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7-8-9 Baseball Show - Cubs Hot Streak, Twins Cold Streak, and MLB News · Scene Projects Sports Network

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  Welcome into the scene, Project Sports Network.
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  I am your host, Bubba Starts, and you are here tonight because it is Sunday, which means it's
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  time for seven eight nine.
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  I am joined by my cohost, Big B.
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  What's shaking, B?
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  Not much, man.
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  Just had a fun night last night with me and my son.
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  And tomorrow, hopefully, the weather permits or the game goes on.
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  We'll be at the Quinn's Seattle Mariners game.
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  So
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  Awesome.
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  Well, you'll be seeing Shady's boy, Cal Rally.
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  Hopefully, he can get a stick going this time.
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  Well, if you get the Quinns, so we all can probably get the big stick going against that.
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  And and those early season successes are far in the rearview mirror now for the twins,
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  struggling one and nine in their last 10.
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  Shady, what's going on, brother?
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  Hey.
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  Same old same old baby.
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  Brave's staying hot right now.
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  Did drop one to the Phillies back, like, a week ago, but, you know, they're staying hot.
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  Mets consistently stay in America's worst team, I think.
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  I think the Mets are taking that crown this year.
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  Other than that, guys, we are good.
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  Sun's shining out here in the South.
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  Balls are flying.
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  You know what I'm saying?
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  Baseball time's here.
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  I we finally got some rain up here in the Upper Midwest, and we are not complaining one bit.
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  I had a pretty pretty bad fire not too far from our house actually, about 10 miles, which is
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  extremely rare for our area, but a controlled burn got out of control.
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  So shout out to our firefighters.
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  But we finally got a bit of rain, so that's out now and finally getting a little bit of
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  moisture.
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  We're farm country, man.
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  So when nobody curses the rain out here whatsoever.
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  And if you gotta miss a baseball game or two because of it, no big deal.
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  We'll bring in our last cohost off the IL this weekend.
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  Pods, what's going on, brother?
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  Not
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  much.
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  How are you guys doing?
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  Sup, Pods?
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  I admittedly, I am tired.
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  I had a long weekend myself.
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  We were out in Deadwood about five hours away.
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  Had a couple of shows this weekend.
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  What'd you say, B, short nights, long mornings?
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  Yeah.
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  Something something like that.
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  Something like that.
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  But, pods, you had a little medical emergency this weekend course related.
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  Yeah.
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  Tell me about it, man.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Come on.
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  Yep.
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  So you know those mini brushes, like the Groove It?
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  Oh, okay.
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  Yep.
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  That you can use to clean your clubs, and you can put them, like, on your belt loop?
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  Yep.
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  Yeah.
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  Well, I put one on my belt loop, and I went to go snap the magnet back on in place.
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  Right?
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  And when I went to go snap the magnet back on in place, it, like, flipped up on me really
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  aggressively, and it just came and hit me in my hand, my knuckle here, and then my knuckle on
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  my thumb.
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  And I just had, like, two big lumps on there, and I was like, oh, man.
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  You know, I thought it was swelling.
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  But, no, it's a couple bone bruises and then a fracture.
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  Damn.
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  That is, that's crazy.
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  Fracture, I mean by fracture, I mean, I fractured my ego because I was like, wow.
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  I thought something worse was wrong with my hand, and it was just a bone bruise.
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  So I got to go golfing this morning.
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  I felt okay.
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  But Saturday just Saturday and early this morning sucked.
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  But I put my hands in my pockets and, like, rubbed them against my chest and stuff to get
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  some heat going into my hands.
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  And after that, it felt better.
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  I did wear my gloves.
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  There you go, pods.
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  So no recommend.
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  Pay attention when you're cleaning your clubs and putting them back on the magnet, or you
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  might just just pull a me.
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  Pull a you.
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  So possible.
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  Hey, everybody tuning in.
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  We appreciate you.
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  Obviously, a massive weekend, in sports.
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  Baseball season is in full swing.
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  We're golfing.
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  NFL draft.
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  Yeah.
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  NFL draft going on.
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  Everybody's best.
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  That that's pretty much what I can judge from every fan base.
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  You know, I I haven't followed all of the sports close enough.
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  I was very in on, like, one team, but now branching out a little bit.
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  I understand that it's ubiquitous.
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  Nobody is happy at at the draft.
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  Even if you made, like, one good pick, then somebody's probably pissed about the rest of
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  it, and and you didn't take who they were going to.
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  And, great great content for us.
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  We're gonna talk a lot more football
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  on Tuesday.
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  Chiefs fan.
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  I was very pleased with our draft.
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  Oh,
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  yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Well, you're the only one.
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  Everybody else hated it.
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  So I don't even know anything about their draft or what they did or who talks about it, but it
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  it seems pretty much, like, how I don't know.
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  I think the I think the Raiders and the Giants had some pretty good drafts.
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  Patriots had decent draft.
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  13 picks, I I hope you can they were the number one overall.
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  You should be able to do a little something.
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  But we're gonna talk more football on Tuesday.
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  We're here to talk baseball tonight.
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  Oh, I hit the standings real quick just for some posture.
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  Back off top and lead
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  and all that.
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  Here.
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  Hey.
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  You just back up, buddy.
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  They did lose earlier this week, but we'll start at the top.
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  Hey, Ali.
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  Yankees up top.
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  They just Yeah.
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  It's it's I don't know if it's nice to see them back in there.
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  This is obviously a surprise for, I think, a lot of people, and we're gonna talk more about
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  the coaching shakeup there, Alex Cora, out as the Boston Red Sox manager along with most of
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  his staff.
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  But something's gotta break, man.
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  That that town, cares too much about baseball for you to be a bottom feeder, and, things were
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  supposed
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  to be mention, he said he was happy about being fired.
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  So that tells you there's some serious front office issues going on.
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  Man, yeah, he's he was a player.
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  He's you know?
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  The red sox the red here's my take on the red sox.
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  The red sox are, like, one of the I mean, every team goes up and down, but the red sox have
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  some spikes.
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  He won the world series, I think, in 2019, wasn't it, the year before COVID?
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  2018.
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  2038.
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  That's been, like, almost ten years.
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  I hate getting older, but time seems to be going by faster because I remember the o four
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  game.
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  Like, I I remember when they won in o four.
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  That seems like literally yesterday.
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  When they broke the curse of the bambino?
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  Yeah.
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  I was on the field at Tropicana when they played the Rays.
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  I was down in Florida for that, and we've got to be on the field for all that.
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  But, like, the the Red Sox have always had great managers, like, Francona and stuff.
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  Corey didn't really fit that for me.
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  Did he fit it for y'all?
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  Like I mean, not that he's not a good manager.
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  He's a
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  good manager, but To me, he fit at the current time and how things were conducted in that
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  time, you know, from that 2018 to the early twenty one period.
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  But he never really could recapture that success that he had in the early twenty, like,
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  late teens, early twenties with those solid teams even after winning the World Series.
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  They still went to the playoffs.
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  But I think the thing that really stands out about the Red Sox my dad's a huge Red Sox fan.
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  And he just he's he says being a Boston Red Sox fan outside of being a White Sox fan is the
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  equivalent of being a Cleveland Browns fan at this point.
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  Have you talked to Minnesota of sadness.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Bee, I have talked to Minnesota fans because you absolutely nailed it when you said the Mets
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  streak would come to an end once they play the twins.
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  Told them.
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  Buddy, you should have gone and bought a lotto ticket because that was an evil.
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  Right?
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  That would've been even money.
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  My dollar for that dollar would've been even money.
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  Well, and speaking of the twins, yeah, they're Large.
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  10.
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  Not not great.
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  After, I would say, a surprising start to their season, I think this is more of the team that
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  the fan base thought they were going to be, and then they weren't.
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  And everybody was like, what the hell?
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  But now we're back to normal.
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  But but the thing is the thing is with the twins, if you could slide over to the run
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  differential, they're not getting blown out like I kinda thought they were.
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  They're kinda pretty consistent with their games.
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  They're losing It's the bats.
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  So
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  It's the bats, though, too.
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  Even Yeah.
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  Even on their run differential.
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  They just it's the bats.
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  It's the missed opportunity of pitching.
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  You know, the bullpen's kinda rocky right now, but, you know, they're
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  gonna have a hard time
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  chasing these two teams to the basement.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  What is running and scoring percentage?
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  Like, what is the runs and scoring percentage for the team?
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  Like, how often are they scoring on runners and scoring positions?
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  No.
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  They're not.
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  No.
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  They're not.
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  Easy pause.
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  We're getting advanced here, buddy.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Why analytics, but the twins aren't scoring as much as they should be with runners and scoring
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  position.
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  I don't
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  know anything about what Potts just said.
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  I'm barely qualified to host this show.
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  They keep that stat for our teams?
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  Yeah.
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  What are you
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  talking about?
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  Somebody probably does.
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  They quit keeping that
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  one after.
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  Yeah.
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  Look at that.
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  Look at that AL West.
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  The Las Vegas Athletics just riding the top out there.
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  They're playing on the shorter field?
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  They're still playing at Steinbrenner?
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  Yeah.
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  No.
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  Athletics are playing in Sacramento.
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  They get they get their home back.
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  No.
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  They're playing in Sacramento.
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  Yeah.
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  They're playing in Sacramento.
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  If you're thinking of the Rays
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  was like, was you're thinking of the Rays.
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  It's not helping them either.
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  Man, look at those Braves.
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  Braves, they're playing hot.
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  They're doing fine.
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  That's great.
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  Are they
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  Man, the pace they're setting right now, they'll be great once they get some of these
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  people back from the IR.
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  No.
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  Games up already.
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  I mean
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  The Phillies, I'm loving that skid.
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  That's good stuff.
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  Yeah.
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  The Cubs up the
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  team losing is a good day.
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  Yeah.
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  Cubs were a a big part of that.
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  Actually, both of these teams, keeping both these teams in the basement.
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  My Cubbies were winners of 10 in a row before they went out to Los Angeles.
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  Now about the last two slide there, but that's brought them from down here at the bottom up to
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  second place in the NL Central and looking pretty good doing it.
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  I don't know if this has been updated.
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  I know they lost No.
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  I I like I like the statement for the next category there, division.
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  West.
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  Well, that's gonna be updated because the Padres just lost.
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  They blew six run lead.
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  Right.
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  So Padres just lost.
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  Dodgers just won.
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  So there's a little Yeah.
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  Outdated.
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  I can't remember when I pulled this up.
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  Maybe I'll refresh
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  You can take
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  the seat.
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  There
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  it is.
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  Oh, no.
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  It didn't.
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  Here.
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  Looks better.
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  No.
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  It just did update.
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  Oh, that that no.
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  That doesn't look right.
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  Let's refresh again.
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  Yeah.
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  It won't go back.
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  It won't go back.
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  They blew a six run lead.
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  Wow.
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  It's 19.
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  It's alright.
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  Yeah.
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  That's good.
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  That's just gonna be a great fight out there all season long.
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  But that will division do good things.
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  You know, just like I
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  mean, nobody's out of it.
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  Nobody's out of it.
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  One person gets injured, everything changes.
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  Well, as the okay.
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  Look at
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  this entire division.
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  It's above 500.
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  Look at this.
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  Go to Bubba, can you go back up to the ALS real quick?
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  Yeah.
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  They're taking it.
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  Yeah.
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  Look at the ALS and how tight this all is.
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  Yeah.
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  And then go back down to the NL West.
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  Well, it's all tight.
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  Look at how tight the West Coast is.
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  Like, literally, I've said this before, and I'll say it again.
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  If you take the Padres, the Diamondbacks, and the Giants, and you were to put them in
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  separate divisions, they would probably win their division at least every two years.
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  The Padres would probably win multiple years in a row.
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  Oh, yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  I mean, hey, guys.
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  Head comes in spurts.
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  Yep.
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  So my, my buddy Brad Morgan, who's a fellow of Midwest Country music organization member, has
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  become a good friend, him and his wife.
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  He sang the national anthem at Wrigley in that finale against the Phillies.
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  So Oh.
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  I'm there singing the national anthem.
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  Really cool moment.
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  I I didn't get to attend the game in person, but seeing your friend out there singing at one
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  of your favorite places to some of your favorite people was just super cool, man.
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  Yeah.
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  It was awesome.
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  So when my dad's cruising through, and I think the Blues Brothers were on, and he was like,
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  oh, Wrigley Field.
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  My daughter's like, my dad's friend just sang.
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  Yeah.
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  That's pretty sick.
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  Yeah.
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  It's pretty neat.
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  It was awesome.
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  It was awesome to see him out there and singing my favorite song in one of my favorite
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  buildings.
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  Just really incredible, and I can't wait to, you know, hopefully get him on the show and
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  talk about that moment specifically.
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  And it just just neat.
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  Just love the opportunities that baseball affords us.
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  I hope I get an opportunity to sing it at, you know, our local Sioux Falls Stadium now that
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  we're kinda building a relationship with the team up there.
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  I would relish in that opportunity.
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  Anytime that I get to sing the national anthem is such a blessing to me to kinda serve in
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  whatever way that I can.
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  The great patriots that defend our country.
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  I'm always happy to do that.
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  And it's yeah.
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  As a musician, I don't know that there's really any any greater honor to than to be asked to do
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  that no matter what the game or the stadium is.
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  It's pretty pretty incredible.
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  Bit to do it in.
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  B, you had a couple topics you wanted to hit tonight.
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  Yeah.
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  You love the standings.
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  We talked a little bit about the teams, everything going on.
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  Hey, Super fan.
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  Thanks for thanks for tuning in, man.
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  I appreciate you.
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  I love that logo there.
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  That that Yeah.
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  That was cool.
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  That was cool logo.
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  So first, let's talk about it since we kind of already alluded to the going over the
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  standings.
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  The fallout of the Boston Red Sox firing Alex Cora, most of the coaching staff.
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  I think I read a story, something about the Trevor's story is upset.
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  The team's upset that this all came out.
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  So, Grady, I'll start with you.
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  What did you think of the news of the firing?
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  What do I think of the news of the firing?
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  Let's be honest, Boston.
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  Let's be honest.
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  Anybody in Boston out there, how'd y'all find out?
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  Did you find out by the landline still?
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  Because y'all still calling out there.
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  I know y'all are.
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  How'd they find out?
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  Was everybody in the metal chair still in the break room?
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  Like, hey.
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  Hold on a minute.
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  That's our coach.
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  Wait a minute.
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  I guess not.
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  I don't know, guys.
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  I don't know.
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  I don't know what's going on in Boston.
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  A little weird given kinda, like, feels like somebody was maybe lied to.
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  Feels like an an eighteen year old breakup, a little bit like, no.
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  You lied to me.
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  No.
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  I I didn't lie to you.
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  Yeah.
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  You did.
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  I don't know what happened here.
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  Alex Cora respected throughout the league.
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  You know?
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  Won a world series.
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  Great coach.
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  Good infielder.
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  Yeah.
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  You just weren't winning, bud.
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  Yankees, not really much you can do there.
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  I mean, Garrett Crochet, I don't really think if you're if you're throwing him out there, I
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  don't think you think you're gonna make it the whole way, do we?
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  I mean, come on, Boston.
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  Do we?
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  Do we think that?
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  I don't know.
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  Maybe we do.
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  I don't.
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  But I don't know.
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  It seems like things are going a little south.
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  I don't think the talent's there.
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  Maybe the expectation's a little high just being Boston that they wanna win.
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  I don't see them winning, though, with what they've got going on.
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  Well and that's obvious.
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  I I was just going back because I was like, man, I I don't remember Boston being good, but
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  you finished last in the division in '22, in '23.
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  In '21, they were a wildcard team.
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  So you haven't made the playoffs since 2021.
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  Yeah.
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  And and you finished with less than 90 wins in the last three seasons.
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  Yeah.
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  Right?
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  So, I mean, that's just unacceptable.
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  The yanks are doing the yanks.
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  Yeah.
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  In a in a baseball town, that's unacceptable to have five years of bottom feeding to get it
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  together.
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  And I don't know what the problem is.
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  I don't follow Boston close enough.
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  I I know they had a bit of a know, they just haven't been able to retain the talent that
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  they do have.
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  You know, you you get these guys, and and it seems like, obviously, Pod's Pod's team, the
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  Dodgers, just buy it up.
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  If you have a player that's worth a shit, they're probably gonna end up in Los Angeles.
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  Same thing with the Braves.
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  Right?
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  Freddie Freeman ends up out there and and, you know, it just it's just the state of baseball,
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  and I I think that's why we talked about it, you know, a few weeks ago now about an incoming
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  you know, whether it's a strike by the players or it's a lockout by the owners or you know,
• 18:36
  that there's just there's changes coming to the game of baseball.
• 18:40
  I don't know if it's a salary cap.
• 18:42
  I don't know what it does, but I I don't know that the league survives just being so top
• 18:48
  heavy with your talent and where they end up, whether that's New York or or LA.
• 18:55
  But you you have these and I don't wanna call, you know, Atlanta and Boston kinda secondary to
• 19:01
  those, but teams just don't players are gonna go chase that money.
• 19:06
  This is a finite sport.
• 19:08
  Right.
• 19:08
  Yeah.
• 19:09
  And they're just gonna go.
• 19:10
  And with these teams being able to offer, you know, double digit millions over what other
• 19:16
  teams even can, it makes it really, really tough.
• 19:20
  The coach the story I told about the coach I met that told the story about Greg throwing in
• 19:25
  the bullpen, He was talking about contracts, and he was talking about why players don't come
• 19:31
  back.
• 19:31
  Because we were talking about why Maddox came back and why Glavin never did.
• 19:35
  And it was like, I don't know if it's the same now because Atlanta really is a big market.
• 19:41
  Like, I don't know if you could call it small market.
• 19:43
  Maybe in the nineties you could when it was Turner and all that, but maybe not.
• 19:47
  But they said once you leave, and they used Brian McCann as as the example because they
• 19:52
  would think it was, like, o six.
• 19:54
  But once he got the opportunity to get the contract from the Yankees, you're never gonna
• 20:00
  be able to go up again.
• 20:02
  Like, that's as high as you're gonna get.
• 20:03
  So you just take it because the Brazier can't match it.
• 20:06
  There's they're like a level two tier kinda team when it comes to contracts.
• 20:10
  And that's why Chris Sale went from Boston back down to Atlanta.
• 20:15
  It was one bad season.
• 20:19
  But that's, like, coming down a tier.
• 20:21
  They consider the Braves second tier Yeah.
• 20:24
  And the pros do it.
• 20:25
  No.
• 20:25
  And and I would say, I mean, even the Cubs are kind of in that second tier as well where
• 20:30
  you're talking about historic franchises, but for one reason or another will not like, either
• 20:37
  the front office won't spend the money to that, and that's not to say that the Cubs won't spend
• 20:41
  money, but you get into a bidding war with these teams and the Dodgers will just keep
• 20:45
  going.
• 20:46
  Right?
• 20:46
  They'll just keep going until you're you're all in and they still have money to go.
• 20:52
  And and sometime, at some point, you're gonna get caught in that, and you're gonna sign a
• 20:56
  contract that you really didn't want to and have an albatross around your neck.
• 21:01
  And I'd say that the Cubs organization had the had the Derek Lee contract that was kinda like
• 21:07
  that years ago.
• 21:09
  And I don't know that they you know, it took them a long time to recover from that, but you
• 21:14
  had yeah.
• 21:17
  It just and I don't know what the solution is.
• 21:20
  Right?
• 21:20
  I'm not I'm not smart enough on the money side to take it to that next level.
• 21:27
  Do you have and then you have kinda what happened last year with Toronto making the
• 21:30
  World Series who didn't spend all the money, but you kinda saw it that you can take the team
• 21:37
  to, you know, a game seven, but you're still outgunned.
• 21:41
  Right?
• 21:41
  And the team that spends all the money still comes home with the hardware.
• 21:45
  So hard to say.
• 21:46
  What are your thoughts, Pods, as being the one who's kind of benefiting from it, at least as a
• 21:51
  as a fan a little bit right now?
• 21:53
  What what's your thought on teams like the, Dodgers just being able to kinda spend to the
• 21:59
  limit and outspending a a Boston who, like I said, for whatever reason, maybe it's front
• 22:05
  office just says they're not going to, but, you know, give us your thoughts on that in general.
• 22:10
  And then we'd love to get your thoughts on, you know, the Boston situation specifically as
• 22:15
  well.
• 22:16
  Well, I'll just put it this way and put it very bluntly.
• 22:20
  It's just as being somebody who benefits from the Dodgers being in such a situation right now
• 22:26
  where we are able to pay these people because we have fantastic ownership.
• 22:31
  We have a fantastic front office.
• 22:34
  Everybody gets along.
• 22:35
  Like, people not only do we have the money, but you hear about the people, you know, especially
• 22:40
  the journeymen who come through LA, they're like, I love playing in LA, not just because,
• 22:46
  oh, yeah, they're gonna pay me a boatload of money and it's California.
• 22:51
  But they're like, oh, yeah.
• 22:53
  We love this team.
• 22:53
  They're winners.
• 22:55
  So it helps when you have all the money and a winning culture.
• 22:58
  Mhmm.
• 22:59
  It helps tremendously.
• 23:01
  But as far as the money goes, we're basically doing what the Yankees did for two decades from
• 23:08
  the nineties to the early two thousands.
• 23:11
  We're just it's just happening in the National League now, whereas the Yankees used to buy all
• 23:15
  the players.
• 23:15
  Like, when they'd go out, get a Johnny Damon, go out, get a, oh, man, Jason Giambi, take him
• 23:24
  from the athletics.
• 23:25
  Yep.
• 23:25
  You know?
• 23:27
  Randy Johnson and It's just happening in the National League now.
• 23:30
  It's it happened in the American League in the nineties and the February, and we're the
• 23:34
  beneficiaries of it.
• 23:35
  But what I say too is you guys know I have a secondary team that I really like, that being
• 23:41
  our fellow AL Central Kansas City Royals who are currently dead laughing the AL Central
• 23:47
  right now.
• 23:49
  Yeah.
• 23:51
  Is that sometimes these teams that are known for their farms will win Mhmm.
• 23:57
  One, maybe two.
• 24:00
  But the people who own these teams can't outspend a Steve Cohen and a Magic Johnson and
• 24:07
  that, you know, partnership groups.
• 24:11
  So we either have to put a like and look.
• 24:14
  I love my Dodgers because we get all the money and we get all the players, but I wanted to be
• 24:18
  fair too is we need to get a salary cap in baseball, but we also need to establish a
• 24:25
  minimum floor so that some of these cheap owners who are just being cheap for the sake of
• 24:30
  being cheap, having to put a minimum amount of money into player contracts and coaching
• 24:34
  contracts to improve their roster.
• 24:37
  We can just watch
• 24:38
  it in
• 24:38
  the Rockies.
• 24:39
  Yeah.
• 24:40
  What happens is that, like, the the the the the second the third, fourth tier become feeders
• 24:48
  for the upper teams.
• 24:50
  Right?
• 24:50
  They they they draft they get to draft all the top players.
• 24:54
  They develop them in their farm system.
• 24:56
  They get them to the show.
• 24:57
  They perform well, and then they leave the team.
• 25:00
  And whether the teams are getting back draft compensation with that, which, you know, the
• 25:04
  NFL is kind of known for at this point, you get a player up to that and then sell so you can
• 25:10
  get some something back from that.
• 25:12
  That's definitely in the weeds of the business of, you know, professional sports especially.
• 25:18
  But you can't have this where you have half of a third to half of the league is just a feeder
• 25:24
  for the top teams in the league to keep resupplying their talent, and the top teams
• 25:30
  don't develop their own at all.
• 25:32
  Okay.
• 25:33
  Let me ask you guys a question, though.
• 25:36
  Who, in your opinion, would you consider?
• 25:38
  Because it can't it's gotta be more than just the Yankees and the Dodgers.
• 25:42
  Who would you consider if you had to put it into five teams, six teams?
• 25:46
  Who are the people right now that the feeders are going to outside of LA and New York?
• 25:53
  Oh, gotcha right here.
• 25:54
  How many do you want?
• 25:54
  Do you want five
• 25:55
  or six?
• 25:58
  Go six.
• 25:58
  Make it an even number.
• 25:59
  Shit.
• 25:59
  Go six.
• 26:00
  We'll even.
• 26:01
  Go six.
• 26:01
  Shit.
• 26:01
  Let's go six.
• 26:02
  Go three AL.
• 26:03
  Go three NL.
• 26:05
  I got you.
• 26:06
  Dodgers.
• 26:07
  Who?
• 26:08
  Dodgers.
• 26:11
  Dodgers.
• 26:13
  One AL team, Yankees.
• 26:16
  Then they'll go to the Dodgers and Dodgers.
• 26:21
  Okay.
• 26:22
  What did I miss last year?
• 26:24
  That was the whole bottom line of ESPN.
• 26:26
  It was like, dodgers.
• 26:26
  Blah blah blah.
• 26:27
  This is But They pulled out cards from for Japan.
• 26:32
  I didn't know who these people were.
• 26:33
  They're pulling up different highlights.
• 26:34
  They're like, yeah.
• 26:35
  We just got this guy.
• 26:36
  Who?
• 26:36
  How?
• 26:37
  Matt and second question.
• 26:38
  Hold on, Potts.
• 26:39
  Hold on, Potts.
• 26:40
  Oh, go ahead.
• 26:42
  Speaking of Japan, just gotta give a shout out real quick.
• 26:46
  Murakami for the White Sox, the White Samurai.
• 26:48
  Rookie.
• 26:49
  Six homers.
• 26:51
  Five homers in a row in five games.
• 26:53
  Shout out to him.
• 26:54
  He is crushing it.
• 26:55
  Only rookie to do Alright.
• 26:58
  So, Podge, question.
• 27:01
  I know that was a dumb answer, but I the real question here because, I mean, I heard your
• 27:05
  speech, and that was great.
• 27:07
  I don't know if you believed it, but I it kinda sounds like what
• 27:10
  believe in a salary cap and a salary floor.
• 27:13
  No.
• 27:13
  No.
• 27:13
  No.
• 27:13
  I meant the we win and we love each other, and the whole place is built around winners, and we
• 27:17
  we don't poop, and it's rainbow.
• 27:20
  You know, LA Dodgers kinda stuff.
• 27:24
  What are you telling the minor leaguers that y'all draft?
• 27:28
  Because it's like I I mean, that was the look I was getting.
• 27:31
  Like, what are these guys doing in the clubhouse?
• 27:33
  Bottom just bottom feeders all the way through triple a.
• 27:35
  It's like, you think you're getting caught up?
• 27:38
  Why did I what have I told you about asking that question, Johnny?
• 27:42
  You ain't getting caught up.
• 27:43
  You better find a good life here in Reno.
• 27:46
  You love Reno.
• 27:48
  Don't Who was the I mean, the Dodgers but the Dodgers did develop some talent.
• 27:53
  Right?
• 27:53
  I I mean, in in the last decade
• 27:55
  call ups right now.
• 27:56
  You
• 27:57
  Monsey Monsey is a in it.
• 28:00
  Okay.
• 28:02
  Max was a a a product.
• 28:04
  Right?
• 28:04
  Max.
• 28:04
  And then you had their Bellinger.
• 28:09
  Was in our system.
• 28:10
  Max didn't we get we got Max from the a's.
• 28:13
  Either way, he's the one
• 28:14
  I thought he was playing triple a and then got called up to the dodgers.
• 28:18
  No.
• 28:18
  I think he was playing professionally for Oakland.
• 28:21
  Oh, Well, that explains why I never saw him.
• 28:24
  It's all good.
• 28:26
  That's sad.
• 28:29
  Was Bellinger a product Yes. Of
• 28:32
  Of Right?
• 28:33
  He came up through the realization.
• 28:36
  I mean, Freddie.
• 28:37
  Freddie was a LA kid.
• 28:38
  He wanted to be a Dodger, but he was brave, then he became
• 28:41
  But he was a brave and you know what?
• 28:42
  Look.
• 28:43
  You can call me a liar, and you can say bullshit right now.
• 28:47
  Mhmm.
• 28:48
  As much as I love Freddie Freeman and I thank him for the last two World Series
• 28:52
  Yeah.
• 28:52
  You stole him.
• 28:53
  He should still be a brave.
• 28:54
  Yeah.
• 28:55
  Good.
• 28:56
  I mean, his agent did.
• 28:57
  Blue, but he looks better and brave.
• 28:59
  You
• 29:00
  know?
• 29:00
  I mean, you sent him home.
• 29:01
  He's not coming back now.
• 29:02
  It's not like you know?
• 29:04
  It's all just saying.
• 29:05
  That's the other thing is that once they do sign, they're these baseball players are
• 29:10
  signing these contract.
• 29:11
  They're not one or two year deals.
• 29:13
  Right?
• 29:13
  They're they're signing these massive deals, and they're finishing out the back, you know,
• 29:18
  six to eight years of their careers out there.
• 29:21
  And, you know, does it maybe implode at some point?
• 29:25
  Maybe.
• 29:25
  Absolutely.
• 29:26
  We're just we're in the middle of it right now, and it looks like it's just gonna be dodgers,
• 29:31
  dodgers, dodgers, dodgers.
• 29:33
  And it was and it was nice that they got over the hump.
• 29:36
  Right?
• 29:36
  Because I know they had made it several years, you know, going up against the cheating astros
• 29:40
  and weren't able to really get over that hump.
• 29:43
  You know, it it was looking for a time.
• 29:45
  You know, is Clayton Kershaw ever going to win a a world series?
• 29:49
  Right?
• 29:50
  You know?
• 29:50
  You
• 29:50
  got two, baby.
• 29:51
  You got one of the best pitchers in, you know, or the history of the league, really.
• 29:56
  I I mean, dominant dominant pitcher that wasn't able to
• 29:59
  go over that.
• 30:00
  This since GoFacts.
• 30:02
  That's that's what I've gotta give him.
• 30:03
  Right.
• 30:04
  And so, you know, may is definitely some recency bias on our side of hating on the
• 30:10
  dodgers right now.
• 30:11
  Sure.
• 30:11
  Yeah.
• 30:11
  But it
• 30:12
  go it it goes in waves too.
• 30:13
  And and I don't know who's that next team.
• 30:16
  Right?
• 30:17
  Who who's gonna be that team that comes out?
• 30:19
  Are the cubs able to get over the hump?
• 30:21
  I know they won a a nail biter the other night against the dodgers, but then end up dropping
• 30:25
  two out of three, dropping the last two games, getting blown out and shut out today and last
• 30:31
  night that you you know, who's gonna be that team that's able to get over the hump?
• 30:36
  And it's not to say that the Cubs aren't buying talent and trading for Yeah.
• 30:41
  Talent.
• 30:41
  You know, our our best players, PCA, came over in a deal when you were selling off the the
• 30:46
  remainder of the 2016 team, right, coming over from the Mets in the what was that?
• 30:53
  The Chris Bryant deal?
• 30:54
  Right?
• 30:54
  Yeah, man.
• 30:55
  Put him out and you got, you know, replenished the coffers in that way.
• 31:00
  But it's a long process.
• 31:01
  Right?
• 31:01
  You you you get a Dansby Swanson in there.
• 31:05
  I know.
• 31:05
  You know, Shota from overseas, and it takes a lot to build a it takes a lot more to build a
• 31:11
  winner when you have these teams, you know, historically, the Yankees who are still doing
• 31:17
  the same thing.
• 31:18
  They just haven't achieved the the results, right, that we have this.
• 31:23
  But it it would be nice to see it build up again, and I think that's the the salary cap in
• 31:30
  the way that the draft is set up in the NFL that you have that parity in the league a
• 31:34
  little bit more.
• 31:36
  But we'll see.
• 31:36
  I I think there's there's so much that's going to change in baseball over the next five years
• 31:42
  and probably things that we don't even have, you know, a a pulse on right now that'll be
• 31:48
  coming down.
• 31:49
  One of the main
• 31:50
  answer one of your questions.
• 31:52
  Go ahead.
• 31:54
  You asked who that next team up would probably be.
• 31:57
  The Padres just got bought for, like, $3,000,000,000, so they might be next in one.
• 32:05
  Yep.
• 32:07
  So I because I have the inclination that this new ownership wants to spend and wants to win.
• 32:14
  Well, you wanna see some ROI on that investment for sure at 3,000,000,000 with a b dollars.
• 32:21
  What b, what's your take on all of this, man?
• 32:26
  I feel like we haven't heard enough from you tonight.
• 32:29
  Well, the manager thing, I mean, it's early season.
• 32:34
  I mean, there's probably a lot more in the behind the doors that we don't know about that
• 32:39
  probably won't come out.
• 32:40
  So that's probably the big reason why everything got out there.
• 32:45
  But, I mean, like I said, we talked about it.
• 32:47
  You know, Cora was a winner as a player.
• 32:50
  He came to, you know, couple manager stints and won.
• 32:54
  So but I'm with, you know, pods and everybody.
• 32:58
  I think we need some kind of salary cap of baseball, especially a floor to where the twins
• 33:03
  and all these teams that are trying to get by cheap have to spend up to.
• 33:07
  And I think overall, it would make, you know, baseball a little bit better, you know, just
• 33:14
  like football where, yeah, you might have the same teams in the playoffs, but maybe you
• 33:18
  don't.
• 33:18
  Maybe you get a surprise team to win it all.
• 33:22
  You know, I mean, I go back to what was it?
• 33:25
  Three years ago when Oden hit showing signed with the Dodgers, and everybody was just afraid
• 33:31
  that he was gonna ask for too much money, and so nobody bid on him except for the Dodgers.
• 33:36
  And it comes off they deferred all his money till after his career's over.
• 33:41
  And they're all paying him, like, 2,000,000 each year.
• 33:43
  Which team I mean, take out the, you know, big markets.
• 33:47
  I mean, if everybody knew that, a lot more team probably would've went out and, you know,
• 33:52
  threw them out.
• 33:53
  Was getting that deal.
• 33:55
  No.
• 33:55
  No.
• 33:55
  And, honestly not.
• 33:56
  But but I'm just saying, if we knew that there's a chance for us to sign possibly the
• 34:02
  best baseball player of all time to a that type of deal, I mean, there might have been more of
• 34:09
  a market.
• 34:09
  But still seem pretty crazy too.
• 34:12
  Well, I think I think his goal was to go to the Dodgers.
• 34:15
  I don't think it was anybody else.
• 34:16
  I think it was Dodgers or nobody.
• 34:18
  So Right.
• 34:18
  And that's why I say, like, nobody else was getting that.
• 34:22
  But, I mean, if we but but I'm telling you, if if the playing fair if the playing field was
• 34:26
  fair, we, you know, wanted to make an offer, you know, to get that type of deal.
• 34:32
  I mean, that would have been a heck of a deal.
• 34:33
  Mean, we always talk about and make fun of, you know, what is it, June 4?
• 34:38
  Or is it June 1 that is Barry Bonds Day in New York?
• 34:42
  I got no idea.
• 34:43
  I'll have to look that up.
• 34:45
  But, yeah, he'll his big salary that they are
• 34:48
  Oh, wow.
• 34:49
  Yeah.
• 34:51
  Oh, yeah.
• 34:52
  Or the July 1.
• 34:53
  It's something like that.
• 34:55
  Yeah.
• 34:55
  It's Bobby Bonita.
• 34:56
  Bobby Bonita Day.
• 34:58
  Yep.
• 34:58
  Yeah.
• 34:59
  They celebrate it in New York every year.
• 35:01
  So He's he's running out of time.
• 35:03
  Yeah.
• 35:03
  He's he's yeah.
• 35:04
  Well, I I got I think it's 2030 or 2035 his deal runs out.
• 35:09
  So I figured.
• 35:10
  Keep it going, Bobby.
• 35:11
  We're ready.
• 35:12
  Man was on a generational fleece, bro.
• 35:15
  Yeah.
• 35:16
  He's still on it.
• 35:17
  He's still
• 35:18
  on it.
• 35:18
  But but that's the thing too.
• 35:19
  I mean, just to be just to be in that negotiation where
• 35:24
  That's a generational run.
• 35:26
  But but but that's what I'm just saying.
• 35:28
  It it you're in the you're in discussions with this deal, and the Mets don't want you, but
• 35:33
  you're not gonna give up the money.
• 35:35
  So they're gonna pay you for, what, thirty years, a a million dollar each year.
• 35:40
  Not
• 35:40
  the plate
• 35:41
  for Give me the annuity.
• 35:42
  Give me
• 35:42
  the No.
• 35:43
  No kidding.
• 35:44
  Deadass.
• 35:45
  Yeah.
• 35:45
  I think they actually fly him, a suitcase.
• 35:47
  It just it's not that much.
• 35:49
  But, I mean, it's, like, $15, I think.
• 35:53
  No.
• 35:53
  I think it's a I'll look.
• 35:55
  But
• 35:56
  I mean, it's a lot.
• 35:57
  But
• 35:58
  Bro, you gotta give Bobby Bonito some credit, though.
• 36:00
  That that makes him, like, one of the OGs of getting the bag in MLB.
• 36:06
  Oh, yeah.
• 36:07
  Yeah.
• 36:08
  Yeah.
• 36:10
  I'll give you alright.
• 36:11
  Okay.
• 36:12
  Bonilla Day is July 1, and he receives a check from the Mets.
• 36:16
  $1,193,528.20.
• 36:22
  I was waiting.
• 36:23
  Yeah.
• 36:25
  Just a little bit.
• 36:26
  Yeah.
• 36:26
  And that goes until 2035.
• 36:28
  Well, with New York with New York City taxes, though, he probably only gets about $15,000.
• 36:33
  Grand.
• 36:33
  What did
• 36:33
  I say?
• 36:34
  That's a good job.
• 36:35
  Calling it Bobby.
• 36:38
  So the whole salary cap thing, I tell you the team to look at and wonder what wonder why or
• 36:45
  anything.
• 36:45
  You wanna you wanna ask why we're gonna have to go into this whole lockout.
• 36:50
  Look at Miami.
• 36:51
  Yeah.
• 36:53
  You can't tell me who plays for Miami.
• 36:56
  If you go look at the camera, there's nobody in that stadium.
• 36:59
  Mhmm.
• 37:00
  That's a major market.
• 37:02
  Messi took everybody.
• 37:05
  They have found out that you cannot compete with an international superstar.
• 37:08
  It doesn't matter if you got a major market or not.
• 37:10
  Yep.
• 37:11
  Messi took them.
• 37:14
  But Tampa Bay Rays are kind of the same boat too when, you know, they had a good team, but
• 37:18
  they couldn't fill the stadium until playoffs came, then everybody wanted to go.
• 37:22
  They're selling out.
• 37:23
  The Tampa Bay Rays are also notoriously cheap.
• 37:26
  Yeah.
• 37:27
  That is true too.
• 37:28
  It's good.
• 37:28
  But how the hell are gonna pull people from the beach into a freaking baseball stadium?
• 37:34
  You know?
• 37:34
  Like, that's just
• 37:35
  Notoriously cheap.
• 37:37
  They should have relocated from Tropicana ten years ago.
• 37:40
  Yep.
• 37:41
  I totally agree with that one.
• 37:43
  But Yeah.
• 37:44
  Miami Miami own business
• 37:46
  and their own exposure and players.
• 37:48
  Well, that stadium too didn't help either.
• 37:51
  I I have a buddy that used to live in Miami.
• 37:54
  He said that stadium was just terrible for baseball.
• 37:57
  Yeah.
• 37:57
  It's football stadium.
• 37:58
  Yeah.
• 37:58
  Because it's a pain in the ass to get to.
• 38:00
  Yeah.
• 38:01
  Well, yeah, why are you gonna waste a day that you could be on the beach and be like it it
• 38:08
  almost like, the city that you live in works against you, where you're like, why would I
• 38:14
  leave the ocean?
• 38:16
  What are you talking about?
• 38:17
  You want me to go sit and watch three hours of bad baseball, even good baseball over Miami
• 38:24
  Beach.
• 38:25
  Yeah.
• 38:26
  I wouldn't do it.
• 38:27
  Good.
• 38:27
  Like, are they serving cocaine on the menu?
• 38:30
  That's the baseball deal.
• 38:31
  I guess.
• 38:31
  Wow.
• 38:32
  Yeah.
• 38:32
  They're gonna have to you're gonna have to do something.
• 38:36
  You're have have to
• 38:37
  do something.
• 38:38
  Is there free drinks?
• 38:40
  Is there, you know
• 38:42
  A flamingo bar.
• 38:43
  Is there a hot dog eating contest?
• 38:45
  Something, please.
• 38:46
  Yeah.
• 38:48
  Yeah.
• 38:48
  Yeah.
• 38:49
  And the only contestants are scantily clad women in bikinis.
• 38:55
  Alright.
• 38:57
  Shady, I gotta ask you something, though.
• 39:00
  Alright.
• 39:02
  So I kinda saw this, and we were talking amongst ourselves earlier today.
• 39:07
  The unwritten rules and some of the stuff that's been getting, kinda just abused lately
• 39:14
  in this modern MLB.
• 39:17
  Like, the unwritten rules seem like they can really get their get their hands washed of
• 39:23
  them.
• 39:24
  They just do whatever they want.
• 39:25
  Yeah.
• 39:27
  Kids are cocky these days.
• 39:29
  Depends on which ones we're talking about.
• 39:32
  Which ones are you specifically talking about?
• 39:35
  What do you think about that?
• 39:37
  What do you think about the unwritten rules and how things have been going?
• 39:40
  I mean, which ones are you specifically talking about?
• 39:46
  Can you hear me?
• 39:52
  Uh-oh.
• 39:53
  Come here, pods.
• 39:54
  No.
• 39:54
  He's alright.
• 39:54
  Lost
• 39:55
  him.
• 39:55
  He's
• 39:56
  alright.
• 39:56
  That was one of the topics I wanted to bring up because there's a big scuffle yesterday in the
• 40:02
  in the basketball game with the Timberwolves where the game was out.
• 40:06
  They had a fast break, easy layup.
• 40:09
  But, I mean, there's a couple rules that I know that are unwritten in baseball.
• 40:12
  Like, if you're coming off the field, don't jog over the pitcher's ball.
• 40:17
  Go around it.
• 40:18
  You know?
• 40:18
  Yeah.
• 40:19
  If you're if you're up by a lot and you hit a home run, don't stare and look at it like it's
• 40:25
  a, you know, a game winning shot.
• 40:27
  I mean, you know, I mean, you know, Shady, you you probably got more experience with, you know
• 40:34
  I was gonna say, yeah, it's important to have context because you don't want Shady just kinda
• 40:38
  going off with bad advice.
• 40:40
  Alright.
• 40:40
  Tell me exactly what mean.
• 40:42
  Our show.
• 40:43
  That is
• 40:43
  Yeah.
• 40:44
  Alright.
• 40:44
  So what you do is you look down at the catcher.
• 40:46
  Alright?
• 40:46
  You're gonna give him one of these.
• 40:48
  He's gonna go this or this.
• 40:51
  Alright?
• 40:52
  This one's the one you want.
• 40:53
  Alright?
• 40:54
  Nope.
• 40:55
  You're gonna aim a little bit little bit high in the collarbone here, son.
• 40:58
  No.
• 40:58
  Don't do that.
• 40:58
  Alright.
• 40:59
  So I don't know.
• 41:00
  Look.
• 41:00
  I mean, the whole pimping home runs.
• 41:04
  Pimping home runs.
• 41:05
  You're getting hit from me.
• 41:06
  I don't care.
• 41:07
  Pimp it, bro.
• 41:07
  Pimp it.
• 41:08
  Pimping says pimping.
• 41:10
  Yeah.
• 41:10
  I understand the consequences.
• 41:11
  That's the only thing.
• 41:12
  Right?
• 41:12
  You wanna go in?
• 41:13
  You wanna stay at it?
• 41:14
  Cool.
• 41:14
  You're catching one.
• 41:15
  You're catching some sweet chin music with the next pitch.
• 41:19
  I'm not gonna hit you in the head.
• 41:21
  Nobody's getting hit in the head.
• 41:22
  But you're gonna think you're getting hit in the head.
• 41:25
  So You know, it is kinda it's kinda here's the thing, though.
• 41:28
  I love to see competitive fire in MLB and any competitive baseball whatsoever.
• 41:33
  Yeah.
• 41:34
  But pitchers can be kind of bitches because, like Indeed.
• 41:38
  Oh,
• 41:39
  wait a minute.
• 41:40
  Words.
• 41:41
  Let me clear the stage.
• 41:42
  Indeed.
• 41:43
  Indeed.
• 41:45
  Keep going, Paz.
• 41:46
  Wrong?
• 41:47
  No.
• 41:47
  Keep going.
• 41:48
  No.
• 41:48
  Keep going.
• 41:52
  Can he not hear every time we do this?
• 41:56
  I thought I thought there was gonna be a brawl.
• 41:59
  Hold on.
• 41:59
  I wanted to make sure
• 42:00
  we got it clipped properly.
• 42:02
  Can you not hear when it goes to the two clips?
• 42:04
  Keep going.
• 42:04
  Why are they keep going.
• 42:05
  Why are pictures, bitches?
• 42:07
  Oh, come on.
• 42:08
  Well, I don't know.
• 42:09
  I mean, maybe we
• 42:10
  I think he's on an iPad.
• 42:12
  Maybe when I swap stuff like that, he
• 42:13
  it's on an maybe we should ask Robin Ventura if pictures are bitches.
• 42:19
  You know?
• 42:20
  I'm sorry.
• 42:21
  Did I just
• 42:22
  something
• 42:23
  there?
• 42:23
  No.
• 42:24
  I was I was taking it down to the two the two screens.
• 42:27
  So why are we hitting these bitches?
• 42:29
  I'm sorry.
• 42:30
  My Internet's being really wonky right now.
• 42:32
  There's a bad windstorm going on out there.
• 42:34
  Oh, you're good.
• 42:34
  45 mile an hour winds.
• 42:36
  Yeah.
• 42:36
  That's my fastball flying by your house right now.
• 42:40
  Wire pitchers, bitches.
• 42:42
  I said they're being something because, like and this is my context because they're very
• 42:46
  hypocritical.
• 42:47
  Like, so one of my favorite guys on my team is Alex Vessia.
• 42:52
  Anytime he gets a big strikeout, he's out there, you know, getting it.
• 42:58
  Like, let's go.
• 42:59
  Yeah.
• 42:59
  Yeah.
• 42:59
  But then you're gonna be mad when someone hits an absolute fucking bomb off you.
• 43:04
  That's why I'm all for it.
• 43:06
  That's why I'm all for the family.
• 43:07
  If you can sit there and celebrate them striking out on live television, then you can
• 43:12
  take one on the chin of you getting your shit sent over the fence.
• 43:15
  Like, you threw a cookie and it got crushed.
• 43:18
  Let them know in moment.
• 43:20
  I do so.
• 43:21
  I'm gonna go back to something I say a lot.
• 43:22
  Let them get juiced up.
• 43:24
  Let everybody celebrate.
• 43:26
  You know what?
• 43:27
  Let let's let's go.
• 43:29
  If somebody wants to fight, then you, like, hit the green button.
• 43:33
  Right?
• 43:33
  Both players consent, and then you put them in a cage.
• 43:36
  Let's bring in some WWE action here.
• 43:39
  I say you just let them go.
• 43:41
  Alright.
• 43:41
  Boys, you got three minutes to settle this shit.
• 43:44
  Let's go.
• 43:45
  You know?
• 43:46
  You
• 43:46
  wanna bring
• 43:46
  fans back to the game?
• 43:48
  You wanna bring some excitement back to baseball?
• 43:50
  You what I'm saying?
• 43:52
  We go we go into a lockup this year, like, it's all being planned.
• 43:56
  I am voting right then that bonus starts as the new commissioner of MOB.
• 44:01
  Yeah.
• 44:01
  I don't wanna be commissioner, but
• 44:03
  I just No.
• 44:03
  No.
• 44:03
  No.
• 44:03
  You're gonna
• 44:04
  be commissioner.
• 44:04
  You're Director of gameplay.
• 44:07
  You know?
• 44:07
  You're the commissioner.
• 44:08
  You're setting the rules.
• 44:11
  Small clients.
• 44:12
  They're fine.
• 44:12
  Don't use steroids, you're out of the league.
• 44:15
  You're gonna get passed.
• 44:16
  You're gonna get passed up.
• 44:17
  Like, look, dude.
• 44:19
  You gotta on on a real note, though, speaking about the commissioner, it is about time that
• 44:26
  we've got a new commissioner.
• 44:28
  Not only I know
• 44:29
  this is very
• 44:30
  small, but we needed ever it's it still bugs me.
• 44:33
  He called the World Series trophy a piece of metal.
• 44:36
  Eagles sticking back in a crackerjack box?
• 44:40
  Like, we need somebody younger and who who can see like, bring a little bit of life back into
• 44:49
  baseball.
• 44:50
  Because right now
• 44:52
  I think you'd be selling
• 44:53
  out
• 44:54
  is more
• 44:54
  popular in Japan than it is here.
• 44:57
  I mean
• 44:58
  I think you need a guy
• 44:59
  in the
• 45:00
  I think you got I think MLB needs a baseball guy that's been through the ropes, has played
• 45:07
  it, has retired.
• 45:09
  You know, maybe a guy like Albert Pujols would be perfect.
• 45:13
  You know, somebody that's respectable that come in there and, you know, lead from being in that
• 45:22
  position.
• 45:24
  The problem with the commissioner job is that the commissioner works for the owners.
• 45:28
  Yeah.
• 45:28
  Do.
• 45:29
  And these
• 45:29
  owners what you need is someone who can communicate effectively to them that we are
• 45:37
  trying to bring it in.
• 45:38
  And you need to look no further than the success of Banana Ball to see that, hey.
• 45:44
  It's we don't have to rewrite the entire rule book.
• 45:47
  Right?
• 45:47
  You don't have to go crazy.
• 45:48
  You don't have to, you know, go turn into American gladiators like I want to.
• 45:52
  You probably don't have to do that, but you have to find ways to celebrate the tradition
• 45:57
  baseball, but also living to push it into the future, not reacting ten years too late.
• 46:02
  Yep.
• 46:03
  Right?
• 46:03
  Like, automatic balls and strikes becoming a thing this year and not a decade ago when you
• 46:08
  probably had the technology to do it then, that that that's a misstep.
• 46:13
  You you should be as the league, and I think that's what the NFL, and not and the NFL has a
• 46:18
  lot of ways to implement things beforehand.
• 46:21
  And and I know that the MLB uses some of their lesser leagues, double a, and knowing there's
• 46:26
  affiliate and unaffiliated ball now doing my research and connecting with several other
• 46:30
  leagues, that there are things that are being tried out in those lower leagues before they're
• 46:35
  moving up.
• 46:35
  But I I think just the whole process was was way too late.
• 46:39
  You were way too far behind.
• 46:40
  The NFL moved really fast with instant replay and how they're gonna implement it.
• 46:45
  And and I think you're actually you're getting to a point now where you need to get you need
• 46:52
  to pull back on some of the things that are by in the process.
• 46:57
  Right?
• 46:57
  Like, I I don't think that replay you're never gonna pull it back out.
• 47:00
  Right?
• 47:01
  You can't put the tube you can't put the toothpaste No.
• 47:03
  Yeah.
• 47:03
  Yeah.
• 47:03
  In the tube.
• 47:04
  No.
• 47:04
  But speeding up the process.
• 47:06
  Right?
• 47:07
  I think the chip they have in the football now to be able to we're not gonna sit here and
• 47:11
  watch ten minutes of video to get it.
• 47:13
  No.
• 47:13
  Here.
• 47:14
  You want this?
• 47:14
  Here's new technology.
• 47:16
  That's where the spot is.
• 47:17
  And now you don't need you're you're gonna eliminate the chain gangs.
• 47:19
  You're gonna eliminate some of these these purist type things.
• 47:22
  Not the chain gang.
• 47:23
  Those guys been there for years.
• 47:25
  Well, you know what?
• 47:26
  Probably saved
• 47:26
  their lives.
• 47:27
  You got these 75 year old men
• 47:29
  That's good.
• 47:29
  On field.
• 47:31
  Do you remember last year, chain gang, man?
• 47:33
  Bubba, you just made a great point about how the NFL was quicker to the, you know, quicker
• 47:39
  to jump to the starting line with instantly and all that.
• 47:43
  You want the sad thing is and you know why I still think outside of Japan and Korea, why
• 47:49
  baseball is still regional is because we do not have that energy that we used to have in the
• 47:59
  early two thousands Mhmm.
• 48:01
  The late nineties.
• 48:02
  Like, it's just so stagnant.
• 48:04
  Like, we feel I feel like when it comes to just the rules and replay and trying to speed up the
• 48:09
  game, the NFL already been through that problem twice and has now extended their season again,
• 48:15
  and they're probably gonna extend it to 18.
• 48:18
  We're just now figuring out how to use instant replay.
• 48:21
  Like, we caught up to 2009.
• 48:24
  Yeah.
• 48:24
  Yeah.
• 48:25
  You're you're at least a decade behind.
• 48:27
  Go ahead, Shady.
• 48:28
  Yeah.
• 48:29
  I'm really sorry to do this.
• 48:30
  Anybody watching and those guys sitting here.
• 48:34
  Yeah.
• 48:34
  That that that trip I took to Amsterdam and Europe and all that blah blah, even though that
• 48:40
  all the stories and stuff, those were fun.
• 48:42
  The whole reason I was there was to do a dissertation for my senior year on European
• 48:48
  sport culture, specifically the advancements of grassroot programs.
• 48:54
  I didn't really know what that meant.
• 48:55
  I knew I was going over there to study little league kinda.
• 48:58
  I I
• 49:00
  thought we were cool.
• 49:01
  I thought we were advanced.
• 49:03
  Guys, they've been doing this since the seventies.
• 49:05
  Soviets been doing this since the fifties.
• 49:08
  They're doing way more.
• 49:10
  I was blown away at London.
• 49:14
  Just London.
• 49:16
  And and then you talk about third world countries and other countries and stuff.
• 49:20
  That's a whole different ballgame.
• 49:21
  But, like, as far as sophistication, we got a lot of gap to cover, and that was 2015.
• 49:29
  So I would hate to think how much further it's gotten.
• 49:32
  Dude, our developmental in terms of how we do our youth sports up to the college, AAU, and
• 49:38
  stuff like that It's not is still stuck in 2002.
• 49:43
  Dog, it's it's not even close.
• 49:45
  We are two decades behind on how we develop athletes, and that is why the world's game,
• 49:51
  football, soccer
• 49:53
  Mhmm.
• 49:53
  Is a niche sport in our country.
• 49:57
  Yeah.
• 50:00
  But
• 50:02
  Our winners are good at it, though.
• 50:03
  Really good at it.
• 50:05
  Yeah.
• 50:06
  So are Japan.
• 50:09
  Yeah.
• 50:10
  They're strict.
• 50:11
  Japan is just really strict.
• 50:13
  Super strict.
• 50:14
  Eric, same batting stance.
• 50:15
  Same.
• 50:16
  Danny, me
• 50:16
  and you would've never made it in Japanese culture.
• 50:19
  You're right.
• 50:20
  You're right.
• 50:20
  We beat them by one.
• 50:22
  Let's go.
• 50:23
  USA.
• 50:27
  Awesome, guys.
• 50:28
  Great to jump back in with the crew.
• 50:32
  Missed you guys.
• 50:34
  I can't wait to get on a golf course, actually.
• 50:39
  It was it was snowing in Deadwood when I went back there.
• 50:43
  They say it snowed.
• 50:45
  So usually, I'm thinking about, like, oh, man.
• 50:47
  Can I get out on the course while I'm out there?
• 50:48
  And what can we do?
• 50:50
  And there was six inches of snow on the ground.
• 50:52
  So that I I feel like I stepped back in time going out there this weekend, but back here
• 50:58
  now, our we're finally getting some moisture here.
• 51:02
  I'm very grateful.
• 51:03
  It means that we will actually open up our courses and things here soon without them being
• 51:07
  crispy like it's August.
• 51:09
  So grateful for that.
• 51:13
  Anything you wanna touch on, B, before we go?
• 51:15
  Try to get out of here.
• 51:16
  I'm gonna get a good night's sleep tonight.
• 51:18
  Oh.
• 51:18
  I know that.
• 51:19
  No.
• 51:19
  I'm gonna head off too, but what about that big home run from Cruise of Pittsburgh on hitting
• 51:27
  the top of the flight pole the other day.
• 51:30
  I mean, that I mean, I know the flight pole is a home run still, but just to be able to knock
• 51:35
  it off the top of a flight pole.
• 51:38
  But but yeah.
• 51:40
  So if you guys seen the clip, go check it out if you have it.
• 51:44
  Oh, we're gonna talk about the catch or non catch by the pitcher.
• 51:49
  A catch.
• 51:49
  Oh, yeah.
• 51:50
  It's gotta be a catch.
• 51:51
  That's a
• 51:51
  it was called a catch.
• 51:52
  Catch.
• 51:53
  So Yeah.
• 51:54
  Alright.
• 51:54
  Okay.
• 51:54
  Go ahead.
• 51:55
  I'm glad we're all in agreement on that.
• 51:56
  I didn't think there'd be a lot of pushback, but No.
• 51:58
  No.
• 51:59
  No.
• 51:59
  No.
• 52:00
  No.
• 52:04
  No.
• 52:04
  I tell you what, that would I would have to go change some clothes after that.
• 52:09
  I mean Bro, this
• 52:11
  is the MLD, not the NFL.
• 52:13
  The MLD has defined what it catches with Yeah.
• 52:16
  At least with that, they're ahead of the curve.
• 52:20
  True story.
• 52:21
  But, nope, I just can't wait.
• 52:24
  Let's see.
• 52:24
  07:00, so we'll probably or 08:00 my time.
• 52:27
  Tomorrow, probably wrapping up the Seattle twins game.
• 52:30
  I'll try to get some good coverage if the weather's permitted.
• 52:32
  Hopefully, the rain's supposed to be, like, 20%.
• 52:34
  So, hopefully, we get to
• 52:37
  Garrett Clemens says, hey.
• 52:40
  Gee.
• 52:41
  What's good, g?
• 52:43
  Sorry.
• 52:43
  I didn't get your comments in here earlier, buddy.
• 52:45
  I I appreciate you tuning in.
• 52:47
  Thanks.
• 52:47
  Thanks, g.
• 52:48
  Well, guys, it's been a good one.
• 52:51
  Shady, you're gonna have to get up out of your shed and come scramble with me here at Southern
• 52:56
  Cal.
• 52:57
  Grady's got sciatic nerve pain.
• 52:58
  Grady ain't gonna be doing nothing for a
• 52:59
  couple weeks.
• 53:03
  It sounds like he's gonna be arguing with his trainer a little bit next weekend too.
• 53:06
  So Yeah.
• 53:07
  I can't move, bro.
• 53:09
  Grady.
• 53:11
  Great.
• 53:11
  You got you gotta freaking call me on Messenger about that.
• 53:14
  I wanna hear that story, like, personally.
• 53:16
  No.
• 53:17
  We're gonna get into it.
• 53:18
  We're gonna have him on the scratch project next week.
• 53:20
  He's gonna tune in from the dealership where he'll be yelling at his GM, and doing the show
• 53:25
  with us.
• 53:26
  So
• 53:26
  It's Smoothie day, baby.
• 53:27
  Sell cars.
• 53:28
  Yes.
• 53:28
  Fast money.
• 53:28
  Fast life.
• 53:30
  Don't do drugs.
• 53:30
  Hopefully, we get that bad boy signed tomorrow.
• 53:33
  That's cool.
• 53:33
  Okay.
• 53:33
  There you go.
• 53:34
  Put a call in, Shady.
• 53:36
  Help me get that Cal Raleigh card signed while he's at the
• 53:39
  Oh, yeah.
• 53:39
  But he ain't answering my call.
• 53:42
  Oh, it's my kid.
• 53:43
  It's my kid.
• 53:44
  Hey, TJ.
• 53:45
  What's your brother doing, man?
• 53:46
  Hey.
• 53:47
  Tell your brother I said, hey, man.
• 53:49
  What you doing, Grady?
• 53:51
  No.
• 53:51
  Oh my god.
• 53:52
  How'd you get this number?
• 53:53
  Awesome,
• 53:58
  man.
• 53:58
  Well, I appreciate you guys.
• 54:00
  Can't wait for next Sunday.
• 54:01
  Get together again for seven eight nine.
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  You're welcome to join us for a live, man.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Love all of our fans.
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  Thank you guys so much, for tuning in.
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  We got a big week talking about the NFL draft on Tuesday.
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  And then getting back to golf action, I know they had the, the the really cool format to the
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  tournament.
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  This way, the Zurich.
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  Is the Zurich open?
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  Yep.
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  Shout out to Fitzpatrick brothers on the w.
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  Yeah.
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  Matty's staying hot.
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  We got a lot to talk about.
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  We'll cover that and get a little bit caught up on Saturday's show about that.
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  We we skipped this week.
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  I was out of town.
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  Pods was hurt.
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  It it just made more sense to kinda leave it alone.
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  And it was, yeah, weird, like I said, weird tournament.
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  Interesting.
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  The only one that they do that where it's a
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  They should do more of that.
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  Oh, it was pretty cool.
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  Right?
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  And, obviously, we got live golf news to talk about as it slowly kind of fades into oblivion,
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  it feels like.
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  Mhmm.
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  Yeah.
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  There we go.
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  I don't I don't know what club you're gripping, buddy, but
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  What did I call grip god?
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  I took an Instagram video.
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  I was like, go fucking grip god over here, bro.
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  Yeah.
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  He's, like, looking down the thing, got the earpiece in.
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  I was like, fucking AI.
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  Boys, before we get out of here, I have to ask one question.
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  Uh-oh.
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  Know this is baseball, but I wanna ask one golf question.
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  No.
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  After watching the Zurich Classic, do you feel like they should do more of those in the tour
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  or that maybe the PGA could create a whole separate thing for team based as well?
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  I I guess I did see
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  what So, yeah, the Zurich classic is a it's a two man, and it is it scramble format pods, or
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  how do they play that?
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  It's just team
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  It's I think the first one's alternate I, like, I it's a the first one is a foursome that you
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  play.
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  You and another
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  You're freaking out.
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  Player.
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  And then the second one is alternate shot.
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  Oh my god.
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  Interesting.
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  Yeah.
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  I don't know if they need more of them.
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  I think it's cool that they have the one.
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  And then, obviously, you know, Ryder Cup is extraneous to the you know, that's more of a
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  bragging rights kind of thing.
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  I don't know.
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  Something to talk about, and especially when you have, you know, all this talent coming back
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  over there from Liv and and you need to get it.
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  I think you see how much, golf fans appreciate it.
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  So maybe they can squeeze in some more fun stuff.
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  It it'll be interesting to to see what happens over the course.
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  I think golf's gonna get a big shake up over the next three years as well, especially, you
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  know, Liv came in and shook it up.
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  Okay.
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  So, yeah, getting a little bit of the Okay.
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  Thank you for the clarity there, g.
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  Yeah.
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  Appreciate you, g.
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  Thanks for
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  cool every couple months to do a a tournament like that.
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  You know?
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  Right.
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  Little something that just makes it fun and a little bit of special events.
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  It'd be cool.
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  Maybe you can sneak a few extra events in during the year and elongate the season maybe.
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  They just stopped doing the stuff in Hawaii.
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  Like, now that they're not doing the Hawaii swing off, maybe they could have, like, a
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  casual team tournament to play somewhere else, like, in LA or Miami or something.
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  We're gonna talk more about that on Saturday, pods.
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  Maybe we can, coax some of the guys to come back in with us for the scratch project,
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  Saturday cut line and get it done.
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  Brady, you better be there.
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  That'd be g too.
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  GG golf man, dog.
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  He's a he's
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  Alright, g.
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  We're gonna get you, add him into the group chat, and, we're gonna we're gonna get it
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  moving.
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  So appreciate everybody tuning in.
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  I don't wanna announce anything and get over my skis quite yet, but talking to a lot of teams
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  in the Northwoods League up here, which is an amateur wood bat league.
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  Paul, thanks just to be a part of that league.
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  Oh, really?
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  Okay.
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  Cool.
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  Yeah.
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  They're well, they got a team in Mankato.
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  I know a couple North Dakota teams.
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  They got teams all across Wisconsin and Michigan too.
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