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Rafael Devers Will Play “Wherever” for the Giants · The 3-0 Take

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Three O Take where we talk
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all things Major League Baseball.
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Here's Kyle Corwin and Nate Reyes.
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It all starts right now. Welcome back to the Three O Take
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presented by Chinook Cedry this episode 546, I'll be your host,
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Kyle Corwin. I'm here with my Co host Nate
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Reyes. Nate.
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Casey, how are we, pal? I'm pretty, I'm pretty upset
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with myself. It's June 18th and I've yet to
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be to a Major League Baseball game this year.
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June 18th and the only game that I've been to is a Nashville
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Sounds game. I'm right there with you.
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For which I think I caught like 7 of the 9 Indians.
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Yeah, I'm right there with you. To be fair, I have.
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Been to a big game? Have I?
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Have I gone to this? I haven't gone this year.
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Yeah, the when you went to Denver.
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Oh, that's right. I was in.
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I was thinking, I don't know why I was picturing like, oh, I
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haven't been to chase this year. I haven't been to chase this
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year, but I totally forgot. That's right, you suck.
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I don't you. Suck.
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Thank you. And you have like way easier
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access to a lot of places. Dude, it's like right down the
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road. Well, getting into DC is no easy
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task, but but what's that? How's that phrase go by the way
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of the the crow, by the the way the bird, the way the crow
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flies. Yeah, it's a short, it's a short
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drive. And I have yet it's just, by the
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way, the the pigeon. No, no other birds, just crow.
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By the way, the pigeon rolls, I don't know.
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That's a spy. Pigeons are spies.
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We know this. That's.
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Yeah, that's very true. No, but I've just, I go back to
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my new, my resolution, my my New Year's resolution.
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I said I was going to go to more baseball games this year than I
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ever had in a single. Year, you're off to a rough
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start. That's a great start.
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What a joke. And I suck.
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Yeah, you know what else sucks? Adulting.
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The yeah, frozen pizza. Nah, frozen pizza is OK.
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Frozen pizzas in in the right context.
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Now. What sucks is the continued
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fallout of this Raphael Dever situation.
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I, I didn't anticipate it being wrapped up anytime soon.
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Like I didn't think it was going to be like, oh, he's traded,
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he's in San Francisco now. That's all that there is to the
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story. But to be fair, the last time we
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recorded it happened like an hour before we we talked about
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it. So we didn't have really a
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chance for things to, to really pan out for there to be any, any
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fallout, any, any sort of blowback.
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But boy, has there been some. Before I get into my thoughts,
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do you have any initial reactions to sort of what you've
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heard, what you've seen, what you've read?
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Yeah, I heard something about I don't, I didn't get to dig into
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it, so I'm hoping you can shed some light.
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And I don't know if this is where you want to start, but
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like I heard something about does John Henry own a soccer
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team as well? Liverpool.
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Oh, and they not a not a small football club, that's a big
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football club. And they just made a, a record
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size acquisition. I don't know.
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Don't ask me about soccer. Don't ask me about Liverpool.
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All I know is it required a a, a pretty penny from Fenway Sports
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Group and coincidentally just happened the same week that this
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whole thing with Raphael Devers went that where we're trying to
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maybe clear up some clear up some money.
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Is this tinfoil tinfoil hat worthy or is it just like
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everyone knows this it's kind of out.
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And it's, it's floating around out there for sure.
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But it's, it's, it's a matter of if John Henry has bigger, bigger
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fish to fry, if this is just a a fan conspiracy, or if there's
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any. It's hard to say.
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Money is money it it goes in different.
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Directions. Money, Money.
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Money, money. It goes in different directions.
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So that's something. I was just curious.
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I just saw, I wasn't sure if that was a real thing or not.
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Hey, Laura. I would say that was
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interesting. I would say last night Rafi
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Devers roping a ball in the gap for an RBI double was
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interesting in the City connects interesting.
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What do you think is 16, by the way?
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The number 16, you have nothing. You have no feel for for it.
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I, I was unaware that, I mean, maybe it's because I'm just not
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a Giants die hard. I was unaware that 11 was was
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unavailable for the Giants. Who's rocking that?
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What I didn't, I didn't look at that, look into that either.
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Nope, Not Phil Simms. We're talking San Francisco
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Giants. Is it Mel OTT?
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No, Mel, I was 4. Carl Hubble.
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Sure. You know him?
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You love him. Yeah, that's true.
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Yeah. You know, I don't know.
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I mean, it works. Whatever.
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I mean, giants. Giants got not have bad
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uniforms. To me, though, the big the big
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talking points here are are the comments that were made from
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from both sides. The I mean this this comment
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that I think made the most noise from Rafi Devers in his opening
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press conferences that I'm here to play wherever they want me to
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play. Yeah, that's a little
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interesting. To which Bob Melvin followed up
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saying that Rafael Devers would be, I think I read that he was
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not entertaining the the possibility of him playing third
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at any point, especially with with whenever Chapman comes
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back. But he, Bob Melvin said that
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Devers would play a little bit of DH and a little bit of first
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base. And I bet you, I bet you he's
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going to play first base at some point this weekend against the
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Red Sox. Because he said, he said
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himself, he said I'm going to take as many ground balls as I
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can in the next couple days. Yeah, just to be spiteful.
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I think that's the route you go if you're, if you're feeling, if
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you're feeling that way, you know.
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But this is going back to sort of what we talked about last
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episode. I this is a situation in which
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adults chose not to be adults. And you know, we we can sit here
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and look at how OK, well, if some of these things that have
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come to light in the day since the trade are true and maybe
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this just truly was a situation where they needed to clear the
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air and really clear his locker ultimately.
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OK, But I just like my goodness, man, we talk, as I've said it
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before, say it again. He's one of the best hitters in
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baseball. Like is there not just a way
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that you this isn't just Joe blow on your on your 40 man?
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Like this is Rafael Devers can and I'm looking at him too,
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Like, can you can we not come to a resolution here and and just
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make this work? Like I, I, I meant to tell you,
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I this evening, I finally, granted, I'm like half a year
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late at this point. I started the Red Sox
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documentary, the one that Netflix did.
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And I'm like a couple episodes in and I'm just sitting here
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watching Raffi like interact with some of the guys.
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And I'm like, because we let some sour grapes from the front
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office get in the way. Like we, no, we no longer have
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this kind of thing. I don't know, like, and then it
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we it it comes to light that Raphael Devers was willing to
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play first base for the Red Sox, but he wanted them to commit to
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him as their first baseman for the long haul and not just as a
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short term measure. This whole thing is a mess,
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dude. And and I don't, I don't know
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what camp to really set up shop. In that's kind of what I'm
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sensing. I'm sensing that from you and a
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lot of Red Sox fans is that like you don't, you don't know, Like
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you're obviously not thrilled with the club, but you're not
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willing to just like fully support and defend Rafi Devers,
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which is fair because like not a not much of what he's what he's
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done is is worth defending. But now you have like David
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Ortiz chipping in. Now you have Pedro chipping in,
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which is like making things a lot worse.
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The other thing is, is that I'm hearing he wasn't even really
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thoroughly shopped. Like I heard that no, he didn't
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really like the the Red Sox didn't look to too many places
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here. Like this was something that who
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knows if it was one of the first calls that they received or they
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made and just pulled trigger just to get it done.
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Which also seems super irresponsible on that end
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because I do feel like they got fleece and I do feel like there
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were probably teams willing to to offer more.
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Yeah, Craig Breslow said that the math, this came from his
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mouth. He said the math said that this
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was a good deal. This was the right time to do
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it. The math.
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What does that even mean? Like, I'm, I'm sitting here
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being told by Craig Breslow that like, yeah, I'm a I'm a former
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player. Like I think like a baseball
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player. That's how that's how this this
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series like, opens up. He's he's he's given his
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introductory talk to the club down at spring training.
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And he's like, yeah, I I I still think like, like I, I was a
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player longer than I've been in the front office.
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And that's going to be the case for at least another 10 years.
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Well, buddy, you're not going to be here in 10 years.
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First of all, sorry, but tell me that it's the math that led you
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to this decision. Like have some feel and I don't,
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we don't need to rehash the timing of it all, but it's just
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it's again, going back to the not knowing which camp to be in.
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It's difficult for me because, you know, I, I love Raffi.
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He wasn't, I didn't have I, I still don't really have a
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favorite player on this team. I mean, I, I didn't not like
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Raffi. He he rubbed me the wrong way
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sometimes, especially with with all this drama since spring
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training. That's how a place to be, by the
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way, not having a favorite player on your favorite team,
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yeah, it's not a comfortable place.
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I think, I think Duran has has sort of slotted into that role.
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Hammer story had. I just like the way they go
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about it. But no, the the thing I was
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going to say though is on the flip side, I do respect and I
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know I've I've taken my shots at Craig Breslow.
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However, if if there were issues caused by Rafael Devers that
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that would have prevented this team from moving forward and and
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being a singular units moving forward.
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I understand. And I know you're saying well,
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like figure out a way you in one in in one breath you're saying
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we'll figure out a way to fix it and then the other say get rid
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of it. It's not what I'm saying.
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We won't truly fully know the entire story.
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All I'm saying is if Rafael Devers had a, had a, a role to
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own in this, OK, you know what? It sucks, but we're we're going
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to have to move on. However, like I said, the Red
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Sox do have a history of, of kicking you, kicking you on the
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way out the door when they when they, when they do show you the
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door. So again, I'm I'm sort of in the
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middle here. I don't really know which way to
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go with it. But at the end of the day, he's
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gone as if you're the Red Sox. You kind of have to move on.
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It seems like Alex Gora has gotten to a point with
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responding to inquiries about this whole deal that he's he's
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just taking it at face value, like, you know, it is what it
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is. Almost.
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Almost in a cold. In a cold way.
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I wanted to ask you about that too, because like, how much are
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are we, can we put some blame in Cora's camp for kind of losing
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control of this situation a little bit?
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Like I know it's not fully on him.
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Like Ralph, he's. A grown man, but I don't think
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he knew that this was happening. I, I, I genuinely don't think he
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knew this was happening. Because if you're Alex, like if
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you're Alex Cora, and you catch even the slightest wind that
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your best hitter is being shipped across the country, you
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don't think that you're going to you're going to make a a little
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bit of a noise or you're at least going to make an effort to
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bring it to a halt. But if John Henry, who has the
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ultimate say when it comes to money in these contracts, if he
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says no, I want to lighten my my checkbook and make my pockets a
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little heavier, then this is what has to be done, Craig.
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So go ahead and take care of business.
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So Craig's left with no other option but then to, as the great
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philosopher Lil Wayne said, move in silence like lasagna.
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So that's that's where we're at. And so I don't think Alex Gore
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had any any true knowledge of what what was really happening
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here. I don't know.
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Yeah, I expel. I don't, I mean, I don't, I
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don't, I don't want to beat a dead horse here because
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obviously it's like, what's the point of, of talking about
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something that's, you know, ties have already been cut, but like.
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No, it's it's just the aftermath of it where it's this is this is
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classic. It's not even just baseball.
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It's a sports thing. Like you, you're going to have
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the fallout where both sides are trying to craft a narrative.
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You're trying to do damage control.
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And you know, some of the things that are coming about coming out
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about Rafael Devers in that damning Yahoo Sports article
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that were I mean, just on on both sides it there was just
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acknowledging the fact that the Red Sox are organizationally are
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a mess right now, which. Do you agree?
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For sure. OK.
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The power struggle is how you would describe it with Alex
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Gore, Craig Breslow, John Henry, like nobody really knows what's
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going on. Nobody knows who wants what at
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the end of the day. But then you you find out that
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or it was reported rather, that Devers was upset when Christian
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Campbell volunteered to play first base.
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I saw that. I saw that which is.
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Dude, I don't know. All I know is at the end of the
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day, I I go back to what I said at some point last episode in
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that I'm I'm you know, it's going to be laundry over player
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every time and. Yeah, unfortunately, it's, it's
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how our it's how our sicko brains operate.
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Before we move on, you sent me a little a little snippet of an
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article referring to something that you and I talk about
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regularly on this podcast, which is a lack of fundamentals being
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taught at in the in the, you know, lower system.
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I'm not just pointing at the Red Sox and saying this, but like,
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you can speak to that a little bit, right?
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Like you've seen it a little bit.
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They're not they're struggling defensively this year.
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Like that's kind of a thing. They're the worst offensive team
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in baseball. I, I, I think it's, I think it's
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just a really, really perfect unfortunate cocktail of a lot of
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things mixing up. And I'm not going to say I'm
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fully out because like a lot of people had this team winning the
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division this year and they're in a playoff spot currently.
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But I genuinely can't imagine with all of these things
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happening, I can't imagine a successful year this year.
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My only hope as a fan of this team is that, and you know, if
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you're a fan of any team, you hope for this whenever there's
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conflicts, whenever, whenever an issue arises internally,
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externally, whatever it may be, you just hope that the team is
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capable of rallying together and, and in this case, ignoring
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the front office. But you don't really have our
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best intentions in mind. Like you're, you're here
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protecting each other's interests.
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You're each and you're here that.
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Brings up another point, man trying to protect.
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Each other's checkbooks? Check.
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Protect each other's jobs. How likely are they are?
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Are some of these guys to be willing to sign an extension?
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Like if that's what you're seeing, like I no, you're not
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going to be an idiot. If I'm, if I'm in the position
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of Roman Anthony, I'm not, I'm not going to be an idiot and say
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like, I'm going to turn down money.
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But like if I'm looking at a situation and saying, OK,
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realistically, am I on the trajectory of a Mookie Betts or
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Rafi Devers or a Xander Bogarts? Because like, if I'm of that
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caliber and I'm succeeding and I'm hearing all the things I
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want to hear, like at some point there's going to be something in
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the back of my mind that's like, well, if it happened to those
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guys, it could happen to me too. It's interesting, man.
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And I'm just wondering like, how long that stink, that stench of
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mismanagement sticks around and money talks.
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Not going to sit here and say that no one's going to be
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willing to sign an extension there because of those examples.
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But like, you're also not just having this conversation alone
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with these organizations. Agencies know this.
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Agencies have seen this. The proof is in the pudding of
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how guys have been treated in the past.
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And that conversation, you better believe if that agent
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knows what he's doing is going to be brought up.
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I think it's weird. I think it's a very strange
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scenario going on. And I think there's a very large
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ripple effect from this. And it overall, like my stance
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is shame on the Red Sox front office, shame on Craig Breslow.
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And and if it did in fact come to an emotional dispute, which
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let's be honest, that's what it was, it's feelings getting hurt.
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If that's what it comes down to and you move a cornerstone piece
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prematurely without fully vetting other options and
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maximizing the return full full shame on you.
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You know the saying, Kyle, don't fart in my face and tell me it
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smells good, baby, you can't. Been a whole lot of that the
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last four years. That's right.
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You've been farted in the face a lot, just lied to.
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Speaking of lies, Speaking of lies, Nate, is it a lie that the
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Dodgers and Padres have the best rivalry in baseball right now?
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Not a lie. Because I was told that it was
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I, I, I in fact, in fact, I was told that it's not even a
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rivalry at all. Which, oh, we were told the.
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Giants are the one that. Correct.
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No, I'm well, sure. Max Muncie and and others I'm
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sure. But I'm talking about people in
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the mentions telling me that it is in fact not even a rivalry at
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all. Forget like second tier or or
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even top tier rivalry. It's not a rivalry at all.
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Which to me, if I know how the average fan operates, that tells
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me that it is a rivalry and that there's some insecurities there.
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Because if you were so bothered by this team, you wouldn't be
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trying to get out in front of this narrative saying oh it's
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not a it's not a rivalry at all. Our we're not bothered at all by
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them. Classic rent free mindset.
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Yeah, I concur. I concur.
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Rookie sounds upset. He's he's pissed.
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About we heard about we heard about the Devers.
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So I, I told him I'm like, buddy, this is really the last
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day we can, we can really dwell on this, but here we are.
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Yeah, it's fair. It's understandable.
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I don't know, man. I mean, look, it's it's must
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watch TV every time they match up.
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And I know I know Shohei first time on the bump.
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It was only for an inning and it didn't look great.
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Didn't look awful, but didn't look great.
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But that matchup was cease like ignore the box score, ignore the
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result. Like overall, everyone wanted to
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tune into that game if he could. Like that's a game that you want
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to watch and it's fireworks every time they play.
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And it doesn't have to be solely driven on every.
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I I don't think it needs to be solely about regular season
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games, but like if they're matching up been postseason
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matchups the way and especially like last year, that was
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electric. It's been electric.
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I can't imagine a better matchup right now.
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And like you and I talked about like maybe the Sox and Yanks are
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like starting to come back, but it's it's goes dormant for a
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while. If one of those teams has a
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rough stretch, which they're both currently in, in a little
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bit of a rough stretch, it's not super exciting.
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Then you have attitude on the Padres you don't necessarily
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have and that other match, like what are they saying?
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Are they still saying Red Sox, Yankees?
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Are they like what are the rivalries?
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close? No, it I think it's Dodgers fans
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jumping out and in in front of this saying it's still the
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Giants. And I'm just like, first of all,
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like I'm just trying to well, no disrespect, but I'm just trying
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to make sense of like why you're so adamant on on saying that it
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on making this Giants Dodgers thing a rivalry when in in
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reality, 9 out of 10 non Dodger, non, we'll just call it non NL
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West baseball fans can look at this at from an from an outside
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point of view. Granted, we're not in the thick
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of it like you guys are, but we can look at, we can watch a
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baseball game uninvested and be like, Oh yeah, hands down these
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two teams, these two teams paid each other right now.
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And I'm not saying that's not the case with the Dodgers and
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Giants, but like as we've talked about with the Red Sox and
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Yankees, robberies can ebb and flow.
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And right now, the post I put out today, I said currently, is
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this the best rivalry in baseball, which I believe it is.
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But I had people tell me it was Dodgers and Giants.
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I said you had. You had people playing for the
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Dodgers last October say that that was the toughest match up
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that they had. I would put.
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Here's my order. I would put Dodgers, Padres won.
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I'd probably put like, I'd put like the NL E over Dodgers
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Giants. That's what you know what I'm
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saying. Like I'd put like Phillies,
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Braves or like Phillies Mets or Braves, Mets or one of those
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matchups over Dodgers, Giants. Bro, I had somebody Hold on.
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Let's. Not get too much of the recency
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bias because let's be real, the Giants haven't really been
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relevant until this year. I had somebody that I had
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somebody in the compensated Rangers, Seattle as a close
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second like. I don't know what planet are we
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on? I.
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I don't know, man. I I truly have no idea.
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Anyway, yeah, the the hit by pitch it was well, you had Andy
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Pius believe that he was intentionally hit Monday and
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then you had Mike Shield coming out and saying like, who do you
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think you are? And then Manny Machado had the
25:48
comment about we wouldn't hit him.
25:51
We've got they've got other big dogs to hit.
25:53
And then Andy Pahas comes out the next, I think it was the
25:55
next night, last night AS2 bombs.
26:01
But they what was interesting though, or not even interesting.
26:04
It was just funny. Was the the Otani hit by pitch
26:11
brought like the fan. You can just tell the fans are
26:13
losing it. Yeah.
26:16
In the stands. And meanwhile, you've got Shohei
26:18
down. At first, she's laughing up a
26:20
storm. Yeah, talking it up with Louise
26:23
Rice. And I'm like this guy, this guy
26:25
is so above just, he is a rivalry, bad blood.
26:30
He doesn't care. He's just like, man, I'm just
26:31
happy to be here. Yeah, it's as I I want to
26:36
dislike him. I'd like to dislike him, No.
26:39
You don't. Why would you want to?
26:41
No. Why would you want to?
26:42
Dislike him because everyone's on his jock and that annoys me.
26:48
And then I look at him and I watch him play and I'm just
26:50
like, Dang it. That's not.
26:53
Just so likable. Whatever.
27:03
What did you Eileen Padres, by the way?
27:05
Any time I watch those matchups, I always have.
27:09
I did, but and anyone that was saying it's kind of the one on
27:13
series last year, No, it was before that.
27:16
Hey, you said it. I mean, I don't know.
27:19
I don't know you. Leaned of leaned Padres in that
27:23
matchup for a while. You took that stance pretty
27:25
hard. Has anybody actually said this
27:28
or you just shown your true colors here?
27:30
Like, are you actually a little upset with the way last year
27:32
went? Yes, but that has nothing to do
27:35
with this, has it? Kind of sounds like.
27:38
A. Has it caused it to grow?
27:40
Sure. Has the reasoning gone up since
27:44
then? Sure.
27:47
I mean, let's be honest, everybody loves a good underdog
27:49
story. And in in this in this match up,
27:53
they are as you know what, I'll give Dodgers fans credit, always
27:58
talking about how the Padres, the little brother, they are the
28:00
little brother. I don't think it would who?
28:02
Well, maybe outside the Padres fans, nobody's denying that.
28:04
Nobody's denying that the Padres, the little brother
28:08
Dodgers, obviously have the track record.
28:10
Yeah. But to say that this is not the
28:15
the best rivalry in baseball going right now is insane crazy.
28:24
Let's talk about the hey, no, you know what this let's.
28:28
Is it time? This deserves, no, this
28:30
deserves. Let's see, what do I want to hit
28:34
it with? Let's just go classic.
28:53
Oh, we're not allowed to play that anymore, Head.
28:55
Sorry, Murray. Shout out, shout out the New
29:02
York Yankees for. Scraping across a couple runs
29:09
for. Scoring a run.
29:12
I'm not talking a couple, just a run.
29:13
That's, that's all. We as baseball fans, you know,
29:16
we just, we're like, come on, just just one.
29:21
How about how about tonight? No.
29:24
How? OK, Well, how about tomorrow
29:25
night? No.
29:26
How about the next night? No.
29:29
No 30. What, what did it, what it was
29:34
it? Final tally, 31 in a third
29:37
inning, scoreless. Nate, what's going on, man?
29:41
They were shut out three straight nights.
29:44
I would say now I'll I'll be nice three straight shutouts.
29:55
The first time they've been shut out three straight games since
29:58
2016. Where are we at with the game
30:01
tonight? They're currently riding A5 game
30:03
losing streak. They're down one in the bottom
30:07
of the eighth Oh so this will be fun.
30:08
We get to look at the. Catch the end of this?
30:10
Explain to you how things are going right now.
30:12
It's first and second. No outs.
30:16
Trent Grisham up, squares around a bunt foul, ends up being in a
30:24
21 count, decides to swing away and pops it up to the catcher.
30:32
So that's where this team is at at the moment.
30:35
And I don't I, I feel like all the things that were supposed to
30:40
be solved have started to rear its ugly head again.
30:45
We saw a miserable base running examples in the Red Sox series.
30:50
Seen it again. We're trying to avoid a sweep of
30:53
the Los Angeles Angels. That's where we're at at the
30:57
moment. It's crazy.
31:01
I don't, I don't know. No one did.
31:05
Boone is just like, oh, it just happens, No?
31:10
Coming into the day, the offense during the stretch of or during
31:15
the span rather of those 29 Indians coming into today, they
31:19
were slashing 17229 and 2:10. They had just 17 hits.
31:26
They had struck out 32 times to a measly eight walks.
31:32
Five runs in six games. Five runs in six games.
31:37
I think the Red Sox broke the Yankees.
31:40
I. Think so too.
31:43
Like the Red Sox broke themselves right, but also broke
31:47
the angry. Well, that's the that's the
31:50
thing about like all credit the Red Sox, they play the Yankees
31:56
so well because they like, they scout them so well.
31:59
Like they just, they know, like, they know that like, we can
32:02
steal bases against you, we can take extra bases against you and
32:07
we can force the issue on you defensively and it's typically
32:09
going to make you look bad. And I was kind of like shook
32:16
with how they just went right, a judge and like, didn't care.
32:22
But it was like, we're just going to come right out.
32:25
And it worked. And I think he was shocked.
32:28
I think everyone was shocked. He pressed Anthony Volbeak.
32:31
I'm done with Anthony. I'm out.
32:33
I'm fully, fully out. I don't care what he does the
32:35
rest of the year. I'm out.
32:36
I'm done. It's miserable to watch.
32:39
He sucks at short. He's always sucked at short.
32:42
And the Gold Glove is a fluke. He's miserable with routine
32:46
ground balls. I'm I'm out.
32:52
Do I have your permission to clip that just as a stand alone?
32:55
Save it, I'm out. I'm ready for our guy George
32:59
Lombard to come up who looks like an actual shortstop and
33:03
doesn't put his knee down when he gets regular ground balls hit
33:06
to him. Judge over 4 on the night.
33:10
You hate to see it long term though.
33:16
Long term though, looking at looking at the entirety of the
33:20
American League, how how do you how do you describe the Yankees
33:31
chances? We'll just call it.
33:36
How do you think they would do in the post season right now in
33:41
the at least through the lens of the American League?
33:44
Because we know what the Tigers are doing.
33:46
They're as real as it gets. I think right now I, I don't
33:49
think it's a surprise to anybody, even the people like me
33:52
and possibly you that had the Royals.
33:55
No, you didn't have the Royals. Did you have the Tigers,
33:58
Guardians, even people like us that didn't have the Tigers
34:01
coming out of the out of the division?
34:05
I still think we can't be. We can't be surprised.
34:07
Maybe we underestimated them, sure, but I don't think we can
34:10
be surprised at what they're doing.
34:12
How do you How do you think the Yankees stack?
34:15
Up in 1/2 game lead. That's what I'm saying.
34:18
How do you think the Yankees stack up in this mix?
34:20
Because I think at the start of the season, the conversation was
34:23
like, OK, the Tigers, the Yankees, the Rangers, the Red
34:28
Sox were another team sort of pegged to come out of the out of
34:32
the mix or out of the out of the the dust, if you will, when it
34:36
was all said and done. I I mean, how complete or
34:43
incomplete do you think the Yankees are right now?
34:50
Because the Tigers right now going back to the Tigers,
34:52
they're doing it on both sides of the ball.
34:54
Like they're top, I think they're top five in team ERA,
34:57
they're top five in team OPS, doing it on both sides of the
35:00
ball. But with the Yankees
35:01
specifically, how do you think they, how do you think they
35:03
stack up? Could the I don't think they're
35:07
better in the Tigers. I mean I.
35:09
Think, could they go on a run? Yeah, that's currently
35:13
constructed. Yeah, I think so.
35:14
But like that when fully healthy, like Luke Weaver's back
35:19
closer roll is like shirt up kind of thing standing now back
35:24
like that conversation. Yeah, I think I think they're I
35:30
think they could go on a run. I think I don't think they're
35:32
bad. I do still think they're a more
35:34
complete team than they were last year.
35:36
And we saw that team go on a run whether they deserve to be in
35:41
that position or not as a different conversation.
35:45
I it depends on a deadline, man. And I'd like, I don't want to
35:50
put it all on that, but like the Tigers need a little rotational
35:55
help. And I do think that is up for
35:57
grabs at the deadline. I don't see a ton of other
36:02
things they need. I think it's just rotation depth
36:07
to be able to get through the postseason.
36:08
That's kind of how I look at the Tigers.
36:10
Outside of that, you're good. The Yankees need rotational
36:15
depth, they need a second or third baseman, they need
36:20
right-handed pop. They need at least one arm in
36:25
the bullpen, if not 2. So like that's a lot of that's a
36:28
lot of deadline stuff. And I don't know, I don't know
36:35
if I don't know if they can plug every hole.
36:39
So I think they're fine. Obviously this stretch sucks and
36:45
every team has it at some point. It's just it's giving me it's
36:51
giving me vibes that it's given the past few years, we're like
36:53
the lows are very, very low and the Tigers don't seem that way.
36:59
And I would I would even argue that Houston doesn't even really
37:02
fully seem that way. Who, by the way, the Mariners
37:08
are just absolutely coughed it up again, and we're not really
37:11
talking about that enough. Just fully handed that over.
37:18
What? What is the AL?
37:23
What is it? It's a mess.
37:25
It's gross. You know what else is a mess,
37:28
Nate? Is this credit cannon situation?
37:30
I think it's. Time we addressed.
37:32
It last episode I was intending to release a statement because
37:39
it was brought to my attention that maybe there were some
37:44
illegitimacy regarding the Ballistics, the weaponry being
37:51
used in said credit Canon. Yeah, you can be there.
37:54
You can hear the hammer being drawn back on a.
37:57
Right, which my response in the DMS was that I simply I I picked
38:06
the 1st result when I typed in Canon sound and didn't think
38:12
twice about it. Sure.
38:16
And I've had multiple people bring this to my attention.
38:20
That is not, in fact, a Canon. So I have prepared a statement
38:24
for which I will read to you and to the public.
38:30
Visa V. Visa V.
38:36
Here's my statement. It has come to my attention that
38:43
the sound effect used during the credit Canon segment may not in
38:48
fact, be an actual Canon, some have suggested.
38:54
Excuse me, Sir, in the gallery. Silence, please.
38:58
We're going to start over. It has come to my attention that
39:01
the sound effect used during the credit Canon segment may not in
39:05
fact be an actual Canon. Some have suggested, with what I
39:10
can only describe as unnerving confidence, that the audio more
39:14
closely resembles a bolt action rifle.
39:18
While I am not a licensed Ballistics expert, more
39:21
particularly well versed in 18th century artillery acoustics, I
39:26
do acknowledge the possibility that the current sound lacks the
39:29
explosive grandeur traditionally associated with cannon fire.
39:35
Grandeur. I'm actively monitoring this
39:38
situation. Should enough listeners and or
39:41
viewers voice their concern organically, publicly, and in a
39:45
manner that suggests this actually matters, I may consider
39:49
transitioning to a more sonically appropriate blast in a
39:52
future episode, perhaps even as soon as next week.
39:59
Until then, the Credit Cannon remains an active service.
40:04
Technical classification pending.
40:06
There will be no questions. Are there any questions?
40:15
How much of ChatGPT wrote that for you?
40:22
There will be no questions. Yeah, it offends me that that
40:29
was your first. That was your first comment to
40:31
everything that I just read off. Yeah.
40:38
So we're just going to ride it out, is what you're saying until
40:41
then. Until, I mean, I've had people,
40:44
I mean, we've talked about it. People are complaining about
40:46
the, the sound being too loud, the the weapon being used in the
40:51
sound. Like I just said, the people are
40:53
talking about how they've, they've almost died driving off
40:59
the road, how it wakes their spouse up.
41:02
Look, I don't know what you want me to do.
41:06
Do you just want me to disband the segment all together?
41:09
Yeah, I need you to be better. You just want us to get rid of
41:12
the the credit cannon all together, because I can do that
41:14
you. Need a whole week to find a new
41:16
sound? Well, we do these, which is
41:19
something else that I think it took people way too long to pick
41:22
up on. We only do these on like the
41:24
Wednesday, the weekday, the weekday episode, not the not the
41:27
sun, not the weekend, not the first of the week episode.
41:30
Yeah. So it would have to wait till
41:31
next week if my math serves me correct, assuming that I'm not
41:36
changing it tonight. So just to clarify, you wrote
41:43
that statement, not ChatGPT, and instead of using that time to
41:48
find a new Canon sound, you wrote that, not ChatGPT.
41:54
No, because I like the sound and I'm going to need enough, I'm
41:57
going to need enough of an of an uproar from these people to
42:01
actually justify a change in the sound.
42:03
Otherwise they can stick. They can just deal with the bolt
42:06
action rifle credit cannon. You're going to say something
42:08
else. You're going to.
42:09
You say stick what? Whatever.
42:14
That's my statement. There will be no questions.
42:18
Are there any questions? No, it's time.
42:23
It's time for the credit cannon. Ellie De La Cruz over the last
42:46
seven days coming into today hitting 429 with 9 hits, 4
42:51
homers, 7 RBIs and an OPS of 1548 in five games.
43:00
Over again the last seven days. Murray's getting fired come into
43:05
well, Murray needs headphones coming into today or as of the
43:11
16th LA De La Cruz. This is credit to Red's muse on
43:16
Twitter. Leads all of NL shortstops.
43:21
Minimum of 30 games in Homer's RB is runs, games, total bases,
43:29
extra base hits, stolen bases, slugging, NOPS.
43:38
That's pretty good. That is pretty good.
43:43
That's good. Credit Canyon.
43:46
It's worthy. The Reds, on the other hand, not
43:50
so much. No.
43:51
And by the way, you had thrown out see, and this is another
43:56
point to the credit candidate where I think people just
43:59
question my integrity with this segment.
44:01
They think I'd just like throw anybody in there if they bring
44:03
it up. No, like there's a, there's a
44:04
true, there's a vetting process that takes place.
44:07
I don't just, if you just hit me up like, hey, I think this guy
44:09
belongs in there. I'm just not going to
44:11
automatically put him in. You had mentioned Jeremy Pena,
44:14
Nate, there was a list, there was a list longer than probably
44:21
50 worthy names ahead of Jeremy Pena, unfortunately.
44:28
So I'm not entirely sure. What stretch are you looking at
44:31
like the previous week? Are you looking at the previous
44:34
month? Because there was a handful of
44:38
other deserving names that I did, unfortunately didn't make
44:41
the cut tonight. You don't need to out me like
44:44
that. Well, you know, you're throwing
44:48
out accusate wild accusations about ChatGPT and my my
44:53
statement are some accusations, correct?
44:58
Well, we're just trying to keep it transparent here.
45:02
So I just wanted to bring that to your attention and and let
45:07
you know that I did entertain. I, I, I I considered it was it
45:11
was brought into consideration. I was just bringing up Jerry
45:13
payment Jeremy Pena because he has a the third best war in
45:18
baseball. So I figured that might have
45:22
that's that might have brought that.
45:24
Can't be true. That's what are you looking at.
45:29
He's just behind Pete Crowe, Armstrong and Judge, and above
45:36
Paul Skeens. Hold the phones.
45:41
What are we talking about? Hold on pumps.
45:47
That's what I was looking at. What?
45:56
Yeah. Jeremy.
46:06
I feel like you owe me an apology.
46:07
That hey, that's that's, you know what?
46:14
Is that your apology? Jeremy Payne.
46:17
Yeah, Jeremy Payne, you with the last a last minute addition to
46:20
the Credit Canon segment today purely for his shocking 3rd
46:28
place position on the world leaders.
46:32
Chart. Yeah, good.
46:35
Third. How's it feel?
46:37
Good for Jeremy Pena. It doesn't feel good.
46:41
Good doesn't feel good. That's.
46:43
What I want to hear. Next up.
46:53
Trey Turner over the last week coming into today, hitting 4/17
47:07
with two homers, 4 ribbies and an OPS at 12:31.
47:14
Trey Turner National League ranks amongst National League
47:18
ranks among shortstops coming into today.
47:22
First in hits, first in average, first in on base, second in OPS,
47:27
tied for second in Double S, tied for first in triples and
47:31
2nd no, second in swipes and 2nd in runs scored.
47:35
Nice Trey. Trey Turner.
47:43
Nice. By the way, that's a guy for
47:45
some reason, and I think I've seen more commentary, more
47:48
dialogue back and forth on whether or not his contract is
47:53
the worst in the history of baseball or if he's worth every
47:57
penny. Because I've seen strong
47:59
arguments for both. And I think Phillies fans are
48:01
just fickle when it comes to Trey Turner because I think the
48:05
narrative switches everyday. But I'm a Trey Turner truther
48:13
and will always be a Trey Turner truther.
48:15
Yeah, I like Trey Turner. I like Trey Turner, I like him
48:19
in Philly. I like to fit.
48:21
I've always liked to fit. I like him in AUSA uniform as
48:25
well. Never forget.
48:27
So I don't get it. I mean, just be nice if you are
48:35
angry. I don't know, I just yelled at
48:40
Anthony Volpe, so whatever, what do I do?
48:44
Hunter Goodman. A rocky over the hey, you know
48:50
what this is a good moment to give Hunter Goodman his flowers
48:55
because while I still maintain that we need to do away with
49:00
every team needs to be represented thing for strictly
49:05
the the purposes of what we've seen in the last two years with
49:08
the White Sox and Rockies. You do have a guy that's that's
49:12
certainly worthy, although is not going to start being All
49:18
Star game because I don't know if you've seen Will Smith, I
49:20
think. Let me check.
49:22
Will Smith is, yeah. Bro Will Smith has the second
49:27
highest as of yesterday, had the second highest margin over the
49:32
2nd place player behind him at his position, Aaron Judge.
49:37
Aaron Judge's margin yesterday was 893,000.
49:41
Will Smith was 716,000. Yeah, it's good.
49:47
Solid. A larger margin than Cal
49:49
Raleigh, I might add. Yeah.
49:51
Who's right behind him at 672 I. Mean one can argue Will Smith is
50:02
better this year. But Cal Raleigh, a larger margin
50:08
than Cal Raleigh, that speaks more to the no.
50:11
That speaks more to the popularity contest that is All
50:14
Star voting. I digress.
50:16
Hunter Volpee just struck out to complete the back-to-back
50:19
sweeps, but. Hunter Goodman hitting over the
50:23
last two weeks hitting 333, five homers, 12 ribbies and an OPS of
50:29
1123 coming into the day. Hunter Goodman in the month of
50:34
June coming into today, Leeds Baseball with 7 homers, 15
50:38
ribbies and a 356 average. Credit to Hunter Goodman.
50:46
Cal O'Reilly has 27 home runs. I I looked it up today, him and
50:52
Aaron Judge. Here's a little here's a little
50:54
nugget for you. Him and Aaron Judge have more
50:59
home runs combined then. All of one team the.
51:07
Royals franchise, the Royals lineup and the Pirates lineup,
51:14
which, you know, Pirates, whatever, but the Royals.
51:17
It's embarrassing. Those two guys alone, more home
51:21
runs than your entire team. Royals, we got to do better.
51:25
Jack had little. We got to do better too, man.
51:27
Like, I know you, I know you just got here, but like, just a
51:30
little, just a little something. Where are we at here on the
51:35
critical Canon? Next up, shots fired.
51:48
Shots fired. Ryan Peppio, 2 and one with an
51:52
ERA of 162 with 37 strikeouts over his last five starts.
52:01
His last start against the Orioles he went 8 innings,
52:04
allowed just four hits, gave up one, and run 11 KS to two walks.
52:10
On the year he's sporting a 311 with a WHIP of 110, four and
52:16
six. O so not great there, but.
52:18
Who cares in the glass now? Trade.
52:22
He was. I'm glad you brought that up,
52:23
Nate. I've got a tweet from Adam the
52:25
sports fan that I wanted to reference since the trade for
52:29
Tyler Glass, now Manuel Margo in exchange for Ryan Peppio and
52:35
Johnny DeLuca. Tyler Glass now has a 361 in 152
52:41
innings. Ryan Pepio, A34-O in 219
52:45
innings. Just this is what the Rays do,
52:48
bro. They know.
52:50
They know more than us. They know more than everyone.
52:59
The Rays are better than all of us.
53:05
We owe our lives to the Rays. Yeah.
53:11
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think. They're hitting the road soon
53:15
aren't they? For like 8 weeks.
53:19
I think so. I think I read in the chat they
53:23
came. I mean, I've got the game
53:24
that's. Actually a good point.
53:25
Not to interrupt you, but Ryan Pepio doing this for majority of
53:28
games being in that tiny ballpark is crazy.
53:34
What? Like the Rays being at at
53:37
Steinbrenner Field for Oh, you're just this this year,
53:40
Yeah. Like since the trade?
53:42
I know like this year, like having these numbers this year,
53:46
all while doing it in that ballpark is that's that's
53:49
impressive bro, sure. Now you're good.
53:55
No I what I was saying is I think I saw it in the chat that
53:58
the with the OS up 8 nothing, the olds were up 8 nothing and
54:04
currently. Coughed it up.
54:05
Yeah, the. Rays, Orioles.
54:08
I can't. I can't with this team anymore,
54:10
man. I can't.
54:11
The worst, The worst. You know who's not the worst?
54:15
Jameson Tayon 4 and O with an ERA of two O 821 strikeouts over
54:22
his last four starts dating back to May 26th, has allowed four or
54:28
fewer hits in six straight starts.
54:31
Granted, I didn't see did the game today?
54:34
No. Yeah.
54:35
Did the game today get postponed?
54:39
Yeah. The Cubs game, Yeah.
54:45
Confirmed. Yeah, he was supposed to start
54:47
today. So everything still all this
54:49
still holds up. 4 fewer hits in six straight starts on the year.
54:53
He's pitching to a a a nice 348 with a WHIP of .98.
55:01
He's he's, he's racking up the strikeouts, granted at a
55:05
somewhat of an alternating rate going back to May 14th.
55:09
Granted, going back to May 14th, he's thrown six or more Indians
55:12
every every time out, so that's encouraging.
55:15
But his strikeout log, starting with that May 14th outing, he's
55:19
gone in order to to date 727257. So from a fantasy perspective,
55:32
maybe you just pick them up every other start.
55:34
I don't, I don't know, whatever. If you're looking for
55:37
strikeouts. And now it's 8 to 12 in in
55:43
George Steinbrenner Field at George Steinbrenner Field.
55:49
Worthless. O's.
55:52
Worthless. Closing the book here, last
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thing I got. Butt bumps in the dugout right
55:58
now. Hey, that's just what the Rays
56:00
do, baby butt bumps and dubs closing the book Nick
56:08
Castellanos bench the other day for, quote, an inappropriate
56:12
comment. Yeah.
56:15
Saw that ending ending a pretty lengthy streak.
56:20
Yeah, it wasn't like pushing 300 or I can't remember what, what
56:23
the exact number was, but it was impressive.
56:26
I mean, not Cal Ripken impressive, but you know, for
56:28
modern day standards, modern day standards, not bad.
56:34
But you know what was funny? What's funny about that
56:36
situation? Nick Castianos makes an
56:40
inappropriate comment. He gets a day off.
56:44
If we were to make an inappropriate comment at our
56:47
place of work, we would be sent to HR.
56:53
It's an excellent point, probably written up.
57:02
Just wanted to throw that out there just in case.
57:04
In case you. Appropriate comment by the way.
57:06
No Philly, Rob said. He just wanted to leave it at
57:10
that. Has Philly Rob lost the fanbase,
57:15
you think? Well, if.
57:19
It's anything the way it like the way they treat Trey Turner.
57:22
I think there's going to be a sort of an alternating narrative
57:28
on a day by day basis where we love this guy, we'll go to the
57:34
gates of hell for this guy. Yeah, they just Guy should have
57:36
been gone last year. Quite a bit until it's like post
57:40
season time, like we've been riding this guy all year, like
57:43
you know what I mean? That's being a baseball fan.
57:46
Been in his camp all year. Yeah, it's fair.
57:51
I also saw, going back to the Cassie thing, I did see a theory
57:56
proposed that with all of what's going on right now in the Middle
58:00
East with Iran, that Philly Rod was actually looking out for
58:04
America and that he didn't want, he didn't want, he didn't want
58:09
Cassie going deep and. Good point.
58:12
Only starting World War three. Good point.
58:16
Good point. Because whenever that day does
58:18
come, he'll he'll definitely go yeah, yeah.
58:22
Keep an eye out for any Castellanos home runs like.
58:26
Immediately check. I mean, that's that's the norm.
58:29
That is the norm. Now you, you immediately go, you
58:32
go to the news feed, you see, like who, who passed away?
58:36
Yeah, what World News has has taken place?
58:40
That's the norm. But to your point, yeah, now we
58:43
got to be keep an eye out for World War 3.
58:45
So yeah, Nick just maybe hit a cold streak for a little while.
58:49
Huh. Exactly.
58:50
Thanks. That's all I got.
58:52
You got anything before we get out of here?
58:56
Speaking of World War Three, we just finished a new show called
59:00
Paradise on Hulu. Phenomenal.
59:04
This man phenomenal. There's only one.
59:07
Just blows through shows more than any would have ever seen
59:11
like in. Episodes Guy.
59:13
How many? 8.
59:14
That's like 4 movies. Yeah, a couple weeks.
59:22
And you guys just finished that game show one that you
59:25
recommended to me. It's ages ago bro, it's a
59:27
different life. Ago.
59:29
That's fair. Highly recommend Paradise.
59:32
Legit like intense intense real good.
59:40
You're not a Hulu guy, are you? We are very good.
59:45
I recommend it. I do.
59:47
It's not what you think like it, like it just takes like an
59:51
immediate twist at the end of the first episode and you're
59:53
like, oh, this isn't what I thought it was, but it ends up
59:57
being real good. You know what I'm saying?
59:59
Real, real good. So there's that.
1:00:02
There's that update. Still trying to lock down a
1:00:06
PlayStation 2 for for the trip. I was made aware that we could
1:00:16
probably just put PlayStation two games in my PlayStation 4.
1:00:21
But I don't really love that. I want more nostalgia.
1:00:25
Correct. Yeah, No, that's so that that
1:00:29
can't happen. I'm trying to find someone on
1:00:32
OfferUp that's willing to trade which seems like such a good
1:00:35
deal. Like, hey, give me your
1:00:37
PlayStation two, I'll give you my PlayStation 4.
1:00:40
No, no, no, PlayStation two I would have to imagine is in
1:00:44
higher demand because PlayStation.
1:00:46
No PlayStation 4 is in this like weird in between.
1:00:48
Like PlayStation Two's in place in the PlayStation world is like
1:00:52
the GOAT. And so you're in this like weird
1:00:55
in between of like PS-5 and the goat.
1:00:58
You're just like this middle child.
1:01:00
You're like this this like red headed stepchild like I don't
1:01:02
know what. But there's people that like
1:01:04
don't understand that value because they're on OfferUp and
1:01:06
they're not smarter. They have like I found someone
1:01:10
on OfferUp for like 80 bucks for PS2 Slim and I'm like that's
1:01:14
exactly the size that I want to travel with and I'm like, yo,
1:01:20
how about I just give you this guy?
1:01:22
Whatever we have, resell that. For 120 whatever we.
1:01:27
Have to do to play MVPO 5 in Atlanta at the All Star game
1:01:33
full World Series. I just, I don't care how it gets
1:01:36
done. I think this is the only
1:01:38
advantage that I'm going to be able to have those, you know
1:01:41
that game so well, but I'm making you switch from Xbox to
1:01:45
PlayStation. I think that like, it's like a
1:01:47
handicap for me, you know what I'm saying?
1:01:52
Sure. I don't know.
1:01:53
No, no. I need a little handicap.
1:01:55
We're not. No, we're not baking in excuses.
1:01:58
Already you are familiar with this game.
1:02:01
I'm not familiar with this game. That's an MLB Show The Show guy
1:02:05
since. I also play MLB Show.
1:02:08
I also play MLB the show. But you haven't had access to
1:02:12
MLB The Show for a decade. Was like Xbox who?
1:02:16
You didn't know what that was like.
1:02:18
You didn't. You didn't live that life.
1:02:19
I have, I have and it'll be the show.
1:02:23
What year? Whichever one has Harper and
1:02:32
then Tatis on it. Yikes bro, that's like 2021.
1:02:37
OK, so I've been running that since O 6.
1:02:42
I had Ryan Howard and David Wright and.
1:02:45
And Vladdy Guerrero, Oh, I'm saying, isn't that covered both.
1:02:49
I'm versatile. I'm mad I can I can Xbox play a
1:02:54
little on VPO 5 jump over here, play a little PlayStation play.
1:02:57
The show I can do both. The equivalent of you running
1:03:00
MVPO 5 is is the equivalent of you and I, you and I going out
1:03:07
and golfing. That's absolutely not.
1:03:12
Yeah, the play time. We should golf while we're out
1:03:14
there too. That sounds fun.
1:03:15
We should. Not.
1:03:19
The team at all, oh, 100%. The play time, the amount of
1:03:23
hours spent, Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm giving you.
1:03:28
Capable of playing a baseball video game.
1:03:32
I don't golf. That's not the same.
1:03:36
I think, I think it is. I think it speaks to the
1:03:39
experience. I wouldn't mind a handicap.
1:03:46
To answer the question in the chat, we are absolutely
1:03:48
streaming. We're going to we're going to do
1:03:49
it up big. We're going to do it right.
1:03:51
You have my word, we're going to stream.
1:03:53
We're we're doing a full blown World Series.
1:03:56
How we how we do teams has yet to be determined, but we can
1:03:59
talk about that. But like it's going to be it's
1:04:01
going to be big. We're going full blown World
1:04:04
Series. We're going to have to figure
1:04:06
out how we're going to map the schedule of the World Series
1:04:09
out, given that we're only there.
1:04:10
For Saturday night, I hope you are up for some late ones by the
1:04:16
way, because we could be streaming late.
1:04:18
That's true for we're there for four nights.
1:04:23
So theory, in theory, I could handle business four games to
1:04:28
none and we can just we can just be on our merry way.
1:04:31
But we may just have to may have to adjust.
1:04:35
But yeah, we're going to stream it.
1:04:37
Don't know what teams we're going to be at.
1:04:41
I think I'm also going to pick up college football in the year
1:04:45
of college football. I don't know what, what year.
1:04:48
Again, you keep talking about these other games.
1:04:49
I don't know if we're going to have that much time.
1:04:51
I don't think you're fully aware of what it looks like when I'm
1:04:56
not near my wife. You.
1:04:58
Say based the whole time we're there?
1:04:59
Who knows? You say this, but I've been
1:05:03
around you. You're going to be sleepy Joe
1:05:06
first. You're going to be croaked at
1:05:08
like 10. Nah man, Nah man Nah.
1:05:16
Anyway, we'll be streaming, we're looking forward to it.
1:05:19
All the details of the trip are coming into coming into focus.
1:05:23
We're going to get some voting in soon.
1:05:25
Voting. All Star voting.
1:05:27
Yeah, maybe we'll do that next episode if if nothing happens
1:05:30
over the weekend, which, you know, who knows?
1:05:34
Maybe the Red Sox want to trade someone else.
1:05:39
Maybe Rafi Devers demands a trade so he can catch.
1:05:42
Who knows? I don't Hard to say.
1:05:45
But if, if nothing happens, maybe, maybe next episode, we,
1:05:50
we put in our votes. We we cast our ballots.
1:05:54
OK, cool. Dog up.
1:06:01
Yeah, do some research on buttons, some cannon scent,
1:06:04
cannon sounds. Yeah, last thing I'll say on
1:06:09
that, I was, I actually had this idea, you know the I might.
1:06:18
What about those confetti cannons?
1:06:22
No, I was talking about possibly a possibly a shirt or a hat
1:06:27
idea. The credit cannon, you know the
1:06:30
you know the come and take it flag.
1:06:34
Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:06:36
It's like got a literal like hand on it.
1:06:39
Yeah, I had a little inspiration with that.
1:06:42
I was toying around with some ideas today.
1:06:44
I. Don't hate it.
1:06:44
I don't hate it. Just just throwing that out
1:06:47
there. So may, may, may come up with
1:06:51
something for that. We'll see.
1:06:53
Cool. Anyways, I got.
1:06:55
To go shower, it's 112 today. It's dry heat, It's dry heat.
1:07:00
We love you all and as always, looking forward to talking more
1:07:02
baseball with you guys soon. Until next time, stay filthy.