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The MLB Report with Will Retherford & Paul Tipton ... and Guest Val Tsoutsouris (2.237.3) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

• 0:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: You are listening to the MLB report with Will Rutherford and Paul Tipton, and today's special guest Vows at Surus Sports Editor at RTC and Rochester and a wealth of baseball knowledge.
• 0:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome baseball fans to the Central Indian Sports Report for this edition of the MLB report with Will Rutherford and Paul Tippedon and special guest, Vowsett Ceres, the sports editor at RTC in Rochester here to talk some baseball.
• 0:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: And we're going to talk about the entirety of Major League Baseball, but of course we're going to start in our favorite division, the NL Central, and the Reds are on top, but will anybody in the division lose?
• 0:52
  [SPEAKER_03]: No, I think it's a great division.
• 0:54
  [SPEAKER_03]: I said at the beginning of the year, I thought there were 14s that realistically could compete for a wild card spot.
• 1:00
  [SPEAKER_03]: It looks like there might be five.
• 1:02
  [SPEAKER_03]: It's super early.
• 1:03
  [SPEAKER_03]: I'm still not buying into my own cardinal steam, but...
• 1:08
  [SPEAKER_03]: Greg, I also think what the reds are doing is a little unsustainable.
• 1:11
  [SPEAKER_03]: A lot of this give and moment, but it's great and the early going and I think it's making for a very exciting, early summer, just to see who can kind of jostle for pull position in the Nelson drill.
• 1:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: Paul, before we get to our guest vowsit service.
• 1:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: If you had told me before the season that the reds were going to be 15 and 8, I would have thought, man, they're going to run away with this division.
• 1:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: But you're 15 and 8 right now and wills prediction that they're more likely to finish last than win 100 games.
• 1:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know which way to go.
• 1:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's a it's crazy.
• 1:45
  [SPEAKER_02]: The only caution I would throw in there would be they are playing American League teams and apparently at this point it looks like if you schedule American League team here you're in good shape to beat up on them and improve the right.
• 1:59
  [SPEAKER_02]: Prove your records.
• 2:00
  [SPEAKER_02]: That's going to be 15 games by the time they finish.
• 2:03
  [SPEAKER_02]: with Tampa Bay out of the first 25 games.
• 2:07
  [SPEAKER_02]: So that's a lot of American League games, but you cannot argue eight run differential.
• 2:14
  [SPEAKER_02]: They're in the whole lowest batting statistics, but that bullpen and the starting pitching's been great.
• 2:22
  [SPEAKER_02]: And here they are out in front with a laugh or tonight against the race.
• 2:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: So it's very impressive.
• 2:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: where they manufactured runs to win games, something that they were not doing early in the year.
• 2:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: So I don't know why I feel so negative about the reds right now, because I just, the vision seems so good to me that if they don't hit, it's just not going to happen.
• 2:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not a big fan of team batting average, but she's when your team batting average is 202, how in the world could you have a 15 and eight record?
• 2:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: I can't explain that at all.
• 3:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: And but the key is that the more wins you can bank until you get Hunter Greenback from injury, the better that's kind of what what I'm kind of curious about.
• 3:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: They're getting great pitching obviously with a two or two team batting average, yet Hunter Green hasn't thrown a pitch yet.
• 3:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: And that's that's why I would be excited to be a reds fan.
• 3:18
  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, again, as a cubs fan, when I saw the reds higher Terry Franco and I was like, oh boy, because he was going to make the reds a lot better immediately over David Bell.
• 3:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: Before we open the discussion about the National Accenteral and the Cubs, man.
• 3:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: They have looked incredible the last week or so.
• 3:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: Val, I was gonna ask your background and who's your team and how you fell in love with baseball.
• 3:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: Apparently, I just found out your Cubs fan, which we do allow Cubs fans on this month.
• 3:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: Paul is Cubs fan as well.
• 3:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: We just don't allow Giants fans.
• 3:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's the one van base we do not want this.
• 3:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: Good, good, good.
• 3:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: Good.
• 3:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm glad you're having a good baseball if you don't mind.
• 4:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: I, you know, she had a degree in my late-air-handed degree in chemistry, and her first job at a college was working at the Ridley chewing gum factory.
• 4:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: Wow.
• 4:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: And so she took me to my first club's game when I was seven.
• 4:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: I had no choice.
• 4:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: How do you not fall in love with that?
• 4:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, we took the South Shore train to the game and took a cab from the train station of the ballpark.
• 4:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: She fed me the not chosen, the helmet, the little batting helmet, I had no choice.
• 4:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome aboard Val.
• 4:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: We hope that you are a regular guest on this podcast and let's get back to you.
• 4:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, you're thoughts on the NL Central and how you're seeing this race going forward.
• 4:56
  [SPEAKER_03]: I mean, I still think the two teams I thought had the best chance of probably winning the division between the brewers and the clubs are right where you want to be like run differential's great.
• 5:05
  [SPEAKER_03]: The brewers are losing games close.
• 5:07
  [SPEAKER_03]: The pirates are good.
• 5:09
  [SPEAKER_03]: I think whether we want to admit or not, I think that pitching staff just going to keep them in every series.
• 5:14
  [SPEAKER_03]: I think they're going to be really tough out and skins, you know, obviously kind of got beat up a little down opening day, but outside of that's been nails just like you expected.
• 5:24
  [SPEAKER_03]: Greg, I think it's still a three horse race.
• 5:27
  [SPEAKER_03]: I have no faith the cardinals are good enough to win the division.
• 5:30
  [SPEAKER_03]: I think it's fool's gold, what you're seeing right now.
• 5:32
  [SPEAKER_03]: They're like the reds manufacturing runs in a way that not sustainable in 2026 baseball.
• 5:39
  [SPEAKER_03]: I don't think, but I'm excited for a division game to get started because none of these teams have even seen each other yet.
• 5:45
  [SPEAKER_03]: That's kind of when we're going to see the cards settle a little bit.
• 5:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: What I find unsustainable for the cardinals is they're pitching.
• 5:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: They're dead last in the national league in strikeouts.
• 5:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: And when you don't strike people out, you get to play a really good defense.
• 6:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: And are they that good defensively?
• 6:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: And the Cardinals are doing a really with a lot of offense.
• 6:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: And yet Mason Winne hasn't started hitting yet.
• 6:10
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think that's, I think he's the key guy.
• 6:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: He's a tease to me, the one guy, you could really break out and be a superstar, or at least a really good player.
• 6:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: Naturally, manager of the year, if it's not Aliam Armol, he's certainly in the discussion.
• 6:24
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I agree completely.
• 6:25
  [SPEAKER_03]: I think their defense is probably that good.
• 6:28
  [SPEAKER_03]: Right now, I believe they're leading the league and outs above average by a significant margin.
• 6:33
  [SPEAKER_03]: I just hate pitch to contact in this MLB.
• 6:38
  [SPEAKER_03]: I think hitters are too good now if you just rely on, you know, the ball finding myths for an entire series.
• 6:45
  [SPEAKER_03]: You're just going to get burned.
• 6:46
  [SPEAKER_03]: a lot, especially when you face teams that are really good, contact hitters.
• 6:50
  [SPEAKER_03]: I find this Philly's team is just kind of a lineup that I don't want to see the cardinals plagues.
• 6:55
  [SPEAKER_03]: I just think they're going to get torched.
• 6:57
  [SPEAKER_03]: I think when you are relying on the ball, the fine people you're in a really tough spot and really, the cardinals might be the only team in the division that I think rely on pitch to contact versus the others, which I think are more strikeout dominant pitching
• 7:15
  [SPEAKER_02]: Apparently it was a good time to schedule the Houston Astros who have looked bad.
• 7:21
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think the fillies also look really bad and that's leaving the mats out of the discussion although that would be fun to talk about, I guess.
• 7:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: Those worse fillies are mats.
• 7:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: Let me ask, well, you still believe the metal be in the postseason?
• 7:37
  [SPEAKER_03]: I don't know, it's definitely an experiment to whether you can put nine guys together that are the exact same player, whether they bet right or left handed.
• 7:47
  [SPEAKER_03]: I personally, I think it's going to be a failed experiment at this point.
• 7:50
  [SPEAKER_03]: I, they've just dug themselves quite a hole.
• 7:53
  [SPEAKER_03]: They were absolutely excellent for the first half of the season last year, and the wheels completely came off, end up missing the postseason, I don't know.
• 8:02
  [SPEAKER_03]: I love to see it because I think Cohen is an absolute
• 8:05
  [SPEAKER_03]: Goofball of an owner who deserves whatever he gets when it comes to just buying players I have no faith that they're good enough.
• 8:13
  [SPEAKER_03]: I think the fillies are though.
• 8:15
  [SPEAKER_03]: That's the lineup that just It's been cold.
• 8:18
  [SPEAKER_03]: They just it needs to warm up.
• 8:20
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think once it does you're gonna see that lineup really start to pop It would be a good time to start because the braves seem to be running away with it and so far They the last couple weeks.
• 8:31
  [SPEAKER_02]: They just looked old and tired to me
• 8:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, it's staying in the National League and just right now through three weeks assess anybody you see there with the Dodgers, who's number two, how are you looking at the National League through three weeks or so?
• 8:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, I mentioned Ali Marmole.
• 8:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: If he's not the National League manager of the year, then maybe it's Craig Stamman.
• 8:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: Because the Padres are what 15 and seven who saw this coming and the thing is the Padres aren't hitting at all.
• 9:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: The Padres are like the reds.
• 9:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: They're not hitting much either.
• 9:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: and yet they're 15 and seven.
• 9:05
  [SPEAKER_01]: So I was concerned about the Padre's offense, the start of the year, many Machado seems to be a little, then we'll say, maybe he's lost a step.
• 9:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not sure Fernando Tattis Jr. is kind of paned up the way we thought he would.
• 9:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: But he seemed like he would be in all time great two or three years ago.
• 9:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: He's just a pretty good player now.
• 9:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: because Andrew Bogart's has been pretty good, but I mean, I'm not sure he's what they thought they were getting, but I mean, say that the pottery is a little pretty good.
• 9:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: Can they, you know, realistically, I don't think they can keep it with the Dodgers for the division, but can they hang in the race long enough?
• 9:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: Get a wild card.
• 9:47
  [SPEAKER_02]: It'll be interesting to see when they face the Dodgers, how they line up, but man, that Mason Miller is something else.
• 9:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: He's got a really, he's got a really pitcher when a saw young and however long, but might he get some consideration.
• 10:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: Man, he can he can he's pitching like this.
• 10:06
  [SPEAKER_02]: That's unbelievable.
• 10:07
  [SPEAKER_02]: He's got the he's going to set this Padre's scoreless streak in the next game or two.
• 10:11
  [SPEAKER_02]: Looks like.
• 10:14
  [SPEAKER_03]: he is that good.
• 10:15
  [SPEAKER_03]: I mean, he's a definition of, you know, when a player is hiding behind a really bad franchise when they're actually able to flourish.
• 10:23
  [SPEAKER_03]: You're seeing exactly what you thought he could be.
• 10:26
  [SPEAKER_03]: I think it's a tad unsustainable.
• 10:29
  [SPEAKER_03]: Eventually, you're going to get roughed up a little when he throws hard as he does too.
• 10:32
  [SPEAKER_03]: You're going to get I think that by the home run, I think every once in a while, but.
• 10:44
  [SPEAKER_03]: I'm kind of with Val.
• 10:45
  [SPEAKER_03]: I kind of think it's salmon right now to me because I don't see the cardinals being good enough for all eight of really getting a consideration.
• 10:52
  [SPEAKER_03]: But I think the pod race are I don't think it's full's golden.
• 10:55
  [SPEAKER_03]: That's going to be a tough division.
• 10:57
  [SPEAKER_03]: I think the diamond backs are pretty good too.
• 10:59
  [SPEAKER_03]: So.
• 11:00
  [SPEAKER_03]: Kind of excited to see those teams start to play each other a little bit makes for nice viewing in the 10 10 slate.
• 11:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: Again, the reds are 15 and eight.
• 11:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: I should be excited.
• 11:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: bet mgm has their odds of making the playoffs at 19% the national league has so many good teams All they have to do is keep pitching the way they've been pitching and they'll be in the playoffs Yeah, and they have some guys coming I think Reese Hines is gonna add something to the lineup The South Stewart's been awfully good Stores just how long do you stick with Freedle and McLean at the top of the lineup and When they're both batting a combined one seventy-eight or whatever
• 11:41
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I completely agree.
• 11:43
  [SPEAKER_03]: Greg, Paul and I did tell you in spring, it didn't really matter when it comes to McLean stats.
• 11:51
  [SPEAKER_03]: They've got to figure that out, though.
• 11:52
  [SPEAKER_03]: God, they just, they can't hit.
• 11:55
  [SPEAKER_03]: They have not been able to hit for 15 years.
• 11:58
  [SPEAKER_03]: It feels like I don't know what it is.
• 12:00
  [SPEAKER_03]: But gone are the days of Todd Frazier, Brandon Phillips,
• 12:11
  [SPEAKER_02]: Tonight's game was very impressive, though.
• 12:13
  [SPEAKER_02]: Lauder gets the two run lead.
• 12:16
  [SPEAKER_02]: He gets the bases loaded with, I don't think, I think there was nobody out.
• 12:20
  [SPEAKER_02]: He walks in a run.
• 12:21
  [SPEAKER_02]: He throws 34 pitches in the first inning and he just closes the door.
• 12:27
  [SPEAKER_02]: You just slammed it down.
• 12:30
  [SPEAKER_02]: It was, the race is not the scariest lineup that he'll ever face, but that was very impressive.
• 12:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: And then I'm hoping.
• 12:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: Reds bullpin is.
• 12:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: I never thought Graham Ashcraft could be this good of a picture.
• 12:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's that's credit to Frank Hona and Tony Tony Santiago.
• 12:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, he's been really good as well.
• 12:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
• 12:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: I covered him with the Louisville bats back when I used to cover the bats and never would have imagined he'd be this good.
• 13:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: When Pat Kelly told me that Tony Santiago was a high-level
• 13:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: just to be honest.
• 13:14
  [SPEAKER_01]: Hey, another manager having an excellent year in the National League is Walt Weiss.
• 13:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: Correct.
• 13:18
  [SPEAKER_01]: And when he was hired, that was kind of thought of as a you know, boy, a retread didn't do much when he got his previous shot in Colorado.
• 13:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, the brave's pitching has been awesome.
• 13:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: Rotation and bullpen.
• 13:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: There were their pitching has been awesome.
• 13:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: And on top of that, you know, I mean, the
• 13:39
  [SPEAKER_01]: They're, it looks like they're going to run away with the NL East, and I mean, Ronald A Kunia Jr. hasn't even gotten hot yet.
• 13:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, he's been all right, but not great.
• 13:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's destroying the NL East.
• 13:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: Other brave's going to get so far ahead that even if the Mets and Philly somehow recover, that they might be so far ahead that they might run away with things.
• 13:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: And the thing is, the brave's had a terrible spring training, Spencer Schwellenbach got hurt, Spencer Strider, whatever happened to him.
• 14:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: He got hurt also.
• 14:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
• 14:07
  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, and they're, yet they're pitching is still been great.
• 14:09
  [SPEAKER_03]: They're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they
• 14:36
  [SPEAKER_03]: I mean, I hate to play devil's advocate valve, but I feel like this roster under achieved so much last year that we didn't think maybe they would be able to figure it out, but on paper, I would say it's an awfully good roster.
• 14:49
  [SPEAKER_03]: Just talk about them.
• 14:50
  [SPEAKER_03]: I think that Matt Olson kind of re-establish himself a little bit.
• 14:54
  [SPEAKER_03]: He was just so beat up last year, and then it felt a tad bit unfair, but I'm with you.
• 14:59
  [SPEAKER_03]: I think Walt Weiss,
• 15:00
  [SPEAKER_03]: To me, that's why I would vote for at this given moment, just considering all of the obstacles they faced with getting these pictures ramped up and I feel like with starting pictures you hear, oh, they're getting close to returning and it's June before we actually see them because they've got to, you know, throw 57 rehab starts before they're good to go.
• 15:21
  [SPEAKER_03]: But when they get strider back, they get Schwalmbach back.
• 15:25
  [SPEAKER_03]: I think it might be right.
• 15:26
  [SPEAKER_03]: I think they might have a 15 game
• 15:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: Also, catchers that can hit are not common.
• 15:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely.
• 15:36
  [SPEAKER_01]: And Drake Baldwin can hit.
• 15:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: And there's no sophomore slump there.
• 15:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: He's actually better this year than he was last year, he won Ricky of the Year last year.
• 15:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I couldn't agree more at another thing.
• 15:46
  [SPEAKER_03]: They've developed a good William Contreras of the Braves Form System, probably a top five, they've developed two of the best five hitting catchers in the entire leagues.
• 15:58
  [SPEAKER_03]: They've, they just do things the right way.
• 16:01
  [SPEAKER_03]: I know nobody particular loves the Braves.
• 16:04
  [SPEAKER_03]: If you're a national league fan of anything, but they do a good job.
• 16:09
  [SPEAKER_03]: And Michael Harris, the second is finally playing up to his.
• 16:13
  [SPEAKER_03]: capacity.
• 16:14
  [SPEAKER_03]: So that's that's helpful for everybody.
• 16:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: When seven teams in the National League have at least 13 wins, two teams in the American League lead the league with 13 wins, the Yankees, the best record at 13 and 9, what's the disparity about will?
• 16:36
  [SPEAKER_03]: The National League has more teams that are willing to spend money.
• 16:40
  [SPEAKER_03]: I mean, I know we
• 16:43
  [SPEAKER_03]: hate to get into the payroll conversations, but I see a bunch of teams in the NL that, you know, I'm decided they want to make their roster better and you go through the entire AL central do any of them combined have a hundred million dollars in the roster.
• 16:58
  [SPEAKER_03]: It should be no surprise that I mean, it's the worst division in baseball.
• 17:02
  [SPEAKER_03]: It's really ever since the Royal's won it in 2015.
• 17:05
  [SPEAKER_03]: I just feel like you were in this perpetual state of who's going
• 17:13
  [SPEAKER_03]: the West is weird, but Houston's so beat up too, the god-eyed, I don't know that injuries may be there misfortune this season.
• 17:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: If there's a division worse than the AL Central and it's the AL West, I believe nobody's over 500 going into that.
• 17:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: Does anybody have any idea who's good in that division?
• 17:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: I know the Mariners were, I get the Mariners are what 10 and 13, but I wouldn't be too worried if I'm
• 17:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: to stay patient and I think your time, you know, I think things will start turning in your direction.
• 17:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe they just ran into a tough schedule early on.
• 17:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: I guess my concern over the Mariners has been, and they're pitching us fine, it's just who your Rodriguez ever be, a superstar or will he just be, is he just a pretty good player?
• 18:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: My thing is with the West, I see five teams that,
• 18:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: are pretty capable of getting on a run.
• 18:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: The angels that they can fix the bullpin, probably not them.
• 18:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: But the other four, or teams that could get on a run, I don't see that with the teams in the central, except for Detroit.
• 18:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: Right.
• 18:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: Kansas City has been awful.
• 18:18
  [SPEAKER_01]: And there were teams that I was kind of holding out some hope for, um, the white socks have been the white socks.
• 18:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: And as sodas had their moments and then before they played the reds,
• 18:33
  [SPEAKER_02]: And my missing something the national league central, which looks like the strongest division in baseball, didn't spend the, those teams didn't spend a lot of money in the offices, and they didn't drop a lot on payroll, did they?
• 18:48
  [SPEAKER_03]: Well, the pirates have unlike the pirates spent, I think the reds kind of committed to the brewers.
• 18:56
  [SPEAKER_03]: Somehow trade, Freddie Perlton still end up just as good as they were with them.
• 19:00
  [SPEAKER_03]: I said,
• 19:02
  [SPEAKER_03]: that there needs to be a case study done in, you know, some like doctoral sports management class on what makes the Milwaukee brewer or such an efficient organization.
• 19:12
  [SPEAKER_03]: They just press all the right buttons at the right time and I hate it so much, but they've just figured it out.
• 19:21
  [SPEAKER_03]: And I'm kind of witty Paul, you're not seeing teams with huge payrolls in the central.
• 19:27
  [SPEAKER_03]: I think you're seeing
• 19:30
  [SPEAKER_03]: pitching as the backbone to all really all four outside of the cardinals, really these organizations.
• 19:36
  [SPEAKER_03]: And I think it goes to show that in just 2026 that great pitching is still far superior to great hitting.
• 19:43
  [SPEAKER_02]: The reds and the pirates are great stories because they suffered and they're paying, you know, they've been a mid level market and they've had
• 19:59
  [SPEAKER_02]: I don't want to say that, but they've had budget constraints.
• 20:02
  [SPEAKER_02]: And last year, the Pirates fans were up and arm.
• 20:05
  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, they were protesting on opening day last year.
• 20:09
  [SPEAKER_02]: So these have been pretty good stories.
• 20:12
  [SPEAKER_02]: Cardinals, too.
• 20:15
  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, well, I mean, the Pirates are a cute story until schemes goes to arbitration and then they trade them.
• 20:21
  [SPEAKER_03]: And they sign a midchkeller, awesome.
• 20:23
  [SPEAKER_03]: Wins, Jared Jones, next contract, come up.
• 20:25
  [SPEAKER_03]: It's good right now.
• 20:26
  [SPEAKER_03]: I hope it can work out for them.
• 20:29
  [SPEAKER_03]: until I actually see them.
• 20:30
  [SPEAKER_03]: I mean, skiing is going to have an argument.
• 20:32
  [SPEAKER_03]: Maybe he's a billion dollar baseball player by the time it all gets sorted out.
• 20:37
  [SPEAKER_03]: He's just waiting for Scoob will to get his extension then then he'll up that.
• 20:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, I agree with you.
• 20:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: What you said about the American League.
• 20:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: It doesn't the Yankees aren't the evil empire anymore.
• 20:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, they'll spend some money.
• 20:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: to keep air and judge or design gear at coal, but the Yankees haven't spent much money and then the, once the Red Sides traded mooky bets, I think that kind of changed their perception and that was what six years ago now.
• 21:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: But the other big market team.
• 21:07
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
• 21:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: If I had told you a year ago at this time that the Blue Jays would play the Mariners and the ALCS,
• 21:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: I would have called myself crazy, so that's what we got last year, so who wants this in the America?
• 21:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: I guess it's going to be fun and competitive, but I was good in the American League.
• 21:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: Thanks so much to Will and Paul as always, and a special thank you to our guest Val, Sinsaurus, I hope he will continue to join us throughout the year, I hope you'll continue to join us as well.
• 21:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: Monday evenings for now.
• 21:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: Eventually Monday mornings.
• 21:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: Majorally baseball report every week on the Central Endana Sports Report.
• 21:53
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• 21:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I love Susie.