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2025 Season Recap + Award Winners · 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 Chinook Cedry this episode 582, I'll be your host,
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  Kyle Korne. I'm here with my Co host Nate
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  Reyes. Nate.
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  Welcome back. Welcome back KC Feels like it's
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  been a minute. It's.
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  Been a minute. It's been what, a week?
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  No, it's a lot. Two weeks.
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  It's been a week and 1/2 at least.
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  Week and a half, Yeah. Was the last episode the World
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  Series recap? Yeah, I think so.
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  Has it really been? Have I really just
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  embarrassingly. Long.
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  November 2nd, Holy second. Yeah, been a week and a half.
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  Welcome back. It's good to be back.
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  Yeah, be back talking some ball. Appreciate it appreciate you
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  having me. I feel like I I don't even feel
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  like myself right now. Feel like a guest.
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  Well, it's a pleasure Brand new edition.
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  It's a. Pleasure and an honor to have
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  you here on this show, on this program.
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  Yeah, Christmas lights looking good, pal.
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  Thanks, man. Thanks.
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  Yeah. The old school big bulbs, I
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  don't think you can even find those anymore.
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  Those aren't. I mean, they're, they're very
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  much new school. I got them within the last
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  within the last decade. They're not.
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  They're not vintage, but. I don't buy it.
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  I'm just telling you, man, those.
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  Those could be 30 years old and I would buy, I would believe it.
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  So we'll sell it, maybe get some lights up, maybe that's.
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  That's a good idea, Yeah. The new digs man.
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  Finally, finally squared away. Look at that.
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  Yeah, if you're not on YouTube, you're missing out.
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  But you are, man. What a backdrop.
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  Well. This thing's nasty.
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  Within reason, you know, I I can only go so far as to compliment.
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  Is pretty, yeah. Took a while.
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  Took a while to get it up there. A lot of disagreements with my
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  wife on where to put stuff. Oh, is she in there with you
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  like you're a little interior designer?
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  Kind of regret it, kind of regret inviting her at all.
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  That's tough. Hopefully she doesn't listen.
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  She won't, but I, as long as you don't clip this and, and put it
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  on social, we're good. Yeah, man, she's, she's very.
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  I, I go look at the wall, the the walls, hodgepodgey.
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  The wall is like the walls, the wall.
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  Wherever there's space for something, I'm going to put it
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  there. You know, she's very symmetrical
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  and she's like, now we got to if that goes on this side, then you
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  got to balance it with this one. No, I I disagree.
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  I like the the asymmetrical look that you're rocking right now.
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  Thank you very much. That, that looks good.
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  That that was actually the first thing I noticed.
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  I said, you know, not it's not not cookie cutter on both sides.
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  It's very, very well organized. I'm a fan.
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  I'm a fan. Thank.
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  You very much feels good. Settled in.
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  Settled in. Looks good, looks good.
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  Well, we have Speaking of settling in, we have settled in
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  officially to offseason mode. Apologies for just now getting
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  around to to you know, it was checking in with you folks.
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  The plan I think was to go last week to do this episode sort of
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  the season recap kind of putting a bow on 2025.
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  But then we realized little hard to do that because you the
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  whole, the whole purpose, the whole point of this episode was
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  to look back, reference our pre season takes, do a little
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  compare, contrast, laugh at how wrong we were, laugh at how
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  wrong some of you were. By the way, don't I?
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  I got the receipts. But then we realized, like I
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  said, that, you know, the we realized, oh, a little hard to
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  do that the awards haven't happened yet.
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  So we had to wait that out and good thing we did because
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  there's a little controversy here, as expected with the final
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  night. It was good though, that we had
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  some because the awards leading up to this point could not have
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  been more boring than you know, no disrespect to the people that
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  to to the guys that earned the awards well deserved.
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  But I mean, come on, there's no mystery to these things anymore.
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  But I say all that to say that we are here to put a bow, as I
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  said on the 2025 season, look back, it's like I said, the
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  takes we had to start the year compare with what ended up being
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  reality, Do a little award talk at the end, compare our picks to
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  who ended up winning the awards, Do a little bit of a deep dive
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  into that and then maybe cover a couple little more items and
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  we'll be out of here. But.
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  Spoiler alert, I didn't do well. I I mean, neither of us really
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  do. Well, nobody really does.
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  Well, if we're you know who, are we really kidding?
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  Who are we kidding? Nobody makes I would argue.
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  What would you say the average percent of picks that out of
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  like out of 100 people, what's the average percentage that
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  people are getting wrong? Just, you know, general
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  consensus picks, you know, standings awards, general
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  consensus standings, award picks.
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  I mean, how? Because everybody, I love this
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  time of year when people look back and they're just like this
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  age, you know, that's my favorite one.
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  This aged well. This was like, like milk, like
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  spoiled milk. OK, Jeff from accounting, like
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  sick. Where were your picks?
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  I would venture to say people are probably if if they laid out
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  the picks that we laid out, they're probably I I'm saying
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  no, 6060%. Does that seem fair?
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  70% even, yeah. Of their picks, I mean, 60 might
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  be generous. Is it higher than that 70?
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  5. 80 yeah, I would. I would push 90. 90.
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  Yeah, that's yeah. You know, and look, I think we,
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  I think we've gotten better. But like when for the length of
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  this podcast and the length of the Hot Takes episode, we have
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  fallen victim to trying to be too hot at times, you know?
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  You more so than me, I think. Me, definitely.
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  I get caught up in that. Yeah, I like getting caught up
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  in it, but I do get caught up in it.
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  You're quoted as as saying in some way, shape or form, every
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  hot takes episode that you know, I this is the hot takes episode.
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  I'm trying to keep it spicy or some variation of that.
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  And sometimes you go a little too far, but.
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  Most of the. Time I said I've got the
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  receipts and we're going to start with that.
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  So Nate, I'm going to have you be my my B ref guy.
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  Should we should we need to call upon you for for such a task
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  with some of these some of these pre season takes Matt from
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  spitting seeds AKA our guy from Chinook shot him out.
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  He said Dylan Cruz will be a 2020 guy.
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  I can already tell you we don't need to be ref that did not did
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  not end up being the case, but a pick that I think we were both
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  we were both intrigued by a pick that.
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  I think I remember being excited about it.
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  To recap, he was a 10/10 guy. Hey, shout it out.
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  Yeah. That's not bad, Matt.
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  Shout him out. Dylan Cruz, a 10/10 guy, That's
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  all he gets. That's all he.
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  Gets 10 home, runs 17 swipes. He gets half the song for half
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  the achievement. Yeah.
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  So he like straight up 1010 like on the nose you're saying?
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  No 10 home runs, 17 swipes. OK, fair enough.
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  Yeah. So 1017 guy.
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  Yeah. Dan says against all evidence
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  for the modern game, and since it's been a while a batting
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  streak, since it's been a while since a batting streak went
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  higher than the low 30s, we get someone approaching 40 or more.
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  I don't know if we get. I don't think we got anyone.
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  Probably the 20 you don't even have.
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  Anywhere close, you don't. Have to look it up.
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  Probably the 20s if I remember. I don't even remember who it
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  would have been, but I I think I only remember getting like.
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  I don't know why I want to say Bregman got the streak going,
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  that was pretty long, but. There were some lengthy on base
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  streaks this year. I remember like put we were
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  pushing. Yeah.
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  Maybe even 40. Yeah, maybe.
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  But on base, but hit, hit streak not not to be.
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  Brandon says a lot of people tend to underestimate them, but
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  the A's are winning the West this year.
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  Sorry, Brandon, you we were we were high on the A's this year,
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  but not to be. Jimmy says Anthony Rendon comes
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  back from injury, has won at bat, records a hit while
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  injuring himself again and is out for the rest of the season,
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  finishing the year with 1000 average.
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  I really like that. It's a fire take I it's.
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  I mean, it sounds, it sounds crazy like you read it, but very
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  much so within reason. Very much so.
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  Did not play a game in 2025 if anyone was curious.
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  That's facts. That's facts, Keith said.
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  Red Sox win it all, question mark.
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  Red Sox win it all, question mark.
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  Astros win the West again because they do.
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  Brewers win the Central because that's what they do.
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  Braves win the East because that's what they do.
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  Took it one step too far there, Keith.
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  And then he added this, which I liked.
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  He said in October everyone will say we should have known, and
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  then next March we'll be picking three other teams.
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  That sentiment plays, but it just wasn't relevant to any of
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  those three teams necessarily. It was we should have known with
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  the Dodgers, Jeffrey says. Mike Trout, comeback Player of
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  the Year and ALMVP leads the Angels to their first playoff
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  series win of his career. Wow, dear Jeffrey, there's
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  there's hot takes and then there's just the impossible.
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  And that's no disrespect to Mike, but it's the angels.
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  Yeah, did play 130 games this year. 797 OPS, 26 home runs, two
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  stolen bases, 14 double SA, 121 OPS.
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  Plus not quite the MVP production we're looking for,
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  but you know, they hate it. He's back in 130 games or
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  something to that kind of. I was I would have gone under
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  for sure. If you would have put that line
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  there, you would have said like 120.
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  I would have been like, I don't think he played under 20 games
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  this year. I don't know why.
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  I just. How devastating would it have
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  been had Mike Trout just had a renaissance year and it was just
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  completely overshadowed by. I mean, Judge was obviously
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  presumably going to be in the conversation, but then a fellow
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  division mate just seemingly comes out of nowhere and.
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  Would have. Stolen the show.
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  What a shame, but not the case, Lee says.
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  Reyes win the East. I wanted this so bad.
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  Rays win the East and go all the way to the World Series.
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  Major League Baseball is forced to play the World Series in an
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  11,000 seat in minor league park.
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  I wanted. That enough people rooting for
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  that, That would have been neat. I wanted that for no other
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  reason than the logistical nightmare that that it would
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  have been, Jake says. Pirates and Reds make the play
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  offs. Mets miss out. 02 out of the
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  three. Pirates was maybe pushing it a
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  little bit. Yeah, little bias.
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  I'm assuming we know the last name of that Jake.
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  No. No different.
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  Jake. Oh, all right.
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  Yeah, Jake, Jake was on to something there, the Reds said.
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  We will take your spot and do nothing else.
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  And sure, prophecy. Fulfilled.
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  Tell you what, did they ever couple more here?
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  Murray says. Even without Cole, I still think
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  we have a rematch in the World Series.
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  Kind of close. I I guess is that what we're
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  calling it? I guess.
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  I guess, I guess. Let's see.
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  I mean you guess the Dodger part right as?
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  As we just talked about, we, we, we should have known.
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  We we knew that was coming. Yeah.
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  Speaking of the Dodgers, Orlando says Dodgers will break the
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  record for most games, one in a season, and get knocked out in
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  the first round. I couldn't.
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  Now I would have subscribed to this take sure, before the
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  season started, because that just seemed like a very
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  plausible storyline. That was fun.
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  They were either going to run the table or they were going to
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  get bounced in the first round. There was no.
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  I don't feel like there's any middle ground with that.
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  Yeah, I, I mean, we'll get into it later, I guess.
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  I, I feel like they earned this World Series.
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  I feel like they really earned it.
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  Oh, very much so. So it wasn't like a just world
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  beater, boring to watch situation.
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  They had to, they had to work for it.
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  They got it. It was nice to see the Dodgers
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  have to put up and overcome with, overcome what these other,
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  you know, peasant teams have to peasant come, you know, poverty.
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  Yeah. I did get that right by the way,
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  but that was one of my hot take ones was I told everyone to
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  hammer the under on the Nash. The under.
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  Yeah, you did you. You called that.
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  Yeah. And for the record, I think it
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  was 105 1/2 games and they not a single team won 100 games this
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  year. That's the craziest.
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  One of the craziest takeaways from this year.
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  But I get, I mean, I guess it's a sign of good things.
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  Little more, little bit more parody across the league.
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  Love to see that couple more here.
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  Aaron says. Vinnie Pasquantino comes out of
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  nowhere and plays like an absolute beast. 40 homers, hits
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  330. What did what did Vinnie P do
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  this? Year.
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  Well, I know he missed a lot of time.
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  He did. He did miss a lot of time, but
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  what was what? What was he?
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  What did? What was the prediction?
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  40 homers, 330 average. OK, we had 32 jacks.
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  What was he trending towards? 32 jacks?
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  But we hit 264. So modern baseball, yeah, just
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  70 points off, but. How about it?
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  I mean those are those are more judge Judgian numbers as it
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  relates to the average. Why did I think he missed time?
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  He did miss time. Maybe not.
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  Maybe not a whole you said, or you said a whole he.
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  Played 160 games. I don't what.
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  Did he? Really.
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  Yes. I don't know.
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  What were we watching? Hold on, was this, are we
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  thinking last year did he he had a, did he have a major injury
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  last? Year, I think it was last year
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  because then he came back for the postseason.
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  Were you looking at the stats? What did what happened?
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  Yeah. It was 131 the year before
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  though, but like not that much, you know?
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  I thought it was some but like not a ton.
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  He definitely. I swear we talked about Vinnie P
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  coming back from a big injury and the Royals needing all the
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  help they can get. Was that not a storyline this
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  year? Apparently not.
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  I thought that was last year, but I, I, I thought he was hurt
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  this year I really did too. So I don't, I don't know.
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  Oh, let's let's round out with this one and we'll get then
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  we'll get into some, some other some takes of ours.
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  Zach says Guardians will be Zach says Guardians will be 15 games
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  under 500 at the break, but make the playoffs and lose in the
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  ALCS again. That's, I mean, it's all over
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  the place, but he touched on some very interesting and
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  relevant points there and he caps it with Emmanuel Class A
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  wins the Cy Young Emmanuel Class A won, won something he won.
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  Something. Trip to prison maybe.
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  Oh boy. Hang on, so the let, let's run
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  it back so. He let's run it back.
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  He said Guardians will be 15. Under at the break.
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  OK, so let's look at what would be All Star Break Standings
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  2025. Let's check it real quick.
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  Had to have been close, maybe not at the break.
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  I hate, I hate MLB.com. I just get final standings.
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  It's hard to go back. Oh, stab Muse, no.
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  Here we go, I got it. Baseball Reference on January or
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  January, July 16th, the Guardians were 12 games back,
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  right? The 16th would have been the
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  break. I believe that was wasn't that
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  the date of the Yeah All Star game?
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  Guardians were 12 games back. Make the playoffs and losing the
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  ALCS. No, no, come back and win the
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  division, right? Didn't he say?
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  No, Make the playoffs. That would have been impressive.
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  That would have been really, I would have, I would have gone
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  time traveller questions would have started coming up, like did
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  you write The Simpsons episodes as well?
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  You know what I mean? That would.
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  Have honestly, if you would have said what come back and won the
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  division, I would have done them a solid and just left off the
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  second part of that I just like, Oh yeah, no, I've nailed it.
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  He nailed it. Class A for MVP, is that what he
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  said? Cy Young.
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  Cy Young. I was going to.
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  I was like, that's. That's exaggerated blood.
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  No, no, no, no. Just Cy Young.
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  Just Cy Young. Who could have seen that coming
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  though, you know? His, his bookies or however that
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  works. I don't know you.
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  You know more about that stuff than I do.
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  His, His what's the term? Not his betters, his.
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  There's a term for it. I'm blanket, but yeah.
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  Kidnappers. Holding him ransom.
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  There's there's some conspiracies to be had there.
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  I'm and I'm I'm a conspiracy guy.
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  Not not the weird conspiracies, but.
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  But this one stinks. This one stinks.
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  The math doesn't math, but we'll get into that hopefully at the
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  end if we have time. But let's get into some of our
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  our picks. We've laughed at at at your
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  all's expense. Now we can laugh at ours.
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  Let's. Laugh at ours.
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  All right, our picks for division winners and wild card
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  teams. I had we actually, we both had
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  the Red Sox coming out of the AL East.
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  Yeah, a postseason team, but not winners of the East.
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  That was the Jays. The.
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  Central the record I had the Jays finishing fourth in the
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  division. Yes.
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  Neither of the neither of us had them even in the postseason.
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  Yeah, spoiler the Royals I had out of the Central, you had the
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  Guardians BB. Thank you.
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  Thank you. I mean.
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  I'll take it. Yeah, yeah, by the literal skin
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  of their teeth. We both had the Rangers coming
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  out of the West not to be. What a bummer of an offensive
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  season. Everyone talked about that
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  lineup. Big bummer.
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  Yeah, one of the weaker offenses in the American League, if not
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  baseball. Yikes.
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  The Nationals actually scored more runs than the Rangers, the
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  last place in at least 30 games under 500 Washington Nationals.
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  Any who's wild card I had the in order.
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  I had the Astros, Orioles and my Sacramento A's.
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  You had the Yankees, Royals and Astros.
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  The three wild card teams were the Yankees, Red Sox and Tigers.
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  So not, not great picks. Yeah, not, not, not exceptional
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  picks from the American League side.
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  The National League side didn't look much better.
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  I had the Braves out of the East.
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  You had the Phills, Bravo. I had the Cubs out of the
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  Central. Silly me.
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  Same. And then I had the Dodgers.
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  I mean, you want to talk about a, a pick what a what a sleeper,
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  dark horse selection, if I do say so myself.
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  And then you have the D backs out of the West.
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  And then for the wild card. Wild card, I had D backs.
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  Phil's, Mets again. Silly me, dude.
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  And then you had the Dodgers, Braves, and Mets.
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  Ugly. Horrendous.
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  Well, for the record, yours truly had the Dodgers in five.
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  Granted, it was over the Rangers, but I still went still
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  went Dodgers in five. You had what what I which I
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  thought was a great potential World Series match up coming
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  coming into the year. I mean, maybe not the result,
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  but the the match up. You had D backs over the Red Sox
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  in seven. I thought that would have been
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  an exciting match up. So those are our those are our,
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  our standings picks. Let's get into our award picks,
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  which I'm sure most of you listening are probably here for
• 23:57
  anyway, because that's what's that's what's going down this
• 24:00
  week. That's what went down this week.
• 24:02
  I should say for our player picks, Rookie of the Year, I, I
• 24:15
  went Jackson Job out of the American League, you went Jack
• 24:22
  Caglione, which between the start for Job and the hype
• 24:31
  around Caglione, there was some promise there.
• 24:37
  There was a a glimmer of hope. What did Job do?
• 24:42
  Let's see. Job went four and one with a
• 24:45
  422. It's I'm telling you, I had him.
• 24:48
  I picked him up in fantasy. He pitched better than what his
• 24:52
  numbers may have shown. I'll say that he made ten starts
• 24:56
  before hitting the shelf. He had a whip of 149.
• 25:00
  Not important. Jack Caglion owes me something.
• 25:03
  A -1.3 War. That's what I'm saying.
• 25:06
  At least my pick was produced a positive war like at least he
• 25:11
  contributed something to his. Mind my guy.
• 25:13
  My guy needs to pay the Royals back.
• 25:18
  That's that's a valid point. That's a conversation I think
• 25:21
  needs to be had over there. It's probably going to be
• 25:24
  brought up in. The Cbas in Kansas.
• 25:25
  City if you have a negative war. You owe us money.
• 25:28
  Honestly, I could see that being.
• 25:30
  Forfeit your salary. That could be the stumbling
• 25:34
  block to getting a new CBA done. Like the players and and league
• 25:38
  are ready to move forward, but the league's like right,
• 25:41
  actually, we need to get this iron out.
• 25:45
  We're owed money. Shut down style.
• 25:47
  We're exactly, yeah, we're owed money cause of Jack's 2025.
• 25:52
  So not great there. The Rookies of the Year as they
• 25:57
  were announced. I had a sex I that was a sexy
• 26:00
  pick but. You did because CAG Leone wasn't
• 26:04
  even and I, I remember, I remember you text texting you
• 26:07
  after we did the episode and I was like, hold on, pump the
• 26:11
  brakes. CAG Leone's not even projected.
• 26:13
  Didn't even break camp, not even projected to go into the league.
• 26:17
  He did play 62 games so if he didn't stink it up so much he
• 26:26
  probably could have played more, but he sucked.
• 26:32
  National League, I went Bubba Chandler and you went Roki
• 26:36
  Sasaki. All, all great potential for all
• 26:40
  four of these names. All the ceilings are are very
• 26:43
  high for these four names. Copy paste, copy paste Bubba for
• 26:47
  next year, maybe think about that.
• 26:50
  I might, I might. Go back.
• 26:53
  Might do it. Bubba Chandler four and one with
• 26:57
  a four O 2 across seven games, 7 appearances, four starts.
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  He did. He did record a save.
• 27:04
  Had a whip in .92. Roki Sasaki 1 and one.
• 27:08
  Obviously missed a great deal of time. 1 and 110 appearances. 8
• 27:14
  starts, 446 ERA with a whip of 1431.
• 27:19
  Postseason hero Postseason. Got to count for something.
• 27:21
  Hero but the the Rookies of the Year this year.
• 27:34
  Nick, can I can. I love that, Love the
• 27:37
  performance of Sir Nick. Sorry, we we'll get into the
• 27:42
  we'll get into that. You got a you got a thought?
• 27:43
  No. I was just going to say the NL.
• 27:47
  The NL race was really boring. I'm going to keep it real with
• 27:52
  you. I sucked.
• 27:54
  I don't think I knew Drake Baldwin's name on opening day.
• 27:58
  I didn't. I mean, I knew that like
• 28:01
  obviously he was starting to make his mark like when Sean
• 28:04
  Murphy went down, but like I didn't, I never would have.
• 28:10
  You got to put the whatever odds out there you could have put
• 28:13
  plus 100,000 and I wouldn't have picked his name.
• 28:20
  No disrespect. Just didn't see it coming.
• 28:22
  Didn't even know, especially with like, you know, Rokie
• 28:28
  Sasaki, like, I feel like that was like AI.
• 28:31
  That was my slam dunk pick. That was like a, oh, this is an
• 28:34
  easy, easy fair. Yeah.
• 28:38
  It's not how baseball works anyway.
• 28:40
  Shout out to Nick Kurtz though, And I think Jack Wilson was
• 28:47
  runner up second. Runner up.
• 28:50
  That's cool, my guy. Roman Anthony just there for the
• 28:54
  certificate, I guess. I don't know what, I don't know
• 28:57
  what, Jacob. Which one's dad?
• 29:02
  Jack, Jack. Jack Jack.
• 29:04
  Jacob Wilson for the A's as it as currently employed.
• 29:09
  Yes. Jack, I I didn't understand what
• 29:11
  you're. I was like, we're talking Roman
• 29:12
  Anthony here. Yeah.
• 29:15
  Jacob Wilson runner up. Roman Anthony third.
• 29:18
  I don't know what 3rd place gets, probably a coupon to a
• 29:21
  coupon to Chuck E Cheese or something.
• 29:24
  An expired coupon that you got to like really kind of maneuver
• 29:27
  with the cashier you. Know yeah you really got a sweet
• 29:31
  sock em yeah to where, though? To where?
• 29:34
  I didn't even oh, I didn't even see the expiration date on
• 29:37
  there. What do you can you, you know,
• 29:41
  we're here brought the kids. I'm I'm sensing this is a Jimmy
• 29:48
  John's an expired coupon to Jimmy John's for 3rd place for
• 29:53
  in the National National League. I think you're giving it too
• 29:57
  much credit. Why is it Chuck E Cheese?
• 30:01
  I was thinking like a Long John Silver's or something like.
• 30:07
  Come on, man, Just just just give me.
• 30:09
  Just give me the fish. We didn't.
• 30:12
  You didn't. I didn't see the fine print on
• 30:14
  this coupon. You didn't see the fine print on
• 30:16
  this coupon. Let's just pretend like that
• 30:18
  never happened. I give you this piece of paper
• 30:21
  and you give me this questionable.
• 30:22
  It's like a free month old fish on the side with a purchase of
• 30:28
  $10 or more. That's the best.
• 30:30
  That's always the catch. That's the catch with these
• 30:32
  coupons these days. You got to spend $25 to get 2
• 30:37
  1/2% off. Thanks, Long John Silvers.
• 30:41
  What a joke. What a joke.
• 30:44
  But yeah, Nick Kurtz, all 31st place votes, unanimous hit 290
• 30:51
  with 36 jacks and 86 RB is like, that's forget a rookie.
• 30:57
  That's just a that's a fantastic year.
• 31:01
  I don't care what your age is. That's huge and only played 117
• 31:07
  games like it. That's imagine if he puts
• 31:11
  UP130140 games like we're talking about.
• 31:15
  What's that? We're having a different
• 31:16
  conversation. One dot double O2 OPS. 3rd in
• 31:22
  baseball, right? Come on, 151 punches, though.
• 31:29
  We got to figure that out. That's all right.
• 31:31
  Still hit 290. I still cannot believe I dropped
• 31:35
  this kid in fantasy that that will forever haunt me.
• 31:38
  I ended up winning the league so it didn't matter.
• 31:40
  Real tough drop, but yeah, but holy.
• 31:44
  Smokes. Are we going to get into the
• 31:45
  general takes later? Yeah, yeah.
• 31:48
  Just checking. 2025 what is that 162 average come out to 50?
• 31:58
  So he was on pace for 50. Had he extrapolated over 162,
• 32:02
  that's a heck of a year. And then who?
• 32:05
  Did 200 strikeouts, also on pace for that.
• 32:09
  Yikes. Drake Baldwin, 27419 homers.
• 32:15
  I just don't think it was much of A race.
• 32:17
  I don't. You could.
• 32:19
  OfferUp $100 right now. I couldn't tell you came in
• 32:21
  second. You could offer Nate $100 to
• 32:24
  Long John Silvers and he's not not getting.
• 32:29
  Who couldn't tell you came in second?
• 32:33
  I don't think. I saw the graphic today and I
• 32:35
  still don't know. Oh, was it Cade Horton?
• 32:41
  It was Cade Horton and Caleb Durbin.
• 32:44
  Caleb Durbin, I think, finished third.
• 32:46
  Just a weak, weak race in the NL.
• 32:49
  Yeah, no disrespect. I mean, mild, Yeah, mild
• 32:53
  disrespect, but you know, good. Good for Drake Baldwin.
• 32:58
  Our The Braves needed at least a little, you know, here we go.
• 33:01
  They need a little something. This.
• 33:02
  Little fans miserable our Cy Young picks.
• 33:08
  I stand by I stand by both my picks.
• 33:13
  I don't know if you're going to be able to do. 1.
• 33:16
  One sure, sure, and I'm when I say stand by, I I don't mean
• 33:22
  that like oh, these, these two names should have won.
• 33:25
  Obviously they shouldn't have, but I, I don't I don't look at
• 33:30
  my pics and like cringe. I don't laugh.
• 33:35
  I'm just like I feel like I feel like these are strong, solid
• 33:39
  pics. You were you were close to the
• 33:41
  bullseye. You were in on both.
• 33:44
  Not it's not a bullseye. A Cy Young Worthy campaign for
• 33:49
  one and what could have been, barring injuries and setbacks
• 33:55
  for the other. My picks were Garrett Crochet
• 33:58
  and Hunter Green, yours Max Freed and Spencer Strider.
• 34:04
  Max freed at a certain point looked like I was smooth sailing
• 34:08
  to that. I You're good.
• 34:11
  I'm all good. Thank you.
• 34:12
  Can you close that for me? Oh yeah, sorry.
• 34:15
  Thanks bud. Cleaning crew.
• 34:20
  Like what is happening here? No, I'm all good.
• 34:23
  Thank you. He's like, hey man, can you
• 34:27
  blink if if you're in trouble? What's going on in here?
• 34:30
  Are you being held hostage? Oh all good, I got to get like
• 34:34
  an on air sign or something. Yeah, holy smokes.
• 34:37
  Figured out. No, I was.
• 34:39
  I was just going to say I I got to admit, I don't think I
• 34:43
  realized what kind of year Fried had when it was all said and
• 34:46
  done it was. Really good, but he had like a
• 34:49
  rough like 10 starts or something that set him back a.
• 34:53
  286 He went 19 and five I mean for those that care, 19-O5A286
• 35:02
  Here's the thing I've if you, if you win 20 games, you have no
• 35:06
  choice but to care like that's, that's that's got to be talked
• 35:09
  about but. That's fine.
• 35:10
  Finished just shy of that 19528632 starts.
• 35:14
  So he posted 189 strikeouts over 195 and a third innings with a
• 35:20
  WHIP of 11 O one. So that's that's a great pick.
• 35:26
  That's a great pick to stand by. Thank you.
• 35:29
  And like stepping in, you know, Cole out like that was somewhat
• 35:32
  of a like a ballsy pick, you know, step into first year in
• 35:38
  pinstripes. I feel good about that one.
• 35:44
  You should. That was good.
• 35:45
  That was good. I feel good about for.
• 35:48
  Sure, you were right there. Like if school wasn't school,
• 35:50
  that's probably you probably wouldn't.
• 35:52
  That and you got to. You got to take into account we
• 35:55
  haven't seen a repeat or a back-to-back Cy Young winner in
• 35:59
  quarter of a century. So I felt pretty good about, you
• 36:01
  know, maybe it not being Scubal, but Scubal said no, it is going
• 36:05
  to be Scubal. Garrett Crochet.
• 36:08
  On the year, he went eighteen of five with an ERA AT25932 starts,
• 36:14
  205 and a third innings pitch, 255 strikeouts and a WHIP of
• 36:19
  10/28. Spencer, great year.
• 36:24
  Spencer Strider has too big of a head for the hats.
• 36:27
  I don't the hat. I don't know why it looks so
• 36:30
  weird on his head, but it has to be a smaller hat.
• 36:34
  There's no way that's the same size hat.
• 36:37
  We got to get that figured out. I agree.
• 36:39
  I'm with you, Spencer Strider. Obviously not.
• 36:46
  Not the year to be desired there for him. 7 and 14 made 23
• 36:52
  starts, 445 logged 125 and a third Indians 130.
• 36:58
  What's in the water down there? I.
• 36:59
  Don't know man, it's just contagious.
• 37:04
  And a whip OF1390600 Green, my NL Cy Young pick.
• 37:12
  Hunter green like I it it still feels like elite status is like
• 37:20
  obtainable. Oh yeah, you.
• 37:22
  Know what I'm saying? But like Spencer Strider that
• 37:24
  year that that whole year, like really like, I don't know if I
• 37:29
  could just slap elite on you and like throw the ace status.
• 37:34
  You're saying as we get further removed, Yeah, I.
• 37:37
  I think he's going to be he's going to have a good career, but
• 37:40
  like I don't think we can just sit there and like should be
• 37:43
  like, Oh yeah, Ace all day starting the All Star game every
• 37:48
  year for the next decade. Like I it doesn't feel that way
• 37:51
  'cause that was a That's a bad year.
• 37:54
  It won't be starting the Major League Baseball star game for
• 37:57
  the next decade. I know that much.
• 37:59
  Maybe the? Mexican League.
• 38:02
  Maybe the next? Join us.
• 38:03
  Join us. Tijuana, you can ask me about
• 38:09
  it. You know, you know, Hunter Green
• 38:13
  on the year 276, he went 7 and 419 starts again, just dealing
• 38:18
  with with the groin injury I think set him back.
• 38:23
  And then I think he had a a a recurrence with it not too long
• 38:27
  after. 107 and 2/3 innings, 132 strikeouts and a WHIP of 938.
• 38:34
  Yeah, to start the year, I know it was early, but there for a
• 38:38
  couple months into the season, he was in the very, very early
• 38:42
  conversation for Cy Young candidate for sure, but not to
• 38:49
  be as the Cy Young winners were the aforementioned Tarek Scubble
• 38:56
  and Paul Skeens. Tarek Scubble becomes the first
• 39:00
  pitcher to win back-to-back awards since degrom in 18 and 19
• 39:06
  for the Mets and the first AL pitcher to do so since Pedro.
• 39:11
  So that's what I was referencing.
• 39:12
  First, repeat specifically the AL Pedro in 99 and 2000.
• 39:22
  I don't know, I I what do you say?
• 39:24
  Like what? What else?
• 39:25
  What else is there to say about Terry Schuble?
• 39:28
  I I he's I don't like, I don't know.
• 39:34
  I I. Put out him some help.
• 39:36
  I put out this tweet. My arm's that rotation.
• 39:39
  Yeah, I put out this tweet the other day where it was just like
• 39:42
  the. Wouldn't be surprised at all if
• 39:45
  it. Post Casey, it's been like five
• 39:48
  years. Whatever guy, let me make my
• 39:52
  point. I put out this post the other
• 39:56
  day and it was the wouldn't be surprised at all if it happened
• 40:00
  to line up for the Dodgers opening day 2026.
• 40:04
  And I just made this egregious line up with all these names
• 40:06
  that have been linked to or rumored to be linked to the
• 40:10
  Dodgers in this current offseason.
• 40:14
  And I had scuba slotted in his picture just.
• 40:18
  To be just to be problematic. And somebody replied and they
• 40:22
  were like, everything else tracks.
• 40:26
  But Scubal's not getting the start over Yamamoto.
• 40:28
  And I was like, let's not be a victim of the moment here.
• 40:33
  We're talking about the best pitcher in baseball the last two
• 40:36
  years running. What are we talking about,
• 40:39
  Yamamoto? No disrespect big Yamamoto guy,
• 40:42
  but no, this is the best pitcher in baseball hands down, no
• 40:47
  questions asked. Stud freak, don't know what else
• 40:53
  to say. Weird, funky, really good.
• 41:01
  Shut up Seattle University, though, Kid Kid had one offer.
• 41:05
  That's it. One offer out of high school.
• 41:08
  Didn't want to take it the call either.
• 41:10
  Wasn't even interested. Pops is like you know, just give
• 41:16
  it a shot see what they say. Good for you, good for you Pops.
• 41:22
  Shout out Dad. Love that for the kid love that
• 41:26
  for the kid How many All right so he's got 2 how many you think
• 41:32
  he he finishes his career with Terry Scubble?
• 41:36
  How many career Cy Youngs do you think he pushes with we'll?
• 41:40
  Give him 4-4. Yeah.
• 41:44
  I don't want to go crazy. Sorry.
• 41:46
  That's lukewarm. I didn't say it was lukewarm.
• 41:54
  Yeah, I mean, he's he's 28, be 29 next year.
• 42:01
  You know, he's in the he's in the peak.
• 42:06
  Like 4 is nice, 4 is generous. You know?
• 42:13
  If he was like 25 then I would be having a different
• 42:15
  conversation if he was. If he had his second one by 2627
• 42:21
  changes things. I don't know.
• 42:24
  If he had two sides by through his age 25 season, I would have
• 42:29
  some questions like what what sort of enhancing medications
• 42:38
  are you taking my friend? Because that that seems a
• 42:40
  little. Yeah, A.
• 42:43
  Little much. Either way, he was just fine.
• 42:48
  Good on scuba. Another repeat.
• 42:53
  No mustache this time. What?
• 42:57
  Are you talking about? What are you talking about?
• 43:04
  Who does have a mustache? You take your time.
• 43:13
  Another repeat. We're talking about the National
• 43:16
  League. Cy Young.
• 43:17
  Yeah. Paul Skeens.
• 43:23
  Yeah. Where does the no mustache come
• 43:27
  into play? Trying trying to track.
• 43:32
  He's a beard down. I mean, sure.
• 43:36
  Yeah, you're over analyzing. No, I I just think if you've got
• 43:42
  a beard, you also have a mustache.
• 43:44
  Is that controversial? I thought that was a pretty
• 43:48
  reasonable take, but now you have me second guessing myself.
• 43:51
  If you have a beard, you also have a mustache.
• 43:57
  Not always. If you don't have a mustache,
• 44:03
  yeah, I guess you still have a beard.
• 44:05
  It just looks very, very strange.
• 44:08
  Better reaction this time as well.
• 44:10
  Moving on. Better reaction on the couch,
• 44:13
  more friends around. Hold on, we're not just going to
• 44:17
  just zoom right past that better reaction.
• 44:22
  What? What was the bar?
• 44:25
  Anything. Yeah.
• 44:26
  Anything else? Just human.
• 44:27
  Human movement. Human reaction, human emotion,
• 44:32
  just simply moving your body. Fair.
• 44:37
  Then yes, far better reaction from our from our guy Paul
• 44:43
  Skeens. But again, another race, as I
• 44:50
  mentioned earlier, another race that had zero drama.
• 44:58
  Yeah. Who was in second?
• 45:03
  Christopher Sanchez. Oh yeah, Goodyear, No
• 45:07
  disrespect. Goodyear never had a shot.
• 45:11
  Goodyear though, Good Goodyear. I'd be excited if I was a
• 45:16
  Phillips fan. I would agree, yeah, I would
• 45:23
  agree. But a great year for skeins.
• 45:28
  Let me ask you, let me ask you the same question for skeins.
• 45:30
  How many? How many cyongs do you think he
• 45:32
  finishes with? I I'll go ahead and.
• 45:37
  Don't put him in. You're not putting him in in
• 45:39
  Clemens territory. I think he's going to sniff it.
• 45:43
  You think he's going to sniff I? Think he's going to sniff it?
• 45:46
  You think? He's going to sniff 7 Cy Youngs.
• 45:48
  I think he's going to, I think he's going to sniff it.
• 45:51
  I think I'll, if you put the number at 5:00, I'll take the
• 45:53
  over. Now it depends on what league,
• 46:02
  you know, how things, if things get shaken up, if you got to
• 46:07
  deal with Scubal, if he does, if he does hop over as he gets
• 46:12
  traded, if he signs in in the other league, then you know,
• 46:15
  like I don't know. If he ends up pitching for a
• 46:20
  hated team in the American League East, don't want that,
• 46:26
  would love that. Nope, fan of that, would
• 46:28
  absolutely hate it. But we'll, we'll, we'll
• 46:32
  hopefully touch on that at the end.
• 46:33
  But on the year finishes and it's just 10 and 10 with a, the
• 46:39
  197. I, I'm sorry, I just can't, I,
• 46:42
  I, I can't get past the 10 and 10 mark.
• 46:45
  Like, I know that it doesn't matter.
• 46:47
  I know that nobody cares. But it, it just speaks to the
• 46:51
  state of the team that employs him that we have a Cy Young
• 46:56
  winner finishing 10 and 10 on the year.
• 46:59
  That's just funny to me. That's just funny to me.
• 47:02
  Finish the position. To move just move that staff
• 47:06
  further down the line then like if no one cares why is it like
• 47:11
  bang right there after game starts on the on the line?
• 47:16
  Like slide it down. It's interesting.
• 47:20
  Real quick side note, you you, your comment there made me think
• 47:24
  of it. I was looking at a picture I
• 47:26
  took at a Nats game the other day.
• 47:28
  I was just going through small pictures and this was like, I
• 47:32
  think over it. This actually, no, this was,
• 47:36
  this was like 2008 maybe. And that you could see the
• 47:39
  scoreboard in the background and I'm just looking at 'cause I'm
• 47:42
  like, oh, OK, who's in the, who's in the lineup or whatever.
• 47:45
  And I was looking at the stats that were highlighted on the
• 47:51
  scoreboard, 'cause I'm like, let me see, like how the evolution
• 47:56
  of stats is reflected on the scoreboard.
• 47:58
  And it was just your typical like back in the day, it was
• 48:01
  just average, homers, RBI. And I was just thinking
• 48:06
  comparing it to now. And it's like, there you go to
• 48:08
  some part, you go to some ballparks, batting average is at
• 48:12
  like the end of the line, if it's even up there.
• 48:15
  It's just like OPSWRC plus. So just an interesting thought I
• 48:20
  had the other day. Very interesting realization I
• 48:23
  had. So you're putting, you're
• 48:27
  putting it at at your, your you're setting the line at 5,
• 48:31
  you're taking the over. Yeah, but I mean, he's
• 48:36
  immediately got 2. So no, yeah, rookie the year
• 48:41
  last year. That's why I was confused
• 48:47
  earlier. You're like another.
• 48:48
  One Cy Young last year. Dude, another repeat.
• 48:51
  Am I losing my mind? Another repeat.
• 48:54
  Who won last year? Oh, it came in 3rd last year.
• 48:59
  Another repeat. No mustache.
• 49:01
  I'm like. I thought he won last year.
• 49:03
  I'm lost on both both accounts. I just thought I'd like.
• 49:07
  I guess I chalked it up that way.
• 49:11
  It did feel that way, and I think that contributed to his
• 49:14
  reaction last year where he was like, I, I mean, this is sick,
• 49:16
  but like, I wanted the, I wanted the big one, you know?
• 49:19
  I guess it's my like, yeah, because I saw that video over
• 49:22
  and over again and I was like, maybe in my brain I logged it as
• 49:29
  back-to-back. Well, I'm just going to go on
• 49:31
  the record and say he's going to win another one next year.
• 49:34
  So there you go. Next back-to-back.
• 49:36
  There you go. OK, so now you're you're you're
• 49:38
  checking the box and back-to-back.
• 49:40
  It's coming. I have it.
• 49:41
  You guys don't get it like I was.
• 49:43
  I'm right, just not yet. He's seen it, he's seen it.
• 49:47
  We just haven't caught up yet. We already know.
• 49:51
  We haven't gotten there yet. We haven't gotten there yet.
• 49:54
  I got some questions I got to ask you off air then if if
• 49:56
  you're if you're that far ahead in the stream.
• 50:01
  You guys, you guys should invest in this little thing called
• 50:03
  Amazon. It's going to.
• 50:06
  It's really going to take off, No, But finishing this line 10
• 50:13
  and 10197200 and 16 strikeouts and 187 2/3 innings.
• 50:24
  Wheeler. Wheeler last year.
• 50:26
  No, Wheeler is still chasing it. Remember who?
• 50:29
  Won last year I'm. Oh, it's Chris Sale.
• 50:38
  These years all run together. Why did I think Chris Sales Cy
• 50:41
  Young was like 2 years ago? That's what.
• 50:43
  Happens when we don't take breaks.
• 50:44
  People. We just, it's all one.
• 50:46
  It's one year. It's 1 continuous.
• 50:50
  I thought that was a long time ago.
• 50:54
  One continuous mental flow. Yeah.
• 51:00
  We move on, I. Don't know Ball.
• 51:03
  Someone's listening. They're like these idiots don't
• 51:05
  know ball. That's fine.
• 51:06
  I I could have got, I could have arrived at Chris Sale, but I
• 51:11
  would have needed some time because, like I said, I'd I
• 51:13
  could have sworn that sighing was two years ago.
• 51:19
  Yeah. No.
• 51:21
  Hold on, hold on, hold on. OK.
• 51:30
  I was like Chris Sale then went back-to-back.
• 51:34
  Did he? No, he didn't.
• 51:37
  We're good. We're good.
• 51:40
  We move on to MVPS. My actually, no.
• 51:45
  Both of our picks identical. The kid friend of the pod, Bobby
• 51:53
  Witt Junior out of the American League and Shohei Otani out of
• 51:58
  the National League. Those were our pre season picks.
• 52:01
  We were half right. We were half right.
• 52:09
  And truth be told, I think we we took the cop out in that league.
• 52:16
  A little, but we needed points on the board we.
• 52:19
  Yeah, I mean, you got to, you got to take the points when you
• 52:21
  can, where you can get them. Bobby Witt on the year posted a
• 52:27
  WAR 7.1 at 23 Ding dongs with a 295 average, 88 ribs, OPS 852
• 52:36
  and an OPS plus A136A Goodyear. A very, very, very solid year.
• 52:42
  Put that over 15 years, good to go.
• 52:47
  I did. I see he finished fourth.
• 52:51
  Yeah, I mean that. I think that's fair.
• 52:54
  What is fourth in the in the ALMVP race get you now mind you,
• 53:04
  it's like those it's further down than third like we talked
• 53:07
  about earlier, but it is for MVP as opposed to Rookie of the
• 53:11
  year. So a little a little different
• 53:13
  there. Yeah.
• 53:16
  Oh, I don't know. That's hard to say.
• 53:23
  What's something that's like? It gets you a partially
• 53:26
  scratched off $50 scratch off from your local gas station.
• 53:31
  So there's still a chance, but your odds are a little more
• 53:36
  slim. I was going to say like 10% off
• 53:39
  like the the McAfee security thing on on your computer that
• 53:43
  pops up. With a purchase of a two year
• 53:46
  subscription. Yeah, yeah.
• 53:48
  You get 10% off like it's expiring soon and you're you got
• 53:54
  314 viruses on this thing. You need this.
• 53:59
  You need this. It does expire at the end of
• 54:02
  this month, so get on it. Yeah.
• 54:05
  And then you squint your eyes a little more and realize,
• 54:07
  actually, it was November of last.
• 54:09
  Year wait, wait, what if it's like those those like refinance
• 54:13
  emails that you get for like your car or you're like it'll go
• 54:18
  up in cost and be higher percentage that's probably.
• 54:24
  I don't know what kind of sketchy scam emails you're
• 54:27
  getting, but I get a lot. I don't know if I don't know if
• 54:30
  I'm getting those, but the American League winner, as I
• 54:36
  believe we alluded to earlier in this very episode, Aaron Judge,
• 54:43
  talk to me. What are your thoughts?
• 54:46
  What are your thoughts on your boy notching his third?
• 54:51
  Third MVP should be 4th. I can't.
• 54:56
  I can't disagree with you on that.
• 54:58
  Yeah, Rob from L2 they L2 they but dope man exciting.
• 55:05
  I think it like starts to put him into some some serious
• 55:09
  legend talk. All right, I'll just we'll just
• 55:15
  skip right to it. You don't care what I think of
• 55:17
  on the Yankee side, who I think it was Brent Rooker who came out
• 55:25
  with the with the recent quote you.
• 55:27
  Want me to read it liked? Yeah, can I read it?
• 55:30
  There's an actual. Post I think Brent Tweet.
• 55:34
  Brent Rooker, who we did in fact see in the Atlanta airport the
• 55:39
  morning after the All Star game. A lot of.
• 55:42
  Awkward eye contact waiting in security line A.
• 55:44
  Lot of awkward eye contact but was attending very well.
• 55:49
  I might add to his his children plural.
• 55:54
  I think he has multiple kids. His his wife was there as well I
• 55:57
  believe. Waiting in the line like like a
• 55:59
  regular dude. Just flying flying economy like
• 56:04
  the rest of us 'cause the A's can't really help him out.
• 56:10
  That Brent Rooker posted yesterday, he said P yesterday,
• 56:15
  meaning the day before the MVP was announced.
• 56:18
  He said PSA if the person you want to win ALMVP tomorrow does
• 56:22
  not win. It does not mean no.
• 56:28
  He said if the person you want to win ALMVP tomorrow does not
• 56:31
  win. It does no good to try to
• 56:34
  diminish or disparage the accomplishments of the other.
• 56:38
  We got to witness 2 great dudes do otherworldly and historic
• 56:41
  things this season and it truly sucks that one of them has to
• 56:46
  not win. Don't be a hater, just enjoy the
• 56:49
  greatness. 100% accurate and I know no one's going to believe
• 56:53
  me, but I I would have been OK if judge didn't win it.
• 56:58
  Like I really would have been fine.
• 57:00
  Like I, I understand the argument for Cal Raleigh.
• 57:05
  Like I think it's, I think the narrative and the the, the
• 57:13
  weight of in such a long game and such like a game that has so
• 57:19
  many things that have happened and so many incredible players
• 57:22
  do incredible things. For us to be in 2025 and get
• 57:26
  like a first, you know, a first time switch hitter going 60
• 57:32
  behind the dish, like that's like that is extremely valuable.
• 57:37
  And I would have been OK. I really would have this.
• 57:40
  I think I was a little more heated in season as we were
• 57:45
  coming down the stretch, but now like that, as both teams have,
• 57:52
  you know, been bounced in in the post season's over, like, you
• 57:55
  know, kind of giving me some time to settle down.
• 57:56
  Like I really would have been OK, because it it is incredible.
• 58:00
  And I do hope that this story of Cal Raleigh in 2025 gets to be
• 58:05
  talked about, not in the he got robbed way, but just sheer
• 58:09
  greatness, because on the counter side, like Aaron Judge
• 58:14
  really did have one of the greatest offensive seasons
• 58:17
  again. And I don't think we can just
• 58:21
  tear that down. I don't think we can slap the
• 58:25
  oh, East Coast Yankee bias on it.
• 58:27
  Like no, the reality is that if you remove the names and the
• 58:30
  teams and the and the graphics off of the players, A&B player A
• 58:36
  had a historic season and deserved the trophy too and got
• 58:41
  it. I mean, was this was this one of
• 58:43
  the best season? I mean, or no, and certainly one
• 58:46
  of the best, but was this possibly his best season of his
• 58:49
  career because of just the the all around nature?
• 58:53
  Because again, the biggest, the biggest knock, yeah, the biggest
• 58:56
  knock I feel like was well, this guy just strikes out a ton and
• 59:00
  just hits homers. Well, he had 53 homers, hit 331
• 59:04
  and had an OPS at 2:15. Which by the way, I don't think
• 59:07
  anyone has hit over. I, I don't even know, maybe
• 59:12
  hasn't hit over 40 home runs and won the batting title.
• 59:18
  I think there was some kind of correlation there.
• 59:20
  Maybe it was 50 though. I had a note here, I think.
• 59:24
  I think I had that. Yeah, I think, yeah, I think
• 59:33
  that was right. I mean, if you're asking me, I I
• 59:38
  probably would have taken last year over this one.
• 59:46
  What did he hit last year? He hit 322 last year.
• 59:50
  Really. Yeah.
• 59:51
  Wow. With an 1159 OPS, so 15 points
• 59:57
  higher, 225 OPS plus 10 points higher, a seven O 1 slug.
• 1:00:05
  Like I'm not trying to throw shade, but we were just talking
• 1:00:07
  about Mike Trout having a 797 OPS like 20 minutes ago OPS and
• 1:00:15
  judge had a seven O 1 on base or excuse me, slug last year.
• 1:00:20
  Like that's like he's doing like these are two consecutive insane
• 1:00:24
  seasons and it's it's very impressive.
• 1:00:30
  The walks, the walk to strikeout ratio ratio has definitely
• 1:00:34
  gotten closer and closer because he's gotten more patient.
• 1:00:38
  The strikeouts are still what they are.
• 1:00:40
  I mean, you know, 160 strikeouts.
• 1:00:43
  I think if you slap the this is today's baseball on it, it's
• 1:00:47
  like that's pretty good. If he's playing 20 years ago,
• 1:00:51
  you're like, yeah, that's pretty high.
• 1:00:52
  But like 124 walks this year. I mean, it's 137 runs.
• 1:01:02
  He had 179 hits. He had 180 last year.
• 1:01:05
  These are just back-to-back incredible seasons.
• 1:01:09
  Incredible seasons. And not to like like you said,
• 1:01:12
  not to take away at all from what Cal Raleigh did as you
• 1:01:17
  mentioned first multiple like just things we haven't.
• 1:01:22
  Seen. It's just insane.
• 1:01:24
  Things we haven't seen the 7th player to hit 60 homers, mind
• 1:01:29
  you, as a you did this as a catcher.
• 1:01:32
  Switch hitter surpassed Sal Perez's mark of 48 homers by
• 1:01:37
  primary catcher and also topped Mantle's record of 54 homers by
• 1:01:44
  a switch hitter. On the year Slash 247-350-9589
• 1:01:50
  was 60 homers a league leading 125 ribs and 110 runs scored.
• 1:01:59
  And for those of you wondering, well, what about the defense in
• 1:02:09
  the regular season among AL catchers?
• 1:02:14
  First in innings. So it wasn't just like, well,
• 1:02:18
  you know, was he DH in for half the season, first in innings,
• 1:02:25
  zero passed balls. Yeah, didn't see the first one
• 1:02:29
  until the postseason. 21 caught stealing, which was 6.
• 1:02:36
  So he's it And and now mind you, there was a point in the year
• 1:02:43
  where we where I was looking at, you know, granted it was it was
• 1:02:46
  the baseball savant side of things.
• 1:02:48
  So you know, take that for what you will.
• 1:02:50
  I don't know, you know, if you're listening, if you care
• 1:02:52
  about that or if you don't care about it.
• 1:02:53
  But there's still things you should look at when when looking
• 1:02:56
  at the defense and frankly, it just wasn't like people kept at
• 1:03:00
  at this point in the season. I want to say it was like maybe
• 1:03:04
  a little bit after the break. So maybe like late July, early,
• 1:03:08
  whenever we were having that earlyish conversation about this
• 1:03:11
  race, people were continuing to just throw around the whole
• 1:03:15
  Platinum Defense label. And it's like that's not his
• 1:03:20
  Platinum glove from what was that last year?
• 1:03:25
  Not relevant to this year? Not to say that he's not
• 1:03:28
  providing you value behind the dish because at the very at the
• 1:03:31
  very end of the day, he's a catcher and he's doing it well.
• 1:03:36
  But to to throw out the label of what about the platinum?
• 1:03:39
  He's a platinum glove. Of course he should be an ALMVP.
• 1:03:42
  It's like, well, that's not it doesn't relate to this
• 1:03:44
  particular race. But to your point, you you make
• 1:03:49
  a great point. You know, if I think I would
• 1:03:51
  have been, I would have been, well, I'm not going to say I
• 1:03:54
  would have been happy with either.
• 1:03:55
  I've only would have wanted Cal Raleigh to win, of course.
• 1:03:58
  However, I would have been understanding had either player
• 1:04:03
  been selected. And with the race itself, Judge
• 1:04:08
  had 17 first place votes, Raleigh had 13.
• 1:04:13
  And then vice versa. If two of the writers had
• 1:04:16
  switched their votes, it would have been a tie, which quite
• 1:04:20
  honestly. I would have hated.
• 1:04:25
  Co Co ALMVPS honestly would have been a fitting ending to the way
• 1:04:32
  that this race, this narrative, yeah, played out over the course
• 1:04:38
  of the season. I.
• 1:04:40
  Would have rather he'd lost. It's just, yeah, I don't like
• 1:04:43
  ties. Again, I mean, this is coming
• 1:04:49
  from a lifelong die hard Yankee fan.
• 1:04:51
  I think what what Cal Raleigh did was so Dang cool.
• 1:04:56
  And like, I grew up catching and I, I, I love and respect
• 1:05:01
  catchers. I think that it's such a premium
• 1:05:04
  important position. And there's a reason why these
• 1:05:08
  types of seasons just don't happen.
• 1:05:11
  So I fully understand why he got 13 votes.
• 1:05:15
  I fully understand the uproar of of why he should have won it,
• 1:05:22
  but I think it's how we go about that conversation.
• 1:05:24
  And and I guess on that, with that caveat, it's like it took
• 1:05:29
  one of the greatest seasons we've seen from a hitter to beat
• 1:05:33
  that. And that's what it was.
• 1:05:37
  I mean, we're 3/30. He hit 330I know no one cares
• 1:05:42
  about that anymore. But like, that's crazy.
• 1:05:49
  It's crazy. Well deserved, well deserved on
• 1:05:58
  the flip side. On the flippity flip.
• 1:06:02
  Catch you on the flippity flip. On the flip side, show you Tani.
• 1:06:09
  Whoa, you little Brooklyn in there or something?
• 1:06:13
  No, Oh, Donny, Oh, Donny. Hey, I'm walking here.
• 1:06:17
  No, he put up a did I already run through his line?
• 1:06:21
  No, I don't feel like I did because I don't remember.
• 1:06:23
  I don't remember saying 55 jacks, but he he had he posted
• 1:06:27
  A-77 WAR, 55 jacks at 282, OPS at 1014 and OPS plus A179. 102
• 1:06:40
  RB is, if I didn't say that, 20 swipes.
• 1:06:44
  Can we go with one of my general takes, by the way?
• 1:06:46
  Because it kind of ties in, it's relevant.
• 1:06:48
  Sure, actually, can we? Well, I had him going
• 1:06:54
  back-to-back 5050 years and I feel like if he wasn't, I don't
• 1:07:02
  know. I think he was held on a leash
• 1:07:04
  on the bases. He was, yeah.
• 1:07:05
  I think there was a concerted effort made to not he still had.
• 1:07:09
  20. Sure, but to maybe dial it back
• 1:07:12
  a little? Bit just sucks.
• 1:07:15
  It was almost like last year they were just like, let's see
• 1:07:18
  if he can do it. And now that he did it, they're
• 1:07:21
  like, all right, let's not push our luck.
• 1:07:23
  Done. That's what it felt like.
• 1:07:25
  But Otani. Otani.
• 1:07:28
  Otani yay, unanimous third straight MVP.
• 1:07:35
  Remember he had two, two in the in the National League, 4th in
• 1:07:40
  the last five years. Incredible.
• 1:07:45
  Another note here, no other player in history has been voted
• 1:07:48
  MVP unanimously multiple times. Otani has been unanimous every
• 1:07:55
  time. Don't take it for granted
• 1:07:58
  people. I understand the Dodger dislike
• 1:08:01
  but don't take this for granted. This is unbelievable.
• 1:08:04
  I understand like it's it's easy to understand the the Dodger
• 1:08:08
  hate the Dodger fatigue and it's also easy to understand the
• 1:08:11
  Shohei Otani fatigue. Yeah, but get it.
• 1:08:15
  Do not take this for granted like this you we are going, I'm
• 1:08:22
  already starting to see it with Mike Trout.
• 1:08:23
  We're getting close to the end of Mike Trout's career and
• 1:08:26
  people are are just wasting their time talking about well,
• 1:08:29
  like is he? Is he a first ballot Hall of
• 1:08:32
  Famer? Is he even going to make it into
• 1:08:34
  the Hall of Fame? Just over analyzing what his
• 1:08:37
  legacy is and will be. Don't do that with Shohatani.
• 1:08:41
  Don't waste his career. Yeah.
• 1:08:44
  Arguing back and forth about is this guy overrated?
• 1:08:48
  Is he today's Babe Ruth? Is he greater than Babe Ruth?
• 1:08:51
  Like has have, have we seen anybody like Shawahi Otani
• 1:08:55
  before? Like just stop.
• 1:08:57
  Like like Brent Rooker said, just enjoy the greatness.
• 1:09:02
  Enjoy the ride. Obviously he wasn't talking
• 1:09:04
  about Shawaha Otani here, but the sentiment is still stands.
• 1:09:07
  Just enjoy the greatness. Yep, Yep, Yep.
• 1:09:13
  Let's let's wrap up the predictions portion because we
• 1:09:17
  just got just a couple quick items at the end here with our
• 1:09:21
  with our general hot takes kind of finish on a little bit of a
• 1:09:27
  fun note here. I had because you already
• 1:09:33
  knocked one out. So let me, let me, I'll, I'll,
• 1:09:36
  I'll counter one of my general hot takes coming into this
• 1:09:41
  season again, as we sort of general hot takes as, as we sort
• 1:09:45
  of put a bow on this season. I said coming into this year
• 1:09:50
  finally embracing the DH role. Rafael Devers hits 50 homers for
• 1:09:55
  the first time and is the only player in the league to do so.
• 1:10:03
  Now, mind you, this was after the the like, this wasn't me
• 1:10:06
  looking into some weird crystal ball like this was after like,
• 1:10:10
  this was only this was probably less than a week, I think,
• 1:10:14
  before opening day. So we had gotten past all the
• 1:10:17
  weird, I play turd all that, like the spring training we got,
• 1:10:21
  we had we had gotten past all that.
• 1:10:22
  But I think that's why I wanted to take that angle, because I
• 1:10:26
  thought that that storyline, that narrative might develop
• 1:10:32
  well, no team won 100 games. So I mean, that's sort of like
• 1:10:35
  the I. Guess the.
• 1:10:36
  Player equivalent. That's fair, right?
• 1:10:42
  It seems that seems reasonable, like a A-Team getting a hundred
• 1:10:45
  wins and a player reaching 50. Like, they're both tough, but
• 1:10:49
  they're definitely doable. Yeah, get what you're saying?
• 1:10:53
  Yeah, that was that was my thought there, but not to be.
• 1:10:57
  Finished the year with 35 homers.
• 1:11:02
  Yeah, well, I mean, I guess if we're going to go some ice cold
• 1:11:08
  picks here, Vladimir Guerrero junior will have a career high
• 1:11:16
  in home runs this year. 48 was a career high by the way, but will
• 1:11:21
  not be wearing a Blue Jays uniform by the end of the
• 1:11:25
  season. Wishful thinking.
• 1:11:31
  Yeah. Had 23 pops.
• 1:11:36
  Crazy postseason though. So like no one really.
• 1:11:38
  Makes kind of makes up for it I guess.
• 1:11:41
  And committed long term to the Blue Jays.
• 1:11:46
  So didn't get. Halfway there on the home run
• 1:11:48
  mark and locked in that jersey for the rest.
• 1:11:51
  Of the next 80 years. Love that my next pick I said we
• 1:12:00
  will see 2 again coming into this year.
• 1:12:03
  We will see two of the three following names DFA in 2025,
• 1:12:09
  Anthony Rendon, Kris Bryant or Javi Baez.
• 1:12:13
  Javi Baez was an All Star. Like.
• 1:12:22
  Like, come on, like nobody, nobody coming into this year
• 1:12:26
  would have would have said, oh, this is what are you talking
• 1:12:29
  about? This is going to age like
• 1:12:30
  spoiled milk. Javi bias is an All Star this
• 1:12:34
  year. Nobody was saying that.
• 1:12:36
  So shut your mouth if you're if you're laughing at that pick,
• 1:12:40
  only I'm allowed to laugh at that pick.
• 1:12:43
  Oh well, this one was just fun and honestly I think it was a a
• 1:12:47
  solid year for the close. Real quick, for the record,
• 1:12:51
  Anthony Rendon and Chris Bryant should probably.
• 1:12:53
  Be be neat to happen. So I I'm like half right there.
• 1:12:57
  Those are the examples as to why our holdout will happen.
• 1:13:01
  By the way, these owners are like fully guaranteed, really
• 1:13:04
  like, you're going to lock me in with this?
• 1:13:07
  Oh man, anyway, good to do. The A's will have their highest
• 1:13:13
  run scored total in the last 25 years.
• 1:13:17
  That run total was 884 runs. They put up 733 this year.
• 1:13:25
  But I was trying to go ballpark. I really youth was looking good.
• 1:13:30
  Yeah, the ballpark would have been the the biggest factor for
• 1:13:33
  me. Yeah, sure.
• 1:13:34
  That's. Even like, yeah.
• 1:13:39
  Well I was saying approaching 800 but only looks like only a
• 1:13:43
  couple got 800 this year, so maybe 2-3. 884, I think the I
• 1:13:50
  mean, that's just, that's a big year.
• 1:13:53
  That's a heck of a year. Hey, that would have helped me
• 1:13:56
  probably make my predictions correct.
• 1:13:59
  That's right. If that would have panned out.
• 1:14:02
  That was a hot 1. Didn't do a ton of research on
• 1:14:04
  that one to be honest with. You Hey, sometimes you just got
• 1:14:06
  to let it fly, you know, shot. From the hip.
• 1:14:08
  Speaking of letting it fly, I said the Orioles haven't led the
• 1:14:12
  league in home run since 1996. They do it in 2020. 5 thanks.
• 1:14:18
  For thanks. Relax.
• 1:14:19
  They finished 11th. Oh, I finished the 11th.
• 1:14:29
  You your coupon would get denied.
• 1:14:31
  I can almost. Guarantee they'd say Sir, this
• 1:14:35
  restaurant name on this coupon isn't what our restaurant is
• 1:14:39
  currently named. This is not This cannot fly.
• 1:14:43
  Sure, that restaurant closed That doesn't exist anymore.
• 1:14:49
  They finished 11th of 191, so they didn't even crack 200.
• 1:14:52
  But your your Yankees led the league this year with 274.
• 1:14:59
  And then did you have one more 'cause I had one more?
• 1:15:02
  That was it. I had one more.
• 1:15:05
  Chalk this up to a big, big, long squeaky fart, I said.
• 1:15:13
  Such a relieving fart, by the way.
• 1:15:15
  If you let one of those puppies out, you feel so much better.
• 1:15:20
  I still owe you and the listeners some some variations.
• 1:15:24
  I I need to get on that my last hot my last general hot take
• 1:15:30
  general hot take said we will see the last inning of Shohei
• 1:15:34
  Otani, the pitcher in 2025. Oh boy.
• 1:15:40
  And boys that could that could not have been further from the
• 1:15:44
  truth, making making appearances as late as the World Series left
• 1:15:50
  and. Right, Strong, strong efforts to
• 1:15:54
  make sure that was the worst take of all time.
• 1:15:59
  I mean not the worst take of all time, but one of one of them.
• 1:16:05
  Are we out 'cause you skipped over something that I got right
• 1:16:08
  and I'd like to announce it? Probably.
• 1:16:10
  Manager of the Year. You got it, You got it.
• 1:16:14
  The problem is they don't go on our like that.
• 1:16:16
  I never put those on our graphic.
• 1:16:18
  Why do I have it on here? You did.
• 1:16:20
  You did nail it. Yeah, Stephen Vogt.
• 1:16:24
  Who did you go nationally? Do you remember?
• 1:16:26
  Tori Lavello by the D backs winning it, so I figured it'd be
• 1:16:34
  a good year for them. OK, well now you got me
• 1:16:36
  wondering, who did I? Do you remember what you?
• 1:16:43
  Did. No, I I would have done them.
• 1:16:46
  I would have done them. Here we go.
• 1:16:47
  I had, OK, I had a little bias playing in here.
• 1:16:53
  I had I had Alex Cora and Terry Francona.
• 1:16:56
  Well, it really showed. By the way, Ronald Cunha junior,
• 1:17:04
  I believe, was named the Comeback Play of the Year,
• 1:17:06
  correct? Did I get that?
• 1:17:10
  I had that. I had him.
• 1:17:12
  Please hold Adam. I had Mike Trout and Acuna who
• 1:17:21
  won the ale. Oh, I just saw it.
• 1:17:28
  Hold on. All right.
• 1:17:32
  So we got some, we got some points on the board.
• 1:17:34
  Got some points on the board. Oh Jacob and Grom.
• 1:17:37
  Jacob and Grom all. Right.
• 1:17:39
  Well deserved, by the way. Yeah, if you're a, if you're a
• 1:17:42
  vet and like you got some hardware on the shelf and you
• 1:17:46
  get hurt and miss 80% of a season, you're almost a lock for
• 1:17:51
  comeback. You're just.
• 1:17:53
  Count on adding more hardware to the shelf.
• 1:17:55
  Like it's well, that's why I didn't feel all that great about
• 1:17:58
  the Acuna pick. Like, OK, he goes out and has a
• 1:18:01
  pedestrian season. Here you go.
• 1:18:03
  Yeah. What's the, what's that award
• 1:18:06
  comparison, by the way? Comeback Player of the Year?
• 1:18:08
  What? Do you mean?
• 1:18:11
  What? What's the comparison to that
• 1:18:12
  award? Oh, like the coupon you mean?
• 1:18:16
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like if you are, you're saying
• 1:18:20
  if you finish like third. Yeah.
• 1:18:26
  No, they give you an unpaid parking ticket that you are now
• 1:18:31
  responsible for paying. I don't know.
• 1:18:33
  I don't know. It's like, hey.
• 1:18:36
  It's like you get an extra snack on the airplane, like hey, put
• 1:18:42
  an extra peanut bag. No.
• 1:18:44
  Well, they go down the aisle and usually it's like you get the
• 1:18:47
  pretzels or the Biscoff cookies. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:18:50
  Ronald Cunha, Junior You're getting both, buddy.
• 1:18:54
  You're getting both. Shout out those.
• 1:18:55
  Biscoff cookies by the way, those are full way go.
• 1:18:58
  Those slap lastly here real quick.
• 1:19:05
  Let me find it down here at the bottom of my my sheet.
• 1:19:11
  Just couple items here real quick.
• 1:19:13
  The aforementioned I think we mentioned it like right right
• 1:19:18
  out of the gate little little slight towards Emmanuel Class A
• 1:19:22
  and Luis Ortiz, but they have been charged with bribery and
• 1:19:27
  gambling related crimes. You know, this has been a story
• 1:19:30
  that's been going on for some time now, but I think, I think
• 1:19:33
  the latest update is that they they met Class A at JFK today.
• 1:19:38
  Where he was, I saw. That he was, he was rained, I
• 1:19:43
  believe so, yeah, man, this, this whole thing is a mess.
• 1:19:50
  I I stand by my take that I think sports betting has just
• 1:19:53
  ruined baseball. And I know that it's not new.
• 1:19:56
  Like this obviously has been a an issue for decades.
• 1:20:03
  But it's, it's, I just feel like it's such an epidemic now where
• 1:20:08
  you have ESPN removing ads for their betting platform, which I
• 1:20:16
  think is going under, if I'm not, if I'm not mistaken, right,
• 1:20:19
  like or they get bought out or, or something.
• 1:20:22
  But like on live television, they're talking about this the
• 1:20:27
  the get the betting scandal in the NBA and they it just
• 1:20:31
  disappears. So awkward, just uncomfortable
• 1:20:35
  for everybody. It was clear what they're doing,
• 1:20:37
  but it's just like, this is what's happening.
• 1:20:39
  And then you've got you've got Manfred stepping in and and
• 1:20:43
  taking action with like, hey, we're putting a cap on.
• 1:20:47
  What was it just like the like $200 for Yeah, yeah.
• 1:20:54
  For a certain leg, it's no. Longer going to be parlay
• 1:20:57
  eligible I. Think right, Yeah.
• 1:20:59
  So it's, you know, it's it's just a nightmare, man.
• 1:21:03
  You like all these ballparks are sponsored by I don't think.
• 1:21:07
  It's ruined baseball. I think it's ruined the NFLI
• 1:21:10
  think it's absolutely ruined the NFL.
• 1:21:12
  I'm, I'm kind of starting to be on board with the, with the
• 1:21:15
  conspiracy of the NFL, cause the NFL is technically like.
• 1:21:20
  Entertainment industry, yeah. Yeah, so it's like legally we
• 1:21:26
  can rig this thing and it's so much easier to rig baseball.
• 1:21:30
  I just, I feel like it's just, I don't know, I.
• 1:21:32
  Can't, no and and I let me hear. What you're saying though, but
• 1:21:36
  it's like, let's dance this around all of our players and
• 1:21:40
  say this is how we make so much money and this is how we
• 1:21:44
  advertise. And this is we're pouring this
• 1:21:47
  on and everywhere you go, everywhere you look, but you,
• 1:21:51
  you can't touch it. And how dare you, if you even
• 1:21:55
  think of it. Yeah, well, I, I should
• 1:21:58
  rephrase. It's less about, I mean, it's
• 1:21:59
  going to be part of the game. Like guys are just going to try
• 1:22:02
  to find ways around it. They're going to get caught up
• 1:22:03
  with the wrong people. They're going to be having to
• 1:22:06
  make decisions they probably wouldn't want to make otherwise.
• 1:22:08
  But this just doesn't make sense.
• 1:22:09
  It's it's less about that, more about the fan experience.
• 1:22:12
  Like I, I just like people sports in general.
• 1:22:15
  People are just watching sports now just to see if their parlay
• 1:22:19
  pays out. And it's like just be a fan of a
• 1:22:22
  sport, be a fan of a team, be a fan of a player and and not and,
• 1:22:28
  and try not to get yourself in such a predicament with your
• 1:22:32
  personal finances and sports that you feel the need to harass
• 1:22:38
  a professional athlete online afterwards like that.
• 1:22:42
  It's such a problem. It is such a problem, but that's
• 1:22:46
  not necessarily what's happening here.
• 1:22:48
  This is just couple boneheads just being boneheads all for
• 1:22:53
  like $5000 when you're. Dude did you when your grand
• 1:22:57
  meme were like the guys like walking with this girl?
• 1:22:59
  Girlfriend is looking back. It's like 16,000,000 and then.
• 1:23:03
  It's 20. I think it was like, well, his
• 1:23:05
  contract I think was 20 mil and it was like he's looking back at
• 1:23:08
  like $5000 like I'm coming for you, which makes you wonder like
• 1:23:14
  is there there's may have been something shady going on.
• 1:23:17
  Yeah, like you, there's just no way I.
• 1:23:20
  Don't know, like I don't want to, I don't want to go there,
• 1:23:24
  but like I, it's, it's hard to say with like some of these
• 1:23:27
  countries, like there's, there's a lot of like strange, sketchy
• 1:23:32
  stuff like we, we've heard about, you know, players, I
• 1:23:37
  mean, players, family members being kidnapped or, you know,
• 1:23:41
  like just strange things like that.
• 1:23:43
  I mean, didn't Cal Ripken? Didn't his grandma?
• 1:23:49
  Get those moms got. Kidnapped.
• 1:23:51
  Yeah. So it's like it makes you wonder
• 1:23:54
  if there's something in there for like he had.
• 1:23:57
  They had. I don't think it was about Class
• 1:24:01
  A getting like extra dough on the side.
• 1:24:04
  It's just I think there had to have been something else.
• 1:24:07
  I don't think it helps his case. I don't think it gives him an
• 1:24:10
  excuse, but like, I'm curious to see what comes out of this.
• 1:24:14
  I don't know. It's we've opened a can of worms
• 1:24:19
  that the the lid cannot be put back on and it's self induced in
• 1:24:25
  a way so sucks. The the craziest thing.
• 1:24:30
  Well, not maybe not the craziest, but one of the one of
• 1:24:32
  the more fascinating elements to this whole thing is the the note
• 1:24:39
  that apparently surfaced from all this talking about how he
• 1:24:43
  Class A apparently called the better like minutes before
• 1:24:48
  taking the mound against the Red Sox.
• 1:24:50
  And the guy that he was on the phone with apparently like he,
• 1:24:53
  he Class A did what he needed to do.
• 1:24:56
  And I think it was related to pitch speed and he won the
• 1:24:58
  better that he called won like $11,000.
• 1:25:03
  You're on the phone with this guy minutes before you take them
• 1:25:06
  out. Yeah, that's crazy.
• 1:25:07
  I think I saw that one of the betters was like 8 for 9 on
• 1:25:12
  those specific pitches. Just nuts, man.
• 1:25:19
  It it's very interesting that like this happened and has come
• 1:25:24
  out. I know this came out first, but
• 1:25:26
  like the stuff with the NBA and like that was like a long time
• 1:25:30
  ongoing investigation. So it's just very strange with
• 1:25:37
  all this. And then the NFL sends out like
• 1:25:39
  a, a memo saying like, just a reminder.
• 1:25:45
  I think it's all over the place. I think it's everywhere.
• 1:25:49
  I It's unfortunate. Didn't they say they were
• 1:25:54
  they're, they could potentially serve like 60 or 80 years in
• 1:26:00
  prison or something for this? It was some crazy number.
• 1:26:07
  Yeah. It was at least 60 I think.
• 1:26:10
  Insane. That's what I'm saying.
• 1:26:14
  It couldn't have been worth it. Like there had to have been
• 1:26:16
  something else. No, and like everybody's been
• 1:26:19
  saying about this whole scandal, all this stuff is so easily
• 1:26:21
  trackable. Like especially with these apps
• 1:26:24
  and these sports books and whatever, like it's it's there's
• 1:26:27
  no way they thought they could get away with this.
• 1:26:30
  Any who's Speaking of thinking you could get away with
• 1:26:35
  something? This whole Paul Skeens Yankee,
• 1:26:38
  the Yankee comments. What was that?
• 1:26:45
  I don't know who's his teammate or I.
• 1:26:48
  Don't know. He played off.
• 1:26:50
  He's like, I don't know who the reporter was.
• 1:26:52
  I don't know who the the teammate that's being referenced
• 1:26:55
  was. But apparently if you don't know
• 1:26:58
  what we're talking about, there was a report that came out that
• 1:26:59
  said Paul Skeen said that he wants to be traded, wants to
• 1:27:02
  play for the Yankees. The quote was from
• 1:27:07
  endnewjersey.com. Quote was from an anonymous
• 1:27:13
  Pirates teammate. Trust me, he, Paul Skeens, wants
• 1:27:18
  to play for the Yankees. I've heard him say it multiple
• 1:27:20
  times. And then to which Paul Skeens
• 1:27:23
  said, I'm on the Pirates. My goal is to win with the
• 1:27:26
  Pirates. The fans are hungry to have a
• 1:27:28
  winner in Pittsburgh and I want to be a part of the group that
• 1:27:31
  did that. He never denied it.
• 1:27:36
  Well, no, he did say. He did say I I don't know.
• 1:27:40
  I don't know who or, he said. I don't know what teammate that
• 1:27:44
  was, which even by saying that you're not like you are, that's
• 1:27:49
  fair. That's OK.
• 1:27:51
  That's. Following this line very well.
• 1:27:55
  It's very disheartening, though. I'm like, Paul, come on.
• 1:27:57
  If you said you wanted to pitch for like even the Dodgers, but
• 1:28:01
  like the come on, man, the Yankees, you're too likable of a
• 1:28:05
  guy. It'd be nice.
• 1:28:07
  It would be nice. I don't know it.
• 1:28:10
  I don't know. I mean, I, I was, I would have
• 1:28:13
  bet my house that I didn't have a house back then.
• 1:28:16
  But I would have bet it if if we could go back in time and say,
• 1:28:21
  hey, Bryce Harper is going to be a Yankee.
• 1:28:23
  Like I thought it was a slam dunk.
• 1:28:26
  No way he would go anywhere else.
• 1:28:29
  And the guy didn't even get an offer or a call.
• 1:28:32
  So, like, I don't know who runs the show in New York anymore.
• 1:28:35
  I don't know it. I doubt it.
• 1:28:37
  I doubt Paul Skeens will be a Yankee.
• 1:28:38
  There you go. I'll believe it when I see it.
• 1:28:41
  And even then, I'm going to have to wait for the press conference
• 1:28:44
  where he's actually putting on the jersey.
• 1:28:48
  I can't wait to see him in in a Boston Red Sox uniform.
• 1:28:51
  Had to be a beautiful day. Imagine.
• 1:28:54
  And I'm not even equating these two because that one never
• 1:28:56
  happened. One's one's on a completely in a
• 1:28:59
  completely different stratosphere.
• 1:29:01
  But imagine Friday night in the Bronx a Paul Skeens LED Boston
• 1:29:11
  Red Sox team going up against the Yankees and Cam Schlittler
• 1:29:15
  yapping. I don't.
• 1:29:17
  Think I don't think we can continue to just disrespect our
• 1:29:20
  Cam I'm. Going to go ahead and
• 1:29:22
  disrespect, full disrespect, full, full, intended and
• 1:29:28
  deserved disrespect. But that's that's a conversation
• 1:29:31
  for another day that about does it.
• 1:29:34
  We went a little deep, but there's a lot to cover putting a
• 1:29:36
  bow on the 2025 season, recapping some awards, some
• 1:29:40
  standings and and some takes. So we'll, we'll catch you guys
• 1:29:51
  some changes coming down the coming down the pipe.
• 1:29:54
  Nate and I have been working on slash brainstorming some some
• 1:29:59
  new ideas, some new structures for this show.
• 1:30:02
  Things are things are going to be changing.
• 1:30:05
  So keep an eye out for that. Keep your keep your ear to the
• 1:30:07
  ground as they say, and buckle up because it's going to be.
• 1:30:13
  We always say the offseason is where we get weird is where we
• 1:30:16
  get even. You know, most of you, I
• 1:30:19
  hopefully, hopefully would say that you, you, you think we're
• 1:30:23
  fun, but the offseason twice as fun.
• 1:30:27
  It gets weird, it gets laid back.
• 1:30:30
  We we do games, we do drafts, but we're even beyond that.
• 1:30:34
  We're going to be making some tweaks, some changes to how we
• 1:30:37
  do things around here. So keep an eye out for that.
• 1:30:40
  But otherwise. See us next week talk about
• 1:30:49
  Jason Garibalds. We love you all and as always,
• 1:30:51
  looking forward to talking more baseball with you guys soon.
• 1:30:53
  Until next time, stay filthy.