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Giants Sign Matt Chapman · The 3-0 Take

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  Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Three O Take, where we talk
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  bio as well. Nate, I got some big news from
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  last Tuesday I don't know if you saw.
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  Six days ago hit me with it. It happened the day after we
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  recorded last it. Always does John Heyman heard of
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  him. Hit me with the block on
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  Twitter. Yes.
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  It finally happened. It finally happened, just adding
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  to the list of blocks that I've received.
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  But let me ask you this. Let me ask you this is is this a
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  warranted is this a warranted tweet at him?
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  He he posted a link to some article that I I think he'd
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  written for the Who's he with the the freaking New York Times
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  post? I don't know.
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  And the the description for the article says Juan Soto gives
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  full throated endorsement for Yankees to sign his Padres
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  teammate Blake Snell. And then I quote tweeted that
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  tweet and said Juan Soto gave what?
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  And then I went back to check the tweet and John Heyman had
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  blocked me. Now please, please tell me if
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  I'm wrong here, but is that not like?
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  Is that not a valid question? Is this a common phrase?
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  First of all, full throated? I never heard that in my.
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  Life. Nope.
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  Nope. Full throated.
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  And so I say he did what? And then he blocks me.
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  That's all it took. That's.
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  I mean, it's not like it's your first quote tweet.
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  It's not like your first, I won't say shade throne 'cause
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  this wasn't a whole lot of shade.
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  This was just simply shedding light on his own words.
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  I I don't think just anything wrong with it.
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  Dare I dare I Google that phrase to see if that's a commonly used
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  thing? I.
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  Really, I really don't suggest it.
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  I wouldn't. Yeah, probably.
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  Probably not Smart. There's just no way you can tell
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  me. Anybody listening or John Heyman
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  that that's a commonly used phrase.
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  You. You can't.
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  Yeah, I it makes me feel like like maybe he's, you know,
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  those, like the older people like to use that, like voice
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  text. Yes.
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  Maybe he was saying something else, you know, full hearted,
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  just a little far away from the phone.
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  I don't. If that's the case, then don't
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  block people if they they bring up a valid question as to what
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  in the. World you're I gotta go and
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  assume you weren't the only person blocked that day.
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  No, I wasn't. Other people joined in unison.
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  They they said I got the block too.
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  I said I that's Scott Boris's puppet and clearly softer than
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  Charmin. That's all I have to say.
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  So just wanted to acknowledge that I got.
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  The Block, right? John Heyman.
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  This is John Heyman. So if John Heyman tweets
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  anything, somebody will have to inform me because I, I, I, I
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  don't have access to his material anymore.
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  Which is basically down to like I I think I only like like Joel
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  Sherman and Jeff Passan. Jeff Passan I mean that's that's
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  the goat. But outside of Passan, I don't
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  even Ken Rosenthal. I'm, I'm out on Ken Rosenthal.
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  He's just all about giving credit to people that he gets
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  his reports from. So it's like what are we even
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  what what are we really even doing here, Ken.
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  Yeah, it's it's really Jeff Passan for me.
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  That's about it. I'm trying to go back here.
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  And it's it's, I mean it's been pretty dry for Jeff Passan as of
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  late. Not much going on.
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  Boris's guys are still out there, minus Matt Chapman.
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  Matt Chapman has signed a three-year, $54 million contract
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  with the Giants. I know I texted you asking if
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  this had moved the needle for you at all, to which I was met
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  with a resounding not the slightest.
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  So I would, I would, I would like to ask why this doesn't
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  move the needle for you. Because I before you, before you
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  explain, I'm seeing, I'm seeing comments and responses from
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  Giants fans that are saying this is one of the the better
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  offseasons they've had in a long time.
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  I'm not. I'm.
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  I will give them credit for doing something.
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  I'm not going to harp on them for like being inactive.
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  They're they're trying. I will give them credit for
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  trying. It's just the random unnecessary
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  fits. Like you have like 5 third
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  baseman and like 7 outfielders and you just keep signing the
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  same freaking types of players and you don't even have a
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  rotation. You don't have a full rotation
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  like was third base that big of a need?
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  I don't I don't know what we're doing.
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  I I just, I can't figure out the direction then.
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  Even if they didn't have third baseman outside of like May last
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  year. Matt Chapman just doesn't.
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  I don't see it. I don't even think he made it
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  into May. I think it was.
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  I think it was the month of April.
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  April where he's just absolute like if there was an All Star to
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  be given out like if he could gotten that award that quickly
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  he would have. But he just fades, dude.
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  And like I I don't know. I, I I think you could have
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  gotten similar not quite up to that level but similar defense
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  from Brandon Crawford for a lot cheaper.
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  If you really needed the third baseman to play good defense,
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  could have just brought him back.
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  He wanted to be back and they said no.
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  I just I The offensive numbers don't do it for me, for Matt
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  Chapman than a big ballpark. I mean, it's it's tough to look
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  at your offseason if you're the Giants and and say, I mean,
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  would you say this is their marquee signing?
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  I'd like more. So I like Jorge Salier more as
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  far as the signing goes unless in terms of full package, yeah
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  and this is all this is all null and void if they can manage to
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  land Snell or Montgomery which either I I don't understand what
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  go get one of those guys you don't have a rotation.
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  I saw that Snell the The latest on the Snell sweepstakes is that
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  he's down to San Francisco and the Angels.
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  Why? I don't know.
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  They're the only teams that are willing to pay him at this point
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  because every all 28 other teams are waiting for his price tag to
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  come down to basically zero. And look, credit to the league,
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  Credit to the league on both Snell and sticking it to Boris.
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  Credit to them to to the league for waiting it out on both Snell
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  and Montgomery. Because the league collectively
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  as a whole, calling the bluff of Scott Boris, left and right.
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  And then you see the report that came out today that said
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  apparently four Was it from Montgomery that four new mystery
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  teams are in on Montgomery now or like they're they're kicking
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  the can on Montgomery? I go, OK, no.
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  Yeah, nice try. And you want to know who who
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  started that Scott, Boris. So how?
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  How people can't see through that, that it's beyond me.
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  If that is, I mean, if I see Snell or Monty, to be honest, if
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  I see either of them sign for a Cody Bellinger S contract, 2-3
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  years with multiple opt outs, I'm gonna be pretty surprised
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  because like, there's a lot of teams that can do that, that
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  need to do that. Giants being one of them.
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  So I'd be surprised if this doesn't.
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  I mean, well you know how this works.
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  We're recording today. One of them will sign tomorrow.
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  That's just how it goes. If not later tonight.
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  I I just. I don't know.
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  I'm going back to the Giants. Just tying a bow on it.
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  I I just again, I'm a little confused with how things are
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  going. I Are you platooning Wilmer
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  Flores and and Lamont Wade at first is is Wilmer Flores
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  getting time at 3rd? Is Jorge Solaire being forced to
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  get 20 or 30 games in the outfield just to clear up the DH
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  spot? I I I don't.
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  I don't know what's going on. What do you do with JD Davis?
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  What do you do with Michael Conforto?
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  What do you do with your Who's the young third baseman last
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  year, Louie? I don't remember.
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  Whatever. I just.
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  Talk about Marco, not Luciano, Luciano.
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  No, he's playing short the damn it.
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  Who is it? KC, please hold.
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  Just please hold. You do your thing.
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  You send me JD Yeah. JD Davis.
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  JD Davis, which is a name that I wanted to bring up because going
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  back to my original point of if you're the Giants, you would
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  hate to think that your Marquis signing, assuming you think Matt
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  Chapman over Jorge Solaire is your Marquis signing, you would
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  hate to think that he's gonna slide in in the bottom half your
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  lineup 'cause I'm looking at A at a projected lineup right now
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  one through 9. Casey Schmidt.
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  Sorry Matt. Matt Chapman has slotted 6th in
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  the lineup playing third. Yeah and like I I'll give them
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  credit like again they're they've made moves I've I
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  actually I'm gonna retract I I probably like the Jung Ho Lee
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  signing more than Solaire just because of like top of the
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  lineup and I I like the idea of you need Bop in that lineup but
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  you also need some bats ball skills and you know anytime you
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  play anytime you sign a center fielder that's going to play
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  every day and be at the top of the line up it's like that's a
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  that's a great sign. I just don't see where they have
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  depth a lot of depth defensively and offensively.
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  I just don't see like you keep doing these things when you're
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  not getting pitchers or pitchers that can pitch right now.
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  No, I mean, I would have thrown Jung Hui into the Marquis
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  signing conversation. But we say with all of these
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  guys, you can't you can't throw them.
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  You you can't assign them that title or put them into that
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  conversation when we haven't even seen them yet.
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  So for me, I you either got to go with Matt Chapman or or Jorge
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  Solaire. Matt Chapman's a Platinum Glover
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  and that's what they went and got him for.
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  They didn't get him for his offense, and for a guy who
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  struggles to maintain consistency on the offensive
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  side of the ball, that's not exactly the greatest park to
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  throw a guy in to do that, to fix that.
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  But you also heard the reports of like they wanted to go get JD
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  Martinez after the Solaire signing.
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  And JD was like, no, I don't want to go there.
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  Probably 'cause you already have a full time DH.
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  It's. There's like JD, JD Martinez
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  didn't want to go there because it's SAN.
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  Francisco, multiple reasons. And I don't blame him if we're
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  being honest. OK, I fully just.
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  Want to make sure we're on the same paycheck?
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  I fully agree. But I'm just saying that there's
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  no real sense of direction. And if they come out and prove
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  everybody wrong and Matt Chapman finds a way to hit 315 and
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  Solaire puts up 35 in that ballpark and Jordan Hicks
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  becomes a frontline starter like I there's just so many question
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  marks. This is a 500 ball club.
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  The only the only thing that I can somewhat get behind.
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  I I genuinely think Bob Melvin is not good with superstars.
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  And I think that's what we saw in in San Diego.
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  His success from Oakland days where there was a lack of
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  superstars because it's Oakland to probably not knowing how to
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  manage all the Divas in your in your dugout the way they had had
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  gone in San Diego to now it's like hey, I think it there's a
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  big group of veterans. There's a couple young guys in
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  the mix without having to be, like in the spotlight the whole
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  time. That's probably Bob Melvin's
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  sweet spot. So I will give them at 500,
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  slightly above 500. The offseason I I I'm seeing a
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  lot of headlines and again to put a bow on this I'm seeing a
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  lot of speculation thrown around that the Giants are done now
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  this offseason despite the Snell talk which I'm sure stems almost
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  solely from Boris just trying to get the get the bidding war
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  going. But two things you have to do
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  for me at least you gotta with with the log jams they have
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  positionally, you gotta ship out JD Davis and I think the
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  Mariners would be a fantastic spot for JD Davis.
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  And you have to add another arm. We talked.
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  It was like the first thing we brought up when we brought up
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  the Giants. You got, albeit logjams.
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  You have some depth positionally, but that rotation
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  needs help. Logan Webb can't carry the
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  weight all season long. He just can't do it.
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  So it. Was the.
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  Kyle. Harrison looks good.
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  Kyle Harrison looks good, so I'm excited to see what that turns
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  into. But, like, Cobb's gonna be out
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  for a while. What was the.
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  I don't even think he's active anymore.
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  The poor, the poor kid that got an aneurysm in his arm.
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  I think he was slotted to be like their four or five.
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  Like Beck. I think it was something Beck.
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  He had an aneurysm in his shoulder.
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  So you know, it's just there. And like that's fluky stuff, but
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  you're now at this point where there's there's enough time,
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  there's names out there, you got to go do what you got to do.
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  And if that means potentially shedding some some money, I'm
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  not looking at contracts or numbers right now, but like if
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  you got to shed a Conforto or shed a JD Davis to clear up some
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  some cap, then do what you need to do.
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  But I don't think they're anywhere near their, their
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  spending limit, you know, I don't know, man.
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  It's just a lack of sense of direction.
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  I'll tell you a team that does have direction, my friend, and
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  that's the Philadelphia Phillies.
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  They see what they want. They go out and get it.
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  Zach Wheeler? Goodness.
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  A $126 million three-year extension that begins in 2025
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  carries him through the 2027 season.
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  He was set to go. This was the last last year of
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  his contract. What was it That was a.
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  So this is the the 5th and final season of that contract that
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  that's for 118 million. So this like I said this will
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  start the 2025 season. One of I mean it seems like a no
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  brainer bringing him back. You can debate the money if you
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  want but brilliant on behalf of the Phillies for not even giving
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  him the opportunity to get to free agency.
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  One of the best post season pitchers.
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  Of of recent memory I saw a tweet from Codify today, said
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  The lowest career postseason WHIP 40 plus total innings
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  pitched, all of MLB history. You've got Sandy Kofax at 4,
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  Kinley Jansen at 3, Mariano Rivera at two, and Zach Wheeler
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  at the top of that list. A WHIP of A postseason WHIP of
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  .726 lower than Mariano Rivera. That's nuts.
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  Dude is nails. I know I like it.
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  Postseason. I do.
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  Like it? That's the thing.
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  If you're the Phillies, you know you're gonna be in the
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  postseason. So lock up a guy that's gonna
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  benefit you come that time. This isn't.
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  We're not talking about a fringe team here.
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  The the Phillies for the next handful of seasons.
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  I don't even have really a number, but I I would think the
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  window is relatively sizable. Why not bring in or bring back,
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  I should say, extend Zach Wheeler when you know you're
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  gonna be seeing the calendar. Turn to October and you're still
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  gonna be playing for the next however many seasons.
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  Yeah, I'm looking at contract stuff right now.
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  Nothing really coming off the books.
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  Next year you got Matt Strom at seven and a half million. 2026
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  is the year where they're gonna shed some weight, you know?
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  I'm not sure what extensions will look like, but like JT
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  Romuto, Kyle Schwarber, Whitmer Field, Sir Anthony Dominguez,
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  Ranger Suarez, Gregory Soto, a lot of these names will clear
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  off in 2026. Whether they decide to bring
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  them back or not is a different story.
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  But when you see that and those names that I mentioned like
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  20/26/2020, seven more names kind of clear off.
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  So yeah, that window is now. The Phillies need a ring within
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  the next three years, 1,000,000%.
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  There's no other way to put this because like that Now, at that
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  point, you're probably fading out of Bryce Harper's prime.
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  It has to happen. It has to happen in this window.
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  So. It's gonna happen, Nate.
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  It's gonna happen in the next three years.
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  One of those years, 2024-2025? No, I'm going to say 4.
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  We're going to run it through the end of this ext. 2027.
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  One of those years is going to end with the Village World
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  Series title. Zach Wheeler is also 33.
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  For anyone wondering, just a just a thought.
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  This is an older team. It's an older team.
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  I mean, what's you? How old's you, Darvish?
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  He's still giving you respectable numbers at his age.
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  Yeah. So the age for Wheeler doesn't
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  concern me as much. You Darvish, is 37 going to be
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  28 here in a a little bit? 37 gonna be 38.
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  Or August, so he'll he'll hit his age 38, later this summer.
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  But I mean, he's giving you respectful numbers at that 37.
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  Look, I get it. Props to props to the Phillies.
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  We know what Dave Nabrowski can do, and I don't know, he might
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  be a world class negotiator if he's walking into that owner's
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  office and being like, I need to do this, I need to do this over
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  and over again and he's and he's gotten multiple owners to be
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  like, OK, here's my checkbook. It's crazy good for.
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  You like I've, like I've said, how you can be a fan of any team
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  that Dave Dombrowski is leading the charge with financially.
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  How you could not be the biggest supporter of Dave Dombrowski?
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  Blows my mind. I would give anything to have
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  Dave Dombrowski back here in Boston, but he's doing his thing
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  with the Phillies. But people want to talk about,
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  Well, he just goes in, blows up the farm and brings in all the
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  big guys. Well, I would rather watch a
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  team with a bunch of big guys that are able to perform at a
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  high level consistently, give you a chance to win a World
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  Series year in and year out, then sit back and and praise our
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  financial flexibility. That's really fun.
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  I love, I love chatting with people when they ask, like, hey,
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  you looking forward to this baseball season?
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  I said not really, but we've got financial flexibility, so that's
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  something to look forward to. That's really fun.
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  That's a fun place to be in. That's really fun.
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  I enjoy that. I I didn't do without the
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  parades. Yeah, no, I don't need those.
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  Don't need the parades. Don't need the World Series
• 26:05
  DVDs. Don't need the the the, the, the
• 26:12
  crack hit of postseason baseball in October.
• 26:15
  Don't need that. I just want financial
• 26:18
  flexibility and I. Want financial flexibility?
• 26:21
  I don't need Dave Dombrowski. I will say that this will most
• 26:25
  likely, this will most likely end badly for the last two to
• 26:33
  three years of Bryce Harper's career.
• 26:36
  It's gonna be a It's gonna be a long few years.
• 26:40
  That's what this is. That's absolutely what is gonna
• 26:43
  happen. Like you and.
• 26:44
  Not one Phillies fan. No, you don't care.
• 26:47
  Reasonable is gonna. Care if if you need one.
• 26:54
  If you need one to justify all of this.
• 26:57
  Yeah. So pressure is on for sure.
• 27:01
  Was Can you do a quick search for me?
• 27:04
  Was Dave Dombrowski in the mix in Detroit when they won in?
• 27:10
  Yeah, I think so. Was that O six?
• 27:14
  No. What year did they win it?
• 27:21
  They played the Cardinals in O six.
• 27:23
  I was it. They won in O 6, right?
• 27:25
  Am I completely misremembering this?
• 27:27
  You look up your thing, I'll look up my thing.
• 27:30
  Tigers from O2 to 15, so yeah. It was 2012.
• 27:34
  It was. Yeah, so he was in there, dude,
• 27:40
  this man's been in baseball a long time.
• 27:43
  Wait, no, they didn't. What am I?
• 27:45
  What am I talking about? No, they got swept in 2012.
• 27:49
  That. That's right.
• 27:49
  That was the Giants run. Holy cow, did they not?
• 27:55
  And then the Cardinals won in 2006.
• 27:57
  Has it really been this long for Detroit?
• 27:59
  Why am I completely misremembering this?
• 28:03
  That awesome No six too? Holy cow.
• 28:06
  Their last title was 84. I thought they got one I could
• 28:11
  have. Sworn they got one.
• 28:12
  Wow. I am completely misremembering
• 28:15
  that. Well, either way he he he put
• 28:21
  him. He put him in the dance and he
• 28:24
  got one in Boston, so. He got one in 97 with the
• 28:30
  Marlins and then Boston in in 18.
• 28:33
  So he's he's getting these titles that justify these moves,
• 28:38
  so he needs to do the same in Philly.
• 28:41
  Justify moves and like honestly, you can.
• 28:44
  Justify the spending. Probably assume it brings in
• 28:49
  more dollars, postseason appearances, even if it comes up
• 28:54
  a little short. It's got to bring in more money.
• 28:57
  Bring in superstars. It's we can make arguments about
• 29:03
  Castellanos and and Schwarber and and age.
• 29:11
  One could argue maybe it's slight lack of athleticism in
• 29:14
  certain ways, but they're going for it.
• 29:20
  And I I honestly, I I like the fact that they brought back Nola
• 29:28
  and it makes me feel like Wheeler getting this extension
• 29:31
  is just fully kind of taking the ball and stepping into like I'm
• 29:35
  the ace now. I think Nola was a one for them
• 29:39
  for a while, just never really like got over the hump and was
• 29:43
  like, I'm dominant. I'm top five in baseball.
• 29:47
  You just never really got there, so I like it.
• 29:52
  It goes back to your point. We talked about this across
• 29:56
  various rotations. Is he a number one?
• 29:58
  Is he an ace? Zach Wheeler fits the bill of an
• 30:01
  ace. Yeah, there's only a few aces in
• 30:03
  baseball, maybe 10. Not everyone's got an ace.
• 30:12
  I love what the feelers are doing, man.
• 30:13
  That is. That is an exciting baseball
• 30:17
  city at this point in time. They got a lot to look forward
• 30:22
  to. Josh Donaldson has retirement to
• 30:25
  look forward to. Finally, we have rid ourselves
• 30:30
  of Josh Donaldson. Am I more excited than you?
• 30:36
  Oh, I I I wish. I I I needed him to.
• 30:43
  I needed to feel. I needed another fan base to
• 30:46
  feel the pain that I felt over the last few years.
• 30:52
  Oh, I can't express how annoying I am at that move and how
• 31:03
  annoyed I am that he got so much playing time and he got paid for
• 31:10
  what he did in like, freaking 2015.
• 31:15
  That guy swindled. I mean, you came, you, you can
• 31:22
  only take that so far because you came at you.
• 31:25
  You were, I don't want to say, defending him, but you were
• 31:29
  tolerating him there for a good bit.
• 31:33
  I, Whether by choice or not, you were you were tolerating that
• 31:38
  more than I would have. Yeah, I had to tolerate it.
• 31:43
  Solid defense. I kept seeing the the videos
• 31:48
  circulating today on Twitter of pimp jobs, the balls not getting
• 31:54
  out of the park, which there are a couple of those that are fake
• 31:57
  by the way. Definitely not real cause I've
• 31:59
  watched those games and I know the ones that he got, but there
• 32:03
  were some fake. There were some bad pimp jobs
• 32:05
  for sure. Definitely.
• 32:07
  I won't miss that. I don't know.
• 32:11
  I don't know man. I got nothing left to say about
• 32:14
  him. The guy, just very polarizing
• 32:19
  figure, you know, I did hear a detail.
• 32:27
  Where did I hear it? It was, what was his name?
• 32:34
  He's the guy. He covers the Mets and the
• 32:36
  Yankees. Martino.
• 32:39
  Yeah, Martino. I was listening to him on a
• 32:41
  podcast and he was talking about the You remember the moment
• 32:46
  where last year Rodon like blew a kiss to a fan when they were
• 32:51
  playing the Angels. Yeah, yeah.
• 32:54
  I didn't realize this, but apparently the night before it
• 32:59
  was the fan was like sitting next to his daughter and just
• 33:02
  screaming curse words at Yankees players and like, screaming at
• 33:06
  Donaldson. And finally, Donaldson, like
• 33:08
  turned around and he's like, are you really OK talking this way
• 33:11
  next to your daughter? And he just like kept, you know,
• 33:15
  yelling at him and screaming at him.
• 33:17
  And then the next day is when Rodon blew the kiss.
• 33:20
  So I didn't realize there's more to that story, 'cause I
• 33:23
  obviously didn't like it, 'cause Rodon, you know, was kind of a a
• 33:28
  dope last week or last year. But but either way, I I gotta
• 33:33
  look, love him or hate him. Josh Donaldson spoke his mind
• 33:39
  and he played the way he wanted to play.
• 33:47
  I can't. I can't argue that.
• 33:49
  I can't argue that you say love him or hate him.
• 33:51
  I can't say I I hate him strongly.
• 33:54
  Dislike. Oh yeah, hate his.
• 33:57
  Thing to see your point. I I cannot.
• 34:01
  I cannot argue the fact that he he played his game some, but I'd
• 34:08
  say more than some there. There's probably a good
• 34:11
  percentage of guys around the league that don't, during the
• 34:14
  length of their, during the duration of their career, don't
• 34:18
  get to a point where they're truly playing their game their
• 34:22
  way and in their style. Josh credit to him, tip of the
• 34:27
  cap, took no time at all to get to that point where he's playing
• 34:33
  his game his way. That's all.
• 34:35
  That's all the guy was known for, and it it manifested in
• 34:40
  various forms. You know, running his mouth,
• 34:43
  getting into little scuffles here and there, dropping quotes,
• 34:48
  throwing some shade, 'cause he correct me if I'm wrong.
• 34:53
  Wasn't he throwing shade on the coal situation?
• 34:58
  Or no, it was with the sticky stuff, wasn't it?
• 35:04
  Was this Pre? Wasn't he throwing shade on
• 35:06
  coal? Pre.
• 35:07
  Yankees. He was.
• 35:08
  Yeah, when he was with Minnesota.
• 35:10
  Yeah. Yeah, so I mean he he was known
• 35:15
  for the sound bite here and there and he played with a
• 35:17
  little bit of flair to put it nicely on the field.
• 35:22
  I mean, he was going to let you know when he got into one.
• 35:25
  He was also got, like you said he was going to let you know
• 35:27
  when he didn't quite get into one, but he thought he got into
• 35:30
  one. That was just the way Josh
• 35:31
  Nonson played. The biggest thing in my social
• 35:36
  media findings that I came across today.
• 35:39
  I don't think I'd ever dug into the 2015 ALMVP race all that
• 35:45
  deeply because I saw the comparison and.
• 35:50
  Did he steal it? It looks like he stole it, if
• 35:54
  we're being honest. Fill me in.
• 35:57
  We might be tacking on another MVP.
• 36:01
  Or we should be tacking on another MVP to Mike Trout's
• 36:03
  resume. Mike Trout put up a 9.6 WAR.
• 36:11
  Let me make sure I'm seeing this right to Donaldson 7/1.
• 36:20
  OK. Had Trout had 172 hits to
• 36:24
  Donaldson's 184. So gets the hits Trout had, or
• 36:29
  they both had 41 home runs that year.
• 36:31
  Donaldson had 123 ribbies to Trout's 90.
• 36:37
  Trout had, surprisingly, only eleven stolen bases that year.
• 36:42
  Trout hit 299 to Donaldson's 297.
• 36:47
  Had a higher OBP, Slug, OPS and OPS Plus than Donaldson.
• 36:52
  Wow. So the only real.
• 36:56
  Category years ago like nine years ago we were still pretty
• 37:01
  into RB is and stuff, you know we.
• 37:03
  Were still high on runs, batted in and apparently hits.
• 37:08
  War was like barely cracking into the scene.
• 37:12
  If. If at all.
• 37:13
  Yeah. If at all.
• 37:15
  Yeah. Give them the give them the hit
• 37:19
  crown between these two and give them the the RBI crown.
• 37:22
  That's all in terms of these bigger sixes I was getting.
• 37:28
  Remembering that the Blue Jays lineup I mean a little bit
• 37:31
  different than 2015 Angels lineup.
• 37:34
  Sure. I mean, you're talking about a
• 37:36
  playoff team versus not. Well, 2015, that wasn't the
• 37:43
  Batista year, was it? When was the Batista flip?
• 37:48
  It was. It was in that that era.
• 37:54
  Right, I thought it. I thought it was.
• 37:59
  Yeah, that was 15. Yeah.
• 38:00
  So that's the Blue Jays. I'm I'm sure most people
• 38:03
  remember that Blue Jays team. That was a pretty, that was
• 38:06
  pretty lethal Blue Jays team. So I'm sure at that point in
• 38:10
  time we were still. Yeah, dude.
• 38:14
  We're still basing, we're still based in the MVP conversation on
• 38:19
  postseason player versus not. And the Angels didn't make the
• 38:25
  cut that year, obviously. But I mean, you'll look, you
• 38:28
  just look at the you don't even have to get into advanced
• 38:31
  analytics like the nerd stuff. We're talking batting average,
• 38:37
  OVP, slug, OPSOPS. Plus, all in favor, Trout.
• 38:45
  You had some BOP in this lineup between Jose Batista, Edwin and
• 38:50
  Carnacion. Russell Martin even had 23
• 38:53
  jacks. And Carnacion that was that was
• 38:56
  that was prime parrot. Yeah.
• 38:58
  And Carnacion, he. Had 39.
• 39:00
  Jose Batista had 40. Josh Donna said 41.
• 39:06
  Fun, fun, fun ball club to watch.
• 39:10
  If you if you're not followed by, like if you weren't followed
• 39:14
  by Jose Bautista on Twitter during that time, just pack it
• 39:19
  up and consider yourself a nobody because the man,
• 39:22
  literally you go to his account. In fact, I'm gonna do it right
• 39:25
  now, man. Literally followed everybody
• 39:31
  that associated or even mentioned the word baseball.
• 39:39
  You think I'm not? You think I'm joking?
• 39:42
  I need to pull this up. Joey Bats, 19.
• 39:45
  He has a million followers and he follows 817.7000 people.
• 39:52
  That's big time. I like that.
• 39:54
  The human brain can't comprehend the content from 817.7000
• 40:01
  people. Speak for yourself.
• 40:05
  But he follows. He follows us.
• 40:07
  So I'm cool with it. I like how how this should be.
• 40:14
  Josh Donaldson's like, you know, riding off into the sunset
• 40:18
  moment. And we're like, actually, I
• 40:20
  think that MVP should have been my droughts.
• 40:22
  Oh, no, I'm not. No, no, no, no, no.
• 40:25
  Don't be misled. I'm not.
• 40:27
  I'm not giving him some little farewell.
• 40:29
  I'm not giving him a a goodbye tour on this podcast.
• 40:34
  No, no, no. The the little that he can claim
• 40:38
  accolade wise, I'm just going to go ahead and pull the rug out
• 40:41
  from underneath him because he didn't deserve it and we just
• 40:45
  told you why, right? Am I wrong?
• 40:52
  No, I love it. Like, I'm not just being like,
• 40:55
  spiteful, right? That I mean, very clearly should
• 40:57
  have gone to trout, but it was a different time.
• 41:00
  Like it was only nine years ago. But that you have to think of
• 41:04
  how far baseball has come in terms of how we view the award,
• 41:08
  how we look at different stats. One could all do the East Coast
• 41:12
  Bias Electrifying team. I think Shohei played a big part
• 41:20
  in, in dismantling to a degree, the whole West Coast, East Coast
• 41:26
  thing. I think we've gotten past that a
• 41:28
  little bit, yeah. But at the time, yeah, it
• 41:31
  certainly existed. And I remember having those
• 41:33
  conversations about how Mike Trout, like majority of the
• 41:37
  country, doesn't even really know much about Mike Trout, not
• 41:41
  able to watch him all that much. So I I get it from that
• 41:45
  standpoint, but retroactively, I would like to formally request a
• 41:51
  petitions. Josh Donaldson's MVPB Stripped,
• 41:58
  Stripped and handed. Rightfully.
• 42:01
  So to Mike Trout. Give me that MVP.
• 42:04
  Give Reggie Bush's Heisman back. All is right in the world.
• 42:08
  Actually, give me Altuve's MVP as well.
• 42:12
  One fell swoop Just. All three.
• 42:15
  Make it right, sports world. Go sports.
• 42:20
  Go sports. Couple more items here.
• 42:24
  Did you see by chance the the movement that's sweeping the
• 42:29
  nation in the form of the Danville Dairy Daddies?
• 42:40
  I just want to talk about. Who has the balls to do this and
• 42:44
  like approve this? I don't know who it was, but
• 42:51
  whoever made the final, whoever had the final say.
• 42:53
  Thank you. Absolute big salute.
• 42:59
  How? How you went public with this
• 43:03
  'cause that you can only imagine how many conversations we've
• 43:06
  had. Like, ah, should we really do
• 43:07
  this? Is this wise?
• 43:08
  Is this gonna? Are we gonna catch Flack for
• 43:10
  this? I have not seen a single
• 43:14
  negative thing said about the branding.
• 43:22
  Nothing but praise for this team.
• 43:24
  Have we seen the jerseys yet? I have not seen the jerseys.
• 43:28
  That's what I'm curious. About.
• 43:30
  Is fire, dude, everything about this team.
• 43:33
  If you if you don't know what we're talking about, which at
• 43:35
  this point I don't know how you haven't heard about the Danville
• 43:37
  Dairies. It's they are joining the old N
• 43:42
  State League, which is a collegiate summer league based
• 43:48
  in North Carolina. But I believe they pull a couple
• 43:51
  teams from Southern Virginia, which is where Danville is,
• 43:55
  Southern Virginia. So you got the Danville Dairy
• 43:57
  Daddies there. I don't think it's official, but
• 44:01
  I saw that their field name unofficially is gonna be the
• 44:08
  field of creams. Their hashtag is get creamed or
• 44:15
  no get milked and legend legend hyphen dairy.
• 44:22
  I like that. I like that.
• 44:25
  Their merch sizes on their website start from Small or
• 44:30
  Skim, which is Small 1% which is medium 2% which is a large
• 44:35
  whole, which is Extra large, Creamy IS2XL and Extra Creamy
• 44:39
  IS3XL. Their mascot is a shirtless cow
• 44:47
  named MC Creamy. And just everything.
• 44:58
  Everything about it is inspiring.
• 45:04
  To. To put it to a word, it's
• 45:05
  inspiring. I'm scrolling through this
• 45:09
  Twitter page and I I don't even know.
• 45:14
  I don't even know. Wild.
• 45:23
  I really want it. I really want to get merge.
• 45:26
  I really do. Where is this?
• 45:35
  Danville, VA Southern Virginia. You can make a trip.
• 45:39
  You can make a drive. I might have to do it.
• 45:45
  I I can only imagine that opening day or opening night for
• 45:48
  them is going to be off the charts.
• 45:50
  Yeah, I'm going to give them a follow.
• 45:53
  I'm going to, I'll just, I just want to, I want to ride this
• 45:57
  out. I want to see how it goes.
• 46:01
  Yeah, I mean they're they're all.
• 46:03
  I will say they're pun intended. They're milking this for all
• 46:08
  it's worth and for good reason. But I'm curious to see how long
• 46:11
  the buzz, how long they ride the how long they ride the wave
• 46:14
  because. The old N State League.
• 46:18
  Yeah, North Carolina Collegiate. I think it's wood bat league,
• 46:25
  but they're they pull from outside of Carolina too.
• 46:30
  So it's sweet, man. I love it.
• 46:35
  Tech of a marketing job I. Thought it was a joke.
• 46:37
  I thought we were getting punked.
• 46:40
  And then the more I looked into it, no, this is very this is
• 46:43
  very, very real. Gives them plenty of time to to
• 46:46
  build up before the summer. Just gonna be good.
• 46:51
  About it the jerseys are coming. Though to answer your question,
• 46:54
  I, I I just now I'm remembering that they they have put a little
• 46:58
  teaser tweet out, said jerseys are on their way and I think
• 47:01
  they might be available for purchase so.
• 47:02
  Just need to watch out. I don't need to see the Utters.
• 47:06
  You know what I'm saying? Like, let's just keep it.
• 47:14
  No Utters, Let's. Keep it.
• 47:15
  Let's keep it PG. Let's keep it Utterless.
• 47:17
  No utters. Please.
• 47:19
  Keep it Utterless. If I just see like a cow belly
• 47:22
  on the front of this. Jersey Oh, I'm sure that'll be
• 47:25
  like an alternate. I'm sure it'll be an alternate.
• 47:30
  Another item I wanted to get to just briefly here, the Mets.
• 47:35
  The New York Mets have announced that they are starting to dance
• 47:41
  team. I saw that.
• 47:45
  The Mets are the most unserious franchise in baseball, and I
• 47:49
  stand by that. And I will continue to stand by
• 47:51
  that. They're a mess, dude.
• 47:57
  What is this dance team? Is it like?
• 47:59
  What do you mean? It's exactly what it sounds
• 48:03
  like. It's just a dance team.
• 48:07
  Are they gonna like there's a dance team now at games?
• 48:13
  I don't know. I really don't.
• 48:14
  It's just they or. There's like a dance team
• 48:16
  competing in dance competitions with Met's gear on.
• 48:22
  I'm imagining the little that I know about this is that this is
• 48:27
  gonna be like an on field product.
• 48:32
  Like. Dugout dancers?
• 48:34
  I don't. I don't know.
• 48:36
  There's a team that has dancers on the dugout.
• 48:40
  Who is that? The Astros don't, don't they?
• 48:45
  I think they do. Astros have like the, not the,
• 48:52
  not the Cowgirls. What are they called the
• 48:57
  shooting stars? Yeah, they're pretty legit.
• 49:02
  They're pretty legit. They've been they've been around
• 49:04
  for I think like a decade. So they're they do it right.
• 49:09
  It's it's it's tasteful, not tacky.
• 49:13
  And it doesn't, from what I know it, that doesn't interfere with
• 49:19
  the on field product as much the Mets dance team.
• 49:21
  I can only imagine it's. Going to be.
• 49:24
  The horrendous way that they manage everything, it's.
• 49:27
  Going to be cringy. It's going to be a circus.
• 49:30
  Yeah. It's going to be Savannah
• 49:34
  Bananas meets New York Mets in the form of a dance team and
• 49:37
  it's just going to be, it's going to be a nightmare.
• 49:41
  But that's the way they do things.
• 49:44
  And I saw Steve Cohen, he was he was he was clapping back a
• 49:48
  little bit on on Twitter. Where was it?
• 49:54
  Let me find it. So the announcement tweet, Dan
• 50:00
  Bartell said the Mets are getting into dance team let's
• 50:02
  go. And then somebody said, this is
• 50:04
  baseball. This isn't the NBA or NFL.
• 50:06
  There's not. There's no halftime in this
• 50:08
  game. I don't see how a dance team is
• 50:10
  necessary. And then Steve Cohen replies and
• 50:13
  said excellent point, I forgot how serious baseball is relative
• 50:16
  to other sports. And then I screenshotted the
• 50:23
  tweet or the article where it said back Schurzer requested
• 50:27
  trade from Mets after learning team plans to focus on 2025 to
• 50:31
  2026. And I simply tweeted the cat I I
• 50:36
  tweeted in addition to that picture, I said Mets are
• 50:38
  bridging the gap with the dance team, so it's like, hey, we're
• 50:41
  not going to compete in 2024. We've made that abundantly
• 50:44
  clear. Right.
• 50:46
  We're gonna but. You know what you are gonna get?
• 50:49
  You're not going to get competitive baseball, but you're
• 50:51
  going to get a dance team and you're going to like it.
• 50:58
  And it goes back to my point, they're the most unserious
• 51:01
  franchise in baseball. How?
• 51:05
  How would they expect that this would be well received by fans?
• 51:13
  I they just there's just like this you can't be surprised by
• 51:24
  what they do anymore kind of thing.
• 51:27
  But you're also like losing brain cells trying to figure out
• 51:35
  what is wrong with this organization.
• 51:38
  Why are they this way forever. They're just.
• 51:45
  It's just been forever. It's gonna be forever.
• 51:49
  I don't care who you sign, who you trade for, how much money
• 51:52
  you spend. We just we just are.
• 51:55
  We know. We already know what the end
• 51:57
  result is. We thought Steve Cohen would be
• 52:00
  a fix. Clearly hasn't proven to be the
• 52:03
  case. We.
• 52:04
  Thought hand up. I fell for that one.
• 52:06
  I fell for that one. I fell for that one more than I
• 52:09
  fell for the Buck Showalter one, because I knew when when they
• 52:12
  brought in Buck Showalter, you said no, no, The tides are
• 52:16
  turning things the the scene is changing, not even in Queens.
• 52:21
  And I said no. You just wait.
• 52:24
  And what did they go out and do? They sucked.
• 52:28
  They flopped, they choked. And then they they let him go.
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  They're the laughing stocks. They really are.
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  And they've like ruined Francisco Lindor.
• 52:44
  That guy was the happiest guy in baseball.
• 52:46
  And now I don't even know if he knows how to smile anymore.
• 52:53
  What do you serious question what do you I mean what do you
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  think it's going to take to to fix that franchise Like jokes
• 53:03
  aside about how they're the the, like Mets are going to met.
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  The Mets are cursed. Pushing that aside, like let's
• 53:11
  get real here. What is going to fix the New
• 53:13
  York's Mets? Because we just we just listed
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  out a few things that were pretty landmark things in the
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  grand scheme of the organization, at least in recent
• 53:28
  memory. Didn't prove to not even matter
• 53:34
  in the slightest. It starts with resigning Pete
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  Alonzo. I don't.
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  I was. Afraid you're going to say that.
• 53:44
  I was afraid you're going to say that, but I no, I have to
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  disagree with you on that. He is the he is the root of the
• 53:53
  corniness on that team. It starts with him.
• 53:58
  So to bring that back. He's a baseball hardo, though.
• 54:02
  He just loves baseball. OK, go be a Hardo in Kansas City
• 54:07
  or something. I don't know.
• 54:10
  It's This isn't the place for you, dude.
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  You're squatting in between rounds of the OR you're you're
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  you're dead lifting in between rounds of the Home Run Derby.
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  You're a hard O. You're a corny hard O, but you
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  don't belong in Queens. I don't know, dude.
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  I mean, I don't. I feel like they're they pressed
• 54:32
  decent buttons lately for the last few years.
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  Like, on paper, they've done everything right.
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  So. Yeah, I mean.
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  Outside of maybe, just maybe, a severe rebranding, maybe move
• 54:54
  they're never going to move, but maybe move this realignment that
• 54:59
  is being rumored when there's new teams added in, you got to
• 55:04
  get away from the Braves. That's a good point that I mean
• 55:08
  that within reason like realistic scenarios a a
• 55:12
  realignment could benefit them. Shake the Shake the ghosts of
• 55:16
  the NL ES that seem to linger over over your head year after
• 55:21
  year. But you got to assume, if there
• 55:24
  is a realignment, the Yankees, the Red Sox, the Phillies are
• 55:30
  all gonna still be in that mix. Maybe even the Orioles.
• 55:34
  So it's not like they have the ability to get it out of their
• 55:37
  region. I don't know, man.
• 55:45
  Cohen's a cornball too. I don't care if you're rich,
• 55:48
  you're a cornball dude and you're not fooling anybody.
• 55:51
  When you keep just grabbing a hat out of the team shop on your
• 55:57
  way to your press conference, it's brand new.
• 55:59
  You've never worn it before. I know what you're doing.
• 56:03
  No, I think let's let's give Credo a credits to I think Steve
• 56:07
  Cohen's a pretty is he not a like a die hard Mets fan?
• 56:11
  I think he's a cornball. Well.
• 56:13
  I don't say I'm not saying he's not a fan.
• 56:16
  I'm just saying outside of those press press conferences or
• 56:19
  public appearances that that just, he's not a hack guy.
• 56:24
  Well, I mean to, I mean, that's a that's a bold claim.
• 56:30
  That's guys aren't hack guys. That's an attack.
• 56:34
  Like we only save the the tags on the merch insults for fans
• 56:39
  like the Rays like to to to throw that in Steve Cohen's
• 56:43
  face, that's a bold claim. You're going to need evidence to
• 56:47
  back that up. He looks like smalls when he
• 56:50
  gets his first hat with the fish on it.
• 56:52
  The bill is just entirely too big.
• 56:54
  You know what I mean? I mean when when Smalls is in
• 57:02
  the press box at the end of the movie.
• 57:04
  So that's Steve, that's Steve Cohen right there.
• 57:07
  Pretty much, yeah. I don't know that's I just.
• 57:11
  I'm not saying he's not a Mets fan.
• 57:12
  I'm just saying I don't think he cares as much about baseball as
• 57:17
  he lets people believe. Of the owners out there, he's
• 57:27
  got to be towards the top of the list though, I mean, because you
• 57:31
  could say across the board to a degree, most owners probably
• 57:34
  don't care about their team as much as they let on.
• 57:37
  Yeah, I I was saying they. Just care about dollar signs.
• 57:40
  But I don't know how much that speaks volumes.
• 57:42
  But I don't know. He's a corn, too.
• 57:46
  I I don't know, dude. I don't know what's gonna fix
• 57:49
  them. I don't think anything's gonna
• 57:51
  fix them. And I'm OK with that.
• 57:53
  I'm OK with them being broken forever.
• 57:58
  Somebody's gotta hold the title. That's true.
• 58:03
  I'm OK with it being the Mets. It's just perfect because, like,
• 58:07
  no one expects anything out of the A's.
• 58:10
  You know what I mean? Like, we don't expect anything
• 58:13
  out of you. You are what you are.
• 58:17
  But the Mets, there's still this group of people that still
• 58:19
  believe and are let down over and over for different reasons.
• 58:27
  Fake hitting coaches, animals, fights, deadlifts.
• 58:38
  It's just awesome. It's great entertainment.
• 58:44
  Speaking of Speaking of cornballs kind of wrapping up
• 58:48
  here, the just a couple items real quick.
• 58:52
  Garrett Cole. Hey, easy guy.
• 58:56
  Coming, frog. Easy.
• 58:59
  How, how unaware is Garrett Cole when he doesn't even know that
• 59:07
  Daniel Vogelbach at a jog, at anybody else's jog, is
• 59:17
  ultimately full speed for Daniel Vogelbach?
• 59:21
  Like he's not jogging. He's giving you what he has in
• 59:24
  the tank? I'm.
• 59:26
  Here for. For what?
• 59:29
  He's like a glorified minor leaguer.
• 59:31
  He's like a four a guy. And Garrett Cole.
• 59:35
  It's the irony for me. It's the irony for me that what
• 59:38
  that that's that what does it for me.
• 59:41
  He goes, I had to pull the quote up.
• 59:43
  He said. Or Brian is it Hotch?
• 59:47
  We've talked about this before. Hoke Hotch.
• 59:50
  I believe. The Yankees guy.
• 59:53
  I believe it's Hulk. Hulk OK, we're going to say
• 59:57
  we're going to go, Brian Hoke tweeted.
• 1:00:01
  This was from two days ago, I think, he tweeted.
• 1:00:04
  Gerrit Cole was no fan of Daniel Vogelbach's slow trot in the
• 1:00:07
  first inning, Gerrit Cole was quoted as saying.
• 1:00:09
  Yeah, what's the day? Are we still in February, March
• 1:00:13
  1st? Yeah, he enjoyed that Homer.
• 1:00:15
  Asked if he would remember Vogelbach's trot during the
• 1:00:18
  season, Cole replied. I don't forget a lot of things.
• 1:00:24
  Well, for one, Garrett, you forget how to respond when
• 1:00:28
  you're prompted about spider tech because you would have
• 1:00:32
  thought he would have never even heard the phrase when he was
• 1:00:34
  asked about that. So the whole I don't forget a
• 1:00:36
  lot. This is dead.
• 1:00:38
  You can't recycle this. No.
• 1:00:41
  You can't get back to this Well, that was dry, no?
• 1:00:44
  No, no, no, no, no. I'm not.
• 1:00:46
  I'm not. Guy.
• 1:00:47
  Guy, hear me out. I'm not trying to bring that up
• 1:00:51
  has a case against him. I'm simply saying to say I don't
• 1:00:55
  forget a lot of things and he's sitting there.
• 1:00:57
  Hey, Garrett, what's what's the deal with you in Spidertech?
• 1:01:04
  I I don't. I don't know to say you don't
• 1:01:09
  forget a lot of things that confidently.
• 1:01:11
  Come on, come on Garrett, be better.
• 1:01:16
  Do what? You want Dawg, all you guys can
• 1:01:19
  attack his competitive that's the only time.
• 1:01:23
  This is the only time people attack him is his
• 1:01:26
  competitiveness. When he came out, came out and
• 1:01:28
  dugout trying to talk When when freaking Alec Manoah is trying
• 1:01:33
  to throw shade out of like it's just competitive.
• 1:01:36
  Who was Cheeks, by the way? Little side, Little side note,
• 1:01:40
  I. Love that what?
• 1:01:41
  Was it in any like, I don't even think he finished his two
• 1:01:44
  Indians. He hit three guys.
• 1:01:46
  And he got scratched from his last start.
• 1:01:49
  Washed. Yeah, for sure.
• 1:01:51
  Washed, I think. For just about any guy in spring
• 1:01:55
  training, you can you can turn your nose up at numbers.
• 1:01:58
  Not that you need to pay full attention to what's happening
• 1:02:02
  with Alec Manoa right now, because it's a continuation of
• 1:02:04
  what happened last year. Back to Garrett Cole.
• 1:02:08
  For him. For him to bring up the date,
• 1:02:12
  He's the one getting upset by a four a guy to start March, to
• 1:02:20
  close out February, to start March.
• 1:02:23
  That that's the ironic part for me.
• 1:02:25
  You go, oh, what's the date, Garrett?
• 1:02:28
  If it's so early, why does it bother you so much, my friend?
• 1:02:32
  That's the whole thing. Why is he getting worked up?
• 1:02:35
  He's. Clearly a job.
• 1:02:36
  It's a slow job. Daniel Vogelbach.
• 1:02:40
  This is extra slow. That's cool, man.
• 1:02:45
  You look you you can hate. That's my ace.
• 1:02:52
  That's my ace. OK OK, I that's where I'll stop.
• 1:02:59
  He look reigning Sai young. That was my biggest hang up with
• 1:03:02
  him for the longest time. He got to stay young so I have
• 1:03:05
  to at least respect that. But the guy, I can't sometimes
• 1:03:11
  with him with these. Woes.
• 1:03:19
  That's my ace. I just got to feel something,
• 1:03:22
  man. I'm let me have this one, Let me
• 1:03:27
  have this one. I gotta feel something, I think.
• 1:03:30
  I think I don't fully disagree. I'm not saying he's not a goob
• 1:03:33
  sometimes, he's definitely a goober.
• 1:03:36
  But there is this competitiveness in him and
• 1:03:40
  there's this like this like perfectionist and there's also
• 1:03:43
  this like old school mentality that you and I can can
• 1:03:48
  appreciate at times with players.
• 1:03:50
  So that's my ace. Nice post.
• 1:04:00
  Can you just answer me this one question before we we close out
• 1:04:03
  here? Do you not think it's a little,
• 1:04:07
  it's a little hypocritical to bring up the date and how early
• 1:04:10
  it is, but also be visibly upset about it at the same time?
• 1:04:16
  If it was early and it didn't matter, if these games didn't
• 1:04:18
  matter, you wouldn't be upset about it, Garrett.
• 1:04:25
  I don't know. I'm just, I'm ready for, I'm
• 1:04:30
  ready for for Big cheese to to catch one in the rib cage or
• 1:04:37
  whatever outer. Layer.
• 1:04:38
  Is protecting his rib cage. That would be so unbelievably
• 1:04:43
  petty if Garrett Cole really latched onto a spring training
• 1:04:48
  home run. I do too.
• 1:04:50
  I'm with you. I'm.
• 1:04:51
  I'm fully on board with whatever comes out of.
• 1:04:54
  I like it. Dude.
• 1:04:55
  I This is what I've been missing.
• 1:04:59
  I need these like spiteful, angry, resentful Yankee players
• 1:05:11
  that I need some of them. I need some of them.
• 1:05:15
  There is no no sense or reason behind behind the Rodger Clemens
• 1:05:23
  hate towards Piazza. But I was here for it and I will
• 1:05:26
  fully support it. There's no rhyme or reason why
• 1:05:30
  it was there, but I'm here for it.
• 1:05:32
  Same thing for Garrett Cole. I will follow it.
• 1:05:35
  I will, I will support it. I will defend it.
• 1:05:39
  As long as he continues Cy Young stuff, whatever, he needs to be
• 1:05:45
  him, I'm here for it. I'd be a hypocrite myself if I
• 1:05:51
  said that one of my go to lines is I'm here for the pettiness.
• 1:05:55
  But it has to be within reason. It can't be something as
• 1:06:00
  hypocritical as this. This is just too much.
• 1:06:07
  Kind of closing the book here. Maybe one or two more quick,
• 1:06:10
  super quick items. Did you see that Ronald Cunha,
• 1:06:13
  Junior's little brother, verbally committed to the
• 1:06:16
  Phillies at age 12? I thought you were kidding.
• 1:06:20
  No, that was a real thing. What are you talking about?
• 1:06:26
  I'm talking about exactly what I said.
• 1:06:27
  How is that brother? What do you mean verbally
• 1:06:29
  commit? How do you?
• 1:06:31
  Couldn't tell you, Couldn't tell you verbally.
• 1:06:34
  Committed to the Phillies at age 12?
• 1:06:36
  Let me see. He won't be able to sign as an
• 1:06:40
  international free agent until 2028, which is 4 years, which
• 1:06:48
  would put him at 16, which I guess is when they can sign.
• 1:06:51
  Yeah, that. Yeah.
• 1:06:52
  Yeah, 16. Yeah.
• 1:06:53
  So four more years he'll be able to sign as an international free
• 1:06:56
  agent, which is more normal. Signing at 16 as an
• 1:07:00
  international free agent. We've seen that it happens.
• 1:07:03
  But 12A verbal commitment at 12? I can't say we've seen that.
• 1:07:08
  To a college, maybe, But a professional Major League
• 1:07:12
  organization? I don't know if we've seen that
• 1:07:14
  before. I I I don't understand it.
• 1:07:17
  Isn't there a middle brother? Yeah, there's another one that's
• 1:07:21
  like, it's Kenny. He's like a Top 100 prospect
• 1:07:25
  this year, isn't he? Yeah, It's like Luis.
• 1:07:30
  Yeah. Is it Luis?
• 1:07:31
  Luis. Angel or something like that.
• 1:07:33
  Angel on hill. Luis on hill.
• 1:07:35
  Luis. Angel.
• 1:07:36
  Yeah, yeah, he dude looks like a ball player.
• 1:07:40
  I'll give him that. Is this like the next Molina
• 1:07:46
  trio when they're all in 'cause, I mean, if the youngest one is
• 1:07:51
  only six years out from the league or whatever?
• 1:07:56
  All right, so he's he's 12. Let's say he makes his debut at
• 1:08:00
  20, assuming he takes a somewhat normal track.
• 1:08:04
  Ronald. 'S what's?
• 1:08:06
  Yeah, what's? He's 26, so that put him at 34.
• 1:08:11
  All three, yeah. They could all very easily be in
• 1:08:14
  the mix. Nice.
• 1:08:16
  I like it. I like that.
• 1:08:19
  I like it a lot, Molina's. I still don't understand the
• 1:08:26
  verbal commitment though. Doesn't make any sense.
• 1:08:31
  Yeah. Not to rehash this, but
• 1:08:35
  fanatics. Oh boy.
• 1:08:39
  Michael, Ruben, Ruben came out and addressed the backlash and
• 1:08:46
  essentially said we're getting the crap kicked out of us, but a
• 1:08:48
  little more vulgar and I have yet to see a single comment in
• 1:08:53
  support of what Fanatics is doing.
• 1:08:55
  They're saying, Yep, that's what happens when you make a crap
• 1:08:59
  product Mike, because the jerseys suck.
• 1:09:02
  So All in all, I just hope we we get this resolved before opening
• 1:09:09
  day. Like I said, don't want to
• 1:09:10
  rehash it, but just wanted to bring up the fact that he he's
• 1:09:14
  at least aware of the criticism that his organization, his
• 1:09:17
  company, is getting so good. Deservedly so, I.
• 1:09:25
  Think that's about it. Good stuff.
• 1:09:28
  So waiting to hear back from Joey Votto on joining the
• 1:09:31
  fantasy league. So stand stand by for that he to
• 1:09:36
  be fair, he's probably waiting. Still waiting to hear on the
• 1:09:39
  contract situation. He's probably he's probably got
• 1:09:42
  a reply already typed up. Well, just letting you know now
• 1:09:50
  one of you is getting bounced if Vado becomes available, so.
• 1:09:56
  If if Joey Vado receives our invitation receives in response
• 1:10:01
  to our invitation to join our fantasy.
• 1:10:03
  So let's if he retires, yeah, we're gonna we're gonna have to
• 1:10:07
  bounce somebody. So just just hope it's not you
• 1:10:11
  that. 'D be cool though.
• 1:10:13
  Like to be able to say like, hey, I I'm not doing fantasy
• 1:10:16
  this year. I got kicked out because Joey
• 1:10:17
  Vado went to my spot. I had had to give up my spot for
• 1:10:21
  a Hall of Famer. It's fine.
• 1:10:22
  It's pretty sick. I'll I'll try again next year.
• 1:10:26
  ABBA we'll do that. If he joins the league.
• 1:10:29
  The person that has to get bounced maybe we we'll we'll
• 1:10:34
  give him we'll give him like a few years run in the league.
• 1:10:38
  There you go. We won't say, I won't say
• 1:10:39
  lifetime, but usually you have to win the league to get
• 1:10:43
  automatic re entry into the following season for our league.
• 1:10:46
  But if you get bounced for Joey Botto we'll give you a few years
• 1:10:49
  on the House. How about that, I like that.
• 1:10:51
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• 1:10:54
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• 1:11:00
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• 1:11:04
  take. That's all I got.
• 1:11:09
  Good stuff. We'll see you next week.
• 1:11:13
  Hot Takes episode coming soon, Yeah.
• 1:11:15
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. I want to say that before we go
• 1:11:17
  what, what? What did we decide like late
• 1:11:22
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• 1:11:26
  number one episode of the year. So buckle up, we're going in.
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• 1:11:35
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• 1:11:38
  takes and predictions episode will be coming to you, probably
• 1:11:44
  thinking maybe the 13th or 14th. Give it like a week, a week of
• 1:11:49
  air time. Let it breathe for a little bit
• 1:11:51
  before the unofficial opening day gets going.
• 1:11:55
  Unbelievable. Stop doing that.
• 1:11:57
  The Korea Series. Stop doing that.
• 1:12:00
  Can we please stop with the International Series at least
• 1:12:03
  that early? Playing more spring training
• 1:12:05
  games after, but they're not like spring.
• 1:12:06
  Training games saying do it in do these international trips
• 1:12:11
  during the season. We've seen it.
• 1:12:13
  We we've we've gone down to Latin.
• 1:12:16
  Pay more attention. We've gone to London in the
• 1:12:20
  middle of the season. We've done these things.
• 1:12:22
  We don't need to unofficially start the season in Korea like a
• 1:12:28
  week before the the official opening day.
• 1:12:31
  Let's stop doing that. But yeah, keep an eye out for
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• 1:12:41
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• 1:12:44
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