The Dollop with Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds - 537 - Denny McLain

Episode Date: June 14, 2022

Comedians Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds examine pitcher Denny McLain.  Sources Tour Dates Redbubble Merch   Edmunds Freshly Peloton

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know that I work on my accent a lot an hour a day you do and but you know that I've told you to say maybe Mike you know that I've told you to save that time and do something else because it's not great it's working it I mean I don't know that it you know I have a new one no no no don't work on it and then unveil it at a totally different time don't do it now that'd be crazy no banana slug sorry ready Italian banana slug ready no all right okay this is a auditory mainly auditory I nailed it tell me that didn't sound like an Italian banana slug this is like pathetic it's gotten I

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gotten worse Dennis Dale McClain was born in a Markham Illinois to Tom and Betty okay they were Irish Catholics sure Tom had Tom had been a very good baseball player in high school but Betty made him stop pursuing a baseball career when they got married at 18 okay him to have a respectable job so he joined the army right yep that's right freedom yep yes then he became a truck driver insurance guy he had a side gig teaching electric organ lessons which he also taught to young Dennis electric organ probably like they're like this is the next one look yeah this is what 1944 did you say this yeah 1940s so we're

probably in the 50s now so yeah I could imagine the electric organ being like this has a lot of upside this guy this is gonna be great this is huge is an electric organ I will play it for you later okay okay so Tom also smoked like a chimney and drank like a fish nice and he go to Rages he would go ahead yeah yeah yeah you would beat Dennis typing stay a type in yes he beat Dennis Tom got into fights a lot one time he got in a fist fight with another dad at one of Denny's literally games Dave Anthony so I keep going so Denny didn't like his dad okay we're going with Denny I thought it's not Dennis it's Denny it's that it's

Denny now Denny oh boy if it this is is this so Denny and slam it is it Denny the menace yes it's the origin story of Denny Denny Denny's Dennis Denny the menace not Denny the many Denny the many okay so he also didn't like his mom because he blamed his mom for not protecting him from his dad he said his mom was cold and heartless so not a great childhood sure I think is what we're saying yeah the one thing Denny had going for him was that he was very very good at baseball okay and Tom encouraged him and Denny was an amazing pitcher he threw hard he threw fast and when he was 15 Tom died of a heart

attack okay and so Denny started kind of doing what he wanted okay no one raising himself right mom got remarried quick and he just was like fuck it I'm gonna do what I want so he ends up getting a baseball scholarship to Chicago's Mount Carmel High School mm-hmm and he led the team at three high schools a scholarship yeah high school so it's like a private private high school okay yeah so some of us who were good at stuff got offered scholarships to high schools some of us were asked to stop going to theirs I got I got a scholarship to Marine Catholic High School for my accents in 1962 he signed with the

Chicago White Sox and got a $10,000 signing bonus wow okay so they start him out in Kentucky he played for the Smokies sure Appalachian League Kentucky Smokies sure that's right yeah and his first game he threw a new head you gotta smoke a cigar if you're gonna play on this team while you play boys it's cigarettes and cigars in the dugout but he's smoking I'm quitting cigars can I get a cigarette coach it's not a good team so his first game he throws a no-hitter and strikes had 16 batters that's pretty good okay next game he struck out 16 also gave up no runs so he's coming out

hot right coming out hot right and then he immediately blows off the team roles and drives 30 hours to Chicago to see his girlfriend on a day off which nice big no drives 30 hours yeah okay so you have a day off and you're just like well it's as long as I don't go to sleep it's a day it's like now that is six hours long you're not there's more than one day off you're asking if you're asking for a few days off I feel like well I mean maybe I don't know back then but I feel like he probably was probably there I'm back 30 hours well as guys who love the van and rock the van we know yeah we're van guys we could we could get to the we could

get from California to the Great Lakes we have for those of you don't know we are van only podcasters now so every show we're doing we are rolling in a van you can even ask some of the van the fans the van fans as I like to call them who hung out outside of our Chicago show and saw the van they got to see the van that's right yeah and then after the show we party in the van it's a whole thing so we're van guys so he knew he figured since he had thrown a no-hitter he wouldn't get in trouble for breaking the team roles and of course he didn't bad precedent okay I see what you're setting here he got promoted very quickly to the

next league up in Clinton Iowa he did well but not as great but he still kept taking off without permission like that was his thing his thing okay it's kind of like Rod but he's good so he's not really getting in trouble he ended up being fine hundreds of dollars though but he still he looks like a legit pitcher so it's all good okay now he knew Sharon Boudreau from high school and they start dating they got engaged in January 1963 and married in the fall so he's 19 so her father was an ex baseball player and in the Hall of Fame and the announcer for Chicago Cubs okay okay it's all yeah there's now there's a weird

rule and I don't it's not there anymore but if you're in the minor leagues and you didn't get put in the major leagues within a year another team could draft you and take you away okay then really I like that rule yeah I do too yeah especially if you're like one of the people who's like like I mean you know yeah I mean that's a great way to not like waste someone's time being in which they do they they try not to bring guys up so they can like this all these different things they do to screw with players and it's yes they like try to keep them out of the majors for a little bit so it extends their right Jose's

feet are one time okay do we wait or what do we do yeah we should probably wait it's gonna be about the same do we say prayer he prays on the day you hold three minutes more more one honestly the first one today I would say it was about 80 seconds so he gets married and then there's this weird rule so he does get picked by the Detroit Tigers and they grab him and he is quickly promoted to the majors in 1963 okay so his first game he pitches against his old team the White Sox and he wins he also had a home run in his first at bat which he never hit another

home run in his career oh wow so that was just like a pure like venom home run total just like we're just the fury he was just like I will show you sons of bitches yeah totally so the next year he's 20 years old and he's one of Detroit Tigers starting pitchers and he finished the team finishes fourth he did a decent job he was okay but in the off season he goes to pitch in Puerto Rico in the winter league and he said something clicked and he like figured out pitching you gotta throw and you gotta throw the ball it's soft strikes the whole trying to hit the guy just while he's like out there to his catcher like

the whole thing is strikes you just gotta throw strikes man that's the key yeah yeah no for sure the whole yeah thing is throwing the strikes dude dude listen to me if you don't listen if you shush okay sorry if you don't throw four balls and you throw three strikes that guy's out and if you do that again that guy's also out and by the will of God my father who art in heaven if you do it a third time that's three outs that's the end of the inning you do that nine you do that nine time here give me that chalk you do that nine times I don't need the job that nine times nine times why you twenty seven why are you writing on

board nine times the game's over the whole thing is strikes you just got to throw the strikes man yes yes this is it man this is gonna change the game don't tell anyone we had this conversation I'm gonna use this next year in the regular leagues maybe even starting here strikes man strikes strikes mark my words dude the strikes baby strikes oh man so the next season Detroit he was much better he had a 16 keys I'm trying to throw strikes 2.61 era now he mostly threw a high fastball which isn't legal to like it wouldn't be a strike today so they had like a high a bigger strike so strike zone being a

for those who don't know the strike zone being like the little circle square within the catcher zone where the ball goes and if you get it in there that's a strike and if you don't it's a ball I'm just far that's a far fans were not really bad yeah it's a zone where the strike is thrown so yeah and the the emperor kind of emperor kind of makes it up but yeah cuz a lot of times they've been like you could have like a machine do that and baseball purists like you were like no let the man do it improperly the game it's based on the man's of mind it's just it just becomes too robotic at some point but whatever I

get the arguments both ways so he so he struck out a lot of guys he threw really hard and fast so the next year he makes the all-star game wow and he went but he arrived late for the game sure because he had a dentist appointment I call it a dente Denny at the dent in them okay so he hit baseball the all-star game is in Washington DC and he he now has a pie he got a pilot's license so he's flying himself so he went he didn't want to not go to the dentist appointment so he went to the dentist appointment in the morning you have if you cancel within 24 hours so it's the all-star game I'm gonna try to do both you flew to DC and got

to the game like two innings late he literally arrived late to the game not just like late for like call time or whatever they have he shows up to they're like well all right we couldn't use you thanks by the way for those of you are wondering it was a root canal brush and floss gang brush and floss plus if I could give you guys a little tip go with the strikes these this is the whole thing give me that chalk give me that chalk give me the chalk no nine give me that no nine I'll do it I'm gonna cut my finger and do it in blood nine times three or 27 strikes away from winning this bad boy okay well 21 because it's

the second innings over us is there is it is the second inning over for us or does it go on forever the way you keep never yeah so so right so he he he pitches two innings he picked you know gets out all the batters he still he still does well so whatever he can get away with it right sure I feel like this attitude is gonna not be great forever what are you talking about it's just a feeling so the next season his coach Charlie Dressen has a heart attack in the middle of the season and is hospitalized so the third base coach Bob Swift takes over and two months later Swift is hospitalized for lung

cancer and soon after Swift was goes in the hospital for lung cancer Denny said to a reporter that the Tigers were quote a country club team where everybody does what they want so he I mean are you insinuating that he's basically like we've got a bunch of quitters coaches are leaving because a heart attacks of lung cancer you can save that till the offseason the guy who went to the dentist the day of the all-star game is like these guys just cannot get their priorities right but teeth are valuable lung cancer you can wait on something like that if you have a cavity that needs to be crowned you got to take care

that now I think I think I think he was talking about the players and he didn't really probably think about the part where the two coaches are in hospital in the hospital dying right come on guys dig deep he can't hear you Denny so the GM was pissed and he tried any and ordered him to say it was a missed quote okay oh okay so Denny came out the next day and told the press quote may God strike me dead if I said those things Jesus which the GM was like just say he didn't say it teammate just then said he would probably get struck by lightning when he pitched that that would have been amazing so the team

wasn't happy about this shit his roommate on the road you they have a roommate when they go on the road right share hotel room yeah he asked to no longer be his roommate like they were clearly not pleased and then the guy the manager of the heart attack died in August and the lung cancer died in October quitters so they weren't cut out for the sport nobody likes his quitters couldn't hack it man so now Denny has a really big personality and because he's good he starts making money outside of baseball endorsements well okay lots of things now Denny had learned as I said Denny learned how to play the electric organ organ

sure dad finally I mean obviously we all knew this was gonna come in handy in the offseason and he um he played games did he play games well because the organ I feel like is like banana you know they well no it's more of a jazzy okay so he starts playing clubs around the Midwest so him being famous gets him club spots as the lead electric organist at a club he is this is his album not good I'm trying to figure out what the organ is I had it for a minute that is the organ I think that's no that's like the breath there it is it's an electric that's the organ but I think I think that's all the organ oh maybe was that

horns yeah that's horns yeah it's the horns in that yeah the they're under there the horns are louder but so that's the chill must be a smart move horn it's just sounds like it sounds like a soundtrack to a 60s yeah it's it's it is it's like a it's a very distinct I mean it's what you would imagine an electric organ would sound like it's a little jazzy here but again it's an organ so he's doing gigs around the Midwest and people are coming out to see him he lands a twenty five thousand dollar endorsement deal with Hammond organs organs are that big it's not a home unless you got a Hammond inside it

I don't think they are that big so it's I mean imagine trying to get a organ in your fucking honey I've got good news I went out today and I got something that's really gonna tie the house together I think I I don't think it's a big organ I think it's a small I think an electric organ is small I think it's like a keyboard type thing hmm I want to know because in my head I'm having so much fun with the idea of bringing your head in your head you're bringing a church organ and just like I don't know what you want me to do about it Diane it is bought oh yeah oh yeah it's like a piano it's like a yeah it looks like a piano

okay yeah it's like an electric sorry I know more fun the other way more fun to just picture that like pipes and all that stuff just carrying that around my my pitch is the baby can sleep in the yard is that crazy is that nuts now now does your club have an organ I can play or do my god bringing your own organ to shows please tell me you have an organ we do not oh my god this is not good so um so look he only makes like 90,000 a year so a 25,000 dollar endorsement deal is huge right another sponsor was Pepsi now the reason Pepsi came on board is because Denny drank 24 bottles of Pepsi every day oh my god what no wonder he's

got to do the dentist trip he's got rotting mouth 24 Pepsi's a day if you drank 24 Pepsi days your teeth would look like your whole body your whole body yes I mean I I don't think I could get paid to do that no I don't get sick go out but 24 I mean that's so much there's a point there's a point later on I was reading a story in the paper from like 71 and a reporter comes over to his house and it's like 8 a.m. and he's like you want to Pepsi guys like no it's too early now you got to drink 24 a day get started now what are you crazy you got a hurry get moving so Pepsi hears that he drinks 24 a day and they sign him pay

I'm fifteen thousand dollars a year and give him ten cases every week they send it to his house ten cases he has a cooler installed in the backseat of his car so I mean that's just enabling you should not be doing that at 22 Denny's making more money from outside sources than he is his baseball salary hmm okay and his team comes close to winning the league in 1967 but just misses now Denny is spending money or Pepsi he's spending money as fast as he makes it okay so he's always short on cash sure so to make extra money Denny invests in a bedding operation in Flint Michigan okay good now I say invests he he he it's

illegal he goes into business in a bookie operation okay so he's he starts being part of a bookie team yes all right a guy playing professional sport I mean this is obviously a conflict of interest how do you figure well if you're the person on the field playing you're not supposed to be involved in the outside wagering it's just always sort of been a thing we're trying to that's a good way to make money sure for sure I mean he has special insights you know David would be like the government legislating the way that they do and then being able to invest with the inside knowledge of that legislation that's

upcoming and profit on it it's not okay it's like profiteering none well sorry sorry just going through my notes here it is okay to super weird moment I'm having over here I'm not sure what's happening so his partners were in the Syrian mob Okey-dokey and sports writers actually heard Denny calling in bets from the locker room on horse races and basketball games okay shortly after he goes into business a gambler bet forty six thousand dollars on a horse and won okay so the bookie doesn't have enough money so I'm sorry which is his job okay what I was just about to say if you're a bookie that's the whole thing that you're

bringing to the table is the bankroll yeah yeah you don't take the bed if you can't pay yeah you're not like I cool I mean the like bookies are like breaking fingers and arms when you don't have the money to pay them if you go to a bookie and you're like all right so where's that money like listen this is awkward but I really didn't think you were gonna hit on that one so can I borrow a little money to kind of get me through the next couple months of booking and then I'll do what I can oh I just know it may all right would you want to let it ride do you want to bet on something no I don't know I don't want to let it ride because

I why would I when you can't pay this like if you lose I'll be more than willing to pay I'm like yeah that doesn't make sense all right well I'm trying can I place a bet with you do you want to be a bookie no no I got a pony that I'm really eyeing up here's what I want I want you to give me the money that I won on the horse race and then I will go about my way and you will you're a bookie so I know I know I win and then you pay I get I just I really the thing that did you factor in the part where people might win was just about to say I did not no I really never thought about that side of it I guess that's the

whole thing I know no I by the way can we just compliment you for a second on how well you're betting as a crazy hit you just had I thank you I know I was pretty happy about it yeah I didn't get any money for it well that's hmm at this point it's just like like pride I guess like I but I want the money I haven't been doing it that long I'm a I'm a rookie bookie yeah that doesn't really matter alright how about this we go out we eat some french fries we forget this whole thing ever happened no I think we're out of options so the guy the bookie tells I don't know how this works he tells the gambler who won to go get

the money from his partners so now the gambler guy is hounding Denny and calling him and trying to get the money from Denny wait I don't really understand that what I don't either it's I don't know how it works at all but basically the guy who the guy who took the bet and lost is like yeah man I can't do that you should talk you should go after the guys who are my backers like and then I'm just kind of like the the face of the operation you need to go find the money man I'm fucking pissed too man fuck these guys I mean yeah basically that's what seems to have happened okay sure so that seems cool so the guy

starts going and and like hounding Denny and following him and you know I love the guys like that is true good good the bookie was like the bookie probably shut his door and he's like I cannot believe that that just worked how the fuck did that work that is amazing so Denny's giving him the run around and is not paying him so he's tired of it after a while and then he reaches out to mobster Tony Gia Coloni okay and Gia Coloni and his crew take Denny out on a boat in Lake St. Clair yes to that who's like no oh I love the water really Tony Coloni wants to take me out on the boat Tony you big softy I didn't even know you what do you

want it should we fit oh I'll bring my fishing pole the godfather too is not out yet right no okay let's go right so concrete for on a fishing trip and shape like shoes weird so they they put their plan is to break so much rope for if we need the fish are gonna see that rope once we guys guys look I don't know tons but I'll tell you they're gonna see the rope the whole thing is we want to be secretive and all these guns you're gonna scare them away sure we'll shoot one or two but that'll be it what do you do with a hatchet in a baseball bat fishing and all these garbage bags get it the pliers why the pliers guys you

honestly this isn't even a tackle box so their plan is to break Denny's hands oh no and for a pitcher that's a big part of your yes so they realize that if they do that he might not be able to pitch anymore and they may never get their money so instead we gotta take his brain out gee Coloni slams his heel the heel of his boot on Denny's toes and said if he didn't pay up it would get a lot worse and his head I like in his head he's like pictures don't need toes he's like also this is an athlete he needs his body well his toes were dislocated oh distochated distochated and right before they took the boat trip

out Geo Colonies brother made huge bets on the Red Sox and the twins to win the pennant over the Tigers so they're in a three-way race they're all right the Red Sox to beat the twins the Red Sox the twins and the Detroit Tigers are all tied at the top of the league and he wants the twins and the Red Sox to win no he just knew they were gonna hurt Denny and Denny they're not gonna win okay so he puts bats on the other teams right well let's take a moment here to talk about freshly look it's hard to find a fast pre-cooked meal that isn't frozen or tasteless or super processed food that's fast doesn't have to be fast

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do it but still so look we don't want to ruin this pitching career so we're gonna break his toes because otherwise his hands you know his hands are a whole thing if there's one thing I've learned athletes don't use their feet exactly it's what I'm saying you know what I mean he's not gonna need his toes he needs his fingers he needs his hands toes he's not gonna need as he pitch it not well I don't know it's like he can't them get the momentum in his body it's weird feels like maybe the toes were an important part of this I don't think that's the case yeah so he it's a couple of weeks go by and he's not pitching well and then

he found the admits that he's hurt okay and he explains I dislocated my toes on a boat ride close he explained he fell asleep while watching TV and when he woke up his foot was asleep and then he heard raccoons getting into his garbage can and he jumped up and ran to look and slammed his tone to a piece of furniture so he's he fell asleep his toes fell asleep mainly they were coma toes toes more than him his toes were the most asleep yes many years raccoons going through the trash relatable and then he smashed his foot this by the way is something that athletes have done ever since then there

are times where like it is like I there was one where like I think it was very clear the guy had gotten it was an NFL and the guy definitely got into like a fight and I think he'd been like thrown through a table or something and then like his excuse like his excuse it felt like he didn't think of it until he was asked about it because he like you know he like cut an art it was like arterial bleeding or something like that and then like what happened he's like I was playing with a Nerf basketball and then I stepped in a bag of McDonald's food and I fell through my glass table it's very relatable the best stuff in your contract

that's like you cannot do certain stuff or your contract is voided so they'll like lie be like there's a weird injury as a plane hit me yeah there was Jeff Cantu said he was washing his truck and he fell off of it and then someone was like no you were doing wheelies in front of your kids school on a motorcycle but to get the wash the truck dude I'm gonna lose 20 million dollars but the best one was Chris Brown who said he slept on his eye wrong and it was hurt how did you get that big black eye slept on my pillow improperly so any more questions probably not about that anything else so it is a lot of his

teammates did not buy this story for some reason the team doctor called the hospital to ask for a report on the injury no report existed and when so when Danny started going to get treatment for his injury he would go to the stadium early in the morning before his teammates were even there he was just trying to completely avoid his teammates okay sure that's great now the the Detroit press reports a lot of people don't believe the story what what do you think it is about the story that people aren't buying it is an odd it is not it's weird to not trust him yeah yeah Danny quote I know it but what am I

gonna do make up a story how can I make up a story like that it's too crazy it really happened it's the craziest who could make up a story that raccoons were going through their garbage for guys what are you nuts when Danny returned from his injury the coach did not name him to pitch in that series they were playing he said three other pitchers would pitch quote providing none of them falls off a sofa shots so the title race comes down to the final game and the team decided to pitch Danny in that game and he lost wow the mob made a lot of money on that bet they had made right beginning the next season the Tigers

were considered to be a legit title contender but they're very talented but most people thought they didn't get along well enough to win okay so Danny shows up to spring training with his hair grown out which he'd never done before and now that his hair is growing out it has a little reddish color to it and the coaches and players kept saying they didn't know who he was they're acting like they don't know who this guy is this is just like some right okay okay instead of going it said it going along with the joke Danny was furious you do know who I am it's like when you were a kid and you pretend your friend wasn't

there and he was invisible and you'd be like losing his mind what do you mean guys it's so obvious it is me it's Danny oh my god stop saying you don't know me just gotta grow my hair out a little I'm the same guy you assholes guys it's me Danny look look look at my foot look at how warm my toes are I don't know who you are Barry Barry what are you talking about I don't know who you are kid we were road roomies are you on the team I never had a ginger roommate what it's not it you don't call me a dude we used to stay up and we would eat Doritos and tell dirty jokes come on it's me the guy remember the joke checking for bees

it's me no Danny I never had a ginger roommate stop calling me a ginger roommate I'm way more than that I just grew my hair out a little bit I was in the sun a lot in the off-season because I was fortifying my rubbish area to not have more raccoons come by yes oh yeah that piece of shit well yeah so yes yes yes it's me fucking piece of shit I'm my own it's like you don't call me a ginger roommate it's better so he yelled quote damn it I did not die my hair it's mother nature I was born with red hair but it turns blonde in the sunlight and then he cut his hair short because you know you got to do what my what my dad

used to do is call me a strawberry blonde and I would be like stop this madness now he's a strawberry blonde to me I was like dad no not do that again in front of any human I think I was getting my license my mother was like did you tell them your hair was strawberry blonde I was like no so sports illustrated dubbed Denny mighty mouth because he said so many things that he shouldn't say like quote when you can do it out there between the white lines then you can live any way you want me I like to travel fast always first-class why there's no other way to go is there the magazine noted guys with mouths like Denny's

usually ended up getting punched in the face and bankrupt that's like the athlete they don't I mean it's just like what can I tell you I love shoes it's like that's not gonna be great you only play three seasons professionally so Denny always he always said what he thought it just came out of his mouth including that quote Detroit fans are the worst I've ever seen any place so that doesn't go over well what's up their ass the inevitable blowback came and then he said he meant some fans were the worst and that he was it if I did say that God could strike me with lightning Danny Danny doubt and he went

further quote we've got a lot of bad fans the other teams take take their life into their hands if they've got us beat in late innings the fans throw bottles and firecrackers they hit Ken Harrelson in the back with a firecrack they could have blinded him stop talking to me I've been in like arguments with like girlfriends before where you've been like you say something and they're like what and you're like what well I don't know why that was bad but I'm gonna talk it out a little bit like another thing yes you say like another thing that's like I should have just stuck to the one bad thing because now there's

so in response to this the team GM said he was never gonna listen to Denny say anything ever again these are not good things to hear from your boss yeah the Danny responded by saying he and the GM had a mutual irritation society it's very diplomatic then it told reporters he wasn't talking about all fans just certain ones he also said you wanted to make that guy and that guy those are the guys and then he said he wanted to make a hundred thousand while he was young not like old Mickle Mickey Mantle so so it's just people like dude it's just digging holes that is like the that's like the guy that's the best guy right now that's

the hero I don't want to be a piece of shit like Mickey Mantle the team wins 103 games that season and wins the league easily and Denny McClane is the star the entire country is obsessed with him because he was trying to win 30 games which no picture done since 1934 okay he's still making tons of money as an organist he's making more money as an organist then most guys do with their baseball salary it's so weird it's so weird it's so weird it's weird that it's going like it'd be one thing if it was like you know if it was like Eddie Murphy with singing or something like that but it's like yeah it's like yeah

I mean that's why it's like the like if the GM's like look what do you I'll kick your ass out of here like I'll just tour with the organ full-time goddamn him in this organ thing why is it so popular he gave lessons he did music shows he played nightclubs with his trio he yeah it was he was just all over the place with the organ he was picked for the all-star game along with teammate Mickey lowlitch and Denny borrowed a friend's jet flew to Vegas gambled all night then flew to Disneyland for the day then flew to the all-star game at Houston he pitched to scroll the sinnings then he flew back to Vegas after the game quote

I shot some crap still I got all tired hell I hadn't even slept more than 40 45 hours in almost three days it kind of gets to you after a while 45 I didn't slept more than four to five sorry four to five hours otherwise it'd be like Denny you're sick I'm exhausted I've only slept about 45 hours in three days any that is most of daddy what are you talking about yeah I just can't sleep 45 hours it's any that is most of that what did I get I'm getting like 40 42 you know sleep of two days yeah yeah my blood comes out real watery it's not good I feel I'm telling you what I am is exhausted I've only slept about 45 hours

in the last 72 hours I am hooked so then he flew home to Detroit just to pack and then flew straight to Minneapolis where they're having their next game so sports illustrated is right starts writing about how much money Denny is spending because this is obviously fucking crazy right far more than most players he got the best hotel rooms he ordered the most expensive food quote he is at present in the middle of he this is such a weird he is at present in the middle of a mouth life half his teeth are capped and the other half will soon be I think they're trying to say like a middle of a middle of something middle of life crisis but

they're using middle of mouth yeah it's anyway have us so well how's the article going it's taking a very big turn I really need it now I think just take this but I tried to make the whole thing about a mouth what I think I fucked up what's that I think I fucked up what are with all these dental pictures and these x-rays yeah I'm really getting into the mouth thing middle of mouth life how's that sound really bad and confusing for a sports article but I think it'll attract people to the article are you done talking because you're just sighing a lot I don't know it sees I'm half capped is he

half capped what does that mean what is this mouse half his mouth is gonna be Denny should be a cap 10 but he is it because oh my god this is like a middle of mouth life moment now I'm reading your article asshole don't act like you're surprised I just love it I heard it I forgot I wrote it go ahead he's like a molar on the mound yeah yeah the whole thing I'm doing like a mouth thing yeah it's going bad he's played so long you could tell part of it is skill he's a real wisdom tooth as well hey right he loves to play k9 innings yeah I mean come on I'm killing I'm killing it I think I'm gonna great incisor fastball

thank you yes chew tobacco but he loves his gums I mentioned he's getting his teeth capped right now I honestly do not think so oh he really is that's why I did a lot of this okay it's good we're running it because here's what I'm thinking it is not only not only do we print in sports illustrated but I think dental weekly pick picks us up so it's like an extra audience by the way nobody calls him Denny the dental dentist it's a new nickname okay well next time type it at least I'll teeth it good work so he's spending shitloads of money fans he's on drugs or he's just a party animal I have Pepsi I don't think he's on

drugs I think he's a Pepsi freak I think that this I think that could fuck your brain up see freak is a new term I love I mean 24 Pepsi's day that is pepsi fucking that's fucking up your mind like that's that's that's a shit show a lot of Pepsi fans the fans love it they love everything about him as season goes on people become more and more excited that he's gonna be the first pitcher to win 30 games when the team goes to Southern California Denny meets with record company executives to discuss a recording contract and live shows he knows he can make a lot of money if he wins 30 quote ah just imagine

what will happen if I win 30 he knows he is winning his baseball career is really there to hoist up his electric organ gig yes yes okay he's only 24 also so be the being a pilot he starts flying to road games in charter jets which pisses off his teammates because they're supposed to be a team they go together and everything like that catcher Bill Freeman said quote the rules for Denny just don't seem to apply to the rest of us so yeah no one's alienating it's alienating and and you know everyone's getting pissed yeah right he's still slamming Pepsi quote I'm down to about 60 or 70 bottles a week but now I

cheat a bit and get the king size 16 ounce bottles instead of the small 12 ounce bottles and I don't drink any of that diet stuff either roughly the same amount I would guess right I mean maybe a little less I mean it's gotta be right around the same amount four ounces every bottle for 62 bottle or 60 or 70 bottles I mean it's close it's like he's like yeah I cut down I'm just drinking got four ounces more per Denny I don't mean to be the math guy I just imagine how fucked up his body and brain is it's not okay so he's the biggest story in baseball and on September 14th he gets his 30th

win on national TV his next game the Tigers are winning in the eighth inning six to one and they've already won the league he's won his 30th game so the game doesn't mean anything and Mickey Mantle comes up to bat now Mickey Mantle is one home run away from becoming the third all-time home run hitter and he's also nine days away from retiring so he needs a home run so Denny tells Mickey he would throw in whatever pitch he wanted and Mantle doesn't believe him so Denny threw a couple of very slow pitches and Mantle then used his hand to show him exactly where he wanted to pitch and then Denny threw it right there

and Mantle hit a home run and as he routed the bases Danny stood on the mound and applauded and now you can see Mickey Mantle lets another ball go now he is instructing looks like him and Denny are talking they're meeting on the mound for a second very rare see this normally between a pitcher to catcher it's rare for the batter on the opposing team to talk to the pitcher yeah he's giving him some dimensions showing them they're drawing some stuff in the dirt right now mm-hmm Mantle walks back and Denny looks like he's going with an underhand throw which is a little strange

I don't know what we've just seen the game is brought to you by Pepsi Pepsi you could drink 800 a week legally so ever I read all these newspapers and everyone was like talking about how nice of a thing that was which I don't think what happened today everyone would be like well in the 90s Michael Strayhan was trying to get the single-season sack record and Brett Favre I think in a meaningless game I'm pretty sure it was a meaningless game for both teams Brett Favre basically went back and as Strayhan was like he just laid down and let Strayhan touch him and Strayhan got 15 sacks something like that and broke

the single-season sack record so that was in the 90s but I you would think but it's also like we are so outraged out that it would probably fly and it's true you know two days later people be like what are we mad about now so the next batter came up and showed where he wanted he also said we wanted the pitch and then very much like a Denny's as I'm taking orders for pitches what do y'all want wait Danny threw it over his head at his head yeah so the batter was like Danny I like what you gave Mickey but I'd actually like one a little further outside so the Tigers go to the World Series and McClain lost twice so Danny

loses twice in the World Series but he's going to give it against one of the greatest pitches of all time Bob Gibson so okay his teammate Mickey low-litch won three games and they won the World Series McClain won the American League Cy Young and most valuable player and in the offseason he traveled the country playing the organ and talking too much you really can't get past it well I'm just like it's just so incongruent with like the other part baseball yeah like even the Rube like was wrestling like lions and shit you know what I mean it's like that's not normal but it's like he's like I'm an athlete like for him to

be like I'm also an organist it's so weird it is weird it's weird and the Oregon in Vegas Denny was asked about low-litch and he said quote I wouldn't trade one Bob Gibson for 12 Mickey low-litches which is his teammate both or his teammate right no Bob Gibson's not okay okay so these are the kind of things that don't go over well with his teammates seems awkward the next season 69 Denny had another great year he won 24 games he won the Cy Young Award he's making a ton of endorsements and he's a regular on national talk shows he's playing the Hammond organ on talk shows and then joking around on the couch

there's so much wrong with like the fact that he's playing the organ the fact that he's on talk shows and people like play the organ people like wow this is good TV what are you doing I'm watching a picture play the electric organ on the guy and whatever show dinosaur show dinosaur yeah he's headlining in Vegas what he made more than any player in baseball and was as famous as a baseball player could be and he's 25 years old then in February 1970 just imagine if like Cristiano Ronaldo played the banjo you know what I mean or the pan flute yeah yeah yeah if like Lionel Messier was like a great tubist it's

messy you said Messier which hockey that's what I'm talking about this is named Lionel mm-hmm so if ever in 1970 Denny was questioned for hours by the FBI about his connections to the mob two weeks later the Detroit free press published a story about off-field problems with Denny that had happened in 1967 the next day the Detroit News reported Denny was the target of an investigation and connected to Flint bookies and that his injury in 67 was suspicious what oh my god we're gonna run through this raccoon trash toe sleep story again my foot was asleep Jack the article said he had huge money

problems quote he is being sued by a number of creditors and has an $8,400 lean that has been placed on his home by the IRS his total debt was about 50,000 soon after Sports Illustrated put out a cover story with McClain quote Denny McClain in the mob baseball's biggest scandal the magazine detailed his connections with the Syrian mob the entire situation with Gia Coloni was detailed the Detroit News reported Flint police looked into Denny at the time and that the mobster had stomped on his foot basically the entire story from 67 is blown open right the press I think we could do a biting thing with the

story and maybe make it about the mat like his mouth is wide open no you're not doing the fucking tooth angle again it worked so well him me hand me out hear me out Chompers McClain excuse me get out there's my chompers fired you have been fired Muller McClain yeah a great thank you break his foot so the press goes searching for Denny they find him playing golf in Florida and he says the Sports Illustrated story is all lies and he was gonna sue quote strike me down by god lightning today if that's true quite I'm not just talking about one

suit but many then he's called into meet with Commissioner Bowie Coon Bowie Coon sure that's a human's name sure and he says he's not part of a book making business and when he's just going the route of fully lying fully lying right when he's like just pepsied out of his mouth just imagine imagine if I did that sort of stuff he said when the bet was the 64,000 their bet was made he he wasn't in it in part of it because he had he'd backed out of the deal after the partners backed out on him I mean that's it's amazing when your excuse is like I backed out of the bookie deal way early it's like Denny that's not good either

but okay and then he did say that he loaned one of the book's partners ten thousand to pay off the forty six dollars debt but I had nothing to do with it all I did was loaned one of the guys money in the booking up you know I mean you guys get it right you guys understand why that means I didn't do anything I loaned money in a non-business way to bookies like maybe I did not have an affair my penis was implicated in a vaginal moment with the woman it's way different so he also said he'd never met Gia Coloni and that is foot asleep raccoon injury story was true so I mean you don't want to be lying about raccoons

to a guy whose last name is Coon he's like that if anyone can sniff it out it's Bowie Coon so days before spring training start the commissioner suspends Denny while an investigation takes place one problem with the accusations is that they all came from criminals in the sports illustrated story so Denny he's broke what he'd been making two hundred thousand dollars a year and spending it like crazy but also it turns out his lawyer handled his money and his lawyer either stole a bunch or mishandled it but either way his lawyer fled to Japan well I mean so there's our hero the lawyer like hello

how are you yes can you just see Denny in an alley like am I jerky off for a Pepsi excuse me aren't you what this guy come on please I want one of those big bottles give me a 16 ounce or we'll fucking take it you weirdo oh if it's good on your skin and inside your body oh for nine more are you any McLean I used to be you want a coke so Denny has to declare bankruptcy okay now Commissioner Coon finishes the investigation and announces Denny's punishment at a press conference he's spent it he suspended till July 1st so three months okay without pay he said which is an eighth of the baseball season

for those of you are listening yeah that's right if you don't know what numbers are so he the the Commissioner says that Denny has been the victim of a con and was never a partner in the bookie business he tried to become a bookie but they didn't let him and he wasn't one so he also said nothing it affected the 1967 pennant race which is really the heart of it he doesn't want anyone to think that there's a asterisk yeah and that but when your best pitcher has broken toes that does affect the season yeah so what he can't say is he's definitely shielding him right yes yes he's shielding him from you got involved in

the mob you got your foot messed up and it and it it basically ruined the Tigers pennant chances right but nothing changed for the season nothing at the press conference reporter asked what the difference was between tried to become a bookie and becoming a bookie and the Commissioner said quote I think you have to consider the difference is the same as between murder and attempted murder I'm sorry that's not great so he tried to kill someone yes he just didn't it just didn't work he was unable to kill the person he really wanted to kill them yeah he wanted to kill the guy and had he killed the person that would have been

crazy but no he was not able to carry out the you know as I'm talking I'm realizing I don't love this yeah yeah so I would say let's just take it back from the top three two one it's a lot like trying to kill a I'm gonna do some mouth stuff so reporters thought it's a cover-up I mean all across the country everyone's like it's a cover it's a it's a light punishment to cover up but Danny returns to baseball on July 1st the stadium is packed to see him they cheer him for a whole minute when he comes out he doesn't pitch well he doesn't pitch well for weeks he's okay yeah he's rusty he's also he's also

gaining weight because he does drink what well other Pepsi's a case of their sugar Pepsi a tiny tiny bit a tiny bit it seems strange on August 28th Danny walks at three months off just pounding Pepsi boy he's really put a little that Pepsi way doesn't he on August 28th Danny walks up to a reporter who's sitting in the Tigers Clubhouse and pours a bucket of ice water over his head and then says he's gonna get all the reporters that season excuse me Danny 40 minutes later another reporter of you is in the press box when a security guard tells him Danny wants to talk to him in the clubhouse when the reporter arrives

Danny said he didn't like a headline that had been written and dumped ice water over the reporter's head Dave this is taking a very strange little turn he better be raising money for Alzheimer's the Tigers GM suspended Danny for an infinite period up to 30 days Danny said he was it was just a prank and then he said he wants to be traded now it's a prank wouldn't what way I'm pouring water on him as a joke it's ice water thing you guys have a prank is it's actually an escalation it's prank what Danny was trying to do is basically like murder yeah sorry I probably should stop I had a few words to work out this

murder II like murder ish murder ish adjacent yeah anyway so he is suspended now he's been spent up till July and now spent another month and he wants to be traded this season's like six months so he's is he still married to the same person yeah so I don't go into that but she leaves him all the time and comes back like they're she's like Jesus Christ and but she never divorces she keeps leaving and coming back okay I get it I get her part so then the commissioner all son calls Danny in for hearing because the commissioner learned Danny had brought a gun on a team flight it's a lot like murder well this

actually works for this one honestly and he doesn't have a license to carry a gun the commissioner suspends him for the rest of the season after the hearing which costs him all together it cost him over you know probably like $60,000 of all the suspensions and he's broke he's broke now reporters now report oh did I not did I miss this part I don't know I did so after he dumps water I don't hide I skip this after he talked shit about the fans uh-huh his wife was driving the car and she stopped at a gas station and they and the guy the attendant is like there's a bomb in your car it turns out it was a smoke bomb and so Danny was

like mad and like how can you do this and you know my family could have heard even though it was just a smoke bomb I can't believe I passed that but now with all this stuff coming out reporters are like was that actually a smoke bomb so they're they're wondering if maybe his car was actually bomb bombed or is he are they saying he did something he didn't know they're saying that no they're saying he's got trouble with the mob oh so they're like the mob was maybe trying the mob hurt his foot good fellas him what what was this right yeah so everyone's like you're looking at the bigger picture and being like

there's a lot going on here that's a little off so he like I said he's been suspended for investing in a bookie operation having a gun dumping water reporters so it's all like they're clearly questioning all those things it's also he's dumping water the Detroit Free Press reports that he's fled his home because of threats so all the reporters are like Detroit's fucking done with them like nobody in Detroit has his back anymore so they do they trade him to the Washington Senators the next month and the GM announces the trade at a press conference and as he does he throws a roll of Tums and anti-acid pills into a

waist back basket and says quote I won't be needing these anymore so he's like this I don't have heartburn anymore because this problem's gone this guy yeah things don't go a little does he know in a couple weeks he's gonna find out it's diet based things don't go well for Denny in Washington the manager is Ted Williams is one of the greatest hitters all time but not a good manager he doesn't pitch well and he and some other guys form a group and he's the leader of the group the group is called the under miners club and they try to get Williams fired oh wow wow crazy the name came about because Williams in a

meeting accused some of the players including Denny of undermining him who but then why would you name your like knowing that that can get out there wouldn't you just like the coalition for a better team but you know what it doesn't get out the reason it gets out is like after he gets traded off this team Denny then tells the press everything smart yeah we had a club called the under miners club he goes into this whole party about how they would initiate people like it's just fucking crazy sure this year but funnel that season Denny's arm starts hurting and he has to take a bunch of cortisone

cortisone shots halfway through the year he stops throwing his fastball because of pain which is kind of his only pitch he went from leading the leagues and win in wins two years before to leading the league in losses now 22 and he's 27 now he's yeah about 26 27 he's also getting wage weight each year he doesn't look good in 1972 played for the Oakland A's the Birmingham Barons and the Atlanta Braves he was bad for each club he played a few weeks with Shreve Port and Des Moines in the minor leagues but in 73 he's done his career is over at 29 writer Mark Amor quote he was 29 and looked 45 oh man I mean this is

like Pepsi's like will you stop publicly saying please this is called the anti-sponsorship we'll pay you to drink Coke but he's supposed to make money organ time I'm selling his yeah I guess the organ I guess the the organ concert business is not doing well now that he's not you know boy a good pitcher so he invests in a big-screen television business he runs a bar he writes a book he opened a walk-in medical clinics and on the side he would hustle at golf courses then he gets hired to be a GM of a minor league team the Memphis Blues in 77 nine months later he's fired because he ran up the

team's debt from 200,000 to 340,000 that's included 53,000 to the IRS for not paying social security or withholding taxes on checks he declared he declared bankruptcy again can I do it twice so now he starts loan sharking and book making oh wow and a circle at one point I got 160,000 to fly a guy convicted of manslaughter out of the country what he also had an extra fuel tank added to his plane and used it to smuggle cocaine oh my good I mean is there a bit this is like an anti-pepsi PSA smuggling cocaine a march 1984 daddy was arrested with six others for

conspiracy to smuggle 400 kilos of cocaine and racketeering for loan sharking and extortion oh my god a few fellow traffickers pleaded guilty and said he and one said he and Denny delivered cocaine in golf bags for loan sharking he set up a mortgage company as a front and charged 150% interest now at the trial his lawyer painted him as the victim saying he'd been conned by criminals which is what he'd said before right my come up my client is what we call a legal cutie pie able to make this little guy he's not able to make any decisions like that he

was swindled by the grown-ups who did all the big talking speaking at him my client is what I refer to as a Toys R Us kid there's a million toys and toys russ that he can play with he's just a little guy look at him yes he had he had a he was charging 150% interest yeah it would and rate at only a baby could come up with he is a cutie patootie he's kind of no any better he's a little baby in the city he's lost he sees a bunch of bright shiny lights and he's just kids it startled him it's hurt his little baby brain he's a child look at the little scam I can't stay mad at him and ladies a gentleman of the jury I don't

believe that you can either he is just simply nothing more than a little boy in a grown man's body that was formed by the high fructose corn syrup abused by the Pepsi corporation so on the stand any said he had considered killing himself and his lawyer asked why he didn't and Danny said quote well it all can or two reasons I'm innocent of the charges and the day I thought of committing suicide I couldn't find bullets I'm glad I did my comedy before that line he's not guilty on everything but smuggling cocaine he had 23 years in prison wow he shows up to the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary and a there's a

prison baseball team and he tells them he's available to pitch but they pass wow they're like yeah we're good wait no so other inmates formed a team and called it Detroit Denny's and Denny pitched and managed in his first game he gave up four runs and five innings and never played for the team again he told the Detroit he isn't good enough for the prison leagues that is quite a fall he's had so he really liked to your point he was all fastball yeah yeah he told the Detroit for you press quote I feel like I had been at Pearl Harbor and survived I can guarantee you as of this date this hour at this minute I am

retired so you've actually retired everyone at Pearl Harbor is like hey can you not okay so he's retiring in August 1987 the Court of Appeals ruled Denny should get a new trial because his had been rushed but he instead pleaded guilty and got 12 years released for time served and put on probation wow he was soon hired to be the promotional director for a modern league hockey team in Texas but he kept fighting with the front office and was fired okay he's better start playing organs at sport I'm just hoping he's just like you know he's next hired to do morning talk radio

in Detroit and actually becomes a success which turned into local TV sports talk show gig now that he had money he invested in a meat packing company near Flint in 1993 okay that's amazing to have your morning man be like hey that dead of you a legally transported 400 kilos of cocaine well it reminds us we've got concert tickets to give us later today that's right so after he he and his partner invest in the meat packing company a month later they decide to help themselves to the company's pension fund and stole over three million dollars wow he cannot help himself he cannot he was

indicted in 1996 and sentenced to eight years in prison dude Sharon who had left him a million times over the years but always came back was finally done and she filed for divorce Denny got out in 2003 he worked a series of jobs mostly sales then he remarried Sharon after begging her to forgive him man he wrote a book in 2007 and through every teammate he could under the bus he worked different radio gigs not successfully he wrote articles for Detroit Sports Magazine on September 8 2018 the Tigers held an anniversary celebration for the 1968 World Series team and Denny got a big standing ovation

the team gave way bobbleheads for the big-star players but not one for Denny McClain Sharon died on December 2019 she had Parkinson's Denny currently lives in pink me Michigan he started a podcast called no filter sports which lasted 10 episodes man I can't god I want to do his show so badly in October 2020 he sold off his sports memorabilia in a very publicized sale like ESPN everyone's covering it and much of it was his hall of fame father's memorabilia father-in-law Denny then downsized his home and so that's where Danny is today wow I can't believe he's still with us I hope he doesn't hear this what a fucking story I

just I mean talk about his his like he should write a biography call it call it blow in it and it's to see it means to right hate it but you could take baseball out and it still works the story yeah yeah I mean it's just fucking cane transportation I mean it's a huge component but yeah yeah it's really sources it would be like most people when they sell organs it's different but okay so he I'm happy he's still with us sources several sports illustrated articles Denny McClain ready for his comeback try McClain with love and kisses the book Detroit Tigers gone wild mischief crimes and hard time by George

Hunter Detroit Free Press Detroit News AP UPI Newsday the Washington Post and Pepsi Chronicles the Society for American Baseball Research article by Mark Amor wow what a guy what is it about baseball is it is I feel like other sports have is it just that you love baseball or is baseball ripe for this part of the thing I think in baseball is that since the there is this sort of ability for you to be highly skilled and not particularly practicing athletics so you have a lot of time where you can become like a fucking lunatic yeah I think it used to be like that yeah yeah yeah is that is that why it's

so yeah I think I stories like this I don't think it's like that anymore like now you really you got to be super athletic and train and do all this up but back in the day you could literally just fucking throw hard yeah you could take barbiturates or whatever yeah you could do whatever you wanted to your body and still have that I hand coordination and does it like you know and so I think it definitely that lends itself to just crazy wacky characters well I mean yeah really does pitchers to seem to be a nice zone yeah seems to be like a very oh yeah it's yeah pitchers are crazy they're like chefs well sorry

chefs yeah you know to do today's food that's right well I love you buddy what huh how we end oh I just thought I thought I had a great time we don't know we don't in that way it's not who we are love you brother touch around touch I'll touch you around tell me said nope I love you man okay but I love you so much buddy bye