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- 0:00Speaker 1: He was very heated, and he's not apologetic about it.
- 0:03Speaker 1: I bet he went into the locker room and goes,
- 0:06Speaker 1: I want you to bury these fools.
- 0:11Speaker 2: Don't get emotional rats.
- 0:13Speaker 3: But we're a third of the way into the Major
- 0:16Speaker 3: League Baseball season.
- 0:18Speaker 4: It's a great time of year.
- 0:20Speaker 1: It's a great time of year. It's warm everywhere. Now
- 0:23Speaker 1: you're not rolling in somewhere and going well beside San Francisco.
- 0:26Speaker 1: Nothing colder than the summer night in San Francisco, but
- 0:30Speaker 1: freaking just a great time of year. The bats are
- 0:33Speaker 1: heated up, the pitcher's arms are either there or they're
- 0:36Speaker 1: throwing cheddar. The fans are coming in the stands because
- 0:39Speaker 1: there's no school.
- 0:41Speaker 5: Let's get it solid, solid, take right there. It's good
- 0:48Speaker 5: for Major League baseball, Little League, all the way up
- 0:51Speaker 5: to Men's League baseball. We're watching it all. So this
- 0:54Speaker 5: is what I've been waiting for. I want stickiness. I
- 0:57Speaker 5: want the sweat to come down a little bit. I'm
- 0:59Speaker 5: sick of the cold weather. And we're starting to get
- 1:01Speaker 5: the eighties here in Jersey.
- 1:03Speaker 6: Ooh, let's go.
- 1:05Speaker 3: Attendance numbers are up, ratings are up big, especially for
- 1:09Speaker 3: national games. So I'm given MLB all the credit for
- 1:14Speaker 3: that one. I think when I try to survey casual fans,
- 1:18Speaker 3: the pitch clock is a big factor. I know we
- 1:20Speaker 3: don't talk about it that much anymore, that's the point.
- 1:24Speaker 3: But two years ago when FT launched, it was the
- 1:27Speaker 3: story in the first few months of the season, and
- 1:29Speaker 3: really of course even spring training.
- 1:31Speaker 2: It's helped. It helps.
- 1:33Speaker 3: I remember I was in a car the other day
- 1:35Speaker 3: and guys like, yeah, I used to go to baseball games,
- 1:37Speaker 3: but they were.
- 1:38Speaker 2: Just always four hours and there's a lot of dead time.
- 1:41Speaker 3: I'm like, you should come back. It's like, when's last
- 1:43Speaker 3: time you've been to a game. It was like ten years.
- 1:45Speaker 2: I was like, you should come back, give it one
- 1:48Speaker 2: more try. Let me know what you think.
- 1:50Speaker 4: So anyway, worth.
- 1:54Speaker 1: You to go to the game, not going to you
- 1:57Speaker 1: pay more per dollar. It's like golfers who don't hit
- 2:01Speaker 1: a lot of shots, they pay the same amount as me.
- 2:03Speaker 1: When I hit one hundred, I got a lot more.
- 2:06Speaker 3: Saying dollars per minute at the ballpark, I'm a hard
- 2:12Speaker 3: disagree there. Number one, they open up the gates pretty
- 2:15Speaker 3: damn early so you can go early.
- 2:17Speaker 2: Because there was a crowd that was like, oh the
- 2:20Speaker 2: game's in too late.
- 2:21Speaker 3: Well, now you can get there at six pm and
- 2:24Speaker 3: seven o'clock games should take you to like nine to
- 2:26Speaker 3: thirty eight.
- 2:27Speaker 2: You got your money's worth. It's a good three and
- 2:30Speaker 2: a half hours at the ballpark.
- 2:31Speaker 4: No, yeah, it's good.
- 2:34Speaker 1: I like the speed. I like I like the pace
- 2:35Speaker 1: as that right now. But I don't think players complain
- 2:38Speaker 1: about it. It was always fans.
- 2:40Speaker 3: Yeah, but fans pay the bills for the players to
- 2:44Speaker 3: do their thing, So the dead time gone is definitely
- 2:46Speaker 3: a big deal.
- 2:47Speaker 2: All right, let's charge charge.
- 2:53Speaker 3: Sometimes we say, oh, we have Todd Father, our former
- 2:57Speaker 3: met or our former Red or our home run derby champ.
- 3:01Speaker 3: How about Todd Father, the little league legend. Let me
- 3:04Speaker 3: know what happened here between the Rays and the Rangers.
- 3:07Speaker 3: That led to a raised walk off sweep.
- 3:11Speaker 6: That was incredible.
- 3:13Speaker 5: Ground ball to the right side bases at the first
- 3:16Speaker 5: off first baseman. I don't know what he's doing. You
- 3:18Speaker 5: forgot where the second basement was. I think that was
- 3:21Speaker 5: the biggest mistake of the mall. And then right behind
- 3:25Speaker 5: it a real quick one right behind who's second base?
- 3:29Speaker 5: It was what's his name? Excuse me drawing a blank
- 3:32Speaker 5: over there? Who Simon fields a ground ball, he looks
- 3:36Speaker 5: at the runner at second base instead of looking at
- 3:38Speaker 5: the lead runner at third.
- 3:40Speaker 6: He was being held up too, and all of.
- 3:42Speaker 5: A sudden, the Rays run pass the Rangers pretty much
- 3:46Speaker 5: like it says, they're on the bottom. You don't see
- 3:48Speaker 5: that too often in a major league game. Once he's once,
- 3:51Speaker 5: you can't get the guy out of first, you gotta
- 3:53Speaker 5: look to that lead runner, and he just kept going
- 3:56Speaker 5: forget about it, and then you running Doug out excited
- 3:59Speaker 5: and look at this easy knock. Oh man, where was
- 4:02Speaker 5: he going at first base? And then boom, that's pretty
- 4:05Speaker 5: much game or what a slide too. So it was
- 4:07Speaker 5: a close play, but ultimately I don't know why he
- 4:10Speaker 5: stopped looking at second base.
- 4:12Speaker 1: Incredible, I mean credit to Cam and Arrow who kept
- 4:17Speaker 1: running even though there was a stop sign, kept running.
- 4:21Speaker 1: But Josh Smith has played. I had to look it
- 4:23Speaker 1: up after I saw his play. Josh Smith is played
- 4:26Speaker 1: eight some games, like not the whole game. I think
- 4:30Speaker 1: this is like his eighth or ninth game he's played,
- 4:33Speaker 1: and so he knows what he's doing at first. But
- 4:35Speaker 1: there's a play right before that where uh young at
- 4:40Speaker 1: third like kind of dove spun almost through the second
- 4:44Speaker 1: and then tried to get cam and arrow out at
- 4:45Speaker 1: first and he threw it and Josh Smith was he
- 4:49Speaker 1: was striding at first with the wrong foot. His left
- 4:53Speaker 1: foot was on the base and his right foot was out,
- 4:56Speaker 1: and as a left handed catching person, you're supposed to
- 4:59Speaker 1: go right foot with your left foot out and the
- 5:02Speaker 1: glove out there. So it was already like fumbled around early,
- 5:06Speaker 1: but oh man, it was. That is a way to
- 5:09Speaker 1: lose the game. And when you're losing a lot of
- 5:11Speaker 1: games like the Rangers, are not the best look.
- 5:18Speaker 3: And for trade deadline purposes, here's what makes things interesting.
- 5:22Speaker 2: There are quite a few teams.
- 5:24Speaker 3: That we expected to be good that have stumbled out
- 5:27Speaker 3: of the gate. Some will recover, some will not. That
- 5:31Speaker 3: will make the trade deadline much more interesting. You know
- 5:34Speaker 3: what I'm saying, Kratz, you're mentioning the Rangers. We've talked
- 5:36Speaker 3: too much about the Red Sox. The Orioles are going
- 5:39Speaker 3: to be sellers. I think that's pretty obvious. There's probably
- 5:42Speaker 3: at least two or three other teams. The Diamondbacks have
- 5:44Speaker 3: been mentioned. I think they're gonna rebound. But point is,
- 5:46Speaker 3: these are some teams that have I think much more
- 5:48Speaker 3: serious assets to sell versus going through who we can
- 5:53Speaker 3: find on the Rockies.
- 5:54Speaker 2: That's going to make a playoff difference.
- 5:58Speaker 1: It's a has and have nots, and right now the
- 6:00Speaker 1: have nots have nothing Like who the rocket is gonna
- 6:05Speaker 1: get rid of? Take up stallings? Who cares about the Rockets?
- 6:08Speaker 1: They don't even they don't get rid of anybody anyway.
- 6:10Speaker 1: When they did have people, they're like, they're a great guy.
- 6:13Speaker 1: We're keeping them around. We're just looking to push forward
- 6:16Speaker 1: and be positive. But yeah, there's gonna be these teams
- 6:19Speaker 1: that we just talked about the other day on Wednesday
- 6:21Speaker 1: when Todd was on. I think the Rangers can climb
- 6:23Speaker 1: out of it. Rangers go into Tampa and lose three
- 6:27Speaker 1: doesn't bode well. It doesn't bode well. And people are
- 6:30Speaker 1: gonna get back at you because you're like, oh, the Orioles,
- 6:32Speaker 1: they just won six in a row. They won six
- 6:34Speaker 1: in a row to get back to seven and a
- 6:37Speaker 1: half out of the wild Card.
- 6:40Speaker 2: Yeah, listen, I think, yeah, go ahead, I don't.
- 6:44Speaker 5: My screen keeps moving on me. A Dollas Garcia, he's
- 6:47Speaker 5: batt in seventh in the lineup. Do you guys understand that.
- 6:49Speaker 5: I mean, this is this is incredible. They're trying to
- 6:52Speaker 5: find guys up and down here hush Jones, batt and forth.
- 6:57Speaker 5: I mean, they have good squad, but they're trying. Maybe
- 7:02Speaker 5: it's maybe it's a little too much. I'm looking at
- 7:04Speaker 5: who they who they would trade hittingwise, I don't know.
- 7:06Speaker 5: I'm looking at the averages here, man, I mean nothing
- 7:10Speaker 5: eye popping to me.
- 7:11Speaker 6: They need to find a way to put it together.
- 7:13Speaker 5: That's the biggest issue here, man, this is this is
- 7:16Speaker 5: not the Ranger team we talked to.
- 7:17Speaker 6: I go ahead, big doll.
- 7:19Speaker 2: I just want it, like in class, who pick me?
- 7:21Speaker 2: Pick me? I have a name for you.
- 7:25Speaker 6: Let's go. No pictures, no pictures, Yeah, go ahead, no.
- 7:29Speaker 4: No.
- 7:29Speaker 3: Besides Tyler Maley, who I think would be an effective
- 7:32Speaker 3: starter for a playoff team if they ended up being sellers. Yeah,
- 7:36Speaker 3: what about a Doley Scarcia change of scenery?
- 7:40Speaker 6: That would that would change the game right there.
- 7:43Speaker 4: He was clearly motivated.
- 7:44Speaker 1: He was clearly motivated when he hit forty pumps and
- 7:46Speaker 1: led the team to the World Series. If you can
- 7:49Speaker 1: get this dude motivated, unless there's a lingering injury.
- 7:52Speaker 4: That's my only that's my only.
- 7:54Speaker 1: If he's motivated, he can carry a team, and he's
- 7:58Speaker 1: being wasted right now hitting because clearly he don't got
- 8:02Speaker 1: that motivation.
- 8:03Speaker 4: He got motivated, got that contract. Now. I thought he'd
- 8:06Speaker 4: have a bounce back year this year.
- 8:08Speaker 3: But he's not on a long term deal though.
- 8:12Speaker 2: That's the thing. Like he got arbitration mention.
- 8:16Speaker 1: He just got a guarantee sure, which is good, which
- 8:21Speaker 1: is good money and helps players. Some players play better.
- 8:25Speaker 4: It did not. It did not. Ever since he got that,
- 8:28Speaker 4: it has not been quite the same.
- 8:31Speaker 2: All right, So what about the Rays?
- 8:32Speaker 3: They've won twelve to fifteen, Todd Father, the Ale East,
- 8:35Speaker 3: I think has been a disappointment. The race sold big
- 8:39Speaker 3: last year. They're a very decisive team. Seems like they've
- 8:43Speaker 3: figured out playing in their home surroundings. They're playing much
- 8:46Speaker 3: better ball in Tampa. It's a much better setup for
- 8:49Speaker 3: them versus the A's. I feel like those two teams
- 8:51Speaker 3: get compared a lot. Do we think that the race
- 8:54Speaker 3: can hang around and be an annoying wild card contender,
- 8:57Speaker 3: a pesky wild card contender all year?
- 9:01Speaker 6: I mean they got some guys that are doing it.
- 9:03Speaker 5: I mean Ronda, the guy most people have never heard of,
- 9:07Speaker 5: going out there and mashing. You know, he's got a
- 9:10Speaker 5: bunch of home runs. They have a bunch of guys
- 9:13Speaker 5: that are glue guys in my opinion, that play well together,
- 9:16Speaker 5: that mesh well. And they're playing in a minor league park.
- 9:19Speaker 5: They're playing like they're you know, they're on fire. Let's go,
- 9:23Speaker 5: I gotta play. I want to stay here. So there's
- 9:25Speaker 5: something to it. I believe in this team for sure,
- 9:29Speaker 5: and they're finding ways to win these close games, and
- 9:31Speaker 5: it doesn't matter how they win, it's if they win.
- 9:34Speaker 5: And they've been doing They're only five and a half out.
- 9:37Speaker 5: The Yankees got a tough little schedule coming up too
- 9:40Speaker 5: as well, so we'll see, we'll see what happens. I
- 9:43Speaker 5: do enjoy watching the Race play though, because they play
- 9:46Speaker 5: like their hair is on fire, and I really enjoy.
- 9:47Speaker 1: That based on what they've done, they're expected win loss
- 9:51Speaker 1: they're actually underperforming, like they should have a better win
- 9:56Speaker 1: loss record by like three games. To me, this is
- 10:00Speaker 1: what the Rays always do. And yes, they figured out
- 10:02Speaker 1: how to play in their home park. My question would
- 10:05Speaker 1: be going the rest of the way, how do you
- 10:07Speaker 1: play when now the second half of your schedule is
- 10:12Speaker 1: going to be majority on the road. How much does
- 10:14Speaker 1: that wear on guys? Because road trips wear on you,
- 10:17Speaker 1: but then you recoup when you go home. They don't
- 10:20Speaker 1: have a lot of that. They're going to be the
- 10:21Speaker 1: road Warriors here to finish the season. So it's something.
- 10:24Speaker 1: It's something to watch. But they're right there. They're tied
- 10:26Speaker 1: for the last wildcard spot.
- 10:29Speaker 3: If I'm the Rays, at least make them the Ritz Warriors.
- 10:33Speaker 3: Give them, give them the goods.
- 10:34Speaker 2: On the roads.
- 10:36Speaker 1: I played for the all nice hotels. Nobody's nobody's slumming it.
- 10:41Speaker 1: Nobody's slumming it in the big league hotels anymore. Maybe
- 10:45Speaker 1: maybe the A's figured out a way to go cheap,
- 10:48Speaker 1: you know, because of their owner. But and the thing is,
- 10:51Speaker 1: if you're talking about a big leagues if you're talking
- 10:53Speaker 1: about a minor league stadium, they're in the biggest big
- 10:57Speaker 1: league minor league stadium you can get into, stein Brennerfield.
- 11:01Speaker 1: The Yankees have always done it big time. It's not
- 11:03Speaker 1: like they would be going to like an Angel's affiliate
- 11:06Speaker 1: or something like that. Who who has always cut corners
- 11:09Speaker 1: at different stuff? Like it's big league. It ain't no Sacramento.
- 11:13Speaker 3: Yeah, Hey, if a Isner John Fisher could he would
- 11:17Speaker 3: just rent a crappy house and put thirty of them
- 11:20Speaker 3: in there, but you can't do that.
- 11:22Speaker 2: That's against the CBA.
- 11:23Speaker 3: The last thing the Rays have their big offseason acquisition
- 11:27Speaker 3: hasun Kim rehabing. I think he just got into a
- 11:30Speaker 3: game at shortstop in the last day or two, so
- 11:32Speaker 3: that could help, doesn't hurt, could help. I'm pretty pumped
- 11:36Speaker 3: about this. We're live right now. Okay, this is a giveaway,
- 11:39Speaker 3: so head over to the Foul Territory chat on Chat
- 11:42Speaker 3: BCC to enter for a chance to win two free
- 11:45Speaker 3: tickets to a game. This is a contest, the first
- 11:48Speaker 3: one that we're doing. Kratz, I want you to pull
- 11:50Speaker 3: up Chat BCC on your phone while I'm talking to
- 11:52Speaker 3: everyone and pull up the host chat because and then
- 11:55Speaker 3: I have you read exactly what you sent out this
- 11:56Speaker 3: morning in one second. So this is based Christmas in
- 12:01Speaker 3: the summertime. We're going to do something like this every
- 12:04Speaker 3: single week for a while, probably about two months, where
- 12:06Speaker 3: we're giving away two free tickets up to four hundred
- 12:10Speaker 3: dollars to a select winner. Sometimes it might be randomized,
- 12:13Speaker 3: sometimes it might be a contest where we're picking a winner.
- 12:16Speaker 3: So today and Slash this week's contest is Kratz what
- 12:20Speaker 3: did you type in chat bcc, which is a free
- 12:22Speaker 3: app to use to communicate with us.
- 12:24Speaker 1: All the stuff that you just said about four hundred
- 12:26Speaker 1: dollars for two tickets up to four hundred dollars for
- 12:29Speaker 1: two tickets. All you gotta do is you just gotta
- 12:31Speaker 1: tell us who you're bringing to the game and why,
- 12:36Speaker 1: and then you got to invite that person to the
- 12:38Speaker 1: chat and mention them in a reply. I think we're
- 12:41Speaker 1: announcing it on Tuesday, the winner, So let's get on it.
- 12:45Speaker 1: Let's get on it chat.
- 12:46Speaker 2: That is correct. That is correct.
- 12:49Speaker 3: So if you're watching this right now, there's no gimmicks
- 12:53Speaker 3: to this. We're going to do something like this every week.
- 12:55Speaker 3: We'll have a question prompt. Eventually we'll do some trivia
- 12:59Speaker 3: todd Father two tickets up to four hundred bucks, which
- 13:02Speaker 3: gets you some nice seats at a ballgame basically wherever
- 13:06Speaker 3: you are around the country, and they'll let you pick
- 13:09Speaker 3: the game and we'll give the tickets out once a
- 13:12Speaker 3: week for a while.
- 13:15Speaker 6: That's pretty sweet.
- 13:16Speaker 5: I mean, if you've always wanted to bring your son
- 13:17Speaker 5: to a game wherever you are in the country, this
- 13:20Speaker 5: is what you need to do.
- 13:21Speaker 6: It's pretty simple.
- 13:22Speaker 5: There's gonna be a lot of opportunities, so the more
- 13:24Speaker 5: times you do it better, you'll have a chance to win.
- 13:27Speaker 6: I think this is awesome.
- 13:29Speaker 4: I love the chat. I love the chat too because
- 13:31Speaker 4: we can talk.
- 13:31Speaker 1: It feels like we're just talking with the boys and
- 13:35Speaker 1: girls about baseball throughout the night on chat BCC like
- 13:39Speaker 1: it's it's awesome the whole chat group that's in there.
- 13:44Speaker 3: Yeah, it's been fun interacting with everyone. Come hang out
- 13:46Speaker 3: with us, see what we have to say about games, polls,
- 13:49Speaker 3: questions that we use on the show. This is something
- 13:52Speaker 3: we're really excited about. Fout Territory dot Chat. That's why
- 13:55Speaker 3: we're pumping it big this week. But we're also doing
- 13:57Speaker 3: we'll give away session on there as well with us
- 14:00Speaker 3: chat with the ft fam. It's the host chat and
- 14:02Speaker 3: the side chat.
- 14:03Speaker 2: And I showed you how deep the rabbit hole go.
- 14:13Speaker 2: Inside Edge stats.
- 14:14Speaker 3: By the way, we post these all the time on
- 14:16Speaker 3: Twitter every single day and then often on Instagram as well.
- 14:19Speaker 3: They just they do stats so well and we find
- 14:22Speaker 3: some of the good stuff.
- 14:23Speaker 2: Krats.
- 14:23Speaker 3: I'm gonna let you run away with this Inside Edge
- 14:26Speaker 3: note on Kyle Schwarber.
- 14:31Speaker 1: I mean there's no there's no way of like, how
- 14:34Speaker 1: do you figure out what Kyle Schwarber is doing? And
- 14:37Speaker 1: then you're like, oh, yeah, it's contract here. This guy's
- 14:41Speaker 1: locked in. He's freaking he's crushing it. As far as
- 14:46Speaker 1: what he's doing against lefties, he's got seven homers against
- 14:49Speaker 1: left handed relievers. He's got I forget exactly the ops on.
- 14:54Speaker 3: Here, I've got it for you, So I'm gonna simplify it, sorry, krats,
- 14:59Speaker 3: to break you up. Just were on break second in
- 15:02Speaker 3: baseball an inning seven through nine this season in ops?
- 15:06Speaker 3: Can you read that ops for US.
- 15:09Speaker 1: Twelve thirty six, seventh to ninth inning? That's just clutch?
- 15:14Speaker 1: How do you spell cuts? Clutch?
- 15:16Speaker 4: K y l E?
- 15:20Speaker 2: That's right?
- 15:21Speaker 3: And also apparently apparently Todd father I SAA C as well.
- 15:26Speaker 3: Shober was first earlier in the week and etak paratus
- 15:30Speaker 3: has passed him, so a little shout out to him as.
- 15:31Speaker 6: Well, no doubt, no doubt.
- 15:34Speaker 5: And honestly, it's one of those situations where if there's
- 15:37Speaker 5: a base open now, you might as well put him
- 15:39Speaker 5: on if you have an opportunity. Yeah, you have to
- 15:42Speaker 5: treat it like that. This guy is always ready in
- 15:45Speaker 5: every clutch situation and he's dominated. And it's year after year, Kratzy.
- 15:50Speaker 5: You know this guy, whether he's leaning off the game
- 15:53Speaker 5: or whether it's in the you know, the last innings,
- 15:56Speaker 5: he finds a way to get things done.
- 15:57Speaker 6: And it doesn't always have to be the home run, which.
- 16:00Speaker 5: Has been lately, but he's doing it in different ways,
- 16:03Speaker 5: whether it's a walk or finding ways to get guys over.
- 16:05Speaker 5: And then it's just that's the type of player I
- 16:09Speaker 5: would look for. You know, we're not even talking about numbers,
- 16:12Speaker 5: just clutch. This guy is the a ball player. Yes,
- 16:14Speaker 5: and then ladings even better, boom, check it off the list.
- 16:17Speaker 5: That would be my number one right there.
- 16:19Speaker 1: He's making he's making teams think do they bring a
- 16:22Speaker 1: lefty in to face him late in the game, which
- 16:25Speaker 1: very few managers want to lose their jobs, so they're
- 16:27Speaker 1: going to keep doing it. And he's freaking smashing lefties
- 16:31Speaker 1: right now.
- 16:41Speaker 3: Better than box scores. Let's start with the Oriols and
- 16:43Speaker 3: the Mariners. Now, Todd Father, if you're a disappointing team
- 16:46Speaker 3: like Baltimore and nobody called them out like you before
- 16:49Speaker 3: the season started, you were like, Nope, not going to
- 16:51Speaker 3: make the playoffs.
- 16:51Speaker 6: I would just be honest, that's all.
- 16:54Speaker 3: And you nailed it. You are pretty good on the
- 16:56Speaker 3: prediction front. The Orioles are definitely in a mess. They
- 17:01Speaker 3: are gonna do their best, give it the good old
- 17:03Speaker 3: college try.
- 17:04Speaker 2: I don't think they're gonna be a playoff team.
- 17:05Speaker 3: We've talked at length about how they're probably gonna be sellers,
- 17:08Speaker 3: but they can be spoilers Todd Father.
- 17:09Speaker 2: And they've played the Mariners really well.
- 17:13Speaker 5: They have, they have, and this is what fans in
- 17:18Speaker 5: Baltimore and DC area are looking for. I mean, this
- 17:21Speaker 5: is the team that they thought they were gonna be.
- 17:24Speaker 5: I mean, twenty five and thirty six is not ideal. Again,
- 17:28Speaker 5: I know you said they're gonna be spoilers. It's still
- 17:30Speaker 5: long ways to go. They can go on a fifteen
- 17:32Speaker 5: and two run and all of a sudden we're talking
- 17:34Speaker 5: something else, but I still don't see that happening.
- 17:36Speaker 6: They're a really good team.
- 17:37Speaker 5: Adlee Ruschman has been really good as of late, you know,
- 17:42Speaker 5: struggling coming in if I know thirteen his last thirteen
- 17:45Speaker 5: is bats.
- 17:46Speaker 6: He's doing pretty good.
- 17:47Speaker 5: But again, that's a good sign for them, and to
- 17:50Speaker 5: go in Seattle and do what they did.
- 17:52Speaker 6: Yeah, all right, we could talk about them a.
- 17:55Speaker 5: Little bit here. Let's see how they do otherwise. But
- 17:57Speaker 5: it's a good little start here.
- 17:58Speaker 1: In June, nice we got to talk about six game
- 18:01Speaker 1: winning streak because they beat a good Mariners team. Thing
- 18:05Speaker 1: I'm constantly seeing in is in game decisions by this team,
- 18:11Speaker 1: And I guess I'm going to point to Manzolino, but
- 18:14Speaker 1: bringing in their closer when they're down by a run
- 18:18Speaker 1: after throwing the night before, pitching to cal Raley, who's
- 18:24Speaker 1: the MVP of the American League except for Judge, he's
- 18:27Speaker 1: on another planet. He's MVP of the next league he
- 18:30Speaker 1: gets called up to. But cal Rally's easily the best
- 18:34Speaker 1: hitter for the Mariners right now, and they elected the
- 18:37Speaker 1: pitch to him with two outs and a runner on third.
- 18:39Speaker 1: I'm not saying that you walk him, you know, you
- 18:42Speaker 1: go four wide, but he ends up hitting a two
- 18:44Speaker 1: run inger. There's a lot of bullpen decisions that I'm like,
- 18:49Speaker 1: why are we doing these things to a team that
- 18:51Speaker 1: needs to crawl out of the seller right now? And
- 18:54Speaker 1: it just doesn't seem like, yes, they won six in
- 18:57Speaker 1: a row, but they have to like start making better
- 19:00Speaker 1: field decisions.
- 19:03Speaker 3: Yeah, and that wasn't really a problem with Brandon Hyde.
- 19:05Speaker 3: I mean, we'll point out the obvious here with Baltimore owners, like, whoa,
- 19:11Speaker 3: I'm a pretty new owner, We're supposed to be good.
- 19:14Speaker 2: We suck.
- 19:15Speaker 3: I'm not going to fire the GM yet we have
- 19:18Speaker 3: to do something drastic. And that was the fall guy.
- 19:21Speaker 3: So yeah, the only thing that was weird to me Kratz.
- 19:24Speaker 3: And again I'm not trying to knock Tony Manselin. I
- 19:27Speaker 3: really don't know him. The interim manager. I thought, if
- 19:30Speaker 3: Baltimore was really trying to state a case that they
- 19:32Speaker 3: were going to get themselves back on track, they needed
- 19:35Speaker 3: to immediately announce some veteran manager coming out of the
- 19:38Speaker 3: blue to take over here. I know you've mentioned someone
- 19:41Speaker 3: like David Ross. Maybe he got a phone call and
- 19:43Speaker 3: said no, But I thought that would have been an
- 19:46Speaker 3: interesting take to see if someone can actually help a
- 19:48Speaker 3: talented team go on a run. I mean, to me,
- 19:50Speaker 3: the biggest mistake was they do that, and then right
- 19:53Speaker 3: after that move is made, they fell apart even more.
- 19:55Speaker 3: Now they're picking it up, but they're just trying to
- 19:57Speaker 3: put the pieces back together.
- 20:00Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I went on a Baltimore radio show,
- 20:02Speaker 1: and the guy that I talked to said the same thing,
- 20:05Speaker 1: like he wanted somebody immediately to me, this is a play.
- 20:09Speaker 1: This is really, for the most part, a player's issue.
- 20:13Speaker 1: But you brought in a guy in Manzelino who was there,
- 20:16Speaker 1: so he saw what the issues were. If it even
- 20:19Speaker 1: if the issues are just we don't know what's going on.
- 20:23Speaker 1: We have no idea why we have expected batting average
- 20:27Speaker 1: in the top ten. But you know, run production is
- 20:30Speaker 1: way down. We don't know what's going on. We don't
- 20:32Speaker 1: have a starting rotation, all that stuff. You've been there.
- 20:35Speaker 1: So I thought he was a good guy because he's
- 20:37Speaker 1: been on the bench for a talented team and try
- 20:40Speaker 1: to get the most out of him. And I feel
- 20:43Speaker 1: like let's kind of turned the other way a little
- 20:45Speaker 1: bit and the players need to take this under. The
- 20:49Speaker 1: players need to figure this out ultimately, but there just
- 20:52Speaker 1: needs to be something different.
- 20:55Speaker 3: I'm with you, all right, Let's give love to the Mariners.
- 20:58Speaker 3: Cal Raley is a stud top father. If Aaron Judge
- 21:02Speaker 3: wasn't a thing, he would be the front runner for
- 21:04Speaker 3: al MVP. And not only is he on a ridiculous tear,
- 21:09Speaker 3: but I thought his quote about the home run Derby
- 21:12Speaker 3: was awesome, and I get it.
- 21:13Speaker 2: Cal is excited about this.
- 21:16Speaker 3: He has, I think, climbed into superstardom pretty clearly in
- 21:19Speaker 3: our sport. Now as we look at one of his
- 21:21Speaker 3: towering blasts, he said about the Derby.
- 21:27Speaker 2: Quote, I would do that in a heartbeat.
- 21:30Speaker 3: And he's leading baseball with twenty four home runs Otania
- 21:34Speaker 3: twenty three, Judge at twenty one. Judge has done one
- 21:37Speaker 3: and he was insane that was the one in Miami.
- 21:40Speaker 3: But he said, and he just reiterated in the last
- 21:42Speaker 3: forty eight hours that he is only doing a Derby
- 21:46Speaker 3: if it's in New York.
- 21:47Speaker 2: So we got a little Derby news.
- 21:49Speaker 3: Cal's going to be in because he's going to be
- 21:50Speaker 3: an All Star and he's going to be at I
- 21:52Speaker 3: don't know, thirty homers by the All Star break, thirty
- 21:55Speaker 3: plus and Judge's not.
- 22:00Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 22:01Speaker 5: I love the quote because as the same thing like
- 22:04Speaker 5: if I had an opportunity, which I had three of them,
- 22:07Speaker 5: thank god. It was such a blasted dude, like looking
- 22:10Speaker 5: back on your career. But he's like, oh, it's going
- 22:12Speaker 5: to ruin your swing this and that. I didn't really care.
- 22:15Speaker 5: I was having a blast. You know, you think about
- 22:18Speaker 5: when you were a darn kid and doing those in
- 22:21Speaker 5: the backyard. Man, what changes anything? Go out and enjoy it.
- 22:24Speaker 5: Pete a Lonzo, do another one. He'll do a six
- 22:26Speaker 5: to one. He don't care. I'm fifth or six, I
- 22:28Speaker 5: don't know what it is, but yeah, this is this
- 22:31Speaker 5: is refreshing. This guy's having a heck of a year
- 22:34Speaker 5: and he's as solid as they come. Man, the dude
- 22:36Speaker 5: is just good catcher, really good hitter right now.
- 22:40Speaker 6: And how many times.
- 22:41Speaker 5: Do you see this cratzy a catcher just hitting that
- 22:44Speaker 5: many home runs? I mean, Pud Rodriguez, I'm just trying
- 22:46Speaker 5: to think of some people back in the day, but
- 22:48Speaker 5: he is doing it in really big numbers.
- 22:52Speaker 1: I mean, Mike Piazzo is the guy that comes to mind.
- 22:54Speaker 1: But he couldn't catch. He couldn't catch a cold like
- 22:58Speaker 1: Raley does. I mean, cols Cal's one of the top
- 23:01Speaker 1: defensive players in the game based on out's above average
- 23:05Speaker 1: framing numbers and all that stuff. So he is all
- 23:08Speaker 1: around game. Absolutely. The home run derby and Todd might
- 23:12Speaker 1: disagree with me on this one. The home run derby
- 23:15Speaker 1: should be a display of the best power. I don't
- 23:19Speaker 1: know that it's necessarily has to be All Star guys.
- 23:21Speaker 1: It should be the best power to even say, hey,
- 23:25Speaker 1: you know what, you qualify through the minor leagues, one
- 23:28Speaker 1: minor league representative. I want to see. It's a showcase.
- 23:33Speaker 1: I want to see the dudes with the most juice.
- 23:36Speaker 1: I want to see Kyle Schwarber there. I know Bryce
- 23:40Speaker 1: Harper for a fact wants to do the home run
- 23:43Speaker 1: derby in Atlanta. He might not be an All Star
- 23:45Speaker 1: this year. I want to see Pete Alonso, whether he's
- 23:48Speaker 1: hitting two ten or he's starting at first base in
- 23:52Speaker 1: the game. I want to see the best power because
- 23:54Speaker 1: it's a power showcase and everybody loves it. So cal
- 23:58Speaker 1: should be the captain of one of the teams. And
- 24:00Speaker 1: I want to see a big dumper hit some dingers.
- 24:03Speaker 3: Hold up, did Bryce announce that? Or is that some
- 24:06Speaker 3: inside Philly word that you've got.
- 24:08Speaker 4: That's inside Philly word.
- 24:09Speaker 1: He wants, he wants to because think about this, go
- 24:14Speaker 1: down to Atlanta. He loves hitting in Atlanta. Sneaky, great
- 24:18Speaker 1: place to hit for lefties too, with that short porch
- 24:20Speaker 1: in the chop house.
- 24:21Speaker 4: And where's the All Star Game next year?
- 24:25Speaker 3: Let mignon hmmm, just just saying that's awesome, and I
- 24:33Speaker 3: would love.
- 24:34Speaker 2: To see that.
- 24:35Speaker 3: Todd father he was he was great in DC. That
- 24:38Speaker 3: was the last time, Right, has he done any since?
- 24:42Speaker 4: I don't remember one.
- 24:43Speaker 3: I don't think so that would be great, right, Todd?
- 24:48Speaker 3: Were you always an All Star for it? Or one
- 24:51Speaker 3: of the years or two of the years you weren't.
- 24:53Speaker 3: I don't remember one of the years?
- 24:54Speaker 2: Okay?
- 24:55Speaker 3: And was that okay? Did you care or it's like
- 24:58Speaker 3: still cool? Hey, I'm going to the Derby.
- 25:00Speaker 6: Oh I didn't care at all? If you want to choose,
- 25:02Speaker 6: I was. I was really excited.
- 25:06Speaker 1: Was it embarrassing in a sense of like like when
- 25:09Speaker 1: I got invited to the MLB All Star Tour to
- 25:12Speaker 1: go around Japan with all the All stars they needed
- 25:15Speaker 1: a third catcher. Well they're not just They're not just
- 25:17Speaker 1: picking up a dude that's gonna go.
- 25:18Speaker 4: And not play.
- 25:20Speaker 1: So I got I got my role, but it was
- 25:22Speaker 1: kind of like, maybe I'm not on the Robinson.
- 25:28Speaker 6: Or do you really?
- 25:31Speaker 5: I was cool because I've I had two All Stars
- 25:33Speaker 5: under my belt, so I you know, you know, maybe
- 25:36Speaker 5: not that year I belong there, but.
- 25:38Speaker 6: I you know, I've been there. I've been with all
- 25:40Speaker 6: those guys.
- 25:41Speaker 5: You know, just one of those years where I had
- 25:43Speaker 5: more home runs than you know, I did anything else good,
- 25:47Speaker 5: So it just worked out that way.
- 25:49Speaker 2: I love that, Todd Father.
- 25:51Speaker 3: That's why I asked it, though, Crats, because I do
- 25:53Speaker 3: feel like some guys will go, oh, yeah, I'll do
- 25:56Speaker 3: it if I'm an All Star, and they use it,
- 25:58Speaker 3: use it kind of as a little bit of a
- 26:00Speaker 3: leverage chip, or just maybe they're genuinely saying I don't
- 26:03Speaker 3: want to go and just do the Derby. But for me,
- 26:05Speaker 3: Todd Father, I think we always have to remember what
- 26:08Speaker 3: the All Star festivities are about. I mean, everything's kind
- 26:12Speaker 3: of for the fans, but this is really for the fans.
- 26:15Speaker 3: And if you told ten year old anybody in the
- 26:18Speaker 3: big leagues that you would get invited to the Derby,
- 26:21Speaker 3: and maybe you're not an All Star that year, but
- 26:23Speaker 3: they would love to have you, and the Derby gets
- 26:25Speaker 3: just as much attention as the All Star Game. I
- 26:27Speaker 3: feel like more guys should say I'm going. If I
- 26:30Speaker 3: get into the All Star Game, great, but I'm going
- 26:33Speaker 3: regardless if they ask me.
- 26:36Speaker 5: Exactly. I don't think you should feel ashamed at all,
- 26:40Speaker 5: but other people do. It's their own progative. Again, no judgment,
- 26:45Speaker 5: but if they were like, hey, cratty phrase, we need
- 26:48Speaker 5: two guys in a home run derby, let's go, I'm
- 26:50Speaker 5: sure Crafty would and I would jump open haf and
- 26:53Speaker 5: go do it right now.
- 26:55Speaker 1: Hell yeah, I can still accidentally hit some dingers and bep.
- 27:00Speaker 4: But that's what I mean. You should have a minor
- 27:03Speaker 4: league guy. The NBA doesn't.
- 27:04Speaker 1: And as much as the Stars do not want to
- 27:07Speaker 1: do the dunk contest, it's still a popular thing. And
- 27:12Speaker 1: look who's won it. I always call him Seth McClung
- 27:15Speaker 1: because I don't remember his real name, and Seth McClung
- 27:17Speaker 1: was the the Matt.
- 27:20Speaker 4: Is that what it is?
- 27:21Speaker 2: I think so?
- 27:23Speaker 1: But anyway, he comes up from the d League and
- 27:25Speaker 1: wins a dunk contest. It's fun to watch elite professional
- 27:30Speaker 1: players do things at an elite level against each other,
- 27:34Speaker 1: head to head competition.
- 27:36Speaker 4: I love it.
- 27:37Speaker 3: This is Jack hagleone ripping his first big league hit,
- 27:41Speaker 3: and I've seen some hard contact. No homers yet, Kratz,
- 27:44Speaker 3: but Kansas City's excited and I think they should be there.
- 27:47Speaker 3: He goes on a pitch that ended up I mean,
- 27:49Speaker 3: it would have been a little below the plate or
- 27:51Speaker 3: a little below of the zone. I should say from
- 27:53Speaker 3: miles michaelis uh, It's been fun watching him so far.
- 27:56Speaker 3: I think I'm believing what I'm seeing. Obviously, you haven't
- 28:00Speaker 3: seen a ton of results yet because he just got
- 28:02Speaker 3: his first hit in what his third game, I think
- 28:04Speaker 3: it was. But I believe in the process. I'm saying,
- 28:08Speaker 3: not long term. I think most people think he's going
- 28:09Speaker 3: to be good.
- 28:10Speaker 2: Long term.
- 28:10Speaker 3: I'm saying I think he's going to be a pretty
- 28:11Speaker 3: big deal this year, like second half. He might be
- 28:15Speaker 3: the dude that carries them from a power perspective and
- 28:17Speaker 3: makes them a much more legit playoff threat. They were
- 28:20Speaker 3: missing something like this.
- 28:22Speaker 1: They're missing power. What it does their lineup, what does
- 28:25Speaker 1: their field, their defense?
- 28:27Speaker 4: Who knows?
- 28:28Speaker 1: But they're missing that power and they have to infuse
- 28:31Speaker 1: him somewhere in the lineup. He has what I think
- 28:34Speaker 1: Todd would agree with me, mistake power. Some dudes have
- 28:37Speaker 1: enough power to hit the ball out of the ballpark.
- 28:39Speaker 1: I had enough power to hit the ball the ballpark,
- 28:41Speaker 1: even though opposite field, I didn't have mistake power. There's
- 28:45Speaker 1: very few guys in the big leagues that have mistake power.
- 28:48Speaker 1: He has that and so it'll be exciting. It'll be
- 28:51Speaker 1: tough to hit Diggers and Kaufman, but it is definitely
- 28:56Speaker 1: something that very few teams can just call up a
- 28:58Speaker 1: dude with this much juice.
- 29:01Speaker 5: Energy, energy. He's got energy, man. You can see him.
- 29:04Speaker 5: He's he looks like he belongs there. His body type,
- 29:08Speaker 5: his figure, his attitude. He's gonna be an exciting ballplayer
- 29:13Speaker 5: to watch. And he swings hard. That's what I love.
- 29:17Speaker 5: I love everything about.
- 29:19Speaker 4: I like that.
- 29:20Speaker 3: If you're trying to Hitdingers at Kaufman at the K
- 29:23Speaker 3: you need a dude that looks like that. So I
- 29:26Speaker 3: think Royal fans are going to be pretty pumped. I
- 29:28Speaker 3: think the Royals are going to be a sneaky team
- 29:30Speaker 3: here in the American League. All right, here's a tweet
- 29:33Speaker 3: from Scott Murkin. White Sox reporter Sergio Santos has become
- 29:38Speaker 3: the arbiter of Major League dreams, looking forward to seeing
- 29:41Speaker 3: this message of the Kyle Teal promotion.
- 29:43Speaker 2: Who is their top catching prospect?
- 29:45Speaker 3: And you said, he can confirm the report from Chris
- 29:47Speaker 3: Catillo that Teal is on his way to Chicago, and
- 29:50Speaker 3: said it's going to be interesting to see how the
- 29:51Speaker 3: White Sox handle their catching situation. They've got two good
- 29:55Speaker 3: young catchers. I mean, it's not the world's best off krats.
- 30:00Speaker 3: I'm not too concerned about how they're going to handle
- 30:03Speaker 3: playing time. If the Dodgers can figure out getting Dalton
- 30:06Speaker 3: rushing playing time. I think if Kyle Teal hits and
- 30:08Speaker 3: he's feeling good, he'll get plenty of pet Yeah.
- 30:12Speaker 4: I don't think this is going to be an issue.
- 30:13Speaker 4: This isn't like you said.
- 30:15Speaker 1: This isn't some dude they're gonna call up and go,
- 30:17Speaker 1: you're catching two of every six games. My guy's going
- 30:21Speaker 1: to be in the lineup. They need to figure out
- 30:23Speaker 1: how to score some runs. Who knows, maybe Kyle Tiel
- 30:26Speaker 1: can catch them fly balls in the outfield too. Just
- 30:29Speaker 1: saying watch a few White Sox games.
- 30:32Speaker 3: By the way, I see Jamon and the chatd like,
- 30:34Speaker 3: why is Katilla reporting that? Well, he reports on stuff,
- 30:36Speaker 3: and Kyle Tiel was in the Red Sox system, so
- 30:38Speaker 3: that makes sense. Got some sources there would make sense
- 30:42Speaker 3: that he makes a report like that. Half corner of time,
- 30:48Speaker 3: we're going to start with some potential injury news. This
- 30:51Speaker 3: would suck. Shane Bieber is not going to start today.
- 30:54Speaker 3: For Akron. He's working through his minor league rehabb assignment,
- 30:58Speaker 3: but it's on pause. He reported orness after throwing a
- 31:00Speaker 3: bullpen session the other day. This from Zach Mizella covers
- 31:03Speaker 3: the team and Shane Bieber met with team doctors. He's
- 31:05Speaker 3: going to consult with doctor Keith Meister to figure out
- 31:08Speaker 3: what's next. Never no offense to Meister, who's been on
- 31:12Speaker 3: the show and he's awesome, But never a visit that
- 31:14Speaker 3: you want to make Todd Father Biab's really good when
- 31:17Speaker 3: he's healthy.
- 31:18Speaker 2: And frankly, the Guardians I don't want to say need him.
- 31:21Speaker 3: I mean they definitely need him if they're gonna be
- 31:23Speaker 3: a problem in the playoffs. But I mean this is
- 31:26Speaker 3: the guy that they were looking at as the infusion
- 31:28Speaker 3: in a rotation that's been okay, so hopefully he's okay.
- 31:35Speaker 6: Yeah. I mean.
- 31:37Speaker 5: This is tough because you know, I know they they
- 31:41Speaker 5: won the second game against the Yankees the other day,
- 31:43Speaker 5: but they're really not hitting that well. If you want
- 31:46Speaker 5: the truth, you know they're not hitting well with runners
- 31:48Speaker 5: in score and position.
- 31:51Speaker 6: They need him.
- 31:52Speaker 5: They need more pitching, they need more hitting, they need
- 31:54Speaker 5: a bunch of different things, you know, and it just
- 31:56Speaker 5: doesn't seem like the Guardians of old here. So it's
- 32:00Speaker 5: and we'll see. We'll see what happens. But when you
- 32:03Speaker 5: hear Keith Meister's name, that's a name you don't really
- 32:05Speaker 5: want to hear. Hopefully it is good news because you
- 32:08Speaker 5: don't want anybody to have any injuries.
- 32:11Speaker 1: And sometimes coming back from these things, you don't exactly
- 32:14Speaker 1: know what soreness is good soreness, what soreness is bad soreness.
- 32:18Speaker 1: That's my hope. The negative side of me says he
- 32:24Speaker 1: felt this after a bullpen session and not after a start,
- 32:28Speaker 1: or maybe it was after a rehab start, and then
- 32:31Speaker 1: he went and was like, okay, well maybe I'll just
- 32:33Speaker 1: throw my bullpen session now. It's feeling something. Let's not
- 32:38Speaker 1: jump to conclusions. But sometimes when you go and see
- 32:42Speaker 1: the doctor who did your surgery, hey, you know what,
- 32:46Speaker 1: this is common. Where you're feeling it is common, we'll
- 32:49Speaker 1: shut you down for a few days. It's okay, It
- 32:52Speaker 1: is okay. The Guardians are going to be in it
- 32:54Speaker 1: all year. Even if he comes back and throws seven
- 32:56Speaker 1: or eight starts, I think it's going to be huge
- 33:00Speaker 1: because they're running. The playoffs will be dictated by if
- 33:04Speaker 1: they have starting pitching. I know last year they didn't
- 33:07Speaker 1: very much. It was like Biby and two winnings of Boyd.
- 33:10Speaker 1: But they need some kind of starting pitching.
- 33:15Speaker 3: Another starting pitcher. Injury note, let's get to Aaron Nola.
- 33:20Speaker 3: He's on the aisle right now, off to a poor
- 33:23Speaker 3: start this season, but felt some soreness in his right side.
- 33:27Speaker 3: So Matt Gelb reporting about how he's going to be
- 33:29Speaker 3: out longer. Manager Rob Thompson said, very mild. But he's
- 33:33Speaker 3: not going to throw a live VP on Thursday. They're
- 33:35Speaker 3: gonna wait a few days. So that's going to push
- 33:37Speaker 3: him back a bit. And I generally look at the
- 33:40Speaker 3: Phillies over the course of the season, I'm like, they're fine,
- 33:42Speaker 3: they're gonna make the playoffs. But if you're a Philly fan,
- 33:45Speaker 3: would you like to win the division? Try and get
- 33:48Speaker 3: yourself a little division or a first round by of
- 33:50Speaker 3: course you would. The other problem right now and it's
- 33:54Speaker 3: just a two start stretch, but Kratz talked me through
- 33:57Speaker 3: what you're seeing from Jesus Lozardo. That changed because we've
- 34:01Speaker 3: got the first eleven starts and the overall number there
- 34:05Speaker 3: is dazzling. And then we have the last two starts,
- 34:08Speaker 3: which is not so great. Twenty earned runs in five
- 34:12Speaker 3: and two thirds. First pitcher in MLB history to allow
- 34:15Speaker 3: twenty plus earned runs and fewer than six innings in
- 34:18Speaker 3: a span of two starts. First eleven starts, by the way,
- 34:21Speaker 3: gave up sixteen earned runs and his ERA was at
- 34:25Speaker 3: two one five. Now he's at four four six. So
- 34:29Speaker 3: maybe there I don't know, maybe he was tipping, whatever,
- 34:32Speaker 3: something happened and he fixes it.
- 34:33Speaker 2: But the thing is like, this is an.
- 34:36Speaker 3: Era killer for the personal side of things, for a
- 34:40Speaker 3: guy who eventually will hit free agency, and you just
- 34:42Speaker 3: hope that it doesn't paint the picture of how he is.
- 34:44Speaker 3: But it is two starts where you basically lose the
- 34:46Speaker 3: game for a team. What are you seeing? Because he
- 34:49Speaker 3: before that he looked like he could be in a
- 34:51Speaker 3: Cy Young conversation.
- 34:53Speaker 1: He looked nasty. The slider was in the zone and
- 34:57Speaker 1: then out of the zone. Now looks like it's in
- 35:01Speaker 1: the zone. And I'm not trying to I'm not trying
- 35:03Speaker 1: to paint a bleak picture more bleak. Those twenty runs
- 35:08Speaker 1: were scored by the Brewers, who don't hit lefties very well,
- 35:12Speaker 1: and the Blue Jays who don't hit very well at all.
- 35:15Speaker 1: So it wasn't like he was facing the Dodgers and
- 35:18Speaker 1: the Mets back to back. It was the Brewers. Now,
- 35:21Speaker 1: the twelve runs he gave up against the Brewers, they
- 35:24Speaker 1: needed him to stay out there. And it also shows
- 35:26Speaker 1: for anybody who's out there, especially Philly fans who were like, oh, yeah,
- 35:30Speaker 1: I saw this come.
- 35:31Speaker 4: And yo, he's been lucky all year. Not.
- 35:34Speaker 1: No, the reason you give up twenty runs in five
- 35:37Speaker 1: innings is because the people that see you every day
- 35:40Speaker 1: are like, it's okay, he'll get himself out of it.
- 35:43Speaker 1: Oh crap, he just gave up twelve runs. Oh crap,
- 35:46Speaker 1: he just gave up eight runs. Like they knew what
- 35:49Speaker 1: they were seeing. And it's come on fast here. Like
- 35:53Speaker 1: his lack of execution on that slider consistently, I think
- 35:57Speaker 1: has led to more damage on not just the slider,
- 36:01Speaker 1: but on every other, every other one of his pitches.
- 36:06Speaker 5: Yeah, and that's real quick. That's if you're not you know,
- 36:09Speaker 5: how you take one pitch away from somebody. It's such
- 36:11Speaker 5: a huge help from even though most pitchers have six
- 36:14Speaker 5: seven pitchers don't get me wrong, but there's a consistent
- 36:17Speaker 5: two or three, maybe four pitches that they use more
- 36:20Speaker 5: than others. But if you can limit one of those pitchers,
- 36:23Speaker 5: well that's a huge relief for a hitter. And if
- 36:25Speaker 5: they throw over strike, you tip your cap until they
- 36:27Speaker 5: get consistent with it again.
- 36:30Speaker 3: Especially if it's a nasty pitch or one of your
- 36:32Speaker 3: money makers, and then you lose your mojo all right,
- 36:36Speaker 3: last one year. Another injury update on the positive side,
- 36:39Speaker 3: John Carlo Stanton could do a little rehab game action.
- 36:44Speaker 2: Next week. So obviously he's been out for the whole year.
- 36:48Speaker 3: He's got the tennis double elbows going on, but they
- 36:52Speaker 3: said he's been making progress taking my VP the rest
- 36:55Speaker 3: of this week. Could start at some point minor league action,
- 37:00Speaker 3: rehab assignment next week. Todd Father, which of course Yankee
- 37:04Speaker 3: fans would love to see once he's back, but he's
- 37:07Speaker 3: also Robert Rory status. Make sure that that bat is
- 37:11Speaker 3: good to go for the playoffs. And also there's probably
- 37:14Speaker 3: some fans that don't even know who that is, but
- 37:16Speaker 3: big shot Bob, he was an NBA player for a
- 37:18Speaker 3: long time. He would drain clutch threes and like towards
- 37:21Speaker 3: the end of his career, I think maybe with the
- 37:23Speaker 3: Spurs for example, like he barely plays sometimes during the
- 37:26Speaker 3: season and then they're just like, yeah, playoffs six', ten
- 37:30Speaker 3: you're not going to block him many drains. Threes So John, Carlow,
- 37:34Speaker 3: yeah a lot of weird. Injuries his body is broken
- 37:37Speaker 3: down at, times but playoffs he hits the ball a
- 37:40Speaker 3: billion miles an hour and he is, super super clutch
- 37:44Speaker 3: in the postseason over the past half.
- 37:47Speaker 2: Decade here here's my.
- 37:49Speaker 5: Thing there was a conversation about. It a couple of days.
- 37:52Speaker 5: Ago he was doing all, activities but he never swung the.
- 37:56Speaker 5: Bat and this was a couple of days, ago so
- 37:59Speaker 5: that that's still Has i'm not. Worried i'm you, Know
- 38:01Speaker 5: i'm not worried about. It but still you would, think you,
- 38:04Speaker 5: know after doing some running and you, know maybe some,
- 38:08Speaker 5: defense you would get some swings. In you really didn't
- 38:10Speaker 5: see live or take batting. Practice so maybe in these
- 38:13Speaker 5: last couple of days something has. Switched but, yeah there's a.
- 38:17Speaker 5: Potential but again one of those. INJURIES i, mean this
- 38:20Speaker 5: is do double. Barrel so these pipes gotta be, good,
- 38:24Speaker 5: Man so take your time and if it's, not you,
- 38:28Speaker 5: Know i'm not these guys people, think you, know oh
- 38:31Speaker 5: you come off injury one hundred, Percent he's still not
- 38:33Speaker 5: gonna be one hundred. Percent he's going to be to
- 38:35Speaker 5: a percentage where he can go and you, know whatever
- 38:39Speaker 5: that is is. Fine it's a percentage where you know
- 38:41Speaker 5: you you're not going to get injured, Again so whatever
- 38:43Speaker 5: that needs to.
- 38:44Speaker 6: Be but, again need to see more.
- 38:45Speaker 3: Swings, yep that's fair to, Me. Kratz it's always, like
- 38:50Speaker 3: you know how there's some people out joke, like oh
- 38:52Speaker 3: you can't pull fat or oh this doesn't get.
- 38:54Speaker 2: Hurt it's, like, Yeah John carlow is the complete opposite
- 38:58Speaker 2: end of the.
- 38:58Speaker 3: Spectrum like everything is pure muscle and it is really
- 39:02Speaker 3: hard for him to keep his body intact to play
- 39:04Speaker 3: a baseball game and he's in his mid.
- 39:05Speaker 1: Thirties but you're also infusing a twenty seven homers last
- 39:12Speaker 1: year in about two thirds to a little over half a.
- 39:16Speaker 1: Season you just infuse that into the. Lineup, yeah there's
- 39:20Speaker 1: gonna be some pitchers that aren't afraid of, it but
- 39:23Speaker 1: just him standing there on deck is just changes how
- 39:27Speaker 1: teams are going to pitch. TO i Assume Cody, BOUNDER i,
- 39:30Speaker 1: MEAN i assume it's gonna Be Judge Cody stanton when
- 39:34Speaker 1: he comes.
- 39:34Speaker 3: BACK i like the sound of, that all, right ft,
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- 42:12Speaker 2: Missing all, right let's hit what's the?
- 42:24Speaker 3: Beef as frustrations boil in a rain issue as The
- 42:29Speaker 3: astro general Manager Dana brown tries to protect the. Boys
- 42:33Speaker 3: so In, Pittsburgh, yeah it took a. While they were
- 42:36Speaker 3: delayed for a. MINUTE i remember looking late ast And i'm,
- 42:39Speaker 3: like they're still. Going you can see the conversations right,
- 42:42Speaker 3: now which Include Dana brown if you're looking right side
- 42:45Speaker 3: of your screen talking to the, Umpires Don kelly on
- 42:48Speaker 3: the other side looking like he's getting into it a little.
- 42:51Speaker 3: Bit so there was a postgame conversation With, brown who
- 42:54Speaker 3: wanted to bang the game and quote protect the. Boys
- 42:57Speaker 3: he said he's got no beef With Don, kelly but
- 42:59Speaker 3: he does have an issue with getting Into cleveland for
- 43:01Speaker 3: their series this weekend at three point thirty in the,
- 43:04Speaker 3: morning and he has no regret for his rare public
- 43:07Speaker 3: display of. Anger Dana, brown WHO i can, confirm is super. Nice,
- 43:12Speaker 3: okay he is a super nice. Dude he has contributed
- 43:15Speaker 3: a lot to this, game and he is a baseball.
- 43:18Speaker 3: Lifer so if you want to piss him, off you
- 43:20Speaker 3: make his team wait forever and then put them at
- 43:22Speaker 3: a competitive disadvantage over the. Weekend, anyway he, said, QUOTE
- 43:27Speaker 3: i would have preferred to bang the game just because
- 43:29Speaker 3: of the conditions and the length and the time and all.
- 43:31Speaker 3: THAT i would have preferred to bang the. Game so,
- 43:33Speaker 3: anyway who wins? Here who's in the? Wrong, Kratz you've
- 43:38Speaker 3: played for both.
- 43:39Speaker 2: Teams who's in the.
- 43:41Speaker 1: Wrong i'm gonna go with both are in the. Wrong
- 43:47Speaker 1: they should never argue in. Public there's. Easy don't argue
- 43:50Speaker 1: it out in. Public you can go and yell at
- 43:52Speaker 1: each other in the. Hallway but, HONESTLY i wouldn't even
- 43:55Speaker 1: say who's in the. WRONG i would Say Dana brown
- 43:58Speaker 1: might have gotten the boys', height Because i'm sure he
- 44:01Speaker 1: didn't just go into the locker room and be, like.
- 44:04Speaker 4: Sorry, GUYS i couldn't do.
- 44:06Speaker 6: IT i.
- 44:06Speaker 1: Couldn't he was he was very, heated and he's not
- 44:09Speaker 1: apologetic about. IT i bet he went into the locker
- 44:12Speaker 1: room and, GOES i want you to bury these. Fools
- 44:17Speaker 1: they want you to be out there and. Playing we're
- 44:19Speaker 1: gonna beat them up and we'll take care of what happens.
- 44:23Speaker 1: Next but you go in there and because they came,
- 44:25Speaker 1: out guns of, Blazing esach was, Like, dana bring me,
- 44:29Speaker 1: Back i'll hit you two home runs. Tonight framber was,
- 44:31Speaker 1: like bring me, Back i'll strike out eleven dudes.
- 44:34Speaker 5: Tonight it WAS i Think cratzy that was. Perfect you,
- 44:39Speaker 5: know do that underneath a little. Bit but to, see you,
- 44:43Speaker 5: know both guys having each other's, BACK i don't think
- 44:45Speaker 5: anybody was that. FAULT i think they're both protecting each
- 44:47Speaker 5: other's teams and.
- 44:48Speaker 6: Players and.
- 44:50Speaker 5: You, know if you're a fan, there you want to
- 44:51Speaker 5: get the. GAME i, mean how many times the fans
- 44:53Speaker 5: get to go to the? Game, understandable you got you
- 44:55Speaker 5: got in, late but guess, what you, know that's the
- 44:58Speaker 5: schedule that you guys.
- 44:59Speaker 6: Had it.
- 45:01Speaker 1: Is but they also The pirates are not in the same.
- 45:04Speaker 1: Boat The pirates are not looking to climb back into
- 45:06Speaker 1: a wild card spot or a division. Lead The pirates
- 45:09Speaker 1: are not traveling. Anywhere that flight From pittsburgh To cleveland that.
- 45:15Speaker 1: SUCKS i wonder if they're even taking a, Bus like
- 45:18Speaker 1: that's a Tough you're just gonna get in super late
- 45:21Speaker 1: for another. Game but guess who's staying. Home The pirates
- 45:24Speaker 1: are staying. Homes pirates are, like it's, fine we'll just
- 45:27Speaker 1: have a late show up, date and we'll give a
- 45:29Speaker 1: lackluster effort against The phillies.
- 45:31Speaker 3: Today bingo and The astros can never dish it, back.
- 45:35Speaker 3: Right it's not, like you, know next year The pirate's
- 45:38Speaker 3: going to be in town and, WELL i guess they could.
- 45:41Speaker 3: Crats let's, say maybe maybe it's going to, rain and they're,
- 45:44Speaker 3: like let's leave it open and rain it, out just
- 45:46Speaker 3: to mess with them out.
- 45:47Speaker 2: There but you, know my point, Is i'm saying.
- 45:49Speaker 3: There's a respect level though The pirates clearly don't care as.
- 45:53Speaker 2: Much they're staying at. Home they're not independent.
- 45:56Speaker 3: Race you don't think there was some of that involved,
- 45:59Speaker 3: here not that it purpose, yea like they're, like, oh
- 46:01Speaker 3: we're going to screw over The. Astros they're just thinking about.
- 46:03Speaker 3: Themselves they're, like we want to get this game. In
- 46:06Speaker 3: we don't want to have to figure this out later
- 46:08Speaker 3: in the, season so we're just going to.
- 46:10Speaker 4: Wait.
- 46:12Speaker 1: YEAH i think they will lose for The, Astros AND
- 46:15Speaker 1: i think that's probably what pissed Off Dana brown and
- 46:18Speaker 1: why he got so, heated because it's not if both
- 46:21Speaker 1: teams were. Leaving if both teams were leaving and they
- 46:24Speaker 1: had to get to the next. City maybe we. Don't
- 46:27Speaker 1: maybe we don't wait through because you're waiting through a rain.
- 46:31Speaker 4: Delay but then you're also.
- 46:32Speaker 1: Playing you're putting your players out there on on a
- 46:35Speaker 1: slick track like it's not it's not ideal.
- 46:38Speaker 5: Conditions, also you know they're only playing each other with
- 46:44Speaker 5: this one, series so you, know trying to get this game.
- 46:46Speaker 5: In they're trying their, Best so that was another factor
- 46:50Speaker 5: that comes into.
- 46:50Speaker 2: Play that's, fair that's very.
- 46:53Speaker 3: Fair final five minutes of the week for Foul territory
- 47:10Speaker 3: and we are going to pop Quiz crats And Todd
- 47:14Speaker 3: father they did not know about. This they just told
- 47:16Speaker 3: them about a minute. AGO i need you to run
- 47:18Speaker 3: through your jersey numbers in your. Career Todd father already
- 47:23Speaker 3: texted in our group chat that he because we were,
- 47:25Speaker 3: like don't look it, up and he's, LIKE i don't
- 47:27Speaker 3: need to look it. Up So Tod, father here we.
- 47:30Speaker 3: Go i'm going to prompt you on the. Team we
- 47:33Speaker 3: will start With Little League World.
- 47:37Speaker 5: Series oh, god one nothing me that number was number.
- 47:42Speaker 5: Fourteen Pete Rose baby.
- 47:46Speaker 2: Beautiful next? Up well That Cincinnati reds me all, You
- 47:53Speaker 2: i'm gonna ca all you and then all.
- 47:54Speaker 5: Crats all, right twenty one for The, Reds.
- 47:58Speaker 2: White sox twenty One, YANKEES.
- 48:06Speaker 6: I wanted twenty, one but twenty.
- 48:08Speaker 4: NINE i was gonna say twenty.
- 48:11Speaker 5: Eight, no, no, no, no, no who had twenty? One
- 48:19Speaker 5: they wouldn't it was gonna Be and then all the
- 48:21Speaker 5: fans got pissed off Because paul O'Neill's numbers should be.
- 48:24Speaker 5: Retired PAUL i got And paul didn't want. That he
- 48:27Speaker 5: was he, WAS i think honestly he didn't say, it
- 48:29Speaker 5: BUT i think he was upset that they were.
- 48:30Speaker 6: Giving me the number two as. Well Respect did you
- 48:33Speaker 6: ever wear twenty? One did you?
- 48:35Speaker 4: Ever?
- 48:35Speaker 5: Well, NO i was In seattle and they were gonna
- 48:37Speaker 5: give it to, me and then what's his?
- 48:40Speaker 6: Name my? God, yeah it was, like, yeah we're gonna
- 48:46Speaker 6: have to change. IT i, said. WHATEVER i don't want
- 48:48Speaker 6: to go on to get on a bad start.
- 48:49Speaker 4: Here, yeah you're a media.
- 48:52Speaker 2: DARLING i love number Beef.
- 48:56Speaker 5: Mets, WELL i was a couple with The mets here,
- 49:00Speaker 5: actually so twenty. One of course WHEN i came, back
- 49:03Speaker 5: it was thirty three For Larry. Bird then back to twenty.
- 49:06Speaker 3: One nice, Okay rangers twenty, one oh, right and The
- 49:14Speaker 3: mets second. Stint, yeah we're just going into order, here
- 49:17Speaker 3: but you already said that it thirty.
- 49:19Speaker 7: Three you More, Pirates pirates number ninety, nine first got
- 49:27Speaker 7: first Ever pirate to wear ninety.
- 49:29Speaker 5: Nine this guy right here AND i played nineteen. Games,
- 49:33Speaker 5: joyous really.
- 49:34Speaker 2: Joyous Thanks pittsburgh defensive, Ends Todd.
- 49:38Speaker 6: Frazier what a beautiful way to go out In.
- 49:42Speaker 2: Pittsburgh go ad last last One TEAM. Usa not the
- 49:49Speaker 2: NUMBER i, wanted but pretty.
- 49:50Speaker 5: Cool twenty. Five it went by jersey. Side so just
- 49:53Speaker 5: like when you're in t, ball the older guy got dire.
- 49:56Speaker 5: Jersey so twenty one was a. LARGE i needed an
- 50:00Speaker 5: extra LARGE i think it. Was and it went to
- 50:02Speaker 5: twenty three and then twenty. Five it was all there,
- 50:05Speaker 5: Gains you're on them, gains all?
- 50:09Speaker 3: Right, well if we if we want to Include krats's
- 50:11Speaker 3: minor league, stops it would take me a long, time
- 50:15Speaker 3: so we're gonna keep it Pro, yep let's start with
- 50:18Speaker 3: The Pittsburgh.
- 50:19Speaker 2: Pirates crats thirty, Eight philly's first. Stint oh my, god.
- 50:34Speaker 4: Nineteen.
- 50:36Speaker 2: NO i was, like did he free thirty?
- 50:37Speaker 4: One thirty one?
- 50:39Speaker 2: One, yep thirty, One Blue jays thirty one also, Yes royals.
- 50:50Speaker 3: Nineteen, Yes philly's second stint twenty Eight astros twenty, sixteen.
- 50:59Speaker 2: Just like twenty Three Kid Boom yankees firstint thirty, six thirty.
- 51:08Speaker 4: Eight, no oh, god not.
- 51:12Speaker 2: True that's wrong on our, END.
- 51:14Speaker 4: YEP i hit a, HUNT i hit a.
- 51:16Speaker 1: THOUSAND i hit a thousand and thirty, Six and the
- 51:19Speaker 1: only REASON i KNEW i was thirty. Eight, HONESTLY i
- 51:21Speaker 1: didn't even know what MY i didn't even know UNTIL
- 51:23Speaker 1: i went back to The yankees the second, TIME i
- 51:26Speaker 1: was thirty, Eight and SO i started my career thirty
- 51:29Speaker 1: eight and ended my career at thirty. Eight it was
- 51:31Speaker 1: pretty pretty. Cool OBVIOUSLY i never got to pick my.
- 51:33Speaker 1: Number but, anyway, continue.
- 51:35Speaker 2: Okay for four to go one minutes to Play BREWERS
- 51:42Speaker 2: d that's.
- 51:42Speaker 4: Terrible fifteen, fifteen fifteen got?
- 51:45Speaker 5: It?
- 51:45Speaker 2: Giants five or?
- 51:50Speaker 4: Eight something weird like. That you got?
- 51:52Speaker 2: It five's?
- 51:53Speaker 6: Good?
- 51:53Speaker 4: Right raise was that? EIGHT i don't even.
- 51:59Speaker 6: Six.
- 52:00Speaker 4: SIX i don't even have that. JERSEY i gave. IT
- 52:02Speaker 4: i gave it away to somebody.
- 52:03Speaker 2: Special and Then yankee second, stint WHICH i know you, have.
- 52:09Speaker 6: What's your high what's your high school?
- 52:11Speaker 1: Number coaching high school TEAM usa? Fourteen the same reason
- 52:15Speaker 1: for You Pete. Rose my, dad my dad wore, fourteen
- 52:19Speaker 1: and So i'm, Like i'm gonna be like my. Dad
- 52:21Speaker 1: and the reason my dad wore was because Of Pete.
- 52:23Speaker 1: Rose so fourteen was always the number THAT i.
- 52:25Speaker 4: Wanted.
- 52:27Speaker 6: Nice.
- 52:27Speaker 3: Nice that was, fun well, played difficult road for, crats
- 52:31Speaker 3: but you got.
- 52:32Speaker 2: There you got. There Happy friday. People we'll see On monday.
- 52:38Speaker 6: AT.
- 52:38Speaker 3: Mgm you can grab the home Run boost token if
- 52:42Speaker 3: you've got a home run, pick and if you activate
- 52:44Speaker 3: that token on a player to hit a home, run
- 52:46Speaker 3: get a little boost if that player goes, along a little,
- 52:49Speaker 3: boost a little, extra little extra cheese As pap would call.
- 52:53Speaker 3: It there it is score, figure Payout and if you
- 52:56Speaker 3: have a gambling problem or, concerned call one eight Hundred
- 52:59Speaker 3: gambler