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Trevor May’s All-Star Game thoughts, Rest of season predictions, Fact-checking commish Rob Manfred · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: It's time for the news. I gotta bring you back.
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  Speaker 1: the news. And first things first, there is a subject
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  Speaker 1: that I'm gonna be covering very very regularly all the
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  Speaker 1: way up through the impending CBA negotiations and beyond twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty six that I call fact checking Rob Manfred and
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  Speaker 1: I need to come up with it. A little jingle.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't have time to do it with the sickness
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  Speaker 1: and everything. But I think it's going to go something
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  Speaker 1: like this, he said some stuff, but is it true?
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  Speaker 1: Probably not. It's Rob Manfred, So maybe we'll do that
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  Speaker 1: All right, So first thing, first story. We have some
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  Speaker 1: more comments from our friend Rob Manfred when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to the impending CBA negotiations that I just mentioned. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: there were he the day before the All Star Game
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  Speaker 1: on Tuesday, him and Tony Clark Clark fielded questions or
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  Speaker 1: they spoke in front of and filthy questions. Spoke in
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  Speaker 1: front of the Baseball Writers of America, sorry, Baseball Writers
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  Speaker 1: Association of America, the same group of people that vote
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  Speaker 1: in the Hall of Fame and our biggest governing body
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  Speaker 1: of all the writers around the game, and touched on
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  Speaker 1: a variety of topics. Evand Relics from the Athletic has
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  Speaker 1: been reporting extensively on comments that that Rob has made recently.
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  Speaker 1: And the reason that these things are happening right now
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  Speaker 1: is because this is a foundational argumentative. They're trying to
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  Speaker 1: set the framework for how these arguments are going to
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  Speaker 1: happen and to in order to move public sentiment one
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  Speaker 1: way or the other, because that is usually the strongest
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  Speaker 1: force in making these arguments, and they can sway players
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  Speaker 1: or they can sway sway the ownership group. Accordingly, right
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  Speaker 1: where the fans are going is usually where one of
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  Speaker 1: the two sides has to try to bring them back
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  Speaker 1: or not. So that's just that's how every negotiation happens.
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  Speaker 1: But that's why we're seeing comments being made right now
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  Speaker 1: because they're just going to come up there. They're kind
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  Speaker 1: of they're buzzwords. They they're little earworms. People like, it's
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  Speaker 1: dramatic whatever, and it can get people talking. So they're
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  Speaker 1: going to just try to get people talking, all right,
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  Speaker 1: So here's what the comments were. To break them down,
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  Speaker 1: and what we're going to do every single time this
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  Speaker 1: happens is just talk about what was said, and then
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  Speaker 1: I will give you context on how things work and
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  Speaker 1: whether or not anything was actually said or not what
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  Speaker 1: you expect moving forward, just so you can say, I
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  Speaker 1: stay educated with maybe strategies from both sides, and then
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  Speaker 1: where maybe we'll know what might happen moving forward based
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  Speaker 1: on that knowledge. So and it also allows me to
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  Speaker 1: not get so riled up and be more objective because
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  Speaker 1: I was a player. Okay, I was active in the
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  Speaker 1: union and my father was a president of a union
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  Speaker 1: for like thirty years. So like, I have a very
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  Speaker 1: distinct direction. I come from this because I believe that workers.
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  Speaker 1: The ability for workers to negotiate and have some sort
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  Speaker 1: of leverage or some recourse to create an environment that
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  Speaker 1: takes care of them more is important. Now what that
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  Speaker 1: looks like can change very wildly left right, but just
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  Speaker 1: having the mechanism that exists is important because otherwise then
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  Speaker 1: it's just one one group of people has a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of power and then there's nothing anyone can do about it.
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  Speaker 1: And that doesn't work out very well usually for the
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  Speaker 1: other side. So here's what the comments were, and we're
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  Speaker 1: going to start with Rob because Rob was the first
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  Speaker 1: two field questions. So he was asked whether or not
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  Speaker 1: the salary cap was something that he wants. Okay, so
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  Speaker 1: salary cap. Salary cap is usually a big no no. Right,
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  Speaker 1: it's a non tender. It's a non starter conversation when
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  Speaker 1: you say that phrase. So you're gonna notice that Rob
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  Speaker 1: wants to stay away from that phrase a lot, and
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  Speaker 1: he what he says lines up with that a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Says when I talk to the players, I don't try
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  Speaker 1: to convince him that a salary cap system would be
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  Speaker 1: a good thing. Okay, technically true. There's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: technically going to happen today, so prepare for that. Literally,
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  Speaker 1: what I say to them is I identify a problem
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  Speaker 1: in the media business and explain to them that owners
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  Speaker 1: need to change to address that problem. So first claim
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  Speaker 1: there is a media They don't know how to make
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  Speaker 1: money off of media the same way that they have
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  Speaker 1: for a long time because of the death of because
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  Speaker 1: of cable cord cutting and because the death of the
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  Speaker 1: cable television industry. Like I don't know anyone who watches
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  Speaker 1: movies or TV shows and anything so knows all about this, right,
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  Speaker 1: And of course professional sports are also having the same problem.
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  Speaker 1: They don't know how like Fox, this isn't going to
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  Speaker 1: shell out five hundred million dollars because they don't know
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  Speaker 1: if the viewers are going to be there, because the
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  Speaker 1: viewership keeps going down no matter what they do, because
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  Speaker 1: of the nature of the distribution. So that is a
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  Speaker 1: problem right, that's a problem that they are actively working
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  Speaker 1: on constantly, and it's the biggest thing they struggle with.
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  Speaker 1: Players don't really care about that a lot, but identifying
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  Speaker 1: that the problem is important. So okay. The second problem
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  Speaker 1: we need to work is that we need to work together.
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  Speaker 1: So okay, it takes through the tango. We'll talk about
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  Speaker 1: that in a moment. And that there are fans and
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  Speaker 1: a lot of our markets who feel we have a
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  Speaker 1: competitive balance problem. Okay, So very keywords here. The keywords
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  Speaker 1: here are there are fans. So one, he's like, fans
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  Speaker 1: are on. Fans know about this, and we are for
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  Speaker 1: the fans very nice to hear. If you're a fan,
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  Speaker 1: I will push back against it a little bit. And
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  Speaker 1: for him to think of fans in any other way
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  Speaker 1: of we'll give you more money for this thing. He
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  Speaker 1: doesn't think about them as this is what they want.
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  Speaker 1: He thinks about what this is what they'll pay for.
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  Speaker 1: And those things a lot of times are different. So
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  Speaker 1: let's just be very clear here. Those are not the same, okay,
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  Speaker 1: And he's going to try to make them do the
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  Speaker 1: same a lot, and they're not. There are different things.
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  Speaker 1: There's different situations where one of them applies to the
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  Speaker 1: other one doesn't, okay, and then there is a competitive
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  Speaker 1: balance problem. So for me, I want to know specifically
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  Speaker 1: what the competitive browance problem is. And other than saying
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  Speaker 1: there is a competitive balance problem, Rob doesn't really spend
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  Speaker 1: a lot of time ever, giving any detail what that means.
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  Speaker 1: What I'm assuming he means in this situation is the
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  Speaker 1: idea that the Dodgers are a super team, even though
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  Speaker 1: they just lost seven straight and they're barely in first place,
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  Speaker 1: and they've won one World Series since they become a
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  Speaker 1: super team. But I understand that. But at the end
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  Speaker 1: of the day, No, there's no sport in the world
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  Speaker 1: that has more parody. Well, actually that might maybe a
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  Speaker 1: soccer has more parody, But no, no, We've had no
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  Speaker 1: back to back World Series champions. We have people who
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  Speaker 1: are in the playoffs all the time. They are the
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  Speaker 1: better teams, that's true, but the champions are different all
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  Speaker 1: the time, and that you can't say that about other
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  Speaker 1: sports quite as much.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Summer, we almost forgot what it feels like
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  Speaker 2: to play just because, but even Summer needs back up,
• 10:54
  Speaker 2: a little partner in the good kind of chaos, someone
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  Speaker 2: to bring the kung fu kicks to train some dragons. Fly, you,
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  Speaker 2: old dragon writer.
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  Speaker 1: Fly.
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  Speaker 2: The kind of fun that keeps the days going, that
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  Speaker 2: turns living rooms into playgrounds and reminds us what our
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  Speaker 2: bodies and our hearts were made for. Play that moves you.
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  Speaker 1: Last quot, he said, I have never used the word
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  Speaker 1: salary within one of cap. Basically said I've never set
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  Speaker 1: salary cap together. What I do say to them is
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  Speaker 1: in addressing this competitive issue that's real. Again. You can
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  Speaker 1: say things are real all the time, but you have
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  Speaker 1: to be a because boom boom boom still yet to
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  Speaker 1: see it. You should think about whether this system is
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  Speaker 1: a perfect system from a player's perspective, perfect system is
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  Speaker 1: ever going to exist. So I don't really like that
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  Speaker 1: word either. My only goal here is to not convince
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  Speaker 1: them of one system or another, but to convince them
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  Speaker 1: that everybody is going to the table with open mind.
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  Speaker 1: Just keep an open mind, guys, Just keep an open mind. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: just keep an open mind. So what we're trying to
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  Speaker 1: do is remove this like the word salary cap is
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  Speaker 1: a bad word. He wants to soften that so that
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  Speaker 1: he can start using it more. That makes sense. He's
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  Speaker 1: a lawyer, that's what they do. Changing what language means
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  Speaker 1: in the context what they're talking about is very important.
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  Speaker 1: And then we have Tony Clark gets up here. He's
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  Speaker 1: a lot shorter. He says, this is institutionalized collusion. That's
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  Speaker 1: what a salary cap is. Sure it is, but like
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  Speaker 1: there's more understanding. I don't think people fully understand what
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  Speaker 1: a salary cap is. And I think we could do
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  Speaker 1: better job of explaining that there are no illusions of
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  Speaker 1: grandeur here in regards to what is worth hearing. What
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  Speaker 1: is the interest in the other side seems to be
• 12:31
  Speaker 1: as result, players are being told as much. Okay, so
• 12:34
  Speaker 1: what he's trying to say is, don't as anything they say.
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  Speaker 1: I think that that is a good stance to take.
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  Speaker 1: But again it's about nuts and bolts. I think people
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  Speaker 1: are like, yeah, we know why, why like specifically what
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  Speaker 1: is lie? So like that's what I'm trying to attempt
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  Speaker 1: to do here, And I don't want to stay on
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  Speaker 1: this forever, but I do want to get through this point.
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  Speaker 1: So I just mentioned salary cap up and the conversations
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  Speaker 1: around it kind of are driving me crazy because salary
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  Speaker 1: cap is a very specific thing. So what we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: do is we're gonna I'm gonna give you a clear
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  Speaker 1: definition what it is and how it is determined, and
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  Speaker 1: then and that in itself will show you what the
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  Speaker 1: what the problem is. Okay. So salary cap or our
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  Speaker 1: salary cap is a dollar amount set as the maximum
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  Speaker 1: a team can spend on their payroll. Okay, So it's
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  Speaker 1: a number that everyone, all the teams have to think
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  Speaker 1: of when they do it. Okay, we have the NBA,
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL are given as examples constantly by rob
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  Speaker 1: the other North American major sports. If that is the case, okay,
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  Speaker 1: we are going to model after them, we have to
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  Speaker 1: look at what they are. So in the NBA, they
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  Speaker 1: have what's called a softcap where when you go over
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  Speaker 1: it certain amounts of time, you get escalating penalties. Does
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  Speaker 1: that sound familiar. That's that's the luxury tax, guys. We
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  Speaker 1: have a softcap. They literally added a four tier for
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  Speaker 1: Steve Cohen, the Coen Tax. We have a softcap. So
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  Speaker 1: if in effect that is a salary cap, because that
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  Speaker 1: is what the NBA has, So there already kind of
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  Speaker 1: is a softcap in place. So we can't act like
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  Speaker 1: that if this doesn't exist, because it does the difference
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  Speaker 1: is in the NBA. It is determined determined by something
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  Speaker 1: called b r I or basketball related income. Very very
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  Speaker 1: important to pay attention to those words basketball related income. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so this, uh so, then they take the bri I
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  Speaker 1: and then they take the percentage of that and then
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  Speaker 1: that is what the players get paid. They also use
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: an ESCRO system, so they put it into escro, meaning
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: that money isn't touched until the season is over, just
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: to make sure they don't accidentally overpay players. So this
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  Speaker 1: ESCRO system, like they don't even pay like they want to.
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  Speaker 1: It's to protect the owners from ever having to have
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  Speaker 1: any accounting mistakes where they pay only exactly the amount
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  Speaker 1: they need to pay and there's no adjustments later. That
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  Speaker 1: is what escrow is. Okay. The NFL uses something similar,
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  Speaker 1: but they have a hard cap and their split is
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  Speaker 1: at forty eight to forty eight point five percent, which
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  Speaker 1: is terrible. Okay. So I just want you to know
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  Speaker 1: the NFL in general has the least player friendly agreement
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  Speaker 1: they always have. Okay, So he would love those two things.
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  Speaker 1: He would love something like that for the league because
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  Speaker 1: they could set a number. But the difference is it's
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  Speaker 1: about related income to the sports. So what happens is
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: every league starts to remove different income streams from that
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  Speaker 1: bri or whatever it is for the NFL, from that
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  Speaker 1: pile of money that goes into revenue sharing. It's just
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  Speaker 1: not reported as revenue part of revenue sharing, and they
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  Speaker 1: figure out ways to do it all the time. This
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: is constantly happening. It's happened over and over and over again.
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  Speaker 1: It was the major reason when this was proposed in
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  Speaker 1: nineteen eighty four when the World Series was missed because
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  Speaker 1: of the strike. They wouldn't establish what was revenue up front.
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  Speaker 1: They wouldn't do it. They wanted the ability to manipulate
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  Speaker 1: it later. That doesn't sound like good faith to me.
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  Speaker 1: Does it sound like good faith to you? No, probably
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  Speaker 1: shouldn't anyway, So Rob wants this. Players rejected it back
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  Speaker 1: ninety four. Okay, every league has conveniently left out two
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  Speaker 1: things when it comes to the salary cap. Okay, clear
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  Speaker 1: definitions of what revenue is like strict definitions. And then
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: if there's a disagreement, there needs to be some sort
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  Speaker 1: of thing that kicks in where you get to negotiate
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  Speaker 1: it again by itself right, or you get to argue
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  Speaker 1: about it. Those two things need to exist. They are always, always,
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  Speaker 1: always denied by the league because that's too much power
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  Speaker 1: for them. That's not they want as much unilateral power.
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  Speaker 1: They just want to make a decision. They don't have
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  Speaker 1: to worry about what the players think as much as
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  Speaker 1: possible because they're business owners. And then two, there's never
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  Speaker 1: any tru financial transparency, meaning they don't let anyone like
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  Speaker 1: they just go it's this number and you're like, oh,
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: can we see the books to see if that number true? Like, no,
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: it's it's it's literally a trust me bro system. It's
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: they're just like, trust us, we got we care about you,
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  Speaker 1: trust us. This is the number. Well, I just gave
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  Speaker 1: you the number. What do you mean, Oh you want
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: to look at the books now? You don't need to
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  Speaker 1: just believe me. What that literally sets it up to
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  Speaker 1: just it takes one person being like, hey, we could
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  Speaker 1: to pull this out, and then no one can verify anything.
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  Speaker 1: What's the point. It's just really easily manipulated. And when
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: money is what everyone cares about, that's what happens. So
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  Speaker 1: that is what a salary cap is, and that is
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: why players don't want it. Right, There is probably things
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: to adjustments to be made. Deferments probably do need to
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  Speaker 1: be looked at. I think that a lot of people
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: agree with that deferments are kind of being taken advantage of.
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  Speaker 1: Now that's where we should say, hopefully the arguments go there.
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  Speaker 1: But what we're gonna see is rob using deferments to
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  Speaker 1: make the case of salary caps a good thing. And
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  Speaker 1: they're not the same thing because deferments don't even go
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  Speaker 1: on your salar cap anyways. So like he's go, but
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: he's gonna say, fans talking about deferments means they want
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: a salary cap and that just doesn't make any sense
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: and it isn't true. So you're gonna hear that connection
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: made a lot pay attention to it. I have a
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: proposal though, Okay, this is how a salary cap will work.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: And this last part I'm gonna say about this. It
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: needs to one come with a high salary floor. We
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: just need a minimum because the whole point is competitive balance.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: So Bob Nutting needs to be able to not run
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: his place like a corner grocery store and run it
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: like a like a like a professional sport sport team
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: sports team. And then two, the definition of what revenue
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: needs to be clearly defined. And if there is a dispute,
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: there needs to be a third party system for bringing
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: that into it. So you have an arbitrator, which honestly,
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: most of the time that arbiter will probably just side
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: with the league. But you gotta have a recourse so
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: the players can say, hey, we think this should be
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: included in revenue, and then they can go over there.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: So they need both those things. Three, A third party
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: needs to audit the league's financials every year to verify
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: that the revenue numbers being reported are true. Right, the
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: players need to know what the numbers are, even if
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: it's limited and some other third party does it. The
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: players aren't like rooting around in the financials. Someone needs
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: to and it needs to be verifiable. It needs to
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: be unbiased in third party. Now I don't know if
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: that's possible in this world anymore either, but it would
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: be a step in the right direction. And the last
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: thing is the last part of that to get a
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: salary cap is I would say Rob manfred Is salaries
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: capped at two million dollars per year including bonuses, because
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: Rob Manfred made eighteen point five million dollars last year,
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: which is more than like ninety percent of the league.
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: At least that's a ballpark number. But he made almost
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: twenty million dollars a year. So if you want to
• 20:05
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• 20:13
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• 20:19
  Speaker 1: All right, let's get into more news here with the draft.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: We had the twenty twenty five draft, and there were
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: some really interesting things happening at the top of this draft.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: It was almost as crazy as the NBA draft this year.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: Hooper flagged to the Mavericks. What were the chances really high? Evidently, Scott?
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• 21:58
  Speaker 1: First things first, Nationals Angels surprised a lot of people
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: with the first two draft picks, so let's talk about him.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: The Nationals were widely expected to take Ethan Holiday, brother
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: of Jackson Holiday, a son of Matt Holliday, to be
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: the one of one power hitting infielder. They need that
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: right over there. A second second baseman would be great
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: or LSU left hander Kate Anderson, who was unanimously and
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: pretty much everyone's draft board as the top pitcher available
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: in the draft after a great season, national championship, so
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: on and so forth. He's been great. But instead they
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: went with Eli Willitts, a seventeen year old high school
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: shortstop who is the third youngest person to ever be drafted,
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: which was pretty cool, behind kenkra virgr and a man
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: named Tim Foley, which I don't know who that is,
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: but that he was very young when he's drafted. So
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: the National said, we think he's the best hitter in
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: the draft and the best field in the draft, aka
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: the best player, and they're very happy with their pick.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: He was the number five prospects, so it's not like
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: Willitts was a crazy stretch. I think one of one
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: is usually that people are used to it being a
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: foregone conclusion, so for it to kind of switch up
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: as weird. But I think the big one with the
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: crazy pick was notorious pitching developer the La Angels taking
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: taking Tyler Bremner, who was ranked number eighteen and was
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: the fifth or he was the sixth highest rated pitcher.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: They took him with the second pick out of UC
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: Santa Barbara. It's big, riety, throws real hard, and that
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: cleared the way for the Seattle Mariners, who had the
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: third pick to take the guy we just mentioned, Kate Anderson.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: So the team that is terrible at developing pitching or
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: at least selecting pitching went and got the went and
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: got the power arm, and then the guy who's more
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: polished went to the Mariners, who is good usually good
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: at putting pitching together. Now we probably will see Bremner
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: very quickly into the big leagues. That is kind of
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: the la'smo at this point. They're known for just rushing
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: people up, and it seems like that might be happening
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: once again. So very very interesting that Kate Anderson then
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: got to drop to the Mariners as a local seattleite.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: I don't hate it for us, but just just thought
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: it was an interesting way approach to the draft. And
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: it's just, I don't know, it's LA Angels just something.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: There's something happening. It just feels like, you know, there's
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: some places that like if the Rays drafted him second,
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: you'd be like, what do they know? But when the
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: Angels draft him, you're like, are they guessing? Again? Like
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: that's Kat's kind of the vibe I'm getting, and I'm
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: hoping not because I would love for the Angels to
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: become more of a powerhouse. They're just it hasn't worked
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: out yet. But I think Netta was a hit. I
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: think going to getting No Hoppy was a hit. I
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: think Sannuel is a solid player. So who knows. We
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: could all be wrong. I hope we are. I hope
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: these guys. I hope they're both studs. I hope all
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: these guys are great. But very interesting that this happened,
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: and pretty amazing. Speaking of Ethan holiday, he actually ended
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: up going forth to his old to his dad's old team,
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: the Colorado Rockies. Now he is a hitter, so congratulations man,
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: you gotta go hitt And course he is. He is
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: the first ever first rounder drafted by his dad's first team,
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: which is cool. I thought that would happen more often
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: because there's been a lot of legacies in the MLB,
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: but the first time it's ever happened, he was going
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: to be first. I don't think there's a huge difference
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: between first and fourth frankly, and I think that he's
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: gonna have a lot of success there. So congratulates to
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: Ethan and graduations of the Jackson family. Must be nice
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: to be that good at have that many people that
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: good at that many things. So moving on, let's get
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: into some hom Run Derby highlights because it was pretty
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: lit as well, and there was a lot going on there.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: So as we all know, big dumper Cal Rawley takes
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: the home run Derby. He is also the current home
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: run leader. We're going to do some crazy home run
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: homer in Derby stats later in the show, so stay
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: tuned for that. But he's the first catcher ever to
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: win a home run Derby, which is surprising. Frankly, I
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: thought Piazza maybe would have gotten one, but I can
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: also see there's probably not been that many catchers in
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: and he as and he became the champion when he
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: out outlasted Junior Cameronaro, the Monster Junior Cameronaro, eighteen to fifteen.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: In the final round, Rowley's dad, Todd pitched to him
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: his little brother, Todd Junior Cott, which I thought was awesome.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: Also I thought was awesome that Todd Junior was most
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: excited to meet Livy Dunn. We will get in that
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: in a minute too, but just shows how the internet
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: works these days. And it was overall pretty good though
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: it was pretty long, and we're gonna. I have some
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: ideas for how to fix it or make it maybe
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: a little shorter, but we had We had a five
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: hundred and thirteen foot home run from onneal Cruz, which
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: no one was surprised by. They also hit one of
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: the hardest home runs ever, only behind the Stanton and
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: Judge of all people, because of course, and Jazz Chisholm
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: hit I think the lowest total in a forty in
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: one of these tine rounds with three. But he did
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: look like he would liked to be there, So there's that.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: And another big story from this from this thing was
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: the first round of my guy Brent Rooker. Did he
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: get snubbed for moving on to the next round as
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: you as you can? As you know, because everyone watched it, right,
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: All eight guys kind of went and a round robin,
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: not round robin. They all just kind of went in
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: order and the top four numbers moved on and then
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: they matched up. I like that a little bit better.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: Fourth place was cal Rawley. In fifth place was Brett Rookers.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: Interestingly enough, they had to go because they tied they
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: hit the same number of home runs. They had to
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: go to longest distance and according to Hawkeye and statcast
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: we have cal Rawly's traveled four hundred and seventy point
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: sixty one feet and Brent Rutgers traveled four hundred and
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: seventy point five to three feet, which I did the
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: math for you. That is zero point nine six inches.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: So cal Rawly hit his home run one inch farther
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: less than one inch farther. That's nuts, and then he
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: went on to win it. Many people are like conspiracy theorists,
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: it's rigg da da da. You could just bump that
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: number up whatever. Okay, I did, though, m run devery right.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: It is it a good story, sure, but I think
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: Brent Rooker also moving forward is also a good story.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: So looking too far into it, but it is a
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: little bit odd and Brent, Brent said some interesting things.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: He said. They told me before I went up there,
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: I could take two pitches because he was a little
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: bit confused about the format, didn't know that told me
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: there were only forty balls already in the crate. So
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: I took two pitches that didn't count, but then went
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: to do the round. There was only thirty eight remaining,
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: so we got down to having two pitches with five
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: second flats. And they're out of baseballs. Interesting, so what
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: he's saying is he could have hit another one and
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: the rules weren't that clear beforehand, which is also something
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: that commonly happens with this event. So feel bad for Brent.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: It's tough, but also him being out early means we
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: got a whole bunch of tweets from him. Let's talk
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: about the All Star Game itself. A lot of highlights,
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: a lot of fun things. We got our first ever
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: swing home run swing off to bring it all together
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: there at the end because we don't like extra innings.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: I actually have a good breakdown of it Star Game
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: that I will finish with here today, so we'll talk
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: about it in a second. But Kyle Schwarber ends up
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: bringing the championship home for the NL All Star Team
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: with a four to three homer edge. So anyone who
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: doesn't know the rule change of twenty twenty two, this
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: is the first time we've actually had the swing off
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: going to extras, which is pretty cool. And each team
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: picks their three best hitters. Each one of those guys
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: gets three swings and the total number of home runs wins. Okay,
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: so what actually happened with Schwarbro was the second hitter.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: He hits I believe he hit three that to take
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: them to four total. Junior Cabinaro needed to hit one
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: of his three in order to keep it tied, and
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: he ended up not hitting one at all, and so
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: it never actually got to the third round, which was
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: then going to be pet Alonzo, which I think pt
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: Alonzo probably would have brought it home as well. Now,
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: if you're noticing, no show Heyo Tani, no aeron judge,
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: both guys were already out of the game and on
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: their way probably home. We had no Vlad Greer Junior,
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: no no big dumper. Like, there's a bunch of guys
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: who probably could have been good on both sides that
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: just won't weren't weren't chosen because it's still the All
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: Star game and it's still not necessary that we exhaust
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: everybody in order to get the game done right. So again,
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: that's a whole another thing we got to talk about
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: in a minute. But it was pretty pretty awesome, pretty
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: awesome either way, and I thought that I think this
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: is a great change of the game, and I like it.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: I like it, I like the shootout idea. I like
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: a bunch of pressure behind one swing. That is what
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: baseball is all about. So the more you can mimic that,
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: the better the ABS system will always was also used
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: in this All Star Game and it was used five
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: times now. If you're not familiar with the ABS system,
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: it is the challenge system that's going to end up
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: going into probably the major leagues next year, where you
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: get three challenges a game and if you're wrong, you
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: lose it and you get it right, you get you
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: get it back right, just like challenges are insurgram play.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: It's very quick, but the five work. Cal Rawley and
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: Tarrek Scoogle. I got Manny Machado with an O two
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: in the first inning. That's where this little smile is
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: coming from. And Trek Scoole had a great time with
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: the game, which he always does a great time, and
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: we got to watch him again this Sunday Sunday Night Baseball,
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: Tarik Schooble probably again. I don't think that's official yet,
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: but I hope, so we're hoping. The fingers crossed against Texas,
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: and then the second one was Jacob Wilson successfully challenged
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: a strike call from Mackenzie Gore because the horse he
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: did he's got a great idea of the zone. Ali
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: Hunter Kirk got one with the raalds Chapman against Brandon Donovan,
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: Edwin Diaz. Edwin Diaz got one against Randy in the
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: ninth which was a big one. And then Kyle Stowers
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: was wrong on his third strike. So the people who
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: challenge were right for the five times. And I just
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: can't notice, but the guy with the least amount of
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: service time of all these people was the guy that
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: was wrong. No shade to cal Stowers, but get that
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: experience up, my guy. We also had my people micd
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: up left right and center. Trek Scooble was one of them,
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: but also so Hyton Kershaw was was was miked up,
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: which I freaking loved it. I was watching this live.
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: I caught bits and pieces of the game. I was
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: coming in and out and in and out and out. I
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: had a bunch of stuff going on uh lately, but
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: it was pretty great. He gets the kind of legendary
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: invites to the All Star Game. I mean, he would
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: tell you that he probably didn't pitch enough to make
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: it this year, but like he does deserve it. I
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: think it's a great celebration of him. Went out there,
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: he had a good time, said I'm gonna try to
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: throw cheese. Was worried about giving a homer to cal Rawley.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: But there was one exchange that I love more than anything.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: Kershaw was he was probably on his last hit. He goes,
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: what do he wants? Malty? And Smoltz goes cut her
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: in and he tried to quickly see slider in and
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: as he's deliberately goes, I don't throw a cutter s
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: malty And I just was like, this is so funny
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: because this is exact, and he just he and then
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: he just spiked it because like in our heads, it
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: was a perfect example as a pitcher that if there's
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: any confusion, if there's any confusion up here, even if
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: it's just like joking around and someone says something semantics
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: were wrong, if you're not locked in, you automatically it
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: is an automatic like abort a ject system where you
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: just throw the ball no know where there's zones, a
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: kicking crush because you're not committed. It was awesome. So
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: Adam Antavino does this a lot, or he talked about
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: doing a lot in his career. I did a few
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: times too. You're in the middle of the pitch, you're
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: about to throw it, and you were kind of like
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: wishy washy on what you wanted to throw, and then
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: in the middle of your delivery you just remember or
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: you decide that now I don't want to throw this,
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: so you just abort and you just throw it off
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: into the dugout, or just get rid of the ball
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: and make sure it can't be hit. I loved it.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: I thought it was great. I like micing up pictures
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: in the All Star Game. I don't know about micing
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: up shortstops anymore because we keep seeing airs, but maybe
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: pictures pictures talking through what they want to do. Give
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: me more of that. All right, well done, Clayton, Well done.
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: Hey, let's do a little player spotlight thanks to Arena Club.
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: AJ give me a player this season that you think
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: is underrated and you might want to try and grab
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: his card.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: James would.
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: I don't know that he's underrated, but Washington National's superstar
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: in the making, and the first slab pack I ever
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: opened had him in his rookie card, and the value
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: is only going to go up and up and up,
• 35:13
  Speaker 4: and I'm not gonna sell it quite yet. Scott, I'm
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: gonna hold on to it because after he continues to
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: hit big homers and put up the stats make All
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: Star teams, it's going to get more expensive for someone
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: to buy.
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: For me, this is his.
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: First full season in the majors.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: Keep that in mind. I think he's underrated.
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: He's on a Nationals team that's man adding enough attention.
• 35:31
  Speaker 4: He might underrated when he makes the All Star team
• 35:34
  Speaker 4: this year, They're not going to be underrated.
• 35:36
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• 36:00
  Speaker 1: Cotinue to talk a little bit about the All Star
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: Game because there's some conversations happening on the internet, which
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: is I don't know if you noticed a lot of
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: what kind of drives this conversations here on this channel.
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: Let's talk a little bit about the All Star Game
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: and what it's here for because the spirit behind the
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: All Star Game has changed dramatically in the last few years.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: So what is it for? All right, what is it for?
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: So let me let me let me tell you why
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: I think this conversation has been changing the last few years.
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: Last year, PAULK Skins started the game with only eleven
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: starts for the National League. He was the hot commodity.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: He was also throwing incredibly well, so, like, you know,
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: that was a little bit like it doesn't have quite
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: as many innings as everyone else, Like there was other
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: guys a seventeen eighteen starts. He only had eleven, but
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: it was like at least kind of comparable, and he
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: was so dominant that it made sense. But it was
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: obviously very clearly to drive excitement. This year though, about
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: two days before the end of the first half, Jacob Mazeroski,
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: the phenom from the Brewers, was announced to go to
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: the Ulcer game after twenty five innings and five starts,
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: which is a little bit more glaring. Some Phillies players
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: were spoken out with the decision. They were not happy
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: about it. Trey Turner called it a joke. Nick Castiano said,
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: it's starting to look like this, like Savannah bananas banana ball.
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: I mean, he's not on stilts. He might look like
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: he's on stilts, but I don't think he's technically on stilts.
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: But they believed, and I tend to agree that by
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: doing that, they are snubbing to their teammates Ranger Suarez
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: and Christopher Sanchez, especially Christopher Sanchez because he's thrown great
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: again after making it last year, which I tend agree
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: with that frustration that what they're saying is like, if
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: we're not are we rewarding the bust players as that
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: was his four are we going to start carving out
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: more and more spots for guys that are throwing well
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: but also are very exciting to walk? Like? What is
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: this game for? And what should we think if we're selected?
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: If we're not selected? Right is the conversation. And I
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: think that if that's the definition of the game or
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: that is why people go, yeah, of course that should
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: be frustrating, right do. I think Jacob Meyscrowsky is a
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: phenom and very excited this Like it's not like he's
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: a flash and pan. It's very clearly he's a very
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: good pitcher, and I think it'd be fun. But at
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: the expense of other guys who have like grinded it
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: out and deserved to go, especially because there's like contract incentives,
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: which by the way, the Phillies ended up giving are
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: going or are going to give Christopher Sanchez his fifty
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: thousand dollars incentive in his contract, because most contracts have those,
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: by the way, even basic ones, arbitration contracts and such
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: have little lump sums that you get an extra for
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: going to the All Star Game from your team, right,
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: which is cool, And so some guys are like, I
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: would like to have my incentive. I'm just because I'm
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: arbitrarily not getting to go, and shout out to Phillies
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: for actually doing that. I think that's pretty great. So
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: if it's not completely merit based, what is it. Is
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: it an exhibition or or is it going to be
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: a competition or is it just publicity and like hype?
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: Like what are we what do we want this to be,
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: what do we feel like it's going to be, and
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: how do we feel about those conclusions. So let's do
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: a little bit of let's go back and let's talk
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: a little bit about the timeline the advent of the
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: Major League alscar Game, where it comes from and what
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: was what it was about at the beginning. So the
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: first ever All Star Game was held in on July sixth,
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: nineteen thirty three, at Chicago's Kimiski Park. Classic a lot
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: of really, really, really famous players there. It was conceived
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: as a one time exhibition, so there's no plans to
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: keep this going to boost baseball's popularity during the Great Depression, right,
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: so like, hey, I know everyone's sad, We're going to
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: watch some baseball. And it worked. It was wildly successful,
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: and they kept it going after that through the thirty
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: and forties. The Ulstar Game showcase the era's biggest stars
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: and really dramatic moments. In nineteen thirty four, Giants pitcher
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: Carl Hubber, Hubble famously struck out five future Hall of
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: Famers in a row. Those Hall of Famers, you asked,
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: Babe Ruth, Lou Garrig, Jamie Fox, Al Simmons, and Joe Cronin.
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: That's crazy and has yet to be done since I
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: can't imagine just starting just starting with Babe Ruth to
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: Lou Garrett to Jamie Fox. Like at that point, you're
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: like you're having an out of body experience as a picture.
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: I don't care who you are, you can be the greatest.
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: Like I can't believe these are the greatest hitters ever,
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: and two three of them they're all still wildly conliated,
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: considered some of the best hitters ever to this day.
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: Then we go to the nineteen fifties and the nineteen
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: sixties of format and the competitive balance saw several changes,
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: so like they started to make adjustments to make it
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: more competitive or less competitive. That this is where we
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: started the tinker Okay, with this tinkering came that n
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: Ashley winning. They won thirty three of forty two from
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: nineteen fifty nineteen eighty seven. The National League was absolutely dominating, right,
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: and they were messing around with all kinds of little
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: voting of fans votes. Actually, in the first one, the
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: fans could vote by submitting ballots from the newspaper, which
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: is pretty cool, gedious, but pretty cool. But we had
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: a major controversy also erupted in nineteen fifty seven ballot
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: stuffing by the Cincinnati Reds fans. Ballot stuffing what fan
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: voting filling up the starting lineup? Never heard of that before.
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: Ballot stuffing took resulting in seven Reds being elected to
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: the NNAL starting lineup, so like seven and the nine
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: players were started, which is now you're just watching the Reds.
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: The dramas that peaked during that area. The nineteen sixties
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: alone saw four games going to extra innings, which is sick.
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: In nineteen seventy, game ended with Pete Rose running over
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: Ray Fossey to it in the twelfth separating ray Fossi's
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: shoulder and he what Pete Rose said, that's all the
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: way on a plan. I don't care if it's a
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: next vision, like, it's only no only way I know
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: how to grind. This came out and people seem to
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: love that, except for probably ray FOSSi. I don't know
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: if he enjoyed that too much. So it's pretty clear
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: the game has had a long history like drama. Like
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: it's like a break sure, but it's also like a
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: lot of fun. You want to see the best talent
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: playing us the best talent because you don't get to
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: see that very regularly, and that was the point of
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: the game. And then it's at some point something changed,
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: and there's a few things that started to be added, right,
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: So in nineteen eighty five we had the first home
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: run derby added. And this is our winner right here,
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: which is so funny. I am Dave Parker, did it,
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: got it? Boom won the first ever night in nineteen
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: eighty five. In nineteen ninety one we saw our first
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: fan fest. Nineteen ninety nine we saw a future first
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: features game. In two thousand and one we saw the first
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: celebrity softball game. All four of these things are still
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: being done around the game, so now it's no longer
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: just a game. It is a week of festivities. It
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: is a festival, which I think is a great thing.
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: I think generally more things that fans like, especially if
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: like the game itself, maybe isn't the number one thing,
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: but they like to like meet the players and want
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: to bring young kids that don't really understand. Like you're
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: widening the range of people that can go and enjoy themselves.
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: And if you can't afford a ticket to the game itself,
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: which is usually the most expensive part of going there,
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: you still have a lot of things you can do.
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: You can still see players milling around, you still go
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: to the red carpet, still do all kinds of fun stuff,
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: And I think that is that is great. I think
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: it's a positive trend. I think that is great. You know,
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: a lot more people can enjoy the game then can
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: just fit in the stadium. But the thinking that it's
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: fueling these changes, especially lately, has been increasingly clear. DMIB
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: has a game in the middle of summer that is
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: guaranteed to be sold out. There's no other major sports
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: happening really. The Stanley Cups is over, the NBA Finals
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: are over, and we haven't gotten to OTAs yet for football,
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: so it's baseball only. Also, there's no other baseball games
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: competing either, so there's one game to watch. The eyeball
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: funnel is has never been more aligned. The planets are
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: aligned for baseball, and so what can you do with
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: that money? You can make lots of money, and you
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: got to take advantage of that. And that is usually
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: what is now going mind the thinking, and it's been
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: happening more and more and more and more and more
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: and more and more over time, specifically since the two
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: thousand and two debacle when bud Sea Lake ended a
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: game in a tie because there were no more pitchers
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: to throw. Both teams use nineteen pitchers and eleven innings
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: because they thought they weren't going to go in extra innings,
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: so they ended the game in a tie. In order
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: to solve that problem, bud Selik then made a rule
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: that the winner of the All Star Game determines home
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: field advantage. The World Series that went till twenty sixteen.
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: Tell who took over rob manforg got rid of that immediately,
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: right immediately. It wasn't very popular. I would say that
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: it had nothing to do with the World Series the
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: All Star Game. It just didn't have enough to do
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: with it. Like the guys playing the All Star Game
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: weren't going to play in them, you know what I mean,
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: Like there's not enough players involved in both things to
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: where they should be that closely linked. But that was
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: his goal in order to make it more competitive because
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: he saw this trend of it becoming less and less
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: competitive over time. But again, once you added all these
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: extra events and there's more stuff to do, the players
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: more tired and they start to weigh is this really
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: rest or? Is this a lot of work? And that
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: is something I heard a lot in clubhouses. It's a
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: ton of work. It's a lot. You sign autographs for
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: like four or five hours one of the day is
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: like the game's season is long, so guys are opting
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: out more and more. We can't we can't be focused
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: so heavily on adding all this stuff for players to
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: be involved in and also wanting them to go out
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: there and put it all out on the line. So
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: we just since two thousand and two that has slowly
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: but surely gone away. And then Rob Manfred by getting
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: rid of that rule, has just given up on this
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: being the thing at all. Now it's about how do
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: we create an experience that people enjoy and we'll spend
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: more money at which isn't bad or good but is real.
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: So got it, caught it. So as players players slowly
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: over time have stopped associating like pride or competition with
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: the game. They just have Like I know a lot
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: of players that were like you know what, I've been
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: to three or four of them. I thank you for
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: inviting me the All Star. I'll still be an All
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: Star on my Baseball reference page. But I don't need
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: to go to the game. I don't need to do
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: all the stuff. And if that means I don't get
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: my pay, I don't get my pay for that. But
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: like some guys are making lots of money already and
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: it's not really Maybe that's just not the most important
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: for them thing to them. Maybe they need the break,
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: maybe they're working on some little injury thing, and most
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: guys just say I got a little nagging turf toe
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: or something and they want to take some time off.
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: But it's just not competitive like it used to be anymore,
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: and it's probably not going to come back. So a
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: lot of people say the old way was better. A
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: lot of people like this. I actually asked a question like,
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: do you guys love I did a poll probably three
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: weeks ago. I was like, do you guys love the
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: All Star Game? Do you guys really look forward to
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: watching it? And the majority of people said yes, which
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: was a little bit surprising, Maybe because I'm a cynical,
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: annoying person sometimes, maybe because I'm apathetic at times, but
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: that was good to see and it seems like people
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: are enjoying it the way that it is. I think
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: there's a couple things that need to be tweaked, but
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: I think overall, the All Star Game is a destination
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: and people like to go. So I want to hear
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: what you guys think. Let me know it, not in
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: the comments, let me know over in the chat wherever
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: you may be watching Slash listening to this because do
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: we prefer one or the other, or however it coalesces,
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: is the way I like it. And also let me
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: know what your favorite parts of the festivities are, if
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: you just watched on TV or if you were there
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: even better, I want to know what you liked the
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: most about being there, because at the end of the day,
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: it is for the fans, it is for you, and
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: if things aren't being done the way that you want
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: them done the words of Rob Manfred, we all listen
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: to fans, so we got to make sure that's happening.
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: So let me know. And that is max plaining, which
• 48:23
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• 48:25
  Speaker 1: not explaining. That was our shock, Trevor. Okay, thank you
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  Speaker 1: and I did this recently. You guys hear that garbage truck.
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  Speaker 1: They tend to be here right in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: everything all the time. So I apologize if you can
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  Speaker 1: hear that mace planning. I made a bunch of predictions
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: at the beginning of the year. We're gonna look back
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: and we're gonna check. Am I hitting on them? Or
• 49:59
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  Speaker 1: So we did my predictions and then we have I
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: had some bold takes and we will be doing that
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: going into hour two of the show. So biggest surprises,
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: biggest disappointments, and then all the awards prepare to get
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: blown away. So first up, we have biggest surprises so
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: far in the season, looking back at the first half,
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: these three gentlemen, I'm gonna give a shout out, and
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: there are quite a few guys out there that are
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: doing well, But biggest surprise we have Pete crow Armstrong
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: with the Reds. He is an all star, hitting two
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: sixty five twenty five home runs a se everyone RBIs,
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: which is astronomically above his career averages so far. A
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: little shout out to Chris Flexen, a guy who is
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: back against the ropes, really is just trying to find
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: a job and has been really effective out of the
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: bullpen for the Cubs. Now he is greatly over forming
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: a lot of his peripheral stats. I hope he continues
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: to work within that area at least for the whole year.
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: You want to get through a whole year. But he
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: has a one four seven and a point nine to
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: three whip and he has been a bright spot for
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: their bullpen and a little bit of love for Ramon
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: Loreano joining the Baltimore Orioles. He has been one of
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: the few bright spots over there this year, hitting two
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: eighty fourth, eleven home runs, thirty five barbiyes And it
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: was a little bit of like a throwaway signing for them.
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: And he's been very good. He's been a good he's
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: a good defensive outfit there. He's got a great arm,
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: and he plays hard. He's got energy. I can attest
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: to that, and he's a great duty work and he
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: just loves to talk hitting. He loves the game, and
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: it's good to see him doing well as well. The
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: biggest disappointments aren't necessarily maybe a biggest disappointment in the
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: scope of the world. And I also want to hear
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: you guys feedback on this because I'm sure, I'm sure
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: every team has their biggest disappointments, but a couple interesting
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: ones that I think guys who are notoriously so good
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: and they just haven't been uh. Mookie Bets and the
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: San Francisco Giants version of Raffael Devers Mooki bats is
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: sitting two forty fourth eleven home runs of forty five RBIs,
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: which hilariously is a little bit better than Loreano. But like,
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: those aren't Mookie bats numbers. That's that's just pretty good, right.
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: I think he would say that, and that's considered underperforming
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: in his mind. But yeah, that's a little lackluster, more
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: lackluster than I've really ever seen from Mooki. So it's
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: interesting to see what he'll do in the second half.
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: But he's been around for a while. Man, that's what happens.
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: And for Raffi, twenty five games with the Giants, he's
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: hitting two to two, with two of them runs, ten
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: RBIs and a six fifty six ops. Hasn't quite found
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: his footing there and probably not the greatest look on
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: the planet to not come out super hot. So let
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: me know again in the comments, who are your biggest disappointments?
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: Who are your biggest surprises? Because I'm sure there's a
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: lot of guys I'm missing. I could have been sitting
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: here talking forever, but we have time limits. This is
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: a live show, so I got to make sure that
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: I'm on top of that stuff. All right, Let's go,
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: who did I guess the awards winners? Would be at
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: the end of the year, and if the season ended
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: right now, who I think they would be. So we're
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: gonna go my prepredictions and then how I think that
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: would change, and if I was right at all, So
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: four AL Rookie of the Year. My first guest was
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: Christian Campbell, who has recently been sent down to Triple
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: A with Jackson job who has been hurt but he's
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: been okay, he's been fine and he could still be
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: in the running if he comes back healthy. But like,
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: it's not out on these two guys, but they've just
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: been They've they've had their struggles and they haven't been
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: as electric as I thought they would be. And right
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: now my ALE Rookie of the Year is Jacob Wilson,
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: All star, never walks, never strikes out, looks like he's
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: playing withiffle ball. But he's having a good time. And
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: the guy can hit. Man we defense notwithstanding, the guy
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: can hit, and he right now is my ALE Heat
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: of the Year. In the EDL, I thought we're gonna
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: have a rookie Sasaki followed by Bubba Chandler. Now this
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: one was a big whiff. Okay, Roki has struggled at
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: the beginning of his career and now he is hurt
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: potentially for the rest of the year. Bubba Chandler has
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: yet to make his big lead debut, So I don't
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: think I'm gonna be right about those two. So but
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: in the NL, who would I give it to a
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: guy I was just talking about gumby the misz Jacob Misrowski. Uh.
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: Also this picture, just look how Jackie is. Dude, Just
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: jack six seven one fifteen pure fury. Jacob Misrowski. He's
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: been incredible. If he keeps going the way he's going,
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: say says healthy for the rest year, he's They're just
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: gonna give it to him. But he needs to stay healthy,
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: and he needs to throw twenty plus starts. He needs
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: to get to he needs to throw fifteen starts at
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: the half. It just needs to happen. So hopefully he does,
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: and hopefully that's what we get. Uh. Al Reliever of
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: the Year, My guest was Mason Miller. Though he has
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: been very good and he's striking out about seventeen per nine.
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: The ra is greatly inflated both from a couple there's
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: like he's had two season killers, like he's given up
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: nine runs and two innings, which that'll kill you as
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: a closer. And he also has the pitching sacramento, which
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: is not fair to anybody, anybody inclusing the away team.
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: So not quite there. If I had to guess, and
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: right now, if it ended and the playoffs happened or whatever,
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: it would likely be. Andris Munoz, I think there's a
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: bunch of other guys that can be considered for this,
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: but he's up there, like Josh Hater. It's going to
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: be a closer probably, but he's up there and saves.
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: He might lead in saves actually, and he didn't give
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: up run for twenty outings end of the year, so
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: he's been incredible for the Mariners and he is probably
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: my guy on the end al side. I guess Justin Martinez.
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: Justin Martinez has been hurt for a lot of time.
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: He did get a sign a contract before the season started,
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: a little team friendly guy Firz. I think he's got
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: a bright future, but he just hasn't been healthy, thrown enough,
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: and he's just not him. It's not him. I was wrong.
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: I would say probably up there. And again, the en
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: Al's got a ton of guys that are right in
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: this area. Healthy, whatever. But for me, it's Edwin Diaz Man.
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: He's having a season pretty close to twenty twenty two,
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: and I think he's going a little bit under the
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: radar because the Mets have been good, at least for me.
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: I'm sure Mets fan's like, uh, we know, what do
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: you mean? But Edwin Diaz is once, he's got a
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: one and a half, The ray's saving all the games,
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: he's throwing really really well. He's having a good time,
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: and he was made another All Star. But I would
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: say a guy who deserves some flowers and isn't a
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: closer is the setup man for the Giants, one of
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: the setiment and is Randy Rodriguez. This guy's filthy. And
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: if you don't know about Randy Rodriguez, go look it up.
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: He's been good for a while. So Ottawa mentioned to
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: Randy Rodriguez he is in the running. He's in the running.
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: Adrian Morijane is also another guy. I think they could
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: be thrown it into that conversation. Okay, let's talk about
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: Sy Young's al I Cole Wagans because it was different, right.
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: I thought he was gonna take one more step forward. Yeah, See,
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: he's been solid like he is, but hasn't really turned
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: into the crazy a's And unfortunately Terrek Scooble has been
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: better than he was last year somehow. So I think
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: this year is Terrek Scooble. I think Terry Scooble is
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: now the front runner, at least in the AL side
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: for Lisa Young currently. So I was close finally on something,
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: but I don't think. I don't think people that close
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: to him right now, he's been just absolutely ridiculous. He's
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: been absolutely redunk. So Terry Schooble. In the NL side,
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: my guess it's Paul Skeans and Hunter Green. Now, before
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: Hunter Reen got hurt, dude, he might have been ahead
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: of Paul. Hunter Green was right there. If he weren't hurt,
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: I would say this would be these guys would still
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: be top five, right. I think Skeens is very very close.
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: I think it's like one A in one B. But
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna give I gotta get some flowers to a
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: guy who's at one one and probably should have won
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: one by now. Right now, it's Zack Wheeler. He's got
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: just an edge on everything with Paul Sken's a little
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: bit strung more inning somehow he struck out more guys,
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: he's given up plus hit somehow, like the year that
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: Skean's is having is credible. Zak Wheeler has been a
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: little bit better for a team that's better, so I
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: will give the edge to him. And honestly, he hasn't
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: won one yet, and Sken's gonna win if he continues
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: to be this good for ten years, he's gonna win
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: like seven. So I think we need to give Zach
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: Wheeler his his look Zach Wheeler, Zach Wheeler his looks,
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: and Otto will mention obviously, I think Paul Skin's right
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: behind him. So it's a it's anyone's game at this point.
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: Now real quickly, let's hit the MVPs. A L MVP
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: my guests with Bob Way Junior. He's been solid, not
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: MVP yet And sorry Maren's fan, and sorry for the
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: writer's got over in the writer's room guys, but I
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: changed my mind. It's Aaron Judge. I just don't know
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: how you don't give it to him. He's just too good.
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: He's just too good. And his uh, his batting average
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: is still one hundred point, like if it's batting average
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: were sixty points above number two, it'd be better, but
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: I have mentioned obviously right behind him kyl Rawly, and
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: then he just won the home run derby two, so
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: who knows, maybe he goes even off even more. But
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: if it ends up Aaron judges like two thirty and
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: cal Rawly's hitting like two eighty five or three thirty
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: and two eighty five, now we're cooking. And also cal
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: Rawly has the most important stat between these two guys
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: more stolen bases. Okay, and then in the end al
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: my MVP guest was gonna be Juan Soto. Now he
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: is back into that top ten conversation. Even though he
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: didn't make an All Star team. He's been very very
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: very good lately, very good, actually insane. He's been the
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: best hitter in the league last month. But now it's
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: Joe Hey Otani got this picture. That picture is so tough.
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: I love it. I love this picture so much. I
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: think it's awesome. So shoe Heltani show Atani's probably are
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: are an l MVP at this moment. He's just the
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: best hitter in the league. And uh he's also pitching
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: whenever he wants, just to add a little bit more value.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: I don't know, nobody do whatever rolls out of bed
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: best player on the planet, okay, and then finally we
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: have the playoffs. We have the seating. This is what
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: my guesses were playoffs seating before Rangers, Red Sox, Guardians, Oils,
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: Tigers and Astros. And on this side Dodgers, Phillies, Brewers, Mets, Dbacks,
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: and Brave. Now I got seven of the twelve right,
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: which I don't know if that's great. I think that's
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: just average. But right now, this is what it be
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: if the season ended. Right now, we have Dodgers cut.
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: I don't know why I mess. I did this all
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: formata differently, I was in a hurry. Dodgers, Cubs, Phillies, Brewers, weird,
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: they snuck, they're snucking any stinging again, Mets and Padres
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: and Detroit, Houston, Toronto, New York, Boston and Seattle. On
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: the other side, this is how I have the playoffs
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: playing out Phillies versus Boston, and I ended up having
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: the Phillies winning the whole thing, even though they're not
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: showing up here. For some reason, my guess was Phillies
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: win the World Series this year. But I have amended
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: my stance because Chicago Cubs have joined and if I
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: were to guess based on the guy that the people
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: I just showed you, who would come out on top
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: of that bracket right now with how everyone is playing,
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: I think the Cubs would ended up taking down the
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: Boston Red Sox, who are on a ten game heater
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: going in the playoffs. That would be a great spot.
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: So I'm talking about the the Boston Red Sox being
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: the hottest team in the planet and the Cubs just
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: being a solid team. I think at the end they
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: would end but I think the Cubs took it for
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: the first time. It's the twenty sixteen I know, hot take.
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: That's just my guest. Now I'm amending it from there,
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: so you can yell at me all you want, and
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: I'll take