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- 0:00Speaker 1: My two world series picks, the Red Sox and the Brave.
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- 3:05Speaker 2: All right, let's charge the mound. Justin Steele is going
- 3:12Speaker 2: to have season ending surgery to repair the flexor tendon
- 3:16Speaker 2: n UCL in his elbow. AJ what'd you think when
- 3:19Speaker 2: you saw this? News for a guy who's really been
- 3:21Speaker 2: their workhorse the last couple of years.
- 3:24Speaker 3: It stinks.
- 3:25Speaker 1: It stinks for everybody involved. First of all, let's start
- 3:28Speaker 1: with Justin. It stinks for Justin because he's been a
- 3:31Speaker 1: really good pitcher for the.
- 3:32Speaker 3: Last couple of years for the Cubs.
- 3:33Speaker 1: And then it obviously stinks for the Cubs because he
- 3:36Speaker 1: was one of their guys behind SHOWDA and then he
- 3:37Speaker 1: throwing ty On and Matthew Boyd and Ben Brown was
- 3:40Speaker 1: supposed to be Ray. Now listen, Colin Ray did pitch
- 3:42Speaker 1: an ice for him yesterday against the Dodger, so he
- 3:46Speaker 1: stepped in nicely. But over the long haul, you want
- 3:48Speaker 1: Justin Steele in there.
- 3:49Speaker 3: It just it stinks.
- 3:50Speaker 1: All these elbow injuries, all these injuries in general. I
- 3:52Speaker 1: don't know if it's me or just seems like there's
- 3:54Speaker 1: way more injuries this year than there have been in
- 3:56Speaker 1: the past. You can't blame WBC, you can't blame a lockout,
- 3:59Speaker 1: you can't blame a short and spring training, a longer
- 4:00Speaker 1: spring training. It just seems like there's been more injuries
- 4:03Speaker 1: than I remember.
- 4:05Speaker 2: What about Tokyo his season started early. Not blaming that either, Nah, No,
- 4:11Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, go.
- 4:12Speaker 3: Ahead a j Sorry, No, I don't think so.
- 4:15Speaker 1: I mean he threw what he only threw four not
- 4:18Speaker 1: even four three innings maybe in Tokyo.
- 4:22Speaker 2: I think he got knocked out in the fourth.
- 4:23Speaker 5: Maybe.
- 4:24Speaker 2: Yeah, it wasn't a long and it.
- 4:25Speaker 3: Wasn't you didn't throw one hundred pitches in March, you know.
- 4:29Speaker 1: I mean he threw I think he's seventy five, seventy
- 4:31Speaker 1: to seventy five pitches, So it's all todd He didn't
- 4:33Speaker 1: throw a hundred pitches.
- 4:34Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, And that's kind of what I was going
- 4:36Speaker 4: to say, Like it was just it was a scheduled
- 4:38Speaker 4: start spring training. I guess you could say spring training start.
- 4:41Speaker 4: It was during spring training, but the games did count,
- 4:43Speaker 4: so uh, it was expected for him to go out there.
- 4:47Speaker 4: And it's just an unfortunate event to injuries this year.
- 4:49Speaker 4: I mean, I don't know, you know, maybe it's like
- 4:52Speaker 4: this every year, but it seems like the big name
- 4:54Speaker 4: injuries and uh, you know, people are dropping like flies
- 4:58Speaker 4: and that that's the tough part. And that's while you
- 5:00Speaker 4: need to have depth and you need to have really
- 5:02Speaker 4: good farm system and I believe in that, and if not,
- 5:05Speaker 4: you got to go out and get some guys, and
- 5:06Speaker 4: there's some teams that are hurting right now with some
- 5:08Speaker 4: big names.
- 5:09Speaker 2: Yeah, there are sixty seven pitches in that. That's not
- 5:12Speaker 2: sixty seven, seventy seven seventy eight. Last adding was ninety one.
- 5:16Speaker 3: He also had one.
- 5:17Speaker 1: Let's not forget he had a little something last year,
- 5:19Speaker 1: didn't he didn't he have a little elbow something. I
- 5:21Speaker 1: thought at the end last year. Am I wrong in that?
- 5:23Speaker 1: I know he had a hamstring early, but I thought
- 5:25Speaker 1: he had something early in the or later in the year.
- 5:30Speaker 3: But I could be wrong on that.
- 5:31Speaker 1: I thought I read that somewhere that he had a
- 5:34Speaker 1: little little something something going in there.
- 5:37Speaker 2: I gotta look. I know he had hammy too. I
- 5:39Speaker 2: remember that I got a.
- 5:40Speaker 3: Lot hammy hurt on Opening Day. Hammy? He remember last
- 5:45Speaker 3: year on Opening Day? I think it was.
- 5:47Speaker 2: Yeah, he was Yeah, I think it was Opening Day.
- 5:50Speaker 5: Yep.
- 5:50Speaker 2: And I think he missed about a month last year.
- 5:54Speaker 2: So I'll look into anything else from last season. The
- 5:57Speaker 2: other thing, you know, he was on North Side Territory
- 6:00Speaker 2: our Cubs show a couple months ago heading into spring training.
- 6:04Speaker 2: He's a really good interview, by the way, and that
- 6:06Speaker 2: one still plays if you want to go back and
- 6:07Speaker 2: listen to it. But he talked about how so many
- 6:09Speaker 2: of the cubs are there just pomping working hard in
- 6:13Speaker 2: Arizona all off season, and I'm like, that's awesome. You
- 6:15Speaker 2: love to hear that as a fan. But it does
- 6:17Speaker 2: still bring up the topic of the arm injury epidemic,
- 6:21Speaker 2: and you wonder if pitchers are doing things right, and
- 6:25Speaker 2: that includes the off season. Are they going to full
- 6:29Speaker 2: speed ahead in the wintertime.
- 6:32Speaker 3: Maybe I don't know.
- 6:33Speaker 1: But by the way, he had Tommy John in twenty seventeen,
- 6:36Speaker 1: justin Steel did and he was on the shelf last
- 6:39Speaker 1: year with elbow ten andightis towards the end of twenty
- 6:41Speaker 1: twenty four.
- 6:42Speaker 3: So this wasn't something I think that just popped up.
- 6:44Speaker 3: And here's the problem.
- 6:45Speaker 1: You can be as healthy as a horse and all
- 6:47Speaker 1: of a sudden you just will go out and throw
- 6:48Speaker 1: one pitch.
- 6:48Speaker 3: And you see guys go like this all the time.
- 6:50Speaker 1: So it doesn't matter whether or not or was And yeah,
- 6:54Speaker 1: I mean we listen. I think we need to look
- 6:56Speaker 1: at the way we train. I think we've talked about
- 6:58Speaker 1: it with doctors on here, Todd. I think we've talked
- 6:59Speaker 1: about it with other people that are involved with this
- 7:02Speaker 1: injury experts that one guy's don't throw enough. Everyone's lifting heavier,
- 7:06Speaker 1: but are they throwing enough? And I think it's something
- 7:07Speaker 1: we need to continue to study and figure out because
- 7:09Speaker 1: there's just too many guys going down.
- 7:12Speaker 5: Yeah, there's there's got to be something different.
- 7:14Speaker 4: I mean I talked to like the Jim Maloneys of
- 7:16Speaker 4: the world, the big time reds pitcher back in the day,
- 7:19Speaker 4: who threw close to one hundred if not one hundred
- 7:21Speaker 4: that people don't talk about. Jim, what do you do? Like,
- 7:23Speaker 4: what's the difference? We iced, and then we long toss
- 7:26Speaker 4: and then we'd licen. We long toss every day. I'm like,
- 7:28Speaker 4: even after you threw one hundred and eighty pitchers, yep,
- 7:30Speaker 4: just long toss and that's really all they did.
- 7:32Speaker 5: I mean he's.
- 7:33Speaker 4: Run, I don't yeah, and just got lactic acid out
- 7:37Speaker 4: of there.
- 7:37Speaker 5: But I don't know.
- 7:39Speaker 4: I don't know what the difference is. I don't know
- 7:41Speaker 4: are they lifting too much? Because he used to tell me, like,
- 7:43Speaker 4: how about your workout sessions. You'd be like, listen, we
- 7:46Speaker 4: had to work. I had to find another job. So
- 7:49Speaker 4: whether it was cutting trees or helping the dad out
- 7:51Speaker 4: with the local business whatever it is.
- 7:53Speaker 5: They have no time for that, you know what I'm saying.
- 7:55Speaker 4: So their workouts were picking up heavy, you know, loads
- 7:59Speaker 4: of uh, you know, mulch or whatever it is they're doing,
- 8:02Speaker 4: lumberjacks would whatever it was, and that was their workout.
- 8:09Speaker 2: Aj it is time for people to get some new clubs,
- 8:11Speaker 2: and to do that, they need to go to their
- 8:13Speaker 2: local PXG for a fitting, right.
- 8:15Speaker 3: No doubt.
- 8:16Speaker 1: I was there today, I've been there before. Last time
- 8:18Speaker 1: I was there, they gave me this killer gapage. Look
- 8:20Speaker 1: at that sweet spot, Scott. It is worn out. That
- 8:23Speaker 1: is right in the sweet spot right there. So I
- 8:24Speaker 1: went and got new clubs today, new irons. But more importantly,
- 8:28Speaker 1: I got this bad boy. I got me a new putter.
- 8:29Speaker 1: This is my old putter.
- 8:30Speaker 3: It's on order.
- 8:31Speaker 1: Yes, that's my putter cover PXG Mustang putter. Now I'm
- 8:34Speaker 1: going to the Allen putter. They talked me into it
- 8:35Speaker 1: because I was draining some putts today. Bob, the guy
- 8:38Speaker 1: who helped me out, he helped me with my irons.
- 8:41Speaker 1: He got them teed up perfectly. But then we went
- 8:43Speaker 1: to the putting green. I was draining them putts because
- 8:45Speaker 1: that's the most important part of golf.
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- 9:06Speaker 2: See site for details for Steel. I mean, this is
- 9:10Speaker 2: a guy who is fun to watch pitch. Like I mentioned,
- 9:13Speaker 2: he was pretty reliable the last few years. Fifth round pick.
- 9:16Speaker 2: So this a homegrown guy they were really proud of
- 9:19Speaker 2: to have in the rotation. Cubs are trying to take
- 9:21Speaker 2: another step. Will the Cubs be okay? They're off to
- 9:24Speaker 2: a booming offensive start. They had a sixteen to nothing
- 9:27Speaker 2: win on Saturday. Pete Crow Armstrong was the man on
- 9:31Speaker 2: Sunday with two homers back in his home state. Let's
- 9:34Speaker 2: check out the rotation here. AJ want to read through
- 9:37Speaker 2: it and let us know where you think it stacks
- 9:40Speaker 2: up now.
- 9:41Speaker 1: Well, showed at the top is great. Showed at the
- 9:44Speaker 1: top is a one. Can Matthew Boyd stay healthy? Tians
- 9:48Speaker 1: is a good Tyon's a good compliment to show to
- 9:51Speaker 1: Ben Brown will see, Colin Ray will see. I think
- 9:54Speaker 1: they still need another one. But I will say this,
- 9:56Speaker 1: there is one good thing. They're off to a great start.
- 9:58Speaker 1: They're eleven and seven.
- 9:59Speaker 3: But the again, I.
- 10:01Speaker 1: Still I just until I see somebody in that division
- 10:05Speaker 1: other than the Brewers do something, Todd's Reds or whoever
- 10:08Speaker 1: it has to be. I still think the Cubs right now,
- 10:10Speaker 1: on paper, are the best team in the division.
- 10:13Speaker 4: Yeah, and I would have to agree with you on that.
- 10:16Speaker 4: It's it kind of hit or miss a little bit.
- 10:18Speaker 4: The Reds are kind of getting going a little bit
- 10:20Speaker 4: more against the Pirates. You know, it's really kind of
- 10:24Speaker 4: all over the place. Nobody wants to take full charge.
- 10:27Speaker 4: I know it's early, but at the end of the day,
- 10:30Speaker 4: we'll see how it goes with more games. But yes,
- 10:32Speaker 4: the injury bug of every division has really botherished them
- 10:36Speaker 4: the most. I mean the one and I hate to
- 10:38Speaker 4: change gears on the Couse, but the one in that
- 10:40Speaker 4: central that really bothers me.
- 10:42Speaker 5: That Matty McClain. Man.
- 10:43Speaker 4: This guy has been absolutely exceptional when he plays, and
- 10:46Speaker 4: now he's got another injury too as well. So every
- 10:49Speaker 4: team seems to have something but for the Cubbies it's
- 10:51Speaker 4: a good, good top to bottom. It's not great pitching wise.
- 10:55Speaker 4: So again, I think I have to agree with AJ.
- 10:57Speaker 4: They might need another another starter or two to get
- 11:00Speaker 4: them going, especially with this injury.
- 11:03Speaker 2: The Red's rotation actually looks pretty good right now. In comparison,
- 11:07Speaker 2: you got Hunter Green who was dealing again at the top.
- 11:10Speaker 2: Lodolo's really good, you got to keep him healthy, Martinez
- 11:12Speaker 2: is pretty durable, Brady Singer's pretty damn durable, Andrew Rabbit
- 11:15Speaker 2: right now in the five, and there's a few other youngsters,
- 11:18Speaker 2: including some former first round picks, who could make their
- 11:21Speaker 2: way back up to the show at some point, Red
- 11:24Speaker 2: Louder and Chase Burns. So to me, I gotta see
- 11:28Speaker 2: him do it. I know, okay, I.
- 11:31Speaker 1: Mean here's my thing with the I mean, I know
- 11:33Speaker 1: Tyan can pitch a whole year.
- 11:35Speaker 3: I know Boyd has pitched a whole year before.
- 11:37Speaker 1: We saw Shoto do it last year's you know, the
- 11:39Speaker 1: other guys in this rotation I think can do it
- 11:41Speaker 1: for the Cubs. The biggest problem for me is, yes,
- 11:43Speaker 1: pretty Singer can pitch you all year. Hunter Green missed
- 11:45Speaker 1: a bunch of time last year. Lodolo seems like he's
- 11:47Speaker 1: always injured. Abbott seems like he's always injured. This isn't
- 11:50Speaker 1: a knock on these guys. And I hate this. I
- 11:52Speaker 1: hate bringing up injuries with guys and I hate what Oh,
- 11:55Speaker 1: they're always hurt, They're always hurt.
- 11:56Speaker 3: I hate saying that about guys.
- 11:57Speaker 1: But at some point you have to prove that you
- 11:59Speaker 1: can make thirty starts a year over the long haul,
- 12:02Speaker 1: and you have to do a year fyear. That's what
- 12:03Speaker 1: makes the great ones great. Justin Erlin or Max Schurz
- 12:07Speaker 1: or Clayton Kershaw and those guys were going great. They
- 12:09Speaker 1: were making thirty thirty two starts every year. That's one
- 12:12Speaker 1: of their first ballot Hall of Fame guys. CC Sabathia Yep.
- 12:17Speaker 2: Yep for Steel. By the way, we don't know if
- 12:21Speaker 2: it's TJ right. My guess is when they say he's
- 12:23Speaker 2: gonna have surgery to end the year, that it might
- 12:25Speaker 2: end up being the internal brace that's becoming a lot
- 12:27Speaker 2: more popular. That's what Spencer Strider had. And if that's
- 12:30Speaker 2: the case, you get steal back in about twelve months
- 12:34Speaker 2: versus closer to sixteen months if it's a second Tommy
- 12:37Speaker 2: John surgery. So I'm sure they're gonna do everything they
- 12:39Speaker 2: can to make sure that it's the brace if they're
- 12:41Speaker 2: able to do it, if he's brace eligible, right.
- 12:45Speaker 3: Yes, you always want to get a brace the least.
- 12:47Speaker 3: Isn't that what show had the brace on him.
- 12:50Speaker 1: I think the brace, right, the brace is better than
- 12:54Speaker 1: the full Tommy John.
- 12:55Speaker 3: But they both suck. I mean it sucks either way.
- 12:58Speaker 1: I mean it seems like the brace now is the
- 13:00Speaker 1: new Tommy John that we maybe should have done, you know,
- 13:02Speaker 1: whenever they I don't know, they both suck it both.
- 13:05Speaker 3: It just sucks that we keep having to talk about this.
- 13:08Speaker 2: Yeah it does, and hey, I mean gives more life
- 13:12Speaker 2: to the Brewers too. The Cubs, it's such a banging
- 13:15Speaker 2: offensive start to the season. It seems like the offense
- 13:18Speaker 2: is going to be much better if Kyle Tucker looks
- 13:21Speaker 2: like this and you're able to plug him in like that.
- 13:23Speaker 2: But even for Milwaukee, I mean, their rotation was in shambles.
- 13:26Speaker 2: They got Kintana back the other day, who looked really
- 13:28Speaker 2: good per altas your guy at the top, but I
- 13:30Speaker 2: mean that is not a sexy looking rotation right now.
- 13:33Speaker 2: For Milwaukee, a lot of guys on the mend that
- 13:35Speaker 2: they'll get back at some point this year. Brandon Woodriff,
- 13:38Speaker 2: Robert Gasser and Moore. But right now, do you like
- 13:41Speaker 2: the Cubs but than everyone else right in the division?
- 13:43Speaker 2: I would say right now, the way they're kicking, yeah,
- 13:45Speaker 2: without a doubt. But that can change today, you know
- 13:49Speaker 2: what I'm saying. So again, it's wide open. I had
- 13:52Speaker 2: the Reds winning, you know, the division, and it's still
- 13:55Speaker 2: wide open for every single team. So again, Brewers had
- 13:59Speaker 2: that slow start really so you know, we got beat
- 14:01Speaker 2: up by the Yankees a little bit. Now every team
- 14:04Speaker 2: here we go and it's like the now everything in
- 14:06Speaker 2: the Central, you know the Al Central too as well.
- 14:09Speaker 2: It's kind of just like here they got Dody Dody
- 14:11Speaker 2: Dough who's gonna take off? It's early work words, it's
- 14:15Speaker 2: early eleven and seven. Cubs, Brewers are eight and eight,
- 14:18Speaker 2: Reds are eight and eight, Cardinals are seven and eight,
- 14:20Speaker 2: and then the Pirates are off to a five and
- 14:22Speaker 2: eleven start. What do you think of the division so far?
- 14:24Speaker 2: For at few weeks of the season, AJ.
- 14:26Speaker 1: Well, the Cubs have been the best team in this division,
- 14:29Speaker 1: especially if the Kyle Tucker keeps swinging it.
- 14:30Speaker 3: The way he swung it.
- 14:31Speaker 1: The Cubs are gonna need something at a show at
- 14:33Speaker 1: the bottom of the order. I know, they hit ninth
- 14:35Speaker 1: last night. They're gonna need something at him. Swanson's got
- 14:37Speaker 1: to get going. Their defense, though, has been incredible.
- 14:40Speaker 3: You will.
- 14:41Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know if you guys watched the
- 14:42Speaker 1: Sunday night game, but they made some great plays in
- 14:44Speaker 1: the defense on the defensive side, especially with Horner and
- 14:48Speaker 1: Swanson up the middle. So I do like the Cubs,
- 14:51Speaker 1: and it pains me as everyone knows to say that,
- 14:53Speaker 1: but you know, the Reds got hot. And who did
- 14:54Speaker 1: the Reds beat up on this past weekend. That's how
- 14:56Speaker 1: they're back at five hundred. I mean, the Red's got
- 14:59Speaker 1: to play the old Pirates and they missed Skien. So
- 15:01Speaker 1: guess how you get hot if you're in the central
- 15:04Speaker 1: you play the Pirates and you don't face Skiens. No,
- 15:06Speaker 1: Skien's pitches today, so you know he'll try to get
- 15:09Speaker 1: him back on the right side. But I mean, if
- 15:11Speaker 1: Skeens doesn't pitch for the Pirates, it's it's it's been
- 15:14Speaker 1: rough so far. Keller's had a couple of nice starts,
- 15:16Speaker 1: but it's been really Skiens and you need Keller and
- 15:20Speaker 1: then with Jones down, it's it's been rough. That's where
- 15:22Speaker 1: you gotta make the wins up in the central right now.
- 15:25Speaker 2: Yeah, I think Bubba Chandler is on the cusp too.
- 15:27Speaker 2: They're tempting.
- 15:28Speaker 3: I still can't believe.
- 15:29Speaker 1: I can't believe he didn't make the team out of
- 15:31Speaker 1: spring training. With the way he pitched in spring training.
- 15:33Speaker 3: I was shocked.
- 15:33Speaker 1: Remember we had him on the show. I was shocked
- 15:35Speaker 1: he didn't make the team.
- 15:37Speaker 2: I don't know what the plan is there. I mean,
- 15:39Speaker 2: people wanted to see Skeens crack the team right away
- 15:41Speaker 2: last year, and they didn't do that. They waited, they
- 15:44Speaker 2: did the baby steps, and then they brought him up
- 15:46Speaker 2: what I think it was like May twelfth, something like that.
- 15:49Speaker 2: So whatever plan that they have I don't necessarily agree with.
- 15:53Speaker 2: Because if Bubba Chandler's ready and he's up there from
- 15:56Speaker 2: the start of the year, you get yourself a little
- 15:58Speaker 2: first round pick. If you Winsokie of the Year too.
- 16:04Speaker 3: That matters. It seems like Pittsburgh that matters.
- 16:06Speaker 1: Yeah, schemes got called him May twelfth, right, and they
- 16:11Speaker 1: still didn't they he got he won Rookie of the
- 16:13Speaker 1: Year so don't or wait, they don't get it.
- 16:15Speaker 2: They do not know they didn't because they didn't call
- 16:18Speaker 2: him up from the jump. I'm ninety percent sure on
- 16:21Speaker 2: that one. Let me double check though, But so the
- 16:23Speaker 2: rookie of the year, he gets the full year of
- 16:25Speaker 2: service time, but they did not call him soon enough,
- 16:29Speaker 2: so he got called up on May eleventh. They did
- 16:32Speaker 2: not get that first round pick. You get a full
- 16:34Speaker 2: year of service if you're the NL Rookie of the
- 16:36Speaker 2: Year first or second place. And on the other side,
- 16:39Speaker 2: if you get a Rookie of the Year or a
- 16:40Speaker 2: top three cy young, then you get a first round pick,
- 16:44Speaker 2: but you have to call him up. I don't remember
- 16:46Speaker 2: if it's at the start of the season or by
- 16:47Speaker 2: a certain time, but whatever it was, they messed it
- 16:49Speaker 2: up so they didn't get the pick out of it.
- 16:52Speaker 5: Wow, that's rough.
- 16:53Speaker 1: That's like the White Sox's in the most games in
- 16:55Speaker 1: history and can only pick tenth.
- 16:57Speaker 3: I mean that's right. That brings right up there.
- 16:59Speaker 2: Yeah, I would say this is worse since you actually
- 17:01Speaker 2: control this, you could have done it. What docs get punished?
- 17:06Speaker 2: They can't do anything about it. Decided to get better,
- 17:09Speaker 2: But anyway.
- 17:10Speaker 3: They can win more games. They could win more games, but.
- 17:12Speaker 2: That yeah, they could. They had a good weekend. We'll
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- 18:20Speaker 2: happened in this Astros Angels game on Saturday night with
- 18:23Speaker 2: Mike Trout trying to reach for a foul ball, catching
- 18:27Speaker 2: it ball getting ripped out of the glove by a
- 18:29Speaker 2: fan who was not hostile like the two bozos last
- 18:33Speaker 2: year in the World Series game that tried to rip
- 18:35Speaker 2: Mooky Betts's arm off. But AJ, what did you think
- 18:38Speaker 2: when you saw this one?
- 18:41Speaker 1: It's tough because you know, everyone's like, oh, we don't
- 18:43Speaker 1: want nets up, but if you put a net up,
- 18:45Speaker 1: it stops this from happening. Right, And it's still a
- 18:48Speaker 1: dangerous situation because Trout did catch it, but they kind
- 18:51Speaker 1: of caught it at the same time.
- 18:52Speaker 3: Right.
- 18:52Speaker 1: It was like Trout's glove went around the guy's hand
- 18:55Speaker 1: and he just pulled his hand out of his glove.
- 18:57Speaker 3: It wasn't malicious at all.
- 18:58Speaker 1: And then Trout, if you guys saw a metal with
- 19:00Speaker 1: him and his son after the game and had a
- 19:02Speaker 1: nice conversation, it wasn't a malicious thing at all, I
- 19:04Speaker 1: understand why trout. Trout was into the sands. It's just
- 19:08Speaker 1: a crazy it's a crazy rule that we need to
- 19:11Speaker 1: figure it out. But there's no way we want fans
- 19:14Speaker 1: closer to be more involved in the action. But you
- 19:17Speaker 1: see the guy, he's like, man, my hand was in
- 19:18Speaker 1: your glove. Man, Like sorry, he was apologizing like right away,
- 19:21Speaker 1: and the other guy gives them a high five, like
- 19:24Speaker 1: I actually think the guy caught it.
- 19:26Speaker 3: I don't know. It's it's such a funky wonky thing.
- 19:29Speaker 3: It was like the guy.
- 19:30Speaker 1: Called it, Trout knocked it out, and then I don't know,
- 19:33Speaker 1: but it was in the stand. So the umpire has
- 19:34Speaker 1: made the right call, and good on Trout for not
- 19:35Speaker 1: getting too mad.
- 19:37Speaker 5: I agree with Johnny end there. Look.
- 19:39Speaker 4: The only possibility that they can't call that a catch,
- 19:43Speaker 4: in my opinion from washing Over, is the fan hits
- 19:45Speaker 4: the ball first. I couldn't tell whether the fan touched
- 19:48Speaker 4: it first. Then Mike Catt could. It looked like Mike
- 19:50Speaker 4: did catch the ball as we're watching it here again,
- 19:54Speaker 4: it's in his glove and.
- 19:55Speaker 5: The fan it's in that ball.
- 19:57Speaker 4: I would die on that cross there. He that ball
- 20:01Speaker 4: was in his glove and he took it out of there.
- 20:03Speaker 4: And I'll be honest with you, Mike is just the
- 20:05Speaker 4: nicest guy, as you know. He was like, hey, are
- 20:08Speaker 4: you okay, Like he kind of like downplayed a little bit,
- 20:11Speaker 4: which in the heat of the moment, you don't know
- 20:13Speaker 4: what you do.
- 20:13Speaker 5: We've had this before, we've seen it.
- 20:15Speaker 4: We have no clue what anybody in here would do
- 20:17Speaker 4: at the heat of the moment, and it just it
- 20:19Speaker 4: was barely in the stand. So I guess the rule
- 20:21Speaker 4: is the rule. But I'm just surprised they didn't really
- 20:23Speaker 4: take that big of a look at it.
- 20:25Speaker 2: Yeah, a j shouldn't they look at that and be
- 20:27Speaker 2: like or even take it a step further And just
- 20:30Speaker 2: like you said, either figure out netting or obviously you
- 20:32Speaker 2: want to keep people as close to the field as
- 20:34Speaker 2: possible for the fan experience. But it just seems like
- 20:37Speaker 2: this might start popping up more frequently you get some
- 20:41Speaker 2: people on the edges.
- 20:42Speaker 1: I know too, you know, because the only other thing,
- 20:44Speaker 1: you know, as much as we love that Mike Trout
- 20:46Speaker 1: did meet with the people, as Frankie said, Frankie and
- 20:50Speaker 1: our chat said, you know, and I agree with this,
- 20:52Speaker 1: Like we don't want people doing stuff just so they
- 20:53Speaker 1: can goya if I grab the ball out of Mic
- 20:55Speaker 1: Trout's glove and I'm going to get to meet him later,
- 20:57Speaker 1: right Like, we don't need that, we don't want that.
- 21:00Speaker 1: And here they are meeting, meeting, and the guy apologize.
- 21:03Speaker 1: You can see him on the replay. He's like, my
- 21:04Speaker 1: bad right away. And so they're getting to meet Mike
- 21:07Speaker 1: and it looks like the kid got a bat from Mike.
- 21:09Speaker 1: All that all, that's great and all, but let the
- 21:12Speaker 1: players play stay o the way I know Mike was
- 21:14Speaker 1: into the stands. It's the fans right to go get
- 21:16Speaker 1: the ball. Just be careful, people, Please be careful, because
- 21:20Speaker 1: we don't want someone to get hurt on something like
- 21:21Speaker 1: this and we don't need an altercation that doesn't need
- 21:23Speaker 1: to happen.
- 21:23Speaker 2: Please wait, So why is the play last year in
- 21:27Speaker 2: the World Series? Fan interference? But this isn't because the
- 21:31Speaker 2: umpire Alan Porter was asked about this post game and
- 21:33Speaker 2: he said, I wasn't in the World Series. I don't
- 21:36Speaker 2: even remember seeing the play, So he's not a baseball fan.
- 21:39Speaker 3: Clearly, that's not true. That's not true because that play
- 21:41Speaker 3: was everywhere.
- 21:42Speaker 2: Why would he say that?
- 21:44Speaker 1: Because it makes it an easy answer from when they
- 21:46Speaker 1: asked the next question. If he didn't see that, he
- 21:48Speaker 1: says he saw it. If he says he saw it,
- 21:50Speaker 1: then he asked to explain the difference. If he goes,
- 21:52Speaker 1: I didn't see it. I just went off this one.
- 21:54Speaker 1: That's the easy way out. It's easy answer. And I
- 21:55Speaker 1: understand why he said it, because you don't want to
- 21:57Speaker 1: answer more questions. But I don't know why one was
- 21:59Speaker 1: one thing and one was it wasn't. It doesn't make sense.
- 22:02Speaker 1: Maybe because the other guys were yelling at Mookie Betts
- 22:03Speaker 1: and these guys were nice about it.
- 22:07Speaker 2: Yeah, but if it didn't matter, next play flies outle
- 22:11Speaker 2: like what if? What if it did matter?
- 22:14Speaker 5: It does matter? I think it does.
- 22:15Speaker 4: I think I think it's one of those things where
- 22:17Speaker 4: you have to take another peak Ron Washington and he
- 22:21Speaker 4: just like, oh, it came out nice and easy, and
- 22:23Speaker 4: then just walk back in.
- 22:24Speaker 5: So I don't know. Maybe we just downplay it like
- 22:28Speaker 5: like the Angels did and just move on.
- 22:29Speaker 4: But you know, could it could have been something again
- 22:33Speaker 4: that could have hurt somebody. But yeah, I mean, if
- 22:36Speaker 4: you're in a baseball everybody saw that play.
- 22:37Speaker 2: Yeah, I just think slippery slope. We gotta be careful
- 22:40Speaker 2: here because you're even last year they had to learn
- 22:43Speaker 2: a quick lesson a Jane. We were part of the
- 22:45Speaker 2: blast because originally they were like, man, we're not gonna
- 22:47Speaker 2: do that much. We're just gonna kick them out of
- 22:49Speaker 2: the game, and it sounds like they're gonna come back.
- 22:51Speaker 2: So this part, I do want to emphasize that I
- 22:54Speaker 2: do think Trout did right. Trout seemed to point out
- 22:57Speaker 2: that the fan was apologetic and really was like, oh
- 22:59Speaker 2: my gosh, I'm so I didn't mean to do this.
- 23:01Speaker 2: Last year, those guys are grabbing bets and then they
- 23:03Speaker 2: go on a press tour. Essentially, this is our turf.
- 23:06Speaker 2: We're defending him. They go on a couple stupid shows, right,
- 23:09Speaker 2: and then all of a sudden, fans are coming after them,
- 23:11Speaker 2: and then there's an article like, oh, I'm getting threats
- 23:14Speaker 2: and whatever, like you were threatening bets. You guys handled
- 23:17Speaker 2: this completely wrong, right, Like bozo thugs trying to go
- 23:20Speaker 2: after players. This was handled opposite by the fan obviously
- 23:24Speaker 2: trying to maybe even teach an important lesson his son,
- 23:27Speaker 2: like I made a mistake. I'm saying sorry right away.
- 23:29Speaker 2: Trott rewards that, So that part of the narrative I
- 23:32Speaker 2: thought was actually really cool.
- 23:34Speaker 1: Agreed, agreed. It was two completely different people. One person
- 23:38Speaker 1: was sorry, the other two clowns were not sorry. I
- 23:40Speaker 1: mean they were oh yeah, like you said on shows,
- 23:42Speaker 1: this is our turf, We're gonna be back there tomorrow,
- 23:44Speaker 1: game three, whatever, dude, just go away, and they got
- 23:47Speaker 1: banned for a long time.
- 23:48Speaker 3: I believe.
- 23:49Speaker 1: My question is I don't know what the hitter ended
- 23:50Speaker 1: up doing that about, but if he would have got
- 23:52Speaker 1: a hit or and then scored a run or whatever,
- 23:54Speaker 1: man I would have been so if I was catching
- 23:56Speaker 1: oh man.
- 23:56Speaker 3: I was logan on hobby back there.
- 23:58Speaker 1: And the trout makes it catch and then and he
- 24:01Speaker 1: sayd god forbid. The guy hits a home run. I'm
- 24:03Speaker 1: screaming at Alan Porter, like you cost us a run,
- 24:05Speaker 1: this is your fault. And I'm probably getting ejected right there.
- 24:08Speaker 1: So I'm glad. I don't know what ended up having it,
- 24:10Speaker 1: but the Angels handled it better than most people would have.
- 24:15Speaker 2: All Right, well, we have a couple of minutes the
- 24:16Speaker 2: TV crowd's didn't break. AJ can spend some time telling
- 24:20Speaker 2: everyone how the White Sox had a weekend. Dude, that
- 24:24Speaker 2: was even close yesterday? What they won two out of
- 24:26Speaker 2: three against Boston. No, you're not impressed.
- 24:30Speaker 3: Bro.
- 24:30Speaker 1: First of all, I'm gonna say this right now, and
- 24:34Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna go ahead, Todd, you can laugh
- 24:36Speaker 1: at me. It's because it's funny as hell. My two
- 24:39Speaker 1: World Series fixed. The Red Sox and the Brave they
- 24:41Speaker 1: both sucks suck, they like suck suck, both of them.
- 24:44Speaker 3: Oh my gosh. The Red Sox can't hit a lick.
- 24:49Speaker 3: I mean, that's also nothing against these guys.
- 24:51Speaker 1: I played with Sean Newcomb, but they ran out Sean
- 24:53Speaker 1: Newcomb and Casey fits right, and then Crochet went out
- 24:56Speaker 1: and dominated, right.
- 24:57Speaker 3: Nothing against these guys. I know they're big league pitchers
- 24:59Speaker 3: and all that.
- 25:00Speaker 1: I know Sean Newcome and he's been through a lot
- 25:02Speaker 1: of stuff to be able to pitch in the big
- 25:04Speaker 1: leagues again.
- 25:04Speaker 3: But man, you can't.
- 25:05Speaker 1: If you're the Red Sox, you can't not lose two
- 25:07Speaker 1: out of three to the White Sox. I'm sorry, but
- 25:10Speaker 1: you know what, it's karma for Pap.
- 25:12Speaker 3: Pap.
- 25:12Speaker 1: You always bet against the damn White Sox. So suck it, Pap.
- 25:15Speaker 1: You got two three, and I was hoping they sweep you,
- 25:18Speaker 1: just so I could come on here, where are you
- 25:20Speaker 1: out about the White Sox sweeping the Red Sox?
- 25:23Speaker 2: Boom there you go. Hey, yeah, Crochet was awesome yesterday.
- 25:26Speaker 2: By the way, Kes the No No into the A.
- 25:28Speaker 2: It's eleven punch out seven the third. I mean I'm
- 25:30Speaker 2: looking at it like, damn, how do you not bet
- 25:33Speaker 2: the over k prop here and just think he is
- 25:35Speaker 2: going to be, you know, hell on Earth, and he was.
- 25:39Speaker 2: I mean, aj their offense has been flat. Obviously, they
- 25:42Speaker 2: got blown away two days ago right in the first
- 25:45Speaker 2: game eleven one, then walk off for the White Sox,
- 25:47Speaker 2: and then even in this one, there's two to one
- 25:49Speaker 2: until the ninth story hits a Homer makes a three
- 25:51Speaker 2: to one. White Sox either pitched well against them or
- 25:54Speaker 2: their offense is having issues.
- 25:57Speaker 3: Thank god for Trevor Story.
- 25:58Speaker 1: Trevor Story has been like their best play by far,
- 26:00Speaker 1: and everyone Fraigie's doing all right, but Devers still, I mean,
- 26:03Speaker 1: Dever's had a few good games.
- 26:04Speaker 3: We still not wear Rafael Devers. Duran hasn't gotten it
- 26:07Speaker 3: going yet.
- 26:08Speaker 1: It's just they haven't hit I mean, I know they
- 26:10Speaker 1: missed Connor Wong, but oh man, I don't know. This
- 26:14Speaker 1: is by the way, Coss has made like Casas looks
- 26:17Speaker 1: I don't know, it looks like me playing for as
- 26:18Speaker 1: space over there.
- 26:19Speaker 3: Sometimes I don't know what's going on.
- 26:20Speaker 1: He man, It's like it's just their defense hasn't been
- 26:24Speaker 1: great and they're hitting hasn't been great, and that leads
- 26:26Speaker 1: to not being a very good team and Red Sox
- 26:28Speaker 1: need to pick it up big time.
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- 27:33Speaker 2: Twins are off to a slow start. It struggled city
- 27:36Speaker 2: for them. They did pick up a win yesterday but
- 27:38Speaker 2: lost another series. And there was a play on Saturday
- 27:43Speaker 2: where Jose Miranda thought he was out, so he starts
- 27:46Speaker 2: heading back to the dugout, but he was not out.
- 27:48Speaker 2: The umpire called him safe. He was never tagged, so
- 27:51Speaker 2: he was optioned after the game. Now, he was off
- 27:55Speaker 2: to a very slow start. He was in one sixty
- 27:57Speaker 2: seven with no pop. But Roccobaldelli definitely laid it out
- 28:03Speaker 2: after the game and said Miranda has to do better
- 28:05Speaker 2: on that play. Cole Keith wasn't on the bag. Jose
- 28:09Speaker 2: didn't make it to the bag on the slide. Either way,
- 28:11Speaker 2: umpire was clearly signaling safe. We have to be paying
- 28:14Speaker 2: attention and never allow something like that to happen. We're
- 28:17Speaker 2: showing you to play right now. If you're checking this
- 28:19Speaker 2: out podcast later on audio Wise, then you can watch
- 28:23Speaker 2: this if you tune in later.
- 28:25Speaker 5: But let me see that.
- 28:26Speaker 2: How crazy is that? Like to me? I mean, I
- 28:29Speaker 2: can't relate. How does that happen?
- 28:30Speaker 5: Like?
- 28:30Speaker 2: Is it just the ultimate brain fart here? And do
- 28:33Speaker 2: you think obviously it wasn't hitting, But do you think
- 28:35Speaker 2: that they're like, hey, we got to send a message.
- 28:36Speaker 2: This team is flat right now, we're optioning this guy out.
- 28:39Speaker 4: I think maybe the only other thing I think if
- 28:41Speaker 4: it's on his mind that he's not hitting, like oh god,
- 28:44Speaker 4: I got a hit, and forget about the scenarios and
- 28:46Speaker 4: the situations and what to look for. I mean, you
- 28:48Speaker 4: slid right there and you saw the guy catch the
- 28:51Speaker 4: ball with his foot nowhere near the back and just
- 28:54Speaker 4: get up. I'm gonna go on the dug out. Yeah,
- 28:56Speaker 4: I mean that feel bad for yourself, man, nobody feels
- 28:59Speaker 4: bad for you.
- 29:00Speaker 3: Man.
- 29:00Speaker 4: It's a tough league and he's got he's gotta be better.
- 29:03Speaker 4: And I think the message was definitely sent.
- 29:07Speaker 1: M gosh, there's a lot of things here to unravel.
- 29:13Speaker 1: I don't know that he got sent down because of
- 29:15Speaker 1: this play. It just didn't look good. I think he was.
- 29:18Speaker 3: I don't know.
- 29:18Speaker 1: I mean, do you how many guys make mistakes all
- 29:21Speaker 1: the time, So to say, yeah, he made a mental mistake,
- 29:23Speaker 1: I mean Scott Todd. I'm sure when you you know, Scott,
- 29:26Speaker 1: when you're playing Tittally winks she forgot how to play,
- 29:29Speaker 1: and Todd it, I'm sure once or twice you forgot
- 29:31Speaker 1: how to how many outs there were on the bases
- 29:33Speaker 1: and did something you.
- 29:33Speaker 3: Know, took off or where people make mistakes. To me,
- 29:36Speaker 3: it was just I don't know, you just assume you're
- 29:39Speaker 3: out because you slide.
- 29:40Speaker 1: It's the big leagues, and I think sometimes when you're
- 29:41Speaker 1: in the big leagues, you just like, oh, I'm out.
- 29:43Speaker 1: And he made a mistake. And I don't know that's
- 29:45Speaker 1: why he got sent down, But I don't know.
- 29:48Speaker 3: It stinks. It's a bad look the twins. He to
- 29:49Speaker 3: do something.
- 29:50Speaker 1: So was he the was he the sacrificial sacrifice to
- 29:54Speaker 1: the gods baseball gods?
- 29:56Speaker 3: Maybe?
- 29:56Speaker 1: But I hope it doesn't affect, you know, us being
- 29:58Speaker 1: able to get Hamilton ticket.
- 30:01Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's right. That's when Manuel Miranda, creator of
- 30:05Speaker 2: Hamilton's cousin and Miranda's good. Dude is a nice guy.
- 30:08Speaker 2: I good interview. You know, he's had some ups and
- 30:10Speaker 2: downs here. He wasn't hitting. Like I mentioned, it's early
- 30:12Speaker 2: in the season, but also aj, I mean, the Twins
- 30:15Speaker 2: are five and eleven, a half game up on the
- 30:18Speaker 2: White Sox who are four and eleven, and then there's
- 30:20Speaker 2: the rest of the division in front of them that
- 30:22Speaker 2: looks pretty good, which is what we expected, right The Tigers,
- 30:25Speaker 2: the Guardians, the Royals, none of them are running away
- 30:28Speaker 2: to start the year like they're all off to okay starts.
- 30:32Speaker 2: But if you're Minnesota, you're five and eleven already. Last
- 30:35Speaker 2: year you had an epic collapse twelve and twenty seven
- 30:38Speaker 2: after blowing eight. You know what, I think Fangrafts called
- 30:40Speaker 2: ninety two percent chance of making the playoffs at that
- 30:43Speaker 2: point in the season, and Ken Rosenthal covered this, I
- 30:45Speaker 2: think a little bit unfair territory and really alluded to
- 30:47Speaker 2: his article talking about managers on the hot seat. Something's
- 30:51Speaker 2: got to change there. And I don't know if Fitzroco's
- 30:55Speaker 2: fault because he's dealing with what he's got, but there's
- 30:58Speaker 2: been stillness with the Do you think that the team
- 31:02Speaker 2: looks at what's gone on over the past couple of years,
- 31:04Speaker 2: including the collapse, and then the same thing, the same
- 31:07Speaker 2: team rolling out here for the next year, and it
- 31:10Speaker 2: hurts their chances and the vibes in the clubhouse of
- 31:13Speaker 2: a team that fell apart and nothing changed.
- 31:18Speaker 3: I don't know.
- 31:18Speaker 1: I think that's why this was an important move for them.
- 31:20Speaker 1: I think if you talk to Twins fans, they'll say, man,
- 31:23Speaker 1: Roco is always positive, always positive. And listen, we all
- 31:25Speaker 1: as a former player, you love a positive manager, right,
- 31:28Speaker 1: You're like always got my back, this and that. But
- 31:30Speaker 1: there's got to be a chance where, by the way,
- 31:32Speaker 1: can we change Ken's little thing to the picture of
- 31:34Speaker 1: him and as the fake toy thing. While I'm talking related,
- 31:40Speaker 1: but the the Twins fans that I know, because I
- 31:44Speaker 1: still have friends up there and saying, man, we need
- 31:45Speaker 1: somebody that's gonna get a little bit, you know, into
- 31:48Speaker 1: them a little bit every once in a while and
- 31:50Speaker 1: everything is not always hunky dor And is Rocko on
- 31:52Speaker 1: the hot seat? I think he's got to be a
- 31:54Speaker 1: little bit because of the collapse and then the way
- 31:56Speaker 1: they started, because again going into this season, if you
- 31:58Speaker 1: looked at the projected standings, they were supposed to win
- 32:01Speaker 1: the division. They're five and eleven. So you say it
- 32:04Speaker 1: doesn't one year doesn't carry over the next year. But
- 32:06Speaker 1: so far, the end of twenty four looks like it's
- 32:08Speaker 1: carried into the beginning of twenty five. And I know
- 32:09Speaker 1: they have some injuries Royce Lewis and some other guys,
- 32:12Speaker 1: but still you think this team should be better.
- 32:15Speaker 2: Yeah, Pablo Lopez is out, they're missing guys.
- 32:22Speaker 4: Agreed, there's nothing to do with It's just that's central
- 32:25Speaker 4: just like kind of dody dody, don't like.
- 32:28Speaker 2: There's a good team.
- 32:29Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 32:30Speaker 2: I like the Tigers and the Royals. I like a lot.
- 32:33Speaker 2: The Guardians are going to be there.
- 32:34Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 32:34Speaker 2: I think the Twins are the fourth place team. I
- 32:37Speaker 2: felt really confident about that heading into the year.
- 32:40Speaker 4: They just don't do it for us right now, No,
- 32:42Speaker 4: for everybody. It's just like going through the motions kind
- 32:44Speaker 4: of deal.
- 32:47Speaker 2: Injuries do suck. Marcus Stroman got smashed on Friday, didn't
- 32:51Speaker 2: get out of the first inning aj and then goes
- 32:55Speaker 2: on the il with knee inflammation. So there's another starter
- 32:59Speaker 2: down for the Yankees, and he does not look good.
- 33:02Speaker 2: He's got about eleven and a half right to start
- 33:04Speaker 2: the year. That h's some imaging, saw some inflammation, so
- 33:07Speaker 2: he hits the shelf. That's no coal, that's no heel.
- 33:11Speaker 2: Obviously Stroman, who many Yankee fans don't want to see
- 33:13Speaker 2: right now. But maybe he was really hurt and he'll
- 33:15Speaker 2: get healthy again, So they're missing a lotch Schmid hasn't
- 33:18Speaker 2: come back yet, but I think that's coming back soon.
- 33:21Speaker 2: So they've got Freedom rodin And if you're a Yanks fan,
- 33:24Speaker 2: you're like, hey, Yanks, good job on signing up Max Freed,
- 33:27Speaker 2: because he looks stupid good right now and they'd be
- 33:29Speaker 2: in a bad spot without him. Offense is clicking. But
- 33:32Speaker 2: what did you think of Stroman on Friday?
- 33:35Speaker 3: It was rainy, it was nasty out. I don't know.
- 33:38Speaker 3: I'm gonna defer to Todd on this one because he
- 33:40Speaker 3: knows more about the Yankees. I watched some of that game.
- 33:42Speaker 1: Yankee fans were not super happy about that whole performance
- 33:46Speaker 1: him on the IL.
- 33:47Speaker 3: I mean, listen, I don't know.
- 33:49Speaker 1: I mean, he didn't make it out of the first inning,
- 33:52Speaker 1: so it was maybe hurt it when the rain. I
- 33:54Speaker 1: don't know, maybe he had something going on before.
- 33:57Speaker 3: I don't know. Just get healthy. I don't know. I
- 34:02Speaker 3: don't I don't really, I just don't know. Hey, I
- 34:05Speaker 3: don't know.
- 34:07Speaker 4: You said I don't know six times in a matter
- 34:09Speaker 4: of ten seconds.
- 34:09Speaker 5: That was good, Craig. Nobody knows.
- 34:13Speaker 3: Nobody knows. That's why I was like, I'll defer to you, dud.
- 34:16Speaker 4: No, and I think, and I don't have all the
- 34:17Speaker 4: answers either, but I think if you think about a
- 34:20Speaker 4: knee injury, whether it's the back of neee or frontne
- 34:23Speaker 4: you need the back one to push off, you need
- 34:24Speaker 4: a front need to stabilize after your pitch. So it
- 34:27Speaker 4: kind of looked like he was trying to tinker with
- 34:29Speaker 4: the corners a little bit. And he's not overpowering anymore.
- 34:33Speaker 4: He's not his ball moves, don't get me wrong. But
- 34:35Speaker 4: at the same time eighty nine ninety one, it's hard.
- 34:40Speaker 4: You got to move the ball which way. And he's
- 34:42Speaker 4: not Greg Maddox either. It's just a guy right now.
- 34:45Speaker 4: That was, you know, fighting to stay on the field,
- 34:47Speaker 4: and you know, as you saw, it didn't work out
- 34:50Speaker 4: in the first inning when you have some sort of injury.
- 34:52Speaker 4: And I'm not making an excuse, but I'm saying, especially
- 34:55Speaker 4: with your legs and you're a pitcher, something's got to give,
- 34:58Speaker 4: and if you're not throwing strike either, it's gonna be
- 35:01Speaker 4: it's gonna be a hard time for him.
- 35:03Speaker 2: He's got the vesting option too. If he hits let's
- 35:07Speaker 2: see one hundred and forty innings this year, obviously we'll
- 35:11Speaker 2: see how long he's out. But Yankee, no, it's an
- 35:16Speaker 2: extra eighteen million bucks. You know, you know, and they're
- 35:19Speaker 2: judging fast. But hey, remember in spring training a couple
- 35:22Speaker 2: of guys go down and they're like, oh, good thing,
- 35:24Speaker 2: we got Strowman in the back end. That's at least
- 35:26Speaker 2: a five starter for us. Now they're like, oh, it
- 35:27Speaker 2: looks terrible. Get him out of there. Who are the replacements?
- 35:31Speaker 2: That's my question. I'm okay with a quick hook on
- 35:34Speaker 2: guys that could only have a year left in a deal,
- 35:36Speaker 2: but are you good with the rest of the rotation
- 35:39Speaker 2: or do you need to eat those innings? Because even
- 35:41Speaker 2: if you're calling up young guys.
- 35:43Speaker 3: You're what, someone's got to eat those innings.
- 35:46Speaker 2: And then what happens if they don't and the bullpen
- 35:48Speaker 2: works too much? What happens in September.
- 35:50Speaker 4: When so before that Clarksmith comes out, I think will
- 35:53Speaker 4: Warren still has a job now. Yeah, yeah, which is
- 35:55Speaker 4: in which is good because he you know, he finally
- 35:57Speaker 4: got the dub the other day. You know, he looked
- 35:59Speaker 4: pretty good. But they're gonna have to claw. They're gonna
- 36:04Speaker 4: have to find someone down. I don't know who the
- 36:06Speaker 4: answer is right now, but they have to find somebody
- 36:09Speaker 4: else that's gonna help them out because injuries, as we know,
- 36:13Speaker 4: they stink and there, so there's gonna be something here
- 36:15Speaker 4: and there that's gonna happen. They don't have their big
- 36:17Speaker 4: guns that that can come out and just you know,
- 36:19Speaker 4: Pitch Heel, Garrett Cole, they don't. They don't have those guys.
- 36:24Speaker 4: And they're another one, just like the Cubs. They might
- 36:27Speaker 4: have to go out and fish for somebody and and
- 36:29Speaker 4: and get another pitcher in there.
- 36:31Speaker 2: How the hell does Spencer Turnbull not have a job
- 36:34Speaker 2: his third thirty one season last year with Philly a
- 36:38Speaker 2: two six five ERA, seventeen appearances, seven of them starts,
- 36:41Speaker 2: and I know he's had his fair share of injuries.
- 36:44Speaker 2: Remember they booted him out of the rotation and back
- 36:46Speaker 2: into the bullpen, and then he got hurt with the
- 36:49Speaker 2: lad injury. After that, he looked fire to start the year.
- 36:52Speaker 2: I mean a j is he asking for fifteen million dollars? Like,
- 36:56Speaker 2: how does the team not to sign someone?
- 36:58Speaker 1: Like, come up, you should be his agent, Scott, because
- 37:00Speaker 1: you have been on him for like a month now,
- 37:02Speaker 1: so you should definitely not.
- 37:03Speaker 2: I'm just pointing him out.
- 37:04Speaker 1: And you said Spencer, you have Spencer said Spencer Turnbull
- 37:09Speaker 1: a lot, which is great.
- 37:10Speaker 3: He's a great he had a great year last year.
- 37:12Speaker 1: The funniest thing I saw this weekend from Yankee fans
- 37:15Speaker 1: was Carlos Rodan went out and pitched like ninety two
- 37:19Speaker 1: great pitches and then he has like eight bad ones,
- 37:21Speaker 1: and everyone's like, how does Carlos rd on through ninety
- 37:23Speaker 1: two great pitches and eight where he gives up like
- 37:25Speaker 1: three homers. It's like the biggest puzzle of all time, Like,
- 37:29Speaker 1: Carlos are not looks like a Cy Young winning. Then
- 37:31Speaker 1: for some reason, those three pitches they all get hit
- 37:33Speaker 1: for homers. That's what I picked from this weekend. That's
- 37:35Speaker 1: what for the Yankee fans. It was kind of funny.
- 37:37Speaker 2: Hmm, well, you know we're up here.
- 37:40Speaker 5: We always find the negative.
- 37:41Speaker 4: Yeah, that's the way we're funny.
- 37:46Speaker 1: It was all over Twitter. It was like Carlos Rdan
- 37:49Speaker 1: looks like a Cy Young for ninety pitches. Ain't those
- 37:51Speaker 1: eight and three homers are hit?
- 37:52Speaker 2: What?
- 37:52Speaker 3: What changes?
- 37:53Speaker 4: That's the thing. Those those those bad ones. You know
- 37:56Speaker 4: you're hoping they missed barrel, but that with him sometimes
- 37:59Speaker 4: they app murdered, crushed the ball.
- 38:01Speaker 5: Excuse me?
- 38:02Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, the Yankees are hitting, so they're okay right now,
- 38:05Speaker 2: They're they're treading water. I'm just worried about multiple rotations
- 38:09Speaker 2: in that division. All right, let's slap. First off, we
- 38:24Speaker 2: didn't have time for everything from the weekend, but Elie
- 38:26Speaker 2: de la Cruz on his switch hitting Bibblehead Night where
- 38:29Speaker 2: those things were selling like hotcakes online. Later on Grand Slam,
- 38:33Speaker 2: How you doing?
- 38:33Speaker 5: Hi? One to wait?
- 38:34Speaker 2: How bad?
- 38:35Speaker 5: Yeah?
- 38:36Speaker 4: I thought it was Pop f Live. I forgot forgot
- 38:38Speaker 4: what stadium we're at. I've never played there.
- 38:40Speaker 2: The small park. It works, it works sometimes in your favor.
- 38:43Speaker 2: That's cool though, if you go to a game like
- 38:45Speaker 2: your kid and and you're going to your first game
- 38:48Speaker 2: and you get a cool hand out and then the
- 38:50Speaker 2: dude and then the dude, Yeah like that, that's awesome. Obviously,
- 38:53Speaker 2: Otani did it on his bibble the other day, where
- 38:56Speaker 2: he had.
- 38:56Speaker 3: The Bible head day bibleheadays, have you.
- 39:00Speaker 5: Of course, I don't know, I don't know. I don't
- 39:02Speaker 5: remember for you.
- 39:04Speaker 1: All right, all right, Dicky trying to sneak the knuckleball
- 39:07Speaker 1: by the rat and it didn't work.
- 39:09Speaker 4: Before he goes on when you faced, all right, you
- 39:11Speaker 4: know the old saying, knuckleball, if it's high, let us five,
- 39:14Speaker 4: it's low, let go. I did the opposite with him,
- 39:16Speaker 4: because he threw it harder than Tim Wakefield. He threw
- 39:20Speaker 4: it like ten miles faster.
- 39:22Speaker 3: He threw like eighty five knuckleball fall.
- 39:27Speaker 4: No, but you know, you know what I'm saying. If
- 39:28Speaker 4: it was I let it go. If it was low,
- 39:30Speaker 4: it stayed right up on the knees. You could scoop
- 39:32Speaker 4: that jelly and just kick one out of there.
- 39:34Speaker 3: But whatever agreed, agreed, I let it fly low, let
- 39:37Speaker 3: it go.
- 39:37Speaker 5: I had. I had a couple of homers off him too.
- 39:40Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you got him, all right, So you guys,
- 39:42Speaker 2: are you guys actually helped to retire knuckleballers because we
- 39:45Speaker 2: really barely get him at we got I mean, you
- 39:47Speaker 2: don't see many.
- 39:48Speaker 3: Well I retired, That's why I retired.
- 39:51Speaker 2: Yes, they got rid of the knuckles. You're like, all right,
- 39:53Speaker 2: I'm done. Cal Riley, by the way, homer in three
- 39:56Speaker 2: straight games now and happened to get himself a little
- 40:00Speaker 2: for a little torpedo bat. So that's a fun story
- 40:02Speaker 2: to follow.
- 40:03Speaker 5: That the other like one handed, same thing.
- 40:06Speaker 4: It was low got down to a need on what
- 40:09Speaker 4: it was that the change up, split change or whatever
- 40:12Speaker 4: it was.
- 40:12Speaker 5: That was a nice I mean epic home runs.
- 40:14Speaker 2: I love those, and they need it.
- 40:17Speaker 5: They got a hit.
- 40:18Speaker 2: Yeah, And then I mentioned this for a second earlier,
- 40:20Speaker 2: but a j I think this is actually a huge
- 40:23Speaker 2: underrated signing. Jose Kintana, I believe got overlooked. Brewers pick
- 40:27Speaker 2: him up. His debut against the Diamondbacks, A very good
- 40:30Speaker 2: offense was that Friday seven shutty, four hits, no walks.
- 40:33Speaker 2: Two K's classic Quintana performance. And they've they've watched him
- 40:37Speaker 2: burn them for years. They're like, enough, uncle, we're done,
- 40:40Speaker 2: join us.
- 40:41Speaker 3: My boy Q still doing it.
- 40:43Speaker 1: One of the happiest guys you'll ever be around your life,
- 40:45Speaker 1: one of the happiest dudes of all time.
- 40:47Speaker 3: Gray fella.
- 40:49Speaker 1: Just happy that he's still pitching, and he has great
- 40:51Speaker 1: numbers in Milwaukee, so check them out.
- 40:54Speaker 2: So I actually wore the starter jacket today, quick and fresh.
- 40:57Speaker 5: Hopefully you won't need that for long. We'll get weather.
- 40:59Speaker 5: It's gonna get one, but.
- 41:01Speaker 2: I just wanted to show it off, just out like that.
- 41:03Speaker 5: I don't know why you had to do that. Bring it.
- 41:06Speaker 5: That's how I love. Yeah, it's a sweet jacket though.
- 41:09Speaker 2: Do you see the color pop? That's nice.
- 41:13Speaker 5: It's like game used.
- 41:14Speaker 2: Yeah, good job, Homage starter jackets. You can get them online.
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- 41:24Speaker 2: shirts in my order too, so I will bring those
- 41:27Speaker 2: down to Florida so I can sit next to AJ
- 41:30Speaker 2: and he can see them in person. They're they're coming
- 41:32Speaker 2: this week.
- 41:34Speaker 3: Nice. Nice, bring them on down because the weather here
- 41:36Speaker 3: is perfect. Trust me. I was sitting in a blind
- 41:38Speaker 3: this morning.
- 41:39Speaker 1: It was sixty degrees and when we sat down, and
- 41:41Speaker 1: when I got up it was eighty degrees. It was
- 41:43Speaker 1: perfect weather, perfect, perfect turkey hunting weather.
- 41:46Speaker 3: Today.
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- 41:53Speaker 2: for twenty percent off. Thanks to Tyler Glass now for
- 41:56Speaker 2: joining us earlier in the show. Dodgers Territory is coming
- 41:59Speaker 2: up next. We got a pretty loaded schedule for you
- 42:01Speaker 2: on Mondays, so Fair Territory is already out. If you
- 42:04Speaker 2: want to check that out and you missed it, it's
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- 42:12Speaker 2: so we're on the track to one hundred k. Should
- 42:14Speaker 2: get there pretty soon. And then we've got Baseball America's
- 42:17Speaker 2: Hot Sheet Show, which comes through after Dodgers' Territory at
- 42:20Speaker 2: three thirty Eastern time, and then six forty first pitch
- 42:25Speaker 2: for Paul Skians and the Pirates against the Washington Nationals. Man,
- 42:29Speaker 2: Pirate's got to get going. Nationals still have a year,
- 42:32Speaker 2: I feel like with their fan base aj of time
- 42:35Speaker 2: before they're going to start to get a little bit nig.
- 42:37Speaker 2: But Pirates fans are losing their shit right now.
- 42:41Speaker 3: Pirates fans have lost it. Nationals, yeah, you're right, they
- 42:43Speaker 3: might have one more year, but yes.
- 42:46Speaker 2: Yeah, Pittsburgh needs to get going because the NL Central
- 42:51Speaker 2: should be a little bit better this year. Cubs look
- 42:52Speaker 2: like they'll be better, right, Red should be I think
- 42:55Speaker 2: a little bit better. Yeah, Brewers should be in a
- 42:59Speaker 2: similar range. Cardinals are not bad. I've been saying this,
- 43:02Speaker 2: This is not a bad team. No, it wasn't like
- 43:05Speaker 2: a disaster team last year, and they fell off more
- 43:08Speaker 2: towards the end of the year. But like they do
- 43:10Speaker 2: have some fun emerging young players. They're not bad, Like
- 43:13Speaker 2: they might be a five hundred team. So then you're
- 43:15Speaker 2: looking around in the division. You're like, who am I
- 43:17Speaker 2: picking on? Who do the Pirates pick on?
- 43:21Speaker 5: Saint Louis? I'm not sure that's what.
- 43:23Speaker 2: They don't have a Rockies. They don't have a Marlands
- 43:25Speaker 2: in Nashville. I mean, yeah, Marland's and National Yeah, aj
- 43:28Speaker 2: they don't have got a hit what the White Sox.
- 43:32Speaker 2: I don't know if there's going to be a bad,
- 43:33Speaker 2: bad team, I think it might be them.
- 43:37Speaker 3: What do they say? If you don't know who it is,
- 43:38Speaker 3: it's usually you.
- 43:40Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. Oh, I forgot one show too, May Day,
- 43:43Speaker 2: Trevor May's weekly show on Mondays. Also in between all
- 43:47Speaker 2: of those, there it is we didn't forget about you,
- 43:49Speaker 2: Trevor so Dodgers Territory Now ATCHI three point thirty May
- 43:52Speaker 2: Day four playback at six forty, Lance Brasdowski and JJ
- 43:57Speaker 2: Cooper will join me, maybe some others as well, to
- 43:59Speaker 2: watch game, so we'll be hanging with you the rest
- 44:02Speaker 2: of the day. There's the watch party on the way out,
- 44:05Speaker 2: all right, AJ keep it warm down there, coming back
- 44:09Speaker 2: tomorrow if I can make a six am flight, wish
- 44:11Speaker 2: me a lot.
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