TRANSCRIPT: Ep. 13: Robotic pitching arms, Tommy John, PEDs

Text Transcript of Ep. 13

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Woah to. It’s ninety miles the stretch. Hey, welcome to new episode of the stretch ninety miles podcast. We’re talking cubs brewers. And here were talking either thing historical things are things in the future. Or what have you? So welcome that you’re listening you’d be listening at anytime from the future any future date. So we’re gonna talk about the future. In fact, may be years. That’s guaranteed is the one thing that’s guaranteed as they are listening in the future from right now, they are listening in the future from now. But it could be way in the future. And it might still be relative of in fact, you might be talking about what we’re going to be talking about. Now, having come to be perhaps there’s some kind of a big scandal or some kind of thing that happens. But we’re we’re gonna be talking about robotics in injured players. Yes. Yes. So. Yeah. The stretch episodes can get pretty pretty different we like to we’d like to do a lot of historical stuff. But every once in a while, we gotta throw something futuristic. And in a previous episode. We actually talked about artificial intelligence managers, which with the waste of districts are going and analytics are going is seems far fetched. But it may not be as far fetched as we thought. But today. Yeah, we definitely wanted to get into well injuries. Right. Yeah. This little bit related injuries, especially pitchers specifically pitchers who probably right of all, you know, we’ve seen a trend of Tommy John surgery. You know, I’m seeing more often like players even getting a a third. Tommy, John surgery. You know, it’s it’s oftentimes they come back stronger once it’s gone through too. Because what happens in Tommy, John? I’m not a doctor. I just play one on a podcast. Basically, you have a UCLA injury and your elbow or something of that nature. They steal attendant from a different party, your body, slapping, your elbow. And oftentimes it’s stronger than their original piece that was there. There’s even been situations where they take them from cadavers. Although I don’t know that that’s been the case with any of our pitchers that we’re gonna talk about. But if you’re going that far isn’t the logical next step just to put some -biotics in their of some sorts and bionic little robot guys that well. Yeah, butter that would be kind of the next logical step in that trend. I mean, I think about if you recall from Star Wars, Luke Skywalker, replacing his hand with a robotic hand. We know that. Robotics, and prosthetics now I’ve gotten very sophisticated, and if if there’s a way to interconnect metallic or some or other some other kind of mechanical pieces within the arm an in fuse it to the nervous system and reacts to you know, that there could be some things that could be done inside the arm that would essentially give a pitcher kind of superhuman strength strength and durability in particular. And right. That’s the main thing is throwing harder and harder. And it’s it’s, you know, pitchers at this point are throwing harder than their bodies are designed to handle. So that’s why you get get all these time John surgeries. Now. I mean there, you know, there’s teenagers getting it in some cases. You know, if I was going to be a pitcher. I might consider just preemptively doing it. If I have a week, you seal the doctor looks at it. You know, what you know? You’re nineteen twenty years old. Yeah. You’re drafted. You’re on a team. Right. Why not get it guys are doing it? More preemptively. You know, it’s it’s more and more rare that a guy like Corey Canabal, for instance, for the brewers this year head to go down he’d been pitching with UCLA damage for four years, that’s more and more rare all the time when he comes back next season and he’s healthier. I imagine his arms gonna feel better than it ever has before. Yeah. I don’t think it’s all that farfetched at all that we go and ten years fifteen years to something that isn’t even necessarily human not could very well be over. Oh, botic piece. It would be a now the big thing is baseball going always baseball going to react to this. Right, right. If Walker hand, that’s my grip. You know? That’s that’s gonna be sweet. I mean gonna move maybe a pitcher with this with some kind of robotics, and there is able to to hit a hundred ten hundred twenty mile per hour pitches.

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You might need a new shoulder at that point. Then we’ll right. So reconstructive shoulder the whole arm the whole thing. I mean, it is a matter of of torque that where’s the body? But if you if that torque is is instead be instead of being tendons and joints and bones. You know, and it’s instead, it’s biomechanical machinery inside there. Well, there’s no telling and they I mean, you know, if that if it in that direction. Well, it makes me think to this isn’t just from futuristic movie stuff. Right. Terminator Star Wars. Yeah. What about wasn’t it? The was it the movie the rookie, the kid broke his arm. What did the doctor really put in his arm? Yeah. That’s the secret to that story that nobody talks about right? Yeah. I mean at what point will. We’ll major league baseball require starting pitchers to regular. Clearly, get x-rays to make sure they don’t have any metal metal detector. The metal detector coming out of the bullpen. Yes. The ones the there. One thing the arm of the pitcher to make sure nothing’s going on right? Here’s nail files on in your arm, dude. Right. Yeah. I mean, that’s I mean, we meant you know, we were thought about that before like like PD’s, you know, at a certain point where would that that no longer be legal? I mean, are you if you’re human part robot it should be allowed to play major leagues? I in the major leagues, I don’t know. And I guess I mean, I guess there could be aspects of that that could apply to hitting as well. Well, no, here’s another thing too. There’s official intelligence out there is there not a robot. That is now a citizen of country. Didn’t that happen fairly recently? We’ve talked about tells you. Yeah. Yeah. So that’s about that. Yeah. We will. Why can’t that robot play baseball? Why not? This is an illegal citizen. I don’t know. This is this is getting pretty edgy. Yeah. I mean, if it’s an unfair advantage silly. But but well, yeah, definitely could be some player might have to break. The the robotics robot barrier. You know at some point. Yeah, we just celebrated Jackie Robinson day. The next one could be. All right. Dr. Oh, that’s dumb. No Jackie Robinson, did some things. I want wanna get so just trying to have fun with the robotics idea. But seriously, right. It could get to the point where you know, bio mechanics sciences way advanced on a lot of this stuff, you know, artificial pieces that aren’t human in. You know, we’re made by you know, outside of the body and put into a body. It’s already happening, and it has been happening for years when you go back to looking at different types of heart surgeries pacemakers things like that. Yeah. It’s not that. That right. Yeah. It’s not far fetched at all for this to actually start happening to arms and elbows, and it may already be happening. And we don’t know that would be that would be interesting as there is a pitcher or two out there that comes back from these Tommy Johns and unquote hand, quote, Tommy, John and they come back, right. Whoa. Yeah. Hundred and five on the radar gun. What is going on here hundred hundred one hundred eleven okay. That part might be a little ridiculous. But what I was thinking. Well, right. Well, the whole thing’s ridiculous. But let’s be. What what I was thinking more realistically is they would have an easier time throwing those lower the, you know, where they were throwing before with less pain. That’s really what it’s about like what Cory can Abel’s going through what Brent suitors going through for the brewers. They’re gonna come back is longer the cubs. Drew smiley. Yup. Yeah. Kerry wood in the past, and and actually Paul Molitor, Ben sheets to Paul mall sheets his head it. Yep. Well, carry wouldn’t Ben sheets that ties right back to our last stretch. Both Tommy John Paul Molitor Val was the first player who underwent Tommy John surgery to be elected to the whole fame. So I think when I saw that I didn’t know that. And I mentioned that to you. I don’t think. No. I had no idea. Yeah. That’s pretty interesting. That’s it is. Yeah. Position player to the first one to get into the hall of fame.

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John to me. It’s funny. Tommy John’s should almost be in the hall of fame. Just for being Tommy John because everybody knows his name reacted go back in the last twenty years. And there’s going to be guys that I don’t even realize hall of famers. But Tommy, John is probably one of the most famous names in all baseball history at this point. It’s name-wise just because he was the first to go through this and. Interesting the history on that. Yeah. Thing that I thought would be interesting too is what about robotics and the fingers changing the grip of the baseball being able to grip different way. You know? Yeah. You know, getting spin rates, you know. Three three thousand eight hundred RPM’s on that pitch. Yeah. It’ll look like a fast pitch softball player. Throwing that rising fastball. With goes up with a ball. Yes, anyway. So it seems a bit ridiculous. But actually, it’s probably going to happen. Eventually here that points and they come buying previous stretch segment to to this. You know, when we talked about AI managers just talking about robotics in general, this is shooting out even further into the future. I mean, there is also the possibility of of an actual robot. Cling in the major leagues. And no one knowing it’s a robot. I I don’t know that could happen some point which I thought I. In our lifetime. But they you know, that would definitely require like, okay. We need to make sure you’re actually a human. For for trying to contract, you know? But less duplicate robot is created of the player and the player goes and hides out during the game as it’s has. It’s, you know, robot clone play four it, and and, you know, go like five we’re getting their, iphones, and and sky Nuttal happen will destroy yourselves long before to worry about robots that’s more realistic in. No, it’s remember Nintendo game from when I was growing up. This is kind of obscure game called base wars. It was all robots and. The second base. If the second base robot had the ball, you had to battle them to get the second base. So it could be, you know, a combination of battle bots and baseball. Well, that would be a separate league. I think for for that. Or if human started doing that that’d be interesting to you got to fight the guy to get the second, you know, m baseball now, we’re just being ridiculous. Anyway, that was the stretch episode. You got anything else that you wanna throw in there? It was kind of short. But. No, I don’t know. You know? I guess you know, what? Oh, oh. Yeah. Well. Dying. But alternate leagues, you know. Remember XFL? Yeah. You know, X LB they could create and that’s just for robot baseball players. So I’m in. Let’s do it. Right. Well, yeah, we embrace wars the robots would actually shoot the ball out of their arm. Maybe that’s where the pitchers ought to be looking to go. You know, what forget Tommy John just take the arm off and give me a canon. Yes. He’s a human being how can this not be legal baseball? You gotta let them play. You can’t exclude a guy just because he’s got a robot arm. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. We’re not. Okay. Getting. Yeah. This is getting out there this when we get a little ridiculous. It’s fun to break up the season a little bit. And you know, it’s still relevant kinda. Tommy, John happens. You know, it’s there’s things out there going on non human parts in human beings to to get them through a good effect baseball someday. I I would say it’s likely it will affect baseball in some way or another. So. Yeah. Because we might not be around anymore by the time at buds. Butts out out there in the dust bins of the internet. Someone will come back and be like, hey, they predicted that so. Yeah. There you have it someday. Robots arms people baseball there. Yeah. That’s the episode. All right anyway. Enjoy your coffee have a great Sunday. And a great day.

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If it is a Sunday, I suppose you can listen to the listener. Listen anytime, you may be listening to ten years from now. And be like. Yep. They were right. And they were total. Yup. They were then too. More life time anyways, great day. We’ll we’ll catch you later. Sounds like a plan Cup suck back.

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