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MLB DFS Process | DraftKings & FanDuel Picks, Plays & Slate Breakdown | Thursday, 08/27/26 · Daily Fantasy Sports by Ship It Nation

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  Speaker 1: All systems go. Clear for liftoff. What is going on,
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  Speaker 2: We are back with another edition of the MLB show.
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  Speaker 1: It's your boy, Ham. It's your boy, Matt.
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  Speaker 2: Here on a Thursday, five games to break down. You
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  Speaker 2: can see I got a little bit of different background
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  Speaker 2: going on. I'm in the great state of Virginia. Matt,
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  Speaker 2: I just passed the Pentagon, just passed the nation's capital.
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  Speaker 2: It's pretty cool to see. I didn't get to go
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  Speaker 2: tour it like I wanted to. I'm filling in for
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  Speaker 2: my guy, G, rising today. We have five games on
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  Speaker 2: the slate. We got some rain up in New York,
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  Speaker 2: but we have what we did not have last night,
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  Speaker 2: and that is some bona fide aces on the bump.
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  Speaker 1: Matt, how's your Thursday going? What's going on, my man?
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  Speaker 1: It's going better now that I'm with you. I'm happy
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  Speaker 1: to be doing this Thursday show with you. This can't
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  Speaker 1: be your first time seeing D.C. and stuff, correct?
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  Speaker 2: You know, I went to the Nationals Park about 10
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  Speaker 2: or 15 years ago, and then I did the whole
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  Speaker 2: tour D.C.
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  Speaker 1: As an eighth grader.
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  Speaker 2: Which was a long, long time ago for your boy Ham.
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  Speaker 2: So I have not done all the touristy stuff in
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  Speaker 2: quite some time.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's been a long time, honestly. Now that I
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  Speaker 1: said that, like asking you, went one time as a
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  Speaker 1: family trip, you know, years ago in like elementary school.
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  Speaker 1: And then our eighth grade trip was also there, but
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  Speaker 1: I missed that trip because I was sick. So I've
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  Speaker 1: only really been there once. So, you know, you're Mr.
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  Speaker 1: World Traveler. Today you're in Virginia. Tomorrow you'll be in Tennessee.
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  Speaker 1: Next day you'll probably be back in Cali. Who knows?
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  Speaker 1: But you're living the life over there. We're happy over
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  Speaker 1: here just to be in your presence.
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  Speaker 2: I wish I was living the life, just trying to
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  Speaker 2: grind like everybody else. But, no, happy to be here.
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  Speaker 2: Our guy G. Rosin was doing some traveling himself. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so I'm filling in for him today. Appreciate each and
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  Speaker 2: every one of you tuning in to the show. We
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  Speaker 2: got five games. We're going to break it all down.
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  Speaker 2: I was close last night, Matt, real close. You were
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  Speaker 2: real close. I think Monday night had a couple other–
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to call them bad beats, but close calls.
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  Speaker 2: We're rocking and rolling, so we're going to try to
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  Speaker 2: break it all down for you as well tonight. You
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  Speaker 2: can see the stone I have pulled up here. We're
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  Speaker 2: going to go game by game. Like I mentioned a
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  Speaker 2: little bit earlier, there is some rain in New York,
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  Speaker 2: so make sure you're paying attention to those Brewers games
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  Speaker 2: and to those Astros games. But the Astros at the Yankees,
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  Speaker 2: this is the first game up on the slate. Hayden
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  Speaker 2: Wesneski taking on Garrett Cole. You needed those Yankees last night, Matt.
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  Speaker 2: You're going back to them tonight against Hayden Wazowski. And
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  Speaker 2: then also Garrett called. Talk to me this one.
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  Speaker 1: Astros at the Yankees. Yeah. So this game is one
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  Speaker 1: of the two with weather concerns right now, both New
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  Speaker 1: York games. So just keep that in mind going into
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  Speaker 1: the slate. That being said, you know, we'll talk about
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  Speaker 1: it as if, you know, this game is going to
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  Speaker 1: play and presuming it does. There's a lot to like
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  Speaker 1: about the Yankees side here. I mean, Wes Neskey has
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  Speaker 1: not been impressive. The Yankees have gotten going. Bellinger back
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  Speaker 1: in the lineup. Been a nice boost. Luis Garcia, hot.
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  Speaker 1: This lineup looks good right now. Obviously a good place
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  Speaker 1: to hit. I don't think it's like the greatest hitting
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  Speaker 1: weather in New York, but in only five games, we
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  Speaker 1: don't have any of the major ballparks. Sacramento, Coors, Great American.
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  Speaker 1: So we're good there. And then I think Garrett Cole
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  Speaker 1: is really intriguing. It's not like a great matchup on paper, obviously.
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  Speaker 1: Houston has a potent lineup. Certainly Alvarez is the main
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  Speaker 1: guy you've got to navigate through. But Cole's been good,
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  Speaker 1: and I think he falls through the cracks on this slate.
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  Speaker 1: I think he comes in pretty well-owned, and the ownership
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  Speaker 1: leverage on a slate like this is important. So I
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  Speaker 1: think the Yankees are right atop the list as far
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  Speaker 1: as top stacks go, and Cole is a really nice
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  Speaker 1: contrarian look, in my opinion. How about you? Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, with the missed kid on the bump and
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  Speaker 2: Chris Sale, I think you're right that Garrett Cole is
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  Speaker 2: going to come in super low-owned, even on a two-pitcher
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  Speaker 2: site like DraftKings, right?
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  Speaker 1: So Cole in tournaments, assuming.
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  Speaker 2: And at 8,500 and against this Astros team, but he
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  Speaker 2: gets a lot. Not that revenge is the big thing,
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  Speaker 2: but he is a former Astro outside of Jordan Alvarez.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, nothing really scares me that much. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: Paredes can go deep, that's for sure. Payne, you can.
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  Speaker 1: But I think there's some Ks, especially at the bottom
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  Speaker 1: half of that lineup as well.
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  Speaker 2: So, yeah, I mean, Gary Cole is a distinct number
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  Speaker 2: three for me, but he is in play in tournaments,
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  Speaker 2: in my opinion, if you're going to play, I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: five-plus teams.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I know you're a sale fanboy, so I know
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  Speaker 1: you love him, and it's hard not to love Miz ever.
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  Speaker 1: So I do like that you have him third because
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  Speaker 1: I also have him third. But I think majority of
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  Speaker 1: the field is going to have him fourth by a
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  Speaker 1: lot with Yamamoto third. Give me Cole over Yamamoto. Can't
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  Speaker 1: really argue Cole over sale or Miz outside of the
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  Speaker 1: fact that he's so much cheaper. So like I could
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  Speaker 1: play him over Mizorowski or sale, even if I don't
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  Speaker 1: think he's going to outscore them. You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah. Yeah. I mean, Miz is 12K.
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  Speaker 2: I know we're not getting there yet, but Miz at
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  Speaker 2: 12K against that Mets team with some weather.
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  Speaker 1: Like, especially with how much you like sale in general, like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure you'd love to play sale in this, but
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  Speaker 1: I know you love sale here. So like if you're
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  Speaker 1: playing sale, it's hard to fit him in this together.
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  Speaker 1: Anytime you're, you're spending over 20 K with both your
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  Speaker 1: pitching spots, it's like difficult to build. Yeah, no, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I get it. It's tough. It's tough to do it.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, so Cole may, maybe comes in a little higher
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  Speaker 2: based on, uh, you know, like I said, he is
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  Speaker 2: only 8,500 bucks, but, um, Yeah, I don't know if
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  Speaker 2: I'm getting him over Chris Sale.
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  Speaker 1: We'll just have to see what it looks like. Anything
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  Speaker 1: else on this one? You want to move to the
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  Speaker 1: next one? Yeah, I think let's move to the next one.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, how do you feel about– Well, how high
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  Speaker 1: would you rank the Yankees offense tonight? Yeah, I say
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  Speaker 1: they're number one.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I'm interested to see who you
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  Speaker 2: have over them.
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  Speaker 1: And you don't have to tell me right now. We've
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  Speaker 1: got eight more teams to choose from.
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  Speaker 2: Next up on the slate is Noah Cameron taking on
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  Speaker 2: former Astro legend Spencer Arrigetti, your boy, in the Blue
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  Speaker 2: Jays outfit. Now, Blue Jays, you can never stack them.
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  Speaker 2: They haven't been on the winner all season long. Taking
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  Speaker 2: on the Royals. Talk to me about this one. You
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  Speaker 2: got Bobby Witt north of the border taking on this
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  Speaker 2: Blue Jays team.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is my favorite sack on the board. Kansas
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  Speaker 1: City here. Yeah, Kansas City against Arrigetti, who I think
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  Speaker 1: is just not good We've not mentioning him. Not we. Yes, you've. No, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: I was going to say we've had arguments about Eric
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  Speaker 1: Getty before. And I remember he shoved on me when
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  Speaker 1: you liked him that once. So, but that was with
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  Speaker 1: his former team. Clearly the Astros saw enough where they
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  Speaker 1: were like, we're good. Not pitching for Toronto. Hasn't been good.
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  Speaker 1: He wasn't good for Houston. He had some good starts
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  Speaker 1: at home, but his underlying stuff was always bad. The
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  Speaker 1: Royals have been one of the best teams in baseball
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  Speaker 1: over the past 10 games. Now, that doesn't really mean
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  Speaker 1: they are, but I don't mind riding the hot wave.
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  Speaker 1: They had won nine in a row until yesterday. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think they're owned as much as some of the
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  Speaker 1: other teams on this slate, and I think they look
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  Speaker 1: just as good. I love this matchup. The Royals run
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  Speaker 1: a little bit. Smaller slate. A lot of it goes
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  Speaker 1: back to there's no cores. There's none of those ballparks.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I think the Yankees certainly have more power,
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  Speaker 1: but I think as a full stack, the Royals are
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  Speaker 1: my top dog today. So, yeah, I like them here.
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  Speaker 1: And then, honestly, I don't mind some pieces of the Jays.
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  Speaker 1: Cameron's been good, but a couple starts ago, he threw
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  Speaker 1: a ton of pitches in that complete game shutout. It
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  Speaker 1: was okay his last start. I think he kind of
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  Speaker 1: feels that. I think he hits that regression today. It's not,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the worst matchup for him, but I'm more
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  Speaker 1: on Toronto bats than I am Cameron himself on this slate.
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  Speaker 1: McAdoo leading off it. like close to min price is
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  Speaker 1: a really, really nice option in all formats. And I
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  Speaker 1: don't mind mini stacking Toronto or playing them as, you know,
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  Speaker 1: full five minute, depending on how many lineups you're playing. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean the, what I like about both of these,
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  Speaker 2: I'll call them stacks. If you were going to play
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  Speaker 2: them was you can, you can get Ms and sell
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  Speaker 2: and pretty much stack both of these as five mans.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously you have to get the bottom half of the
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  Speaker 2: lineup with the Royals because Bobby Witt is 6,300, but,
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  Speaker 2: You got a 2,600, 2,300, 3K, 2,800. Same story over
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  Speaker 2: there on the Blue Jays side, much more palatable at $ 2, 200 leadoff.
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  Speaker 2: And what about that guy batting second for Toronto? 3,900
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  Speaker 2: for Vladimir Guerrero Jr. Man, how the mighty have fallen.
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  Speaker 2: That's a bargain basement price. Has he hit a home
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  Speaker 2: run at home.
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  Speaker 1: Yet, Matt, this year? He has not, so we're still
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  Speaker 1: waiting for it. That's cheap, though. I mean, you got to, like,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like, and again, We're way deep in the
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  Speaker 1: season now, so it's certainly not going to be the same,
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  Speaker 1: but much was made about Fernando Tatis in the first
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  Speaker 1: half of the year and his struggles and his lack
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  Speaker 1: of home runs. He's been like the best hitter in
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  Speaker 1: baseball over the past however while. So Vlad, we probably
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  Speaker 1: won't see that, but like in the grand scheme. of
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  Speaker 1: like baseball players, Vlad's still really good in my opinion,
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  Speaker 1: you know, so you're getting the 3,900 year cheap. I
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  Speaker 1: don't hate it at all. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It's a, it's like I said, if you, if you
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  Speaker 2: want to stack the two best pitchers, I think the
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  Speaker 2: blue Jays are going to be popular amongst teams, teams
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  Speaker 2: like that because they are so cheap moving on to
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  Speaker 2: the next game. Another ring game, so make sure you're
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  Speaker 2: paying attention to that. The Mets have a sub-three run
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  Speaker 2: total taking on Jacob Mizorowski in about, I don't know what, 30,
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  Speaker 2: 45 days. They'll crown him, maybe longer than that. They'll
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  Speaker 2: crown him the 2026 Cy Young Award winner. Taking on
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  Speaker 2: this Mets team. I love taking pitchers in this ballpark.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not a huge fan of stacks in this ballpark,
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  Speaker 2: so interested to get your take on probably just the
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  Speaker 2: Brewers as a stack. They're taking Sean Minaya. who shoved,
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  Speaker 2: I think that was two starts ago, Matt, if I'm
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  Speaker 2: not mistaken, but you got the Brewers. You were all
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  Speaker 2: over the Brewers last night. Great call by you scoring
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  Speaker 2: eight runs, uh, taking on a lefty tonight. So you
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  Speaker 2: see a lot of righties up in the top half
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  Speaker 2: of the lineup. Talk to me about this one. Brewers
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  Speaker 2: at the Mets. What's the potential battering?
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, Mania, he shoved two starts ago in Pittsburgh
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  Speaker 1: against the pirates and then has come back down to
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  Speaker 1: earth since I don't really like him on this slate.
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  Speaker 1: Just too many other guys that I prefer. Um, He's cheap, though. So, like,
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  Speaker 1: smaller slate. You want to flip the bill a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: I don't hate the idea of playing Minaya. It's just
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  Speaker 1: not for me personally. I kind of like the idea
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  Speaker 1: of going back to Milwaukee Bats here. But I think
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  Speaker 1: the ownership might be there tonight. You know, it was
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  Speaker 1: kind of there yesterday. Tonight I think it will really
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  Speaker 1: be there. But it makes sense. I mean, there's good
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  Speaker 1: pitching on this slate. Milwaukee set their lineup up nice tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Cheerio back in our lives leading off. and then Laura
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  Speaker 1: hitting second, who's coming off a nice game. There's pinch
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  Speaker 1: hit risk in this lineup tonight because they got guys back,
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  Speaker 1: like Sal Freelick, who I'm sure will get in there
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  Speaker 1: when the righty comes in. He's starting. He's batting seventh. Oh, okay. Sorry. Well,
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  Speaker 1: someone's not. Mitchell. Maybe they just leave it as it is, though.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe they don't do as much pinch hitting. We'll have
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  Speaker 1: to wait and see. I didn't see Freelick in there.
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  Speaker 1: My bad there.
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  Speaker 2: Well, no, Gary the Goat will come out, right? Maybe
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  Speaker 2: Mitchell there. You know, he's not in the lineup as
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  Speaker 2: Christian Yelich.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so he'll probably come in there at some point,
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  Speaker 1: you know, depending on the game scenario. If a righty
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  Speaker 1: comes in, like if Lara is batting with guys on base,
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  Speaker 1: even in like the middle innings and it's a leverage
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  Speaker 1: spot and a righty comes in, I would expect Yelich
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  Speaker 1: to come in for him, you know. But we'll see.
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  Speaker 1: Lara can get there in his first bat and he's
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  Speaker 1: cheap and he runs. So, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: The pinch hit risk stuff aside, I do like Milwaukee here. Again,
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  Speaker 1: have to go back to it being a smaller slate.
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  Speaker 1: I think their upside when they get there is slate breaking.
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  Speaker 1: So they run a little bit. They have power. Just
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  Speaker 1: know that if this game is close or if they
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  Speaker 1: don't get there against Minaya, some of these guys are
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  Speaker 1: likely coming out. But it's okay. Not interested in the
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  Speaker 1: Mets at all. And it's really just about with Miz.
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  Speaker 1: Can you pay 12K for him? I think he projects
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  Speaker 1: as the best pitcher on the slate. Sale hasn't been
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  Speaker 1: as dominant as he was at the beginning of the year.
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  Speaker 1: On a start-to-start basis, I'm with you. I love Chris Sale.
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  Speaker 1: I always want to play him, but man, he's against
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers. He hasn't been elite lately, and you're paying
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  Speaker 1: full freight for him, but you're also paying full freight
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  Speaker 1: for Miz and that's even way more expensive. 20% more
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  Speaker 1: than Sale. So, I like both. I don't have a
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  Speaker 1: strong opinion of I like Miz or Sale more than
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  Speaker 1: the other one. I think Miz is cleaner, just because
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  Speaker 1: of the matchup. Like, give me a matchup over the
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  Speaker 1: Dodgers any day of the week, but if you want
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  Speaker 1: expensive bats, that 12K tag is difficult. So, I like
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  Speaker 1: Miz a lot here. If I'm playing one lineup, I'd
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  Speaker 1: like to play Miz, but You know, I also kind
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  Speaker 1: of have to wait and see how the cheap bats
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  Speaker 1: play out.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was going to ask you, like, if your
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  Speaker 2: single entry is Miz a must play, it doesn't sound
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  Speaker 2: like he is to you. I would definitely have him
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  Speaker 2: in a single entry team. I would probably have him
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  Speaker 2: three of three. I know you differ than me a
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  Speaker 2: lot when it comes to that. But I think Miz
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  Speaker 2: is in a great spot, especially when I open up
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  Speaker 2: the stone and I see Christopher Murrell. Brett Beatty, the
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  Speaker 2: corpse of Marcus Simeon, Jared Young. Like, I'm not scared
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  Speaker 2: of any of those bats. I'm not scared of any
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  Speaker 2: of these bats, to be honest with you. Francisco Lindor,
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  Speaker 2: Jacob Mizorowski, I think is in a great spot, and
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  Speaker 2: I think he's going to dominate, and I think he's
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  Speaker 2: going to score more than 25.92 DraftKings points, which is
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  Speaker 2: what we have him projected at right now.
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  Speaker 1: You have a lot of really strong takes, and most
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  Speaker 1: of your takes are right on point, but you have
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  Speaker 1: been off with some of your mistakes before. And I
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  Speaker 1: have a lot of bad takes too, but I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to take my chances. You do? Toluse Smith, just mainly
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  Speaker 1: the number one that comes to mind there. I wasn't
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  Speaker 1: going there. Never forget. His hashtag, never forget. What's it called? Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: To answer your question, I do think if I'm playing
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  Speaker 1: single entry, I'm playing Miz. But to differ with you,
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  Speaker 1: if I'm playing three lineups, I don't have to play
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  Speaker 1: Miz in all three. Just because of like how– You
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  Speaker 1: know what I mean? Like, he's going to be really popular, too.
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  Speaker 1: And that price tag, you know, prohibits you in lineup
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  Speaker 1: construction in ways that if you don't have him, doesn't.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I mean? Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, who's going to get you 40 on this
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  Speaker 2: slate besides him?
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  Speaker 1: I agree. But the only counter I'll say to you
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  Speaker 1: is your top, or not even counter, question I have
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  Speaker 1: for you. Your top stack is the Yankees. They're expensive,
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  Speaker 1: especially the guys you want. How are you stacking the Yankees?
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  Speaker 1: You won. And I know you like to play the
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  Speaker 1: guys that are good at the top of the lineup
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  Speaker 1: with Miz. Yeah. I mean, I haven't built any team yet,
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  Speaker 1: but I mean, you'd have to throw in there. I mean, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, Austin Wells, obviously I love stacking a catcher,
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  Speaker 2: especially at cheap. Cause no, you know, in my five
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  Speaker 2: man or four man over on FanDuel, like I love
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  Speaker 2: playing the catcher, but yeah, you're going to need some
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: of those cheap guys. And then I don't like, I
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: never liked stacking the Jays. But, man, those prices are good.
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: Like $ 3, 900 for Vladimir Guerrero against a lefty, I just
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: think that's a good price tag.
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but then it comes, like, who are you playing
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: him over in the Yankees? Like Garcia, I mean, obviously.
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: I don't know. You can't play everyone, you know. But
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: I love Miz tonight. You know who else is really
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: cheap that I like that will get there is San Francisco.
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: I mean, they are even cheaper than Toronto. Yeah. You
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: can make it work.
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we got some good stuff going. If it was
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: my normal Friday show, Michael, save that for tomorrow. We're
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: going to hammer Matt with that tomorrow. Don't you worry
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: about that.
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: What is it? You can't look. I'm not telling. We're
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: going to save it for tomorrow. I'm looking now. Okay. Yeah.
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: I realized as soon as I fell into it. Oh,
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: I got to show it now. The weatherman. Check out
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: Matt's new Twitter handle, at WeathermanMatt. I wish, man. I
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: would love– I mean, I wish. There's a market for
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: that right now. Yeah, there is. If anyone wants to
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: go to meteorology school, now's the time to do it.
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: But, yeah, Miz, I want to give like a hot
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: tank so people will come back tomorrow and just razz
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: him when he's wrong.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: But I'm saying 30-plus. We'll see how it is.
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: I wish my boy Nades was in the chat. Nades
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: would be all over Miz with me. You're not going
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: to find any– Nades or new ones. I need nades
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: or new ones in the house.
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: To come back me up on how great Miz is tonight.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: I mean, no one's not on Miz with you. That's
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: the thing. It's not like I'm saying don't play Miz.
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: He's just hella expensive. Like, no one's going to be
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: like he's a bad play. Well, not a bad play,
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: but if I'm playing him. You're acting like you have
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: some contrarian take about him.
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: I think my contrarian take is, like, I'm playing him
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: in 100% of the teams if.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: I'm playing three teams. Yeah, I mean. Assuming the weather
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: is good. Justin says the Mets shell Miz. Book it.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: I doubt that. I mean, he doesn't really get shelled.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: That's a hot take. He doesn't really get shelled. Yeah,
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'll say this, though. And, like, there are
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: certainly anomalies in everything in life. So, like, you can't
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: just look at an anomaly and be like, oh. But
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: if someone had said that about the Angels and Gavin Williams,
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: we would have said the same thing tonight. Oh, I
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: was all over that. I had Angels scoring 10 in
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: that game. Oh, I'm sure you did. Yeah. No, I
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: was surprised. I was pissed.
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: That was all the things. I just knew he was
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: going to have 10 Ks. He gave up 10 runs instead.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: Didn't get out of, what, the third or something like that?
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: He didn't get out of the second. I do think, though,
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: Gavin's been really good, but Miz is a whole different level.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: All right. We shall see. Obviously, I want to check
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: the weather, too. I mean, that's all weather dependent.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: If there's even like a slimmer weather, That that game–
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: the way I play, Matt, you may be different. But
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: if there's even like a slimmer of like there's like
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: a mid-game delay, like I'm out on the pitchers.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: You can't be like that on a slate like this
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: in my opinion. I get it. I don't think you
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: can be like– don't think you can be like how
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: you're saying. If there's a slight chance and a mid-game delay,
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: I'm out. I'm the best pitcher on the slate. I guess,
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: to that point, this is a slate where you can
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: find two alternatives. In that sense, I guess you're fine
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: doing that, but I do think you're boxing yourself into
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: a corner. But to your main point, if there's weather,
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: like real weather concerns in a spot, I'm mostly getting
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: away from it. Yeah, I don't know.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: But to me, the reason I say that, like if
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: you're paying 12K for a pitcher and he gets 13
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: and pulled because they have a rain delay, like and
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: sale goes for 30, you're cooked.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: Well, what about the times that they don't have the
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: rain delay and Miz goes for 40 like you were
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: talking about? Yeah, you're cooked then too, so. Yeah, so, yeah,
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: I mean, we're cooked no matter what, basically. Yeah. Good stuff.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: All right, let's go to the next game. Two games left.
• 20:44
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• 20:51
  Speaker 2: today and tomorrow. Next game up on the slate. I'll
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: call it the marquee game of the day. Two great games,
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: I believe. I know the Braves won in dramatic fashion.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: I think that was two nights ago. I forget who won.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: Who won last night, Matt?
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: Braves.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: Braves won again last night. I think Sean Murphy hit
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: a bomb late, too, as well. But Dodgers, Yamamoto taking
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: on Chris Sale.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: You said it earlier, he hasn't been as dominant.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: He's almost a clear four points behind Mizorowski in the
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: projection column tonight. This Dodgers lineup loaded up and down.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: Tommy Edmond had a really good game last night. Freddie
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: Freeman has moved down to the cleanup spot, lefty-lefty.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: Talk to me a little bit about this game. Dodgers
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: at the Braves. I think I'm going to mostly take
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: like the weak move out of here and probably just
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: be mostly off the Dodgers and sale. Like I like sale.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: I could always play sale. And if I were picking one,
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: I would play sale over the Dodgers here. Cause as
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: much as I like the idea of stacking low on Dodgers,
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: I respect sale enough. And I don't love the Dodgers
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: against lefties. Um, If Sale were a righty, I'd probably
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: reverse that. And I'd like the Dodgers a little bit
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: more than Sale. But he's not. He's the lefty. So
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: I do like Sale more. But given the current form
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: and given how good the Dodgers are, I like other pitchers.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: And I like other offenses. That said, I recognize that
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: Sale himself and the Dodgers himself both offer really high upside.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: And on a lot of slates, I think Sale would
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: be well-owned. It doesn't look like sale is going to
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: be low on here. So in tournaments, you know, sale
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: is sale. I think the Dodgers certainly have a role
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: on this slate. I think I'm probably going to be
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: lower on both sides. Yamamoto and the Braves. It's kind
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: of the same thing, man. Like the Braves aren't quite
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: as good as the Dodgers, but the Braves are one
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: of the best offenses in baseball and they're going well.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: Yamamoto is, isn't quite as good as Sale, but he's
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: also one of the best pitchers in baseball when he's
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: going well. He's just not quite as good of a
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: DFS pitcher because he doesn't have the strikeout prowess, but
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: he's also an ace. I don't love him because I
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: like Miz and I like Garrett Cole. We'll talk about
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: another pitcher I like in a little bit, but I
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: don't love the Braves against him. The Braves have been
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: good to me recently, though. I think they come in
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: real well-owned. I like the Braves. Yeah, I like the
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: Braves as a contrarian stack. I'm going to say that
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: right now. It's not about the matchup against Yamamoto. It's
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: the ownership and an offense that's really good that's going
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: to be unowned. I think the Dodgers actually get love here,
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: more so than the Braves. So give me Atlanta if
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: I'm choosing offenses here. But if I'm playing one lineup personally,
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: I don't think I'm getting to anything from this game. Yeah,
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: that's a great take.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: I'm with you if you want to get contrarian. I
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: think the Braves are in a great spot. Top half
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: of the lineup would be me, for me. And we
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: talked about it.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: You said it earlier.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: It's tough to play the big boy pitchers and the
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: big boy bats. So, to me, that's why the Braves
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: are going to be unknown is because the guys you
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: want aren't affordable with the big name pitchers. And then
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: the Dodgers side, it would be one-offs for me. One-off
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: Shohei or one-off Mookie Betts would be the only scenario
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: where I'm taking Chris Sale.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: 3,900 for Mookie. I do love that. Shortstop eligibility. Bad
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: in third. Gets the platoon advantage.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: I'm not saying I love it, but I think if
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: I was playing one and wanted to get a little
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: bit different, I think 3,900 Mookie.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: 3,900 Mookie, 3,900 Vlad, and we may be on to
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: something tonight, Matt. This slate for a five-game slate has
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: a lot of different ways it could play out. I
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: like Garrett Cole, but would you be surprised if Houston
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: got there tonight? No, because it's Houston. They're really good.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: Same with Atlanta and the Dodgers, but both pitchers against
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: them could also be needed. It's really that type of
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: slate where I know you love like the three prongers.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: This whole slate is like a 20 pronger. What about,
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: what's your philosophy? Like on a small slate, like are
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: you can use pitchers against your hitters, hitters against your
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: pitchers for sure. And then are you more apt to
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: do like a, what is it? A four, two, two
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: or a, 4-3-1, or.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: Are you really sticking with a 5-3-5-2-1 small slate? I'm
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: not any less or more apt. I'll play 4-4s on
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: big slates.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: I'll play 4-4s on this slate, on slates like this.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: I'll mostly play 5-mans because I like playing 5-mans. It's
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: just easier to build. You could get into tons of
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: different types of plus EV roster constructions. For me, I
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: tend to usually build 5-mans, and then depending on the slate,
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: or that specific lineup, what I'll do is the other three.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: But I think you can definitely diversify it on not
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: only this slate, but bigger slates too. So, no, I
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: don't change it up just because of the slate size,
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: but I also don't only play five-mans. Would you ever
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: play a 5-1-1? Yeah, I play 5X sometimes, 5-1-1-1. Definitely.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: I mean, if there's– especially if I'm using a really
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: cheap stack and there's elite one-offs I like, you know,
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: like– Um, so yeah, definitely in play for me. That's
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: not how I usually build. Usually it's, I don't know this,
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: but like if I were at a breakdown of my
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: usual constructions, I would say it's usually five to one,
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: then probably five, three.
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: Yep. Which I think is normal for the most part.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: Excellent stuff there. Let's head over to the next game.
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: Last game up on the slate. Got those D backs.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: They're fighting the other team. They are balking and not
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: getting called on the balks. Now they head into place,
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: the Giants. Tony Vitello.
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: You forgot they're best players in the casino during games.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: Best players in the casino during games. I was reading
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: something earlier today. He was in his hotel room. He
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: wouldn't leave his hotel room.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: They knew where he was.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: Back-to-back seasons. Cattell Marte just said, no, fam, I'm good.
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to play. We'll see how that plays
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: out in the locker room. But, hey, they may not
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: need him. They won back-to-back. against those Cubs. Now they
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: go to the Giants to play Tony Vitello's team, Landon Roop,
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: Jose Cabrera in this one, Corbin Carroll, Marino, Perdomo. Talk
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: to me about this one. You talked about it a
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: little bit earlier. I want to hear your take. Diamondbacks
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: at the Giants.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't know if it's a hot take or not,
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: but I like all things Giants in this game a lot.
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: Oh, wow.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: I like Landon Raup at 7,500 quite a bit. And
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: I like the Giants here for sure. Cabrera is not good. Again,
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: do I like using hitters from this ballpark on main slates? No.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: But our usual main slates five games without any of
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: the big ballparks? Also no. So much more with it tonight. Cabrera,
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: not good. No problem picking on the Zona bullpen. San Fran...
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: Just got done beating up on Cincinnati. They lost that
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: last game because they gave up seven in the ninth,
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: but they scored a bunch of runs that series. Devers
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: is hot. I think they come in low-owned, and you're
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: picking on one of, if not the worst pitcher on
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: the slate. So, yeah, I like the Giants here. I
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: like Raup. Arizona, to me, you could play them because
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: I don't think Raup is anything special. I just like
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: him because of the price tag in the park. But
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: I think I'm lower on Arizona than the field will be.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: I like the Royals, as I mentioned, more. The Brewers,
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: the Jays, the Giants, I like more than the Diamondbacks. But,
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: you know, the Diamondbacks still have really good pieces you
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: can use, especially if you're not playing route. The three
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: guys you mentioned, especially. And then they're really cheap outside that.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: So if you're playing like a Miz, you know, sale, whatever,
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: and you don't play the expensive guys in Arizona, you
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: could probably get to, you know, five-man cheap diamondback stack.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: But other than that, I'm not as high as the
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: field is.
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think, you know, just doing the dry run
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: over on Sabre, it looks like the Giants and the
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: D-backs will be like the fourth and fifth best stack
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: as it relates to stacks over there.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: Number four and five behind the ones we talked about earlier.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: I don't like this game. I hate stacking on this playoff.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: Even though Jose Fernandez is not very good, but I
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: get it. That'll do it for me. That's five games
• 29:47
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• 29:49
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• 30:06
  Speaker 2: Matt, before we get out of here, we've pretty much
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: given you all the picture take and the stack take.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: I need one home run. I need a home run
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: call of the day. We'll get on out of here.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: Then we'll be back to do it all over again
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: on Friday. We're going to go leading off for the Jays.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: Charles McAdoo hitting one tonight off Montgomery. I like that.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: I like those cheap J's.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: Cheap J's you like. I'm going to give you a
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: contrarian home run call of the day. I talked about
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: him a little bit ago. He's batting third. He's from Nashville.
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: He's batting right-handed.
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: $ 3, 900. Mookie Betts going dong tonight. Potential to go double dong. Hey,
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: appreciate you tuning in. We'll see you tomorrow at the
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: same time. Well, 30 minutes earlier, 4 p.m.
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: Eastern Standard Time. We've got a bigger slate tomorrow. Can't
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: wait to break that one all down. I'll be back
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: in the home office breaking it down. For my guy, Matt,
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: I'm Ham. Good luck tonight in those contests. We'll see
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: you at the top of the leaderboards.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: Just ship it!