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Ronald Acuña Jr. Tears ACL · 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 it.
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  All. Starts right now.
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  Welcome back to the three O take presented by C geek.
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  This is episode 436. I'll be your host, Kyle Corn,
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  and I'm here with my Co host Nate Reyes.
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  Nate, how about it? A bet's a bet.
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  Oh man, you look like a like a middle school PE teacher.
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  I kind of look like AD 2 football coach if I'm being
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  honest. Tell me I don't look like AD 2
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  football coach. I I think you look like a high
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  school JV softball first base coach.
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  I mean, I was trying to to, you know, humble myself a little bit
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  by saying I was D2, I wasn't going to go all the way D1.
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  I'm missing, I'm missing that degree of of swag.
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  But you're going to take me. You're going to drop me all the
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  way down to first base coach of AJV softball team.
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  That's. Great, great.
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  Fit the top button too, huh? Yeah, I'm going classy.
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  I I opted for the classy route. I mean, we'll see.
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  We'll see how things go. Maybe if things get, maybe if
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  things get loose, I might, I might undo it.
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  We'll see. I was going to say but your your
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  AC isn't working right now, so maybe you got to let it let the
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  chest go, let it breathe, breathe a little bit.
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  Let breathe a little bit. How?
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  How does it feel? Is it?
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  Is it itchy? Is it?
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  Breathable, I said before we, before we hopped on, actually
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  hold on. I need to.
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  I need to put the tweet out to let the folks know that the gold
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  the gold pillow has arrived. Yeah, and if you're not
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  watching, either stream or or subscribe to YouTube.
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  There's never been a better time.
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  Let's just get that done now and witness what I'm looking at
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  right now. The visor too.
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  You look like Steve Spurrier's long lost step cousin if.
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  Steve Spurrier's long lost step cousin was AD 2 football coach.
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  Yeah. So some some thoughts here on on
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  the on the gold polo. First of all, I wish.
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  I wish it was the the mic was on the other side.
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  You know, we we can make that. Adjustment.
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  There we go. Let's let's make the adjustment
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  here just for the time being all right, so everything is iron
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  like iron press. I don't I'm supposed to wear
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  this for I think we said 14 episodes.
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  I I'll be honest with you, I don't know if it's going to make
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  it to 14 episodes. I might just be wearing a
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  generic gold polo and it we're not going to have any context as
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  a why I'm wearing it because that's perfect.
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  This may be gone that I mean that's classic as fashion.
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  This might this it it could fall this episode.
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  It could fall off, if I'm being honest.
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  And then the A's logo on the side the the the patch it, it's
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  hard to see, but like it's it's almost coming off.
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  Sure, I don't know if you can see it there, but it's it's not
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  looking good. Well, you got an iron, right?
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  I get yeah, but I don't, I don't even know if that's going to fix
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  it. Well, we'll see, but look a.
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  Lot of uniforms get ironed, you know it's.
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  Professionalism, this is this is majestic too, so I don't know
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  what's going on. I I expected a little bit better
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  from. Probably 15 years old.
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  That's what I'm guessing. I can't.
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  I want to know, did you communicate with the guy at all
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  off of eBay? Like how stoked was this man?
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  Oh, you know that this had been sitting in his closet.
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  He he had this listing was probably on eBay for at least
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  five years. Yeah, His wife was just like,
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  can we please just throw it away?
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  No. He was like, he was probably
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  like, he's probably like, all right, we'll get rid of it
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  today. Let me just log into my eBay
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  real quick and then I'll take it out to the trash.
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  And sure enough, there is a notification letting him know
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  that a young gentleman out in Virginia had just purchased it.
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  Because that makes sense. Oh yes.
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  Unbelievable. So we have somebody in that we
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  got somebody in the chat asking if we're giants fans know.
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  So last I, I feel like I've explained the bet enough times
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  already. This will be the last one I
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  promise. But now that the, now that the
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  merch has arrived, if like put a bow on it, the bet was I guess
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  what, 2-3 weeks ago at this point, I was, I was real high on
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  the A's and you were challenging me on it so much so that you,
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  you presented a bet and you said, all right, if the A we'll
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  see how the next two weeks go. It was like 14, a 14 game span.
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  And we decided that if the A's went, if, if the A's played 500
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  ball or better, that I would win the bet.
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  And if they were under 500 that you would win the bet.
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  And they and and I had mentioned certain statistics on here that
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  like more certainly validated my thoughts on the A's at that
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  point in time. I had no statistics.
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  The offense was rolling Mason the the the hyper on Mason
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  Miller could not have been higher.
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  I was going off numbers. Nate was going off gut.
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  And then they proceeded to go, I think like two and two and.
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  Seven. I think they were two and eight,
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  two and eight in the 10 game stretch.
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  We didn't even need to go to 14. You immediately lost.
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  Yeah, so the the bet or the the wager, the final determining the
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  wager there was that the loser was going to have to wear this
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  merch, this get up this Billy Bean looking get up every
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  episode until the All Star break.
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  So it is here and it shall stay until mid-july.
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  So, so good. A bet's a bet.
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  I, I'll be honest with you, I, I, I toyed with the idea of
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  skipping tonight as punishment to you for robbing me of our
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  fantasy match up because you're not going to feel any sort of
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  impact on that. So this was my old, this was my
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  one chance as I go, OK, maybe I'll make an executive decision
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  here and opt to not wear the A's merch the first night that it
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  it's available. But you know, I'm, I'm man of
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  integrity. I, I said I'd give you 14
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  episodes and I'm going to give you 14 episodes with this.
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  So it's. Absolutely delightful.
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  It's incredible. Did the bill come in curve that
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  way or did you? It did.
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  It did. Fresh out of the bath.
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  In fact, I think I may may have just taken out-of-the-box like
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  yesterday so. Excellent.
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  The Velcro strap on the back I hope.
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  Oh it's it's it says one-size-fits-all.
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  It is on the last bit of Velcro. I got a big old head.
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  You do have a big melon so I was hoping it it actually looks
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  better than I had drawn up in in.
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  My, I'm telling you man, with the headset, I'm looking.
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  You look good in yellow. It looks good on camera, I'm not
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  going to lie. Nice backdrop.
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  It really pops. So, you know, I, I think the
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  people were right when they were saying it when I, when we had
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  tweeted out the, the outfit, they were like, whoever has to
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  wear that actually might be the winner at the end of the day.
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  And I, I looking at this, the way this looks right now, I, I
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  got to give it to him. I think they may have been on to
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  something there because I think I'm going to enjoy wearing this
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  for the next couple months. Silver Linings, I should have
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  put in a clause. I should have put in something
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  of like if they didn't, even if if they couldn't get to five
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  wins or something, you wouldn't have been able to wash it.
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  Something like that. I, I going back, I would have
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  done it over. I would have done something
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  differently. It's, I mean I I think given
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  the. Time's the blow.
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  Yeah, Spencer in the chat says the outfit makes the Acuna news
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  less crappy. Love it.
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  I I think given the time that we had to decide because we had to
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  start the wager like I think it was that night or I think they
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  had it was like an off day. We had to decide by the next
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  night or something. I think with the time allotted,
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  I I think we made it work. We.
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  Were on a time crunch for sure and if you'd like we can we can
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  maybe come up with a another bet post All Star game and see if
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  you can get even you know. Oh, we're going to I, I like the
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  bet. We're this is going to be like a
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  new thing. We're just going to, there's
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  going to be a constant bet. It's going to be a rolling bet
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  incrementally. We'll, we'll be, we'll be doing
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  stupid things like this. So while I say stupid, I'm not
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  going to lie, look pretty good so.
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  I need you to get a chain. I'm just being honest outside of
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  the collar. Can you do that for me?
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  I mean, I have like my my black one that I always wear here.
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  I don't know if that's going to America going to look like even
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  more. No this.
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  Is what this is what the kids do nowadays?
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  Is this really what they do? They wear it outside the outside
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  the collar, especially in the football, in the football
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  community. Oh, yeah.
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  No, no, no, outside. It's got to go under the collar.
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  Like oh, oh, oh, yeah. Oh yeah, yeah, I know what?
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  You're talking about. That's delightful.
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  There we go. There we go.
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  Hang it up in the rafters, baby. That's going to be excellent.
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  Oh. Yeah.
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  Oh, baby. I feel good now, man.
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  All right, let's get into it. Does it?
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  Well, I'll. I'll give you the final.
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  The final. Say this was your this was your
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  bet to win. You want it?
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  Is there anything else you any closing remarks before this
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  penalty begins officially? No clothes, just extremely
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  grateful for this opportunity. I'd like to thank the way my gut
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  in here tells me certain things about baseball bets, and I don't
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  hit many, but this one hit and I'm proud of it.
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  Well, I mean, they're in the they're they're just all over.
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  They're in the chat. Just saying it looks great.
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  Kyle. He looks great.
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  He I knew Kyle look outstanding. The Golden Green By the end of
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  this episode, I very well may be on a flight out to Oakland to.
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  That's great. Let's let's talk 6-7 episodes in
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  and see if the sentiment stays the same.
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  You. Know it'll be there.
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  Ace fan for life. Let's talk about Ronald Cooney
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  junior. We got we got some bad news to
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  talk there. We got to talk red sweep and the
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  dodgers. We got to talk guardians win
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  streak. We're going to talk Mets just
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  doing what the Mets do, and we're going to talk some more
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  City connects because it seems like we do that every episode
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  now, so. I can't wait until we're done.
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  We got to be close, right? I mean, I think we did, yeah.
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  There's only like 2 more. No, I'm talking like this year
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  though, like we got to because like because they do like the
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  annual schedule. This has to be it.
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  Well, no, I think you're right. I think the list all together we
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  got to be, we got to be getting some real close.
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  I hope so. But going back to the top, let's
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  talk some Ronald Kuni junior brutal news coming out of Braves
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  camp. Out for the season.
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  Out for the season, which I, to be honest with you, I did not
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  see coming because he walked off on his own power, or at least
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  like 8090% his power from what I could tell.
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  I knew it right away. Did you really?
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  Yeah, the, the ACL you can still move around pretty good.
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  And that's, I, I had a feeling that it was the ACL cause like
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  the way that the knee went and the way the leg went and the,
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  you can kind of feel, you know, when there's something in there
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  that goes and yeah, I, I had a feeling the sick and he started
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  moving around. I was like, I don't think we're
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  in the clear yet. I think it is, I think it is the
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  ACL. Sure enough, not happy about it,
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  not happy about it at all. I, I do feel bad, man.
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  I think it sucks. Yeah, it's it's a well, unique's
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  not the right word, but it's I'm just trying to find silver
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  lining for brace fans. It's at least comforting is not
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  the right word either. I'm just I'm trying to find the
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  positive here. I like I know what I'm trying to
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  say at at at least the way the 2024 season was going for Kunia,
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  at least you're not sitting there wondering like what if,
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  because if he started off like if he's leading the league at
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  home runs, if he's racking up stolen bases the way he did in
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  2023, you're going are we looking at a a back-to-back MVP
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  run here? But he started off.
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  So not to say that the the season was lost for him by any
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  stretch. I'm not I'm I'm not writing him
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  off that way, but at least you can you can look at it going,
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  OK, We're not like, yeah, you're losing one of the best players
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  in the game, but at least we're not losing him where he was at
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  the peak of his game at this stage in the season.
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  And again, I know it's early, but they've they've done just
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  fine without Akuni before. Let's not forget the last World
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  Series run for the Braves. So.
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  Here's the silver lining. There's a good chance to win
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  Comeback Player of the Year next year that doesn't that doesn't
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  do anything. I don't know if I don't know if
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  they, I don't know if they care about that.
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  Yeah, I don't think about that. Probably not.
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  It's a big blow. It's definitely a big blow.
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  I think the unfortunate side of it was like, I think everyone in
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  baseball outside of Braves fans were like, was like, you know,
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  when, when, when is he going to turn it on?
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  Like, you know, it's coming. You know, he hasn't clicked
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  quite yet this year. Like, when is he going to turn
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  it on? We're going to see typical Kunia
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  numbers and then this, this happens.
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  And it's tough because it's like the Strider news.
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  And then this. It's like, I don't, I don't
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  know, man. Like I don't know if the Braves
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  are able to overcome. They're still a great team,
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  don't get me wrong, and there's still plenty of teams that would
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  kill to have this roster minus those two guys, but those are
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  like legitimate look at odds every year.
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  Cy Young and MVP favourites. Not even candidates like they
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  are considered somewhat favourites.
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  Top three. Top three.
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  You don't replace that. You know there isn't, there
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  isn't another right fielder you can go get to to replace this.
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  Yes, for Cunha for sure. But regarding Strider, obviously
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  a big blow there. But for me at least that I I
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  feel like it happened so early in the season where it's like he
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  may have just gotten surgery in the offseason for all for all we
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  care or for all that matter, like because you had so little
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  of them where you're like, oh, well, we're not going to have
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  Strider this year. He may have tripped, he could
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  have tripped on a curb and stubbed his toe and been out for
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  2024 back in like December And it it would essentially been the
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  same thing. You you would certainly love to
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  have a Spencer Schreider in your rotation.
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  But for me, again, it goes back to the the sample size, like
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  Acuna, you feel it a little bit more, albeit he wasn't having a
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  great year, like I said it, or at least for his standards,
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  wasn't have the hot wasn't having the hottest start to his
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  year. But with Spencer Schreider, it's
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  like, all right, Spencer Schreider, top three favorite
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  for the Cy Young. This is going to be a a big year
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  for him. The sample size you got out of
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  him this year, so small where it's by by the middle of the
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  season by all by the All Star break, you're going to go, Oh
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  yeah, that's right. Spencer Schreider pitched for
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  the Braves this season. But it by that point, you will
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  have already had to have figured out a, a workaround because it,
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  it will have been months at that point that you, that you've been
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  out with him. So yeah, man, Braves fans having
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  a tough go of it. I, I, I gotta say.
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  But like I said, they, they've done it before.
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  They've they've made, they've made doom before without a guy
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  like Acuna. Although combined, like you said
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  with Strider, I don't know, that's tough.
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  It was 2021, the World Series. Yeah.
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  The first time he did it right. Yeah.
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  Yeah, that was their World Series run.
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  We played 82 games. There's only 49 games into the
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  season. The scary thing is, the scary
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  thing is that this is like this is a part of his game.
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  You know what I mean? Like it's, it's a part of his
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  style of play. And that's a big reason why he
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  is who he is and why he's capable of doing what he does is
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  because like the speed and agility factor to the way he
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  plays the outfield, to the way he runs bases, to the way he
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  swipes bags, to the way he turns, you know, a single into a
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  double or, or is able to get to 1st the third.
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  Like the the unfortunate and scary thing is, is that like,
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  what if we start to lose that aspect of his game?
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  And you could have had to assume it's going to come like there's
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  going to be a a drop off. Well, it not just a drop off, I
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  think there's going to be a a, a decision made, a conversation
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  had where it's like we're going to dial, we're going to have to
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  dial this back. And you could apply that line.
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  Didn't mean to cut you off. But what I was going to say was
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  you could apply that line of thinking to a lot of these guys
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  that I mean, the, the conversation I think has already
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  been had with a guy like Mike Trout that that probably
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  happened seasons ago at this point.
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  But I wonder if that conversation is going to be had
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  with a guy like Ronald Cunha junior now.
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  And you're going to see some of these other young stars where
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  now they're OK. Like at this stage in their
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  career, it's early, they're OK. But once they get up to once
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  they acquire the, the tenure that a guy like Acuna has, the
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  conversations are going to be getting a little more difficult
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  where it's like we have we have examples around the league of
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  MVP winning, MVP caliber guys who similar to you like, and
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  this is just you can fill in the blank with whoever is being
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  talked to like a, a Bobby Witt, for example, Bobby Witt's going
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  to get to an age where they're going to talk about be like,
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  Hey, Ronnie Trout, similar, similar styles of play, like
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  the, the full package there. We love you Bobby, but you might
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  not be any different than those guys in that regard.
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  So in order to avoid that, maybe now that you're.
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  Fill in the blank age. We're going to start dialing it
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  back a little bit because we can't.
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  We can't be losing you for for seasons at a time because you're
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  too valuable of this team for us to lose the full package.
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  Instead, we're just going to we're going to dial back one
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  facet of that package back. Well, that and I mean like think
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  of the ripple effect of moving forward.
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  So moving forward like there is going to be that natural get him
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  into ADH role more often. What does that do with Azuna?
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  Like how how does the roster look moving forward in the
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  construction there? You almost have to guarantee you
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  got to carry 5 outfielders on your bench when he's back next
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  year. What does this do to his
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  paycheck when he does hit free agency again in a few years?
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  Like there's like this big ripple effect to a lot of of
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  this and it's, it sucks. And someone I saw a tweet that
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  was like you and I aren't like huge basketball fans, but
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  everyone like understands the reference of like, what if
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  Acunia becomes like the D Rose, the Derrick Rose of of baseball?
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  And it's a valid it's like it's a valid argument.
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  It's a valid conversation of like we had greatness and
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  Griffey for a while before the issues started coming.
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  Same with Trout, almost like we've had greatness for a long
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  enough stretch. The stretch hasn't been long
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  enough for Acuna. Like it?
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  It just hasn't been long enough. And that, that D rose comp isn't
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  something you think about after one ACL, but after the second
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  one happens, you're going whoa, like all of a sudden that's a
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  very, very real possibility. And you would just hate to see
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  that. But you mentioned the contract
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  and that's that's another thing that I, I haven't seen enough
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  conversation about is that, look, I think we can all look at
• 22:17
  the contract that he's on right now and go Braves kind of got
• 22:24
  away with one there, right? But let's let's let's wait it
• 22:29
  out. He's going to get his bag soon
• 22:31
  enough. If stuff like this keeps
• 22:33
  happening, man his he's not going to have a strong he's not
• 22:36
  going to have a strong enough case to to command the kind of
• 22:40
  money he's looking for. Because all it's going to take,
• 22:42
  all it's all it's going to take is for these teams that are
• 22:45
  interested, whether it's the Braves or, or elsewhere around
• 22:48
  the league to appoint his medical history and go, why
• 22:52
  would we give you that money? We're not like we've seen enough
• 22:55
  of these contracts just completely fail, right?
• 23:00
  So why would we, why would we commit any sort of money to you
• 23:06
  if you're not even going to be able to give us the full package
• 23:09
  that that was once promised? And I agree and I fully, fully
• 23:14
  agree. And it sucks 'cause it's like
• 23:18
  there's just certain names that you're so like, doesn't matter,
• 23:22
  you're fandom doesn't matter. You know?
• 23:25
  Like overall, if you, if you appreciate baseball more than
• 23:30
  you're fandom of your specific team, which I would argue most
• 23:35
  baseball fans are like that. You love baseball first.
• 23:38
  We fall in love with the game first.
• 23:40
  It sucks to be able to not see him continue on this.
• 23:45
  As far as contract goes, I just wanted a little refresher.
• 23:48
  He's owed 17A year. He is currently 26.
• 23:56
  There is a club option in 2027 age 29 year, another club option
• 24:07
  in 2028 age 30 year and then he's set to be an unrestricted
• 24:11
  free agent in 2029 at 31 years old, which is still a lot of
• 24:16
  baseball left at 31 years old. Let's remember that.
• 24:22
  It's weird because it's, I guess that's a silver lining.
• 24:27
  Like you got to assume the Braves are going to pick that
• 24:31
  up. You know what I mean?
• 24:33
  At 17, that's, that's a, that's still a budget deal.
• 24:37
  That's still a great deal. They're probably going to pick
• 24:39
  up both of those. I mean, I would, I would, I
• 24:45
  would pick up both. No matter what, yeah.
• 24:49
  He's been with the club. You know what he's cable
• 24:52
  providing you and it's at a it's at a budgetary deal or like a
• 24:59
  level like why not? It The, the concern for me would
• 25:05
  would come from elsewhere around the league because at least with
• 25:07
  Acuna, if if you're the Braves, you're in, he's in house, you
• 25:12
  know, the, you know, the medical records, you know the history,
• 25:15
  you know, like what's what's at stake there, how it's trending,
• 25:19
  But elsewhere around the league, that's, that would be a much
• 25:21
  bigger risk, especially during the remaining life of this
• 25:25
  contract. If so, God forbid, if something
• 25:27
  else happened that only further drops down his his case for
• 25:32
  demand for commanding the contract.
• 25:35
  I would imagine he won. So it's it's that's a tough,
• 25:39
  that's a tough spot to be in for Acuna and for the Braves, but
• 25:46
  that's the. Left ACL, right left knee.
• 25:50
  Yes, 'cause I think the first one was the right one, so it was
• 25:54
  the, IT was the other, yeah, this most recent one was the
• 25:57
  left, yeah. It's scary dude, 'cause that's
• 26:03
  like plant side, that's your firm side as a hitter.
• 26:08
  That's a side where your hips still have to open up without
• 26:12
  the knee moving. Man it did.
• 26:16
  Could you tell if he was wearing spikes?
• 26:18
  I didn't watch closely enough. I don't know, I wonder.
• 26:22
  It made me curious if like maybe he moved to molds after the
• 26:26
  first one. Yeah, I think that's something
• 26:28
  I've seen more of. A lot of guys wear molds now for
• 26:32
  sure. Let.
• 26:34
  Me see what I can. Find because it it it definitely
• 26:36
  had the appearance that like a spike got caught during that
• 26:40
  that secondary slash delayed steal attempt slash get back to
• 26:47
  the bag attempt. Super unfortunate dude.
• 26:51
  Super super scary to have happen as well.
• 26:58
  Done it before, it's not fun. Yeah, I let me see here.
• 27:04
  No, it's look like. It's hard to tell.
• 27:08
  It is hard to tell. Yeah, I don't.
• 27:12
  Know I want to say spikes, but that's yeah, I think those are
• 27:16
  spikes. I I think those are spikes.
• 27:19
  Yeah, it's just going to get weird moving forward, man.
• 27:21
  Like the again, like the ripple effect of like how often is he
• 27:24
  going to need to DH? This isn't the same argument as
• 27:28
  Griffey or Trout. Like being a full time center
• 27:30
  fielder. He is a full time right fielder,
• 27:33
  but you could argue that speed is more of a factor of his game
• 27:36
  than either of those guys. And what does that do with their
• 27:41
  roster configuration? Like how, how do you how do you
• 27:45
  commit to an MVP guy knowing that whatever other guy you have
• 27:51
  floating with the DH spot is going to have to either miss
• 27:54
  time or figure out a a way to get him into the field.
• 27:57
  And I don't think as soon as that guy like we, they, we've
• 28:00
  seen that as soon as a mess then left field like it's not the
• 28:04
  move. An absolute liability.
• 28:06
  So you got it like now you're constricting yourself of like,
• 28:09
  who'd you sign that is OK playing the field half the week,
• 28:13
  OK being DH half the week, assuming that Acunia is going to
• 28:17
  be, you know, needing that moving forward.
• 28:21
  It's it's very strange. And roster configuration, I
• 28:24
  think is going to start to change because we've heard
• 28:26
  rumors of like MLB wanting to limit the amount of of
• 28:33
  relievers, putting more emphasis on starters.
• 28:37
  So does that mean that like another bench spot opens up
• 28:41
  offensively? There's a lot of, there's a lot
• 28:44
  of things going on here, but I don't know.
• 28:47
  We'll see. Me too.
• 28:54
  Michael said he's only watching to see my fit.
• 28:56
  I mean, I I agree. This is so good.
• 29:04
  I'm all about it. The the feedback on the fit.
• 29:07
  I I appreciate all of you. I love all of you.
• 29:10
  I like the salt and pepper picking up picking up by the
• 29:13
  way. Hey, you like that?
• 29:14
  Yeah, man, I'm 30 and I feel like I'm 70, but you know.
• 29:18
  That's fair. At least you don't have to.
• 29:21
  We ride on. Yeah.
• 29:24
  Let's talk any other thoughts on the kunya before we move on.
• 29:32
  There I I would expect an Eddie Rosario or something like that
• 29:36
  to be added at the deadline. Someone to come in, you got to
• 29:39
  like, if you're going to miss all of an MVP, they're going to
• 29:43
  have to have two guys that can have the production of him.
• 29:46
  So someone that's familiar with that spot who doesn't fold under
• 29:49
  pressure. Eddie Rosario makes sense.
• 29:52
  Fans love them. I could see that being a thing
• 29:58
  and I think he, I don't know, I haven't looked at numbers, but
• 30:00
  gut feel like feel like he's doing OK with Washington.
• 30:04
  He was there for a a stretch. He was atrocious, but I he.
• 30:07
  Yeah. But that's he did like.
• 30:09
  Over the weekend, but. I think that's what he does.
• 30:11
  That's just that's what he is. Yeah.
• 30:14
  But the Braves are OK with that. I think the organization, the
• 30:16
  fans, like they're used to that. So I I could see something
• 30:20
  there. A lot of pressure on Kalanick to
• 30:21
  like really become what he's supposed to be.
• 30:25
  The rest of the line up just has to like Austin Riley needs
• 30:28
  what's going on there. Austin Riley needs to show up.
• 30:31
  Matt Olson, keep doing Matt Olson things.
• 30:33
  You know that he does. It's just everything needs to be
• 30:36
  picked up, especially offensively.
• 30:39
  But they'll figure it out. A A A is a genius and I still
• 30:44
  expect them to go deep into a postseason.
• 30:50
  They'll be all right. They'll be all right.
• 30:53
  Let's talk red sweeping. The Dodgers sort of a a dual
• 30:57
  pronged topic here. You got the Reds, who for all
• 31:02
  intents and purposes had a a pretty, I mean, that's a
• 31:07
  statement series if I've ever seen one.
• 31:09
  But then on the flip side, you get the Dodgers who get this are
• 31:16
  in the midst of their longest losing streak.
• 31:18
  Well. Since they dropped six in a row
• 31:23
  from April 8th to the 13th, 2019.
• 31:26
  So this is their longest losing streak in five years.
• 31:33
  Whoa. And they've only lost five in a
• 31:35
  row that that speaks to the state of the Dodgers for the
• 31:40
  last, let's just call it, decade.
• 31:43
  Better part of a decade. Seriously.
• 31:46
  But. Even even then, even knowing
• 31:49
  that the Dodgers are in a little bit of a skid, much to the the
• 31:56
  rejoicing of, I would imagine fans of teams elsewhere around
• 32:00
  the league, including Braves fans, Dodgers were outscored 29
• 32:08
  or have been outscored 29 to 11 during this skid, which that's,
• 32:15
  I understand that, that you can be streaky as a team.
• 32:20
  You're going to have your UPS, you're going to have your downs,
• 32:22
  you're going to have your eyes, you're going to have your lows.
• 32:24
  But this is the 2024 Dodgers we're talking about, and you're
• 32:28
  only scoring. You're only putting up 11 over
• 32:31
  the course of five games. That's pretty bad.
• 32:38
  Yeah, that's pretty bad. It's hard to imagine like when
• 32:45
  you know, when you like run through your mind of what that
• 32:48
  line up is. It's hard to imagine.
• 32:50
  It's pretty absurd. As far as giving up though, I
• 32:53
  don't know. I didn't really watch.
• 32:55
  I haven't watched this stretch of of Dodger games, but I I
• 33:01
  think the bullpen still the biggest issue there.
• 33:03
  Yeah, I think that's the biggest hole.
• 33:07
  And I don't, I'm curious to see like how many runs starters
• 33:10
  versus bullpen during the stretch.
• 33:13
  What's funny though, I said this two weeks ago and I was just a
• 33:17
  couple series premature, but the Reds face the Dodgers in LA for
• 33:24
  a four-game set two weeks ago and we did our our weekend
• 33:28
  series to watch and I chose that one and I said this is your
• 33:33
  momentum shifter. Since you pull this off, you can
• 33:37
  flip the script of what this first quarter of the season has
• 33:40
  been like. So I didn't realize that I was
• 33:44
  just, you know, a couple weeks early on that prediction.
• 33:47
  And as far as the NL Central goes, like it's always going to
• 33:50
  be up for grabs. They're in last place.
• 33:53
  They're six games under 500 at the moment and they're 7 1/2
• 33:57
  games back. If if this whole division can
• 34:03
  stay single digit games back, who knows?
• 34:07
  Who knows any of it's possible and that's what the Reds need to
• 34:11
  do is play good enough ball to become somewhat of like a buyer
• 34:15
  position come deadline. If they're within five games
• 34:21
  back at the at the division or excuse me, at the deadline, five
• 34:27
  games back at the division. I I could see them adding and
• 34:31
  being in the hunt and that's all you need in the central.
• 34:38
  You mentioned it being a possible turning point, David
• 34:41
  Bell, manager of the Reds, was quoted after after the sweep
• 34:45
  saying. Hopefully this is the shift we
• 34:47
  needed. So it's it's what?
• 34:52
  It takes man like that's a big and then now there's this
• 34:56
  stretch of going against the division.
• 34:58
  They won game one today of the three-game set against the
• 35:01
  Cardinals. Then they follow up the end of
• 35:05
  May and beginning of June with the Cubs.
• 35:10
  And then you see Cubs again a, a, a series right after the
• 35:15
  Rockies won. I mean, like, it's within it's
• 35:20
  within striking distance. And there's a lot of people,
• 35:24
  including myself, that expected the Reds to, like, handle this
• 35:29
  division, not not run away, but like.
• 35:32
  Be the hold their own. Yeah, be the stronger team in
• 35:35
  there. So I think they've
• 35:36
  underperformed at this point. But games long baby.
• 35:40
  It's it's a, it's a marathon. So.
• 35:44
  While I was confirming that quote, I know you mentioned
• 35:47
  their standing in the division. So I may have I, I may be
• 35:49
  repeating a little bit of what you said, but I did have a note
• 35:51
  here that said the Reds on April 24th, which was the highest mark
• 35:58
  of their season at four games over 500.
• 36:00
  They're 14 and 10 at that point. Following that, they went nine
• 36:04
  and 20 in their next 29 games against teams that included
• 36:09
  Phillies, Rangers, Padres, OSD backs, Giants and Dodgers.
• 36:13
  So pretty grueling stretch there.
• 36:16
  But at, given that, as you mentioned, they're only seven
• 36:21
  games or they're seven games under 500 at 23 and 30 and
• 36:27
  they're at the bottom of the central.
• 36:28
  But I, I, I think there's something there that, you know,
• 36:36
  we, that could lead us to having a different conversation, maybe
• 36:40
  sooner rather than later about that division specifically
• 36:43
  looking at the Reds, because I, I, I, I think they have enough
• 36:48
  to, again, to use the phrase I just, I just shared to hold
• 36:52
  their own Like I it in a division that is flimsy, fluky,
• 37:01
  lacking dominance at times. More times than not, if you're
• 37:05
  the Reds, you got to, you got to use this as a, as a catapult
• 37:10
  into, into hopefully some sort of run.
• 37:15
  I mean, you don't have to run the table over the next 1520
• 37:19
  games, but you know, if you can, if you can go seven and three,
• 37:25
  you know, 17 and three, if you could put put together A-17 and
• 37:33
  three stretch over your next 20, then we're talking about
• 37:35
  something completely different. But you don't even have to do
• 37:37
  you don't have to play that good a ball, But you know, let's you
• 37:41
  you've you've put the the gauntlet as it were, hopefully
• 37:45
  behind you, you it wasn't pretty, but hopefully you can
• 37:49
  you can breathe a little bit now and use this use this sweep as a
• 37:55
  as a jumping forward point. Yeah, and I was, I was gonna say
• 38:03
  why am I looking? Where am I looking for it?
• 38:06
  The hunter green start, trying to go back to what day that was.
• 38:15
  The hunter green start really impressed me because of the fact
• 38:18
  that like you could tell he got in a jam early.
• 38:22
  I watched the first couple innings and I think the Dodgers
• 38:26
  had bases loaded, one out, and he wiggled out of it and you
• 38:33
  could tell that like his command wasn't really there.
• 38:36
  It didn't look like it was all there.
• 38:39
  I think it was Saturday, Sunday anyway.
• 38:43
  I don't think it matters that much.
• 38:44
  But either way, you could tell that like his ace stuff wasn't
• 38:48
  there and he still managed to get through it.
• 38:52
  And I think it was like this. And to be fair, like, I don't
• 38:56
  know how much credit we can give the Reds versus the like the
• 39:00
  little bit of a, you know, slump that the Dodgers offense is in.
• 39:05
  But you could tell that it was like this.
• 39:08
  Good ball clubs figure out how to win when when not all things
• 39:13
  are going right. Like I'm not impressed with a
• 39:17
  ball club on a, on a 12/2 victory where, you know, bats
• 39:21
  just lit it up and and shut down starting off starting pitching
• 39:26
  and then bullpen comes in and close it down.
• 39:28
  Like that's a great day. But overall, how many times do
• 39:32
  you get that in the length of a season?
• 39:34
  It's super rare. So for you to be like, all
• 39:37
  right, it's ace day, should be win day and you're immediately
• 39:43
  in a jam. I don't remember if it was the
• 39:44
  first or second inning, but he was bases loaded and like
• 39:47
  struggling and he, I think he had two walks to make that
• 39:51
  happen. And you just watched him figure
• 39:54
  it out and, and get out of this jam.
• 39:56
  And like, I know it's such a small moment, but for a ball
• 40:00
  club that's struggling, for a guy that you're looking at to be
• 40:03
  your number one, to slowly see him mature into this role, like
• 40:09
  that's something that like can really get momentum going.
• 40:13
  That's something that you can feel A-Team like work around and
• 40:17
  and figured out. And it's just cool to see when
• 40:19
  like you're not on your a stuff and you still get out of it,
• 40:23
  pull out a dub against a really good team against a really good
• 40:27
  line up. So Dave Bill's right man.
• 40:32
  This is like, hey, let's hope get it going.
• 40:35
  And since he. Speaking of getting it going,
• 40:40
  the Guardians, well, despite losing today and snapping their
• 40:43
  streak prior to today, had won nine in a row, three straight
• 40:47
  series sweeps, which by the way, was their long the the
• 40:53
  franchise's longest streak since back in 2017.
• 40:58
  If you recall If you recall that stretch, they won 22 in a row.
• 41:02
  I remember that. That was big.
• 41:05
  Their 36 wins through 53 games tied for the most in franchise
• 41:10
  history, which get. This was also done in 19/20/1954
• 41:21
  and 1995, three seasons in which they made the World Series.
• 41:31
  So do with that what you will. Love me some ESPN Nuggets baby.
• 41:36
  That's so good. But the I think the thing that
• 41:40
  has impressed me is, is over this streak.
• 41:43
  I mean, it's not, it's not worth writing home about necessarily.
• 41:48
  But for the Guardians, I feel like it's it's a good take away
• 41:52
  from that nine game streak. They had thirteen home runs over
• 41:56
  that win streak. So you're manufacturing runs as
• 42:00
  you usually do, but you're also put a little charge in the ball
• 42:03
  from time to time. They outscored during that nine
• 42:07
  game stretch. They outscored their opponents
• 42:08
  54 to 29. So not only were you
• 42:10
  manufacturing runs, you're holding the opposition at Bay on
• 42:15
  the mounds. And in addition to that, you're
• 42:18
  winning close ball games. Of those nine games, four of
• 42:22
  them were one run games. And obviously if you go, if
• 42:26
  you're 9 and no one those nine games, that means you want all
• 42:28
  of them. So you're taking advantage of
• 42:30
  those opportunities to close out, close games.
• 42:33
  Those are the games, as we know, that often times rear their head
• 42:39
  in September and October when you're fighting to to either
• 42:43
  maintain a lead heading into October or you're trying to claw
• 42:50
  back into the conversation heading into October.
• 42:53
  And if you can, those one run games, especially they may seem
• 42:57
  insignificant here in May, but if if, if like you were talking
• 43:02
  about Nate, if you can find ways to win games, then you're going
• 43:09
  to set yourself up in a much better position.
• 43:11
  And I think with the way the Guardians are playing, they're
• 43:14
  already playing fantastic. Even if they would have dropped
• 43:16
  those one run games at the Guardians.
• 43:18
  I'm not, I'm not worried about them that they're fine, but they
• 43:21
  found a way to win those games. And I think that's going to
• 43:25
  that's going to pay dividends come later in the year.
• 43:30
  Not to mention on the season, not only they win in one run
• 43:36
  games, they're playing great on the road.
• 43:39
  They're 18 and 11 on the road. Their staff has a collectively
• 43:45
  has an ERA of 331 well entering entering Monday, which is third
• 43:50
  in the in the AL. So they're in they're in good
• 43:55
  shape right now. They are in very, very good
• 43:57
  shape. No, Bieber.
• 44:01
  And there's still this. They do this every year, I'm
• 44:06
  telling you. Like they there's, there's just
• 44:08
  talent that figures it out. Definitely helps having the
• 44:16
  dominance of Class A on the back end and Scott Barlow this
• 44:22
  offseason as well. Like bullpen is good, gives
• 44:26
  gives it gives the staff comfort.
• 44:30
  Knowing that that's back there gives the staff comfort when
• 44:34
  your lineup is never really out of it.
• 44:37
  Like they just scrap. I think I said this before, I
• 44:42
  think D backs last year that postseason run like it's just
• 44:50
  this scrappiness sound baseball offensively, hit behind runners,
• 44:57
  take extra 90 fight pitch counts, all that good stuff
• 45:02
  dude. It's like, I know it's not sexy
• 45:04
  baseball for all of the way we define enjoyable highlight reel
• 45:12
  Sunday night type baseball that we all, you know, love right
• 45:17
  now. But this is real baseball and
• 45:22
  it's like, oh, that's complete. It's good to watch.
• 45:27
  It's really fun to watch. Yeah, but I mean, how scrappy is
• 45:32
  it if you've got your star player out here saying that he
• 45:35
  is better than Barry Bonds? Like, are we going to talk about
• 45:39
  this? I saw it look.
• 45:42
  I I, I say that, you know, knowing that I'm, I'm like 99%
• 45:48
  sure that was tongue in cheek, you know, just little, little
• 45:51
  bit of J Ram in jest, if you will.
• 45:56
  It was in response if you have, if you don't know what I'm
• 45:58
  talking about. He it was when he was pitched
• 46:01
  around with the bases loaded in Sunday's game.
• 46:07
  Yeah, Sunday's game. And then I think somebody
• 46:12
  mentioned or just like in pass and was like, oh, I got the
• 46:14
  Barry Bonds treatment and he responds back and says I'm
• 46:17
  better than Barry Bonds. I couldn't tell you how to take
• 46:21
  that. All I know is this quote has
• 46:22
  already been blown way out of proportion.
• 46:26
  Assuming that he doesn't legitimately believe this and
• 46:29
  that he probably, I think it was actually over text that he he
• 46:35
  sent those remarks, assuming he sent those with a a grin on his
• 46:39
  face. When I saw that, when I saw that
• 46:42
  notification drop, I'm like, oh baby, the the content creators
• 46:46
  are going to run with this one. The baseball mainstream media is
• 46:49
  going to run with this one. Well, yeah, I mean, that's you
• 46:55
  want to talk about scrappy. That's what that's what your
• 46:57
  star is is claiming. So I don't know how scrappy you
• 47:00
  can call him if if you've got Barry Bonds two point O on the
• 47:03
  team. I think I could be wrong, but I
• 47:05
  mean he is tied for league lead in home runs right there.
• 47:10
  I think I saw 17. So he's Tucker got. 18.
• 47:15
  I don't know if Tucker is Tucker did.
• 47:17
  Did he get to 18? I think no, I think you're
• 47:22
  right. I think last I saw he was at 17
• 47:24
  so. He 17, right?
• 47:25
  Yeah, I think he is right there. I.
• 47:29
  Don't know man, it's such a bold thing to say.
• 47:32
  Look, you and. I, oh Tucker did get to 18.
• 47:34
  Sorry. Yeah.
• 47:36
  Oh no, Jay. Room's got 15.
• 47:37
  Azuna's got 15. Judge has got 17.
• 47:40
  Henderson's got 17. Now he he's tied for fourth
• 47:44
  though, so I mean he he's right there in the mix.
• 47:47
  Doesn't take away from your point.
• 47:49
  Yeah, either way, he's in the mix.
• 47:50
  Yeah, do what you got to do, dawg.
• 47:55
  Put that chip on your shoulder. I mean this is a guy that had a
• 47:58
  chain with his face on it in the medallion.
• 48:04
  Yeah, you know, maybe we've been looking at J Ram all wrong, man.
• 48:07
  Maybe it's just been right there staring at us in our face this
• 48:10
  whole time and we're just, oh, look at a cute little, little
• 48:13
  little guy over there in Cleveland.
• 48:16
  I think everybody. Loves Jay Ram.
• 48:18
  That's like the typical assumption, like, oh, you're in
• 48:20
  Cleveland. Like, you're just, you're a
• 48:22
  sweet, humble guy. Maybe not.
• 48:25
  Hey, that guy's feisty. Speaking of which, did you see
• 48:28
  Bonds got into the Pirates Hall of Fame?
• 48:31
  I did. Interesting there.
• 48:34
  Look, you and I don't hide it. I don't we're not on board with
• 48:39
  with bonds, steroids, cheating stuff.
• 48:41
  But well. Let's clap it up.
• 48:42
  Let's clap it up for bonds. Let's clap it up for bonds.
• 48:46
  OK, it's good chirps, good chirps there.
• 48:55
  So anyway, J Ram. Yep, better than Barry Bonds.
• 49:00
  Maybe he really does think he's better than Barry Bonds.
• 49:02
  Like I said, maybe, maybe we've been, we've been misreading this
• 49:06
  guy this whole time. What did I I had a, what did I
• 49:09
  say last week? I had a name that I was like,
• 49:12
  maybe they go get this guy. Was it a bat?
• 49:23
  It was a bat. I don't remember who I said but
• 49:27
  it was like Dang that seems. Oh, it's not when we're talking.
• 49:32
  Was it Vladdy? We were talking about Vladdy,
• 49:33
  and Bo wasn't one of those. Guys, Bo, it was Bo.
• 49:38
  Was it Bo? Yeah, it was Bo.
• 49:40
  I could see that, dude. I don't think they do.
• 49:43
  It oh, it was Bo. You're right.
• 49:44
  It was Bo. I now remember that
• 49:46
  conversation. Yeah, you're right.
• 49:48
  Yeah, 'cause it's like the because every hitter seems like
• 49:50
  they use every part of the park in Cleveland.
• 49:53
  I think the delightful surprise if you're a Guardians fan is
• 49:57
  Josh Naylor. I mean, he's at thirteen home
• 50:00
  runs and like established threat in that line up.
• 50:05
  They still need more stuff, though.
• 50:07
  They still need to add. Still impressive.
• 50:15
  You know, it's not impressive, The New York Mets, the New York
• 50:25
  Mets, 10 and 20 in their last thirty.
• 50:29
  I'm so glad that their game got rained out today because I
• 50:34
  didn't want any sort of good juju bleeding into this segment.
• 50:42
  They are 10 and 20, as I said, 10 and 20 in the last 30.
• 50:46
  They're three and seven in their last 10.
• 50:50
  I want to pose the question to Mets fans, though, 'cause I'm,
• 50:52
  I'm at this, at this point of the season, I'm genuinely
• 50:56
  curious. And it's still early, I know.
• 50:58
  But are our Mets fans are you, are you so fed up with your club
• 51:05
  that you're happier when games get rained out more than having
• 51:12
  to actually watch them? Like, do you get more joy from
• 51:20
  the notification that the Mets game has been rained out, then
• 51:26
  the notification that says Mets game starting now tune in?
• 51:31
  Which one brings you more joy? At this point?
• 51:33
  I think I know the answer, but I don't want to speak on behalf
• 51:37
  because, you know, it's a sick twisted fan base over there.
• 51:42
  I I don't know what's. I don't know what you all do to
• 51:46
  help yourself sleep at night having to watch this clown show,
• 51:50
  but man. I so I was working Saturday from
• 51:55
  home and I just threw like I, I just threw games on on mute.
• 52:00
  And this was I think one of the only day games that was going
• 52:05
  did I put on and it was, I wanted to pull it back up.
• 52:08
  It was the Giants series. Beatty had hit a home run in the
• 52:17
  bottom of the 7th to break up A11 tie.
• 52:20
  It's just a single shot. So they went up to one and then
• 52:24
  in the 9th the giants figured out how to how to tie it up.
• 52:30
  And I remember watching I was on, it was on mute.
• 52:32
  I didn't turn anything on. I wasn't listening.
• 52:34
  And I look over and I watched like Mets fans in the ninth
• 52:41
  after the game got tied up, I saw like this group of family,
• 52:44
  they're like, Yep, let's go. And it was like they were like 3
• 52:47
  rows back, like right behind the dugout.
• 52:49
  They were like, Yep, let's roll. And I was like, Dang, dude, like
• 52:53
  no faith. Like no faith.
• 52:57
  They lost the game seven to two so.
• 53:05
  Oh man. At one point I was like, really
• 53:09
  like you, stuck around like you, maybe you'll catch a walk off.
• 53:12
  No, I think they knew they. Knew they knew.
• 53:18
  Golly, man. At what point do you just start
• 53:20
  to feel? I mean, I don't just still are
• 53:22
  on the record. I don't feel bad for Mets fans.
• 53:24
  But at what point does the average person start to feel bad
• 53:27
  for Mets fans? Because like, like we always
• 53:30
  say, you need you need a punching bag in baseball.
• 53:35
  And the Mets have been the punching bag for oh so long.
• 53:39
  But how much longer do they do they need to endure this?
• 53:43
  Because I know it's it's it's not about the players.
• 53:46
  Like I couldn't care less. The Mets could lose out and I
• 53:50
  would be. I would be just fine it.
• 53:52
  Would be incredible. Because the the the team itself,
• 53:55
  I can't stand the players. I'm out on the fans though.
• 53:59
  I'm like, I that's tough, man. Baseball fan to baseball fan
• 54:05
  like you, you got to you. You'll look a Mets fans in the
• 54:08
  eyes and you're like, you've seen some stuff.
• 54:12
  Yeah. You've you've, you've gone
• 54:15
  through war and it's May. That's, that's where we're at.
• 54:21
  And I, I tell you what, man, it's, it's fun to watch.
• 54:26
  I'll say that. I was looking, I saw this, the
• 54:30
  Steve, the Steve Cohen tweets. Dude, did you see what they were
• 54:36
  saying on air? Well, I was talking to Gary
• 54:40
  Cohen. Sorry, but go ahead.
• 54:42
  What did What did? Steve Cohen.
• 54:43
  Say so. This just tells you the shape
• 54:45
  they're in three days ago. He goes.
• 54:47
  Looking forward to our 10 game home stand starting tonight.
• 54:51
  LGM, we are experimenting with our new artist series giveaway
• 54:56
  tomorrow. Enjoy the Joel Messler created
• 54:59
  tote bag. Feedback appreciated.
• 55:04
  Meanwhile we have my guy in Baltimore out in the splash zone
• 55:10
  and Steve's out here talking about a tote bag.
• 55:13
  Then then two days ago he tweets.
• 55:15
  What a stretch. Mind bogggling.
• 55:17
  I know how disheartening this is for our fans.
• 55:20
  Thank you for caring so much. Yeah, that's a great point.
• 55:25
  Let's just go ahead the little segue here or little tangent.
• 55:31
  Sorry, Stevie, you had a good run as like what we thought was
• 55:35
  best best owner in baseball that that title could not be more
• 55:39
  out. That belongs to David
• 55:42
  Rubenstein, my friend out in Baltimore.
• 55:44
  I don't know if you watched the game today, you probably didn't.
• 55:46
  It was Sox OS was. He throwing the hats.
• 55:48
  You throwing the hats to fans in the splash zone, just like a
• 55:51
  garbage bag full of hats. You get It was like the Oprah
• 55:54
  GIF. You get a hat, you get a hat,
• 55:56
  you get a hat. And it was, I, I don't know, I,
• 55:58
  I'm guessing it was like after every extra base hit and boy,
• 56:02
  did they hit a lot of them. There was one inning where I'm
• 56:05
  pretty sure there was like six or seven straight extra base
• 56:08
  hit. So my man probably had to go
• 56:10
  back for refills on the free on the free hats.
• 56:13
  So, you know, shout out to shout out to David.
• 56:18
  Shout out to David. Crazy what winning can do, but.
• 56:21
  You're you're done. That title has been removed,
• 56:25
  stripped. It's been stripped for some time
• 56:27
  now, but. Unbelievable.
• 56:30
  But yeah, no, the broadcast though, dude, they were talking
• 56:33
  about on the broadcast, they said they they were going into
• 56:38
  full like end of World mode. And again, it's May, but they
• 56:43
  were saying Keith Hernandez said, boy, oh, boy, it was
• 56:47
  after. What was the play?
• 56:53
  Was it, I think it was like a double or something, like an RBI
• 56:57
  or something from whoever they're playing at the, the this
• 57:00
  weekend. Was it the Giants?
• 57:01
  Were they playing the Giants this weekend?
• 57:03
  Yeah. And Keith Hernandez goes, boy,
• 57:07
  oh, boy, it feels like the sky is falling.
• 57:09
  And then Gary Cohen chimes in and says, it's felt like that
• 57:13
  virtually every day for the last month.
• 57:16
  And then Ron Darling chimes in and says, there's losing, and
• 57:20
  then there's what's happening here.
• 57:25
  And not to mention you, you got all that.
• 57:27
  And then Gary Cohen signs off. Saturdays get Sundays.
• 57:31
  Sunday, they got the win. So it wasn't doom and gloom on
• 57:34
  Sunday. But after that game on Saturday,
• 57:37
  Gary Cohen signs off saying, remember, this was a real quote.
• 57:41
  Gary Cohen signed off and said, remember, the sun will come up
• 57:44
  tomorrow. As difficult as that may be to
• 57:47
  realize, that's the state of the Mets.
• 57:56
  They're they're having to remind each other that the sun is going
• 58:01
  to come up tomorrow and it's May.
• 58:05
  Damn. I can't imagine what it's like
• 58:10
  being associated in any regard to that organization that I
• 58:16
  mean, it. Does it get worse than that?
• 58:22
  Oh my goodness. Oh, blow it up, blow it up.
• 58:28
  To be fair, they still got a shot at the division.
• 58:31
  They're they're only 15 games back, so hold on to that's.
• 58:36
  Not even June. Hold on to that silver lining,
• 58:39
  Mets fans. Speaking of, I mean, they got
• 58:42
  it. They're when it's all said and
• 58:43
  done, they got to be like 35 games back at the Division.
• 58:47
  It's going to be, it's going to be large.
• 58:54
  OK. Phillies if, if you put the
• 58:56
  Phillies in a generous hundred wins, that basically means that
• 59:04
  the the Mets are going to lose close to 100 games if they're 35
• 59:10
  games back. But I don't think that's crazy.
• 59:13
  I don't think that's a crazy figure.
• 59:17
  Yeah, I mean, they're going to sell.
• 59:19
  They're gonna get worse. Oh yeah, you could be looking at
• 59:22
  anywhere between 30 and 40 games back in the division when it's
• 59:26
  all said and done. Believable.
• 59:29
  I mean, at the Phillies, at the Phillies maintain this pace,
• 59:33
  that discrepancy is going to look ugly.
• 59:38
  Hey, Speaking of ugly, what are your thoughts on these Blue Jay
• 59:40
  City connects unis the league? You nailed it.
• 59:43
  You nailed it. No, that was just a transition.
• 59:47
  I I wasn't necessarily. I just can't do it anymore.
• 59:52
  I'm sure people can. We just copy and paste what I
• 59:56
  said about the last five. Yep, you just plug that in for
• 1:00:03
  me. What's what's what's funny?
• 1:00:07
  Let me see. I'm trying to find that.
• 1:00:10
  What's that? What's that account again?
• 1:00:15
  Like the the image Oh baseball images that precede proceed
• 1:00:22
  unfortunate events. They posted a screenshot of the.
• 1:00:27
  Account, by the way, if you're not following that, that's a
• 1:00:29
  great. Account baseball images that
• 1:00:31
  precede unfortunate events. They posted a screenshot an hour
• 1:00:34
  ago of the the Blue Jays tweet that said bright vibrant
• 1:00:39
  Toronto. Our city connects are unveiled
• 1:00:41
  in four days and assuming we get this, assuming this leak is what
• 1:00:47
  it's position to be because as we've said there, I don't think
• 1:00:52
  we've had a leak be incorrect at this stage of the game.
• 1:00:56
  I I think every leak that's come out and I don't know if that's
• 1:00:58
  intentional at this point. I mean what what are the odds of
• 1:01:01
  every leak that's come out has ended up being the UNI It it
• 1:01:08
  goes back to that whole thing where we're talking about the
• 1:01:13
  city connect. Suppose intending to capture the
• 1:01:17
  vibrancy and the brightness of these cities.
• 1:01:19
  And yet we're just churning out yet another black jersey and
• 1:01:25
  people and people like, Oh my goodness, I got into it in the
• 1:01:28
  comments with some guy over some post a number of weeks ago at
• 1:01:33
  this point. But it was it was, I think I may
• 1:01:38
  have even mentioned on here, but it was the IT was a screenshot
• 1:01:42
  of the post that had all of the recent Gray jerseys.
• 1:01:47
  And it was like this. This jersey celebrates the
• 1:01:49
  diversity of Vibrance and unique culture of the city.
• 1:01:52
  And then it says the city or the jersey.
• 1:01:54
  And then it just shows all four of like the grave slash black
• 1:01:58
  jerseys, showing that that that line is a crock of crap like
• 1:02:04
  Vibrance. Every city vibrant and colorful.
• 1:02:07
  Like what's what's? Let's find some new description
• 1:02:09
  here. Even if they are like don't give
• 1:02:11
  me, don't give me black and Gray and charcoal.
• 1:02:15
  And some guy was like, don't you like, you're missing the point.
• 1:02:18
  Don't you see like the vibrant accents?
• 1:02:20
  I'm like, yeah, if you squint. I shouldn't have to squint if
• 1:02:24
  I'm looking at these. So you're missing the whole
• 1:02:26
  point. It's just that the, the, the
• 1:02:28
  Nike and Fanatics decided they just they became infatuated with
• 1:02:32
  churning out these black and Gray jerseys.
• 1:02:34
  They're like, oh, you're telling us that we can do this for every
• 1:02:37
  city connect. Well, we're going to just go
• 1:02:40
  ahead and do that. And that's what they've done.
• 1:02:42
  And if these Toronto ones are in fact the city connect, add
• 1:02:45
  another to the list because I'm looking at it right now.
• 1:02:49
  You can you can Google search it or look it up on Twitter.
• 1:02:53
  You'll see what I'm talking about.
• 1:02:54
  If you haven't seen it already. In fact, I think I actually
• 1:02:56
  posted it so you can check it out on the account.
• 1:02:58
  It's, I don't know, I mean, it's it's not my least favorite.
• 1:03:05
  I'll I'll say that I'm just, I'm just tired of everybody
• 1:03:10
  pretending that this concept is still a good idea.
• 1:03:13
  This whole city connecting like I'm so I'm just so done with
• 1:03:18
  this. You connect.
• 1:03:19
  If you zoomed out and, like, lost focus, it could be a
• 1:03:24
  Marlins jersey. Yeah, yeah, You know what I
• 1:03:27
  mean? It absolutely could.
• 1:03:28
  What's the what's to do with like the bright yellow and
• 1:03:31
  orange swoosh from Nike? What?
• 1:03:36
  Yeah, I don't. What is that supposed to be?
• 1:03:38
  I don't know if that was the camera work, if that was just
• 1:03:41
  like a weird, I don't know what's going on there.
• 1:03:43
  I don't know if it's actually yellow or orange or red or
• 1:03:46
  whatever. I'm sure there's some.
• 1:03:48
  I don't know if that's supposed to represent the moon or
• 1:03:51
  something on that skyline that you've got there across the
• 1:03:54
  chest. I don't know.
• 1:03:55
  Here's the thing, you have all of Canada to play with.
• 1:04:02
  There's no other teams. Every other team has to fight
• 1:04:07
  against like other cities. You have an entire country to
• 1:04:11
  work with and this is what you come out with.
• 1:04:15
  You have plenty of reference to go anywhere Canadian, anything
• 1:04:21
  Canadian, and this is what we get.
• 1:04:27
  Here's what I will say though. The color black is what
• 1:04:32
  slimming. What team needs to look more
• 1:04:36
  slim than the Toronto Blue Jays? That's right.
• 1:04:42
  That's a valid point. That's a very valid point.
• 1:04:45
  Yeah, maybe they're slip these. Boys down a little bit.
• 1:04:48
  We get on Nike and and fanatics a lot of times for not thinking
• 1:04:52
  these things through there. I let's give them credit.
• 1:04:55
  There may have been some intentionality there with that,
• 1:04:57
  with that uniform color choice. So maybe I should I should pull
• 1:05:02
  back on the criticism of going with black because it sounds
• 1:05:04
  like maybe they need it. I don't know.
• 1:05:06
  You said it, not me. So if we catch in the heat,
• 1:05:09
  that's on you my friend. I That's fine.
• 1:05:11
  I can't, can't back you on that one.
• 1:05:13
  They're fat. They're all fat.
• 1:05:16
  I didn't say that just on record.
• 1:05:21
  If it was recorded that I said that, I would like that stricken
• 1:05:24
  from the record. What was I going to say?
• 1:05:31
  City Connect Black. Some kind of transition here?
• 1:05:37
  No, it wasn't transition. I had just like a closing
• 1:05:39
  thought on the uniform. Oh, the first thing I thought of
• 1:05:45
  when I saw this when I saw this uniform and and it happens for
• 1:05:49
  some of the other ones as well, but more So what happened with
• 1:05:51
  this one, which is weird because I just said that it's not like
• 1:05:54
  my least favorite. I don't I don't hate the jersey
• 1:05:56
  necessarily. It's all right.
• 1:05:59
  And it it does match the leaked hat that we saw just the other
• 1:06:04
  day. So I'm like 99% sure this is it.
• 1:06:08
  But my first thought when I saw this was was you and I'm sure
• 1:06:14
  you've seen, although with you it may be different though,
• 1:06:16
  because I don't know how how Yankees merch works.
• 1:06:19
  Like I don't know if if like knock off Yankees merch even
• 1:06:22
  really exists because they try to push the pinstripes and
• 1:06:25
  everything so hard and that brand.
• 1:06:27
  But like with other teams, if you're in like a department
• 1:06:31
  store or if you're in like a not officially licensed store that's
• 1:06:37
  selling merch for that team or that city or whatever, you see
• 1:06:41
  some pretty like great value Walmart off brand looking stuff.
• 1:06:48
  Heck, even Walmart, you see a lot of in Walmart where it's
• 1:06:50
  not, it's not officially team license where it is, but it you,
• 1:06:53
  it's a noticeable drop off from the stuff you get in the actual
• 1:06:56
  team store. This is kind of what I feel like
• 1:06:59
  I would find in ATJ Maxx in Canada if they have those, don't
• 1:07:05
  know if they have TJ Maxx in Canada, but I feel like this is
• 1:07:08
  something I would find on a rack and I'd look at the price tag
• 1:07:10
  and it would say 1999 compared to 7999 and you go wow, what a.
• 1:07:16
  Sticker, like the stickers on there.
• 1:07:18
  Yeah, it's like now 1999, yeah, just like an impulse buy near
• 1:07:25
  the Tim horton's register. Yeah, you're like.
• 1:07:28
  It's not, you know, it's not like a the official team merge,
• 1:07:31
  but like I can at least Rep the team and people will hopefully
• 1:07:35
  know what team I'm repping. That's kind of the vibe I get
• 1:07:37
  here. Yeah, Yeah.
• 1:07:39
  This is where, like, when you're a kid and you're like, you know,
• 1:07:42
  you're putting a Christmas wish list together and grandma's
• 1:07:47
  like, oh, I'll get the jersey. Exactly.
• 1:07:50
  She ends up getting this one, you know?
• 1:07:52
  Exactly. And you open it and you're like,
• 1:07:55
  oh, thanks, Grandma. Yeah.
• 1:07:59
  Yeah. And like, if you've never had
• 1:08:00
  that experience as a baseball fan, you've probably had the
• 1:08:04
  experience where it's like, Grandma, I've really been
• 1:08:08
  looking at this like PS5, any chance you can get that for me
• 1:08:13
  for Christmas? She's like, I've got you and you
• 1:08:15
  open it up on Christmas and it's like.
• 1:08:18
  It's a Game Cube. It's.
• 1:08:19
  It no, it's not even that. It's called like Game Station
• 1:08:22
  and it's from Kohl's and it was like 2999 or something.
• 1:08:26
  And she just thinks she hit it out of the park, bless her soul,
• 1:08:28
  but it's just not. It's not what you were thinking.
• 1:08:31
  It's not what you're hoping for. That's kind of it's kind of the
• 1:08:34
  vibe we're getting here. That's, that's that's my
• 1:08:40
  thoughts. Those are my thoughts.
• 1:08:42
  I'm done talking about done talking about city connect.
• 1:08:46
  How about another shout out for the fit?
• 1:08:47
  How? How about that?
• 1:08:48
  Yeah, I know a lot of love. A lot of love in the chat chat.
• 1:08:53
  I appreciate you. I you know.
• 1:08:55
  I love the chat. The longer this this wager or
• 1:09:00
  the longer this losing end of the bet goes on.
• 1:09:04
  Now that this is the first episode and I guess we have like
• 1:09:07
  13 or so more where I got to wear this.
• 1:09:08
  The longer this goes on, the more I'm going to like it.
• 1:09:11
  I think the more the chats going to like it.
• 1:09:14
  This may even catch on. You know, I may end up wearing
• 1:09:16
  this for the rest of the year. Who knows?
• 1:09:19
  I I want you to wear it to work one day.
• 1:09:21
  That's right. I don't know if I can do that.
• 1:09:23
  But you know, hey, if the feedback's strong enough, I may,
• 1:09:27
  I may just wear. It to work.
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  You might get a raise, you might get a raise, get a raise.
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  May not have to have to buy your own soda anymore.
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  How about that last thing here before we get out?
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  I actually did have a green light for us today.
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  I do too. I do too.
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  You go first. All right, my, my green light.
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  And if you're not familiar, if that's a new segment to you, if
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  you just join us recently, it's something we introduced I think
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  earlier this month, maybe last month.
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  Sure, just a little little chance for us to address
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  something or maybe you share a little rant or just some
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  thoughts on something that maybe we didn't get to during the
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  episode. Maybe it wasn't relevant or we
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  just didn't have time to squeeze it into one of the predetermined
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  segments. My my green light for today.
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  And I would venture to say I would.
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  I would venture to say every baseball fan agrees with me when
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  I say this. All thirty Major League Baseball
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  teams should be playing on national holidays.
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  That's not a far fetched idea. That should be something that
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  happens on every national holiday.
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  What are we doing? It's a missed opportunity to
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  market the game. It you don't spare me the
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  scheduling logistics. You don't have that married
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  couple that was doing it for like 2530 years anymore.
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  You have systems in place to make these things happen.
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  Like, you can look, I can look ahead.
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  You know what? In fact, I'm going to do it
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  right now. And don't, don't tell me that
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  it's because, oh, well, Memorial Day stuck up on us this year.
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  I'm going to go to, I'm going to go to 20.
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  Tell me when to stop, say stop, stop, stop.
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  I'm in the year 2242. I'm looking at the month of May.
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  I can tell you right now that Labor Day is going to be, Yep,
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  on a Monday at the end of the month, Memorial Day.
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  That's what I said you. Said Labor.
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  Oh, did I say Labor Day? Memorial Day is going to be on
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  the 30th that year 2242. Apple calendars hasn't even
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  gotten to add in that in yet, but I can just go ahead and save
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  you the time right now. Labor Day will be May 30th in
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  the year 20 2020 242. So don't tell, like spare me the
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  whole, well, it's tough to squeeze it in.
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  You know when Memorial Day is going to be.
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  You know when the 4th of July is going to be.
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  Every team should be playing that it's everybody is going to.
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  If you're a baseball fan, you have the day off, you're more
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  than likely going to want to tune in to watch your team.
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  But there was, I think eight teams that were scheduled off
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  today and then one of them, one of the games, one or maybe even
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  two of the games got postponed today.
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  So you're missing a third of the league.
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  You're missing a third of the league playing on a day where
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  majority of Americans have the day off and they're at home
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  grilling and. The man when the when like they
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  bring out the big flag when the national anthem just hits
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  different on days like this. You're right.
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  It's a big mess. It's a good green light.
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  It's a good green light. Mine seems under underwhelming
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  now. I think I've said it before
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  though, so but like I don't I don't know.
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  Also you'll you'll start to notice a trend here that my
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  green lights will typically go along with like what I saw in
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  Yankees games. So if you're paying attention,
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  don't recognize that, but I think Fernando Tatis is the best
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  outfielder in baseball. And I and I genuinely, genuinely
• 1:13:41
  believe that it is insane to watch.
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  Like, it is truly impressive to see the athleticism and like,
• 1:13:56
  understanding of a shortstop to just be moved into the outfield.
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  But the timing, the ability to throw from different angles,
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  like it, we can be off balance. We don't have to be in this
• 1:14:12
  perfect position. I think he's the best outfielder
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  in baseball and it's still pretty new to him.
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  I mean, you already know that I'm my, the gears are turning in
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  my mind about how I'm going to chop that up for a clip for
• 1:14:32
  social. Are you prepared to like, stand
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  behind that? I'll catch some heat and that's
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  OK, but all I'm saying is that like if you actually just watch
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  and ignore numbers, ignore stats, ignore DRS, ignore D
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  wore, just watch. I think he's the best outfit in
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  baseball I've I've. I feel like I just didn't
• 1:15:02
  recognize it until watching him. This.
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  Weekend. Was it the Platinum Glove last
• 1:15:07
  year or am I? Am I way off there?
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  He definitely got a Gold Glove. He got a glove.
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  Hold on. I hold the hold the phone here.
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  Why? Why did I think he got a
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  Platinum Glove last year? Yeah, he got the Platinum Glove
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  2023. All right, well, there you go.
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  Throw some more hate on me. I've got some evidence now.
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  I didn't even know that. Yeah, that's that's my green
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  light. I just it's, it's absurd to
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  watch him play. I don't hate that.
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  I'll, I'll be honest with you. I mean, I, I, I'm kind of right
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  there. I, I wouldn't maybe necessarily
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  say he's the the best outfielder in baseball, but I'm, I'm like,
• 1:15:55
  I'm in that line of thinking because I've, I watch him too.
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  And I'm like, this guy is just an athlete.
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  And it's it's a guy that you can plug and play just about
• 1:16:04
  anywhere. Yeah, yeah, I think, I think if
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  they really wanted to mess around and like put him in
• 1:16:11
  center or put him in left or slide him back into the infield
• 1:16:15
  randomly, like athletically he could do whatever he wants
• 1:16:19
  defensively. And I know that like the
• 1:16:22
  shortstop be like we, you know, we didn't love it, but I I think
• 1:16:28
  he's well above average in the outfield and it's still like
• 1:16:34
  he's only going to get better. So yeah, I'm just going to go
• 1:16:38
  and sit here and say not like overall, I'm, I'm strictly
• 1:16:42
  talking defensively, OK. Because like hitter wise Judge
• 1:16:47
  Soto, there's Trout. Like there's plenty of names
• 1:16:51
  that are better hitters, but defensively I think he's the
• 1:16:55
  best outfielder in baseball. I'm.
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  And I won't be reading the comments for a while.
• 1:17:08
  Well, you, you deleted social there for for a bit.
• 1:17:12
  So you probably you may benefit from this.
• 1:17:14
  And I, I think by default, maybe I will have to I'll have to
• 1:17:17
  check out of the comments there for a while too.
• 1:17:19
  Yes. That's all right.
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  I can't. We were.
• 1:17:21
  Putting out all these fires. I mean, I just said he's coming
• 1:17:26
  off a Platinum glove. So to say, like to say, to put
• 1:17:30
  it simply and say that you're like an idiot.
• 1:17:32
  That's just wrong because you had like he he showed us that he
• 1:17:38
  is more than capable of holding his own in the outfield and then
• 1:17:42
  he did it at a Platinum glove level.
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  So anybody that's coming out and calling you an idiot, like they
• 1:17:48
  may disagree with you and that's fine, but you have the backing
• 1:17:53
  of a of him coming off of. A you know, you know, that like
• 1:17:58
  moment where man on second ball gets through the infield and
• 1:18:02
  it's like this like heart stops anticipation of like, oh, this
• 1:18:10
  is a play at the plate. We're going to see an all out,
• 1:18:15
  you know, janitor throw from the outfielder, Bang Bang play at
• 1:18:20
  home. I I can't imagine being more
• 1:18:26
  excited to see those opportunities than once is in
• 1:18:30
  right field. And you're going to know that
• 1:18:31
  there's a play even like a first and 1st to 3rd, even a first to
• 1:18:36
  third situation, a ball in the corner trying to stretch it into
• 1:18:42
  a double situation. It's he's absurd.
• 1:18:46
  He's so good to watch. I don't think he gets enough
• 1:18:48
  respect. I really don't.
• 1:18:53
  You got the you got the juices flowing a little bit.
• 1:18:55
  I was looking for the clip. It like went viral a couple
• 1:18:59
  years ago at this point. It was back when he was at short
• 1:19:01
  Silk. But it was the clip where it was
• 1:19:03
  like literally anytime Fernando Tatis does anything.
• 1:19:07
  And it was like it was a splice video.
• 1:19:09
  It was a video of somebody just hitting like the softest line
• 1:19:14
  drive like a little floater and he caught it.
• 1:19:16
  And Donald's like Fernando, that's just, that's a little.
• 1:19:22
  That's like what I think of anytime he makes it, anytime he
• 1:19:25
  makes a play of like this guy is a yeah, that's a special,
• 1:19:29
  special athlete. I know.
• 1:19:32
  All right, let's let's wrap it up.
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  You got anything else for that's?
• 1:19:35
  It. That's it.
• 1:19:36
  And that's spicy enough. That's all I've got.
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  Yeah, sorry. Sorry for the Monday recording
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  again. I know there for a while we've
• 1:19:44
  been doing Sunday, Wednesdays, but you know with it being a
• 1:19:47
  long weekend and everything, logistically it made more sense
• 1:19:51
  for us to do tonight. So if all goes according to
• 1:19:55
  plan, we should be back later this week, hopefully here in a
• 1:19:58
  couple days and we'll keep it moving right along.
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  Yeah, God bless anyone that knows or has family or friends
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  that have fallen for our for our country.
• 1:20:11
  God bless all those that have sacrificed their lives.
• 1:20:14
  Amazing, amazing, amazing blessings that we have to be
• 1:20:18
  able to do what we do every day and the freedoms that we have
• 1:20:20
  for all of those people. So happy Memorial Day, Remember
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  what it's about. Don't go chasing curveballs.
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  Love y'all and as always, looking forward to talking more
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  baseball with you guys soon. Until next time, stay filthy.