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The National League Race is WIDE OPEN · The 3-0 Take

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10 gentlemen, welcome to the Three O Take where we talk all
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things Major League Baseball. Here's Kyle Corwin and Nate
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Reyes. It all starts right now.
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Oh, welcome back to the Three O Take presented by Schnook Cedery
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this episode 554 I'll be your host, Kyle Cord.
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I'm here my Co host Nate Reyes. Nate.
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Casey, how are we? Thoughts on the vlog?
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Saw you watched it last night. Yeah, solid.
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You go ahead be be my worst critic.
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No dude, you do. You do great on those things.
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It's crazy. I don't like looking at my face
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that long, that's for sure. You're on.
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You're on there a good bit my. Friend don't don't love that
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aspect to it. That's what I told you.
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You're motivation though. Definitely gym motivation.
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So that's what I needed. That's what I needed, some solid
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gym motivation. And it just was put on a silver
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platter for me, from myself. Who'd have thought, you know?
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But the wife was laughing, which is good.
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I, I, how did Meredith take it? Was she laughing?
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We actually haven't watched it yet.
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Really. I, I personally, well, I needed
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a break from it. Like I need like a, a good 4848
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hours because I've been looking at the same clips for multiple
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days in a row now. So I need a little bit of a
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break. But when, when we finally get
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around to it, I'm I'm I'm sure that she'll enjoy it in a
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similar fashion. Yeah, well, Pedra stoke that she
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she made it in the beginning of the video.
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No spoilers, but I mean she was. Excited about it.
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It's the 1st 10 seconds. I don't think you're spoiling
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anything but. Yeah.
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But yeah, man, it was. It was real good.
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Real, real good. Thanks man, did you like my I?
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Feel like, I feel like you probably could have made it a
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lot longer. I feel like it probably could
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have been a lot longer. Dude, I I enjoyed it.
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I think it flew by. I, I commented, I replied to
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somebody's comment today. I said I had to leave out so
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much like I and like I know that.
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Nobody have any like a director's cut edition that's.
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Where I just include full length MVP games that we played just.
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No, obviously that that stuff had to be shortened.
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But yeah, I, I think there is, I don't know.
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I mean, there is, I think there was a lot of Walmart talk that
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probably could have been left in.
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Oh yeah. Oh yeah, yeah, that there was.
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Very good comedic timing with like a lot of things, especially
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like after the last game and then you, you know, like
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immediately flips you walking in the Walmart parking lot with the
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TV. Oh, what a time.
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Paige is cracking up. She's like, why is he walking
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like that? What a time it's.
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Just it's just is this is what we are.
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And Mike is the way that I walk in an attack.
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I think there was a funny walk. I think there was a funny walk.
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I will say that I'm not going to try and out you too much here,
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but Paige is up in arms about. Oh, I already know.
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I already know. Your Walmart purchases and she's
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like surprised that wasn't in the vlog.
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Let's go ahead and just put that out there.
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OK, real quick before we get into our talk about the National
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League and the race that is to be and then some obviously some
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credit cannon segments here real quick.
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The, the outrage, the faux, I'm just going to call it like it is
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the faux outrage from Paige about my my taste in in bagels.
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Is crazy. She was.
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No, it's not the bagels. It's it's the combination of
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bagel plus. And how many times do I need to
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explain myself? The chocolate chip, the
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chocolate chip bagel with American cheese was not my go
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to. That was just a last resort.
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I had to. I had to have.
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Something before we left for the airport should never be a resort
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my go to. Here's what happened.
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Here's no, no, no no, no, no loud defense you have your
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chance for. Defense and then we got to get
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into it. We go to the grocery store,
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man's needs eggs because he's like, yo, got to get some
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breakfast stuff And I was like, I'm good on whatever.
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I can skip breakfast anytime, but you do you.
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We get eggs and he's like, should we do like a little
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breakfast sandwich situation? I was like, I could probably get
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down on that. I was like, did you want, you
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want like bacon or any kind of meat on this?
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You're like, no, I'm just going to go egg and maybe some.
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Cheese. It was going to be too much.
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We would. Throw it on a bagel.
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So it's like, good deal. We get to the bread aisle and
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I'm like, you know, we, we got everything bagels, we got plain
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bagels. We're kind of looking at the
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different brands and you're like, yo, low key, kind of a
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sneaky pick. The chocolate chip bagel, which
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is the what's the is specifically like?
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I remember the bag being like the, the Walmart brand.
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So it's like a it was like a it was like a ball on the budget
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brand and it was a chocolate chip bagel.
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And I was like, pause, we're not getting cream cheese right?
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And you're like, no. And I'm like, what's going on
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this bagel, which was my which was do egg and American cheese.
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And I was like on a chocolate chip bagel.
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That would have slapped. No, and you're like.
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And sometimes, in a pinch, when I'm running late for work, I'll
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sometimes even skip the egg. And I was.
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Like, no, no, I want my defense. I want my Am I entitled to my
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defense now, I don't think you and Paige, you and Paige.
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No, it's great you and Paige run under this assumption that this.
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Isn't a craft single. By the way, this isn't some
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gourmet cheese. This is a craft single.
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Continue. Kraft singles may as well be
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gourmet cheese to me out of the palate of a 12 year old.
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But hear me out. What I said was when I'm in a
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pinch, I will have a toasted cinnamon Raisin bagel with a
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slice of American cheese. You think it's not a good
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defense? I'm telling you dude, OK, can
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you promise me this? Can you promise me?
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Please get in the chat. Please get in the chat and.
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Tell. Me who?
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You. Agree.
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They're already, they're already, they're already all
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over me. What a OK A.
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Chocolate bagel with regular plain cream cheese that works a
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Kraft single. And OK, can you, can you do, can
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you do me a solid here? Do you remember that time many
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years ago on this very program where you had me try dill pickle
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seeds and Sour Patch Kids combined?
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Sure. At once.
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And you said it sounds disgusting.
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You're going to think you're going to hate it.
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It's odd. What did I do?
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I tried it. It was great.
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I thought you were out of your mind.
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Do me a favor before we record. OK, I'll I'll give you, I'll say
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a week. I won't even say my next episode
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a week. I need you to have a toasted
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cinnamon Raisin bagel with a slice of American cheese on it
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and tell me that doesn't slap as a snack.
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I'm not saying like start your day with it.
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I'm just saying, you say you can if you want because I've done
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it, but have have it as like a midday, like an afternoon snack
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and tell me that doesn't hit you think I'm crazy.
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I'm telling you have a craft single with the cinnamon Raisin
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toasted bagel. We got a truck back to the trip
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you. We pivoted to a chocolate chip
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bagel. Which would hey hand up given
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the resources we had. I probably would have.
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We probably would have been better off going to cinnamon
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Raisin. I didn't get her off with a
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plane that's. Fine, Yeah, I I didn't, I didn't
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get cream cheese, which is on me.
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Here's a caveat is that you you weren't thrilled about me
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getting Mayo and mustard for our sandwiches, but you.
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No, I literally said let's get mustard or let's get Mayo put in
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the bag. My Yeah, see in the chest.
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Cinnamon raisin's fine chunk chips.
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Not That's the difference. That's what.
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I said no. An American craft single on a
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cinnamon Raisin is just as crazy.
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No, it's not. Just literally not.
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Raisins and cinnamon and cheese have never swam in the same
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pool. And I Have you ever had a
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charcuterie board? Have you ever had a charcuterie
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board ever with cinnamon? No, but I'm saying, do you have
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little crackers and variations of crackers that have raisins in
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them? You have them with cheese.
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You have them with any variety of topping.
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I I get there, I could get there.
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Whatever. I don't need to.
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I don't need to defend myself. I don't need to.
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Yeah, you do. All I'm saying.
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Last comment before we talk ball.
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We've been going at this for way too long is in my mind.
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Chocolate chip bagel with cheese sounds better to me.
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If you include an egg and make it just a Full breakfast
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sandwich, that's that would pass.
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Better than just cheese, I will admit.
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One more comment and then I'm done.
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How many of those 18 eggs did you eat?
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How many of those 18 eggs did we?
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Eat. I didn't need them.
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I said that. You said, but you said you would
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have them. Chat.
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The answer is zero. You.
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Said you would have them. And I, there was a day where I
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yelled into your room. I was like, yo, you want some
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bags? Like Nah, I'm good.
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And I was like, I don't have the motivation to do this for
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myself. 4 hours of sleep. I don't want eggs.
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Yeah, yeah, just get pop tarts. I I agree we should have just
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taken the. Easy route.
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We were on the on that road the whole time.
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It was it was easy sandwiches, it was Uncrustables, it was
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frozen pizza. And then we really, we really
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pivoted into making some eggs. But all right, shout out Jay.
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He had a a dozen and a half eggs waiting for him and some Don
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Julio shots. By the way, 'cause super chill.
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By the way, that you're talking to Airbnb host.
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Yeah, he, I messaged him afterwards.
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I was like, hey, man, apologize for leaving all this food in
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your fridge. Like, feel free to just get rid
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of it or like, enjoy it yourself.
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We just didn't have the time to get out.
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And he's like, he's like, you all should have had more of the
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beers that the people left for you guys.
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And I was like, we Nate tried. I did.
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But yeah. Corona.
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But I did. I had to get some banana
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courage. Shout out to shout out to Jay.
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Good call on that. Yeah, got to.
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Shout out to those that are hanging out with us that have
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seen the vlog and shout out to those we're 11 minutes into this
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thing, but shout out, we gotta talk.
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Ball. Shout out to those who are new,
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you know, maybe we, maybe we expanded our listening, our
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listening group, our listenership.
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Is that a word listenership. I'm going to roll with that.
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Maybe we expanded our listenership from our, from our
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Atlanta visit. You know, we were, we were on
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the grind, We were passing out cards, we were giving out
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scanning little QR codes. So, you know, maybe there's
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maybe some new people hanging out with us and unfortunately
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we, we may have lost them due to yeah.
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These last these last 10 minutes shopping.
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Anywho, I don't think they would have We would have lost them due
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to my choice of bagel. I think we would have lost them
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due to your intolerance of my choice of breakfast foods.
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But that's neither here nor there.
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Anyway, let's. Did you have a or?
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I wasn't. Subscribe.
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I wasn't. I was still packing that
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chocolate chip bagel that you had before we went to the
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airport. Was there cheese on that?
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There was. And hey, for the record, full
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transparency, it's not Walmart. Bagels never get Walmart.
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Bagels. The bagel's not the problem.
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No, the bagel absolutely was the problem, dude.
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The bagel was crumbly. And I'm like, I haven't done
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anything with this bagel. I'm done talking bagels.
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We we got to talk, Paul. Less bagels, more ball.
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That's what I always say anyway. Anyway, check out main take
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away. Check out the vlog.
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I really should have included some bagel content in there, but
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there's some good stuff in there.
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Last thing on the vlog, did you like my editorial take on my
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call in my shot that really added the cinematic cinematic
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touch? I'm still, I'm still kind of
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pissed about my Wiffle Ball performance, to be honest with
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you. I need a rematch at some point.
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Hey, let, I was thinking about that the other day though.
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Let's make that a thing. Any, any, even if it's here,
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like even if we're like, hey, why don't you fly out here?
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Like we like we tried to do a couple years back.
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You fly out here, maybe we take a post season trip up to Philly
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or something. Well, I mean, we're already
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looking at AAA SG2026 out in Philly next year.
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We're already making that a. I'm just saying like even an
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event that's like lesser scale, lesser, you know, less of an
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event and even if it's something low key, we still do a Derby or
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something. Yeah, fair enough.
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I won't. I guess I'm I don't want to open
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this this bag of chips. Now I guess we can get into
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current events. I'll ask.
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Lee well, that about we'll do it.
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We'll see you guys well. I mean, if you want me to ask, I
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can. Make it super quick.
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We got to talk. All right, it's just an opinion
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thing because I I told you that like I went to the All Star
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game, the Home Run Derby in Denver and after you do one,
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you're like cool experience. I don't know if I necessarily
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need to do it again. That's my opinion.
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Do you kind of feel slash share the same sentiment?
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Yeah. And I would be fine as I mean
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we're doing my, I think our plan is to do WBC next year, but I
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think in terms. Of the all electric.
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Electric, I'll do that every time.
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I don't that's that's a more than a once on a lifetime thing
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if you can, but I think the only reason I'd be intrigued with
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next year's All Star game is just being in.
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Philly. In Philly.
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You could fly out here, we could easily drive up that would that
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would be a total game changer being able to drive from here
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and. We got some.
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More flexibility. We got some listeners out there
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in the PA too, so. Oh yeah, man.
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All right, fair enough. All right, let's talk.
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Let's talk NL. Let's let's let's close the book
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here. No, let's talk National League,
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Nate, the National League race. And yeah, I'm going to go ahead.
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And there's probably people going you really calling it a
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race and it's still late July. Yeah, I we know what the
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American League is, but I think it we're getting to a point
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where I think we're starting to see what the National League is.
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And it's interesting. It's real interesting.
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I'm looking at the standings right now, the Milwaukee Brewers
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with the best record in baseball at 61 and 4120 games over 500.
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They've won 13 of their last 15. They just wrapped up A5 in one
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road trip. They've won five straight series
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and as I mentioned, are the best team in baseball.
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You pair that with their central counterparts, the Chicago Cubs,
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60 and 42, just a game behind them, right?
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You've got the Phillies 58 and 43, the Mets 59 and 44, the
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Dodgers leading the West by I'm going to go ahead and call it a
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slim margin of only four and a half.
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For their standards, yeah. For their standards, that's a
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slim margin to be leading by Padres at the second at 55 and
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47. But.
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At the time of this recording. At the time of this recording.
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But this is this National League, man.
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It's getting interesting. It really is.
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And I really, it really is. I really wanted to focus on the
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Brewers here for just a moment. If if if you would.
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They deserve it. They deserve it.
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As I mentioned, they've won 13 over their last 15.
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They are on an absolute heater, doing it almost exclusively from
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the mound. Can we, is it fair to say that I
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think offensively they've been, I mean, they've been middle of
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the road, middle of the pack the last over that 15 game span that
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I, I mentioned the, the, the heater that they're on.
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They've got the eighth team, 18th best team OPS over that
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span. However, their team ERA of 242
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is second in all of baseball in that span, second only to you
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want to take a guess? Phillies.
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Phillies aren't even in the top five.
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Really just keep hearing about their staff all the time.
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I don't know. My Boston Red Sox.
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That's kind of crazy at we cherry picking a little bit.
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At a 2-3 dot, no. I'm looking at this through the
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lens of the 15 game stretch that I was that I mentioned earlier.
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Oh, gotcha. All right.
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So having a great couple of great couple of weeks, those
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those Staffs, but hey, they're they're the best team in
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baseball right now. Do we think this holds up?
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Not not saying best team in baseball by the end, but do we
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think like is it time that we take the Brewers seriously?
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Yeah, man, for sure. I absolutely think we need to,
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I, I think to your point of what we were talking about
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offensively, I, I don't think it's bad necessarily.
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They're just kind of lacking that one to two big boppers in
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the lineup and going back to last episode where we were doing
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our trade predictions, I'm really kind of bummed about not
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agreeing with your pick of Josh Naylor.
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I feel like that's just like a really easy move for them.
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It's very out there and it kind of makes sense.
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It gives them a little bit of juice in that lineup that is
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much needed. You were a big Andrew Vaughn
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truther in response to that. No, I was just kidding the But
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as far as the pitching goes, look, I mean Freddy Peralta,
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certified gangster, let's just come out and say it certified
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stud. Obviously I got the numbers
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coming into the scene. Like I I would like to see some
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I would like to see some offense added at the deadline and it
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doesn't. I I don't think we need to get
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crazy with our expectations. The Brewers are going to be the
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Brewers. I just don't think that like
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they can afford to necessarily miss because this division, it's
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it hasn't been just about this hot streak.
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It has been a little bit about the Cubs scuffling a little bit.
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And, you know, the Cubs are going to do what they need to do
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with the deadline, especially with just with the added
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pressure of having Kyle Tucker and, and wanting to, you know,
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potentially convince him to come back long term.
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Like I just, I really want the Brew crew to get in there and
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and. Get their hands dirty at this
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deadline. I think we need to caution
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listeners though, like you said, did not have too high of
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expectations when it comes to Brewers though, because it's at
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the end of the day, we're talking about the Brewers.
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This is what they do. They find ways to stay in the
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conversation, to position themselves to at the very least
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make a go with the post season, and then they just hope for the
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best when that time inevitably comes, if and when it.
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Comes rays. Voila, you know, kind of like
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the Royals of last year, the Tigers of last year.
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Yeah. You know, it's one of those
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things where you just it's it's tough, man.
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It's it's hard for you to not get emotional about it because
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you're like, I, I, I want to see this, this fan base.
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I want to see that stadium. I want to see like post season
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in Milwaukee's fun. It's always been fun.
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It's always been electric. Like you can take it all the way
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back to that, that CC trade, like it's always had that
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earning like that yearning from your, from your fan base to
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really pop off. And I don't think they're
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necessarily that team that's always going to be able to
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attract free agents. They're obviously not that team
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that's willing to fork out a ton of cash.
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They got to do it differently. And that means they really need
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to like strike well at deadlines.
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And I think this is a perfect deadline to do it.
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Yeah, you mentioned Freddy Peralta.
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Brandon Woodruff's another guy that's been very good since
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coming off the IL. How many starts has he had since
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coming back? If these numbers are correct,
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he's thrown 16 and a third. He's got an ERA of 165.
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Again, this is since coming off the ILERA of 165.
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Hitters are or batters are hitting 155 against him.
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It's three starts. Got a 285 fib, 23 KS and no
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walks. So excellent with the control
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off the IL which you love to see.
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And then Quinn Priester is another name that I feel like.
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Good name. Needs needs more attention.
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Very good baseball baseball name.
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But let me pull up his numbers here.
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Quinn Priester has been excellent as of late.
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Let's see here. Let's look at this game log.
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So minus a couple farts starts, one of which being on June 22nd
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and the other being on July 4th against the Marlins, really
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going back to May 24th yeah, going going back to May 2nd, he
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hasn't given up more than three. Well, he's given up more than
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three runs once since May 2nd, and that was on the July 4th
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start where he gave up four. Guy has been nothing but
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consistent for the Brewers in that rotation, which again,
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that's what you, that's what you expect from this team.
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But to your point and what we're most saying, you need some, you
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need some pop. Otherwise it's going to be the
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the same song and dance. It's true, I think.
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I think the the non household names only take you so far.
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You know, when, when it comes to the postseason, it comes to big
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moments and I, I don't remember the stats, they rattle it off
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every postseason, but it's almost always whoever out homers
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the other team really truly makes the biggest run.
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He needs some pop and I think there are some names out there
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that can be a budgetary move, but it's cool to see like, you
24:15
know, Christian Yelich kind of like under the radar solid
24:20
veteran, you know, I mean he's sniffing an 800 OPS.
24:25
Like I think that's the best you're going to get out of him
24:29
at this stage in his career. So I mean, that's good.
24:33
And Jackson trio like hasn't even really come on the scene
24:38
quite yet this year. Little bit of like a still
24:42
figuring out down year, but you have other guys, man, it's just
24:46
same with like William Venturius, by the way, but you
24:50
have guys like, you know, Bryce Tarang and Sal Freelick and you
24:55
know, Corbin or is it Corbin Durbin?
24:57
What's his first name? Caleb Caleb Durbin after that
25:03
move with the with the Yanks like that has been a somewhat of
25:06
a solid move. Like they, they just are going
25:09
to play very good baseball. And I, I don't want to beat a
25:14
dead horse by saying that, but there are teams that are like
25:17
that. And you know, you see when you
25:21
have a good manager, when you, when you have guys that are just
25:24
going to play ball the right way, that goes a long way.
25:29
And I wish some of these bigger market teams would pay more
25:33
attention to that cough, cough, New York Yankees, like just play
25:37
clean baseball and you can see what kind of success that brings
25:41
you. But you still have to sprinkle
25:43
in some some stardom and and some big moment stuff.
25:47
And I think that's why I really go back to your pick of Josh
25:51
Naylor. Like I really like that pic
25:53
because talk about a guy who doesn't shy away from the moment
25:57
and is very much a a, a post season put me in the spotlight
26:05
kind of guy. And you'd be surprised of what
26:10
that can do for a team and what that can really spring so.
26:15
Let me ask. You this, but I need more.
26:17
I need more. Yeah, let me ask you this and
26:20
I'm not going to hold you to it. This is more of just for the
26:23
sake of the exercise today, July 23rd.
26:33
What? NLCS matchup would intrigue you
26:37
most with what we've seen to this point in the season.
26:42
Obviously not knowing what the deadline holds for us just yet.
26:46
Yeah. But based on what we've seen
26:48
right now, what NLCS matchup would intrigue you most?
26:58
I don't know, I mean it kind of feels like a basic answer.
27:05
Are the Brewers in this? They're not.
27:08
They're not. I think it's, it's fun to see.
27:13
It's, it's cool to see. I think I'd need a little bit
27:15
more to like truly fully buy in. I need a really good deadline.
27:25
I think of matchups in my head. I think of, I want to see like
27:31
who's the best on the mound versus who's the best at the
27:33
plate? OK.
27:35
So we can, can we start with the Phillies then, because in terms
27:38
of what you're seeing on the mound?
27:40
It's incredible what they're doing on the mound.
27:41
Disgusting. And their staff is just so deep.
27:45
It's so, so deep. Yeah.
27:51
I mean, like I said, it sounds basic, but I'd, I'd probably
27:53
have to say, probably have to say Phillies, Dodgers.
27:57
OK, I'm glad you said that guy. I thought you were maybe going
28:00
to take the Padres Dodgers route.
28:02
I was going to say I don't, I haven't seen enough from the
28:05
Padres to excite me or to warrant me wanting, wanting them
28:08
in an, in an LCS match up. But the Phillies, the, the
28:14
Phillies, I'm, I'm feeling the, I'm feeling, I'm not quite there
28:22
yet, but I'm getting those vibes from what, 2022-2023?
28:31
I'm sort of getting those again, which is good.
28:34
I've been wanting that for some time.
28:36
You got to be excited for it. I don't think they need a ton at
28:40
the deadline. They need bullpen help and it's
28:43
there's plenty out there to to get that done.
28:46
Which by the way, I got, I got a comment in response, some
28:50
specifically to mine, because you, you had Kyle Finnegan going
28:54
to The Who Did you have Kyle Finnegan going to Cubs?
29:01
Was it the Cubs? I got a graphic up, let me look.
29:06
I got a comment in response to my pick of Kyle Finnegan going
29:12
to the Phils and I had somebody say the Phillies are going to do
29:16
better than Kyle Finnegan. So it got me thinking, I'm like,
29:21
do we think the Phillies are going to be that aggressive for
29:24
a closer? Like do we think the Phillies
29:25
are going to be in the mix for a a Duran or or someone else in
29:29
the mix? Yeah.
29:30
I mean, yeah, you got to assume so just because you know what we
29:33
were talking about earlier with with Jose Alvarado not being,
29:36
you know, eligible for the postseason.
29:40
And to be fair, we did record and make these predictions about
29:44
a day before they signed David Robertson.
29:48
And I'm not going to sit here and say that that really moves
29:50
the needle for me. No, just because, you know, no
29:56
disrespect, but you know, David Robertson at this point in his
29:59
career, I, I, I think they need to really just kind of double
30:07
down on the bullpen. I think that's pretty much it.
30:11
And little outfield help. Totally.
30:17
Really neat there. I mean that rotation goes a long
30:20
long way long way. Yeah, I'd be.
30:26
Terrified to face them in the postseason.
30:28
I really would because of that rotation.
30:32
And again, you have guys that are just like born for the
30:35
moment in oh sure, Bryce Harper and Schwarber that are in, you
30:39
know, Trey Turner is going to have some insane base running
30:43
slide that like, and and Bryson Stott does like Bryson Stott
30:47
shows up too. Like shy way.
30:48
Yeah, yeah, dude, you just have names.
30:50
And like Castellanos finds a way to get hot.
30:52
Like you just have names. I'm not saying they're they're
30:55
the most complete team, but like they've just they've all been
30:59
there before. And this is probably the best
31:02
rotation they've had with this group.
31:07
I'd be fearful of them. Dude, and this is without NOLA.
31:12
Noel has a shell of himself at this point, yeah.
31:15
If you could even get a fraction of what he's capable of giving
31:19
you later in the season into the postseason, should he?
31:22
You know? Should he be in a state where he
31:24
can give you any value and makes the postseason roster?
31:28
That's insane. They're at a point where like
31:31
if, if, if you're playing A5 game set in NLDS and you know,
31:36
it's game 4, you know, like you don't have to necessarily pivot
31:43
to a Wheeler. Like you can kind of go towards
31:46
the back end of that rotation and and save.
31:50
All it takes is that one extra starter that the rest of the the
31:54
field doesn't have. And that's what you're looking
31:57
at the Phillies. So I think the Mets are are
32:02
obviously going to do things at the deadline.
32:05
They need starting pitching bad, they need a center fielder.
32:10
And you know, that lineup can get scary at times too.
32:16
So that's their the Dodgers of the Dodgers, the NL.
32:20
It's just it's very deep. It's very exciting.
32:24
I think the Cubs are going to be a vibe.
32:29
I'm excited for the NL more than I have been in a long time
32:34
because we're AL guys. We don't hide that, but I'm
32:37
looking forward to the NL postseason, man.
32:41
It's early, I understand that, but a Phillies, Cubs.
32:47
NLCS. Sick.
32:50
You want to talk about postseason baseball?
32:53
Yeah. Between the bank and Wrigley.
32:57
A little chilly, little chilly, little chilly, little windy.
33:03
Boy. Turtlenecks everywhere.
33:06
Oh boy, the mock turtlenecks everywhere.
33:11
I'm super in on that. I need it.
33:13
I think I just can. I think I just talked myself
33:16
into that being. I'd be sick, man.
33:18
My. My hope and dream for for the NL
33:20
side of things. I'd be sick.
33:23
Last thing on the NL before we move on the yeah, shout out
33:28
Phils and Cubbies, the Schwarber Bowl.
33:31
Yeah, true. Big fan, last thing on the NL.
33:36
Hot dogs. Hot dogs versus cheese steaks,
33:38
We could. Yeah, no, there's no losers in
33:42
that match up. There's really not.
33:43
There's not. There's no losers in that match
33:45
up. I love that.
33:47
I love that for us as baseball fans.
33:49
Yeah. Last thing on the NL hill real
33:53
quick, the Dodgers, I know we talked what was it a couple
33:58
weeks ago at this point where they had a little bit they hit a
34:00
little bit of a skid like nothing to really worry about
34:04
long term, but they just there's is floundering too strong of a
34:13
word because like they've won 60 games.
34:21
So I'm not, I'm not trying to discredit what they've done,
34:23
especially with the with the completely torn apart staff.
34:32
Can we talk about not to pat on myself, my pat on myself, pat
34:36
myself on the back too much, but can we talk about how your boy
34:43
told you to hammer the under during our Hot Takes in
34:47
Predictions episode? Yeah, but what was the our I'd
34:53
be more prone to giving you? Credit 105 and and a half games
34:57
is that what we. Said.
34:59
That was what the that's what I think.
35:01
I had FanDuel sports book pulled up.
35:04
When I was pulling up the lines I said hammer the under it's.
35:12
Oh, well, it was. Yeah, yeah, I'll give you, I'll
35:16
give you the under. I'll give you the credit for
35:18
that. That was a good call. 105 games,
35:21
like there's they're not going to win 106 games.
35:23
I'm sorry, I don't know, floundering's tough.
35:28
I, I feel like Mookie Betts, man, it's just like got off to a
35:34
really, really tough start with all the sickness and stuff and
35:37
the, and the weight loss and I mean, he's just not himself this
35:43
year. Yeah, but he's he's Mookie is
35:45
fortunate enough, or fortunate in the sense that the rotation
35:49
has been absolutely decimated. So you can sort of hide behind
35:53
that a little bit as the lead narrative when it comes to the
35:56
Dodgers, but it doesn't help when you have your MVP sort of
36:05
plain as a shell of himself. So, yeah, and I do think that
36:11
we've talked about it before, I think they're going to probably
36:13
win the deadline because that's what they do.
36:16
They win the offseason, they win the deadline.
36:19
They have so many, they have such a log jam and so many
36:24
pieces that they're able to move that are big league ready, plus
36:27
prospects. They're always willing to push,
36:31
push the chips in. They're they're going to do what
36:34
the Dodgers do. They're going to have a big
36:35
deadline. I wouldn't be surprised if you
36:41
see a big a big name, a big starter or two added to that.
36:46
That rotation, it's coming. Just because they can.
36:51
Just because they can, they have all of the pieces to be able to
36:53
do it. Crazy.
36:57
You're not wrong though. You're not wrong.
36:59
Absolutely not wrong. But let's talk about talk about
37:02
names. Let's talk about some dudes that
37:05
have been on a tear. You ready for this?
37:11
I don't know. Buckle up, people.
37:12
I believe I believe this is there's no this is has to be a
37:21
second appearance, right? I think he's been.
37:23
I think he's made an appearance once already.
37:26
But returning to the infamous Credit Cannon segments, Nick.
37:33
Kurtz Bam. Nick Kurtz Been a minute since
37:37
we heard that Nick Kurtz over the last 15 days, I.
37:44
Think it is a return. Hitting 462 with six jacks, 14
37:51
ribbies and an OPS of 1697. I think that's a big old number.
38:00
You could probably pinpoint his turn around to the probably to
38:04
the day, the hour, probably, dare I say minute, that I
38:07
dropped him in fantasy. That's normally how it goes
38:11
that. Is how it goes.
38:13
You know, I, I hung on to him as long as I could and I said,
38:15
Nick, love you pal, but you're taking up a slot on my team.
38:20
And you know, we just can't have that when we're trying to make
38:21
a, a playoff push here, which I'm very much in the thick of.
38:26
I'm trying to, I'm fighting for my life out of here and just
38:29
couldn't manage. And then of course, the the day
38:32
that I drop him, I think is when things really started to click
38:35
for him offensively. So we all have moves we're not
38:37
proud of. Good on Nick Kurtz.
38:39
According to Baseball America, Kurtz didn't Homer in his first
38:43
16 big league games. However, once he went deep for
38:47
the first time on May 13th, has not looked back.
38:50
Since then, he hasn't gone more than six games without a Homer,
38:54
and his longest home run drought since July or since July began
38:59
his two games. Nice.
39:06
Dudes crushing another dude is crushing Salvador Perez over the
39:13
last 15 days and 400 even 7 homers, 10 RBIs and an OPS of
39:20
1430. The ageless wonder.
39:26
It's crazy. What is he 30 5?
39:32
Could be 84, I don't know. I.
39:34
Think I saw it today. 35 I believe. 35.
39:39
Yep. At the risk of sounding like a
39:42
Homer, by the way, there's been a lot not I'm not hating on Sal
39:45
Perez, I love Sal Perez. I, I, I think the amount of
39:50
people saying he's like a no doubt Hall of Famer is just kind
39:54
of crazy to me. You.
39:56
It's really just. Side by side between him and
39:58
Jorge Pasada. Yeah, I saw that today too.
40:01
I was like, glad you brought that up.
40:03
Yikes. Yeah, very, very shocking.
40:06
Yeah. So you're like, I don't, I don't
40:09
know. Why is that?
40:11
Jorge got bounced in the first year he was on the ballot for
40:14
not getting enough votes. Right.
40:17
Why do we, why do we think that is Why, why do we think that's
40:20
the narrative with Sal Press? Because I feel like I'm guilty
40:22
of myself where I'm like, Oh yeah, I have for sure.
40:24
I have been in the past up until I saw that graphic and I was
40:27
like, yo, I think I'm out. I think I'm out on like
40:31
immediately being a Hall of Famer.
40:34
But I don't know, Maybe it's just the, the Royals effect.
40:40
It's it's the lack of, I mean, no disrespect, It's, it's the
40:44
lack of legends that have come out of that uniform and and
40:51
entered into the hall conversation.
40:53
Except Bobby Witt, obviously, he's asking me.
40:55
That's a, that's a layup down the road.
40:58
But yeah, I don't know. You want to go, you want to go
41:01
to Cooper Sound for that. When Bobby's there, Yeah, yeah,
41:06
yeah, I do. I'll be down.
41:08
I'll grow my hair out, rock a mullet if he's still doing.
41:12
You think he's still doing a mullet 15 years down the road?
41:16
I could see him taking the Bryce route where he he cleans it up a
41:19
little bit in his older age, sort of goes with a buzz.
41:23
But who knows what'll be in then and maybe maybe could cycle
41:27
back. Maybe mullets will be will be
41:29
in. You got to remember Bobby.
41:30
Bobby still, He's a young buck still he's he'll be around for a
41:33
minute. It's absolutely crazy that that
41:38
the mullet ever came back in general.
41:44
No disrespect to Sal Perez, just a just an interesting
41:47
conversation. That's all good good couple
41:53
weeks though. Keep it up.
41:56
Hey the the. Royals need all the offense they
41:59
can get. They really do.
42:01
Some are saying it's over for the Royals.
42:03
But it's over. I'm all out, I'm all done.
42:05
It's over, let's move on. Let's let's check here.
42:10
What's the latest SO3 games under 10 games back in the
42:14
division The. Division's out.
42:16
Division's out is just super light but.
42:19
Which is why I'm saying it's, it's a little premature.
42:22
And I, I, I'm, I'm cautioning you from saying or doing
42:27
something you're going to regret as it pertains to our young
42:31
Bobby Witt's Kansas City Royals. We do need to, yeah, we do need
42:37
to have a little nickname for Mr. Witter.
42:40
I don't know what it what it is because it's like Bryce is our
42:44
age and we keep calling him our sweet young Prince.
42:48
Our Yeah, our sweet young Prince.
42:50
Yeah. Which, by the way, do you like
42:52
our age? Do you like do you like my my
42:58
inclusion of my my my double reference of the sweet young
43:02
Prince in the. Blog Yeah, Paige was laughing.
43:05
And then when I zoomed in on the price, she was and you were
43:08
like, it's not enough. Honestly, actually, I meant I
43:11
meant what I said. I meant what I said.
43:13
I'd pay, I'd pay double. I think.
43:15
I think that's what it's worth minimum anyway.
43:19
Any who's no disrespect to Sal Perez, but to your point, having
43:23
a great couple weeks and as I mentioned, with the Royals
43:26
fighting for their postseason lives, what did I say four games
43:30
back as of this very second? They need all the help they can
43:33
get. Another team that's not
43:37
necessarily, I won't say is fighting for their post season
43:39
lives, but a team that can we say has been playing better ball
43:47
as of late. Better ball.
43:50
We'll just say surprising ball. The Miami Marlins, bro.
43:55
The Miami Marlins, I don't know if you've checked, they're only
43:58
5 under. They're not that bad.
44:02
I mean, I know the Braves. That's what I was going to say.
44:05
I know the Braves have been the Braves, but they're still the
44:07
Braves, if that makes sense. Like if you're tracking.
44:10
Sounds like a good T-shirt. The Braves have have been the
44:15
Braves we know in 2025, but at the end of the day, there's
44:19
still the Braves. I think I think most people
44:21
would track with me there and given given that 4 back in the
44:28
win column from the Marlins, but I think we can credit A1 Kyle
44:37
Stowers. All Star.
44:41
All Star Kyle Stowers to you and to me over the last 15 days.
44:48
Hitting 4/29 was 6 homers, 15 ribs and an OPS of 1562.
44:58
Forgive me, I don't have the source for where for which from
45:05
where I pulled this, but there has not as a pertaining to Kyle
45:12
Stowers. There's not been a more
45:13
productive player in baseball over the last month then
45:17
Stowers. He leads in WRC plus 261-F42-ON
45:24
base 457 and slug 897 and that's over the last month.
45:29
That's beyond even the span initial span of the last 15 days
45:33
that I mentioned. So good on Stowers really,
45:36
really settling into his own down there in Miami.
45:39
And I've even heard possible trade piece.
45:46
No. I it's been floated out there
45:48
whether I I agree. It'd be real dumb.
45:53
Hey real quick I'm just seeing this in the chat.
45:58
Let's cool it with the Rich Hill slander as it pertains to the
46:04
Royals. Jake in the chat Rich Hill took
46:07
the mountain for the Royals. Pretty sure he pretty sure he
46:10
only gave up one if I'm not mistaken.
46:12
We'll, I mean, we, we still have to, we still have to touch on
46:15
that here in a minute, but. Desperate times they out like
46:21
that said. Gives up 1 and and you're saying
46:25
that's not good enough. Rich Hill, this is where you're
46:28
turning to today's Junie Moyer. You got you got to do what you
46:33
got to do. Next up, the aforementioned
46:37
Phillies. Christopher Sanchez since June
46:43
19th is 4 and O with an ERA of 122 and 46 strikeouts across six
46:50
starts during that span, according to Optus stats.
46:54
Christopher San talk about disrespect.
46:59
Sore subject According to Optus Stats, Christopher Sanchez is
47:05
one of three pitchers in Major League Baseball to have a seven
47:08
start span with an undefeated record, a sub 15 ERA, 50 plus
47:15
innings pitched, 50 plus strikeouts, fewer than five
47:19
walks and no more than one home run allowed.
47:23
The others? Greg Maddox and Clayton Kershaw.
47:27
These very decent company. Very, very decent.
47:33
All in the season Christopher Sanchez is sporting and ERA of
47:36
240 with a whip of one O 9 across 124 in and he's nine and
47:42
two of the did I say 134 KS to just 30 two walks.
47:47
I mean, that's a stuff they they literally are rolling out two
47:51
aces. That's an ace on most other
47:55
Staffs. Who am I missing?
47:58
It's Wheeler Sanchez. And then who's like the third
48:02
head of that monster, Lizardo. Was it Lizardo?
48:06
Why am I? Why am I blanking?
48:11
Lizardo has looked better as of late.
48:13
I don't know if you've seen, but he he, he hit that.
48:16
He had that run of I think it was a few rough starts but has
48:20
since turned it around. I think it had a lot to do with
48:23
the cornrows. Did you see that that that was?
48:27
Yeah, I mean, that was, oh, Rangers was yeah, what am I
48:31
saying? Rangers was yeah, yeah, yeah,
48:34
obviously traded, traded him to you in fantasy.
48:40
Yeah, man, that that rotation specifically this year, like I
48:45
know these guys have had good year, like good to great years,
48:49
you know, maybe scattered throughout over the last, but
48:52
they haven't all aligned this way and like maybe ever.
48:56
Correct. And I and I think that's why
48:59
like you got to kind of look at, and I'm not saying this is like
49:03
a lockdown name by any means, but going back to the comment
49:06
that we heard of, like, oh, they're going to do a lot better
49:10
than Kyle Finnegan at the deadline.
49:11
It's like, well, you got to remember that a couple of these
49:16
names when you when you look at guys that are getting starts,
49:20
like there's, there's a legitimate conversation that
49:22
Aaron Nola could could potentially slide to the pen
49:25
come postseason. You don't need him if if he's
49:29
not performing like that's a weapon that you can add to the
49:32
pen. A Taiwan Walker.
49:35
Like these are names that like can eat up innings as long as
49:39
you get to the postseason and then you can slide them into the
49:42
bullpen. And you'd be surprised how much
49:44
of A value that brings for innings that need to be eaten
49:49
up. And you'd be surprised what
49:51
starters are capable of when they know they don't have to go
49:54
more than two or three or even one or two.
49:58
That's all you need from me. Watch this right or.
50:02
Even in this and we've seen this play out in the postseason
50:05
before. If, if, if the series go, if
50:07
whatever series they're in at at any point in time goes deep and
50:12
you need like a, you know, a quote, UN quote spot start from
50:15
a guy that you didn't originally have penciled into the script.
50:18
But at the at series start to be able to look at a guy like Aaron
50:24
Nola be like, yeah, can you can you just give us a few innings
50:27
to to get us to get us going here as we sort of crawl to the
50:31
finish line? That's a crazy asset to have in
50:34
the back pocket. That's what I'm saying.
50:35
Crazy. So like as much as you can sit
50:38
here and say, yeah, they need to do a lot to help out that
50:41
bullpen, yeah, I don't remember those guys are going to float
50:45
back there because they are a OK with those 4 starters, Ben
50:52
Wheeler, Ben Sanchez, Ben Suarez and Lizardo, that's just fine.
51:02
That's going to be scary in October.
51:04
That's all. That's all I can say.
51:06
Matthew Boyd Bang 6 and O since June 14th, 6 and O with an ERA
51:15
of one O, 238 strikeouts and seven stars.
51:22
Hasn't allowed a run in 23 straight innings.
51:27
Matthew. Boyd.
51:30
Excuse me. Excuse me.
51:37
That's actually kind of crazy. That can't be.
51:41
Not the same guy. Not the same.
51:43
Matthew Boyd. My God, you mean that's the same
51:46
guy? Yeah, that's that is the Matthew
51:51
Boyd. That's nice.
51:57
I've said this before, but I I'm a you know, I'm a big fan.
52:01
I'm a big fantasy baseball guy. And just looking at the points
52:05
that he's put up since like the middle of June, 19132018222824,
52:14
that's if you knew nothing else about baseball, but you knew
52:18
fantasy baseball, that's that's pretty good, pretty good guy to
52:22
have. What you need?
52:25
Pretty good guy to have in your rotation.
52:29
Another guy that you really would like to have in your
52:31
rotation this year. Nick Pavetta since June 25th, 3
52:37
and O with an ERA of .5736 strikeouts in five starts.
52:48
Dude, all of you know the man I apparently.
52:51
Don't know the man because I. Remember going back, I know this
52:55
happened and you were. Like I know.
52:57
We know who he is. They are who we thought they
53:00
were. That was very much your vibe
53:03
about him. My vibe was we know who this guy
53:07
is, but apparently we don't know who this guy is because as of
53:12
right now, Nick Pavetta on the year, it's got a 281 with a WHIP
53:17
of 1 flat 127 strikeouts to just thirty walks.
53:23
Shazam, 10, and two for the San Diego Padres.
53:29
Fathers. Yeah, that's, that's nice with
53:34
it. That allows you to entertain
53:36
Dylan C's conversations, which, by the way, have apparently.
53:41
Intensified with the Cubs that I see today.
53:45
The Cubs. Cubs, Yanks and then one more
53:47
team, I think. Mets, maybe?
53:48
OK, let's be serious. The Cubs.
53:52
Well, that was the official rumor.
53:56
I don't know. I hate my team.
53:57
I hope they do nothing. I hope everyone gets fired.
54:01
So, OK, that's where I'm at. Well, Boone.
54:03
Just got tossed tonight so you're you're one step closer.
54:05
I guess trying to spark up the boys never works.
54:09
Speaking of firing up the boys, I can't hear that now and not
54:16
think of Toshera and MVP 2005 in our World Series charge in the
54:21
mound in the ninth, down 1. He's trying to fire up the boys.
54:25
His AB was done. He's not providing anything on
54:28
the basis. That's a great point of view I
54:34
hadn't considered. That's good.
54:36
Check out the vlog, you'll know exactly what we're talking
54:38
about. Sure.
54:39
That was Was that on purpose? Did you beat him on purpose?
54:44
No, remember I was trying, it was a one run game and I was
54:48
trying to put him on. Oh did I not include that that
54:53
clip right before where I was like.
54:55
Is this? I don't remember.
54:56
OK, I was, I said something like I'm going to click this and it's
54:59
either going to walk him or hit him.
55:01
And I was like, I just hit him and and all of a sudden you're
55:03
like, I'm going to charge him out.
55:04
And then he just takes off, gets tossed and then Tahata gets
55:08
tossed. It was a mess.
55:09
I. Mean that's that's what
55:10
baseball's missing. And that the truth.
55:16
Yeah. But yeah, check out the vlog,
55:17
you'll you'll know what we're talking about.
55:19
Did by the way, do you remember? Did my did my.
55:23
I don't think my big thick Sydney Ponzon reference made it
55:28
in. Did it?
55:29
I don't. Think it did?
55:30
No. I think I clipped that.
55:32
It's a shame. I think something we called
55:34
somebody thick. You were making fun of somebody.
55:36
'S head. Oh yeah, that got it there.
55:39
That was, I couldn't tell you. I was too bored about his head.
55:43
Didn't even catch the name. But going back to what we're
55:46
saying, talking about firing up the boys, Nick Ladolo is trying
55:49
to do what he can do to fire up the boys.
55:52
In his four starts since July 5th, he's three and one with an
55:56
ERA of 161 with 27 strikeouts. And just today, through a
56:02
complete game against the Nationals, CG shut, by the way,
56:07
9 innings, zero runs, eight KS, four hits, 105 pitches.
56:12
It was his first career complete game and shut out.
56:16
I could see a future Dodger, Nicola Dolo, I could see that.
56:22
Yeah, I feel like that just makes sense.
56:25
Yeah. I don't know why just, you know,
56:33
just feels right, Yeah. It's good.
56:37
That's a good call. I'm going to have to clip that.
56:39
And we come back to this. Yeah.
56:41
Closing the book here. Closing the book.
56:46
We already mentioned his name. Don't put any disrespect on it.
56:51
Rich Hill at age 45, becomes the oldest player in major leagues.
57:01
That's it. Becomes the oldest player in
57:03
major leagues. I thought there was more to this
57:05
nugget. It just says becomes the oldest
57:06
player in the majors with with this with his start against the
57:09
Cubs for the Royals. Exciting.
57:13
Stuff The oldest player to start a game since May 27th, 2012,
57:19
when a guy you already mentioned on this podcast, Jamie Moyer
57:23
through his final game with Colorado at age 49.
57:29
Tells you. I feel like if social media was
57:32
more of a thing back in 2012, Jamie Moyer's legacy at age 49
57:38
would agree have carried on much longer.
57:41
Yeah, but that's I think that's the beauty of baseball.
57:44
And I think that's the beauty of like just men conversations.
57:48
Have you seen those clips that are just like you just hung out
57:52
with your best friend for 48 hours and you're like, I don't
57:55
know, we just put an entire starting roster out, the first
57:58
name starting at R like that's that's like what we do.
58:03
But like that's that's how Jamie Moore lives.
58:06
That's how he survives. You know what I mean?
58:09
Then I think that's exactly where he belongs, in a very
58:13
poetic way. I couldn't have said that more
58:18
beautifully well done. But as you're saying that, I was
58:21
thinking, I was like, remember how last offseason we did those
58:24
drafts? We're just doing a bunch of
58:26
drafts this past offseason. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
58:30
A draft that we need to do is some variation of like a random
58:36
generator that that forces us to name the first player that comes
58:40
to mind based on a specific criteria, whether it's position
58:45
or first letter of 1st letter of first name or something like
58:48
that and see who's random first gut instinct team is better than
58:54
who's. Well, have you seen the game?
58:56
I like that. Have you also seen the game
58:59
where you just go back and forth and you'll name a name and then
59:04
like the first letter of the last name of the guy you named?
59:07
It has to be the first. Letter of the first name.
59:09
And then you just like do that back and forth.
59:11
Those are nice. Those are nice.
59:13
I'm not quick on my feet though. I don't like, I'm not quick on
59:15
my feet. That's what makes it fun.
59:17
No, that's what makes it fun. Or for my version, your version
59:20
obviously different, but for my version, you're supposed to not
59:23
have time to think. Yeah.
59:25
As long as there's no clock or buzzer, I think I'm OK.
59:28
Yeah, I don't the countdown. I don't like that.
59:30
I don't like that sound. Yeah, I'm not a fan of that.
59:37
I'm not a fan. You don't like that?
59:38
No. Couple other items here before
59:46
we get out of here. Eric Fetty, DFA, Ed.
59:49
I didn't realize how bad it had gotten.
59:51
I didn't. Realize it either I saw that I
59:54
was like, I thought it was a decent.
59:55
He was kind of like a spot start in fantasy for a little bit.
59:58
Yeah, he was. He threw.
1:00:01
Got a little nugget here for you to just put it in perspective
1:00:04
since pitching his his first ever complete game shut out back
1:00:10
on May 9th against the Nationals, he went O and seven
1:00:15
with five no decisions and a six 3/8 ERA over a 12 start stretch.
1:00:22
Yeah, it's tough, which like obviously not good, but I don't
1:00:27
like, I don't know, I feel like there's other guys around the
1:00:31
league that should be getting DFA if that's the, if that's the
1:00:34
threshold or that's the requirement for DFA, you know
1:00:38
what? Was the corresponding move?
1:00:39
Do they have somebody they coming off the no they brought
1:00:43
or bring someone up? No, they brought somebody up.
1:00:46
I can't. Somebody from Memphis.
1:00:48
Yeah. You.
1:00:49
Could see that could also. There's also always.
1:00:53
Like a Andre Granillo Granillo, Andre Granillo.
1:01:01
Let's go, Andre. Good stuff.
1:01:08
Good stuff it. Sounded like you were going to
1:01:10
say something there. That's why I was giving you the
1:01:12
floor. No.
1:01:14
No. OK, let's go, Andre.
1:01:17
Last item here. I meant to confirm this with my
1:01:22
wife before we got on just to make sure it was doable, but
1:01:26
plan for Sunday night baseball. Right, right, right.
1:01:30
I forgot to confirm as well. We're.
1:01:32
Trying to do if if you're familiar with what we've been
1:01:35
doing to this point in the season, we try to pick a Sunday
1:01:39
night baseball stream once a month.
1:01:42
I think we've done two or three. I think 3 at this point, 2 maybe
1:01:46
just two I. Think it's just two.
1:01:48
This will be our third one. This will be our third this
1:01:53
Sunday, July 27th, 7:00 PM Mets versus Giants.
1:01:58
If you're interested in keeping score, learning how to keep
1:02:01
score, Nate once again will be leading the way.
1:02:04
He'll be showing us all the tips and tricks that you need to know
1:02:08
to keep score. So this will be our third
1:02:10
installment of that learning to Keep book series, which will be
1:02:15
great. I'm looking forward to that.
1:02:17
I I I've thoroughly enjoyed the last two, minus the fact last
1:02:23
time we did it. Well, that's what I was thinking
1:02:25
about is that like we may have a trade that goes down during the
1:02:30
stream. We could also have another
1:02:37
scenario where it like messes up our book again, 'cause maybe
1:02:41
someone gets traded on one of these teams.
1:02:43
We have a little dugout watch during the stream, which by the
1:02:47
way, I I'm putting you on the spot with it.
1:02:49
Maybe we should have a conversation about a deadline
1:02:53
recording next week instead of Wednesday.
1:02:57
I got the Brandon Lake concert, by the way.
1:02:59
So I got to, I got to do it basically right as like the
1:03:03
deadlines kind of coming to an end.
1:03:06
Are you for real? I think it ends at 6:00 PM.
1:03:12
July 31st, 6:00 PM. Yeah.
1:03:15
Eastern, yeah. So maybe we do it like right as
1:03:20
that's hop on like 5:30 Eastern and as trades are like trickling
1:03:29
in, we can make sure we make note of them.
1:03:31
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, we can do that.
1:03:33
But before that, before that time comes sunlight baseball.
1:03:37
Learn to keep score if you're interested and even if you
1:03:39
already know how to keep score or you're just not interested in
1:03:41
learning to keep score but you want to hang out with fellow
1:03:45
baseball fans, including Nate and myself, just want to watch
1:03:49
some ball because you love ball we.
1:03:51
We'd like seeds. Eat some seeds.
1:03:53
We'd like to think that Josh and Nook, we'd like to think that
1:03:56
you love ball because you're listening to us and we love
1:03:59
ball. Plan to join us.
1:04:02
We'll probably hop on. I think our plan last time or
1:04:05
what we ended up doing was hop on, you know, a little bit ahead
1:04:08
of time. Yeah, just to get, get, get your
1:04:11
books squared away. So if you don't have a book, get
1:04:13
a book. They're super.
1:04:16
I mean, they're relatively affordable on Amazon, I think.
1:04:18
I think that's where I got mine that you recommended.
1:04:24
If you need a tip, I'm looking at it right now.
1:04:26
It's the Rawlings deluxe score book for baseball and softball.
1:04:30
It's called The Big Book. It's like 18 bucks or something
1:04:34
like that. Yeah, I mean for the you still
1:04:36
get out of it relatively affordable, so.
1:04:38
A lot of games in there a. Lot of games in there, so yeah,
1:04:41
make plans to join us for that, but other than that it's all I
1:04:43
really got. I need you to settle an argument
1:04:46
for me. We got you don't need to sing
1:04:51
it, but I need you to recite the Beans beans song that you heard
1:04:59
when you were a kid because it's there was a different version
1:05:04
out there that I did not grow up with.
1:05:07
I'm afraid I don't have any clue as what you're talking about.
1:05:10
Come on, you're like beans. Beans good for your heart?
1:05:14
You never heard that one. What?
1:05:16
If I did, it's probably maybe it's repressed or I just forgot
1:05:19
about it, I don't know. It's crazy.
1:05:21
Well, little story time. I made Mexican food the other
1:05:25
day and made beans and I was farting a lot and so great.
1:05:30
Then Paige was like, I was like started, yeah, lot of lot of
1:05:36
heaters like that. So I was telling her I was like,
1:05:41
you know, it's they're good for you.
1:05:42
Farts are good for you. It's a natural part of life.
1:05:47
And so are beans. She's like, beans aren't good
1:05:50
for you. See, this is what I was alluding
1:05:52
to. I grew up with beans.
1:05:54
Beans good for your heart. The more you eat, the more you
1:05:57
fart, the more you fart, the better you feel.
1:06:00
Let's have beans with every meal.
1:06:01
That's the song. That's the song that I grew up
1:06:05
with. But she's like, no, that's not
1:06:09
the song. And I don't know, because when
1:06:12
you Google beans beans song, it's totally different lyrics.
1:06:17
It's like the the something toot it's.
1:06:21
It's, Oh yeah, I just put it up on, I put it up on Wikipedia.
1:06:24
Beans, Beans the musical fruit. Crazy beans.
1:06:29
Fruit. Are they?
1:06:32
Let's check. Beans are a fruit.
1:06:35
Beans are not fruits. I don't know why it says this
1:06:37
I'm. Already my song's already
1:06:39
better. Anyway, anyway, I pulled up the
1:06:41
Beans Beans song on Wikipedia. The lyrics are as follows.
1:06:45
Beans means the musical fruit. The more you eat, the more you
1:06:48
to the more you to, the better you feel.
1:06:50
So eat your beans with every meal.
1:06:52
See, mine's a slight variation which we don't know if beans are
1:06:57
good for your heart or not, but it also says you know that beans
1:07:00
aren't fruit. It also says another alternate
1:07:03
version includes beans. Beans are good for your heart.
1:07:05
The more you eat, the more you fart.
1:07:06
The more you fart, the better feels.
1:07:08
Beans should be served at every meal.
1:07:10
I don't like that. I just, I like the let's have
1:07:12
beans with every meal. That's the version I grew up
1:07:15
with. And so that's why I was hoping
1:07:17
you could settle. Hold the phones A variant A
1:07:20
variant documented by Iona Opie, an English folklorist, is as
1:07:25
follows. Beans.
1:07:26
Beans make you fart. Beans.
1:07:28
Beans are good for your heart. Apple crumble makes you rumble.
1:07:32
Custard powder makes it louder. That's a tough meal.
1:07:37
What's custard powder? I don't know, but mixed with
1:07:42
beans not a good result. It's.
1:07:46
A bad mix. So I guess I don't know.
1:07:49
I mean, I because when I tried to Google mine, I had to I had
1:07:53
to scroll a little bit to find my song.
1:07:55
Her song popped up right away and I didn't realize that that
1:07:58
was the more popular song. But I don't live.
1:08:00
They're not a fruit and I don't I don't like saying toot.
1:08:05
I'm a grown man I fart. All right, all right.
1:08:09
Yeah, No, we, we know too much about one another at this point,
1:08:14
so let's call it there. Check out the vlog as I
1:08:17
mentioned it. Yeah, Crazy sidetrack.
1:08:22
I don't know why you decided to end with this, but I mean, we've
1:08:24
covered. I had an argument that I needed
1:08:26
to settle. With yourself which?
1:08:27
You didn't help with yeah. I was going to say with yourself
1:08:29
because I'm not know how this. Go back to your chocolate chip
1:08:33
bagels with. I was going to say.
1:08:38
Talk about something that'll make a fart.
1:08:40
I, I got to, I got to figure this out, man.
1:08:43
I got to, I got to find people that understand what I'm saying.
1:08:47
I need them to try again, is my closing thought.
1:08:52
Try a cinnamon Raisin bagel. Toasted.
1:08:55
Put that thing in the toaster and throw a piece of cheese on
1:09:00
there. I'm telling you, it has to be
1:09:02
amazing to me. Has to be American.
1:09:04
It's crazy to me that your counter to this argument was you
1:09:08
ever had a charcuterie board, as if Kraft singles are served on
1:09:13
charcuterie boards. No, but you're also.
1:09:15
Like whoa whoa, bread and and cheese and raisins don't go
1:09:20
together. I'm like, they literally do.
1:09:22
Get out of here bro. I was running late for work
1:09:25
today, so I took a bite out of Velveeta.
1:09:27
Whatever, whatever. Hey, how about the Yankees try
1:09:31
and win a game for once? They can't, they make 6 errors
1:09:34
every game and I think the official score is just a lot
1:09:37
nicer than me. Whatever I'm, I'm done trying.
1:09:40
Did you guys just get swept by Philly?
1:09:43
Did I think we put out the win tonight, didn't we?
1:09:45
I can't see it because I'm blacked out for some reason.
1:09:48
I think because it's on ESPN, which I I.
1:09:50
Can't. Oh, it's tied 6/6.
1:09:52
Oh bottom 9, turn the game on. I got to get on that great time
1:09:56
to get out of here, folks. If you're listening, if you're
1:09:58
watching, try Do me This favor. I'll give you a week.
1:10:03
And if you're, if you're feeling ambitious, stop.
1:10:05
If you're feeling ambitious, if you're feeling ambitious, before
1:10:09
next episode, even on Sunday or yeah, before Sunday.
1:10:13
Cinnamon Raisin bagel toasted American American cheese.
1:10:17
Thank me later. It's a good snack anyway, that's
1:10:19
all I'd. Like for you to provide some
1:10:21
type of guarantee for that? Well, stay away from Trader
1:10:28
Joe's Pinto beans and don't go chasing curveballs.
1:10:33
I love you and as always, looking forward to talking more
1:10:34
baseball with you guys soon. Until next time, stay filthy.