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- 0:00Speaker 1: If you got pop for doing steroids, then you should
- 0:02Speaker 1: not be in the whole thing. And my thing with Pete,
- 0:04Speaker 1: why Pete does it because you broke the gold game.
- 0:06Speaker 2: You don't Kim. That's it. That's it.
- 0:12Speaker 3: I know AJ will like this.
- 0:13Speaker 4: So before we talk about baseball, the NBA playoffs are
- 0:16Speaker 4: going on right now. Forget that the NBA Draft lottery
- 0:21Speaker 4: happened and.
- 0:22Speaker 3: The conspiracy theories were flying. I was reading an article.
- 0:25Speaker 1: Every time the MAVs lose, like their best player, they
- 0:28Speaker 1: get the first pick in the draft. It's like happened
- 0:30Speaker 1: three times, but it was like they're the magic got
- 0:33Speaker 1: Shack and the next yer they got Penny.
- 0:35Speaker 3: But do you think that something is getting rigged. It's
- 0:39Speaker 3: kind of hard to pull that off.
- 0:40Speaker 2: It's not the cold ping pong ball, the frozen ping
- 0:42Speaker 2: pong ball. You haven't heard the conspiracy.
- 0:44Speaker 3: Theories that you can rig the ping pong balls.
- 0:48Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a way, like if you freeze them or something,
- 0:50Speaker 2: it goes. I don't know.
- 0:52Speaker 1: There was there's a whole thing about it. If you
- 0:54Speaker 1: got to go online, it gets deep. This should be
- 0:57Speaker 1: in the weeds.
- 0:58Speaker 4: So should I buy into any of this or believe
- 1:02Speaker 4: what I was reading last night, which was how there
- 1:04Speaker 4: would have to be a lot of crooks involved to
- 1:07Speaker 4: pull something like this off.
- 1:10Speaker 1: All it really needs to be is is is a couple? Yeah,
- 1:13Speaker 1: but it's not worth Commissioner, whoever does the people right?
- 1:16Speaker 1: The Jews ain't worth the squeeze just because you get
- 1:19Speaker 1: the first pick. Look at the Sixers. They've squandered that.
- 1:22Speaker 1: Just because you get the first pick doesn't mean you're
- 1:24Speaker 1: getting Jordan.
- 1:25Speaker 5: Or Shack.
- 1:27Speaker 3: The flag. It's pretty good.
- 1:29Speaker 1: They've You got to trust the process with the Sixers,
- 1:31Speaker 1: they're still in the process, twelve year process. Right, Embid
- 1:35Speaker 1: is still trusting the process, and now In doesn't trust
- 1:40Speaker 1: his kneecaps.
- 1:41Speaker 3: What about for tanking teams? You gotta trust the process.
- 1:43Speaker 1: With the White that's the White Sox and the Rockies
- 1:46Speaker 1: are going to get the tenth pick next year.
- 1:47Speaker 3: How about the Orioles. They went through a process. They
- 1:50Speaker 3: lost fans.
- 1:50Speaker 2: For six they're losing. They're losing a lot of games.
- 1:52Speaker 3: Now they're losing a lot of games. We're going to
- 1:54Speaker 3: talk about them.
- 1:54Speaker 4: All right, Let's charge the mound and talk about the
- 1:57Speaker 4: top record in Major League Baseball, right, yeah, talking about
- 2:05Speaker 4: and that record belongs to the Detroit Tigers twenty nine
- 2:11Speaker 4: and fifteen, a half game better right now than the Dodgers,
- 2:15Speaker 4: one game up on the Padres and the Mets for
- 2:18Speaker 4: best overall record in Major League Baseball. They pull off
- 2:21Speaker 4: another thrilling win yesterday, despite the play of the year
- 2:25Speaker 4: in my mind and the call of the year in
- 2:28Speaker 4: my mind.
- 2:28Speaker 3: By the visiting broadcaster.
- 2:31Speaker 4: Visiting broadcaster, Oh, I didn't hear the Red Sox one.
- 2:35Speaker 3: I only heard I was watch Red Sox one was
- 2:36Speaker 3: good too.
- 2:37Speaker 2: I was watching the Tigers, not so as I.
- 2:39Speaker 4: Heard the Red Sox one later. The Tigers one was money.
- 2:43Speaker 4: And he had so many little bits and pieces that
- 2:47Speaker 4: he added to it, like pinball, and if there was
- 2:50Speaker 4: goaltending in baseball, this would be it. He was just
- 2:53Speaker 4: on fire. It was one of those where he, you know,
- 2:56Speaker 4: had a heat check crats. He was like, let me
- 2:58Speaker 4: toss one thing out there that no one else would, okay,
- 3:00Speaker 4: that hit. Let me toss another out there that no
- 3:02Speaker 4: one else would that hit, And then you have to
- 3:04Speaker 4: wait for a second and go. This was the visiting broadcast.
- 3:07Speaker 4: Some visiting broadcasters still would be like, it makes the catch. Uh,
- 3:12Speaker 4: And I'm watching right and I'm like this is exciting
- 3:15Speaker 4: because especially nowadays, scrats a lot of people do watch,
- 3:18Speaker 4: you know, from other places on like MLB dot TV,
- 3:20Speaker 4: and so you get sometimes you don't get to choose
- 3:22Speaker 4: the broadcast the way you want. And Jason Bennetti delivered,
- 3:26Speaker 4: but really also so did sit on Raphaela and will
- 3:28Speaker 4: You're a bray you They look like they finish each
- 3:31Speaker 4: other's sentences, look like it looked like whiffle ball in
- 3:35Speaker 4: the backyard, Like this is like the the joy everybody's
- 3:40Speaker 4: joy and reaction.
- 3:41Speaker 5: It wasn't the.
- 3:42Speaker 6: Non chalant like whatever bro like pound your chest, look
- 3:47Speaker 6: at me, Like it looked like whiffle ball in the
- 3:49Speaker 6: backyard where you can't go over a certain line and
- 3:51Speaker 6: you gotta like jump to knock it back in and
- 3:54Speaker 6: your buddy's there just trying to make the catch.
- 3:57Speaker 5: I love it. It was great.
- 4:00Speaker 1: It was one of the better catches. It was one
- 4:02Speaker 1: of the coolest catches. Can't really call it a better
- 4:04Speaker 1: great catch because it was it was such a a
- 4:08Speaker 1: clunky like kind of niche niche catch, but it was
- 4:12Speaker 1: cool catch just because the way they Brady brought it
- 4:17Speaker 1: back and then why was Raffael think how far Rafael
- 4:19Speaker 1: had to run to get.
- 4:20Speaker 2: There, and he was right there perfectly.
- 4:22Speaker 1: Now you've seen guys pop him up and in the
- 4:24Speaker 1: infield and Guy's other guys catch it, but you never
- 4:26Speaker 1: see this in the outfield. So for him to jump
- 4:29Speaker 1: up Hendrick, they just tied the game. Hendrick was like, oh,
- 4:33Speaker 1: it's six to five, I'm giving it up. And then that,
- 4:37Speaker 1: I mean, it's just it's awesome. I mean, Hendricks is like,
- 4:40Speaker 1: Hendrick says some words we can't repeat on the show,
- 4:43Speaker 1: but I mean, and then Bennetti's call and Andy Dirks
- 4:48Speaker 1: was his color guy was just perfect and Benetti pinball
- 4:52Speaker 1: and saying all the things he said.
- 4:54Speaker 2: It was just it was. It was one of the
- 4:55Speaker 2: and the Tigers won.
- 4:56Speaker 1: And but the interesting part about the Tiger's winning, our
- 4:59Speaker 1: boy j Hen was one got the hit, yep, not
- 5:01Speaker 1: Hovey bias. They had a run around third and no
- 5:03Speaker 1: outs and they strike out, I believe, and then Jay
- 5:08Speaker 1: Hen came up with the hit with two outs. So
- 5:11Speaker 1: the Tigers are doing it right now, they're doing it.
- 5:14Speaker 6: They're really good, fun to watch. They're fun to watch.
- 5:17Speaker 6: There's no they make adjustments. I know, big leag teams
- 5:21Speaker 6: make adjustments and really good teams, really good lineups, make
- 5:24Speaker 6: adjustments through the game, and they like you know, they
- 5:27Speaker 6: attack like the Dodgers, just attack like weaknesses and teams
- 5:31Speaker 6: bullpens like guys are tipping. It looks like the Tigers
- 5:34Speaker 6: when you watch an entire game. They feed off of
- 5:37Speaker 6: each others at bats and they just wear teams down
- 5:41Speaker 6: to the point where they get to that situation. I
- 5:44Speaker 6: thought they were gonna blow it and they were gonna
- 5:46Speaker 6: go into extras, but obviously Jay hen comes through with
- 5:50Speaker 6: a huge not It just seems like they're always putting
- 5:54Speaker 6: themselves in situations to knock the pitcher out, get the
- 5:58Speaker 6: winning hit, start a round, whatever it is.
- 6:00Speaker 5: They're fun to.
- 6:01Speaker 3: Watch, obviously. Scoobles being Scoobale.
- 6:06Speaker 2: Scooble pitch really good.
- 6:07Speaker 1: Scoobale won my lock last night by he got the
- 6:10Speaker 1: one out he needed and he was rolling and I
- 6:13Speaker 1: was like, huh easy, and then all of a sudden
- 6:15Speaker 1: he gave up three runs. I out of nowhere and
- 6:17Speaker 1: it was five to five, and Tommy Cainley, our guy,
- 6:19Speaker 1: came in through change ups and got out of it
- 6:21Speaker 1: basic load. I think one out, got out of it,
- 6:23Speaker 1: got a double play and then they went on to
- 6:25Speaker 1: hold them off until they scored. But Tigers are playing great, man,
- 6:29Speaker 1: The Tigers are the Tigers. It's hard for me not
- 6:32Speaker 1: to say the Tigers are the best team in the
- 6:34Speaker 1: American League right now.
- 6:35Speaker 2: It's hard to. I mean they are. I think they are.
- 6:39Speaker 4: The second best record in the American League belongs to
- 6:41Speaker 4: the Yankees. Those are two very different looking teams.
- 6:46Speaker 1: The Tigers are like the young, energetic, and the Yankees
- 6:50Speaker 1: are more like the older. We're just gonna bludge in
- 6:52Speaker 1: you to death because we know what we're doing. Whereas
- 6:54Speaker 1: the Tigers are just fun to watch. Yeah, they're fun
- 6:57Speaker 1: as hell to watch.
- 6:58Speaker 3: Yankees are just power.
- 7:00Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 7:01Speaker 3: Tigers have a more dynamic team. They do a little
- 7:05Speaker 3: bit of everything right.
- 7:06Speaker 2: They're more fun.
- 7:06Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I can't argue with that. I think they're
- 7:11Speaker 6: playing the best. Do you believe they're the best built team?
- 7:15Speaker 6: That would be that would be my only question. Do
- 7:17Speaker 6: you think they're built better than the Yankees? Or you
- 7:21Speaker 6: could even ask the question, it might be a different answer.
- 7:24Speaker 6: Do you think they're more they're built better to have
- 7:27Speaker 6: more success in the postseason when you're only facing Trek
- 7:32Speaker 6: Scoble to you know, Brendan Hanafee to Tommy Kinley to
- 7:38Speaker 6: you know, the best of the best from every team.
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- 8:44Speaker 1: Tigers will be fun, I think for me and the
- 8:46Speaker 1: I think the Tigers because they have better I think
- 8:49Speaker 1: the Tigers are better clipped, especially with Cole out there.
- 8:52Speaker 1: I think if Flaharty pitch as well, and we all
- 8:54Speaker 1: know that the Tigers can win with as they call it,
- 8:56Speaker 1: pitching chaos where they bix and match and do all
- 8:58Speaker 1: these crazy things. If torcosen hobby bias swinging about the
- 9:02Speaker 1: way they are, they can keep this up for the
- 9:04Speaker 1: whole year. To me, they're they're best equipped to make
- 9:07Speaker 1: a run in the World Series. Ye Now, can they
- 9:08Speaker 1: beat a National League team?
- 9:10Speaker 5: I don't know.
- 9:11Speaker 2: We'll see, but I love the Tigers.
- 9:14Speaker 3: They can keep up with the National League team.
- 9:16Speaker 4: But to me, it still holds true this year, just
- 9:19Speaker 4: like it did last year, the National League is significantly
- 9:22Speaker 4: better than ridiculously better. This is one of the more
- 9:25Speaker 4: lopsided years I've seen since I've been alive. There's so
- 9:29Speaker 4: many exactly this year.
- 9:33Speaker 2: Again, name start naming the top National League team's year
- 9:35Speaker 2: at four or five at least before he gets to
- 9:37Speaker 2: the Tigers.
- 9:38Speaker 6: Yes, but last year, last year, it felt like it
- 9:42Speaker 6: came to fruition. It came to like, Okay, we see
- 9:45Speaker 6: that the Padres are good this year. It just feels
- 9:48Speaker 6: like the National League is just good right out of
- 9:51Speaker 6: the jump. Look what the Cubs had to do. The
- 9:53Speaker 6: Cubs easily had the toughest record, I mean, the toughest
- 9:56Speaker 6: schedule through this first month and a half.
- 9:59Speaker 5: And look where they're like there.
- 10:01Speaker 6: Is they just have Nationally teams have from the jump
- 10:06Speaker 6: started playing. The Braves are five hundred team right now.
- 10:10Speaker 6: We don't think they're gonna end five hundred. So the
- 10:12Speaker 6: National League's a gauntlet.
- 10:16Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the difference.
- 10:17Speaker 4: You're gonna look at the National League and say, there's
- 10:19Speaker 4: some teams that don't make the playoffs that looked really good.
- 10:23Speaker 4: I don't know if you're gonna get that in the
- 10:24Speaker 4: American League. I think in the American League you're gonna
- 10:26Speaker 4: be like, yeah, this lines up. These teams didn't make it.
- 10:30Speaker 3: They're not good enough.
- 10:31Speaker 4: You might even have a wildcard team or two where
- 10:33Speaker 4: you're like me, they're stumbling to the finish line, just
- 10:37Speaker 4: not as deep.
- 10:38Speaker 1: No, I mean, it's much easier to start looking at
- 10:41Speaker 1: the National League. Teams have a chance to make the
- 10:43Speaker 1: World Series. And win because you then if you look
- 10:46Speaker 1: go if the American League, you are like, ah, Orioles out, Twins,
- 10:50Speaker 1: do we buy them? I know they're on the ten
- 10:52Speaker 1: win street.
- 10:53Speaker 2: Do we buy them?
- 10:54Speaker 5: Right?
- 10:54Speaker 2: I mean Mariners? Do we buy them? With all their
- 10:57Speaker 2: pitching injuries?
- 10:58Speaker 5: Right?
- 10:59Speaker 2: Yankees? Are the Yankees Red Sox or just got swept
- 11:02Speaker 2: by the Tigers?
- 11:03Speaker 5: Yeah?
- 11:03Speaker 4: How about the Red Sox getting swept just now by
- 11:06Speaker 4: the best good American league?
- 11:08Speaker 5: Yeah?
- 11:09Speaker 3: So how much do you judge there?
- 11:11Speaker 2: But I mean the Twins are up to win again.
- 11:15Speaker 2: The Orioles got to win one now, I know, we.
- 11:18Speaker 6: Gotta win one out of there. If you're the Red Sox,
- 11:20Speaker 6: if you're not proved to me on May fifteenth, is
- 11:24Speaker 6: different than proving to me on July fifteenth that the
- 11:26Speaker 6: Red Sox are not a five hundred team. And if
- 11:29Speaker 6: you don't win one series against a really good squad,
- 11:32Speaker 6: they put themselves up against the wall by trying to
- 11:34Speaker 6: have to beat Scooball.
- 11:36Speaker 5: In the final game of the series.
- 11:38Speaker 6: You gotta beat You gotta take one out of these
- 11:41Speaker 6: series if you're not just gonna hover right around five.
- 11:43Speaker 3: Hundred crutting pitching this series.
- 11:48Speaker 2: Yeah, but I mean.
- 11:51Speaker 3: Just throwing it out there.
- 11:52Speaker 2: Three nothing. By the way, Twinkies Buckson just went deep again.
- 11:55Speaker 3: Later in the show, we're going to talk about that series,
- 11:58Speaker 3: The Twins and Orioles.
- 11:59Speaker 2: Oh yeah, oh, unbelievable.
- 12:01Speaker 4: It's got its own segment. One more thing from this game.
- 12:04Speaker 4: Did you guys see the exchange exchange between schoogle and.
- 12:07Speaker 2: Great I love it.
- 12:08Speaker 1: This is one thing that's come out of Schooble since
- 12:09Speaker 1: he's been really I mean, he's always been really good,
- 12:11Speaker 1: but since he won the cy young his personality has
- 12:13Speaker 1: come out more and more.
- 12:14Speaker 2: It's awesome. He's been he's been running his mouth.
- 12:16Speaker 1: Remember he had the thing with uh who was hit
- 12:20Speaker 1: the home runoff of him and he was at no, no, right,
- 12:23Speaker 1: and then he's like no, no, no, and then he
- 12:25Speaker 1: said something. You know, they kind of kissed him made up.
- 12:27Speaker 1: But right here he's like pregnant stuff swinging at the
- 12:28Speaker 1: first pitch. Dude, it's supposed to be on my team too,
- 12:31Speaker 1: let's not forget.
- 12:33Speaker 3: Yeah, take a damn pitch.
- 12:36Speaker 5: Because the contracted the Tigers offered.
- 12:40Speaker 3: He took a pitch down the pipe.
- 12:43Speaker 2: Then he got a hit anyway, so it didn't really matter.
- 12:45Speaker 3: Second pitch got him.
- 12:47Speaker 2: He had already gone deep off of.
- 12:49Speaker 4: Them, right, and then did you see what he said
- 12:52Speaker 4: after that? Take two pitches, That's what he said. Take
- 12:58Speaker 4: It's this funny starcasm and I love it regularly.
- 13:00Speaker 6: I love it.
- 13:00Speaker 2: Let him talk a little bit. I mean it wasn't bad.
- 13:05Speaker 3: No, it's awesome.
- 13:06Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 13:06Speaker 2: Great.
- 13:06Speaker 4: To me, it means you're totally comfortable in your skin
- 13:10Speaker 4: and you're so good that you can also have fun.
- 13:13Speaker 4: There were certain guys that I felt like really played
- 13:15Speaker 4: that up, Like Miguel Cabrera wasn't like the coziest always
- 13:20Speaker 4: off the field, but on the field he would just
- 13:23Speaker 4: be like a big teddy bear sometimes just some playing
- 13:26Speaker 4: around something true. True, But is there a better example?
- 13:29Speaker 4: I my point, GRIFU be kind of the one, right.
- 13:32Speaker 4: There are guys that could just like walk around and
- 13:35Speaker 4: be okay with having fun, joking, not like too chummy,
- 13:39Speaker 4: but this kind of thing. Beltray is a great example. Yes,
- 13:44Speaker 4: And I know there's a lot of players that were
- 13:47Speaker 4: just trying to make sure that they were on the
- 13:49Speaker 4: roster and they would say.
- 13:51Speaker 3: I can't have fun like that. I'm like, I'm just trying.
- 13:54Speaker 4: To survive, right. Some guys who were just like I
- 13:57Speaker 4: gotta kill everyone that was you, some guys like krats.
- 14:01Speaker 4: Were you on the other side of that where you're like,
- 14:03Speaker 4: I can't, like, I feel like you could have a
- 14:06Speaker 4: good time there. Maybe you were different, but like I mean,
- 14:08Speaker 4: for me, I worked with Mark de Rosa for years
- 14:10Speaker 4: and he said, my regret is I didn't have enough
- 14:13Speaker 4: fun because I was always trying to like stay on
- 14:15Speaker 4: the roster kind of thing. Obviously not like he was
- 14:18Speaker 4: the end of the bench, but he just yeah, yeah,
- 14:20Speaker 4: he felt like he he couldn't relax because he had
- 14:23Speaker 4: to be so game mode.
- 14:25Speaker 3: I deserve to be in the starting lineup.
- 14:28Speaker 5: I don't know if he did or not. All I
- 14:29Speaker 5: can account for is my career. Yeah, no, I had.
- 14:33Speaker 5: I had to be in game mode.
- 14:34Speaker 6: Like if a completely average to below average player is,
- 14:39Speaker 6: you know, doing the stuff that Schooble and Bregman were doing,
- 14:43Speaker 6: maybe it's maybe it's not.
- 14:45Speaker 5: A good look.
- 14:46Speaker 6: That's that's the stuff that those guys the stars can do. Me,
- 14:51Speaker 6: you go out there, you're joking, like I'm not. I'm
- 14:54Speaker 6: not saying hi to the first baseman, you know, if
- 14:57Speaker 6: I know him, maybe I put my head down and
- 14:59Speaker 6: I say so something but to me, it was always
- 15:02Speaker 6: a bad look when somebody who was not a good
- 15:05Speaker 6: player would do something like.
- 15:07Speaker 5: That postgame outside of the field. Absolutely, but take him
- 15:10Speaker 5: out to dinner.
- 15:13Speaker 2: Freddie Freeman.
- 15:15Speaker 5: Lets you.
- 15:16Speaker 1: Roger McDowell used to get so mad, and now Roger,
- 15:20Speaker 1: I love you to death. He was one of my
- 15:21Speaker 1: favorite pitching coaches. But he would get so mad. A
- 15:24Speaker 1: guy would get like a big hit against us in
- 15:25Speaker 1: the late innings and Freddie'd be over there like hugging
- 15:28Speaker 1: him and laughing. He's like, that guy just beat us,
- 15:30Speaker 1: and you're over there hugging him. Different times, different times,
- 15:33Speaker 1: for sure.
- 15:34Speaker 4: First baseman, though, often can have the most fun because
- 15:37Speaker 4: they get to Yeah.
- 15:38Speaker 1: But we had Scott Miller on yesterday, right and he
- 15:41Speaker 1: was talking about Tom Kelly and I remember we face
- 15:44Speaker 1: CC when CC first came up, okay, and the word
- 15:47Speaker 1: was if you bunted on CC, he'd hit you.
- 15:49Speaker 2: Jock Jones buntch next to bit. He freaking smokes him.
- 15:53Speaker 1: After the game, they're hanging out, laughing, goofing around or
- 15:56Speaker 1: maybe the next day and Tom Kelly's like that guy
- 15:58Speaker 1: hits you yesterday, You're over there hugging on what are
- 16:00Speaker 1: you doing I mean that was.
- 16:05Speaker 3: To me.
- 16:05Speaker 4: It was just a point to me, there's a difference
- 16:07Speaker 4: there because if you're throwing at someone, there's a high
- 16:11Speaker 4: risk of injury.
- 16:13Speaker 3: Isn't that the separation for you?
- 16:15Speaker 2: Yeah?
- 16:16Speaker 1: I mean I had a lot of guys throw at me,
- 16:17Speaker 1: So if I got mad at everybody, if I got
- 16:18Speaker 1: mad at everybody.
- 16:19Speaker 2: Threw at me, I couldn't talk to anybody.
- 16:20Speaker 3: Yours was different though.
- 16:21Speaker 4: A lot of the time I felt like it was
- 16:23Speaker 4: tip for tat where it's like, hey, we hit you,
- 16:25Speaker 4: now you're gonna hit one of our guys.
- 16:27Speaker 3: The CC thing is different.
- 16:28Speaker 4: It's like, hey, I don't want you to do something
- 16:30Speaker 4: that is common in the game because I'm not good
- 16:32Speaker 4: at it.
- 16:34Speaker 3: I didn't like that.
- 16:35Speaker 5: But no off hitting somebody.
- 16:38Speaker 6: To me, if I knew that about a pitcher, I
- 16:40Speaker 6: would bunt, hopefully I'd get on on the bunch and
- 16:43Speaker 6: then I would get on by the hit by pitch
- 16:45Speaker 6: like I'm two for two on base percent like that.
- 16:51Speaker 5: I don't know.
- 16:51Speaker 6: Like getting hit is I get it. People can get hurt.
- 16:57Speaker 6: It's not a big deal. It's not that big of
- 16:59Speaker 6: a deal. I think it is way more blown out
- 17:02Speaker 6: of proportion. Could somebody get hurt big time. Yes, hit
- 17:05Speaker 6: in the face. Gee, you know plenty of people that
- 17:08Speaker 6: got hit in the face. But it's not that big
- 17:10Speaker 6: a deal. The ball's got a rubber center, even even
- 17:13Speaker 6: when guys are throwing hard.
- 17:14Speaker 3: Now, okay, yeah, as long as you know where it's going.
- 17:17Speaker 1: By the way, Roger McDowell was the magic Lookiekui if
- 17:20Speaker 1: you remember Seinfeld, you haven't seen it.
- 17:22Speaker 3: I do. I saw it, but man, it's been a minute.
- 17:25Speaker 1: Remember somebody spin on? It was on Kramer and it
- 17:28Speaker 1: was Keith Rnandez and Roger.
- 17:31Speaker 5: Back in the left.
- 17:33Speaker 2: Yeah, and they were doing that. Yeah.
- 17:35Speaker 1: It was supposed to be like the JFK like magic
- 17:37Speaker 1: bullets kind of thing. But when I'm spit on like
- 17:40Speaker 1: Kramer and they were trying to replay it, it's pretty funny.
- 17:42Speaker 3: It's a good episode. Ft fam.
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- 18:44Speaker 4: foul and you're all set. Let's talk about the Twins
- 18:46Speaker 4: in the Orioles. They're finishing up their series right now.
- 18:49Speaker 4: Shocker Twins are winning again. They've won twenty at twin
- 18:53Speaker 4: ten games in a row, ten games.
- 18:55Speaker 5: In a row.
- 18:56Speaker 2: It would be eleven probably here, this could be eleven.
- 18:58Speaker 4: And last year they actually did have a big winning
- 19:00Speaker 4: streak like this too, double digits when they were seven
- 19:02Speaker 4: and thirteen to start the year and went on a
- 19:04Speaker 4: big run. Then they obviously fell apart down the stretch,
- 19:06Speaker 4: but more surprising to see the Twins get this hot after.
- 19:11Speaker 3: Starting out so slow.
- 19:13Speaker 4: Or are we going to be talking about the Oriel
- 19:17Speaker 4: selling parts at the trade bar?
- 19:19Speaker 2: Could they keep going the way they're going?
- 19:21Speaker 3: I mean, it's getting late early in Baltimore.
- 19:24Speaker 4: And you mentioned this yesterday when we got off the
- 19:27Speaker 4: show and we were taking a peek at the game
- 19:29Speaker 4: because it was going on.
- 19:32Speaker 3: It's a day game midweek. But if you win, they
- 19:36Speaker 3: will show up.
- 19:37Speaker 4: If you don't, then let me take you a few
- 19:39Speaker 4: years back to when the team tanked.
- 19:41Speaker 1: And I was I used to dread going to Baltimore
- 19:44Speaker 1: because there was not a lot of people there. No,
- 19:46Speaker 1: it was seven thousand degrees in Baltimore. You always get
- 19:48Speaker 1: at least one day game there and there was nobody
- 19:51Speaker 1: there and it was a raindelate. Every single time. We're like, gosh,
- 19:54Speaker 1: I'm gonna get rangelated in Baltimore. But yeah, I mean, listen,
- 19:57Speaker 1: they're fifteen and twenty six. They lose right now, they're
- 19:59Speaker 1: fifteen and t twenty seven. That is that we're not
- 20:02Speaker 1: talking like, Okay, the Brave started out Owen seven. They
- 20:04Speaker 1: played the Dodgers potterish seven. Fine, they got plenty, they
- 20:08Speaker 1: got one hundred fifty five games. We're past the quarter point.
- 20:10Speaker 1: Now you're it's starting. It's as Yogi Bear said, it's
- 20:14Speaker 1: getting late early, big fellow.
- 20:16Speaker 3: What was the Astros record last year that was bad?
- 20:18Speaker 3: Wasn't it sixteen and twenty six? Or was it? Does
- 20:21Speaker 3: that sound right? I'll find it.
- 20:22Speaker 2: Yeah, but they weren't in the AOL East.
- 20:24Speaker 3: That's that was what I wanted to make.
- 20:27Speaker 6: And they had pitching, yeah, and they had starting pitching.
- 20:30Speaker 6: They didn't just have Sigano. Sigano's throat was thrown today.
- 20:34Speaker 6: I don't know if he's still in the game or not.
- 20:35Speaker 6: But that was their that was their chance. That was
- 20:39Speaker 6: their guy.
- 20:41Speaker 2: Yeah, this is this is bad. This is bad. This
- 20:44Speaker 2: is bad. If you're an Raals fan, I'm sorry. This
- 20:46Speaker 2: is bad. This is what we said going in a
- 20:48Speaker 2: year though, Right, it's bad.
- 20:50Speaker 6: Says that we didn't think it was gonna be bad.
- 20:53Speaker 6: It's bad, Like, yes, the starting pitching is bad. They
- 20:56Speaker 6: didn't end up getting the guys that we thought they
- 20:58Speaker 6: should have gotten or they were trying to go get.
- 21:02Speaker 6: They missed out on different things. I get that, but
- 21:05Speaker 6: we thought the pitching with the starting pitching wasn't gonna
- 21:08Speaker 6: be great and then Grayson goes down.
- 21:11Speaker 5: But where are.
- 21:12Speaker 6: Some of the guys in this lineup you talk about?
- 21:15Speaker 6: We just talked about Max and like hitting together as
- 21:18Speaker 6: a team, figuring this stuff out. Is it something that
- 21:21Speaker 6: this lineup has not like learned to hit with each other?
- 21:25Speaker 6: But they did hit. I mean, Gunner was an MVP
- 21:28Speaker 6: candidate last year, and it's just what is what is it?
- 21:34Speaker 6: I know people are gonna say their expected numbers are
- 21:38Speaker 6: just through the roof. They should be doing so much better,
- 21:41Speaker 6: but they're not.
- 21:43Speaker 4: We had a lot of fly balls two hundred and
- 21:46Speaker 4: fifty to three hundred feet.
- 21:49Speaker 1: The problem is that, I mean the offense. I mean,
- 21:51Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask this and I've said this, We've been
- 21:52Speaker 1: saying this rong.
- 21:53Speaker 2: What's wrong with Adley Ritchman. It's been almost a year now.
- 21:56Speaker 1: I mean we're not talking like a couple of weeks
- 21:58Speaker 1: or we're going to this second half of June around
- 22:01Speaker 1: June first last year and we're almost a June first again.
- 22:04Speaker 1: You look at his numbers. I don't know what happened.
- 22:06Speaker 1: I had I love you, I really want you to
- 22:08Speaker 1: be better because you are so fun to watch, and
- 22:10Speaker 1: you're right, but.
- 22:11Speaker 2: What happened there?
- 22:12Speaker 1: Like Gunner's if you look at their lineup, there's one
- 22:15Speaker 1: guy that's doing really well. It's Gunnar Henderson. The rest
- 22:18Speaker 1: of that lineup is not in a good place right now.
- 22:22Speaker 1: You're right, read the ops isn't read all that. I mean,
- 22:25Speaker 1: it's it's not a good lineup right now. I'm sorry.
- 22:29Speaker 2: It's just not.
- 22:31Speaker 3: On the year.
- 22:32Speaker 4: I would say probably the other one that stands out.
- 22:34Speaker 4: And I'm looking at the numbers so I don't sound stupid, Yeah,
- 22:36Speaker 4: I'm right. Cedric Mullins is also looking pretty good.
- 22:39Speaker 1: Well, Heart's having a nice year, yeah, right, but it's
- 22:42Speaker 1: not enough, no, I mean Cursed Ads six twenty six, Obs,
- 22:47Speaker 1: you know, Rutchman six twenty three, Holiday seven oh one, Okay,
- 22:50Speaker 1: Mountcastle six point fifteen, Mullins is seven eighty one and
- 22:54Speaker 1: that you know, and you O'Hearn eight ninety three. He's
- 22:58Speaker 1: having a really nice year.
- 22:59Speaker 3: Yeah, but.
- 23:01Speaker 2: Their whole thing, right was supposed to be they can
- 23:02Speaker 2: out slug you.
- 23:04Speaker 4: Last year they had a top five offense. I watched
- 23:06Speaker 4: Fair Territory. Ken Rosenthal talked about this this year. I
- 23:09Speaker 4: think they ranked twenty fifth right now in Runsberg game.
- 23:14Speaker 4: So it's all falling apart right now. And does it
- 23:18Speaker 4: Mattercrats that they're often down in this exact scenario.
- 23:22Speaker 3: This is what happens in.
- 23:23Speaker 4: So many games already this year. You're down three to
- 23:26Speaker 4: nothing mid game. Obviously, yes they should be scoring two.
- 23:29Speaker 4: But it do feel like they're playing behind so frequently
- 23:33Speaker 4: due to the starting pitching deficiency.
- 23:37Speaker 6: Yes, but to me, when you're on team like that,
- 23:40Speaker 6: it's July that that shows up.
- 23:43Speaker 5: You're not like.
- 23:45Speaker 6: Exhausted from the same thing happening over and over again
- 23:48Speaker 6: in the first forty games of the year.
- 23:50Speaker 5: Like if you're in July and you're like, oh.
- 23:53Speaker 6: We got a lead, we got a one run lead
- 23:55Speaker 6: in the seventh, and then your bullpen has just habitually
- 23:57Speaker 6: blown it all season, and then two then you're a rundown.
- 24:02Speaker 6: They give up a two run homer and you're a rundown.
- 24:04Speaker 6: That's when you're like, uh, deflating. This team is built
- 24:09Speaker 6: on the offense. These are young dudes that are playing
- 24:11Speaker 6: every single day and they need to step up and
- 24:15Speaker 6: make their expected batting averages and balls in play and
- 24:18Speaker 6: all these expected stats turn into W's or else. It
- 24:22Speaker 6: is way too late.
- 24:24Speaker 4: They also didn't develop on the pitching side like many
- 24:28Speaker 4: thought they would. Chase McDermott was supposed to be a
- 24:31Speaker 4: mid rotation guy. I think he's been hurt. I think
- 24:34Speaker 4: he's still hurt. Kid Povich hasn't worked out yet. So
- 24:37Speaker 4: some of the guys, and he's twenty five, Some of
- 24:40Speaker 4: the guys that they expected on the pitching side just
- 24:42Speaker 4: haven't developed. Of course, the headliner there is our boy,
- 24:45Speaker 4: Grayson Rodriguez. Money when he's there. He just hasn't been
- 24:48Speaker 4: able to figure out how to stay on the field.
- 24:50Speaker 4: So when you add those guys up the development sides
- 24:53Speaker 4: of problem. They're making mistakes on who they're selecting in
- 24:57Speaker 4: free agency with the starting rotation, and that becomes a mess.
- 25:04Speaker 4: You have a slow start on offense. Now you have
- 25:06Speaker 4: a disaster. That's where we're at right now.
- 25:10Speaker 5: And what do they do though?
- 25:12Speaker 2: What's the answer this year? Nothing?
- 25:14Speaker 5: Right?
- 25:15Speaker 3: What can they do?
- 25:16Speaker 4: You're not trading for a starter right now. Nobody makes
- 25:18Speaker 4: trades in May anymore. I think unless they go on
- 25:23Speaker 4: a heater krats there might be eight games under five
- 25:27Speaker 4: hundred sel City in late June, early July.
- 25:32Speaker 5: Do you believe this team can go on a heater.
- 25:37Speaker 2: Not the way they're pitching is lined up right now.
- 25:39Speaker 4: Not with the pitching. No, because you can get stopped. Okay,
- 25:43Speaker 4: you can get stopped in five seconds with a bat outing.
- 25:47Speaker 4: No matter how hot you are, you can lose ten eight.
- 25:49Speaker 4: So me, no, I don't see them doing ten plus
- 25:51Speaker 4: in a row right now. Maybe in like August or
- 25:54Speaker 4: September if everybody's back, But man, I mean you might
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- 26:35Speaker 3: In the Weeds. Let's do quarter mark grades.
- 26:38Speaker 4: Okay, CBS Sports put out grades, and I think the
- 26:42Speaker 4: best way to tackle this is to show you league
- 26:45Speaker 4: by league, So we'll start with the National League.
- 26:47Speaker 3: The grades Digest.
- 26:50Speaker 4: Let me know where you think they went very wrong,
- 26:52Speaker 4: or you can agree with them on some things too.
- 26:55Speaker 4: Let's start with the National League Crats, Slice and Dice,
- 26:58Speaker 4: and I'll say this for the podcast crowd who's listening. Cubs, Dodgers,
- 27:02Speaker 4: Padres met to get a's. There's b pluses for the Phillies, Giants,
- 27:06Speaker 4: and the Cardinals, the Diamondbacks, gotta b c's for the
- 27:09Speaker 4: Reds and Brewers. D's for the Braves, Marlins and Nationals.
- 27:12Speaker 4: F's for the Rockies and the Pirates. Christ do you
- 27:15Speaker 4: want to pick on one first?
- 27:18Speaker 6: You know what, I would say, one of those a's
- 27:21Speaker 6: needs to have a plus beside it, and to me
- 27:23Speaker 6: it's the Padres. I think what the Padres have done,
- 27:26Speaker 6: I get it there, and they've had.
- 27:28Speaker 5: An A first quarter.
- 27:30Speaker 6: But with what they have with the with the people
- 27:35Speaker 6: who they've lost, Jackson, Merrill, Muscrove's not there right now, you,
- 27:39Speaker 6: Darvis hasn't thrown a pitch yet, they have absolutely had
- 27:44Speaker 6: an A plus first quarter because what they're doing is
- 27:49Speaker 6: they're setting a different precedent for that division that it's
- 27:52Speaker 6: not just gonna be the Dodgers. And to me, the
- 27:57Speaker 6: Dodgers were supposed to be there. So in their account
- 28:00Speaker 6: were they supposed to be a B? And you know what,
- 28:03Speaker 6: the Rockies shouldn't get an F. The Rockies shouldn't even
- 28:08Speaker 6: be They should just get an NA or what did
- 28:09Speaker 6: they put on your report card when you an I incomplete?
- 28:14Speaker 5: They didn't get a great? Yeah, they dropped out. They
- 28:17Speaker 5: clearly have dropped out of school expelled.
- 28:21Speaker 3: Hey for me, I know this sounds.
- 28:22Speaker 2: Like Arizona to me, shouldn't have a B.
- 28:24Speaker 3: What should they have?
- 28:25Speaker 1: They should be a C because they should be better
- 28:27Speaker 1: than what they are. To me, they should be a
- 28:29Speaker 1: better team than what they are. They're twenty three and
- 28:32Speaker 1: twenty one, and I mean, I know they've had some injuries,
- 28:34Speaker 1: but every team's had injuries, you know. But Edward Rodriguez
- 28:38Speaker 1: hasn't pitched very well, Corbyn Burns, you know, they haven't
- 28:41Speaker 1: pitched the way we thought they would pitch going into
- 28:43Speaker 1: this year. That's they're negative rounder differential. I know you
- 28:47Speaker 1: don't care, Scott, but that's telling right now. It's surprising me.
- 28:50Speaker 1: They do play the Rockies though, coming up, so they've
- 28:52Speaker 1: got a shout to win three in a row, not.
- 28:53Speaker 4: To get hot, But how did they get a B
- 28:55Speaker 4: and the Braves get a D when they're missing their
- 28:58Speaker 4: two best players.
- 28:59Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right. San Francisco to me, should be an
- 29:02Speaker 2: A too.
- 29:02Speaker 1: The fact that they're doing as well as they are, agreed,
- 29:04Speaker 1: because no one thought they'd be until.
- 29:07Speaker 5: I mean, they got B plus.
- 29:08Speaker 1: So yeah, but I don't know Saint Louis should be
- 29:13Speaker 1: an A too, because nobody thought they were gonna be
- 29:14Speaker 1: where they are either. I mean, you can't give everyone as,
- 29:17Speaker 1: but in today's world you might as well.
- 29:19Speaker 3: I agree.
- 29:20Speaker 4: I think you could make a case for the Marlins
- 29:22Speaker 4: maybe getting a C. I thought they'd be worse. They're
- 29:26Speaker 4: playing just as well as the Nationals right now. They're
- 29:28Speaker 4: pretty much neck and neck those two teams. They're game
- 29:30Speaker 4: part do you think the Nationals?
- 29:34Speaker 6: I think, based on what we see, it's less expectations
- 29:37Speaker 6: and more just how each team is playing. So that's
- 29:40Speaker 6: why I don't disagree with too many of them. Like
- 29:44Speaker 6: the teams that have the f's are f teams if
- 29:48Speaker 6: you take away expectation. I think a lot of this
- 29:51Speaker 6: list is spot on.
- 29:53Speaker 4: But about the American League and A for the Tigers
- 29:56Speaker 4: and A minus for the Mariners, B plus for the
- 29:59Speaker 4: A Guardians, Yankees and Royals get Bees, Red Sox, Astros, Twins,
- 30:04Speaker 4: White Sox, Blue Jays get c's C minus for the Rangers,
- 30:07Speaker 4: Angels and Rays get DS.
- 30:10Speaker 3: The Orioles get an F.
- 30:11Speaker 2: Okay, so I'm gonna go to my White Sox. How
- 30:13Speaker 2: do they get a C?
- 30:14Speaker 1: They're just as bad as we thought they'd be, right,
- 30:17Speaker 1: maybe a little bit better.
- 30:18Speaker 3: But fourteen and twenty nine, how do they get a SEA?
- 30:23Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying, isn't are the expectations to lose
- 30:25Speaker 1: one hundred and ten games?
- 30:26Speaker 2: Again, that's kind of what the pace they're on.
- 30:29Speaker 1: Yeah, that's so that's C like to me that it
- 30:32Speaker 1: should be lower. I mean Texas to me C minus,
- 30:35Speaker 1: I get it, there should be higher. To me, the
- 30:37Speaker 1: Angels are about where they are. Baltimore definitely deserves an
- 30:40Speaker 1: F for what we've talked about. But I don't know.
- 30:44Speaker 1: I mean the Angels at Tampa Bay, I don't know.
- 30:46Speaker 1: I mean they're a little there's some of them that
- 30:49Speaker 1: are that are questionable, like.
- 30:52Speaker 2: Houston C.
- 30:53Speaker 5: I don't know.
- 30:54Speaker 3: The Rangers are twenty three and twenty one.
- 30:55Speaker 1: It's not quick, it's not horrible, and they're they're right
- 30:58Speaker 1: in the division race.
- 30:59Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a little harsh. I guess everyone thought they
- 31:01Speaker 2: were gonna run away with it, So I don't know.
- 31:04Speaker 6: I think I think, I think the expectations on some
- 31:09Speaker 6: of these put them where they are right now, because
- 31:13Speaker 6: I mean, the White Sox should be in the D
- 31:15Speaker 6: or F range just based on the fact that they're
- 31:18Speaker 6: not a good baseball team, but on expectations, they're definitely
- 31:22Speaker 6: a C, if not a B. I mean they've they've,
- 31:25Speaker 6: you know, soward past my expectations. To me, I think
- 31:29Speaker 6: the Yankees nine, Yes, that's I thought they were going.
- 31:35Speaker 5: To lose two.
- 31:36Speaker 1: That's losing two out of every three games. That means
- 31:38Speaker 1: they lose a hundred again. That's that's what they're That
- 31:42Speaker 1: should never be the expectation. See she means it should
- 31:46Speaker 1: never be your expectation that we're gonna lose a hundred
- 31:49Speaker 1: games again. That should not be I'm sorry. There should
- 31:51Speaker 1: be no team in Major League Baseball that goes into
- 31:53Speaker 1: a season says we're trying to lose a hundred games
- 31:55Speaker 1: this year.
- 31:56Speaker 3: But they're grading what the roster looks like, and.
- 31:58Speaker 1: I know what they're grading from where it was last year.
- 31:59Speaker 1: I get it all, but still.
- 32:01Speaker 4: They're not grading the organization that. If you want to
- 32:03Speaker 4: do that, we've got plenty of f's to hand out.
- 32:06Speaker 6: They are a worst team. They were built to be
- 32:09Speaker 6: a worst team this year. They got rid of Garrett Crochet,
- 32:13Speaker 6: Eric Fetti, they want to get rid of Luis Robert. Like,
- 32:17Speaker 6: there's no way you can say, eh, you know what,
- 32:20Speaker 6: I think they just they want to they want to
- 32:23Speaker 6: win one hundred games, or they want to lose just
- 32:25Speaker 6: one hundred games. There's no way they would be happy
- 32:28Speaker 6: with if they lose one hundred and ten based on
- 32:31Speaker 6: what they put into this team to win. I thought
- 32:33Speaker 6: the Yankees should be in the A category. They lost
- 32:36Speaker 6: their ace to start the year, and maybe people will say,
- 32:39Speaker 6: well without Aaron Judge, Well, who cares they have Aaron Judge?
- 32:43Speaker 6: To me, I think Aaron Judge puts them squarely in
- 32:47Speaker 6: the A. If you want to, they're not as good
- 32:49Speaker 6: as a Tigers, so you give them an A minus.
- 32:51Speaker 5: Great.
- 32:52Speaker 4: Also, injury update, Ben Joyce done for the season, So
- 32:57Speaker 4: there's al E Gonzalez, super hard throwing reliever Ben Joyce
- 33:00Speaker 4: season ending shoulder surgery.
- 33:01Speaker 3: Today. The Angels announced that sucks.
- 33:06Speaker 4: I mean, obviously the Angels aren't doing anything this year,
- 33:09Speaker 4: but just fun to watch a dude who can pump
- 33:12Speaker 4: one oh five plus that that also could lead to injury.
- 33:17Speaker 6: It's not just it's really hard to sustain that. The
- 33:21Speaker 6: one guy and he's kept his velocity is e Roaldist Chapman.
- 33:25Speaker 6: Go look at his physique and then tell me, you
- 33:30Speaker 6: know what, it's gonna be tough to stay healthy throwing
- 33:33Speaker 6: one hundred and five. And that's maybe a bad narrative
- 33:35Speaker 6: by me because he worked really hard to get his
- 33:38Speaker 6: velocity up to where it was, and so crazy to
- 33:40Speaker 6: think a dude throwing ninety seven can jump his velocity
- 33:44Speaker 6: eight miles an hour his peak velocity eight miles an hour.
- 33:48Speaker 4: I will say Ben Joyce is a pretty built dude.
- 33:52Speaker 4: I mean, I don't think he stacks up against the
- 33:54Speaker 4: raldist Chapman, but I mean if you look him up online,
- 33:57Speaker 4: they're basically the same or all this is lit did
- 34:00Speaker 4: six four two thirty five.
- 34:01Speaker 3: Ben Joyce is listed six five two five.
- 34:03Speaker 4: So it's not like you're looking at a guy, you
- 34:05Speaker 4: know who is six' one one eighty being, like, hey
- 34:09Speaker 4: this guy shouldn't be pumping one oh five or he's
- 34:12Speaker 4: gonna get. Hurt we also just don't know how all
- 34:15Speaker 4: this stuff works too.
- 34:17Speaker 3: WELL i mean he also just could have gotten, hurt
- 34:21Speaker 3: have a shoulder.
- 34:22Speaker 2: Injury guys get.
- 34:22Speaker 3: Hurt guys throw eighty five at get shoulder.
- 34:24Speaker 5: Injuries we need to figure it.
- 34:29Speaker 2: Out, yeah, shame but it's like what else can they?
- 34:32Speaker 3: Do?
- 34:32Speaker 1: Though Ben joyce's a. Reliever he doesn't pitch every, day,
- 34:34Speaker 1: right they protected him as much as they. Could they were,
- 34:37Speaker 1: like he's not gonna throw back to back games and
- 34:38Speaker 1: this and. THAT i mean maybe, again maybe we don't throw,
- 34:41Speaker 1: enough just saying.
- 34:43Speaker 8: So but the cons are being, reliever you get paid
- 34:46Speaker 8: the least of any other role in the. Field, like by,
- 34:48Speaker 8: far relief pitchers are the least paid guys on the whole,
- 34:51Speaker 8: team on every. Team, Right you're if you have a
- 34:55Speaker 8: really good, closer he might be like fifth on the
- 34:58Speaker 8: team and pay, maybe, right you might get a closer,
- 35:01Speaker 8: paid but nobody else is getting remotely as much money
- 35:03Speaker 8: as anybody. ELSE a great reliever contracts like three for twenty.
- 35:07Speaker 8: Five if you get three year deals a, reliever you
- 35:09Speaker 8: are doing, it doing. It you're paid the. Least and
- 35:16Speaker 8: for the casual, fans the fans that just kind of
- 35:18Speaker 8: don't watch as much baseball that maybe don't value relievers very.
- 35:21Speaker 8: Much you're either just doing your, job which is throwing, one,
- 35:24Speaker 8: two three, innings or you're blowing, it so you're either,
- 35:26Speaker 8: whatever he's just doing what he's paid to, do or you.
- 35:29Speaker 8: Suck that sounds a lot like a kicker to. Me
- 35:32Speaker 8: that's why relievers are just the kickers a baseball in my.
- 35:35Speaker 8: OPINION i said that a lot of. It said, again
- 35:38Speaker 8: there's also no above and, Beyond like in the same
- 35:40Speaker 8: way that you're either just doing your job or you're.
- 35:43Speaker 8: Terrible it's kind of hard to get any recognition for
- 35:45Speaker 8: doing anything. Correct like you have to like not give
- 35:48Speaker 8: up a run for four, months which is really hard to.
- 35:51Speaker 8: Do and that's the only way anyone notices, you basically
- 35:54Speaker 8: if you're not a. Closer, now closers are in their
- 35:56Speaker 8: own little, group and we've talked a lot about that about,
- 35:59Speaker 8: that But i'm just talking most. Relievers seven of the
- 36:03Speaker 8: eight guys out there are in this.
- 36:06Speaker 4: Bucket trevor may May da mas plaining really. Good this
- 36:11Speaker 4: is exactly the WAY i wanted this to. Go by the,
- 36:13Speaker 4: way check out his show On. Mondays it's really. Good
- 36:15Speaker 4: it's live and then we've got it afterwards.
- 36:17Speaker 3: Too.
- 36:18Speaker 4: KRATZ i see a puzzled, face AND i think it's
- 36:21Speaker 4: the same face THAT i had WHILE i was watching the.
- 36:23Speaker 3: Clip it's a wait reliever or backup.
- 36:26Speaker 6: Catcher don't even don't even point at, me point at this.
- 36:31Speaker 6: Guy this guy was An All. Star this guy played
- 36:34Speaker 6: every single. Day catching is easily the least paid position in,
- 36:39Speaker 6: baseball even for the best, catchers for what they, do
- 36:43Speaker 6: what they bring to the, field easily the lowest paid.
- 36:48Speaker 6: Relievers look at the rays if you were not the.
- 36:51Speaker 6: Closer the rays are just like we got more In TRIPLE.
- 36:55Speaker 6: A we got more in TRIPLE. A we'll just get another.
- 36:57Speaker 6: One especially now everybody throws hard like relievers. ARE i
- 37:03Speaker 6: call relievers regional sports network, fans because every team knows they're, seventh, eighth, sixth,
- 37:11Speaker 6: seventh eighth and nine are, sixth seventh and eighth reliever
- 37:14Speaker 6: inning relievers because they watch you every single, night and
- 37:19Speaker 6: those are the dudes that they're going to in big.
- 37:21Speaker 5: Wins maybe nationally they don't know, you but.
- 37:27Speaker 1: Listen catchers have gotten. Better, yeah but also the problem
- 37:30Speaker 1: with the catchers in the relievers. Too catchers are compared
- 37:33Speaker 1: to every other. Position but it's not fair because catchers
- 37:38Speaker 1: don't get to play and put up the numbers because
- 37:40Speaker 1: you don't get to play one hundred and fifty, games
- 37:42Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty. Games if you get to one,
- 37:44Speaker 1: thirty you've had unbelievable year as a.
- 37:46Speaker 2: Catcher one. Twenty if you get over one hundred games
- 37:49Speaker 2: is a year as a, catcher you're doing a, lot.
- 37:51Speaker 2: Okay and so that was the argument for, years even
- 37:54Speaker 2: like we Had Brad.
- 37:55Speaker 1: Buono we're talking about war like you starting playing, war
- 37:58Speaker 1: but you're not war against other.
- 37:59Speaker 2: Catchers you're against the rest of the.
- 38:01Speaker 1: League and that's not a fair comparison because you can't
- 38:03Speaker 1: get up to. It you just never can make up
- 38:05Speaker 1: because you don't get enough.
- 38:06Speaker 4: Games that's why WHEN i go over a stat like
- 38:08Speaker 4: ops plus when we talk, CATCHERS i go.
- 38:11Speaker 1: In ops plus isn't against catchers, only that's my se
- 38:15Speaker 1: against the.
- 38:15Speaker 2: League it should be against other.
- 38:16Speaker 4: Catchers if your ops plus is one hundred as a,
- 38:19Speaker 4: catcher which is league, average you are above average because
- 38:24Speaker 4: catchers are not going to hit like. That, generally you
- 38:27Speaker 4: should be compared in a different, realm right because you
- 38:31Speaker 4: can't just grab a guy Like Raphael. DEVERS i, mean
- 38:35Speaker 4: maybe they'll ask him to catch if they get a
- 38:36Speaker 4: catching injury. Joke you can't just grab a guy exactly.
- 38:40Speaker 4: Already you can't grab a guy and just throw him
- 38:43Speaker 4: in that. Position it doesn't, happen, right never do.
- 38:48Speaker 6: Stop just like short, stop you can't just grab a
- 38:52Speaker 6: guy and say you're a big league. Shortstop you can
- 38:55Speaker 6: play shortstop in the big, leagues doesn't make you a
- 38:58Speaker 6: big league short. Stop you can catch in the big,
- 39:01Speaker 6: leagues that doesn't make you a big league.
- 39:03Speaker 5: Catcher.
- 39:06Speaker 4: True, yeah some relievers get, paid some catchers get. Paid
- 39:11Speaker 4: the thing with catchers is that teams generally say in
- 39:16Speaker 4: the model that they're going to wear. Down there's a
- 39:18Speaker 4: few outliers that, don't and that's why They it's hard
- 39:21Speaker 4: to get a long term contract as a, catcher right mm,
- 39:24Speaker 4: hmm especially in free. Agency Like Alejandro kirk got. Paid
- 39:28Speaker 4: he's still in the midst of his service. Time right,
- 39:31Speaker 4: control team control when you have. Agency, yeah REMEMBER jt Real,
- 39:36Speaker 4: Muto like he finally signed back With.
- 39:39Speaker 3: Philly nobody was out, there nobody wanted. Him his agent said.
- 39:45Speaker 4: It Jeff barry's been on this Show he's, like nobody
- 39:47Speaker 4: called FOR.
- 39:48Speaker 3: Jt Real muto in his.
- 39:50Speaker 4: Prime nobody called and they had to go back to
- 39:53Speaker 4: The phillies like, okay and The phillies obviously were, like
- 39:55Speaker 4: we'll give you what we think's fair, value but there
- 39:58Speaker 4: was no other team to even use as.
- 39:59Speaker 3: Leverage that's when the.
- 40:03Speaker 6: Teams and players meet up and lock up on extensions
- 40:07Speaker 6: before it. Happens it makes sense for the, catcher it
- 40:11Speaker 6: makes sense for the, team and they get a team
- 40:14Speaker 6: the team friendly. Price catchers get more long, term long
- 40:19Speaker 6: term equity in the, team and they get it longer
- 40:23Speaker 6: than they probably would get it if they go to free.
- 40:24Speaker 3: Agency, Yep i'm with, you.
- 40:39Speaker 8: All.
- 40:39Speaker 4: Right we got a few. Minutes do you want me
- 40:41Speaker 4: to ask you A Bonds rose? Question you don't feel
- 40:45Speaker 4: like gone?
- 40:45Speaker 3: There?
- 40:45Speaker 2: No?
- 40:45Speaker 4: Fine so moral who in the chat said he just
- 40:50Speaker 4: wants to know what's the logic with?
- 40:52Speaker 3: Bonds?
- 40:52Speaker 5: Yes?
- 40:53Speaker 1: Rose, No, well my thing, Is i've said it over
- 40:56Speaker 1: and over. Again here's here's my, logic AND i said it.
- 40:59Speaker 1: Yesterday if you get caught for doing steroids after they started,
- 41:02Speaker 1: TESTING i have no idea what guys were doing before,
- 41:04Speaker 1: that BUT i know if you got pop for doing,
- 41:07Speaker 1: steroids then you should not be in the whole. Thing
- 41:08Speaker 1: that's my stance as a former. PLAYER i played in
- 41:11Speaker 1: the steroid, ERA i played after the steroid. ERA i
- 41:14Speaker 1: mixed them. BOTH i know guys that did. THEM i
- 41:16Speaker 1: know guys that were doing them. After, okay some got,
- 41:19Speaker 1: caught some. Didn't, right but if you got pop you
- 41:22Speaker 1: shouldn't be.
- 41:23Speaker 3: In that's.
- 41:23Speaker 2: It and my thing With pete Why pete is it
- 41:25Speaker 2: because he broke the golden. Rule you don't, gamble that's.
- 41:28Speaker 2: It that's.
- 41:28Speaker 1: It and and by the, way don't tell me if
- 41:31Speaker 1: you want to use the bonds can't be in because
- 41:32Speaker 1: of what he. Did pete wasn't clean, either he said.
- 41:35Speaker 1: IT i mean he was popping, amphetamines, RIGHT i mean
- 41:39Speaker 1: it pretty much everybody in that whole era.
- 41:41Speaker 3: Knew, that but so many guys. Were for some, People but.
- 41:44Speaker 2: That's that's my.
- 41:45Speaker 1: Thing IF i don't know that you got, that you
- 41:48Speaker 1: were doing it unless you got that positive.
- 41:50Speaker 5: Test this is just.
- 41:51Speaker 1: Me and AGAIN i don't people say whatever they, want
- 41:53Speaker 1: but unless if you got, popped you're out for, Me i'm,
- 41:57Speaker 1: sorry because you willingly then were breaking the, rules just
- 42:00Speaker 1: Like Pete rose when he gambled on. Baseball he was
- 42:02Speaker 1: willingly breaking the rules of. Baseball before they did, testing
- 42:07Speaker 1: there was no rule of baseball saying you couldn't do.
- 42:09Speaker 1: It it was against the, law, yes but in baseball
- 42:13Speaker 1: it wasn't against the rules of. Baseball gambling was against
- 42:16Speaker 1: the rules of, baseball right, Right and then once you
- 42:19Speaker 1: start testing first.
- 42:20Speaker 2: Stuff that's against the rules of. Baseball, yeah that's WHERE
- 42:24Speaker 2: i drag the. Line Maybe i'm. Wrong that's, fine it's my.
- 42:27Speaker 2: Opinion that's WHERE i, stand And i'll die on that.
- 42:30Speaker 2: Sort but that's, good by the. Way that's a little more.
- 42:32Speaker 2: Positive some great birthdays.
- 42:33Speaker 1: Today what do you Got John, Smoltz George, Brett Justin,
- 42:38Speaker 1: Morno Josh, Beckett.
- 42:40Speaker 3: We Get smaltz back, on it's been a, minute.
- 42:41Speaker 1: And Ask Steve woodard who went on on a recruiting
- 42:45Speaker 1: visits with me back in high.
- 42:46Speaker 2: School. Hinch Also hinch's.
- 42:47Speaker 1: Birthdayday But Steve woodard THREW bp to me WHEN i
- 42:50Speaker 1: won The hall Of fame home run.
- 42:52Speaker 2: Derby he threw THE bp to.
- 42:53Speaker 3: Me pretty solid, Legend.
- 42:56Speaker 2: Hinch, yeah we don't know his first, name But hinch.
- 43:00Speaker 3: ALSO i got one for.
- 43:01Speaker 4: You So Dalton rushing has been known as one of
- 43:04Speaker 4: the best catching prospects in baseball for a, while and
- 43:07Speaker 4: The dodgers are kind of just, like you don't have
- 43:10Speaker 4: a lot of. Room he's not gonna be a started right,
- 43:11Speaker 4: now obviously with Will smith there signed for, life but
- 43:15Speaker 4: he has nothing left to, prove so they call him,
- 43:17Speaker 4: up and you, Know Alding gonzalez said he'll get some
- 43:21Speaker 4: time behind the, plate occasionally be called upon to pinch,
- 43:24Speaker 4: hit but mostly one of the game's brightest prospects will.
- 43:27Speaker 3: Sit and his quote, Was i'm the young. Guy that's my.
- 43:29Speaker 2: Job don't understand. It what don't you understand WHY i
- 43:33Speaker 2: call him? Up he's not gonna, play Right why call him?
- 43:37Speaker 3: Up he's gonna get a start once or twice a.
- 43:39Speaker 1: Week, yeah but, no he's getting he was getting five
- 43:42Speaker 1: or six a week and.
- 43:43Speaker 2: Triple a you.
- 43:43Speaker 3: Guys, okay, guys when are you calling him?
- 43:45Speaker 2: Up you're trading.
- 43:46Speaker 4: Him so every catcher that's in the system for The
- 43:49Speaker 4: dodgers needs to just keep getting traded.
- 43:52Speaker 2: Pretty much when you sign your catcher to a ten year. Deal, okay, yeah, right.
- 43:56Speaker 9: CRATS i mean unless, now like he's, not he would
- 44:02Speaker 9: have to absolutely annihilate The baseball to take Over Will
- 44:06Speaker 9: smith's job for like a. Year and if you have
- 44:10Speaker 9: him taking Over Austin barnes', job you are totally demeaning
- 44:14Speaker 9: the value of who this guy. IS a TWENTY i
- 44:16Speaker 9: think he had twenty six homers last year in the
- 44:19Speaker 9: bushes like this dude clearly.
- 44:22Speaker 4: Rakes what else do you Want Dalton rushing to? Do
- 44:25Speaker 4: and if you're, him what do you want to?
- 44:28Speaker 2: Do you want to get traded to a place you
- 44:30Speaker 2: can go, play.
- 44:30Speaker 3: Okay but there's no trades In, may.
- 44:32Speaker 1: Okay so you play it out Till june And. July
- 44:34Speaker 1: when The dodgers need, something they trade. Him he's the
- 44:36Speaker 1: number one piece.
- 44:36Speaker 3: Of truth twenty four years. Old can he be on
- 44:38Speaker 3: the big big League.
- 44:39Speaker 1: Clayah but you don't want. To if he's as good
- 44:40Speaker 1: as everyone, says he's gonna get. Stunted so he backs
- 44:43Speaker 1: Up Will smith for the next five. Years like he
- 44:46Speaker 1: gets to play once a, week twice a.
- 44:48Speaker 3: Weekly people get, hurt people hit il on.
- 44:50Speaker 2: That, okay but that's.
- 44:52Speaker 1: Great but you know what he would have to do
- 44:53Speaker 1: to Supplant Will smith as the starting every every person's
- 44:58Speaker 1: dream is to be a, WELL i can't say every
- 45:01Speaker 1: persons it is to play in the big leagues if
- 45:04Speaker 1: you're a baseball, player, okay but then your next, thing
- 45:06Speaker 1: AND i Think krautz would stick with me, here is
- 45:08Speaker 1: to get to play all the, time because that means
- 45:10Speaker 1: you're doing good and that's how you get. Paid by
- 45:13Speaker 1: not getting to play and being a backup, player you
- 45:18Speaker 1: never get the, opportunities kind of like What Trevor may
- 45:20Speaker 1: was saying about the bullpen. Guys they never get paid
- 45:22Speaker 1: because they aren't valued.
- 45:23Speaker 2: Enough.
- 45:23Speaker 1: Right the only way you get paid in baseball is
- 45:26Speaker 1: you put up numbers and you play a.
- 45:27Speaker 2: Lot doesn't they to a league.
- 45:29Speaker 3: Minimum over the minor league. Salary he's twenty. Four you
- 45:33Speaker 3: think he wants to be in the minor leagues right?
- 45:35Speaker 3: Now like you guys, said he.
- 45:36Speaker 4: Might he might get traded at some, Point but also
- 45:39Speaker 4: The dodgers are obsessed with depth.
- 45:41Speaker 3: In the marathon. Game maybe he gets more pet than we.
- 45:45Speaker 4: Think The dodgers want to have that kind of depth
- 45:47Speaker 4: because they're trying to make it to The World. Series god,
- 45:50Speaker 4: forbid there's an injury with Will. Smith they would have
- 45:53Speaker 4: really really.
- 45:54Speaker 2: Just stick around With Austin barnes and there's an injury
- 45:56Speaker 2: To Will. Smith you bring Up dalton Rushingcause Dalton rushing
- 45:58Speaker 2: is a much better. Player, okay we'll see he's ever
- 46:02Speaker 2: played one day a week in his.
- 46:03Speaker 3: Life we'll see much better potential. Player.
- 46:07Speaker 6: Stars stars, cannot will, not and should not ever play
- 46:12Speaker 6: one or two days a. Week Austin, barnes if he
- 46:15Speaker 6: plays every single, day is not a. Star Austin barnes
- 46:19Speaker 6: has had two hundred one point fifty six one oh
- 46:22Speaker 6: four two forty four in healthy seasons at. Bats you
- 46:27Speaker 6: cannot do that to a guy who you think right
- 46:30Speaker 6: now could be a Possible all star catcher in the big.
- 46:33Speaker 5: Leagues you cannot do.
- 46:35Speaker 6: It no matter how good you, are you will not
- 46:37Speaker 6: be productive as a bench.
- 46:39Speaker 3: Player it's perfect Leading dodgers.
- 46:42Speaker 1: Territory they'll Pa has say shows Those dodgers.
- 46:46Speaker 3: And clinton have fun with this. One watch the. Show
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