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If the Postseason Started Today · 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 Cedary. This is episode 532.
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I'll be your host, Kyle Korne. I'm here with my Co host, the
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Little Nate After Dark Nate. Casey, how are we?
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Oh, I'm good, I'm good. Real talk for just a second, I'm
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trying. I've like subtly been making a
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push and I feel like I've even mentioned on the show I'm kind
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of making a push to be known at times by Casey.
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I'd I've always I've always dug that I dig that I've always dug.
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I kind of missed my childhood nickname to be honest.
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Dopey I mean, we, we can make that a thing.
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Yeah, 'cause then I was like in middle school, like right before
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I moved, it started to just become dope.
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And I was like, that's kind of a cool nickname, you know?
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That's pretty dope. People, people just call, call,
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start calling me dope. By people I just mean teammates.
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That's how it usually goes. Yeah, Yeah, yeah.
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Can I ask you something? Would any of those teammate
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before we get into ball talk, would any?
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Yeah. Hand chat Casey and Dope.
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Would any of those teammates that you mentioned, do you think
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that you would, that they would be able to assist you in 100 men
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verse one silverback gorilla scenario?
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Have you heard about this? No.
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It's, it's all over the place. So there's, there's this thing
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going around this, this people speculating.
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Could 100 men take on one silverback gorilla?
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Who wins the gorilla? OK, I'm glad we're I'm glad
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we're on the same page. 92 of them aren't going to be anywhere
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near the gorilla to do damage. That's what I'm saying people
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are like, well, there's 100 people.
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I'm like, how many people do you think can have can can feasibly
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have a hand on this gorilla that's.
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What I'm saying? In this scenario.
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This this silverback gorilla is unreal.
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He's it's basically just 9 1/2 rounds OF1V8 That's it.
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And are. You taking that?
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I was going to say, are you taking a silverback gorilla 1V8?
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Yes, well, yeah, I'm taking, I'm taking the gorilla as the
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person. Yeah, no, yeah, I'm taking the
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gorilla as the bet. But exactly.
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Yeah, yeah, we're we the no collectively.
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No, no, no, no, not taking the gorilla.
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All right, glad, I'm glad. I just want to get make sure
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we're on the same page there because it's it that's been the
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the viral question of the week and I wanted to get your
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thoughts on it. I don't think people understand
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the difference of like a silverback versus just a regular
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old monkey, You know, I don't think they get it.
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I don't think there's a lot of animals in in the animal Kingdom
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that could take on a silverback. It's a very, very short list.
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Yeah, let's let's get into some ball and last thing last, last
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thing before we get into ball talk.
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Just keeping it real life here, folks.
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Huge, huge props. Huge shout out to Nate.
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No, no, no. This guy's, this guy's just been
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been going through it at work. He's been grinding and he's he's
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making it happen on this on this late Wednesday night.
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So he's doing it. He's doing it for you folks.
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So, you know, shoot him, shoot him a a word of appreciation if
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you think of. It thanks.
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I'm blessed, I'm blessed. I'm just a big complainer.
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Let's All right, let's get into the ball.
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Let's get into the ball. Nate.
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I saw I was scanning scanning the the interwebs today and I
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came across the article. The the annual.
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A little bit of a little bit of props in the chat.
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Nate, you rule. I agree.
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I second that. Thanks Josh.
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And and look, look who else is. In the chat, Mom.
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Come on, Mom, you're embarrassing me.
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Mom's in the chat. Let's get into let's get into
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ball talk like 1010 attempts. Later I was scanning the
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interwebs and I saw the classic if the post season started
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today, was it you that started scenario?
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I've been this has been this has been my bit for years.
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I feel like, and I'm not polarizing.
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I didn't I didn't create the trend by any stretch, but I I
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feel like I was one of the people that started it earliest,
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not in terms of the trend itself, but I was dropping
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these. If the postseason started today
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graphics like on day two of the season a lot.
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You'd have to be like a real OG follower to remember those days.
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But I was shockingly just driving people up a wall on
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social, just cussing me out, saying that I should just do
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terrible things. But we continue.
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But anyway, I the and the only reason I wanted to talk, I, I
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wanted to go over this tonight was because I I and I want to
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get your thoughts. I don't feel like the field,
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should the post season have started like today, I don't feel
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like the field is that far off from what could realistically
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be. And I know there's going to be
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people rolling their eyes like, what are we doing?
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It's it's basically like May just started.
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April's officially done or within like an hour and a half
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officially done. But if you look at the field, I
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don't, I don't feel like it's that far off.
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And I'll send you, I'll send you what I'm looking at.
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But text Nate, I'm not going to lie, I like, I like what I'm
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seeing. I really do.
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I really do in the American League.
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And again, this is coming into today.
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So OK, if it's changed like half a game, don't get upset with me.
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This is coming into today out of the American League.
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We're looking at Tigers and Yankees getting the byes, and
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then we're looking at Wild Card Series matchups.
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Red Sox at Mariners, Astros at Guardians.
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Checks out. That's not bad.
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The checks out. The only thing I would like to
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see different, if I'm being completely honest, is maybe slot
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the Royals in. Instead of Texas.
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Well, in this scenario, I don't think I don't think Texas is
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getting in. I thought they.
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I thought they were the last wild card spot.
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No, they're tied. Again, well, this is coming in
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today. So it's very, it's very possible
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that this changed. Well, actually now they're down
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to the down to the A's. But in this scenario?
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I like it. I like this I'm.
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Let me ask. You this, I get what you say.
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The Royals 'cause like I, I think that like any baseball fan
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who enjoys A-Team outside of their own team can get, I feel
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like they can wrap their mind around the Royals.
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Like you can rap like you can, you can see this being an up and
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coming team. You can see a superstar, you can
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see an MVP. You could see like how things
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are starting to turn for the, for the Royals.
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I think it's impressive that they're 16 and 15 considering
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they are really struggling offensively.
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Like awful. Like the least run scored in the
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AL Awful. I mean, it's literally, correct
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me if I'm wrong, it's Bobby Witt and then everybody else at this
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at this rate, no. They've scored one run more than
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the Rockies. And the Rockies are on pace to
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win. I'm pretty what, like 242425?
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Yeah, 30 games somewhere in there.
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Yeah, that's nuts, man. It just goes to show how good
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their pitching is. It's the fact that like they can
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hold their their eight and two in the last 10 and they're not
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scoring runs. Just crazy.
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So I like, I like that thought. I like the thought of them
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slotting in because you got to feel like the offense is going
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to come around. They're a top five rotation in
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terms of ERA or staff, I should say.
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Yeah, yeah. Let me ask you this.
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Ask me, do you, do you when it's all said and done?
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Doing your best to set your bias aside?
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Do you feel like the Yankees are a bi worthy team?
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I would say yes, because you're not getting a ton of production.
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I mean, Cody Bellinger has done nothing offensively.
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I think Goldschmidt is overachieving, but you it's not
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crazy to see him hitting over 300.
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I think he's in like 360 right now.
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That's not going to stick, but I could see him being back to form
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and hitting for average. He's spraying the ball over the
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field. Power hasn't come yet.
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So like you got to wonder if that power starts to come.
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I think their defense is a tick up from last year.
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You're they're doing this with like a one man bullpen.
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Like there's there's just no one outside of Luke Weaver.
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You can kind of give Tim Hill his flowers.
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Like I'll say that no one in the bullpens performing Rodon low
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key kind of doing his thing so far this year.
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You got Louise heel returning in see May.
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I would say end of May and the May would be a generous thing.
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Yeah, dude, Like I I Jazz has looked pretty bad offensively
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too, but like I don't see it changing too much.
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Like I think Aaron Judge will talk about him later, but I
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think that'll start to regress slightly.
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But like it's still Aaron Judge and then everyone else is I
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think they're in a position that looks really good.
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I would buy. I would buy Max Freed looks like
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he's very settled in. You know, whether this team and
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roster is good enough to go deep into the postseason is a
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different story, but I think you're looking at what the
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Yankees are. I don't think it's anything
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crazy. I would hate, I would hate to
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see what happens if you lose Max Freed to some sort of injury.
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It'd be terrible. I don't know where that ship
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goes if that happens. I don't know man.
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I mean, personally, I love it, but you know, for baseball.
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Yeah, but I'm in like, I don't know if there's other fans or
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fan bases that can relate to like finally getting to see
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these youthful guys play every day.
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Like finally getting to see these guys we've been told and
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heard, we've heard about for so long, like get their chance and
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get their opportunity. Like Jason Dominguez from the
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left side is crazy good right now.
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OPS over 800, hitting over 300 right side terrible.
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But like you see these guys that are just, they're playing
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everyday, they're getting to figure it out.
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They're getting to go through the ebbs and flows.
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And like, even if this season doesn't equal the same success
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as last year's, it's nice to see dudes get their chance.
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I don't know if maybe there's other fan bases out there that
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feel the same. Does that sound weird?
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It's like it kind of sounds like a consolation prize.
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I'm not meaning it meaning for it to sound that way, but I
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don't know. I'm going to string together as
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many thoughts as I can today. I feel you.
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On the flip side, National League we're looking at Mets and
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Dodgers getting a buy. Which Dodgers already crept back
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up to the to the top of the division, Did they?
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Coming into the day and then the Wild Card Series matchups,
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you're looking at Reds, at Cubs, Padres and Giants a lot outside
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of the more obvious teams that you just have to imagine are
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going to be in there. I'd across the board ALNL, I'd I
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feel like I really like this field like I really like this
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field. I mean, personally, getting the
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Red Sox back in the post season would be nice.
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It's been a minute getting one of those tenacious teams out of
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the AL Central and then on the National League side if the I
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have no idea how it would happen, but if you could somehow
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get the Reds in there, would love that.
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And then just. Swept in a doubleheader today
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from the Cardinals. No, I can talk about it again.
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This is coming into today. I don't know how many times you
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need to repeat that. But then you get the National
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League West, you get 3 representatives out of the West
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beaten up on on each other in the postseason.
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If you it could possibly line up, you get a Dodgers Padres
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rematch, which would I would love.
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I mean you got to think if if there's any degree of fixing
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Major League Baseball that Robbie Manfred is pulling every
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string he can to to line up a Dodgers Padres post season
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series. Safe to assume.
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Safe to assume. Yeah.
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Is there a team as it stands right now?
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I think I feel like I know your answer.
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Is there a team on the National League side that you would
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rather see in place of one of these teams?
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Yeah, I mean, I'd, I'd like to see the the D backs in it.
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I'd like to see, I'd like to see the Phillies in it.
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Are they in it? I can't remember the wild card
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teams that you said. No, the wild card as of right
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now, Well, again, entering today, Reds at Cubs, Padres at
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Giants. Yeah, so the Mets would be the
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lone representative out of the East.
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Yeah, I'd like to. I'd like to see the Phils in
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there. I just, I, I think we know what
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Milwaukee is, man. I, I'm sorry, if you can, you
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can hate all you want. I think we know what that team
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looks like. I think we know what the Giants
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look like. I think props to the Giants are
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playing better ball than what most people expected.
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But I feel like we've seen this before.
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We've seen like hot starts from San Fran and then it just fades.
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It fizzles. It just seemed like a team that
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lacks identity in my mind. But I love, I love the Cubs
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right now. Like just almost like must watch
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TV right now at the Cubs. Correct me if I'm wrong, it's
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been a minute since we've had a rowdy Wrigley Field in October.
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Right, 'cause it's been the Brewers here for what seems like
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the the better part of it. I mean, when's the last time?
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I lived that out. I I want to give them a wild
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card appearance. Yeah, but I'm, I'm talking like.
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Since since the dance series, right?
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It was the COVID year, remember they lost, I think they lost to
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the Marlins because the Marlins, that was their, what was that
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bit they ran with the, the bottom feeders.
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You remember that? Yeah, that's the the COVID year
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was the year they they had that beat the Cubs in the wild Card
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series. I think that was at home in in
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Chicago. But that's the opposite of
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rowdy. Right.
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Yeah, yeah. Furthering the point the the
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playoff history though, dating back to 29th.
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Dude, I didn't the Cubs. I did not realize.
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It's been like Cubs fans got to be down bad right now.
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Missed the playoffs in 20/24/2020 3:20, 22/20/21.
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You lost the NL Wild Card series to the Marlins.
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As we mentioned, you missed the playoffs in 2019.
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You lost the NL Wild Card in 2018, and 2017 was the last year
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you had a respectable run. You went to the NL Championship
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Series and obviously 16 World Series, but it's been a minute,
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man. Yeah, they've been hurting.
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We got to get the Cubs, but especially I mean, like, like
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we've been saying really for the last two months, they're making
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a go with this thing. And I'll I'm liking what I'm
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seeing out of Chicago right now. And I feel like this is what we
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had maybe kind of hoped for for their for their sake last year.
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I think a lot of people had Craig counsel leading them to a
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little bit better of a a season that that they had than they
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had. But the way that it's going for
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them this year, I, I have no problem putting them in the
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field third year there second. 2nd year.
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All right, So it takes a little time.
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That's cool. That's just like what they're
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doing, man. Well, let me ask you this.
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What? Did they push chips into the
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table and like and it's paying off?
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If you're if you're trying to bump the Phillies and the D
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backs in like if, if that's based on what we've seen after a
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month, if, if you're trying to slot them and who, who are you
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willing to pull out of that field?
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Because for really no other reason other than I know this
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may not move the needle for a lot of people, but getting to
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see Hunter Green and the postseason and Tito, I'd like,
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I'd like to see the Reds. Ellie, Ellie.
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Yeah, Ellie Electric. I'm I'm drawn especially to the
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hunter green just given my preseason picks.
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But I mean, if you leave the Reds and Cubs, that means you
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you're pulling the Padres and Giants to slot in the D backs
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and Phillies, which means you lose out on a potential Dodgers,
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Padres. And I think that that supersedes
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all of it. My brain can't keep up with this
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at the moment. I can barely keep up when it's
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actually October. That's.
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Fair. That's fair.
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Blah blah blah blah. I mean, like I said, I think we
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know what the giants are. I like the idea of the Reds, but
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I you got to assume it takes more than a year to settle in
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typically. So for Tito, that's why I asked
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about Craig counsel because I'm like, OK, one year of a grace
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period and then you come in and it just starts to feel like your
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place again. So maybe that's the story for
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the Reds. Maybe Tito's first year, there's
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a positive turn, but not necessarily a postseason birth.
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And then next year you got some, you got some guys.
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I, I don't know, I like what the Reds are doing.
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I'm not, I'm not against it. Let me ask you this, between the
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D backs and Phillies after a month, who would you rather see?
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I mean, I have the D backs in the World Series, so you know.
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Your man of integrity, you're going to stick by your pick.
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I got to. You're going to stick by your
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pick. I got to but but I do feel I
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don't know how it would line up but Phillies Cubs series at some
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point would be sick. Phillies, Cobs.
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Phillies. Dodgers.
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Sick. I mean, anything, anything at
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the bank, I was going to say, yeah, anything at the bank, is
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it going to, is it going to pop? Yeah, all right.
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I'm a sucker for cold, cold post season baseball.
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I mean, you're going to get that in Philly, yeah.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, good stuff.
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I'll say again, I I like the field as it stands right now.
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Again, I know there's going to be people that that turn their
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nose up at some of these teams like the Reds, maybe even the
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Mariners. Same thing man.
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I feel like the Mariners are the are the giants of the AL not not
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as in like big humans. I'm talking to San Francisco
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Giants. Just chokey.
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Just awfully chokey. I could see it.
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I could see a a bad month and every Mariner fan is just ready
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to burn it down. You know, they're hitting more
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than I thought they. Would Yeah, what I was going to
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say, let's not, let's not put the nail on the coffin for
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Mariners fans just yet. I think we know how it's going
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to go. I think Mariners fans know how
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it's ultimately going to go. But let them have this.
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At the very least, let them have this.
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Let him ride this high. Speaking of high, I don't know
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if it gets much higher for Aaron Judge.
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Credit, Kanan. Let's talk some credit Kanan.
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I'm starting with your boy Aaron Judge.
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Look, this was coming into today and I'm did I see he had a a
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home run again tonight against. The O's and went three for
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three. And went three for three.
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OK, so basically throw this out the window because since April
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16th, since the middle of the month we'll call it he came in
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today hitting 451 had an OPS of 1251 on the season came in
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hitting 412 OPS of 1236 and OPS plus of 259 homers and this
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honestly all that's great but what absolutely blows my OK
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well, this is bat. The 412 average is like a 1B
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but. It's up to 427 now.
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He's OK. He's hitting 427 going into the
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month of May. That's otherworldly but OK tell
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me this what's his OBP at Because coming in today was at
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five O 7 which is disgusting like you should not there.
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That shouldn't even be allowed. Please hold.
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It should like you get it to 499 and the leak steps in and they
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say you're going to have to, we're going to have to do
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something about this because you're not it's, it's, it's
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illegal. 5/21 any slogan 761 for an OPS of 1282.
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Getting on base at a 50% clip over a 50% clip for a month at
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the Major League level. I I'm going to need you folks to
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to take a minute to wrap your head around that.
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I, I, I've heard this conversation a few times and I,
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I get that, like the story is like, of course going to be
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about post season performance. It's going to be about the, the
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World Series performance. And that's what a lot of
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baseball fans, that's the taste they have in their mouth.
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But this is this is starting to like really work his way in as
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as like doing some of the greatest hitter of all time type
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stuff. Like I, I don't know how else to
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say it. I think the only thing we're
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going to be robbed of is the fact that you just got a late
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start. And look, I people know how I
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feel about the team that he plays for.
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But just like as a baseball fan who's very much into witnessing
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these generational runs that you just don't see very often.
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I'm again, taking off the taking off the the the fan hat or the
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anti fan hat in this scenario. And just being a a baseball fan.
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I'm, I'm a little bothered at the fact that we didn't get
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Judge at 2021. I'm something crazy.
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Yeah, I know. And we didn't really get, I
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mean, we didn't get a full season of Judge until 25.
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That's it. It kind of makes you wonder,
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like, why? Like, I mean, I, I know some
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guys are just late bloomers, but it's like, clearly this the
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skill set. Yeah.
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Like was there it just, I guess it just took a minute to
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develop, but my goodness did it develop.
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And now, like, the biggest argument of his against him is
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the strikeout percentage. He's down to 20% this year.
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That's below league average. League average is 22%.
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His career average is 27%. So he's getting better around
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the zone, like he's getting better at chasing in this.
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Walking doubled the average rate, by the way, 16%.
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It's silly is what it is. In the chat he said almost.
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It's almost like judge decided average was his goal this year.
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And I'm looking at his numbers and I know that people have
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seemingly or maybe safe to say the majority of people have
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moved on from caring about batting average or using it as a
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metric. I I understand that.
29:57
But just looking back at his, his previous years, like last
30:01
year he had 3/22, which was phenomenal.
30:04
But then before that you're looking 260-7311 was the, the 62
30:10
year, then it was 280-7257, 270-2278.
30:15
So like it's, he's, I mean, he's, he hasn't been in a bad
30:21
hit for average guy necessarily. But, and I'm not saying 412 is
30:26
sustainable, but it really to your to your point about the
30:29
strikeout rate of the, the chase rate, the walk rate, all all
30:32
those things. It just seems like his approach,
30:35
there's some intentionality there that's different this
30:38
year, which is interesting to see given what he's done the
30:43
last few years and like why he would feel the need to change
30:45
anything. Yeah, I don't know if it's
30:48
necessarily called change, but like I.
30:51
Or adjustments I had tweets, whatever you.
30:53
Want to call them? He keeps saying he's not even
30:55
feeling himself yet and I and I get that like that probably
30:59
comes off as like a cocky thing, but like.
31:02
I. I get it.
31:03
I think there's guys that like, are watching every day.
31:06
He's like, yeah, he isn't even like found his groove yet
31:09
because you look at it as expecting batted, expected
31:11
batting average, it's 348. So he's hitting like balls off
31:17
the end. He's hitting little loopy line
31:20
drives that, you know, are kind of creeping over the short slap
31:23
like, and it sounds crazy, but like ten home runs this month
31:33
and and he wasn't ever really like truly leading the way.
31:40
You know what I'm saying? Like, does that make sense?
31:42
Like he wasn't he's not running away in that category.
31:45
There's tons of guys in that 8910 range in the league.
31:50
So it's like this is a fantastic month, but it's like it he's
31:56
doing this without any protection behind him.
32:03
Cody Bellinger has been hitting third primarily.
32:06
Now. Boone kind of switches up the
32:08
lineup sometimes and if they face a righty, I think they're
32:13
dropping him down to 3rd. But even then, like there,
32:17
there's not a ton of production behind him.
32:22
So it's just crazy to see that he's doing this after Soto is
32:27
gone. It's wild, man.
32:32
And it's like it's fun to watch and it I I understand, I, I
32:35
understand Yankee hate. I understand the argument of of
32:40
his post season performances so far.
32:42
But like, I think if you could put that stuff aside and just
32:47
kind of witness greatness, but I would, I recommend watching and
32:53
it's really cool to see him go through in that bat.
32:56
And it does. It reminds me of some of the
33:01
best hitters I've ever watched. And and it reminds me of the way
33:07
the Manny Ramirez would kind of bait pitchers.
33:12
It reminds me of the way that like put all the other stuff
33:16
aside, but it reminds me of the way of like how he does what's
33:20
expected, the way Barry Bonds just did what everyone expected
33:24
him to do when he got in the box.
33:26
Like he just, he delivers and it's over and over again and
33:30
it's seemingly super effortless. And to be honest with you, like
33:38
he's kind of a cool guy. Like he he's just he's not super
33:41
flashy. He doesn't, I don't know.
33:44
I just I like the way he plays the game and it's insane to see
33:48
this happening for real. Like I don't know the last time
33:51
someone hit 400 in a month and qualified for at bats.
33:59
All right, we've gone on long enough.
34:02
I I gave him his flowers. I feel good I.
34:06
Feel like, I feel like I had a lot of integrity there, a lot of
34:11
credibility and just kind of let that segment ride, but we got to
34:16
move on. I'm just glad I got a cannon.
34:22
That's what this segment's about.
34:23
Speaking of the cannon, how about you lob it up for me and
34:26
pull the cord on this next one? I lobbed it up.
34:35
Got to pull the cord. What cord give me a lob cord
34:39
give? Me a lob it and pull it.
34:47
There we go. That's that's what I'm talking
34:49
about. Max Freed.
34:52
God, another Yankee on the season.
34:59
He didn't go tonight, did he? I don't know.
35:02
I think I've on the year. Stupid work on my way today.
35:07
Five. And Oh no, he didn't go today
35:13
five and O Carresco that's right, he got dealt the loss on
35:19
the season. Nate well deserved of the
35:22
credit. Cannon 5 and OA 119 ERAA WHIP of
35:27
one O 4 just three. Count them 123 earned runs over
35:34
his last five stars. Currently on a 13 and two third.
35:39
Indians scoreless streak. To your point, has been looking
35:46
very, very good. Very important part of what the
35:50
Yankees are doing right now and, should he say healthy,
35:54
presumably will be at the forefront of any sort of lengthy
36:01
run they can go on in October. Yeah, this is like my ultimate
36:07
fear. It's like, can can he just stay
36:11
healthy? Can we get 30 starts?
36:13
Can we get 28 starts out of them?
36:16
I don't know, man. I don't know.
36:18
Braves fans know no more than I do.
36:20
But looks good. Looks real good.
36:23
I think one of the biggest things I appreciate about Max
36:27
Freed, watching him more regularly now, is how freaking
36:30
good he is defensively. Like he is an animal on the
36:36
mound. Love is fundamentals.
36:39
Yeah, dude. And like moves really well.
36:42
Just no wasted movement defensively.
36:47
I just, that's one of those things where, like you don't
36:50
really notice the bad, but you notice like they're really good.
36:54
And he's like, he might win a Gold Glove.
36:57
I think he's won one before. Yeah, I was going to say he's
37:00
got. Why do I feel like he's got
37:02
multiple? These these are stud
37:05
defensively. Man, I mean, I'm to be honest
37:07
with you, we've talked about it. I'm, I'm kind of out on the Gold
37:09
Glove, but for stuff like this, it's, it's not cool.
37:13
He's got three. Hey.
37:15
Oh yeah, 20/21/22. Yeah, I just didn't.
37:19
I wasn't familiar with that side of it.
37:21
But he's he's cool, man. He's he just seems like a just
37:27
all business. He calls his own pitches, which
37:29
I didn't know either. Love that.
37:31
Just keeps it on his belt. It's little buttons on his belt.
37:36
I'd say it's working, but you mentioned the you mentioned the
37:40
Braves. I mean, I'm going to use every
37:46
opportunity I can to, to kick Braves fans while they're down
37:49
because I, I would venture say they're not going to be down for
37:52
much longer. So Braves fans, just indulge me.
37:54
Just let me have this moment. How does it feel to be a Braves
38:00
fan right now, seeing Max Reed doing what he's doing, knowing
38:04
that Spencer Strider's on the shelf again and you have Chris
38:08
Sale not replicating what he did last year.
38:14
And also, by the way, I'm pretty sure he took the L against the
38:19
Rockies of all teams today, which I think it was like a 2 to
38:24
one game, but still, yeah, I mean.
38:26
Yes, it's the Rockies. It's the Rockies.
38:29
There shouldn't be. And I would have gotten them
38:32
back to 500 on the month, which would have been kind of crazy.
38:36
I think they're feeling OK. I think Braves fans are feeling
38:38
OK, all things considered. But yeah, man, it's it's
38:44
definitely not easy to watch guys leave your squad and go
38:47
succeed the next year elsewhere. Yeah, and same thing, like
38:54
outside of the no hit bid, I haven't really seen what I feel
39:00
like Max Reed has like in the tank quite yet.
39:03
He's just done a really good job of like, he gets himself in
39:06
trouble pretty often and he just works.
39:08
Out of it, we get it. You're all world players right
39:11
now are like sick with the flu. They're like 50%.
39:17
We get it, dude. Dude, the Yankees are going to
39:19
be world beaters here in a couple weeks.
39:22
Once these guys really start clicking, we get it.
39:25
That's. That's word for word what I was
39:29
saying. She couldn't let me enjoy this
39:34
one, huh? I'm letting you enjoy it, but
39:37
I'm tired of hearing about how good of a hockey team the
39:42
Soviets have. Nah, it's a the the Next up in
39:51
line Andy Pahes. He is currently on coming into
40:01
the day. Forgive me because I don't
40:03
remember when I pulled these numbers because they had a day
40:06
game today against the Marlins. And I'm not sure if the hit that
40:12
he got today added to his eight game hitting streak or got him
40:16
to 8 get his eight game hitting streak.
40:18
But nonetheless, he is currently riding an 8 or 9 game hitting
40:24
streak. 88 during that stretch. 4 homers, 9 ribbies, 3 swipes on
40:34
the seasons, hitting 298. Again, this is, as of earlier
40:39
today, 298. Six homers a week ago was
40:43
hitting 183 and has bumped it up over 100 points in just a week.
40:52
This is just my episode. Daddy picked him up in fantasy
40:56
last week. I can't get a win.
40:58
Real nice. Well if it makes it feel any
41:00
better, I'm going to lose to somebody who doesn't even check
41:02
their line up. Actually, I've got a win.
41:07
I've got a win coming up here soon.
41:09
Kid looks good, man kid looks good and I think you got to just
41:16
let it ride. You know what I mean?
41:17
I I know that they're like I know conforto has to get his
41:23
time. Obviously Tay Oscar has to stay
41:25
in the lineup as often as possible.
41:29
You have these these days where Tommy Edmonds in the outfield
41:34
too. So like, I know they kind of
41:36
rotate between all of these guys, but like with the way he's
41:40
hitting, it's a hot hand. You got to let it go.
41:46
Not surprised, not surprised. I mean, like, you hear these
41:50
names that the Dodgers just they spring on and then like you,
41:55
you, you get caught up with all the free agents, you get caught
41:58
up with all the trades and you just forget that they have a lot
42:03
of ridiculous talent that's coming up and they're young.
42:08
And so it's cool, man. Like it, it creates that
42:12
competitive like, hey, if you want to be in this lineup, you
42:17
got to you got to outplay some dogs, you know what I mean?
42:21
And he's doing it. Next up.
42:33
Jake Irvin and he really let me down because I had him slotted
42:37
for the credit cannon tonight knowing, knowing that he was
42:41
making a start against the Phils tonight.
42:44
But I thought, you know what, he'll come through because he's
42:46
come through in his last four starts.
42:48
He did not. He had a bit of a fart start.
42:52
He went six innings but gave up six earned runs on eight hits,
42:56
allowing three walks, and just had his two KS.
42:59
But prior to that, the reason? He love a good fart start.
43:03
The reason he had, the reason he had his name added to the credit
43:10
can in the list for tonight. The four starts prior to
43:13
tonight's he had 26 strikeouts over 20 and 2/3, allowing just
43:19
three runs over that span and two walks.
43:23
His last start, not counting today against the Mets, he went
43:29
the red hot Mets, mind you, went seven and a third and gave up
43:33
just one earned run. So maybe the Nats have found a
43:37
little something in Jake Irvin for the 2025 season.
43:41
I mean on the year he's sporting a four O 1 but a couple bad
43:46
starts here. We'll we'll obviously do that to
43:48
you this rather than the season, but if he can, if he can give
43:51
you what he's given you over the the Pryor four starts fan.
43:57
I mean, that's that's another reason for Nets fans be excited
44:02
because like I mentioned, like I mentioned last episode, Mitchell
44:06
Parker, again, his last start, little bit of a fart start.
44:11
But on the year prior to that, Mitchell Parker is another name.
44:16
And then you've got Mackenzie Gore doing what Mackenzie Gore
44:19
is doing. Then a name that I wish was
44:23
doing more. Tell me.
44:28
Oh, boy, I knew this was going to happen.
44:31
I was going to try to give him his his credit.
44:33
Trevor Williams, Yes. What happened?
44:37
What happened? Trevor Williams, is he hurt
44:42
right now, or is he just not? He's just stanking.
44:45
He just stanking. Yeah, yeah, not great. 57-O ERA
44:51
WHIP of 1531 and three on the year.
44:54
Yeah, we really saw flash in the pan with him last year, but man,
44:59
if he could have been another one of those like mid rotation
45:02
guys that was giving you good quality stars talking about not
45:09
1/2 bad rotation. I'm trying to figure out how
45:14
Mitchell Parker has a 265 ERA. Bros walked sixteen guys and
45:23
he's got a 4.8 KS per 9. That's called managing traffic.
45:29
I guess pretty good. You know who else is pretty
45:35
good? Nate.
45:36
You're going to like this one, Alex Bregman.
45:44
I'm not even, I know last episode I said, well, this is
45:47
really just kind of like a what have you done in the last week
45:49
or two thing or maybe even slightly more than that.
45:52
But I'm looking at Alex Bregman's start to the year on
45:57
on the year. You want to talk about a guy
46:00
that settled in 31 games, 7 homers.
46:05
He had one tonight against the Jays.
46:09
He's got 11 double S, 24 ribbies.
46:14
He's even got a swipe to his name.
46:18
Did I mention that's? What I'm saying, did I mention
46:22
he's hitting 3/28 with an OPS and 985 Deese?
46:28
Deese, This is what? This is what we hoped for.
46:37
Oh, dude, in the chat, Alex Bregman's best third baseman in
46:40
the game this year. Is there, is there truth to
46:44
that? Am I, am I missing something?
46:47
Am I just like completely overlooking somebody right now?
46:50
I mean this this might be. I feel like this position has
46:53
had a bit of a fall off, not I'm not saying like that's why
46:58
Bregman. Oh yeah, dude, far away.
47:02
Bregman's been the best third baseman this year, Eugenio.
47:05
Eugenio Suarez really just due to home runs is even in the
47:12
conversation. But like, you want to look at
47:14
OPS, Bregman's, what did I say? Well, that's MLB showing me 985,
47:21
but you're in 85 Julio Suarez 833 Austin Riley 787 Jose
47:26
Ramirez, who usually is just cruising.
47:30
I mean, he's got 5 jacks, but he's got an OPS right now. 770
47:34
Slow start, far and away the best third baseman of baseball
47:37
right now. Yeah, this is what this is what
47:41
I feared. Good.
47:43
Righty and Fenway can go a long way, man.
47:48
But what I'm curious about this is.
47:50
An this is an opt out trajectory.
47:53
Don't hear. We don't want to.
47:54
We don't want to talk about that.
47:56
Just saying I think he likes it there though.
48:01
It seems like he likes it, right?
48:03
Let me, I think he loves it. Let me ask you this, though,
48:07
because I'm kind of in the weeds given the team that he plays
48:10
for. What's the perception around
48:12
Bregman right now? I, I genuinely, I, I genuinely
48:16
don't know elsewhere around the league because he's in Boston.
48:19
So I'm kind of just like in my own little world here.
48:21
But in the year 2025, how has it evolved?
48:25
Honestly, under the radar, like he's, he's not being talked
48:31
about that much, not for having a month like this.
48:34
No, no, no, not sorry. I should have I should have
48:36
clarified, not like perception as a player, but the the bag
48:41
that he's carried with him over the the better part of a decade
48:45
now coming over from Houston, where we at like I I.
48:55
Helps leaving Houston. That's what I'm saying.
48:58
Like I from the little bit I've seen, I mean the the boos are
49:01
like very faint in comparison to to previous years.
49:08
I don't, I just don't feel like I like you said, I think leaving
49:11
Houston is is huge, but I haven't I haven't seen much or
49:17
helped. Leaving, leaving Houston helped.
49:19
And I, I will say of the group like the core of names that got
49:29
under everyone's skin. He seemed to do it the best way,
49:35
but he seemed to respond the best way he seemed to.
49:37
Which is what I had been saying. I had been saying that for
49:40
years. He, just like he, took his lumps
49:43
and kept his head down. And I I he's not as unlikable as
49:49
Correa. He's younger and better than
49:53
Springer, and Altuve is never going to shake it.
50:01
Yeah, you know what I mean? So that's where I'm at with it.
50:09
Where you at with these city connects for the Marlins and the
50:16
White Sox? I'm pretty sure they were
50:22
exactly as originally leaked. If I'm not mistaken.
50:27
Are. These leaks on purpose.
50:30
Dude, I mean I that's what I'm saying.
50:33
We haven't had. The leaks aren't like these like
50:36
sneaky picture like when no one's looking and it's like on
50:42
the shelf or on the hanger. These are like just full on
50:45
like. Yeah, this is what we're looking
50:49
like. Well, this isn't the leak image,
50:51
but this is, this is what we're looking at for the White Sox,
50:54
which again, pretty much exactly as portrayed in the leak.
51:00
I don't think there is much if any of a difference between the
51:03
two, but like I I guess kudos on an attempt to make a connection
51:16
outside of the the walls of your ballpark because it seems to be
51:22
the trend recently where again, my whole gripe with this thing
51:26
is that they're call it we. They lost the plot we had like
51:31
they were connecting things to city.
51:32
We go back to like the original gnats city connection which
51:36
personally I think was one of the best examples of like truly
51:39
connecting to the city. I agree with the cherry blossoms
51:42
and people like what is this about?
51:44
Like the monuments? Yeah, like the granite, that
51:47
kind of stuff. You you you'll learn about
51:48
little bit, little bit about the city.
51:50
But then they just lost the plot.
51:52
And then it was like we're just cranking out alternates now as a
51:55
money. I mean, they're all these things
51:57
are always money making machines at the end of the day.
51:59
But they it became much more obvious down the stretch.
52:04
So I mean, kudos to them on that effort.
52:06
It seemed like there was a a substantial amount of White Sox
52:11
fans that I saw at the very least on social that were
52:14
curious like going, can we buy this?
52:16
I'm like, you know, if if the fans of the team like them, what
52:22
what opinion does my like, how does my opinion matter?
52:26
Like they're if they're going to buy them, then good on them.
52:31
Do you have any thoughts on on this one in particular?
52:37
It seems like a like a jersey giveaway night to the 1st 10,000
52:42
fans. I like it.
52:47
I think it's kind of cool. I don't like the hat and I don't
52:51
like the pants. I think the jersey stand alone
52:54
works. I just not.
52:58
I don't like black pants. Well, it's good news because the
53:06
Marlins are going with white with the pink piping.
53:14
How you feel about this one? Got the three O 5.
53:17
The three O 5 on the lid, which I I like in concept, you know,
53:25
I'm all I'm, I'm all about, I'm all about Pitbull, Miss
53:29
Worldwide, three O 5, Miami Dolly, I'm all about that.
53:34
Give me more of that. But on a hat.
53:37
Does it work? Hard to say, but I'm not going
53:41
to. I'm not going to sit here and
53:42
and dump on it because I don't feel strongly enough to do so.
53:47
But the I think the bill ain't it.
53:52
The bill bill was black or teal. It would work but like.
53:56
Or even pink, even pink. But like the gradient team, why
54:00
are teams obsessed with these Photoshop gradients where it's
54:03
like solid colors are cool too? Guys?
54:07
Like we don't, we don't. There's such a resurgence of
54:12
like 80s and 90s swag that like it's kind of getting to this try
54:22
hard point. I think the hat would be sick
54:25
with just a black bill. I don't think pink.
54:29
I don't like the pink. I like the pink on the sleeve.
54:32
No, because if you look at if you look at Sandy's hat, you can
54:36
really you can't see it as well on the other.
54:37
But if you look at Sandy's hat and you see that, that bit of
54:40
pink on the side there, if you take that, if you take that
54:44
across the brim, that that but. Not like reflective, I don't
54:48
want it. I don't want this like it's a
54:50
great night time night time jogger reflective thing.
54:53
It looks shiny. It does.
54:56
I don't know. It looks shiny.
54:59
I said when the when the leak came out, I said that if you
55:02
were to just take Miami off the chest, like take the logos off
55:06
and keep those lines. I'm pretty sure Nike Golf has
55:12
released. Some polos that exact with that
55:15
exact design, yeah. I'm almost positive.
55:19
I'm I'm indifferent about these. I mean, I, I, I guess they're
55:23
cool because mostly due to the fact that I think that colour
55:27
combo is just prime. It's hard to find them to me at
55:32
least if it's done right, like the heat, for example, like
55:36
their their vice unis that they did.
55:41
Those are those are money. If anyone, I I don't know
55:45
anybody from Miami, I wonder if this is just like a tired theme.
55:56
Yeah, I so just worn out a little bit.
55:58
I'd be cured. I mean, when I was down there in
56:02
was that October, I'm walking, I'm walking like a lot of these,
56:07
these popular streets with the restaurants and the hotels, all
56:10
that stuff. And they got a lot of, you know,
56:12
a lot of the souvenir shops and it was almost exclusively that
56:18
really that color combo. Yeah.
56:20
So I, I don't know if they just think that the people coming at
56:24
like the newcomers that are rolling, like the, the, you
56:27
know, the, the travellers that are rolling into town, if they
56:30
just eat it up and that's, and it's working and they stick with
56:33
it. Or if that really just is what
56:35
the city like fully like leans into.
56:40
I don't know. It's hard to say.
56:42
But the, the biggest take away here, though, is why you would
56:46
undo what you had with your original city.
56:50
Connect that. Was top tier, you already had
56:53
it. The sugar kings, I mean, that
56:55
was top tier. That was exactly what we're what
56:59
we're talking about. These are just alternates.
57:04
That's bad. I'm glad they're wearing white
57:06
pants though. Yeah.
57:08
White pants looks good. Nice touch, nice touch.
57:15
Blanco Pantalones. Pantalones Blanco adjective come
57:21
second. I don't.
57:24
Need. I don't need that.
57:26
Dude I've got like 100 and I. Don't think I need that.
57:29
I've got 108 day Duolingo streak.
57:32
So you know, if, if you're going to try to pull up, if you're
57:37
going to try to pull a fast one, maybe try to pull it on somebody
57:40
that's not fluent. Because I'm, I'm looking at it's
57:44
an app where you educate yourself on a language and I'm
57:49
all in on Spanish right now. What do you do?
57:53
Right now we're in flash cards. Daily daily flash cards.
57:57
Sorts of different sorts of activities, or just.
57:59
Driving to work Quesadilla. No, right now, right now we're
58:06
going through, we're going through the school section, so
58:10
learning about computadoras and bibliotecas.
58:14
And I mean, these are things I already knew, these I'm really
58:17
just refreshing because again, I'm basically fluent at this
58:20
point. But I think everybody knows
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Biblioteca. Is Meredith fluent?
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No, but she, she, she knows it better that yeah, as a, as a
58:29
Puerto Rican, she's, she's better at it than I am for sure.
58:33
She, I mean, she carried us on our honeymoon when we were in
58:37
Panama, carried us because I was out with what I think was one of
58:40
the first cases of COVID. Like truly I I think it.
58:44
Was early days that it was. No one knew.
58:47
It was here. Yeah, it was here.
58:48
We just didn't know it. And so I'm pretty much down for
58:52
the count on our honeymoon and we're in Panama.
58:55
Can't really understand a word of what's being said to me or,
58:58
or what's going on. And she, she carried the weight
59:00
for us. So credit to her.
59:04
She's 1/4. Puerto Rican, yeah.
59:10
I'm a quarter Mexican and it doesn't seem that way at all
59:19
outside of my last name. It sure doesn't.
59:22
My wife thinks it's fake. She thinks she changed her last
59:26
name for for nothing for show. I don't know, man, you got you
59:32
got the cooking gene. I don't know if that's if that's
59:35
what translates or what, but you you you can cook up a mean maybe
59:40
so a mean Taco. All right, let's let's close the
59:44
book here. First off, just some real
59:48
unfortunate news out of out of Pittsburgh.
59:50
I don't know did you see the video?
59:52
I. Didn't see this yet.
59:53
I don't know if I want to see it.
59:54
It's kind of, I mean, it's, well, it's not kind of like it
59:58
is very jarring. It's.
1:00:00
Tough to watch? It's, I mean, it's tough, man,
1:00:03
because the things, what didn't they make it 21 feet?
1:00:05
It's the Clemente Wall. I think they made it like 21
1:00:08
feet. I mean, that's it.
1:00:09
That's a steep fall, but what's crazy and like I'm not, it
1:00:16
sounds like he's in critical condition.
1:00:17
I think he's getting, you know, worked on.
1:00:19
I don't know what the latest is, but and I don't want to like
1:00:23
speculate, but like it is weird because it it almost just looked
1:00:27
intentional. But I don't know if like alcohol
1:00:29
was involved or or what, but it's, you know it.
1:00:34
Do you have the clip? Yeah, but I don't want to play
1:00:38
it on here. Why it's I don't that's
1:00:42
upsetting, man. I don't want, I don't want to
1:00:44
put that on people if they're not trying to watch.
1:00:49
I'm trying to watch. Well then pull it up.
1:00:52
You no go, no you got. It right there you're ready.
1:01:00
No, I actually don't have it. I've I've pulled.
1:01:02
I watched it earlier, multiple times in fact, because I was
1:01:07
really trying like it's there's one video that has quality clear
1:01:11
enough to where you can really see what's happened, but.
1:01:13
I was just reading through our group chat because shout out
1:01:20
Bridge to Bucktober in Hanging Out Live.
1:01:23
Josh is in our our fantasy league, so obviously he's super.
1:01:27
Yeah, he said don't play that on here.
1:01:30
Oh, it's that bad. He he's got the final call, so.
1:01:33
He's, he's definitely in touch with the with the Pirates.
1:01:36
When I was reading through the group chat, 'cause I was at
1:01:38
work, I didn't like super in depth with it.
1:01:42
I thought it was the bridge. I thought someone fell off the
1:01:44
bridge and I didn't know it was like during a baseball game like
1:01:48
like anything related that way so.
1:01:53
Yeah, that's good. Very tough.
1:01:55
Hopefully, hopefully all things work out there.
1:01:57
I do. I hope that there's yeah, I hope
1:02:01
that everything works out and I do hope that there's, I don't
1:02:08
want to say like accountability, but like if, if there was
1:02:17
beverages involved, you know what I mean?
1:02:19
Like it, it's, it's tough, man. You put, you put the team, you
1:02:24
put an organization, you, you put like this situation in like
1:02:28
a difficult place because are, are they going to make, are they
1:02:30
going to alter the, the guardrail or the, you know what
1:02:34
I mean? Like are those things going to
1:02:36
start to come into play here? But like maybe they should, I
1:02:40
don't know. It's it's odd it.
1:02:42
Didn't seem like there was much up there in terms of yeah, there
1:02:48
was a railing, but it it seems like there maybe could be more
1:02:51
or so. Dude, like, I Fenway scared me.
1:02:54
I'm not really scared of heights, but that like, dude was
1:02:58
tough. Yeah.
1:02:59
How have you been up? Sit up there all.
1:03:00
Day have you been up on that monster?
1:03:02
That's, I mean, my goodness. And like reach for like a home
1:03:05
run, that's like, you know what I mean?
1:03:06
Like if there's something that's like close and within reach,
1:03:09
like I don't, I don't know. Yeah.
1:03:13
All in all though, it's it's sad to see and like I said, hope,
1:03:18
hope everything works out there for for him, his family, his
1:03:21
friends, everybody involved. You hate to see things like
1:03:24
that. Couple more items here.
1:03:28
The Did you see the Dalton Var show catch by chance from
1:03:33
yesterday? That was wild.
1:03:37
Fantastic catch and I don't want to take anything away from the
1:03:41
athleticism or lack thereof depending upon how you how you
1:03:45
look at it. But people I don't know like am
1:03:50
I, am I in the minority here? Like the fact that he's like
1:03:54
tripping and falling all over the place is ultimately what put
1:03:59
him in the position to make the catch in the 1st place.
1:04:02
So it's like. It's a good recovery.
1:04:03
A fantastic recovery. Like I said, I'm not taking
1:04:06
anything away from that. But people are like Dalton
1:04:09
Varshaw. Are you kidding me?
1:04:10
It's like he's Jim Edmonds out there.
1:04:13
Like he tripping all over himself.
1:04:16
I think some of these you, this man, some of these youths just
1:04:19
didn't see center field played the way we did.
1:04:22
Well, I'm not gonna pull the old man yelling at the cloud.
1:04:26
Will Jim Edmonds. Yeah, let's compare Don Bar Show
1:04:30
to one of the greatest of all time.
1:04:32
Sizemore OK, Did you see one of the greatest catchers of all
1:04:36
time look up Gary Matthews Junior?
1:04:38
Fantastic. That was in Texas if I recall.
1:04:41
Ridiculous. That was one of the greatest
1:04:43
catchers ever. That was a.
1:04:44
Ballpark at Arlington, if I'm not mistaken.
1:04:48
So yeah, just good on good on VAR show for being athletic
1:04:52
enough to recover, but let's not act like this is the play of the
1:04:56
century because it's not. Anyway, Braves option Jared
1:05:02
Kelnick after signing in former well, I I guess he's a a friend
1:05:09
for life to the Braves. But Eddie Rosario coming back to
1:05:14
the ATL option, Kelnick to AAA, and Rosario will serve as really
1:05:22
just a bench guy. Well, I think you and I can both
1:05:28
speak to it. Braves fans enjoy the ups and
1:05:33
downs of Alex Verdugo cause boy are those valleys low.
1:05:43
Yeah. I can speak.
1:05:44
I can. I can also speak to that for
1:05:45
sure. Yeah.
1:05:47
I think from what I could tell, Braves fans are pretty tired of
1:05:51
this song and dance. They they love it with Jesse
1:05:54
Chavez, but they don't, they don't love it with with Eddie.
1:05:59
Flip of the coin. Flip of the coin?
1:06:01
Little unless you already know. Do you know the status of Jesse
1:06:06
Chavez right now? I think he's back.
1:06:09
Take it, take your guess and I think he's back.
1:06:12
I want to confirm I. Think he's back.
1:06:21
Is he back? I think he's back because I
1:06:25
think he opted out. Like the they wanted to send him
1:06:29
down, then he opted out and then they brought him back.
1:06:31
Again, am I reading this? Is this?
1:06:33
Is there truth to this? The Braves announced that they
1:06:35
outrighted Jesse Chavez and Gwinnett, but he elected free
1:06:37
agency. Right.
1:06:39
But I thought he came back after that.
1:06:42
No, that was yesterday. Oh, so he's out again.
1:06:46
It really is a flip of the coin. I need to where?
1:06:53
Hold on, surely his Wikipedia is updated?
1:06:56
It'll say if he's a free agent. It's tough.
1:07:02
Feel like there's better sources?
1:07:04
Yeah, he's he's gone. Annoying.
1:07:10
That was an annoying story. So is Konik.
1:07:13
Dude this. Now the Konik thing is whatever,
1:07:16
but the the Jesse Chavez thing is wild.
1:07:21
Snitch should have benched him, now it just really looks stupid.
1:07:29
Last thing here, did you? Did you see the whole Rokie
1:07:35
Sasaki toilet thing? I did not fill me in.
1:07:39
So came out the other day earlier this week that do I want
1:07:41
to know as I mean, you're a you're a big toilet guy.
1:07:47
Something like this applies. Love the toilet?
1:07:49
Roki Sasaki, apparently in the offseason when he was negotiate
1:07:54
negotiating deals with teams, got to his conversation with the
1:08:00
Dodgers and asked if there was going to be Japanese style
1:08:06
toilets, to which then the Dodgers said, yeah, we'll get
1:08:11
right on that guy. And went ahead and upgraded the
1:08:15
clubhouse and the facilities. And turns out that he reportedly
1:08:22
was like partially joking, but also was confirmed as saying
1:08:27
that it sounds like a joke, but for me, it's pretty important.
1:08:31
So man's loves his Japanese style toilets, which I can
1:08:35
understand. Like if that's all you've ever
1:08:36
known, look. That's going to mess with my
1:08:39
pooping routine, you know? That's what I'm saying.
1:08:42
Can you pull up a Japanese toilet?
1:08:45
Yeah. Are these on the floor?
1:08:48
I feel like they're like a really loud as opposed to. 1
1:08:53
floating from the air. I I mean like flush with the
1:08:57
floor, no pun intended. Oh pro what?
1:09:07
No, see, these are the real questions that need to be asked
1:09:10
is. This a real?
1:09:11
Is this the real thing? Am I looking at a Japanese cell
1:09:15
toilet right now? Yeah, in the chat, something
1:09:19
about a bidet is there. I thought it was more about the
1:09:21
bidet but I'm seeing a lot of toilets.
1:09:24
In ground today was European. Nah, well done.
1:09:33
There's no way Squat toilets. Oh, it seems like squat toilets
1:09:39
is what I'm looking at. It's where it's like the in
1:09:41
ground toilets. It seems like those are flush
1:09:43
with the ground, but it's I'm reading that those are becoming
1:09:46
outdated. So there must be a new thing
1:09:47
that he's after that he got. I want to see dude I I don't
1:09:52
know. Look it up.
1:09:54
Come on the. One that I'm looking at right
1:09:56
now looks like it has some sort of a day thing going on.
1:10:00
Japanese toilette. We don't need to.
1:10:04
We don't need to go in to more depth about this.
1:10:07
This looks like a standard trash can.
1:10:11
Well, we're talking about toilets.
1:10:12
Flat 1 is wild. Talking about toilets.
1:10:16
That'll do it sitting down there.
1:10:19
No, that'll do it. You got anything else?
1:10:26
It looks like a like the armrest of an airplane.
1:10:29
You got the you got to change the channel, you know, you.
1:10:34
And then your elbow hits the volume down on accident in the
1:10:38
middle of your movie. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you.
1:10:41
You got anything else before we get out of here?
1:10:47
Look these good. Stuff.
1:10:49
These look not too. Far love y'all.
1:10:53
The regular toilets. And as always, let's get out of
1:10:57
here. Don't go chasing curveballs.
1:11:01
Love you guys, we love you all, and as always, looking forward
1:11:03
to talking more baseball with you guys soon.
1:11:05
Until next time, stay filthy.