twist an ankle non-contact, there's things that happen, but it's rare. It's really rare. And there's always awkward stuff that that happens. I mean, think about the thousands of players that are going to fall camp right now and how many injuries we've reported.

I mean, like 30? Yeah, we're a wide receiver at Oklahoma. There's not a lot. Long story short, there's not a lot. So I think that you are much better served setting the tone with your team and saying, look, hey, here's the thing. We are going to scrimmage, and we are going to grind. Like, we're going to have the toughest team on the field, and the only way we're going to be able to do that is if we practice full tilt scrimmage.

as often as we can. And in the modern era, you can go full tilt like twice in fall camp. Well, I would say that, but I'd hold my ones. You'd what? I'd say that, but I'd hold my ones. I'd say that to everybody. Hey, we're trying to get everybody ready to play, so the twos and threes are going to go out hard. I'm not going to call them twos. Coach, the second part of what you said there is most important. We're trying to get our guys ready to play. The contact is already so limited.

that I just don't think you can let a lot of guys that you're banking on just completely skip reps. Maybe you cut it down and you don't get very many, but for guys that are actually going to be thumping, you can't go out there and say, no, you're good. You don't need anything. Yeah.

Well, I agree. I think you might get limited a little bit. I mean, maybe every now and then. But I just think that in the long run, after you've gone scrimmage in the stadium or wherever once and you halfway scrimmaged in practice, that you let the twos and threes do it and you let the ones win.

do some work, but not as much scrimmage work. That's just me. And of course I'd get my fan. I'd be on nine coaching football. So I have more important questions for you. Uh, games on the line. You need to save Mariano Rivera, Dennis Eckersley, or Lee Smith. Who are you taking? Father Rivera.

You need – But he pitched in the 21st century, Coach. Like, he can't be any good. I can't be on your radio show because you and I are so far apart. Y'all don't even know. That's what's so funny. I remember you telling us we asked you about – when was this? It was a couple years ago. And when we asked you – Y'all don't even know who Luke Easter is. Who? I know the Easter Bunny. Yeah.

You goobers don't know who Bob Fella was. Yes, I do. Coach, you need, you got a runner on third with one out, tie game, bottom ninths. You don't really need a home run. You just need, we need to get that run in. Tony Gwynn or Ted Williams? Who are you taking? Well, I'm not going to bunny man. Okay. I'm going to go with Ted. The greatest hitter in the history of baseball is Ted Williams. I saw Ted Williams play several times.

This is the most important question of the day. I saw Warren Spahn. Oh, sure. I saw Warren Spahn. Cy Young. I didn't see Cy Young. I ain't that cotton-picking old. Y'all got me where I'm at.

Good grief. I'm old. All right. Hold on a second. This is the most important question of the day. This is for Greg. What? Max Scherzer or Clayton Kershaw? Coach Kershaw. Not a bad. You got a microphone in the defensive guy's ear, and you got a microphone in the offensive guy's ear. That is the only way that you get to the coach who is changing things.

Uh, I've been trying to get a guy on my, on my show to talk about that. I don't know. You two guys have probably already talked about it, but I don't know if you have or not. Is that going to affect anything at all? Is that going to screw up anything? Is that going to help her to what? I think it's going to be very limited assistance defensively. It'll help some, but just a little bit because you,

Most of the defensive calls coach are reactionary calls. Yeah. So you gotta, you gotta see what's happening and what's changing, then get that in. And then here's the part that I don't think Greg and I initially thought about. And then when we talked to Joey McGuire at our seminar, it kind of, he was mad about it because he said they didn't get it right. And that made us go back and think about it again. You still, whether it's the quarterback or the inside linebacker, they have to get that to everybody else.

And that's where it's still a problem. So, yeah, I think that there's going to be a lot of paralysis by analysis in the early term. It's going to be a process of trial and error. Like if you put too much on these guys plate, you got to let them just play fast, dude. I mean, it's like at some point, I don't know.

I don't need to know what you think the safety is doing. You have to trust me enough to know that I've studied all week. I've prepared all week. I don't need to be told what I'm seeing now. Some guys. Yeah, it's going to help them a lot because they can't process. And the other thing that's going to be interesting is it's going to end. It's cutting off at 15 seconds. I know in tempo, tempo town, 15 seconds feels like an eternity, but I don't know. Like, I think it's going to hurt the evaluation of,

of NFL teams because you talk to anyone that comes from that Baylor system that Art Browse and them created 10 years ago or so, they could tell you where the ball is going. Hey, you're throwing it to the X. You're throwing it to the F. You're throwing it to the H. They'll tell you exactly where to go with the football. So therefore, these guys can't read defenses. They just know where to go with the football. They drop back, they adjust their eyes, and they throw it to the guy that the coach told them to throw it to.

And they wash out of the league. Tell me a guy from the Baylor system that's been any good in the league. Name one. None. And I think there's challenges in that. So it's a little bit of a crutch. Helps you win games in college, but it's not great for development. So it would be interesting to watch, I think, as you progress. Well, Nick Saban's defense was complicated.

He coached the backs, I know, but they called a lot of different stuff and it was pretty complicated. I think this year with a swarm defense, you're going to make a lot of tackles and run the quarterback out of where he wants to do, but I also think that you may give up a lot of long plays. Coach never did. He never did. He looked like he was going to rush the passion, but he didn't. He looked like he was going to blitz, but he didn't.

And I think if you do too much swarming, you throw over the swarm. And I know nothing. No, but you make great points, Coach. You really do. Juan Gonzalez or Mark McGuire? Who are you taking? Mark McGuire. Better catcher, Pudge Rodriguez or Johnny Bench? Johnny Bench. No, stop. Well, I missed on one that you wanted. That was not it. But, yeah.

Listen, you're not the only one that says it's Ted Williams' greatest hitter ever. But honestly, though, where does Pete Rose fall into that? The hitter? Should he not? I mean, he's got more hits than anybody. No, he ain't hit as Stan Musial. He's not hit as Joe DiMaggio. He's not a hit of... Coach, he was making the lineups and playing. Yeah, I know. I know. Also betting.

Oh, my goodness. We don't know that. Yes, we do. I just threw in another adjective. I didn't say anything. Yeah, and I feel like it was an accurate one. All right, I'm going to up my baseball questions next week, Coach, but we always appreciate your time. You need to. All right, well, Piggly Wiggly and...

Coca-Cola bring me to these two guys. And we had a good show today. We had some good arguments, and I even had a football question, too. So, Pigley Wig is great. Go in there and get some meats, get the vegetables, get whatever you need. You walk out with a smile. Andy and Stan, they're great friends of mine. They've had Pigley Wig at nine locations in Birmingham,

Can't beat Coca-Cola. I drink it all the time. Appreciate you guys having me on, and I'll talk to you next week and get your baseball questions ready. I'll give you. You don't even know who. I saw the first minority player play in the American League. You two goobers don't even know who. Is that when you took the train? Yeah, Larry Doby. Benito Santiago or Roy Campanella? Better catcher. Well, Roy Campanella was crippled for life after he, probably Roy.

Okay. Benito threw people out from his knees, Coach. I'm just saying. Yeah, yeah. Heard that. I don't know. I'm feeling a lack of respect for the modern-day player. That's all I'm saying. You have a lack of respect? No, I'm feeling a little bit of that from you, a little lack of respect for the modern-day player. You ready for this one? Joe Sewell was the head baseball coach at Alabama. He's the only one. He was playing third base. He never struck out. He has a few strikeouts in the history of playing baseball.

He took his cleat and drew a rivet so that when a ball was hit down his line, he got in that rivet and went foul. That's crafty. Better college baseball player, Dave Magadin or Tim Hudson? Dave Magadin was darn good, boy. Tim Hudson strike you out, too, and play some center field. Yeah, I'd say either one of them. I don't know. Okay.

Shohei Ohtani or Babe Ruth? Who are you taking? Batting cleanup. Babe Ruth. 68-ounce bat, Coach. I don't know. 68? Coach, thank you very much. We'll catch up next week. Thank you very much. Y'all try to study it. We're going to work on it. We're going to go study. You got some problems. Bye. We got a lot of problems. Our baseball knowledge is the least of my concerns.

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