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Now here's your host, Daily Gazette Sports editor Ken Shots. Thank you Scott Gezy, and welcome to the Parting Shots Podcast, available wherever you get your podcast. Subscribe today. Thanks for joining me from the Parting Shots Podcast studio in Schenectady, New York. We have another great show for you Archman at the Saratoga race course. Mike McAdam with us at the Track with Max segment. We'll talk about week two of the Saratoga horse racing season and preview week three Jim Dandy Stakes coming up on Saturday. So we'll take a peek into that as well. Some other races going on.
Union Hockey Men's hockey is slowly releasing their freshman class. Of course, hockey is not right around the corner, the new facility, M and T Bank center just about ready to open. There's going to be a Mansaku have a week long hockey camp the end of August. That'll be the really the first event, first chance to see how the ice is and so that's going to be an exciting time. And I just drove by there before coming into the office and they're starting to get the logo of the MT bank center up there. The M was up there. So we're slowly but surely putting that up on the rink. There's a advertising board that's operating now. So yeah, the excitement's getting there, there's no doubt about that. Even though it's mid July and we're thinking about summer weather, hockey is always great to talk to. And we're going to talk to Josh Hauge about the recruit recruiting class. As I said, six members, six freshmen will be coming in. I wrote about two of them. The goaltenders, Brendan Holohan and Braden Gillespie wrote about them last week. Of course, you can see that story
[email protected] we're going to talk about the four other freshmen that are coming in, Alex Lorenza, Antienne Lessard, Troy Pelton, who is a Clifton park native, and Olivier Chesler. So we'll talk about to Josh about that. And then coming up following that, we're going to talk about the Baseball hall of Fame induction ceremonies on Sunday and the president of the National Baseball hall of Fame and Museum, Josh, Roger Rawich, will join me to discuss that. Getting into the hall of Fame or being inducted, I should say are the late Dick Allen, the late Dave Parker, CC Sabathia, Ichiro Suzuki and Billy Wagner coming up. We're going to Talk with Mike McAdam about Saratoga Racing at Saratoga Racecourse. With us at the track with Max segment. And as we head into the break, we're going to remember Ozzy Osbourne, who passed away Tuesday at the age of 76. He had been in declining health and, and just a couple weeks ago he had his farewell concert with his group from the 1970s, Black Sabbath. Of course, Ozzy had some soul hits in the 80s and 90s.
And here's one of his Black Sabbath songs which I think is really very popular. And that's probably one of the first Black Sabbath songs I got hooked on.
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[00:04:43] Speaker B: Welcome back to the podcast. Week two of the Saratoga horse racing season is in the books and we're on to week three and our man at the track, Mike McAdam with his at the Track with Max segment. Mike, how are things going?
[00:04:55] Speaker A: Pretty good. I mean, it'd be nice if we could bottle the weather we've had on Monday and Tuesday and just kind of uncork it for the rest of the week. Although the week is supposed to be pretty good weather wise. We're going to get a little bit of rain according to the forecast as of Tuesday, maybe a little bit on Friday afternoon and into Friday night. But otherwise the weather looks pretty good. But the last two days have been ridiculous. Cool, dry, sunny, beautiful.
But then the meat will kick in again and then of course, all bets off.
[00:05:30] Speaker B: Yeah, well, of course it's that time of the year when the three year old male division heats up again after a bit of a breather from the Triple Crown season. But before we get into that, what were some of the notable performances last weekend?
[00:05:42] Speaker A: I'll cherry pick two of them. The two obvious ones. The first one is the Grade 2 AG Vanderbilt Sprint, in which Book em Dano won by two and a half lengths over Mullikin, who won the forgo here last year.
This really, in my mind, established him as the best sprinter in the United States right now. Bookham Dano, that is, he's won three of four this year. He's coming off a win in the True north on Belmont Stakes weekend at Saratog, and his only loss was to Mind Frame, and it was by a neck in the Churchill Downs race on Kentucky Derby day.
So three for four and your only loss is by the best horse in training right now. Mindframe. That's a pretty good record. And sure enough, the National Thoroughbred Racing association poll came out. National poll just kind of ranking all horses across all divisions, and Bookham Dano made an appearance at number eight, I believe it was. I voted for him to get in there, you know, toward the bottom of the top 10 rankings in the country. So really cool horse, really consistent.
I will say it was fun for people of a certain age like you and me. You'll. You get the reference of the name of the horse.
And it was kind of funny because there was a video that came out either through Naira or the owners of the horse shortly after the race. What happens is anytime anybody wins any race at Saratoga, there's a room called the trustees room, which is informally called the champagne room, where the owners can kind of gather. It's very close to the finish line, and they have champagne in there for them to make a toast after the win. And in this case, the owners were getting ready to do their toast. And Carson, the son of the father son bugler tandem that does the call to the post every before every race, walked in and did like the opening sequence of the Hawaii 500.
And the guys were going crazy. Apparently they knew what it meant.
[00:07:39] Speaker B: I was going to ask about that.
[00:07:42] Speaker A: Yeah, I don't know who named the horse, but clearly that. That's the reference.
Again, if you're of a certain age like us, you remember the show, and. And Bookham Dana was always like the closing line of it, any one hour episode where Steve McGarrett, the. The boss, would go to his lieutenant Dan, whatever his last name was on the show.
[00:08:03] Speaker B: Danny Williams, I believe was.
[00:08:04] Speaker A: Yeah, Danny Williams. And he'd say, book him, Daniel. And that would be pretty much the end of the show. So I don't know the origin of how this name got attached to this horse, but he's a cool horse and everybody kind of gets behind him. And as I said, as far as I'm concerned right now, for the time being, he's the best sprinter in the country. And then the other one, of course the big main event on Saturday was the Coaching Club, American Oaks grade one Milo and Nate on the dirt, three year old Phillies.
You know, these are like Kentucky Oaks type horses, horses that are going to be running in the Alabama later in the meet.
And the original field size was six horses. And then we found out Saturday morning that La Cara, who I, that everyone thought highly of, especially after she won the grade one acorn at Saratoga in June and I picked her on top, had to was forced to scratch because a case of what a bacterial infection called the Strangles broke out in one of the barns back there, including her barn. And because of that, even though it didn't really directly involve her, they immediately put a quarantine on the barn.
So she had a scratch and that was like massive news, you know, with another scratch that was unrelated to the Strangles case.
The field was only four horses and, and including last year's two year old Philly Eclipse award champion immersive. And she was right there, no excuses, with a half mile to go with Scottish Lassie ahead of her. And Scottish Lassie, boom, she took off. She won by 15 and a half lengths. And the 2024 champ had no answer and just stayed where she was, got like demolished by a huge margin.
So a big win for Scottish Lassie and all her connections, including trainer Jorge Abreu, I believe that was like only his second grade, one win of his career. First or second grade, one win of his career. Big moment for him. He was very emotional and I expect we'll see Scottish Lassie in the Alabama later in the meet.
[00:10:14] Speaker B: Explain what strangles are and why does it require a quarantine?
[00:10:19] Speaker A: Okay, the strangles, the common comparison where whenever this comes up, which is, you know, it's not unusual, you see it here and there all around the country in any given year, is to strep throat in humans. So it's, you know, it's like a, it's a bad infection that causes various symptoms, but it's also very contagious too. So you got to put, you got to put a barn into lockdown as soon as there's horse testing positive for it and showing the symptoms. So in this case it was barn 28 that is shared by Mark, Cassie and Mike Maker.
Mark Cassidy's got three barns. He's got horses and three barns back there. Mike Makers, I think he's got like two and they share this one.
And it was one of Mike Maker's horses was showing symptoms of the Strangles, which some creative person came up with that name because, you know, if you've ever had strep throat, you kind of understand maybe the derivation of the name a little bit.
But it's very contagious and you know, it can be potentially life threatening if it goes unchecked. And you know, maybe it's a horse who knows where that, where they don't diagnosis, diagnose it and treat it.
But generally in thoroughbred quarters, they're on top of this. And when they see it, they, they put quarantines and lockdowns into place.
In this case, it was very unfortunate. That was the barn where Lucara was stabled and she's automatically scratched because they have to, you know, they have a bunch of protocols. It's a 14 day quarantine in general.
And you know, they, they check all those horses every day for symptoms.
As far as I know, the horse that originally tested positive for it is the only one that's actually shown symptoms.
You know, they immediately set up like alternate training hours after the regular training hours. So these horses still have to get out there and train if they're not sick, but they're in a barn where there is a sick horse. So they kind of, you know, shuffle things around a little bit so people can maintain their routine as best as possible.
But this was like a big one because Lucara, this is a grade one winner, second choice behind Immersive on the morning line for, for a grade one race.
And I did run into one of the, the top security guys at Saratoga that I'm pretty familiar with in the Winter circle later that day he said, yeah, I was in the group that had to go over there and tell Mark Cassie that his horse was scratching out of this race.
And he put on a good front and a good face and said all the right things. And I said, yeah, but as soon as you guys left, he was punching a wall because this horse had a really big shot to win the Coaching Club American Oaks. And now they just have to like, keep her informed and get, get ready for the Alabama.
It's the third time Strangles has hit Saratoga. Actually George Weaver's barn before the meet started and actually it was in June.
He, his, his horse in his barn came down with it and that caused a 14 day quarantine.
And then they cleared that all up and then but it still must have been lurking around because then all of a sudden Jorge Abreu, or I just mentioned, you know, ironically, with Scottish Lassie, who won the race, he had a horse test positive for it. And their barn is on the other side of Fifth Avenue. And it's a pretty small, like, annex where Jeremiah Engelhardt, Jorge abreu and Kenny McPeak, including Thorpedo Anna and Kentucky Derby winner Mystic Dan from last year. Our house back there, there's like four or five barns. And so then that happened after the George Weaver thing. So it's kind of like it keeps popping up, which is troubling because hopefully it won't happen again. But it's happened three times in like the last two months.
And every time it happens, you got to shut it, shut down that barn so that the whole horse population is protected.
[00:14:22] Speaker B: Yeah. Well, it's Jim Dandy Week, considered the major local prep for the Travers. Four weeks later and Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes Winter Sovereignty will be a heavy favorite at Saratoga on Saturday.
What's happening in the three old male division in general lately? And specifically how is the Jim Dandy shaping up?
[00:14:41] Speaker A: Well, first we have to go back again to Saturday because they held the Grade 1 $1 million Haskell invitation at Monmouth park.
And our buddy Journalism, who won the, who won the Preakness and finished second to Sovereignty in both the Kentucky Derby and the Belmont, wound up winning the Haskell by half a length. And I tell you, this horse is brilliant and he's really good, but he does things the hard way every time.
So in the, you know, interestingly enough, the Haskell drew three of the top four from the Preakness, which were Journalism, Goskar and Goal Oriented, trained by Bob Baffert. And they kind of almost did the same thing, except in this case, Goal Oriented and Gosker kind of dueled together like nose and nose down on the, on the rail and from the eighth pole in. And meanwhile, Journalism kind of followed them making the move around the second turn.
And you didn't think he was going to get there, but he did, just like in the Preakness, and he wound up winning by a half a length. So off to Haskell. We know Baffert said immediately that Goal Oriented is going to run in the Travers later in the Saratoga meet Journalism up in the air. He went back to California to Mike McCarthy's barn out there, and he's, he he was never going to commit to anything right away anyway.
But Travers on the table, but they might just keep him out there and run against older horses in the Pacific Classic, which is a week after the Traverse, bouncing them back and forth cross country so many times. Who knows?
Not sure if we'll see journalism in the Traverse. But in the meantime, he, you know, he maintained his position as the number one three year old in the country behind Sovereignty.
Before we get to the gym, Danny, there's two races restricted to three year olds this week also, which is the grade two or three, whatever it is, Amsterdam, which is a sprint race, as well as the Curling on Thursday, which is sort of like a poor man's gym dandy that naira established in 2007 for some of the kind of late arrivers in the division. It's an unlisted or it's an ungraded stakes race with $135,000 purse. It's run at the same distance on the main track, a mile and an eighth as the Jim Dandy two days later. But it's sort of like a late bloomer kind of collection of horses or ones that they're not sure, you know, if they're quite good enough or or seasoned enough to run in the Jim Dandy. So this is kind of a fun little alternative for them. I will say that since 2007, no curlin winner has ever actually gone on to win the Traverse. So you're much more likely to see that out of the Jim Dandy than you will the curlin.
And Chancellor McPatrick, interestingly enough, who won the Hopeful last year on closing weekend, is he's entered in the Curlin instead of the Amsterdam, which is a sprint, Even though Chancellor McPatrick has kind of not done well at the longer distances this year and ran in the Woody Stevens, which is a sprint on Belmont day.
To give you an indication of the Woody Stevens Amsterdam connection, four of the eight horses in the Amsterdam ran in the Woody Stevens, and one of them, Chancellor McPatrick, is not running in the Amsterdam. He's running in the in the in the Curlin. So it seems like trainer Chad Brown might still have hopes that he's a longer distance type of horse than maybe even a Travers horse. I don't know. But I mean, the Amsterdam looks like the more logical spot for him.
The favorite 6 to 5, also trained by Chad Brown in the Curl and his Strategic Focus, who would be 2 for 2, except he was DQ'd from a win on June 6th at Saratoga. Going also going a mile on an eighth and allowing a horse named Malarchuk to take the victory. Finishing second. But. But getting put up to first place by the.
By the disqualification. I bring this up knowing you're a hockey fan, because indeed is named after Cor. Clinton Larchuk, who, if you remember, and you know, I shudder every time I see this horse's names in the entries, because any hockey fan who's been around for a while knows what happened to Clinton Larchuk when he was goalie of the Sabers and nearly died on the ice when Escape Blade cut his.
Cut his throat open.
But the horse is named after him. And I remember when I saw him in the entries a month or so ago, I looked up Clinton Larczyk again, and a couple interesting things. He's. Clinton Larchik was actually a big horse guy and actually became an equine dentist after his hockey career was over. And the other interesting note was the Buffalo Sabres head trainer at the time, who had to run out there and was the first one to get to him when he got his throat cut open, was actually a combat medic in the Vietnam War, which probably, you know, he's probably seen stuff like that before. So it's kind of like a fortuitous thing for Clint Malarchuk. I know I'm rambling on here about hockey when we're supposed to be talking about horse.
[00:19:58] Speaker B: I should mention that Clint was one of the inaugural members of the New York State Hockey hall of Fame inductions.
[00:20:03] Speaker A: Oh, wow. No kidding. I didn't know that based on his saber background, because he's from. Yeah, he's from Calgary or something. He's from Canada.
But just as a side note, if you ever see that horse show up in the entries again, which you probably will, because he's won his last few races, including that DQ at Saratoga.
Yes, indeed, he is named after Clinton Larchuk, the old goal.
[00:20:29] Speaker B: Well, I gotta ask you. It's Baseball hall of Fame weekend. I know you're a big Pittsburgh Pirates fan, and Dave Parker is finally getting inducted, selected by the veterans committee, but unfortunately, he recently passed away. He battled Parkinson's disease for a while. And I mean, your thoughts on Dave Parker, I mean, of course, being Parker.
[00:20:50] Speaker A: Back in the we are family 1979 season, I can tell you, you know, at my home in Rochester, we get the. There was still a morning paper, the Democrat and Chronicle, and an afternoon paper, the Times Union of Rochester, not Albany. And we'd get the afternoon paper.
And the first thing I would do is just grab It. And go straight to the Pirates box score and. And look at what Dave Parker did. And it would usually be some like 4 for 6, you know, three runs scored, a home run and a double and, you know, five rbi. Some kind of monster line. But, you know, people forget also what a good defensive right fielder he was. He's got like this one famous throw out in the. I think it was in the All Star Game.
[00:21:37] Speaker B: Yeah.
Brian Downing, you nailed the plate there.
Gary Carter caught it. I was. He's still. I mean, I watch that. It still amazes me. On the fly. That ball was on the fly.
[00:21:50] Speaker A: Absolute cannon shot.
And so that's what I mean. I just remember Dave Parker being this larger than life, just legendary monster that pitchers were terrified of. And I would go run to that box score every morning. And he usually deliver with some, you know, big stats.
[00:22:07] Speaker B: Yeah. There's only one pitcher Parker could never solve, and that was the Philly Steve Carlton. Steve Carlton would always break that slider on him, and Parker would just flail at it all the time.
[00:22:16] Speaker A: It always comes back to the Phillies.
[00:22:18] Speaker B: Sorry. It does, it does.
We're trying.
[00:22:20] Speaker A: We're trying to keep a Pirate scheme here, you know, this is all we got left.
[00:22:26] Speaker B: Let's go.
[00:22:27] Speaker A: Okay, I get it. Yeah, that's fine.
[00:22:29] Speaker B: That's right. Of course, your Pirates swept my Phillies a few weeks ago. So.
[00:22:34] Speaker A: Anyway, noticed.
[00:22:38] Speaker B: I understand, understand. But at least the Fires swept the Mets a few weeks later, so I was happy about that. So, anyway, we'll do this again next week. Mike, have fun at the track.
[00:22:47] Speaker A: We gotta talk about the Dim Dandy.
[00:22:48] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, yeah, that's right. Okay. Forgot about that. Okay, we got him off a tangent.
[00:22:51] Speaker A: Sacrifice the Jim Dandy for Dave Parker. I will say, I put a note down here.
So Saturday's card. There's one interesting race on the undercard that is not a stakes race. It's the fifth race, just something to watch. Arthur's right, who won the Whitney last year and hasn't run since he bombed out in the Breeders Cup Classic in November. He's entered in that fifth race, which is an allowance, so keep an eye on that. As far as the Jim Dandy, it drew a short field of five, led by Sovereignty. That as of this recording, we don't.
I haven't seen the morning line, but I'm suspecting, suspecting Sovereignty will be like 4 to 5, maybe even 3 to 5.
Huge favor in the Jim Dandy and rightfully so, off the Derby. And the Belmont wins.
The other four in there at Baeza who was third in the Belmont and third in the Derby. So he's finished third behind Sovereignty twice and he's a very good horse. Shipment out from, from California. He was actually second to journalism in the Santa Anita Derby. Before the Triple Crown trailer, we got our buddy Sandman, trained by Mark Cassie. And so we talked about the quarantine and everything involving Cassie's barn. But Sandman has entered and he should be fine. You know, I mean, if he, all the protocols in place and everything, he's good to go for the Jim Dandy. Unlike his stable mate Lucara, who had to be scratched the day that they found out about that Strangles issue.
Sandman will add blinkers for the Jim Dandy. He was third in the Preakness and seventh in the Derby.
We got Hill Road from Charles from Chad Brown, won the Peter Pan and then was fifth in the Belmont and then horse and I wrote about this week, that reader can see in Wednesday's paper and online is a New York Bread named Mo Plex, who's owned by some local guys, Howard Reed and Rick Higgins.
By far. These guys have owned horses together for like 25 years. And they've never had a huge, really good kind of graded stakes caliber horse until this, this really interesting horse who was coming off a win in the Ohio Derby. Again, linking back to that strangle story.
They were going to run in the Mike Lee for New York Breads.
And then Jeremiah Engelhardt, the trainer, his, his, his barn went under quarantine, so they couldn't get moplex to that race. They had to find another spot. They wound up sending him out to Cleveland to run in the Ohio Derby and he actually won it, beating a Preakness horse, Clever Again, and a Derby horse, Chunk of Gold in the process. So now they're thinking, forget these New York Bread races for a little while. Let's take a big swing at the Jim Dandy. So it's really kind of a cool horse. Moplex, who's in there with some really fun, you know, retired. Two retired guys, Rick and Howard, who have been, you know, chasing this for 25 years and they finally have a really good horse who's proven himself horses never missed the board in eight starts. He won the Sanford at Saratoga last year. And the funny side, really interesting New York Bread, who's kind of maybe more of a sprinter type. But after the Ohio Derby, which is a mile and an eighth, they're like, you know what? Let's try a mile and eighth in the gym, Danny, see what happens. It's a five horse field. You know, if the worst comes to worse, he comes in third place and he's, you know, he's graded grade two stakes place, which is good for his stallion career later.
So there's a lot to like about Moplex is kind of, I'm not sure what his odds will be, but he'll be a fun story to watch and, and you can read all about his background and everything in the Gazette online and in the, in the paper. So.
[00:26:34] Speaker B: Sounds good, Mac. And of course we can follow max coverage on X at Mike underscore McGaddam. Mike, appreciate a few minutes. We'll do this again next week.
[00:26:42] Speaker A: All right, Thanks a million, Ken.
[00:26:44] Speaker B: You too. Thanks. That's Mike McGadam. Coming up, we'll talk some college hockey. Union hockey announces its recruiting class for the 2025, 26 season of Josh Algae. Next, you're listening to the Parting Shots podcast.
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[00:27:52] Speaker B: Welcome back to the podcast. Getting close to the start of the Union College men's hockey season. The course, the excitement building not only for the men, but the women's program as well. And of course the new arena M and T Bank center there at Mohawk Harbor. That's going to be opening shortly and Union will have men will have a hockey clinic at the end of August.
You'll hear a little more about that in just a bit.
Union, of course, been busy with trying to get some goaltending to replace Kyle Chauvet, Lucas Massey and Joe Cherub. And they did that one getting one through the transfer portal in Cameron Corpy from Michigan and getting two incoming freshman goaltenders, Brendan Holohan from the North American Hockey League.
And then from Brampton in the Ontario Hockey League, Braden Gillespie. Gillespie becomes the first Union recruit to come from major junior hockey. That's this first time this season will be Canadian hockey. Junior major junior players are eligible to play NCAA hockey. I wrote about the goaltending situation just recently in the Daily Gazette and
[email protected] and now those goaltenders will be part of a six player freshman class. The other freshmen that are coming in are Alex Lorenza from Austin in the North American Hockey League and Tienne Lessard from Lincoln in the U.S. hockey League. Troy Pelton, who is from Clifton park, he played at Corpus Christi in the nahl. And Olivier Chesler, defenseman, who played between Oklahoma and Bismarck in the North American Hockey League. On Tuesday, I had a chance to talk with union men's head coach Josh Howsey about these incoming recruits, and here's what he had to say.
Well, Josh, here we are close to August and finally looks like the recruiting is all set for the 20, 25, 26 season.
[00:29:54] Speaker E: Yeah, we got our roster and we're, you know, just over a month from them being on campus, so an exciting time.
[00:30:00] Speaker B: Okay. Before we get into the recruits, we're going to mention we didn't get a chance to talk. We talked. As for the story that the goaltending situation has finally resolved itself, talk about the two goaltenders that are coming in and Holohan and Gillespie.
[00:30:18] Speaker E: Yeah, so both, you know, coming in, playing a lot of games in junior hockey, both kind of had a different experience where, you know, Gillespie is going to be our first, first player that played in the CHL to join our hockey team and a lot of junior hockey experience, you know, athletic goaltender that, you know, will come right in and add experience for us as a first year goalie. And then, you know, you know, Brendan kind of unique situation, was committed to West Point and then, you know, medically just had an issue where, you know, he could play hockey, but just didn't, just didn't clear the standards for West Point. And we were able to add him. So kind of a blessing for us and, you know, really excited to get him, you know, a bigger goalie again, you know, somebody that's going to come in and really push right away.
[00:31:14] Speaker B: And in addition, of course, to the quarter, Cameron Corpy coming from Michigan. So basically starting with three new goaltenders.
Obviously when you first took over the job in 2022, you had three goaltenders you had to get used to. How is this different?
What's the, what's the competition you think going to be like when practices start in September?
[00:31:36] Speaker E: Yeah, I think it's, it's exciting when you have, you know, you know, three guys jumping in and Everybody's, you know, going to be looking to grab the net.
You know, obviously only one's got some college experience and he's, he's been really good in college hockey. But the other two are coming in with a history of winning and a history performing at high levels of junior hockey.
[00:31:56] Speaker B: Well, let's talk and let's get into the swing of things here with the four remaining first year players that are coming in, starting with left winger out of Austin of the North American Hockey League. Alex Lorenzo, the second leading scorer in the, in the North American Hockey Hockey League this past season with 36 goals and 47 assists for 83 points. I mean it seems like he's going to be a guy you would hope that's going to contribute offensively for this team.
[00:32:24] Speaker E: Yeah, he's got some natural and special instincts offensively. Always around the puck, really good in the dot as a centerman. So can, can help us there but I think if we need him to, he can play on the wing as well.
You know, again competes really hard and just has, has the ability to score.
[00:32:43] Speaker B: How did you find him?
[00:32:46] Speaker E: He was a player for us. We located at the North American League prospect event two years ago and you know we've kind of known him from Ontario the year before but really targeted him after that. North American Hockey League.
[00:33:03] Speaker B: Yeah, obviously the team did well in scoring last year. Having an additional player like Alex, what does that mean for this? I mean does it make this offensive offense for the Garner charges even maybe more dangerous heading into the season?
[00:33:16] Speaker E: Yeah, I think he's, he's a guy that, that can step right in and he's going to have some confidence with the puck.
You know, it's always a big transition for anybody coming from, from junior hockey. But it is nice when guys have a history of scoring.
You know, that's just some guys have the ability to find the net and just other guys struggle with it. And he's always been, you know, whatever level he's played at, he's always found the net.
[00:33:40] Speaker B: Another defenseman coming in from Lincoln stars in the USHL is NTN Lassard. A right, a right handed shot. Had 7 goals, 36 assists for 43 points in 61 games. He had 17 points on the power play including a team leading 15 assists.
Brad Elliott Schlossman of the grand out in North Dakota, Grand Forks Herald.
We were exchanging messages during the NCAA transfer portal cycle and he mentioned that Lazard, he called him a stud.
What, what makes him a stud?
[00:34:16] Speaker E: Well, I, I think in my years of recruiting I don't know that there's many, as you know, special with the puck as he is. Like, he, he's a, he's a breakout machine. He goes back under pressure and comes up the ice with the puck a lot.
He makes her, he makes your team better just by his ability to, to be elusive, to find the open man, but then also get up within the play and produce. Offensively, you know, what he did this year in the USHL is pretty special and you know, to me, like, he was a third teamer as far as how the votes went, but like, like, I don't know if there is a defenseman and like, for me, in my opinion that I would, I would, I wouldn't trade him for anyone in that league. So.
He's extremely talented.
[00:35:01] Speaker B: I mean, can he quarterback the power play as a freshman?
[00:35:05] Speaker E: Yeah, I think he's going to have every opportunity to do that. Like, you know, him, him and Felicio right away are going to, you know, have, have, have some opportunity for first year guys, I think, to, to quarterback. I mean, obviously we have some guys that are returning that are going to want that and then, you know, some other, you know, transfers and that are going to, you know, be fighting for it as well.
[00:35:26] Speaker B: Yeah. Another player from the North American Hockey League and someone you know pretty well over there in Clifton park is Troy Pelton. He played at Corpus Christi this past season, had 13 goals and 27 assists for 40 points in 67 games. He was tied for fourth on the team and game winning goals with.
I know I wrote the story last year and talked with Troy and a couple of coaches. You could not at that time last summer talk about him because God forbid the NCAA comes down on you for talking about a prospect that's coming in. But now you're able to talk about Troy. What do you like about him and how did all the connections start with him?
[00:36:08] Speaker E: Well, I think he's a really good skater. A guy that's kind of developing, you know, into a really good hockey player as like the older he gets, the, the more steps he's taking.
He's, he's physical, he can shoot the puck, he can defend, you know, can kind of play up and down your lineup in whatever role you need.
And for me it's, it's really important that the local kids in, in this area like have something to strive for.
And I think Troy's gonna be a great role model, you know, someone that's worked really hard to get this opportunity. And I know there's a lot of different options for college hockey for guys to play. But I really want players in the Capital Region to strive to play here at Union. And I think it's pretty special that we have Troy.
[00:36:55] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean, where do you see him in the lineup? Maybe a third line, fourth line, center at the start?
[00:37:02] Speaker E: Yeah, I think he's going to have to come in and work to get his ice time. But the one thing I know about Troy is that that's what he does. I'm on the ice with him a lot here. We do, there's some local kids that do a summer skate and he's, he's there every day. He's working really hard and yeah, we're, we're fired up about him and I think he's, you know, he's got every, every intangible. We're looking forward to be an everyday guy.
[00:37:26] Speaker B: Yeah. And then finally another defenseman coming in.
Olivier Chesler. He played both for Oklahoma and Bismarck in the North American Hockey League this past season.
Combined 4 goals and 23 assists for 27 points in 60 games.
Give us the breakdown on Olivier.
[00:37:47] Speaker E: Yeah, so Ollie Chesler for us is somebody that is a winner. And you know, he was acquired from Oklahoma City by Bismarck in a late season addition to try to make, you know, make it so they could win a Robertson Cup. And he kind of, you know, talking to their staff was a big part of the reason why they won the Robertson cup championship this year. He plays hard minutes. He's not a guy that you're going to, you know, notice all the time as far as, you know, making those end to end rushes as a defenseman, but he's a guy that helps you win. He's a guy that defends hard and that makes practices better and opposing teams don't want to play against him.
[00:38:27] Speaker B: Yeah, looking at, doing some quick research before we started here, he was, I think he was captain this past season for Oklahoma City, wasn't he?
[00:38:36] Speaker E: Yes, he was the captain and then, you know, got, got traded at the deadline.
[00:38:40] Speaker B: Does it mean, do you expect him to be a leader down the road?
[00:38:43] Speaker E: I mean, I think he has again, all the intangibles to, to be a leader and a guy that, you know, makes his teammate better, teammates better. I think there's a lot of guys in this class that have, have those kind of abilities.
[00:38:55] Speaker B: So between these four players, the two goaltenders and what you brought in through the transfer portal, I mean, and you lost a couple players, but really I don't think you were hurt that much by the portal.
How do you like things going in to the first season at M and T Bank arena or MNT Bank Center? Excuse me?
[00:39:17] Speaker E: Yeah, I think we've, you know, trying to.
Trying to build for this season in a lot of ways, and I think that, you know, we. We feel like we might have the best team on paper. We've had.
You know, obviously we've got a lot of work to do here to, you know, continue to, you know, get better and develop, but we're.
We're really excited about what we have and what we could, you know, do with this season. So it's a. It's a whole new world in college hockey. Everybody, I think, is going to be a little bit better this year just because there's been an addition of a lot of different players. But I know, I know there's a ton of character that's going to be in our locker room, and I know that's the guys we're bringing in are going to help, help with that. And I think there's. This is by far the most talented team we've had.
[00:40:02] Speaker B: Was there a specific need to meet, obviously the goaltending situation you needed three goaltenders there with, but was there any specific need besides goaltending that you had to fill, that you think you filled?
[00:40:16] Speaker E: Well, I do think that, you know, when you lose the D that you lost with, you know, you know, John Pro Cop and Colin Ferguson, I was concerned about that.
You know, I think that, you know, deep down we were all under the impression John could leave and.
But, like, secretly hoping he was going to stay.
So when we lost him, I was worried.
But I think our decor will be improved.
I think we'll have more depth and, you know, I think there's going to be some guys that there's going to be more guys that can make some plays back there. And, you know, and I was worried about that at the start.
[00:40:55] Speaker B: Well, speaking of, defenseman Nick Young will be the captain this year. I mean, how happy are you he's going to be wearing the C?
[00:41:02] Speaker E: Yeah, I think it's a great leadership group.
You know, Nick is kind of, when you talk about what we want, you know, came in as, you know, a late addition in that first year and has really earned everything he's gotten here from, you know, kind of that guy that you didn't know if was going to be, you know, in your lineup when, when he gets on campus to playing a bunch of games to, you know, in the community. He's an unbelievable person in the classroom. He does really well. I Think he represents us really well.
[00:41:38] Speaker B: And of course, assistant captains, both who are transfers, talk about that.
[00:41:43] Speaker E: Yeah, it's a different situation with IO in that sense with Parker and Brandon, you know, joining as. As kind of their time has went on. But it's nice for, for them to be at different. Different spots. No, you know, things that those programs did well and they can, they can add, you know, to, to our program. But both great people. I mean, Brandon's almost a 4.0 student. He's somebody that, you know, we expect to, you know, be a big point producer for us. Play hard, heavy minutes, play in all situations. And you know, Parker came in and made an immediate impact and, you know, really selfless and, and just does everything the right way.
[00:42:23] Speaker B: Yeah, we should mention their names. Brandon Burr and Parker Lindauer. I just threw it out there to you, so that's my, that's my bad. But how close are you to. And the staff moving from Mesa to M and T Bank Center?
[00:42:40] Speaker E: Yeah, I think that we're, you know, expecting or hoping to be, you know, moving stuff this week.
It was nice the other day we got a shipment in of equipment and they allowed us to put it into the arena instead of, you know, bringing here and have to moving it again.
We don't have the ability to occupy the space yet, but I think it's right around that corner.
[00:42:59] Speaker B: And the end of next month will actually be the first event. It's a hockey camp. Talk about that a little bit and how excited to maybe this is probably a dry test run to see how the rink is.
[00:43:13] Speaker E: Yeah, I think, you know, get the young guys in and, you know, let them meet our players. We're Gonna have all 27 guys in working the camp, so I think that'll be a pretty cool experience for kids to be able to get out and skate with our guys right away and then.
Yeah, test the ice out, see what it's like. But it'll be four full days from, you know, like 8 to 4 o' clock and then a, you know, a fifth day on Friday where we just play some. Play some games and scrimmage for a half day. So should be a, should be a great event.
[00:43:43] Speaker B: Yeah, my son used to attend those camps back in the day when he was playing for Schenectad Youth Hockey. That was always a. Fun to see him interact with some of the players. So I know some of the kids will be excited to, you know, get. Get taught hockey by some of the top college hockey players in the country for sure.
[00:44:00] Speaker E: And you know what mom and dad can, can drop the kids off. Let us, let us babysit them for the, for the week and get them ready here for school here in a couple, you know, a couple days after that.
[00:44:11] Speaker B: Yeah. Well, Josh, appreciate a few minutes. And of course, we'll be doing it again with the weekly appearance here on the Parting Shots podcast. And yeah, we'll talk before the season starts. I'll probably swing over there for the, for the camp for a couple days, see what's going on.
[00:44:26] Speaker E: Yeah, it'll be great. So whatever you need, let us know.
[00:44:29] Speaker B: All right. Appreciate it, Josh. Thanks.
[00:44:31] Speaker E: Thank you.
[00:44:32] Speaker B: Coming up, Josh Rawitz, the president of the National Baseball hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown joins me to talk about Sunday's Baseball hall of Fame induction ceremonies. You're listening to the Parting Shots podcast.
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[00:45:27] Speaker B: Hi, this is Daily Gazette sports writer Christian Heinz.
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[00:45:37] Speaker C: Welcome back to the podcast. It's hall of Fame weekend in Cooperstown, New York at the National Baseball hall.
[00:45:41] Speaker B: Of Fame and Museum.
[00:45:43] Speaker C: We'll be inducting five new members. Dick Allen, Dave Parker, Cece Zavathea, Ichiro Suzuki and Billy Wagner. Joining me on to talk about that is the president of the National Baseball hall of Fame and Museum, Josh Warwich. Josh, welcome to the podcast. How are things going?
[00:45:59] Speaker G: It's going great, Ken. We're looking forward to an amazing weekend here here and it's already starting here in just a couple hours.
[00:46:04] Speaker C: Yeah, I appreciate you coming off. I know how busy it is for you guys getting ready for this weekend. It's sort of a, I guess a BITTERsweet weekend because two of the inductees are going to be inducted posterously. Let's start with Dick Allen. I, I grew up in Philadelphia. I did not see Dick in his prime years in the 60s with the Phillies. I saw him with his second tour of duty at the Phillies and he was at that point he, I think he has lost, but he was such a force in the 60s. The Phillies, of course, MVP with the White Sox since 1972 and it took a while. He passed away in late December of. In December 2020 to see him finally get inducted in.
I know there's a lot of people joyous about that. How important was it, especially Dick. Going through the 1960s was a turbulent time and being at a, a black baseball player at that time was, it was tough to really deal a lot of the pressures he was dealing with.
[00:47:02] Speaker G: Yeah, he, he certainly had a Hall of Fame worthy career. And of course it's always, certainly always better when someone gets inducted while they're still alive to enjoy it. But in this instance, obviously we're going to celebrate an incredible career of a guy who not only, as you mentioned, dealt with some of the racial tensions and issues of the 60s, but also played during an era that was notorious for great pitching and yet put up these crazy impressive number a hitter. And you talk to people who played against him and with him and they talk about truly one of the most feared hitters of that era up there with the Maze and Aaron types during that, that peak of his career. So we're excited he's going to be there. And they've got a ton, They've got like 350 family members and friends coming that have been waiting a long time and are going to celebrate him all weekend long.
[00:47:47] Speaker C: And yeah, he was the definition of tape measure home runs back in the day. If he had played in this area, we would definitely know right away how deep some of his home runs. He and Connie back stadium had a deep center field as I recall, and he had some bombs out there back in the day.
[00:48:04] Speaker G: Yeah, he's, he's obviously very deserving and, and like you said, I think in this era it's very hard sometimes. We, we often think baseball, you can compare statistics and errors, but so much changes. And there were times he was facing guys on a higher mound who were throwing, I mean, just incredibly impressive stuff and yet still putting up the best numbers in the league. So he's, he's very deserving and excited. His widow Willow will be here, his kids are going to be here. And like I said, tons of people from Philadelphia are making the drive over who have been waiting a long time to see this day happen.
[00:48:33] Speaker C: Yeah, and Dave Parker, I grew up, like I said, a Phillies fan in the 70s. He played for the Pirates when I was growing up. He was just a feared hitter, a great defender. Of course, the 1979 All Star Game throwing out Brian Downing from, from deep in right field at the plate. And in that 1979 All Star Game, still you see that on YouTube and you see like it's just A throw on the fly. He was on target. This is a guy as a power hitter. Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Oakland.
Hey, I think he defined that era in the 70s with the Pirates that we are family era. They were just, you know, they. They took. They took no prison. They just beat you up.
[00:49:16] Speaker B: And of course, they won the World.
[00:49:17] Speaker C: Series in 1979 with Parker and Willie Stargell, you know, having a miraculous. A great year in 79. Just.
And unfortunately, Dave passed away a couple weeks ago. He was battling Parkinson's. This. I. I think maybe for a lot of the Pirates fans in Cincinnati and Oakland fans, this probably stings, was they really want to see him. Him get inducted while he was alive.
[00:49:40] Speaker G: Yeah, there's no doubt, like I said, that's. That's obviously the best way you want to have it happen. But I can tell you that when he got the call in December, he was very, very aware, even though he had been battling Parkinson's for over a decade, very aware of what was happening in that moment. And even just recently, we had the opportunity. A few of us from the team here went out to Cincinnati, spent time with him and his wife, and kind of walked them through what hall of Fame weekend would be like. We put on his hall of Fame jersey and his hat, and you could tell, obviously, that his health had been in decline. But certainly mentally, he was aware of what was going on. He knew he was a Hall of Famer, and nothing beats standing on stage, of course, and getting a chance to soak it in. But in both guys cases, I give a lot of credit as well to their teams. I think with Dick Allen, the Phillies retired his number back in 2020, and he had that chance to stand there and feel the. Feel the feeling of who he was in the honor of his career. And with Dave Parker, the Pirates put him in their hall of Fame a few years ago, and I was fortunate enough to be there on site when he gave that speech. And I think in both of these cases, these guys were incredibly talented, but also very aware of how good they were. I think in some way that made them special is that they knew how good they were, and they. I think they. They felt that validation very clearly even before this happened.
[00:50:53] Speaker B: Yeah. How do you.
[00:50:54] Speaker C: How do you prepare for that? I mean, obviously, once in a while, you're going to have a posthumous induction. But to have to. How to. How do you deal with that and prepare for that?
[00:51:04] Speaker G: Well, I mean, in the case of Dick Allen, you really work directly with the widow we've always worked with. If there's A living spouse. That's who we want to work with. Just because it's, it's really the only, the only way that you can kind of make sure if someone has 4 or 5k, you don't necessarily know which kid to work with. So it's always been our practice here to work directly with the widow. And Willa has been fantastic and came out here for an orientation, knows exactly what to expect and has been coordinating the efforts of hundreds of guests of Dick's that are coming. So I think in a way we certainly have. We've seen this before. We know how to deal with it. With Dave, it's a little bit different. It's only the third time we've had somebody who's passed away in between when they were elected and when they were inducted.
But again, Kelly Parker has been tremendous and I know a lot of her family is coming this way.
And like I said, in this instance, it took us going out to Cincinnati, we knew that they weren't going to be able to get here for an orientation, so we went out there and kind of did it for them in Cincinnati. And, you know, there's not a playbook on a lot of this stuff, but I'm proud of the way the team has come together here to make sure that both these families can know exactly what it means to go through what they're about to go through this weekend.
[00:52:13] Speaker C: Well, of course, there'll be a lot of New York Yankees fans there this weekend as cease Cece Sabathia, who helped the Yankees win the 2009 and World Series against my Phillies, of course, even started out with the Cleveland, spent part of the 2008 season in Milwaukee, led them to the playoffs, lost to the Phillies, thank goodness. But just, he was just a intimidating force out there on the mound. I mean, just, he was big and you just, you weren't sure what, what, what he was going to throw you.
[00:52:43] Speaker G: Yeah, I mean, this is a guy that clearly was one of the most dominant pitchers of his era. Very few lefties in the history the game has struck out 3,000 or really taken the ball as often as he did. It's certainly a throwback type type pitcher to what maybe the 70s, 80s, 60s, 70s, 80s are used to seeing, but he just, he wanted to win more than anything. And so to see what he did with the Yankees and finally getting that championship in 09, to see what he did in Milwaukee during the brief stint that he had there and helping literally put them on his back and take them to the playoffs the year before that and certainly all his years in Cleveland. He's got a ton of Cleveland fans coming here for him, as well as for Tom Hamilton, our Frick Award winner, this is going to be an awesome weekend for fans in Cleveland. But CeCe and his family, again, he's a guy who knows a million people, and I think they're all coming here this weekend. There's a lot of his former teammates and people he works with at the commissioner's office now who are making the trip. And this place is going to be filled VIPs with former ballplayers and 55 hall of Famers as well.
[00:53:41] Speaker C: Yeah. Another one who pitched in New York for the Mets, closer Billy Wagner, also was Houston and. And the Phillies.
It seems like the closers are not. I mean, it took Billy a little while to get in, but it seems like I think the voters are understanding now the role of the closure, how it's really evolved over the last few years. So how deserving is Billy Wagner of this honor?
[00:54:05] Speaker G: Oh, man. I mean, you talk about just utter dominance as a relief pitcher. This guy struck out one out of every three batters he faced in the major leagues. I mean, you think of how hard that is to do, and I think had one of the lowest walks and hits per innings pitched in the history of the game, which is really, if you're a pitcher, that's what you're trying to do, limit the walks and the hits. So certainly very deserving. And it did take him quite some time. But you're right, it's been interesting. I think the voting, the baseball writers have tended to take a little longer on relievers, though in Mariano's case, he's the only one that's ever been unanimously voted in. So I think from our standpoint, we look at it and whether it's your first year or your tenth year, or you get into the baseball writers or the ERA committee, or you get 75% or 99%, you're a Hall of Famer, and we don't really differentiate. And frankly, when you walk around the plaque gallery, nobody looks at the plaques in the 70s and 80s and wonders what, what. What percentage they got or how they got in. Ultimately, once you're on that wall, you're on that wall forever.
[00:55:01] Speaker C: And then Ichiro Suzuki, a near unanimous selection for the hall and a man who came over, who was a superstar in Japan, comes over to Major League Baseball and people wonder if he's going to do it, be able to make it in Major League Baseball. And, boy, did he ever just his heading over 3000 hits, set the record for most hits in the season.
Cannon of an arm.
I mean, you think, you think of the guys with Cannon, you think of a Dave Parker, you don't think of an Ichiro. But I, I remember one of his first games of Mars throwing out the runner at, at third base at Oakland on the fly. And you thought, oh, my God, this guy is special. And he has turned about to be a special player and a player that could be a little, I guess, have some fun with. You would if you don't watch yourself.
[00:55:51] Speaker G: Yeah, he absolutely has a sense of humor that's pretty witty when he's, when he's working in the other language, but suddenly switches to English or Spanish and he's, he's going to give a speech in English on Sunday and I'm sure it'll be fantastic. He's, he's really a generational type player and he changed the game. Without any doubt that when he, when he came in, there was a huge question as to whether position players from Japan could make it in the US and whether singles hitters or doubles hitters like him, people with speed and who maybe kind of slapped the ball the other way, whether that was actually going to succeed in Major League Baseball. And he made it very clear right out the gate that not only could he succeed at it, but he's one of the best that's ever played the game. And we're just, we're so happy for him.
He's coming with again, all sorts of visitors from coming from Japan to see him, just Mariners fans making the trip across the country.
I think what we're in for this weekend is going to be really special and he's a huge part of that.
[00:56:46] Speaker C: Yeah, let me ask you about that. I've been to Cooperstown a few times. I know how small it is. I mean, how do you. Do you manage to have all these people coming in for the ceremony and get them in and get them out?
[00:56:59] Speaker G: Well, it's an incredible team effort that's been going on here for eight decades, so it's pretty amazing that the team here can do that. But we are just a village of 1600, so everybody really chips in. And whether it's 10,000, 30,000, 50,000 or 80,000, we've got all sorts of plans and place where people can come park their cars in the lots that are just outside of town, take the trolley into town, spend the day walking around Main street where we close off all the street, we close off to cars and people can just come to the hall of Fame, check out all of our new exhibits and walk around and shop on Main street and then you can even walk down to the induction site which is only about a mile away. And we have shuttles of course that take people over there as well for those that can't walk. So it's literally year of planning every year that goes into it. But I would say that it's the incredible team here and the community that people whose full time job might be the local real estate or banking person, they're going to help us with all the they volunteer to help with various events and it's a point of pride for this town that I just think is very hard to describe until you see it in person.
[00:58:01] Speaker C: Well Josh, appreciate it.
[00:58:03] Speaker B: A few minutes.
[00:58:03] Speaker C: Of course. The MLB Network will be televising the ceremony on Sunday and it should be a lot of fun. Try to, you know, peek in when not watching the Yankees and the Phillies play on Sunday.
[00:58:14] Speaker G: Well, thanks Cam. We appreciate it. Hope everybody gets a chance to check it out and come to Cooperstown whether it's this weekend or after the fact. There's lots of stuff to see including all five of these guys plaques.
[00:58:23] Speaker C: All right, Josh, appreciate it. Females, thanks again.
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