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Superheroes & villains of MLB, Evaluating Mets/Phillies, Strider IL’d, Royals option MJ Melendez · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: This is why the wildcard. I know people are mad
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  Speaker 1: about it, but I think the wild card is good.
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  Speaker 1: It gives the braves a shot, yes, when they would
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  Speaker 1: previously never have a shout out for this car.
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  Speaker 2: Easiest question of the week Is it MLB or the MLB.
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  Speaker 1: When you're talking depends on how I use it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, okay, when you say, you know, MLB really needs
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  Speaker 2: to fix this, or is it d MLB really needs.
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  Speaker 1: To fix Major League it's not the major League Baseball.
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  Speaker 1: Major League Baseball is what it's called.
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  Speaker 2: People get confused because, oh, well, in the n B
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  Speaker 2: A instead of NBA needs to fix this, people would
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  Speaker 2: be like, the NBA needs to fix this.
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  Speaker 3: So it's it's causing a stir.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, today today it's crazy where it's cringey on social media.
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  Speaker 2: When someone says the MLB and we have a company policy,
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  Speaker 2: it's probably the only one that you say MLB, not
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  Speaker 2: the MLB. For example, I heard some writers talking the
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  Speaker 2: other day about the New Yorker. They like, I said,
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  Speaker 2: or whatever, right, But the New Yorker in their articles
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  Speaker 2: calls it the MLB.
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  Speaker 1: I look, it's major League Baseball needs to fix this.
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  Speaker 2: They said, an elbow injury epidemic has become an existential
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  Speaker 2: threat to the sport, prompting the MLB to brainstorm new
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  Speaker 2: solutions such as the use of a heavier.
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  Speaker 1: Should be prompting MLB prompting Major League Baseball league.
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  Speaker 3: And it's something that I feel like for some reason.
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  Speaker 1: For NFL, it makes more sense the National Football League
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  Speaker 1: versus if you're going to say prompting National Football League
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  Speaker 1: doesn't make sense prompting the National Football League, but with
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  Speaker 1: MLB it's like prompting Major League Baseball.
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  Speaker 3: Totally agree.
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  Speaker 2: I think almost everyone within our sport who's like on
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  Speaker 2: the day to day grindocrats agrees. But there is a
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  Speaker 2: battle from others on social media and others in you know,
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  Speaker 2: publications that just cover life.
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  Speaker 1: And people say did you make the MLB. It's like
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  Speaker 1: it's like somebody saying like, oh, are you going to
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  Speaker 1: get drafted out of Triple A to the to the
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  Speaker 1: MAD to the MLB. Oh it is, but see that.
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  Speaker 1: See for me that that makes more sense though, is
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  Speaker 1: are you going to make the MLB? Because that's a
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  Speaker 1: different context you're saying are you going to make the MLB?
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  Speaker 1: Because people are like, oh, you're going to make the MLB,
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  Speaker 1: whereas if I said I'm going to make Major League Baseball,
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  Speaker 1: I would say I'm gonna make MLB.
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  Speaker 3: And also you would just be bigs the majors.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's different context too. There's times where I
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  Speaker 1: think the is appropriate. But the way the New Yorker,
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  Speaker 1: the way New Yorker wrote it was wrong.
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  Speaker 3: It was it's cringey the way they wrote it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, because it doesn't make it doesn't It doesn't work.
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  Speaker 1: And you would think they would have, you know, people
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  Speaker 1: that would fact check them, spell check them, editorialize.
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  Speaker 2: Pretty important place. Oh yes, I'm calling them out just
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  Speaker 2: because I want them to switch it. There's many writers
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  Speaker 2: with the athletic who seem to be like our buddies, right,
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  Speaker 2: they come on our show all the time, and they're
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  Speaker 2: very against it.
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  Speaker 3: Most of them. We can ask, yeah, Ken, yeah, we
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  Speaker 3: will ask.
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  Speaker 1: And again it depends on the context.
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  Speaker 3: But the one I just mentioned that MLB.
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  Speaker 1: Like if I was like if someone asked me, hey,
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  Speaker 1: did you ever play baseball? Yes, I played, I would
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  Speaker 1: usually would say, yeah, I played in I played in
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  Speaker 1: Major League Baseball. Right, not in the Major League Baseball.
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  Speaker 3: We're on the same page here.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there are times, I guess the would fit,
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  Speaker 1: but it's not very often.
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  Speaker 2: But there there is a group of people that is saying,
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  Speaker 2: like the MLB needs to do something about this, and
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  Speaker 2: it's like, oh, no, they don't.
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  Speaker 1: It's only a police which they sometimes people think they
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  Speaker 1: are and they're not.
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  Speaker 2: And I think it's just people that maybe like the
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  Speaker 2: NBA or the NFL, and they're trying to bring the
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  Speaker 2: to MLB. This sounds stupid, but it's a thing and
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  Speaker 2: you see it all the time online and if people out, yes,
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  Speaker 2: I just wanted to make sure we had never talked
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  Speaker 2: about it on the show, So let's charge the Then, Hey,
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  Speaker 2: we did a playback game last night. We covered the
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  Speaker 2: Mets and the Philly It's a great game. It's fun.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you had Soto almost hitting a three run homer.
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  Speaker 2: It just went out. We called it like it was fair.
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  Speaker 2: They played it like it was fair. Initially it was
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  Speaker 2: upper tank shot would have made it five. Nothing that
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  Speaker 2: went away. Games stayed close for a while. Kratz, did
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  Speaker 2: you have fun? You finally got the invite to the
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  Speaker 2: playback all cast game that we did, and the Phillies
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  Speaker 2: actually did what they're doing worse than any other fast
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  Speaker 2: of the game right now, their bullpen is a problem,
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  Speaker 2: and it technically was a problem again last night when
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  Speaker 2: Door hit the home run.
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  Speaker 3: That proved to be the difference.
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  Speaker 1: Technically, even though Nola gets gets garnered with those two
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  Speaker 1: of those three runs. But I mean it was legitimately
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  Speaker 1: the script that was written. Nola looked like he was
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  Speaker 1: going to struggle a little bit, makes into the seventh,
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  Speaker 1: the bullpen for the Phillies struggles a little bit, giving
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  Speaker 1: up his runs and one more Mets did awesome. The
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  Speaker 1: Phillies couldn't hit, starting pitching, and then the bullpen comes in.
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  Speaker 1: Phillies get a few runs off of the Mets bullpen
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  Speaker 1: ds closes it out. It was like the exact script
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  Speaker 1: of what you would think was gonna happen in the game.
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  Speaker 3: It's a good game.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't watch, so I'm glad you guys had fun.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie. I saw the score. I saw
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  Speaker 1: Lindor had two homers and the Phillies almost came back
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  Speaker 1: and it Castianos went over, So there's hope.
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  Speaker 2: Just to clarify, if anyone in baseball is an analyst
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  Speaker 2: and says they watched every game, they are a massivelyer.
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  Speaker 1: No, I was at my My son had a game
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  Speaker 1: last night at seven o'clock, so I was checking scores.
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  Speaker 3: Either way, I'm saying, you can't watch it Gas games tonight. No.
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  Speaker 1: I mean I have direct TV and they show eight
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  Speaker 1: at a time. Sure, that's the best you can do.
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  Speaker 1: They have the whatever xt R inning whatever it's called package.
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  Speaker 1: You can at least you have eight on you. You
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  Speaker 1: can't see every play of every game, but you can
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  Speaker 1: have an idea of what's happening. Yep. And I'll have
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  Speaker 1: the sound on on one of them, like I have
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  Speaker 1: the Giants and the Rangers this weekend, so I'll try
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  Speaker 1: to listen to the Rangers before the Giants right right
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  Speaker 1: to get a little bit of scoop on what's happening
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  Speaker 1: with the teams. But other than that, it's you know, listen.
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  Speaker 1: I looked the score. I saw Lidor hit two homers.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, everyone's all over Nola for not being great again.
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  Speaker 1: The Gil pitched really well and the Phillies almost came back,
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  Speaker 1: and then I checked my bet and Castianos didn't do anything, so.
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  Speaker 3: Which is wild. Everyone was waiting for it didn't happen.
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  Speaker 1: I mean on Twitter, it was part of the playback.
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  Speaker 1: The playback, Like very few people, I don't think go
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  Speaker 1: to people's houses to like watch a game together. That's
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  Speaker 1: what it felt like. It felt like you were going
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  Speaker 1: to somebody's house hanging out watching a game. Like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we were watching it. Yeah, we were having some comments
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  Speaker 1: about the game, but it was just just watching baseball
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  Speaker 1: with some dudes. My camraon, Ruben Tomorrow was on, My
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  Speaker 2: What do we think about the Mets? Are we talking
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  Speaker 2: enough about the Mets? Sixteen seven, ten and one at
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  Speaker 2: home and door looks really good.
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  Speaker 1: Alonzo looks good. Who he looks so hasn't even really
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  Speaker 1: gotten going yet. It's kind of funny. My mom said
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  Speaker 1: down next to me and my son's game laws and says, man,
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  Speaker 1: how about Won Soto. He's not doing so good. I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: he's doing fun got eight to fifty ops. But people
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  Speaker 1: expect him to hit one hundred homers because he signed
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  Speaker 1: that contract. That's why it's listen, you expectations are a bitch. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: That's what we used to always joked, like, don't hit
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  Speaker 1: thirty homers, because if you hit thirty homers and they
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  Speaker 1: expect you hit thirty homers every year, right, don't drive
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  Speaker 1: in one hundred and twenty, because then every year they
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  Speaker 1: expect you driving one hundred and twenty. Don't win a
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  Speaker 1: SI Young your first couple of years because they expect
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  Speaker 1: you to win a sy Young every year. Expectations are
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  Speaker 1: a bitch man.
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  Speaker 2: But also know his game. I understand it was most
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  Speaker 2: fans do you know his game?
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  Speaker 1: His game is on bait.
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  Speaker 2: His game is revolving around the ability to get on
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  Speaker 2: base really better than almost anyone.
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  Speaker 3: Right, Almost every night when you watch him.
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  Speaker 2: He will he will have those takes where you're like,
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  Speaker 2: damn right, the borderline takes where it is, it is
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  Speaker 2: so slightly off the zone.
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  Speaker 3: And sometimes he loses on those takes.
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  Speaker 2: Right, But he knows his zone, so you better be
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  Speaker 2: in the zone or he is going to just take
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  Speaker 2: first base. Which is very similar to how Joey Vado
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  Speaker 2: was in his prime.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, let's be honest, last night, he looked off balance.
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  Speaker 1: The only good swing he had was the home run
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  Speaker 1: foul that looked like it was gonna be a three
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  Speaker 1: run dinger, and that was out of character for him
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  Speaker 1: because he went up top, he went above the zone
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  Speaker 1: swing at that ball. Obviously he got on top of
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  Speaker 1: it and freaking waffled it. But he's a little off balance,
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  Speaker 1: but he's elite. What he does is elite. If fans
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  Speaker 1: are expecting and personalities on a radio are expecting him
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  Speaker 1: to do something that he's not able to, you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: be You're gonna be disappointed for fifteen years. Appreciate what
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  Speaker 1: he does and know that nobody in the game is
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  Speaker 1: doing what he's doing outside of an Aaron Judge, outside
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  Speaker 1: of a Sho Heo Tani. You know they're doing their
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  Speaker 1: things at an elite level.
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  Speaker 2: I want to do a comparison with you real quick,
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  Speaker 2: aj of the bullpens.
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  Speaker 3: When you look on.
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  Speaker 2: Paper, you're like, oh, they look like they should be
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  Speaker 2: in a pretty similar spot. The Mets bullpen has been
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  Speaker 2: nails incredible, right everyone really And David Sterns Diaz is
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  Speaker 2: probably the biggest question mark right now, but he'll be
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  Speaker 2: I'm not.
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  Speaker 1: To David Sterns bullpen is usually pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well that's what I'm saying. So you look at
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  Speaker 2: read Garrett Jose Boutino.
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  Speaker 1: Well, first of all ri Garrett was good last year for.
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  Speaker 2: Him, Yes, but he's he looks even better now. So
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  Speaker 2: now on the other side, the Phillies have a bottom
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  Speaker 2: three bullpen era and the last three games now has
• 11:01
  Speaker 2: been a problem for them. They almost blew a seven
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  Speaker 2: run lead on Saturday, they give up a two run
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  Speaker 2: lead in the eighth inning on Sunday, and then yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I know, it goes to Nola's ledger, but
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  Speaker 2: the bullpen didn't have his back, and so Lindor hits
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  Speaker 2: the homer and they end up losing the game by
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  Speaker 2: a run.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but listen, I mean they I mean, Mentor's really
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  Speaker 1: good for a long time. Standing's been good if they
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  Speaker 1: put him in the right role. Danny Young's coming up
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  Speaker 1: and done some stuff for him. Reed Garrett was good
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  Speaker 1: for him last year. Bhutto was good for him last year.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Diaz is when he's right, is one of
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  Speaker 1: the best closers in baseball. I mean, I know it's
• 11:33
  Speaker 1: a roller coaster ride all the time, but he's pretty
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  Speaker 1: good when he's right, you know. So, I mean, Brazabayan
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  Speaker 1: is kind of a fine for him. But David CERTs
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  Speaker 1: knows how to put together a bullpen. He did it
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  Speaker 1: for years in Milwaukee, and as long as their starters
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  Speaker 1: keep giving him length like they have been, McGill holmes saying,
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  Speaker 1: all these guys are giving him length, they're not gonna
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  Speaker 1: have to pitch as much and they're gonna be fine.
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  Speaker 1: The question is is if somebody gets hurt from the Mats,
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  Speaker 1: what happens.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, they've got a couple injuries now on the starting side,
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  Speaker 2: and you know Mania will be back at some point.
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  Speaker 3: Montak should be back at some point.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you're looking for sustained success. Can the Mets
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  Speaker 1: sustain sustain the success that they had? I don't see
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  Speaker 1: why not, because Stern's always filled in with the DFA
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  Speaker 1: bullpen when he was in Milwaukee, like he was not
• 12:19
  Speaker 1: afraid of just finding dudes running them out there. Will
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  Speaker 1: that give him success in the playoffs? No idea. Usually
• 12:26
  Speaker 1: you need those elite guys in the playoffs. Right now,
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  Speaker 1: their bullpen is elite. The Phillies. The Phillies bullpen right now.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously they're doing awful, but they had the least amount
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if you guys said this when I
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  Speaker 1: was off, they had the least amount of innings pitched
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  Speaker 1: of any bullpen in the game. To me, that bodes
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  Speaker 1: well for the fact that you're gonna have You're gonna
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  Speaker 1: have it turn around. You're gonna have water level out
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  Speaker 1: now right now. It's pretty awful. The man they just
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  Speaker 1: showed there, Jordan Romano, hasn't been good. Like there's times
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  Speaker 1: when these guys just have been out there and gotten waffled,
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  Speaker 1: and you hope it turns around. But you also look
• 13:09
  Speaker 1: at the offseason and you go there were some dudes available,
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  Speaker 1: and the Phillies didn't go after any of them. Kirby
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  Speaker 1: Yates was available. This was a team I thought was
• 13:17
  Speaker 1: going to maybe re sign Carlos Esteves. I think they
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  Speaker 1: have a closer in Alvarado. They lost Hoffman, Like I
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  Speaker 1: think they were a little thin going after free agents.
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  Speaker 1: They how many they really pursued. I felt like there
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  Speaker 1: was a few that was out there and didn't get
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  Speaker 1: it done.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, and then you're gonna have to pay for it
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  Speaker 2: with prospects at the trade headline, which hurts when you're
• 13:39
  Speaker 2: a good team every year and you're picking towards the
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  Speaker 2: back of the draft. That's part of why the Dodgers
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  Speaker 2: went off this offseason. Andrew Freeman's like, I don't want
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  Speaker 2: to keep trading prospects away to try and get a
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  Speaker 2: guy that I could just get before the season starts.
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  Speaker 3: Not everyone has that luxury. I get it.
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  Speaker 2: But anyway, we'll see what happens. Thoughts on Mets or Phillies.
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  Speaker 2: If you're catching this later, drop it in the comments. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: just get into another game for a minute here. The
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  Speaker 2: last one of the night was watching the Giants and
• 14:03
  Speaker 2: Brewers offside a bet on that game, which I lost.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get to that later. But Caleb Durban hit his
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  Speaker 2: first big league homer. Remember he was the other side
• 14:11
  Speaker 2: of the Devin Williams trade, and Nestor Cortes and your
• 14:15
  Speaker 2: boy Wilmer Flores went long again.
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  Speaker 1: He's on fire. Is gonna make a fire? Is he
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  Speaker 1: gonna make the All Star.
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  Speaker 2: Game at this rate? I mean, if he keeps this up,
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  Speaker 2: no doubt. I mean, I don't know if he's going to.
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  Speaker 2: But how old is woomber Flores. It's gonna be thirty seven,
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  Speaker 2: thirty three? He got called he got called up young.
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  Speaker 2: He must have, because you know what's weird. He's a
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  Speaker 2: negative point one win war right now, a ninety five
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  Speaker 2: oh ps plus and I feel like every time I turn.
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  Speaker 1: On a game driving in an RBI, Big got.
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  Speaker 3: Six homers two oh three average two fifty.
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  Speaker 1: It's two fifty on base.
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  Speaker 3: I'll take them all right.
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  Speaker 1: Four of his six homers are either go ahead, go
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  Speaker 1: ahead or game tying home runs after like the fifth
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  Speaker 1: egg or something like that. Doesn't matter, doesn't matter of crawts,
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  Speaker 1: you know why, because that counts the same as when
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  Speaker 1: you hit one when you're up fifteen to nothing, or
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  Speaker 1: I promise four two.
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  Speaker 3: Do you know what tomorrow is?
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  Speaker 1: Wednesday?
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  Speaker 2: Wednesday? Ooh, crats is really You can tell when he's thinking.
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  Speaker 2: He's really stewing.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, have no idea.
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  Speaker 3: It might birthday? Well, that's for sure.
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  Speaker 2: It might be the day that we hit one hundred
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  Speaker 2: thousand YouTube subscribers.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, like, what are you talking about?
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  Speaker 2: I just wanted to get into the conversation in a
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  Speaker 2: creative way. We are two hundred something subs away, So
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  Speaker 2: that's something that could be accomplished over the next twenty
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  Speaker 2: four hours.
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: Let's get it done. Need a play button right in
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: between you guys. I need to be able to get
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: a picture with the play button. It's kind of a
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: flex for kids under twenty one, but need it.
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: Oh the trophy thing, yeah, is that what it is? Yeah,
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: they give out a trophy or something. You know about that?
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: Not really, but I'll take your word for it.
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a trophy you get or some type of
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: plaque and you hit one hundred thousand subscribers on YouTube,
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: real subscribers.
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: You know who you are? Well, some pages take we're real.
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: Oh I don't know anything about that either. Yeah, I
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: take your word for it on.
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: This one, real subs. We're going to put a spot.
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: We're gonna find a nice home.
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: For it to be in the studio here somewhere.
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: I'm saying, a nice home for it. Yeah, on the desk. Yeah,
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: we might have to knock someone off.
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: How many? How many you have to have? One hundred thousand?
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: Is that the rule?
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: Yes?
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: Got it?
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: How many people see it in the chat?
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah? I don't know how many people have that?
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: Probably a lot since YouTube has been around for like
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: fifteen years, and I'm guessing hundreds, if not thousands, at
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: least hundreds.
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So how many baseball shows have that?
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: I would say.
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: One trumboy that's it. I'm pretty sure that's it. Like
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: ninety eight percent suor just baseball. Yeah, if we're just
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: talking baseball, I think one other so.
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: Could be cool, be sweet, one hundred k, it would
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: be cool.
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: Approximately five hundred and twenty thousand. Have one hundred thousand
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: or more?
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: You're close to Scott, Did you think five to twenty k?
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: I didn't know. That's why I don't speak when I
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: don't know something.
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: Just throw guesses out there. Over one hundred million YouTube channels.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a lot of YouTube channels.
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: There are kids kids these days. But anyway, we appreciate
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: anyone that's watching. And right now we're only on YouTube.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: We'll come back to the TV world in a moment.
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: But if you could press the button for us and
• 17:48
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• 17:52
  Speaker 2: love the way that modern technology has changed the way
• 17:55
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• 17:59
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• 18:06
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• 18:13
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• 18:15
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• 18:17
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• 18:18
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• 18:20
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• 18:22
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• 18:25
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• 18:49
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• 18:58
  Speaker 2: we go all right, so we're gonna play in the
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: Superhero Villain game a j. You're gonna give us some
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: superheroes and some villains so far in the first month
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: of the twenty twenty five season.
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: Heroes first.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, let's go heroes first. I'm going heroes. I'm going
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: first of all, I'm going Hunter Brown twenty four straight
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: scoreless innings, Sneaky Cy Young Award winner possibly uh for
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: Hunter Brown. I mean, he is off to a great
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: starry delt again last night, and I just love this guy.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: I think he's awesome. He's figured it out and it's
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: good for him. And then the other one I'm going
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: for is I don't want to say his name wrong,
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: So Lee from the Giants, Jung Lee, Jung Ju Lee, yep,
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: grandson of the wind, right is the son of the
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: wind or grandson of the win. But this dude is
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: they remember when the Giants signed him last year and
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: he got hurt and people were like, what's he gonna be?
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: But Jung Ju Lee has been a stud for them
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: this year. Look at his numbers. He's hitting homers, he's
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: playing great center field, he can run, he's exciting, and
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: look at that. I mean that's a great colors too.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: By the way, what color? What a color by producer
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: lady to nail it. She knows what heroes are made of.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: And the orange. And now for Villains of the week.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: One minor league ballparks. Okay, like, let's be serious here,
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: minor league ballparks. Let's get rid of them. I know
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: the Tampa situation was unfortunate, but yeah it's yeah, let's
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: that's the problem. That's the problem right there is Sacramento.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: It's a problem. It's a problem, and it's not fair,
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: and it sucks in the rays. Thank you Yankees for
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: letting him do it. As you see the big sign.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: But there's already been problems in both of them. It's
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: a pain in the butt. It sucks. So that's one,
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: and then the other one is we talked about it
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: last week, the Marlins calling pitches for their catchers. I
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: had some talks last night with some scouts of the
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: game and they were like, I saw what you said,
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: and we totally agree with you. Like, let the players play,
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: let the players call the game. The players are back there.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: I talked to a four major league pitcher last night
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: and he was a former college coach, and he said,
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: I can't see what's going on from the side. I'm
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: gonna let my catchers call. They can see the movement,
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: they can see the tunneling outs coming out of their hands.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: So this is the news. Are my villains of the
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: week minor league parks and then apparently I mean the Marlins,
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: But some of the things.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: They're done, innovative Marlins, trying to take your job away.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: I actually talked to I talked to somebody in the
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: decision making with the Marlins. You know what, the one
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: of the reasonings is is because they want to make
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: sure all of the pitches pitchers get their specific pitches in.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: Their explanation was to get all their pitches in. We
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: want this guy to throw twenty percent change ups. They'll
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: make sure they have a little checklist over there. Got
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: all the changeups in. Okay, good next results because results
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: don't matter then, because the ultimate goal is to try
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: to win the games and try to teach people how
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: to win. So let's say they don't have a good
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: change up that day, which is a real thing even
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: in the big leagues. You could have a guy, let's
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: I'll use Johann Santente I won the best changes of
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: all time. There were days where he didn't have a
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: great change up and you'd have to go fast ball
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: slider and just try to get him to throw a
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: change up every once. That's just the way it is.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: I mean, you can't just be like, oh, I gotta
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: throw twenty change ups today. Like no.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: Also, between every half inning, you go back into the dugout,
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: you can have a conversation.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: The coach and say, hey, we need to throw more changes.
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: Come on, let's not ask who.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: Either to the battlefield for hours and there's no communication
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: after that.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: Agreed, right, yeah, I agreed. I don't know who told
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: you that, crat so I don't care who told you that.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: But that's as we say. As the kids say, that's cap.
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: What do you say, craft? Do you have an opinion?
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: I know I do have an opinion. That's brutal. That
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: is not the whole thing is is not legit. You
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: cannot go out there and say, okay, AJ put twenty
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: seeds in your pocket and you only get to throw
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: twenty sliders like you are. You are paid as a
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: professional baseball player to either develop into a winning player
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: so that your organization develops into a winning organization. And
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: to me, what they're doing calling the pitches is not
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: enabling the best to get the best out of their guys.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: They're saying, well, you know, we just want to worry.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: We want them to worry about hitting and blocking and throwing.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: That's it. Well, you know what, when you get to
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: the big leagues, you still have to learn. You could
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: call the pitches all you want in the minor leagues.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: You go to the big leagues. It is a different
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: beast you are going to have to figure out. But
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: what you learned in the minor leagues, you're seeing it
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: and you're learning, and you're watching how guys are changing.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: How some guys get stronger as their outing goes on.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: Some guys get less command as the outing goes on.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: You have to be able to see that and recognize
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: that to be able to cut it off before it
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: goes bad in the show.
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: Okay, now, let's get back on track.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: We're in Tiros, my heroes, San Diego, Padres friends. Then
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: all that fan base continues to come out. They continue
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: to make that environment unbelievable. I think they're twelve and
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: one at home right now. And they did all this
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: before front office really ever, even they didn't do anything
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: in the offseason to like bolster this team. They're getting
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: behind the team that they built in the last two
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: or three years, and they're saying, we're with you. I
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: know you didn't make any changes that big changes get
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: the big time free agents and the fans are they're
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: breaking attendance records. AJ has said this countless times. I
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: haven't been there since twenty nineteen or COVID twenty twenty.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: I was there, but no fans were there. But the
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: energy in that environment is unbelievable. Superheroes because they've done
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: it already this year too. My other superhero I am blanking.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: Don't tell me it is a former Blue Jay's ownership. Yeah,
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: Blue Jay's ownership, not just because they signed the native
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: born Vladimir Guerrera Junior, but because they're willing to They've
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: been willing to push money to the front office. I
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: think the front office has kind of squandered it a
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: little bit and not totally gone over value. But they
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: went and they did this for Blue Jays fans. Ownership
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: said we're going to keep this guy. Here, is this
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: contract going to work out?
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: I have no idea.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: Chances are no, but chances are. You signed up a
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: franchise cornerstone. That is a guy that you're gonna have
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: to because your minor league system isn't that great. You're
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: gonna have to lure other free agents in and this
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: is a guy to do it. And also they reset
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: the market for first basements. I know, nobody's twenty six
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: years old when they're signing it all that stuff, but
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: first basements have been under valued, like catchers have been
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: undervalued catchers for a long time. But first basement since
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: Prince Fielder's contract. And I think this is great for players,
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: and I think this is great for the entire nation
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: of Canada.
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, or keeping him, he's a blue Jay for life.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: Let's finish quick here with villains. So we're gonna villains
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: to your.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: Work, easy, easy peasy villain. First one. Ah ah ah,
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: Bob Nutting ah count Jocula. I'm counting all my I'm
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: stealing it from Major League Baseball, everything that they've done,
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: throwing away bricks that people put money into, covering up
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: with a sign to spend to get more money of
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: Roberto Clemente. Bob's an easy pick. My other villain, Colorado
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: Rockies front office. For the last fifteen years the Rockies,
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: they have been in anywhere from the fourth to the
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: eighth best attendance in baseball, and they have squandered these
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: fans opportunities to come to games. And they've done it
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: in slightly an arrogant way in the sense of we're
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: not really going outside of the organization to make any changes.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: And when they did, they hired Bam Bam Mulens and
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: then they fired them somebody. Anytime somebody comes in from
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: outside the organization, it's like, well, if you're not part
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: of our group think, then we're not keeping you around
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: a little bit leery of what the White Sox have
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: been doing. Kind of in a sense that it's just
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: like the same group think when they go outside the organization,
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: maybe you'll hear, oh, wait, we need to be able
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: to do this, to be able to grow a team
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: that's gonna win.
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: Mm hmm.
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: Amen, don't say we don't talk about him. It's a
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: National Baseball show. You get the good, the bad, the
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: superheroes and the villains. If there's one you want to
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: throw out there, let us know, you know how.
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: To reach us.
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: I had Spencer Schreider back to the injured list. He
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: strained his hamstring playing catch yesterday. So they're figuring out
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: their rotation here and that sucks because it's not I mean,
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: you don't want it to be the army elbow, the
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: shoulder or whatever.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: But he heard it playing catch though, didn't he. Yeah,
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: it's weird. It's weird. It's strange. It's strange when I
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: mean that you even heard it playing catch. You're just
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: playing catch. Oh, this game of catch?
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: Is there any concern when something like that pops up
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: so quickly when he came back, or it's just kind
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: of happenstance, happenstance.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: It's not like he was like Tommy John surgery. I
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: can throw off a mound big leagues. Like you saw
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: his outings. You saw like he's already getting after it,
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: and then it happens when he's playing catch. I would
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: say a freak thing. I don't know. I always think
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: of Mark Burley when I think of pitchers playing catch
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: in between starts. Mark Burley played the easiest game of catch.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: And you go to the outfield right now in between
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: starts and bullpen guys they play catch against each other.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: They don't play catch with each other. It is like
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: they're ripping on the ball. And I don't know how
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: you can pull any of those hamstrings because Strider is
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: got some absolute massive legs.
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: Well, that can lead to maybe a hamstring injury. Now,
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: if you've got usually more muscle can lead.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: To camp pull fat. Scott right, so can't pull fat?
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: Should we get him on the fat plan?
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: Are there legs?
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: He is jacked lower body jacked weren't. There's some pictures though,
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: I mean, who's the famous one?
• 30:18
  Speaker 5: Is it?
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: CC when he got super skinny and then he's like, Oh,
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: I need to get fat again.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: I need to put on sequels gas. That's what they said.
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: Okay, we'll keep an eye on that, but that sucks
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: for the Braves. Even though the Braves are balling right now.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: He has got their mojo back a little bit. Right now.
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: They already have a better record than the team they
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: beat last night, Cardon and everyone was like, what is
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: wrong with the Braves And it's like it's been two
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: weeks Cardinals, by the way, or they're struggling on the
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: struggle Buster all he got kicked out last night.
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they lost.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: They're still not as good as the Rockies though, No.
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: But they're nine and fourteen. The Braves are nine and thirteen.
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: Sean Murphy had a big home run yesterday too, that
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: made the lead seven to three. They needed all of it,
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: so seven to six. Anyway, Rais and Braves have the
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: same record, the Rays and the Braves.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: Is that saying more about.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: I think that says more about the Rays the Rays. Yeah,
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: because the Braves started out owing seven.
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: Seven on seven o seven on the road trip, and
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: then they came back.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: So they were owing seven and now they're so they're
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: nine and six, so they're back over five hundred. I mean,
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: you can't take away with a seven. But tough trip though,
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: there's a tough trip Dodgers Padres to open.
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of people would struggle with that trip.
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: So the point is the Braves are fine. They play
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: a little catch up. I mean right now they're still
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: way back.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: Here's Mets. Yeah, but there's wild cards.
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: There are wild cards, so the Braves will be in
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: the mix. Who the Braves and at least ye.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: The other thing is, no one else in the NL
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: is running away with anything, So there's wild card spots.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: There is a wild card spot available. But the West
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: is going to be a problem.
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: The West is the problem for the East. Yes, right,
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: Like if you're Atlanta, it's great, you're starting your charge again.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: But you got a long way to go though, because
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: you got the Giants. The Padres, Dodgers, and Diamondbacks all
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: are really good. I know they're gonna beat up on
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: each other at some point, but they're all really good.
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: They're not all making the playoffs. That's the thing. I mean,
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: you're you're gonna if the Giants stick and they're good,
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: Let's say they get.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: Three out of the West. Okay, pick the three, whatever
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: three you want, Dodgers, Padres, Diamondbacks. We'll just go with
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: those three, Okay. Then someone's got to win the Central.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: There's four, then you get one wild card. Someone's gotta
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: win the East, and then there's one. You know, can
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: they catch the Phillies and Braves or the Mets?
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: Right, that's gonna be your question mark out of Let's
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: say you think that, you know, the Dodgers and Padres
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: are going to be in their class, and the Central
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: just gets one, then you've got the Mets and Phillies,
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: You've got the Braves, the Giants, and the Diamondbacks.
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: Only one of those teams can make it.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the Phillies and metsran right. Yeah, it's gonna be interesting.
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  Speaker 1: It's good. This is why the wildcard. I know people
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: are mad about it, but I think the wildcard is
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: good because it keeps it gives the Braves a shot, yes,
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  Speaker 1: when they wouldn't previously never had a shot after their start.
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  Speaker 3: People, you play the whole year Kratz. We should be
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: able to just figure it.
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  Speaker 2: I know, but do you know how many fan bases
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: we're checking out so early on in prior seasons?
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  Speaker 3: A lot?
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: But I mean the other side of the argument is
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: maybe the ownership's like, eh, we don't need to spend
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  Speaker 1: because it's easier to get in. We don't need to
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  Speaker 1: push hard. So I see the other side of it,
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  Speaker 1: but I completely agree. I think the I think the
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: wildcard is awesome, or the expanded Wildcard, I should say
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  Speaker 1: it is awesome.
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  Speaker 3: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, the Braves in twenty twenty one won the World Series.
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  Speaker 3: What's up, We're back. Let's talk about MJ. Melendez.
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  Speaker 2: This was a story from the weekend that we just
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: didn't have time for yesterday, and a few Royals fans
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: popped in and we're like, no Melendez talk yesterday. Well,
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: there's a lot going on yesterday with the Kunya and
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: the beef, with the Blue Jays and the Mariners.
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: Except this is something I think that people have been
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: asking for for a few not I mean, there's been
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: talk of this before, that he would get sent down.
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you should get he struggled.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: He's been around a two hundred hitter for the last
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: couple of years, and there's you know, there's Kansas City
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: people I think are saying, you know, is there someone
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: else we have? And Markana was off to a great
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: start down.
• 36:12
  Speaker 5: There, and so.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: I don't know. This isn't like Aaron Judge getting sent done.
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: That's not I'm not gonna m J. Melendez. He's been
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: a good player, but this isn't the same kind of field.
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: No, it's not a surprise.
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: So the first three seasons of his big league career,
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: he was still a below average bat and he was
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: a catcher that converted him to outfield. It's definitely taken
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: him some time to get that together. So he's a
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: negative win player right And I'm using these kind of
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: stats because these are stats that are used in front
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: offices to evaluate players. Now this year, after the first
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: few weeks of the season, he's under one hundred with
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: the batting average, the on base is under two hundred,
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: the slug's under two hundred, and his weighted runs graded plus,
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: which is very similar to OPS plus, is in the negative,
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: which is like almost impossible to pull off. Twenty strike,
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: got some fifty two played appearances, not piling on. It's
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: just it's it's really really bad right now, and he
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: needs to go down and work on things. He did
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: make some swing changes in the off season, but it's
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: not surprising by any means. I think some fans just
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: wanted to get a take from you guys on you know,
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: a catcher converted to outfield, known more for the bat
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: makes hard contact, has trouble making contact consistently right now,
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: And are we surprised that he hasn't panned out.
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: Tons of guys don't pan out.
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: Why didn't the Royals do more in the off season
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: to try to work on the outfield. Well, the answer
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: is they were in the Profi sweep Stakes. They lost rats.
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: That probably was for the best.
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: They were in the Santander Sweepstakes. That would have helped,
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: just a.
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: Little too late because he had already accepted the Blue
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: Jays offer. But yep, why did they? I mean, you know,
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: maybe that's that's misstep by them by not going hard
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: enough to address this need something that the Blue Jays.
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: I mean, the Royals have always done because of how
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: big their outfield is is they've produced outfielders. When you
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: put other position players in the outfield. Ever since India
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: came over, they're like, oh yeah, he's gonna go to left.
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: We even talked about that on the show, and Jim
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: Melendez has been waying right field. They have Hunter, you know,
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: they've had Hunter Renfro out there, Guys who maybe don't
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: necessarily cover a ton of ground, but have a certain
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: skill set that they're able to deploy out in the outfield.
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: Free agency, you're not really looking at dudes that like
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: absolutely run and get after the ball in the outfield,
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: so you would have to be in type some type
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: of trade. I don't know if they you know, if
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: they failed to try to trade for a speedy outfielder
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: that covers a lot of ground. Who knows. But that's
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: what you need in case, and that's what they've always
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: wanted out there.
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's tough to find.
• 38:58
  Speaker 5: Yep.
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: Got to hit two.
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: I mean it was a bad outfield last year.
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: You gotta hit. You got to hit to play the outfield.
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, listen, outfield defense is great, but would you
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: rather have a guy that hits you forty and man
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: mess up a ball here and there, or a guy
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: that's a great defender and hits and hits two hundred.
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: Give me some slug please, I'll take the forty homer
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: dude and live with a mistake in the out I
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: mean many Ramirez did it his whole life.
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: Yep. You can't have three of those out there.
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: You can have one though, yes, but in case, you
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: got to have. Dudes are athletic. Melenda is athletic. You
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: got to hit at some point, Like everyone looks back
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: on that fifteen team, crowds you're on, but and Lo
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: Caine and Alex Gordon. Those dudes are athletic is all
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: get out. They're also banged. Gordon could hit. Man Lokine
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: was an underrated hitter those guys. Those guys could hit right.
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: You got to be able to swing the bat to
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: play the outfit.
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry a little bit, a little bit, let's slap
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: and look at the speedway.
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: I got to go to that gay in August. Are
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: you going?
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: Did you the game?
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: So you don't have your schedules yet my schedule?
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: I'm assuming I won't be on the broadcast, so I
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: can just go as a fan.
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's cool.
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: They're going for the biggest attendance of all times with
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: the goal I think is what they want to do
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: for a Basically, you can't get to hundred grand hun k.
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, what's that that whole right corner area they're going
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: to do a concert?
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Tim McGrath while the game going on.
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: That would be even better.
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, every cool, every walk up song is Tim McGrath.
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: By the way, Okay, Tim McGraw, I know we got
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: a quick Nick Swisher. You guys, you know Nick remember.
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: Nick Swisher, specialist.
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: He made a record, the singing record, and one of
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: the songs he covered was a Tim McGrath song. So
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: every time I see Tim McGraw, I just think of
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: Nick Swisher singing Tim McGrath. I don't know why.
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: It's just good or bad.
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: It's bad, but Tim McGraw is a great fella. I'm
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: just saying. I've met him a few times. He's a
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: great fellow.
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: Good fella. Yes, I've heard good things too. Kratz, hat's
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: what he got.
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: I mean me and Jay Hen can join the team.
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: I mean the Tigers hat, the tires spring training hat.
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: It's fire, the extra, the extra little intricacies of the
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: Tiger love it.
• 41:27
  Speaker 3: Beauty.
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: I agree, it's one of the best, the Orange pops.
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: I want to give a shout out to a game
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: we didn't get to yesterday, but Max Meyer was on fire.
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: Cost me my luck.
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah you did.
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: And here's your inside edge Statponents are hitless than twenty
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: two at bats against Max Meyer with two strikes.
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: Remember last day held him down. They didn't want to pitch.
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: Remember there was a whole big contract.
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: I do you remember that. There's always something but props
• 41:53
  Speaker 3: to him.
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: How many k's fourteen and six shutout innings, five it's
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: ninety two pitches, tough to do fourteen k and keep
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: yourself somewhat efficient to get through six shutting. Yeah, he's
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: putting guys away pretty quickly in that six three wins,
• 42:07
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