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The MLB Umpire Issue is Out of Control · The 3-0 Take

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the 3 O .T.
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where we talk all things major
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league baseball Here's Kyle Corwin and Nate Reyes. It
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all starts right now Welcome back to the 3 O
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.T. presented by SeatGeek. This
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is episode 427. I'll be your host Kyle Corwin
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and Hey, can we just Can we just boo it up? Can
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we just boo it up? Ryan Ripken, Ryan Ripken, I'm
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looking to chew pal Look I get the NFL draft is this
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week You're big -leagin, you're big -leagin me pal
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You're big -leagin me. I took we said yeah, yeah,
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we got we got a whole we got a whole round of booze
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You we knew Nate was gonna be out of town first
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honeymoon. I've said that a dozen times
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already and We're really the people myself included.
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We were really hoping we could
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have you on talk some O's talk some Jax and holiday
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but You know he said hey, we'll have to what the
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Loop back around another day another date another
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time said alright. I get it. You're
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busy man You're bigger than us peasants. I
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understand Ryan We'll still we'll still talk some O's
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here, but continue on our round of booze The white
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socks. How about the white socks? The
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Chicago white socks on pace to go 21 and 141 I'm not
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no The audio didn't cut out. I'm
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just trying to process what I just said The Chicago
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white socks. I'll say it again on pace to
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go 21 and 141 We're coming up on May and Somebody
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correct me if I'm wrong here last I checked still
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three wins Still three wins horrendous Horrendous
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speaking of horrendous Closing out the the round
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of boo. Should we make this a new
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segment? Should we just open up with we
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just get the booze out of the way rounding out the
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segment here the inaugural opening booze Alec Mendoza
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You've probably heard of him he's he's not doing
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too good He hadn't been doing good for a while
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then they sent him down to get some work done and the
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miners still not doing well His latest outing which was
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tonight. I believe three innings pitch
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six earned run seven hits Four walks he did a five
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case but gave up two bombs Um Blue jays just cut the
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ties man cut the ties it's we're done it it's over.
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It's a it's a lost cause Maybe
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somebody else can salvage this man's career, but I I
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think you're better off just saying farewell To a
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mr. Alec Mendoza. I
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just don't think it's there. I
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I don't know what happened This will be this will be
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a case To to study years down the road. I'm
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sure But he just doesn't he doesn't have it anymore
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He doesn't have it anymore Yeah, send him send him to
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the white socks Send him to the white socks Maybe
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maybe they'll improve their pace to like 23 and 139
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Actually bonus booze and this is what this we're
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getting into the meat of the podcast now This is
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what you're all here for Major League umpires Are
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horrendous Major League umpires welcome to the ump
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show welcome to the three -o -take, but welcome to the
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ump show I mean I Count like three four instances
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off the top of my head. We're
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gonna get into just a couple here one of which
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happened This evening or today And one that happened
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earlier this week that are making the rounds But talk
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about just getting it wrong. I've
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I've never seen I've never seen Outside of maybe The
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politicians in DC. I've never seen a group of
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people be just so wrong all the time About
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everything that they do I mean, it's a let's okay,
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let's go back to Monday a is Yankees if you haven't
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heard about it by now Aaron Boone With the
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classic say nothing ejection if you have no idea what
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I'm talking about basically what happened There was an
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instance again on Monday we're Four pitches into the
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game I believe I the fourth pitch of the game I
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think is what where the the issue came into play
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is It was believed that the the hitter was clipped
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on a on a breaking ball down by his foot There was
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a it looked like a swing attempt Aaron Boone gets
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into it's talking about well It's a full swing. It
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shouldn't a gate being hit by the pitch yada yada
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yada the umpire is like Aaron I've had enough pipe
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down Aaron's like alright Boone's like, okay, you
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know you're right It's early. It's
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early. No need to get carried away
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Seconds later seconds later You hear you hear from
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that general vicinity Come on home plate immediately
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mask off and you're gone You're gone And All the
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while Aaron Boone sitting here looking at his nails
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in Might I add the most feminine way possible? Look
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teach your own. I I just thought it was
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funny just an observation It seemed to be something
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that nobody is really talking about. I
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just I thought it was funny He's sitting there.
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He's got them all panned. I'll
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fanned out Just just taking a look and immediately
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looks up and see I I think the timing of it was
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he looked as he's Looking up. He's
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seeing the follow -through of getting tossed from home
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plate umpire Hunter Wendelstead So immediately
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he comes out. He's going I didn't say
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anything. I didn't say anything just
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laced with expletives. It was Wild how let's talk
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about the hot mics for a second. It
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was crazy How much was picked up by the
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microphones? For this game, I understand it
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was an afternoon game, which is a whole another
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thing by the way I'm Something else that nobody's
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really mentioned. Are we sure that there wasn't
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maybe a pre -arranged agreement between Boone and
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and Wendelstead before the game being like hey, we're
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playing the a's I think we got this one in the bags.
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Ironically, I think they went on to
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lose that Monday game but Assuming they were gonna
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get the win. Do you think Boone made an
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agreement and said hey, you know what? He
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just get me out of here. I
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want to go home. I don't want to be here for
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this game Hard to really say But that's besides
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point so he comes out. I didn't say anything. I
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didn't say that's BS You don't know what you're
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talking about and as he's saying I didn't say
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anything Wendelstead's going you're probably right Turns
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out it was a it was a fan behind the seat and
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you've probably seen the video Where It's this guy
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Who just looks like your average, New York Yankees
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fan take take that I should will I he just
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looks like an average Yankees fan You got to
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love a guy like that. He's just letting the umpire
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hear it You know the same thing any any of the rest
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of us would do on it on a terrible call or a
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questionable call at that and It ends up being him
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He then as we obviously as we've alluded to Boone gets
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tossed He's just let the umpire have it all the
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while moments later the guy that made the The comment
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behind the dugout switches switches out of his like
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pullover so I Don't know to throw the authorities
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off to send who who really knows I don't know I just
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thought that was a an interesting story or Layer
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rather to the story But the the worst part about
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all of this is that After the game We talk all the
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time about umpires lacking accountability all the while
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after the game He's going I heard something I want
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to make sure I got the quote He said I heard
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something come from the far end of the dugout had
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nothing to do with his area But he's the manager
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of the Yankees, so he's the one that had to go
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Okay Let's let's look at this I'm okay with the
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Concepts or the way of thinking or the Ideology
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that protecting the players is important when it comes
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to ejections But I don't really think that's what
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was truly going on here. I think that was just a cop
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out I think that was an easy Layup for Wendell set
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to go. Hey, you know, we got to
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protect the players that no He was just tired of
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having his buttons pushed just like majority of
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umpires out there today are tired of having his buttons
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pushed and Wanted an excuse to ring somebody up to
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make to put his stamp on the game about as early as
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you possibly could I mean short of tossing boon post
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National anthem I Don't know how much earlier he
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could have done. Hey, he could have tossed boon
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and It just this whole situation reeks again to
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use the phrase Lack of accountability Has anybody
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heard anything about a possible repercussion for
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for Wendell set for his Completely unnecessary
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ejection No, the only headline I saw today was
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that the league said something about this being
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a bad ejection Okay So we're just gonna call it a
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bad ejection sweep it under the rug and move on and
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continue to let these umpires just Go into total
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god mode control the game for his as Much in as
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long as they want to I I I'm just done that you
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always you hear all the time the best umpires are
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the ones you don't hear about but yet We're leading
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off this episode talking about an umpire who ejected
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a guy for pitches into the game. So
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I mean I Have given up on Angel Hernandez like just
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thinking about umpires around the league I've
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given up on Angel Hernandez And there's a handful of
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others you see all the time on the the umpire
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report cards Which is a great follow on on Twitter
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if you don't follow them already you just see how
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bad some of these particular individuals are
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It's It's just embarrassing It's really embarrassing. I
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I can't think of Another season in recent memory
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where I've been more embarrassed at the products
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That is major league baseball between the umpires
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between the uniforms Between some of the rule changes
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that I'm not gonna say all of them but and not to
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not to go down that rabbit hole but there's just It I
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really I think there's some sort of conspiracy here to
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it If we're talking umpires, I've been saying
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this for for months Years actually ever since this
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Robo ump Idea was introduced I I I came to
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the conclusion today I Legitimately believe it's
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not a bit anymore. It's it It was a bit to start
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I think because I was like all it like this is sounds
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kind of catchy this this will maybe pick up some
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traction I legitimately believe at this point And
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I don't know when it started But I think there
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was a under the table behind closed doors
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agreement between the umpires association or the
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umpires union and Major league baseball Some sort
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of buyout some sort of payout How I don't I don't
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know the details just something to incentivize
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umpires being intentionally bad at their job because
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there's no way that Professionals at this level
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who who have that degree of training that degree of
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expertise that degree of Experience longevity whatever
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you want to call it There's no way that you
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could be this bad at your job on this regular of a
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basis There's just no way If you if you were or if
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you know somebody at your work who is this bad this
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consistently You probably don't know them anymore
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because they're probably got fired That's the reality of
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it But yet again full circle here it goes back
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to the point that I was talking about earlier
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There's no accountability for umpires anymore But
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there may have not ever been I don't really know
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But recent memory with with all of the shenanigans That
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have stemmed from the introduction of the idea of
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robo umps since that point There has been no
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accountability for umpires I don't understand it so
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Really, it's not as much of a conspiracy for me
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anymore is it is it's just a Strongly held belief that
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there's some sort of weird behind behind the scenes
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agreement between Major League Baseball and the
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umpires to make to incentivize them to be
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Intentionally bad at their job to make the ushering
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in of robo umps easier to digest for baseball fans
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because if you make if You tell these umpires to be
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so Just insanely bad at their job Even the diehards
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even the even the the traditionalists the purists
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They're gonna look at this and go man the These guys
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are are they're killing my team man. They're
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they're They're robbing my team of of chances night
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in and night out to win baseball games and to make
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a run at the post season I'm tired of it Get in
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the go get in the robots get in the computers get
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in the technology That's what you're gonna start
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hearing from these purists, and I think that's what
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they're after Call me crazy. I
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I just think that's where we're headed um Continuing
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the theme of umpires today Angels Orioles game ends on
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a pretty Pretty bang bang play and it's it wasn't so
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much the the Bang bang play It wasn't missing that
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call That rubbed me the wrong way. It
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was the review process We talk all the time about
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how the review process is supposed to get it right
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That's why we introduced this thing. We
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didn't just baseball didn't introduce the review process
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just for kicker and giggles We didn't they didn't I'm
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guessing at least I don't I don't know Their their
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ultimate motives, but I I'm just going to assume that
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they didn't introduce the pitch clock to waste
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people's time They introduced it because they
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wanted to get more calls right so they didn't have
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to hear it from people Every single game about how
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their their umpires got the call wrong. They
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said all right. We're tired of it We're going to
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put in cameras everywhere so that we can't get it
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wrong Well, they got it wrong today, and I don't
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understand how that happens. How
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do you have camera angles? multiple
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camera angles around the ballpark Slow motion You
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know that that was funny enough that was one of my
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biggest gripes up until probably a year or two ago
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year and a half year and a half ago where We could
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we could see a speck of dust on the surface of the
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moon But for some reason major league baseball replay
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reviews We're in like Two frames a second like
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negative 12 uh HD I never understood. I
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never understood It's almost as if the people in the
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in the in the Production trucks are like etching it
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in stone etching the play as it develops in stone
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And then that's what we that's what we we checked
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back on Fortunately, we fixed that um We've gotten
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a little better with the quality and and the clarity
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So we're able to see some of these calls a little
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bit better But to that point, how are we getting
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this one wrong? How are we getting the joe
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adel? s uh Seal attempt into second
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today in the angels orio's game. How
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are we getting that wrong? It
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very clearly was Foot to bag Gloved to what was it
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his waist? Very like clears day, I don't
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know what we're looking at and the credit to the
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angels broadcast I know the angels get the short end
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of the stick when it comes to jokes um from from
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baseball fans around the league But hey, I got to
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give props to their their uh, their broadcast team
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today. They They made it known Just
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how horrendous of a call that was I don't know if
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you've seen that clip. I honestly hadn't seen it
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until Maybe like an hour before I hopped on this
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recording So I would recommend you go check that
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out after you after you uh wrap up listen to this
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podcast, but I mean I'm all about like transparency
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and and honesty on a call like that like spare me
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the the The you know the cliches the Just the
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standard mo for broadcasters like let let me know how
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you're really feeling just let me know and they did
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And it was in the heat of the moment the the It was
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funny. They were they were prefacing it
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by saying well if this call goes the way we think
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it should and then immediately like seconds
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later The umpires like uh the call stands the runner
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is out And they just they just let it eat um You
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know and We need more that we need more that if if
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these umpires aren't going to hold themselves
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accountable uh Broadcast teams baseball fans We are
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gonna have to keep holding them accountable ourselves
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because they're surely not gonna do it and hopefully
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Somebody in a position of power. I
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don't know who that is. I don't um, I don't know if
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it's man for it I don't know if it's a a a
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faction within major league baseball that could
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ultimately make the the move but something Then
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Somebody needs to be consistently made aware just
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how bad these umpires are and i'm hoping that I'm
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hoping 2024 sees more that that this trend continues
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because I think I think the umpires or trash
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momentum is is picking up But again that goes back
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to my my conspiracy that I think that's what major
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league baseball wants so Maybe we should tread a
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little lighter on on that Um If you are a fan of
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the umpires and the human element which I am I love
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getting I love being able to get on here and and
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just Talk about missed calls and how umpires miss
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it. That's that's all baseball's ever
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been And i'm not saying it has to be that way
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forever. I know I I understand
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baseball changes, but I I This is the people pull in
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for robo umps The same people that thought we'd
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have flying cars by now in other words The technology
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is just not there yet and I think it applies with
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the robo umps. I don't think we've seen I
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don't think we've seen a widespread enough effort
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made to perfect or get as close to perfection as we
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can with The robo ump the robo strike zone whatever
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you want to call it I don't think we've gotten to
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that point and I think it's only going to make
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matters worse So at the very least if we're going
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to be complaining regardless Let us complain about the
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umpires because you know, like I said somebody needs
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to hold them accountable um Speaking of holding one
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self accountable Mentioned last episode jackson holiday
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Uh, he's he's kept a level head for his for his age
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For for a kid his age based on the way the
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season's gone for him. I don't know Somebody check
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for me. Did uh, did jackson get a hit
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today? I know he got one last
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night. He got a second of the season
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last night um But if he did not I Let me check
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here Yeah, I mean continuing the the theme of
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the orioles here after that horrendous call in the o's
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angels game. Um Let us see Oh looks like
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jackson had the day off looks like jackson had the
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day off. Um Um Wait did jackson get a
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hit? Jackson got a hit last night. I
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don't believe he got one today. Yeah,
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I don't think he even played today. Yeah,
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had the day off. Um With that said two for 34
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entering wednesday he's hitting 0 .059 and again
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would have loved to have had Uh ryan on to talk
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about this Ryan if you're watching This is your
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segment buddy Everybody go tweet at ryan say Ryan 30
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take over nfl draft prep make a choice The choice
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is simple. The choice is yours He's
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hitting 0 .0 0 .059 18 k's I'll be honest with you. I
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never know how to say batting averages that are
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that low Because usually you're just like oh, he's
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hitting like 225 Rarely is a guy hitting under 100 so
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like do you just say like 0 .059? He's
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hitting 0 .059. Yeah, that's not that that sounds
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right. I knew that Uh, he's hitting
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0 .059 18 strikeouts He's got an OPS of 170 which
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as you very well know if you're Just an average
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baseball fan Bare minimum you would know that a 170
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ops doesn't even pass for a mediocre batting average
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That's below the Mendoza line. His
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OPS is below the Mendoza line. He's
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got a negative 47 ops plus He's got a negative 0 .5
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war And he himself said obviously I wasn't expecting
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this. I knew I knew what I was
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getting myself into It's the best of the best of
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the best for a reason I guess I haven't had a
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challenge yet and this is the first one. It's
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obviously challenging But I feel like I'm handling the
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best I can props to the kid man props to the kid
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Props the kid and jake uh jake in the chat says i'm
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in the camp of getting holiday time But what's the
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timeline before sending him back down? Look?
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I'm glad you brought that up jake because I had a I
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had a note in here and I'm sure ryan would have
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echoed the same thing Had he been on the podcast for
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ryan um Look the reality is the bolts more oils can
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afford to have jackson holiday up they're Well
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they won today so they're what 16 and 8 now
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Everybody gunners swinging it colton cows are swinging
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jordan westberg is swinging it A lot of people I feel
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like a lot of people forgot about jordan westberg
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coming into the season and amidst all the other names
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They're doing just fine granted grace and got
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tagged yesterday, but that's i'm i'm gonna assume that
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that's the exception and not the rule Jackson is
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gonna be fine based on that quote alone. I'm
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sure he's had more conversations more interviews
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But that quote alone i'm i'm very impressed with and
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I I know he's probably gotten the the pr chat Or
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the pr advice from his dad so he he understands how
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to handle himself even at this young age, but I'm
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i'm very impressed with with where he's at given
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the start and Not only that but given the start
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coming off of this stint he had in triple a where
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he was demolishing baseballs That has to do something
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for your confidence the kid knows he's good and He so
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he gets sent out like he has the unfortunate You
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know timeline or or or move where he sent down To
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triple a to start the year when he he probably had
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pretty high hopes that he was going to start the
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year with the club So he's like all right. Let's
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go down triple a let's do what they said that I
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needed to work on again I've said it a dozen times
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First time seeing a lefty because that's what they
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said he needed to work on Takes the lefty deep his
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first his first at bat against the lefty in triple
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a to start the year And then just continues to rake
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the rest of the time he's down in triple a so then
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it gets called up I don't think there's a better
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situation that you can be in Than that So you
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probably think okay like I may not come out of here
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and hit 400 but you know I For a 20 year old kid.
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I think I'm I'm I'm gonna be
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all right Again proceeds to go two for 34 But it's so
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wet like I said it's the way he responded Where he's
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talking about he understands that it's the best of the
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best of the best And honestly when I read this
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quote If I'm being honest I Sensed a little bit of
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cockiness a little bit and not not like in a negative
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way He seems like a really good kid and and I keep
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bringing up ryan much love to you ryan We we love
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you on this show Resident Orioles guy But I think
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ryan would echo the same thing he would echo the
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same sentiment And that this is a good kid like I
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don't think he he means anything when he said I
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guess I haven't had a challenge yet and this is
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the first one I I don't think it's a negative
30:27
cockiness. I think it's more of like a
30:29
I'm kind of I'm kind of feeling myself and I have
30:33
been for some time So uh, yeah now we have to adjust
30:39
to this challenge something that I'm not really used
30:42
to being challenged um But again I going back to the
30:48
the question I don't I don't think there's a
30:52
reason to send him down. I mean unless it just Gets
30:56
drastically worse, but if you if you can sprinkle in
30:59
a hit here and honestly If I've been watching baseball.
31:03
I've played baseball. I've
31:04
been around the game for majority of my life. I'm
31:08
30 years old I would venture to say Oh granted
31:13
his second hit he he laced he laced up the middle
31:16
like it was it was a hard ground ball um But I would
31:20
venture to say the way that things Will likely go
31:24
for Jackson is he's gonna have Uh a swinging bunt.
31:29
He's gonna leg it out for a
31:30
single He's gonna have a little duck fart behind the
31:33
first or third baseman leg out a single He's gonna
31:38
maybe find a gap Snag a quick double It's he's
31:44
gonna sprinkle in he's he's gonna be fine He's gonna
31:47
sprinkle in a hit or two here and there and then
31:50
he's that snowball is gonna continue to grow It's gonna
31:53
continue to roll and then it's just gonna pick up so
31:55
much team that We will have forgotten that this
31:58
start even happened um In terms of what drastically
32:04
worse looks like I mean look if if he's still
32:10
sitting on two hits at like Like 50 a b's through
32:20
I mean I would give him another Give him another
32:24
like four five even six games to kind of keep it
32:27
keep it going But I mean if if we're if we're
32:31
looking at like two for 52 for 60. Okay.
32:34
Yeah, probably need to send him down like yeah, they
32:36
can afford to kind of uh Take that I don't want to
32:44
call it damage, but he literally has a negative
32:46
war So I guess you technically could say that
32:48
it's they're absorbing damage They can afford to
32:51
do that But there's also a point where it's like this
32:54
just doesn't even make sense anymore like we've
32:56
we're giving him a shot but clearly he needs to
32:59
get his head right so I again, I'm in the camp
33:02
keep him up. Let him iron it out. Let
33:04
him figure it out and It'll like I said, we'll
33:09
eventually forget that this that this even happened um
33:14
Talking about being sent down Jordan Walker news
33:17
broke today that uh the Orioles touted prospect to
33:23
made made waves Last year gosh, it's already been a
33:30
year uh For being for being sent down. I
33:35
think it was the opposite case last year. No
33:40
I'm sorry. I there's a lot of baseball
33:43
nuggets that you have to remember when you do
33:45
something like this I'm I'm I'm forgetting what he
33:48
started off well, right? And
33:50
got sent down last year. Isn't
33:52
that what happened? I think that's what happened
33:54
with Jordan Walker this year a little more
33:57
warranted Again option triple a Memphis. He's
34:01
hitting 155 no bombs and hasn't uh, obs plus of 41
34:07
So well below league average I believe however,
34:11
this is a different This is a different situation
34:16
than Jackson holiday People are going well Why can't
34:24
you just keep him up and let him iron out the
34:27
kinks? Well The Cardinals Can't exactly
34:31
do that Cardinals are three games under 500. They
34:34
got the win today, but they're three games under
34:36
500 They need guys that can And I know it's early.
34:41
I know it's a small sample
34:42
size But they need you don't want to you don't
34:44
want to dig too deep of a hole for yourself So they
34:47
so they need to plug Uh the spots in that lineup
34:50
or the holes in the in that lineup as as Jordan
34:52
Walker has proven to be somewhat of a Of vacancy
34:57
in the lineup to this point They need to plug
35:00
the the voids in that lineup with guys that can
35:03
produce right now I don't think there's any ill will
35:06
towards Jordan Walker. I I I bet you if you asked
35:09
me probably go. Yeah, I probably need some time
35:11
to get my head right get my mechanics back to to
35:14
what they were Uh, because this guy this guy has
35:17
shown you that he's he can he can pop it man. He
35:20
he's got he's got the power And can provide it
35:26
if things are going right But as I just shared with
35:31
you the numbers Are showing you that things are not
35:36
right And the general sentiment with this Jordan
35:41
Walker situation appears to be Kind of getting the
35:44
pulse from from carlos fans Uh that if the team Wants
35:50
to be at their best they're gonna need him to
35:52
be at their best He sounds like a very integral part
35:56
of any potential success that they're to see later
36:00
this year down the stretch um So you need to you
36:04
need to give him some some time give him some space
36:07
to To get back to the basics. That's
36:10
that's what they talk about all the time about these
36:12
guys getting back to Uh what they know and what
36:16
they Feel that they're capable of doing a lot of
36:19
times when guys start they they Hit a slump. They
36:23
start pressing they start reaching they start getting
36:26
out of their Out of their comfort zone. They
36:30
try to make too many changes. They
36:32
try to Make tweaks that aren't beneficial, but they
36:35
feel like they have to change something So then
36:38
that's how bad habits are created and it just it it
36:42
rarely works out so a guy who I mean he's not a
36:47
veteran So you have the you have the freedom the
36:50
flexibility to send him back town Again, let him
36:53
let him get his head right and you can only hope if
36:56
you're the carlos that he'll come back up And
36:58
he'll get you he'll get you squared away Um or
37:02
he'll get himself squared away and you'll be good to
37:05
go Uh the the other thing to keep in mind though
37:08
with this is that the The It's talking about a team
37:14
that can't really afford it nobody on the cardinals is
37:17
really tearing the cover off the ball I mean, nolyn
37:20
gorman is your leading is your home run leader for
37:24
the cardinals I mean say what you will about nolyn
37:30
gorman But I would venture to say that the cardinals
37:32
didn't foresee him being your uh home run leader a
37:36
month into the season And I again, I know it's early
37:39
but it just it further Validates the point that
37:44
they they just can't afford To take up a slot in that
37:47
lineup And and give jordan walker time to figure it
37:51
out because they they need to start producing runs. I
37:53
mean they're They've scored the last I checked they
37:59
scored the fifth fewest Runs in in baseball as of
38:03
right now And I know games are going on right now so
38:06
that may change but either way Just we'll just say
38:09
for the sake of conversation. They're
38:10
they're bottom five six In in run scored in all of
38:15
baseball. So I mean Yeah, nobody's
38:19
sitting Even for average nobody's nobody's really I
38:24
mean nolyn's in 295 Contreras 294 So the power
38:30
and the contact And really just the ability to get on
38:35
base is lacking just just a little bit From just
38:40
about every guy minus one or two So again Give him
38:45
time. He'll figure it out Talk about
38:50
uh given a guy time. I don't know if this was a
38:56
Phantom IEL stint or if he's actually You know In
39:02
some pain here and I'm not I'm not I'm not trying to
39:06
make a mockery of it. Like if he's really going
39:08
through it injury -wise like I feel for the guy but
39:11
Blake Snell Uh was Scratched from his start
39:16
today Which kind of sucks. He
39:20
was he was about to make a start for me in fantasy
39:23
Not to mention I got hit with the Brian Bayo news
39:26
too So Within like minutes. I
39:29
feel like Also my fantasy team Yeah, I got got
39:34
scratched from a start today Wednesday and was
39:36
placed on the 15 day IEL with a left adductor strain
39:40
For those of you asking at home because I know you're
39:42
just dying to know I saw a note today that according
39:45
to baseball perspectives And their recovery database
39:49
players suffering from this Uh type of injury missed
39:53
on average 29 days so It could go either way. He
39:59
could miss more. He could miss less but If if
40:03
he's out for the average amount of time we're
40:05
looking at we're looking at about a month Missing Blake
40:10
Snell which To drive home the point again of guys
40:16
maybe needing some time to get their head right Tell
40:19
you what Blake Snell we've we've already mentioned it
40:22
multiple times this season I mean he's made three
40:26
starts. So we've I know we've
40:27
mentioned it probably at least three times on three
40:29
separate occasions Oh and three It's got an eRA of
40:34
11 5 7 He's only throwing 11 and 2 3rds only 12 k's
40:39
and has a whip of 197 He's got a 2 4 strike 2
40:46
4 0 strikeout to walk ratio And he has yet to
40:49
complete five innings in a start which I know If you
40:53
follow Blake Snell for any length of time, you
40:55
probably hear that and go Well, the guy doesn't go
40:57
terribly deep anyway Because high pitch counts lots of
41:02
walks lots of foot traffic lots of guys on base This
41:06
is just kind of what he does Although he more often
41:10
than not finds ways to get out of it It's it's not
41:14
as jarring to say that he has yet to complete five
41:17
starts But it's if you're looking for any sort of
41:19
positive From his three starts like okay, did he
41:22
at least get into like the the six or seventh? No
41:25
as yet to complete five innings in a start um, so
41:31
All that to say Yeah, this this guy could benefit from
41:36
some time off I I don't necessarily want to say I
41:41
told you so because I'd probably be lying if I was
41:45
gonna sit here and pretend like I knew this bad of a
41:49
start was coming. I I was unsure Of things
41:55
Going super well for him with the delay and the
41:59
whole the whole Boris hold out and all of that But I
42:03
didn't I did not I did not foresee this happening
42:07
I mean, this is this has been rough fortunately for
42:10
him though The other arms in that rotation for san
42:14
francisco are holding it down logan web Dominant is
42:17
as usual. Jordan Hicks has settled in nicely
42:20
to a starters role uh, Keaton win kind of a an
42:26
underrated name right now. He's
42:28
he's sporting a 354 over five starts um Over he's
42:35
thrown 28 innings and has a whip of 104 so a
42:40
welcome um source of Output or contribution from a guy
42:48
that maybe Was flying under the radar for some people
42:52
and then kyle harrison kind of pulling up the rear
42:55
there, but All in all like they got a few they got a
42:59
few dudes in there that are finding ways to make
43:01
it work So, you know, if blake snows gonna need to
43:04
miss some time Maybe this is the time to do it
43:07
while those guys are are holding it down in his
43:09
absence. So um We will see how much
43:13
time he misses but uh You know for his for his sake
43:18
for baseball's sake. I hope the the reigning cy
43:21
Young winner can can uh figured out because The the
43:28
number of names man the number of names missing
43:32
time on the il or Not even on the il just guys
43:37
that are banged up It it's astronomical. It's
43:41
mind -blowing. I don't understand so Like I
43:46
said reigning cy Young. I hope he can figure it out
43:48
and get back to his his Rather dominant ways. Um
43:53
speaking of guys on the il brian bayo Placed on the
43:57
15 day il as I mentioned earlier He's got right lat
44:01
tightness Can I can I just redo all something real
44:04
quick? Oh boy, oh boy A list of red
44:14
sox players That are dealing with something right
44:21
now Tristan casus Left rib strain brian bayo right lat
44:28
tightness tile hinderman right hamstring strain
44:31
romegan zalas ref left wrist strain volngrissum
44:35
right hamstring strain nick pavetta right elbow flexor
44:39
strain garret whitlock left oblique strain isaacampal
44:43
right shoulder impingement liam hindricks Recovering
44:47
from tom and john trevor story shoulder surgery out
44:50
for the year chris murphy Tommy john out for the
44:53
year lucas gilito internal brace procedure out for the
44:55
year Red sox are going through it man I'm going
45:02
through it. I mentioned last episode This
45:06
is the most Or maybe was it was it last episode or
45:11
was it on uh bridge to bucktober when I made a
45:14
guest spot on that podcast either way I can't remember
45:16
which where I said it But this is the most roller
45:21
coaster II Experience as a red sox fan I've had in
45:28
some time Years past I've been like, you know, we'll
45:31
be fine It's got a weather the storm will make it
45:36
will be all right Whereas everybody else on on
45:39
twitter is just losing their minds, you know
45:41
cancel the season after they lose like a one run
45:43
game I'm like relax. It's 162 games, but I um, I
45:49
gotta be honest. I'm right there with them I'm
45:51
right there with them. I'm I'm living and dying by
45:54
every single game Like every inning if an inning
45:59
goes poorly, I'm like games over the games over the
46:03
seasons over cancel it It's it's so bad Seeing Like
46:13
seemingly every day that passes. I'm
46:16
sure tomorrow we'll find out We'll find out tomorrow
46:21
that rafael devour's Um Pulled his groin and is
46:27
out for six months You know he comes in that and
46:32
you laugh you laugh that would be what would happen
46:35
because he came back tonight after missing some
46:38
time He didn't he didn't hit the il. He
46:40
was just he he was kind of hit or miss for a
46:44
number of days there and missed a missed a handful
46:46
of days Comes back tonight has a day at the plate
46:49
hit the bomb I tell you I'm telling you that would
46:53
be the red Sox luck that would be his luck We wake
47:00
up tomorrow rafi devours has an ingrown toenail Um,
47:06
it will require a rather complex surgery and an
47:10
unorthodox surgery Uh, and he'll be out until 2032
47:15
That's the kind of luck that the red Sox are
47:17
dealing with right now um But yeah losing brian bayou
47:23
who again I think I gave some love to the red Sox
47:28
rotation last episode He's like era wise you can look
47:32
at advanced analytics if you want but just looking
47:34
at era he's one of the The worst pictures in the
47:41
rotation but he had like a he was sporting like a 305
47:46
or something Whereas everybody else in rotation
47:49
has just been dicing, you know cutter crawford nick
47:52
pavetta who like at the time of the injury was
47:54
just dicing Uh, gert willock tanner hauch tanner
47:58
hauch's had a a great start to his year Illusion
48:02
brian bayou sucks because you You would imagine that
48:07
once Things maybe level out and who's to say maybe
48:11
cutter crawford tanner hauch. Maybe
48:13
they go on to have like A sub three era seasons who
48:18
knows? but I always say I always talk
48:22
about the law of averages and baseball if the law of
48:24
averages Kick into play here. You
48:26
would imagine that brian bayou when it's all said
48:29
and done uh will be you know At the top looking
48:35
down in terms of that rotation So to lose a guy
48:38
like this for any length of time especially early on
48:41
when he's he's finding a little bit of consistency
48:43
on the bump He's trying to build off some momentum
48:46
this last outing. You just had I mean you
48:48
couldn't have had a better outing um Based on the
48:53
first few starts like that was a great way to come
48:55
back and that was a truly strong effort against the
48:57
pirates so to Rob him of the opportunity to build
49:02
off that momentum really sucks for a team that is
49:06
littered with minor league players right now like that
49:10
the The We're starting to see I think we're gonna
49:14
start seeing guys that we've never even heard of
49:17
so I mean The fact that they're still winning
49:23
baseball games. I mean, let's I know games
49:26
are going on right now But let's let's just see where
49:28
they're at relative. Okay, so they're 14 and 11.
49:31
They're ahead of the blue jays
49:33
ahead of the rays Again, every team as it stands
49:37
right now the second I'm looking at every team in
49:39
the american league is 500 or better the rays are in
49:41
last at 13 and 13 um So I mean they're staying
49:45
afloat in a very difficult division. So
49:49
I got it set my cap But it's not going to change
49:52
the fact that I'm going to continue to live and die
49:55
every single game Which again is something that I
49:57
haven't really done before so it's kind of new for
50:00
me It's kind of nice. Like I don't know if you're if
50:04
those of you listening or watching I don't know if
50:08
that's how you're a fan But it's kind of like a
50:12
it's like a daily high when you're like, all
50:15
right. Are we gonna are we gonna just
50:18
Absolutely lose our minds tonight Or are we just
50:21
gonna collect a quick dub and go to sleep and wake
50:24
up and and see if we're gonna cancel the season
50:26
tomorrow It's kind of nice. Like
50:28
it's kind of therapeutic to just Live to be on the
50:33
edge of your seat To be on the edge of the balcony
50:39
Every single night. It's kind of nice, but it's
50:42
also very stressful. So It's not a not uh, not
50:47
good for my health. Um Speaking of health cody
50:51
bellinger another guy placed on the il. He
50:54
has a fractured rib Uh, the video which i'm sure
50:58
you may have seen Kind of got banged up against the
51:01
wall there at wriggly A lot of people calling for
51:06
Something to be done about the brick wall. I
51:08
don't think I mean, that's a that's a losing battle
51:11
friend I don't think anything's gonna be done
51:13
about the the brick wall there. I
51:15
did see somebody however talk about figuring out a
51:18
way to uh increase the growth or to Expedite the
51:24
growth of the ivy to maybe serve as a little bit of
51:27
a cushion I feel like with all the technology that
51:29
exists in the world that we have the ability to
51:31
maybe do that I mean we can put we can we can
51:35
Royed up chickens to expedite the growth of uh
51:39
the meat That gets Package to your grocery store. We
51:44
can we can juice those bad boys up. Can
51:47
we not juice up the the ivy on the walls and
51:50
wriggly? I mean There's got to be
51:55
something we can do or put something behind the ivy. I
51:58
don't know but Come on. It's
52:01
it's sort of like last year when people were
52:04
complaining about the the wall or the the fence
52:07
rather the like curb almost in dodger stadium where
52:16
judge What fractured is is toe or foot or whatever
52:20
and it was out for crazy amount of time It's like
52:23
some of these things I feel I can be avoided, you
52:25
know Like if a guy goes if a guy pulls a jeeter
52:28
and just dives headfirst into the crowd and busts
52:31
up his face, okay, well You have to have seats You
52:35
can't exactly avoid that but something like a like
52:38
a brick wall With ivy. Can we not do something that
52:42
maybe I understand you have to have an outfield wall
52:45
But can something not be done to alleviate that a
52:48
little bit all that to say Uh, you want to talk about
52:52
a team that has also been beaten up Jameson tie on
52:55
Justin seal. Kyle Hendricks drew smiley julie
52:57
and mary weather say is azuki. Patrick
52:59
wisdom nick madrigal Have all spent on the time have
53:02
all spent time on the il this year um the
53:05
corresponding move for Bellinger's Move to the
53:13
shelf they're bringing up top prospect pete crow
53:17
armstrong mr. Bluehair um So You know defensively
53:27
you're gonna be all right there with with uh pca
53:30
you're gonna be all right but offensively You know
53:33
codi codi was off Is been off to a an all right
53:37
start. I mean he's got five jacks
53:39
17 rivies He's sitting 226 through 84 at bats, but
53:43
he's got an ops of 760 So I think I think when if
53:47
the weather was going to be getting a little warmer,
53:49
which you know It takes a minute to do that in
53:51
chicago But I think he was gonna he was gonna start
53:55
picking up. I'm curious what his splits are
53:57
month by month I love that's one of my that's
54:00
one of my underrated favorite stats is uh
54:03
checking out splits month to month like I know
54:06
certain people like home versus road or Uh indoor
54:09
versus outdoor. I like I like seeing I Like
54:14
I like looking at months. I
54:16
like seeing When a guy is on the trajectory of
54:22
heating up or about to take a massive fall off
54:26
like You know fall off a cliff almost when when
54:30
certain months hit. I'm always interested interested
54:33
to see when guys are projected to heat up
54:36
because Typically it usually is somewhat of a bell
54:41
curve You start off a little slow you heat up in
54:44
the warmer months and then you know The the wear and
54:47
tear of a season kind of wears you down a little
54:49
bit But I was looking at harper splits today for
54:52
example. Just just cuz doing a little
54:55
bit of fantasy research uh and You want to you want
55:01
to talk about getting getting geared up for the
55:03
fall Getting geared up for the postseason go check out
55:07
his splits from I think it's like october september
55:11
That's a guy that heats up at that time. So,
55:14
you know, it's just interesting to see When a
55:16
guy will uh when a guy will Uh start to heat up
55:22
again. So who's to say what kody was
55:24
about to do? But either way we won't know
55:26
because he will be hitting the shelf Just another name
55:30
added to the i -o The the injuries this year are off
55:34
the charts and we we talk We've talked a bunch about
55:38
pictures Facing a lot of these issues a lot of arm
55:43
issues, you know talk about the pitch clock talk about
55:46
um Talk about uh Medical staffs for teams. There's
55:51
a lot a lot of play here Talk about the the pursuit
55:55
of of max velocity But when you look at stuff
55:59
like this, these are just unfortunate Unfortunate
56:02
things like another out hitter we talked about
56:04
tyler on yellow a while back just a freak a freak
56:07
collision kody belger Gets gets beaten up a little
56:12
bit out there at the with the brick wall and wriggly
56:15
Uh, so you can't it's not like you can really pin
56:17
this or blame this on anybody. It's
56:19
just tough But either way regardless what the reason
56:22
is it's just it's unfortunate to see Uh stars
56:26
around the game missing time, especially this early
56:29
and especially seemingly at the same time. It's
56:32
just Uh, I feel like everybody are we just are
56:36
we just watching AAA across major league baseball now
56:39
like How is everybody's team doing health wise like
56:44
are you currently watching your AAA team Play major
56:48
league baseball because I feel like I am Um, and it
56:52
sounds like the the cubs sort of are as well Um
56:58
Closing the book here uh Shohei o tani hit an
57:03
absolute nuke on Tuesday night versus the nationals
57:07
Is literally right down the road and he's like 30
57:09
minutes away. I should have gone to see
57:11
him this week miss missed out on that opportunity 450
57:18
feet 118 .7 mile an hour miles an hour off the bat
57:24
The hardest hit ball of the season Look, I'm just
57:29
gonna say it because nobody else is saying it It It
57:36
didn't look like it went 450 feet like we've seen
57:39
balls Absolutely demolished and it'll be like Yeah, it
57:47
was like 402 and then weirdly enough you'll see
57:50
balls that Are out over like the right field wall
57:57
Like a few rows deep and it'll be like 427 feet
58:02
it's like that that doesn't even make sense That's not
58:06
mathematically possible I took geometry in middle
58:10
school and I can tell you by looking at the screen
58:14
that that's not possible Um The yeah, so I mean
58:23
talking about this 450 foot home run I It look it was
58:27
a cannon off the bat. I'm it was a laser. I'm
58:31
not doubting the 118 .7 But it just didn't look 450
58:36
feet It was a bomb I think it was like what the
58:39
second second deck. It was it it was a moon. It
58:43
was a moonshot But I don't know Either way Whether or
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not it went 450 feet whether or not major league
58:54
baseball is trying to push a narrative With shohae's
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uh stack cast numbers No, it probably did go 450
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feet. Just first glance first time
59:05
watching the video. I was like, huh? Well,
59:06
that's That's surprising. Um Regardless if that's the
59:10
case Just a little nugget here for shohae At the
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time of fooling my nose together this afternoon
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Shohae otani according to major league baseball's
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official twitter account Major league baseball ranks
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first in average at 364 hits first With 36 Doubles
59:33
first with 11 on base third with a clip of 430
59:38
slug first with a clip of 677 and ops first with a
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clip of 1107 Guys machine man I saw somebody it's
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been a while since we saw like the unicorn tweets
59:53
because you know, he's just hitting so it's not As
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frequent anymore, but I did see a tweet today. It
59:59
said imagine Imagine doing what he's doing right now
1:00:03
while recovering from tommy john You know look It's a
1:00:08
good point. It's a good point. I
1:00:10
don't know I never had tommy john So I don't know
1:00:14
what the process is like or or how much it impacts
1:00:17
your ability to hit clearly. It
1:00:19
doesn't impact shohae whatsoever Um, but it is
1:00:23
just it's just interesting Uh interesting thing to
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keep in mind Uh jerry jones I don't know what to
1:00:34
say If you heard me say jerry jones, you probably
1:00:41
know exactly what i'm talking about that clip Of
1:00:44
that sweeper slider against Bryce terang of the brewers
1:00:50
the other night I I tweeted it out. I
1:00:54
said this this pitch is punishable by death in like
1:00:58
37 countries and it was I mean go back and watch the
1:01:01
video You have to if you're Bryce terang you
1:01:07
have to Do you work how does that work do you like
1:01:12
a requested dfa? Do you look for a roster
1:01:19
opening in the kbo? I just don't know how you
1:01:24
come back from that I just don't know how you come
1:01:29
back from that and look jerry jones Kid is the
1:01:33
real deal. I'm excited to watch Him moving
1:01:37
forward I saw an article the other day it was
1:01:42
headlines, uh, it was something along lines of of
1:01:46
like, um You know the pirates have a have an ace
1:01:52
in jerry jones and he's not even their ace or
1:01:55
something something like that but just speaking to
1:01:58
the the point that This guy has the the Very near
1:02:05
immediate Potential to be Number one material for a
1:02:12
major league team They say the pirates we all know
1:02:16
how they handle their assets. I've
1:02:18
talked about that before Uh, especially with this
1:02:22
whole paul skeen's conversation going on Who's
1:02:25
to say how long he's with the club but wherever he
1:02:28
ends up for the majority of his career? He's
1:02:30
gonna presumably be Uh At or near the very top of
1:02:36
of whatever rotation he's with Uh speaking of being
1:02:39
at the top of the rotation max freed Through himself a
1:02:44
little bit of a maddox the other night tossing 92
1:02:46
pitches gave up three hits had six k's Uh via justin
1:02:51
havens on twitter. He said the first pitcher to
1:02:53
throw up max freed is the first pitcher to throw A
1:02:56
nine inning shut out in 92 pitches or fewer Since you
1:03:00
guessed it max freed in 2021 Um, you love to see
1:03:08
that man. I'm I'm all i'm all about The
1:03:13
maddox's man, you know and I lost in what seems to
1:03:16
be a lost art of Um lengthy starting pitching
1:03:23
Length I should say lengthy efficient starting pitching
1:03:27
You love to see when a guy can can toss a maddox
1:03:31
man. You love that and that's a
1:03:33
good that's a good bounce back for max freed a
1:03:36
little slow out of the gate for his standards but
1:03:39
um No team like the marlott. Well,
1:03:43
maybe the white socks But you know way to way to
1:03:45
take advantage of his start against the marlins And
1:03:48
people are saying well, it's just a marlins. Don't
1:03:50
get too excited. Well, what else did you want him
1:03:51
to do? like I'm sure max freed was was
1:03:56
smiling ear to ear when he checked the The calendar
1:03:59
and saw that the the marlins were were uh, the
1:04:03
team that he was lined up for In a start where he
1:04:06
needed a bounce back and he took advantage of it.
1:04:08
So good on max freed weekend
1:04:10
series to watch Speaking of the braves speaking of max
1:04:15
freed's braves. I'm watching the guardians
1:04:17
versus the braves talk about two of the best
1:04:19
teams in baseball right now Hold on. We
1:04:22
need a let's let's confirm here The two best teams in
1:04:27
baseball right now. I I needed to clarify the
1:04:30
two best teams in baseball as of wednesday night game
1:04:35
one On friday, we've got logan allen versus chris
1:04:39
sale That's a 720 p .m. Eastern
1:04:42
start. Why did the brave start at
1:04:43
720? Like just started seven or 705
1:04:47
like everybody else. What's up with the 720? Why?
1:04:53
What's that about So more people can hang out in the
1:04:57
battery. Is that what is is that what
1:04:58
we're doing? Game two tanner bieber's charlie
1:05:02
morton 720 p .m. Eastern tanner tanner bieby looking
1:05:05
to Build off a little bit from his last start. He's
1:05:09
he's hoping to get back into the His his older
1:05:14
ways Uh game three been lively versus brice elder
1:05:19
brice elder looking to build off of his last
1:05:21
start and maybe Um Gain a little momentum there.
1:05:26
That'll be a 135 p .m. Eastern
1:05:28
start So That's gonna be some good baseball man. The
1:05:31
guardians are taking the baseball world by storm a
1:05:34
little bit not not Not many too many people had
1:05:37
them jumping out to this well, this could have a
1:05:41
start but Tell you what man, they're They're taking
1:05:44
and running with it although they They got
1:05:47
taken out to the shed by my By my socks tonight.
1:05:54
Sorry about it but still they're
1:05:58
They're uh seemingly on cruise control right now.
1:06:01
So We'll see how the the
1:06:04
series wraps up tomorrow with the with the red
1:06:06
socks, but if they they snag go in there, they'll
1:06:09
be They'll be poised for a Pretty good weekend in
1:06:14
atlanta But atlanta looking to defend the home turf as
1:06:18
they as they usually aim to do so to be Good
1:06:21
series to watch hence my weekend series to watch.
1:06:25
All right Last item here I got
1:06:31
an email from tim Schaefer He says hey guys big fan
1:06:38
of the podcast no need for response just submitting a
1:06:41
name proposal for the final quote unnamed segment He
1:06:44
says the green light And parentheses he said As in
1:06:52
now you've got to go ahead to talk about what you all
1:06:54
haven't yet gotten to and tim I got to say that's
1:07:00
Ah, that's that's got to be the leader in the
1:07:02
clubhouse jacob. I apologize in the chat
1:07:05
You're throwing out you're throwing out ideas, but you
1:07:08
know three o green light that That might be that
1:07:12
might be a move. I don't want to quite make
1:07:14
an executive decision We can take these we can take
1:07:17
these suggestions that we've been getting. I
1:07:19
know I know some folks have written marae I know
1:07:22
you've reached out. I believe With a suggestion
1:07:25
jacob Tim some others I'll take him into consideration
1:07:33
But I mean if I'm being honest the three o green
1:07:36
light is is quite Quite a name for this segment if
1:07:39
if this your first time listen welcome And if you
1:07:42
don't know what this segment is it's something
1:07:44
that Nate and I introduced recently and I do apologize
1:07:46
I think I realized that I didn't share one last
1:07:49
episode because I was just Brain dead. I
1:07:51
apologize for last episode by the way. I
1:07:53
was I felt a little sluggish There's a lot to
1:07:56
a lot to cover Feel a little rundown so it makes
1:08:00
sense that I forgot to to drop in a take but again
1:08:04
If you're if you're new welcome But this is
1:08:06
something that Nate and I recently introduced where it
1:08:09
just gives us a chance to close the episode with the
1:08:12
a little bit of a hot take a little bit of a
1:08:15
hot take to To wrap up and it might it may or
1:08:19
may not be something that we got to in the episode.
1:08:21
So it's just a a window for
1:08:24
us to address something and tonight We are talking
1:08:33
about Fans dunking on one another In the month of
1:08:41
april we got to stop Twitter baseball culture is
1:08:48
is ruining people We have What what Brought this to
1:08:57
my attention. I've seen it all the time, but
1:08:59
I saw I saw one in particularly the other day
1:09:01
where as an orials fan Where he tweeted Yankees
1:09:06
start 12 and 3 this was in quotes Yankees fans or
1:09:09
Yankees start 12 and 3 Nobody will catch them And
1:09:13
then proceeds to post a screenshot of the standings
1:09:15
with the orials in front as like a A sarcastic dig
1:09:18
at people who thought the Yankees were we're gonna
1:09:21
like I don't know run away with the division It's
1:09:25
april The division the standings That you see
1:09:35
today are gonna be different tomorrow And then
1:09:39
the teams that fill out the division one through
1:09:42
five That order will be different the next day and
1:09:47
the next day and the next day and the next day sound
1:09:52
like sound like mr. Krabs So he spun draw fans, you
1:09:59
know what I'm talking about and the next day and the
1:10:01
next day And the next day so this whole like dunk it
1:10:05
we got to stop we got to be better baseball fans
1:10:08
Stop dunking on one another. It's
1:10:09
april stop acting like the season ends at the end of
1:10:13
the week Like get your digs take your shots But
1:10:19
the divisions the standings they don't matter it's
1:10:22
april The only thing that matters is In terms of
1:10:31
watching the division or the standings Is for the
1:10:34
white socks to see if if they end up winning 20
1:10:38
games this season But even then Even then they're
1:10:46
gonna be in last So it's not even like you have to
1:10:50
watch much there. You're just watching win totals at
1:10:52
that point But we got to chill Yank yanky fans
1:10:58
orials fans. In fact, let me I'm not
1:11:01
trying to just pick on those two. Let
1:11:02
me let me look at some other Let me look at some
1:11:06
other teams here that I that I know I've seen
1:11:10
Running their mouth Mets fans philly's fans braves
1:11:16
fans run in your mouth Acting like that's not
1:11:22
gonna be a three team race all year Be better have
1:11:26
some awareness You know how this division is gonna
1:11:29
shake out. It's gonna come down to the
1:11:31
wire stop pretending like it's not Padres fans Now
1:11:38
you want to talk about people dunking on a team
1:11:43
You would have thought the Dodgers were Oh and 30
1:11:50
I've never seen something like it. They're
1:11:53
15 and 11 they're first in the division. Let's
1:11:56
relax Not to say they're gonna run the table. I
1:11:58
said I said before the season even started I said
1:12:00
they're not gonna it's not gonna be a cakewalk to the
1:12:03
world series. I genuinely believe that it
1:12:05
won't But let's stop acting Like they're a poverty
1:12:10
franchise. I get they spend a lot of
1:12:12
money but I think they're doing all right Just as
1:12:19
the Padres Dbeck's shines in the Rockies Um Yeah,
1:12:26
there's there's some other other fan bases around
1:12:28
baseball that I've seen and You all forget Because we
1:12:33
run a major league baseball podcast We we see all of
1:12:37
it. You guys are like in your
1:12:38
respective Not all of you guys but majority of you
1:12:41
guys are in your respective corners of your team So
1:12:43
you you're not see you're not taking in this stuff
1:12:46
necessarily to the same degree so Just believe me
1:12:51
when I say that I'm seeing this unnecessary dunking
1:12:57
Across all of baseball and it's pitiful and I expect
1:13:01
you to be better Because it's April That's all I
1:13:08
got folks. I appreciate you listening.
1:13:10
This was fun Hopefully I had a
1:13:12
little more energy for you tonight. I
1:13:13
hope you enjoyed listening um Bear with us in the in
1:13:18
the coming episodes. We're making some tweaks to some
1:13:21
of our equipment some of our streaming um Tools and
1:13:28
and softwares possibly we're we're tinking around with
1:13:31
some stuff It's a it's a good time to do it with
1:13:34
Nate being out for another Another episode or two um
1:13:41
But uh Yeah, just bear with us if there's any
1:13:45
technical issues We'll try to we'll try to get on
1:13:48
top of that. But all that to say appreciate
1:13:49
you listening Appreciate you following along Let me know
1:13:54
if there's something in the coming episodes. You
1:13:56
want me to get to I I'm really doing what I can Um
1:14:00
as I as I work through this Solo again, I'm not
1:14:04
trying to like pat myself on the back But I'm doing
1:14:06
what I can to cover my bases Based on the the
1:14:11
main story lines across baseball But if there's
1:14:13
something that that's pressing that I that that
1:14:15
I haven't really addressed Please bring it to my
1:14:18
attention um And I will I will do my best to
1:14:23
incorporate it into the conversation but uh other
1:14:26
than that This will wrap up episode two of the
1:14:29
week. So we will see you guys
1:14:31
probably Please Sunday if the uh if the Schedule
1:14:39
remains consistent. We'll see you guys sunday. Um
1:14:43
And uh Yeah, that should be it. Love
1:14:46
y 'all is always looking forward to talking more
1:14:47
baseball with you guys soon until next time Stay filthy