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That’s Amaury’s News and Commentary: The pride of the Angels Mike Trout the exclusive interview

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by Amaury Pi Gonzlaez

TEMPE AZ–Angels centerfielder Mike Trout was named the 2014 American League Most Valuable Player. Trout was the unanimous winner with 420 points in the balloting process. The 18th unanimous winner in the balloting process. He is considered the best player in MLB today and many selected him as “the face of baseball”to replace Derek Jeter, who retired last season.

Prior to winning his first MVP, Trout finished second in the voting in 2012 and 2013, to the inimitable Miguel Cabrera of the Detroit Tigers. At 23 years of age he is the third player in Angels history to earn the award, joining Vladimir Guerrero(2004)and Don Baylor(currently the Angels batting instructor)in 1979.

Tempe Diablo Stadium, in Tempe, Arizona has been the spring training home of the Halos since 1993 and today is the oldest of all spring training parks here in the Valley of the Sun, where a total of 15 teams hold their camps. The most famous #27 in baseball sat with me today for a few minutes prior to practice at Tempe Stadium.

Q: How does it feels when I say, Mike Trout the MVP of the American League?

T: “It’s awesome, really, a real honor, I try not to think about that too much, I am here to help our team win this division again and a World Series in October, which is our goal”

Q: Last season you hit 36 home runs and drove in 111 runs, scored 115 runs. Personally, what would you like to improve in this 2015 season?

T: “Well, last year is last year, but I did struck out much more than I should…and I hope this year I can cut down on my strike outs, I need to put the ball in play more and help the team and that is what I have been working this spring here with our hitting coach. Sometimes I am over aggressive at the plate, I have to be more selective”

Q: Last year in Anaheim I remember you saying a few words in Spanish, although our interviews on Fox Sports West are done in English, then I translate what you said in our pre-game show. How are you coming along with Spanish?

T: (Smile)”Hola, tranquilo(which means Hello, Fine) no, not really I am learning from Erick and from Albert and some of the guys, because I am prohibited to play winter ball down there, but they help me…however I still hjavde a long way to go before I can do a complete interview with you in Spanish”. (Erick is shortstop Erick Aybar and Albert is first basdeman Albert Pujols).

Q:Mike, you are having a great spring training hitting above .500 have shown everybody why you won the MVP. Is this because you are more confident with yourself than in the previous seasons?

T: “I feel great, and yes I do have much more confidence than my first spring training when I was very eager but a few years younger coming out of the minor leagues, but -look-this is a great team, we won 98 games last season more than anybody in baseball, we have great players here and it is really a privilege to play with these guys”

Q: You live with your parents in their home during the winter in New Jersey. How does that works?

T: “I spend a lot of time with my parent over there, yes, and I still have most of my High School friends and all my buddies there, so yes, I spend a lot of times, specially his winter in Milville”

Q: You are so accesable to the media. Do you expect now that you are the MVP and you are in high demand, to continue?

T: “I like to, I now you guys have a job to do, so I will see how it goes this season, but I have no problems with that, is part of my job, the team pays me well and anytime that I can talk to you and all the guys, I have no ‘problema’with that”.

Told him thank you and I see you soon in Anaheim, although I will still be watching you here for another week.

He thank me, walked to the left side of the dugout picked his glove and went on to the field to practice.

Mike Trout has innate type of talent, but at 23 years of age he comports himself like a real veteran. Do not be surprise if he wins a lot of MVP awards in the years to come. I hope he stays humble and very accessible, he is the same with the fans, always posing for photos with the fans, signing autographs and a real delight to be around.

One more thing. The older players, like future Hall of Fame star Albert Pujols told me that Trout listens to the veterans and that is very important, he still in a learning process. And that should be very scary news for the opposing pitchers.

Amaury Pi Gonzalez is Spanish radio voice for the Oakland A’s and the Spanish TV voice for the Angels and does News and Commentary each week on http://www.sportsradioservice.com

NCAA basketball podcast commentary: Cardinal wait for that call to go to the NITs

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by Matt Harrington

PALO ALTO–Those secondary tournaments in March don’t get a lot of buzz as their a lot of alumni boosters from the big schools who are clambering to go up in their gym to and it’s about marketing dollars. It all really depends on who ends up where in terms of the Pac 12 and to the big dance. They already have some teams on the bubble like UCLA or Cal to make the NCAA Tournament or not they might be on the outside.

At this point Stanford is firmly on the outside barring the end of their season. It’s going to be a question of how they want to get into this tournament to get the revenue. It will be decided at some point for the teams who won their conference for a season title and the championship team they’ll go onto the NIT automatically.

They’ll try and get into those schools and those mid major conferences where they ran the table on the regular season but knocked down on their conference tournament. Their the one and done championship tournaments and that will be about it. There should be room for a team like Stanford in the NITs when you start looking at the upsets from the smaller conferences.

They’ll be room for a team that had 19 wins and had some pretty significant wins, especially that win against Texas earlier in the year. This might give Stanford some life for a chance to play more basketball especially for these older players at the Cardinal the seniors who may have or may not have played their last game against Utah.

It makes sense for the NIT to take some Pac 12 representation, to have some sort of higher final team in the tournament and get people to watch it and get people to buy tickets for it. This might be a great chance for Stanford to get into the NIT and advance and see their star player Anthony Brown to try to put behind him probably his worst performance as a member of the Cardinal this year career putting together two points, 1-6 shooting in that 80-56 loss that knocked them out of the Pac 12 Tournament.

Matt Harrington covers Stanford Cardinal basketball and Matt is also covering for Michelle Richardson this week for NCAA commentary on http://www.sportsradioservice.com listen to the podcast below

San Francisco 49ers report: Former USC running back star Reggie Bush inks deal with 49ers expected to take Gore’s spot

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by Tony Renteria

SANTA CLARA–Last week after much speculation and talk, former USC running back Reggie Bush is coming to the San Francisco 49ers. The persistent rumor of Bush coming to San Francisco has been put to rest with Bush’s signing with the 49ers on Saturday afternoon.

Bush was in talking stages with the New England Patriots and it was said by 49ers general manager Trent Baalke after Bush negotiated with the 49ers last week and headed out to New England that the 49ers were moving forward and it sounded like Bush would sign on with the more successful organization Patriots also Bush was considering going back to his former team the New Orleans Saints as well.

The mass exodus the 49ers have seen in the last two weeks, running back Frank Gore leaving for the Colts, guard Mike Iupati, defensive tackle Justin Smith and linebacker Patrick Willis retiring, fullback Bruce Miller’s existence with the team is hanging in the balance over alleged domestic violence accusations, cornerback Chris Culliver signed a four year contract this week with Washington and Perrish Cox will not be coming back as he’s in talks with the Tennessee Titans and talk last week put 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick as being shopped by the team but the rumors were denied by Baalke. The 49ers are trying to turn the page of a tough chapter after the departure of former head coach Jim Harbaugh.

Bush joins the 49ers at a time when 49ers right offensive linebacker Aldon Smith just restructured his 2015 contract last week with the team. The 49ers have been entertaining former Chargers cornerback Shareece Wright, Wright had 18 pass breakups and one interception last season and had been with San Diego for two seasons. Although there are many more spots to fill in the gaps on the Niners the organization is happy to get Bush in trying to solve that puzzle.

Bush 30, is expected to take Gore’s place in the running back role, Bush could share running back duties with Carlos Hyde. Bush over the years has suffered a number of injuries, he’s a different running back from two years ago when he used to average a 1,000 yards a season with the Detroit Lions in what is said to be his final year of his prime.

Bush ran for only 297 yards and had only two touchdowns in 11 games for the Lions last season, Bush also caught 40 passes for 253 yards. In the 2013 season he had a career year running for 1,006 yards and had four touchdowns in 14 games. Previous to coming to Detroit he ran for the Miami Dolphins and the New Orleans Saints.

Bush won the Heisman Trophy at USC in 2005. Bush’s parents were given a free home and all the trimmings to stay in while Bush was a running back at USC and it was one of many gifts that Bush received when at USC. After an NCAA investigation the league sanctioned him and he voluntarily returned the trophy for receiving gifts.

Bush was charged by the NCAA, violations for student athletes receiving gifts and the NCAA also caught other USC players who were said to be receiving gifts during that time and shortly after the investigation former USC head coach Pete Carroll left for the NFL to coach the Seattle Seahawks. The Trojans were declared bowl ineligible after the discipline was handed down.

Tony Renteria covers the NFL for http://www.sportsradioservice.com each week

Golden State Warriors podcast with David Zizmor: Curry, Thompson, Bogut, & Iguodala rested up and ready for some home cooking

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by David Zizmor

OAKLAND–The Golden State Warriors at some point in the season were going to attempt to rest some of the core of their players and they did on Friday night in Denver benching Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson, Andrew Bogut, and Andre Iguodala. They rested Bogut on the last big road trip they had in February when they went back east.

Bogut was going to sit in the game against Brooklyn on March 2 but in a game prior to that in Boston the Warriors Festus Ezeli got a technical foul and a one game suspension for pushing and shoving. Since Ezeli was out and he’s the back up center he would have started in Bogut’s place with him suspended the W’s had to put Bogut back in the line up.

The Warriors were definitely looking for a spot to get Bogut some rest as we already knew prior to this season the Warriors are very concerned about Bogut’s minutes he has that injury history. Anybody whose seven feet tall and as big as he is there is just a lot of wear and tear that would limit his time on the floor as much as possible.

In general everybody fresh in their memory from last season remembers Bogut was healthy for most of the season but he got an injury right at the end of the year and because he was out of that series in the first round you could argue that was the difference between winning and losing. That series went seven games and the Warriors didn’t have Bogut and if they have him they have a presence in the middle and their able to defend the Clippers Blake Griffin and Andre Jordan in last season’s post season and they don’t let anybody get by on the Clippers drive and that could have been the difference maker.

They want Bogut healthy and want him rested and their giving him rest whenever they can. This won’t be the last time Bogut sits once the Warriors wrap up their playoff position Bogut is barely going to see the floor until the playoffs. As for the other guys Curry and Thompson, now remember with them their obviously important to the team and they have played a lot in the last year.

Not only did they play all of last season the also played in the World Basketball Championships they logged extra minutes in the summer where a lot of guys normally wouldn’t. The Warriors have been doing their best to keep those guys from playing too much during the season. With Curry and Thompson they average around 32 or 33 minutes a night which is on the low side.

David Zizmor does commentary each week on the Warriors at http://www.sportsradioservice.com listen to his podcast below

San Francisco Giants & Oakland A’s podcast with Michael Duca: Giants dealing with some injuries; A’s Phegley considered best catcher ever seen

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by Michael Duca

SCOTTSDALE AZ–You just hope that the San Francisco Giants Hunter Pence heals as well as pitcher Matt Cain seems to have. Most of them seemed to come through with flying colors. There are other players that were a little nicked up like pitcher Javier Lopez who the other day I saw him throw a very solid inning Giants pitcher Sergio Romo threw to live hitters a few days ago in batting practice.

Giants outfielder Nori Aoki who is 1-15 with a bunt single I had a chance to see him hit a little over the course of spring training and on one of his at bats he got drilled in the shoulder. It’s had to say but you just can’t put a tremendous lot of stock this early in spring training, you just can’t in spring training put a lot into the numbers of a hitter.

Sure you want to see a lot of people do well in spring training, teams are facing a polar of their own division and their not going to tip their hand what they do and how their going to do things in the regular season. So teams are going to hold their cards a little closer to their vests. That having been said you’d like to see your lead off hitter doing better than .083.

Giant pitcher Jeremy Affeldt has a lot on his fast ball this spring, he has a vicious curve, he has a nice cutter to right handed hitters. He’s just an effective pitcher as he is in the clubhouse. The interesting thing about former Giants third baseman Pablo Sandoval’s little tantrum when he said it was not about the money leaving the Giants but how the organization mistreated him and where he said he was only speaking to Hunter Pence and manager Bruce Bochy on the club. Somebody on the team actually tweeted out “really you (Pablo) can’t get along with Jeremy Affeldt?” Everybody can get along with Affeldt.

Giants catcher Andrew Sasac was aiming to be the back up catcher to Buster Posey but it won’t be the worst thing in the world if Sasac was sent down to Triple A affiliate Sacramento to start the year and maybe be given the opportunity to play a little third base in the minor leagues. He’s certainly not going to learn that position at the major league level.

Oakland A’s update: A’s general manager Billy Beane knows how to construct a team together with type O blood and make it work universally. They all fit anywhere and it wouldn’t hurt the Giants to have that kind of flexibility. A’s catcher Stephen Vogt has been an inspirational hitter for the time he was active on the A’s roster last season before his foot injury.

Vogt was hotter than a pistol earlier in the year and remained hot after the all-star break. He wasn’t hitting .340 after the break like he was before. He kept his average up around .300 and he was still attacking the ball. Vogt’s catching skills weren’t terrific but the A’s have catcher Josh Phegley on the roster.

I’ve listened to a number of people in spring training say that Phegley is the best defensive catcher in the game or one of the best defensive catchers they’ve ever seen. Again it’s the Billy Beane theory you mix and match, you have the defensive catcher in the line up and have Vogt be your DH on days when you got rabbits on the bases and when Billy Butler takes a day off from DH. The rest of the time you can Vogt behind the plate working on his major league catching skills at the major league level.

It’s spring time and A’s first baseman Ike Davis is getting back spasms he already played seven or eight games. Stuff happens wake up and see how much fun he’d be and there is a lot of things to think about that goes on. They think they should ignore all that, they have bodies like the rest of us and Davis made an effort to get back in the line up because he was a little afraid of being Wally Pipped.

Michael Duca covers the Oakland A’s and San Francisco Giants in spring training for http://www.sportsradioservice.com listen to his podcast below

That’s Amaury’s News and Commentary: Why Canseco is a bigger man than McGwire

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by Amaury Pi Gonzalez

SCOTTSDALE AZ–The Oakland Athletics are in the middle of Spring Training here with dozens of new players; trying to decipher a winning combination that might take them to the promise land in October. After last year, when it looked they were the best team in baseball, until they ran into the Kansas City Royals, this 2015 A’s team is basically a different team. Fernando Abad the excellent Dominican reliever, who last season finished with a 2-4 record but with an excellent 1.57 in a total of 59 games he worked, recently got his US Citizenship and is working as hard as anybody this spring trying to continue his good work for the Bob Melvin Athletics. Abad was four years old when the Oakland A’s won their last World Series in 1989.

In 1989 the A’s had a super team in Spring Training, one that had the most exciting one-two power hitter combo in all of Major Leagues. Jose Canseco hitting third and Mark McGwire clean up. While there is no Canseco in baseball anymore, just a few miles from this park, Mark McGwire is a coach for the Los Angeles Dodgers. It has been over a quarter of a century since the Bash Brothers days with the green and gold, and a lot has happened in the lives of both super stars since them.

Jose Canseco wrote a couple of books exposing the use of steroids in baseball. He confessed to using the substances and to have injected McGwire with the same, while they were both playing for the A’s, Canseco self confessed to his illegal use of steroids. Canseco was totally black-balled from baseball, nobody gave him another opportunity, as a player or as a coach.

It is worth noting that the anabolic steroids were not formally banned by MLB until 2002. McGwire’s use of the substances was prior to 2002. As a matter of fact McGwire broke Roger Maris, single season record for home runs during a season in 1998. Seven years later, after he broke that record, in the year 2005 Mark McGwire appeared with Sammy Sosa and Rafael Palmeiro, in front of a congressional hearing. They were subpoenaed, to answer accusations of such steroids use. They all denied their use. McGwire, made a fool of himself, when he said in front of the House committee he was “not there to talk about the past”. Maybe the slugger thought he was there to sign autographs.

It was that same year of 2005 when Jose Canseco wrote his first tell-all book “Juiced” admitting his use of steroids; he also said in that book that the vast majority of players also used them. It might never be proven if the vast majority used them or not, but Canseco’s honest admission and his books telling about others vindicated the slugger, who to this day has never been able to return to the Major Leagues in any capacity.

In 2010 a tearful McGwire confessed to using steroids in an interview with MLB Network’s Bob Costas, but he also said he could hit 70 home runs without steroids, because of his “God-given talent”. So McGwire confessed of using steroids five years after Jose Canseco wrote his first controversial book.

Jose Canseco was always the better player than McGwire. Canseco had power, but also had speed (first 40-40 in MLB history, in 1988 42 home runs and 40 stolen bases) and Canseco was by far the most popular player among Athletics fans and during the time they both played with Oakland, there was no comparison, all across the country it was Jose Canseco who was the man. I covered the 1986 ALL Star Game at the Astrodome in Houston and the two biggest stars in baseball were, Jose Canseco of the Athletics and Daryl Strawberry of the Mets. Because Canseco was more forthcoming that McGwire, when it came to coming out and telling the truth, in my book Jose Canseco will remain to this day a bigger man than McGwire.

Next: Saturday -The Giants visit the Athletics at the new A’S Hohokam Stadium, Mesa.

Amaury Pi Gonzalez is the Spanish radio voice for the Oakland A’s and the Spanish TV voice for the L.A.Angels and does News and Commentary on http://www.sportsradioservice.com

San Francisco 49ers podcast with Tony Renteria: 49ers talking to Reggie Bush but he’s not the same player as two years ago

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by Tony Renteria

SANTA CLARA–The San Francisco 49ers would have to make some sort of splash to get back into the good graces of everyone. Everything with the 49ers has been a negative connotation and being a quality back Reggie Bush is talking with the 49ers. Bush’s worth would be under the cap at this point the sad part is it’s not a feather in the 49ers cap.

Bush who would have carried for 1,000 yards two seasons ago and now is coming off a injury plagued year he’s 30 years old he’s a running back whose never been an every down back. Bush is kind of a third down specialist who can carry the ball in the flat and produce some yards. He’s not a guy whose going to gain some yards.

This has really showed you where the 49ers have gone, you lose a guy like Frank Gore (now with the Colts) and your looking to replace him with a guy like Bush. I’m really kind of concerned with the direction the 49ers are going when your top free agent signing has only played 33% of the time.

In terms of the NFL Players Association talking with younger players just about what happens to you over the course of time playing in the NFL because Patrick Willis who retired this week is still a quality linebacker. He’s a guy who the Niners need to depend upon to play and there comes a time where players make so much money that they don’t have to put themselves in a situation that other players in the past had to put themselves in.

So while Willis is a top five linebacker in the league he had to ask himself if this was really worth his health? He decided to get out of the game now while he’s on the top. Coming off an injury plagued season but still a quality football player. Willis has a lot of gas left in the tank the Niners think now that he’s made enough money he doesn’t have to go around the racetrack anymore.

There was a time when former Chicago Bear running back Walter Payton was given a blank check to play and that was because he had such a great career with the Bears. They said to Payton “you have a couple of seasons left write down what your worth.” With the salary cap and the way the 49ers have self destructed I just don’t understand why they would let Frank Gore go.

Join Tony Renteria who does commentary for the NFL for http://www.sportsradioservice.com listen to his podcast below

Stanford Cardinal Pac 12 Championship podcast with Matt Harrington: Cardinal gear up to face big physical Utah tonight at the MGM Grand

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by Matt Harrington

PALO ALTO–The Stanford Cardinal just got by in fashion over the Washington Huskies on Wednesday night at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas with a 71-69 victory. The win advances the Cardinal to face the Utah Utes on Thursday night. What a finish for the Cardinal for the win on Wednesday night who could have scripted a win like that for Stanford it was positively electric.

You couldn’t have scripted it any better as the Cardinals “Flame” Chasson Randle for his going away performance had ten points and it looked like the senior was going to go out on a down note and now I’m changing my script. Randle had a huge three pointer to win that game. It’s another case of when you think that Randle is out of the game, when you think he’s struggling all of sudden he hits the big shot.

I don’t think I’ve seen a bigger shot in his career at Stanford, so that was an incredible ending of a crazy game. It was a game where the Cardinal weren’t really in control of their own dynasty for the majority of it. It really did feel like Stanford was going to be on the wrong end and that this was going to be another game to chalk up for the season.

When you look at the stats Washington was on the free throw line five times and had only five free throw opportunities in the game and they were still leading by a couple of points that’s just crazy. You look at the three point shooting they finished 13-20 from the three point line and you look at all those stats and you start thinking this shouldn’t have been Stanford’s game.

It ended out working out for them in the long run, the Cardinal shot something like five percent it’s hard to figure out that five last minutes of play in game. It was really a struggle for Stanford in the game. It’s certainly not a performance that the Cardinal doesn’t want to repeat. In the next round they face the Utah Utes at the MGM on Thursday night.

The Utes are a team that will really give Stanford some challenges but it really felt like they snatched victory out of the jaws of defeat on Wednesday and it didn’t look like it was going on the right path and all of a sudden the final five minutes things start to turn. That last rebound by Marcus Allen and the three pointer by Randle that was a huge swing for Stanford.

Matt Harrington is the Stanford Cardinal beat writer for http://www.sportsradioservice.com catch below on his podcast

Sacramento Kings podcast with Charlie O: Magic were a handful last week can Sac answer the bell for Hornets Wed night?

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by Charlie O Mallonee

SACRAMENTO–You look at the two road games that the Sacramento Kings played in Orlando and Miami last week I said that the Orlando Magic should be a win on the road. The Kings got beat up in San Antonio on Wednesday and that wasn’t a surprise and that was the back end of a back to back and that was in New York and San Antonio.

The Kings played back to back on Tuesday the 3rd and Wednesday the 4th before heading out to Florida. It looked they would be able to handle the two games and in Orlando and Miami last Friday and Saturday. On Friday they turned around and let the Magic score 68 points in the first half. It was just insane the way Orlando was playing good defense.

The Kings came out a little slow they came out and picked it up and scored 57 points in the first half but they just let Orlando get out there too far. They were never able to pull the Magic back in, They were able to stay close but there has been a tendency for the Kings and it’s one that they get behind.

The Kings would pull up and get close and get within a point or two and even would take a lead by a point or two but then they would pull back. That’s something that you would see consistently in the NBA when a team does that they wind up losing the game because they spend so much energy putting themselves back into the game.

The other team is just using the energy to stay right there and when it comes to crunch time the Kings don’t have enough to put themselves over the top. Now in the case of Orlando they just owned the Kings they went 14-24 from the field and they scored 32 points a game. The other guy that just tore it up was the Magic’s Channing Frye he finished with 22 points.

Frye was in the game for Orlando to do one thing and that is to throw three point shots. He took a total of 11 shots from the field with three pointers and connected with six of them and wound up with the 22 points. Now the Kings Rudy Gay had a phenomenal game with 39 points and DeMarcus had 29 points. Cousins and Gay came together late in the game but it wasn’t enough and the Magic won the ball game by five points 119-114.

For tonight it’s onto Charlotte and the Hornets as the Kings go into Charlotte with a current road record of 1-3 winning only in New York that started this trip on Tuesday the third.

Charlie O is the Sacramento Kings beat writer for http://www.sportsradioservice.com listen to his podcast below

San Francisco Giants Podcast with Jeremy Kahn: Cain making a great recovery after facing Puig and the Dodgers

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by Jeremy Kahn

SAN FRANCISCO–For Giants pitcher Matt Cain to come back and get two perfect innings on Tuesday it was a great confidence builder and he displayed that he’s healthy enough to go at it again and he pitched against a potent Dodgers lineup. The Giants tied up that game with the Dodgers 5-5.

Cain is coming back he’ll be okay and you have to give him sometime and elbow surgery is very serious and for a pitcher it’s very serious and Cain will need more time. That Dodger line up with Yasiel Puig and company can be a handful but Cain handled it well, let’s remember that when these two teams get together it’s one of the greatest rivalries in sports.

It’s been a rivalry since they both were in New York in the 50s, and that line up and rivalry is very good down south. There was not too much concern going into this game and he pitched only two innings. You don’t want to throw your arm out and not being able to pitch during the season. He could throw two pitches and he could be out the entire season.

Cain looked very good for someone who hasn’t pitched in seven or eight months, he looked really good and he should look pretty good when he goes in for his next start. Coming up this weekend as well.

Pablo Sandoval said he left San Francisco because of the way they treated him and it was not because of the money: I was stunned beyond belief when Pablo said this about the Giants organization. Your talking about one of the great clubhouses in MLB. I covered this team since 2003 and this is one of the best clubhouses since that time.

I’ve covered this team at home and on the road and to hear what Sandoval said about the Giants and Bruce Bochy whose been like a father to him and Hunter Pence and his teammates. This is a slap in the face to the other 24 members of the Giants, the coaches, the equipment staff, and the front office. What Panda said was absolutely disgusting.

Jeremy Kahn is the San Francisco Giants beat reporter for http://www.sportsradioservice.com listen to his podcast below