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MLB’s Jerseys Are Getting Fixed · The 3-0 Take

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the 3 O. T.
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Where we talk all things major league baseball.
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Here's Kyle Corwin and Nate Reyes.
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It all starts right now.
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Welcome back to the third take
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presented by C .K. This is episode 428. I'll
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be your host Kyle Corwin. And
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I'm here with my co -host, not Nate Reyes. Nate
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Reyes, however, is is stateside back from the
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honeymoon uh, and quite honestly, I wish he was on
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this particular episode because he could have told
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me that I just spent the last attempt at this
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episode talking uh, with the robot sound effect on
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for like 10 to 15 minutes Before it was brought to
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my attention. Uh, so we're gonna run it back
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Remember last episode when I said, um Just hope that
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you all bear with us as we transition to some new
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equipment some new gear um This is what I was
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referring to I was I was apologizing in advance
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because I somehow knew that in episode 428 the very
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next episode that I'd be talking With the robot
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sound effect on apparently So I do apologize for
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that. We are gonna run it back
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though So if you caught the the first 10 minutes
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on the live of my first attempt when I was talking
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like a robot Uh, I'm gonna run it back Go over some
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same some some Uh, similar thoughts, but feel free to
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come back in like 10 minutes if you don't want
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to re -listen to it again Or if you want to stay
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you can listen to me Uh talking regularly. Okay.
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Okay. So let's try that. Let's
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try that. Uh before we get into baseball
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talk though Um To reiterate Amidst all the technical
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issues Nate is back stateside. Uh
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glad to have him back from his honeymoon Um, he should
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be he should be back on the pod. Hopefully
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later this week. Um, I'm I'm gonna assume that
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he spent a good amount of time Uh or good amount of
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effort trying to keep up with baseball while he was
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out But I also understand if he didn't I mean he
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was gone for like 10 ish days So I understand if he
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didn't so give him a few days to get it to get his
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feet back on the ground and uh, we can Get back
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to hitting the ground running With the two of
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us. Hopefully later this week with that
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said Mentioned it in the first attempt That my my
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goal for this episode was or or my plan rather was
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to headline episode 428 with the fact that the
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white socks Had matched their season total in wins
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in one weekend Because I thought you know what
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that's pretty that's pretty noteworthy That's who knows
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if we'll ever see a white socks sweep again this
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season or ever for that matter They may not even
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be in chicago by years in who knows that that
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franchise may dissolve entirely um But that was
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That was before the big bomb dropped the pass and
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bomb Stating That major league baseball's uniforms
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Will no longer be hot trash How about that for
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some good news to get your week started How about that
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major league baseball Uniforms are not going to
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be garbage any longer. All right, so If you'll allow
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me Let's uh, let's have some story time So get
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comfy maybe grab a snack Not too heavy of a snack.
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It's not that long of a report,
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but I'm going to run through this report If you
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haven't read it already Uh, I'll I'll save you the
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trouble because I'm sure this this report will be
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referenced in the coming days. It'll
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be making its rounds so Sit back and uh, enjoy
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story time with kyle. All right, again This is from
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jeff passen titled mlb to modify uniforms after player
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complaints per memo According to jeff passen
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major league baseball planes will address its uniform
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fiasco after changes this spring to the standard
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jerseys and pants Led to widespread complaints from
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players and fans according to a memo obtained sunday
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night by espn The most prominent modifications
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include a return to larger lettering on the back of
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jerseys Remedy and mismatch gray tops and bottoms and
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addressing the new nike jerseys propensity to
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collect sweat according to the memo distributed to
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players by the mlb players association on sunday The
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changes which will happen at the latest by the
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beginning of the 2025 season will also include
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fixes to the pants widely panned this spring for
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being see -through The union informed players of the
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coming changes in a letter that placed the blame on
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nike And that a debut of its vapor premier uniform
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which was advertised for its superior performance,
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but remains Disliked by players. This
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has been entirely a nike issue the memo to players
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read Quote at its core what has happened here is
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that nike was innovating something that didn't need
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to be innovated The union also absolved fanatics the
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manufacture of the uniforms that has received the
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majority of public scorn for the uniform mess Saying
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the the company quote recognizes the vital
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importance of soliciting player feedback Obtaining
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player buy -in and not being a not being afraid
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to have difficult conversations about jerseys
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or trading cards Our hope is that moving forward nike
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will take a similar approach and quote While
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the new uniform debuted at the 2023 all -star game its
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rollout this spring led to reams of bad publicity The
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shrinking of the letter size on players names name
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plates gave jerseys an amateur look The pants
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which according to the memo will return to the higher
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quality zipper use in 2023 Had myriad of issues
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including the see -through fabric a lack of tailoring
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and blowouts players believed unnecessary Nike's
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partnership with mlb began in 2019 when it took over
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as the league's official uniform supplier as part of
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a 10 year One billion dollar deal for major
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league baseball Fanatics has partnerships with both the
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league and the union we cautioned nike quote We
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cautioned nike against various changes when they
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previewed them in 2022 Particularly regarding pants
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and quote the union memo read Major league baseball
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had been and has been aware of our concerns as
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well Unfortunately until recently nike's position has
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essentially boiled down to nothing to see here players
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will need to adjust MLB declined to comment nike
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did not offer immediate comment when reached by
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espn Fanatics did not reach respond to a request for
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comment the mlb pa declined to comment Oh It was a
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little longer than I thought but still relatively
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short shorter than most reports. I'll
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give you that um look I'm gonna be honest with you.
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I didn't foresee this
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happening I didn't foresee it happening this season
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Didn't foresee it happening next season And if i'm
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being really honest, I didn't foresee this
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happening During the length of this contract this joint
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contract Or however, however, this contract is
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structured nike major league baseball fanatics. I
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didn't see this happening I thought that this was
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purely going to be a a thing where We look To
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nike to major league baseball to fanatics for
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answers Through constant complaining through constant
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documenting pictures videos pictures of uh that you've
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all that you've all seen pictures of the sweaty
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uniforms pictures of the The small lettering the
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pictures the pictures of the mismatch of grays Um
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the videos of pants ripping down the entire back of
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the thigh on multiple on separate occasions um I
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thought that was going to fall on deaf ears. I
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thought Uh, the three headed monster if you will
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of major league baseball nike fanatics I thought
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that they were just going to treat this as a We're
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going to pinch our nose And uh look away because
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there's there's nothing to really see here. We're
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we're innovating. We're making it. We're
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making these uniforms better We're making them more
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breathable. We're making them Uh More
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enjoyable for the players. They're
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going to like them. We promise they've already told
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us Well, that's not true because the players quite
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literally told you that they're garbage So i'm not
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i'm not sure which players you're referencing And if
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there were players that said it the i'm i'm Only
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imagining that the percentage of players that
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told you that they liked them was far outweighed by
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the percentage of players that Couldn't stand these
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uniforms not to mention the fans the fans I feel i'll
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Let's be real. I feel for the fans who
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purchased jerseys Who they they just bit the bull.
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They said I can't wait They
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probably were thinking like me. They're
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probably like well, this is this issue isn't going to
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get fixed So I need I need to just go ahead and
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buy the uniform because Nothing's going to be done
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about this and and understandably so that's
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that's a rational way to think about it. I
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I guess I guess I was just going to be on jersey
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hold out until Majorly baseball chose a different
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supplier or manufacturer because I I was not going
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to buy this. I didn't care if Some
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insanely Awesome jersey some alternate dropped and I was
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like I got to have that I got to have that of my
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favorite player It wouldn't have mattered. I
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couldn't I couldn't go through on buying these
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things um I feel for the fans that that already
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bought these uniforms there I would love to hear that
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there would be some sort of like refund process put
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into place But I'm thinking fanatics has way too much
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on their hands at this point for that to be even
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on the horizon I I'm glad it's happening I wish as a
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major manufacturer That this would be able to uh, that
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this would be addressed sooner than the beginning
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of 2025 uh, but I like That I let or I like the
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the idea that We just ride it out in 2024. We
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just deal with this garbage And then we hope and we
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pray that fanatics Nike whoever's responsible truly
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responsible. There's a lot of there's a lot of
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uh finger pointing Whoever's truly responsible for this
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That they iron out the issues that get it fixed
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And then we don't have to worry about this from 2025
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moving forward. We just go back to what was
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and what was working You don't need to fix it if
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it's not broke I feel like that goes without saying
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and I feel like that should have been understood
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from the jump with these uniforms But alas here we
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are and there were a lot of um There were a lot of
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uh, a number of folks in the comments of the post
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that I put out in in regards to this report
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talking about how Well, just because they say
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addressed doesn't necessarily mean that anything tangible
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is going to happen. No actions will take place
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That's understandable. If if that's your belief
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that's understandable. Maybe it's the optimist in me
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uh, maybe it's that I've just been So fed up with
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this for the last three to four months that Any any
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news indicating that there's an imminent change I'm just
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latching on to and I'm just going into a blind
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faith going. Okay. You know what I don't care
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I don't care what they say. They're
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they're fixing it. I don't care what other
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reports come out. They're fixing it. They
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already said they would Maybe that's just the
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optimist to me. But I I would I would think
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that the language the tone of this report from jeff
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passin would indicate Uh, that that's not the case
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that they're When I say not the case uh, that it's
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that that nothing's gonna happen What I'm saying is
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I think the tone of this report is is indicating The
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opposite that something is going to happen some the
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changes are going to be made Uh, the line that he
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uses where he says the most prominent modifications
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Uh, you that kind of language um Remedying
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mismatch grays Um Changes which will happen. I
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mean, it just seems like there's a lot of uh,
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promising language a lot of Mmm A lot of details being
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laid out a foundation is being laid for these
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changes to take place I I think it's it's safe to
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assume that that's that the that these are going to
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happen It's it's it would be different if the report
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came out and said, you know Um, major league
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baseball, nike fanatics, they're gonna they're gonna
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sit down at the table They're gonna talk about it
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and we're gonna see Or they're going to see what
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changes are necessary if any If I if the report
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came out and said that Okay, they're just meeting
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for a cup of coffee and maybe a free meal or
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something That's nothing was gonna happen at that at
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that point But the fact that they're already talking
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about they're identifying the changes that we've been
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clamoring for as fans That the the changes that
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players have been asking for And that's the other
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thing is they're not even changes. We're
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just going back to What they were I don't I don't
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want nike or fanatics to come out of this looking
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Better or expecting to look better for for making these
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changes because at the end of the day, they're not
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changes They're going back to what it was They're
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going back to or we we can only assume we can
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only hope that they're going back To the uniforms
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that again didn't need fixing So There's a lot
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like I said, there's a lot of finger pointing going
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around not really sure who's truly to blame here
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fanatics nike I'm not exactly sure fanatics is
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completely Absolved of any fault here if that's the
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case because you have to look at Well, I'll tell
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you I'll tell you exactly where you should look you
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go to you go to fanatic sucks on twitter great
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follow um they They basically serve as a hub
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for I'm trying to pull it up here. Yeah
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fanatics at fanatic sucks. They
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basically serve as a hub for every every complaint
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that you're going to be able to find about Uniforms
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of fans by that that players are wearing uh
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complaints about Just regular team merch that
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people are buying like t -shirts that are are being
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sent by fanatics They'll order like a chicago cub
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shirt and they'll get a national present predator
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shirt in the mail or something so I don't I
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don't for people saying well, this is truly on
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nike, but fanatic fanatics has taken the heat well
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fanatics If you believe that It doesn't change the
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fact that fanatics In and of themselves are a garbage
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a garbage organization in terms of manufacturing for
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these major sports leagues Uh, because they're even if
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they're not truly responsible for the uniforms
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Let's talk let's let's have a separate conversation
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about the the merchandise because it's terrible the
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shipping every element of that process the the
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customer support the Uh, the purchasing the delivery
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The item selection it's all it's all messed up So if
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you if you're not following them go check them out.
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It's a it's a very interesting
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follow And you can really see just what's What's
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really going on Over there at fanatics. It's
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it's not ideal But all that to say don't want to
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Drive this into the ground just wanted to bring
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everybody up to speed on the report that dropped
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tonight Great news for baseball at the end of the
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day great news for baseball It would be even better
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news if if it came out and found out that's uh,
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maybe we were looking at a different manufacturer a
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different provider for these uniforms, but you know
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beggars can't be choosers Baby steps this is a step
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in the right direction. Well
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again to not to repeat myself, but we're not
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really Going in the right direction. We're
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not we're not taking steps to make positive changes
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because we're really just going back to what We had
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before which is where they should have left it from
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the beginning Moving on here Talk about taking
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steps in the right direction. I
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already alluded to it the white socks with a sweep
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Of the Tampa Bay Rays who I didn't realize or a
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little bit of a skid of their own I mean we we
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sit here talk to her blue in the face by how the
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white socks are poverty franchise, but the the Rays
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are I I don't know man. I started the season saying
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that this team can manufacture 90 90 wins in
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their sleep Not I'm not saying the end is near for
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the Rays, but they're 13 and 16 dropped six of the
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last seven Three of those six Came at the hands of
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the white socks who again prior to this weekend had
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fewer wins than Yukon men's basketball I know I've
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mentioned that multiple times, but it's it's worth
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repeating and this is the last time that I can I
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can even Really say it now that we've we've surpassed
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that win total so not a good look for the Rays,
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but you know a great weekend of baseball for the
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white socks and Talk about turnout they had they had
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I think it was today. I saw I saw clips of the
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yeah, it was a day game so it was today saw clips
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from their game today And the people in Chicago good
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good on you Good on you You haven't you haven't
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completely abandoned your team. It
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would be understandable if you if you had It would
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be understandable But I saw people I saw people in the
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stands. There's no there's no denying it
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the video evidence is there um, and what better way
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than to show up for a sweep on sunday Saturday's
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game is where I I have some questions though And
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it's not even about the game. It's
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about it's about the call Did you all see the video
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did you hear the the clip from ben and tenney's walk
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-off? That was wild That was wild,
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okay, so they andrew ben and tenney hits what I
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believe is a three -run walk -off home run into the
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dead of night of chicago fireworks are going off the
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fans are going nuts And I understand I understand The
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white socks wins have been a few and far between this
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season So I get the excitement But andrew ben
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and tenney's making his way around second making his
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way around third And on the call all of a sudden
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you hear For the first time all season the socks
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have won two in a row say it with me Say it proud
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for all the haters south side stand up And I had
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to go back and listen to it again because I said I
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know I didn't hear what I think I just heard For all
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the haters Again I I get getting swept up in the
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moment. It's an exciting it's an
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exciting night for chicago baseball on saturday I I
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get that you win two in a row the first time all
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season probably the first time in Months dating back
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to 2023. I don't know the last time
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actually won two in a row So I understand it from
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that side But you're gonna sit here and talk to me
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about say it for all the haters My brother Are you
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seeing the product that's on the field right now
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that you're called that you're watching it and that
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you're calling and broadcasting for The hate
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is justified The hate watching is justified the
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The Memable team that you have before you in the
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chicago white socks It's real and it's justified so
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I don't know I I'm still trying to wrap my head
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around what that could have meant what that call could
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have meant but Looking at the big picture here White
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socks improved to six and 22 Um, they outscored the
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raise 21 to 13. So, you know like jokes aside
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Uh Despite the skid that the rays are on you know,
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you could you could have had a worse team to To
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take on this weekend and and to sweep I'll say that
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like they're they're obviously are far worse
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teams out there than the Tampa Bay So, you know, if
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you're gonna if you're gonna Flip the switch and
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and get clicking get moving here Start working your way
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out of this hold and and work your way back to some
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Uh, let's see here. I was I was gonna say start
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your long journey back to 500 But right now you're
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working your way back to 300 ball With the current
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win percentage of 214. So, you know what? Journey
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to 300 ball that should be the motto in the in the
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white socks clubhouse Get back to 300. That's
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what we should be focused on white socks Back to 300
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ball um This might be the highlight of their season
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It might be the highlight of season i'm not i'm not
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kidding. Is there anything is there
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anything? Aside from sumbling upon a no
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-hitter which I won't put a pass of white socks that
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that happens It doesn't matter who you play for
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that that'll happen you'll just You'll stub your toe
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and you'll fall into a no -hitter. That's
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just the way baseball works So that that could happen
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sure and that could be the highlight of their season,
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but big picture wise a sweep in april to kind of
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wrap up the month here um, that's That's what we're
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looking at And that's sad and I understand why white
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socks have been calling for drastic changes Because this
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you have now overtaken The oakland a is as the
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laughing stock of baseball despite this sweep you you
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Since pretty much opening day you have you have been
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the laughing stock of baseball and it's sad You
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know we we talked about the cubs being historic
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franchise whites actually have a little bit of
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history behind them too and they deserve better than
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this but We're not going to focus on the negative.
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We're going to focus on a
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positive getting back to six and twenty two Working
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our way up to 300 ball forget 500 300 ball
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speaking of the oakland a's Are the a are the oakland
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a's Like not Bad can I can I ask that is that
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all right? Because this weekend they took a
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series from the baltimore oils Well, no, let me
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rephrase they didn't take a series from the baltimore
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oils. They took They took a series
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from craig kimbrough A Guy who for all intents and
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purposes, I know he I know he can give you a heart
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attack in route to a save But for all intents and
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purposes statistically has been pretty good If not
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great up to this point up to the up to this weekend
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Two blown saves a lot of people were wondering I was
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friday night And right friday night. Yeah,
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they got the I think the Orioles took saturday um
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blows game friday blows game sunday today a lot of
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people a lot of Orioles fans We're wondering why he
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even saw the mound today Which I think is very
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reactive if i'm being honest very reactive I know
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the I know the the pen maybe a little overworked
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at this point but Closers aren't invincible, especially
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not craig kimbrough And so he has a he has a blown
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save on friday. It's like, okay He's still craig
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kimbrough. Like I don't think we need to
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sit him for a week. I don't think we need to
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give him a phantom IEL stint To get his head
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right after one blown save. He's
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this is not his first one It's not his first one
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He's your closer. I mean What do you you don't
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have felix patissa right now? That's
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the guy that you have to put in in safe situations
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And I saw a lot of a lot of uh, or I saw a few
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accounts out there talking about how well not every
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safe situation has to feature your closer So then
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what do you have a closer for? I'm
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not saying you have to it has to be a hundred
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percent success rate or uh That you have to have a
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closer 10 times out of 10 But like it was it it was
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a It was it was a one -run game. Was
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it not it was like five to six Seven to six
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something in there. I think um That's the guy
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that you have to go to he had he had the day all
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saturday That's a veteran He's been in this situation
27:40
before that's the guy you go to I don't know it
27:50
sucks that you waste uh, you waste a couple good
27:52
good nights of of offense Especially from a guy like
27:57
gunner Henderson who's just been Playing at an MVP
28:02
caliber level this season I think our our friend of
28:06
the show. I think our friend of the
28:07
pod Ryan ripkin was on to something saying that This
28:11
could be an an MVP season for gunner Henderson. I
28:14
didn't want to believe it Because there's some other
28:18
names even within the division that I thought uh,
28:21
would be taking that title Allah One soto and I'd say
28:27
he he's he's having himself quite a start of the year
28:30
too But wow gunner Henderson man, tell you
28:34
what uh, but let's not we're not we're not here
28:36
to talk about the orals as much This is about the
28:38
oaklanays This is this is fresh off a serious split
28:44
with the With the yankies is split a four gamer in
28:49
the Bronx And then you come to Baltimore you take
28:54
two out of three from them. That's
28:56
an encouraging week That's an encouraging week That's
29:01
something to build off of and especially we already I
29:04
already mentioned it You've got the white socks over
29:07
there running their own circus This is just me I
29:14
have to think that that's helping the oaklandays Now
29:18
that you have a team That's taken over the
29:22
circus of baseball Or become the circus of
29:26
baseball you can just worry about Winning the next
29:31
game. You don't have to worry. You're
29:32
not on you're not on if you recall last year down
29:36
the stretch We were on oaklandays wind watch You're
29:40
not you're not on that right now you're playing
29:43
good baseball mason miller is The talk of the town
29:49
talk of baseball and for good reason although I do
29:53
fear And I I apologize in advance if if something
29:58
happens to him you can blame me you can clip this
30:02
And you can throw me to the wolves How long how
30:08
long is that arm gonna last? I
30:13
I'm sorry. I just got to ask the
30:15
question. How long is that arm gonna
30:16
last? How long is that elbow gonna
30:18
last? I mean we're talking
30:23
oaklandays dallas bradon himself we mentioned on
30:25
this pod he talked about he or he tweeted rather
30:32
Did I say he talked about it on this podcast I
30:34
didn't no friend of the pod dallas bradon talked
30:39
about it or tweeted about it That the the frame
30:47
Essentially, I mean i'm paraphrasing but essentially
30:50
the the frame the vehicle that the body is that the
30:53
human body is doesn't have The capacity or the ability
30:59
to handle the horsepower that these arms now
31:01
generate He's touching like 103 The horsepower doesn't
31:11
get much greater than that if you're a major league
31:14
pitcher Doesn't get much greater than that so again
31:20
just had to ask and I'm not trying to take away
31:23
from the the the One of the lone positives that the
31:27
oaklandays are working with I just had to ask the
31:28
question But you know If you want to look at
31:33
positives here if you're the oaklandays You're you've
31:36
got a 10 game homestand Now You've got a 10 game
31:41
homestand coming up the next six games that you've
31:45
got Three against the pirates three against the
31:50
marlins Now i'm not saying that we're gonna We're
31:56
gonna overtake the al west which If we're being honest
32:01
is has not been impressive this year Has not been
32:06
impressive you got the mariners at the top leading
32:10
the division leading the way at 15 and 13 That's
32:17
not moving the needle for anybody I'm not saying
32:20
they're gonna overtake the division, but if you can
32:22
if you can put together two Well forget the next
32:27
six games that 10 games at home if you can put
32:30
together a good stretch over those 10 games All
32:34
right, you're you're in the you're in the conversation
32:37
of being a respectable franchise again and of
32:41
course all of this is on the heels of Sacramento and
32:46
and vegas But wouldn't that be the most oaklandays
32:50
thing to do is to go out and I don't know i'm not
32:55
gonna say I'm not gonna say take a wild card
32:58
relax. I'm not getting that far ahead
32:59
of myself I'm not saying they're gonna go get a
33:01
wild card spot But like wouldn't that be the most
33:03
oaklandays thing to do Is the the final year in the
33:07
coliseum the final year before They back in the
33:11
moving trucks That they go out and put together a
33:14
respectable season I don't know what that looks like
33:18
in terms of wind totals. Don't
33:19
ask me for a number but A respectable season interpret
33:25
that how you will They that'd be something that
33:28
they would do I could I could just very easily see
33:30
that happening Um Getting a little bit ahead of myself.
33:35
I before we talked to white
33:36
socks and a's I did want to talk about the standings
33:39
but I I was just referencing the standings so
33:43
Not a bad time to jump into it. We
33:44
are officially a month into the season I'm not counting
33:49
the korea series. We we are officially a month
33:51
into the season From the united states opening day
33:56
So I wanted to run through The standings real quick
33:59
just to give you all an idea Uh If you've been
34:03
listening to the podcast and you've been listening
34:05
to me talking about how standings in april don't
34:07
matter And you agree with me you probably haven't
34:11
been looking at the standings And I know it's
34:13
ironic for me to be be spouting that off and then
34:16
go. Hey, we're gonna look at the
34:17
standings I don't I'm not looking at the standings
34:19
for any any reason other than to just Sir for this
34:23
to serve as a checkpoint just to give you all an
34:25
idea of who's where uh, maybe highlight some
34:29
different run differentials because It's they the
34:33
standings don't matter But certainly looking at where
34:38
teams are at the end of each month. I
34:40
think is is uh You know at least worth noting All
34:48
right, so american league east you got the yankees
34:50
os red sox blue jays and rays. I
34:52
already mentioned the rays are They're not exactly
34:57
trending towards a 90 win season that I pretty much
35:00
had chalked them in for um, but You know, it's it
35:06
wouldn't be the first year where I mean We I think
35:12
we get swept up a little bit in the fact that they
35:13
start. What was it? What
35:14
did they start last year? it
35:17
was like 22 and 6 or something so just something
35:23
insane um That's not going to happen every year So we
35:29
can assume that the years surrounding that start uh,
35:33
that they were a little bit more mediocre out of
35:35
the gate Uh, which is where they're at right now
35:37
three games under 500 It got a negative 32 run
35:40
differential though So if if you are trying to reach
35:42
this 90 win threshold this 90 90 win benchmark that's
35:46
going to have to change obviously But I just think
35:49
it's I don't think they have to pitching. That's
35:52
the issue uh, you got some You got some dudes in the
35:56
lineup with the pitching It's gonna have to be
36:00
better. It's gonna have to be better. I
36:03
mean you're trending towards the top of the american
36:05
league in terms of Runs allowed and when I say top
36:10
I really mean the bottom 148 runs allowed Nobody in
36:16
the division has even allowed 130 so and I know
36:19
that can change in a couple days, but That's
36:23
just it's kind of where they're at right now, so
36:29
The rest of the division though Yankee is playing
36:32
fantastic ball, uh 19 and 10 Um Um Look the red sox
36:44
are good story right now, but I think I don't know
36:48
man. Oh, they had a had a good
36:50
weekend against the cubs. That's
36:52
what I'm telling you man Every every game I'm living
36:55
and dying by every game which again is something I
36:57
haven't really done before I've really just been more
36:59
level headed Like hey, we'll wait to see we'll
37:03
we'll pick our heads back up in in september see
37:06
where we're at It things More often than not are
37:12
are in okay shape for the sox, but I'm living and
37:15
dying by every game this year, so Who's to say man?
37:18
Maybe maybe this becomes a multi
37:20
-team race, but I think I think uh, I think it's
37:23
gonna come down to the o's and yankees if I'm Really
37:27
being honest and it's not that's not groundbreaking
37:29
news, uh, but I'm already seeing some some concerns
37:34
from oriola's fans Um Talk about their bullpen. I
37:39
mentioned they feel that it's it's already being
37:41
overworked right now I'm seeing I'm seeing people
37:45
calling for kimbrough to be let go Let's Orioles fans
37:51
You've had you've had a little bit of uh, a little
37:53
bit of a run here as of late last year or two
37:58
Let's let's be a little more rational. Let's
38:01
be a little more reasonable here No need to go cutting
38:03
your closer, especially when your actual closer Is m.
38:09
I. A You know Let's let's
38:16
let's keep our heads a little a little more level
38:18
level, you know, that it's not too much to ask The
38:21
central the guardians I taught we spent Good
38:26
portion of last episode talking about the guardians
38:28
playing fantastic ball My weekend series to watch was
38:30
the guardians and braves and I actually Was able to
38:33
get around with the rather busy weekend. I
38:35
was able to get in around I was able to get around
38:37
to watching two of the three games. I
38:40
sat there today Despite it being like 85 degrees
38:45
outside I was like, I'm just gonna lay here and
38:49
enjoy a nice leisurely sunday And boy, was it
38:53
worth it man. That was a great game. I
38:54
don't know. I don't know Guardians or
38:56
braves fans listening if you all watch the game
38:59
today, but well guardian stands probably not too
39:02
thrilled but Great ball game and game the game uh
39:11
What was the other one I watched was it last night?
39:13
I think it was last night
39:15
tanner biby had a had a great game I sat him in
39:19
fantasy because I thought Well, he's going up against
39:24
It's a close match up in fantasy. I
39:26
I can't be hit with a massive negative score from
39:32
from biby going up against the braves who are like
39:34
the world beaters offensively He goes out and
39:39
has the game of his career. I
39:40
kid you not. I'm pretty sure it was like
39:41
the best game of his career Probably of his
39:44
life. That's probably my luck Um, but
39:48
yeah, that that was an entertaining game to watch
39:51
um Who knows we might see those two teams again I'm
39:57
not putting the guardians in the world series in
39:59
april, but That'd make for an interesting world series
40:03
as it stands right now Royals also holding their
40:06
own 17 and 12. They they've dropped tuna row
40:09
though the twins They're four they're behind the
40:15
tigers who have won tuna row, but the twins have
40:17
won seven they're eight and two in their last 10
40:20
They're finally back up to a positive run differential
40:22
and as we mentioned the white socks six and 22 I'm
40:30
looking for something positive to share. I
40:32
can't really they're five at nine at home. I
40:35
mean If we're if we're looking at how many games
40:40
they've won they've won five of them at home So I
40:43
guess that's a a a positive takeaway the road
40:46
they're trocious one in one in 13 on the road That's
40:49
that's awful the the ale west you got the mariners
40:53
rangers a's angels astros Look, I know I know hueson
41:00
picked up their lat their last two this weekend But
41:13
They can be a little nervous. It's
41:15
still april. It's still april But nine and
41:20
19 man If you hit 20 losses before you hit 10
41:25
wins that that's gonna make me a little uneasy as
41:28
somebody who Me and Nate both Have said that a
41:33
bounce back is inevitable like this astro seam will
41:35
be fine But like we can't be hitting we can't be
41:37
hitting 20 losses before 10 wins We can't be hitting
41:40
30 losses before 20 wins like we You gotta get
41:45
close you gotta get back to somewhat close to 500
41:50
paul this This isn't gonna work. You're
41:53
gonna need to figure it out. I
41:54
mean you got uh, I think what louise garcia frambers
41:57
back you got louise garcia On deck here somewhat
42:03
shortly. I believe I think next month
42:05
if I'm not mistaken um, so you got a little bit of
42:09
help coming but And you just got jv back as we
42:12
mentioned but Couldn't need to get out of the
42:15
basement. You can't be sitting below the
42:17
angels for much longer I mean angels have enough
42:20
problems of their own right now. They've
42:21
dropped four in a row National league east you
42:23
got the braves fillies the Mets and gnats and marlins
42:28
I don't feel like I don't know why the whites
42:30
actually getting so much hate the marlins are
42:31
sitting at six and 23 They're they're already 14
42:34
and a half back Two and eight in the last 10
42:38
they've lost six straight Nats at 13 and 14 though
42:45
they They might mess around and go 500 this year The
42:51
nat the washington nationals might mess around and go
42:54
500 this year They played good enough ball to this
42:58
point To make me believe that it's possible cj
43:02
abrams mckenzie gore's I Good enough good enough for
43:11
500 I could see it happening I'm gonna need
43:18
I'm gonna need I know keeper reese was was just
43:21
activated off the aisle But I'm gonna need keeper
43:23
reese. I've been I've been preaching.
43:25
I've been singing his praises
43:26
for Far too long and haven't seen the results
43:29
that I thought I was gonna get I'm gonna need a
43:32
little more to keep it reese moving forward now
43:35
that he's back now he's healthy Elena braves still
43:42
one of the best teams in baseball But the fillies
43:47
also have as many wins so Something to keep an eye
43:50
on I think that's I think that's what baseball needs
43:53
to root for is a braves fillies Race down the
43:57
stretch that's that's one of baseball's been a
44:00
rivalry so I'll stand by that um The central you
44:05
got the brewers cubs reds pirates cardinals Nothing
44:12
really stands out honestly I mean aside from the fact
44:15
that the cardinals are sitting in last but you
44:17
know The only two games below 500 13 and 15
44:20
pirates are 14 and 15 so That'll that'll very easily
44:25
change. I'm not not concerned about
44:26
that There's really nothing to write home about in
44:30
regards to central brewers are Brewers are holding
44:37
their own in a division that I think a lot of
44:41
people had the cubs Honestly, I think I think
44:47
this was probably the most toss -up Division I think
44:51
coming into the year and I think I think for as many
44:54
I think For as many people maybe had the brewers to
44:59
win the division There's probably equal if not more
45:03
people that had the reds the cubs the cardinals I'm
45:07
sure the pirates cut some right in votes too, but uh
45:12
That'll be that uh, we said that at the beginning
45:14
of the season Ryan Nate and myself we we talked
45:18
about how that That's that's could be anybody's
45:21
vision and and it's It's on it's on par for that
45:25
Cardinals are in last at four and a half back. So
45:27
that's it's going to be a close Uh throughout I would
45:31
imagine the west you got the Dodgers Giants Padres
45:34
debacks and Rockies Again Like the marlins not sure
45:42
why the white socks are getting as much heat as
45:44
they're getting the Rockies 721 30 10 games back
45:50
They're on the road to playing 300 ball. They're
45:53
they're trying to fight back, but they dropped
45:54
their last They dropped two or three this weekend. So
46:01
They got a ways to go former national league
46:04
champs debacks 13 and 16 Padres They've dropped four
46:11
straight. They dropped a close one a day
46:13
against Philly, but Obviously haven't lost four
46:18
straight means they got the sweeps which that was
46:20
another series. I was locked in for um Just
46:27
whatever you do don't let it be a Giants Dodgers
46:30
race down the stretch. Nobody
46:31
wants that We need Padres Dodgers. I
46:36
get the historical element of the Giants and Dodgers.
46:38
I get that But the future is
46:42
now old man The future is now we need the Padres and
46:48
Dodgers to get back to their Their vicious ways
46:53
It's better for baseball It's better for baseball.
46:57
They have they have more and
46:59
look it's It's objectively the truth They have more
47:05
dudes on that team That would make for a better
47:09
better rivalry with the Dodgers than the Giants.
47:11
That's just the reality of it I
47:15
For nano tates mani machado Sander Bogarts could he'd
47:21
be he'd be prone to throwing some hands if it
47:23
got heated enough It's it's just it's just the truth
47:33
The Giants Dodgers rivalry is more of a fans thing.
47:37
I think at this point it's
47:38
more between fans, but on the field potential I think
47:42
it's Padres Dodgers So let's all root for that to
47:46
continue Revisiting going back to some O's talk it
47:53
happened later Towards the end of last week Jackson
48:01
holiday gets sent down Revisiting the O's as I
48:04
mentioned Just briefly here I put out the episode I
48:09
put out the video talking about It was a clip from
48:15
last episode talking about well Is uh Is now the
48:21
time to send Jackson holiday down holiday down a
48:24
lot of people were asking it It begged the question
48:26
base his performance had had begged the question He
48:30
had two hits and 36 plate appearances I Was of the
48:35
belief that he the that the Orioles could manage To
48:42
have him up to have him I don't want to say fight
48:45
through it, but to just take his lumps on the go
48:49
And figure it out as he went they could afford to
48:52
do that Because they're winning ball games The
48:59
depth they have the talent it's crazy the buzz the
49:02
momentum And then on top of that I was like you
49:06
got the a's coming to town. Well
49:07
the a's came in and took two of three So I guess
49:12
baseball Laughed at at that that perspective I said no
49:19
We're sending the we're gonna send the a's into
49:22
Baltimore and that point will be mute It would be
49:26
irrelevant And I guess the o's got ahead of that they
49:33
said I'm sensing sense a little momentum from Oakland
49:38
Coming into Baltimore. Maybe we should get ahead of
49:41
this and and uh send our guy Jackson down Because
49:47
we're gonna be up against we're gonna be up against
49:49
it With you with the with the Sacramento a's of Las
49:54
Vegas coming into town They could feel it They could
49:58
feel the a's Running up behind them Breathing down
50:04
their necks And I said now we we can't afford to
50:07
experiment with Jackson up here. We
50:08
got a we got a huge We got a massive three game
50:12
series coming up So I sent him down Back down to AAA
50:22
I Ultimately making the video put out on youtube
50:24
irrelevant, but it was fine Uh, but he'll be fine.
50:29
He'll be fine Ryan's been been
50:33
tweeting about it He I mean, he's a positive guy
50:36
in general, but he he's of the belief that they're
50:38
that they're gonna be all right um And I'm of the
50:44
bleep too like it there's so many people talking
50:47
about this guy this kid's a bus They rushed him they
50:49
rushed him way too. They brought him up way too
50:52
early Not every not every prospect is gonna react the
50:58
same way so to sit there and say well Objectively
51:03
they just brought him up too early says who he
51:07
forced their hand He had a great spring training Had a
51:15
great start in AAA What more is he supposed to do
51:19
how can as the Orioles front office, how can you
51:23
look at that and go well now? We
51:24
got to keep him down He forced their hand they
51:29
didn't they didn't necessarily rush him. I
51:32
mean, maybe that's the case, but it's not it's
51:34
not Set in stone. It's not face value Take it as
51:41
fact that they rushed him There's a lot of factors
51:45
there at play A Law of averages I talk about it
51:49
all the time. He was raking in AAA to start
51:52
the season Naturally he's gonna cool down it just
51:57
happened to be a lot cooler than I think a lot
52:00
of people were in that in that front office and
52:03
organization and fan base They were hoping for He he
52:08
cooled off for sure two hits Again two hits 36
52:14
plate appearances Um But he'll be fine I talked
52:20
about it I talked about it when he got called up. I
52:23
talked about it Even amidst his struggles kid seems
52:27
like he has a great head on the shoulders So I'm
52:29
not I'm not worried about it and he's got the the
52:32
family pedigree To back me up on that. You
52:35
know that there's people in his circle That have been
52:38
there before his dad He he's grown. He
52:42
literally grew up in major league clubhouses. I
52:45
know that there was people That there are people in
52:48
his circle that are Continuing to instill that
52:53
confidence that seemingly has always been there. This
52:55
is the first time I'm guessing well He said it
52:58
himself. This is the first time he's
52:59
been challenged Really in the game of baseball his
53:02
entire life. So I think he'll I think
53:05
he'll be able to rebound. I
53:06
think he'll be just fine um um Otani getting booed
53:14
What's up with that man? What
53:16
is up with otani getting booed in toronto? I
53:22
saw a lot of people talking about how well if
53:24
you get booed in toronto You get booed by canadiens
53:28
You must be an awful person My question is this
53:36
How is it his fault that The media ran with an
53:43
erroneous story Is it shohai otani's fault that
53:51
john morose tweeted out that otani was enroute to
53:54
toronto on a plane It was a shohai otani's fault that
54:03
reports about What was it a sushi restaurant being
54:07
sold out? or being Books fully booked on
54:12
a given night And it turns out it had nothing to do
54:15
with him. Was that his fault? Why
54:18
why boo shohai? Why He there was no indication
54:27
that he was locked in With the blue jays there was no
54:34
there was no guarantee that he was going to be wearing
54:38
a blue jays uniform this season There's no false
54:46
tweet that was sent out saying that from from john
54:51
hayman saying that Shohau otuni is a blue jay He
55:03
was never yours toronto You were just one of the
55:07
suitors that that's not how often does this happen?
55:13
With other free agents around
55:15
baseball And they end up somewhere else They're
55:20
they're they're choosing They're they're dabbling
55:24
amongst three or four teams Maybe three or four suitors
55:27
and they pick one and they leave the other three in
55:30
the dust And we go on with our lives blue jays
55:32
blue jays fans. Why why are we still latching
55:35
onto this? I don't understand it doesn't
55:40
make sense. It's not his fault And just for
55:44
good measure he he went ahead and hit a home run
55:46
and is uh I don't want to say we're turned to toronto
55:51
because again, he was never yours, but He made it
55:56
known that uh At the very least you guys missed out
56:00
on a pretty good talent because he went deep friday
56:03
He sort of silenced the crowd a little bit in that
56:06
regard Uh, but yeah, the whole booing thing was just
56:08
it was very strange didn't did not understand it made
56:11
no sense And i'm i'm legitimately surprised at
56:19
Canadians I I thought you're a little more
56:21
hospitable than that I don't know it makes no
56:26
sense Uh, what does make sense? So
56:30
anthony rendone I'm gonna be missing a lot of time
56:34
I think this was expected And look I hear me when I
56:38
say I I don't mean to make light of the situation
56:40
I would never wish injury on anybody um I was
56:47
fortunate enough when I played baseball to to avoid
56:50
any sort of major injury I think the most I missed
56:52
was like a few games with an ac joint spraying Which
56:55
is terrible by the way that if you ever had that
56:59
that's no fun uh, but it's It's nowhere near uh tear
57:06
Of a hamstring or a partial tear of your
57:08
hamstring The only reason I I'm I'm kind of poking fun
57:15
at it is just because the it's the comedic timing
57:18
like I Say what you will about the guy, but it's
57:22
just it's It it's kind of ironic It and like I said,
57:30
it's almost expected that this was gonna happen that
57:32
this guy was gonna miss time after just the the
57:36
the clown show of an off season with the sound bites
57:40
and and wanting to Shorten the season and play less
57:46
baseball and how it's like not really a priority and
57:49
And and I get it the the family and all that is is
57:52
more important and and he should have said that We
57:55
and we've talked about on here. That's
57:56
not That's not the issue it's It's just the repeated
58:03
emphasis on his part to Belittle it seems to I
58:12
guess that's a fair word to belittle the occupation
58:16
that pays you so much money To the point where
58:22
the fans of your team genuinely Wonder if you
58:29
even care whether or not the team wins or not And
58:36
that's where we are and That's what led us to
58:40
Where we are now with again a partial tear of
58:43
the left hamstring Uh, it was A handful of days
58:48
after the fact that it was reported initially that it
58:51
was a strain but then I guess further testing Came
58:56
back and confirmed that it was in fact a partial tear
59:01
Um He said himself he says he says he's not he's not
59:05
gonna be back in the 10 day window obviously But
59:10
that wasn't the part that that really got to me he
59:13
he mentioned on there In a quote. I
59:15
don't know if this was post game or or what but
59:21
He said i'm definitely not uh, no, he said i'm not
59:24
gonna be back in the 10 day window. It's
59:26
been four years Running now. So
59:28
I was angry for a few days frustrated mad
59:30
everything you could imagine because the game Keeps
59:34
getting taken away from me, right? I
59:36
want to win and I want to be out there I do
59:39
everything in my power to stay out there and it
59:41
seems like nothing is working And that's not
59:50
That's not what you've led us to believe leading up
59:54
to this point And look This game has a funny way
1:00:00
of of humbling guys And setting the record straight
1:00:05
on its own behalf And for you to sit there and
1:00:10
complain about the game keeps getting taken away
1:00:12
from you. That's what you wanted, dude You
1:00:15
you quite literally wanted to play less baseball So
1:00:20
for you to talk about the game getting taken away
1:00:22
from you sure it happened to be an injury But this
1:00:26
is what you wanted. You didn't want to play this
1:00:28
many games. So Again another instance in
1:00:32
which maybe you should have thought differently about
1:00:34
the words that you were using Or at the very least
1:00:39
come back and like set the record straight or clarify
1:00:42
or something But you share these quotes you drop these
1:00:46
quotes And they just they're they're not cohesive
1:00:51
they're not coherent they don't align with with Uh
1:00:56
with what you said in the past and I'm sure what you
1:00:59
say now won't align with what you say in the future
1:01:01
It's just a it's a it's a big Mess it's a pr mess
1:01:07
and now truly mic trout is From a contract perspective
1:01:13
if we're talking big contracts mic trout's pretty
1:01:15
much it Sho Hayes out rendones out for an
1:01:18
extended period of time So we'll see how that goes um
1:01:28
Ranger swore is sworeless in his streak comes to a
1:01:31
close but wanted to address it because it was a quite
1:01:34
noteworthy accomplishment Ranger swore as of the
1:01:41
Phillies Uh score the streaks ends at 32 innings,
1:01:44
which was As you would guess the longest in the
1:01:47
majors this year End of his career He allowed uh,
1:01:55
he gave up a home run in the eighth inning of his
1:01:57
his outing this weekend And But the 32 innings is tied
1:02:02
for the fifth longest in franchise history in that
1:02:06
outing. He went eight innings three
1:02:08
hits gave up a run obviously Had zero walks
1:02:12
and had eight k's across 96 pitches This season
1:02:16
though, it's really not I mean the streak in and of
1:02:18
itself is great But really what he's provided for the
1:02:21
Phillies this year as a whole has been fantastic
1:02:24
uh, really there's some Some excellent Uh, some
1:02:30
excellence coming out of of that rotation this year,
1:02:33
but specifically ranger swore as this year five
1:02:36
and 041 innings Is uh, spawning the r .a. of
1:02:40
132 It's got a whip of 0 .63. He's
1:02:43
only given up five walks and has 40 strikeouts So
1:02:51
Some excellent output Uh from from ranger the the
1:02:56
question I did have though is I saw that with taiwan
1:02:59
walker coming back today who got roughed up a good
1:03:03
bit in in uh In san diego I believe the corresponding
1:03:11
move and an affiliate's fan can correct me if i'm
1:03:13
wrong here But I believe the corresponding move was
1:03:15
to send spencer turnbull to the pen which I I'm sorry.
1:03:20
I just don't agree with I
1:03:25
Mean why not spencer turnbull has looked great
1:03:28
All things considered for the for the picture that
1:03:31
he is and and what he Uh, historically is provided.
1:03:35
Why aren't you keeping this guy
1:03:37
with with the hot hand? Why
1:03:38
aren't you why aren't you finding a way to get this
1:03:40
guy some starts? moving forward and i'm sure he'll
1:03:46
make he'll be making spot starts here and there but
1:03:51
I Just Why not keep trying to strike while the iron's
1:03:56
hot, you know, I mean I You can venture I would
1:04:02
venture to say that a guy like spencer turnbull is
1:04:04
not going to exactly put up a scy on caliber season
1:04:06
So why not like are they sensing that a fall -offs
1:04:09
coming? Are they sensing are they
1:04:13
sensing uh some or I mean maybe they looking into
1:04:16
some expected numbers And projections that are coming
1:04:19
up That do not look favorable for him because
1:04:22
that's the only explanation I could find and I
1:04:24
understand you got money invested in Taiwan walker
1:04:26
that maybe you don't have invested in spencer turnbull
1:04:30
but Man is there just not a way to keep him in
1:04:36
there? I don't know I don't know. I
1:04:40
mean I get it though Like if there was going to be
1:04:42
a guy that you're sending to the pen you're not Not
1:04:44
exactly sending air nola to the pen. I
1:04:46
so I understand it from that point of view But man
1:04:51
I just hope they can find a way to not let the
1:04:53
momentum that he's built up to this point fall off or
1:04:57
diminish because They always say pitching wins
1:05:01
championships and Pitching can be uh pitching can be
1:05:07
a tough A tough act to maintain consistency in If
1:05:13
you're not one of the more elite arms of baseball,
1:05:16
which spencer turnbull For all intents and purposes is
1:05:19
not necessarily the one of the elite arms of baseball,
1:05:22
but I feel like he had built up enough to at
1:05:25
least Continue to give himself a shot moving
1:05:29
forward but Affiliates must must see something different
1:05:34
Um, but we'll see we'll see uh, I'm sure he'll be
1:05:38
the first to to get the call if if an injury takes
1:05:41
place He'll be right back there in that rotation That
1:05:44
fantastic rotation. I'm I have to reiterate Uh,
1:05:48
major league baseball players weekend is back
1:05:54
Reports are saying that for the first time since 2019
1:05:57
they are going to dedicate three days in august The
1:06:03
players focusing on showcasing them beyond their
1:06:05
stats and on field performances according to a
1:06:07
release distributed thursday So this this uh tradition.
1:06:13
Oh It was a tradition there
1:06:15
for a while and then it went away And now that
1:06:21
it's coming back this year, they're gonna have it in
1:06:23
august from august 16th to 18th And I was reading And
1:06:30
they're gonna have different themes For the three
1:06:34
different days day one. I was reading august 16 I
1:06:38
got the notes here. It says it'll feature their
1:06:40
personalities their friendships and off the
1:06:42
field interests day two We'll focus on their
1:06:45
charitable causes and day three will celebrate the
1:06:47
people who helped them On their path to the big
1:06:49
leagues including parents coaches and other mentors I
1:06:55
love it. I mean, I'm not gonna I'm
1:06:57
not gonna be some old man grouts here and say like
1:06:59
why are we doing this I you know I especially love
1:07:02
the the focus on the charitable causes They I
1:07:05
think the more time you spend following major league
1:07:08
baseball the more you realize that There's more
1:07:12
guys than you think that are are involved in and
1:07:14
some sort of cause Some sort of charity Some sort
1:07:20
of movement whatever it may be then they're And they're
1:07:22
channeling their efforts and energy to the right things
1:07:25
and you love to see that So i'm glad that they're
1:07:27
they're getting a chance to highlight those Uh because
1:07:30
oftentimes the only the only guys you really hear
1:07:32
about are you know The guys that have a chance to
1:07:35
talk about what they're doing on like if they're
1:07:37
fortunate enough to be mic'd up for an ESPN like
1:07:39
Sunday night baseball game or something Or maybe major
1:07:42
league baseball decides to the randomly spotlight them
1:07:45
on their socials one day Um, but where does that
1:07:50
leave the other guys that are doing great things in
1:07:52
their communities and around the world? Um,
1:07:56
so i'm glad to see that I think that'll be that'll be
1:07:59
a cool cool thing and You know the whole the whole
1:08:03
intent the whole purpose of this is to attract a
1:08:05
younger crowd and I think we've I think we've seen
1:08:09
this Serve its purpose in the past. I'm
1:08:13
not entirely sure why they got rid of it um, the one
1:08:16
thing I did the one thing I did read Is that they're
1:08:19
not doing the nicknames on the uniforms this year not
1:08:22
exactly sure? I don't know if that's a I
1:08:24
saw a lot of people speculating. I
1:08:26
don't know if it's officially been reported yet
1:08:27
Like if this is the exact reason but I saw a lot of
1:08:30
people speculating that Maybe it's just a fanatics
1:08:32
nike thing like they're up to their neck and other
1:08:34
issues that we already talked about And they just
1:08:36
don't have time for this which would be
1:08:38
understandable Um, but I that was something I looked
1:08:43
forward to I mean the uniforms were hit or miss
1:08:46
There's a lot of people that hated those black and
1:08:49
white ones I think I was in that camp if I recall
1:08:52
it's been a while. I haven't had to think about
1:08:53
these things for For a minute. I
1:08:56
mean it's been since what what did I say 2019? um
1:09:02
but uh Yeah, man, the nicknames on the backs of
1:09:05
the unis were cool I was looking forward to those
1:09:08
but some guys were getting a little edgy with them so
1:09:11
I I can kind of get it like I mean rich hill like
1:09:17
dick mountain There's just some some interesting name
1:09:22
nickname choices from years past. So
1:09:24
I understand if maybe they wanted to Put a cap on
1:09:29
that I I get that but all I'll have to say excited
1:09:32
for it to be back. Um And I'm excited to see how
1:09:36
they've I mean we we talked about or I mentioned
1:09:39
what they're gonna What the different focuses are going
1:09:42
to be for the different days, but I'm really
1:09:44
curious to see How much of an effort is made to make
1:09:47
this a truly Unique weekend. I
1:09:50
think there's a lot of potential there and it's in
1:09:52
it's like mid august, you know, that's a great time
1:09:55
to do it you know get get them Get uh get some juice
1:10:00
flowing in the dog days and Give guys a chance to
1:10:04
look forward to an otherwise Normal summer
1:10:09
weekend um Closed in a book here yankees take
1:10:13
their series this weekend and uh That wasn't
1:10:18
necessarily the highlight the highlight was the fact
1:10:20
that they put up 15 and back to back games so good
1:10:23
on the yankees That was the milwaukey series Which
1:10:28
I don't know if you saw But that erin judge like
1:10:35
Interference call with the oven mitt sliding into
1:10:37
second We got it. We got to chill with these
1:10:41
oven mitts man. They're getting out of hand I I
1:10:49
understand it. I I I get the benefit Of
1:10:53
having those when you're on the base path. I
1:10:55
understand their purpose But like we're gonna have to
1:11:01
start putting some some guidelines around it like
1:11:04
you can't yet I don't even know what it would be but
1:11:10
They're just they're they're They're just in the way
1:11:17
man like is there not a way that we can Like
1:11:22
simplify the mold or the the the form fitting
1:11:27
element of it Of maybe I don't know man, but they're
1:11:32
massive They are huge And they are truly like oven
1:11:39
mitts and you saw today They're now like impacting
1:11:44
baseball games On plays that don't involve a head
1:11:53
first slide like Can we make can we just make them
1:11:58
a little smaller? That's all I ask It's not it's
1:12:01
not much to ask but they're just They're getting
1:12:05
carried away and I get they're becoming more
1:12:07
commonplace and you know Gotta protect those gotta
1:12:10
protect those fingies man gotta protect those fingies
1:12:14
but just If we don't if we don't do something about
1:12:20
these things You're gonna start to see them grow and
1:12:26
grow And grow and guys are gonna be walking around
1:12:30
with telephone poles on their hands They're
1:12:33
legitimately gonna have telephone poles taped to
1:12:35
their wrists And on the other end is gonna be the
1:12:38
mitt And they won't even have to run the second to
1:12:43
steal second They'll just take their first step sick
1:12:46
their hand out and they'll be at the bag stolen base
1:12:48
in the books I'm just saying maybe a little
1:12:52
regulation is all that's all I ask uh Last item
1:12:57
here closing the book twins home run sausage I I don't
1:13:04
have much to say but this summer has stumbled across
1:13:07
my feed According to betsy helfand on twitter. She
1:13:11
says she tweeted kyle farmer left a summer
1:13:14
sausage He received from cloverdale. I
1:13:16
don't know. I'm not a I'm not a midwest
1:13:18
guys cloverdale like a is that like a convenience
1:13:21
store out there cloverdale I've never heard of that
1:13:26
Uh Kyle farmer left a summer a summer sausage you
1:13:29
received from cloverdale on a table in the clubhouse
1:13:32
hitting coach david pompkins popkins Grabbed it and
1:13:37
brought it into the dugout during a game against
1:13:39
chicago. It's brought them luck So now
1:13:41
twins hitters tap the sausage before they go to
1:13:44
hit The rocko wood ball deli if you have not seen
1:13:49
that video, please go watch that video they were asking
1:13:52
about this home run sausage and it was It was exactly
1:13:59
what you thought it would be of asking a middle -aged
1:14:02
man about A sausage in a clubhouse Just the facial
1:14:09
expressions the attempt to explain it to make sense
1:14:11
of it to justify it It was hilarious and you need
1:14:15
to watch it if you haven't seen already uh But he was
1:14:20
in the video. I won't spoil it. No
1:14:22
pun intended But he was talking about how his
1:14:24
concern is that they haven't refrigerated it And
1:14:28
that he's worried that if the wrapper become exposed
1:14:31
or like it exposes the sausage that It's not going
1:14:36
to be it's not going to be good It's not going to
1:14:39
be good. So Yeah, definitely go watch
1:14:41
that video if you haven't seen it, but slayers, but
1:14:43
just wanted to throw in a little plug for the twins
1:14:46
um because We've seen a lot of things in baseball,
1:14:51
but I don't think we've seen our home run sausage
1:14:53
before Uh, lastly here closing out with the The
1:15:01
uh the temporary temporarily named segment Could possibly
1:15:07
change subject to change the 3o green light My
1:15:13
topic for today Dead balls I Don't know if major
1:15:23
league baseball has any plans on admitting to
1:15:26
anything they've admitted it before But the baseballs
1:15:30
that major league baseball is using in 2024 are not
1:15:33
the baseballs that we used in 2023 or 2022 or 2021
1:15:38
We're back to We can't to making changes because we
1:15:45
are seeing balls hit With exit velocities with launch
1:15:50
angles that 10 times out of 10 30 out of 30
1:15:55
ballparks should be a home run But that are flyouts
1:15:59
short of the warning track Why are we back to
1:16:03
tweaking baseballs? Why are we back to trying to
1:16:06
manipulate the game? I've already talked about how
1:16:12
There's a conspiracy across major league baseball that
1:16:15
the scorekeeping Is so astronomically bad this year
1:16:21
That somehow major league baseball is trying to
1:16:23
manipulate offensive numbers that in that regard But
1:16:29
there's for some reason trying to manipulate
1:16:31
baseball By manipulating the baseballs. Did
1:16:36
you see it? I mean you saw the video
1:16:38
From the a's orials game this weekend I don't
1:16:44
remember who hit it. It was it was a it was an
1:16:46
end shot like a capper off the end of the bat And
1:16:49
the ball just disintegrates And I I do think it
1:16:54
caught maybe his spike, but I'm not I'm not positive
1:16:57
on that But the ball just even even so the ball just
1:17:02
disintegrated just exploded. I'm
1:17:05
like And the joke floating around and Kevin Brown
1:17:10
mentioned on the broadcast he's like a frenetics
1:17:13
making these baseballs So again to reiterate we're
1:17:19
not using the same baseballs and I'm not
1:17:21
exactly sure why I Don't know why But the the
1:17:28
numbers are there and we I may have mentioned on the
1:17:31
last episode that ops Uh, shout out Yankee world on
1:17:35
twitter. He posted posted a screenshot
1:17:38
of Uh lowest ops dating back to I might just be
1:17:47
pulling this out of a hat 1990 why why do I want to
1:17:50
say 1990 lowest Ops since 1990 I think it was We're
1:17:56
you're looking at it Through april of 2024 we're
1:18:02
currently looking at the lowest league wide ops
1:18:05
average Since again, I think it was 1990 so I I
1:18:12
don't know what the motive here is But major league
1:18:15
baseball is up to something with the baseballs and I'm
1:18:17
not exactly sure why but like I said the numbers
1:18:20
are there The data is there So Just something to
1:18:24
keep an eye on just I mean, I'm sure if you're
1:18:29
watching your team at home You're probably seeing the
1:18:32
same thing. I'm talking about I've seen it
1:18:36
Balls that you think at least 10 to 15 rows back
1:18:43
Camera pans the outfitter he's coming in on the ball
1:18:46
that shouldn't happen We Us baseball fans we've been
1:18:51
watching baseball long enough. We've
1:18:52
watched enough games on tv to know When a guy gets a
1:18:57
hold of one and I understand if if if he
1:19:00
gets a hold of one and It it ends up two feet short
1:19:05
of the wall. I get that but outfielder
1:19:07
should not be coming in on these balls I mean, we're
1:19:11
talking Perfect lawn jangle perfect exit velocity a
1:19:16
perfect recipe for a home run And we're just not
1:19:21
seeing it We're just not seeing it and I keep
1:19:24
hearing these reporters talking about or these
1:19:25
broadcasters talking about the wind That's a factor
1:19:31
but that's that's not that that's not the root of the
1:19:34
issue here the It's clear as day something's being
1:19:38
done to the baseballs. That's
1:19:39
all I got for you guys I appreciate you falling along
1:19:42
went a little deep tonight And again, I apologize for
1:19:49
that weird Take one of this episode I was messing
1:19:54
with our new equipment. I guess I've flipped on the
1:19:56
sound the sound effect for Like a robot voice or
1:20:01
something. So I'm here. I
1:20:02
am 15 minutes deep into the episode and Gets
1:20:05
brought to my attention that uh, I sound like
1:20:08
Darth Vader. So Apologize for that if if
1:20:11
you had to listen to the first 15 minutes again on
1:20:13
take two But I appreciate you all falling along As I
1:20:18
mentioned Nate should be back. Hopefully
1:20:22
Later this week That's that's the plan or that's
1:20:26
that's the hope So we can hopefully get get that
1:20:30
chemistry back and rolling get him on here get to
1:20:32
get back to talking to baseball together Looking
1:20:34
forward to that. Hopefully but uh in the meantime If
1:20:38
you all have any any comments questions concerns
1:20:41
feel free to hit me up on twitter my uh, If you're
1:20:44
watching the feeds right there on the screen But
1:20:47
you can find me on twitter kyle corwin takes Uh or
1:20:52
hit us up on instagram and Let us know what's on your
1:20:57
mind. Love to talk baseball at any
1:20:58
point throughout the year off season in season Just
1:21:03
hit us up. Let's let's talk some ball. Uh,
1:21:06
but again Appreciate you all listening Uh, that's
1:21:11
all I got. We love you all and as always
1:21:13
looking forward to talking more baseball with you guys
1:21:15
soon until next time Stay filthy