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First No-Hitter of 2024 · 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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  right off the top here. I usually don't do this, but I
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  want I I want to put a poll out to our listeners.
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  This wasn't even, this wasn't even the the leading topic of
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  episode 421. But I'm catching some heat on
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  Twitter about this. This ending to the D backs game
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  today. I don't know if you saw, but the
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  Yankees and D backs went to the 11th today and the D backs were
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  down to their final out. They're down 5 to 6.
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  They're at home. Yankee is looking to close it
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  out UP65 in the bottom of the 11th.
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  They got two outs. D backs have two outs.
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  And they had emptied their bench to the point that they had to
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  send a relief pitcher. I I think a relief pitcher,
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  Scott Mcgough. I think I saw that it was his
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  first AB, his first ever major, like his first at bat ever as a
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  big league player. They send the D back, send him
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  up to the plate with two outs down a run to the Yankees with
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  the bases loaded. That's all they had.
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  I'm not saying that was like their top choice, but that's all
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  they had. With that said, he gets down to
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  1/2. I believe the count was 1/2.
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  There's like a borderline pitch. It's that I I saw some people
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  saying it was like 6 inches off the plate.
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  I'll go 6 inches off the plate. I'll, I'll, I'll give him that.
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  I'll, I'll, I'll be generous. Doesn't even take the bat off
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  his shoulders. So my question to you is, that
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  was a long, long winded way of asking via pole, where do we
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  stand on that? Like I like I said, if I hadn't
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  caught heat about this on Twitter, I wouldn't even.
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  I. It really wouldn't make a
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  difference to me. But now I'm genuinely curious,
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  wondering if I'm the crazy one here.
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  What? Scott Mcgough, A pitcher up, up
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  to plate teams down one bottom of the 11th, Bases loaded, 1-2
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  count, borderline pitch? Am I crazy to say that you got a
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  swing on anything close? Like, has baseball evolved to
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  the point past, the point of that being a philosophy, that
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  being an approach, 'cause that's how we were always taught, and
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  I'm pretty sure that's how the majority of a lot of these guys
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  were taught. And I know Scott Mcgough is a
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  pitcher, but I'm sure he hit at one point in his life playing
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  baseball, so I know he knows this is borderline pitch.
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  Am I crazy? Go watch the video, Tell me.
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  Tell me what you think. Get back to me.
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  Hit me up on via DM or something.
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  Let me know 'cause this is bothering me more than it
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  should, I will admit, but I really got to know it.
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  Where you guys are at with this? Anyway, glad we got that out of
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  the way. Let's get into the main topics
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  of discussion for tonight. Renelle Blanco, the first no
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  hitter of the 2024 season. Can I put it up to another poll?
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  Can I? Can I propose another poll?
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  How many of you heard about this, like as it was happening?
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  How many of you heard about this after the fact?
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  Because I got to say, I know it's early in the season.
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  I know we're, what, 5-6 games into the season?
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  Six, 7:00-ish. I know it's early, but in recent
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  memory, this is one of the most under the radar.
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  No hitters that I can remember. I mean I got the notification it
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  said he was through. No, I I don't even think the
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  people at the game the OR the people that were responsible for
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  putting these notifications out because obviously I'm not I'm
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  not tuned into the Astros Jays game on a random what was it
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  Monday, Tuesday night Monday night.
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  So I I have to rely on some of these updates to to know when to
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  tune in to things like this. And they sent the the update and
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  it said Renault Blanco no hitter through eight.
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  I flipped the game on. Vladio Junior is flaring a ball
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  to second base to end the game so I barely caught the end of
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  it. And granted I had to go back and
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  watch the condensed version of the game just so I I I knew what
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  I'd be talking about as as I knew this would be a topic on
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  the podcast. But like I said, I don't even
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  think the people that were at the game or the people
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  responsible for keeping people updated on things like this when
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  when no hitter warnings are are sent out I don't even know if
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  they were awake for this or aware that it was going on.
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  So I mean we're going to talk about it.
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  A no hitter's a no hitter. I mean props to Ronell.
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  He's got an awesome story that I I think needs to be talked
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  about. But I I kind of feel bad for the
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  guy, you know? I mean talk about a a whirlwind
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  of events for this guy and I don't feel like didn't even get
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  the the discussion or the attention that he deserves for
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  this achievement. But I mentioned the story that
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  he that he has or that he brought into the game with him.
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  I I in this article that I read I think it was ESPN's article it
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  said it started off in a span of seven days.
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  The Houston right-hander welcomed a new daughter made his
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  first opening day roster and then threw the first no hitter
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  in the major leagues this season.
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  So within seven days welcome to new daughter made the roster
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  threw a no hitter. I mean that's that's an
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  incredible story and I think some someone correct me if I'm
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  wrong but I think I I think I read somewhere that he and
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  forgive me not having the full background on this guy because
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  as you can see very very kind of out there story.
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  This isn't a household name. But I think I read that he
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  signed for like 5 grand to some like international signing.
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  I'm not sure the details on that someone someone can like I said
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  correct me if I'm wrong but I think I saw that he signed for
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  like $5000. In addition to a lot of the
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  other guys at the Astros have have brought on board over the
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  last call it 5-10 years. A a lot of similar situations
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  where very, very cheap signings and they turn out to be you know
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  they're they're making their mark in the organization.
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  So if that is true or even if it was more, but it it was still
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  very minimal money. Good for him and I mean talk
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  about making the best of an opportunity, making the best of
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  a situation. But yeah he is.
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  He's 30 years old. Didn't play or or didn't make it
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  didn't play in the majors rather until he was 28.
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  This is his eighth career start and as you well know, the Astros
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  rotation is a little bit banged up.
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  So that's that's part of the reason he really was even in
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  this situation to begin with. So again, goes back to making
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  the best of the opportunity. So props to Ronell for for
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  taking advantage of of the opportunity you're giving
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  because as you all know you hear guys in the league talk about it
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  all the time. The guys that have that are
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  presented similar opportunities, a lot of them can't take
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  advantage of it because the pressure gets to them or they
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  get in their own head or they they caught.
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  They catch themselves not, not ready.
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  The team comes them, says hey, now's your shot kid and they're
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  caught with their hands down their pants and it's it.
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  It's a it's a tough spot to be in and you don't, obviously you
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  don't really hear about those stories because they kind of
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  fizzle out. Maybe a once promising prospect
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  just didn't take advantage of of the the opportunity.
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  Or even a guy like this where it's like, hey, in a normal
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  world, in a regular world, you might not get this opportunity.
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  But given circumstances related to injuries or personnel issues
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  whatever it may be a guy got suspended and we got to call you
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  up some whatever it may be. The guys that that make the most
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  of those opportunities are the stories that you hear about and
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  Renell Blanco is certainly one of those names.
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  So again I I just want to express my my respects to Ronell
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  for for doing that because that's that's a a tough spot to
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  be in for a let's let's call let's call it like it is a very
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  successful franchise over the last decade.
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  Regardless how you feel about the Astros to be able to come up
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  and and do this I I tip my cap to him again this was Monday
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  night in the Astros 10 nothing win against the Blue Jays.
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  The Blue Jays looked absolutely flat and not to take anything
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  away from Blanco, he had, he had his stuff working and I I
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  specifically wanted to address the change up usage.
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  He had that thing on a string all night and I I believe most
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  if not all like 90 to even 100% of the strikeouts that he had.
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  I think he had seven. KSI believe it was seven I think
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  were exclusively via the change up.
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  He had the Jays looking silly, absolutely silly.
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  It was nothing but soft contact all night.
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  The only real hard contact that I think he saw at any point
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  during that night was right at guys.
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  So you know how that stuff goes. Luck tends to be on your side in
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  situations like that, and there wasn't even really any close
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  play that that put him in a hairy situation.
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  I think the only play that was even remotely a little little
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  scary was the second out in the eighth or in the ninth.
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  Rather, I think it was a it was a ground ball to Jose, a hard
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  ground ball to Jose. Abreu laid out, made the play.
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  Not to take anything away from Abreu, but I think we can all
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  acknowledge that it's not exactly the most agile these
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  days. So I think any other first
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  baseman, maybe a little younger, maybe a little lighter on their
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  feet, it's not as scary of a play.
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  Maybe it's a little more comfortable.
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  Maybe, maybe Ronelle could have breathed a little bit easier,
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  but either way Abreu makes a play for the second out in the
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  ninth and again, that was really the only close call.
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  I think there was a ball hit, maybe the left center that made
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  its way close to the track, but really it was just soft contact
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  and and his strike and his change outs via the strikeout,
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  He hurt strikeouts via the change out.
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  He had him looking foolish all night.
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  It was the 17th no hitter in in team history and the first
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  obviously the 1st of 2024 but the first since Michael Lorenzen
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  when he was with Philly last year if you recall, it was I
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  think it was August. But yeah the going back to the
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  change up 'cause I I I don't want that to be lost on on this.
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  He had a 90% strike rate with the change up that's that's
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  gross and to see where he he he was spotting it up exactly where
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  he wanted it all night. He was spotting it low.
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  He was he was twisting guys up at the plate.
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  They were they were swinging out of their shoes the entire night
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  when they weren't rolling over on balls or or flailing them to
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  to shallow to the shallow outfield.
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  So it was just a a very, very efficient, very dominant
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  performance and credit to him too for take again taking
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  advantage of the opportunity but recognizing or or realizing how
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  early it is in the season because I I'm curious to see
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  what kind of toll this takes on him moving forward or in the
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  opportunities that he's potentially given.
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  I don't know if this is a more of a long term fit for the
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  rotation while we wait out injuries for the Astros or or
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  what it may be. But if he does have recurring
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  appearances for the Stroh's, I am curious to see what kind of
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  toll this takes because an outing although it was
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  relatively efficient given the circumstances it's that's still
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  a that's still a tall a tall ask.
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  This early in season ago I think it was over 100 pitches.
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  I want to say it was like was it like 110?
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  I might be making that number completely up but I I think we
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  were close to that. But yeah, just very, very
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  impressive outing from Rannell. And like I said right off the
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  top, I wish he would have gotten a little more love for it in the
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  moment because again, I feel like everybody was kind of
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  scrambling like whoa, whoa, whoa, this, this has happened on
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  already like this, this is what's going on.
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  And he closed it out and made history for himself and for the
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  team. So again, props Rannell moving
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  along here. Speaking of history, Bryce
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  Harper Have a night kid have a night came into the to what is
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  today. Today's Wednesday came into
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  Tuesday's game O for 11, which for all intents and purposes the
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  grand scheme of things not that many ABS.
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  But I can I I would venture to say a guy like Bryce who just
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  loves to hit to start to start off the year O for 11, that has
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  to feel that may as well be O for 75 for him.
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  I really, I mean anybody is going to be feeling that right
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  out of the gate if you're struggling to get that first to
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  notch that first hit to record that that first knock in the
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  books to start the year. But for him especially, I would
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  imagine that a guy who expects a lot from himself, I'm sure that
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  that was weighing on him. And again, I'm sure O for 11
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  felt 10 times that. So to come out and and drop 3
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  tanks, your first of all, your first hit of the season is a
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  home run. And then you're like, I got one
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  more in me. And then you come up again and
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  you say not only do I have a third one in me, let's clear the
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  bases, bases juiced Grand Slam to cap off a what was it, a six
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  RBI night? I think it was two.
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  Was it two solo shots in a Grand Slam?
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  Just a heck of a just a heck of a way to to, I don't want to
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  say, come out of the gate, 'cause we're, like I said, we're
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  six games, 6 or so games in the season.
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  But for him to to finally tally that first, that first knock, to
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  do it in in quite literally grand style, you you gotta love
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  that for him. That so they they take down the
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  Reds 9:00 to 4:00 Tuesday. The history behind it though, I
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  I I need to pull it up just 'cause I don't want to misspeak
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  here. And forgive me, I should have
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  had, I should have had this pulled up already.
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  But I think he was the 1st. Was it the first guy since like
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  the freaking 19, like the year 1900 or something insane to go
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  to start O for 11 and then hit three bombs or something?
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  There was some historical element to it and I should have
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  no, I should have written it down when I saw it.
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  That's my bad but it was it was really it was a matter of time
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  and I I tweeted out I said I said the king is back after like
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  the first the first one maybe the second one and then he goes
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  and and and hits a hits a third one for Grand Slam.
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  I I wasn't worried as AI mean as you can see here on on YouTube,
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  big Bryce guy and I I just wasn't worried.
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  I wasn't worried. I knew I I was confident that it
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  was only a matter of time that he was going to turn it around.
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  This guy's been in the league too long.
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  I swear it feels like he just got into the league like
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  yesterday and we're having all these Bryce Harper Mike Trout
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  conversations. But he's been in the league now
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  for 12 years. Is it really?
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  Has it been 12 years already Where does the time go?
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  My goodness that makes me feel old because he was it was 2012
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  his rookie year right. He won rookie of the year in
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  2012 My goodness 12 years. But yeah he's he's been in the
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  league too long he he's a hitting nut.
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  He I don't I don't know if I'd call him a nerd.
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  I I wouldn't call him a hitting nerd because I I think he's he
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  has said on on numerous occasions before that he.
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  He just likes to hit. He just likes to mash baseballs.
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  There's a quote I think from like 20 or 21 where he
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  paraphrasing, but he basically was just like, yeah, I just, I
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  just want to hit baseballs. So for a guy that has done it
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  his whole career, I I believe me, I wasn't stressed about an O
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  for 11 start. I'm sure Phillies fans were
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  feeling a little little uncomfortable with with that
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  slow of a start. And I know, I know.
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  Braves fans were just eating it up.
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  Rightfully so. I mean, if if your rival star
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  player is is off to a a sluggish chart, you're going to kick them
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  while they're down for sure. But came back in a big way.
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  I think I saw. No, that was Mookie.
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  I'm getting milestones mixed up. I thought it was like his
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  fifteen hundredth RBI or something.
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  But what's crazy about that Phillies game?
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  I don't. I don't even know if.
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  If the Bryce Harper thing was the craziest part about the
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  game, did you all hear about Ricardo Pinto the the reliever.
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  I got to give you guys some background here.
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  He hasn't he hasn't pitched in the big league since 2019.
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  He got let me make sure I got this right.
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  He got called up from AAA Lehigh Valley and the Phillies couldn't
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  get him a flight from Rochester, which I guess is where they were
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  at. And because he couldn't make the
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  flight, he had to drive 8 hours and the reason he was late, as
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  you would imagine, scrambling to make that trip, he got the Rob
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  Thompson, the manager of Philly, said.
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  He got stuck in traffic and so he was did I see.
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  He didn't make it to the 4th inning.
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  He made it. I got to make sure I got this
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  right. He he made yes.
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  He didn't arrive at the ballpark until the 4th inning and then
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  proceeded to pitch 4 innings and got his first career save.
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  And now I'm not going to lie, when I saw, when I saw the
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  first, like, post about this, I thought who is this Ricardo
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  Pinto guy and and how do you show up in the 4th inning?
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  I had a tweet written out and I was, I was just, I'm not going
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  to lie, I I was going to bury the guy.
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  I was like, do you know, I was like, do you know how late you
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  have to be as a Major League Baseball player to show up in
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  the 4th inning? Major League Baseball players
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  show up hours before they get like hours.
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  Some guys will show up like half a day early.
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  They'll show up for. I mean, I couldn't even tell you
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  for like a a 7:00 PM game. There are guys that'll show up
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  at like 112, even got to get their work in.
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  They want to get stretched out. They want to get a little bit of
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  rehab in whatever it may be. And I'm sitting here reading
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  this and I said he shows up in the 4th and I said Homie would
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  have had to have left by like the second inning to show up in
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  the 4th. So how like how late did he
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  really leave? And then I found out the story
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  and I'm go, you know, good for you for even making it during
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  the game. Honestly, I would have probably
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  gotten such a road rage. I probably wouldn't even made it
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  if I'm being honest. And I would venture say a lot of
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  you listen, probably wouldn't have either because I would be
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  stressed to the Max if the big if the big club called me and
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  said, hey, no flight, you got to drive.
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  I'm probably not even letting the sentence finish before I'm
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  in my car hitting like 110 on the freeway and I probably still
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  wouldn't have made it by the 4th.
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  So good. I don't know how you did it, but
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  good for you Ricardo Pinto. Proud of you, my friend.
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  Speaking of being proud, I'm not proud of the Oakland A's for
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  obvious reasons. It they're just a a a mess right
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  now, they optioned, as I'm sure you've heard by this point, I'm
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  sure you've heard that they options.
• 24:39
  Hold on. My sister-in-law just texted me
• 24:47
  asking for trivia on the Red Sox, and I admittedly don't.
• 24:50
  I don't know if I know this. I'm way overthinking this,
• 24:54
  aren't I? I should be ashamed.
• 24:56
  What did the Red Sox do in 2018 that they'd had not done since
• 25:00
  1946? I'm like, way overthinking this.
• 25:08
  Why am I? Why am I going straight to the
• 25:10
  opponent? I probably shouldn't have
• 25:12
  mentioned this on here, 'cause now I feel like I've exposed
• 25:14
  myself. Not like that.
• 25:19
  What did the Red Sox do in 2018 that they had not done it since
• 25:22
  1946? Does it have something to do
• 25:24
  with the wind? Total?
• 25:25
  I should know this. What is wrong with you?
• 25:28
  As I'm sitting here wearing a Boston hat?
• 25:30
  I'm such a fraud. I'm gonna know.
• 25:33
  I I I put myself on the spot here, so that's on me.
• 25:37
  I guarantee you, I'll. I'll, I'll know it.
• 25:39
  As soon as I I get off, it'll come to me.
• 25:44
  She's at a trivia night. That's tough.
• 25:50
  That's on me. That's.
• 25:52
  I shouldn't have even said anything.
• 25:54
  My bad. But they optioned A Suri Ruiz on
• 25:59
  Monday. And look, we love conspiracies
• 26:02
  on this podcast. And the conspiracies are flying
• 26:05
  with this individual. Not actually Peyer.
• 26:08
  I should say Peyer, because they also benched Brent Rooker.
• 26:11
  Granted he started over 11 to start the year, so very, very
• 26:15
  Bryce Harper esque if you will. So a little more understandable
• 26:18
  that they would bench him. But to option your your best
• 26:22
  hitter on the team. He was at the time he was
• 26:25
  hitting 429 with an OPS of one. No, hold on.
• 26:33
  Get my numbers mixed up. Yeah, he was in 429.
• 26:36
  Had an OPS of 1232. So where's the conspiracy come
• 26:43
  into play you ask? Not sure if you guys have seen,
• 26:47
  but both of those names that I mentioned, Ruiz and Rooker, were
• 26:53
  both spotted at various times. I don't know if they if it's
• 26:56
  been every day that they've had them on but they they there are
• 27:00
  pictures circulating of them wearing the last dive bar
• 27:03
  bracelets to basically show solidarity for solidarity
• 27:08
  purposes with the fans and and the people who are upset about
• 27:12
  the situation with Las Vegas and relocation and just the way the
• 27:17
  team has been handled. If if you don't if you're not
• 27:20
  familiar with the last dive bar when it how and how it pertains
• 27:23
  to the Oakland A's look into it. It's pretty fascinating story.
• 27:27
  But for them to wear the bracelets that said last dive
• 27:30
  bar the conspiracy is that ownership or I'm guessing
• 27:36
  ownership people in the front office somebody somebody some
• 27:40
  power to be maybe had a little bit of a trickle down message
• 27:47
  word got down to the clubhouse hey we're not going for this
• 27:52
  anybody that anybody on this team that plays for this ball
• 27:55
  club that's going to show public support like that I don't care
• 28:00
  how well they're hitting send them to AAA.
• 28:05
  It's a It doesn't even make sense if you're going to if
• 28:07
  you're going to option somebody. And apparently the the GM, the
• 28:12
  ASGM tried to explain that the reason they sent the option to
• 28:16
  be AAA was to make room for Tyler and Evan, who, by the way,
• 28:20
  is a 200 career hitter. What are we talking about?
• 28:26
  You're going to option your best hitter to make room for a guy
• 28:30
  that's at 200 his career. The Oakland A's are a joke man,
• 28:36
  an absolute joke. But again, my, my, my whole
• 28:39
  point there is if you're going to option somebody, why don't
• 28:42
  you option the guy that started over 11?
• 28:44
  And if if you're really upset and you're trying to make a
• 28:46
  point bench the guy who's hitting 429.
• 28:51
  They had it backwards. And I don't care about
• 28:53
  positional depth or or or team needs.
• 28:57
  Clearly you don't know what your team needs if you're sending
• 29:00
  your best hitter down hitting 429.
• 29:08
  I don't understand what's going on with the Oakland A's and not
• 29:11
  to mention I don't know if you guys saw.
• 29:12
  Did you guys see that CHEAT SHEET?
• 29:16
  I forgive me. I don't know.
• 29:20
  And I honest, I don't know if if many people know the sorry, this
• 29:26
  thing with the trivia stressed me out.
• 29:29
  I need to, I need to clear my head of it.
• 29:31
  I'm not going to be able to let this go until.
• 29:34
  Until I address this, I'm just going to say I'm recording to
• 29:37
  let myself off the hook. Sorry.
• 29:40
  Recording a podcast? All right.
• 29:49
  Sorry. We're good.
• 29:50
  The The CHEAT SHEET. It was from the the Red Sox
• 29:55
  series that just that just wrapped up.
• 29:58
  I don't like it. Like I was saying, I don't know
• 30:00
  if this is legit. I have every reason to believe
• 30:03
  that it is, though, because it's the Oakland A's and it's it.
• 30:07
  It just reeks of Oakland A's management.
• 30:12
  This guy, I I think he found it. I'm guessing Will McNeil.
• 30:18
  I don't know. I don't know if he found it, but
• 30:21
  he tweeted out the picture. He said.
• 30:23
  So this was found at the Coliseum tonight.
• 30:26
  Unreal #athletics. It's a CHEAT SHEET.
• 30:29
  Or I guess you call it a CHEAT SHEET for the April 2nd game
• 30:34
  against the Red Sox and it's broken up into different
• 30:36
  categories. It says the categories are
• 30:39
  customer service product, new jerseys, item of the game, gate
• 30:44
  closures, and then notes at the bottom.
• 30:48
  And I won't read you the whole the whole sheet but I'll just
• 30:50
  give you some of the highlights if you haven't seen it yet.
• 30:54
  Under customer service one of the points says I understand.
• 30:57
  I'm I'm guessing this is for stadium staff that that's my
• 31:00
  best guess. I I don't know the the
• 31:01
  background behind this but I'm guessing it's for stadium staff
• 31:04
  or for the ushers or for concession saying people or you
• 31:09
  know like the popcorn guys. I don't know but under customer
• 31:13
  services says. I understand the fan base may be
• 31:15
  upset with the team but do what we can to make the experience or
• 31:19
  their experience a +1 under product And this is where this
• 31:24
  is where the madness was was unleashed where people were
• 31:28
  really losing their minds when they read this.
• 31:31
  Under product it says if you see anything that says quote rooted
• 31:34
  in Oakland it must be taken down immediately And then it says
• 31:39
  try. Underneath it says try not to
• 31:41
  highlight products that focuses on the name Oakland And then
• 31:45
  there's some some things under under New Jersey's where it says
• 31:52
  only the white jerseys the new ones please take down your your
• 31:58
  old white jerseys. All the other jerseys can remain
• 32:01
  as we don't have the new ones in yet which is a whole another
• 32:03
  thing that I'll that I'll get to at the end.
• 32:05
  The apparently teams don't have jerseys right now which is
• 32:08
  insane. We're a week into this a week
• 32:10
  plus into the season and certain teams are missing certain
• 32:14
  jerseys. Like I said, I'll get into that
• 32:16
  and hear shortly, but the notes at the bottom I thought was very
• 32:21
  strange. It said attendance is 3500,
• 32:27
  their sales goal is $36,000 and then the parts that nobody
• 32:33
  understood and I think we're all dying to know.
• 32:36
  Slash meet is this Drew guy. The last note on the sheet said
• 32:41
  Drew is here all week. If you have any questions or
• 32:43
  concerns, please feel free to reach out.
• 32:48
  Why is all this falling on Drew and why do we have a CHEAT SHEET
• 32:53
  like this? Are these things just not
• 32:59
  assumed? Like why can't you just have a a
• 33:01
  single staff meeting and just says hey, anything that says
• 33:04
  rooted in Oakland or just anything anti Oakland, just take
• 33:07
  it down. Don't people know at this point
• 33:10
  doesn't Isn't anybody that's associated with the Oakland A's
• 33:12
  organization familiar with what kind of what's going on here and
• 33:17
  the the issues that are troubling this ballclub.
• 33:22
  I I I don't understand why this CHEAT SHEET exists or who it's
• 33:26
  even for or if it even if it's if it's even real who who knows.
• 33:30
  I just thought it was interesting and and and worth
• 33:33
  talking about. So yeah don't know what's going
• 33:36
  on in Oakland. This isn't the last I'll be
• 33:38
  talking about. Oakland still got a a note about
• 33:42
  them and their ball ballpark situation.
• 33:46
  But moving right along here, the Giants are parting ways with
• 33:50
  their once promising option behind the dish, Joey Bart.
• 33:55
  They they DFA Joey Bart Sunday and was traded to the Pirates on
• 34:02
  Tuesday. So the Pirates have have
• 34:05
  acquired Joey Bart, who again was thought by many to be the
• 34:11
  successor to Buster Posey. He showed a lot.
• 34:15
  He showed a decent amount of promise.
• 34:17
  They they thought that he'd be able to settle in with some
• 34:19
  time, but it just hasn't panned out the way the the team has
• 34:22
  wanted it to. And what's interesting though is
• 34:29
  the Pirates who as as I've already I think, mentioned last
• 34:33
  episode off to a great start. Henry Davis is in the mix.
• 34:38
  They've got Yasmani Grandal. I think I even read two guys
• 34:45
  that I'm I'm less familiar with Jason Delay and Andy Rodriguez,
• 34:49
  who I believe is on the 60 day, if I read that correctly.
• 34:56
  Look I I'm usually the type of guy that that that believes that
• 35:01
  a change of scenery is always good and that it they that these
• 35:06
  guys should be given the benefit of the doubt first.
• 35:09
  If they don't pan out with a given club let's just see if
• 35:11
  they if they're fortunate enough to where they're not just
• 35:15
  released from baseball together and they have the opportunity to
• 35:19
  to jump ship to another club to get another shot.
• 35:22
  I'm I'm I'm not I'm rarely I won't say never but I'm I'm I'm
• 35:27
  rarely going to just automatically write the guy off
• 35:30
  again it like if it if it just didn't pan out with his previous
• 35:33
  team. I'm at least going to give him a
• 35:35
  shot because getting getting an opportunity on a new team we've
• 35:43
  seen it before can do wonders for it guys.
• 35:45
  So like I said I I'm usually going to give the benefit of the
• 35:49
  doubt in that regard. I don't I don't know if I get
• 35:54
  that vibe with with Joey Bart though I don't know if it's just
• 35:58
  because I feel like the hype was too much for him or if the they
• 36:02
  they put too too high of expectations on him at such a
• 36:08
  young age to be their successor or like their new franchise
• 36:14
  catcher. Like to to hear that it's it's
• 36:18
  one thing for let's just say like a Julio Rodriguez where he
• 36:23
  comes up to say like hey you're going to be you're going to be
• 36:27
  an anchor in the outfield for this franchise for the next
• 36:30
  decade plus that's that's one thing but to tell a guy who's
• 36:33
  behind the dish who as you. Very well know.
• 36:35
  Seize. The whole field, every game,
• 36:38
  isn't it? Regardless how much they
• 36:40
  contribute offensively, which more times than not is is very
• 36:44
  little. Are essential.
• 36:48
  To the to the success of a team and its pitching staff.
• 36:50
  And really. Really the entire?
• 36:55
  Defensive side of things. Very.
• 36:58
  Crucial to. Put those kinds of expectations
• 37:01
  on a guy who already has all of that on his plate at such a
• 37:04
  young age. I don't.
• 37:08
  I. Don't know if they killed his,
• 37:09
  his confidence or. Maybe it's just he.
• 37:14
  Needs a fresh start and I say fresh start.
• 37:16
  He's still he's still pretty young young kid.
• 37:20
  Maybe the Pirates. Where look, we can say what we
• 37:23
  want about the Giants, but they're they're, they're pretty
• 37:27
  storied franchise. And the Pirates have had their
• 37:30
  their run in the sun over over the certain decades.
• 37:33
  I'm not saying they're not a storied franchise, but the
• 37:37
  Pirates as of late are still, you know, kind of kind of
• 37:41
  tricking through the the rebuild they're trying to get, get a
• 37:45
  little bit of momentum going. They're off to a great start.
• 37:47
  As I said, maybe a team like that is a better place to have a
• 37:52
  go at it. And again, I I don't know what
• 37:54
  this opportunity looks like for him given that Henry Davis is in
• 37:59
  the mix, but. If they find a way to make it.
• 38:04
  Work. Then you have.
• 38:08
  If you're able to tap into that talent, you've got a a pretty
• 38:11
  skilled backstop in your system. And even if you don't keep them
• 38:15
  around, you can maybe send them elsewhere to a team that maybe
• 38:18
  could at that point use a guy who's got a little bit more
• 38:23
  confidence, a little bit better of a head on his shoulders.
• 38:25
  He he feels better about himself, his ability to
• 38:28
  contribute to a team. So who knows what what Bart's
• 38:32
  future looks like. But that's what happened this
• 38:35
  week for his career. Talking about things that
• 38:40
  happened. Josh Young unfortunately was
• 38:45
  given the news that he would be out eight to 10 weeks, as you
• 38:49
  very well know. That can, that can vary.
• 38:51
  It can maybe sometimes be a little shorter sometimes worst
• 38:54
  case scenario goes even longer than the estimated window but
• 38:58
  just a brutal blow for the Rangers man.
• 39:01
  I mean he was small sample size, but he to start the year he was
• 39:04
  hitting 412 with. Two Bombs 6.
• 39:08
  Ribbies. On base percentage.
• 39:12
  Of 474 sluggy 941 and had an OPS of 1415 and a three and an OPS
• 39:18
  plus of three O 6. So again, small sample size, but
• 39:22
  I feel like a year in which many of us Rangers fans, Rangers fans
• 39:27
  especially, but I think baseball fans in general who are more
• 39:31
  familiar with this increasingly household name in Josh Young
• 39:37
  especially after the World Series last year.
• 39:39
  I think we thought that this this would be a huge year for
• 39:42
  him. And granted, he's not missing
• 39:47
  like the whole year, like we'll see more of him this year.
• 39:50
  Assuming, assuming everything goes right and this doesn't turn
• 39:54
  into some weird, like, just kidding, he's actually out for
• 39:57
  the next year and a half. It's way worse than we thought,
• 40:00
  assuming we don't get something crazy like that, assuming we're
• 40:05
  not dealing with the New York Yankees and their front office
• 40:07
  and their training staff who lie more than anyone.
• 40:12
  We're going to see more of Josh Young.
• 40:13
  But for a. Team that's looking to bounce.
• 40:17
  Back from World Series hangover? Not rumors, but labeling.
• 40:25
  You know, 'cause it's easy to look at a team like that and go
• 40:27
  you know you're coming off a title run.
• 40:31
  What are you? Going to do and to have.
• 40:33
  A guy that was hitting as well as he was to to be able to or to
• 40:36
  have him miss time. 22 to three months.
• 40:41
  That's that's a tough blow. But from what I can tell from
• 40:44
  Rangers fans, I think they're they're excited, might be going
• 40:51
  a little too far. Content with Ezekiel Duran.
• 40:55
  I even saw some Rangers fans talking about they they almost
• 41:00
  forgot that Seeger had a stint on the ILI think last year
• 41:05
  because of how well he played. Like they just it it wasn't at
• 41:08
  the forefront of their minds because it wasn't such a glaring
• 41:11
  hole when he filled in. So that's I guess worse.
• 41:15
  Like you know, all things considered that's a good, that's
• 41:19
  a good piece to have to be able to move him around where you
• 41:24
  need him to and he's going to give you sufficient performance.
• 41:27
  So again, tough blow for for Josh Young.
• 41:32
  I don't even know if I mentioned the reason, if you haven't heard
• 41:34
  yet, but he fractured his right wrist Monday night against the
• 41:40
  Rays by Phil Mayton, by the way, I think he hit.
• 41:45
  I think that was like a did I read his third straight hit, hit
• 41:51
  batsman. That's tough.
• 41:54
  Was it three straight? Yeah, the two batters before.
• 41:58
  Young had been hit by pitches. Yeah, not.
• 42:00
  Not a good, not a good place to be if you're Phil.
• 42:04
  But again, you hate to see it for Rangers fans and just for
• 42:07
  baseball. Because again, I feel like Josh
• 42:09
  Young is has potential to be one of these, you know, up and
• 42:13
  coming young stars. Pun intended that.
• 42:18
  Can make himself a household. Name for a team that I think is
• 42:21
  going to be around in the mix for a while, so we'll see how,
• 42:26
  how, how they deal in the meantime.
• 42:28
  But it sounds like Duran Can can hold it down for the mean in the
• 42:33
  meantime. So enough on that before we get
• 42:38
  to closing the book. I got a handful of items in
• 42:40
  there that may take a little longer than they usually do.
• 42:43
  I just didn't know if they warranted full segment topics.
• 42:48
  But before we get into that weekend series to watch, I don't
• 42:53
  know what year it is, but I never thought I'd be writing
• 42:56
  this down this early in the season.
• 43:01
  But with the way both of these. Clubs have been playing over the
• 43:03
  last well. For for the Orioles.
• 43:07
  I'll say like last year, but for the Pirates, I'll say the last
• 43:10
  week, 'cause as you as you know, Pirates slipped.
• 43:15
  They kind of trended downwards at the end of, or probably like
• 43:19
  the second-half, I guess you'd say.
• 43:23
  But the Orioles at the Pirates, This is the weekend series that
• 43:26
  I'm going to be watching. If you're unfamiliar with our
• 43:28
  podcast, if you're new, maybe if you you you jumped on in the
• 43:32
  offseason. This is something that Nate and
• 43:34
  I like to do on the the second episode of the week as we look
• 43:41
  you know look ahead to the weekend like what?
• 43:43
  What do we got coming up weekend series to watch.
• 43:46
  Usually we each bring one to the table but with with Nate again
• 43:50
  having some some scheduling conflicts only bringing one to
• 43:54
  you tonight but just want to give you a little taste of of
• 43:57
  what's to come. But the Orioles of the Pirates
• 43:59
  is is my series to watch. I've been watching a lot of OS
• 44:02
  games as of late. You can thank Ryan Ripken for
• 44:06
  that friend of the pod. Recurring guests of on the three
• 44:10
  O take the, again Orioles of Pirates game one.
• 44:14
  We've got Grayson Rodriguez versus Jared Jones.
• 44:17
  I'm excited to watch that pitching match up, I've heard.
• 44:22
  Assuming I'm not getting my names mixed.
• 44:23
  Up here, I've heard, I think I've heard good things about
• 44:25
  Jared Jones for the Pirates, right.
• 44:28
  We are. We.
• 44:29
  Are we hearing good things about Jared Jones baseball fans?
• 44:32
  4:12 PM Eastern. Game one, that is Friday, I
• 44:38
  think. Yeah.
• 44:39
  No, no game Thursday between these two teams, so I don't
• 44:44
  know. Yeah.
• 44:46
  Series starts Friday. Game one.
• 44:48
  Game two, you got Tyler Wells versus Bailey falter 4 O 5:00 PM
• 44:52
  Eastern. And game three, you've got Dean
• 44:54
  Kramer versus Marco Gonzalez. 1:35 PM Eastern.
• 45:01
  Like I said, been watching a lot of.
• 45:02
  O's games. But depending upon how this
• 45:04
  series goes, not that it it hinges solely on this series but
• 45:09
  you know if the Pirates can make some noise this series.
• 45:12
  I may be watching more Pirates games in addition to O's games.
• 45:16
  Because I I genuinely think this year is gonna is gonna warrant a
• 45:24
  little bit more attention given to the Pirates deeper into the
• 45:29
  season than maybe last year. Because as we mentioned
• 45:32
  second-half not not so great for the Pirates.
• 45:34
  They started off real strong. I think it was 20 and eight
• 45:38
  start the year. But I think.
• 45:42
  And we talked about it during the offseason and I mentioned it
• 45:44
  in our hot tags and predictions episode.
• 45:46
  And I'll say again, if you haven't listened to that
• 45:47
  episode, it's still not too late.
• 45:49
  We're we're like a week into the season.
• 45:52
  But it's you still have plenty of time to get caught up, to get
• 45:56
  familiar with with where me, Nate and Ryan's heads are at
• 46:01
  going into the the 2024 season, Who we think's going to be be
• 46:06
  hot, who we think is not, and some other predictions we had in
• 46:10
  there sprinkled in. So go listen to that.
• 46:12
  But as I was saying, we mentioned in that episode and
• 46:15
  all offseason that the Pirates, you know, they're they're
• 46:18
  knocking on the door, they're knocking on the door.
• 46:21
  And I just really hope that they can do something special this
• 46:27
  year or at the very least push the Cinderella story a little
• 46:30
  further along than they did last year because I if you recall
• 46:36
  that was a fun team to watch regardless how you feel about
• 46:38
  the pirates or if you care about them at all.
• 46:41
  That was a fun story. Like they had some, they had
• 46:42
  some exciting call UPS, they had some late inning heroics I
• 46:47
  believe if I if I remember correctly.
• 46:50
  So I just hope they push that that feel good story a little
• 46:53
  deeper into the sea and maybe you know maybe blossoms into
• 46:56
  something more than a feel good story.
• 46:57
  Maybe this turns into a run at a a wild card seed.
• 47:02
  Who knows Who knows. Hey, I think actually no, I was
• 47:06
  going to say I think one of us maybe even had the pirates
• 47:08
  winning the division. I don't think any of us went
• 47:10
  that far but anything can happen with with this ballclub so time
• 47:14
  will tell. Closing the book here.
• 47:16
  I'll just run through them real quick.
• 47:18
  The Oakland A's, as as we touched on earlier, they got all
• 47:22
  sorts of issues. Them and the Royals actually are
• 47:25
  having issues with the ballclub, ballclub, ballpark.
• 47:30
  The the A's are looking for a place to play next year and
• 47:35
  apparently Sacramento is the favorite in the clubhouse to be
• 47:42
  the landing spot or the temporary home if you will, for
• 47:45
  the what is it, the 2025 and 2026 seasons?
• 47:49
  Because I think the Vegas if if that pans out the way that
• 47:54
  they're saying that that should be 2027.
• 47:56
  So we're looking for a place to play in the meantime and it it
• 47:59
  sounds like Sacramento is momentum is is shifting that
• 48:04
  way. But the Royals, Apparently there
• 48:09
  was a a vote in which the voters in Jackson County, Missouri
• 48:17
  rejected, which I believe is where Kansas City is rejected,
• 48:22
  to approve a tax that would have helped the Royals and the
• 48:27
  Chiefs. Remain in the.
• 48:31
  County. To help fund.
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  Stadium improvements for the the Chiefs and a relocation for the
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  Royals. Because as as we've touched on
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  episodes past and as you've probably heard, they're looking
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  to move downtown to get out of Kaufman to relocate.
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  And from what I what I think that I read, I think they're
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  trying to do it up like the Braves kind of do with a little
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  bit of a you know a little bit of a little hot spot around the
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  ballpark restaurants and and the like sort of like the bat like
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  they do with the battery down there in Atlanta.
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  I think that's what they're trying to do.
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  I know, I know that's kind of the movement now with these
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  ballparks that's where things are shifting.
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  But it kind of threw a wrench I think.
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  I think the team, I don't I I won't speak for these these
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  franchises but I I think they were kind of banking on there
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  being a little bit more support for this.
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  So it's throwing a wrench into their plans.
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  I I guess and the Royals put out a tweet that said we respect the
• 49:34
  voters of Jackson County and the results of the election today.
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  We will take some time to reflect on and process the
• 49:39
  outcome and find a path forward that works for the Royals and
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  our fans. And that was from John Sherman
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  who is the teams CEO, the chairman and CEO.
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  So I I don't know what this means from a like a legal
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  standpoint, from a relocation standpoint.
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  I mean the the Chiefs did one thing but keeping it baseball
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  specific here, I don't know if this means that the Royals are
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  gonna, you know, they're gonna, if they're gonna come back with
• 50:04
  a better proposal, if they're gonna threaten to move.
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  Because that seems to be a a a trend these days where you know
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  if things don't go out, go the way you like.
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  Let's just move cities or or build a new ballpark and we'll
• 50:17
  pay for it ourselves. And screw the city.
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  I I don't know. I don't know what this means for
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  Royals, but. I I I.
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  Think the Royals have. Have.
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  They have. A.
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  A A solid fan. Base.
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  I'm not going to say they're the best.
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  I think they have solid fan base and I I genuinely think they
• 50:35
  want what's best for the team and I I hope that it works out
• 50:40
  that way, whether that means I'm staying in Kaufman, whether that
• 50:42
  means I'm moving downtown. Royals fans, let's.
• 50:47
  Have let's have a dialogue here. Let's talk.
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  Tell me what what's best for the team because I I'm so, oh man, I
• 50:55
  said it not to spoil. Hot take?
• 50:58
  Or prediction from the episode, but I said that the Royals are
• 51:02
  sneaking into a a wild card spot.
• 51:04
  I'm they're knock. You want to talk about the
• 51:06
  Pirates knocking on the door? The Royals I believe are
• 51:08
  knocking on the door. Bobby Witt is quickly becoming
• 51:12
  one of my favorite players in baseball.
• 51:14
  I think the the juice is there. The pieces to the puzzle are
• 51:20
  there. You just got to figure it out.
• 51:21
  And I think a lot of this will be a lot of the the momentum if
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  you will that could potentially exist will be greatly impacted
• 51:31
  by what happens with the ballpark because that's a that's
• 51:33
  a big part of a franchise is where they're play where they're
• 51:36
  playing who has immediate access to where they're playing and
• 51:41
  that that is influenced by whether or not they're willing
• 51:45
  to support a team that does or doesn't do what they what they
• 51:49
  ask or vote on. So a lot of play there we'll see
• 51:53
  how how it pans out the met sign Julio Tehran just briefly here
• 51:59
  you know the their rotation's hurting they've got Kodai Senga
• 52:05
  on the on the ILI know Severino is is not starting out the way
• 52:13
  this year. I think he's only had one start
• 52:15
  but not exactly what they were hoping for from him.
• 52:18
  So maybe a little bit of insurance there.
• 52:20
  They signed Toronto a one year two and a half, $1,000,000 deal
• 52:24
  and maybe, you know they're just, they're just taking a
• 52:27
  flyer on them just to see how how things go.
• 52:31
  Maybe provide a little bit of depth for that rotation just to
• 52:36
  keep the ship afloat. Jacob in the chat and on
• 52:41
  Facebook Live, which if you don't check out the lives, be
• 52:45
  sure to check us out on Facebook Live and I think we're live on
• 52:49
  Twitter. Slash X, he said.
• 52:51
  Is Julio Turin the best I could do?
• 52:55
  That's a good question Jacob. I I can't say for certain.
• 52:58
  I know there's probably some other free agents out there that
• 53:02
  are maybe borderline, like close to retiring if they don't get a
• 53:06
  call soon, maybe they could have been better fits.
• 53:09
  But it's possible that the communications with Tehran and
• 53:13
  and his camp just went a little more seamlessly and they said we
• 53:17
  need help, we need it now and maybe you can be the guy that
• 53:19
  provides that. So who really knows the
• 53:23
  Cardinals and Mariners jerseys issue.
• 53:25
  I need to touch on this real quick.
• 53:28
  So I don't know why this isn't being talked about more.
• 53:32
  But if you haven't heard, the reports are saying that the
• 53:38
  Cardinals, if you're familiar with their uniform, set up.
• 53:45
  They're not getting those blue. Uniforms.
• 53:48
  The the powder blue uniforms. That, or they call them the
• 53:50
  Victory blue uniforms. They're not getting those until
• 53:53
  likely June, and the Mariners are still waiting.
• 53:58
  I don't even know if there's an ETA for these, but they're still
• 54:01
  waiting on their cream jerseys, if you're familiar with that.
• 54:03
  With those alternates I I posted on Instagram, if you want to see
• 54:07
  it and tweeted about it, they're waiting for those to arrive.
• 54:12
  And it's because fanatics, you know them, you hate them.
• 54:17
  Fanatics cannot ship them until they get in stock because it's
• 54:21
  it's what I read is a growing pain of the transition process.
• 54:27
  Look if. If this was.
• 54:30
  Part of the plan to bring Fanatics on as the the the
• 54:34
  manufacturer of these uniforms. I I don't know.
• 54:38
  Maybe a however many billions Major League Baseball is worth,
• 54:45
  maybe they could have used some of that to ensure that something
• 54:47
  like this wouldn't have happened.
• 54:49
  Just a thought, like, I don't know as a professional
• 54:53
  organization how Major League Baseball teams and their players
• 54:58
  don't have the uniforms that are part of their collection.
• 55:03
  Like this isn't like a one off city connect thing.
• 55:07
  This is predetermined. Like we've known this.
• 55:09
  They've been wearing these blue uniforms for years now.
• 55:13
  So it shouldn't have surprised anybody.
• 55:15
  Like, Oh yeah, the Cardinals are going to need these uniforms by
• 55:18
  Opening Day, and I hear it's the supply chain issue and all that.
• 55:21
  But come on, is there not a Plan B to this?
• 55:25
  Are we expecting, are we asking for too much that, that Major
• 55:29
  League franchises have their proper uniforms in order and
• 55:37
  available and ready to go at the start of the season?
• 55:40
  I I don't know. I I didn't think that was asking
• 55:43
  for too much, but here we are. I'm.
• 55:49
  I'm. How this isn't the final straw
• 55:52
  for Major League Baseball in this Fanatics relationship.
• 55:55
  I don't know. Like there there must be some, I
• 55:59
  don't know, black magic underground business going on.
• 56:03
  I don't know what what it is. But this?
• 56:07
  Relationship should have been severed months ago if Major
• 56:12
  League Baseball cared about its product and and the legacy the
• 56:16
  the how 100 plus years of of baseball, the history and and
• 56:22
  the tradition and all of that. If you even respected.
• 56:28
  Or respected or or cared for that image at all.
• 56:33
  You wouldn't be. Putting up with this.
• 56:34
  We we've documented the the the issues we've talked about on
• 56:37
  previous episodes. I've put it on social media,
• 56:39
  various pictures and and reports and all of that, talking about
• 56:44
  just how much of a mess Fanatics is right now.
• 56:48
  Why? Why?
• 56:50
  First of all, why isn't Rob Manfred come out and and address
• 56:52
  this Why? Why do these issues continue to
• 56:57
  arise? Like at some point you need, if
• 56:59
  you're Major League Baseball, I don't care how much money is
• 57:02
  involved you need to you need to bring fanatics and Nike or
• 57:05
  whoever all all of them to the table and say, look if this
• 57:08
  isn't fixed, we're moving on. The contract is void.
• 57:12
  It does. I don't care what language is in
• 57:14
  there. You're we you had one job and it
• 57:17
  was to provide uniforms for our players and you're either a not
• 57:23
  providing the teams the uniforms as we just as we just talked
• 57:27
  about or you are and they're they're not the same colour or
• 57:30
  they're they're like wet napkins when guys are sweating like it
• 57:35
  they were soaked. We talked about last episode I
• 57:37
  think the Yankees Ranger Astro series.
• 57:41
  It was like 70° and they looked like Wet, Wet napkins.
• 57:45
  These uniforms are garbage. Fanatics is trash.
• 57:48
  Their products are awful. How this wasn't relationship
• 57:52
  wasn't severed months ago is beyond me.
• 57:54
  I don't know but I'm I'll be done.
• 57:58
  But I'm done with that. Moved on to the final point
• 58:00
  here. Just want to give props to Nolan
• 58:03
  Chenoul. You probably heard about his his
• 58:06
  call up story last year. Had a had a handful of games up
• 58:11
  with the big leagues. Had a cup of coffee, but he's
• 58:13
  still he's still with the ball club still playing.
• 58:15
  And not only is he just not only is he playing with the club, he
• 58:19
  is getting on base for the club. He's played 35 big league games.
• 58:22
  He's gotten on base in every single one of them and if you're
• 58:25
  curious, that is the third longest on base streak to start
• 58:28
  a career since 1900. So tip the cap to you my friend.
• 58:35
  Keep it rolling. You love to see a story like
• 58:37
  that man. We go back to what I talked
• 58:39
  about at the beginning. Opportunities given to a guy
• 58:41
  takes full advantage of it and a situation like that you have to
• 58:48
  you're giving them every reason to keep you keep you in the line
• 58:51
  up even if you're not hitting you're getting on base you're
• 58:54
  you're providing your team opportunities to score runs and
• 58:57
  win ball games and that's from from a a young guy like that.
• 59:01
  It's really all you can ask for. So again tip the cap to you
• 59:04
  Nolan love to see that that progress and I'm curious to see
• 59:08
  how long a streak can go. So we're in our deep squeezed a
• 59:14
  lot of a lot of content in there.
• 59:15
  Hopefully got to everything that you were hoping I'd get to.
• 59:19
  I apologize if if if we didn't it's it's a little tougher when
• 59:23
  when I'm riding solo I gotta make sure I cover all my bases
• 59:27
  and a lot of times when when Nate's on here we can recall
• 59:30
  things or or include things that maybe slip through the cracks by
• 59:35
  the by the time we get to the end of the episode.
• 59:37
  But hopefully that's everything you're hoping for.
• 59:39
  But look there's a lot more baseball to be played and we're
• 59:42
  going to be bringing you a lot more content lot more many more
• 59:46
  episodes, more live streams, more videos, more whatever we're
• 59:53
  going to be bringing it to you. So we appreciate you as always
• 59:58
  following us and and listening to us and keeping up with with
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• 1:00:04
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• 1:00:16
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  know, let's not. Let's not wait that long, you
• 1:00:21
  know, let's, let's, let's. Let's just fly past 2000 this
• 1:00:26
  year, huh? How about it?
• 1:00:27
  There's a It's going to be a big year for the three out take.
• 1:00:29
  I feel it. I can already see certain pieces
• 1:00:32
  of the puzzle fitting into place.
• 1:00:33
  It's going to be a big year for us.
• 1:00:35
  I know, I know. I'm excited.
• 1:00:37
  I know Nate's excited. I know Ryan's going to be
• 1:00:39
  excited, which is another thing. We're going to be Nate and
• 1:00:42
  myself. I had.
• 1:00:44
  I made a solo appearance the other day because again, Nate's
• 1:00:48
  busy with with getting married and everything.
• 1:00:50
  All the all these exciting things going on but made a solo
• 1:00:53
  appearance on the Ryan Ripken show so wanted to plug that.
• 1:00:56
  Nate and I are going to be hopping on Ryan's show a lot
• 1:00:59
  this year hopefully if if everything goes well and as as
• 1:01:02
  will he be making appearances on the three O take.
• 1:01:05
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• 1:01:15
  more balls, so. I think that's everything.
• 1:01:19
  I know I talked a lot. Again, when I when I run these
• 1:01:22
  solo pods, I I especially appreciate when you guys make it
• 1:01:25
  to the end. I know, I I know I'm sitting
• 1:01:28
  here essentially talking to myself in this little home
• 1:01:30
  studio here, but appreciate you guys following along and I think
• 1:01:36
  that's everything. So with that said my friends.
• 1:01:42
  I love you. The listeners, the followers.
• 1:01:45
  I love all of y'all and as always, looking forward to
• 1:01:48
  talking more baseball with you guys soon.
• 1:01:50
  Until next time, say filthy.