Latest / Foul Territory / Rays up, Framber Valdez suspension, Matthew Boyd knee surgery, Former A’s owner blasts Giants

Transcript

Rays up, Framber Valdez suspension, Matthew Boyd knee surgery, Former A’s owner blasts Giants · Foul Territory

0:03
Speaker 1: What's up. I'm back, Kratz, Broun, Prazinski. Hey, AJ. Since
0:08
Speaker 1: yesterday's show, the Fromber suspension news came out, you guys
0:13
Speaker 1: covered it great, So thoughts on the actual number before
0:17
Speaker 1: we get into some other biz and how it went
0:20
Speaker 1: from six to him immediately saying cool, I'll take five
0:23
Speaker 1: on a deal, and then basically not miss any time
0:28
Speaker 1: for what he called was unfair right, completely unfair treatment
0:33
Speaker 1: from the umpires. Uh for throwing fastball for the first time.
0:39
Speaker 2: Five games is nothing he basically just gets. I'm sure
0:41
Speaker 2: they'll mix it in where he hasn't. They have an
0:42
Speaker 2: off day one of these days, and he won't even
0:44
Speaker 2: miss a start. And dude, by the way, yes, I
0:48
Speaker 2: know it was his first forcing fastball. We beat this
0:50
Speaker 2: to death yesterday. Whether he was throwing at him because
0:52
Speaker 2: they were given signs or whether he was throwing on
0:54
Speaker 2: him his piss because he was getting whack. Either way,
0:57
Speaker 2: you know it was wrong, and he threw a Trevor
1:01
Speaker 2: story and he should have gotten longer. If they want
1:03
Speaker 2: to get this out of the game, if they're not
1:04
Speaker 2: gonna allow him to fight and they're not going to
1:07
Speaker 2: let teams retaliate, then you got to give them longer
1:09
Speaker 2: than five games. I'm sorry, it's got to be at
1:11
Speaker 2: least seven or eight to stop the to make the
1:14
Speaker 2: team hurt, because five games are like, oh, we'll just
1:16
Speaker 2: give him an extra day off and he'll come back
1:18
Speaker 2: in six days and probably go out and pitch well.
1:20
Speaker 2: So I disagree with this, but again I'm not in
1:23
Speaker 2: Major League Baseball.
1:24
Speaker 3: They have different thoughts than I do. Yeah, they're not
1:27
Speaker 3: clearly looking to set a precedent here. They're just doing
1:30
Speaker 3: the status quo with the suspension. And he did throw
1:37
Speaker 3: at him, but I did look it up. Not only
1:39
Speaker 3: has he only thrown one this year, he's thrown six
1:41
Speaker 3: four seam fastballs in the last in the last two years.
1:46
Speaker 3: So I would like to see if any of those
1:47
Speaker 3: other four seamers hit anybody.
1:51
Speaker 1: Just checking, well, I did this backup plan, Yeah, the
1:55
Speaker 1: backup planning.
1:56
Speaker 2: It was his backup plan. And what they were hitting
1:58
Speaker 2: the two seamer. To throw a four seamer right between
2:00
Speaker 2: the one and the zero of Trevor Story, that was
2:02
Speaker 2: his backup plan.
2:05
Speaker 1: It's a choice, it's a backup plan. When you're getting
2:07
Speaker 1: lit up for ten runs. That is one way to
2:10
Speaker 1: do a backup plan. It looked like I think it
2:13
Speaker 1: was what two four seamers in the past two or
2:15
Speaker 1: three years, and they both hit dudes, So that was
2:18
Speaker 1: when he.
2:18
Speaker 2: Was one of them hit. Did one of them hit
2:21
Speaker 2: his catcher? Just wondering.
2:24
Speaker 1: That's not including that good call in the last year too.
2:27
Speaker 1: This is official now, two four seam fastballs and they
2:31
Speaker 1: both drilled dudes.
2:35
Speaker 3: Maybe he should maybe he should mix in a sinker
2:37
Speaker 3: when he's going to hit somebody.
2:40
Speaker 1: Mm hmm, yeah, just to try and hide it a
2:42
Speaker 1: little bit more. He is not hiding it except in
2:44
Speaker 1: the postgame when he was stating out it's so on fair,
2:49
Speaker 1: it's so on fair. All right, I'm done with this.
2:51
Speaker 1: Let's let's move on to something.
2:53
Speaker 2: Somebody you get ejected. I mean, it's so unfair. It's
2:55
Speaker 2: just so. It doesn't it's so I'm just so unfair.
2:58
Speaker 1: Yeah, back to back homers and you chuck baseball at
3:03
Speaker 1: someone like a weapon, and it's on fair, So on fair.
3:06
Speaker 1: Life is tough. Let's go over a team that's surprising
3:09
Speaker 1: the world right now.
3:12
Speaker 3: Charging.
3:13
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're charging the mound with the Rays. They are
3:16
Speaker 1: twelve and one in their last thirteen games, and they've
3:19
Speaker 1: given up seventeen runs during that stretch. They shut out
3:23
Speaker 1: the Blue Jays and completed the sweep against them, so
3:27
Speaker 1: AJ three to nothing win for Tampa Bay. The pitching
3:30
Speaker 1: is shining, the hitting is definitely doing enough. And do
3:33
Speaker 1: you think the Rays are legit in the American League East? Like,
3:37
Speaker 1: I guess you can start this way. How do you
3:39
Speaker 1: stack up the way you see the Ale East right now?
3:43
Speaker 2: Oh, I still think the Yankees are the class of
3:45
Speaker 2: the East, but I think that the the Rays, the
3:48
Speaker 2: way they're pitching, are not far behind. I think you know,
3:52
Speaker 2: they don't score a ton of runs the Rays, I'm
3:54
Speaker 2: looking at it right now, they're in the lower half
3:58
Speaker 2: of their below average, but they score sorry four point
4:02
Speaker 2: four to two runs per game. But they're pitching is
4:05
Speaker 2: what has been unbelievably good. They're pitching is crazy good.
4:10
Speaker 3: Right now.
4:11
Speaker 2: They're fourth in the league with a three and a
4:13
Speaker 2: half VRA. And if you have Shane McClanahan and some
4:16
Speaker 2: of the other guys they have starting for him, and
4:19
Speaker 2: then their bullpen, which has kind of been mixing match,
4:21
Speaker 2: but Baker has taken over the back end have been
4:22
Speaker 2: really good. But plus they throw some other guys in
4:25
Speaker 2: there for saves. This is kind of how the Rays
4:27
Speaker 2: have always been built. Real good pitching, real good defense.
4:30
Speaker 2: We'll mix and match, we'll define the matchups, will win
4:32
Speaker 2: on the margins, and then hopefully we get enough hitting.
4:35
Speaker 2: And when they get enough hitting is the years they're
4:36
Speaker 2: really good. And right now they're getting enough hitting to
4:38
Speaker 2: be really good.
4:40
Speaker 3: It's enough hitting and we can get into the hitting.
4:42
Speaker 3: But as every time everybody brings up pitching, especially when
4:46
Speaker 3: it's not just starting pitching or just relief pitching on
4:50
Speaker 3: a team, you bring up the defense. They're seventh in
4:54
Speaker 3: defensive runs saved on the year. Now they have some
4:57
Speaker 3: places where around the field that are a little below average,
5:01
Speaker 3: but shortstop, I think they're second in the league in
5:06
Speaker 3: defensive run saved outfield. Two of the outfield positions they're
5:11
Speaker 3: right up there, center field and left field. So they're
5:13
Speaker 3: putting guys in positions to succeed. And the whole like
5:17
Speaker 3: hitting enough hitting, Like are they doing are they playing
5:21
Speaker 3: winning hitting? Yeah, because they don't have enough. They don't
5:25
Speaker 3: have enough power up and down their lineup. When they
5:27
Speaker 3: get rid of Brandon Lau, when Josh Lowe was supposed
5:30
Speaker 3: to be a guy and he's gone like, where's their
5:33
Speaker 3: power coming from? One guy Kim and Air Like that's great,
5:38
Speaker 3: But if they're not going to succeed with power, what
5:41
Speaker 3: do you have to do. You have to put the
5:42
Speaker 3: ball in play. You have to be able to make
5:45
Speaker 3: enough contact on pitches that are going to give you,
5:51
Speaker 3: you know, maybe move the runner, maybe maybe get the
5:53
Speaker 3: job done. I think I think it's something that this
5:57
Speaker 3: team is always you never count them out, even when
6:02
Speaker 3: nobody picked them for the playoffs before the year. You
6:04
Speaker 3: never count them out because they're not afraid to do
6:07
Speaker 3: the little things to be able to give them a
6:09
Speaker 3: chance to win the game. And when you have a
6:11
Speaker 3: pitching staff that gives up seventeen runs in the last
6:13
Speaker 3: thirteen games, you're in every single game. So a bunt
6:17
Speaker 3: to move a runner over does matter. A ground ball
6:20
Speaker 3: to the right side to move a runner over does matter.
6:22
Speaker 3: And those are the things, along with some base running
6:25
Speaker 3: that helps you win in the margins when the games
6:27
Speaker 3: are close.
6:30
Speaker 2: One thing I'll say about this team is they do
6:32
Speaker 2: have a little bit of power. Jimmer Caernaro, Jonathan Ronda
6:35
Speaker 2: have been good, Yondi Diaz has been good. But the
6:38
Speaker 2: one thing they do do, which is one thing they've
6:40
Speaker 2: always done, is they take the extra base. They have
6:42
Speaker 2: Chandler Simpson at the top of the order that is
6:44
Speaker 2: causing havoc if he gets on base. Cedric Mullins is
6:47
Speaker 2: having a better year this year for them, right, you know,
6:51
Speaker 2: Walls and some of these other guys. They get on
6:53
Speaker 2: base and they cause a little havoc because they'll run
6:56
Speaker 2: and they'll put pressure on other teams. But then they
6:58
Speaker 2: hit the home run, and they have a lot of
7:00
Speaker 2: guys that seem to get key hits for them, which
7:02
Speaker 2: is what they need if they're going to continue to
7:05
Speaker 2: be good and stay in this race, which they've had
7:07
Speaker 2: to because the Yankees have been really good also, so
7:10
Speaker 2: I think they have staying power because they're pitching.
7:13
Speaker 3: Now.
7:13
Speaker 2: Would I love for the Rays to go out and
7:14
Speaker 2: find a bat or two. Yes, I think they could
7:16
Speaker 2: be unbelievably good, like to the point where they could
7:19
Speaker 2: contend possibly for a World Series, But we also don't
7:22
Speaker 2: know that they'll do that. But I just love the
7:24
Speaker 2: way they play team baseball. Kevin Cash is a guy
7:27
Speaker 2: that just gets it as a manager. He knows how
7:29
Speaker 2: to mix some masks. Chad Mattola, they're they're hitting coach Snider.
7:33
Speaker 2: They're pitching coach. These guys have been there for a
7:35
Speaker 2: long time. They know what Kevin Cash wants, they know
7:36
Speaker 2: the kind of team they want, and they put this
7:38
Speaker 2: together with Neander Eric Neander and now they have a
7:42
Speaker 2: team that's rolling. Where they won twelve out of thirteen
7:44
Speaker 2: I think something like that, and they are nipping at
7:46
Speaker 2: the Yankee heels. Let's talk love life ft family. I
7:53
Speaker 2: know it's an important part of everyone's life, but if
7:55
Speaker 2: you need help, or if you don't gluech you Gold
7:57
Speaker 2: is changing the game and it is turbo charging your
8:01
Speaker 2: love life.
8:01
Speaker 1: That was beautifully delivered. The new arousal boosting formula combines
8:06
Speaker 1: passion and performance into one tablet that dissolves under your
8:09
Speaker 1: tongue for super fast on set. No more waiting for
8:11
Speaker 1: a pill to kick in, no more moments ruined by
8:14
Speaker 1: performance anxiety, Just the results you want when you want them.
8:18
Speaker 1: Most dd meds only focus on blood flow, but Blue
8:21
Speaker 1: Choo Gold goes further by combining two ingredients for blood
8:25
Speaker 1: flow with two more for mental arousal and connection.
8:28
Speaker 4: So you're not just physically ready, you're actually in the mood.
8:32
Speaker 1: And we've got a special deal for our listeners right now,
8:34
Speaker 1: and you buy two months of Bluechoo Gold, you get
8:36
Speaker 1: the third for free with promo code foul.
8:39
Speaker 4: That's promo code foul.
8:41
Speaker 1: Visit blue you dot com for more details and important
8:44
Speaker 1: safety information, and we thank blue ch You for sponsoring
8:47
Speaker 1: the podcast.
8:50
Speaker 3: I saw this. I saw this in person when I
8:53
Speaker 3: played there for I don't even know five weeks, however
8:56
Speaker 3: long it was there, Like we had two different homes series,
9:01
Speaker 3: and in those home series, when teams go out and
9:03
Speaker 3: do their PFPS, they would do out, go out and
9:05
Speaker 3: do a team fundamental and both times they tried took
9:11
Speaker 3: five to ten minutes trying something that, as Kevin Cash
9:14
Speaker 3: put it, we're trying something I don't know if it's
9:17
Speaker 3: gonna work. We want to see what it looks like
9:19
Speaker 3: on the field, see how the guys take to it.
9:21
Speaker 3: Like the one day it was first and third, they're
9:25
Speaker 3: trying to pick to third when they know the runner
9:28
Speaker 3: is going and they wanted to see how fast their
9:30
Speaker 3: third baseman could catch the ball and relay it to second.
9:34
Speaker 3: And I'm like, what are we doing here? Like this
9:38
Speaker 3: was something in all my years I'd never seen it,
9:40
Speaker 3: but they were like, let's see how fast let's see
9:43
Speaker 3: how fast we can do it, so that if you
9:46
Speaker 3: have a guy that just automatic first, first, and third,
9:50
Speaker 3: the guy on first just goes as soon as you
9:52
Speaker 3: pick your foot up. It's because they banned the third
9:55
Speaker 3: to first move for pitchers. Maybe you can get the
9:58
Speaker 3: guy at second. And they're like, eh, I've never seen
10:01
Speaker 3: them do it actually in a game, but it's something
10:03
Speaker 3: that they weren't afraid to try. And you're not afraid
10:06
Speaker 3: to put a tailor Walls out there, who has been
10:08
Speaker 3: one of the best defensive run save shortstops out there,
10:12
Speaker 3: and they really want Carson Williams, who's in the minor leagues,
10:15
Speaker 3: to take the job. But neither of them are hitting.
10:18
Speaker 3: But yet they're getting a ton of value out of
10:21
Speaker 3: the defensive position of shortstop, and they hope the offense
10:24
Speaker 3: from somewhere else comes along.
10:27
Speaker 1: And what they have to do is figure out ways
10:30
Speaker 1: that they can be different from the rest of the league.
10:33
Speaker 1: They did that for a while, then the league copied them,
10:35
Speaker 1: and this was over a long term stretch. Right, the
10:38
Speaker 1: league got much smarter. They didn't have those same advantages.
10:42
Speaker 1: Now you look at some of the things that the Rays
10:44
Speaker 1: used to value and you're like, Wow, they're kind of
10:45
Speaker 1: going the other direction. Look at the strikeout number. They're
10:49
Speaker 1: twenty seventh in Baseball out of thirty teams in punch
10:52
Speaker 1: outs from their pitching staff. One example is Nick Martinez
10:56
Speaker 1: absolutely dealing and awesome signing for them. So far this year,
10:59
Speaker 1: he's got an one seven to one ERA in his
11:02
Speaker 1: first seven starts, He's punched out twenty eight hitters in
11:04
Speaker 1: forty two innings. That's a pretty low k rate over
11:07
Speaker 1: nine and hit a strikeout percentage low two. Right, If
11:10
Speaker 1: that's the stat you're going off of, so that's working,
11:12
Speaker 1: you utilize the defense. Let me show you a tweet
11:15
Speaker 1: with one of the other potential inefficiencies that they think
11:19
Speaker 1: they're finding that the rest of the league is being
11:21
Speaker 1: a little bit too textbook with Inosires pointed out that
11:26
Speaker 1: the Rays as a team have the flattest swings in baseball,
11:29
Speaker 1: and this is not him telling a story. This is
11:31
Speaker 1: statistically where they're measuring where the bats are and they're
11:34
Speaker 1: able to do that so much better these days based
11:36
Speaker 1: on the stackcast data. He said, from what I've seen,
11:39
Speaker 1: having a flat bat path is good for hitting fastballs,
11:42
Speaker 1: decent for contact overall, not always the best for slugging,
11:45
Speaker 1: particularly down in the zone. So AJ playing to your point,
11:50
Speaker 1: this team making contact at the Ray times. They do
11:52
Speaker 1: have some power guys like Junior Camenero also has the
11:56
Speaker 1: one of the top bats beat bat speeds and Baseball
11:59
Speaker 1: and they're a cool little visual of what he's able
12:02
Speaker 1: to do. One of the fastest and flattest swings. But
12:05
Speaker 1: do you think that the Rays are emphasizing stuff like
12:07
Speaker 1: this as a ball club and an organization while other
12:10
Speaker 1: orgs are still in more of the launch angle mode.
12:14
Speaker 2: I think that what they're doing is they're looking at
12:16
Speaker 2: the people they have and trying to maximize it and say, hey,
12:19
Speaker 2: you need a flatter swing. Junior Kemen Arrow can hit
12:21
Speaker 2: home runs with this. Yanni Diaz Aroanda, they can hit
12:24
Speaker 2: home runs doing this. But they've also said every team
12:27
Speaker 2: is throwing as high fastballs. We can't have the loopy
12:30
Speaker 2: swing because everyone team is trying to run the four
12:32
Speaker 2: seamer ride balls up. So how do we combat that?
12:35
Speaker 2: And that's what they've done. The Rays have always been
12:36
Speaker 2: one of the first and fastest teams to adjust everything
12:41
Speaker 2: that's happening in baseball started with Joe Madden. When Joe
12:43
Speaker 2: Madden was there and is carried over to Kevin Cash.
12:45
Speaker 2: They adjust in their front office and their coaching staff
12:48
Speaker 2: adjust to what's happening in the game. They've been one
12:50
Speaker 2: of the best at it for years and this is
12:52
Speaker 2: just one of those things where they know they're getting
12:54
Speaker 2: a lot of high fastballs. We can't have a lot
12:56
Speaker 2: of guys that have the certain guy the doopy swing
12:59
Speaker 2: right that certain guys have. We need guys that have
13:03
Speaker 2: flatter swings that can get to the high fastball and
13:05
Speaker 2: make more contact. And again, if you have a bunch
13:07
Speaker 2: of fast guys that can't really hit the ball out
13:09
Speaker 2: of the park, why are you gonna try to make
13:11
Speaker 2: him hit thirty home runs when they can't do it.
13:13
Speaker 2: Take advantage of the strengths of the players you have,
13:16
Speaker 2: and that's what the Rays have always been good at.
13:18
Speaker 3: I play with Yandy Diaz back in twenty seventeen when
13:22
Speaker 3: he was a Guardian's farm hand. He was up and
13:24
Speaker 3: down kind of play for the Guardians, got traded over
13:27
Speaker 3: to the Rays and it's taken off. I played with
13:29
Speaker 3: Chad Mattola, the hitting coach, and I talked to Chad about, Okay, well,
13:33
Speaker 3: what's changed. He's like nothing's changed that much. All we
13:36
Speaker 3: did was talk about, well, what does it take with
13:39
Speaker 3: his swing, with Yondy's swing, not the swing that Chad
13:42
Speaker 3: taught him or the swing that other players are doing.
13:45
Speaker 3: With Yondi's swing, what does he need to do to
13:48
Speaker 3: be able to drive the ball more still wanted him to.
13:51
Speaker 3: He had one of the lowest launch angles on our
13:53
Speaker 3: team in twenty seventeen. Hit so many balls, so many
13:58
Speaker 3: balls to the right side through that whole, to the
14:00
Speaker 3: point where Louisville he played eighteen times a year. The
14:03
Speaker 3: Reds Triple A shifted him like a left handed pull hitter,
14:08
Speaker 3: and then he hit a ball to the left side
14:10
Speaker 3: just because they weren't there, Like he is a really,
14:13
Speaker 3: really good hitter that when he got to the Rays,
14:15
Speaker 3: they just talked about catch the ball out front a
14:18
Speaker 3: little bit every once in a while, catch the ball
14:20
Speaker 3: a little farther out front with your swing, and that's
14:22
Speaker 3: how you elevate it, not by swinging up. He has
14:26
Speaker 3: great contact rate, He has incredible zone discipline, and they
14:30
Speaker 3: just said, do you and maybe add just a little tweak.
14:37
Speaker 1: Yeah, and look what he's putting together. So a special
14:40
Speaker 1: start for the race. They are twenty four and twelve.
14:43
Speaker 1: While we're doing.
14:44
Speaker 2: This, Scott, let me say this also if I can.
14:48
Speaker 2: You know, we talked about Anthony Volpie getting sent down
14:51
Speaker 2: right all the time, right, And what's the one thing,
14:53
Speaker 2: what's the one knock on Anthony Volpi that we've kind
14:57
Speaker 2: of always said he strikes out too much? Right swing,
15:00
Speaker 2: he's trying to hit thirty five home runs. Well, if
15:03
Speaker 2: Anthony Volpi would go a little flatter. And I'm just
15:05
Speaker 2: using him because he's someone we've told everyone talks about
15:08
Speaker 2: all the time. Right. So if you have Anthony Voltan,
15:10
Speaker 2: you have Taylor Walls, and you tell Taylor Walls, hey,
15:13
Speaker 2: we need you to hit thirty homers. We need you
15:15
Speaker 2: to back leg and go underneath the walls. Guess what,
15:17
Speaker 2: Taylor wall is probably not gonna be a very good player.
15:19
Speaker 2: But you tell Taylor Walls, hey, we need you to
15:21
Speaker 2: be flat and your You know, your power is speed
15:23
Speaker 2: and getting on base and contact. Now, I'm not saying
15:26
Speaker 2: this is what it can happen to Anthony Volpi, but
15:28
Speaker 2: you take away, hey, we have to have you hit
15:30
Speaker 2: thirty home runs even though you were a smaller guy.
15:34
Speaker 2: It doesn't work for everybody the race. Figure out what
15:36
Speaker 2: you do really well, and they make you even better
15:39
Speaker 2: at it. And that's why the Rays have had success.
15:41
Speaker 2: They find a pitcher in the bullpen, Hey, you have
15:43
Speaker 2: a really good slider. Now they'll make you throw one
15:45
Speaker 2: hundred percent sliders till your arm falls off. But for
15:48
Speaker 2: those year or two you'll be really good because they
15:50
Speaker 2: figure out what you're good at and they emphasize it.
15:53
Speaker 1: Yeah. We brought up Robert Stevenson the other day. They
15:56
Speaker 1: made him a ton of money.
15:59
Speaker 2: And then they don't want to make everybody the same though, Right,
16:02
Speaker 2: That's the other thing about the race. They let you
16:03
Speaker 2: be yourself, and they let you be you, and they
16:06
Speaker 2: find what you're good at and then they make it
16:07
Speaker 2: better and they emphasize it. And that's what makes you
16:10
Speaker 2: a big league player for them.
16:12
Speaker 1: Add it all up, they have the second best record
16:14
Speaker 1: in the American League. I asked aj about this, Kratz,
16:16
Speaker 1: what do you think are the Rays legit? Do you
16:18
Speaker 1: think they're going to make the playoffs this year?
16:22
Speaker 3: I don't. I don't. I don't think it's a sustainable,
16:29
Speaker 3: a sustainable way to make it through an entire season.
16:33
Speaker 3: But if there is a team, I think it's one
16:36
Speaker 3: of those things that they're going to be battling for
16:38
Speaker 3: that wildcard position for the whole year, and I think
16:43
Speaker 3: it's gonna be I think they're gonna have the toughest
16:45
Speaker 3: time of any American League wildcard team because they have
16:49
Speaker 3: to play the East, and I think the bottom three
16:51
Speaker 3: in the East are going to start playing some better,
16:55
Speaker 3: but not a ton better. So I really think it's
16:59
Speaker 3: it's something that they're going to battle for that the
17:01
Speaker 3: whole year because where is that pitching going to be
17:05
Speaker 3: able to be sustained to the level because the hitting's
17:08
Speaker 3: not there right now, and if they have to like
17:11
Speaker 3: come on and get hot, I just don't see where
17:14
Speaker 3: it's going to come from besides a few homers from Junior,
17:17
Speaker 3: Like where will it come when the Rays pitching hits
17:20
Speaker 3: a little bump in the road?
17:22
Speaker 1: Yep, And it's May seventh. But better to be in
17:24
Speaker 1: this position than in the position of Baltimore, Toronto or Boston.
17:29
Speaker 1: I mean, they just swept through the Blue Jays, Okamoto's
17:32
Speaker 1: having an insane little road trip for Toronto, but a
17:36
Speaker 1: lot of other bad news around them and not being
17:38
Speaker 1: able to sustain their pitching while the Rays have Martinez,
17:41
Speaker 1: Like I talked about Chane McClanahan really looking like he's
17:44
Speaker 1: rounding back into the Shane Mack that we found or
17:46
Speaker 1: that we watched back when he was a cy young
17:49
Speaker 1: contender before all the injury issues. So good stuff, good
17:52
Speaker 1: little chat. You know, we don't always have to do
17:56
Speaker 1: things because that's how it's always been.
17:58
Speaker 2: Look, people consider me school, and I thought I was,
18:01
Speaker 2: but then we had the pitch clock and the abs
18:04
Speaker 2: and ban on shifts and all these things that we've
18:06
Speaker 2: had for a long time in baseball. And you know what,
18:08
Speaker 2: much like Mintmobile and the other mobile carriers, I'm here
18:11
Speaker 2: for the new school and the changes that have been made.
18:13
Speaker 3: It's a good call.
18:14
Speaker 4: You can ditch over priced wireless.
18:16
Speaker 1: You don't have to say, oh, I'm paying that, because
18:19
Speaker 1: that's how it's always been. Get three months of premium
18:22
Speaker 1: wireless service from mint Mobile for fifteen bucks a month.
18:25
Speaker 1: All plans come with high speed data and unlimited talk
18:28
Speaker 1: and text delivered on the nation's largest five G network.
18:31
Speaker 1: If you like your money, mint Mobile is for you.
18:33
Speaker 1: Shot plans at mintmobile dot com slash territory that's mintmobile
18:37
Speaker 1: dot com slash territory. Upfront payment of forty five dollars
18:41
Speaker 1: for three month five gigabyte plan required equivalent to fifteen
18:44
Speaker 1: bucks a month. New customer offer for first three months only,
18:47
Speaker 1: then full price plan options available, Taxes and fees extra.
18:51
Speaker 1: See mint mobile for details. Get after at FTFAM. Hey,
18:56
Speaker 1: quick little note on TV viewership in baseball. So the
19:01
Speaker 1: national exclusive window through the first weekend of May is
19:06
Speaker 1: two point two eight million, a forty four percent increase
19:09
Speaker 1: over last year, best start in nine years for baseball.
19:12
Speaker 1: I feel like every league tries to like huff and
19:14
Speaker 1: puff on this, but baseball's keeping up. If not, I
19:17
Speaker 1: think aja soaring past. You know, we've always talked about
19:21
Speaker 1: basketball and the regular season action. It's more fun to
19:24
Speaker 1: watch a regular season game right now for MLB. I'm saying,
19:27
Speaker 1: compared to what it looked like five years ago, the
19:29
Speaker 1: products more enjoyable. You're at a game every weekend.
19:32
Speaker 2: Absolutely, the game is better. The game is you know,
19:35
Speaker 2: more action with the pitch clock. People like the two
19:38
Speaker 2: and a half hour average now instead of three and
19:40
Speaker 2: a half four hours. It's been fun, it's been good,
19:44
Speaker 2: and I love that baseball is heading in the right
19:46
Speaker 2: direction and everything is up. Viewership's attendance is a owner's
19:53
Speaker 2: franchise values are up, but don't worry. Somehow we'll get it.
19:56
Speaker 2: We'll mess it up with a collective bargaining shutdown. So's
19:59
Speaker 2: way to go baseball all because they want more.
20:04
Speaker 1: We're gonna be talking about that.
20:07
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, trying.
20:08
Speaker 2: If everything is going so well, if everything is going
20:10
Speaker 2: so well, and everything is going so good, why do
20:12
Speaker 2: we need to what?
20:14
Speaker 3: It's not fair. It's not fair. And it's because there's
20:17
Speaker 3: teams that spend money, and I mean, I mean that's
20:20
Speaker 3: teams that have money, and there's teams that don't have
20:23
Speaker 3: I mean, don't spend money.
20:26
Speaker 1: It's not fair that some NBA franchises are valued higher
20:29
Speaker 1: than some MLB franchises. So that's the real battle within
20:33
Speaker 1: the battle. Yep, injuries suck. The good news. The Chicago
20:45
Speaker 1: Cubs are off to a roaring start. They've already had
20:48
Speaker 1: two win streaks that are seven games plus the one
20:50
Speaker 1: they're on right now is eight in a row. Yet
20:53
Speaker 1: they cannot keep their arms healthy at the moment. This
20:58
Speaker 1: is a fluke injury. In this case, Matthew Boyd going down.
21:01
Speaker 1: He's gonna need surgery on his left meniscus and it
21:05
Speaker 1: is from playing with his kids, So Aja, I have
21:09
Speaker 1: a lot to get to here. Let's talk about the
21:11
Speaker 1: impact on the Cubs first, and then we can, of
21:13
Speaker 1: course get to the carefulness that you need playing with
21:17
Speaker 1: the kiddos. But there's Taylor McGregor, the reporter for Marquee.
21:21
Speaker 1: The injury happen this morning playing with his kids. They
21:23
Speaker 1: won't know the timeline until after surgery. Boyd was an
21:26
Speaker 1: All Star last year. This team is down quite a
21:28
Speaker 1: bit of pitching, so much so that anytime something gets announced,
21:31
Speaker 1: social media is flooded with Cubs fans being like sick
21:34
Speaker 1: joke kind of memes. How much does this actually hurt
21:38
Speaker 1: the team if he misses significant time? If not, I
21:41
Speaker 1: don't know if it's something that would take him out
21:42
Speaker 1: for the year, but he's gonna miss a while.
21:44
Speaker 2: Well, they're playing good, they're playing really well right now.
21:46
Speaker 2: They just keep hitting walkoffs every day against the Red
21:48
Speaker 2: So they're like, Red's never leave town ever again, because
21:51
Speaker 2: we're just going to keep walking you off PCA and
21:53
Speaker 2: everyone else is getting walk offs. So do I think
21:55
Speaker 2: this hurts him? Absolutely? Matthew Boyd was an All Star
21:57
Speaker 2: last year. He's a really good dude. He's a great Pitcher. Yeah,
22:01
Speaker 2: but this is this is a lesson to all you
22:03
Speaker 2: people out there. Don't play with your kids.
22:05
Speaker 1: Let them be, leave them alone, let them play it
22:09
Speaker 1: on their own.
22:10
Speaker 2: Kidding, play with your kids. Please. We need more, we
22:13
Speaker 2: need more, we need more, We need more of that.
22:15
Speaker 3: So, yes, that was not an FT. That was not
22:18
Speaker 3: an FT public service announcement. I do not approve of that.
22:22
Speaker 3: I say, play with your kids in the big leagues
22:25
Speaker 3: and you tear your meniscus playing with your kids, you
22:29
Speaker 3: know what, you went down a hero just wasn't worth it.
22:34
Speaker 2: Just it just it just wasn't meant to be, is
22:36
Speaker 2: all I can tell you. It just wasn't. I mean,
22:37
Speaker 2: if this happens, it's like when you know, some guy
22:39
Speaker 2: slips in a shower or cut hurts his back lifting
22:42
Speaker 2: a suitcase or things like that, Like it's just you
22:44
Speaker 2: were just gonna get hurt no matter what. It's just
22:46
Speaker 2: so happened to be because of this. So it sucks
22:49
Speaker 2: for It sucks for Matthew Boyd. The Cubs are playing great, though,
22:52
Speaker 2: I mean, wow, they're like, please Red staying Wrigley for
22:56
Speaker 2: like the next three years, because we will beat you
22:58
Speaker 2: every time. In the ninth day.
23:00
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Reds are tumbling.
23:02
Speaker 2: Did you guys see the tie score thing that came out.
23:04
Speaker 2: I was checking scores last night and it said tie score,
23:08
Speaker 2: and I'm like, wait, what the game ended in a
23:11
Speaker 2: tie and the Cubs didn't get to bat in the
23:13
Speaker 2: ninth inning or the tenth inning. What's happening here? And
23:18
Speaker 2: later it refreshed, Well, it came out it said the
23:21
Speaker 2: Cubs win. The notification said Cubs win, and it said
23:25
Speaker 2: the score was six to six. Yeah, exactly.
23:29
Speaker 3: That was good. They were like, we know what's gonna happen.
23:32
Speaker 3: Cubs are gonna win. I know it's still tied right now.
23:35
Speaker 3: But all this to say, like with an injury like this, yes,
23:39
Speaker 3: it sucks. Teams that boy's already been on the injured
23:43
Speaker 3: list for I think it was fifteen days earlier this year.
23:47
Speaker 3: Teams that are winning and this stuff happens too. Sometimes.
23:53
Speaker 3: I don't want to say galvanizes them. Nobody's gonna say, oh,
23:56
Speaker 3: it's okay, you know, we're gonna we're gonna band together.
23:59
Speaker 3: But they're just they're a train running downhill right now.
24:02
Speaker 3: They just are. They're rolling to win the games at
24:05
Speaker 3: the way they've won them against the reds in regularly.
24:08
Speaker 3: The fact that they won fourteen fifteen straight now in
24:10
Speaker 3: regularly like they are. They are rolling. And it doesn't
24:16
Speaker 3: mean that this injury doesn't hurt them, because it clearly does.
24:20
Speaker 3: I think one of their biggest weaknesses or least amount
24:23
Speaker 3: of depth that they have because of other injuries already
24:26
Speaker 3: is pitching. But they're finding other ways to win. They're
24:29
Speaker 3: finding they're finding ways to win games. And I'm not
24:33
Speaker 3: gonna say it's Alex Bregman, but I'm also gonna say
24:37
Speaker 3: I saw the same fricking thing happen when he was
24:39
Speaker 3: on the Red Sox last year, and you have them
24:43
Speaker 3: now in the Cubs, and I just sometimes when teams
24:45
Speaker 3: have winning, are starting to win, and they're winning in
24:47
Speaker 3: ways where you're like, WHOA, what's going on? How are
24:50
Speaker 3: these guys having good team at bats all this stuff,
24:53
Speaker 3: you look at certain guys and I guess it's it's
24:55
Speaker 3: an easy, lazy narrative by me to say Alex Bregman
24:59
Speaker 3: is making a big impact. But I'm gonna say Alex
25:02
Speaker 3: Bregman is making a big impact on this team that
25:05
Speaker 3: already had a bunch of good players.
25:08
Speaker 1: Yeah, and their lineup and their bench is deep. They're
25:11
Speaker 1: pinch hitting ops right now in close to forty at
25:13
Speaker 1: bats is over a thousand. They are getting some significant
25:17
Speaker 1: production from the bench. Definitely give credit to Craig Counsel
25:20
Speaker 1: pressing some buttons at the right time for the team.
25:22
Speaker 1: That stuff matters when you press the pinch hit or
25:24
Speaker 1: button at the right time. And then lastly, you look
25:27
Speaker 1: at the rotation here. So now Cad Horton, Justin Steele,
25:30
Speaker 1: Matthew Boyd. I mean that's a better big three than
25:33
Speaker 1: the three that you'd put together. That's not hurt, right,
25:37
Speaker 1: I mean Immanaga, Edward Caprera, Jamison ty On good but Boyd, Horton,
25:43
Speaker 1: Steel damn. I mean those are the guys you want
25:45
Speaker 1: to pitching in playoff games. And then Porter Hodge, Riley
25:48
Speaker 1: Martin's on the shelf, Hunter Harvey like, it's okay, deal bar.
25:51
Speaker 1: It's a long list for them at the moment. So
25:54
Speaker 1: credit to the Cubs for building depth. See this is
25:56
Speaker 1: the different thought to pick on the Angels. But like,
25:58
Speaker 1: this is the difference between the Cubs and a team
25:59
Speaker 1: like the Angels. Right, a guy or two goes down
26:03
Speaker 1: and they're still able to put together a winning streak
26:05
Speaker 1: like this and have a really nice start to the
26:07
Speaker 1: season where they've won eight in a row.
26:09
Speaker 3: I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say, don't look at the Angels,
26:12
Speaker 3: look at the blue Jays. Look at who the blue
26:14
Speaker 3: Jays have lost in their rotation, and they're you know,
26:17
Speaker 3: they're pitching injuries. Teams that are losing say, oh, look
26:22
Speaker 3: at our look at our injuries. Teams that are winning.
26:25
Speaker 3: Injuries are like the second or third thing brought up, like, ooh,
26:29
Speaker 3: you know they're doing this right, they're doing this. So
26:31
Speaker 3: it's it's more of a narrative that a lot of
26:35
Speaker 3: teams have injuries. Who overcomes them. Yes they got depth.
26:40
Speaker 3: Yes the Cubs did go out and get Cabrera. Yes
26:44
Speaker 3: the Cubs did go out and get Bregmant. But the
26:46
Speaker 3: Cubs have been building what they have for a little
26:49
Speaker 3: while now, with the fact that they're really really emphasizing
26:53
Speaker 3: the defense that's out there, which is going to enhance
26:56
Speaker 3: any pitcher that's out there. And I don't think they
26:59
Speaker 3: build a bullpen very well before this year, and now
27:02
Speaker 3: this year it seems like different guys in their bullpen
27:05
Speaker 3: are stepping up, even when Porter Hodge is not is
27:08
Speaker 3: not necessary, is not in there for them. So it's
27:11
Speaker 3: it's something that the Blue Jays last year were killing it.
27:16
Speaker 3: They weren't void of injuries. So how you bounce back
27:20
Speaker 3: from those injuries dictates how you do in the season.
27:22
Speaker 3: It's very basic.
27:25
Speaker 1: Yeah, and Matthew Boyd needs to not give his kids
27:28
Speaker 1: Christmas presents just for like a minute, just to punk
27:30
Speaker 1: them and say, well, kids, remember when your tour dad's meniscus, Well,
27:35
Speaker 1: no Christmas presence, that's what happens.
27:39
Speaker 2: Did you guys see Eli's two RBI sack fly last night?
27:42
Speaker 3: That was so awesome.
27:43
Speaker 2: Raise your hand if you have one of those.
27:45
Speaker 3: No, that was so awesome. I mean not awesome for Saya,
27:50
Speaker 3: but like when they go went back and watched it
27:51
Speaker 3: where he Saya landed and then he thought he was
27:53
Speaker 3: going to hit the wall and he was like kind
27:56
Speaker 3: of up against the wall. Good for PCA for in there,
28:00
Speaker 3: for him to be the Johnny or to be the
28:03
Speaker 3: Manny Ramirez cut man. But good for was it It
28:06
Speaker 3: was Matty McClain who didn't stop running like that was
28:09
Speaker 3: that was awesome. I'm showing that to the boys on
28:12
Speaker 3: the high school team tomorrow.
28:14
Speaker 1: YEP. That's a good clip. AJ has done it? When
28:18
Speaker 1: was it? AJ? And then we got to get to.
28:19
Speaker 2: Our guest Kansas City. Uh, it was raining, and I
28:22
Speaker 2: think David Dehaes, who's dove and made a catch in
28:25
Speaker 2: like right center. He just kept sliding, and I think
28:28
Speaker 2: Alexi Ramirez was on second and so there was I
28:30
Speaker 2: think it was baseloaded and both both of them scored
28:32
Speaker 2: because Dahesis couldn't stop sliding because it was wet. He
28:35
Speaker 2: slid like you know, forever and then by the time
28:38
Speaker 2: he stopped. Yeah, that was cool. I never thought i'd
28:41
Speaker 2: seen one of those, and now I've seen it twice.
28:43
Speaker 1: Wow. Yeah, very cool, fun series, really fun series, especially
28:48
Speaker 1: if you're a if you're.
28:48
Speaker 2: A Cubs fan, not for the red they lost, They
28:51
Speaker 2: lost for gone and lost three games on a walk off.
28:54
Speaker 2: I don't think it was very fun if you're a
28:55
Speaker 2: Reds fan.
29:01
Speaker 1: What's the beef? Well, this continues. The A's have departed Oakland.
29:08
Speaker 1: They're now in Sacramento. They eventually will head to Las Vegas.
29:12
Speaker 1: But whose fault is it? The name that you often
29:15
Speaker 1: hear is John Fisher. John Fisher is connected to the
29:18
Speaker 1: prior owner, Lou Wolf. He's ninety years old. He is
29:22
Speaker 1: a super rich real estate developer, and he put out
29:26
Speaker 1: a book, and I can retitle the book for him.
29:29
Speaker 1: He basically says, don't blame me, don't blame Fisher, blame
29:33
Speaker 1: the Giants. He goes all out to say in this
29:38
Speaker 1: new book that the giants are despicable and it's all
29:42
Speaker 1: their fault that the A's are not in the Bay
29:45
Speaker 1: Area in the long term. Right, So I'll give you
29:49
Speaker 1: a little sneak peek of what goes on here, and
29:51
Speaker 1: I can also pretty much summarize what was going on
29:53
Speaker 1: a j eight. This guy's trying to clear his name. Right,
29:56
Speaker 1: you're ninety years old. We always mentioned the legacy component
29:59
Speaker 1: for owners, Right, you have some that will be glorified
30:03
Speaker 1: and some that can have all the money in the world,
30:05
Speaker 1: but everybody hates them. And this is one way for
30:08
Speaker 1: someone to say, it's not Fisher, it's not me. Right,
30:11
Speaker 1: Because this goes back to Bud Selig giving the team
30:14
Speaker 1: to Frat Bros. And then those guys taking over the team,
30:17
Speaker 1: lou eventually giving the control to John Fisher, who bought
30:20
Speaker 1: out more of the shares, and Low's claim here is
30:23
Speaker 1: that the Giants have territorial rights over the county where
30:27
Speaker 1: San Jose is in right, Santa Clara County, and San
30:31
Speaker 1: Jose definitely can field a baseball team. There are people,
30:35
Speaker 1: there's money, like they've got it all going on. But
30:38
Speaker 1: San Francisco, the Giants will not give those rights to
30:41
Speaker 1: the A's and that was the battle that went on
30:43
Speaker 1: for a while. We can discuss and debate that part
30:47
Speaker 1: of it. But aj here's where I want to start
30:49
Speaker 1: the way I'm portraying the book, and I read the
30:51
Speaker 1: excerpts that were put out there. An evandralic article in
30:54
Speaker 1: a couple other spots is that the Giants wouldn't give
30:57
Speaker 1: them rights to San Jose. Even though the Giants weren't
31:00
Speaker 1: supposed to have those San Jose rights. They were only
31:02
Speaker 1: supposed to have them if they actually ended up moving
31:04
Speaker 1: there at some point, which we know is never going
31:06
Speaker 1: to happen. Okay, I don't know enough about the background
31:10
Speaker 1: of that back and forth. This is the part where
31:12
Speaker 1: lou Wolfe, the ninety year old lost me. In the book.
31:15
Speaker 1: He claims that if they had gotten the rights to
31:19
Speaker 1: San Jose, then everything would have been fine, and they
31:24
Speaker 1: would have used that as leverage against the city, so
31:26
Speaker 1: they weren't actually going to move to San Jose. They
31:29
Speaker 1: wanted to use it just to try and get more
31:31
Speaker 1: out of Oakland. And then in his mind he thinks
31:35
Speaker 1: everyone should say, oh, so you wanted to save more
31:38
Speaker 1: money and get more from taxpayers, and that would have
31:41
Speaker 1: led to them staying here. This, to me is where
31:44
Speaker 1: the disconnect occurs when a billionaire tries to get sympathy
31:48
Speaker 1: from the crowd saying I just needed this leverage point
31:52
Speaker 1: and then we would have stayed in Oakland. We would
31:54
Speaker 1: have milked them for every dollar. So, unless you're interpreting
31:58
Speaker 1: this differently, I have clueless as to how this guy
32:01
Speaker 1: thinks that people are going to feel like, Oh, it's okay, Lou,
32:05
Speaker 1: it's okay, John, I'm not pissed. Oakland fans probably saw
32:09
Speaker 1: this and got even more pissed.
32:12
Speaker 2: I haven't read the excerpts, but I'm gonna take I'm
32:14
Speaker 2: just gonna go off what you just told me, Scott. Now,
32:16
Speaker 2: from what you just told me, isn't this what they
32:18
Speaker 2: did with Las Vegas. They tried to use Vegas as
32:21
Speaker 2: a leveraging point to get Oakland to say yes, and
32:24
Speaker 2: Oakland was like, oh, we're not doing it, lou So
32:26
Speaker 2: see you later, mister Fisher. And now they're in Sacramento
32:29
Speaker 2: until they're a stadium in Vegas gets built. So it
32:32
Speaker 2: seems like they use Vegas for this in San Jose.
32:35
Speaker 2: So I can't believe. I mean, listen, did the Giants
32:38
Speaker 2: have something to do with this, yes, but to call
32:39
Speaker 2: them despicable for what they did, which really was nothing
32:42
Speaker 2: from what you just said. What did they do? They
32:44
Speaker 2: did what they were told. They had the rights and
32:46
Speaker 2: they weren't going to give them up because they're their rights.
32:49
Speaker 2: I mean, isn't this what the Orioles and the Nationals
32:52
Speaker 2: fought for years and years and years and I think
32:54
Speaker 2: they finally figured it out after like twenty years of
32:57
Speaker 2: fighting over rights to TV markets.
33:01
Speaker 1: And all that was TV rights, right, that was TV rights.
33:04
Speaker 1: This is territorial rights. But but the thing is to me,
33:07
Speaker 1: when I read this AJ, why does it even matter?
33:09
Speaker 1: Because he doesn't.
33:10
Speaker 2: They were going there.
33:12
Speaker 5: He's just using you were going there. Yeah, but he
33:15
Speaker 5: was used Vegas to do the same thing and it
33:17
Speaker 5: didn't work. So it's just Tim trying to make himself
33:21
Speaker 5: feel better at ninety years old. We all do this
33:23
Speaker 5: at times, we all say things to try to make
33:25
Speaker 5: ourself feel better even though we don't really believe it.
33:28
Speaker 1: Yeah, and the mayor was quoted in a response in
33:31
Speaker 1: evandraulus article basically saying how Wolf did have property in
33:35
Speaker 1: San Jose and all around the site, and then Wolf
33:38
Speaker 1: disputed that and said, oh, I sold that to buy
33:40
Speaker 1: the A's. So it's just like, you know what, I
33:43
Speaker 1: think you probably would have been better off not writing
33:46
Speaker 1: a book, because then you just reopen it. And now
33:48
Speaker 1: I think krats for me. And this isn't nationally or internationally,
33:52
Speaker 1: but in that area, I think people start to go, oh,
33:54
Speaker 1: that's right. Actually, I'm not just pissed at one guy
33:57
Speaker 1: that that Oakland doesn't have ball anymore. I'm actually pissed
34:01
Speaker 1: at this guy too. He's telling me about, oh, no,
34:03
Speaker 1: I sold all that property. I was just using San
34:05
Speaker 1: Jose as a front. But I'm also pissed at the
34:08
Speaker 1: giants because they should have given me San Jose to
34:10
Speaker 1: use it. Absurd.
34:12
Speaker 3: When I read this, I mean, AJ's rich, I'm rich,
34:17
Speaker 3: You're rich. Billionaires look down on us, and billionaires sometimes
34:21
Speaker 3: have like a false sense of reality. I think somewhat
34:25
Speaker 3: reading through the excerpts, I feel like that's just a
34:29
Speaker 3: false sense of reality of what really is the meaning
34:32
Speaker 3: of owning a team. Are you supposed to lose money?
34:36
Speaker 3: Absolutely not. Nobody would. Nobody would own a team if
34:39
Speaker 3: you were supposed to lose money. I'm not asking owners
34:41
Speaker 3: to lose money. I'm asking owners. It's kind of a
34:44
Speaker 3: little bit what I was hinting at with Carl Ravich
34:46
Speaker 3: about you know, them major League Baseball getting rid of
34:49
Speaker 3: minor league teams. I get it. You know, it might
34:52
Speaker 3: be it might be a line on your ledger sheet,
34:54
Speaker 3: but you know who loses in this situation, whatever it was,
34:57
Speaker 3: whether he had the property in San Jose, whether he
35:00
Speaker 3: going to use it or he was using it as leverage.
35:03
Speaker 3: The millions of A's fans, the hundreds of former and
35:08
Speaker 3: current players who were A's fans when they were growing
35:11
Speaker 3: up and then became Major League Baseball players and their
35:14
Speaker 3: team has gone. That's who's losing in this. I don't
35:17
Speaker 3: care about that, he said. She said, dollars cents, millions
35:22
Speaker 3: and billions of dollars. Like the fans lose out. The
35:26
Speaker 3: fans came out to Oakland. When the fans banded together
35:32
Speaker 3: to show Oakland that to show the A's the organization
35:37
Speaker 3: that we don't like what you're doing, and they banded together,
35:39
Speaker 3: and you know what, they still got slapped in the face.
35:42
Speaker 3: They still got the team taken away. And I've never
35:44
Speaker 3: seen a city lose a team and a fan base
35:47
Speaker 3: go ah whatever, it was fine. But you know what,
35:50
Speaker 3: as much as you did lose your team in the
35:52
Speaker 3: A's getting rid of John Fisher and what he would
35:55
Speaker 3: have done had that ownership group gotten what they wanted,
35:59
Speaker 3: they would have just continued to be parasites to the
36:03
Speaker 3: fans in Oakland because they wanted them to pay for
36:06
Speaker 3: the stadium and they would have continued to make more
36:10
Speaker 3: and more money. So you know what, I get it.
36:12
Speaker 3: You lost your team and that sucks for true as fans,
36:16
Speaker 3: But you don't want that guy around you anyway. You
36:19
Speaker 3: don't want you don't want that to be the guy
36:22
Speaker 3: who owned your team. The best thing that could have
36:24
Speaker 3: happened was he sold it and somebody else kept the
36:26
Speaker 3: team in Oakland because I know there is a lot
36:29
Speaker 3: of fans that love, love, love the A's for years.
36:33
Speaker 1: Yeah, and he just tried to drag the Giants as
36:35
Speaker 1: the main reason why all of this isn't happening now.
36:39
Speaker 1: Does the Bay Area deserve to have two teams? Yes,
36:41
Speaker 1: they should absolutely be fielding two teams, and could San
36:45
Speaker 1: Jose field a team one billion percent? Great spot, right,
36:50
Speaker 1: But this will all prevent that. I'll finish it with this.
36:53
Speaker 1: I think you guys will like this, and I saved
36:55
Speaker 1: this for the end of the segment.
36:57
Speaker 3: Here.
36:58
Speaker 1: Do you guys know who he dedicated book to two people?
37:01
Speaker 1: We will dedicated the book to.
37:03
Speaker 3: John Fisher yep and Robby No No, Budd Ceelick, bud Selick.
37:11
Speaker 3: Dang it, I should have gotten that right away.
37:13
Speaker 1: He literally dedicated the book to the to the frat bros,
37:16
Speaker 1: John Fisher and Bud Selik. And I mean again, I
37:19
Speaker 1: didn't read the full book, so I'm sure he spoke
37:21
Speaker 1: about fans if he's not stupid.
37:23
Speaker 2: Two thousand and two twins that he ended Moneyball he
37:26
Speaker 2: dedicated it to the Oh wait, no, sorry.
37:28
Speaker 1: That would have been better talk we dedicating to fans
37:32
Speaker 1: would have been better too, But good job.
37:36
Speaker 3: I hope lost like just zero social awareness zero.
37:41
Speaker 1: I did send a note out. You know, we we
37:44
Speaker 1: try in every way to get any guests we can,
37:46
Speaker 1: and this probably is not going to help the cause.
37:48
Speaker 1: But I did send a note out to the publishing company.
37:52
Speaker 1: I haven't checked if they've replied to try and get
37:55
Speaker 1: him on the show, so I will let you know
37:58
Speaker 1: if I have any luck there. But in all seriousness,
38:01
Speaker 1: as much as I ripped him just now, I'd love
38:02
Speaker 1: for him to come on the show and defend or
38:05
Speaker 1: clarify anything that we went over, because to me, this
38:08
Speaker 1: is bonkers what he's talking about. All right, people, let's slap.
38:25
Speaker 1: Can we go to the Alec Minoa quote? Did you
38:30
Speaker 1: guys see this so you know Manoah's back. The media
38:36
Speaker 1: asked if he would potentially be interested in a little
38:39
Speaker 1: bit of a bullpen action, and he said, the big
38:44
Speaker 1: Leagues isn't for comfort. It's like the lion and the gazelle.
38:47
Speaker 1: The gazelle wakes up in the morning he knows he
38:50
Speaker 1: has to outrun the slowest lion or he's going to
38:52
Speaker 1: be dinner. And the lion wakes up in the morning
38:54
Speaker 1: knowing he's got to go catch the slowest gazelle so
38:56
Speaker 1: he can feed his family. Long story short, you've got
38:59
Speaker 1: to wake and run. That's the name of the game.
39:01
Speaker 1: So comfort level, Who cares about any of that stuff?
39:03
Speaker 1: Let's go play some baseball. So I mean he's down
39:06
Speaker 1: to do whatever at this point, as he should be. Aj.
39:09
Speaker 1: I mean he's still trying to find himself again.
39:14
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't I really understand this quote, but okay,
39:17
Speaker 2: I mean I always just say I don't have to
39:19
Speaker 2: be the slow I don't have to be the fastest
39:21
Speaker 2: guy in a group like we were just an africover Christmas.
39:23
Speaker 2: I don't have to be the fastest one of my family.
39:25
Speaker 2: I just don't have to be the slowest. So I
39:27
Speaker 2: think that's what he was trying to get at it.
39:28
Speaker 2: He just used it a little bit of you know
39:30
Speaker 2: which one are you gonna be? You're gonna be the
39:32
Speaker 2: hunter or the hunt did and he was trying to
39:34
Speaker 2: make a competition kind of thing about the big leagues.
39:37
Speaker 2: But I don't know. He did offer to come bent
39:39
Speaker 2: pitch out of the bullpen, so at least I'll give
39:40
Speaker 2: him credit for that.
39:42
Speaker 3: He was also asked if there was a comfort level
39:44
Speaker 3: thing that he would would he be comfortable pitching it
39:47
Speaker 3: out of the bullpen, and he said big leagues isn't
39:49
Speaker 3: about comfort, and his career right now hasn't been about comfort.
39:53
Speaker 3: I mean, he was he was miked everybody remembers he
39:56
Speaker 3: was miked up in the All Star Game. So I
39:58
Speaker 3: remember Alec Manoa was an All Star. Well, he's a
40:00
Speaker 3: long way and a couple of health injuries away from
40:05
Speaker 3: being even a big leaguer. So I think I love
40:08
Speaker 3: the quote. I mean it's kind of awkward, but I
40:10
Speaker 3: love the quote because the fact that you're one hundred
40:12
Speaker 3: percent right when you're an All Star. I think sometimes
40:14
Speaker 3: people think you're the lion and you're going around, prowling around,
40:18
Speaker 3: and you're just devouring all these gazelles that are gonna
40:21
Speaker 3: get sent down to the bushes. He feels like he's
40:23
Speaker 3: a gazelle right now. So he's like, you know what,
40:26
Speaker 3: if they need to be throwing the pen, I'm gonna
40:28
Speaker 3: come out there and I'm gonna throw in the pen.
40:30
Speaker 3: They need me to start, I'm gonna start. You need
40:32
Speaker 3: me to go back to back days, I might break
40:35
Speaker 3: down again.
40:37
Speaker 1: All right, Well, Kratsat's on the way out. We love you.
40:42
Speaker 3: Middle school semi finalists down in Hess, Georgia, the Hess Bears.
40:47
Speaker 3: Jordan sever sent it to me, so I appreciate you.
40:50
Speaker 1: Jordan Go Bears, right, aj Go Bears.
40:56
Speaker 3: Yeah, he can say it. You can say it. Come
40:59
Speaker 3: on center down.
41:01
Speaker 2: I'll say bear it down, Bear down like you.
41:04
Speaker 1: You like the Chicago Bears.
41:06
Speaker 2: So I just said bear it down right close enough?
41:09
Speaker 1: Yeah, he likes all the Bears.
41:11
Speaker 2: All rights.
41:14
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, baby Bears. He loves Baby Bears.
41:16
Speaker 1: He loves her Cubs.
41:18
Speaker 3: They're so I heard it. Clubs are winning again classic.
41:26
Speaker 1: Make sure you check out the New Swing for a
41:29
Speaker 1: daily shot to win game that's been around for a minute,
41:31
Speaker 1: but check out what it has for you. You can
41:33
Speaker 1: score bonuses and boost tokens in the bed MGM app.
41:36
Speaker 1: If you get a hit, that's when you can unlock something. Single, double, triple,
41:39
Speaker 1: or home run can help you unlock bonuses, boosts, stuff
41:44
Speaker 1: that we talk about within the app. If you get
41:46
Speaker 1: a hit, you win a prize and you could win
41:50
Speaker 1: not just a token or a parlay boost token, same
41:52
Speaker 1: game parlay boost token or even a fifty dollars bonus
41:55
Speaker 1: bet is one of the options there, depending on what
41:58
Speaker 1: kind of hit that you land. Gambling problem or concern
42:01
Speaker 1: called one eight hundred gambler