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Parker’s 1,200-Yard Goal, Holtzclaw’s Leads, Ace Bailey’s Role, Jazz 36 wins? Judge/Ohtani impact · DnA Sports Recap

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SPEAKER_00: All right, so let's get into the first comment.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh sorry, not first comment.
1:54
SPEAKER_00: Uh let's go ahead and get into the first topic of the day, AJ, which is Ace Bailey, man.
2:00
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: Ace Bailey.
2:02
SPEAKER_01: This has been a hot topic, man.
2:03
SPEAKER_01: This has been a real hot topic.
2:04
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
2:05
SPEAKER_00: So as you remember, um, you know, um, first of all, if you're new here, first of all, welcome.
2:09
SPEAKER_00: Thanks for joining us.
2:10
SPEAKER_00: Uh, we created DNA sports recap and and made this a space for where uh fans of teams can, you know, where fans of teams can can come and have an uncover unbiased opinion on the teams that you cover, right?
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SPEAKER_00: Um something that's not connected to the team anyway, that we could actually be critical of the teams that we're following.
2:31
SPEAKER_00: And more importantly, the best part about uh sports is actually being able to talk with your buddies about sports, uh, you know, your favorite teams, share your opinion, hear other people's opinions about your teams.
2:41
SPEAKER_00: And that's basically kind of the main reason for why we created this channel uh is to give that to those jazz fans.
2:48
SPEAKER_00: Because not everybody can have their buddies sitting right next to them ready to talk some jazz basketball.
2:52
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
2:52
SPEAKER_00: Uh so we want in honor of that, AJ, in spirit of all that, uh, we wanted to give you guys a chance to have a voice in this channel too.
3:01
SPEAKER_00: And that's what we wanted to do here with the first subject, which is uh we did a video, AJ, a few weeks back about our number five pick from last year uh in Ace Bailey.
3:11
SPEAKER_00: And we said basically if he performs uh to the level of expectations we have for him, then we're expecting to be um fifth player, uh, fifth uh sixth man of the year, right?
3:22
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
3:22
SPEAKER_00: Uh so we talked to everyone.
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SPEAKER_00: If everyone's healthy, that's what he's gonna be going for.
3:26
SPEAKER_00: We got some pushback back in the comments on that one saying that they believe that Ace needs to be starting in the lineup for this team.
3:31
SPEAKER_00: Uh, he is our second highest draft pick on this team right now.
3:35
SPEAKER_00: And why aren't we putting him on the bench uh after a decent rookie campaign?
3:40
SPEAKER_00: Um, so that's a good question, AJ.
3:42
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
3:44
SPEAKER_01: No, it is.
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SPEAKER_01: Um Do you want me to go into it?
3:48
SPEAKER_01: No, no, no.
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SPEAKER_01: You got more.
3:48
SPEAKER_01: I got yeah, okay.
3:49
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, we're supposed to getting out some light commentary for me on that was the goal there.
3:55
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I appreciate it.
3:56
SPEAKER_01: But but but some of the light commentary, I mean, the the big thing about Ace is like I guess I guess there's there's a thing between like player fit, right?
4:05
SPEAKER_01: And there's skill level and there's player fit, and and our opinion on the six man of the year video is purely player fit, right?
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SPEAKER_01: With who we have on the roster right now, it appears that Ace fits better coming off the bench because of who we have, who we just re-signed, you know that that's how we got to that point of the six man of the year video.
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SPEAKER_01: Not that we need to justify it because I don't really care.
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SPEAKER_01: Right.
4:26
SPEAKER_01: But it's just a it's but that that's how we got to that point.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, absolutely.
4:30
SPEAKER_00: And and what we're gonna do here is because of that inspiration that we want to have uh with you guys having back and forth in the comments, we want to expand on that a little bit here and actually put out a lineup there to say, okay, well, let's take a look at it.
4:40
SPEAKER_00: What if he's not on the bench?
4:41
SPEAKER_00: What if he is a starter?
4:42
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, right.
4:43
SPEAKER_00: Uh so the assumption is that we have here is let's put it, let's put him in there and see what we got as far as that starting line is concerned, AJ.
4:48
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
4:49
SPEAKER_00: So the assumption is that we'll have Keontae George, Darren Peterson at the guard lines, and then we also have Ace, assumingly, at the three, right?
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SPEAKER_00: Yep.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh putting Larry at the four and Jaron Jackson Jr.
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SPEAKER_00: at the five.
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SPEAKER_00: So there are some advantages, um, you know, pointed out by some other folks, uh, some other YouTube channels, but mainly uh Hoops Nerd actually did a video on this recently as well, um, where he talked about uh he thinks that Ace should actually be in the starting lineup.
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SPEAKER_00: One of the things that he pointed out is that um one of the major advantages is that Larry Markinen is better suited as a four and is actually a decent rebounder um at the four.
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SPEAKER_00: So he's not a good rebounder at the three, he's slower defensively at the three.
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SPEAKER_00: Larry Markinen is.
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SPEAKER_00: So by putting in uh by moving Larry down to the four, you get a decent rebounder there.
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SPEAKER_00: Ace is a great rebounder at three, and he will offset uh Jaron Jackson Jr.'s lack of offensive rebounding when he's sitting at the five, which is our main concern.
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SPEAKER_00: With Jaron Jackson Jr.
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SPEAKER_00: at the five, we're becoming one of the worst rebounding teams in the NBA, right?
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SPEAKER_00: So um, but here's the part with you know, and Laurie at the four will also create uh opportunities for him to guard much slower players, which will also uh help have his size be a helpful advantage there defensively.
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SPEAKER_00: So by having him move down to the four, ace at the three, ace is guarding much faster players, and Laurie's guarding slower players that where his seven foot wingspan is gonna come into come into better play, right?
6:21
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh but here's the part that I want you to chew on here, right?
6:25
SPEAKER_00: So is that does the number three spot get better defensively having Ace there over having Lari at the same spot?
6:39
SPEAKER_00: And my answer to that is I think it does.
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SPEAKER_00: I agree.
6:42
SPEAKER_00: And there's much more uh there's much more of a drop-off on rim protection um that with this lineup, but not much more than when you have Youssef Nurkic there, right?
6:51
SPEAKER_00: He's not exactly known as a top five written defender in the NBA.
6:53
SPEAKER_01: No, and he's never going to be either.
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SPEAKER_01: You're never gonna expect that of Nurkic, though.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so with all that overall, you know, you're gonna have User Nurkic at the five, right, coming off the bench, and you're gonna have Jaron at the five at the starting lineup.
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SPEAKER_00: You know, this is gonna be a different philosophy defensive-wise.
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SPEAKER_00: But what I think here, AJ, is I think that you can see some advantages here to having a much better athletic, more guard, you know, more a better athletic defensive player at the wing spot of three versus as you know, having Lari there.
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SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
7:23
SPEAKER_00: What are your thoughts?
7:24
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
7:24
SPEAKER_01: I mean, I guess my first thought when I see this, like this lineup specifically with you know, with with Ace in it, my first thought is shooting, shooting, shooting, and then did I mention more shooting?
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SPEAKER_01: When when you get this lineup out there, every single person on the floor can score it from anywhere, right?
7:40
SPEAKER_01: This is the kind of lineup you put on the floor.
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SPEAKER_01: And and your question to the other team is purely can you score more baskets than us?
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SPEAKER_01: We may not have the best defensive team, but we have five guys that are really offensive-minded that can absolutely just score the basketball.
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SPEAKER_01: So I mean, you still have Laurie and Triple J as big guys, you know, that can kind of help defend, but then this lineup is going to generate a ton of offense.
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SPEAKER_01: So uh you're going to be concerned defensively when you have these five guys out there.
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SPEAKER_01: Um now I I think you're right.
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SPEAKER_01: I like your point that that ace probably makes you a little bit better at the three.
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SPEAKER_01: I like the idea of Laurie probably defending a little more of guys that are that generically play a four.
8:21
SPEAKER_01: Um you don't ask as much from Laurie, which would help you that you know that that's gonna help him probably stay a little bit less fatigued.
8:29
SPEAKER_01: So but but I do think that you know your your your guards are kind of a question, right?
8:35
SPEAKER_01: How is Keontae gonna defend?
8:37
SPEAKER_01: Um I I think Keontae's a better defender than his metrics say.
8:41
SPEAKER_01: Uh I think he was on a really bad team last year with a lot of players around him that didn't defend at all.
8:47
SPEAKER_01: And that wasn't their goal, right?
8:48
SPEAKER_01: They were out there, these guys are trying to get buckets.
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SPEAKER_01: A lot of the players he was playing with were guys trying to win contracts.
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SPEAKER_01: And and when you're doing that, they're not trying to show their defensive skills.
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SPEAKER_01: So I I do think Keontae's a little better of a defensive player than he kind of statistically shows.
9:02
SPEAKER_01: So um yeah, I don't know.
9:05
SPEAKER_01: I I think this is a really interesting lineup because of the offense.
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SPEAKER_01: I think the the defense could be okay.
9:13
SPEAKER_01: Um and I just yeah, I don't know.
9:17
SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
9:17
SPEAKER_01: I I I think I actually like it as much as I convinced myself that I didn't.
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SPEAKER_01: I think I've actually kind of accepted that if that's what they roll out on day one, then I'm I'm good with with Ace in the starting lineup.
9:29
SPEAKER_00: Gotcha, gotcha.
9:30
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and it's it's kind of one of those things where you gotta think about it for a second here.
9:33
SPEAKER_00: Like, I think both you and I are holding on to the old school jazz philosophy.
9:38
SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
9:39
SPEAKER_00: Like, we always wanted to have that whole concept of you know, rim protection, defense first.
9:45
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, something the jazz have typically had most of the years, right?
9:48
SPEAKER_00: Especially when we had Walker Kessler, and then before that we had Rudy Gobert.
9:51
SPEAKER_00: So we've always had that defensive rim protection mindset first.
9:55
SPEAKER_00: I think beyond that, you also have to look at the philosophy behind it.
10:00
SPEAKER_00: I think that after the draft, uh the plans changed for the for this team.
10:05
SPEAKER_00: The plan has changed.
10:06
SPEAKER_00: What's most important for this Utah jazz team has changed since the draft.
10:10
SPEAKER_00: We want this team to win now, and we we might not, you know, want and that may not be what the best thing is for this team right now, right?
10:19
SPEAKER_00: You and I want we both every jazz fan right now wants them to go all in, right?
10:22
SPEAKER_00: We're done trying to lose.
10:23
SPEAKER_00: Let's go all in, let's win as many games as we can.
10:25
SPEAKER_01: Been really tough to watch as a jazz fan.
10:27
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
10:27
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
10:27
SPEAKER_00: But in all reality, that may not be what the jazz are thinking, right?
10:32
SPEAKER_00: Uh, it may be as simple as that, right?
10:34
SPEAKER_00: Like they're gonna roll this lineup out there because we need our number five pick and our number two pick.
10:40
SPEAKER_00: We need them to develop.
10:41
SPEAKER_00: We need them on the floor, we need them developing quickly so we can maximize those rookie scale contracts.
10:48
SPEAKER_00: That's what our priorities are now, you know, and putting in vets in their best possible positions so they can help the team win now may not just be the team's priority right now.
11:00
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I I mean I guess I could see that, but but I also think that that there's gonna be enough pressure on Will Hardy in this front office to win from jazz fans.
11:10
SPEAKER_01: Oh, I'm sure.
11:11
SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
11:11
SPEAKER_01: You know what I mean?
11:12
SPEAKER_01: Like because we have zero picks in this next year, right?
11:15
SPEAKER_01: And and you can develop as much, you know, like and I and I get it.
11:19
SPEAKER_01: Ace Bailey had a great yeah, his rookie season, he was he was more impressive than we thought he was gonna be.
11:24
SPEAKER_01: We stole him at five, we are excited to have him at five.
11:28
SPEAKER_01: Um, and and you want him out on the floor getting minutes and and you know, starting to gel with this this team as much as he can, but you have to get to the point where where this team can win quickly, I think just for the fan base, because we are so done with losing.
11:45
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
11:45
SPEAKER_00: Here's one thing, AJ, I want to tell you real quick.
11:47
SPEAKER_00: I don't think the jazz front office gives a shit what the jazz fans think.
11:50
SPEAKER_01: No, I mean I agree because I mean, me as a diehard jazz fan has been saying we're gonna win for the last four years.
11:55
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you know what I mean?
11:56
SPEAKER_00: And you know, me sitting here, I'm like, win one first, and then worry about developing for the future, right?
12:00
SPEAKER_00: Like I'm I'm right there with you.
12:01
SPEAKER_00: But this team intentionally tanked for three years, um, kind of, half-assed it for the first year, and then really went into it for the next two years.
12:09
SPEAKER_00: Um, and then right now I'm they're sitting here and I'm like, okay, well, what we're thinking is, okay, they wanted to resign Kessler.
12:15
SPEAKER_00: That's why they brought in Triple J because they're expecting Kessler to be at the five, right?
12:19
SPEAKER_00: They're expecting that lineup, and it was uh expected to be a completely different team based off of that that trade that they made at the deadline last year.
12:27
SPEAKER_00: Like, okay, great, we got this guy locked in for uh for the foreseeable future here.
12:31
SPEAKER_00: This is gonna be our power forward going forward.
12:33
SPEAKER_00: This is gonna be great, right?
12:34
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and then when you draft Darren Peterson number two, when you get the number two overall pick, that completely changed everything.
12:40
SPEAKER_00: And then you get draft and you get him at two, you know, you've got to develop him.
12:45
SPEAKER_00: You can't just like oh, we had a great year from uh great year from Ace Bailey.
12:49
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you're not gonna trade him to the side.
12:51
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you're not gonna pinch him, bench him, throw him to the side, yeah, hinder his development, or even trade him for something.
12:57
SPEAKER_00: Like, you're not gonna do that, right?
12:58
SPEAKER_00: Unless they will.
12:59
SPEAKER_00: Future subject coming down the road, which I'll talk about that later.
13:02
SPEAKER_00: But yeah, I just think my point my thought process is that we as jazz fans are thinking one thing and I think the team is thinking another.
13:10
SPEAKER_00: So that's why I think it's a possibility that Ace goes out there.
13:12
SPEAKER_00: And just like you, I'm not mad at it.
13:15
SPEAKER_00: I don't hate it.
13:15
SPEAKER_00: I could be I honestly could be happy either way, because we're not exactly a top five defensive team either way.
13:21
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and and there's there's so few pieces, especially one individual piece that makes us a top five team.
13:27
SPEAKER_01: Um, I think picking up Josh Okogi was a better defensive move than the jazz than than a lot of jazz fans are kind of realizing because he is a really strong perimeter defender.
13:35
SPEAKER_00: We have a video on that, check it out on the channel.
13:36
SPEAKER_01: Absolutely.
13:37
SPEAKER_01: Um he is, he, I mean, he he's a good perimeter defender, he shoots the three ball well.
13:42
SPEAKER_01: Um, I I think that this team has made a couple of moves to try to help defensively, um, but I'm not sure if they they know what this team really looks like.
13:49
SPEAKER_01: So, you know, moving Larry to four, uh, I'm good with that.
13:53
SPEAKER_01: I think triple J is gonna be just fine.
13:55
SPEAKER_01: You know, he he's a reigning defensive player of the year for a reason.
13:58
SPEAKER_01: He helps teams win basketball games defensively.
14:01
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and also think about the team he had around him in Memphis for why he hated being the five.
14:06
SPEAKER_00: Right, absolutely.
14:06
SPEAKER_00: He's like literally the only guy with size on that team.
14:08
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
14:09
SPEAKER_01: I mean everybody everybody else is six-four.
14:11
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, nobody plays defense.
14:12
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
14:13
SPEAKER_00: No, I mean it's jazz are doing a little bit different.
14:14
SPEAKER_01: He's like, I look like a superstar because I am a superstar.
14:17
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, exactly.
14:18
SPEAKER_00: So I think he's playing the five for the Utah Jazz.
14:20
SPEAKER_00: And like we talked about by easing the load for Lari uh on the defensive end, so he's not chasing a uh dynamic wing out there, may allow him to get more rebounds, may allow Ace to be a good defensive rebounding three.
14:33
SPEAKER_00: You know, so maybe this is a problem to fix overall the Jazz's issues with rebounds.
14:37
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
14:38
SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
14:38
SPEAKER_00: We'll see.
14:39
SPEAKER_00: We'll see.
14:39
SPEAKER_01: No, it's it's it's super interesting.
14:41
SPEAKER_01: So tell tell us what you guys think.
14:42
SPEAKER_01: Make sure you leave a comment down below.
14:43
SPEAKER_01: Let us know your thoughts on rolling Ace Bailey into the starting five.
14:47
SPEAKER_01: We put a video out.
14:48
SPEAKER_01: Uh, like I said, we we want to know what you guys think.
14:51
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, absolutely.
14:51
SPEAKER_00: This topic was solely based off the comments that we got back and forth from you guys in the comments down below.
14:55
SPEAKER_00: Keep them coming, guys.
14:57
SPEAKER_00: We love it.
14:57
SPEAKER_00: That's the whole point of the show is to be interactive with you guys.
15:00
SPEAKER_01: Makes it way more fun to come up with topics.
15:01
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and it's really why we did this channel in the first place.
15:04
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
15:04
SPEAKER_00: You know, like I needed, you know, not everybody, you know, you could be a jazz fan in in Virginia, you could be a Ute fan in, you know, Ogden, or you could be a Cubs fan in Happy Valley.
15:17
SPEAKER_00: You know, it all just depends on where you're at.
15:19
SPEAKER_00: You may not have friends that you can chat about your favorite team with, so that's exactly why we did this.
15:23
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
15:24
SPEAKER_00: So um speaking of which, on what this team's gonna do and and whether or not whether priorities are, AJ, uh, that leads us into the next thing we want to talk about.
15:31
SPEAKER_00: And um, AJ, that is with the upcoming season.
15:35
SPEAKER_00: Let's go ahead and dive into that a little bit more.
15:37
SPEAKER_00: Let's do it.
15:37
SPEAKER_00: Um, so we mentioned on a previous episode, kind of a throwaway topic here, and I mentioned, hey, if you want to make some money, by the way, still not a betting channel, folks.
15:45
SPEAKER_00: Um, while we're spot on a lot of times on that kind of stuff, we do not in we are not that channel.
15:50
SPEAKER_00: Um yeah, I mentioned there that the total expected wins by DraftKings and some other sports books in the prediction markets show the Utah Jazz to have a winning record of 36 and a half games um next season.
16:03
SPEAKER_00: And again, because of the comments, we had a lot of comments in on the video where you guys are agreeing with us that that number is rather low.
16:11
SPEAKER_00: Um I mean, depending on you know what the jazz are going to be doing this off season.
16:15
SPEAKER_00: I mean, sorry, doing during this season, um, the focus is you know obviously gonna be on winning, or is it gonna be on development?
16:22
SPEAKER_00: You know, I could argue either way, still that number is still low, regardless.
16:26
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, no, I I totally agree.
16:29
SPEAKER_01: So let's just say the Jazz roll out what we call the Ace Bailey lineup, right?
16:33
SPEAKER_01: With key DP, ace, Larry, triple J.
16:36
SPEAKER_01: Like I mentioned before, this team's gonna have five shooters on the floor.
16:39
SPEAKER_01: And at that point, absolutely nobody can be left alone.
16:43
SPEAKER_01: And and the best part about any of these guys is you can't guard them by yourself.
16:47
SPEAKER_01: Not one of those guys are you, you know, I mean, like you're not sending an individual defender out to take Larry Markinen on because he's going to beat you.
16:57
SPEAKER_01: You can say that with any one of these guys, right?
16:59
SPEAKER_01: So if your game plan is like, let's send a double and hope that they don't find the open man, that that can turn into a really long night for a bunch of teams.
17:07
SPEAKER_01: You know, I mean you're sending double teams out to every single guy that grabs the ball, and you're like, well, hopefully they don't pass it to the open guy.
17:14
SPEAKER_01: Right.
17:14
SPEAKER_01: You know what I mean?
17:15
SPEAKER_01: Like that's so I I like the idea of that.
17:18
SPEAKER_01: I mean, you got a ton of talent coming off the bench.
17:20
SPEAKER_01: I mean, you got Isaiah Collier, Bryce Sensaba, Yusuf Nurkic, uh the aforementioned Josh Okogee, Cody Williams, and and all of these guys have the opportunity to kind of come out and play free and play on a team um that that's looking to gel and kind of find their spot in this team where um uh there's chemistry that's being created on the floor every single night, right?
17:42
SPEAKER_01: This is the this is the first time that all these guys are gonna be kind of playing together in this capacity.
17:48
SPEAKER_01: And it it's gonna be a really fun season to be a jazz fan for you know for that aspect purely.
17:53
SPEAKER_01: So I think the odds maker odds makers are putting it all on, you know, what are the jazz gonna do defensively?
17:59
SPEAKER_01: Um because I really just think I I really just think that uh you know, without Walker Kessler anchoring the middle, um that that's that's kind of their their their whole thing, right?
18:13
SPEAKER_01: Beginning of the season, they were just like, I don't know how these teams are gonna defend anybody.
18:17
SPEAKER_01: So but you know, really collier is gonna pick you apart.
18:21
SPEAKER_01: Um Bryce Sensebal's a walking bucket um who can really shoot it from anywhere.
18:25
SPEAKER_01: Josh Kogi's a good three-point shooter.
18:27
SPEAKER_01: Um, you also got Jackson Hayes kind of clean up some of those uh those rebounds that we were that we were definitely missing, um, and then catch some lots from Isaiah Collier.
18:36
SPEAKER_01: So I just I got a feeling this team's gonna be good.
18:38
SPEAKER_01: I think they're gonna be a lot better than 36 wins.
18:40
SPEAKER_01: Um I called it early at 50.
18:43
SPEAKER_01: I will back it up.
18:45
SPEAKER_01: Back that.
18:46
SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna back the truck up a little bit.
18:48
SPEAKER_01: Uh that was with Walker Kessler on the team.
18:51
SPEAKER_01: Um, but Will Hardy's a hell of a head coach, man.
18:53
SPEAKER_01: And I I think uh you kind of take some of these restrictions off and you tell him that he's allowed to go out there and and coach this team and experiment with stuff.
19:02
SPEAKER_01: And you don't got to go out there and win the finals, right?
19:04
SPEAKER_01: But let's let's go win games.
19:06
SPEAKER_01: And for sure.
19:07
SPEAKER_01: I think he's kind of ready to show his brilliance this year and get this team you know heading back in the playoff direction.
19:12
SPEAKER_00: Nice.
19:12
SPEAKER_00: On that note, here we got a uh super chat there from uh Jordan B.
19:17
SPEAKER_00: Surreal 7488.
19:19
SPEAKER_00: Hopefully I'm saying that right.
19:20
SPEAKER_00: Um, he got$1.99 super chat.
19:22
SPEAKER_00: Appreciate it, buddy.
19:23
SPEAKER_00: Thank you very much.
19:24
SPEAKER_00: Really appreciate that.
19:25
SPEAKER_00: Uh a comment here says bet 500 in Wendover uh for the overwins for the Jazz.
19:31
SPEAKER_00: So heck yeah, man.
19:32
SPEAKER_00: Smart bet.
19:33
SPEAKER_00: Smart bet.
19:34
SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
19:34
SPEAKER_00: Taking the over on that.
19:35
SPEAKER_00: Absolutely, 100%.
19:36
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
19:37
SPEAKER_00: I think honestly, man, and we we kind of tell this one disrespect, and I really think we don't need to overlook that.
19:42
SPEAKER_00: I think when the odds makers are looking at it, they looked at a bunch of stats, nobody watched a jazz game.
19:47
SPEAKER_00: No, nobody saw how the Jazz lost.
19:50
SPEAKER_00: Not that the Jazz tanked, it was how they how they had to tank.
19:53
SPEAKER_00: They were in so many games where they could have walked away with a W, and what they did is just pulled all their talent in the fourth quarter and put a bunch of G League players in, and they lost the third and fourth quarter.
20:02
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
20:02
SPEAKER_00: And if anybody watched games, you'd realize that this team, as it was sitting last year with Walker Kessler, not on the team, by the way, because he was injured all season, still could have won 25, you know, 25 to 30 games.
20:16
SPEAKER_00: 30 games just with the team they had last year.
20:18
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
20:18
SPEAKER_01: And you know, and now you had a number two draft pick.
20:21
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, exactly.
20:22
SPEAKER_00: So I just I don't know, man.
20:24
SPEAKER_00: I just to me, I feel it's just another example of how they just simply aren't paying attention to this team.
20:28
SPEAKER_00: You know, it really is that simple.
20:29
SPEAKER_00: Again, Jordan, appreciate the super chat, buddy.
20:31
SPEAKER_00: Really appreciate that.
20:32
SPEAKER_00: Thanks for joining us.
20:33
SPEAKER_00: Uh, we got a comment here from uh McKinley Cutler.
20:35
SPEAKER_00: Uh, I think Nick, I think Nurk is going to get a lot of minutes uh if he only because he makes everyone's life around him easier.
20:43
SPEAKER_00: The young players will really benefit from the screens he sets.
20:47
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, we were talking, I mean, that's kind of one of the big pieces for why we think he's going to be the starter at five.
20:52
SPEAKER_00: Yeah is just simply because we have that young talent that we're definitely starting with Darren Peterson, you know, and then Keontae.
20:58
SPEAKER_00: Um, I do think that Ace is gonna have a lot of minutes on the floor with the starting rotation.
21:02
SPEAKER_00: I just think that, you know, you got to have somebody on the bench that you can rely on.
21:05
SPEAKER_00: I mean, somebody on the second unit that you can rely on, and I think that that's ace, you know.
21:09
SPEAKER_00: So it's kind of where we were sitting on where we were thinking that for sure.
21:12
SPEAKER_00: Uh we got uh return of the uh Car Watch channel on the channel.
21:16
SPEAKER_00: What's going on?
21:16
SPEAKER_00: Sup.
21:17
SPEAKER_00: I'm all excited about the Utah GIS this season.
21:19
SPEAKER_00: I'm ready to watch DP.
21:21
SPEAKER_00: Absolutely, man.
21:23
SPEAKER_00: Absolutely, for sure, for sure.
21:25
SPEAKER_00: Uh we also have another comment here.
21:27
SPEAKER_00: Uh, thanks for joining us live, by the way, Car Watch Channel.
21:29
SPEAKER_00: Um, saw you in the comments the other day.
21:31
SPEAKER_00: Appreciate it.
21:31
SPEAKER_00: Thanks for making the time to join us.
21:33
SPEAKER_00: Uh, is development is the goal that if development is the goal, he makes Darren and Ace offensive sets much easier to run.
21:41
SPEAKER_00: Let them operate with uh way more space and get comfortable.
21:46
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I think that's a a fair point.
21:49
SPEAKER_00: Um, for sure.
21:50
SPEAKER_00: I think it gets it goes into a lot of what we kind of were thinking about when it comes to have him being in the starting lineup.
21:56
SPEAKER_00: Um, we also have another comment here from McKinley.
21:59
SPEAKER_00: Um Um, I think Locke mentioned that uh that when Nurk was a screener, Ace had like a 10 to 12% better shooting percentage.
22:08
SPEAKER_00: Oh, really?
22:09
SPEAKER_00: Interesting.
22:10
SPEAKER_00: Interesting for sure.
22:11
SPEAKER_01: I can believe that for sure, though.
22:12
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I definitely agree with that.
22:13
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, definitely agree with that.
22:15
SPEAKER_00: This is great, guys.
22:16
SPEAKER_00: Love the comments.
22:17
SPEAKER_00: Uh keep them coming.
22:18
SPEAKER_00: This is great.
22:18
SPEAKER_00: We love the interaction you guys are having with us there.
22:20
SPEAKER_00: Uh, here's a good one uh from Greg Hawkins, Chad of Legend.
22:24
SPEAKER_00: Um, I've just finished reading the John Stockton's autobiography today.
22:27
SPEAKER_00: It was fine.
22:27
SPEAKER_00: He skimmed past the best years of his career, spent more time talking about his youth in Spokane uh than playing against MJ in the finals, anyways.
22:38
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I think um yeah, I don't know.
22:41
SPEAKER_00: Like, I don't know.
22:42
SPEAKER_00: Do you read any of that stuff?
22:43
SPEAKER_01: I don't know if I could read John Stockton's autobiography.
22:45
SPEAKER_00: Yeah?
22:46
SPEAKER_01: I don't know if I could do it.
22:47
SPEAKER_01: Uh especially now with Greg, Greg's recommendation.
22:50
SPEAKER_01: I definitely don't think that's a good idea.
22:51
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's that's not exactly a you know, uh uh you know, rating review.
22:55
SPEAKER_01: You just sold 400 less copies of John Stockton's book, Greg.
22:58
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
23:00
SPEAKER_00: I think it's odd on the timing when it came out.
23:02
SPEAKER_00: It came out right around the same time where The Last Dance was on.
23:05
SPEAKER_00: I think it was uh either right before or right after, correct me if I'm wrong on that.
23:08
SPEAKER_00: Uh so I think that maybe his book release was trying to, you know, yeah, uh capitalize on that time frame.
23:13
SPEAKER_00: But I don't know, man.
23:14
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I'm right there with you, man.
23:16
SPEAKER_00: Some of these some of these guys you just don't want to meet your heroes, you know.
23:18
SPEAKER_00: Like, love me some John Stockton.
23:21
SPEAKER_01: But I've heard that though.
23:22
SPEAKER_00: You know, he never wanted to be a hero, he never wanted to be a role model, he was a lunch pale guy.
23:26
SPEAKER_01: Barely even wanted to be a basketball player.
23:27
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, he'd go out.
23:28
SPEAKER_00: Well, he'd go out there.
23:29
SPEAKER_01: He's like, Well, I guess I'm good at it.
23:30
SPEAKER_00: So yeah, he'd go out there and give everything he got, right?
23:33
SPEAKER_00: And you know, there's stories of him like helping people helping him fix a flat on the side of the road, like when his car went out and people would go help him fix his flat, and he'd refuse an autograph after they just helped him fix his flat tire.
23:44
SPEAKER_00: Like he just like, nah, nah, no, I don't care.
23:46
SPEAKER_00: He's he's that guy.
23:47
SPEAKER_00: He just doesn't want to, you know, be that guy, which is fine, which is fair.
23:51
SPEAKER_00: It's his career, you know.
23:53
SPEAKER_00: Um, but yeah, again, same uh comment here from uh Carlos channel.
23:56
SPEAKER_00: Good luck on that, but Jordan.
23:57
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, uh, we'll be keeping an eye on it, man.
23:59
SPEAKER_00: We'll be keeping an eye on it for sure.
24:00
SPEAKER_00: Uh stick with us, man.
24:01
SPEAKER_00: Let us know how it's going.
24:02
SPEAKER_00: Cause yeah, we're we're we're we're there.
24:04
SPEAKER_00: We're there.
24:05
SPEAKER_00: Yep.
24:05
SPEAKER_00: Uh keep the back and forth going in the comments, guys.
24:07
SPEAKER_00: We'll be sure to hit and pause every once in a while.
24:09
SPEAKER_00: Just read what's going on in the comments and and chat with you guys on what we're talking about here.
24:14
SPEAKER_00: Um, you got anything else on the jazz you want to talk about?
24:16
SPEAKER_01: No, no, I don't think so.
24:18
SPEAKER_01: I mean, it's there's a lot of excitement.
24:21
SPEAKER_01: There's a lot of excitement building around this season.
24:24
SPEAKER_01: Um I myself, as a jazz fan, am trying to kind of temper my expectations.
24:28
SPEAKER_01: I I find myself like I was really excited when uh you know when Kessler was part of the team and I was like, okay, no, I think we could win 50.
24:39
SPEAKER_01: I'm trying to kind of tone that back now.
24:41
SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah.
24:41
SPEAKER_01: I I don't know how this team's gonna get defensive stops.
24:44
SPEAKER_01: It's really a big question mark for me.
24:46
SPEAKER_01: But but offensively, there's a lot of excitement with the players that we have, and I think that's a really cool thing to kind of take into account is how much offense we can have on the floor at any given point.
24:56
SPEAKER_00: Oh yeah.
24:57
SPEAKER_00: Ultimate, I mean, as far as your optimizes on the team, when we got Jaron Jackson Jr., you thought they were pushing the chips in the middle and going for it.
25:02
SPEAKER_00: The all in, man.
25:02
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
25:03
SPEAKER_00: And I'll just like I had to temper that.
25:04
SPEAKER_00: I'm like, dude, no way, dude, they're still gonna tank.
25:06
SPEAKER_00: That's not gonna change anything.
25:08
SPEAKER_00: I'm still in it.
25:08
SPEAKER_00: You wouldn't have lost the first half of the season if you were gonna go if that was the case, you know.
25:12
SPEAKER_00: So, like, it's uh, you know, some of those games were winnable.
25:15
SPEAKER_00: But no, I'm right there with you, man.
25:16
SPEAKER_00: Uh that's why I'm sitting here thinking when we were when we were researching this topic today.
25:19
SPEAKER_00: I'm kind of like, okay, um, sorry, earlier in the week, um when researching this, I'm like, well, wait a minute, hang on a second here.
25:25
SPEAKER_00: We're holding on to something that doesn't exist anymore.
25:27
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
25:28
SPEAKER_00: You know, what would what would any other NBA team do with two top five draft picks back to back years?
25:33
SPEAKER_00: They would develop them.
25:34
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
25:34
SPEAKER_00: Right?
25:35
SPEAKER_00: They would focus on development, not necessarily wins.
25:37
SPEAKER_00: It's really hard not to have a better season than they did last year, right?
25:40
SPEAKER_00: Oh, I mean, having a better season's way easy.
25:42
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
25:43
SPEAKER_00: I still think even if they focus on development, I still see them as a potential uh play-in team.
25:47
SPEAKER_01: So but what does success look like for this team?
25:50
SPEAKER_00: I I think uh a play-in spot?
25:52
SPEAKER_00: A play-in spot.
25:53
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
25:54
SPEAKER_00: I think that's a that's a fine season, you know?
25:57
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
25:58
SPEAKER_00: You gotta prove that you are not a the I mean, you gotta prove that you are still a winning organization, that you can go out there and flip the switch and try not and not try to lose.
26:07
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and when you're trying to win, you can actually win.
26:09
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I think you gotta prove that first, and I think that's a perfect perfectly good expectation of this team to have um make the play-in.
26:16
SPEAKER_00: Anything side of that, yeah, that's uh not great.
26:19
SPEAKER_00: Do I think they still have a chance to not be in a play-in tournament and get the sixth seed?
26:24
SPEAKER_00: Honestly, I think it's still an opportunity, less percentage of a chance now, but I think it's still possible.
26:29
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
26:30
SPEAKER_01: And I think I think that's kind of exactly my point.
26:32
SPEAKER_01: Is like I think a play-in seed is is completely possible.
26:35
SPEAKER_01: I think this team is is smack dab in the middle of the Western Conference.
26:39
SPEAKER_01: Um, you know, we we got some distance to cover before we're at the top end of the Western Conference.
26:44
SPEAKER_01: You know, those Spurs are really good.
26:46
SPEAKER_01: Um, obviously, Oklahoma City has been a a really good team for a couple of years.
26:51
SPEAKER_01: I think that there's some teams that we have some distance still, but depending on how this team gels in the first, I just I feel like we'll know 10, 12 games in what this team's gonna look like.
27:00
SPEAKER_00: Oh, absolutely.
27:00
SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
27:01
SPEAKER_00: It's not gonna take long for sure.
27:02
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27:12
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27:18
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27:21
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27:26
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27:40
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27:43
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27:44
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27:45
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27:52
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28:04
SPEAKER_00: That's right.
28:21
SPEAKER_00: All right, man.
28:23
SPEAKER_00: Um I'm super excited, dude.
28:25
SPEAKER_00: Super excited.
28:26
SPEAKER_00: Where are what, T minus what, 10 days from kickoff?
28:29
SPEAKER_01: Yes.
28:30
SPEAKER_01: T minus 10 days from the day.
28:31
SPEAKER_00: No, less than that.
28:32
SPEAKER_00: Less than that.
28:32
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, because it's next Thursday.
28:36
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so eight days away.
28:38
SPEAKER_00: Eight days away from kickoff.
28:40
SPEAKER_00: So yeah, super excited, man.
28:41
SPEAKER_00: Super excited.
28:42
SPEAKER_00: Let's go ahead and get into it.
28:43
SPEAKER_00: Let's talk some Utah football.
28:44
SPEAKER_01: Let's do it.
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29:00
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29:02
SPEAKER_00: That's right.
29:04
SPEAKER_00: All right, AJ.
29:05
SPEAKER_00: Let's jump right into it, man.
29:07
SPEAKER_00: So um, again, eight days away from kickoff for Utah football.
29:11
SPEAKER_00: Super excited about that.
29:12
SPEAKER_00: They're in fall camp right now.
29:14
SPEAKER_00: Pads are on, they're hitting each other, everybody's getting happy about everything, and you can like just smell it.
29:18
SPEAKER_00: I got some leaves on the lawn.
29:20
SPEAKER_00: It's just it's getting close, man.
29:21
SPEAKER_00: Football season is here.
29:22
SPEAKER_00: I'm so ready for it.
29:24
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I am too.
29:25
SPEAKER_00: It's gonna be it's gonna be a fun year.
29:26
SPEAKER_01: Um, so this offs I actually got an early start this year because I've I've started watching high school football, and I'm telling you, all in, man.
29:34
SPEAKER_01: High school football's a ticket.
29:35
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's not big here in uh this part of the country.
29:38
SPEAKER_01: It's not, and and oddly enough, I'm a Cyprus high school fan.
29:42
SPEAKER_00: So just shout out Cypress High.
29:44
SPEAKER_01: Shout out shout out Cypress High.
29:46
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, shout out to you guys.
29:47
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
29:48
SPEAKER_00: Doing well?
29:49
SPEAKER_01: No, no, not not doing well yet, but they're they're they're turning the right direction.
29:53
SPEAKER_01: Doing well-ish.
29:54
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, my always that claw fire-ish.
29:56
SPEAKER_00: We'll throw that in there.
29:57
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, we'll take that.
29:57
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, but anyway, back on the college side of things here.
30:00
SPEAKER_00: Um notice how we skipped over the NFL because uh yeah, we did some videos on that and just no one watched it.
30:04
SPEAKER_00: So we just sorry.
30:06
SPEAKER_00: If you guys want us to cover it, we'll do it, but you know, let us know.
30:09
SPEAKER_00: We'll we'll cover it.
30:10
SPEAKER_00: Anyway, so speaking about Utah football, AJ, let's go ahead and get back into that.
30:14
SPEAKER_00: What do you say?
30:15
SPEAKER_00: Let's get it.
30:15
SPEAKER_00: Uh so we've had a lot of talks uh this week uh for not this week, but this offseason for the Utes um about different things, right?
30:21
SPEAKER_00: We hit coaching staff, how you know, changing of coordinators, you know, quarterback returning, um, as we both didn't expect, which was nice.
30:30
SPEAKER_00: You know, there's a lot of players that we've named that we've talked about.
30:34
SPEAKER_00: Um, but there's one player specifically that we talked about that we were super excited when he came in the transfer portal from Washington State back at the end of 2024.
30:43
SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah.
30:43
SPEAKER_00: Um he was the number two transfer running back uh in the portal at the time.
30:47
SPEAKER_00: And there was a nice little article here in East Idaho News.
30:51
SPEAKER_00: Shout out to the fam up north.
30:52
SPEAKER_00: Um, the article was titled Way Sean Parker is chasing 1200 yards.
30:56
SPEAKER_00: Uh, Utah is measuring something bigger.
30:59
SPEAKER_00: The article is by Steve Bartle.
31:01
SPEAKER_00: Uh, the article starts off by saying uh that he's hoping to finish um, because he finished last season 20 yards shy of 1K.
31:09
SPEAKER_00: Uh he's aiming for 1200, AJ.
31:11
SPEAKER_00: Um, the article begs the question, though, AJ.
31:14
SPEAKER_00: This is East Utah publication doing this.
31:18
SPEAKER_00: Why are we hearing so much?
31:19
SPEAKER_00: Why are we hearing anything about Weyshawn Parker this year?
31:21
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I mean, that's that's exactly kind of the question, right?
31:24
SPEAKER_01: Is so to give a little bit of back history on Weyshawn Parker, this guy had 137 carries and 735 yards as freshman year at Washington State.
31:33
SPEAKER_01: So when the Utes hired his running back coach, Mark Mark Atuya, um, before the 2025 season, Weyshawn kind of decided to come to Utah and he really had a breakout year.
31:43
SPEAKER_01: Um, you know, last season he had 149 carries on 981 yards, which fell just short of his 1,000-yard goal.
31:51
SPEAKER_01: Um, but that it's kind of cool to see that he bulked his goal up even further, right?
31:57
SPEAKER_01: Um so now, yeah, he's trying to hit 1,200 yards this season.
32:00
SPEAKER_01: Good way to hit a thousand yards is to set your goal at 1,200.
32:03
SPEAKER_01: So I think what I like most about Weishawn this season is in all of his preseason interviews, and and there's been a ton of them, and and they're excellent, but he just kind of has this new confidence about him, man.
32:12
SPEAKER_01: Um he he seems way more team-driven than than any of the any of the years past.
32:19
SPEAKER_01: Uh, it really looks like he's kind of willing to do whatever it takes for this offense to go out there and be successful and this team to get a win every single week.
32:27
SPEAKER_01: So he seems like he's kind of embraced that true leadership role.
32:30
SPEAKER_01: And uh and and I love just he's got so much pride about this offense, you know, and and that's really special coming from a running back that knows that he could have a potential, you know, this could be a rough start, right?
32:42
SPEAKER_01: This this offensive line's put you know essentially unproven.
32:46
SPEAKER_01: Um so there's gonna be a ton of pressure on him this year to to make sure the ball's moving, you know, uh especially on the ground and especially if they're passing the ball more.
32:54
SPEAKER_01: I mean, having success on the run is is gonna open up a ton of play action and and do all the things.
32:59
SPEAKER_01: So we're we're gonna lean really hard on Weyshawn Parker this year.
33:03
SPEAKER_01: And and this kid's been special since he got here.
33:06
SPEAKER_01: And uh I think the work that he's put in this offseason is really if he hits his goals, this team will be in the thick of it when it counts.
33:17
SPEAKER_01: I'm really excited to see Weyshawn this year.
33:19
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, man.
33:20
SPEAKER_00: I I think he's gonna have a good year.
33:22
SPEAKER_00: Um, again, lofty goals, right?
33:24
SPEAKER_00: Uh that he sell for himself.
33:25
SPEAKER_00: And in this article, they also go on to say uh that they've rebuilt the O-line.
33:30
SPEAKER_00: Uh, they are going to be leaning more on his maturity as a player.
33:33
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
33:33
SPEAKER_00: Uh the lanes uh that he has been used to uh may not appear in similar timing week after week.
33:40
SPEAKER_00: Uh so they're gonna be asking him to be more instinctively savvy uh and be receptive um in those cases because they're gonna be seeing a lot of increased runs from him and with his new offense.
33:49
SPEAKER_00: So uh there's gonna be some demand placed on him.
33:52
SPEAKER_00: Um so it will be interesting to see um to see what happens, see if the pink cleats make their presence known this fall.
33:58
SPEAKER_01: Yes, yes, we're hoping for the pink cleats all week all year.
34:01
SPEAKER_01: You know what I mean?
34:02
SPEAKER_01: Absolutely.
34:02
SPEAKER_01: In case you guys don't know, the pink cleats appear as soon as Weyshawn Parker rushes for 100 yards.
34:07
SPEAKER_01: Um his agreement with Kyle Whittingham last year was if he rushed for 100 yards, he was allowed to keep wearing the pink cleats the next the next game.
34:14
SPEAKER_01: So um, you know, 12 games, 100 yards a game, that equals uh that equals the goal there.
34:20
SPEAKER_01: So yeah, um we're we're all four pink cleats every single game from Weyshawn.
34:24
SPEAKER_00: Let's see it.
34:24
SPEAKER_00: Let's see it, man.
34:25
SPEAKER_00: We want to hear from you folks.
34:26
SPEAKER_00: Let us know where your thoughts are in the comments down below when it comes to your expectations, expectations, expectations of Weishon Parker this year in uh, you know, in a youth uniform, man.
34:37
SPEAKER_00: It's gonna be super exciting.
34:38
SPEAKER_00: I'm looking forward to it, man.
34:39
SPEAKER_00: And it's just, you know, we saw this kid last year, right?
34:44
SPEAKER_00: And we saw him come up shy on that goal, but man, what this guy's dynamic back there.
34:49
SPEAKER_00: He's dynamic back there.
34:50
SPEAKER_00: I'm looking forward to it.
34:51
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and I think he's gonna be expected to catch the ball out of the backfield a lot more this year.
34:54
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
34:54
SPEAKER_00: That was the that was kind of where I was getting at.
34:56
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
34:56
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
34:57
SPEAKER_01: And and I think as long as he can catch the ball out of the backfield, I mean, he's he's gonna be expected to do all the things though, right?
35:02
SPEAKER_01: Because he's gonna have to be a pass blocker.
35:04
SPEAKER_01: I mean, they're absolutely gonna need him back there, especially if they're throwing the ball more.
35:08
SPEAKER_01: But, you know, to be able to catch the ball and pass block, he is that guy that I think is, you know, he's got the right frame at you know, 220 pounds and five or six foot one or whatever he is.
35:20
SPEAKER_01: I think he's smaller than that, maybe five ten.
35:23
SPEAKER_00: But uh I've heard of both ways.
35:25
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, Weyshan's just he's a stud man, and I I think that uh I think he's on track and I think he's gonna have a really great season.
35:31
SPEAKER_01: So I'm I'm I'm looking forward to it.
35:33
SPEAKER_00: Awesome.
35:34
SPEAKER_00: Speaking of that, AJ, let's go ahead and move on over.
35:36
SPEAKER_00: Uh from speaking about one player, let's talk about another one here, AJ.
35:41
SPEAKER_00: Uh, there's another uh uh player we wanted to highlight this week.
35:44
SPEAKER_00: Uh this one uh is actually uh one that popped up in an article on 247sports.com by JT Witch Witcherchill.
35:52
SPEAKER_00: Witcherchill?
35:53
SPEAKER_00: Dumb name.
35:54
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I've heard of this.
35:55
SPEAKER_00: It doesn't matter, yeah.
35:56
SPEAKER_00: Um uh about uh Lance.
35:58
SPEAKER_00: Lance uh holesclaw.
35:59
SPEAKER_00: Uh yeah.
36:00
SPEAKER_00: This article was titled Utah Football is luck is lucky to have Lance Holesclaw to lead leading the way.
36:07
SPEAKER_00: Um so on this one, AJ, the article basically is titling that he's gonna be leading the way.
36:13
SPEAKER_00: And honestly, AJ, that's gonna be more than one, right?
36:15
SPEAKER_00: As far as his he's gonna be doing it, which we'll get into here.
36:18
SPEAKER_00: Uh the article talks about his past uh about pass rushers in the past for this team um being nothing shy of elite.
36:26
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
36:26
SPEAKER_00: Um, you know, you know who also is elite?
36:30
SPEAKER_01: Me.
36:30
SPEAKER_00: All 290 subscribers to Utah Football DNA.
36:34
SPEAKER_01: Thank you guys, appreciate it.
36:36
SPEAKER_00: We just hit that subscriber goal.
36:37
SPEAKER_00: Uh uh, thank you guys very much for that.
36:40
SPEAKER_00: Um now, Nate Orchard, uh, if you drive around anywhere in Utah and you have your radar on, you're constantly reminded on how he's the mayor of Sack Lake City, um, which is something this article uh is claiming to be.
36:52
SPEAKER_00: Uh, that he's gonna be, that this Lance kid's gonna be his heir parent, right?
36:56
SPEAKER_00: Uh his stats from last season shows that he had a 26 total tackles, 17 of those solos, nine assist tackles, and one and a half sacks.
37:04
SPEAKER_00: Um he also added uh during uh he was added during the winter portal window uh to address the Utah's needs at pass rushing.
37:12
SPEAKER_00: Uh he drew a lot of interest from a bunch of different programs, but felt that Utah was the best fit for him, stating, I kind of knew the philosophy, Utah and their culture, uh what they stand for.
37:23
SPEAKER_00: Um definitely um defensively, it's well known.
37:28
SPEAKER_00: People know how to play.
37:30
SPEAKER_00: Uh they send the heat, they get after it.
37:32
SPEAKER_00: That's what I want to do.
37:33
SPEAKER_00: I want to have as many opportunities as I can to get after the quarterback.
37:37
SPEAKER_00: Um, so that dude's coming in here with some research, right?
37:40
SPEAKER_01: Absolutely.
37:41
SPEAKER_00: You know, he's six foot three, two hundred and twenty-seven pounds.
37:44
SPEAKER_00: Seems, you know, like a heady player, man, like very heady.
37:48
SPEAKER_00: Um, and what I mean by that is just like there's a lot of understanding of his technique uh at the position, and his understanding of that technical side of things is high level.
37:57
SPEAKER_00: Uh speaking of which, uh on the high level, AJ, he was in DC in June.
38:01
SPEAKER_00: Did you hear about this?
38:02
SPEAKER_00: I did.
38:02
SPEAKER_00: I did.
38:03
SPEAKER_00: So he got a chance to testify in front of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee uh during a hitting hearing on the Protect College Sports Act of 2026.
38:15
SPEAKER_00: By the way, that's probably the last time on the channel we're gonna mention that.
38:18
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
38:19
SPEAKER_00: I'm I'm done with that, you know, non-football football stories here in Utah.
38:23
SPEAKER_00: Uh but I think that's so, you know, it's impressive because there's a lot of folks up there testifying.
38:27
SPEAKER_00: Um, everyone else that was up there was administrators, coaches, television partners, you know, conference executives.
38:34
SPEAKER_00: You know, G AJ.
38:36
SPEAKER_00: So there's a lot of people that was on that list.
38:38
SPEAKER_00: Uh, but um, what was missing there?
38:41
SPEAKER_00: Players.
38:41
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, gosh, players, right?
38:43
SPEAKER_00: You know, the people who were actually going there to watch week in and week out.
38:46
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
38:46
SPEAKER_00: You know, the ones who, when it comes to NIL, you know, conference realignment and a player of eligibility rules and academic responsibilities, it was really nice to have somebody who had an impact on all this directly uh there having a chance to give his voice, which I think is awesome.
39:02
SPEAKER_00: Uh something that we didn't talk about on this channel uh too much, but is worth noting here.
39:06
SPEAKER_00: Um but anyway, back to the football side of it, AJ.
39:09
SPEAKER_00: What are your thoughts on Lance?
39:11
SPEAKER_01: I love Lance Holt's claw.
39:14
SPEAKER_01: And if you guys don't follow him on social media, you're missing out because he's hilarious.
39:18
SPEAKER_01: Um, he's always doing like a lot of the a lot of the stuff on Instagram for the University of Utah, and he's always like interviewing people and like it's he's awesome.
39:27
SPEAKER_01: So um we we all know that Utah has hit it has been a school that has always prided itself on a fast-moving defense that puts a ton of pressure on opposing quarterbacks.
39:36
SPEAKER_01: And yeah, I mean you think back over the years, and you you you have guys like you know, like you mentioned, Nate Orchard, um, Hunter Dimmick, Bradley and I.
39:43
SPEAKER_01: Um, and then you know, more recently we've had guys like Van Phelinger.
39:46
SPEAKER_01: You know, last year we had John Henry Daly.
39:48
SPEAKER_01: So there's always one guy that sets himself apart and really leads this team in sacks.
39:54
SPEAKER_01: You can just tell he's the anchor on the defense.
39:57
SPEAKER_01: Um, Lance Holtzclaw should be that guy this year.
40:00
SPEAKER_01: Uh, he played in all 13 games last year.
40:02
SPEAKER_01: He only recorded one and a half sacks.
40:04
SPEAKER_01: I understand that, but this guy plays with a ton of energy.
40:07
SPEAKER_01: He leads by example, he's always out there.
40:10
SPEAKER_01: Um, and he he's really been someone that I've kind of been watching.
40:13
SPEAKER_01: Um, I love to see him watching it for you know, transfer from Washington.
40:16
SPEAKER_01: Uh, I in case you guys don't know, my wife is a Washington football fan.
40:20
SPEAKER_01: So to see the transfer, I was like, oh, we got a guy you didn't have.
40:23
SPEAKER_01: Um, but uh, you know, so every time I see him on the field, it just good things always happen.
40:28
SPEAKER_01: Uh, this defensive line is gonna need more than one guy to step up for them to really find success.
40:34
SPEAKER_01: But uh I think having Lance out there, seeing some expended playing time, uh, and being a huge part of this defense this year, uh, that's gonna be an advantage, Utah.
40:42
SPEAKER_01: So, you know, Utah's in need of a new mayor of Sack Lake City, and and I think Lance is that guy.
40:48
SPEAKER_01: So I'm really excited to see him on the field here in eight days.
40:51
SPEAKER_00: Damn, might be getting a cease and disorce uh cease and desist order there um, you know, pretty soon.
40:57
SPEAKER_00: Pretty soon.
40:58
SPEAKER_01: Why would that be?
40:59
SPEAKER_00: Huh?
40:59
SPEAKER_00: Why?
41:00
SPEAKER_00: Nate Orchard, he's gonna get a cease and desist.
41:02
SPEAKER_00: Because he's the mayor, because he's now the mayor.
41:04
SPEAKER_00: I'm the new mayor.
41:05
SPEAKER_00: He's now the new mayor.
41:06
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
41:06
SPEAKER_00: I mean, you saw him up on the Senate Flair in that dapper suit, man.
41:08
SPEAKER_00: That guy means good all about his business.
41:10
SPEAKER_00: Good point.
41:11
SPEAKER_00: When he becomes the sack leader here, he's not gonna be like, hey man, you're gonna push you're gonna have to stop using that because I'm not I'm the mayor now.
41:17
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you know, I'm the captain now.
41:19
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, basically.
41:21
SPEAKER_00: He's gonna be like, Yeah, looky here.
41:23
SPEAKER_00: Looky here.
41:23
SPEAKER_01: I'm the captain now.
41:24
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, again, I cannot say enough about that, you know.
41:27
SPEAKER_00: And then what I loved is that on that Senate committee hearing, if you got a chance to listen to it, um, he didn't really take a side.
41:34
SPEAKER_00: He just his whole thing was that hey, we need to be part of this conversation as well.
41:38
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you know, you need to be making this decision with us, not for us.
41:41
SPEAKER_01: He's a smart, well-spoken dude, and that that's always a good sign, right?
41:45
SPEAKER_01: Like you you get some of these kids and you can just tell they've had no media training, but Lance Holtz call is is class act.
41:51
SPEAKER_01: I I've really enjoyed just I mean, even listening to his interviews is always fun.
41:54
SPEAKER_00: So yeah, good kid, good kid.
41:56
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I mean, I say kid because I'm older than dirt.
41:58
SPEAKER_01: You're super old, yeah.
41:59
SPEAKER_00: That's grown-ass man, but I'm not gonna call him kid.
42:01
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, but I'm not.
42:02
SPEAKER_00: Of course not, of course not.
42:04
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42:32
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42:41
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42:58
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43:02
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43:04
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43:24
SPEAKER_01: Uh, the first thing we kind of want to jump into today is uh Mr.
43:27
SPEAKER_01: Aaron Judge is going to return from injury, huh?
43:30
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
43:30
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so he's finally getting closer to uh to a return, and the timing couldn't be more important for you know kind of how the Yankee season plays out.
43:37
SPEAKER_01: Uh Judge took a major step forward Tuesday.
43:40
SPEAKER_01: He's finally taking indoor batting practice, uh getting back to fly, you know, getting back to shagging fly balls, and as he continues his recovery from the fractured right rib, um that that's kept him out since May 31st.
43:53
SPEAKER_01: So uh there still isn't a firm timetable on his return, but the next step the next steps could kind of you know include lots.
44:00
SPEAKER_01: Batting practice, simulated at bats, uh, and and eventually probably a minor league rehab assignment.
44:05
SPEAKER_01: So uh since Judge went down, New York's gone 38 and 34 uh while scoring just 271 runs over their last 72 games, which is one of the lowest offensive totals in baseball during that stretch.
44:18
SPEAKER_01: So he was having a good season before uh his injury.
44:21
SPEAKER_01: He was hitting 248.
44:22
SPEAKER_01: Um, he had hit 17 home runs, 38 RBIs.
44:25
SPEAKER_01: So without Judge, the Yankees have really struggled to get anything going offensively.
44:30
SPEAKER_01: Um no power, no run production.
44:33
SPEAKER_01: So what happens to the reigning back-to-back AL MVP when it so I messed it up.
44:41
SPEAKER_01: So what happens when the reigning back-to-back AL MVP finally gets back into lineup for the Yankees?
44:46
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, great question, man.
44:48
SPEAKER_00: Great question.
44:48
SPEAKER_00: And I think you're spot on that one when it comes to that, like as far as your analysis of that, like back-to-back, you know, MVP kind of says most of it, right?
44:56
SPEAKER_00: Let's dive in a little deeper.
44:57
SPEAKER_00: I think it's pretty sure, I think it's pretty well known by any anybody who knows baseball that the Yankees go where Judge goes, right?
45:04
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, have been, always will, too.
45:06
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, absolutely.
45:08
SPEAKER_00: Uh so this season, uh, even though he hasn't played uh since May, he already has generated two war already.
45:15
SPEAKER_00: Um again, he hasn't played since May, AJ.
45:18
SPEAKER_00: Um and over the last two seasons, he's led the league in on base percentage, slugging, OPS, OPS plus, and total bases.
45:26
SPEAKER_00: And he's the three times uh MVP.
45:30
SPEAKER_00: Um yeah, the Yankees have a top uh have the top spot by like seven games in the wild card right now, um only back four in the division as of time of recording.
45:40
SPEAKER_00: Um so you know they basically have a spot in the postseason kind of locked, right?
45:44
SPEAKER_00: That's kind of where they're at.
45:46
SPEAKER_00: Um the difference in my opinion is that Judge coming back uh makes them now, instead of just being a playoff team, makes them now to be one of the favorites to come out of the AL.
45:55
SPEAKER_01: Oh, absolutely.
45:57
SPEAKER_01: I mean, that's that this is the piece that they're missing on this team right now, right?
46:01
SPEAKER_01: Like they're they're struggling, they're still winning games, but but the offense is just putting by.
46:07
SPEAKER_01: You know, they're they're getting just enough run support to get some wins.
46:11
SPEAKER_01: They still haven't played, they've kept themselves in the running enough, but like these guys need offense, and that's exactly what Aaron Judge is.
46:18
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and the funny thing is there's one time during last weekend, I think.
46:22
SPEAKER_00: Uh, correct me in the comments if I'm wrong on this one, but there was one week, uh, weekend last weekend where every team in the AL East was a playoff team.
46:31
SPEAKER_01: Oh, really?
46:32
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
46:33
SPEAKER_00: Jeez.
46:34
SPEAKER_00: Over the weekend.
46:35
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's crazy.
46:36
SPEAKER_00: So that's how much was going on over there.
46:38
SPEAKER_00: And actually, as it sits right now, uh, there's actually going to be a team in the AL that doesn't have a winning record if the playoffs were to start today, uh, which is quite embarrassing.
46:48
SPEAKER_00: Um AL, get your eye together.
46:50
SPEAKER_00: Uh so that's kind of where I'm thinking, man.
46:51
SPEAKER_00: Like if this team is in the playoffs, yeah, I think they can go toe-to-toe with literally literally anybody uh in the AL.
46:57
SPEAKER_00: And honestly, if Judge is there, I don't expect him to have the same um off postseason that he had in 2024.
47:05
SPEAKER_01: No, you definitely wouldn't expect that.
47:07
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you know, and I definitely think they have a more well-rounded team than they did in 2024, where it's not just Stanton, Judge, and Soto and then everybody else.
47:14
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
47:14
SPEAKER_01: You know, I think they have a much more rounded than a patchwork hitting the rest of their hitting crews just like, yeah, we found you over there.
47:21
SPEAKER_01: You were at the grocery store, but don't worry, we got you know, Judge, Soto, Stanton.
47:26
SPEAKER_01: We're we should be fine.
47:27
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, exactly.
47:28
SPEAKER_00: Now, you know, Soto's playing in the Queens and they're not even gonna make the playoffs.
47:32
SPEAKER_00: You know, they're pulling like the playoffs is quite the statement there.
47:36
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it is quite the statement for sure.
47:38
SPEAKER_00: Um, you know, shout out to all the Mets friends out there.
47:41
SPEAKER_00: Uh just I love it, dude.
47:42
SPEAKER_00: I need the Mets to keep doing what they're doing.
47:44
SPEAKER_00: It's just proof that, you know, having a biggest payroll in baseball.
47:47
SPEAKER_00: Some argue that his their payroll is bigger than the Dodgers.
47:50
SPEAKER_00: It's not though.
47:51
SPEAKER_00: If you take in consideration of deferred contracts, yeah, it is.
47:55
SPEAKER_00: The Mets is the biggest or the Dodgers is the biggest bigger Mets are bigger than the Dodgers.
47:58
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's what I was saying.
47:59
SPEAKER_01: Because we that's that's what we've always looked at was deferred contracts and yeah.
48:02
SPEAKER_00: So if you take Shoei O'Tani's contract and how it actually averages out in present-day value, the Mets technically have a higher payroll than the Dodgers do.
48:09
SPEAKER_00: So not that that matters.
48:11
SPEAKER_00: No one cares about that.
48:12
SPEAKER_00: No one cares about that.
48:12
SPEAKER_00: Everybody only they only want to bitch about the Dodgers, you know.
48:15
SPEAKER_00: No one cares about you know the highest payroll in baseball when you're not winning.
48:18
SPEAKER_00: They only care when you are winning.
48:20
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and apparently only when you were the Dodgers, they didn't care when the Yankees were doing it for a hundred years.
48:23
SPEAKER_01: No, no, no, no.
48:24
SPEAKER_01: It wasn't a big deal then because they're the Yankees.
48:26
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's the Yankees, it's America's team.
48:28
SPEAKER_00: I guess pump the brakes on that one, AJ.
48:32
SPEAKER_01: Hey, that's not me that said that.
48:34
SPEAKER_01: That's like the world.
48:35
SPEAKER_01: That's like the world, dude.
48:36
SPEAKER_01: Isn't that a thing?
48:38
SPEAKER_01: Yankees like America's team.
48:40
SPEAKER_01: Uh maybe not.
48:40
SPEAKER_00: Again, that confused with the NFL.
48:42
SPEAKER_00: Uh maybe I made it up.
48:43
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, who knows?
48:44
SPEAKER_00: Hey, you know, you heard it here first.
48:46
SPEAKER_00: Um, since we're talking about the Yankees, AJ's all of a sudden a Yankees fan.
48:50
SPEAKER_00: Nice.
48:51
SPEAKER_01: I am stuffed.
48:51
SPEAKER_01: Well, pump them.
48:53
SPEAKER_01: You said pump the brakes, now it's my turn to say pump the brakes.
48:55
SPEAKER_01: AJ is not a Yankees fan.
48:57
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, man.
48:57
SPEAKER_00: I think they have a good shot if uh Judge comes back healthy and gets enough time uh three weeks into the season.
49:02
SPEAKER_00: I think they could potentially catch the Rays.
49:04
SPEAKER_00: Um, but honestly, like I said, I I would pick them to come out of the uh the AL if Judge is healthy.
49:10
SPEAKER_01: Oh, I I think for sure.
49:12
SPEAKER_01: I mean they they've they've just got to keep it together long enough to get him back in this lineup.
49:16
SPEAKER_01: And it's it's like that's what they've been doing, and they've just got to keep doing that.
49:20
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, just don't rush the guy.
49:21
SPEAKER_01: You already are gonna make the postseason, Mike.
49:23
SPEAKER_01: But don't rush him.
49:24
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, like you've got a seven-game lead, that's plenty.
49:28
SPEAKER_01: Just keep doing what you're doing.
49:29
SPEAKER_01: Give him a week in the regular season, let him take some bats.
49:32
SPEAKER_01: Exactly.
49:33
SPEAKER_01: Put him in as a DH for a couple of you know what I mean?
49:35
SPEAKER_01: Like let him get a few major league swings in there.
49:38
SPEAKER_01: Stan healthy?
49:39
SPEAKER_01: I don't think he's healthy.
49:40
SPEAKER_01: I think he's out still.
49:40
SPEAKER_01: Stan's always out.
49:42
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
49:42
SPEAKER_00: Talk about a like he was huge for them in the 2024 postseason.
49:46
SPEAKER_00: Stanton.
49:47
SPEAKER_00: Huge, huge.
49:48
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, not to mention the guy's huge.
49:50
SPEAKER_00: Anyway.
49:50
SPEAKER_00: Um large man.
49:52
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, Judge isn't small either, though.
49:54
SPEAKER_00: No, like what is that?
49:55
SPEAKER_00: 6'3, yeah.
49:56
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, Judge, Stanton, and Soto.
49:58
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but Soto's normal sized, isn't he?
50:00
SPEAKER_00: No, dude, he's he's kind of a I mean, if you want to call 6'3 and 240 normal, sure.
50:05
SPEAKER_00: You know, yeah, yeah, I guess that's not that small of a man.
50:07
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
50:08
SPEAKER_01: Okay, fair enough.
50:09
SPEAKER_01: Fair enough.
50:09
SPEAKER_01: They have large hitters at the Yankees.
50:12
SPEAKER_00: I don't know how, like, I know how they got to the World Series.
50:15
SPEAKER_00: I don't know how they didn't win the World Series with that tri trio right there.
50:17
SPEAKER_00: Well, honestly, you know, it's a teen sport.
50:19
SPEAKER_00: Everybody's got to be there.
50:20
SPEAKER_00: Um, but yeah, we want to hear from you folks.
50:22
SPEAKER_00: Let us know where your thoughts are in the comments down below.
50:24
SPEAKER_00: Uh, what do you think about Judge coming back uh for the Yankees?
50:26
SPEAKER_00: Do you think it's something, nothing, everything?
50:28
SPEAKER_00: Um, yeah, are they your favorites to come out of the AL uh with Judge's return, or do you think he's gonna have a similar postseason that he did in 2024?
50:35
SPEAKER_00: We want to hear from you.
50:36
SPEAKER_00: Uh let us know your thoughts.
50:37
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we want to hear it all.
50:38
SPEAKER_01: So, next topic.
50:40
SPEAKER_01: This is right down Darren's alley.
50:42
SPEAKER_01: Um I don't know why you'd say that.
50:44
SPEAKER_01: I don't know why either.
50:45
SPEAKER_01: Um, Shoey Otani has been announced that he may be returning to the mound.
50:50
SPEAKER_01: Dave Roberts officially hasn't rolled Otani out pitching against the DJ Tigers this weekend.
50:55
SPEAKER_01: Um, and after throwing 30 pitches in live batting practice, the Dodgers I didn't see Will Smith.
51:02
SPEAKER_01: Was it against Will Smith?
51:03
SPEAKER_00: Will Smith's taking live A Bs, baby.
51:05
SPEAKER_01: So sick, actually.
51:06
SPEAKER_01: Um, the Dodgers appear to be getting very close to bringing Shohei back.
51:10
SPEAKER_01: So now that Otani hasn't pitched since July 3rd, um sorry sorry, now Otani hasn't pitched since July 3rd.
51:16
SPEAKER_01: So obviously the Dodgers aren't gonna throw him out there and expect six or seven innings right away.
51:21
SPEAKER_01: Um the ultimate goal isn't just to get Otani back on the mound, right?
51:25
SPEAKER_01: Uh it the goal for the Dodgers is to have him built up, ready to pitch, meaningful innings uh when the postseason's here.
51:32
SPEAKER_01: So um could Sunday be the beginning of Shohei Otani's pitching comeback?
51:36
SPEAKER_01: And then how do the Dodgers ramp him back up so they so they can get those meaningful innings out of Otani when they need him in the postseason?
51:44
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I do expect him to take the ball to open the game on Sunday in Detroit.
51:48
SPEAKER_00: I think you're 100% right on that.
51:49
SPEAKER_00: Dave uh Roberts has said it's a strong possibility, yeah.
51:52
SPEAKER_00: Uh, which is, you know, if you know Dave talk, you know Dave talk there.
51:57
SPEAKER_00: Uh I definitely think they're gonna run him out as kind of an opener for like the first two games where he's gonna be, you know, piggybacking, uh having a start with a piggybacker, uh, which in this case is gonna be uh Lauer, Eric Lauer.
52:09
SPEAKER_00: Um, they've already made kind of the moves to make that happen by putting him into the bullpen with the return of uh Glass now into the lineup.
52:16
SPEAKER_00: Um which speaking of which, man, that's rough.
52:19
SPEAKER_00: Eric Lauer, dude.
52:20
SPEAKER_00: You go your team goes 11 and one with you as a starter starter, and then it's El Bencho.
52:26
SPEAKER_00: Get back getting the bullpen.
52:28
SPEAKER_01: I mean he came off the bench early tonight after four, I think.
52:31
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
52:33
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, he had a blister issue.
52:34
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so Lauer was right off the bench.
52:36
SPEAKER_00: So yeah, I guess he's gonna be good as uh good in the bullpen.
52:40
SPEAKER_00: I mean, he did do that for the blue jays.
52:41
SPEAKER_00: It's kind of middle pitcher, yeah.
52:42
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so it's really funny though.
52:44
SPEAKER_00: You know, 11 and one.
52:47
SPEAKER_00: You know, and he was waived by the probably earned himself a contract somewhere though.
52:50
SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah, easily.
52:51
SPEAKER_00: Waived by the Blue Jays, by the way.
52:53
SPEAKER_00: The Dodgers picked him up and they They're just like, hey, maybe you want to go and throw for us a little bit?
52:57
SPEAKER_00: Now two games, they've lost two games that he's pitched in all year.
53:01
SPEAKER_00: That's insane.
53:02
SPEAKER_01: That is insane.
53:03
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
53:03
SPEAKER_00: But now you're gonna be in the bulk in.
53:05
SPEAKER_00: So yeah, he's probably gonna be piggybacking a lot of Otani starts uh while he ramps up to get ready for the postseason.
53:10
SPEAKER_00: Um, yeah, I don't expect more than a couple of starts where he's gonna be doing that.
53:14
SPEAKER_00: Uh, I think maybe three starts, and he's gonna be going, I think the first three starts he's gonna have back.
53:19
SPEAKER_00: They'll watch his pitch count, they'll watch his innings, but I think after the third, you know, three weeks in, I think they're gonna let him try and go five innings.
53:26
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
53:26
SPEAKER_00: So I think he's gonna be pretty back a lot faster than he did last year when they did this to him last year, when he's coming back from his elbow surgery.
53:33
SPEAKER_00: It will be nice to have Otani back, by the way.
53:36
SPEAKER_00: Uh, we definitely have missed him since he's been out of rotation.
53:40
SPEAKER_01: Oh my I I it's crazy.
53:42
SPEAKER_01: I didn't say him see him play in either one of the last two games.
53:44
SPEAKER_00: I haven't seen him play since uh he's been on the mound, dude.
53:47
SPEAKER_00: Like, I don't know what's going on.
53:48
SPEAKER_00: You know, it's been I could have sworn he was a two-way player.
53:51
SPEAKER_00: But I guess he's just disappeared ever since you stopped pitching.
53:53
SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
53:53
SPEAKER_01: He's like, I don't pitch, I don't hit.
53:55
SPEAKER_01: How about that?
53:56
SPEAKER_00: It definitely feels that way.
53:58
SPEAKER_00: Definitely feels that way.
53:59
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
54:00
SPEAKER_00: Uh but yeah, looking forward to it, man.
54:01
SPEAKER_00: Love to see O'Show Hitani back on the mound and uh see what we can do, man.
54:05
SPEAKER_00: Because yeah, dude, we have Glass now back.
54:07
SPEAKER_00: Tarek Scooball, by the way.
54:09
SPEAKER_00: Did you hear about this?
54:10
SPEAKER_00: No.
54:10
SPEAKER_00: He's gonna be making a start this weekend in Detroit.
54:15
SPEAKER_01: What are your thoughts on this?
54:17
SPEAKER_01: How do how do you think you know we kind of talked about this in the pre-show, but uh what do you think?
54:23
SPEAKER_01: Do you think that Detroit is woo, let's go, Tarek?
54:27
SPEAKER_01: I mean, he was traded.
54:28
SPEAKER_01: Obviously, he couldn't technically control it.
54:30
SPEAKER_01: We know that there's a lot of stuff happening behind the scenes that he did say he wanted to stay.
54:34
SPEAKER_01: He he but he did.
54:35
SPEAKER_01: He did say that multiple times to the media, straight to their face, looked him in their eyes and said, I'd love to stay here.
54:40
SPEAKER_01: This is where I'd love to stay here.
54:42
SPEAKER_01: Um but but as a as a tigers fan, you've got to be thinking, this guy doesn't want to be actually be here.
54:49
SPEAKER_01: He he knows they're not gonna pay him what he's gonna ask.
54:51
SPEAKER_01: You know what I mean?
54:52
SPEAKER_01: Like somebody's gonna the the tigers have to get something for him in return.
54:56
SPEAKER_01: Like if you're going to lose Scuba, let's get something, anything, please.
55:00
SPEAKER_01: Don't just trade him away for a box of Snickers.
55:02
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
55:03
SPEAKER_00: Like well, those Snickers are pretty good, though.
55:05
SPEAKER_01: Oh, that's a good point.
55:06
SPEAKER_01: A whole box?
55:07
SPEAKER_01: Let's go box of Skittles.
55:09
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
55:09
SPEAKER_01: Well, depending on which one.
55:10
SPEAKER_01: Tropical?
55:11
SPEAKER_01: No, just traditional.
55:13
SPEAKER_00: Okay, well, no, you got you gotta be there.
55:15
SPEAKER_00: Um, no, dude, I'm I'm right there with you, man.
55:17
SPEAKER_00: Like, I think uh Dave Roberts has gone on record saying that he's very much, you know, uh what he's called where his feet are on the ground now.
55:24
SPEAKER_00: Like he's gonna be there, he's gonna tip his cap, he's gonna wave, you know, maybe wipe a tear.
55:28
SPEAKER_00: Uh but when it's time when when uh when the umpire points at him, it's business time, dude.
55:32
SPEAKER_00: He's not gonna let any of that get to him.
55:33
SPEAKER_00: Um I think what the Tiger did was smart, dude.
55:36
SPEAKER_00: You you got two pros three prospects out of this guy, and if you wanted to, you could just outbid everybody else and sign him again next year.
55:43
SPEAKER_00: Like they they showed they're willing to pay for pictures.
55:45
SPEAKER_00: They signed what's his name?
55:46
SPEAKER_00: Jordon, not Yordon, um gosh, what's his name?
55:51
SPEAKER_00: From the Houston Trash Ros.
55:53
SPEAKER_00: He got me that threw at his own catcher.
55:55
SPEAKER_00: Remember?
55:56
SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah.
55:56
SPEAKER_00: What's his name?
55:57
SPEAKER_00: Framberg?
55:58
SPEAKER_00: Framberg Valdez, thank you.
55:59
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, they paid him like$30 million, so I don't know why they wouldn't pay Turk, you know.
56:03
SPEAKER_00: So you know, we'll see.
56:04
SPEAKER_00: I think it's I think it's awesome though.
56:06
SPEAKER_00: But yeah, it's gonna be interesting to see.
56:07
SPEAKER_00: It'll be fun to have him back.
56:08
SPEAKER_00: So this rotation for the Dodgers going into postseason, you're gonna have Yamamoto, Turk Scuball, Blake Snell, Tyler Glasnow, uh Shoe Otani, and then Roki Sasaki.
56:22
SPEAKER_00: Yoshinobu Yamamoto.
56:24
SPEAKER_00: I I mentioned him.
56:24
SPEAKER_00: Uh but Roki Sasaki didn't mention him.
56:27
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and then not to mention all the people who post who posted in the World Series last year that are gonna be regulated bullpen rolls.
56:33
SPEAKER_00: You only need three starters in in the postseason, really four.
56:36
SPEAKER_00: Stupid.
56:36
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, we'll see.
56:37
SPEAKER_00: We'll see what happens.
56:38
SPEAKER_00: Stupid.
56:38
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, what else you got?
56:40
SPEAKER_01: Um, oh yeah.
56:42
SPEAKER_01: I wanted to ask, did you see the did you see Cooper Cooper Pratt with the brewer the brewer shortstop get pulled out of the game?
56:49
SPEAKER_01: No.
56:50
SPEAKER_01: Okay, so this was this was pretty interesting, and I I I saw this and I was like, I've got I've got to talk to Darren about this and kind of get his thoughts.
56:57
SPEAKER_01: So uh the brewer shortstop gets pulled from the game for not hustling um to first on a bloop play.
57:04
SPEAKER_01: Um he apparently hit a high pop-up that kind of landed in no man's land on right field line.
57:08
SPEAKER_01: Um and he paused in the batter's box and looked up before he ran to first.
57:12
SPEAKER_01: Okay, like I was just saying with when we were watching DuBon, I was like, he didn't even hustle on that.
57:17
SPEAKER_01: Um, but once he got there, um manager Pat Murphy sent out a pinch runner, ended up sitting in the rest of the game, and this isn't like the fifth inning.
57:27
SPEAKER_01: Um and uh yeah, so Murphy went on uh to to just kind of talk about I don't know.
57:33
SPEAKER_01: I I love this dude because the whole point was is like you hit the ball and it's remotely fair, you've got to run to first base.
57:40
SPEAKER_01: Like he's a rookie, right?
57:42
SPEAKER_01: So he's kind of got he's still getting his wits about him on, you know.
57:46
SPEAKER_01: I'm I'm I'm sure I'm sure playing your first season in Major League Baseball was overwhelming, but you've got to go out there and give it all, you know, give it your all.
57:54
SPEAKER_01: And like you're a rookie playing in big, meaningful games for the Brewers right now, right?
58:00
SPEAKER_01: Like these guys are top of the league, they're only they're the best team in baseball.
58:04
SPEAKER_01: Like only two games up on the Dodgers right now, and you're the starting shortstop.
58:07
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, like for for the best team in baseball right now.
58:10
SPEAKER_01: Can't be a slogo.
58:11
SPEAKER_01: So and and I think the best part about it is you've got a coach that's just out there holding rookies accountable, even in the middle of the game, dude.
58:18
SPEAKER_01: Gotta love it.
58:19
SPEAKER_01: Like trying to win, and he's out there like, yeah, well, I mean hustle.
58:23
SPEAKER_01: He didn't hustle, so get his ass out of there.
58:25
SPEAKER_01: So Pencho.
58:26
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
58:27
SPEAKER_01: Pretty cool.
58:27
SPEAKER_01: Cool Cooper's post postseason or post game comments.
58:30
SPEAKER_01: He talks about how he's got to be better and that it can't happen again.
58:34
SPEAKER_01: It's not winning baseball.
58:35
SPEAKER_01: So I I just I love I love that this shows that you know, even even as a pro, even as a professional baseball player, you don't hustle, you're still gonna get a learning moment.
58:44
SPEAKER_00: So if you don't run to your position, somebody else will.
58:47
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
58:47
SPEAKER_00: Right?
58:47
SPEAKER_00: That's just how baseball works.
58:49
SPEAKER_01: Exactly it though, dude.
58:50
SPEAKER_01: Like there's somebody behind you that would love to have there are flocks of people waiting for your exact position that will give a hundred percent the steck and they step on that diamond.
58:59
SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
59:00
SPEAKER_00: So there's no reason not to run out of a ground ball, no reason for you to, you know, pop out.
59:05
SPEAKER_00: If you think it's foul, it doesn't matter.
59:06
SPEAKER_00: Run anyway.
59:07
SPEAKER_00: You don't know where the ball is.
59:08
SPEAKER_00: Run.
59:08
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you know, that's one thing you did in the legal league.
59:10
SPEAKER_00: You made contact, you ran.
59:11
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
59:11
SPEAKER_00: You know, you let your coach, the first base coach, tell you to go back or not.
59:14
SPEAKER_00: You know, it's just how the baseball works.
59:16
SPEAKER_00: And I'm right there with you, man.
59:17
SPEAKER_00: Right there with you.
59:18
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
59:18
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
59:19
SPEAKER_00: Um, I got one for you.
59:20
SPEAKER_00: Okay, I'm ready.
59:21
SPEAKER_00: Uh so we're gonna step away from Major League Baseball for a second and go into the Mexican League.
59:25
SPEAKER_01: Oh, I love the Mexican League because I have my favorite player.
59:28
SPEAKER_00: I really don't think he's your favorite player.
59:29
SPEAKER_01: Watch this.
59:32
SPEAKER_00: There it is.
59:33
SPEAKER_00: There it is.
59:34
SPEAKER_00: It's sideways, but you get it.
59:36
SPEAKER_00: Um easy.
59:38
SPEAKER_00: Oh shit.
59:39
SPEAKER_00: Easy.
59:40
SPEAKER_00: There it is.
59:41
SPEAKER_00: There it is.
59:43
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
59:44
SPEAKER_00: Um, all right.
59:45
SPEAKER_00: So in the Mexican League, there we have Trevor Bauer, who is uh, you know, on his last start prior to the playoffs age.
59:52
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
59:53
SPEAKER_00: Um so at the time of posting this video, uh they it was, you know, basically is when this is going on.
59:58
SPEAKER_00: Obviously, the playoffs probably have started because Trevor Bauer posts videos kind of like we do.
1:00:03
SPEAKER_00: Got editing and stuff like that.
1:00:04
SPEAKER_00: So if you get on the interweb to look at it, there's a lot of there's probably some games already playing, right?
1:00:10
SPEAKER_00: Um, but anyway, so at the time of posting this video, he posted a video about how he's doing his last starter start against the T Grades, and he's only gonna pitch two innings to get ready for his start, right?
1:00:19
SPEAKER_00: Uh so Troy Viola of the T Grades hit a tank off of him, like just a two-run bomb, knocked it off of there.
1:00:26
SPEAKER_00: Um, but anyway, uh Troy wanted that ball back because it was his first home run he's been struggling.
1:00:31
SPEAKER_00: Um so he wanted that home run back, but the fan was not gonna give him the ball back.
1:00:35
SPEAKER_00: So he offered him, like Troy offered him a signed bat, you know, take a picture with you, signed ball, whatever.
1:00:40
SPEAKER_00: And the fan refused it, wouldn't accept any offer to give him the ball back.
1:00:45
SPEAKER_00: Um, not meaning Troy not getting a signed ball, none of that mattered.
1:00:49
SPEAKER_00: So, what the fan said, the only way that Troy was getting that ball back is if he got a signed baseball from Trevor Bauer, the pitcher who gave up the home run, by the way.
1:01:02
SPEAKER_00: And got a picture with him.
1:01:04
SPEAKER_01: Could you imagine giving up a home run and then having to go sign a baseball?
1:01:07
SPEAKER_00: Think about that for a second.
1:01:09
SPEAKER_00: You give up a two-run tank to tie the game, by the way.
1:01:12
SPEAKER_00: Obviously.
1:01:12
SPEAKER_00: You're mad.
1:01:13
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
1:01:14
SPEAKER_00: And so now the other team's clubby is asking you to do the player a solid that just hit a tank off you.
1:01:20
SPEAKER_00: Hey, man.
1:01:21
SPEAKER_00: Question for you.
1:01:22
SPEAKER_00: Will you go with the uh will you go sign a ball for a fan and take a picture with a fan so we can get the ball back?
1:01:29
SPEAKER_00: So you gotta do a solid for the fan so you can get the ball back for the player that just hit a tank off of you.
1:01:37
SPEAKER_01: So did he do it?
1:01:38
SPEAKER_00: Of course he did.
1:01:40
SPEAKER_01: Of course Trevor Bauer did it.
1:01:42
SPEAKER_00: What a guy.
1:01:43
SPEAKER_01: What a guy that Trevor Bauer.
1:01:44
SPEAKER_01: Obi recorded the whole thing too.
1:01:46
SPEAKER_00: I don't know if he recorded it, but uh it was.
1:01:48
SPEAKER_01: He's got a camera crew with him 24 hours a day.
1:01:50
SPEAKER_01: Of course he recorded it.
1:01:51
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, Kevin's there, yeah.
1:01:52
SPEAKER_00: Listen small but the ball.
1:01:53
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
1:01:53
SPEAKER_00: Uh, but yeah, he's you know, but he um yeah, but the fact I I mean, if you know Trevor Bauer, if you watch his vlogs, you know that he signs autographs everywhere.
1:02:01
SPEAKER_00: Yeah that he goes.
1:02:01
SPEAKER_00: He absolutely so the fact that he's willing to do that for another player, I thought was awesome.
1:02:05
SPEAKER_00: But think about that, man.
1:02:07
SPEAKER_00: How many pitchers in Major League Baseball are willing to do that?
1:02:10
SPEAKER_01: I would say very, very few.
1:02:12
SPEAKER_00: I mean, when you give up a tank, the last thing you want to be is a reminder of it.
1:02:15
SPEAKER_01: Hopefully, Trevor has evolved a little bit, right?
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SPEAKER_01: I mean, I think uh you've seen it kind of over the years, um, especially as years being out of MLB.
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SPEAKER_01: Um, he is really fan-engaged.
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SPEAKER_01: I mean, I think that's the reason that he enjoys doing his content so much, is I could totally see Trevor being one of those guys that scrolls through the comments and being like, what all these what all these people got to say?
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SPEAKER_01: Like, I'm just gonna read through just maybe 15, 20 of them, you know.
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SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh, and and I I just I think he's uh you know, he's on the tail end.
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SPEAKER_01: He he knows he doesn't have many more years that he can pitch at the level he's pitching at.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh, I think he he's he's kind of realized his his days in major league are done.
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SPEAKER_01: Um, you know, he's he's as a pitcher.
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SPEAKER_01: As a pitcher, absolutely.
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SPEAKER_01: In my opinion.
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SPEAKER_01: Maybe he could still be a hitter, maybe he could be a DH somewhere.
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SPEAKER_00: No, I mean in a oh I mean he's gonna be a pitching coach.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh, absolutely.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I think I think his time he spent in Japan, the time he spent in the Mexican league, would make him a lot of people.
1:03:09
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, he's learned enough that he's got he could go out and help somebody for sure.
1:03:12
SPEAKER_00: Prime pitching coach candidate.
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SPEAKER_00: He's been different size balls, different size mounds, elevation.
1:03:17
SPEAKER_00: He knows how to pitch in all of it.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, so yeah, I just I don't know.
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SPEAKER_00: I think that's an awesome story.
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SPEAKER_00: Got a comment here from Michelle McKinnon, 403.
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SPEAKER_00: Awesome way to put it.
1:03:24
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, absolutely.
1:03:25
SPEAKER_00: You know, it's just um you love to see it, you know.
1:03:28
SPEAKER_00: Uh I think that was a comment about the Otani thing, but um, but yeah, anyway, so when it comes to that, man, I just think it's really cool that he's willing to do that.
1:03:37
SPEAKER_00: Side note, one more thing before we get out of here.
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SPEAKER_00: Did you see um remember when we did that episode ways back where uh Joe Adele, right?
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SPEAKER_00: We talk about the ancients very rarely on this team, but he had like the best defensive performance in baseball.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, robbed three homers in a game or two homers in a game?
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SPEAKER_01: Three.
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SPEAKER_01: It was three, right?
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, and that last one where he fell into the audience, fell into the stands and everything, you know, like was like the play of the year, right?
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SPEAKER_00: Play of the decade, right?
1:04:02
SPEAKER_01: It's like it's like the opening play on when MLB launches their like their opening.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's like one of the plays in there from last year.
1:04:09
SPEAKER_00: Did you see Fernando Tatis Jr.'s play against the Mets?
1:04:14
SPEAKER_00: No, I didn't.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh my goodness, dude.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, I'm not a Tatis Jr.
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SPEAKER_00: fan, like Diamond Close.
1:04:20
SPEAKER_00: I I think the guy's kind of irritating and he doesn't put ball first, you know.
1:04:25
SPEAKER_00: It's got he puts his swagger first before anything else, but I gotta say, this this catch beat that, dude.
1:04:31
SPEAKER_00: This catch beat it.
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SPEAKER_00: Yes.
1:04:33
SPEAKER_00: Get a chance, watch it.
1:04:35
SPEAKER_00: He goes up and he's chasing this ball down, chasing it down, and he jumps up, and as he jumps up and he whips his arm back, robs the home run, his hat falls off, and he comes down, and then he just flips the ball into his hand, like a just like a G, dude.
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SPEAKER_00: Just like boom, and you're like, And it was a home he saved a home run?
1:04:53
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, he robbed a home run.
1:04:54
SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, you know, you're like you're thinking, oh, no big deal, he's falling into the stands.
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SPEAKER_00: Just hit dismissed that usually.
1:05:01
SPEAKER_00: Um falling into the stands, you're like, that can't be beat.
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SPEAKER_00: But no, this one, this one was definitely better.
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SPEAKER_00: It was it was a sick, sick play.
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SPEAKER_01: Um was it eight days ago?
1:05:18
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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SPEAKER_00: I think it was about eight days ago.
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SPEAKER_01: He robbed the grand slam.
1:05:21
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's the other thing, is it was a grand slam too that would have gone over the fence.
1:05:25
SPEAKER_00: This play is just absolutely nuts.
1:05:26
SPEAKER_00: He goes up, you're thinking it's out, hustles all the way over there.
1:05:31
SPEAKER_00: Oh just looking at it.
1:05:35
SPEAKER_00: Oh, dude.
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SPEAKER_00: So nasty.
1:05:39
SPEAKER_00: This is the second inning, you know.
1:05:41
SPEAKER_00: He just goes up there, just it's it's a good wow.
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SPEAKER_00: It's a good play.
1:05:46
SPEAKER_01: That is quite a play.
1:05:47
SPEAKER_00: It's a good play.
1:05:48
SPEAKER_01: That is quite a play.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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