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Scariest Contenders · The 3-0 Take

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  Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Three O Take, where we talk
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  all things Major League Baseball.
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  Here's Kyle Corwin and Nate Reyes.
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  It all starts right now. Welcome back to the three O Take
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  presented by Sea Kick this episode 468.
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  I'll be your host, Kyle Corn. I'm here with my Co host and
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  Nader is. Nate home again.
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  Home again. Jiggity jig.
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  Yeah, boy. Boy, feels good to be home.
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  Sure does. Give me in my comfy chair.
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  Give me in my smelly good office.
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  Yeah, I. Like when I can be a little
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  little louder, I I didn't feel like I had I didn't.
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  Feel. I didn't feel right.
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  I didn't feel good. I didn't feel myself.
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  I heard, I hear like hotel doors closing in the background and
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  yeah, some loud lady with heels, you know, staying above me in in
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  that room. It's like I I don't know, man.
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  It just was it didn't hit right. So I apologize if I didn't come
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  off as normal NATO. You know what I mean it.
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  Was tough for me last week. I, I mean, you know, the, the
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  room next door, they're, they're putting down my nephew for, for
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  bed and just taking naps and family hanging out in the living
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  room downstairs. But it's all good.
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  It's all good. We're back.
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  We're here. Love being with family, but love
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  being back in my elements. So we are, we are here.
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  We're here to talk some ball. Back in your bed.
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  True. So that's the other thing.
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  We just bought a new bed yesterday.
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  That's a big purchase. New bed.
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  New bed set gets here next week. Laid on this puppy in the store.
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  I've never bought any mattress before.
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  Hold on, hold on. Where did you buy this from?
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  No free. No free ads.
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  OK. Have you heard about this whole
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  Mattress Firm conspiracy? You know, I love a good
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  conspiracy. How there's nobody ever in
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  Mattress Firm and there's one on every street corner.
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  How do they say in business? For sure, Lonnie money
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  launderer, for sure. Got to be got to be something
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  with the mob. I don't know.
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  Maybe save that for for a different kind of episode, you
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  know what I mean? But yeah, very true.
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  We did not go there. Very uncomfortable.
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  I don't like, I don't like pushy salesman while I'm trying to
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  figure out if this is comfortable for me and my lady,
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  you know what I mean? So, but yeah, what's the living
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  spaces in places? Just huge, man.
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  Do they have living spaces out there?
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  They got that going out there. I can't say I've ever seen that.
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  They're legit dude. I'm sick.
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  Yeah, but any who's new bed new me.
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  Hey, we got some breaking news right off the top here.
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  Friend of the program Bobby Witt Junior just notched his 200th
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  hit of the season. Shout out AJ in the chat for
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  that update. You know, Speaking of Bobby
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  Witt, it's big time. Perfect segue.
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  Yeah, get it. Get it out there, pal.
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  Get it? Out it's got to.
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  Feel good. Hey man, hey, it feels good to
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  be you know how long I've been wanting to put fantasy baseball
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  champion in my bio and am IA loser for doing it literally
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  moments after it became official?
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  Probably. But you know, I've been working.
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  I've been working for years, years I've been working at this
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  to become a fantasy baseball champion.
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  Lot of man hours. Too many man hours, you know a.
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  Lot of legs going to sleep on the toilet you.
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  Know oh man, losing sleep. I mean, you don't know how many
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  nights I would have to set my roster at night because like
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  like one in the morning because that was the only time a day I
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  could do it. But it feels good.
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  I tell you what though, I was sweating yesterday, man.
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  He came down to the final day in our two week long championship
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  match up and I'd tell you what Meredith wanted me to mention.
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  By the way, she was like be sure to mention how how nervous you
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  were and how frequently you were updating me on all of the
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  scenarios that gets she. Needs to know.
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  She needs to know. If you've played fantasy
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  baseball before, you know that like a lot of times when you
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  think the worst could happen, it ends up happening in that way
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  where you're like, OK, I'm up 30 points.
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  The only way I lose this match up is if every one of my
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  remaining hitter strikes out and his pitcher throws like a no
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  hitter and it ends up happening exactly that way.
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  So I was not, I was not happy until it was official.
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  And when it finally became official, I just, I just basked
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  in the glory. I, I updated my bio fantasy
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  baseball champion. I'm, I'm trying to figure out,
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  do I I got to figure out my ring size for the the ring that
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  that's going to be be in order. What finger you're going?
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  What finger do you think? You know, I, I don't win.
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  I don't win a whole lot. I think it's.
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  Cold if you go pinky I. Got the cold go pinky, yeah?
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  That's a cold. Move do I go pinky I.
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  That's a, that's a mobster move, you know what I mean?
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  That's like a you You're in Goodfellas.
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  Little bit of kiss the ring action going on.
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  You know, I the, the whole, the whole champion, the mindset is,
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  is somewhat new to me. And Meredith laughs at me when I
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  say that, 'cause she's like, you win like board games, you win
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  like we do, like Mario Kart with the family, like no, no, no.
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  No, this is like 8. Months.
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  Yeah, this is, this has been years in the making, it feels
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  like. But I like, I'm never that
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  person who wins bingo. I'm never that person that wins
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  5050 raffles or or any raffles for that matter.
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  Stuff that doesn't matter and we'll talk about a bet that you
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  lost earlier so. No, we don't need to talk about
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  that. No, we don't need to talk about
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  that. But it, it just feels good
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  though. And, and honestly, I'm I'm glad
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  I could do it. And it's it's been an honor and
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  a privilege to be a part of this league.
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  I think it's tough when like because you're the commish, you
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  know what I mean? And commissioners like rarely
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  win it. It feels like the commissioners
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  probably put in the most man hours and rarely get the dub so.
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  Rarely get the glory, hey? And if people want to say this
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  is rigged, you can ask Nate. This is my first.
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  We've done this week for however many years.
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  This is my first time doing it. It's true.
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  First time winning the whole thing and boy does it feel good.
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  You won that thing. That's for those curious.
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  I got third. I am.
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  I got second last year. I am trending in the wrong
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  direction. You kicked my teeth in.
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  Yeah, that was that was ugly. We already talked about that
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  though. We don't need to talk more about
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  it. My team.
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  Pooped down their leg. But no, that segue I was talking
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  about that with Bobby Witt. I I'm still deciding on if I
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  want to make my my my prize that that Bobby Witt powder blue
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  jersey I've. I'm going to normalize calling
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  him. I'm going to normalize calling
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  him Junior. Junior.
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  He's the new junior. You did.
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  You texted me that the other day.
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  I I was like. Let's do it.
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  I'm a little concerned that my mind immediately didn't go to
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  Cal. I was like, whoa, this is
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  because it's new time calling Bobby Witt.
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  Junior's already starting to sound a little a little too
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  normal. It's time we've now moved in
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  that direction. It's he's our generation.
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  He's earned it. 24200 hits is a big deal, man.
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  That's a great, great, great season.
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  MVBMVP caliber season. He's probably going to get some
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  votes. I do think Judge still MVB.
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  Most valuable Bobby. Most valuable Bobby does does
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  sound decent, but yeah, I mean the powder blue that'd be a good
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  look if you can get like a customized patch on the side or
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  if you know, like maybe you wait it out and Tono's the Royals
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  sneak out a trophy season this year and then you can get the
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  gold. You can get the gold around and
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  it's a gold championship for you and a gold championship for them
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  that could. Be beautiful, I mean.
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  Not to mention I mean this. This man was my highest point
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  getter this year. So I mean it would only be.
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  Fitting. Don't remind me.
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  Don't remind. Me.
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  Yeah, It got him from you. Thank you for that, by the way.
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  No, but speaking about a team that could maybe sneak out a
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  World Series title, let's talk about scary post season
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  contenders right now. Who is moving the needle for
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  you? And when I say I, I had I texted
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  you originally and I said, let's let's do a little bit of power
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  ranking. And I know that there's a lot
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  of, there's a lot of misunderstanding, but when it
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  comes to power ranking, it's because I see these get
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  volatile. Oh my goodness, it's, I mean,
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  it's total rage bait. And that's not what we're going
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  for here. But it was it, it was just sort
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  of a, for lack of a better term, kind of situation.
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  Well, we could just call it ranking if you want, But I, I, I
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  went specifically with power ranking because I wanted, I
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  wanted it to be based off of right now, like what, what your
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  gut is telling you, who are the teams?
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  And, and we can kind of craft like maybe a top five list, I
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  think is what I had in mind. Sure.
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  The teams according to your gut and your gut only.
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  Well, my gut as well. We're going to make a little
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  joint list here of of teams that you absolutely would not want to
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  play right now should you, your team match up with them in the
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  postseason. Based on the way things are
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  happening right now, based on the way maybe they've turned
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  things turned around as of late, There's a there's a lot, there's
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  a lot that could go into this discussion.
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  A lot they could go into this into these calculations and a
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  lot that could go into crafting this list.
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  I've I've got some teams in mind, but I wanted to maybe like
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  we used to do back in the old days when we were, we were
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  talking about it before we hopped on back when we used to
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  make our pre season position rankings.
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  We would, we would, we would. Do you want to talk about
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  volatile? My goodness.
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  Nightmares about those. Yeah, we literally the people
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  got so, so up in our face about it.
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  We literally stopped doing it. Like that was one of the I'd.
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  Like to see a power ranking that had positive positive comments.
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  I don't think it exists anymore. I I really enjoyed creating
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  those those it was a lot. Of fun.
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  It was a lot of fun you. Learned a lot.
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  Deep diving into that stuff, yeah.
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  You learned a lot and it you, I mean, you want to talk fantasy
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  baseball, it really put you in the right state of mind for
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  fantasy baseball, 'cause you're going, OK, I, I might know a, a
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  thing or two extra about this particular guy that I could
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  utilize this season. No, but yeah, similar in that
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  way though like we did with those positional rankings back
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  in the day. I thought it would be fun to
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  craft a list, a joint list so that we could maybe hear the
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  other out on maybe why a certain team should be in there.
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  And we can we can arrive hopefully at the same conclusion
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  on on maybe these top five or so teams that we think are imposing
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  the biggest threats. Are we doing ALNL?
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  Are we doing all? It's it's free ball right now.
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  It is free ball. Free ball.
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  It's it's free time, it's recess, it's whatever you want
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  to make of it. OK, that's fair.
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  Where where you want to start? You want to start at the bottom.
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  Let's just let's get the teams out, let let's spitball some
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  teams here and then we can maybe we can maybe arrange them as
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  such. Tell me where you want to start,
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  pal. All right.
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  A team that I have on my list and it's probably the more
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  obvious team on my list based on the way that we've talked about
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  them all season long. And I would venture to say he's
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  probably on your hypothetical list, the Houston Astros.
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  Yeah, man, look like it's been like 20 straight years that
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  they've made it to the ALCS. Just kidding. 7 Is it seven this
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  year? They've made it.
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  They've made it to 20 of the last 15 ALCSS.
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  That's how that's how dominant this this postseason run or
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  streak of runs has been for the Houston Astros.
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  And that's that is why I have them on my scariest contenders
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  list because you know what they're going to bring to the
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  table. You know, offensively, they're
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  going to bop. As of since September 1st, they
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  have a 772 OPS, which is fifth best in baseball right now.
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  And they're really not it like, yeah, they they stormed back,
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  but I I don't believe that they're playing their best ball
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  right now. Yeah, they're they're pitching
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  could use a little bit of work It.
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  I mean, it's they they've they've kept things afloat.
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  But in terms of in terms of right now looking ahead to the
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  postseason, this team, you just know that they're going to be
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  there. You know they're going to be a
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  part of the mix and you know that they're not going to go out
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  quietly if they do go out in in fact.
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  They're so experienced. They got so many guys that have
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  just been around the block that have been in this situation.
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  I mean, shoot, they were without Kyle Tucker for what, 2-3
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  months? They they signed Jay Hay and
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  Jason Hayward's now now hitting tanks and getting multi hit
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  games like. There's a we did we not talk
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  about like that. Just the most predictable thing.
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  It's the same thing with the Dodgers.
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  The Dodgers will just pick Tommy Edmond.
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  I mean, no knock on his Cardinals days.
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  He was he was a heck of a ball player in Saint Louis.
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  But like go figure, just picks right back up where he left off
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  the. Yeah, immediately, like, no, no,
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  behind the curve at all. I heard this comparison, by the
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  way, like quick, quick note, I heard a comparison of like when
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  a guy comes off the IL for if it's like a 60 day, it's like a
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  treadmill being on full speed and you're like trying to hop on
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  and and keep and stay on it. And I think that was a great
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  comparison. And that's like so many guys
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  fail at and you're watching Tommy Edmond do his thing.
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  It's annoying, but that's what the Dodgers do.
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  But anyway, yeah, I mean, I, I, I think you just, you look at
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  the, you look at the Houston Astros, they've been there,
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  they've done that. They know what it takes.
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  They have this core in the clubhouse that just is very
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  calm, cool, collected it. Just we talked about it for
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  months now. Like even after the slow start,
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  they're still they are who they are.
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  You say Kikuchi has come over from Toronto and just been
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  lights out, man. Blanco has been himself.
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  Like, yeah, Verlander's definitely got some question
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  marks around him. But like you got to assume if if
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  you know 4 1/2 game leading the division, I'm going to go ahead
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  and assume the division is theirs.
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  Give Verlander a little bit of time.
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  Doesn't even have to be game one starter.
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  I think you're going to get I think you're going to get
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  Verlander type stuff. I don't think he's going to
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  implode in the postseason the way he's done in the last few
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  starts. So it's just a lineup that knows
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  what they're doing that they know how to bang.
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  Alex Bregman is is, you know, at this point on display for
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  contracts discussions this offseason like your Don does
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  what your Don does, Kyle Tucker. I mean, it's just like go the
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  list is just it's a it's ridiculous, man.
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  Then you always have that one guy that for them that just
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  manages to shine in the postseason that maybe had
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  somewhat of a lackluster regular season.
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  So yeah, they have to be in that conversation because they're
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  always in that conversation, because even when you hate them,
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  even when you doubt them, they still end up with the inevitable
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  appearance in the ALCS. So it's like it's coming, you
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  know? Buckle up.
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  Well, you're talking about the division.
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  Let's keep it in the West. A team that I don't necessarily
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  think is going to win the division at this stage, but has
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  stormed, dare we say, back into the the playoff picture.
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  Like, I mean, they, I mean, they were obviously there for an
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  extended period of time. They were all, they were sitting
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  pretty fell out. I mean, can we say they're like
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  right there back in the thick of it?
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  They're entering today, Monday. They're 2 1/2 out, tied with the
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  Tigers. I got them for two out.
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  Well, that's entering today, so they.
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  Entering today, After today, they're two out.
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  Yeah, fair. Oh right, 'cause they did, they
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  had. Today was the Rosa Arena game,
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  the home run I saw. So they won that game.
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  Yeah, they beat up the Rangers 7.
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  Nothing. But I'm Nate.
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  What have we been saying? What have we been saying about
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  the Mariners? The pitching, we, we got it.
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  The pitching covered hit a little bit since September 1st.
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  Hear me out, 'cause people probably heard the Mariners when
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  I, when I said possibly on on our list here of scariest
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  playoff contenders, they got Mariners.
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  Come on, what are we, what are we really doing here?
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  To your point, just hit a little bit since the start of the
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  month. They have an 8040 PS, which is
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  second best in all of baseball. They always say it's not how
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  about it's not about how you start, it's about how you
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  finish. And I tell you what, if this is
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  the Mariners getting hot, like they're going to make even us
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  look stupid. Because I think I think whether
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  mentally or even on this on this podcast, we kind of wrote them
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  off, but they said, hold on. We still got a little bit left
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  in the tank offensively. You know what you're going to
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  get on the mound. But by the way, we we do
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  actually have a little pop. So I'm not, I'm not too excited
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  to play the Mariners at this particular point if I'm fill in
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  the blank team. I mean, dude, like I don't want
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  to mess with them if they can hit at all at all and get in
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  this rotation. I think when you compare
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  rotations across the board is up there of one of the best, if not
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  the best when you have Luis Castillo, George Kirby, Bryce
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  Miller, Logan Gilbert, like Brian, what are we?
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  What are we? Doing how like?
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  I don't know if there's enough rotation depth across the league
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  compared to this. I mean, this is super
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  impressive. There.
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  No, there is not. I don't care.
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  What I'm saying? There's not a rotation that's
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  deeper than what the Mariners are bringing to the table in All
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  in all of baseball. And you don't really need 5 in
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  the postseason, you know what I mean?
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  Like Brian Wu is probably going to get a start or two, but for
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  the most part I'll take that top four against any top 4.
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  Brian Wu is sporting A238 right now with the whip of .82.
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  Unbelievable. As a back end guy, come on
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  Mariners, I'm glad you're here. I'm glad the offense finally
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  woke up. I mean, you got 190 at this
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  point, 191 innings out of Logan Gilbert, 179 out of George
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  Kirby, 175 out of Luis Castillo, 167 out of Bryce Miller.
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  Come on, like very realistically, when it's all
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  said and done, have four guys over 180 innings.
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  That's not normal, not today. So Bach all you want for anybody
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  that's, you know, maybe an Lal W fan, maybe kind of written off
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  the Mariners in their mind, Bach all you want, But I wouldn't
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  want to see that rotation in the postseason.
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  I would want nothing to do with that rotation in A5 game set or
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  A7 game set. It's just got it.
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  It just comes down to hitting. They just got to hit a little
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  bit. Well, that's a perfect segue
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  into the next team I have on the list because I I know I might
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  sound like I'm contradicting myself here with the whole like
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  power rankings like at this very moment, but I think this
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  particular team built up so much it enough momentum to this point
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  to where, even though they've slid in certain facets of the
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  game since call it the start of the month, I'm I'm giving them a
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  I'm giving them a pass in that regard, and I'm still putting
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  them on my list of scariest contenders that I would not want
• 21:21
  to face right now. And that's the Arizona
• 21:23
  Diamondbacks offensively top team in baseball since the start
• 21:27
  of the month. OPS of 865 which ranks first in
• 21:30
  all of baseball. However, however, since the
• 21:36
  start of the month I'll give you a guess at what their team ERA
• 21:40
  is since since I'm September 1st.
• 21:44
  I'm going to go team ERA of a 4/6. 642 since September 1st,
• 21:54
  which believe it or not, believe it or not, I know it's hard.
• 22:00
  It's really hard to wrap your head around Last in baseball.
• 22:03
  So you're currently since the beginning of the month, you are
• 22:08
  on complete opposite ends of the spectrum when it comes to what
• 22:12
  you're doing on the mound and what you're doing on the plate.
• 22:14
  And that that's not sustainable. That's not going to get it done
• 22:17
  in the postseason. But I would like to think I I
• 22:21
  would venture to say that the Diamondbacks are going to be
• 22:23
  able to figure it out on the mound because they've had
• 22:26
  success on the mound before, especially this season and and
• 22:30
  building off of what they were able to do last year, I think in
• 22:33
  that regard. But offensively, they've proved
• 22:35
  proven that they're the real deal.
• 22:37
  And Corbin Carroll, as we've mentioned, is get is on on fire
• 22:42
  right now. So if you get, if you get him
• 22:44
  going, if you get him leading the charge in in whatever facet
• 22:47
  you want to look at, whether it just be getting on base or
• 22:51
  driving in runs, making things happen, things happen on the
• 22:54
  base pass or all the above, you're in a, you're in a pretty
• 22:57
  good shape. You just got to figure out the
• 22:59
  pitching. Yeah, dude.
• 23:01
  And that's that's what makes me feel like they're they're not so
• 23:05
  much like I have teams in the back of my head that are like
• 23:09
  who the Diamondbacks of last year.
• 23:12
  And the reason you're able to use that as like a title, as
• 23:15
  like a phrase is because I think the Diamondbacks are definitely
• 23:18
  on everyone's radar. They're not necessarily sneaking
• 23:22
  in and and overlooked like everyone knows what they can do
• 23:26
  offensively. But last year you had you had a
• 23:29
  Zach Gallon who was who was in Cy Young contention, right?
• 23:32
  Did he? Who won the Cy Young last year?
• 23:34
  No, he was in contention. That was.
• 23:36
  That was my Cy Young pick last year I believe.
• 23:39
  I don't think he pulled it out. Who won that?
• 23:43
  Why am I going crazy here? What are we doing?
• 23:48
  It wasn't Logan Webb, was it? What are we doing, guy?
• 23:55
  What's going on? Why am I drawing a blank here?
• 23:57
  Blake Snell? Oh, duh.
• 23:58
  Yeah, of course, Blake. Snell with the pods.
• 24:01
  Idiots. He's like an idiot.
• 24:03
  Threw me for a loop. But that's The thing is that
• 24:07
  like when you had that offense paired, and I know it's a new
• 24:10
  team, like you can't compare apples to apples here, but you
• 24:14
  kind of can. It's the same team, but Zach
• 24:17
  Allen is not being Zach Allen. Isn't the phrase apples to
• 24:20
  oranges? Yeah, Well, yeah, sure.
• 24:23
  I mean, it's not, that's what I'm saying.
• 24:24
  It's not apples to apples because it's a little, it's a
• 24:27
  little different. It's New Year's couple names
• 24:31
  that are different, right. You got a Jordan Montgomery
• 24:33
  who's not doing. It Oh, no, no, I hear you.
• 24:35
  I just, you know, I just want to make sure I wasn't losing my
• 24:37
  mind. Yeah.
• 24:39
  I mean, I just like in Merrill Kelly, you know, obviously was
• 24:42
  was great last year as well. It's just like there's certain
• 24:45
  things that I feel like aren't clicking the same way
• 24:47
  specifically on that side of the wall.
• 24:49
  So I like what they can do. I think if you're a team in the
• 24:56
  NL that's maybe stumbling to the finish line that maybe doesn't
• 25:01
  have a ton of pitching depth, that's probably not a great
• 25:05
  matchup. I could see them getting
• 25:10
  through, you know, the first round, maybe get to the NLCS,
• 25:14
  but I just at some point pitching has to be the name of
• 25:20
  the game and and it just doesn't feel like the Diamondbacks have
• 25:23
  that this year. Still a scary team though.
• 25:28
  The, the, the thing last thing I'll say before we move on to
• 25:31
  our next team, the last thing I'll say about the D backs, I
• 25:34
  think the thing that they have working in their favor is the
• 25:37
  guys that they need to turn it around on the bump are guys that
• 25:42
  have shown you success before. You're not at, you're not
• 25:45
  necessarily, and I'm not saying across the board, but a majority
• 25:49
  of the, the handful of names that are, are, are struggling
• 25:53
  are guys that have shown you they can do it and have done it
• 25:57
  before. You're not asking guys who have
• 26:00
  never done it before to do something they've never done.
• 26:04
  You're, you're not in a situation like the Dodgers, for
• 26:06
  example, where your rotation, your staff has just been blown
• 26:10
  up. There's nothing doesn't resemble
• 26:12
  hardly anything that that it was supposed to.
• 26:15
  I, I mean, you sure you've had guys fill back in and, and, and
• 26:19
  get healthy, but like you, you just need guys to, to figure it
• 26:23
  out before the calendar turns. And like I said, if you can just
• 26:27
  figure out that side of the ball, the offensive side of
• 26:29
  things, you've proven that you're the real deal and that
• 26:33
  that's not, that doesn't need to be a concern at this point.
• 26:37
  Yeah. And on the pitching side of
• 26:39
  things, when we were talking about how the Mariners pitching
• 26:43
  as far as innings logged, this is the exact opposite.
• 26:46
  You might not have one guy crack 180 innings on this on this
• 26:51
  depth chart. So that's tough.
• 26:52
  That's tough to see many who's. Talking about a team that's a
• 26:58
  little more even keel when it comes to where they fall in
• 27:03
  league wide rankings on both sides of the ball, The Padres.
• 27:06
  The Padres isn't. They're not a team that I want
• 27:09
  to mess with at this point in time.
• 27:11
  They are sporting a 739 OPS since September 1st, which is
• 27:14
  7th best in baseball and on the bump they are rocking a 281
• 27:20
  which is 6th best in 6th best in baseball.
• 27:22
  So less reason, less cause for concern if you're the Padres.
• 27:29
  And it makes sense because the Padres, we've talked about it,
• 27:32
  Padres been playing excellent as of late and that they have been
• 27:41
  more in the thick of it for a longer stretch than a team.
• 27:45
  Like we just talked about, like the Mariners and the Mariners
• 27:47
  fell out. And like I said, people had
• 27:50
  written them off. But the Padres have, they kind
• 27:52
  of showed up and they've just been hanging around.
• 27:54
  Yeah, so Padres, I mean, they're they're going to be a 90 win
• 27:57
  team, They're going to be a 90 win team.
• 28:01
  They're at 85 right now. It's pretty safe to say they're
• 28:03
  going to be a 90 win team firmly established in that wild card
• 28:07
  spot at the top. The bullpen too, like I know we
• 28:13
  talked so offensively of what they can do and we can run down
• 28:15
  that line up any any which way. You got guys that can bang.
• 28:18
  You got guys that are potentially Hall of farmers in
• 28:21
  that lineup. You got a Tatis that's coming
• 28:23
  back that like has enough time, a good six to eight weeks of
• 28:28
  just getting grounded and just getting enough ABS in before
• 28:33
  games start to really count for him.
• 28:35
  Jackson Merrill could very much probably should win the rookie
• 28:39
  of the year. Manny Machado is that one that
• 28:42
  I'm talking about that could end up in the in the Hall of Fame
• 28:44
  category. You got been there, done that
• 28:47
  guys. And and Xander Bogart's, I mean,
• 28:49
  like you have a lot of experience.
• 28:52
  You have a pesky Luisa Raiz at the top of that lineup.
• 28:55
  Like there's a lot going on in that lineup, but it's the
• 28:59
  bullpen for me that just comes in and just pushes your face in
• 29:03
  it. And in the post season, that's
• 29:09
  really the most calculated baseball you're going to watch.
• 29:12
  When teams are saying you've got 66 innings to beat us, that's
• 29:20
  realistic for the Padres. It really is.
• 29:23
  So I wouldn't want to see him. I think it's a team and and that
• 29:29
  stadium at night at home is I don't know if vibes get higher
• 29:35
  than that. I think I got a team that has
• 29:40
  just a little bit better vibes when it comes to the home
• 29:43
  playoff baseball atmosphere, and that is the Philadelphia
• 29:47
  Phillies, which if you want to now get into the actual rankings
• 29:52
  of the of these teams and I I'll leave it up to you.
• 29:54
  The I mean, these are just my teams.
• 29:56
  If if you've got an outlier of in regards to a team we haven't
• 30:00
  covered yet, I've got the Phillies rounding out my list,
• 30:04
  if you will, again, in no particular order to this point,
• 30:07
  but the Phillies first team, I mean Simply put, first team in
• 30:12
  baseball to 90 wins. That has to count for something.
• 30:16
  Sure does. And I think we can acknowledge
• 30:20
  that they did well. It's not, it's no mystery.
• 30:23
  They hit a, they hit a little bit of a skid there.
• 30:25
  Every team does. No matter how dominant of a year
• 30:28
  you have, no matter how much you were expected to maybe run the
• 30:31
  table, it's it's going to happen.
• 30:36
  It's going to happen. Just ask the Houston Astros.
• 30:40
  But the Phillies, I mean, it's at that.
• 30:44
  I mean, I know it's like a bit now on this podcast about me
• 30:47
  being like a pseudo Phillies fan, but like I've just, I've,
• 30:51
  I've been on board with this team for the last two or three
• 30:54
  years. And it that's not, you can't sit
• 30:57
  there and say like, wow, it's easy to it's easy to play the
• 30:59
  hindsight game. It's like, no, you go back to
• 31:03
  spring training of the first. What was that?
• 31:06
  2022, I believe, was when they started this, this run of of
• 31:11
  heightened success, if you will. And I said, I texted you and I
• 31:14
  could probably find it if I took a second to look.
• 31:18
  But I told you that I I was feeling something with this
• 31:23
  Phillies team. And then they go on to do what
• 31:26
  they've done over the last two, three seasons.
• 31:29
  And we're at a point now where we're about to turn the calendar
• 31:32
  in October. They're going to be in it and
• 31:35
  they're going to, I would venture to say and.
• 31:39
  Be hosting. Well, not just hosting, but I, I
• 31:42
  think I, I would venture to say, I think it's probably safe to
• 31:45
  say that we're looking at a deep run yet again from this Phillies
• 31:50
  team, whether or not they can actually get over to the hump
• 31:52
  this time. I know that's something those
• 31:53
  fans obviously want and have been hungry for for some time
• 31:57
  now. But the thing that you have to
• 32:00
  do if you're the Phillies is figure out the pitching as well.
• 32:03
  Similar to to the Diamondbacks, another nationally contender,
• 32:07
  you're currently rocking a 431. Yeah.
• 32:11
  That's what that's what you're sporting right now on the bump.
• 32:13
  That's 21st and 21st in baseball offensively.
• 32:19
  I have 0 concerns. Yeah.
• 32:21
  I mean, talking about this window of since the start of the
• 32:25
  month, third best in baseball offensively.
• 32:29
  But even if even say they were middle of the pack, say they
• 32:33
  were 15th, 16th in baseball, The only thing I care about is when
• 32:38
  that calendar turns, rocks over because every one of those guys
• 32:41
  in that lineup reaches another gear.
• 32:44
  It's true, kicks up a notch. And with that come success.
• 32:49
  With that comes a deep run. And I think this year is going
• 32:52
  to be no different. Yeah, dude.
• 32:56
  I mean, I, I don't know, I know pitching as of late as kind of
• 33:00
  scuffled. I just, I, I still don't feel
• 33:04
  that concerned about it. And that's why it's so safe.
• 33:09
  It's such a safe pick for me to slide them into the NLCS at the
• 33:14
  very least. I mean, Zach Wheeler is Zach
• 33:18
  Wheeler. He's lived up to every dollar of
• 33:21
  that contract so far. It looks like Aaron Nola has
• 33:25
  has, I think, established himself as a #2 in that lineup
• 33:30
  or that that rotation. I think that's very fair.
• 33:33
  You know, I I think you get some good and bad with Aaron Nola,
• 33:36
  but either way, like that's a team that can get behind that
• 33:41
  dude more often than not. I think the biggest surprise is
• 33:44
  going to be Christopher Sanchez. I think that like that's that's
• 33:47
  a dude that's going to be become a household name in this
• 33:50
  postseason. That if if you're not able to
• 33:52
  watch a ton of NO ball or a ton of Phillies games, Christopher
• 33:56
  Sanchez is going to be someone you're going to be like, oh,
• 33:59
  excuse me, I was not familiar with your game.
• 34:02
  You know, the Shaq meme, Ranger Suarez, like, yeah, hot starts
• 34:06
  the season definitely came back to earth, dealt with some
• 34:09
  injuries. But either way, like if that's
• 34:13
  if that's your 4, if that's your four, that's a difficult 4 to
• 34:18
  deal with. And then you have the added
• 34:21
  complication of having to go there and play in Philly and
• 34:25
  deal with that. I mean, that place gets rowdy as
• 34:29
  we know. So, you know, like you said, we
• 34:32
  know what the lineup can do. It's it's just it's a very solid
• 34:36
  team. It's a very, very solid team.
• 34:40
  For the for the doubters, for the haters.
• 34:43
  Zoom out. There you go.
• 34:46
  March, March 19th, 2022. Not going to lie, I'm kind of
• 34:50
  feeling it with the Phillies for this season and that feeling has
• 34:52
  not left over the last three years.
• 34:55
  So say what you will. I got the receipts.
• 35:00
  Are there any outliers that you got that we didn't mention?
• 35:02
  Because this was like I said, this was I was just kind of
• 35:05
  leading the horse here of of teams that I thought I felt were
• 35:10
  the scariest contenders. Anything.
• 35:12
  Any honorable mentions? Yeah.
• 35:14
  I mean, look, like, I think we can see flashes of the Yankees
• 35:24
  that could make teams a little nervous, specifically
• 35:28
  offensively in the postseason is so dictated on the long ball.
• 35:32
  I mean, I think it's like the correlation of a team that hits
• 35:36
  the most home runs in the postseason very much advances.
• 35:40
  They're leading baseball on home runs.
• 35:42
  They're leading baseball on walks, which is something that
• 35:45
  we haven't really seen from them offensively in years past.
• 35:49
  This is more the Yankee team that I grew up watching.
• 35:51
  Where it's working counts. It's getting through the staff,
• 35:55
  getting to the bullpen and that's what really is shown in
• 36:00
  like A7 game set. If you can shorten that outing
• 36:03
  and get to that bullpen early, later in the series, it's going
• 36:07
  to it's going to do some damage. So, but at the same time like
• 36:10
  pitching is very much a question mark and you don't know what
• 36:14
  you're going to get. Do you get the first half
• 36:16
  Yankees where that look like the rotation is dominant?
• 36:20
  Do you get what's been since Garrett Cole?
• 36:24
  Doesn't look like Garrett Cole. Do you get Garrett Cole versus
• 36:27
  Red Sox Garrett Cole? Like is that the worst?
• 36:30
  Is that the Garrett Cole that you get in the postseason?
• 36:33
  Do you specifically, do you get Garrett Cole versus Rafael
• 36:36
  Devers, Garrett Cole in the postseason?
• 36:38
  It's true. You certainly don't want that.
• 36:41
  But it's it's definitely a question mark.
• 36:44
  He very obviously doesn't look himself.
• 36:46
  But when you work your way down the list, like I think, you
• 36:49
  know, if Clark Schmidt can geared up and it gets to that
• 36:53
  point where he can go a little bit longer, like that's a pretty
• 36:57
  solid 2 conversation. You've you've got a Carlos
• 37:01
  Rodin. Like you have guys that can that
• 37:05
  have been there that can do their thing.
• 37:08
  The back end of the bullpen is kind of a little bit shifty
• 37:11
  right now. Not quite sure what the order
• 37:14
  is. Luke Weaver's kind of stepped in
• 37:16
  for Clay Holmes at the back end. We just don't know if that's
• 37:19
  going to last. So, but overall, like, you know,
• 37:22
  trust me, I've watched a lot of this team this year.
• 37:25
  Obviously, I definitely have my concerns.
• 37:29
  I definitely have my questions around them, but it is a team
• 37:32
  that like, you know, they're difficult to deal with at times
• 37:37
  and when they're hot, they're hot.
• 37:39
  But the Guardians would be another team that I would say
• 37:42
  just a one last little drop in there.
• 37:44
  Are you putting the New York Yankees on your top five list of
• 37:49
  scariest contenders right now? I would say yes at 5.
• 37:53
  They're at the five spot. Oh.
• 37:54
  OK, well, truth be told, I did originally have them on, but
• 37:58
  then I looked a little bit deeper into what the Mariners
• 38:00
  have been doing as of late, so I had to bump the Yankees off.
• 38:05
  Call it bitterness, whatever you want.
• 38:07
  Sure. That's fair.
• 38:09
  Or maybe just want to give the Mariners some credit, some some
• 38:12
  some overdue credit. I think maybe we're a little
• 38:14
  weak. Maybe we're like a week late to
• 38:16
  that. But Mariner's been playing good
• 38:19
  ball. I if it were up to me, I've got
• 38:22
  it ranked as from from the bottom to the top.
• 38:26
  I've got Mariners at 5D, backs at 4, Padres at 3:00, Astros it
• 38:33
  to Phillies at 1:00. And Dodger is not even in the
• 38:36
  top five. For you no, because we, we've
• 38:37
  talked about and I and I know that's probably going to be a
• 38:40
  point of contention for some people and it's, it's simply
• 38:42
  because of their pitching like you're talking about, and I'm
• 38:46
  sure you if if you follow baseball at all, you're
• 38:48
  listening. I, I'm sure you've seen the
• 38:50
  reports that Shohei might possibly be back for the
• 38:53
  postseason. That's that's a great ad that's
• 38:55
  a great bonus, but that's not what you should have been
• 38:58
  relying on at this point. The fact that you're more than
• 39:01
  likely counting on that to to actually make a difference in
• 39:05
  the postseason, that's that's like worst case scenario, a guy
• 39:09
  that has not pitched all year, you're then going to more than
• 39:14
  likely ask him to be some variation of a savior on the
• 39:18
  mound come come October. And that's not where you want to
• 39:21
  be. You wanted these other guys to
• 39:23
  be better and and to be healthier.
• 39:25
  And I think we what did we just see that Glass now is just about
• 39:29
  he's done. Toast.
• 39:30
  He's done for the year, yeah. And and that was a guy that I
• 39:34
  look, I gave, I gave him credit. I was like, I think I'm pretty
• 39:37
  sure he set a season high for innings pitch this year, which
• 39:40
  to me was a win. And I said, if he doesn't pitch
• 39:42
  another inning this season, if he if he set that benchmark for
• 39:45
  himself, to me, that's a win. And the Dodgers have to look at
• 39:48
  that as a win. But it doesn't change the
• 39:50
  outlook for October. If you lose a guy like that
• 39:53
  who'd been throwing, well, that stings.
• 39:56
  And you could say the same thing about a lot of these other guys.
• 39:58
  Like Walker Bueller has been a shell of himself this year.
• 40:02
  I mean, that's. What's tough?
• 40:04
  Yeah, so, and again, I know limited, limited sample size
• 40:08
  there, but like it's just you're not a you and to me it's not a,
• 40:13
  it's not like a Diamondback situation where it's like you
• 40:15
  got, you just need some of these guys to figure it out and turn
• 40:17
  things around. It's like you don't have anybody
• 40:19
  to turn to at this point. I mean, you can you're you're
• 40:22
  going to put a warm, but you're going to put warm bodies out
• 40:25
  there. But you're going to be asking or
• 40:27
  you're going to have to ask a whole lot more of these guys
• 40:30
  than I think you would have liked to at this stage in the
• 40:31
  game. So that's why I can't put the
• 40:33
  Padres on on my top five scariest contenders, Dodgers,
• 40:38
  excuse me. That's why I can't put the
• 40:39
  Dodgers top five scares contenders at this moment in
• 40:43
  time. That's very fair.
• 40:46
  It's very fair. You want me?
• 40:49
  You want mine? What do you got?
• 40:52
  I'm going to go Yankees 5. Scrap the whole joint list.
• 40:56
  Let me just hear your 5 'cause I gave, I gave my logic.
• 41:00
  It sounds like we're sort of on the same.
• 41:02
  Same. I'm going to go.
• 41:03
  Yankees 5, I'm going to go that 4321.
• 41:14
  OK, so yeah, let's go. Yankees 5.
• 41:19
  Let's go, Let's go. Padres 4 No, let's go.
• 41:29
  Guardians 4. Guardians 4.
• 41:33
  Padres 3. Astros 2.
• 41:37
  Phillies one. Did I hear you have the
• 41:41
  Diamondbacks on there or no? No Diamondbacks.
• 41:43
  The pitching too much of A. The pitching concerns me too
• 41:46
  much. If if gallon was like like
• 41:49
  quintessential gallon that we're used to and he was doing what
• 41:53
  Gallon does, then yeah, I, I, if they, I think that and maybe
• 42:00
  some, some different things from like the, the back end of that
• 42:03
  rotation with like fought and, and you know, Ryan Nelson, like
• 42:07
  if I saw more there, I think I could get behind it.
• 42:11
  Well, Ryan, Ryan Nelson has been throwing the ball very well as
• 42:16
  of late, but it's a matter of consistency for him.
• 42:19
  It's if he can take that in October.
• 42:21
  But I'm pretty sure, let me double check here.
• 42:23
  I'm pretty sure they just put him on the shelf.
• 42:26
  Did they? Yeah, but he'll be back.
• 42:28
  I think I'll be back in. 3. In like a week and a half just
• 42:33
  had some some inflammation. But yeah, I mean, he going back
• 42:37
  honestly since like the start of maybe like early to mid August
• 42:44
  had been thrown very well. But it's, I mean, his last
• 42:46
  outing before he went on the shelf, not great.
• 42:49
  Tough one. So it's just a matter of could
• 42:52
  you get a little bit more consistency there.
• 42:54
  But yeah, to your point, I understand why that could lead
• 43:00
  you to be a little concerned. Yeah, and I don't think they
• 43:06
  know what they're doing in the closer role either.
• 43:08
  Paul Seawall does not. I think I saw Paul Seawald is.
• 43:13
  Ginkle doesn't scare me either. There's.
• 43:15
  Just I think Seawald, I just saw today, I think that came out
• 43:19
  with a report. Let me double check.
• 43:20
  He on the shelf too. He might be done for the year
• 43:23
  too. Thanks.
• 43:25
  Dude, yeah, it's, it's, it's just the pitching side of
• 43:29
  things. You know, the, the front end of
• 43:32
  that of that rotation isn't like a just, you know, write it in
• 43:35
  Sharpie. I'm going to get 6 quality
• 43:39
  innings anymore. Well, not this year anyway.
• 43:42
  And then the back end of the bullpen is a is a question mark
• 43:45
  for me as well. So as good as the offense is,
• 43:50
  yeah, give me that. I just, I think the Guardians,
• 43:54
  that's like that's where my head goes.
• 43:56
  Is that like those two teams? For some reason I put in the
• 43:59
  same category, Guardians winning the division, Guardians at home.
• 44:05
  Look at the numbers. It's absurd.
• 44:07
  So if they're hosting when they're hosting post season
• 44:11
  games, it's going to be different there in Cleveland,
• 44:15
  not not what you're used to. So yeah.
• 44:19
  I feel you. Let us transition here, Talk
• 44:25
  about a little bit of rivalry beef that happened over the
• 44:28
  weekend, Yankees, Red Sox getting into it a little bit.
• 44:31
  I mean, maybe not so much with the outcomes.
• 44:34
  We don't need to go there. That's not important.
• 44:37
  Why not? That's crazy.
• 44:40
  We just don't need to get into that for obvious reasons.
• 44:44
  Please respect my privacy. The the, the issue at hand that
• 44:51
  we're referring to the beef, we had a little bit of drama from
• 44:56
  call it Garrett Cole, Raphael Devers, Aaron Judge, Alex Cora.
• 45:03
  We if we're going to go with four names, we'll go with those
• 45:05
  four names, basically. Breeze over this bet that you
• 45:08
  lost. We're just going to ignore that.
• 45:15
  So. Anyway, she's going to, she's
• 45:22
  going to throw that blinker on, put it in the other lane.
• 45:25
  So anyway, on Saturday, Garrett Cole hits Raphael Devers.
• 45:34
  It's people wondering like, oh, is this intentional?
• 45:36
  Like, is this Cole's way of just expressing frustration about the
• 45:40
  fact that he has owned him? Which, by the way, I tell you, I
• 45:43
  never want to hear you ever, ever dispute or refute the fact
• 45:49
  that Rafael Devers owns Garrett Cole because this very season
• 45:54
  you refuted that. And Garrett Cole himself,
• 45:57
  Garrett Cole himself, you know, in your career, which is the
• 46:03
  Latin hitter that most gave you or gives you trouble getting
• 46:08
  out, Rafael Devers didn't take him very long to come up with
• 46:12
  that response. And I think even if you took out
• 46:15
  the qualifier of Latin hitter, I think he would give you the same
• 46:18
  exact answer. So I don't ever want to hear you
• 46:21
  when I'm sending you the meme of Rafael Devers holding little
• 46:24
  baby Garrett Cole. I don't ever want you to hit me
• 46:27
  back with like, oh, well, like, what are the numbers actually
• 46:29
  say? Because Garrett Cole himself
• 46:33
  told you what's what. OK, I just want to clear that
• 46:38
  up. Just want to clear that up.
• 46:40
  We don't need to worry about it until 2025 though.
• 46:42
  Hey, hey, hey, hey. Whoa, hey.
• 46:46
  Yeah. Move on.
• 46:48
  Finally we get we get Nate fired up a little bit, throwing some
• 46:52
  hanging makers a little bit. Yeah, where's this Nate been?
• 46:57
  Enjoy the couch, Sir. There we go.
• 47:00
  Yeah, she wrote. It's that's what we're talking
• 47:04
  about. You know, I have a very powerful
• 47:05
  I have a very powerful button right now that I can use and we
• 47:09
  we're just going to go ahead and I'm going to I'm going to let
• 47:12
  you know that I can use it If if I.
• 47:13
  Need to. Is there a pulse in Boston?
• 47:20
  Yeah, man. Watch what you say.
• 47:22
  Is there a pulse in Boston? Watch what you say.
• 47:28
  Watch your mouth. No, but hey, I'm glad to see you
• 47:30
  finally coming out of your shell.
• 47:31
  I've been waiting for. I've just, I've been trying to
• 47:34
  provoke you for what, like the last three years?
• 47:38
  Have you noticed I haven't. I didn't even text you after
• 47:40
  after Sunday. I didn't even care, dude, I had
• 47:44
  won the fantasy Baseball League. You could have been like the the
• 47:47
  Red Sox are the most garbage team in baseball.
• 47:51
  I I would have probably laughed. I probably would have agreed
• 47:54
  with you honestly, because that's that's where I'm at
• 47:56
  mentally. Back to the topic at hand
• 47:58
  though, Rafael Dever or excuse me, Gerrit Cole hits Rafael
• 48:03
  Devers, which which I think it was, correct me if I'm wrong.
• 48:07
  It was like, was it a cutter Cutter.
• 48:09
  It was a cutter. So I mean, that's all.
• 48:12
  Stop it. It stops right there.
• 48:13
  It wasn't intentional. And if it was, that's, that's
• 48:15
  just weird. But just going off of what you
• 48:18
  see on paper, what you're seeing on TV, not not intentional
• 48:24
  though. And I all I've been waiting for
• 48:26
  your take on this where things got interesting though.
• 48:29
  And and the the intentional or the not intentional hit is what
• 48:35
  carried over to the Aaron Judge thing.
• 48:36
  But in between that, you had Aaron Garrett, Cole do something
• 48:42
  that I have never seen ever from a Cy Young winner puts.
• 48:52
  There's nobody on base. He's throwing a no hitter.
• 48:56
  It's a it's a was a one nothing game.
• 48:59
  Hit a no hitter going. There's a no hitter going
• 49:02
  against the Red Sox and he puts the most he can do is tie the
• 49:08
  game. There's nobody on base.
• 49:10
  That's what he's throwing. A no hitter.
• 49:12
  OK, not not that hard to to make that, to jump to that
• 49:16
  conclusion. Puts up the four fingers, holds
• 49:21
  them up and gives him the old heave ho down to first base.
• 49:27
  Are you kidding me? Arguably.
• 49:29
  Love to hear you defend this. I can't.
• 49:32
  Arguably the softest thing I've ever seen.
• 49:34
  What are we talking about? You can't.
• 49:37
  You can't say it's you can't say it's because it's related to
• 49:40
  some sort of injury or pitch limit or strategy.
• 49:43
  There is nothing that you can say that would make sense in in,
• 49:48
  in justifying the defense for that.
• 49:51
  Unbelievably soft. I mean, come on, what?
• 49:55
  Inning was it like the third, second, third?
• 49:58
  No, had to be third. He was doing a no hitter.
• 50:01
  It was the second second time he faced them, so it was probably.
• 50:05
  The third of the fourth, I think it was the 4th, I think it was
• 50:07
  the 4th. Awful.
• 50:08
  There's no hitter into the 4th. No excuse.
• 50:11
  Not that I'm not going to sit here and say like, oh, he had
• 50:14
  like a no hitter. Like I'm not like, please don't
• 50:16
  take it as that. But I'm just saying at that
• 50:18
  point in the game, he had hadn't given up a hit.
• 50:22
  I'm not going to qualify it as a no hit bid in the 4th, but I'm
• 50:25
  saying he had not given up a hit at that point.
• 50:28
  It's it was it was arguably one of the softest things I've seen.
• 50:31
  You can ask, you can ask my wife.
• 50:33
  I was yelling at the TV after he gave up and proceeded to give up
• 50:38
  seven. That inning all started with
• 50:41
  this and endeavours ended up coming back up with the bases
• 50:44
  loaded and it's a double and you're like baseball, God's just
• 50:49
  absolutely looking down at you and and just owning you these.
• 50:55
  Softest, I mean, I'm sure if I thought about it, I, I maybe
• 51:00
  could come up with like one other thing, but off the top of
• 51:02
  my head, softest thing I've ever seen on the baseball field
• 51:05
  especially. I cannot state, I cannot
• 51:08
  reiterate this enough from a Cy Young winner.
• 51:12
  You're one of the you're one of our generation's best pitchers.
• 51:16
  Well, unless you're in Fenway or facing Rafael Devers, one of our
• 51:20
  generations best pitchers, and you're putting up the four
• 51:23
  fingers with nobody on base. Yeah, dude, I think, I think I
• 51:28
  saw the Austin Wells comments after was like, hold up, like
• 51:32
  can I just say he was kidding? Like can can we stop this?
• 51:35
  Also, the other thing is a manager has to give that a
• 51:41
  player can't do that. There has to be a manager.
• 51:44
  So I don't know what, I don't know what the umpires were
• 51:46
  doing. The guy's got a screw loose.
• 51:48
  I don't know. But super soft and then that
• 51:51
  just shows, goes to show you give up 7 after that.
• 51:55
  But then I, I will say one thing when you said that the cutter
• 51:59
  inside in the first AB wasn't on purpose.
• 52:02
  I think it was a let me throw a cutter in, try to get it on on
• 52:06
  on his hands. If it hits him, I don't care.
• 52:09
  I think that was probably the thought process, which is also
• 52:13
  soft, but I think that was probably like, you know what I'm
• 52:17
  saying? Like it's not necessarily
• 52:18
  intentional that he hit him, but it's like you have a very small
• 52:24
  window and Rafael Devers is a very, very good bad ball hitter,
• 52:30
  very, very good outside. Like he has crazy coverage, he
• 52:35
  gets barrel on balls that I don't even understand how.
• 52:38
  I don't, I don't know what the numbers show because they do
• 52:41
  have ways of tracking how good you are out of the zone.
• 52:44
  He's got to be top five. He's got to be one of the best,
• 52:47
  best hitters in baseball when it's balls out of the zone and
• 52:51
  that's kind of how you have to pitch those guys.
• 52:52
  So I do think it was a lot of like, let me throw a cutter
• 52:56
  under the hands, see if I can saw him off.
• 52:58
  If it hits him, it hits him. I think that was probably the
• 53:01
  thought process there. Well, Speaking of, of hitting
• 53:04
  somebody, the, the, the beef, the, the drama developed later
• 53:10
  in that game. It was a 6th inning I believe.
• 53:15
  You had Brian Baio throw behind Aaron Judge.
• 53:20
  And then after the game you have Alex Korra.
• 53:23
  I think there was, I think there was two pitches.
• 53:26
  I think the fastball went behind him and then the fastball close
• 53:30
  to the belt. Yeah, but I mean, you, you have
• 53:33
  Alex Kora having an answer for it.
• 53:34
  And he, I mean, I love Alex Kora.
• 53:37
  I mean, he's literally, he's, he's on the wall back there
• 53:40
  holding up the, holding up the 18 trophy.
• 53:42
  You can see it right there. I, I don't know if I get what he
• 53:50
  was doing. You're, you're trying to fire up
• 53:52
  the boys. You're trying to you're trying
• 53:54
  to get something a little, you're trying to get something
• 53:56
  going a little bit. Clearly didn't work.
• 53:59
  You dropped what, 3 or 4 to the Yankees this weekend.
• 54:03
  Like I said, I, I get what you were doing.
• 54:04
  It didn't work. And it also by acknowledging, by
• 54:07
  essentially admitting that that's what you were trying to
• 54:09
  do, you're like, we missed our shot.
• 54:12
  You're now putting yourself as a manager in hot water because
• 54:15
  they they came out today and said that the league's
• 54:17
  investigating it, which what make of that what you will.
• 54:20
  I don't care frankly, regarding the possible suspension.
• 54:24
  I don't really care because the season's over at this point
• 54:26
  doesn't matter to me. And I'm sure Core would love to
• 54:29
  be out there, but he's probably looking at this going I've I've
• 54:31
  done what I can do. I got him back into the mix, but
• 54:35
  we're just not we're not hitting right now.
• 54:36
  So. Trying to get one more round of
• 54:39
  golf in before before the weather changes, that's all.
• 54:41
  I guess whatever we'll see you in 2025.
• 54:44
  It was it was a fun run Red Sox. But yeah, that I mean, that's
• 54:46
  that's a little bit of the drama.
• 54:48
  I'm I'm hope I'm hopeful that this continues into next year.
• 54:52
  Not this issue, this instance. I'm not I'm not saying I don't
• 54:56
  we don't we don't need the security of the rivalry.
• 54:59
  Yeah, Bigger picture, I'm hoping that that it revitalizes a
• 55:02
  little bit into 2025 because I think the game needs it.
• 55:05
  As much as people like to get tired, as much as people get
• 55:08
  tired of hearing about the Yankees and Red Sox, you and I
• 55:10
  get tired of hearing about the Yankees, Red Sox when they're on
• 55:13
  Sunday Night Baseball in the middle of June and like they're
• 55:16
  both playing like crap, whatever it is.
• 55:18
  Both 1:00 and 9:00 in the last 10.
• 55:21
  But when they're both playing good ball, when they're when
• 55:23
  they're going at each other's throats, that's that's good for
• 55:25
  the game. I don't care what anybody says,
• 55:28
  what's not good for the game. Real quick one, I'm going to go
• 55:32
  ahead. I'm just going to give a little
• 55:34
  this, just a little there, just a little gentleman tip of the
• 55:38
  cap. I don't think anybody expected
• 55:44
  this season out of the Red Sox. I think there's a lot of good
• 55:49
  things that you can carry into the offseason in the next year.
• 55:53
  You have a like, your rookies really showed up.
• 55:57
  Like I think Abreu is for sure in a conversation of being a top
• 56:04
  outfielder at some point. Jaron Duran, the man.
• 56:07
  Like that guy's crazy good. And may I say Abreu a better
• 56:13
  right fielder than Alex Verdugo or just outfielder in general
• 56:16
  than Alex? Verdugo yeah, yeah, for sure.
• 56:18
  That's fair. Yeah, yeah.
• 56:19
  Just wanted. Yeah, just wanted to make sure
• 56:21
  that was. Yeah, hopefully he's not a
• 56:23
  Yankee next year, Verdugo. Not a very, but I think there's,
• 56:28
  I mean Colton Wong, like you have Colton Wong, Connor Wong.
• 56:31
  Connor Wong. You have.
• 56:33
  Saddam Rafaela. You have very good core, very
• 56:37
  good bright things that are coming out of out of Boston.
• 56:41
  I, I think there's a lot to and, and like job well done of like
• 56:47
  what they were able to do and to still be in the conversation in
• 56:50
  the middle of September, No one, no one saw that coming.
• 56:54
  So. Hand up I I certainly didn't.
• 56:58
  But regarding the Yankees, Joe on Twitter says no matter what,
• 57:02
  Yankees versus Orioles playoff series will be electric.
• 57:04
  Not going to lie, I would love to see that.
• 57:07
  Here's the. I hope we get something like.
• 57:08
  That there's so much the the the Yankees hang out rent free in
• 57:14
  Orioles fans brains to this. Every fan base, like I, I sit
• 57:18
  here and rag on the Yankees, but it's just common knowledge at
• 57:20
  that it's it's the Yankees versus everybody else when it
• 57:23
  comes to the whole free. Thing like, it's really strange.
• 57:26
  Like I don't even really think about the Orioles that often
• 57:29
  until they play like it. But like, the way that Yankees
• 57:33
  Twitter is constantly Orioles Twitter constantly talking about
• 57:38
  Yankees when they're not even playing each other is like,
• 57:41
  relax dude. I get it.
• 57:43
  I get it. But yeah, it's it's going to be
• 57:46
  good. If if they do, they link up,
• 57:48
  it's going to be it's going. To be good.
• 57:52
  Going back to my original segue, what's what's not good for the
• 57:56
  game? This little little rewind there,
• 57:59
  what's not good for the game? This whole Derek Bender throwing
• 58:04
  the games from behind the dish thing.
• 58:07
  It's a little I, I, I realized this, this is a few days out of
• 58:12
  the out of the news cycle now, so we don't have to spend too
• 58:14
  much time on it, but we it was requested that we at least talk
• 58:17
  about it. I'll be honest with you.
• 58:21
  I saw that there was like a a teammate or two that came to his
• 58:27
  defense talking about how he's like the one of the better
• 58:31
  teammates that they've ever had and that I may be miss.
• 58:37
  I may be incorrectly paraphrasing here, but I could
• 58:41
  have sworn it was something to the effect of like I understand
• 58:46
  it or like we've or no, I think that's what it was.
• 58:48
  It was something to the effect of like, we've all we've all
• 58:52
  wanted things to be over or something.
• 58:54
  And I'm like, this is a weird, weird hill to die on.
• 59:00
  Coming to the defense of the guy that was literally giving signs
• 59:02
  away. Like you and I like granted, we
• 59:04
  didn't play professional at at college.
• 59:07
  I'm sure even there was, there was points of the year where
• 59:09
  you're going. Oh yeah.
• 59:12
  Man, it's been a long year burnt out.
• 59:14
  We need to just this thing needs to just wrap up because I mean,
• 59:19
  or like if you played in the summer league for like
• 59:21
  collegiate summer league, that's that gives you a taste of what
• 59:24
  what? Those are tough.
• 59:26
  What the, the grind is like, and I'm certain that I, I, there's a
• 59:31
  team that I'm thinking of in particular that I play.
• 59:35
  It was a summer collegiate team. It was one of those ones you
• 59:37
  play six games out of the week or six days out of the week and
• 59:41
  it got to the end and it was like if we won, we went into the
• 59:44
  post of the we made it to the playoffs.
• 59:46
  But if not, we're done and we're looking around going.
• 59:48
  We don't stand a chance anyway. So let's not fool ourselves
• 59:51
  here. And I think we like punted, but
• 59:53
  to to actively be given signs. I think this is just that's
• 59:58
  that's. A little.
• 59:58
  It's tough. It's tough dude.
• 1:00:00
  And like. When I heard, I think it was, I
• 1:00:05
  don't know if it was like a tweet or it was in the article,
• 1:00:07
  but it was like when you spend you were six round pick when you
• 1:00:10
  spend quite literally your whole life working for this and throw
• 1:00:19
  it away for that lack of competitiveness that like lack
• 1:00:26
  of fire. Like I think that's the biggest
• 1:00:28
  thing that would sit with me if I'm in the front office is like,
• 1:00:32
  I don't, not only is this inexcusable, it's like you're
• 1:00:37
  just not a winner. I want winners in my
• 1:00:41
  organization. You're not a winner.
• 1:00:44
  Take a hike like that to me. Like I I get pissed if I lose
• 1:00:48
  board games, you know what I'm saying?
• 1:00:53
  Like I won't I won't talk to my family if I lose monopoly.
• 1:00:56
  That's what I'm saying, dude. I will move out.
• 1:01:00
  I will. Burn this house down.
• 1:01:03
  But I think it's just it's tough on the other side of things.
• 1:01:11
  Give this some time, let it blow over.
• 1:01:15
  There has to be some remorse here.
• 1:01:18
  But the there's got to be a second chance if the precedent
• 1:01:23
  you're setting for giving domestic violence type guys who
• 1:01:28
  are in the big leagues making millions a slap on the wrist for
• 1:01:32
  those and giving them second, third, fourth chances and this
• 1:01:37
  kids not going to get a second chance.
• 1:01:40
  Hear hear me out though, I'm I'm off the field.
• 1:01:43
  Versus on the field? No, no, no, I understand.
• 1:01:45
  Yeah, yeah, I'm going to have to tread super lightly here because
• 1:01:48
  I'm. I don't want it to come across
• 1:01:50
  as I'm like defending domestic computers.
• 1:01:51
  I'm certainly not. However, with that like once
• 1:01:59
  time passes, once they've, you know, they've done their time,
• 1:02:03
  they've they've served their, whatever penalty they incurred,
• 1:02:08
  you could make the, the arguments like, OK, they've done
• 1:02:11
  what they needed to do. They seem remorseful.
• 1:02:13
  They've, they've done, they've done some form of rehab or or
• 1:02:18
  community service, whatever the, the crime was, if you will, that
• 1:02:21
  they committed, whether it's domestic or, or elsewhere or,
• 1:02:25
  you know, whatever. But with this, though, I don't
• 1:02:30
  know if I'm as quick to say that this guy would get a second
• 1:02:33
  chance simply because of the fact that that tells you what
• 1:02:36
  like, I'm not going to sit here and try to try to like classify
• 1:02:42
  the make like the mental or competitive makeup of a domestic
• 1:02:45
  abuser. But I would venture to say if a
• 1:02:47
  guy gets caught up in just a, a rough stretch with, with his his
• 1:02:51
  wife or girlfriend or whatever, that even if you removed that
• 1:02:57
  from the equation, at the end of the day, they're still going to
• 1:03:00
  be a a competitor. Like they're still going to want
• 1:03:02
  to go out and play baseball. But with this guy, granted, he
• 1:03:05
  didn't, he didn't go out and abuse anybody, but he told, he
• 1:03:08
  basically told you with this that like, I'm OK if we don't,
• 1:03:12
  if we don't win baseball games. So it's like I don't know how
• 1:03:16
  much time would, would pass or what would really change for me
• 1:03:19
  as somebody in the, the the minors team's front office.
• 1:03:24
  Yeah. That that would even really
• 1:03:26
  change, I don't know. I hear you.
• 1:03:29
  I just, I maybe give a little time, let it, let it blow over a
• 1:03:33
  little bit. See if there's any context.
• 1:03:36
  We have no idea. Not that I'm coming to the
• 1:03:39
  defense of this guy. I, I, I, I don't understand it.
• 1:03:44
  It doesn't compute for me. I can't do that.
• 1:03:49
  Just my competitive nature, I'm not able to just do that.
• 1:03:55
  But at the same time, you know, like we don't know, like who is
• 1:03:58
  there? Is there a funeral?
• 1:04:00
  Is there a birth of a child? Is there a sick person at home?
• 1:04:04
  Like we have no idea, you know what I'm saying?
• 1:04:06
  Is there an outside circumstance that makes him want to go home?
• 1:04:10
  We don't know. So give us some time, let it
• 1:04:12
  blow over. Maybe there's some context
• 1:04:14
  there. Maybe there's a story there.
• 1:04:16
  I don't know. I I do think that like a six
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  round pick probably has some talent when you have your other
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  teammates that are saying, you know, he's actually a heck of a
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  teammate. He's a great dude in the
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  clubhouse. Like I think there's potential
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  for a another opportunity. It the tough thing is that like,
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  we probably aren't going to find out, probably aren't going to
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  hear about it because these guys rarely even make it to the show
• 1:04:45
  anyway, so. Speaking of the show, we have
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  got helmet ads come into the post season.
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  It's all I really got on that. I don't know, I just hate it.
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  Like I said this before, Nate, I'm I'm tired of sounding like
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  the old man yelling at the clouds.
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  But it's like, so unless we agree with just everything that
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  comes down the pipe, does that make us an old man yelling at
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  the clouds? Like, are we?
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  Are we old heads? Buy in Kyle, buy in are.
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  We old heads for looking at at at Major League Baseball,
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  bringing in helmet ads from a German workwear company.
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  Are we are we old heads for looking at that and going, Hey,
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  that's that's not like that's just not a good idea.
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  That's just, you know, it doesn't look good.
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  It's we don't want that. And it's just overall generally
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  not a it's it it's not a good idea.
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  Do we have to be fully on board like in order to fit in now with
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  like the this new wave of baseball fans?
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  Like I'm honestly asking, genuinely asking, like are
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  people like wanting this? Are they?
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  Are there people defending this? I can't imagine there are.
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  I mean, it's just like why nobody asked for this?
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  And I know it's not about like us asking for it versus not
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  because I understand this is like a, this is on the business
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  side of things. But like, why figure out another
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  way to like, if you, if you're so desperate to have business
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  relationship with this German workwear company, then figure
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  out another way to incorporate it.
• 1:06:40
  Like just let you've are you. I don't care what anybody says.
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  Disagree with me or not, you've completely trashed the uniforms
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  themselves, just with the, with the, the, the patches.
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  And I mean, this feels like a a lifetime ago, but I remember the
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  the uproar when they added when Nike added the swoosh on the
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  front of the jerseys. You've got that on the front of
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  like Yankee pinstripes and you're going around like this is
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  this just isn't this isn't baseball.
• 1:07:09
  And then there's been other things that have come along it
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  like, Oh well, Fanatics, obviously with just the way they
• 1:07:17
  completely destroyed the jerseys.
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  But it's like this was just one other one additional thing that
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  if you would have avoided it, you would have been in you would
• 1:07:24
  have been in better standing with the with the fans.
• 1:07:26
  But you said, no, we're going to we're going to double, triple,
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  quadruple down and we're going to add these stupid looking
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  helmet ads, which at the end of the day aren't going to like
• 1:07:37
  make me not watch baseball. But it's just such a stupid
• 1:07:40
  thing that I feel like we had I, I, it's stupid that we have to
• 1:07:43
  bring it up, But I feel like it can't not be brought up because
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  it's like if we, if nobody says anything, if we just continue to
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  just let all the stuff roll in, then it's just, it's like it is,
• 1:07:55
  it's just going to become a league wide money grab.
• 1:07:57
  Like the product is no longer going to be the product.
• 1:08:00
  It's going to be a it's going to be a cash grab.
• 1:08:02
  And I feel like I fear that we're like already knocking on
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  the door of that. It's just so, it's just so much
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  greed. That's what it feels like to me.
• 1:08:11
  It's just greed. It's just money hungry greed.
• 1:08:15
  Like 1 is enough, enough. Like you have banners all or
• 1:08:20
  every inch of the fence and backstop.
• 1:08:24
  Everywhere. Don't get me started on the
• 1:08:26
  green screen on on the actual. Your green screen, your ticker,
• 1:08:30
  your lineup is brought to you by this slow motion is brought to
• 1:08:34
  you by this replay review is brought to you like all of it.
• 1:08:39
  It's like, at what point do we draw the freaking line?
• 1:08:47
  Where when I think it was the, oh, what broadcast was, I think
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  it was the Fox Saturday game with the Yankees and the Red Sox
• 1:08:59
  where they were talking about it.
• 1:09:00
  And then they're like panning around and they're looking at
• 1:09:03
  every cameraman who's, you know, wearing the, the outfit and it's
• 1:09:08
  like a quarter zip with, you know, and it's like enough,
• 1:09:12
  dude. Like it, It doesn't help that
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  you're getting broadcasters to jam it down our throat and make
• 1:09:18
  it seem normal. Like tell me, I would like to
• 1:09:23
  see how much revenue has gone up for the companies with the
• 1:09:27
  patches as ADT, as their as their sales skyrocketed because
• 1:09:33
  of the Marlins has has Motorola just taken over the world
• 1:09:39
  because of the Padres? Like I'd like to know.
• 1:09:42
  I'd like to see the numbers. I'd like to see the correlation
• 1:09:46
  of the scale going up because of these patches.
• 1:09:51
  I'll tell you I'll I'll give you an example how of how
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  ineffective I think this is. Tell me right now who the jersey
• 1:09:57
  patch is for the Saint Louis Cardinals.
• 1:09:59
  Couldn't tell you, no idea I could.
• 1:10:02
  I just named the only two I know.
• 1:10:04
  I know, I know the I. Don't even know the Yankee one.
• 1:10:09
  Couldn't even tell you, but like we talked about what this year,
• 1:10:11
  I, I saw that sign that you could on the concourse, you
• 1:10:15
  could take your jersey and get it customized personalized with
• 1:10:18
  the with the. Insurance patch.
• 1:10:20
  Slap that baby on there. Because that's something that
• 1:10:23
  people want to do. I.
• 1:10:24
  Mean get a get a free quote if you show me your patch on your
• 1:10:27
  jersey. It's doing man enough's enough.
• 1:10:30
  That's all I'm done talking about.
• 1:10:32
  This is stupid. Last thing I got here, Elliott
• 1:10:35
  Ramos becomes the 1st right-handed hitter to drop a
• 1:10:39
  ball into Mccovey Cove. How about that man 20?
• 1:10:46
  Temperature. Was it a warm day out there?
• 1:10:48
  25 years. When did he do it?
• 1:10:53
  Was it yesterday? Yeah, it was yesterday, Sunday.
• 1:10:58
  Where did it go 374, 394 Sorry. Yeah, 394, Yep, which I'll be
• 1:11:07
  honest, it didn't look like it was when I watched the replay.
• 1:11:09
  It did not look like it made it out.
• 1:11:10
  It looked like it, it skimmed the the little concourse out
• 1:11:15
  there, but it made it out there. Also, am I?
• 1:11:19
  I don't know if I mentioned this last year.
• 1:11:21
  I'm forgetting if if it's a thing.
• 1:11:24
  So Roberto Clemente isn't worn by everybody?
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  Sorry. Before I forget the 21 the.
• 1:11:31
  Temperature yesterday in San Francisco it it was a high of
• 1:11:34
  63. Just a little, little warmth
• 1:11:38
  there, that's all you need and the ball will go.
• 1:11:42
  To answer your question, the I'm like 99% sure the pirates all
• 1:11:49
  wore 21. I think it's league wide.
• 1:11:52
  They give the guys the option. I think that or the choice to to
• 1:11:55
  choose if they want to wear it or not.
• 1:11:57
  OK, gotcha. Right, whatever.
• 1:12:02
  I just, I because obviously Ellie Ramos was wearing it.
• 1:12:07
  Yeah, which I think I saw. It was this 21st home run on
• 1:12:10
  Roberto Clemente Day, which I thought was pretty cool.
• 1:12:12
  Little little nugget there from the baseball guys.
• 1:12:15
  I like that I want to call him Helio.
• 1:12:17
  Can I do that? It's not Helio, it's Elliot.
• 1:12:20
  It just looks, it looks good. It sounds good.
• 1:12:23
  Yeah, Helio sounds really cool. Definitely way cooler.
• 1:12:27
  It's kind of like kind of like Tariq's Google.
• 1:12:29
  That sounds way cooler. And Derek?
• 1:12:32
  Yeah, I don't. I want my name right Name with
• 1:12:34
  Derek. Let's call his parents.
• 1:12:36
  Let's get them on the line. Helio would be an election on a
• 1:12:42
  Spanish broadcast. But yeah, just a little nugget
• 1:12:45
  here. First, first splash Homer out
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  there in Mccovey Cove. Just wanted to note that.
• 1:12:53
  Sick cool stuff. It's just one of those things
• 1:12:57
  where. Just wild.
• 1:12:59
  You have to do a double take. You're like, there's no way that
• 1:13:02
  long. It took this long for that to
• 1:13:05
  happen. And from a guy that like, I mean
• 1:13:07
  no disrespect to him, but it's like.
• 1:13:09
  Yeah, Hey, no, Jeff Kent, you know what I mean.
• 1:13:14
  I mean, what if it's baseball's weird sometimes, man.
• 1:13:18
  Good for him though. You know that man, that.
• 1:13:20
  Was the 1st. That was the first righty that
• 1:13:21
  came to mind. I was going to sack Manny
• 1:13:23
  Ramirez. I'm sure he he played a time or
• 1:13:25
  two out there or No, No, no, no, no.
• 1:13:29
  Yeah, yeah, he would have. Yeah, he would have played out
• 1:13:32
  there for sure. For sure, for sure.
• 1:13:34
  Yeah, yeah. Spent a lot of time in the El.
• 1:13:36
  Not in his prime. Was a Dodger.
• 1:13:38
  For a bit, yeah. Manny would hated that yes, that
• 1:13:45
  was stupid, but anyway, that's that's all we got anything else
• 1:13:50
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• 1:13:52
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• 1:13:55
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• 1:13:57
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• 1:14:16
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• 1:14:18
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• 1:14:21
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• 1:14:41
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• 1:14:46
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• 1:16:00
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• 1:16:02
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