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Tarps Off is TAKING OVER! · The 3-0 Take

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Three O Take, where we talk
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all things Major League Baseball.
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Here's Kyle Corwin and Nate Reyes.
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It all starts right now. Oh, welcome back to the Three O
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Take presented by Schnook Steeder.
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This is episode 6 O 9. I'll be your host, Kyle Korne.
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I'm here with my Co host Knight Reyes.
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Knight. KCJB How are we?
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What's? Up, guys.
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Living large. What's up man?
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You good? Talking to me.
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Yeah. Yeah, I'm good.
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All right, just checking. Hey, so not that we need to
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reveal any, any business project ideas that may or may not have
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just developed within the last 30 minutes, but on the topic of
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baseball cards for those that missed Sunday Clubhouse had a
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little fun ripping some packs and I, I stumbled upon a real
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success story, if you will. It's not, it's not, it's not one
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of those. It's not one of those like once
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in a lifetime like, Oh, I just, I just pull the Connor Griffin
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auto parallel out of a jumbo hobby blaster hanger.
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It's it was wow, Kyle, when it got a box of cards.
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What did I get? JJBA.
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Blaster. A blaster box, 30 bucks from
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Target and I pulled what I hoped to be and what JB and and others
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in our circle believed to be about a two $5300 card in in a
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in best case scenario. So you know, we're having fun.
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We're having fun. Yeah, and bit by the buck, yeah.
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Yeah, I had to dust off the old eBay profile the other day.
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I was like, well, I guess this is how I get started.
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I'm over. We used to buy a bunch of
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jerseys off of eBay. You haven't been doing that in a
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while. Do we want to open this can of
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worms so I. Used to get like little little
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slight knockoffs for for cheap. Oh, and they were great and I
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love the I love the ones I've got upstairs, But I I think I
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had a sort of come to Jesus moment the other day, maybe a
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couple weeks ago, where and it's progressively gotten worse that
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I just don't know if I'm as much.
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I'm still going to wear jerseys. Don't get me wrong.
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I but I just don't know if I'm because I was looking at them
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the other day in the closet and I'm going when's the last time
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I've worn this one or that one or whatever I'm like.
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I just don't a little bit of a phase.
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Yeah, like, I don't again, don't get me wrong, still going to
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wear them to games and and wear them out during the summer and
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all that. But like, I just, I don't know
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if I have as much of an itch now to be like, oh, I got to track
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down this jersey or that jersey, yeah.
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See that that's been my, my mentality with jerseys is like
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I, I'm OK going and getting like the like the suit super
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authentic 1, you know what I mean?
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And it's easy for for me to be able to like my team not having
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names on the back, you know what I mean?
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Like so when I see those, I'm like, well, I have no desire to
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have that just because it's cheap.
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Then I think when I go and get the expensive ones, it's so far
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and few between that I you know, I'm going to get it.
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I'm going to pull trigger on that.
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So it like hits a little bit more when I do, you know, versus
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some of the cheapies that are just like, I'm going to get them
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and then all of a sudden you got 15 of them that are collecting
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dust. No disrespect, of course.
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I mean, to be fair, I haven't, I, I've, I never really got to
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the point where I was just collecting jerseys to collect
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jerseys. Like I, I'm pretty intentional
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about the ones I do have. Like I got the Bobby Witt one, I
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got the Team USA one, I got the Harper powder blue, I got the,
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did I mention the monster city connect one?
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Because that's like my favorite jersey now.
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And that's kind of where I drew the line.
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Like beyond that, I haven't, I haven't really gone crazy like
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it. I'm, I'm, I'm OK with those.
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I have to really like. I, I will say that.
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And I feel like that's a, that's the case for a lot of people,
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but I, I really have to like the jersey to, to get it.
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I'm not just going to get it because it's like, Oh well, this
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New Jersey came out or. Honestly, those Coopers, those
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Cooperstown mesh V-neck jerseys kind of got me into chokehold.
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Those are the ones. Oh yeah.
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Mitchell and Ness, that's those are grabbing my.
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Attention those way more than like the game field jerseys.
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The V, the yeah, the mesh jerseys with no buttons on the
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front. I'll wear those like T-shirts
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all the time like that. I'll always, I'll always wear
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those. But it's the button down 1
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specifically that I'm thinking. Yeah.
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Plus it's, you know, you get older, you get a little wider.
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They don't fit as well. It's it's the thing.
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Yeah. You know so.
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A couple questions here. Let me go.
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Let me do a couple for you here. OK, it's OK.
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Go ahead. Go.
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There's a subset of fans I've I've talked to some of them who
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as they get older, they don't particularly care to buy a
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jersey of someone 1520 years younger than.
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Younger, yeah. You know what I mean?
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So there is that too. But specifically maybe to wear
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to go to the game to wear. But let let me ask you this
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though, because you have jerseys, if you do find yourself
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like out of saying like I don't want to wear them, what about
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the what about the frames where you can fold the jerseys or
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whatever frame them up, man cave type thing.
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I think that could be a much better, you know, use of still
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having the collectible and if you're not going to wear them,
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you could still put them on the wall.
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Is that something we're into? I am anti jersey on wall unless
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it's signed. I feel like I'm kind of snobby
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that way, you know what I mean? Like because at that point the
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frame basically costs just as much as that jersey.
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Those frames aren't cheap. Oh, here we go.
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Look at this. This is a, this is a different
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story. This is, you know.
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That's the hometown kid. Yeah.
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For the audio only listeners, can we explain a little bit
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there? No.
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Yeah, we can't. They need to get over to
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YouTube. There we go.
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Suck it. You have no idea what we're
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talking about. Yeah, no, I now that one's kind
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of a a different story. But yeah, I think it's got to be
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signed. I think it's got to be signed to
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get in a frame throwing a wall unless you know that person.
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Well, if it's just like I love, like I love the Fenway green
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though, right? But I love the Fenway green,
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right. So instead of you wouldn't even
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do the back in that situation, you would buy just a a jersey,
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no number. You could still frame that, have
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your Red Sox jersey up there and and just as a as a piece of art.
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I mean, look, in an ideal world, I think the man cave is an
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entire basement and there's plenty of room to do whatever.
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I. Want and I would discriminate.
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I would arguably put. I would probably put one team
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from each jersey in a frame. You know, 1 jersey for one
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jersey for each. Team yeah, yeah, yeah.
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And those go. Around the whole, you know,
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dirty jerseys. Wow, I think.
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I in an ideal world I think that would be my man cave.
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OK, it's actually not a bad idea.
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Taking your favorite player. Well, that may have been where
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you were going with that idea, taking your favorite player from
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every team all time. Yeah, just putting it up around
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the the man cave. That's a That's a move.
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So see there is a, there is a world for that.
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So if you guys are out there and that's what you do with it, then
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there like anybody listening, you know what I mean?
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Or, if you're like these fans in Saint Louis, you could just RIP
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it off and start waving it in the air.
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Let's. Chomping at the bit.
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On the I mean, it was on at C and then JB is like, well, let's
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talk about frames, which is totally fine.
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I'm totally I'm you brought up a Hey, you brought up a valid
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point and it led to a a good heartbeat conversation.
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But yeah, let's talk tarps off the movement that's sweeping the
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nation. And let me just go ahead and say
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this right off the top. I I'm at the point where I
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couldn't care less who started it.
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There's all these fan bases being like, well, clearly this,
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these people are forgetting that this was done back in April.
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It's like, at this point, I don't really care.
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This is hilarious. The more the merrier.
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And these teams are getting in on it too.
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Like the Cardinals are actually, I don't know if you saw their
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tweet today. Yeah, they were like, oh, yeah,
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hey, join the movement. Go up to the right field upper
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deck and be a part which, hold on, actually, we need to talk
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about this. We there's no way that that the
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Cardinals are going to there's no way that they're going to
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leave this tweet up because this is, I guarantee you this tweet
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is going to come back to bite them.
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Did you see this tweet today? Did you read?
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OK, So what they said they tweeted 2 pictures of the of the
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tarps off section. They said want to join the
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movement. Starting tonight, the upper
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right field bleachers of Busch Stadium will become a dedicated
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high energy fan section inspired by the tarp tarps off atmosphere
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fans have brought to the ballpark.
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Any fan in the ballpark, regardless of seat location can
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join the fun. Shirts optional winky emoji.
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This is going to lead to some some questionable behavior.
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Probably. I don't particularly care for
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the fact that they said any fan because what does this mean for
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the women in the ballpark? Not that we need to like dive
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into the the details, but you can get there.
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You can arrive at at what I'm getting at what you can.
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Wear you can wear a bathing suit top, I guess you know.
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But but is that tarps off JB? Is that tarps off?
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Yeah, yeah, for this situation. Yes.
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Let's let's go ahead and keep it there.
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It's still your shirt, right? It's still your shirt.
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Yes, I guess. But anyway, just a wild thing
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for the for a Major League organization to come out and say
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the fact that like. This an everyday game situation
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or are they designating a specific game?
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Oh no, this is every day. I know it's been every day since
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the trend. It's not like since it started
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initially. But like, are the Cardinals
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going to try and like go the marketing route and be like, you
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know what I'm saying? Are they going to ruin it?
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Because I think we just let it be natural.
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Yeah, hold on. Let it.
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Let it naturally be what it is at the moment.
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Pause, rewind. Figure that one out.
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Let it. Let's not get, let's not.
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Let. Him.
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Let's let him hang. Low, let's not let anybody in
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here get in trouble. What I was saying is I think we
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just I don't think any any reason Major League Baseball or
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the Saint Louis Cardinals need to step on this at all.
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Just let it be. I love it.
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It's it's happened. It's happened in a great way.
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I don't we were talking about the Sunday clubhouse.
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I think the first after the first time, because they, the
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Cardinals walked it off, they came back and end up walking
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that game off and a bunch of those guys that started the
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trend. Ollie Marmo brought him down to
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the clubhouse and they got to meet a bunch of players, which I
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think is super cool. Like honestly, brownie points
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for me on Ollie Marmo. Like I was kind of out on that
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guy for the last few years, but he's he's now back in the
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picture for me. I don't know where I was going
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with this. To your point, to your point
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though, about letting it just happen naturally, literally as
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you, as you're saying that I was pulling up a reply in that to
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that tweet that the Cardinals put out that perfectly
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encapsulates what you're talking about.
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And it was somebody, I don't know what it's doing to our
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screen here, but basically talking about life of the meme.
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We're like, everybody's doing it.
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Everybody's like, oh, this is sick.
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And then the brand, in this case the Cardinals or or a Major
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League organization, steps in and tries to like, make it their
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own thing or like, try to fuel it.
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And then everybody's just like, yeah, we're kind of out, like.
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And then it's just the brands left kind of doing their own
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thing. Yeah, don't want that to happen.
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That doesn't need to kind of like what?
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Wow, there we go. Kind of like, like the what do
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they call the thing in Wrigley with with like they make a snake
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out all the all the beer. Beer.
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Just the beer snake. Yeah.
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If they like that, just leave it alone.
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Like the Cubs aren't trying to do anything about, you know what
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I'm saying? Like, no need to mess with it.
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Just let it be. In the.
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Outfield section of baseball games.
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It's lawless, by the way. I love it.
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So the other thing would be like the Cardinals have definitely,
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so this, wherever it started, whoever started doing this, and
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there's been small sections of things here and there, the
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Cardinals have blown this thing up.
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And so we understand, right? There's a baseball team.
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They're in town. They go to the Cardinals game.
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They're out of towners. These aren't Cardinals fans.
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These are, I forget what the name of the the school is, but
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this is a this is a baseball team, a club baseball team
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playing a tournament. I have this article.
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Yeah. Stephen, Stephen F Austin club,
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baseball team. OK.
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And it all happens. It's all like organic and
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they're probably just they've seen this somewhere else and
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they're like, wouldn't it be hilarious if we do that?
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Olimar Mall sees it, he loves it.
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He invites them back on Saturday, they're there.
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Saturday, they meet the team, all that stuff.
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Sunday they're not there because they have a game that they're at
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and they were, they were the back there on Tuesday and they
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paid for him and everything. And this whole thing is getting
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that team back there to do this, but then to grow it into
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something bigger. I kind of thought that that last
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night was going to be what we saw of that and Nope, they're
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that baseball team is not there anymore.
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But that whole section is full and they are screaming and it's
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the whole thing. And maybe maybe the brand
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recognition thing might be good for it because of what you said
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earlier. Like at some point we're going
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to cross the line. Maybe it gets boring before we
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before that happens. I think it'll die off on its
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own. For now, we ride the wave.
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I, I'll tell you what I don't like.
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I'll tell you what I don't like. What's right, right?
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This is, this is fun. Like, I like that.
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I like all of the aspects of of that.
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I I don't like the tired Anaheim sell the team chance like it's
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the laziest chant you can do in Anaheim.
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It's over. It's yes, I don't that's.
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Everywhere. Well, but I mean the tarps off,
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they were doing it there with, you know what I mean, the the
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tarps off and all that stuff. They were doing themed.
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It's like a themed. They were doing, yes.
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And. Then and then even even in even
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in Saint Louis last night, you know, I'm watching the games and
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and it's a it's a pirate suck, which first of all, I was like,
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you're not even from Saint Louis, but it's a pirate suck
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chant. And they did roll call like like
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the Yankees. And I'm like, this is like,
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we're already getting to a point where it's like, Hey, let this
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be fun. Why?
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Let's not be mad. Let's not make it a riot
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situation. Have fun.
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Cheer for the team that you're there for.
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You know what I'm saying? And like, that's what I want it
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to be instead of a like sell the team chance where everybody's
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out there with pitchforks and mad and like, dude, this isn't
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this isn't a, a what's the they get on the streets and they
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pick. It's not yeah, it's not that
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right? This this should just be fun.
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And and we seem to always want to ruin things by the toxic
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fans. I think we're so hungry for
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those, like, traditions, right? Like, in my mind, I think the
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roll call shouldn't be touched by anyone else.
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Like, that's stupid. OK, the was it the Mississippi
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State thing where they chant after a walk?
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Ball, A&MA&MA&M. Yeah.
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And then they just go through that like that's, that's theirs,
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like just leave it. Virginia Tech football,
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Metallica and her Sandman, right?
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Like that's like their intro. It's going to carry on no matter
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who's there, right? Like there's certain things that
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I think we can just like, let it be that specific place.
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I would love for this to just kind of stay.
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I don't see it lasting. I'm here for it.
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I I love that all these other teams are adopting it and that
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they're like, like, just let everybody like let these let,
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let the let the guys be dudes and, and gals that want to join
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in. I guess just let him go have
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fun. Let this let this movement sweep
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the nation and then, and then once it once it dies off on the
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fringes, let it fall back into the laps of the fans in in Saint
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Louis. And then it gets resurrected on
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some random Saturday afternoon rain delay game.
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Yep, where everyone's soaked. You know what I mean?
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Like that's. This is an Nate JB you may not
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be as familiar with with my thoughts on on things like this.
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Nate, I know you're very familiar.
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I've been saying this for years. You need a thing.
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You need a thing. Are you in on the Cardinals?
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Is that what you're saying? I'm just saying this could
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because you're talking about you're talking about this
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possibly dying off and I'm saying if they play their cards.
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Right. I mean, you keep winning.
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You keep doing it, yeah. This could and but that's the
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thing though, you got to commit to the bit like if this is like,
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if, if you're like, hey, we're fine with other people using it.
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But like this was like, we still, this is our thing.
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You got to you got to commit to it.
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It's like, it's like these home run celebrations, like the Red
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Sox, for example, the they could be getting taking the woodshed
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down 12 runs, but they got to pull the Wally head out if
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somebody hits a Homer because you just got to commit to the
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bit. I think that's stupid, but yeah.
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Sure, but if you've, if you hit a snag, if you hit a lull, you
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got to, you got to keep rolling with the tarps off as a way to
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keep the keep the vibes up. And like I was saying, if you
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play your cards right with this, this could be something that you
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could ride into into the momentum of, of a of a playoff
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run. I mean, they look good.
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They look, they look pretty good.
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Shockingly good. Yeah.
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Yeah, it's. Not crazy.
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Well, and, and like I said, just for the sake of I, I mean, I, I
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don't know if it, if that's where it started or if this was.
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There's conflicting reports like I've I've seen pictures of it.
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I think maybe the only other realistic possibility was Tampa,
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but the more recent ones I've seen that.
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Something about it being indoors doesn't work.
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Yeah, no, Yeah, yeah, I'm with you, definitely.
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It's definitely the easiest place to do it.
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Yeah, see, I'm seeing a picture right now that the the Cardinals
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are putting rally towels that have tarps off on it with this
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card. Yeah, they, they've already,
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Yeah, they're giving them out to them.
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They have their own towels. They have the whole thing that,
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you know, what are the good thing about the Cardinals?
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The other thing about the Cardinals is they're not
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allowing. No, it's not.
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They're not making a buck. They're just, they put them in
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the seats for the for the section.
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Yeah, yeah. They're, it's a giveaway.
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They're not selling. Are are they sponsored?
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Oh, I bet they are, yeah. Wow, Dang that you're right.
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They are trying to make a buck. They are.
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What a shame. See this is what happens.
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This is the hey fellow kids, how's it, how's it hanging kind
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of thing where they at any time of an organization steps in,
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then it's ruined, It's dead. You got to capitalize on it.
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No, but finishing my thought real quick, the the more recent
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fan bases we've seen tag like very clearly respond to this.
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They weren't. I don't think they're arguing
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that they started it. We've seen it in Detroit.
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We've seen it in what was the other one, Anaheim.
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And yeah, you mentioned Anaheim and then Philly, I think and
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then maybe it was like even a couple other.
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Well, it's definitely more at this point because I think it's
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it's picked up momentum every day That's that's past.
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But yeah, it's what a what a movement, man.
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Just guys being dudes, ripping their, ripping their shirts off,
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taking over the sport. Yeah, I mean, you're watching
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like, you know, my team's in Saint Louis right now, so I'm
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I'm watching the games and you just just nothing to do with
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baseball. You just hear a a chant in the
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stadium. Take it off, take it off.
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You're just like this, like we don't even know what's going on
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right now. But it's going to be difficult
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to play right field as a visiting player.
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Like it's going to be difficult. I that's what I like, that
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there's something I'm telling you.
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There's something about just outfield sections in baseball.
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What's the one? There's a basketball 1 that I
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like too, that they don't sit until the 1st basket is scored.
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None of the opposite. They sit and then when the first
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you're thinking of T, they're. Silent they're.
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Silent. You're thinking of Grand Canyon.
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Yeah, they're silent until the 1st basket and then they just
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lose it. Yeah, but then they storm the
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court, which is crazy, right? Like, let's relax.
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But I, I, I don't know if there's some fun stuff about it,
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like if you can somehow organize this into being like, hey, this
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is when we do it. This is our cue.
23:06
And fans just know it. I trust.
23:10
I trust. I trust in Cardinals fans to
23:14
make this work. Cardinals don't want you.
23:20
What's that? That GIF with like the Peter
23:22
Griffin all hands in and then the peg leg Sheamus.
23:25
Yeah. Get out.
23:27
Thank you, Sheamus. Thank you.
23:29
Yeah, that's exactly what we're talking about here.
23:32
Yeah, they've already, I mean, I've already shown you they've,
23:35
they've ruined it already. They're already, they're already
23:37
getting too involved. Yeah, what's SERVPRO?
23:39
Doing, by the way, the tweet was fine, but I draw the line at the
23:43
at the sponsored Taos, like I told you.
23:46
Yeah, we're out anyway. I think it's, I think it's going
23:50
to happen. I don't think there's any way
23:52
around that. And I think there is a, there is
23:55
a level of there's a level of tolerance that I would have for
24:00
that for sure. But there is I was trying to
24:04
think of, I was trying to think of another thing that would that
24:07
was that was kind of like this. Even things as little as Rally
24:13
Squirrel, you know what I'm saying?
24:15
And what that did, which was just like a random thing that
24:18
was organic, but then they turned it into something I think
24:23
there is or the. Yeah.
24:24
Well, the squirrel was in Saint Louis, though, right?
24:26
This was that's. Why?
24:27
I think that was an actual squirrel that was like.
24:29
It was an actual squirrel, but then it turned into more than
24:31
that, right? Yeah.
24:32
And so there, you know, there's some things like that too, but I
24:36
don't know. My thing I'm needing a thing,
24:38
and something as simple as a squirrel can be all you need.
24:41
Yeah. And I, I guess what I'm saying
24:43
is like, I don't mind. I don't mind the team leaning
24:46
into that a little bit and, and, and running with something.
24:50
So yeah, they're they're going to make, they're going to make
24:54
their money off of it. I don't see any way around that.
24:57
I mean the no, I guess the I mean the pirates had the cone
25:02
thing that happened. Saint Louis is not letting any
25:05
fans in with a cone, you believe.
25:08
That I like this. No, I like that.
25:10
That's what I'm saying. This is how this stuff lives on,
25:14
because you got to piss people off a little bit.
25:17
Like, Pirates fans would be pissed about that.
25:19
And then you're going to find a way to break the rule or make it
25:22
more of the. Sticking cones down their pants.
25:26
Exactly this is what we. All well, you can get those ones
25:28
that collapse and you can just like then pop them out once you
25:31
get in. But I don't even think they let
25:33
the pirates take it into the dugout.
25:37
Speaking of pirates, JB, next time they're out because they're
25:40
on the road, right, You said. Yeah.
25:43
Next time they're at home, next, next home game you go to, are
25:46
you going tarps off, out and right?
25:48
Absolutely not. I'm going to, I'm going to clip
25:52
that and I'm going to cut it right after.
25:55
Absolutely. And I'm going to send that.
25:58
I'm going to send that to the Pirates and they'll be counting
26:00
on you being there. Yeah, that is not, that is not
26:03
my brand, I'll say that. We would.
26:07
Find him immediately with that skin, that skin complexion dude.
26:12
We would he would immediately stand out.
26:15
There's weird you'd be. Like your shirt on?
26:19
When we were in Houston for the WBCI was like, this guy's going
26:23
to get a taste of actually like fun baseball and like seeing
26:29
guys actually want to win that By the end of this thing, he's
26:32
going to be shirtless with stars on his nipples.
26:35
And I feel like we got kind of close because JB was he was
26:39
showing some emotion by the end of it.
26:41
But that's that. That'll be our next goal is to
26:44
get them tarps off in Pittsburgh.
26:47
Speaking of nipples. Speaking of toxic fans, Oh,
26:51
sorry. Yeah, that's probably a better
26:52
transition. JBI don't.
26:54
I mean coincidentally this was in regards to a woman, Nate.
27:01
But I like JB ES transition better anyway.
27:04
Speaking of toxic, toxic fans. Whoops yeah Yikes.
27:10
The lady that was yapping at PCA has led to PCA being fined $5000
27:19
for his profane comments. This was on Sunday.
27:28
In fact, this was it. I feel like this would have
27:30
happened during Sunday clubhouse if I'm not mistaken.
27:34
Like it would have because it would have been a did it?
27:37
Did we talk about it on Sunday? We talked about how that Lady
27:40
was, all we said was that Lady chirping at him and then
27:43
obviously it just it blew up after we finished streaming,
27:46
but. Yeah, because I don't think we,
27:48
I don't think certainly didn't know anything, right, Right.
27:51
I don't think I'd surfaced until after, but yeah, you can go pull
27:55
up yourself, I guess, if you don't know what he said, but
27:57
not, not very kind, but yeah. It came out today fined $5000.
28:03
But it it lends itself to the broader conversation as as we
28:07
visited, you know, a couple times in in recent memory with
28:11
Jaron Duran and other incidents around the league.
28:15
The the conversation about heckling players like what, why?
28:24
You know, we've shared our thoughts on this in, as I
28:27
mentioned, previous instance, but like it was something like
28:30
this. What's what's fair game, what's
28:35
not? Where do we draw the line?
28:39
You know, what should be accepted moving forward?
28:44
Where are we at on this? First off, the White Sox.
28:52
Are great. This year, winning that series
28:58
and sparking up that inner, you know, that that's that city
29:02
rivalry I'm all for. I think that pours into it even
29:07
more, and PCA's comments are just going to let that thing
29:11
grow even even more beautifully. A lot of fan bases that don't
29:16
like PCA by the way. Yeah, Well, I mean, this is
29:20
just, it's a tale as old as time.
29:22
You know, I, I do think there's a line.
29:27
I do think there's a line. I don't know if I, I can
29:29
specifically draw it out. I, I don't think family members
29:33
should be brought into anything. I personally, you know, wouldn't
29:39
just be screaming profanity in an area where there's kids, you
29:43
know, like I think there's certain, you know, now I'm if I
29:47
am going to sit here and say everyone has to live by that
29:49
moral code, it's just impossible.
29:51
But I don't know. I mean, I think it's I think
29:56
it's somewhat fair game. The hostility of playing in in,
30:00
you know, in an away game. That's just it's a kind of a
30:04
part of it. Now what's said, whether players
30:10
come back to the, to the press conference after and they're
30:13
fully honest with what's said or what's not said.
30:16
We've had a, you know, a lot of accusations being made.
30:19
I, I don't think anyone, anyone should be throwing stuff at
30:23
fans. I don't, or any, any throwing
30:25
anything at bit players. But like, I don't know, I think
30:29
screaming and, and getting under their skin is like the beauty of
30:34
sports. I think there's a natural way of
30:37
going about it. If you're bad at it, don't try
30:42
to be good at it. This lady kind of sounded like
30:45
she wasn't very good at it. But the same time, it's like,
30:50
who cares? I don't know if I'm making $30
30:53
million. Like I don't really care about
30:55
the opinion of this person that I'll never hear from again.
30:59
Getting to go to a Major League ballpark and telling a guy that
31:03
he sucks is an American right. It's protected in the
31:07
Constitution. It.
31:09
Sure is. Look it up.
31:10
No. But joking, joking aside, none
31:12
of us are those people. Like, the three people right
31:15
here aren't those people. And that's fine.
31:17
Now, is it somewhat funny when one of your, you know, fellow
31:24
fans is in the section and they yell, you know what I mean?
31:28
Like it's. Yeah, fine, whatever.
31:31
I don't know. I, I, I think there's a level of
31:33
softness that has come over specifically players.
31:39
Well, that's what I'm saying. All she said was, hey, PCA, you
31:42
suck, right? And I'm like if that's if that
31:45
leads to you saying, hey, bleep, bleep, bleep, bleep.
31:51
Right. Like come on, man, you get like
31:55
I, I trust me. I've, I've, I've said on here
31:58
many times, just because you buy a ticket to get into the park
32:02
does not grant you the freedom to say whatever you want.
32:06
Like that's just not. Comments made towards Jaron
32:08
Duran after he's opened up about his mental health issues.
32:11
That's insane. I think that's horrendous.
32:14
Now, with that said, could. Tell Marte and Dennis Santana
32:17
who had family members and then they had situations and.
32:22
Be more creative, like that's just lazy to me.
32:25
But I agree it like again, I, I don't, I don't, I'm not of the
32:30
belief or the mindset that that gives you the freedom.
32:32
Just go in and say whatever you want.
32:34
However, if you suck is the trigger for some of these guys.
32:39
Like we're going to have to grow up a little bit or like you get
32:43
a little bit tougher skin. And I know there's probably
32:45
people have been like easy for you to say.
32:47
It's like no, like, come on, really, you suck like just say
32:54
that to yourself and think like is really is this is does this
32:59
justify me turning around to this lady and saying, you know
33:03
what? It what PCA said No, like that's
33:06
insane. You're I get it, you're a human
33:09
being, but this is probably where I would use the whole like
33:15
you're getting paid a lot of money, buddy could just ignore
33:18
it. And I again, I'm not I want to
33:20
make it clear. I'm not saying that applies to
33:21
all things that fans say because there is a line.
33:24
It's. A case by case.
33:25
Sure. But if somebody says you suck,
33:27
you got to be you got to tighten it up a little.
33:29
You suck should be on the list of things that you're allowed to
33:32
yell. It should be.
33:34
It should be in somewhat, it should somewhat be funny.
33:37
And I am and I am literally like I'm the polar opposite of I am.
33:43
I actually just said it earlier in this in this show, I said
33:48
root for your team. You don't have to talk about the
33:51
other team. And but I think chance are one
33:53
thing. I think just heckling a fan.
33:55
If you've ever seen the the exchange between fans and Joey
34:00
Votto, a lot of times in a playful way, and he had witty,
34:07
funny things to say back to fans when they said, you know what I
34:11
mean, Whatever. There was one in particular,
34:12
like I, if I can't think of it, I'm not going to try it to quote
34:15
it, but it was really funny. One of my favorite like returns
34:20
to you know what I mean? I think I think somebody else
34:22
just said, I remember when you were hitting well and whatever
34:25
that number was and he just turned and said, I remember when
34:27
you were thin and it was just like A and that was it.
34:30
And then he kind of laughed and they were like, all right, I
34:32
respect it, you know what I mean?
34:33
And it was that was it. He was just heckling Votto.
34:36
Votto gave him a little bit back from the on deck circle and it
34:38
was over. But like you suck.
34:43
I would never yell that to a player, but it has to be on the
34:46
non banned list. Like by the way, there there is
34:50
A at Saint Louis, there's a female out there.
34:53
She's wearing a swimsuit top. So there it is, shirt tied
34:59
around it, but swimsuit top. But whenever you watch it your
35:02
own home. I'm just saying it's.
35:04
Your own thing. So anyway, yeah.
35:07
Is that where you said Pittsburgh?
35:09
Is that where? They are right now, Yeah,
35:10
they're in Saint Louis right now.
35:11
So it's been, it's been a lot. But anyway, players are somewhat
35:17
in a lose lose situation in this scenario.
35:19
It doesn't matter what a fan says.
35:22
If you go back at them, you're getting fined.
35:25
And you know what I'm saying? It just doesn't matter.
35:29
Everybody's on camera, all the things and it and it stinks for
35:33
players. In that sense, however, this is
35:37
like another level, you know, Tommy Pham last year doing the
35:42
the things, I mean, the things he did throughout his career
35:45
towards fans just for them saying he's bad at baseball.
35:49
Like you're going to get fined for those things.
35:52
You can't do those things. PCA hasn't really avoided this
35:59
kind of attention so far in his very young career.
36:03
I don't think you get to be as loud as you are and then like
36:08
can like, you know what I'm saying?
36:10
And like suddenly get offended. Easily, Yeah, I would probably
36:13
be more sympathetic. I mean, I I still don't think
36:16
you suck is where we draw the line.
36:18
No. But I'd probably be like I say
36:20
that. Every day?
36:21
Yeah, About a lot of people. I say that to myself.
36:24
I say it every time I hit a ground ball to the second base.
36:27
But like, for example, if it was our guy Bobby Witt, like Bobby
36:31
Witt's not going to say anything.
36:32
But if I heard somebody saying that, like, well, the person
36:35
saying that's a a loser, like because why would you say that
36:38
to Bobby Witt? But if, if it's a guy like PCA
36:40
that has been known to run his mouth a little bit, I'm not
36:43
going to be as sympathetic. And not that he needs my
36:45
sympathy, but like, that's probably how other people are
36:47
feeling where it's like, hey buddy, like if you're not, deal
36:51
with it if you're going. To be the if you're going to be.
36:53
Polarizing. Be that way.
36:55
I think what he said back, it gets gets you away from the
36:59
sympathy. Yeah, no, well, that I'm that's
37:01
a whole, I'm just saying independent of that.
37:03
But then you throw that on there and you're like, OK, yeah, this
37:05
guy kind of kind of sucks for the way he responded to this
37:09
because that's that's that's so unwarranted.
37:12
Yeah, anyway, I don't. Know as a whole I do, I do feel
37:15
bad for players who when, when fans do cross the line, you suck
37:21
just isn't crossing the line. And you can say it to Bobby
37:24
Witt, if he's the away player, he doesn't have to suck for you
37:27
to say that. You're just trying to get under
37:29
his skin. None of these guys suck.
37:32
Not one player that's in the Major League sucks.
37:35
Yeah, but you can suck relatively so like I mean.
37:39
But the I mean, but I would even say PCA doesn't this guy is, you
37:44
know what I'm saying? So like, just shrug that off,
37:47
dude. That's that's there's just no
37:49
point. Like, you know, if you're PCA,
37:52
you know you don't suck, so why give this person the satisfy?
37:55
And maybe they just caught him up.
37:56
Maybe he's having a rough day. Maybe he dropped his coffee that
37:59
morning. Who knows?
38:01
But like you got to just know clearly, like what side of the
38:05
fence am I on? What side of the fence are you
38:07
on? And leave it at that.
38:09
Like you don't need to, you don't need to give them the
38:11
satisfaction of responding, but he.
38:12
Did and he missed the catch, right?
38:14
That's what started this. That's the catch.
38:15
So they're like, oh, you suck. And it's like.
38:19
I don't know, jeez. Anyway, PCA just got to got to.
38:23
Got to clean it. Got.
38:24
To toughen up a little bit, let's let's, let's clean it up.
38:30
You know who's cleaned it up? The Philadelphia Phillies.
38:34
My OH. Boy.
38:37
Philadelphia, don't you? Oh boy, me, you know, just
38:41
every. Episode like you, just the way
38:43
you spread your cards out. Just every episode we have the
38:47
opportunity to shout out one of your teams.
38:52
I can't let people forget my excuse me, who?
38:59
Who do I have in the World Series?
39:02
Yeah. Who do I?
39:06
Who do I have? Winning the World Series,
39:08
actually. I don't.
39:09
I can't keep it straight anymore.
39:11
I don't know if it's the A's, the White Sox, the Red Sox or
39:15
the Phillies or the occasional Washington Nationals.
39:19
No, although, although side note, did you see my text in the
39:25
fantasy group chat yesterday? It's like my lunch break went
39:28
over to Marshalls because there's always a good find.
39:31
Over to Marshalls. I saw the Washington, it's, it's
39:35
got the Washington script with the Harper.
39:37
I was like, oh, that's only 10 bucks.
39:39
Of course I'm going to snag that.
39:40
So this will be the shirt that I wear.
39:41
Like if the Nationals are playing somebody that I don't
39:44
really care about, like, oh, I'm like supporting A-Team, but I'm
39:47
really supporting my guy. But then I was doing the math
39:50
when I got home and I'm like, dude, this shirt's at least 8-8
39:56
years old vintage like this. This has just been sitting in
40:01
storage for eight years at least.
40:04
I don't know why it didn't dawn like it took so long to dawn on
40:07
me, but I was like, this, this shirt, I don't know why this is
40:10
just now hit. Yeah, snagged it, Of course.
40:13
Yeah, that's that's my guy. But I prove, I guess I'm proving
40:18
your point a little bit with the occasional Nationals plug.
40:21
But anyway, Phillies my guys. Well, they dropped today, and if
40:30
they would have won today, the rubber match against the Reds,
40:33
that would have moved them to seven straight series wins under
40:37
Donnie Baseball weren't able to get that done.
40:40
But starting his tenure as as Philly's interim with six
40:47
straight series wins is huge for a team that I think us and and
40:52
many others had a lot of questions about being like,
40:56
namely, why do they suck? Because they were they were not
41:00
off to a great start, but have have righted the ship.
41:05
I think we was it Sunday clubhouse or last episode talk
41:08
about Bryce just kind of doing his thing again and it seems to
41:11
be flying under the radar a little bit and you've got, you
41:15
know, Schwarber doing what he's doing.
41:16
Zach Wheeler looking phenomenal last outing.
41:19
So that's a great, that's a great sign.
41:23
I think Bryce and Stott's actually having a not half bad
41:26
year. So I mean, they're just, I think
41:30
I, I think I saw a quote. Christopher Sanchez is the
41:34
dicing, too, isn't? He yeah, yeah, on ramp.
41:37
I think I saw a quote from Trey Turner either today or yesterday
41:41
or this actually may have been when they were still, you know,
41:44
just winning series, but basically talking about how like
41:47
they just were doing things poorly.
41:50
And he said now they're just, and, and in other words, he
41:53
basically was just like, we're just doing the things better
41:55
now. So it doesn't sound like there's
41:57
been much of A, like, I don't know if it's a fundamental
42:01
change or anything, but it might just be it, it goes back to what
42:04
we talked about with, you know, maybe just needing to shake
42:07
things up a little bit. And it sounds like maybe this
42:08
was what was needed. Yeah, it makes you wonder
42:12
because it's like, it's not like it's AI.
42:14
Can't imagine it being too much of like a voice or personality
42:20
change exactly to, to, to Don Mattingly, Like I think both
42:26
just old school guys. I, I think it works for that
42:29
clubhouse just because it's, it's a veteran group, like
42:31
they're all older and they're just like, you know, just like,
42:33
let us do our job. You know what I mean?
42:35
They don't need to be buddy buddy.
42:37
We don't need to have weird stuff.
42:39
It's like, let's just show up and do our job every day and
42:41
it'll work out fine that they're talented enough.
42:45
So I think you're right. I don't think that's changed.
42:48
I think it's just like maybe it did send a message and maybe,
42:54
you know, maybe it's one of those times where like the
42:56
message was received like, and I bet it doesn't feel good And
43:01
we're talking veteran guys. It's not just like this.
43:04
Oh, I'm glad we shook things up. It's like, no, we the way we've
43:09
performed or not performed just cost someone their job.
43:13
And these guys being around the league that long enough know how
43:16
difficult it is to, to stay in this league.
43:19
So it's like, you know, I bet that hurt.
43:22
I bet it stung a little bit. So I, I, it, it's one of those
43:29
rare things that I think it just, it worked out in the right
43:31
way for now. Then I like to see Donnie
43:35
Baseball having some success at that as a manager because it's
43:39
kind of been rough in his tenure in that position.
43:45
There's something about just changing the room, changing what
43:48
things look like, you know what I'm saying?
43:49
And this is a team who while they've been good because they
43:54
have good players on their team, like it's a good roster,
43:57
regardless of how they were performing and they've lost in
44:01
the end. They've they've gotten to, to
44:04
the postseason, they've lost And when they started losing to
44:07
start the season, there's like there, it just some things stink
44:11
and sometimes you got to RIP the carpet and put a new one down.
44:15
Sometimes you got to, you know, change the furniture around, try
44:19
to get a new look. And I think sometimes changing
44:22
the coaching staff, specifically the the loudest voice in the
44:25
room makes a difference. And guys too.
44:28
And I, you know, you said that nothing's really changed, but
44:32
they're playing better. I got a couple things here.
44:35
Since April 28th, they they've been third in runs scored.
44:39
They were 28th up into that point.
44:43
They were 17th in home runs in the first half of what they've
44:48
played here under Mattingly, second in home runs.
44:51
They went from 24th to 7th in stolen bases, 29th to 6th in
44:56
average. On the pitching side. 28th ERA
45:00
is now since then is the 4th best ERA, their first in quality
45:05
starts since that day and before that they were 25th.
45:09
So like they've made a complete 180 and it's just performance
45:13
they didn't have to. Like, it's just those guys in
45:16
that room who are already good, playing well.
45:19
Yeah, good for them. I love it.
45:25
I love it. What it feels like, what
45:29
2022-2023, like the Braves and Phillies just kind of back at it
45:35
again. I love it.
45:36
I love it. Ray still got a nine game lead
45:40
there. There's some ground to cover,
45:42
but. Yeah, definitely not putting
45:43
them on the same level. I'm just saying like the fact
45:46
that we're talking about both teams in a positive light in in
45:51
as we approach the end of May refreshing.
45:53
If there's a team that can do it, I mean, that roster can,
45:56
right? Yeah, for sure.
45:59
Yeah. Yep, Yep, Yep.
46:07
This is going to be hard for me. Uh.
46:11
Oh. Jacob Mesrowski, his last four
46:30
starts. Whatever, I don't care.
46:37
The last four starts has allowed zero runs while striking out
46:41
eight plus in each of those four starts, according to Matthew
46:48
Mocha on Twitter says. Here's a list of the previous
46:54
four pitchers who accomplished such a streak in a single
46:56
season. Pedro Martinez in 2002 Clayton
47:01
Kershaw 2014 Chris Sale 2018 Jacob Vikram 2021.
47:08
So yeah, good for Jacob Mazurowski really, really doing
47:14
the thing this year. Good for him, I.
47:18
Think I saw something on that movie network that I don't
47:21
remember where the exact numbers, but he was like, I
47:25
think he's thrown like 81 pitches at 102 or higher this
47:32
year and the next closest was like 21 pitches.
47:38
It's insane. He's a Pokémon bathroom.
47:43
He's killing it on my fantasy team, I'll tell you that much.
47:47
Killing me right now. Anyway, Gavin Sheets, whoo.
47:56
Gavin Sheets on the year 9 bombs, he's hitting 254.
48:01
But really, what's most impressive about what Gavin
48:03
Sheets has been doing lately is really over the course of the
48:06
last week, coming into today, Wednesday, hitting 474 again
48:11
over the last week, hitting 474 with a 630 OBP, slugging 1158
48:21
with four jacks and even a swipe just as a cherry on top because
48:29
he can. So huge, major props to Gavin
48:35
Sheets. Major props.
48:36
Major props. Gavin Sheets.
48:44
Yeah. I mean the true highlight of
48:47
today's credit candidate segment.
48:48
That's cool man. How old is he?
48:50
Cannot stress enough. He's got to be close to our age.
48:53
I think he's probably, if I had to guess, I'd say Gavin Sheets
48:57
is 33. What?
49:07
He's 30. I was, I thought that was a
49:11
little aggressive. Well, no, because he's buddies
49:15
with. He's buddies with Ryan.
49:17
Yeah. And I've, I didn't know if there
49:19
was, if there was a, an age similarity there, because Ryan's
49:22
isn't he. Ryan's 33, right?
49:25
I don't know. I think he's our age.
49:29
Yeah, don't lump me into the old man category of 33.
49:33
I'm 32 still. We won't talk about our guy in
49:38
the corner. Then the.
49:41
Whoa. The I just think it's cool when
49:47
like a when like a veteran who hasn't like made an impact
49:52
through the 1st 678 years in his career finally finds a home and
49:59
is like sitting in the middle of the lineup, you know, so.
50:04
I've heard, well, to that point. I think I've heard Gavin
50:07
Cheese's name more this year than I have since he came up in
50:12
2021, and that's not an exaggeration.
50:16
Like he's playing a real meaningful part in this Padres
50:23
campaign that I think. I mean, last I checked was.
50:26
Still leading the division. Going pretty well, I'm not
50:31
mistaken. Are they?
50:35
Who? No, no, it's close.
50:37
Half half game back. Yeah, half game back.
50:39
That came back. They they were.
50:44
Run differential is insane. The Dodgers.
50:48
Dodgers in first at 94, the Padres in second at +7.
50:54
Yeah. And your Rockies, by the way,
50:58
you what'd you say? They're going to win 55 minimum.
51:01
Took the over. They're 19 and 31 with a -, 54.
51:06
Got to trust the process. A marathon.
51:09
I get it man, I get it thon. They're currently on pace for 61
51:14
wins. Yeah, they are.
51:17
Tell them JB. A long season Yep, closing the
51:23
book unless you guys got anything else did you what did
51:28
you guys think about my I don't know what why I was in the frame
51:35
of mind thinking about expansion across Major League Baseball
51:39
yesterday, but it just popped into my brain.
51:40
I was like, oh, let me take a stab at this and then I made
51:43
that I put that tweet out and caught a little traction.
51:48
Seemed like the the fellows appreciate it.
51:50
Would you guys think, would you think of the my my Take it
51:55
expansion? I wish I was in the casserole
51:58
division. You'll send it to me again?
52:01
Yeah. The realignment, I, I said, I
52:05
said expansion. It's really more of a
52:06
realignment including two teams, two teams of expansion.
52:15
Let's see here. Get in there.
52:21
Yeah, I, I, I didn't, yeah. Wait, so did you you gave the
52:27
expansion teams to? It was a preference thing.
52:31
It was it geographically, geographically doesn't make
52:35
sense. I said Raleigh and Nashville,
52:37
which they obviously wouldn't do, but I was just that's if I,
52:40
if I had to pick 2, that's who I would pick.
52:43
There's going to be a West Coast team.
52:44
Yeah, for sure. Of the realistic options,
52:47
though, I wanted those too, so I put those.
52:49
Yeah, both. Both good options and and are,
52:52
you know, pining for it. Yeah, yeah.
52:55
That's what I'm saying. Definitely in the realistic
52:58
category, if you will. But the.
53:00
Toxic division would do numbers. The toxic division we've got the
53:04
Red Sox, Yankees, Mets and Phillies.
53:08
That division would would employ it would just kill itself.
53:15
It like it wouldn't survive 162 game season.
53:20
And so like, and I understand like, this is this is a lot of
53:24
fun, but it also would be so bad for baseball because three of
53:30
those teams aren't going to the postseason.
53:33
And that just seems crazy. Yeah.
53:36
Well, maybe not, maybe not 3, but well, I mean how many teams
53:39
you going to you have? 3-4 now.
53:43
Yeah, but you have, you went to four divisions, didn't you?
53:47
Oh, I see. Yeah, I see.
53:48
You're only going to get one. You're only going to get what,
53:50
one wild card then? But if you so two of those
53:53
teams. But if you didn't take all.
53:56
That through, did you? Yeah, if you do it and, and you
54:00
know, like I said, we we had one on our show that was like an act
54:04
like a serious 1 and it doesn't matter like where you land.
54:10
I I think like baseball, like Manfred, when he does this, he's
54:13
going to get 50% of the league in the postseason and it's going
54:17
to be annoying in my opinion to have that many people go into
54:21
the postseason, but they. Can't.
54:24
They can't. Do you want to throw it up on
54:25
the screen? Yeah, real quick though, on the
54:29
on three of the OR what did what did you say, JB?
54:31
Three of those teams not making the postseason.
54:32
We're that's what happened now where it's like, OK, the Red Sox
54:36
miss out and that's fine. We we you know, we move on.
54:40
The Mets miss out on postseason. The Philly, like we move on, you
54:45
know, like. No, I get that.
54:47
I it just, it felt like there's another division.
54:50
If you put it up there, I'll remember.
54:51
I, I couldn't remember there was another division that would be
54:54
like, yeah, but we're going to have a team that's like right
54:56
around 500 and you're going to have three, like all four teams
55:02
in the, in the toxic division are going to need to get in and
55:06
they're not, you know what I mean?
55:08
Space out the killers. Yeah, so we got the Toxic
55:11
Division, the Chilean Casserole division, the kind Folk Division
55:16
casserole, the Music division, the Here for a Good Time
55:19
division, the Traffic Division, Can't Afford to Live Here
55:22
division and the Manifest Destiny.
55:24
Division, I want to hear the thought process in the names of
55:29
of these. OK, well, I, I, when I embarked
55:32
upon this project, I, I had, I had split up the team's based
55:38
on, you know, geography and like proximity and things like that.
55:42
And then I was like, OK, let's try to come up with like semi
55:44
realistic names. So I think one of them, I think
55:46
like the Orioles, Gnats, Pirates, Cubs division.
55:50
I think I called that like the metro division, but I was like,
55:53
this is boring. So I was like, let's let's have
55:55
a little fun with it. And then I just kind of ran with
55:58
it. But I've, I feel I did get, you
56:01
know, joking aside, I did get some feedback from some people
56:05
where it's like honestly, like not that far off.
56:09
Like it's not, it's not crazy. I did get a bunch of people
56:12
being like, the Cardinals would never move to the American
56:16
League. And I'm like, brother, we would
56:18
never call it the Chilean Casserole Division.
56:20
So like, this is clearly all a joke.
56:23
Like no need to get, no need to let it ruin your day.
56:27
Yeah, that's where he's getting. That's where he's getting hung
56:29
up on. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
56:32
But anyway, I, I mean, I, I thought it was a pretty
56:36
realistic stab. It it realignment if if if I do
56:40
say so. Much.
56:41
I'll give you this, I'll give you this.
56:42
You kept American in national. I did.
56:47
You could have. Found something crazy there too.
56:50
I would the only thing I would change, I would I would switch
56:52
up just because you got you were hammering down on on Socal here.
57:00
They can't afford to live here. Division swap San Diego in
57:05
Seattle sure and now it's spread the love a little bit.
57:09
I like, I do like the traffic division because it's kind of
57:12
got, it's got some different regions covered there the.
57:16
Tri-state area or quads I don't know, but no the.
57:21
More than the truck, yeah. The reason I had Oh yeah,
57:25
definitely more than three. The reason I put the California
57:28
teams in there because I was like, oh, the they can
57:31
realistically be in their own division now that the A's are
57:34
out. And it's like, OK, we can just
57:36
take all four of the California teams in there.
57:38
And I think originally I had it like the Cali division.
57:40
I was like, no, let's, let's, let's make a little fun so.
57:43
Seattle doesn't. It doesn't matter for Seattle.
57:47
They're not going to get a good a good travel division ever.
57:51
Yeah, that's a good point too. Tell me that's not a great.
57:54
Right now that Houston is in there is in.
57:58
Like isn't that sick? Like I would I would I would
58:01
like to see him run with that division.
58:03
Are people in Detroit kind? OK, so I have some explaining to
58:07
do. So I don't think so they're.
58:09
Not they're not. And apparently Saint Louis is
58:11
like one of the most dangerous cities in the world to live in
58:13
so. The fans in Saint Louis are.
58:16
Most of them are kind though. Well, I saw Milwaukee in
58:20
Toronto, but it was funny because people are like, you
58:22
picked 3 of like the most dangerous cities in America and
58:25
then you and then you've got the Blue Jays holding the banner for
58:28
the rest of the division. But yeah, no, I think, I think
58:33
if I were to rename the division, I realized this just
58:36
after I posted it, I was like, I don't want to delete it.
58:37
I would probably call it the sort of has an accent division
58:42
because every one of those cities I think has a distinct,
58:46
you know, accent or dialect to their to their their name.
58:51
So that probably would have been the only thing I would have
58:54
really tweaked. Cardinals, what do you got
58:56
there? Saint Louis, don't they have
58:59
like, I mean, I don't know, but don't do they not have like a
59:01
little bit of a little something there?
59:04
I thought they did. Maybe they don't.
59:06
Maybe I'm just making. A switch.
59:07
Switch the Cardinals and the Twins and call it the turtleneck
59:12
division. The turtleneck division.
59:17
Yeah, like that. Oh, because all the, the, all
59:21
the teams cold. Oh, all cold guys.
59:24
Is it fair? Is it cold in Saint Louis?
59:28
No, it's hot in Saint Louis. That's what he's saying.
59:31
The kind folk would go to the cold.
59:34
Yeah, switch. Just switch the.
59:35
No, you said the twins. The Cardinals.
59:37
The Cardinals, Yeah. Yeah, so once the Cardinals are
59:39
in that division, Toronto, Minnesota, Milwaukee and Detroit
59:45
is all cold. Oh, oh, I was like, OK, there
59:49
you go. Yeah.
59:50
There you go. We got there, we got there.
59:52
What do we have the the music division, though?
59:54
I mean, Saint Louis could also get involved there, I think more
59:57
than Dallas and Houston. Wow.
1:00:01
I was music down there. Well, I was just thinking, I, I
1:00:03
pretty much lumped all of Texas together and was like, music
1:00:07
exists there and you know, they like their, they like their
1:00:11
country and, and even Houston, that's a big, isn't that, that's
1:00:15
like a big hip hop hub, isn't it?
1:00:17
Big extra plug. I don't know, yeah.
1:00:19
Yeah, big, big hub for hip hop, so that.
1:00:22
Atlanta is for sure. Originally I went I was going to
1:00:25
try to make it work with country music division and so it looked
1:00:28
a little bit different, but then I was like no, I like these four
1:00:30
teams in there. You got Nashville, Kansas City,
1:00:35
Texas and Houston. But anyway, not the.
1:00:37
Interesting ramble. On and on but just want to get
1:00:39
your all thoughts. I thought we'd see a BBQ
1:00:42
division or something like that. That was also great.
1:00:45
Yeah, that was a great suggestion.
1:00:46
I I probably could have done something with that, but.
1:00:48
Yeah. But yeah, this was a fun little
1:00:52
fun little experiment anyways. Yeah, everybody should do one of
1:00:57
those. It's it's just fun.
1:00:59
And it's, it's also interesting because as you start thinking,
1:01:03
you realize how hard, yeah, how very hard it is.
1:01:07
Yeah. And like, I know it's that that
1:01:09
graphic was obviously a joke, but I had people being like, you
1:01:12
can't have, well, for example, like the kind folk division like
1:01:18
Detroit doesn't really fit the bill.
1:01:21
But but then I'm thinking, you know, like in our current
1:01:25
standing set up, are we really going to classify the Pirates as
1:01:30
a central team? I've never thought of the
1:01:32
Pirates as a central team like that's pushing it.
1:01:35
I've never liked that either. No, it's like every, not every
1:01:38
Division I feel like accurately 100% represents.
1:01:44
It's a good point. Everything in there.
1:01:45
So you know, sometimes there's going to be some teams that just
1:01:48
don't don't fit the bill. So any who's?
1:01:54
Side note, go ahead. Nope.
1:01:58
No, it was my last closing the book point, but go ahead.
1:02:01
I was just going to say that the Treya Savage Cam Schlittler game
1:02:06
at the moment is absurd. Both twirling gems about to get.
1:02:11
I got 6 Dodgers, Padres. On do I need a switch?
1:02:17
Just two shut pieces going. Yeah, I mean, saw that coming.
1:02:20
That was a good match up. My last close in the book item.
1:02:31
Did you all see that Nolan? Did you see that Nolan Aronado
1:02:33
Grand Slam the night off? Robbie Ray.
1:02:39
Was that I heard about an inside the park Grand Slam?
1:02:43
No, that was I. Was I?
1:02:45
Was Nolan's too. Slow, that was I was the
1:02:48
nationalist. That was James Wood off of Nolan
1:02:51
McClain, too. No, but the Nolan.
1:02:56
You didn't hear about the Nolan Aronado Grand Slam?
1:03:00
I I'm missing the significance of it?
1:03:02
6 pitches into the game off Robbie Ray.
1:03:05
A Grand Slam. 6 pitches into the game.
1:03:13
Oh, I mean, talk about ambush. I hate Robbie Ray.
1:03:17
You were one of the first people I thought of When I saw that, I
1:03:19
was like, oh, I bet you Nate would love this.
1:03:21
Yeah, get a smaller jersey, Weenie.
1:03:24
That that's all this guy says about.
1:03:27
Stupid hair too. He's got a stupid haircut.
1:03:31
Speaking of hair, not to not to pile on my guy, No, no, I won't
1:03:35
say that's it's uncalled for, uncalled for ricochet.
1:03:38
Anyway, you guys got anything else?
1:03:47
I don't think so. JB.
1:03:51
No, I'm I got nothing else. Marais, question of the.
1:03:56
Week question of the week. It's kind of more on the serious
1:04:02
side. It's not not one of his
1:04:03
signature goofy questions, which is fine.
1:04:05
I like the I like the blend. But Murray's question of the
1:04:09
week more serious. Murray's question of the week is
1:04:11
would it help if the MLB forced contracts on the owners on a
1:04:16
five year term? He must have been driving or
1:04:19
something when he typed this because it was it was kind of a
1:04:22
lot. Some of it, I don't know if the
1:04:24
grammar is right, doesn't. Might have been on painkillers.
1:04:27
I think his knee is still. Messed up.
1:04:28
That's honestly probably the best best option or most likely
1:04:32
option. Because it makes a few drinks in
1:04:34
with him. That's dangerous, but this is
1:04:39
it's a mouthful, he said. Would it help if the MLB force
1:04:42
contracts on the owners on a five year term and if they don't
1:04:45
manage spend, renovate their team so positive and do not make
1:04:49
the playoffs in at least three times in those five years they
1:04:53
have to sell the team to another buyer, even at a loss?
1:04:57
That's the single question. And you call this serious?
1:05:02
I like all of it except the five year things.
1:05:05
You make it 15 years, keep the same on everything else.
1:05:09
Just make it 15. Years.
1:05:10
That sounds more realistic. 33 post season appearances.
1:05:15
Five years is pretty difficult to do.
1:05:16
You'd be selling half the league every five years.
1:05:19
There's no way you could do you bring it on.
1:05:21
Not every team can do this. There's not enough spots.
1:05:26
Yeah, yeah. I was going to talk about
1:05:28
parody. We see all sorts of parody in
1:05:33
that in that case. Yeah, I think 15 years I'll, I
1:05:37
do like the idea of, I mean, obviously we've always talked
1:05:41
about this like the owner sticking around and winning
1:05:45
isn't their primary goal. Like I think it's, I think it's
1:05:48
a travesty to any sports franchise.
1:05:51
So I I'm cool with having an expiration date and
1:05:58
stipulations. I think it would be very
1:06:04
interesting to see a city do something like this.
1:06:10
To see a city say you have this long, you can, you can own this
1:06:17
business in our city for X amount of years and you have to
1:06:22
show me that that you're putting a winner together.
1:06:28
Oh, I thought you're talking about like a city would have to
1:06:29
be like relegated in the United States.
1:06:32
Like no like. Philadelphia, you're out.
1:06:35
Well, for example, I mean, I mean, you go to Tampa and you
1:06:38
have to say like, OK, right now they're dealing with OK, are we
1:06:42
going to be in in proper like Tampa or are we going to be over
1:06:48
here in Saint Petersburg? Like they're fighting over them
1:06:50
and all these things. Like wouldn't it be interesting
1:06:52
if the city who's involved in that says, yeah, you can own
1:06:56
this team. You can.
1:06:57
And Tampa was involved with that like this, the, the whole Tampa
1:06:59
Bay or whatever, whatever was involved there in that purchase
1:07:04
and everything and the, and the stadium and the whole 9 yards.
1:07:07
Like we'll give you one, but you got to put a winner on it or you
1:07:10
have to get you have to sell it. Like I think that would be super
1:07:13
interesting. If MLB is going to do something
1:07:15
like this, then they better fix the situation in the league,
1:07:19
right? Because like, you can talk about
1:07:21
it all you want. Tell them you can, you can talk
1:07:23
about everybody's spending the same amount of money all you
1:07:27
want, but until everybody's getting the same amount of
1:07:30
money, that is impossible. It's a pipe dream and it's
1:07:33
something that guys who don't pay attention made-up so it
1:07:37
can't happen. Make everybody earn the same
1:07:41
amount of money and you can put something like this in.
1:07:44
Otherwise, it's not a serious question.
1:07:49
Sorry, I'm sorry. I am.
1:07:51
You guys don't. You guys don't have to deal with
1:07:53
the pain that I have to deal with.
1:07:55
You don't understand being the fans of Boston and New York.
1:07:59
Tell JB. So he's not irrational people.
1:08:04
He had just straight up vanilla ice cream before we got on here.
1:08:07
Nothing. Else for listen I I think there
1:08:12
are ways. Like you're not supposed to just
1:08:15
get plain vanilla ice cream. Dairy Queen, no comment.
1:08:21
He's got, he's got nothing. He's like, yeah, it's like maybe
1:08:26
some chocolate syrup at the very least.
1:08:33
What do you think? You haven't said anything.
1:08:37
No, I maybe I didn't verbalize it, but I agree.
1:08:39
I like, I like your suggestion in the beginning where I like
1:08:42
the stipulation. I mean, maybe you might have to
1:08:45
tweak them a little bit. But overall I like the
1:08:47
stipulation, but it just expand in the window because yeah, I
1:08:50
mean 5-5 year window. You as much as I want owners
1:08:54
that care and need to invest, I'm like, yeah, even even five
1:08:58
years for that is pushing it. But yeah.
1:09:00
I mean owners can care and still not make still not make this if
1:09:04
if all owners were trying like this is almost impossible.
1:09:07
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I agree. But yeah, there, I mean, there's
1:09:14
certainly a way MLB has has gotten involved in in ownership
1:09:21
and telling, telling owners that they they have to sell.
1:09:24
You know what I mean? It's very rare because spoiler
1:09:28
alert, if that owner makes money for Major League Baseball,
1:09:32
that's all that matters, regardless of whether they're
1:09:35
winning. Grave point.
1:09:37
Made by JB on aisle 90. My God.
1:09:43
So loud. Sorry.
1:09:44
I just, I really like that button anyway, Yeah.
1:09:51
Did you have a question for us, Shaby?
1:09:55
No. Did I have a question for no all
1:09:59
trivia? No, I don't.
1:10:00
I know. Wait, what did you say at the
1:10:04
beginning? I I said those the numbers about
1:10:06
the Phillies and all that stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:10:09
I brought all the. That's right.
1:10:10
That's. Right.
1:10:10
Yeah, where they ranked before and after April 28th and all
1:10:13
that stuff. So yeah, I spent too much time
1:10:15
on that. No, no, you're good.
1:10:17
You're good. I just want to make sure we
1:10:18
weren't skipping over it if you did have it.
1:10:20
But no, totally fine. Kind of went over anyway.
1:10:27
You guys got anything else? It was a healthy conversation.
1:10:32
It sure was. I think we solved a lot of
1:10:33
problems. We always do.
1:10:35
It's what we do here. Sunday, your attendance is just
1:10:40
up in the air at this point moving forward, I think.
1:10:42
Yeah, like, we're really into crunch time now.
1:10:45
Sunday is like we're now officially at the point of like,
1:10:49
this literally could be my last one, maybe for a minute.
1:10:53
I mean, I don't know, maybe not pens.
1:10:57
They sleep. Apparently they sleep like 18
1:10:59
hours a day at the beginning. Yeah, yeah.
1:11:02
But I think it's, I think, I think Meredith may need some
1:11:04
assistance, right, No doubt. No doubt, no doubt.
1:11:08
I'm just saying I think in my head I'm like, oh gosh, I'm not
1:11:11
going to be on this show for months.
1:11:13
But it's like, no, like I'll definitely have.
1:11:14
Windows. I think you'll be a shell of
1:11:16
yourself eventually, but. I'm already a shell of myself.
1:11:20
That's fair. We haven't even gotten there
1:11:22
yet. That's all right.
1:11:24
Correct, correct me if I'm wrong here, but like you can you, you
1:11:27
do pretty well operating on limited sleep, right?
1:11:31
Like you can be you can. I mean I stay up late a lot but
1:11:36
if it's like if it's consistent poor sleep, I get.
1:11:41
You got to catch up at some point, I get.
1:11:42
Sick. I'm a wreck.
1:11:44
So that's the other thing is when that baby's sleeping.
1:11:48
So are Yens guys, that's for sure.
1:11:50
Yens guys? Yeah, I, I just have to figure
1:11:55
it out. We'll get we'll have to make it
1:11:56
work. Honestly, I'm, I'm enjoying, I
1:12:00
can't believe I'm saying this about about the pod, but I'm
1:12:04
enjoying Sunday Clubhouse so much that I would almost
1:12:06
prioritize that and let the inmates run the pod.
1:12:09
Yikes. And because I don't, I like, I
1:12:13
love, especially if we're going to start maybe mixing in cards
1:12:16
like we did last Sunday. Like I don't want to miss that.
1:12:19
No disrespect to the pod. I love the pod, but I want to
1:12:23
make sure that I'm, I'm winding down the weekend with the
1:12:26
fellas, you know? This is what it feels like when
1:12:29
you when you open a $30 box of cards and hit a banger in it.
1:12:34
No, even if, even if we weren't doing the cards, I I'm loving
1:12:37
Sunday Clubhouse and and you, you all should too.
1:12:41
You don't know if you haven't joined in.
1:12:43
Join us on Sunday. Join the cards.
1:12:45
Join the movement. Join the movement, the movement
1:12:47
sweeping the nation. Tarps on.
1:12:50
Yeah, tarps on note. I mean, maybe, maybe on Sunday,
1:12:55
who knows? We just get Murray on for 5
1:12:58
minutes. It is a three day weekend.
1:13:00
It is it is required. Well, not required strongly
1:13:04
suggested skin to skin contact for me.
1:13:06
So I mean that's that's true. I mean I'm already there.
1:13:10
So I'll see you guys Sunday tarps off now I get.
1:13:14
In the gym. No, are you kidding me?
1:13:17
Did you see the pictures of the Cardinals fans?
1:13:20
I saw one guy be like, why does nobody in this picture of body
1:13:22
hair? So I think, I think I think
1:13:26
we're we blend right in. But yeah, TBD on on what the
1:13:34
plan is moving forward. But yeah, check out sunny
1:13:37
clubhouse. That'll happen regardless if I
1:13:38
if I'm there or not. They're meant to be running it
1:13:43
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1:14:41
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1:14:44
Yeah, if you do, if you listen, listen to me list out all those
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That's all I got. See you guys Sunday, JB.
1:15:19
Hey, tarps off for as long as it lasts, but go baseball.
1:15:25
Don't you dare go chasing curve balls.
1:15:31
You won't stop just giving a. Little tease for Sunday.
1:15:36
Nip nip. We love you all as always.
1:15:39
Looking forward to talking more baseball with you guys soon.
1:15:43
Until next time, stay filthy.