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Bobby Witt Jr. is Good · The 3-0 Take

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  Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Three.
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  Hey, welcome everybody. Happy weekend.
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  Friday doesn't count either. I love, I love the second
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  recording of the week, just just before Thursday hits.
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  It just hits different. Get the juices.
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  Flown a little. Bit for me it hits extra
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  different. Friday is my last day at this
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  jail. Hey, hey, hey.
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  Yeah. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
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  oh, oh. Tough that was a remember up
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  ending yeah so. Any who's last day work coming
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  up this? Did you undo your?
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  Did you hit a button when you were doing out there?
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  I can't hear you. Can't hear me?
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  Look at this. This is why we can't have nice
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  things. What happened?
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  What happened? What did I do?
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  Can you hear me? I can hear you.
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  Can you not hear me? I.
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  Can hear you. Are we good?
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  What did I hit? Did I press a button?
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  Are we good? Can you hear me?
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  I can't hear you. Oh my gosh.
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  What's happening? Hello.
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  Hello. Can you hear me?
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  Nope. Oh my gosh.
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  What did we do? What's going on that's.
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  Really. Why we can't have nice things?
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  Can you hear me now? I can hear you.
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  Can you hear me? I can hear you.
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  We're back. Oh my gosh.
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  Did you do a little heart attack?
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  I'll tell you. I'll explain exactly what
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  happened. OK.
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  Are you ready? What?
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  So you see these like little these like little green and red
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  buttons. You hit the my cord was jumping
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  and it hit the IT hit like a green button.
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  Oh. My gosh it.
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  Was like a third one. This is why we can't have nice
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  things. I was I was vibing so hard just
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  now and then you hit me with oh, can't hear you sick.
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  Why that? I thought you hit stop on the
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  sound to kill till kill the dance moves.
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  No. But it just seems just me.
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  I think we're good now, Yeah, Hopefully all good.
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  Like crap. We're all good.
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  All right. Well, now we got that out of
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  way. Let's talk.
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  You can't. You can't party prematurely.
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  Can't party prematurely Dodgers fans looking at you.
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  I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding.
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  That's that's uncalled for. Let's talk some baseball,
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  specifically the one the only the Bobby Witt junior.
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  I I'll tell you what, man, I I'm glad I I don't regret my my
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  decision back. What was it like a month,
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  probably like a month, month and a half ago at this point where
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  we were talking about this is when guy you, if you remember,
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  this is when Gunner Henderson was still in the the MVP
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  conversation. Once that once it started
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  brewing a little bit like we weren't talking MVP too early.
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  But you know, once the conversation, people looking
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  around, OK, who, who were the finalists here?
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  Gunner Henderson was still in that mix and we had the
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  conversation of if you could start, if you could build your
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  franchise around one of these guys, Who you going with?
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  I think we both selected Bobby Wood Junior.
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  And yeah, it's not just because of the way this season has gone
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  for Bobby Wood Junior, but I think as we've had this
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  opportunity this time to to really just soak in what he's
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  been doing and what he is positioning himself to do for
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  the rest of his career. Bad.
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  What a choice that was. I think it was the right choice.
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  It's nothing against Gunner. I it's again I will reiterate
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  this because I will not go with the mob mentality of tearing
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  down another player to build up someone else Gunner.
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  Henderson. Right on, brother.
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  Is incredible. Gunner Henderson is absolutely a
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  a right choice in certain arguments, but not this one.
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  Bobby Wood Junior has too many tools and is capable of too Dang
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  much. 555. Yeah, possibly a 6th, we don't
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  know. 23455 tools, possibly a 6th.
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  That's a great point. Possibly 1/6, don't know.
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  Yet he's a freak. TBD.
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  He's a freak. So yeah, can we?
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  So I really like that the Royals broadcast just calls him Junior.
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  It hits different. Do they actually, I haven't
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  caught enough. I haven't caught enough for the
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  Rose broadcast. I need to.
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  I need to. Step in, fire.
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  It's fire, dude. Like it.
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  Just like there was the other night, and I'm sure we're going
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  to go over this, but it was the other night.
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  Was he at the White Sox? I think I think he went, I think
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  he had five hits against the White.
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  Sox. I think so, yeah.
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  I think in Chicago, I think. Yeah, and he made like 2 pretty
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  incredible plays make make them, made them look like super
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  routine in the hole at short. And yeah dude, they were just
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  calling him junior. And I was like, this gives me,
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  this gives me something, this gives me something.
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  I like it. It just works.
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  Flashbacks to Calvin. I know, I know it's.
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  Flashbacks to Griffey, I mean. Like when you say junior like
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  it's typically done well in the past.
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  That's panned out. I would say here, I would say
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  he's in. He's in good company, Bobby
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  Witt. But looking at the numbers,
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  let's talk some numbers here. Not only is he putting up an MVP
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  worthy campaign in 2024, he is, I don't want to say single
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  handedly because I think you can look at what the Royals have
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  done to this point in the season and acknowledge that some of
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  their offseason editions, some of their deadline editions have
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  certainly made an impact. But I mean, I, I'm getting as
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  close as you possibly can to saying single handedly has
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  gotten the Royals to where they are.
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  I'm not going to say it, but I if, if this is a line, I'm
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  getting like right here, Getting like right here.
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  Man 'cause he's a one man wrecking crew.
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  It is unbelievable what he's doing on the year and actually
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  after following today's game Wednesday, he's hitting 346 with
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  28 jacks, 95 ribbies and OPS of 10/17 and 27 swipes.
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  Since the break, this has been like my favorite, my favorite
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  window to analyze now that we're now that the sample size is
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  large enough. Since the break, he's hitting
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  four O 8, 60 hits, twelve home runs, 32 ribbies and 39 runs
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  scored deep. If if you take according to MLB
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  metrics, If you take what he's done since the start of July and
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  extrapolate that over a full 162.
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  Good word. Extrapolate.
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  His season would look like would look as followed. 262 hits, 163
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  runs scored, 136 RB is 51 home runs, four O 9 batting average,
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  a 12/25 OPSA, 232 weighted runs created plus and a 16.2 F 4.
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  It's impressive to say the least.
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  It is impressive, man. If like if he wasn't hitting for
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  this average, you could argue that Judge is in a Triple Crown
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  conversation. And if Judge wasn't just on this
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  record setting pace for what he's doing, this is like a more
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  complete season in a way, especially when you incorporate
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  what he's doing defensively, which I would have looked at
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  like DRS or anything, but. Sure.
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  But I mean, if you take away, if you take away, the average judge
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  has the Triple Crown, right? Yeah.
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  So I mean, and that's what we talked about last time we talked
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  about that. I appreciate that duo.
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  Yeah, but I mean, that's what we talked about like that.
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  That goes to show you what level of production that Bobby Witt's
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  offering you, what the, the, the tier that he's playing in this
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  year is. Because he's still, even with
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  what Judge is doing this year, he's still in the same breath.
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  He's in the same conversation. And if you look at what Judge is
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  doing, it's being talked about plenty.
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  If you're not familiar with what Aaron Judge is doing this year,
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  educate yourselves. But what he's doing and the fact
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  that Bobby Witt is, you know, being looped the, the MVP
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  conversation as a whole is a, is a conversation that's I, I think
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  most would say has somewhat of a clear answer.
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  But the fact that he's just hanging out is, is impressive in
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  and of itself. Codify Codify Baseball one of
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  our favourites. I think we just land on codify.
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  Codify Baseball entering Wednesday.
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  Well, this is before his his He had a 28th home run today, but
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  entering Wednesday. The tweet was as follows.
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  Bobby Witt Junior 39 double S11 triples, 27 home runs and 27
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  stolen bases this year. Again, that's that's adjusted
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  now that he's played on Wednesday.
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  He's the first big leaguer in history to hit all of those
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  marks in a single season. Deese Deese.
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  I mean between what Bobby Witt, Shohei Otani, Aaron Judge are
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  like, we're seeing a lot of we're we're seeing a lot of
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  first and we're seeing a lot of things that we haven't seen in a
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  very, very, very, very, very, very, very long time.
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  I'll throw a one more name out there.
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  I think it's very fair to include Jaron Duran in that
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  conversation as well. Jaron Duran, because I'm pretty
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  sure they just read off something stupid that he did the
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  other day that was like first player in MLB history to have
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  this, this, this, this and this. JP Long on Twitter Jan Duran is
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  the first player in MLB history to record at least 10 triples,
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  20 home runs, thirty stolen bases and 40 double S in a
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  season. The 10:20, 30-40 Club Classic.
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  Everybody knows that. Who doesn't?
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  I mean, that's that we're we're witnessing like I love that
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  we're checking so many boxes in so many different categories
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  with these guys, like between the speed and the defence and
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  hitting for average in OPS, it's like, yeah, the home runs are
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  impressive, but it's the fact that like everything else is
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  being filled in and we're. Not just to the game.
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  We're not just staring at a home run totals and comparing it like
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  each one of these guys is just delivering some insane
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  production in different ways. It's really cool, Really, really
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  cool. The question needs to be asked,
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  having talked about what we've talked about here, is his 11
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  year, $288.8 million contract going to go down as one of the
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  biggest thefts in baseball history?
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  He's just stays healthy, man, because like the Acuna deal, I
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  think is still the one that like everyone thinks about as far as
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  theft, but injury wise, like it kind of balances things out.
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  You know, this is I, I could see at least two or three MVPS.
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  I really could. It just comes down to it.
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  And I love of like how much room it gives the Royals to be able
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  to build and support around him and like double down and like
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  realize that this this year is not a fluke.
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  What you're doing is not a fluke.
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  You have to believe in that. You have to keep building on it.
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  And you know, maybe some guys production like, no offense, but
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  like, I don't think anyone saw Seth Lugo doing this then I'm
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  sure they're not going to see him continuing to do this very
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  long term. But like, you can start just
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  filling in the cracks a little bit with what he's able to do.
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  But you know what? Good on the Royals for
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  recognizing the the potential here of the 2024 season.
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  Unlike some other teams around the league, unlike a lot of
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  teams in the league, the Royals looked at what they had coming
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  into this season. They said, you know what, let's
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  supplement that in the all season.
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  Let's let's play it out to the deadline.
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  And if we're still in the hunt, if if we're part of the
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  conversation, part of the the the postseason conversation,
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  let's make some additions at the deadline and supplement it even
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  further. Good on the Royals for doing
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  what every team should do in their situation.
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  If you have talent, if you have an opportunity to make it to the
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  postseason and not not put yourself in a hole by selling
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  off too much or or over investing too much on the
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  financial. And if you do it tastefully, if
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  you do it tactfully, you can be in the conversation.
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  And that's exactly where they are.
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  They just closed the gap. I mean, they lost today against
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  the Guardians, but they just closed the gap in the central.
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  Took three out of four in that series.
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  This whole time, yeah, this whole time we're sitting here
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  talking about like, well, I mean, at the start of the season
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  I had them pegged as the third wild card team, and there's a
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  possibility that still happens. But they're like, yeah, no,
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  we're good on that. We're actually more interested
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  in the division. So good on them for following
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  the blueprint that that they followed to this point that has
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  put them in a in a position to not only make the postseason,
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  but take the division in the process.
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  So just want to give some, some kudos to the the Royals there
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  for doing what they've done. Three wins back from the overall
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  top record in baseball like that's.
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  Come on, come on. I like it.
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  I was high on the Royals. I, I, I just need to reiterate
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  that. I need to reiterate that Last
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  thing I'll say here on the Bobby Witt thing.
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  I am most definitely excited for this September 9th, 10th and
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  11th series against the Yankees in the Bronx because you're
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  finally going to get once again the top two candidates in the
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  MVP conversation for the American League on the same
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  field for three games at a point in the season.
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  That's going to be very pivotal for not just one, but for both
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  teams. And I need to check what's what
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  part of the week are we looking at there?
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  That's that's rough that it's a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.
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  I was going to say, man, if we're if we're chalking this up
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  for a weekend series, that's prime time baseball.
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  But you know it's. Fun Daddy likes the midweek
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  series, sometimes more so. Yeah, I'm not.
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  I'm not going to lie with the way that my life and just yeah.
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  Plans pan out over the course of a week.
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  Weekies, wifey's want the weekend sometimes.
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  Sometimes I don't get. I don't get the way.
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  I don't get the viewing the way I want.
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  You kind of check out and on the weekends at times and that's,
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  it's understandable. That's when you get things done.
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  Yeah, it's when you go places, but the.
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  Weekend don't sucks for sure. I'll tell you what, what tops
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  even a a week night series week day when you're at work and you
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  have the ability to either be working from home.
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  Or at the. Office and you can have a screen
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  pulled up on the side that's prime.
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  Let me tell you, that's what hits different on the West
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  Coast. Like it's a 10:00 game.
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  You're eating your. Wheaties over there watching a
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  watching a day baseball game. I just started my work day,
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  turning this game on. It like carries me into lunch.
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  Like, all right, let me get some lunch.
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  Yeah. And then it frees up your
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  evening, so it's almost like a little boat.
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  It's like an extra weekend day because you have a free night to
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  do whatever you got to do. Let me tell you something.
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  Beautiful. Beautiful.
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  Yeah. I'm looking forward to that
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  series. I'm also looking forward to
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  seeing where this Juan Soto free agency winds up because shocker,
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  Juan Soto has been been playing exceptionally well.
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  The reports about him winding up with the Mets have resurfaced.
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  Resurfaced for some reason. Not sure why, but shocker, the
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  experts have him pegged with a big market team.
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  That's crazy. A select A select few big market
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  teams, one of which the I would say the the most popular sans
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  Yankees would be the Mets. The Dodgers.
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  You not really going to throw them into the mix.
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  I. Don't think so.
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  The Cubs maybe could afford to, the Dodgers could, or the the
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  Angels I think could afford to. But.
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  Giants. Some people are saying Jays.
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  Stop. Yeah.
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  Who are these people? I don't.
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  I don't see my man going north of the border.
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  You know what I mean? No disrespect to the You're
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  going to to the Friends of the Great White North.
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  Oh, you've slandered them on more than one occasion.
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  So. Let's not act.
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  Suck. Let's not all, let's not act
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  all, all kind. Canadians, you're fake.
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  You're not going to take a guy from the Dr. and and plug them
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  in up there where you got nothing but Tim Horton's.
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  What's tax? What are taxes like up there
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  too, you know? I couldn't tell you.
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  They probably don't have taxes. Do they have taxes in Canada?
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  I don't know how these things. Work.
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  I think they have a lot of taxes.
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  Do they actually? Yeah, quick Google search, they
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  don't pay for education Canadians.
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  Have taxes? Yeah, they sure do.
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  A. Lot of it.
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  Canadians pay more taxes compared to those in the United
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  States. There you go.
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  Oh interesting. So they got quote, UN quote free
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  everything, but got to pay more taxes.
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  That's kind of how that tends to work.
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  But anyway, we're not we're not getting we're not getting into
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  economics or civics or whatever. Any who's where do you where do
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  you think he winds up? I know, I mean, I know it's
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  early. We still got we still got things
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  that have to pan out, such as the way the Yankees post season,
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  assuming they make it in, I don't know you're you're a
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  little on the fence. Should they make it in how how
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  that pans out, how that affects his perception of the I don't
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  know. Do you do you think he's he's
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  accumulated enough experience this year to to know what he
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  would be getting into long term if he signed with the Yankees or
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  do you think he needs to see something pan out in the
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  postseason given their history dating back to 09?
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  And I'm it's not a jab, it's a, it's a serious question.
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  I think he's seen what he needs to see, I think.
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  And the reason I asked is because if he sees, if he sees
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  the Yankees get bounced in the in the ALDS yet again, again to,
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  to to re reference the history going back to their last World
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  Series O9. If he's just like, if this is
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  all, if this is all it ever is here and he is after more rings,
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  which at this point I don't. Maybe he is, maybe he isn't.
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  He's got the ring already. Maybe he's just after the
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  contract. But let's just say
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  hypothetically he is after the rings.
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  Do you think he's going to look at the Yankees and go, I don't
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  know if this is my best place to do that?
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  I think that's exactly the way he's looking at it.
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  When you talk about the other teams, Cubs, Angels, Giants,
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  Mets, yeah, the Yankees probably given the best shot out of those
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  teams. But we were talking about this a
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  little bit in the in the group chat with with the the fantasy
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  league. Couple things to mention here is
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  that like there's a Judge shadow and that's a big shadow.
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  And I like, I like Soto a lot. Like to sit here and say there's
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  no ego involved in this mix would be silly.
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  That's a part of the equation. And I'm sure there's a level of
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  him that's like, I want to be the guy, not the other guy,
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  right? And then that's where like
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  priorities are going to be shown.
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  If you go to Queens, that tells me all I need to know about you,
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  you know, because the Mets are the Mets, and we can't sit here
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  and say that they're going to be in a better position than the
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  Yankees. And then on the other hand,
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  you're like, he's having one of his best offensive years of his
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  career with Judge behind him. Is there a correlation there?
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  Probably. So it's like, do you want to
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  continue to have years like this with a guy like that behind you,
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  understanding that there is a team that's at least going to,
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  whether they're delusional or not, go after, you know, a
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  championship every year. They do give themselves a shot,
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  whether it's the best shot. One could sit here and argue
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  that, but they do give themselves a shot every year.
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  Yeah, yeah, that'll give them. But you mentioned the ego and I
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  think that's a that's a very an important point to look at.
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  Here is one thing I would have loved to have seen this year for
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  more reasons than one. I would have loved to see the
• 24:03
  Yankees really hit a slide this year to the point where we're
• 24:07
  dipping down until like the bottom half.
• 24:09
  The division for the most part, they've been at sure, But they
• 24:13
  they had built themselves up in a nice enough cushion to wear
• 24:16
  even a little skid here. There wasn't going to affect
• 24:18
  them too much For most of the year.
• 24:20
  They've been at or near the top of the division.
• 24:23
  You mentioned ego. Going back to that point, I
• 24:26
  would have loved to have seen a major dip for the Yankees this
• 24:29
  year to see how Soto and Judge would mix.
• 24:33
  I'm sure Judge would give you the the utmost professionalism,
• 24:37
  win or lose. He seems to do that one way or
• 24:41
  another more often than not. But having Soto in that
• 24:45
  clubhouse as well, he would be the guy that I would want to
• 24:48
  have my eye on when, when things head South for an extended
• 24:51
  period of time. Again, we're talking like
• 24:53
  dipping down to the bottom half of the bottom half of the
• 24:56
  division. We haven't really gotten that.
• 24:58
  So it it's it's all fine and dandy when when Soto's looking
• 25:02
  around going, you know, like it's nice.
• 25:04
  I got judged behind me. Like we're we're winning ball
• 25:06
  games. I'm having a one of my career
• 25:09
  years. But if things head South and,
• 25:14
  and you've got two dudes that are vying to be the dude and,
• 25:18
  and I know judges hands down like the dude in New York, but
• 25:22
  Soto, I would imagine, would like to think that he is around
• 25:27
  that echelon as well. So I, it would be interesting to
• 25:30
  see what, how that pans out. And maybe the postseason gives
• 25:33
  us a little glimpse of that. If, if, if that's what ends up
• 25:35
  happening, like if they end up in the postseason and just fall
• 25:37
  flat on their face. Yeah.
• 25:40
  I would be, I'd be curious to see what he's what how how he
• 25:43
  responds. I think, I think the the Yankees
• 25:46
  are going to have a cap on their number.
• 25:49
  I think they're going to have a number in mind.
• 25:53
  I think you're going to see over 13 years.
• 25:56
  I think you're going to see thirteen years or higher.
• 25:59
  Passen wrote recently that the floor or I should say the the
• 26:04
  industry agrees that the floor for his contract will be 500
• 26:08
  million, which I think I think is is a safe assumption, some
• 26:14
  speculating that it could be it could top 600 million I.
• 26:21
  Mean if you do 500,000,000 / 13 years it's 38 mill a year out of
• 26:32
  14th year 35. Well, the other thing too is I
• 26:37
  with the way this past offseason went, I'm curious to see what
• 26:40
  happens this coming offseason because you saw.
• 26:43
  Specifically. Yeah, well.
• 26:44
  Not just with Boris, but just the market in general.
• 26:46
  Like you saw both ends of the extreme.
• 26:48
  You saw the Dodgers, for example, write off over a
• 26:52
  billion dollars in checks. And then you see you see other
• 26:55
  teams try to try to call some Bluffs on on on behalf of some
• 27:00
  guys and hopefully one or two that we'll we'll touch on a
• 27:03
  little later. So I don't like, I don't know
• 27:07
  what that means for a guy like Soto, where you're going to have
• 27:09
  him in that historic contract level of discussion, trying to
• 27:15
  get the biggest bag he can. How does the how does the the
• 27:19
  baseball economy, if you will, the baseball market bounce back
• 27:22
  after seeing the way things shook out this past offseason?
• 27:26
  It'll be. It'll be interesting to see.
• 27:28
  But think about like the other thing too.
• 27:30
  Is that how much younger he is than Judge, right?
• 27:32
  He's 24. True, yeah.
• 27:34
  So like, even if judge, you know, does play the rest of his
• 27:38
  contract out and rides off into the sunset.
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  So do, by the way, 25. He'll be 26 in October.
• 27:48
  I can see 14 years. I really could, you know, just
• 27:51
  ride this thing out to 40 and and understand that like you do
• 27:59
  get to be the guy eventually when Judge retires.
• 28:01
  It's just you're not necessarily as deep into your prime as you
• 28:06
  are now, which I don't even know if this is his prime.
• 28:09
  Just insane to say. Well, as great of years he's
• 28:13
  having right now, it's only going to get better because his
• 28:16
  I was looking at some numbers his ability to hit both for
• 28:20
  contact and power historically over the course of his career,
• 28:25
  those both take leaps forward when the calendar turns to
• 28:30
  September, both his average and OPS both take approximately 20
• 28:34
  point jumps respectively from August to September.
• 28:40
  So his resume that he's going to take into the offseason in the
• 28:43
  free agency is only one can assume going to improve.
• 28:47
  So that'll that'll make for that much more of an interesting
• 28:52
  conversation. So Speaking of interesting
• 28:55
  conversation, switch gears here. Talk about the NL Cy Young race
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  between what I believe and what I would think most people would
• 29:04
  agree is a two man race at this point in time.
• 29:10
  Chris Sale and Zach Wheeler to beasts in the NL East.
• 29:19
  One could say who do you have? Who do you have right now as
• 29:23
  your I mean, again, we still have what a handful of starts
• 29:26
  left for for either candidate. But as it sounds right now,
• 29:32
  who's your Cy Young I? Saw a graphic on Twitter today.
• 29:36
  I'm just trying to find it. I remember who it was through
• 29:38
  but it was it with like the. 4 presumed candidates Yeah, it was
• 29:44
  Ronaldo. I got that pulled up for you.
• 29:45
  Ronaldo Lopez, Zach Wheeler if you want to.
• 29:47
  If you're interested in expanding the conversation
• 29:50
  beyond Zach Wheeler and Chris Sale, you could look at Ronaldo
• 29:53
  Lopez, Zach Wheeler, Chris Sale, and even Paul Skins, who if
• 29:57
  anything, is just an add on for the conversation.
• 29:59
  Maybe for comparison's sake, just to kind of look at some
• 30:06
  numbers between the four, Ronaldo Lopez does have the ERA
• 30:11
  advantage between those four, but does not have the innings
• 30:16
  and really doesn't have much else beyond the ERA.
• 30:20
  So I don't necessarily know if that's going to be the
• 30:25
  individual receiving the award, which is why I believe it's
• 30:27
  between Zach Wheeler, Chris Sales.
• 30:29
  Zach Wheeler as of today has made 26 starts, 160 2/3 innings.
• 30:36
  He's 12 and six. He's got an ERA of 274, ERA plus
• 30:41
  of 150 and has 176 strikeouts to 4545 walks.
• 30:47
  Chris Sale on the other hand is 14 and three.
• 30:52
  He's made 24 starts, so two fewer than Wheeler.
• 30:56
  He's thrown 147 and 2/3 innings, So what?
• 31:01
  13 fewer than Wheeler, yeah, ERA 262, so lower than Wheeler's ERA
• 31:09
  plus A158, which is 8 higher than Wheeler's 150.
• 31:13
  And he has 191 strikeouts, which leads that entire group.
• 31:18
  And as as per usual, when Chris Sale is on, he has the advantage
• 31:22
  in AKA percentage and the walk percentage, which is the case
• 31:25
  this year. So personally, I think you look
• 31:30
  at Chris sales numbers and you go as of right now, I.
• 31:36
  Would presume favorite This could change in just a few
• 31:39
  starts. You know, you never know.
• 31:41
  But if he goes 8 strong in a few starts and then we're we're kind
• 31:45
  of back to. Which he's fully capable of
• 31:47
  doing. Yeah, Yeah.
• 31:48
  But I think if you, if you take what Chris Sale has, if you take
• 31:53
  the the body of work he's presented or produced to this
• 31:59
  point, you look at that and go slight edge.
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  But it's really hard, at least for me.
• 32:06
  I won't speak for you or anybody else.
• 32:07
  For me, it's really hard to look at what Chris Sale has done this
• 32:11
  year and not include the bias or the the I just call it unfair
• 32:19
  advantage in in the fact that this is truly a bounce back
• 32:25
  season for Chris Sale. Like he is returned to Chris
• 32:28
  Sale form. And I know, I know for these
• 32:31
  awards that I I would imagine that the writers try to look at
• 32:34
  it through the lens of a vacuum. But it's really hard for me to
• 32:39
  look at what Chris Sale is doing and and not include the fact
• 32:43
  that, Oh yeah, by the way, this is like his first Cy Young
• 32:48
  Worthy campaign in years. Yeah.
• 32:52
  And he's doing it with a new team, and he's helping keep said
• 32:55
  team afloat. Say what you will about.
• 32:59
  Somewhat relevant, yeah. Yeah, say what you will about
• 33:01
  the Braves postseason chances this year, the way the season's
• 33:05
  gone to this point with injuries and all that, but has helped
• 33:07
  keep them afloat. It's it's really hard to give to
• 33:13
  give Wheeler the the edge here given that.
• 33:20
  Oh, so the innings? I mean, we have, what, five
• 33:28
  starts left? Everything stays on schedule.
• 33:34
  We're hitting September calendar turns of September on what,
• 33:38
  Sunday? Yeah.
• 33:42
  Sunday, yeah, so call it yeah, I don't I mean, I don't know where
• 33:48
  these guys are at in the in regards to their return and the
• 33:51
  rotation, but yeah, I would say 5:00-ish.
• 33:57
  And also too depending upon I mean I'm, I'm not going to sit
• 34:00
  here and say that teams in baseball would be adhering to
• 34:06
  some sort of load management. But specifically, if you look at
• 34:09
  Chris Sale, like maybe we do give him like an extra day here
• 34:13
  or there, maybe even skip a start getting closer to the end
• 34:17
  of the year, I don't know. But yeah, we can call it 5.
• 34:22
  And then based on these numbers, you can say that they're
• 34:24
  probably going to, they're around like 6 innings a start
• 34:29
  ish. So we can add another 30 innings
• 34:35
  to these numbers. I, I'm a sucker for innings.
• 34:39
  I, I, it's, it's kind of depressing to me that and will
• 34:44
  likely not really have too many names, if any, over 200 innings.
• 34:49
  I mean, if you if you tack on 30 innings right now to Wheeler
• 34:51
  Summers, he's at he's at 190 and 2/3.
• 34:54
  So he's pushing 200. Yeah, you should just be the
• 34:59
  standard. But anyway, yeah, I mean the K
• 35:02
  rate, the the walks being less, I think that's important, I
• 35:12
  think. Eileen, Chris Sale, ever so
• 35:14
  slightly. Would you agree with me though
• 35:17
  on the whole like bounce back season bias element that plays
• 35:21
  there? Because I just feel like it's
• 35:22
  really hard to look at this and not take that into account.
• 35:26
  Or does that not matter to you as much?
• 35:34
  I think it will matter in the voting and I don't know, like
• 35:37
  for me, I don't think it's as I think it's great.
• 35:40
  I think he's a lock for comeback player of the year.
• 35:48
  Yeah, I think there will be. I think voters are obviously
• 35:51
  going to take that into account. It's understandable coming from
• 35:55
  me because having watched the way his career has panned out
• 35:59
  over the last handful of years, there there is that.
• 36:02
  Just like it was tough. Like where do you where do you
• 36:04
  draw that line? You know what I mean?
• 36:06
  Like if Judge does, you know, this kind of year at the age of
• 36:13
  39, are we like, Dang, he's doing this at 39?
• 36:17
  Like, is that a part of the equation?
• 36:21
  I just think like circumstantially, you have to
• 36:25
  draw the line somewhere. No.
• 36:27
  And I'm, I'm not, I'm not even really talking about his.
• 36:28
  Age, I guess I'm just saying that like we're doing that
• 36:33
  because of where he's been in his career and like, I don't
• 36:37
  know, it's. He just hasn't been able to stay
• 36:40
  on the field. But then it's like changes
• 36:42
  teams, changes cities, changes environments, and then he
• 36:46
  finally gets on the field for just about a full season and he
• 36:51
  does, he does this. It's like and like and like I
• 36:55
  said, I'm surprised, but at the same time I'm not because it's
• 37:00
  like, am I blown away at the fact that he's been able to sell
• 37:03
  stay primarily healthy this year?
• 37:05
  Absolutely. But am I surprised that given
• 37:07
  that he was able to do what he's done?
• 37:10
  No, because when he is healthy and on and locked in, this is
• 37:13
  what he does so. Yeah.
• 37:16
  Then he can very well get, yeah, I mean, 200 and 22125 strikeouts
• 37:24
  potentially in that range if he if he can really turn it on and
• 37:28
  it's pretty high, maybe like 2/10, 2:15.
• 37:31
  But either way, good for him, good for Chris Sale, what could
• 37:40
  have been for the Braves, You know what I mean?
• 37:42
  If that if this rotation stayed healthy.
• 37:44
  No kidding. Like, I mean no disrespect to
• 37:47
  Renato Lopez here in this conversation, but he is in that
• 37:49
  graphic. He is doing well.
• 37:51
  And this is like his first year as a starter.
• 37:54
  And then, you know, if Strider stays healthy, Freed stays
• 37:57
  healthy, like that's like a you could argue that's one of the
• 38:00
  best rotations in baseball when it's going.
• 38:04
  So what could have been? It's too bad.
• 38:08
  Too bad. Can we talk about this?
• 38:13
  Jordan Montgomery, Blake Snell Scott Boris saga Mr. Salty
• 38:21
  Jordan Montgomery. Yeah.
• 38:23
  Comes out I, I don't want to talk poorly about a guy, but
• 38:28
  when, when they just put it up on a tee for you, it's like
• 38:31
  what, what are we really doing? Have you seen some of his recent
• 38:34
  pressors? Like after like post game, they
• 38:38
  just have him in front of the locker to ask him questions.
• 38:41
  He's been, he's been kind of like, I don't want to say whiny,
• 38:48
  but he's just been short with some people recently.
• 38:51
  And I get it. He's he's frustrated with the
• 38:52
  way the year's gone. But I'm like, dude, and I think
• 38:57
  this was kind of Blake Snell's point where he's like, dude, you
• 38:59
  kind of made your own bed here. Like, sure, Boris maybe didn't
• 39:04
  lock down the deal for you, but you it was your choice to to
• 39:08
  sign where you signed and that's that.
• 39:11
  But a little context here if you're unfamiliar with what's
• 39:14
  going on, basically last week, which I don't know if you knew
• 39:20
  this, he got, did you see he got the motive to the pen.
• 39:22
  I did. That's what makes this tough.
• 39:24
  Yeah, it's it's hard to hard to it's.
• 39:26
  Not a good look. Yeah, hard to digest here, but
• 39:29
  it got the motive to the pen and talked essentially talked about
• 39:34
  how Boris butchered his offseason and and his chances of
• 39:39
  of locking down the deal that he was after he said, quote, I
• 39:47
  don't know, obviously Boris kind of butchered it.
• 39:49
  So I'm just trying to move on from the offseason, try to
• 39:51
  forget it. And then you had Blake Snell,
• 39:54
  who by which if you recall, Jordan Montgomery let let Boris
• 39:57
  go as his agent. Snell, on the other hand, is a
• 40:01
  Boris client and still has Boris as his agent.
• 40:07
  He respond, he bounced back in in defense of Boris and said
• 40:10
  I've seen how Montgomery struggled, but he signed the
• 40:13
  deal that he ultimately wanted to sign.
• 40:16
  He has the choice. I don't know what other deals he
• 40:18
  was offered, but I know everything that was offered to
• 40:20
  me. It's just sad that he thinks the
• 40:23
  way or he thinks that way when I see Scott as a very honorable
• 40:27
  man, which maybe you're, you're dead on there.
• 40:31
  I think till the very end. I don't know the guy personally,
• 40:33
  but from all accounts, Scott Boris is Scott Boris.
• 40:39
  Snelly trying to get paid this offseason.
• 40:41
  So he's strategically this is very political.
• 40:48
  The Montgomery comments. Man, it's just tough because
• 40:52
  it's like, I do understand what you're saying and we talked
• 40:55
  about like pictures are more so creature habits than creatures
• 41:00
  of habit than anything any other position and to not have your
• 41:05
  spring training, you know, and you're the one that's committed
• 41:14
  to this agency. You're the one that decided to
• 41:16
  go with this agency. And you're, you know, like it's
• 41:19
  not like you're being surprised by Boris antics.
• 41:24
  It's not like you're being caught, you know, out of nowhere
• 41:28
  for what he does and he maximizes his clients contracts.
• 41:32
  That's how he operates. That's how he's always
• 41:34
  operating. Or dies trying.
• 41:36
  Yeah. And look, do I agree with?
• 41:39
  No. Do I agree with how things were
• 41:42
  handled this offseason and like keeping guys out of spring
• 41:45
  training and outside of Blake Snell, like when you look at
• 41:50
  Jordan Montgomery and Cody Bellinger both being so late
• 41:53
  with their deals and being Boris clients, it's like it's hard to
• 41:58
  say that it didn't play a factor in this year's performance.
• 42:04
  I I think it's difficult for for Jordan to do that as he's being
• 42:12
  demoted to the bullpen. You know what I mean?
• 42:14
  But I don't know, I don't. I also don't love the timing of
• 42:18
  the comments with what the Diamondbacks are doing at the at
• 42:22
  the moment and like how hot they are.
• 42:24
  It's like, brother, like say this in the offseason, but like
• 42:28
  now you're just bringing unnecessary attention to
• 42:33
  yourself when you're already struggling and the team is
• 42:37
  succeeding. They just piped out.
• 42:40
  In in, in one of those post game pressors where they they had him
• 42:43
  in front of his locker. He did he did mention that he
• 42:47
  was tired of talking about it. He was like, this is like the
• 42:50
  5th or 6th time you guys have asked me about this.
• 42:52
  So I the the frustration was visible but at the same.
• 42:56
  Time, it's like tough though, is that like, look, look at the
• 42:59
  world we exist in right now, like everyone, No one's going to
• 43:02
  listen to that part. We're only going to see this
• 43:05
  little clip and this little quote on Twitter and that's what
• 43:08
  everyone goes off of. And it's just like, I don't
• 43:12
  know. Yeah, but like you, I feel like
• 43:14
  we learned. It's so.
• 43:18
  Hard. I want to say that we learned a
• 43:20
  lot about Jordan Montgomery this offseason because it's like, OK,
• 43:24
  you can sit here in late August and tell me that like, you don't
• 43:30
  want this to be about you and you just want to focus on on
• 43:33
  pitching in whatever role that the Diamondbacks grant you.
• 43:37
  But like, have some awareness, Jordan, like you are the one
• 43:43
  that took this, these negotiations up to just shy of
• 43:48
  opening day. Most guys when they sign in the
• 43:51
  offseason do it months earlier. But you and you can sit here and
• 43:55
  point fingers at Scott Boris all you want, but you have the
• 43:57
  freedom to make a decision if you're just like, hey, let's,
• 44:02
  let's, let's cut ties on this pursuit of, of, of a contract
• 44:05
  that this lucrative contract that I'm after.
• 44:08
  And let's just get something done so I can get my feet wet.
• 44:11
  I can get in, get my routine going so that I'm ready for
• 44:14
  opening day. No, you were the guy that was
• 44:16
  like, no, we're going to run this up to opening day, even
• 44:19
  past opening day if we have to, because I'm in pursuit of that
• 44:22
  money, which I, I can appreciate you want to get what you feel
• 44:25
  that you're worth. But like I, it's hard for me to
• 44:28
  to hear you say, well, I I'm tired of talking about this.
• 44:31
  I'm tired of making this about me.
• 44:33
  I just want to focus on the team and what?
• 44:35
  And in the same in the same season, just months earlier, you
• 44:40
  were you were running, milking this for all that it was worth.
• 44:43
  So I don't know, it's just hard for me to hear that.
• 44:45
  That's just me. Yeah, it's weird, man.
• 44:49
  We, we have like this fine line of like we get tired of the
• 44:53
  politically correct, copy and paste answers that we get from
• 44:56
  athletes. And sometimes we want them to
• 44:59
  just be real. I don't, I don't think it's
• 45:02
  super fair of us to like ridicule a guy when he is real.
• 45:07
  You know what I mean? And it's, it's a difficult line
• 45:10
  to, to tell. And I just, I don't know, for
• 45:14
  me, I'm like the timing of this around what the Diamondbacks are
• 45:20
  doing and the fact that you're struggling and you just got
• 45:22
  demoted to the bullpen when you clearly sign this bigger
• 45:26
  contract to be a front of the line starter.
• 45:29
  It's like this isn't the best time to throw shade.
• 45:32
  You know what I mean? Why don't you just stay in your
• 45:34
  own lane and worry about your own your own progress here?
• 45:40
  Speaking of progress, didn't take long for Jason Hayward to
• 45:44
  get back on his feet. He is with the Houston Astros
• 45:49
  after finalizing the deal, was DFA last week by the Dodgers and
• 45:56
  will now provide some help in the outfield for a team that as
• 46:00
  we've talked about, comeback was inevitable.
• 46:03
  They're they're here to stay. They are going to be a force in
• 46:06
  the post season when that time comes and now they have a little
• 46:09
  bit of added depth to help them in that chase.
• 46:18
  I told you, man, what did I say? That there was going to be this,
• 46:21
  there was going to be some big post season moment that he has.
• 46:23
  There's going to be some clutch J hey moment, some big defence
• 46:30
  play or it's this clutch home run or something man.
• 46:34
  There's there's going to be a way that he can contribute and
• 46:38
  he's been around the block. He's a good baseball mind.
• 46:41
  He's a hard worker. He's a hustler like you can, and
• 46:46
  you can see this biting some other teams in the booty across
• 46:50
  the league. Freaking Astros, man.
• 46:54
  Just had to be with the Astros. Yeah.
• 46:57
  Speaking of the American League West, Jacob degrom now has two
• 47:03
  rehab appearances in the books, correct?
• 47:07
  Or was this last one his first one?
• 47:10
  No say. Either way, threw two scoreless
• 47:14
  for Round Rock 24 pitches, 16 strikes and he was pushing 199.5
• 47:26
  on the gun, so the conversation of.
• 47:34
  Too late. Is it is there even any point in
• 47:37
  him doing this? That's I mean you can have that
• 47:39
  conversation another day, but the reality is that he seems he
• 47:43
  seems to be in in in decent shape seems like he is right
• 47:48
  around the corner from being as healthy as he can be at this
• 47:54
  stage of his career. So maybe we get a little taste
• 47:57
  of of that before season's end. And I, I think for him, the, the
• 48:05
  narrative there, the reasoning there might be that he, he just
• 48:09
  wants to log some Indians going into this offseason, know what
• 48:12
  he know where he's at, know what he needs to build off of.
• 48:17
  And, and use whatever sample size he's able to accrue that at
• 48:21
  the end of the season here or towards the end of the season.
• 48:25
  And use that as a as a launching pad for 2025 where hopefully we
• 48:31
  get a healthy Jacob degrom. But you never know.
• 48:34
  Yeah, yeah, too late for me. 10 games under 510 games back in
• 48:40
  the West, 11 games back in the wild card.
• 48:44
  They are dead in the water, but. No doubt, no doubt, but this is
• 48:48
  this is more for him personal development.
• 48:51
  Yeah, yeah, I hope. I hope he comes back, man.
• 48:59
  I hope he. I hope he does the ground
• 49:01
  things. I hope training wheels
• 49:03
  eventually come off and we don't have to sit here and talk about,
• 49:07
  you know, any kind of innings limit or you don't worry about
• 49:11
  pitch counts or whatever. I'd like to just see him be what
• 49:14
  he used to be. We saw for we saw for Chris
• 49:17
  Sale, right? So Chris Sale can do it.
• 49:20
  So can you. I don't know.
• 49:23
  I hope one can help. Speaking of hoping, the woman
• 49:29
  who was shot in the leg last year at a White Sox game is
• 49:32
  hoping that she can acquire some cash from the from the club.
• 49:38
  She is. She has sued the White Sox for
• 49:41
  the the incident last August in a game against the A's, which I
• 49:46
  know we covered and we're rather confused by.
• 49:51
  She hid the gun in her fat rolls.
• 49:53
  Yes, that's where I'm confused. Brought the gun in under her fat
• 49:59
  rolls and then get shot. Is it the same lady that we're
• 50:03
  talking about here? Like is the lady that suing the
• 50:06
  same lady that had the fat rolls for lack of a better way of
• 50:10
  saying it and had the gun under there?
• 50:14
  Is that the same lady? Because if so, what are we even
• 50:17
  talking about here? Why is this even being
• 50:19
  presented? I.
• 50:20
  Don't know this. Is as a serious conversation.
• 50:24
  2024 man, it's that's so disappointing.
• 50:30
  It has to. Do you have a name?
• 50:36
  I just have ages of names. I don't see a name here.
• 50:40
  But the lawsuit itself I was reading, I believe this was from
• 50:45
  like a Fox Sports article. It says the lawsuit maintains
• 50:49
  that the White Sox in the Illinois Sports Facilities
• 50:52
  Authority failed to enforce a stadium prohibition on firearms
• 50:57
  and protect attendees from foreseeable dangers.
• 51:00
  She's seeking more than 50K in damages.
• 51:03
  Sure, sure. Is she 42?
• 51:08
  42 Yep. This is the same chick.
• 51:10
  On August 29th, 2023, a woman reportedly hid a gun in her
• 51:14
  belly fat, then snuck it past metal detectors and Guaranteed
• 51:18
  Rate field in Chicago to attend a White Sox against Oakland A's
• 51:22
  game. The gun accidentally discharged
• 51:25
  during the 4th inning, injuring two women. 42 year old woman
• 51:28
  shot in the leg and taken to the hospital and 26 year old woman
• 51:33
  grazed in the abdomen and refused medical treatment.
• 51:48
  I mean, is this America in 2024? Sneaks a gut look dude.
• 51:55
  What's scary is that if there's no precedent or if there is
• 51:59
  precedent. Can I?
• 52:01
  No, hold on. I need to make money here.
• 52:03
  I need to say this out loud again, just so I know that I'm
• 52:07
  not going crazier, that I'm missing something.
• 52:10
  A woman sneaks a gun into a stadium under her fat rolls.
• 52:16
  The gun goes off, she gets shot and then sues the team of which
• 52:24
  she's watching for failing to prevent guns being brought into
• 52:31
  the stadium and from keeping fans safe.
• 52:36
  To be a family in that courtroom, I would do anything.
• 52:45
  I, I don't even know what I'm saying right now.
• 52:47
  I, I legitimately don't. I, I, I can't, I, I can't deal
• 52:51
  with people anymore, man. It's crazy.
• 52:54
  Like, did you hear what I just said?
• 52:57
  And you just know, stuff like this goes on on a much like
• 53:00
  smaller scale all the time around around not just the
• 53:02
  country, just the world. If this wasn't, if this didn't
• 53:05
  have like, the White Sox attached to the story, we'd
• 53:08
  never hear about it. But.
• 53:09
  This would be like a a normal Tuesday in Florida like it this
• 53:12
  is this is just the world we live in.
• 53:15
  I guess that's all I really had weekend series watch real quick.
• 53:20
  I, I forgot to remind you to find one, but there are, there
• 53:23
  are some good series going on, but mine is going to be the
• 53:26
  Braves at the at the Phillies. As of or entering Wednesday, the
• 53:32
  Braves are six games back. This is a four-game series.
• 53:35
  So say what you will about the Braves, say what you will about
• 53:42
  the Phillies, say what you will about my feelings about those
• 53:45
  respective teams. This is an opportunity for the
• 53:47
  Phillies to put the Braves underground for good officially.
• 53:51
  Game one Thursday, Charlie Morton versus Christopher
• 53:56
  Sanchez at 6:40 PM Eastern. Game two we have Reynaldo Lopez
• 54:01
  versus Ranger Suarez at 6:40 PM Eastern Game 3 Nate.
• 54:08
  Usually I, I try to like identify a game of the series to
• 54:11
  watch. I, I, I genuinely think this
• 54:14
  whole series is must watch TV. Game two I already mentioned
• 54:18
  game three we have Max Reed versus Zach Wheeler 7:15 PM
• 54:21
  Eastern on Fox that's on Saturday and game 4 Spencer
• 54:26
  Schwellenbach who is pitching very, very well is going up
• 54:29
  against Aaron Nola Sunday night baseball ESPN 7:00 PM Eastern.
• 54:36
  That is my series to watch this weekend.
• 54:39
  Give. Me.
• 54:43
  Give me Dodgers coming to Phoenix.
• 54:46
  I was hoping you'd go that. This is this is just this is
• 54:51
  exactly what you want if you're a Diamondbacks fan.
• 54:55
  If you're a fan of the Snakes game one on free day, Kershaw
• 55:01
  Gallon, that might have to be the one.
• 55:05
  I don't know if they go to that shoot game dude.
• 55:09
  Get to a game this weekend, that's that's good baseball,
• 55:12
  right? There Game 2, Gavin Stone going
• 55:16
  against Meryl Kelly, that's on Saturday, Sunday Flaherty going
• 55:25
  against P Fat to start September.
• 55:29
  Some good matchups there, I like that.
• 55:31
  I'm Yeah, What is that? What were the standings again?
• 55:34
  Let me pull that back up. What three games back?
• 55:40
  They are three games back. Yeah, Yeah, man, this is is it
• 55:48
  right here. This is like this is a statement
• 55:50
  series for either team. I mean, if the Dodgers managed
• 55:54
  to take two out of three and really give them, that's a big
• 55:57
  cushion. You know, five games is a big
• 56:00
  cushion in September. But the Diamondbacks can do a
• 56:06
  little something, something, get it to 1 1/2, something like that
• 56:11
  1. Barring a sweep from the
• 56:14
  Dodgers, it's not really do or die necessarily for either team.
• 56:19
  Like I think even like two or three either way or even a sweep
• 56:23
  from the D backs. It's things are still like we're
• 56:25
  still up in the air heading into September.
• 56:29
  But yeah, I mean, I think you said it best.
• 56:32
  This is a this is a statement series.
• 56:34
  This is a a signature series potentially for for either team.
• 56:38
  So big baseball this weekend. But it's almost September guys
• 56:45
  like it's we're almost there to just we've.
• 56:48
  Almost made it. September is going to be
• 56:51
  September is awesome, by the way, like football starting up.
• 56:56
  I think October's the best. But little.
• 56:59
  Bias there. I know, but it like it just gets
• 57:02
  you going. Oh boy, October does hit because
• 57:05
  then you're like, you're fully into like chilly weather, you
• 57:08
  know what I mean? You're in hoodies and chilly
• 57:09
  weather. Oh yeah.
• 57:11
  I can't wait to make chili. Love making chili?
• 57:16
  Well, Speaking of dinner, let's let's knock out a game here real
• 57:19
  quick before we get to that. OK, it's been a while.
• 57:22
  It's. Been a minute.
• 57:23
  We talked about. I've been trying hard to keep
• 57:26
  these episodes under an hour, by the way, so I'm I'm, I'm
• 57:29
  sacrificing a little bit here, but you know, it's the end of
• 57:32
  the week. Yeah, let's let's loosen the
• 57:35
  ties a little bit. Do.
• 57:36
  You remember what we established last time, a rule change.
• 57:41
  You can't start with somebody. No, that rule was already there.
• 57:47
  I thought we talked. I thought we talked possibly
• 57:50
  doing active or retired. Did we?
• 57:55
  Did we? What do you?
• 57:57
  Expand. What do you mean?
• 57:59
  Establishing establishing that before we start.
• 58:05
  Oh, like like which arrow we're starting with retired or or
• 58:10
  active and then it's free game from that point is what you're
• 58:13
  saying? Or like, no, no, it was like,
• 58:18
  yeah, yeah, it's free. Not like the whole time.
• 58:21
  I think it I think we said like we go each one like you do
• 58:27
  active, I do retired, but we have to like establish saying
• 58:30
  which one we're going to go with.
• 58:32
  Oh, so we're like splitting, like we have to go one and one.
• 58:36
  Yeah. Man, I tell you what, the rule
• 58:39
  the the. I like.
• 58:41
  That the requirements for these players to get into our, say,
• 58:45
  the same name player Hall of Fame.
• 58:49
  Yeah, They change week to week, it seems so like this is a wild
• 58:55
  Hall of Fame, but it's one that I think many, most, if not all
• 59:00
  would would be honored to be a part of.
• 59:02
  I agree. I think we got, what, four or
• 59:04
  five guys in there right now? Yeah.
• 59:07
  So do you like that? I like.
• 59:11
  It I like it. I think it just starts us a
• 59:17
  little further. We're yeah, but we're like
• 59:19
  teetering into like a Manfred Ball where we're we're starting
• 59:22
  to put too much legislation into the game and.
• 59:25
  Into this this is the. This is the last one.
• 59:28
  All right, OK. I'll go.
• 59:32
  And obviously the previous rule that is fully established is
• 59:36
  cannot start this game with a name that we've already
• 59:42
  mentioned this episode. This episode, not any episode,
• 59:45
  this episode. This one.
• 59:47
  This one specifically. That recall would be impossible.
• 59:51
  You're. An active or retired.
• 59:53
  I'll take active. You'll take active, I'll take
• 59:56
  retired. I know you like the vintage era.
• 1:00:00
  I do. Let's roll.
• 1:00:03
  All right, well, I mean, off the top here, we can just we can
• 1:00:06
  just let it rip. Hold on, let me think here.
• 1:00:10
  Got my got my soundboard up now I'm going to go.
• 1:00:19
  Let's make this let's make this first pick fun, you know?
• 1:00:22
  Yeah. All right, I got a guy.
• 1:00:30
  All right, ready. Did we decide are we going?
• 1:00:36
  Are we limiting ourselves to five picks?
• 1:00:39
  No, I don't think that's fair. Oh my.
• 1:00:42
  Gosh, so it's 10 if we need it, it's. 10 if we need.
• 1:00:45
  It all right? Well, we're going to need to be
• 1:00:46
  quick then, because 10-10 can run on for some.
• 1:00:49
  Time we'll play the music you got to.
• 1:00:51
  I'm not doing the music in between, no, it stresses me out.
• 1:00:55
  It does. It does me.
• 1:00:56
  Too, and it's too long. We need to, we need to keep it.
• 1:00:59
  Keep it tight, finding your song maybe?
• 1:01:01
  Maybe I'll work on that. OK.
• 1:01:03
  All right. 321 Bryson, Scott. A bully.
• 1:01:14
  All right, it could have been worse.
• 1:01:15
  It could have been. Worse, now we're all off.
• 1:01:17
  Here we are. We are off and running.
• 1:01:18
  Off and running here. All right, Bryson Stott, Greg
• 1:01:23
  Maddox. All right, I got a guy.
• 1:01:32
  I guess I got a guy. 321 Curt Chili.
• 1:01:41
  All right, we're getting there. Chase Utley and Curt Schilling.
• 1:01:48
  I mean, we're zeroing in like right off the top here, I think.
• 1:01:54
  Chase Utley and Curt Schilling. Aw, man.
• 1:02:08
  All right, Maybe we're not zeroing in as much as I
• 1:02:09
  initially thought. Well, I mean the the
• 1:02:15
  circumstances surrounding these players or or zeroing in maybe
• 1:02:18
  not the the players themselves, but.
• 1:02:21
  It's the connection. The connections are being made.
• 1:02:25
  That's two guesses. Curt Schilling and Chase Sutley.
• 1:02:32
  All right, I got a guy. Oh, I got a guy is.
• 1:02:36
  It obvious don't. Ask me that.
• 1:02:39
  Just just just play the game. You have to play the game
• 1:02:57
  if you're going to dilly dally, if you're going to bojangle, I'm
• 1:02:59
  going to need I'm going to need to kick it into another gear
• 1:03:02
  here. So organ music it is.
• 1:03:06
  All right, whatever. I don't know.
• 1:03:08
  I got one I guess. Two guesses in this is our 3rd
• 1:03:11
  guest, 321 Jimmy Roy Holiday. All right, this is just going to
• 1:03:19
  be the All Philly, all Philly game.
• 1:03:21
  OK? All right, three guesses under
• 1:03:24
  the belt. This will be our 4th Roy
• 1:03:27
  Holiday. Jimmy Rollins.
• 1:03:30
  I got a guy. Got a guy?
• 1:03:32
  321 Ryan Howard All right, I think 4 is tied for record.
• 1:03:45
  You got a stab record. The one doesn't even really
• 1:03:47
  count. Almost.
• 1:03:49
  True. Yeah, Well, it does.
• 1:03:51
  I mean, you're laying the foundation there with that
• 1:03:53
  guess. Like you could you could really
• 1:03:55
  screw up the game and the integrity of it if you just go
• 1:03:57
  way off the off the grid. Like if you just would have
• 1:04:02
  dropped like a Hack Wilson in there.
• 1:04:04
  What am I going to do with that? Nothing.
• 1:04:06
  So there's some strategy there. It's true.
• 1:04:10
  Some big strategy there. All right, Well done, Ryan
• 1:04:12
  Howard, welcome to the Say the Name Hall of Fame.
• 1:04:16
  Big club, big, big club. I think he's our.
• 1:04:20
  I want to say he's our fifth. I'll have to double check, maybe
• 1:04:24
  6th. It's a prestigious club.
• 1:04:28
  It is. Very prestigious club.
• 1:04:31
  All right, well done. We didn't go.
• 1:04:32
  We were not too bad time wise. I thought I'm saying we would
• 1:04:36
  have lingered on there, but we were.
• 1:04:38
  We were short and sweet there. Well done.
• 1:04:39
  Ryan Howard, welcome to the club.
• 1:04:41
  You got anything else for the people?
• 1:04:42
  I don't think so. I love you all.
• 1:04:46
  You're you're all great. Thanks for hanging out in the
• 1:04:48
  chat. If you're doing that, I think
• 1:04:53
  maybe, you know, if you'd, if you'd like to join the party a
• 1:04:56
  little bit more, get into YouTube if you want to join the
• 1:05:00
  live, we got that rolling now. We got Twitter going, we got
• 1:05:05
  Instagram going, we got Facebook going.
• 1:05:09
  So there's a lot of different ways to participate and hang
• 1:05:12
  out, and yeah, we'd appreciate it.
• 1:05:17
  So that's all she wrote. Don't go chasing curveballs.
• 1:05:22
  Have a great weekend, we love you all and as always, looking
• 1:05:24
  forward to talking more baseball with you guys soon.
• 1:05:26
  Until next time, stay filthy.