EXCLUSIVE: Frank the Tank Opens Up About Major League Baseball

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4.8 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2023

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Frank The Tank joins Carl and Klemmer for a glimpse behind the chaos in Queens and how to FIX the New York Mets. Frank opens up about the pain of 2023 vs. his eternal love for baseball. Then we build his All Time Favorite 1-9 lineup of non Mets. It's a unique look at one of baseball's biggest fans. Subscribe for more Frank.

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0:00.0	Hey, starting nine listeners, you can find every episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube.
0:05.6	Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music.
0:08.3	Good morning. Good afternoon and easy baseball fans welcome back to the basketball baseball show.
0:28.5	This is Karl. This is Wednesday. I am joined by Clemmer. We have a very special guest today,
0:33.9	Frank Detank. We're going to get to him in a little bit. It's a great conversation.
0:37.8	Yeah, it was fun. It's fun talking to old school baseball, some 80s, 70s, even further back.
0:41.9	Frank, Frank, Frank knows his stuff just as much as anybody. So I especially like talking to
0:47.6	old school baseball with him. So I was most surprised by the depth of his analysis about the
0:52.8	current Mets team and we really got into what fundamentally is wrong with the Mets culture,
0:57.9	the clubhouse, the players, stories, rumors. It's not just sitting around bitching that can't
1:02.1	believe the Mets suck and they haven't performed this year. There's some really substantive stuff
1:06.4	about what's going on with that baseball team. It's a unique conversation. It's a unique side of
1:10.7	Frank. Yeah, if you're expecting the Frank just like kind of the ranch you might see on TikTok,
1:15.6	he obviously will do that during a game, but this was a lot more like the analytical. I think the
1:20.2	more like reasonable Frank. So that's the Frank you like than this episode for you.
1:25.6	So we're going to get into that. The sports encyclopedic side of Frank. Then we're going to put
1:29.1	together a one through nine and his favorite non-met baseball players of all time with the slight
1:33.6	asterisk that I did enjoy putting that asterisk next to us. We did let him add onto the list for a
1:38.0	good reason. Before we get to Frank though, we did have our power rink and show it on Monday. Go
1:43.5	check that out. We put together what I think to be a tight one through nine. There's two topics
1:47.7	that I wanted to get to before we go to Frank. The first ad hoc side I didn't tell you this in the
1:52.9	green screen. We should address like why that Orioles are at four because Orioles fans are really
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