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NEW Home Run Derby Format · 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 Carlin and Nate Reyes.
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  It all starts right now. Welcome back to the three O take
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  presented by C Kick. This is episode 446.
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  I'll be your host Kyle Cord, and I'm here with my Co host Nate
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  Reyes. Nate.
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  Hello everyone, welcome back. Welcome back to the party,
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  welcome back to where it happens.
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  Welcome back to your favorite Sunday night nightcap for any of
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  those in the live which which I appreciate personally.
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  Always loved the live. Big fan of that.
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  Big fan of our new countdown song that.
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  Was actually the first one, honestly.
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  What do you mean the first one? The very first one we had it got
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  me hyped. This one all.
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  Right, good talk. I was, I was going to hype it up
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  a little bit because I hadn't, I hadn't listened to it because I
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  bought it like 5 minutes ago. Was it expensive by the way it.
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  Was $5 by the way. Whoa.
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  All right. I like it.
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  I like it. I was a big fan, big fan.
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  We're going to talk some music this episode.
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  How about it? We're gonna.
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  Talk. About José José Iglesias but
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  wanted to wanted to get your thoughts on here.
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  This is a safe space. You can you can be honest with
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  me. You can give me you can give me
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  some critic, constructive criticism.
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  OK, what were your thoughts on my impromptu MLB lifetime pass
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  video? Big fan I I.
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  Do we like this style of of video?
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  I think we do. We like this this kind of
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  content. Just scrolling through, you know
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  what I mean? Just getting, getting knowledge.
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  Sometimes there's baseball knowledge out there that people
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  don't know, people forget about. So I like it.
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  I was only able to. I counted because I was curious
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  how many sentences I was able to get in there.
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  I think it was a total of 6 sentences for like 45 seconds.
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  So I wasn't able to fit. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to
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  fit every detail that I wanted to in there, but I learned a lot
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  about that, that. And if you don't know, we're
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  talking about the videos on our socials, but it's basically
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  this, this lifetime pass that you get if you play, if you're
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  like a player manager, like if you're in the game for what did
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  I say 10 years, eight years, eight years.
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  And then if you are in the front office for I don't want to spoil
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  the whole thing, but if you're like a front office executive,
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  it's like 25 years, you get this pass that entitles you to go to
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  any game you want for the rest of your life.
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  I learned a lot about that pass that I didn't previously know.
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  I, I was aware of the significance of it, but some of
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  the things I was learning, like in, in the, in the video, I
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  mentioned that President Theodore Roosevelt was the first
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  guy to, I'm literally spoiling the whole video, but it's fun
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  learn, learn that he was the first guy to ever get the pass.
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  But in my research found out that he never once used it
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  because apparently there was like a rocky relationship
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  between him and baseball. And I think that I'd have to,
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  I'd have to look more into it. But I think the league was
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  trying to get him on board with the game and all of that.
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  And so they offered this to him as, like, a token of
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  appreciation for, you know, leading the country, I guess.
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  And he was like, thanks, but I'm good.
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  I don't need it. You know, he was a, he was a
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  man's man and maybe just he, he thought it was just a, a little
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  silly boys game wasn't interested.
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  He was too. Busy him and his mustache, I
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  think. He can pass that down, put it.
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  In I think you. I think you can.
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  And do you get is it did you didn't say this in the video, I
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  don't think is it you plus one or is it just you?
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  I mean we're completely spoiling everything in the video, but I
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  did mention that it's that the pass earns you entry for
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  yourself as the card holder and a + 1 and that's kind of
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  duration of the pass. That's big time.
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  That's huge. I need to get one of those
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  somehow. Yeah, I don't know how we would
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  do it. I know we gotta stop talking
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  trash on the Commissioner. Or, or we talk more trash about
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  the commissioner and similar to the Theodore Roosevelt
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  situation, there go, hey, here's our olive branch.
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  Consider this a gift from Major League Baseball to the boys of
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  the three O take Justin. Project burned down, Manfred
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  back on. Maybe not literally, but as a,
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  as a, as a covert operation name, I'm, I'm, I'm cool with
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  it. Another thing I learned and then
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  we'll get on to current events. Another thing I learned was that
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  apparently all of the Iranian hostages or the Iran hostages
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  got a pass as just like a hey, so sorry like that you all had
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  to experience what you experienced.
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  This in no way shape or form is going to make up for like what
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  took place, but like just consider this.
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  Soften the blow a little bit A. Small a small gift I'm like,
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  wow, that's really cool and that that falls in line with what I
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  was talking about with the case by case scenario.
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  Sure, because a lot of people in the comments, the engagement was
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  great. I'm I'm glad that people were
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  were taking some, some things away from the video.
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  But a lot of people are like, yeah, my such and such like on
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  TikTok, I think somebody said like my uncle got one and think
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  they said like somebody said they knew an umpire, they got
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  one. So there there's all sorts of
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  these passes floating around for for different types of people in
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  the game, but. There's like a.
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  Very interesting story. There's like a, a a slightly
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  psychotic thought that I have sometimes when when we fly that
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  I'm like, you know, maybe if like a little something
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  happened, you know what I mean? We're like, we had to take like
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  a somewhat of a rough landing. Everyone stays OK, but like
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  somewhat of a rough landing where I get to fly free for the
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  rest of my life. Like it just a small thing.
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  It's just like a small. Like maybe we come in on on one
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  wheel instead of two. Like, come in, everybody's.
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  Fine, a little slidey going, enough for like the masks to
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  drop down, but no one, no one gets hurt, you know what I mean?
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  And then Nate gets to fly free for the rest of his life.
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  That's if. If you haven't had that thought,
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  I think I think you will now. That's an intrusive thought that
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  I think we've all. We've all had at once, like we
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  can all really do. Willing to sacrifice the that a
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  little bit. I'll poop my pants a little bit
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  for for some scary landing and free flights for the rest of my
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  life. For a reward.
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  Speaking of rewards, let's, can we just make the official, I
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  mean, the announcement's already been made, but can we make the
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  the official announcement on this program about our live
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  stream, this program about our live stream coming up, Home Run
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  Derby live stream. If you're listening to this, if
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  you're watching this, consider this your official invitation.
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  You are cordially invited to join us Monday, July 15th.
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  Yep, that's correct. July 15th, 8:00 PM Eastern.
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  Let me confirm that too. You know what's?
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  You know what's really great? You know what's really great?
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  Yep, 8:00 PM Eastern. What's great?
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  You still have to wear that. I absolutely do not.
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  This is. Not All Star game.
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  That's an All Star game. Yeah, every episode.
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  That's not an episode. I've already thought about this.
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  I don't know, I think. The chat needs to needs no
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  forget the chat little bit. I don't care what the chat says.
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  Hey, I don't care what the chat says I think.
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  That's the case. No, I'm not.
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  Matching matching green shorts. No, I'm not wearing this.
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  The I we the the deal was every episode from dating back to
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  whenever we started this shenanigan to the All Star game.
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  Every episode that's a live stream doesn't count.
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  I'm not wearing it, but anyway, the the Home Run Derby live
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  stream, as I mentioned, we'll be we'll be hanging out watching
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  some freaking moon bombs. We'll be doing some giveaways.
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  We're already spitballing a little bit about that, what
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  that's going to look like. Maybe give away some cash, Give
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  away some merch like some All Star merch.
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  Maybe game used uniform, Maybe you you.
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  Could be the proud owner of the Oakland A's gold polo and green
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  visor worn by yours truly, Kyle Corwin.
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  He's a visor guy. It's going to thank you.
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  It's going to be a good time. Won't be able to do a live
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  stream for the All Star game because we will be out of town.
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  So I think it works out best anyway because, well, I mean, I
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  think the All Star game or the the Homework Derby rather is, is
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  just a tad more exciting anyway. But we got some news mere
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  minutes ago that they're switching up the format, and I
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  gotta say, I think you and I are both on the same page here.
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  Huge fan. They kind of caught a dub here,
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  yeah, for being honest. Was I'm I'm a huge fan.
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  It's like a blend. It like brought back a little
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  little old school style. I am excited we got let me see
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  here. So it's no longer hitter against
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  hitter, it's no longer the head to head matchups as we've known
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  them to be for for some time. Which is good, which is good
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  because sometimes guys need to just, you know, not have to deal
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  with like dominance. Like it's funny when you in the
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  first round, you could get like, you know, a crazy match up and
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  the guy ends up hitting like 22 and is probably has the second
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  or third most out of anybody, but he loses to the guy that
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  hits 24, right. So changes things up.
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  So we no longer have the head to In the first round, the eight
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  players will compete against each other, with the top four
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  leading home run hitters advancing to the semis.
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  Yeah. Players are also limited to
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  three minutes or 40 pitches, whichever comes first.
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  And then the part that you and I like.
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  The bonus time for each hitter will no longer be clocked.
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  Instead, the hitter will continue until he's made three
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  outs, a swing that generates a result other than a home run.
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  Counts as an out. So it says this change will
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  allow for an unlimited number of home runs in the bonus round,
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  meaning that a hitter who is behind will always have a chance
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  to make up a deficit. Which I love because nobody
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  wants to sit there and watch a guy like, for the last minute
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  and a half, watch the time tick down and he's down like 64 home
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  runs. Nobody wants to watch that.
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  Yeah, yeah. So I like if we get like, if we
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  get like that Josh Hamilton round of a ridiculous amount of
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  nukes to come back and win it, that'd be sick.
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  And I think there was one other thing where it was like if they
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  hit a ball over 425, they get a fourth. 4th bonus.
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  Out. Yep.
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  So I think that used to be 440 for whatever the bonus was
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  before. I think it was.
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  It was. Like 2 balls over 440 you got
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  the bonus time. Which was ended up being like 30
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  seconds. Yeah, if I recall.
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  Yeah, something like that. A tie.
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  Ties are broken by the longest. Well, this is for the first
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  round. Ties are broken by the longest
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  home run in the round for the semi finals.
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  It's bracket style 3 verse 2 four verse one based on the
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  first round home run totals and then the finals, the top two
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  will face off against one another.
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  The finals, Yeah, a big fan. The finals you get a 2 minute
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  round. I'm guessing this is whichever
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  comes first. two-minute round, 27 pitches you get one time out.
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  Same bonus rules apply. Yeah, I love this.
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  I love it 'cause like you, I don't think we have to deal
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  with. We don't have to deal with like
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  the end. It was always the end of the
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  round that got me. It was like the last 10 seconds
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  where the guy needed two more and he's just hacking.
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  And the camera is just like going back and forth and you're
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  like, and then the umpire is like, whoa, whoa, whoa.
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  And he's like, go, whoa, whoa. And then that kid died in the
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  outfield last time. Remember that?
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  Because, like, it was the old trick where one was up in the
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  air and then he got smoked by a line drive.
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  No one wants to talk about those.
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  But yeah, I'm a big fan of this. I love that.
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  There's like the pitch limit, too.
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  It gets more into like the the quality of the BP thrower like
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  this is a big. Deal and just just quality in
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  general like I I was in in the little bit that I was reading
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  before we hopped on after this was announced a lot of the the
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  consensus was that this was aimed or that this change was
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  made in an effort to slow things down because it was getting too
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  erratic too chaotic as as the clock ticked down for its final
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  seconds of each round and guys are trying to make up the
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  difference and very clearly not abiding by the whole like let it
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  land rule, which just led to people questioning like this
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  doesn't even count like we're we're already talking about an
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  exhibition event anyway, but it's like can we just at least
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  follow like the few rules that do exist for this thing so we
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  can at least like have the rightful.
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  Yeah, this was This is something that I didn't even like have on
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  my on my checklist of things to fix, but I'm glad I got.
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  Fixed, you know, good good for if this is an MLB initiative,
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  tip of the cap. Like I don't know who to credit
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  here. I haven't haven't read who
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  exactly is behind who the architect is behind revamping
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  the the Home Run Derby system. But credit to whoever did it
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  because I mean, let's be honest with this live stream that you
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  and I are doing, we're going to be watching anyway.
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  It's not like we're trying to boycott the Home Run Derby.
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  To your point, like this wasn't really on our radar, but it's
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  one of those pleasant surprises like, oh, hey, they're making
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  some changes. They're making it.
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  They're making these changes for the better.
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  The product is going to be better.
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  I love it. I'm I'm I'm glad we're going to
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  see a slower product. And I think in in doing so, as I
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  mentioned, you're going to increase the quality of the
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  product and you're going to see hopefully maybe some longer home
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  runs. And you might usually see when
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  guys are just hacking, trying to do everything they can to get it
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  over the fence in as short amount of time as possible.
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  Speaking of guys, Gunner Henderson, you know, I, I, I'll
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  say this, we've, we've talked at length about how they need to
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  just scrap the in game interview thing specifically ESPN, like
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  maybe some other like maybe Fox does a better job of it, but
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  ESPN notoriously just I, I'm tired.
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  I'm I'm so done with it, so done with it.
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  They played the I don't know if you're watching the game tonight
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  and it's, I think it's still currently going on right now,
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  but they, they had gunner on, they had gunner miked up and
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  they play. They said, hey, Gunner, listen
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  up. We got a fan question for you.
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  And I'm sitting there thinking, oh, they're going to read off
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  like a Twitter question or whatever.
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  They cut to a video from Colton Cowser where he's I, I it was
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  something to the effect of like, hey, who's the best at video
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  games on your or like who's your go to partner in video games or
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  something on the team or whatever.
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  And you can tell Gunner does not hear a word of what the question
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  was about or who made the question.
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  Like they were probably waiting for they're probably waiting for
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  the laugh from Gunner didn't get it.
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  And then they they played this video mid pitch.
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  So he's doing his like prep hop. And then I guess it there was
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  like a ball or something. And then he like disengages from
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  like the play in front of him. And then he was like, who was
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  that? Did I hear that was Cowser?
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  And they're like, yeah, that was your buddy Colton Cowser.
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  He wants to know. And they literally just read the
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  they just repeated the question. I'm like, that's just another
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  instance of it being a fail so bad.
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  All that to say though, the I guess the only time that I would
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  consider the the miked up in game useful is when guys are
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  making announcements like this. Gunnar Henderson comes out and
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  says that he is on board, making him the the 1st to announce his
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  entry into the Home Run Derby. So I'm excited dude, I love it.
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  That's that's going to be fun watching him take some super.
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  Cool. Like it's cool.
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  I I think he's already past the stardom of where Julio Rodriguez
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  was before his Home Run Derby performance.
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  I think he's somewhat surpassed that like recognition.
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  But if he wins this thing like it's he's creeping in to like a
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  top five face of baseball type name.
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  You know what I mean? Like we were saying that about
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  Julio after that performance and then like we expected all these
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  numbers to start happening and obviously like it's not been
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  great even this year. It's been really bad, but
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  Gunner's like almost kind of proven that he's got the ability
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  and now he's like, all right, I'll be a superstar.
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  So I like it. I'm a big fan.
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  I'm I'm sure Adly was a little bit of a, a nudge, right, 'cause
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  he did it last year and that insane switch hitter performance
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  that he put on was sick. So I'm stoked.
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  Stoked. Yeah, I'm just, I'm always
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  curious with these guys that are they just have so much, I don't
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  even want to say promise because Gunnar's already showing that
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  like he he can get the job done. But like these younger guys that
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  come through, I'm always curious to see like their first time
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  through the Derby, how do they respond?
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  Like is is gonna be going to be a guy who, as we very well know,
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  near at the top of the home run leaderboard right now. 20.
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  I think he makes, is he tied with Shohei?
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  I think Shohei, he's tied with tied tied him yesterday.
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  Like how is he going to how is he going to be able to bounce
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  back from us? Because that's the whole issue.
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  You can call it with with players in the home Run Derby's
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  like, hey, I don't want this to I mean, we're just we're just
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  talking about Aaron Judge is like, I'm good when it's in New
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  York, we can run it back. But until then, and you made the
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  you made the point, like for all we know, Aaron Judge might be
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  chasing the actual home run record here.
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  So I don't think he has any time for the Home Run Derby.
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  He doesn't want to run that risk.
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  So a guy like Gunner and then the other names to to follow
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  suit, hopefully soon. Are those going to be, is it, is
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  that going to be a mix of guys that can bounce back or are we
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  going to see some of those names maybe hit a little bit of a
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  roadblock post break? Time will tell, but.
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  There's always, there's always a few names where it really, yeah,
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  that it kind of messes things up, you know what I mean?
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  It is exhausting, too. You got to remember these guys
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  like they have to kind of prep for it so they there there's
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  less days off. So yeah, I think it'll mess with
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  things a little bit. But this is look like we this is
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  the main attraction. I'd rather watch Home or Derby
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  than the All Star game So like perfect it.
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  I'm glad you said that because I'm, I'm genuinely looking
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  forward to our live stream. So I hope you, I hope you guys
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  can join us guys and girls, if you're listening, watching
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  again, Monday, July 15th, 8:00 PM.
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  We might even hop on a little early because rumor has it that
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  we might be doing some prediction based giveaways.
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  So we may be on the stream a little early.
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  Maybe if you get in there, you get your bump up your odds a
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  little bit of of maybe getting some cash or some merch.
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  Time will tell. But I'm genuinely, genuinely
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  looking forward to that. I think it'd be a good time,
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  super chill watching some. Hopefully 500 foot mammo tanks
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  would be a good time. Yeah, I wonder if the roof would
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  be open there. Probably too hot.
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  Yeah, it's going to be what do? What do we think the weather was
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  in Dallas, TX. I'm going.
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  To say one O 2. It was only a high of 100 today.
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  Must be nice. I'm getting the excessive heat
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  warning on Google. Severe heat is expected in this
• 22:58
  area. I'm sure you could probably
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  weather weather.com. I'm sure you can probably just
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  keep that notice up for the next three months.
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  It's currently 105 here. Right now at 6:00 PM, it's
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  partly cloudy. That's disgusting.
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  Sun even out yet, or at all? Let's talk about Jose Iglesias,
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  the Mets latest pop star. Look, before we even before we
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  even get into it, I just want to go on record as saying I like
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  the song. I do too.
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  So if you're a Mets fan, listen to this because I got into it
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  with some Mets fans on the on my my quote graphic that I put up
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  recently talking about how what do you mean why?
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  Mets fans don't like this. No, no, no, no.
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  So I pulled a quote from last episode where I where we were
• 23:54
  talking about the whole grimace thing and I said the Mets,
• 23:58
  they're playing well, but we know how the story ends.
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  And then all these people were coming after me talking about
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  like, oh, their page, these guys page engagement must be low.
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  So they refer to talking about the Mets.
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  And I'm like, this isn't speculation folks.
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  Like this is just an observation at this point.
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  I'm not like using them as a punching bag.
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  This is just common sense. So I'm really just stating the
• 24:20
  obvious. So I, I don't know why you're
• 24:21
  coming after the engagement, but it's, it's really it's it's
• 24:28
  really revealing to me the fact that the, that Mets fans are so
• 24:32
  well, I won't say all, but the ones that I've interacted with,
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  which I would imagine is a a healthy percentage of Mets fans,
• 24:38
  they're they're a little on edge right now.
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  And I'm like, why are you? Why are you doing this to
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  yourself? You, again, to quote myself, you
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  know how this story ends. Like why are you even getting
• 24:51
  your hopes up? It's what they do, man, It's
• 24:53
  what they do. We've got the grimmest thing.
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  We've now got this Jose Iglesias number one on the Latin
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  Billboard charts thing. They they're latching on to all
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  of these things as they do every year.
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  It's always something. It's either, it's either the,
• 25:11
  the what was it? The, was it a possum?
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  No, a raccoon. It's the raccoon.
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  It's the diesel Donnie. There's other things I'm
• 25:25
  blanking on. I've tried to repress them
• 25:27
  completely black them out. But you know, again, why?
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  It's just a question of why do they do this to themselves?
• 25:32
  Enjoy this, this Jose Iglesias thing for what it is 'cause it's
• 25:35
  a you and I listened to it before we got on.
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  It's it's a vibe. I like it a lot.
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  I'll add it audit right now. I I here's the thing though.
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  I don't normally pat the back of Mets anything Mets.
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  There's a difference when you're having carefree pressure free
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  fun and that looked like pressure free fun.
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  That video of him doing it on field stadiums, half filled up
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  still teammates out there running towards them, singing
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  with them. I got like, oh, y'all like
• 26:19
  really just don't care. You're just here to have fun
• 26:21
  now. Like you.
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  I think that's what it's kind of turned into.
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  Like there is this weird spot in the season where like you feel
• 26:29
  like you're out of it. You feel like a lot of these
• 26:31
  teammates could be gone in a few weeks.
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  Let's just go have fun, Let's relax.
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  Like there, there has to be that conversation.
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  You've heard that comment before of, of managers or other
• 26:42
  teammates saying, like, the pressure's on the other team.
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  The pressure is for them to beat us.
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  Nobody expects us to win, right? And now they're fun.
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  It's like, I don't know. And this all happened from like,
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  things that, you know, like this was Brett Beatty being sent down
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  and Jose Iglesias was signed. Am I wrong?
• 27:05
  Wasn't that the counter? Iglesias was signed on I think
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  like the end of May, like the 31st or something.
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  And I think it was around when they started shaking things up
• 27:14
  and sending guys down, right? That sounds right, Yeah.
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  I mean, just about a month ago. Yeah, I think that's when they
• 27:22
  started like kind of shifting stuff around.
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  So it's like it's cool that. I don't know, man.
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  Props to Iglesias. Dude is entertaining.
• 27:31
  He's fun. It's that's a good listen.
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  And I mean, as we all know, I probably one of the most
• 27:38
  underrated defenders we've ever seen.
• 27:41
  Yeah, good call. They sent down Christian Scott
• 27:44
  and Brett Beatty on May 31st, so this would have been one of the
• 27:46
  corresponding moves. Bring on, bring on the old
• 27:49
  seasoned vet Jose Iglesias, who? It's just a guy, like you said,
• 27:55
  very underrated. Well, I mean, underrated might
• 27:58
  be doing a disservice because I, I feel like at this stage in his
• 28:02
  career, people know how how much value he brings defensively, but
• 28:06
  it's just a matter of like, what's he going to do with the
• 28:08
  play? I mean underrated when it comes
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  to like all time defenders. Like when when we're talking
• 28:14
  like all time the guy with the with the glove.
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  Like I don't think people mention his name enough.
• 28:21
  He's got a glove, man, I tell you what.
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  But like that's, well, that's what I'm saying.
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  Like that's what he's known for as his glove.
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  But offensively in 17 games this month, I think this was
• 28:35
  following today's game. If not, maybe it was entering
• 28:38
  Sunday. He's hitting 444 with sixteen
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  hits, seven rubies and six runs scored this month.
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  So like. Carefree, man, Carefree.
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  I'm not supposed to be here. I'm not supposed to have a job
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  at this age. I'm going to a team that there's
• 28:54
  no expectations. There's something to say about
• 28:58
  that. If this doesn't pan out I can
• 29:00
  just go platinum I'm. Literally huge, huge pop star.
• 29:06
  Let's go, dude. That's crazy.
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  And yeah, that, that performance to Citi Field, man, that shout
• 29:12
  out to, you know, hey, rag on the Mets all the time.
• 29:15
  Shout out to the Mets fans sticking around.
• 29:17
  Like, that looked fun. I'm not.
• 29:18
  I would have had fun just witnessing that being in the
• 29:21
  stadium. And that's like there's
• 29:24
  something happening to where I'm not saying it's going to
• 29:27
  translate to like a a better record or better performance or
• 29:31
  even them keeping some of these players.
• 29:34
  But what I am saying is that like they're I think they're
• 29:37
  cracking into like almost turning into this skid a little
• 29:43
  bit like the grimmest thing, the streak thing, like it's let your
• 29:50
  hair down kind of mentality. But that's the thing though,
• 29:52
  they always turn into the skid and that's what that's what
• 29:55
  leads them to fall in their face.
• 29:57
  I get, I, I don't know, it's this seems a little different
• 30:01
  for me. And again, like going back to
• 30:03
  before they were manufacturing things when there was pressure,
• 30:08
  when there were expectations, there's none now.
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  That's all I'm saying. All right.
• 30:18
  So they to to your question of whether or not this translates
• 30:23
  to translates to success, they call up Jose or they add Jose
• 30:30
  Iglesias to the roster May 31st, since June 1st and I don't know
• 30:35
  this does not include today. So we'll add, I think they
• 30:40
  actually took the L today. So since then they are 16 and
• 30:44
  eight. And then I think I saw, I think
• 30:48
  I saw since at June, at the 2nd of June, I think I saw that they
• 30:52
  were 10 games under 500 and they're now one game under 500.
• 31:00
  Confirmed loss Loss to the Mets today.
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  Yeah, I think it was overtime, overtime, extra innings loss
• 31:06
  today that. Was embarrassing.
• 31:09
  But I. Why?
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  Was there like a hockey ad on here on this page that I'm
• 31:14
  looking at? What that was like some
• 31:15
  subliminal message in here or something?
• 31:17
  I don't know. But yeah, the month of the month
• 31:21
  of June was rather kind to the Mets.
• 31:25
  Again, I don't know. Going back to your point, I
• 31:27
  don't know if this is going to translate long term, but at
• 31:30
  least at least to date, since they called up Jose Iglesias,
• 31:36
  it's worked out pretty well. And for the record, I I wanted
• 31:39
  to play it, but because this is like a legitimate song now and
• 31:42
  not just some like little ditty he threw together.
• 31:44
  It's like, I I wasn't joking. It's it's less than less than 24
• 31:50
  hours after the performance on Friday on at Citi Field, it
• 31:54
  jumped to number one of all Latin songs on iTunes.
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  So like if I played it on here, I'd probably get flagged.
• 32:03
  So try not to do that, but it's if you haven't listened to it,
• 32:07
  go look it up. His stage name.
• 32:10
  I don't know if I mentioned candelita.
• 32:14
  So search that is not like is that little little candle little
• 32:21
  light hold on can candelita in English?
• 32:28
  No, I don't want Italian. It's.
• 32:30
  Not anything, is it? Is it just a name?
• 32:32
  No, it, it gave me the the Italian to English translation.
• 32:36
  So that must also be an Italian word.
• 32:40
  Spanish to English is tea light. Yeah.
• 32:42
  So like little light. Yeah, Tea light is one of those
• 32:45
  like little tiny flame lights. Yeah.
• 32:47
  Basically little light. Don't love it, but hey, it
• 32:53
  sounds way better in Spanish so keep sending it.
• 32:58
  I mean, he's got a top one iTunes song and and we.
• 33:01
  That's true. So I don't, I don't have one of
• 33:03
  those. I'm not even going to hate.
• 33:05
  So yeah. Anyway, not yet, I'm working on
• 33:07
  it. Not yet.
• 33:08
  So yeah. So pull that up on Spotify.
• 33:10
  Whatever you whatever you listen to and and check out the song.
• 33:12
  It's a bop, not going to lie. I'm adding it to the beach
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  playlist, I'll tell you that. Are you?
• 33:17
  Oh, that was the last thing here before we move on.
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  You were asking about the lyrics.
• 33:22
  I found a Reddit thread where somebody immediately, I I guess
• 33:28
  it was like immediately after the performance somebody went to
• 33:31
  to to Reddit was like can a Spanish speaker please translate
• 33:33
  the lyrics to OMG so US English speaking brethren can join in on
• 33:37
  the fun? OMG I'm such a dork on Reddit
• 33:44
  says OK so my Spanish isn't great but the closed captioning
• 33:49
  on the official video helps. Here's what I can make out.
• 33:52
  And then she says, actually one of the one of the comments on
• 33:57
  here, which I read to you already was somebody chimed in.
• 34:00
  It was like, I believe OMG stands for Oh my God.
• 34:02
  So we're making we're making good progress there with the
• 34:05
  translation. But OMG I'm such a dork said
• 34:08
  that it translates loosely to Oh my God throw everything bad
• 34:14
  away, Oh my God grant me health and prosperity.
• 34:16
  I have nothing but I'm happy. Only memories live in me, dreams
• 34:20
  to fulfill and I'm going to do it.
• 34:21
  It might be crazy but it's not lazy.
• 34:24
  Until I achieve them, I'll follow them.
• 34:26
  When all the planets align for me, my wallet won't be empty.
• 34:31
  May good luck visit me to help all my people.
• 34:34
  And it goes on and on, but it's very, very positive song.
• 34:39
  So I'm absolutely adding this to the beach playlist.
• 34:42
  Without a doubt. Fantastic.
• 34:44
  Big fan. You run, do you run the play?
• 34:47
  Do you run the you run the tunes at the beach?
• 34:50
  I don't it's all Meredith, but it's I think at this point like
• 34:54
  if I if I've got some that I want to add, I just yeah, little
• 34:57
  collaborative effort there just yeah, page.
• 35:00
  Kind of takes over the takes over the tunes pretty often as
• 35:04
  well. I don't hate it, you know, I was
• 35:06
  just curious. I think I fought it in the
• 35:09
  beginning when I was like, whatever you do you.
• 35:14
  It is what it is, but I can tell you what.
• 35:16
  OMG I'm going. To play it for her when we're
• 35:18
  done, yeah, I'm going to play it for her.
• 35:19
  She's going to like it. It's a bop.
• 35:22
  Let's talk a little. Bryce Harper, Kyle Schwarber,
• 35:24
  Nothing too deep to get into here.
• 35:27
  Both of them crazy enough going going on the IO the same day
• 35:31
  they both got injured. What was that last?
• 35:34
  I think it was the day last day we recorded or no?
• 35:36
  It was the day after we recorded last.
• 35:39
  It was on Thursday I believe Harper with the hammy and then
• 35:45
  Schwarber I think was a groin, a strain, a groin strain.
• 35:49
  So neither of those are are really fun, but they as I
• 35:54
  mentioned both to the IL, they did avoid any major injury here.
• 35:59
  I think it was both. They both got sent to the 10
• 36:01
  days, so should hopefully be a minimal time out for both these
• 36:05
  guys. But the Phillies, I would say
• 36:09
  dodged a bullet here. Schwarber, however, didn't quite
• 36:15
  give us the June Schwarber month that we've we've come to expect.
• 36:20
  I mean, I think when he went down, he had amassed six home
• 36:27
  runs. He was hitting 267 in the month
• 36:31
  of June, which I don't really pay attention to average that
• 36:34
  much for Schwarber anyway, but he was in 267.
• 36:36
  That's. Actually a pretty good average
• 36:37
  for him. Yeah, yeah, but he only had six
• 36:40
  home runs, 14 ribbies and 17 runs scored in in 23 games.
• 36:46
  I feel like he usually gives us a little more than six bops, but
• 36:52
  either way, still not a guy you want to lose.
• 36:54
  But then one of the NLMVP candidates, Bryce Harper, on the
• 37:00
  other hand, he's been he's been having a heck of a year, but
• 37:04
  avoid, as I mentioned, any major damage.
• 37:08
  It sounds like sounds like he's he's good to go.
• 37:10
  I don't know if they have an exact timetable on like what his
• 37:14
  what his. Why do I feel like hammies are
• 37:16
  basically like at least two weeks of no running, like
• 37:21
  nothing, and then you get back to baseball activities.
• 37:24
  We're going to get the baseball activities notification.
• 37:30
  I don't know, I mean, he, he said it himself.
• 37:32
  He doesn't like giving himself, he doesn't like putting
• 37:35
  timetables on himself. But this is also the guy that
• 37:37
  came back from like what TJ in like 3 days.
• 37:42
  So I don't know we'll we'll probably see him back sooner
• 37:47
  than we think. But like I said, a blow for the
• 37:50
  Phillies. But it had Adventure State could
• 37:53
  have been a lot worse, so. This is what this is what I was
• 37:55
  talking about, though. This is what I've mentioned and
• 37:57
  and you gave me some heat about it.
• 37:59
  I'm sure the comments did as well.
• 38:00
  But I talked about how like the Phillies aren't super deep,
• 38:06
  They're not super deep and you have some aging stars.
• 38:11
  And that to me is what gives me like this.
• 38:15
  I just don't know if you have what it takes to make the full
• 38:18
  run and honestly I think if the Braves were even somewhat
• 38:25
  healthier this would this would be a bigger issue than it is.
• 38:31
  This 8 game cushion at the moment is nice and all but I
• 38:37
  just I they don't give me enough to give me the stamp of
• 38:45
  approval. That's wild.
• 38:49
  I mean, I, I hear, I hear you. You can go far.
• 38:53
  On vibes alone you can go far don't get me wrong and you can
• 38:57
  for sure go far with stars like this but it's just like I but.
• 39:04
  But that's the thing though, like call me crazy.
• 39:06
  I haven't been getting the same like Phillies dancing on my own
• 39:11
  type vibes this year as opposed to like in in comparison the
• 39:15
  last two or three years. And I don't.
• 39:18
  Maybe that's just because I haven't been paying as close
• 39:20
  enough attention, but it just does.
• 39:21
  It seems like they're they're more so just going out and
• 39:24
  playing. When's the last time winning
• 39:26
  baseball? Yeah, that they're for sure like
• 39:28
  winning. I think they're doing well in in
• 39:32
  the regular season. That's all I can say.
• 39:36
  You know what I mean? Like this is a team that
• 39:37
  normally is like, I'm going to prove you wrong when October
• 39:41
  flips in and and then they do. And especially towards like the,
• 39:47
  you know, the chirping with the Braves fans where they're like,
• 39:50
  have the division lead all you want.
• 39:52
  We're still coming for you kind of mentality.
• 39:54
  Now. It's like it's the opposite
• 39:56
  roles of reversed. These guys are a year older.
• 39:59
  There's definitely been some injuries.
• 40:04
  I just I'm just waiting, that's all.
• 40:08
  I feel like Rangers starting to come back to earth a little bit
• 40:10
  as well. Well, we, we, I think we talked
• 40:14
  about that in the moment when it was going on, Like he there
• 40:16
  wasn't going to, he wasn't going to sustain that.
• 40:19
  Yeah, I don't know. I don't know.
• 40:23
  Don't get me wrong, they're in, they're going to be fine and
• 40:26
  they're going to make a run. I just don't know if it's all
• 40:29
  the way to hoisting. That sounds like Nate in the
• 40:33
  fantasy league. For sure does.
• 40:37
  Oh. Sure does.
• 40:38
  I I didn't mean that. I you've got it.
• 40:41
  You've assembled a a good squad, maybe a little unethically, but
• 40:46
  it's all right. Hey now, let's talk Vladdy
• 40:51
  junior been just mashing baseballs as of late.
• 40:57
  Honestly, I don't know All right, let's think about this
• 41:00
  his last nine or ten games, It probably falls right in line
• 41:08
  with this conversation. Well, the haircut, but this
• 41:11
  conversation that we we heard about that he had with his dad
• 41:14
  about setting him down and with this whole with the trade rumors
• 41:18
  swirling a little bit, having a conversation with old pops being
• 41:23
  like, hey, let's, let's tone down the Yankee hate a little
• 41:28
  bit. Like there's a good chance you
• 41:29
  could end up there. There's a chance you'd just end
• 41:31
  up somewhere. Maybe you, you don't really want
• 41:33
  to be, but you're going to need to be a professional because
• 41:35
  that's what you are. You get paid to do this and just
• 41:38
  worry about going out there and do doing what you can control on
• 41:42
  your own. If that if there's any sort of
• 41:46
  parallel there like any sort of correlation with the the time
• 41:50
  frame, it would make sense because in his last nine games
• 41:54
  entering today, hitting four 3216 hits, six home runs, 20
• 42:03
  ribbies and nine runs scored again in this last nine game
• 42:07
  century today. Actually today, because I think
• 42:10
  he had a couple knocks and a couple ribs today as well.
• 42:13
  No, I think that Jays only put up one today.
• 42:15
  I I went back and looked. I don't think I think he maybe
• 42:18
  had a hit. I was too lazy to update the.
• 42:23
  Yeah, he's one for two. Good call the.
• 42:24
  Averages, but or the the average.
• 42:27
  The numbers themselves hadn't updated when I checked so I just
• 42:30
  went off entering today. 297 now.
• 42:33
  It he's picking it up a little bit and he what I was going to
• 42:36
  mention is he I read that he set a Blue Jays record by going 6
• 42:44
  consecutive games with two or more RBI.
• 42:49
  He had 19 rubies in that stretch 'cause I think what was it
• 42:53
  Friday, Saturday he put up, he drove in like 6 I think.
• 42:59
  Was that a, did he have a Grand Slam?
• 43:03
  No, was that this weekend might mix him up with somebody else.
• 43:07
  I could have sworn he hit a Grand Slam.
• 43:09
  No, no, no, he did have six. RB is though.
• 43:19
  Yep, sure didn't have a grandson.
• 43:20
  Thought he did. Hey, by the way, Wyatt Langford
• 43:22
  just hit for the cycle. Hey, oh, what I was going to say
• 43:27
  is the Vladdy stuff. I think there's more to that dad
• 43:31
  conversation. And I think the part of the
• 43:33
  conversation that we're not going to ever hear or confirm is
• 43:39
  one of his, one of his comments was said it's it's a business,
• 43:42
  right? And it's, I think a part of that
• 43:45
  conversation was like, look, the Blue Jays don't owe you
• 43:48
  anything. Like, yes, you've had these
• 43:52
  comments about the Yankees. Like, yes, you've said you'd
• 43:54
  never play there and rent free, blah, blah, blah, all this
• 43:57
  stuff, right? And I don't think the
• 44:00
  conversation was, hey, you never know, the Yankees could need
• 44:04
  you. I think it opens up the whole
• 44:07
  conversation of don't close any doors because the Blue Jays
• 44:11
  don't owe you anything and they're not going anywhere this
• 44:15
  year. And so, like, go eat.
• 44:19
  Like make sure you keep eating. But there's no guaranteed
• 44:23
  contract. Well, you know, yeah, yeah,
• 44:25
  yeah, yeah, yeah. We, we lost some weight in the
• 44:27
  haircut, though. But first, like, don't sit here
• 44:31
  and just rely on the contract you've you've been seeking or
• 44:33
  the comfort or the safety or the longevity that you've been
• 44:36
  seeking with the Blue Jays. Because it seems like they've
• 44:39
  started to become somewhat directionless.
• 44:42
  So it's like, go let it eat and go get your bag and prove who
• 44:49
  you are. And it seems like it's working.
• 44:53
  And it's like the complacency seems to have gone away.
• 45:00
  And I think that was a part of the conversation of don't get
• 45:04
  too comfortable. You really haven't accomplished
• 45:06
  enough yet. And you never know what you
• 45:09
  could accomplish in a different uniform in a different
• 45:11
  opportunity. And I'm not saying specifically
• 45:14
  that about the Yankees. I'm saying that for anyone.
• 45:16
  And there's plenty of teams out there that are going to be
• 45:18
  shopping for a power, a power bat.
• 45:20
  Like there's plenty of teams. There's plenty of teams that
• 45:23
  need a first baseman or ADH. So there's a lot of
• 45:26
  opportunities out there. I think even with the Yankees
• 45:31
  series that we saw this weekend, he showed out and it's kind of
• 45:37
  was a little bit of like a maybe a tryout thing.
• 45:41
  I watched the game today and it this, this ball's running in and
• 45:47
  like clipping guys on hands and wrists and and stuff and
• 45:51
  forearms. I think it's starting to like
• 45:54
  churn some stuff in in dugouts. And so it happened to Vladdy
• 45:58
  today. He caught it on the hand from
• 45:59
  Cole and it was like a 2O fastball at least.
• 46:05
  Maybe that was the other at bat. I don't know.
• 46:06
  But like enough for like the trainer to come out and like
• 46:10
  feel it out like all good. And he goes back to first base
• 46:12
  and Cole like waits and likes like is waiting the whole time
• 46:16
  before he gets to first base and he's like, hey, like that's
• 46:19
  that's my bad. Like you're good.
• 46:21
  So it wasn't intentional, but you could see how like I think 2
• 46:27
  weeks ago, pre dad conversation Yanks come into your place.
• 46:33
  You're hot, you're starting this series and you get hit on the
• 46:37
  hands. I think we've seen old school
• 46:40
  Vladdy be like a little immature about that scenario.
• 46:45
  And I think today it was almost like, you know what?
• 46:48
  I think I'm OK with this. I'm good.
• 46:50
  Like, yeah, I know it wasn't intentional.
• 46:52
  Like it was like a you could see like a rational.
• 46:54
  There wasn't like this rage that you would guess or this
• 46:59
  assumption that he would he would have towards the Yankees.
• 47:04
  He's mentally he's already a Yankee.
• 47:07
  That's exactly what that is. Part of me really hates it and
• 47:10
  part of me is ready, ready for it.
• 47:13
  The the Blue Jays did respond, by the way.
• 47:15
  Gossman hit Judge in the ribs and Judge ate it.
• 47:19
  And business was business. Just like, just like the
• 47:24
  policing that we root for, you know what I mean?
• 47:27
  Let it just be a thing. Let's not give Golsman too much
• 47:31
  credit, he's been kind of booty cheeks this.
• 47:34
  Season. No, it's for sure on purpose,
• 47:36
  like it was the next inning. He may have.
• 47:38
  Just for sure response. He may have just not spotted up
• 47:42
  because he's, yeah, he's, he's had his moments this year, but
• 47:48
  it's not the Golsman that we knew last year, even years
• 47:52
  prior. So.
• 47:54
  Yeah, but anyway. It probably was, but.
• 47:56
  Back to the back to the whole point of this, I think we're in
• 48:02
  this spot where he's not the only one that's almost trying
• 48:06
  out. These are tryouts right now.
• 48:08
  And if you are on a team where the IT seems like the the
• 48:13
  season's a little bit over, IE you know, like a Pete Alonzo,
• 48:18
  right? Like you got guys that are
• 48:21
  potentially trying out for a new opportunity and I'm curious to
• 48:25
  see if it actually goes down. I'm really curious.
• 48:33
  It's it's just at this point it makes too much sense.
• 48:36
  You can't really grow facial hair.
• 48:37
  So that's like the box is already checked.
• 48:40
  Maybe that was the reason behind the haircut.
• 48:44
  Oh, maybe a lot of can of worms are getting open right now.
• 48:48
  Oh my goodness. Where?
• 48:51
  Where is this going? It Vladdy is going to be a
• 48:54
  Yankee by the end of the night at this rate.
• 48:57
  Let's talk I. Can't stand them.
• 48:59
  I can't do it. I can't get on board.
• 49:02
  You'll get on board. You'll you're going to have a
• 49:06
  Vladdy by the a week after the deadline.
• 49:11
  You're going to have a Vladdy jersey in your closet.
• 49:14
  Don't even don't even front like you wouldn't that you're not.
• 49:17
  It reminds me I got to pick out a jersey.
• 49:19
  Whatever. Let's talk.
• 49:23
  James Wood call up. Nationals are calling up top
• 49:25
  prospect James Wood to make his debut tomorrow, Monday.
• 49:32
  Depending on when they listen to that's Monday, I believe they're
• 49:35
  at home. So that'll be cool.
• 49:38
  A little bit of home cooking. And if you recall, if that name
• 49:42
  sounds familiar, but you're like James Wood, why does that sound
• 49:45
  familiar? He was part of the Juan Soto
• 49:48
  package that the Padres sent to the Nationals for Juan Soto.
• 49:57
  Also in that mix, we had what, CJ Abrams, Mackenzie Gore?
• 50:03
  I'm blanking on it. Who?
• 50:04
  Was it definitely one more? Is it going to bother me?
• 50:08
  I got to look it up. Wood's also toured up in in
• 50:15
  spring training too. Like he kind of came onto the
• 50:19
  scene in in spring training and I think there was a lot of
• 50:22
  baseball names that were like, hey, might as well just give him
• 50:26
  a shot. Let him make the let him break
• 50:28
  camp, you know what I mean? It's actually, it's actually a
• 50:32
  bigger deal than I remember. The Padres got Soto and Bell,
• 50:35
  Josh Bell. Nat's got Luke Voit, CJ Abrams,
• 50:39
  Mackenzie Gore, Robert Robert Hassel, the third James Wood.
• 50:43
  And is that Yarlin Susana? Sure.
• 50:47
  With AJ Yarlin, Jarlin Susana. Yeah, you mentioned his numbers.
• 50:58
  Specifically with the AAA Rochester Red Wings.
• 51:01
  He's hitting 353 with 10 Jacks, 37 ribbies and 52 games.
• 51:06
  Should have been up a while ago. And this was he also with the 10
• 51:12
  homers and ten stolen bases that he's got, I saw a note that said
• 51:15
  he is one of 19 players to reach double digits in both of those
• 51:19
  categories at the Miners AAA. And he did that missing nearly a
• 51:27
  month because if you remember, I think, I think it threw off his
• 51:30
  call up timetable a little bit because he went down there for,
• 51:34
  yeah, basically a month back in like late, like late May.
• 51:38
  And yeah, obviously I missed a good chunk of time, but he's
• 51:42
  still putting the numbers up even even given that.
• 51:45
  So I'm excited, dude. It's yeah.
• 51:46
  He's what's he's super unassuming when you see him,
• 51:49
  like he's super tall, but like when you see him in the box, I'm
• 51:52
  like, you kind of look like APO dude.
• 51:55
  Like you, you kind of look like a pitcher in the box.
• 51:58
  Like you don't give me like this power hitter stance kind of
• 52:02
  thing. And then you see some highlights
• 52:04
  and you're like, oh, this guy's got massive pop.
• 52:08
  Massive Pop, one of three position players in Major League
• 52:13
  Baseball. Now, assuming the call up goes
• 52:15
  successfully and he makes it to the park without tripping and
• 52:18
  falling, when he puts on that uniform, he'll be one of three
• 52:23
  position players 6-7, joining Aaron Judge and O'Neill Cruz.
• 52:29
  Yeah, yeah. Some big boys.
• 52:31
  Yeah, he's. Big boys.
• 52:34
  I think he can run a little bit too.
• 52:36
  Not like O'Neill Cruz, but I think he can run.
• 52:39
  Those, those 10 stone bases, I mean, haven't missed that time.
• 52:42
  He he's shown you a little bit of what he can.
• 52:44
  Do I'd be excited if I'm a Nationals fan.
• 52:48
  That's what I've been saying, man.
• 52:50
  People like, where is it where? It's just wait, this is the the
• 52:54
  Nationals, at least in my humble opinion, are in a position where
• 52:59
  it's like they've got some some name, like they've got some
• 53:02
  names in the hopper. It's just a matter of waiting.
• 53:04
  You're not in a position like some of these other teams across
• 53:07
  the league where you just have no future.
• 53:09
  To use a word you used earlier in the episode, like direction
• 53:12
  list that like that's I in my opinion, I don't think that
• 53:17
  applies to the Nationals. It's just a matter of waiting
• 53:19
  till the pieces get together that.
• 53:21
  That window ain't there. They start meshing a little.
• 53:24
  Bit two years. Give it two years and I think
• 53:27
  they'll there's going to be another conversation about it.
• 53:30
  Yeah. And, and I mean, like, imagine
• 53:33
  Abrams and Dylan Cruz up the middle.
• 53:36
  Yeah. James Woodard first.
• 53:39
  Like there's some stuff cooking. I like what they're doing.
• 53:44
  I'm excited to get Cruz up there, too.
• 53:46
  That'll be I don't make Nats going to Nats games fun again.
• 53:49
  It's been struggling a little bit.
• 53:51
  I think so. Yeah, needs some time, but he
• 53:54
  got. Called up though, I thought.
• 53:55
  He did. But yeah, it's it's been.
• 53:58
  Just been struggling a bit. Yeah, not.
• 54:01
  I think it's like his first time struggling, you know what I
• 54:04
  mean? It's got to be tough when you
• 54:07
  see your boy and Paul Skeens, like just breaking into the
• 54:15
  scene, like effortlessly it seems.
• 54:18
  It's got to be a little tough, especially when you go 1-2, your
• 54:21
  teammates and there's a little bit of like a struggle.
• 54:27
  He'll be I though. Also, when you're talking up the
• 54:30
  middle with Cruz, you're saying you're talking spine, right?
• 54:33
  Like you're. Because he's yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 54:35
  yeah. OK, Yeah.
• 54:36
  Just to make sure it's like that would if they're thinking about
• 54:41
  putting Cruz at second base or? Something And I like it.
• 54:43
  I like to make it too. I don't know how long Kibbert
• 54:45
  will be sticking around, but I do like him.
• 54:48
  And then who's that third baseman?
• 54:51
  Is Carter Kibum? Like still a.
• 54:53
  Thing. Nah, he's Nah.
• 54:54
  He's heads out of the picture. It's all done.
• 54:57
  Yeah, they, they may. I think they, they cut him,
• 55:00
  didn't they? Or release him or whatever.
• 55:03
  What do they got going on at third?
• 55:06
  Anything kept up there at third? Yeah, I.
• 55:13
  Can't say that I know what their future at third base looks like.
• 55:18
  Let. Me See, I had their prospect
• 55:20
  list turn. Brady House, third ranked
• 55:23
  prospect. Oh yeah, I yeah.
• 55:26
  Is it AA 642 O eight? Yeah, he was.
• 55:29
  Some people excited about him. 11th overall pick in 2011 time
• 55:34
  or timelines looking like 2025 they got they're cooking they're
• 55:38
  cooking just relax it's. 20252026 it's it's going to be
• 55:44
  fun, I think. James Wood played first base.
• 55:50
  Nah, man, he's. Am I stupid?
• 55:53
  He's in the outfield. Guess I'm stupid.
• 55:56
  I thought you said outfield earlier.
• 55:57
  I thought you I thought we were on the same page here.
• 55:59
  I'm all over the place. It's Sunday, Sunday, worked all
• 56:03
  weekend. I've worked for 10 straight
• 56:05
  days, whatever it's been. Got the Sunday Scaries.
• 56:09
  Hey, let's, let's, let's, let's alleviate the Sunday scares a
• 56:12
  little bit. Let's take a game.
• 56:13
  Break here. OK, no music.
• 56:17
  No music. No music.
• 56:18
  No music, no. Music, no music, no music, no,
• 56:24
  no, no music. Let's this is round two for
• 56:30
  those who remember last last week or last episode, we we took
• 56:35
  a stab at the it's basically name the player.
• 56:42
  But and some people are actually wondering what the deal was in
• 56:46
  the in the comments today on on the clip that I posted from last
• 56:49
  episode. They're like, what?
• 56:50
  What's the goal here? Basically, for this version of
• 56:53
  of guess that player, we each pick a name.
• 56:57
  Usually they're just completely random.
• 57:00
  And then based on the two names that we pick, you have to then
• 57:04
  each make a pick that has something that kind of draws a
• 57:11
  connection. Between those two, yeah, the
• 57:13
  ultimate goal is to say the same name.
• 57:15
  The same name at the same time and our our stipulation I think
• 57:21
  that we added last last episode was that we wanted to do it in
• 57:25
  10 or 10 guesses. Yeah, or less, Yeah.
• 57:28
  Also where we messed up last time.
• 57:31
  No re restating names. What do you mean what did we do?
• 57:37
  I think I said Trout twice, I think you said.
• 57:41
  Judge twice, I said. Judge twice, Yeah.
• 57:43
  Yeah. So not that if the name is out,
• 57:46
  the name is out, you know. What?
• 57:47
  I mean, that's fair. That's fair.
• 57:48
  OK. OK, all right.
• 57:51
  I got a name. I'm good.
• 57:51
  I'm good. Can somebody, I don't even know
• 57:57
  how you would calculate this, but I would love to know the
• 57:59
  odds. Oh, there.
• 58:00
  Well, there has to be a way You just take every Major League
• 58:02
  player that's ever existed. I want to know the odds of what
• 58:05
  it would be to guess on the first time around the same name.
• 58:08
  Like are we talking like Lotto odds there?
• 58:11
  Are we talking better odds? I mean, it's not going to
• 58:15
  happen. I'm just.
• 58:16
  Kidding. Yeah.
• 58:18
  Let me pick a guy here. OK, Get ready. 321 Austin Riley.
• 58:42
  OK. All right, that's one guess.
• 58:47
  I don't even know what connection you're drawing
• 58:49
  between those two 321 Manny Ramirez.
• 59:03
  What? I don't know.
• 59:06
  What I don't know. Who did you say?
• 59:08
  Chipper Jones? Oh, Chipper Jones.
• 59:11
  I was thinking like lefty also at third baseman.
• 59:14
  Yeah, yeah, it was way better. I don't know why I want Manny
• 59:16
  there. You want Rogue.
• 59:17
  There ever since. Yeah.
• 59:18
  All right. So I say Manny and and Chipper
• 59:22
  Jones. Manny and Chipper Jones.
• 59:30
  Manny and Chipper. Manny and Chipper.
• 59:36
  OK, OK, you come on, Come on. You gotta get here.
• 59:40
  You gotta get here. Oh, you're gonna be so mad if
• 59:43
  you don't get here. I have so much logic right now.
• 59:46
  It is stupid. Wait, what were the names?
• 59:53
  Chipper Jones and. Manny and Chipper Ramirez.
• 59:58
  Maybe I don't have that much of A connection.
• 1:00:00
  Actually I was wrong. Yeah, there's no way you would
• 1:00:04
  have come up. With no, I was still, I was
• 1:00:05
  still on the Jim Tomy train, that's where.
• 1:00:09
  I can't actually. I don't.
• 1:00:10
  I don't. Know what I was?
• 1:00:11
  But I think you can get here. I think you can get here.
• 1:00:13
  I believe in you. Manny and Chipper dude, this is
• 1:00:17
  we got to get out of the 90s. Like, I think you can do this.
• 1:00:20
  I think you can do this. I think you can do this.
• 1:00:22
  Come on, come on. You ready?
• 1:00:30
  Dude, I have nothing, all right? Well, I have something.
• 1:00:37
  OK, 321 my Alex Rodriguez OK. See, now we're getting somewhere
• 1:00:47
  all right. That's three, Alex Rodriguez and
• 1:00:52
  Mike Lowell. OK, well, I've got a guy, but
• 1:01:06
  you're gonna have to just, you know, work with those those
• 1:01:11
  names. Hold on, hold on.
• 1:01:14
  OK, 321, Derek Jeter. All right, You said Kevin
• 1:01:24
  Millar. All right, We don't lose this.
• 1:01:28
  This is as close as we're going to get.
• 1:01:31
  Don't don't go off the rails here.
• 1:01:33
  That's four. At least I'm counting.
• 1:01:37
  Don't lose this. Don't go off the rails here, you
• 1:01:40
  said. Jeter.
• 1:01:44
  Come on. OK, dude, come on.
• 1:01:46
  This is so easy. This is so easy.
• 1:01:48
  I thought about it for like 3 seconds.
• 1:01:50
  This is so easy. Come on.
• 1:01:53
  Think why? Why?
• 1:01:55
  What's the correlation there? Think what?
• 1:01:59
  So we said Kevin Millar. Yeah.
• 1:02:02
  And Derek Jeter. And Derek Jeter.
• 1:02:05
  Dude, come on, this is so easy. It is.
• 1:02:13
  It's it's right there. You're going to kick yourself.
• 1:02:18
  Think. OK, I'm going to I I think I got
• 1:02:21
  it. I think I got it, but I.
• 1:02:22
  I don't think you do. I don't think I do.
• 1:02:24
  Are you ready? Dude, it's I.
• 1:02:28
  Don't think I got it. I don't think I got it.
• 1:02:33
  This is the closest we're going to.
• 1:02:34
  Get. But it's going to get us.
• 1:02:35
  We're going to stay in that. We're going to stay in that.
• 1:02:37
  I know I'm not. Are we too wide here?
• 1:02:39
  Are we still at four or four? This is five.
• 1:02:42
  This is five. OK.
• 1:02:44
  Derek Jeter, Kevin Millar. Yeah.
• 1:02:46
  Ready. 321 Kevin Roberts. No.
• 1:02:54
  I I can see where you got, I see where you got that one of the.
• 1:02:57
  Most iconic plays in the rivalry.
• 1:03:00
  Direct correlation. Kevin Millar takes the walk,
• 1:03:04
  pinch run. Dave Roberts attempted tag
• 1:03:07
  attempt by Derek Jeter. Come on man.
• 1:03:10
  I see what you did there. I see what you did.
• 1:03:12
  So you have Dave Roberts and now we have Kevin.
• 1:03:16
  Douglas sick. We lost it.
• 1:03:18
  That's five, boy. Unreal.
• 1:03:28
  You've lost me now. All right.
• 1:03:32
  I think I got it. No, you don't.
• 1:03:35
  OK. All right.
• 1:03:37
  Kevin Euclis and Dave Roberts. Yeah.
• 1:03:47
  OK, I'll throw. I'll throw a name out there.
• 1:03:49
  OK, I don't think I got it. All right, so we're at this is
• 1:03:51
  6/3 21 Pedro Martinez. OK.
• 1:04:01
  Oh, you don't. I got one right.
• 1:04:03
  You don't hate that. I got one, but this is a risk
• 1:04:06
  dude. This can really throw us off the
• 1:04:07
  rails here, but think Justin, Justin Turner and Pedro
• 1:04:13
  Martinez. What?
• 1:04:20
  I wish I could give a hint, but I can't.
• 1:04:26
  What? Yeah, I, I don't know.
• 1:04:28
  I don't know if I want to take that risk because if I take that
• 1:04:30
  leap, we're screwed. There's no connect.
• 1:04:32
  There's no coming. You have, that's a, it's a big
• 1:04:34
  leap. Well, it's a connection between
• 1:04:38
  the two, but it's it's if we miss it, there's no, you just
• 1:04:43
  can't come back from it. Justin Turner and Pedro.
• 1:04:47
  Yeah. There's a connection.
• 1:04:51
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:04:59
  Well, OK, here's the thing, we either like play it safe or I
• 1:05:03
  take this, well, it doesn't matter 'cause if you don't take
• 1:05:05
  the leap it it it's irrelevant. But we'll just have to try to
• 1:05:07
  fight back with four guesses or three guesses left after that,
• 1:05:13
  'cause this is going to be 7. Where are you going?
• 1:05:18
  Where are you going? Where are you going?
• 1:05:21
  Are you? Are you going to the Mets?
• 1:05:23
  Are you the one of the, you know, the Blue Jays?
• 1:05:31
  Pedro Martinez. No, I was.
• 1:05:33
  I was thinking like Vladdy. Montreal, you know what I mean?
• 1:05:36
  No. Oh yeah.
• 1:05:40
  Like Montreal, Toronto. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I see what
• 1:05:42
  you're saying. So we're at boy.
• 1:05:46
  That was number six, so we got four left.
• 1:05:50
  Justin Turner and Pedro Martinez.
• 1:05:52
  Pedro Martinez. And Justin Turner?
• 1:05:56
  OK, let's roll. No, you're not going to.
• 1:06:01
  OK, you want to do this? All right, we're going to do
• 1:06:04
  this. Just going to throw us off the
• 1:06:05
  rails. And then we'll have, like I
• 1:06:06
  said, we're going to have three guesses left, right on all
• 1:06:07
  right. So we've done 6.
• 1:06:09
  This is going to be 7, 321 remote Martinez, his literal
• 1:06:21
  dad, pitched for the Dodgers. Justin Turner is basically like.
• 1:06:25
  That's crazy. A Dodge legend, I know.
• 1:06:29
  That's why he said. It's a leap and we're not coming
• 1:06:31
  back from it if I take that leap, so I don't even know why I
• 1:06:34
  did that. Did the whole like Dominican DH
• 1:06:37
  Red Sox, That's where my dots were.
• 1:06:41
  Hey, fair logic, fair logic. But I also had a little bit of
• 1:06:44
  logic with mine too. I wasn't just taking a shot in
• 1:06:46
  the dark all. Right.
• 1:06:48
  Well, if if I hadn't already used if I hadn't already used
• 1:06:51
  Pedro like this is a this is the lock.
• 1:06:54
  But now I I got to figure out a way around the not being able to
• 1:06:58
  use the same name. All right.
• 1:07:01
  Caveat. All right, So we got we're,
• 1:07:03
  we're 7 deep, we got three left. We're basically on the Dodgers
• 1:07:07
  and a a Red Sock and ADH. Well, we can't.
• 1:07:16
  We can't pitch through. No, we can't run through our
• 1:07:18
  logic. This isn't how this works.
• 1:07:20
  You just have to think about it. Think about it.
• 1:07:23
  I've got. What did I say?
• 1:07:25
  I said Ramon Martinez and you said David Ortiz.
• 1:07:29
  We got 3 guesses left. No, you.
• 1:07:31
  No, you're not. I got it.
• 1:07:39
  All right. I got a name all.
• 1:07:41
  Right. Do you have a name?
• 1:07:47
  Oh, I could go a couple ways here, and I feel like you might
• 1:07:50
  actually have one of these names.
• 1:07:51
  OK, that's what I like. That's what I like.
• 1:07:57
  Which one should I go with? Which one should I go with?
• 1:07:59
  Yeah, I'm gonna go with this one.
• 1:08:00
  All right, We got 3 guesses left. 321 Steve Pierce.
• 1:08:11
  Oh, man, World Series MVP against the Dodgers, Steve
• 1:08:16
  Pierce. That's, I thought that's where
• 1:08:18
  you're going sort of like a power bat.
• 1:08:21
  I was thinking like the DH, the Dodgers don't have too many DHS
• 1:08:25
  that you can name, so that's why I was going there.
• 1:08:28
  OK, Yeah, OK, you said. Who'd you say?
• 1:08:33
  Steve Pierce and Albert Pools? OK.
• 1:08:35
  Oh my I. Mean two.
• 1:08:38
  You could be talking about two different guys.
• 1:08:41
  Yeah. Who got what?
• 1:08:43
  Two guesses left, two guesses left.
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  This. Is Oh my gosh.
• 1:08:47
  This is going to be just shot in the dark.
• 1:08:56
  All right, you know what, just throw a name out there, forget
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  the connection, and maybe we'll just take one stab at it for the
• 1:09:04
  for the we'll try to make one connection because.
• 1:09:06
  You're ditching. We're ditching all the work,
• 1:09:08
  huh? That's what you're saying.
• 1:09:10
  You want to try to make a connect, You want to try to draw
• 1:09:12
  a connection between Steve Pearson, Albert Pujols, Please
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  be my guest. You can think on it first.
• 1:09:23
  It's I have one. It's just it's, it's a pretty
• 1:09:26
  big leap. It's hard to get there.
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  It's real hard to get there, but.
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  OK, I'll throw out a name all. Right.
• 1:09:42
  All right, 321 David McGuire Oh, OK.
• 1:09:51
  All right, we got one chance to do this here.
• 1:09:54
  OK, we're talking. OK, OK.
• 1:09:58
  Can we do this? We're Oh, and one record.
• 1:10:00
  One Where'd you Where'd you go with the Mark McGuire thing?
• 1:10:05
  Well, I had literally just said like, you know, like Steve
• 1:10:08
  Pierce power bat and then. You had said that's why I I went
• 1:10:12
  like, give me the cardinal and then give me like an A World
• 1:10:15
  Series crazy performance like Steve Pierce.
• 1:10:18
  That's. Oh, OK.
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  Yeah. We've had more logic this time
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  around I think than last than last game.
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  I agree. We got one guest left.
• 1:10:26
  So I got David Freeze and you've got Mark McGuire.
• 1:10:30
  Mark McGuire. David Freeze.
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  David Freeze and Mark McGuire, I think I can get there.
• 1:10:38
  I think you can too. You've said that for the
• 1:10:41
  previous nine guesses, pretty much.
• 1:10:46
  Well, there's a big one that they have in common.
• 1:10:50
  All right, Well, don't be giving me hints here.
• 1:10:52
  This is our last guess here. All right, Steve Pierce?
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  No, no, no. Or David Freeze and Mark
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  McGuire. I think you can get here.
• 1:11:09
  Come on now. David, I'm going to, I feel like
• 1:11:16
  I'm going to kick myself for this one.
• 1:11:18
  David Freeze and Mark McGuire. Come on.
• 1:11:25
  Come on. What are we talking about here,
• 1:11:36
  dude? I don't, I don't know what
• 1:11:37
  connection you're drawing here. Where are you trying to get me
• 1:11:41
  to? David Freese and Mark McGuire,
• 1:11:51
  we've already mentioned a a couple Cardinals, David Freeze.
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  What do these guys have in common?
• 1:12:04
  David Freeze and Mark McGuire, obviously the team, but I'm
• 1:12:08
  thinking like. Just think, Just think.
• 1:12:11
  Just think. Oh, no, got it.
• 1:12:21
  I think you got it. I think you got it.
• 1:12:23
  You got it. You got it.
• 1:12:28
  Come on. This is our last guess.
• 1:12:30
  But didn't we say, hold on, I got to confirm something real
• 1:12:34
  quick. It's not cheating 'cause I don't
• 1:12:36
  even know what you're going to say.
• 1:12:39
  Didn't we say what? Nothing.
• 1:12:41
  Nothing. All right, I got a guy.
• 1:12:44
  OK. Oh oh, is this it?
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  Is this it? I think it is.
• 1:12:49
  I think it is I. Think No, we we say that every
• 1:12:51
  time. We never end up on the same
• 1:12:52
  thing. All right. 321 Scotty Larussa I
• 1:13:03
  thought Tony Larussa, that was the that was the better option,
• 1:13:06
  if we're being honest. I thought it was.
• 1:13:08
  It probably wasn't. That's that's.
• 1:13:09
  The Tiger I. Dropped the ball on the Dave
• 1:13:10
  Roberts one. That's this one's on me.
• 1:13:12
  Yeah, man, that, that's a big one.
• 1:13:15
  I I hate to say, but in the, in the, in the.
• 1:13:18
  Post game, you see what I'm doing.
• 1:13:20
  Like I'm almost like, yeah, I grab like the guy's team and
• 1:13:25
  then one guy's position and I kind of just find a name that
• 1:13:29
  maybe has something in a line with with each other.
• 1:13:34
  We'll get what I'm saying. That's my logic.
• 1:13:36
  We'll get better. But you, you got to take the
• 1:13:39
  take the faults on me. The Dave Robert saying, hey,
• 1:13:41
  we're Owen two now we're Owen. To hand up to hand up there.
• 1:13:45
  We got to right the ship next next episode.
• 1:13:48
  All right, last item before we get out of here.
• 1:13:52
  The Major League Baseball All Star Game finalists have been
• 1:13:57
  presented, if you will. The voting is now open.
• 1:14:02
  Not that we necessarily need to run through the ballot.
• 1:14:05
  Do you want to? Yeah, let's run through the
• 1:14:09
  ballot. Whatever, right?
• 1:14:10
  Whatever. Whatever, we're just talking
• 1:14:13
  ball, all right, looking at first base.
• 1:14:17
  Please hold. Speaking of which, Speaking of
• 1:14:19
  which, first base for the National League, Bryce Harper as
• 1:14:23
  the top vote getter in the National League with 3,277,920
• 1:14:29
  votes and then then the American League, the top vote getter and
• 1:14:34
  I think top vote receiver altogether, Aaron Judge, three
• 1:14:39
  3,425,309 votes. So we are now at the final
• 1:14:45
  stage. And as a reminder, the so
• 1:14:51
  you're, you're basically picking who starts for these positions.
• 1:14:53
  The pitchers and reserves, however, will be determined
• 1:14:57
  through quote a combination of player ballot choices and
• 1:15:00
  selections made by the Commissioner's Office.
• 1:15:02
  So that's what we're working with.
• 1:15:05
  OK, rapid fire this puppy. Rapid fire first base for the
• 1:15:09
  American League, a name we've already mentioned.
• 1:15:13
  We're going Vlady. Give me Vlad.
• 1:15:16
  It's really righted the ship. I will say second base American
• 1:15:21
  League, as we mentioned, Harper's already in a first, so
• 1:15:23
  that's covered. American League second baseman
• 1:15:27
  Feel like you got to go tubes? I mean, I think it like he
• 1:15:32
  missed a lot of time. So for him to have these
• 1:15:34
  numbers, some of them are inflated.
• 1:15:36
  Like I feel like the average and the OPS are inflated.
• 1:15:38
  But the fact that he's still got 13 Jacks and Marcus Semi's
• 1:15:41
  played, Marcus Semi's played all year.
• 1:15:44
  Like give me give me out today. Has he?
• 1:15:48
  Yeah, Semi doesn't miss games. OK, must be thinking.
• 1:15:53
  Seger did. Seger missed some time, but I
• 1:15:56
  don't think I don't think Simeon did again, that's.
• 1:15:58
  Mixed up second base for the National League.
• 1:16:03
  I'm going Katel. Bro, I'm, I'm going Katel Marte,
• 1:16:05
  yeah. Like I think if Mariah was
• 1:16:07
  hitting like 3:30 or above, that would be a pretty big gap.
• 1:16:10
  But 314, it's like, that's great, don't get me wrong, but.
• 1:16:16
  Yeah, 314 does. Martes, have a beer.
• 1:16:19
  It really is. You remember when we did the
• 1:16:22
  real quick? Remember when we did?
• 1:16:23
  We used to do player position like rankings before our hot
• 1:16:28
  takes an episode drop every year and we put those posts out and
• 1:16:31
  then like so many people. So we just got tired of doing
• 1:16:34
  it. This is we had Katell Marte.
• 1:16:36
  Yeah, dude. Whenever I think about those
• 1:16:38
  rankings we did this is the guy I think of every time I'm like
• 1:16:42
  every time we just knew like we the numbers were there like
• 1:16:46
  yeah, it I think it was just because at the time he's playing
• 1:16:49
  for the D backs and this was obviously pre World Series
• 1:16:51
  appearance for the D backs and just wasn't getting the right
• 1:16:54
  respect. I'm and I think he's getting he
• 1:16:55
  had. Like a little weird stint in
• 1:16:57
  center field for a SEC and then they were like, oh, we don't
• 1:17:00
  know what to do with you kind of thing.
• 1:17:02
  And then he came back to second base and ever since he's been
• 1:17:04
  back, he's like been a stud and everyone was hating on us for
• 1:17:08
  that. But lighting it up, yeah, I
• 1:17:10
  should I should pull that back up.
• 1:17:12
  I should run through some old comments.
• 1:17:15
  Third base for the AL 76 RB is that's that's crazy.
• 1:17:24
  I did I I did not realize he had that many RB is that's insane.
• 1:17:28
  Dude, 76 and it's not even July. Yeah, depend upon when you're
• 1:17:33
  listening to this. It might be, but.
• 1:17:34
  Shout out Jordan Westberg though, like that.
• 1:17:40
  That deserves some love. Like you're you're doing some
• 1:17:43
  stuff that's not just fandom. Like, I'm impressed.
• 1:17:46
  And that's not an easy that's that's a tall order for Jordan
• 1:17:50
  Westberg to come into the mix with some of these other young.
• 1:17:54
  The whole team is basically young stars, but like kind of
• 1:17:57
  like the. I like him a lot.
• 1:17:59
  He's got like a no nonsense the way he plays.
• 1:18:04
  I like him a lot. Big fan, just seems like a
• 1:18:06
  gamer. Giving the nod to J Ram, third
• 1:18:09
  base for the National League. I'm going.
• 1:18:12
  Alex Bom, having a heck of a year shortstop.
• 1:18:15
  Oh, for the American League, I hate it.
• 1:18:18
  But I got to go. I got to go.
• 1:18:21
  Like these last like few weeks. The stretch has been absurd for
• 1:18:25
  Gunnar. So I mean, ain't no schlub, you
• 1:18:31
  know. What if What if Gunner just hit
• 1:18:34
  50 jacks at one point in his career?
• 1:18:38
  I think he will this year. You think he'll do it?
• 1:18:41
  I think he'll do this year. That's crazy dude.
• 1:18:44
  He's got, I mean, he's at 26, but.
• 1:18:46
  I think he will. We already passed.
• 1:18:48
  It wasn't. We just hit the midway point
• 1:18:50
  like recently, right? Or like, I think we're there
• 1:18:52
  right now, right? Yeah.
• 1:18:56
  No, the Mets. Mets are 40 and 41.
• 1:18:58
  I mentioned it earlier in the episode.
• 1:18:59
  So we're like, right there. Yeah.
• 1:19:02
  Yeah. So who knows, man, Maybe he'll
• 1:19:05
  do it. Yeah.
• 1:19:07
  National League. Well, this is depressing.
• 1:19:12
  This is depressing. This is what?
• 1:19:14
  Why is Trey Turner a finalist? I'm not, I'm not here to
• 1:19:19
  dispute. I mean, we could talk snubs and
• 1:19:21
  guys that are on here that shouldn't be on here all day.
• 1:19:23
  But I mean, the honor itself. Well, yeah, true.
• 1:19:32
  I was sorry. I wasn't even thinking about
• 1:19:34
  that. I was thinking about the fact
• 1:19:35
  that Mookie's out for the entire month of July, so.
• 1:19:38
  No, I was thinking Trey. I was thinking Trey missing a
• 1:19:40
  ton of time. Oh.
• 1:19:41
  Sure, sure, sure. Yeah, I don't know Willie
• 1:19:44
  Adamas. I don't know Tovar out in
• 1:19:47
  Colorado like. OK, well, look at the rest.
• 1:19:50
  Look at the rest of the ballot and you tell me Alec Boehm's on
• 1:19:52
  there. Trey Turner, JT Guru, MUTO, Nick
• 1:19:54
  Castianos, Kyle Schwarber, Brandon Marsh.
• 1:19:57
  Yeah, yeah. So that's more of a Philly
• 1:20:00
  fandom thing. Yeah, but I just think there's
• 1:20:03
  some some deserving names that should be up there.
• 1:20:06
  That's a that's a snub spot for me.
• 1:20:08
  But yeah, Mookie, because of the honors, you earned it.
• 1:20:12
  Yep, Yep. I agree, Catcher for the AO.
• 1:20:16
  This is tough. That is tough man.
• 1:20:19
  Those are. I'm going South, Perez, because
• 1:20:21
  Adly's going to have plenty more time.
• 1:20:23
  No, I'm not, I'm not. I'm not just giving it to him
• 1:20:27
  'cause he's old man Sally. Sally.
• 1:20:31
  No, because, because no Sal. Sal's had his, had his run.
• 1:20:36
  He's given, he's been giving his flowers time and time again.
• 1:20:39
  Adly's a kind of a guy. Adly's a kind of guy that by the
• 1:20:43
  end of his career, Well, then again, it doesn't All Star
• 1:20:46
  appearances don't even matter anymore with the way the voting
• 1:20:48
  works. But I want Adly to be a guy
• 1:20:50
  that, like you, look back on his career and go Adly Richmond had
• 1:20:53
  47 All Star appearances. We got to, we got to start now.
• 1:20:58
  We'll. See him again next year.
• 1:20:59
  Keep it going. Just see him again next year.
• 1:21:02
  There's no other AL catcher that's ever going to get the
• 1:21:04
  voting that Adly's going to get for the rest of his.
• 1:21:06
  That's fine, but if you're going based off the numbers that are
• 1:21:09
  right here in front of our face, he literally is better in every
• 1:21:12
  category. Better average or higher
• 1:21:15
  average, more home runs, more RB is and a higher OPS.
• 1:21:18
  So I other than the fact that you have a higher.
• 1:21:21
  OPS I have a higher OPS for sale so it's 824 to 821.
• 1:21:26
  Oh, it must have not updated after tonight's game because
• 1:21:28
  it's showing me 828 for Adley. I I don't care.
• 1:21:32
  I'm going to Adley. I'm I'm not falling for that.
• 1:21:35
  Nationally, Catcher William Contreras JT Romuto JT Missed
• 1:21:42
  some time, Is missing some time What's?
• 1:21:44
  What's his deal again? He's out.
• 1:21:46
  He's got the surgery, didn't he? Oh.
• 1:21:51
  Was there a surgery involved? Did he?
• 1:21:54
  I thought he. Missed it dude.
• 1:21:57
  There's been so many injuries. I know I can't keep him straight
• 1:22:00
  anymore. I'm going William anyway.
• 1:22:05
  Oh, yeah, it was. That's what it was.
• 1:22:07
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right.
• 1:22:08
  He being higher and everything else.
• 1:22:10
  I think it was right knee surgery.
• 1:22:15
  William, this isn't rapid fire. Now you're the one like, hey,
• 1:22:22
  Sal Perez, 'cause he's old and we need to show him his respect.
• 1:22:27
  That's a gut feel. That's a rapid.
• 1:22:29
  That's a. Rapid fire pick feel, make the
• 1:22:31
  pick and go all right, American League outfield, we got Judge.
• 1:22:35
  Judge is already in. I mean, well, we're going to put
• 1:22:42
  Soto in there. Give me Quan I want Quan I.
• 1:22:50
  Mean. I want Quan.
• 1:22:52
  I think Tucker's just cooled way down.
• 1:22:55
  He has, I don't. Know if he's I think it's been a
• 1:22:58
  few weeks since he's hit a home run.
• 1:23:01
  I don't know if it's been that long.
• 1:23:02
  It's been a while. I remember he was at 19 and I
• 1:23:07
  think Judge was at like 21 at one point.
• 1:23:10
  It I think it's been a while for that's fair old Tuck.
• 1:23:15
  But Quan's give me time, but he's give me 368.
• 1:23:18
  Yeah, give me Quan like that's that's I'm not always going to
• 1:23:23
  make my picks base off a guy's average, but that's so insane
• 1:23:27
  that it's. Here's a better part, here's a
• 1:23:29
  better part of the argument, because if you go back to Luis
• 1:23:31
  Sorais, we're going average only he's had a 738 OPS at the
• 1:23:36
  moment. Quan's it in 961 or OPS 961?
• 1:23:41
  Quan rocking that kind of OPS deserves mad respect.
• 1:23:45
  I don't even know if he's eligible for the batting title
• 1:23:47
  right now, though. That's the thing we talked about
• 1:23:50
  this last. I doubt it.
• 1:23:51
  Yeah, I doubt it, but still. But whatever, we're here.
• 1:23:54
  But we talked about it. It's not just the average with
• 1:23:56
  him. He he's, he's changed his
• 1:23:58
  approach. You went in, you went into depth
• 1:24:00
  a little bit about it. He's yeah, he's the popular
• 1:24:05
  numbers that don't make any sense.
• 1:24:08
  He's doing some stupid stuff and he never.
• 1:24:10
  Shuts out NL outfield. Changing the game.
• 1:24:14
  Nick Castiano talking about guys that shouldn't be on here.
• 1:24:15
  Nick Castianos is supporting an OPS of 675.
• 1:24:20
  Don't know what we're doing there.
• 1:24:21
  I'm putting Profar on there. Give me.
• 1:24:24
  I want Profar, I want Tatis and I want it's between Tay, Oscar
• 1:24:32
  and Yelich for me. Yeah, but Tay Oscar's like he's
• 1:24:35
  got the pop, but the he's. Got that line up too.
• 1:24:37
  He's got that line up. Give me Yelich.
• 1:24:39
  I don't even know if Yelich has played that much.
• 1:24:43
  Has he been kind of the whole time?
• 1:24:48
  What else are you looking at? That NL outfield is just not,
• 1:24:51
  it's not for me. I mean Profar is having having a
• 1:24:54
  a story storybook year for for himself, but comparatively the
• 1:24:59
  outfield is. Sheets.
• 1:25:00
  Compared to the AL. And we're done.
• 1:25:02
  DHS are over. DHS are over.
• 1:25:05
  We're going. You're Don and Shohei.
• 1:25:09
  Show he review. Pics I'm not a robot.
• 1:25:14
  Check the box, submit your vote. I got to enter my name and.
• 1:25:17
  Post it, Could you save all this stuff?
• 1:25:19
  I'm going to do that later. Get the auto fill.
• 1:25:22
  I won't come back to this SO doing her right now.
• 1:25:27
  All right, that'll do it. Appreciate y'all for tuning in
• 1:25:30
  if you're on live. Appreciate you listening if
• 1:25:33
  you're just maybe a day late catching up.
• 1:25:36
  We appreciate you all nonetheless.
• 1:25:38
  As a reminder, TuneIn makes make plans to hang out with with
• 1:25:43
  yours truly, Kyle and Nate night of the Home Run Derby.
• 1:25:47
  We'll be doing a live stream Monday, July 15th at 8:00 PM
• 1:25:52
  We're going to be hanging out. We're going to be talking ball.
• 1:25:55
  We're going to be chatting up with you all in the chat.
• 1:25:57
  We're going to be doing giveaways.
• 1:25:58
  We're going to be giving away maybe some cash, maybe some
• 1:26:01
  merch, All Star merch I'm. Going to have some whiskey.
• 1:26:04
  I'm going to have some whiskey. That's what I'm going to do.
• 1:26:06
  Sip on a little whiskey if you if you're that kind of guy.
• 1:26:10
  BYOB, whatever. It's going to be a good time.
• 1:26:13
  We're going to be watching some mammos.
• 1:26:16
  Yeah, yeah. Just hang out, baseball fans
• 1:26:19
  hanging out with baseball fans. Make plans to be there.
• 1:26:22
  That's all I got. Fun fact, did you know that
• 1:26:26
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• 1:26:31
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• 1:26:33
  You all and is always looking forward to talking more baseball
• 1:26:35
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