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MLB talk with Matt Snyder, Cyclones with Bill Seals & Trent's Picks presented by Circa Sports · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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All right, hour number two, welcome back Miller and Condon.
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It's the Iowa Sports Radio Network.
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Wherever you are, wherever you're listening or however
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as we will talk with you until just before 2:00.
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At that time off the bench, Lucas and Sean still to come
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this hour, Bill Seals recaps Iowa State's weekend.
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But right now, as the music kind of indicates, we're going to
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talk some baseball with our guy, Matt Snyder.
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CBSSports.com. CBSSports.com for Matt Snyder.
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Trent and I both we we had a little bet between ourselves
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whether Mendoza would be fired or not.
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By the time you came on the air with us at 1:00, I was wrong.
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I thought he'd be out the door. I'm kind of shocked he hasn't
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been. What are they waiting for in New
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York with the Mets? It seems like Stearns really,
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really wants to keep them. But like, at some point the
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owner is going to go to to Stearns and say, yeah, I mean,
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one of you got to go. So if you're not going to fire
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us, you're gone. So yeah, I mean, 9 and 19.
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And remember, we've already gone over this.
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We just keep going over it. But they they had that collapse
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last season. They were the best record in
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baseball through June 12th. And then they completely fell
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apart and missed the playoffs. And it wasn't like somebody got
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really, really hot and rained them down.
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They only the Reds only 183 games and made the playoffs
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because the Mets just completely choked you team that choke job
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last year with this bad start this year.
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Yeah. I mean, we talked about how last
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week there was an upcoming soft schedule.
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They win the two games against the Twins.
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Sorry, Trent. It's right after they get Juan
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Soto back. So you might think, OK, we just
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needed Soto back. Now the single snowball, we'll
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get back in it. And then they get swept at home
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by the Rockies. Yeah.
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I mean right now I don't understand why it hasn't
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happened yet today. It's a baffling decision
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overall, and I understand one. Soto was gone basically for half
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the season. To this point he's been gone.
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Think he's played in 13 of the 28 games.
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Still, this offense is anemic and you look up and down the
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lineup, the veterans, the guys that you thought at minimum are
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going to be OK a month into the season, Bichette, Simi, Lindor,
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absolutely. I mean, these are guys that
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you're are the bedrocks of your team and they've been terrible
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across the board. I didn't love their pitching
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coming to the year. That was my question.
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I thought they can swing it. Is there a batting coach that's
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going to get the axe? I mean, is that a direction you
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go? If you're not going to fire the
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manager, you got to do something.
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That that's the main key is what you just said.
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Do something like, it just seems like they're just sitting there
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waiting it out and they're acting like they're just going
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to turn things around. And when you get slipped at home
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by the Rockies, it doesn't look like anything's going to turn
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around anytime soon without something drastic.
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And we've seen cases where talented teams change managers
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and all of a sudden, like look at the Phillies in 2022, they
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fired Joe Girardi and then they got hot under Rob Thompson and
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they ended up in the World Series.
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And they've been one of the better teams of baseball up
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until this year. After that move, sometimes just
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changing the voice can do something or I don't know if
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there's a mentality to, hey, it got real.
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Our manager got fired. We really better step step it
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up. I don't.
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There might be something subconsciously in there, but
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yeah, I I just, it's funny, especially with the Red Sox not
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just firing Alex Cora, but completely cleaning houses,
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turning out their entire coaching staff.
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And then you look at the contrast of the Mets not doing
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anything and you're just wondering what in the world is
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going on here. I I just keep coming.
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There has to be something going on in the clubhouse and I'm not
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saying Pete Alonzo, he's out of a player.
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He's off the greatest of starts in Baltimore, at least power
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wise. If he would have still been
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there with the Mets, be in this spot, do you think was he maybe
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the solidifying force amongst those veterans?
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I don't know. I don't call him closely there.
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Was a lot of talk about, yeah, there was a lot of talk about
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both Alonzo and Edwin Diaz being big clubhouse guys, being get
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big guys in the clubhouse. It's hard to tell.
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I do think you can't just do something as simple as look at
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Alonzo's numbers. He wouldn't even be helping them
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right now because there's something to be said for
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continuity and being comfortable.
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And so many times when guys have a new home, they struggle at the
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start of the year that the biggest, easiest example is
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Albert Kuhl with the Angels. When I first signed with them,
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he was broken for six weeks. It's there's something to be
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said for continuity and I just feel like they're offseason
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moves. Moving Jorge Polanco to first
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base and trying him instead of Alonso, That's a bad move.
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You signed Beau Bichette and you move him to third base.
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Again, there's something to be said for continuity.
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Not only is Bichette on a new team, but he's also learning a
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new position that's obviously going to affect his hitting.
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So I just felt like a lot of the moves were misguided.
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If you can, you can sign Bichette, but bring Alonzo back.
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You can trade for Freddy Peralta, but as long as you have
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Alonzo back and then you don't need to trade Brandon Demo for
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obviously Washed Up Marcus Simeon and that was another move
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that is just not working out at all.
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Let's go to the top of the division and Atlanta.
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We know they're good. We know they're talented.
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They've just been hurt the last couple of years.
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Are they built in a way that they can compete in the seven
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game and LCS against the Dodgers?
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It feels like that is going to be a tall trash.
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Assuming the Dodgers are going to get.
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There, I absolutely. Yeah.
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I think that's fine. I am in your last year, Ken.
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I am not playing this game with you this summer.
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The Dodgers are going to be there.
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I know. If it gets there, does Atlanta
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have the firepower to compete in a 7 gamer?
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Offensively, absolutely. Bullpen, absolutely.
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The bullpen's amazing. Once they get Iglesias back to
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team with Robert Suarez and then Dylan Lee and Tyler Kinley.
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The rotation is the question, right?
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Like, you know, Chris Dale, we know about Chris Dale.
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Spencer Strider's going to come back.
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What's he going to look like when he gets back?
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I'm not convinced Martine Perez is going to have a 2.7 OERAL
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year. Definitely not going to see
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Bryce Elder with a 1.95 BRA all year.
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So how's the rotation going to look by the time you get to the
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play? If you get the best version of
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Spencer Strider and you still have the best version of Chris
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Dale, who's that third guy going to be?
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You can probably stand toe to toe with the Dodgers as long as
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you have 3 starters and can kind of patchwork or bullpen game for
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the 4th spot. But yeah, we'll we'll see on
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that rotation. But yeah, they've got everything
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else. It's just how is that rotation
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going to shake out behind Dale? Cubs and Dodgers played A3 game
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set. The Cubs came from behind to win
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on Friday night. Then it was all downhill after
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that 12, four and six zip on on Sunday.
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Did you learn more about LA Kind of knew they were good, right?
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Or just this is this is how difficult it's going to be the
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Cubs for them to climb to the very top of of the leagues.
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What did you learn, if anything? What we saw Saturday was the
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Cubs pitching injuries, finally just catching up to them.
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I mean, when there's so many guys hurt right now, the bullpen
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is stand out. They're running names out that
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maybe you guys from Iowa will recognize, but a lot of people
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don't recognize when Colin Ray started to get hit a little bit.
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It's a reminder that yes, he can be helpful, but he's there's a
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reason he's a swing man. He's not a full time rotation
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guy. And then you had to go into the
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underbelly of the bullpen, what's left of it.
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And and that's you get what happens there.
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Yesterday was one of the weirdest things I've ever seen
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in my entire life. For team to go over 20 with
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runners on base with having any guys on base.
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Holy cow, Friday was amazing, really fun to watch, great
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comeback by the Cubs. I wanted to say we necessarily
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learned a lot about either team other than just it was 2 good
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teams going at it and the Cubs pitching staff is just
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completely decimated by injuries.
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And that caught up with him on Saturday and Sunday was one of
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those games where they just, they had hit so well during that
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winning streak. I guess it was kind of expected
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that at some point they would just forget how to hit for a
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game. It happens.
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So you mentioned that I saw a list that also included the
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minor leaguers that are currently on the shelf.
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It was like 30 names long. I mean, it's just, it's
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ridiculous. It is.
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I mean, it's I've never, I don't think I've ever seen.
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And we've talked about teams like the Astros.
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We've seen the Dodgers with a ton of pitching injuries, but
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I'm just, I'm trying not to be the fan here.
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I'm trying to be the analyst, but it's difficult to say.
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You have two good starters with major injuries in Kate Horton
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and Justin Steele, and then and from the 40 man roster alone, 8
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relievers on the IL And yeah, if you go to Iowa, there's four
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starters. Good grief, man, it's just the
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entire organization. Have you taken a peek ahead of
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some starting pitching, good starting pitching that's going
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to be yeah, you can get available, you mean?
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Yeah, when we get to the trade deadline is there.
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Deadline. Yeah.
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Is there any names out there that you know, either pending
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free agent, something like that that likely is going to be moved
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come July? Well, I don't think the Tigers
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are going to fall out of it, but if they did, Eric School would
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be the big one. But I wonder if now is going to
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be the time that did Marlins pull the trigger on Sandy L
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Contra. It looks like they're probably
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going to fall out of the race. He's been really good.
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He's already thrown one of his shutouts.
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You know, he's the guy that's going to go the distance.
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He's probably the main one that jumps out to me.
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But I mean, gosh, if you see like the the Mets go completely
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out of it and start Wheeling, dealing Freddy Peralta.
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There's a reason the Brewers, Freddy Peralta, he's a free
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agent at the end of the year. And if the Phillies decide they
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need to make drastic changes, how's Zach Wheeler going to look
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here? He's only one start in when he
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comes coming back from that surgery that he could be.
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That could be an interesting one.
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Noah's not tradable right now, but maybe he pitches back into
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to the form to where the sub team might take a flyer on him.
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Different, different type teams that look really terrible this
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year. Like we haven't talked about the
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Mets with the Phillies being big time scholars.
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And while the Red Sox are 11 and 17, Crochet is not going
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anywhere. But if if Sonny Gray got
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healthy, Brian Baio, maybe the Astros, I don't know who they
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would even have because their pitching stats have been
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atrocious. But seeing the Astros be this
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bad, it makes you think maybe they'll be sellers.
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Robbie Ray is a free agent at the end of the year.
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And of course, up in Minnesota, there's.
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Yeah. Joe Ryan, and he's got another
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year got to go. Yes, absolutely.
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He does have another year that he is under contract.
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So maybe a little bit more value for the Twins as the rebuild
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continues. Yeah, absolutely.
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How about, how about this one too?
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Jose Soriano? What a start.
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Don't seem like they're going to compete for another couple of
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years if they decide to sell. He's under team control through
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2028. They could get a lot killing a
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ton right now the way he looks. Yeah, throw in Mike Trott if
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you're going to a contender as well.
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I'd like to get him there. You know what I mean?
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Cincinnati 18 and 10. Why don't ask about Sal Stewart,
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who's a really nice player? Is he?
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He's the favorite right now to win Rookie of the year in the
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National League by stairs is AD is is ADH.
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His numbers offensively I think are going to be, if not as good,
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I I think potentially better than Stewart's.
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But Stewart's an everyday player for the most part.
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Does that put him over the top? So far, yes.
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I mean, the Cubs are really protecting by a stereos from
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lefty. So he's basically a platoon DH
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there. I think you got to let him see
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lefties at some point, see what you've got.
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But at this point, yeah. And it's still with the more
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power as well by service has started to hit a few bombs.
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There were with 9 homers and 29 RBI.
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Right now, 29 RBI and 28 games. A ridiculous start, but like by
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the stereos. His average is what, 397?
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Only 400? Yeah.
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Yeah, OK. I mean, hey, it could be a
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fundraise and and it's, you know, pretty cool to see the
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Reds playing so well it. Really is.
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The Red Sox, on the other hand, not so much.
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As you mentioned a second ago, they they blew everybody out.
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Cora, if he wants to work this year and if there's an
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opportunity, I think he's going to get a chance.
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Maybe it's in New York with the Mets.
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What's going on there? Who was ultimately behind that
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decision? They had to make a move, but
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man, they cleaned house. The front office is an absolute
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mess right now under Craig Breslow, former reliever.
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You know the direction that they've gone.
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It looked like they were going all in on pitching.
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Crochet's had three bad starts. Brian Baio has been really,
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really bad. Sonny Gray's now hurt and he was
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a little uneven. And then you look at
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offensively, I didn't like the offense heading into the year at
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all. And like, I like Wilson
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Contreras, I like Willie or Abreu.
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Those can't be your two best hitters if you're a contender.
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Those are more supporting cast guys, not main characters.
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They were counting an awful, awful lot on 22 year old Roman
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Anthony to be an immediate super duper star in the middle of that
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lineup. They were counting on a bat
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bounce back Trevor Story. It looks like they were counting
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on Caleb Durbin to fill the void left at third base from Alex
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Bregman and he's been brutal. Probably hurts even more that
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Kyle Harrison's pitching so well for the Brewers.
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Who was part of that deal? Darren Duran almost unplayably
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bad. They have a lot of culprits on
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this ball right now. Almost nobody's getting it done.
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Kangaroo Court is back in New York.
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I don't know if you saw the story the Yankees have got
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together and if you challenge a call with the ABS system and the
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whole ball is actually in the strike zone, the.
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Entire ball. You got to pay a fine.
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I love it. Jazz Chisholm on Friday night.
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That was the truth. You.
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Saw that. I mean it's almost middle,
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middle and he challenges center cut so he doubled the fine that
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he paid into the kangaroo court there.
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I love stories like that and but it feels like it can build a
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little bit of camaraderie too. For these guys. 500 bucks is a
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lot different than 500 bucks for you and I.
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It's like a $5 fine. It kind of feels.
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Like they're gay. Right.
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It's it's something kind of fun just to get through the doldrums
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here and you make a bad choice. And like chance, it looked like
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he was kind of leaning over and that's probably why he just saw
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it weird as it was in the middle of the plate, but kind of a fun
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idea here. Matt Snyder from the Yankees.
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Yet another layer of how. Awesome ABS.
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Tremendous it really. Is that it just adds like
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another fun little thing. And, you know, I mean, you are
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to catch yourself doing it like watching games.
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Oh, challenge that, Challenge that.
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Because we get the square on the screen, of course we can know
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it's. Yeah, I Can't Sing the praises
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of ABS enough. And I love that we hear things
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like that from the clubhouse because there are stuff that
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there's stuff that I hear on occasion in the clubhouses.
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I go to Cincinnati relatively frequently that you don't really
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let out. But if they decide they want it
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out in the public, I think it's cool.
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I love hearing stuff like that. That's the type of thing that
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fans will really think that's like a social media shareable
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thing, right? Like a bunch of people who don't
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even like baseball that much will click on that and think
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that's funny. Absolutely.
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Of the six divisions will remove with the Rockies from the
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conversations, I think probably all three of us had them
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finishing last in the West. But here's your last place club
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starting in American League East Boston Royals, Astros, Mets,
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Brewers. It's unbelievable that those
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five teams. I thought the Brewers will win.
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A lot of people thought the Mets would win their division, Astros
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would win their division. Trent and I both thought the
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Royals were headed in the right direction and there was a lot of
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love for the right for the Red Sox this year.
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Matt. Yeah, it's some of it is a
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testament to it just being early, like the Brewers, only 3
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1/2 out, they have a winning record.
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But some of it, like the Royals, they won three in a row, still
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only 11 and 17. They looked horrible, horrible
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before that weekend series with the Angels.
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Maybe that'll get their mojo back.
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That game last night with the Jack Caglian with the game time
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bomb, the extra innings, walk off home run.
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That's a sweep now, maybe. There was nobody there.
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To finally hit his first home run.
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Well, yeah, there was a, there was like a two or three hour
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delay. Oh, I didn't know that.
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Is that what it was? OK.
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Yeah, it was a it was a long weather delay, so nobody stuck
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around because they just, they were going to lose.
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Oh, that wasn't Sunday Night Baseball.
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I don't know. They started, they started it in
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the afternoon. I don't know exactly what
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happened. Maybe they moved it up to try to
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avoid the weather and then it came anyway.
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I would have to check on that. But yeah, right, that's not as
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bad that I thought. For some reason the Sunday Night
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Baseball crew was in Kansas City, which I found odd to begin
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with because I was watching NBA in NHL last night.
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Spencer Torkelson has been red hot.
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Is this one of those? He had a nice year last year,
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but just kind of we heard so much of him coming up and this
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was going to be an absolute star.
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He's going to hit the ground running and he's going to mash a
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45 home runs a year. It hasn't been that, but as at
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least turned himself into a solid major leaguer.
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How much more upside is there still there for Torkelson?
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He's only 26, so you know he could still find another level.
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I was initially going to stay. This is probably just who he is.
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I mean, he has 231 home run seasons.
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He's probably going to hit for a low average in a strike out a
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decent amount and hit bombs. And there's value to guys like
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that. Look at Pete Alonzo.
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It's been a very valuable player for the Mets for years.
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And we were just talking about how it probably hurt to lose
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him. I think there's that's a guy
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that you can probably just drop in the five hole and just say,
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hey, give us your 30 to 35 bombs.
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We don't care how low the average is and and be good with
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that. But like I said, 26, there's
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always there's always room for improvement in there.
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You never know, maybe he will kind of put a little bit more
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together there and maybe he could become like a Kyle
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Schwarber type. Probably it didn't much smaller
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sample, but you know that type of guy.
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Your power rankings are out. What was the the biggest?
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He went back and forth before you finally settled on what?
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It might have been at the bottom with some that's in the
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Phillies, like which team should I put last between these?
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Crazy that those are the 2. I I think you could go back and
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forth on the Braves versus Dodgers, for one.
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It wasn't that difficult for me, frankly, because I was just
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itching to move Dodgers down. And now that I finally had an
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excuse to do it, I just wanted to put somebody else up just for
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variety's sake. But I'm sure that there are many
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people out there who would argue and say the Dodgers are still
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the best team. But like through Friday, they've
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lost five of seven. They lost the series of the
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Giants, and they blew that game to the Cubs.
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Meanwhile, the Braves have just been a wrecking crew. 33 years
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ago yesterday, I saw this pop up on social media.
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It was one of my favorite meltdowns.
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What year? 1993 Hal McRae.
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Oh God, with the Royals Chuck in the telephone.
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Yes, and absolutely losing it. Maybe one of my favorite parts
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of that is there's a video camera outside of his office and
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the media members walking out at their faces.
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I it's just absolutely incredible.
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I'll send it to you guys. It is one of my favorites.
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What are your favorite postgame rants that you've that you
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remember from managers? I, I think I, I, they barely
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caught it, barely caught it on video, but when Lou Pinella went
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after Rob Dibble in the clubhouse in Cincinnati, that
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was a pretty good one. Like you've never seen managers
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go after play like that these days.
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The, the Speaking of Billy Martin and Reggie Jackson
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meltdown in Boston when Martin pulled Reggie in the middle of
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the inning and then they got into it in the in the dugout and
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then in the tunnel. That was a pretty good one as
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well. Oh man, those are the days value
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baseball back at that time. Such a great sport.
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Thank you, Matt Snyder, as always, love to hit with you.
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We'll do it again next Monday if your schedule allows.
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We hope that it does. Have a great week, Matt.
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What did he see with his own two eyes as he was in the press box
21:38
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We'll see where it goes. Bill Seals joins us, covers Iowa
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State, cyclonereport.com cyclonereport.com part of the
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rival slash on three network. When you saw the Brendan Sarsby
22:13
suspension or I guess checking into a gambling treatment
22:16
program, Bill, did you have flashbacks to the summer of Iowa
22:20
State and Iowa and what way what they went through?
22:23
What was it 3 or 4 years ago, Trent?
22:25
Four years ago? Did you have flashbacks?
22:28
Bill Seals. Well, it's, it's certainly seems
22:31
like a story we're seeing more and more of these days.
22:34
And, and you know, I think it all goes back to when, when all
22:38
this stuff was going on in the state of Iowa with the Cyclones,
22:41
Hawkeyes, I think everybody thought the state of Iowa.
22:44
This isn't the only place where this is going on.
22:47
And it just so happened we had it.
22:49
What an overzealous government official that went on the went
22:54
on the offensive there and and now we're seeing it done at
22:57
other, other places. And I think it's been that way
22:59
probably for a while, you know, and it's, I think similar timing
23:06
to, I guess you would say, what was it coming out of spring?
23:11
Decker's was assumed to be the starting quarterback.
23:15
And then I think things changed and all of a sudden, you know,
23:18
they had to get Rocco Beck ready to go in time for fall camp.
23:22
And we'll see what happens with Soresby out of this.
23:24
But, you know, they're going to have to go to a backup plan as
23:27
they go through summer workouts. But I, I, I still have a, a
23:31
feeling that they'll find a way to get Soresby back there in
23:34
time for the season opener. I mean, they're paying him,
23:36
paying him a lot of money to do that job down there.
23:41
The NCAA is investigating. Cody Campbell's probably going
23:44
to be able to help afford a real good lawyer to make that
23:47
litigation. Make sure I'm sure Iowa State
23:49
and Iowa fans will completely understand.
23:50
Yeah, so no problem at all, right?
23:53
Well, the NFL draft in the books and Dom Orange, no surprise goes
23:57
goes in the third round, a guy that because of the scheme, I
24:01
don't know if we ever got to see what he completely can do
24:05
because it was so important for him to occupy that space in the
24:07
middle and he was incredible obviously doing that.
24:09
The haycock system. What do you look at him at the
24:12
next level? What do you anticipate for Dobb
24:13
Orange? Well, I think they're, they're
24:16
going to get a, a better version of him.
24:19
I, I actually do, I think, you know, there, there was a lot of,
24:23
there were a lot of knocks on him.
24:25
I, I think especially last season, but I think a lot went
24:29
into that too. You know, the, the fact that he
24:31
didn't have what, but was it two 2 1/2 tackles for loss or
24:35
something like that, maybe maybe tops that he, that he had that
24:39
and, and just wasn't making too many plays in the offensive
24:42
backfield. But you know, I think a lot of
24:44
that was a byproduct of who Iowa State had around him.
24:47
You know, they lost over his last couple years and aims.
24:51
They lost Will McDonald earlier on MJ Anderson.
24:56
MJ Anderson the one year was going to be a big guy to to play
25:01
outside of him in that three man front.
25:03
He entered the NFL draft early. I don't even know what he's
25:06
doing anymore, but he didn't get drafted.
25:09
So I think a lot of that on orange was he had two or three
25:12
guys in his face on every play and it was pretty hard to make
25:16
plays in the backfield when that offensive line you're you're the
25:20
guy they're targeting every play.
25:22
So but I I think I'm not sure the Vikings run a three man,
25:25
four man front. What it, what it?
25:27
What's that look like, Trent? It was 4.
25:30
It. Was four.
25:32
Yeah. And him, him going into a four
25:34
man front and they, they drafted another guy earlier on and
25:38
draft. I think we're between him and
25:40
yeah, yeah, him and Orange. I think that's going to be a
25:43
nice foundation for them and and Dominique's going to have a lot
25:48
of help around him going forward too.
25:50
I think it's going to be a better product that you see out
25:52
of him on the field. We'll see where where it goes
25:59
for the Vikings. Well, let's talk here and now
26:01
and let's get the let's go back to Saturday.
26:04
Seemed like there was a decent amount of crowd over on the
26:06
gathered on the lower bowl on the east side.
26:09
Good to see. What did you see as you're
26:11
watching the spring scrimmage, whatever they called it unfold?
26:16
I'll start with the quarterbacks.
26:18
First of all, did you see one that was head and shoulders
26:21
above the other would do. Do you see why they came out and
26:23
said that this is a 2 man battle at this race or at this point?
26:27
How did you see it? Well, I think that Jalen Rayner,
26:30
I you, you saw him take all the reps with the ones, it was
26:35
pretty cut and dry really. I think every time with the twos
26:39
was Flores and Moberly was the three the coaches kept and
26:42
believe it was Rogers not not roll that came out afterwards,
26:47
said the gap between Flores and Moberly shrinking as far as that
26:52
2 three thing. But I, I think it's pretty cut
26:55
and dry. You know, Rayner, he was
26:56
recruited out of Arkansas State, three-year starter there as
27:00
quarterbacks coach, former offensive coordinators, the QB
27:03
coach and Ames. Think it was all set up from the
27:06
beginning. He was going to be the starter
27:08
and I don't think he's done anything this spring to, you
27:10
know, take away from that expectation.
27:13
Running back spot, they got Peddaway coming in from Bowling
27:16
Green, of course, Flora back and then Jaden Jackson.
27:18
There was something, I can't remember, it might have been
27:20
Rogers. I was reading the transcript for
27:22
maybe it's another coach, but said something about Jackson,
27:25
something about details, understanding kind of the little
27:27
details. Hills, I don't know if you're
27:28
part of the scrum at that time, but a Bill, your take away on
27:31
that and does it feel like those three guys going to get the bulk
27:33
of the carries? This yeah, that's, that's,
27:38
that's an area of concern guys. I I think going into the summer
27:43
Markellis Bass, I think he was the JUCO guy I told you you guys
27:47
about last week that they were kind of on again off again what
27:50
seems they're on again with him. They're going to be down
27:53
visiting him the first week in May from what I hear Kansas JUCO
27:58
running back and I I don't think that's a surprise.
28:01
You you you saw Jaden Jackson. Yeah, he he put he put on a show
28:06
for for those in attendance on Saturday.
28:08
And then we heard coaches, you know, afterwards saying that
28:11
that he had this day hasn't hasn't practiced a lot this
28:16
spring, still needs to do the things off the field, the
28:19
expectations, you know, for away from football that need to be
28:23
met. So I wouldn't say they really
28:26
Pooh poohed the day that the day that Jackson had.
28:30
But I mean, I think they put things in perspective on, you
28:33
know, where he's at and, you know, before everybody in the
28:35
media and those in attendance on Saturday crown him as RB 1.
28:40
You know, they they kind of wanted this to taper those
28:43
expectations I think a little bit.
28:45
And then you see in the corner of the the would have been the
28:48
northwest corner of the end zone with a scooter in his lower leg
28:53
in a cast was Saladin Allah. We had been hearing some
28:58
positive reports about throughout the spring that he
29:01
had, you know, shed the L BS that they wanted him to in the
29:04
offseason. Was really kind of starting to
29:07
come into his own that the last couple weeks and he's on the
29:09
scooter in the corner there. And then now you're looking at a
29:13
position where you've got Aiden what you got Aiden Flora you've
29:18
got who has never really handled an RB-1 or A3 down type of
29:23
responsibility before. Cameron Pettaway.
29:27
We saw him in in at points on Saturday, but he's a scat back.
29:32
I think he's not going to be a three down guy.
29:34
And then you got Jaden Jackson, a guy who, you know, they said
29:38
kind of needs to come around the stuff away from the football
29:42
field. So those are the three guys
29:43
that, well, the three scholarship guys, I should say,
29:46
we saw Easton Miller a little bit, but those are the three
29:49
scholarship guys. And then you've got 2 freshmen
29:53
coming in the Caleb Francois, I think out of Minnesota, he's the
29:56
player of the year up there, a high school player of the year
29:59
that spec big things out of him. And he, he's going to get there
30:03
with end of May, beginning of June.
30:05
And, and I think they really got to accelerate his development,
30:08
get him ready for fall camp. And who knows what they do if
30:11
they add one more guy at that position.
30:13
But that's that there's some urgency there as they come out
30:16
of spring ball nonetheless. What can you tell us about the
30:19
return of River Peppers? When he had that devastating
30:22
injury, obviously just saw how the field for a couple snaps and
30:25
that was it for him. Where is he on his way back?
30:28
Well, he was in street clothes on on Saturday watching
30:32
practice, didn't have, you know, no boots on, nothing there with
30:37
the the leg. He's just walking around normal
30:40
street clothes. So, but I think everything we've
30:43
heard over the spring is, is they, I don't think they're
30:45
expecting to get a whole lot out of him this season as he makes
30:50
his return from that. That's why I think you know why,
30:53
why it's such an urgent situation there with them trying
30:56
to to get some depth going into the season.
30:59
What else, what other positions do you think that as you watched
31:03
it maybe left you with some question marks or the staff is
31:07
still trying to figure out is there a position, not
31:10
necessarily players, but a position more so Bill?
31:14
Well, I think tight end remains a question mark.
31:19
Yeah, tell me about it. Tell me about it.
31:21
I don't, I don't think you're going to see as much 12 or
31:24
probably 13 personnel as what we've seen in the past.
31:28
They're they're still trying to find their their guys there.
31:31
We have heard some good things about Christian Greenlaw.
31:34
He's still pretty new to the position.
31:36
The Hampton transfer Keaton Ross cops back off of last year's
31:41
team. Tyler Fortenberry, he's a
31:43
senior. He's just got one year left.
31:46
But a lot of question marks there.
31:47
We didn't really see, you know, much other than the blocking
31:50
aspect of it. That position still like through
31:54
the air passing wise, we didn't see that much flash much on
31:58
Saturday. The the wide receiver position.
32:02
That's kind of another thing too.
32:03
We saw a number of guys and they were rotating through with the
32:06
ones, the twos, the threes. So it was, it was pretty hard I
32:10
think for us to get a read on on who the top guys are there
32:14
because they were getting them reps along every unit.
32:19
So obviously Cody Jackson was a guy he scored, scored some
32:23
touchdowns, saw some good things out of him.
32:27
He's a veteran, one of those seniors been around.
32:29
He's played at the Power 4 level.
32:32
You know, Evan Boyd made made a nice catch along the sideline,
32:36
the run, run after the catch made some things happen there.
32:40
So Amari Hayes, he was another one rotating through.
32:43
Dominic Overby. Yeah, he he's another guy,
32:46
Carter Papst, I think all what, six of those guys?
32:51
It's going to be interesting to see how that sorts its way out
32:54
come fall camp. So as we talked about a couple
32:57
weeks back, Braden all's out for the year with that ACL tear.
33:00
I guess the good news is they got a bunch of practices without
33:02
him trying to figure things out and thought it was interesting.
33:05
Bobbitt after the game was asked a little bit, He talked about
33:08
being cautious. Did you read that into being
33:10
cautious just and we can't afford another injury here in
33:13
the defensive backfield and specifically it's safety.
33:17
Yeah, I think that's that again, that's that's probably I I would
33:20
say running back on offense. I I would flip to defense and I
33:25
would say safety is probably the biggest area of concern right
33:29
now. Alls was it going to be a
33:31
projected starter there? They won't have him.
33:35
I think it's even gotten to the point in the spring or it sounds
33:38
like they were experimenting with some corners.
33:40
They've got good depth at corner, although there were
33:42
three guys that didn't suit up on Saturday, non non
33:46
participants. So they've got good depth at
33:49
corner and then they've kind of experimented with a few of those
33:52
guys at safety as they kind of look for answers there.
33:56
Duron Goodman, He's a name that we hear quite a bit of a safety
34:02
that's a a senior Drew surges. We talked about him for a, a
34:06
number of years. You know, Micah Harper, he's
34:09
another a senior. I think he was kind of in and
34:12
out of the the mix though over the spring with an with an
34:15
injury. So they've got some questions
34:18
there. And then, you know, beyond those
34:19
guys that I just mentioned, it's pretty much all red shirt
34:22
freshmen and freshmen when it comes to that safety position.
34:26
Bill, last thing for me, I'm moving over to women's
34:29
basketball. Iowa State named Carolyn McCombs
34:32
as the associate head coach. Do we assume that when Fenley
34:37
does leave that she will will be the heir apparent?
34:39
Are they bringing her in as the as the next women's head coach?
34:44
How do you read this Bill? Well, I think that's certainly
34:48
lead. It certainly makes me think
34:51
that's the case with the the title that they've given her.
34:55
You know, Jamie Pollard in the in the past recent years has
34:59
been reluctant to hire the head coaches in the in a lot of those
35:04
sports that have not been head coaches.
35:07
McCombs does have head coaching experience from George
35:10
Washington. Stony Brook was just on Auburn
35:14
staff last season. So some exposure to basketball
35:18
here at the high major level. So I think it points that
35:21
direction. But you know, then then again,
35:26
nothing would surprise me, I guess at at this point, you
35:28
know, they could very well go out and, and extend Finley for
35:31
another 3 or 4 years. You just, you never know how
35:34
this is going to go. And you know, Billy Finley, his
35:37
son's been obviously been on that staff.
35:44
Yeah, I, I would, I with this hiring of McCombs, I think it's
35:48
certainly within limbo what they're what's going to happen
35:51
with him. But I think you could be, you
35:53
could be right on on to something that so, yeah.
35:56
And they've got a commitment too in in from Bishop Helen in this
36:02
2027 class. So I think she probably knows
36:05
what's going on a little bit, you know, behind the scenes and
36:08
what's not out there publicly. Yeah, I heard Latoya Shaban and
36:12
Bill Junior are about to may not be back as early as this year.
36:16
That's what a little bird told me over the weekend.
36:18
Nothing official as of yet. I'll go ahead, Trent.
36:21
Final thing for me, Bill on the men's side, who's going to be
36:25
the leading scorer on next year's team?
36:26
Good one. Boy, that's a good because I.
36:30
Was going through it, I couldn't figure it out.
36:32
You know, and I I wonder if it if it might be somebody that's
36:36
not even on the roster right now, to be honest with, you
36:39
know, we saw positive things out of Killian Torre down the
36:42
stretch. Bateman seem to disappear.
36:44
I think he he'll he's in for a big offseason, though.
36:48
I think he's going to bounce back in a big way.
36:50
Buchanan wasn't much of A score played.
36:53
I think I don't see him leading the team in scoring.
36:56
So, you know, maybe maybe someone like a Leon Bond or or
37:02
like a Trey Singleton. I think they expect big things
37:05
from him. But that's a good question.
37:08
I think I'm, I'm not going to say, I'm not going to say Iowa
37:11
State is, is it is Arizona by any means.
37:15
But you looked at Arizona's scoring, how it was distributed
37:18
this, this year. What I think really stood out
37:21
about them is they had what probably 6 guys, I think that
37:24
average between around what, 10 to 1314 lbs.
37:29
I think you could see that balance.
37:31
I think you're going to see that out of this year's team.
37:34
It's not going to be top heavy out of that, that big three that
37:37
we saw that it's all gone now. Excellent question, TC.
37:41
We should save that one. Yes, absolutely.
37:43
It feels like it's going to be like 7 guys at average between 7
37:47
and 13 points or something like that.
37:48
But. Who's number 1 exactly?
37:51
Bill Seal, cyclonereport.com Bill, what are you?
37:54
What are you working on this week?
37:56
Well, I just started rolling out a a series this well, it's an
38:00
over the noon hour actually a look at each of the positions
38:03
coming out of spring ball. Just kind of what my
38:07
observations were, what what we heard from coaches, kind of a
38:11
post spring outlook on each of those positions going into the
38:15
summer. Started with quarterbacks today.
38:18
We discussed those on on the show here a little a little bit
38:21
ago, but more in depth look at at that position right now on
38:25
Cyclone Report. We'll have running backs and
38:28
we'll just kind of start rolling through each of the position
38:31
groups over the next couple weeks and how those look
38:35
recruiting. That was a big a big deal.
38:37
They had a huge group of visitors on Saturday for that
38:40
spring showcase. I think they're on commitment
38:43
watch probably for one of those guys, another one I think maybe
38:48
in the next couple weeks. So I think they're they're going
38:50
to keep rolling here. They've got a lot of momentum
38:52
right now and they they're really, I think that this new
38:57
staff is, is really what their message.
38:59
I think it's being heard loud and clear.
39:01
They're really clicking with high school recruits and they've
39:04
they've hit the ground running, no doubt about it.
39:07
Good stuff. Bill Seals, have a great week.
39:09
We will speak with you next Monday if your schedule allows.
39:11
Thanks for popping on Bill. Appreciate it.
39:14
Looking forward to it guys, have a good one.
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West Des Moines. You've got NBA, you've got NHL.
39:50
You've got a decent slate of baseball games tonight.
39:54
WNBA, They're playing preseason. Yes.
39:57
Now, right? You don't get it.
39:58
You don't. Do you tell me you don't?
40:00
I haven't. OK, good.
40:02
So don't put that out of me though, because I'll find a way
40:05
absolutely you know B4 games 4 props a total of 8 for tonight
40:10
let's kick it off with the games I'm going to well after watching
40:13
the rays over the weekend dismantle my God awful Minnesota
40:15
Twins they're. Going the wrong way aren't.
40:17
They Yeah. So that's.
40:17
A good couple of weeks, Trent. Then week and a half, OK, plus
40:21
1/22 for the Rays tonight on the road against Cleveland.
40:24
Speaking of those aforementioned Minnesota Twins, yes, give me
40:27
the Mariners -127 tonight. Luis Castillo gets the ball
40:30
against Connor Prelip. Prelip's going to be pretty
40:33
good. It's going to take a while
40:34
though for that one and one more in baseball.
40:37
Play the Cubs tonight minus the one O 2.
40:38
Boyd was good in his first start back against Vasquez.
40:41
Like the pitching match up there on the West Coast for the Cubs
40:45
in the NBA tonight, grabbing the Magic and the points at home.
40:48
It's a bunch of points, 3 no, that I'm thinking, I'm thinking
40:51
of the Oklahoma State, yeah. But the magic getting 3 1/2 like
40:54
this feels like a coin flip. I'm going to grab the points
40:57
with the Magic. Here's the props for tonight
41:00
Baseball. Under 7 1/2 strikeouts for your
41:03
boy Dylan Cease. He's good.
41:05
He really is trend. He's been phenomenal.
41:07
I think you might see a little uptick after the core of firing
41:09
though a little better at bats. Well, they've won two straights
41:13
since they ran him out of town. So a more competitive at bats,
41:17
we'll put it that way for the Bow Sox tonight and Alex
41:20
Bregman. We're going to go over 1 1/2
41:22
total bases in this one. You get plus 165 on that.
41:26
We'll jump with Bregman 2 in the NBA tonight.
41:29
I think the Timberwolves are walking into a Hornets nest.
41:32
That's a big number, though. After what happened late, so
41:35
here's the angle. I think it's going to be a
41:36
blowout. Minnesota is going to be down
41:38
and that means the Joker, Jamal Murray not going to play a ton
41:41
of minutes. Under 14 1/2 rebounds for the
41:44
Joker, under 6 1/2 assists for Murray.
41:47
That's the angle on that one. Four player plays and games, 4
41:52
player props. And if you've been noticing, the
41:54
player props have been going much better.
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Yep, absolutely. So how will NBC?
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How will HO handle it? They won't keep their crew
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there. Well, I'm sure that most of it
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in the can. Will the news?
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Yeah. You would think right?
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I don't know, can you put news in the can with some breaks?
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Well, then you stick around. You guys the late.
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Night. Put a little something on ice
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ready to go right afterwards. That's probably what anyways.
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All right, that's going to do it for us.
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We appreciate you being here. We're going to be a fun night of
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sports, and NHL's not the greatest late tonight.
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I'll be watching the mammoth. I almost got to a play with the
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mammoth. You told me you guess you and
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Palm think the Vegas is. Cooked.
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I do, yeah. Yeah.
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I thought that was maybe 1 of the more likely upsets prior to
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it. The puck dropping in the
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playoffs. That's going to do it for us.
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Appreciate you being here with us.
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We'll do it again tomorrow. Joel Donald, the voice of the
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minister, Soda Wild is going to join us just after 12:30, about
42:43
12:35 for Joe tomorrow. If you're a hockey fan, a Wild
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fan, look forward to that segment.
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Joe Miller and Cotton weekdays talk sports with you from noon
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to two. Thanks for being with us on the
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