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MLB podcast with Michael Duca: Ichiro’s Hall of Fame induction was never in doubt; Sabathia and Wagner elected to Hall of Fame; plus more news

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The Seattle Mariners right fielder Ichiro Suzuki makes a leaping catch to rob the Cleveland Guardians Carlos Santana of a hit in the bottom of the fourth inning at Progressive Field in Cleveland on Thu May 17, 2012. Ichiro was voted into the MLB Cooperstown Hall of Fame on Tue Jan 21, 2025 (AP News photo)

On the MLB podcast with Michael Duca:

#1 Michael not only did former Seattle Mariner Ichiro Suzuki was voted in for enshrinement but all the talk was that he missed getting unanimously voted in by one vote.

#2 One of the highlight achievements of Ichiro’s career was that he surpassed George Sisler’s single hit season record on Oct 1, 2004 with his 258th hit.

#3 Michael, take about Vallejo native and newly Hall of Fame inductee former New York Yankee pitcher CC Sabathia who retired at the age of 44 pitching from 2001 to 2019. Winning 251 games with an ERA 3.74.

#4 Former Houston Astros pitcher Billy Wagner was voted into the Hall of Fame on his tenth and final Hall of Fame ballot wining by 82.5%. Wagner was 47-40 career with an ERA of 2.31.

#5 To close out this segment since were talking about Hall of Famers who made it let’s talk about maybe the one player you could think of that has not and is not in the Hall of Fame that you personally feel deserves to be in the Hall of Fame?

Michael Duca is a MLB analyst for http://www.sportsradioservice.com

Headline Sports podcast with London Marq: Raiders’ Crowell injured in team practice, out for season; Kentucky Derby coming up, will dying horses spell an end for industry?; plus more

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photo bleacherreport.com: 2018 Triple Crown winner Justify. The Kentucky Derby kicks off this Saturday.

On the Headlines Sports podcast with London Marq:

#1 The Oakland Raiders’ running back Isaiah Crowell, during a team workout, suffered a season-ending injury, tearing his Achilles. Crowell is a five-year NFL veteran and played with the New York Jets last season. He was signed on with the Raiders for this season for $2.5 million.

#2 With the Kentucky Derby coming up this Saturday, all the talk has been about horses dying at Santa Anita in just seven months. Looking at the year between 2017-18, a reported 37 deaths have been reported, and the New York Times reported since 2018 to the present, the deaths have not subsided. The questions raised were why? Was it that the horses are physically driven to exhaustion on race days, was it the medications the injury-masking painkillers? Is the sport due to die out because of these horse deaths?

#3 If it wasn’t for the red-hot Tampa Bay Rays, the New York Yankees could very well be the top team in the AL East. The Yankees are just 2.5 games behind first place Tampa have won eight of their last 10 and also swept the San Francisco Giants and beat the Arizona Diamondbacks behind CC Sabathia’s 3,000 career strikeout. The Yanks lost the game, but Sabathia went down in the record books.

#4 The Oakland A’s are really off track. The club has lost six straight games. They’re coming off getting swept by the Toronto Blue Jays and the Boston Red Sox and have three more road games with the Pittsburgh Pirates starting on Friday night at PNC Park.

#5 Could the Golden State Warriors put the Houston Rockets away? It even looks a lot easier for Golden State than it did last postseason last year when they played the Rockets. Kevin Durant (29), Klay Thompson (20), and Stephen Curry (19) were the top three scorers for Golden State in Game 3. The Warriors lead the series 2-0.

London Marq does the Headlines Sports podcasts each Wednesday at http://www.sportsradioservice.com