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MLB at Bristol Speedway · The 3-0 Take

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  Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Three O Tape where we talk
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  all things Major League Baseball.
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  Here's Kyle Carlin and Nate Reyes.
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  It all starts right now. Welcome back to the Three I Take
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  presented by SeatGeek. This is episode 457.
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  I'll be your host Kyle Cord, and I'm here with my Co host Nadry
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  is Nate. Let's go.
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  Let's go. Let's get it going today.
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  Let's. You know what?
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  You know what? I don't care.
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  I don't care that it's August. I don't care if you're tired.
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  I don't care if it's Wednesday, let's go, let's go.
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  There's not even. Any breaking news, but I had to.
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  I had to sound the alarm. There's no breaking news.
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  Just get it going. You know, let's get it going.
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  Hey, super random right off the top, I put AI put a post out
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  today. I was.
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  I somehow ended up on threads. You know, the app threads.
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  Heard about it, I thought that faded out pretty.
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  Quickly, it's pretty much dead, but every now and then when
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  you're scrolling Instagram, it'll show you like it'll give
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  you a post or a preview of a post.
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  And I'm like, oh, that. They do a really good job of
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  like putting ones out that they know I'm going to click.
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  This is like the Zuckerberg version of Twitter.
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  Twitter yeah. So I was scrolling and I saw
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  one. I don't know if it was directed
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  at or I don't know if it's specific to baseball or just
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  sports in general. The post was from Guillot Tier
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  simply said stop having a quote. Second favorite team.
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  What are your thoughts on that? Because I feel like that's
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  something that that is not addressed enough.
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  Specifically talking baseball. Because I, I, I've seen more
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  comments it reading through threads, replies, comments,
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  whatever of people being like, I, I love the Yankees, but the
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  Reds are my second favorite team.
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  What does that even mean? I don't know what I don't get.
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  That that's not allowed I. Don't get that?
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  Shouldn't be a thing. This is the problem with like
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  the the the generation coming up that like didn't watch baseball
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  growing up and probably still doesn't really watch that much.
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  I think they just fall in love with like a specific player and
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  they just kind of stay on that route.
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  Which even if you do that, that's fine, but like stick to
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  that team. This whole thing of having like
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  a multiple favorite teams kind of kind of defeats the purpose
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  of having a favorite team. It kind of dilutes the favorite
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  element of it. Yeah, yeah.
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  I don't know, man. I don't, I don't know.
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  It's kind of like a like a safety net, if you will, where
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  you're like, hey, this is my team, but like you can't hate me
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  because I also root for this team that like everyone loves
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  and no one has anything bad to say about.
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  There's zero emotional commitment in that in that
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  scenario because it, to use the example, if you're a Yankees
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  fan, the Yankees fall flat on their faces.
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  Well, I didn't even really care because I'm a Reds person
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  anyway. Like, well, and I don't know why
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  you'd be a Reds and a Yankees person, but I've seen crazier
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  things. And so when you do that, you
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  don't have to go through the highs and lows of of your sports
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  team. It's an easy cop out.
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  And it's, it's it's lazy. I'll just say it's lazy.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know.
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  I I there was that yeah. I remember watching the weird
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  video where they went to Billy's outside of Yankee Stadium, which
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  is like the like the main, like club, their stands like the old
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  school bar, very short and narrow.
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  And then there's Billy's, which is like turns into a club.
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  And I think it was like John Boy or something like that going
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  around like their media thing, going around asking random fans
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  like who their second favorite team is.
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  And I'm like, I don't. And that all had answers.
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  All of them had answers. And I'm like, it's not how it
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  works. I don't, I don't understand.
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  I'm not a fan of it. I don't I don't understand.
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  Like I, I, it's live and die. I live and die with the Yankees.
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  I love good baseball. I'm not going to stop watching
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  other teams. I'm not going to enjoy watching
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  other like not not enjoy watching other, not not enjoy
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  watching other players. I enjoy watching other players.
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  There you go. Yeah, 22.
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  But like, I'm not going to like, I'll, I'll happily scream at my
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  TV for a Yankees game, but like, I'm not going to do that for the
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  Marlins, you know? Let's go Marlins, though.
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  Let's go Marlins, sorry for the rant off the top.
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  Just had to get you had to get your take on it because I was I.
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  Have a rant. I have a rant.
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  Oh, let's hear. It's not a baseball rant.
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  Oh, OK, let's see. I think it's just a stupidity
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  rant. I so I I do sales for work.
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  Yep, I'm on the phone a lot talking to people all around the
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  country. There is a scary and I when I'm,
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  when I mean scary, I'm going to go ahead and say like 8 out of
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  10 people don't know what time zone they're in because I got to
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  like link up. Like, hey, like if I put in my
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  calendar, you know, they're asking for 5:00 for like, great.
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  That's not 5:00 across the board.
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  Then I say what time zone they're in and you'd be
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  surprised how many people are absolutely baffled with that
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  question, that 5th grader question.
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  It's scary. A follow up to that, and I would
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  ask you which one you think is scarier there.
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  I won't, I won't. I'm not going to name names, but
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  we know somebody out here that works for the government and
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  I'll be like right down the road from DC.
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  Somebody works in the government out here or we're we're friends
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  with them. Actually, I may not even say
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  we're friends with them for legal purposes.
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  I'll just say we're acquaintances.
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  Yeah, this individual asked us just like in passing.
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  Look, we are, we were talking about our trip out to Hawaii and
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  they they followed up with is Hawaii one of our 50 states?
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  They work for the US government. I don't know which one's
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  scarier, whether or not. We're in shambles.
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  We're in trouble. We're in trouble.
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  But I tell you what, Major League Baseball is trying to do
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  its best to trying to save the country.
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  They're bringing Major League Baseball to Bristol Motor
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  Speedway next year. They said if this ship is going
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  down, we're at least going to try to get a game at a racetrack
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  first. Isn't Bristol in Connecticut?
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  No, yes, but that's that's not this Bristol.
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  This Bristol is in Tennessee, actually.
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  You know, we're talking about things that people may or may
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  not know. I feel like I should know this.
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  Yep. Sure.
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  Yeah, Bristol, TN. There's a Bristol, Bristol, VA,
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  I believe. I definitely should know that.
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  Yep. City city in Virginia.
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  Yep. But they're bringing the game to
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  Bristol, TN. Bristol Motor Speedway.
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  It's going to be between the Reds and the Braves.
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  The last time that the Bristol Motor Speedway had a sporting
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  event outside of a race was the if you recall, which is mind
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  blowing that this was eight years ago or it's going to be 9
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  by the time they do it is Back in 2016, the Tennessee
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  Volunteers took on the Virginia Tech Hokies and you know how
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  many fans they drew for that game.
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  I'm assuming college football. Yeah, yeah.
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  Let's go with 120,000. 157,000 fans.
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  Boy, it was the, I believe, the highest attended college
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  football game of all time. But I was curious.
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  I was like, OK, well, what about baseball?
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  That's all fine and dandy for college football, but what about
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  what about baseball? So I had to look it up.
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  It was the which I I got to admit, I'd, I don't know if I
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  really remember this all that much.
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  I've I've vaguely remember it, but it was the exhibition game,
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  preseason exhibition between the Dodgers and the Red Sox back in
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  2008 at the LA Coliseum and that brought in 115,000 people.
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  Hey, look, I being being someone who has been to like a non like
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  a like a sport in a different stadium arena event thing.
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  I think there's ways that can make this very cool.
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  And there's also ways that can absolutely ruin this.
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  I'm curious because like I'm, I'm looking, you know, 'cause
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  just to just to confirm the shape of a of a Motor Speedway
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  is, you know, a lot of a lot like an Oval, correct.
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  I just wanted to confirm that I'm really struggling to
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  understand like what the setup's going to be like.
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  Well, do we got like a Polo Ground situation going?
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  On well, I can give you a little bit of context, maybe give you a
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  little bit of assistance in trying to understand what this
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  could potentially look like. Because that exhibition game at
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  the LA Coliseum back in O8I did some digging around because I
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  like I said, I vaguely remembered it.
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  So I'm like, we got to figure out the dimensions here.
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  The only dimension that I was able to find in my my brief
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  research was the left field fence.
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  You have any guesses how, how, how far back the left field
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  fence was? Mind you this is in a Coliseum
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  where they played college football and pretty sure it had
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  a track like an Olympic style track.
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  But it was they they could fit a foot, a college football field
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  in the middle. I I'm going to say like 275.
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  The left field fence was 250 feet away.
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  I, I kid you not, it. And look, if you're bored, like
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  if you're listening to this at work on on Thursday or Friday,
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  whenever you listen to this and you're bored, pull up the
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  highlights on YouTube of this exhibition game between the Red
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  Sox and Dodgers. It is comical.
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  It is the I'm I'm pretty sure the first highlight that popped
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  up on the video I watched was a Raphael for call rope down the
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  left field line barely like legs out are single but no interest
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  in advancing and like the ball was smoked.
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  And I'm pretty sure I, I didn't check the replay, but I'm pretty
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  sure he was like 1/4 of the way to first base by the time the
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  ball got to the fence 250 feet away.
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  And here's the thing to, to alleviate or to, to get ahead of
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  or prevent excessive home run hitting.
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  They put do you have a do you have a guess as to how high the
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  the screen was in left field that they put above this 250
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  foot fence? How high is the Green Monster?
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  37 I was. Going to say 39.
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  OK, so let's go, let's go 25 feet high.
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  According to Vince Scully on the broadcast, because he was there
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  calling that game. I trust Vince Scully.
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  And he said it multiple times and there was a conflicting
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  number that I found online. But I'm going, I'm going to go
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  ahead and trust the guy that's there calling the game that we
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  can all safely assume did his research leading up to it.
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  I would vote for Vince Scully for president, I think if if
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  there if that time ever came. If it ever got to that point, we
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  would have we would have certainly voted Vin Scully.
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  I think I would have done it. According to Vin Scully on the
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  broadcast in real time, he said the fence above the fence to
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  prevent home runs was 65 feet high.
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  It was a circus. So that's a lot.
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  I say that that's crazy, that's OK, That's basic math here.
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  That's like a little a little less than three green monsters
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  Ish. No2.
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  Less than two. 37 times. Two, what time zone are you in?
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  That'd be 74, Yeah, a little less than two.
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  I, I am in the Eastern Time zone.
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  Hawaii, yes, Hawaii is the 50th state.
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  So yeah, that that kind of gives you an idea what we're working
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  with. I'm not saying I'm not.
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  I'm going to go ahead and assume that that's it's not going to be
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  that crazy for this game, given that it's going to be a regular
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  season game. It's not like an exhibition that
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  they're thrown together. We know it's a regular season
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  game. Actually that's a good point
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  because techni I guess. Let's rewind here.
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  Technically they haven't made the announcement, which this
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  stuff always cracks me up. It's like the person that leaked
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  this in leaked this information as I was reading had to share
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  this information under the cover of anonymity because they have
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  not officially made the announcement that that
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  announcement I believe is coming Friday.
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  I think old uncle, uncle Robbie Manfred will be there in
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  attendance at at Bristol for this announcement.
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  Who do you really say is? I'm, I'm guessing it's got to be
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  a regular season game because I think we're past the point like
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  we're, we're becoming a much more national game.
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  And there's if you're going to pull off an event like this,
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  there needs to be some, some meat behind it.
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  It can't just be like a hey, here's 100.
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  And 50,000 fans, yeah. Yeah, here's a here's a spring
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  training game. I don't think they're going to
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  be doing all that just for the just for.
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  The you think this is just to like feel out what what baseball
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  could be in Tennessee, 'cause there's work, there's rumors,
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  you know, there's a lot of people clamoring for Tennessee
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  to specifically the Nashville area.
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  I mean, they got baseball in Nashville.
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  They got baseball in Nashville. It's a, it's a good point
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  though. It's a great point.
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  Like, test out the market a little bit, you know?
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  The timing is interesting, I'll give you that.
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  Yeah, we got the A's moving and then we're there's, there's
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  rumors of expansion A. Lot of word of expansion.
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  A lot of word I don't know. I so like what's center field
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  going to be. I'm very, I'm still pretty lost
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  on how we're looking at these dimensions.
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  I'm going to be pissed if I'm playing center field that day.
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  I mean. I'm not thrilled.
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  I mean, just looking at a race track, you have to assume one of
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  the corners is going to be a very, very short porch.
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  Right. And then?
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  And then there's just a wide open pasture.
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  Couldn't tell you. And like, do you have fans just
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  like casually sitting like behind home plate that are like
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  200 feet away from home plate? That was the other thing.
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  OK, So if you go back and look at that, if and when you look up
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  the highlights from that LA Coliseum exhibition, you'll
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  notice that the backstop, it's very, I mean, obviously it's
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  makeshift, but it they didn't really put much effort into that
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  at all. And if you look in that video,
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  if you look down the first baseline, they have they had
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  like those white temporary fences, like the white plasticky
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  type fences going down the first baseline.
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  I'm like, what are we? Is this a, a Sunday league
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  softball championship game? What?
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  What are we? Doing it gives me that vibe
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  quite a bit. So I'll have to say the setup in
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  situations going to be rather intriguing.
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  I like how I like how just like MLB fans are just like, hey, can
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  can we just get better umpires? And MLB is like we're going to
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  Tokyo, We're playing in London, we're playing in Tennessee.
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  We're going to do it in a freaking Motor Speedway.
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  We're just like, hey, any chance we could like maybe not have two
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  hour games? And we're like we're expanding
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  to four more cities. We're going to move the A's like
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  just doing new uniforms, just doing everything.
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  But hey. Commissioner, is it all right if
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  maybe if we're paying for MLBTV, like if we could actually just
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  watch our local team? I'll tell you what, I'll do you
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  one better baseball fan. I'm going to put you in a seat 3
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  1/2 miles away from home plate in Bristol, TN and you're going
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  to like it. And I want you to buy this paper
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  thin authentic game jersey. That's that's what we're doing.
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  Mess. What a mess.
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  What a mess. I'll still watch.
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  I'll still watch. Who knows, we may end up even
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  going on a whim. We may even be there.
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  Who knows? I'm down.
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  I'm down for the, you know how like I've never been to any of
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  these races, like NASCAR, Indy, I've never been to any of those,
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  but I I hear that they are insane.
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  It's legit. And like that mid that like
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  strip in the middle is just like RV's and stuff, right?
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  People like Oh yeah. Yeah, yeah, on the infield.
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  On the infield, yeah, is. That what they call it, the
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  infield. Yeah.
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  What if we just like have that going on, like on the sides, You
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  know what I'm saying? So like the gaps where there
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  aren't seats, that is where all the RV's are parked.
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  And there's just like people drunk on top of their top of
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  their RV's, just like, hey, they're look, base baseball has
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  a real chance at A at a pretty epic crossover here.
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  Or the dugout is one big RV and the guys just come out of the
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  RV. How about they just leave the
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  planet toss? Let's let's do that.
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  I mean, what are we doing? This whole thing mapped out?
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  Let's make center field 765 feet.
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  We're going to make left field 220.
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  We're going to have drunk rednecks hanging out in an RV in
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  foul territory. I can't wait.
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  I love it. I wish I was one of those drunk
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  rednecks personally. Sounds nice.
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  I think most White Sox fans wish they were still drunk following
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  that losing streak that is actually no longer White Sox
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  officially snapped it at 21 games.
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  They said we're of legal drinking age and we're not going
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  a year. We're not we're not going a
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  single digit higher. We're going to cut it at 21.
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  They finished one short of the AL record.
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  And I want to say, what did we say last episode?
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  What was the IT was the Phillies I.
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  Don't know. 23 back in 61. So yeah, the streak is
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  officially over. So if you combine, I know, I
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  know Frank Thomas alluded to this on the broadcast.
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  We kind of shed some light on it.
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  Frank Thomas knows about the time zones for.
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  Sure, but if you combine those two losing streaks, they had a
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  14 game losing streak earlier the season and then a 21.
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  So combined that would be 35 games worth of just horrendous
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  losing streaks. Did you by chance see who who
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  they had to thank for getting them on the board and who
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  actually has been swinging a rather hot bat as of late?
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  Oh no, I thought you were going to a different direction.
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  What are you talking about? Andrew Benintendi, who at one
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  point in the season was on pace to be just have the worst season
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  of all time. He.
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  Still might be, but has he obviously listened to the last
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  episode? I don't.
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  I don't know though. Let's let's pull it up here real
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  quick, because he he actually went deep.
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  I. Think it's by.
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  I think it's by war. I think that was the stat.
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  That he used yeah, but I mean, you have to more stupid, yeah,
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  but you also have to. Imagine I said it.
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  I said it. I'm just getting that out there.
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  You've made that clear. You also have to imagine, like
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  there's some counting stats there too, that that are
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  affected by this. Look, his last four games, three
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  home runs. Obviously a Hall of Famer, he's
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  on track, OK? Well, I mean there's really no
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  sense in in taking UN unnecessary shots and the guys
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  clearly. Haven't.
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  I think he's earned. He's going through it.
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  No, he's going through it this year.
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  The guy has to play for the White Sox.
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  I know I get that. I was going to say I thought you
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  were going the other direction. Our guy friend of the pod, Ross
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  Stripling, was the one that gave this one up.
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  Also, another friend of the pod, Jessica Kleinschmidt, said that
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  the A's thought it would be a good idea to play 22 by Taylor
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  Swift throughout the stadium before the game.
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  Did you see that feeling 22? And sure enough, you know, throw
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  in the throw in the meme that the White Sox took offense to
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  that. I'll be honest, I didn't have
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  much confidence in the A's being able.
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  To I know I wish this lined up. I wish this lined up
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  differently, but we still have time, you know, Maybe they can
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  go on another run. Yeah, but we we lost the chance
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  at firework night. If they were going to break the
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  what was it the modern, the all time modern or the modern era
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  record, which I was previously 26, they were going to their
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  27th loss would have been what, against the Cubs or something?
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  Would that have been next week? Why is it firework night it?
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  Had been I don't know, it was just it was a Friday night.
• 23:04
  They're they're playing the Cubs.
• 23:06
  We talked about this, didn't we? I.
• 23:08
  Don't think so. Who's firework night?
• 23:12
  At Guaranteed Rate field if they would if they would have set the
• 23:16
  all time record at 27. It would have been on firework.
• 23:20
  It would have been on firework night and they would have had a
• 23:23
  nice celebration of it and I'm a little, I'm a little
• 23:25
  disappointed we missed out on that.
• 23:26
  Sometimes you really want things in sports.
• 23:32
  It's OK to be disappointed. I'm pretty bummed about that.
• 23:38
  That would have been excellent. That would have been really
• 23:42
  good. Or was it in Chicago?
• 23:45
  Hold on. Well, you know what I mean.
• 23:47
  Think OK, Wrigley. Yeah.
• 23:52
  Wasn't it Wrigley? I didn't hear this.
• 23:57
  I didn't see any of this, just questioning why there's random
• 24:01
  firework night when we had 4th of July a month ago.
• 24:09
  Now how does that how does that make sense?
• 24:11
  Sorry, I'm oh, oh, OK. No, no, no.
• 24:16
  I don't know where I got 27 from 2023 the Phillies.
• 24:20
  Wasn't that close. The the modern day MLB record
• 24:24
  was 23. Damn it one.
• 24:27
  Job so I because I was trying to figure out the math I'm like,
• 24:29
  are we talking about like two Fridays from now?
• 24:31
  No, it would have been this Friday and it would have been at
• 24:35
  home and we we missed out on it. But but do not worry though.
• 24:41
  Despite the win, the White Sox are still, as you would imagine,
• 24:46
  at the absolute bottom coming into coming into action today,
• 24:52
  Wednesday. They're 41 games out in the
• 24:56
  Central and there are 26 1/2 games back behind the Tigers,
• 25:01
  who are the next worst team in the division.
• 25:05
  Maybe just move them to Tennessee?
• 25:08
  No, Tennessee deserves way better than the White Sox and I,
• 25:12
  I will stand on that. They're they're negative again.
• 25:17
  Coming into Wednesday, their -241 run differential is 70 runs
• 25:22
  worse than the next worst team in baseball, a Rockies run
• 25:29
  differential of one -177. Yeah, it's a tough look.
• 25:38
  What about the what about the winning percentage, you ask?
• 25:41
  I'm glad you asked. I did bring that up the. 1916
• 25:45
  Philadelphia Athletics at 37 and 117 had a winning percentage of
• 25:50
  235 and are the worst team in ML BS modern era in terms of
• 25:55
  winning percentage. Right now the Phillies or with
• 25:58
  the win, I should say, coming into play on Wednesday, they
• 26:02
  improved to and they they lost to closeout the series against
• 26:07
  Oakland, but this is coming into Wednesday improved to 28 and 88.
• 26:12
  So they're at 2:41 or they were at 2:41.
• 26:16
  So we're on win, we're on win percentage watch here.
• 26:19
  Why don't? Why don't we have like the the
• 26:21
  the like E for eliminated on standings?
• 26:27
  Yeah. When is that going?
• 26:28
  To happen, it's very possible. I mean, it's very possible that
• 26:31
  that doesn't even kick in. Like even if it's even if it's
• 26:34
  accurate, the system's like there's there's no way a team
• 26:36
  could could be eliminated this early in the season.
• 26:39
  So we're just going to we're going to I.
• 26:41
  Think the guy that like probably presses that button is just like
• 26:45
  on vacation still, you know, probably he's like, I don't even
• 26:48
  get back until September. Right.
• 26:50
  And I'll, I'll, I'll take a look at it the start of September and
• 26:55
  Buddy is in for a rude awakening.
• 26:57
  Yeah, he's because you got a lot.
• 26:59
  You would you would imagine that a guy like that's probably on
• 27:02
  vacation at a place where he's not getting cell service.
• 27:07
  So he's he has no idea what's happening in Chicago.
• 27:12
  I get the run differential thing, but I'm looking now,
• 27:20
  there's no other team that has scored less than 400 runs and
• 27:33
  they're at 360. Yeah, that's insane.
• 27:39
  But they haven't scored 400 runs yet.
• 27:41
  Oh, with the win, with the loss today, they dropped to 239 in
• 27:47
  the win percentage column. So we're we're four percentage
• 27:50
  points away for making this dream a reality or five if you
• 27:56
  if you want sole possession of first or last, I guess you could
• 28:00
  say. I need this.
• 28:01
  I need it. This is like what a a couple
• 28:04
  years ago when we're on 70 win watch for the Padres.
• 28:08
  This is this is a little this is far different, but we're going
• 28:12
  to be keeping an eye on this some stretch because we could be
• 28:14
  looking at quite literally the worst baseball team of all time.
• 28:22
  Damn. I mean, what did what did we do
• 28:23
  to deserve this? This is a gift.
• 28:25
  Like you don't get to see. I mean, good or bad, you don't
• 28:27
  you don't get to see things like this very often.
• 28:30
  And here we are. History, you know.
• 28:33
  Just soak it in. Soak in that history.
• 28:36
  I mean, what, the Earth is like 3 1/2 billion years old and we
• 28:39
  just happen to be on the planet? What the same?
• 28:42
  Time The White Sox were the worst team in baseball ever.
• 28:46
  Crazy. I always forget the manager's
• 28:48
  last name. Pedro what?
• 28:50
  Grifall. Because, I mean, this is this
• 28:56
  his last job in baseball? I don't know.
• 29:00
  I mean, we, we mentioned it last episode because they were
• 29:02
  talking Ozzy Guillen was talking about on the broadcast.
• 29:04
  He's 100 games under as manager. I mean that what are we doing?
• 29:10
  Yeah, what? I literally do anything else.
• 29:15
  I I get it, there's no sense in firing a guy like this when this
• 29:18
  is just going to be what the rest of the year is going to be.
• 29:20
  But like. Yeah, I mean, now there's no
• 29:24
  point in firing him now. I yeah, I get it.
• 29:28
  But I. Why didn't this happen in like
• 29:31
  May? They didn't know they're going
• 29:34
  to be this bad in May? I don't know.
• 29:39
  Yeah, that's it's just a bad taste in my mouth.
• 29:46
  Speaking of bad taste in your mouth, I'm sure Framer Valdez
• 29:50
  has a bad taste in his after losing his no hitter in the
• 29:53
  ninth via a Corey Seeger two run Homer, right?
• 29:59
  I believe you walked. Is that Josh?
• 30:02
  Before? Yeah.
• 30:03
  Before where you. You were watching this game,
• 30:05
  weren't you? Because I saw you text you.
• 30:07
  Popped it on in the 9th to right on time.
• 30:10
  Watch that walk and then no, I watched, I think it was walk,
• 30:17
  double play, walk, Seeger, home run.
• 30:24
  That sounds right. I think that was the order.
• 30:26
  This was weirdly one of those, one of the very rare few times
• 30:32
  that I I was unaware that this was happening because usually
• 30:35
  like I'll. I'll be this didn't hit till he
• 30:37
  through 8. I know I, I usually get an
• 30:40
  update or like a, a notification.
• 30:43
  I get, I see the the little like no hitter flag on MLBTV when
• 30:49
  they put it like below the score or I don't know, somebody's
• 30:54
  texting about it. I see it on Twitter.
• 30:55
  I saw nothing. And so I, I, I have people like
• 31:00
  messaging me and text me the, the link to the Seager home run
• 31:03
  and like, Oh, this sucks. And I'm like, why, Why are we
• 31:05
  hating on Corey Seeger? Finally come to find out that he
• 31:09
  he broke up the no hitter with two outs in the night.
• 31:11
  So tough for Framber and it was almost on the one year
• 31:15
  anniversary of his no hitter last year.
• 31:17
  That was pretty crazy. That was the the August 1st last
• 31:20
  year I believe. Saw that.
• 31:22
  I think I saw that. Seger also broke up a no hitter
• 31:27
  with two outs in the ninth. Little trivia, Do you know whose
• 31:29
  it was back in 2016? Second time he's done it in his
• 31:37
  career. You're not going to get it.
• 31:42
  No, it's a random name. Very well, I guess it depends on
• 31:47
  who you ask, but to the average, the average fan, pretty random.
• 31:51
  Matt Moore back in 2016. Franber Valdez, though, this is
• 32:02
  just what the Astros have needed.
• 32:04
  His last five appearances dating back to July 10th.
• 32:08
  He's four and O with an ERA at a clip of 241.
• 32:14
  Yeah. With 41 strikeouts over that
• 32:16
  span. Everyone's dogging on that
• 32:17
  Kikuchi trade, including us, and then next thing you know he
• 32:20
  turns into freaking candy Koufax.
• 32:23
  Yeah, Can we? Can we?
• 32:25
  I I was tweeting at the Astros after they put up the final
• 32:28
  score graphic. I said the Astros need to be
• 32:30
  investigated for bamboozling the rest of the league for this
• 32:34
  acquisition because they clearly knew something that we didn't.
• 32:37
  Yeah, man, this was just, I mean, he's, he's a depth piece.
• 32:44
  I mean the last the last two outings respectively.
• 32:48
  His His first outing with the Astros was against the Rays.
• 32:51
  Put up 11 KS over 5 2/3. Only allowed three hits, two
• 32:55
  earned runs today Goes 5 and a third against the Rangers on the
• 33:01
  road. 2 earned runs, four hits and eight KS. 19 strikeouts over
• 33:08
  his last two starts with the Astros.
• 33:10
  There's only two starts with the Astros.
• 33:11
  Yeah, I don't get that. No Habla.
• 33:16
  I mean, what could the explanation of that even be?
• 33:18
  Like where do where would you even start begin to start trying
• 33:22
  to explain like how it doesn't make any sense change of
• 33:26
  scenery. That seems like a, that's a,
• 33:29
  that's a fall back, I feel like a lot of times, but how do you,
• 33:32
  how do you go from being just garbage to doing what he's doing
• 33:37
  now? And I I understand it's two
• 33:39
  starts but. Are they?
• 33:41
  Were they both in Houston? No, the one today was on the
• 33:44
  road in Texas or in. Yeah, I got.
• 33:49
  You freaking words. Dallas, Fort Worth, Arlington.
• 33:55
  Ballpark in Arlington, Hawaii, Choctaw Stadium, Globe Life
• 34:00
  Field. It's all the same thing.
• 34:04
  Pretty nuts, man, pretty nuts. But whatever he's got going on
• 34:08
  is is wild. I still think that was a stupid
• 34:10
  trade in the end, the amount of talent they gave up, but.
• 34:15
  I mean, would you give that up for Sandy Koufax?
• 34:17
  That's. A good point.
• 34:19
  That's a good point. When you put it like that, you
• 34:21
  know you, you say Koufax, you say Sandy, I say Koufax.
• 34:31
  Wow. Yeah, no, look, dude, like we
• 34:36
  talked about, I don't know why anyone's surprised like that.
• 34:42
  Just pay attention to the back of a baseball card and you
• 34:45
  understand that, Like this rotation in this team, it was
• 34:48
  coming and they're coming down the stretch, hot as ever.
• 34:54
  So if you're the Mariners, you got to be sweating bullets.
• 34:59
  No, for sure. And the Astros, we've we've
• 35:01
  touched on that already and that's, I mean, we, we've talked
• 35:05
  about it. We you could see that coming a
• 35:07
  mile away. That's not the surprising
• 35:09
  element it to me. I'm talking like specifically
• 35:12
  you say like it just doesn't, it just doesn't make sense.
• 35:16
  And if it continues at this rate, if he maintains this, I'm
• 35:18
  like, OK, well then what was going on in Toronto then?
• 35:22
  But yeah, the Astros thing as a whole, the direction they're
• 35:25
  headed, the the momentum they've been playing with doesn't
• 35:28
  surprise me in the least. Go ahead and chalk that up as a
• 35:32
  division win for them this year, division title speaking.
• 35:39
  I actually laughed when it happened by the way.
• 35:41
  So good for Corey. I like Corey Seeger minus the
• 35:45
  Adidas brands. That's a rough look, yeah.
• 35:50
  That ain't the move. Not the move.
• 35:53
  Sucker, so care. This is soccer, I was going to
• 36:02
  say, Speaking of divisions. Speaking of not the move, I
• 36:06
  don't know where you're going with this.
• 36:07
  Let's talk about the American League East here real quick.
• 36:10
  Some another brutal blow for the Orioles rotation.
• 36:15
  Grayson Rodriguez was announced today.
• 36:17
  He's headed to the IL with what they're calling LAT.
• 36:26
  Terrorist discomfort. Very good.
• 36:35
  And that was the last second start, Last second scratch,
• 36:38
  wasn't it? It was like 30 minutes for game
• 36:40
  time. I I like minutes.
• 36:43
  Yeah, it was minutes and they showed the video.
• 36:46
  I don't know if it was from like the center field.
• 36:47
  Camera. Oh, that's right.
• 36:48
  He's, he's like, I don't feel right.
• 36:50
  Yeah, he's like I yeah, he's like, I don't, I'm not not
• 36:53
  feeling good, dude. So people were speculating when
• 36:56
  it first happened because you know, with the whole a lot of
• 36:59
  what I saw was these people that were like betting on the game
• 37:02
  and they're like, yo, this was like last minute.
• 37:04
  It screwed up my whatever screwed up my parlay.
• 37:07
  I don't know how that stuff works last minute.
• 37:09
  I don't know if it like voids it or if it like how that.
• 37:13
  That depends how that works. DraftKings typically gives your
• 37:15
  money back. But that's a lot of what I saw.
• 37:19
  But the the non degenerates that we're talking about the the the
• 37:23
  news, they were like, is he sick?
• 37:25
  Is he I'll because it's something so last minute.
• 37:29
  You got to think like, oh, maybe he's dehydrated.
• 37:31
  Maybe he's maybe came down with something because usually.
• 37:35
  Yeah. If if you're not feeling right,
• 37:37
  a lot of times that's like a wake up in the morning and like
• 37:40
  my back is locked up or something of that effect.
• 37:43
  But like he Chipotle from last night, not the move.
• 37:47
  He went through his whole pregame routine, got to the end
• 37:50
  minutes before the game was like yeah I'm I'm out.
• 37:53
  So he'll be on the 15 day IL retroactive to the 4th.
• 38:01
  Orioles fans are going through it, man, going through it.
• 38:05
  They're in a weird. They're, I think if you're
• 38:12
  everyone else in baseball, if you're a fan of any other team
• 38:16
  and you're just like on the outside looking in, you're like
• 38:20
  the Orioles are fine. Like, imagine complaining about
• 38:23
  all this and you're still right there in contention as one of
• 38:25
  the best teams in baseball. Imagine complaining about this
• 38:28
  and this is your roster, but if you kind of take a little bit of
• 38:35
  a deeper dive, dude, like no, no, no, for sure there's some
• 38:37
  trouble there. For sure.
• 38:38
  But isn't that, isn't there some validity to that argument too?
• 38:41
  Like the people on the outside going, OK, yeah, you're beat up,
• 38:44
  but you're not like, I mean, you're you're 20 games over 500
• 38:48
  still. So like, how much do you really
• 38:51
  expect us to feel bad for you? I'm sure, I'm sure Braves fans
• 38:55
  are looking at this going. I don't think anyone cry me a
• 38:58
  river. Bad.
• 38:59
  I don't think anyone feels bad. I just, I think there's some
• 39:02
  things that Orioles fans are witnessing and it's probably
• 39:05
  similar to like us Yankee fans where we're just like, I can see
• 39:12
  the underbelly, I can see the Achilles heel.
• 39:17
  It wasn't addressed at the deadline.
• 39:21
  You can still sneak out wins, but I still feel like there's
• 39:24
  issues there that are going to be exposed.
• 39:28
  And I think Orioles fans are starting to say the same thing
• 39:31
  about their own team. And oddly enough, there's a
• 39:35
  combination of injuries and it's also some bonehead moves by
• 39:39
  managers. There's a lot of correlations.
• 39:45
  A manager. They have one manager that's
• 39:47
  singular. I'm saying the Yankees managers
• 39:51
  and Orioles managers, yeah, yeah, yeah, I see, You know, are
• 39:56
  are one in the same as far as questionable decisions.
• 40:00
  I I sure understand and they, all the Orioles fans are getting
• 40:03
  this weird false hope that they're getting Felix Bautista
• 40:06
  back. Have you seen that he's?
• 40:07
  I saw that bullpen that he was throwing.
• 40:10
  So I don't know. I, I, I don't know what
• 40:11
  timetable that that's looking like, if there even is one that
• 40:15
  I, I don't see that happening. But I, I would get it if you
• 40:19
  have to deal with the roller coaster that is Craig Kimbrel, I
• 40:22
  would be latching on to everything, every single thing.
• 40:27
  That would give me a sliver of hope that you don't have to deal
• 40:29
  with that anymore. I, so I understand.
• 40:31
  I understand, even if it's irrational, unrealistic, I get
• 40:35
  it. Yeah, the other.
• 40:38
  Either way, they're very emotional bunch.
• 40:42
  I mean, we're all we all are at times, Every, everything.
• 40:45
  For coming out of the woodwork and saying, you know, all the
• 40:48
  things they said for the first few months, there's, it's all.
• 40:52
  It's just interesting the way they're acting now.
• 40:58
  Just saying. I understand, I understand.
• 41:02
  Get off my Twitter feed by the way.
• 41:03
  Like relax. Everything I see it's like.
• 41:06
  Orioles fans, you have You have our good Fred Ryan Ripken to
• 41:10
  thank for that. Goodness, bro.
• 41:15
  Speaking of feed, I'm seeing in the comments that I got some
• 41:18
  some family watching from down in North Carolina.
• 41:20
  So down in North Carolina. Hello to the family down in
• 41:25
  North Carolina. Appreciate you tuning in.
• 41:28
  What else we got on? Here I thought you were going
• 41:30
  the other feed when we said like horse feed or like cattle feed,
• 41:35
  you know, I wasn't sure if you had something there.
• 41:38
  Nope, really little to no reason to talk about horse or cattle
• 41:42
  feed, you know. We're coming a lot today, a lot
• 41:45
  of times. You're right, we are bouncing
• 41:47
  around a lot. Is Hawaii a state crazy?
• 41:52
  Go to school, kids, stay there. Just to clarify for maybe some
• 41:56
  folks that are just now joining the the live stream, that was
• 41:59
  not my question of whether Hawaii was a state.
• 42:04
  You'll have to go back to the beginning of the episode and and
• 42:06
  figure out why we were talking about that.
• 42:08
  But Speaking of bouncing around, it's time for some say the same
• 42:13
  player. Yeah, I really liked your idea
• 42:17
  last episode of establishing a Hall of Fame for the answers
• 42:22
  that we get correct. So as it stands right now, the
• 42:24
  names that we have gotten correct in order.
• 42:29
  Justin Morneau It's a three person Hall of Fame has its
• 42:33
  hands right now, assuming I didn't miss anybody.
• 42:36
  Justin Morneau, Roberto Clemente and last episode.
• 42:42
  Finally getting in, Mr. Bonds. Barry Bonds finally gets into
• 42:46
  the hall. If only you were wearing that
• 42:48
  ASU hat last time. That's true.
• 42:51
  That's true. Probably not the Hall of Fame he
• 42:53
  wants to be in, but I would argue it's an even greater honor
• 42:57
  than even the Baseball Hall of Fame.
• 42:59
  If it's a big deal. If we're being honest.
• 43:03
  So let's let's see if we can add a fourth member, shall we?
• 43:06
  OK, no name, no repeated names to start off.
• 43:10
  Cannot mention a name that has been which we haven't really
• 43:15
  gone crazy, you know. You say Kikuchi.
• 43:19
  We've thrown some names out there.
• 43:20
  Rafael for call was dropped early.
• 43:22
  That's. So you can't can't, can't start
• 43:25
  with Rafael for call. Love that that's a throwback
• 43:27
  name. All right, so let me let me
• 43:32
  establish and let me pick a name here.
• 43:34
  You were going to say something. You said so.
• 43:40
  No, I was just wasn't sure if you had something in mind, you
• 43:48
  know something all. Right, I got a.
• 43:51
  Name relevant in mind. Oh, you get mad when I do that,
• 43:55
  so I won't do that. Yeah, well, let's not be laying
• 43:59
  down clues for me to pick up on this isn't?
• 44:01
  No, you get mad when I start with a retired player, so I
• 44:04
  won't do that. It it just doesn't make any
• 44:07
  sense. Like start here and now start
• 44:11
  with whoever you want. But I just think it's easier if
• 44:14
  we if we kind of least start on the same page in that regard,
• 44:17
  But you just start with whoever you want.
• 44:20
  Maybe I'll switch it up. Maybe I'll go retired player
• 44:23
  throw you all to send a little bit.
• 44:27
  Makes me want to not listen to you.
• 44:32
  Pick a name and let's ride. All right.
• 44:35
  Ready 3/2 one Raphael Devers. I was trying to, I was trying to
• 44:46
  listen to you while I was saying it.
• 44:47
  Dansby Dansby Swanson. Dansby Swanson.
• 44:50
  There we go. Yeah, yeah.
• 44:51
  Dansby Swanson and Raphael Devers.
• 44:53
  All right. I was it when I heard Devers, it
• 44:56
  kind of went into the to the Swanson pronunciation
• 45:00
  pronunciation pronouncing Dansby Devson words.
• 45:06
  So we've got Raphael for a call, and no, I'm just kidding.
• 45:13
  So Devers and Dansby. Devers and Dansby.
• 45:18
  So the groundwork has been laid. We're we're underway now.
• 45:22
  Devers and Dansby. Also, I suggested last episode
• 45:26
  we limit ourselves to five, but I think we can stick with 10 as
• 45:29
  long as we don't linger. We don't linger.
• 45:32
  Play the song. Play the song.
• 45:33
  I don't like playing the song, it stresses me out.
• 45:37
  Mom, you know. I mean, I can if you want me to.
• 45:44
  I've already moved on in my brain so.
• 45:47
  What do we want the song or not? Well, you do you.
• 45:51
  I'm just over here calculating my names.
• 45:54
  I'll play the song, count us down.
• 45:56
  And if it stresses me out, I'm, I'm, I'm turning it off.
• 45:59
  I'm not even going to let it finish.
• 46:02
  All right. Dansby Swanson.
• 46:04
  Rafael Devers. So you can play some.
• 46:13
  I moved on in my head. I'm aware, I could tell.
• 46:17
  All right, Dansby Swanson, Raphael Devers.
• 46:30
  All right, I got a guy. Let me just get there.
• 46:34
  Hold on. Yeah, got a guy.
• 46:48
  Why? I just.
• 46:50
  I just got a guy. Oh, oh, no, I got it.
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  I got a new guy. I got a new guy.
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  This guy's. Way better.
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  It just hits like that. Yeah, it it hits just like that.
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  I have no clue. Well, you got to come up with
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  somebody. OK.
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  Do you have a name? Sure.
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  All right, 321. Jason David Ross.
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  That's a great name. Good job.
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  I was, I was trying to go through the archives to to get
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  there. Jason Hayward, Literal little to
• 47:38
  nothing. Nothing.
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  That's why I ran. That's why.
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  Yeah, that's why. Yeah, that's fair, though.
• 47:42
  That's fair though. All right.
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  So David Ross, Jason Hayward. David Ross and Jason Hayward.
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  Let's roll. You got a guy?
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  Yeah, sure. I feel, I feel good about this.
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  I think we're going to be fairly zeroed in fairly quickly.
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  This name came to mind and just As for the sake of not spending
• 48:25
  more time thinking about another name, I'm just going to go with
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  it. But I probably could have come
• 48:28
  up with something better, but I'm just.
• 48:29
  Me too. Me too.
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  That was my that was. Yeah, same.
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  All right, that three there. There's our 3rd guest, 3/2 one
• 48:41
  William Contreras. All right, we're.
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  We're doing something here. You.
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  Know what I mean? We're yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Yep. Yep, Yep, Yep, Yep.
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  We're zeroing in. OK, Fourth guess.
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  William Contreras and Anthony Rizzo.
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  All right, I got a guy. All right, I got a guy.
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  Fourth guy. OK.
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  Fourth Guess 321 Chris Bryant, let's go.
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  I told you that was has that any record?
• 49:23
  Fourth guess. 4th That's got to be close.
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  I think the the one before that was maybe 6.
• 49:28
  See, this is the problem with not going retired guys.
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  You know what I mean? Like I know we had retired guys
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  mixed in, but starting it's just like it very, it just starts
• 49:45
  very close, just starts very narrow.
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  You're saying it gives us too much of an advantage, right?
• 49:50
  OK, that's fair. One could argue that we have to
• 49:53
  start with one retired, one active.
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  That's fine, that's fair. And we decide that you pick one,
• 49:59
  I pick one before we go for the first name.
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  Well. I'm looking at this through the
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  lens of the Hall of Fame, this Hall of Fame that we've
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  established. And you could, you could really
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  draw parallels here to like the way the rules have it have
• 50:11
  evolved in baseball, where it's like, well, now we're
• 50:14
  grandfathering guys in here that were brought in via different
• 50:19
  rules and requirements. And now moving forward, if we're
• 50:24
  going to if we're going to change the, the, the
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  requirements up and the way we go about this game. 11 could
• 50:33
  argue I could bounce. Chris Bryant, I could bounce.
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  One could argue that the other names took a It was a more
• 50:41
  difficult path to get there. They earned their spot in the
• 50:43
  Hall of Fame. Well.
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  This one was a. No, like we talked about though,
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  if you're you could be unanimous or make it in by the skinnier
• 50:53
  teeth on the last year of the ballot, but you're a whole, a
• 50:55
  Hall of Famer is a Hall of Famer.
• 50:57
  So we have to respect the Hall. Well, I like the new rule, if
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  we're willing to move forward with.
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  That that's fine. We'll just have to.
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  Grandfather, take it to the committee.
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  Take it to the committee. We'll.
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  Have to grandfather Chris Bryan in.
• 51:08
  It's fine. Some very questionable
• 51:10
  selections, if if we're being honest, our last two, Barry
• 51:13
  Bonds and Chris Bryant making it into the hall.
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  You know. But this is our whole, this is
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  our game, this is our game. These are our rules, these are
• 51:24
  our guys. All right, we got to get you out
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  of here in like 3 minutes. So go ahead and lead us off with
• 51:30
  your weekend series to watch. What do we got coming up this
• 51:33
  weekend? Oh boy, I've get at the time of
• 51:38
  this recording, the standings here.
• 51:46
  The Minnesota Twins are 3 1/2 games back from the Cleveland
• 51:48
  Guardians at the moment, so I'm going to take them matching up
• 51:52
  for a four-game set this weekend that starts Manana with a
• 52:00
  doubleheader. I believe Alex Cobb is making
• 52:04
  his debut with the Guardians first game, right, because he
• 52:09
  said he was doing a little rehab stint.
• 52:13
  So Alex Cobb going against Bailey over game Juan.
• 52:18
  That's a make up game from two days ago.
• 52:20
  I guess I don't know that's what it says.
• 52:22
  Don't listen to me yesterday. I don't know what day it is game
• 52:27
  two. Gotcha.
• 52:29
  It's an Apple TV game. I don't know who The Who The Who
• 52:34
  the pitchers will be, so just TuneIn.
• 52:37
  Anyway, game three Saturday. This is all in Minnesota, by the
• 52:41
  way, Gavin Williams going against Simeon Woods Richardson
• 52:47
  and then game four on Sunday, undecided for Cleveland and
• 52:55
  something D festa for the Minnesota Twins, Mr. Fiesta
• 53:03
  Festa. So in all seriousness, though,
• 53:07
  like this is this is something, you know what I mean?
• 53:10
  Can the Twins narrow the gap if the Guardians walk away with
• 53:15
  them? It's a four-game set.
• 53:16
  Like there's enough to do some damage here.
• 53:18
  If one of these teams takes three out of four and wins this
• 53:21
  series, it's changes a lot. So yeah, good series to watch.
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  And we still got decent amount of amount of ball left to play,
• 53:30
  but we're late enough in the season to where if the Guardians
• 53:33
  do some damage this weekend. That's like if they sweep you're
• 53:37
  talking 6-7 game gap like that's.
• 53:42
  Good luck. Good luck.
• 53:45
  All right, for me, speed round here.
• 53:49
  You are going to want to tune into this series if you are a
• 53:53
  fan of pitching the Pirates at the Dodgers game one on Friday.
• 53:56
  We've got Mitch Keller going up against Jack Flaherty.
• 54:01
  Great. That game is at 10:10 PM Eastern
• 54:04
  on Friday. Game two, we got Paul Skeens
• 54:07
  going up against River Ryan. That's at 9:10 PM Eastern on
• 54:14
  Saturday and Game 3, the finale on Sunday, we've got Bailey
• 54:20
  Falter versus Tyler Glass. Now that's a 4:10 PM Eastern
• 54:23
  game. That's some good.
• 54:26
  Ball right there. This is some good pitching if
• 54:28
  you like that kind of thing. So you're into that?
• 54:31
  I mean, the fact that we're highlighting the Pirates post
• 54:34
  All Star Break, I think that's. A big deal just speaks.
• 54:37
  To where they're at this year. Shut up.
• 54:40
  Shut up, pirates. All right, well, we got to get
• 54:44
  you out of here. And we finish.
• 54:45
  Exactly at 8:00 on the dots. So let's let's let's have a
• 54:52
  let's have a good rest of your week.
• 54:53
  Let's have a good weekend and we'll see you guys on Sunday.
• 54:56
  Do the Dang thing. Don't go chasing curveballs.
• 54:59
  Love you all, and as always, looking forward to talking more
• 55:01
  baseball with you guys soon. Until next time, stay filthy.