Why there have been so many no-hitters this season. when the play-by-play announcer who did his job and did a fine job of it has to start listing all of the pitchers who just threw the no hitter it unquestionably doesn't sound the same as nolan ryan has thrown a no-hitter or don drysdale has thrown a no hitter or clayton kershaw has thrown a no hitter or even some ran mike greenberg has thrown a no-hitter sounds better than when he starts listing off the names of people two of whom i've never heard of so we got problems with that so i bring hembo into the conversation here i'll give you the green light on this that's the seventh no-hitter that we've seen in baseball you told us before the season began again we told you before the start of the season that this record would be broken but it's going to be obliterated the record for no hitters in a season is eight set in 1884. that was the first year they started throwing pitches overhand in major league baseball i'm not kidding that's an actual statistic and a true ex description of the situation there have now been seven this year and it is june 25th crazy hambo what's the deal well the deal is as we've been saying for months it's never been harder to get a hit in the history of baseball than it is right now and i think a lot of people assumed that now that baseball is trying to wrap their arms around these foreign substance issues that all of a sudden offense is going to skyrocket and i suppose that was a possibility but the league is hitting 231 this week so it's not as if this is happening immediately like we like some of us thought it would so i don't see any reason to believe that we might not get 10 12 or 15 no hitters like we predicted earlier in the season although this to me hardly seems worth celebrating like you said it was four pitchers it was eight walks they threw 152 pitches i'm not even sure this is noteworthy i get it Does a combined no-hitter diminish the accomplishment? it is definitely noteworthy but what it isn't is what we're accustomed to thinking of a no-hitter as being now i'm not one who's poo pooing no hitters if one pitcher throws nine no hit innings again i we actually have had eight no hit games because one of them didn't count cause it was i forgot who threw that it was bumgarner it was madison bumgarner threw a seven inning no hitter in a game that was only scheduled to go seven innings so we really have had eight but that's neither here nor there there is something that is diminished for me i don't really care that much about the walks there is something that's a little bit diminished for me when you just keep changing pictures like isn't there a part of you that what say to yourself like why are you taking a picture out who's thrown 94 pitches if he hasn't allowed it like i mean is that is that is that i don't know i wasn't there last night obviously though i didn't have a chance to ask the question of david our old buddy david ross but it does seem to me as though if you've thrown 94 pitches and you've not yet allowed a hit i'd at least send him out there for another inning no well he wasn't even throwing that well he had allowed five walks he only had four strikeouts yeah managers don't care about this stuff so why should i if if you're if your pitcher's thrown six no hit innings with five walks you don't and that's his and he's hit his pitch count and he doesn't care for him to try and complete the no hitter then why should i care about a no hitter with four guys 152 pitches and eight walks to me it's it's not even a well-pitched game it's just a it's just a poorly hit game if that's a decent way that's right last night the hitting was worse than the pitching exactly but it was markedly worse i mean no hitter is a no-hitter like i don't i can't make up my mind let me bring bubba into this question and i particularly want to ask bubba this because many may not know this but belong hi before his you know now long run in radio production uh bubba worked in the marketing department for multiple major league teams he understands selling this stuff i i believe um that he started out by working for bill veck if i have this right was it charlie finley no no i think he was right under bill veck who really is considered to be the first great public relations owner so anyway i would ask you bubba is the no-hitter diminished by the fact that a there were eight walks and b there were four different pitchers i would say yes i'd say the whole the whole new header no hitter has been diminished as you've been talking about because there's one basically every night or at least there's the threat of one every night i'm on all these emails every single night from tv saying hey there's a no hitter alert can you route the radio calls and i feel like we get that every single night because in the seventh inning there's like three teams that have no hitters they're just automated it's just yeah it's basically just all right we'll just send every radio call because it's just yeah it's just diminished it's not even a special thing anymore see Is it less exciting for fans in the ballpark? yes or no here's what i'd like to ask i'd like to ask people who are in the ballpark now again this is a i've never been there's a lot of things in life i've never done or seen the thing i'd like to do most is a hole-in-one i would like to make a hole in one um the thing i've never been in the building for is a no-hitter and i've i'd love to i've told you before i was there the cubs in april of like 93 or 4 or something like that now it wouldn't have been april 94 because it wasn't april of 94. uh but whatever year it was a very very very long time ago i had a picture named jose guzman who had a no-hitter with two outs in the ninth broken up by otis nixon and i was in the ballpark for that and like everyone else i've been there for no hit bids that went into the sixth into the seventh i think there's nothing more exciting like i think there's nothing more exciting so my question is is it less exciting now in the ballpark like is the crowd is the home crowd standing and cheering and chanting on every single pitch is that still happening best i can tell because obviously not all the stadiums are full to capacity yes the crowd is really into it but remember when it was the corey kluber no hitter and there were people giving michael k a hard time about being too excited for right so maybe fans really aren't as into it as they used to be no i think those people are being silly i'm i'm not willing to cast aside a no-hitter last night's i would say is i'll say i'll be as unenthusiastic about that as i could possibly be about a no-hitter but i still think it is worthy of discussion the word combined is what makes it complete almost uh like a a non-story for me like a pitcher throwing nine right no hit anything it's not it's not a person's accomplishment it is not and this isn't meant to be a team accomplishment correct so that's that's that therein lies the rob thank you for watching espn on youtube for live streaming sports and premium content subscribe to espn plus