# Tommy John SHOULD Be A Hall of Famer, According To Tim Kurkjian Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/is-this-a-great-game-or-what-6845774/tommy-john-should-be-a-hall-of-famer-according-to-tim-kurkjian Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/is-this-a-great-game-or-what-6845774/tommy-john-should-be-a-hall-of-famer-according-to-tim-kurkjian.md Podcast: [Is This A Great Game, Or What?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/is-this-a-great-game-or-what-6845774) Published: 2026-08-17T04:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://omny.fm/shows/is-this-a-great-game-or-what/tommy-john-should-be-a-hall-of-famer-according-to-tim-kurkjian Audio file: https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/arttrk.com/p/2D5E6/mgln.ai/e/1246/clrtpod.com/m/podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/4defebd1-1f96-44b1-b436-b3f600fe26d7/127a3243-77c3-48fb-a87d-b4a8014e8973/audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=a15b2b72-af40-470d-9eef-b3f600fe26e2 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/is-this-a-great-game-or-what-6845774/episodes/tommy-john-should-be-a-hall-of-famer-according-to-tim-kurkjian Duration seconds: 2894 ## Resource On Sunday, August 16th, it was announced that baseball lost Tommy John at the age of 83. Tim Kurkjian makes a compelling case at 11:40 for his Hall of Fame argument. Join us IN PERSON on August 22nd in Pottstown, PA, as we come together to raise money for our friend Michael Brown. Get info and tickets at souljoels.com/shop/tickets/anightwithtimkurkjian/ . And if you can’t make it in person but would still like to donate, you can do that through the same link. Tim is in Canada, Jeff is in the U.S., and we’re spanning borders for this episode of “Is This A Great Game, Or What?” Thank you for joining us as we celebrate what may be the greatest MLB debut in history. Three at-bats. Three home runs. Need we say more? Congratulations to Joshua Baez for making history Saturday night! Pete Alonso batting leadoff?! Corbin Carroll has a lot of home runs AND a lot of triples, putting him in some serious company. And Sal Stewart is one impressive rookie! Mike Trout is important to our Quirkjians this week, unfortunately because of the number of losing seasons he’s been a part of. Alex Bregman and The Mix also make appearances. But it’s what the Detroit Tigers’ pitchers did in a shutout win that had us all scratching our heads. We don’t think you’re finding these kinds of stats anywhere else! On This Date in Baseball History, we remember a legendary moment on the golf course involving George Brett. Yep… GOLF! Dustin Pedroia celebrates a birthday, and so does River Ryan, who inspired this week’s Team Tim: All Bodies of Water. If you have a great Team Tim to suggest, send it our way at  GreatGameOrWhat.com . Finally, the Wheel of Kurkjian wraps things up for the week. Don’t forget to subscribe or follow so y… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/is-this-a-great-game-or-what-6845774/episodes/tommy-john-should-be-a-hall-of-famer-according-to-tim-kurkjian/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/is-this-a-great-game-or-what-6845774/tommy-john-should-be-a-hall-of-famer-according-to-tim-kurkjian.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.