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Hot Takes and Predictions for 2025 · 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. Welcome back to the Three O Take
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  presented by Shinook Cedary. This is episode 522.
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  I'll be your host Kyle Corwin. I'm here with my Co host Nate
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  Reyes. Hello, Nate.
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  Let's go, baby, let's go. We are here, we are here, we are
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  here. It is that time once again.
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  It is that time. First of all, shout out to our
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  new listeners. If this is your first time
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  finding us, listening to us, watching us, welcome.
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  I could not have picked a better episode to join us.
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  This is true, as we've alluded to before and described it.
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  This is the most highly anticipated episode of the
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  season for us, for our listeners, the chasers.
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  And so thank you for taking time out of your Sunday to join us,
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  to join us. We thank you.
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  Also new. This is our first time doing a
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  hot takes and predictions episode as a live stream.
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  Very true. This is new.
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  I'm a big fan of this. And so we're going to need your
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  help. If you're listening, we're going
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  to need your help. We're going to, we're going to
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  require some engagement throughout the episode.
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  So if you're in the, if you're in the stream, if you're in the
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  chat, make plans to engage with us, drop some takes.
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  We'll we'll explain that in just a minute.
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  But just know that we're going to be, this isn't just going to
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  be a sit and listen, sit and watch.
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  We're going to this is going to be a a it's going to be a party.
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  We're going to need your help. You guys are in the splash zone
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  and we're Shamu, correct? Be prepared to be involved.
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  I mean, that is, That's not bad. That's an elite analogy.
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  Spot on analogy. That's that's an elite analogy.
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  Couple still doing his thing by the way.
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  Is that or they they probably moved on.
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  Probably moved on yeah couple housekeeping option or items
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  partners, Chinook. We're doing a little giveaway.
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  We're doing a little giveaway. I just mentioned a minute ago
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  that we are expecting, requesting, hopeful for your
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  engagement, but it's not, it's not just for our entertainment,
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  it's for a chance at this. I'll I'll show you right here.
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  Big old box, How many are in there?
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  I think old box 36. Well, here's the thing.
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  This is just a box of a singular flavor.
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  I'm going to do a Little Mix and matching and I'll make it a
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  little variety pack and I may even throw in a couple bonus.
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  I may even make it a clean 40, who knows?
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  Who knows? So just want to get that out
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  there. In fact, you know what, let me
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  just throw that banner up there right now so the folks can we
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  can start tallying the the takes and then at the end, Nate and I
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  are going to vote on the best take.
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  I wouldn't even necessarily necessarily say the hottest
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  takes, just the best take. The best, hottest take maybe.
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  And the winner of that will receive I'll be sending
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  personally, not hand delivered. I mean, I'll put it in the mail.
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  I mean, if it's a good enough take, if it's a good enough
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  take, maybe I'll hand deliver it.
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  But you should there's, there's going to be some, some you're
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  going to need to step it up for that if that's what you want.
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  OK, with that, said Nate, while I while I get the word out about
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  the stream here, you want to let give the folks a rundown, give
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  the give our regulars a reminder and give the new listeners a, a,
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  a summary of of what to expect in our hot takes and predictions
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  episode. Look that the the title tells
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  you more than just predictions. All right?
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  So if you're hanging out and you're like, oh, just curious on
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  rankings, of course we're going to cover those.
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  But it's not just about that. You know, we're going to go
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  through we're going to give our our deep dive takes on specific
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  teams. We're going to have over unders
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  involved. We're going to dive into not
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  just those rankings, but we're going to get into even way too
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  early post season rankings. We're going to give you our
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  Pennant winners. We're going to give you even our
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  World Series winners and in how many games.
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  We're going to dive into our awards for both leagues.
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  We are going to get into some spas.
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  It takes from you guys. I know we've had a lot.
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  Thank you for showing up and and sending some stuff in.
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  We're going to read through those and you can read the
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  bottom ticker right there. We're going to be or bottom
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  little. What's that thing called?
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  Caption box. Banner, yeah.
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  Yeah, we're going to vote on that.
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  We're going to, we're going to like one of these really,
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  really, really mucho and send you some seeds.
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  So if you haven't written in yet, now's the time.
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  Send some stuff in, let us know. You can be crazy.
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  You can be wild. It can be off your rocker, but
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  that's what this is. It's it's a combination of
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  prediction. It's a combination of let's get
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  weird and predict stuff and be original in our thought.
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  So that's what this episode is going to be.
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  If you plan on hanging out live for the whole time, let's
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  freaking buckle up because this ain't going to be a short one.
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  We're not going to be rushing out of here.
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  You're going to be here a while, so plan accordingly.
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  I mean my wife's literally on the way back from a a girls
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  weekend and she's not going to be back till later this evening
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  so I literally have. I am in no rush.
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  Mine's going to get, she's getting waxed, she's getting,
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  she's getting nails. I don't know.
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  She was like, I'm booking a day. So it's.
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  You do you. It's.
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  Time to lock in is what I'm It's time to lock in.
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  Let's have some fun with this. All right, per tradition, as a
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  way to cover ourselves here. If if in case we maybe we
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  venture out on the deep end a little too far and you guys are
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  like, whoa, whoa, whoa. Let's dial it back a little bit.
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  We're going to start with some of the the takes from our
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  listeners. Love.
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  It just to just to get that out of the way, cover our bases and
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  make sure that the craziness gets out there first on behalf
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  of them and not us. OK?
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  Is that fair? I like that.
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  Can we do that? All right, let's let's start
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  here from the top. I mentioned mentioned Chinook.
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  I got to got to show some love to to our guy Matt over there at
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  Chinook from he's he's got a show spit and seize podcast, him
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  and his buddies starting off. He says Dylan Cruz will be a
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  2020 guy. I don't think that's that far
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  fetched. I mean, he's he's going to have
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  to run into some balls the bag. Yeah, the bags I'm not worried
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  about. Bags I'm not worried about.
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  But Ken Dylan Cruz. Yeah.
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  Pop 20 out. I don't know.
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  We shall see. Yeah, We're going to need a,
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  We're going to need enough time in the show.
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  You know, we're going to need enough time.
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  We're going to need enough, enough starts.
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  Tough to say. I don't know how it is though.
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  Dan says against all evidence for the modern game, and since
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  it's been a while, a batting streak went higher than the low
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  30s, we get someone approaching 40 or more all.
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  Right. You got to rerun.
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  Yeah, you're going to have to run that back.
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  I don't. I wasn't calculating.
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  It's a it's a mouthful, but I get what he's saying.
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  Essentially he's saying it's been a while since we've had a
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  batting streak that went higher than the low 30s.
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  He's saying this year we get somebody that that pushes 40 for
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  a hitting. Streak, hitting streak.
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  Oh, oh, like a hit streak. OK, gotcha, gotcha, gotcha,
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  gotcha, gotcha. Low 40s.
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  That's deep in there. You said approaching 40s, so
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  like we I think we could pass you with with high 30s.
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  Let's go one spicy. Can we throw?
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  Can we just throw a name on it real fast?
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  I mean Luis Arise is too lazy of a pick, but if there was a guy
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  to do it right? I guess I'm going to, yeah, give
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  me Soto. I'm going to throw Soto at it.
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  Well, I'm glad to see there's no bad blood there with you.
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  Good for you, he's too. Good for you.
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  Let's see, Brandon says. A lot of people tend to
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  underestimate them, but the A's are winning the West this year.
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  Brandon, I'll tell you what, you you stick around for later in
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  the show. We're going to revisit this.
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  We're going to revisit this. Yeah.
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  We'll come back to standings. I'll tell you what, oh boy,
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  Jimmy says. Anthony Rendon comes back from
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  injury, has won it bad and records a hit while injuring
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  himself again for the rest of the season, finishing the year
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  with an average of 1000. Jimmy, I appreciate it.
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  I don't. Know if that's optimistic or no?
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  No, no, I I appreciate it, but this is the hot takes episode.
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  I mean, that's I would say that that's quite, quite possibly the
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  easiest bet you could take of any of what you're about to hear
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  today. That could be the easiest bet
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  that you take this year. Now, whether it gets a hit, I
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  don't know, but the one AB and then re injuring himself.
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  That's that's a lot. That's about as much of A lock
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  as you're going to get. Let's see, Keith says.
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  The Red Sox win it all. Astros win the West again,
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  because they do. Brewers win the Central because
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  that's what they do. Braves win the East because
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  that's what they do. In October, everyone will say we
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  should have known. And then next March we'll be
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  picking three other new teams. So Keith is essentially saying
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  we're going to see another year of what we see almost every year
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  and we're going to get to the end of the year and say, how did
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  we not see this come? We should have seen this coming.
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  And then next year we think, oh, this year will be different.
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  And then it's possible that we see even more of the same.
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  Like I said, I mean, we'll, we'll get into these.
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  We'll get into these. Things we'll get into it,
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  Jeffrey says. Mike Trout, Comeback Player of
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  the Year and ALMVP leads the Angels to their first playoff
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  series win of his career. Wow, wow, I don't hate it.
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  I don't hate the Mike Trout part, but the Angels getting
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  their first playoff series win of his career?
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  Not happen, not happen. But shout out to you for
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  dropping a hot take. That's what this is all about.
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  Let's see, Lee says. Oh boy, this is a good one, Lee
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  says. Rays win the East and go all the
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  way to the World Series. MLB is forced to play the World
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  Series in an 11,000 seat in minor league park.
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  Lee gets it. Lee gets it.
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  That's awesome. Honestly, like sign me up in
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  that camp. I'm I'm here like if it's, if
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  it's a team that we don't want to see, such as the rays of the
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  A's, like just for the novelty of it, give me like I, I need
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  that. So one of those two teams, I
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  don't care who it is, frankly, I'd prefer if it, if it was the
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  A's, one of those two teams needs to just go ham this year
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  and take care of business. So we can see this.
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  I need to see this. Sure, sure.
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  Let's see, where are we at? Jeff says Rob Manfred announces
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  a new rule dubbed Quote the Golden Error.
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  Once per week, A-Team can use a redo if they make an error.
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  It's going to be huge. All right?
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  Honestly I read that and I said I I I wouldn't be surprised if
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  that's already been discussed it MLBH fully understand.
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  The parameters of that all. Right.
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  Lock in with me here, Nate. You get a, you get.
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  Paint the picture. You get a, you get a defensive
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  Mulligan. He's saying.
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  Jeff is saying you get a golden error.
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  If you make an error once a week, you're able to take a
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  Mulligan. Once a week, I bet you, you just
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  send him back to the boss and say, let's start this.
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  I guess let's count this, you know, throw this count.
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  Let's let's just wash it. You throw the whole pace of play
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  conversation out the window for this golden golden air rule.
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  Sure, sure. Uncle Robbie's definitely
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  already thrown that out there, I believe it.
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  I'm sure he's tossed it around. Jake says Pirates and Reds make
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  the playoffs, Mets miss out. Wow, wow.
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  Jake, I'm going to have to ask you to keep pinning that.
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  We're going to come back to that.
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  I promise you that. Manny says aside from winning
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  the Cy Young, Shohei, wait, what?
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  Oh, oh, oh, oh, he's talking about, He's talking about Paul
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  Skeens. Aside from winning the Cy Young,
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  Paul Skeens will at least pinch hit at some point during the
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  season. People forget he's a two way
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  player. Yeah, I mean, I don't know.
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  I like that one. He didn't hit at LSU.
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  He. Yeah, but he raked at Air Force,
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  did he not? Yeah, yeah.
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  But I I think that was like the whole, yeah, I mean, we're
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  talking three years since his last AB pinch hit.
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  It it's called pinch hit for reason.
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  If the Pirates are in a pinch, which let's face it, they're
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  probably going to be in a pinch more often than not this year,
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  Why? Why not?
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  Why not? All right, let's let's call it
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  for there it was a little, little appetizer.
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  Appetizer. And we got him another batch
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  later that I'll come back to. Where do you, where do you want
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  to start? You want to start with the
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  standings. I think that's where we usually
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  where we usually start, run through our standings here real
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  quick. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  All right, where do you want to start?
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  What league? What division?
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  Let's, let's shake it up. Let's start in the central,
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  let's start in the AL Central. You know, 'cause like, why?
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  Why do we have to go West to east or east to West?
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  You're right, you're right. What about the people in the
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  central, you know? Don't forget about the people in
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  the Central. That's right.
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  That's right. Don't forget about the people
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  out there. All right, buddy.
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  All right, run us through your let rather than switch off, you
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  just run me through your batch. I'll run through my batch and
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  then we'll we'll figure out discrepancies.
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  You don't go AO. Yeah, AO Central, let's.
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  Start here. All right.
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  Well, I mean, let's face it, the White Sox are going to be at the
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  bottom. This is shaping out to be
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  potentially worse than last year.
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  We don't know. We don't know.
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  So we don't really need to spend too much time there.
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  I'm I'm, I'm already kind of getting spicy.
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  I have the twins finishing fourth.
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  That lineup does nothing for me. The lineup does nothing for me.
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  The the rotation looks like it's going to be pretty good.
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  I just think that other teams in the Central have taken better
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  steps, have gotten better in multiple facets.
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  And I just feel like the twins are aging.
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  I feel like they're they're unathletic.
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  I feel like they're injury prone.
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  You talk about their their core of guys that you're going to
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  rely on offensively. You're looking at a Byron Buxton
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  who just can't stay on the field.
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  You're looking at a Carlos Correa, who's good for one or
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  two back IL stints, but year that's just how it operates.
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  And Royce Lewis, they've been wanting him to kind of take that
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  next step and he's already going to start off the season on the
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  IL. It's just I don't see what I can
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  get too excited about for this team.
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  I think Pablo is going to be great at the top of the
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  rotation. I think they're going to pitch
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  pretty well, but I don't see them being able to hit for
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  power. I don't see them really
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  manufacturing runs that often. I don't see them staying
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  healthy. So I have them pretty low in
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  this. I have them finishing fourth,
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  taking that next step, getting a little bit better, brought back
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  one of their dudes that had some success.
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  Give me the Tigers finishing third in that division.
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  I think they're young offensive core is just going to continue
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  to get better, continue to take that next step.
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  You know, when you talk about Riley Green, you talk about
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  Carrie Carpenter, you talk about Parker Meadows, like guys like
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  this are are really good. They're just going to continue
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  to get better as you know, the more ABS they get, you know,
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  bringing back Jack Flaherty to solidify a little bit more of
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  that rotation. I don't think they did enough in
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  the offseason. So that's why I have them in
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  3rd. They did make some weird
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  decisions of they have like a plethora of infielders and I'm
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  I'm just not sure what they're going to do.
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  You know, Javi Baez is still a little bit of a question mark.
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  Like how much is the front office going to force him to
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  play for the amount of what he's getting paid, right?
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  And are we just struggling to see that offensive production?
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  So there's a lot going on there, but I think they're deep, but I
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  think they're a lot deeper than they were last year.
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  So I have them taking a little bit of a step up.
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  I've got the Royals finishing second.
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  I know everyone wants to get hyped.
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  I know everyone wants to kind of see that next step, but I I
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  think they're going in the right direction.
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  It's just the truth is this is the Guardians division and you
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  can flip flop, you can change names.
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  I get it. That's fine.
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  I get it. I love the Royals.
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  I love the Royals are doing, but the Guardians just continue to
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  show. Like, I don't think there's
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  enough respect to put on the Guardians and what they do.
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  I think Stephen Vogt is incredible already and it just
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  doesn't matter what their their philosophy is to play good
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  defense is to manufacture runs any way possible.
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  So you can take a Josh Naylor and a thirty home runs off of
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  that roster. They're still going to be able
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  to figure it out. They're still going to be able
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  to do what they need to do. So it's the Guardians division
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  until it's not, until they prove that they're going to take a
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  significant step back and I just don't see it happening.
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  That's my AL Central. One more for good measure.
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  Get out of. Here.
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  All right, White Sox, we'll just get out of the way.
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  White Sox finishing at the bottom.
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  Worst team in baseball? To no one's surprise, I've got
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  the Twins also finishing in fourth.
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  How about this? I love, I love that we've
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  already got a discrepancy here because.
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  I do too, because we're normally pretty.
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  In the past and I've, you know, I've wondered like why that is,
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  but I think it's because we get on here 2 * a week, every week
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  and we sway each other. Yeah, we sway each other.
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  We go, OK, I, I, I hear you on that one.
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  And then your, your opinion changes a little bit.
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  And then we a lot of times specifically for these pre
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  season episodes where we're, we're having a pick where a team
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  will finish. We more often than not align, we
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  fall at the same place. But every now and then we get a
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  little bit of shake up. And I love that we're already
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  starting it out, starting it off with some shaking it up. 3rd for
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  me, your division winner. There's no way.
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  To the Cleveland Guardians finishing third, I'm buying into
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  the hype. They have the best bullpen in
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  baseball, the. You, how did that bullpen work
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  out for him last year? The best closer in baseball,
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  We're not talking about that. Not what you just said.
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  Best, best bullpen in baseball. We're talking about the best
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  closer in baseball. I'm already seeing comps and
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  Mariano Rivera, which I mean, it may be at this stage of his
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  career, maybe it tracks, but he still got a long ways to go.
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  No, no disrespect to Amanda. He's got another 10 years of
• 21:33
  being at this correct. No disrespect, I'm just trying
• 21:36
  to set the record straight there but the the line up itself
• 21:40
  outside of Jay, Ram and and maybe a couple other names
• 21:43
  doesn't. Will they find a way to scrap
• 21:46
  together wins like they seemingly have done year after
• 21:49
  year in recent memory? Sure.
• 21:52
  But I like the Tigers coming in it too, and I'm giving the
• 21:56
  division to the Royals this year.
• 22:00
  See, I could understand swapping guardians and tigers, it's just
• 22:05
  hard to imagine. So yeah, taken that far of a
• 22:07
  dip. In the chat.
• 22:08
  The Dodgers have the best bullpen in baseball, Nate.
• 22:10
  I mean to be fair they have like 6 closers so they've got some
• 22:15
  some house money to play. With we'll see when we when we
• 22:18
  finish stuff out, but I'm telling you that the Guardians
• 22:21
  are like a lock top three bullpen in baseball.
• 22:24
  That's just. I'll give you that.
• 22:25
  They had two guys get Sion votes last year from the bullpen.
• 22:29
  So I mean, this is this is going to be nasty.
• 22:33
  They're going to continue to do what they do.
• 22:37
  I told you before that we were going to kind of mix in some
• 22:39
  over unders and we'll get into that segment later.
• 22:41
  But season win total according to FanDuel for the Guardians is
• 22:45
  82 1/2. You're really are are if you
• 22:51
  have them finishing third, you have to consider that under you
• 22:55
  personally because I'm hammering that over.
• 23:02
  I said what I said. I'm hammering that over.
• 23:05
  I said what I said, this is the Royals.
• 23:07
  This is the Royals division in 2025.
• 23:10
  That's crazy. OK, hear me out.
• 23:12
  Last year, my, my take that I was with the hill that I was
• 23:17
  willing to die on last year was that the Royals would sneak in
• 23:20
  as a six seed. And I'm pretty sure they finish
• 23:23
  in as a fifth seed, if I recall. I'm not, I'm not, I'm not
• 23:28
  babying them into the postseason this year.
• 23:30
  They are going to earn their way into the postseason this year by
• 23:33
  taking the Central. All right.
• 23:36
  Stand by it. Where do you want to go?
• 23:38
  Now you want to kick it off for the NL Central.
• 23:41
  NL Central, oh boy, is going to upset some people.
• 23:45
  I think this probably will, yeah.
• 23:47
  It's going to upset some people at the five slot.
• 23:55
  I I think you and I actually agree here.
• 23:57
  I think we're going to be very similar here.
• 24:01
  As much as I, as much as it pains me, as much as I hate to
• 24:04
  say it, I'm going Pirates 5. I'm going Pirates 5.
• 24:13
  And look, it's not for a lack of trying.
• 24:15
  I the receipts, go check the receipts.
• 24:18
  The last 2-3 years I've been on this train, I said Pirates, do
• 24:23
  something. I said like everything about
• 24:26
  your franchise, and I've said this before, I'll say it again,
• 24:28
  everything about your franchise is just primed for just an elite
• 24:34
  experience. The only thing you're missing is
• 24:38
  talented baseball players outside of like a couple and
• 24:42
  that's I'd say that's a pretty big part.
• 24:44
  And, and, and running a baseball team, I'd say that's a pretty
• 24:48
  important factor that you're missing there.
• 24:51
  Everything else is elite. The jerseys, the ballpark, the
• 24:54
  color scheme. I've, I've said it, I've
• 24:56
  repeated myself a 1000 times. I'm going Pirates 5.
• 25:00
  You just you. Just You.
• 25:01
  You. You can't.
• 25:03
  You haven't. You refuse to be playing that
• 25:05
  Jolly Roger song at any point. You can't play it now.
• 25:12
  I'm putting the pitches in Pirates at 5:00, four seed, I'm
• 25:20
  going Cardinals, I'm going Cardinals, three seed, I'm going
• 25:31
  Reds, then the Brewers, and then I'm going with the team that I
• 25:38
  think in this division you want to talk about a team that needed
• 25:41
  to do some things. They did some things.
• 25:44
  The Chicago Cubs taking the Central this year.
• 25:50
  We're not far off, buddy. We're not far off.
• 25:52
  I don't. Know, I said pirates at 5.
• 25:54
  You shook your head. So that must be.
• 25:56
  Yeah, yeah, I did. I mean, I've got Cardinals at 5
• 26:01
  and and Pirates at 4:00. Maybe I'm buying into the to the
• 26:06
  skeins hype and and hoping that it just kind of spreads.
• 26:11
  I like Derek Shelton. I just I like what they got
• 26:14
  going on. I think it's I think it's on the
• 26:19
  come up slightly. I do agree with you.
• 26:21
  There's probably some names that are just a little, you know,
• 26:25
  questionable. Is Brian Reynolds arguably one
• 26:30
  of the most overrated guys in the in the big leagues?
• 26:33
  Probably probably, you know, it is that episode.
• 26:38
  Where is it? Shots fired?
• 26:41
  Shots fired just. Based on what conversation we
• 26:45
  were having about him a couple off seasons ago and now just
• 26:48
  he's, he's an afterthought. So.
• 26:50
  But I like the fact that, yeah. You want to say that again in
• 26:54
  the camera and say that again. Brian Reynolds is an
• 26:58
  afterthought. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 27:02
  I said it. You said it, not me.
• 27:04
  I like that they had the self-awareness to what I can
• 27:10
  assume better utilizing O'Neill Cruz defensively by putting him
• 27:16
  in the outfield. You know, it's it just it didn't
• 27:21
  look great at short. I think there was enough of a
• 27:24
  sample size to recognize it. So I like, I like the
• 27:27
  adjustability there. I like that they dig that.
• 27:29
  So, yeah, I'm not going to spend too much time on it, but give me
• 27:32
  the Pirates at 4 better than than rounding out the division.
• 27:38
  I got the Reds third. I think Tito is going to start
• 27:42
  bringing them in the right direction.
• 27:44
  I think they're going to start doing some things well, but
• 27:48
  there's still, you know, some question marks as far as what
• 27:52
  that rotation looks like after hunter green.
• 27:56
  I don't have a ton of faith in in in the bullpen.
• 28:00
  You know, the other Diaz brother, it's like you're
• 28:04
  blowing a lot of saves. Are you are you as good as your
• 28:06
  brother or not? You know what I mean?
• 28:08
  So I think it's getting better. I think it's going to get
• 28:13
  better. I like that Terry Francona's
• 28:15
  there. Who doesn't like Terry Francona?
• 28:18
  So yeah, I'm for it. It's it's a step in the right
• 28:21
  direction. And then I'm with you.
• 28:24
  I got Brewers at 2 and Cubs at 1:00.
• 28:29
  At some point, the Brewers are going to have to take a step
• 28:34
  back when they're eliminating names off this roster, when
• 28:38
  they're trading guys away. I mean, I get that they're
• 28:41
  young. I get that they're saying
• 28:42
  Christian Yelich is healthy. I get that they're saying, you
• 28:45
  know, Jackson Cheerio is is the real deal.
• 28:47
  Don't get me wrong. What point are we going to
• 28:53
  continue to be able to subtract off for that pitching staff and
• 28:56
  say that they're still going to be winning the division?
• 28:59
  So I'm off that train. Good point.
• 29:02
  Fly the dub. Give me give me Chicago Cubs
• 29:05
  winning that division. 86 1/2 wins, I think is a really good
• 29:13
  line. I can see this team winning 8586
• 29:16
  wins. I don't think this is a very
• 29:17
  impressive division. I don't see them going crazy.
• 29:21
  But I, I just, I like what they're doing.
• 29:24
  I like that they're they're starting to compete.
• 29:28
  Tough start to the year in Tokyo, but, you know, that's OK
• 29:31
  That's all right. So yeah, give me the Cubs
• 29:34
  winning the division, all right? You start us in the Central, so
• 29:41
  I'll leave it up to you. Where do you want to bounce to
• 29:42
  you? Want to hit the West?
• 29:47
  No, let's hit. Let's hit the east.
• 29:49
  Let's hit the East. And go American League.
• 29:53
  East American League East, dude, this, I don't know if it's
• 29:59
  because you and I just have our eyes on this division more than
• 30:02
  any other division. I struggled here, man.
• 30:07
  I really struggled. I think that there's so much,
• 30:14
  there's such a fine line dividing these teams that I
• 30:20
  struggled coming up with an order.
• 30:24
  I don't feel confident about this at all.
• 30:26
  This is my least confident predicting prediction for for a
• 30:30
  division. I've got the Rays finishing at
• 30:34
  the bottom of the division. I get that they're getting some
• 30:39
  guys back in the rotation. I get that you're getting, you
• 30:42
  know, a Sion candidate back and and Shane Mcclanahan, but
• 30:47
  there's just not a whole lot of bright spots going on.
• 30:49
  Which, by the way, I'm very excited to watch Shane
• 30:51
  Mcclanahan pitch again. I am too.
• 30:54
  I am too. Ideals.
• 30:55
  It's very true. He's fun to watch.
• 31:02
  Yeah, man, I just there's not too much to get excited about
• 31:06
  there. Caminero, it looks like he's
• 31:09
  he's going to be a freak, but like, I, I don't know.
• 31:12
  I just, I think the rest of the division is just a little bit of
• 31:15
  a little bit better. The only reason I have the Blue
• 31:17
  Jays finishing ahead of them and finishing fourth in the division
• 31:21
  is because I I do feel like if they are in a place to push some
• 31:29
  chips in the middle of the table and make some deals before the
• 31:32
  deadline, this is like their last opportunity to convince
• 31:38
  Vlady Junior that he needs to stay.
• 31:41
  And they have to. They have to go this year.
• 31:43
  They have to at least give themselves a chance if they have
• 31:47
  the opportunities to move some names and plug this roster a
• 31:49
  little bit before the deadline. I think they will.
• 31:52
  That's the only reason I have them ahead of the Rays.
• 31:54
  I think the Rays are just in a weird place.
• 31:57
  You know, when you're talking about like the government coming
• 32:00
  in and saying, hey, you got to move, locate, like there's just
• 32:03
  so much going on there. So that's my discrepancy between
• 32:07
  the two. One thing.
• 32:08
  Real quick one, it was brought to my attention in the chat,
• 32:12
  Shane said. Shane just blew out his arm
• 32:13
  again though. I so I'm looking at this article
• 32:17
  just now. Yeah, this and the reason I
• 32:19
  think this flew under the radar for us, well, the, I think the
• 32:22
  reason this flew under the radar for us is 'cause we haven't done
• 32:24
  a, a, we, I don't think we've done a recording since this
• 32:28
  injury 'cause it was on, it was yesterday and the report came
• 32:32
  out today. It said they're, they're,
• 32:35
  they're pivoting to replace him. They don't know what the ETA is
• 32:40
  on his return, but they're getting further testing.
• 32:43
  So yeah, that, that, that, that's good.
• 32:44
  Good update, that good update. Good call.
• 32:46
  That solidifies that bottom spot.
• 32:47
  I was going to say yeah, solidifies that.
• 32:49
  It feels better. I do think that there's a big
• 32:53
  gap between 1-2 and three and then four and like four and five
• 32:57
  I think are just going to finish a decent amount back in this
• 33:01
  division. But I've I've got the Orioles at
• 33:03
  3:00. Look, man, I just I don't
• 33:10
  believe in this rotation. I don't believe in the arms.
• 33:15
  Say what you will about their youth, say what you say what you
• 33:18
  will about their abilities. I, I just, I don't think that
• 33:22
  that's enough to lean on. We don't know what Jackson
• 33:25
  Holiday is yet. I hope that he's great.
• 33:29
  I think everyone wants to believe.
• 33:31
  I think he'll be fine. It's just there's a lot of
• 33:34
  pressure on that kid. He hasn't had enough ABS.
• 33:38
  I'm hoping that this consistency of just being in the spring and
• 33:41
  like knowing you're a big leaguer, knowing you're starting
• 33:44
  to see like I hope that kind of settles men.
• 33:47
  Gunner is not going to be able to start opening day.
• 33:49
  So that makes you wonder like, you know, is that going to be a
• 33:52
  nagging issue? Is adly going to have a comeback
• 33:56
  season? You know, is is losing Santander
• 34:00
  and replacing him with a Tyler O'Neill.
• 34:04
  You know, I know you're changing the wall dimensions yet again,
• 34:07
  but like, I just don't know if that stuff can be replaced.
• 34:11
  I don't know if the offense necessarily got better and I
• 34:14
  know that the pitching didn't get better.
• 34:17
  So I I just, I can't put them higher than three.
• 34:26
  I got my Yanks finish in second. Then I've got the Red Sox
• 34:29
  winning this division. Course you do.
• 34:33
  Just stand for something one time.
• 34:36
  Stand for something one time. Come on.
• 34:40
  I think it's I don't need you. Saying we got the same division.
• 34:44
  No, I'm saying it's how hard was it for you to consider putting
• 34:48
  the Yankees behind the Orioles? I don't think it's in your
• 34:51
  system to put the Yankees lower than two.
• 34:54
  Are you capable of doing that? I don't think there's the year
• 34:57
  to do it. This would be the year to do it.
• 34:59
  But why? What, what does that, what does
• 35:04
  that rotation bring to the table?
• 35:05
  And I, I, I completely agree with you on on the Orioles side
• 35:08
  of things in terms of, of being able to throw the ball.
• 35:11
  But I mean, what What about the Yankees staff brings you any
• 35:17
  sort of confidence? Or more confidence, I should
• 35:19
  say, than what the Orioles are bringing to the table?
• 35:22
  I think that's I, I think this is a ridiculous question.
• 35:25
  You're telling me that the Yankees rotation in the Orioles
• 35:28
  rotation is in the same conversation?
• 35:30
  I'm not saying that. I'm just saying to to what?
• 35:34
  OK, well, I won't say they're awash.
• 35:37
  We won't say that those rotations are awashes.
• 35:40
  But offensively, what the Orioles potentially could bring.
• 35:46
  I know you said you don't you you're just at a a point right
• 35:49
  now where maybe you're, you're just over the hype.
• 35:51
  You're you're at a point where you're struggling to believe in
• 35:53
  what they've got going on right now.
• 35:55
  But potential, speaking strictly in terms of potential, you're
• 35:59
  telling me the Orioles, that Orioles lineup doesn't excite
• 36:02
  you more? Than the Yankees lineup, yeah,
• 36:08
  yeah, I mean, I'll give them the slight edge.
• 36:10
  I don't I don't think it's crazy better.
• 36:14
  I think they're deeper. I think they have a better bench
• 36:19
  but overall. I think so.
• 36:20
  How much of A discrepancy does the rotation make for you to
• 36:23
  then to say that? The rotation and the bullpen is,
• 36:27
  I think the bullpen is better on the Yankees side.
• 36:30
  I think the rotation is a big enough gap to strongly take them
• 36:35
  over the Orioles rotation. I think and even with heel
• 36:39
  coming in later in the season and and Cole being out, I would
• 36:43
  take that Yankees pitching staff over the Orioles pitching staff,
• 36:46
  both rotation and bullpen hitting wise and defensively.
• 36:50
  I think you you're going to see just a different but different
• 36:54
  Yankees. It's not the same Yankee team
• 36:56
  that we're used to. I think that they've started to
• 36:59
  recognize and shift their brain towards more athleticism, better
• 37:03
  base running and all of their changes this year have made that
• 37:07
  happen. But again, that's why I have
• 37:14
  them taking a slight step back is because obviously you can't
• 37:17
  lose Soto and you can't be without a Garrett Cole and say
• 37:21
  that this team's going to perform the same way they did
• 37:23
  last year. The Red Sox have done, and I'll
• 37:26
  let you take most of this, but I think the Red Sox have had an
• 37:29
  impeccable offseason. I think that they have a very
• 37:33
  young offensive core that is just looking really good.
• 37:38
  They don't need to be too worried about any sophomore
• 37:41
  slumps. They don't need to.
• 37:43
  They have enough youth that they can call on that probably won't
• 37:46
  break camp with the big league team this year, but you'll
• 37:49
  likely see them in a uniform at some point that they can rely on
• 37:52
  if any of those sophomore slumps show up.
• 37:54
  So they're deep. The rotation got better.
• 37:58
  My biggest question mark of the Red Sox is around their bullpen.
• 38:02
  But otherwise I think they're going to be easily a top five
• 38:05
  offense. And you know, when you add in a
• 38:10
  Sion candidate, when you bring back a former Sion candidate who
• 38:15
  you know, and a G Alito that maybe needs to, you know, prove
• 38:17
  himself a little bit more. Talk about an up and coming
• 38:20
  Tanner Hawk. You know, Brian Baio is is at
• 38:23
  the bottom of that rotation. And I honestly like the kid.
• 38:27
  So they're just deep and they look good.
• 38:30
  And I think all things are are pointing their direction right
• 38:33
  now. If they stay healthy, I think
• 38:35
  they win this division. Robert with an excellent point
• 38:38
  in the chat so the beards might let the Yanks a couple.
• 38:40
  Of that's not a crazy. Take That's actually, that's
• 38:42
  actually a great point, Robert, not going to lie, that's a great
• 38:45
  point. Something we didn't even really
• 38:47
  consider For me. I've got Blue Jays 5 give.
• 38:52
  Me a little of that, give me a little of that.
• 38:53
  Just talk me into that a little bit.
• 38:55
  I just, I just couldn't be more out on the Blue Jays.
• 38:58
  I really couldn't. And, and it's hard for me to put
• 39:00
  the Rays at 5:00 because I can't go against my annual take of
• 39:04
  saying that the Rays just figure out a way.
• 39:07
  Yeah. To, to scrape out wins.
• 39:10
  And I, I think they're going to do enough of that to not finish
• 39:14
  last in the vision. Yeah.
• 39:15
  And you know, you can look at the Santander edition.
• 39:18
  You can look at The Who do they bring in to play second?
• 39:22
  I'm blanking Andres Jimenez. You can look at that edition, is
• 39:30
  that going to, is that, how much is that going to move the needle
• 39:33
  for you when you're talking about the centerpiece of your
• 39:36
  team being a guy that I stand by it, I, I genuinely think doesn't
• 39:41
  really want to be there. Yeah, I'm with you.
• 39:44
  I'm with you. So it's, I think Bo was going to
• 39:47
  have a better year. Bo I I fully believe Bo have a
• 39:50
  better year. The rotation, there's question
• 39:55
  marks there. You could say the potential if
• 39:58
  all things work out well, but you know how that goes in
• 40:00
  baseball, rarely do all things work out the way that they need
• 40:03
  to. You need a little bit more of a
• 40:06
  a safety net and I just don't think they have that.
• 40:08
  So I'm I'm putting Blue Jays at 5:00.
• 40:10
  I'm going Rays 4, I'm going Yankees 3:00.
• 40:15
  Not that not that we have to rehash this.
• 40:16
  I'm going Yankees 3, Orioles two.
• 40:19
  I'm just going to believe that that lineup is going to be able
• 40:21
  to pick up. As much slack as they're capable
• 40:25
  of doing this year to account for what is just ultimately a
• 40:30
  decimated rotation. And then Red Sox at the top for
• 40:34
  all the reasons that you shared. So that's my AL East.
• 40:37
  Yeah, Phil. I mean, dive in.
• 40:39
  They're your socks, buddy. So like, dive in, give me some,
• 40:41
  give me some takes, maybe some things I didn't say.
• 40:43
  I just think they're the best. Like you just look at the you
• 40:47
  look at that roster, they're the best team, I think on paper in
• 40:50
  the division. And I talking about talking
• 40:54
  about the the the Jays not being a team that really has a safety
• 40:58
  net. To your point, they do have they
• 41:00
  do have that depth. They have those those guys that
• 41:03
  they could they could fall back on if need be.
• 41:06
  But you mentioned some of those guys maybe not making it up to
• 41:09
  the the show this year. I'd be surprised if the
• 41:13
  majority, if not all of the names that are being discussed
• 41:16
  right now, you know, the big three, maybe one other two here,
• 41:19
  here or there, if they all make it up at one point or another
• 41:22
  this year, a couple of those guys are even making their case
• 41:26
  to start the year with the team. So I think you're going to see
• 41:30
  that that influx of youth right away.
• 41:34
  Campbell, Roman Anthony is making a case for himself.
• 41:39
  So yeah, I think you're going to see that influx of youth right
• 41:41
  away. Yeah, but I, and I know I said
• 41:45
  that the bullpen, I mean, I, I, I think as far as the facets to
• 41:49
  fix at the deadline, I feel like the bullpen is the easiest to
• 41:53
  plot, you know what I mean? Like that's the easiest problem
• 41:55
  to solve at the deadline. And they have enough bats, dude.
• 42:00
  They have enough bats to move to make some moves and to be able
• 42:04
  to quickly solve that issue. And yeah, dude, like, like the
• 42:09
  fact that we've talked about it at nauseam at this point, but
• 42:12
  like Yoshida, the disrespects that that Yoshida gets, I think
• 42:17
  he's yeah, I think he's going to produce wherever he plays.
• 42:21
  I think he'll probably get moved.
• 42:22
  But I mean, the athleticism, dude, like Jaron Duran and and
• 42:26
  Rafaela in this in, in the outfield.
• 42:28
  And I mean, the Breu looks real like I I has Bregman played
• 42:37
  second No during spring training, No.
• 42:39
  OK, he's he's curious that that was still.
• 42:41
  Yeah, No, no, no, there's no, there's no wondering.
• 42:44
  He's the third baseman this year.
• 42:45
  Rafael Devers will be the DH. There's there's no, there's no
• 42:49
  guessing anymore. It's just we haven't heard any
• 42:51
  headline stuff lately. No, I just wasn't sure of any
• 42:53
  change. Good to know, no?
• 42:55
  That's that's all I got to worry about.
• 42:57
  Good stuff, all right, buddy. National League East.
• 43:00
  Get it going. Are you a little wishy washy on
• 43:07
  this? One this one's interesting.
• 43:09
  This is a This is a tough one too.
• 43:11
  Actually, no. You know, if if you know me you,
• 43:14
  you probably won't be surprised by this.
• 43:16
  I think. I think we're going to have the
• 43:17
  same 1 I think. We're going to have the same
• 43:19
  one. Maybe, maybe we save us some,
• 43:23
  save ourselves some time here. OK, let's just let's see if we
• 43:26
  let's go up the list from the bottom, see see if we got the
• 43:29
  same one. OK.
• 43:31
  Marlins 5. Yeah.
• 43:33
  Nationals 4 Yeah, say it with me now on three coming in at the
• 43:41
  three spot in the NL leash 3123 the match yeah all.
• 43:50
  Right. Dude, I'm sorry.
• 43:53
  Same issues that we talked about with the Orioles, if not worse.
• 43:56
  The rotation just is, is insane. It's insane.
• 44:00
  And I get that their 123 in the lineup is probably going to be
• 44:04
  borderline historic. I understand that.
• 44:07
  Lindor, Soto, P Alonzo, that's ridiculous.
• 44:11
  I fully understand that. I just, I can't get there, man.
• 44:17
  And we've seen what this Mets team does with expectations.
• 44:21
  It's the it's the Mets teams that everyone doubts and no one
• 44:24
  cares about that end up surprising people.
• 44:28
  That's. A.
• 44:28
  Great point. The second they have
• 44:30
  expectations, they flounder them, so I'm sorry.
• 44:35
  And Soto defensively is going to get exposed this year as well.
• 44:41
  There's just as as awesome as that top three.
• 44:46
  I I think the whole lineup's going to be pretty good.
• 44:48
  I think the whole lineup's going to be good.
• 44:50
  Don't get me wrong. They're going to bang, Yeah.
• 44:52
  They're going to hit for power for sure.
• 44:54
  Pitching is just too much of a question mark.
• 44:57
  So yeah, three spot who got 2 are Philadelphia.
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  Phillies coming in at 2, don't you?
• 45:07
  Are you serious? You you talk all this dude.
• 45:13
  No, you talk all this slander. The research, man, the research
• 45:17
  got to you. Talk all this noise on the
• 45:20
  Phillies. Oh my goodness.
• 45:22
  Well, you know what? I don't think we've ever had
• 45:24
  that. We're we're, I've doubted the
• 45:26
  Phillies and like, I don't believe her.
• 45:29
  So maybe this is the year they do it.
• 45:31
  It came down to the rotation for me.
• 45:35
  I mean, I, I, the, I'm sure there's a lot of Braves fans
• 45:38
  listening. We somehow have attracted a ton
• 45:40
  of Braves fans. They're probably going to, they
• 45:45
  are going to be loud. They are loud, yeah, louder than
• 45:49
  most fan fan bases. But yeah, man, I just, I, I get
• 45:54
  that Spencer Strider's coming back.
• 45:55
  I, I, I think Chris Sale is, is going to be good.
• 46:00
  Can you expect Cy Young, Chris Sale?
• 46:02
  Probably not, but I just don't know if there's enough pitching
• 46:07
  depth. And I like the fact that the
• 46:09
  Phillies brought in Lizardo. I like that Sanchez looks like
• 46:13
  the real deal. You know, when the fact that
• 46:15
  like, you know, Wheeler is just a walking Cy Young candidate
• 46:22
  every year. I think Romano, Jordan Romano is
• 46:27
  a sneaky pick up for that bullpen.
• 46:30
  I just I like some of the things that they did.
• 46:34
  Their offense is going to be their offense.
• 46:37
  I like what the Phillies are doing and it's not it's a very
• 46:41
  thin margin. And if you're curious, the wind
• 46:44
  totals in this are very close the Mets, according to FanDuel.
• 46:50
  By the way, all these numbers are Fandueled sports book.
• 46:54
  Mets are at 90 1/2 wins. Braves are at 93 1/2 wins.
• 46:58
  Sorry, you said 90 1/2. 90 1/2 for both the Mets and the
• 47:02
  Phillies, actually. And then the Braves are at 93
• 47:05
  1/2. So we're going to FanDuel.
• 47:06
  They probably feel like the Braves are going to win this
• 47:08
  division and I wouldn't be surprised if they do.
• 47:12
  It's just you it you got to wonder what kind of Acuna you're
• 47:15
  going to have. Are you going that you're you're
• 47:18
  not going to see 70 swipes out of him again?
• 47:21
  I think he really kind of dials back some of these things to in
• 47:24
  order to stay healthy. But two bad knees, man, Like, I
• 47:28
  don't know, youth is on your side, but.
• 47:30
  I don't he's the, he's not the guy that you're going to be able
• 47:33
  to easily convince to dial it back.
• 47:35
  It's hard to say. It's hard to say.
• 47:38
  Maybe if he has a self-awareness too, then then you sure, But if
• 47:41
  you're just outright telling him and he has full intentions on
• 47:45
  head down, I'm I'm repeating that number again.
• 47:48
  Well, I'm with you. I, I, I mean, shortstop's a
• 47:52
  black hole. Austin Riley needs to be, this
• 47:56
  is in my mind like one of the final straws for Austin Riley of
• 48:00
  like staying healthy, producing and being in the middle of that
• 48:03
  line up the way he should be. I think he should be hitting
• 48:06
  four. I think he should be hitting
• 48:09
  four all day, at least 3-4. And it's just, it hasn't seemed
• 48:13
  to like really fully click full time.
• 48:16
  Sean Murphy being out for a significant amount of time.
• 48:20
  I like the potential of Michael Harris.
• 48:22
  I just when are we going to reach that next year?
• 48:26
  Just a lot of question marks. I get that last year was a wash.
• 48:30
  I think they're going to be significantly better than last
• 48:33
  year. But I have the Phillies just
• 48:37
  edging them out ever so slightly.
• 48:41
  I don't know. For me it's pretty easy going.
• 48:43
  Braves won just because strictly, I think I'm sorry, I'm
• 48:49
  still trying to wrap my head around the fact that you were,
• 48:51
  you could not have been. I was dog in the Phillies.
• 48:53
  I mean, you were straight up dog in the Phillies.
• 48:55
  I just had to do some research, that's all.
• 48:58
  Crazy what happens when you when you do some research, How how
• 49:01
  about it? Yeah, it's wild.
• 49:04
  No, but for the Braves, it's just a mentality thing for me,
• 49:07
  like seeing the way that you mentioned last year for them,
• 49:09
  seeing how the way that that year unfolded for them and
• 49:13
  seeing who they're getting back, seeing the potential that's
• 49:19
  there. But specifically from guys that,
• 49:22
  you know, we've already seen it with at at other like various
• 49:26
  points and throughout their career.
• 49:30
  I just I think the stars are going to line and you know, that
• 49:34
  division is going to get back to the way that it was with with
• 49:36
  Braves. Yeah, Braves running the table
• 49:40
  there. So that's my E Let's go AL West.
• 49:45
  Let's do it. You want me to start her out?
• 49:47
  You want to go one for one here. Start us off here.
• 49:51
  Oh boy. 'Cause I already know, I already
• 49:53
  know we're going to have have some differences here, so go.
• 49:56
  Ahead, probably. Probably.
• 49:59
  I've got the Angels finishing at the bottom of this division,
• 50:05
  solid offseason. I guess.
• 50:06
  I mean, you brought in a bunch of vets and just let's see what
• 50:09
  pans out. You know, can we move any of
• 50:11
  these guys before the deadline? That I feel like that's probably
• 50:14
  the mentality. I I like Ron Washington.
• 50:16
  I'm just kind of confused as to as to what they're doing.
• 50:22
  Yeah, not much time to spend there.
• 50:24
  I love, I love what the A's are doing.
• 50:26
  They're taking a step in the right direction, but I'm not
• 50:28
  going to get crazy. I got them finishing four.
• 50:34
  Just keep building. We say this every time the A's
• 50:36
  come up. Just keep building, keep
• 50:38
  stacking up the the winds of what you're doing.
• 50:42
  I've got the Mariners finishing third in this division strictly
• 50:48
  because of their rotation. They are going to pitch, they
• 50:52
  are going to pitch and they're going to pitch well.
• 50:55
  Offensively is is always just, it's going to be a lot left to
• 51:00
  be desired. You can't just rely on AJ Rod.
• 51:04
  You know, they, I don't understand what they're doing.
• 51:07
  They have to get somebody before the deadline, but I don't see it
• 51:12
  being enough. And down goes the Astros.
• 51:17
  They're going to finish second in this division and I got the
• 51:20
  Rangers taking it. The Rangers lineup looks to be
• 51:24
  amazing. I'm buying early stock on Jacob
• 51:29
  degrom being back. He looks great.
• 51:32
  I I like the flow. I like that the flow is coming
• 51:35
  back. The lettuce is getting grown
• 51:37
  again. They don't be.
• 51:40
  I'll be I'll. Be the the one and only one in
• 51:43
  this camp. But I think he's back baby.
• 51:45
  I think he's going to have a really good year and but mainly
• 51:48
  around this lineup. The fact that like Jake Burger
• 51:51
  is, you know, going to pop 25 easy it in seven or eight in
• 51:55
  that lineup, knowing that Bruce Bocci is just getting more and
• 52:00
  more comfortable. And this seems to be the trend
• 52:02
  for Bruce Bocci. It's it's every other year,
• 52:04
  baby. So down your last year bad year.
• 52:08
  Let's let's stay healthy, keep Corey Seeger on the field and
• 52:14
  and let's bang. So give me the Rangers to take
• 52:15
  the division. The optimism you're feeling for
• 52:20
  Jacob degrom this year is the optimism I was feeling for Mike
• 52:23
  Trout last year. And it how did how did that pan
• 52:25
  out? It didn't.
• 52:27
  Ignorance is bliss, baby. Just just.
• 52:30
  Oh, it's not ignorance, faith. No, it's not ignorance.
• 52:32
  We fully, we know full well how this how this has shaped out
• 52:38
  before and and unfortunately how it will likely shape this year.
• 52:42
  I hate. Jacob degrom can do it.
• 52:44
  That's my, that's my mentality, no.
• 52:47
  Chris sales issue was that he was cursed in Boston after the
• 52:50
  World Series. It just it he needed to move.
• 52:52
  Jacob degrom has moved that's, it's not a, it's not a question,
• 52:58
  that's or that's not a, an, an element at play.
• 53:00
  Here, save this receipt, dog. That's all I'm going to say.
• 53:02
  I feel you. Hey shout out, look at him in
• 53:05
  the chat. Look at that.
• 53:10
  Shout out Chinook cedary sunflower seeds in the chat.
• 53:13
  Free case of seeds You're wondering how can I get a free
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  case of seeds? It's right there on the screen.
• 53:18
  Comment your hottest take in the chat for the 2025 MLB season.
• 53:24
  And Nate and I are going to vote at the end whose take is, we'll
• 53:29
  just say hottest, but it has the most realistic change.
• 53:34
  Yeah, yeah. Like, you can't just be thrown
• 53:35
  wild. You can't say, like, Shohei is
• 53:37
  going to be the first guy to hit 100 on the radar gun on Mars.
• 53:43
  Like it's got to be something within reason.
• 53:46
  Absolutely. That's actually not a great
• 53:48
  example because Shohei probably. Could not be there.
• 53:52
  For my where we at for my West, same same as you, except swap
• 53:58
  Mariners and A's. I'm going age third Mariners
• 54:01
  4th. I'm buying it.
• 54:04
  I, I got to put my money where my mouth is.
• 54:06
  I got to I got to buy the A's hype.
• 54:08
  I'm I'm, I'm in the camp of believing in in some of the
• 54:11
  moves they've made. And they said Bobby Witt's our
• 54:15
  favorite player. Shout out, shout out friend of
• 54:17
  the program. Bobby Witt always loves some
• 54:20
  Bobby Witt. Friend of the program.
• 54:22
  Won't be the last Bobby Witt talk in this episode.
• 54:25
  Oh, so yeah, that's my, that's my W I'm with you on the Rangers
• 54:32
  taking the taking the division crown.
• 54:34
  I think we've fought, we've wondered for the last couple
• 54:36
  years, like, when is it going to happen?
• 54:38
  I think we've reached, I think we've officially reached the
• 54:40
  changing of the guard in the American League West.
• 54:44
  Yeah, yeah, man, I just, they're, they're switching stuff
• 54:48
  up a lot, man. They're, you know, shipping guys
• 54:51
  out in in Houston. You and I talked about it last
• 54:56
  week. I I don't I don't love this
• 54:58
  Altuve and left situation. I it doesn't look great.
• 55:01
  It's embarrassing. He's athletic enough to, I think
• 55:05
  be better than what we've seen so far.
• 55:08
  But this is not a state. Why they Yeah, you didn't have
• 55:11
  to. Do this.
• 55:12
  What are they doing? Alex Bregman plays in Boston.
• 55:14
  You didn't need to do this. Yeah, anyway, they really did
• 55:18
  this to themselves, but their rotation is going to keep them
• 55:20
  in the hunt, so that's why I have them at 2:00.
• 55:24
  Last division here for us the. NL West, why don't you?
• 55:32
  Why don't you start us off? I say we just go.
• 55:35
  We just go together here. No, I, I think you're going to
• 55:37
  want to start us off. I don't think so.
• 55:40
  Rockies five. OK Yeah.
• 55:44
  Giants four. Yeah.
• 55:49
  Padres 3. That's right.
• 55:52
  Diamondbacks 2. Shut up.
• 55:56
  Come on, man. Nope.
• 55:58
  Nope. Nope.
• 55:59
  Nope. Nope.
• 56:00
  OK. Well you're loan.
• 56:02
  Has explaining to do, so go ahead.
• 56:04
  If we're talking over unders, the Dodgers having 105 1/2 over
• 56:11
  under win total this year, I'm hammering that under.
• 56:15
  I think they're very deep. I think they're very good.
• 56:18
  I don't think they're going to care. 105 and you're quote
• 56:21
  hammering the under that's. Hammering the under that's.
• 56:25
  Crazy. Hammering the under, They're not
• 56:27
  winning 106 games. I'm sorry.
• 56:29
  They don't care about the regular season.
• 56:31
  They're not going to care about the regular season.
• 56:34
  They don't have to. They're load.
• 56:35
  Management. This is load management for
• 56:38
  their superstars. That's what it says.
• 56:41
  I love what the Diamondbacks are doing.
• 56:43
  I love that they were a top. They were the top offense last
• 56:47
  year and they plugged their problems with excellent
• 56:52
  solutions. Their rotation is deep.
• 56:55
  I love what they're going to do this year.
• 56:57
  I have the Diamondbacks winning the NL W because they're going
• 57:01
  to continue to fight for it every day.
• 57:03
  And it's not about load management.
• 57:05
  It's not about trying to keep superstars healthy.
• 57:08
  It's not about trying to figure out who to pitch what days,
• 57:10
  because they just have a group that is going to go out and ball
• 57:13
  and win and it's going to be different.
• 57:16
  It's going to be done in a different way.
• 57:19
  I freaking love what the Diamondbacks did this offseason.
• 57:23
  I love what they're putting together.
• 57:25
  And I'm I'm in, dude. I'm in on the Diamondbacks.
• 57:30
  I think they win this division. That's crazy, not not a year,
• 57:37
  you know what I mean? You're no, you're absolutely
• 57:38
  right. And hear me out.
• 57:39
  It's not it has nothing to do with the D backs.
• 57:41
  I fully I fully buy the D back stock.
• 57:44
  It's just like I don't believe in guarantees in baseball, but
• 57:50
  this the 2025 dodgers have to be as close to a guarantee of
• 57:55
  winning the division that we've seen in some time.
• 57:59
  And I I hate saying that because it just makes me feel icky.
• 58:02
  I'm like I I don't want to. Say it.
• 58:04
  I don't want to be. I don't want to be one of those
• 58:06
  people that just, you know, slobs on the Dodgers all year.
• 58:09
  But like you mentioned, not caring about the regular season.
• 58:12
  Load management, first of all, they don't have to care about
• 58:15
  the regular season and they'll still win baseball games.
• 58:18
  Load management you can take, you can give your starting nine
• 58:22
  days off at an entire starting nine days off at a time and you
• 58:26
  can still feel the starting nine.
• 58:27
  That's better than most clubs. That's the crazy part.
• 58:31
  So for those reasons, I have no choice but to and that rotation,
• 58:35
  Oh my goodness, don't even get me started on the rotation.
• 58:37
  I mean, I, I, I can't not put the Dodgers one.
• 58:43
  I could. I did it.
• 58:46
  Hey, it is a, it is a a hot takes episode.
• 58:48
  That's right, what we're here for.
• 58:49
  What are we here? What are we?
• 58:50
  You know, we're just going to say what everyone else says.
• 58:53
  I don't think so. When it comes to this, I I kind
• 58:56
  of have to, but everything else fair game.
• 58:59
  All right, I got a little. You want to, you want to spend a
• 59:01
  little more time in that area because I give the you want to
• 59:08
  like throw any shade at the Padres or like.
• 59:11
  No, I don't. No, no I don't.
• 59:13
  I don't think the Padres are going to be a flop this year,
• 59:15
  but I just not. It's going to be tight.
• 59:17
  I think it's going to be a tight finish for sure, but.
• 59:20
  Yeah, yeah. But I don't think they're going
• 59:23
  to do enough to overtake regardless if you're in Nate's
• 59:26
  camp or my camp of having D backs one, Dodgers 1.
• 59:29
  I don't think, I don't think the Padres are going to do enough to
• 59:32
  overtake either of those teams. So with that said, I've got them
• 59:36
  three, but I've got a little thing I wanted to spring on you
• 59:39
  here. We hadn't done this before.
• 59:40
  Oh I love this. We're going to do because I, I
• 59:44
  like trying to incorporate more ways that we can reference this
• 59:50
  episode at the end of the year. So I thought, let's do a
• 59:53
  divisions by win totals draft real quick.
• 59:58
  Total wins for all 5. For all five teams in each
• 1:00:01
  division, we're going to do a little draft.
• 1:00:05
  I believe I won the last draft, the last draft that we did, so
• 1:00:11
  I'll. If it's OK with you, I'll go
• 1:00:13
  ahead and take first pick, but then as as the drafts would have
• 1:00:17
  it, you've got the snake draft, so you'll take two and three and
• 1:00:22
  we got to draft our six or our, our three each.
• 1:00:27
  All right, so with the first pick, and again, we're going to
• 1:00:30
  reference this at the end so we'll be able to tally up the
• 1:00:32
  win totals and see who had the most wins amongst their three
• 1:00:37
  divisions. You, you cool with that?
• 1:00:40
  All right, with the first pick in the divisions by win totals
• 1:00:46
  draft give me. Love picking second by the way.
• 1:00:54
  Yeah, no, that's, that's strong boy.
• 1:01:05
  I I mean I. Am I going to?
• 1:01:12
  Am I going to hate going? Give me little did you know, I
• 1:01:20
  knew this was coming and I and I punted on the last draft just so
• 1:01:24
  I could pick second. Oh, yeah, No, no, for sure.
• 1:01:26
  Yeah, definitely. This is tough.
• 1:01:37
  I I knew this was coming and not joking, I knew this was coming.
• 1:01:42
  And I still can't figure out what I want to go with my first
• 1:01:44
  pick. Yeah, I'm completely comfortable
• 1:01:46
  with doing whatever you don't do.
• 1:01:52
  Give me. I hope this doesn't come back to
• 1:01:57
  bite me, but give me. I got to go with what I know.
• 1:02:04
  Give me the AL East. Sure, I already know what you're
• 1:02:06
  going with. Go go ahead and pick it.
• 1:02:08
  Yeah, I don't think it matters order, but give me the NL East
• 1:02:12
  and then give me the NL West. Oh, I see what you're saying
• 1:02:18
  Doesn't matter. Yeah, Yeah, I got you.
• 1:02:21
  All right. You went NL East and NL West.
• 1:02:26
  All right, give me. So I got 2 picks here, so give
• 1:02:33
  me. Actually, this is excellent
• 1:02:34
  because I'm going to. Believe me, with I don't know,
• 1:02:41
  but I think it's giving me this is all going to be pretty close
• 1:02:44
  either. Way doesn't matter the order
• 1:02:45
  give me just 'cause I see it first here.
• 1:02:49
  Give me AO West and give me. Yeah.
• 1:02:57
  Now you know what? You know what?
• 1:02:59
  I'm not, I'm not going to do. I'm going to.
• 1:03:02
  I'm going to play optimist here. Oh, OK, Give me you know what?
• 1:03:10
  Just give me the whole American League.
• 1:03:12
  Just give me the whole. American League, I'll take the
• 1:03:15
  next. You have it.
• 1:03:16
  That's easy. That's easy enough.
• 1:03:19
  That would be easy. Because.
• 1:03:22
  Hey, give me one of these right there.
• 1:03:24
  Give me one of these. This is a it's an excellent
• 1:03:26
  idea. And thank you.
• 1:03:28
  Thank you. I'm totally fine with this.
• 1:03:30
  I'm totally fine with taking the NL.
• 1:03:32
  You take the AOI, Think the NL is ridiculous this year.
• 1:03:37
  No, I'm, I'm with you, but I was going to leave you with the
• 1:03:40
  Central just because of the White Sox.
• 1:03:42
  But I'm going, you know, even if the White Sox played.
• 1:03:44
  Yeah, but I got the Rockies. I feel like that's and the
• 1:03:47
  Marlins. I got those two like those are.
• 1:03:52
  I I feel you those. Are tough.
• 1:03:54
  But I was able to look past the White Sox and go, OK, if I've
• 1:03:57
  got the Twins at 4:00, which there's a good chance that
• 1:04:02
  doesn't happen. But if it does and the Twins
• 1:04:04
  still play like respectable baseball, like the Central is,
• 1:04:08
  I'm willing to eat the losses that the White Sox will give me
• 1:04:12
  for the rest of that division. All right, I'll take that.
• 1:04:14
  Give me the E, Give me the American League.
• 1:04:16
  I like that. All right.
• 1:04:18
  All right, how do you want to do the over unders because we got
• 1:04:23
  those after we get into our postseason picks here.
• 1:04:26
  Do you want to you want to solicit some from the listeners?
• 1:04:30
  Yeah, hit me with some listener stuff.
• 1:04:32
  Shout out Spence in the chat. I need these fits for every
• 1:04:34
  episode. I mean, I mean maybe the glasses
• 1:04:37
  becomes a thing. I don't hate it.
• 1:04:39
  I don't hate it. I'm wearing shorts.
• 1:04:43
  As am I, Yeah. OK, I'm barely so I.
• 1:04:46
  Don't know. Yeah, All right.
• 1:04:49
  I'm down every. I'm very comfy.
• 1:04:52
  This is I like this. This is good.
• 1:04:55
  All right, all right. So for some over unders, we
• 1:04:58
  wanted to get some over unders suggestions from the chat and
• 1:05:02
  we're going to get to those. We're going to get to those
• 1:05:05
  after we do our post season picks.
• 1:05:08
  But let me get a banner up here on the screen.
• 1:05:13
  Nate, you want to let the folks know, like what we're looking
• 1:05:16
  for, just to give them an idea. I mean, it could be just kind of
• 1:05:23
  obscure over unders. I don't think, you know, it's
• 1:05:27
  not necessarily like over under like win totals for teams.
• 1:05:32
  You know what I mean? This this could be player
• 1:05:34
  specific. It could be, you know, where you
• 1:05:36
  feel like an over under on stolen bases, home runs.
• 1:05:39
  You could do, you know, strikeouts over unders on
• 1:05:43
  managers getting tossed. You could, you know, like it, it
• 1:05:46
  could be over under on errors, it could be over under on games
• 1:05:50
  played. So kind of use that and shifted
• 1:05:55
  around, you know, some players you maybe want to maybe want to
• 1:05:58
  watch this year or you know, shed a little light on that we
• 1:06:03
  haven't covered already, stuff like that.
• 1:06:04
  Let's get creative with the over unders.
• 1:06:09
  All right, so while we while we wait on those, let's run through
• 1:06:12
  our post season perfect seeds, our Pennant winners and our
• 1:06:19
  World Series winners. You want me to start us off?
• 1:06:27
  I'm yes, I'm not kidding. I told you before we hopped on
• 1:06:30
  my AO Pennant. Winner is still blank and I'm
• 1:06:32
  still on the fence. I love this.
• 1:06:35
  I'm still there. I mean, you, you can't you can't
• 1:06:39
  knock us for just going with the first thing that comes to mind.
• 1:06:43
  Like we Nate literally has his pendant winner still blank.
• 1:06:46
  He is he is maximizing. I'm just I'm taking as much time
• 1:06:51
  as possible for I need to submit my answer maximizing the amount
• 1:06:56
  of time taking or or needed to to make this this pick.
• 1:07:01
  I love that. All right, I'm just going to
• 1:07:06
  give you my American League postseason seeds, 4-5 and six.
• 1:07:10
  OK, so I've given you our division winners.
• 1:07:13
  Obviously for me, I American League wild card seed #4 or my,
• 1:07:25
  you know, my postseason wild card seed, number one, I guess.
• 1:07:27
  But my, my fourth seed coming out of the American League
• 1:07:31
  Houston Astros. So you think that they're,
• 1:07:36
  they're, I mean they're still there.
• 1:07:37
  Like you can't completely eliminate.
• 1:07:39
  Them. Oh, no, no, no, yeah, no.
• 1:07:41
  When I say changing of the guard, it's strictly from the
• 1:07:43
  perspective of the division. But there's still a postseason.
• 1:07:46
  There's there's still a threat, there's still such a well run
• 1:07:50
  organization in in multiple ways.
• 1:07:53
  So I'm with you. I think I think they're
• 1:07:56
  absolutely still in the conversation.
• 1:07:57
  So I don't hate that pick. You want to go one for one here.
• 1:08:00
  You want to you want to run through your five and six as
• 1:08:02
  well. I'll just run through them here
• 1:08:05
  real quick, ALC #5 for me, the Baltimore Orioles, and you.
• 1:08:13
  You ready for this? I don't have a drum roll on
• 1:08:20
  here. Never mind.
• 1:08:26
  We'll go with this instead. My 6 American League postseason
• 1:08:34
  seed is none other than the Sacramento A's.
• 1:08:42
  The Sacramento A's, the last team into the postseason.
• 1:08:51
  You're welcome. Insanity.
• 1:08:54
  It's. All right, keep your seat.
• 1:08:55
  Your insanity. What?
• 1:08:57
  Please do what? What did?
• 1:08:58
  Everybody say when I said the same thing about the Royals last
• 1:09:01
  year. Yeah, well, how many times did
• 1:09:03
  we say that Angels were going to win a division over the six or
• 1:09:07
  seven years we've been doing this?
• 1:09:08
  No, we've never said the Angels are going to win the division.
• 1:09:11
  But we've had we've been high on teams before and they've
• 1:09:13
  absolutely let us down. This isn't being hot, this is
• 1:09:16
  simply saying they're going to squeak in as the last team.
• 1:09:19
  Compared to what they win the division, this is very high on
• 1:09:22
  that team. Whatever, whatever, dude 4 Gimme
• 1:09:27
  Yanks. I I think we already talked
• 1:09:29
  about it before. I think they've they're just
• 1:09:32
  going to look different. They're not going to be the same
• 1:09:34
  as what you've seen in the past, but I think they're still going
• 1:09:36
  to be pretty good. 5:00 I've got Royals because I did not have
• 1:09:42
  them winning the Central like you did, but I have them in the
• 1:09:45
  dance with the second wild card spot, fifth seed overall and
• 1:09:52
  then similar ideology what you were saying before.
• 1:09:55
  I still have the Astros in the conversation.
• 1:09:56
  So they're going to round out the last wild card spot in the
• 1:09:59
  sixth seed in the Ali. Like that.
• 1:10:04
  I like it. My National League seeds, my 4th
• 1:10:11
  postseason seed coming out of the NL, Arizona Diamondbacks,
• 1:10:20
  giving them the respect that they're due.
• 1:10:24
  I'm going with your NL East division winner, the
• 1:10:29
  Philadelphia Phillies as my fifth seed coming out of the NL,
• 1:10:36
  and we're going to look at a 2025 postseason that's bringing
• 1:10:41
  No, no, no, don't, no, I'm not. This isn't crazy. 2 National
• 1:10:46
  League East teams out of the wild card.
• 1:10:49
  We're going Mets. Where'd you think I was going
• 1:10:52
  with that? I thought you weren't going
• 1:10:53
  Mets, and that's where I was like, this is nuts, this is
• 1:10:59
  nuts. I I understand not being high on
• 1:11:01
  them, but that would be crazy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, we're
• 1:11:05
  we're we have like the same mindset.
• 1:11:06
  We're just our orders are different with the division
• 1:11:09
  winner. So, so obviously I have the
• 1:11:11
  Dodgers with the top wild card spot at the four seed and then I
• 1:11:16
  have the opposite of the division winner in the NL.
• 1:11:19
  EI have the Phillies winning the East.
• 1:11:21
  So I have the Bretts, the Bretts, the.
• 1:11:23
  Braves the Bretts The Bretts. In the the Braves in the five
• 1:11:27
  spot, second wild card spot, and then I have the Mets rounding it
• 1:11:31
  out to still get in the NL. E is going to be a freaking
• 1:11:37
  gauntlet, dude. I think they're going to be
• 1:11:39
  good. I don't think you're going to
• 1:11:40
  see super high wind totals in that division.
• 1:11:44
  I think it's all going to be tight.
• 1:11:45
  Like you're going to have three teams in the 88 to 91 win range.
• 1:11:52
  In my mind, they're going to be all in that conversation.
• 1:11:54
  So they're just going to beat each other up.
• 1:11:56
  They're going to play really good ball and just comes down to
• 1:11:59
  staying healthy. All right, here's where the
• 1:12:06
  rubber meets the road, my friend.
• 1:12:09
  Do you need more time? Do you need me to buy you more
• 1:12:11
  time? Or if you decide, no, no, I
• 1:12:13
  wrote it in, I wrote it in and I need some freaking credit here.
• 1:12:19
  I need some freaking credit. Oh yeah, that's what I like to
• 1:12:22
  hear. I need some freaking credit.
• 1:12:25
  I know what that means. I have a lot of people that love
• 1:12:28
  to. Say, oh, who's the Yankees?
• 1:12:30
  Fan. Name another Yankees fan that is
• 1:12:32
  this realistic. Name another Yankees fan that is
• 1:12:36
  this true that analyzes his team without ridiculous bias.
• 1:12:42
  Name another one. That's beautiful.
• 1:12:45
  This is beautiful. I want no, no, no.
• 1:12:48
  I want you to look me in the camera, look me in the eyes, and
• 1:12:52
  I want you to say what you're about to say.
• 1:13:00
  I got the Red Sox going to the World Series.
• 1:13:04
  Yeah, you do. Yeah, you do.
• 1:13:08
  You know what? Let's go one for one here,
• 1:13:10
  because I I like that. I like the transition here.
• 1:13:12
  People want to sit here and say, oh, you're just a Red Sox Homer,
• 1:13:15
  of course you're going to put them in the World Series.
• 1:13:16
  I'm not putting them in the World Series.
• 1:13:19
  How about that? How about that you think, oh,
• 1:13:22
  there's no way at this point in the pod, in the life of this
• 1:13:24
  podcast, that Nate and Kyle could surprise us?
• 1:13:28
  How about that Nate's got the Red Sox in the World Series this
• 1:13:31
  year and I don't. How about that?
• 1:13:33
  You know who I've got in the World Series coming out of the
• 1:13:35
  American League? The Texas Rangers.
• 1:13:40
  No, no, no, stop. Don't think I'm going to
• 1:13:42
  Sacramento. A's.
• 1:13:43
  They're Texas. Rangers, I was honestly thinking
• 1:13:46
  Royals, but yeah, Rangers is definitely the next.
• 1:13:49
  Give me the Texas Rangers. Yeah, that's what I was on the
• 1:13:52
  fits with as well. I like, I like what they got
• 1:13:54
  going on. So that's a good pick.
• 1:13:56
  That's a good pick. Nationally.
• 1:14:00
  Who are they facing? Kyle.
• 1:14:02
  I'm like, come on, dude, come on.
• 1:14:05
  Get yours out of the way. Get yours in the winter out of
• 1:14:12
  the way, No? Look, stop, look, you know,
• 1:14:16
  check the receipts. I've said year after year, I
• 1:14:18
  said it doesn't matter about who has the best team on paper to
• 1:14:22
  start the season. And more often than not, almost
• 1:14:27
  exclusive, like almost every year that that proves to be the
• 1:14:33
  case, like it doesn't matter because you see somebody else
• 1:14:35
  catch, catch fire at the right time.
• 1:14:38
  See, you see somebody run the table in the postseason who
• 1:14:41
  maybe you didn't anticipate doing so at the start of the
• 1:14:44
  year. But we got to be, we got to, we
• 1:14:48
  got to call spade a spade here. We got to look at reality and
• 1:14:51
  recognize that I think the Dodgers broke shattered that
• 1:14:55
  glass for us last year. And so now that that's happened,
• 1:15:02
  I got to go Dodgers. Taking it how many?
• 1:15:11
  Fighting for my life over here 5.
• 1:15:16
  You just love pain, don't you? Oh man, just love pain.
• 1:15:23
  Well, I said it before, I'm saying it again.
• 1:15:28
  Give me your Arizona Diamondbacks taking it all in
• 1:15:32
  seven over the Boston Red Sox. I'm fully in.
• 1:15:37
  I'm fully in on this team, baby. I'm fully bought in.
• 1:15:40
  I will. I will not allow my view on how
• 1:15:49
  baseball is to be changed by one organization and just a couple
• 1:15:55
  off seasons. I refuse to allow it to be
• 1:15:58
  written on paper. I refuse, refuse, refuse.
• 1:16:03
  I've got the Diamondbacks taking it.
• 1:16:04
  It's going to take all 7. And as much as I'd love to see
• 1:16:10
  my Yanks in the World Series, I like the idea of you flying out
• 1:16:13
  here and us going to some games at Chase Field.
• 1:16:17
  And I can root for the Diamondbacks and you can root
• 1:16:19
  for your Red Sox. Because that sounds kind of
• 1:16:21
  nice. And that sounds like a fun
• 1:16:22
  little trip. I would love that match up.
• 1:16:25
  That'd be cool, right? That's a match up that I hadn't
• 1:16:27
  really considered. I like that.
• 1:16:28
  It's a fun match up. Two very good, very good teams
• 1:16:32
  that have well, I mean, I know the Diamondbacks were just in
• 1:16:35
  the World Series a few years ago, but like I just overall two
• 1:16:38
  teams that have had not had the greatest last few years.
• 1:16:41
  And now they're starting to get the hype.
• 1:16:43
  They have the rosters, they have the offense, they got pitching
• 1:16:46
  depth that they maybe didn't have last year.
• 1:16:48
  Then now that they do have. I just like, I like what's going
• 1:16:51
  on. I'm a baseball fan first,
• 1:16:55
  people. I'm a baseball fan first.
• 1:16:57
  It's hard to remind yourself of that sometimes.
• 1:17:00
  That's the kind of podcast you're tuned into right now.
• 1:17:03
  It's 2 baseball dudes, OK, yes, we're Yankees fans and Red Sox
• 1:17:07
  fans and we can talk and cheer and do everything we need to do
• 1:17:12
  to convince ourselves that we're not going anywhere.
• 1:17:14
  But we're baseball fans first. Laura says she would like some
• 1:17:20
  of the drugs that you're you're consuming.
• 1:17:22
  She says that's not going to happen.
• 1:17:23
  Red Sox versus D backs in the World Series?
• 1:17:25
  Come on. Come on, Laura, have some faith.
• 1:17:29
  All right. Give me some takes, people.
• 1:17:31
  It's it's time. Give me some takes.
• 1:17:34
  All right, over under looking through the chat here, Bear with
• 1:17:39
  me again. If you if you listen to us last
• 1:17:41
  episode, you're you're aware that I'm I'm struggling right
• 1:17:44
  now. Allergies are getting the best
• 1:17:46
  of me. I'm fighting for my life over
• 1:17:48
  here. But rather than postpone, I said
• 1:17:51
  the show, the show goes on. That's right, But you're going
• 1:17:55
  to have to bear with me. Padres over under eighty wins.
• 1:18:05
  80 can we throw 1/2 on that just so we're not I'm just.
• 1:18:08
  Reading what's I'm reading what's on the chat.
• 1:18:10
  All right. Yeah, we'll go 80.
• 1:18:11
  It's a rookie line. You got to give half, so you
• 1:18:13
  don't. You can't push, you know, I'll
• 1:18:17
  give him over 80. I think they're still, I think
• 1:18:21
  they're still solid. They just don't have a ton of
• 1:18:23
  depth. I think you're still going to
• 1:18:25
  get, you know, pretty good offense.
• 1:18:28
  I think Manny Machado and Tatis are still going to produce.
• 1:18:32
  I'm worried about Jackson Merrill being relied on as a
• 1:18:35
  three hole. That's that's kind of where I'm
• 1:18:37
  at. It's like I'm worried about him
• 1:18:40
  not being able to just be this like fun, easygoing, no pressure
• 1:18:45
  rookie. And now it's turned into this
• 1:18:48
  large expectation moving you into the middle of the order,
• 1:18:51
  heavily relying on you. You can probably speak to this
• 1:18:55
  more. I just I don't love Xander going
• 1:18:58
  back to short. I don't love him being able to
• 1:19:02
  stay healthy at his age. I don't love the fact that they
• 1:19:06
  have just lost some of that infield depth they're pitching.
• 1:19:12
  Can it stay healthy? Is Dylan Cease going to remain a
• 1:19:14
  Padre all year? I just, there's so many things I
• 1:19:17
  don't know. So I have them better than
• 1:19:20
  eighty wins or 80 1/2 if we're changing that line, but we still
• 1:19:27
  both have them finishing third in that division.
• 1:19:29
  I think there's a significant gap between the other two teams
• 1:19:32
  that they're fighting against. Yep, taking over.
• 1:19:38
  I'm going to take you over. I'm going to let you do all the
• 1:19:41
  talking. I got to save my voice for the.
• 1:19:43
  End here you got to get crawl into the finish line.
• 1:19:45
  Crawl into the finish line. Let's see here.
• 1:19:51
  Over under from our friends at Chinook.
• 1:19:53
  Over under what? We'll call it 40 1/2 bags for
• 1:19:57
  Otani. Give me over, I'm going to go
• 1:20:04
  over then I can't say too much else.
• 1:20:06
  I've got things planned for Ohtani.
• 1:20:08
  Oh boy. All right, well, I'll leave it
• 1:20:10
  at that. Let's see here.
• 1:20:14
  Love that they're in the chat. Chinook.
• 1:20:16
  Welcome to the family, man. This is just this is just a
• 1:20:19
  dream. Love those guys.
• 1:20:21
  Got some dill that's ready to go right here.
• 1:20:24
  Already opened up. Let's see.
• 1:20:29
  I know there's somewhere in here over under RB is for Pete Alonzo
• 1:20:36
  there. Was no, we got to set the line.
• 1:20:38
  OK, I like that. I like that Spencer man.
• 1:20:44
  I mean, having Lindor and Soto in front of you, Soto's always
• 1:20:49
  going to be in front of you. I think a good line would be
• 1:20:58
  should we look up what he's done lately?
• 1:21:00
  Let's just look it up. Let's look up the stats, see
• 1:21:08
  what the years have brought us. So 88 last year, 118 the year
• 1:21:17
  before that, 131 the year before that. 2021 was at 94, washing
• 1:21:22
  out 2020. And his rookie season of 2019
• 1:21:27
  had 120 RBIs. Oh boy.
• 1:21:32
  I mean, look down year last year for Peter, which is still saying
• 1:21:37
  something, by the way. I know we throw a lot of shade
• 1:21:39
  at this guy, but 123 OPS plus still hit 34 jacks.
• 1:21:45
  Like if, if that's a down year for a guy, you can call him a
• 1:21:49
  cornball all you want. I'll take that.
• 1:21:51
  You know, I will take that. What do you think about a line
• 1:21:56
  of, let's say, 119 1/2? What do you think of that line?
• 1:22:02
  He's gone over that number twice in his career.
• 1:22:08
  I'm going to take the under but but not by much.
• 1:22:11
  OK. And I just it has for no other
• 1:22:14
  reason other than the fact that I just feel like he may he might
• 1:22:17
  be in a weird place mentally this year.
• 1:22:19
  Yeah, with just like no security.
• 1:22:22
  With the way this, well, just with the way this offseason went
• 1:22:25
  and, and the narrative that surrounded his place on this
• 1:22:29
  team, I like. That I like that take.
• 1:22:35
  Yeah, I and it again, not by much, 'cause I mean a guy, guy
• 1:22:39
  mashes and to your point, he's going to have guys on base more
• 1:22:42
  often than not. But I don't, I don't know.
• 1:22:43
  I just. I feel like there's a dynamic
• 1:22:46
  that he's maybe fighting. We're like in his head he wants
• 1:22:50
  to be the hero and in his head he wants to be the met.
• 1:22:54
  He always wants to be that guy, but he's just not that guy this
• 1:22:57
  year. But like what I could understand
• 1:23:00
  really still holding on to that with Pete, with with Frankie
• 1:23:04
  Lindor. But now that Soto's there,
• 1:23:07
  that's what I'm saying. Yeah.
• 1:23:08
  For so long, I agree that there's there's probably a
• 1:23:10
  little some inner demons that guy's facing that it's it's a
• 1:23:14
  switch of a mentality, switch of a role to still find that
• 1:23:17
  success. Whatever, I'll take the over.
• 1:23:22
  Why not we got to re listen to this at some point by the way
• 1:23:27
  and and make sure we revisit this down the road.
• 1:23:30
  Hold on to some receipts because I like these.
• 1:23:32
  Over unders are very easy. Oh, I like this.
• 1:23:36
  This isn't really an over under, but I like this.
• 1:23:38
  I see, I see this in the chat. What's higher show haze, ERA or
• 1:23:43
  batting average? Take out the decimals.
• 1:23:45
  I like that. I got to look at batting average
• 1:23:57
  because that's something I haven't really paid attention.
• 1:24:00
  A ton of attention, attention, a ton of attention with him. 10 of
• 1:24:05
  attention. I'm going.
• 1:24:12
  What is this real? Oh.
• 1:24:17
  I'm going, I'm going ERA. Oh, I almost just filled my
• 1:24:22
  shorts. When you go to baseball
• 1:24:25
  reference and you like are used to looking at the years.
• 1:24:29
  I forgot that they've already started this year and it said
• 1:24:32
  375 and I was like, there's no way he had 375 last year and I
• 1:24:38
  didn't know it. He had three ten last year.
• 1:24:41
  The year before that was three O 4.
• 1:24:46
  You meet ERA. Higher, yeah, give me give me a
• 1:24:52
  higher ERA as well. I I just don't think he's going
• 1:24:54
  to have enough innings to to keep that low, low, low.
• 1:25:02
  You know what I mean? I don't have him going crazy on
• 1:25:05
  innings. So I'm going to go ERA is
• 1:25:08
  higher. That's a great, that's probably
• 1:25:14
  that's in the running from my favorite over under, by the way,
• 1:25:18
  that's a really good one. Yeah, I guess you're right.
• 1:25:21
  I guess that is an over under. It's just a, it's a unique.
• 1:25:23
  Over, under, that's a fun, that's a fun conversation, yeah.
• 1:25:27
  Let's end it with that one on on the over unders.
• 1:25:29
  Now let's switch gears here and go.
• 1:25:33
  Want to get into our awards? Let's get into some awards, pal.
• 1:25:38
  Can we start with the boring ones?
• 1:25:43
  Let's go come back Player of the Year and and Managers of the
• 1:25:46
  Year first. Let's just show us how the I
• 1:25:47
  tell you what, I tell you what I'm going to send you because I,
• 1:25:51
  you know, full transparency here, we're all family.
• 1:25:53
  We're all friends. I have been, I have been just
• 1:25:59
  crushing fluids today and I've reload.
• 1:26:03
  I've made it as as far as I can go for this, for this moment.
• 1:26:07
  So you know what? I'm going to press that water
• 1:26:09
  bottle already. Oh, yeah, dude.
• 1:26:10
  So I'm, you know what I'm going to do?
• 1:26:12
  I'm going to I'm going to send you the second batch of of hot
• 1:26:19
  listener hot takes to read off here for the people and I'm
• 1:26:23
  going to I'm going to go use the boys room.
• 1:26:26
  Oh, I'm so sorry, buddy. All right.
• 1:26:29
  I'm going to try to take my time, OK?
• 1:26:32
  Hey, go for it, I'll. Be What'd you what'd you send
• 1:26:34
  me? I just sent you the takes.
• 1:26:37
  Oh. These are the takes.
• 1:26:38
  These are the takes. I love it.
• 1:26:39
  Cool. I thought we were getting into
• 1:26:41
  the awards. You confused me.
• 1:26:42
  No, no, no. Sorry.
• 1:26:44
  OK, All right. I'll be right back.
• 1:26:46
  I'll take my time, all right. Long time friend of the pod
• 1:26:52
  Murray Kang starting us off here.
• 1:26:55
  Even with Cole, even without Cole, excuse me, I still think
• 1:27:01
  we will have a rematch in the World Series.
• 1:27:05
  Murray, my guy. That's that's why I love you,
• 1:27:09
  pal. I love that optimism.
• 1:27:12
  I like, I like it. I'm worried about Max Freed, to
• 1:27:16
  be honest with you. I'm worried about him, him being
• 1:27:20
  able to put up the same production.
• 1:27:23
  I'm worried about the lack of rotation depth.
• 1:27:25
  I'm worried that Bellinger and then Goldschmidt are not the
• 1:27:29
  answer. I feel, I feel OK the more
• 1:27:34
  spring training I watch with the Yankees, I feel better.
• 1:27:36
  But I it's a crazy take and I like it.
• 1:27:39
  And that's what we're here for. We're here for the Heat, Brendan
• 1:27:43
  says the former Oakland, current Sacramento, future Vegas A's
• 1:27:51
  will be buyers at the deadline. I don't hate it.
• 1:28:00
  I don't hate it. Brendan.
• 1:28:02
  Do you have them in the hunt? You know, is that, is that what
• 1:28:04
  you're thinking? Like do you have them in the
• 1:28:07
  conversation of like somewhat going for it when they're
• 1:28:10
  looking at September? It's an interesting, it's an
• 1:28:14
  interesting idea. I don't hate it.
• 1:28:18
  I don't hate it. I do like what the A's are
• 1:28:20
  doing. I'm not going to go as high on
• 1:28:24
  them as as what Kyle's going, but I'm OK with that.
• 1:28:28
  I'm OK with them being buyers. Manny Guerrero.
• 1:28:31
  Aside from winning the Cy Young, this guy will at least pinch hit
• 1:28:38
  at some point during the regular season.
• 1:28:41
  People forget he's a two way player.
• 1:28:42
  We read this one already. Think where this is in reference
• 1:28:44
  to Mr. Paul Skeens. An AB would be wild.
• 1:28:50
  By the way. Aaron Tyler.
• 1:28:54
  Vinny Pasquantino comes out of nowhere and plays like an
• 1:28:58
  absolute beast with 40 jacks and a 330 batting average.
• 1:29:06
  The Pasquatch, they look, you know, my Co host over here is a
• 1:29:15
  huge Royals guy and I'm sure you'd love if Mr. Pasquatch
• 1:29:19
  would would get after it this year. 40 Jacks and 3:30.
• 1:29:25
  That's that's MVP conversation. That I, I love this take.
• 1:29:30
  When I jotted it down, when I came across it, I was like, I I
• 1:29:33
  love that take. That is a that's a sneaky good,
• 1:29:37
  yeah, sneaky bolt. We'll we'll call.
• 1:29:39
  It if you have that and Bobby Witt doing what Bobby Witt can
• 1:29:43
  do in the same lineup, my goodness, with that rotation,
• 1:29:48
  you want me to keep rolling through these?
• 1:29:50
  Yeah, you got it. All right, Orlando.
• 1:29:54
  Orlando says Dodgers will break the record for most games, one
• 1:29:58
  in a season, and get knocked out in the first round of the
• 1:30:02
  playoffs. So he's got the opposite of what
• 1:30:06
  we've kind of said. We've we are in the, well, at
• 1:30:10
  least me, you're less in this camp, but I'm a little bit in
• 1:30:13
  the camp that they don't necessarily care about the
• 1:30:15
  regular season as much. Orlando's saying no, they're
• 1:30:19
  going to pop off most games won in a season.
• 1:30:23
  By the way, that would need to be 1, 15, 1/16. 117 I think. 117
• 1:30:39
  But I mean, I the bigger part of this take is that they're going
• 1:30:41
  to get bounced in the first round.
• 1:30:43
  No, did they? Well, it wasn't 120, was it?
• 1:30:48
  No. 1-16, Yeah. OK, What am I saying?
• 1:30:55
  Yeah, 116. So they have to be 117, that's
• 1:30:57
  what. They need, they need 117, but to
• 1:31:00
  get bounced in the first round, it's look, man, these crazier
• 1:31:04
  things have happened. I've talked about this weird I I
• 1:31:06
  don't love if you have them winning the most games ever,
• 1:31:10
  they're obviously going to win the division.
• 1:31:12
  You have this weird buy and this layoff that baseball players are
• 1:31:17
  not used to when they're playing every day.
• 1:31:19
  So you never know what can happen.
• 1:31:22
  That's crazy though. Which, by the way, This is why I
• 1:31:24
  didn't feel great putting the Rangers in the World Series.
• 1:31:27
  But I just we've talked about the ale is wide open this year.
• 1:31:30
  So it. Really, really, really is.
• 1:31:32
  I wasn't too bothered. By it.
• 1:31:34
  Justin Andrews says Mike Trout won't make it to the All Star
• 1:31:40
  break and will retire. Jeez, Justin, I thought I was
• 1:31:45
  out on my Trout, but. This is crazy.
• 1:31:48
  This is different. No, no, no flyer on the fact
• 1:31:52
  that he's moved to right field and and going to try and stay
• 1:31:54
  healthy. But all right, Matt says hunter
• 1:31:59
  green will lead the league in punch outs.
• 1:32:05
  I don't think that's that crazy. I don't think that's far fetched
• 1:32:08
  at all. Hunter green is I'm buying the
• 1:32:10
  hunter green bona fide stud, bona fide horse big time buying
• 1:32:17
  that. I'm buying the stock Tito just
• 1:32:19
  being like, you know what, saying old school like you got
• 1:32:22
  this. Get Me Out of this inning.
• 1:32:25
  Oh yeah, that's what I'm saying, Nate.
• 1:32:27
  I love that. That's freaking love that
• 1:32:31
  that's, that's nice. All right?
• 1:32:34
  Zach says the Guardians will be 15 games under 500 at the break,
• 1:32:42
  but still make the playoffs and lose in the ALCS again.
• 1:32:49
  On top of that, Emmanuel, Class A is going to win the Cy Young.
• 1:32:53
  So I think these are a lot on hand here that it's not just one
• 1:32:58
  or the other. Both of these are going to
• 1:33:00
  happen. That's a lot to unpack, but I.
• 1:33:03
  I appreciate the, well, 15 games under thought outness.
• 1:33:08
  Yeah. By the way, just touching back
• 1:33:10
  on the Guardians, the fact that you're going to have Shane
• 1:33:13
  Bieber being added at some point.
• 1:33:16
  Like, yeah, I you got to, you got to feel me a little bit
• 1:33:20
  there. And the last one, apologize on
• 1:33:26
  the last name if I don't get this and shame on Tony.
• 1:33:29
  We're going to go Tony. Indo vina, Indo Vina.
• 1:33:34
  Sorry, Tony. White Sox have a banner year and
• 1:33:38
  win 50 games. Go Sox World Series 2036, win it
• 1:33:45
  for Mr. Ricendorf's 100th. Birthday Ryan's Dorf's 100th
• 1:33:49
  birthday. Oh, that's so good.
• 1:33:56
  Love that. Yeah.
• 1:33:58
  Banner year for the White Sox. Fifty wins.
• 1:34:00
  Let's let's end the hot. The listener takes on on that.
• 1:34:04
  Excuse me, let's get into our awards.
• 1:34:11
  Let's get the let's get the boring ones out of the way.
• 1:34:12
  Like I said, I always feel like, I think is it just fans that put
• 1:34:20
  more stock into the comeback Player of the year?
• 1:34:23
  Yeah. Then the league.
• 1:34:25
  I don't think the league cares about it.
• 1:34:26
  Yeah, no, I, I mean, frankly, I don't even really care about it
• 1:34:29
  because a lot of the times it's pretty easy.
• 1:34:33
  Like, I mean, you get halfway through the year, you're like,
• 1:34:35
  OK, it's clear who's going to win this award for the most
• 1:34:37
  part. Yeah, I I copped out.
• 1:34:40
  I'm going to be honest with you both my answers are very
• 1:34:42
  lukewarm and. As as I think are mine, I try to
• 1:34:46
  get a little creative with the American League, but the
• 1:34:49
  National League is. Do you want to say National
• 1:34:53
  League at the same time on three?
• 1:34:55
  Sure. Count us off 321 Ronald.
• 1:35:01
  Acuna Junior. Yep.
• 1:35:03
  Perfect. Yep.
• 1:35:04
  And then out of the American League, I've got Felix Batista.
• 1:35:08
  Oh, how about that? Try to get a little little
• 1:35:11
  splashy. Not the favorite, not the
• 1:35:15
  favorite in the clubhouse, but. It's not, but I respect.
• 1:35:18
  I respect a different angle. Yeah, I'm I'm going.
• 1:35:22
  I'm going. Mike Trout.
• 1:35:23
  Of course you are. Yeah, Nothing crazy there.
• 1:35:27
  All right. You want to go?
• 1:35:27
  You want to go managers? There we go, Rookies.
• 1:35:30
  Let's let's go now, let's go, let's go manager and then we'll
• 1:35:35
  do like the we'll do the three big awards.
• 1:35:39
  Let's go National League. I'm going, I'm going.
• 1:35:48
  The boss man himself. Tito, Terry Francona.
• 1:35:55
  Big turn around for the Reds. I'm I'm a bit, I am a believer
• 1:36:01
  in Terry Francona, I tell you that much.
• 1:36:04
  And then American League, I'm going for your American League
• 1:36:10
  Pennant winning Red Sox Alex Kora.
• 1:36:14
  There's your Homer pick I was waiting for.
• 1:36:15
  He's come to take the the crown that's rightfully his.
• 1:36:19
  Of the Homer picks you can have. All Yeah, I mean, come on, It's
• 1:36:23
  the manager of the year, the award that frankly like nobody
• 1:36:26
  cares about. I'll let you have this one.
• 1:36:28
  Come on. Yeah, give me Tori Lavello.
• 1:36:32
  And the NL said what I need to say about the Diamondbacks.
• 1:36:35
  No need to go into that further. Laura in the chat saying that's
• 1:36:38
  not that hot of a take. By the way, I think it was in
• 1:36:41
  reference to me. Like relax if I sorry if I went
• 1:36:44
  lukewarm on the Manager of the Year awards, cut me some.
• 1:36:47
  Slack please Yeah, yeah, manager of the year is interesting, but
• 1:36:53
  then I'm going to go Stephen vote in the AL man.
• 1:36:57
  I just I I'm all about this guy back-to-back.
• 1:37:01
  Yeah, I'm all about this guy. I really am like, I just, I, I
• 1:37:05
  love, I love catchers turning into managers.
• 1:37:08
  The fact there was like basically no gap between his
• 1:37:11
  playing career and his managing career.
• 1:37:14
  I just, I'm running back. There's there's no need to mess
• 1:37:17
  with success there. I like that.
• 1:37:20
  Yeah. Rookie of the Year.
• 1:37:23
  All right, this is where I try to get a little little spicier,
• 1:37:26
  try to think outside the box. Yeah, because I feel like I, I,
• 1:37:30
  I was a little outside the box as well, Guy.
• 1:37:32
  Because when I say that they're like surefire favorites, I, I
• 1:37:36
  think they're surefire favorites.
• 1:37:38
  And I, I really wanted to, really wanted to avoid that.
• 1:37:42
  I did too well for one. Well, some people may disagree
• 1:37:45
  with that, but I, I think these are thinking outside the box a
• 1:37:48
  little bit. I mean as as far as you can go.
• 1:37:50
  I'll get my boring one out of the way then, because you're
• 1:37:53
  outside the box. I want to, I want you to land
• 1:37:55
  the plane on that. I have Rokie Sasaki and NL I I.
• 1:38:03
  Don't love it. You got the position, you got
• 1:38:05
  the position right. You got the wrong team and the
• 1:38:08
  wrong player. I.
• 1:38:09
  Didn't want to but. Now the National League Rookie
• 1:38:15
  of the Year. I just wanted to go bold with
• 1:38:19
  this because I I'm pretty sure when I was feeling.
• 1:38:21
  I'm proud of you. I'm not proud of this.
• 1:38:22
  It's just. When I went, I went out of order
• 1:38:27
  or I'm sorry, the OR what I was trying to say is the order that
• 1:38:30
  I went in was I got, I got the easy ones out of the way.
• 1:38:33
  I went manage the year, I went come back play of the year, and
• 1:38:36
  then I went in the order that we're going with these same
• 1:38:39
  same, and I got through the the manager of the year, the
• 1:38:42
  comeback play of the year. And I was like, not spicy
• 1:38:44
  enough. Let's let's try to expand a
• 1:38:46
  little bit. Let's get let's get creative.
• 1:38:49
  And so I, you know, I got to the National League Rick of the
• 1:38:51
  year, and I said, let's go, Bubba Chandler.
• 1:38:54
  Whoa all. Right, let's go, Bubba Chandler.
• 1:38:57
  Let's let's run it back with another young gun out of
• 1:39:02
  Pittsburgh Jolly. All right, and let's see.
• 1:39:07
  Let's see what Bubba. Chandler can do that's fun.
• 1:39:11
  That's more fun. I have a weird strange feeling
• 1:39:15
  you and I have the same guy in the A in the AL Probably not OK.
• 1:39:24
  But you count us off if you want.
• 1:39:28
  All right, let's try. I, I, I I think it is.
• 1:39:30
  I think it is. You ready?
• 1:39:33
  Is this your version of thinking outside the box?
• 1:39:36
  Yes. All right, count us off. 321
• 1:39:44
  Jackson. Joe Oh, I went Jackson Joe But I
• 1:39:48
  like that pick, right? I like that pick.
• 1:39:51
  All right, You hit me first. You hit me first.
• 1:39:54
  Convinced me I'll be quiet. There's no convincing to do.
• 1:39:57
  I didn't. Have a shot in the dark just.
• 1:39:58
  A shot in the dark. I was like, let's, let's.
• 1:40:00
  Let's see what we got here. Some of these guys.
• 1:40:03
  I mean, I I have much more evidence to bring to the table.
• 1:40:06
  But you know, from the little that I have seen of what he's
• 1:40:09
  capable of doing, I'm like what, you know, get him, get him
• 1:40:13
  around Tarek's Google, get him around Jack Flaherty, guys that
• 1:40:16
  have have, you know, done it in this league and just see, just
• 1:40:22
  see what comes of it. You know, just see what comes of
• 1:40:24
  it. Fair enough.
• 1:40:28
  I think Caglion is just a freak, man.
• 1:40:32
  We've seen what I don't know if you paid attention to what he's
• 1:40:35
  doing this spring, but this was like very much like a
• 1:40:38
  conversation. I think for the Royals, there
• 1:40:40
  was just like, we've got some time, you know, let's let him
• 1:40:45
  just marinate a little bit longer.
• 1:40:46
  And he came out this spring and has gone nuts.
• 1:40:50
  I think he's I think he's one dot twing the OPS through the
• 1:40:58
  spring right now. Like he's going ham.
• 1:41:02
  They've got him at first. I know like Vinny's coming off
• 1:41:05
  the injury. Like are you are you going to
• 1:41:09
  battle between that? Are you going to you know, like
• 1:41:12
  also, you know, Sal Perez, he plays first base on those half
• 1:41:16
  days where he's not catching. Like I just don't know how it's
• 1:41:20
  going to work. I don't know if he breaks camp
• 1:41:22
  with them, but I, I, I I genuinely think this guy's a
• 1:41:27
  freak and he's going to do his thing.
• 1:41:31
  Yeah. Jack Caglion.
• 1:41:35
  I love it. You want to go say young?
• 1:41:42
  Let's go say Young, my least confident picks.
• 1:41:47
  I'm actually really excited about these picks.
• 1:41:48
  Are you my least confident? I'll get the American link going
• 1:41:53
  out of the way. I'm going Garrett Crochet.
• 1:41:56
  I feel like I've really come a long way on this guy from I
• 1:41:59
  don't want to say I wasn't trashing the guy, but I was just
• 1:42:02
  genuine. Maybe it was interpreted as
• 1:42:04
  trashing and, and maybe if I went back and listened to
• 1:42:08
  exactly what I said, maybe it was trashing.
• 1:42:10
  But it to me, it was more of just a question of this guy's
• 1:42:16
  mentality when it came time for the extension conversation where
• 1:42:21
  it's like, I'm not doing this or that until I have this.
• 1:42:24
  And it's like, OK, well, how long have you been in the
• 1:42:25
  league? But just seeing the way that
• 1:42:29
  he's already bought into the Red Sox culture and, and, and
• 1:42:36
  seeming like he really wants to make some noise here.
• 1:42:41
  I think he's I mean, he, I know he's got the stuff to win it.
• 1:42:45
  It's just a matter of, you know, if he can stay healthy and, and
• 1:42:49
  go the distance in terms of, of Indians because we know that
• 1:42:53
  that's important when it comes to this.
• 1:42:56
  And for that reason I I got Garrett Crochet as my AS I/O.
• 1:43:00
  Well, maybe we got to get some Homer picks in here, so I'm
• 1:43:04
  going Max Freed. I'm going Garrett Cole.
• 1:43:07
  He's not even pitching this year.
• 1:43:09
  I'm going Max Freed, I think. I think a lefty in Yankee
• 1:43:16
  Stadium is is exactly the right fit.
• 1:43:21
  It's a little jarring by the way, hearing Max freed for an AL
• 1:43:24
  so you know, it's it's still hasn't.
• 1:43:26
  It is different. Still hasn't sunk in.
• 1:43:28
  That's right. I'm like we're in the wrong lead
• 1:43:29
  buddy. And then I like that.
• 1:43:32
  Like he as little of facial hair that he was, he had before and
• 1:43:37
  now he doesn't have to completely get rid of it.
• 1:43:40
  You know, it's just like when you don't have a ton and you're
• 1:43:43
  just battling to have what you have to have to get rid of it is
• 1:43:48
  is probably worse than having a full grown beer, you know?
• 1:43:52
  So yeah, give me Max Freed just based on me being a sad Homer.
• 1:44:01
  I mean, you're not going to have many wins this year to latch on
• 1:44:04
  to, so I'll give you that. I'll give you that to let you
• 1:44:07
  just said it. You're a sad Homer.
• 1:44:09
  You don't have much optimism. Yeah, I, I, yeah, I don't,
• 1:44:13
  don't. Walk back what you've already
• 1:44:15
  told me about the way that you feel about this Yankees team.
• 1:44:17
  Don't. Don't walk that back.
• 1:44:19
  I don't. I just.
• 1:44:20
  I can say it. You're not allowed to say it.
• 1:44:22
  That's how it. Works I'm I'm going to say it
• 1:44:28
  for my National League Cy Young. I already mentioned it.
• 1:44:31
  I'm buying the stock this year. Give me hunter green.
• 1:44:36
  Yeah, I had a feeling. When I mentioned that Cy Young
• 1:44:42
  and you mentioned you, you brought up a point that I, I
• 1:44:44
  feel like is very or an element. I should say that's that's very
• 1:44:48
  relevant here. Very valid having Tito.
• 1:44:51
  Lead the way. Like let the guy go out and get
• 1:44:54
  his outs, let the guy work through the ups and downs of a
• 1:44:57
  of a Major League season and let him develop into the the number
• 1:45:02
  one that you've got him pegged as.
• 1:45:04
  Yeah, it's a great pick. It's a great pick.
• 1:45:09
  I feel like I'm kind of working my way back into good graces
• 1:45:15
  with Braves fans. Look, Spencer Strider is is
• 1:45:19
  going to come back and he's going to do his thing
• 1:45:22
  immediately. I, I like the I like the full
• 1:45:27
  beard. I like that it's it's gone from
• 1:45:29
  mustache to full beard and. That's a huge.
• 1:45:32
  Factor here. I think that I think that plays
• 1:45:37
  and they need them, man, and that's a crazy 1-2 punch.
• 1:45:40
  So how about back-to-back Cy Young years for Atlanta Braves
• 1:45:45
  fans, which I can imagine probably hasn't happened since
• 1:45:50
  the 90s? Safe bet, yeah.
• 1:45:54
  It's a safe bet. It's a safe bet that's a.
• 1:45:56
  You're just saying across baseball.
• 1:45:58
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Which was oddly, I also probably
• 1:46:03
  yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So.
• 1:46:08
  That's a good pick. Yeah, I don't know.
• 1:46:10
  I have no. It's more exciting.
• 1:46:13
  It's my least confident. It's it's a more exciting pick
• 1:46:16
  than my NLMVP pick. I just it's it's it's lazy on
• 1:46:22
  three. No, no, no, we did our we did
• 1:46:25
  our fantasy draft and surprisingly enough, I got first
• 1:46:29
  pick in our in our fantasy league draft.
• 1:46:33
  Again, it's randomized. It's randomized, but I had
• 1:46:37
  people, I had people text me. They're like, oh, who are you
• 1:46:39
  going to? Who are you going to pick?
• 1:46:42
  And I'm like, I get it. It's like a joke, like, but
• 1:46:45
  it's, it's it, I don't know. And I don't want to sit here and
• 1:46:48
  say that I'm tired of this guy. But it's like, I want to be able
• 1:46:52
  to pick somebody else, but I just can't.
• 1:46:57
  I just can't go like you're, you're just, you're taking the L
• 1:47:02
  if you pick anybody else. And I hate to say that, but it's
• 1:47:04
  Shohei Otani. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:47:10
  Hit me with your Hit me with your AO our.
• 1:47:14
  Our our friends over at Chinook are really going to like this
• 1:47:17
  one. Are we going same picks here for
• 1:47:21
  MVP winners Never happened. Has it never happened?
• 1:47:24
  It's never happened. Bobby Witt, Junior.
• 1:47:29
  Let's go. Bobby Witt junior, you're
• 1:47:33
  American League MVP for the year 2025.
• 1:47:39
  That's crazy. I mean, to be fair, we really
• 1:47:42
  only had to settle on on our American League pick for this to
• 1:47:46
  be the case. Yeah, understood.
• 1:47:49
  Understood. But then again, Shohei has been
• 1:47:51
  in the league for for a little bit now and hasn't always been a
• 1:47:57
  shoe in for us. And to your point, I don't think
• 1:47:58
  we've ever gone gone the same on both.
• 1:48:01
  So I. Don't think we have.
• 1:48:02
  I don't think we have. Yeah, I've got Bobby Witt in the
• 1:48:06
  Ali was, I don't know if I told you this, I was golfing with
• 1:48:12
  some buddies a few weeks ago and one of my one of my buddies is
• 1:48:17
  not like he's he's not a huge baseball guy, but he was asking.
• 1:48:21
  I was telling him about Chinook because he was chewing seeds and
• 1:48:24
  I was like, dude, I didn't know you like seeds.
• 1:48:26
  Let me give you some. Chanel cooked me up with a
• 1:48:28
  bunch. So I was like, let me bring you
• 1:48:31
  some seeds. I was like one of the one of
• 1:48:34
  like a huge player in the game right now who's going to be a
• 1:48:38
  household name like people are. I was like the way you know, the
• 1:48:42
  way you know Aaron Judge by not being a baseball fan is the way
• 1:48:46
  you will soon know Bobby Witt Junior.
• 1:48:49
  So 100% easy Chinook, easy guy. Chinook, we're in the chat
• 1:48:54
  dropping. We were.
• 1:48:55
  We were. Working in a good direction
• 1:48:57
  here. OK.
• 1:49:00
  Dropping that shade. Yeah, but anyway, yeah, he's
• 1:49:03
  going to be a household name and and any non baseball fan is
• 1:49:07
  going to know who this guy is. Just too much of A freak, man.
• 1:49:11
  Too many tools, too Dang good. And what are we doing after
• 1:49:19
  this, by the way, after awards, we rolling into our hot takes,
• 1:49:22
  our general hot takes, general. Storyline takes, yeah.
• 1:49:25
  All right, well then I'm going to roll.
• 1:49:26
  I'm going to roll into it because I feel like it's kind of
• 1:49:29
  a cop out, but it's also a little bit of a hot take.
• 1:49:32
  Before you do that, let me just put out one last reminder,
• 1:49:35
  Speaking of Chinook to get your hot takes into the chat.
• 1:49:38
  Get them in. Because at the end of the
• 1:49:39
  episode, we're picking the best hot take to give a box of
• 1:49:45
  Chinook seeds to. Get them in to.
• 1:49:47
  Get those takes in in the chat. Get them in.
• 1:49:50
  Roll right into your, your, your storyline take.
• 1:49:52
  Here, the reason I'm rolling it is because I'm taking my NLMVP
• 1:49:56
  and show Hey Otani, and I'm taking my first general hot take
• 1:50:00
  and I'm letting everyone know he will have for the first time
• 1:50:04
  ever, not just a 5050 season, but back-to-back 5050 seasons.
• 1:50:10
  That's a good one. I like that.
• 1:50:12
  Yeah. So you definitely had to hammer
• 1:50:14
  the over on the more than 40 bags.
• 1:50:17
  Over. Yeah, that's why I couldn't.
• 1:50:19
  Couldn't elude too much into that.
• 1:50:21
  That's fair. Yeah, that is my first general
• 1:50:24
  hot take I feel. You for me.
• 1:50:29
  Speaking of 50, Actually, now that I read it, this kind of
• 1:50:35
  conflicts with yours a little bit.
• 1:50:38
  Finally embracing the DH role, Rafael Devers hits fifty home
• 1:50:43
  runs for the first time in his in his career and in
• 1:50:47
  parentheses, and is the only player in the league to do.
• 1:50:50
  So. Only player in the league to do
• 1:50:54
  so. I think last year we had what,
• 1:50:55
  two? It was just the MVP winners,
• 1:50:58
  right? Yeah.
• 1:51:00
  I think it was just two, maybe 3 was our third.
• 1:51:02
  I think it was just two. But anyway, Rafi's the only guy
• 1:51:06
  that does. What did the Zuna have?
• 1:51:07
  Didn't the Zuna have? No, if anybody.
• 1:51:09
  I thought it was. I thought it was.
• 1:51:13
  Pete would have been close, but maybe not.
• 1:51:15
  No, no, no. Pete was, That's right, 30.
• 1:51:17
  Four Soto I think was 40. 20 See 2024 across the whole league.
• 1:51:32
  Oh, Santander. That's right, 44.
• 1:51:36
  No. We said 50 though, so nobody had
• 1:51:39
  50, no. No, I know.
• 1:51:40
  But I'm saying like next close, he was the first after those
• 1:51:43
  two. I like that.
• 1:51:46
  I think the whole, I mean, look like my, my opinion on the
• 1:51:51
  matter and you know, the Red Sox more than I know the Red Sox.
• 1:51:54
  But my opinion on the matter, I think the reluctancy of, of
• 1:51:58
  Devers going to, to DH is that it's just like it's a different
• 1:52:02
  beast. I don't think people really
• 1:52:03
  understand that what it's like to solely hone in on four or
• 1:52:08
  five ABS a day and to keep yourself ready up and down, you
• 1:52:14
  know, from those ABS and having 45 minutes to an hour between
• 1:52:20
  those ABS, man, like that's not an easy thing to do.
• 1:52:24
  And maybe that's part of the reluctance is that like him
• 1:52:27
  being in the field helps his keep his mind off those ABS.
• 1:52:30
  And I think there's a reason why there's only, there's been only
• 1:52:33
  so many successful DHS in our game.
• 1:52:37
  And I think that's I could see him struggling personally if he
• 1:52:42
  is the full time DH and it's that if that's the way they go,
• 1:52:44
  I could see him struggling. But I like to take.
• 1:52:47
  One of those DHS that you're talking about, Do you remember
• 1:52:50
  what by chance off the top of your head, you know what team he
• 1:52:54
  played for? Yeah, I hear you.
• 1:52:57
  I get it. I think that I think that those
• 1:53:00
  conversations have probably been had.
• 1:53:04
  I get it. No, I get it.
• 1:53:07
  But this is me trying to get out in front of of this situation
• 1:53:12
  'cause I don't want, I don't want to let this fester and me
• 1:53:15
  like turn on Rafael Devers over the course of the year.
• 1:53:17
  So this is my way of being like I'm going to look past this
• 1:53:20
  little hissy fit. 83 in front of the media.
• 1:53:26
  Well, then I mean his numbers are automatically going to go
• 1:53:29
  down because then him and Cole are going to be on the same
• 1:53:31
  team. So then I mean what's he going
• 1:53:32
  to do at that point? Because that's a huge blow to
• 1:53:35
  his Omer totals. But anyway.
• 1:53:41
  You got. Yeah.
• 1:53:42
  I was going to say, what's crazy is that a lot of our
• 1:53:45
  contradicting takes are kind of spilling in because this one's
• 1:53:49
  going to potentially spill in as well.
• 1:53:53
  I've had this take in the past. So I'm recycling the take, but
• 1:53:56
  I'm changing the name. Vladimir Guerrero Junior will
• 1:54:03
  have a career high in home runs this year.
• 1:54:06
  Rehearse 48. So he's knocking on the door.
• 1:54:10
  That 50 number, that part ain't the hot part.
• 1:54:14
  It will be in a different uniform other than the Blue
• 1:54:18
  Jays. I like it.
• 1:54:21
  I like it. That's good.
• 1:54:25
  That's good. I, you and I have talked about
• 1:54:29
  it, man, like it's whether they can, whether the Blue Jays can
• 1:54:32
  be in the position to actually go for it at the deadline.
• 1:54:36
  And I think you and I are both in the camp that they won't be.
• 1:54:40
  I think they're going to be out of it and they're going to be
• 1:54:42
  kind of have their hands forced to, you know, if they don't have
• 1:54:45
  an extension in place with him, it's time to move on and get
• 1:54:48
  something for him because unless they're successful this year, I
• 1:54:51
  can't see him coming back. So I have him going somewhere
• 1:54:56
  else and having a career high with Dingers.
• 1:55:00
  I like it a lot. My second take.
• 1:55:03
  You ready for this one? We will see two of the three
• 1:55:09
  following names DFAD in 2025. You pick your you make your, you
• 1:55:14
  make your pick. Anthony Rendon, Kris Bryant,
• 1:55:18
  Javi Baez. Wow, you take, I'm not even I'm
• 1:55:24
  not going to say who I think it's going to because I haven't
• 1:55:27
  even really thought about it, but just say we'll just say two
• 1:55:31
  of those three names will be DFA D in 2025 similar.
• 1:55:35
  And if you think, well, it's crazy, Madison Bumgarner's the
• 1:55:38
  name I always reference. Like teams are more than willing
• 1:55:41
  to cut ties if the baggage becomes too much.
• 1:55:44
  And if they're moving in a direction, the Tigers are
• 1:55:47
  perfect example, like if you're moving in a direction sort of
• 1:55:50
  like they were last year, but hopefully more so for their sake
• 1:55:54
  this year and moving in that direction even stronger.
• 1:55:58
  And Javi Baez is doing just what Javi Baez does.
• 1:56:01
  Like at what point? At one point, you know, man, I
• 1:56:06
  like that. That's a fantastic take.
• 1:56:08
  Thank you. Hold on tight to that.
• 1:56:10
  You're not going to struggle to remember those names either.
• 1:56:13
  No, like we're going to the second that first one comes out,
• 1:56:16
  it's like, oh. There's one waiting for the
• 1:56:18
  other waiting for the other shoe to drop.
• 1:56:20
  Oh man, I like this one but I don't think it's as No it's
• 1:56:24
  pretty spicy. Is pretty spicy.
• 1:56:29
  Your Sacramento A's will have their highest run total in the
• 1:56:37
  last 25 years. Wow.
• 1:56:39
  OK. I like very specific playing in
• 1:56:43
  Sacramento, a smaller ballpark. I think they're going to bang a
• 1:56:47
  little bit. I like like their line up by the
• 1:56:50
  way, that number, it's pretty high.
• 1:56:52
  It's 884. So that's yeah.
• 1:56:56
  All right. I think that was back in like
• 1:56:58
  2003 or something like that. 2001, one of those years.
• 1:57:03
  So let's make it interesting, shall we?
• 1:57:07
  A's are going to bang in Sacramento.
• 1:57:09
  I like it. I mean, let's be honest, if
• 1:57:13
  they're putting up that kind of, yeah.
• 1:57:14
  They're probably not finishing fourth in division.
• 1:57:16
  Yeah, what are we saying here? What are we saying?
• 1:57:18
  Something. Something's got to games off.
• 1:57:21
  What A you may as well just before the season starts, you
• 1:57:25
  need, you just need to come over into my camp and just embrace
• 1:57:28
  what's about to happen in Sacramento this year.
• 1:57:30
  I'm fully on. I'm waiting for Vegas.
• 1:57:32
  Yeah, by the way, I'll be in Vegas in a few weeks.
• 1:57:34
  I'm going to. I would think I'm going to swing
• 1:57:36
  by and see what construction's looking like, you know?
• 1:57:39
  I like that. Yeah.
• 1:57:40
  You look like you're in Vegas right now, if I'm being.
• 1:57:42
  I know. I feel like it.
• 1:57:44
  Feel like it? Yeah.
• 1:57:46
  My sort of along those lines that that's a very interesting
• 1:57:50
  that you went with that. That was your third pick.
• 1:57:52
  That's my hot one. That's my hot 1.
• 1:57:55
  I've got here 1 here for you. The Orioles haven't led the
• 1:57:58
  league in home run since 1996. They do it in 2025.
• 1:58:04
  Whoa, wow. They do it in 2025.
• 1:58:09
  I think it's talking about that lineup that I was trying to get
• 1:58:13
  you to come around on. I think we see the potential of
• 1:58:19
  more than just a handful of those names come to fruition.
• 1:58:23
  And then, you know, a little minor factor here, but you you,
• 1:58:26
  you talk about bringing the fence in out and left.
• 1:58:29
  I think that obviously plays into a little bit as well.
• 1:58:31
  But I mean, I'm, I'm pretty sure they finished like second in all
• 1:58:34
  of baseball last year. So it's not from that point of
• 1:58:37
  view. It's not that far of a stretch.
• 1:58:39
  But to finally get over that hump, something they haven't
• 1:58:42
  done since 96. This is the year they lead the
• 1:58:46
  league in homers. Wow, this is the year.
• 1:58:48
  Solid. I don't hate it.
• 1:58:50
  I got Gunner on the fantasy squad, so I know he's got to be
• 1:58:53
  involved if they're going to do that.
• 1:58:56
  I got AI got a bonus take here if you want me to just throw it
• 1:58:59
  in there. Let's do it.
• 1:59:00
  Just in case we had some any overlap with our takes, I threw
• 1:59:03
  an extra 1 in there. All right, it's a -1.
• 1:59:07
  OK, I like. Those though, but I just, I had
• 1:59:10
  to jot it down. We will see the last inning of
• 1:59:16
  Shohei Otani, the pitcher in 2025.
• 1:59:22
  Wow. The Dodgers just get to the
• 1:59:25
  point where they realize we don't need we.
• 1:59:27
  There's no, there's no point. We don't.
• 1:59:29
  We don't need to keep pushing this envelope.
• 1:59:30
  We don't need to keep doing it. Because I've had a lot of people
• 1:59:35
  with the take that they want him as like in the bullpen, like as
• 1:59:39
  a closer. And I'm like, you know.
• 1:59:42
  Yeah. I don't hate it.
• 1:59:43
  I don't hate that. Yeah.
• 1:59:45
  I mean, oh, I mean, OK, if I was going to amend it, we'll just
• 1:59:48
  say like the starting pitcher. Like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 1:59:50
  yeah. But yeah, I mean, I like, I
• 1:59:52
  like, I get your take. I get your take, man.
• 1:59:54
  I think, I mean, it's true. They're very deep.
• 1:59:59
  So you're not necessarily saying it's going to be based off of an
• 2:00:02
  injury. It's just the fact that they
• 2:00:04
  realize that their rotation is so deep and they don't even
• 2:00:07
  really need to do shit with them.
• 2:00:10
  Unfortunately, it's going to be a, it's going to be a a little
• 2:00:14
  pinch. Yeah, yeah, that's what sound.
• 2:00:18
  I I think what's going to ultimately prompt this if it
• 2:00:21
  ever happens, is it be like, it's not just going to be out of
• 2:00:25
  the blue like, yeah, we don't need Shohei anymore.
• 2:00:26
  Like we're we're good without him on the bump.
• 2:00:28
  It's going to be something that some sort of tweak or something
• 2:00:31
  that prompts it. And they'd be like, we, we don't
• 2:00:34
  we. He's much more value valuable to
• 2:00:36
  us on the field just as a hitter than trying to do both.
• 2:00:42
  Yeah. And not being out there.
• 2:00:44
  Fair that's fair that is hot that's real hot that's what
• 2:00:52
  we're here for that's what these that's what these episodes are
• 2:00:54
  here for all right look at what's finished I mean we're
• 2:01:01
  like we're about done here around 2 hours that's.
• 2:01:04
  I'm not. I'm not done yet.
• 2:01:07
  At least we're done with our parts.
• 2:01:08
  You got more? Now I got I got a little
• 2:01:09
  surprise here for you, something I want I threw in.
• 2:01:13
  I wanted to spring on you. We hadn't done this before, but
• 2:01:15
  I was like, let's have, let's have a little fun with.
• 2:01:17
  This. I hate it already.
• 2:01:18
  And again, excuse me, I'm fighting for my life over here.
• 2:01:21
  I'm trying to get us through this.
• 2:01:25
  Let's see how it goes. All right, more, one more swig.
• 2:01:30
  Can you remind the folks about getting their takes in for the
• 2:01:34
  end of the episode? Yeah, get them in, people.
• 2:01:37
  Get them in, get your takes in, get them in the chat.
• 2:01:41
  You will win a full box of Chinook seeds.
• 2:01:45
  Chinook's already shown their face.
• 2:01:47
  They're already hanging out in the chat.
• 2:01:48
  They're here ready to read these takes.
• 2:01:52
  Show them. Show them what you're capable
• 2:01:55
  of. Show me something spicy but also
• 2:01:58
  somewhat realistic and win yourself literally the best
• 2:02:01
  seeds you'll ever have. Thank you.
• 2:02:05
  That's not hot, by the way. That's a that's just a very
• 2:02:08
  normal generic lock it in everyday.
• 2:02:12
  Take Chinook seeds will be the best seeds you've ever had.
• 2:02:19
  All right. You ready for this?
• 2:02:20
  You have no idea what I have to do.
• 2:02:22
  Literally no idea. We're going to do a little feel.
• 2:02:24
  Like I'm going to hate it. I think you're going to love it.
• 2:02:27
  We're going to do a little MLB ad Lib storyline prediction.
• 2:02:31
  Oh boy, OK. OK, so I'm going to need you to
• 2:02:34
  to give me the types of words that I request and I'm going to
• 2:02:38
  fill out the story and read you a little story.
• 2:02:40
  It's going to be a situation where it's a crystal ball,
• 2:02:43
  almost like the season's over. This is how it played out and
• 2:02:47
  this is going to be based on your answers, OK?
• 2:02:50
  See, I was the kid that just put poop in every ad Lib 1, and I
• 2:02:54
  was that kid when you read it. Yeah.
• 2:02:55
  No, that's terrible. We're not doing that.
• 2:02:58
  All right. You ready for this?
• 2:02:59
  Yeah, all. Right, Give me a National League
• 2:03:01
  team. I have no context, it's just
• 2:03:07
  straight out lips, yeah. That's how you do it.
• 2:03:10
  You got to you got to take the answers because you don't.
• 2:03:12
  If I give you the the story, then it's not going to make it.
• 2:03:15
  It's going to be too easy and boring.
• 2:03:17
  Just. Give me the national.
• 2:03:18
  League team. All right, all right.
• 2:03:24
  Well, no. Give me another team.
• 2:03:27
  The different team. You'll see why.
• 2:03:29
  Just give me another National League team.
• 2:03:33
  The Milwaukee Brewers staying in the Central.
• 2:03:38
  Give me a verb ending in ING. Verb ending in ING hating.
• 2:03:56
  Give me a noun. There's going to be a handful of
• 2:04:02
  these folks, so just bear with us.
• 2:04:05
  So I got to speed it up. Is that what you're saying?
• 2:04:09
  Let's go with. Noun.
• 2:04:14
  Let's go dumpster. Give me an exclamation, a word
• 2:04:22
  that you'd shout. Look out.
• 2:04:29
  Give me a player's name from the Brewers.
• 2:04:36
  Christian Yelich. Give me a verb ending in EDI.
• 2:04:51
  Don't know, loved. Give me a body part, ankle,
• 2:05:02
  another exclamation. Oh no.
• 2:05:07
  A deceased MLB player. Oh gosh, dude, what are we doing
• 2:05:12
  here? Just give me a, give me a a
• 2:05:15
  player that is has. Willie Mays all.
• 2:05:23
  Right. Well, this is on you.
• 2:05:24
  That's that's if people, if people don't like the way that
• 2:05:27
  the story goes, it's just remember it's on, it's on Nate,
• 2:05:31
  the first random hobby you can think of.
• 2:05:34
  First, random hobby fishing. OK, the next we've got two more
• 2:05:43
  of those. There's there's it's a
• 2:05:44
  three-part story. That's one of them.
• 2:05:47
  All right, moving on to the next one.
• 2:05:48
  Give me an AL position player. An AL position player.
• 2:06:00
  Carlos Correa, verb ending in ING hanging.
• 2:06:18
  A color. Red.
• 2:06:25
  And objects. Helmet body parts, knee #2
• 2:06:46
  another #37. That's good.
• 2:06:56
  All right, that's the second storyline and the last one here.
• 2:07:01
  Position player under the age of 25.
• 2:07:05
  Position player under the age of 25 hit me with.
• 2:07:17
  No, I already did. A Brewer hit me with.
• 2:07:25
  Luis Onhal Acuna. I like it.
• 2:07:33
  Verb ending and ING. I'm trying to like, should it?
• 2:07:39
  Should it be baseball theme? You know, like sliding.
• 2:07:42
  No, you do whatever. Tripping.
• 2:07:49
  Noun. Let's say.
• 2:08:00
  I like this. Noun.
• 2:08:10
  Let's say Leonardo DiCaprio. I like that.
• 2:08:23
  Exclamation. Ouch.
• 2:08:32
  You like that? I'm exclamating it.
• 2:08:35
  That's a nice touch, An insulting adjective.
• 2:08:46
  Slimy MLB Hall of Famer. Only got a few more.
• 2:09:02
  Randy Johnson, a number. 912 another #81 81 another number.
• 2:09:22
  Six and an adjective rounding us out here.
• 2:09:41
  I kind of want to, I don't know. Your call, it's the last one.
• 2:09:48
  Yeah, I don't know. We'll just say tall.
• 2:09:59
  How about that? All right, all right, put your
• 2:10:06
  crystal ball hats on. We're looking into the future.
• 2:10:11
  All right, again, crystal ball here.
• 2:10:14
  It's November 2025. The season's over.
• 2:10:18
  Here are some of the year's highlights.
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  The 2025 MLB season was one of the most unforgettable seasons
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  in baseball history, and for good reason.
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  It all started on Opening Day when, after the home plate
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  umpire of the Milwaukee Brewers game ejected a fan for hating a
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  dumpster while shouting lookout, Christian Yelich stormed over,
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  loved the UMP's ankle and yelled Oh no, you're worse than Willie
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  Mays trying to fish. Fast forward to the Midsummer
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  break. During the nationally televised
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  broadcast of the All Star Game, Carlos Correo was caught hanging
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  a red helmet in the on deck circle, claiming it kept his
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  knee loose. His superstition led him to win
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  All Star Game MVP. However, with two hits, 37 RBIs,
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  and being credited for the record-breaking number of red
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  helmets purchased by fans at the team store following the game,
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  how could we forget the finish to the year by game seven of the
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  World Series? Luis Anhelacuna was a drunken
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  legend. After a clutch World Series
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  winning hit, he celebrated by tripping Leonardo.
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  Leonardo DiCaprio on the field slurring.
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  Ouch. I'm the slimy Randy Johnson of
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  baseball. He finished the World Series
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  with 912 hits, 80 and just 81 strikeouts and a record 6 babies
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  autographed in a single World Series, turning 2025 into a tall
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  roller coaster that nobody could Unsee.
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  All right, all right, there's your 2025 season and a nutshell
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  that's I mean, I think that sums it up.
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  You know, that's it's basically right how we're feeling.
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  ChatGPT, man, I know Luis on Helicuna tripping Leonardo
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  DiCaprio after his game-winning wins, trying to get on the
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  field, man. Just trying to give him some
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  love. I think.
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  Yeah, it's obviously what Leo would do.
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  That's your season right there in a nutshell.
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  It's going to. Be wild.
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  It'll be wild when one of these comes through.
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  Just know you heard it here first when when you see Leo
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  taking a fall in the fall where you heard it from first.
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  It's time to give away our box of Chinook seeds, Nates.
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  Let's go. I'll just read some of these off
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  here for you. OK, let's see.
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  Not a single. There you go on the screen.
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  Not a single MLB pitcher will record 200 plus strikeouts in
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  2025. Whoa, wow.
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  Dodgers underperform, make the wild card.
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  Heyo Rodolfo, stop, stop. You can't just pick that because
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  that it perfectly aligns with your take.
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  That's right. Unreal Orioles with the American
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  League. OK, that's what yours was.
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  Yeah. No, you're the Rangers.
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  I'm sorry. Correct.
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  Let's see, what are some other takes we got You're.
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  Going to need some pitching, Laura.
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  Chinook says all eight of our flavors will finish one through
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  what's great in the movie standings.
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  Sure, let's see what other hot ticks we got on here.
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  We need some more takes, folks. Need some more takes reading
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  through the chat here. No picture?
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  Yeah, we saw that one. I don't know, man.
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  I mean, I think. Honestly, I feel like the the.
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  202 hundred KSI like I like Hunter green leading the league
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  in KS, that's from Matt. Oh, I was just going off the
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  ones. I was going off the ones in the
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  chat. But you're just doing chat.
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  But I these are these are pre sent in.
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  These are pre sent in. Yeah, sorry, pre sent in.
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  Unless you're both here live and did your homework beforehand.
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  Again, as a reminder, this is what you're planning for.
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  How many? Let me see how many, how many
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  200 strikeout guys did we have last year?
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  Right here. This is what you're playing for
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  Strikeout. Oh, I like this one.
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  Check it out on the screen. Nate, how about this?
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  Oh. I see what you're doing there,
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  Joshua. Get a little bit of a plug.
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  I see what? You're doing so be fair.
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  Josh was the one that had the 200 strikeouts take so.
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  That was pitchers, by the way. Is that what?
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  He said yeah, not a single MLB pitcher record 200 plus
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  strikeouts. We had 11 last year.
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  So hot take. That's a hot take.
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  It's a hot take. I will.
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  Say, I'm curious, do you have the names up by chance?
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  Yeah, read. Read those off.
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  Read the 11 names that had 200 strikeouts last year.
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  Terex, Google, the League 228. Just under was Chris Sale, Zach
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  Wheeler, Dylan Cease, Cole Reagans, Logan Gilbert, Garrett
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  Crochet. You say?
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  Kikuchi. Surprise there.
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  Sonny Gray, Michael King and Freddie Peralta.
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  So no Dodgers on there. Nope.
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  Interesting. OK, I was just thinking the only
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  reason I asked is because I was curious which some of these
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  teams are shifting their philosophies and maybe
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  experimenting with the six man rotation.
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  I was like. I wonder if some of those names
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  would fall off the list as a result.
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  I just, you see some of these names, you're like Zack Wither,
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  Dylan sees Logan Gilbert. Like, it's hard to imagine them
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  not putting that up, you know? But we did ask for hot takes.
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  It's up to you guy. You're the one say I'm not
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  really looking at the chat, should I be?
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  I feel like that's our. I'm just going to go ahead and
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  say that. That's the one.
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  Let's go that one. Anyone.
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  Anyone want to come in at the buzzer here?
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  Type in too slow. Anybody want to drop their hot
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  take for the 2025 season at the buzzer to win a box of Chinook
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  seeds giving you seconds, mere seconds?
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  I mean, to be fair, I feel like Josh did come in with a little
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  bit of a little bit of security, a little bit of security with
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  his. Getting us shouted shouted out
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  on MLB Network. Getting mentioned on MLB
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  Network. Yeah, I.
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  Mean there's going to be something wild that we're going
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  to have to pull off we. Have to break some sort of news
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  or something. Yeah, I mean, do it.
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  Should I be the guy that, like, buries something crazy at the
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  Oakland A's construction site? There we go.
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  Do it? They have to, they have to dig
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  it up, Do it, put like a note on there.
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  Yeah, just say, you know, you know why we have to take Jersey.
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  You know why we had to. Do this all right?
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  Laura in the chat declares that Josh is the winner.
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  So, Josh, congratulations. Josh, that's hot, man.
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  We're going to be sending you some stuff.
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  Enjoy, enjoy these, just let them bless your mouth with just
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  an abundance of delicious flavour, comfortable flavour,
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  flavour that doesn't chew up your mouth, flavour that doesn't
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  have you diving for the water when you're done.
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  Unbelievable. Chinook does it different, I do
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  it different. That that does it for us my
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  friend. Another hot takes and
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  predictions episode in the book. You got any closing thoughts for
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  the for the people? I don't know.
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  My head's going to explode, man. We talked a lot of ball, talked
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  a lot of ball. I'm really excited.
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  I'm assuming we are. We got opening day around the
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  corner here. So are we?
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  When are we? When are we coming back?
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  We'll see you guys in a week. Yeah, I think that's right.
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  We're going to let this, we're going to let this one breathe
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  through opening week or through, you know, opening day.
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  And we'll, we'll, we'll check back in with you guys after
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  opening weekend, talk about all the things that went down.
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  There's a good chance we're hanging out Thursday, by the
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  way. Oh yes, great point.
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  Gosh, I almost forgot. Yeah, doing a live stream for
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  opening day. I know I'll be there.
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  I'll be setting it up and and getting it, getting the stream
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  out there. But I think hopefully we'll be
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  able to join me for at least a little of it.
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  If I'm going to try it, but I will.
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  I will be there for that, so at the very least, come hang out
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  with me. But Nate will be on there.
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  He'll be making some appearances and we're going to enjoy some
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  opening day baseball. And I know that so many of you
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  rock multiple screens on opening day, so just just go ahead and
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  plan to make make one of us one of one of those screens.
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  Yeah, one of those screens for us in the chat.
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  Will you be live on all platforms?
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  Yes. Same as these streams will be on
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  Facebook, will be on YouTube, will be on Twitter, just hanging
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  out with everybody. So feel free to make plans to to
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  bring some snacks, maybe even bring a meal you can order in.
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  We'll be. There.
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  We'll be there for a little while.
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  Bring some. Bevs and we'll have we're going
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  to have some seeds. Oh.
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  Yeah, we'll have seeds and we, who knows, we maybe even do, we
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  may even do like a giveaway or two, who knows?
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  We've, we've done giveaways in, in the past, why not another and
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  just bring a passion for baseball because that's what
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  we're, that's what opening Day is about.
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  When it comes down to it, you. Know that's what it's about so.
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  The dog's going to have to get real creative with his work
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  schedule Thursday to to pull this off, but I, I believe in
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  it. I believe.
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  In you. I believe that there's no one
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  from work listening to this podcast at 2 1/2 hours in I.
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  No, I believe that you're going to be with us and you're going
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  to be you're we're going to be watching ball together.
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  I believe it. All right, Congrats, buddy.
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  Congrats on another successful offseason.
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  The Grind 1 grind is over. One new grind begins.
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  I'm here for it, pal. We're ready for it.
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  That's right, that's right. Please continue to hang out with
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  us for this year, guys, it's going to be fun.
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  We're going to be doing different stuff.
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  There's going to be a lot of different collabs with with
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  other podcast potentially. There's going to be some new
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  streaming things that we're going to do throughout the year.
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  You know, we're still kind of working out the kinks with a lot
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  of different things, but just want to say if this is going to
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  be your first season hanging out with us.
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  Welcome aboard really appreciate you be certain that it's almost
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  always going to be twice a week that we're going to be coming in
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  we're going to be hitting you with you know the live current
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  events. We're going to be recapping
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  series and players and performances.
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  We're going to, we're going to stay with you all year.
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  And for those that have been here a while, we love you or
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  you're the reason we're still doing this.
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  You're the reason that we're able to have amazing
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  partnerships like Chinook that are brought on board.
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  So we're just really, really thankful.
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  I think we speak for for, I think I speak for you as well
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  that we're, we're just super grateful for being able to do
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  this and, and talk the game we love.
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  So thank you guys so much. Check out our shop and we'll see
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  you Thursday. If you want to hang out, don't
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  go chasing curve balls. Le'veon is always looking
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  forward to talking more baseball with you guys soon.
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  Until next time, stay filthy.