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- 0:03Speaker 1: Look at this the Battery made back together. It's Lance
- 0:09Speaker 1: Linn and Aj Prizinski on a show together for the
- 0:11Speaker 1: first time. Aj, you missed lance debut the other day.
- 0:16Speaker 2: I know I wasn't too upset about that though, so
- 0:18Speaker 2: I'm sure you did great, Lance, or at least you tell
- 0:19Speaker 2: me you did great.
- 0:20Speaker 3: No matter what.
- 0:21Speaker 4: Hey, don't act like you didn't check in to see
- 0:23Speaker 4: how I did and told me I did a good
- 0:24Speaker 4: job via text. Everybody knows you play hard to get publicly,
- 0:28Speaker 4: but behind the scenes, he's just a big, nice guy.
- 0:32Speaker 2: I honestly, that would be like saying I read the
- 0:34Speaker 2: rundowns or I knew neither.
- 0:37Speaker 3: So no, he was Where was I when Lance? Which
- 0:43Speaker 3: city was.
- 0:44Speaker 4: In you're living your life?
- 0:46Speaker 1: Usually I guess Chicago just because he is.
- 0:49Speaker 3: I wasn't there, you go.
- 0:51Speaker 1: I was just going, yes, Well, since you guys are
- 0:54Speaker 1: are two, you know playing a lot of ball in
- 0:56Speaker 1: the Midwest too, Midwesterners baseball wise, for of your career.
- 1:00Speaker 1: I have two things to share at the top of
- 1:02Speaker 1: the show. Number One, you guys both played for the
- 1:05Speaker 1: White Sox. Did you know that they surpassed last year's
- 1:08Speaker 1: win total this past weekend? So they will not have
- 1:11Speaker 1: a worse record than last year.
- 1:14Speaker 4: That it was impressive.
- 1:17Speaker 3: Is that something to be proud of?
- 1:19Speaker 2: Yes, if they're not going to have the worst record
- 1:21Speaker 2: of all time again I said at the beginning of
- 1:24Speaker 2: the year, They're not.
- 1:24Speaker 3: They cannot possibly be that bad.
- 1:26Speaker 4: It could have somebody, somebody trying to beat him.
- 1:28Speaker 1: Though, true, true, the Rockies. Yeah, but this is this
- 1:34Speaker 1: could be about a twenty game improvement for the Socks,
- 1:37Speaker 1: who played pretty well this weekend against the Angels. And
- 1:40Speaker 1: then I've got one for Lance that I think I'm
- 1:42Speaker 1: going to stump him on Lance. We had eight call
- 1:44Speaker 1: ups for the Twins on Friday who decided to sell
- 1:48Speaker 1: about half of their team. It's okay if you don't
- 1:51Speaker 1: know the answer. Most of America I would say ninety
- 1:53Speaker 1: nine point percent of America doesn't know this. Can you
- 1:57Speaker 1: name a relief pitcher on the Minnesota Twins?
- 2:02Speaker 4: Oh No, And the ones that I could want, the
- 2:06Speaker 4: ones that I could name are just got traded.
- 2:08Speaker 1: So no, exactly, No brock Stewart, no Louis Island, no Griffin.
- 2:14Speaker 2: Left John John. There was another Juwan with the j H.
- 2:18Speaker 2: Lefty what's his name? I forgot his name. No, he's
- 2:22Speaker 2: not there anymore. No mm hm, No, I can't name one.
- 2:26Speaker 3: Then Stewart Jack's Colomb, he going colomb, he gone, colombe gone.
- 2:32Speaker 2: The theod Barr doesn't play for them anymore. He was
- 2:34Speaker 2: there forever he was a staple yep uh duranchies.
- 2:40Speaker 3: Oh, thunder Burke, thunder Burk, thunder Birk.
- 2:44Speaker 1: That was good.
- 2:47Speaker 3: You know why?
- 2:47Speaker 2: The only m hm and you know the only reason
- 2:51Speaker 2: why I know who he is is is because there
- 2:53Speaker 2: used to be a Twins prospect named Mark VanderBurg who
- 2:56Speaker 2: was a left handed hitting first baseman. Okay and so,
- 3:00Speaker 2: and I used to watch him when he was in
- 3:02Speaker 2: Double A and Orlando, and he made a little bit
- 3:04Speaker 2: of call up. But he was not the same person
- 3:08Speaker 2: as the Thunderbirk that's there now. So yes, there's Thunderbirk.
- 3:11Speaker 2: Though I got one.
- 3:12Speaker 1: Good job. Good job. And if anyone listening at home
- 3:15Speaker 1: wants to quiz their friends, I'll give you some other
- 3:17Speaker 1: answers that you can use. Justin Topa, Michael Tonkin, Cole Sands, Erasmo,
- 3:22Speaker 1: Ramirez came back, Pearson ol Yeah, Noah Davis, Travis Adams,
- 3:27Speaker 1: Jose Arena. There are your options for now with the
- 3:30Speaker 1: Twins who have completely scrapped their bullpen and decided to
- 3:35Speaker 1: start over. But let's talk about a team in much
- 3:38Speaker 1: better shape right now, the Marlins. Let's charge.
- 3:42Speaker 2: Let's charge about.
- 3:46Speaker 1: Aj Are the Yankees okay? And are the Marlins good?
- 3:49Speaker 1: Because they just swept the Yankees for the first time
- 3:51Speaker 1: in franchise history. They've played them well in the past,
- 3:54Speaker 1: but never swept them. The place was packed, of course,
- 3:57Speaker 1: It's always packed for these games because you get the
- 4:00Speaker 1: satellite people, the New Yorkers who filled the place up,
- 4:03Speaker 1: but they were very disappointed as the judgeless Yankees were swept.
- 4:08Speaker 1: Luis Hill came back, didn't matter. Jazz Chisen made a
- 4:11Speaker 1: little base running flub, although he said he would do
- 4:13Speaker 1: it again. Add it all up. Oh wait, and Friday,
- 4:16Speaker 1: all of the new guys or many of the new
- 4:18Speaker 1: guys came in for the Yanks and had some issues.
- 4:20Speaker 1: So can you get a larger nightmare than what just
- 4:23Speaker 1: happened for them down in South Florida?
- 4:26Speaker 3: No?
- 4:27Speaker 2: But by the way, happy anniversary to Nolan Ryan and
- 4:29Speaker 2: Robin Ventura because today is the anniversary of him charging
- 4:33Speaker 2: the mound, which we use for charging the mound. So
- 4:36Speaker 2: just fyi, today is the anniversary of that. Nineteen eighty
- 4:40Speaker 2: three was a year. So just FYI for all the
- 4:42Speaker 2: people out there, No, you can't have a worst weekend
- 4:45Speaker 2: for the Yankees, and which just happened. They got swept
- 4:46Speaker 2: by the Marlins, who were now five hundred, by the way,
- 4:48Speaker 2: which is amazing.
- 4:49Speaker 3: And CLAYT.
- 4:50Speaker 2: McCollough deserves a ton of credit. The team deserves a
- 4:53Speaker 2: ton of credit. As hard as we were on Peter Bendix,
- 4:56Speaker 2: he deserves a ton of credit. They're at five hundred,
- 4:58Speaker 2: they're there, so but no, could have been worse than
- 5:00Speaker 2: And by the way, Jazz would do that again, what
- 5:02Speaker 2: get doubled off on a pop up to the second basement?
- 5:04Speaker 4: What are we doing?
- 5:05Speaker 2: Like, just go back to the base, dude, like but
- 5:07Speaker 2: trying to be too cool, Just go back to the base.
- 5:13Speaker 1: Man's what do you think?
- 5:14Speaker 4: Yeah, that was That's a tough weekend. There's no way
- 5:17Speaker 4: to look at or you know, there's that's It was bad.
- 5:19Speaker 4: It was bad, and it puts them in a kind
- 5:21Speaker 4: of a tough spot. You know, all their new acquisitions
- 5:23Speaker 4: are didn't fill the wall. Well for him, Uh, you're
- 5:26Speaker 4: making a lot of base running theirs. It seems like
- 5:28Speaker 4: everything's going bad at once, you know. Hope the hope
- 5:31Speaker 4: for them is when Judge does come back, that he
- 5:33Speaker 4: rights all the wrongs that they have going on right now,
- 5:35Speaker 4: because that's kind of the only only chance they've got
- 5:37Speaker 4: going on is for him to carry him.
- 5:41Speaker 3: By the way.
- 5:42Speaker 2: Yeah, but by the way, uh, you mentioned the believers
- 5:46Speaker 2: they signed are traded for. They all had to blow
- 5:49Speaker 2: up on the same day. That is not what Yankees
- 5:51Speaker 2: fans wanted to see. They were hoping this bullpen would
- 5:53Speaker 2: be super charged and they all and then Kable Hero,
- 5:55Speaker 2: the guy who they got from the Rays, misses the
- 5:58Speaker 2: ground ball which leads to the winning run scoring.
- 6:00Speaker 3: I mean, that was just a nightmare of a game.
- 6:02Speaker 3: We met, We questioned it.
- 6:03Speaker 2: Remember when the trade went down for Bednar and some
- 6:07Speaker 2: of the other guys, Like they're going from no pressure
- 6:08Speaker 2: situations to the Yankees. It was only one game. Don't
- 6:11Speaker 2: get better. But you saw it happened Devin Williams. It
- 6:14Speaker 2: happened to him early in the year, right, Like, it's
- 6:16Speaker 2: not you're not playing for the Pirates and the Rockies anymore.
- 6:19Speaker 2: You're playing for the Yankees, and all eyes of you
- 6:21Speaker 2: lance you know, you played for these organizations.
- 6:24Speaker 4: Yeah, No, it's totally a different ballgame. When you get there,
- 6:27Speaker 4: you got to embrace it. You got to enjoy the
- 6:29Speaker 4: competition and enjoy the platform that you're on now, and
- 6:33Speaker 4: it is different from some of those smaller market teams
- 6:35Speaker 4: going to New York. So I think when it's all
- 6:37Speaker 4: said and done, you hope that that for them for
- 6:39Speaker 4: their sake, the guys that they got, it's it's the
- 6:41Speaker 4: get the bad one out of the way right away
- 6:43Speaker 4: and then now they can move forward. But all in all,
- 6:46Speaker 4: that's a that's a tough start after the trade deadline
- 6:48Speaker 4: and all that for the Yankees and their fans for sure.
- 6:52Speaker 1: Hey Jay, can we roll that playback with Jazz and
- 6:55Speaker 1: can you explain to me what happened? So Zavor Edwards
- 6:59Speaker 1: said he was thinking about dropping it to eliminate Jazz
- 7:03Speaker 1: because Goldie is a much slower runner and he's the
- 7:05Speaker 1: one who popped it up. So he's like, I could
- 7:07Speaker 1: get Jazz and replace him with Goldie, and Jazz kind
- 7:11Speaker 1: of said that's what he was thinking, and that's why
- 7:12Speaker 1: he would do it again. And Boonie said, it's not
- 7:14Speaker 1: like a lack of hustle, it's just you know, a
- 7:17Speaker 1: play that he's thinking about. Are they wrong there? Should
- 7:20Speaker 1: he just be hugging the bag and making sure he
- 7:22Speaker 1: doesn't get doubled up.
- 7:23Speaker 2: I mean, Goldschmith's right there. It's not like they were
- 7:25Speaker 2: gonna they were gonna get Goldschman out at first. So
- 7:29Speaker 2: I listen, Boon standing up first players. It's what Aaron
- 7:31Speaker 2: Boone does. But my thing is is, Goldie's not a
- 7:34Speaker 2: guy that doesn't hustle. Goldie runs the ball out and
- 7:37Speaker 2: he was right there at first base. So a Lance
- 7:39Speaker 2: played with him, he knows he's not going to not hustle.
- 7:41Speaker 2: He was right there, So yeah, that was the excuse
- 7:44Speaker 2: they used. But I mean, dude, just go back to
- 7:45Speaker 2: the base because if he does drop that, Goldschmick can
- 7:48Speaker 2: steal bases too. It's not like Goldschmith's some bass cloggers,
- 7:51Speaker 2: not me right, Goldschmick can get on their score from
- 7:53Speaker 2: first on a double, especially in Miami.
- 7:55Speaker 3: So I don't know.
- 7:56Speaker 2: I think that was an excuse they used. But he
- 7:57Speaker 2: should have just been one step off the base if
- 7:59Speaker 2: he drops it, if he drops it on purpose, first
- 8:02Speaker 2: of all, on that turf, it's gonna bounce so high.
- 8:03Speaker 2: Maybe jazz can make it anyways, but you can't be
- 8:05Speaker 2: far enough off where it's even close.
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- 9:10Speaker 4: Yeah, you can't risk that. You can't risk that right
- 9:11Speaker 4: there as you saw the peak of the second basement.
- 9:13Speaker 4: I think he was thinking about it, obviously, if you
- 9:17Speaker 4: have a no doubt base stealer that you gotta gotta
- 9:20Speaker 4: worry about. I've seen it work. I've seen it work
- 9:23Speaker 4: in LA where they where they made sure the right
- 9:25Speaker 4: guy was at first and got rid of the fast
- 9:27Speaker 4: guy with the force out. But in that in that instance,
- 9:31Speaker 4: you just got to play the game right way, stand
- 9:33Speaker 4: next to the bag, let them get there out one
- 9:35Speaker 4: way or the other. Because the more you like when
- 9:38Speaker 4: you saw what happened, the more you try to think
- 9:41Speaker 4: with them, you get yourself in more trouble. I understand
- 9:43Speaker 4: what Jazz was thinking and the idea of it, but
- 9:46Speaker 4: by doing that, he just gave him an extra out
- 9:49Speaker 4: instead of Hey, you still have a runner on first
- 9:51Speaker 4: no matter what. So all in all it it was
- 9:53Speaker 4: a bad play.
- 9:55Speaker 1: Lance you played for Boonie, right I did. Do you
- 9:59Speaker 1: think he's catching too much heater? Do you think it's
- 10:01Speaker 1: fair because Yankee fans lose their minds. You're not going
- 10:04Speaker 1: to replace the GM who's locked up for a while
- 10:07Speaker 1: and been there forever. I've been always saying, I feel
- 10:11Speaker 1: like these are veteran guys. It's not like they need
- 10:14Speaker 1: somebody to sit down with them and teach them the
- 10:16Speaker 1: basics of baseball. But a lot of fans disagree and
- 10:19Speaker 1: think that Boonie should be much more harsh. I don't
- 10:21Speaker 1: know many other managers that are harsh, especially publicly about
- 10:25Speaker 1: their players. There was one example I think that Ken
- 10:27Speaker 1: Rosenthal brought up in a recent article about the Yankees
- 10:30Speaker 1: earlier this month. He said Pat Murphy, Brewers manager, stood
- 10:34Speaker 1: out when he was asked why Joey Ortiz was held
- 10:36Speaker 1: out of the lineup for a second straight day and
- 10:38Speaker 1: whether he was dealing with something. Murph's reply was, yeah,
- 10:41Speaker 1: is that because the manager's pissed? I want to give
- 10:43Speaker 1: him his best approach at the plate every day, and
- 10:45Speaker 1: we've given him a lot. We've playing him, We're playing
- 10:47Speaker 1: him every day. He just can't have lapses at the plate.
- 10:50Speaker 1: You don't hear that very often. That's an outlier, but
- 10:53Speaker 1: it sounds like that's what Yankee fans want. They don't
- 10:55Speaker 1: make the decisions, though, So what do.
- 10:57Speaker 4: You think Here's the thing is boons if it needs
- 11:02Speaker 4: to be addressed. He is addressing it. He's not going
- 11:04Speaker 4: to talk through the media. He's not going to tell
- 11:06Speaker 4: you what's going on in the clubhouse. He played the game,
- 11:09Speaker 4: he played at a very high level in big markets.
- 11:12Speaker 4: He knows how it works. Whatever happens in the clubhouse
- 11:14Speaker 4: stays in the clubhouse. So I'm sure positive that he's
- 11:17Speaker 4: addressing everything that's going wrong with the players, and the
- 11:20Speaker 4: players are addressing it too, but they're not going to
- 11:23Speaker 4: tell you about it, because the more that gets out
- 11:25Speaker 4: in New York, the worse it gets. So they would
- 11:26Speaker 4: rather say, oh, you're not doing enough, than oh, he's
- 11:29Speaker 4: blowing people up, and there's more of a story there
- 11:31Speaker 4: and things leaking out of the clubhouse, and that causes
- 11:34Speaker 4: more problems than what's going on. They know what's wrong,
- 11:36Speaker 4: they know how to fix it, and they've addressed it.
- 11:39Speaker 4: But the problem with the fans and meeting all that
- 11:41Speaker 4: they want to know what's said and how it was said.
- 11:43Speaker 4: And we all know from the best clubhouses we've been in,
- 11:47Speaker 4: they stay in they stay in house, and no one
- 11:48Speaker 4: knows what's going on, and you write it yourself.
- 11:53Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a big difference in market too, AJ. I
- 11:56Speaker 1: mean Murph is saying his thing out in Milwaukee. Boonie says, anything,
- 12:02Speaker 1: it's getting a lot of coverage.
- 12:04Speaker 2: No agreed, and listen, Well, we also saw Boone grabbed
- 12:08Speaker 2: the first base coach. I forget who the first base
- 12:10Speaker 2: coach is there, but he grabbeds first space coach. Travis
- 12:13Speaker 2: Chadmo was like, you know, kind of kind of game
- 12:14Speaker 2: an airfaw on the on the camera, so I don't know, listen,
- 12:18Speaker 2: I don't mind this. Listen, no manager. Nowadays, there's no
- 12:21Speaker 2: Ozzie Gians left in the world where they just come
- 12:23Speaker 2: out and shred guys. Right, there's no Tomulus Ordas and
- 12:26Speaker 2: all those guys that used to just kill guys. They
- 12:29Speaker 2: just kind of go with the flow and everything is positive.
- 12:31Speaker 2: They don't want to make it into bigger things, and
- 12:32Speaker 2: they have their conversations quietly in their office when no
- 12:36Speaker 2: one's around.
- 12:36Speaker 3: And that's fine. That's the way it is.
- 12:38Speaker 2: That's the way because we don't want, you know, every
- 12:40Speaker 2: we don't need everything air at all, our dirty laundry eared.
- 12:42Speaker 2: But I mean, I think in this case, Boone protected
- 12:45Speaker 2: his player. They came up with a reason, and it's
- 12:47Speaker 2: what they came up with, and that's what they said.
- 12:49Speaker 2: But I mean it can't happen again.
- 12:52Speaker 1: Are you worried that this team could miss the playoffs?
- 12:54Speaker 2: A Jay, they need judge back quickly. They're behind the
- 12:58Speaker 2: Red Sox. Let's not forget the Red Sox past them.
- 13:01Speaker 2: Red Sox up to Houston. There are the Red Sox
- 13:03Speaker 2: past them. And for all the kudos we gave the
- 13:05Speaker 2: Yankees and non kudos we gave the Red Sox, the
- 13:08Speaker 2: Red Sox are ahead of the Yankees right now, which
- 13:10Speaker 2: and are also behind the Jays. Let's not forget the
- 13:12Speaker 2: Jays are in first place.
- 13:14Speaker 1: Yeah, Everybuddy dermerin Maymon, who's on this show, Lance said,
- 13:16Speaker 1: just thinking out loud, it's actually possible they missed the playoffs?
- 13:19Speaker 1: Or is it actually possible? At some point? You are
- 13:21Speaker 1: who you are? Shaky d hitable rotation, No Steed on
- 13:23Speaker 1: basis home, We're a best offense. Way too many blunders,
- 13:26Speaker 1: just my inner thoughts speaking out loud. Jeter on Fox
- 13:29Speaker 1: the other day kind of blasted them too and said
- 13:31Speaker 1: they have to clean it up, no excuses.
- 13:34Speaker 4: Yeah, no, I think everybody's right here. Yes, it's very
- 13:37Speaker 4: possible to miss the playoffs. There's a lot of teams
- 13:39Speaker 4: that got better at the deadline, and they're also playing
- 13:41Speaker 4: better at this point in the season. You look at
- 13:44Speaker 4: health overall, they've got to get healthy, but they also
- 13:46Speaker 4: have to stay healthy on the pitching side. If they
- 13:48Speaker 4: have any more issues with they're starting pitching, they're going
- 13:51Speaker 4: to be in a world to hurt. So, yes, it's
- 13:53Speaker 4: very possible that they could get themselves in a spot
- 13:55Speaker 4: where they missed the playoffs. I think if you look
- 13:57Speaker 4: at the team as a whole, you don't see that happening.
- 14:00Speaker 4: But you know, if certain things don't go their way,
- 14:03Speaker 4: it's it's going to be a tough, tough fight for him.
- 14:06Speaker 4: I mean, you look at their third and their division
- 14:07Speaker 4: right now, and there's other teams creeping up in the
- 14:09Speaker 4: wildcard too.
- 14:12Speaker 3: Here's my thing.
- 14:12Speaker 2: Can we show that tweet again, the second one with
- 14:14Speaker 2: Jeter and a Rod going back and forth a little
- 14:16Speaker 2: bit about this. Let's let's not forget something here. What
- 14:19Speaker 2: a Rod says is actually right. If we made them,
- 14:22Speaker 2: any of us made a mistake like Jazz did, we'd
- 14:24Speaker 2: be sitting our butt right on the bench. He's right,
- 14:26Speaker 2: that doesn't happen anymore. I mean, the number one motivator
- 14:30Speaker 2: in sports is the bench. You make a mistake, you
- 14:32Speaker 2: get sat down. Guess what you want to play? How
- 14:35Speaker 2: do you make money?
- 14:35Speaker 3: You play?
- 14:36Speaker 2: And if you don't get to play because you make
- 14:38Speaker 2: stupid mistakes, you go sit on the bench, and then
- 14:40Speaker 2: you can't make money and you kids, you can't play.
- 14:42Speaker 2: And I agree with what they said here, like they
- 14:43Speaker 2: have to clean this up. What did the Dodgers say
- 14:45Speaker 2: after they beat the Yankees in the World Treo last year?
- 14:47Speaker 2: We knew they were going to make mistakes. All we
- 14:48Speaker 2: had to do was put the ball in play and
- 14:50Speaker 2: keep the pressure on them, and they were going to
- 14:51Speaker 2: make mistakes. Well, this is what we're seeing now this
- 14:54Speaker 2: last week or so. The Yankees are making mistakes and
- 14:57Speaker 2: they need to clean it up if they want to
- 14:59Speaker 2: go deep in the postseason. Now, their home runs and
- 15:01Speaker 2: some of the things they've been able to do have
- 15:03Speaker 2: covered up some of these during the regular season, but
- 15:05Speaker 2: in the postseason they're magnified and we're starting to see
- 15:08Speaker 2: some cracks already.
- 15:09Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'll finish with this. We are giving the
- 15:12Speaker 1: Marlins credit, but they are still six games away from
- 15:14Speaker 1: a playoff spot. They are playing great. They've been one
- 15:16Speaker 1: of the best teams the last couple months. Awesome. There's
- 15:19Speaker 1: still six games away with teams in front of them,
- 15:22Speaker 1: plus the Cubs, Mets, and the Padres holding those playoff spots.
- 15:25Speaker 1: Those are pretty talented teams. Hey, this was a big
- 15:30Speaker 1: win from the weekend. Jan Duran in Philadelphia has the
- 15:35Speaker 1: same exact entrance that he did in Minnesota, and it
- 15:39Speaker 1: feels even crazier aj because Minnesota has been a little
- 15:42Speaker 1: quiet the last couple of years. Ever since twenty three
- 15:45Speaker 1: when they made the playoffs and it was nuts. You know,
- 15:47Speaker 1: they've pissed off their fans. Things have calmed down a lot.
- 15:49Speaker 1: But Duran gets to bring his show to Philly and
- 15:51Speaker 1: the Twins were super helpful with the Phillies and making
- 15:54Speaker 1: sure that that whole setup was there for him from
- 15:56Speaker 1: the jump.
- 15:58Speaker 3: Yeah, that was awesome.
- 15:59Speaker 2: It's one of the coolest moments when he came out
- 16:01Speaker 2: of the bullpen for the first time and the camera
- 16:03Speaker 2: follows them in they do the whole chill. I mean,
- 16:05Speaker 2: that's why Lance wishes he was a closer, because starters
- 16:07Speaker 2: don't get light shows. Closers get light shows, and closers
- 16:11Speaker 2: get cool entrances, not starters. Starters, Closers cool.
- 16:15Speaker 4: All about the show baby, and that's they can trade
- 16:19Speaker 4: your entries now too. You can't beat that now. You
- 16:21Speaker 4: can just take everything with you when you get traded.
- 16:24Speaker 1: That's right, Yeah, the whole package. It's included in the package.
- 16:27Speaker 1: They sent, the digital assets, they sent the music remix,
- 16:31Speaker 1: they sent everything to make sure in a very quick
- 16:34Speaker 1: time period that Duran's interests would kind of take over
- 16:37Speaker 1: in Philly. And Philly's had really good crowds for several
- 16:42Speaker 1: years now. You know, it's not just the playoffs. They
- 16:45Speaker 1: fill it up pretty good for games like this over
- 16:47Speaker 1: the weekend. So it was a cool scene. It was like,
- 16:49Speaker 1: chills better than box scores. Let's hit the Astros and
- 17:02Speaker 1: the Red Sox from the weekend. AJ. The Astros got swept,
- 17:05Speaker 1: so they're struggling. There's two teams that are chasing them
- 17:08Speaker 1: that got better exactly, and the Red Sox are like,
- 17:11Speaker 1: I don't care that we barely did anything at the deadline.
- 17:13Speaker 1: We're good. We won five in a row. Like you mentioned,
- 17:16Speaker 1: they're passing the Yanks, they're going after the Blue Jays
- 17:18Speaker 1: in the division and also they're in a wild card spot.
- 17:20Speaker 1: So what did you think of the weekend Korea Returns
- 17:23Speaker 1: hit a homer the other day, but not enough for them.
- 17:25Speaker 1: They beat Framber with Lucas Giolito dealing on Sunday.
- 17:31Speaker 3: Uh.
- 17:32Speaker 2: The Red Sox outplated them in a very tense series,
- 17:34Speaker 2: a very intense series of playoffs. Fere Red Sox outplayed them,
- 17:38Speaker 2: they out pitched them, and they got the big hits.
- 17:41Speaker 2: But the Astros jumped out to some leads and the
- 17:43Speaker 2: Red Sox came back. Like you mentioned, the pitching for
- 17:47Speaker 2: the Red Sox was really good. They make great defensive plays,
- 17:50Speaker 2: they got the big hits. The Red Sox looked like
- 17:52Speaker 2: the better team in this three game series. Three game series.
- 17:55Speaker 2: So let's everyone calm down. But yeah, in this series,
- 17:57Speaker 2: the Red Sox look like a better team.
- 18:01Speaker 1: Wend A Lance.
- 18:02Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I think you definitely saw that. I
- 18:04Speaker 4: think the Red Sox you they've kind of had a
- 18:07Speaker 4: quiet deadline, but they've kind of like slowly been picking
- 18:10Speaker 4: away at it. When they traded Devers away. They're creating
- 18:13Speaker 4: something that they they like and they think is gonna
- 18:16Speaker 4: be that's gonna go well, especially with some of their
- 18:18Speaker 4: young talent coming up. They didn't get rid of any
- 18:21Speaker 4: of their outfielders. That are really good players. They're starting
- 18:24Speaker 4: to pitch. Gilito, I think his last eight starts has
- 18:27Speaker 4: been dealing. So you're starting to see those guys come along,
- 18:31Speaker 4: find their find their way. And you know with that
- 18:34Speaker 4: with that team, with Bregman back being healthy, I think
- 18:37Speaker 4: you're gonna see him start to just play good baseball
- 18:40Speaker 4: and winning baseball. And story talked about a post game yesterday.
- 18:43Speaker 4: They're not afraid to get the hit, move it, take
- 18:45Speaker 4: the walk, get to the next guy, not try to
- 18:47Speaker 4: hit a home run, just put the ball on play.
- 18:49Speaker 4: And then you saw that in that six round ending yesterday.
- 18:52Speaker 4: So they're doing all the small things. Especially when you
- 18:55Speaker 4: see like what the Yankees are doing, they're doing the
- 18:58Speaker 4: opposite of what the Yankees are doing, all the small
- 18:59Speaker 4: things and the right things to play winning baseball. So
- 19:02Speaker 4: they're going to be scary down the Stretchkrats.
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- 20:03Speaker 4: Go for it.
- 20:06Speaker 1: And we had beef in that series. So AJ On Saturday,
- 20:11Speaker 1: Framburg or was it sorry? Net Narius? On Saturday, Narius
- 20:15Speaker 1: is pitching uh Astro's reliever and he gives up a
- 20:19Speaker 1: double to Trevor's story with Rob Refsnyder standing on second
- 20:23Speaker 1: story to second and Narius is like, Nah, I'm good,
- 20:27Speaker 1: I'm gonna bock you over to third. They're worried about
- 20:30Speaker 1: sign and stealing Will Middlebrooks points out on the red
- 20:33Speaker 1: SOX broadcast. I'll read some quotes of his so I
- 20:36Speaker 1: don't miss quote him. He said, quote, imagine the Astros
- 20:39Speaker 1: being mad about stealing signs, so someone's not bitter yet.
- 20:43Speaker 1: And then another quote, A lot of guys that throw
- 20:45Speaker 1: split fingers a lot you can pick the grip out
- 20:47Speaker 1: of their glove. This is not cheating. This is part
- 20:49Speaker 1: of the game. If you don't like it, hide your
- 20:51Speaker 1: grip better. So, anyway, thoughts on that little back and forth.
- 20:59Speaker 4: I think people you got you got it.
- 21:01Speaker 3: J No, go ahead, lies.
- 21:03Speaker 4: I think you're looking at the split guy right. I'm
- 21:06Speaker 4: sorry I interrupt you, but I think he presets it.
- 21:08Speaker 4: So it's one of the more obvious ones that get
- 21:11Speaker 4: from second base if he doesn't really hide that glove tight.
- 21:15Speaker 4: And it is kind of weird when you say, oh,
- 21:17Speaker 4: the Ashos are mad. But but Boston was the ones
- 21:20Speaker 4: that got in trouble in eighteen for they were there
- 21:23Speaker 4: were some issues with some you know, relaying signs too
- 21:27Speaker 4: back when they knew what signs were, you know, when
- 21:29Speaker 4: you're actually using fingers. So both teams are are known
- 21:33Speaker 4: to be good at it and known to be eyeful
- 21:36Speaker 4: of it. So but for me, whenever you're stealing a
- 21:40Speaker 4: pitch grip out of a glove, you can do whatever
- 21:43Speaker 4: you want that's on the pitcher.
- 21:47Speaker 2: Agreed, agreed, deep this and this is intense series, like
- 21:50Speaker 2: I said, a playoff type series. So they're looking for anything.
- 21:53Speaker 2: And I think teams are hyper sensitive to pitch now
- 21:55Speaker 2: because the guy's jumping around at second base.
- 21:57Speaker 3: You know, look it's a splitter. It's a splitter. Wave
- 22:00Speaker 3: my hands, it's a splitter.
- 22:02Speaker 2: I feel like, you know, people are sensitive to it
- 22:04Speaker 2: and they're looking for it. And I don't know that
- 22:06Speaker 2: Nears necessarily handled this the right way. There's probably a
- 22:08Speaker 2: better way to handle this, but he took care of
- 22:10Speaker 2: it the way he thought was right and he moved
- 22:12Speaker 2: on and we move on. So, I mean people said
- 22:14Speaker 2: they weren't doing anything. They always say they weren't doing anything.
- 22:17Speaker 2: I wasn't throwing at the hitter. Do you just happen
- 22:19Speaker 2: to hit them? Come on, we all know you were
- 22:20Speaker 2: throwing at them. Like, So, I mean, it was handled
- 22:22Speaker 2: the right way, but I didn't think it was great.
- 22:24Speaker 2: I thought was kind of like, why are we why
- 22:26Speaker 2: are we yelling at the third base coach?
- 22:32Speaker 4: Yeah, I didn't see I didn't see any chirping, so
- 22:34Speaker 4: I'm surprised. I mean, if he was telling him, hey,
- 22:37Speaker 4: if it happens again, I don't know exactly no way
- 22:39Speaker 4: said what was said. I think they asked Hector what
- 22:42Speaker 4: he said, and he said something funny and he didn't
- 22:44Speaker 4: like it or something like that was his comment, which
- 22:46Speaker 4: I thought actually was funny because it is nobody's business
- 22:48Speaker 4: what he said. But hey, if you're going to chirp,
- 22:51Speaker 4: be ready for somebody to come back, so be interesting.
- 22:54Speaker 4: What the actual back and forth was there that started
- 22:58Speaker 4: the bench clearing. But when it's all said done, you
- 23:01Speaker 4: gotta do a better job of hiding your grip. And
- 23:03Speaker 4: then also, like if you're gonna, if you are going
- 23:05Speaker 4: to steal signs, be ready for someone to chirp at
- 23:08Speaker 4: you too, or still pitches because they're gonna they're gonna
- 23:10Speaker 4: bark two and you expect your guys to bark a
- 23:12Speaker 4: little bit too.
- 23:14Speaker 1: Well, answer, are you good with former players taking shots
- 23:17Speaker 1: still at the Astros? In fairness, the thing that was
- 23:22Speaker 1: funny is they're playing the Red Sox. Alex Kor was
- 23:24Speaker 1: a key member of that Astros team, And I mean
- 23:28Speaker 1: there's been there have been people admitting, you know, Red
- 23:31Speaker 1: Sox issues from the past too. I think Mookie Betts
- 23:33Speaker 1: has been on the record talking about the stein steeling
- 23:35Speaker 1: that they used illegally in twenty eighteen, and the Red
- 23:38Speaker 1: Sox got caught with the I the Apple Watch scandal
- 23:42Speaker 1: and all that. But the Astros seem to be like
- 23:44Speaker 1: the total poster child of that twenty tens era for
- 23:48Speaker 1: electronic signs stealing, and I feel like, hey, justified, you
- 23:52Speaker 1: can go after them. But when it's Astros Red Sox,
- 23:55Speaker 1: I'm like they both were doing stuff. One was a ten,
- 23:58Speaker 1: one was an eight. But maybe that's just me. What
- 24:00Speaker 1: did the Fires think? No?
- 24:02Speaker 4: I for me, I think that was it been. I
- 24:06Speaker 4: guess you're always gonna kick the first guy that keep
- 24:09Speaker 4: him down that got caught, right, they're the first team
- 24:12Speaker 4: to get caught, and they're not the first team to
- 24:15Speaker 4: do it. I think everything kind of started at the
- 24:17Speaker 4: same time in a lot of different organizations, and then
- 24:20Speaker 4: in eighteen, everybody around the league's got a good idea
- 24:23Speaker 4: that Boston was doing some things too, and they've been
- 24:25Speaker 4: it's been said that they were doing some stuff. So
- 24:28Speaker 4: it kind of is an unnecessary jab when in house
- 24:32Speaker 4: your team was doing the same thing. So it was
- 24:34Speaker 4: kind of a silly comment, to be honest with you,
- 24:36Speaker 4: when you know that the Boston was doing the same
- 24:39Speaker 4: thing in eighteen when they won.
- 24:41Speaker 1: Yep, ajay, who's the manager.
- 24:43Speaker 3: Who's the manager of the Red Sox.
- 24:46Speaker 4: He invented it, all right.
- 24:49Speaker 2: He was the main one. He got suspended. Let's not
- 24:51Speaker 2: forget he got fire job for this. For Will Middlebrooks
- 24:54Speaker 2: to be like, oh, it's funny the Astros. Oh, but
- 24:56Speaker 2: look in your manager because he listen. I mean, we
- 25:00Speaker 2: all moved on from it, except for fans will never
- 25:02Speaker 2: move on. But come on, Alex Korra was like the
- 25:04Speaker 2: main guy in charge of this whole thing. So it's
- 25:07Speaker 2: kind of like glasshouses don't throw stone.
- 25:12Speaker 1: Yeah, that's why a lot of people pointed out how
- 25:15Speaker 1: it was funny timing with those two teams facing each other.
- 25:18Speaker 1: It was wild times back in the twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen,
- 25:22Speaker 1: twenty nineteen world. Hey, Blake Snell's back. He made his
- 25:27Speaker 1: return this weekend, and of course he was pitching in Tampa,
- 25:30Speaker 1: which was cool. Did you see that Lance Snell five innings,
- 25:32Speaker 1: eight strikeouts, no walks, which is good. Give a couple
- 25:35Speaker 1: YONDI diez homers, so three total runs in that one.
- 25:39Speaker 1: Dodgers lost that game. But they're just looking to get
- 25:42Speaker 1: their big boys back. You know, glass Now's back the
- 25:44Speaker 1: other day. Now they're still waiting I guess for Roki
- 25:47Speaker 1: Sasaki if he's going to return. But the rotations Yamamoto,
- 25:50Speaker 1: glass Now, Snell, Otani, Khurshan and Emachen pretty good.
- 25:55Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, no, it's a good rocation. And it's all
- 25:57Speaker 4: about getting them healthy for October. Right, just kind of float,
- 26:00Speaker 4: keep trying to stay ahead in the division. His stuff
- 26:03Speaker 4: look good, it looks sharp. So once he gets back
- 26:06Speaker 4: into you know, game, big league game shape, I think
- 26:09Speaker 4: is his stuff will even get better. So that group
- 26:12Speaker 4: as a whole, you know, you're building show hey up
- 26:15Speaker 4: innings wise, and the rest of them have to get healthy.
- 26:17Speaker 4: And if they get healthy, they're gonna be a they're
- 26:18Speaker 4: gonna be tough to deal with in October. And that's
- 26:20Speaker 4: what they're all about.
- 26:22Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm with you. Change up looked really good. Yeah. Hey,
- 26:26Speaker 1: they're playing the whole year for October a JA, So
- 26:30Speaker 1: all they.
- 26:30Speaker 3: Care about October.
- 26:31Speaker 2: Get October and see we got I mean everyone said
- 26:33Speaker 2: they weren't the best team that won it last year.
- 26:35Speaker 3: They remember San Diego had him. Last year, san Diego
- 26:38Speaker 3: had them.
- 26:39Speaker 2: They had them and Dodgers survived and one. So you
- 26:42Speaker 2: never know what the Dodgers they're sneaky and they have
- 26:44Speaker 2: veteran guys that know how to win in big moments.
- 26:47Speaker 1: And the Padres might catch the Dodgers. Let's not forget
- 26:50Speaker 1: about that either. I mean, you're preparing for October. You
- 26:52Speaker 1: look up, you might have the Padres to sneak past you,
- 26:55Speaker 1: and then you don't have that buy to start the playoffs,
- 26:58Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden you're facing which be
- 27:00Speaker 1: a good team because they're all going to be a
- 27:01Speaker 1: good playoff teams in the NL in a wild card
- 27:03Speaker 1: round inside edge, giving us a little data dish action,
- 27:08Speaker 1: Let's talk Laddy Junior. Since we were just going over
- 27:11Speaker 1: the Blue Jays. Lance, I'm sure you faced this guy.
- 27:14Speaker 1: Nineteen balls in play exabilo over one hundred miles an
- 27:17Speaker 1: hour over the last fourteen days, tied for third most
- 27:20Speaker 1: in baseball. Flatty hits the ball very hard.
- 27:24Speaker 4: Yes he does. And he is one that looks like
- 27:27Speaker 4: he is trying to hit it very hard when he's
- 27:29Speaker 4: in the box. So I am not surprised by any
- 27:32Speaker 4: of those numbers, even though that's a that's a lot
- 27:35Speaker 4: of hard contact right now. But he's been on a tear,
- 27:38Speaker 4: I feel like, all year ever since he got this payday,
- 27:40Speaker 4: which is well deserved, because man, this guy is good
- 27:43Speaker 4: and he is he is fun to watch, but he
- 27:46Speaker 4: is not fun to face when he's in the box,
- 27:48Speaker 4: that's for sure.
- 27:49Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean eight fifty eight ops on the season,
- 27:53Speaker 1: one thirty eight ops plus, which isn't as good aj
- 27:56Speaker 1: as last year he was nine to forty ops, won
- 27:58Speaker 1: sixty five ops. Pl I think the one thing that
- 28:01Speaker 1: I still expect a little more out of him is
- 28:04Speaker 1: is pop. You know, he's at let's see sixteen homers
- 28:08Speaker 1: on the air. I think he's got forty homer popping there.
- 28:10Speaker 1: I mean he had forty eight that one year in
- 28:12Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, but he's been more of a twenty
- 28:14Speaker 1: five to thirty type for the rest of his career.
- 28:17Speaker 2: You'd love to see him get more homers, and so
- 28:19Speaker 2: are Blue Jay fans. But they changed the parks got
- 28:22Speaker 2: you know, they changed the park and it changed everything,
- 28:24Speaker 2: which I never thought I would hear. The day where
- 28:26Speaker 2: Toronto was a place you wanted to pitch. It was
- 28:29Speaker 2: a place I wanted to go and hit because the
- 28:31Speaker 2: ball just flew out of that place.
- 28:33Speaker 3: So I don't know what they did.
- 28:33Speaker 2: I don't know how they changed it, but if you're
- 28:35Speaker 2: a pitcher, Toronto is not the worst place in the
- 28:37Speaker 2: league to go.
- 28:39Speaker 4: It must have changed some airflow or something because that
- 28:41Speaker 4: was not a fun place to pitch. But he's right,
- 28:43Speaker 4: it did change a little bit when they did their
- 28:46Speaker 4: reconstruction somehow, Someway.
- 28:49Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, it felt like it took a year or
- 28:53Speaker 1: two for the team to adjust to it and for
- 28:55Speaker 1: the way that they were putting the roster together. You know,
- 28:57Speaker 1: this roster has a lot more of that contact, small
- 29:00Speaker 1: ball feel to it, which it feels like you need
- 29:03Speaker 1: for that park now.
- 29:04Speaker 4: No, definitely with turf too, you put the ball in
- 29:08Speaker 4: play and do some things you can you run a
- 29:10Speaker 4: little bit and do all that. So it's, uh, you know, obviously,
- 29:13Speaker 4: every every team's got to play a little bit to
- 29:15Speaker 4: their home ballpark, and I think it's an unexpected change
- 29:18Speaker 4: they had to. But you saw you've seen them kind
- 29:20Speaker 4: of do it very well here, especially this year, and
- 29:23Speaker 4: they've been playing pretty well up until you know, last
- 29:25Speaker 4: last week or so. But they've done a nice job
- 29:27Speaker 4: of justin on the fly.
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- 30:26Speaker 1: foul and use the code foul. Okay, kids. There was
- 30:32Speaker 1: a fake festival years ago called Fire Festival that was
- 30:35Speaker 1: run by New York City scammer and a lot of
- 30:39Speaker 1: people went out there and felt like they were on
- 30:42Speaker 1: an episode of Lost or Naked and Afraid, depending on
- 30:45Speaker 1: what they were wearing. Anyway, at Bristol Motor Speedway, the
- 30:49Speaker 1: shots and the scene looked awesome in my mind right
- 30:53Speaker 1: for the Braves and Reds. We're gonna talk more to
- 30:55Speaker 1: c Trent Rosecrants about this, but Lance they ran out
- 30:59Speaker 1: of food. Apparently, the fan zone was kind of a mess.
- 31:02Speaker 1: The lines were insane, So it just felt like, from
- 31:05Speaker 1: an event preparation standpoint, hot dogs without buns, nachos without cheese,
- 31:10Speaker 1: and overall lack of options was a bit of an issue,
- 31:13Speaker 1: and that led to fans saying this was the MLB
- 31:17Speaker 1: version of the Fire Festival.
- 31:20Speaker 4: Yeah, that's that's definitely tough. I mean, I guess they
- 31:22Speaker 4: were on the what's that the carnivore or paleo diet
- 31:26Speaker 4: where you eat no buns and stuff like that. That's
- 31:28Speaker 4: what they've got going on there. But to be honest
- 31:30Speaker 4: with you, I'm shocked, right, Isn't that what NASCAR is
- 31:33Speaker 4: all about? Hot dogs, spears and nacho's and cheese. So
- 31:37Speaker 4: I'm surprised a place like that didn't have the the
- 31:41Speaker 4: proper things to get through to get through ball game.
- 31:45Speaker 4: Obviously this time of year, they're probably with parking and
- 31:48Speaker 4: stuff like that. They were, I mean, obviously they were
- 31:52Speaker 4: not prepared for the extra careers. Besides the baseball game,
- 31:55Speaker 4: which was awesome to watch on TV. They did a
- 31:57Speaker 4: great job put it on a show and all that,
- 32:00Speaker 4: but they forgot about everything else, which makes it makes
- 32:04Speaker 4: it pretty obvious that it was like the the music
- 32:07Speaker 4: festival that was nothing like they said it was gonna be.
- 32:12Speaker 3: Hey, don't Knock, don't Knock firefest.
- 32:13Speaker 2: Scott was there, okay, Scott had his gloves, sticks and
- 32:16Speaker 2: molly and everything ready, okay, but he just brought He
- 32:20Speaker 2: just brought a peanut butter and jelly with no bread.
- 32:22Speaker 2: So that's why he couldn't eat because he forgot.
- 32:24Speaker 1: That's acted. Now, that's the trick to any good festival,
- 32:26Speaker 1: bring your own food sneak it in.
- 32:29Speaker 3: Where would you put it?
- 32:30Speaker 2: Scott, I'm just wondering, oh Mann, who hasn't wanted a
- 32:37Speaker 2: pocket pancake before? I can't argue with with Pat in
- 32:40Speaker 2: his pocket pancakes. By the way, Trisha Whittaker did a
- 32:43Speaker 2: great job handling that whole situation. But listen, Fox in
- 32:47Speaker 2: and unbelievab We're gonna we'll talk about Fox is an
- 32:50Speaker 2: unbelievable job covering this, and you know Norman plans for
- 32:53Speaker 2: a five hour rain delay and then people and and.
- 32:56Speaker 3: This and that.
- 32:57Speaker 2: I mean, it was just it was just It's just
- 32:59Speaker 2: one of them things didn't work. But it was cool
- 33:01Speaker 2: as hell to see on TV. It was cool as
- 33:04Speaker 2: hell to see and in them to do it there was.
- 33:06Speaker 3: It was awesome. Just something's missed.
- 33:08Speaker 1: Yeah, I gotta feed the people.
- 33:13Speaker 6: Andrew Vaughn at twenty seven since he's joined the Brewers,
- 33:16Speaker 6: check out the stat line. He's hitting three seventy five
- 33:19Speaker 6: with a four to thirty nine on base percentage, seven
- 33:21Speaker 6: to seventy one slugging and five homers and twenty one
- 33:24Speaker 6: RBIs in fifteen games. That is production because he's only
- 33:29Speaker 6: been there since July seventh. He is having one of
- 33:32Speaker 6: the best months of anyone's had this year. Before he
- 33:36Speaker 6: was traded, he had been hitting one eighty nine with
- 33:40Speaker 6: a two to eighteen on base so he does not
- 33:41Speaker 6: walk five homers in nineteen RBIs in forty eight games,
- 33:44Speaker 6: so he's already doubled his home run since joining the Brewers.
- 33:48Speaker 4: And uh, if you.
- 33:50Speaker 6: Want to know more about the Brewers, we have an
- 33:52Speaker 6: article that was written recently it's really good by David
- 33:55Speaker 6: about how they do what they do over there in Subsex.
- 33:59Speaker 4: To check that out.
- 34:00Speaker 1: But one interesting thing really quickly before we move on.
- 34:03Speaker 6: This just shows you how important like the atmosphere and
- 34:09Speaker 6: the culture of the team you were on is for
- 34:12Speaker 6: feeling comfortable and getting going right. By all accounts from
- 34:18Speaker 6: every single person who has covered the White Sox and
- 34:21Speaker 6: is walk around the White Sox clubhouse, it is like
- 34:23Speaker 6: a graveyard in there.
- 34:24Speaker 4: It is miserable.
- 34:26Speaker 6: And if you wake up every day thinking that your
- 34:28Speaker 6: team probably isn't going to win that day, the motivation
- 34:31Speaker 6: to be good, like to do the things you need
- 34:34Speaker 6: to do to be good, is just not quite as
- 34:37Speaker 6: high as it would be before. And it doesn't feel
- 34:39Speaker 6: good to only worry about yourself.
- 34:43Speaker 4: It's not fun.
- 34:46Speaker 1: It just isn't.
- 34:47Speaker 6: And when you go from being in a pretty dire
- 34:50Speaker 6: situation that isn't very fun to be in to a
- 34:55Speaker 6: team that, by all accounts is very close knit, is
- 34:58Speaker 6: a great clubhouse to be in, has a lot of fun.
- 35:01Speaker 6: Sometimes that acceptance is enough to give you enough energy
- 35:05Speaker 6: so where you feel like you can make the adjustments
- 35:07Speaker 6: you need to do. And we're seeing that right now
- 35:08Speaker 6: in Andrew vaugh So if you ever had the question,
- 35:11Speaker 6: how important is clubhouse culture? How important is the vibes
- 35:16Speaker 6: for being able to play?
- 35:18Speaker 1: Exhibit a good call there, Trevor Great Breakdown may Day
- 35:23Speaker 1: is Wednesdays now on the FT Network. You can catch
- 35:27Speaker 1: the first hour right after our show every Wednesday. We're
- 35:30Speaker 1: excited that he'll be right after FT for the rest
- 35:33Speaker 1: of maybe ever. I would have loved to watch that
- 35:36Speaker 1: clip right next to our buddy Lance Lynn to see
- 35:40Speaker 1: what he said. But hey, you gotta be happy for
- 35:42Speaker 1: Andrew Vaughn man. That is right from the jump, thriving
- 35:45Speaker 1: with the Brewers. He's always hit the ball hard, and
- 35:48Speaker 1: I felt bad for him. I think the White Sox
- 35:49Speaker 1: vibes are getting better. Actually, Now, a lot of young
- 35:52Speaker 1: guys coming up, but he was part of like that
- 35:54Speaker 1: middle group where it was ugly.
- 35:56Speaker 4: Yeah, he needed a fresh start. There's really no other
- 35:58Speaker 4: way to say it. I like it too, a quarterback
- 36:00Speaker 4: having like five offensive coordinators in their first five years
- 36:03Speaker 4: of the league, right, I think. I think Andrew Vaughn's
- 36:06Speaker 4: had four hitting coaches so far in the big leagues.
- 36:10Speaker 4: So he got away, he got away from there, he
- 36:12Speaker 4: got to go reset and a and then he got
- 36:14Speaker 4: up and came into a winning an environment and he's
- 36:16Speaker 4: able to just show what he's capable of. So Andrew's
- 36:19Speaker 4: good people, I'm happy for.
- 36:21Speaker 1: Yeah, that's good stuff. All right, we're gonna focus on Yeah.
- 36:25Speaker 3: You're right.
- 36:25Speaker 2: The vibes are better in Chicagoland these days. They got
- 36:29Speaker 2: a younger team there. They look better, they look fresher,
- 36:32Speaker 2: they look more fun, they look like they're having fun.
- 36:34Speaker 2: They just are some credit. The players have stepped up
- 36:36Speaker 2: and they're playing a lot better. I wouldn't want to Playhi,
- 36:38Speaker 2: rightw because they're playing better. Yeah, give Will credit too.
- 36:42Speaker 2: Will Wilson a great job as manager.
- 36:44Speaker 4: Knows he's played, he knows what's doing and he's not
- 36:47Speaker 4: he knows how to speak with him and get and
- 36:49Speaker 4: get the best out of him every day while they're
- 36:51Speaker 4: still learning on the job. So they they're putting in
- 36:53Speaker 4: a good I guess a good progress right now is
- 36:57Speaker 4: where they're at, so hopefully they can keep building on it.
- 36:59Speaker 1: When you're in a bad relationship, you try and date
- 37:01Speaker 1: someone that's very opposite from the last one. Will Venable
- 37:04Speaker 1: is very opposite from patro confol I'm sorry. Those two
- 37:08Speaker 1: guys are so different. It's true. So they went in
- 37:11Speaker 1: another direction. It's working for them. He's got like the
- 37:14Speaker 1: California cool, but he'll have his moments. I've seen him
- 37:16Speaker 1: get objected from a game. I watched a lot of
- 37:18Speaker 1: White Sox this weekend and PLEASEK was on the call
- 37:20Speaker 1: and was good. But anyway, let's focus on a White
- 37:23Speaker 1: Sox legend coming up next who has a very special
- 37:25Speaker 1: acceptance speech during slap You don't want to miss this
- 37:41Speaker 1: big day on Friday, can we show the ultimate announcement
- 37:47Speaker 1: for our buddy, the hustler, the everyday guy, AJ Prisinki.
- 37:52Speaker 1: The MLB Hall of Good is very popular on social
- 37:55Speaker 1: media and aj Prizinski received ninety one percent of the
- 38:00Speaker 1: vote and I heard the other nine percent were Cubs
- 38:02Speaker 1: fans to become the twentieth member of the Hall of
- 38:05Speaker 1: Pretty Good and the fifth member of the illustrious Inner Circle. AJ,
- 38:10Speaker 1: congrats speech.
- 38:13Speaker 3: All right.
- 38:14Speaker 2: First of all, I want to thank the academy. Oh wait, no,
- 38:16Speaker 2: that's not right. I want to thank the writers. No wait,
- 38:19Speaker 2: that's not right either.
- 38:21Speaker 1: Oh.
- 38:22Speaker 3: I get to thank the fans.
- 38:23Speaker 2: Thank you fans for electing me to the Hall of
- 38:25Speaker 2: Pretty Good. Also, I'm in the Inner Circle. I don't
- 38:28Speaker 2: know what that means, but I think it means you
- 38:29Speaker 2: get over ninety percent of the vote. So I just
- 38:31Speaker 2: want to know who the nine percent are that didn't
- 38:33Speaker 2: vote for me. So the nine percent, I'm like, each
- 38:35Speaker 2: you at I'll buy you guys dinner at Bristol. Okay,
- 38:38Speaker 2: I'll buy you guys all dinner and hot dogs and
- 38:40Speaker 2: nachos at Bristol next time they have a game there after.
- 38:42Speaker 3: They run out of food, clearly. So no, it's a
- 38:45Speaker 3: great honor, honestly.
- 38:46Speaker 2: And they do great on social media, and they're starting
- 38:49Speaker 2: this thing and there's I think twenty people in and
- 38:51Speaker 2: so to get into the Inner Circle is pretty special.
- 38:53Speaker 2: And now I can sign my autographs. AJ Prasinski hPG.
- 38:57Speaker 2: I don't know if it gets to be paid as
- 38:59Speaker 2: much as huof but it sounds kind of cool, doesn't it.
- 39:02Speaker 1: It's more unique than HO have, actually, lance, so I'm
- 39:04Speaker 1: into it.
- 39:05Speaker 4: Yeah, you can always hang your head on it. And
- 39:07Speaker 4: I see that you bought the food and not the parking,
- 39:09Speaker 4: so I see still tighten the wallet, so it's good.
- 39:13Speaker 3: Hey, what I want to know? Do I get a
- 39:14Speaker 3: gold jacket? Green jacket? Who gives a.
- 39:18Speaker 4: Yeah? Hey, happy to get more? Tues Out just came
- 39:21Speaker 4: out on Netflix, so I know, I thought he did
- 39:24Speaker 4: a pretty good job. I thought he did a pretty
- 39:25Speaker 4: good job.
- 39:26Speaker 2: I'm waiting for my son to watch with me, but
- 39:28Speaker 2: there you go. Yeah, the first one was great, and
- 39:30Speaker 2: the second one, I'm sure I'll be fine. People kind
- 39:32Speaker 2: of said it up and down, but listen, that's my
- 39:34Speaker 2: kind of humor because I'm still like twelve year old kids,
- 39:36Speaker 2: so I'm sure I'll laugh numerous times. But yeah, I know, listen,
- 39:39Speaker 2: I'll be honest with you guys.
- 39:40Speaker 3: It was. It was pretty cool.
- 39:41Speaker 2: I didn't even know that was a thing until they
- 39:44Speaker 2: tagged me in the Instagram and said, hey, we're doing this,
- 39:46Speaker 2: and I was like, all right, let's see how it goes.
- 39:48Speaker 2: And then so some fans must have thought I was
- 39:50Speaker 2: pretty good, even though Lance thought I wasn't any good.
- 39:52Speaker 2: Mike METHENI didn't think I was any good. Apparently ninety
- 39:55Speaker 2: one percent of the fans thought I was pretty good.
- 39:57Speaker 4: Hey, I thought you had good fingers. We got along.
- 40:00Speaker 4: It's just fine. It's just keep throwing it right here,
- 40:03Speaker 4: and as long as I don't have to block it,
- 40:04Speaker 4: I was good. So we got along, just just fine.
- 40:09Speaker 1: Hey, we're back. Can we actually show the shot of
- 40:12Speaker 1: Lance with the graphic that was under him there, the
- 40:15Speaker 1: lower third graphic. I felt like we were too quick
- 40:19Speaker 1: on that one, and AJ would appreciate it. AJ, you
- 40:22Speaker 1: want to read that.
- 40:24Speaker 3: All pretty good? Hopeful? Well, I don't know, Lance, Lance,
- 40:27Speaker 3: I don't know. Were you pretty good? I don't know.
- 40:28Speaker 3: We have to maybe, you know, as a former player,
- 40:32Speaker 3: maybe I can try and get you in on the
- 40:34Speaker 3: Veterans committee.
- 40:35Speaker 4: I don't know. I appreciate it. I did. I had
- 40:38Speaker 4: a decent run. So we'll see if they think that's
- 40:40Speaker 4: that's pretty good or just decent.
- 40:43Speaker 1: I'm excited. Yeah, it's a new thing. It's it's it's
- 40:46Speaker 1: caught social media by storm. A lot of players that
- 40:49Speaker 1: need to get some more love. The Hall of Fame
- 40:52Speaker 1: voting is a little tight.
- 40:54Speaker 4: Yeah, I think your media presence has really taken you
- 40:57Speaker 4: from decent to pretty good. So I don't know if
- 40:59Speaker 4: I've got a shot like that.
- 41:03Speaker 3: We can all dream kids, We all have dreams.
- 41:05Speaker 4: You and Wayno take up all the spots everywhere, so
- 41:08Speaker 4: I can't get rid of any either one of you. You
- 41:10Speaker 4: guys retire and you're everywhere.
- 41:12Speaker 3: That's what we do. Ex Cardinals. You know, we were
- 41:14Speaker 3: all taught ex cardinals.
- 41:16Speaker 4: Yep, Cardinal Way Baby, look.
- 41:19Speaker 1: At me, Lance. AJ. Sometimes will walk around and someone's
- 41:23Speaker 1: like you the guy on foul Territory, Mike.
- 41:26Speaker 2: Way, more than they say, oh you played baseball. By
- 41:28Speaker 2: the way, Mark, our producer just had a great line.
- 41:32Speaker 3: Is good.
- 41:32Speaker 2: When I won Most Hated Player in twenty twelve, I
- 41:34Speaker 2: only got thirty four percent of the vote, So see,
- 41:36Speaker 2: I'm going up in the world.
- 41:38Speaker 4: There you go. I'm surprised you didn't get ninety nine
- 41:40Speaker 4: percent of that one.
- 41:40Speaker 1: But there's competition the charts. Yeah, Q rating is soaring
- 41:49Speaker 1: for AJ. All right, let's let people know in a
- 41:51Speaker 1: couple of minutes what to look forward to. First off,
- 41:53Speaker 1: Dodgers Territory coming up next on the FT Network. It's
- 41:56Speaker 1: going to be on the Dodgers Territory YouTube channel, so
- 41:58Speaker 1: you can check that out. But after Dodgers Territory is
- 42:01Speaker 1: one of my favorite hot sheet episodes of the year,
- 42:04Speaker 1: Baseball America Prospect Nerds telling you what your team got
- 42:09Speaker 1: in return for giving up your favorite player. This is
- 42:12Speaker 1: the episode, right it's the Monday after the trade deadline.
- 42:16Speaker 1: Jeff Ponson JJ Cooper will join me and they will
- 42:19Speaker 1: explain what you received. A's fans, you want to know
- 42:23Speaker 1: about Leo da Frees. They're here for you, among many
- 42:26Speaker 1: other teams and will take questions. So if you're watching
- 42:28Speaker 1: right now and you want to know about a particular
- 42:30Speaker 1: prospect that was moved at the trade deadline, this is
- 42:33Speaker 1: the show for you, so go check it out. It's
- 42:35Speaker 1: coming up in thirty minutes live on the Baseball America
- 42:39Speaker 1: YouTube channel. All right, good stuff, that was fun. Combo.
- 42:42Speaker 1: I like the AJ Lance Reunited combo here media style.
- 42:47Speaker 2: By the way, I want to say, I honestly thank
- 42:48Speaker 2: you to the people the fund the holes. Let me
- 42:53Speaker 2: just start because the internet was down where I'm at,
- 42:55Speaker 2: so Luckily the holes have star Link in their house,
- 42:57Speaker 2: so we saw the random people walking up and down
- 42:59Speaker 2: the stairs since their house.
- 43:00Speaker 3: I was just borrowing it. So thank you to them.
- 43:04Speaker 1: You used You just went to some random house to
- 43:06Speaker 1: do the show.
- 43:07Speaker 3: I just knocked on the door of it. Can I
- 43:09Speaker 3: use your house? Please? You have startling? Thank you.
- 43:11Speaker 4: They were one of the nine percent didn't vote for you.
- 43:13Speaker 4: You know that right, I know.
- 43:16Speaker 1: Wait, I feel like you buried the lead here though.
- 43:19Speaker 1: You don't know that. They were just that nice.
- 43:22Speaker 3: No, I know the people, Scott, they're Canadian.
- 43:24Speaker 4: They're Canadian.
- 43:25Speaker 3: That anybody Canadian? And I met him this morning. What
- 43:28Speaker 3: do you expect good? I met him this morning.
- 43:30Speaker 1: No, I think that would have been awesome. If you're
- 43:32Speaker 1: just like, hey, do you like FT? I gotta do
- 43:35Speaker 1: the show? I heard you. I'm starling. Help me out
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- 43:43Speaker 1: during the baseball season, I step into the batter's box
- 43:46Speaker 1: and if you get a successful result, good for you.
- 43:49Speaker 1: You'll get a little prize. If not, like an out,
- 43:53Speaker 1: try again tomorrow. You can score bonuses and boost tokens.
- 43:56Speaker 1: That's part of the prize situation. Play the game in
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- 44:01Speaker 1: Gambler