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MLB All-Star Rosters Finalized · The 3-0 Take

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10 gentlemen, welcome to the Three O Take, where we talk all
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things Major League Baseball. Here's Kyle Corwin and Nate
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Reyes. It all starts right now.
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Welcome back to the Three O Take presented by Chinook Cedary.
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This is episode 550. Whoa.
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Hello. I'll be your host, Kyle Corn.
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I'm here with my Co host Nate Reyes.
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Nate. Casey, how are we and how are we
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to the people that have their notifications on?
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I see you, we see you. We see who gets in here.
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We see, we see. When the bells turned on,
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they're in here right away. The real ones.
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Yeah, I acknowledge you. I appreciate you.
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Normally that's where I would say no disrespect, but kind of
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disrespect to the people that aren't if you don't.
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If you don't have the notice on. I don't know what I mean.
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What are we doing, Nate? I witnessed a couple we were
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sort of talking about before we hopped on.
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I witnessed a couple big milestones this weekend over at
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the Nats Park, soon to be named something else.
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The Nats are starting to sell out.
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Do you see? They added an AARP sponsor patch
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to their jerseys? They're like, come on, what are
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we doing there? AARP.
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Is that the is that the best we can do anyway?
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Not important. I I catch 2 games this weekend.
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Sox, Nats what's today? Sunday, Saturday.
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First game I catch. Turns out that was the Red Sox
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10 thousandth franchise win. That's pretty cool.
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That's a pretty cool thing to to be at.
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I I, I saw the tweet after the fact.
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I'm like, you know, that's pretty, I can, you know, that's
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pretty cool. I don't know what I'm going to
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do with that information. It's kind of useless trivia, but
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something that I can, you know, I can, I can look at point to.
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And then today socks finish off the sweep.
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Get home. Davy Martinez.
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Mike Rizzo. See you later gone.
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Thanks for your service. Couple crazy days at Nats Park
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this weekend. By the way, added sort of a side
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note here. Added two more souvenir cups to
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Dude. You got to relax.
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What is what is putting her foot down at this point?
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It's got to be getting close. I.
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You tell me like, how do, how, where, where do you draw the
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line? How do you stop like because you
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can't? You're far past the line.
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You can't go to baseball games and pay like $8 for a paper like
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cup that you can't get refilled. So naturally you're going to
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have to get the souvenir because you can go back to the multiple
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times throughout the game, get the refill.
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So if you do that every time you go to a game, what do you do
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out? You start throwing them away.
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I think that's what I have to do.
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I counted them yesterday. I think I have like 35 now, 35
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and we just, we just gave a whole bunch away or like gave
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them to like goodwill or something.
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No, you can't do that. I mean, you, I think you just
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got to get because at this point you just got to get creative and
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like make something out of it. I don't know what you're going
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to have to make something out of it.
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It has to be create. I don't know.
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It's got to be some type of decor.
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It's got to be something you got to, you got to get the wheel
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spinning in that area because. Like a beer can pyramid, but
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with souvenir cups. That's as good as I.
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Don't know like. Creative as it gets.
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Make like a like AI don't know it's it's got to be something
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maybe like a like a raft, you know, Yeah.
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For when? For when I have to go rafting in
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an emergency. A little flooding in that area.
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I don't know man. I'll get started it.
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It feels weird to give it away. It feels weird to just be like
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see ya I remember when I bought you 14 years ago.
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Well, that's the thing. I'm going to have to start
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cycling out some of the old ones because I mean, I this is, it's
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getting out of control. Like we we have, we're running
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out of space in our pantry. And I yeah, it's all, it's all
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souvenir cups. Not till I go too far off.
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Off the subject. I told you the the shot glass
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conundrum that I found myself in when I moved in with Paige or
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like my entire family, anywhere anyone travelled, they got me a
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shot. I don't.
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I didn't. I rarely drink.
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I definitely don't do shots, so I don't.
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Know I'm like I'm over 30. I got to dial it back a little.
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Bit bro, like that's nuts. But every, every time somebody
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went somewhere, I had shots from Italy, from Costa Rica.
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I've never been in these places, but I have shot glasses from
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them. And then when I moved in, Paige
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is like, we're going to have to dial it back.
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We're going to have to, we're going to have to really narrow
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this down. Now I have like 5.
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Good. Smart.
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I was up over 150, so and try. You can't stack those, not
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really, when they're all shaped and they're like 1's, like a
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little Mason jar and one's like a little mug.
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It's a lot of glass, a lot of glass.
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So at least yours are stackable and I don't know man, you should
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just start eating like all of your meals out of them too.
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Not just drinks, eat meals out of them.
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Cereal little little for those of you those those of you fan
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baseball fans out there that have a have a handful of
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souvenir cups looking to repurpose them eat your cereal
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out of them. I don't eat cereal anymore but.
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It's but when you do. It's a good experience.
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When you do it, when you do eat cereal over the age of 30
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without kids, it hits. It hits.
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The milk just wrecks me, man. I can't do it anymore.
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Anyway, Speaking of milk, let's talk about the All Star rosters.
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All Star rosters were finalized today.
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You had the reserves and the arms announced today, Sunday,
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approximately 5:30 PM Eastern. We got to talk about some
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things, Nate. We got to talk about some
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things. And you know, I, I feel like I
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say this every year, but I really just need to stop looking
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at this through the lens of like, Oh my gosh, we got to get
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rid of the All Star voting. Like I, I, we got to stop and
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just view this As for like, for what it is and just acknowledge
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that it's a flawed system and we just got to talk about it as
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such like we could because clearly Major League Baseball is
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not going to get rid of fan voting.
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There's way too much to be gained as a, as a business from
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that perspective. So I get that.
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And I don't seriously think that that's even a consideration.
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So whenever I'm like Ben fan voting and I say that knowing
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that it's never going to happen. However, when we're talking
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about like managerial selections, player ballot
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selection selections made by the Commissioner's Office, we're
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that's a different realm that we're dealing with here.
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This wasn't this wasn't fan voted, right?
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And there's some pretty glaring omissions and some pretty some
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pretty interesting additions to the roster that I think we need
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to talk about first of which, you know, right off the bat, I
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think we need to talk about Juan Soto.
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Juan Soto not being in the All Star game.
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Crazy, crazy. And then in the chat, we got to
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get, we got to get to the Legends.
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We got to get to the legends thing, which you might be
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pleasantly surprised. I mean, it's not new, but you
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might be surprised with the way that we, we feel about it or the
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least the way I feel about it. I won't speak for you, but you
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know, I, I have, I have my own thoughts about it, but Juan Soto
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not being in the All Star game, the first All Star game posts $6
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trillion contract. Is it, What are your thoughts
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here? Is this telling?
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Like is this, is this an indication of something bigger?
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I'm, I mean, I'm not going to, I'm not going to tiptoe in a
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conspiracy theory territory here.
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But like there, there were some. He wasn't the only noteworthy
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guy left off, but this is one of the we'll just call it the more
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expensive ones. Yeah, I you can't put any weight
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in the not doing as well as as he did last year because he's
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officially gotten back to what pacing he was on last year.
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Like at this time last year, the numbers are pretty similar even
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after the slower start. So we can't put any any weight
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in that argument. Let me just.
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Jump in real quick. 26321 jacks. This is what ESPN is telling me.
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51 ribbies a nine O 9 O 4 OPSI. Think it's right there to last
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year, right? Close.
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Yeah, I mean comparable the the. Average is lower.
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Yeah, yeah, the I'm trying to see here.
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Like power is pretty much the same.
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Yeah, like Kyle Stowers. What?
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I mean, what do we I I must admit I'm not I'm not terribly
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familiar with with what his numbers look like at the moment.
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So let's just do a little compare and contrast here.
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Hitting 28016 jacks, 46 ribbies, 866 OPS.
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So. Disrespect bro.
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No, but like. Better that's I mean, that's not
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All Star stuff. I don't know.
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He's the villain. This is what I said.
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This is what I like. He needs to be it.
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He is. He is today's a rod.
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That's what it genuinely starts is starting to feel like because
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the the smiling, the goofing around, the the laughing and
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pointing. Have you noticed that, like,
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whenever he's doing this during games, you never like the camera
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never shows whoever he's supposedly talking to or or
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goofing with, like, it's never somebody be like, you know, like
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no one's no one's messing with him.
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He's just got he's just got a smile on.
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And it's now turned from like your boyish charm.
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You play this game in a fun way into like, you're like this
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weird cocky, no one really seems to get along with you kind of
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guy. So yeah, I don't know.
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I'm cool with it. I don't.
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I don't really care. It's hard for me to care about
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this, the All Star roster in general.
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No, like, I get it. And at the end of the day, the
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National League should still wipe the floor with the American
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League. That's not that's that's not my
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concern. It's not like a it's not like a
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competitive integrity thing. It's more of just like what this
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game is, what this is supposed to be like, there needs to be
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like this would never happen. Hear me out though, there needs
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to be like an equation crafted that's a it's a it's a hybrid.
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It it's a an inclusion of various multiple factors like
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have have like a graded scale of like specific to this.
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This isn't relevant to anything else in baseball.
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It's just All Star stuff because again, this game has no real
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meaning at the end of the day anyway.
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Make a make an equation that didn't that that involves A
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graded scale of like how a guy ranks like like like include
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social media followers grade the guy on drip grade the guy on any
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any variety of factors. So that and obviously have some
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like statistical inclusion in there as well.
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But like we just got done. We just got done talking last
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episode about how like, yeah, Bobby Witt may be the All Star
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or, or like the the surefire shortstop in the American League
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for the next 5 years. But right now he's just he's
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he's not the no disrespect to our guy Bobby, friend of the
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pod, Love Bobby, love Bobby. But like the All Star game
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should go to the guy that deserves it.
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Jacob Wilson in this instance was was the the rightful
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recipient of that nod. But like you're also doing
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yourself a disservice as a league if you say what you will
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about Juan Soto, if you don't have Juan Soto in the All Star
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game. And I know that you're people
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are probably listening to that going well, you can't have both.
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You can't have the rightful recipients, but then also just
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push in a guy like Juan Soto, regardless of how he's doing.
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But it's like, can we can we have a middle ground because
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we're we're losing out on every year that a guy like Juan Soto
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is not at the All Star game is 1 less opportunity that you're
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going to have to have a guy like Juan Soto at the All Star game,
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regardless how he's doing. So like have some sort of
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equation, some sort of like, I don't know, that takes into
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account his, his impact, like his social media reach or, you
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know, like I mentioned followers, things like that,
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that like gets guys like this to the game.
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I, I know it, it, it may not make sense to you and, and
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people probably disagree with me, but in my head, I'm just
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like, there's got to be, there's got to be a middle ground here.
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And if that means, if that means decreasing the, the value of the
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player vote or, excuse me, the, the fan vote, then so be it.
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But you can't not have Juan Soto at the ultimate showcase of the
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sport. Yeah, I mean, I, I like what
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you're saying. I, I think it'd be kind of cool
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if there was like like an equation to get to some type of
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rating, right? Like if you did have DRIP, if
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you did have number of jerseys sold, if you had number of
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followers on social media, like if all of this made some type of
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equation, I don't know what that I'm not saying necessarily a
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starting role or on the team there, whatever it is.
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I I think that'd be kind of fun. You kind of start to see that as
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far as popularity goes with like MLB The Show, you know, like you
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see these kids that are treating their diamond Dinos.
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And I say kids because I hope it's mostly kids, grown men that
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are spending too much time on that.
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Or real money. Yeah, no.
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Disrespect. But you know what I'm saying?
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Like I, I think there's, there's a fun way of going about it.
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And if I think our argument, and I'm correct me if I'm wrong, you
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probably agree here. If we're going to make this game
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meaningless, let's just go all the way with it and let's truly
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make it meaningless. And let's get into all the other
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fun aspects of what we could do with this thing.
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Because at this point, we're we're sitting somewhere in
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between in this limbo of like, it's a popularity contest.
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The game no longer means anything.
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And then we're upset with like certain reserves getting picked
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because of who the managers happen to be, right?
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Like we're in this weird spot where if it's going to be fan
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vote, like let's divulge and, and put in other parts to make
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that fan vote part of it. And I think stats have to be
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obviously a part of that equation, But let's introduce
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some other things and let's make it fun.
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I mean, I've been in the camp that like I, I, I miss the, the
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fun stuff that I've seen in, in past All Star games and, and All
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Star breaks where you have the catcher throw downs to 2nd.
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I, I've seen we've been to tournaments when we were kids
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where, you know, it's like a pitch hit and run type situation
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where you know, it's, you put a trash can at home and you have
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the guy or you put a ball on a tee and they all the group is in
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right field. It's like who can knock the ball
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off the tee? Like, like if we're going to
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turn this into what it is, like, let's find this sweet spot of
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OK, let's give these guys enough rest, let's go play this game
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because the All Star game has to be the All Star game.
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But let's bring in some other aspects to it because if it's
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all meaningless, let's make it all meaningless.
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Does that make sense? Am I going crazy?
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Maybe. Probably.
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No, I think it's, I think you're just taking a different angle to
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the point that I'm I'm also making.
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So I think we're sort of on the same page.
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They're like just you have to figure out a different way to go
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about the selection process because it's just this is crazy.
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And like some of these other names.
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And again, we're we're not this isn't even about a conversation
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of like who's starting anymore. Like this is just who made the
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the the roster. Like these are we're just
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talking reserves. The fact that Julio Rodriguez is
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going to the All Star game, 9 out of 10 Mariners fans would
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tell you wrong choice. Yeah.
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Wrong choice. And this isn't an instance of
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him being the lone representative because I think I
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saw Brian Wu, Cal Raleigh, obviously, and maybe one other.
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Am I missing somebody? Oh, Munoz, I think got the nod
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too. Yeah.
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That's fair. Get a lot of.
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Saves. So like this isn't a thing where
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we just got. We need a star like to send and
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I I get it. This is another instance of
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being like, well, you said you want guys like Soto at the game
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and now you're saying why is Julio Rodriguez?
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And I'll be honest with you, I don't think I don't think Julio
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Rodriguez qualifies as as one of those guys that should just like
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be at the. Event he's not.
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Look at his career. He just hasn't.
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He, he hasn't earned that. I'll say it.
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He's one of the most overrated players in baseball.
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How's that? I'll just put my foot down and
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say it. We're dancing around that.
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That's what it is. He's one of the most overrated
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players. Just fired you said it I'll.
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Stand on it. Saya Suzuki another another guy.
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I think I saw Leeds as of today, you know, end of day Sunday,
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Leeds, all of baseball and and RB is which you know.
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That that doesn't mean you should be an All Star every
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year, but I mean there's numbers otherwise.
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Very, very good, very deserving of an All Star nod.
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He's hitting 26124 jacks. 7575 RB is by it's July 6th.
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That's a lot. And an 870 OPS snub.
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George Springer, I think that was the name where people are
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wondering how is George Springer not in over a guy like Julio
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Rodriguez? Valid question.
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Rangers on the bump. Ranger Suarez, Andrew Abbott.
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Andrew Abbott's having a great year.
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Ranger Suarez is having a fantastic year.
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Nothing, nothing at which bring. Which then brings me to the
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legends vote. Clayton Kershaw with the nod
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from the Commissioner's Office. Yeah.
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Trey Turner. Trey going back to going back to
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the chat. Trey Turner missing the missing
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the, the selection. Clayton Kershaw getting the nod
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from the Commissioner's Office as part of the the legends
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committee. Look, I, I don't know, isn't it?
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No, I mean it goes back a few years because pool holes
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received the selection and then Miggy got it as well and then
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there may have been another one. Is this just one guy or is it
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one per league? You know, that's a good point or
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that's a good question. I think it's, it's probably just
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like whoever sort of qualifies, I think you can kind of look at
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the league and like, does this, does this qualify as a, as a
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realistic option for this honor? I can't really think of like an
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AL guy that. Yeah, Kershaw is, especially
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with which we didn't, I don't even think we had a chance to
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really talk about that because it happened shortly after we
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recorded. But you know, having just
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recorded as 300 or 3000 strikeout, you know that the
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timing couldn't have been better for that.
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But people are upset that it's taking a spot on the roster,
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which I can understand it's. I don't know what this means
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anymore like I is it appearance? Is it start?
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Is it like it just it doesn't mean anything anymore and I
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guess that's fine. I I think it is weird.
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Like looking back, I feel like it's weird that the game decided
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home field advantage for the World Series.
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It's kind of crazy to me that that was like decided by this.
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But I don't think it should. It's got to mean something.
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I don't know what it should mean, but it should mean
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something. And then like, if you get a
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legend in this, are are you going to force him into the game
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because of this? Does he just get a longer like
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standing ovation in an announcement And, and that's his
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acknowledgement, which is also, I think sufficient in this case.
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Like I I don't know what to say about this anymore.
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I mean, there's, I don't know, I really don't know.
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There's no real instance where a guy is going to get get selected
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as a legend. And also, I mean, trying to
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tread lightly here and like, presumably if you're a if you're
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a legend selection, you're at the you're at the very back end
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of your career, which tells me that like the chances of you
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making like a real impactful or like a real impact in the game
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you. Wouldn't have needed the legend
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pick to get in if you were lighting it up.
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Correct, correct, correct. And so I'm to your point, have
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them just be like an honorary member, have them take the, you
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know, take the red carpet out to the line pregame, give him the
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get in the give him the stand of ovation, run the resume up on
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the Jumbotron. Like the booth during the game
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to like you could do a bunch of stuff like this.
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Full uni, no uni, you know, you know floaty wings.
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I don't care. Put put a put put them in Crocs.
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Let them get an AB. Put full, put put a full
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pajamas, I don't care, but like don't have him take a take a
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spot on roster. Have have Ranger Suarez, have
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Andrew Abbott be the guy that fills that saw on the roster.
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I don't know. I'm I'm sick.
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I'm sick of complaining about things like this, but it's like
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it's so these things just shouldn't have to be talked
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about because it shouldn't happen.
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Like whatever happens, like you, you shouldn't have Clayton
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Kershaw taking up a roster spot. Should Clayton Kershaw, you
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know, be a recipient of this honor?
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Sure. Who like who else would you give
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it to anyway? But good, Come on, man.
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If it's costing a guy like like I mentioned, Abbott, Suarez,
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somebody like that, if it's costing them a chance to be an
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All Star at an earlier stage in their career comparatively to
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Kershaw, then like what are we doing?
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I don't. It's getting.
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We are. We're just a couple captains
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picks away from fully going NBA with this thing and it sucks and
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I don't know how to salvage it. I mean, but, but I mean you're
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more, you're not like a super in depth NBA guy, but you're more
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in tune with it than I am. Like with the captain's picks,
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don't they tend to get it more right than the fans?
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Like than the fans would otherwise?
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I think they still have their own pool.
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It's a voting thing of like who the top vote getters are.
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And then they become, whether they're in the same league or
26:13
not, they become the captains. And it's no longer right East
26:19
versus West in the NBA. It's like Steph versus LeBron.
26:23
And I feel like we're not far off from that.
26:28
But then like, I guess there's like still a pool of the fan fan
26:33
voting of these players and then the captains get to pick from
26:37
that pool. I don't know how to fix this.
26:40
Like I said, I don't, I don't know if it needs fixing.
26:44
It just doesn't. It's it's hard to look at this
26:50
and get enjoyment out of it and it's hard to I don't know, it's
26:53
very strange. I do think you and I are going
26:56
to have a fun time. I think it's going to be neat to
27:00
walk around this ballpark and you're going to see so many
27:02
different jerseys and it's a full on experience.
27:08
And it's something that like I highly recommend any baseball
27:11
fan doing if you get to go to an All Star game, if you get to do
27:14
both and go to Home Run Derby, like it's a great experience.
27:20
I just don't know what it means anymore, if it means anything.
27:23
And what it sucks is that, like I, this can no longer ever be
27:26
brought up in conversations for Hall of Fame stuff.
27:31
Pudge in the chat wants to know, do All Star appearances have any
27:37
effect on Hall of Fame? Votes, I think there's a cut off
27:39
line, I think. Well, it, it contributes to the
27:42
narrative, Like if if you're, if you're ripping off, if you're
27:45
ripping off a guy's resume and you're, you're reeling off, you
27:49
know, 16 time All Star, then like, yeah, that's going to
27:53
sound better than a guy that, you know, maybe got snubbed and
27:57
was a 12 time All Star. I don't know.
28:01
It, it adds to the case, it adds to the narrative.
28:03
But it's it if, it's if, if the system is as flawed as it is,
28:09
then like this, this, we're just going to have to do away with
28:13
that. Because there's, that's what I'm
28:15
saying. It's not like I, I think before
28:17
2015, I don't even know if that's like the exact year to
28:21
say that it stopped meaning something.
28:24
But I don't know, man. I think they need to fix some
28:30
things. I think they need to adjust it.
28:36
Yeah, the in the chat do they do they get bonuses for being in
28:40
the All Star game like in like in their contract?
28:43
Yeah, I think they do. It's like a pool and I think the
28:45
winning team also gets like a larger portion of the pot or
28:50
something I there's. That sounds right.
28:52
It's more nuanced, I guess, but yeah, I mean there's.
28:55
There was also negotiated in individual contracts back in the
28:59
day, like that was a part of it. There were, there were bonuses.
29:03
There are bonuses that a lot of contracts have negotiated on of,
29:06
of games played or innings pitched or, you know, whatever
29:10
it may be. All Star appearance, MVP vote,
29:13
top 10, MVP, like all of those types of things are incentives
29:16
that are pushed into contracts. I don't know how much the All
29:20
Star game is now a part of that conversation.
29:23
It's back when it mattered. Yeah.
29:28
Yeah, what? Can you think of anything that
29:30
it should dictate that if it if it wasn't home field advantage
29:35
for a World Series? Like what?
29:37
We've had this conversation before and I feel like we are
29:40
right. We like we landed on something
29:43
not half bad, but I, I'm, I'm struggling to remember what that
29:46
was. I mean, yeah, I when it
29:49
determined the home field for the World Series, I just kind of
29:52
blindly accepted it because I mean, that's just kind of like
29:54
what I grew up into. And I was like, oh, that like
29:56
this is what it is. And then you start seeing other
29:58
sports lose, like have their All Star game lose meaning.
30:02
And I'm like, well, at least we have something.
30:04
And then that fell off for baseball.
30:07
And it was like the the winning side gets to gets to host.
30:11
So if it's the NL, the the next host is an NL team.
30:17
Well, logistically you, you have to plant like we already know
30:20
that it's going to be what, Philly next year.
30:24
Like logistically that it it'd be too fast, too quick of a turn
30:28
around. Why?
30:29
Well, you got a year. A lot.
30:32
That's a lot of planning. A lot of planning goes into that
30:37
dude. People will spend like almost a
30:39
full year planning a wedding and that's for like a couple 100
30:42
people, you think? For like.
30:44
Thousands. 10s of thousands. Name something better.
30:50
I know I'm not just I'm not saying it's like a bad
30:53
suggestion, I'm just saying logistically I don't think it
30:55
makes sense. Could.
30:58
Be the year after. You only have one year where
31:00
that's a hiccup, then the rest of it is like OK now we know
31:03
you're like lining it up for the next 1, you know what I mean?
31:05
Anyway, keep going. I mean, there's there's nothing
31:17
that I can think of that I could throw out there that wouldn't
31:24
have, I won't say the same, but like a similar impact is like
31:31
the whole World Series thing. Because anything other anything,
31:35
you get to a point, it's like, OK, well, this is so
31:37
insignificant. Why?
31:38
Why have this matter? Like why?
31:41
Why assign the outcome of the game to XY or Z?
31:45
So it's like if, if, if you're going to have the outcome mean
31:48
something, you're going to have to have it, you know, matter.
31:54
But I just don't think the World Series situation, I mean, maybe
31:58
that that might be too far, but it's like, is there something in
32:00
the middle there? I I don't know, it's hard to.
32:02
Say, would you drop it back to like, I know it's more of like a
32:06
standings thing like wild card host?
32:13
But that's see, that's what I'm saying like you're, you're kind
32:15
of getting to like a more impactful.
32:19
But maybe that's what we need. Maybe that's what we need to to
32:22
reel this game back in because the it's off the rails at this
32:27
point. The voting's off the rails, the
32:29
whole system's off the rails. And and if you're not going to
32:33
go full wack, do here and just say, hey, let's all do whatever
32:38
we want for this thing and make it fun.
32:41
We no, we like turn this into a wiffle ball tournament for all.
32:44
No, I'm sick of this. No.
32:46
Because we that's such and, and we've, I think we've even had
32:50
this conversation where we've thrown out that thing.
32:52
We're like skills competition you mentioned like the catcher
32:54
and the the ball and the team, all that stuff.
32:57
Like, it sounds good as an idea, but I think once you do that, it
33:01
becomes what the Pro Bowl has become to the OR what it became
33:05
to the NFL. I'm not saying instead of like,
33:09
I would almost get to the point where I'd I'd rather have, I'd
33:16
rather have the All Star game be true and be truly those guys
33:22
that got voted in. I think the voting needs to be
33:24
fixed and then you can have the skills competition before the
33:30
Home Run Derby and it's the rest of the guys, you know what I
33:37
mean? Like, what's that?
33:41
Have you seen the commercial in between these games where like
33:45
dude Perfect is messing around with some of these guys and
33:48
they'll do different challenges? Like how hard is it to do that?
33:51
Like how hard is it to to bring dude perfect in and be like, yo,
33:55
let's just create challenges. These kids would eat that up.
33:59
Kids look dude perfect. Great point.
34:01
You know what I mean? Like it's just, I don't know
34:04
I'm. Going to need you to stop saying
34:05
kids though dude. Like I get it.
34:07
You're big dude. Perfect guy.
34:09
No, but like we've already established that we're all,
34:13
we're on the other side of 30, but like we're, we're driving
34:16
this kids point home a little too hard, like.
34:18
We're not, well, that's a part. We're not 80.
34:21
No, it's, I mean, it's definitely a part of it.
34:22
Kids are an aspect to this game and it's like, I don't.
34:28
No, no, I'm not disagreeing with you.
34:30
I'm I'm saying more for us. Like you're making me feel old
34:32
by saying kids, kids, kids. Welcome.
34:35
I see the Gray in that beard. Stop.
34:38
We don't need that. We don't need to do that, Jacob
34:40
in the chat says All Stars versus Savannah bananas instead.
34:44
Now that I mean, hey, I. Don't hate it.
34:47
Savannah Bananas Looking for a way to get even more involved in
34:50
the MLB landscape. Who?
34:52
Who says no? Just a matter of time.
34:56
Mini games are awesome let's be real.
34:58
I I hey I agree but I just, I don't want to even think about
35:02
tiptoeing into the pro ball. Mini games would be sick.
35:07
Let's play 33 inning games bro. Bring out the the conveyor belt
35:16
ramps from MVP 2005. Let's get some tractors in the
35:20
outfields. Get that bulldozer out there in
35:22
right field and let's get. To work there's your there's
35:28
your All Star week. Anyway, we've we've gone on far
35:32
too long about why this game is slipping away.
35:38
I don't want to. I don't want to do that because
35:40
we're going to be there this weekend and I want to be able to
35:43
enjoy it. We will.
35:45
We will. I want, I want to enjoy it.
35:52
I want to enjoy it. You know who's not enjoying
35:58
things right now? Dave Martinez.
36:00
He was fired, as we mentioned, as well as GM Mike Rizzo,
36:03
Nationals said hit the road the following the sweep to the red
36:12
at the hands of the Red Sox, which as I mentioned, I was at
36:14
two of those three games. It was just a, it was a beat
36:18
down from start to finish. Game one on Friday, I think was
36:21
11 to 2. Game 2 on Saturday was 12 to
36:25
three. And then today I think was like
36:27
6, four or something. Just a terrible way to cap the
36:33
tenure there. I think for the Nationals,
36:38
though, for the organization and more importantly, most
36:41
importantly for the fan base, you know, it sucks.
36:47
I'd I was a fan of Davy Martinez.
36:49
I think he was a well, he seemed to be a player's manager, which
36:53
I'm always going to, I'm always going to pull for.
36:58
But I think this is finally an opportunity for Nationals fans
37:03
to shift focus to finally like move on.
37:10
I'm not saying forget about 2019, but like this is just a
37:15
simple way to sort of start chipping away at the wall that
37:19
you've built that is this 2019 like Mirage almost because it I
37:31
have never seen a fan base cling, cling to milk a title
37:39
like the nationals. It is crazy.
37:42
And look, no disrespect, but at some point you got to move on.
37:50
Like, I'm all for celebrating and everything, but like, my
37:54
goodness, you got to let it go. Like look forward to the next
38:01
one. It's almost as if nationalist
38:03
fans like, no, I, we don't want to win another one because of
38:07
how much we love talking about 2019.
38:10
That's a crazy place to be. While Soda has been on three
38:13
teams since then. That's what I'm saying.
38:16
He's going to be halfway around the league by the time they win
38:19
the next one. But it's like you hear you hear
38:22
guys all the time, like Kobe Brady probably said something to
38:28
this effect. But it's like, what's your
38:30
favorite title? And it's always what's the next
38:33
one that like at some point, they're going to have to adopt
38:37
that mindset in in Washington, especially with these young,
38:40
these young stars that you have. You can't keep holding on in
38:42
2019. And with the way that this
38:45
season's gone, this was a good time to do it.
38:48
You could make the argument Nationals fans, some might say
38:51
that this should have happened much earlier, but at the very
38:55
least, you know, you're pretty much at rock bottom.
38:57
You're literally at the bottom of the division, which is crazy
39:00
to me. People are saying like, you
39:03
know, like, well, aren't the Nationals?
39:06
Well, like, weren't the Nationals supposed to be bad?
39:07
And I'm like, yeah, but not this bad.
39:10
At the very least, you should never be at the literal bottom
39:13
of the National League East if you're the Nationals.
39:16
So, you know, hopefully this is a is conservatives somewhat of a
39:19
turning point. Give Give this team a chance to
39:23
figure out what their new identity is sans Davey Martinez,
39:28
and keep moving forward. I think they have some exciting
39:32
pieces to to start to build around.
39:35
And it makes you wonder a little bit about timing if, if maybe
39:39
there were some disagreements on how to approach this upcoming
39:43
deadline and how hard they need to be selling.
39:48
You know, if, if it's if it's me, I, I think James Wood and
39:55
Dylan Cruz are probably the only two untouchables.
39:58
I think everyone else needs to be up up for discussion, and
40:01
that includes CJ Abrams, who Kenzie.
40:03
Gore. I would include that as well.
40:07
I really would. I, I, I think all of it is, is
40:13
having to rebrand and and restructure this, this approach.
40:18
James Wood looks to be the real deal.
40:21
This kid is going to be absolutely shut up, Jacob.
40:25
We don't need to talk about the Braves.
40:28
James Wood is the is the truth, man.
40:29
That kid is going to be a freak. And Dylan Cruz, I mean,
40:34
obviously it's like too early to commit to, but you just drafted
40:37
him a second overall not long ago.
40:38
So that needs to be, you got to ride that out a little bit
40:41
longer. But yeah, man, I don't know what
40:46
the bitter discussions were. And maybe there were some
40:49
disagreements there. And I'm, I'm curious to see what
40:51
this changes with this upcoming deadline.
40:54
But I don't know how quickly you pivot.
41:00
I don't know where you pivot to. I was never a big Rizzo guy.
41:07
No. But it's always interesting when
41:13
the pairing gets moved, when the GM and the manager get get get
41:18
the axe in the same in the same transaction is always pretty
41:21
interesting because that's a full culture shift.
41:24
And then that's pretty much what you're throwing down.
41:27
But like you were saying, like they're, you were saying they're
41:29
about to sell the will they have their new, you know, warranty or
41:33
their warranty, their new sponsorship batch.
41:37
Maybe they're changing the name, like Nats Park is going to be
41:39
something else. I don't know, man.
41:42
It's, it's interesting where this organization is going to
41:45
go. Yeah.
41:49
And then I mean, going back to what I was saying earlier about,
41:52
you know, I thinking he was a player's manager and I feel like
41:55
up to this point he was. But then which we never we
41:57
didn't we didn't even really talk about this.
41:59
But he had those comments handful of days ago where he's
42:02
talking about like, you know, it's never on coaching.
42:04
And there may have been, there may have been some context
42:09
missing. I admittedly didn't read fully
42:12
into it. I got, I got the gist of it.
42:14
But there may have been an element to that conversation or
42:17
that, you know, Q&A that maybe would have provided a little bit
42:22
more clarity on it. But it just seemed like he was
42:28
kind of he was getting to a point where he was being
42:31
cornered, you know, back into the wall, the team starting to
42:35
suck. Well, I mean, they sort of been
42:36
sucking for the majority of the season, but things were just
42:39
starting to stack up against him.
42:40
And I, and I think this was just a breaking point for it got to a
42:44
point where you could not do something like, again, you, you
42:48
should not be, you cannot be at the bottom of the National
42:52
League East as as good as it can be at times.
42:56
You should always the worst dumpster fire the Marlins you.
42:58
Should always be better than the Marlins.
43:01
Yeah, no disrespect some. So we'll see.
43:08
We'll we'll see what happens with the Nats, the Blue Jays.
43:10
However, on the flip side, my goodness, 8 game win streak.
43:17
They got the dub today, so that puts him in eight.
43:19
I'll just go ahead and say right now, I'm not going to be a
43:25
coward and change tunes. Having said what I said what a
43:31
few, I guess like a month ago at this point where I said I just
43:35
don't, I don't think this is real.
43:37
I, I, I think the, the Jays are going to be what the Jays are
43:39
going to be. I think this is a good, I mean,
43:41
it's a good story. They're on a nice run, but I'm
43:44
not going to, I'm not just going to like cowardly tuck my tail
43:47
between my legs like no, the, the Jays are the truth.
43:52
I'm not going to do that. Not going to do it, but this has
43:56
been quite an impressive story, more so in regards to how it's
44:02
changed the landscape of the American League East.
44:05
And you know, I'm not going to I, I, I took my shots this
44:07
weekend, so I'm not going to take any more.
44:10
But the Yankees have been playing like some dog water, and
44:17
it's really combined with the fact that the Jays are on a
44:22
heater nine and one in their last 10, it's really shaking
44:27
things up. Like, what did I saw?
44:29
Let me see. How long ago was it?
44:34
A week ago they trailed the Yankee.
44:38
This was, I think, as of yesterday.
44:39
They one week ago from yesterday trailed the Yankees by three
44:44
games. And now they're up, what, 3 two
44:47
games? Crazy how how quickly that
44:51
changed. Yeah.
44:53
Yeah. I mean, I can't knock them like
44:59
they put up. I'm trying to count.
45:03
I think it's 43 runs in the Yankees series in a four-game
45:06
set. So the Yankee pitching really
45:11
did. Everyone saw it there and then,
45:14
you know, the Angels and I don't see this run stopping anytime
45:19
soon because their next series against the White Sox and then
45:22
going into the All Star break, they're going to have the A's.
45:26
So in Sacramento, by the way, my Sacramento A's, Yeah.
45:32
So we could see this thing get up to 16, whatever it is 15, who
45:39
knows, 14. 13. 13121110. Oh wait, is it?
45:46
Say it again? Is this one of those weird
45:48
things? Yeah.
45:49
Is this one of those weird things where they finished with
45:51
like a four-game set or something?
45:53
Because I know. Now it's three and three.
45:54
Is it 3? So, yeah.
45:55
So be at 14, right? Is it eight straight?
45:58
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Look, man, they're pitching is
46:05
deep, though. I think I said something to you.
46:08
I don't know if this was on the pod or I I've, I'm not well
46:13
lately, people, I'm not well lately with my team.
46:16
So it could have been said during the series, I don't know.
46:21
Their team strikeout percentage is like insanely low, insanely
46:27
low, well below the league average.
46:31
They just put the ball in play, man.
46:32
They put the ball in play. This Addison Barger kid looks
46:38
insane. Crazy pop.
46:42
George Springer having a run still needs to cut that faux
46:48
hawk thing because you're not hiding that bald spot back
46:50
there, guy. Let's get rid of that.
46:54
Nate can never die. Nate always goes for the.
46:58
Nate always goes for the personal attacks.
47:00
What was the one? Oh, I thought of you.
47:02
I thought of you this weekend because I was like, there's a
47:05
guy on this field and I was trying to remember who it was.
47:09
And I was like, it's freaking Nathaniel Lowe.
47:11
And I'm like, this dude's just out here living his dream, just
47:14
playing ball. And anytime this guy's the name
47:17
gets brought up, he's like, hey, he's looking a little look at a
47:20
little chubby, look at a little hefty thick man looking looking
47:23
a little thick with two C's. And I'm like this guy, just this
47:27
guy always. If he doesn't like you, he's
47:29
going to you. Could be you could be lighting
47:32
the world on fire, but Nate's going to say, well, this guy.
47:35
Daniel Lowe doesn't bother me at all.
47:37
This guy's toenails are too long.
47:39
Or George. Springer can suck it.
47:44
Jeff McNeil, The. Two guys, by the way.
47:50
Two guys, by the way, who have really just had had their ways
47:53
with the Yankees. Last week, putting up some runs.
47:58
Yeah, man, Jays look good. And I, it's kind of a weird
48:03
thing. I don't know how much of it is
48:10
attributed to like them being this good or them just like
48:15
running into like a really good stretch.
48:19
I do think they're good enough to be a wild card team and maybe
48:25
they they sneak out the division just based on how uncompetitive
48:32
the division is. I look at them and I'm like,
48:36
they've really kind of changed their position these last few
48:39
weeks to put him in like a strong buyer scenario, man.
48:45
And I don't know who they go after, but like now you're in
48:49
this position where, you know, beginning of the season we were
48:52
talking about if they're in a bad spot, maybe they sell on
48:55
Beau Bouchet, you know, and now it's turned around into like,
49:00
who are you going to buy? Who are they going to add?
49:05
By the way, they've got, they've got the 20th strongest strength
49:11
of schedule, so they're playing under 500.
49:19
The rest of their the strength of their remaining schedule,
49:23
assuming it's updated 497 winning percentage the rest of
49:26
the way out. Shout out to the Rockies though,
49:29
dude. They got they're top of the list
49:33
#1 Strength of schedule at 5:19. It's tough.
49:38
It's not what you want to hear if you're a Rockies fan.
49:42
White Sox also top 10 for those. That's how it checks out.
49:47
I don't know. I mean, I I look at them and and
49:49
they look, they look solid. They have late defensive, you
49:55
know, replacements that they're able to put in.
49:57
They're very they're super athletic.
49:59
They run the bases well. They put the ball in play.
50:02
Obviously rotation wise, they're very deep.
50:07
They look good at the back end of the bullpen.
50:11
I don't know where their ads need to be.
50:17
I just don't, I don't know. I don't see the fall off being
50:20
crazy. I think they're going to be in
50:21
the conversation because in me, like to me that the AL is, is
50:27
it's the Tigers, it's the Astros, and then there's a big
50:30
gap before. That 50 feet of crap.
50:33
Yeah, before that next team is having a conversation.
50:37
So it's kind of up for grabs. And if they have a good
50:41
deadline, I hate to say it, but look out.
50:48
I get no joy of saying that I don't know what it is about the
50:51
Blue Jays, but I just don't. Want it?
50:57
Canada Beef. Yeah, hey, that plays into it.
51:00
That plays into it. It's fair.
51:04
Royals got their eye on Brian Reynolds, according to reports.
51:12
I mean, truthfully, the Royals could.
51:15
Not be buyers. Really just add anything and our
51:19
line up would probably improve, no?
51:23
Yeah, if anything would be a help there.
51:27
I mean comparatively, the aforementioned Tigers comparing
51:30
offenses here just solely based on runs scored.
51:33
Tigers 456 Runs scored to the Royals 304.
51:39
Royals are 5 1/2 games back in the Wild card.
51:42
The White Sox have scored more runs than you Kansas City
51:48
Royals. This is embarrassing.
51:54
The White Sox and I get at the Rockies play at Kors, but they
52:02
also have scored more runs than you.
52:08
I think Seth Lugo is going to be pitching in the post season.
52:13
I don't know who else they'd sell.
52:21
Pasquatch. I'm I'm feeling on that he's
52:25
gone. Let's get Bobby, let's get him a
52:29
change of scenery. Let's, let's ship him out.
52:32
Let's get him on a, let's get him on a team that can go on a
52:35
run. How about it?
52:36
How about it? He can go everything he can go.
52:39
Back he can go back to Kansas City, but like I want to see I
52:42
want to see him on AI want to see him on a deep deep post
52:45
season run it's. Just it's stupid because they I
52:48
don't feel like they're far off. It's just.
52:53
I don't know. No, they are.
52:54
We talked about this. We're at the point now where the
52:56
Royals are, what the Royals are going to be, and it's going to
53:00
take a miraculous turn of events.
53:02
Well, I think this year is dead, but I'm just saying, like in
53:05
general for the era, Yeah, Yeah, OK.
53:09
They're not that. They're not, they're not.
53:11
I think last year was a good representation of like what what
53:14
they could give you on a on a relatively consistent basis.
53:18
Yeah, Jonathan, India is gone, I'm sure.
53:23
Although he's been cheeks this year, he's been brutal.
53:29
No, in the chat, I, I, I wasn't seriously suggesting trading
53:33
Bobby Witt. Obviously we're just, you know,
53:35
we're just chucking it up here. You're an idiot.
53:38
Who is this guy talking about trading Bobby Witt?
53:42
What a casual. What else we got?
53:47
By the way, I'm not saying anything positive about Brian
53:49
Reynolds because. Did you know that Brian Reynolds
53:54
has a no no trade list? Not surprised.
54:00
Guys high maintenance, got a little attitude to him.
54:06
But what's crazy, and I just saw I was reminded of this today,
54:09
you know, the teams that he he can block a trade to the
54:13
Yankees, the Mets, the Dodgers, Giants, Padres was wipe
54:21
California out and then the Blue Jays.
54:27
Safe to say this guy doesn't like spending, spending money on
54:30
taxes. I, I don't know.
54:33
That's a very intriguing list. People were saying, Oh, you just
54:36
want to play in the big market. I, I don't think it has anything
54:38
to do with the big market. I think it's this guy's trying
54:41
to trying to be wise with his money.
54:43
I don't know. I don't think here's about
54:45
winning. I get Anthony Rendell vibes from
54:55
Brian Reynolds. I really do.
55:00
You are. You are.
55:02
Taking some stances today. I am, I am.
55:05
That's how I'm feeling. Taking some stances, what else
55:09
we got here, Luis Ortiz investigation.
55:12
What is this bro? What is this?
55:15
2 pitches that have thrown up red flags apparently. 2 specific
55:20
pitches and it's both to start a game.
55:26
This just goes my, I mean, I'm not into like, I'm not into the
55:30
sports betting like I've, I mean, I've maybe thrown down
55:33
like a couple dollars just to see what it what, what the
55:37
experience was like. Didn't get the rush that most
55:40
people claim. So I, I, I don't have much to go
55:46
off of a personal experience here, but this just goes to show
55:51
you that you can't, you can't really get away with much these
55:59
days when it comes like. When it doesn't even seem like
56:02
red flags, that's what's crazy. Like you.
56:07
How do you just pick? Two, like that's what I'm saying
56:10
that like if that can't fly under the radar, then like
56:15
anything else that's more egregious than that definitely
56:18
getting flags. So like why?
56:20
Why? I don't know man, but he has
56:24
been put on what's the the non disciplinary paid leave through
56:29
July through the break. Do you see the the one that's
56:36
trending where he strikes out Volpe and he like screams
56:40
afterwards like he's upset about?
56:42
Yeah, I saw that one. It's like a, it's like a down
56:45
and out slider. So it's not like a oh, I missed
56:47
with a pitch in the middle of the plate and I got lucky upset.
56:51
It was like, no, I'm legitimately upset I struck him
56:53
out. That one was weird.
56:55
How does that one not throw up a red flag?
56:58
Yeah, like that's just, he's just hide in plain sight right
57:00
there. Like you got to have have some
57:02
more awareness. Yeah, just a couple
57:04
investigative crew. Insane.
57:10
Just. Blame the interpreter, you'll be
57:11
fine. Whoa.
57:17
Steven using an interpreter. I've never heard him talk.
57:19
I don't know, don't know. That just seemed like a layup
57:23
so. OK, All right.
57:29
Speaking of a layup, we we, we talked gnats and we've actually
57:34
already mentioned his name, but the James Wood is the, as of
57:38
right now, the latest member to be added to the Home Run Derby.
57:41
Very excited for this one. So who do we have?
57:45
We've got Cal Raleigh. Good.
57:51
I I'm weird, man. Yeah, yeah.
57:53
No, that's bad. There's only 1 Cal.
57:55
Yeah, I can't get away with calling him Cal.
57:57
It's just super weird to me. And if I see.
58:00
Probably who he's named after. Let's be real.
58:03
For a good chance, probably. Do they have the I guarantee you
58:07
the stupid Mariners have made holy Cow shirts already, haven't
58:11
they? Probably.
58:13
What a stupid team. That's Cal's thing, not Cal's
58:17
thing. Cal Raleigh's thing.
58:20
All right, so who else is in this thing?
58:22
Cal Raleigh, Acuna James Wood, I believe, is what we have right
58:27
now. It's good so far.
58:31
I saw today Schwarber has declined.
58:34
Good saw, good declined. Good.
58:38
Yeah, I'm all done. I'm all done with Schwarber in
58:40
the Homer Derby. Same with Pete.
58:41
All done, some new faces. I'm with you but like this that.
58:45
Might be a case of like, be careful what you wish for
58:47
because if you miss out on if Schwarber says no, if if I mean
58:51
they have, you got Schwarber saying no, we got Pete saying
58:53
no, then we're going to be stuck with Kyle Stowers.
58:56
No disrespect. Well, look what?
58:58
Look what the Home Run Derby did.
59:00
For Julio Rodriguez, it is still that That is still not worn off,
59:03
by the way. Everyone still thinks he's the
59:05
greatest, greatest thing ever, so who knows what's coming?
59:08
Spooky, Cedric. Mullins is this who's going to
59:12
end up in the Homeland Derby? No specs, no SETI.
59:16
We can't have SETI but. All right, let you know what,
59:20
let's do this this will. Be a fun exercise.
59:23
Let me pull up. Let's.
59:27
Let me pull up. What's the lowest realistic name
59:32
in terms of home run? Totals we we can look.
59:35
I'm going to look at the list in terms of lowest home, like who
59:38
has the lowest amount of home runs that could realistically
59:40
say yes just based on, you know, maybe the way their years going.
59:44
Or like if they've, you know, if maybe they've popped off in the
59:47
headlines this year and they're kind of feeling themselves a
59:50
little bit, well, feeling themselves.
59:55
If I could see jazz do jazz, I was going to say.
59:58
How many has he got on the year? More than I think, yeah, 1416,
1:00:04
something like that. 15 Kyle. Sauer 16 No disrespect, but I
1:00:11
mean. I bet you.
1:00:14
Let's see who. Who's got 10?
1:00:17
Let's see if there's anybody that has 10 that could make 10
1:00:20
spot 10. We've got.
1:00:25
Willie, Adamus, Jonathan. Aranda, I think Willie did it.
1:00:32
Recently didn't he put up a goose egg or am I thinking?
1:00:34
Somebody else there was one year.
1:00:37
Some I I think it was. Julio's Derby.
1:00:41
Well, I say Julio's it was. I think Vladi won that, but you
1:00:44
know what I mean. Yeah, I think somebody put up a
1:00:46
goose. Egg that year, yeah.
1:00:52
Nolan Aronado's got. 10, Jonathan.
1:00:54
Aranda, Freddie Freeman's got 10 and Dolis Garcia, Gunner
1:00:57
Henderson. We haven't.
1:01:00
I don't think we've, I don't think we haven't gone low
1:01:03
enough. Gunner.
1:01:04
Sucked last year, didn't he? I think Gunner was.
1:01:08
Terrible. Yeah, Yeah.
1:01:09
I I think that was my pick to win.
1:01:11
It the guy, 'cause we live streamed that, Yeah, guys stunk,
1:01:17
Jorge. Solaire has. 9.
1:01:22
You say, but if guys like. Pete Alonzo are saying no,
1:01:25
that's one one open spot All right well, I mean, what would
1:01:29
you want I'd. I like realistically, ideally in
1:01:32
the chat. Sweet does our sweet.
1:01:34
Does our young sweet Prince have enough for the Derby?
1:01:38
No disrespect, but he needs to. Take he needs.
1:01:40
To take this week off just he needs all the recovery.
1:01:44
He can get he needs to go. Somewhere.
1:01:49
Somewhere not. Near Atlanta and well.
1:01:55
Actually, now that I think about it, that actually.
1:01:57
Might be the fix because dude owns this, Bryce Harper owns the
1:02:02
city of Atlanta. So this actually could be a good
1:02:05
opportunity for him to to really turn things around.
1:02:11
Let's see. Who so Jorge Solaire pops out as
1:02:17
a name? It could be just like, yeah why
1:02:19
it's nukes though, why not? Andrew McCutcheon has eight I
1:02:26
saw. That the pirates said that
1:02:29
that's an untouchable. Him and skins are the 2
1:02:34
untouchables. Andrew McCutcheon, it's.
1:02:39
Crazy you have to come out and say that.
1:02:41
Someone asking for him, no disrespect.
1:02:49
When did Dylan Cruz hit seven home runs, Paul?
1:02:54
Goldschmidt got 8. Louise Robert has eight.
1:02:57
Could Louise Robert be in the Home Run Derby?
1:03:01
Think he was in it last year. Wasn't he?
1:03:03
Yeah, but maybe. Maybe need?
1:03:05
Something to turn things around. What do you want?
1:03:10
What do you want? Personally?
1:03:12
Who would I want in the field? Yeah, like.
1:03:14
What's so there's 8? There's 8 slots we got.
1:03:17
Three filled as of right now. You think Eugenio does it?
1:03:22
I think that'd be a smart. Move.
1:03:24
I think that'd be fun. I'd like to see that.
1:03:29
So I'm in the. Chat Vladdy.
1:03:31
Junior, I'm all done with that too.
1:03:33
Yeah, I'm kind of I want. Some I want some new faces.
1:03:40
Now this might I was just here's a sneaky.
1:03:42
Pick. I've got a sneaky pick, OK?
1:03:44
You go, you go. No.
1:03:45
No, you go first. You.
1:03:46
You said it first, I'm just saying.
1:03:47
I also have a sneaky pick. Go for it.
1:03:49
I don't. I don't like it that much
1:03:50
anymore. OK.
1:03:53
Then say it. I think he hits the ball hard.
1:03:56
I think Ben Rice would. Be surprisingly solid.
1:04:00
All right, That's a fun name. That's like.
1:04:02
All right, well, like. No, that's disrespect.
1:04:06
Yeah, you best believe it is. It's crazy.
1:04:11
It's like I'm going to refrain. Withhold disrespect.
1:04:15
Get out of here. It's mean now here actually, two
1:04:18
guys, one just popped up, one of which it's super unsexy, but
1:04:24
it's could be we, we talk all the time this time of year about
1:04:27
guys that could use this event to really sort of catapult them
1:04:31
a little bit, become more of a household name like Ben Rice.
1:04:36
No, exactly. Look at the hard hit percentage
1:04:39
bro. That guy's like hits the hard.
1:04:41
It's baseball hard, hit baseball hard.
1:04:44
That's the whole point of this competition.
1:04:45
No Hit baseball. Far, not far.
1:04:48
Hard and high. AKA far.
1:04:56
Actually no. I.
1:04:56
I I'm really trying no. I I had to say mine, you got to
1:05:00
say. Yours.
1:05:00
No, no, I had two. I said.
1:05:02
Two names popped. Up.
1:05:03
I don't know if I want to say, though, I was going to say super
1:05:05
unsexy pic, but this could be used as like a, hey, maybe
1:05:08
become more of a household name. Michael Bush has 18 jacks on the
1:05:12
air and he's playing for, you know, all things considered, red
1:05:17
hot Chicago Cubs team. Yeah, it's not bad.
1:05:22
I'm just saying like if things get if things.
1:05:24
Get get bad. We're not if if we miss out on
1:05:27
some sexier names, Spencer Torkelson would be another name
1:05:31
I would be intrigued to see. Be intrigued.
1:05:38
I'd be intrigued, Byron. Buxton maybe?
1:05:42
Feel like he's done it. But I'd like to see that too.
1:05:44
I. Didn't he do it in Minnesota?
1:05:50
Did he feel like you did? Probably.
1:05:52
Hurt, Honestly, I don't remember Ricochet.
1:05:56
Well, just kind of facts. Yeah.
1:06:01
Oh, Brent Rooker. Would love to see Brent Rooker
1:06:05
talk about a guy that can mash. I don't know, man.
1:06:10
Yeah. It might be a, might be.
1:06:11
A lighter field this year, but I'm going to I'm going to make
1:06:15
the most. Of it since.
1:06:16
Since we'll be there. So I'm I'm enjoying LA de la
1:06:19
Cruz. Who knows?
1:06:22
I like that. O'Neill Cruz would be Yeah, we
1:06:27
need to get. O'Neill Cruz?
1:06:28
Yeah, no, he's done it too. I don't think so.
1:06:37
Unless was like, no, I don't think he's done it.
1:06:42
I'd like that potential candidate for this year.
1:06:47
Intriguing, Got some names on there that.
1:06:49
Could could make for a not have bad field.
1:06:52
Lastly here Clark Schmidt has it been determined officially is he
1:06:56
getting TJ? No, it's getting a second
1:06:58
opinion which. When is that ever?
1:07:02
When does that ever mean anything?
1:07:03
Wasn't Boone the guy himself that came out and said like.
1:07:07
What does Boone know He's. Going to need TJ.
1:07:10
No, but I'm just saying like if. Your manager's committing to or
1:07:13
not committing, but like, if your manager's on the forefront
1:07:15
being like, hey, yeah, I think our guy's going to need TJ.
1:07:18
Like you're going to walk that back.
1:07:19
I I don't know. I don't know man.
1:07:24
The Yankees, well, let's look at like all the names because like
1:07:27
Garrett Cole, I think it's like the Yankees doctor that's like,
1:07:31
we we recommend this and then all of them go to get a second
1:07:34
opinion. Tanaka Yeah, Yankee doctor
1:07:39
doesn't. Know what the hell they're doing
1:07:40
so. Neither does the rest of the
1:07:42
front office in Yankee land. So I remember there was a
1:07:45
stretch, a few years. Back where you you had reached.
1:07:52
Rock bottom with the. Yankees medical team like you
1:07:57
were you like forget like punchable faces around the
1:08:01
league, like it was solely the Yankees medical staff that you
1:08:04
had beef with. There's just and all tissue
1:08:07
injuries throughout that lineup. Crazy.
1:08:11
Were killing me, yeah. I don't know.
1:08:13
Whatever, I'm sucks, sucks. He's having a good year finally,
1:08:20
so whatever this would be #2 for him, I believe, right?
1:08:25
Yeah, got it. Just.
1:08:28
First time just after being drafted, I think, yeah.
1:08:33
Tough. Flow.
1:08:34
Tough blow. And on that note, let's let's
1:08:39
wrap this up as a reminder, folks, we I mean, we've we've
1:08:43
said like a million times over the last couple months and even
1:08:46
today, but we will be in Atlanta for the All Star game.
1:08:49
So keep an eye out for some rather exciting things we've got
1:08:53
coming down the pipe for that, going to be pumped out a lot of
1:08:56
content for that. Going to be going live, going to
1:08:58
be doing a a wiffle ball Derby. That's going to be fun.
1:09:03
I'm that's going to be nice. I'm.
1:09:05
Getting. I'm getting.
1:09:06
Juiced for that. Not literally, but I'm like, I'm
1:09:08
getting amped. I mean, I could.
1:09:10
I mean for the content. I mean, if you wanted, if you
1:09:14
want to juice up, we could do that.
1:09:18
I don't know if it would. Kick in in time, but shows you
1:09:23
how much I know about those things.
1:09:26
Going to be live. Just like. 20 minutes before the
1:09:30
Derby. Like, is this thing kicking in
1:09:32
yet? I don't I.
1:09:33
Don't know, I feel it. I'll be doing live.
1:09:37
Streaming a wiffle ball. Derby and then we will be doing
1:09:40
a MVP 2005 World Series Best of seven.
1:09:46
We'll be live streaming that as well, in addition to many other
1:09:48
things. So keep an eye out for that.
1:09:49
So be sure to subscribe to our YouTube.
1:09:52
We'll be doing some things on there.
1:09:54
That's where the vlog is ultimately going to live from
1:09:57
our from our trip that we take this this coming weekend.
1:10:01
So go ahead and just get out in front of that.
1:10:03
Go ahead and subscribe to the YouTube and yeah, just keep an
1:10:07
eye out for what will be coming starting Saturday.
1:10:10
We're both flying in on Saturday, so we're going to hit
1:10:14
the ground running, but that's all I have.
1:10:17
You're going to find like a Walmart, right?
1:10:19
Away, right? That'll be one of the first
1:10:22
stops. Load up a Wiffle Balls.
1:10:24
We're going to. Here's the thing though.
1:10:26
We're going to have to figure out a way to like, we're going
1:10:30
to have to find some colored wiffle balls because we're going
1:10:33
to have to have a money round, like a moneyball round at the
1:10:37
end. So we're going to have to figure
1:10:39
that out and we need to make sure wherever we go has
1:10:42
something of that sort. But anyway, it's all I got.
1:10:47
I like it. I like that.
1:10:52
I'm Paul, man. It's going to be good.
1:10:53
It's going to be good stuff. All.
1:10:57
Right. Cool.
1:10:57
Don't go chase curveballs, love. You all, as always, looking
1:11:00
forward to talking more baseball.
1:11:01
With you guys soon. Until next time, stay filthy.