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Early MLB Season Highlights, Twins' Success, and the Impact of New Baseball Rules · Scene Projects Sports Network

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Welcome into the Scene Project Sports Network.
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I am your host, Bubba Starts, and we are now here for seven eight nine, our weekly baseball
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show.
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I'm joined as always by my cohost, Big B.
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B, welcome in.
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I don't know why I can't hear you.
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Well, dip out.
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Come back.
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We'll try it again.
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And our second cohost, Shady Grady.
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Shady, can you hear me?
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I can.
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I can hear you.
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What's good?
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Alright.
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I can hear you too.
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Sweet.
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We're good.
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We're good.
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This is what we get trying to to change streams in the middle of
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We're good.
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We're we're similar to baseball this week.
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Nobody knows what's going on.
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No.
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Well, it's great to be here talking ball.
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Took last weekend off as we did that.
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Got in.
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Do we got b?
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You got me now?
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There he is.
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Alright.
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Man.
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Appreciate you guys being here with us.
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Obviously, most of the world has been watching the masters as we have all weekend.
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We just came off a stream with the scratch project, our new golf show, recap, and Rory
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McElroy's back to back championships at the masters.
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But this show is all about baseball, and things are starting to heat up as we get into the
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April now.
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It's crazy that we're already this far into the season.
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Yeah.
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Yep.
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Two weeks in, it it goes by fast because there's games every day, you know, until the
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all star break when the whole league takes off.
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But, yeah, definitely looking at the standings right now.
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Got some tight races granted two weeks in, so not a lot to be said on that.
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Yeah.
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No.
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And and we talked a little bit about, you know, after that first weekend of the season, you
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know, what can be done.
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Everybody was out on schemes because of one poor performance.
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Aaron Judge doesn't know how to hit a ball, because he had an o for five day.
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And I feel like, as things go on here that we are, you you're starting to see positive trends
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and guys starting to come out of it a little bit.
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Michael Bush for my cubbies came out of an o for 30 slump today with a big RBI single that
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ended up tying the game off of throwing air later in the play.
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So there's I yes.
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You wanna get off to a hot start early in the season, but is there are you sure?
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I'm never sure about anything, Angela, to be perfectly honest.
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So, is there you know, do you wanna get off to a hot start?
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Yeah.
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But nobody starts out the season 16 and o.
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Right?
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I I think most teams if you're sitting at double digit wins right now, you're in that ten
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and six or or a little bit better.
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You're feeling okay.
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It's more about how does the team look.
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Right?
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Even if you're not winning games, how is the pitching coming out looking?
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How are hitters swinging the bat?
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Are you able to manufacture runs, play in some small ball maybe early on, before the air gets
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hot and the ball starts jumping off these bats?
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Yeah.
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Right now
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Oh, go ahead, Grady.
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I was gonna say, big b, I'm looking at the stands right now.
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So two teams have 10 wins, the Dodgers and the Padres.
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Other than that, everybody else is floating around nine, eight, seven, six, and then you
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got the White Sox.
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Well and that and that's the thing is last year, the White Sox, I think, had two wins by
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this time.
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They got six.
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So they're, you know, four games better, but, you know, that that National League West there
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with the Dodgers Padres, I mean, that's gonna be a battle all year between them two.
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They got two of the nicest rosters, pitching staffs all around.
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Well, they're keeping stats for Mason Miller based on strike.
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They're not even hitting the ball.
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I think at 16 out of 21 batters have struck out this season.
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Yeah.
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So, I mean, you know and, you know, my twins are kinda surprised right now.
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Nine and seven just came off of a four game sweep of the tigers.
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I think three out of or two out of three over the blue jays, which in fact, they're, like, 26
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games in Toronto where they've hit a home run straight, so that's impressive for them.
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Twins need to move across the border.
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Well, you know, some people say Minnesota's is Cali or in in Canada.
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So, I mean, just make it official, I guess.
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But What's
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crazy is that, yes, we and, obviously, Minnesota shares a border with Canada.
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But in Minneapolis, you are still, like, six hours away from there.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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It was
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such a hard six, yeah, six hours.
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But, you know, just I mean, just looking I mean, the Yankees are doing Yankee things.
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They're they're at eight and seven.
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Tampa at eight and seven.
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Baltimore at eight and seven.
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Baltimore has been battling some early injuries.
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You know?
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Yeah.
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You know, and, you know, Bobby, you talked about, you know, trying to get off to that fast
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start.
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You know, some teams, I think, have to just kind of play it day by day and just get the
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kinks worked out and stuff like that.
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And then I think June, July is when they wanna get hot and stay consistent.
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I you know, and that's what they were baseball.
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Early on, you just wanna be consistent.
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Sunday night baseball happening right now on NBC.
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What?
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Wow.
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Really?
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Yeah.
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This is wild.
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I'm so I feel like Oh, NBC's.
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Maybe they didn't they didn't get their masters picks, so they're like, baseball it is.
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Well, thing is, if you got thrown out there, you can get a game on the network or something.
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Yeah.
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Well, you know what?
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As attention becomes more and more divided and if the twins have another stinker of a year
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like they did last year, we might be their only option.
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So keep keep growing.
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That's the plan.
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No.
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I'm just kidding.
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Shout out to all of our braves personnel and front office people that have been following
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the show now where I just we're we're just joking, but we're also very serious about
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covering this team and continuing to shine a positive light on your organization.
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So shout out to the twins.
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We love you guys.
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The b.
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Well, we we love that.
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So, yeah, I guess I'm looking at Shady's Braves here are up three o early on Sunday night
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baseball.
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Speaking of Shady's Braves, the other night, had a little scuffle.
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The funny thing is is I turned it on and I think it was the Braves.
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Oh, you're right.
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Yeah.
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You're right.
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Yeah.
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I turned it on right as that was happening.
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So I didn't see exactly what happened.
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So, Shady, what what caused that?
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So Jorge Solaire bombs away.
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He's having a pretty good start to his year.
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But Reynaldo Lopez and Jorge Solaire don't really have the best of relationships.
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But when you hang a 89 mile an hour change up six times in a row and this guy just keeps
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hitting it out, I mean, it's kinda you know, we can't blame Jorge Solar.
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So Ronaldo or Lopez has had six bombs hit off of him.
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Well, number seven or number six left the park in the first inning.
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So by the third inning, he had hit him.
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And then by the fifth inning, he threw, like, way over his head, way over his head.
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It's, like, 98 miles an hour.
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So gets the ball back, and Jorge hadn't even put the bat back up yet, and he's jawing at
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him.
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And here's the thing.
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Here's the thing.
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All my baseball people watching, y'all know y'all know when y'all when this happened, y'all
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saw this.
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What did the catcher do?
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Nothing.
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The catcher's supposed to tackle Jorge to not kill Lopez, but catcher didn't do nothing.
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Catcher was like, hey, man.
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Why you why you throwing at him?
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So in the midst of all this, they didn't grab Jorge, which was a bad idea.
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So this Clydesdale of a human's being starts running at Rand Auto Lopez.
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And I don't know how he only got one game.
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Lopez got one game.
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So Larry got, like, five games.
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But Lopez used the ball as a weapon.
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Like, he clocked him in the helmet with it.
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So and then Walt Weiss tackles Jorge Solaire and takes his
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Walt Weiss?
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Really?
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Yeah.
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He's our manager.
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Wow.
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That little guy is still sticking around and trying to tackle people.
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Alright.
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It was
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it's pretty old school.
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Yeah.
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That was that really happened.
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Yeah.
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And the braves are the braves are good.
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They're they're doing fine, but the pigeon staff is just tattered.
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I mean, we're thank god for the farm system, but, I mean, how many kids can you go through
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before we run out of kids, guys?
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Right.
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Welcome to Atlanta.
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Yeah.
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Well and the problem is that coming from that that they're just not accustomed to playing.
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It it's the attrition.
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Right?
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Like, you can get these guys up, and they can throw some good games.
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But when you're not used to performing that much and your body's just not as mature.
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Right?
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You're bringing in a 22 year old kid, and that's why baseball is, I I think, among the
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pro sports, definitely an older man's game.
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You you have, you gotta figure out a way to maybe not throw your hardest.
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Right?
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You're you're figuring out that pace.
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And I think for guys when they're coming up well, not so much anymore.
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Right?
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No.
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No.
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You're up to a happy medium is what I'm saying.
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It is.
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Right.
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Right.
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It's tough to find, to know that you can dig deep and throw Yeah.
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Maybe a mile or two, you know, an hour faster when you need that.
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But being able to say, hey.
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I'm comfortable, you know, throwing this ball this many times, and I could pitch every third
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day.
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Right?
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For some of these relief, you know, in a relief role or every day.
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I mean, of these
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guys body.
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It's incredible.
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It's incredible.
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And just the way pitchers are being used now, and we kind of iterated a a little bit of that
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in the first show, and I think we're gonna touch on it continually as it it continues to
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evolve.
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I mean, to the point where they had to change the rules.
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Right?
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That, like, you have to is it three batters that you have to face now coming in as a
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reliever?
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Yeah.
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You know?
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That it it's it's just such a different game than it used to be, but, I think you ultimately
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get a better product.
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I mean, I'm looking at and granted it's early.
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Right?
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But the NL Central standings are there's there's a game.
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There's two games separating your top from the bottom.
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So you don't have any.
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That NL Central's gonna be tough, especially with the pirates really coming out and
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overperforming.
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Crazy to watch Brandon Lowe.
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He just got a new contract this week.
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Right?
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Goes out as two home runs today, one of them being a grand slam, albeit in a loss for the
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pirates, as they're facing off against my Cubbies.
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And, the Cubs come out with some late late inning heroics to take it, but you got the
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brewers and cardinals both at eight wins, the Cincinnati reds at nine wins who showed a ton
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of improvement last year as well in that NL Central.
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I think that's gonna be one of the toughest divisions to come out of because you I mean,
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when you go out west, you're gonna have a battle between LA and San Diego, but one of
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those teams is probably gonna be the wildcard.
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Right?
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Or if they don't you know what I mean?
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If they're not getting in out of their division, they're probably the first wildcard
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spot.
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So you're looking at the entire NL Central essentially competing for that champion because
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it might be your only route in to the playoffs.
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Right?
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So Yeah.
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Pretty incredible, to watch how this early part of the season is playing out.
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Looking at the standings in the AL Central where the Minnesota Twins are, don't quite have
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a share of it.
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We'll see how the Cleveland game goes tonight.
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Cleveland loses tonight.
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The Minnesota Twins are tied for number one in the division.
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Absolutely incredible.
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I know a lot of Minnesota fans have been clowning about it a little bit, you know,
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because this game how many games did they lose last year?
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90?
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Yeah.
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Somewhere around there.
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I can look quick here.
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I got the
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They so to see them up and returning and we went to a game not last year No.
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Me too.
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Two years ago.
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Yeah.
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So, obviously, the the the city of Minneapolis and Minnesota Twins fans in general are are
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dogging their team a little bit early on here as they're having success, you know, assuming
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that it won't last, but you never know.
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You never know in this league and what you can get.
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Hey, Pods.
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Welcome over, man.
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Appreciate you tuning in here on our seven eight nine baseball show.
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We get together every Sunday talking
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about pods.
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Alex, how old are you?
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Pods is a young well, maybe not.
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Maybe not as young.
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How old are you, pods?
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I forgot.
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I know we just talked last week.
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Because here's some new here's some news.
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The pits speaking of the pirates, I forgot about this.
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This was huge news this week.
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The Pittsburgh pirates gave a $140,000,000 to Connor Griffin, shortstop.
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Oh, that's right.
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Connor Griffin got the big track.
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Potts is 30.
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19 years old, gave him a $140,000,000.
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Never played but one game.
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Maybe one game.
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I don't even think he played a game in MLB by that point.
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So that's never been seen before.
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You don't give people a 140,000,000 that never not even made it to the clubhouse yet.
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Pittsburgh's all on it, baby.
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I feel you, Pittsburgh.
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Stand up, Pat.
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Pods is 30, Shady, so he's a little closer to your age.
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If we're epic, dog.
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We wear it well.
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Right?
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What do you think was?
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What do you do?
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I'm not gonna tell you which one.
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We're gonna
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I mean, that's I mean, that's why we are talking about how baseball's pretty much gonna
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be in a strike year, you know, at the end of the year, you know, because of that contract.
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I'm not I'm not even saying the contract, but the guy hasn't even taken a major league at
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bat, you know, and he priced you that much and, know, you're gonna throw up that type of money
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towards him, I mean, you know, props to him.
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I mean
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a weird idea there, Bee.
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Do you think that MLB teams are worried that Savannah Bananas could possibly comparably pay
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them for a season and maybe keep them for two if the strike continues.
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Lindgolf does have a lot more money than that.
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But I'm saying, do the Savannah Bananas with all that money?
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They've been selling out football stadiums for a year.
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Wow.
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I you know what?
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I didn't even think about this.
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That guy is a businessman.
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Oh, yeah.
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He he's a businessman.
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Yeah.
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I mean, it is.
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Yeah.
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If you got if you guys haven't gone to a game yet, try to go.
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I went last year.
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It wasn't the banana or it was the other two teams, not the bananas, but it was a fun time.
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The the same stadium was packed.
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People standing room only.
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I got my lottery ticket in for this year when the bananas come in, but
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When I was on tour b, they played at the Superdome.
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If I would have planned things and I would have known better, I probably would have been at
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that game.
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The the guy that we ended up doing the award show with was actually there.
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If I woulda had things planned like this much better, I woulda bet at the Superdome, watching
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the Savannah bananas.
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But, yeah, you talk about a guy that understands what fans want.
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And you you don't have because the game has changed and because you had a couple of strikes
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in MLB already that have definitely that have hurt
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the product.
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That
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last one was about serious.
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Almost killed the league.
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Right?
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Yep.
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And I also think they did kill the league.
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He would've gave that pirate
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he would've gave that pirate's money to Skeens, personally.
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I think Skeens is getting, he's getting a truck too.
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So
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Yeah.
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Well, that's the thing is everybody you know, if they don't if they don't sign schemes,
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everybody's already talking.
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Where is he gonna go?
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Dodgers, Yankees, you know, Baltimore, Braves, you know, somewhere around there.
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You know?
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And that's one thing, you know, and I know there's some business, but back in the old
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days, man, everybody stayed where they're at.
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There's hardly any movement, you know, unless you got traded or, you know, stuff like that.
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There's no commitment on both sides of the field, I guess, you know, with the players and
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the ownership.
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You know?
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I kinda agree.
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I I don't know.
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It's it's tough, man.
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I mean, the game evolved so much so fast, and it's an old game.
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But that would be something that Savannah and Bananas took big advantage of, the strike if it
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happens
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Yeah.
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To get their league going.
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That's an interesting one.
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I I've I've referenced that a couple of times, but what people want is that freaking game off
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of Futurama.
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They want everyone jacked up.
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They wanna see the big hits and the crazy trick plays and, like up.
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That's what makes, yeah, that's what makes it exciting.
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You know?
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But the way in Not that.
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Before the first pitch.
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I mean, I know they did Sarah, every once in while, and I don't know if it's at every game,
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but they have a baby of the day game.
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They bring it out and, you know, they hold it up like Simba.
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You know?
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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And stuff like that.
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But no.
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It was it was honestly, it was a fun game to go to.
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I hope to get tickets for this year at at Target at Target Field.
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So but
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If Cody joins in here in a minute, that would be a question for Cody because he's, you know,
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arena.
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That's not necessarily NFL, but super successful in our environment.
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We don't have an alternate alternative because Pods was right.
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The only competitive alternative would be Mexico, Dominican, or Korea, Japan.
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But, yeah, that's a pretty
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good boost
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of it.
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But they could.
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They could.
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And they'll I mean, if baseball does go on strike, what's the the next closest thing would
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be, okay.
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Well, now we're gonna go watch a bunch of town town ball players, you know, just to get our
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baseball fixed.
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I mean, Cannon Falls has a yeah.
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You know, Cannon Falls has a pretty good amateur team here, but, yeah, it's just not the
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same.
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But, yeah, Savannah's jumping in would be pretty interesting.
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Yeah.
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Well and I think what what it is is that baseball is exciting no matter who the players
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on the field are.
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Right?
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The the stadium experience, the ability to take your small children to the game and to share
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it's about the experience.
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And I and I think that is what the bananas and that league and everything that they're doing
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have really embraced is delivering on the fan experience.
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And, you know, we talked a little bit about, you know, Ted Turner's new stadium and
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everything they've added around there.
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There's only so much you can do to the product on the field.
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And I feel like some of the changes that they've made and now with replay and ABS and
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everything in there that while you're trying to make the game more, competitive, you're taking
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a lot away from the fan experience.
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Right?
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And you are creating something that is a little untenable because you have competition coming
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out now, and your competition are these smaller teams.
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Right?
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The teams that we're interested in covering, whether it's the Saint Paul Saints or anything,
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it's easy to go get your fix.
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And it's a lot easier to when the game is nineteen to three in the fifth to say, I only
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spent $15 on these tickets.
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You're not getting MLB tickets for no $15, and then you had to pay for parking, and it was $13
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for a damn hot dog.
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And and, like so you they've really done themselves a disservice, and I think a lot of
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you turned a lot of fans off.
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That last strike really turned a lot of people off.
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The COVID years in between drove a lot of people away.
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It's a tradition that is bent on the tradition continuing year after year after year.
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So anytime that you have breaks in that, people tune out.
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It falls out of their normal, you know, the the repertoire of their summer.
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Right?
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Oh, we go to a game every year and then well, once that streak is broken, right, and you
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didn't go last year, then you're like, yeah.
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Well, we don't I guess we don't really have to go every year.
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Right?
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And then you end up not going at all ever again.
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And Yes.
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It just being an older sport.
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So, you know, and it's sad for the baseball fan that I am to see the league suffering, but,
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also, there's not a lot of sympathy because they've done it to themselves.
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So
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Two of them.
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Okay.
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One and one thing that's, you know, is kinda disappointing is couple years ago, I think it
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was, me and my son went to the saints game, and the year before, they did have the netting all
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all alongside the baseline, you know, like the MLBs.
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And they did.
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And I'm just like, really?
22:22
You guys put netting on I mean, I understand the safety.
22:25
Don't get me wrong.
22:26
Be safe.
22:26
I get it.
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But it was just disappointing to see that, you know, because we had thought rolls, tickets,
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and stuff like that.
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And it was just like, are you serious?
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I mean
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Yeah.
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You can't take a glove, man.
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It's a weapon.
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No more gloves in the stadium.
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Yeah.
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No more gloves.
22:43
A good thing.
22:44
You never seen a what's that guy's name?
22:47
Zach Hampel?
22:48
Get out of here, Zach Hampel.
22:49
Zach Hampel ever watches this stream.
22:51
We'll get him.
22:52
We'll get you,
22:52
Zach.
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We'll you.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I obviously, the MLB, has its own problems, and it it's part of it is I just the 162 game
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season and trying to pay costs on a stadium for, you know, 81 home games apiece for every
23:17
that is eighty one days that you have to pay the staff and you have to pay, the grounds crew
23:23
and and the people that are working in the concession stands, and you're trying to make
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all your money back on maybe a a handful of sellouts possibly during the year.
23:34
And for the teams at the bottom that are not consistently bringing in big crowds, you know,
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Minnesota, I'm sure their attendance is always in in the freaking bottom half of the league
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because you spend the first two months where you're like, well, it could snow today.
23:50
So, you know, no different than South Dakota.
23:53
It was 80 here today, but it was forty three days ago.
23:56
Right?
23:57
Two days ago, it it was 40 degrees.
23:59
So I'm not trying to go go out there and do this.
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Oh, they here's you know, I I think it would help, Alex.
24:08
I honestly shout out to pods tuning in with us.
24:12
I think you're right.
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I think they just they have to do something.
24:17
Shortening the season, I don't feel right now, nothing is off the table.
24:22
Right?
24:22
Because you gotta figure it out.
24:25
You you have to figure it out.
24:26
You can't have this season that starts in March and goes all the way through to November at
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this point and expect to maintain everyone's attention when you're not putting out a product
24:39
that is as good as the other professional leagues out there, and now you have other
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sports entertainment leagues like the Savannah Bananas that are cutting into your market
24:48
share.
24:48
You gotta figure something out.
24:50
I mean, what if they you know?
24:53
And I guess I was kind of opposed to it during the COVID year, but what if they brought in
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scheduled doubleheaders and only made them seven innings, like, a Sunday or maybe a
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Wednesday, you know, double head maybe Wednesday wouldn't work, but, you know, a
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scheduled doubleheader and no one make it seven innings.
25:13
I mean, I know some people will say, well, that'll, you know, alter the record books here
25:19
and there and stuff like that.
25:20
But what do you guys think of maybe something like that?
25:23
That would be a I mean, Savannah Bananas and Cosmic Ball could probably get away with it for
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a while, but, like, as a guy who played it all the way through when you're sixteen four even
25:35
14, I mean, I was they shit, man.
25:39
We it's 2,005, guys.
25:42
We didn't have a whole lot of regulations.
25:44
So coach was letting Grady throw a 150 pitches.
25:46
It was not unheard of for the 14 year old.
25:50
They called me rubber arm.
25:52
It's not normal.
25:53
That's that's like the words that adults use.
25:55
Hey.
25:56
He's got a rubber arm when abuse is happening.
25:58
That's what's going on.
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But I don't know.
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It's hard to say because I always wanted to go just to see how it would turn out.
26:08
And then once you do get to go nine innings, it is different.
26:12
I would agree with shortening it down.
26:14
But, I mean, all of that comes that's just it goes down to league and stuff like that.
26:21
I don't know about necessarily that much shorter, maybe a 120 games.
26:24
But then you come to the question, do you go seven seven seven in the playoffs?
26:29
Because they do the long form playoffs too.
26:33
But, really, the thing I think it is is you it's the time how long baseball takes.
26:40
People cannot keep attention that long anymore because it's not fun.
26:45
Between TikTok, social media, and everything, it's instant gratification.
26:48
So baseball's out on that one.
26:50
You're not gonna get the romance unless you're really, like, into it.
26:53
But I think if you would add just add to the pitching staff.
26:58
I mean, you got plenty of rookies.
26:59
If you wanna move them up and down, you can.
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But once again, as a person who's played baseball, if you think you've seen the hardest
27:07
throwers in baseball right now, they're buried in single a, low single a, and nobody knows
27:14
their name.
27:15
Because that kid can throw a 106.
27:18
He's just never been radared, and he only throws one out of 10 as a strike.
27:22
Yeah.
27:23
But, I mean, they have them.
27:26
The system's big.
27:27
Just open it up.
27:28
Just open the system up because, like, triple a is almost as good as it will be.
27:34
It's not the stadium and everything.
27:35
But if you've been to a triple a game, you kinda know what I'm talking about because
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there's guys that are up and down.
27:40
Yep.
27:41
Well and I think that the talent level across the team, and it's not as high.
27:49
Right?
27:49
You're seeing some guys that are that talented, but, Podge chimed in here.
27:53
I played baseball from the time I was seven till I was 15.
27:56
Doubleheader suck for everyone because it sounds shorter, but it's not.
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Hell no.
28:00
It's a long day.
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I all I played was doubleheaders all summer in legion ball.
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Our coach was real good and got us playing.
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And we honestly, we played so, like, post 22 in American legion ball, especially out here, is,
28:13
like, one of the tops.
28:14
They've won a ton of national championships.
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They're in Rapid City, South Dakota.
28:18
So when we would play them, we would play like their freshman team or their split squad.
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That was our Yeah.
28:24
Which was like the JV split with the with the freshman team.
28:28
We beat them once, one time.
28:30
And I come from a small town, small program.
28:33
We were literally pulling guys that had never played baseball before to come out and to to
28:38
step on the field with us just so we could feel the team.
28:41
So, no, I I played nothing but doubleheaders, man.
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They are long days out there.
28:47
You know, you think it's hard to hold your attention for two and a half hours, which I
28:50
think they got the average down to now.
28:52
Try doing it for five hours.
28:54
Right?
28:55
It's it's crazy.
28:56
And the way that they do the doubleheaders in the MLB is that they kick everyone out of the
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stadium and then bring them back in.
29:02
Like, why not just give everyone two for the price of one on that?
29:06
Well, and wasn't Ernie Banks' quote?
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You know, something price of two.
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Let's play two or something like that.
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Yeah.
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I do.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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It was.
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Yeah.
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But, I mean, you know, we're about the price and stuff.
29:20
I mean, Bubba, I mean, what?
29:22
Are the twins the closest pro team to you?
29:25
Yeah.
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But that's that's where we would go.
29:28
I I'm about as far away as I am from the cities to Kansas City.
29:34
But
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But I mean, what if you're if you're to wanna go to a baseball game, you're like, k.
29:39
Now I have to think about travel.
29:41
I gotta think about a hotel room.
29:42
Do I wanna come back?
29:43
Do I want one game or two games to make it worth my wild, you know, and then the price of
29:48
the tickets?
29:49
And then, of course, you gotta get something for the little ones, you know, and, you know,
29:53
so You don't.
29:54
Well, you don't have to.
29:55
Right?
29:56
Yeah.
29:56
I got a ball thrown to me out of the bullpen last time.
29:59
We were lucky to lucky to get that.
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Yeah.
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Although, first inning, second batter when we were out there.
30:05
We were right in the, left center power alley.
30:08
So, b, you know the stadium out there.
30:09
The bullpen, is out in the outfield, out there kind of in the power.
30:14
We were right along that walkway closest there, and I you know, the rest of the family took
30:19
those seats in.
30:20
So I'm, dead left left center.
30:24
And, oh gosh, Dan.
30:26
I'm thinking it was shortstop for the twins.
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Oh.
30:30
Hold on.
30:32
Yeah.
30:33
When?
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Just two years ago.
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Big big name that came over there.
30:36
Big free agent signing.
30:37
Oh, Charles Correa?
30:40
Yeah.
30:40
Correa hits one, and it's coming right at me.
30:43
Like, I played outfield my whole career.
30:44
So as soon
30:45
as it comes off
30:46
the bat, I'm like, come on.
30:48
It's coming right here.
30:49
Landed, like, three rows in front of me out of the park, but close.
30:54
Oh.
30:55
So we got this last year.
30:58
Oh.
30:58
That's that's a tough year.
31:01
So the way we got this was the we went to the Cubs Twins game as we've done the last couple
31:09
years.
31:10
And the guy we go with, his buddies with the Twins equipment manager.
31:15
So he told them that he would have a bag of, you know, goodies for my son.
31:19
And we're like, okay.
31:20
Cool.
31:21
So the bat broke in the middle of the game, and I'm like, hey.
31:24
Text him a you know, just jokingly say, hey.
31:26
We want that bat.
31:27
And at the end of the game, he brought us the bat.
31:29
So that was a big talker when we took the light rail.
31:33
He was like, oh, you got the bat.
31:34
How'd you get that?
31:34
And so we told him and, you know, so yeah.
31:38
I was hoping to get it signed this year, but of course, Beta got traded, what, two, three weeks
31:42
after that game.
31:43
So
31:43
Yeah.
31:44
Well, I have to figure out some way to get him to That's
31:46
why they traded him.
31:47
They're like, you gave that bat to who?
31:49
Here's your kick.
31:51
Get out of here.
31:52
Yeah.
31:53
Todd's had a comment.
31:54
I think it's time for Rob Manfred steps down.
31:57
I I think baseball needs new blood.
31:59
It needs new ideas.
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You've been introducing some of these things.
32:02
The problem is is that you're, like, four years behind the NFL or the NBA implementing things
32:08
of a similar nature.
32:10
It's you're too slow to react.
32:11
You're too worried about the tradition of the game.
32:14
You haven't been forward enough about moving things out there.
32:18
You're too worried about pissing old fans off or whatever or the owners or or whoever.
32:24
The reality is if you shorten the season, I think you would have a better opportunity to
32:31
sell the games.
32:31
It makes each game more valuable in the long term.
32:35
Right?
32:35
And then, you lengthen the playoffs because the playoffs are almost always sellouts.
32:40
So it puts more of an impetus on teams to not just, like, struggle through and get the cut of
32:46
those TV rights because that's another big thing too.
32:48
Right?
32:49
Those are going in the can as nobody's paying for that.
32:52
These big media companies aren't paying tens or hundreds of millions of dollars for the rights
32:58
to broadcast your shitty games.
33:00
They're all just starting their own media companies.
33:02
Right?
33:03
Yeah.
33:03
So it it's changing, and I think the MLB needs new blood.
33:08
They need someone, you know, and not that Andrew Silver has been perfect in the NBA, but
33:13
you need someone that's going to be, yes, we have traditions of the league, but also we need
33:21
to honor these young fans and and build new traditions into the league as well.
33:26
You can't just continue to be archaic and expect to evolve.
33:33
Exactly.
33:34
Exactly, Pods.
33:35
Exactly what I was alluding to.
33:37
Even if you short it from the January to 01/20, right, and you take out these 20 games in late
33:44
March, early April, and you kick the season off next weekend after the masters.
33:49
Right?
33:50
Like, that's the move is to wait till all of this other crap has gone on.
33:55
You hit the you MLB opening weekend and then the NFL draft.
34:00
Right?
34:00
And you have your weekend.
34:02
Right now, I just don't feel like opening weekend of baseball is really anything.
34:08
Right?
34:08
Unless you are just a hardcore fan of a team that it doesn't it doesn't have the national
34:15
like, outside of the super fan market that, the Masters does.
34:20
None of us are watching.
34:21
We barely know who's on the golf course week to week right now.
34:24
Right?
34:25
But we are all tuning into the Masters.
34:28
Besides baseball's playoffs and even, I would say, just like the World Series, what else are
34:35
you turning into that has consequence?
34:38
Right?
34:38
And I think a lot of that is the bloated scheduling.
34:42
Right?
34:43
A 162 games is just a lot to invest in.
34:46
Like, I'm a pretty big Cubs fan, I feel like.
34:48
And even me, I'm like talk to me in July.
34:51
Yep.
34:52
That's where I'm at, with you.
34:53
I, you know, I love baseball.
34:55
You know, opening day, you know, no matter, you know, what it is, watch that first game on TV,
35:01
watch your first, you know, home team, and then it's just like, okay.
35:06
Come back to me in June or July and, you know, after the all star break, we're all we're on
35:11
the all star break, and I'll see where you're at, you know, and stuff like that.
35:14
So that's that's how I always felt is, you know, get me to the all star game, and then let
35:20
let let the season kick off.
35:22
So
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Yep.
35:26
We're gonna save this conversation for NBA show that's gonna be kicking off, next year, next
35:33
NBA season.
35:34
I think we'll start at the beginning of the year, and do this, but we are going to touch on
35:38
this a lot.
35:41
Not so sure about the NBA.
35:43
I don't tune in enough.
35:44
Right?
35:44
Like, I grew up in Chicago in the nineties.
35:47
I we turned like, our house, when the starting lineup started for the bulls, everyone in house
35:53
went out.
35:54
Like, it was had to be there.
35:57
And I haven't really, like, sat down and watched an entire NBA game, and I can't even
36:01
tell how even when I went up to the bulls and Timberwolves two years ago, I don't know that I
36:06
was really, like, super glued in.
36:09
The the the one thing with the NBA, you know, like you said, we'll talk about it on a NBA
36:13
show when it comes up, is you just never know who's gonna be playing because they got the
36:17
load management that they do.
36:19
And, you know, so, you know, like like, you know, Bobby, you went to the Bulls game.
36:24
You know, what if Jordan wouldn't have you know, I know way past your time, but or way
36:28
past Jordan's time, but that star player didn't play.
36:31
That's who you wanted to go see and, you know, and you're still paying, you know, the $50 to
36:36
go see that guy, and he did make the trip.
36:38
Your tickets when the season started because you circled it like, that's the one game I'm
36:43
going to.
36:43
Yeah.
36:44
And then LeBron doesn't step on the freaking court because he's got old ass knees now, and
36:48
he's only gonna play 60 games.
36:50
You know?
36:50
It's not fair to the fans.
36:52
And and Pod kind of alludes to that load management has killed the NBA.
36:56
Got hold on.
36:57
Wait a minute.
36:57
I gotta pause.
36:58
Like, y'all just described the entire reason me and my ex in college broke up.
37:06
Were y'all at the game?
37:08
I had season tickets.
37:11
I had season tickets to the Hornets, and they were playing the heat in 2013.
37:19
And that's Bosch, James, Wade, Kimmel Walker, Cody Zeller, Al Jefferson.
37:25
I'm like, this is gonna be a game.
37:27
I circled it.
37:28
I told old girl, we ain't going nowhere.
37:30
It's her like, my birthday, everybody's birthday.
37:33
Nope.
37:33
Don't worry about it.
37:34
Gone.
37:35
Every one of them sat.
37:37
Every person I named sat the bitch.
37:40
And she got mad, and we broke up because
37:45
Like, you're playing Riley.
37:47
Like, you're
37:47
like, like, you sat him.
37:50
You're like, yeah.
37:50
I called him and told him.
37:52
You know what, guys?
37:53
No.
37:53
You wanted to go see LeBron more than me.
37:56
Duh.
38:00
I see you three hundred and sixty five days a year.
38:03
I wanna see LeBron.
38:03
Well, I once.
38:04
Come on now.
38:05
You're going to college to be a brain surgeon.
38:08
That's LeBron James.
38:09
Like, that's the only time
38:11
why you all broke up.
38:13
Yeah.
38:14
That's not a good argument, apparently.
38:19
Support management major lady.
38:21
Get out of here.
38:26
Oh.
38:27
That's the degree
38:28
you get if you wanna be a used car salesman.
38:30
Oh, wait.
38:30
You sell new ones.
38:31
That's not fair.
38:31
I didn't I didn't
38:33
I've sold them all, but, yeah, I mean, you
38:35
maybe.
38:37
Maybe.
38:38
Oh.
38:40
But yeah.
38:41
Oh my goodness.
38:42
Be So am I the only one that most
38:43
of the week, from the twins besides being in a possible share of first place in the AL Central
38:51
right now?
38:52
Honestly, you know, I'm I'm just impressed with their app, but I got to keep my eyes on I wanna
39:00
pull up the pitcher's name.
39:03
What's his full name here?
39:05
Let's get it.
39:07
Tad Bradley, three starts, three in all, one point two one point two five ERA.
39:14
So, you know, something to kinda watch there for the twins, him and Joe Ryan look to be like
39:20
a nice one two combo if they stay healthy.
39:23
So that's something to watch.
39:26
I'm just right now, for me, the highlight is just, you know, that they're winning, that
39:31
they're playing good ball, that they're not sneaking up the joint.
39:34
Yes.
39:35
Royce Lewis is on the ten day DL already.
39:38
Buxton, I don't think was too far behind him if he hasn't.
39:42
So those guys just have to stay healthy.
39:44
But overall, you know, watching them take care of Detroit, take care of Toronto, you know,
39:51
then I think they get to come home tomorrow and start a homestaying.
39:57
So just, you know, just impressed that they're hanging around.
40:02
Yeah.
40:02
Two teams that made obviously deep.
40:04
I mean, Toronto was in the world series last year.
40:09
A pretty incredible run for a young team up in Toronto.
40:14
But, yeah, it's nice to see the twins doing okay and being there.
40:21
Pods says highlight of the week goes to the Los Angeles Angels, Joe Adel for robbing three
40:26
homers, and the Dodgers, Max Munch, hitting three homers, the last one to walk it off.
40:32
So
40:32
Yeah.
40:33
Lots lots following
40:34
our West Coast teams.
40:36
Pods, you may be a valuable asset to this show as well.
40:39
I'm gonna be sending you a link next week.
40:42
As long as long as you don't sit there and just drown me with dodger talk, I you know, I don't
40:46
care.
40:47
But, yeah, let's talk about Dowell's performance there.
40:51
Three home runs that he robbed in one game.
40:53
I mean, typically game.
40:55
He typically might get that once a month or maybe twice a year, but to do that in in three
41:01
games
41:01
seventeen years.
41:03
I never robbed a robbed a home run.
41:05
No.
41:06
I never got close either, but, I mean, just just to think of, like, career highlight and
41:11
and, you know, with me collecting cards, I kinda hope they make a card where they show him
41:15
robbing all three home runs.
41:17
Oh, you know that's in the making.
41:19
Yeah.
41:19
They they gotta have it.
41:20
I mean, what did he did he fall into the stands?
41:23
Yeah.
41:24
That's the third one?
41:25
Yeah.
41:25
So Yeah.
41:26
The
41:26
last one.
41:26
Yeah.
41:27
Yeah.
41:28
The most last year was five.
41:31
Most Robs all last year was five by Fernando Tatis.
41:36
Okay.
41:37
Odell had three in one day.
41:39
That's crazy.
41:41
It was it's almost I I mean, the athletic ability to be able to do it is insane.
41:47
The fact that you had an opportunity to rob three of them.
41:50
Right?
41:50
Like, that that to me is such a statistically low number
41:57
Oh, yeah.
41:57
To have ones that barely clear the you know, that are going, less than four feet over the
42:03
fence.
42:03
Right?
42:03
I mean, the guy probably jumped.
42:05
You guys got, what, like, a 36 inch vertical.
42:08
Yeah.
42:08
He might save basketball.
42:10
It was a high wall.
42:12
No.
42:12
It's a high wall, but he I I think on the first one, he, like, noticed the wind was blowing in,
42:18
and he jutted.
42:19
He's like, oh, this could be a day.
42:21
And it was just, like, ball after ball after ball was hit to him, and it was like, well,
42:26
it's gonna die.
42:27
So I'm just gonna play deep.
42:32
But
42:33
No.
42:33
That yeah.
42:34
That that that was impressive.
42:35
But then something I wanna bring up, I brought in the chat, I think it was a couple days ago,
42:41
where they had two challenges on the same on the same play.
42:45
Let's see that.
42:47
Oh, yeah.
42:48
If you if you go into the chat let me bring it up because I rather remember the teams.
42:56
Oh, it's Mason Miller.
42:57
Andres, so this is what you were talking about off the top then.
43:00
Yeah.
43:01
Yeah.
43:02
16 of 21.
43:04
They're not even keeping stats on hits anymore with him.
43:06
Hey.
43:07
I mean, how many people have put it in playoff Mason this year?
43:10
What?
43:12
Well, that's the thing too.
43:13
Well, the the number guys are always looking for new ways to break down something.
43:17
Yeah.
43:17
The cubs had to get past that Padres squad, in the playoffs last year and watching and I
43:23
hadn't watched a lot of Padres ball before that, but I don't know that the cubs saw anyone
43:27
that didn't throw a 100 miles an hour the entire time.
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Everyone on the Yeah.
43:31
I was close to digits.
43:33
It was crazy.
43:34
Ben Joyce hit a 105.8 so far this year.
43:39
So that's Billy Wagner throw.
43:41
We went to an Astros game.
43:42
My my aunt lived down in Houston for a little while.
43:45
And the I it's just a it's a blur.
43:48
Right?
43:48
And and we were first we were first baseline.
43:51
So you're watching the ball the entire time, and I was maybe maybe, like, 11 at the time,
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right, playing play playing some t ball.
43:59
Yeah.
44:00
Just swinging it.
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That's the first I mean, in person, that may be the only player that I've ever seen hit a 100,
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at a game, in person like that, but it was just it's so fast.
44:11
So fast.
44:12
And now you're telling me someone threw it four miles an hour faster than that.
44:16
Right?
44:16
Almost five.
44:17
It's crazy.
44:18
And just to hear that snap of the glove when it hits.
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So it's just It
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was so loud.
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It was in the old Astrodome too.
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It was before they built the new stadium.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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It was cool.
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Yeah.
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But yeah.
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So in the the Red Sox cardinals game, they the batter the I'm calling a hits backman, so he
44:39
starts walking to first.
44:41
Red Sox challenged it, so they got it called back, reversed.
44:45
And then the cardinal was challenged that it was catcher's interference.
44:51
And put him back on first base.
44:52
And put him and put him back on first base.
44:55
And they wonder why fans are leaving the stadium because that's a a ten minute break in
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the action while they're figuring it all out and going back and forth and, you know, it is
45:10
what it is.
45:11
I I know they're trying to to get to get it right.
45:14
But We want them to get it right too, but, I mean, part of it too is baseball is a blink of
45:21
an eye.
45:22
I mean, you're gonna make mistakes.
45:24
I mean, you can't have everything perfect, and that's what people want nowadays.
45:27
They want things to be perfect.
45:29
Well, because we have the technology that that allows that, and I think we are we are in the
45:35
next five years gonna see that human element in a lot of sports taken away completely.
45:41
If you have the technology for ABS now in real time to deliver, did that ball hit the strike
45:48
zone or not, why do you have a guy back there?
45:51
Nope.
45:51
Right?
45:52
If you have the camera systems installed everywhere that can narrow it down to the
45:57
finest you just have four umpires behind screens off the field that are making the
46:04
calls.
46:04
And maybe you have them, out there.
46:07
Maybe you keep guys on the field for a look, but it's an in the ear thing that just tells
46:12
them what to call.
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And, you know, for me Wait
46:14
a minute.
46:15
Is that the wager then?
46:17
The we get rid of pitch clock, and you can get out of the batter's box again.
46:22
Like, because that's two rules they can't do right now.
46:24
Batters don't be walking around outside the batter's box, and pitchers have a pitch clock.
46:28
We get rid of those, and they can go back to normal, but we have to use complete camera
46:34
systems.
46:34
No more jobs.
46:36
Y'all gotta hit the road.
46:37
I might honestly be down with that.
46:39
If we would just go back to bullheaded baseball, no no nothing.
46:43
You'll know it's a striker or ball.
46:44
It's gonna go bing or dank.
46:47
That's it.
46:47
You just go.
46:49
I might be into that.
46:50
Poor bugger, man.
46:51
You know, and the thing is is Poor bugger.
46:53
The games I got to, I haven't even really I mean, I watched like, the first game I went to
46:57
with the pitchfuck, I watched it, but I didn't think it played a factor in it.
47:03
I'll give you a hint there on that one.
47:06
So I didn't know it was a thing either, but that's a rule that, like, they just we were
47:13
just taught that from a kid.
47:14
If you're a pitcher, it's like, you need to be back on the mound and pitching again within ten
47:20
to fifteen seconds Yep.
47:21
Because of this rule right here.
47:24
Everybody that grew up, the shortstop or the center fielder was probably the best player.
47:28
Right?
47:29
Yep.
47:30
Probably wasn't the smartest kid ever.
47:32
Right?
47:33
Right.
47:34
Gotta keep him engaged.
47:36
If you're
47:37
not pitching that ball every fifteen seconds, he could be kicking the dirt.
47:41
He could be doing this.
47:42
I'm dead serious.
47:43
We all got that talk.
47:44
It's like, gotta keep him engaged.
47:46
Alright?
47:46
So we're keep it rolling.
47:47
You know, I don't care.
47:48
Throw to the back.
47:49
He looks like he's taking a nap.
47:50
Whip the ball at him real quick.
47:52
Exact yeah.
47:52
Yeah.
47:53
Yeah.
47:54
Not playing.
47:55
But the I think I'm dead serious.
47:56
Fifteen seconds was like a golden rule.
47:58
You just gotta keep going.
48:01
But I don't
48:02
Yeah.
48:02
I I think it's just it's moving that direction, which is a shame because of those iconic
48:08
moments of, you know, the the manager storming out and kicking dirt on the umpire and and the
48:15
the bench clearing brawls and everything that it doesn't because when you take that human
48:19
element, there's no one to argue with.
48:21
Right?
48:21
And I think you actually speed the game up in other ways.
48:26
You take away the pitch clock and those things, and you just put it all on the computers and AI
48:31
and run it and shorten the season.
48:34
And I think you just do and I don't think you do incremental change at this point.
48:38
I think you just do it all in one go.
48:40
You say, hey.
48:41
It's a new game.
48:43
It's a new era.
48:44
You'll leave the record books the way they were, and you it's MLB two now.
48:49
Right?
48:49
It's it's the new dawn, and you leave those record books where they were, but you start
48:55
anew.
48:55
You change the game.
48:56
You let all of them juice up.
48:59
You get these guys as big as possible, throwing the ball a 114 miles an hour.
49:04
Talking.
49:05
Let's go.
49:06
Like, I'm just
49:07
We're bringing back beer sponsors, cigarettes.
49:09
Who wants what?
49:10
Let's go.
49:10
Back in there.
49:11
Get them.
49:12
But, you know, you're talking you're talking about people getting out of the bags by stuff.
49:15
Yeah.
49:15
I mean, how would that have affected Nomar Garcia Power and Chuck Knoblaks who, after
49:20
every pitch, had to get out of the box, readjust their batting gloves, readjust their,
49:24
you know, stirrups and tie their shoes and, you know, they get back in and yeah.
49:30
So Oh, no, Mark.
49:33
I
49:34
forgot about that till you said it.
49:36
I I remember that as a kid now just flipping the glove and people
49:39
Former cub.
49:41
No more.
49:41
Garcia Parra.
49:43
Former cub.
49:43
Come on.
49:44
He said, what, one year there?
49:46
Come on.
49:47
I mean, I know you're right.
49:48
He's a former cub, but come on.
49:50
Bro, people, there was the argument at one time.
49:53
It was like a Kobe AI argument of Jeter Garcia Parra, who you got, because a lot of people
49:58
picked Nomar.
50:00
Yeah.
50:00
That is a good call.
50:01
Yeah, man.
50:02
Yeah.
50:03
They sure did.
50:05
Everybody man, you loved it.
50:06
Those those those were the days.
50:08
Right?
50:09
Mhmm.
50:10
The the Red Sox, Yankees, late nineties, early two thousand rivalries, man, those were epic.
50:18
Bernie Williams, Johnny Damon.
50:21
Those two were incredible.
50:22
They the big brother too.
50:24
Didn't didn't Pedro throw down
50:28
Don Z.
50:29
Don Z.
50:31
Yeah.
50:31
Or kinda side stepped him, maybe.
50:33
Down goes Donny, baby.
50:37
What are you
50:37
doing running at Pedro, bro?
50:40
You crazy.
50:41
At your age, man.
50:43
Hey, Don.
50:44
Oh.
50:46
Yeah.
50:46
And and that would
50:47
be the shame, I think, of, you know, pulling the thing.
50:52
It's just it's where we're going.
50:53
Right?
50:54
You don't introduce the ABS and all the replay and stuff if it's not trending in that
50:59
direction.
50:59
It it just it is what it is.
51:02
The the NFL, I think, is going to continue.
51:05
I I think they're getting closer and closer to it.
51:08
You saw it with the the expedited replay this year and the chip in the ball now, right, and
51:16
on the field and just you you gotta get it right because it tarnishes the record books
51:23
because of it.
51:24
Right?
51:25
And not to say that you're not gonna have human error.
51:27
Leave the human air for the guys on the field.
51:30
The guys who are getting paid millions, and especially in the NFL where you don't even have
51:34
full time officials.
51:36
These guys are all, like, selling insurance all year long, and then, oh, well, I get a pretty
51:41
cool job on Sundays in the fall.
51:43
Yeah.
51:44
And I think they're actually possibly bringing back replacement officials this year.
51:48
Yeah.
51:48
There's there's I talked to I'll have to talk about that on Viking and then
51:53
don't think they're gonna let it get to that.
51:55
They're gonna say, screw it.
51:56
Cool.
51:56
We have this new AI Right.
51:59
Referee system, and that's what we do now, and that's it.
52:02
Mhmm.
52:02
And the NFL would be the move.
52:03
And if the NFL goes that way, all the other leagues then have to follow suit.
52:08
It just it is is what it is.
52:11
Well, I think the only one of
52:13
the biggest companies in the world at this point.
52:16
Right?
52:16
Like, the league as itself is a trillion dollar brand.
52:22
Yeah.
52:22
The the only sport I don't think that could go to no officials would be basketball, I think.
52:28
You know?
52:29
I don't know.
52:31
I mean, they could probably figure out a way, but now.
52:33
I I didn't know until the March madness about this whole, like, in the cylinder rule.
52:40
Oh, yeah.
52:41
That threw me off.
52:41
Did you see any of that?
52:42
So, yeah, like, if you're up in a guy and guarding a guy, you can't be in his cylinder,
52:48
they call it.
52:49
So, like, up, like, pretty much, like, humbling
52:51
his leg.
52:52
If he's here, you can't throw a hand here.
52:54
Oh, okay.
52:55
Gotcha.
52:56
Okay.
52:57
Yeah.
52:57
Well, I saw a lot of away from away
53:00
from the hoop when they were, you know, you know, a couple of guards point guard guarding
53:04
up in there.
53:05
Doesn't show, but yeah.
53:07
Alec, I'm with you, man.
53:09
These are some of the greatest moments in in sports because of the human element to it, but
53:15
it's just it's going it's going away.
53:17
It's just the reality of the game at this point.
53:20
And it exactly.
53:22
If you wanna get to the truest form of it, we have the technology to do it now.
53:28
It's it's coming.
53:29
It's it's around the corner.
53:30
It is no longer something that's far off.
53:33
I just even a few years ago, they said, oh, a replay will never be in baseball, and now
53:38
they're literally replaying.
53:39
You have an option to replay every pitch.
53:41
Right?
53:42
So why why even mess around?
53:45
Why let the guy call it ball and strike regardless?
53:48
It is what it is.
53:49
And as a hitter, I think it makes the game even better because the hitters have to get better.
53:57
You have to be your batter eye has to be perfect then.
54:01
You can't rely on, well, this guy's got a pretty tight strike zone today.
54:05
Oh, well, I'm gonna get you know, he hasn't been calling that ball that's, you know, even
54:10
an inch over the plate a strike today on the outside court.
54:14
Right?
54:14
So it's gonna change the game, and I think it's going to change it where you want it to, which
54:20
is on the player development and getting a better on field product.
54:24
But I'm probably in the minority here now.
54:27
It's alright.
54:28
Times will change, and No.
54:30
Will come over.
54:31
But but we heard we heard that argument on how umps call difference when it was you had the al
54:36
lumps, then you had the n l lumps.
54:37
And, you know, this guy calls it this way.
54:40
You know?
54:40
I mean, that was back that was a debate in the eighties and nineties.
54:43
And all them.
54:44
Yeah.
54:45
Back
54:45
in the
54:45
old days.
54:46
So so that is my stuff back there mocking me.
54:50
So
54:51
Yeah.
54:52
Well,
54:54
guys, we've been on for just about an hour now.
54:57
Appreciate you guys jumping in with me.
55:00
Pods, obviously appreciate you coming in, talking some ball, joining us over from the
55:05
scratch project as well.
55:07
I don't know how many times, we'll do that during the year.
55:10
Well, at least three more times as we cover the rest of the major tournaments anyway.
55:14
Yeah.
55:14
But we get together here every Sunday at 7PM, talk a little bit of baseball, covering mostly
55:21
our favorite teams, mine being the cubs in the NL Central.
55:25
Big b has the twins up in Minnesota.
55:28
Shady brings us a little bit of that NL East with the Braves and Pods who's gonna join us
55:35
next week as our our newest cohost out there on the West Coast covering it.
55:40
So we kinda got all the all the different areas of the country covered.
55:44
With that, then we got plenty of stuff to talk about in the league.
55:49
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55:59
Shady, any parting shots this Sunday?
56:02
A big shout out to Rory.
56:04
Congrats on the win.
56:06
Cal Raleigh, gotta turn it around.
56:09
Big, just say, big dumper.
56:11
Let's go, buddy.
56:14
Oh, Casey Royals fan here.
56:17
Dodgers and Royals.
56:20
Okay.
56:20
So you obviously like the color blue.
56:23
So Yeah.
56:25
Hey.
56:25
We got you, buddy.
56:27
We got you.
56:28
Bee, anything before we let him get out of here?
56:31
No.
56:32
I mean, I'm always excited.
56:34
I mean, yeah, you know, hopefully, Kyle Rowley could get back to form and earn that MVP that
56:40
he got robbed with last year.
56:42
Hopefully, the twins stay hot or consistent.
56:47
Look over the week.
56:48
Yeah.
56:49
And in a couple weeks yeah.
56:52
Yeah.
56:53
In a couple weeks, I'll actually be going to the twins versus Seattle game here.
56:57
So I may have to hit shave you up to tell Kyle Riley I need an auto.
57:02
So Yeah.
57:03
I'll get an intro.
57:04
You got that rookie card, me?
57:06
I don't know if I have a rookie card, but I do have a couple of Kyle Riley cards.
57:10
A buddy of mine, he's a big Seattle fan, so he wants to go.
57:13
He's the one that wants to try to get that auto.
57:15
So but but with that being said, we'll definitely see you all next week.
57:21
Yep.
57:21
Can't wait, guys.
57:23
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