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The MLB Report with Will Retherford & Paul Tipton, 2.275.1 · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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[SPEAKER_00]: You are listening to the MLB report with Paul Tipton and Will Rutherford every week on the Central Indian sports report.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Welcome baseball fans to the Central Indian sports report for this week's MLB report with Paul Tipton and Will Rutherford here to catch up on some baseball news and get reactions from Will and Paul.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to start as we always do in the NL syndrome.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I want to start with a question to will.
0:38
[SPEAKER_00]: Your thoughts on the Cardinals so far.
0:39
[SPEAKER_00]: I think you think they've over achieved but the last few days have been pretty rough.
0:45
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, Greg, I think they have overachieved.
0:47
[SPEAKER_01]: They have the worst OPS from the five through nine spots in the line of a new team in the league.
0:52
[SPEAKER_01]: They are top four in the league with their lead off to cleanup bitter, so that tells you that the top line up is performing, but they're just so bad.
1:02
[SPEAKER_01]: They have no offense after they get past that cleanup spot.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I expect that to continue.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Lers Newt Bar is expected.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think to be back Friday in the line up, and that'll be a boost.
1:13
[SPEAKER_01]: but one guy can only do so much.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So as long as they're still trot now, Victor Scott, the second and Pedro Pahes, two out of three days in the series, this team is going to continue to scuffle down the standings, which is exactly what I've said this happened the last three years.
1:31
[SPEAKER_01]: They come out, they perform well in April and May, and then reality sets in.
1:34
[SPEAKER_01]: They're not a very good baseball team, and all of a sudden the makeup wears off, and they're fourth and division pretty quickly.
1:42
[SPEAKER_00]: It sounds like they're going to be in the market when the trade deadline comes around for extra bats if they're still in this.
1:49
[SPEAKER_01]: They're not going to sell, I think, regardless, they came in and said, this is a year that they're planning on rebuilding, I expect us to may's gone, large new bars probably gone.
1:59
[SPEAKER_01]: Their rumor mill says, I look burlison, I'm not as keen on trading him.
2:04
[SPEAKER_01]: I think that a left-handed bat who can be a plus contacted or with a little pop is advantageous for any lineup, they can play three different positions, do that helps.
2:15
[SPEAKER_01]: We'll see.
2:16
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it's all in God's hands at this point right now.
2:19
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, it's not because it's in the 26 men that are on the roster's hands to perform up to their capabilities and what they're getting paid a lot of money to do, but it's full's gold, what we've gotten.
2:31
[SPEAKER_01]: I expect if you lick it, it's not going to taste pretty good and you're not going to get anything from it.
2:38
[SPEAKER_02]: that is the harshest criticism I've ever heard of a team that going into June is in second place when every team in the division is above 500.
2:49
[SPEAKER_01]: It may be hard, but I just hope I watch them every night and I just think that this team is not very good.
2:55
[SPEAKER_01]: I think when you're getting the production they are one through four like that helps, but they're just they're bad five through nine.
3:02
[SPEAKER_01]: It's disgusting.
3:03
[SPEAKER_01]: I hate watching it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: just I might turn the game off when we get five through nine and just wait until JJ weather hole comes back up to bat then it's worth watching.
3:14
[SPEAKER_01]: He's got a bunch of pitch contact pictures who were just going to give up meatballs ever once in a while that infuriate you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Listen, Paul, I love baseball more than pride.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Any single fandom event in the world that one could.
3:29
[SPEAKER_01]: I feel like I know the game well enough to tell this cardinal team is going to leave me
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[SPEAKER_02]: I can't imagine a two different approaches to a nationally central team than what you take with the Cardinals and what Greg takes with the Cincinnati Reds.
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[SPEAKER_02]: about the same record, about the same trends and you are ready to throw them away and Greg thinks they're going to advance in the playoffs.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's fun.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I do.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They got enough youth.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think they're going to get a little bump here late in the year with new guys replacing guys who honestly are quadruple a baseball players like Spencer Steer and those guys and I think when they upgrade to their lineup, their pitching is good enough.
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[SPEAKER_00]: awfully good to let's talk about the Cubs Paul because they're kind of the same situation as the cardinals.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I've been thinking about will for the last 11 days because the last time I was on here, we were all conceding that the Cubs were great, they had won
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[SPEAKER_02]: They had not won, but two 10 game winning streaks.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Not all of a sudden.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They were gonna run away with the division, not I'm exaggerating slightly.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But then they realized they go from 15 straight at home to lose it 10 games in a row.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And every day I thought Will was telling us it's mediocre, they're gonna run into it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So they didn't even wait for June to have a swoon.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They really struggled.
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[SPEAKER_02]: No, it's been it's been weird.
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[SPEAKER_02]: This is why baseball's so hard to predict.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I mean, if you're asking for a free sentence, because they're line up sucks.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, they just can't make it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They couldn't hit water from fell of a boat.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it's just flat out on a side.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They're just not.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a bit of an exaggeration.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But then, I mean, four or five good hitters meant line up.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Come on, Will.
5:26
[SPEAKER_01]: So everybody, you know, here we say, we say, everybody crowns Pete Carom's wrongs.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The next, you know, rendition of Christ.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a crazy scores.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He does a lot of good things, just because it's batting average
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, but he doesn't get on base.
5:40
[SPEAKER_01]: He doesn't take any walks.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He strikes out every third at bat.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's got terrible plate discipline.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's a, you know, a elite defender.
5:48
[SPEAKER_01]: But at some point, we have to say, hey, he had a great 82 games.
5:53
[SPEAKER_01]: He was awful the second half last year.
5:54
[SPEAKER_01]: And everyone just kind of washes that away.
5:56
[SPEAKER_01]: It's just, oh, it's okay, sweet PCA.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like you're, you're still cute.
6:00
[SPEAKER_01]: He's not.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's an ugly kid.
6:02
[SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, he's got some,
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's kind of smart, he's got a lot going for him, but at the same day, you know, it's the face only a mother could love.
6:12
[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm going to keep on just speaking the truth about this cub team and I, Nico Horner, guy been a 300 career hinder.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's back in 250.
6:22
[SPEAKER_01]: I do expect that average, you're probably rise a little bit, because I just think that the water's going to find its level at some point, like he's too good of a hinder, but
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[SPEAKER_01]: You can kind of make the argument that they're probably not going to produce a whole lot more than they already have.
6:38
[SPEAKER_01]: And I still think they're reeling from the Kyle Tucker loss and not enough and people in the national media want to say how big of an impact and Cody Belinger, too, from a couple years ago.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I get he was with the aches last year, but those were two big losses that they had in their lineup and don't have anymore.
6:55
[SPEAKER_01]: And I think that's the difference between a great team and just a team that's good enough.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And we've been talking for seven and a half minutes, and we just wasted all of our time because we all know who's winning the NFL Central.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Looks that way.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, nail that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He said not only would they win the division, they'd run away from the Cubs, even when they were down to the Cubs for games.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I and I will surprise for the first five games.
7:23
[SPEAKER_02]: And then for the last five of that 10 game winning streak, I just thought,
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[SPEAKER_02]: Will's right and I should have seen it all along.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I ain't.
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[SPEAKER_01]: 8 to 2 play on board here.
7:35
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm pretty sure I said they'd go on some like 18 and 4 run and I'm pretty sure that's exactly like what they did.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This is just what this perverse team does.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They've got incredible pitching.
7:45
[SPEAKER_01]: They just they developed talent.
7:46
[SPEAKER_01]: They just flat out developed talent.
7:49
[SPEAKER_01]: I would love a Harvard, you know, business review on what they do organizationally in sports because I'm not sure there's a team in any market.
7:58
[SPEAKER_01]: that maximizes the players that they have more than the Milwaukee Brewers still.
8:03
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean that, I think they might just be the most efficient organization in the entirety of big force sports.
8:11
[SPEAKER_02]: It's pretty impressive when they get no hit for seven innings and then pull out a game.
8:16
[SPEAKER_02]: uh... i also love what their manager did with this uh... you rebay uh... demonstration to in a day when we uh... coddle and make excuses for behavior he called his guy out i guess you guys saw that yeah
8:31
[SPEAKER_01]: Pat Murphy's the best he's just, you know, kind of he's going to end up with three or four manager of the years because every year it's the same argument of the brewers, you know, pretty average roster, a couple of arms that may rise to the occasion may not and they're probably going to win 95 to 100 games and he knows what his team needs.
8:50
[SPEAKER_02]: And the sad part is Greg's gonna chime in right now and say after 95 wins, they're gonna make the playoffs and then they're not gonna score run in the playoff round.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And it's unlikely they're gonna get a first round by because the Dodgers and the Braves as well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I have a feeling like we were saying all year last year, it'll be fun until October gets here.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Though the win in divisional series and then they'll,
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, they'll get beaten, they'll get swept in the NLCS by the Braves, that's what they do.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Here's what I know, some good teams are in the National League are going to get left out of the postseason.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You just don't see that very much.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, and in the American League, a really bad team is going to make the playoffs.
9:35
[SPEAKER_00]: It might as well start the American League over again.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Everybody's about to say.
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[SPEAKER_02]: If the playoffs were going to happen today, the Toronto Blue Jays would be the last playoff team.
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[SPEAKER_02]: two games below 500.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Wow.
9:49
[SPEAKER_00]: Our little statement actually can talk about your Arizona Diamond Bax Paul.
9:56
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, the sad part is they cannot play the Colorado Rockies and the San Francisco Giants all the time.
10:03
[SPEAKER_02]: But they have gotten nine out of ten, so they're doing what they're supposed to be doing.
10:08
[SPEAKER_02]: And it's very exciting.
10:10
[SPEAKER_02]: We had ill the moral of Vargas at the age of 34.
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[SPEAKER_02]: hitting around 400 for a while.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He's still over 300 and we got a couple of rookies that are playing well and it's pretty exciting.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They have the same exact record as the San Diego Padres as we talk today.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So that's very encouraging for people in the desert.
10:36
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not shocked at all.
10:38
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought this roster was built when, and this is without Arraldo Paredomo really performing much.
10:43
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, he, you know, bleeding the team and stolen bases.
10:45
[SPEAKER_01]: That's not what it is not really doing up.
10:47
[SPEAKER_01]: And off a lot after what I would say was a pretty incredible career changing year that he had last year.
10:53
[SPEAKER_01]: It also helps when you've got guys like, you know, Tony Vatela who say, oh, could tell Marta, he's up.
11:00
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, let's bring in a lefty to face him.
11:03
[SPEAKER_01]: dude's got a hundred point higher career OPS from the right side and let's just it's just baffling to me.
11:10
[SPEAKER_01]: It's just an example of why Tony Petello shouldn't have gotten this job.
11:14
[SPEAKER_01]: It's the college game has nothing to do with the MLB game, two completely different things.
11:19
[SPEAKER_01]: It's just not shocking the giants of struggled.
11:23
[SPEAKER_01]: he's going to have a really nice home somewhere next year when he gets his ass can't so good for him good for his agent too.
11:29
[SPEAKER_01]: They both made some money.
11:33
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, sadly, it doesn't vote well for other college people trying to make the uh, the step up there.
11:39
[SPEAKER_02]: I think you're right.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The step backwards.
11:44
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm here from the fillies.
11:47
[SPEAKER_02]: I may be a jump the gun here, but um,
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[SPEAKER_02]: I can see the fillies put in some pressure on the braves.
11:54
[SPEAKER_02]: The braves have struggled a bit against even some poor teams.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Lost their first series at home.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I mean, they can't get much hotter than they've been.
12:04
[SPEAKER_02]: They cooled off a little bit and if Sanchez and Wheeler could get some help from Nola and painter, they could make a nice little run.
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[SPEAKER_02]: race there in the east because it's been it looked just like we were ready to hand it over to the braves.
12:27
[SPEAKER_00]: I still think it's going to be the braves.
12:28
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm surprised you said that I thought you're we're going to say we're going to see them make a push for the postseason and because right now they were not even closed.
12:37
[SPEAKER_02]: No, but they're they're over the hump.
12:39
[SPEAKER_02]: They were they were down with the mats and they've distance themselves from the
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[SPEAKER_02]: the nationals who have shown some life and in the marlins.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Donnie baseball.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Once you get to second place with that, they just have a lot of potential in their pitching staff.
12:57
[SPEAKER_02]: And if they could get nola and painter right, it would be.
13:02
[SPEAKER_02]: I think they could, I think they could make some noise anyway.
13:07
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it feels like you guys just playing the best I will read it for now, because I'm pretty sure I was the only one of the three of us that had any faith in the Phillies the last time we talked when they were.
13:16
[SPEAKER_00]: No, I've been I've been saying all along.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Don't kind of out the Phillies.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I come on.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I really watched this.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I really have been disappointed though.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's just been it's unbelievable.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I'm not surprised, I think they're pitching staff just too good.
13:33
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, they were just too good to struggle, especially getting wheeler back.
13:37
[SPEAKER_01]: I think it was big form Christopher Sanchez wouldn't, wouldn't all.
13:40
[SPEAKER_01]: What a talent really has become he's fun to watch.
13:44
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I like him a lot.
13:45
[SPEAKER_01]: I still think there's some holes in that line up that they will address it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: the trade deadline because that's just kind of what they do.
13:52
[SPEAKER_01]: It feels like college workers carrying a lot of that offense right now.
13:55
[SPEAKER_01]: And I do, you know, everybody's talking though, he might make the push for 70 home runs.
13:59
[SPEAKER_01]: He's not.
14:00
[SPEAKER_01]: He's going to come back down to earth.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And when that happens, I'm curious to see you can think of the slack behind them because you've gotten a lot of production from Brandon Marsh to those
14:13
[SPEAKER_01]: Shwarvers and, you know, at top 20 hitter of his generation, I would argue in terms of power production, probably closer to top 10, but Brandon Marsh is a role player at BEST.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So,
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, when when the average is start coming back down and the power numbers drop a little bit, I do want to reevaluate where they are, but I think you have to be really happy with what Don Maddenly's been able to do who was a really good manager and probably deserve to win a world series with the Dodgers and not neighbor Roberts, but we can have a conversation with another day.
14:47
[SPEAKER_00]: So we all assume I think that the brewers, braves, and Dodgers are gonna be in the postseason.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So which three of these six are not gonna make it?
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[SPEAKER_00]: The Diamondbacks Padre's Cardinals, Cubs, Reds, Philly's.
15:03
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, are we going off future or are we going off what we see right now?
15:06
[SPEAKER_01]: Because I think if we're going off, how I kind of forecast it going, I think the fillies get in, because I just think they have too much talent.
15:15
[SPEAKER_01]: I think the podries get in for the same exact reason.
15:17
[SPEAKER_01]: And then I think it's chalky in between the diamond backs and whoever kind of rises to the top of the NL Central is kind of how I see this pulling out.
15:29
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not optimistic about the podries anymore.
15:32
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, just get weary of them underperforming.
15:40
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you know, you said I was going to talk up the reds, but looking at those standings, man.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I just, I'm not sure that they're not the seventh best team in the National League and still pretty good, but the podgers were tied with the Dodgers, uh, 10 days ago or it seemed like a week ago.
15:57
[SPEAKER_02]: And there are four games out and they seem to
16:06
[SPEAKER_00]: All right, I think we're going to spend a lot less time on the American League maybe not because there's some interesting stories, but I think it starts with the raise and tigers raise the surprise I guess it shouldn't say surprise right because we all kind of said this is probably going to happen again even though it doesn't seem like they could and then the tigers are just awful.
16:37
[SPEAKER_02]: that's that's alarming they got beat today by the angels they just seemed they seem to be lifeless and find new ways to lose games.
16:49
[SPEAKER_02]: I
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[SPEAKER_02]: for a team that we all agreed was the going to be the runaway division winner there.
16:57
[SPEAKER_02]: Whoa, it's not, it's cool, it seems like it was when Scoobal went down.
17:05
[SPEAKER_02]: Everybody just thought, I don't know, but something's not right on that team.
17:10
[SPEAKER_01]: I think it has a lot to do with the fact that school was not pitching.
17:14
[SPEAKER_01]: I really, I do.
17:15
[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's just his presence on that team.
17:17
[SPEAKER_01]: And I think Framberville, this is a loser.
17:20
[SPEAKER_01]: I just fly that you heard it here.
17:22
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sure there are other people that I just think he's a loser.
17:24
[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's mentality is a loser mentality.
17:26
[SPEAKER_01]: I think the way he carries himself is a loser.
17:29
[SPEAKER_01]: I just think he's a stain and he's a locker room cancer.
17:32
[SPEAKER_01]: Jack Flaherty, this is a guy that's not very good.
17:35
[SPEAKER_01]: It's like you expected fruit to fall from the tree the first year.
17:39
[SPEAKER_01]: He's been in the big leagues, how long seven years now he's a career four plus ERA guy.
17:45
[SPEAKER_01]: He's been great the last two years, but at some point, just you come back down to Earth.
17:51
[SPEAKER_01]: There's too much of that team where it's just like, feels like they took so much juice last year to be so good and they kind of lost it.
18:01
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't, I mean, carry carpenters under perform at really the entire line up outside of Kevin McGonagall is.
18:07
[SPEAKER_01]: pretty, you know, poultry to say at least, I guess you can make an argument Riley greens been okay.
18:14
[SPEAKER_01]: It's power numbers are down.
18:17
[SPEAKER_01]: I got the chance to seem live in April.
18:19
[SPEAKER_01]: We all said that the tigers are this that and the other, but when you really look at their lineup, they're just on that good.
18:27
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I just think they're a team that needed good pitching and they have not gotten it.
18:32
[SPEAKER_02]: That must be the most demoralized fan base in all of baseball, seems to me.
18:40
[SPEAKER_01]: But they also, Paul, they can't get a safe.
18:44
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, Kim Lee Jansson, seven for 11 and save opportunities.
18:46
[SPEAKER_01]: That's four more wins.
18:48
[SPEAKER_01]: If you're able to just lock games down, it's a huge deal.
18:51
[SPEAKER_01]: And I get a couple of those opportunities or games that they had a lead with the bandfrirds runner on second base.
18:58
[SPEAKER_01]: I think that can kind of change those save opportunity numbers just a little bit.
19:04
[SPEAKER_01]: still, you know, you need your closer to nails.
19:07
[SPEAKER_01]: They've just not gotten it.
19:08
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I don't know.
19:10
[SPEAKER_01]: I, it's sad we have to say it because I was a team.
19:12
[SPEAKER_01]: I was kind of excited to, you know, see is this a, is this a team that's rising, is AJ Hendrick, a great manager who can kind of manage a team without superstars to continue success.
19:24
[SPEAKER_01]: And I, it's not true.
19:25
[SPEAKER_01]: We're seeing that.
19:26
[SPEAKER_00]: And let's talk a little bit about the race.
19:28
[SPEAKER_00]: Again, at the beginning of the year, we all kind of said they finished last, but
19:31
[SPEAKER_00]: don't be surprised if they don't because this is what they do.
19:34
[SPEAKER_00]: You talked about the brewers, it's kind of the same way at the race, isn't it?
19:39
[SPEAKER_02]: Do we throw away the last three games?
19:42
[SPEAKER_02]: They went 13 innings against the Baltimore Orioles and the Orioles tried to give them the game three different times and then they couldn't find anybody to close them out in the extra innings, lost that game and then got blown out in the next two.
19:57
[SPEAKER_02]: So they got swept by the Baltimore Orioles.
20:00
[SPEAKER_02]: concern you or is that just a blip.
20:03
[SPEAKER_00]: Probably a blip, but I don't think they're all that talented.
20:06
[SPEAKER_00]: They've got a couple.
20:08
[SPEAKER_00]: So nothing would surprise me will with the race.
20:12
[SPEAKER_00]: But I just can't believe here we are again, and they're on top of the division.
20:17
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I think it's a cool story, but I do think it's this is that sweet as we're getting a little closer to reality.
20:25
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, like Nick Martinez, he's got a one five one ERA.
20:28
[SPEAKER_01]: He's thrown 60 innings.
20:31
[SPEAKER_01]: He's struck out 36 badgers.
20:33
[SPEAKER_01]: That's not sustainable.
20:45
[SPEAKER_01]: that you don't suddenly become a sub one six guy overnight.
20:49
[SPEAKER_01]: That's Bob Gibson numbers.
20:51
[SPEAKER_01]: This is not that.
20:52
[SPEAKER_01]: I think Shane Bass has been, I mean, about what you kind of thought he'd be.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, obviously, that was a big series for him.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He was an, you know, an Oriole at the beginning of his career.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, he's been shaky.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I,
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's a fun story, but I don't think there's a ton of weight to it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: If I had to say right now, like, you know, the rays are going to play the blue jays in a three game set, who are you taking to win the series?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I still say the blue jays, because I just think they're better, and I think the rays have had good fortune come their way, but I think the advanced numbers, white in the direction where we have to question whether the
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[SPEAKER_02]: Is it interesting because the razor, like the flip side of the tigers, you have expectations and then they just exceed those expectations and this is what's great about baseball, you're not sure what's going to happen in the days ahead.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It helped getting Shane McLean hand back.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, he's not pitched in two years.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And that was a guy that was a a sion level arm when he got injured.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And that's a huge relief to your whole staff thinking to guy of that caliber back.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Between Yondi Diaz Jr. Camino and Jonathan Randa, they've got three legit bats at the top of that lineup.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They can hit with anybody.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's a one, two, three that
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if the rest of the roster is able to keep up with them.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, loves to plus minus stat.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Here's one that's just absolutely blows my mind.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We are almost 60 games into the season.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And the Yankees are plus 89.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Second best in the American League is plus 24.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That is the raise and the Mariners who are now on top of the West at 28 and 29.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's after the Yankees went five games where they didn't score more than two rounds in any game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's indicative, it seems to start very good.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think of all of the stats that you can point me to, I think, run differentials, the most important in my eyes, because it's a trend.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's not necessarily a case study of a game or a series, it's a trend over time.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And it's no surprise, there's not a team in the entire league that has a negative run there for into a leading inhibition right now.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So cream will rise to the top.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, that's what I expect.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think that right now, you're looking at, the entities clearly have to still be the favorite in the East because a plus nine year under for until that's not make believe.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, that's, that there's corn a lot of runs.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And that's,
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think that's where I see this race kind of falling back down to earth even if they make the playoffs even if they're a wildcard team.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They're they're not winning this division because there really is a juggernaut kind of just sitting there stalking in the weeds waiting for its opportunity to pounds.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Your thoughts on the aches.
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[SPEAKER_02]: 14 straight against the royal so I don't know what we'll see we'll see in Oakland this weekend if Rodon can come back and match Gary Cole that's a pretty impressive pitching staff you have to say so yeah guys so good the Yankees definitely have some holes in their lineup there they've got some week week
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[SPEAKER_02]: averages and low contact numbers in their lineup.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So, but on paper, they should be running away with they should have the best record in the American League.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So, yep.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Now, Paul, I'm going to pose one question to you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Uh-huh.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You think Aaron Judges is going to hit 250 this year?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, yes, but not much higher, probably 262 65.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Thanks so much guys, let's do it again next week.
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[SPEAKER_00]: By the way, in the National League, you have the Dodgers at plus 120, the Braves at plus 103, the Brewers at plus 78.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And the last place, Pirates, I have the fourth best at plus 28.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Wow.
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[SPEAKER_00]: watch out, which is better than the second best team in the American League.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That National Accentrol is quite the story.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It is the story of a baseball.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Cubs win one game and go from fifth place to third place.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's pretty exciting.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Pretty exciting to be in Central Indiana.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's do this again pretty soon and not wait so long.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, good.
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