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Red Sox release Walker Buehler, Schwarbomb MVP debate, Helsley’s tipping quotes, AL East breakdown · Foul Territory

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: Phrase your Friday baby running Kratz too. What's up Kratz,
• 0:05
  Speaker 1: You'll like this. I think I had the first ever
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: FT dream of mine, first time ever that I had
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: a dream and it was about FT and I was
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: at my apartment. It's a little hazy, but there was
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: like internet issues and then you had to take over
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: and they were like, it's fine, Kratz has it. He's
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: hosting the whole show.
• 0:25
  Speaker 2: I kid you not.
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: I couldn't watch it, so I was just screened off
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  Speaker 1: and they're like, you're good, don't worry. Kratz is running it.
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  Speaker 3: So was it a dream that turned into a nightmare?
• 0:37
  Speaker 3: Or was it a dream that turned into a dream.
• 0:40
  Speaker 1: I just love hearing you say nightmare.
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  Speaker 2: So what is that word again? Don't say that? Oh
• 0:50
  Speaker 2: my god?
• 0:51
  Speaker 1: How they say nightmare in Philly?
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  Speaker 2: Nightmre, mirror, nightre.
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  Speaker 3: It's a nightmare. It's scary. Nightmares are scary.
• 1:05
  Speaker 1: Todd one day, Kratz host the whole show?
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  Speaker 2: What do you think I think you would do?
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  Speaker 3: Just fine.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think it would be a nightmare.
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  Speaker 2: I think I would need two beers with that nightmare.
• 1:18
  Speaker 3: And you could go to it, and you could go
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  Speaker 3: to a tournament.
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  Speaker 2: That's the real word tour.
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  Speaker 3: In your tournament and use a cupon.
• 1:30
  Speaker 2: That's true too.
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  Speaker 1: All right, before we get into biz, todd father first
• 1:35
  Speaker 1: show with us since Little League World Series, Great job
• 1:40
  Speaker 1: had it go?
• 1:41
  Speaker 4: It went well, man, I thought it was good. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: the only the only thing was seventeen shutouts. The pitching
• 1:47
  Speaker 4: was absolutely tremendous. A lot of new faces got great recognition.
• 1:53
  Speaker 4: The team from Connecticut did awesome. I thought they had
• 1:56
  Speaker 4: a chance to make the finals with this team from
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  Speaker 4: Nevada truly incredible run the first time ever making it
• 2:03
  Speaker 4: to the USA Championship. Let him known the World Series Championship.
• 2:07
  Speaker 4: They ran into a juggernaut. Le sin Saw was absolutely incredible.
• 2:14
  Speaker 4: He could throw up to eighty three miles an hour.
• 2:15
  Speaker 4: He threw eighty two miles an hour one pitch in
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  Speaker 4: that last game. He didn't need to. He stayed seventy
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  Speaker 4: five and that's just absolute fuzz. His hands were the
• 2:24
  Speaker 4: same size as his mind. I think Kratzy years would
• 2:26
  Speaker 4: be a little bigger because you got bigger hands.
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  Speaker 2: But this kid was tremendous.
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  Speaker 4: You know, they weren't the best hitting team, but you know,
• 2:33
  Speaker 4: literally when you got the best hitting team, our pitching team.
• 2:36
  Speaker 2: Good things are gonna happen.
• 2:39
  Speaker 3: Kid look dominant. Must have been the launch angles. Launch
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  Speaker 3: angles have probably made it to little league Little league
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  Speaker 3: coaching now, So I don't know offenses down. What's wrong
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  Speaker 3: with these kids? Unbelievable. It can't hit eighty three miles
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  Speaker 3: an hour from from forty five feet? Oh crazy, no chance.
• 3:00
  Speaker 1: One more question, in all seriousness, do you think that
• 3:04
  Speaker 1: teams are using cameras and analytics to help them pitch better?
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  Speaker 4: I think these kids go to specific coaches and they
• 3:16
  Speaker 4: have all these mechanisms and what's the thing called where
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  Speaker 4: you know it shows all the numbers on their cratzy
• 3:26
  Speaker 4: you mean like ah man, I forget what it's called.
• 3:28
  Speaker 4: But you like track man, rap soda all that at twelve.
• 3:34
  Speaker 2: Oh my god, at eight years old.
• 3:37
  Speaker 3: People aren't People don't even go to facility. Like if
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  Speaker 3: you go to a facility and it doesn't have that,
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  Speaker 3: kids are gonna be like this is boring. What are
• 3:44
  Speaker 3: we doing? Like why are we even here? Like they
• 3:47
  Speaker 3: want to see like every swing they're like, bang, what
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  Speaker 3: is it?
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  Speaker 2: What is it?
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  Speaker 3: And they have like competitions in games. It's like a
• 3:53
  Speaker 3: video game for kids, and they throw balls and they're like,
• 3:56
  Speaker 3: what was it? WHOA, that's amazing.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it's It's truly incredible the gifts that these
• 4:03
  Speaker 4: kids have nowadays instead of what Crats and I did.
• 4:06
  Speaker 4: Get in the cage and take as many swings as
• 4:08
  Speaker 4: you can until they kick you out.
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  Speaker 3: Pretty much, I didn't even have a I didn't even
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  Speaker 3: matter a cage. I didn't have a cage. Oh it's
• 4:15
  Speaker 3: totally better because you learn it, you learn it, but
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  Speaker 3: I didn't even have a cage. Our high school didn't
• 4:19
  Speaker 3: have a cage. I didn't have a cage at my house.
• 4:22
  Speaker 3: I saved up my money one time and I bought
• 4:25
  Speaker 3: a soft toss machine that I still have. I'll take
• 4:27
  Speaker 3: a picture of it and a net that I hung
• 4:30
  Speaker 3: from my mom's clothesline, and that's how I would hit.
• 4:33
  Speaker 3: I would hit into it, and the soft toss machine
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  Speaker 3: it would like slowly drop a ball down in beak
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  Speaker 3: and it would hit and I would hit it and
• 4:40
  Speaker 3: I would hit it because I got sick of hitting
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  Speaker 3: off the tee. So I think it was like it
• 4:44
  Speaker 3: was like seventy two dollars or something. I saved up
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  Speaker 3: my money and bought it. Still got it to this day.
• 4:49
  Speaker 1: The high speed cameras cost a little bit more than that.
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  Speaker 3: I'm still a little bit tronic.
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  Speaker 1: When I was watching, I was just like, I wonder
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  Speaker 1: how much everything camera, why tech wise is helping these pitchers.
• 5:01
  Speaker 1: And there you go, clearly a ton. So we've hit
• 5:04
  Speaker 1: a point where pitching's dominating at the little league circuit.
• 5:07
  Speaker 1: Let's charge, Let's charge them. I mean we've been doing
• 5:15
  Speaker 1: this all week. Kyle Schwarber four home runs, not that
• 5:20
  Speaker 1: although we have had three of these this year. Nick Kurtz,
• 5:23
  Speaker 1: as well as Gino Suarez, just punishing the baseball. Schober
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  Speaker 1: had a shot from five. His kryptonite is position players,
• 5:33
  Speaker 1: So if you're trying to get them out in the playoffs,
• 5:35
  Speaker 1: position players, just keep that in mind. As the Phillies
• 5:38
  Speaker 1: beat the crap out of the Braves, we're going to
• 5:39
  Speaker 1: go live to our Pennsylvania reporter Eric Kratz with more
• 5:43
  Speaker 1: on the Phillies being the team of the week, first
• 5:46
  Speaker 1: in a bad way, now in a great way.
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  Speaker 3: Reporting live from Boston, the Philly reporter Eric Kratz sees
• 5:54
  Speaker 3: the ups and downs of the Phillies offense. I mean
• 5:57
  Speaker 3: it came out and just hammered. There's a lot of
• 6:00
  Speaker 3: guys that had a lot of good, good numbers against
• 6:03
  Speaker 3: cal Quantrill last night. I'm not saying he didn't have
• 6:05
  Speaker 3: a chance. I'm saying the Phillies got home, they got
• 6:09
  Speaker 3: boat raced in New York. And I just I think
• 6:13
  Speaker 3: that the Citizens Bank Ballpark fans just they hit different.
• 6:19
  Speaker 3: They really do. And I know people are gonna be like,
• 6:21
  Speaker 3: oh man, well what about this place. Well, but there's
• 6:23
  Speaker 3: other places that are great. I'm saying that this group
• 6:26
  Speaker 3: of players, including Kyle Schwarber, feeds off of this this
• 6:31
  Speaker 3: fan base, He feeds off of this stadium. And to
• 6:34
  Speaker 3: do something like this historic. The number that's crazy to
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  Speaker 3: me is twenty one people have ever done it in
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  Speaker 3: Big League history. Three have done it this year. Now,
• 6:45
  Speaker 3: this was a laugher. Kurtz. His game was a laugher.
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  Speaker 3: The one that Suarez dead earlier this year was they
• 6:52
  Speaker 3: needed every one of those four home runs. But we
• 6:55
  Speaker 3: were driving in the car and we had actually hit
• 6:56
  Speaker 3: traffic last night and somebody texted me that he has
• 7:01
  Speaker 3: four home runs and we were stopped dead in traffic
• 7:04
  Speaker 3: on eighty four, which, by the way, New England traffic sucks.
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  Speaker 3: But I got to see him face Videl Vidal Bruhan,
• 7:13
  Speaker 3: and I really thought he was gonna do it. I
• 7:16
  Speaker 3: obviously have been brutal with my locks this year, but
• 7:18
  Speaker 3: in the moment, I'm like, oh my gosh, this is it.
• 7:21
  Speaker 3: How Schwarver is gonna be the only person ever to
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  Speaker 3: hit five home runs? And he popped it up. Ha.
• 7:26
  Speaker 3: It was awesome to watch, though.
• 7:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, he is having a ridiculous year, godfather,
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  Speaker 1: and this is his best year ever in his mid thirties.
• 7:36
  Speaker 3: In his walk year, in his walk yere.
• 7:40
  Speaker 4: He is putting up some video game numbers that you know,
• 7:44
  Speaker 4: when it comes to home runs and home runs and games,
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  Speaker 4: he's taking that city by storm. I gotta be honest
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  Speaker 4: with you. He is fun to watch. He's built for Philadelphia.
• 7:53
  Speaker 4: Cratzy said it too. He had an easy, probably the
• 7:56
  Speaker 4: easiest chance to get that fifth home run, and he
• 7:59
  Speaker 4: said himself, He's like, I wish I wasn't trying to
• 8:01
  Speaker 4: hit a home run.
• 8:03
  Speaker 2: Easiest thing he could have got a single.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know, the guy's got forty nine home runs.
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  Speaker 4: You know, if he does that every day crowds, he
• 8:11
  Speaker 4: might have ninety home runs. I think that'd be pretty cool.
• 8:13
  Speaker 4: But it's not going to happen. He is, you know,
• 8:16
  Speaker 4: all joking aside. This is a guy that every team
• 8:19
  Speaker 4: is going to want, and would want and should want.
• 8:23
  Speaker 4: He is a guy that will bat first, he'll bat fourth,
• 8:26
  Speaker 4: he'll bat any position, and he is a leader, and
• 8:29
  Speaker 4: he brings that pain every day to the ballpark. And
• 8:32
  Speaker 4: I think it's truly incredible. I love him, absolutely love him.
• 8:35
  Speaker 3: He stepped in. He stepped in as a leader, exactly
• 8:37
  Speaker 3: what she said Todd because I think, you know, they
• 8:39
  Speaker 3: signed Bryce Harper, and I don't necessarily think every time
• 8:42
  Speaker 3: he signed a superstar that they're the leader in the clubhouse.
• 8:45
  Speaker 3: I think there's too much on their plate, and I
• 8:48
  Speaker 3: think Kyle Schwoba has taken that. He kind of helped.
• 8:50
  Speaker 3: He kind of helped along with Reese Hoskins when he
• 8:53
  Speaker 3: first came here, then Reese left, and I don't think
• 8:56
  Speaker 3: he ever stepped on Reese's toes in that way. I
• 8:58
  Speaker 3: think it was like, hey, I can help, I have
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  Speaker 3: this expertise. He's just a guy that everybody wants to follow,
• 9:04
  Speaker 3: like he's he's the dude. The thing that he's improved
• 9:07
  Speaker 3: this year. His batting average is up, his strikeout percentages down,
• 9:12
  Speaker 3: he's doing his damage against lefties. I think he has
• 9:16
  Speaker 3: the most home runs versus lefty relievers this year in
• 9:20
  Speaker 3: Major League Baseball. Before it was like, oh, just stack
• 9:23
  Speaker 3: your team with lefties, bring him in and he can't
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  Speaker 3: do jack against him. He's got another one last night,
• 9:29
  Speaker 3: and it's it's awesome to see, especially since he's a
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  Speaker 3: guy who's going to free agency. We don't know, we
• 9:37
  Speaker 3: don't know what free agency looks like for a essentially
• 9:41
  Speaker 3: only DH. He's played a few games and left, I
• 9:43
  Speaker 3: think like eight or nine games and left. But it'll
• 9:45
  Speaker 3: be exciting to see because we saw Pete Alonso not
• 9:48
  Speaker 3: have a great year last year and the market kind
• 9:51
  Speaker 3: of hurt him. I'll be so interested to see what
• 9:54
  Speaker 3: happens here because he really he looks like a twenty
• 9:59
  Speaker 3: five to thirty million dollars a year d H. Some
• 10:02
  Speaker 3: teams are just automatically going to be out on that,
• 10:05
  Speaker 3: and he is. He is essential in Philly.
• 10:10
  Speaker 1: Next year will be his age thirty three season. That's
• 10:16
  Speaker 1: a factor too. But wait, I want to spend a
• 10:18
  Speaker 1: couple of minutes here before we get to Kenny ballgame,
• 10:20
  Speaker 1: and we'll get his take on this. Let's cw the
• 10:22
  Speaker 1: Kevin Pillar tweet from last night and our buddy in
• 10:26
  Speaker 1: the ft team, he said, need to start talking about
• 10:29
  Speaker 1: this man for National League MVP now. The way I
• 10:33
  Speaker 1: look at it, many of the younger writers just look
• 10:37
  Speaker 1: at all thing called war and on the Fangrafts War list,
• 10:41
  Speaker 1: Kyle Schwarber is, does anyone want to guess where he
• 10:44
  Speaker 1: is placement wise.
• 10:48
  Speaker 3: In all baseball towards his number.
• 10:51
  Speaker 1: In all of baseball? Where he's place.
• 10:57
  Speaker 4: Fifteenth, twentieth the way you're talking, Scott, I feel like
• 11:01
  Speaker 4: it's not that good of a number.
• 11:02
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna say thirty eight.
• 11:04
  Speaker 1: You had it first. He's nineteen. You said twenty. I'll
• 11:07
  Speaker 1: take that first hand.
• 11:08
  Speaker 2: I got nervous. I got nervous.
• 11:10
  Speaker 1: No, I know, I didn't want to. I poker faced it.
• 11:13
  Speaker 1: I just wanted to stay cool. But yeah, he's got
• 11:15
  Speaker 1: four and a half war. There's tons of NL players
• 11:18
  Speaker 1: ahead of him, including Shoeo Tani, who's third in all
• 11:20
  Speaker 1: of baseball at Fangrafts War with a seven point one number.
• 11:24
  Speaker 1: So when Polar puts that out, you get a lot
• 11:25
  Speaker 1: of the Dodger fans are playing like, oh that's cute,
• 11:28
  Speaker 1: Like did you see Otani pitch the other day too,
• 11:31
  Speaker 1: even though Tani's obviously at DH as well, he's pitching,
• 11:35
  Speaker 1: and you know, you don't want to lose sight of
• 11:38
  Speaker 1: what he's doing and how different it is from everyone
• 11:40
  Speaker 1: else and the fatigue of that. But Trey Turner has
• 11:43
  Speaker 1: a five point eight war. He's ahead of Kyle Schuberkratz
• 11:47
  Speaker 1: Perdomo on the Diamondbacks and Corbyn Carol on the Diamondbacks,
• 11:51
  Speaker 1: Pete Crow, Armstrong, Fernando Tatis, Christopher Sanchez. I'm not gonna
• 11:55
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna skip the pitchers because I think that's a
• 11:56
  Speaker 1: different world. But Lynn Dor Kyle Tucker all ahead of
• 12:00
  Speaker 1: Kyle schober By fan grafts war. Do you think that
• 12:04
  Speaker 1: he should be a candidate for the top spop Cose
• 12:07
  Speaker 1: he's gonna get votes, but should he win the award?
• 12:11
  Speaker 3: Uh? Is it two thousand and six? Is it two
• 12:14
  Speaker 3: thousand and eight? Then maybe yeah, But again we had
• 12:18
  Speaker 3: this argument before when when the players voted Ronald Acunya
• 12:22
  Speaker 3: the best player in baseball, it's Sho Heo Tani. Unfortunately
• 12:26
  Speaker 3: for everybody else the MVP award because you know, unless
• 12:30
  Speaker 3: they make up another new rule for show, hey, he's
• 12:33
  Speaker 3: gonna win it. He should win it. He's the most
• 12:35
  Speaker 3: valuable player as far as value goes. Because we start
• 12:39
  Speaker 3: talking about value, y is he the most valuable player
• 12:42
  Speaker 3: of the Phillies team right now? Yes, but he's not
• 12:46
  Speaker 3: more valuable than what show Hay is in the game
• 12:48
  Speaker 3: of baseball because he pitches and hits. Sorry, it's just
• 12:52
  Speaker 3: it will become one day. I don't know if we'll
• 12:54
  Speaker 3: be alive. It'll be called the show Hey Otani award.
• 12:58
  Speaker 1: Wow, Okay, I think we'll be alive for it.
• 13:02
  Speaker 2: We got a second, so I can go on this
• 13:04
  Speaker 2: for a second or yeah. Yeah, So I wrote down
• 13:08
  Speaker 2: all I wrote down.
• 13:09
  Speaker 4: Before I got on here, some significant stats here, and
• 13:13
  Speaker 4: I compared Swarve with o'tana. You know, average two forty
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  Speaker 4: eight swar but two seventy eight Otani. Okay, I'm not
• 13:18
  Speaker 4: the biggest on average, but I'm also realistic that, you know,
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  Speaker 4: to forty eight is probably not going to cut it
• 13:24
  Speaker 4: for an MVP in my opinion. And then I looked
• 13:27
  Speaker 4: at RBIs and home runs. Swarber's beating him significantly in
• 13:33
  Speaker 4: RBIs by about thirty four RBIs if my math is right,
• 13:38
  Speaker 4: I mean, that's that's a big number. For me, Uh,
• 13:41
  Speaker 4: he's up four in home runs. I mean that's pretty close,
• 13:44
  Speaker 4: and then Otani pretty much beats him on everything on
• 13:47
  Speaker 4: base percentage, you know, slug ops runs by you know
• 13:52
  Speaker 4: about thirty and change. So if we're going on numbers alone,
• 13:55
  Speaker 4: I think Otani still is that guy. But some significant
• 14:00
  Speaker 4: stats like RBI's is big for me. I think that
• 14:03
  Speaker 4: still has to play. So I think you still have
• 14:05
  Speaker 4: to put Swarbur in that conversation for sure.
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• 15:13
  Speaker 1: Francisco Alvarez broke his pinky on a hip Bi pitch,
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: so he's hopeful he's gonna play again. That sucks, though, Kratz.
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: I mean, he's got problems now with both hands. He
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: is getting beat up. You're rehabbing it. Then you're hit
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  Speaker 1: by a pitch in the minors.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if it was a hip by pitch
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  Speaker 3: or if it was a Oh, if it was a
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: foul ball, I think it was. I think it was
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: a foul ball when he was catching. But either way,
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: dang it, man, dang it, because this Mets team is
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: starting to get that momentum without him in there. I
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: think he brings something to this team that they're now
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: going to be out another It's amazing to me that
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: broken pinky is like two to four weeks. It feels
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: like it should be way longer, but still like hand
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: issues when you're swinging todd you are a good hitter.
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  Speaker 3: A nobody wants that.
• 16:01
  Speaker 4: No, and I think to make it short and sweet.
• 16:04
  Speaker 4: Dusty Baker always told me the two things you have
• 16:07
  Speaker 4: to worry about in baseball are your hands and your feet.
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: Everything else you can kind of find a way to
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: get through for the most part, but make sure those
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: hands and feet are okay.
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  Speaker 2: And this guy I.
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: Smiled because you just think of your pinky being this
• 16:19
  Speaker 4: little finger, then it causes a lot of problems.
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Anthony Tacoma, Yeah, exactly. Doctor Evil has other thoughts.
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: Anthony Dicomo covers. The team said, the hope is that
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: he can play in two to three days, given that
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: it's a small fracture of the pinky. But it's a
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: broken bone, not ideal. And he was out playing catch yesterday,
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: but he had a trainer catching the ball for you.
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: It's a big deal. It's a big deal if you
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: can't frame. If you can't frame the ball, now you're
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: not catching it squarely. It affects everything and it drains
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: on you. When your hand hurts catching, it sucks. All good.
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: Hey, we have some ft breaking news. This. According to
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: Jeff Passing, the Boston Red Sox released veteran right handed
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: Walker Boehler, So he is cut. I believe that another
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: team can pick him up if they want him in
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: time to put him on a roster. That could turn
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: into an October appearance for Walker Buehler. But it's been
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: a rough year. Are you surprised about this one? Top father?
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah, just because of the name alone. I mean, this guy,
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: you know, pitching wise came in and won a World Series.
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: I mean, it doesn't seem too long ago, right, It's
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: just I don't I mean, listen, wow, Yeah, I mean,
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: I know a bunch of teams I could take a
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: picture like this in their caliber and just bring them
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: in for the rest of the year. This one, you know,
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: I'd like to read more into this and understand why
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: you know this seven and seven you know, you know,
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: like a one point negative war, all right, I don't know,
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: I don't know. I'm very confused. I know the Red
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: Sox are doing really well. It's just one of those
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: scenarios where I would love to hear about you know
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: what the what else?
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: Is going on.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they bumped him the rotation. I mean the Red
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: Sox are looking for another starter, which they hope to
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: be Peyton Toley. Right, they've got their big three right now,
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: absolutely thriving with Crochet. What a pickup for them this offseason.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: And then Brian Bao has really found his form. Same
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: with Lucas Giolito, Kratz. You know, it's funny with Bueller.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: He's very straightforward. So he's like, I get it. I
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: mean I'm paraphrasing here, I know why I was bumped
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: out of the rotation. And then of course we'll get
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: word from him on this next move from Boston after
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: a one year contract. His regular season numbers are almost
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: identical from a run prevention standpoint two last year, and
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: then all of a sudden in the postseason he looked different.
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: I mean, that's a it's a bold move by the Socks.
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: They feel like they're in a strong position to be
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: able to let this to be able, let this happen,
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: you know what. Just like Todd said, you gotta be
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: there to see kind of more more than just his
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: stat line. His stat line is not very good, and
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: it's an example of when guys have surgery. They don't
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: always come back to be the guy they were before.
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: A lot of the time, yes, but not always. And
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: he hasn't consistently held his velocity, hasn't consistently been able
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: to shape his breaking ball. But in the playoffs last year,
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: everybody remembers how he finished out the game and he
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: threw you know, he threw the curveball to finish out
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: the World Series. And I think he had thrown like
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: one or two other times. But the start before he
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: had a stinker two starts before, and then he came
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: out and he had a great start where he was
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: punching tickets. So to me, I bet he's thrown out
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: of the bullpen for the Dodgers by the time, by
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: the time postseason rolls around.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: Wow, wow, Hey, remember last year they have to game
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: three NLCS against the Mets. At the command was tight,
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: and then I was looking back, best drop ever on
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: his knuckle curve, most sweep right, most horizontal movement ever
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: on his sweeper, most fade on the sinker. Spin rate
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: was the highest it had been some sticky stuff enforcement,
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: which you know, you look at that time period a
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: few years ago, it's different. He finished the playoff run
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: with thirteen consecutive scoreless innings, including the final three outs
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: of the World Series. Again, if you're a Boston friend
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: right now and you're watching this and you've been watching
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: him perform all year and not perform at a nice level,
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: a five and a half is cra just like the
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: Dodgers watched from him last year, Like see, we've got
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: our big boy prospect coming up, Peyton Pulley, We've got
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: a big three right now, and maybe may finds it
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: a little bit for us. We're good. But I'm with you,
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: Todd father. I love the good storyline, and I hope
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: that he gets scooped up by another team and we
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: get playoff Walker Buehler, because I mean, he'll say like,
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: I'm missing that. Have you behind my pitches last year?
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden he found it?
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: He did, He did for sure, So again, what have
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: you done for me lately? Attitude? I guess if that's
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: the case, then yeah he should be gone. But to
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: know the caliber of picture he is, he still got
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: a lot left in the tech.
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: Scott was Scott in? Were you insinuating that it got
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: a little stickier as the postseason went on? Were you
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: insinuating that the jump in spin rate the jump in movements,
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: Scott Braun, you are devious.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: On a Friday, I just dropped things on the table.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: This is my job all day. I just dropped things
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: like this, and then I just see what everyone picks up.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: And Ira Kratz has actually mised her conspiracy theory.
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: So I just dropped it.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: I truly don't know. Of course I don't know, but
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: I also just like to say, hey, here's what the
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: statistics are reading. What do you think.
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: My thought, yeah, my thought is he did a great
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: job of making a positive adjustment for himself in his
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: last thirteen innings. But I also don't want to escape
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: the fact that because we harp on the Pirates being cheap,
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: Walker Bueller is making twenty one point zero five million
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: this year. You break that down for September. Now, I
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: know he's released. I know he's released. It's not a
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: waiver dump, but there's some cash there that maybe they're
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: gonna think again about how they spend their money in
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: the offseason instead of going twenty one million dollars for
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: a I hope it works out kind of picture. Solidify it,
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: go and take do what it takes to get Corbin
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: Burns to not sign with the Diamondbacks. I know he
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: got hurt, but do what it takes to put another
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: monster piece in this rotation to pair with Crochet. He's
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: gonna be there for a long time.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: I remember I watched one game start recently and I
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: look back. I found it on the eighth of August
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: where he shut down the Padres and it's the post
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: trade deadline Padres. Six innings, four hits, no runs, two walks,
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: four strikeouts, nine ground balls, ninety six pitches. So sometimes
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: guys get cut right and they'll have these kind of
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: numbers on the season, and then you look at the
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: recent numbers over the past couple months and you're like,
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: I can't find a good outing results wise, there's something here. Yeah,
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: Dodgers fans are losing their mind right now, at least
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: some of them, because many of them probably haven't been
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: watching Walker Buehler this year. Right, we do have somewhat
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: of a regional sport with the way that teams consume
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: or with the way that fans consume their team's games. Right, Like,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: you might listen to FT during the day, but then
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: if you've got the red Sox playing and then you're worried.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: Oh well, if you're on the West Coast, you might
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: still be at work, and then you're watching your Dodgers
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: at night, you might not see much of Walker Bueller.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: So you're like, hey, those are the same numbers as
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: last year. Let's give it a shot.
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: I'm interested. I'm interested to see what happens now because
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: he was released. He was released. This isn't waiver dump.
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: The Red Sox are paying the entirety of the rest
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: of his salary. I'm interested to see because there's no motivation.
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: No team is going to pay him more than the
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: minimum for the month of September. I'm interested to see
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: where he chooses to go and how that like not
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: courting process, but like how that process goes, Like he
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: essentially gets to choose from all the teams that want
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: to want him to pitch because they're all going to
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: pay him the exact same.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: Oh, He's going wherever he feels like there's a team
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: that can help get him right.
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: I'm interested. Spota, spota.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: That's it.
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: There's no much more. There's no more to say really
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: about it. It's just just one of those things where
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: as you get older. It's like, you know, a s
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: Kratz and I got older, and the opportunities like you
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: want to be on a winning ball club too as well.
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: So oh it's it's tough. You want to play and
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: then you get in situations. Well, well let's see who
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: wants me first, and then you go from there.
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: Yankees, wouldn't that be great? What do you think?
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: I mean?
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: I'd love to see it. I'm looking up to see
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: who he dealt against this year and see if because
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: there's a lot of recency bias. He dealt against the Phillies,
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: he deal against the Padres, he dealt against.
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: The Rays.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: But you figure he wants to try and go to
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: a team where he can pitch in October and reprove himself.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: That's what he did. I mean here in this contract
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: based on October. Before October, you're looking at Walker Deeeler
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: and you're like, he's gonna get a small deal. He's
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: going to get a one year contract. But he was
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: gonna get a one year contract at a much lower rate.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: And remember the Dodgers also didn't throw the qualifying off
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: or his way. The Dodgers were like, hey, we want
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: you to be in a good spot. That's something that
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: many team games canon won't do, and maybe they were
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: thinking about if that was going to end up being
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: the number, and you know he was going to take it.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: So they said, hey, no qualifying offer, go out there
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: to the world, don't be attached to a camp pick
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: and selected.
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: They did him a solid.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: It was pro, it was pro. So yeah, I'm with
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: you here, I'm looking at where else he thrived this year.
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: Pitch well against He's pitched well against not not many.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: Yankees and Padres. But I mean for me, it's more
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: sorry Phillies and Padres. Who needs him?
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: Right?
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: Who's interested in picking up a guy that can be
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: a fifth starter for you and maybe catch fire in
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: the postseason?
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: Cubs, it's a good name.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: I like that too. That's a good name. Someone's gonna
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: do it, so we'll see it's a league minimum guy
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: at this point. Red Sox eat the money anyway. Breaking news,
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: Walker Buehler cut by the Boston Red Sox. Boston's in
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: a good spot. I mean, this was the part of
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: the team that you were probably concerned about, was do
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: they have the pitching. They have the pitching right now,
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: and if you believe in all these prospects that are
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: coming up right now and thriving. Then they might have
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: just added themselves another guy who can pitch big boy
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: innings for them in October and they looked at the
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: roster Alex Korra. Kratz is pretty decisive and he has
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: more control of the roster than I think most managers do.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: Would you agree with that?
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: I would think so yes. I mean that would be
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: my initial read from what you see out there, because
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: I think he kind of has that GM mentality too,
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: So I think there's conversation. If there's somebody has more,
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: it would be his cohort in Houston. I think A J.
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: Hinch probably has more. But okay, I think I think
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: Klora is up there for sure.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, decision has been made. Anyway, let us know if
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: you're looking at this afterward, or if you're watching this
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: lab right now, where you think he could end up
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: and if you think he can find it again like
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: he did last October. OKAKP, this is your first arena
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: club experience. We're going to open a slab pack together.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: So first off, we're gonna buy one of those twenty
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: five dollars slab packs and we get to see what
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: is in the pack. There it is the Grail, which
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: is the best card in the pack and worth the most.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: There are some other cards that we're chasing, and you
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: can see the entire lineup so that you know what
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: you're in the running for. There's the Yamamoto signed card.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: Now let's open up our pack and see how we do.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: We have ourselves a really cool graphic and then a
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: show Heo Tani fifty to fifty card from last year.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: What do you want to do? Should we sell it
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: right back to them for sixteen or should we keep it?
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: You should give it to me.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: I'll get good answer. Fine, I will give it to you.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: Since the Blue Jays didn't get o tany you can
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: get this fifty to fifty card instead. Use the code
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: foul foul to get yourself twenty percent off your first
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: slab pack or card purchase. Yes, you get to keep
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: that card if you want it. They send it to
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: you foul at Arena Club dot com slash foul. The
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: Pirates have placed ikf on outright waivers. He can continue
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: playing for the Pirates throughout the processed playoff. Teams have
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: until the rest of the weekend to claim him if
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: they want him for the postseason?
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: Krats, what do we call that dump deadline? How did
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: we forget that? We even talked about the Pirates yesterday?
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: We said Andrew he and he's already on the waiver wire.
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: How is Tommy fam not on the waiver wire? And
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: then we completely forgot about a guy who can play
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: four big league positions at above average level. Of course
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: he's gonna get picked up.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: And of course he's eighty one played appearances, shy a
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty thousand dollars roster bonus. He of
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: course has performance incentives tied to his deal. Todd father
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: for me at this point though, I mean, I know
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: he got moved over there, but don't do performance bonuses
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: if you're gonna be with the Pirates. Just know that
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: as a free agent. What Kratz, what are we missing?
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: Oh no, no, just two years in a row. Pirates
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: did this again last year. But don't worry about They're
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: definitely trying to put the best team out there. Pirates fans.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: They did this to ikf last year. Remember they put
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: him in that super awkward spot. They're like, oh, we
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: can put you back in if you want to screw
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: over this other player that we now put in front
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: of you.
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: Yes, and then he plays it all year this year,
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: so it happens to him two years in a row.
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: And they cut rowdy last year also, so it's not
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: just two times. They've done it three times that we.
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: Know of.
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: Balloney man, don't if I'm a player, no more incentive.
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: Just pay me the extra money, then go after the
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: extra bag.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: They won't Pirates won't sign you. Then good that you
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: know that, Todd, they cut you.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: Better than box scores. First off, let's just do a
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: shout out to Taylor Rashie, who, after six minor league
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: seasons and a serious injury, made his major league debut
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: yesterday afternoon at twenty nine years old. Three scoreless innings
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: picked up to save Diamondbacks beat the Brewers again. Brewers
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: an old funk, but that's okay, not a crazy funk.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: They just were on a ridiculous run. But krats, this
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: is an e K special right here for the congrats
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: to a guy who has persevered, gone through adversity, done
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: the whole deal just to make it to this moment.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: You know what this is like?
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: It's so awesome. I hope he was able to soak
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: it in decently long out outing that they put him
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: out there for. But I hope he was able to
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: soak it in. I hope he didn't. Nothing got in
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: the way of like enjoying it, because stuff can really
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: go fast as much as you're like, man, I had
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: six he had six years to like prepare for this moment,
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: Like it goes fast. I had, however many years. I
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: had eight or nine years to prepare for it. And
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: when you get caught up, you're like, oh, I gotta
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: do this, I gotta do that, I gotta do you know,
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: I gotta be here.
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: It's it's such an awesome moment for him. I hope
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: he got to really enjoy it. And the part where
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: you know, the injuries or injury, the serious injury he
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: had a he had to overcome that. That's a level
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: I don't understand, like that is really really tough. So
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: it has to feel fulfilling for him.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: Resilient, resilient, just keep going.
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: It's just one of those stories, just like Krats had
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: and so many other guys, just the battle of day
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: in and day out, grind of being in the minor leagues,
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: with injuries, not seeing your family, everything plays a part
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: in it. And for that day for him, I'm sure
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: he went home, sat on his you know, his hotel.
• 33:00
  Speaker 4: Ben was like, wow, it was all worth it. So
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: congratulations to him. Three scoolless innings and got to save
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: get that scorecard, big dollar hanging up in your house.
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: You well deserve.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: There you go. All right, Let's get to the New
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: York Mets, who fell to the Marlins after the big
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: sweep of the Phillies. The one down spot with the
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: Mets even in that Phillies series was Ryan Helsley continuing
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: to struggle. And this just came out from Anthony to
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: Como covering the team that Mets officials believe he is
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: tipping pitches and the frustration level is high for him
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: right now. They've been aware of the issue for weeks,
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: but it's still a problem as they think that, you know,
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: hitters are getting really good swings on fastballs and that
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: there are really good takes on his sliders. In the
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: story here from Dacomo, he said they identified the issue
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: as a little tick the right hander makes with his
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: arms when coming set. That arm position changes based on
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: whether Helsley's throwing a fastball or which quote makes it
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: a whole lot easier to hit? And then here's the
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: quote Crafts from Helsley. He said, I'm not trying to
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: sound arrogant or anything, but I feel like my stuff's
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: too good to get hit around as consistently as it
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: has since I've been here. We've played mostly teams in
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: the hunt, and a lot of teams nowadays will have
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: guys who look specifically for those things. It's pretty glaring
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: and obvious when I'm doing it. I mean, they have
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: been smashing him. I mean he's given it more than
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: a run an inning right now in his first i
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: think ten appearances with the Mets.
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: He's also been throwing less strikes. His walk rate is
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: definitely up, but he's throwing less strikes early in account
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: than he ever did at any point in his Cardinal's career.
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: He didn't just pick up a tick when he went
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: to New York. He didn't just pick up a tick
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: because now he's not throwing in the ninth inning and
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: he doesn't have his walkout music like his The way
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: he's attacking hitters, whether it's a mindset because he's throwing
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: in a seventh or eighth inning, whether it's the pitches
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: that are called, whether it's the Mets. I mean, the
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: Mets have done such an amazing job of, you know,
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: getting the most value out of guys may not work.
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: Their approach or their mindset of how they're doing things,
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: how they're approaching attacking hitters may not work for everybody.
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: So to me, it's okay that it's not a tip.
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: Now they're saying it's a tip, he's tipping. My question
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: would be in the thirty six innings that he threw
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: for the Cardinals, he wasn't tipping, and now in the
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: almost nine innings that he's thrown for the Mets, he's tipping.
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: To me, it is based on his early count strikes,
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: So anything oh oh one to oh two to oh
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: two to one, his ball percentage is higher than it
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: ever has been at any point in his career.
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and as good hitters as all these professional guys are,
• 35:59
  Speaker 4: I mean, you know, you come set. If you see
• 36:02
  Speaker 4: just a little all of a sudden or a little
• 36:04
  Speaker 4: hand moment, yeah, it's gonna show.
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: I mean, listen, this guy's got nasty stuff. Should he
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: be getting hit like this?
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: No?
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: But they're professional hitters. When you know what's coming. And
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: I tell this to everybody, even if you know what's coming,
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: it's still hard to hit. But you're gonna square the
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: ball up a lot more. Whether it goes and play
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: or you don't get a hit, you're gonna your swing
• 36:23
  Speaker 4: is gonna be a lot better when you know what's coming.
• 36:25
  Speaker 4: So especially as a professional hitter, and it is frustrating,
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: and guess what, you gotta figure it out. You got
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: to change something soon because playoffs are coming. They're right
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: around the corner.
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, this dude can top out at one oh three,
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: but he's got a ten to three, eight eeright eleven
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: appearances since joining the New York Mets to be continued.
• 36:44
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  Speaker 1: That's a big jump.
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  Speaker 3: Ten to seven, it's a huge jump. And anything over
• 38:14
  Speaker 3: the way I heard it explained, anything over five for
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: a position player is massive. Five or more is a
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: massive suspension. So when it came out of ten, you
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: knew it was gonna go down. I thought I'd go
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: down to eight. But whatever, seven, it's a lot except
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: the malicious intent they've set. They've drawn the line in
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: the sand with a seven game suspension for maliciously throwing
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: the bat at a pitcher, no matter what the situation was.
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: He didn't toss it like Wilson Contreras did. But I
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: don't know, I don't know. I feel like seven's a
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: little little cheap, little thin.
• 38:57
  Speaker 4: I remember seeing this video down like every time he
• 39:01
  Speaker 4: got it. I'm laughing because you don't usually see anything
• 39:05
  Speaker 4: like this. You know, I'm not condoning it at all.
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: It's just, you know, I don't know what the right
• 39:10
  Speaker 4: suspensions should be. But if I'm this guy right now,
• 39:13
  Speaker 4: I really need to check myself and understand, like, man,
• 39:16
  Speaker 4: I need to calm down. I'm playing professional baseball. I
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: know I got to hit a bunch of times it
• 39:20
  Speaker 4: wasn't you know, MLB caliber guys. So you got to
• 39:23
  Speaker 4: really understand, to take a step back and understand, like
• 39:26
  Speaker 4: guys you know down in the bushes per Se don't
• 39:30
  Speaker 4: throw him many strikes, but he needs to go find
• 39:33
  Speaker 4: a high school team and get some swings in before
• 39:35
  Speaker 4: he comes back.
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: There's a big risk for the Yankees to send all
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: that pitching to San Diego in a trade for the
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: big outfielder. It's coming from Mike Petrello. It turns out
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: Trent Grisham was worth it. That's cute. I mean, Todd Pyther,
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: you can speak to that. I mean, obviously the Soto,
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: it was the Sodo trade, but it's also turned into
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: the Trent Grisham deal where some people are like, why
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: are they taking on Trent Grisham and whatever it was
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: last year five million bucks. He's been a banger for
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: them this year.
• 40:04
  Speaker 4: Banger, and he's playing more so. I think there's a
• 40:08
  Speaker 4: couple of things. He's he's his starter. You know, he's
• 40:11
  Speaker 4: not going back and forth not playing. It's hard to
• 40:13
  Speaker 4: do as you get a little older in your career.
• 40:17
  Speaker 4: He's got a knack for the zone. He knows his zone,
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: and I think that is something that needs to be
• 40:23
  Speaker 4: said and in a good place because a lot of
• 40:25
  Speaker 4: guys are free swingers. This guy, when he gets a
• 40:28
  Speaker 4: pitch in his zone, he's not missing it. He's got power.
• 40:31
  Speaker 4: He squares the ball off, and he's just been doing
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: it this whole year. You got to give kudos to
• 40:36
  Speaker 4: him for coming back and just getting after it and
• 40:39
  Speaker 4: helping this club. You know, especially when a judge goes
• 40:41
  Speaker 4: down or Stanton hasn't played in a while, they're gonna
• 40:44
  Speaker 4: need some key cogs like a Ben Rice and Trent
• 40:47
  Speaker 4: Grisham to step up, both left handed hitters, and they're
• 40:51
  Speaker 4: not to be messed with. Those two guys have been
• 40:53
  Speaker 4: doing really well and Grisham has been a great center
• 40:56
  Speaker 4: field or two. So for him, I would be proud
• 40:59
  Speaker 4: if I was him, especially where he was last year.
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: For sure. And this is a great example of the
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: theory that I have that regular everyday guys, when they
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: become bench players, what exactly would their numbers be. He's
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: having a great year. This is probably this is easily
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: his best year that he's ever had. But to go
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: from hitting one ninety, he had a ops plus of
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: ninety one which was one of the lowest of his
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: career too. Now he's at one twenty nine. All are
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: great numbers. All are great numbers to me. His value
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: is the fact that they can keep Judge healthy by
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: pushing him back to right field. All the wear and
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: tear that center field put on can put on Judge's
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: body over the long course of two seasons in a row.
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: I think it's huge and that's there's no value in that.
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: I mean, there's no like statistic for that, but there's
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: a huge value in the fact that the big fellow
• 41:57
  Speaker 3: can keep playing. That's what he said.
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: He said, all right, now, we're going to throw to
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: our al East reporter Todd Father, Todd Fraser to get
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: the lowdown on this division. And we're gonna start it
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: with a quote from Jazz Chishol, who's always good for
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: a quote. And he's shown the confidence that the Yankees
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: are not just thinking about the playoffs, they're thinking about
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: the division. So let's cue it up. And he said
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: of the Yankees, now four games back up Toronto Boston,
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: what is three and a half back? He still believes
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: they can win the East. Quote, we want to win
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: the division. We don't just want to get to a
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: wildcard spot right now. It's just like, we're going to
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: go out there and win that, and then we're going
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: to go and win the World Series. I expect nothing
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: less from a confident player like Jazz Todd father, what
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: was he going to say, We just hope we get
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: in as a wild card. That would be fun, that'd
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: be swell.
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 42:50
  Speaker 4: No, I mean you've got to have the confidence of
• 42:52
  Speaker 4: your team first and foremost. Jazz is a different kind
• 42:57
  Speaker 4: of dude, bron and I respect it in a way,
• 42:59
  Speaker 4: and some times I'm just like, what is he doing?
• 43:01
  Speaker 4: You know, and the funniest, you know, out of control way.
• 43:05
  Speaker 4: But yes, the division is still at hand, and I
• 43:08
  Speaker 4: still think the Yankees, I still think the Red Sox
• 43:10
  Speaker 4: and Blue Jays all have a really good shot. Out
• 43:12
  Speaker 4: of course, the Blue Jays have the best shot because
• 43:14
  Speaker 4: they're winning. I looked at both all the schedules. The Yankees,
• 43:17
  Speaker 4: I feel like, have a little bit of the easier schedule.
• 43:20
  Speaker 4: The Blue Jay is gonna have a tough schedule, you know,
• 43:22
  Speaker 4: during this stretch coming up. Yeah, why wouldn't you have
• 43:26
  Speaker 4: the confidence of thinking that you're gonna win, you know,
• 43:28
  Speaker 4: the division and win the World Series, you know, putting
• 43:31
  Speaker 4: yourself in that situation. And if you're not talking about
• 43:33
  Speaker 4: winning the World Series, then why even play? So you
• 43:36
  Speaker 4: gotta have confidence, you got you gotta let your team
• 43:39
  Speaker 4: know and understand that, you know, there's still a chance.
• 43:41
  Speaker 4: Four games is nothing with you know, a little over
• 43:44
  Speaker 4: a month to play. I mean, there's a lot of games.
• 43:46
  Speaker 4: And they all got to play each other. So when
• 43:48
  Speaker 4: the Red Sox play the Blue Jays, Yankees play the
• 43:50
  Speaker 4: Blue Jays, vice versa, they all played each other. One
• 43:53
  Speaker 4: team is going to gain a game or two over
• 43:55
  Speaker 4: the other. So again, this one is up for grabs.
• 43:58
  Speaker 4: I love his confidence. He's gonna tell you how it is.
• 44:01
  Speaker 4: You know, you can't knock a guy for that.
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: But are they gonna do it? Are they gonna win
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: the division? Top needed? I mean, we can't. We can't
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: waffle here.
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: If I had to choose right now, I would say
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: no right now.
• 44:15
  Speaker 3: And where was Jazz saying this ten ten games ago
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: when they were swooning, when they weren't hitting dingers? Like
• 44:21
  Speaker 3: it's always that the the rhetoric in baseball is ride
• 44:25
  Speaker 3: the highs, ride the highs, and diminish the lows. When
• 44:28
  Speaker 3: you're riding good, enjoy it. But when you're riding bed,
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: just hey, you know what, we're gonna bounce out of it.
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: So you gotta have that kind of positive mindset. No team,
• 44:40
  Speaker 3: I've never met a legitimate big lee player that said,
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: pretty sure we're gonna lose this game today. I don't
• 44:48
  Speaker 3: think we have a chance like that would be That
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: would be a brutal way to go through a season. Hey.
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: Also, I think this is a good time to remind
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: everyone that some teams are really good and some teams suck.
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: And schedule watching and predicting things on schedules are real.
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: Now is your Can you run into a team that's
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: playing better ball?
• 45:12
  Speaker 3: Right?
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: Like? Are the Rockies now? Like the Rockies in April
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: or May? Of course not right? If you are following
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: the season on a daily basis, then you can look
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: at the schedule and say, hey, right now, that's a
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: team I'd run a run into. Right, And just in general,
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: Todd Father, let's pick the Yanks coming off a bad
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: weekend against the Red Sox. How about the Washington Nationals?
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: For you? Are you not you kicking, cheering and screaming
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: in the clubhouse about who you get to face next
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: and say, hey, boys, time to pad the stats. Time
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: to get back on track and beat the crap out
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: of a team that we are much better than, and
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: take all of our frustration from the weekend out on
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: a team that doesn't have the pitching to keep up
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: with us.
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 45:55
  Speaker 4: I mean, listen, Yankees are nine to three in their
• 45:57
  Speaker 4: last twelve. I mean, they've been hitting homers left and right,
• 46:00
  Speaker 4: and they've been playing bad teams. We understand that. I
• 46:03
  Speaker 4: think we all get it.
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: But guess what.
• 46:06
  Speaker 4: You gotta beat these bad teams. You gotta stomp them.
• 46:08
  Speaker 4: And that's the best part of the winning ball clubs.
• 46:11
  Speaker 4: They find ways to you know, sweep teams. Take three
• 46:14
  Speaker 4: out of four. Those you have to do during a
• 46:17
  Speaker 4: season in order to be top in your division. Okay,
• 46:20
  Speaker 4: well you make the playoffs, you know, winning two out
• 46:22
  Speaker 4: of three from these teams, of course, you know. But
• 46:25
  Speaker 4: you know, everyone's like, oh, they beat the bad teams. Yeah,
• 46:27
  Speaker 4: you're supposed to beat the bad teams. Okay, they haven't
• 46:29
  Speaker 4: done well against winning teams. But again, what gets you
• 46:33
  Speaker 4: back into the division, what gets you back into that
• 46:35
  Speaker 4: playoff atmosphere and talked about, is beating the teams you're
• 46:39
  Speaker 4: supposed to beat. So again, if I'm the Yankees, if
• 46:43
  Speaker 4: I'm any team that's playing a White Sock, a Colorado,
• 46:46
  Speaker 4: a pirate team, a national team, it's sweep or go home.
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: That's it.
• 46:51
  Speaker 4: And you have to think that way coming into all
• 46:53
  Speaker 4: these games. And you will see if you take care
• 46:56
  Speaker 4: about your team winning, you'll worry about the other team's
• 46:59
  Speaker 4: gonna work about having to chase you at the end
• 47:01
  Speaker 4: of the year.
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, krats. It drives me nuts sometimes when I'll see,
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: you know, a baseball broadcaster, wright or whatever, be like, well,
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: anythinking happen, it doesn't matter. Looking at the schedule is overrated.
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: I'm like, no, it is rated. It is rated accurately.
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: The Yankees are playing the Nats in the White Sox
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: this week, and they're slugging the crap out of the ball. Okay,
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: so let's do this. Let's play a game. Let's look
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: at the schedules. There's only one month left to go
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: on the season. And you asked Todd father if you
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: thought that a team could catch the Jas. He said, no, krats.
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: I'll read out the schedules for you and you tell
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: me if you feel like there's a shot, and also
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: then Todd Father, you can think about this one. Which
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: team has a better chance, Yankees or Red Sox of
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: catching the Blue Jays based on what's left in the season.
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: So first I'm going to start with Toronto and what
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: they have left this year. So they're playing this weekend
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: against the Brewers. Brewers, Hey, you would rather catch them
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: now than two weeks ago. Then they're in Cincinnati, Then
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: they're in the taken on the Yankees. Then they take
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: on the Astros for three and the Oriels for three,
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: followed by the Rays for four down in Tampa. And
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: they'll be on the road for three against Kansas City,
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: followed by the twenty third through the twenty fifth of
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: September against Boston, and then again finishing up with the Rays.
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: That's the Blue Jays schedule, and as you can see,
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: they're three and a half games clear of the Red Sox.
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: Next up with the Red Sox. Would you say, Kratz.
• 48:31
  Speaker 4: Said, I said, I said, that's a tough schedule for me.
• 48:34
  Speaker 4: In my opinion, I think that might be the toughest
• 48:38
  Speaker 4: schedule out of the three.
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: Okay, so Red Sox coming up this weekend, and I
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: know its schemes tonight with their rookie Tolly. But they've
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: got the Pirates for three this weekend. The Pirates suck.
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: They've got Cleveland after that at home, so a six
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: gamer with Pittsburgh and Cleveland. Then they hit the road
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: for the Diamondbacks, where not the same team. I mean,
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: they played pretty well this against the Brewers, but not
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: the same team that they were in the first half.
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: The A's were playing pretty good ball. This is their
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: time of year. Then they've got their series against the Yankees,
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: last one of the year from the twelfth to the fourteenth.
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: Then they're home against the A's. Then they're on the
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: road against Tampa and Toronto, and then their last series
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: is against a Tigers team that you do want to
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: face for those last three games because they most likely
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: won't be playing for anything. And lastly, Todd Father, you've
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: got the Yankees finishing up with three more games against
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: the White Sox. Then they have three in Houston, three
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: against Toronto at home, three at home against the Tigers,
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: three in Boston, three in Minnesota. Oh man, they love
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: the Twins, three in Baltimore, three at home against the
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: White Sox, and then three at home against the Orioles.
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: You're right, I think the Jays have the toughest schedule
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: of the three that I just mentioned.
• 49:50
  Speaker 4: The Yankees last thirteen games, they can easily go ten
• 49:54
  Speaker 4: and three, in my opinion, easily ten and three, if
• 49:58
  Speaker 4: not eleven and two with the teams they're facing, with
• 50:01
  Speaker 4: the Twins and the Orioles in the White Sox, that
• 50:06
  Speaker 4: might be the one where it kicks them to win
• 50:08
  Speaker 4: the division. I feel deeply in my soul if it's
• 50:12
  Speaker 4: a three four game race, I could see them jumping
• 50:15
  Speaker 4: a Blue Jay or Red Sox team to win the
• 50:18
  Speaker 4: division solely on the last thirteen.
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: Games of the year.
• 50:22
  Speaker 3: So now they are going to win the division?
• 50:25
  Speaker 4: I said, you didn't hear what I remember. I said,
• 50:28
  Speaker 4: as of right now, I don't think they're going to
• 50:30
  Speaker 4: win the division as of right now. Anything can happen,
• 50:33
  Speaker 4: an injury, you know, yeah, somebody goes away hot streak.
• 50:40
  Speaker 3: I think it ultimately comes down to head to head,
• 50:42
  Speaker 3: and I think the four game lead is too much
• 50:45
  Speaker 3: to overcome because it's so hard to go in and
• 50:48
  Speaker 3: sweep this Blue Jays team. They have to go in
• 50:52
  Speaker 3: and beat the Red Sox, which they have struggled to do.
• 50:55
  Speaker 3: We spent a whole week talking about how the Phillies
• 50:57
  Speaker 3: struggled to beat the Mets. The Yankees need to beat
• 51:01
  Speaker 3: the Red Sox, And to me, home field is going
• 51:05
  Speaker 3: to be huge. If you look across records of all
• 51:08
  Speaker 3: the playoff teams, all the teams in baseball right now,
• 51:12
  Speaker 3: road records are just they're abysmal compared to home records,
• 51:16
  Speaker 3: and I think that's gonna be a huge thing in
• 51:17
  Speaker 3: the playoffs. But as far as to win the division,
• 51:20
  Speaker 3: I just the series where the where the Yankee for
• 51:24
  Speaker 3: the Yankees, where they play the Red Size, I mean
• 51:26
  Speaker 3: where they play the Yeah, the Red Sox and the
• 51:29
  Speaker 3: Blue Jays, that's huge. All the other stuff, to me,
• 51:33
  Speaker 3: that's just that's just chalk, that's just a wash. I
• 51:36
  Speaker 3: think it really needs to be those head to head matchups.
• 51:39
  Speaker 3: And if they're not winning those head to head matchups,
• 51:41
  Speaker 3: just gonna they're gonna be to come up short.
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: I like that there's three teams in it NA. They're
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: close enough. I like a good race down the stretch here,
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: because as far as playoff teams, it seems like we're
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: pretty much set, you know, in terms of who's actually
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: going to make the dance but we got a month
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: to play. Let us know your thoughts. If you think
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: that Boston or the Yanks can catch the Blue Jays,
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: drop a comment for us if you're watching live or
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: later on at t tweet. What is that Michael Parsons
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: trade in baseball terms? Guys? We got some current answers
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: like Devors to the Giants, and then we got some
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: hypothetical ones like Paul Skeen's to the Mariners or the
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: Blue Jays, Otani to the Padres for Arise, Akunya to
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: the Tigers, Soto to the Brewers, Judge to the Phillies.
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: What do you like? Skiens to the Cubs? What do
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: you guys like.
• 52:40
  Speaker 3: Trout to the Phillies?
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: That's it, No.
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: Only one.
• 52:46
  Speaker 3: I was poking at Todd there, I was poking at Todd.
• 52:50
  Speaker 3: Michael Parsons is a bigger deal in the NFL than
• 52:55
  Speaker 3: Trout is in Major League Baseball.
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: Well, Parsons is in his prime. He's what twenty six
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: years old. It's like Luca last time too. It's one.
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: It's one of the best. And I'm not mister football here,
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: but it's one of the best defensive players in the sport.
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: Moving over to another team in the NFC.
• 53:14
  Speaker 3: I think it's Skans. I think it's I think it's
• 53:16
  Speaker 3: Skeens because he's not He's not that like superstar quarterback
• 53:22
  Speaker 3: where you know Michael Parsons. Yes he plays on defense,
• 53:25
  Speaker 3: but he's one of the best ones out there. He
• 53:28
  Speaker 3: could win Defensive Player of the Year. Skeans could win
• 53:31
  Speaker 3: Cy Young. I think it's schemes to whatever team I
• 53:35
  Speaker 3: think it's. I think it's more blown out of proportion
• 53:37
  Speaker 3: because it's Cowboys and Cowboys fans wind and complain about
• 53:39
  Speaker 3: a lot of stuff because they haven't won in thirty years.
• 53:42
  Speaker 3: But I love seeing it. I love seeing stars on
• 53:45
  Speaker 3: the move like this. I think the Pirates should do that,
• 53:49
  Speaker 3: should do this because it's kind of hurting Skeins's value.
• 53:54
  Speaker 3: Schemes wouldn't be eight to nine with a to zero seven.
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but the Cowboys and Pirates could not be more different, right,
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: And also the Cowboys trade him to a team that
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: Michael Cowboys fans tells us, Yeah, but they I mean,
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: the Packers kick their ass when they made up in
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: the playoffs too, So you'd have to think of a
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: team like to me, it would be like.
• 54:17
  Speaker 3: Maybe both owners suck and they'll know what they're doing
• 54:20
  Speaker 3: and get in the way. Bob Nutting gets in away,
• 54:23
  Speaker 3: Jerry Jones gets in a way. Michael Parsons is on defense,
• 54:28
  Speaker 3: so he's not as sexy as the quarterback. Paul Skeins
• 54:32
  Speaker 3: isn't as sexy as you know, somebody hitting dingers. So
• 54:36
  Speaker 3: to me, I think it's Paul Skeens and he's free.
• 54:39
  Speaker 3: Michael Parson's free of the cowboys, just muck that they're
• 54:43
  Speaker 3: living with in their life. And I hope Michael Beer
• 54:45
  Speaker 3: hears this. He's free, he gets a championship. Paul Skeins
• 54:48
  Speaker 3: would go be free and get to win a championship somewhere.
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: Hey, Todd, father, did you see this story or story
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: early this week from Boomer Size? And who's you know,
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: a big radio host in New York and big former
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: quarterback in the NFL. So he's in the Ring of
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: Honor for the Bengals and they sent him the invite
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: to attend because now, once you're in the Ring of Honor,
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: you're supposed to go when someone else gets inducted. And
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: they're inducting two other players, right, So he gets the
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: email invite and he gets two free tickets for seats
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: in the stands, with an option to buy more seats
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: if you would like to buy more, and then a
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: discounted rate at the local hotel as part of a
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: room block. So he basically gets himself out there, pays
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: for the hotel, and they have him a couple of
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: tickets in the seats where you were in Cincinnati somewhat frequently,
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: Todd father. I mean, you are a man of the people.
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: You love them, But if you're sitting out in the seats,
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: people just all over you the whole time. So it
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: sounds like he's probably going to decline the offer. Do
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: you think the Bengals should offer a little more, as
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: like a five and a half billion dollar franchise.
• 55:59
  Speaker 3: That is Britian.
• 56:00
  Speaker 2: I see where you're going with this, But no, no, he.
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: Should just go out there and do his thing. Is
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: that out? I don't know genuinely how this works. I'm
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: not saying that you get paid, but don't They usually
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: take care of them and be like, hey, hang out
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: in the owner suite and yes, we'll put you up
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: for a night.
• 56:15
  Speaker 2: No, I got you.
• 56:16
  Speaker 4: But that the sweet the sweet thing, Yeah, put them
• 56:20
  Speaker 4: in a sweet I find that weird that they're not
• 56:23
  Speaker 4: going to put him in the suite, but you know
• 56:28
  Speaker 4: you're getting two tickets. I mean it's just to me,
• 56:32
  Speaker 4: people feel like because of what you know, you did
• 56:35
  Speaker 4: in the past, at the end of the day, it's like.
• 56:38
  Speaker 2: They have to do this and that.
• 56:40
  Speaker 4: I mean, listen, dude, if they don't put you in
• 56:42
  Speaker 4: a suite, I find that as a problem. That's not
• 56:44
  Speaker 4: a problem.
• 56:45
  Speaker 2: But you're getting up. You're getting it, says a discounted right.
• 56:50
  Speaker 2: They're not giving them a hotel on his own either.
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: No, that's what I'm saying, dude. I mean, these things
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: happen all the time.
• 57:00
  Speaker 3: Of them, right.
• 57:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they should take your hotel and put them in
• 57:05
  Speaker 4: a suite. Anything else after that is whatever.
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: That's all I'm asking for as his rep. Now I'm
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: now his rep. That's all I was asking for. Okay,
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: So we're on the same page here. It's weird. That's
• 57:14
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• 57:21
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