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MLB DFS Process | DraftKings & FanDuel Picks, Plays & Slate Breakdown | Thursday, 05/07/26 · Daily Fantasy Sports by Ship It Nation

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  Speaker 1: All system's going clear for lifting. What's up, everybody. We
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  Speaker 1: got us another Thursday lunchtime baseball slate that we get
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  Speaker 1: to break down, So Matt and I are going to
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  Speaker 1: take care of that all for you. We appreciate you
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  Speaker 1: guys hanging out an extra five minutes or so before
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  Speaker 1: the start, but we had a little technical difficul all
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  Speaker 1: these and then Matt when the intro was starting at
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  Speaker 1: like pause there for like a half a second, I
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  Speaker 1: was like, what the fuck? No, ow, Man, like come
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  Speaker 1: on now. So but either way, man, it's always good
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  Speaker 1: to talk some baseball with you. How'd your week, Ben?
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  Speaker 1: I know we only get on here on Thursday, so
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  Speaker 1: hopefully you had a great week. But yeah, excited to
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  Speaker 1: get on here talk about this slate we got here.
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  Speaker 1: Some nasty ass pitching, boy, I tell you, but yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna be fun talking about it breaking down.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, pitching sucks for sure, but man, my days brighter
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  Speaker 2: now talking some ball with you. I love these short
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  Speaker 2: daytime slates. I wish the game started more even out,
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  Speaker 2: like there wasn't a three hour, three and a half
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  Speaker 2: hour gap between you know, first and the last game.
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  Speaker 2: But it is what it is. That's what we're dealing
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  Speaker 2: with today. We got a smaller slate pitching options stink,
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  Speaker 2: so we'll see what we can find, if there's any
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  Speaker 2: hidden gems or anything like that. Yeah, man, weeks and good.
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  Speaker 2: Just happy to be on here talking some ball with you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I mean looking at this slate. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we're just looking at pitching.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: I always like to say, like generally, like yesterday was
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  Speaker 1: pretty we we nads and I felt like it was
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  Speaker 1: gonna be spread out today not so much. Man, mister
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  Speaker 1: Ima Maaga is gonna be probably what seventy probably fifth
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  Speaker 1: sixty percent. I'm gonna assume he's gonna be pretty highly owned,
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  Speaker 1: I would say, here today on this early slate. And
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  Speaker 1: then you know the SP two probably looking like it
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  Speaker 1: may be Irvin down there, which is just flat out nasty,
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  Speaker 1: Like no, like shit is nasty. I mean, you want
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  Speaker 1: to pair him up with with Gore, you know you
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  Speaker 1: could do so, you want to pair him up with Logo.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, like the options we have here, I feel
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  Speaker 1: like it's a bunch of kickball pitchers out here today,
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  Speaker 1: like these are guys we normally attack like, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's just like I don't know man, I mean there's
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  Speaker 1: even a four K pitcher today that literally I think
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  Speaker 1: you could make a case to I mean, you could
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  Speaker 1: get away with getting maybe six seven points out of
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  Speaker 1: him in maybe like three innings and get away with
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  Speaker 1: it on this shit ass slate here today. But I mean,
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  Speaker 1: for me, on states like this, Matt, normally would I do.
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  Speaker 1: I focus on my offenses and the guys I want
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  Speaker 1: whatever I got left for pitching, you know, then I'll
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  Speaker 1: make it work, is generally what I like to do,
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  Speaker 1: because I don't think there's any place here today that
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  Speaker 1: really can probably just nucas out today. I mean, you
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  Speaker 1: got inma maga. I mean, we're looking at a game
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  Speaker 1: with winds blowing out. We got a fly ball pitcher
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  Speaker 1: that's gonna be sixty seventy percent owned. I mean, if
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  Speaker 1: we had a handful of dudes on here today that
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  Speaker 1: were worth a shit, you know, we might be able
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  Speaker 1: to have some decent pivots. But man, we don't even
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  Speaker 1: have that today. So that's why I think he's going
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  Speaker 1: to be so heavily owned. But man, I mean, shit,
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  Speaker 1: we only got what three dudes above eight K. I
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  Speaker 1: mean that's normally where we start. But I mean you
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  Speaker 1: could just throw everybody in there. What you feel. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: Ima Maga I think is gonna be pretty pretty highly owned.
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  Speaker 1: And after that, man, it just gets it gets ugly.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Gore is probably the best option, but who
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  Speaker 1: who wants to go against the Yankees, especially after yesterday's dud?
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  Speaker 1: I don't expect him to have two duds in a
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  Speaker 1: row now, so but uh man, it's tough today. Man,
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  Speaker 1: what do you think?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I wish I had like a stronger read more
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  Speaker 2: to add than what you said. It's just awful. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I hate slates like this because I like to feel
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  Speaker 2: comfortable with my pitching, even though you know, even when
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  Speaker 2: you feel comfortable, it doesn't mean it's gonna work out.
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  Speaker 2: But slate's like today, there's gonna be a couple of
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  Speaker 2: pitchers who pitch well because it's baseball, But what does
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  Speaker 2: that even mean? There in Minaga, as you mentioned, is
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  Speaker 2: really the only guy you can feel somewhat safe with,
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  Speaker 2: but you don't really he's expensive, he's by far the
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  Speaker 2: highest owed, and he's playing in extreme like in extreme
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  Speaker 2: riglar wind conditions here with the wind blowing out. So
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  Speaker 2: you mentioned if there were like a couple other dudes
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  Speaker 2: on this slate, we might be able to find a
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  Speaker 2: pivot off of him. If we had a couple other
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  Speaker 2: dudes on this slate, he'd be the pivot because he'd
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  Speaker 2: be getting no love because you know what I mean, Like,
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  Speaker 2: I just can't imagine. I can't imagine people going to
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  Speaker 2: him on like a normal slate in this spot with
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  Speaker 2: the Wrigley wins. So it's just really interesting in that regard.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like Gore is the best DFS pitcher on
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  Speaker 2: this slate, even though he struggled lately. He's in a
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  Speaker 2: brutal matchup. It's hard for me though, Like I look
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  Speaker 2: at you talk about someone like Jake. I cannot play
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  Speaker 2: Jake Irvin over right, Like I just can't do it.
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  Speaker 2: I get the spot, it's so much better. But Gore
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  Speaker 2: is at least an arm that I think has talent,
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  Speaker 2: and I think on his best days does nukee this slate,
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  Speaker 2: even though those are probably few and far between because
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  Speaker 2: of the matchup and his current form right now. I
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  Speaker 2: want to say that, like both guys in the Arizona
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  Speaker 2: game are in play Gallon and Keller, but I like
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  Speaker 2: both offenses in that game. We'll get to that I
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  Speaker 2: think if I had I choose one there, it'd probably
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  Speaker 2: be Keller. He's pitching well, right, how Arizona is hit
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  Speaker 2: or miss? I like their offense, but we know that
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  Speaker 2: they anytime, like if a pitcher is on his game
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  Speaker 2: that day, they can k We saw it last night.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously a different animal and schemes, but that's just what
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  Speaker 2: we're working with today. I mean, it's tough, like there's
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  Speaker 2: no one you feel good about here, and there just isn't.
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  Speaker 2: I guess Blackburn? You mentioned the four K guy, Like,
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  Speaker 2: why not? Right, he's a he's in one of the
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  Speaker 2: better matchups. All these guys stink and he's by far
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  Speaker 2: the cheapest and not getting ownership. I get it.
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  Speaker 1: And the thing with Blackburn, though, I la caution, he's
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  Speaker 1: been in the bullpen most of this year and I
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  Speaker 1: believe he got used on Monday through seventeen pitches mostly
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  Speaker 1: thrown all year is like mid forties.
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  Speaker 2: So don't expect the Trevor McDonald from the other night
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  Speaker 2: at four K from him today.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, hey, if you get like seventy eight
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  Speaker 1: points out of out of him today at four K
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  Speaker 1: and you make it up the rest on your bats,
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  Speaker 1: like I think there's a slate you can easily do it,
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  Speaker 1: like I would never really consider it, but it is.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's flipping nasty out here today with pitching. I
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  Speaker 1: mean that's why I was kind of saying, like I'd
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  Speaker 1: just rather start with my bats and feel comfortable with
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  Speaker 1: my bats and uh, you know whatever I got left
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  Speaker 1: for pitching. I mean, there's a four K pitcher on
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  Speaker 1: the table today if that's what you want to do.
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  Speaker 1: And I mean, pitching is just it's it's just pretty
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  Speaker 1: ugly today. I mean, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I was gonna say, if there was ever a slate
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  Speaker 2: to do it how you were saying, and just do
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  Speaker 2: the bats first. It's today because there's just no good
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  Speaker 2: pitching options. I mean, even the guys getting ownership are
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  Speaker 2: very uncomfortable clicks. Christian Scott, I think it's boom or
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  Speaker 2: bust here. Peralta wasn't great last night in cors He's
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  Speaker 2: obviously a lot better than Scott. Scott was really good
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  Speaker 2: in his last start in a really good spot in
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  Speaker 2: Anaheim against the Angels, who we know strike out a
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  Speaker 2: ton against righties. Spot start before that, he only made
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  Speaker 2: it like an inning because he walked five guys in
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  Speaker 2: a row. So considering what we're working with today, I
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  Speaker 2: don't think he's a bad play, Like even considering what
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  Speaker 2: I just said, because you look at the guys around him,
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  Speaker 2: and that's how I'm judging how good of a play
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  Speaker 2: I think he is. I would personally play him over
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  Speaker 2: Simeon Woods Richardson. I would play him over Jake Irvin.
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  Speaker 2: So there are two guys right there projected to get
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  Speaker 2: more ownership that I like Scott more than. So. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think he's a bad play at all.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, like an ownership play. That's what I
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  Speaker 1: was just kind of looking. I mean, he did have
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  Speaker 1: a decent start. He had twenty twenty some points last
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  Speaker 1: almost twenty one points last time out seventy four pitches.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he did have eight k's. I mean I'm
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  Speaker 1: sitting there thinking, if this game was in New York today, man,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, would you think, Yeah, Yeah, that's what I mean.
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  Speaker 2: He'd be higher on the Niema Naga in my opinion.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that's how bad the pitching slate is today.
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  Speaker 1: But for him to I feel like he's falling too
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  Speaker 1: far out of you know, the age window, you know,
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  Speaker 1: like for me so to me, like, I think he's
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  Speaker 1: a really good play just based on on that now,
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  Speaker 1: like Moniac's been hitting the shit out of the ball Goodman,
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  Speaker 1: like those probably the only couple guys I feel like
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  Speaker 1: he really needs to avoid today. But I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: just think with what we're working with today, Like I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I don't I think Scott is probably decent play. I
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  Speaker 1: mean I'd rather play Scott than Irvin, Like that's for
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  Speaker 1: damn sure. I mean, especially if Irvan's gonna be getting
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  Speaker 1: ownership fuck that, I'd rather play Scott man I Irvin's jump, dude,
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  Speaker 1: I can't do that. I don't know. I'd rather play
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  Speaker 1: Scott than Gallon and uh In Keller.
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  Speaker 2: I personally would because I like offenses in that game.
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  Speaker 2: I will say one thing about the Irvin and Woods Richardson,
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  Speaker 2: who I'm personally doubtful to play either. But it is
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  Speaker 2: good pitching weather there today. I'm like yesterday it was
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  Speaker 2: really good hitting weather, so that's probably pulling up ownership.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure the total in that game is like low
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  Speaker 2: than some of the others. I'm with you, though, like
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  Speaker 2: give me Scott over those guys who I think Scott's
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  Speaker 2: just a better upside are like and in tournaments, that's
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  Speaker 2: what I'm looking for. He's cheaper and lower own. So
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  Speaker 2: it's a good combo. It's a combo.
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  Speaker 1: I like, yeah, yeah, I totally agree with you. I
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  Speaker 1: mean there's just I mean, I'm not playing Quintana Louder.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not playing I mean, I just it's it's just
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  Speaker 1: really bad today. It's really bad. But ima maga, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: ima maga. I mean if if I mean, I guess
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  Speaker 1: if you wanted to use them, I mean, there's other
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  Speaker 1: ways to be different. I think the SP twos might
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  Speaker 1: be spread out a little bit. I mean, if you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna use him, I wouldn't. I think Irvin probably will
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  Speaker 1: be probably be a popular SP two. I mean I
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  Speaker 1: I him or I don't even know Lugo at ninety
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  Speaker 1: two hundred, I couldn't even go that far. Gallon might
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  Speaker 1: be pretty popular today too, But I mean, all of
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  Speaker 1: these guys are just trash man. I just can't do
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  Speaker 1: it today. But I think I think SB two should
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  Speaker 1: be kind of spread out today after uh showtase. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's nasty, it's gross, totally nasty. It's like one yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: Matt I was saying, man, if you guys want to
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  Speaker 1: have a liquor bottle next year, get uh and want
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  Speaker 1: to pitch with Flarity tonight, you know, get the liquor
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  Speaker 1: bottle out. He might have a decent game, you know,
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  Speaker 1: because I was kind of thinking, you know, Red Sox
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  Speaker 1: are stealing Tigers signs and stuff like, you know, maybe
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  Speaker 1: that well got dried up a little bit and they
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  Speaker 1: just couldn't couldn't go there. But I mean, yeah, Flarity
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  Speaker 1: come out with ten striggle with six in a row
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  Speaker 1: or something, and I was just like, yeah, it's baseball.
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  Speaker 1: Guy looks like shit and then he comes out firing
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  Speaker 1: firing missiles. But uh yeah, should be uh should be
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  Speaker 1: interesting afternoon of baseball as for sure. But let's get
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  Speaker 1: into some bats. Figure out, uh what we're gonna do today,
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  Speaker 1: because obviously we don't have any good pitching. We got
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  Speaker 1: to have us in bats. Matt, what do you think
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  Speaker 1: here about this tech? Since New York game, we got
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  Speaker 1: Gore and we got Blackburn on the hill today for
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  Speaker 1: the Yankees. But what do you think in here? The Yankees?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they've just been obviously the hottest team in baseball,
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  Speaker 1: But I don't know what do you think here we
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  Speaker 1: get them a little lower ownership.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean you have to get him in a
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  Speaker 2: little lower ownership just because of the matchup with Gore
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  Speaker 2: projected to get Love and you got the Mets in
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  Speaker 2: this spot. Yeah, I mean, I think both offenses are
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  Speaker 2: in play here, Like, there's not gonna be an offense
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  Speaker 2: on this slate that's not in play for me. I'll
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  Speaker 2: just start with that. There's no good pictures today, or
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  Speaker 2: at least no pictures that are good enough where I
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't have interest in an offense against them, considering the
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  Speaker 2: offense that that particular picture is facing. Like Gore I mentioned,
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  Speaker 2: I think he's the best, the most talented arm on
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  Speaker 2: this slate, but he's facing the Yankees in New York,
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, the Yankees are going to be in play.
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  Speaker 2: Gore certainly isn't good enough to say the Yankees wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: be a high upside stack here. I don't think they
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  Speaker 2: stand out though, because again, look at the pitchers we
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  Speaker 2: have today. There's some good hitting weather, We've got cores,
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  Speaker 2: and I respect Gore. I'm personally more likely to use
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  Speaker 2: Gore than stack the Yankees, even though that's a scary proposition.
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  Speaker 2: Man just to the upside the Yankees have they run also,
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  Speaker 2: you got some pinch hit risk, but hard to say
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  Speaker 2: the Yanks aren't in play Texas. I'm a little less
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  Speaker 2: interested in Texas more or less. A bullpen game against
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  Speaker 2: the Yankees bullpen, that's good. I don't hate it because
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  Speaker 2: on a lot of sits, I think they'd be amongst
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  Speaker 2: the better stacks today. Probably not.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the thing with Gore, you know, you just kind
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  Speaker 1: of peel back a little numbers. He's been walking, his
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  Speaker 1: control has not been good at all. I mean the
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  Speaker 1: lefties especially, is at fourteen percent walk right, eleven percent
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  Speaker 1: walk right to righties. He has been getting barreled up
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  Speaker 1: a little bit, uh so far this year, especially against lefties.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we're not gonna see what we got bellingered
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  Speaker 1: maybe Jazz and Trenton there today, but uh, I mean
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  Speaker 1: we know Judge has just been He's been on worldly
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  Speaker 1: foot on fire here in recent times. So I mean, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's interesting Gore getting some ownership today
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  Speaker 1: against the Yankee team who sits a top all of
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  Speaker 1: baseball and ops by quite a big, big margin in
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  Speaker 1: the last month or so. I mean, it's uh, It's interesting.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think I'd rather play the Yankees today
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  Speaker 1: than than use Gore. But then when we go to
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  Speaker 1: the other side, we gotta find some pitching. We like,
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna like a lot of these options as we
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  Speaker 1: go through here.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean that's the thing in an in
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  Speaker 2: a vacuum, I would rather play the Yankees than use Gore,
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  Speaker 2: But there's just no other pitcher that I you know
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  Speaker 2: what I mean, Like I might just going to be
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  Speaker 2: forced to using Gore. So that's kind of where I'm at.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, Gore has the strikeout upside. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: Gore could give two or three homers kind of you know,
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  Speaker 1: like Flaerty gave up some runs yesterday. We had ten k's.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I mean that's something that I
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  Speaker 1: could see. I Mean, the Yankees are pretty patient too
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  Speaker 1: overall as a team. You know. You look, they they
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  Speaker 1: got quite a few guys in the green as far
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  Speaker 1: as walk percentages go. And with the way he's been,
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  Speaker 1: you know, with his bad control recently, the Yankees are
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  Speaker 1: gonna make him work a little bit. So, uh, if
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  Speaker 1: they get into him, I mean, you know, there could
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  Speaker 1: be you know, two three run homer here or there
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  Speaker 1: I could see possibly happening. But yeah, I mean we're
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  Speaker 1: sitting there looking at a game total, sitting what an
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  Speaker 1: eight and a half. I mean, all these games have
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  Speaker 1: pretty high totals here today. But yeah, I mean I
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  Speaker 1: think the Yankees can play. That one starts at twelve
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  Speaker 1: thirty five, and as you mentioned at the top of
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  Speaker 1: the show that you know, they're all pretty spread out.
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  Speaker 1: And then we go to the next game, which is
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  Speaker 1: Minnesota and Washington, and that one is at one five.
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  Speaker 1: I mean that one here, we got Woods Richardson against
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  Speaker 1: Jake Irvin. I mean normal circumstances, Matt, I think we'd
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  Speaker 1: both be kind of laughing thinking we got some good
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  Speaker 1: offense here. I like both offenses in this game. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: I think the Nats are in a really good spot.
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  Speaker 1: I think the Twins are in a pretty good spot.
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  Speaker 1: I know you mentioned hitting conditions aren't the greatest, but man,
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  Speaker 1: I really think the Nationals are. They're looking pretty tasty
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  Speaker 1: against Woods Richardson. That guy's terrible.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, two pretty shitty pitchers here, So I like offenses
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  Speaker 2: here as well. I do think, as you might kind
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  Speaker 2: of mention a second ago, there's a lot of high
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  Speaker 2: totals today, so a lot of offenses are going to look good.
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  Speaker 2: So I do think like the bad weather for hitting
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  Speaker 2: or the not great weather hitting does impact it a
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  Speaker 2: little bit because a lot of these teams are close today.
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  Speaker 2: That said, these are two I feel like of the
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  Speaker 2: worst pitchers. I feel like these are two of the
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: pitchers we want to target most for DFS purposes. I
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: guess is the best way to put it, and today
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: there's no exception. I like both offenses a lot. The
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: Nats went nuts last night. Their offense can do that.
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: They run so hidden upside there. Twins I don't feel
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: as good about, but Man Irvin st so like the
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: thing I do like about the Twins. They were really
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: chalky last night. Let down Now Jake Irvin is gonna
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: be popular against them. Like that in itself makes me
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: like the Twins.
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I hear you. I mean, I mean I like
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: the lefties. I mean Clemmens, Walner, Larnick Lee. I mean,
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: I think the lefties are all definitely in play for
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: me today. But yeah, I mean it's it's definitely a game.
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: I think you could game stack too. I think both
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: of these offenses are definitely in play. I think James
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: Woods look really good today too. I would I wouldn't
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: doubt if he doesn't hit a bomb today. But yeah,
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: I mean both offenses in that game are looking or
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: looking pretty good. I mean two terrible pitchers that I
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: think I've attacked both of them already this year, I believe,
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: so yeah, I'm just gonna continue doing so. I mean,
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: there's really no both. I think that game was basically
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: like a pick them game too, so I mean with
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: high over under, I think both teams have what run
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: total is about four and a half, between four and
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: a half and four point seventy five, I think. So
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: definitely an interesting game for sure for offense. And then
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: the next game we have starts an hour and five
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: minutes later at two ten. As you mentioned, we do
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: have to two o'clock games, and then we have three
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: two three o'clock games, this one being the first of
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: the two. We got Cleveland and Kansas City. We got
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: slayed Cesoni against Seth Lugo. You know, it's kind of
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: hard for me to play either one of these teams,
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: to be honest, Matt, I mean, I just don't feel
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: either team really has the power overall that consistently is
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: gonna win me tournaments, you know, maybe like in a
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: smaller slate like this, I don't mind considering them. But
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: when we're talking about ten games slate stuff like that,
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: it's very hard for me to get to generally either
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: one of these two teams. But I know nads once
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: in a while, like say, I want all kinds of
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: money with the Royals last year, but I'm pretty certain
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: that were kind of shorter where you know, they were
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: singleing double and steel bags everybody to death. They just
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: don't seem to have the homers. But I mean, this
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: one's sitting at a nine. Do you like anything in
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: this one here?
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah? This is another one like secone stinks like he's
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: almost down the woods richardson urban level. To me, he's
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: not quite on that level. So I don't like the
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: Royals as much. But man like, I don't think the
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: Royals are a bad stack today. Ultimately, I do think
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: they're not like my favorite because of what you said,
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure they're lining up as the Juice and
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: Seconi isn't quite as bad as some of the other
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: other starters today. Even though he's not good. Lugo, I
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: feel like he's been getting by on some smoking mirrors
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: for the last year. His underlying numbers last year were
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: not as good as his actual numbers. But considering what
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: we're working with today as far as pictures go, like, Man,
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: I guess I'm probably more likely to use Lugo then
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: stack the Guardians. You know, obviously their lineup, I'd probably
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: like it a little bit more than you. Maybe a
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: little bit of that is homerism, you know, to laughter.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: Obviously it's been a nice addition there. So I don't
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: think the guards are a bad stack. But on this slate,
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: Lugo is probably more likely to be in my rosters
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: than Cleveland guys personally.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, Lugo is one of them guys. I
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: mean you kind of look at him. His fly ball
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: percentage is better to right. He's a little bit reverse splitzy.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: I mean he's only twenty one percent so far this
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: year to lefties. I mean his k percentage to lefties
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: is a twenty three percent, only seventeen percent the rightis.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I just don't like the rightings
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: that that the Indians or where the Indians are rolling out,
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: So I just I don't know, Man, I just can't do.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: I mean, Bobby Wit is always in play for me.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: I mean, on any say, he's like the only Royal
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: I really feel like you can ever use a lot
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: of times, you know, he seems to pop up into
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: my lineup sometimes as a one off at a shortstop.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean CISONI I mean he just he
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: hasn't been very good against Righty's eleven percent k rate,
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: not very good at all. I mean he's been getting
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: barreled up by Righty's here recent times. Garcia, Wit, Perez,
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: I think are all interesting for the Royals, But I
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: mean I just like I said, I think there's so
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: much offense here today. I'd just rather build teams that
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: I think have you know, more power up and down
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: the line up. I mean, we are dealing with a
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: cors Field game here today with a total of eleven.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: So I just don't feel good about my chances. Not
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: saying it can't be done, but I mean if it was,
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: you know, this same slate happened twenty times. I mean
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: I expect maybe you know a lot of times I
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: ask myself, like what's my odds, Like I think my
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: odds are kind of low that these two teams would
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: be up there. I'm not saying they can't do it.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: I just feel like, you know, with all that surrounding it,
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: the odds are low that I feel as if they'll
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: be on the winner today. So yeah, I'm not not
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: too much of a fan. Looks like I'm a little
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: off here, am I? The stone here which we have
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: over here at ship at Nation, we'll move to the
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: next game. Here. We got the Cubs in Reds, Reds
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: sitting at that low total against Joute at three point six. Uh,
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: you know, on the normal slate, we might think, oh,
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: you know, maybe we could pick some guys out here
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: to to go against Shota, you know, with that wind
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: blown out over there. I mean, Ellie Daily Cruz has
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: actually been hitting lefties way better than he has so
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: far in the you know, in past years. But I
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: think the Cubbies are really interesting today against the Reds.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: You know, I think they're definitely in play. One of
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: my favorite stacks here today. But yeah, give me all
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: the Cubbies, Reds not so much. I mean, I think
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: you could get a little leverage if you wanted. I mean,
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: you'll get a lot of leverage if you want to
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: play some Reds today. But I just I'm just really
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: not a fan, especially that lineup. It looks like that's projected.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: I mean, they're there there, it's not very good.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the case for the Reds is simply
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: just the Imanaga sixty percent owned with the wind blowing
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: out and Wrigley like nothing about like the Reds looking
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: particularly great on this slate. But you mentioned, you know,
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: if you break this slate out twenty times, and while
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: the Reds aren't the winner that often, in that scenario,
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: when they are the winner, it's a real easy way
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: to the top because you're knocking out all those Inmanaga lineups.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: So yeah, I think that in itself has me interested
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: in the Reds. I probably won't play them. I'm more
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: likely to maybe get away from im Naga, but even
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: then it's hard to do that because of the pitching
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: options we're working with today. So yeah, probably out on
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: the Reds. I think the clubs look good. Louder is
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: not an arm I believe in. I don't know how
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: bad he is yet, Like, I don't think he's as
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: bad as the Irvin Woods richardson combo, but much better
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: hitting whether they're here. So I the Cubs look similar
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: to me than the Twins and Nationals. Do you like
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: the Cubs more than those teams?
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah? I do like the Cubs a little bit more.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: I think the Nats are up there with me. Nats
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: and Cubs and then maybe some Twins, But yeah, I
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: think these they're definitely up there in the top, that's
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: for sure. I mean it's kind of hard to ignore
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: the Cubs, especially when the wind blown out, you're gonna
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: have you got a picture that really doesn't strike anybody out.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: Five ball percentage of the left side is fairly high,
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: so you know, like Balosteros Bush hap, you know, we
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: all like some Bush but you know, I think that
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: those would be guys. But I will the mention to
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: Cincinnati on the Cincinnati side against AMaGA. Dude, you see
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: the barrel percentage for salth Stewart so far against lefties
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: this year. I mean it's at like thirty six percent. Man,
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: That's that's insane. So, I mean south Stewart would be
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: a guy maybe if you wanted to get some leverage
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: off of him today, I think maybe that's a guy
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: you could throw in your lineup and feel decent about.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: With the wind blown out and with what he's bringing
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: the table. His fly ball percentage has been at forty
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: against lefty, so I think he'd be a guy that
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: it could be in line for a homer.
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: So first lineup, Saber gave me as a red stack,
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: So take that for what it's worth.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: There you go, there you go. So yeah, I think
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: this game is is definitely interesting. You know, it just
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: seems like, you know them Wrigley win games get blown
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: out of proportion. Sometimes a lot of times end up
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: being duds. It just it just always kind of seems
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: to be the case in my mind. It's like I
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: don't want to fall fall for that one. But the
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: next game we have is the big one on the slate.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: We got Mets almost sitting at a sixteen total against
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: Jose Quintana. I can't believe that guy is still in
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: the league. And then we have a Rockies sitting at
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: a healthy total well over five. I mean, we're sitting
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: at a run total at eleven. Moan Soto let off
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: the game yesterday with the bomb. I know that's lefty, Lefty.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: I still am not worried about that. Rocky Bullpen stinks,
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: Mets stink overall. I mean, I just think I'm gonna
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: leave it alone. I'm just gonna keep dying on that hill.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: I'll let the Mets beat me if they beat me.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: I mean, they're just one of the worst hitting teams
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: in baseball so far this season. I think I'd just
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: rather just walk away from it. On the Rocky side,
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: Moniac's been hitting the shit out of the ball. I mean,
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: if that's a guy you're looking at, I kind of
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: like the other side of that with Christian Scott a
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: little bit more. But you know, as we talked about,
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: you know, the ownership game there with him. So I mean,
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: I can't play the Mets. I think I'm just hoping
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: they're fairly popular today. To be truthful with you, Matt,
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: I just hope, you know, most of the field plays them,
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: and we know that show Day is gonna be pretty popular.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: I feel like I can there's ways I can be different,
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: and I don't plan on having any Mets stacks. I
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: just I'm gonna lay off of them. I'll just leave
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: and be I can't do it.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I probably like them more than you do,
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: just because they're in cores facing Jose Kintana so hard
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: to sorry to say they don't look good, but I
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: get your points. I mean, the ownership is there already,
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: and there's a bunch of other good offenses today. So
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: I kind of feel this way about corps often, and
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: today is no exception. I think you can build good
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: lineupes with the Mets, and I think you can build
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: good lines without the Mets. It's kind of just like
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: your personal preference. I don't have a strong take. I'm
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: not sure if I'm gonna use the Mets or not yet,
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: but I get both sides of it, Like they're the
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: best staff on the board, but the ownership is going
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: to show that. And to your point, they've been underwhelming
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: this year. I guess my counter to that would be
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: I feel like they have more name value than that.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: And it's still early on and Soto missed a lot
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: of time, so you know, in this matchup against Kintana Incors,
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: I feel good about guys like Alvarez and Vientos and
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: guys that you know have struggled a lot and that
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: you don't usually feel good about. I just think they're
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: in a good spot today. They're still missing two of
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: their main guys, Lindor and Luis Roberts, so you don't
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: get a great line up there, but they do look
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: like the top stack on the board to me, not
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: that you have to play them. And then the Rockies.
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: I'm also torn on because we talked about Kristin Scott
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: and I like him as an ownership play, but man,
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: he walks guys. I don't trust him at all, and
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: I think the Rockies are going to be low owned today,
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: So I think the Rockies also have a role on
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: this slate for sure, and the tournaments. I like their upside.
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: I don't know if they're my favorite stack on the board,
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: but I do like them in tournaments if I'm not
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: playing Kristin Scott.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, like I said, Moniac's been been hitting the shit
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: out of the ball I mentioned yesterday, Moniac is up
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: there with Aaron, Judge, Olsen and all them in ops
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: in the last few weeks. But bounce him back to
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: the Mets real quick. I mean, you look at the
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: bottom half of that lineup from six on down and Banyaz, Taylor, Slater, Bruhan,
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: all those guys are pinch hit risk. I don't feel
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: comfortable with any of them dudes in my lineup. After
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: you know they bring in somebody from the bullpen, so Quintana.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, obviously we know he ain't gonna
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: strike anybody out. He's got like an eight percent strikeout rate,
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: ten percent walk right to rightyes is wOBA is uh
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: what three oh seven, four thirty five to the left side.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: I mean he's been giving up fly balls. I mean,
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: he's not missing any bats, that's for sure. But you know,
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: the Mets, I just it's just so hard to play
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: a team that's struggling. I mean, you know, in in
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: in you know fairness too. The Nats have been struggling too,
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: and they came out and scored a bunch of runs yesterday.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: But I mean the Mets sitting here in cors I
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: just feel like I don't like to play chalkier teams,
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: Matt that just look to me like they're just in
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: the bottom of the barrel of MLB, especially like in
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: recent times, in the last few weeks in hitting. I mean,
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: it just seems like teams are in a slump. They're
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: in a slump, you know, like and I respect that
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: baseball is up and down many night.
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: You know, they scored last night.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: Oh they got it done last night.
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: So you can't say they're too big of a slump,
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: you know what, I mean.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: They did, they did get the job done last night.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: But I mean it is Corsfield two. So I mean
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: the Astros, you know, when they were in corps looked
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: like you know, they were the Yankees. But either way,
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I guess like for the Mets,
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: it's just the top half. I mean, I think I
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: play up the semi and the first five or really
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: what I feel safe with. I think after that, you know,
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: it's it's danger you might only get two at bats potentially,
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: so and.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: Get what you're saying in that, like, the ownerships already there.
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: So yeah, even though you're acknowledging they're in a good
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: spot as much as you don't want to do that,
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: the ownerships there already, so you're not getting an edge
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: on the field, which I get not playing them just
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: simply because of that.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: Right right, Yeah, And it's just you know, I I'm
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: kind of like stubborn too, and it's probably a fault
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: of mine over the years. I just it just seems
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: like I get locked in, Like there's few teams I
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: generally look to play, and then you know, I like
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: the moms around and then there's certain teams. I just
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: you don't hate the Mets, you know you hate the Mets. Yeah,
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: I hate the Mets. I wish Lewis, I wish lou
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: Bob would do fucking something for a change. Maybe his
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: fucking what a fucking good rookie card I got right there,
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: it's worth about fifteen hundred, would maybe go back up
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: to where it was when I pulled it. When I
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: pulled those worth like seven grand Matt, I was like, oh, yeah,
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: this dude's huge. He's gonna be good. And uh yeah, dude,
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: dude trips over the fall line. It's out for a month.
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he is really man. He was awesome when he
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: first came up, and he straw man. He wasn't really
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: that good for the Mets earlier this year. And I
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: get it, like the Mets are of all teams, like
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: in sports, the Mets are one of the easiest to hate,
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: no doubt.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah for sure, other than the buck Eyes. But I mean,
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: we don't want to get into that. I had to
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: throw that one out. It was too easy. But either way,
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: here the other game. Here we have this afternoon, the
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: later game, the last one at three forty, so we're
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: gonna have what three hours and five minutes of baseball.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: The Texas Yankee game will probably be over by Minnesota, Washington,
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: maybe wrapping up pretty close to by time this one starts.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: So Pittsburgh Arizona. We got Mitch Keller is at Gallen.
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: I know you said that you like both offenses when
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: we were kind of starting out here, but I think
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: Gallen could get some ownership today. I mean, Keller could
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: get some ownership today as bad as pitching's ben. We
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: got a game sitting here basically at about even run
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: total nine and a half ish nine, So I mean
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: this game here definitely has some offense. I definitely like
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: me some lefties against Zach Gallon. I think Corbyn Carroll
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: is definitely in play. Marte Castillo Vargas been hitting the
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: ball pretty well, so I don't mind attacking Keller from
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: the left side with that low strikeout rate at fourteen percent.
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: But I think I prefer the d Backs over the Pirates.
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: But I think both of her in play if I was,
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: I mean I leave both of them in my pool.
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: Yees same. I like both, I think a little bit
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: more than the field, not that I think they look
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: like drastically better than some of the other teams he's
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: talked about, and I think the ownership is going to
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: be low and I think they look as good. So yeah,
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: Gallen is a guy. I'm a fan of Gallon, like
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: usually he's an arm I've just I've used a ton
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: in years past in DFS and he's been really good.
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: But he's just not that guy right now. Not sure
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: if he'll ever be that guy again, but right now
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: he's not it. His underlying numbers aren't very good. He's
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: not striking guys out. The Diamondbacks only have one lefty
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: in their bullpen also, and it's not a guy they
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: really want to use, So I like, I love the
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: lefties for Pittsburgh. Here, we've seen a pretty slow series
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: from them so far, and they had been struggling a
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: little bit coming in. I think this is the day
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: they kind of get going, and we've seen them break
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: a lot of slates when they do get going because
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: they got power. And the Diamondbacks are another team that
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: I just personally like, and I think they have upside.
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: I think both sides of this game have upside. I
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: don't have a strong preference of which one. I just
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: like both of them, So I understand why Keller and
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: Gallen are getting loved because the pitching options are so
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: bad today. But I'm personally gonna lean more into the
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: offense in this game, I think, and hopefully it works out.
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I'll mentioned that Connor Griffin, their young rookie shortstop.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: I mean, there's been hitting the shit out of the
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: baseball well. It was the number unrated prospect right there
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: with McGonagall. So I mean he's hitting down in the
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: bottom of the lineup, so I wouldn't be afraid to
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: use him in like a wrap around type scenario. I
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: want to say he's in the top twenty and OPS
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: in the last couple of weeks. In all of baseball,
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: I usually like to kind of glance over that usually
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: every day man just kind of see who's moving up
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: and down, you know, in all that OPS is something
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: I generally like to follow, as you know, how how
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: hitters are are doing. But on base plus slugging, so
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: you know, I mean, he's definitely in play, so I
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: wouldn't follow him. I do like the lefties too. I
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: mean O'Neil Cruz is you know O'Neil Cruz if he
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: was anywhere else other than Pittsburgh, he'd be he'd be
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: a highly highly touted prospect player coming up to big
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: Baseball's got so many young good talent coming to I say,
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: more so than any sport. I mean, it's just they
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: just keep bringing him up left and right. So exciting
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: as a baseball fan, that is for sure, and a
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: card collector, I mean it seems like every damn year,
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: man like I'm digging through Matt trying to find my
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: sal Stewart. It's like, where are my sal Stewart? At Well?
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: That's one great thing about collecting, especially baseball, there's always
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: in gems. My best buddy here owns a sports card
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: store and a collectible store that I'm a part owner,
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: and so I'm like in that game too. And we
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: just talked about this the other day about why we
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: love baseball cards the most is because guys that you
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: don't even know about years later can emerge and you
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: just might be sitting on some stuff that you don't
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: even know about. So it's really part of the fun
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: of the of the game. In my opinion, Like baseball,
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: it's always been my favorite sport. Baseball cards have always
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: been my favorite, Like sporting cards, baseball memory, Like, baseball
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: memorabilia has always been my favorite. It's just you know,
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: that's just kind of how I am.
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, when I was a young boy, my grandfather's
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: good friend was a Tiger scout, so he used to
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: take me down to the Tiger game. We'd get in
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: for free. I thought it was the coolest thing ever,
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: you know, got to walk in, you know, all that stuff.
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: So I was like just in awe. And he he
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: actually taught me a trick when I was probably like
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: seven or eight years old. He told me, if you
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: send a self address stamped envelope with like a couple
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: of baseball cards addressed to a player to the stadium,
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: that the that the PR department gives them to the players,
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: and then when they have rainouts and ship they will
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: sign all their mail and then they'll mail it back
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: to you. So I want to Matt, I want to
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: say I probably wrote almost every damn player in MLB
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: baseball and sent them all, you know, cards, And my
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: grandpa was, you know, he was happy because I was
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: writing and doing you know, school type shit and happy.
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: And I used to run home from school and be like, oh, man,
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: if I saw one of my envelopes. You look where
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: the city was, You're like, oh, Minnesota, who's thish shit,
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: it's you know, can't her back her? You know whoever
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: else you know it was.
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: Times have changed.
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that is for sure. But before we get out
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: of here real quick, let's give everybody you know, hey,
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: pitching is ugly. Let's give everybody our favorite couple of
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: pitchers a couple of stacks, and then uh, maybe we'll
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: we'll give him a home run call. Since everybody going, hey,
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: hit that like button for me too, Will you hit
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: that like button as you see right above my face,
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: that like button right up there, boom, just hit it
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: for us. We'd appreciate that, that is for sure. But met,
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: let's see what you got here for pitching, and what
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: do you like for some stacks?
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: All right, my two favorite pitchers. This is so ugly,
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: and this could change by the time lock comes were.
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: Right now, I'm gonna say Showda and I'm gonna say Lugo.
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: They need depth today. After Reagan's got hurt yesterday, I
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: hate the arms today. Give me Lugo as my sp two,
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: even though he's he might even be more expensive than
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: showed Up. But either way, those are my two favorite guys,
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: my favorite stack. Uh Man, this is tough. Obviously, I'm
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: gonna say Pittsburgh Gallon has not been it, and I
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: like the Pirates.
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: Today all right, I am going to say, actually, as
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: as we know, pitching has been just garbage. I got
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: shote up at the top, and then I'm gonna put
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: four guys that I think you can play. I'm gonna Gore, Gallon, Lugo,
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: and Scott are probably the four that I mean. All
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: of them to me, you have reasons to not play
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: them more so than to actually play them, But I
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: think those are the guys I think, Irvin, maybe we
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: get some ownership. I just can't go there. No thank
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: you for me. As far as stacks I got, I
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: go Cubbies one and then NAT's Twins d Backs right
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: behind them. I think Cubs for me will be my
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: favorite stack of the day. I do have the Pirates
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: as my favorite, like low owned stack, just because I
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: kind of feel like Gallon's probably gonna get some ownership.
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: But I do feel like Pirates for me, especially the
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: Lefties as you mentioned, are definitely in play. And if
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: I was gonna call anybody to hit a home run today.
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go on the reds, I musa say, south Stewart.
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: I mean dudes hitting thirty six percent barrels for forty
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: percent fly ball. I had a fly ball hit her against, uh,
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: the chalkiest pitcher the day probably of what we've seen
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: in the last couple of weeks. So I'm gonna go
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: against the grain there and say a great one off
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: salth Stewart. You know what, you could even play Seal
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: Stuart against im Maga today if you wanted to do that.
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't mind that on slates like today where you
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: got short slates, playing a hitter against one of your pitchers.
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: I mean he could get the job done. He could
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: hit a homer. We know flyball Scholta could give up
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: two three homers and still get there today, so easy.
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: I think that could be in play.
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: You know, No, I like that call a lot. Chada
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: could easily give up two solo homers and be optimal
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: today just because the pitching options stink. He could get
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: a bunch of k's like look at Flaherty last night,
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: you know what I mean? So yeah, I like that
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: call for sure.
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: Now.
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: The only thing I'll say well, I don't love it
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: there is because both of those guys are expensive, but
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: like I think they're time for a reason. You kind
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: of broke it down. Why South Stuart so expensive? So
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: he makes a lot of sense as a one off
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: in any type of lineup. I I like that call
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: a lot man.
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, for surely different. You can go to different. That'll
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: make you so different. If you just played selstart and
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: if he does hit a homer for you, chick ching,
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: you'll you'll, uh, you'll be moving up pretty quickly. Who
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: gives a shit about the minus minus points? You you'll?
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: So that definitely would be interesting. But Matt, got any
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: last words for everybody before we run on out of here?
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: No, that's all I got. Man always blast can't wait
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: for next Thursday?
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I hear you. Well, we appreciate everybody joining us
• 41:38
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• 41:47
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• 41:49
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• 41:52
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• 42:16
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• 42:22
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