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Skenes to Start the All-Star Game · The 3-0 Take

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  Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Three O Take, where we talk
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  all things Major League Baseball.
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  Here's Kyle Corwin and Nate Reyes.
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  It all starts right now. Welcome back to the Three O Take
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  presented by Sea Kick. This is episode 450.
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  I'll be your host, Kyle Corden. I'm here with my Co host Nate
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  Reyes. Nate 450.
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  This feels good. Well done.
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  I don't even know why. I mean, if you really, really
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  think about it, 450 isn't even like special of a number.
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  It just sounds. It's round, it's clean.
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  There's it's a baseball number, you know what I'm saying?
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  It's a baseball number. We're going to see plenty of
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  here tomorrow Night Live with us.
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  So you know what I'm. Saying true, yeah.
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  Yeah, yeah. First off, buddy, I just, I love
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  you and I'm so proud of you for everything that you put into
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  this thing. How much time and effort and
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  like, wow, I I think I speak for the fans.
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  You do an amazing job. I just sit here.
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  I kind of hang out, talk shop, but I think everybody knows man,
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  you do an excellent job. You got us here. 450 is crazy
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  and. Man.
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  To the freaking moon we go, baby.
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  To the moon. I'm looking forward to it.
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  I appreciate that man. I appreciate that.
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  But as I've said before, if it if I didn't have you on the
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  other end of the the mic, I would be talking to myself and I
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  don't know how long that would last.
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  I would have given up episode to go like hundreds of episodes of
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  Go. So I appreciate you, appreciate
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  you. You bring the juice.
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  And as you alluded to, as reminder, this be the last day.
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  We have to remind you really, 'cause it's tomorrow.
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  It's well today if you're listening to it Live stream for
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  the Home Run Derby. Just coming out just.
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  Coming out, we're going to be hanging out Monday, July 15th,
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  8:00 PM as as we kind of already mentioned, we'll be hopping on a
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  little early. Do we, do we have a time picked
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  out for that? Do we?
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  When do we want to? It's the So the Home Run Derby
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  starts at 5 Eastern, correct? Eight.
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  Well, 8 Eastern, five year time, 55 Pacific, 8 Eastern.
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  Yeah, yeah. We're thinking like.
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  I think an hour before, I think an hour, an hour, not an hour,
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  maybe 30 minutes. I was like, man, dude, we're
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  talking about really hanging out with the people.
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  Maybe 30 minutes we just run through, maybe we run through
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  some of the giveaways we just kind of talk about.
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  I like that, yeah. Give people an opportunity, get
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  their names in. I think we're going to have
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  stuff like flashing on the screen, so it'll remind you as
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  we go. So yeah, it'll be, it'll be fun.
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  Just come hang out. I think.
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  I don't know. Should we do a little?
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  Should we do a little something? Should we get a little festive?
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  I was thinking of like, maybe I should make a bunch of hot dogs.
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  What do you think of that? Maybe I just maybe just eat a
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  million hot dogs. Oh, make it fun.
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  We're going to we're at. I think we may chat about it for
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  a minute when we when we hop off here, get some.
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  Get some I'm not saying like a shower though, I'm not telling
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  you. No, no, no, no, no.
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  I. Don't feel like throwing up
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  during the the stream. But now, especially if we're
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  going to be hanging out for a few hours, I'm not trying to,
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  yeah. Just enough to get the hot dog
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  burps going a little bit and then you shut it down.
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  Yeah, which is like 2 nowadays, unfortunately.
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  That's the beauty of this being audio and video only, no?
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  It's true. No smell.
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  Not yet. No smell.
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  We're. Good.
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  Yeah, Haven't, haven't reached that technology.
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  Yet. Maybe.
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  Maybe a 900. We'll see.
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  Yeah. So come hang out with us for the
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  for the Home Run Derby. Rather we'll be as as Nate
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  mentioned, we'll be doing some giveaways.
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  We'll be giving away some cash, we'll be giving away some merch,
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  some prizes. We may even be giving away like
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  some fresh hot pies. That was I think you had maybe
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  talked about maybe doing some flash pizza.
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  Giveaways, why do I feel like we did that first?
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  Maybe we should bring should we bring back like Grand Slam pizza
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  giveaways or something? You know, 'cause we did that a
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  couple times and. Yeah, we did that back.
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  What did we do that for? It was like when when Nestor
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  would would. Yeah, it was like certain amount
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  of strikeouts, right, or something like that.
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  Yeah, it was something like that, Yeah.
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  We'd give away a pie. And I think, I think you're
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  right. I think there for a bit When,
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  when that's what you're right. That's exactly what it was when
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  when a Grand Slam would take place because we would have
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  people let us know because we weren't able to watch like all
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  15 games. People let us know like, hey,
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  there's home run Grand Slam, you need to give away a pizza.
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  And we're going to have some pizzas rolling.
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  We're going to have some pizzas rolling tomorrow.
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  And this is just what we do, baby, This is what we do.
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  I'm looking forward to it. I've already had already had
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  some people reach out to confirm some details like where can
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  where can we hang out with you? YouTube.
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  You can hang out with us on YouTube, Facebook, and then my
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  Twitter. Kyle at Kyle Corwin takes as I
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  mentioned, I don't know if the comment with the whole like API,
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  which that probably goes over a lot of your heads with with the
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  inability with the inability rather to comment or for us to
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  at least see it through the Twitter.
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  I think if you're if you want to engage, if you want to be
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  submitting your your Venmo account or whatever for the
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  drawings for the giveaways, the cash, the pizza, whatever, hang
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  out with us on Facebook and YouTube.
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  But if, if you're more of a Twitter person, that's fine.
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  You, you can, you can still hang out with us, but make plans to
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  join us. And we're, we're going to have a
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  we're going to have a good time. It'll be, it'll be fun.
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  Yeah. How are you feeling?
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  You feeling good today? You feeling ready to roll dude?
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  If for nothing else, it's. The last day, baby, it's the
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  last day you made it here. We've.
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  Made it. We made it to the break.
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  Dan, no more Polo. I was going to say today is the
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  day that we formally lay the Billy Bean attire.
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  To rest, do you mind having like a safe fire or something?
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  Should we Should we just burn it?
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  Like when they when they lit the bird on fire in the office in a
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  in a paper box out back. It just stomps out a little
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  smoke. Oh, that's so good.
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  Hey, clean this up. I like it.
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  Come on, Mush. I think that's the move dude.
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  Have a little ceremony. I thought we I thought we talked
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  about sending this to Cooperstown.
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  That's true. That's a good idea.
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  Yeah. This is probably the only time
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  anyone will ever see both of us in a polo at the same time,
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  though. I just got off the course, so if
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  you're watching, I almost had a heat stroke, but I didn't, so
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  we're good. I don't know who willingly goes
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  out to golf when it's like 112°. But no, no, it's a, it's a, it's
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  a, it's a very breezy, brisk one, O 1, that's all.
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  I bet you the humidity is still better out there than it is
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  here, I can promise you that. The humidity was brutal, man.
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  We were. This course had I don't know how
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  many golf balls I lost. So many golf balls, so much
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  water. Crazy.
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  Anyway, 4. 50, Let's get into some stuff.
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  Yeah. You ready to talk some ball?
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  What? I mean, what a way to start it
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  off here. Paul Skeens gets the nod for the
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  All Star. Game starts for the National
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  League. I put out AI put out like a
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  reaction video very shortly after the news broke because I I
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  and I even mentioned in the video I was like, I don't, I
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  don't know how to act. And there's probably people that
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  looked at that and were like, is it really worth getting all like
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  this worked up over? It's just a it's just a start
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  for the All Star game. But my whole point there in the
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  video, I just talked about how so rarely as baseball fans do we
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  get wins like this. The last the last one was like
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  the Ohtani Trout match up, right.
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  It's like in the WBC, which is an exhibition game.
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  Like I know this is an exhibition game, but this is
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  like front row dude, like against three guys that you
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  can't wait to see him face. I love it.
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  I'm exactly, I'm exactly. Don't apologize.
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  Don't. Oh no, no, I'm not.
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  I'm not apologizing. I'm just, I'm explaining to
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  people kind of where my thought process was with that because
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  it's it's as I was saying, it's so rare that we get wins like
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  this where collectively, whether you're a National League fan, an
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  American League fan, whether you like the pitch clock, whether
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  you hate the pitch clock, whatever.
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  Collectively, I think we could all look at this and go, we want
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  Paul Skeens to start the All Star game.
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  We want that thing and we got that thing.
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  And as you kind of already touched on the names that he's
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  going to go up presumably against that is if if Juan Soto
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  doesn't get cut before the All Star game, 'cause you're talking
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  about how he's just out of it physically right now we're
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  talking about Gunner Henderson, Juan Soto and Aaron Judge.
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  I mean this is like I'm going to try to choose my words carefully
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  here, but like vibe wise, this kind of reminds me of like Pedro
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  99 All Star game where it's like.
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  Starting off with six KS. Paul Skeens has a long way to
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  go, I understand that. But just in terms of like pure
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  power going up against pure power, best of the best going up
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  against the best of the best. And Paul Skeens right now is one
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  of the better, if not the best pitcher or at least hottest
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  pitcher in baseball right now. And I mean, this is just a huge,
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  huge win. Yeah, 100 percent, 100% dude, I
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  or do we know the lineups yet? They're not released yet, right?
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  Like the start, you're just saying like the the batting.
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  Order like the actual lineup? Yeah, I don't, I don't believe
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  we have that as of that's of yet.
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  Yeah, I mean, it's got to be Gunner.
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  I don't know who else it would be at the top.
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  Yeah, Soto and Judge is a no brainer.
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  Yeah, it would have to be those three just in any, any
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  particular order I guess. Good Lord, dude, that's going to
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  be so good. But you're right.
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  This is exactly what like every baseball fan would want to see.
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  This is like the simulation, like the the match up you would
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  want and when you play Diamond Dynasty and then we'll be the
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  show. You know what I mean?
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  Like this is exactly how you would want it.
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  I think I have a conspiracy theory.
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  Oh, what do you got? I'll have a good conspiracy.
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  I think, I think Shelton got a call about Paul Skeens either
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  the day before. You're talking about Lavallo?
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  Yeah, no, maybe even higher up 'cause I know it's Lovello's
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  decision, but I think there's, I think there's executives that
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  are pushing this. I think I see, I think that
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  there's like there's a narrative that like is like started to
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  brew. And I think that it's gotten
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  enough limelight and attention and, and I don't know if it's
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  been trending in any way, but like there's a lot of people in
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  our game talking about this. I think that there's some front
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  office situation that is maybe mentioning that to Tori.
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  I think there was a call to Shelton either the day before or
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  day of Paul Skeens start and it was, hey, we've got something in
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  mind next week. I think if you're comfortable
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  with this, we'd like to give him the nod.
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  I don't care if he's going out and throwing a no hitter.
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  You need to pull him after 100. I think that's what occurred.
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  And when you look at the conversation between Shelton and
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  I know we're we're mainly about the the All Star game start
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  right now, but this is the same story.
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  Let's face it, it's within a week.
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  I think if you watch how Shelton went and talked to him, did you
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  notice that it was kind of in like the back tunnel away from
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  the dugout? I feel like that conversation
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  needed to be private. And something tells me that
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  Shelton and Skeens probably knew, or at least Shelton knew.
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  And I don't think you can say that.
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  I don't think you can publicly admit that if you're Shelton, as
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  much as you would want to, I don't think you can come out and
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  say this is we're making a business decision for Major
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  League Baseball and not about the Pirates winning a ball game.
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  That's my theory. That's my conspiracy theory.
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  I think that there was enough of a nudge and enough of a push to
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  say, hey, Paul Skeens right now is bigger than the Pittsburgh
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  Pirates 2024 season. MLB needs him to be healthy for
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  this. We need this to happen.
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  That's my theory and I think that no one is allowed to say
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  it. And I think that maybe Skeens
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  knew or maybe he found out when his day was done after 7 innings
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  because don't tell me he's tired when he just made a six pitch
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  inning to get through the 7th to get him to 100 pitches and it
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  was weak contact the whole time. Don't tell me he's looking
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  tired. These guys are barely just now
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  catching up to glancing at his baseball.
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  So it's like, I don't, I don't, I'm not buying it.
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  I think Shelton new I'm blaying it on the table.
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  Am I crazy to throw out the the idea that this all transpired
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  very, very quickly? Like because I've, I feel like
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  the national narrative for the longest time was that like
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  there's, well, I say longest time relative to the the
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  conversation building up about the All Star game.
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  I feel like for the majority of that build up, the national
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  narrative was that there's just no way you can start a guy who
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  who missed the what, nearly two months of the season before
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  before he made his debut. There's no way that you can
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  start that guy in the All Star game, regardless how how well
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  he's doing. But then I feel like it was
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  probably this last week, because we we concluded this past week
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  with with the news that he was going to get the he's going to
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  get the start. I feel like it was all of last
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  week where it was like, whoa, this is like a real, this is a
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  real possibility. And he's, I would say in the
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  clubhouse, he he might be even the leader in this conversation
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  of who's who's getting the nod. And then all of a sudden the
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  decision comes out that he is the starter.
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  So to your point, I, I think people, more people knew than
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  were being led on or LED. To believe me, I think there
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  were more people that made that decision.
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  And let's face it, let's freaking face it, this is MLB.
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  This is this is their show. They run this week.
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  They run everything that we have red carpet, you know, laid out
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  for these guys. They're showing up.
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  They're talking about what they're wearing.
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  Like we're going on this level of like mass production
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  marketing going on so many different sponsorships, so many
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  different commercials, patches. Don't tell me that executives
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  are just sitting back and saying, Lovello, you got this,
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  make the right decision. There's no way.
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  And you talk about Lovello, you talk about Shelton.
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  Those are two old school baseball guys.
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  Old school baseball guys do not choose rookies to start All Star
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  games, especially rookies that missed the chunk of the season
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  that didn't get called up. These guys are it's there's a
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  respect level, there's a seniority amongst this
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  brotherhood of players and there's an earn your stripes
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  kind of mentality across the league.
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  And I think Lavello and Shelton have been around a long time and
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  they know that. And I don't think this decision
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  was solely theirs or solely Tori's.
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  I think it is 100% a narrative being pushed by front office or
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  the MLB office or Manfred himself saying this is the
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  opportunity of a lifetime. And it kind of is for this
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  generation. Like you said, we haven't seen
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  this stuff. Your your next closest thing you
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  think of is Pedro. That's almost 20 years ago.
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  No, it's over 20 years. That's a long time now. 25 years
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  ago. That's, it's, that's insane to
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  have like that moment that we can fall back on.
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  I think there's a reason. I mean, I don't know, I we could
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  go deeper. Soto is not healthy right now.
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  When you're talking about a Yankee team who's willing to
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  pull anybody off the field if they if they step incorrectly.
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  Soto is is letting go of the bat after swings and obviously in
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  pain. He's not sitting out.
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  Then I don't know if that's a toughness thing or if that's
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  like, bro, you're going to be a part of this insane moment for
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  the All Star game. We're building this up, we're
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  hyping this up. You're not going to miss that.
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  That's my one step deeper. Maybe I'm going a little too far
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  there, but at the very least I think the skeins thing isn't.
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  I don't think it's that far stretched.
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  Yeah, I feel like the the tinfoil hat might be a little
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  too tight on the Soto bit, but I I I'm with you, I'm with you on
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  the skeins thing. And who knows, like maybe it is
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  maybe the Soto thing is possibility.
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  I would venture or my guess is that that's probably not their
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  priority. But if there is any truth to
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  that, maybe they're looking at it being like, hey, we'll give
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  you an AB like if if you still think about, think about.
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  Think about 3 weeks ago when Soto and and maybe it wasn't 3
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  weeks ago. Maybe it was a month ago, month
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  and a half ago where Dodgers are in Yankee Stadium.
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  Soto has a sore shoulder and he's he's missing the entire
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  series. We're watching him physically
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  struggle, holding on to a bat after a swing.
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  I don't know. I don't know.
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  I don't know if that, and I'm not saying he's weak.
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  I'm I'm, I'm sure it's a mixture of toughness, but it could be a
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  little MLB saying, hey, I need you, we need you, Baseball needs
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  you. And this is the moment, if
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  you've been glued to baseball this year at all, this is a
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  moment that's going to be really cool to see.
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  Yeah, I mean, you you mentioned the the Trout Otani AB in the
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  World Baseball Classic. I mean, the I'm not personally,
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  I'm not going to put this on that level because I I feel like
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  that that might be that may go down as one of the the better at
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  bats we'll ever see in our life. Like that's probably that's like
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  bonds Gagnier level to me because it was it was.
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  On. It was on like the literal
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  global scale, so you could even make your argument that that was
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  even bigger, but. That's a good comp.
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  It's I, I don't know, like the it's B it's it's in line or it's
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  in the conversation with the Trout Ohtani AB.
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  But what's even better is that it's going to be elongated over
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  the course of multiple at bats. Like we're not just going to say
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  skeens versus judge or something or like this.
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  Even the Skeens Ohtani AB, even though he he saw him multiple
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  times during that start and. I think skeens blew him away one
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  of the at bats and Ohtani took him deep the next one vice
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  versa. But like this is going to be
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  like AB after AB after AB. And if he who knows, like if he
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  struggles a little bit, goes for sees a little bit further down
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  the line in that lineup and maybe even sees more star power.
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  It's it's going to be incredible.
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  Do you do you to kind of put a bow on this?
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  Do you have any predictions for how you think the the half
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  inning is going to go? I think he gets two of the three
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  dude. I'm I'm feeling a little saucy
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  right now. You feeling all three?
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  Dude, I, I think I could see it. I really could see it because
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  this guy, if you watch Paul Skeens and if you saw the
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  announcement and I'm, I'm sure it was super scripted and
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  planned and staged and all that. But if you saw when he was on
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  the Dan Patrick show and then Tori Lavallo just happens to
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  call Dan Patrick. Yeah, Yeah.
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  And. See.
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  See, let's let's him know like, hey, just wanted to to jump into
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  the conversation real quick to let you know Paul, that you're
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  getting the start if you watch him receive that news that the
• 21:22
  kid is emotionless. Yeah.
• 21:24
  And like, there's personally, there's like a mild concern on,
• 21:28
  on my part that he's going to turn into like the Mike Trout
• 21:31
  type where it's just like, I'm, I'm really not.
• 21:34
  Interested in this? I'm just not interested in the
• 21:37
  the extracurricular shenanigans. I just want to go out there and
• 21:40
  dominate. I'm worried that we might be
• 21:42
  headed that direction, but I'm going to hold out hope.
• 21:44
  I'm going to hold out hope that that doesn't happen.
• 21:45
  The mustache makes you think. Maybe not.
• 21:48
  Yeah, I that's for the boys. That mustache is for the boys.
• 21:51
  But either way, I, I think, I think it's just really
• 21:55
  interesting to see at his being as young as he is and being as
• 22:00
  inexperienced as he is at the big league level.
• 22:04
  It's just crazy to me how, and I'm always about like
• 22:07
  equilibrium. I'm always about being even keel
• 22:10
  and taking note of which guys are able to have a low
• 22:14
  heartbeat. He's got that and it the moment
• 22:18
  just doesn't seem too too big for him and I I dude, I could
• 22:22
  see like A to make the comp one last time.
• 22:25
  I've I could see like a Pedro esque like K after K after K.
• 22:29
  I'm in. I can see it.
• 22:31
  Here's what I think. Here's my full prediction.
• 22:34
  I think it's Ki. Think it's a minimum seven pitch
• 22:39
  at at bat with Soto that ends in.
• 22:42
  A walk? That's fair, yeah.
• 22:43
  And then with a with a hardcore shuffle, hardcore stare down.
• 22:48
  Known walk merchant Juan Soto. Yes, yeah, and then probably AK
• 22:53
  by Judge, I think I don't know though Judge has been smoking
• 22:56
  hot for for this Oriole series. So maybe maybe that could that
• 23:02
  would be, I mean, Skeens and Judges is arguably the best at
• 23:09
  bad of the three. No, like I don't.
• 23:11
  I'm not disappointed with one and two.
• 23:13
  At all? No, no, no, no.
• 23:14
  But this is like where how they're going right now.
• 23:17
  They're they're the best too. Yeah, we're not crazy to say
• 23:20
  that. Of those of those matchups,
• 23:22
  yeah, Judge Skeens for sure. I think it's the fastball up and
• 23:26
  in that that judge is not going to be able to do anything with
• 23:30
  and the heart he's got that ridiculous slider that he's got.
• 23:35
  A judge is thinking from in here to down and away.
• 23:39
  You have to cover that. I just don't see that being a
• 23:42
  great match up for him, but I'd love to be wrong.
• 23:45
  And there's no doubt in my mind that that kids doing his
• 23:48
  homework because he recognizes the stage that he's he's been
• 23:52
  given and he does not want to disappoint.
• 23:54
  So you know he is looking to exploit and expose every one of
• 23:58
  those guys. Who would you go for, 456 saying
• 24:02
  or hoping? I hope he gets 2 innings, yeah.
• 24:06
  I need to look. Remind me, what do we got around
• 24:08
  the diamond again? I believe we have Vladdy at
• 24:16
  first, but I don't think he'll be. 4 adly behind the dish, I
• 24:20
  think. Maybe adly for J Ram 5, Vladdy
• 24:24
  6. J Ram's in there.
• 24:30
  Were you like that or is adly too high?
• 24:36
  We got is your Don in that mix? Is your Don in that mix?
• 24:41
  I dude, I, I, I can't remember. I I can't keep the Yeah, didn't
• 24:49
  he? Be crazy to not be an All Star,
• 24:51
  right? Yeah.
• 24:52
  He was the he was like the DH. Yeah, yeah.
• 24:55
  OK. Sorry.
• 24:56
  I I have a hard time keeping the starters in.
• 24:59
  His lineup's absurd, bro. OK, so gunner starters in
• 25:03
  reserve separate judge your Don. Give me your Don Adly add J Ram.
• 25:11
  Yep, that's what I would say. No Dis, no disrespect to to add.
• 25:18
  We didn't include Adly in that mix, did we?
• 25:20
  Or did we? Yeah, I said Adly.
• 25:22
  I think adly 5 after your Don. Your Don Adly.
• 25:26
  And then J Ram and then Vlad 7. Oh, boy.
• 25:31
  I don't even know what's left for 8-9.
• 25:35
  Quan. Quan's going to be down there.
• 25:38
  Simeon's in there. Simeon.
• 25:42
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 25:43
  Whoa. Dude, I can't wait.
• 25:45
  Quan and Simeon 8-9 potentially. What is going on, Stephen?
• 25:50
  Quan is your 9 hitter. Unreal.
• 25:52
  Crazy night I I'm sorry I know there's bias attached here but I
• 25:56
  think anyone with a brain. It's not bias, it's it's in the
• 26:00
  numbers. Like the American League
• 26:02
  objectively is a better squad. We see this every year.
• 26:05
  All see this. There's no doubt in my mind.
• 26:10
  Good about it. Speaking of the AL, let's switch
• 26:12
  gears here. The Royals going and snatching
• 26:16
  up Hunter Harvey from the Nationals.
• 26:20
  I I really like this move and I know.
• 26:24
  You've been, you've been on the Royals for a minute, so you, you
• 26:26
  send it here. I know on the surface it doesn't
• 26:29
  look great. In 43 games, Harvey is 2 and
• 26:32
  four with a 420. He struck out fifty and walked
• 26:35
  twelve across 45 innings. He does offer the flexibility of
• 26:42
  sliding into that closer roll, which I'll be quite honest with
• 26:48
  you, James MacArthur as the current closer for the Royals.
• 26:54
  No disrespect. No disrespect, but like could
• 26:58
  maybe benefit from having a little bit of help, a little bit
• 27:01
  of depth in that closer by committee conversation if it if
• 27:05
  it gets to that point. But I just like I really like
• 27:09
  this. Hunter Harvey.
• 27:10
  If you've been following the names floating around the trade
• 27:13
  deadline, this was a guy whose name was surfaced at the top for
• 27:17
  many of these conversations and the Royals didn't wait around.
• 27:20
  The Royals identified a guy that they wanted to go and snatch up
• 27:25
  to help their bullpen because their bullpens been terrible.
• 27:27
  I think I read that they ranked like 21st in all of baseball.
• 27:34
  Like not good, regardless where they fall numbers wise, not
• 27:39
  good. So they they went in, snatched
• 27:44
  up Harvey. And I think this is one of those
• 27:47
  low. It's not going to, it's not
• 27:49
  going to be on the front page of MLB.com necessarily.
• 27:55
  And it may not even be a a move that they look back on in
• 27:58
  November and go that's what that's what saved our season.
• 28:01
  But it's going to be a move, in my opinion, that will help
• 28:05
  solidify their progress and their efforts into securing a
• 28:11
  wild card spot. I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm
• 28:15
  going to fill in the gaps of what you're saying and support
• 28:18
  your statements here. I think what this shows to your
• 28:26
  team, your clubhouse, your fans is saying, I do believe that we
• 28:32
  can do this. I do believe that we can be last
• 28:34
  year's Diamondbacks. We may not dominate, we may not
• 28:37
  go win this division, but I do believe if we can bulk up enough
• 28:41
  and make a run, we got a chance. And I think what this does is it
• 28:46
  says we're one of the first teams to make a move before this
• 28:49
  deadline with a lot of rumors going around, a lot happening.
• 28:53
  We're going to do this before the All Star game, beat everyone
• 28:56
  to the punch because everyone's going to be talking.
• 28:59
  You're going to see MLB execs having conversations during this
• 29:02
  week. There's this isn't a full on
• 29:05
  break. If anything, the front offices
• 29:06
  are going to be working harder this week.
• 29:09
  So for the Royals to say, let's go, this isn't the move.
• 29:15
  This isn't the move that pushes him over the top.
• 29:18
  You're saying that and I agree, it's a move.
• 29:22
  I think it does well for them. It gives them depth and it and
• 29:24
  it is making an effort to plug a hole that's there.
• 29:28
  And now we're going to see hopefully a little bit of a
• 29:33
  domino effect to get this market going and for the for the Royals
• 29:37
  to be like, you know what, we'll take that first one.
• 29:40
  We'll be that first guy through the wall.
• 29:42
  Sounds good. Let's roll.
• 29:44
  So I'm excited. I'm excited for what they got
• 29:47
  going. I'm with you.
• 29:51
  I've been been on the Royals all season.
• 29:54
  You have. You sure have since the
• 29:55
  offseason. To your point, this is.
• 29:58
  This is a step that proves that stay in the American League,
• 30:05
  Orioles and Yankees. What a wild.
• 30:08
  Weekend of baseball. Wow, wow.
• 30:09
  Wow, wow, wow, wow. I want to, I want to flip it to
• 30:13
  you, though, to talk about was that Friday night's game?
• 30:19
  Yep, with the the rain and the hit by pitch and all that.
• 30:25
  What, what do you make of of the benches clearing and Brandon
• 30:30
  Hyde? I mean, I, I know you shared
• 30:31
  your thoughts in the heat of the moment, but now that you've had
• 30:33
  maybe some time to think on a little bit more, think a little
• 30:36
  bit more about this rivalry that's maybe brewing a little
• 30:39
  bit. I mean, I think it's been
• 30:40
  brewing for some time. Like inner division rivals.
• 30:42
  I I get all that, but like, I think there's a little bit more
• 30:45
  juice to the Yankees and O's that maybe people are given
• 30:48
  credit for. I think this is giving me like 4
• 30:52
  years ago. Yankees raise when CC's that's
• 30:57
  for you B dog. And then you know, like
• 31:01
  obviously old school Yankees Red Sox is kind of unreachable at
• 31:05
  this point with any other rivals.
• 31:06
  But it gives me that kind of energy around Friday night.
• 31:12
  First off, Clay Holmes being an All Star is kind of a joke, and
• 31:19
  I think there's a lot of Yankees fans that agree because of what
• 31:22
  we've seen for like the last six weeks from him.
• 31:26
  This man is deer in headlights. This man's heart is pounding out
• 31:30
  of his chest. He does not have a slow
• 31:33
  heartbeat. He is not calm, and when he is
• 31:35
  on the mound, there's big question marks.
• 31:41
  It's almost like this underlying, no disrespect here,
• 31:45
  but this underlying, we still have a chance because Craig
• 31:48
  Kimbrel's on the other side of this.
• 31:50
  That's the vibe I'm getting with Clay Holmes during this stretch.
• 31:54
  OK, Combine that with rain. Combine that with a three run
• 32:00
  lead. Combine that with the division
• 32:03
  on the line. Not really, but kinda as a
• 32:06
  statement to your fan base after an abysmal July and half of
• 32:13
  June. There's no intent here.
• 32:19
  There's absolutely 0 intent. Here's where things are being
• 32:24
  other side of fence, specifically, specifically on
• 32:27
  Twitter. Orioles fans and Yankees fans
• 32:29
  are going just all over each other right now.
• 32:37
  Contact is made with the ear hole.
• 32:40
  OK, goes down. Clay's walking up to apologize.
• 32:45
  Because let's face it, if you're a Yankee fan in any way, you can
• 32:49
  all support me here by saying Clay Holmes is probably the
• 32:53
  nicest dude in that clubhouse. As far as like timid, I would
• 32:59
  never talk and scream and get in your face.
• 33:01
  That would it's he's the last guy.
• 33:04
  That man is basically an accountant in a in a Yu.
• 33:08
  With a sounds like a dirty sinker.
• 33:10
  Sounds like a great approach for a closer but but continue.
• 33:13
  So there's no intent. He's walking up, he's trying to
• 33:17
  apologize. Brandon Hyde is brushing off
• 33:21
  chirping and talking through Austin Wells.
• 33:24
  And Austin Wells is like, bro, do the math here.
• 33:27
  What do you? What's the deal?
• 33:29
  Yes, this sucks. Yes, this is never wanted, but
• 33:33
  it is a part of our game. That's the internal thought
• 33:36
  going around here. Brandon Hyde's chirping and
• 33:40
  where he responds is because the Yankee dugout is like, bro,
• 33:45
  like, don't brush off our guy. Like he's trying to apologize.
• 33:49
  Like there's no intent. Like, relax.
• 33:52
  And then Brandon Hyde just goes zero to 60 in no second, no time
• 33:57
  at all. And and throwing, you know,
• 34:00
  whatever he needs to throw at that dugout that is manufactured
• 34:06
  by a manager who is feeling heat from his fan base for the way
• 34:11
  the Orioles have been playing for the last few weeks.
• 34:14
  Oh, I'm tired of hearing about that that.
• 34:16
  Man is feeling heat. Whether it's whether it's
• 34:22
  correct or incorrect to feel that heat, that's up to you and
• 34:26
  your organization. Baltimore, I think they're fine.
• 34:30
  I think they're absolutely fine. Yes, they're fine.
• 34:34
  There's nothing to worry about if you're Brandon Hyde.
• 34:36
  Oh, I've said this for like the last year.
• 34:38
  The Oreos get a little taste of of success, which I love, by the
• 34:42
  way. Yeah, it's beautiful.
• 34:43
  I. Grew up there like we're not as
• 34:46
  much as I want to hate the Oreos Oh my gosh, their fan base is
• 34:50
  starting to get crazy, but they're.
• 34:52
  Losing their minds, they get a little taste of success and they
• 34:54
  don't know how to act. They think that they're I'm
• 34:58
  looking at it right now with today's win, which we'll touch
• 35:00
  on here just in a moment with the with today's win, they're
• 35:03
  three and seven in their last ten.
• 35:04
  You're still 20 games over 500. Relax.
• 35:09
  You're fine. And I know our I know our good
• 35:11
  our good buddy Ryan Ripken, that's like his go to thing
• 35:14
  after we're fine. Those are fine, just a
• 35:17
  deprecating loss. Listen to him, please.
• 35:20
  I would venture to say he he he has a a good pulse on on the
• 35:24
  team. That's just a guess it maybe,
• 35:26
  maybe it's like a family thing. I don't know.
• 35:27
  I don't know, Maybe if there's like a connection, a deeper
• 35:29
  connection to the? Team there.
• 35:30
  I don't think this is just blind faith.
• 35:33
  I think he understands baseball. He needs talking to a lot of
• 35:36
  those guys. He's friends with a lot of those
• 35:38
  guys. Yeah, I trust him.
• 35:40
  I hear the I hear the Ripken's are like somewhat connected to
• 35:43
  the OS. I, I don't, I can't confirm,
• 35:45
  don't know maybe, but you're 20 games over 500.
• 35:49
  Like, let's relax. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 35:54
  The fan base is getting to there's.
• 35:56
  There's some. I'm not going to say all.
• 35:58
  I'm not going to generalize because I'd like to think I'm
• 36:01
  not a part of the majority when it comes to judging Yankee fans.
• 36:04
  I'd like to think I'm the exception.
• 36:06
  So I'm not going to sit here and say every Oriole fan is this
• 36:09
  way. But what I'm saying is that like
• 36:12
  you're creeping into territory you don't want to be in when you
• 36:16
  get your first ring with this core, with this roster, you can
• 36:20
  be this loud, you can be this demanding, you can be this
• 36:23
  critical because you've earned it.
• 36:25
  At that point, you're you have all the tools, everything set.
• 36:31
  There may be three moves in the trade, in the trade deadline to
• 36:37
  being complete. That's my genuine opinion.
• 36:41
  There are three moves away from being very solid and very
• 36:46
  promising. That's a starter.
• 36:49
  Some relief depth, maybe two relief depth pieces and then
• 36:55
  you're I don't, I, it's I'm not. Worried you have a positional
• 36:58
  logjam? Yeah, you, you.
• 37:00
  You don't need to. Add the line up's fine, the
• 37:02
  defense is fine, it's just a little bit of pitching depth and
• 37:06
  you're fine. So getting back to this series,
• 37:13
  getting back to this situation, I think Hyde manufactured this.
• 37:16
  I think he's sweating it a little bit.
• 37:17
  I don't know why. I don't know why the fan base is
• 37:20
  so mean to him. He's doing a fine job.
• 37:23
  I think he's doing great. I think they're doing great.
• 37:26
  I think it's been a tough skid, which every team has.
• 37:31
  I think that he just kind of lost his cool for a SEC, and
• 37:36
  it's very easy. It's very easy.
• 37:40
  The Orioles fans don't like Yankee fans.
• 37:42
  No one really likes Yankee fans. No one likes the Yankees.
• 37:46
  That's OK, That's fine. I just think it was a little
• 37:50
  over the top and there was no math being done.
• 37:52
  I think the moment just got a little too fast for him.
• 37:55
  That's what I genuinely think. Yeah, I mean, anybody would
• 38:00
  lose, would, would lose their cool if you had like 2530
• 38:04
  thousand people behind you. You see them all starting to
• 38:07
  stand up. You you feel the tension arise a
• 38:09
  little bit. OK, I'm going to let it eat.
• 38:11
  Yeah, I think he's in in. Was it spark for the team?
• 38:17
  Maybe. Was that what the the intent
• 38:20
  was? Maybe that's what he was trying
• 38:21
  to do. You know, guys get tossed.
• 38:24
  Guys get tossed on purpose sometimes.
• 38:26
  Old school managers did it all the time.
• 38:29
  I think guys do it less now, but when you're feeling desperate
• 38:32
  after a couple like bad weeks, you're like, you know what,
• 38:35
  let's shake things up. You know what I mean?
• 38:37
  And I think that's what he did. I just think it was poor timing.
• 38:40
  I think it was unnecessary. And I felt good about the
• 38:46
  Yankees, where they were at with the whole situation, and I felt
• 38:51
  good about what they did the next day.
• 38:54
  Today, on the other hand. Yeah, let's talk about that.
• 38:57
  What an ending to a very entertaining finale.
• 39:06
  You got the bases loaded, two out.
• 39:08
  Seti Mullen steps to the plate in the bottom of the ninth Clay
• 39:11
  home. None other than Clay Holmes
• 39:13
  steps to the OR on the bump. Seti Mullen steps up hits about
• 39:19
  as routine of a can of corn as you can.
• 39:23
  Alex Verdugo Dog Self-proclaimed dog comes charging in, realizes
• 39:30
  he's made the mistake of his life.
• 39:32
  Turns around, tries to make up ground, slips, falls, loses the
• 39:37
  ball, loses the game. Ugly.
• 39:40
  I love it. Super ugly, super embarrassing.
• 39:43
  I think that's what, like, sucks most about this.
• 39:46
  Is that like everyone's just going to sit on that moment for
• 39:50
  five days? Good.
• 39:52
  That's tough. I felt great about like it's in
• 39:55
  reality, like you look at that series, you're like good series.
• 39:58
  You won the series. We should feel good about this.
• 40:03
  It's the way this Yankees team loses that's just so low at
• 40:07
  times. It's such a gut punch.
• 40:11
  And as much as I want to sit here and be like Verdugo, this
• 40:14
  is entirely on you. Clay Holmes had two walks.
• 40:19
  This can't continue to happen. This team that like is meant and
• 40:23
  paid to perform can't continue to do this kind of stuff.
• 40:27
  The lows can't be this low. And it is literally just Judge
• 40:31
  and Soto. This team is Judge Soto.
• 40:34
  And I would say great coaching skills from from our ace Garrett
• 40:40
  Cole. That's about it.
• 40:42
  I don't know how else they're they're in this position.
• 40:45
  I have no idea how this Yankees team is just a game back from
• 40:48
  the Orioles. So I would consider this a very
• 40:52
  high note for the Baltimore Orioles to go into the break,
• 40:54
  even though that you lost that series, even though there's a
• 40:56
  lot of emotion that you left on the field.
• 40:59
  I would be, I would rather be an O's fan in this position right
• 41:02
  now than I would be a Yankees fan even after winning the
• 41:04
  series. And you're just soaking up all
• 41:10
  the Verdugo nonsense. The guy's a chump, dude.
• 41:15
  You type in, you type in Verdugo on Twitter.
• 41:17
  And I know Twitter can be a cesspool at times, but it's
• 41:20
  hilarious seeing how quickly these people are turning on
• 41:23
  Verdugo and you just wait. Well, I don't want to open this
• 41:27
  can of worms but. This if he chirps back.
• 41:30
  What they're no, no, no. What I was going to say is what
• 41:32
  they're doing to Verdugo is what I thought was going to happen
• 41:36
  with Stroman by this point in the year.
• 41:38
  But Stroman's still kind of laying low, at least from what I
• 41:41
  can tell. Yelled at yelled at Glaber the
• 41:44
  other day, which was wild. Yeah.
• 41:45
  They're they're they're turning on Verdugo and I, I, I knew this
• 41:49
  was going to happen and I said it, you can go back and check.
• 41:52
  I said this was going to happen and it's just, it's nice to nice
• 41:55
  to see it come to fruition because the guy's the guy's a
• 41:57
  chump. Yeah, yeah, I mean, I look like
• 42:00
  I I'm not going to sit here and have blind faith and, and
• 42:05
  immediately be OK with guys like I for me.
• 42:10
  Like there's there's guys on this team that I support because
• 42:13
  they've kind of earned that role.
• 42:14
  They've earned that spot. And for like you to just come in
• 42:17
  and be loud and just say like, Hey, you know, I think I am here
• 42:22
  because I wasn't wanted over there and now I get to be me.
• 42:25
  Like, how about we just be a little bit quieter?
• 42:28
  How about we just kind of fill the role, focus on filling the
• 42:33
  role well. And maybe at a certain point
• 42:37
  you'll be like a true accepted Yankee.
• 42:40
  So that's that's where I'm at with Verdugo.
• 42:42
  So I don't hate the I don't hate the words.
• 42:45
  I'm I don't fully disagree with the words.
• 42:49
  I'm just ready to see, like, can you turn a corner or is this
• 42:54
  going to just put you in in the grave for the rest of the year?
• 42:59
  Yeah, no. Let's talk about Reese Hines,
• 43:05
  bro. What an insane start for the
• 43:10
  rookie outfielder entering today, Sunday.
• 43:13
  Five home runs in his first six games.
• 43:18
  What is happening? Entering Sunday, 11 for 23 with
• 43:22
  three double s, a 555 homers, seven runs scored and 11 RB is
• 43:28
  and slashing 520-4565 and 1476. For those of you doing the math
• 43:34
  at home, that's a 2032 OPS. Bro, that swing plays, That
• 43:43
  swing plays. Bro, how big is this guy?
• 43:51
  He fills out a uniform. You know what I mean?
• 43:55
  Not to be weird about this, but like I you hear like Mark DeRosa
• 43:59
  talk about how a guy just looks like a ball player. 64215 he's
• 44:05
  listed. That's the exact size I always
• 44:08
  choose for my guy when I play third base in MLB The Show.
• 44:11
  That's the dream size. My man is built like a
• 44:13
  superhero. 2:15 According to Sarah Lang's, his nine extra
• 44:19
  base hits in his first six games are two more than any other
• 44:24
  player in MLB's modern era and since 19 O one.
• 44:28
  And the the swag is the swag is just next level for me.
• 44:33
  I'm a big fan. I've only seen numbers I've only
• 44:39
  like read and and seen numbers like I haven't actually seen.
• 44:43
  I mean, he's been up for maybe a cup of coffee.
• 44:47
  Like all of this has happened in such a short period of time that
• 44:51
  I would venture to say there's probably still people that
• 44:53
  haven't quite caught wind of this guy yet.
• 44:57
  I'm I'm impressed. I am impressed.
• 45:06
  This is tough. Codify total bases in MLB games
• 45:12
  in 2024 Reese Reese, Hines through five games, 31 total
• 45:17
  bases. Martin Maldonado 48 games, 31
• 45:23
  total bases. Just catching a random.
• 45:26
  Yeah, no need for the strays. No need for the strays.
• 45:30
  None of that. Speaking of which, the White
• 45:32
  Sox, in case anybody's wondering, currently 27 and 70.
• 45:36
  That's crazy dude. They might lose 120 games bro.
• 45:42
  They're going to sell off. That's like, it's going to get
• 45:45
  worse. That is unbelievable.
• 45:50
  Forgive me, where is Heinz play? He's in outfield, Yeah.
• 45:56
  Yep, Yep. The talent, man.
• 45:59
  The talent. Baseball's crazy right now.
• 46:04
  Another Another guy worth noting Trey Turner entering Sunday, not
• 46:12
  nearly the same as Heinz 2032 OPS during that stretch that he
• 46:18
  went on, but in the month of July since July 1st entering
• 46:23
  Sunday, Trey Turner Sportin and OPS of 1264 with seven home runs
• 46:29
  and seventeen RB is he has 8 homers in his last 12 games and
• 46:32
  I think that includes yeah, that includes today's home run and I
• 46:37
  don't know what he's done in his last couple ABS to close out the
• 46:40
  game. I know that the Phillies just
• 46:42
  got waxed. I don't.
• 46:44
  I don't know if you saw that by the A's I.
• 46:47
  Was on the course really waxed dude bad.
• 46:51
  One I need to pull it up just to make sure I got the numbers
• 46:53
  right. 18 to 3. Oh. 18 to 3:00 to go into the
• 46:59
  break for the Phills. What?
• 47:00
  Excuse me? What a rough, what a rough way
• 47:03
  to close out. No, but yeah, I, I think he
• 47:11
  including today's home run, yeah, that gives him 8 homers in
• 47:13
  his last 12 games. As we all know, Trey Turner
• 47:17
  missed nearly 40 games. But I think if we had a healthy
• 47:21
  Trey Turner with the way he's hitting right now coming off the
• 47:24
  IL. That's what I would like to ask
• 47:26
  you. That's what I would like to ask
• 47:28
  you. He would be in the conversation.
• 47:31
  We talked about maybe not being a huge fan of Trey Turner, being
• 47:36
  an All Star. Do we need to issue an apology
• 47:40
  or are we in the right still? No, we're absolutely in the
• 47:44
  right. The the sample size was not was
• 47:46
  not large enough. But that's that's sort of my
• 47:49
  point. That's sort of what I'm getting
• 47:50
  at is what he's done as of late. It makes you wonder like if you
• 47:56
  extrapolate that over the course of the, the full amount of games
• 48:00
  that we've played or that we've witnessed thus far across
• 48:03
  baseball, if he was a part of that mix the entire time, where
• 48:07
  does he stand? He's certainly an All Star, but
• 48:10
  like, is he? And that's that's what I was
• 48:12
  mentioning earlier, like is he in the conversation for MVP?
• 48:15
  Certainly not the front runner, but like, is he at least in the
• 48:18
  conversation with this, with this kind of tear that he's on?
• 48:25
  I think I think I heard something.
• 48:28
  Where was it? Was it on the Phillies
• 48:30
  broadcast? I, I was watching Phillies game
• 48:34
  the other day or maybe this weekend and I think somebody can
• 48:38
  check me on this, but I'm pretty sure I heard somebody say that
• 48:41
  since the standing ovation dating back to last year, I want
• 48:46
  to say nobody's had a higher batting average than Trey Turner
• 48:50
  in that span. And I know batting average who
• 48:53
  cares for most people, not us, not not me, but some people have
• 48:58
  that feeling. But like, that just speaks to
• 49:02
  where Trey Turner fits into the conversation that I think a lot
• 49:06
  of people are having and saying that this isn't a good contract.
• 49:12
  And how people are still saying that in the summer of 2024 is
• 49:18
  beyond me. But the fact that he's done,
• 49:22
  he's put up the numbers and he's he's produced to the point that
• 49:26
  he has in just a small period of time says a lot about what he
• 49:30
  is. One ring.
• 49:32
  That's all it'll take. That's all it takes.
• 49:34
  Jimmy Rollins is loved there. One ring, one ring, and that man
• 49:42
  is in Philly. Immortality, ring of fame.
• 49:50
  That's all. That's all they need.
• 49:54
  Bryce. He needs 2.
• 49:58
  Great with one. They're OK with one, but he
• 50:01
  needs to to be like I am the Phillies, you know what I'm
• 50:06
  saying? I don't know.
• 50:10
  I don't think Bryce has crossed over the.
• 50:15
  I don't think he's, I could be wrong.
• 50:19
  Philly fans, if you're here, pop in the chat.
• 50:21
  I don't know if he's gotten into Ryan Howard, Chase Utley, Jimmy
• 50:32
  Rollins territory yet. I I well yet is a different
• 50:37
  conversation, but I I think he will.
• 50:40
  I'm saying if you want to ring, I think he's still in that he's
• 50:43
  still in that mix. Yeah, I don't know, because.
• 50:47
  No, because think about it for as long like you got to remember
• 50:52
  Bryce Art, like I swear it seems like yesterday he just made his
• 50:55
  debut. He's been playing now for, what,
• 50:57
  a dozen years? That's crazy to say out loud.
• 51:03
  That can't be right, is it? 2012 and a rookie of the year,
• 51:06
  if I'm not mistaken, He's been playing a he's been playing a
• 51:09
  dozen years. Why did you have to say a dozen
• 51:11
  like that? Everything that he's
• 51:13
  accomplished into his in his career to this point, because
• 51:17
  assuming he finishes out his time in Philly, he, he's like,
• 51:24
  Philly fans are going to be able to, to, to claim everything that
• 51:27
  he accomplished even in like, even in DC, like just like the,
• 51:32
  the resume that he's built, they're going to be able to just
• 51:34
  claim all of it because he's going to end up being in Philly
• 51:37
  for what, a a dozen years, 13. What's the comp?
• 51:43
  What's the comp in history like? Are you saying?
• 51:47
  Are you saying is Bonds crazy? Is Bonds a crazy comp?
• 51:53
  As far as not numbers, not stats, not not status or or
• 51:58
  whatever records, I don't care about any of that.
• 52:01
  I'm strictly talking about the Pirates have no claim to Bonds,
• 52:06
  it's only Giants. The Nationals have no claim to
• 52:11
  Harper, it's only the Phillies. Is that the comp?
• 52:18
  Yeah, but I, I think, I think. I think he will be there.
• 52:22
  I just, I think there's more pressure to him needing I, I
• 52:26
  think he needs more than one. I think he needs more than one
• 52:29
  to be like, you know what, dude, we spent all this money we
• 52:32
  committed you for this long because you have been talked
• 52:36
  about being the greatest baseball player on the planet
• 52:38
  since you were 16. And that's still a factor.
• 52:42
  I think that's still in play here.
• 52:45
  I think Trey Turner is going to potentially be a Hall of Famer
• 52:48
  when he's done. And one ring is going to lock
• 52:50
  him into lock him into like. You said Philly's immortality.
• 52:57
  Why does that not apply to Bryce Harper?
• 53:00
  I think Philly immortality is it's it's just different bro.
• 53:04
  I feel like it's like I need you to be Bryce Harper didn't have
• 53:09
  the come up, doesn't have the ceiling of Utley, Ryan Howard,
• 53:13
  Jimmy Rollins, you know, like Mike Schmidt is still Mr. Philly
• 53:18
  in my mind, right? I think that's I think that's
• 53:22
  very fair to say. So if you want to be Mr. Philly,
• 53:26
  we need more than one. That's just I think he'll be
• 53:30
  beloved, I think. But there's going to be a lot of
• 53:33
  fans that are like, you know, that's a long time.
• 53:37
  That's a long time to only get us.
• 53:39
  One, I don't know. You want to talk comps, look at,
• 53:42
  look at no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
• 53:44
  No, I got. 4 gold No no no. I got a better comp for you.
• 53:47
  Look at former teammate of of Bryce Harper, Ryan Zimmerman.
• 53:53
  Look at the timing of where that ring fell in his career.
• 53:57
  With every year that passes that Harper does not get a ring, we
• 54:01
  can only I say we, I know a lot of people can't stand the guy,
• 54:06
  but a lot of baseball fans can only hope that Harper at one
• 54:10
  point or another gets a ring. Every year that passes that he
• 54:13
  doesn't get that ring, he gets closer to retirement.
• 54:16
  Obviously that's how time works. If he gets closer to the end of
• 54:20
  his career and he gets that one that he's been, he probably
• 54:25
  wouldn't tell you that that's like the only thing he's worried
• 54:28
  about. I mean, he's he's he's tells
• 54:30
  Philly fans that that's what he wants, but we don't know exactly
• 54:34
  what his priorities are like what he's trying to achieve in
• 54:36
  his career. But if he gets that one that
• 54:39
  he's been chasing and he's all he's on the back end of his
• 54:44
  career, I think that seals it for him.
• 54:47
  Like that's all he needs. If he if they go out and win it
• 54:49
  this year and then for the remainder of his career goes
• 54:53
  ringless, then I can hear your argument for maybe needing more
• 54:57
  than one because it's like, dude, what did you do for the
• 54:59
  last? So you're saying when that one
• 55:01
  happens, when that one it all? It's all based on the timing.
• 55:04
  It's all based. On I think, I think the Ryan
• 55:06
  Zimmerman comp is tough because there's some charm for you.
• 55:09
  Sticking it out through a garbage ball club for 2/3 of
• 55:13
  your career there, there's some charm around you.
• 55:17
  There's there's charm around Todd Hilton, there's charm
• 55:19
  around guys that are lifers that you like, went through the dog
• 55:23
  days to get here. I think there's immediate
• 55:26
  pressure from from Harper the second he got to Philly and it's
• 55:32
  and it's not just one ring. I think that would be considered
• 55:36
  a failure. I really do and I don't, I
• 55:39
  don't. It's not up to me.
• 55:41
  He's still going to be a Hall of Famer.
• 55:42
  Philly fans are still going to love him.
• 55:44
  He's still going to perform. That's all fine and dandy, but I
• 55:47
  I think he he won't be. I think there's immortality and
• 55:54
  then there's Mike Schmidt level. And I don't think he's going to
• 55:57
  be Mike, Mike Schmidt level. I don't think he'll take over as
• 56:01
  Mr. Philly if he only gets one. I think the the garbage team
• 56:08
  with the Ryan Zimmerman conversations a little unfair.
• 56:11
  Like they were a four time division winning team during his
• 56:15
  time. They weren't exactly schmucks,
• 56:17
  no, but going back to that comp with Zimmerman, he, he was quite
• 56:25
  literally at the end of his career when they when they
• 56:28
  pulled that off or just about. He also started the organization
• 56:33
  though, so that's a tough comp. I I get that.
• 56:35
  No, I'm, I'm really talking about the time, how late, how
• 56:38
  late a ring can be. Even though he wasn't like peak
• 56:42
  Ryan Zimmerman, what's the conversation around Ryan
• 56:45
  Zimmerman, World Series champion forever?
• 56:47
  Nobody's going to take that away from him.
• 56:49
  The same thing to me is if that if, if something similar happens
• 56:53
  with Harper, that's going to be the conversation around him.
• 56:57
  He got the ring. He he reached the mountain top
• 57:00
  World Series champion forever. Would would he like more than
• 57:03
  one? Absolutely.
• 57:04
  Would Philly's fans like more than one?
• 57:05
  Absolutely. But for me, I think one locks it
• 57:08
  in for him. I'd, I'd really be curious to
• 57:11
  see what Yankee fans or, excuse me, Philly fans would say, be
• 57:15
  really curious. I.
• 57:17
  Don't know, I didn't think we'd be talking about Harper's legacy
• 57:20
  on this podcast, but whatever. Talking about a guy that's going
• 57:24
  to be sticking around with a team for a long time.
• 57:26
  Yoshinobu Yamamoto placed moved to the 60 day IL so he won't be
• 57:32
  eligible to be back until the middle.
• 57:35
  Honestly, looking at the calendar little over a month,
• 57:39
  you won't be eligible to return before August 16th.
• 57:42
  So give or take a month from now, just another, you know,
• 57:49
  just another gut punch. And then on the flip side, are
• 57:55
  kind of in the same vein of gut punches for the rotation Dustin
• 57:59
  May with. One of the fill me in here.
• 58:03
  What's going on? One of the more wild injury
• 58:07
  headlines you'll probably ever hear will miss the remainder of
• 58:10
  the 2024 season after undergoing surgery to repair a torn
• 58:16
  esophagus. What?
• 58:23
  My, my. That's the.
• 58:24
  Thing in your throat, right? Correct.
• 58:28
  Did he yell too much? The report that I'm reading says
• 58:32
  the injury, sources said, first appeared during a dinner and
• 58:36
  required intervention after May sought attention the next day
• 58:39
  for pain in his throat and stomach.
• 58:41
  May I? Think he was like choking on
• 58:43
  something at dinner? That's scary.
• 58:46
  Well, it said he sought attention the next day for pain
• 58:49
  in his throat and stomach. Medical personnel diagnosed the
• 58:52
  tear in May's throat and acted quickly.
• 58:55
  May is expected to make a full recovery.
• 58:57
  That's good, but that's that could be scary like I that could
• 59:00
  be like that. If he's choking in like a
• 59:03
  Heimlich move need to be made like that would be terrible.
• 59:07
  I mean, he was getting dragged on social, as you would expect,
• 59:10
  because it's just such a bizarre thing.
• 59:12
  But like, I'm not thing, I'm not going to sit here and and, and
• 59:16
  bring light to that because I'm like that.
• 59:19
  That's that's scary. Man, like that?
• 59:21
  Yeah. Yeah, You're like, that's wild.
• 59:24
  Your moments were like if if there was something lodged or
• 59:28
  like there was some sort of maneuver that had to take place,
• 59:30
  like you're, you're moments away from.
• 59:34
  Yeah, not a very good ending. That's scary.
• 59:37
  That's a scary, scary thing. But yeah, All in all though.
• 59:41
  Some fans suck man. Like we don't know the story,
• 59:43
  just they're human beings, jeez. Yeah, All in all, just a weird,
• 59:49
  or I shouldn't say weird, just another unfortunate blow.
• 59:53
  What was his? Timetable Was he set to be back
• 59:56
  He. Was set to return like later
• 1:00:00
  this year I believe. I want to say August maybe?
• 1:00:04
  Dang. I want to, yeah, I want to say
• 1:00:06
  like at some point in August, but yeah, just another another
• 1:00:13
  guy that you're going to have to.
• 1:00:14
  That's tough. That's true.
• 1:00:16
  That's real tough. Cross off the list.
• 1:00:18
  Yeah, I don't know. What was it a week ago I said
• 1:00:23
  don't stress if you're a Dodger fan.
• 1:00:25
  I don't know. I mean, Yamamoto's going to get
• 1:00:32
  sit, what, 6-7 starts if he's back on time before the
• 1:00:37
  postseason? Oh, you're saying when he's
• 1:00:42
  back? Yeah.
• 1:00:52
  Weird question. 6:00 to 8:00. Weird question, am I stupid for
• 1:00:56
  asking this? Can you do you?
• 1:01:01
  You could do rehab starts on the IO right in in AAA.
• 1:01:08
  You're saying like in an official capacity, not like side
• 1:01:11
  sessions? Yeah, am I an idiot?
• 1:01:14
  Yeah, no, yeah, yeah. Because then you get, you get
• 1:01:17
  recalled from the IL once you're set and you make the yeah, you
• 1:01:20
  make your turn to the rotation. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:01:23
  OK, yeah, give enough time to ramp back up.
• 1:01:27
  That's 6-7 starts. Yeah, yeah, you're yeah, you're
• 1:01:33
  good. Sucks.
• 1:01:34
  Look, we're we, I I would love to get over this hurdle.
• 1:01:38
  I would love to get over this hurdle of what Japanese pitchers
• 1:01:40
  mean in American baseball. I'd really like to for this,
• 1:01:45
  this streak to end of like, when, not if, when is the
• 1:01:51
  injury? Not if, you know what I mean.
• 1:01:52
  Like, when are those days going to be done?
• 1:01:56
  So I do feel bad for that. But whatever, It's the Dodgers,
• 1:02:01
  you know, we're not allowed to feel that bad for him.
• 1:02:04
  This goes back to what I said. Except Dustin May I feel bad for
• 1:02:07
  him. Yeah, that's that's tough.
• 1:02:13
  No, this goes back to what I was saying to start the season.
• 1:02:16
  I said it your you have lost your mind if you think that this
• 1:02:21
  is going to be a cakewalk to the World Series for the Dodgers,
• 1:02:24
  because stuff like this inevitably happens without fail
• 1:02:28
  every single year. Doesn't matter what team,
• 1:02:31
  doesn't matter what rotation, doesn't matter what line up.
• 1:02:34
  These kinds of things happen. To what degree they happen,
• 1:02:37
  that's a different conversation. But these things happen, and it
• 1:02:41
  doesn't matter how many games you were expected to win your
• 1:02:45
  division by or how much of A landslide is it's expected to
• 1:02:48
  be. These things happen.
• 1:02:51
  And rarely does the best team on paper to start the season run
• 1:02:56
  the table. We rarely see that.
• 1:02:59
  It happens, but we rarely see it.
• 1:03:02
  And I just feel like the expectations come for the
• 1:03:04
  Dodgers as the best team in baseball were, were even greater
• 1:03:09
  than. And, and I know I, I make the,
• 1:03:12
  the call back to the 2018 Red Sox, who were just the best team
• 1:03:16
  in baseball. They for all intents and
• 1:03:19
  purposes, ran the table. I mean, best, arguably the best
• 1:03:22
  team in franchise history. The, the expectations for the
• 1:03:27
  2018 Red Sox are not the same as the expectations for the 2024
• 1:03:33
  Dodgers. And I just think those they're,
• 1:03:36
  they're crumbling a little bit under the pressure that they're
• 1:03:41
  facing. Dave.
• 1:03:42
  Dave Roberts has been on the hot seat for what seems like the
• 1:03:44
  better half of a decade. I agree.
• 1:03:47
  So I'm not, I'm not writing them off.
• 1:03:50
  In no way am I writing off the Dodgers, I think.
• 1:03:52
  That would be silly. This is like we're just seeing
• 1:03:55
  it play out that they're just not going to cakewalk to the
• 1:03:58
  World Series. I think, you know, I don't, I
• 1:04:01
  don't know how far down this path we want to go.
• 1:04:04
  But like I think between revenue sharing and the expansion of
• 1:04:09
  postseason teams getting in, I think baseball as a league wide
• 1:04:15
  is more competitive than it's ever been.
• 1:04:17
  And how deep we are in analytics and how calculated every, every
• 1:04:23
  decision is made in our game. At this point, I think baseball
• 1:04:27
  is as as competitive as we've ever seen.
• 1:04:32
  So like, you know, the Mariners in the early 2000s or the
• 1:04:36
  Yankees in 98. I, I don't foresee things like
• 1:04:41
  that ever really happening again.
• 1:04:43
  I, I, I think that's a once in every 30 or 40 years kind of
• 1:04:47
  thing moving forward. I think baseball is very even
• 1:04:51
  even it's an even playing field more than it's ever been.
• 1:04:54
  Don't get me wrong. You still have your your
• 1:04:57
  Rockies, you still have your As and your Marlins and your teams
• 1:05:01
  that are kind of just picking up the scraps and in a weird place.
• 1:05:04
  But overall, like when you look at how good every team can be if
• 1:05:11
  their guys are rolling, I think baseball is more competitive
• 1:05:15
  than ever. So I think our expectations are
• 1:05:19
  just a little weird when it comes to them, but they kind of
• 1:05:23
  bring it on themselves in a way. It's LA.
• 1:05:34
  If you could, if you could share A1 sentence thought on the news
• 1:05:41
  of Dallas Keichel being DFA today, what would that sentence
• 1:05:46
  be? That sentence would be.
• 1:05:56
  And I'm going to fill, I'm going to fill the role of high school
• 1:05:59
  English teacher and I'm going to give you the freedom to make it
• 1:06:02
  a run on sentence if you so choose.
• 1:06:04
  All right. Well, I think it's a legitimate
• 1:06:05
  sentence. I think it's time to ask your
• 1:06:12
  wife if there's any opportunities in TV.
• 1:06:18
  Dude, I'm drawing a blank. Who was he married to?
• 1:06:22
  Oh, he's married to? Yeah.
• 1:06:23
  Yeah, yeah, that's right. He'll be at work.
• 1:06:25
  That's right. Yeah.
• 1:06:25
  Yeah. I think it's time to see if your
• 1:06:27
  wife can write a recommendation letter for you.
• 1:06:29
  Wow, yeah. You.
• 1:06:33
  I don't think you've out. You've ever like, come out and
• 1:06:36
  outright say that you dislike Dallas Kuykel.
• 1:06:38
  Maybe you have but is that? Kind of where you're is.
• 1:06:41
  This kind of. There's just a little.
• 1:06:47
  It's the Astros days that still kind of stick with me in my own
• 1:06:53
  irrational way. They were at at times.
• 1:06:57
  He dominated the Yankees for a few years.
• 1:06:59
  Yeah, there was certainly there was a confidence there that
• 1:07:03
  existed and maybe you could make it.
• 1:07:05
  In Yankee Stadium, yeah, like it was like, I I'm all done with
• 1:07:09
  you. Please go away.
• 1:07:11
  So but I I would I'm and I'm not saying that in any disrespectful
• 1:07:15
  way. I think it's a very good career.
• 1:07:17
  I think that that's like, I think people can say like, you
• 1:07:20
  know what, solid career, you know what I mean?
• 1:07:22
  There's names you can sit there and be like solid, solid career,
• 1:07:27
  nothing crazy, but you had a you had a decent career.
• 1:07:33
  I think he's. I think it's just time, you know
• 1:07:38
  what I mean? Hey, he got his, he got his ten
• 1:07:44
  years. He reached, he reached his
• 1:07:46
  benchmark. That's a.
• 1:07:47
  That's a benchmark. That's not a small deal.
• 1:07:50
  Yeah, that's a huge deal. So yeah, I just, I think things
• 1:07:58
  just that time. I would agree.
• 1:08:06
  All right, cool. Four starts with the Brewers,
• 1:08:08
  Kaiko posted a 540 ERA. Gave up ten runs and 20.
• 1:08:12
  Three hits over 16 and 2/3. That's not what you want, yeah.
• 1:08:15
  Made it past the 4th just once. That's that's we give you a shot
• 1:08:20
  and yeah. It goes back to your point that
• 1:08:24
  you made when we talked about him getting picked up by the
• 1:08:26
  Brewers is like just kind of throwing what you can at the
• 1:08:30
  wall, seeing what sticks. Dallas, Kaiko.
• 1:08:32
  Yep, doesn't stick. A lot of teams have
• 1:08:35
  opportunities to do that. I respect the Brewers for doing
• 1:08:38
  it for saying why not Because the the risk reward here is
• 1:08:43
  really a landslide on the reward side.
• 1:08:45
  If he is good, risk is it's four bad starts.
• 1:08:50
  Good riddance. Nice knowing y'all.
• 1:08:52
  Speaking about a lot of teams, I think we've arrived at the point
• 1:08:56
  where want to kind of wrap things up, looking at some
• 1:08:59
  storylines from the unofficial first half and then maybe a
• 1:09:05
  storyline or two about things that we're looking forward to
• 1:09:09
  post All Star Break. So maybe some surprises that
• 1:09:16
  have caught your eye. What do you?
• 1:09:17
  What do you got? My my main surprise is a quiet
• 1:09:27
  is a is a quiet Saint Louis Cardinals somewhat of a turn
• 1:09:33
  around situation going on. You know, I think they're what
• 1:09:38
  did I write down 3 1/2 back in the division currently sitting
• 1:09:42
  at the time of this recording at 50 and 45.
• 1:09:48
  Wanted to just kind of look up some of the like extended
• 1:09:51
  numbers stuff. They're I think they're very
• 1:09:55
  much like in like a like a 8587 win ball club.
• 1:10:02
  If they can add a couple pieces, you know, they're 18 and 12 in
• 1:10:07
  one running games. They're hanging around 5:00 and
• 1:10:10
  6:00 in extra inning games. They're 500 against the East in
• 1:10:17
  the NL, they're 15 and 13 against teams in the Central, 11
• 1:10:22
  and nine against the West, 12 and 11 in inner.
• 1:10:25
  In interleague play. They're pretty much even against
• 1:10:30
  righty lefty. And this is all happening with
• 1:10:33
  like a a pretty, I would say of our standards and probably his
• 1:10:38
  standards as well. A pretty subpar performance from
• 1:10:42
  your corner infielders and no one are not on Goldschmidt.
• 1:10:46
  I think when you look at what they expect themselves to do,
• 1:10:50
  that's not this. They're not getting paid for 22
• 1:10:56
  to 26 home runs in 80RBI S. They're not getting paid for
• 1:11:01
  that. They're getting paid for a
• 1:11:03
  little bit more. They're getting paid for better
• 1:11:05
  leadership, better defense. So the, the fact that you can
• 1:11:08
  look at the Saint Louis Cardinals team and say, you know
• 1:11:10
  what, 3 1/2 back five games over, not the great start to the
• 1:11:17
  season questions around manager, I'm surprised.
• 1:11:24
  I'm, I'm somewhat impressed. Not like the NL Central is like
• 1:11:28
  the greatest league in baseball, but I, I think I'm pretty
• 1:11:33
  impressed. And we, I think there was a lot
• 1:11:35
  of people that were like, you know, that's a pretty old
• 1:11:37
  pitching staff that you got going on.
• 1:11:40
  And that was a lot of the offseason talk.
• 1:11:42
  And I think pitching is what's kind of got them there.
• 1:11:46
  So so you're taking the over for 505 hundred or better ball.
• 1:11:53
  Yeah, I, I think they're in a position where they could add
• 1:11:57
  and they could try to fill some, some holes in a smart way.
• 1:12:01
  I think they are. And I think that they could, if
• 1:12:04
  they keep on this stretch, I think they could.
• 1:12:09
  I wouldn't be surprised if they drop off, especially these two.
• 1:12:15
  You just don't turn it around. But yeah.
• 1:12:18
  That I don't know if I ever updated you guys on on that, but
• 1:12:24
  I still get I still get notifications on that Ollie
• 1:12:28
  Marmel rant we went on where we predicted the date he was going
• 1:12:31
  to get fired. Yeah.
• 1:12:33
  And this was like over a year ago at this point.
• 1:12:37
  And I still get comments where it's like, who's who's watching
• 1:12:40
  this on like June 12th? It's like, and he's still with
• 1:12:44
  the team who's watching this on like July 6th.
• 1:12:49
  But it's fair. I wouldn't say I was the only
• 1:12:52
  one saying that, but I'm not going to sit here and say like I
• 1:12:55
  was saying, I'm on an island here.
• 1:12:56
  I think no, we were both. Making our, our, our predictions
• 1:12:59
  on when he was going to get fired because they at the time,
• 1:13:02
  I think that was the right. Thing thinking that too.
• 1:13:04
  So it's like just saying, yeah, not a crazy, crazy thought.
• 1:13:10
  What's your surprise though, for Seth?
• 1:13:13
  Call me a Homer, whatever, but. No, that's a fair one.
• 1:13:17
  This I'll give you. I'll give you a hall pass here.
• 1:13:19
  This is a fair. One thank you.
• 1:13:20
  I appreciate it. I feel like you got to you got
• 1:13:23
  to show some love to the Sox. Not you as a as a Yankees fan,
• 1:13:27
  but just generally speaking, got to show some love to the Sox.
• 1:13:31
  Actually just closed out a series win against the Royals,
• 1:13:35
  who we we gave some love to earlier in this episode.
• 1:13:38
  You're currently sitting at 11. You're going into the All Star
• 1:13:41
  break, 11 games over 511 games. You're 4 1/2 games back from the
• 1:13:48
  division lead. Yeah, like the conversation when
• 1:13:53
  this team finally decided to get hot, when they stopped tinkering
• 1:13:57
  and and flirting with the whole 500 socks thing.
• 1:14:00
  You'd win a game. You'd lose a game when they
• 1:14:04
  decided to actually kick it into next gear.
• 1:14:08
  The narrative quickly and like say what you will say it's say
• 1:14:12
  it's a gimmick, say it's a joke. The narrative has legitimately
• 1:14:18
  shifted. I believe in that clubhouse to
• 1:14:21
  forget the wild card while the Yankees and OS are like kicking
• 1:14:27
  their kicking themselves like each other throughout the
• 1:14:30
  remainder of the season. Let's take the division, you're
• 1:14:33
  4 1/2 games back. I I'm of the belief they've done
• 1:14:37
  enough to warrant buying at the deadline.
• 1:14:39
  There's still conversations coming from the front office
• 1:14:43
  talking about, well, we need to pick a lane.
• 1:14:45
  I don't know what more this team needs to do to convince the
• 1:14:48
  front office that this is a team that you need to invest in.
• 1:14:52
  That's what I was going to ask. And and this isn't like, I'm not
• 1:14:55
  trying to slight in any way like I, I, I don't disagree at all.
• 1:14:59
  I'm very surprised. I think a lot of people are do
• 1:15:05
  do are two questions. Are they only a few moves away
• 1:15:12
  And truthfully to your core, understanding baseball, not with
• 1:15:18
  bias, but understanding what rosters you've seen be able to
• 1:15:22
  do this type of stuff to make it all the way in Hoyster Trophy.
• 1:15:26
  Do they have that after a couple moves?
• 1:15:29
  And my second question is, do does this front office have the
• 1:15:34
  balls to make those moves go? I saw this team do what they
• 1:15:40
  did. They were they were a few calls
• 1:15:44
  away from May from advancing to the World Series in 2021.
• 1:15:50
  You and I witnessed that team take down the Yankees and the
• 1:15:55
  Wild Card Game and go on to take down the Rays and quite nearly
• 1:16:00
  take down the Astros that year. I see a lot of similarities in
• 1:16:04
  terms of expectations coming into the year and then how
• 1:16:07
  things panned out at the deadline and even post deadline.
• 1:16:12
  We haven't gotten to that point this year, obviously, but I can
• 1:16:14
  see things trending that way. But it comes down to the front
• 1:16:19
  office and the optimistic side of me wants to think that
• 1:16:25
  they're going to be able to pull the trigger because I've seen
• 1:16:29
  how frustrated the fan base has been the last two, two yeah,
• 1:16:36
  2223, those couple seasons where just a complete let down.
• 1:16:42
  And you're seeing now with the way that they've been playing,
• 1:16:45
  the interest is is back a little bit with this club, not just in
• 1:16:50
  the city, but just like their fans in general.
• 1:16:53
  And they're finally getting some love nationally.
• 1:16:56
  Like, I, I know I, I have a, I have a particular beef with
• 1:17:00
  power rankings. I think it's just engagement
• 1:17:02
  bait. But like the Sox are in those
• 1:17:03
  conversations because of, because of how well they've been
• 1:17:07
  playing. But the realistic side of me
• 1:17:11
  thinks that I, I just don't like, they may make a move here
• 1:17:14
  or there just to kind of check the box, but I don't think
• 1:17:18
  they're truly going to take a leap because they, they just
• 1:17:23
  don't, I don't think they've, they completely believe in this
• 1:17:25
  team this year. Are they done with Cora?
• 1:17:30
  Is the front office just over him?
• 1:17:32
  I think no, I don't. Think for him to succeed.
• 1:17:36
  I'm very confused. I don't know.
• 1:17:37
  I don't think they're done with him.
• 1:17:38
  I think he's done with him. He's going.
• 1:17:40
  I, I've, you brought me back after the suspension and
• 1:17:44
  everything. You brought me back to win a
• 1:17:47
  World Series and you have done nothing to support that mission,
• 1:17:53
  and I just think he's fed up with it.
• 1:17:54
  Contract wise, this is it, This is it.
• 1:17:56
  Yeah. He's going to get paid wherever
• 1:18:03
  he wants to go. I'm curious to see where you
• 1:18:05
  would go. I'm really curious.
• 1:18:09
  I'd like a win now. I would love to see them do
• 1:18:13
  enough this year to convince him to stay because I, I mean, he's
• 1:18:17
  literally he's on the wall back here.
• 1:18:19
  I got him on the shelf It it's like Cora is just on another
• 1:18:24
  level when it comes to managers. But I I just think he's
• 1:18:29
  regardless, I think what happens this year, I think he's decided
• 1:18:32
  in his mind that he's he's out. But just a little little bonus
• 1:18:37
  surprise or yeah, bonus surprise for the the unofficial first
• 1:18:43
  half that I had written down is the National League East just
• 1:18:45
  kind of generally more so like the top half of it.
• 1:18:50
  We're talking Phillies, Braves, Mets, pleasant surprise, I think
• 1:18:56
  is or I shouldn't say pleasant refreshing surprise is to see
• 1:19:00
  the Phillies kind of dominate the the conversation coming out
• 1:19:04
  of the vision. I mean, as we very well know the
• 1:19:07
  the Braves have dominated that conversation for for some time
• 1:19:10
  now. But I mean, we're looking at a
• 1:19:14
  Phillies team that is currently 62 and 34 where they're nearly
• 1:19:24
  30 games over 500. If they're 28 games, if my math
• 1:19:31
  hurts me quickly over 500, that like that's just insane.
• 1:19:34
  And to see not necessarily a pedestrian year coming out of
• 1:19:39
  Atlanta, they're 10 games over 500.
• 1:19:41
  That's, I mean, that's, that's notable.
• 1:19:44
  Not up to their standards, but yeah.
• 1:19:46
  But even capable of but considering the circumstances.
• 1:19:50
  But even more surprised than that, I think, is the Mets just
• 1:19:53
  kind of hanging around in a year that, again, three wins.
• 1:19:57
  Over 500 like that's. They were not expected to
• 1:20:00
  compete. They said it themselves.
• 1:20:01
  Max Scherzer made it very clear. He made it known.
• 1:20:04
  They told me they are not competing in 2024 and here they
• 1:20:08
  are just kind of hanging around. Yeah, Yeah.
• 1:20:13
  Can I go a quick bonus surprise real quick?
• 1:20:16
  No, no stats, no numbers, really.
• 1:20:19
  Quick bonus surprise is, is the Diamondbacks turning it around a
• 1:20:23
  little bit like this last two weeks or so?
• 1:20:26
  I think they're seven and three and then the last 10 and like
• 1:20:30
  they seem like they're kind of playing better baseball.
• 1:20:32
  So just a little surprise there that like 6 1/2 back from the
• 1:20:36
  Dodgers is like, I think I'm OK in this position.
• 1:20:41
  I think feeling OK, you know, and that's, that's they're
• 1:20:46
  competing and like, they're competing with teams like
• 1:20:51
  Braves, Cardinals, obviously, you know, the Padres and I think
• 1:20:58
  the Mets can kind of be in that conversation with them.
• 1:21:01
  All these teams have like the last spot could be ours.
• 1:21:04
  So I'm curious to see. But anyway, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm
• 1:21:07
  surprised by what I've seen out of the Diamondbacks just
• 1:21:10
  recently, mainly. And isn't Corbin Carroll like
• 1:21:13
  kind of slowly? Turning it around once I once I
• 1:21:16
  traded him, he was like, you know.
• 1:21:18
  He's showing, he's showing some signs at least of of turning
• 1:21:22
  around, I think. It bugs.
• 1:21:24
  It really bugs me. I'm not going to sit here and
• 1:21:25
  say I'm smarter than Major League hitting coaches, but it
• 1:21:28
  really, really bugs me. It really bugs me that there's
• 1:21:32
  some coaches that don't see this man that has over been over
• 1:21:36
  striding by a miles wider than what he was last year and it's
• 1:21:43
  like there's there hasn't been a fix at all.
• 1:21:47
  The man can't get on top of a baseball to save his life.
• 1:21:53
  Anyway, sorry said that was going to be quick.
• 1:21:56
  Hoping nothing but the best for Corbin.
• 1:21:58
  I think baseball's better when he's he's lighting it up on all
• 1:22:01
  sides of the ball. Shorten your stride a little
• 1:22:03
  bit, dude. Storyline we're looking forward
• 1:22:07
  to or I'm looking forward to in the unofficial second-half is
• 1:22:11
  and I'm I mentioned it I guess like a few episodes ago is
• 1:22:17
  getting to see how long this NL playoff logjam last.
• 1:22:24
  I put out a post I think like a a week or two ago at this point
• 1:22:28
  and it still remains true. 13 of the 15 National League teams
• 1:22:35
  either hold or are within six games of a playoff spot. 13 This
• 1:22:41
  is Manfred, Major League Baseball.
• 1:22:45
  And again, I know I, we, I feel like we just had this
• 1:22:47
  conversation recently, but it's the fact that we're at the
• 1:22:50
  deadline and at the at the break and it's still remains true is
• 1:22:56
  just mind boggling to me. And I think it's going to make
• 1:23:01
  for I won't even I'm not going to say because we we already
• 1:23:03
  talked about how the expanded postseason I think has
• 1:23:07
  negatively impacted the trade deadline.
• 1:23:10
  Yeah, but I think it will at the very least make for an
• 1:23:14
  interesting last couple months. Yeah, sure.
• 1:23:18
  Or yeah, last last couple months of the regular season.
• 1:23:22
  So that's that's kind of the storyline I'm looking at because
• 1:23:25
  again, you you mentioned teams like the Mets, the D backs,
• 1:23:29
  where it's like, well, you didn't really know what you're
• 1:23:31
  going to get out of them for some of these teams, you didn't
• 1:23:34
  even really think they were going to be in the conversation.
• 1:23:36
  But here we are again at the All Star Break and they're still
• 1:23:39
  floating around. Pirates, for example, currently
• 1:23:42
  a game and a half out of a lot of the.
• 1:23:44
  Reds in there like yeah. I mean, I'll run, I'll run
• 1:23:49
  through the list here. Nats six games out.
• 1:23:51
  And again, this is at the very second that I'm looking at the
• 1:23:54
  standings. I know some games are wrapping
• 1:23:56
  up here to to finish the weekend, but currently the Nats
• 1:23:59
  are six games out. Giants 3 1/2, Cubs 3 1/2, Reds
• 1:24:02
  three, Pirates 1 1/2, Padres half, D Backs half.
• 1:24:07
  And then you got the Braves, Cardinals and Mets holding down
• 1:24:09
  the wild card spots. It's going to be an interesting
• 1:24:11
  couple months. Yeah, I love that.
• 1:24:14
  Dang yours is better than mine and also you told me to be
• 1:24:18
  positive. I'm trying to be positive but
• 1:24:21
  like now that I'm reading it and I want to say it out loud, it
• 1:24:23
  feels a little negative. It feels a little condescending.
• 1:24:28
  Is Cleveland good or are they just really good at home?
• 1:24:33
  Have you seen the home Rd. splits I?
• 1:24:35
  Don't think it's condescending, I think it's a valid question.
• 1:24:39
  Like I'm not trying to be a hater.
• 1:24:41
  No. They're 30 and 11 at the moment
• 1:24:44
  at home and 28 and 26 on the road.
• 1:24:48
  I think they're doing what they should be doing that you're
• 1:24:50
  doing what you are supposed to do.
• 1:24:52
  If you can hang around 500 on the road, great.
• 1:24:59
  I just I'm asking, is this real? Are you real?
• 1:25:02
  Well, is there, is there, is there like what is it the
• 1:25:08
  regress to means? You know what I'm saying?
• 1:25:11
  Like. That's big time right there.
• 1:25:13
  Regress to the mean. Look, it's you who you truly
• 1:25:16
  are. That's what I'm.
• 1:25:17
  That's what I'm curious about. Let me ask you this, if you were
• 1:25:22
  the manager of a Major League ball club and I said you get to
• 1:25:27
  the All Star break and you're over 500 on the road, I don't
• 1:25:31
  care that it's only by what, two games?
• 1:25:36
  If I said you were playing over 500 ball on the road, would you
• 1:25:40
  be happy with that? I think if I was this good on
• 1:25:43
  the road or this good at home, yeah, you know, I mean, but.
• 1:25:50
  Even then, even then, even if you weren't as good as they are
• 1:25:53
  at home, which again, 30 and 11, that is insanely good.
• 1:25:57
  Yeah. Even if, say you were just 500
• 1:26:00
  across the board. Yeah.
• 1:26:02
  To go back to the point, we're just we're just talking about
• 1:26:04
  with the expanded postseason, if you're 500 on both sides of the
• 1:26:08
  TO, yeah, you know, you get what I'm saying.
• 1:26:11
  Both sides of the ball meaning home, home and on the road.
• 1:26:14
  You're in the mix, You're in the conversation.
• 1:26:16
  All I'm saying is that like when you look at like the if we look
• 1:26:20
  at kind of those power rankings, those unofficial power ranks
• 1:26:23
  that you were talking about, the Orioles are 28 and 16 on the
• 1:26:27
  road. They're 12 games over 500 on the
• 1:26:30
  road. The Yankees are 12 games over
• 1:26:33
  500 on the road. The Red Sox are 12 games over
• 1:26:37
  500 on the road, right? Philly seven games over 500 on
• 1:26:43
  the road, the Dodger 6. I'm not trying to be a hater.
• 1:26:48
  I just don't feel like the Guardians are real.
• 1:26:56
  I don't think this is legit, but that's my that's what I'm
• 1:27:01
  looking. I'm just what I'm watching for
• 1:27:03
  it. Hey, that's valid.
• 1:27:04
  I that's a that's. A.
• 1:27:06
  I'm not ready to answer that question.
• 1:27:07
  I'm ready to see if that question gets answered for me
• 1:27:11
  with how they do. That's a very, very interesting
• 1:27:14
  storyline and I'll certainly have my eye on that as well.
• 1:27:17
  But to to your point about those other teams that are much better
• 1:27:22
  on the road, Orioles, for example, over 500 at home, but
• 1:27:28
  they're 30 and 22, The Red Sox a game under 500 at home.
• 1:27:34
  That to me is more alarming. You need to be taking care of
• 1:27:38
  your business at home. And if you're maybe sliding a
• 1:27:41
  little bit on the road, that's understandable.
• 1:27:43
  It's the road. That's kind of how these things
• 1:27:45
  are supposed to go. You, you're supposed to play
• 1:27:47
  better at home. But the Guardians are doing
• 1:27:51
  both. They're playing exceptionally
• 1:27:53
  well at home and there were 500 on the road.
• 1:27:56
  So like, I'm not, I'm not really, I'm not really worried
• 1:28:01
  about it. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:28:04
  I mean, I'm just, I'm just curious.
• 1:28:08
  Sorry, I I, I didn't mean to come at you.
• 1:28:11
  Like no I. Wasn't trying to sound like
• 1:28:12
  aggressive, but I I'm just trying like for Guardians fans,
• 1:28:15
  for example, like if they're if they're kind of thinking along
• 1:28:17
  the same lines, like, oh man, like do we think this is legit?
• 1:28:20
  I'm not, yeah, I don't, I don't think I I think this is a great
• 1:28:23
  position to be in. I think I'd be thrilled if I'm a
• 1:28:25
  Guardians fan. Let's face it, they're what,
• 1:28:29
  like tied for second or third of the best record in baseball.
• 1:28:32
  Like I'd feel I'd feel great about that.
• 1:28:36
  Tied for second best record in baseball with the OS.
• 1:28:38
  Yeah. So I'm just, I'm just curious to
• 1:28:41
  see if, if, where's, where are the, where are the means?
• 1:28:45
  Are you, are you going to kind of come back down to earth when
• 1:28:49
  you're at home? Are you over performing on the
• 1:28:53
  road? I don't.
• 1:28:54
  I'm just interested to see if this team is legit.
• 1:29:00
  Then I do think they add. I do think they add, which is
• 1:29:05
  crazy because everyone at the beginning of the year is like,
• 1:29:08
  you guys better move Bieber, you better move Bieber.
• 1:29:10
  And I know he's out, but like, even more of that conversation.
• 1:29:14
  It's like they're still doing this.
• 1:29:16
  So yeah, no, no, by the way around, the Guardians not kind
• 1:29:24
  of just separate random note, Corey Kluber doing a podcast
• 1:29:28
  now. It's kind of interesting.
• 1:29:29
  Is it really? Yeah, I did not catch that.
• 1:29:32
  I would have never guessed. I would have never guessed you
• 1:29:34
  to do a podcast, Mr. Kluber. But hey, good for you, guy.
• 1:29:39
  I saw him. I saw him laugh and smile a few
• 1:29:41
  times and I was like, hold on. Am I?
• 1:29:43
  Am I off base by guessing that it has the name has to do with
• 1:29:47
  Cluebot? I think it is exactly that, I'm
• 1:29:51
  not sure. I got AI, got a look up, look
• 1:29:54
  up, 'cause that's got to be the most predictable.
• 1:29:57
  Yeah. Corey Kluber Podcast.
• 1:30:01
  No free ads, but you know, whatever.
• 1:30:03
  He's Major League Baseball player former.
• 1:30:08
  I'm not seeing. Hold on.
• 1:30:13
  He judge was just on there with him and then I think he just, I
• 1:30:17
  saw an interview that he did with Jose Bautista.
• 1:30:23
  He has like another host. The Casa de Clube?
• 1:30:29
  Is that what I'm seeing? What?
• 1:30:33
  That's fire. Maybe Casa de like under the
• 1:30:36
  radar. Dude, that's it.
• 1:30:39
  Casa de Clube that's it's more creative than I thought it was.
• 1:30:44
  Maybe it's just it had been originally our cool guy.
• 1:30:48
  That would be a clue, but I like that.
• 1:30:50
  All right, Well, yeah, again, no free ads.
• 1:30:53
  Not trying to push you guys to another podcast, but hopefully,
• 1:30:55
  I guess, Yeah. Anyway, stick around with that.
• 1:30:58
  It was just. Weird that I was like, that's
• 1:30:59
  the last guy I would have expected to do a podcast when he
• 1:31:02
  was done. Wild.
• 1:31:07
  How you feeling? I know, feel good.
• 1:31:09
  I know, I know, we're deep here, but this is the last episode
• 1:31:14
  this. Is 450.
• 1:31:14
  You know what I'm saying? This is 4. 50 and I know we're
• 1:31:17
  deep, but people will have plenty of time before game
• 1:31:20
  action resumes this. Is true.
• 1:31:23
  This is true. Consume this podcast Do we want
• 1:31:25
  to close out with a little game? Yes, yes, we do little game.
• 1:31:29
  You remember the rule, first player cannot be someone that
• 1:31:32
  we've named today. OK, that's.
• 1:31:36
  That's a good reminder 'cause I probably would have forgotten
• 1:31:39
  OK, a little bit against that player.
• 1:31:41
  And as a reminder, or if it, if you're new, first of all,
• 1:31:44
  welcome. Second of all this, the goal of
• 1:31:46
  this game, it's popular game, but it's the the the goal of the
• 1:31:52
  game is to say the same player at the same time, and you're
• 1:32:01
  trying to land on the same player using context clues.
• 1:32:06
  Yeah, within ten tries using context clues of the names.
• 1:32:10
  The connection of the names. Yeah, connection of the names
• 1:32:13
  that were previously guessed in the previous attempt.
• 1:32:16
  Yeah and if that doesn't make sense, you'll you'll see here
• 1:32:19
  yeah, shout out shout out Hank Hank in the chat is pause that
• 1:32:23
  we're that we're closing out with the game.
• 1:32:25
  I I love it. And he also asked, by the way,
• 1:32:27
  he said, is this last episode in Ace gear?
• 1:32:29
  Yes, this is this is this is it. And you want to purchase this,
• 1:32:34
  it is up forbid when we go on to streaming.
• 1:32:37
  You can reach out to the Hall of Fame in Cooper Sound and you can
• 1:32:40
  discuss details with them. It will be there in display no
• 1:32:44
  be washed and I had again to revisit the whole like well,
• 1:32:48
  shouldn't he have to wear it for the Home Run Derby live stream?
• 1:32:51
  No, absolutely not. No, I paid my dues.
• 1:32:55
  I paid my dues with this. I didn't miss an episode in I.
• 1:32:58
  Would just like to go back to the maybe the receipts and just
• 1:33:03
  see if we said All Star game or All Star break.
• 1:33:07
  I'd just like to see if that maybe that was it doesn't
• 1:33:10
  matter. It probably no, it it's a bonus
• 1:33:13
  pod. It's not really a fool.
• 1:33:14
  That's my point. We said every episode.
• 1:33:17
  It's not a it's not a technicality.
• 1:33:19
  It's literally, it's what it means, we said.
• 1:33:23
  Whether it was break or All Star game, the fact that it's a bonus
• 1:33:27
  live stream for the Home Run Derby, it's let's put a clear.
• 1:33:31
  Out though, let's put a statement out is that there was
• 1:33:33
  no Home Run Derby stream when the bet was made that wasn't on
• 1:33:40
  the table yet. So I'm just going to say, you
• 1:33:43
  know, maybe we just take it to the judicial system and and see
• 1:33:48
  what the jury says. No, this is a I'm all about
• 1:33:51
  democracy, but in this case, we're dealing with the
• 1:33:53
  dictatorship. I'm making the call.
• 1:33:55
  I'm not wearing it during the live stream.
• 1:33:58
  Not wearing it during live stream.
• 1:33:59
  All right, so good. Let's get to this game all
• 1:34:01
  right, The 1st guest. The 1st guest cannot be a name
• 1:34:04
  that we've already discussed this episode.
• 1:34:06
  And that's just. This is just the first one.
• 1:34:08
  This is just the first one. Then after that, it's free rain.
• 1:34:10
  Yep, Yep, Yep. All right.
• 1:34:12
  And you also can't repeat names as a reminder rule as well.
• 1:34:16
  Yeah. OK.
• 1:34:25
  This long. It's the first guy.
• 1:34:26
  I know, but there's there like there's the more we played it.
• 1:34:30
  No, no, no, the more we play this, the more that I'm
• 1:34:32
  realizing that like the 1st guest can really like set us up.
• 1:34:36
  Like if you're just, if you're way off the rails, you, you kind
• 1:34:40
  of screw yourself. But if you can kind of keep it
• 1:34:42
  within a certain sweet spot, OK, I got a guy, I got a guy, I got
• 1:34:45
  a guy. I switched a guy when you were
• 1:34:46
  saying that that's fair. I just felt, I felt a gut
• 1:34:49
  feeling and I switched it up. That's fine.
• 1:34:51
  I got a guy. I actually switched up in my
• 1:34:53
  mind, I had a guy that I said, oh, as I'm rambling, I'm going
• 1:34:57
  to switch. So I got a guy.
• 1:34:58
  All right, here we go, 321 Julio Rodriguez.
• 1:35:05
  I was really hoping we said the same name there, that I mean
• 1:35:07
  that's a mic drop head into the break.
• 1:35:11
  So Christian Walker and Julio Rodriguez.
• 1:35:18
  Christian Walker and Mr. Julio, this is tough.
• 1:35:32
  How you doing? I got a guy.
• 1:35:38
  All right, I got it, guy. It feel good.
• 1:35:45
  I feel decent. I feel decent.
• 1:35:47
  I feel decent. The logic's loose here.
• 1:35:49
  This is one of my fast and loose logic guesses, but I'm I'm a
• 1:35:53
  roll with it 321. Typhoid Corbin Carroll It came
• 1:35:59
  across my brain. We really did.
• 1:36:01
  I think we took similar approaches there.
• 1:36:03
  We just ended up on other sides of the Yeah, OK.
• 1:36:06
  It really did. Can't.
• 1:36:08
  Repeat names here. Corbin Carroll and Ty France Oh,
• 1:36:25
  oh, I got a guy. Oh, I got a guy.
• 1:36:28
  I got a guy. You got a guy?
• 1:36:32
  Yeah. Think.
• 1:36:35
  Corbin Carroll and Ty France. Corbin, Carol and Tyler.
• 1:36:44
  OK, well may I may need to revise here.
• 1:36:47
  We're two guesses in, by the way.
• 1:36:50
  Corbin, Carol and Ty France. Yeah, I'm just going to roll
• 1:36:59
  with it. Corbin, Carol and Ty France
• 1:37:08
  Struggling. I don't feel.
• 1:37:12
  I don't feel great. I don't feel great.
• 1:37:15
  Let's go 321. Eugenio Suarez.
• 1:37:22
  Oh my. Gosh, oh boy.
• 1:37:26
  I mean that my logic's pretty pretty solid there.
• 1:37:30
  It's very, very obvious. Mariner and Diamondback for
• 1:37:34
  sure. Eugenio Suarez and EC, I don't
• 1:37:41
  know where we go from here. Poof, I got a guy.
• 1:37:47
  No, you don't. Yeah, I got a guy.
• 1:37:53
  I got a guy. This is guest #4 All right, 321
• 1:38:00
  Kenny Randy Johnson. Well, it's yours.
• 1:38:04
  What was that logic? Or Mariner?
• 1:38:06
  Or Diamondback again? You're still on that path.
• 1:38:08
  It's not like it's not in the spirit of the game necessarily,
• 1:38:13
  it's more like team based rather than player base.
• 1:38:15
  But I was hoping you could just meet me there.
• 1:38:17
  But you clearly you you missed the.
• 1:38:20
  I was a fast little lefty that played for the Reds because
• 1:38:24
  Suarez played for the Reds. So Kenny Lofton, Kenny Lofton
• 1:38:30
  and. Who?
• 1:38:32
  Randy Johnson. Randy Johnson, OK.
• 1:38:36
  We're in that era that that could work all.
• 1:38:40
  Right. Kenny Lofton.
• 1:38:46
  OK. Oh, wait.
• 1:38:49
  No. Wrong guy.
• 1:38:51
  Wrong guy, wrong guy. All right, I got a guy.
• 1:38:58
  Really. Yeah, that was 4 guesses.
• 1:39:01
  This is number 5. Kenny Lofton and Randy Johnson,
• 1:39:10
  You got a guy, huh? Yep.
• 1:39:17
  I don't think I got a guy. It all comes down to, like, what
• 1:39:23
  Kenny Lofton do you think about? You know what Randy Johnson do
• 1:39:28
  you think about? Maybe I'm not even thinking
• 1:39:30
  about Kenny Lofton necessarily. No, I am crazy.
• 1:39:40
  No, I am. I am.
• 1:39:41
  All right, let's roll. Is it illegal if we're kind of
• 1:39:48
  like sharing our logic after each guest?
• 1:39:51
  I mean it's. I don't know.
• 1:39:52
  I don't know. I don't know.
• 1:39:54
  Because I I like, I hate it. I like explaining my logic so
• 1:39:58
  people can at least see the connection that was made.
• 1:40:00
  Yeah, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:40:02
  I'm fine with that. I but.
• 1:40:03
  I I don't want that to influence the future pick.
• 1:40:06
  Well, you know. What I'm saying?
• 1:40:07
  It sometimes doesn't because it's like those two names could
• 1:40:12
  be really far off, you know? OK, all right, it can't.
• 1:40:15
  It can't be based on all the names we've been working on.
• 1:40:18
  It's supposed to be based on the last two names.
• 1:40:23
  Did we just make our fifth pick or is this still the 5th pick?
• 1:40:25
  This is five. This is five.
• 1:40:27
  This is the five. OK, All right.
• 1:40:29
  So we're dealing with Kenny Lofton and.
• 1:40:33
  Randy Johnson. Randy Johnson.
• 1:40:35
  All right, I got I got a guy three.
• 1:40:37
  I gotta go. 21 barrier B junior. All right, Backyard baseball
• 1:40:45
  characters. Oh, no, wait, hold on.
• 1:40:49
  Yeah, No. Kenny Lofton was definitely a
• 1:40:51
  backyard, right? I'm not.
• 1:40:53
  Correct as an Indian. As an Indian.
• 1:40:55
  Yeah, yeah, that's what I need to confirm.
• 1:40:57
  Kenny Lofton backyard. Base I love playing with Kenny
• 1:41:01
  Lofton. Oh yeah, yeah, definitely in
• 1:41:03
  there. Oh, you got the big old noggin
• 1:41:04
  with the with Chief Wahoo on the on the lid.
• 1:41:07
  Yeah, yeah, I definitely remember that.
• 1:41:08
  OK, that's funny. But Barry Bonds and and Ken
• 1:41:14
  Griffey, junior. I made it hurt.
• 1:41:18
  We're I feel like we're working well.
• 1:41:19
  We're right there. All right.
• 1:41:22
  Let's. I went with like, I went with
• 1:41:23
  like fast lefty center fielder with Mariner days of of Randy
• 1:41:29
  Johnson. That was my thought process
• 1:41:31
  there, You know what I mean? Yeah, no, that's that's an
• 1:41:36
  excellent, excellent pick. OK.
• 1:41:39
  Barry Bonds and Ken Griffey, junior, I mean.
• 1:41:43
  I could go somewhere, but I feel like I could really mess things
• 1:41:46
  up. I don't.
• 1:41:48
  I don't want to go. I don't want to go too crazy
• 1:41:50
  with that because that really just kind of ends us, so I don't
• 1:41:53
  think I will. I'm going to go I'm.
• 1:42:00
  Going to find a new name. I got a guy.
• 1:42:03
  I got a guy, got a guy. I don't love my guy.
• 1:42:11
  Well, you can change it. You can change it.
• 1:42:19
  We're 5 picks in. We got 5 picks left all.
• 1:42:22
  Right. Remember that feeling I had when
• 1:42:24
  a couple games ago we lost the last one, but the 1-2 times ago
• 1:42:28
  where I I had a feeling we were going to pull it out?
• 1:42:30
  I have that feeling. I have that feeling today.
• 1:42:32
  I have bad news. I lost my guy so I definitely
• 1:42:35
  need to come up with a new guy. What are we?
• 1:42:37
  Are we one in three? Is our record one in three?
• 1:42:39
  Yeah, I'm back to my guy, Back to my guy, I think.
• 1:42:43
  I think maybe. I don't like that you're.
• 1:42:46
  I don't like the sound of you like overthinking this A.
• 1:42:49
  Little bit I, I'm a lot of overthinking it.
• 1:42:51
  There's a lot of there, a lot of that in there, yeah.
• 1:42:55
  It's not great. OK, well.
• 1:42:59
  Maybe I maybe I work one of you will walk it back for a SEC.
• 1:43:01
  Maybe I'll walk it back. I mean, this one kind of just
• 1:43:04
  seems. It seems like in your face,
• 1:43:09
  that's just me, all right? He says he says All right,
• 1:43:18
  that's not exactly the most reassured face, but.
• 1:43:21
  I, I could, I feel like I could go a couple different routes
• 1:43:24
  here and I don't feel great about any of them.
• 1:43:27
  Well, that sucks because we're about as close as we're going to
• 1:43:30
  get. I mean, if we're, if we're
• 1:43:32
  playing Battleship right now, I mean we're freaking splashing
• 1:43:37
  all around the ships. What am I missing here?
• 1:43:43
  What am I missing? I mean, just just, I'll give you
• 1:43:50
  the advice I always give you. Just think, let's roll.
• 1:43:55
  Oh, man, have to feel like you're going to kick yourself
• 1:43:58
  out of this. All right, 321.
• 1:44:01
  Willie Mays. I literally was going to say
• 1:44:05
  Willie Mays. Why didn't you say Willie Mays?
• 1:44:07
  Because because we're talking about two.
• 1:44:09
  I'm saying what you will about bonds.
• 1:44:11
  We're talking about rewind. Rewind What I said.
• 1:44:13
  I was like, if I open that door, we could be screwed.
• 1:44:16
  No, you shouldn't have opened that door.
• 1:44:18
  That's what I was saying. Because I'm like, once we go
• 1:44:20
  back there, it's like. Oh, you're saying the Willie
• 1:44:22
  Mays door? Yeah.
• 1:44:23
  Oh, OK, OK. That's why I was like, I'm not
• 1:44:26
  going to go that because that, but I think we're OK.
• 1:44:28
  Andrew McCutchen and Willie Mays.
• 1:44:30
  Let's roll. I'm nailed it.
• 1:44:32
  I'm I'm so confident right here. I feel great.
• 1:44:42
  I feel great. I feel great.
• 1:44:43
  I think you need to feel great. I think you need, I think you
• 1:44:47
  need to feel great. I think you need to feel great.
• 1:44:50
  I think you need to think about no, I think what's already been.
• 1:44:53
  I think you need to think about what's already been said.
• 1:44:58
  I think you need to feel great about this.
• 1:45:02
  I think not. You think I need to feel great
• 1:45:07
  about this? I think you do, Willie.
• 1:45:14
  Mays and Andrew McCutcheon. Yeah.
• 1:45:21
  What? OK, I got a name, but I OK, All
• 1:45:40
  right, what are we 6 deep now? This is 7 321 Roberto Clemente.
• 1:45:50
  Let's go I. Told.
• 1:45:52
  You I thought you're going to lay a bonds on me and I we're
• 1:45:55
  going to get that needs to be a new rule.
• 1:45:57
  By the way, if we if we have a repeat, that's a that's like a
• 1:46:00
  stroke penalty. That's a stroke penalty.
• 1:46:02
  No, no repeats. We lose.
• 1:46:04
  Yeah, we lose a guess. I thought you're going to drop a
• 1:46:07
  bonds a bonds on me and I was like, we literally just said
• 1:46:09
  bonds like how you're not remembering this.
• 1:46:11
  I'm just. Worried legend pirates.
• 1:46:13
  You know, that was my logic. Which by the way, if bonds
• 1:46:17
  hadn't been stated, I mean we that would have been set on AT
• 1:46:20
  for us if. Yeah.
• 1:46:21
  Oh yeah. If we got Willie.
• 1:46:22
  Mays and Andrew Kachin, come on. I am really, really, yeah.
• 1:46:29
  I'm really I I really, I know how we were getting close
• 1:46:32
  because I had Willie Mays. But.
• 1:46:34
  And then I said it out loud. I was like, if I open that door,
• 1:46:37
  there's no coming back, so. You got, we got, we bounced
• 1:46:41
  back. That's I think that's. 2:00 and
• 1:46:42
  3:00. Two and three, I think that's
• 1:46:44
  our yeah, 'cause the first win we got was all 10.
• 1:46:47
  Right. I think he was on the last guess
• 1:46:51
  so that Justin Morneau on the last.
• 1:46:53
  Justin Morneau. One last guess.
• 1:46:55
  So that was our 7th. That's the record to be to the
• 1:46:58
  the name that player Hall of Fame right now is Berto Clemente
• 1:47:02
  and Justin Morneau. Those are good names.
• 1:47:03
  I. Like that.
• 1:47:04
  I like the Hall of Fame. I like that.
• 1:47:05
  That's good. Those are good names in in the
• 1:47:09
  in the wins, in the win column. Keep a running list.
• 1:47:12
  I like that. The the name that player Hall of
• 1:47:14
  Fame. I'm a big fan.
• 1:47:15
  Very cool. I love that.
• 1:47:17
  What a way to? What a way to go into the break.
• 1:47:20
  Well, not not quite. I mean, we're heading into the
• 1:47:23
  break. But as a reminder, come hang out
• 1:47:25
  with us for the Home Run Derby. We'll be talking, talking ball,
• 1:47:30
  giving away cash, giving away prizes for the Home Run Derby.
• 1:47:32
  Come hang out with us on. Maybe some pizza.
• 1:47:35
  Maybe some pizzas. Definitely some pizzas.
• 1:47:37
  I'll maybe make some hot dogs. I think I am actually.
• 1:47:40
  Do you want to do you want to do a little hot dog thing going?
• 1:47:44
  Maybe if we have Ryan on if he would respond to us if he didn't
• 1:47:47
  big league us. Just kidding.
• 1:47:49
  He's in Italy for a wedding. He's.
• 1:47:51
  Coming back from Italy tonight, I think, or maybe tomorrow maybe
• 1:47:53
  I think. But still, if my man comes in
• 1:47:57
  with hot dogs, that'd be great. That'd be a great time.
• 1:48:02
  He might not make hot dogs, but I will make hot dogs.
• 1:48:06
  If you're in, can you commit to the hot dog thing for me?
• 1:48:11
  That's, that's tough, dude, because I'm going to be sitting
• 1:48:13
  on a plane at like 7:00 AM the next morning.
• 1:48:16
  That's going to be brutal for the I think you.
• 1:48:17
  I think you. Got to do it for the people.
• 1:48:20
  I think I've done enough for the people with this.
• 1:48:22
  Oh, next day. A next day hot dog burp problem.
• 1:48:27
  You think they carry over that much?
• 1:48:29
  That's less than 12 hours, dude. That that forget the next day
• 1:48:33
  that's less than 12 hours. Like the body doesn't care what
• 1:48:36
  time of the day it is that's less than 12.
• 1:48:37
  Hours. Here's here's the here's the
• 1:48:40
  rule is that you get a Coke, you drink that with your hot dogs,
• 1:48:44
  you get the burps out as as we're eating.
• 1:48:46
  I think those burps are out of your system in 12 hours.
• 1:48:49
  I'd like to think so. If not, we may have to talk to
• 1:48:51
  some doctors. Yeah, we may need to.
• 1:48:53
  All right. Well, we'll we'll discuss.
• 1:48:56
  We'll. Discuss something out of your
• 1:48:57
  system, but it's out of the burp system.
• 1:48:58
  You know what I mean? It's it's then moved into a
• 1:49:01
  different category, hopefully before your flight.
• 1:49:04
  We'll discuss off air what what's going to be going down
• 1:49:07
  anyway, Come hang out with us from the Home Run Derby.
• 1:49:09
  Other than that, I don't think you guys will be hearing from
• 1:49:12
  because I'll be out of town. We'll be in Colorado.
• 1:49:16
  Yeah, I don't. I don't think we need an All
• 1:49:17
  Star game recap anyway. Yeah, you won't be hearing from
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  us probably. I mean post live stream of
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  course, but you probably won't hear a pod until a week from
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  today I guess, probably next Sunday.
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  So I think we deserved a little bit of a break.
• 1:49:32
  I don't think we maybe missed like one episode this regular
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  season thus far. Yeah, did good.
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  Well, I had a honeymoon, but you know.
• 1:49:43
  Oh, true. Well, like, yeah, obviously you.
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  Did well post. Post coming back.
• 1:49:48
  Yeah, good stuff. Love it.
• 1:49:52
  Come hang out tomorrow. Don't go chasing curveballs.
• 1:49:54
  Love you all, and as always, looking forward to talking more
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  baseball with you guys soon. Until next time, stay filthy.